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We bought the electrical bedside lamps for the wedding. Although it looks kinda ghastly due to the redness, it's really nice when you look at it closeup =)

Guo Da Li on 17th May 2009

Our Guo Da Li is a really simple affair, with both sides cutting down on a lot of unnecessary stuff that we will never use. We had only 8 oranges, 10 cans of Pork Legs, 2 bottles of hard liquors and the 聘金 (dowry) for Mark's side and 2 bottles of orange concentrate for my side. Actually I haven't seen anything like ours before...LOL

Anyway, I was given the task of wrapping the handle of the basket and arranging the items for the Guo Da Li by my MIL. Note that even the basket is so non-traditional...haha
























We bought the pretty golden 喜 stickers from Chinatown...















































Our wedding cakes were from
http://www.kyo.com.sg/ and their butter walnut cake is really good! It's quite reasonable at $7.80 each but you need to put up with the cheesy cake boxes though.

























































Even more non-traditional is the fact that we went to Robinsons after our Guo Da Li to choose the bedsheet that my mum is buying for us. Initially I wanted a dark purple and white comtemporary style bedsheet but everyone told me that it is totally not suitable for wedding so I had to reluctantly put that down and Marky chose this Jean Perry red one instead. It has very subtle flowers that are only obvious when it is against the light as you can see below.



















Now you see it...
























Now you don't...

New dressing table

Went to Geylang East Central's CY Chen Furniture shop last week to get our dressing table after getting a computer chair from them not so long ago. It was really cheap @ $220 and most importantly functional. I don't really wanna spend so much on furniture now as we will need to save up for furniture in our new house soon (I hope...)

Just today, we went to Courts to buy a chest of drawers to place on the other side of the bed as according to Marky, I'm invading into his space, thus resulting in him having a lot less space for his things. He is currently occupying 1/3 of the wardrobe. You know what I mean...so my mother in law bought us the drawers =)

Parc Lumiere

Blame it on our ignorance and initial half-heartedness that got us viewing the new DBSS @ Simei - Parc Lumiere after my tuition lessons and even a late lunch. In the end, there was only space in the reserved list (600+ applicants for 360 flats). The furnishing of the show rooms really looked like condos and despite the flats being quite small, I think they are just right for 2 people. The best part was that even the 4 room flats have their own balconies! I just loooooove to have balconies...

But sadly, we were too late. Furthermore, I know that my in-laws have wishes for us to stay really near to them (preferably the next block) so that they can take care of us (and our future kids) as they know we will usually be quite busy with our work. I totally appreciate their thoughtfulness and kindness towards us, but...my balcony...sob sob...

Our selected 45 photos for wedding album

Here's a peek at the photos that we have selected for our wedding album and here's 1 page of the album.. =) The rest will be revealed on our Big day!

The first week of moving in...

This is the first week of moving into Marky's house and yes, it is during the CNY week. Not that there was much choice anyway...There was lots of packing, moving, unpacking and cleaning up to do but luckily it is all over now...*Phew*

After all the manual work, here comes the settling in. Although I've always been staying over at Marky's house for 2-3 days every now and then,but this time round, things are not the same anymore.

You must be thinking what's in for me now...here's a list of them:

• I have to start assuming duties and responsibilities that I did not used to have, like doing housework, be independent, take care of Marky, clear Mikkel and Jobi's poo & pee when everyone's not at home, and the list goes on...
  
• Limited freedom to cook whenever & whatever I like
• Limited freedom to eat/wear/do whatever I like
• No delicious mummy's home-cooked food
• No mummy to listen to all my grouses
  
• A longer travelling time to almost everywhere, especially school
• The MRT is no longer within walking distance
• ...

I know I am complaining a lot when I should be happy with...
+ A spacious house to stay in
+ Parents-in-law who are very concerned about us
+ Marky who tries to do everything to make things comfortable for me

I guess I just need time to fit in...

On the other hand, we're really pleased with what we had done to the wall in our room!
However, this wall mural project wasn't part of our plan at all... it all started with Marky's ingenious plan of covering some TINY holes in the wall with putty (a lot of putty) and painting over with a very light shade of purple which he felt will be able to transform into this current dark purple by giving it 2 coats.

His explanation
Marky said that he saw a layer of dark purple paint on the inner walls of the tin of light purple paint. Therefore, he was absolutely sure that that must be the tin of dark purple paint...

