Brand New Year

The Lunar New Year comes and goes, just like that. This year does not really has any new year mood. This can only signify that I have aged. Well, basically did not really go house visiting except to my sister and brother's house. Collected the Ang Bao that I am due... keke... This been my last CNY in single hood, come next year, it will be mine turn to give Ang Baos.

The highlight of mine CNY must be when my sister visit with her 5-month old son, my nephew! He is darn cute, very active and cannot stop moving. Kids are really so adorable!

My nephew, me and my sister.



Trying to pose with my little nephew who cannot stop moving.




Bascially, nothing else to blog about for my CNY. So let me go back to before CNY......

Date : 24 Jan 2009

Place : Bosses Restaurant at Vivocity

Went to this restaurant for lunch with some of my poly mates and my dear. One of these mates is my good buddy, Sandra, back from Sydney for holiday. In poly, we will always be seen together in school. We will be doing projects together, play basketball till the lights goes off, skip classes together... so much so that many in school think we were a couple. Haha... those were the fun days.

She will be staying here for some 3 months plus so that she can attend my wedding! I will be inviting her whole family as I know her parents too since poly. Know her bro for more than 10 years too. Furthermore, me and her bro attended a same course together last year. Another two in the group were also from Sydney, back here for holidays

Before I digress too much, back to my lunch....

This is my first time at this 黑社会 restaurant. They served Chinese food, stuff like dim sum and so on. The food were rather good, but abit expensive to me. The lunch cost us some $210 for seven of us. But the service is pretty good and their toilet is darn cool. Must go check up their toilets if you happened to dine there.

After the late lunch, we went for some ice-cream at Ben & Jerry. Disappointing. The waffles we had tasted sour. Although the stuff changed the waffles into brownies, we had lost our craving for ice-cream... or maybe we were already full... hee

The girl sitting behind me with her face partly covered is Sandra, my best buddy. The girl sitting infront of me is mine sweetest and cutest and chubbiest dear.. :p

After the awful ice-cream, we went on our own way. I guess most of us got other committments, as the next day is already CNY's Eve...

Lastly, before I end my post, wanna show a wallpaper dear created for me. Nice nice... thanks dear...

Yah, will be on leave today 30 Jan. :-)

More wedding updates

It is really not easy preparing for a wedding. Tons and tons of stuffs to do. Something that just the two of us will not be able to accomplish. That's when family and friends will have to help.

Recently, we just ordered our bed and the delivery date is 08 Jan 09. As our own flat is still under construction, we will stay with my parents first, taking over the room my brother once occupied. This room definitely need a new coat of paint. I was thinking that I would paint the room together with dad last Sunday as I was out on Saturday. However, after I reached home late on Saturday's night, there was a strong smell of paint. Yap, my dad had already finished painting our room! He is a super worker, wonder how he did it at his age. He even painted our room PINK! No, I did not told him I wanted my room pink. Anyway, brought my dad to G2000 couple of weeks ago to get his suit. Got him a blazer, pants and a white shirt at discounted price. Only cost a total of $160+. Next, will get him a pink tie!

Furthermore, my friend had agreed to be my bridal car driver for the day. He will be driving a BMW 7-series for that day! Yahooo!! Hope that the car will be available that day, if not got to look around for a decent car. Next, Waterbear will beg, borrow or steal a camera so that he can be my backup photographer! Thanks bro.

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More things to do in the next couple of weeks

1) Registered our marriage online.
2) Look for our ribbon. Prepare all the wedding cards, inserts etc.
3) Decide on our dinner menu. Also time to decide when to go for food tasting.
4) Come out with a rough schedule for the wedding day.
5) Cleared my room. Will clear all unwanted books. Will try to clear a cupboard for my dear's books. :)
6) Choose a wedding photo for Raymond.
7) Look around for any wine dealer, nice cheap ties.
8) Almost time to confirm our guest list. This is the more headache one, so we should start early.
9) Also time to research items needed for 过大力。Also check with future MIL what she needs.
10) Start to go bank and change new notes for angpaos.
11) Dear to start no-food-intake after 8pm; and start to move your butt. Time to lose some pounds! kekeke :p

Fly me to the moon...

2008 comes and goes in a flash. Totally no festive mood this year. Was just glad to have the 1.5 days of holidays to spend with my dear! Nothing beats spending quality time with each another. :)

And so, it is time to start our count down to our big day. It is less than 3 months now. All our preparation for the past one year just to make sure everything goes smoothly on 21 Mar 2009. Much of our preparation can be considered done. Nevertheless, the more headache ones are yet to come. That is the guests list and who to place behind the pillars.. ha. Darn, leave that later on.

On a happier note, I had been thinking where should we go for our honeymoon! Some of the places that we had consider are:

1) Australia / Taipei

Last went Sydney in 2001 and it seems a good idea to go back there again. My best pal is staying there and she had been bugging me every year since 2001 to go holiday in Sydney. Was thinking we can set up our base at my pal's place and from there we could drive out of town to be on our own. Sounds like a not bad idea. Probably can do a 15-20 days if $ permits. Then was thinking maybe we could re-visit our favourite Taipei by taking a flight from Sydney. But dropped the idea because SIA flight to Taipei need for transits in Singapore lor..... what the.....

2) New Zealand

Actually New Zealand is a place I will like to go. Like rent a car and drive all over the country. However, need to do research and scare got stress by the driving. Dun want to spoilt our honeymoon because my tempers can flare easily.

3) Japan / Korea

The other options are Japan and Korea. These are the two places that we will love to go. If we choose these distinctions, we have to decide between Free-n-Easy or tour packages. We both hate tour packages so Free-n-Easy seems to be our options. Maybe, just go Tokyo and get lost at their shopping district? Hmmm.... sounds not too bad cos we love shopping.

4) Europe

This one got to prepare lots of $. Switzerland is a place I wanted to visit after watching European Cup. The other place that I long to visit is the Colosseum in the city of Rome. Has grown to love this magnificent amphitheatre when I study about it during my degree course at SIM. Simple love the history behind it. Place where the gladiatorial games used to take place. Well, the other place that I will pay my last cent to visit is of course Ashburton Grove in North London. Why? Oh, cos it is where Emirates Stadium stands, home ground of the mighty Arsenal. Will be happy to catch a match there.

Well, well, well... many places can go, lots depends on our $. But no matter where we ends up, we will still enjoy our honeymoon....

... its the company that counts.