Trippin'

Gosh, the China trip will be my first and last package tour of my life! It was horrible. It was not all bad, we did have fun along the way, but something was sorely missing.

It is great to have everything packaged for you. The hotels, meals, the transport. But arranging all that is part of travel for me. Perhaps I am a control freak, I like to know where I am going to stay, what I will be eating, and where I am going. I was like a sheep, being herded wherever I went. I hated it. We went from factories to factories, eating the same old thing again and again. Everything was packaged, but package tours forget the most essential part of travel. The essence of the place. I hardly get to even lightly brush the surface of the places I went. Such a pity. especially when it is China, with such a rich history, all I get out of the trip was buying expensive paintings, expensive feng shui accessories and all. What history??? Just nuggets of information here and there. I think Song Ching Ling is rolling in her grave since Shanghai has turned her memorial place into a opportunity to sell expensive feng shui accessories under her charity foundation.

The highlight of the trip was a meal at this local store selling the most amazing spicy sze chuan style fish ever! For ten dollars, you get a huge serving of the fish, an equally generous portion of fried dried chilli chicken and 2 big bottles of beers Beat that! That was one of the most memorable meals ever. The lady was friendly, the little store has a that little local charm to it. I was having some kind of Bourdain moment!

FINALLY!

YAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have been waiting for the day for months! It is finally over, I am so so glad. Everything went on well, no hiccups, everybody seems happy and the weather was fantastic. It was raining a little and it was cool, so that kept me going too. My photographer was a dream! He is so easy to work with!

The tea ceremony was fun, Aunt Grace went a little crazy, but it was good crazy fun! Didn't know she can be that side splittingly funny. I needed that kinda humour that day.

By the time we checked into the hotel, I was beat. I hated to think that I still have the wedding dinner to go. Somehow I found the energy to pull myself through it. The sense of relief I felt after the dinner was immense. I suddenly feel much lighter and a lot happier. Heck, I could even walk back to the hotel! Heck! We even have supper with my family at Chatterbox! My mum used to hang out in Chatterbox when she was younger, I used to supper there some many years back too, so it was great to go back after such a long time.
The moment we got back to the room, I was totally gone, I slept at 130hours. Quite an early bedtime for me, since I normally go to bed past 2am.

Now that the wedding is all done and over with, people are going to bug me with questions about kids. I can see that one coming........

The Wedding

I am glad that we had a separate dinner do for friends. Boy, did we have fun! The V Tearoom reception was fun too. I had a great time catching up with friends, it is great to see most of them at the wedding. How many times can you see all your friends at the same time anyway???

The solemnisation took place so quickly, I had no time to feel nervous about it. Happened so suddenly, one moment I was talking to a friend, the next moment, I was sitting at the table, with Mr Cheong, our JP reading out the vows, with both fathers sitting next to him. It felt really unreal, almost surreal... I think the next time I feel this way, is when Liverpool wins the league.... I always pictured myself being really solemn, all serious, no smiles. But, no, I had to steal glances at my friends and family, and sneaked and stifle a smile or two. It all went on pretty quickly, and after 5 minutes, we were married! Just like that!

The cakes were great! The Bailey's mudcake, the Cotton Walnut ( a personal fave, and they dun have it on the menu no more so i gotta order it! ) and the Mango Yogurt. I did not try the quiche though. In fact, I did not have much at all. Amy remembered I like English Toffee and bought me a cuppa, so sweet! They even have longans too! The V Tearoom thought about everything, I am so very touched! Have I mentioned the wedding cake! It was gorgeous! I did not expect them to dress it up so much for me! WHISKEY BARREL MUD WEDDING CAKE! How cool is that! Hahahahaha!

