Ipoh Wedding Dinner

Why all vacations doesn't last? Why all holidays are so short? Why happy times tend to pass by quicker than usual?

Just got back from Ipoh. Anyway, we stayed over for one night only, so, I guess that's why it ended so fast. We left home by 8am on Friday and reached Ipoh about 10++ am. Managed to check into our room by 12 noon. Surprisingly, of all the hotels that I have stayed before in Ipoh, this Regalodge Hotel was not bad. Not bad at all. For RM106 nett (30% early bird promotion but you gotta book 30 days in advance), you get breakfast for 2, very clean room with bathtub and all the necessary amenities such as safe box, coffee making facilities and etc. I would strongly recommend it to those who wanted to travel to Ipoh. Even myself, I'll definitely book this hotel again for our future visits. Sebastian was very excited when he got into the room. He was jumping on the bed, running here and there and kept on telling me that he liked hotel very much.

As usual, Sebastian was given the privilege to grab some goodies from grandma's confectionery shop in town. Have I ever mentioned before that daddy grew up together with this confectionery shop? That shop is really a kid's heaven! According to daddy, grandma and grandpa used to sell snacks/goodies in front of the cinema during the old days. That time, all they ever had was just a small stall. The shop was a result of grandma and grandpa's sweat and hardwork. Now, they have gained the reputation of being a top supplier instead. Grandma has passed the business to 5th uncle. And he is running it good. Business is good. When I'm there every time, I can see that the shop is always crowded with customers. Well, Sebastian got himself a whole pack of Mamee, a box of chocolates and a pack of jelly. All for FREE! And he got to walked around the shelves, picking out his choices. How fun can that be, trying to imagine myself as a kid, walking in a shop like that!

After that, we spent the whole afternoon in our room. Sebastian happily occupying the bathtub and later, sis and family dropped by for a chat. We don't even have time for a nap. And it was raining heavily, we even canceled the idea of going out to 'lepak'. Anyway, time went by fast and soon, we had to prepare ourselves for dinner.

Here are some photos taken during the dinner. We had a simple tea serving ceremony in the restaurant.

In the car, on our way to the restaurant.

Daddy's uncles and aunties.

Sis and daughter, Emily. Isn't she one of the cutest little pumpkin you have ever seen? Wish I had a daughter with big round eyes like Em.

The first dish of the night. I only managed to take this one because it was either I was too busy entertaining Sebastian or the other dishes finished too quickly once served.

Family shot. I was so simply dressed with no hair-do nor make-up that night compared to all the aunties nicely dressed in cheongsams. Paiseh! Luckily darling sis gave me this white dress or else, I have to crack my head thinking of what to wear.

Me and my darling.

Daddy and his darling.

With the cousins.

Grandma and Ku Jeh. Grandma was so happy that night she took her sweet time to finish both cups of tea (normally people just sipped a bit) and she talked a lot too, saying that she waited so long for this cup of tea.

A gift from Grandma. White gold necklace and diamond pendant. I was surprised she actually gave me white gold because I thought older generations like to give gold instead. But anyway, daddy said, maybe they know what the younger generations would like to have.

The gift looks like this.

Next, was Tai Ku Ma and Tai Ku Cheong. All the way from Singapore. Really yau sum. I heard they came by Firefly and it cost them RM1K per person for the flight. Since when Firefly got so expensive?? Crazy er...no choice, coz it's the only airline that lands in Ipoh if you choose not to drive.

Tai Ku Ma gave me a white gold necklace and pendant also.

Then, it's 4th Aunt and her husband. Also all the way from Singapore.

5th uncle and wife.

6th uncle and wife, from Penang. All uncle and aunties were present except for Lai Suk and Lai Sum. Both of them weren't in Malaysia on that day.

Last but not least, Ka Jeh and Jeh Foo. Both are very nice people. Glad to have them.

Silly daddy with Dom's red bow tie.

Now, it's the silly boy's turn. I asked him to smile, he went and smiled like that!

Taken by Sebastian.

Lastly, a photo of Dom grooving to the music.

