Wedding Anniversary Celebration

I know it's a bit overdue but since I'm nursing my wisdom tooth extraction, I better start blogging about it, hee......

14 Sep 09 was our first year wedding anniversary. Some time back, Rhys chanced upon a great deal for Regent's one night stay. The price was only half price of their usual rate, so we decided to book one night stay at Regent!!

We were already quite pleased with the good offer and what made us even happier was that they upgraded our standard room to........ (at no additional cost)

Minister suite!!!!!! See my shocked face!

The suite was really huge. Besides the bedroom, there's also a large living room, dining area, 2 bathrooms and 2 TVs!!........ The hotel stuff even joked that we could play hide and seek there... haha

See our happy faces!

The celebration went on with us going to Cineleisure to take Neoprint! It was like ages ago since we took Neoprints and we had fun posing and decorating the photos.... Soon it was time for dinner and we decided to try out a place where we never dined before...

So as we walked, we chanced upon "Sun with Moon" at Wheelock place and decided to give it a try... Our verdict: It was nice!! The deco was nice, so was the atmosphere and food... =)

So that's about our first year wedding anniversary celebration.... A year on and counting =)

Wedding Anniversary Eve brunch!

Hi, everyone, it's Flying Paper's turn to blog... hee...

As some of you know, 14 September 09 was our first year wedding anniversary! Can't believe it has been one year already since we got married... To celebrate, we had a Sunday brunch on the eve of our anniversary at......

We heard that Sunday brunch at this 6-star hotel costs about $130 each!!! However, we were lucky enough to eat there for FREE!! Yeah!! Haha, we won the Sunday brunch vouchers at a lucky draw so we decided to use it on this special occasion.. hee hee....

The place for the Sunday brunch was Brasserie Les Saveurs and the restaurant was indeed posh and most importantly, the buffet made us feel hungry!!!

We were ushered to our seat and we were told that besides the buffet spread, there would be al-carte food dishes that the waiters would bring around to each table. We were also given a food menu where we were allowed to choose a main course too.....

Here are some of the food pictures we took..... Pardon for the few photos as we were busy eating to take pictures, haha....

The starter that they gave to each table...Frankly speaking, I don't know what the dishes are :P

A bun with "foam"

They even served Chinese food, roast pork! They were juicy and crispy!! Yummy!

Our favourite Sashimi!!

Foie Gras...Mmm, we don't really fancy this...

Bread corner....

Fresh Oysters! But we were not a fan of this delicacy :P

Meanwhile, we ordered our mains... They served Beef, Wagyu beef somemore...Rhys wouldn't resist them in normal times but however, he has made a promise not to eat beef for this year of Ox so he had to give them a miss :p

I ordered the scallops while he ordered the Salmon.. Both were nice!

What's a buffet without desserts!! Even though we were full already, we couldn't say No to the sweet treats!! Their desserts corner were full of delicious looking cakes/pastries/chocolate etc

Wow!!! Yummy!

Rhys loved this chocolate mousse cake~!

Hazelnut cake... nice too!

That chocolate cake ended our Sunday brunch and we left happily with a full stomach!! (Although I felt guilty after that as I had eaten so much... haha)

The Rhys & Fei Zi Photo Contest, Part 2 :)!!!!

Hello everyone :D!!!!

It’s been more than a month since our Photo Contest, and we have a winner already :D!!!!

I knew I was in deep trouble when my Dearest Wifey went up 2-1 in our contest when she got 11 votes vs my 9 during the Week 3 theme of Old World Architecture…. I knew I had to buck up for the following weeks :P!!!! We were both so pumped up about the contest we even made a trip to the Botantic Gardens to shoot Flora & Fauna, which was the theme for Week 4 :)!

After a hot afternoon of getting bitten by mosquitoes, I came up with this:





My poor Wifey was bitten by even more mosquitoes, plus some bugs (we had to apply 'mopiko' for the poor girl after that :P), and here's her masterpiece :)!





Initially when I saw her flower, I thought “Haha, this week I sure win!” because I thought the flower was ugly :D! Little did I know that I will end up getting thrashed with only 4 votes for myself and a whopping 11 votes for Dearest Wifey :D!

The next theme that we drew for Week 5 was very interesting: What Money Can’t Buy ;)! Since it was not about any subject in particular, we were given free rein to come up with any stuff, and I decided on a picture of the sky:





Flying Paper took an entirely different direction with a folded heart ;)!





