haha hmm...was kinda anticipating my cousin's wedding for the entire year and it came and went...but it sure was memorable. and touching. and lovely. here are some pics:
me walking down the long...long...aisle
the whole wedding contingent
hehe tues night i went to changi airport to play...haha it was a night out for the youths in my church. about 30 of us turned up and monopolised burger king while waiting for the game to start. haha ok no lah... but anyway then we launched into this fast and furious treasure hunt sort of game...whoa i don't think i've ever run so much in one night before. yeah i RAN! haha... it was really quite fun lah. but running around the airport is no joke. lol and one other team tried to form an alliance with us. hahaha they think what - we're in amazing race ah?
the funniest thing was when we were all looking for the name of a coffee blend and suddenly i realised it was spelled out on the poster right in front of this boy from another group, but i wasn't sure if he'd seen it... turned out he hadn't (so blur) and my group quickly covered up the poster while his group started to realise what was going on and so it ensued in some scuffling around the poor starbucks poster... no the FUNNIEST thing was when the same group was engrossed in this other poster and we stole their trolley and ran with it right to the other end of terminal 2. running with a trolley is no joke either. and we had like so many strategies to like avoid them lol... we hid behind walls, acted as the telephone operator when they called, sent out scouts... but in the end they didn't catch us or else it'd have been more fun.
we reached changi village at about 11:45 and had supper there. i saw the roti tissue which looked like a party hat hehe... and i saw milo dinosaur for the first time too... hehe yah i've been living in the jungle. anyway we left at past midnight and travelled home on this hired bus. the uncle was really nice, didn't complain at all. coz we had to send people off to their homes and in total we made about 7 (?) stops around singapore. some people bunked in with others, or else we'd have had to make more stops. my mum picked me up at bukit batok and we reached home at about 3+, slept at 4... woke up at 1:15 pm the next day. heh.
so that's yesterday already. late afternoon, we collected the gown from chinatown and bought a pair of white heels from charles & keith at citilink, but last night at the church rehearsal i was like wobbling down the aisle in those heels so i think i might have to go change them... yay charles & keith has an exchange policy! as long as you have the receipt, the shoes are still like in original condition, and best of all, i can go to any branch i want... so that means causeway point, which is just 3 mrt stops away. :)
it takes a lot of work to get a wedding going, don't you think. the amount of planning you have to do is...enough to make me think twice about getting married early. i see how much my cousin is doing for her wedding and i'm like aiyoh... poor thing. hehe i mean yah lah i don't mind getting married early coz all that stuff about waiting till both are financially secure or something doesn't really bother me...coz money is not important to me in that sense...as long as you're contented. but since i haven't even found anybody yet there's no point thinking about this NOW.
my point is, at first i thought it'd really be a mammoth task to get married. but then, after spending so many days shopping for my bridesmaid gown, all that wedding dreams are filling my head again hahaha. the gowns are really nice you know! i'm not talking about those obiang ones with lots of beads and sequins and dunno what else, i'm talking about those gowns which are really sophisticated and classy and beautiful!
sigh so you know my mum and i walked up and down orchard road till the poor lady was about to drop...the next day we hit chinatown and though the results were more encouraging we were nowhere nearer to getting a gown... but we did make a lot of friends with the shop ladies who were all so friendly and helpful... it was like, "ok ok next time when i get married i'll come to you" so yeah that's how this whole wedding thing started. i wish i could help them, like give them business, you know.
but anyway, you can only get married once. i mean, you SHOULD get married only once. and i've still got so many more years before it's my turn. dunno if they'll still be at the same place anot. haha ok back to my story. then just as we were about to join my dad for dinner, we actually came out of the shopping centre through the wrong door, but then we decided to walk on to see what's ahead, and lo and behold.... a bridal boutique was just across the road! although it looked a little upmarket (one of our most oftenly used words this week), it turned out to be the best deal we'd ever got. so thank God! just when you think you won't get what you're looking for, it turns up at the most unlikely place. must trust in God to provide.
hey i wish all of you a good week ahead. :) don't hesitate to call me up or something if you ever need a listening ear or a shopping buddy! or an exercise partner, or a movie date.... ok ok. haha.
heh yes i'm loving my new place. it's small (read: cluttered) but cosy. and breezy too! plus, no more rats or lizards. and i love sitting in my room listening to david tao, mayday, jay chou, fir, fish leong, and the korean singers. the only thing that's a little more undesirable is the toilet. people outside can hear me when i'm shouting to my mum or somebody from the toilet!! haiyoh. and you know usually the stuff that you'll say when you're in the toilet aren't that kind that you want other people to hear. hahaha.
yesterday i played badminton! wow it was good exercise. and last night i met some of my friends from dcg (the youth version of sunday school in church) together with my teacher and we had dinner at spizza at habourfront. it was soooo funny!! when my teacher went up to order dessert (and he dances salsa), the waitress shook her hips (later she said she ate too much cheese) and my teacher spontaneously wiggled his butt. there and then. yes. we just cracked up and i forbade him to come back to our table but he's capable of anything. haha sigh...but i like such dinners. and i hope it'll be like a regular thing.
