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

1. LOSE WEIGHT (because I can't gain anymore D:)
2. Move into my new house before June!
3. Get a cat. :D
4. Go for my honeymoon (godknowswhere yet.)
5. Go Hongkong (sometime, anytime)
6. Learn how to cook more stuff!
7. Learn how to do housework... D:
8. Be a supportive, fantastic wife.
9. Be a better friend! (because I know I'm not)
10. Secret.
11. Secret.
12. 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! :)

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!

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. 

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...

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!