Woo hoo!!

WEll things have been good! My design works are coming in and i'm handling them well..got at least 1.1k coming in by next month hopefully.

Xane and i went to Pulau Ubin for the Vesak Day long weekend. Yes, i finally have a long weekend!! But sadly i must say, that it is still punctuated by chorale practice. but nvm. After a long long queue at the ferry terminal, we finally arrived at Pulau Ubin. It was Xane's first and my second time there. WE had lunch at the malay kopitiam right beside the jetty. Nice traditional, down-to-earth mee siam and the teh was good too. The nice thing about Pulau Ubin is that its not a tourist attraction and things there aren't expensive!

We cycled around a lot and it was quite strenous in the beginning when we still had our barang barang with us. the big backpack, tent and bbq stuff. And then, Xane got pissed (wow) and complained about the heat and the heavy stuff he had to carry. I was like 'hello, i'm carrying the tent'. So i guess he really doesn't really have much patience like he always claim to possess. haha. And so, cycling to 2 beaches after, we settled down at the Mamam Beach. There wasn't much of a beach to speak of really. It is a mangrove beach and it isn't those nice clean white beach u have. Its worse than East Coast, worst than Changi Beach. But nevermind la..but it certainly felt like i'm preparing for field camp.

The tent was finally up and we cycled on on our 'bad' bicyles. Mine had a terrible narrow seat while Xane finally realises small bikes are not comfy to ride on. So we went back to 'town' to exchange. Slightly better. Actually i can't really remember wat we did other than cycling around. OH, we went back to town to get our water..and man the Coconuts there were damn nice!! Then we took photographs here and there. And had to return to our tent before the sun sets coz there are no street lamps around, and we will surely lose our way around in the dark. We tried to start a campfire and realised it really is quite difficult.haha..we ended up with a pile of wood on the sand. Luckily the bbq kit was easy to use! just burn it!! hhaha..The bbq went well..and i told myself to relax and dun flare up at anything, just reminded Xane to help me keep watch on the food! We had satay, chicken wings, beef steak and taiwan sausages. It got really dark 'cept for the full moon light that night.

After eating, we decided to bathe. We walked past the shelter and it had no lights. We reached the public toilet, and tada! it had no lights either! So i went back to get our lamps. Brave Xane proposed to go in and get a decent shower. Ok. There was no showers in the toilet so we just bathed ourselves at the tap. haha. it was pretty creepy man. Oh at least the toilets had toilet paper.

The night was dead with still air and lotsa insects jumping around. We couldn' really sleep and decided the next time go camping die die must bring a portable fan along.

The next day we had lontong for breakfast at the same kopitiam. Then we set off to search for Chek Jawa. Although it was said that we can only visit it via guided tours, we decided to go take a look. I chose a shorter route as interpreted from the map but didn't realise it was a tougher one with lotsa steep slopes and Xane had a fall there with pretty bad wounds on his palm. Xane started to turn pale and had a minor asthma attack. Xane was a bit scared to see blood i guess and told Xane not to panic and rest for a while.. Funnily, Xane was very embarassed when other cyclists went past. haha..We went on, pushing our bikes for quite a bit and finally reached Chek Jawa. It was high tide so couldn't see anything but it was really quite nice. Den we packed up, returned the bike and had lunch at Changi V before heading home.

Smart-ass me arranged to have a dental appointment with Elizabeth on the 29th August. haha..In Song is on 28th August. hee..hope i dun have to book in on the 28th night..so i can sing the full concert.

I spent $140 on Xane's present for next month. Only to realise there are nicer stuff on yahoo! auctions. I might buy those for Xane instead. We'll see..no $$ le la!!!!!!

Hui is expecting a girl, as told by the gynae. but apparently she still hopes for it to be a boy and is offensive when we call her baby our niece.

Now i just need my pay to start coming in!! Oh and congrats to Dot for finding a new job! come to think of it, its her first day of work tomro!! All the Best,Dot!!