What a difference a year makes!

Last year, I was still a 20-something fiancée of a wonderful man and now, I stand 30 years old as a wife to the same wonderful man.

It feels unreal.

I feel old.

I feel lucky. Loved.

I look at my family, my husband, my friends...the inner circle so to speak, and i know I'm in a good place now. God has really been so good.

Thanks for the flowers, baby! They're beautiful! Looking forward to growing old with you... :)

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First post for 2010 and I'd thought that I would do 1 on what I was hoping to achieve - my first half marathon, summiting Kilimanjaro, completing an adventure race... But as things turned out, I've been learning my first lesson for 2010 - managing expectations.

Specifically, managing expectations in a relationship.

Sometimes, you think you've got a person pegged; your finger on the relationship pulse, and then something happens and you realize that maybe it was all just in your head. And you wonder - were the signs all there and I just completely missed 'em? Or was I just expecting too much?

Or maybe even (more eloquently!) "Dammit!" :)

It definitely sounds much easier in theory, but I guess the trick is not to expect other folks to feel the same way as you about things....and that when (not if!) they don't, it's not something within my control so I shouldn't sweat over it.

Let's see how well this works.

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It was the Ol' Hat's birthday and we wanted to take her out for some mother-daughter time. First stop was lunch, and then the fun started! ;)

We took her to Sentosa to try MegaZip...but after climbing all the way to the ticket booth, she chickened out!

So we went to do the luge ride instead...

with the sky ride too...

Dinner was a home affair - wish I could have half my grandma's culinary skills!

So while the adults were distracted, the kids came out to play:

And next year's only gonne be even bigger and better!

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In my dreams, that is. :)

I think I must really miss my tennis days cos I had the weirdest dream the other night. I dreamt that I was playing at this tourney and all the guys I grew up playing tennis with or watching them compete were all there for the tourney too. And then I found myself playing Sharapova.

It was a dream (literally and figuratively!) match for me cos I couldn't do anything wrong! I went for all my shots and made all of them and she had nothing against me. The match was over pretty quick and left me stunned and her, a puddle of tears.

I ran babbling to Ching about my win but she didn't seem to comprehend the significance. No one did actually. It was as if they had all expected it.

Like I said, weird! .... but oh so sweet!

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It's been 3 months since we got married and I told the hobbit that I'd take him out on a date. We've both been feeling knackered from work and all the running around for the festive season so my plan for the night was dinner followed by a spa. All of it was, of cos, kept hush-hush from the hobbit. :)

Jian spent pretty much the whole dinner trying to guess what I had planned for the night.

I think I like keeping him in suspense! ;)

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29 May 2010.

My first 21km...

*aaaaaaaaahhhhhhh*