a BIG THANK U to everyone

Dear everyone, thanx for making 30th Nov 2008 a successful and memorable one for me & bear :)

sorrie my mind was in total blank yest, receiving instructions and on auto-pilot mode... sorrie i was so pek-chek n paranoid yest.. sorrie if i have offended u in anyway... sorrie it had been a very rushed and packed day and i didnt have time to talk to u... didnt hv time to say hello... sorrie sms 'budget' burst le, also no time to thank u personally...

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i really dont know how to say thank you to each and everyone of u... i am really touched and glad to have u cool guys n gals!! my vocab v limited... but fang is really v gan dong and deeply appreciate u all for being there for us... for ching, u noe how i feel, for those next in Q, u will expr these emotions soon :)

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Bleah u all get to see the pic before us!! but we took out laptop n the cd over to slowly enjoy the montages... hope can access facebook n see the pretty pic keke..

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We are on our way to New Zealand now!!! Honeymoon!!! land of moo moo (haha where my tong-lei r hee)

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K k we will arrange to meet up again when we are back k! meanwhile, do have a good rest & take care guys & gals :) back 11th dec!

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erhm as u can see some para r not coherent coz those which are r drafted before yest.. some r fresh @ the airport.. there are so much to say, so many thanks... so many tears of joy.. sorrie my mind still a bit blank frm lack of sleep n overdose of excitment...

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A BIG THANK U ONCE AGAIN...

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Muacks,

Mrs & Mr C Ang

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh~

this 3 weeks just flew by like tt!!! oh man, i feel as if i m running on auto-pilot!!!

But i will stay calm n compose myself dun worry!!! =D

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!! I will be Mrs Ang in 2 days time!!!

This is for Bear mama to see one...

Another week has passed... meaning...!!!

Its another weekend! Hoho~ Time is really creeping by real fast!! 2 more weeks 15 more days!! Ahhhhhhhhhhh~ freaking out as I cross the calendar boxes one by one!!

As I also happily cross out the items on the to-do-list, it seems that there are more additions to it! Never ending!!

@ the House…

Have been staying at the house for a few days to get use to life @ sbw but still it seems so hard to get to sleep at the new place… pout~ not used to mopping floor, cooking, washing clothes.. sniff sniff~ hee the cute little couple display @ our shoe cabinet! My adorable ah dang which i bought to be stepped on???!! My mamegoma invitation cards, soooooooo cute!!! And the sweet ring pillow with our names painstakingly sewed on by the crafty Ching =)

☆★ Hen’s Party ★☆

My lovely girls organized a hearty hen’s party for me last Friday! So sweet =) Qing, Xianz, Huiz, Ching, Drey, Julia, Liyan & Jingwei came over the love-nest for a stay-over. Some are missing in actions tho, will see the full troupe in 2 weeks' time…

Meant to be a simple cosy nitez for us all so we watched Star Dust and snacked out and they had a quiz of 30 questions for me – How well do you understand your husband??!! roarRRR Haha it seemed more like an hour worth of interrogation which I only managed to answer 8 questions correct!!! Nope, i am not at all guilty... Nope i am not stressed~

Giggle, its alright right, lao gong hee~ I will take a lifetime to slowly understand and love my hubby tsk tsk~

(Thinking aloud: Hmpf I will make sure Mr Ang goes through the same interrogation too! Hiak hiak hiak)

Girls, thanxie for the lovely sweet and really thoughtful presents =) Will fully utilise them when the time is right keke, dun worry!!

Bride’s entourage Briefing
Quite a hectic weekend, then the following nitez went over for Mayflower gathering @ Eugene’s brother’s place. It was a many birthday(s) celebration + Ching post wedding party + Miffy’s briefing session + a merry get-together session! Plus Wii time!! Dunnoe where are the pictures but it was a heartwarming gathering.. i always love gatherings... pull us away from the work and spend meaningful times tog with the close ones +♡+

♡ Invitation cards ♡

Also managed to collect our invitation cards just-in-time to distribute out… what a rush… We thought it was nice and simple =)

Packing

Started packing my stuff over to the new place on Monday. Even though I had already started a year ago, but its hard to decide what to bring and what not to. Everything is soooooooooo important to me! tsk tsk~ Tomorrow the father-in-law is gg to drive us down Ikea to get some stuff and also transport my barang barang over.. Then another round of packing will begin… But i haben take my dolphin and mushroom for spa... wait they go over new house as blackie.. eee must clean them first...

