Hunting from the couch

from the comfortable confines of my black-cushioned, white spray-painted ikea couch, i've begun to take a sniff at the job market for creatives here in lah-lah land. sniffing is as far as i can go at this point -- without my marriage license and thereby my dependent pass, i'm ineligible for any sort of legit job application.

the first ten minutes of my online puttering was quite a roller coaster. i started seeing words like "leverage" and "solutions" and was forcibly reminded of my days at the factory. besieged by the wealth of editorial jobs up for grabs on jobsdb, i went into a mini-panic and considered, for about two full minutes, a return to publishing.

this was totally a return to the old job-hunting me: unsure of what i wanted, but prone to worrying about getting a job and thus even more prone to accepting any job that would take me. when i realized it, the voice in my head did me a huge favor (for once) and said, in no uncertain terms, "NO."

digging deeper into the job forums, i started looking up all the graphic design openings even if i'm not a graphic designer. and what i found really, really excited me: a fistful of witty, irrevent, creative and independent design firms. i found websites that literally got my heart beating and the wheels in my head turning. i would totally customize portfolios for, and whore myself out to, some of the firms i came across this afternoon.

i was just telling marlon the other day that my heart belongs to/my career direction is television (i really don't watch television the way i did two years ago!), but working as a copywriter for a small design firm (even freelance) totally opened up as a possibility for me today!

don't you love how possibilities just give your butt a special tickle? heck, it's enough of a tickle to get me off this couch!

now, if you'll excuse me, i have three boxes of beloved books to unpack and big, downy-scented fluffy yellow towels to hang up and dry.

p.s. i've decided to blog about the wedding when i get the raw wedding photos from our photographer. which should be anytime in the next two or three days.

my universe is full

Faith lee gave me a BIG lollipop as a reward ^.^~

i didn't wanna go for remedial and everythin, so i said "cher, give me lollipop can?" she says:"ok ok la~" Classmates:"eh bribe sia!" LOL. =b~~



went to bugis lookin for my till-knee-cap(wat a word) boots. didn't find any nice ones~ played silent hill den went off to clementi to eat at de sumo resturant.

he looks good. wow.

waited for 175. BIG mistake. all his fault! XD took 1hr to reach clementi =_=~ mrt=20min! but it's an eye-opener thou. haha

ding dong face he gave aft dat LOL. =_+~

half eaten Japanese food

Mountain Dew is a strange gassy drink.

shatec=terrible rundown place

blurED. =_+~ no wonder muffin head always draws ALL of me lookin blur. *looks at last entry*

i stlyed his hair for de interview! XD~!





went to shatec to accompany Mister Tama for his interview~ u have to pay $50 for it. OMG. wth!! =_=~~~~ so much for shatec, de entire place if F*^#KING run down!!! =_=~ maybe de inside is nice? GOD! seriously! de outsides are like silent hill's grime, slime and rust. @_@~
and students pay so much.. *shrug*

went far east lookin for his CNY clothes. walked de entire place 3-4 times, found only 1 tee(we're very picky on fashionLOL) BUT it's kinda baggy and looked too hip-hop XD

soooooooooo... gave up and went dobhy, played silent hill and wanted to watch movie at grandcathy but found out de only nice movie which is "The Mist" showin at cineleisure not Gcathy. bought MEESUA! =X~ and went over to cineleisure to get tixs den sat down and ate~ yumyum.

"The Mist" -SLIGHT SPOILERS- Don't read if u've not watched.
oh wow. as usual i kept jumpin. =_= i was scared stiffed.
espiacially de part where they went in thru de pharmarcy and de guy kicked somethin makin a loud noice LOL!! to those who watched it, u get me rite??(and i almost cried) hahaa~ and wooo grandmama wif flamethrower XD! i hate de part where de bat/bird insect? ate his neck and tis... flim of meat and blood... UGHH *rolls around*

when the guy shot de deranged "preacher", de audience clapped =_=!

but SHIT de last part is so... hahaha!!! i cld feel his pain. tsk. terrible. if i was him i wld have starved to death and watch de creatures walk by 1ST. tsk. really terrible.

sry for de wordy entry. sch's not startin yet. HEH!

