The UniQuE PuRpLe

A Special Tribute

2010-03-08T22:17:00.005+08:00

Early this morning, I received a shocking news from my secondary school classmate that my secondary 2 Form-cum-Maths teacher has passed away suddenly today. I was really shocked and for some time I did not have the mood nor concentration on my work. I had just started work in my office then and for almost the whole morning, my thoughts were about him and the times during my secondary school life.

He became my permanent Form teacher during secondary 2. The reason I used the word 'permanent' is that my class had several changes to Form teachers then. I cannot remember how many Form teachers we had during that one year. My class was the legendary Class 2E3 and was the most rowdy Express class you can ever find in this world. Before he came, all the teachers who attempted to control our class failed to do so. Only he could control our class and made us listen to him. Somehow he managed to touch the hearts of everyone in my class and finally we got him as our permanent Form Teacher.

The last time I saw him was at my wedding in May 2009. Here is a photo taken during my wedding:

Dear Mr Ng, thank you for making a difference in our lives. You will always be remembered in our hearts.

Tioman trip...

2009-09-26T19:15:00.013+08:00

Over the Hari Raya Puasa long weekend, I went to Tioman with my hubby, parents-in-law, sister-in-law and her boyfriend. This was the first time I went to a resort for a short holiday trip. I was really looking forward to it. However, the trip turned out to be a rather bad, or should I use a stronger word, VERY bad... haiz.. But then it's not everything that was bad lah... there were good things also...

My parents-in-law had booked a driver for the journey from Singapore to Mersing jetty where we would go to Tioman by a small ship. At the resort (Berjaya Resort), we stayed in a suite comprises of 2 bedrooms, 1 living room, 1 balcony, 1 kitchen and 1 bathroom. I find it rather spacious, good for 4 people. Of course, for the 6 of us, it was not that spacious. However, I liked the room and the view of the balcony as I could view the sea from there. There is also a complete set of cutlery and crockery in the kitchen. Even those motels which I stayed before at other countries, such as USA, do not have such amenities. Thumbs up!

Beach
The beach was rather clean and the sea was calm. We spent some time at the beach picking up seashells after we reached our suite and did some unpacking. This was my first time picking up seashells in my life ever. My sister-in-law collects seashells so we helped to pick for her. I managed to found a very very big seashell for her as well as other unique ones like those black in colour. I was really amazed to find such unique seashells and was very happy to spend such great time at the beach.

Swimming at the pool

Another good thing was the swimming pool which was just outside the mini lobby. You will never miss it when you arrive at the lobby after alighting from the shuttle bus. On the 2nd day, we went for a swim in the morning at about 10am. It has been a very very long time since I stepped into the swimming pool due to certain personal reasons. For those who are close to me will know what I mean so I shan't elaborate here. Anyway, for the purpose of this trip, I went to buy a swimming suit [the one I had long long time ago sure cannot fit liow loh : )]. When we went to the pool, there wasn't any one there. It was like a private pool for us. Everyone was there except for my father-in-law as he had more important things to do (see below). When I entered the pool, I felt a bit afraid of the water. I think it's natural since I long time never swim already. I tried all the strokes I learnt before and I'm glad that I remembered each of them. We stayed in the pool for 2 hours before going back to our room for a shower.

Snorkeling
After the shower, we went to take a boat which my father-in-law specially chartered it to bring us for snorkeling. We were scammed by the person (called Rizal) who brought us to the jetty. You know what, the boat which was supposed to bring us to the snorkeling places were delayed and we were left stranded at the jetty for quite some time. That Rizal was uncontactable and my father-in-law had to talk to one of the locals there who happened to know Rizal and asked him to get a boat for us. Finally, we were able to get on to a speed boat which brought us to 3 places for snorkelling. Only my hubby, his sister and her boyfriend went for snorkeling. I did not go down as I was afraid that I would be sea-sick. The amazing thing was I did not get sea-sick at all! Anyway, I was given the task of being a photographer so I was snapping away photos of the sea, fishes and our snorkelers. The sea was calm and the fishes were beautiful.