Seeing so many of my friends there, did put warmth in my heart. From that little affair, I do see clearly, who are so true to me. I do learn a little about some of them from that. sigh... I am blessed, I really do feel blessed, surrounded with so many loved ones.Yes guys, I love you so very much! It is a touching scene really. Everyone seems to be sincerely happy for us, and everyone enjoyed themselves, and that is what is important.
My dad made a few friends during dinner. Goodness, I should have know better than to put him next to the drinking people! He got a drink too many, and soon, he was the life of the party. Hahahaha! And I though it was OUR night. No complaints though, he made it so happening!

I never had so much fun in my life, I was a little overwhelmed by the whole thing, I started to tear when my family left. They are so much of my life, and they had been so kind to me and so so supportive, I can't ask for anything more. I love them to bits!

My brother and his friends did up the place for us, so I have to thank them for making that effort, and taking so much burden off me shoulders. It was beautiful!

It was no fancy affair, I was wearing a simple dress, but we had helluva fun didn't we??? I will not change anything about it at all. It was perfect. Even Liverpool is winning and scoring! What else can I ask for?

Greetings

Elaine came up with this for my wedding? I am a french butter chocolate cookie and scott is a almond biscotti!

Changes

I do not cope very well to changes. Perhaps that has something to do with my obsession with perfection. You see, I am a perfectionist. I hate being one and it is one of my biggest personal flaw. Such irony, perfection being a flaw...

Last week has hell. Nothing seems to go right. There was a sudden want (not from me) to change the venue of the wedding dinner. Gosh, not now! Not when the dinner is just a month away! That piece of news was a tad bit too much to digest. I had wanted to cry, but I can't, my stomach started to churn and I started feeling a little dizzy and I wanted to hurl but nothing came out. It was one of the worse sensations ever. I was cracking up and no amount of alcohol will do to ease the pain, not that I tried drinking away the pain in the first place.
I was mainly pissed with the way that it was being handled. There was no discussion, no form of respect was shown to me or my family or as a matter of fact, to my husband to be. Just a phone called to yell about the displeasure one may have and followed by another after a few hours to say that another place was booked. Where was I in this whole picture????? NO WHERE. And I thought I was the one getting married. I guess I will be not so angry if there was a proper talk for everyone to voice their concerns. Not by yelling, coming up with the most stupid excuses and shifting the blame on us. I hate it when people bully their way into getting what they want or by playing the emotional hurting/manipulative card.

I kept thinking about all the hand made cards that took much time, thought and love. All the people that I have informed about the dinner, the invites that I have given out personally, friends who have taken the trouble and took leave on me wedding day. The stationery that I chose to suit the venue. The amount of thought that I put in trying to come up with a perfect centrepiece. The anticipation, my evening gown that I particularly chose to wear at the venue. The disappointment on the faces of my siblings. It was so so hard when my family showed so much understanding. It broke my heart..I felt so bad about the whole situation.

Throwing away the remaining invites that I have yet to give out was awful. I do not thing I have anymore strength to start all over again planning for another dinner.

And that is what I am going to do. With just a month left, I have to come up with another party, just great don't you think?

Bits and Pieces

The place is soon feeling more like home with the pieces coming together slowly,
I now have cable tv! after 2 long weeks of watching just channel 5 and central, I am finally able to watch EPL again! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!



I have my internet up too, great! Of the 2 I miss my TV more than the internet. I am a big TV person, I miss surfing through the channels, which by the way annoys someone quite a bit(tee hee)

Oh and my books have a place to live now after buying some shelves. Suddenly the study don't look so empty anymore. But sadly, the magazines still have no where to go. So, they still have to lie of the floor for a little while more. One last (of a few lasts) major piece to get is a study desk. As you can see from the picture how pathetic mine is now...

I have a chest of drawers in our bedroom now to hold my whole collection of beauty products. from lippies to leggings (no I do not have those but it is the only word that goes with lippies) body lotions, cotton buds, cotton wools and earrings.. great storage space, instead of getting a wimpy vanity table (i am too vain for a vanity table anyway)

Get on with it!

