那些年，我們一起追的女孩 (You Are the Apple of My Eye)

"青春是一場大雨。即使感冒了，還盼望回頭再淋它一次。"

watched this movie last weekends with my girlfriends and I totally fell in love with this movie! Brings back lots of memories when I was secondary school! Too many memories to be typed out now..

Enjoy the official MV :)

11th Anniversary

We celebrated our 11th year anniversary on Friday at Morton's The Steakhouse.

AH had made a booking 1 month ago, since this restaurant is really popular with both the local Singaporeans & tourists.. But when he called to re-confirm our reservation on Friday, they said we do not  have a reservation! Thank God they managed to squeeze us else we would be so lost without a place to celebrate on a Friday evening..

Our customized menu as keepstake

Onion loaf for each table

Its a HUGE loaf of bread which is such a waste to be serving at every table, cause I see most people just pinch some of it to try and the rest just got thrown away.

Appetizer - Broiled Scallops wrapped with Bacon

The scallops were really fresh and huge! AH loves this much 

New York Strip Steak

Huge piece of steak (560g) and its shared between 2 of us.. The staff is really nice to split the portion for us and this steak is one of the nicest steaks I've eaten in my life.. 

Dessert - Chocolate Lava Cake

my all time favorite dessert served with vanilla ice cream. Perfect! 

See how sweet they are to give some discount for special occasion

A gift from Morton's 

Instant photo with well wishes from their staff

I'm a fan of them now officially!! Love the ambiance and service there.. 

And of coz thank you dear for the lovely celebration!! :)

iPhone

Trying the new iPhone blogger app!

Blogging is now so much easier :)

Royal Wedding

2011 is indeed a year of weddings! One of the most watched weddings of the year.. The ROYAL Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton..

Kate Middleton arrives at Westminster Abbey wearing an ivory and lace gown designed by Sarah Burton at Alexander McQueen. [This is going to be the most copied gown design for 2011 and 2012]

Prince William & Kate Middleton exchanged vows.. 

Prince William and Kate Middleton kiss twice on the balcony of Buckingham Palace after their wedding service in Westminster Abbey.

Oh by the way, Kate Middleton did her own makeup for her wedding.. how cool is that! and she looked gorgeous!!

Celebrities Wedding

范范 & 黑人 Wedding (7 May 2011)

Stephanie Sun's Wedding (8 May 2011)

stickers!

AH was in HK last month..and bought a few wedding stuff back..

here is one that he auto bought without me asking me too..

My fave Precious Moments stickers!!!

The reason why he bought it because:

1. He knows how much I LOVED Precious Moements

2. nice decor on our invitation envelopes

Can't wait to send out our invitations!!

Etsy

Officially addicted to Etsy.com!

They sell so many handmade customised wedding items!!

I'm going ga-ga over all the items that they are making and selling.. although their prices are kinda expensive plus the super expensive shipping to SG, I guess its all worth while to have a special wedding!

Gonna order my unity candles set, hanger and chair signs from them.. and more items to come as I think of them along the way!

Disney Wedding

How I wish I can have my wedding at Disneyland!

Reciting wedding vows in front of the Disney Castle.. So ROMANTIC!!

A fairy tale wedding :)

Everlasting love..

With the passing of Mrs Lee, or Mdm Kwa.. the love story between her & MM were always flashing on the media.  And it really touches my heart that they shared a strong knitted relationship over 63 years, especially during the times when MM started in career in politics and the times that she was bed-ridden for 2 years.  Little did I know she was contributing so much in little ways in the life of her spouse and partner.

It was really heart wrenching when I watched the news of MM entering where the wake was held, gazing at his wife's photo.. He doesn't look like the MM whom I knew of since young, the man who is always so stern & sharp.. Now he looked so lost without his life-long companion around him..

Not that I agree with the things he did or regulations set by him, but I really do feel inspired by the love they shared.  MM shared that he likes reading the Christian wedding vows as it signifies the love between he & his wife..

