Sunrise, The Beginning Of Our Journey...

wedding is over... marriage has started

2007-10-21T02:13:00.000+08:00

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

2007-09-13T01:04:00.000+08:00

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

2007-08-21T01:15:00.000+08:00

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

2007-08-15T01:54:00.000+08:00

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

2007-07-26T19:25:00.000+08:00

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

2007-07-24T00:20:00.000+08:00

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

2007-07-17T00:40:00.000+08:00

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

2007-07-10T01:28:00.000+08:00

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 :)

2007-07-05T00:39:00.000+08:00

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

2007-07-03T23:49:00.000+08:00

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...

2007-07-02T23:38:00.000+08:00

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

2007-06-29T01:28:00.000+08:00

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

2007-06-27T01:13:00.000+08:00

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

2007-06-23T03:10:00.000+08:00

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

2007-06-20T18:21:00.000+08:00

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

2007-06-20T01:28:00.000+08:00

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 :)

Happiness and Love is in the Air

2007-06-18T01:32:00.000+08:00

"Love is in the air.. oh oh oh oh...love is in the air!!!" Singing out loud in my head as i begins to type. I had a wonderful time on Saturday, 16th June. Very happy... though wedding preps has been getting me short fused but it has brought me enormous amt of happiness. I felt very loved yesterday :) Threw little tantrums at the beginning when we were on our way out, but happiness sets in as we reach our first destination. (by the way this is not my bday gift... we took this pic at a restaurant after our dinner )

Florist Visit

We first went to Fluv, our wedding florist, selected our photoshoot bouquet. He said i look sweet.. but i don't really want to be sweet. But anyhow, he gave me very good advices and has incorporated white roses into the bouquet. White roses is something that i like very much! And i always wanted to have white roses for my wedding. Perhaps for actual day, i will use white roses. I love his signature piece, the one with the feathers... :) He is very friendly and easy to talk to... and we even chatted for awhile...

Wedding Bands

Next, the exciting part is we went to Fairy's Inc and have collected our Wedding Bands! Looks beautiful to the both of us as these represent us... When the lady handed us the rings she made a comment "I didn't know that the design is so meaningful until the rings were completed"... we both smiled. I always wanted to customise our own, and i like very complicated stuff, but alvin doesnt. One day i finally thought of something simple, but meaningful to the both of us. A simple symbol of the sun, as we got together after watching a sunrise. In the ring, we engraved " Sunrise, the beginning of our journey..." it was then we started, and leading to our marriage today. We were extremely excited when we tried the rings... hehe the lady even taught alvin how to put it on for me... so cute :) thanks fairy's inc for helping us realised wat we wanted... gonna wear it for a life time... so it must be right!

Wedding Gowns and Suits

Next, final fitting and make up trial for the suits and gowns! Here is just a photo to share... see more at our wedding :) Joanne, my make-up artist is one humorous lady! She is such a professional and i loved her make-up...she's like the fairy god mother, turning me from Cinderella to a pretty princess... haha she also said i look sweet... and so she gave me a choice.. "sweet" or "elegant" look, i went for the latter. HOw can i be sweet?? okie perhaps looks are deceiving... character wise i'm not sweet.. i'm tomboy... the effects with the make-up is so different.. its so complete, we are ready for the shoot. Opps, alvin's new set of white suit is not, left the pants. Will be ready by coming Sat. :) He loved his suits, though the design for the white one is almost the same as the black one, we just wanted to have a change of colours. I want him to enjoy the process of having changing into different attire... I loved all my gowns, WG, EG and CS. I loved my CS especially... very vibrant and bubbly colour... its very me :) My EG colour i tink will turn out pretty well in photos.. i love the back... so flowy.. As for the WG, it has many layers.. even Kim (another designer) was saying.. u'll have probs during the shoot and i better get GOOD helpers on actual day to take care of the train, if not it will not look nice. Jessica is the best! She gave me wat i wanted and made it nice for me.

Birthday Dinner - Pre-advanced Celebration

Alvin has celebrated my birthday with me on Sat. He didnt get me a present as we hardly practise giving presents on birthdays, but we had a wonderful dinner at Hotel 1929, Ember. Nice fine dinning food, the red wine we ordered is pretty smooth too. We finally get to have a good rest after all the mad rush in the afternoon. The make-up i had was lasting... haha as I was still wearing it till midnight... good good... I feel loved during the dinner. We were very happy, enjoying our conversation, living in our own world though it was very rowdy in the restaurant. In short, we had a great time!

