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Sharing some memorable moments.

Happy Chap Goh Meh!

March 4, 2007March 4, 2007 sweet surrender 17 Comments

I just got back from Borneo Highlands. Kinda tired. Worth it! Very happy with it. I will blog about it in parts, I’m not sure how many parts will there be. One thing for sure, you will be going oh~ oh~ ah~ ah~ over it, just like what we did when we were there. Spectacular! No word can describe(at least for me, as I’m not good in describing stuff :P). Photos will say a thousand words.

Let’s talk about Chap Goh Meh first. This is the final day of Chinese(Lunar) New Year celebration. The civilians sponsored fireworks started at around 7pm-9pm. Everyone was trying very hard to show off. When one side blew one type up, the other side will follow suit blowing the same type up or even bigger/nicer ones. It’s like you-got-I-also-got or yours-is-small-mine-is-big hahah…

Interestingly, the fireworks tonight were quite different from those on the eve of CNY. Today’s fireworks were bigger and nicer just like what I saw at Borneo Highlands last night. They were all of the same type except the one where they had rainbow colour fireworks. Too bad my battery was dead that time… I missed it too coz I didn’t have my glasses on. I didn’t take any photos of the fireworks here but did take a lot at Borneo Highlands. We will be having videos uploaded soon so you can see the rainbow colour fireworks. It will be uploaded episode by episode, featuring our trip. We have 3 hosts. I’m the main host and there were 2 more co-hosts joining me. Stay tuned for the videos hehehe… It’s in Mandarin by the way. You’ll be able to see how beautiful Borneo Highlands is.

I wonder how many of you went to Waterfront to throw/pick oranges from Sarawak River? 😛 Chap Goh Meh is also known as Oriental Valentine’s Day. Today, the single girls will make a wish wishing that they will meet a good husband this year and throw the oranges into the river. Then the guys will be picking up the oranges at the other end of the river hahaha… As for the case nowadays, girls might be wishing for more money and those at the other end will be picking up the oranges for sale. *LOL*

Going off to sleep. Tired. Night!

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Lilianâ€™s Custom Wedding – Part 3

March 3, 2007March 29, 2007 sweet surrender 1 Comment

Off to Borneo Highlands today! Will be back tomorrow!

Dinner time! I reached Thian Court at about 6.25pm. The dinner only started at about 7.30pm. Met up with a lot of high school friends. It’s like a gathering to us rather than a wedding dinner. My table only have 6 people there. All 6 were girls. Such a pity. We has to eat food for 10 people hahaha… Pity? Or should say lucky? I missed out the fish and the dessert because I was busy in front taking photos. You can’t expect 6 girls finished them up, there were lots of leftovers. Wasted~~

I was “forced” to go up because when the groom fed the bride the cake using his mouth, they were too fast and some people not in time to take any shot. So I told those friends standing nearby me that why didn’t the emcee ask them do again. Who knows… Her uncle heard me and he told the emcee that I requested for it. (-.-“) All the eyes were on me and even the video guy quickly turned his video to me. GOSH~~ That moment I felt like looking for a hole to hide hahaha… I even got teased by the emcee. So I went up and fed her the cake and asked her to feed it to her husband. I asked my friend to help me take my photo on stage but she misunderstood me and thought that I only want the “kissing” scene. So no photos of me on stage.

When it’s dessert time, all the girls that were involved this morning were asked to go up the stage and the emcee teased us again. I didn’t know anything about the stuff that morning. I’m just there to take photos. After on the stage for a while, one of them went down and I followed. We left the rest on the stage. Hahahah… The emcee asked the groom’s youngest bro to sing and the girls were asked to accompany him on stage.

I went back to my table and the dessert were gone. No picture taken for that dish. 🙁

Finally I’m done with the wedding posts hahaha… Off to holiday now! 😛

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Lilianâ€™s Custom Wedding – Part 2

March 2, 2007November 23, 2008 sweet surrender 7 Comments

Imagine that we had to rush from Pending to 8th Mile in less than half hour beating the morning traffic at 8.30am. Madness! See the two gang of “paparazzies”! One is her uncle(white car) one is the hired videographers(dark green car). Can’t take clear photos of them coz they were all speeding. Besides, the car that I’m in has tinted windscreen. There were more than 5 cars(bridal car, entourage cars, some family members and videographer’s car) not sure the exact number but it’s more than 5). All on their hazard lights and weaving in and out of the traffic. So scary… I’m in one of the car also quite worried summore the road was slippery after the morning rain.

