First wedding anniversary with our bundle of joy

Parent-teacher-meeting…never heard that term for a very long time.

We enrolled Cutie in an infant-care center since Dec 2014 and we had the first parent-teacher-meeting a few weeks ago. So fast time flies, Cutie has been inside the infant-care for 3 months.

I remember back in late last year, we were still discussing the care plans for Cutie once we all start work. Shall we leave her in an infant-care facility? Or leave her at grandmother’s home? Or hire a domestic helper?

Cutie is not the “easy” baby to take care of as she needs lots of care. We are aware of these and thus were quite hesistant of sending her an infant-care facility, fearing that teachers may not pay as much attention to Cutie’s various challenges as required. Cutie has sensitive skin and would have an eczema flare inermittently, she has problems finishing her milk and she was very dependant on the traditonal bab hammock to get to sleep.

We finally decided to go with this infant-care center Josiah Montessori @ Aperia, which offered 1:3 ratio and has available vacancy.

The teachers did manage to wean Cutie off the hammock after 2 weeks and it did surprise us when Cutie actually can fall asleep at night with just some patting and song humming.

Sleeping on a rocker

Cutie is always the “On the move” baby and she loves getting on her feet and on her belly to explore new surroundings, new toys and new friends. Well, Charlotte means “Free Man” anyway, so she loves to roam around freely. During the parent-teacher-meeting, her main teacher showed me some of Charlotte’s on-the-move pics which were so cute!

Walking with assistance from her favorite teacher

Enjoying the climb during play-time

Cutie can sit down to play on her own too, sometimes enjoying a quiet moment with her books and sometimes interacting with other babies. There was even a pic with Charlotte showing her friend how to play a cube!

Sitting on a bumbo chair

Attempting to read

Teaching a friend how to play

Those were good moments in school but sometimes there can be lapses in Cutie’s care during the last 3 months there. On 3 occasions, Charlotte was handed back to us with very bad diaper rashes, even though she did not have diarrhoea. Never before did Charlotte had such a bad case of diaper rash. Darling would meticulously apply Desitin cream and clean up for Cutie over the weekend and ensure Charlotte’s buttocks were back to a clean normal state during the new week in school. However during the next weekend, Charlotte will again have an angry looking Diaper rash with bad excoriations. It’s so bad that Charlotte would refuse to sit down and cries whenever we change her diapers, it was that painful. Back-and-Forth communication with the teachers finally had them realize the importance of regular diaper checks and change. Hopefully Charlotte will have no more Diaper rash days.

================================================ Chinese New Year! Charlotte baby celebrated her first Chinese New year this year! Even though she didn’t manage to master the “Gongxi Gongxi” gesture, she still managed to collect her very first AngBao! Haha. She enjoyed the festival thoroughly as there were plenty of stimulation and interaction with adults and children. She was so high daily that she would jump around on bed and “talk” non stop even when her bedtime is way over!

Cutie’s makeover during Chinese New Year

Darling managed to dress cutie up for the occasion and gave her a 格格makeover. Hahaha.

Having cutie baby around in our lives have definitely brought more laughter and joy. Cutie baby is the ONLY ONE capable of making darling melt everytime. When darling is angry or sad, a smile from our Charlotte baby will lighten her mood every time. How I wish I have that power!

 

Many cheeky moments of Cutie

 

Today marks the our 9 years courtship anniversary and 3 years actual day grand shanghai wedding anniversary. The best years of my life so far. I’m sure there will be more years better than these 9 years coming along and I can’t wait to explore the world with my darling and cutie Charlotte. Next challenge is to go overseas with them!

Cheeky Cutie Baby

32.7.10.224

In case you are wondering if this is an IP address… nope.

Make an educated guess what the numbers mean and maybe u are right?

It has been almost 11 weeks since my last entry about our Cutie Baby Charlotte, and a lot of interesting developments have taken place. =)

Sitting independently

 

“Sit @ 7 months, crawl at 8″….the old saying passed down from our parents’ time…..Cutie does not seem to follow that and she is more like Sit @ 6th month, Crawl + stand + assisted walk @ 7. She is developing motor skills quickly and I am so looking forward to the day we can UNLEASE her in the park and let her run wild! I may have to source for rare materials to clothe Cutie before setting her loose, by royal decree from my Darling, les Cutie suffers any injuries. Of course Cutie has to be clothed with fairyleather infused with magical energies, wears a helmet made from  adamantine, dons a mithril vest, finally completed with knee and elbow guards made from Spidersilk….Now where can I find those materials…..Any ideas?

