My ROM

As most of you would have know from my Facebook pics, I had a fantastic ROM on the once-in-the-lifetime auspicious date, 08.08.08, Friday, on the Hippo Cruise. 

Just to share some of the pics once again: 

Our very own designed invitation card...

Pretty pretty me! Kudos to the wonderful make-up by Jazz Bridal (Even my bro couldn't recognise me from afar =p)

Making the grand entrance...

Putting on the rings for each other...

A very happy us!

It was an unforgettable and spectacular day. Both Gary and I enjoyed it tremendously and so did all the guests, who mostly had to take leave to grace our occasion. Thank you very very much! I guess from their faces, sacrificing 1 day of their leave was the last thing on their mind!

   

The Cheng Twin Bros & their wives-to-be...

Huifang, Stanley and Chew Ping who took precious time off from their work to attend my ROM. Thank you very much!

Ziling, JW and ZY who came to share our joy too... Thanks a million!! 

Till then... cya at our wedding dinner next year!

Into My New Phase of Life

It's been almost 2 months into my new life.

Have been missing in action - busy adjusting to my new life.

I used to think that my new life would allow me to do the things that I have always wanted to - Watch DVDs, bake my favourite pastries, spend an afternoon shopping or meeting up with frens for afternoon tea. 

But I realised that all these thoughts were just too ambitious for the time I have. 

Life now is certainly not as idyllic as I had expected. 

 

Nevertheless, life now is definitely more fulling and accomplished than before. At least, I am able to spend more quality time with my loved ones.

The fact that the usual bouts of flu that I used to get every 2-3 months are now gone goes to show that I had been working too hard for the past 2 years. Poor me...

Phew! At least I have freed myself from that vicious cycle!

Congrats to myself - I love my life now! 

  

V-Day 2008

V-day Dinner this year was as usual - alfresco dining admist the greenery and breeze. Simple yet exciting & romantic to the max!

Pretty flowers and me!

Venue: Lower Peirce Reservoir
Time: 7.30pm
Menu:
- Lovers' Pizza
- Sparkling Cranberry & Raspberry juice
- Red Grapes
- Dino's Sugar Roll

The Pizza from the freezer


After 20 mins, the lovers' pizza is ready!


Yummy yummy!

It's a Hawaiian pizza with crabsticks in a heart-shape for this special occasion, produced by the very creative me!

Relishing the pizza ...

A bit jialat towards the end... Haha!

Up next was Sparkling juice

and grapes to go along with it!

It was a really enjoyable dinner by the nature and we look forward to the next one again!

V-Day Eve 2008

Anticipating an over-time schedule on V-day, Gary drove over on the night of V-day eve to leave the car at my place so as to faciliate our V-day programme even he had to work late.
I got him his all-time favourite Adidas Dri-fit Tee for V-day this year. Thinking that it would be a good idea for him to wear it to work on V-day, I presented it to him when he arrived.

Receiving lots of "rolled-up" love

Unrolled & feeling loved!

In return, I got a huge rose (middle in the pic), and together with the 4 flowers previously from him, marked our 5th V-day celebration the next day.

Beatrice and I reunites

Met up with Beatrice for lunch at Ichiban Boshi today. It was great to see this pri-sch- good-buddy again and updating each other on our current life. The last time i bumped into her was Dec 2006 at United Sq Swensen's. She is currently working at P & G now and I was most stunned upon learning that she had managed to land in this job only after 11 rounds of interview, comprising of written tests, oral interviews and assessed OJTs. Wow! What a feat man! Well after all, she's our Pri Sch Top student and a Super-high flyer since then. Yeah so proud to have such an outstanding friend yah =) Looking forward to our convent girls gathering on 17 Feb. Till then...

My 25th Birthday

Gary and I took leave to celebrate my bday today. Guess what he got for me for my bday present?

A pair of interesting Couple Tees!

(We regret that we are unable to produce a nice shot of the magnets attracting each other due to great difference in height)

This pic was taken at Sentosa Cove after watching Alvin & the Chipmunks at Vivocity.