"To have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness or in health, to love and to cherish 'till death do us part."

It's really sweet to have someone to grow old with.. :)

Ring Fingers

came across this on a blog.. just to share :)

Have you ever wonder why do we wear our wedding ring on the 4th finger?

Now, here is a beautiful and convincing explanation given and believed by the Chinese.

• Thumb represents your Parents
• Index finger represents your Siblings
• Middle finger represents yourself
• Ring finger represents your Spouse
• Little finger represents your Children

Firstly, open your palms (face to face), bend the middle fingers and hold them together - back to back. Secondly, open and hold the remaining three fingers and the thumb - tip to tip (as shown in the pic above).

Now, try to separate your Thumbs (representing your parents).
They will open, because your parents are not destined to live with you lifelong and will have to leave you sooner or later.

Next, please join your thumbs as before and separate your Index fingers (representing your siblings).
They will also open, because your brothers and sisters will have their own families and will have to lead their own separate lives.

Then join the Index fingers and separate your Little fingers (representing your children).
They will open too, because your children will also get married and settle down on their own some day.

Finally, join your Little fingers, and try to separate your Ring fingers (representing your spouse). You will be surprised to see that you simply cannot do so!
Because husband and wife have to remain together all their lives, through thick and thin!

awwww... so sweet!!

Movies come alive!

Wonderful engagement photos! Both from my fave movies :D

Inspired by UP the movie

Inspired by Alice in Wonderland

These couples are really spontaneous & creative!

我们爱让世界不一样

歌词：


你和我是天父愛的創造
每個人有最美的夢想
一路上彼此照亮
扶持擁抱
我們的愛讓世界不一樣

﹝副歌﹞
我們愛 因神先愛我們
雖你我不一樣 我們一路唱
走往祝福的方向

我們愛 因神先愛我們
心再堅強也不要獨自飛翔
只要微笑 只要原諒
有你愛的地方就是天堂

English Translation:


You and I were made to love each other
Every dream will complete His plan
We will carry each other
When hopes are gone
So we can make a difference in this world

(Chorus)
We will love, because He loved us first
God made us not the same, but we’re together
To sing a song of love

We will love, because He loved us first
No matter what we’ll choose to stay together
So we will smile, and we’ll forgive
For Your love will bring us heaven on earth

Found this song while browsing through some VG's work.. I'm so touched by the lyrics of this song.. It just remind me once again the reason why we love each.. and the union of both of us is part of God's plan.. Definitely gonna be one of my wedding songs!

At My Wedding Twitterring and Facebooking at the Altar

this is so cool!

Time Flies...

I was looking through my friend list in FB.. and browsing through some ex secondary school & poly mates account.. was surprised to find out that a number of them are planning to get married, already married and some are even parents now!

Looking back at yester-years back in sec sch, we just grew up from that young kid to a teenager.. the rebellion years of a teenager, mugging for prelims & O levels.. having crushes on our seniors and/or boys from other schools.. Most of us had either that geek, ah-lian or tomboyish look..

As we progressed to JC/poly, mentality is still about playing/studying.. BGR are usually just transient.. thou a few of us are still attached to the 1 we knew years ago..

Now 8-14 years on, all of us have grown up & preparing or started a new phase in life.. I looked thru their wedding photos.. They all looked so gorgeous.. no more that geek, ah-lian, tomboy or playful look.. Its really heartwarming to see how blissful they looked.. Some of them I didn't think that they will marry so young!

Time flies isn't it.. soon we will be bringing our kids for gatherings... HAHA!

USA

Some photos of our holiday to share :)

Baker's beach - Golden Gate Bridge

back to Boardwalk =D

Nestldown at Los Gatos

San Diego, USS Marine Musuem

Niagara Falls

Liberty Island

Statue of Liberty

We are in San Francisco!

after 14 hours of long haul flight.. with aching neck and shoulder, we are finally in San Francisco!!

ok..shall blog about my experience about the flight, since most people are wondering how I manage the heavy wedding gown on board..

