Archive for March, 2007

Japanese Curry

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

Something happened these few days at home to make me ponder about life again. Yes, to those who knows, everything is pretty well now, life should be back on track. To those who don’t, well, it’s blown over now so we’ll just leave it as that.

Had the sudden urge to eat Jap curry today. Dragged 3 part timers with me (one of them my niece) to Ajisen Restaurant and had their Chicken Cutlet Omu Curry Rice. Not too bad. Eat until SOOOO full. Still went on to dessert. Glad i shared with my niece the dessert coz i had 3 bites and that was that.

I’m quite tired these few days. Haven’t been sleeping well. Tried sleeping really early yesterday. I think i must’ve comatosed coz i remembered watching (or trying to watch rather) Child’s Play and then waking up to the blank TV, turning it off and then faling back to sleep. Aaaahh…. finally last night get to sleep. but still very tired out of the ‘excitement’ this week brought. Oh well…

Oh ya. Another exciting thing happening. i have FINALLY decided to do my freelance wedding planner thing. hahaha… yes yes, i am so unfocused. I’ve got so many things going on now but yet i wanna add in another. the good part about this is i’m doing it part time (which this new position gives me time for) and so overhead costs is low and even if i float around without getting any wedding jobs at the moment, i am fine. Will start out really small and hopefully see this grow. Keeping my fingers crossed. So if u know anyone who’s getting married and want to hire a coordinator; and dun mind someone doing it freelance (but i’m confident i’ll do a good job! hahaha), then pls pls pls recommend me! hehe. I won’t let you (or your frens) down lah. :-p

That being said, really looking forward to Lynette’s wedding. Wah, this one has been talked about for so long!!! Really can’t wait to get started helping her with her stuff. And of coz, my dear fren Jamie’s wedding. Wah, fast romance, fast love, fast marriage. So happy that she is FINALLY settling down with someone she really loves. Next year, Audrey’s turn. my dearest sampat is getting married (tear in eyes- this is a happy tear ok!). Wah. OK Stop wondering about mine ok! It is still a LONG LONG time!!!!!!!!!!

Ok actually i’m still at work lah. Thought i wanted to blabber something before i start work. Too full to start work. hahaha.

back to work then….

Dion & Swan, Swan & Dion

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

Sighz… 2 days after Dion & Swan’s SG Wedding. They’re off to my FAVOURITE country in the world– ITALY!!! Ack. So envious. well well..

Anyway, quite tired out this Monday. Reached home at around 2am on Sat, then on Sunday sommore rushed into JB. but am glad i did that lah, din see my family for about 2-3 weeks liao. won’t be seeing this this coming weekend as well. So it’s worth the rush and tiredness..

Ok. So the wedding. KL first. KL was pretty fun. It was SO nice of the couple to sponsor our bus ride and hotel stay! Made new and really fun frens in Cindy, Wati, Alvin & Marcus– went to zouk with them as well. WE even checked out Poppy Garden, which was a really cool place to be, eventho it was sooo freaking hot! ARGH. Ok. So the wedding. It was held at Bukit Jalil. Went ok lah, sommore had 3 types of performances. The shiong ti all din go, so it was up to the jie mei to go around with them to yum seng. so funny. first time doing that. but quite fun lah. the wine was fantastic, so after all the stressful coordination, we just drank and drank. hehehe. erm… basically, shopped a lot, i think i spent around RM1000 in that weekend! Bought quite a lot of stuff and even had my nails done by the sweetest guy (he’s gay btw)

Ok. SG Wedding. Now, THAT was the highlight. Plans for the ‘fetch the bride’ stages were only done the week itself but thanks to the ingeniouity (sp) of the jie meis, we came up with a sure-fire way of making the day fun while getting our huge angbao. Will tell u more now (some stuff kopi-righted, please use as much as possible on future grooms).

When we checked in, we refused to let Dion or any of the guys know wat room Swan was in. Mwahahaha.. Even went to the extend of blindfolding the cameramen (which, in respect to CIndy, i shall leave it as it is. hahaha) We had 3 stages (since we did it in Hilton, this was a good strategy).

Stage 1: Hotel Lobby (which by the way, we kept getting chased by the security coz of the noise we made. Lousy hotel!). Dion had to answer two questions pertaining to Swan. Get it wrong, do a forfeit (which by the way, ALL the answers were wrong throughout ALL the stages). So first forfeit, pluck 8 hairs from 8 different places of the body. Hahaha.. They of coz went for the easiest spots first- the eyebrows, the hands, the legs, the fingers. then at the last two stage- stumped! Dunno where to pluck. Attempted plucking from nose, ears, chin. hahaha. in the end, someone even took off their socks so can pluck the toe hair. hahaha. (Pics to come- exceeded number of uploaded pics for this mth liao). Second forfeit, carry dion and run around the lobby shouting "Dion’s getting married! Dion’s getting married!" and Dion must shout "Yes yes yes!" (which in the end, they had to whisper so that we dun get chased again)

Ok. Done. All in the lift now. Onto Stage 2. Outside the suite. 3 questions + 1 immunity challenge (which by the way, it was just to make him do it. the immunity challenge doesn’t immune him from anything. mwahahaha) This is the eating stage. "Suan", "Tian", "Ku", "La". For Suan (Sour), they had to eat a whole lemon (btw, i just need to give Dion a GREAT BIG PAT on the back- he took the task and just did it. FANTASTIC. Almost too boring, but good! hahha). For Tian, they had to eat a piece of bread covered with 2 packets of sugar and 1 mini bottle of honey. For Ku, they had to eat a fifth of the Bitter Gourd that we prepared. For La, we specially concocted a jalapeno pepper + Wasabi + Mustard on Dry Bread. Hahaha.