I have huge mommy guilt!!!

So I left last night for a conference in FL (I live IN VA) I left detailed instructions for my husband who honestly is not a details man...isn't that true for most men??? Anyway I get a text message this morning that reads "I'm sick" Sick?? as in flu sick, or sick and tired of the kids sick...a little more detail is needed.

I call him as soon as I can break free from my conference he answers the phone in the best darth vader voice I have heard since it was up on the big screen. Dan? I ask "Yes" he says. "What happened to you from last night to today?" I say "I'm sick and I stayed home today" he says. Now I am thinking great no one is on schedule and worse yet did he even take the kids to school? He did thank goodness!

Yet as I sat down and I thought "oh my poor kids" I just know that he will not be able to be as attentive to their needs since he is sick and without the attention they will just become more needy and whiny not fun to deal with as a parent when you are not feeling well and lets not dismiss the fact that they may also get whatever it is that Dan has!!!!! Oh the drama!!!

Then as I listened to the most boring speaker ever ... seriously all I could hear was the sound of someone from the peanuts cartoon "whan whan whan" anyway my mind started to drift off to why am I here?? why am I working when I could be home taking care of my family? Sure I need to work to maintain our current lifestyle but if we downsized things I could stay at home and totally be there for my kids.

I called my husband back at the end of the day and asked if he wanted me to come home. "No, I want you to stay there and enjoy yourself you deserve it, you basically work 2 jobs with work and us and you deserve some alone time, we will be fine" Is that a great husband or what??? I don't know that I tell him often enough how much I love him. He has supported me and pushed me and I am who I am today career wise and as a Mom because of his support.

Hopefully when I return on Wednesday night all will be OK and I know I will be greeted with "Mommy your home!" accompanied by lots of hugs and kisses. Thanks honey for supporting me and being the best Dad and Husband a family could have, but please make sure the kids take a bath and eat dinner every night! :)

Creating the couchwife

immediately prior to and after the wedding, i would inevitably get asked whether or not i was going to be a housewife in singapore. and i would inevitably bristle. while on a conceptual level i knew that there's nothing wrong with being a housewife, and that a housewife, in effect is what i'm going to be until i get a steady job here in lah-lah land, the pouty, stubborn and prickly part of me still put its foot down on the term.

that is, until i moved into the conjugal digs on cactus drive, plunked down in front of the samsung lcd tv (marlon's most prized and joyous home purchase), and discovered the wonders of digital hd tv.

lulled into surrender by the comforting weight of my husband's arm, a comforting meal of spam, rice and pokka iced tea, and a deliciously long tv playlist (miami ink, a model life with petra nemcova, kinky boots, gladiator and many more), i gleefully acquiesced to the existence of a sedentary spouse, albeit temporarily and with my own little twist.

"magiging couchwife na lang ako!"

today is day one of the couchwife life, and it ain't so bad. the morning was spent fulfilling the "-wife" half of the equation: i woke up bright and early to cook breakfast for marlon on his first day back on the job.

my sunny side-up eggs over easy (marlon taught me to do the "over easy" part the night before) were quite... aethestically challenged. luckily, marlon loves eggs far too much to be picky. "any egg is a good egg!" he declared, chomping down his morning cholesterol. still, i'm determined to pull off perfectly plump, round yolks in future breakfasts. i know, i know, i'm adding way too much significance to eggs.

after going back to sleep for a good four hours, i rolled out of bed at lunchtime to do more wife stuff. i took dry clothes off the wire drying rack we've temporarily set up on the balcony (a.k.a. future painting and coffee nook). i stuffed another installment of the neverending honeymoon laundry into our tiny washing machine. i swept our bare marble floors and cleared the living room by stuffing the last of the honeymoon clutter into my pink suitcase for future sorting.

and now, to balance things out, is couch time. surfing the net, reading, and making up for lost tv time (i must have been the only tv network employee who never watched tv) with my beloved discovery travel and living channel. all this while waiting for 4.5 cubic meters of stuff to arrive from manila -- my clothes, books, abubots plus our daybed and wedding gifts are supposed to be delivered before 6pm.

i have wedding kwento to spill, honeymoon photos to sort and upload, and a new life to map out and create. but for now, being a couchwife is my easy access to settling in just fine.

