Somebody's a year older again...

Happy Birthday my dearest cheeky!! You're a year older again, but still as cheeky as ever..
Nothing fanciful this year because we're both so busy with wedding preps and stuff and very broke too!!
Had a simple dinner at Spageddies the night before because it's been months since we last stepped into Orchard and because I've had enough Chinese food over the CNY season.

And finally on cheeky's actual birthday, the last steamboat for this cny! Omg, don't talk to me about steamboats for the next half a year!

These 2 months will be a crazy 2 months, finalizing the guest list and details for the wedding now. The weather is finally back to the normal of this sunny little island and we set off on our bikes to give out our invitation cards to the nearby friends. It was fun, but never expected it to be so tiring and troublesome. Finding the place was fun, but hopping up and down the bike and going up to the doorstep was tiring (because most of the letterboxes were locked). 3 hours on the roads and 11 cards given, not very efficient indeed, but it was fun!

Now it's time to do up the montages, emcee scripts, AD timeline etc...

Snake Year

Has been lovely so far!
Saturday, we woke up early for last minute spring cleaning of our room, before heading down to mom's place for dinner part 1 then coming back to cheeky's for dinner part 2!
Day 1 and 2 of CNY was of course none other than hoping from one place to another, eating non-stop and cherishing year of getting angbaos! Now I officially have phobia of steamboat!!!
We planned to spend day 3 bringing our bikes for a lil ride, but well, the rain has never been so persistent! And so we spent the whole day at home busy with our wedding preps.

Happy snake year!! (damn, why do I look uglier as the years pass?)

And then came Vday!

We had no plans for it as going anywhere for dinner will be too crowded or overpriced and yes, it was raining the whole day! And so we had a simple, but satisfying XO fishhead bee hoon at clementi for dinner, walked around a little, then decided to head down to River Angbao as the rain stopped.

Nothing spectacular at River Angbao, almost the same stuff every year and because it was Vday, there were soooo many couples along the river, hugging, cuddling and kissing!!!

I remember last year I made a big fuss because cheeky didn't get me any flowers, and even made him promise me at least a stalk of flowers each Vday. Then cheeky got smarter and brought me to see flowers this year. $15 for a pathetic stalk of rose selling outside NTUC??? Crazy!! I can buy so many more things with that money!

Yes, women are ridiculous at times, but we do grow up. Now as husband and wife, there's more to love than just spending that one over-commercialised day together and doing what the market wants us to do. We don't need Vday to express our love for each other and love is much more than satisfying material needs or showing it off in front of the whole world. Love is an unexplainable feeling for that special someone.

Now to my special someone, :)

Hello 2013

The first month of 2013 has been busy busy busy with work and wedding preps.
Finally a long weekend to catch up on sleep and a bit of time to do some of the essentials like spring cleaning, doing up the guest list, writing invitation cards and now it's time to dig out some childhood photos for montage.

Now some photos to sum up 2013 so far...

Guo Da Li on 27th Jan. Finally over and done with that, cos we had absolutely no idea what has needed and what we were suppose to do.

And then was food tasting on 2nd Feb:

2012 has been an eventful and most memorable year. It was the year I bid farewell to singlehood and learnt to live life as somebody's wife. I must admit there were good times and bad times, but being in hubby's arms at the end of each day is the most wonderful thing. 

So what's in for 2013? Our customary, honeymoon trip, and maybe some addition to our family?? haha

Super Sneaks..

And I've finally survived to the last week of the super-hectic December, and enjoying my first long weekend (though I've been up since 8am and been at my comp since breakfast)


Finally took our wedding photoshoot last week, and here are some of the super sneak previews:


First white gown for indoor, this is my love-at-first-sight gown, though this pic doesn't show the full-length view of the beauty.


Black and grey gown for indoor photoshoot. This gown was actually chosen last minute because the one we choose previously was under repair, but I love the hair and the whole different 'feel' of it. Super duper heavy gown it was.

Now that's my handsome groom, with hair styled, eye brow trimmed and make up on. haha. Can't stop staring at my handsome boy that day.