I haven't felt so hyper for a long time! This entire wedding preps is getting me so happy and excited... Alvin is currently in the flight, on his way to Korea for work. Will be back on 22nd, before on wedding shoot. So no choice we got to celebrate in advanced, but its okie. I know its kinda mushy... but i know that his heart is with me no matter where he is. This boring man has make me feel so sweet in my heart the entire week when he's back in SG. Realli spent loads of quality time together... he's the man! Now, i'm waiting for u to come back again.. and go thru the fun photoshoot together :)

Excited

2007-06-14T01:34:00.000+08:00

I'm getting excited for this Saturday's happening. Can't help it... there's a certain amount of expectation on rings and gowns. It will be the day where i get to choose my flowers... the day i first seen the completed rings... and my gowns! The day i will officially meet the florist and the make-up artist, the 2 professionals i have heard a lot about. I think I got to change my name to Miss Anxiety! It's like "I cant wait anymore!! I want to get all the things done quickly, and stop keeping me in suspense!"

I was talking to a friend on msn... her wedding is next Monday, and i'm feeling very excited for her. She's very efficient and have gotten all her things ready, she is now waiting for the moment! She's a very pretty lady and i believe kind hearted too, to see the number of close frens she had on her hen's nite and most probably she's a Miss Popular too! I said i believe coz i do not know her well in person, but through the amt of conversations we had over msn, i can feel tat she's sincere and nice. She has been helpful in providing me valuable information for my gowns, shoes etc. Maybe we are using the same bridal shop tats why i feel connected to her...

I can't imagine if i'm in her shoes now (though i will be a few mths down the road)... i tink i will be sleepless every night! Just waiting for the final trial and i lost slp.. PS i will lose more slp and the Actual day??? I tink i need sleeping pills.. haha just thinking dun tink i will do it.. I've tried drinking organic chamomile tea.. it help soothes and calm me down so tat i can have better slp :) I tink after taking sleeping pills, most prob one will feel lethargic! I dun wan to feel restless on any of the big events! Its simple, i am vain and its my day so i jus want to look pretty. Nothing to hide, most honest feelings. ahaha i want to be pretty :)

Happy Weekend

2007-06-11T00:46:00.000+08:00

The dinner on Friday with the Uni gals were great! The food is not bad but i find it too costly and perhaps over priced at meza9. I would think last year's dinner at Lawry's was slightly better. But this year, we have Jing with us from beginning of the dinner, she didnt come during dessert time only. Really enjoyed their company as i get to know the updates in their personal life. Also, a very big thank you for the treat!!! Next meet up will be somewhere next mth when Elaine is back. Will set the time and location then i'll inform you gals again.

My house is so close to completion, the granite top has been installed and it looks great (very close to the 3D drawings he showed us). I guess in mid July we will be able to shift in :) Won't be showing any more updates of the house till most of the items are in.. like TV, sofa etc. Alvin loves the house... its been 3 weeks and he has finally seen the close to completed house.

So glad he's back, getting him busy now. Went to make customised a shirt at $200 for him. Wanted this shirt to match my EG, but we decided to take a "gold" colour instead. Dun think it's necessary to take green just to match, as long as it's compatible i tink we are good :)I did a silly thing! I kept telling myself i wanted to use my Citibank credit card as i will get 10% bonus cash, but i can't rem when we were paying. 10% bonus cash is as good as giving us a cash rebate of $20 for my purchases elsewhere. So we paid nets instead... arghhhh angry... up till now i still feel angry :(

He has been so sweet, he actualli went to dye his hair with me :) As i didnt make an appointment, i waited for 2 hours before its my turn, and he waited for 3 hours or more, coz my hair will take a longer time so they actualli started with me. Poor chap, ganna tortured by me haha... We reach the salon at 12.30 and left at 7pm! Faintz, there goes our movie session.

