Our Wedding 12th April 2009 Amara Sanctuary Sentosa

Its been about a month since our wedding and we've just consolidated some of our photos. Our photographer just passed us our photos in digital format and thanks to my brother Eugene and my sisters Janice and Eunice, we've got quite a nice collection of photos.

I'm putting up just a few of them here first.

Good Friday, 3 More Days to go...

Happy Good Friday to all. Its just past midnight and we remember this day when our Lord Jesus Christ died for us.

Lynn and I actually chose 12th April without realizing that it was Easter Sunday. We had randomly decided on the date last year. We only discovered that it would be Easter Sunday after we had booked the hotel and when organizers and diaries for 2009 were just starting to be sold last year.

Anyway, we just got our "Wedding Dinner" notice sorted out. Spent a few minutes cutting out some paper which I got from Bras Basah to use as a shiny greyish-bluish-metallic background. The notice itself we got from our printer who also did our cards as well as the programs. Flowers from our usual Florist. And frame? Guess where it came from....

We felt they did a super fantastic job!

Take a look!

Dinner Table Presentation

Seems a bit frivolous, but I drew out a diagramatic representation of our planned Dinner Table arrangement. Basically we're going to be having long tables. The tables are going to be joined together from the ends to make a whole long row of tables. The pic below is basically a "sample" of what one of these tables should look like. So, it'll be repeated tables of this arrangement. Table cloth will be black and the artificial flowers will be similar to what you see of our Ang Pow box below. Click on it to enlarge it for a clearer view.



I've also just drawn up a plan of the Solemnization area at the Glass Pavillion. Oops I forgot to annotate the red part there on the left behind the tree as the assembly area.

One More Week To Go.......

Ok we've reached the 1 week mark today. Things are more or less settled, but we need to work through some final details. Wanted to put up pictures of our prep all the way up to the wedding itself, but we've been busy with work and everything else.

At least we've settled our bridesmaids flowers and I've taken some pics.

Take a look!

Wedding Bells are Ringing.....

Haven't written anything for some time now. I wanted to put up some photos along the way but just didn't get the chance. But as the title says, wedding bells are indeed ringing for Lynn and myself and we'll be getting married on 12th April 2009, Easter Sunday.

It all started some time last year when we were looking at jewelery and we both saw and liked a ring which I ended up buying for Lynn. We decided there and then to get our wedding rings. After that, it was down to looking for a place and fixing a date for the wedding. We had intially thought of having it during the chinese 7th month or maybe earlier in the year and finally decided on April 12th without realizing that it would be Easter Sunday. So we had a pleasant surprise when we found out. For location, we didn't really explore many places. We had heard about Amara Sanctuary at Sentosa and decided to go there for dinner one evening. It so happened that there was a birthday celebration going on at the Glass Pavillion and it seemed like a really nice place to have a wedding. We decided to use the place and after that it was just to contact the hotel and make the arrangements.

Now about 2 weeks ago, 1 day before the last day of Chinese New Year, we decided to get our Ang Pow boxes decorated. We had bought 2 bright pink Ang Pow boxes earlier and we brought them to our usual florist. We chose some flowers and gave him room to make an arrangement for us. Take a look at the photos below. I think they look nice!

The strange thing is that on the next day, which was the last day of Chinese New Year, I got my first "Wedding Ang Pow" from my good friend Derek Yong. He's working and living in Australia and so he won't be able to make it for the wedding. Well, Derek drove all the way to my clinic just to give me the ang pow. He flew back to Australia that very night. Hey to Derek, Jane and Baby Joshua - THANKS!













Valentines Day flowers that I got for Lynn.




We took a hamper someone gave us for Chinese New Year and redid it with our florist. Same guy who did the Glass bowl container thing you see behind which is in our home photos.

Christian the Lion

OK, this I gotta tell you.

My sister told me about a video of a lion which she watched recently on youtube and I was quite fascinated by her story and decided to check it out myself.

I did a search on youtube, putting in the words "lion video" and there were multiple results about "Christian the Lion" and "Reunion".

I clicked on one of the links and was just amazed by what I saw.

Basically, Christian the Lion's story is about how these 2 guys bought a lion cub from Harrods in London back in 1969. They saw this cute little lion cub and in a small cage and decided to buy it and take it home.
They kept him in their furniture shop in London and for exercise, a local church vicar allowed them to use the church grounds to let Christian run. The thing is he started growing too big for them and they eventually contacted George Adamson, the "Born Free" guy to release Christian back into the wild.
It was about a year later when they went back to look for Christian, but before going, they were told that he wouldn't be able to recognise them. They went anyway and just see what happens in the video link below. Its a link to the youtube clip with also features the 2 guys 35 years later. Amazing story.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXEZ2T_o6eM

Here's a write up on Christian the Lion

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-452820/Christian-lion-lived-London-living-room.html

LAMY DEMONSTRATOR

Haven't added anything for some time now. I got really sick in May and then was a bit busy and I didn't buy any new pens! Had to take some time out from buying pens. Its an expensive hobby! I'm glad I took the time to save some money anyway. I had almost decided on buying a Pelikan M205 Demonstrator. Read some good reviews about it and I really liked some of the photos I saw on Flikr. I emailed my seller and almost ordered it but decided to hold off instead.

Anyway, it was a good decision. I just bought this Lamy Vista Demonstrator last week. Think its a Safari in the demonstrator form. I chose to buy a fine nib instead this time as all my other Lamys are in medium. I've got a Safari in black matt, Al star in lilac colour, ABC pen and a studio which I've given to my sister. The shop I bought it from also had a Pelikan M205 Demonstrator and I immediately asked to look at it. I must say I was thankful that I held off buying it as I don't like the screw on cap types for fountain pens. I prefer to just pull open and close. In my line of work where I need to write a lot and quickly and where there is a lot of picking up and putting down the pen, this screwing style just interferes with my work flow. By the same reasoning, I find the Pilot Vanishing Point the easiest to use for work.

I usually use the cartridge for my Safaris as I feel they hold more ink. But I decided to insert the converter for the demonstrator. The red end of the converter can be seen and it adds some colour to the pen.

I filled the pen up with Pelikan Blue Black which I haven't used for some time now. The nib feels exactly like how a steel nib on a Safari would feel. Its hard and a bit stiff, but control is good. The flow is very smooth. As smooth as the medium, but it just feels a bit "sharper" but not scratchy.

The clear plastic is an eye catcher and a few of my patients have noticed it. I'm always glad to talk about my pens. They're not expensive types and not too poser. I usaully let them try my Vanishing Point in medium nib after telling them not to press too hard. The buttery smooth feeling is just too good.

Oh well, gonna use this for a while but I really feel like collecting more colours. I want to get the Ocean Blue, Raspberry, Lime Green, White with silver clip, Black with silver clip.....oh no....too many.....

Here are some photos. Lighting wasn't great. Took the pics in the kitchen at night.