14th May 2011: My Wedding Day (AM)

It has been more than a month since my wedding day and I am finally able to sit down and start on my wedding day post. I thoroughly enjoyed my wedding day and though there were lots of hits and misses during the planning, things turned out well enough on the day itself. Mostly because of my wonderful Jiemeis and Xiongdis who helped us alot on that day itself so that I was able to just enjoy the day and being a beautiful bride. I'll let the pictures do the talking from here on ..

A Touching Wedding Proposal!!

Although my wedding has come and gone, I thought I'll share this video that has  been going viral on Facebook and Youtube of a guy proposing to his girlfriend of 3 years in California. The guy really went through alot of planning to propose to her. The video is pretty long at 14 mins but it is super touching!! Love the song that he chose too.. Everlasting Love..

Peach Garden @ Orchid Country Club

Its high time I stopped procrastinating and started on my wedding day entries. We had our food tasting on 19th March and changed a couple of items in the cold dish and the prawn dish. We had to top up for the change but it was a good thing that we went for the food tasting if not my guests would have had fried food overload. Some places have the option of forgoing the food tasting and using that table on the AD itself. We had one extra table that was not used on the AD so we went down 2 weeks for an advanced fathers day celebration.


I had pretty good reviews from my guests and seems that many loved the Braised Ee-Fu noodles. My uncle even asked for 2nd helpings. At wedding dinners, guests will remember the food more than anything so I am glad that they enjoyed the food. The only grouse I have is the layout of the restaurant. I initially planned for 2 projectors to be used but the VGA cable was not long enough so had to make do with 1 projector and guests who were at both ends of the restaurant had very restricted views. 

For the cold dish, we changed the chives roll, and Chilled Century Egg Terrine to Fresh Prawn Salad and Seafood Mango Roll 

Peach Garden Combination

(Fresh Prawn Salad, Roast Pork, Crab Ball, Fried Beanskin Roll, Marinated Jellyfish and Seafood Mango Roll)

Braised Shark’s Fin with Seafood and Mushroom

The prawn dish was changed from Fried Crispy Prawn with Oats Cereal to 
Drunken Prawns with Chinese Wine

Steamed Soon Hock with Superior Soya Sayce

Braised Sea Cucumber with Fish Maw and Spinach

Roasted Crispy Chicken with Preserved Bean Paste

 Braised Ee-Fu Noodles with Chives and Mushroom

Chilled Jelly Royale with Julienne of Coconut

Sick, tired and disappointed.

A little T.L.C towards a patient goes a long way. Is that too much to ask for? A little time away from ur machines and a little time for ur sick wife?

AD Cocktail Treats

For my AD reception, I wanted to have something different from the usual nuts and drinks for cocktail. Was blog hopping and getting inspirations for my wedding when I came across these Ferrero Rocher Pyramid and Personalised M&Ms on Rachel's blog. The Ferrero Rocher wrappers were in line with my colour theme and so I went out and bought 10 boxes of 30 pcs Ferrero Rocher and got my bridesmaids to stack them up into pyramids with the help of some clear film between layers. I did not get the M&Ms in the end though.

Feeling.. Homesick

I'm working on the post of my AD but blogger is taking freaking long to upload the photos coupled with the slow network here .. Haiz ... And I have so many photos to upload!! Just have to be patient..

J has been posted to Jakarta for a business trip for 5 days and he left yesterday afternoon. Feeling lonely without him around and I had trouble sleeping last night. It didn't use to be so bad before we got married as I still had my family with me. I'm now staying with my MIL and SIL so I'm feeling pretty homesick without hubs around.. 4 more days and 3 more sleepless nights till he gets back. 

Hub's away ~~

This bed feels too big and empty without you. Faster come home baby.

Our Love Nest Progress 4

As of 29th May 2011, my block is halfway through with level 11. The last time I updated on April 19 it was starting on level 8. 3.5 floors in 6 weeks. Forumers are saying that the building is slowing down, I think its because they are starting on the interior thats why.

