Bridal Pastries

What is the purpose of having bridal pastries for chinese weddings? Well, it was customary for the girl's family to distribute the bridal pastries they receive from the boy's family to friends and relatives as a form of announcement and invitation to the wedding feast.

Bridal pastries was supposed to be given during the bethoral but we requested that they are sent earlier so that we will be able to distribute to relatives together with the wedding dinner invitation.

The bridal pastries

Consists of 2 variety of pastries (lotus and red bean)

The pastries was ordered from Lian Bee Confectionary in Bandar Puteri, Puchong. I do not know whether it taste nice or not as according to chinese customs, the wedding couple shall not eat the pastries. I hope it taste good :)

Change of Status

From today onwards, I would need to fill up any forms with "married" as my marital status. Why? Because today I am legally married to my hubby... 11.11.2006 is the date we signing the marriage certificate and taking the oath to live as husband and wife :D

Let's go to the marriage registration...

The boquet of roses... simple & sweet, right? Thanks to my sis to help me to get it :D

We had our marriage registration at Thean Hou temple. The time allocated for us was 9.15am. Wow, this was really early for us... but we have no choice as other time slots were booked in advance. The event was a rush one due to there were altogether 142 couples registering for their marriage on this day. The person in charge were reading something (basically telling you that you both are legally married and willing to spend the life with each other), and all we need to do is the say, 'Yes, I do'. So, everything ended up in just around max 10 minutes.

"Yes, I do"

The witnesses (left: Mr. Ha & right: Mr. Chiam)

Hubby's family (Ha family)

My family (Chiam family)

The newly married couple :)

Home Sweet Home

It was 2 yrs back that me and hubby bought a double storey house in Setia Alam. I loved the environment of the residential area very much... with greeneries, park surrounding the houses, I felt in love with it. Well, the not so good is the location is very far from city center. Hmm... anyhow, we were lucky as the developer has provided an access road to PJ area via NKVE which takes only 10 mins to reach Subang Jaya.

Few months back, me and hubby were busy renovating the house (only some minor work :P), shopping for the house, looking for the kitchen cabinet, booking for furniture, lamps, electrical appliances... wow, it was really hectic and really takes so much of our time (esp the weekends). It was really an amazing experience as we learnt a lot on the negotiation skills, knowledge on the construction materials, design + practicality, etc. We made quite a number of mistakes and each mistakes comes with a cost :( Now, the house is complete and look at the photos below...

The main entrance of my house...

The ceiling (box style cornice)...

Dining table (with a mirror, people said good for fengshui maa *_*)

The kitchen cabinet (chimni style cooker hood, nice or not? ;))

Kitchen cabinet (top part)

Everything looks good huh? I hope so... Some of the comments we received were our home is simple and nice... very cosy wor. We had choices to have the yellow/white lights in the living room... yellow=romantic, white=practical. hehehe.... sounds nice?

Will definitely post more photos after i deco my new home...

Pekan trip

Recently, I was rather busy and stop posting any latest updates to my blog. My colleague has just sent us some photos taken during the Pekan trip on 5 Oct. It was a compulsory event for the Finance & Admin department in which the staff are divided into groups of 5 or some are 6. Each group will take turns to drive to Pekan in our company cars, either MB-C, MB-A, Vito or Vaneo.

Our team got to drive an C-class to Pekan. The car was good, rather stable and able to speed. Mike, Mel and myself took turns to drove there. The journey was quite smooth and we reached Kuantan town at around 12noon and had our lunch. It was a restaurant suggested by Mel, and the food was really good :)

Next, we head to Pekan where our MB assembly plant is located. Started the tour at around 2.30pm. Went through the assembly line for S-class. Now we knew that only the assembly is job quite complicated and why is the price of MB cars were so high :P

From left: Bee Keng, Michael, Swee Yeung, myself and Melinda

Before we left for KL, we bought some salted fish, dried shrimps and tit-bits from a shop nearby. Mum said the stuff that I bought were not so fresh. Tips: Next time shall buy from Kuantan town... :P The way back, we drove an A-class cause we need to exchange the cars...

Well, it was a good experience but the sad part is we got a ticket for speeding... So, 5 of us shared the compound that we need to pay. sob~ sob~