Make up artistDidn't source for this. Naomi had highly recommended me her MUA (Qiqi) which she used for her wedding day, therefore had signed her up immediately.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Hotel stayAs our number of tables for wedding dinner is small, it doesn't come with some of the peaks (e.g. hotel stay, wedding cards, wedding favours, etc), thus we need to source for these separately.
We were thinking of going for the deluxe room, however Goodwood Park hotel itself only allows booking of hotel stay 3 months in advance, thus we look at some other website on hotel stay in SG. Came across some hotel websites (e.g. www-singapore.com) which states 'Rates are not applicable for domestic market'....... What do this mean??? Singaporean cannot have the hotel stay at this rate?? Emailed to the website but no reply, thus decide not to play, play lar and look at UK website instead.
Found that the split level suite one beadroom apartment is shown in UK hotel website but not in SG hotel website!!! A check on Goodwood Park Hotel website shows only one suite with split level, i.e. Parklane Suite - Housed in a separate wing, the 64 split-level one-bedroom Parklane Suites cater to the needs of long-staying guests, delivering the many comforts of home away from home. To complete the gracious apartment-style living, each unit comes with a well-equipped kitchenette and spacious balcony. Sound fantastic and can't see any restrictions, thus had booked this at lastminute.com.
Wedding Dinner packageNumbers of tables
Not too difficult for us. Given that we are both overseas and only want a simple wedding (which both parents agreed too), we decide on approx 6 to 8 tables.
Location
Sam decide that it must be in City area......
Which restaurant/ hotel?
This is the difficult bit!!! Most of the hotels/ restaurants require minimum number of tables of 15, 20, etc, nothing like the number of tables we decide on....
With advice from SGbrides, and countless times of looking up individual hotels/ restaurants, these are the few which we considered :-
- Peony Jade - Will allocate one part of the restaurant with constraints ie no march-in, no speeches and no Yum Sheng (but only after 9.45pm).
- Hai Tien Lo (Pan Pacific) - The restaurant do not actually gather for wedding banquet, but do have private dining room can hold private function maximum for 10 tables with round tables of 10-12persons each. Located on level 37, fantastic view!!
- China Club - Minimum 8 tables, sited on the 52nd floor of Singapore’s premium commercial tower!! On a clear day, Malaysia and Indonesia can be glimpsed!
- Min Jiang (Goodwood Park Hotel) - Min 6 tables, maxi 8 tables + Brother can help...
Finally decided on Min Jiang @ Goodwood Park Hotel and the menu, etc were agreed with the help of my beloved brother.
Wedding dateIt's not easy planning for a SG wedding when we are not in Singapore. Thanks to all friends and families for help. I finally got some time on hand, thus decide to update the wedding planning so far, starting with the wedding date.
We wanted to have the date of 09/01/2009 as it will be our 5th ROM anniversary. However we also decide to consult a fortune teller to check if this is an auspicious date, if not, to recommend one that falls in Jan 09 (which we planned to be in SG). Better to believe than not to...
Sam's parents consulted the fortune teller and we were informed that 09/01/2009 isn't an auspicious date, thus we selected 03/01/2009 (Sat) instead.
The fortune teller also provide the following information :-
-安床 (Setup bridal bed), 31/12/2008 (Wed)
- 过大礼 (Betrothal), 27/12/2008 (Sat), 9 to 11am
- Age group to avoid when bride is leaving the house = 35 & 47 years old.
Monday, July 14, 2008
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Fortune cookieDo you believe in fortune cookie prediction?? Think we have to now....
We went to a Chinese restaurant near our place sometime late last year and Sam had a fortune cookie with this
'Your wish will be granted after a short delay, prosperity will come your way in the month of May'I remember asking Sam what his wish was and he replied 'to be promoted to Consultant'. We didn't think much about this fortune cookie prediction since but I knew that Sam kept this piece of paper in his wallet. Recently Sam was informed that he's promoted to Consultant wef 1 May 08!!
How true...
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Test drive
The air con in our car isn't working and it's boiling hot in UK (abt 27 deg cel). Thinking that the air-con unit is spolit and will cost us alot of money to fix it, we thought of prehap replacing the car with another second hand car. Shortlisted a car (Ford Mondeo) at Peterborough and we drove there on Saturday. The car dealer location was a petrol station turn into a second hand car sales.
The car looks what we expect, looks new and we made a request with the person-in-charge (seems to be only 1 person and we think he's the owner) to have a look inside the car. A moment later, he hand us the keys and left us alone to look at the car and he carry on with vacuuming his office...... Weird, shouldn't he try to sell us the car?? Or is vacuuming his office too impt... or prehaps he thinks that we wouldn't buy the car, so what's the point???
