Magnets - attract or repel?

This is a good place for writing...for new ideas...every now and then, ideas will come up and I will be in the writing spirits again =D

Just finished our breakfast and here we are lying on our bed again...suffered from adrenaline shots again...another dozzzzzy day...yawn *o*

Was thinking about the no of differences we have and was amazed how we can "tahan" (tolerate) each other, each other's peculiarity...hahahaha. No wonder poles of the opposite sides of a magnet always attract. But if two of us can come together, there should still be some similarities between us, which indeed we do have.

We have the same temper, the same stubbornness, the same childishness. At times, we like to stay in our own world, to be alone and start to behave in such a way that no other people can understand, except the 2 of us. Not that we are strange, just that at times, we feel like letting our hair down, get away from the norms, get away from the need to accommodate to people and be selfish and be ourselves. We are very accommodating people because in our minds, to make people happy is equal to us happy, but sometimes this gets too tiring for us and thus the need for us to get away. Itineraries are "no no" for us; these are just guidelines for us, one that give us a very rough idea of what we are going to do next; simply because we do not like to be tied down by something, we work and do things according to our moods.

However, we are different when it comes to eating. He is very particular about food. He goes for fresh food, leftover food is a "no no" for him. For me, as long as I can eat (eating is my fav pastime), I am okay and because, my choice of food is very limited - fish, potatoes and nuts, that's all I need to make my day, very bimbo-tic, right? hahaha =D

When it comes to ordering of food, again another issue. He likes to order a lot of food, a typical Chinese mentality. A lot of food on the table, esp when there is excess food on the table, shows the host's generosity. For me, this is a "no no". Excess food on the table is a wastage. It is our upbringing; we have been taught not to waste food. We will order just enough for everyone, if anyone needs extra, we will go for a 2nd round.

I guess, no matter what, when 2 persons come together, there will bound to be differences. It is the differences that makes us understand each other better and learn to accommodate; it is the similarities that bind each of us together but it is also the similarities that cause us to clash.

So what's the moral of the story? Sit back and relax and enjoy each other's company. Don't think so much and attend to the differences when they arise. Every setback and every incident are valuable lessons to be learnt.

Cheers!

Thank you

Today is our 5th day in Bali.

Here I am blogging and he is sleeping.

I do not regret coming to Bali and neither do I regret leaving the planning to him, esp the accomodation. I always know that I can trust him to plan a good trip for me and I was never wrong. This Bali trip has once again proved that I am right.

We have just settled in our 2nd villas. The experiences that we have for these 2 villas are marvellous, wonderful, fantastic, brilliant, blah blah blah...

The 1st one was Kajane, in Ubud. The services they provide for the residents are beyond what words can describe, a total contrast to the 4-star hotel that we had days before. They practically attend to your every needs, understand your needs, remember your names, remember that you have not taken your meals, remember what you like or don't like to eat. For e.g. for one of the breakfasts, we took only one of the bites of their exotic, tropical fruit. I guess they sensed that we do not like to eat, thus for the next 2 days, they have kindly excluded that fruit out from our plates and replaced with something we like.

This is what I called, Services. Providing services without your guests telling you what to do, but constantly anticipating what your guests need. We highly recommended this villa. Will introduce more about this villa with photos once I return home.

We are currently into our 2nd villa - the Kunja at Semiyak. Not bad either, comparable. Cannot comment much yet, until the last day. And by the way, we have our own personal butler to our villa who will come to our kitchen to prepare food for us everyday. Shiok, right?!

Ohhh...the rain has stopped and he has woken up. Time to explore Semiyak and Kuta.

Tata!!!

Disappointed

I may sound like a complain queen again, but sorry, I have no choice.

As a service provider for many years, I value the qualities of service more than anything. For a matter of fact, I am more than willing to pay extras for good services and get very annoyed when the services are bad and when they affect the people around me. What's more, if it is going to reflect badly on me - as a host, it cannot be forgiven.

I was terribly upset by the services provided by a hotel (not to mention name), even until now. It was a failure of promises, a failure to fulfill the minimum requirement. It was my big day, an eventful, a happy, a cherry day for me and him and for everyone. Everyone whom we love, whom we care is invited on this day, to celebrate the big day with us.

Before the big day, we reminded the hotel again and again (I was very naggy then cos I know very well that the quality of services and food will drop when the nos of guests go up and sad to say, I was right. Darn it!) to provide us with the best quality of food and best quality of services for our guests on that day. We received a lot assurance, a lot of promises from the hotel that everything will be okay on that day. They further assured us that despite the many numbers of wedding dinners and lunches and seminars that will be going on on the same day, the quality of services that they will provide will not drop.

Sad to say, the promises were not fulfilled. This was terribly disappointing for a 4-stars hotel. I was right that the standard of services have dropped due to the large no of dinners and lunches and seminars on that day, and I was darn upset that this so called 4-star hotel is just not capable of committing itself to large nos.

Here're the huhas:-
1) Food. During food tasting, hotel has already been told and reminded the udon was too salty and to reduce the salt content. They were also told that there are a lot of elderly and too much salt is a "no no". But this was not fulfilled. Sharkfins on the other hand, ended up too blend. We have also reminded them to use fresh ingredients and we were assured by the hotel that they will use the top quality of ingredients, but it turned out that some of the dishes are not very fresh.
2) Glassware toppled and broke during the dinner. To us Chinese, this is a taboo as it is considered as inauspicious.
3) Spilling orange juice over the head of one of my guest by a waitress. This is unpardonable!!!
4) Excess food from the dinner was not brought up to our room. This is not the usual hotels' practice where usually after every banquet, the excess food will be brought up to the bride's and groom's room for their consumption. Excuse given by them:-oversight.
5) A promise made by one of staff to provide a cake is not fulfilled. This was to celebrate two of our best friends' wedding anniversary which happens to be on the following day. The hotel staff was kind enough to offer a complimentary cake for them. To our dismay, the promise was not fulfilled. Excuse:- oversight.

