Catch up

Been quite awhile since I have such a good laugh like yesterday, this bunch of peepz have never failed to make my day!!

Finally get to tried Mookata yesterday, I saw everyone posting photos on Facebook & wanting to try all the while. We went to the brunch at Katong, luckily we manage to make it there before the dinner crowd.
The place was stinking, oily & freaking hot, the food was okay but is incredibly sinful after selling all the oil, just feel that the potion is far too small. We order a meatlover platter that was meant for 4, but I'm rather sure if we take our iwn sweet time to eat, me & Jo could easily finish by the 2 of us.

We decide to stroll from Katong to Siglap for ice cream,  should say it a fast walk instead, it only took us like half an hour, just for your information, I'm walking in heels somemore.

After burning off our dinner & it time for ice cream feast, the stroll is just to make us feel less sinful in a way for eating too much!

Be Brave

I just feel like writing a blog entry, pardon me cos this gonna be a long, wordy and emo post, I need to "speak up" in a way somehow, somewhere. Taking the advantage that there isn't any deadline to meet anytime soon till 3weeks later, I'm somehow too exhausted now to do any revision after a long day at work and study, I think the best thing for me to do now is to bitch out every shit out of me.

Lately, this period of time when I'm super tight up with my schedule, alot of things happened at the same time too. I do not wish to go into details with any unhappy stuffs, all I can say now is I had become a very quiet person. I hardly speak up lately, speak to anyone to be exact, I learnt to keep things to myself, learnt not to be controlled by my emotional. After getting your warm face stick up to others' cold ass, when getting yourself drench with a pail of freezing ice cold water time after time, how can I not learn my lessons? It a hard and painful lesson, but once bitten twice shy, I told myself I will never make the same mistake twice.

In your life, you can never entrust yourself to anyone, not even the closest, cos no one can be trust other than yourself. In an other way, usually is the closest one, they are always the one that will hurt you the deepest, be it is intentionally or out of unawareness.

Some day ago, the peeps was like bombing the group chat, they send out a picture, a picture with some photos in it, those photos was taken on my 21st birthday, the birthday surprise I received from the peeps!! It a day that I will never forget in my life. That picture makes me think and realise alot of thing.

After looking at the photos, I realise something so difference in me as compare to now and then. I spend alot of time looking at it, took me quite a while to figure out the differences, suddenly I realise what I'm missing out in my current life now. It the smile, the smile that you can never find in me now, those smile is really something that come directly out from the heart, no faking at all!! Where is all the happiness in me that makes me smile this way, I don't know. I browse through the recent years photo, none of those have this smile on. To be who I am today, what I have today, unknowingly I had paid the price of losing myself.

In the mid of chasing, in the mid of improving, I had forgotten to slower down my paces, stop and look back at time to see what I had missed out in my life and what I had left behind. When I start to looking back now, I realise that I dropped and left too much thing behind on my journey here, too many to the extend that I don't know how to start, where to start, and dont know if I can still pick up every single thing which I dropped.

Life at this point of time is like a painting without colours, black and white might look just as good but you know that it never complete without colours. I decided to leave what I lost behind and never look for those again, I know exactly that when some thing are lost, they can never be found, I have to carry on my life still without it, life goes on. It can never be like before anymore, but I jus hope nothing can to be worst than now.

Be it for the better, or to the worst, this is the path I chosen, no regret, no turning back, all I can do is moved on!

Be brave, Lynn!! All these shits that you are going through will never pull you down, it will only make you a stronger person!

Juggling

Life haven't been easy for me lately, I had officially start my Degree course. It wasn't as easy ss I thought it will be, it a huge jump between Diploma & Degree, still trying my very best to juggle with my work, school & personal life.

A great thanks to my boyfriend for being so understanding, he tried his very best to pick me up from lesson everytime, it might seem normal of boyfriend picking girlfriend up, but that don't applied to him. He is not the sort of man that will pamper his girlfriend to that extend, but he knows how tired I am trying to cope with everything, including our wedding preparation.

Basically my life now is only work & school, I only manage to have time to meet up my boyfriend over the weekend, but most of the time I'll be rushing my assignment still, physically there, but mentally else where.

I had alot to bitch about my study, but I guess I shouldn't have as I still have a long way to go!! Suffered now for a better future, I'm working real hard toward that now!

Nylon Flower Making

I was thinking of going on "Tulip's Theme" for my wedding, I'm a total tulipmania, a total insane tulip lover! So, I did alot of homework, thinking of how can I DIY some tulip stuffs for my wedding & I found this idea of nylon flower making.

Initially I thought sourcing for materials is never a difficult task for me as I can get all my materials from "Spotlight", but I was wrong!! Big mistake, it so difficult to find a place that sell nylon cloth & thread. After searching high & low for a period of time, finally I got all stuff ready yesterday evening.

I can say making nylon flower is not a very hard task, but is very time consuming & require a lot of patience, especially when doing up the petals. 

After completing the dull & boring petals making session, it time to assemble the flower, I can say this is the fun part, when you see the petals form up a flower, a sense of accomplishment feeling filled.

And there my very first tulips, TADAH!!!!

Okay, I know it not fantastic, but I'm very sure I gonna make it perfect after some practicing. Not only tulip, I also tried out rose making. Rose making is really not easy, I think I will still stick with my tulips. 

While I was doing the petals in office during lunch hour today, one of my colleague suggest me to use this flower as my wedding favour. Seriously I love that idea, but it really no joke doing 300pcs of flowers at least, really no time for this. 

