our lovenest!

today is a happy day for me! its the day for dear dear and me to go down and select our choice unit at HDB hub!
after qiwen's (junlong's friend) wedding banquet yesterday and back at dear dear's house, we waited with bated breathe for the webpage (my bf is still using dial-up. yeah, no broadband. so can only wait for it to load......) to load to see which are the available units left.
and not too bad! there are still plenty of units left for our selected block.
and being the first few in queue this morning, we got our CHOICE unit!
*yippee yay yay*
so our lovenest is at bukit merah, 4-room and high high up above (> 20th storey! its very high for both of us considering the fact that both of us have stayed on the 4th storey for most of our lives! loL~)!

okie, back to my mundane work.
i really feel like quitting recently. work with one of the managers whom i most dread is starting now. of all times. *sigh*
i've applied for 2 weeks leave for the end of the month. but i got a naggy feeling that's not gonna to happen very smoothly. *arg*

whatever, lets hope i'll have fun this weekend!
my D&D is tomorrow. my team is dressing up as FBI! ha, so fun.
and, im going to BINTAN too~!
with my colleagues nonetheless! and i bought a new bikini set today! cheap cheap! only $26 from one of the shops in far east!
and i think its more fitting than my existing one. ha. i've enough of my friends telling me from my previous bintan trip pixs that my current bikini is ill-fitting! :P

okie, off to do some minimal work before sleeping. just to lessen my guilt for slacking off for most, no make it all, of today.

so longggggg......

my karma has caught up with me!

yesh, my bad karma is finally coming around. in my favourite month, somemore!
damN! so i worked my ass off for yesterday and today. i got off work at 7pm! i cannot believe this.
i feel so overworked. :(

lucky for me, this weekend is coming sooN! tomorrow is wednesday~ mid week!

okie, took tons of pix over the weekend. time to post them up again! wee~
my favourite peanut baby! so yummy i can eat him up! wahhaa.


this is another of my baby, albeit an old one. lol~ but very cute nonetheless! (though i bet many of you out there must be thinking im mad!)


off to bed for me...its a sad tuesday night after all (i was overworked today, remember?).

fun evening for moi~

met up with dan, zm & jx for dinner just now. been a long time since just the four of us meet up to chit a chatty. it was fun. 十一年的友情就是不一样。
i feel really at ease chatting to them on any issues. i guess our friendship works on the basis that we make known our perspectives and beliefs, but at the end of the day, we never impose them on each other. at least thats how i perceive of us.
and this is exactly why I treasure these friendships of ours. :)

shaky pics (no thanks to zm's shaky hand!) of us!


oh, and weekend is here again! december is really here!! my fun is soooo starting!
okie, off to sleep. byee....

me+dear dear!

some pixs taken with dear dear just now over dinner!

we looked happy and we are happy! :)


ha i'm going mad. okie, off to try my natural source wax.... hairless legs here i come!

lunch update

okie...bo liao me is slacking at work and decided to update everyone on frivolous things!

1) Shiseido warehouse sale
went with my colleagues yesterday. terribly disappointing. there is very limited skincare products to start with and their make-up range is limited.
just imagine, it started at 10am...and by the time we reached at 11am ALL sunblocks are sold and mascara color were left with green and blue!
bloody hell. no offense, but who use BLUE + GREEN mascara. please own up, and i'll wipe the whole chunk off for you with my ipsa power eye make-up remover. bleh~
having saying so much, i still managed to buy:
- a shiseido pureness range moisturiser $8 bucks (believe it or not!)
- a shiseido io-performance moisturiser for my mum (freaking $25 despite 70% sale!) since it's more for matured skin. my filial piety shocks myself at times. ha.
- a premium shiseido brand moisturise (nobody heard of anyway...) for $30 bucks! it better be good...the original price is supposed to be freaking $800 (no kidding!) for a 30ml tub. *madness*
perhaps my face will glow after use. :) lets wait and see!

2) NATURAL SOURCE
my colleagues has 30% birthday discount so we went shopping during lunchie today!
in the end, i bursted my Dec budget and got myself 2 more beauty items!
1) hair removal wax - jacQ swear by this cold wax. it's supposed to make your regrowth slower and finer. wowwee! beautiful hairless legs, here i come!
2) eye cream - 40 bucks for a ridiculously big tub. hopefully it works! its so best-selling that it's out of stock! boo! can only collect it in 2 weeks time.

3) BINTAN TRIP
it's confirmed! im going to bintan (again!) with my colleagues this dec!
kinda looking forward to it! its a really short getaway (2D1N) but i guess we'll have fun!
yay! updates with pictures when im back!