Despite all the huhas, we are comforted that the hotel has agreed to provide us with some compensations. We are given a free Valentine Day's dinner for both of us and our 2 best friends + 10 dining vouchers. And of course, some of these dining vouchers will go to one of our guests due to incident No 4.

I guess the comforting part is, this ends with a good note. So what's more could I ask for?

The start of another long break and the ending of a long break.

Gotta enjoy this last long break as much as I can. Because, I know very well, after this break, I can no longer find any excuses.

It will be back to work. And I know that my bosses are holding back for the time being, and thank you very much.

Counting down

The day is getting nearer... am I happy or am I not? I don't know...Maybe now my mind is just too preoccupied with loads of things to know what is called "happy" or "nervous" or "Oh mine"...

Still trying to process my CPU ram to find out what I missed out...every now and then...during the morning train ride, during lunchbreak, during my ride home, before bedtime...every minute and every sec, the RAM is working non-stop, performing the checks...it is currently still working at Pentinum III speed, already an improvement from the previous weeks...give it until sat and it will perform at its full speed ---> Pentinum V...hahaha

Thankfully, he is a master of precision, a mistress of details and timing. I don't need to lay my hands on a lot of things, and all I need to do is, to tell him what I would like to have, and "ting" like a magic --> the perfect piece of work will appear in front of me.

Day by day, my panda eyes get darker and darker; my energy level gets lower and lower; and my voice gets coarser and coarser...

And...I am falling sick....='(

THE GIFT

Thank you for the gift.

Thank you for the answer to our prayers.

Thank you for the patience.

Thank you for the listening ears.

Thank you for the one --> the one whom we can spend our life with each other - a life filled with adventure, filled with romance, filled with laughter, joy and sadness, a life that requires us to fall in love over and over again.

Thank you for falling in love again.

Thank you for the dreams come true.

And thank you for everything --> THE GIFT

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The Gift
Winter snow is falling down
Children laughing all around
Lights are turning on
Like a fairy tale come true
Sitting by the fire we made
You're the answer when I prayed
I would find someone
And baby I found you

All I want is to hold you forever
All I need is you more every day
You saved my heart
From being broken apart
You gave your love away
And I'm thankful every day
For the gift

Watching as you softly sleep
What I'd give if I could keep
Just this moment
If only time stood still
But the colors fade away
And the years will make us grey
But baby in my eyes
You'll still be beautiful

All I want is to hold you forever
All I need is you more every day
You saved my heart
From being broken apart
You gave your love away
And I'm thankful every day
For the gift
(Instrumental)

All I want is to hold you forever
All I need is you more every day
You saved my heart
From being broken apart
You gave your love away
I can't find the words to say
That I'm thankful every day
For the gift

SHOWER ME WITH YOUR LOVE

Shower me with your love --> that is what every woman yearns for, from their man; likewise for the man

Our hearts are filled with so much love --> love that we want to share/give to someone, someone whom we can call our own

Life is too short to live alone --> to live a life with someone whom we can share our joy and happiness, tears and sadness with

To fall in love --> is the world's most loveliest thing one can ever dream of

And most importantly, fairy tales do come true as long as we believe and behold

Shower me with your love is a song that marks the beginning and the union of our love, a love which we will hold true and live forever

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SHOWER ME WITH YOUR LOVE

My heart is filled with so much love
And I need someone I can call my own
To fall in love--that's what ev'ryone's dreaming of
I hold this feeling oh so strong
Life is too short to live alone
Without someone to call my own
I will care for you, you will care for me
Our love will live forever

(Chorus:)
Shower me with your love
Shower me with the love that I long for
Shower me with your love
Shower me with the love I've been waiting for

I close my eyes and pray all my wishes come true
Ev'ry night I go to sleep
Until you're mine, I'll wait for you endlessly
Can't you see
Fairy tales, they do sometimes come true
If you believe, it could happen to you
Like the stars that shine way up in the sky
Our love will live forever

Like the stars that shine way up in the sky
Our love will live forever
Live forever

Shower me with your love
Shower me with the love I've been waiting for

Mad mad mad...

Mad at what?

Mad at not being able to balance the balance sheet...

Mad at oink oink for not being understanding, knowing that I will be going on leave soon and am frantically trying to clear the deadlines but still want to load me with more things...

Mad at not being able to relax and rejuvenate and beautify myself like what most people do...

Mad at not being able to be in control for some things...

Mad at every single things that happened lately...

Mad at myself for being mad with so many things...

Arghhh......

Arghhh.....

Nightmares starting to come...

Starting to feel the stress of the overwhelming workload...studies, marriage and work...And my gastric pain starts to come back today bcos of the anxiety...

Oh mine! How to juggle? I don't know....take a step a time then...

Just received news that oink's going to get me to work on something and the deadline is like by this month??? I was aghasted...overwhelmed...and angry!!! What nonsense is that? How am I going to finish all my work before I go for my honeymoon, which is like 1 1/2 weeks more only? I have yet to apply for leave to my honeymoon and I pray that she won't tell me "No, you cannot go because you gotta stay and help out." If she were to say that, I will flip.

But I know, one thing for sure, based on my records, if I want something, I will be sure to get it, by hook or by crook.

Meanwhile, I just pray that things will be smooth, according to plans.