Christmas In America

Dec is a month where many people will be on leave and will be short handed every where.. as usual working and got appointed as standby Shift IC as the usual Shift IC is on leave..

8 to 11 Dec 09 Tue to Fri - Nothing much.. working as usual.. On Fri was not feeling that good thou..

12 Dec 09 Sat - Having coughing and fever and sore throat.. but later in the evening there a steamboat at Devon's house.. today was also Winson's wife, Kimberly 1st day in America.. she just reach in the afternoon..

13 Dec 09 Sun - Still feeling sick and weak..

14/15 Dec 09 Mon/Tue - Still working but struggling with my coughing.. finish drinking cough syrup but still not getting better..

16 Dec 09 Wed - Finally couldn't take it anymore as cough till pain in the lungs and went to medical centre to report sick.. Doc checked me and think its normal flu and gave me one day off to rest at home..

17 Dec 09 Thur - Back to work but still coughing badly..

18 Dec 09 Fri - Today is the Sqn Christmas party.. still coughing and working.. after work went home to fetch Jerlyn for the party in the evening.. Jerlyn was very lucky won the 2nd prize lucky draw, a PSP go..

19 Dec 09 Sat - Went to Desert Hill and Ontario Mills with Linda, Teck tong and his sis..

20 Dec 09 Sun - Rested at home trying to recover from the cough..

21 Dec 09 Mon - Finally recover.. so happy.. as usual working..

22/23 Dec 09 Tue/Wed - Finally reaching Christmas soon.. hear that Christmas Eve doesn't need to work if can finish all the work on Wed.. so did my best to clear finish the work that we have..

24 Dec 09 Christmas Eve - Woke up helping Jerlyn prepare all the things and food for the evening Christmas Party at our house.. 1st time organising a Christmas Party at our own home.. think everyone was having fun at our house playing wii and celebrate christmas and together.. esp Linda.. she had the most fun playing wii.. just that her playing kaki Lili wasn't around as she went back Singapore.. if not the house will be tear down by the two ladies..

25 Dec 09 Christmas Day - Wanted to let Jerlyn have a White Christmas.. so I decide to drive to Flagstaff and Grand Canyon to see and play snow.. It was very cold around minus 17 deg C.. went there and explore and then rested in hotel..

26 Dec 09 Boxing Day - Went to Grand Canyon to take photos and Flagstaff Mall and Walmart for shopping.. The Flagstaff was quite small so there isn't much to shop.. so went back to Walmart again to shop..

27 Dec 09 Sun - Went to find a slope where we can go snow sledge.. lucky we went there early as there wasn't much people there yet.. it was fun sliding down from the slope and Jerlyn had so much fun playing.. but it was very tiring.. after leaving Flagstaff we went to Montezuma Well.. It a big hole where water is collected and send to places for people who lived there 800 years ago for food and water.. It few miles away from the Montezuma Castle that we visited few weeks ago.. after that we went to Anthem for shopping.. didn't have much things to buy..

28 Dec 09 Mon - Resting at home and thinking of ways to sell away my Toyota Camry.. She has serve me well during this one year from Jan till now.. now that I will be leaving States in March so I got no choice but to sell her away.. She was the best car among the five cars that
I previously and currently owned..

Thanksgiving and Anniversary

Work is getting tougher each day with all the inputs.. After the three weeks of TDY and so many things happened in Luke.. now more things has to be done.. thou the things that input is for more covering and to prevent more things to happened.. but it took us more time to do it and it don't really solve the problem and hope it wont make more problem out of it..

21/22 Nov 09 Sat/Sun - Time to do some window shopping for the big day to come.. went to Fry's electronic and best buy to check on products that me and Jerlyn wanted..

26 Nov 09 Thurs - Today is Thanksgiving Day where people celebrate and thanks for the things that they have and thus giving to those that are less fortunate.. Most of the shops were closed for this day.. but this days few shops were open to get ready for the upcoming Black Friday Sale which is the next day.. we went to Best buy in the afternoon to check on the queue for Best Buy and there is already people queuing up.. and some of them were people whom we know.. we went to Walmart to check too but there wasn't much crowds as Walmart was open on this day.. so we went back to Linda house and get ready for our Thanksgiving Steamboat.. After the Steamboat we came back changed and and went down to Best Buy and start queuing at 6 plus in the evening..

The night was really long and cold.. people who were queuing were all fully gear up for the queue.. some brought their tents and some with their sleeping bags.. for me and Jerlyn was the 1st time queuing.. so we didn't know what to expect.. so after waiting till 3 plus in the morning.. the people who work in Best buy start coming in for work.. so everyone start moving forward and some people from don't know where start cutting the queue.. and this make everyone at the back unhappy.. we have been queuing for so long in the cold and these people just come from nowhere and cut queue.. now could see that there is always black sheep among everywhere.. But lucky for us.. we still able to buy what we came for.. after finishing the shopping and going to Walmart and check for other deals it already day break.. we couldn't take it anymore and went home to sleep..

27 Nov 09 Fri - After waking up it was about 4 -5 plus in the evening.. we continue our shopping and went to Walmart and Office Max for good deals..

28 Nov 09 Sat - Went to Anthem Outlet with Linda and Teck Tong for shopping.. bought Polo Ralph Lauren, Jerlyn bought a Columbia shoe and I bought a Aeropostale long sleeve..

29 Nov 09 Sun - Stay home and Nau..

30 Nov/ 4 Dec 09 Mon/Fri - work and work and work..

5 Dec 09 Sat - It's our 1st Wedding Anniversary.. We went up to Flagstaff as I want our anniversary to be a memorable one so decided to go up to Flagstaff to see snow.. It was very cold in Flagstaff.. it was - 9 Dec C on the top of snowbowl.. but it wasn't snowing on this day.. and we decided to go to Montezuma Castle the next day to see fallen leaves so I decided to stay overnight at Flagstaff so we doesn't need to go up and down again..

6 Dec 09 Sun - Snow start falling when we woke up.. thou it was very little as in "mao mao" but it was able to make Jerlyn very happy.. After going up to top of Snowbowl again for some photos.. we set off and go to Montezuma Castle.. It was a short trail for the Montezuma Castle Monument.. we finish our walk and went back home..

7 Dec 09 Mon - Its our 3rd Dating Anniversary.. nothing much to do as I got to work later.. Sian..