Saturday, December 27, 2008
Christmas Eve was spent at Dexter and Charmaine's crib this year. Everyone brought some food over to their place. There were turkey, ham, pork knuckle, shepherd's pie, pasta and mushroom soup! Thinking about the food is making my mouth water all over again.
We only started our dinner at 8 as the guys were arguing over how to heat the turkey up with the oven/microwave. Its a little funny that the guys were so enthusiastic over the preparation of the food. Usually I thought that this is left to the ladies to handle but this time I was wrong. In this case, we ladies stayed out of their arguement and just let the guys handled it. kekeke. In the meantime, we ladies watched tv and played with Violet. She is so cute! This year's theme was music and everyone had to purchase a present that has to do with music. Scott got this trumpet in the gift exchange but Violet was the one enjoying the trumpet.
Isn't she cute??
The next day we had Christmas lunch over at my aunt's place. It was the annual gathering of all our aunties, uncles and cousins.
Some of us enjoying the food.
The popiah counter. Its the usual popiah that we have whenever we have the gathering.. one is always not enough. Hahhaha
Some of the presents from aunties and uncles that has yet to be distributed.
Our honorable pianist for the christmas carol session. 
The three princesses. 
Singing the drummer boy.
Games time
Christmas picture design competition
The young ones explaining their work
Next is Chinese New Year!
Labels: Holiday
Thursday, September 25, 2008
We are back from Bali! No, it was not our honeymoon trip. Its just a short trip we took to rest and relax after the wedding. So we will plan for a real honeymoon trip. When?? I don't know yet. Hopefully its next year after our house is completed.
The trip to Bali was fantastic! The environment was really really nice. Here are the pictures. Looking at the pictures make me wana go back and soak in the pool again.
At the entrance of the hotel. Don't be fooled by the sofa. Its as hard as a rock.
Going to the pool...
The entrance to the swimming pool!
The little huts are actually carbanas which we can rent for the day. You can just sleep inside and jump into the pool from there.
While these are just the seats avaliable at the side of the pool.
The bar in the pool where we can have our drinks while we swim. Isn't it nice?? We basically had lazied at the pool side swimming everyday after breakfast. The water is cool and inviting while the weather was warm.
Our bedroom which was littered with rose petals.
The other side of the bedroom, I was opening the window to see what was outside.
The toliet.
Guess what is this...
Hahah, its where we hang our clothes... The closet.
Bedroom slippers...
Where we have our breakfast each morning. We were just next to the pool.
Dear with his morning coffee.
The buffet tables... We were seated just beside it. hahah.
Our honeymoon package freebie (Actually its paid for in the package and the wine sucks.)
Closer look at the cake...
Dear waiting for his cup a noodle to be cooked. Haha we were too lazy to go out for dinner. Since we have that chocolate cake, we decided to eat cup a noodles.. haha. (He is engrosed with his Discovery Channel)
Part of the package includes this romatic dinner for two.
The carabana where we had our "romatic dinner".
Before the dinner. HAha we did not take any other photos already as it was a little too dark...
The sunset at Bali.
We had a great time there... but I do not think I will go back there another time. I rather experiance Maldives where the water is nice and clear... Hmm maybe Honeymoon??
Labels: Holiday
Monday, June 30, 2008
Yeah yeah, we have confirmed our honeymoon to Bali yesterday. Initially we wanted to have our honeymoon in Tokyo as there was some promotion by SQ for two to fly. On top of that we will be able to stay at Dear’s company hostel when we are there. Hence we will be able to save a bit for the trip itself while the only expenditure that we have to fork out will be for our food and transportation.
While search for our renovation contractors, we realised that cost of the renovation is pretty high. We will like to hack a lot of things in the house as its old. With more work required in the house, the cost is definitely higher then expected. In addition, we have our wedding which is up and approaching. That will cost us a bomb too. With so many upcoming events which require a substantial amount of funds, our trip to Tokyo has became a dream which cannot be fulfilled at the moment. We prefer to renovate our home to the best that we like it to be and go for the trip another time. Hence we started searching for alternatives.
We chanced upon Bali as we wanted to go a place where we can really rest and relax after the wedding. Hence we decided to go to a beach resort. In order to try to reserve our cash, we decided to try if we could redeem our mileage which we have accumulated over the years. When we redeemed the mileage we were unable to redeem for both parties at the same time as we have only sufficient mileage individually for only one return trip. Hence we had to sit in front of the computer with phone in hand and started clicking together hoping that we will be able to get flights together. Finally we got the same flight and even managed to choose our seats first. Fantastic!
Now it is only left with booking of the hotel. We have yet to confirm which package that we will like to book with the Hard Rock Hotel.
Labels: Holiday, wedding
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Yes we are back from Hong Kong after 5 days and 4 nights of "holiday". It was a incentive trip for us in the Company and Dear got to go with me after paying a little. While on the plane, the air stewardess congradulated us for going on the Honeymoon. Dear and I were very puzzled on why they knew that we are newly weds and going on Honeymoon. The fact here was that we were not. hmmmm. After much pondering, we concluded that it must be my colleague who had informed them about it. For that, they have given us a cake which we had for breakfast.
Photo taken while we were on the plane...
Isn't the cake nice? Hehe
When we arrived in Hong Kong on the first night, we headed over to Shenzhen! Haha in less than 2 hours in arriving in Hong Kong I was in China with my colleague and her friend who is a local. The food there was really really cheap. It cost only S$ 40 for 8 course meal for a group of 8. Hahha... However as Dear was tired, we headed back to the hotel while the rest went on for their massage and pedicure.
The hotel which we were staying in was called the Dosette Hotel. Its located in the Tsuen Wan which is at the outskirts of the city centre. The hotel was a little small. We did not have much space to move around at all.
The toliet. Look how small is the area for bathing. But my bathroom is already the biggest compare to my colleagues' room. Their bathing area was just half of what I have. haha.
The room where our beds are. Opposite to the bed is the tv which is hang on the wall.
The next day we headed to the Ocean Park. Hehe. Was very excited to go over there as that was a place which we wanted to go very much due to its rides.
Dear getting excited about going there....
The queue before we could board the bus to Ocean Park. All of the people from my company in the queue.
That night it was a free and easy night and all of us headed over to Niu Ren Jie where we shopped. Haha... We bought an apron at the markets. It was a pretty cute one. I did not take a photo of the apron but I will post it once I do. Bought 3 cute fans for our friends and a passport holder for myself.
Dear being excited to fix up the fan.
Our dinner for the night.
The next day we headed over to the peak and went to Macau in the afternoon. We were in for a pleasant surprise as we expected the hotel in Macau to be the same as the one we had for Hong Kong. To our surprise the hotel was a four star hotel. Look at the photos of the rooms. We felt that we were in heaven and were actually reluctant to leave when we need to.
That night we had our dinner at the central of Macau before heading to the gambling dens. Haha. We went to Venice, which is the newest and biggest casino in Macau. It was a theme Casino which is model to be like in Venice. They even had 4 canels at the 4 corners of the Casino which has a mall too.
Entrance of the casino
When we all go oversea or when people come to Singapore they all know that Singapore is such a "FINE" country. When I was in Macau, we saw these cartoons on the wall informing the locals not to spit or throw litter around if not they will be fine too. Haha...
Here are some photos of the girls in my company trying out the act cute poses.
Labels: Holiday
