wedding is over... marriage has started

Its been exactly a month since the wedding is over. I have not posted any photos or update the blog. I'm in a lazy mood :) Perhaps i'm trying to get used to married life and staying in the new house. Also to adapt to my new job :) hehe change job again, but i really like the new place, more challenges and exciting. Well, back to the wedding, i'll upload some pics soon once i get hold of the lower res versions

Overall, the wedding was a huge success! Really got to thank all the brothers and sisters for helping out. They made the entire flow so smooth and organised. Alvin and I had a great time too. Its really amazing how fast the day passes by... and how we can't spend more time with our friends. Everything went well, still i have some regrets. I'm unable to take more personal photos with my close friends, sisters and my family. The thing is, i cant turn back time and the only thing i can do is to cherish the limited amt of photos we took together. I really appreciate all those who turned up for the wedding and didn't play me out. Also, special thanks to Khair who help made the video for my Hubby.

I guess most guests were touched by that video, and the important is, he is also touched by it. Hopefully "being touched" doesnt just stops there but will have a overall effect of how he will be treating me in future.

thinking back of the march-ins, i think we really did chose to right songs. Like A Rose, was nvr in the list, and it was a last minute decision. We still went ahead with Amazed, and i think the overall effect during the march-in turned out well. At least it reflected how we feel :)

I don't really miss the wedding like many brides mentioned, i mean i still think about it sometimes, but is not like i missed it. Anyway, i felt a great that the wedding is over and i finally can catch up with my personal time. Instead of running around to do all the wedding stuff, i can spend quality time now with Alvin.

Will update more next time... feeling tired now... time to bed :)

Xy Bridal Shower

I've been so tired, sick, busy and extremely lazy to update my blog, and if i don't do it before the wedding I feel that i'm letting down my dear friends who celebrated my hen's night with me.

We have decided to meet at Timbre for dinner... but it was so packed, some of us were late and dinner started late... and i had GASTRIC so didnt have too much a drink... but we still had a hell lot of fun.

I must thank all the gals for organising this memorable and eventful night for me. Thanks Nic, Jodie, Chel, Jing, Dawn and Wendy! Also thanks to some of my guy friends namely Jeffrey, Junwei, Weiliang and some other who turned up!

A picture speaks a thousand words, and i have tons of pictures to share!

This is how i looked before they started to shower me with gifts.

Me and my Uni friends

Me and my poly friends, we definitely looked hungry with the yummy cup cakes. Compliments from jodie.

My sec sch buddies who never treated me as a gal, but one of their brothers

The night begins with lots of gifts and dressing up!














Finally, XY you are off the rack... okie, my gals are so happy for me that i'm leaving singlehood... hahaha. they bought me this sexy hot pink lingerie, a sash and a tiara.

Got me up the stage...

The band played for me... and both the singers sang something sexy to me... oh so loved... haha

Showered with blessings...

I'm supposed to go round Timbre and get ppl to give me their blessings... all will be written in the box. Met realli nice ppl, and one even bought me drinks when requested.

Re-Dolling me...

They felt that i looked too nice in what i was wearing.. so, here's my new hairdo. My gals were having lots of fun too...

There's always a finale to something...
So my sec sch friend - Junwei has been so kind to think of the finale for me... and of coz he got to go through it with me... hahaha "evil laughter"...

What's the plan? I'm supposed to dip one of my fingers into some chili sauce... and they made me go round asking 5 different guys to lick or suck that finger... Er, its realli disgusting though i'm not the one sucking it... But it was good fun! Jun Wei is the first to do it... but he is not counted as 1 of the 5.

nervous, excited and panicky

4th Year Anni - 17th Aug

Alvin and I have officially been together for 4 years, fruitful and eventful. On the 19th Aug, we have also known each other for 7 years. Its neither long nor short cos its still less than a decade. We didnt have a big celebration, but we tried to catch fireworks together, though it didnt happen. He was so sweet, he ask me to step out of the car to meet my colleagues for fireworks, while he waited for me in the car. We watch the fireworks together at different places, his messges are enough to make me feel that he was with me. We went to catch a movie after the fireworks, and had a simple meal to simply enjoy each other accompany.