My camera battery started to show low battery indication while the groom picked the bride up. So fast… I just realised that for most of the time that I on my camera, it was in zoom mode, no wonder…

We were there for quite long. They fed each other rice dumplings, then we camwhored in her room, then little boys jumping on the bed, then her nephew was required to “break” the red paper that wrapped the potty with several type of nuts in there and then tea ceremony. After that camwhored again 😛

Next, she started to change to another dress to go back to the bride’s house. There were so many of us helping her dressed up. About 6 of us I think 😛 With her dress, her petticoat, her hair, the jewelries. She had to wear those jewelries given by her family and relatives to go back home. Had to becareful in choosing which to wear too as not to offend some relatives. You know how some relatives are so damn pain in the ass?!?!(You know, I know, we all have a fair share of them) Supposed to be going back to the bride’s house at 10.30am, due to some unforeseen circumstances, it was delayed till 12pm++. Therefore, we had our lunch at the groom’s house then set off to the bride’s house after that.

After she reached her house(this is when my battery was really dead when she went up the staircase), she greeted her family, relatives and some friends. The, off she went back to her husband’s house again.

That’s the end of the custom ceremony. This is the longest ceremony I ever experienced. Dinner post will come soon…

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Lilian’s Custom Wedding – Part 1

March 1, 2007November 23, 2008 sweet surrender 7 Comments

WOW… Such a lengthy one. Mostly people start early and ended early, this one dragged till noon. Exhausting… I overslept this morning. If not because of rain, I won’t wake up at all. Phew… I’m supposed to be there are 5.30am but only manage to get out of shower at 5.30am and went over to her place at almost 6. Nothing much to say. Just one thing to mention is that the groom’s was late due to traffic jam and we had to rush like crazy to the groom’s house after picking up the bride. Will talk more about it in the next post. Also due to that, most tricks were not played.

I’m not sure how long will it takes me to complete the wedding posts. Since I’ll be away this weekend. Then when I’m back, I have tonnes of holiday posts summore and some works to settle. It’s late now, I’m going to sleep. Just see the photos. Enjoy!

These are all the photos at Lilian’s house before setting off to the groom’s house. Oh… One interesting trick of the day is looking for another side of her heels. The groom’s and his friends had to look for it in the room. Finally they found it sandwiched under the bed. 😛
So that’s all. Good night. Tired…

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Countdown To Lilian’s Custom Wedding

February 28, 2007March 31, 2022 sweet surrender 11 Comments

Got the invitation. The custom wedding day is coming soon in few hours time. I’m not the “ji mui” for tomorrow hehehe… I’m there to take photos, just being nosy. If I’m the “ji mui” I won’t be able to follow her back home. Aaccording to her mum, the “ji mui” have to stay at the groom’s house while the bride goes home. “Ji mui” is the bride’s troop. “Ji mui” is in Cantonese and “Jie mei” in Mandarin. Both mean “sisters”.

I went over to her houes today to take some photos to save my battery tomorrow. Also, it’s daytime, bright enough, so it’s easier to take photos. However, I’m so absent minded. I forgot to take photos of her album and her heels. I’ll take tomorrow then.

Here’s her gown and accessories for tomorrow. Not sure why she has two pairs of gloves.

These are the things that will be going to the groom’s house with her.

By the way, she doesn’t even have the idea of her schedule tomorrow. *LOL* Only know when she will need to start her makeup, hairstyling session, and reach the groom’s house before 9am.

Surprisingly, there will be no tea ceremony for the bride’s side. Something new… GOOD! I hate tea ceremony hahaha… Again… I don’t want this in my wedding. According to her mom, they don’t need it as they are of certain dialect group. I can’t remember which one. Hmm… I thought all Chinese dialect groups will have tea ceremony for wedding hahaha… But this one doesn’t have. Cool…

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