Ms. Ho's Request and Wedding Band

Due to request by Ms. Ho, here I am in her white lacy dress....

Front view of the dress

Side view

As my lazy husband-to-be did not wanna take the pictures for me, I gotta cam-whore in front of the mirror.

So, izzit nice babe, your dress on me?
Sorry, the grey one fits also but unfortunately looked too tight on me.

By the way, my wedding bands....


Poh Kong gave us two very ugly looking boxes during purchase time. So, I had to buy a better looking box that can fit in both of the rings. I took the black velvet setting from my previous jewelry box to replace the white one in this newly bought box. The gold bands certainly look more striking with a black setting. It took a lil' effort but it's worth it. At least the setting of the rings looks nicer.

The Surprise Wedding Gift From Colleagues

I was looking for a dress or gown for ROM and maybe for outdoor photo shooting as well, when one of my helpful colleagues, i.e., Lay Lee stumbled upon this on the malaysiabrides website.....

This fabulous strapless ivory empire waist gown is for sale! So, Lay Lee quickly contacted the owner and the next day she told me the news.....the gown was already been sold out! I was a lil' dissapointed but expected it already because a beautiful gown like that is easily up for grab. But little did I know that there was a surprise behind it!

On Monday, I was asked to go up to the 21st floor of our company where the rest of the Chinese colleagues are mostly there. They gave me a surprise that nearly made me cry.....

OOOO MYYY GOOODDDDD!!! They secretly bought the gown for me and gave me a surprise. At first I couldn't believe it and it struck me that why this gown looks so familiar. Then, only I realized the story behind it. These gals are really witty. I tried on it immediately on the spot, in the server room, but the room was really freezing.

Ta-da!! The outcome....

I will look better with heels, make up and hair-do! I gave them each a big hug after that. Hahaha.....





Special thanks to Li Har and Lay Lee for the time and effort taken to get this gown in Puchong on last Sunday. Can't appreciate more. You girls are really nice people, including my 21st floor ji mui(s). Lunch is on me on 18 June. It's not the price of the gift that matters, it's the heart and effort taken to present the gift. It can't be anymore meaningful. Plus giving the bride her gown. Love ya all!

The gown comes with a card...


I failed to rotate the card but nevertheless, it still look nice side ways. Hahahaha....
Once again, thank you girls!

Wedding Plannings

We have just got a date for our ROM. It's 4th of June! As I was told to name the date immediately on the spot by the marriage registry officer, I just couldn't decide which date to choose out of panic. I thought I can only choose based on the dates they are supposed to give us. Apparently, we are free to choose any date now as long as it is 21 days onwards from our application. 21 days are a notice period given to "announce" the application of a marriage publicly. This is also a period where the public can object to the marriage but provided with a strong and solid reason. I guess the system has changed already. It is more flexi now and less documents are needed. All we need to produce are the form and IC. No photostated documents are required. It was really very convenient and efficient now. The whole application process takes less than 10 minutes.

Since the officer told us that the earliest available date is 4th June, which is a Friday, we decided immediately on that one. It will be more convenient for our friends and family as it is a Friday. And at the same time I couldn't decide which date I want or have in mind. Later, only I realized I should have gotten the same date as Lunz's birthday. His birthday is on the 17th June. It would be nice to make his birthday more meaningful and on the other hand, that lazy daddy said it will be good as he don't have to remember another date wor.

But to me, although I regretted a bit that I didn't chose 17th June to make it more memorable, I'm glad to have it on 4th June as well. This is because 5th June is a Public Holiday and daddy get his replacement leave on the following Monday. He was only given 2 days of marriage leave by his company where else I got 3 days. Kekeke.....as I will be taking the marriage leave on 3rd (Thurs), 4th (Friday) and 7th (Mon) June, daddy can get Monday off without having to touch his annual leave (because his company's policy states that the following Monday is a holiday if a public holiday falls on Saturday). We only realized that once we were in the car on our way home.

So, sometimes chor yau chor cheok geh.......