And so...
here comes Jessy to save the day (again)...LOL
I googled online to look for a suitable wall design to cover the damage (2 big & 1 medium circles) that was done to the wall. Each of the owls covered 1 damage while the branch covered the smaller one.

Took me 15-20mins to draw and almost 3hours to paint as we only had 1 medium sized brush and my very fine art & craft painting brushes for the outline...I ended up with an aching neck but a huge sense of satisfaction!

A cheap bargain!

The day that we bought our TV console, we passed by Chiat Hong Building and we saw a poster which mentioned a CozyCot BlogShop weekend and being curious, we went up and saw a flea market on the 9th level.

Believe it or not, but I managed to get a decent pair of gold 4" heels to match my cheongsam on the actual evening! The best part is that it only costs $20 and it's new!




















By the way, here's the address of the main office and I think they hold weekly blogshop weekends, but at different venues. Log on to their webbie to check out the events if you're interested!

CozyCot Private Limited
110 Middle Road #09-00
Chiat Hong Building
Singapore 188968

Furniture

Went around to many furniture stores around Genting Lane and OM@Upper Paya Lebar last Saturday after my tuition to check out TV consoles. As Marky's original one is taking up sooo much space in his small room, we need to get a new one... Also because his parents just bought us a 32" Flat screen TV! =)

Here's a picture of his old console which houses his collection of action figures which has increased in numbers since the last time this picture was taken...

















After much walking all thanks to Marky who took the very long route, we finally managed to find a suitable one at:

OM @ JOO SENG
134 Joo Seng Road Level 2
Nobel Design House Singapore 368359
T 6235 0777
F 6487 7738

It was advertised on the papers about their knockdown prices and true enough, we managed to get one at $399 (B4 GST) that has a very small breadth to fit into the small area. From this trip, I've learnt that the bigger the breadth of TV consoles nowadays, the cheaper they are. Weird, isn't it?

Guo Da Li Cakes

After a good research online, we've found quite a few recommended places to get our Guo Da Li cakes for our relatives. They are Kyo Cakes, Prima Deli, Cupcake Divinity, Choz Confectionary, Yiling Confectionary, Sweetest Moments, Pine Gardens.

However, due to budget constraints, we've decided to go for Kyo as it has quite a number of good reviews and the price is definitely within our budget! The best part is that we can sign up online at http://www.kyo.com.sg/bridetobe.html to receive a 20% discount on the cake sets!














Another good thing about Kyo is that it is just located at Marine Parade, which makes it very convenient for him to do the self-collection of the cakes on the day itself. Since it is so convenient, we went down to the shop the other day to get a taste of their butter cake. We bought the walnut butter cake and it's pretty soft, not like the usual dry butter cakes that we get outside. I love the generous topping of walnuts on top of the cake too =)

But the funny thing is that they don't have the normal walnut cake for the cake set, only coffee walnut. I'll probbably check it out with them when the date draws nearer.

By the way, the address of Kyo cakes is as follows, but note that their actual shop is called,


Chyn Nonya Cakes Pte Ltd.
Blk 82 Marine Parade Centrel
#01-614 Singapore 440082
Tel: (65) 6564 4060
Fax: (65) 6346 2966

Business Hours
Weekdays: 8.00.am to 9.00pm
Saturday & Sunday: 8.00am to 9.30pm

Our large troop of brothers and sisters

Here's the whole troop of brothers and sisters who will be helping out on our wedding day.

Sisters

1. Frenz184 (Pearlynn, Jolynn, Rachel, Sharon, Regine & Cheryl) - My Secondary 1 & 2 friends
2. Womenz (Meiling, Melanie, Charlene & Eileen) - My Poly friends

Brothers

To be updated by Mark...

Colour theme for bridesmaids and groomsmen

It has been voted by my bridesmaids that I'll be using various shades of pink (Rose blends)



















and white (my decision) as the colour theme. These 2 colours will hopefully make it easier for our helpers to find their dresses and ties.

To match the colour theme, I've bought 3 types of ribbons and 2 types of flowers to make the corsages for my bridesmaids. I am really pleased with the colour combination and the sample corsage that I have done =) But the braiding of the corsages really made my fingers very painful as each corsage requires 2 braids and since I am making 12 corsages, I have to braid 24 of the ribbons! But it was worth it..