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新年快乐！新的一年来临了！

2012 had been an eventful year for me, and excellent as well! I got a promotion, baptized, and get married!

And I know 2013 is a even better year for me, our home is finally coming soon! Last I heard, someone from my Blk had their key appointment on 19 Feb. I expect mine to come around end Feb or early March if key collection is based on floor.

So back to CNY, this year is a little different. I spend reunion dinner at Gavin's house and had a few more houses to visit from the previous year. Sad that I had to give Joven's home a miss this year due to packed schedule. Hope that next year we could manage our house visit better.

I had a mini-reunion lunch with BOF on Sat, also manage to buy a $39 cheong sum at Kiyo Hougang Mall.After that, went over to Gavin's house for reunion dinner and prepare for CNY. Yes, we packed our angbao like so last min. hah.

Our outfit for 初一

Angbao packed!

And the next day... The kids are all excited in new clothes and CNY wish. Kandro and Lele had a long list of 贺词, Varchel even practice a song for 拜年! How talented kids can be now?!

Look at the amt of paparazi!

"The China Group!" exclaimed the kids.

Danna & me

And we had an good time! Now it is back to work and study mood. It is Valentine day in 2 days time. Wonder what Danna had in mind for me. One thing I am sure, no flowers.

Chalkboard wall

Kandro love to draw.

She love to draw anything, and everything, and love to write sweet note like "I love mummy" everytime. I lose count of how many paper flying all over my current home now. And how much used paper we had to collect for her.

My initial idea was to buy the easel from IKEA:

To be frank, I do not like it. It is so small and take up so much space. =_= But for the sake of paper saving, I though I have no choice. I do toy with the idea of installing a white board, but it look so out of place from my Japan theme.

AND THEN!

I come across this in taobao!

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Ain't it amazing?! I can paste them on one of the wall and Kandro could draw all she want, and all we need will be water to wipe them clean. =D

And why black board over white? Firstly, we ain't allergic to chalk dust.

Secondly, I hate the smell of marker. The only alcohol smell should come from drinkable alcohol.

And lastly, I truly love the colour choice of chalk, and it bring me back to the school days where we had so much fun with chalk. How many of us rem this cartoon :

Cute, ain't it? I look forward to have these kind of old school fun in our home. And I'm sure Kandro will enjoy it. ;)

“Imagination is the beginning of creation.

You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will”– George Bernard Shawhildren

Hen's night (sort of)

I didn't really have a Hen night, due to the extremely busy schedule. Not funny to have wedding just 1 month after your exam eh? But it's ok, I survived! And had tons of fun~~

So after the Holy Matrimony that afternoon, we made our way to Aloha @ Changi for a night of rest and fun. Planning about the gate crashing next day over our favourite beers is like the best thing ever for a girls night out. Not to say, we have a huge space to ourselves. 3 bedrooms for 5 girls! Whee!

What is a Hen's night without BEERS?

 And so while"brewing" pot of poison and finding ways to make it even more happening, the girls decide to get sunset grill level 35 chicken wings! My helpful friends (hereby know as the creative board of directors) went all the way to jalan kayu to pick up the wings and the 1st thing they said to me is:

"What sort of poison is in these wings??"

As quoted by THJ: "你们是巫婆"

If you are wondering what poisons they used, here is the list for future reference:

酸 (sour) - Lime + lemon juice made into jelly. Put in syringe for the extra "brust" of sourness. Guys feedback this is "meh."
甜 (sweet) - milo dinosaur "guo", topped with whipped cream, caramel, chocolate sauce. Pretty hard to swallow but able to wash down with lotas of water.
苦 (bitter) - This one is pretty unexpected. The guys expect bitter gourd, but here is what they got! 99% dark chocolate cooked with chinese medicine powder, freeze overnight and topped with coco powder.The guys say this is very very unexpected, they though is something sweet as it is chocolate... And the bitter taste linger for a long long time...
辣 (spicy) - sunset grill level 35 chicken wings. euff said. Quote YJ: "lao sai, we will."

