I'm going to be a Daddy

One of the few events that you'll always remember is when your fiancee hands you the pregnancy test kit and you see two lines on the test kit. You'll be wondering what the test results are. After reading the instructions umpteen times, I asked"You peed on it ah?" It was an classic reaction to I'm not too sure what to do next post reaction.

We've did a few discussion an even went to a gynae for advice. We came to a conclusion that we're going to keep this little dragon. The stars are aligned in my opinion.

1) We're getting married end of the year which we are now frantically trying to move everything forward.
2) Ling wants to be a sexy hot mummy.
3) I love kids.
4) We don't know what to do to bedroom 2.
5) Little dragon would probably have Ethan and Pancake to play with.
6) Little dragon is somehow bringing back my luck when I gamble.
7) Ling loves long leaves.
8) We love each other so much and Little Dragon was the product of our love.

You're going to be the best mummy and I'm going to be the best daddy. Don't worry!

Excellent 2011 and Exciting 2012

I had the best time of my life. I had so much fun with my friend, fling, girlfriend and now my best friend and soon to be wife. Who says you can't have fun with them all at one time... I DID!!!

Summarize 2011:

Bought my first car (a coupe convertible)

Went backpacking trip in Japan (Tokyo, Kyoto then Akita)

Went on a roadtrip in Perth

Bought our house (Prive - an executive condo located in Punggol)

We both did a career switch. (NUS for her & CMTML for me)

Proposed to her at Sentosa

Engagement Party at Hatched

Two happy people sharing their lives

YOU ARE THE BEST THING THAT EVER BEEN MINE....

GOODBYE 2011 and SAY HELLO 2012!!!!!! 

We're Engaged!!

Dear Sweet Roomie,

18 Dec 2011 has come and happened and passed and.. i think we are soooo officially engaged now!!! woohooo!!!

It all started off with a proposal, and a idea from me: let's have an engagement party! From a simple thought of a gathering BBQ with a possible budget of $300, it evolved to an amazing night of celebration, fun and games at Hatched with a guest list of 33 pax. They included: From August's guest list: Uncle Ow, Aunty Ow, Flora, Ethan, Yanni, Ah Ma, Amos, Yiquan, Elaneor, Panda, Cecilia, Issac, Narrisa. From my guest list: Mum, Imay, Weekwok, Ashley, Layhoon, Yida, Didi, Yuzhen, Pat yi, Dai Yi, Mabel Yi, Aunty Jenny, Ziyang, Bunny, Rong, Jennifer, Zhemin, Manzhi, Eeboon, Yunci and Steven.

We started planning the decorations and games idea a few weeks before the event… every night during our pillow talk session we would discuss a little bit about the engagement. I am glad we put in effort to make this a special occassion - cuz it is a really special occassion!! In the end, we had:

Decorations: Hearts (idea we STOLE from ikea), hanging polaroids (using my fun polaroid film!), cupcakes (generously homemade by Flora), Styrofoam A&L, sweets in bottles (sweets purchased form KL), engagement ring balloons

Program items: special small guest book (purchased from malacca), game board made from styrofoam (august's brilliant idea!)

and to remember the night: 2 professional photographers - Chris & Val!

The party went so well with excellent company, food, program… even the price of the engagement was a pleasant surprise!

My favourite part of the party? That must be when August said: This one year with Ling has been so great it beats the 10 years of my previous relationship. HAHAH…. power right!!!!

Love is… waking up beside you everyday

our muscle man game board

A & L

Everyone at the party!

Our lovely cupcakes!

We're Engaged!!!!!!!!!!

love u roomie!!!!    

Happiest Day in my life

The day had come. I had kept it a secret from her for about a month and it was the most difficult secret to keep because I was so eager to settle down with her, but I had to wait till October 1st. She is the one whom I wanna spend the rest of my life with. My dream girl agreed to be my girlfriend/partner earlier on this year in January, and now she is my wife to be. 