After snorkeling, we returned to our suite and was shocked to find that the floor tiles in the living room had cracked. We thought that it was most likely the water that came from the air-con and seeped through the tiles. During that night, more tiles cracked and my hubby who was sleeping in the living room had no choice but to squeezed with me in the single bed in one of the bedrooms.

We were scammed again when we were coming back the next day. The ship which we were supposed to embark to go back to Mersing Jetty did not even come at all. We kept asking the locals at the jetty and they did not even know the time the ship would come. We even asked our driver (whom was supposed to drive us back to Singapore from Mersing Jetty) to ask the locals at Mersing Jetty. The office there was not even opened. Aiyoh... where's everybody? Must have gone for their Hari Raya celebrations and did not bother about us. In the end, we had no choice but to purchase another ticket to embark another ship that would take us back to another jetty at Malaysia mainland. We were so flustered and frustrated about what had happened.

After so much that had happened, I really have a bad impression of Tioman. I don't think I would want to go back there again.

Hey I'm Back!!

2009-07-09T23:16:00.002+08:00

hey everyone... It's been long long time since I blogged. 3 months already... Had been very very busy with my wedding preparations and also with work... then after wedding I was busy preparing for my honeymoon trip to the USA. I came back only 2 weeks ago... hehe.. My heart is still much pretty in USA... haha. According to my USA tour guide, there is a song called "I left my heart in San Francisco". I think it should be "I left my heart in USA"... haha.

I will update more on my trip soon. :=)

Genting Trip

2009-04-14T16:35:00.006+08:00

Just came back from the Genting trip with my hubby, his sister and boyfriend, my future in-laws and their workers. Altogether there were 13 people in our group. This was the 2nd time I went to Genting Highlands. The last time I went was in 2006. Actually, there isn't much to do at Genting if you don't go to the rides. I went to my hubby's place to stay over on Thursday night as the bus was very early next day. I did not have enough sleep that night so when we reached First World Hotel, I was already quite sleepy. That night, my hubby and the rest went to watch Shinjuku Incident at the cinema at Genting. I gave it a miss as I was really tired... sigh...

The next day, i felt better and we went to a few places such as the bowling alley (I'm very satisfied with my scores - got at least 140 for 2 games!) and the temple which was set up by Lim Goh Tong (there was shuttle bus service to the temple). Here are some photos to share... :)

Happening day...

2009-04-04T23:34:00.012+08:00

Today i went for my japanese lesson as usual in the morning and my lesson ended slightly later than the pre-planned time of 1pm. Today's 聴解 was more difficult than the previous lessons and I was full of question marks in my head as I could not really catch the phrases. Guess I'm still not up to mark. Need more practice in this area. :=)

After my japanese lesson, I rushed to Yishun SAFRA for my bowling training session organised by my company's bowling team. Because of the rush, I had to have my lunch at SAFRA. I had a big 肉包 which one of my colleagues bought there. It's damn big loh... really filled my stomach fully. Dunno where he bought the bun.. haha... Anyway, today's number of participants were much more than previous sessions... really better... I felt that it really increased my morale as there were more people playing and able to communicate with each other. I felt that my scores were better... haha...But for my 2nd game, dunno what happened also... the frames were basically 9 pts, strike, 9 pts, strike again...all the way to the 8th frame then i finally broke the "curse" with a spare. And the funny thing was that my scores of 9 points were made up of all combinations of additions to 9 (i.e. 7+2, 6+3, 5+4 and 8+1). Cool... never had this kind of score in my life before.. Haha! Because of all the open frames in between, I did not get good points overall. Looking forward to the next session to improve my bowling... :=)

After bowling, I rushed down to Changi Airport with my hubby to welcome his dad who came back from China. hehe. Despite the big 肉包 I ate earlier, I was hungry suddenly when I was at the airport. So I went to MacDonalds to grab a sundae and eat. After that, we rushed down to Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel to meet my cousins for dinner at Cafe Brio. Today, basically I'm rushing everywhere... travelling half of Singapore already. haha... The buffet dinner at the hotel was quite unique with quite a number of Thai food on its menu. I think i'm getting closer with my cousins and that's a good sign. In the past, I seldom join their activities as I was quite an introvert. hehe. It's good that they organise such get-together and I will try to participate as much as I can in future so that I can interact more with them. :=) Here are some pictures which were taken at the hotel.

