Gowns!

Aint that a dream of a dress? Its about $165 inclusive of shipping, which is much cheaper than renting a dress here, and definitely cheaper than buying one in norway (apparently over there dresses cost over $1300, my god). Kinda worth it since i'll be wearing it thrice this year.


And if i had my way, thats probably what i'd love to wear. except i'm more secure with the first dress since it has straps, and i'll be able to actually eat and breathe in it Xd

and lastly, a necklace i got on ebay because i thought i'd be outbid (it was stinkingly cheap XD)

Wedding Bands

Well for most people who have a facebook account, people would know by now i'm engaged. And the plan is to get married in July. Why? A number of reasons, really.

First, we're been a couple for over 4 years, talked almost everyday for almost 5 years. Aaaand i'm not one to blurt mushy stuff in public, so i'll leave out the rest of that.

Second, if i intend to study in norway, the easiest way is to obtain a residence permit, and that in turn is obtained by marriage. benefits of this? if i dont get into a masters program a year later, at least i'll be able to legally work in between and stuff.

Third, i quote my mother : "if you're going to live there that long, its best to get married first"

Other fun quotes from parents... alex's dad : "i got married earlier." and something about getting presents now if we get married XD

So in sum, instead of marrying a few years later and having the whole big chinese wedding thing, i'll have an ROM now and the big thing much later when we're done with our education. Now on to the fun part- rings! Asking me its one of the bigger decisions since it will probably be used for the rest of our lives. Dresses and stuff... well those get used a few times but mostly get stuffed in a closet.


Option 1 ( -1 votes)
its the only rings here that aren't white gold, but they sure are very nice looking! These were actually found my Alex because of this $1250 ring i found that i liked alot but yeah, its $1250 for ONE ring. This find is the oldest ones i've kept on the 'to-be-considered' list because the more i look at it, the more i like them XD


Option 2 (1 vote)
white gold with some diamonds. Pretty cheap considering what they are at about $350 usd for a pair. It looked good at first, but the longer i look, naaaaaah.

Option 3: (-2 votes)
Again not too expensive considering its white gold + diamonds. Quite like the simple design ^^

Option 4: ( 3 votes)
These cost over $600 USD, but they look pretty damn good. I'm inclining to these because the matt surface would make scratches less obvious i think. thinking long term wear and tear XD Alex agreed they looked good too.

Option 5: (3 votes)
my grand finale! It doesnt come in a set but would match the one below! Sadly this ring alone costs almost $500 USD, but looks very similar to the first $1250 ring i liked. As much as i love this design, pushing the price aside, i'm guessing a polished surface = obvious scratchmarks after some time. plus i cant find a good match other than a plain band for my fiance. Other options that could have matched this ring would cost over $800usd and wayyy up.
So thats it, thats all the nice rings i've found so far! just wanted to list em out XD opinions are welcome XD

last post

last day in norway, not happy about it but the world just keeps spinning.

spent some time taking cute pictures of the cat, shopping abit, cuddling and watching tv... and i'll get on talking about the cat before this gets depressing.
took a pic for xinyi, who asked me to take a pic of cat1 and cat2. cat2 is the one she got me for my bday this year XD yes, that was a positioned shot, but she didnt mind having the toy there and she even gave it a lick.
"oh holy feather, i pray to thee..."

action shot, she jumps about 20cm in the air to catch her beloved feather!

now on to recent knitting projects, mostly done while multi-tasking. mainly when:
1: playing lotro
2: watching movies/tv
3: socializing
4: on the boat back to trondheim!

knitted this for Alex in 2 days, had to even go back to the wool store to get an extra ball of wool and it was the last one left! WHEW. annoying fact about wool : you have to get them around the same period of time, because different batches can turn out in different shades :P its highly annoying.
then i knitted me a beret, which was really fast and easy. i like it alot, and alex said it suits me =) made out of wool i had lying around, and had to go back to the store for ONE more effing ball again. considering i've had this wool lying around for a year, the shade was totally off it might as well be classified as a different colour. luckily they had another brand of wool that was so similar in colour, just had to buy two of it to combine to get it thick enough.
aaand from the side. mainly cabled work.

