Our Exodus (Part II) : There is just something really weird going on in me

When I live with my parents (which btw, I still do... at least for the next 3 weeks), I take it for granted that I will never find a strand of hair on my bathroom floor -- coz really, I don't. It just miraculously gets cleaned up everyday! Then I never realized how FAST dust settled, because like I said, I never came across dusty bedside tables except for my book shelves -- coz there really is alot of stuff/books/ornaments/what-have-you-not on them.

BUT... these days, I've learned that your hair can drop anytime and anywhere -- on the bed, in the bathroom, on table tops!!! ... and DUST -- omg, don't even get me started. You can mop the floor today; open the windows at night and come back to a dusty-muggy-kind of floor feeling when you get back from work the next day. WHAT IS GOING ON?!!!

So lately, I've become this anal person. I think I now realize that I inherited this trait from my mom (which FYI, I dislike -- coz I dislike being told to keep my letters lying on the foyer table after 3 days :P ) Now, I DO THAT TO IRWIN! OMGGGGG *Help me please. Its weird because when I reminise my varsity days when I used to live with my MOH Yee Mun, I also turned anal overnight just because I had to keep a clean house! Everything I did, I thought 2 steps ahead so that it would take me less effort to clean it up later!

So anyways, enough of my anal ways already. I finally FINALLY finished cleaning the whole condo and sorting out 95% of our stuff today :) Everything's in order now-- I've picked up another weird way of arranging everything in boxes and compartments (which I call "a Home" for everything). Perhaps its always been in me, just that I hadn't noticed it earlier. But now that I need to run a place of our own, the onus is on MEEEEEEEE to keep it tidy all the time. Ok, Irwin helps out too. Keke. He's my super mop-person! WEEE~ And I love him best coz he just accomodates my strange meticulous ways. Just hope its not too much of a culture shock for him!!! :D But really, I'm trying my best not to let it get a better of me. Some things just gotta slide, doesn't it?

Let me tell you about the man I will marry :)

Wedding jitters. Cold feet. These are some of the things that I often hear brides-to-be talk about just before their big day, and I'd always thought it was a myth! Well in some ways it really isn't a myth. Its natural to sometimes have thoughts about how it would be like to move in with someone and sharing your entire life with ... well, just HIM!

Lately, I've had these thoughts -- just trying to imagine how it would be like living with Irwin in just less than a month's time (But definitely no cold feet lah :P ) And if I've had such thoughts, I'm POSITIVE that Irwin's thought about it 5 million times more than I have, since he is Irwin Oh -- a natural-born THINKER. But I think the amazing thing is, after having these thoughts, I've come to realize that I am truly blessed to be marrying a man like Irwin Oh because he is truly someone that puts me first in everything -- Just like Today!

^ Taken from Kris Wong (The Wedding Hub) Facebook. Keke! My amazing makeup artist Lee Kuen & myself. Gown sponsored by Pretty In White.

Even in the midst of our busy-ness and house moving, he encouraged me to take a couple of hours off a precious Sunday to destress and unwind... and go to The Wedding Hub to "be a face" for this workshop Lee Kuen of Bridal Glam was conducting.

I'm glad I went because it was fun :) And I managed to drag 2 of my besties-bridesmaids along -- one of whom is a bride-to-be herself this coming January! The best part was when I went back to our new place to continue unpacking the rest of my stuff, I found my baby vacuuming and mopping the floor!!! :D

Our first pizza "party"

Ok, so PIZZA isn't the ideal diet for a bride & groom-to-be. But some things cannot be help. We've been so busy the last 4 weeks that often times, we find ourselves ordering pizza or McD's just to help us save time. Coupled up with our 4-week absence from the gym, Robert our personal trainer wouldn't be too happy... HEE HEE! *sorry Rob -- really no time, ler*

Anyways, we had an impromptu visit from a guest just recently at our new place! Oh, the joy of using my new plates and cutleryyyyyyy. HAHA! Since it was unplanned, we just ordered some pizza, turned on music and had a good chat over pizza and coke :) It was a nice way to unwind on a rainy Sunday night.

To my shopaholic bestie who's been bugging me to let her come over, this was just an impromptu visit! :P You are most welcomed to visit us starting this weekend...

Our Exodus (Part I)

After 3 weekends of massive cleaning, we've finally begun our exodus into the new place. Well, at least I have. Irwin's gradually catching onto the idea of moving as well after seeing it all cleaned up... and being livable!

I started with organizing our kitchen last weekend. After all, the way to a man's heart is through his tummy ;) I figured the espresso machine, ice + water in the fridge and microwave would keep him happy... for now. HEE HEE! Then I started moving my whole molehill of books and weird treasures (like my POLLY POCKETS!). I found MORE weird treasures while packing up my stuff... one of it being my HELLY KITTY FACE CD holders!!!!!!!!

Treasure Box 1: BOOKS!

Treasure Box 2: CD's & DVD's. I just realized I might potentially have more DVD's than some of the peddlars you'd find around town!

Treasure Box 3: MY BAGSSSSSSS

Irwin and I have this mini "challenge" going -- Whoever who moves in more stuff first gets his/her first pick of drawers/shelf space/favorite spots/etc. Of course, whoever who moves in more stuff, gets more space too!!! keke!!! (Its just my secret ploy of making him move now, instead of 2 days before the wedding when we'll also have a gazillion other things to do) ... And its working!!! :D

Here is how our book shelves look like side-by-side. It took me one whole NIGHT to pack my books and another whole WEEKEND to unpack and arrange them -- It only took Irwin 30 minutes to PACK + UNPACK + ARRANGE his ... *heh. No wonder men are from Mars; and women from Venus. They are just SO different.

Vanessa: Baby?!?!?!? Why you never sort your books in order and arrange them properly wan?
Irwin: HUHHHH?????? Arrange dee wattttt... See... Here all business books... and more business books.... and oh, there also business books....
Vanessa: *hmmmm* Why all tall, short, tall, shot, tall, short and not arranged properly?
Irwin: ................

Our very first spring clean!

Renovation works is still work in progress. Despite being a really small job, its been taking forever to complete. Four weeks has passed by us since we started, and by the looks of it, we need another one more week before we can see 'daylight'-- that's also if we are lucky. The thing about renovation and contractors (and ID's, all the same) is the need to breath down their neck everyday, even if you didn't want to. Missing even one inspection might cause another weeks' delay because by the time you find out the mistake, they'll need to reschedule their workers and redo everything again. Not good at all.

Ok. Enough ranting already.

^ IRWIN AT WORK...

Irwin and I started our very first spring cleaning activity this past weekend despite the delay. I managed to convince him to use a high-powered water jet to 'jet' down all the THICK dust and debris from the balconies surrounding our condo. HEE HEE! It was so therapeutic being able to see the before-and-after effects of our hard work!!! Black-suit-covered railings turned white instantly. We also gave all the walls a good dust down with a feather duster. I tell ya... that five Ringgit thing is an amazing piece of invention :P It takes down all the fine dust particles from every nook and cranny -- you don't even have to exert much strength. Unbelievable!

^ THE AMAZING HIGH-POWERED WATER JET!

Lastly, we also decided to start the 'uphill' task of assembling all our IKEA furniture. It was quite fun :) In fact, it was just as therapeutic as jetting down the balconies! HAHA! We're still working on assembling them this week... so far, we've only managed to get half of every thing we've bought done.

In all honestly, we are really quite exhausted already. Seven more weeks and counting... Keep us in your prayers :)