Sunday, October 21, 2007

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 :)

Thursday, September 13, 2007

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.



Tuesday, August 21, 2007

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???

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

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 :)

Thursday, July 26, 2007

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

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

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!


Tuesday, July 17, 2007

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!!!!