Starting out as normal friends, we used to chit chat over the weekend till wee hours in the morning, and the weird thing is we hardly meet up. But we just have so much to talk about last time. I cant rem what we talked about, but we somewhat talk every weekend until he got attached.

Hehe nothing wrong with him getting attached then, coz our friendship has always been quite platonic, as i was attached too. It only happened in the later stage when i came back from australia and both of us were single. When we meet up there were sparks somehow. Its weird, its like getting together with a close friend, but it is a right choice that we decided to be more than friends. Knowing him for 3 years then, i know he is a very good bf, always giving in to his ex. haha being a friend at that time i felt that maybe some gals are not worth it especially the way they treated him was not very kind. So, as a friend i know how he works in a r/s , therefore i will somewhat be his first priorities if i'm his girlfriend.

Indeed, he has been treating me very well, took good care of me, and tolerating all kinds of tantrums from me, but me too also compromises. We both give and take, though its evitable to take each other for granted sometimes, but we all learned and try not to. I belive in horoscope, scorpio and gemini are not meant to be, but we are together and we are happy. I guess God arrange it this way so that we will live together lovingly for the rest of our lives. We hardly fight nowadays not becoz we dont talk, just that we learn to solve things in a nicer way without starting a big fight. We do have triffles but that's part and parcel of life.

We are moving on together to the next stage of our lives, yes we are getting married in less than a month's time. Right now i'm feeling the anxiety, many loose ends not tied and i'm somewhat at a lost of not knowing what to do. He is overseas again, so I better pull up my socks and get more things done asap. Hmm in a way i'm looking forward to it, but at the same time i wish i can get things up and running faster.

He is really one man that i can live with for the rest of my life and i hope it stays this way. I have faith that we will be happily married. Of coz nothing is for sure, but I know God will protect us, and we will cherish each other too.



Wedding Preps
Everything is okie, but like i say many loose ends. Havent confirm my cake, my tables arrangement, my ballroom deco, and most improtantly the schedule for that day! Haven't called a meeting to meet all the brothers and sisters. So many things to do... faint.. and i'm not sure if i left out anything. We haven't chosen our wedding march in song also and wedding vow...But we do have in mind what to choose :) All the "costumes" shd be ready, and just bought him new cuff links. Hehe bling bling and it matches his shirts well.

I really hope tat our wedding dun have to involve so many ppl, and dun have to worry abt how others think about our deco etc. Why is it that choosing our banquet table cloth colour also has to care for how others feel? Cant i be selfish and go ahead with what i think is nice? Cant i do that? sigh... i'm rather depressed now... I just want to have OUR own wedding and NOT everybody's wedding. Right from the beginning, from chosing of dates, flowers colour etc, we got to worry this and that.. why is it so???

Busy with lots of celebrations

I've been realli busy for the past 2.5 weeks and didn't have time to update what i've been doing. Busy and tired... falling sick too. Have been busy with all the invites, given out to most friends and relatives. Soon, we'll go for food tasting etc and the big day will be here! quite scary, going to be just one month before the wedding! Meanwhile, I will pick a few meaningful events to share of wat happened the past weeks.

Official Shift in - 28th July

Though our house is not exactly ready, but we have officially shifted in on 28th July. Well, bought those fruits, roasted duck, roasted meat up and start a mini party. Currently having some probs with my tiles, so will have to redo both toilet tiles before i can realli shift in. The rest of the things are all in order. My curtains are up, dining table is in, and our mattress has been delivered too. So just waiting for toilet to be ready.

Michelle's Birthday Celebration - 2nd Aug

We gave our dear gal a birthday surprise 2 days before her actual day! When she least expects that we are meeting her for dinner, we were sitting right there waiting for her. She got so shocked, instead of surprise, she took a while to recover. ahaha she thought she walked into the WRONG room. We had lots of fun and laughter that night and its been a long time since we laughed soooo hard. Jeff, nic, jo and me were there :) Chel's friend was very kind to buy us dinner and drinks. Opps, i havent downloaded the pics yet or were the links not sent to me yet...

