千八百零一： Settling In

Marriage isn't easy at all, especially if you are alone here.

Shopping for all the new stuff was fun, but when it came to the daily mundane living stuff, disagreements came up. (or should i say he showed his black face when I asked him to fix up the clothes rack ...) do I have to do everything?! then, it was hard to ask him to give me money to get the groceries even though he asked me to cook dinner... :(

but everything smoothed over last night. went to get more groceries, went to the bookstore after work a little to browse.. almost couldn't pay cos I had so little cash with me. he enjoyed dinner, he saw that I had done the laundry & vacuumed the house, guess he realised that i was putting in quite alot of effort. I can't wait for friends to visit though. There is such as thing as seeing too much of only each other .. more so for me since I'm in the house most of the time. I now kinda understand why my mom makes such a fuss about cleaning the kitchen, if it isn't yours you don't feel it, but i do get irritated when I have to step on sticky floor in the kitchen.

Really happy at all the people who pinged me on msn to keep me company throughout the day... else time crawls by.

my next door neighbour is an old auntie who is a little unfriendly.. another house sounds like they have 4 dogs. but the dogs are really quiet in the daytime though.

Photos of life in the new home here or in facebook if you're connected to me..

千八百： 新生活

Reached Japan this morning, thanks for coming down to the airport to send me off. the present touched me to tears, will flip through it every time I miss you guys. I want to post up pics of the polaroids but I haven't digitized them yet so maybe later. Shinji & Hiroki spent a final evening after work yesterday tmr with me to get a handcarry luggage at vivo, & I'm glad they did. i thought I had a lot of things to say when I hugged everyone goodbye, to just speak in their ear but in the end i just said "bye bye" .. I wont' forget the advice about kids though.

I think I was missing everyone already, because I had a dream about everyone in the office on the plane. I realised people in business class don't watch tv, no one else was watching the krisworld entertainment and the level of quiet & privacy is super super shiok. (besides having no kids on the plane) I think this is the first time i have felt like I didn't lack entertainment and time actually passed by too fast on the plane.

I reached here, didn't have any trouble with customs that I had thought I would, & I'm now in the new place. we went electronics shopping today, for the essentials first, and bought the fridge, washing machine, vacuum cleaner, ipod speaker alarm clock i've always always wanted, lights for the house, router.. we had to forfeit the tv for later since we had the 15" one and we had spent like >270000yen today already. after that went furniture shopping, bought the basic small table, clothes rack & other toiletries etc.


the night view


super tired now, tmr all the new appliances will come!

千七百九十九： thank you

thank you to all the people & friends who arranged the farewell meals, the surprise events, the presents & the luggage.

had a good dinner & time to myself the night before and finally completed the 3rd book. I actually quite liked book 3, but would have been happier with a more vivid description of how the evil vampire was killed. the killing scenes in the book is sorta non-descriptive (the line would always be like the person describing it thought it was too gory for the listener, ie Bella, so he just skipped the parts) and I would get a little irritated at that.

finally I've sent my office 荷物 by singpost today, 50kg in all by ship, maybe have to pay myself since the recipient is my home address. Thanks to my boss & Julius who very patiently helped me carry the boxes to the post office & then wrapped, taped & address the boxes..

finally I've checked in my luggage for my flight a day early as well, 63.7kg, 13.7kg in excess of the allowed 50kg. Luckily they only made me pay for 5kg (at $30 per kg it totally wasn't cheap but considering i had 14kg excess it was a good deal) and last minute, Shinji & Hiroki offered to come help me at about 7+ pm when I seemed to be panicking. It was a good thing they came over, I had 5 boxes & 1 suitcase in all, & dad didn't bring the trolley back so he wouldnt have been able to carry everything down by himself or just with me & mom helping. quite touched actually, they stayed until nearly midnite with me at the airport when I had to negotiate for them to waive the excess charges & to collect my boarding pass. (T.T) I think they are going to miss me as much as I miss them . almost burst into tears when we were eating dinner & they were poking fun at me about whether I would cry at the airport tomorrow.

I need to get a handcarry luggage tmr after work.
(T.T)
i don't want to leave.
really don't want to.

千七百九十八： Paintball

time been taken up for the past few days by
1. packing
2. reading the twilight series
3. farewells
4. making farewell gifts
5. gym (to work off the farewell dinners)

chongqing hotpot on friday night, 11 pple turned up, quite happy about it :)

went to paintball today, surprisingly about 18 pple turned up after all the cancellations last min by other pple. not bad! had quite a bit of fun, only time i really got hit was on the back of my head, caused me to keel over and could not move for a minute, cos it was like some one had thrown a glass marble at your head.

still procrastinating about packing... argh.

千七百九十七： break

feeling all weepy.

X said before I shouldn't record unhappy incidents here. cos it will then be remembered forever. so I won't write it, by the time I read this I would have forgotten what I was unhappy about before.

I think i need a long break from work. didn't have any honeymoon, so its like work . wedding, work. and moving. and then work.

千七百九十六： dreams

been busy with packing over the weekend.

weekdays I don't really know what I was doing.

monday - 妖怪村同窓会
tuesday - gym ..
wednesday - dinner with Jackie, ruixian, junli at marutama
thursday - gym with 吉岡さん at cathay
friday - surprise ktv farewell party by jimmy, kelly, julius, marini, christine & hiroki. really touched by the gesture and really was not expecting it.
saturday - packing (finally getting started) and then watching shopaholics with my cousin after dinner at Ichiban sushi.

finally got a little stuff completed .. think i'm about 80% packed.

how come the weekend went by so fast.

had a very strange dream last night, about a fren just drawing a toy dagger against my arm for fun but it ended up in a real deep cut. in his panic, he cut me a little more on the fingers and the blood just kept flowing. I felt faint in the dream and had to sit down and he was holding me in his arms saying "are u ok are u ok"i just kinda nodded weakly but the blood didn't show any sign of stopping. woke up feeling very breathless & eyes hurting. wonder what this all means..

千七百九十五： Repercussions

I thought I was ok but I am not.

the weekend left me with a heavier heart than before.

I finally broke down while trying to do up farewell cards for my friends.

Can someone please help me end this misery.