He has been very patient with me as i've been easily irritatable and annoyed this weekend. One min I will smile sweetly like a little gal, next i will just get pissed off over small things that i seldom will. Because he is so nice and patient with me, i got over things very quickly and is back to the happy self. Perhaps he has been away for 3 weeks, so my system just tells me tat i can take him for granted when he's back and throw some tantrums so to feel pampered??? I duno, coz normally when he's back from a long trip, i will be very nice :) well, it could be due to the list of things we need to do that got me flustered. So dear mr lim, I'm sorry if i made things difficult for you this 2 days, and i wanna thank you for giving in to me. you're the best!

Exciting June!

2007-06-05T23:39:00.000+08:00

Finally feeling pretty excited abt the things that's going to happen this month. My dearest is coming back from Japan after 3 weeks of absence in SG. Finally someone back to share the load with me :)

Here's the list of activities:
8th June
- Meet up with my uni gals... they are giving me an advanced birthday treat at Hyatt Mezza9... lets hope tat their food is good... feeling hungry now...

9th June
- my first project in the new company will start running.. hopefully everything goes well this week
- Meet up with the interior designer in ther afternoon
- Start shopping with Alvin on all the household items...
- Going to make one more shirt for Alvin :) hopefully it can be in time for the Photoshoot

10th June
- to catch some movies and just enjoy each other's accompany

15th Jun
- Some catching up with my poly mates after a long time!!!

16th June - SUPER PACKED
- to meet the designer florist in the earli afternoon, someone whom i yearned to meet for some time. Hopefully we can click well and he will design something special for me :)

- collecting our wedding bands, designed since June 2006. The design, though simple, is very meaningful to the both of us as it represents how we started... something thats worth the long wait

- We are going for our final fitting and trial make-up after collecting our rings. Hmm feeling nervous now.. wonder how the final pieces will look like... maybe becoz I've seen the 80% completed gowns before tat's why wasn't feeling nervous until today.. but right now i'm excited! Besides, with all these stress, i have lost some weight, so hopefully i will look better in it :) I think Alvin is also excited abt his suit :P

- Might meet up with the photographer if he has time to meet us

- Time for a NICE dinner! This is a pre-birthday celebration for me :) My last birthday dinner AS A GIRLFRIEND... so we are going to somewhere nice to celebrate my big day :)

17th June
- 2 Tvs, 1 fridge and washer will be arriving at our new house

20th June
- It's my birthday!!!!!!! opps, one year older and yet i'm so happy abt it. Got to work on my birthday this year as it's my first month here and i'm already taking leave for my photoshoot... so no choice :)

23rd June
- The sofa is coming... we finally have a place to sit :)

24th June
- Going for my mani and pedi so that i look pretty :)

25th June
- The day has come, our photoshoot! I wonder how is it going to be like... we haven't decided on the locations and style yet... finally getting worried :)

Not to forget i shd attend my facial appts timely.. have cancelled one recently, was not feeling well that day... hmm i must a good gal... so tat i can look pretty.. haha

and of coz, my house will be 90% completed... yesh ;p

Impressed...

2007-06-04T21:03:00.000+08:00

I've just visited a newly wed's blog. They had beautiful pre-wedding shots taken. What really impressed me was their photo montage. The bride actually did up the entire thing! It's really a combination of hard work, patience and creativity! The thing is, she did a GREAT JOB, I felt that it was done better than some Paid jobs!

Perhaps, I'm quite a dumb ass in such video/etc soft wares, by asking me to do something like this COULD be possible BUT it will take me decades! Firstly, I am a procrastinator in my personal stuff (work can nvr procrastinate as there is always deadlines to meet... which is good, help organise my life a little), secondly I need time to figure out how to use the software and lastly I rather OPEN my mouth and ask my friends for help or pay someone to do it... So is there any kind souls out there who wanna help us with the photo montage???

Hehe actually i have someone in mind... but this person hardly reads my blog... hmm so let me hint hint to XXX and see if there is any reaction... keke... Come on, be nice :)

Personal Updates

2007-06-03T22:22:00.000+08:00

Work
Thought of giving some personal updates... I've been in my new job for 2 weeks. Colleagues are pretty nice and patient. I've met some other newbies too and we kinda get along pretty well. Still trying to get used to the working procedures here as it's pretty systematic compared to my previous jobs. There are many levels, and I get to work with many different depts. Well, I like working with different ppl and levels, so there isn't much probs so far.