4) MISC
最近，常常发脾气at 一些人。
是好事，因为我只对比较close to 我的人发脾气。
是坏事，因为脾气也太坏了一点吧。

还有，真得很烦。好讨厌when people have to 跟我。
what happened to individualism?
sigh, 脾气真的要改一下吧。
不然，好累。

my poor poor knees! :(

yesterday exotic dance was fun and sad at the same time!
our instructor continued to amaze us with the sexy, slick moves. im impressed!
but.....the moves took their toil on my poor poor knees as they involve dancing while kneeling on the floor...hence my kness are now bruised badly. *sobz*
and it was pouring freaking heavily when the lessons ended. Being the spoilt brats we are, grace, tanny and I decided to share a cab home. so we waited...waited... and waited....for f**king 40 mins and no cab was available!!
we tried calling through to comfort and all other available taxi companies but can't get through and when grace finally got through, no cab wanna pick up our request!
in the end, we can only dragged our half-drenched bodies and take mrt home like LOSERS after an hour of waiting! WTF!
and i bet candice was already at home then, warm and ready to hit the sack. damn!

grr...damn unhappy. so it was nearly midnight when i reached home given that lessons ended at 10pm. bleh~

okie, here's a pix of candice and me! grace refused to take picture with me!

Pixs from my new phone!!

below are some pixs taken with my colleagues on friday!

so far, it has been relaxed and fun at work for the month of nov. but i'm looking forward to Dec now! interesting events in the pipeline:
- maybe going for a short getaway to Bintan with my colleagues
-DEFINITELY going to Sunway Lagoon with my dear dear in mid-dec
-my company D&D where we will all be dressed up!
-x'mas eve party with the usual gang ~ dan said he got like 6 red wines waiting to be drank at his house! :)
-my birthday!! i'm only 24! i'm young!

met up with dan + zm on friday for awhile. both of them just finished their papers last week! congrats!! now you guys can have all the fun you want! can't wait to meet them & jx for dinner next thurs! its been a while since the 4 of us meet up.

took some narcissistic pixs of myself so bear with me! lol~

anyway, its monday again tomorrow! bleh~ it's gonna be a busy day for me tomorrow. sad sad. but exotic lessons will be here again on tuesday! yay~!

i bought a new hp ~ SONY ERICSSON K750i

my lao-pok sony ericsson Z600 (anyone know this model by the way???) died on me yesterday! atrocious! it's been with me for 1 year 10 mths ONLY~ damN!








anyway.....~ i got myself a new phone, SE K750i to be exact!! im sooo excited over my new baby!!!


anyway talkin about babies...... ah long's nephew is one adorable baby!!!! check him out!

cute eh?? *grinz*

okie back to work for moi....~

Exotic Dance~ FUN!

EXOTIC DANCE IS HOT!!!! OUR TRAINER IS HOT!! she turned us on when she danced even though we are all girls. lol~

grace and my aim is to learn 50% of what our instructor has, then we'll push everyone down zouk platform and show off our sexy moves the next time we go clubbing. *anyone, wanna puke??* lol~
but the pace is so fast and time so little. i'm still trying to memorise the standard moves, where got time to master that "come hither" look that is essential in exotic dance!?

hmm...first lesson only. hopefully, by the end of the 6th session, we'll be more confident and and comfortable in our dancing.

btw, tanny and candice are taking the class with grace and me too! :)

Sunway Lagoon~ Here we come! & misc

dear dear and me are going for a short getaway next month! so excited~
to sunway lagoon at KL for 3D2N no less! It's been a good 9 years since I last went!
my guess is that it's like a mini genting over there. with theme parks, a mega shopping mall but minus the casino and cold weather. *heh*

i love oversea trips! glad to know that i'll have a mini-break before my coming peak next jan!


starting my exotic dance module 1 tomorrow evening with grace+candice. looking forward to it!
been one of my dreams to twirl round a pole sexily! lol~ but pole-dancing module is only available after completion of exotic dance module 1+2. bleh~ how long will that take??


i'm hooked on project runway! i simply adore drama-mama austin scarlett! and next week theme is wedding gown! i'm gonna catch it for inspiration!


anyway, were at thumpers with my colleagues last weekend. it's my first time there and the place is ridiculously small! one of my colleague got drunk. can you guess which of them was the drunkard one?

neoprints!

i love taking neo-prints! but ah long doesn't like to take simply cos it's "very" ex. but hey, its our 3 years 9 months anniversary, so we took neo-prints!!!

everyone should check out the neo-print machines at Heeren! they made your skin white and crystal clear. and there is some slimming effect too! and they are big and roomy with many many colored backdrops for you to choose from! and you just go nuts from choosing the various effects to play around with!

