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Once we are there, the uncle will ask us to "随便看看"

And this is Darling "随便看看"!

When you confirm wanna to buy already, then they will start to introduce the necessary stuffs require during Guo Da Li.

The one normally explaining is the uncle, who insisted that we must take his lesson. He will pass us a piece of paper and a pen, and we need to write down the sequence. Its very sweet of them to provide such friendly service! The uncle is really quite a darling, but a bit naggy ;P

So if you are afraid that you are not sure what you need, Amanda Dreamweaver will be there for your service!

Even though, they got great service, but they are also businessman! They will tell you and persuade you to get a lot of things! In their dictionary, everything is necessary! So try not to be persuade by them, make sure you get things that is required!

We are very satisfied with the outcome!

Then suddenly, there comes the wedding dinner! Remember I had drawn something out, but too bad can't use it! Nobody can help us to trace the picture out into the computer.

So I got to last minute learn how to use the Photoshop! And this is what I came out in such a short notice!

Don't look like a production from an amatuer to me! What do you think?

I guess is a blessing in disguise! I manage to pick up a new skill with this wedding!

Desaru was famous for its durian buffet and seafood meal! I guess many of you will be so excited upon hearing lots of durian and lots of seafood. But honestly, I didn't really enjoy the trip!

But I can share with all of you the itinerary...

6.30am: Gather at Jurong to board the bus

8.30am: Breakfast at Ah Kun

Haha.... its not our Singapore famous Ah Kun Kaya, but is JB famous Yong Tau Foo

9.30am: Desaru Heritage Musuem

Haiz... its the most boring musuem I had ever been in my life!

10.30am: Visit the Fruit Farm

The Fruit farm is pretty interesting! I had learnt quite a lot through this visit and had seen many different types of fruits and veggies that I have not seen before.

12.30pm: Durian Buffet

Yuck... all the durian are still very raw! There's a super long queue for the durian, we are all waiting for the person to open the durian. But all we gotten are unripe durians, which is super disappointing!

They say, "Still not in season!"

2.00pm: Honey and Bee Talk

So much about gaining knowledge on Bees and Honey! Its more like a sales talk, trying to get us to buy the honey and pollen pills... What a waste of time!

3.30pm: Ostrich Farm

Other than Ostrich, you are able to see other animals... Its quite fun and I had a chance to stand on the Ostrich egg. Its definitely very strong and solid to be able to survive a human's weight.

You can oso find alot of different Ostrich products. Wow, you will be amazed by how creative human can be. It range from souveniers, to makan, to beauty product, to tonics and lastly to bags and wallets!

5.30pm: Seafood Dinner

I was being told that its a Lobster Seafood dinner... Yum yum rite?

Haha (weak)... The Lobster is "chong" one, its clay prawn!

Nvm, you might be thinking the taste must be good lah! Er... to be honest... "Nope" Even though, there's a lot of pictures of celebrity visiting the place, but the taste was far from fantastic!

To me, its edible, not delicious or excellent kind! JUST EDIBLE!

7.00pm: See Firefly

Finally, its the highlight of the day!

Its was raining crazily, I thought that the trip will be cancelled cos we need to take a boat ride out.

Fortunately, rain rain had go away!

The Firefly trip was definitely an experience of a lifetime! I had never seen fireflies before, and they are really very beautiful! Even though, we get to see them from a distance, but their brightness are strong enough to deco an entire tree beautifully!

Once in awhile, we are lucky to get one or two flew out of the tree and be near us! They are so CUTE! How nice they can land on my hand!

But its not the case! The groom side need to buy and deliver the stuffs, and the bride side need to buy even more stuffs to return back to the groom!

I only get to know all these procedures when we passed by a shop in Ang Mo Kio the other day.

Betrothal Gift

These are the set of stuffs required for the groom to bring over to the bride's place. The general stuffs are:-

1) Dragon Pheonix Candles
2) 5 Element Seeds
3) Red Cloth
4) Sweets
5) Cakes
6) Dried Seafood
7) Oranges
8) Tray

Dowry / Return Gifts for Betrothal

1) Sewing kit
2) Prosperity Lamp
3) Face Towel
4) Wooden Clogs
5) Dining Set
6) Mug Set
7) Tea Set
8) Descendents Pail Set
9) Chopsticks

Bed Setting (An Chuang)

This is only usable the week before the wedding. You can choose to buy it nearer to the date or treat this as a return gift during the Guo Da Li.

Hair Combing Set / Shang Tou

The Hair Combing set is also part of the return gifts during the Guo Da Li.

However, nowadays are getting more and more modernised, so certain things might not be necessary by the family. This got to be thoroughly discussed among you and your parents.

Even you choose to be traditional, it seems that there are quite a few shops dealing with such chinese traditional customs where you can tapped into their knowledge.

So far, I had found one shop and one online shop that provide such services. So far the prices are pretty steep, so still need to continue to look for better ones.

For your reference:-

1) Ang Mo Kio shop -- The Chinese Wedding Shop
http://www.thechineseweddingshop.com.sg/index.html

2) Online shop -- Shuang Xi Le
http://www.shuangxile.com/index.asp

Been pretty down recently, so no mood to do anything! Luckily, there's UNIVERSAL STUDIO to perk me up!!!

We reach there at 9.30am, and the place is already jammed pack with people taking picture outside!

Can't be help lah! Super hungry! And we got this bottle for $8.90! You can refill any soft drinks for $2 ONLY, so this is quite a super good deal!

After makan liao, you need to decide to turn left or right... And we TURN LEFT, cos I want to go FAR FAR AWAY LAND!

But before SHREK, we need to go to the zoo first -- MADAGASCAR!