Life
Duno why, but have been feeling tired recently. Maybe bcoz I'm running the show myself to take care of the house, wedding preps etc as my other half has currently been outstation for 2 weeks. He wont be back till one week later... I tink i've fallen ill, had fever last nite after chilling out with some of my friends.

Been having nitemares abt my wedding. Gosh I think i must have bee thinking too much about it. Its about the wedding not the marriage (just in case u think i have phobia or commitment problems), the scenario was during the solemnization ceremony. One ring becomes five rings, and we got to fix the rings back to form into one ring just like Lego. haha weird rite? well this is just one, and there are a few more... So dear MR LIM, its time u come back and share the burden with me... reno, gowns... etc...

Getting things up

2007-06-02T18:08:00.000+08:00

Progression is now slower... nothing much besides waiting for the materials to come in... we are now pretty close to completion...so just some photos update

The mirror and the black vanity glass top in the master toilet is up.

The Full Height Mirror in our mini walk-in-wardobe is up! This is huge, and the reflection makes the wardrobe looks longer and bigger.

Our toilets glass panels have been changed :) brand new :)

Our feature wall is closed to completion... adding the brown wall paper at the black and white wall paper on the TV feature wall... the wall paper has a nice texture... dun tink can be seen.

The mirrors in the dining area, bomb shelter display is up too :)

The kitchen sliding glass door has been installed.

My common toilet, bathroom sink and tap. Nice tap?? square basin, square nob for the tap.

Tiring Week

2007-05-21T23:02:00.000+08:00

Wanted to post some pics last week, but i was too tired to do any blogging. So this week i should give you an thorough update! All the lighting works, and clearing of debris has been completed! The house now looks clean and ready for us to shift in. Once the listed below are completed, we will start to have a place of our own, we call it HOME :)

My love nest is closed to 80% completion

What's the 20% left? These are the things that my ID is in-charge of:

(1) To install my kitchen top (granite - jet black), (2) kitchen sliding doors, (3) mirrors in both toilets, (4) vanity glass top in my Master toilet, (5) basin in the Master toilet, (6) basin in the service balcony, (7) fixing the master toilet pipes (they are leaking!), (8) installing my full height mirror in the mini walk-in-wardrobe, (9) fixed the lights in the mini walk-in-wardrobe, (10) side table lights for bedframe, (11) tinted mirror in the dining, (12) tinted mirror in the bomb shelter display, (13) tinted glass panel in the living, (14) box-up for kitchen pipes, (15) skirting for one small area in the living, (16) touched up on all capentry works and paint works for all doors and (17) installing of curtains by july.

These are the things that we're in-charged:

(1) cleaning the place again, (2) shifiting in the sofa, tvs, fridge & washer by mid june, (3) getting pad locks, and new door locks (4) buying all the necessary cooking and eating utensils such as woks, pans, pots, knives, plates... etc (5) pillows and bedsheets, (6) mattress, (7) dining table to arrive in july... as for the last item (8) coffee tables, carpets and new iron door...can be purchased later.. we are realli lacked of money.. so cant do all these at the moment :( we are spending a bulk of it on our wedding too... so got to save.. the rest can do it later...

Taking this opportunity, i wanna thank my sec sch buddy - Jia Chuen for his kind housewarming gifts. A great contribution of taka vouchers for me! huge amt! realli appreciated it! I can buy item number 4 with that amt of money. Also, a big thank you to my mum's friend, who has supported us in a big way. Thanks for the big ang bao, i can buy another sofa, but i'm going to buy other more useful stuff with this money. Thanks!

Here are some of the pictures to share with you. I love the lightings in the house... simply love it! Well, i guess money well-spent on this area :) We bought a small crystal light for our passage way leading to the bedrooms... cute and nice :) As i do not own a very good camera, most pictures taken looks yellowish... but some are clear :)

Below are the views from the main door and from the living.. see we can start walking bare footed :) the house is so clean :) As the door opens... before and after cleaning..

This are views from the display and shelter bomb area, dining and cosy area... when lighted up.. my cosy area do looks cosy i hope :)

These are views of my kitchens and common toilets :) We have changed the toilet door,the WC, basin and even the windows pane... these are things that cost us money :) There are still some fixtures that's not up yet.

