Congratulations

26th Dec mark a memorable day for my close friend - Limei. It's her wedding day! On the 25th night, I went to Phyllis house to sleep so that early in the morning, both of us could wake each other up as we had to reach the bride house at 5.30am. Hardly slept that night. When I really managed to fall aslp, it's time to wake up.

Reach her house around 5.45am. She was already half way through the makeup. When all the JieMeis had arrived, we started our discussion on the gatecrashing. As we only had 15mins for the sabo session, we didn't planned much. The worse part was the groom was late!! This shorten our "Playing" time even more. Wonder if the groom did it on purpose so he could escape the sabotage. Anyway, we still managed to run through all the games we had planned for him all because he FORGOT to bring along the bouquet of hand flowers! Luckily his house was only about 8mins walk from the bride's. One of his Xiong Di dash back to the house to get the flowers. As per instruction by the bride's mum, without the flowers, he was not allowed to come into the house. Hence we had more time for the gatecrashing session. Mr Groom, we had wanted to let you in, but your Mother-In-Law forbidded it...oops..hahaha..

The day was tiring. In between, the couple went Labrador Park and One Fullerton for photoshoots. Then we went to the couple's new house for the tea ceremony (Groom's side). We had our lunch at their new house at Jurong West. After the lunch, we headed back to the bride's house for another session of tea ceremony (Bride's side). Reach home at 2pm. Took out my contact lens, remove my makeup and storm into bed. Wonder why it was so much more tiring compared to the previous JieMei I had done.

Woke up at 5pm and got ready for the banquet. Phyllis and I had to reach the hotel by 6pm for our reception duty. Guest started flowing in around 7pm. They had a total of 50 tables, but it seems many tables were not totally filled up. First march-in started at around 8.20pm. Marina Mandarin had quite a special presentation of the first dish. The waiters/waitresses actually did a short dance on the stage carrying the plate of cold dish, before presenting it to the guest tables. Thumbs up for that.

Program for the banquet were much pretty normal, with photo montage, cake cutting and toasting, then tables photoshoots followed by shake-hand byebye.

Reach home at around 12am and slept around 1. Now this newly wedd couple is still enjoying their honeymoon in New Zealand when I'm writing this blog. May both of them had a blissful marriage ahead and had a road of happiness forever. ^_^

Mr & Mrs Goh ROM photos.
Mr & Mrs Goh Wedding photos.

Happy 25th Birthday; Happy Dong Zhi!

Today is Hui's birthday. Had a mini celebration with him, together with his family yesterday night. I bought him a 2.5" external HDD with casing and pouch as his birthday present. His birthday cake was a white chocolate mint favour sponge cake. Yummy! I love the taste of mint. Gave me a cool and refreshing sensation. Hmmmm..seems like I bought the cake coz I like it and not because he like it??!!



The Birthday Cake


Hui and his cake


Me and him. The heart shape aga aga was done by his mum. See the gift he's holding in his left hand?? ^_^


Today we went to Orchard to shop for christmas gifts. I was quite surprise that on a weekday afternoon, there were still such a big crowd! Initially, I thought going down to orchard at this noon was a good time as it would not be so pack as compared to the evening, but I was wrong! Seems like many people were also clearing leave just like me. Mummy and Daddy bringing their kids to shop for gifts, teenagers were seen in groups shopping around, ah gong and ah ma bringing their grandchildren out for a walk, couples hand-in-hand chatting away...Walking in between the crowds, squeezing my way through made me wana leave the place asap. Anyway, we left the place with only a receipt in hand. A receipt to collect the log cake on the 24th evening. We ordered a log cake from Bakerzin, to bring over to Hui sister's house for the cosy christmas feast cum gifts exchange on the 24th. Guess we will soon be back to town, into the crowd again to shop for gifts either tmr or Sat.

Today is also the day for Tang Yuan. The elderly always said eat 1 Tang Yuan, you'll be older by one year. Today I had eaten many - one bowl from Hui's house, another bowl from my house. So how many years old am I now??

I'm now on my 8 days long break. Will be back to work on the 29th. Many people ask why don't I used this time to go for a holiday? Well, besides my dear Hui is not able to take so many days of leave like me, $$ is another major issue. Hmmm, how should I spent my long break wisely?? I'm still thinking....

F.R.I.E.N.D.S

A wonderful getaway to Meritus Mandarin Hotel on 3rd-4th Dec. Yes, after celebrating my anniversary there, few weeks later I'm back again. This time with 6 close girlfriends of mine - 5 secondary school friends and 1 cousin. Total guest: 7. Only 1 rule for the gathering: NO GUYS ALLOW!

This Hens' Party was specially organise for our dear Limei who will be getting married on the 26th Dec 2005. Check in at 2pm and only three arrived. As usual, there's always late comers in our group. And for your information, the late do not refer to minutes but in HOURS! There's always tons of reasons for being late.
Pls refer to the following for the timing of the arrival guest:-

Guest 1 and 2: 2pm.
Guest 3: 2.15pm
Guest 4: 4+pm
Guest 5: 6.30pm
Guest 6: 9+pm
Guest 7: 11.30pm

To the others, some guest arrival timing might be ridicules. But to a group of us who have been friends for 11 years, it was totally common!
Anyway, we did had our fun that day. After check-in, we went TAKA Cold Storage to grab some tidbits and drinks. Went to Wheelock NYDC for dinner at around 7+pm(Only applicable to Guest 1-5). Headed back to Cold Storage for a bottle of Vodka.

After the last guest arrived, we started our games and sabo section. We played Heart Attack, Zhong-Ji-Mi-Ma, Bluff, 7-Up and XXX (sorry, not sure what's the name of this game). All our childhood games really brought back many memories. After the wine and Vodka were all finished up, we decided to call it a day as it was already 3++am.

The challenge started...7 girls squeezing into a King size bed! All turning at the same direction towards the right. Not a single space for you to move your body. Due to the drinks, some left the bed for toilet and after they returned, their space was taken. Some managed to squeeze back into the bed while this particular guest prefer to sleep on the sofa instead after realising sofa might be more comfortable afterall. Early morning 7+am, I was awaken by the noise. As expected, complains started around the room on snatching blanket, body numb, cold, no space, etc etc.

Although all of us didnt manage to sleep well, but I truely enjoy every moment we spent that day. It was never easy to bring everybody together unless we had special events like wedding or chalet. Hence that 2 days spent was really a memorable one.

"Good friends are like stars. You don't always see them, but you know they're always there." - Anonymous

We also chatted alot about our past, present and future.
Past - the times during sec sch
Present - relationship, weddings, job, guys, sex
Future - Babies production!

Gain quite alot of informative stuffs I would say. Thanks to all who contributed..:)
Enough said, here's the photos taken. Enjoy!
Credits to Phyllis for her camera and uploading of the photos.