JunWei's Birthday at Double O - 3 Aug

Yet another birthday celebration after one day. Woah, that night was not exactly crazy, but mad enough for JunWei. hehe shall i post some funnie pics of him? I didnt had much drinks, but was rather high on air. The amazing thing was, Bernard, Alvin (not my ALVIN) and Agnes attended this party. These non-party goers were there to give Junwei a hand when he was rather dead drunk. I wonder why, but my own man was drunk too! hahaha total memory lost of what happened that night. So lets recall what happened that night...

Guo Da Li

We had our guo da li on the 5th August. Hehe it was TIRING but eventful. First time ever that i have sooooo many relatives coming to my place at the same time. Besides me, winnie (my dog) was busy entertaining guests too :) She was so tired, she nearly ran away from home. its was just tooooo noisy, and i guess she cant handle it anymore. keke. But i know my parents were very happy that day. They simply had fun hosting the guests...
Alvin went to collect all the wedding cakes and the roasted pig early the morning. its quite scary how Cantonese gets married, especially if u have a huge family. 60 boxes of traditional wedding cakes were delivered to us, with additional 25 boxes of western cream cakes. There are many other pics to share, but my bro has not downloaded those pics for me yet...

Pens purchased over the weekend 12 Aug

We bought a pair of pens for our solemnization. We are not into the very extravagant, expensive pens like mont blanc or whatever... coz firstly we do not have that kind of money to spend on such things, secondly we rather go with something we like and more unique. We found a new brand of pens sold in Tangs. I like their range of colours and size of the pens. We bought similar colour but different sizes. The fact is, its cheap and easy to write :) hehe so happy, one load of my mind :)

food for thought...lamenting

In the previous post, i said i was contented with what i have... but is that really true? I often question myself over and over again. Ever since i went to Australia and study, i told myself i must learn to be contented. Be contented with life and what i have and not taking them for granted, shall learn to cherish all that i have.

But its human nature to have more wants in life, or am I just blaming it to "humans nature"? I tink a contented person is very happy and carefree, dun have to worry abt FAME , MONEY and STATUS. Wont be jealous or envious of what others have in life. No comparison will be made. When i say contented doesn't mean i am rich and dun need to work, it could be, i just work as a recep or a simple job which gives a decent pay to survive. Having the basic necessity, a shelter, food and love (family and friends). Dun have to worry how others look at me... look at the pay i'm drawing... it could be the case whereby someone is very rich but nvr happy, coz they are nvr contented, and these ppl tends to miss out the good things in life. The good human nature.

but having enough to survive appears to be sometimes insufficient coz we have WANTS. Example, i wan SHOPPING, i want to travel, i want this and that.. and almost everything! haha so when can i reach the stage of contentment?? of not wanting more than i need? will that take me forever??? Maybe becoz we are not contented, we tend to want to make more money... more and more money thinking that it can bring us loads of stuff (which is very true in many ways), but some stuff cannot be bought. sometimes with watever means that we try to make more money, we somehow lose out more, that is have lesser time for the ppl u love, or miss out certain things in life... we stop being caring, we tend to be selfish, or even go into gambling.

The sad thing is, we stop reflecting and take a step back to look at how we live, and stop appreciating the good things around us. we onli have one goal is to get more money (promotion, strike toto, etc) and we move on in life blindly, we start to live blindly. So may god bless me that i learn to be as contented as possible with life and be happy :)

Just doing some self reflection, i told myself i shd look fwd to the things i want to do and appreciate life... tink i'm going bongus... start to write nonsense hahaha

chirpy... cheery... contented

Well, for no reasons i'm feeling quite happy. I was not feeling fantastic this afternoon after the attachment at the shop. I did learn something new, but I think an attachment like that can be enhanced to become more effective in meeting the objectives. But somewhat, after my boyboy has touched down in Korea and gave me a call, he brightens up my day. I think a phone call and a smile from him does make a difference.

But what really cheers me up, is knowing the fact that he appreciates me and not taking me for granted. He knew that i've been feeling frustrated over wedding stuff and reno, he took over the job from me and try his very best to lighten my load. And today, on his msn nick it says "I m glad to have a nice wifey for the rest of my life... :) "

Well, i'm touched :) Partially because he said something like this.. and alvin being a very inexpressive person, he actually displays it as his msn nick, this means something to me. He is not a mushy person, or someone who can sweet talk, so by saying all these i know its from the bottom of his heart. I am not the best wife in the world, but at least in his eyes, i'm a good wife. Perhaps there is no flowers and wine, but he is always there for me. This wedding preparation once again brought us closer, and it actually made me realised how impt we are to each other.

