The Nightingale: 2012

Mirror mirror on the wall, whose nose is shiniest of 'em all!

My life is generally mundane and uneventful (which is a good thing, actually! *PEACE*), but I'll have to say that 2012 is probably the most remarkable year I ever had. As the year is coming to a close, I'm thanking my lucky stars that 2012 went well. :)

On 24th March 2012, we got married (legally) and did our solemnisation ceremony at TAB under the witness of many loved ones. On 2nd April 2012, we took our first couple trip together to Taiwan. :) On 23rd May 2012, we marked our 10th year together. During September 2012, we went house shopping and bought our very own 5-room HDB resale flat. And of course, on 15th December 2012, we officially tied the knot, went through all that Chinese traditional marriage shiznit and held our wedding dinners at M hotel/Intercontinental hotel. :)

Next year, I will be happily settling into my new status, doing up my love nest, and doing alot more planning. More and more changes are beckoning, and it will get alot tougher from now on, but I'm not afraid as I have my husband supporting me at every step of the way. I WILL SURVIVE!!! *screams*

Every year, I draw up a set of resolutions that I mostly don't fulfill (don't we all!), but this time it'll be different! I'm trying to be a little more realistic. XP

LOSE WEIGHT (because I can't gain anymore D:)
Move into my new house before June!
Get a cat. :D
Go for my honeymoon (godknowswhere yet.)
Go Hongkong (sometime, anytime)
Learn how to cook more stuff!
Learn how to do housework... D:
Be a supportive, fantastic wife.
Be a better friend! (because I know I'm not)
Secret.
Secret.
Secret.

The ones 'Secret' will be "unlocked" when things actually get moving. I'm too shy to say what.

Anyways.

Wishing everyone a lovely year ahead! The world didn't end, and that's a pretty good start.

It's done.

We cannot thank our guests enough for gracing their presence at our wedding, because it's really the blessings that made it super special.

A huge mega mega mega thank you to our brothers and sisters who did so much for us and without complaints. So touched and blessed! :)

Apparently the gate crash lasted for ONE HOUR long, and it was tough (like... VERY tough). My groom so poor thing! He was all sweaty and tired-looking (with some leftover lipstick nonetheless) when he fetched me and so I gave him a passionate muack.

Okay, this is SOP lah, so it wasn't much of a reward (LOL).

There were too many memorable moments to write and so I have no idea where to begin... It was a day of frenzy and more frenzy, but of course there's fun! We had our actual day photoshoot at Changi Airport Terminal 3 due to the unstable weather instead of the Punggol Lalang field but we had fun nonetheless. :) Update with more photos later when my photographer returns his goods! The most memorable part of our wedding was the first march-in. I was in between laughter and tears.

Tears - because I was so touched by the blessings from all our loved ones. There were no words to describe the overwhelming feeling I had (being the drama queen I am, yup).

Laughter - because we were almost buried alive by flower petals. I heard some people just HURLED the plates of petals onto us (thanks ah lol). ALOT of the petals went into my cleavage and I had to pick them out discreetly (while ascending the stage - I hope no one saw me do that *tak glam*).

The wedding planning journey was long and arduous, but I must say I have GREAT taste (buay hiao bai abit) and engaged super awesome vendors. :)

La Belle Couture - Peiwen was my coordinator and I adored her! She wasn't pushy at all when we were BS shopping and gave us great service. LBC was actually the first shop we went to but we signed with them anyway without looking at the rest. We didn't regret it one bit! They had many many beautiful gowns and it was so hard to choose! I thought I wouldn't have as much choices, being big-sized and all but surprisingly that wasn't an issue. Peiwen also gave good suggestions when picking out my gowns. My husband also had a fair pick of groom's jackets! There were a greater variety than I expected for guys, and he picked a pearl beige one for his day suit and a navy striped one for night.