The "senior citizens" table. haha...

The "childrens" table. haha...

The whole family.. Yeah. We are one family!

FYI, these were only less than half of all my cousins from my father's side (excluding all the cousins-in-law). I have approximately 20 cousins in total (lost count le... too many.. haha).

Ok, that's all for now. :=)

Some thoughts...

2009-03-26T23:04:00.005+08:00

This year's birthday celebration is unique, meaningful and enriching. Despite a little not-so-good event that happened this morning, I feel とても('to-te-mo' --> 'very') happy today. A lot of people around me, at different parts of this planet, send their birthday greetings to me, from my ex-primary schoolmate, my cousins to current colleagues. One of my friends is holidaying in Sydney now and even made the effort to send birthday greetings to me on facebook. I am really surprised and appreciate it very much. A little thought like this counts, you know!

You may be wondering what's the not-so-good event. Well, someone gave me a present this morning and unknown to her, it was broken (it's fragile). I let her know and she passed me the receipt and asked me to change it. Then she offered to give me vouchers if i cant get it changed. Dunno why deep down in my heart i was fuming.. I was thinking why she din offered to change for me instead. It's kind of insincere, in my opinion. I wasn't in my right mind, i guess. After sorting out my mind and getting some advices from some people, I finally cooled down. I realise I shouldn't be hot-headed and should look at her initial intention of why she gave me the present. It's nothing harmful actually. I should have applied what I read and learnt from this book, The Mastery of Love (by Miguel Ruiz). Happiness can only come from inside of you and you can't change how other people wish to react. They are who they are. In every relationship, there's always 2 halves, yours and the other party's. Each of us can only handle how we react towards each situation i.e. we can only take care of our part in the relationship and not try to control the other half. We have to love ourselves so that we can create the happiness from ourselves. In this case, my expectation is that she should change for me but since she chose not to, I cannot control her decision and therefore I should not get upset over it. This situation also let me understand her further. (The Mastery of Love is a very good book. You should try to read it and understand the principles of how to love yourself, others and reduce emotional poison.)

Ok, I shall write until here... will update again soon.

Long time no see...

2009-03-23T21:00:00.012+08:00

Time passes very fast... it's been more than one month since i went 'missing in action' from my blog. No choice... had been very busy, especially with my wedding preparations. Never been so busy in my life before. Just for that BIG day... hehe.. let me briefly tell you what's been happening this month..

NATAS Fair
Since my last post, I talked about going to Chan Brothers' travel fair. My hubby and I also went to similar travel fairs of other travel agents. Finally, we went to the biggest travel fair, the NATAS fair and found a tour package which we were keen to take up - to the USA! Eventually, we signed up with ASA Tours - 13 days to the west coast of USA, including San Francisco, Los Angeles and Las Vegas! This will be our honeymoon trip in June 2009. I've been to USA 12 years ago... that's damn long ago loh. A lot of things sure have changed and I want to visit USA again. I've been to LA and LV and my hubby has been to SF. So this time, we will be going to at least one place where we've been before. For now, I need to take passport photo (which I just did today) so that I can apply for a new passport suitable for going to the USA. I've bought some sunblock lotion in advance as it'll be summer in June. Looking forward to this trip very much!! USA.... here we come!

