Joy's wedding

This truly is the wedding season as evident by the free flow of invitation cards. I am glad to say i really made a huge effort to be part of this wedding despite the many obstacles along the way.How could i pass up re-uniting with the family i see once every few years?

We missed the solemnization ceremony but was in time for the wedding dinner itself.

And i was greeted by these lovely two.

They wore matching black and white dresses!

Somehow most of our photos came out blurry. Someone must have been playing with my camera.

Waiting to go into the hall, we took the time to camwhore.

 

We had so many adventures as kids~

See what i mean. If its still the pic turns out fine but once there is movement everything turns blurry. I think its got something to do with the shutter speed. Shall read manual. So ended up with a double image  of everything which can be kinda cute though.

This wedding had the most speeches ever.

Forever young couple~

Justin and Jane looking cute together.

 

Good-looking cousins.

Another wedding over and more to come~

Cramps

Am so tired. Post call and straight away to Sg Buloh for a course on Monday and Tuesday. Luckily i had hospital transport and Jh's parents transport not to mention a warm bed to sleep on cos that very postcalll night i had the worse abdominal cramps(due to that time of the month) ever. I could not sleep till 2 am and kept going to the toilet as it relieved the pain somewhat.I refrained from taking medication.Endure if you can is my motto and finally managed to fall asleep in a fetal position.I wished i had my heat pad.

Today was much better and bearable.But i'm really sleepy and crampy. Can't wait to be my normal self again.

Just to end off with a nice picture so you don't leave this blog picturing me in pain.

Yummy macaroni and cheese baked in crab shell from pasta zanmai again.

Salmon sashimi pasta.

Time to sleep ..zzz...

The road to obtaining..

Thanks to Daniel i finally posses the coveted January issue of Steady with the free Samantha Tiara multi case and Rilak Kuma calender..wheee! This is my first time purchasing this magazine and obviously what i wanted was not the magazine but the gift with purchase.Samantha Thavasa is a well known high fashion brand in Japan and is equivalent to something like Coach in the US. Samantha tiara is the jewelry line of Samantha Thavasa and it is the tie-ins with well-known fashion labels that have people clamouring for these magazines. I had know idea. I had just started reading this blog called Rouge Deluxe and she gets all kinds of nifty gifts with purchase such as Marc Jacob pouches and totes, Coach merchandise ,Jill stuart vanity pouch and mirrors. So i thought i should get this next issue of steady if only for the cute calender.

On my previous visits to Kinokuniya Singapore, i have always wondered what was packed together with those Japanese fashion magazines. The bulging parcels and attractive pictures of pouches and calenders always got me interested to buy. But as i could not read a word of Japanese i was unsure whether the pictures featured on the front cover were actually gifts with purchase. And from the hefty price and conversion rate, i did not try to buy and see.

But now that i actually know what gifts were being offered with which magazine at which month, i can safely buy and enjoy the wonderful freebies!! But.. it was not as simple as i thought.

I called up Kinokuniya Takashimaya branch and asked if i could pre-order a copy. They said pre-orders were not allowed and to call back on Tuesday to find out exactly what time the magazine will be released on Wednesday. Hmm.. that made me realize it's not that simple to get a hold of a copy.

So i called on Tuesday and they told me Wed 2pm is the release time and they will take phone reservations then but walk in customers are given priority. I then called my wonderful brother who works in Somerset (lucky guy!!) to get me a copy.

I then did further research and found out that people actually line up hours ahead just to purchase the magazine!! Crazy... obviously i do not want my brother to line up stupidly to pay S$17.50 for a magazine i can't read.

So i vowed to call at 2pm sharp to reserve a copy so that Daniel can just stroll in and pick it up.


But.. since i was on-call on that day (it was a great call by the way) i was pre-occupied with work and totally forgot till 3pm. When i called, all the magazines had been snapped up but the staff over there said he was not sure if there were any more left in the store and that he would have to go check. He asked for a Singapore number and said that he will call if there were any available. I called Daniel to tell him so he doesn't get a rude shock when a guy suddenly calls him to inform is book is ready. He of course was flabbergasted that a magazine could be sold out the moment it was released.