Source: JCDY from Construction of Punggol Residences Album Forum

Link to Our Love Nest Progress 3

My Wants: Canon EOS 600D

Another item on my wishlist - Canon EOS 600D

I have been wanting to get a DSLR since 2 years back. And ever since I joined my current company, that want have been getting stronger. No thanks to a professional photographer and camera enthusiast in my department. He would bring is Pro $5K DSLR to our outings and I would get to take some photos with it. The quality and feel of the photos are totally different from those using a point and shoot camera!!

This model that I am lemming for is one of the latest semi-pro cameras from Canon and it has a swivel screen and can also take HD videos. And from advices from my pro photographer friend, I am getting this model with the kit II where the EFS18-135IS lens is included. No point paying a few hundred dollars later when this lens can cover the range of the kit I. Gonna wait for the coming IT show in June and checkout what promo they'll be offering..

Source: www.canon.com.sg

Post Wedding

I have not forgotten you, my dear readers.. The wedding is finally over and I've been back at work since last friday. Have been procrastinating in updating cause I've got truckloads to update on and I have no idea where to begin. 

Give me a few more days to get back my mojo and I will update soon on the frantic rush to get things done a few days before the wedding to the day itself and our mini mini-honeymoon to USS followed by a nights stay at Siloso Beach Resort kindly sponsored by 2 of my SILs. Soo many things to blog about and soo little time.. Will be getting my AD photos on Mon so my AD post will have lots of photos accompanying it!! 

Till my next post..

Eventful 过大礼

We did out 过大礼 and 安床 on Sat. It was a super tiring and eventful day for us. 

Woke up bright and early to prepare the 嫁妆 and wait for J's arrival. He said he will be late so dad went to pick up sis from her night shift. Who knew that before dad came back J would arrive with his aunt and sis bearing the 聘金 and the cakes. And that dad would go and vote before coming back. We went ahead with the exchange without my dad but he managed to come back in the middle of the exchange. I forgot to take pictures of the 聘金 and 嫁妆 before the exchange. Only remembered to take pictures after we 安床-ed, which we did ourselves. Was perspiring like mad after we 安床. The weather on Sat was mad crazy hot!! I hope it will not be so hot this coming Sat but I also do not want it to rain.. Haha .. This bridezilla so demanding.

Our new bed installed with the 嫁妆 and the items needed for 安床

    What I was told to put in the potty: A pair of chopsticks, an angbao and a pair of clogs (I put in 2 cos they came together)

All in the potty waiting to be wrapped

 嫁妆 and 安床 stuffs

 Stuffs for 安床

Part of the stuffs for 嫁妆 

Headed over to my grandma's place to pray to our ancestors to let them know that I will be getting married. Kana lectured for some things that I had no control over by my aunt in front of a relative whom I have not met for donkey years.. I knew where she was coming from but I was an innocent party and I did not appreciate her lecturing me for something that I was innocent of in front of someone else. My mood was spoilt the whole day after. Mum had my aunties and uncles over for hotpot in the aftn to collect their cakes and also to gather together instead of them coming over the night before the wedding. I did not really enjoy myself because of what happened earlier. Still had to put on a happy face to have dinner with my MIL for mother's day dinner in the evening. Sometimes I really dun understand how come a happy occasion can create so many problems..


I will not be posting so frequently over the next 2 weeks.. Will be back to blog after my wedding .. Hopefully with photos of the day.. 

Single Digit Countdown ..

.. Starts now ..

9 more days till my big day.. I'm beginning to feel the excitement buildup such that I have been experiencing sleepless nights for the past week. I'll be running the lists of things that I have gotta do at the back of my mind while lying on my bed and before I know it, it'll be time to wake up for work. I'm am finally feeling the stress of the wedding preparations and my acnes are coming back. Been trying masks, nixoderms and whatnots to try to get them to subside. Hopefully it'll be gone by next sat. Keeping my fingers crossed..

Say Hello to Chewy Chew!!

Remember my post yesterday on the new arrival in our family?

I got to meet him last night. He is a 8 mnth old (13 in human years) Shetland Sheepdog, commonly called a Sheltie.

Mum was initially very against having a dog in the house but after she was won over by his cuteness and guai-ness. The whole family dotes on him now. 