Cutie has grown bored of just flipping and rolling around (she only does that when throwing a tantrum), now she wants to grab hold of anything to assist her standing up. The world looks different from a higher perspective and she is enjoying that. We occasionally indulge her by lifting her up on our shoulders but we have to limit that if we still want to keep our hair…YES she pulls hairs! She can sit fairly comfortably on her own, leaving her hands free to play with toys or her favorite piano gym.

Cutie and her Piano play gym

 

She can play on her own but she definitely prefers a playmate or many playmates. She will grab every opportunity to “Eh” an adult to play with her. Her small cutie head will follow you when u walk pass and then she will assess….if she fancies your company, she will either “eh” you over or she will start to crawl towards you…but if she is lazy to do that, she will just cry. She loves to just stand and bounce…she can just stand and bounce all day without feeling tired!!! Small bundle of energy which can be expanded beyond capacity… The solution??? The Fisher-Price Bouncer! Yeah!

Always wanting to stand, bounce and be entertained

Cutie in Bouncer, talking to Big Bird

 

 

Cutie is in childcare now for the last 6 weeks and she seems to be enjoying her time there. Teachers will be around her all the time and she is surrounded by other babies and cheerful people, singing songs. She feeds more regularly in school surprisingly and hope it helps with her weight gain! Well, with school and other children, there is bound to be viruses floating around and Cutie has been in and out of a cough since the start of Jan…missing a few days of school due to fever but she still remains cheerful most of the time. So, we kinda accepted that falling sick is part and parcel of school and it may be beneficial for Cutie in the long term by introducing her to the common viruses in the community, building up her immune system database. Nonetheless, we can see that Cutie is happy in school, as she will readily jump into the arms of her favorite teacher Angie every morning and reluctantly let me carry her away from school every evening. Haha. Hope she develops more inter-personal skills in school! I want our Cutie to be a sociable, adorable, smart active baby!

Cutie went for her KKH checkup in early Jan 2015. Her weight was 6.44kg, which maintained her at the 25th percentile but we are glad her height is at the 50-75th percentile and head circumference at 50th percentile…does that mean she has more potential to be intelligent?? We sure hope so! Hmm…now Charlotte looks so puny next to her ~7.8 kg cousin Joshua who is just 4 month old!!

Charlotte has started eating solids and Her masterchef Mummy spared no effort to create nutritious purees for her! Every week we would raid the supermarket in search of yummilicious stuff to make her puree. Currently she has tried brown rice, wholegrain cereal, millet rice, pumpkin, potatoes (Her Favourite!!), tomatoes, threadfin fish, sweet corn, carrots, beetroot, tofu, Kale. Fruits she has tried apples, bananas, orange, avocado (her Ex-favourite), Strawberries (Her favourite!!).

Nibbling away at her Favourite Little Strawberry

 

Darling has been wanting to try this with Cutie during 1 of our super-market trips and we eventually did it!!! (After a massive wipedown with several pieces of baby wipes…)

Cutie shopping for her “MumMum”

 

Yup, she enjoyed it for a while because the metal pieces are cold cold to the touch but after 30 min, she wants out…maybe she wants to push the shopping trolley!?!?

Charlotte has brought much joy into our lives and it’s amazing just to see how she’s learning new things and achieving new milestones. There’s never a dull moment in our lives now that Cutie is in the house! Of course, Poor mummy is often tired out by caring for her and coping with her busy work…Cutie is a bundle of energy which takes a long time to use up and takes a short time to recharge. Haha maybe they are made that way so they can ever-ready to learn from the fast changing world.

Mummy is still recharging but Cutie Charlotte has finished her Charge Cycle and ready for more activities!!!

 

Darling and I celebrate our 5th year wedding anniversary on the 31st Jan and I am indeed blessed to have 2 angels in my life now!

“Hold my hand as we celebrate our new lives together” The wedding quilt cover is still relevant for Cutie and us!

Hope there will be more happy days ahead for all of us!