Plus it would be good to have him remember another important date. :P

The wedding will be a simple do. No morning ceremony and dinner. We planned for ROM, pre-wedding photography and a 2-3 tables dinner just for family members. I'm currently surveying the best deals for pre-wedding photography. I managed to shortlist a few of the bridal shops that can give the best offer at our budget. I'll take my sweet time to survey until we are satisfied to get down on one. My colleagues at work are very helpful and I really appreciate their helps. They gave a lot of recommendations and suggestions to me. Like which bridal shop to go and what else to get. They even searched online on some helpful information and tips for me. An idea popped out from a colleague suggesting me to hire professional photographer for outdoor shooting rather than engaged in bridal shop packages. All I have to do is assigned a photographer, a makeup artist, get a lovely gown and off we go. I pretty like outdoor photo shooting as scenery photos will not easily get bored looking at after some time. But again, it is back to budget, provided this way is cheaper than the bridal shop packages.

It turned out that I'm wrong. Although I can get a makeup session and a hair-do from the same stylist at RM200 which I already inquired, the hiring fees for a professional photographer is damn expensive. I managed to inquire a photographer which I quite like his work but he is charging like RM3K even though we are only taking photos in the Klang Valley. So, it's a No-No as it is way beyond our budget. We can still go back and acquire bridal shop studio photography instead of opting for flexi outdoor photo shooting if that's the way.

However, I just got a good news from a colleague. Again, they were extremely helpful. She told me she has a recommendation, a photographer who is willing to take up the job for FREE. But she told me in advance and very frank that this guy has no experience and his SLR camera is only 6 megapixel. He is a newbie around the corner who wants to take up photography as career. Hence, he wanted to try out some real life photo shooting first. In short, we are guinea pigs. But if it's free, why not? Colleague suggested me to try it out without engaging a makeup artist, so in this case nothing will be wasted if the result is not good. Just try to take and evaluate the result of his work first. If it's ok, then only we get down to serious business (also for FREE but with make up involved). I will have to talk to this guy to see if he is agreeable to it.

The Proposal

Yesterday was just like any other normal days after work. We had dinner together. When we were finished, we lingered at the living room taking a good rest and while I was flipping the channels on the TV, suddenly daddy said, come on let's go! I replied, go where? Go buy wedding ring for you lor, he answered. I smiled.

We chose a pair of gold bands with both of our initials crafted on it. No diamonds as I believe it is really not necessary. Diamonds can come later when we are much better well off financially. I remembered during my last visit to Ipoh, daddy's lai sum has been pestering him to get married quickly and he told her that he has not bought a diamond ring yet for me. Lai sum replied, when I first married your lai suk, we don't have anything at all, yet we love each other so much and we just got married like that. I believed her. After so many years, they are still very much in love with each other. Of course, they are filthy rich now they can afford just anything. Getting married are not about diamonds, money or telling people how well you married, but rather getting old together, holding hands to the cinema and watch a good movie together.......(Yenny@dinoland).

At bedtime later.....

Him: I haven't officially proposed to you yet. I should be doing it. (he said as he took the ring out from where it was nested, in the jewelry box)
Me: Haha....(shy)....
Him: Will you marry me? (as he held the ring in front of me)
Me: Eerrmmm....can you help me to wear it please? (I held my hand out to him)

As soon as he slid the ring into my finger, he got what he deserved. A kiss and a hug from me in return.

Then, we embraced the moment.......

Daddy's Grandma Birthday @ Ipoh

We made a trip down to Ipoh last Saturday to celebrate daddy's grandma birthday. Daddy's elder sister and family joined in as well. We drove in 2 separate cars and met up at the Sungai Buloh rest area for breakfast. The idea was to get to Ipoh early and take the kids to the Tambun Water Park. By the time we actually reached Ipoh, it was almost 1pm. So, we canceled the water park idea. Luckily we did, for it rained the whole evening. We lingered at grandma's house until 3pm, then we checked-in at a hotel that I have already booked a month earlier. By the time we took our baths and rest for awhile it was already 5 something in the evening. We decided to go to Jusco Ipoh for a short walk before the dinner starts at 7.30pm.

Jusco was very crowded. It was like Mid Valley during the weekends. Packed with people here and there. We got Baskin Robbins ice-creams, took a seat and watched the crowd while we ate. Just to fill up the allocated time before the dinner. Next, we bought some Famous Amos cookies and left. I think we were at Jusco not even more than 45 minutes. I couldn't stand the crowd. It was so stuffy in there. We went back to grandma's house to find that the whole family has already made a move to the restaurant. No hassle, as Ipoh is a very small town. We can travel to and from a place many times a day and don't feel that it is far.

