Life In A Snapshot

We had gift-giving last Christmas eve. Everybody got a gift from each of us and gift opening was a lot of fun especially for Ella and Che2x. After the fun, I jokingly asked Ace “where’s mine?”. He never got anything for me because he can’t dare to buy me present without me tagging along. For a change, I wanted something that he really thought of giving and have spent effort in choosing one for me but he insisted on going with him so I could choose. Hayts! Anyway, the following day, he got me a pepper mill and salt shaker of my choice. In fairness to him, haven’t got anything for him.hehe. He kept on insisting I shouldn’t bother buying present for him so I didn’t gave him one. But then last weekend when we were at the mall, I lead him to the men’s section of the department store ‘coz I’m planning to get him polo shirts. I could almost lose my cool with him. He was so snob and kept on insisting he don’t need it. My charm didn’t work and I failed to convince him. Instead, he lead me out of the department store passing by the watch section without saying anything. Instinct says he wanted something and not those tops…he wanted a watch. We came back to the department store passing on the same door and I am getting what he’s trying to convey so I told him he wanted a watch and he smiled. Read the rest of this entry »

I did the initial general cleaning around here last Sunday. At last I was able to do it though I haven’t finished everything. The power went down in the mid morning and since I cannot work on my blogs, I decided to sort out the things inside the boxes in the living room. The boxes contain old stuffs so I sort out which should be thrown and not. The remaining stuffs were piled inside the boxes and stock it under my sister’s bed. While checking inside the old handbags that Ella, my niece, used to play when they are here, I found a gold-plated ladies’ wrist watch and even exclaimed “it’s working”. I had it checked by Ace and it’s really working so I have an instant watch. So now my plan of getting a wrist watch would be deleted from the list and I’ll only get for Ace then. Read the rest of this entry »