 

 

And Finally… Yes 32.7.10.224, it’s the age of Cutie Baby Charlotte on this day… 32 weeks ie 7 months 10 days ie 224 days. Did you get it right? =)

First year Wedding Anniversary

Today is the first year anniversary of our wedding. 17 March 2012, we walked down the isle of Grand Shanghai, waving to the crowd while they are cheering us on…the memory is still fresh in my mind.
Tomorrow is the 7th year anniversary of us being together. 18 March 2006, after dinner while walking home, I asked if she would mind allowing me to be the first man to hold her hand as a boyfriend…she said yes and the rest is history.

Memories are past events but they are happy events. The aim is not to hold on to past memories and pretend everything is going to happen just like last time. We will grow old, we will have new directions and new encounters in life, all these are part and parcel of life but the only thing that shall and MUST remain constant, is US holding each other’s hands, cheering each other on, creating new happy memories together.

I am not a good husband, I lied to my wife, I lost control of my emotions and shouted in front of her. I attempted to boast of my almost negligible contribution towards doing housework…

In this anniversary special, I shall attempt to re-visit the happy memories of the past 1 year, hoping to add on more new memories.

First up is Our Spain-Portugal-London honeymoon! Darling and I had many firsts during this honeymoon…First LIVE soccer match, First Bull Fight, First Europe trip.

Nou Camp

Spain

Madrid strawberry Bear

Having tea

Segovia castle

Sagrada Familia

Toro Toro!

Portugal Belem Tower

Big Ben

London Tower Bridge

We followed soon with our Part 2 Europe honeymoon at Italy. Shopping paradise for darling. And we conquered 1 Wonder of the World…

Colosseum

Mouth of Truth

Florence Duomo

Leaning Tower of Pisa

Milan Duomo

Gondola in Venice

We celebrated my birthday at the beautiful St Regis, thanks to darling’s recommendation.

St Regis birthday dinner

We watched only 1 musical last year at MBS as there isn’t any nice ones after Oz and the Lion King.

A Chorus Line

After which came our Part 3 Europe Honeymoon in France. We got to see iconic structures such as the Eiffel Tower and Lourve and iconic Mona Lisa.

Half Timbered Houses

Le Mont Saint Michel

Icon of Love

We saw the MBS Harry Potter exhibition.

Harry Potter

We celebrated Darling’s birthday at the Lighthouse @ Fullerton.

Post dinner Merlion shot

We visited the Gardens by the Bay this year, really quite a world class garden, well planned and beautiful.

Cloud Garden

Gardens by the Bay

Last but not least, we had a wonderful Italian Dinner at Buona Terra on Valentine’s Day.

Valentine Dinner @ Buona Tera

The year has been fruitful in terms of travel experiences and lots of firsts with darling. I hope to create more of such good memories with darling.

A year on, after a few bad quarrels, I have seen darling getting more and more impatient with me. Even though we are quarreling less, the main root of every quarrel remains constant…ME…
I need to change, I promised I will change but have not been able to do so.
I vowed to
i. change my bad habits of trying to prove myself (due to low self esteem and low confidence)
ii. not to raise my voice at darling again
iii. tell my feelings to darling more
iv. answer darling’s questions straight to the point
v. Any other things which can improve our relationship

Darling has not been happy today because of me.
I do not wish to be the root of darling’s unhappiness…
Worse of all, I do not wish to be chased away by darling…

Today is our anniversary darling, even though it may not be a happy one, I hope that we can re-live the memories 1 more time.
I love you.

You are my first love, and my only darling.

I love you.

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Grand Shanghai Wedding 17 March 2012 Banquet

It’s our wedding day!

This is the finale of the day. It’s the final piece of the day’s event and we all deserve to finish it with a BANG! My brothers were early to help with the set up of the restaurant and the arrangement of the photo albums. We have a total of … Pre-ROM album, scrapbook album, Romantic Wedding album, Universal Studios themed album and the Shanghai themed wedding album… 5 albums! Haha.
I was lucky to see the same day edit while Jason was loading it into the computer. Man, I was blown away TOTALLY! It was damn bloody awesome!! I immediately rushed over to Han Siong and shook his hand! Man, he did a fabulous job! Thank you Han Siong and academy video!
A few shots of the restaurant taken beautifully by Yu Hsin.

The grand ballroom feel

Our Ang Pao cage

table decor with wedding gift

plate decor

table centerpiece

Our Emcees for the night Edric and Weili

Guests started arriving and we are all busy entertaining them. Wedding banquets are great platforms for friends to meet up and exchange stories. Friends whom we only communicate via SMS or MSN or FB can all meet face to face to have a mini gathering of sorts.

what are they happily discussing about?

