Monday, June 30, 2008
If you don't support me, who will?
Finally met up wif the jie meis yesterday at the 4G steamboat. Dunno why, but it felt like there was a distance amongst some of us. Maybe it's cos we haven chatted for a long time, and everyone's jus too caught up and busy wif her own stuff. Anyway, i distributed my wedd invites to them. N to my rather surprised realisation, except for haz and hm, the rest of them are against the idea of dressing up for my themed wedding.
Reason no 1 - "We don't wanna overshadow you", as in, steal away the limelight. Well, i accept their good will, but the point in coming up wif a theme is hoping dat guests, esp jie meis and bros, will come in support of it and have lotsa fun wif us in the process of preparing for it. The wedding is not about two of us only, it's bout everybody. Think I mentioned many times that it's more like a wedd cum party cum d&d cum farewell for us. So i hope it'll be special in a way. Why is it dat themed weddings are so common in ang moh countries, but seems like the chinese are so skeptical bout it. Leela, my ang moh boss, was so excited bout my wedding becos she's totally passionate about the dressing up bit. N nick, her spouse, jus went for another themed wedding by another singaporean couple. The theme was chinese costumes, and he actually went to buy a full set of costume, the chinese hat, the shirt, pants and all. Now that's wat i'm talking about. For guests to feel a sense of involvement n excitement, not jus discussing bout wat's possible to wear, laugh bout it, but in e end discard e whole idea and come dressed in normal gown or shirt n pants.
Reason no 2 - "I dun wanna look stupid". Wow. Wanna know how i felt when i heard dat? Like a pricked balloon. All my enthusiasm n excitement gone. Sounds like me and jw purposely came up wif a theme to make pple look stupid and feel malu. Come on. Why will we thnk of dat and why do people see it that way? Sigh. I realise it's jus a mentality difference. N at tis point in time, when i'm bogged down wif endless things on my list, i really dun wanna think bout too much liao. Wateva they decide bah. It's jus saddening if they feel they are embarrassing themselves by turning up as princesses, as my beloved jie meis, at my wedding. If they feel so forced into it, den i'd rather they not do anything. Sigh. Our cousins n some of my other frenz sounded more enthu bout it, but after yest, i can't help but think dat in the end, not many will come dressed in theme n it'll end up a normal wedding. Sigh.
Guess i can't let myself be bothered too much, and jus see where fate takes it. Cheer up, shuang shuang.
~Summer~ 9:27 AM
Friday, June 27, 2008
It was Head over Heels Hotties nite @ St James on 20 June. =) Hee. A theme thought of by Jasmine, aka our funny, hyperactive, ever-so-bubbly cousin Ah Li. The point is to dress up our heads, be it bandanas, caps, hats, hairbands, hair clips etc. It was a first at St James for some of them, and though no one got really high or drunk, we had a really fun time! Hee. Girl Power!!
Attendees for the nite:
1) Denise --> dressed in blue tube in centre - super hot mum of two, but still have a figure that beats any 25-year-old (shucks, which means myself!!)
2) Shanmei --> dressed in black top at left - my sis-in-law, also a hot mum and has two very very adorable kids, Yuheng & Xuanxuan. Hee.
3) Jasmine --> dressed in black ski cap and black top at right - Yesh that's ah li! Super funny when she imitated all the ski-ing poses, like going up slope and down slope. Haha. She makes every outing filled with joy and laughter!
4) Ah Cheng aka Claudia --> dressed in red cap, between me and haz - Yet another hot mum of two! and the elder is in Pri 6!! Fwahhh.. I wonder if i can be like them when i have two kids. Haha.
5) Meivis --> with curly hair, beside huimin at far back - yesh yesh, that's my make up artist and hairstylist! But for that nite, she was purely my cousin and fren. Woohoo. Jie doesn't really drink, but recently she went with Denise, Jasmine and I to Dempsey and now St James. Wahaha. We even played 5-10! Oh, she wore a hair clip dat nite. At least got effort. hee.
