Beijing, Chengde, Tianjin 之旅

Why? Is the response we got when people knows that we are going China for our Honeymoon.
Not surprised at all, as I will be asking the same question too if I were them.

Well, besides the 2 of us are going, my parents are going for their '2nd honeymoon' too. haha. Thus, China is the place that 4 of us had not been before.

On the 2nd day after our customary wedding, we headed straight from Marina Mandarin (ohh..MM provided good service for our wedding) to catch our SQ flight.

Flight journey took abt 5-6 hrs. There is only 6 pax in our tour grp. U tend to get our attention when in a smaller grp.. good..The other 2 are aunties frm spore. 1 of them stayed in califonia for 45yrs already.. The tour guide said she was once featured in a local variety programme on introducing Beijing a few yrs back.

We spent most of our time in Beijing, a night in Chengde and a day tour in tianjin.
This tour had enriched us with more historical and cultural knowledge and there is not much shopping at all.. *sad*

Talking abt shopping, the things there are more expensive in beijing unless you can accept those 'chiong' stuff. Funny thing is thou we are staying in the heart of the Olympics village there are not much shopping centres but only food, hotels and of course stadiums.

Never shall I forget the reckless drivers, the honing on the congested roads, the countless Audis on the road, the trend of hotels having the revolving entrance, the thousand hands guanyin performance by the deaf and dumb pretty ladies, nice mac pies that are not available in spore and the feng shui practice that the chinese nationals deeply believed.

I guess the 4 of us had put on wieght too as they had been feeding us with large food portion which they normally always had.

Its time for diet again and let the photos to speak more....

Thank You

Thanks to all for celebrating and sharing our joyeous occassion with us on 17th May 09.. and yes we are back from our honeymoon(shall blog in another post).

Brothers and sisters u all had been great, making everything went smoothly.

Thanks Jimmy and Sammi from whitelink for giving us a beautiful wedding, thanks Wendy and all staffs of marina mandarin for a cosy and warm wedding.. thanks Kevin, the videographer from yappies production and Andy, the photographer for making me laugh and smile coz quite stress that day..camera shy too..cant smile leh.. and they had to keep reminding me to smile.. hehe..

It had been a wonderful and gan cheong day especially for dinner. Like what the emcee says, we did prepare a thank you speech but Andy freaked out and changed his mind after the 1st march in.. but still kena sabo by the emcee..Nevertheless, we gotta thanks Jason for giving us the 'gut' to go ahead.. haha

As for me, I know i cant speak well. I prefer to pen my feelings down thou my 'en-ger-lish' is broken lah..

We hope everyone had enjoyed the food, highlights and music.

The wedding photos and childhood photos highlights are done by me with the help of my friend. Did a quick 1 when I was on leave a few days before our wedding.

The songs played were choosen and burnt by Andy.

Our thousand apologies if we had left anyone out on that day..

Shall load the actual day photos once ready!!

安床

Items reqd: New bedsheet, 'Fa' kuai, Red dates, Longan, Dried Lily, Peanut, Dried Persimmon

Procedure: To get an elderly who is very fortunate and 'xing fu' to place 4 ang baos with 2 'qian bi' each at all corners of the bed and say some good wishes. Place the tray of things in the middle of the bed and leave it for at least 1 day. U can get a small boy to jump on the bed but we skip that as it may not be necessary.

Alright thats all for the post, gotta go busy with other things already. chaoz!

过大礼

1 down.. Finally 过大礼 is over..

Wedding preparations is so tiring and its not fun.. coming to think of it how we wish that we could juz go for honeymoon and save the whole preparation process.. but actually i am not very into tour also.. not a adaptive person when it comes to sleeping in a foreign country, i still prefer my own bed. hehe

Thanks to my parents and Andy's gu ma to help us through the guo da li process.. we didnt know the customs well and time wasnt at our side.. They went through the hassle to buy most of the things for us.. and my poor parents gotta clean up the house without my help. I really feel bad that i didnt have the time to help and pay attention to the details of the preparations. My focus was diversified.

