Pure Joy and Utter Despair

I just got the photos from the armor anniversary dinner 2 weeks ago. Hee hee nice? Forgive the poor quality. I was too lazy to plug in my scanner to scan the photos, so I used my digital camera to take the pictures again and transfer into my computer. Quite clear hor.

First and foremost I want to state very clearly ... no editing was done to the photos. All these are true blue me and Seng Wee. Heee hee. Dunno why some arm fat and some arms not. Most be the way I posed. Hee hee. But my darling hubby no matter what pose all look so cute and handsome. (anticipates bouts of laughter or puking from this comment.)

Left : The smiles in this photos is the most radiant of the lot. Biggest too ... hehe check out my pearl whites thanks to the white flashes of light that almost blinded me.

Right : CLEAVAGE!!! OMG! That's was what my hubby told me.

Left : MY FAVOURITE PHOTO OF THE BUNCH!!! This photo actually makes me look slim! *happy happy happy*

Right : GUH! Double chin! Fat arm! But then ... it's all me! Hee hee. I must learn which poses not to do and which to do more. Must practice my smile for my wedding photoshoot too.

Okay now for the GOOD news and BAD news.

Yesterday me and my husband, Seng Wee, at last went to Orchard Hotel and booked our 40+ tables for the wedding dinner. Quite a lot of perks for just using the UOB credit card to pay.

• free flow soft drinks, mixers and Chinese tea
• free flow beer
• free bottle of wine for every table booked
• waiver of 1 table for 26 tables booked / waiver of 2 tables for 45 tables booked
• waiver of corkage for hard liquor (duty paid & sealed)
• 2 nights stay at bridal suite

Date : 27th Jan' 2006 Friday
Venue : Orchard Hotel Singapore

We left the hotel walking down Orchard Road, happily teasing each other with pokes. We look seemingly like a tipsy couple who had a little too much to drink, leaning on each other and sometimes letting out fits of laughter from our rough play. People were sure to think we're crazy. Took the MRT home, reached outside our flat, told his granny and aunts next door the good news ... then they said, ...

"Isn't it very near Chinese New Year?"

Now here's the "fantastic" part (said dripping with sarcasm) ... I found out that 29th Jan'2006 is Chinese New Year eve.

Seng Wee and I could practically see our happy little cloud thoughts of a big event with lots of friend and relatives toasting to a wonderful dinner, our little dreamy and slow paced quiet wedding suite ... SHATTER to a billion pieces. You have no idea how much I felt like crying then. It felt like falling from cloud nine to the ninth level of HELL! Actually no ... it felt more like falling from the sky and hitting the concrete asphalt HARD with every single piece of my being breaking into DUST.

HOW?! HOW?! HOW!!!!!!?????

Other Jan Fridays were not possible cuz 6th and 20th were fully booked while 13th was too ominous for our liking.

SW called his mother who kept nagging to change the date to AFTER CNY ... and gave us a list of dates which was either on a weekend or a non-Friday and which the earliest was only MARCH! I didn't want to wait til MARCH for the dinner. We've been saying we wanted to book the dinner since December 2004! SW gave up talking to her and tagged me for my turn at the phone. I tried very calmly to explain our want for January wedding dinner. But since our views didn't match, I guess my MIL gave up and told me, "Anything you guys want lah." Sigh.

So we're sticking the the 27th Jan 2006 date ... my biggest worries now ...

• people (a lot) not going to turn up
• complaints from guests about it being so near to CNY and disturbing them from CNY preparations

Still have 2 more papers to worry about before that ... sigh. 8th June faster come leh!!! Then I can be rid of exams and start worrying about other things.

List of things to do after exams :

• get invitations cards done
• contact bridal photo studio for outdoor + indoor photoshoot
• get rates for tee-shirt printing
• design "I Love My Dog" collection pictures
• find out rates for copyrights to my pictures (if there's such a thing)
• contact friend on designing online comic strips for kids <-- I think I'll enjoy this muchly
• find a job <-- still not decided if full or part time
• Go crazy clubbing with the girls!!!

Sigh ... hope things go well. I've to call my mom later to give her the "good" news.