Wynn's wedding

My journey to Covenant Evangelical Free Church..

Attended Wynn's wedding last sat.. he's like my sister's friend's friend. Long story how we became friends but anyhow, the wedding was on 15 Dec.. and it was VERY FAR! Took the LRT for the first time in my life to reach there. It was quite an experience.. quite interesting. Would never have taken the LRT (from choa chu kang) if not for this. And I didn't even know there was a station in Singapore called Jelapang (see above) .. Anyway it took me about 1.5 hrs to get there from home. 2 exciting things besides the wedding itself - firstly, I finally know what it means for the windows in the train to be automatically "frosted" (again, see above) when the train goes too close the HDB blocks - basically it was a feature added in after residents complained of a lack of privacy I guess.

Secondly, I met my sister's friend at the wedding obviously.. and she is 7 months pregnant!!! How exciting! I have known her since I was 10, she was my sis's lower secondary classmate/ good friend. We even went to NZ together before. She got married 5 years ago.. I attended her wedding at Shangrila Rasa Sentosa.. and now she is pregnant! Oh, and her baby is due on the 29th Feb. Haha!!

DnD - and my prize!

Instructions before the game.. By the way, theme of the night was "Wonderland" hence there's a guy dressed in a SWAT outfit and another in Sherlock Holmes. Obviously I went as Cheryl.

But this didn't hinder me from getting my prize!! A videocam!

Wet weather

It's been raining every day here!!! Keeps coming and going. Clothes are not drying (pout)!! Anyway, so as you can guess, go carting was cancelled cos it was too wet. Oh well, happy that it's mid dec now.. counting down the number of working days to the end of the year!!! It's SEA games period now too and Singapore won a lot of medals, esp at swimming!!! Was watching the guys 4x100m IM relay on the bus on the way home just now.. Philippines won the gold medal but just simply watching it brought back so many memories. Happy days, happy days.

Meantime work has been getting stressful recently, enlarging my appetite for Lindt chocolates. Found 2 main ways to de-stress besides eating more chocolates (1) baking -- baked brownies recently and found that they were real easy and yummy!!! also serves as a good present for friends/ colleagues/ kenneth's family (2) shopping -- but i need to control to avoid major shocks at the end of the month when the credit card bill comes into my letter box!!! whahahaha.

Happy holidays everyone!

Updates

Updates here... maybe I should start with the bad news.

1) Wedding Dinner in HK has been brought forward - will now be held on 31 July 08.
Jun, not sure if you have received my email.. but I guess you'll be affected by this. Really sorry about it. Not sure if you will be able to make it still.... was like a last min decision that basically worked out for my parents and his parents. Am also going straight off for honeymoon after that so I don't have to come back from hol, work for 1 week, and go off to HK again for a "show face" wedding dinner. Anyway, really sorry...

2) Bought the wedding bands! Happy happy.

3) Undecided on destination for honeymoon. Really wanna go to Europe but I heard that Aug is a hot (literally) and hot (as in, popular) place. Hmm hmm... where can I go that's cooling, not too crowded, not too boring, not too city-like and that I've not been before?

4) It's december! A really busy month full of caroling practices (weekly), weddings (3 of them), office dinners (3 of them), Bible trail conference, Christmas, and my sis is coming back for hols!

5) Oh by the way, I won second prize at my company's d&d last week! A videocam! Just what I needed for my wedding! It's a JVC one, rather small, and costs about $900. Not too bad huh! The 2nd-5th prize winners actually had to compete in a silly game and I came out tops hence I got the 2nd prize! Haha. But it was the most suitable for me. 3rd prize was a digi cam. 4th was a karoake set. 5th was a dvd player.

6) Trying go-cart for the first time tomorrow with colleagues - stay tuned.

Happy birthday to us!

One more down

So happy! We've just booked our photographer for pre-wedding and actual day shots. Phew.. another thing off the list. This photographer was one of those recommended by the bridal shop but it was the only one that we both liked very much. Somehow when we looked at all the albums, this photographer stood out to us as being the best in terms of his style. We went down to have a chat with him (Robin) last Friday after coming back from Bali and had a feel of his packages and pricings.. thought about it over the weekend.. did try to check out some others, but they either did not reply, or were already booked on the 26/27 Jul. So on Tues evening we thought we should just go for it since we really liked his works. Went down yesterday evening to pay the deposit. So da tah!!! Happy happy! Apparently he received 2 other calls to do wedding shots on 26/27th July AFTER we called him on Tues evening but he'd already promised us so he turned them down. Sounds a bit like marketing talk but I'm not surprised if it's real because that weekend is really quite popular given that it's the last weekend before lunar 7th mth. Oh well, we're happy that we booked the photographer that we both liked. Initially we were not sure if we wanted to do the pre-wedding shots as we all know how weird it can be to be standing in positions trying to look romantic. But well... we reasoned that I will only wear the gown during this season and the album will be a good memory to keep and it's something that we will never do again (no matter how duh we look) so we should just try it and have fun!

Anyway, it's deepavali today. Time to slack. Hope my diarrhoea will stop.

Baliiii

My first trip (and kenneth's too) to Bali!!! A rather short one.. less than 4 days but it was great nevertheless. We didn't do any sea sports so it wasn't as nice as what other people had described. Spent a day doing sightseeing.. went to the monkey forest, some old palace, a nice temple, an active volcano, and Tanah Lot (temple by the sea).. and passed by some really really really nice paddy fields. Also spent some time at the beach relaxing, and a lot of time at the villa which was just awesome! Not to forget the massages and pedicures.. :-) Some pic here that were taken.

(1) The volcano in the background and other pictures at Tanah Lot



(2) Temples and some nature reserves (didnt want to go too near the monkeys..)



(3) The villa (it's fantastic -- esp the tall trees that line the driveway... really creates a sense of tranquility) and the beach nearby