Need to think twice, or even thrice before I start working on it, work, school & wedding preparation, time are running out, even if you give me 72hrs a day I also dare not commit! 

I done up a tulip decor for my office desk, this gonna brighten me up a little on my lousy day at work.

Once I got home this evening I try out my very first trial on my flower pen. I decide to try on some other flower design first before I use on tulip. TADAH..... What do you think?!? Is this flower pen presentable enough for my guests to sign on my guest book during my wedding?!?  Lolz!!

Sourcing for Bridal Package

Yesterday I was on a day of leave, pretty excited that I could hardly get to bed the day before, guess what, I'm all ready to look for my wedding gowns & source for a bridal package. Actually alot of people advice me to make a visit to Tanjong Pagar, but alot of their shops are on appointment base, so I decided to check out at other area first, I went to Bugis area instead.

Thanks god Cat is available yesterday to go with me, I need tons of advice from experienced person to help me decide. My first appointment is at 1pm at "My Bridal Room", Grace was the coordinator assign to me, a very friendly lady, her explanation was very details too. I chose the right day to source for bridal package, Monday usually is a quieter day, so as per request, Grace let me tried on 2gowns, didn't manage to snap any photos on it as photography is not allow & the gowns I tried on was a little oversize, look funny if no one holded the extra cloths at the back for me. But I must comment that their gowns quality are really very good, they are very generous with blings used.

End my visit at "My Bridal Room" around 3pm, had our late lunch at MOF before the next appointment with "Graceful Imagine". I'm not going to share much on my experience with "Graceful Imagine", I can only say I just hope to end my session with them real quick as I'm not very comfortable with the package they offered & I don't feel my visit are welcome there.

Time are still early, we know that there still a few bridal shops around, so we decide to try our luck to walk in & see if anyone is free to attend to us. So, our next stop is at "Bridal Concept", just a street away. Tiffany came to my assistance, initially wasn't very comfortable with her, but after much talking & chatting, she is actually very friendly & helpful. She explained all my doubts in details, tried her best to work to my needs & request, & not forgetting assisting to request a good price for me to her boss.

All I can say is that after visiting all the 3places, the standard package they offered are rather similar & price is quite close too, but, "Bridal Concept" worked out a very attractive price out of their standard package for me, price & details is a secret in their trade, so I'm not going to reveal much in my entry, if you are interest to find out more, do make an appointment with them, anyway they are rather recognise bridal shop which are coming to 15year old soon, they do not do much of advertising, their main source of customer are recommended by mouth of word.

Very nice of Tiffany, even before I decide to sign any package with them, she offered to let me try on 3 different type of gown. As usual, no photography allow, but I'm sneaky enough to snap a couple of it with the help of Cat.

After trying the gowns, there really no reason for me not to sign my bridal package with them as I really love them so much, to the extend, I sign the bridal package with them straight away even before consulting my groom, but I'm rather sure he trust me to make decision on this.

Another thing settle, bridal package found & confirmed! So happy!!

Montigo Resort at Nongsa

I'm back from Montigo Resort at Nongsa, back to reality once again.

The resort was FANTASTIC I swear, it a 3 levels villa with our villa own personal infinitely pool in each villa.

We go for the Beach Front Villa, directly seaview with no blockage, but seriously, there nothing fantastic about Batam beach. When you first step into the villa door, it bring you straight to level 2 where the 2bedrooms are located! The master bedroom is so freaking cool! Full seaview and I love the toilet, is the same size as the bedroom, it huge!!

Nothing much in 3rd level, it a open relax area which is ideally used for suntanning, chilling out & BBQ! The first level is the place we spend most of our time there, kitchen, living room & our pool!!

Not going to go too much into details, I shall let the photos do the talking. This resort is opened only last year & there still alot of expansion going on, it a prefect ideal place for a short getaway from the busy, but, there really no other form of recreation other than swimming in the pool!

But still, I love this little escapade from Singapore, even doing nothing will be totally fine with me!

Venue confirmed

On Saturday, I went to attend the wedding show held at Hotel Fort Canning with my boyfriend.

Finally got to meet up with my coordinator face to face, I guess she really have a hard time clinching my deal, but at last, everything was finalise on that day itself, my venue is confirm! Dear all, I can officially announce now, my big day will be held on 22/02/2014 next year at Hotel Fort Canning.

Both me & my boyfriend are very please with the place, the ballroom cater for our event was an extremely long ballroom, it gonna take me some time to march-in to the stage on that day. Nothing special for the ballroom, but what I love about that place is the bridal suite, so lovely!!

The wedding show start off with some soft introduction, follow by a bridal show by La Bella, I love those gown, they are all so sweet! After everything ended, we had a high tea session specially prepare by their master chef, the food was good!! I indulgence myself with so much sweet treat while my boyfriend went for their main course instead.

Queue up for quite awhile before we able to speak with our coordinator, I don't know why, but my boyfriend's conversation always have this convincing power, previously whatever I request to my coordinator I'm not able to get it, but he manage to negotiate the deal with my coordinator that day, all our concern are solved!

Happily make our deposit & we were bought around for a hotel tour. Many steps to climb in the hotel & the layout was alittle confusing. No choice, as this is a heritage building, they are to preserve whatever speciality about this place, no tearing down, no major renovation, but that is the main reason I love about this place too, the only hotel that is located in the park of Singapore.

One thing solve, next on list was to look for a bridal shop! I know we are a little behind time, but still, I believe everything will fall in place eventually. Getting a little excited about it now.