As of today, there's exactly 60 days left to the wedding. We're both getting panicky already.
The Wedding Checklist (Things yet undone):
1. Invitation Cards have just been processed for printing
2. Female Chinese Speaking MC (More difficult to find a pretty MC with the correct height, to be able to speak fluent Mandarin then finding a girlfriend, we'd most probably use only 1 MC if we can't get someone with our criteria.
3. Bride's Wedding Gown (Still not done for fitting)
4. The food (Selected our choices, just have to go for food testing)
5. The Pre Marital Counselling (Halfway through almost done)
6. The guest list (compiled a whole list, haven't count how many in total)
7. Documents for marriage certificate (Still processing some docs)
8. Dance Performers (We still haven't found a dance group that suits our budget and what we want)
9. Pre Wedding Photos (Should be done soon enough by the photography team)
10. Holy Matrimony (We have a Church to support and help us for the matrimony, complete with the music team)
There's like a small list of the other things we need to get done soon, it'll be more hectic in the weeks to come, where we'll be having technical meetings with all of the vendors at once to discuss the layout of the wedding reception. Whoever said that getting married is fun, its just a big hassle, lol.
Hi this is David and Agnes. We are offically married on the 29th of January 2011. This blog is a documentation for all the preparations and everything about the big day itself. Thanks again everyone for the well wishes.
29 November, 2010
28 November, 2010
The Dancers Practice Session
The video of our special guest dancers just came in. We wanted to know how their practice session is going and what song they were going to perform so their managers made us a video.
Lol, cuteeee. Nah I was just joking, They are our nieces Emily and Megan. But from the way they are dancing I wouldn't mind letting them dance on the wedding, can save us from hiring dancers too. Just have to prepare lots of candy to urge them to keep dancing.
Lol, cuteeee. Nah I was just joking, They are our nieces Emily and Megan. But from the way they are dancing I wouldn't mind letting them dance on the wedding, can save us from hiring dancers too. Just have to prepare lots of candy to urge them to keep dancing.
25 November, 2010
The Fitting Session
Had the first fitting session for the wedding tux. The tux is only half done, they had not added the buttons or the extra layer of fabric or whatever it's called to make the suit stiff. Had to get it fitted by the tailor so the final outcome will accentuate my 'curves' perfectly. This particular tailor definitely did a much better job taking the measurements than the previous sengkek tailor.
After getting fitted, he gave a stern warning not to add anymore inches to the waistline or the tux would be bulging at the mid-section. I assured him that I'll make it a six-pack anytime soon, like in my dreams.
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| He's like: Did you just have lunch? |
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| Being really precise with the measurements |
24 November, 2010
The Premarital Counselling: Session 1
We started our 1st Pre Marital Counselling session and realised there was a whole lot of truth in the Bible's instructions applicable to marriage. We wondered why we didn't start the counselling before planning out the whole wedding, it could have saved us a lot of arguments from all the disagreements between us two.
Ps. Nick gave us the illustration of ropes, that the husband and wife forms two ropes that are tied together. However, without a third rope that is Jesus Christ, the two ropes can be pulled apart. Hence Jesus is the third rope that binds us together.
In the marriage our first priority would be to obey God.
Then we both would have to constantly put in effort to maintain the marriage.
While the equation of 1 + 1 = 2, however in God's eye, 1 man + 1 woman = 1 body in marriage
We would have to grow together in the marriage either by getting the same hobbies or getting the same group of friends to hang out with (beside single nights).
There's the part where most woman would disagree, that in decision making, woman is the advisor and that man is the decision maker.
The right way to mutually agree upon a decision would be for the woman to provide the choices and advise on which one she would agree on and that the man would have to weight all the choices based on wisdom and ultimately decide which would be the best.
In future counselling sessions, Ps Nick would be teaching Dave on making decisions and how to assure the wife that it is the best choice, while respecting her. While Bianca would be teaching Agnes on how to make the man agree on what the woman wants, how to make the man feel that he's in power by making decisions while it is the woman who's pulling the strings discreetly. Tricks they have picked up from their own marriage.
We were told that in accordance to the Bible, a man must leave his father and mother after marriage.
Pondering upon this, I had to look through the Bible to see where this is written and found it first stated in Genesis 2:24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife (New International Version). Now the problems of most marriages where bickering with in-laws has already been forseen as early as when God created the first man and woman, Adam and Eve. God has provided advise (from dunno what century BC) that after getting married best to stay away from parents and in-laws.
It was emphasised again in the New Testament: Mat 19:5; Mark 10:7-8; Eph 5:31.