With all the stuff moved, with the cleaning all done, and some boxes still left unpacked, I am feeling pretty good now. It has been about 2 weeks since I have moved in my new place, and boy, the madness of it all!!!!

I have slowly settling into my place. It is funny, not being at "home". "Home" being Seng Kang. I miss the familiar setting, my family and the smells and the noises. My mum making coffee in the morning, afternoon and in the evening... Everything is so different now. Geez, I even miss my cable channels and the internet! I majorly miss not having to do everything all by myself! The floors, the windows, the cleaning, geez, it is endless! I want my life back!

What a Loot!

Now that the renovation has come to an end, it was time to do some serious packing! That to my mum means clearing things she does not need. Off she went to the kitchen and out she came with plenty of stuff to give to me! There is a dining set that was given to her by my granny and now she passed them to me (sounds like some heirloom sia!). They are brown and oozes so much retro appeal. Totally cool! There are some glass bowls, glasses, baking dishes, a cake mixer, a blender and even a set of dinner knives that she bought from sell-a-vision years and years ago! I have packed most of the things that she is giving me, with the help of mum of course and my lovely brother... awwww, nice to have family eh???

Mums all have plenty of things in their kitchen that they do not use. I think when you become a mum, you just automatically becomes some kind of hoarder. I guess it is some sort of instinct. You just go on keeping, thinking that your family will need in in some time of their lives... I guess they are right. Look at my mum, those things do come in use after all! She just gives them to me! Don't you just love your mum????

Getting Started - again

After a long long pause of not doing much for the wedding, I finally forced myself to print out the invites. No big deal, but you see, it is a huge step for me! Having done that makes me go on and get it all done. I really do hope I can get all those babies done by the time I have to start shifting!

I have done up my address book too! I finally found the best way to paste the cross stitch onto the cover of the book. Spotlight is the best, I can find everything there! I love the way it turns out. I thought it looks fantastic, then again maybe I am just so proud with it!

Flowers

I can hardly believe my eyes when I saw sunflowers along the road outside the National History museum! What's the name of the road again?

Progress

I have not made much progress or preparation on the wedding. It seems to take a back seat now as the completion of the flat draws nearer. I can't seem to take the invites out of my mind though. Although I have pretty decided on the design, there are times when I am so tempted to change it a little. I am fickle in that way, perhaps I should just do them up and I will not have to think about them again!

I am guessing that it will take another week for the flat to be completed. They have wash the bathrooms (well, kinda) and the floors are polished. We have the fans fixed and now, we just need the cabinets and the cupboard fixed. We did add in some custom made shelves for the store room too. I have to remember to buy some toilet fixtures ASAP for the guys to fix them. We forgot the toilet paper holders and towel hangers! I definately need to get those tomorrow! I hate to have to drag that.

Let there be Light

I have not made much progress or preparation on the wedding. It seems to take a back seat now as the completion of the flat draws nearer. I can't seem to take the invites out of my mind though. Although I have pretty decided on the design, there are times when I am so tempted to change it a little. I am fickle in that way, perhaps I should just do them up and I will not have to think about them again!

I am guessing that it will take another week for the flat to be completed. They have wash the bathrooms (well, kinda) and the floors are polished. We have the fans fixed and now, we just need the cabinets and the cupboard fixed. We did add in some custom made shelves for the store room too. I have to remember to buy some toilet fixtures ASAP for the guys to fix them. We forgot the toilet paper holders and towel hangers! I definately need to get those tomorrow! I hate to have to drag that.

Accessing my Assets

I think I grossly under-estimated the amount of stuff that I have. Gosh. With the amount of stuff that I have, I can easily open shop sia... But I feel instantly consoled when I think of my tow other hoarder friends. If I can open shop, they can both each open a departmental store lor!