Culinary Tasting at Meritus Mandarin
My family and my future in-laws together with Marcus's grandmother and aunt, went to the culinary tasting at Meritus Mandarin Singapore, where my wedding will be held in May. The food there was very delicious... おいしいね！(oishii ne!) My guests will get to eat the delicious food and of course the famous dessert there is a must!! If you've been there for a wedding dinner before, you will know what dessert I'm talking about. The only not-so-good thing is that there are too many 'meaty' dishes and you will sure get bloated if you finish every dish. Having this in mind, we've decided to reduce one dish so that our guests wont feel too full and of course to reduce food wastage. I'll have to discuss some trivia details with my wedding planner this week. So I'll update again.

IT Show
The next big fair I went was the IT Show 2009 at Suntec City Convention Centre. It was crazy man! There were so many many many people to the extent I felt that a quarter of the whole Singapore population were at Suntec City!! Anyway, my hubby and I squeeze with the crowd and went to recontract my hubby's Singnet plan and the more important thing is to buy my new MacBook. I've been longing for a MacBook for a few months already as I feel that there are lesser breakdown and problems as compared to the Windows platform. I can only collect my new MacBook in 2 weeks' time but it's ok. I still have a desktop to use... The MacBook will be my personal computer when I'm at my hubby's house and of course when I move in eventually. Will update again when I get it.

Wedding photos
I've also collected my wedding photos, photo album and portraits from my bridal studio. Previously, they've given us the softcopies of the photos which we have selected but the photos were unedited ones! I complained to the bridal studio and the lady boss apologised and said they will give us the edited photos. I returned the CD to them (after copying all the photos into my desktop!) and today I got another CD which supposedly to contain the selected and edited photos. To my surprise, they not only give the edited photos, the non-edited non-selected ones were also in this CD!! (I guess they've made a mistake.. haha!) I'm very happy and going to burn a copy of it in case they find out and want it back. haha... it'll be too late then. :)

Update

2009-02-11T22:30:00.012+08:00

お久しぶりですね！ Long time no see! Yeah I realise I have not been updating my blog regularly these days due to the Chinese New Year and I have been busy with other things. Now I decide to sit down and write something about what I've been doing.

Chinese New Year
This year's Chinese New Year is somewhat different from the past. As my grandmother just passed away not long ago, according to the Chinese customs, I'm unable to go to friends' and relatives' house to 拜年 except the relatives from my father's side. Therefore, my 'ang bao' money has really shrunk by a lot. Traditionally speaking, as I have not gone through the tea ceremony for my actual wedding, I'm not considered 'married' but legally speaking, I'm married under the eyes of the law. So this is somewhat confusing.. hehe.. Even I myself is also confused. So this year is somewhat like a 'transitional' year... haha... Cannot give 'ang bao' and unable receive much 'ang bao'. haha.. I feel that this year is macam like the tax laws in Singapore (which people like me must be familiar with)... since some tax laws are implemented with 'transitional years' to adapt to a new system (eg. one-tier corporate tax system). [haha... This is damn funny... CNY is like a tax law? Some crappy thought...]

One Wakin Live Concert
Last Saturday I went to Emil Chau Wakin's ONE WAKIN LIVE Concert with my mum, hubby and future mother-in-law. This was the first time I went to Wakin's concert. It's very different from A-mei's because his targetted fan group is more matured and older... more suitable for those aunties as he's a 师乃杀手! Wakin is a very cheerful singer and likes to crack jokes.. So during the concert, he was really talkative and cracked alot of jokes... Very entertaining.. There was once some kids went up to the stage to perform when he sang 亲亲我的宝贝. When he finished singing he asked each of the kids for their names and started to converse with them. I think he really like kids alot and he's really good at talking with them. His guest for the night was Wynne, a pub singer in Singapore. As Wynne was not a Chinese, Wakin had to use English to converse with him. Wynn sang the song "I don't wanna sleep alone" and Wakin translated the song into Chinese. It's damn funny. An audience uploaded a video on youtube and I suggest you go and watch it here.

I really enjoyed throughout the whole concert and it lasted from 8pm to 12am!! Even longer than A-mei's concerts which I went to in previous years. If you wanna see the pictures, go to my Facebook and take a look. The pics were not that great since I was sitting quite far behind.

