I'm engaged!!

It's been a really busy week! No time to update blog....

Finally got engaged on 12 May 2006! It was a simple ceremony with Pst Sha blessing us and conducting our ring exchange :)

Haha...mom sabo-ed Hun and got him to kneel down to propose to me! It was so awkward yet sweet at the same time :)

Hun and I are also still getting used to being each other's fiance...the feeling is just different now...everyone has publicly recognised us as an engaged couple :)

Well...enough said...no amount of words can express as well as photos

Thank God for blessing us and bringing thus far...we wouldn't have made it without Him!

Engagement rings!

Hun has finally given me the pics of our rings!! yeah!! Enjoy :)


Meet the 2 Destinees



Steve's ring with "KHEELING" in it



Mine with "STEVE" in it


Rings together

So exciting! Looking forward to 12 May :)

Short discussion on house

Hun and I had a short discussion on where to buy our flat.....saw a few places that we were quite happy with on the papers and also resalesnet.com...in Tiong Bahru and Clementi. Price is also ok...but we're not planning to buy so soon lah...just starting to scout the market first :)

We also narrowed down to the locations that we'll be interested in staying:

Targeted Area:

• Holland Village: Block 1 and 2.
• Tiong Bahru: Block 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 6, 7, 8, 122, 123, 124, 125, 120, 120A, 120C, 121, 121A
• Bukit Batok Central: Block 620, 621, 622.

Gotta start praying that we'll get one of these!

Before You Say Yes: First lesson

Went for our first marriage prep course on sat....there were like 20+ couples!! It still is a little strange for me to attend this BYSY course...haha....afterall I've co-facilitated a MP course before. heard the pastor say alot of things that I myself said while I was doing the marriage prep preview.
But in any case, it feels good to be the recipient this time instead of the facilitator!

First lesson, we talked about what is marriage --> something new I learned is that marriage is not a contract, it's a covenant! In a contract, either party is allowed to end the contract if the other breached the terms and conditions. However in a covenant, there's no way out! It is not dependent on what the other party do or does not do...once you're in, it's meant to last till death do us part.

The other key idea that I learned, and that the course has kept emphasizing is that marriage is intentional --> that means alot of things! You intentionally decide to live together as husband and wife, intentionally give your best to your spouse, intentionally forgive all wrong doings...everything about the marriage is intentional.

It's an 8 week course and I'm really looking forward to it :) It'll really give us a guided platform and an opportunity for us to talk to each other about important issues in our marriage. And I think this is really important for us to set a good foundation for our new life together.

I pray that God will grant both of us strength, energy, wisdom, patience and more love to see to all the challenges of the preparation ahead!

Recce for banquet places

Spent last thursday afternoon to recce for our banquet. Been to Amara and M Hotel and spoke to the weddings coordinators there. Amara was more suitable cos M Hotel can only take up to 32 tables...which is definitely below our capacity needed. Amara can take up to 46, but out of which 10 tables will be at the adjacent room where guests sitting there won't be able to see our march in.

I personally preferred, or rather we both preferred Amara but felt that perhaps the coordinator is not giving us the best deal. Well, Ed & LY's friend is the other coordinator there and Hun will be contacting her to try to negotiate for a better deal...hehe....he's better at this than me...I can't bargain for nuts!!

However, we did manage to find a good deal for our engagemen dinner...Amara's in-house chinese restaurant called The Silk Road. It has a room that can hold up to 14 pax, and its a room, not just a partition. And it's the cheapest we've found so far!! Thank God! Not that we're cheapskate lah....but sometimes you really wonder if the food and ambience is worth the money you're paying...but for Amara, it's held in a hotel so there's a higher chance that the service will be better.

Afterall it's an engagement dinner! we wouldn't want the restaurants to be noisy with all the pling pling piang piangs of the plates....

In all, I can conclude that thurs was a rather fruitful day, thank God!