Movie Night: Conan the Barbarian

With nothing to do over over the Hari Raya holidays, J and I decided to catch Conan the Barbarian. Having absolutely no idea of what the movie was about except for the hulking half naked lead actor, we were definitely not prepared for the gory scenes that were awaiting us. Noses were cut off, hands were chopped off and plenty of blood were spilled throughout the movie. This movie is not for the faint hearted and due to some R-rated scenes, it was rated M18 which we later found out. I enjoyed the movie mainly because it did not require my brain juices with its typical romance novel story lines.

Source: Conan Poster - Internet Movie Poster Awards Gallery at impawards.com

Our Love Nest Progress 5

Progress of our block as of 1st August. They are starting level 16 already afterwhich they will start constructing the roof! Things looks pretty good.. On 30th May they were only starting on level 11. Pretty fast progress I must say.. Can't wait for it to TOP!!

Source: tom from http://www.punggol.sg/

Link to Our Love Nest Progress 4

Now Watching: City Hunter

Thanks to my colleague, I've been hooked on this drama since Saturday and have already gone through half the serial. I've read the original Japanese comic when I was in secondary school and find that there have been many changes to the series from the original comic. Nonetheless, the male lead Lee Min-Ho is super suave.

The story tells of a man Lee Yoon-Sung (Lee Min-Ho) who was kidnapped and raised by his father's good friend and comrade, Lee Jin-Pyo. His plan was to train Lee Yoon-Sung to revenge his 20 special forces comrades who were ordered to be killed by 5 high ranking South Korean officials during an assassination mission in North Korea where he was the only survivor.

Along the way, Lee Yoon-Sung meets Kim Na-Na (Park Min-Young) and the 2 of them falls for each other ..

To read more, click here.. 

Totally unrelated but I am so craving for Kimchi and Rice cake now .. ~~~

Source: http://asianmediawiki.com/City_Hunter_(Korean_Drama)

Arirang Korean Restaurant

Another super outdated post. This post has marked as draft since I don't know when. Think it was sometime in Nov or Dec 2010 when I still had bangs. From the time when these photos were taken, we went once more with C and WF in Feb or March. I love their Rice Cake and also the Kimchi. For someone who doesn't take spicy food, the Kimchi was just right. Feel like going for Korean BBQ again.. Maybe I should run this idea by J later and have this for dinner tonight ..

Arirang Korean Restaurant can be found at:

1 Liang Seah Street

#01-07/08 Liang Seah Place

Dim Sum Galore

Sorry for the lack of posts. Finally did what I should have done 3 years ago. Will be embarking on a new journey come September and I hope that I have not made the wrong choice. But before September, there is our trip next month to Bangkok to look forward to. This will be our mini-honeymoon and also my 1st trip to Thailand. Yes! I am super suaku! Have not been to Bangkok before!! I've researched on the places to go to and I also have FL on my Whatsapp so I can consult her as and when I need to. We decided to postpone our honeymoon till after we finish our flat's reno which will happen sometime end of next year.

It's time I started clearing the backlogs in my draft folder. These photos have been sitting in my drafts since April when I treated my parents to Dim Sum at Imperial Treasure at Crowne Plaza Changi Airport one fine Saturday morning. Just looking at the photos now makes me miss the 流沙包 which is a must try everytime I go. The Dim Sum there is very fresh and I like that as it is situated in the far east, the restaurant doesn't have many customers and we could enjoy our brunch at a leisurely pace and the waitresses were able to attend to our requests promptly.

My Wants: Bottega Wallet

I've splurged on something that is a Want again.. My heart was telling me "Buy!" and my head was telling me "Don't Buy!". Been going through this "Buy!" "Don't Buy!" cycle countless times the past week. In the end I succumbed to my heart and bought it.. Will be receiving it in the following days.. Hope that I don't regret my purchase ..

Source: http://www.hauteavenue.com

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..