Chan Brothers Travel Fair
This afternoon I just went to the Chan Brothers Travel Fair at Suntec CIty Concourse Level 3 to find out more about tours to the USA, particularly Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Me and my hubby have the intention to go there for honeymoon after our wedding dinner. Seriously, from the no of people at the fair, it really does not look like we are having a recession in Singapore! It was really very very crowded and packed. Anyway, we will be going to the NATAS Travel Fair on 27 Feb which will be held at the Expo to find out more about the tour packages from the other travel agents. :)

Recession....

2009-01-23T23:10:00.002+08:00

Yeah it's in the news: KPMG LLP Singapore to cut salaries of middle to top management staff. The salary reductions will range between 5 and 7.5 per cent.

This is how it will affect me with effect from February.

All thanks to the Global recession which is happening now...

Well, I guess most people living on this planet will be affected in one way or another, whether directly or indirectly.

But i must really say kudos to the Singapore government whom has implemented measures and fork out about $20 billion to help the companies, enterprises and individuals of Singapore. Companies especially... the group that is the most affected. I feel that the Singapore govt is sincere to help to reduce the expenses for the companies and individuals, in the form of reduction in taxes and giving credits (job credits, GST credits, etc). Well, I guess we should be thankful and not ask for too much. More help may come depending on the economic situation as time goes by.

Of cuz, with the govt's help, I hope my co can consider lifting some of its measures so that the perks from the govt can be passed to the affected employees in some way. Will be awaiting good news from my MD...

Afterall, "KoPi Mai Guni" will not be a sweet place to be in if it's sugar level is too low! (Disclaimer: hey, this nickname is not given by me one ok? i heard from a colleague of mine de. jus a nickname onli lah...)

The Answer...

2009-01-20T18:23:00.002+08:00

Yes i'm affected but I think it's inevitable..

I won't tell how many % or how much I'm affected... it's P&C u knw..

Ok... need to cut down on expenses and find part-time jobs le... any recommendations?

Today is the BIG day..

2009-01-20T09:10:00.002+08:00

Don't be mistaken.. today is not my wedding day..

But it's the day when my company will announce whether everyone is staying in the company, will be given a pay-cut or what. According to Reuters, KPMG UK has announced to ask their staff to work a 4-day week, i.e. their staff have to compulsorily take 1 day no-pay leave. Not sure if this is for every week or for alternate weeks. Heard from a friend that Mediacorp is making staff to take compulsory 1-day no pay leave for alternate weeks. Omg!

If my firm really tell me to take 1-day no pay leave, i guess it's inevitable. No pt be grumpy about it. Gotta change one's mindset to look at things at different angles... at least the job is still there!

Will update again when I attended the firm-wide meeting later.

Something cute.. cool man!

2009-01-15T14:27:00.003+08:00

Get Your Sexy Name

Happy New Year!

2009-01-01T09:48:00.002+08:00

Happy New Year to everyone!!! 2008 is gone and here comes 2009!

Let's cherish this year more than ever and make it a better year than 2008! May all your new year wishes come true! For those who have made their new year resolutions, do start on them and do your best to reach your goals! Jia you!

Finally an update from me...

2008-12-17T07:53:00.004+08:00

Yo... had been missing for quite some time. Finally decided to update on my whereabouts... After "piaing" the November deadline, I had finally been able to have more rest and need not do so much OT. Yeah... had been doing OT until 10pm for almost every weekday during Nov and earned quite a bit of OT. haha... finally, the mad rush is over.

Right after 30 Nov, I had to "pia" for my JLPT 2 exam which was held on 7 Dec. Took 1 week leave frm 1 Dec and stayed at hm to drown myself in those Jap vocab and grammar. These 2 are not really a prob to me as long as I can memorise them. The real killer is "cho kai" (聴解) which means Japanese listening. This is the part that will determine whether I pass the exam or fail badly. During the exam, it was terrible as I couldn't really catch what was in the conversation. Hope I can get at least 1 correct as I really "tikam" all the way loh... (the exam consists of all multiple-choice questions).