Thankfully the wedding gown is not very heavy, perhaps less than 1 kg.. hand carrying was quite a breeze with the exception that its quite flimsy to carry around.. imagine a dress that is longer than your height.. the designer at Allure Charix taught us to carry by folding it into half and sling over the forearm.. 

Everybody at the airport was giving me stares.. I guess its just basic Singaporean instinct to give people weird stares when some1 is doing something or carrying something out of the norm.. Haha.. 

Cleared the first round of custom with a breeze, with some difficulty trying to hold my gown on one hand and trying to scan my thumb on the automated custom machine.. Upon boarding the plan, there's another round of custom to clear.. I totally hated this part.. as this is the part where you need to take off whatever outerwear you're wearing, take out the laptop & handphone, handheld cosmetics & facial products (in a small clear ziplock), and other hand carried luggage and  placed them on a tray and sent for x-ray scanning... all these are quite routine since I travelled quite often.. BUT now with the wedding gown, its quite a tough task..  alerted the custom officer about my gown, and have to carefully arrange it on the conveyer belt and watched it passed through slowly on the other end.. 

The flight from SG to HK was full.. so imagine the large influx of tourists and locals on board.. lesson #1 learnt.. try to board the plane asap when your row number is called.. coz we waited to be the last few to board.. thinking that with the huge "load" we have, should let the others go first.. but we are wrong! by the time we are up on the plane, the air stewardesses & stewards are so busy trying to help everybody stowed their stuff up in the overhead cabin, getting the food&drinks ready etc.. called for the steward to help me hang my gown, but he was too busy.. so I just randomnly hung it over the railing that seperates the gallery & passenger seats.. that finally caught the attention of an air stewardess who kindly helped me hang the gown in their closet.. Upon reaching HK, we had to get out of the plane for transit (thou its the same aircraft, for security reason every1 & everything needs to be taken off).. The stewardess told us nicely to board the aircraft earlier for the flight to SF as they have limited closet space, they hung the gown in their cabin bunk earlier (feel so bad to occupy their tiny resting space).. All the stewardesses & stewards on board are really nice, kept sending their congratulations as I alight from the plane..

HK airport was a madrush, imagine all the "ah-tiongs" trying to clear customs alongside in the que.. there was que cutting here & there.. so pissed off but since I'm quite "handicap" with the gown, didnt really bother about them, since there's still about 1 hour before boarding.. there's an uncle who helped to check the luggage, he so cute lor.. keep asking me if I'm getting married in SF or what am I doing with that gown.. but I was in a rush, so the conversation was kept short..

Asked AH to go que up to board as soon as our row number was called.. this time boarded quite an empty flight.. as usual they staff on board the plane looked at me with curiousity and also congratulated me.. One of them even said its quite unusual for people to having their wedding photos taken in SF.. heee

All was good at SF airport, their staff were all as curious who kept asking me what am I doing with that gown.. that was like the 4th or 5th time I  answered.. lol... The most tiring part of the journey was carrying all the luggage (without the help of airport trolleys) and the wedding gown to take the BART (like our MRT) and walking from the BART station to our hotel.. SF roads are not flat and smooth like SG.. their roads are steeper we were practically walking uphill with our stuff and their roads are super bumpy! 

Reached the hotel safe & sound.. and time for bed (its was like 10pm when we arrived at the hotel).. the adventure in SF continues!

Change of dates

Due to the fact that OH is taken up during our preferred wedding date (our 11 years anniversary).. and we really set our hearts in getting OH.. both of us have decided to have a change of wedding dates.. ultimately wedding is a celebration of our union, as long the date makes some sense to us.. we wouldn't mind changing...

