posted by L'abeille on Jan 30

We had a busy weekend. It started off with the “meet the parents” session on Saturday evening. We’ve heard horror stories of how parents from both parties having disagreement when it comes to discussion on dowry and everything related to “The BIG day”. *biting lips*. Phew! Thank God for understanding family members, the dinner went well and the two mothers chat as thought they’ve known each other for a very long time. As for the daddies… they’re so relaxed! Mmmm….cool!

 On the same day, we drove to 1Utama to collect the engagement rings. Well, talking about the rings.. initially, we saw a few pretty diamond wedding rings but since X-T works in the Oil and Gas industry and he’s always on site, he’s worried that the diamond on his finger will accidentally drop off. Therefore, he said no-no to diamond engagement rings for himself and he decided to go for the plain ring.

On Sunday, we drove down to Ipoh to meet up with Jetfynn since we’re considering to have him as our pre-wedding and actual day photographer. X-T fell in love with his work and Mr Ong is the ONLY photographer that understands what X-T wants. We’ve been visiting a few bridal shops around the city and it seems that they just don’t understand what’s the meaning of “SIMPLE & SWEET“. Call us old fashion but feathers on my hair and tattoo on my face is not my cup of tea lor.

We wish to walk down the aisles in this church. Our pastor is currently checking on the date’s availability.

CHURCH OF ST. JOHN , IPOH

The St John’s Church, or formally, the Church of St John’s the Divine, is an Anglican church facing Jalan Panglima Bukit Gantang Wahab, also known as Jalan Kelab (formerly Club Road), across the road from the St Michael’s Institution. The address of the church, however, is at Jalan St John.The St John’s Church building was completed in 1912, under the leadership of Reverend J.P. Parry. It has a knave measuring 72 ft long. During the Japanese Occupation of Second World War, there was religious suppression. The church was forcefully converted into a noodle factory.After the war, it reverted to being a place of worship. John Hayter was instrumental in the abolishment of the chaplaincy system and the establishment of the parochial church council in 1947 where the various ethnic communities, including the Europeans, Tamils land Chinese have a representation. (Article taken from AsiaExplorer)

We’ve finalised two pre wedding shot locations around Perak.

Clearwater Sanctuary Golf Resort

Maybe a few shots of us racing in buggy?

Green glass, calm water and blue sky.. the secret recipe to bollywood style pics? :p

The next pre-wedding shot we love would be The Kellie’s Castle

Kellie’s Castle is now a popular local tourist attraction and was used as a setting in the 1999 film Anna and the King

The only thing I’m extremely worried when it comes to Kellie’s Castle is not the unrest spirits within the premise…

BUT

THIS!!!

The floor in the castle is so uneven.. How am I going to climb up the building with my heels and gown … ?

posted by L'abeille on Jan 25

Initially X-T was doing this for a few minutes…

Next…he did this….

Can you guess what is he doing?

Hint: No..he is NOT checking on the ‘eggs’ or the ’swimmers’  :p

posted by L'abeille on Jan 22

 Actually X-T and I have a total of 11 months to prepare for our BIG DAY but…..

It took us only 3 days to confirm the following:-

The blessings from both our parents

The Hotel Confirmed

The Banquet @ Tai Thong Confirmed

The Month & Date Confirmed

The photographer for Pre-wedding shots and actual day photography 

Found ourselves the location for pre-wedding shots

The wedding car

Assigning my card designer (Thanks sis!)

The paper specialist for stationery supplies (My parents lar of course!)

Ring fitting and ordering my bling bling

Found the designer for my pearly white wedding gown & dinner gown too!

The flowergirl confirmed

The ring bearer confirmed

Bridesmaid confirmed

Bestman confirmed

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At this very moment, X-T is still trying to figure out how those online wedding checklist works… hehe….. Planning his schedule so that we can make trips to the shop[s] L’abeille shortlisted for evening gown fitting, meetings with our photographer, double check our pre wedding shot locations and discussions with the wedding gown designer.

What L’abeille is doing?

She’s sleeping with all the wedding planning books and magazines X-T bought and thinking when her hair will grow back to it’s original length!!