We though that with only 2 games, it is pretty boring, we ask the board to think of more games. And chairman Tan suggest alot of Er Xin games that I can't even bear to mention here.

So we only took 2 of his suggestions:

Sing a "sweet" love song for me: The guys had to stuff their mouth full of mash mallow and sing. The scene is classic that they had mash mallow "drool" from their mouth.

Lion Dance: End up look like ghost dance with the white blanket. =_= So the game is that we will hang a bunch of grapes to the ceiling, and gavin suppose to bite the grapes one by one (no hands!), with all his "brothers" supporting him from below.

We had a fun night on 29 Dec... Truly make me feel happy to have these bunch of folks to walk the journey with me. Thank you folks. It was a pleasure to know all of you 8 years (or more!) back.

And lastly, thanks An Zai for the wonderful champagne.

Do not put the Lord the God to test.

The devil led him to Jerusalem and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down from here. ¹⁰ For it is written:

“‘He will command his angels concerning you
    to guard you carefully;
¹¹ they will lift you up in their hands,
    so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’”

¹² Jesus answered, “It is said: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’”

- Luke 4 9:12

 This is a gospel quote I live my life by. many time we got questioned on the existence of God, and we try to prove God's existence by "testing" him. Through miraculous healing, through answered prayer, through "signs". Some even blame their failure on God, and ain't it giving in to temptation of the devil?

I do not need to test my Lord. He exsist, for us.

HLE application letter recieved

This will probably be the last letter we get from HDB before key collection. That is to assess our loan eligibility for our new home before we get the keys to our house.

Seriously, this BTO is amazingly fast. I ballot in June 2010 and in 2.5 yrs time it is ready! I know that compare to others, we are far too lucky to get a house soon after marriage. But this means that our bank is gotta wipe out (together with CPF) and we will be pretty much broke...

And today is the 4th day of our marriage life, and we are actually not feeling it yet... As we are back at our parents place. (????)

Logical that we stay put for a month or two until we get our keys right? No point I move to red hill and move (back) to sengkang in a month time right? Somemore Kandro's school is at hougang.

Although I am scare about the bill that might buried us in the next few months... I can't wait to move in. :D

Union by God's Hand.

It had been an amazing 2 days.

We wed in my parish church which  had watch after me since 1984... Nativity Church watch me grow up, I studied in the IJ school beside her for 10yrs, I went there when I am lost, and eventually was baptized in nativity. And since then I had been praising lord there too.

And on 29 Dec 2012, I wed in the same church.

It had been a day filled with mishaps, but somehow it went amazing well, and fun. Somehow I would believe that this is God's message to me, telling me that marriage is not a smooth sailing journey, but all will be well in the end.

I have amazing friends! They goes all the way for me and never fail to brighten up with a smile! They did my hair and make up, set up the decoration and even dun mind been the "backstage" workers. The backstage workers are known as "creative board of directors". lolx. Thank you God for such amazing people in my life.

Awesome bridesmaids are awesome!

The most sotong award goes to my (ahem) husband, whom forget about the rings!!! He is suppose to pass it to the pageboy but he forgotten about it and run back to take while I am walking down the aisle!

I'm gald I stick to my DIY photobooth idea (maybe I will do a tutorial on this, but let me come back from honeymoon 1st). It cost alot lesser then hiring by hour, although it might help alot if we had 2 printers. Well, I'm going to do it for the next party! Maybe 2013 Christmas party at my new home. Below are some pictures taken on the day.

Groomsmen

Bridesmaids

Photobooth is so fun!

After the event, The bridesmaid move on to chalet which we had a night of rolling fun too. Will update in the next post. Hope I recieve the photos from DrinkTea soon!

"It's only just begun..."

Last min Queen

All invites are send out, like finally!

And confirm all the necessary!

And 3 more days!

Left with some deco and chinese wedding schedule!

Oh shit! I forget to dye my hair!

And manicure!

What?! You mean we have to call everyone to confirm again???

Wait, I haven't tested my photobooth!

DAFUQ??? I havent cut out my church prog book!

Whatever! Super woman mode on!