Meeting up with frenz

Its also a busy period of meeting up with frenz to pass invitation cards. I believe in the sincerity so yar as much as I can, I try to meet up with as many as possible.. But I have a lot of frenz and I have 2 weeks… Met up with my uni frenz on Thursday! Hee Xiaofan also getting married!! One week after me!! But coz I pandang, cant invite her… also cant go for hers… =(

Hotel decoration
Lovely Ching accompanied Miffy to JM florist to choose the set up for the banquet. Quite easy haha just choose the standard decor.. Thanx ger ger for taking time off muacks

过大礼
Hee today is the day when the groom and a supposed matchmaker is to deliver the betrothal gifts, wedding cakes and dowry to the bride’s family. In our case, everything is being simplified so instead of cans of pig trotters, boxes of cakes, mee suah and stuff, only Bear came with his brother! So my family will accept the gifts and return a portion of it to the groom… tot today will also be doing the 安床 (laying of new bedsheet) but no wor… The dowager say its 2 days before so okie lo hee…

In the morning...

What we prepared... I pasted all the Xi stickers!!!

The exchange...

Things to do:
Now... Pack my clothes and prepare the NZ to bring list! Oh man!! I still haven’t set aside time to be excited about my honeymoon!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhh~ And i still want to watch my show!!!

Bookworm Miffy~

While I am running around between SBW house and preparing for wedding stuff, I decided that I should still keep in touch with my forte – Economics. Think 2008 has given me ample time to catch up with my content as well as the recent financial turmoil and revived my love for the subject. I feel that I am just so ignorant of current affairs and sometimes I feel ashamed of the unawareness.

It’s amazing how the world revolves around economics isn’t it. Haha.. everything just happen and react based on the fundamentals of the theory. I am not saying that physics is not ‘real’ enough though… but money makes the world goes round…

I attempted to make reading Economics blogs (daily or when I am free) a habit to keep myself a little more updated. And of coz I just dug out a well-received book which I had bought ages ago but had abandoned in the dark and forgotten depths of my cupboard – The World is Flat.

And it has not disappointed me! Truly insightful explanations and anecdotes about the forces of Globalisation. Refreshes my perspective as a minute college teacher in a small red dot on the globe!

The flattened world allows Bangalore to work for American firms (the Indians working in call centres have to go through 'accent neutralisation class' to disguise their pronouced Indian accents with American, Canadian or British ones depending on which part of the world they are speaking with!!!) and Dalian is actually providing manpower for Japanese companies (Jap obasans specialise in data entry for medical and legal terminologies!!!). =O

WOW~ the summary of the book - Over the Twentieth Century, the world began to go from vertical, heirarchical structure to a horizontalization. Googled and this is what i found...

Can I also work from home in future i.e. write lecture notes, prepare tutorial materials, do powerpoint slides and set exam questions (@ the ‘back office’)???

Ah!!! 26 more days to the BIG day! Oh man!! I think wedding preparation is seriously a full time job – which I guess I quite enjoy (only after school days are over). Months before, everyday, after I reach home, I only have time to mark, eat, bathe and sleep.

I am thankful for the luxury of time now to really sit down and prepare. The hubby is working extra hard @ work now coz of the PW exam. I am trying to tie up as much ends as I can for the admin work, while precious weekends are spent running around collecting the album, doing the ang pao box and corsages together. Precious weekends are also spent cohabiting at the love nest to get ourselves familiarize with new place.

Been wanting to blog about all these for the longest time but as usual, I was more tempted to the HK drama serials that I have been crazily following. Hee opps, finished the Mooncake Resonance, starting on Fringe and also 珠光宝气 (Gigi Lai’s last work ) There are just so many shows that I wanna watch!!!

The wedding album is ready!
Sorrie all soft copy with the bear… tho the album is with me, no peek-a-boo here tsk tsk~ We went down on the 26th Oct to collect them together with Weilin & Edmund. Nice pictures! Very satisfied with their workmanship hee~ The actual album is so damn heavy ah! Dunnoe how to bring them all over to SBW (table top, big album and portrait)

Tuitions are almost over!!
Yupz.. my two little kids are having exam now. One of them is already done with his paper and I am grateful for the income though its really very xiong to meet them like 4x a week. Yupz!! $$$ been spending unknowingly on little things which are so essential that I also lost track of.. Guess I have to bring my camera over the next time to capture my galore of household items! (Look out for my Doraemon mat and cushion cover!!)

Corsages & Ang Bao box
Thanx to my dearest bride’s entourage! =D The DIY corsages are done within a morning with the help of the mentor Ching – my personalized florist! The girls gathered at my place early Saturday morning to start churning out the ribbons and flowers! The ang bao box still haven add on to the finishing touch though opps~ You shall see it on tt BIG day provided that the red packet is BIG enough wahahaha~ Thats Huiz, Ching & Xianz & me!!! @ work!