Peiwen was very prompt in replies and proactive in scheduling appointments. I must compliment Vivi, my MUA from LBC as well. She has magic fingers! I love how she made my MU so glamorous yet not too over the top, and she was so fun and chirpy to talk to. Never a dull moment with her!

Yumetori - My live band consists of Ariel the vocalist and emcee, Ian the keyboardist, Amos the vocalist cum guitarist and Alvin on drums. Ariel has a lovely velvet voice that filled the venue and made it so complete. She's a pretty good emcee too! The band really played a huge part in uplifting the ambience and we loved it. :) I will definitely recommend Yumetori to everyone!

Moving Pics - A billion kudos to CP, my videographer! The SDE was WOW!!! I took a peek through the door and I think many of my guests were blown away because I heard nothing less than fantastic comments. I kept laughing! The footages were all so brilliant. I can't wait to watch the full video! Will most probably screen it at our housewarming party next year. :D

Darren Francis - Darren is so fun and engaging, always making people laugh/smile when they looked stiff while taking photos. I havent seen his works yet but I had a sneak preview of one photo from our mini photoshoot at the airport and I loved it! When taking table to table photos he was also super fast and good at people arrangement. My dad said he liked him alot (though he havent seen any photos yet lol).

Thanks to my dad for lending us his car as well! My Rilakkuma wedding bears totally stole the show on the road, people were smiling and pointing to it when we stopped at the traffic light, lol.

I loved my wedding and I'm missing every moment of it already. Best memories I ever had. :)

My married life has officially started - so excited for the next chapter of our lives! HUAT AH!

We just had our final 姐妹 meeting this morning, at North Point and I had alot of thoughts on the way home.

The realism of everything is setting in. "老娘 is having a wedding! ._." I'm going to be criticized by the husband for being so slow (again) but oh wells. D:

I've had people asking me "So how? Are you excited?" Yes and no. Yes because I'm sure it's going to be best event of my life. No because I'm a micro-managing a**hole.

My bridesmaids/sisters have been very encouraging and helpful throughout the planning journey, and I'm glad to have picked out really great ones. :D I feel and know, that these girls are doing their very best for me. It's strange, the way fate works, to be able to meet people that truly accept and believe in me, and they put in so much effort for me to be happy. You don't meet alot of people like that usually, but then there's this bunch. :) So blessed.

Thanks to them, I had a mad awesome bachelorette's party on 1st December.

Hen's Night!

Crazy bride-to-be. RAWR.

They arranged for a surprise self-shot photoshoot at Cheezz Studio! More photos to be uploaded later because my notebook currently does not have a CD drive to extract the pictures. >_< Then I was brought to Bugis+ to do a load of crazy things on a dare... I can only say, I die also will not step into Bugis+ for the next ten years. PAISEH DIE ME LOR. >_<" And then we went to K-Suites for ktv! I felt so heng sai because I can't drink to save my life so I'm not really into the clubs thing, plus I really like ktv (no secret there!).

It's the first time we went K-Suites and the sound system was really good! Food not bad too. However the staff there were damn stingy, don't let us upgrade room though not much people were there! It was 老娘's bachelorette's night leh! *rolls eyes* After constant haggling by my sister, they "upgraded" us to another room which was only slightly less claustrophobic. *rolls eyes again*

The night ended pretty early, with some logistics trouble I had with Gin Thye (long story, and I was super upset!) but I loved the night. Will remember this night forever. :D

Guo Da Li

The next day, I had my 過大禮. It was really a 過大禮 "party" where people come to collect cakes instead of having to drive everywhere to give them out! A stroke of genius.

Huat ah!

Believe it or not, I had about 65 cakes in total, not including the extra Bengawan Solo vouchers my mum bought. Can open cake shop already! I had one or two of the cakes (my mum bought extra, not from husband so I never break any traditions ok!) and they were yummy! I love traditional cream cakes with the gooey colourful syrupy things on top.