It is a great thing that I started packing my stuff because the packing never seems to end. After so many days of packing, I am only done with the books and work stuff.oh and the CDs and DVDs. and my mags as well...my scrapbooking stuff as well as my handicraft papers and items are all in boxes. I still have my cross stitch and knitting stuff sitting pretty in my room.. sigh! and the photographs! and my ornamental stuff.. and my laminating machine... and my clothes.. and my bags.. and my shoes..... and and .... you get the picture

Rides

Taken during one of our driveabouts.

Floor Filler

They have started on the parquet flooring!!!!!!!!!

We have decided on having more things done. Like cornices for all the rooms to hide the hidious trunking.
water pipes are done as well. I guess the other major stuff would be the carpentry work.
We bought our hood, hob, oven, fridge and washing machine today! Talk about retail therapy...

Oh and that is not just our first retail therapy session. We spent 20 minutes in Hoe Kee has week and spent 1.3 grand on toilet fixtures! hahahahaha! felt good indeed!

I want to me Maggie

I went down to Ted's Collection today to discuss the designs for my 3 dresses. Yes, that is correct, THREE dresses! Hahahaha! This is my only time that I can be hiao and nobody has any right to say anything right??? hahahaha!


So my wedding gown will be off white, with a lot of lace on the top and organza for the bottom half. My evening gown will be GREEN! So drama right??? wait til you hear about my tea dress. It has red with huge yellow floral prints. When I first saw it, I do not think that it will work. But after Rick wrapped the fabric around me, that was it. I was sold! I wonder how Rick can just pin the fabric to the mannequin and make it look so good... It has a retro feel to it. Kinda reminds me of Maggie Cheung in In the Mood For Love. Very WONG KAR WAI!!!!!!!!!! I love that show. I can see it over and over and over just admiring at the beautiful two actors, amazed at how beautifully shot the movie was. so moody, so in the mood... sigh..


I have been wanting to own a cheong sam like one of those that maggie wore in the movie. SO gorgeous! I guess this will be the closest ever I will ever get. I wonder who her tailor was.. I read somewhere that it was a cheongsam shifu from Shanghai! Maybe I should hunt that shifu down and get him to make me one!
I think I should try to lose weight fast if I want to look as good as Maggie

More Progress

Seeing more work done every time I visit my place never fails to get me all excited and I really could not wait for the day when it is finally completed. It is tough containing all that excitement all inside you know....
Although it has been pretty tiring with all the decisions and minute details that we have to attend to, I have a sneaky feeling that we will look back and have a great time reminiscing.

So on with the progress...

The sink has been mounted onto the sink support ( is that what you call it? ) and the marble's half done! yay! I thought I would be really excited when I see the marble, well, I am not exactly thrilled, yah I am glad but not thrilled and shaking my booty to my happy dance. Oh well, it does not look all that great when it is not polished looking all dull and dusty... so, let's see what a little wax and polishing will do to the marble eh?

I was Floored

My kitchen and toilet floor tiles are done! what a pleasant surprise! Oh and they do look good! :) They have "cemented" the tiles to our sink too!

The bath seat in the master bedroom bathroom is also done... much to the joy of someone...

The Tiles are Up

Yep! At least the wall tiles are...

The tiles on the walls in the kitchen looks fabulous in a delicious green for the back splash and a calmer off white are the other wall. I love it!

The groovy wall tiles for both the toilets are up too!

Plenty have been done since I visited my home a week ago. Other than the tiles, the beam for the folding door is also up as well as the walls of the store room.Things start to take shape and it is getting me really excited. I am quite surrpised that one of the few things that got done are the windows. As soon as the hacking was done, the windows went right up! That was pretty unexpected.

We went shopping a few days ago. We bought an oven, a hood, a hob, a washing machine and a fridge in a matter of 30 minutes! We were done before some can even finish spelling refridgerator.....

I'm Spinning Around

Guess what I got for my birthday??? A Samsonite luggage from me siblings!

Finally!