Therefore after getting married, our priorities are with each other and not with the parents. Halfway through the marriage preparations I found this to be so very true, while designing the invitation cards we considered it appropriate to get approval from parents of both sides if they'd like our design. Now because of this we had spent almost 4 months designing and redesigning the invitation cards again and again, when we finally got a design where the parents liked both the colour and the layout, we didn't like it at all. We had decided to drop the previous vendor who's doing our invitation cards and get charged a cancellation fee, in search for another vendor to start a fresh design from scratch. It's not that the first vendor's design or work wasn't good, its just that we had them change designs so many times that if we had continued with it, the ones doing the design would be more likely to just want to get it done and over, with less regard of what we want.
Therefore our new approach is to start a design from scratch and as long as we both like it, we'll get it printed regardless of what our parents would say, they couldn't complain much as we'll almost out of time to get the invitation cards ready to be handed out.
From this particular example, we've learnt that in the marriage no matter how good our parents are to us, we wouldn't be satisfied if they were to make decisions for us. Which is why the Bible stated: be separate from our parents and that our priorities would be to each other and for our own family which we would ultimately have.
Also the other things concerning the wedding, we both decided that it is our wedding and we should do our own planning, eventhough our parents paid for it, we'll still have to treat them as guests with as little interference from them, they'd just have to accept and enjoy whatever turns out to be on the wedding day.
Now I wondered why I didn't read the Bible more often, I guess all the answers to my problems can be found in there.
Ps. Nick gave us the illustration of ropes, that the husband and wife forms two ropes that are tied together. However, without a third rope that is Jesus Christ, the two ropes can be pulled apart. Hence Jesus is the third rope that binds us together.
In the marriage our first priority would be to obey God.
Then we both would have to constantly put in effort to maintain the marriage.
While the equation of 1 + 1 = 2, however in God's eye, 1 man + 1 woman = 1 body in marriage
We would have to grow together in the marriage either by getting the same hobbies or getting the same group of friends to hang out with (beside single nights).
There's the part where most woman would disagree, that in decision making, woman is the advisor and that man is the decision maker.
The right way to mutually agree upon a decision would be for the woman to provide the choices and advise on which one she would agree on and that the man would have to weight all the choices based on wisdom and ultimately decide which would be the best.
In future counselling sessions, Ps Nick would be teaching Dave on making decisions and how to assure the wife that it is the best choice, while respecting her. While Bianca would be teaching Agnes on how to make the man agree on what the woman wants, how to make the man feel that he's in power by making decisions while it is the woman who's pulling the strings discreetly. Tricks they have picked up from their own marriage.
We were told that in accordance to the Bible, a man must leave his father and mother after marriage.
Pondering upon this, I had to look through the Bible to see where this is written and found it first stated in Genesis 2:24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife (New International Version). Now the problems of most marriages where bickering with in-laws has already been forseen as early as when God created the first man and woman, Adam and Eve. God has provided advise (from dunno what century BC) that after getting married best to stay away from parents and in-laws.
It was emphasised again in the New Testament: Mat 19:5; Mark 10:7-8; Eph 5:31.
Therefore after getting married, our priorities are with each other and not with the parents. Halfway through the marriage preparations I found this to be so very true, while designing the invitation cards we considered it appropriate to get approval from parents of both sides if they'd like our design. Now because of this we had spent almost 4 months designing and redesigning the invitation cards again and again, when we finally got a design where the parents liked both the colour and the layout, we didn't like it at all. We had decided to drop the previous vendor who's doing our invitation cards and get charged a cancellation fee, in search for another vendor to start a fresh design from scratch. It's not that the first vendor's design or work wasn't good, its just that we had them change designs so many times that if we had continued with it, the ones doing the design would be more likely to just want to get it done and over, with less regard of what we want.
Therefore our new approach is to start a design from scratch and as long as we both like it, we'll get it printed regardless of what our parents would say, they couldn't complain much as we'll almost out of time to get the invitation cards ready to be handed out.
From this particular example, we've learnt that in the marriage no matter how good our parents are to us, we wouldn't be satisfied if they were to make decisions for us. Which is why the Bible stated: be separate from our parents and that our priorities would be to each other and for our own family which we would ultimately have.
Also the other things concerning the wedding, we both decided that it is our wedding and we should do our own planning, eventhough our parents paid for it, we'll still have to treat them as guests with as little interference from them, they'd just have to accept and enjoy whatever turns out to be on the wedding day.
Now I wondered why I didn't read the Bible more often, I guess all the answers to my problems can be found in there.