However there was a huge screw-up by Gin Thye. My mum ordered extra 15 boxes of Cantonese cakes and 2 of the boxes were wrong - they gave us cream cakes instead, which was okay lah... chin chye lor... But the thing was...

Looks nice from far right?

Look again! GINORMOUS PATCH OF MOLD!!! D:

The cakes looked good on top, but the sides were darkened... and there were cobweb-like stuff all around the cakes. What would've happened if we never opened up to check? People could've gotten food poisoning from this! I will be reporting this to NEA/AVA, possibly after my wedding. Imagine the contamination in their chiller for all the other cakes! Sigh. We forced them to replace the two boxes of cakes, and they still had the cheek to tell us to go collect from their outlet. It's like... "HELLO? I'm having my 過大禮 now???" =_= Then they relented and sent the two boxes to my door step eventually.

Other than that, overall, 過大禮 ended without much incident. :)

The countdown begins. SEVEN DAYS TO GO! D:

Oh kay I was supposed to finish writing this by 27 Nov but... oh well.

I joined the OMY Blog Club recently because of its amazing perks and opportunities to win free stuff... #sosingaporean and I actually did! The email arrived on a Monday when I felt sucky (as usual, having blues and all that) and I decided to give it a shot and RSVPed for the movie screening. Only 50 pairs of tickets were available so I was really lucky to win a pair of tickets to watch Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2!

I tried just about over 10 times to finish watching the first movie just because everyone loved it and I'm the groupie sort... but I got bored because romance was never really my thing. But I pressed on and the following movies weren't half bad. I mean, there's Jacob's HOT BOD TO LOOK AT!!!

After I broke the news to the husband excitedly, he gave me a deadpan response. Firstly, he's never really into Twilight either. Secondly, the cinema is in the vicinity of his workplace and he was like "Why should I come here even on the weekends?! *groan*".

谁知道... XD

The Golden Village cinema at City Square Mall is its newest with six auditoriums - one of which is the "couple's cinema" where you can cosy up with your partner while enjoying the movie!

So chiozzzzz!

Look at those plushy cushy seats! OH YEA.

The normal seats are actually nice and plushy too!

Cushy plushy!

All six cinemas at the spanking new City Square Mall Golden Village Multiplex have stadium seating, wall-to-wall digital screens with crystal-clear 2K digital projection, 7.1 Dolby digital sound and premium-grade EAW® speakers from the United States. Sibei high tech can!

We were kind of almost late for the movie so I didn't get the opportunity to get any self-taken photos, hurhur. We were seated somewhere in the lower-middle part of the auditorium but the screen's size was just nice! We didn't have to strain our necks or anything. The leg room was ample and the seats were super comfortable. The husband even mentioned that he'll meet me after work to watch movies here instead - I could tell he really enjoyed the seats... he's a sucker for these things.

Okay, onto the movie.

Family.

I can't help but gush over how adorable Renesmee is! She has the most beautiful eyes.

The last movie for the series was quite exciting, but at the end... those who watched would know what I'm talking about. Overall I believe we enjoyed the movie but were unsure of the ending. I've never read the books so I can't make comparisons (like how I critique Harry Potter movies to the death). But as an avid reader/movie fan in general, I would've liked to have seen how the Cullens associate with other covens and a more intense rivalry with the Volturi. The story is too simple, and places too much focus on how Bella die die also want to become vampire and her love story with Edward.

Till then.

Thanks thanks thanks Golden Village and OMY for the movie! :) If not for these tickets, I might not have found out how awesome this new cinema is!

To make myself more motivated to earn more moolah, I'm going to set a target buy every year.

Celine Black Mini Luggage Tote

This costs like 3k in SGD (if prices stop skyrocketing) and I will buy this by end 2013. It won't be an IT bag forever but it's quite versatile and black leather is timeless.