de Muffin head draws

was halfway in practicin HOD when Farhan aka muffin head came haha. he played aft i'm done wif it.

den lil boy came up and asked if he cld join muffin head so he said yes. and i was luffin away like a toot cuz it happened to Tama too and i KNEW muff' will die soon cuz lil boy can't aim properly hahaaa






definately stressed and tired. XD

































Farhan den drew me and Tama LOL. look at my bunny hooded jacket (which i have in real life) he drew!! XD and i'm wearin skater shoes which i dun have in reality =X



another drawin he drew a long time ago. i'm not sure i've uploaded it before or not.









thks muff head~!


an attempt to take a pic of both of em in "shocked look" behind my head but totally failed as they moved away. XD

cuz i was shakin due to momentum and was way too slow =_=~







You toss ever so slightly
My eyes round and bright
You're asleep soundly
I'm awake to the night
I wish you would embrace me
and rock me to sleep on your knee
I wish you would caress my face
that sultry warmth in which you paste
ah... such wishful thinking
kept me awaiting
I will miss you many many
I will love you many many
as you toss ever so slightly in bed
of the dreams that i have made..
[copyrightedLirin]

lesson no 1 bout me

I AM FREAKIN PROTECTIVE.


*looks at tagboard*
DON'T even try! one ting u learn bout me right now is NOT to ever MESS with me bout this type of tings. i SWEAR i'll kill u if u tag tis kind of bullshit again. i've been thru too much to go thru tis kind of CRAP. get it into ur head!

If it's a prank and a close fren of mine: i'll still forgive.
Not a prank and meant it seriously?: i will find u. i will. watch your back.
i may be kind and everythin but i will NOT tolerate tis shit thing. YOU seriously better be careful when i finds out who tagged it. haha. doomed.

Business Trip

Ok so I am headed to Tampa tomorrow on business I will be there for 3 days attending an industry conference. So if any of my readers are in the Tampa area let me know maybe we can meet up for coffee. I will try my best to post next week but I may be MIA for most of the week. Look forward to reading everyone's blog while I am gone though!

losin my voice

i'm sick! *coffs and snivels*

had remedial aft sch all thks to my WONDERFUL results.

was bored. see my starry pumps? XD

decided to vandalise my hands~ close up on my fave. stars wif comet. looks better real life HAHA

Star Cross Heart. bestloved by me~

lesson ended early by 5 min =_= cuz i kept pesterin my teacher "can go home now?" "how bout now?" "cher, go home?" "can go now?" "cherrr, can go now?"

:D~ ~ 5 min. no diff.








Tama came to pick me up at 5.30
so 30 min? wat does she do?


:D hah.

i look a little like a tennis player O_o~ on a wrong side.



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Dump cake doesn't sound good but it is :)

I love to bake however during the week there just isn't anytime since I don't get the kids home till 5pm and of course once we get home I make dinner, do homework, try to correct bad behavior from school, baths etc.

So I think I have solved my during the week baking drought! I found a great receipt for Dump Cake, it is so yummy and there are many variations to it. Since my son and I love Chocolate and my husband will eat whatever I put in front of him this seems like a good choice. For those of you who know me no I didn't forget my daughter, she won't touch anything sweet. I think I hould have her checked out because not eating Cakes, Cookies Pies, Ice cream just doesn't seem normal for a child although she does eat very healthy and if you give her any kind of fruit and she will eat to her hearts content! Anyway I digress! So I make a Chocolate Dump cake last night that took all of 5 mins to prepare and 30 mins to bake how simple. I will admit that it is not a pretty desert but man does it taste good. Here are my pictures as well as a couple variations of the recipe.


Regular Dump cake
20 ounces crushed pineapple
16 ounces cherry pie filling
1 package yellow cake mix, dry
1 1/2 sticks butter, sliced
Dump all ingredients into baking pan and bake at 350 F until brown, approximately 1 hour.


Chocolate Dump Cake (pictures above)
2 cans of cherry pie filling (21 ounces each)
1 box of chocolate cake mix
2 sticks of butter, sliced into 12 pieces each
2.25 ounce bag of chopped pecans
1/8 cup white sugar

Preheat the over to 350.