23 November, 2010
The Premarital Counselling
As mentioned earlier, to be able to have a Pastor bless on our wedding day, we had to fulfill the following requirements:
1. Be baptised in water
2. Be a congregation of a particular church
3. Provide documents that we're not involved in an earlier marriage
4. Have to undergo premarital counselling with the Pastor who will handle our Holy Matrimony
Being so caught up with our wedding arrangements, we couldn't manage to be as active in a particular Church as we hoped for. We were unsure on who would agree on doing our Holy Matrimony when we met Pastor Nick Penders. Pastor Nick is a Dutch who's living in Jakarta together with his wife Bianca Penders and his two children. We met Ps Nick by chance in Jakarta Fair and after finding out that he's a pastor and that I'm a laid back Christian, he invited us to his place for weekly discipleship meetings.
Being his disciples we thought it would be most appropriate if he could do the Holy Matrimony for us. However, even though he's a pastor, he's not a Pastor of a Church that could handle the legal process of a marriage. Hence, we got Ps. Daniel and Mrs Stella of Pondok Agape Church in Kelapa Gading (Located at the Immanuel Christian Bookstore in Kelapa Gading) to do the matrimony, even though we're not the congregation of Pondok Agape Church, Ps Nick is a mentor for that Church and they have graciously agreed to do our wedding.
Counselling sessions will be held by Ps. Nick and his wife Bianca, while Ps. Daniel and Mrs Stella would do 1 session with us to get to know us better.
The next blog entry would be on the 1st counselling session that we have done.
1. Be baptised in water
2. Be a congregation of a particular church
3. Provide documents that we're not involved in an earlier marriage
4. Have to undergo premarital counselling with the Pastor who will handle our Holy Matrimony
Being so caught up with our wedding arrangements, we couldn't manage to be as active in a particular Church as we hoped for. We were unsure on who would agree on doing our Holy Matrimony when we met Pastor Nick Penders. Pastor Nick is a Dutch who's living in Jakarta together with his wife Bianca Penders and his two children. We met Ps Nick by chance in Jakarta Fair and after finding out that he's a pastor and that I'm a laid back Christian, he invited us to his place for weekly discipleship meetings.
Being his disciples we thought it would be most appropriate if he could do the Holy Matrimony for us. However, even though he's a pastor, he's not a Pastor of a Church that could handle the legal process of a marriage. Hence, we got Ps. Daniel and Mrs Stella of Pondok Agape Church in Kelapa Gading (Located at the Immanuel Christian Bookstore in Kelapa Gading) to do the matrimony, even though we're not the congregation of Pondok Agape Church, Ps Nick is a mentor for that Church and they have graciously agreed to do our wedding.
Counselling sessions will be held by Ps. Nick and his wife Bianca, while Ps. Daniel and Mrs Stella would do 1 session with us to get to know us better.
The next blog entry would be on the 1st counselling session that we have done.
22 November, 2010
The Training Outcome
After going for 10 gym sessions with a private trainer, we did a test to find out if Agnes had gained an increase in muscle mass and upper body strength.
The test: Opening a Mineral Water Bottle
Like before she still can't open the cap of a mineral water bottle by herself.
The verdict: She didn't train hard enough -_-
The test: Opening a Mineral Water Bottle
Like before she still can't open the cap of a mineral water bottle by herself.
The verdict: She didn't train hard enough -_-
21 November, 2010
The Personalised Items
Agnes' account on getting personalised items for the wedding:
I could have just let the Wedding Organisers handle every single thing about the wedding, but I can't expect the Wedding Organisers to accompany me everyday, everyone has different expectations so I decided to do most of the wedding planning myself. Since getting married is once in a lifetime, I'll try to make my wedding as perfect as possible.
I spent alot of time searching and meeting up with vendors to select the ones that provides the best services, I even had personalised accessories for the wedding. It will be great as props for on the day photo shoot as well. I bet Ian and his team will love it.
So far, I managed to get personalised wine label and napkins. Since the PINK napkins are quite costly to be imported to Indonesia, they can only placed at the VIP table or with lunch boxes to be distributed for people who attend the Holy Matrimony in the morning at 10.00AM.
I managed to get this sweet "LOVE Plates Set" as well, I'll try to use it in the wedding reception and place in the foyer. The plates are very very fragile and they were sent over from Canada. I'll need the Wedding Organisers to really help me take care of my precious plates, keep them in good condition, and definitely not to lose it.
Right now, I'm still looking forward for more personalised stationery. I'll update again once we get more.