2013 is going to be one of the most climatic years of my life. For one thing, I'm moving on to the next phase in life of being a married woman. I'll give my CNY angpaos for the first time (OH NOOOOO!!!), renovate and move into the first house I own in this lifetime, and take on all the additional responsibilities of being a wife.

Marriage is, as expected, not romantic - more like a partnership, or merger of two organizations (or families, in this case). I will need to learn how to cook (though I've cooked before, like a million years ago), how to do household chores, and be less stubborn or 'xiao jie'. It's inevitably tough, like being stabbed in the eye every time I hear of yet another expectation of me, but like I said... it's inevitable, because I really want to be a good wife to my man. I'm not perfect (far from it) but at least I want to do my best.

Next year will be tough. The husband will be overseas very often at least for the first half of the year due to work, so I might have to oversee the house renovation on my own. The next thing I need to do is get a driving license, at the ripe old age of 27 going 28, by next year... realized that I am actually quite handicapped without one.

I've given some serious thought to my future as well. What do I see myself doing after five years, and after ten years? Actually I've come to terms with the fact that it's more practical to earn money to invest in your passion than to work for passion - when it comes to the time you need to feed and be fed, life's a different story altogether. Everything's about money these days... houses, cars, education; everything is expensive and you'll have to compromise just because. I guess I'll take some kind of action next year.

Change is scary, but most likely the only way to soar higher. We'll see.

A death happened last Thursday... It was so abrupt, and he was way too young for this. It's too heart-wrenching to elaborate further, so I won't. Life is really too fragile, and most of the time way too short. It is so, so important to treasure the people around you... your friends, your family. Regret is too late once a soul of a loved one goes to heaven.

The rush begins! Countdown is less than a month now. So many wedding preps undone. D: There's really alot on my mind nowadays. Really stressed out. :(

Stuff to do:

~~Fix appointment with La Belle Couture for final fitting and choosing accessories~~ - Done; 10 Dec, 7.30pm

Confirm make-up artist for MIL's make-up on 15 Dec and sister's make-up on 16 Dec.

Confirm wet weather programme for mini-photoshoot during AD.

Order helium balloons for mini-photoshoot.

Buy flower hair accessories for sisters.

Finish planning AD schedule.

Emcee script.

Data entry and formatting for guest list & seating arrangement.

Mail out invites.

DIY: Angpao boxes x 2

DIY: Reception standees

DIY: Love Contract

And so forth... can't remember! D:

HDB appointment is happening next Friday! I dunno what to expect, but I do hope everything goes well...

Things to bring for the first HDB appointment:

Both our I/Cs

Marriage certificate

Resale checklist (with our agent)

Letter of Offer (from the bank)

Option to Purchase (just in case, not listed in HDB website)

Most likely getting our keys in the first week of Jan and we can officially start renovation! :) Since we're not rushing for CNY, I'm thinking of halting the works one week before CNY and continue one week or so after that... should be in time to move in by March.

Bits & pieces of my wedding stuff/decorations...

Rilakuma wedding bears for car decoration. Super cutez! Best purchase ever.

Ginormous 'Xi'!

An assortment of 'Xi's.

Wedding angpows.

Cute in a 'cheena' way wedding album.

Red fan for me to 'drop' when the wedding car goes off.

Red umbrella to shelter me from any lurking evil within the vicinity or something.

Ferris wheel photo frame! Am going to display this during reception.

Glass photo frame from my taiwanese bridal. Going to display this at the reception as well!

It's kind of weird having a wedding that is going to last two days long, but... at least I'll get to wear another gown. *positive*

No time to lose my arm fats! ...I hope my photographer has rad photoshop skills.

I was eating non-stop for the week and after during mid-October as laoniang became officially 27.

Korean BBQ for dinner on 12 Oct with colleagues. Delightfully 'meatilicious'.

The husband was working on my actual birthday, so he brought me out for sushi at Itacho on 13 Oct.

I forgot the name of this... tamagoyaki-something. See, I'll totally suck as a food blogger. ._. But this was delicious. The eggs went so perfectly with whatever's inside.