Today is the day of our second appointment with HDB. Was really quick and painless. just sign a few times on some papers and we are done! We are now the OWNERS of the flat! Yay!!!!! No more feeling like partial owners...

We have chosen all the tiles for the home and also bought a kitchen sink, bathroom sinks and also the toilet bowls. Quite a bit done in a day, how tiring after all of that! I do hope that the tiles we chose will look nice once laid.I do not want to step into my flat and start regretting our choices. Hahahahaha!
The actual day of renovation will start this coming Wednesday, will 3 days of non stop hacking and noise. I am so glad I am not my neighbour! Can't wait!

Hoarder's Therapy

I have succumbed to the cleanliness freak in me and cleared a whole lot of stuff in my room. I threw away plenty of stuffed toys and gave up a few for adoption to Nick. Strangely, it didn't hurt and all! Ha, I thought I wouldn't be able to do it, but I did it, and with great gusto I must add! I even found some stuffing for my ring pillow in one of the toys...

I have been trying to recycle paper since I was in secondary school. I hate throwing away exercise books that still had some pages unused. What I would do is, I would tear those pages out of the exercise books and keep them for rough use later. Boy, I have plenty of those papers in my room. So, when I cleared up some work stuff last night, I did the brave thing of not doing that! I just threw away paper that I know I can recycle. No mean feat for a hoarder I tell you that...

Into the garbage bag went the bridal mags I bought and some home design ones as well. I have no need of them now! I tore out the pages I found useful and chuck the rest. Oh and also some toiletries. Especially those samples that beauty counters love giving out.. That was pretty painless too. I cleared out some of my books some time ago, I have yet to make the trip down to Salvation Army to give it to them. They are still in good condition, most of my books are, unless they are really old or if that book has been lent to someone else. I do take care of my books a lot, if only I have the time (more like if I am not too lazy) I would have my books wrapped up!

Tonight will be another round of clearing. This time, It would be my cosmetics (gasp!) my clothes (sigh!) shoes (argh!) and my bags (yikes!) not expecting a whole lot of stuff to be thrown away since I do clear those things pretty often. And Regina has developed a habit of conveniently borrowing my make up and not returning some of the items now and then. Not that I'm upset about it. She does not touch the expensive ones just those that I told her that she can use if she wants to. I am thinking of buying her a nice set of brushes since my blusher brush is always missing. Maybe a Body Shop set, nothing too expensive still affordable. :)
I do feel very good after the massive cleanout! Perhaps even better after tonight's cleaning. Cleaning does have a strange therapeutic effect on me...

I am guessing that I would need say about 6 or 7 boxes for all my stuff. Ha! That is a quite a modest number don't you think?

The Dining Table

I have been spending quite a lot of time just talking to my mum lately. That is one of the things that I will miss home when I moved out. I would miss sitting round the dining table with a few of the people dearest to me, talking about nothing and everything all at once. Sigh, just thinking about it makes me miss that already!
The thought of not being at home to have reunion dinner next year makes me kinda sad in a way.. Not that I am not looking forward to having my first reunion dinner with the Boos, just well, it is not the same... I will miss the constant chaos in the kitchen, the chattering, the noise my silly siblings make, aunty Amy coming into the kitchen not helping at all and making loads of comments that were not helpful at all.

HAHAHAHAHA! Going to the market in hougang with my mum to buy flowers, crabs and all.Having the stamboat dinner we always have every year with roast chicken from Far East Chicken Rice from Ubi. Then after, some gambling on the same old dining table, always us winning and my dad always losing, just to keep us happy.

I didn't know that this year was going to be my last year, so I didn't take any pictures at all! ARGHHHHH!!!!! If I knew.... I would have taken dozens!