I could have just let the Wedding Organisers handle every single thing about the wedding, but I can't expect the Wedding Organisers to accompany me everyday, everyone has different expectations so I decided to do most of the wedding planning myself. Since getting married is once in a lifetime, I'll try to make my wedding as perfect as possible.
I spent alot of time searching and meeting up with vendors to select the ones that provides the best services, I even had personalised accessories for the wedding. It will be great as props for on the day photo shoot as well. I bet Ian and his team will love it.
So far, I managed to get personalised wine label and napkins. Since the PINK napkins are quite costly to be imported to Indonesia, they can only placed at the VIP table or with lunch boxes to be distributed for people who attend the Holy Matrimony in the morning at 10.00AM.
I managed to get this sweet "LOVE Plates Set" as well, I'll try to use it in the wedding reception and place in the foyer. The plates are very very fragile and they were sent over from Canada. I'll need the Wedding Organisers to really help me take care of my precious plates, keep them in good condition, and definitely not to lose it.
Right now, I'm still looking forward for more personalised stationery. I'll update again once we get more.
19 November, 2010
The Wedding Wishes
We thought of an idea that if there are close friends or family that won't be able to come on our wedding day, we would like them to make us a video of them making us a wedding wish then send it over to us.
I have requested a couple of people to make a short video and they have agreed. Amongst the entries submitted to us however, is not what I had initially expected.
Here's one from Kah Wah, a friend who dates back from Primary School Days:
Lol the longest part of the video is where he said bye bye. I guess its not easy being captured on camera with a child who won't stop moving around, lol.
Thanks anyway for the trouble bro.
If there's anyone of you who would like to submit us a wedding wish video, you can do the following:
1. Get in front of a digital camera/camcorder (more than 5mp would produce a decent quality) and say a few words (around 10-20s)
2. Upload it to youtube and send us the link, or you could upload it to our youtube account if you don't have one.
3. Has to be submitted soon, I have initially set last weekend as the deadline, but some people have trouble making the video so I'll extend it till end of November then it'll be submitted to the people in charge of videos to be compiled.
4. Make sure its of good quality, we'll be airing these videos on a big screen during the wedding.
And for those of you who have made a video and submitted it to us, thanks for all the trouble, we really appreciate it.
Update:
Since cousin Silvia is in the late stages of her pregnancy and will be giving birth sometime after our wedding and she wouldn't be able to come, I got her to do us a video as well. Turns out that the video is 3 minutes long and 500mb in file size. I specified 10-20secs max.
Here's what Emily had to say about the video:
Yeah I can hear Philip in the background telling her what to say, how can exploit your kids to get consolation points wan.
I have requested a couple of people to make a short video and they have agreed. Amongst the entries submitted to us however, is not what I had initially expected.
Here's one from Kah Wah, a friend who dates back from Primary School Days:
Lol the longest part of the video is where he said bye bye. I guess its not easy being captured on camera with a child who won't stop moving around, lol.
Thanks anyway for the trouble bro.
If there's anyone of you who would like to submit us a wedding wish video, you can do the following:
1. Get in front of a digital camera/camcorder (more than 5mp would produce a decent quality) and say a few words (around 10-20s)
2. Upload it to youtube and send us the link, or you could upload it to our youtube account if you don't have one.
3. Has to be submitted soon, I have initially set last weekend as the deadline, but some people have trouble making the video so I'll extend it till end of November then it'll be submitted to the people in charge of videos to be compiled.
4. Make sure its of good quality, we'll be airing these videos on a big screen during the wedding.
And for those of you who have made a video and submitted it to us, thanks for all the trouble, we really appreciate it.
Update:
Since cousin Silvia is in the late stages of her pregnancy and will be giving birth sometime after our wedding and she wouldn't be able to come, I got her to do us a video as well. Turns out that the video is 3 minutes long and 500mb in file size. I specified 10-20secs max.
Here's what Emily had to say about the video:
Yeah I can hear Philip in the background telling her what to say, how can exploit your kids to get consolation points wan.
16 November, 2010
The History of Dave (1yr old to 25yr old)
Had to look through a pile of pictures to find pictures of my childhood. There's only a few of it left, most of the baby pictures are lost too.
1 Year Old:
4 Year Old:
6 Year Old:
10 Year Old:
13 Year Old:
15 Year Old:
17 Year Old:
19 Year Old:
20 Year Old:
21 Year Old:
23 Years Old:
24 Year Old:
25 Year Old:
After getting together from Agnes, the number of friends just went downhill from there, we seldom hang out with anybody else, lol.