I think on creativity alone, the Dearest Wifey’s got an edge over me. Plus her picture was really well taken, and it ended up in another victory for her with 9 votes to 4 :D!!

I realized that I was in really deep shit because I was already down by 4-1 in the total tally, and another loss will allow Flying Paper to be the outright winner! For Week 6, we drew another creative theme, “Backview”! We went around exploring the sleepy town of Toa Payoh to look for inspiration, and I ended up with a shot of this kitty:





Here’s Flying Paper’s shot of The Boy With A Tight Butt ;)!





This time, it was a very tight race with 8 votes for each picture! After the original deadline expired, we decided to let the next vote to be the tie-breaker…. And the vote went to my Dearest Wifey :)!!!!

Haha, needless to say, she’s over the moon because besides bragging rights, she will soon be a proud owner of a sparkling new Olympus PEN E-P1, that will be ‘happily sponsored’ by me, haha…. My poor pockets :P!!!! I demand a rematch :D!!!!

Even though I ended up as the ‘1st Runner-Up’ for the contest, it was definitely a most memorable contest for the two of us, what with the exploration of old colonial buildings, insects at Botanic Gardens, sneaking up on unsuspecting cats and kids, haha :D….





And of course, a Big THANK YOU for our dear friends who voted and supported our silly little contest :)!!!! You made it possible wor :D!!!! THANK YOU :)!!!!

With Love,
Barneysaurus

The Rhys & Fei Zi Photo Contest :)!!!!

Hello everyone :)!!!!

It started out one lazy Sunday over lunch. Flying Paper and I each took a picture of this Japanese dessert, and started arguing over whose picture was better:

The one taken by my dearest Wifey:





And the one taken by yours truly:





Actually, it’s not the first time we argued over who is the better photographer, but this time we decided to take things further by putting it to vote!





Using Facebook as our ‘battleground’, we decided to test our photography skills over a period of 8 weeks. Since July, we have been shooting pictures according to a randomly-picked pre-defined theme. After careful selection, we will choose the picture we feel most confident about and then put it up for voting by our friends every Saturday night :)! We’re so into it we even created a set of rules for ourselves :)!

- All pictures will come straight from the camera with no post-processing done. This is because we’re competing our photography skills and not photoshopping abilities, haha. . . .
- All pictures will be taken by the Fujifilm F100fd, our trusty point-and-shoot compact digicam. We’ve been meaning to get a DSLR but both are too stingy, haha. . . .
- We will only reveal the photographer of each picture at the end of the week-long voting so as to prevent biases
- Only votes submitted through Facebook will be counted towards the final tally. This is to prevent myself from claiming “I got 1000 votes from my colleagues :)!”

For the very first week, we decided to use the Japanese dessert pictures because that’s what started the whole thingy. . . . And I was thoroughly trounced :D! The final tally was 10 votes for Flying Paper and only 1 sympathy vote for me. . . . Needless to say, the dearest Wifey had a great time gloating to me about it for the whole week, haha :D. . . .

I was determined to get my ‘revenge’, and so tried very hard for the second week’s theme, which was Two of a Kind:





Flying Paper took a different approach to the theme:





I was very happy because the final tally read 5 votes for her and 11 votes for me :)! The contest now stands at 1 win each :)!

We grew very excited when we drew the theme for the 3rd week, which was Old World Architecture. We spent a whole afternoon taking lots of pictures around City Hall area, trying to compose pictures that we felt would do justice to the theme. This is what we came out with, starting with Picture A:





And here’s Picture B:





As of the last count, it’s a really close fight with a current tally of 9 votes for Picture A and 10 votes for Picture B! We’re both feeling damn anxious now because it’s just a day plus left to the end of voting, haha :D. . . .

A big reason why we are feeling so excited about this contest is because besides bragging rights, the winner will get to win an Olympus PEN E-P1, courtesy of the ‘1st Runner-Up’:D!!


We are both praying hard that we won’t have to fork the cash for the camera, haha :D. . . . For those who have been voting, a really big THANK YOU for supporting our silly little contest :D!!!! Do please keep the votes coming, thanks thanks :)!!!!


With Love,
Barneysaurus

Our Royal Caribbean Cruise Part 2 :)!

