skinny's wedding

great weekend... anyway i haven't blogged for a very long time.. must be really having an easy life in tekong.. haha.. watching tv every night.. dream catchers.. lol. i haven't been calling home as frequently as before either. =x opps.

key events: skinny's wedding!!
date: 22nd Feb 2009
Time: Full Day Event



well skinny's my... how to say... aunt or cousin?? ok heres the case. RIGHTFULLY, she's my aunt, my mum's cousin... BUT. she's 33!! thats like... more like my cousin rite?!! well.. thats what happens when you have big families.. like peini ( my real cousin) who's 23 this year and jeremy ( also my real cousin) who's about 28 this year.. and then i have uncles like martin who's 27 this year.. ansen who's less than 30?? gosh.. wierd wierd... ok i prefer to address them as cousins.. haha.. and so do they.. it only SOUNDS RIGHT XD

anyway uncle wei toon ( above) aka cartoon was the super uber LUCKY man who is our latest addition to the family.. haha.. perhaps the reason why i can call him uncle with ease is because i haven't been brought up calling him 'korkor' or something.. so yeap..

it was a great event, starting from morning.. haha. went over to yin's place.. 2nd bro wasn't around because of sitest :( and 3rd bro went for tuition.. so i was there with peini.. and of course we started taking pictures.. haha


thats us with prince, the household dog and so called page boy aka dooropener for the morning event.. i missed the part where he opened the door!! must have been so cute larr.. anyway he had a tie on, though missing in the above pictures.. well.. erm.. not really a fan of dog clothes so yea.. haha.



me and peini ( cousin)

the groom came on time.. but we were not ready, so we asked them to go another round around the neighbourhood. =.= and then when we were finally ready, they were LOST in the neighbourhood =xxx haha.. hilarious.. but eventually they managed to find their way..

susanne (yin's sister) was terrible!! made cartoon and his best men do lots of funny stuff.. and kept rejecting the angbao.. poor aunty jenny ( actually grandaunty. =x) was so anxious to get her daughter married that she kept scolding susanne.. hahaa.. such a funny scene.. in the end the best men had to put on some disposable underwear, sing songs and cartoon had to do push ups while promising 5 things.. well.. one of them was GOING TO CHURCH EVERY SUNDAY. gosh.. for a non believer to say this, he must really love her.. haha. bless him.

anyway it procceeded.. i guess i don't really have to go into such details..
about 1 we left for the church, trinity methodist at serangoon.. there was some minor screw ups on the caterer's side.. but still we got those sorted out.. talked with ansen and martin at the basement while awaiting the pastor's car... in the end the wedding was almost starting and we decided not to wait any longer.. thank goodness he turned up right on the spot. young man... well..

the flower girls and page boys were sooooooo cute!! haha.. the first girl was so afraid.. and she just looked totally adorable walking down that aisle with her younger bro.. didn't manage to get any pics though.. the second girl, slightly older, was also scared.. then came my cousins jarrell and jannell... haha.. and im so proud of them because they were so confident.. but i guess since they have been brought up in SUCH A FAMILY its hard not to.. haha..

anyway the church wedding:


yeap.. after the rather wierd vows.. which included something about flesh and blood and nothing about lawful husband and wife.. =.=

oh and i found this scene TOTALLY CLASSIC!


see the page boy and flower girl in the background?? hahaha.. they must have really been totally shag out.. lol.

anyway it was a beautiful wedding dress.. but it was too long!! gosh!! yin was like trying to pull it up a little when whe was walking down the aisle.. haha.. we were all laughing.. but i guess thats the way our family is.... her face was also like.. half laughing half omg kind.. lol..

then came dinner.. omgomgomg.. it was at sentosa cove can!!! like.. wa.. everything else normal but suddenly dinner so lavish..


by the sea.. woots...

dinner was really good.. especially the soup.. not the traditional shark fin.. but BABY ABALONE WITH BLACK CRAB AND FISH MAW!!
totally the best ive ever tasted.. but i heard just the soup alone is 100 bucks per pax. =.= hate to think how much the whole dinner will cost. =x

anyway random pics:








the twins and their brother ( my cousins):




and the after party ( by my family's side of course):


battle of the sexes in which side can yum seng the loudest.. hahaha.. at least cartoon was hyped enough to join in the craziness of our family.. hahaa.

and the finale kiss


cannot break till we finish our yum seng.. haha.. i think they were drooling by the end.. =x opps.. hahaha.


all in all, it was fun to see so many relatives around and learn of what they are doing now.. uncle rick's son is seriously soooooo cute la! haha.. chubby cheeks but very slim and sharp features like uncle rick.. then there was yinwei's second son.. who is shy to cry in front of others though he is only 9 months old.. haha.. can see the face when he tries not to cry.. undescribably cute..

uncle dick's new girlfriend ( china lady) is seriously siao la.. totally high.. heard she drank 7 glasses of red wine.. and went around shrieking and laughing and hugging everyone.. =.= pissed my mum and grandma.. hahaha. heard they are getting married at the end of the year =x hate to visualise that..

uncle mick's new girlfriend.. urmm.. how to put it.. he is 40.. and the girlfriend is what.. 18??!! like.. wth.. heard she's a philipino and is currently in sg studying on mick's sponsership.. ah well.. he says he's serious about her.. see where that goes.. he has a son too with his first wife.. BTW. lol.

anyway im sooooo proud of my family.. its like when susanne and rick went upstage to give their well wishing speech.. it totally trashed those from weitoon's side lar.. plus our super hyped family's support.. we seriously totally owned them.. haha.

