Halfway there

It has been a long long time since we last added to the blog...

The latest update has been that 1 > 2 is going to be upgraded to 2 > 3 hahaha
We are expecting our little "Bull" in another 4 more months.
To be more precise, we are expecting our dear Bulletin on our wedding anniversary!!

Firstly, let me introduce Bulletin...
A baby pig is call piglet... So a baby bull is call... Bullet. Make sense?
Now... a boy would be call Bullet, Hubby says a gal will be call Bulletin! Viola!

Now... The interesting thing about the coming of Bulletin...
When all the boys grow up, they have to go through something call National Service.
After they survived the service, they still have to serve the nation through another service called "Re-service". My hubby's one of them. After 3 weeks of in-camp, like his fellow platoon mates, they all suddenly becoming fathers in the coming Jun-July period. lol... Tips for all those who wants to be fathers quick... Hide in the forest for a short period of time to enjoy the "ri yue jing hua (aka sun-moon essence)".

Lastly... Madam Yeo finally joined the Facebook gang! Lol Lay says I'm a late bloomer... maybe... hmm so complicated. Well... at least I started one. hee

Ciao ciao till the next update!

Our Wedding Photos

It's been a while since we last posted anything here. We've both been very busy these days with work and household chores. (AKA Too lazy to post)

Our lives have changed so much since we got married. Every day after work, we still have to wash clothes, sometimes cook dinner, and also general cleanup of the house.

I never knew I generated so much dirty clothes. We seem to be washing clothes an awful lot. I am trying to keep it to a minimum these days.

Its not easy leaving together, but I guess we're getting used to each other. Many interesting things have happened during our short lives together so far...

Happy things such as:

• Cooking dinner is always nice
• Furnishing our house (By going to HomeFix countless times)
• Going to work together
• Coming back home together

Not so nice things:

• Cleaning up after dinner
• Dryer destroying our clothes
• Washer staining other clothes
• Chores, chores, more chores
• Complaints about my tv watching habits

Luckily things seems to be starting to evolve into a routine. Thankfully I still have wifey to prepare breakfast every morning for lazy hubby!

Two questions that I get quite a lot these days

1. When is your housewarming? No plans yet, I haven't really had time to settle down until about 2 weeks ago... (Honeymoon, business trip, ICT)
   
2. Is baby coming soon? Well... Hopefully so.... :)

Oh speaking of babies, I want to congratulate my brother and sister in-law, Gordon and Sheryl on their beautiful baby boy, Evan Wee!

Enough of my ramblings, here are some selected photos from the wedding day itself.

The bride getting ready in the wee hours.

All made up, awaiting for my arrival.


The sisters, waiting for my arrival too.


The shining knight arrives...

...with his Band of Brothers™ (of both sexes).

The usual, as usual...

Lucky for me, this event was a total and utter failure.
(No leg hairs were harmed in the making of this image)


Game time over, time for modeling


A very nice shot of our backs with
our new home in the background.


Time for the paperwork to be signed.


A nice view of the awesome ROM decor
done up by my wonderful cousins and sister.


Some pre-dinner mingling.


Nervous times... (Breathe, breathe...)


Nice looking cake, too bad it's only a mock up.


Looks harder than it really is.


YAAAAMMMM!!!!

More YAAAMMMM!!!

Show's over...

Well, if you are still reading this, good news for you, the entire set of photos can be found here.

That's it for now, I'll try to muster enough effort to do another posting on our honeymoon in Hokkaido. Until then, this is Hubby signing off...

Thanks for a Magical Wedding!

We would like to extend our deepest thanks and gratitude to everyone who has helped out in our wedding in one way or another.

It has been a most memorable experience for the both of us. Without the kind and most generous help rendered to us, this wedding would not have been the success that it was.

We would therefore like to again give thanks to these special people who made it possible.

They are:
Our Wedding Overall Planner and IC
The superb Mdm Tan Hwei Sze! (Hah, sounds really old)

ROM Solemnisation Helpers
Uncle Chua and Aunty Cindy
Uncle Jack and Aunty Kah Bee
Kelvin and Shi Shi
My Sister Seline
Chua Yue Da

Justice of Peace
Mr Chan Kai Yau

Gate Crashing Siblings
Kian Kiat
Jern Yang
Chee Hoe
Boon
Cecilia
Bee

Gate Defending Sisters
Lay Lay
Meihui
Xin xiu
Jing Fang
Xiang Yan
Huimin
Abby
Weifen

Banquet Reception
The Gate Defending Sisters
Shi Shi
Seline

Emcees
Mr Ong Wee Min
Mrs Ong Wee Min AKA Ling-er (For helping despite being unwell)

Media IC
Jern Yang

Wine IC
Kian Kiat

Banquet Table Arrangers
Chee Hoe
Bee
Boon
Kian Kiat

Make Up and Hairdo
Sandy
Jing Fang
Aunty Irene Lee

Photography and Videography
We want wish to thank the people that helped us capture these two magical days for eternity:
Wayne Ng (Jon Keng Photographers)
Tham Wai Keen (Ichiro Films)
Willy Foo and Mike (Live Studios)
Peony
Uncle Raymond
Kelvin and Yue Da

Orchard Hotel
Elleen Wong for planning the banquet and always accommodating any requests and changes that we had especially during the last few days prior to the wedding.
Andy for helping us execute the dinner proper to military precision.
The chef and kitchen crew for preparing a delicious dinner for all our invited guests.