Today is Flying Paper's turn to report on the long overdue part 2 of our Royal Carribbean Trip! :P

Well, that day, the ship would dock at Penang, and you had a choice whether you wanted to get off the ship and had a trip at Penang. I think visitors had around 3 to 4 hours of exploring time before the ship sailed off...

So with nothing much to do, we decided to explore Penang as we heard there were yummy food there :P

After breakfast, we waited patiently at the lobby for our queue number to be called. Visitors were divided into groups as the boat to Penang could only carry a limited number of passengers.

The ship captain!!

After a short ride, we reached the harbour of Penang!

When we reached, there were a lot of taxi drivers, trying to get the visitors to hitch a ride. We were "bombarded" by many offers but however, Rhys and I felt rather uncomforable and the rates were a bit too expensive so we decided to WALK to our destination!!! Previously, we heard that there's a shopping mall nearby with food street also, so we decided to go there to take a look....

Without realising that actually the shopping mall was quite a distance away, we just walked along the busy streets of Penang, taking in the sights and sounds...

It was a hot day that day and we walked for quite some time before we finally reached the shopping mall!! As Chinese New Year was around the corner, there was a God of Fortune there! haha...

We went straight to the shopping mall to enjoy the air-con and have a coffee at the George Town White Coffee shop!

Rhys enjoying the coffee~!

Actually we realised that there's nothing much special about the shopping centre so we decided to hit the street to look for food!! hee hee....

We decided to go to one of the coffee shop to try out their char kway tiao!!

Yummy!!

It was nice! And quite cheap also... we shared a plate and while we were eating, we noticed an interesting sign! haha

After eating, we walked around and explored... Here's me posing at one of their markets..There were quite a lot of flies on top of the food they were selling -_-"

We saw more food and but Rhys dun take spicy stuff, we didn't eat much (like laksa etc), so we decided to try another plate of char kway tiao again!!! :P

Equally yummy!!

Later, we decided that we were too tired and took taxi back to the harbour!

Around the harbour area

When we were back at our room, we had a pleasant surprise! The room attendant had folded a towel dog!! Impressed

Dinner time arrived and we went there to the restuarant. I liked their soup and dessert... hee... The main course was not really special to me, maybe I'm not a big fan of western food... Rhys, however enjoyed his steak very much (as usual)...

Stayed tuned for Part 3!! =)

Bao Bei’s 1st Birthday Celebration as My Wifey :D!!!!

Hello everyone :D!!!!

Exactly 24 years and 13 days ago, the loveliest girl in the whole wide world was born :). . . . And she goes by the name of Flying Paper :D!!!!





We celebrated the actual day with the whole family, and she ended up with two big chocolate cakes for the day because her wonderful friends at her work place also surprised her with a celebration earlier in the day :)! But somehow, I ended up eating most of the chocolate cakes, haha :D….

That wasn’t the end of the celebration of course ;)! We went to explore Dempsey over the weekend :)!





We’ve always heard about Dempsey being the new ín’ place for dining, and since we are both lovers of Jap cuisine, decided to try out this place call Rakuichi :)





We had a hard time ordering because everything on the menu looks so good :D!!!! The first thing we attacked was of course the sashimi ;). . . .





Not forgetting the sushi. . . .





And more sushi :)!!!!





As you can see my dearest Wifey was seriously wondering if we could finish everything ;). . . .





We also had some grilled fish. . . .





Mushrooms :). . . .





And we ended the meal with our favorite: Black Sesame ice cream :D!!!!





Overall, we had a good time at Rakuichi, which scored points with its the great selection, taste, décor, and friendly service :)! Thumbs up :)!





We wanted to go to the nearby Botanic Gardens for a stroll but our legs and stomachs just couldn’t take it after the very heavy meal, haha :D. . . . We ended up shopping at Orchard instead :)!

There was this electronics fair going on at Takashimaya, and my dearest wifey dragged me over to have a look because she knows I’ve been eyeing a new computer. It turns out that they were offering a good trade-in price if I bring my old CPU in.

Now you know you have got yourself a good wife if she is willing to go look at computer and IT stuff with you even if it’s on her birthday. But the way to tell you have a WONDERFUL wife is when she willingly travels all the way back home with you to Sembawang to pick up your CPU and then travel back to Orchard :D!!!!

I must be the luckiest man alive :)

To reward my lovely girl, we went to our favorite restaurant for dinner: Anugus House :D!!!!





They’ve changed the starter from the previous fried-prawn thingy to this steamed/fried prawn thingy, and it taste GREAT :D!





