i've started writing about it earlier last month with some of yixin's amazing pictures. daniel missed the boat cos he was so slow with his photoset! *sigh* he mentioned something like having a full time job or others. so lame! (just kidding, honey! you go out there and bring home the bacon!) better late than never. here are some snappies from our camera! mostly of our pals at our table - the dancers.

as usual, we had a ball and in the table kept proposing random toasts the entire night through!! even though we were tucked in the corner of the ballroom (actually thankfully we were) we were soooo loud!! im such an auntie! i love a good yamseng! every celebration should be fun and bubbley like that!!


the costume change that took FOREVER... cos there were about 2456 intricate buttons on her gown to work on and we got locked out of the bridal suite! haha.. but she looked like a princess! so worth it! :) (ma, those are your earrings!! good job, very pretty!) 


haha, being the vainpots we are, we gathered for table shots WITHOUT the bridal couple.. (sorry jerine! would have been nice with you in it though..) 

(cutie ring picture by mimi + karl) 

wow! is it already november!? this year is whizzing by soooo darn fast!! we've almost been engaged for ONE year!! and i reckon its about time we drag our lazy asses and get our engagement rings engraved!! *faints*

but big question that we've been sitting on is "WHAT do we engrave?"

because of my ring size, im only allowed less than 12 letters. u can't even spell our names with that! but precious on the other hand has a cartier trinity so he has all of THREE rings-ful of space for anything. you could engrave a thesis and there would be still space left..


you totally can't see the ring but he has the same ring.. i just had to put him into my blog!! :) hi keith!! :)

daniel has voted for something that's a little more urm.. personalized and territorial. probably something that sounds more like this: "this is the property of XXX (insert name), freaking take it off your paws and return my damn ring to me at XXX (insert email) or XXX (insert phone number), XXX (insert expletives)" tres romantic!!

so i was sent my merry way and looking to the internet for inspiration. and liked the following: 

1) ""Si tu veux savoir combien je'taime, compte les vagues. (french: if you want to know how much i love you, count the waves)
2) "All you need is love" - john lennon 
3) "All my love..  " on one and  "All my life... " on the other.

of all, (3) is my current favorite. its a pair but not super cheesy!

so my lovelies, what do you think?? what would you/did you engrave on yours??

we're all booked in for our seoul holiday!!! weeheeee!!! :) everything takes a little longer here in cambodia. what would otherwise take 10 mins max online took us months, a few more lengthy phone conversation and a moto-ride to collect cash (cos they do not have credit card facilities) and another to deliver our printer e-ticket cos urm.. e-tickets can't me electronically transmitted. but as wise ole chuck bass says "what do you expect form a place where men wear sandals?". *deep breaths now..*

but yayyy!! we'll all set for a chilly weekend in seoul to celebrate the wedding of judy & lucas! :) i was just going through my digital albums and dug out these pictures of us in our crazy adventures! here are some of my favorite memories!


with malaika in new york, summer of 2007. malaika was our surprise from alex!!


in our spanish apartment.. it was slightly sad that that morning because in 24 hours, we were to board different planes headed in opposite directions, newyork, singapore, korea and paris!


shopping in newyork, summer 2008

out with the kids from french class at montreux, switzerland! (after convincing le francais professeur we needed to dine out to practise our french phrases...)
 

i have a very beautiful friend who is an amazing dancer. correction. i have very many friends who are beautiful dancers but this one is special. and everybody knew! we'd all be in one line and the choreographer would always pick her as lead.

while the rest of the danceworld gets hoity-toity when they score lead roles, she gets sad and jealous because she can't share rehearsal schedule as us, the corp de ballet, and can't share the same laughs & jokes. she'd get special VIP change rooms (just left of the stage) because she'd have more costume changes but half the time, she'd rather be holed up in our crammy change room and do up her make up with us. told you she's a special one.

in one of my all-time favorite pieces, she had this huge ass peacock tail as a prop. despite the cumbersome nature of the tail, she's shimmy and prance across the stage with such grace. she looked gorgeous, and regal and beautiful!! i reckon this grand piece of furniture was inspired by her.

anyway its her birthday this week and there is nothing more i'd like to do than to take her out for an indulgent high tea and fuss over girly things, manicures and make-up. but since im so darn far, i'll send my oodles of love through hugs and a huge IOU when i come home! :) 

happy birthday, my love! you are always my leading lady, huifen! :)

amazing chair by victoria fang, from here.

