Customary #3

3. Guo Da Li

Mum & brother got me a very huge roast pig. got a shock when i saw it but nice to eat. hee

We have lots of food and those wedding goodies. Mum ordered many boxes of wedding cakes to give to relatives & friends.
Mum also prepared buffet lunch for relatives. My aunt(71 year-old)volunteered to cook on the night before & on our actual Guo Da Li. So helpful.

most of the guests are my mum's friends and our relatives. some aunts i really longggg time never see. Anyway, that day, JL & I just smile smile, say "Thank you" and "Thanks for coming". so fake. But no other better words come to our mind. We are tired too. cos we eat the last. haaa.. cos paiseh lah.. everybody attention is on us.







Glad this is over. So the next big thing is just 5 days away. gees.s.s feeling lots of butterliessss in my stomach.

Stressful too of the preparation. hope all turns out simple and nice like i always wanted it to be.

Long Leave begins !!

Hurray !! Hurray !! Hurray !!
49 minutes more and my 3 weeks leave shall begin !!

Can't believe i'll be going for such a long leave ever since i start working !!

LGG and myself will be taking same length of leave Yipeee!!!!!!!

Tomorrow will be going home le !!!


2 more weeks will be our Wedding le !!!!

all exclaimation marks !!!! how can i not right !!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Customary #2

(2) Marriage Dana

Yesterday 10th December(Sunday) we gave our Marriage Dana in Temple.

This is the second time i join them for the praying. Im still not familiar with the reciting. Cannot catch up !!

Dana means we are giving vegetarian lunch to the temple people as a form of offering to the temple to bless our marriage. One of the Buddhist sutra requires 88 times of kneeling up & down. My mum-in-law said they seldom recite this on sunday, maybe the venerable chose this for our marriage Dana.

After the praying, we proceed to vegetarian lunch. where we both bring the food to the venerable and they return us with the portion of food as kind of blessing.

This is the first celebration of our wedding with the blessing of venerables.

B'day party

Today we attended LGG's x-col's son's two year-old b'day party. cute cakes



I wonder how much he will remember of his b'day at this age :)

Customary #1

Here all the customary begins.

(1) "An Chuan" Bed setting.
According to chiense custom, newly wed has to set up their bed according to chinese custom so that their relationship is long lasting with many children.

So, mum been checking with the customary wedding shop and we have set-up our bed accordingly to what we know to the extend that we can accept.

Things to prepare
(1) Lian ji <-- symbolises many kids
(2) ang pow <-- symbolises lots of $$ to come
(3) dry long yen <--symbolises kids also i think
(4) leaf (not sure what leaf), mum prepared this , i think is chase away bad things
(5) our pyjamas <--always together as couple i think


Our bed setup..


i want to keep this in blog so that when i grow old, maybe my children wanna get married, i can still remember :)

Dying Young

Recent months there were shocking news of young people ranging from teenage to adult below 35 dying in their sleep. They are people deem fit with regular exercise and healthy lifestyle mostly married.

The lastest two cases are young couples, one was doctor. One was 29th year-old guy leaving his 7th mth heavily pregnant wife behind.

Scary really ! col said, their time has come as decided "up there". my col said from the trend , people who die in sleep are young people below 50 of age. so beware !!! and i was saying maybe year end, "up there" need to reach quotas, so anyhow drag the innocent people !!

Jokes aside, the government does not seem to be taking urgent action, looking at the death rate for just the past 2 months. There must be some similarities from these people. maybe staying around the same area, some chemical leakage or radiation or whatever it is !!

Pls save "us" aka the young people who still have so many years to live and to contribute to the country !!

LGG's sms:

" always remember..
Life is impermanent..
nothing is certain.
Only death is certain..
so we just live each day to the fullest :) "

remember to tell you loved ones that you love them when you have chance, as you never know if tomorrow you'll still have the chance to see them again.

Eat till I drop..

Lunch maniac

This week lunch:
Monday - vegetarian
Tuesday - eat black chicken chinese herb soup at Macpherson (contractor's treat)
Wednesday - Curry Fish head at bedok (boss'treat)
Thursday - Organic food + chocolate cheese cake at Century Sq (vendor's treat)

My Exercise routine:
Tuesday - treadmill
wednesday - sleeping at home
Thursday - plan to go jogging pray hard not raining else no motivation

gesss.. input more than output.. i wonder if i can still squeeze into my gown.