The mains were no disappointment, but we were keeping our fingers crossed when they were about to serve desserts. Vivian was telling us how wonderful their tiramisu tasted, and we were really hoping they will serve tiramisu this time. I think it was Flying Paper’s birthday wish coming true because they really did served us tiramisu :D!!!!





Overall, it was a great day of beautiful memories with my dearest wifey :). . . . Hope you enjoyed it dear :)!!!!





With Love,
Barneysaurus :)

Our Royal Caribbean Cruise Part 1 :)!

Hello everyone :D!!!! Long time no see wor :D!!!!

Flying Paper and I was walking around in Harbor Front the other day, and since it was a long weekend, we decided to hop on a cruise onboard the Royal Caribbean :D!!!!





Haha, actually we went on our cruise way back in January, but I only got down to blogging it today because of other serious commitments, such as playing Fire Emblem on Wii work :)! Anyway, standby for a barrage of photos :D!!!!


First up, a lovely photo of my lovely wifey, keke :). . . .





After checking in, we didn’t waste any time and made a mad rush for the buffet lunch because we are hungry and greedy Singaporeans, haha :D. . . .





Now I must say that we are usually not very impressed by free buffet lunches because the variety and taste are usually so so only. . . . But the food onboard The Legend of The Seas really rocked :D!! Our first meal and already I was impressed by the fried chicken which taste like an improved version of KFC, plus it’s de-boned. ROCKS :D!!!!





I wanted to stuff myself silly with even more food, but wifey dragged me away because I was getting fat, and also because we had to take part in the fire drill :)!





After that we went about exploring the ship, which was really, really huge! Check out the pool deck:





For those who prefer a indoor dip, there’s also a indoor pool :)!





There’s even a rock wall, though we never tried because our legs will get wobbly, haha :D. . . .





The best thing was the weather, which was really good throughout our cruise :)!





Not long after, Flying Paper decided to go for a jog because she claimed that she ate too much ;)!





After that she even went for a game of golf :D!!!!





Being lazy me, all I wanted to do was eat. For the record, I finished both ‘oddly-shaped’ chocolate cones by myself, haha :D. . . .





I have no idea what’s with the following photo, heh :)





One of the highlights of the cruise was the gala dinner, which falls on the first night of our cruise :)! We’re required to be formally dressed for the dinner, and it feels like prom all over again sia :D!





Hmmm, maybe it feels like prom again because I wore the same suit as I did for the prom! Eh, wifey, if you are reading this, I really don’t mind a well-tailored Hugo Boss for my birthday you know :)? Muahaha :D. . . .





Now here’s a tip: There’s this ‘My Time’ dining option for Royal Caribbean cruises, where you get to choose your own dining schedule instead of the two pre-defined time-slots arranged by your travel agency. Besides getting a more flexible dining timing, the added advantage is that the likelihood of you getting a romantic two-seater is higher :D! That’s what happened to Flying Paper and I throughout the cruise, heh :). . . .

Let’s check out the menu :D!





I wasn’t too hopeful about cruise dinners after our experience at Star Cruise, but I was glad that Royal Caribbean was able to change our perception :D! The food, to put it simply, was fantastic. Check out the shrimp cocktail:





Flying Paper’s seabass :)!





I went for the escargot (DELICIOUS :D!), and the beef filet:





The filet was fantastic, but I thought the portion wasn’t really filling. You can thus imagine how happy I was when the staff brought a sirloin just to fill me up :D!





I was so full by the time I was done with the steak, but there’s always room for dessets, keke :). . . . I went for my favorite chocolate ice cream while wifey went for the soufflé :)!





By the end of it, I was so seriously full :D!! In contrast, my dearest wifey was still the perfect picture of poise, keke :). . . .





And that about wraps it up for the first day of our cruise :)! Standby for Part 2 :)!





With Love,
Barneysaurus :)!

Happy Valentine Day

Yesterday was Valentine's day... Wherever we walked, we could see couples dressed up nicely, gals holding flowers/bears from their boyfriends, or their boyfriends "unwillingly" holding these gifts for them.. haha..

So how about married couples? Do they spend as much effort as those courting couples? Mmm...I'm glad to say that Rhys still does!!! ^_^

Yesterday he surprised me by booking a hotel room for Valentine's day! He packed the needed toiletries and my clothes in his bag while I was still sleeping in the morning... However, later I realised something was fishy when I realised my toothbrush was missing when we had finished our early lunch at home...