Of coz, i can feel the difference of how he's been treating me... though no flowers and all.. he actualli made the effort to buy me my small items to make me happy... keke maybe you tink that i'm too easily contented but i'm happy this way... every small thing he buys makes me happy! My birds nest, SKII eye and face masks... haha etc... he wont spend on gf unnecessary... keke maybe my status is upgraded to wife soon.. so treatment is very different... and is for the better! yippee!

17th Tuesday
We've been rather busy last week, chosen our PS photos last tuesday, but i'm still making some changes here and there. So will most probably email tuckys the final chosen photos later this week. Rather tired and lazy to do it now.

20th Friday
It was rather peaceful, we didn't do much stuff. Alvin was on leave on friday, and he was so sweet to meet for lunch before he proceed to do all the reno stuf. To me, its not a given or must have, like what we say "Ying Gai De" in chinese. He is hardly around and we hardly have a chance to meet for lunch. Well, its an luxury to dine together.

We pretty much lead our own lives, yes we do. An example, we met for dinner, then we decided that we had nothing in common to do, so he went home to play his war craft while i went back to my own place to catch some tv series. But we still want to be together over the weekend, so he came over and we were watching soccer together. Yeah, so this is how much we treasure each other's company, and quality time. We dun need to be together 24/7, but we need quality attention from each other.

21 Sat
We went KTV with my sec sch friends after settling our furniture stuff. He was so tired, he fell aslp at the last hour of the session. We also collected our wedding invites! So friends, watch out the red bomb is coming your way very soon! I love the cream colour invite i've chosen, and the cutie boy and gal image he has chosen. I think it's very US.. we are like kids... boy and gal is getting married :)

22 Sun
Yesterday was exciting, we finally bought our first batch of household items! haha rice and such, we are preparing for our "shifting in ceremony" this coming saturday! Yeah our nest is up!!!!!! Okie okie... will get my house more ready.. then i will take photos okie? now it's still an empty shell!

23 Mon (today)
Well, everything is finally firmed up! We have filed out registry of marriage! keke... now its realli time to count down to our wedding day - 58 days! Time flies! my god!

Last week was a busy and fruitful week

How time flies, i have been feeling too tired to update my blog for last week. Everything happens too quickly but for a good reason.

Tuesday - 10th July
I met up with 2 of our Uni good old friends with the rest of the gals (wen and jing). Elaine just came back from England, and is back here for a short holiday and also to attend her god brother's wedding. We last saw her earlier this year, she is currently working in England-Reading and is based there. The meet up was fantastic! Another of our gal friend was there too, Valerie. Haven't seen her since we've graduated. This is like YEARS! I realli enjoy meeting up with friends whom I've not seen for a few mths, and especially so, for those who are not staying in Singapore. It just makes me feel good to know that they are all safe, well and happy. Both Valerie and Elaine are doing well in their own aspect, and i believe they really are enjoying what they are doing now. We took a group picture, using Elaine's professional camera, but I've yet to receive the photo from her. Will post it up when i received it. I think its been pretty long since we took a picture together. I promise, I will cherish it :)

Cheers to Friendship my dear gals!

Thursday - 12th July
Yes, we must have gone mad during the midst of preparing for our wedding. One of the Divine brides organised a dinner session for Divine brides who like to meet up. I really got to thank her, Stickymouse (lets not reveal the real name). She is a very sweet and kind lady, who looked extremely gorgeous in her wedding gown! WOW!!!! Well, of coz we have 4 other pretty brides/brides-to-be with us that day. Peri, BrightBride, WeddingGal and BBQueen. It's a pity, WhiteTwinkle couldn't join us as all of us were so looking forward to meet her and see her albums. I can feel her bubbly-ness by looking at the photos she sent us, she's very pretty and she has beautiful gowns. We all agreed to meet up again, most prob in Sticky's house next time if there is no violent objections, to share photos and videos. Hmm, all the pretty babes (not that i'm pretty, but they are) in Sticky's house... how cool! But guys out there, u can forget abt knowing them, all taken, as I've mentioned we are all BRIDES or BRIDES to be. Its amazing how much we can chat about the entire night, but its hard not to have awkward silence, coz we are still strangers though we chatted a fair bit in the forum, but the fact is we have never seen each other before. Anyhow, realli looking forward to see them again, they are a bunch of nice and sincere ladies.