And finally the beautiful bride makes a grand appearance!

The wonderful sisters

We had a loop of our pre-wedding shots during the cocktail period, while waiting for about 80% of the guests to arrive, together with music and songs from Jim Brickman…truly romantic.
When it’s finally time for our big moment, we stepped outside and waited eagerly for our turn to walk down the aisle! We have our childhood montage played, followed by the ROM montage done up by Rick, our ROM photographer.

Eagerly waiting for the walk-in

Waiting for our montage to finish playing

Entrance of the beautiful bride and ahem..handsome groom

Cheeky moments

enjoying the attention

Next we have to move to center stage, where we will make a symbolic cutting of our wedding cake!

Cake cutting

We can settle down for our food! No time to waste, coz we only can eat 2 courses before having to go change up again…haha. The live band started their show and the guests are well entertained with Old Shanghai classics performed by a seasoned singer, backed up by the powerful music from the grand piano, cello and saxophone.

The Grand Shanghai band

enjoying the oldies

Sharing stories

We finished our double boiled shark’s fin and have to prepare for our changing parade.

Leaving hand in hand for our change of gowns

While we are changing out, the crowd is continued to be awed by the 3 piece band and live singer. The Emcees take the stage again after 2 more courses and introduced the same-day-edit video. By this time, Darling have already finished changing into her gorgeous cheongsam! Haha, she was so excited!! And it’s her first time looking at the video, although it’s a partially blocked view due to the pillar.

Big smiles upon seeing our same-day-edit video by academy videos production

Then it’s our turn to WOW the crowd again with our second march-in, to the tune of “Cha-Cham-Bo”! We attempted a dance but it’s such a failure that Yu Hsin didn’t take any shots of it! Haha. But I enjoyed the stupid moment.

2nd march-in

It’s champagne popping time after the 2nd march-in and it’s another round of applause.

Champagne fountain

A kiss after the exchange of toast

I delivered a simple speech, thanking all the guests etc…actually I also cannot remember what I talked about. Haha. Does not matter, Happy 就好!
Next up are the table shots… 22 tables, so chop chop finish already! The time passes very quickly and the banquet is almost coming to an end.

VIP table

Darling enjoying herself

The OAC family

Of course, all thanks to Yikai and his powerful concoction, I was drunk in no time! Hahaha

Toast to my longest pal, Yikai

The banquet has come to an end, we thanked our guests with a warm handshake and it’s time to rest.
Tomorrow is the start of our Honeymoon!!!

The Rings that bind us… …

Grand Shanghai Wedding 17 March 2012

Today is the day, the one we have been preparing for and waiting for!

The day started early, we are supposed to bash the gate and brave the onslaught of the merciless sisters before entering the door to my bride. The auspicious timing to enter Darling’s house is 9am so we have 1 full hour of “torture” before the “sweetness” of seeing Darling in her white gown and veil.

Brothers arrived promptly at 7am, to prepare. We had a dress code, I am going to be the “Wong Fei Hung” and the brothers are going to be my disciples. They will each be armed with 绝世武功 and they brought along their 武林秘笈, just in case they need last minute revision…haha.

Meanwhile, Darling is busy with her make-up and hair-do while her sisters are cooking up many fierce barriers and obstacles to test us!

Darling with hairdresser

sisters checking on progress

Evening gown Wedding gown

The roped-in “sister”

良药苦口

busy with the sweet part

Thick Gooey Nectar with red dates

Wasabi Apples

The make-up process is completing and my lovely darling is becoming the bride of the century!! (In my opinion…)

Happy and Excited bride!

Mama covers the veil

Well, well, it’s our turn to showoff what we are made of!! Come on 兄弟们!上! “ROAR”!!

Badge of Valor

Head Brother’s Badge

18 palms to tame the dragon

打狗棒法

胜利的吼叫

The gatecrashing games are well thought of and are not your typical games, using typical tools. The presentation and delicacies and games combine into 1 unforgettable experience! Even Zhenxian says that it is confirmed THE most unforgettable gatecrashing he has been through! The delicacies especially!! We have to drink green poison ivy, followed by a sweet looking Killer, then eat some hot spicy shit, not forgetting the sour lemony yogurt designed just for me! (I hate raw yogurt!)