Later, when we went out, I realised that he had booked a room at Hotel Intercontinental! Yeah, a pleasant surprise!!!

Our celebration was a movie treat by me... haha.. We watched "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". 

It's about a man who was born in his eighties and was aging backwards.... The man was becoming younger.. This may sound good, doesn't it? But it wasn't really good.... Imagine watching your loved ones getting old and die... your beloved's pain of watching you becoming a baby, instead of growing old together.........

It was a good show as it made you ponder over some stuff that you will face in real life.....

We had also a nice Jap dinner too before the show... The show lasted about 3 hours so we decided to have an early dinner, then watched the movie.. hee...

By the way, we also saw something amusing.. It's the special offer by Duck Tour.. See the range of actions you can do to earn the discounts.. wooo..... U want a $8 discount?? haha....

Happy Valentine's day!! =)

Our First CNY as a Married Couple :D!!!!

A VERY HAPPY “NIU” YEAR TO EVERYONE AH :D!!!! HUAT HUAT HUAT AH :D!!!!

First of all, have to say to a ‘PAISEH’ to everyone for not updating for so long :P! We have been kept occupied by a lot of stuff, which we will blog about in time to come :)! Today, we will report on our very first CNY as a married couple :D!

You can tell how prepared Flying Paper and I were for CNY: we were both dressed in auspicious red during our Reunion Dinner :D!





I wanted to show some photos of the steamboat we had, but decided not to because my sister-in-law don’t want to be ‘exposed’ in our blog, keke :)…. Here’s a photo with my In-laws instead :)!





We went to the River Ang Pow at Marina after lunch, and was so sian because unlike the previous years, they only open at 6pm this year :P! Undeterred, Flying Paper and I made another trip down a few days later, haha :D….





We also hosted a mini CNY Wii party at our place last weekend :D! It was an opportunity for us to thank Peishan, Peiyun, Su Fen and Lam for helping us out on our Big Day, keke :)





My dearest wifey demonstrating how to play :)!!





We got a sadistic kick when we saw how our friends struggled at certain games, keke :). . . . One of our friends, Peiyun whom we shouldn’t name, also managed to create a ‘historic’ score in Wii Fit, muahahah :D!!!! No photos, unless someone is willing to bribe us :)

Anyway, what’s a CNY party without Yu Sheng :D?!?!?





Preparation in progress :)





And then we were ready :D!!!!





It was a really fun afternoon, though we had to spend quite a bit of time cleaning up afterwards, keke ;)….

Here’s wishing everyone a most wonderful, prosperous, and enjoyable Year of the Ox ah :D!!!!

With Love,
Flying Paper & Barneysaurus :)

Happy 2009 to Everyone :D!!!!

Flying Paper & I would like to take this opportunity to wish everybody a very Happy 2009 :)! May it be a fruitful year for all, let’s all work hard and jia you :)!!!!

This is the first New Year we are celebrating as a married couple, and we started the year with something we have not done together before: We woke up super duper early for a New Year run :D!!!!

I think for those sporty couples, a morning run is not much of a big deal, but when you are talking about lazy couples like us, waking up early just for a run is nothing short of a miracle :D! In fact, we were wondering the night before if we would back out of the run when we wake up, haha :D…. Luckily, we didn’t, and it was a great feeling having the wind against your face, the sun on your cheeks, the scent of fresh vegetation and of course our hands held tightly together as we went forward in unison :). . . .

We are toying with the idea of making this a weekly event so that we can be trim and fit, hope this plan works out well :)! Once again, a Happy New Year to everyone wor :D!!!!

With Love,
Flying Paper & Barneysaurus :)!

The Southern Ridges Adventure

On one fine Sunday, 2 lazy pigs suddenly became "hardworking" and decided to go on The Southern Ridges Adventure!!! These 2 lazy pigs woke up early that day to prepare their picnic lunch to bring there..hee...

Preparation in process

The Southern Ridges is a 9-kilometre walk starting from HarbourFront station and ends at Kent Ridge Park . However, we decided to start from Kent Ridge Park so that we can end our journey at the air-conditioned HarbourFront!! :P Our choice ended up to be a good one as by walking the reverse direction, we were walking downhill most of the time so less tiring.. haha

Kent Ridge Park!

The walk started.....

We spotted a Canon!

