Our Visit to Trick Eye Museum Singapore

With the increasing of KPOP fever over these years, I guessed that most of the people have heard of this famous attraction in Korea, Trick Eye Museum. This museum was established in 2010 in Seoul, Jeju & Busan, popularity of this attraction gain so rapidly in just this short period of time using "optical illusion" which transform 2D painting into 3D effect.

Now, Trick Eye Museum has officially venture oversea, their very first stop is Singapore, I'm so excited about their opening in June, just can't wait to visit the place, but June is a bad timing to visit such attraction as it fall into the June school holiday period.

Finally I pay visit to Singapore's Trick Eye Museum 2days back, I will say that the experience was amazing

Me, Jo and Andy planned our leave together on a weekday to visit the attraction in order to avoid the crowd & able to get good angles for our photos. The admission ticket is at 25bucks per person, the place wasn't big, within 1.5hrs and we are done, but we had great fun in there!

I'll try to keep my description of the place as short as possible and let the photos do the talking instead. I have so much nice photos to share, took around 300 photos that day, but I will just select some nice photos, mainly individual shots to upload in this entry, but all other photos had already uploaded in my facebook album.

When you first step into the museum, what expecting you will be the "World of Masterpieces". The theme is mainly on "frame", we went happily snapping photos as the place wasn't that crowded at the time of our visit.

Next we went on to "Safari Kingdom".

Follow by "Star of Circus"

I love this section the most, "Dreams of Fairytales", make me have the feeling of going into the books I read before.

Now we headed into "Love in Winter"

And finally into the "Adventure Discovery"

Looking at all these photos outcome may seem amazing to you, but you have not know what we went through in order to take these nice photos. We have to climb the platform, lay on the floor etc, I have so much blueblack on my legs now, but I'm sure it all worth it.

I shall end this long photo entry with just some random photos took in Sentosa, time to get back to my books and be prepared for my exam next week.

It a long weekend ahead, do enjoy the Singapore 49th Birthday celebration tomorrow!!

Whole Wedding Expenses

A lot of my friends are getting marry real soon & they asked me what is the estimated cost of my whole wedding, today I gonna disclosure the figure and breakdown here. But the amount is definitely more than what you going to see below, a lot of misc. cost involve which I could hardly keep track.

Once you had your wedding date fixed, the next thing that you will look for will be the wedding venue. I held my wedding reception at Hotel Fort Canning, considering as a 5 stars heritage hotels, my package was sign during a bridal fare held in April 2013, of course you will get extra perk during the show, the package consist of:

8 course Chinese wedding dinner package
1 food tasting session for 10pax
In room pre-dinner on actual day
Free flow of soft drink / tea
3 x 30Litre of draught beer
1 bottle red / white wine per confirm table
1 bottle champagne for toasting
2 night stay in Premium King room
Complimentary usage of a day room
Waiver for duty paid liquors and wines
Wedding Favour / guestbook / Angpao box / invitation card

Other than we stated above I guess the rest like cocktail session, decoration, free parking for guests, VIP lot for bridal car etc is very normal, so I not going to mention those. My per table cost is at $1038++, as I have a table of Muslim guests, for Halal food there of 1 time $60 additional cost.

1038.00 x 29 = 30,102.00 (29 Normal tables)
1038 + 60 = 1,098 (1 Mixed table)
      
Total Before Taxes: $31,200.00

Net Price: 31,200.00
10% Service Charge: 3,120.00
Sub-Total: 34,320.00
7% GST (on Sub-Total): 2,402.40
Total Price with GST: 36,722.40

I totally agree that it a BIG sum of money to spend for a 1 day event, totally meaningless, walking down the aisle waving to people that you don’t really know, or haven’t even seen before in your whole life. Sadly, that the culture, out of my 300 guests less than one third is the people I know, the rest is all our parents’ friend, looooong distance relatives that you don’t even know their existence. You will be lucky if your guests are generous enough with their angbaos, you might be able to break even the cost you spend on the dinner, if not you will have to throw out the whole sum from your pocket.

I seriously don’t agree to the thinking of some people hoping to breakeven or even get some earning out of the banquet. WAKE UP GUYS, your guests is not obligated to “pay” so much for their own dinner when you are the one inviting them, to put it in a right way to say, they are there in response to your invitation, rightfully, they can even go empty handed. Of course most of the people, I will say 99% will be there will their generous angbao as a blessing to the newly wed, but don’t expected too much, always prepared yourself for the worst situation, so in case of any unforeseen issue happened, you won’t be in the panic stage. Managed within budget that you are comfortable, plan for something which you can afford to pay in full amount just in case your angbao box was stolen (TOUCH_WOOD), I think no situation can be worse than that on the actual weeding day

Next we will go into all the “un-recoverable” cost that you gonna to spend, first we will go into bridal package. My bridal package consist of the following, my whole package cost $5,288 nett consist of the following stated below, a lot of bargaining is required for a good deal:

Pre-wedding:
5 gowns
1 trial make-up
4 make-up & hairdo
3 suits
36 photos
1 album
1 desktop photoframe
1 mini album
1 3-in-1 wall portrait
1 wedding MTV
All edited copies return in CD

Actual Day:
1 Photo / Videographer (10Hours each)
1 day gown
1 tea dress
1 evening gown
Day & night make-up & hairdo
2 suits
2 fathers’ suit
Corsage of groom & both parents
1 hand bouquet
Bridal car décor
6 brothers car décor
6 sisters wrist flower
Wedding Veil
Accessories
Morning highlight
All photos return in CD
Whole day video in CD – 2sets

For bridal package there a lot of hidden cost involve, the ampoules, fake lashes etc, not forget the most costly items, additional photos.

5,288.00 (Bridal Package)
1,200.00 (16pcs of additional photos)
60.00 (Ampoules, 2 for pre-wedding / 1 for AD use – $20each )
60.00 ( Fake lashes, 1 for pre-wedding / 2 for AD use - $20each)
50.00 (Extra charges for MUA to come before 7am)
30.00 (Veil, I don’t know who burn a hole in my veil during AD)

Total Price     : 6,688.00


Now let us go into the misc cost, some of the cost I really cannot remember the exact cost, so I just estimated the amount to the closest whole which I can recall:

2,800 (Wedding bands)
25.00 (ROM charges)
60.00 (Printing of invitation card’s inserts)
100.00 (Reservation for pre-wedding shoot venue – Blisshouse)
128.00 (JOP’s angbao)
100.00 (Bridesmaid dress, I’m damn cheapo, get cheap deal online)
700.00 (Car rental, Porsche Boxer)
1,500.00 (Videographer’s car “kissed” my Porsche & he got no money to pay, we are just being “nice” not to push him for payment)
89.00 (Bridal Heels)
60.00 (Groom’s white shirt)
60.00 (Groom’s shoes)
160.00 (Bridal nails for AD)
40.00 (Car boy’s angbao)
328.00 (Gate crashing angbao)
500.00 (Make-up charges for 2 mothers, 3 sisters)
200.00 (material for angbao box / nylon flower – pens and décor)

Total Price    : 6,850.00

I’m rather sure that we spend more than the amount stated from the list, but is just that it really hard to keep track. In total, my whole wedding celebration cost us around 50K, special thanks to all my guests’ generosity,  I received around 31K worth of blessing. So in total, we came out with estimated 20K from our pocket for a 1 day event, I’ll leave it to each individual to judge if this amount is worth spending or not.