Lately I've been told that I've been really neglecting this blog, what with all the wedding planning and everything that's been going on in our lives lately, so here's a random thought I had this morning while at Waterloo Station:
You know you're really out of shape when you find yourself needing a running start to get enough momentum to propel yourself up the stairs without running out of steam halfway.
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!
3 weeks to my big day and guess what I'm concerned about:-
1) I haven't got a proper dress for the occasion
2) FATS (with an extra big S)
Yes!! FATS!!!
They are EVERYWHERE!!
On my belly.. on my legs.. on my arms..
Oh.. what happened to my once super toned and tanned swimming arms I very proudly paraded with sleeveless tees??
GONE!! Yes, years of neglect have turned muscles into fat and now I'm panicking and wondering how I'm ever going to look good at my wedding!!
I can't have Barney (that's what we think we're going to name our boy for now) looking at my wedding photos and going ' Oh my god, mummy you had such FAT arms!!!'
It just can't be done.
You want your children to look at your old photos and think to themselves 'Gosh.. my mum's so pretty' or 'My dad's so lucky.. I wonder if I'll find a wife as pretty as my mum'
Nevermind about looking fat after getting pregnant!! You could always blame it on the fat baby that enlarged your belly!!
Anyway, to counter our rather big problem we have gone for a 3 prong attack:-
1) Wall push ups - Rosie (Kok's girlfriend) was here last weekend and she recommended doing wall push ups to tone the arms (not build muscular ugly looking ones like you get from floor push ups!). 40 in the day and 40 at night. I'm working on that!
2) Slendertone - Slendertone is this waist belt thingy that is supposed to trim your waist (not burn the fat but builds muscles so that you tummy won't sag and look like a blob of fat)
and if all don't work.. we have No. 3
3) Spanx - some magical body suit that is supposed to make you look trim and hide the mean stuff!
You will probably spot a great flaw in my 3 prong attack. There's nothing in there for the legs (I don't think Spanx hide leg fat).
That's just fine.. because the dress will hide my fat thighs and if I think my legs are too fat to be seen everyone in my wedding album will just have to go legless..
It is official - we are getting married on the 28th of May with a picnic 'reception' on the 27th of June.
To the Chinese it is somewhat uncustomary, almost rude to provide your guests with a gift list and us having one would probably risk Ae Mi's grandmother jumping out of her grave and giving us a big whack on the head.
However, we are living in England and since it is the norm to have a gift list and will save our guests the headache of 'what to buy that fat couple for their wedding', we are having one - here.
That said, we have been blessed with a fully equiped although modest home and we do not really need any more gadgets or furniture.
What we do need is further education - a UK Driving Licence for Wei Chieh and a Legal Practice Certificate or Master's Degree for Ae Mi.
As you all know the cost of education is not cheap and we have our savings, but it would help tremendously if you would consider donating to our Education Fund. It doesn't have to be much as every little helps.
We appreciate that the current economic climate is hard on everyone, so please don't feel like you have to get us a gift at all. If you do though, this would make the best wedding gift to the both of us and we would like to say thanks in advance.
Please let us know if you have donated to our Continuing Education Fund as we would like to send you a thank you card for your contribution and help towards our better future.
If you'd like to donate to our Continuing Education Fund instead of getting us a gift, you can use the paypal button below:
One of my earliest childhood memory is going to music classes with my mother.
I loved those classes.
I was about 3 - so I would've been tiny and my mother would take me for an hour's class every Friday evening in Ipoh town after work.
It must have been hard for her to travel all the way back to where we lived only to take me out again after a tiring day in the office. We always went by shared taxi and I remember sitting on my mother's lap trying not to put too much of my weight on her.
I never appreciated what she had done for me until now when I can understand the hard work(and stress!) of travelling and her saving up for my music lessons instead of spending it on nice things for herself.
I will always remember those years because it was something I had with my mother and my mother only - my father was in the Phillipines at that time completing his MBA and was often away for months.
We were then a small family struggling to get by financially and even as a child I had to understand that we couldn't afford to waste money on sweets, junk food or fancy toys.
My mother however always made an exception for a piece of simple cream cake from Yaohan after my Friday music lessons on condition that I was good.
I truly believe those music lessons I had when I was so young has made a difference to my hearing capabilities.
I am very alert on picking up music and I can recognise the songs I like very easily from the very first rhythm. When I listen to songs I hear the different instruments seperately unlike Wei Chieh who seems to clump them up and confuse the tune.
I know it because he's always humming catchy tunes aloud at home and I get very bothered when he catches a beat that is not supposed to be there.
Heh.
It must be rather unpleasant for him not to be able to hum his favourite tunes in peace but the clockwork in my head doesn't like or permit for inperfect tunes. It corrects his mistake in my head and bothers me to no end if I don't tell him about his mistake (he likes humming the same catchy tunes for HOURS and sometimes DAYS).
I was originally trained to play the organ but I no longer play much of it anymore these days. I learnt to play the guitar on my own after the PMR exam when I was 15 and it is now my rather quiet best friend.
It listens to my happy tunes, my rocky moods and allows me to trash out tears when I am unhappy or frustrated with life (and to the unfortunate ears of my neighbours).
I do appreciate being able to play music and let my many emotions into it and although I know my mother think that her hardwork sending me to music classes are wasted, it really isn't because if I don't have what she gave to me I would not have sharp hearing and I wouldn't be able to learn the guitar by myself and be with the music that I love.
Anyway...
This is a song that have held meaning to me for many years. I first heard it on MTV when I was about 15/16? The lyrics reflect what I do want - the Simple Kind of Life. It reflects how I felt about Wei Chieh during the uncertain periods of our relationship when we went long distance and were trying to figure out our involvement and how much we each wanted to invest into our relationship.
Now that we are still together 5 years after I first got to know him (09.04.04) and getting married in 2 month's time I do feel like I am (hopefully) now on the path to the Simple Life.
Truly by Doug Hyde - one day we will have the money to buy this painting!
Why the Big Blog of Everything?
There are blogs of cute bunny pictures. Blogs of food and recipes. Blogs with pointless rambling. Blogs with rants. Writing blogs. Political commentary blogs. This is a blog with all of the above and more. The big, kiasu, my-blog-has-more-stuff-than-anyone-else's blog of everything.