The husband wanted to buy me a whole cake, but I decided on having tea (at like 9pm lol) instead. We went into Pique Nique, a nifty looking cafe place.

My cake tasted quite dry and crappy. Husband's cake tasted aLOT better. I'm such a bad judge of cakes.

It wasn't a lavish affair, but I was pretty happy with the celebration. :)

On 14 Oct, I had food tasting for my wedding at Intercontinental on 16 Dec... which more or less turned out to be a free birthday dinner with the family.

Needless to say, the food was amazing. They had real crab meat (not the NTUC crabsticks hor!) in their fried rice and HUGE (like REALLYYYYY HUGE) portions for everything. The fish was my favourite... I would eat all ten if I could.

On my actual birthday on 15 Oct, I nua-ed for most of the day and joined the husband plus the 二姐 gang (lol :x) at Poulet, the french chicken place at Bugis+. The queue was LONG but I was late, so... it was our turn when we made it. :P

Tasted pretty good overall! I'll keep this place in mind. :D

Had my second food tasting for my wedding at M hotel during that same week. Food was pretty good too! The garnishing wasn't too desirable but generally the food was great.

Felt shiok to see our names on screen! *suaku*

Overall satisfied! :)

Ariel from Yumetori (check them out! :D), my wedding band, came to recce as well, and we agreed to top-up for the sound system because we felt it was necessary. We're having a four-piece band with vocals, guitarist, keyboards and percussion.

Final Song List

First March-in: It’s Real – Olivia Ong

Second March-in: 一家一 – 梁静茹 & 张智成

Wishes – Emi Fujita

Layla Kayliff – Shakespeare in Love

Bubbly – Colbie Caillat

Rest of my life – Bruno Mars

Nothing’s Gonna Change My Love For You – George Benson

最浪漫的事 –赵咏华

When you say nothing at all – Ronan Keating

Far Longer Than Forever - Regina Belle & Jeffrey Osborne

You and Me – Olivia Ong

Yellow – Coldplay

最想环游的世界 – 梁静茹

Always you – Charice Pempengco

Just you and me – Zee Avi

I wanna be with you – Mandy Moore

Two Words – Lea Salonga

Close to You

今天你要嫁给我 - 陶吉吉 & 蔡依林

I want to hold your hand – Beatles

Let Me Be Your Wings – Thumbelina Soundtrack

Every breath you take – Sting/Emi Fujita

Way Back into Love – Hugh Grant & Haley Bennett

We agreed that we'll open song dedications for the second half of the wedding... I have to remember to place song dedication notes on each table! I hope it'll be fun. :)

Checklist of things to bring around in bride's bag during AD:

Bride's items

1) Handphone, house keys, I/C, money pouch.
2) Make-up pouch (to touch up!)
3) Wet wipes/make-up remover
4) Tissue paper & wet tissue
5) Pen
6) Safety pins
7) White chalk
8) Basic sewing kit
9) Oil Blotter
10) Mints
11) Hairspray
12) Bottle of water with straw
13) Hair pins
14) Eyelash glue
15) Compact mirror
16) Handiplast & Panadol

Groom's items

1) Handphone, house keys, I/C, money pouch.
2) Wet wipes/make-up remover
3) Tissue paper
4) Pen
5) Hair wax
6) Compact mirror
7) Oil blotter
8) Gastric Pills/Medicated Oil/Panadol/Charcoal Pills for Diarrhoea (LOL)

Checklist of things to bring to hotel on AD:
(other than the above)

Bride's items

1) Wedding Gown
2) Evening Gown
3) Make-up pouch (to touch up!)
4) Hair and Wear-on Accessories to match with the all the gowns
5) Shoes for 1st & 2nd March-in
6) Floral bouquet