and this is mochimochisnowman! spent $3USD just to buy the pattern for it =P but its so cute! i'm going to do my usual variation of faces. good way to get rid of little bits of wool lying around too...

also made miniature pigs and a small netted bag.. and half a bag which got messed up, and i'll fix later.

thats it for now.

housewivery

Today alex is out at school to touch up his paper before handing it in... giving me time to do other stuff since we usually do stuff together.

So i'm knitting... vacuuming... doing the dishes... tidying up... chatting..blogging... oh gosh, what a typical house-wifing day. all i need now is those women magazines and a mani+pedicure and i'm all set :P
anyway...

Finally, the time cometh for pics of my beloved..cat.
look! alex's fingers! ;D now you cant say i dont love my bf too. *gloat that she'll be out of reach when alex reads this*
she's getting loads of cuddles!
you can see she's really enjoying it XD
or is she?

well yeah, she was XD she just doesnt care much for the flash.
mockery... a little late ,and one size too small :(

finally have time to just chuck a couple of RAW pics on to photoshop and convert/edit slightly...
and voila.


last but not least... be prepared!..

one...two... three... AWWWWWW

little updates

update 1: photography

i wonder now how much it'll take to be a real nature photographer, when i was climbing over slipper rocks to get nearer to the rolling waves in the stormy winter sea. i -HAD- to get closer cuz i wanted to take nice pics of the waves, especially when it curls XD you just dont see that in singapore.

to top it off, it started to hail X) ahh. hail isnt that bad actually, as long as you dont imagine the classic comic-book bowling ball sized hail stones. personally, i think its better than snow since it doesnt melt as fast (hence you can brush it off after walking to where you want instead of getting your jacket wet) and it looks like those mini ice cream thing they sell in vending machines in some malls XD. cant remember what its called, but i had it with kas once at tampines mall, i think.

pictures are yet again taken in RAW, so i'll probably only handle that when i'm back in singapore.

side note: i'm sick of people asking me when i return. shoo.

Update 2: the pukey cat

little adventure today, since the cat was out a full 24 hours, spending most of that time hiding under a fence, in a hole. (there's knee deep snow piled up now) we tried calling her, she'd come out and meow pitifully cuz she apparently couldnt jump back up to our side. We tried puting a plank so she could climb up, but she didnt even approach it. I even went to ring all the damn doorbells in the neighbouring property but NO ONE WAS HOME?!

so finally, i had to yet AGAIN climb the garage roof X). and its filled with snow X). my frozen butt.

and i had to coax her out ,spending quite some time just by that hole... finally she came out long enough for me to grab her and toss her over the fence to alex. only then she became calmer.. i got a scratch in the process, but when i went into the house and shoved my hand under her nose going "you see? huh ? h.." and she starts licking my hand... awww, ok , its not her fault anymore.

she was quite unstable though, dashed for her food ( i had just watched a tv show where a cat got shipped from america to france in a container, spending almost a month without food.. and my cat cant even survive one day without freaking out) and puked it out promptly a few minutes later.

i had to admire alex for catching the puke with his hand.

and she puked again later on the bedroom rug.........

but now she's okay, sleeping loads more. very happy to get cuddled ^^

ah, i do love this cat. she's so cute, especially at night when i snuggle into bed and she'll jump up, and climb on top of me and lie down there for awhile to get some pets... and after that she'd spend the night sleeping on the left side of the bed, shifting from the head of the bed to the foot at times.

alrighty, time for snacks and a movie!

random quick post

thats the piggy we got from Eva (mary's sister) for xmas XD
thats the cardigan mary made for me, and the scarf is from beate. they go really well together :D

and thats Dag Remi playing the Kinect adventures while Are (legs only) and Alex watch on XD.