Everybody enjoyed themselves very much! Daddy said, next CNY we will make it back to Ipoh for the eve and first day celebrations. It has been so long since he ever go back to celebrate first day of CNY with his grandma. Not a problem. We will plan towards it. ;)

Studio Photos

I finally got my studio's photos last week. But there some dissatisfaction on the editing skills on 2 photos that I returned the album and the softcopy to the bridal shop. I have yet to follow up with them as I intend to give them a few days before I called up and asked. The girl told me she need to consult the photographer (who did the editing) on this and he is not around all the time. So, fine. I gave them a few days which means, times up! I'll call again today to find out what is the outcome. Are they going to re-do the album for me or what.

The first picture with poor editing skills is:

My favorite photo. Okay. One look you wouldn't notice anything. My face looked great, the make-up artist did a good job. Now, zoom into the gown. See the stitch on the gown at the back (to tighten up the gown)? And the loose part in front (makes me looked as if I have a bulging tummy)?

Well, she told me she can't edit the stitched part because they have tried and it looked very unnatural if they did, so they left it just like that. I was like WTF??!! You can't simply give qualities like this to your customers, right? And knowing them would complain later. Isn't it stupid you have to re-do the whole album for people again? If they could just be more careful and professional in their work, they can just save the extra cost incurred for having to re-make the album and the image of their bridal shop. And also, in the first place if you know you can't edit that part, why on earth you wanna take shots that clearly shows it? Well, I guess for them, perhaps they think people will not complain in order to save the hassle of giving back the entire album for a re-make. Coz it takes time to re-do the album. Maybe like out of 20 customers, only 2 will complain. Well, I'm one of the 2 and I'm in no hurry. I just want a result that I think will pass the normal standard requirements. And Oh God!, I'm not asking them to edit the pictures to make my breast bigger, my face slimmer or my arms more toned! I'm just asking for the very basic things that are noticeable to our eyes only. And that they did it carelessly. *Sigh*....earlier I really didn't felt like complaining, just close one eye. It's after all a small detail that if you weren't told about it, you would not notice it, according to my colleagues who told me, the attentions were fixed only on my face in that picture.

However, considering customer's rights and I paid for it, they have to give me a good result. So, I passed the album back to them. I had to crop the same picture to post on FB....

The cropped version looked better eh? More closed up!

Then I sought help from my company's art designer. He was kind enough to edit the picture for me. Just to prove that the picture can be edited (not like what the bridal shop claimed). The result shows it all...

Now, notice that the gown is more smooth right? This means that it can be done. Just that the bridal shop don't wanna waste their time to do for me.

The second photo is this one:

Look at the gown. Notice that as if the fabric was not ironed? Can you see the lines? This is the 'before' result provided by the bridal shop.

Take a look at the 'after' result by my art designer:

At least the gown looks more smooth right after editing. That's why I complaint!

Nevertheless, let's see what the bridal shop gonna do about it.

Some of my other favorite photos:


UPDATE: The bridal shop will re-do the album for me.

Studio Photoshooting

Both daddy and I went for studio photoshooting the following day after our ROM. Warning---> Do not ever perform 2 tedious tasks continuously for 2 straight consecutive days or you will tired yourself out!

I was drop dead tired after the photoshooting. Really loosing my stamina now a days. Below are some shots taken with ipong in the studio.


We went to select our photos last Saturday. It was also another difficult part. Photo selecting. We spent 3 hours at the bridal studio filtering the photos. From 200 over copies down to 21 copies. As usual the people there will asked you to add albums, do designs, take bigger frame for the "cheong tau siong" la, bla bla bla.....

In the end, I guessed the fella a bit fed-up talking to us already as we showed no interest and expressionless on what he was trying to hard sell. Haha.....

But overall, we still managed to sort out 21 copies of gorgeous photos. I can only get the album in August. Until then!

Wedding Gifts from Beloved Friends & Family - Part 2

As a continuance from the previous post, here are the additional gifts I got on my ROM day....

A bouquet of lovely daisies from second aunt, Aunt Mag.

Wedding deco from Mei and Jag (the photographer). Jag gave us a glow-in-the-dark condom with the warning "Caution: Things that glow in the dark may appear to be larger" written on the packaging. Guessed what? We don't intend to use as it was supposed to be remembrance gift.