Next up is to walk towards Canopy Walk and Hort Park!

Walking....

And finally, we reached Hort Park!!

Hort Park is a gardening hub and we found this place rather interesting =) This park is also one hot spot for pre-wedding photography!! Should have come here for photgraphy if I know this place earlier.. hee hee

We saw glass houses!!

Some beautiful flowers in the glass houses

Tinman!

Colourful windmills

At about noon, we had to take a break from the long walk and had our picnic lunch!! Haha

Next up, we saw the Alexandra Arch which at night, the bridge will dazzle with colour-changing LED lights.

Henderson waves ahead!

Wavy bridge

After so long, we reached Marang trail!!

The Marang trail leads us to the cable car station at the Jewel Box on Mount Faber to HarbourFront station...

Cable car

The start of Marang Trail which is a short walk through the forested area

And finally, and finally, we were out of Marang Trail!!! By then, we were already quite exhausted and our legs were tired!!

Happy!!!

Yeah, we completed the Southern Ridges Adventure!! Hooray!!

Stacia's Baby Shower + 3rd Anniversary Celebration :D!!!!

Hello everyone :D!!!!

I’ve been trying to upload our wedding day express highlights to YouTube without success :P!!!! Haha, think maybe the file size too big already, will try again when I have more time to spare, haha :). . . .

And we bear good news in this post :D! Can you recall us attending a wedding show at Marina Mandarin with Ker Peng and Ivan last October? We are pleased to announce here that the happy couple have just celebrated the birth of their first-born, Stacia, in a super duper nice baby shower where I gorged myself with too much chocolate ice cream :D!



Ker Peng and Ivan, if you are reading this: I wasn’t trying to scare your cute baby, really :)!


Click here for Reporter Flying Paper’s account of the baby shower :)! Once again, a big CONGRATS to Ivan and Ker Peng wor :)!!!!

After the baby shower, Flying Paper and I went to celebrate our 3-year anniversary (of officially being an item :)!) at our favorite restaurant, Angus House :D!





We really enjoy dining at this place because the décor, service, and ambience is simply fantastic! But of course, the bigger reason why we love the place is the Food! Check out the attention they gave just for the starters!





For me, the main attraction is definitely the steaks :P!





Maybe it’s just me, but I think the taste is much better than Lawry’s or Morton’s, heh. . . . I couldn’t resist taking a close up :)!





But of course, the biggest reason why I always have a great dining experience there is because of the loveliest girl who is there by my side :). . . .





My dear, it’s been more than 2 months since our Big Day, but I’ve never stopped counting my blessings, haha :). . . . Looking forward to our January mini-holiday :)!!!!

With Love,
Barneysaurus :)!

Our Wedding - Part 5 "The Wedding Dinner" :)!

Hello everyone :D!!!!

Today is the last installment of our wedding day report, and I shall cover what happened during the wedding dinner :D!!!!





First, let me bring you through our ballroom :)!




Our ballroom backdrop :)





The solemnization table :D!





Tabletop settings :)





And of course, our rings :). . . .





A very big Thank You to Florence of Impact Creative for the beautiful wedding theme and the fabulous wedding flavors :D!!!!


Outside: the reception table :D!





Our guest book :)!





Most of our guests were very punctual. . . . THANK YOU :D!!!!








Finally, it was almost time for the wedding to start :D! Our emcees, Peishan and Lucas in action :)!





Our parents preparing to witness our solemnization :). . . .





And then it was almost time for the march-in :D!!!! After doing so many military weddings for my friends, it’s finally my turn with my dearest Flying Paper, heh :). . . .





If anyone is interested in the Men-In-Uniform, do let know, muahahah :D. . . .





While my swordsmen were lining up along the aisle, Flying Paper and I was feeling so so nervous outside the ballroom :D! We were really worried we will trip or something, haha :D. . . . So we grabbed each other’s hands as tight as possible, and stepped into the limelight :)!














Fortunately, we managed to get onto the stage without any mishap, haha :). . . .






We were very fortunate to my Mr Chia, one of the most popular JPs in Singapore, to officiate our wedding :)!!!!





And so we exchanged our vows :). . . .





. . . . exchanged our rings :). . . .





. . . . and of course locked our lips :)! So shy, haha :D. . . .





Then we cut the cake, which the manager told us can be kept for a year wor :D!





A snapshot of our guests :)!