Ok.. I think i better not make customary wedding preparation so daunting.. coz lots of our friends are planning to getting married soon.. hehe

Alright, the timing given for our GDL is 9am-1pm by our feng shui master. Andy went to collect the cakes in the morning to ensure the freshness so that we can distribute to our relatives in the later part of the day..

I luv the packaging of the cake and my papa luv the mochi so much that he ate 3 out of 4 of them at 1 go.. As for the butter cake is abit dry but still taste not bad lah..

Here's basically what we have for GDL (some of the things are not in the pix):

Dragon & Phoenix Candles
Oranges
Orange Juices
Martel
Pork Leg Can
Tea cups
Towels
Longan, red dates, etc
Ang Bao for chicken, sugar cane, shoes
Ping Jing
Ang Bao for si dian jing

The exchange of gifts only took 15mins.. and off we went to distribute the invitations cards together with the cakes and some photos to our relatives..

The next thing is to prepare for 安床 liao..

Wedding Photos

The past 2 mths had been terribly busy, not with our wedding preparations, but its all abt work.. so much so that i had neglected my preparations.. My parents had to keep reminding me to do this to do that.

On top of it, not to say i didnt have time to blog and update. But, today i am determined to blog(juz a short one) thou its like 11pm now. For those who know me well, i shld be sleeping by this time already..haha

This coming fri, which is labour day will be our Guo Da Li day.. and i have not cleared my room yet.. gosh.. but anyway we had bought most of the stuffs.. shall update again..

Here's some of the wedding photos..
ps: u will not see those gowns that will be wearing on the actual day keeping it a secret..hehe

Photo taking was fun!!

Happy Valentine Day

On Fri(the day before v day) a conversation among my colleagues (3 of us)..

Dap: Cass, where is your v day flowers?
Cass: Tml (14th Feb 09)..(jokingly)
Dap: U sure? who knows since its not sent to the office
Sally: Cass take a photo and show her
Dap: Who knows she juz anyhow take any flowers and says its hers.
Cass: I think i am not that bo liao...

So.. is having flowers very impt on v day? I would say its rather impt while dating.. but when u are married, flowers are juz bonuses or rather optional.. u will be happy and suprised the moment when u received the flowers but after second thoughts u will be thinking 'hey y r u spending these unnecessary $$'.. I think the vendors are much happier on v day to 'chop' ppl like carrots.. hee..

However..to my surprise.. in the morning of v day. i found a bouquet of flowers on the bed.. so Andy is one of the carrot tooo....

(Dap, this is taken on my bed ok.. no gimmicks.. ha)

Actually, this v day we didnt have plans. At least to us its juz another day.. thus i didnt get andy anything too.. hehe.. but i made up by paying his tailor made shirts for the wedding in the later part of the day at Penisula Shopping centre since he gave me a bouquet of flowers too and we landed ourselves at Kushibo @ Jurong Point for dinner.. We told u..Its juz another day..

Oh.. btw.. Congrats to Debroah and Andy on your union on Vday..Our apologies for not attendg..(u know y right)..Cheers!!

牛转乾坤

牛年到了。。 新年快乐。。

Surprisingly, this yr we still got ang bao to take.. hehe.. coz based on tradition we are still entitled.. Thanks ppl for being so 'traditional'.. We luv u.. ;P

Hope everyone is having a good time during the cny.. Lots of goodies and feasts.. Yummy yummy..
Seems like our diet had been 'sidetrack' again..We have been controlling our diet as we are taking our wedding photo end of this mth but the festive goodies keep tempting us leh.. Its high time to 借口 liao.. or else cant fit into the gown..

Oh talking abt wedding photo we have choosen our gown last sunday.. Wonder what we have choosen?? Do keep a look out for the posting..

Till then... chao!!!

2009

HaPPy NeW YeAR

2008 is not really a good year globally especially in the 2nd half of the year.. Hope that 2009 will be a better year of peace and recession will recover soon..

Today, we tried out our Tefal Deep Fryer and have Deep Fry Platter for dinner..

Tefal Deep Fryer

One word to describe the food.. CRISPY..