What now?

So the wedding’s over.

The cake’s eaten.

The photos uploaded.

The friends and family thanked.

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What should I blog about now?

My favourite photos

Other than the official photographer on our wedding night, there was anothe roving photographer. His name is Jimmy and he’s a friend I got to know during a dive trip many many many moons ago. All of the images you see below were shot by him and these are some  of my favourites.

PS. He does wedding photography as well so drop me a note if you’d like to get in touch with him!

Saying hello to a little friend.

From a distance.

Reception glow.

Biscuits.

Hand in hand.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam SENG!

Bleah.

More yam sengs.

Mr & Mrs.

A rare tender moment between the parents.

Some people were not looking at the (correct) camera.

Funny faces.

More funny faces.

Having a quiet drink.

Jie meis.

Hooray! It’s over!

Yet another yam seng moment.

The bird cage ring holder

To hold our rings for the solemnisation ceremony, I borrowed a bird cage from a friend (thanks Miss A!) who happened to own one. I passed it to Miss E to “jazz” it up for the day and voila!

It’s amazing what some ribbons and fresh flowers can do eh?

If you look very carefully, the rings were tied on a purple ribbon and were hanging down from the top-centre of the cage.

So pretty. I like.

A funny moment did occur though. When it was time to exchange rings, our JP couldn’t get the rings out! Wahahahaha. He had to actually ask for help. Tee hee hee. Actually, the rings are tied in such a way that all you needed to do is to pull them and it’d be released. I guess we forgot to brief Mr JP!

Nonetheless, all ended well and we got the ring on our fingers. Lalala.

A surprise gift

I received a note in the mail, informing us that we have a parcel to be collected. Ooooh! I knew immediately that it’s from my ex-colleague Miss M. She’s married to a lovely man, Mr S and they are both living in Germany now. She knew that I’m getting married and sent me us a wedding gift. Awwwwww. So sweet lah

Check out the very pretty DHL box. It’s pink/yellow and has a princess-looking girl on it. How come our DHL boxes are all boring?!

The box felt pretty light (ok, so no live animal within – PHEW) and out popped this little package:

So cute! It has a little ladybird peg holding the string together. I turned the package around and look what I found!

2 bags of Haribo “Starmix” gummies! Hahahahaha. I wonder if they were acting as a “buffer” since they’re soft! I removed the string and card and there were 2 more surprises within:

More gummi bears! My favourite “goldbaren” gummi bears. I haven’t had gummies for a long long time. I used to lurve them so much, I could polish off bags after bags of them. Heh.

I unwrapped the gift excitedly…

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Ta-dah! Salt and pepper shakers! They’re are called “Mr Salt” and “Mrs Pepper” respectively. Lots more designs here!

How cute are they?!

But now I’m a little confused. I always thought that the one-hole-at-the-top is for salt and the many-holes-at-the-top is for pepper? But as you can see from the picture above, it’s the other way around, i.e. Mr Salt (with many holes) and Mrs Pepper (with one hole)?

Can someone enlighten me? I’m a tad confused now.

Thank you so much for the thoughtful gift Miss S and Mr S! We do not actually own salt-and-pepper shakers so they’d definitely come in handy!

H1N1 – Hong Kong!

Acxcording to the MOH website, based on WHO update 52: 22 June 2009 07:00 GMT (yes, we are talking in time-mode), Hong Kong and Indonesia have just become the 2 latest countries to be on the yellow list. At least that’s what I call it.

We’re just glad we visited Hong Kong waaay before they got on that list! Otherwise, I’d have to spend 7 days at home as self-quarantine which may not be a bad thing. 

Aramsa-ing

Another delayed post. Heh.

About a week before the wedding day, I turned up at Aramsa – The Garden Spa. It was the boy’s very sweet treat.

It was a pretty hot day so I was sooooo glad I took a cab. Since I was going to pamper myself, might as well go the whole hog, right?

I registered myself and was provided with a locker key. Made my way to the changing room and was pleasantly surprised.

Such a pretty erm, ladies room! Steel buckets were used as basins and within, there were lockers, a sauna, shower stalls in the open (ok, not open open but they were ‘nature’ shower stalls), changing rooms, etc.

There was also a corner filled with a hair dryer, cotton buds, moisturing lotion, etc etc. Definitely well-equipped!

I changed out of my clothes and into the bathrobe they provided. I also changed into their rubber slippers and then made my way back into the ‘waiting area’ to wait for the masseuse to call for me.

Available were magazines, biscuits and lemongrass+ginger tea (free flow!) and I helped myself to some. Ahh….life

Soon, it was time for my massage.

It started off with the ‘oil prep’ which is pretty much having the masseuse apply some sort of scented (lavendar, I believe) body oil all over the body. Next up was the ‘floral-infused exfoliation’ which is pretty much the body scrub using some sort of scented erm, scrub.