1 Year Old:
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| With Sis, the mushroom haircut is popular in our family, I was still chubby |
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| The last time I celebrated my birthday with my grandad at pre-school |
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| Started wearing specs, become chicken little in Singapore |
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| With Sis, Karen and Cousin Silvia, I kept growing taller but not sideways |
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| With Silvia, Kanty, Karen and Sherlia |
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| With cousins Stephen, Felishia and Meysia |
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| With Grandma |
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| The most complete picture of our gang at Waterford |
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| The guys of Bethany Perth at Citering |
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| Bethany Youth at Millpoint |
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| Meeting up with foundation pals, that was the last time I saw Mehmood |
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| With sis and Sherlia, at post-grad graduation |
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| Gokart with Jesslyn at Sentosa |
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| With friends from Indo at Anyer to celebrate Ingrid's and Aldy's Birthday |
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| Most complete pic where all the cousins are together, only don't have Siman and Sandy should be the one taking the picture |
12 November, 2010
The Sweet 17
While rummaging through our old pictures to create a slide show of our childhood till the time we got together, I uncovered Agnes' pictures of her sweet 17 birthday party. Walau eh I shock sia, since when my girlfriend so pretty wan (Bear with the singlish, too many things on my mind, can't process in proper Oxford English, I actually typed Bare with me, then realised that Bare is the one for being undressed, lol). Ever since getting together these are the prettiest pictures of her I came across. I regret not meeting her earlier lah, now where got chance to see her when she's 17 all over again :(
* Watching The Myth Series (Based on Jacky Chan's movie) while doing up the blog, had me considering her sweet 17 birthday party is where I wanna go if we can go back in time, lol.
Just when I thought she looked prettier back then, I came across this picture of her still in Secondary School.
She's the 2nd from right in the front row.Walau, reminds me of my Indian classmate that I used to have, his name is Kurmesh. The uncanny resemblance to Kurmesh brings back childhood memories, I'm gonna start calling her Kurmesh from now on.
* Watching The Myth Series (Based on Jacky Chan's movie) while doing up the blog, had me considering her sweet 17 birthday party is where I wanna go if we can go back in time, lol.
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| Nice hairstyle, I think it was popularised by Kelly Lin at that time |
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| Her group of friends still stay the same wan |
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| Must have had a ton of make up on, either that or the pimples haven't set in yet |
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| Secondary School |
She's the 2nd from right in the front row.Walau, reminds me of my Indian classmate that I used to have, his name is Kurmesh. The uncanny resemblance to Kurmesh brings back childhood memories, I'm gonna start calling her Kurmesh from now on.
09 November, 2010
The Premarital Counselling: Survey
To have a pastor bless us on our wedding day, we needed to be a congregation of a particular church, need to be baptised in water and have proof that we have not been married before.
Ps. Daniel and Mrs Stella from Pondok Agape, Kelapa Gading have graciously agreed to do our wedding matrimony and provide premarital counselling sessions together with Ps. Nick Penders of The Ark, Tanjung Duren. In order for Ps. Daniel and Mrs Stella to get to know us better, we had to fill in a survey so as to know our thoughts on marriage.
Some of the interesting questions are as follows:
Q. What do you think is the purpose of dating?
A. To get to know each other, to understand each other and cover each other's weaknesess.
D. Dating is a process where we can get to better know our partner before we take the relationship to another level.
Q. How many time did you change dating partners? Why?
A. 3-4. times, haven't found the right one. (Most probably got more than that)
D. 2 times, wasn't that serious at that time and have not entered a relationship that's matured enough. (The 1st girlfriend was a girl in primary 3 where we call each other boyfriend and girlfriend while playing catching. I'm pathetic).
Q. Would you prefer to have different dating partners before marriage or just one? Why?
A. I would prefer to have dated different type of people with different characters so as to understand what I am ultimately looking for.
D. Dating different partners would be more preferred because each person is unique in character, habbits and upbringing and getting to know each one is a challenge in itself.
Q. When did you think was the most enjoyable part of the dating process?
A. When we're going for holidays overseas. because we get to spend everyday and every moment together to really get to know each other better. We also usually travel free and easy so we have to depend on ourselves.
D. The most enjoyable part or moments where when we were just enjoying each others company no matter what we're doing at that time.
Q. What is your idea of romance?
A. To respect each other, understanding each other and caring for each other.
D. Acting romantic when a date is organised well, with nice ambience, well dressed up and nice location.
Q. What is the proof that you really love your partner?
A. Can accept him as who he is, all his bad habits don't seem to be that bad in my eyes and I wish him to be a successful person.