Here are the Master bedroom views and the master toilet views. The 1st pic is the side of the walk-in-wardrobe facing my bed... the tv will be mounted there.. the bottom with the dark glass panel is where we can place our players. The 2nd pic is my bedframe.. the bedhead will have lights to create a romantic effect :)

We've changed the toilet door as well, and the entired vanity cabinet provided by HDB has been removed. Our new vanity cabinet looks like a first-aid kit, but its of different placement compared to many vanity cabinets. Our mirror, basin and glass top is not up yet. Our favourite item in the toilet is the Shower head! Look at the squarish rain shower, wow its gonna feel good bathing underneath it :)

Some updates about my personal life... as its GSS, me and my dear friend went for shopping right after Pirates of the Carribean! Wow look at how much stuff we bought.. well.. the winner is Nicole!!! Haha we realli had fun tat nite just by 2hrs of rushed shopping. My sec sch buddy, joined us for coffee later and helped us take pictures... there's supposed to be a shot of him holding all the shopping bags, but we missed it. Had too much fun talking away... next time perhaps :)

Busy Weekend

2007-05-21T00:06:00.000+08:00

In another few hours, I will be working in a new place. I really hope that i can adapt to the new environment fast enough and enjoy working there. Its quite scary to change a working environment after working at the same place for some time. Especially so, when you already have friends and lotsa fun in the previous co. Well guys, wish me luck :) Though i should be sleeping by now so that i look awake tmr, i just feel like updating the blog.

I had a busy weekend! Wow it's incredible! On Saturday morning, Alvin and I attended one of my best friend's Solemnization Ceremony! Dawn, Jing and I were early to accompany her for her dressing up. We are all very excited for her, she is our 1st uni friend to tie the knot! Very happy for our "MG". Now, she has become Mrs Yong! Haha, look at our pretty Mrs Yong, she is smiling radiantly. MG, we sincerely wish you a Blissful Marriage! I'm sure you will be a good wife... Dickson, you're a lucky man!

Wendy dressing up.

Wendy and Dickson listening carefully, paying close attention to their solemnization ceremony.

Now they are pronounced as Man and Wife!!!!!!!

After attending her big event, I went for my second fitting with Alvin and Nicole! My WG (wedding gown) is close to completion! My EG (evening gown) turns out better... but i still think that there is room for improvement... The cutting of the EG makes me look very straight... haha my figure is straight enough... tink got to check with my designer again to see how we can improve it. My CS (cheong sum) is still my favourite! Really love it, and it gives me some "curves" haha. After adding the beads, I think it makes the CS even BETTER. The colour is just fantastic! Took some pictures, but don't think I will share with you guys yet... wait till the final fitting and the trial make-up. Then I will show you something :)

More updates on the house... My cooker hood and top cabinets are installed. After all, the wall tiles colour and the kitchen cabinet colour turns out pretty well, quite matching, so i'm now less worried and happier.

We have shrunk our bedroom to create space for our huge wardrobe! Okie, it's a mini walk-in wardrobe (with cupboard doors)... Its too dusty without doors... so for easier maintenance, lets just have doors! With the walk-in, it also give us some sort of a passage way for us to walk into the room. Perhaps we can hang our wedding photo by the side of the wall? We shall see how it goes.

This is the view from my bed frame. The wires sticking out of the wardrobe is for our 27" LCD TV. The open space at the lower bottom is for us to place our players in. the gap on the right is the entrance to the master toilet and the wardrobes.

Our uncompleted bed frame. There will be cushion on the bedhead so to create a softer look. Should ite remain as Brown or should we change the colour to make it the same as the walk-in wardrobe??? Headache!

50% to completion

2007-05-18T01:49:00.000+08:00

Finally more pictures to share with you for my new house... something new :) My carpentry work has started today. Targeting to be completed by mid of next week or even earlier. Okie, lets see the skeleton of what has been done so far. Well, its about 50% to completion of my reno... tiling done, carpentry on its way... followed by paint works, installation of toiletries, aircon, lights, chemical washing.. we still got to confirmed all the curtains stuff this sunday... I wonder how long it takes to complete the curtains...

I am also considering if we should get our designer to do the shoe rack for us... or shall we get off the rack??? headache... If he is doing the shoe rack for us, we will be delaying the handover... well, i'm not in the hurry to shift in yet... coz i'm not in the hurry to CLEAN UP the house... argh...

