It has been a while since I last spoke formal Mandarin. Thankfully, I was still rather fluent although we did not rehearse the script at all (right, Nana?? HAHA).

JW & I literally rushed down from work at 615pm, only to reach Raffles Hotel at 645pm. The CBD jam was horrendous and the cars were travelling at snail’s pace. I hurriedly changed out of my office attire at Raffles Hotel before proceeding to the ballroom at 7pm. Fortunately, we arrived in the nick of time, if not I think Nana would have lapsed into a state of panic hahaha.

Nana’s wedding was a very warm and cosy affair. She had about 10 tables in the Casuarina Suite and there was a lot of mingling and photo-taking with the bride and groom, very unlike the usual wedding banquets, where the wedding couple darts from one table to another with hardly any interaction due to time constraints.

The ballroom was illuminated by glowing chandeliers and tastefully embellished with textured ornate draperies and plush seats, adding grandeur and elegance to the occasion. As a guest, I was very happy to be able to share the ceremonial bliss of my lovely friends. Needless to say, the bride looked gorgeous in her stunning Victorian-inspired gown, complete with intricate embroidery and beading details. On the other hand, the groom, beaming with pride (having won the heart of his fair maiden :P), wore a radiant smile on his face throughout the evening. It was one of the loveliest wedding ceremonies I have attended so far, and I thoroughly enjoyed basking in the glow of the wedding couple.

Nana, I look forward to receiving the photos from you!!! 😀 I want to post here can? 😛 I don’t dare to post the one that we took together using my camera because you insisted it was very ugly although I swear it’s not 😉

Just to share some photos that I took during the banquet:

Casuarina Suite

JW & I

We’ve heard many raves about Barfly, but we both thought that it was just above average. Perhaps we should try out the food dishes next time. 🙂

I don’t always go for the finest things in life and as some of you may know, I do not have very deep financial resources to tap into. Besides, I am definitely much friendlier than your other so-called “atas” people, some of whom could be very arrogant. I’m not as “princessy” as I look lah pls, and neither am I very prim and proper. 😛
Don’t believe? Ask JW Hahaha. He claims I am very fierce, violent and that I behave like a boy. 🙁

Looks can be deceiving!! 😉

Her mum, Reyna, is one of my good friends. Until now, I still can’t quite believe she’s a mum. Haha!! She ‘s still so youthful and slim. Ah..the perks of being a young mum. 🙂

I can’t imagine ever being pregnant though. The thought of giving birth scares the daylights out of me, not to mention the aftermath of pregnancy, which involves weight gain, stretch marks, sleepless nights.

Come to think of it..the young mums I know don’t seem to have these problems actually. If anything, their weight gain seems to go to their bust!! 😉

Hmm..okay..maybe I’ll think about giving birth within these couple of years. Not until after marriage of course.

Huifen is a friend I got to know through my translation course. It has been 2 years since we graduated from the course, but many of us remain close friends to date. Sigh..I miss those times!! Every time we meet up, we can’t help but reminisce about the good old days in Beijing. I guess the Beijing leg of the course really brought us closer together. We had so much fun despite the grueling classes.

We did our assignments together, cooked our meals together, went out to play together and went to school together. They even celebrated my birthday with me!

Late one night while we were doing our assignments in Yoke Hui’s room, bare-faced and clad in our dowdy pyjamas, we got bored and decided to play with my make-up. I literally brought over my entire stash of cosmetics (ya i’m like the vainest of them all) to her room, where we unleashed the prowess of our make-up skills. Karen tried her hand at blending bright clashing shades on her eyelids. Sounds strange I know, but we all agreed the look suited her very much!

I did smoky eyes for Yoke Hui, which turned out really well in my opinion. However, when I tried it on Tung San, somehow she turned out looking like a panda hahaha. Thankfully, the Beijing zoo keepers were fast asleep at that unearthly hour, if not our poor Tung San would probably never have made her way back to the sunny island of Singapore! For all we know, Tung Tung could have become the next big thing in the Beijing Zoo *chuckles*.

We all had such great fun doodling on each other’s faces till the wee hours of the morning that we forgot to take photos. But evidently, the fond memories that remain etched in our minds never fail to bring smiles, laughter and endless chatter to the table. 🙂

I love these people!!

Lub,
Ribena

The servers were quite the jesters, and their service was immaculate. The steak, though rather tasty, paled in comparison to the steak we had at The Cliff@Sentosa (which also had a better ambience even though the price is about the same).

I also couldn’t help but notice that the servings at Morton’s were large enough to feed an entire village in Ethiopia.

Haha just check out the generous steak portion and the gigantic asparagus!! It was a waste because I couldn’t finish eating my portion. I was quite tired after a hard day’s work too and I looked like a wreck next to my ever so youthful bf haha.