the video is more fun to watch, but i shan't put it up. most of the recent pics are taken with my dslr, and are in RAW format... so that means quite some work before i can post the pics here!

heading back to Trondheim today, so YAY wireless net!

dragon hoard

From Mary, a knitted beanie that alex says suits me XD can stuff all my hair into it if i wanna, and its nice and warm :)
then she actually made me a dress O_o Its a bit small ( in terms of the crocheted part's length) i think, or its meant to be that way, i dont know. But in any case, i might add a belt to this dress next time XD pouffy sleeves! also got an inner slip to wear with this, as well as a giant heart necklace to match the dress.

she also knitted me a cardigan i really really liked XD she showed it to me last xmas, a version she had knitted for herself. She bought me the yarn for it this summer, but i never got round to making it. i tried, but my knitting gauge was WAAAYYY too big =p i'll load up a pic later!

she gave everyone her own grown and dried teas, i got camille, and alex got peppermint :) seems like there's a trend for giving out handmade gifts this xmas, i gave out alot of hand made stuff myself XD.

best yet, was a gift from 'snill svigerfar' (nice father-in-law)...
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dark purple triumph bra and panty set.

XD it was hilarious to open it in front of everyone. Hilde got a set too (but she wasnt around to open hers in front of us, she and raymond came later).

anyway, mary was behind it, despite him having signed the card XD

From Beate, i got a cool cross pendant, a bunch of pocky (yumyum), a nail care set and a very pretty scarf which i like alot =)
the scarf is half cloth, half lace, so its really soft against the neck X)

from mary's mother, i got a set of candle holders, which i think looks really fancy =D i put it under the light to show off the autumn golden-brown colours of it ^^

this was the first gift of the xmas present opening session, which is mine! got it from Raymond, and i had to quickly shove it out of sight (thank goodness alex was talking to someone else at that moment, he usually gives attention to the people opening gifts XD) cuz alex didnt know he was gonna get a kinect!
and ta-daaaa! said kinect! cutely enough, alex had future plans to get this, and wanted to get me the game above XD

speaking of my babyboo, he bought me a prime nikon lens O_O. now when i opened this i felt sooo SO bad. why? cuz i bought him a mug that looks a hell lot like a real lens. and everyone was going "ohhhhh" at it until alex unscrewed the top to show its a mug XD.

that aside, this is a REALLY good quality lens, and it takes pretty sharp pictures! its meant for landscapes, so i suspect i'll use it more in summer? although tmr i plan to go out and take a walk while its bright, hopefully get a few nice winter mountain landscape and nice skies with my new lens! =) he also got me a UV filter for this lens, which is very useful since it'll let me take pics of nice bright skies and still be able to capture the clouds ^^
aaaaaand alex has to be fun, getting me my very own severus snape X) <3 onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW12bQFOmjoBpPTUV2MLOb8WDMkXFgBzYmGiUq3ZdvVjOYdLfTU_n7_xp8ZfDsH9XPE5laW5hSZt9e2fTB3pQkXw1-2XP8G6CXTby5ZZV50TKFNPhO8jj4yPJ7yIF0OtfPhXRYla3LSNnf/s1600/xmas+043.JPG">thats the tree, before it got ravaged!

and thats the start of the unwrapping session, joined this time by Robert's sister, Mary-gunn. I should have taken a before and after comparison, because the floor was strewn with ribbons and wrappers and boxes after XD
random picture of the fire in the fireplace, thought it looked cool XD

this is a scarf i knitted for mary while in singapore, spreading the work out over the semester by watching big bang theory while knitting XD mary likes it alot. actually, it seems that people really liked the gifts from me this year X) makes me feel happy when people are happy hehe


last but not least, seasons greetings from the sofa-chopped-off-my-legs Lilo!! <3