Laughing... and Nostalgic Moments~!

Dear Sis agreed to do my slideshow presentation during the wedding banquet....

Told Mum about it and that I need to find my childhood photographs for the slideshow presentation!

Mum went to the storeroom and dig up all the photographs.... And in the process of looking at the photographs, we all laughed at ourselves... All those obiang clothes and accessories.... Mum kept on commenting on how ugly i was in my teens! With those big specs and short hair!

A lot of nostalgic moments came especially when Mum looked at her wedding photographs... One of Mum's best friends passed away on Tuesday due to ovarian cancer, Mum was sad at that moment... But I m really glad for Mum to be there for me, throughout all these years!

I will really miss my parental home very very much when I moved to my new place in Jan 07. I will treasure the times and moments I still have with my family! :)

Sheesh... tears starting already...... Yup, I m a Class One Cry Baby!

Feedback? Criticism

My family saw the pre-wedding photos that I had taken last Monday.

A lot of comments.... My Mum commented that my make up wasnt good. My cousin commented that my arms looked flabby and I din tuck in my tummy.. My younger sis commented that the poses are ordinary and angles taken did no justice to my wedding gown.

The only thing that i agreed with them is that pix taken with my evening gown is no good! There are abt 160+ photos (per say from the photographer's asst, Fion) I dunno how to choose 20 out of them... And the best part is whatever comments that my family gave to me, I m not bothered. Guess as long as i happy can already! Coz no matter what u do, there will always be criticism, whether constructive, positive or negative.....

Anyway, abt the pix.. I feel that I never look as pretty as before when I first saw the pix! It will be a tough job trying to select 20 pix. I m teasing STEWPIG husband about upgrading our album to the premium one....

Happy Day!

After a few grouchy & restless days, today is a Happy Day for me!

The skies are clear and blue! I had collected my wedding photographs proofs!

I got to select 20 photos out of 160+ photos for my wedding album!

Alternatively, I could choose to upgrade my wedding photography package to $3k... Meaning paying an additional of $1.6k for it....

Per the feedback from my colleagues on those photographs, I am the outstanding one! Hehe, can take a dig at my husband liao! :)

Cabaret Style Evening Gown

The Kua Bought by Mummy Dearest

Restless is the word...

Today is my 3rd post within a day!

I will use restless to describe it! Just dun feel like doing things even though there are 101 things there for me to do...

Still trying to get the stupid card reader detected on my notebook!

Will upload some pix soon!

Old Friend!

Was compiling a list of guests to be invited to my wedding banquet in Jan 07. With the highest priority given was to my primary school mates! The best part is I had lost one of them's mobile no and the only contact no I had was her home.

So I called her home, thank god, she was at home and she picked up the phone! Chatted with her for 10 mins. Guess the feeling is weird, I had lost contact with her for at least 6 years... This friend of mine, "H" is my primary cum secondary school mate.

She utterly disliked me in the lst place, I know I always gave ppl a really bad & lousy impression. Things got better when she started to know me in secondary school! Come to think of it, she s a really sweet gal! She was there to support me when I had friendship problem and she even visited me at home during my recuperation from a jaw surgery.

Guess I m really a lousy person... Din make the effort to keep in contact with her! But all is not lost, at least I managed to get her contact no and email addy! Was reading her blog.... And i feel so happy for her! Especially when she found the One...

Here is something for her,"Friend, u dun hv to donate your $$ to slimming centre! U have never been overweight or whatever since I knew you in our school days! Just be yourself & happy! :)

Fed up! Fed up!

I m just so pissed off! Felt that everything is so F***** up!

I simply dun understand Men at all! Yup, i m refering to my STEWPIG HUSBAND!

As u all know, my home renovation is sponsored by my in laws and they re going to sponsor our most of our furniture & home appliances. I m not being ungrateful but somehow, i hate interference!

Mentioned earlier in my post, my in laws had been nagging at us to install window grilles so as to prevent spidermen or ninjas thieves from breaking into my home. Guess what, when i went to my sis-in-law's place, no window grilles was installed even though she stayed on the 11th floor and with 2 mischievous toddlers hanging around! So, i told my stewpig husband that there is really no need to install. He told me that we should compromise by just installing the ones for the kitchen.

I m fine with that. When i called him today to ask him abt the window grilles issue, he told me that he tried to persuade the in laws abt us not installing the window grilles and his parents still insist on us installing. That got me riled up! I told him off coz its our home even though they pay for the renovation... That doesn't give them the right to dictate what we got to do with our home.

