Husband and Wife

Finally it is Wednesday the 3rd of June and I can sit back and really relax - my first time in a VERY long time!!

The exams lasted almost 3 weeks of which I suffered sleepless nights and endless panic attacks..

To add to the exam stress, I had the hardest time finding a proper wedding dress and losing enough weight so I won't detest my wedding photos and tear it all up!!

The 3 prong Fat attack plan thingy worked! To our amazement..

Wei Chieh found something called the EA Sports Active which works on the Nintendo Wii and it is amazing!!

It's some sort of an interactive exercise game thingy which unlike the Wii Fit really makes you sweat buckets!

The first time we both had a go we looked like we just had a shower in our clothes!

What's even more amazing is that Wei Chieh can now dress up without looking like a pregnant man. After dating a man with a near 9 month old (forever due) baby in his tummy for 5 years, this is nothing short of a miracle.

Haha..

Anyway, here are some photos so that you can judge for yourself.

The photos were taken by Michael and some by Wayne, who were both our witnesses to the wedding.

Our last photo as an 'unmarried' couple

The Groom being cheeky (he got a smack on the head after)

In front of the registrar

When we both said 'I do'


Group picture : Michael, us, Zina (Wayne's wife) & Wayne

The boys being boys

Zina showing off my ring

Where we got married

Just a nice photo of the new husband and wife

Yeap, that's how he broke his back!

Our wedding bands

Our 'favouritest' furry babies and us

Very kind and sweet! wedding cake gift from Mallindi, Tony, Luciano & Mariella

Our wedding was very small but we couldn't have wanted it any other way.

Many many thanks to Michael, Wayne, Zina and all our other friends who have given us so much love and support on such an important occasion to us.

Special thanks goes to Mallindi, Tony, Luciano and Mariella for fitting us a little spot in Mariella's Christening and Luciano's adoption celebration on Sunday.

We couldn't be luckier to be surrounded by such wonderful and amazing friends!

Wibble

To end today's blogstravaganza, and to lighten the mood after that little rant, here's a little picture of Wibble doing his best impression of an ornament on the bedside table.



Wibble is blind in his right eye, but he doesn't let that stop him from getting into trouble, although he does take a bit longer than his brother to hop off a ledge, and has rubbish aim when trying a flying leap onto someone's lap (painfully so). But he's oh-so-cute

Vooooooom!

I recently broke our second vacuum cleaner. I seem to be jinxed when it comes to the bloody things. Our first vacuum, a £15 rubbish one from Argos broke after a year and a half when I stepped on the hose by mistake. And this second one, a £35 monstrosity from Robert Dyas, broke from apparent overuse - the floor head attachment cracked and no amount of masking tape would fix it enough to get the crap that seems to accumulate in our carpets, especially since this last weekend we were planning to clean up after the builders (another story for another time). To be quite honest, I'd been lusting after a new vacuum cleaner for a while now so perhaps it wasn't quite as accidental as I made it out to be.

We toyed with the idea of getting yet another cheapie vacuum cleaner, but decided against it, as we felt we'd moved sufficiently up the ladder of life to get away from our studenty lifestyle and get something that would actually work and (hopefully) last longer than a year and a half. Asking around, the advice seemed unanimous - when it came to vacuum cleaners it would appear my colleagues all put their faith in a Dyson. But £240 for a vacuum cleaner? I couldn't bring myself to do it, and my wallet fell apart in protest. No, seriously. So I would need to add on the cost of a replacement wallet to the £240.

Just when all seemed lost, a last glimmer of hope showed itself. A Miele Cat & Dog TT5000, winner of a Which? Best Buy Award, almost universally good reviews (except, presumably, from my Dyson-loving colleagues) AND for £60 less than the Dyson! I was ready to buy it based on the lower price alone. The missus was sold on the fact that it was a bagged vacuum cleaner, which I agreed made sense - no matter how clever the design of a bagless vacuum, I just cannot believe that no dust will escape into the air when you empty the bin. And come on, the Miele's German!

I can safely recommend to anyone who ever finds themselves in the same position as us - go for the Miele. It's powerful, it's quiet, it made using our old vacuum cleaners feel like we were trying to suck dirt out of our carpet with a drinking straw, it comes in a pretty box with a ridiculously cute cat on it, it's a German machine, and it's £60 cheaper than a Dyson. Sure, it's £150 more expensive than our old one. But it was worth every penny.

It might be called a Miele Cat & Dog but it doesn't mean these two don't like it