The family is a regular to the Ipoh Tai Thong restaurant. We had all the big dinners there, including CNY and grandma's birthday. They are such a regular there till the chief of chef comes out to greet them everytime. The highlights of our dinner this time were the fish and roasted piglet. According to daddy, every year, for grandma's birthday they will have lavish dinner. There was a year when they had lobster and "chat sing pan" (7 star sea fish) during grandma's birthday but this is the first time I attended her birthday since I got together with daddy. So, daddy said, this year's menu is just so-so compared to the previous ones. I think it was pretty ok already as I guessed each table must have worth a thousand plus. However, I think the shark fin soup was a waste. It was really tasteless compared to the one we had during CNY at the same restaurant. And the way they made it, it was not soup based actually. More like a very few spoons of gravy or paste served in a plate instead of in a bowl. They served another different kind of soup in a bowl instead and it comes together with the shark fin plate. So, I didn't had so much satisfaction in savoring the shark fin dish compared to one of the best that we had during CNY.

The roasted piglet and the steamed fish (Hoi tai kai=English translated is 'undersea chicken'. What a weird name for a fish!) were damn delicious! I just can't get enough of those. The dessert was quite a unique one. Hot sweet soup with red dates, lily bulbs, white fungus served in a coconut. It's nice and fragrant but it's a lil' too sweet for me. At least it was something different from the usual red bean sweet soup or iced longan served.

Steamed fish.

Prawn.

The vege dish - broccoli, mushroom and I don't know what's that.

Dessert. We were so busy eating that we forgot to take the pictures of other dishes.

Lunz playing cheerfully during the dinner. I'm proud of my boy who is willing to share his toys with anyone who plays with him unlike his cousins or other children about his age who will not share their toys.

Alrite...enough of the food. Back to the people. I think daddy's side of uncles and their wives are pretty open and friendly. They did karaoke and dancing that night. The youngest uncle even sang love songs to his wife in front of us. They were totally not embarrassed at all. They even hugged and kissed. Oh my! How romantic and lovely after so many years of marriage. Lai Sum (youngest uncle's wife) jokingly told daddy to learn from his uncle on how to be romantic. Hahaha....of course I know daddy will not ge la...he is not the romantic type.

Both Dominic (daddy's nephew) and Lunz played around like mad and I think the happiest person is grandma. She is a very kind and loving old lady. She loves everybody equally regardless of their status. This is a point that I respect in her. She treated Lunz equally as Dominic, both also their great-grandchild status. It is hard to find an old lady like her who is not stubborn and accept who we are.

She came towards both daddy and I during the dinner and talked to us. Asked us why didn't we joined the karaoke session. I told her we can't really sing. Then she said she love us all and asked both daddy and I to love and support each other. To live in harmony and respect. She looked at me and told me how she raised daddy from young and told me not to bully him. Must love him. Then she held our hands together, kept on asking us to love each other. The more she said, the nearer I am to crying. Firstly, I knew how much effort and love it takes to raise a child, secondly, I saw how much she loves daddy that she wanted him to be happy and thirdly, her love reminds me of my beloved grandma who passed away last year.

Scalding tears were flooding my eyes and spilling down my cheeks uncontrollably. I saw that tears were running down her cheek at the same time as well as she spoke to me. Geezzz.....she must have all the expectations and love in the world that she hope for us to be well. Daddy was also trying very hard not to cry as I can see from his facial expression. It was totally embarrassing as I realized the family members could be watching and I was crying. Haha....because the youngest uncle eventually came over and asked grandma to stop 'disturbing' us.

Later, daddy asked me whether grandma was being selfish because she kept on asking me to love daddy and not to bully him. I said I understand because I love daddy as much also. Therefore, I understand how deep her love is for daddy that she just wanted him to be happy and well taken care of. How can I think she is selfish because practically I wanted the same thing for him too? Of course, grandma also got told daddy to listen to my words la. Hahahaha....

Both Lunz and Dominic busy with Iphones at grandma's house.