Post Wedding Thoughts

It's been 2 weeks since the big day. It still feels surreal - almost like a dream. Why did it end so quickly? Was such a fun day! 2 weeks since and I still have not thanked everyone. Wonder why I'm so busy. I shall try to reach out to as many as I can this weekend.

Pity didn't get to take as many pix with every single person as I wanted to. Luckily many of our friends took candid shots. I love all the pix! Here are some of them...

* Kojiro and Keith. This is really the sweetest picture of all! The 2 guys (besides my papa and WM) whom I love in the same picture! How good they look together...

* ah... the memory of being fussed around. It may be the 1 and only time I get the privilege. (hope not the last!)

* the 2 men who helped made me pretty!

* and 2 great gals who were there to help me change... (Cynamie & my sisters were busy co-ordinating, so not in pic!)

* the Family who has always been so kind and helpful towards me!

* All the brothers & sisters

* and with the man who made it all possible.. haha!

Of course many more people to thank! - but I don't really have all the good photos. Hope I'll receive more photos to share! The official pix will only be out 6 - 8weeks later. Shall share it once i have them.

Sephora Sale

MaZe helped me to get 2 good buys from the Sale! Heard it's pretty value for money. Check it out!

Keith Blogs on OMY.

I decided to resume blogspot... It's more interesting than tumblr. Shall try to blog more often now.

Keith has his own blog on OMY alongside the other celebrities! Read all about his insights on fashion and interesting events at http://blog.omy.sg/keithpng/ .

* picture taken from http://blog.omy.sg/keithpng/archives/267

A new blog

I have decided to emigrate temporarily or for good to a new blogsite. Blogspot really kills my momentum to update. Wonder what's wrong.

http://pink-mien.tumblr.com/

But I'm still figuring out how to config it to something like my blogspot layout...

Fashion Asia

I managed to catch half of the 2nd episode of Fashion Asia, hosted by Keith. Missed the first episode, and I'm trying to find a copy of it to view.

I feel both a sense of pride and relief for my friend who has done well - all in a matter of 2 years since he came out to strike on his own. He has started from made-to-measure in a small rental office, to doing dresses for celebrities, opening hide&seek, and now also as a host for a travel-fashion tv program. With all due respect, he works very hard and deserves to be recognised.

We had both started out self-employed about the same time, and congratulate him on making it this far. I'm sure he will scale greater heights!

* Catch the 12 episode program on Channel U, Tues 8.30pm.

The present

Got this cute pen from my younger sis. Her very first pay from her first full time job, she bought me a gift. Which is a nice gesture la... only thing is that she only bought for me (not for my parents. but is ok, cuz they will think she is wasting $ anyway.)...

* The pen is exactly the same size as the current pink crystal one I'm using. Have so many complaints about it being bling and rough to hold. So now we have a smoother pen to write with, though it's still pink. sorry guys!

I thot it's pretty cute how much the print looks like my blog skin.

ST July 26, 2009 100,000 lack MediShield

ST July 26, 2009
100,000 lack MediShield
NTUC aims to get them covered; urges husbands to pay their wives' premiums
By Mavis Toh

Women live longer than men and face more years of being ill towards the end of their lives. On average, women live up to 82 years and suffer 11 years of disability. -- ST PHOTO: CAROLINE CHIA

ABOUT 100,000 women in Singapore do not have MediShield insurance coverage and risk having to shoulder hefty medical bills.

They are mainly housewives with no Medisave savings.

Describing this as a significant number, National Trades Union Congress deputy secretary-general Halimah Yacob said on Saturday that these women and their families would face a big burden.

Women live longer than men and face more years of being ill towards the end of their lives. On average, women live up to 82 years and suffer 11 years of disability. Men on average live up to 77 years and suffer eight years of disability.

'But even as we live longer and need more health care, we have lesser means to pay for them,' she said at a forum organised by NTUC Women's Development Secretariat to raise health awareness among non-working women.

She noted that such women are not covered either due to 'pure ignorance' or when their coverage lapses over time. NTUC intends to reach out to this group and has appointed 90 women 'MediShield ambassadors' to encourage women to sign up.

Pamphlets, posters and a video promoting MediShield through cartoons and simple narration were also launched at the NTUC Centre to help Singaporeans understand the scheme better.
Madam Halimah and guest- of-honour Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan both urged husbands to pay the MediShield premiums of their non-working wives.

MediShield, operated by the Central Provident Fund Board, is a low-cost catastrophic illness insurance scheme. It is designed to help with large hospitalisation bills for the treatment of serious illnesses or prolonged hospitalisation at Class B2/C wards in restructured hospitals.
It has a maximum coverage age of 85. Medisave can be used to pay the premiums.

Older women now depend heavily on their family to pay for the cost of their acute care. Only 6 per cent of them use their own Medisave while 65 per cent depend on their children's.

Celestia

Today I finally got the keys to my rental apartment... It's a studio apartment. And it's so tiny, I feel that it's only half my 4 room flat. Anyway good to keep me under control from reckless buying. Shall upload some pix after i'm settled in!