The 3 REAL sisters

welcome drink

Toast to a good start

Toast to a sour good drink with good friends

Eating shit Yikai

Varied reactions after eating spicy shit

lip swelling after the green poison ivy? Or just natural thick lips

Next up, some games to spice up the day! The spinning around the umbrella game really got our Teacher mad! Haha, but we love our creativity! “Hold the umbrella and spin around it”, never expected a bunch of 30 year-olds to be so cheeky eh, and old students are the worst to teach! Hahaha…

What they want us to do

What we did instead

We were supposed to each go around the umbrella 10 times before collecting a handful of jigsaw pieces, to form the big picture…which we were never ever meant to know….how can we possibly finish the jigsaw puzzle within 15 minutes??

The jigsaw puzzle quest… …

So we had to eat the wasabi apples….yeah, where got people add wasabi to apples one…except during gate-crashing gates? Haha =D

gulp it all down! I Love Wasabi but I love Darling more

When we thought things couldn’t get more crazy, we were made to wear the Hawaiian straw dresses and we were to draw a smiley face on each other’s tummy using lipstick! Hmm…Belly dance coming up?? Yup! We were made to dance to a Korean girl group’s MTV! Haha, I don’t know what I am doing, I just knew that I was shaking my butt non-stop! =p

Edric showing us the role models

Hilarious dance move by me

U think thats all? Nonono, next we have to eat Ang Ku Kueh.
Instructions: “Put the Ang Ku Kueh on the forehead and try to eat it.”
No way are we going to let the oily ang ku kueh slide down our faces!! So we put the ang Ku Kueh on each other’s forehead, and eat them directly from the forehead…hahaha..

Me eating from Jianye

Then we are supposed to smear lipstick all over our lips and plant these lips on each other to form “I Love You”

Is that a Channel lipstick?

Our collective Love effort

Now it’s time finally to write the wedding promises to Darling!

Looking through the wedding promises

With 1 final show hand Ang Pao, we were finally allowed through the heavily padlocked door!

Victory!!

I changed out of my war suit and went on to claim my wife! Yeah Darling, I am coming for you!

A Kiss to seal the victory

Now we have to go through the traditional bit of the wedding ceremony. We are going to have the tea ceremony at my parents’ place, then return to Darling’s place to have the tea ceremony.
Darling is shielded from any bad spirits as well as bad sunlight, using the little red umbrella.

Nice colors, good shot by Yu Hsin

serving tea to my parents

团团圆圆，圆圆满满

We changed to our beautiful Kua and MaGua

Tea for my mama =)

The soft boiled egg dessert together, 甜甜蜜蜜

group shot with sistas

group shot with brudders

So we have our fun at the tea ceremonies, it’s time to journey to our future home…our very own Love Nest! There we will switch on the bedside lamps to signify prosperity and many many children! (darling will faintz at this, Haha)

back at our Punggol Springs Love Nest to switch on the 床头灯

I like hearing Darling Laugh Out Loud =D

Finally, we proceeded to My Waterway @ Punggol, to take some outdoor shots and footage for our Same Day Edit Video. I can sense Darling and the brudders and sistas being a bit tired by now, but it’s the almost the last phase, hang on!

Our Paths crossed and we are destined to be together forever

The couple of the century

Thank you sisters!

Thank you brothers!

Love is in the air

We wrapped up the day’s photoshoots with this final group shot, before heading for our own rest haven.
Brothers and sisters will head home for some rest and will dress up for the Grand Shanghai Wedding banquet tonight.
Darling and me made our way to Grand Copthorne Waterfront hotel to prepare for our final show! Hahaha.
The ending picture of this post will be a meaningful shot.
I hope it will come true.

Hold me Tight Darling and Never let go… … Please

Buildup to the big day.

It is going to be a series of backdated entries as I try to revisit the days leading up to our Grand Shanghai wedding =)

There is the traditional 过大礼 and 安床 that we have to complete before the big day and it does involve lots of shopping and buying!!
Our 过大礼 is on the 11 Feb 2012, from the auspicious date chosen by our Geomancy master “Orh Kee Tong” (Haha, the nickname we gave him…Shh..). I got Jeff (1 of my eventual brother-in-arms) to help out. Quite a number of stuff to bring over, including the oranges, candles, pig trotter cans etc.