Friday, 13th July
Oh yes, i hate friday the 13th. Kinda have this thought that bad things always happen to me on this day. But it didn't, our team building event went well. And i tink the morning and afternoon games played an important role to make the entire event a success. Not forgetting the Casino and night games, and most importantly the committee's effort, all of us played an important role, esp the designer (she did all the artwork herself) ! But the morning and afternoon games really met the objectives of TEAM BUILDING, night stuff are just more for leisure. Many feedback that they really enjoyed it, as a committee i tink that's what we want and hope to hear. Now that this team building is over, I got to clear my REAL work. Damm... so much back log... having work to do is good, but not stuff that i didnt clear last week. this is unhealthy!

Saturday, 14th July
Yes! Its the day I've been waiting for since months back. Jacky Cheung Concert! It was great, and amazing. I think he has grew so much over the years in terms of his performance and the way he talks to Singapore crowd! I can feel that, this is what he always wanted to do, its very different from his past concerts. There are many sections, ROCK , DANCE, CLASSIC, MUSICAL and his must-sing! I went mad during his concert! I stood up and dance, i was screaming like a 15 year old. I don't care how ppl looked at me. I decided that, if i don't do it now, i might not get a chance to do it again. Jacky is 46 years old, how many more years can he sing fast songs! The crowd stood and dance with him. It was so different compared to his previous concerts I went. i just want to say that, JACKY U'RE THE BEST!

Now my wish is, to watch him live in Hong Kong. Since young i always wanted to watch him live in Hong Kong. I believe its very different, and it will be much better! let's see if we will have extra money after the wedding. I heard his concert in Hong Kong is in Sep, so we can go after the wedding for a short honeymoon and to watch him! I'm a fan of his since i was 9. The so-called old Cantonese songs he sang during the concert (thinking that not many will know or heard of), i know them all and i sang along with him. He is just soooooo great! Amazing for an artiste to stay in this industry for 23 years and more, and is still so popular! okie enough abt him, i cant stop! He is the best!!!!

Simple weekend

I had a simple but happy weekend. My boy was lucky and i was lucky too, he does not have to stay in JB to work on Friday night, so he travelled back to SG just to have dinner with me :) then back to JB as he needs to work on Saturday.

On Saturday afternoon, we got luckier! He came back on Sat evening and left on Sunday night. Instead of me going over to JB for the weekend, he came back to Singapore and kept me accompanied. We did nothing much except accompanying each other. Just staying close to each other, the presence is sufficient to keep me contented the entire day. Went to his place for dinner and some durians, then meet up with his frens at serangoon for some bowling games and had supper together.

On Sunday, we just spent time lazing around each other. He played his warcraft, while i took a nap next to him. Haha... so "xiao nu ren", just enjoying every moment spent together. His sister was so kind, she prepared dinner for us! The meal was great and especially so when its prepared with mushroom soup! Ours favourite!

He supposed to be away for 12days, now i managed to steal 2 days from him, this makes me happy. And i supposed he feels happy too. I can see that he's happy with me around though i might be just sleeping like a pig every time he turn around and look at me, but i can feel it from him that he too feel contented with my presence.

Perhaps, this is one very important thing we share in common, appreciating each other's presence and feeling contented with the smallest things. Its always quite sad to tell people that we hardly share anything in common, besides mahjong, watching soccer, clubbing and... i duno wat. haha

He dislikes the things i enjoy, such as diving, wake boarding, bungy jumping etc. I love to do more of these sports, but he finds it too dangerous! I enjoy swimming and worshipping the sun (just that i'm trying to remain fair so that i look pretty in my gowns), he doesnt. I enjoy sleeping haha everyone knows it.. and he doesnt! He loves playing warcraft, soccer games, etc games and i DON'T! I tried picking up bowling so that we share something in common, but my interests faded off after a year... i still play once in a very BLUE moon.