He is very shy and is still trying to adapt to his new environment. From last night till this morning, he has not made a single sound. We were worried that he is mute but after reading up in the forums, I believe it is because of the new environment. The only problem is that Chewy has some skin problems. Hope it goes away quickly with the medication and the spray that the vet gave. Will be bringing him to get neutered over the weekend. And also bring him to the Pet Cafe @ Nex on Sunday. C will be bringing along her poodle, Brownie too.. 

Chewy's been with us for less than a day and I already love it soo much.

New Addition to the Family: Shetland Sheepdog

Bro bought a Shetland Sheepdog yesterday and will be collecting it tonight .. Mum's against it but I can't wait to see it.. Google-ed its image and its a smaller version of Lassie.. 

Super cute..

AD Preparation Progress

Yippee!! I have just struck off one more pressing issue on my To-Do List --> Helpers List

Wedding preps heating up again with 18 days to go. Gotta order cakes for 过大礼 this weekend in time for the ceremony next Saturday and buy a splitter for the projectors. 

Going to meet up with my Jiemeis for high tea this Sat to discuss on their duties, gate crash and AD schedule. Hope all goes well. I've also began to slowly moving my stuffs over to J's place. So many things to do and soo little time.. And this stuffy/runny nose is not helping matters ..

Met up with my PG last evening to go through the schedule with him. Was able to make some amendments to my schedule to have a better time management on that day. So brides to be please remember to meet up with your PG to go through your schedule. They will be able to advice on the timing required from their experience so that you avoid have to rush to certain things and have too much time for others..

AD Reception Preview

A preview of what is in store for my guests on my AD reception ..

Something Gold..

Story on Dementia to share

A very touching video to share. I cried while watching this.

Our Love Nest Progress 3

The last time I updated on our flats progress was on 28 March and they were starting on level 6. 

3 weeks down the road and they are already starting on level 8. 

Progress is pretty good. 

At this rate, it should take another 4 months to finish all 16 floors.

Source: bern from Construction of Punggol Residences Album Forum

Link to Our Love Nest Progress 1 

Link to Our Love Nest Progress 2

Wedding Songs

* Edited

One of the items on our list that have to be decided soon is the March In songs.

Below are some of the songs that I have shortlisted in no order of preference..

1st March In

Shania Twain - From this Moment On

Roberta Flack & Peabo Bryson - Tonight I Celebrate My Love

Bryan Adams & Barbra Streisand - I Finally Found Someone

For the 1st March In, we have decided on From This Moment On by Shania Twain

2nd March In

Taylor Swift - Today was a Fairytale

Taylor Swift - Love Story

A1 - Like a Rose

Bruno Mars - Just the Way You Are

Chris DeBurg - The Lady in Red

We have not decided on the song for our 2nd March In but I just might chose The Lady in Red by Chris DeBurg or I Finally Found Someone by Bryan Adams and Barbra Streisand.

P/S We have decided on I Finally Found Someone by Bryan Adams and Barbra Streisand for our 2nd March In.

1 more month!!

Woah!! Where have the time went to? All of a sudden I am left with 1 more month till my wedding = 30 more days = 4 more weeks!! Oh Gosh!! I'm beginning to get the jitters just thinking of the impending date. I hope I don't miss out on any of the major stuffs that have to be done.

We met up with Rose, our event manager from Peach Garden last evening to finalise on the decos and also the number of tables and miscellaneous stuffs

When we first met up with Rose sometime last year to book the date, we were told that there was no themes and wedding favours for us to choose from. So it was a wonderful surprise for us when she told us that we had a choice for both items. They had 3 themes for us to choose from: Victorian (Lilac and Ivory), Oriental (Red and Ivory) and Garden (Gold/Garden Green and Ivory). We went with the Garden theme since it fitted into my wedding theme of Gold, Ivory and Brown. Decided on gold sashes for the VIP chairs and also the flower pedestals instead of the green ones. The flower pedestals and VIP centerpiece also had mini bird cages on them. For the wedding favours, we chose the oriental magnetic bottle cap openers and towels. 

Glad that we have some of the major stuffs confirmed. We are left with scourcing of the splitter for the projector, duties for Jiemeis and Xiongdis, and also choosing of our music for our 1st and 2nd march-in amoung other miscelleneous stuffs. 

Invitations have also been mailed out on yesterday. Left with those that will be hand delivered.

Invitations to be mailed out

Our pink invitation cards!