Groom's items

1) Suit for 1st-march in
2) Suit for 2nd-march in
3) Bow-ties/ties
4) Cuff-links
5) Belt
6) Tailored Shirts
7) Corsages
8) Socks for March-in
9) Shoe pads

Miscellaneous items

1) Wedding Album
2) Big Portrait
3) Decorative Items (to list down in details)
4) Guest Book
5) Guest List to take attendance
6) ROM Highlights DVD
7) Pre-wedding Slideshow CD

We have exercised the OTP last week, paid the rest of the deposit, and successfully gotten ourselves ~~in debt for the rest of our frickin' lives~~ a bank loan from DBS. The package was not the cheapest in the market, but there'll be a cap no matter how the floating rate fluctuates. I've gotten a lawyer friend to act on my behalf for the purchase as well, and we're off to our first HDB appointment on 23rd November!

I did intensive research for house stuff via Google and Renotalk recently, and I've pretty much decided (without the husband's consultation, no less... haha) on having a Scandinavian-inspired theme for our house.

Basically it is kinda minimalist/modern... a good style for us who are not rich enough to do anything too fancy LOL. Anyway I like the clean lines and 'woody' feel.

Re-looked at IDs and contractors, and revised my shortlist...

1. Darren, Plush Living (because Joey is using this ID and she's quite happy so far!)
2. Henry, ID Note (good reviews!)
3. Roy Tan, IR Design (good reviews plus I have friend(s) who engaged him before)
4. Jimmy Tan, 3D Innovations (good reviews!)
5. Mr. K (good reviews, especially in Renotalk!)
6. A Home Story (like their works! reviews seem not bad too)
7. Mr Yeak, Basic Image & Design (reviews good too, and I need more contractor options!)
8. Mr Chong, Chng Png Guan Renovation (another contractor)
9. Artist Room (big maybe, afraid that they might be expensive)

I cried a little when Joey departed for New Zealand today... because she's getting wed. :)

Angela organized a most wonderful bachelorette party (which left me quite horrified, since I'm next!) with a yummilicious dinner at Shuffle and a wild time at Butter. :P Though it was kinda awkward at first, the other bridesmaids were pretty fun and I foresee us having a great time kicking Eugene's ass in the near future (during gate crash lah). ;D

The lovely bride-to-be.

Since we won't able to celebrate the bride-to-be's birthday while she's overseas, we bought a birthday cake for the occasion and it was a SURPRISE!

Took a picture since this was my 杰作... The rest of the pictures not with moi, will update soon! :)

Before the party, Angela and I went to this L'EGERE event by Kevin 老师 on Superstar Virgo and he had a sharing session with the audience. Quite informative, and I bought some of the products at a steal, hurhur.

Hitting town and the road less travelled soon for home's lovelies. Of course, we'll also be hitting the usual furniture haunts at The Furniture Mall (namely the one at Toh Guan), IMM, Park Mall, IFC (plus the rest of Sungei Kadut) and IKEA.

We really need a car to access all the 'ulu-er' places... *sigh* Too poor from wedding and house purchase!!!

Lorgan's Design Source Pte Ltd
Century Warehouse
100 East Pasir Panjang Road #01-03
Singapore 118521
+65 6272 4988

Pomelo Home
Tan Boon Liat Building
315 Outram Road #10-04
Singapore 169074
+65 6226 4663

Koda/Commune
Commune store: #02-51 Millenia Walk, Raffles Boulevard
+65 6338 3823

Warehouse outlet: 28 Defu Lane 4, Singapore 539424
+65 6282 9882

Grafunkt (Flagship Store)
85 Playfair Road
#02-01 Tong Yuan Industrial Building
Singapore 368000
+65 6281 8465

Air Division (Flagship Store)
28 Wilkie Road
#01-01 Sophia Flats
Singapore 228051
+65 6336 0662

Hommage Trading
37 Jalan Pemimpin
Clarus Centre Block B #06-04
Singapore 577177
+65 6282 5986