After lunch and all the indoor shots, which lasted till abt 3pm, we finally set off for outdoor. Initially we planned for Hort Park and National Museum but shortly after we reached Hort park, it started raining cats and dogs. I must admit it somewhat disappointed because the weather was so good the whole morning. But it's ok, I shall not let the rain dampen my mood and so we proceeded to Changi Airport for our outdoor shoot.
We felt like a star in the airport, with everybody looking at us and the angmoh's congratulating us, and some people also stopped to take a snap. Well, it was still enjoyable, at least I didn't dirty my shoes and there was air-con!

And that's my outdoor gown, stole a shot in the toilet before changing out.

We were lucky the rain stopped just in time for our night shot at MBS. Another super crowded place, and should I say it was slightly less packed than usual Saturday because of the rain? And tada, my super sexy red gown! Love this one too! 

And of course my pretty nails!

Can't wait to see all the photos!

Tis the season to be jolly??

Gosh it's December already, and it's finally struck me that it's jus 3 months to our wedding!!!!

The next 2 weekends going to be real busy, lunch and dinner talks, weddings, and of course our photoshoot finally!! Can't wait for christmas and new year long weekends, and now I know why ppl do last minute shoppings... I'm going to be one of them definitely.

On a side note, found and rented our wedding car, what's best is that it's just 1 number different from cheeky's little car, and we're going to have it for 3 days instead of 1!! Can't wait to drive around in the little MINI convertible!! Damn, why am I getting more excited over all these little things than the wedding itself?

1 more month to........Christmas!!

That was totally random but it never fails to amuse me how time flies, and realise how all the malls and roads will be packed with people doing christmas shopping, taking photos of christmas trees and lights etc, and that also means time to crack my brains on what christmas gifts to buy! (and to find time to go searching for them).

But before that, cheeky and I are embarking on adventures to various places in Singapore in search for venues for our photoshoot!!
We went Changi coastal walk (I would certainly love to do a shot standing in the middle of the road with trees shadowing the whole long and straight path, provided we don't get knocked down), we checked out Punggol waterways (with lots of kids playing on a weekend), and lorong halus (very nice and quiet and well-hidden place only accessible by bicycle or on foot)

Part of THE punggol waterway, and yes, with lots and lots of constructions going on all around it.

Now that's the Lorong Halus bridge and we're amazed how it links punggol and pasir ris, and even more amazed it's just a stone's throw from all the pasir ris fish farms and we're so near it almost every week! And look at how empty it is on a rare bright and sunny saturday afternoon!!

Now cheeky is all more tempted to get a bicycle... hmmmm...

We love nemo

What an overdue post because I've been so busy with work and stuff, but nonetheless, what beats ending each day than seeing my loves.

Some things are love at first sight, some builds up over time. Nemo to me was undoubtly love at first sight. I was taken by surprise when cheeky told me 'let's do a nemo tank!' I thought he was joking because it was meant to be part of our new house project, but no, he was serious (and indeed very hardworking when it comes to research).
And so we started our project nemo, travelling from pasir ris to lim chu kang to get the equipments, starting with making salt water, to buying rocks and sand, to testing the water parameters, getting all the pumps, skimmer, chiller, filters going, to finally getting our lovely pair of nemo! Lots of money, time and effort spent, but we're loving it!

Look at these silly little fishies, I can just sit at the sofa and look at them swim all day, no wonder they are called clowns.

And we added other creatures like the gobies that look perpetually sad, doctor shrimp, pistol shrimps as the gobies companion, some snails, 2 sea urchins that can never stop pooping, a wrasse that really lies down in the sand to sleep at night. And lots of corals!

Look at that cute sad face, how to not love them too?

My cute little urchin that is also a pooping machine.

I was trying to take video of how my little doctor shrimp plays with it's shedded shell, but spot the pooping machine on top!!

And initially I only thought of keeping nemo and other fish, until we started playing with corals. These little living things have amazing power of changing sizes with light and serves as great playground for my nemos.

That's our little sun coral that's finally in full bloom weeks after buying it. 

Now besides catching movies and catching up on sleep during weekends, we have lots of new places to go and explore! And having crazy ideas of how to do up the tank in our new house!