Hi Mummies & Ian,
Have been soooooo busy getting ready stuff for DD's birthday in September & getting ready for baby's arrival.
1st things 1st.....still owe you all my MIL's antics for my Malaysia wedding dinner.
As we couldn't go for our honeymoon as hubby can't fly due to his heart condition. Initially MIL asked us to bring forward the Malaysian dinner. Thank God we declined as I was afraid that it would be too tiring for hubby. Hubby was back in the hospital for a week due to a viral fever 3 days after the Singapore dinner. So after he was discharged, made sure that he rested before we went back to Malaysia for the dinner.
Kluang wedding dinner - the plan was to go there on a Friday afternoon, have the dinner on Saturday night & come back to Singapore on Sunday afternoon. My parents, & sister would go with us for the dinner. I got hubby to get his parents to book 2 rooms. One for hubby & I, & one for my family to share. As this would be my family's 1st time to Kluang, I thought it would be better for hubby & I to stay in the same hotel as them. Unfortunately, the hitch in my plan was, my sister (who is a piano teacher) had an evening lesson which she was unable to reschedule & could only go to Kluang on Saturday morning. My parents decided to take the Saturday morning train with her so that she wouldn't take the train alone. Hence, I would drive in with hubby with all the luggage & my family would travel light.
I asked hubby to get his parents to cancel one hotel room. This is where the trouble started. Hubby came back & told me that his parents had canceled both hotel rooms, and that we could spend Friday night at PIL's place. I explained to hubby that as we are traveling with all the luggage, I didn't want to leave it all in the car, which meant that I would have to move all the luggage myself. This is because both hubby & FIL has a heart condition, & it wouldn't be nice for me to ask MIL to help me with the luggage. Hence, if we stayed one night at PIL's place, I would have to move all the luggage into the house, & then move it back into the car on Saturday to move to the hotel, which would be quite a hassle too. Hence, hubby called back to ask his parents to rebook one of the canceled rooms & told me that PIL said that MIL was upset that we were not spending Friday night at PIL's place. I told hubby that we always stay at PIL's place when we are in Kluang & only for this time, we would stay in a hotel, so I really don't see what's the problem. When hubby called back to ask FIL to rebook the room again, FIL told him that MIL was very upset & was crying!! When hubby told me that I was very pissed!! As I felt that MIL was emotionally blackmailing us into complying with what she wanted. Hubby asked me to speak with FIL myself over the phone. I told hubby that if I spoke with FIL, things may become unpleasant....better for him to speak with them. When hubby spoke with FIL again, FIL claimed that there was no rooms available on Friday night. I told hubby.....it is Kluang, I don't believe that place is so hot that the hotel rooms would be all fully booked....especially when the room was just canceled one day ago. Gave hubby an ultimatum....if the room was not settled, I would not be going to Kluang for the dinner. After that I left it to hubby to settle with his parents. And in the end, the room was available again. How about that?? Hence, with all these things settled, we went to Kluang & had the dinner there too.
So I guess, MIL & I just keep to a cordial relationship, but there's no real love between us....lol