Anyway, we were satisfy with the car after inspection and process to ask him for part-exchange for our old car and to test drive his car. Because the MOT of our old car is running out soon and the air-con doesn't work, he only quoted us £200 for our old car!!! The annual road tax for the car is new which cost us £185 and is only 10 days old.......... deduct the road tax, our old car value = £15!!! OMG!!
We didn't bargain the price yet, thought we test drive the car first. However the owner wasn't keen for us to test drive cos he want us to decide on the part-exchange price first and that test driving his car will dirty the car.......What???? Nevertheless, we managed to persuade him to let us test drive the car. He drove the car out for us, place the licence plate, etc and with Sam at the driver seat and me near the passenger seat, he said 'ok, it's all yours'...... Errrrrr, he's not coming with us to test drive the car?? He's trusting us not to drive the car away and never come back?? Or is vacuuming his office that impt!!
During the test drive, we realise that the air-con in the car wasn't working too and it seems there's a intermediate problem with the car initially when the air-con is switch on. We were too honest lar and returned the car back to the owner and queried him as to the air-con and the intermediate problem. He mentioned that the air-con just need re-gassing and will be fully re-gased after we bought it and the car comes with 3 months warranty, so no need to worry. As for the intermediate problem, it was working fine when we show him what we meant, so unable to get an answer.
Anyway, we didn't buy the car cos why didn't he re-gas the air-con beforehand and want to wait till we bought it and that intermediate problem, hmmmmm, all too dodgy. Prehaps all along, he knew that he's not going to sell the car, so vacuuming seems to be a better option for him than a wasted time with us.
However, his response made us think that our car might also just need re-gassing in order to fix the air-con. So on Sunday, we drove to Halford for their air-con servicing which cost us £50 and the air-con in the car is fixed!!! Finally!!!
Drove the car today (Monday) to the garage for full service + MOT and received a call later in the afternoon that the brake pad needs changing. All in all, the full cost of change + service+ MOT comes to £311. Ouch.......
Looks like we might need to replace our old car soon as repair cost are on the increase.
The air con in our car isn't working and it's boiling hot in UK (abt 27 deg cel). Thinking that the air-con unit is spolit and will cost us alot of money to fix it, we thought of prehap replacing the car with another second hand car. Shortlisted a car (Ford Mondeo) at Peterborough and we drove there on Saturday. The car dealer location was a petrol station turn into a second hand car sales.
The car looks what we expect, looks new and we made a request with the person-in-charge (seems to be only 1 person and we think he's the owner) to have a look inside the car. A moment later, he hand us the keys and left us alone to look at the car and he carry on with vacuuming his office...... Weird, shouldn't he try to sell us the car?? Or is vacuuming his office too impt... or prehaps he thinks that we wouldn't buy the car, so what's the point???
Anyway, we were satisfy with the car after inspection and process to ask him for part-exchange for our old car and to test drive his car. Because the MOT of our old car is running out soon and the air-con doesn't work, he only quoted us £200 for our old car!!! The annual road tax for the car is new which cost us £185 and is only 10 days old.......... deduct the road tax, our old car value = £15!!! OMG!!
We didn't bargain the price yet, thought we test drive the car first. However the owner wasn't keen for us to test drive cos he want us to decide on the part-exchange price first and that test driving his car will dirty the car.......What???? Nevertheless, we managed to persuade him to let us test drive the car. He drove the car out for us, place the licence plate, etc and with Sam at the driver seat and me near the passenger seat, he said 'ok, it's all yours'...... Errrrrr, he's not coming with us to test drive the car?? He's trusting us not to drive the car away and never come back?? Or is vacuuming his office that impt!!
During the test drive, we realise that the air-con in the car wasn't working too and it seems there's a intermediate problem with the car initially when the air-con is switch on. We were too honest lar and returned the car back to the owner and queried him as to the air-con and the intermediate problem. He mentioned that the air-con just need re-gassing and will be fully re-gased after we bought it and the car comes with 3 months warranty, so no need to worry. As for the intermediate problem, it was working fine when we show him what we meant, so unable to get an answer.
Anyway, we didn't buy the car cos why didn't he re-gas the air-con beforehand and want to wait till we bought it and that intermediate problem, hmmmmm, all too dodgy. Prehaps all along, he knew that he's not going to sell the car, so vacuuming seems to be a better option for him than a wasted time with us.
However, his response made us think that our car might also just need re-gassing in order to fix the air-con. So on Sunday, we drove to Halford for their air-con servicing which cost us £50 and the air-con in the car is fixed!!! Finally!!!
Drove the car today (Monday) to the garage for full service + MOT and received a call later in the afternoon that the brake pad needs changing. All in all, the full cost of change + service+ MOT comes to £311. Ouch.......
Looks like we might need to replace our old car soon as repair cost are on the increase.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Wii FitMy belated birthday gift from Sam had arrived.
Sam pre-order the Wii Fit from Argos and it was delivered to his office yesterday (launch date). Tried playing it today. Hopefully this will keep me in shape for the wedding.