Another thing, the wine issue. My wedding banquet venue charges $5++ per bottle for wine corkage. So i did some budgeting for the wine and told him that its better to get quality wine that costs less than $20 per bottle. Stewpig husband is a good drinker and he has friends in the same league as him. He suggested getting wine that costs $25 per bottle. I told him that if we managed to get the wine corkages waived, it okay but not when the wine corkages is not waived. He told me that there's nothing wrong in getting quality wine for his guests and blah blah blah... I m so mad at him! Things that he should spend on, he refused to spend. Like i told him to buy a good quality shirt for the wedding , he refused and yet he 's willing to spend on liquor!

I m so fed up... I dun need ppl to tell me what to do, i dun want to accomodate to ppl's wishes! Its' my home! I want it to look like a pig sty, its my problem!

I just want to do things that i like with no interference! Opinons are not welcomed at all!

Another 1001 things to do

Cant believe it... Its my 2nd post within an hour...

Realised got 1001 things to do now... Sheesh, i m panicking like a gan cheong spider!

Some of the things that I got to do before it slipped off my mind....

1. To settle the bridal car
2. To get the food tasting done
3. To confirm the no of guests
4. To print the invitation cards
5. To plan the program for the wedding day & settle the logistics
6. To get the housing stuff done
7. Any other matters that might pop up!

Am I too OUTDATED in my thoughts?

Was going through the forum topics in a Brides' website....

I just realised that I m really one of those rare ones who dun really give a hoot about covering back the cost of my wedding.

A lot of forumers commented on trying to recoup their cost of wedding etccc... etccc..... This bought me back to an incident happening 2 years ago when stewpig Hubby & me were dating.

Stewpig Hubby has bought quite an substantial amount of insurance from this friend of his, I should called this friend "S". Dear hubby told me that S is very experienced as a wedding planner and S told him that he can organise a wedding that costs less than $10,000. In my mind, i was thinking how the hell it can occurred?

We met up with S. He gave a loads of "expert" advice which i deemed it as nonsense. Such as limiting the no of banquet tables to be given to my parents etc etc. The best part is that our invited guests are spilt into 3 categories, A, B & C. A => confirmed will attend the banquet & give big angbaos, B => might not be able to attend the banquet but will give angbaos & C => standby guests to make up for category B guests! I told dear hubby that if we have the aim of recouping our cost of wedding... We might as well dun hold a wedding banquet!

So, i was thinking to myself.. In this days & times, are i really OUTDATED in my thoughts?

FUN!

Yesterday, stewpig Hubby & I went for our bridal photo shoot!

I never seen him enjoyed himself so much... Though the weather is lousy with the Haze, heat etcc... Generally, it was fun and both of us pretty enjoy it!

Even though at times, I smiled till my mouth cramped and tired... Dear hubby will be there making me laugh... U can image the amount of horsing around done by us....

Its a challenge to wear that wedding gown and walking around with the big can can and train! And its pretty hilarious when i think of it.... :)

Challenges?

Last Sunday, my future in-laws came by to my parents' place to discuss the dowry.

Dear Mum was nervous before the in-laws came, she was behaving "weirdly" as commented by my younger Sis.

The dowry discussion was pretty smooth...... Mum got what she wanted in her terms and my future in-laws seems pretty easy going on certain aspects. But, the pessimistic me was thinking about the future... Will they be that easy going towards me? I dunno... Shudder to think abt it!

Stewpig Husband finally realised that we don't have loads of time for the preparation and he s starting to rush me into getting things done. For me, I just do things as it comes! Cant be worried over too many things! :)

Fruitful day?

Today, I went for my wedding gown alteration!

Mummy dearest & Cousin Doris went with me for that! Doris was unhappy with the fact that my stewpig Husband din went with me for the bridal fitting. I told them that I dun like stewpig Husband to be there coz he is expressionless when I asked him for his opinion... Instead of showering me with comments, he like to make fun of me.... If not, he gave me that type of "I rather be somewhere else than here" expression! Sometimes, I do wonder did i spoil him? Coz everytime, he wants to get some shopping done, I will always be there for him.... Well, stewpig husband is the one I had choosen... Got to bear with his flaws~!

Anyway, the good news abt the wedding gown is that I had lost weight and the bridal studio is giving me the gown. I told Mum & Doris that most likely, I will sell the gown away. If not, I think i might keep the gown and keep it as a heirloom to pass it on to my future Daughter... Provided that the gown dun yellowed with time....

Dowry discussion will be held later at my place... To be continued......