Wedding Posts, Wedding Posts, Wedding Posts

This few months, my blog will be flooded with wedding related posts.

From frustration, to excitement, and back to frustration... Little did I know that wedding preparation could cause this kind of roller coaster cum ROJAK feelings. The wedding stress is coming on to both of us and we have so much disagreement that is so frequent, unlike those dating times when we were carefree and easy.

Going all out now, we have 3 MONTHS to our big day. I thought my last post mentioned only 5 months previously??? And I still haven't make my wedding cards! Faint!!!

Shopping Spree at IKEA and Courts
And so, we went for a shopping spree at IKEA Tampines and Courts last weekend to buy some items for our bridal room, which needs quite an amount of work for touching up. We managed to buy toilet mirror, shelvings, bed linen, mattress protector and comforter. All that cost about $400. Gosh! I wonder how parents can buy these household items and still have spare cash and savings for their daily expenses. I'm super B.R.O.K.E.
 
Funny thing is, we spend about 2 hours to decide on the bed items. LOL. Thread counts, bed size, quilt size, blah blah blah... so difficult to match these things! Seriously, I looking forward to sleep on the bed linen we have purchased. I think it was 700 threadcount? *oooh.... so soft...<dreams dreams>*

JB Visit and Home Recce
Last Monday we went to JB again to visit the wedding card shop. To our much horror, it was CLOSED! Well, it was partly my fault for overlooking their off days that was stated on their namecard. Many shops were not opened on Monday. I guess they are avoiding the Monday Blues. LOL. I felt so guilty that my in-laws had made a wasted trip. We are going again this weekend (just the 2 of us) and I pray so much that there will be no massive jam :(

And so, we proceeded back to SG to take a look at our BTO progression. Fortunately, a nice contractor brought us to an available unit of a different block for us to view the house layout. It felt surreal. Wow.

But the house is god damn small! I think, after placing all the furniture in, you probably have to climb over the furniture to get from one place to another. The MBR is the same size as the common room. So what is the point of calling it MBR? With such sizes for new BTOs, I feel grateful that I did not ballot for a 5Rm flat. Seriously, a resale flat is much more worth it...

Wedding Cake Discussion
We met with our wedding cake patisserie to discuss on the design and do some tasting. It was delicious but too sweet for me. Well, that's because I do not have a sweet tooth. But hey, one thing to strike off my "to-do-list"! YAY! And so, we have settled on the design and color theme for the cake. I believe its going to be awesome and I cannot wait to see the final product.

Honeymoon Accomodation
I'm happy that we have booked for our stay too! It is that accommodation which I fell in love with at first sight. He likes it too for the fact that the room provides PS3. -_-

With stay booked, and flight booked, we now have to place booking for car hire and probably, get a discounted pass for various attractions. I dreamt that I went on a skydive in my sleep yesterday. LOL. Egg-cited!!!

So these are the things that were covered in 2 weeks. This craziness will continue till our honeymoon is over. It's really tiring and I don't understand why is it so easy to plan events for companies or anybody else, as compared to planning for your own event.

Leah AA

Pre-Wedding Photoshoot Excitement!

Really love this shot. It looks as if we were mesmerized by each other, probably be good for a wedding advertorial. LOL.

So yesterday, we went to make our photo selection with our photographer. He captured more than 250 beautiful moments and we painstakingly had to select 32 only for our album. Can you imagine that? 32 POSES ONLY! How to???!!!

I couldn't exactly remember how many rounds did we take a look at the pictures but all in all, we spent 4 hours just selecting photos. Goodness! So tiring.

I think we made a good vendor choice for this photoshoot. Although the experience left me with sandfly bites all over my body, the photos turn out great even without editing. I cannot wait to get my hands on the final product but we still have to wait for 1 month, to view the edited photos, and another 3 weeks to collect the final product.

*excited mode*

Leah A A

Wedding Bells Getting Closer!!!

Less than 5 months away and still counting... I am so excited! Well yea, excited partly because of the wedding but the main reason for my excitement is in fact, I will be OFFICIALLY MARRIED!