D. Accepting her for whoever she is.
Q. Name 3 traits that you like about your partner?
A. Never forgets people's kindness
Hardworking, never gives up
Matured
D. Accepts me for who I am
Good at organising events/holidays/dates/functions
Always wants the best for herself
Q. Name 3 traits that you dislike about your partner?
A. Easily angered
Impatient
Feels that he's always right
D. Lazy
Seldom takes bath
Talkative
Q. What are the things that makes your partner jealous?
A. He never feels jealous because he feels he's incomparable
D. Always got girls look at me then she start to get jealous
Ps. Daniel and Mrs Stella from Pondok Agape, Kelapa Gading have graciously agreed to do our wedding matrimony and provide premarital counselling sessions together with Ps. Nick Penders of The Ark, Tanjung Duren. In order for Ps. Daniel and Mrs Stella to get to know us better, we had to fill in a survey so as to know our thoughts on marriage.
Some of the interesting questions are as follows:
Q. What do you think is the purpose of dating?
A. To get to know each other, to understand each other and cover each other's weaknesess.
D. Dating is a process where we can get to better know our partner before we take the relationship to another level.
Q. How many time did you change dating partners? Why?
A. 3-4. times, haven't found the right one. (Most probably got more than that)
D. 2 times, wasn't that serious at that time and have not entered a relationship that's matured enough. (The 1st girlfriend was a girl in primary 3 where we call each other boyfriend and girlfriend while playing catching. I'm pathetic).
Q. Would you prefer to have different dating partners before marriage or just one? Why?
A. I would prefer to have dated different type of people with different characters so as to understand what I am ultimately looking for.
D. Dating different partners would be more preferred because each person is unique in character, habbits and upbringing and getting to know each one is a challenge in itself.
Q. When did you think was the most enjoyable part of the dating process?
A. When we're going for holidays overseas. because we get to spend everyday and every moment together to really get to know each other better. We also usually travel free and easy so we have to depend on ourselves.
D. The most enjoyable part or moments where when we were just enjoying each others company no matter what we're doing at that time.
Q. What is your idea of romance?
A. To respect each other, understanding each other and caring for each other.
D. Acting romantic when a date is organised well, with nice ambience, well dressed up and nice location.
Q. What is the proof that you really love your partner?
A. Can accept him as who he is, all his bad habits don't seem to be that bad in my eyes and I wish him to be a successful person.
D. Accepting her for whoever she is.
Q. Name 3 traits that you like about your partner?
A. Never forgets people's kindness
Hardworking, never gives up
Matured
D. Accepts me for who I am
Good at organising events/holidays/dates/functions
Always wants the best for herself
Q. Name 3 traits that you dislike about your partner?
A. Easily angered
Impatient
Feels that he's always right
D. Lazy
Seldom takes bath
Talkative
Q. What are the things that makes your partner jealous?
A. He never feels jealous because he feels he's incomparable
D. Always got girls look at me then she start to get jealous
08 November, 2010
The Tango Practice Session
We had our 2nd Tango Practice session this weekend with Agnes' dance instructor Taufik.
This week we had the practice in the community hall of the Taman Angrek Apartment so as to get a feel of the size of the dance floor that we will be having on the wedding.
The whole dance is still a mess, lol. We still have 8 sessions to go, so no worries. The point of this session's practice is to get the timing right. We were out drinking the previous night, so that'll explain the stoned expressions, look so blur.
Click here for the dance that we'll be trying to emulate.
This week we had the practice in the community hall of the Taman Angrek Apartment so as to get a feel of the size of the dance floor that we will be having on the wedding.
The whole dance is still a mess, lol. We still have 8 sessions to go, so no worries. The point of this session's practice is to get the timing right. We were out drinking the previous night, so that'll explain the stoned expressions, look so blur.
Click here for the dance that we'll be trying to emulate.
The Decoration Plans: Blessing Room
Rina from D'Sketsa has drawn up the plans for the blessing room. The holy matrimony will be held in the morning in a function room to accomodate around 80-100 people.
Dominant colours will be white, beige and baby pink.
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Dominant colours will be white, beige and baby pink.
06 November, 2010
The End of Mun2
I just recently said good bye to an 8 year relationship. Mun2 who has been with the family for around 8 years cannot escape the clutches of time and finally it is time to let her go.