TooTh-Ache

Last time went for dental check-up that stupid dentist dunno do what to my teeth now on-and-off i feel toothache.

He filled the teeth which i never feel pain of anything. After the filling, now i really get the pain on and off.

Stupid dentist and make me suffer !! paid to feel the pain !!

Tickets

yehh !!!

Today i just collected our tickets to The musical. The date chosen is the date of our ROM anniversary. so we will take leave the next day since the musical will end late.

So kiasu huh, already made up our mind on how to celebrate our anniversary heee.

Wonder if we have to wear nicely to the musical ? haven step into the esplanade theater.. a bit mountain turtle !!

NeighbouRs

Saturday i met my new neighbours. They just started their renovation. Seems like they are in hurry to complete the reno and will move in soon. I met the two old couple (husband & wife) who came to view my house with their contractor.

Their contractor is the same as ours. Last time they came to see our reno too & i intro to them. So, i will get commission for this. muah !!!! another unexpected ang pow !

According to my neighbour, their son (30 year-old) bought the house and he is still single. so, they (parents) and their son will stay in the house.I think this son is working overseas (contractor's info). The father cook a lot as informed by the wife. They are english speaking family, seem educated so i guess it'll be easier to get along with people with similarity to ourself. Just hope we can get along in days to come.

Best if they cook more and we get free dinner !! muahh !!

Last MarathoN of Y2006

Bravo !! hugs for my dearie for completing the 10km with me.

I know it's hard for him since he has no chance to train or exercise due to his busy work schedule. Gosh.. i dunno why each time i go Marathon, i really can feel the excitement with the crowd all so ever-ready to run. that's what keep me going each year and the satisfaction of completing the journey !

This year is special cos both of us completed the run together, hand-in-hand. love the feeling of doing things together with someone you trust and can rely on.

I told him we r going again next year ! heee.. he fear the idea but i think i'll get him to run again next year !!! muaaaahhh !1

We both got the medal for completing the 10km. I've got two now. Y2005 & Y2006. Yipeee!! This year they provide more goodies. They even have banana for runners after the run. massage session for full marathon(42km) runner and unlimited mineral water & 100plus so cool !!!

That's it, completion of my Y2006 marathon. Next week onwards will be my Big day celebration in temple. The week after will be my big day celebration in Melaka. the week after will be Xmas celebration with faimly. the week after will be OUR BIG DAY that we've been looking forward since 1st january 2006.

A Year full of excitement and celebration !!

BonuS

Year end le..This will be my first year to get Bonus after conversion to perm staff in Feb.

My boss yesterday told me, he has personally make an effort to tell our French boss of my satisfying performance.. i wonder if my work really that satisfying ? or b'cos i always help him do his personal stuff that he appreciate my effort ???

anyway, he said he has done his part to give the best for me. The rest lies on the hand of our new French-born but Australian background boss..

Fingers crossing, toes crossing.. i can cross anything so long i get the so-called "Best" appreciation in term of monetary & ranking for my "HARD" work !!!

Next year is PIG year. we will get our bonus in Feb. Hopefully, this will be a very fat, healthy, pink pig. I can have the best 30th birthday every since it's in Feb.

Think too much.. now still working on saturday. Working but blogging.. im working hard.. really.. heeee

Cheong Sam

First time in my life .up to now that i ever tot of trying up a cheong sam. Can't figure out why but it's not bad at all. May take a snap later.

Last week, i was in Town with a relocation project. So went lunch with gal col. As usual, when in town for lunch, will definitely go shopping. beginning of Nov i got myself a working bag. now, i got myself a Cheong Sam. but this is not those very tight fitting , long, red type. It is modern cheong sam that is shorter, above knee level, green and a bit silky feeling.

When i wear, i feel like waitress in chinese restaurant except it's not red. The sale person said i should wear it with stocking (panty hose). cos it splits at both side , so it can go quite high up.

now, i think i'll wear this for my Gou Da Li in Melaka. i will tight my hair up and become very very chinese looking.. muahh..