In a 9 x 13 cake pan:

Dump the 2 cans of cherry pie filling into the bottom of the pan. Sprinkle the box of chocolate cake mix evenly on top of that. Distribute the butter slices on top of the cake mix. Spread the pecans evenly over the butter and cake mix. Fianally, sprinkle the sugar over all.
Bake in the oven for 30-45 minutes and serve warm!

This is also delicious with a scoop of vanilla ice cream!


If you make it or if you have made it let me know what you think of it!

Spastic day

Our sch held a 1day course from ZA.
Bottom line: IT SUCKS.

1stly, ZA's product aren't dat gd, support maybelline or loreal pls~



2ndly, i've seen some of my classmate's face turned out obviously fake and i was wonderin WHY de helpers there didn't bother helpin in makin it less fake. so wat if u guys are pro? heard of LESS IS BETTER in de make up world? or u were just plain lazy. hurs. *Lirin lefts earlier wif Fion and wipes stinkin make up* heheh.

i can NV put foundation cuz i'll look hilarous. natural's de best XD~


suntec-ED.

Tama's supposed to mail tis out to mediacorp for cheque error.



how professional! XD~ *looks at confidential word and i'm partly to be blamed :X:X~~

didn't wanna head back early so i sat at de stairs with my blueberry ripple! YUM =D

got bored. went out in de evenin to buy snacks. lalala~ see my long long hair i'm so proud of. trademark of Lirin? =_=~

WaterHorse. comin soon. one of my fantasies~ =X!! no really!! ahhh.... !! in movie?! YAYNESS! *pokes everyone*




watched Cloverfield (digital) wif Tama sweetheart, Zean kor and Mizuki. slacked at grandcathy. watched at 8pm. and AHHH, i was pretty freaked out. XD kept jumpin at de sounds again =_+~~
all of us was so tired. haha long day i guess~ WOO



starry starry me not study study. =(

*WARNING*

Big objects NOT able for stuffing nose

The classics

OK so most 3 and 5 years old that I have surveyed would love to be parked in front of the TV with Blues Clues, Dora, The Doodle Bops and let's not leave out the Wiggles! But not my 2 little Gremlins! no they have a hankering for the Classics.. let me explain.


About a month ago we bought Marry Poppins and The Sound of Music DVDs mainly for us because we do like to watch classic movies. Are children however surprised us and have becomes hooked!

My 5 year old Lauren sings A Few of My Favorite things to a tee, she even corrects me when I make a mistake singing the song with her! Her school music teacher was so impressed that Lauren enjoyed this music that after Christmas Break when the children returned she had a whole weeks worth of lessons devoted to the Sound of Music apparently the kids ate it up!


My 3 year old Jackson can not get enough of Mary Poppins, no matter where we are he will start to sing:
Chim chim-in-ey, chim chim-in-ey
Chim chim cher-ee!
A sweep is as lucky, as lucky can be
Chim chim-in-ey, chim chim-in-ey
Chim chim cher-oo!
Good luck will rub off when I shakes 'ands with you
Or blow me a kiss and that's lucky too! It is the most adorable thing and I am trying desperately to get it on tape.

He asks me to play the sound track over and over on my Ipod in the car too! I ask both of them if they want to watch regular TV, Noggin is the only channel they watch and we only allow a half hour a night,they say NO! We want to watch Mary Poppins! We still only allow them a half an hour so it takes like a week to see the whole thing... but they love it.

So I ask my readers to send me suggestions on other kids classics that I can introduce to them.

Long Weekend.... What long Weekend???