This is the work done for my kitchen. My mum is standing there looking out for any flaws. She is complaining about how we made the kitchen looks much smaller, when it supposed to look more spacious after hacking down the wall. It would have looked bigger if we do the conventional type of kitchen. It looks smaller also i have extended the length of my island so that we have a bigger working top! If only HDB has allowed us to hack down the entire wall, we will have a REAL island kitchen... there will be no blockage at that corner. It's really a pity...

The top cabinet has not been installed yet...so only the island and the bottom cabinet is installed.

A closer look of the bottom cabinet.

Now, this is one place i really hope that it can be done up nicely! Our cosy corner...a raised platform. But we are kinda lack of resources, $$$, to buy the necessary for the cosy corner. Well, give us more time and i'm sure we can really make it a cosy place. The plank in the centre is for a purpose, we going to have a tinted glass mirror there for the dining area.

This is the view opposite the platform, this is our bomb shelter. Now its covered!

This is going to be our TV console, one place that we will be spending a lot of time in.

It's tough to take pictures of the wardrobe...so here are some of the pics of how the interior looks like. Guys, I bet you're going to comment that we really made our Master bedroom a really small one, when it's already small enough! But see it in another view, it looks more cosy??? haha okie, i know initially I mentioned that we really love to make more space and try to "enlarge" our rooms. In fact, we did, we managed to enlarge the space of our wardrobe without making use of another room! Our wardrobe took up the space of half our bedroom. Yes, do we have so much clothes??? I don't know, most probably... that happens when 2 vain ppl are going to stay together.

Me - A Housewife???

2007-05-15T01:03:00.000+08:00

My parents are away and just came back this evening. I have become a full-time housewife today! I did all the household chores like vacumming the floor, tidying up the house, took a walk with winnie (okie she is my dog, my family member of high importance)... etc... shop for my dinner and did the cooking! I have not cooked for ages since i came back from the down and under.

Cooked a total of 4 dishes -
1) Healthy soup (i call it Vitamin ABC soup where the ingredients consist of tomatoes, corn, potatoes, onions, carrots and pork ribs. Simple, easy to cook and nice to drink)

2) Deep fry pork strips... too bad i don't have enough time to cook the sauce, if not it will taste even better.

3) Steam eggs with dried scallops

4) Stir fry "Xiao Bai Cai"

I have a lucky man who get to taste all these dishes! Well, i call him lucky, coz so far since i came back from aussie, i have never cooked a full spread dinner for someone. So he is indeed lucky!

These are just something simple that me and room-mates loved and used to cook in Australia. I realli missed the times when the 6 of us cook for our daily spread. So Ladies, when my house is up, shall we cook again?

Reno and Wedding Updates

2007-05-14T20:48:00.000+08:00

Some quick updates about the house and my wedding preps. Good work to the tilers and my Interior designer. All the tiling work is close to completion. Just attached 2 pics this time to show you that all my bedrooms tiles are completed with skirting! Left some tiling work for the kitchen tiles... need to touch up some parts as we decided to change the toilet doors last minute! With this decision, we have spoiled a few tiles, so its not their fault.

We will start installing the cabinets this Thursday, so by next Tues or Wed, all the cabinets will be up. The other good news is that we have purchased our Hoods and Hobs! Well, the hob is 1/5 the price of my hood! Having a kitchen island really cost us a huge bomb... the hood itself is $1500! My god, with this amt i can get 2 normal hood for the conventional type of kitchen.

As for my wedding preps, everything is planned out but i'm just waiting for the time to come and execute it! Spoke to the florist, he sounds really sincere and nice. Will only be seeing him one week before the photoshoot so that we will know what are the seasonal flowers available. I love the way he design the bouquet, so nice! Share with you this pic, I think this is one of his signature piece and its my favourite too. I always wanted to use white roses for my wedding, i think roses are just beautiful. You may find them too common, but beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. I must introduce you the florist, FLUV, and the designer is Justin :)

Busy Busy...

2007-05-10T01:43:00.000+08:00

Oh good news, my Future Mother-In-Law gotten her evening gown too and is from the same place where my mum bought the gown. It cost us $800, a gift from both me and my bf... we have not gotten her anything since we started dating.