A pair of gold rings from my parents. Silly mum, daddy gave her not even a huge sum of money but she used it to buy gold rings for us. She told me, the rings will remind us of her later when she is no longer around. I'm wearing it now together with my wedding band and I'm not going to take it off for as long as I live.

Body shop toiletries from Aunt Mag.

Thanks guys! For all the wonderful gifts.....

Register of Marriage

I took a week off from office for my ROM. I was drop dead busy preparing for the BIG DAY. I spring-cleaned the entire house and on the day before the BIG DAY, I got ready a list of things to be done:

1. Brought the car for wash and vacuum.
2. Daddy bought a hand bouquet for me that looked like this....

Lovely ehh? Cost 80 bucks! Now hanging upside down to dry. Not gonna throw it away as this was the first bouquet of flowers that daddy bought for me.

3. Prepared and filled in the angpows with $$$$.
4. Ironed my gown and daddy's shirt.
5. Prepared my wedding handbag.
6. Prepared my wedding shoes.
7. Took out all the jewelries and hair accessories that I'm going to wear.
8. Pedicure.
9. Manicure.
10. Charge the camera.
11. Bla bla bla....

I can't really sleep that night and had lil' eye bags the next morning. Woke up at 6am and did my eye mask. Haha. At least it helped to sooth the eye bags a bit. Daddy's side of the family promised to gather at our house by 8.30am, hence, I got to be ready before 8.30am. Took a quick bath and by the time I was done, daddy woke up. I quickly proceed to apply make up and waited until it was time to change into the gown. I can't be walking the entire house in the gown. It would be too troublesome and hot. So, I waited until the guests almost arrived before I finally changed into the gown.

Lunz woke up with a drowsy look. It was daddy who noticed he had a hot forehead---->downed with fever! Yesterday he was still fine but on this very BIG DAY he developed fever, my gosh, the poor boy. We can't just leave him behind as there was nobody to look after him nor we can't canceled our schedule. Without wasting time, I quickly gave him the fever syrup to bring down the temperature. We had to drag him along anyhow and can only take him to the doctor when the ceremony has ended and that would have to be in the afternoon. I packed a few of his clothing, water bottle, fever syrup and his favourite blanket for him to rest in the car.

When I had changed him and myself, it was just about the right time because I heard daddy's side of families had arrived. We left for Putrajaya and reached the place about 9.30am. I was greeted by mum and brothers as well as their families. They waited for me there. Not to mention my friends too! Some of them even brought gifts for me. Poor Lunz, he was moody all the time because of the fever but he was a very good boy. He did not threw a single tantrum. I'm very proud of him. I knew I had to bring him to the doctor immediately after all this has ended. So far, his temperature was under controlled and mum looked after him while I took photos and during the moments when I signed the marriage certificates.

Took our number and waited for our turn. We took some photos while waiting.

With my 2 very close friends, Mei and Sellina, who were able to attend my ceremony.

With my brothers and nephew.

With mum and dad. Love you guys! Am really touched you both made it.

With daddy's side of family.

With second aunt, cousin Sharon and younger bro's wife in white dress.

With gorgeous sister Sellina who was able to make it last minute. She remembered my ROM date wrongly and luckily her boss granted her the last minute half day leave.

With the boy and lovely flower girl. Poor boy, sick but still managed to pose so yau yeng!

Full view of the gown. Thanks to my colleagues in MTC for the lovely gown. You guys completed my day.

Then, it was our turn to go into the ceremony room.....

Exchanged our vows and said the big I DO!

Exchanged our wedding bands.

Ta-da! It's official! We got a loud round of applause from the guest.
Neh....my brothers started it.

Honestly, the ceremony room was pretty well decorated. You can take a lot of nice photos inside the room.


We went for lunch afterward and performed the tea serving ceremony later after lunch. It was almost 3pm when we finally took Lunz to the doctor. The doctor confirmed it was a throat infection. He slept for 3 hours after he took his medication. I guessed he was really really tired and sick and I can't help but felt so guilty and sorry to him. He was such a good boy on that day and I felt truly blessed to have them both in my life. :)