From The Bridesmaid's Journal

On the 18th of April, we witnessed the union of Adrian and Sok Yee in Church of Praise, Ipoh.

I absolutely adore weddings.


Congratulations!
to

Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Woong

PS: I LOOVVVVEEEE Sok Yee's dress: beautiful bead embroidered bodice and centerpiece.




Exchange of rings.

Sealed with a kiss.

Prayer of benediction.

She even looks stunning from the back.

Wedding certificate

Ring bearer and flower girl

An adorably petulant flower girl

Ring bearer and best man, Daniel Ding

Bridesmaid, me and flower girl

Completing the bridesmaid's and best man's duties.

Peace launch for the bouquet brawl.

"Something borrowed,
something blue,
something old,
something new..." He is.

He said, "I have my reasons for standing here, okay."

but the next bride-to-be is

t
h
e

l
a
n
g
u
i
s
h
i
n
g
.
.
.
.
.
e
r
r

I

m
e
a
n

r
a
v
i
s
h
i
n
g


Wing Yin.

Will someone please take initiative, propose and fulfill his dream?

Okay, maybe he didn't catch it but we had such concern that we practically surrendered the bouquet to him.

Instead,

This little boy did and gave it to the little girl in pink behind him.
Hhhmmmm...maybe a new beginning but we'd have to wait for about two decades for this story to culminate to an end considering their ages.

Time to rest my legs after all that standing.

If someone could just provide a pillow...

Sparkling tiara and pins off, headache gone almost instantaneously.

The final curtain. Bye.

To the new addition, welcome

We bid each other goodbye at Mines Wonderland the last time we met and after AEONS my dear cousin, Josephine Chan is finally back from New Zealand...MARRIED as Mrs. Sheldon. Welcome home Jojo and welcome to the family, Bradley.

Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Sheldon and I.

We were reunited with my mom's side of the family at Ah Yat Abalone Restaurant in KL.
We got to see Aunty Lily from Melbourne again this year. =)

The food venue is famous for its namesake...

Among the yummies:

Sometimes, I can't help but think that being intensely expressive is in my family genes.

ME, Andrea and my brother.

Kenrick and Kennard.

See what I mean?

Singapore Once More

After Ministers' Retreat [which was in Johor], my dad drove us down to Singapore where we were reunited with our Singaporean relatives. This trip was weighted with food.

On the day I arrived, I had dinner in Kazu Sumiyaki Japanese Restaurant at Cuppage Plaza where we had splendid Japanese food. It's a small yakitori establishment and our waitress Linda selected the 'must try' delectables and presented an introduction for every entree.

Sarah and I while waiting for food to be served.


This confection of sugar, mochi, ice cream and sauce tasted as fantastic as it's presentation.

I, unfortunately haven't got pictures because as soon as the food arrived, we went for a clean sweep in hunger before I could snap a shot. I do not work when hungry. The spring vegetables, chicken, fish, squid, bacon, foie gras, pork, prawn, udon and rice was great and the wahgyu beef was indeed excellent.


The next day, the adults and I went for a morning walk at the Southern Ridges of Singapore.

We began with the Forest Walk.


Ficus microcarpa

Little huge ant.

Grafitti and ant on bamboo.

I love the invigorating colour and scent of the forest.

Daddy said,"This is the best position....to hide my tummy!"


Tree silhouettes

End of Forest Walk, Beginning of Henderson Waves

Singapore's highest pedestrian bridge connecting 2 hills, Mount Faber and Teluk Blangah Hill.

It's undulating wave form of steel and granite is quite remarkable.
The math of this piece of structure should be interesting.
Dad in praying mantis stance in front a ribbed alcove.
[Correction: the crane stance. thanks to Josh and Jonan. :D]

The curved deck is made of all-weather timber, yellow balau.


The supermodels of the deckway



Lulled by the harmony of fauna amidst the lush green forest.

Uncle Terry trying to sit up.

I am sitting up the correct way. :P

Daddy trying to get up.

We completed our walk with breakfast at Vivocity to replenish what we walked off.


Then, we went to La Petite Cuisine that runs on minimal service and reasonable prices at Serene Centre for authentic french cuisine to lunch.

Soup de maison

Panfried foie gras with orange confit served with salad

Filet of chicken with cepes and spaghetti

Dory in basquaise sauce and rice

Ravioli of prawns and foie gras in light lemon creme

Ravioli of spinach in lemon creme

Sarah and I helping ourselves to delicious spaghetti with ham in creme sauce.

Then, we moved on to Island Creamery which is Singapore's local confectionery [also at Serene Centre, two doors away from La Petite Cuisine] to dig for dessert.

They had weird ice-cream flavours like cendol, pulut hitam, teh tarik, bandung, horlicks, ping-pong , milo, tiger beer et cetera. Ooooooh! I want my beer... in ice cream...tiger sorbet.

Chocolate mudpie

Broken oreo cookies on layers of ReversO, Kahlua Latte, and Cookies n' Cream


Baked Alaska

It's strawberry ice cream on sponge cake, covered with meringue, torched with a flame for the caramel effect.


That would be us digging into our chosen ice-cream scoops of ReversO, Cookies n' Cream, Strawberry and so on.

On the same day, we had

A healthy salad with a japanese peanut salad sauce and vinaigrette.

Pumpkin soup.

Grilled lamb chops, beef steak and sausages.