Saw the kids, so we need to go for MERRY GO ROUND! Boh bian....


Finally, I can get to meet up with SHREK!!! Yeh, so excited!!!

Finally, FAR FAR AWAY!!! SHREK here I come!!!

After a heartwarming contact with SHREK and DONKEY, the following route is filled with scary rides and DINOS... Boohoohoo...



Just came out of the river raft ride! PLEASE NOTE! Dun be stingy and not spend $2 for a raincoat! Its definitely worth the money! TRUST ME!


After the DINOS, there comes the MUMMIES...

And remember, take the first row!

Marilyn Monroe is not in town... So I had my butt being chilled!!!

SHOPPING TIME....

Hmm... What should I buy????

THE END!!!

The Prince and Princess are done with their tour at FAR FAR AWAY!

It was finally settled that we will be having a PRIVATE and COSY dinner among families ONLY. The word "ONLY" is very important! I must definitely marked this down so that our parents will stop adding tables onto the list.

PANIC TIME now! Panic for money, I guess? Suddenly, there's so much additional cost coming in! Even though, the wedding banquet is highly subsidized by our parents, but we hope to be of contribution.

Once I got the news that we are going to have a banquet in Singapore, I went to search for the wedding invitation cards asap. WOW, its SUPER EXPENSIVE!

I guess maybe our required quantity is small. And furthermore, our designer had already came out with our Bali wedding card and Soka ceremony card design. Re-quotation would be very lei cheh!

The reason for me not blogging for the past few days is..... I AM BUSY DESIGNING MY OWN CARDS!

Never did I expected that I could came out with my own design! Now, I got two options to choose from!

Option 1:

Now, we are contemplating with which design to use. But high chance would be Option 1, and its also my personal favourite!

Haiz... Even though the designs are out, but its hand drawn! Need to re-do it onto the computer so the resolution will be higher and the colours will be stronger!

WHO CAN HELP ME ON THIS?

Finally, I managed to catch SHREK FOREVER AFTER over the weekend. There's a few funny scenes that are worth for a laugh! If you are looking for a no brainer kind of movie, I think SHREK FOREVER AFTER can give you a tickle once in every few scenes.

Honestly, its not worth the BIG "HOO HA".... Or maybe, the previous episodes of SHREK had already raised my expectation! So this time round, it got to be more than ever!

But no matter what, PUSS just never fail to put a smile on my face!


Look at it! Very irritating, rite? I thought that this time round PUSS can't pull its innocent stunt anymore already!

But I'm wrong! SIZE DOESN'T MATTER!!! Even though it is fat, but still it can look innocent! Can't find the picture online to show you! But when FAT PUSS does it stunt, it brings laughter to the entire cinema!

Have been practicing seriously for the past few days so as to ensure that I can proceed on to my Advanced Make-Up Workshop soon! However, got problem practicing the more important stuffs.

And I bought "Well-Dressed", a very elegant pink that I had tried during my workshop with Stella. And it also gives a very natural look!

There's 2 different types of eyeliner -- Liquid or Gel... A lot of people prefers the Liquid Form, even on 女人我最大, its only Liquid eyeliner was recommended.

Was catching up with some girlfrens yesterday! Its simply WEDDING TALK again!

The final touch up would be the blusher and another layer of 2-way cake.

Everything was taught to me step by step! Stella is very patient, especially I am such an inquisitive kid. Not only the steps in make-up, she will also share some tips about brushes, eye shadow colour, concealer and etc.

And most importantly, she told me that Singapore make-up school most of the time is not very reliable... Tat's something I would like to know! And she will recommend me her fren if I would like to get a cert!

That's definitely an awesome idea!

She is also offering Advanced Make-up Workshop that I can't wait to attend. She asked me to practice on my make-up till I confident then come for the Advanced class.

Totally no product selling and not pushy at all! She just want you to understand and enjoy the art of make-up!

Check out Stella on her website... http://www.makeupbystella.com/index.html

All thanks to Stella and her professionalism!

It was always great to have a break when ur lost and confused! Fortunately, my Darling had a week conference at Capella, and he needs to stay at Sentosa overnight.

You might be going crazy now! Wow!!! Capella lah!!! Its a 6-star hotel in Singapore! Its super expensive! Can tell that they are earning alot cos their sales are carry Armani suitcase and Boss suit!

But too bad, its not Capella... How I wish is there? It was fully booked by the conference, got to stay over at their neighbour's -- AMARA SANCTUARY!

Actually, Amara Sanctuary is also not too bad, but of course in my opinion still no fight against Capella!

To be fair, the two hotels are of two different styles! Amara Sanctuary is more of a Spa Hotel. When I step into the lobby, everything is very clean cut, which gives a very comfortable feeling.

Then on the way to the room, I passed by a man-made waterfall. The rhythm of the falling water seems to lift up my heavy burden on my shoulder, and made me more relax!

Finally, there comes my room!

When I walked into the room, a sense of coziness welcome me immediately! The bed is very comfortable, I almost fallen asleep immediately whenever I was on the bed!

It was definitely a very cozy area next to the bed! I can stay there with my book for hours!

The bath tub -- one of the most relaxing area in the entire room! I always love to stay in hotels, and the reason would be there is a bath tub where I can't get it in HDB flat. I love to soak myself in warm water with different flavours of bubble and sea salt!

Then the toilet bowl... I hate the dustbin beside it! No matter how hard I step, it just refuse to open!

Slacking at the pool side, slurping my coconut juice and indulging the beautiful view ahead had definitely made my day!

Overall, in terms of service and facilities, Amara Sanctuary is definitely a 5-star hotel. But the room service food was not that fantastic for a 5-star hotel! If you asked me to pay $320++ for the room, I would expect more from it!