ramblings...

chinese new year is over; that's amazingly fast as yesterday seemed only to be the countdown to yr 2008.

the gang and i were at keet's house just last night discussing how fast time passes. it's already the end of february and within a short span of time, it's going to be the good friday holidays (21st Mar). and the gang is going to batam!!! i supposed that's the officially 2nd overseas trip (1st was the bkk trip) but it's the 1st one with almost everyone going. i wont be joining though as the roommate and i will be leaving for cambodia on 23rd mar. haha, looking forward to cambodia yah!

have been surfing quite a bit of websites these days, and i will really like to applaud the singaporebrides.com site. singaporebrides.com is my first time participating in an online forum and i must say it's darn helpful. this site has every information from ROM, home & deco, bridal shops, and etc. and nope, i'm on the site not bcos im goin to be a bride anytime soon. my initial participation is solely for our flat @ telok blangah. interesting that the local gals actually share information bout everything they can (homes, roms, weddings, photographers, etc) with strangers and of cos, im one of them. in fact, i met quite a number of my future neighbours online already, just that we havent arranged to meetup. and remembered the lessons learnt that i've blogged about when we went to select the flats? a lot of tips were given by my future neighbour who had already gone for the selection. and now, the latest topic is bout the delivery vs completion dates of our homes. sweet isnt it?

however, i strayed and wandered to the ROM threads while i was in the forum and i realized that ROM-ing is just as troublesome as getting a flat, the paperwork i meant. read through the threads and i saw phrases like 'you must book your JP first then can book whatever', 'go to rom site to efile for the rom dates 3 months before', 'must do this this this first', 'book venue', 'food catered was missed out' and stuff and stuff...sounds like a lot of admin and coordination cos late filing might just means that you're not given a slot on ur preferred dates. and guess what, almost all threads started off with a 'congrats xx, hope everything goes well for ur big day tmr', 'congrats xx, how's ur wedding yest?'...and the gals actually shared their ROM pictures yah and gave each other their blessings. and of course, i went to check out the links.

on the contrary, there're so many people/couples who are goin to get married/ planning to get married and are happily in love and all but yet, all may change a few years down the road and may lead to divorce. perhaps, they should be reminded of how tedious it had been for them to be together and how loving they had been when they were preparing their matrimony ceremony. im not emotional, just an off-hand thought. =)