To pick which one?

At first, I thought of using the cashmere to make the sweater in Rebecca Mag 29. Then I realise I don't know how to work on the pattern! In the end, I decided to change my mine and use the yarns to make one of these instead:

Number 1


Number 2


Number 3


Number 4

I personally like number 4 and I am thinking of making one for myself in future. It look so victorian in style to me! Will it be too fancy for a middle age lady? Or should I pick Number 1 for her? She is more on the plum side and has a shorter torso so I am not sure if the victorian style will suit her or not.

My teacher wrote to me

Hi yuling

It was great seeing you this evening, happily married, sharing a life with your signficant other.
It is a feeling beyond words when i see my pupils again, many years down the road. It is good knowing that all of you are doing well, married or otherwise. Most importantly all of you are happy and healthy- useful citizens.

Hmm..... little ones are coming along soon right? i didn't see your husband but i am sure your little ones will be very cute if they look like the mummy.

It will be fantastic if you can email me a photo of your class (or a photo with as many of your classmates as possible in it) and pls include the names of all them - do ensure the face match the name coz i have forgotten their names although their faces are familiar to me.

Pls send the others my regards.

keep safe
tricia ong

Feel so touched by her words. Oh, how careless of me, I didn't intro my DH to her =P

It sadden me everytime someone mentioned about the little ones. Everyone can have it except us. It will never come and I dare not hope for one. Just last Saturday, me and DH went shopping at Robinson. If not because the customer service center is located in the children's department, we would not want to go there. The little stroller (we always hope that one day we can get the sport series stroller haha), the baby cot and the clothing are all so sweet. After we were done with collecting our free $20 voucher, cut across the children's department and down the escalator, my DH said, "we won't get to buy those stuff the rest are looking."

What a coincidence

My DH brought me to his promotion ceremony cum dinner. Surprisingly, I bumped into two persons whom I never met for a very loooooong time.

No 1 - My secondary school geography teacher, Mrs Ong. Her husband, who is a NSmen, got promoted too. The instant she walked passed me, I recongnised she was my teacher. She still looks the same except she has grown 'bigger'. I wanted to approached her to say "hi" but afraid she won't recognise me. Then, I found her staring at me. So what should I do? It looks so awkward as I tried not to meet her eyes but it is too obvious and I cannot be so rude! Quickly, I flashed her a big smile and she gave me this hand and mouth signal asking, "Do I know you?" Immediately, I walked towards her and said, "YES! you are my geography teacher." Wow...so amazing and unbelievable, my teacher actually recongnised me after 12 years! I didn't expect her to remember my name though but when I told her I am "Yuling" she said, "oh yes, Yuling!" She used to be my favour teacher and I really enjoyed her lessons. We chat abit, talking about my school days and I tried to get her recalled the rest of my classmates. She couldn't visualize who they are when I told her the names. So she said she would go back to check the year book. Sadly, there wasn't any year book during our time. She even asked if I had a class photo and obviously, I don't. She took down my email and hoping I can go back to school to look for her with the rest of the classmates one day. Yes, she still teaches at JTSS! Now, I wonder how could I contact my ex-classmates...

No 2 - ex-colleague from Cargill. We chat alot tonight, about Simex, about his wife (who also got promoted), about my sister and ex-BIL (they are ex-colleagues too) and about becoming a car saleperson. I gave him my number but I don't think he will call hehe.

No photo to show you because I am in a restricted zone. Not allow to bring camera or camera phone!

Today is our 3rd year wedding anniversary!

Yes! Today is the big day (3 years back). No celebration though because we focuse more on ROM day, nevertheless, we still try our best to remember today. I want to say to my DH:

"I really love you. Though I sometime did'nt pay much attention to you - busy doing my knitting hehe, I must say - your presence around me is important. I feel lonely each time you go on a oversea assignment, I won't stop you from going because I know it will benefit your career but I will eagerly wait for you to come home. I hope I didn't neglect or take you for granted (other then spending your money, making you angry because I am lazy, making you worried because of my poor health and a total burden to you). I love to do things together with you and I enjoying talking and laughing together with you. We may not have children but there's always ways to brighten up our life and I just want to be with you."

Ok enough...Some photos to share:

And lastly, "Ah Babe", I hope I never fail to make you happy hehe...

Recent WIPs

Presenting my recent WIPs. The orange ones is my aunt's sweater. Almost done and in fact, it is done when I tried to update my blog! Only left with blocking and tucking in the loose ends. Finally! One down and one more aunt's sweater to go and that's it. Next, the blue ones (more like lilac though) is my Project Summer. That's the back part you see here and I am now working on the front. Lastly, the grey ones is a vest and I have posted the pattern here. Since the pattern is written in japanese, I have a hard time deciphering it. I just have to keep my finger crossed and hope it fit when it is done.

As I have said, I have many projects in mind but due to my poor memory, I sort of forget who is next. Worst, I may change my mind and use the yarns to work on other projects instead. No discipline, that's what I called. Oh, this project I must do - my aunt's 2nd sweater! I will be doing the red sweater from Rebecca 29. Mine version will be in green cashmere.