At this point, I was starting to feel like a a chicken being marinated for dinner. Heh. Once that was done, I had to take a quick shower before the massage. There was an outdoor rain shower connected to the room so after she took her leave, I stepped under it. Very nice.

Next came the ’shiatsu focus massage’ which was ok. It wasn’t the best I’ve had nor the worst. But a massage is always better than no massage. Following the massage was the ‘remineralising mud therapy’. Originally, I had thought that my entire body will be covered in mud but apparently not. Only my spine (!) had some sort of warm bubbling (!!) liquid covering it – I had to lie carefully onto it, ensuring that my spine was over the liquid. Pretty strange. Not sure how that ‘remineralised’ me…

Lastly, I had the ‘relaxing scalp massage’. This was done concurrently with the mud therapy above. Can’t quite remember much because I was pretty relaxed and sleepy by then.

I was quite reluctant to get off the massage bed after. Sigh.

All in, it was a pretty relaxing experience but definitely something for special occassions only. To be honest, I did not think the overall experience justified the pretty high price of the package. Also, I notice that the staff will always try and entice you into signing up for a package. Even though I told them specifically that this particular session was a gift (i.e. it’s a one-off thing!), they did not let up and tried to sell me the 10x package and then as a last resort, the 5x package, telling me all about the savings, blah blah blah. The usual selling spiel.

I am aware that they are only doing their job and granted, they were very polite about it. However, there’s something about stepping out of a spa session feeling all refreshed and then having a sales pitch.

It just leaves a bit of a bad aftertaste, ya know?

I do not rule out returning but again, only as a special treat. Very very occassionally.

Untouched.

Note: This is a very much delayed post.

After our wedding dinner, the hotel staff sent up 2 portions of the food from dinner. The photo you see below was taken one day after – note the sunlight?

Yes, the food went completely untouched.

I did very much want to eat but as I wasn’t feeling very well (apparently had a minor stomach flu situation!), I couldn’t stomach anything even though I really really wanted to eat the crispy roast chicken (which obviously wasn’t very crispy by then) and the fried yee mee. I love yee mee and would usually polish off 2 bowls at other wedding dinners because by then, most guests would already be too full. Heh.

Oh well.

Coffee table book

On Friday evening, Marcus sent me a text message to inform me that the coffee table book from our actual day photos is ready.

Background: As part of the actual day photography package, we get all our photos returned on a CD-rom as well as a hard cover coffee table book.

Woohoo! That was quick.

The photo quality in this entry’s not great because I am using the camera on my mobile phone and it’s taken under dim lights.

Here’s the cover page:

We were posing with the signages places on the reception table. Just in case people couldn’t tell who’s the bride and groom, ya know?

Some of the pages within:

So there you go, our special day.

111 photos
20 pages

Thank you cards

We picked up these very lovely thank you cards from Borders over the wedding weekend when we were at the Marriott.

We knew we had loads of people to thank so when the boy spotted these, we knew they were purrrrfect. They come in 4 different colours in the same print. And brown envelopes – I like

It came in a pack of 20 cards. We’re down to….5. 

Hair today, gone tomorrow.

I’ve done it.

Chopped off my hair, that is.

Turned up for my appointment with Dex and he promptly sat me down. He ruffled my long long hair for abit and said: Sure ah? Cut?

I have to admit I had a teeeeny bit of “OH NO! SHOULD I?” moment but I just had to think of all the time I’d save on washing and drying it every night and that thought was banished. Immediately.

“Yes, cut.”

I had to get my hair washed first but before I could make my way to the washing area, Dex took his pair of scissors and before I could say “CUT HAIR”, he snipped off about a 8cm of of my hair in all of 0.0000005 seconds. I had no time to react. The next thing I saw was my 8cm-worth-of-hair, falling to the ground dramatically. I thought I heard them go: Noooooooooooo!

Anyway, back to the haircut. Here’s me with significantly shorter hair already but we’re only halfway through. 

Snip snip snip, it went.

Almost done. Here’s Dex working on styling it. Can I just say that I can *never* replicate the look he gives me on my own despite following his instructions down to a T? So my new haircuts always look the best the moment I step out of the salon. Grrrr.

Please ignore eye bags. I really need to learn how to work Photoshop. Thanks.

Ta-dah! That’s me post-haircut with nicely styled hair from Dex. I’m quite sure I will not be able to achieve this look on my own despite it looking seemingly easy. I snapped this photo of myself while waiting for the BGF and her groom try on their shirts at CYC @ Raffles Hotel. Yes, my BGF is getting married come August. Oh JOY!

And just so you can see how short it is, here goes:

I snapped this photo one day after the haircut. Notice how it’s siginificantly “flatter” already? Tsk tsk.

I have to say that I need to get used to the new haircut. I still get a bit taken aback whenever I see myself in the mirror. Heh.