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We would like to thank our family and friends who came to us to help us with all the information we need and most of all you guys are our real cheerleaders hahah! Or else, we wouldn’t have plan so much in 3 days! Thanks mom and dad for the words of comfort & encouragement when we were so mentally tired with all our plans ahead of us. Not only that, dad…mom… you’re so supportive.. We love you so so muchhhh!

Mom..sorry for calling you at 2am when “I’m sleepless in Ara”…. *puppy eyes*

posted by L'abeille on Jan 19

L’abeille’s officially thirty today. Yippy yay!

AND

This is exactly what happened on the 19th January 2008 @ 00:03 midnight!! (Almost hehe…A-L-M-O-S-T!….)

So, the proposal just happened 2 hrs ago and I’m currently walking on cloud nine. I’m still speechless….. We’re gonna be a ‘lil busy tomorrow. I better catch some sleep now because……………er…………. who knows?

I might be DREAMING!!! Muahahha

P/S: Samson! YOU WON!

posted by L'abeille on Jan 17

“Yay…Woot…!! X-T is leaving to Johor real soon. Tentative date would be the 18th Feb 2008.

Ok…Ok…wait-a-minute. This wasn’t the only surprising news I received this week! Let’s just rewind to what happened to L’abeille starting from the begining of this year..! 

First, I turned into a “ham pau ching” [cry baby] on the eve of the new year all because of a movie. Soon after that, I went to NiuZeXui and I had the worst ‘headache’ and X-T tried to cure me with THIS. Right after my “recovery”, my first New Year resolution achieved!. I was somehow transformed into a “Larn Fun Chu” [Sleepy pig head] and I felt a little irritated with my “sleepyness”. Now X-T sleeps so little as compared to me.

Us @ Langkawi beach

Meanwhile at L’abeille’s workplace…
My printer’s faulty, keyphone faulty, Maxis line was striked by lightning, aircon’s faulty, work has not been smooth sailing, staff are leaving, news being speculated about some undesireble events……*sigh* With all these happening all within a week, I tell you, work has never been so “challenging” before lor…

Yesterday GREY SKIES TURNS BLUE when all my gadgets and equipments in the office were repaired one after another. Above all, I received a “long detailed message” from X-T (but since I’ve selective hearing..muahhaha), I can only capture 1 sentence from him…..“X-T will be in Johor starting from mid Feb all the way until September 2008!!” The good news is? He will be able to come back every weekend so that I can cook him his favourite dishes, pamper him on Saturdays and Sundays after his hard weekday at work and spend more quality time together-gether sitting at the park he can bring me to MNG, massage my tired neck and change all the blown fuse, light bulbs and adding water into my car battery when he returns on Saturdays! Ahem..  *shake leg?*

Us @ the beach (Bollywood style wei!!)

So, why am I so happy when he’s leaving eh?

1) Distance relationship for us spells more holidays for me. He say hor…he’ll fly me to meet him wor…you say lar..happy or not? *puppy eyes bling bling*

2) Johor is near to Singapore so instead of our usual shopping at One Utama and Mid Valley during the weekends, L’abeille will be shopping in Singapore more ge lor? Grand Singapore Sale…here I comeeee….. (X-T..you did NOT read point #2… muahaha)

Yummy desserts @ Lighthouse, Langkawi

3) We’ll have our little adventures in Singapore trying out all the great food around the island and I’ve more stuff to tell my foodies at It’s all about Da Food! At the same time, we’ll be posting our 2008 adventures with you at Our Life Journey… 

Mesmerizing sunset we watched at Langkawi Island and more to come?

4) X-T said Tioman Island is near wor…

5) L’abeille thinks Desaru is also very very near wor… *winks winks*

So to those of you who kept telling me it’s going to be a long distance relationship! With all these activities laying ahead of us in the next 7 months, can we still consider this as a long distance relationship eh? Oh btw, 5 days not seeing each other every week means I’ll be oh-so-single all over again our hearts will grow fonder right? Awww…We will be loving the weekends even more! Buahahahahha…..