Now, I have a list of things that I should do but not done! Currently taking a break from work and will start again in a week's time. I'm so lack of time! I want a longer break actualli.. reno, wedding are taking up a lot of my time... though i enjoy the process, I just want more rest.

Better pull up my socks and get moving faster.
1) Men's Suits for my all the men in the house (my dad and bro, his dad and bro). I have gotten the contacts of 3 shops... duno which one to go to... confused!

2) Flowers, I need to go speak to the florist for my photoshoot and actual day flowers. Think i shd get it done this week, so that I dun need to worry when i start working...

3) Hair - my hair is one of the most impt thing... I can't leave it undone for more than 6mths. Its time!!!! I need to do something to it so that my hair will look good during the shoot. Shd i straighten it or just dye?? Okie, i know my hair is dry, but i just need to do something to it :)

4) Time for facial, I've stopped going for facial close to a mth!!! Help!

Exciting Wedding Preps Updates

2007-05-07T14:33:00.000+08:00

I had my first gown fitting on 5th May, Saturday. I really love my Cheong Sum (knee length). I think I can carry the colour and lace pretty well. As for the wedding gown, i've gotten something i wanted, BIG FAT CAN CAN Dress! hehe i loved it "pong pong" like my designer called it. But i am quite worried for my Evening gown, not sure if its the colour, design or the materials i've chosen that i'm not very comfortable with.

I love the Evening gown design, i guess its the materials i've chosen tat doesn't bring out the design. The colour is okie, unique in a way as not many will chose Green for their gowns. Yes, its green... though i might look better in peachy pink, i think its a good try to go for something different. I have a friend who is also using the same green i've picked! I think she will definitely look gorgeous in it. Hearing from her, i can feel that she is confident wearing that colour. I must learn to be like her, must be confident so to bring out the good of the design and colour. I enjoy speaking to this bride-to-be, she is actuallya friend's friend. Knew her at a wedding dinner, and its a coincidence that we are using the same bridal shop. She is a very nice lady and give good advises.

Alvin had his fair share of fun by choosing his suits design. Initially he wanted something more fanciful and wanted it in White (hehe so to be my prince), but in the end he chose jet black. What changes his mind was the black satin on the suit. Once he saw it, he fell in love with it :) Guys are VAIN TOO! In fact, very vain. But I'm happy that he is finally more interested in all the gowns/suits/wedding preps.

Accompanied my mum for shopping today. She spent over $1000 for an evening gown and a tea dress to wear it for my wedding! Haha tea dress is meant for the day ceremony when we are offering her tea. Don't be surprised if my mum's evening gown looks better than mine! Hers are with nice sequins and glitters. Maybe she will be the prettiest Mum! Okie, its time to spend some time for my Dad and in-laws. Need to bring my dad to make his suit. And spend some time to bring my Mother-in-law to buy an evening gown too :)

My Lovely Tiles...

2007-05-04T02:07:00.000+08:00

Finally made up my mind... will not change the new kitchen wall tiles to another colour.. will just go with the current ones... beginning to get used to them now... i hope the end product will be satisfactory.

Today is so exciting! more work completed for the house.. the entire living area has been covered with tiles! So left 3 more bedrooms to go. Can't wait to post the pictures!

Just wanted to show you how it looks like during renovation. I would say the tilers did a good job, its not that messy though.

This is the colour of my living cum bedroom floor tiles. Greyish looking ya? Well... i always thought it will look too dark, but i kinda regret not chosing a DARKER colour now.. begin to fall in love with dark, matte tiles. Maybe you won't like it, but thank god, i do! It was more of Alvin's favourite than mine... but it has become my favourite too! (and i wish its darker... maybe after the chemical wash... will it be darker???)

The tilers at work... Can you see that grey???

okie.. kitchen tiles.. pls turn out well...

This is OUR FAVOURITE! But i think not many will like it... This is our master toilet tiles! I love that BLACK! All sides of the wall will be in black, including my floor tiles, and besides one side of the wall which is in grey. I really love the black!!! Our parents are very much UNHAPPY with it though... haha but well, what do to, we just have to do something we like :)

Money Spending Day

2007-05-02T01:36:00.000+08:00

Just some quick updates of our shopping for the house. So far so good... we have bought most of the items, besides the cooker hood and cooking stove. Sofa and dining table have been purchased and will be delivered in mid-june.