Hee look @ the apprentice doing up the feather pen for the signing of our ROM documents. Got the inspiration from the numerous websites tt i have been surfing. Some r really good! will list them down the next time =D

Don’t see his fingers fat fat okie… Not bad de wor… Ta-daaaa~

Today, I took my parents down to Chinatown to get things for Guo Da Li, the betrothal which is fixed to be on the 15th Nov, 2 weeks before the BIG day! This is the all-in-one shop which basically will help you match all the wedding accessories needed.

Lucky my ah bu and the dowager are not very particular about all these tradition, so simple and save cost! =) Just the important must haves - a sewing kit, bedside lamp and this cute little tea set which I have been eyeing for very long!

Yeah! Can cross out another item out of the to-do-list! Now I am more worried about the printing of the invitation card. Hope tt they will be ready by this weekend when we meet up with our friends! Sigh… little hiccups with my invite list too… But guess it all can't be help. =( Now is I really dunnoe who to ask!!!

But I don’t know why I keep feeling that there are still a gazillion things to do for the wedding and the BIG DAY is gonna be less than 4 weeks!! I have a million thoughts in my mind now and its so hard to imagine after so many months of preparation, my life is going to change after that! Yupz, happy and looking forward to it, yet I feel very sad and reluctant to leave the AMK house. Sniff sniff.

Anywayz, no time to sink into these pensive melancholic mood for now. Focused focused! How to make our vows wow???

Think tt's all for now ba… when I rem what I miss out I will add them in again! Tata~

Why am i getting married???

A couple came upon a wishing well. The husband leaned over, made a wish and threw in a penny. The wife decided to make a wish, too. But she leaned over too much, fell into the well, anddrowned. The husband was stunned for a while but then smiled and said, "It really works!"
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A man rushed home from work and exclaimed to his wife, "Pack your bags. I've won the lottery!" The wife excitedly asks, "Should I pack clothes for cold or warm weather?" He says,"Pack'em all, you're leaving!"
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Love is blind, but marriage is an eye-opener.
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A little boy asked his father,'Daddy, how much does it cost to get married?'Father replied, 'I don't know son, I'm still paying.'
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Hee something funny... enjoy!

Young and pretty lady wishes to marry a rich guy. Fantastic reply from a financial person

A young and pretty lady posted this on a popular forum: Title: What should I do to marry a rich guy?I'm going to be honest of what I'm going to say here. I'm 25 this year. I'm very pretty, have style and good taste. I wish to marry a guy with $500k annual salary or above. You might say that I'm greedy, but an annual salary of $1M is considered only as middle class in New York. My requirement is not high. Is there anyone in this forum who has an income of $500k annual salary? Are you all married? I wanted to ask: what should I do to marry rich persons like you? Among those I've dated, the richest is $250k annual income, and it seems that this is my upper limit. If someone is going to move into high cost residential area on the west of New York City Garden (?), $250k annual income is not enough.

I'm here humbly to ask a few questions:

1) Where do most rich bachelors hang out? (Please list down the names and addresses of bars, restaurant, gym)

2) Which age group should I target?

3) Why most wives of the riches is only average-looking? I've met a few girls who don't have looks and are not interesting, but they are able to marry rich guys

4) How do you decide who can be your wife, and who can only be your girlfriend? (my target now is to get married)

Ms. Pretty

Here's a reply from a Wall Street Financial guy:

Dear Ms. Pretty,

I have read your post with great interest. Guess there are lots of girls out there who have similar questions like yours. Please allow me to analyze your situation as a professional investor. My annual income is more than $500k, which meets your requirement, so I hope everyone believes that I'm not wasting time here.

From the standpoint of a business person, it is a bad decision to marry you. The answer is very simple, so let me explain. Put the details aside, what you're trying to do is an exchange of "beauty" and "money": Person A provides beauty, and Person B pays for it, fair and square. However, there's a deadly problem here, your beauty will fade, but my money will not be gone without any good reason. The fact is, my income might increase from year to year, but you can't be prettier year after year. Hence from the viewpoint of economics, I am an appreciation asset, and you are a depreciation asset. It's not just normal depreciation, but exponential depreciation. If that is your only asset, your value will be much worried 10 years later.

By the terms we use in Wall Street, every trading has a position, dating with you is also a "trading position". If the trade value dropped we will sell it and it is not a good idea to keep it for long term and same goes with the marriage that you wanted. It might be cruel to say this, but in order to make a wiser decision any assets with great depreciation value will be sold or "leased". Anyone with over $500k annual income is not a fool; we would only date you, but will not marry you. I would advice that you forget looking for any clues to marry a rich guy. And by the way, you could make yourself to become a rich person with $500k annual income. This has better chance than finding a rich fool.

Hope this reply helps. If you are interested in "leasing" services, do contact me

signed, J.P. Morgan