6) Huimin --> dressed in black top and brown hair band at far right - my bridesmaid! who had to work late and came at near 11pm. Waha. Credit goes to her for finding that super big and brown hair band.
7) Hazel --> dressed in black and white checked cap and white earring - my jie mei cum clubbing kaki recently. She had two other groups of frenz at St James tonite. Fwah. Table hopping! Haha.
8) Special appearance - Joanne --> not in above pic. Haha. See below. Also another of my good gal frenz & clubbing kaki. But alas she was very gone dat nite when she came cos her colleagues gave her a farewell drinking session at Boat Quay. Haiz haiz. AND, she had another bdae celebration at Dragonfly so we only managed to take a few pics before me and Haz helped her make her way to meet her frenz. =)
The stick out tongue pic. I wonder why huimin always look so funny when sticking out her tongue. Haha. Anyway I sure will miss the two of them when I go Sweden. Will miss the hip hop classes, the late nite suppers, the prata sessions, the KTVs, the tawning at Haz house, the oogling at Patrick (Boiler's singer!), the heart to heart chats etc..
Love this pic! Hee. So many flying kisses. Hehe. Really glad that I'm starting to bond better wif the gals in jw's family. Haha. Although it's also sad dat juz when we are getting along well, I have to take off to sweden liaoz. But hey! I'll be back very soon! Wahaha. More mahjong sessions, more 6-hour long KTVs, more suppers, more wine sessions!!
Hee. That's Joanne, when she was hmmm two-thirds gone? Haha. She didn't remember taking this pic wif me. Wahaha. Love ya gal!
Me and Denise, aka the two sisters. Hee. Everyone says we look alike. I think so too. Wahaha. & I still think she looks like Chen Hui Shan more. Hee. You should see her dancing Zumba and grooving to Dancing Queen! So cool. =) Nice to have a sis lidat. Hehe. Oh yar, and we played 5-10 too, me and Haz vs Denise and Huimin. Keke.
Right. That's my second hens nite at Boiler. Few of us stayed till Boiler shut down, and then me, Haz and Huimin went for prata at Simpang Bedok. Hee. Finally!!!
Wonder what jw will say when he sees this blog.. Haha.. Happy, surprised? That I had a nite out wif his sis-in-law and cousins. Wahaha. Lalala.
~Summer~ 10:18 AM
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Yeah.. you can see i've been blogging less frequently these days.. it's not becos' I am lazy or I am sick of blogging.. it's becos' I really don't have time.. HAHA.. Let's see, what have I been up to these days..1) Preparing for my wedding - Liaising wif hotel, doing my own videos, doing the wedding favours, finalizing guestlist, sending out invites for both jw and my guests, bringing our parents to hunt for costumes, getting ready the necessities for the guo4 da4 li3 in 2-3 weeks time, doing my ROM scrapbook album, hunting for my tea dress, gg for wine tasting and choosing the wine for our banquet
2) Handing over my work - Have already stopped teaching liaoz. Sigh. Miss my wu lao shi days. As for OMD, my last day is 1 July. & yesh, I dunno if you can imagine it, but the last week is filled with tonnes of things to handover and to pack and to file. Yawnz. & then you end up working OT again becos' you have too many things to pack and too many things to carry home and you end up waiting till 9pm to take the cab. Haha.
3) Sweden matters - Well, the shipment boxes have almost filled up my whole house. Haha. Soon I'll need to pack all my things nicely into the 50 over boxes. Not forgetting I have to go buy back the entire Carrefour first. Haha. Just bought winter clothing and it already cost me a bomb. Can't imagine getting a year's supplies of groceries, canned food, preservatives, household equipment, toiletries, facial products etc. But I guess I have to, cos' I don't even know when's the next time I'll be back in Spore. Besides packing for shipment, I also have to settle my flight and my Visa, which is taking sooo long.
Right. How come I only listed 3 things but it seems like they are taking up almost all my time. Haha. Lalala.
