Filed under: Sensory Indulgence
Love this song by Take That. 
Filed under: 大 喜喜 事
Hubs-to-be wanted to make use the weekend to check out more bridal stuff, and so we went to check out La Belle Couture, one of the listed places I had mentioned before.
I wasn’t very impressed. She couldn’t choose the right type of dress for me!
The thing is, I told her I wanted a halter dress. I know that I have horrible hips to hide and I’ve got broad shoulders to show off. But she kept giving me tubey ones until the last two, of which only the last one looked better than the rest.
And still, there was so much lace, so much embroidery… or should I say, too much.
So…
Then, we decided to go back to La Vie because Hubs-to-be was very enamoured with Jeff’s gowns, which, in my opinion, are really quite exquisite. We checked out sample albums and done-up photos, and decided that La Vie seems like a very plausible option because the gowns are nice, the photography is not bad…
So we’ve got some time to consider which bridal shop to go to, since we’re really in no big hurry.
After all, we still have a bridal show at The Aisle to attend on 15 November.
However, after looking at this website, who did hers at Bridal Veil at a relatively reasonable price, we’ve decided to go check it out too!
So 2 more places to go… and we will be done with the dress
Filed under: 大 喜喜 事
Since I had the time to nua at home today, I decided to find out more about the various bridal boutiques around…
… and I was so overwhelmed I started to stress out.
Then he was like, hello? The wedding is in November next year?
But… I like getting things done. Or at least finding out what I need to get done.
So I’ve decided to list down what I need to do… or rather, what we need to do:
I have come up with… The List.
Was watching Made of Honor (Patrick Dempsey is show hawt), and there was this part when Hannah told Tom that she was going to marry Colin and then the song played:
Oasis – Stop Crying Your Heart Out
Hold up
Hold on
Don’t be scared
You’ll never change what’s been and goneMay your smile
Shine on
Don’t be scared
Your destiny may keep you warm‘Cause all of the stars are fading away
Just try not to worry you’ll see them some day
Take what you need and be on your way
And stop crying your heart outGet up
Come on
Why you scared
You’ll never change what been and gone‘Cause all of the stars are fading away
Just try not to worry you’ll see them some day
Take what you need and be on your way
And stop crying your heart outWhere all of the stars will fade away
Just try not to worry you’ll see them some day
Just take what you need and be on your way
And stop crying your heart outStop crying your heart out…
So nice.
…
Re-read some stuff someone wrote, and I realized that I was really such a bitch.
I guess it’s all about right people, right time after all.
…
Am gonna look at 3 other boutiques before making the final decision. There are just so many designs and so many different types of gowns out there! So overwhelming 
Was out for nearly 12 hours today doing loads of stuff, and it has been fun but kinda tiring…
Went for a secondary school fair today to help out with promoting the school, and I talked so much! Didn’t help when the weather was so incredibly humid and not all the fans in the classroom were working learnt quite a fair bit in terms of interacting with primary 6 kids and telling them more about the school
…
Went for our first (and might be the only) bridal boutique because they were having this promotion where they have this collaboration with one of my favourite photographers, and we were having lots of fun choosing gowns for me
The feeling is just so surreal, looking myself in huge white dresses attempting to make my waist small.
And I felt so… warm and fuzzy, as he sat there watching and telling the designer what he thought would look good on me.
The designer was a pretty nice guy too
Need to really consider long and hard if this boutique shall be the one for us, because we’ve only got 1 week to decide before the promotion is off!
But so far… I quite like what I see, so the likelihood to staying with them should be high.
We’ve also decided on the hotel already, although we haven’t actually gotten back to them. Haha. 
We did take a look at another hotel which had a very nice view of the port, but we didn’t feel comfortable with how fluid things could be; we much prefer to get what we see, and not imagine what we would get…
So fun
…
Had some time to kill before going over to his friend’s daughter’s 1st birthday party, and so we went to Dempsey to check out a car wash event (I swear, Adrian Pang is just so hot), ate some Ben & Jerry’s (strawberry cheesecake is nice, but NOT helpful AT ALL to losing weight and fitting into that gown), and had a neck and shoulder massage at our favourite place.