Making Home

Now, getting a place of our own is the easy peasy part. Making it a home, now, that is a tricky one! It starts with getting quotations with contractors, meeting with interior designers (they are a huge waste of me precious time!), space planning yadda yadda.. you get my drift. Looking for that person whom we are going to trust with our 5 room resale flat is tough! I guess, after actually having some sort of an idea what we kind of look we want for our home, it was easier talking to the contractors.

We agreed on getting a contractor instead of an interior designer since we both think that most interior designers are a bunch of horseshit, who just wants to turn our home looking like some boring chelate that we are see from local interior magazines. The "condo" look, whatever that means... We have gone through enough local interior design home decor mags to know that we can't trust going to an interior design firm. I actually fell in love with this kitchen I saw in Oprah Home magazine. Beat that! The kitchen is designed by Nate Berkus, gosh, I LOVE THAT GUY! So we will adapt the colours and all to fit into our kitchen.
Best source of ideas actually came from the library. I borrowed quite a few from the library, poured through numerous... Plenty talk about themes, Zen, Scandinavian, Modern, Resort, Beach, East Coast, West Coast, Urban, Country.....

What is with the themes?? I hate having a theme! A lot of people asked me what the theme of my place is going to be. Well, I always have no answer for that. I guess we want the place to be "US". Things that will say that is so them! or her or him! we want the place to speak back to us. I want to be reading one day and be distracted by a piece of furniture or wall colour and smile because it reminds me of my husband or myself or the both of us. I guess I am a romantic in that way. That is why I have no problems buying second hand bags and vintage items, I like the thought of the item having a little history of its own. I would wonder about where it may have been, who may have owned it..

Digressing......

Oh yes, we want the place to be adaptable as well. Like a great place to lounge, have a party, have an intimate night in, or a casual family gathering. so things have to be able to be moved around easily, so more weird partitions, wall features(so tacky!) and no no water features! We may be asthetists but we practical people too!
All these do get to us sometimes, and we end up not really enjoying our everyday life as much as we used to, mainly from thinking about the design and who to do the flat. I do catch myself smiling, thinking about how fantastic it would be after the place has been done up. The kitchen disasters, the first night in, the constant cleaning, the progress of seeing the flat being done up a little each day, the packing and unpacking of our stuff... and the furniture buying!

I am so looking forward to the day it is finally done. For now, I will be going back to looking through the quotations again.....

Mark Ryden

I love this guy's paintings! They are like a cross between pop art and surrealism. What do I know anyway? I just dig them!

http://www.markryden.com/paintings/index.html

My Name

I have tonnes of people commenting on my name. It is on my identity card, I didn't make it up at all. I have a sneaky feeling that my mum did though.. she gave me the name.

I used to grow up wishing that I have a more common name like Mary or Karen or Amy. I hate having my name mispronounced all the time, and I have to constantly correct people. Mis-spelling it wasn't half as bad as mispronouncing it. Is it so hard to pronounce? Fen nilina - it is phonetic! You will be horrified how wrong some people can mispronounce it!

I remembered how everyone in class will wait for the teacher to call out my name for the 1st time. Everyone seemed to be waiting in anticipation for the moment when my name comes out of the teachers' mouths. Most times they would get it wrong and everyone would laugh, and when a teacher gets it right (usually it will be the English teacher) everyone would start cheering and clapping as if they were being told there were no lessons for the day. Sigh... I kinda miss those moments myself now. It was a huge embarrassment then.

There had been times when I get "pick up" lines from men because of my name. I was told once that Fen nilina was a little white flower that grows up in the mountains in Tunisia. Another guy said that my name "unfolds like a beautiful origami" after I told him Fenn was short for Fen nilina (my personal favourite!)

A number of people commented that my name sounded Irish. An Irishman once told me that he was going to name his baby girl Fen nilina. Could be just talk (you know the Irish sure are smooth talkers), I never know, but suddenly, my name wasn't so special anymore. I was robbed of my name! i felt that way for a teeny weeny while and then smiled. It is nice to know that there is another Fen nilna somewhere!