& yesh, in case you are wondering why 26.. it's becos' jw will be back in Singapore in 26 days.. So, YAR, the bride is counting down.. =)
~Summer~ 10:07 AM
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Happened to tune in to the first episode of SuperBand 2 yesterday. Well, obviously it brought back alot of memories, and once again, I felt myself falling into that deep, dark well. It's been nearly a year since he left us. I msged Renee saying the show made me sad, she said she teared up every now and then when watching the show, and Aaron, well, he simply can't bear to watch it yet.
It was then that I realised, it's been quite long since I last teared for him. & somehow, that thought just made me weep uncontrollably in the wee hours last nite, after watching some of his past videos, him playing 'Gao Jie' on the piano for Renee, and listening to the song he wrote for me again. Maybe Aaron is right, time will make everything fade, every pain a little lesser, every loss a little bit easier to bear. Regardless of whether you want it or not. However, the one thing it cannot do, is to erase the pain or heal the wound completely. Never.
So yesterday, I let the wound open up totally and I felt the pain, the loss, the misery that I felt a year ago. I felt sorry that amidst all my blissful events like my ROM and wedding this year, I had kept myself so extremely busy that I didn't spend much time for this old friend of mine. Really sorry. & sad. I wonder how he is now. I hoped to be able to dream of him again. I wished he could be here for my wedding. I wished to be able to see him again. I wished we could dance Lindy Hop like how we did in FOC. I wished I didn't reject going to ECP to meet him (which so happened to be the day jw had his eye stitched up after an injury). I wished he would still pick up the phone if I dialled his number now (which I detest myself for not doing earlier when he din reply my sms-es). I really wished I had the power to turn back time. I wished and I wished and I wished.
I dunnoe. Thinking about all this makes me feel more lost than I ever felt. But yet, I dun wanna stop thinking about all this. I want the pain to be part of me always and I never want it to go away, becos' he will always be a part of me for as long as I shall live. A good friend ain't easy to find, I found him and I never wanna lose him.
Miss ya much, Ishi...
~Summer~ 10:06 AM
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Right. After more than a year of talking about it, Hazel and I finally registered for a dance class together! Wahaha. Last time we learnt exotic dance separately, salsa separately, and we wanted pole dance but couldn't find a common time or we were simply too lazy to be pro-active bout it, so NOW, we finally finally got ourselves into a GrrPower class at Jitterbugs. Well, it's all about Hip Hop, but funky MTV style. Wahaha. Sounds good. I just think I need to sweat and workout abit (if you see how much I gorge myself, you will understand. I just had 4 donuts for teatime yest. And today's lunch I ate teochew noodles, carrot cake, rojak, cheng teng & ice jelly). Pity huimin can't join us. Cos it starts at 7pm on Wed nites, and she doubts she can make it in time to Millennia Walk. Alritey, so it's just me and Haz. Waha. But like how me, sisi and huimin always went for supper after our exotic classes or go clarke quay to chill, we can do it now too and huimin can join in the feast & the drinks! woho.
The last class ends the week that I fly to Sweden. Haha. Perfect timing. =) Then haz has to learn GrrPower 2 on her own. Haha. Well then!! Shall let you noe how well we survived our first class, which starts tonite.. =) Tata!!
~Summer~ 3:45 PM
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
I had the perfect idea for what to give my dad (& mum) for this year's Daddy's Day. Hehe. After our KTV session at Teo Heng (the cheap KTV at Katong Shopping Centre), I was inspired to treat them to a concert. Hehe. Yeah, three of us ACTUALLY went KTV together. Can't remember when we did that, must have been many years ago. So I was really happy and excited that day, plus we went to eat Katong Laksa on the way. I love Katong Laksa! With no jw around since last year, it's been ages since I got to taste it. Hehe. I surprised my parents with many Canto songs and a Hokkien song (Ai Dio Jia Zai Tia by Huang Yi Ling that I learnt from Huimin). HAHAHA. Purposely one. If not they always say I dunno dialects. Keke. Sang so many oldies like Wu Yan De Jie Ju, Yi Zhong Gan Jue, Xuan Zhe, Ku Sha, Zai Yu Zhong etc. Fun! Wish jw was here though, he could have sung the Chen Lei songs. Hehe.