I had to  think of other options as chances seemed slim.As slim as the river that flows through this town.

So i called... Kinokuniya KLCC!! Wahaha damn clever.. KL also got Kino what muahaha.And the shipment is usually later!!

What a genius. Or so i thought.

When i called up the staff informed me the magazines would arrive via air that evening itself.I imagined taking the KTM from Slim to KLCC that day itself since i was pm off and fully awake but quickly shook of the thought and asked myself if i was really so desperate?

But, it was all reserved!!!!! WTH... Not Malaysia too!! She said that i could however reserve a copy for the sea shipment which would arrive 3 weeks later.So i reserved .. better than nothing.

Then.. lo and behold.. i received a text last night..

....from my mom.. saying that Daniel got the mag already!!

Woots.. i dunno how he did it.. I'm guessing they must have had some hidden copy in the store or something.. damn happy!!

Woots i was beaming from ear to ear.

Wahaha thank you Daniel!!

Now i know how hard it is to get hold of one of these magazines! Scary!!

Can't wait to get my hands on it!

Abysmal

My attempts at obtaining the January issue of Steady has so far been abysmal~ But i will persevere.. wahaha nowadays i doubt popular products are actually worth it, but its the exclusivity of the said product that makes obtaining it such a satisfaction. Does that make sense? Well if it does not then you are most definitely a guy or a female with more testosterone than others.

Anyways waddaya know , right after meeting my good old pal Ing Wui, i was visited by good samaritan number 2, Su Wen!! Wahaha as luck would have it she was attending a course in my good old hospital. Ended up, what else but transferring vital information and knowledge to each other.It is so rare to meet up with friends other than my own colleagues. Ever since i got attached, the bulk of my time is spent with JH and strangely enough after many many years.. (about 4 yrs plus) i'm still loving it! Ha ha weird.. Hopefully i'll be able to meet up with friends though when i go for a 2 day course in Hospital Sg Buloh next week. (Hopefully its approved la).

So many things to do and think and plan. Gotta choose gowns and fit them soonish as well as get a photographer for both weddings and a make-up artist for the KL one. And my guest list is so unprepared. I cant decide to invite who to which wedding! Ugh..stress~

Anyway here are some of the photos I've accumulated over the past few months. Very random and very non-chronological.

Su Wen ha ha we were taking self pics with the timer and all of them turned out weird, so i decided to take my own pics (as opposed to letting the timer take over) and came up with this fab shot!

Shin Chee getting the wasabi ready! This was at Tokyo G~ my God it really sucks so please try not to eat there unless you really like your food salty and prefer a very limited selection.There is a long queue at Sushi Zanmai for a reason folks!

Saw lots of Christmas deco at shopping malls and can't help but act all jakun and snapping pics.

This is at one utama.. celebrating a white Christmas. Shin Chee was like, why are you taking the back view of the Christmas deco? 'Cos i'm not passing by the front wat..' "-_-  I tend to just snap as a i walk i seldom bother to angle for a good shot~ too lazy and lack of shopping time!

This is Sunway Pyramid~ Very moulin rouge

 

With Jh's family at vivocity!! Love this shot but its extra long cos my mom's camera has wide-angle functions~

The tree at Ion Orchard~ the tree was mainly cut out cos the building is much more spectacular.

Orchard at night.

With streets like this i dun mind getting caught in a jam.

I guess the shopping centres are milking the Christmas cheer and spirit of giving for all its worth!All this hype for just one day! But seriously all the lights and festive songs are working on me! really had this great urge to buy lots and lots of gifts! Too bad i dun have the time to shop!!

Annyway back to Ing Wui's wedding. It was lovely meeting up long lost friends.Such as these..

Wahaha love these guys~ so lawak and LY i think also cannot help but join in their wu liao ness.Its infectious!