So we made our way to Darling’s place after 9am (the auspicious time) and had the simple ceremony. The groom is supposed to hand over a set of gifts to the bride side and the bride is then to return a portion of the gifts as an exchange, of course not forgetting some Ang Paos here and there.
The Ceremony is completed fast and this is all the gifts we exchanged. Kinda ripped off by the shops as they kept telling us what to buy and exchange “by tradition” but nonetheless it’s an interesting piece of tradition we succeeded in preserving.

Now is the showcase of what we bought for our wedding cakes!
I got the traditional Teochew wedding biscuits…

Darling got the beautiful cupcakes from Cheryl!







Next up, we have to tie the red cloths in front of our doors!

Our 安床 is on the 15 March 2012, where we are supposed to put the bed nicely, decorate the house, put on new bedsheets, in preparation for our new life together!

Looks like we are all set for our Grand Shanghai wedding on the 17 March 2012!
For now a sneak preview… …

Less than 1 month

Stress stress stress. It all seems simple to do but somehow time just does not seem to be working with you.
We are meeting Z Wedding tomorrow to collect our long-awaited albums!! Yeah! Really dunno what to expect. Lois, our album consultant keeps telling us how nice they look but I guess we can never believe her until we see it with our own eyes. I have absolute faith that our albums will turn out superbly gorgeously beautiful but Darling has her reservations. Well…she also keeps thinking she’s fat and ugly even though she looks stunningly pretty and on the verge of being underweight. Well, we will know soon enough…
We will also be meeting Academy Videos on 23 feb to discuss our videography style. Hopefully the videographer can understand what we want!
I’ve already placed reservations for the 红绣球 we are going to tie to our black Jaguar and will be getting them on 10 march. Slowly can tick things 1 by 1 off my list of “to-do”!
Now the headache remaining will be:
1) Jie-Mei attire and accessories
2) Xiong-Di attire and accessories.
3) banquet table seating arrangements
4) travel photos montage for background playing loop
5) “special” montage for final march-in
6) 安床 which we will be doing on 11 feb
7) rehearsal with grand shanghai on 11 feb as well.
I think most probably still have a lot to do but my small brain cannot remember now.
Haha, have to ganna the wrath of Darling to boost my memory again.

You are all I need

It’s been a long time since I last had an entry. Today is Valentine’s day and I think the best song to suit the day will be “YOU” by Jim Brickman. This was our “marching-in” song during our ROM ceremony at Shangri-la hotel on 31 Jan 2010 and I still think we made an excellent choice of the song! Just wanna share the lyrics of the song with all the readers.
And also to wish my darling and all lovers a Happy Valentine’s Day!

Artist: Jim Brickman
Song: You

I never felt alone
I was happy on my own
And who would ever know there was something missing
I guess I didn’t see the possibility
It was waiting all the time
But it never crossed my mind
Till you opened up my eyes
Now all I think about is

CHORUS: You in my life
In my dreams
In my heart I know it’s true
That I belong with you
Because of you in my world
In my arms
I have everything and now
I can’t imagine what I’d do
Without you

I never thought that love could be
Such a curiosity
But what attracted you to me
Was so unexpected
But it was waiting all the time
And it never crossed my mind
Until you opened up my eyes
Now all I think about is

CHORUS (x2)

In my life
In my dreams
In my heart I know it’s true
That I belong with you
Because of you in my world
In my arms
I have everything and now
I can’t imagine what I’d do
I can’t imagine what I’d do
Without you
Without you

It’s going to be our actual day wedding soon my dear, on the 17 March 2012, we will walk the aisle of Grand Shanghai and enjoy the “red carpet” treatment again! Haha.
Our honeymoon itinerary is almost done and now it’s time for me to embark on another mission, the montage. It’s stressful but I’m sure it’ll all work out. Good luck to both darling and me! May the preparation journey be smooth and enjoyable!!
Oh yah, our pre-wedding albums will be out soon!!

Sweet Valentine Pink cake from Baskin Robbin

Photo Selection Day

Today is really a day of headache and heartache! Haha. Supposed to choose photos today!! We are both really excited about this…at the same time, we are also worried that the photos may turn out too nice for us to reject!
We only have 24 photos included as part of the package…with each photo priced at S$115, it’s no joke if we are unable to “throw away” photos.
Well, if we have to spend, we must make sure it is worth spending on…

We saw the photos…die liao…the photos are ALL DAMN BEAUTIFUL! 真的是美到。。。。。The indoor shots are all taken beautifully, darling looks great in the white wedding gown!!
The outdoor shots are equally nice. The only disappointment is that the rope swing series did not turn out as nice as we expected…sigh…The big pink balloon also did not seem to make much impact.
Our USS series 众望所归 contains the best photos of the day! We are both quite natural when doing candid shots…haha, really not cut out to be models.