Haha. Sounds dumb isn't it? I really can't believe it that I will be sharing my bed with someone soon. There goes my freedom to roll and stretch, as he invade my private space :(

LOL.

Time pass real fast. Little did we know, we are left with 5 months to prepare for the wedding. We used to think, "Nvm, we still have a long way to go..." and in a blink, the date comes nearer and nearer, faster than we had expected.  With most of the time spent on work, it has left us with little time to plan for the wedding. But thank goodness, we manage to get these things going nevertheless...

Our Checklist;
- Decor - done
- Catering - done
- Bridal Costumer - done
- Event  Photography - done
- Wedding Favor (my side) - done
- Void Deck Booking (my side) - done
- Henna Booking - done
- Gift Exchange Decor - done

and there are many things UN-DONE! yikes!

Upcoming Events;
- Selection of pre-wedding photos
- Ordering invitation cards
- Wedding cake design discussion
- Buying gifts exchange
- MANY MORE >_<

How? How? How?

*Panick mode*

Leah A A

A Holiday to De-Stress! 30 May to 2 June 2013

Though it's kinda late to post this, I just feel like it :)

Within a month, we decided inpromptually (not too sure on the spelling) to go for a short holiday trip. And not long after, off we go on Tiger Airways to a destination that is so familiar, PHUKET! Thanks to our old Casio Exilim Pinkish Camera that was long dead and revived again, we manage to savour and capture some of our memories from this vacation.

Of course, a typical aeroplane shot is always on the list for all travellers. Just the picture alone says it all "we are sooo going on a trip people!". LOL.

Tiger is not deniably the cheapest budget airline as compared to the rest. BUT, the seat is too small and cramp for a person like me, whom never fail to cross and tuck in my legs as though I am sitting on the floor. Habit dies hard. Well, cheap  ticket so I gotta suck it in. That's the price I paid for -_-

We landed in 1.5 hours or so and got ourselves a taxi to Patong beach. That easily cost us 700baht (S$28) but if you gotta compare with Singapore taxis, it's definitely worth it. I love road drives and can always fall asleep in it, especially in SG. Unfortunately, this doesn't apply then as I was too excited. So again, we camwhore in the taxi. LOL.

 

With generally good review, we had booked a Junior Suite at Patong Pearl Resortel. It cost $193 for 4D3N per room and even has a private jacuzzi equipped at the balcony. Although there are noticeable dirts and insects in the jacuzzi bathtub, it can easily be washed away and cleaned so we didn't mind that much. I give it a 7/10 as I did not like the tile flooring. It kinda cheapen the look I feel.

 

 

 

 

The only special thing that I did was to try out parasailing. I had wanted to try it out on the 1st day but had no guts to do so. All thoughts running through my mind "what if i die? what if i drop into the water and drown? or break my neck? or would the ropes snap?". But I just have to do it  instead of wondering how it feels to be up there, your life hanging on the ropes of the the parachute and nothing else. So I picked up my courage and did it on my second day.

 

How was it? I felt nothing. LOL. It's as good as taking the Sentosa Skyride and there is nothing scary at all. NOTHING AT ALL. So my fiance recorded the whole video but unfortunately, the video gets deleted as I sent my phone for repair last week. Here are some pictures of me getting prepped up for the ride...

 

 

We spent the days pigging out on Thai delicacies, dishes and seafood from breakfast, to lunch, to dinner and supper. The feeling of doing nothing stressful and simply lazying by the beach and swimming pool is the perfect feeling in the world that I never want to forget. We are not the shopping kind so we did not have a budget to worry as we splurge on food food food. Oh, we did catch a Fast and Furious 6 in their cinema, after a long 20 minutes commercial and standing up to the National Anthem (fiance almost had a fit as he was snoring away while I woke him up urgently). Our nights were spent in the bar, playing pool games and puffing sheesha away. Not forgetting, the beach club called "Seduction" was awesome! We finally found a club that has no nonsense sleazy kind of thing. It was purely a dance club that you can find along Clarke Quay and the crowd was great too! Kudos to the Australian Management for bringing in that hippie breakdance group, and that party rocking DJs.