Stage 3: In the suite, but outside the final door. So. This one simple and straightforward. 1) One of the shiong ti to pretend to be the pole while Dion does the pole dance around him (can’t get the image outta my head! Too funny!). 2) One of the shiong ti to pretend to be swan while dion sings ‘her’ a song (which by the way was ‘Yue Liang Tai Piao We De Xing".

FINALLY, Ang pao time. Wah. Dion very generous. He got in with $900 (supposed to be $888 lah- keep the change). Finally it was on to the rest of the day. Or so we thought. FIrst time in history!!! We reached Dion’s place and were locked out of the house!!!! Stupid shiong tis made Swan answer 3 questions or do the forfeit (which she got it all wrong btw). They tried their very best to do the suan tian ku la (left out the suan tho). They stole our bitter gourd and made us eat (which Cindy bravely did it), made some maggi mee concoction thing to represent spicy (i drank lah), then some kueh with a pot of honey (which they stole as well from us!) which audrey and a few others ate. hahaha. Ok. So on to the day. After tea reception, took a few pics at Esplanade and ended up taking a few pics at SMU, the place they met… blah blah blah. Rested in the hotel (so nice to bath and just relax in the bathrobe). At night, dinner went really well. Dion read some love letter to Swan tat was Oh-So-Touching! at the end of it all, both of them were pretty high. I think Dion was even more stoned than he ever was. hahaha.. Swan was like just high and very tired. So we put her to bed and got Dion into the shower. As we were leaving, we said our gooodbyes and knocked on the bathroom door but dion din reply; PANIC struck– we thought he had fainted or fell asleep or wat… got the captain to open the door and when all jie meis had cleared the space, the shiong tis "chiong" into, only to be welcomed by Dion bathing! hahahahahaha… TAT was funny! Laughed until cannot laugh liao. I bet the shiong tis had nightmare that night! hahaha…

Well.. this is the start of many more weddings this year. a few of them in which i have the ‘honour’ of being the jie mei again. hahaha.. to the guys that are reading this and i’m the jiemei for your wedding, fret not, coz the above is just the beginning and it will not be as simple as that. mwahahaha.. Frigtened? U can start by bribing me now…. and then, maybe, just maybe. it wun be that bad…

Wee Swan

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

Yes. That was the thing that was happening. Swan’s surprise bachellorette party! Whew. It’s all done and over and we had SO much fun. Cannot reveal much lah, but wat i can reveal is this…

The plan was to book a suite in Gallery Hotel where we could have chocolate fondue, do our nails and makeup, and then to take her to paint the town red (in this case, only paint MOS red lah). Cherie was in charge of the room, deco, and making up Swan. Audrey was in charge of food and wine. Wati was in charge of the gifts. I was in charge of luring the ‘victim’. Mwahahaha. Ok. Plan in place. forgot a few things on that day, but in the end, come to think of it, luckily din buy also, coz wun be used. hehehe.

Cherie’s fren was so sweet in helping us with the suite. It even came with complimentary drinks in the fridge and he even bought ice cream and cake! Wow. Nice guy!

Ok. Anyway. Was supposed to zip to the hotel straight after work to drop off Swan’s clothes (Dion helped us sneak her clothes out- so cute right!) and then go meet her around 7pm. She was late! Not her fault lah, we kinda were prepared to expect the worst… Anyway, she called (we were panicky that she might cancel) and i INSISTED to meet her coz need her opinion on something ‘very important’ for the video montage. Finally met her for dinner around 8plus. eat talk eat talk. she was still oblivious and in the dark. We took a walk to Gallery hotel coz i had a ‘fren’ staying there and i left my lappy with ‘him’. We rang the bell and the 3 gals, being too eager, opened the door and threw the rose petals OUT of the room and unto us. HAHAHA… She got such a shock!!!! Well, the rest of the evening was giving her the pressies (beautiful gift, Wati!) eating the YUMMY choc stuff that Audrey prepared (my mouth still watering thinkin of it), getting prepared for MOS (all the handiwork of the talented Cherie), giving Swan her tasks to do for the night and just laughing and laughing and laughing even harder. We finally made it to MOS at around 12+ (i think lah- today memory damn slow).

Swan proceeded with her tasks. MADE ME PROUD!!!!!! I was so scared the tasks was too tough for her, but she really proved me wrong! I was laughing all the way!!!!!! It was a fantastic night!

We dropped her back to the hotel with the last surprise- Mr Tan! Hehehe.. She thought she was gonna spend the night sleepless in the hotel with us. She was WRONG! LOL

All in all, it was a really good surprise. If you’re one of the gals getting married and think that u’ll be able to sniff YOUR surprise party, u’re wrong. hehehe… Watch out for yours. It’ll be as crazy.

By the way, my galfrens warned me NOT to get married, or I will die a dreadful ‘death’ coz of all the payback they will do to me. LOL. And for my bday, u wun find me one mth before and one mth after coz i’ll be hiding thanks to audrey and her need to payback for her bday tasks. :-p