Over the last weekend, I went to take a look at the layout for my wedding book at the bridal studios... It's very well made i would say, except for some parts which need further amendments. One of them is the photo of my hubby. They had touched up a lot on his face due to some 'smile-wrinkle' showing up when he smiled widely during the photo-shoot. In the end, it doesn't look like him at all. So ugly... Had asked the studio to amend it and we went to see again at the amedment. Still doesn't look like him... then we told the bridal studio not to touch up so much lah... still feel tat original is better. At least it looks like my hubby. So need them to amend again. Hopefully can get everything done by this week.

Alright, here's a preview for those who are curious on how my wedding book will look like (which i've taken while looking at the layouts over the weekend):

10 most shit

2008-11-13T23:48:00.004+08:00

Shit is...

1) when your reviewers give you things to do all at one time;
2) when it's ok they give you at one time... but the deadlines all fall on the same day/period.. that's more shitty;
3) when you tell your reviewers your hands are full and request them if they can help with it but they just tell you "erm... but it's your case right?";
4) when your reviewers give you things which they should be the one doing (cos you are lower rank than them);
5) when clients shoot emails to the mgt giving sarcastic remarks;
6) when clients give unrealistic deadlines;
7) when you ask people to repeat what they have said which you couldn't hear properly initially and they flare at you and said, "go and see that document lah... you should know right?"
8) when you feel helpless and need help and people push you even further down to drown you more;
9) when you sleep less than 7 hrs a day; and
10) when you want to do your best and know that one day you will screw up something as you can't fulfill other people's requests and demands.

That's what I have in my in-tray now.. and hopefully everything will end on 30 Nov... the crucial deadline... yes it's a sunday and i'm likely to be back in office.

My Grandma

2008-10-28T18:53:00.003+08:00

Last Thursday, my grandma passed away.

It was the saddest part of my life. I and her were not that close as compared to my other cousins. However, I could feel the loss very deeply. She was a demanding woman and the centre of attention. Though there were some not-so-nice events that happened in our family, I still respect her. She was the one who taught me how to hold chopsticks correctly as well as to fold A4 size paper into a box (for discarding fish bones that kind). I learnt a lot from her, especially the values of life.

婆婆，你永远活在我们的心中。

Fake nail extensions

2008-10-08T07:52:00.007+08:00

Just to share my experience which really make me think twice of using fake nail extensions especially for wedding...

I had put on mine during my photoshoot on Monday and guess what, it kept coming off. Had used double-sided tape (now I think it's a rather stupid idea to use it) then it became loose and did not stick well once i washed my hands with soap and water. I switched to putting nail glue and thought that it would be better cos the nail glue is very sticky one loh. BUT some of the fake nails still came off despite putting the nail glue and I had a hard time 'keeping track' on all the nails and sticking them back. It's really mafan loh... and after the photoshoot when I took them off, my nails were a bit damaged. Haiz...

The main reason was that I had to hold on to my gown as I walked and the fake nails came into contact with the gown a lot of times and they somehow became loose as time passed by. I think i will not put on any fake nail extensions in future. Rather do my own nail painiting or go to a salon for manicure... no more extensions!

Update

2008-10-07T21:35:00.016+08:00

Hey guys, finally i'm back updating my blog again. Had been very busy with work and preparation of my wedding photoshoot which was yesterday. hehe...

Last saturday (4/10/2008), i went to A*Mei 张惠妹's concert. I've gone to her concert last year and was really amazed by her singing live at the concert. This round is her encore concert and it's really even better than last year's. Although her opening song was the same as last year's, the songs she sang subsequently, like 勇敢, 我要快乐, etc were those she never sang before in last year's. She indeed covered alot of songs which she did not sing in last year's concert. She even sang the japanese song, theme song from the musical Turandot, a Japanese musical which she acted in Tokyo. This song was not even released in the market loh. I will go n learn the lyrics and hopefully one day, sing in ktv when the ktv version is released... hehe.