 

Though Phuket is not the best trip or destination in Thailand as I still prefer Koh Pha Ngan (besides, the beaches are getting horribly dirty as well), it is still a wonderful vacation to de-stress with my super duper lovey fiance. Here are the rest of the pictures for your viewing pleasure...

 







 

The Road to the Other Side

The Downside of my career journey...

My job search has nothing promising yet. I did not get that other job after rejecting the jewellery event company's offer. It sucks to be rejected but oh well, that wasn't the first time.

Last week, I went for an interview and was required to make a presentation on a project that I have covered on. Overall, I thought my presentation went well. Even the interviewees said so, commenting that my presentation could make me stand out among other candidates. But... 1 week has since passed and yet I receive no call from them. Well, I guess I did fail to answer some of their interview questions and probably, did not do that well in the surprised written test at the end of the interview. It was all hell break loose! The written test is tough considering that it's a "surprise" and me, having poor writing skills and a brain size of a pea :(

Again, rejected. Urgh.

And, my current company keeps abusing me, sharing me with their new joint venture company! So basically, I am doing the Marcom role for both companies, including designing their new company logo and all the marketing collaterals.

So smart huh, avoiding engaging profession creative agency to do the work that may cost them a bomb...


Well, the Upside is... this leads to a freelance designing opportunity!!

I have a new business idea! I love it when these ideas seems to pop up out of nowhere. In fact, it was something that I had thought about but was not confident in doing so. But now, with a potential client enquiring, it gives me a kick start that things may work out after all! I'm so excited! Using all my skills that I acquired in designing artwork for my current company, I am trying out as a Freelance Designer, designing artwork for outside companies at an affordable rate. If I manage to clinch this project and do it well, subsequently, there will be more projects given to me.

I have even thought of a name for my business;

LEAH Creative Work.

Depends on how it goes, I will decide if a professional profile and website to showcase my work is required...

So with my current job, it gives me more time to try out this new business. I would probably put off my job search until end of this year and see how it goes.

I have found the ROAD TO THE OTHER SIDE :)

Pleasant Saturday...

Last weekend was pretty awesome. Instead of the pre-planned activities that I lined up previously, I had a date with my gf. It has been a long time since we met and catching up is definitely a must!

Many changes have since taken place. The only thing that left me baffled is the differences she had with her bf. Since it's a private life, I shall respect her privacy and will not reveal it here. Oh but come on Dude! Like seriously? 10 years?

From a dinner date (which she left me to be the only one eating just because she had late lunch), to movie (we watched THE CALL. A thriller not to be missed though I hate the ending!) and finally, to recover our feet (all the madness walking from Orchard Road) at the 24hour cafe, Mr Bean, we coincidentally bump into my ex-boss cum ex-client, who is working there! What a small world huh! How I envy his retirement plans, living by the day with no stress and simply work for the sake of helping out a friend.

It was a pleasant evening and Happy Tuesday to ya'all!

Update: I was offered the job from the company during the interview last week but I had declined it. And the company that I wished will call me, I had my 2nd round interview with them today :)
Hopefully, I get shortlisted for the job!!

Leah A A

Jut Blogging

I'm certainly feeling the Holiday mood this May. While here I am waiting anxiously for 30th May to come, my dear fiancé is now at Vietnam, having his own trio fun with his peeps :) He will probably enjoy it much since it's the first time he goes on a trip with just his friends.

I AM JEALOUS.

LOL. not really. In fact, I am happy for him. Come back safely my dear, I am missing you.

Thinking of all the possible activities to do over the weekend makes me excited. Not that I have a date with my friend (well, my dear friend Amanda can't make it), but it has been quite a while since I go out alone. This may sound like a boring deal for some; catching a movie, going to the library, chilling at Starbucks, cardio workout. Sounds great to me at least. Of course SLEEP is still the ideal choice but I shall reserve that for Sunday :p

In a while, I will be attending a 2nd round of interview. Nothing that I am particular interested of and I am still in check why did I even bother to apply for half day leave. It's a small company that specialize in tailoring private events for jewellery collectors. Sounds high end but doesn't seem to impress me. Or rather, I just don't fit into that kind of cosy affair.

While I pray hard for the other company to call me....

Leah A A