anyway, probably going out with my mum later for more gown hunting. mingen and ahhihh are going to japan today! ahh.. i feel it in my fingers, i feel it in my toes... WANDERLUST. take care everybody. there's enough love in the world to go around. and believe in God.
heh yup...so cool right. i gave her a card and a photo of the two of us which she has to return to me later so that i can put it back into my photo album hahaha. my brother and his girlfriend bought her a nokia handphone and a swensens cake. so we all know who's gonna get a bigger share of the inheritance sigh.... haha no lah.
and today i woke up at like 7 to swim! aha i almost died. haven't swum since church camp in june if you remember...hehehe. i went with my dad and we did 10 laps. my arms were like lead after that. sigh...i really need to work out more. did i tell you, i went to the gym on sunday night! whee...i'm finally on the path to a healthier body! :)
yesterday i went to queensway with mingen and sigh i think i spent a bit too much. not good. oh i saw daniel ong and jean danker and after that i saw joanne peh. all my life i haven't seen any celebrities and suddenly just in one day i see three. hey sam's in taiwan now right?? happy holidays sam!! say hi to ah tao for me! ahaha.
tomorrow is my korean penpal's university entrance exam. did you read about it in the papers two days ago or something? it's serious stuff man! everyone goes to work an hour later than usual in order not to cause traffic congestion, the police are there to control the traffic, candidates who are late hitch rides in ambulances or are escorted by the police to the exam venue, planes can't take off or land during the listening tests, the military can't be noisy.... and those who set the papers have already spent dunno how many days in confinement, so have the people who printed the papers... wow.
yesterday was a very happening day but i don't want to go into details coz it was too happening already hahaha. anyway, the main thing was i went out with ahhihh again. and we shopped till we dropped but didn't buy anything. for me at least. i must have tried on a dozen daniel yam gowns coz of my cousin's wedding. if anyone knows where i can get a nice, cheap, full length white gown, other than at daniel yam, please let me know asap thank you very much! and then we went on a long exhaustive search for capitol building because of felt. you know the new shop that sells australian wear that was featured in urban that is straits times new fashion magazine? yeah. we combed capitol CENTRE and peninsula plaza, but no capitol BUILDING. actually it was right next to capitol centre but nvm.
and then i visited sandy and her boys at night. her boys are getting cuter by the minute! jeremy the baby laughs so easily it's such a joy to look at him. we had teriyaki pizza (not bad!) and green tea. haha ok.. and i watched the champion! very sad! i think jeanette aw acted really really well last night. oh! and i FORGOT to watch singapore idol last night!! i don't know what i was thinking!! and i heard sylvester sang david tao and jay chou!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what was i thinking.
oh last sunday was nice. i attended the main service with my mum and it's been a long time since i got to do that coz usually i attend the youth service. and the worship was good, and the message was good too, it was about husbands and wives haha. and later all the old couples were like giving their own interpretations of the message lol. "the pastor said husbands should not lead their wives into temptation so from now on we shall not bring them to shopping centres!" haha...
aiyoh don't know what i'm gonna have for lunch man...
me: what's for lunch? got chicken? fish? pork?
mum: no....
me: then what kind of meat you have?
mum: human meat....
sometimes i think my mum should start her own blog. she has a lot of nonsense inside her dying to get out hahaha. and if my dad co-blogs with her it's gonna be even more hilarious!!! oh btw he passed his fire safety exam! now he's officially the fire safety manager of his company! lol...... what was his boss thinking, subjecting an old man to a round of courses and exams on fire safety........
hey, so sorry for not BLOGGING on my humble BLOG at BLOGspot for so long. hahaha eh wr... now i dunno if i still wanna BLOG anot. :( see lah you... haha. but anyway, better update yah. i was busy moving house and i tried to stay away from the laptop hehehe... i was pretty successful!! sigh moving house was a nightmare. and it hasn't even come to an end yet...one last lap to go! well due to the lack of MANpower, with one brother overseas and another suffering in army, my mum and i had to do a yang men nu jiang and take care of everything. and my mum kept telling my dad not to make me carry all the stuff -- "i don't want our daughter to become muscle-woman!" hahaha. but anyway, i think i got muscle already leh. :) i dunno, i haven't had time to grief over this whole thing yet, coz very sian with all the packing and stress and messiness. my new house feels like some hong kong hotel room hehe. if we keep the curtains drawn and the air-con on lah, but this won't last for long i know. soon i'll have to face reality and go AHH!!! I HAVE MOVED. heh. well so i think i shall post this pic of me with my beloved bolster, which i've had with me since i was just a bay-bee. see how it has shrunk to nothing more than just a piece of cloth. haha no lah not so bad lah...i love my zu zu! i guess when i was a baby it served truly as a bolster but over the years it has become more like a... neck-warmer. hehe. oh well i don't think i can keep it any longer, it's time to let go. i can do this!!