Crazy skating

Finally, I can go skating again. And today, I skate from West Coast to East Coast! Nah...I was just exaggerating haha. But true enough, me and DH when to West Coast Park to skate followed by going to East Coast Park to skate. The park - no 'kick' at all; small and it takes less then an hour to complete skating around the whole park.

Not satisfied by the easy accomplishment, I told DH-"Let's go to East Coast Park!". Woh, East Coast Park is HUGE. It stretches from Tanah Merah Safra to Fort Road. Great place to skate and lots of gals and guys to see! And we bumped into Chen Hanwei, one of the TCS actor. He is skating too.

We are going to East Coast Park to skate again tomorrow and maybe every weekends hehe

Argh! Selling and Buying houses is so taxing

Selling house:
- Look for agents
- Allow potential buyers to view my house
- Receive cheque from potential buyer
- Ton of paperworks to settle
- Allow HDB staff to view my house
- Then the waiting game begin:
- 1st appointment about 1 1/2 months later (Great, DH not in town, need to look for lawyer to issue power of attorney letter)
- 2nd appointment, 4 weeks after first appointment
- Apply leave to attend 1st and 2nd appointment
- More paperwork to settle
- Handover keys and officially sold house

Buying house:
- Called agents to view houses
- Ideal house, ask Fengshui master to give 2nd opinion
- Issue cheque to seller
- Ton of paperworks to settle
- Look for Banker to issue home loan
- Transfer money to bank
- More paperwork to settle and issue another cheque
- The waiting game begin:
- 1st and 2nd appointment, pay more money and more paperworks to settle
- Again, have to apply leave
- Receive keys from seller and officially own the house

Renovation:
- Get Fengshui master to look at floorplan
- Look for ideal interior designer (ID)
- Get quotations from IDs
- Apply for renovation loan from bank
- Before renovation start, Fengshui master to decide where to hack
- Apply for more leave to make sure contractor doing a good job
- Renovationn complete, more cleaning
- Look for the prefect "Guan Yin", bring it to temple for praying ceremony
- Fengshui master to advice move-in procedure
- Furniture move in
- Finally officially move in and to plan for house warming party

Ok, what do we learn from here:
- Don't be too harsh and jump into buying a house. Make sure is it 'worth' buying, if not will end up like us, selling and buying a new ones.
- Fengshui is very important

After all these efforts put in, that's what I called dream home!

For sweetie pie

I would have posted this on Sunday's night, if not of the slow server at home! Katja is done and see how cute she looks.



Another good news is, we found our 'dream' home. It is located in Clementi. I like the house and the location where it is situated but I don't like my future neighbour.

So cute!

Ok, my somewhat boring cowl is done. Just need to tuck in the loose ends that's all. No photo since I guess you all must have seen enough of it boringness. I have 1 skein of yarn left, then I happen to see this at Knitty :



So cuteeee...and I cannot resist, I must cast on the Katja tonight!!! What a good idea to use leftover yarn. I am going to make this cute halter neck top for her - Ethel, my DH's niece.

Who's next?

As you all know, I have many projects in mind, all queuing up nicely, waiting for me to knit them. So I cannot just jumped into the recent KAL and ignore those who have queued until the "cows come home". So to be fair, I have to knit one of my project-in-mind first after I complete 1 (or 2) of my current projects. KAL is important but project-in-mind is also equally important. I hope by saying this, it will help make me feel less guilty...

I delibrately choose an easy design to work with so that I can complete it fast. If not, my the other projects will "see the cows" soon.

First KAL

Yay so excited about this KAL project. But first, I must finish some of my UFOs before embarking on my next journey. There's no time limite and you can start as and when you are ready. Marvelous! The yarn use is Adrienne Vittadini Dianna (51% cotton and 49% microfiber) but I don't intend to follow actually what it calls for. So please give me suggestion, can I use 100% cotton or choose another yarn with similar percentile?

The most expensive yarns I ever bought

Cashmere...soft, luxury yarn that cost me US$89.90 for 500g! Yet again, they are not for me. Another or hopefully last *cross my finger* request from my aunt. Cashmere is so lovely but too warm for our weather! If there is some leftover, I'll see if I can make a tank out of it hehe.

Some projects progress update:

Aunt's sweater - working on the 2nd sleeve

Somewhat cowl - untouch after seaming the cowl

Project summer - the front is 3/4 done

Nearly bought it

This weekend we went hunting for our dream home around Pasir Panjang and West Coast area. Finally we found one - The Infiniti. Wow, the showroom flats look fantastic; the kitchen and toilets finishing look great, the facing of the unit looks ideal and the unit number is nice - #09-18! TOP is June 2009 so just nice for us to save up some cash to pay our future loan. We gave the Developer the 5% deposit but due to some disagreement with them, we took back the cheque and walk out of the showroom. Anyway, DH is worried that the Condo's location is too far away from town, worried that future development around that area will block our scenic view and afraid that the units will be built too close to one another etc. All these factors will affect the value of our unit. As I have said, this is a dream home and dream home is never meant to come true...