Anyhow, the morale of the story is, a couple doesn't need to have the same interests to be together. Doesn't mean that the opposite attracts too. Its how you want it to work and how you work towards it. Of coz it takes both hands to clap :)

feeling better :)

Humans are interesting characters... jealousy is born in them. now that i've voiced out my concerns i felt better, less disturbed and happier. so in this modern society, there are still many ppl with very traditional thinking. Man and woman are nvr equal and they cannot be equal. Man are mainly the people having more power, and this can't be changed. Revolutions... we cannot make man weaker, but we have proven that woman has become stronger. Oh well, i've decided and understand that i can't change the things that's been affecting my mood, but what i can change is the mood i want to be in. So i choose to be happy :)

moody

just feeling moody. only you understand and know how i felt. thanks dear for talking to me. life will be tough without you and i'm glad that i'm marrying you. perhaps there is nothing smooth in life, but i know with you by my side things can only get better. i never know it would have such impact on me, been trying to disguise my sadness, but i just have to let it out to feel better. Its only with you that i've shared this with and it shall remain this way. i always thought i'm important, but maybe i'm not, maybe i still is just that it has been expressed differently.

Sweet things...

Thoughts about keeping wedding gown
Mr Alvin has been very sweet... he has always discourage me to buy/keep my wedding gown coz we will have no space to store it and no chance to wear it again, definitely. But as we collected our gowns for the shoot that day, he took my hands and told me that if i really liked the gown and can't bear to part with it, i can keep it after the wedding.

This really comes as a surprise, coming out from my dearest mouth! The thought itself is already satisfying enough (though i still feel like keeping it...hehehe) but I've also always discouraged ppl to keep their gowns. Honestly what can you do with it? Yes, memories and all the sweet things that happened. But, we have photographers... and that's their job to keep our memories alive! Besides, we all have brains, so precious moments shd be kept safe and locked in a secured part of our brains... well easier said than done, I'm a gal too and getting more girly now, that's why i also want to keep the gown. But nothing is firmed.. i'm just listing out the possibilities.

Invitation Cards
We've finally went down to choose our invitation cards. I always wanted something different, but I've decided to go with something classy and simple. We've chosen a cute icon, boy and girl which represent us! haha! Wanted to choose a pair of pigs, but Muslim friends might not like to receive it...we are sensitive towards our guests' feelings.

Booking of JP
I shall call up the JP tomorrow and booked him for our solemnization! Its less than 3 months to the wedding and I've not booked him yet. We have finally came to a conclusion, we'll have our solemnization at 6pm. Hmm so i tink its abt time to call up the hotel and make the necessary arrangements.

"The Negotiation"
We are pretty cool, so are our families. We have left both parents to meet up on their own to discuss abt the wedding stuff... well they have met a few times so dun need us to be around. Everything went well :)

Amazed - For you, my love

Every time our eyes meet
This feeling inside me
Is almost more than I can take
Baby when you touch me
I can feel how much you love me
And it just blows me away
I've never been this close to anyone or anything
I can hear your thoughts
I can see your dreams

I don't know how you do what you do
I'm so in love with you
It just keeps getting better
I wanna spend the rest of my life
With you by my side
Forever and ever
Every little thing that you do
Baby I'm amazed by you

The smell of your skin
The taste of your kiss
The way you whisper in the dark
Your hair all around me
Baby you surround me
You touch every place in my heart
Oh it feels like the first time every time
I wanna spend the whole night in your eyes

I don't know how you do what you do
I'm so in love with you
It just keeps getting better
I wanna spend the rest of my life
With you by my side
Forever and ever
Every little thing that you do
Baby I'm amazed by you

Every little thing that you do
I'm so in love with you
It just keeps getting better
I wanna spend the rest of my life
With you by my side
Forever and ever
Every little thing that you do
Oh, every little thing that you do
Baby I'm amazed by you

Photo Shoot - reminicising the past

We've completed our wedding photo shoot on Monday. It has been a tiring ordeal for us and the photographer - Tuckys! It has been tough on him and we really appreciate his efforts. He's most prob more tired than us... we sent him back to his studio and brought him out for dinner after the shoot. He was very nice and returned us all soft copies plus shortlisted 80 photos for us on the nite itself with his tired mind. So I believe with a clear mind, he would be able to select even better pictures together with us.
This pig was given to Alvin from me when we first started dating. Since i was rather lazy and was unable to complete my cross-stitched ring pillow, we have used our so called "ting qing zhi wu" to represent us and placed the rings on top of it.

haha, I think i'm a tough nut to crack when it comes to taking "Posey" shots. I just do not have it, so i have to fake it. But i've requested to take something more of these shots instead of the happy normal me, coz the reason why i've chosen tuckys was for one sensuous shot he took for a couple. I know one shot doesn't mean he can engaged all couples to do the same, but we had a good mix of both candid and posey/attitude type of pictures. Besides sensuous pics, he's very good at capturing the moment. The natural feel.