Barely two courses into the dinner, and we had to pause our dinner to change to our evening attire :)!





In the meantime, our guests are kept entertained with the highlights video clip, the one with me dancing really badly, haha :D. . . .





And then we made our entrance again :D!!!!





I had to do the champagne popping, and it was incredibly embarrassing because I had such a hard time doing it :D!!!! It was one of the longest 30-seconds in my life, and you can’t believe how relieved Flying Paper and me was when I finally succeeded, keke :). . . .





Champagne pouring time :D!





The love toast :). . . .





And of course the Yum Seng session :D!





We took turns to give a short speech :)! I wanted to sing ‘Ji Pa Ban’ but Flying Paper told me she will snap my neck if I did, muahahaha :D!!!!






And then we went around taking pictures with all our friends :D!





To encourage early attendance, my clever wifey came up with the brilliant idea of a lucky draw for early-birds :D! For the record, 90% of our guests arrived before 7:30pm wor :D! here’s the lovely girl drawing the lucky lot :)





We think the happiest lucky draw winner was Junkai, even though he only won our cheapo Akira DVD player, heh ;). . . . Check out his grin :D!





Before we knew it, the dinner was ending already, and we lined up outside the ballroom to thank our guests for gracing the most important day of our lives :)








I was very fortunate not to get saboed so much (amazing considering how crazy my friends are. Ah Sai, you reading this :D?). There was still the few glasses of red wine (?) though!





And when they really wanted to sabo me, I just try my best to ‘siam’, heh ;)





After lots of photos, handshakes and hugs, all our friends and relatives made their way home, but I was not lonely because standing next to me with her hand in mine, is the love of my life :). . . . To my Dearest Wifey: No journey is too tough as long as you are by my side my dear girl :)!





And this concludes the wedding report of our wedding day :D! Stay tuned for the wedding video clip which we will put up soon, as well as the full report of our Honeymoon Adventure in Japan :D!!!!

With Love,
Flying Paper & Barneysaurus :)

Our Wedding - Part 4 "The Tea Ceremony"

After the photoshoot, we headed back to Rhys's house for the tea ceremony. As our bridal car arrived at his house, his nephew came and opened the door for us. An ang bao for him! Haha...

When we entered the house, the elders are supposed to hide in a room to avoid seeing the bride. So off we went to our bedroom first to take photos!

Later, we were asked to eat tang yuan which they said symbolised union!

Next up was the "jumping and rolling on the bed" by his nephew!! Haha, he seemed a bit reluctant to roll and jump as a lot of eyes were on him.

Finally it's time for the tea ceremony!

Rhys had a lot of relatives on his side so we spent quite a long time serving tea to the relatives as well as being served by the younger relatives! Haha, giving and receiving ang baos were quite an experience...

Groom's family!

Before heading back to my house, I had to take out my veil and changed into my red kua!!

Rhys had a hard time taking out the veil!

My kua!

Us in bridal car!

Walking towards my house..

At my house, we had to eat a bowl of mee sua and an egg.. so full! haha

We proceeded with the tea ceremony but as not a lot of relatives came to my house, our tea ceremony here was quite fast, hee hee.

Us with my family!

After the tea ceremony, we had to head for the hotel to rest for a while and to prepare for the wedding dinner. Our jie meis and xiong dis then left on their own to go home to prepare for the night too!

The group photo before we met again at wedding dinner!

Our wedding dinner next!!!!

Our Wedding - Part 3 "The Outdoor Photoshoot"

After Rhys finally braved through all the tortures, we left happily for my favourite part of my morning session - The Outdoor Photoshoot!!

The photographer and videographer suggested The Bottle Tree Park as it was near our home and it was a beautiful place. So off we went!!

My dad sheltering me into the car!

Us in the bridal car...

We were really glad that the weather was fine as the day before my wedding was a rainy day. Was happy that the weather was nice for photo-taking although it started to turn hot later.. hee..

When we reached The Bottle Tree Park, we started to take photos! Let the pictures do the talking for a while...

Anyone wants to buy 4D? haha

My bouquet!

Pulling Rhys's ears! hee hee

The gang in black...

Nice group photo!

See how hard they tried to jump high.. haha..

My long train.. hee hee...

Walking hand in hand....

The nice bridge...

We were really lucky on that day cos a group of people have booked a part of the place for a special event and they decorated the entrance with balloons and the bride with ribbons. Having thick skin, we actually borrowed their balloons for photo-taking! Hee hee... I like the balloons!!

