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

Anniversary Post

18 March 2006 — the day My darling held my hand to cross the road. The first day we became “officially” in a relationship.
17 March 2012 — the day my KungFu gang and I raided Darling’s house and grabbed her as my wife, the day we walked and danced down the aisle of Grand Shanghai, along to the Tune of “cha-cham-bo”.

17-18 March 2014 — Today… I shall announce to the rest of my friends, I will be celebrating Father’s Day and Darling will be celebrating Mother’s day. Yup!!! We are going to be parents soon! Very Soon in actual fact. Haha. 9 June 2014.
I shall release the rest of my pregnancy-related posts today.

Darling wanted to keep it a secret, so I have to quietly write the posts and patiently wait for the chance to release all the juicy insider news to all our friends who read our blog! Tagged under “Cutie Baby”…go check them out!

A special mention goes out to my ex-colleague Poi Chin. She is actually the FIRST friend to find out the news! Hahaha, really amazing, just by looking at Darling’s face from a picture I posted on FB! Apparently she noticed a “pregnancy glow” in Darling. Sorry Chin, I have to bluff you that she is not pregnant then coz it’s supposed to be a secret. But I salute you Chin!!! May you have good luck in your quest for a Little one too!!! Don’t keep it from me too long ok!

We had to bring forward our gynae appointment with Dr Goh from next week to today due to some unforeseen circumstances…some spotting for the last few days, but no pain. Cutie Baby is still kicking hard and strong too! But we decided to just let Dr Goh have a look for reassurance.

Well we have another chance to see our Cutie Baby! Today is her 28 weeks and she weighs a healthy 1.45 Kg. The bleeding is likely from Darling straining too much at work (poor darling been walking around too much), Her placenta is low lying but should be moving higher soon by the next visit. So reassuring to hear that!

Cutie Baby is growing well. She really loves being “sayang-ed”. Everytime I rub rub Darling’s tummy, Darling will feel Cutie Baby “swimming” over to the side I am rubbing and huddle there. We can really feel a hard ball curled up on the side of Darling’s tummy being rubbed! This only started during 26-27 weeks I think. Haha, We are both very amused by our Cutie swimming to and fro inside Darling’s tummy. Nowadays when she kicks, we can literally see Darling’s tummy vibrate! What a strong kicker or boxer or header…whatever. Haha, CUTE!!!

Shopping for Cutie Baby has began since the last Expo fair in Feb and the Taka fair in March. We ordered a lot of bibs, jumpers, hairbands from Qoo10 as well. Exciting! Darling can’t wait to doll up Cutie baby! She is even starting to look out for Cutie baby’s 1 month celebration clothes!

Now we are looking to get a cheap and good baby carrier as well as a cheap and good Diaper Bag. I just ordered from Taobao, hopefully it will arrive in 1 piece.

I love you My Sexy Darling! You do not look fat at all! I think you are really Sexy with your pregnant curves!

Ok, I will be the pregnant wife in our next life, carrying our baby! We will take turns ok!

I love you my dear! Thank you for being there for me all these years. Let us look forward to many happy days to come, together with our Cutie. She will be coming out to this world in 83 days time!

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… …

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

Happy 2011 birthday Darling!

Time flies and it’s that part of the year again, drum roll….Darling’s Birthday!!
I Initally planned on giving a surprise to darling but she found out about it anyway…darling is too smart!
Darling sensed that the arrangement of the pillows on our bed has changed so she started to explore before she found the flowers!

Simple "Lego-style" Birthday greetings and fresh flowers

Opps, showed darling's age unknowingly

So flowers I gave to darling, what about the present? Haha, had it all preapred!!

What's a birthday without the present?

What did Dar Dar buy for Darling???

Au Revoir

So what did Dar Dar write inside that small small card, that resulted in Darling reading it with so much interest?? Well, you can only ask Xian to be sure.

Hmm...what sweet stuff did Dar Dar write??

Judging from the smile on Darling’s face, I think Darling likes the tiny surprise I had for her!! Yay!

Happy Happy girl

Next up is Darling’s Birthday treat =)
She had this strong desire to eat hairy crabs so she requested that as her birthday treat. Hmm…I initially had another place in mind which can offer great views and good ambience but since darling is the birthday girl, she gets the final say!
The dinner venue is the same as our AD dinner venue…which is…

Grand Shanghai

Taking a pic with what we are going to eat later..hahaha

We are always amazed by the setting of Grand Shanghai…the charm it exudes, the beauty it holds…

The interior of Grang Shanghai

Here comes the menu proper =)

The Menu

The hairy crab menu

We chose the set whereby we will have 2 hairy crabs each! Haha, it is our first time eating hairy crabs and since it is a seasonal delicacy, we must truly savour this creature by eating 2!

Our dish to share, the crispy eel

Our crispy eel does not taste like eel at all leh, but it does have a certain shiokness to it. Munching it while listening to oldies and sipping tea…quite a nice combi.

Black Fungus Salad

First up is the black fungus salad. The black fungus are big big pieces and really crunchy. The dressing is mild spicy yet slight sourish, really good appetizer.

Xiao Long Bao

The Xiao Long Bao is a nice size, full of savoury juices inside. The meat is tender and when taken together with the ginger and vinegar, is simply heavenly.
Next up is the nightmare of some support groups out there…but it’s a heavenly dish for me!!

Double boiled Shark's bone with Superior Shark's Fin

The soup is full of flavour, and the shark’s fin are really big pieces! Full of Shark’s fin in every mouth! This dish we must have in our dinner banquet menu! =p
Now the main highight of the night.. …The creature that is renowed over the world…all the way from China…these hairy things that are only available a few months a year…大闸蟹!

The cute little hairy yummy thing

If you are wondering how to start tasting these little hairy creatures, heehee, there is nothing to worry about coz the waitress will help us prepare the delicacy =)

The waitress is making bite sizes of the crab in the background. The sauce for dipping is in the foreground.

All ready to go into our tummy. Look at all those yummy roe!!

The roe is the main highlight of hairy crabs and the roe is really smooth and yummy. There is also this sticky stuff around the roe area and the waitress says they are all fats… (-.-”
They have these crab meat eating tool provided so it’s really easy to finish eating the whole crab with minimal meat left behind. There is not much meat in this tiny thing but the meat is quite firm and have a good texture. Lucky we ordered 2!!

Darling using the tool to extract leg meat

After the main dish, we are going to have some fibre to help in the digestion =D

Braised Abalone with Sea Cucumber and Spinach

The sea cucumber is nice and squashy, I like!! The spinach portion is big too.
Next up is something light, also made partly with the yummy hairy crab roe.

Steamed Dumplings with Crab Roe

The dumplings itself is quite nice but I really cannot taste any crab roe. I supposed they used it to make the skin of the dumplings since the colour is yellow too.
At this point we are quite full already so it’s about time we have dessert =)

Chilled 胖大海 with Lily Bulb

We have no idea what 胖大海 is but it does taste nice and chilled…haha. A refreshing dessert.
That ends Darling’s birthday dinner! Full and satisfied!
Hmm…are we missing something here? It’s a birthday right??
YES!! The birthday cake!! it’s at our Punggol Springs love nest =x

Darling's birthday cake during the combined birthday celebration with Darling's mummy

Darling's very own birthday cake from Awfully Chocolate

Make a wish darling, and may all your wishes come true!

Happy Birthday my darling! Hope you enjoyed your birthday and your gift. May all your wishes come true!!
I love you!

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!