I have long come to really love my name though. And for the record, it is pronounce as "FAN-NI-LI-NA"

The first Appointment

The highly anticipated first appointment with HDB has come and gone. Pretty painless actually. I have been worried about it for quite some time. I was worried that the loan will not be approved or grant will not be given and stuff. Though that is still not known to us yet, I am feeling pretty sanguine now. Phew, in like 2 weeks we will know if the loan and grant will be approved... keeping my fingers crossed now.

I have a sneaky feeling that I am being too paranoid again.....
looking for a contractor to renovate the place is causing me endless sleep! I am trying to meet as many as I can, of course they have to be recommended by reliable sources and see what comes out of it... The quotations that i received so far have been on the slightly higher side, so I really hope that there are things that we can cut down on....

Peonies

I love peonies so decided to have them for me wedding bouquet. those gigantic ones are so sweet! If I can't find those then the smaller ones will do. Thing is, they seem to cost quite a bit! I never dig roses, they just have no appeal to me unless the bouquet has like 200 roses, they don't look so nice to me at all.

i dream about having fresh flowers in my home everyday next time. (Which girl never did???) Tough, unless I am so well off that I can afford to have champagne for breakfast. Then i will have to stick to crysanthnum and orchids (not the exotic ones that cost a bomb!)

Peonies

I love peonies so decided to have them for me wedding bouquet. those gigantic ones are so sweet! If I can't find those then the smaller ones will do. Thing is, they seem to cost quite a bit! I never dig roses, they just have no appeal to me unless the bouquet has like 200 roses, they don't look so nice to me at all.

i dream about having fresh flowers in my home everyday next time. (Which girl never did???) Tough, unless I am so well off that I can afford to have champagne for breakfast. Then i will have to stick to crysanthnum and orchids (not the exotic ones that cost a bomb!)

Floor Plan

Tis a Sign

You know how the saying goes - it is written in the stars?

Well, I kinda signed up as a member on theknot.com some many moons back. well, it is a wedding webbie and i wanted to view some of the stuff, and i had to be a member to view them, so i signed up. one of the fields require me to put in my wedding date. and guess what date i entered??? you will not believe it, 17 december 2006! Beat that! what a coincidence! Maybe it is meant to be that date afterall! I was curious what date i set since i have been going thru bridal sites so often now, what a pleasant surprise!

WOAH

We have managed to get some stuff done, despite the both of us being quite anal with some stuff. I have engaged my photographer, signed up with ted collection for my gowns, oh, and also my make up artiste! Pretty productive eh??? I am very impressed with myself too!

All I need now is a florist (easy peasy!) a wine supplier, car rental, a song list(this is a HUGE HEADACHE), tailor for my dear hubby to be, and er that is more or less done.

I am seriously thinking that i am overly ambitious with my plans of making my own invitation cards and ring pillow! HAHAHAHA! On top of that, I am flirting with the idea of doing my own flower arrangement for dinner as well!

Flat Buying

We have finally settled on an apartment both of us liked and so made an offer. Guess what? We got it! Yep! We are going to have a place of our own soon!

Then panic sets in! Al the paperwork! The renovation! oh and the wedding! THE WEDDING! We didn't plan at all to get married this year at all. Oh my, and to think that we are going to have to have a wedding, and have our place ready all by the end of the year! I am pretty anal about some stuff so I think that I will be tired til the end of 2006! I want to make my own cards, even my own ang pow box! oh, and wedding favours and place cards and table numbers!

I will pop over to Kinokuniya to look at their wedding planners (not not the person wedding planner, the book wedding planner!) Think I will seriously need one. Ha! I dunno how relevant those ang mo wedding planners will be though...

And in the midst of all this madness, more insanity will follow - like house renovation!

I am secretly excited and over the moon though! I seriously can't wait to start on all that. Actually we have started looking for a dinner place and a place to hold the solemnisation.
stay tune for more updates...