The 1st alternate date to find another Sat that falls either on 22/23/24.. looking through next year's calender, the next available date would be 23rd Jul.. we did a tentative booking with OH with this date.. but there wasn't any peace in us when we wanted this date.. so decided to change again.. as the promo of free flow beer/wine and cash rebate per table is only valid for weddings up till Aug '11 and AH doesn't risk the fact that our date will be taken away again.. He wanted the wedding date to be somwhere around Aug.. Although Aug falls withing the chinese lunar 7th month, the both of us really didn't mind holding a banquet since we are Christians.. The holding factor within me is about our unsaved relatives, friends & colleagues, etc..

Felt really uncomfortable with other dates, I spoke to my MUA (who is also my wedding planner) about this issue.. He is also a Christian, so he told me that its gonna be MY wedding, so I shouldn't be bothered about what the guests think about the wedding date, hotel location, etc.. I have previously told him that the citeria of my choice of hotel must be near MRT or at least accessible so the guests can find their way easier.. He told me that wedding is also a test of friendship.. If your friends really treat you like a friend, even my wedding is at Changi Hotel, they will still come no matter how ulu the place is..  and also will not mind if its superstitious to have a wedding during the "hungry ghost festival"..  My mom also once said this to me when I was planning my 21st birthday as the chalet I booked was in Jurong and most of my friends live elsewhere..

Was much relieved pouring out to him my concerns, now I'm quite comfortable with having my wedding during the "hungry ghost festival".. But I still want to please our relatives (especially the older folks), so I actually went to google for the lunar alamac and try as much as possible to understand what is an auspicious day and what dates are good for weddings during the "hungry ghost festival".. at least I have a reason to rebuke them if they say is "unlucky" to get married during this month..

ALAS! I came out with these 2 auspicious dates according to the lunar alamac

1) 6 Aug 2011

This is the 7th day of the 7th month which is also known as 七夕情人节or widely known as the Chinese Valentines' Day..

2) 20 Aug 2011

No special occasion on this date, but when you write the date out it will look 20082011.. AH likes the number combi and since its also auspicious for weddings, why not!

We shall have favour with OH that the 1st alternate date we chose will be given to us! :)

Meet up with Pastor Keith

First appointment with our church pastor last Sun.. Initially AH & I thought that Ps Keith would be our officiating pastor for our Holy Matrimony.. but it turns out that our first meeting is just want to reaffirm our decision to get married and also to ask some formality questions..

He started off asking questions like when we knew each other, if we knew our financial status, blah blah.. Given our age, he was really surprised that we have maintained a 9 year ++ relationship.. and this year being our 10th year together.. What I can I say.. all praises to Jesus who is in the central of this relationship, and in the future, our marriage..

He went on to share about marriage in the bible.. and our decision is based on the love for each other and not just because we are in the relationship for a long time.. He also shared that as a married couple we should learn to accept the mistakes we made & the ugly side of each other..

I'm very blessed with the meeting.. and I look forward to the pre-marriage seminar & counselling sessions..

"We loved because He first loved us"

Air ticket scare..

Booked our tickets from SIA 2 months ago, was really a roller coaster emotions for AH.. The sweet deals promo for 2 are priced at $1796 per pax to San Francisco.. I was contemplating should we buy the air tickets so early or hold on a little while more.. So I told AH that we should wait a while more, perhaps we can get a better deal.. Actually was a very good deal coz the other airlines are more expensive during our travel period, but being a typical Singaporean.. The cheaper, the better...

BUT one day I got a panic call from AH that SIA increased the fare to $2096 per pax during our travel period! My heart literally dropped and poor AH got no mood to work the entire day.. Finally in the evening, got a call from AH that the fare became $1796 again, but the departure timing would be different from our ideal time.. No choice just book first..

Later in the week, we found that there's available seats for our ideal timing and no price difference.. So hurry call SIA and change the timing.. Paid $60 in all to change timing, oh well its better than paying $600 difference in the beginning..

Praise Jesus that everything is doing well...