as auntie loo lin said, the cousins have something in common: they are loud, beautiful and confident.. haha.. so true not only of them but of so many of us in the family..

weitoon's side is really.. urm.. how to say.. not sporting?? well.. lets just put it this way... im glad its cartoon getting married to yin than his other stoned brothers..

in her talk, susanne questioned whats so special about yin and toon.. i guess we all know how yin's special since she's practically the livewire in the family ( as rick said) plus she's sooo confident, enthusiastic and everything else.. but one thing i sincerely feel about toon that susanne did not say is that he is really what a family man should be. regardless of his terrible fashion sense and nerdy look.. he is someone whom.. just one look at, you know he can be trusted to be a solid platform and a loving husband to support a family.. so i guess thats how special he is.. because regardless of how overpowering and confident suyin looks, the both of them just looks so right together..

hence here i shall wish them a blessed life together, everlasting love for each other.. and
cartoon, welcome to the family.

ha. :)

gatherings.

visitng for cny carried on ytd.. went to this SUPER UBER DUBER big house along frankel... owned by.. lets see... my grandfather's cousin's daugther's husband. so that makes my mother and that aunt second cousins.. and makes me and their little kids.......... third cousins. is there such a thing? haha.. anyway there were three big groups of families there ytd.. my grandfather's ( meaning my family and my direct uncles and aunties), my grandfather's sister ( includes billy koh wan liang, campus superstar judge!!) and my grandfather's cousin's family ( whose daugther owns the house). ok super confusing... and suddenly i have....... 7 new cousins.. and my bro knows one of them from tuition.. haha.. how cool is that.

dinner was ok.. well, the host was vegetarian, even though they are seventh-day adventist... haha.. healthy reasons according to my mum.. but of course we had other food.. i still feel so sad for kevin, fiona and tammy.. since they are sort of 'forced' into being vegetarians.. lol. =x and well.. house has NO TV ( tv spoilt) and.. well.. i don't know! dosen't look very stayable =x

but they are all-right kids.. we get along quite well.. in fact better than we expected.

thats us.. haha. minus peini.. she was latest to come and earliest to go.. grr..

went to the park to play sparklers... josh tried his rocket thing. and we were busy distracting their dog, pepper, from this super big fat cat... then tried to bring the dog down the slide.. climbed to the top of the monkey bar.. flipped over the vertical steps.. monkey bar challenge.. bla blah... sort of missed the feeling of going to a playground since the last time i went to one was when i was very young... pity.. miss those days. perhaps i should start hanging out at playgrounds more often.


thats us on top of that monkey bar.

all in all.. we had fun.. especially josh's question and question game.. haha.. that is totally an awesome game. apparently they got that from 'whose line is it anyway'

so well.. uncle billy koh wan liang was like pretty lost about who's who.. and all that.. should have managed to clear that up in the end.



thats the family... its like.. so many of use. haha.
from now on i'll have three VERY GIGANTIC families to visit during the cny season.
woots.
love that...(:


anw back to camp tonight.. cos duties tml means i miss 1st day of sitest.. whoohootsss!!
there goes 12km... not missing it a simple bit. ha.

just can't book out freqeuntly enough. lol.
gtg.

:)

great cny this time around. though quite a number of ppl i didn't get to meet due to my time schedule ( having to be back in camp.., grrrr)

anyway sarah's in NTU accountancy too!! haha.. actually.. double degree.. urrgghh.. such coincidence. talked a little during the gathering.. she's still as ahem* anti-social.. haha.. like mother like daughter.

daniel, carolyn and a few other uncles and aunties are going to bali in july!! too bad i can't join them because of. urm. SAF commitments. damned.. nvm i'll be there in 2010! sabah still on?? hahaha.. oh and the great greatest thing is that dan and carolyn are planning to work in sg in the future!! woots! how great is that.. haha.. my closest cousins finally coming to singapore.. perhaps then we will be able to continue the yearly cny family traditional gatherings in sg instead. haha..

of course they will have to finish their studies first -.-

carolyn was telling me about how they could actually bribe their way to passing their driving liscence over in the peininsulla.. crap. to think i spent almost 2k on mine..

anyway it was totally awesome to catch up with all these cousins.. hahaha.. theres just.. so many of them back there!! its not that i don't have cousins on my mum's side.. just that... urmm... not really close and age gapp.... well lets put it this way. im a little old.. hahaha.. which reminds me!! i'll be 20 this year!! hahahaha.. is that like cool or what.. i don't see how being 20 can be such a miserable event.. haha.. love the 20s..

oh and i missed the swimmer's gatherings again.. sorry ivan for missing your bday party too. :( not the right time... and jon.. sorry i couldn't go for the cny cum farewell party for you.. but i'll see you on tekong. HA. can we like meet meet meet.. soon soon soon again?? =( i miss the days in sispec where i could drop by ntu on my night offs to catch up with friends.. theres really nothing much in the east that can beat that.. haha.

anyway further updates: i've decided to forgo psp and go with itouch instead.. seems more useful and interesting.. saw the little kids in segamat getting sick over the little psp gadgets.. that seemed to help me make up my mind.. and also i've decided to enrol for sailing courses in march.. i know there goes almost 500 bucks.. but i'd rather spend it on stuff like that then leaving it lying in my account where i could 'unintenionally' spend it all O.O

well at least im spending my money on the right things. =D (consoling) will sign up this coming weekend. no time to do it now.

haha.. im still pretty excited about uni life.. since i actually know quite a substantial number of people in/will be in NBS already.. arrgghhh why do i still have 1 year left to serve.... zzzz