I feel that the best bargains are for my electrical appliances! Bought 4 items at the Harvey Norman Yearly Sale! Fantastic offers.. wanted to wait for the Great Singapore Sale but I think the offers are too hard to resist! Managed to get the models we wanted at a much discounted price. We bought 2 LCD TVs (one for the hall and the other for our bedroom), one washer and a small fridge (just enough for 2 of us to store all our junk food - ice cream, soft drinks, beer, chips, chocolates etc...).

As for the basins, WCs and shower heads, everything has been settled too. I've managed to convince my dear husband-to-be to buy the RAIN SHOWER for our master toilet! The heater for the rain shower and shower head have to be bought separately... and it cost us at least $500+ additional just to have the rain shower... if we buy a normal instant heater it will only cost less than $200. (must be wondering why i call him husband-to-be, coz we are not officially married untill 20 Sep 07, so i shall still call him BF or hushand-to-be... he is going to laugh at this message... haha).

For the lights, we do not need to purchase many, just follow the drawings to buy downlights... we also managed to find something interesting to match our dining table and a small crystal light to be placed at the passage way to our bedrooms...

As for the reno works, nothing much to update... except for the following 2 items:

The living area windows casement are up! No longer afraid of the rain... :)

Those areas that are circled in red are the base created for my cabinets and kitchen island. The one on the left is for my top and bottom cabinets. The one in the centre is for my kitchen island.

Some progression of our renovation process

2007-05-01T02:30:00.000+08:00

Let's have a review of what has been done for the past 2 weeks. Hacking work has begun from Day 1. Electrical and Aircon works have also commenced. The other most important part has also started - tiling works! Due to busy working schedule and Alvin has been overseas, I only managed to visit our house over the weekend. But its quite amazing when you step into the house after 5 working days. Many things have changed, so drastically that you can hardly recognise that this is the same place you were in 5 days ago.

This is the new look of our living balcony. Don't you feel that it looks more spacious after removing the sliding doors?

Now, this is what we meant by SPACIOUS after tearing down the Study room wall.

Another view, this is the view from the studyroom looking to the living hall and main door. Now the weird, odd shape of the study room is no longer there :)

Okie, this is the start of how they hack down the service balcony wall. Eventually, all has been wiped out and the floor has been leveled.

Tiling works has begun for the Kitchen. New floor and wall tiles have been layed over the exisiting ones.

New wall tiles for our toilets too. Okie, coming to toilet tiling, many people will have lots of comments on the colours. WHY??? Because we are going to use very DARK COLOURED TILES! And many people cannot accept this, well, to each his own. We really loved ourselves to be bold enough to use such colours. Okie, this side of wall that you see is the BRIGHTEST Colour amongst the rest of my toilet tiles :)

Welcome to Our Lovely Nest!

2007-05-01T01:22:00.000+08:00

Hi Guys,

Welcome to our lovely nest! Going to start a blog just for our house. Let me share some of the pictures with you. These are all the "BEFORE" photos and hopefully by the end of 2 months we will see a wonderful transformation into nice "AFTER" photos!

This is our Balcony, linked to the living area. We will be hacking down the doors, to make the balcony as part of our hall so that we will have bigger space for the hall.

Our passage way leading to all the bedrooms and studyroom. The white wall at the foreground is the study room which will be hacked down to enlarge the space of our living hall, and to create a cosy area. Why are we always trying to enlarge our house??? Are we suffering from claustrophobia? Of course not, we just prefer our house to look bigger.. you know how small are HDB Flats now...

How will our future cosy area look like? Take a look at the shape of our study room and you will roughly know the shape.

My favourite place, i know i will love it here as this is our master bedroom! Can't wait to put a bed there... ZzzZzz, i know i'm such a pig!

The lovely kitchen, one area that will be transformed into another heaven... Cant wait to see the kitchen island... its a big project for the kitchen, hack down the service balcony wall (which is actually a pillar) and to level the service balcony ground with my kicthen floor... To get this done, we need to have HDB approval and hire a Professional Engineer just to hack down the walls. More $$$ involved... so the designer better do a good job!

Since so much time, money and effort has been placed into this house.. we shall revamp the toilets too!