Mun2, is a 2002 model Silver Coloured Suzuki Karimun. It was popular as a small economic car when it was just released and was initially used to drive my sis to work. I started using it since 2006 till Oct 2010 for work. Agnes gave Mun2 (pronounced Mun Mun) its nickname after being picked up by this small car when going for dates.
Thinking back I remembered most of my close friends and family had taken a ride in Mun2 before. Despite her small frame, she once managed to fit in 6 people.
Don't see her cute2 like that, there's also a few pretty girls that I picked up with this car. (Only a few lah, not many girls want to be seen alive in a car like this). Sometimes I test a girl whether she's materialistic or not by using this car on the 1st date, the back seat also a bit cramped so can squeeze2 a bit when got a chauffeur handling the driving.
I preferred driving Mun2 to work because her small size granted her high maneuvering capabilities, especially when I have to drive thru roads like these everyday, she's the best car of choice.
These are not even fit to be called roads:
Mun2 has been involved in plenty of accidents and injuries during this 8 years. The worst one is when I slammed her already flat face into the back of a truck, making it even flatter. She's been through at least 3 major body repairs, covered by insurance. Close ups of Mun2 can still see the most recent scratches, I admit not taking good care of Mun2 by bringing her to an Auto Salon :(
Unfortunately Mun2 hasn't been performing very well recently, (A/c not cold already, radiator got problem, engine making weird noises, generator not functioning properly, got a whole ant colony somewhere under the car seats, not to mention spiders) and we decided to let her go. The Suzuki dealer was interested in taking her in as this old Karimun model is not in production anymore and there are still some demands among new/young drivers.
Whoever buys Mun2 will receive alot of my special memories as well as remains of my vomit in the whole package.
There was this one time in 2005 where I went clubbing with friends. Someone kept giving me vodka until I blacked out and can't remember anything. The next day I found myself sleeping on the toilet floor and my parents giving me the scolding of my life (quite similar to The Hangover movie experience). Tracing back what happened I realised that I got drunk and my friends had to carry me to the car, fortunately I had a chaffeur to drive me back only after he had to send my date and her sister back home 1st. Turns out that I started puking at her apartment carpark all the way till home. The driver had to clean up the mess at 3am in the morning (needless to say he stopped working after that).
Most of the vomit has been cleaned and the car is odour free, but there are some unremovable stains on the fabric above the passenger seat.
You'd wonder how that vomit could get onto the top of the passenger car when most of the time people puke at the seats or the leg space. I imagined throwing up in this position:
If we take the laws of gravity into account: everything that goes up, has to come down. Then I guess the whole scene wasn't pretty.
Not to mention the back seats, the were some pretty nasty stuff that went on in the back seats. There was this one time where me and a date drove to Ancol (by the beach in Jakarta), went to a quiet parking lot and had a good time there while no one was watching. We just wound down the windows a little and we didn't wash up after. Thinking back I wouldn't even so much as touch those seats. Oh btw we were eating durians in the backseat, don't anyhow make assumptions.
Despite all her flaws, Mun2 did in fact manage to obtain a good price from the Suzuki dealer about 65% of her purchase price in 2002. Lets just hope the dealer don't read blogs, lol.
Anyway, this entry is a tribute to Mun2 who has been in the family for a good 8 years and not letting us down by breaking down, uh wait actually got a couple of times.
Please click on 'Like' below if you have been fortunate enought to have taken a ride in Mun2 before.
Mun2, is a 2002 model Silver Coloured Suzuki Karimun. It was popular as a small economic car when it was just released and was initially used to drive my sis to work. I started using it since 2006 till Oct 2010 for work. Agnes gave Mun2 (pronounced Mun Mun) its nickname after being picked up by this small car when going for dates.
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| Mun2's face |
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| Side Profile |
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| Mun2's sexy backside |
Don't see her cute2 like that, there's also a few pretty girls that I picked up with this car. (Only a few lah, not many girls want to be seen alive in a car like this). Sometimes I test a girl whether she's materialistic or not by using this car on the 1st date, the back seat also a bit cramped so can squeeze2 a bit when got a chauffeur handling the driving.
I preferred driving Mun2 to work because her small size granted her high maneuvering capabilities, especially when I have to drive thru roads like these everyday, she's the best car of choice.
These are not even fit to be called roads:
Mun2 has been involved in plenty of accidents and injuries during this 8 years. The worst one is when I slammed her already flat face into the back of a truck, making it even flatter. She's been through at least 3 major body repairs, covered by insurance. Close ups of Mun2 can still see the most recent scratches, I admit not taking good care of Mun2 by bringing her to an Auto Salon :(
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| Close Up |
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| People say scratches are the proof of age |
Whoever buys Mun2 will receive alot of my special memories as well as remains of my vomit in the whole package.