Well, I was thinking Alvin will look very good in both the candid and serious photos. Normally, brides will be the focus, I tink this time, you guys will like the groom more. He has this natural "cool" and photogenic look, he doesn't has to act at all. At the end of the day, I'm not sure if the pics will turned out well, coz i can't do a good job. But i really appreciate all the help and concerns given from my friends, divine, fluv, joanne and tuckys.

I loved the flowers Fluv did, but we didn't do many shots with it until the WG, coz we kept forgetting to bring it out with us. Using a mixture of berries, pink eustoma and my favourite white roses. These shots are taken by myself.














The best part of the day was when it ended, when both of us were home and about to tuck in. My darling boy dropped me a very sweet sms. He seldom expresses his feelings, but the short sms says so much of how he looked forward to our wedding, and it has touched my heart once again. I guess this photo shoot brought us even closer, perhaps this is one reason why ppl say love grows daily. It grew enormously these few days after the shoot, we are like back in our honeymoon stage when we first started out again. If money and time spent can grow love, its worth it. Of coz, it takes both hands to clap, love has already taken place, its how we want to grow it.

The day started with drizzle, we went to McDonald's and bought ourselves and the team some breakfast. It got me a little worried, but i told myself to stay positive. Raining could be good as its cooling and we can take more romantic photos. Joanne did a good job for both my hair and make-up. She made my good skin looks flawless. The first outfit for the day was Evening Gown. I had lots of prob achieving what tuckys wanted and progress was slow. Lucky, my dear boy did a good job if not, we wont have much photos for the 1st location at Emerald Hill. As time approaches noon, the drizzle stopped , still the sky was cloudy. We rushed back for our 2nd hair-do and outfit.

Both of us feeling like STARS were walking down the busy orchard road. My Cheong Sum is now the highlight, we went to Takashimaya, both inside and outside the mall. We got stares, somewhat i didn't feel embarrassed, just CAMERA SHY like tuckys say. Took some pics and left the place in a haste. Alvin first held my hands in Takashimaya, so its a place we have to go :) Come to think of it, the day he first held my hands was drizzling too!

Finally its time to take pics of the WG. We went to Ben & jerrys at dempsey for the shoot, guess wat? it was closed! Hmm.. things just seemed like it didn't go well for us. I've went to the store personally to check if they're open on a Monday. Well, they said they are opened on a Monday from 10.30am onwards, so what happened?? Tuckys reaction was quick and we didn't have a wasted trip, we took some pics outside the store and went back to Mandarin for a nice lunch.

We took a lot of pictures in Mandarin with the WG on. Not willing to give up, we went back to Ben & Jerrys and its still closed! Sigh, so we headed off to Harrys Bar in my evening gown. We didn't managed to take any sunset shot as it was rather cloudy. Normally the shoot will end at 7pm, but ours ended at abt 9 or 9.30. We took a few night shots, and 2 are pretty nice. We loved our last take. Nicole was with us from abt 8pm onwards, so she saw us posing... i think we've become very natural at posing by the time nic arrives. The picture on the left was not the last pic, just one of my favs.

Love songs and photo shoot

I'm feeling very sleepy and tired rite now, as its already 3am. wanted to slp earlier so that i will look pretty on my photoshoot this coming monday, but i just feel like listening to some nice love songs. As i listen, i just wanted to share some thoughts. I've been preparing a list of songs that I felt is suitable for wedding. As the months goes by, i realised i have decided to change the first march in song. Although, meaningful to the both of us, it has been used over and over again.