Of course, in Bottle Tree Park, we couldn't miss taking photo with the Bottle Tree!

I looked tall here.. haha

Finally, it's time for the toss-the-bouquet session!! Haha, before my wedding, the jie meis excluding peiyun have decided to let peiyun catch the bouquet as it's our wish to let her find her prince charming soon...

Getting ready to throw the bouquet

Ta-dah!! Peiyun knew that she has been "sabo" to catch the bouquet since everyone pushed her to catch the flowers.. haha... Hope u find ur prince charming soon ya =)

It was a fun session and a tiring one since the sun was shining so brightly.. haha... Around 1030am, we left for the tea ceremony in Rhys's house!

To the next destination!

Our Wedding - Part 2 "The Bridal Challenges"

Hello everyone :D!!!!

I am typing this with trembling fingers: today, I shall recount the horrible tasks the horrible sisters made me and my 兄弟s went through before I get to kiss my lovely Flying Paper :D!!!!





The easiest task in the morning was waiting for Cosmo to open the bridal car door for me, and I think he was smiling broadly because of the big ang pow he received :D!





And I have to thank my lovely兄弟s for waking up so early just to get ‘sabo’ed with me, haha :D. . . .





Some quick intros from left to right :D!

1) Lucas: My Best Man, he's my best buddy ever since we slept together in the jungles of Brunei back in 1999, muahahaha.... Simply the bestest friend one can get ;)! He was the overall coordinator cum emcee for my Big Day, dun play play!

2) Jeffrey: My ‘lover’ from uni, we shared many memorable memories in the toilets of NTU that I shall not reveal here, heh.... I wanted him to be my head coord for photo taking and also the drinking session because he got the ah beng look, but he claims he can’t drink -__- ”. . . .

3) Koh Yang Yang: My ‘lover’ since our days in poly, he is understandably the most heart-broken person when he heard I'm getting married but not to him, heh. Because he has a big-ass MPV, he ferried the lovely and beautiful Jie Meis around, heh....

4) Lam: None of the above brothers dared to flirt with the lovely Jie Meis because one of them is Lam’s girlfriend wor :D! Keke, because of his privileged position we thought we would have an easier time getting through the bridal gates, keke :)....


We bravely marched on, unaware of the ‘terrors’ that were waiting for us. . . .





The ‘terrors’:





The first task was to complete this Chinese tongue twister in a super duper short time!





Despite our best efforts, I ended up looking like this a few seconds later:





For some unknown reasons my兄弟s were quite happy to see me getting punnished -__- ”. . . .





It was the ‘Love Apple Challenge’ after that!





We had to grab a bite of the apple, which was suspended really high up in the air, without using chairs or hands! After fumbling initially, we figured out how to carry out the task ;)!





Then for some other unknown reasons, the sisters wanted us to perform a song and dance, which we gladly obliged because we have thick skin, hehe :)





Acutally it was not as easy as it sounds because they wanted me to show some skin too. Tsk tsk, youngsters nowadays :D!!!!





Then it was time for the horrible horrible bittergourd drink that they so ‘painstakingly’ prepared for us :(. . . .





Some of us handled it better :). . . .








Some did not handle it as well. . . .





And finally, for some it was pure torture :D!!!!





Seriously, the jie meis really have it good. Not only did they get to sabo us, they get to pocket lots of ang pow too :(. . . . In fact, they made me top up the amount just so as to satisfy their insatiable Greed :(. . . .





After taking my money, they still want to see me suffering :(!



Kids, please don’t try this at home!


Luckily, I have the most wonderful mother-in-law who put an end to our suffering, keke :). . . .





And finally we are in :D!!!!





But wait, why was the sisters blocking our way again :(????





It turned out that they engaged our singing and dancing so much they wanted to be ‘entertained’ again -__- ”. . . .





There was also a ‘Love Pledge’ that I had to say in Mandarin, no problem :D!!!!





After all the challenges, I was finally in :). . . .





. . . . and I knew all the ‘sabo’ was worth it because of my lovely Flying Paper :). . . .











Of course I couldn’t resist kissing my beautiful bride :)!!!!





I am the luckiest man in the world :). . . .





Next up: Our adventures at The Bottle Tree Park :D!!!! Stayed tuned :)!!!!


With Love,
Barneysaurus :)!!!!