BloG-HaLT

Blog is upgrading the login system and im not able to login since. Finally, today i manage to login with the google login.

So troublesome. Wonder how will it help with or withour this enhancement.

Neeway..Been busy lately. work wise is always management. Next week will be a kick-off of our project and i wonder if im the one to chair the meeting. scary ! i'm not good in public speaking. later i shiver and fainted on the spot. Best if i just do the background work.. no need high profile or show face. geeess..

We have a take-over from Japan system. High chances we will be flying in business class over in Feb/March. I will only be back end of Feb from honeymoon. Thus, not sure if they can wait for me !! sob !!

For the time being..i wont blog much ! still got many more things to do. Haven even start packing for our trip ! geess.. i hope i can cope with the cold weather there. Sis just came back from Korea, weather too cold and she said nose bleed. scary !!

Happy packing !!

Task Completed

I've finally uploaded all the photos taken by photographer for my wedding day onto web. I've posted some in my previous blog.

I will send personal email to friends for the photos viewing as i will not post photos with our faces in blog.

Next step is to choose photos to print in hardcopy. Pheww.lots of work cos if can i want to print all but then will need to buy many albums to place. Not practical also.
So, got to choose and pick.

Got to settle all these before Feb. as we will have many more photos from our honeymoon.

This weekend i wanna bake chocolate cakes !! No i need a mixer ! got to get it this saturday. lalalala.

I haven been posting my cooking on web. heee. so far i've burn away one chicken & one container. The rest went smoothly. ohh.. yesterday boil soup forgot to remove the seed of the melon Dunno what it is called. those yellow melon type to make soup.

heee..challenging to be housewife huh.

Our PhoTos..

Wedding Eve 29th December 2006

My wedding flower. I choose the colour & the design. Sweet i love it.



Sister's floral band. This is for my friends.
My sis-in-law helped me to create this. Nice.



My wedding gown.
Two white gown(1 morning, 1 evening) & one pink modern "gua" & a can-can to help to hold-up the gown to make it looks wider below.



Desert of the night as a wish for both of us to stay happiness ever after with lots of children to come. sweet. Mum made this for us.



House Decoration

Mum's idea to hang balloons. The happiest person are Yann & chenn. They have so much fun that night.



My nails
Sis & i went to bugis to get our nails done. This is the french style with some diamonds intact. i choose pink of pink is the theme colour for my wedding.



Our wedding day - 30th December 2006, morning

Groom aka LGG come to pick me up with his brother carrying these as part of the chinese custom. Then my mum will return him with some goodies too.





Our wedding - 30th December 2006, Afternoon


Our wedding Dinner - 30th December 2006, evening

Some beautiful pictures by our photographer

Our Weddign sign-board


Our wedding cake, new design as i want pink roses on the cakes




Our wedding cake, the top genuine layer. We chose chocolate cakes as Grand Hyatt is popular with their thick chocolates. Usually wedding cake is fruits cake.





Chinese Custom Wedding

The Sticker on our room door


The rooster & hen that symbolises the Husband & Wife ? not too sure. But my aunt said they lead the way to happiness & towards parenthood.

One pair of bedside lights "Xi" is to be lighten up not sure why too.



Yann(boy) will punch through the potty to retrieve ang pow.



Some others:















After Our wedding

Jewelleries from relatives (mum, mum-in-laws, siblings, uncle/auntie)

The traditional 4 pieces of gold from each side of our parents. Yellow gold.


Wedding cards from relatives & friends

Y2007 New Year Resolution

Not sure what im busy with but just don't seem to have time to do my usual stuff. Haven't got the time to upload photos too.

Well, it has been second week of Y2007 and im married for 2 weeks now. Things are great, getting better i must say. We started to feel comfy with our new home. Still have many things have yet to tidy & pack but we will do it gradually.

Oh yeasss.. It has been the third year i blog on my New Year Resolution !! Just a guideline to my one year planning i guess.

A Flash back on my Y2006 New year resolution and how much have i accomplished my goals

Careers & Travel:
Boss has been good to me. Appreciate my work and have high hopes in me.
He has given me many opportunities to learn new things and see different aspect of IT life. It is enjoyable and fruitful.

This year, finger cross that i'll have chance to travel as boss has been mentioning this for the nth times but seems like things get delayed and delayed. He din fly for the whole of 2006 too. One reason was due to change of Management. We have a new boss who looks like Jurasic park 1 actor.

Feb'07 we will know if i get promotion/pay rise/bonus. hoo..fat new year i hope.

LGG & i are suppose to go for honeymoon in Jan but trip was cancelled due to insufficient participants. So we have rescheduled to Feb. Hopefully this is confirmed.


Health :
I've been quite reqular to gym. jogging has been my Y2006 main sports.
I din get to work on pilates/Yoga much cos the schedule always do not fit.

This year, i will continue with my jogging & of course i will try to fit in my schedule with yoga/pilates.

This year i learnt dancing (cha cha.waltze.etc) not a bad experience !
Stay Healthy always !

I've not been taking Mcs for 2 years. Amazing huh ! im entitled for 30 days MC per annum but all gone to waste. But i rather not taking than suffer from health problem.

Family & Love:

JL aka LGG (Lao Gong Gong) & i finally tie the knot on 30th December. We have moved into our love nest and started our new life together.

I've picked up my cooking since. It has been years since i last cooked a meal but now i prepared dinner for my LGG daily. Cool huh ! Im still picking up slowly from my mum & mum-in-law and of course recipees books come in handy all the time :)

Glad to have a proper family gathering on my wedding day. The photos are so precious. I've got to arrange & print them out.