im in awe. yixin, their official photographer was done with their pictures merely 4 days after the wedding. even before i caught up with my post-wedding fatigue, she texted me to check her blog out!! and boy were they great pictures!! she's also such a sweetheart and so much fun to be around!! :)

okkayyyy... im such a princess. i've already bitched about early start time earlier here but the wedding revelry started really really early! all of jerine's bridesmaids (or in local context: jiemeis) were told to arrive at her home dressed in pink at 6freakin30 AM! so darn early! my peepers were all swollen and screaming bloody murder!! at 6am, i thought 'ah-hah! lets text aggie the forgetful in case she is still in bed' but only to get the shocking response that she was ALREADY there!! *faints*so i bailed on my hair curling attempts and hopped into the car immediately.


candy holding ricky. he's a ham. he casually wanders into everyone's pictures!! both such cutie patooties.. i mean.. if i were the guys i'd totally empty my pockets there and then and do anything they ask of me to!


aggie & me as maids. really profesh-looking, right?

the gals were very efficient. we brewed vinegar tea, strung chilli concocted some weird goopy chocolately mess and chatted up a storm very impressive and organized! but the boys, i must say, won hands down. lead by ring-leader, terence, they came prepared with all sorts of tricks up their sleeves. BUT they're the most sporting and sweet buncha boys!! they did everything we requested for with gusto. did not get pissed or threaten to leave (yes! some grooms do that.. its gross!) they even looked like they were having fun!! i guess thats what you get for being awesome people, your pals will always have your back.


team terence.


more haggling.


 our $1000 in gold coins!!


they even made our chief negotiator a $1000 silk sash. but she's top gun! and a very hard negotiator!! 


team jerine.



yixin organized a little group photoshoot at their new home. they were all little tasks to do! here, we were told to pounce on them and give them hugs!


jerine & terence, congrats again! i wish you all the best life has to offer. and many many cats, dogs and kiddos to come!! :) thanks for having me! :)


in the evening, i was relieved of my maid's duties so i could babysit daniel. but came in earlier to help set petal cones in place and help jerine dress up. then i got lucky and yixin caught a shot of me hiao-ing! i love it, thanks babe!!!

more pictures from lightedpixels blog.

everyone loves an excuse for a weekend in the gardens so when we got the invite, we were very thrilled! i wrote a little about it back in this post, so this is damn old news! but i just got my hands on the pictures!! (methinks daniel does not take my journalistic integrity very seriously..) anyway this is too exciting to miss so better late than never!!



the wedding details were impeccable!

im meant to be awake, bright eyed and bushy tailed at 6:30am in the morning. at jurong! did i say JURONG??! i daresay i have not wander to that part of the world since my college graduation! and if this is not a testament of how much i love jerine, i don't know what is. and im so thrilled that for once, im not running around headless worrying about a soiled cancan skirt, petal cones or tardiness of groomsmen. well, fact is, i still will be keeping an eye on all these things but as her "jie mei" (bridesmaid)!! *whoops* and im soo honoured. her ladies-in-waiting are a mixed bag of girlies from different points of her life. and we sorta all know each other indirectly but met up last week for a wedding briefing. so official! :)

i must admit i've always had reservations about a gaggle of over-enthusiastic girls overcompensating for their own eagerness to get married, projecting their own unrealistic goal of a purrfect day for their good friend. at the best of times, i find them overbearing, unnecessarily dramatic and tedious to deal with. bridesmaids. really another art to master. but this really changed my mind! us and the ten "xiong di" (groomsmen) sprawled in her jurong (yes.. jurong again!!) apartment a few sundays ago is really quite far down my list of to-dos on my precious weekends home. but it was so exciting it felt like chinese new year as a child!! we plotted and planned, were briefed on our duties and chided on what to bring/wear. everyone chipped in and offered their help. it was quite heart-warming to see everyone so enthusiastic! without exposing too much of our gameplan, i've never met anyone more keen & experienced in choosing gaundy ah-pek underwear. not me, im in charge of miscellaneous crafts & stationery! :) and i daresay, from the support of their crew, this is one wedding that will do just great without a wedding planner!!

earlier today, me and jerine got some us-time to run some errands and that included prepping the bride for her big day! we had big lofty plans to book in a spa/hair treatment but found ourselves pressed for time so ended up at the always-dependable nail spa, Snails, at wheelock for a quick fix! the bride indulged in some decadent sake-infused soak, scrub and had her virgin french experience!! one by one, i take over the world with french manicures!! don't u just love how clean and neat it looks? perfect for the bride! even talked her into embellishing with some scattered diamonds!! i hope we catch some lovely pictures of her nails tomorrow!!



the bridey & me! :) (note: we have better brows now!)

im obviously a little tooooo excited because i happily jumped out of bed at freakin' 3am. so im blogging about it at 4am with my full wedding gear on!! so if you see a drooling bridesmaid nodding off at her "station", that would be me! :)

happy wedding day, girlie!!