Many years back, when i first listened to this song, i wanted it to be part of the wedding, and a coincidence, when Alvin proposed to me, "From This Moment" was playing on the radio. I thought its really fated. But somehow many ppl have been using this song for their first march-in, well good songs are always popular. I also always wanted to play "Lady in red" for my 2nd march-in, its something different and special. But when i was choosing my EG, jessica (my designer) says red doesnt suit me as it will be too mature on me. Honestly, i always felt i look good in red, haha but maybe it does makes me more mature so i decided to heed her advise. I tink the green i've chosen is nice! Just tat it will be a little weird if i play tat song. If my wedding is in a western style, that we get to have the first dance, and wearing red dancing with that song will be so romantic! Its like acting out what the song is.

Alvin is back in town and is now celebrating one of his best buddies bachelor's night. Tmr morning our Sofa will arrive and we will be heading down to Divine in the afternoon to collect our gowns and suits for the Monday shoot. A total of 5 sets! hahaa we will behave and act like models on Monday, nothing but taking photos and changing of clothes. 3 of my gowns and 2 sets of his suits. Well, its getting me realli excited and happy. I pray that everything goes well. Mr Alvin always has a very cool and cold look, think he's very suitable for those attitude looking pictures. As i always try to look like i've a character, somehow its hard for me to get rid of that "sweet" image. Vice versa, its tough for him to act funnie or like a cutie pie. I tink our photos will be quite funnie since we look so different. haha, but its okie. That's us. Be it how the pictures turn out, most importantly is we have fun and enjoy the process together.

OKIE REALLY GOT TO SLEEP... if not all the money spent on my face will be wasted. haha

birthday

Today is my birthday and i sincerely thanks those who remembers. I think remembering is the birthday gift itself. I no longer need any pressies, but i dun mind receiving haha. I mean receiving presents are always nice, but all i need is just a simple "happy birthday". Nothing beats to have someone remebering ur birthday, especially if that somebody is impt to you. If Mr Lim is around today, i'll be happier but even though he's not i'm still happy.

Moving on, this year will be different, this is my last birthday before i get married. The feeling is weird, as i'll be moving on to the next stage of my life. Well, now i just have to enjoy being single for the next few mths till the big day arrives!

Happy Sick Birthday

It has been a great night meeting up with my poly mates on Monday. They have celebrated my birthday with me in advanced... treated me to a nice dinner at Prego. Jo, Chel, Nic and Jeff were present. It has been a long while since i last saw Chel and Jo. Sorry gals, i feel realli guilty when i saw u guys on Monday nite for not meeting up for so long. The weird thing is, i actualli miss u gals when i am with u gals :)

After dinner we went to Loft, for some wine. The first bottle was not very nice, the second one was good and we ordered another 2 more bottles after that. We had a total of 4 bottles that night, perhaps thats what caused my food poisoning and i'm on MC today and tomorrow, but i tink i will make it back to work tmr if I can. Its my first month there i dun tink its very right to fall ill. Felt so bad... sigh diarrhoea and vomits... :( but what was good was the time spent at loft. We really had lots of fun, chatting and updating each other abt our lives. It's been a long time since we have such long chat. The previous time i rem was at nicole's birthday. We had drinks in club street. I enjoy chilling with them more than clubbing, as we have more time to chat and enjoy each other accompany. We are meeting up again next week for Jodie's birthday at Mono in St. James. hey guys, thanks for meeting up! i really appreciated it and i had fun though i'm sick... *puke again* hehehe... so see u next week. MUACKS!!!

I must get better soon, so that i will be ready for my photoshoot! I want to be pretty pretty. Talking about the shoot, nicole contributed a lot on ideas to where i can take my photos. She suggested reddot museum and many people said its a good suggestion! She also shared with me on many other ideas... of where i can do the shoot. But realli like the reddot one, even tuckys say its good...hehe.. i initially wanted to go to Grand Shanghai to do the shoot, as i realli like it there, saw some photos Tuckys took in Grand Shanghai, very nice! But its ashamed that they are not opened on a Monday! Well what to do??? we'll have to look for other locations then :(

I'm really getting excited abt the shoot. I've got lots to buy too... shoes for the groom, white shirt... some hair accessories... wah so many things! Plus my house needs my attention as well... need to change the door lock, buy kitchen accessories... etc.. faint.. MR LIM come back quick :)