Looking at so many kids at the party, I wonder when it’ll be our turn.
There’s just so many things I want to do with you.
I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with you.
Filed under: Oozing Overload
It has been extremely tiring, the past few days.
My 3-week training course started on Tuesday, and I would be soaked in sweat from head to toe from practising drills and marching and stuff every day.
My arms ache. My feet hurt.
I look forward to showers everyday.
And I’m so glad that it will be Friday tomorrow. Looking forward to the weekend!
It’s finally over.
First thing in the morning was a mad rush to return the scripts to the kids, and… well, most of them could have done better, but it was their first exam for the year so I guess they just need to get used to this. Some did better than I’ve expected, some did worse, but well, it’s a good learning experience for everyone, including myself.
I’ve learnt a lot in this short period of time undertaking form teacher-ship. I needed to grow so quickly so soon, because I had additional responsibilities and obligations to deal with. My class had grown so much, and I’m proud of what they have become (or are becoming).
I guess I should have planned my departure better. I should have told them how proud I was of them, and how I wish I could be their form teacher again. But those words got stuck in my heart, and never got out of my mouth. Perhaps being in a stereotypical Chinese family had hindered me from expressing my true emotions, especially when they are needed the most.
But it’s ok, I guess. I need the emotional distancing anyway. It’ll be good, for them and for myself.
Need to really thank my co-form, though. She’ll be handling them for the remaining 2 weeks, and there are tons of admin work to settle
Well, I do hope that I can follow through with them to the next year. It’ll be a strenuous uphill climb, though…
…
Met up with the social events coordinator at the hotel where we planned to have the dinner, and we were quite pleased with what we saw
Am starting to wonder, though, how can we make it more special, more truly us?
…
Met up with the bestie like after a million years, and we had dinner at Pasta de Waraku at Marina Square.
Nice pasta, and I had another macha fix. Yums!
Adjourned to IndoChine for some drinks before heading off.
It’s been a long while since we last hung out like this, and it was nice.
Filed under: Oozing Overload
1. Chaperoning the students to the museum. They found it boring, but I thought it was pretty interesting!
2. Discovering my love for the iPhone. I wanna get one 
(yes, I’m quite slow with respect to being hyped up over it…)
3. Calling up one bridal boutique today to make an appointment for next week. Need to keep my fingers crossed to see if the designs are nice!
4. Looking through the results of the cohort and am quite comforted to say that their results are pretty ok.
5. Telling my form class that tomorrow is my last day of school with them.
and finally, nua-ing
Marked near 280 scripts, and I’m finally done.
Wasn’t too pleased with what I saw what I collated the marks for their first paper.
And then I wondered, is it just me or it’s them as well? Was the first paper (of which I set) that bad?
Either way, it’s already over and there’s nothing that can be done anymore.
At least for now.
Can’t wait to collate their marks for their second paper before I really know how they have fared.
Hope it won’t be as bad as I have imagined…
…
Will be going for this two and a half weeks course, and… I guess I’m half looking forward to it.
Half not looking forward to it because I would be missing the last two weeks of my first academic year.
Can’t even say a proper goodbye or pass them their report books.
Oh well.
The course does look a teensy bit interesting, so… we’ll see how it goes.
As usual.
…
We checked out our first hotel (machiam we are buying over one hahaha), and we weren’t very impressed.
We’ll be visiting two other places next week (or is it three?), and I guess we would probably settle on one as soon as we could.
We were originally thinking of a rooftop thing, but seems like no one has ever done an entire dinner on it. Sigh. But well, one of the places that we were looking at has lovely themes; hopefully we can customize it and make the entire thing less cliche!
So exciting
(by her.)
It feels surreal wearing a ring on my ring finger, and seeing it sparkle so brightly at me everyday.
I’m not quite used to the fact that it’s there. Maybe I never like feeling bounded, which explains the lack of accessories on my hands, fingers, around my neck…
It teases me from time to time, reminding me that I no longer have that free will to solely think for myself. I need to think about “us”, how “we” will face it, when “we” will do it, where “we” shall have it, what “we” think about it, who “we” shall invite…
But yes, we are getting married. And my heart is bursting with so much joy.