So it started Friday around noon, the tribe headed up to upstate NY to see my husbands parents for our "family Christmas". My husband picks me up at work and begins to tell me how pissed he is at the kids. Mind you this man who never says a cross word. When I ask why he looks at me as though I have a horn growing out of my head! What? I say, I mean I am not a mind reader! Well with that I opened the flood gates. He proceeded to tell me how the kids were not quiet during his important phone call, how hey were fighting with each other asking for food, wanting a new DVD etc. It took every ounce of willpower I had to say "well, then why did you keep them home if this call was so blessed important!" He went on for like 5 minutes all the while looking for my sympathy then his cell phone rang. As he talked I heard the ever so sweet lady on our navigation system tell him like 4 times to make a U turn when legally able to do so, I was waiting for her to tell him to get off the phone and make a *&^ing U turn but she never did, so he just kept talking and driving. When he finally finished the call we were on some back country road winding our way through MD. I was steaming because I knew we were going to get to NY at like 10pm because he was so wrapped up in his call that we were now taking the back road route to NY. He then proceeds to pick up the "I am upset with the kids conversation" where he left off. All the while are kids are sitting like angels watching a DVD and playing a video game. After he had beat that dead horse as much as he could we proceed on to other topics of conversation for the next 7 hours.

We ended up getting to NY about 9pm the kids were all pumped up to see nana and pop pop and didn't get to bed till midnight, thankfully they slept in! The next day was Christmas gifts and going into town to show off the grand kids, Sunday was more the same.

I made the mistake of trying to get on the computer at my in laws house forgetting that they still have dial up... it was painfully trying to read some of my normal blog friends sites so finally I gave up. ( I plan to catch up tonight if possible)

Last night was my 3rd night on the pull out coach in the family room, BTW it is also the location of the only TV so the house so the lucky people who sleep in that room need to wait until everyone has gotten their fill of TV for the night before they can go to sleep. Last night it was 11pm and I was tapping my toes because I wanted to get some sleep on that ever so comfortable pull out. Needless to say after 3 nights on a full size pull out (we have a king bed at home) I was ready for my own bed! I was up at 7am this morning and was showered and dressed before anyone because the thought of another minute in that bed killed me.

We started our journey home today at 10:30am I had a splitting headache and the kids were now driving me bonkers with their requests of juice boxes, new videos and snacks. We finally made it home at 5:30pm and I raced around trying to unpack, throw a load of laundry in, get ready for the week ahead and put the kids to bed. It is now 8:28 and I just realized my long weekend is GONE!!!!

It was all for a good cause he kids love to see their grandparents and they love to see them Below are some pictures, I am off in search of some peace and quiet until 5am tomorrow!

Here are the proud Grandparents


Some more candid shots of Nana and Pop pop


Finally my tribe before the ride home

Lirin wa bakamono?

*Lirin*
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Mr Kyuru bought me tis! love de keychain loads. hehe~ it has stars, fish and a cute lil bucket and spade! awwww~~



went to my stepdad's side to celebrate grandpapa's bday~ i love de sweet buns they catered over. T_T~ so yummy. XD~




ah... makes me wanna join de japanese ppl, sippin drinks and snackin on tibits watchin de cherry blossom's petals fall~ -bliss-
mind u dat's my huse deco for CNY. (extremly dislikes cny hehe.)



Everythin will be alrite. rite?

Bowling outin

OKAYY FION... *luffs out loud*


Our ca teacher~ Miss Faith Lee~ *cheer*!! XD


random pic~














HAHAA!! tis is so gay~ and everyone was high man~ XD








our grp~ my whole class pic is with another classmate heh.















it's best not to ask anythin.









i keep droppin de stupid BALL behind! argh~! so embrassing *_*~~ it's slippery and my thumb nail hurts cuz it cracked. @_@~


and yea.. i've not much to say cuz i'm pretty down. haf to go de stupid stupid 2-5 remedial. hur. i'm seriously tinkin of quittin. althou my frens kept makin fun sayin quit and stuff or like, oh u've got 2-5 remedial? mm.. i'm not angry or anythin but yar. just a lil sad. everytime anyone mentions bout it i'll feel super down and everythin.. really sad. and to make it up, i just kept up a happy front and looked forward to bowling... well.. yea.. Lirin's such a faker. hah. watever. i'm off to meet up Prawn for de darn kuku remedial.


i hate it. deal wif it Lirin.


like wat Dickson said "i give u 2 options, quit(i can't spell 'etreat') or remedial" maybe he was jokin when he said dat but yar.. do i haf a choice? HELL NO. every1's havin fun and i'm stuck doin stupid stuff. all cuz i'm bad at math.


nvm. i'll jus be happy and look forward to going suntec's playgrd later!! =)


*cries silently...*