We proceeded to Silver Shell Cafe at Rasa Sentosa Resort for dinner. Food was just so-so but it was spiced up with a pleasant surprise by the restaurant manager who presented a slice of cheesecake as well as a live band who played the Birthday Song and several other tunes which added that perfect touch to the ambience and occasion.



The special day ended with a walk by the Siloso Beach. Simply lovely!

My Birthday Celebration

It was a great celebration at Maplewoods last Saturday on 5th Jan. My uncle had booked the bbq pits and the function room but as it was drizzling slightly, most of the time we were in the function room. Pics to share...

Busily eating


Gary's family and my family



Gary and me
The top im wearing is a gift from my dear brother to wear at this party! Thanks bro =)

A video clip taken by my bro when cutting the cake, surrounded with lots of children...



Looking forward to my actual birthday celebration on 8th January!

Good news that came during lunch today

I received a call from Mrs Chong when I was having lunch with Mr Kenny Low, an ex-relief teacher from AMKSS at Novena Square today. She already sounded ecstastic from her "Hello" and when she broke the good news that my student Esther, had passed her performer's certificate exam, I could sense her excitement. I was overjoyed as well! I really felt a great sense of achievement at that juncture, having produced a student who has successfully managed to obtain a post-grade 8 certificate. It just made my day.
Yipee!
Looking forward to my bday celebration tmr...

My Xmas Eve

Woke up with a running nose so went to the doc for some medicine before going to work. Treated Shu Xian for lunch at Ding Tai Fung for her help in my LTCL exams. We exchanged presents! (Pics not available, sorry cos too excited and forgot to take pics of the presents but took a pic of us though)

I gave her an Esprit pouch and I received a Face Shop Facial Set from her.

Dinner was at Gary's house. He was pleasantly surprised by the gift i got for him


I got him 2 little xmas clips on his head as well!
It was bit pricey ($6.90 each!) but nevertheless, I was still on a shopping-spree-kind-of-mood so I bought it... Hee hee



Karis (Gary's niece) insisted on taking a pic of us. This little girl thought the present was for her and when I told her it was not, she almost burst into tears...


It's a Nokia 6500 handphone! Gary chided me for being extravagant. My response to him was that I was still in a shopping-spree-kind-of-mood (as you know from above...hee hee) so the few hundred dollars din occur to me like a huge sum.

We went to our fav nightspot MUSTAFA after dinner to shop for candies for tmr's Xmas Party. We decided to play "Scissors-Paper-Stone" and that the loser will have to wear the Xmas clips to MUSTAFA. I lost hands-down (5-1)...

"Xmas she-devil"

Reached home at 1am and slept soon after to rejuvenate for another round of shopping spree at JB the next day.

Seeing Baby Zhuo Yan for the first time

8th December! A day i was earnestly looking forward to meet Ziling's new-born baby at the Baywaters, which I haven't came since her wedding last October.

Baby Zhuo Yan is the one of the cutest new-borns i have even seen! Notice his natural Armani hairstyle yeah!


Johnny and Ee Ling took turns to carry him after me...




When it was Gary's turn to carry him...


... he obviously did not enjoy being cuddled by Gary. Hahaha!!!
Looks like I need to brush up Gary's baby-sitting skills in future.

Zhuo Yan was staring at Eugene for a real long time! New face to recognise probably...hahaha!


And for the final group photo...



My heartiest congratulations to Jingwei (not in picture) and Ziling for the arrival of Junior Zhuo Yan! Cheers!!!

My 1st Blogspot entry

Hi everybodiee!

Im pleased to announce that I have set up my blogspot account after a dormant period (about a year...oops!) in livejournal. Have been reading all my friends's blogs and realised how much I have to share with you all too. I promise to update you all regularly and post many many fabulous shots of my everyday life so do visit my blog regularly yah!

Let's keep in touch thru blogs!
Till next time...

Wenwen