Here are some of the pics which I took at the concert:

Yesterday, I had my wedding photoshoot. Was very excited and couldn't sleep early the night before despite reminding myself over and over again to have a good night's sleep. My husband and me arrived at the bridal studio at 10am as I had to do my make-up and hair-do. We began the photoshoot at about 11am and we wore the traditional kua first. My husband brought his chihuahua, Mr Sand, for the photoshoot. He was very scared at first as he was at an unfamiliar place. The photographer was very friendly and jovial and taught us how to put our best smiles and poses in front of his camera. Mr Sand also had different costumes, from Japanese style to the English tuxedo. haha. My husband had to calm him down and carry him to the indoor photoshoot studio. Altogether we wore 4 different kinds of costumes and gown for the indoor shoot (the traditional kua followed by Japanese kimono, evening gown and wedding gown).

After the indoor photoshoot, we had our lunch (which was about 3.30pm liao lor). Was super hungry but at the same time couldn't eat much. Then the worst thing which we feared happened... the rain started to pour. Omg... we were supposed to go for outdoor photoshoot loh... How could we go for the shoot in this kind of rain? We went online (thanks to my sister-in-law's bf who used his laptop; the bridal studio there actually hv wireless@sg network!) to check out the weather forecast. We had decided to go to Botanical Gardens, the HortPark and Fullerton area for the outdoor photoshoot. Then we managed to get an update on the weather near Botanical his friend who happened to live near Botanical Gardens... Still raining there but could try to go. We decided to 'hiong hiong' go. If reach there still raining, bo bian hv to postpone. Luckily, lady luck was on our side. When we reach Botanical Gardens, the rain had stopped le. We quickly took our photos and proceed to the HortPark as it was getting late. When we finished our shoots at the HortPark, it was already about 7.30pm liao. No time to go to Fullerton area. Haiz... Nevermind, tentatively, we decide to have another photoshoot on our 1st wedding anniversary at the Fullerton area and the Changi Airport.

It was really tired after all the photoshoot.. but I really enjoyed it and find that it was very fun. Oh ya... let u guys see a photo of me here which my hubby took 'secretly' at the bridal studio...

ok lah... time to sleep le... back to the hectic world of work tomorrow.

Married Life begins...

2008-09-15T21:45:00.013+08:00

Finally, I'm married to the man I love yesterday. We held our solemnisation ceremony at orchid country club. Had been very excited since morning when I woke up and even more excited as I arrived at the bridal studio for make-up and hairdo. When I looked into the mirror after the make-up and hair-do, I asked myself: Is this Wanhua (a.k.a. Lydia) who's getting married? She's so much different man! Even I myself couldn't believe the girl in the mirror is me! haha! Wow... really coudn't imagine I was getting married... there were many things to attend to yesterday and for a moment, I was like, huh.. what's going on man? Everything happened in a flash... BUT I really enjoyed being a bride yesterday.

Everything went smoothly yesterday.. The only bad point was that there were too much food left over. We had to da bao back the leftovers if not it's kinda wasteful. This kind of buffet really hard to estimate the amount of food to match the number of guests i guess.

Now for some photo-viewing...

Sick...

2008-09-09T14:06:00.004+08:00

For the past 2 days, i have been rather sick and took medical leave from work. My big day is around the corner and yet i'm falling sick.. fever and cough especially... haiz... hopefully I can recover by this coming weekend. Really dun wish to be sick on my big day sia..

oh come on.. body... fast fast recover can?

Recent updates

2008-08-27T07:49:00.006+08:00

Olympics 2008
Finally, the Olympics came to a close on Sunday. Though I have been working like mad for the past few weeks, I still manage to watch a few matches, especially the table tennis matches where Li Jia Wei, Feng Tian Wei and Wang Yue Gu played in. They have done very well by winning a silver medal to put a full stop on the 48-year medal wait for Singapore.

