Simple weekend

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

feeling better :)

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

moody

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

Sweet things...

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

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

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

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

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

Amazed - For you, my love

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

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

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

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

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

Photo Shoot - reminicising the past

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

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

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

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














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

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

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

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

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

Love songs and photo shoot

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

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

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

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