e'nuff said.

here's the product! dear dear 难得笑得满不错！wahhaha.

click on it to see bigger image!

my favourite~TRAVEL!

just came home from jacQ's house warming at her apartment near Somerset. had a great time there, in particular when we started talking about ITALY, GREECE & TURKEY.

gosh, i miss ROME so fucking much. st peter, vatican museum, museo borghese, pantheon, trevi fountain, spanish steps, colosseum, roman forum and so much more.
how i wish i can revisit rome again. http://wenhui.fotopic.net/c45075.html
is it better to revisit a place you absolutely adore and you know you'll definitely enjoy returning to or should the budget be spent on new destinations? the world is so freaking big and i'm like so freaking strapped for cash and time. damn.

i've been brainstorming alot about honeymoon destinations. decision lies solely on me so long i keep to the budget dear dear had set. wahahha.
asia is out for i TRULY have enough of it. we've been to m'sia, hong kong, bangkok (not that most people would choose such places as their choice honeymoon destinations..) and tokyo. i've been to seoul, shanghai and taiwan and him to philippines.
we've been to australia and new zealand is a little bleh~ for i'm a city girl.
america just sounded mad for honeymoon to me and exotic places like scandinavian or south africa is too much for our budget.
we've been to italy and france and we both love to explore the rest of europe. but again, the rest of europe like germany, spain, switzerland, belgium, austria etc will require longer time and higher budget too. the most our budget can sustain us is 2 weeks plus. *sigh*

so the ideal is...............the MEDITERRANEAN!! namely Greece & Turkey lah.

hearing JacQ raved about Greece & Turkey tonight made me just wanna catch the next plane there! After much reseach on the wonderful internet, i've selected my destinations!

ATHENS
acropolis! imagine socrates preaching here eons ago?! ha.


MYKONOS
wonderful greece island! tell me who can resist this????

SANTORINI
rumored to have the most beautiful sunset in the world.

and the famous black beach. i think i can stay at santorini for a long long time.

ISTANBUL
i want to see the blue mosque.

and weirdly, its a fantasy of mine to go spice-shopping (dont ask me why for i know nuts about spice. the only spice i know is pepper and umm..curry powder?) in Turkey.

CAPPADOCIA
also known as the land of fairy chimneys. mother nature at its best! comparable to the 12 apostles along the great ocean road. one is formed by waves, the other by wind.


another 11 months before i can go travelling! i need a short getaway! someone spare me the cash and time!

meantime, another ONE month before my appointment with my designer to decide on my wedding gown(WG) & evening gown (EG)'s designs. i need to do some serious research! any comments? bustier? low-back? halter? long sleeve (not that i'll necessarily take up your advice)? long train? lace? organza? duchess satin? i need suggestions!

am i spending too much?

am i spending too much on my wedding? i surely hope not. dear dear has been hinting more than once that what we are committing to (bridal boutique, photography services etc) are rather high-end. is it really this case? hmm...

okie, let's go through one by one. bridal boutique package: i strongly feel that we should engage in one which has all the following attributes.
1) a designer whom you can communicate with and designing skills which you trusted in and take a liking to.
2) a boutique where the environment is cosy and the staff is friendly. remember, you are gonna need all the help from this place (be it the make-up artist, designer, florist etc) to make the whole event a smooth one.
3) reputation. you just have to check forums and with those who engaged the boutique before to get a better picture on how honorable it is in servicing. if not, go with your gut feeling.

anyway, where was i...oh bridal boutique. obviously, i want one that can gimme my "ideal" gown. tell me, which do you prefer? this... ?

or this?

the answer is quite obvious, no? the thing is, for bridal boutique, every cent counts. if you have like $10k to burn, by all means go to Tan Yoong and you'll get this fairy-like gown below:
get the idea? every cent counts.

so we've establish the fact one can't possibly scrimp alot in the gown department.

moving on, let's talk about studio/outdoor photography. this is really dependent on individual's views. for those who are camera shy or of the notion that albums can only be left to collect dust after all the hassle of wedding may choose to spend less or hell, just scrap the whole idea of having photoshoot at all.

but whats the point of having beautiful gowns but no photos to capture them? and whats the point of engaging a photographer whose skills aint good. again, in my opinion, every cent counts. you cant possibly get one who shoot fantastic shots but charges low fees.

again, you prefer this ?

or this?

again, the answer is obvious. so tell me, how to scrimp??

dear dear kept on saying how his friends got their bridal and photography package at half of our prices. i say, the quality differs (at least i think so :P).