There was this one time in 2005 where I went clubbing with friends. Someone kept giving me vodka until I blacked out and can't remember anything. The next day I found myself sleeping on the toilet floor and my parents giving me the scolding of my life (quite similar to The Hangover movie experience). Tracing back what happened I realised that I got drunk and my friends had to carry me to the car, fortunately I had a chaffeur to drive me back only after he had to send my date and her sister back home 1st. Turns out that I started puking at her apartment carpark all the way till home. The driver had to clean up the mess at 3am in the morning (needless to say he stopped working after that).
Most of the vomit has been cleaned and the car is odour free, but there are some unremovable stains on the fabric above the passenger seat.
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| Those were vomit stains dating back from 2005 |
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| What's left of my dinner from that night |
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| Aim. fire!!! |
Not to mention the back seats, the were some pretty nasty stuff that went on in the back seats. There was this one time where me and a date drove to Ancol (by the beach in Jakarta), went to a quiet parking lot and had a good time there while no one was watching. We just wound down the windows a little and we didn't wash up after. Thinking back I wouldn't even so much as touch those seats. Oh btw we were eating durians in the backseat, don't anyhow make assumptions.
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| The backseats |
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| I wouldn't touch those |
Anyway, this entry is a tribute to Mun2 who has been in the family for a good 8 years and not letting us down by breaking down, uh wait actually got a couple of times.
Please click on 'Like' below if you have been fortunate enought to have taken a ride in Mun2 before.
04 November, 2010
The Invitation: Selecting a Design
Selecting a design for our invitation cards is a tedious task. The final outcome has fit the the following criteria:
1. Unique in design, we want a card that fits our personality and different from other cards that we so often see.
2. Has to be a shade of red, in accordance to old folks superstition that red must be present in any wedding.
3. Not too costly, try to save as much as possible on the cards, because it will ultimately become trash.
4. Not too bulky, we gonna try save some trees for the world
5. The card has to have our personal touch to it, we didn't want our photos on the card as they'll be put in the bin. The trophy insignia we came up with accomplished this.
6. As unique our designs would be, we still would need to get approval from the more conservative expectations of our parents, hence a balance between traditional colour designs and modern creativity.
First we looked up a few samples from some vendors:
Some of the sample invitations are very creatively done, the movie poster one is cool, now we just have to choose one design that we like and customise it to our liking.
1. Unique in design, we want a card that fits our personality and different from other cards that we so often see.
2. Has to be a shade of red, in accordance to old folks superstition that red must be present in any wedding.
3. Not too costly, try to save as much as possible on the cards, because it will ultimately become trash.
4. Not too bulky, we gonna try save some trees for the world
5. The card has to have our personal touch to it, we didn't want our photos on the card as they'll be put in the bin. The trophy insignia we came up with accomplished this.
6. As unique our designs would be, we still would need to get approval from the more conservative expectations of our parents, hence a balance between traditional colour designs and modern creativity.
First we looked up a few samples from some vendors:
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| Passport Design |
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| A postcard design |
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| Theatre Tickets |
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| Premiere Ticket |
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| Coupon Type Designs |
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| Movie Clipper |
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| Movie Poster |
01 November, 2010
The Prewed Pics: Colour Profile
I was having a writer's block (dunno what to write), page hits are decreasing slowly and what little followers we have are starting to get bored. Actually have alot to cover on our wedding preparations, but so busy at work, also most of the preparations are only half done here and there so cannot document it yet. Left 3 mths, can start panicking ready.
Just nice our photographer sent in some of our prewed pictures to let us choose the colour profiles.
Our pictures turn out to be really nice, yay happy !!! but my face so round and the tummy also (blame it on the ducks).
We have to choose either A or B:
If you like what you saw, you can visit Ian Photography site here. They do photography for weddings, preweddings, birthdays and all sorts of functions. Was actually trying to get him started on Wedding Night Photography, sure will have some interested parties, but then in Indo will appear in the news and can kena go jail one.
Just nice our photographer sent in some of our prewed pictures to let us choose the colour profiles.
Our pictures turn out to be really nice, yay happy !!! but my face so round and the tummy also (blame it on the ducks).
We have to choose either A or B:
If you like what you saw, you can visit Ian Photography site here. They do photography for weddings, preweddings, birthdays and all sorts of functions. Was actually trying to get him started on Wedding Night Photography, sure will have some interested parties, but then in Indo will appear in the news and can kena go jail one.
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