Y2007 Resolution..
o stay happy. healthy.organised. less temper.
o Love my LGG & let him love me more.. heee
o Polish up my cooking skill !!
o Keep slim. Been adding more "bak" cos less exercise. Pick up Pilates/Yoga
o Go Bangkok for shopping spree
o Looking forward to our love product :)
o Try to spend time with my mum. Muak !
o keep in touch with friends.
o Stop drinking Coffee !!

This year resolution is shorter cos i think it is the matter of achieving so not to put too much pressure on myself too.

All the best in Y2007 the year of piglet ! Roast pig is nice, always ! heee

OuR Wedding Day - 30th December 2006

Details of my wedding day on 30th December 2006


1. Preparation

Mum & aunt woke up as early as 430am to prepare breakfast.

Brother they all too,woke up and bathed and went out to buy coffee for me.heee my special request.

Basically, whole night i cant sleep. not sure why but just the mind did not seem to be able to rest. nervous with the day i guess. I got up with one-sided headache.

Mum made some herb tea for me to drink which seemed to work.

Make-up artist arrived at 7am. Photographer arrived at 8am.

After, make-up, i changed andand LGG came just about the same time.

2. Groom's arrival

LGG came to pick me up at redhill home. Upon arrival, he called up.
Yann & Chenn (boys) went down to open car door for him.
Then LGG gave them one ang pow each

* this is part of the customary, boys of bride's family will open car door for the Groom *

Then LGG & his brother (brought along a traditional layered basket with goodies like cakes/fruits..)

Mum is so nice that she invited LGG for breakfast.

3. Sister's challenge

My sis,sis in law, autie & chenn they all blocking the door to the room where i'm sitting with face covered by the veil.

*Groom will have to pass the challenge to lift up the veil and bring the bride with him *

LGG is asked to sing mandarin love songs to me.. he got the hint few days back and managed to sing a song with the self-prepared lyrics. He passed la !! but the singing a bit errr.. heeee

Then of course got things like they asked him who is he looking for ? why looking for her ? blahh..

Finally, he is given permission to enter the room & be with his bride.

In chinese custom, after leaving the bride's home, they need to return on the same day.
But, mum said no need to make extra trip back, so we walk one round to the other end of the corridoor outside our house and come back.

Then, Mum gave us both each a cup of chinese tea or is it herbs to drink before we took off.

4. Temple

We moved on to temple.
Since we have many people, so all got to sqeeze into 2 cars.

bridal car- 6 people including driver. phewwww.

Mum cant follow us, this is part of chinese customary too. she and sis took another transport to go direct to our new home.

At temple, we are surprised with the wedding song that they played. It was the really traditional wedding music. " pom(3) pom(2) pom(4) pom(4)...." you know.

Then venerable do chanting and bless us with blissful marriage.

All these are videod by JK.

We spent some time at the temple waiting for some relatives.

5. Our New Home

We headed to our new home.
Many people already there. This is where we have our tea ceremony & buffet lunch.

Yann went up to our bed to jump, as according to chinese customary, this bring lucks to the newly wed to have children and to have boy.

Boon, jia & Suh came too. So glad to see them especially Boon for making a trip all the way from penang just to attend my wedding. He & jia are my Dinner Mcees.

They took many photos of my marriage customary items. posted here.

So after all the tea ceremony & makaning, relatives roam about in our house. chit-chating.

Afternoon, we proceeded to hotel for the preparation of our wedding Dinner.

6. Our Wedding Dinner

Tired but cannot sleep.

Boon, Jia , Suh , LGG went for the captain briefing to setup and prepared for the dinner with proper timing and all.

I'm the bride so just ready for make-up & be "mei-mei".. heeee

You cant imagine the how nervous LGG & i were. The march in was so "Kan-chiong", we just keep telling ourselves to keep smiling.

Yann & Chenn are my flower "boys" they carry a small basket and throw the confetti. After few rehearsal at home, they did a great job that night and enjoy themselves, cutey cutey :)

Our wedding songs selection:
First march-in = This moment
First dish =
Second march in = A moment like this

I wore the gown that i took picture in the morning, white one and a bit sexy as mid section are transparent.

I wore the second gown on that night, off white but very elegance as the material is so comfy and queen like

I chose to wear my tea dress as my secodn gown on that night as i think the pink strikes especially when take pictures. and it does not have a long tail like my first & second gown. So i can move from table to table easily.

Well. We are so glad this is over and we are now officially ( english or chinese cutomary) husband & wife. heeee

We felt like King & Queen during our 2 days stay in the 5 stars hotel. Breakfast was taken up in the room. our room was upgraded as a complimentary from the hotel to a full suit with 2 level. Originally it should be 1 level bridal suit.

The end of our wedding in Y2006. As we walked into Y2007 with a brand new life. Sharing our life together hand-in-hand.

All the loves go to my Laogong & my family and friends who have been a great help to make all these happened.

Next blog have to be my new year resolution.

BacK 2 RealiTy

Im back to work this week.

Been busy for the past 2 days. today is ok. I can have time to surf net to change watch battery and do my own stuff..hee

Cant believed i've taken 3 weeks leave..so long yet feel so short.

Life has been different now but i still enjoy it the company of my LGG with the cooking, washing.. learning to cook well.

Hopefully tonight my home internet will be up and i can share some photos of my wedding :)

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..

1 month towards our BIG day

Today is exactly 1 month away from our wedding day. So looking forward !!