White Woods Living (Flagship Store)
85 Playfair Road
#02-02 Tong Yuan Industrial Building
Singapore 368000
+65 6289 4889

Egg3 (Flagship Store)
85 Playfair Road
#07-01 Tong Yuan Industrial Building
Singapore 368000
+65 6281 2197 / +65 6345 5200

Space Furniture
77 Bencoolen Street
Singapore 189653
+65 6415 0000

Marquis Q Square
16 Tai Seng Street
Singapore 534138
+65 6383 0119

Like That One
2 Bukit Batok St 24
Skytech #01-02
Singapore 659480
+66 6560 9168

Atomi
#04-27 Mandarin Gallery
333a Orchard Road
Singapore 238897
+65 6887 4138

Comfort Furniture (Flagship Store)
110 Eunos Ave 7
Comfort Design Building
Singapore 409573
+65 6747 7217 (office)
+65 6747 4809 (showroom)

Avanni Design
74 Sungei Kadut Loop
Singapore 729513
+65 6369 3483

Kuka Home
62 Sungei Kadut Loop
#03-07/09 International Furniture Centre
Singapore 729507
+65 6364 2190

Right. It's like 2 and a half months' away and I'm feeling less than ready. *snorts*

Schedule
6 Oct - Getting our wedding invites from T-Dragon
14 Oct - Food-tasting @ Intercontinental + Choosing themes & favours
21 Oct - Food-tasting @ M Hotel + Choosing themes & favours (Recce by Yumetori)
27 Oct - Bridesmaids' Meeting (work out agenda with Angela)

Outstanding Stuff
- Wedding Bears
- 喜 stickers
- Tea Set
- Bedsheets
- Purchase of Bridesmaids' dresses
- Pearl earrings
- Angpow for helpers
- Guestlist (my parents' side)
- Angpow Box (Bird cages?)
- Love Contract
- Reception Decor
- Wedding cakes
- AD schedule (to email to Darren Francis & CP Moving Pics)
- Final decision on location for mini-photoshoot
- Book manicure appointment
- Final fitting in December (date/time TBC)

So much to do, but so little time...

Went for my make-up trial at La Belle Couture today... for some reason, my coordinator seemed quite 'high'! :P

Okay, my expression was damn act cute during the session... the MUA kept making me giggle and laugh! I had fun, and felt so comfortable with her. :D

I don't worry that much about make-up because (1) my MUA Vivi has good reviews (2) I actually don't look very different without make-up... to most MUAs I should be some sort of an idiot-proof palette. But Vivi still managed to wow me... I loved it! I felt like some Korean chiobu.

Probably will look a little more dramatic when Vivi puts on falsies for me on my actual wedding. I never really liked my lower lashes because they trap dust easily and it's damn annoying. Finally see them put to great use! I actually liked my lower lashes after make-up. :D

After the trial, we went to Tonkotsu King for ramen. It is like THE best ramen in my list!

Located at #01-19 of Orchid Hotel at Tras Link, it is a stone's throw away from Tanjong Pagar MRT Station and it's always crowded on weekday evenings. Thankfully, we reached there at an awkward timing and there weren't that many people.

They have free-flow tau gey and hard boiled eggs! The tau gey was quite yummy, especially considering that I'm not a tau gey person. I opt out tau gey for my mee rebus, vhar kway teow and laksa, and I cringe at the sight of a tau gey dish... but the tau gey at Tonkotsu King was good.

For the ramen, you can either choose the standard Tonkotsu Ramen, the Red Spicy version or the Black Spicy version, and you'll have options for nori/seaweed topping, the egg (runny yolk!), or all of the above. Both the husband and I ordered the Red Spicy version, and "all of the above" for toppings. :P

The broth was thick and flavourful but not overpowering... the chunks of chashu were HUGE (can't really see from pic, they're under the noodles)... and the ramen was soft and chewy... Mmm. *slurp* I'll be heading there again soon!

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