A Long Birthday Eve

Been going to bed quite late for the past 2 nites. Last nite was to catch Edmund & wife on Channnel U, the nite before was to catch "The Girl Who Lives in the Dark" on Discovery. So this morning could not wake up & Dar-Dar got to have breakfast at Killiney Kopitiam before owrk. Sorry, Dar! :P

As planned, went to visit the shoe-maker at Geylang East Ave 3 to have my 2 pairs of sample shoes completed. The old uncles there are all very nice & friendly. Will get to collect my samples next week. I'm so excited!

My meeting with the Uncles took longer than expected because they are so eager to share! I can see that they're taking my shoe project as a challenge since they've never made any shoes like ours, so we were actually discussing how to improve on my shoes! They even advice me on how to price my shoes next time! It has been a great experience so far! Now we got new masculine elves at Knotty Bicsie! :P

Rushed off to Plaza Singapure (Crystal Jade) to meet Ayako, Cindy & Ian. Cindy & Ian were VERY LATE & Ayako & I ended up finishing our lunch before they arrived. I had prawn wanton noodle, while Ayako had porridge. When Ayako & I returned from our toilet break, funny Ian made all of us bent over the table & whispered, "ke yi bang mang siao siao sheng chang birthday song ma?" & me, as usual, blur like sotong, actually responded "ok ok", only to realized 2 seconds later that the birthday song is for ME!!! haha.... it was hilarious! But it sure was a very pleasant surprise! They even bought me very nice presents! Ayako's present was SO SECUREDLY wrapped, it took me, think about 4-5min, just to rip off the wrappers! iyo.... our conclusion was that Ayako was a "bad wrapper"! hehe....

After our lunch, we went over to SMU (in the rain!) to meet Victor to re-select our stall & also get back our cheque. After which Cindy & Ian went back to school. Ayako & myself decided to hang around orchard since it's already almost 4pm by then. We went to the National Library at Taka, where Ayako picked up 2 books by Nora ____ to read, while I continue knitting Ayako's bag till abt 5.30 when we were both very tired. @.@ SO Ayako headed towards Vivo City where she'll meet Tom for dinner later, while I hung around Bkt Timah Shopping Centre & Beauty World Centre to wait for Dar-Dar.

It was a super long day for Dar-Dar & by the time he met me, it's already almost 9pm! Bo-bian, gotta prepare for an on-site meeting tomorrow. We rushed to Cold storage after dropping his colleague home where he bought "stuff" for my birthday meals tmr. He got chicken bones, abalone & Häagen Dazs ice-cream (Tiramisu)! Yay...!!!

When we were home, Dar-Dar started brewing the chicken soup & we watched CSI till midnite when Dar-Dar gave me my birthday gift....

Sometimes when I see Dar-Dar so tired at the end of the day, I can't help but feel that I've made a selfish decision to leave MOE & stay at home. Edward is a very loving & responsible hubby who wants to be the provider for the family & let me do/have what I want. I know I'm very lucky. While I feel bad to see Edward work so hard to let me do what I want in peace, I wanna be truthful to myself & not end up working for $$$ sake only. Yes, I know I'm selfish. So this can only make me more determined to make Knotty Bicsie & my Art Teaching Freelance job a success. I cannot let Dar-Dar worry about me, Oreo & the family. I cannot be a Desperate Housewife!