ROM preparations
Finally, I've sent out all my invitation cards to my guests for my ROM. Getting excited... can't help feeling excited because this is the biggest moment in my life. Hehe... Had seen friends going through this and did not know how it felt if you were the bride.

Counting down... :)

Money No Enough 2

2008-08-05T09:37:00.000+08:00

Nostalgic

2008-08-02T08:09:00.000+08:00

1 Aug was my company's Community Day and my unit is in-charged of looking after students from one of my company's adopted voluntary welfare organisation (VWO), Grace Orchard School. Every year, we will have this community day whereby we share a fruitful day with the VWO. Yesterday's event was held at SAFRA Yishun Country Club. We were divided into a few groups and my group was supposed to take care of students and bring them to challenge the canopy walk and rock-climbing. Luckily for my group, these students were very obedient and friendly and we were able to communicate well. I feel that I was just like their big sister.

While I was watching some students rock-climbing, I saw someone very familiar walked past me and guess what, she's my former sec school Biology teacher, Mrs Noreen Lim. Oh my... Singapore is really small loh.. Could even meet her at such an event. I wasn't sure at first so I walked up to her and asked whether she's Mrs Noreen Lim. She turned around and looked at me for a sec and said, "oh ya... you were from Beatty right? can recognise the face but cannot remember your name." i was already very happy that she could recognise me after 10 years! She's right now the principal of Grace Orchard School. We chatted for a while and she told me that there would be an opening ceremony of my sec sch that evening. I was surprised by the news cos I had thought.. my school already opened long ago, why got opening ceremony again? Haha! Mrs Lim said that Beatty had undergone upgrading and extension and now they are opening the new campus! Wow! That's amazing! Later during that day, I decided to check it out and went back to my sec school to see see.

Wah! As I approached the school yesterday evening, I really couldn't recognised it man! So much has changed and it grew from just a school compound (I remember we usually called that when I was still studying at Beatty.) to a school campus. It has taken over the premises of the then neighbouring school, San San Pri Sch. Then when I was at the gate, I saw some NPCC students, scouts and girl guides forming two rows from the porch to the gate and I assumed that there'll be some guest-of-honour approaching soon. I was immediately given clear directions and a student escorted me directly to the hall (which was formerly the hall of San San Pri Sch). I was really very impressed. (you know what, I wasn't given an invitation card and just happened to meet Mrs Lim on Fri morning who told me about this important event and the students really treated me like a VIP leh!).

When I entered the hall, I saw a former schoolmate who's now a teacher at Beatty. Then I went to look for Mrs Lim and some other former teachers. I was very excited and happy to meet them once again, after all these years. The ceremony lasted for about an hour and I was very impressed by the laser display in the hall when the guest-of-honour (MP of Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC) completed an symbolic act of 'opening' the school. Somehow I tot I was watching the National Day Parade or wat. Haha! After the ceremony, we were escorted to the different classrooms (they called them 'cabins', cos the theme was a cruise on a ship.) and we looked at the different ECA groups and the history and heritage of Beatty.

Being back in Beatty brought me back memories of when I was a student 10 years ago and everything there is nostalgic. I managed to chat with my former teachers: Mrs Lim, Ms Lee, Mrs Hui, Mr Wong, Mr Ng and Mrs Singh (just to name a few). Hmm... din manage to catch up with Mr Goh, my former principal of the sch, cos he had an appointment that evening and had gone off already. Nevertheless, this trip back to Beatty has helped renew the bonding with my sch and former teachers.

Don't worry, I will get the pictures from Mr Ng and post them here. Stay tuned!

First-time blogging

2008-08-01T15:45:00.000+08:00

Hi there. Today is officially the first day of me starting this blog... Well, I have been reading other ppl's blog but never created mine. Today, I had felt the urge to start a blog so here I am. It won't be a very elaborated one... just a simple one to tell my friends and family of my recent happenings. Hehe. But DUN expect me to blog everyday... dun have the time though.. will keep updating as and when I'm free only hor... keke..

That's all for now.