I shall upload a few photos to wet your appetite…hiak hiak hiak…

The white Room

Darling in her Cheongsam, damn seductive

The Happy Universal Studio Couple

Pre-wedding photoshoot

The day has finally come!! The day when I can preview my lovely darling in a wedding gown, all dolled up… OUR pre-wedding photoshoot!! We are doing an indoor shoot at Chris Ling Studios in Orchard in the morning, and then will proceed to do our outdoor photography! Exciting day ahead, so I shall re-think the events of the day.
We have packed our huge luggage bag the night before with all our props for the day! The huge luggage is courtesy of Darling’s mum, the one she frequently brings overseas to bring back all the goodies from abroad…haha, really really huge! I brought my “walking tall” shoes while darling brought her ROM shoes and the newly bought Anna Nuci black crystal shoes. Attire wise, we just brought along our newly bought couple synchronized clothing, which happened to have a purple theme. Next are the props for the photoshoot. The main props are those for the Universal Studios session, comprising of
1) huge plastic heart shaped spectacles,
2) condensed milk cans joined by a rope,
3) Rilakkuma bears,
4) our giant purple lollipop, customized with “I Love You” wordings,
5) bubbles blowing liquid
6) Ring pillow from our ROM
7) green fan to accompany Darling’s CheongSam

Bag of of goodies

We also ordered balloons from the shop near Bugis Iluma. 1 huge pink one and 10 small ones. However, according to shop-keeper, the helium air can only keep the balloons floating for a 7-8 hours, so we can only collect today for best effects!

In the morning, we took a cab to Chris Ling Studios…haha, the cab uncle probably though we going airport with the large bag, sorry to disappoint you…hahaha. Chris Ling studio is actually a private terrace house, upon arrival at about 10.30am, we walked around the house interior, admiring the many themed interiors they have. Our assigned MUA is Angela who came just on time so darling can start to have her makeup hairdo.
Dick is our photographer, apparently he is damn good and is the top 2 photographers of Chris Ling Studios… …we shall see!
Wedding indoor shoot commenced with darling in her White actual wedding gown, Simply Gorgeous!! Then we went through the many rooms and corners of the studios, with darling wearing her actual wedding gown, the Chio Cheongsam and the Victorian style night gown.
After the indoor shoot, we took a short break and ate pizza…before we commenced on our outdoors!
First stop will be Grand Shanghai, but we will need to collect our balloons enroute to the restaurant. Lucky the balloons can be squeezed into a car…HAHA
We were early for Grand Shanghai and there are still customers eating or finishing their lunch. With a professional photographer around, there will always be photo opportunities. In the waiting room, we took a series of pictures, most noticeable is the set where darling is exposing her calves sexily…YUMMY! There is also a series taken through the window panes, super artistic!! Darling totally suits the Cheongsam, super SUI! I am looking forward to darling wearing the cheongsam and walking down the aisle of Grand Shanghai!! Everyone will definitely have a JAWDROP expression!
After Grand Shanghai, we proceeded to Hort Park, Alexandra hill. This is a hill full of greenery and big trees. There is even a rope swing! This place has a perfect setting for a romantic picture series. This is where we shot the pictures of our balloons and the rings. Really got feel. Carefree, happy, having fun together, these are the feelings portrayed in this series.
Last but not least, there is 1 place which is strongly associated with us… …my close friends will know… UNIVERSAL STUDIOS SINGAPORE! Where else right? We both held the year pass for USS and We went there at least 6-7 times?? Haha, knew the place inside out! The universal studios set is extremely fun!!! Dick is really creative and talented in taking candid photos. He also makes sure that we used all our props that we brought along!! Darling is so natural and relaxed when taking pictures in USS!! I think being familiar with the place has its benefits. =) We did some extraordinary stuff in USS, darling and me both attempting stunts which we will never thought of doing, if not for this photoshoot. We totally love the photos from USS and have a strong feeling that the USS photos will turn out to be the best!!!

We totally enjoyed today’s photoshoot and even though Dick keep saying he wants to vomit blood and shouted his voice hoarse…we are sure he enjoyed it as much as we do!