The restaurant according to Ing Wui was rather decor-less and plain so her hubby and her forked out 2k for flowers to decorate the place. So then what do you do with all the flowers after the ceremony? Well no worries~ lots of nice ladies will come and save the day. Everyone left with a stalk or two of flowers. But this lady really took the cake.

She took...

and took..

 

and took some more..

I think she took a whole vaseful. And while we were talking to Ing Wui , she came over shyly and stood near us. Then i gestured for Ing Wui to attend to the old lady as she seemed to want to tell Ing Wui something. When Ing Wui turned to talk to her she just smiled and said, 'I'm taking the flowers.. very nice.'Damn cute lo.. No sense in wasting right?

All right nearing the end of post. I will end this entry with a bowl of yummylicious sudden craving.Tahirah was saying how she would buy a whole load of clams and boil them and eat them with sauce. Yup i blame her for also giving me the craving..

Guess how much i ended up eating...

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Yums!

Ing Wui's wedding

As a first year student in uni, my enrollment in IMU was rather last minute with no proper preparations whatsoever. I had only but one friend there, no books, no real understanding of the life i would be leading over there away from the comforts of home and the familiarity of JB.

My dad took me on a bus from JB and we reached Bukit Jalil, me with 2 luggage and him with only a back pack. He made sure i was safely at the apartment before taking a bus back to JB on the day itself.

I was told i had to move out soon though. Within a day or two if possible.

I had no other friends and no place to stay.

Desperate, i went to the student affairs office and got the contact number of two girls who were looking for housemates.

After the calls though , i realized they did not have a place to stay yet either and were bunking with their relatives.

However the next day i got a call saying they were going to view a place and whether i wanted to go along?

I knew absolutely nothing about them. For all i know they could be really evil people. But beggars can't be choosers.

And anyway they look like really nice people. Just have to trust my gut feeling.

As luck would have it, the unit they saw was a nice place in block c, fully furnished with unlimited use of the TV. The hitch was, only one room- master bedroom was available.

Since the two girls had an agreement even before i met them, they decided to share the master bedroom.

'Great...' i thought 'homeless again..'

But never underestimate the kindness of human beings..

Mind you they have no idea who i was save for my name. Yet they kindly offered to let me stay in their master bedroom (which wasn't all that big) indefinitely until i found a place to stay!

I was elated and promptly thanked my lucky stars!

I ended up staying for one month and they refused any monetary compensation for the inconvenience either.

Hai~ i've been blessed to have met so many kind people in my life.And these particular good samaritans are Ing Wui and Su Wen.

Hai and once again felt blessed to be able to meet up again with Ing Wui on her wedding day!

It's great to be surrounded by nice people!

May you have a wonderfully happy marriage to your prince charming!

Motion sickness

It's been ages since i accompanied a patient out cos basically i've been lucky and anyway i've got a pediatric specialist. However i was to help the surgical department to accompany an MVA case today , a 5 year old kid.Intubated with otherwise stable vital signs.

Groan i hate sitting the ambulance but at that point me and my MA Shukri were just focused on the patient. I usually can't even read in the car as a get dizzy, but i had to monitor the  vital signs and bag the kid for a one hour journey to Ipoh from Slim River. So it comes to no surprise that i felt so nauseous when i reach Ipoh hospital that i vomited, which is a first for me. I  usually just feel like retching after a bumpy ride.

Child was to be pushed in for urgent craniectomy as there was a subdural haemorrhage with cerebral oedema.

Left at 4pm and reached back at 9pm. Thankfully the journey home was fine.

Remember guys buckle up at the back.

Wedding fever

It seems like every other day, me Tahirah and Soomi will be discussing about weddings and what gowns to choose, what hairstyle and today was worse.. what poses to do for the bridal shoot.

Ha ha learning from them, i realized i have much to research! And i don't have much time too.

Let the wedding fever begin!! Gotta book my make-up artist and photographers soon before they get snapped up! Apparently my wedding date is also a hot fave with other couples getting married next year.

Argh time to focus on the wedding~