Just married

Our wedding.

More in The Star newspaper Wedding Specials, Friday 26th Sept 2008.

We're back!

After a very long break getting ready for our wedding, and then getting married, and then recuperating from all that madness.........I am finally back on the blog. Lost some weight in the month prior to my wedding (stress lar), but with all the eating that's been going on after the wedding, the pounds are creeping back up.

I've been told by my old pal (who works in The Star) that our picture and a small caption on us will appear in The Star (Wedding Specials) this coming Friday 26th September 2008. Heh heh, if you are curious do check it out.

These Foolish Things...

(Marvell, Strachey, Link)

Oh will you never let me be?
Oh will you never set me free?
The ties that bound us are still around us
There´s no escape that I can see
And still those little things remain
That bring me happiness or pain
A cigarette that bears a lipsticks traces
An airline ticket to romantic places
And still my heart has wings
These foolish things
Remind me of you
A tinkling piano in the next apartment
Those stumbling words that told you what my heart meant
A fairground's painted swings
These foolish things
Remind me of you
You came, you saw, you conquered me
When you did that to me,
I somehow knew that this had to be
The winds of march that make my heart a dancer
A telephone that rings - but who´s to answer?
Oh, how the ghost of you clings
These foolish things
Remind me of you
Gardenia perfume ling´ring on a pillow
Wild strawb´ries only seven francs a kilo
And still my heart has wings
These foolish things
Remind me of you
The park at evening when the bell has sounded
The pier in France with all the gulls around it
The beauty that is spring
These foolish things
Remind me of you
I know that this was bound to be
These things have haunted me
For you´ve entirely enchanted me
The sigh of midnight trains in empty stations
Silk stockings thrown aside, dance invitations
Oh, how the ghost of you clings
These foolish things
Remind me of you
First daffodils and long excited cables
And candlelight on little corner tables
And still my heart has wings
These foolish things
Remind me of you
The smile of Garbo and the scent of roses
The waiters whistling as the last bar closes
The song that Crosby sings
These foolish things
Remind me of you
How strange, how sweet to find you still
These things are dear to me
They seem to bring you so near to me
The scent of smould´ring leaves, the wail of steamers
Two lovers on the street who walk like dreamers
Oh, how the ghost of you clings
These foolish things
Remind me of you, just you

Blogging break

As our wedding approaches (we've got about 2 months left), we are immersed with preparatory works and blogging has taken a back seat, at least until we're through with the BIG day. Updates will be sparse.

Hubby and I are compiling our playlist, majority of which are songs from an era past.....think Dr Zhivago, An Affair To Remember, Casablanca. Needless to say, boy bands are banned! I've also been busy working on the slideshows (sort of mini "movies") that we'll be showing during the dinner.......it's the first time I'm using Photostory and MovieMaker and I have gotten quite obsessed with the whole process. :D

I've psyched hubby up so much that he now knows how to sing Moon River. Imagine that!

Weddings make me sigh....

Last week was exhausting, battling a bout of fever and bad health.......lost my appetite, lost any desire to cook. I am still working at regaining my "form" after going through the unwitting starvation period.

I was also a bridesmaid at my best friend's wedding last Saturday, which was fun and poignant as it was my first experience in that role, and who better to play it for. I remember as little girls growing up, we'd oh-so-often talk and dream about "the one" who would someday ride in and sweep us off our feet. Our favourite book was "Perfect" by Judith McNaught, and we had whimsical ideas about meeting someone just like Zachary Benedict. Last weekend the moment finally arrived for my best friend.

Speaking of weddings, ours is just around the corner. Hubby and I just collected our pre-bridal photos, here's one from our "Kennedy moment".


Our long road ahead......he's going to spend a lifetime with a lifelong hopeless romantic, God bless hubby!

Next week, I'll be going to Hanoi for work, and mom (in law) is coming along.....I hope we'll be able to eat our way to Hanoi and back.

We got hitched (registered)!

31st December 2007.

My gerbera bouquet.

The "just married" photo (at JPN).

At Last.........

The rings are bought.

The date is set.

The invitations are sent.

At last ...my love has come along

My lonely days are over

And life is like a song

At last the skies above are blue

And my heart was wrapped up in clover

The night I looked at you

I found a dream that I could speak to

A dream that I can call my own

I found a thrill to press my cheek to

A thrill that I have never known

You smiled, and then the spell was cast

And here we are in heaven

For you are mine at last....

Food (the lack thereof)

We haven't posted many food reviews these past few weeks. Well, there's a reason for that. We have been eating mostly take-aways, fast food and food thrown together in a hurry (see pic of our rye sandwich with tomatoes, ham and cheese).....it has been a hectic time at work and on weekends which leaves us little time to cook, and even to sit down for a proper restaurant dinner.

Fast food.

Weekends have been full of running around, trying on wedding gowns with the galpal, meeting makeup artists, and soon, meeting event photographers. Yup, the wedding prep has taken centrestage in our lives (finally!).

This blog may soon morph into a pseudo-wedding-event planning website with all the spreadsheets we have in place to monitor all the wedding-related data collected so far. And oh! I do so love to try on wedding gowns even if they don't fit me half the time. The best part is, my best pal is also getting married next year, so we get to fuss about this together and do the girly girl stuff and play dress-up. A far cry from our childhood tomboy days of crashing bicycles and chasing neighbourhood dogs.

Anyway, on the subject of wedding gowns, I've got my mind set on halter-necks while best pal has hers set on bustiers (which really suit her).....only to be told by a designer that halter-necks with V-necklines and me don't really go together like love and marriage unless I grow cleavage like Angelina Jolie's...sigh......well, plenty of time left to play dress-up!