Anyway, I am digressing. Okie. Back to Daddy's Day, what better present than to treat them to the concert of the original singers who sang Yu Yan De Jie Ju??? Wahaha. Ta-Dah. Yeah I know you dunno who they are. Soooooo, let me announce. They are Li Mao Shan and Lin Shu Rong! & they are having their concert here at Singapore Expo on 7 June.
So I went to book two tix online. Cost me $202! But quite good seats for this category, so I was quite happy. & right after I booked, I had another perfect idea. Why not get jw's parents to go along too and let the four of them have a good time together? wahaha. So, I dished out my idea to jw and he approved immediately. Keke. I called sistic to book 2 more tickets so that they can all sit side by side. Yeah. So we spent a total of $404!! Haha. Quite a spendthrift for a couple who's holding their banquet next month rite. But well, even if I exhaust my savings, it's worth it if it brings a smile on my beloved mummy's and daddy's faces.
Hope they'll enjoy it!! Will bring all 4 of them for dinner first before the concert. & after they enter the max pavillion I will make my way to St James to meet Haz and Huimin. Haha. Good plan!!~
Happy happy daddy's day to all daddies in the world, in advance... =)
~Summer~ 11:05 AM
Monday, June 02, 2008
Yeah.. you guessed it.. I'm in a lethargic, sleepy, lazy, just-feel-like-nuaing mood.. =) Wahaha.. I wanna be like the BB and sleep wif my fav teddy bear beside me..Maybe it's due to the ROM preparations, the late nite parties, or simply from working 6 days per week for the past 2.5 years (for nearly 1 year, it was 7 days per week, i.e. EVERYDAY).. I dunnoe.. just feels like I have a dire need of sleep.. Wahaha..
That's not good news.. considering that I still have a lengthy To-Do list to follow up on for my big day.. wahaha.. So, just gotta survive until 26 July, and I'll finally finally be able to take a good, long break.. YAYYYYYY... jia you jia you jia jia you..
No more work at OMD, no more teaching at Berries, no more having to wake up super early every morning.. No more no more! Haha. Sounds good to me now, but you know what, somehow I know I will miss the feeling of being busy.. Becos' I'm too used to it, and I actually like it that I am so busy that I dun zzz alot. Yar. Call me a weirdo. Haha. But I will definitely miss this feeling. Of having not enuff time for my frenz, my family and myself..
Whatever the case, I'm looking forward to a new life, a new beginning, a new home wif junwei in Sweden. Can't wait to deco our apartment. Can't wait to see how he has decorated it. Keke. =) Can't wait to get the fireplace going. That's a priority on my list. =p Lalala. Signing off. Tata!!
~Summer~ 4:24 PM
Introducing to you my new found love.. Hehe.. Connie Talbot!!~ Wif her debut album "Over the rainbow"... Well maybe alot of you have heard of her already, ever since she became a singing sensation on British Got Talent. Anyway, I went to buy her album last week. Woohoo! Really wanna listen to her voice... The amazing, melodious voice of the little 6-year-old..
Her rendition of classics such as Judy Garland's Over The Rainbow and Michael Jackson's Ben melted the heart of Simon Cowell, and stunned viewers worldwide. What I love is that sense of innocence in her. She sings because she really adores singing! & she sings with every bit and inch of her heart and soul, which is why it is so touching.
She also sang "I will always love you" (you know, the all-time favourite by Whitney Houston), and when asked if she understood the lyrics, she nodded and said yes, and that she sang it for her grandmother. Sob Sob. So sweet.
She has had no formal vocal training though. So I guess, some people are just born with it right? Haha. Now she is 7 years old, and has travelled to many countries including Singapore to promote her album.
She said that she hopes to make the world happy with her singing, and that's the reason why she insisted on continuing to sing. Well. That's the best reason one can give. So, ALL THE WAY Connie!!~
~Summer~ 11:22 AM