Transportation
Weddingcars.sg for the amazingly attention seeking MG TD2000 during the wedding morning.
Jern Yang
Chee Hoe
Hwei Sze
Xiang Yan
Meihui
Uncle Raymond

Friends and relatives who came all the way from abroad:
Cousin Amy and her bubbly daughters, Vanessa and Kiara
Henry
Wincy
Sandy
Eliza

Both our families and relatives for helping us prepare for this wedding and giving us advice on the customs and traditions.

Sean Lai (Living @mosphere) for helping us design and renovate a most beautiful home just in time for our wedding.

The Night Crashing Team (headed by Boon) for making us drink three beverages of unknown origins. Thanks too for the alarm clocks, we will strive to find the sole surviving Coke Clock!

Last, but not least, we're sure there are many more people who helped out in one way or another whom we have not mentioned, we wish to also say our thanks to you too. THANKS!

And finally, the photos can be found here...

We'll posts the rest of the photos and videos as soon as they are ready, so do keep a lookout!

Update 01/07/2008: The videos are ready! Enjoy...

Childhood Photo Montage by Yeo Huifang (Yes, the bride herself)

Wedding Video Montage by Wai Keen (Ichiro Films)


Wedding Photo Montage by Wayne Ng (Jon Keng Photographers)


There was another montage that was not shown at the dinner (below). This was a freebie given by Orchard Hotel. We had it made, by decided that we wanted a more personal touch to the montage, thus this was a backup just in case there we couldn't get the childhood montage up in time.

Childhood Photo Montage 2 by Rhema Media

Moving into our new house!

Clock ticking away... 5 more days to the big day!

Hee today wifey is impersonating hubby in blogging! Yoohooo....

According to the Chinese Lunar Calendar, 21 June 2008 is a great day to move house.
As such, Da Bo Gong (AKA Tua Pek Kong AKA Big Uncle God) moved in officially in the morning. We were asked to stay a night over in the new house as a ceremonial gesture of moving house.

For that, we went to buy a mattress. I managed to smuggle my smelly blanket into the new house! Yeah ;> Hee luckily I did! It rained heavily in the night!!! Was so so cold! Stupid hubby stole the blanky from me... :P

Okie okie... 21 June is also my good friend's wedding cum birthday! It's the most non-traditional wedding that we've attended! The food tasted really great (except for my surprise desert!! I preferred hubby's soursop ice-cream over my cinnamon ice-cream :S). The photos are great too!! Projected over so many sets of LCD tv and huge screen.

We wish the lovely bride and her hubby (both are going to be our emcee for the wedding too...) a blissful marriage!!! Ling-er! For you wor!!!

Hee... last but not least... we've finally sent out the actual day schedules to our dear brothers and sisters. Looking forward to some action packed morning [heard from hubby that the brothers-sisters gang willingly took up the task of crashing the gate without "fang shui" (aka let water)] hee (bracket is in programming style) Wahaha hubby complaining about my England powderfullness.. Tata I'll be back! Got the password hahahaah

(To Brenda dear: You are welcome to swim in the pool anytime! Hee but we must be in of course! See ya at housewarming~~ will show you all the nice pictures!)

Edited by hubby

Counting down...

It's JUNE!!! Time to get busy.

We've sent out most of the wedding invitation cards, only left some that we can pass by hand.
In case you are confused about the banquet venue, please refer to the map below.

Our banquet hotel is point F on the map ;)


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Everything's beginning to fall into place now. Our house is finally coming!
geez... now we have the house, the wedding, the honeymoon. I have the company's D&D as well. phew that's a lot of things to expect.

It's time now to go order the pastry for guo da li!!! Ciao!

Woo... I feel famous already...

I just found out courtesy of my sister that we have been featured on Jacqueline's Blog!

Jacqueline is the associate photographer that followed Jon during our shoot in January. Quite a mild lady, didn't really get a chance to speak to her much on that day.

Anyway here's the link to the post.

Feel a bit flattered to be on someone else's website.

Do visit her blog too if you have the time...

Sequence of Activities for 27 June

I guess we have not been keeping everyone informed of the activities of the actual day events, so I guess I'll just put it up for all who wish to see. :-)

The plan currently now is:

27th June 2008

8 - 9 am: Groom goes Bride's House

10 am: Bride reaches Groom's House

10 - 11:00pm: Tea Ceremony at Groom's Family

11:30 - 12:30pm: Tea Ceremony at Bride's Family

1:30 pm: All to proceed for ROM Ceremony at Orchard Hotel

2pm onwards: Buffet Lunch at Orchard Hotel

I hope lunch is not too late for everyone, we are planning this way as we have a few considerations,

• HF needs to step into my house between 9 and 11 am
• Our Justice of Peace is extremely popular is can only make it between 1:30 - 2pm
• Cater for ample time for all to have fun without being too rushed
• To treat everyone a nice lunch for taking the extra effort and time (skip school/leave/overseas) to be present on a weekday.

We are deciding if we should check into the hotel on Friday itself, as we do, then everyone can just pop into the room to hang around or rest before going out to enjoy your Friday evening.

Let me know in the comments for any feedback!