New House!

Been one month since we've moved back to our newly renovated house. Still a few hiccups here and there (toilet, outside lights, gate...) but its still a really nice place. We've moved in (mostly) with a few furniture pieces missing and the rooms still a bit of a mess but its livable. Especially like the IKEA bookcase and drawers we bought, it was good fun building it up from scratch together with Janice.

Janice and I have taken to cooking every weekend now. The week before last I cooked up a cherry tomato and enoki mushroom appetizer with chicken legs marinated and covered in a creamy orange sauce, served with a red wine while Janice baked up her specialty apple puddings for dessert. Last week it was Italian night, so I made a fresh tomato sauce base served on spaghetti (fried first before steeping it slowly in the sauce) with potato crackers and cherry tomatoes on the side. Accompanying this was a fruity dessert wine and a fantastic dessert of cream puffs, honey biscotti and Beirut coffee. The next meal we're planning is a Spanish themed one; Janice is cooking here seafood paella while I'll be handling the tapas; looking forward to it :D

On the work front, its mixed feelings about whether I want to take on the new job or stay where I am. I'm feeling down about my current workplace recently, no thanks to the despondent attitude of my teammates and the whole department actually. Still, its hard going making the choice to leave. I'll have to think about this a little more.

My friends and I picked up some new boardgames recently; YK and I shared for Gloom (really funny but depressing game about tragedy and killing off a family), HS got 7 Wonders (wonderful resource/drafting game; just my type) and Grimoire (nice concept but somehow didn't give a great impression) while JH picked up the expansion to Nightfall (haven't played it yet, need sleeves first). Lots of gaming to look forward to next week given the start of the raya holiday.

Speaking of holidays, I'm off to Malacca this weekend (without my baby though) with some friends. 3 days 2 nights stay... looking forward to the great food and company. Will pick up some good stuff for you Janice, don't worry :3

Patches (my cat) is doing great as well, she's gotten a bit fatter now (so have I! hahaha...) but she's as cute as ever. I think she's grown up a lot smarter now... she understands some words now (her name, fish)! It's almost like she's human...

There you have it for my little update on my (married) life, will update this again soon-ish.