*grr* whatever. what we've committed is still within the budget we set together, so let's just wait. time will tell that our investment is worth it. *bleh*

Photo Montage

attended a wedding yesterday. the couple showed a conventional montage before their first march-in. those cliche slides depicting the couples from babies-to-schooling-to-when they first get-together-to-their dating period-to now.

but what's special next was: they showed another montage before their second march-in. one that summarised the morning's events of gate crashing-to-tea ceramony-to-photo-taking-to-arrival at hotel. i found this extremely interesting and want the same for my own one too!

but hmm...it'll involve a lot of hard work leh. ah long's friend actually spend the whole noon putting together the montage for the couple despite waking up freaking early yestarday at 6am. when all the other brothers are all busy catching some snooze-time.

maybe i can get him to do the same for me on my actual day. *lol*

photo montage is a pain-in-the-ass! we've to scan photos, select songs and figure out a way to put them together in flash format!! can any kind souls figure out how to do that and do this great favour for us???! *sigh* i guess not. *bleh*

anyway, i'm definitely going to add in the below pix...one that shows how scared ah long is when it comes to kangaroos.

as opposed to the cool collected me: :)

junlong+wenhui 

Intro!

After a long long dating period of 3 1/2 years, my dear dear finally proposed to me on 27th August 2005! It doesn't come as much of a surprise to me as I'm already aware that the ring has been brought. *lol* How do I come to know? That's because I've specifically "advised" him on the size, color, cutting and clarity of the ring! Aiyah, but those who knows me well will know this is typical of me, :P

Anyway, we've been busy with preparations for our wedding ever since then. All because of the date -25th Sept 2006- is an auspicious one. No thanks to my feng ma ("as quoted from lao zhe and confirmed by ah d")!

Just an update for everyone on our preparations so far:

Wedding Banquet
We've booked Pan PAcific for our banquet.

Our first choice was actually intercontinental as recommended by some of my friends who quote the delicious food and nice decor as its plus points. Sadly, our date was already booked by another couple, all thanks to a stupid co-ordinator who f**ed up our requests. Grr..sigh let's leave the negative matters behind.

So Pan Pac it is! I've been there once for a wedding and the food is nice. The only drawback is that my min. tables cannot reach 35, hence my banquet will be held at the ocean ballroom instead of the grand ballroom. Ocean ballroom has lower ceiling but good thing is that the overall ambience will be a cosy one. :)

http://singapore.panpacific.com/

Bridal Boutique
We've signed up with Flamingo bridal! For the whole of Oct, we've been visiting bridal boutiques during the weekend non-stop! We've visited around 11-12 before ah long really cannot take it. Ha. Actually decision for most things lie on me, his only concern is not to burst the budget. bleh~

Actually Flamingo is not our (or rather my) top choice. I actually prefer Divine Couture so much more. But Divine's pricing is too atrocious. without photography and accessories, it's already 4k! I can still take it but that'll mean compromising on my photography's budget.

Flamingo is actually not part of the bridal list that i've shortlisted for the gowns shown in its website is not at all impressive. Check out the link below!

http://www.flamingobridal.com/

I should let Shirley (the designer) know and get her to update her website soon! ha. However, after persuasion from my colleague to give it a try (her sis engaged Flamingo for her wedding last year), i'm glad to say i fall in love with Flamingo! The gowns in the shop is so much more nicer (than those featured in the website) and when I tried those off the rack (OTR) ones, the cutting is really nice. and Shirely is another plus point. she's very easy to talk to and she's able to conceptualize and sketch out my "ideal" gown design on paper just like that from my lousy communication..*lol~*

anyway, deposit been paid and i'm meeting Flamingo mid-Dec to design my wedding gown (WG) & evening gown (EG)! can't wait for that day to come soon! meantime, research more on designs i will!

Studio/Outdoor Photography
We've signed up with Utopia (http://www.utopiaphotography.com/) last Thursday! One of the plus point of signing up with Flamingo is that I do not have to compromise with my photography. Yay!

We've fixed the photoshoot (PS) date to be next early June. So that Utopia will have ample time to devolope our album in time for the banquet. I trust in Travis's (photographer) skills but i'm worried dear dear will screw up the PS with his nonchalent and so-not-natural smile. ha. maybe im the one who'll screw up? who knows?

Actual Day (AD) Photography
We didn't source too long for AD photographer when we decided to settle on Derrick.
http://www.derrick-ong.com/

Have read about good comments about his works in online forums and when we met up, found that he's very chatty and friendly (very important! photographer need to click with ah long for he's very slow to warm up!). The sample works he brought along is quite good too.

So yup, thats about all! will update this space whenever there is new developments to our planning!

so watch out for this space!