First Clothes

This is what I wore in the morning of the wedding. I like to be well prepared. Everything hung near the toilet with even the cufflinks in the cuffs.

Can you see how textured and shiny my Hermes tie is?

First Gift

We received our first gift a week before the wedding from T|ny. Still got ang pao even though she didnt attend. How thoughtful! I love unsolicited money!

1 Week On

Phew, it's been a little over a week since the wedding is over.

It feels like a huge burden has been removed. It feels like it's after the exams now and I dont have to worry about feeling guilty about doing something else other than wedding preparations.

Now, onto our next project. And Im not talking about making babies.

Today!

Today is the day!

What kind of underwear do you wear on your wedding day?

You know it's a special day and that warrants a special thought to your choice of underwear.

But at the same time, because it's a special day, you want to be with one that you can rely on, i.e. an old one.

Plus, it's been raining a lot recently and my laundry hasnt dried as fast as they should.

Decisions decisions.

By the time I blog again, i think ill be married. That's a scary thought. 

Gifts Exchange

We did the whole gifts exchange thingy last Saturday. I think it's just dumb.

There's a specific list of items to bring - wine, oranges, a large ang pao, cakes, and some pork. I said "some pork" is because actually tradition dictates it to be an entire pig but because it's so troublesome, people find alternatives. However, this doesnt simply mean you cut a small piece of pork. It has to be "a whole piece", whatever it means. And it must be cut in a certain way. But! But But But! It can however be replaced by the canned pig trotters. That's so incredulous really.

Some of the canned pork and other items that i bring over will be returned to me and these have to come in a quantity that fulfils some criteria - must be even number, the number, after returning to be must also be an even number and not be "4". The said number must also, logistically, be not a too big number.

So basically, I lugged 8 bottles of wine and others all the way there and then brought 6 back. Actually brought S$1888 in ang pao and the female side was supposed to keep $888 but last minute decided to keep $88 because $888 is a three digit number. So in that regard, I just saved $800. w00t!

I think it's just silly. Traditions aside, we just spent so much effort acquiring these things and packing them for a 10-minute exchange.

Bangkok

We stole away to Bangkok for four days because there was a good deal on Groupon.

$480 for return tickets and accommodation for two! WOW!

And so we went on our first holiday in 1.5 years.

There isnt much about Bangkok other than cheap shopping and food. Therefore, unsurprisingly, all the pictures we took were of us eating. Here're some from night street food place called Sukhumvit 38.

You need to turn into this alley where the best stalls are congregated.

Check out this mango sticky rice stall. One of the best I've ever eaten. 

Try also the porridge, pad thai and wanton mee. The pad thai is one of the best ive eaten despite going to Bangkok more than 20 times.

Blogging

I find that these days my posts are very short.

Sometimes I am just too lazy to type, sometimes I just have so many things in my mind.

So many things occupy my mind these days that i sometimes just stare into blank space.

For the last 5-6 days, i have been dreaming about the wedding. They arent exactly nightmares but when i awake from them, i cant sleep anymore. Bleah.

Rain and Laundry

It's been raining on and off recently that it's so hard to get the laundry dry. This reminded me of my mum's frequent complaints before. Now I know how she feels. Called her to tell her and she said "Now you know la!"

Haha.. my mum.

Wedding Planning

Wedding planning is such a pain in the ass.

There are so many details to look into and at the same time so much money spent. Bleah.

I hope the ang paos will be substantial so that I dont have to pay so much.

Bleah.

In order to get away from it all, we are going for a holiday to Bangkok next weekend. Hope it wont be that hot.