I started preparing the proposal about a month back in September. The most important of all is the ring which gave me a big headache because she didn't want a regular ring which every girl has. She wanted something special. In her words," I want a ring that when I take the few rings from a few girls and mix it up together, I can identify mine within a snap of the finger." And with that wonderful guidance of hers, I thought long and hard about it. I wanted something that is classic so that the look can last. I went surfing around for design and found something at Tiffany website which is very classy. I went to the jeweler and told him what I wanted. He said I was taking a big risk because only Indians and elderly people like gold. But screw it, I trusted my taste and instincts and went for the design I wanted. 


When Ling was away in camp, I took the opportunity to recce Sentosa with one of my pals Yeh Yang. We headed to IKEA to buy the candles we required. And the plan is best described in the email I sent out:

Venue: Palawan Beach at Sentosa (Nearest car park Palawan car park)

Time for you guys to meet up: 31 September (friday) 2200

Time I wil reach Sentosa: 2315

Time I will propose: 1 October (Saturday) 0001
Manpower: Yeh Yang, Shu Juan, Clarence, Zhiwei, Isaac, Zhemin and I-Mae

Items required:

1. 600 tealight candles (with Yeh Yang), Sparklers (I will pass to Yeh Yang).
2. 5 Lighters (Those gun looking kind that is used to light stove, don't buy the cigarette lighter, easier for all of you to light) (Yeh Yang can you help me buy? Make sure it lights flames and not spark. I think some gives out spark)
3. Polariod (I will pass to Yeh Yang my Polaroids).
4. At 2215, you guys can start arranging the tealights in the shape "MARRY ME". The sparklers hopefully can be used to form a question mark by bending and joining a few sparklers. 

At 2300, I will reach Sentosa Palawan Beach.

At 2340, you guys can start lighting up the candles, the sparklers will be lited up last at around 0005. I will be facing the sea and will turn towards the beach about 0000 which I will be at the southern most point tower level 3 viewing the words "Marry me?"

At 2355, Hopefully one of you can be at level 2 and head up to level 3 around 0000 to snap a few polariod of me proposing.

At 0000, I will play a short video clip and I will propose after the video clip.


I must say my friends had done an excellent job. Kudos to them!

View from tower

Two hearts unite as one

MARRY

ME

MARRY ME ?

I was very nervous when I actually asked her to be my wife. I knew I would be nervous so I prepared a speech so that I could at least read it out to her. But at that moment, I was totally dumbfounded. The only sentences which came out was, "Baby your gift", "You see", "Will you marry me?" and "You haven't answered my question." I was never so nervous in my life before, not even in exams. I understood what had happened, I was overwhelmed with happiness that there is a possibility that she is going to be my life partner. The one whom I will share my joy, laughter and sadness for the rest of my life.

I will leave the next post for her to comment on her feelings.... haha =P

First item bought for our new house

A warm welcome to Sleepy the sheep to Scruffy family

Our $3,500 mattress has finally been delivered to Ling's place. Both of us need a good mattress because we tend to backaches hopefully not due to age catching up with us but rather her old and soft mattress which have minimal back support. This mattress will definitely follow us to Privé in 3 years time. Speaking of which, looking at the speed of the development, I hope we can get the keys by end 2013. That is about 2.5 years time which will give us a bit of time to save for the renovation cost and pay off some of our loan.

I was just asking her today how does it feel to be so committed to this relationship. She says it feels nice to see where the relationship is heading into and she can envision what it is going to be like in 5 years and 10 years time. I can also see where our relationship is heading towards. It will be a fun and exciting journey for us 5/10 years down the road. During my reservist, my commanding officer gave us a talk about how life short life is and we should live it to the fullest. I'm so happy to have embark on this journey with you. Looking forwards to all the happiness you will bring to me for the rest of my life and I will also do the same for you!!!

I just read the note which was meant for 18 August 2011. Thank you so much for the notes. You're such a sweetie!!! I'm looking forward you to be back in my arms next Thursday. *HUGZ*

Me time

We were having a small talk last night about our wedding plans. A small wedding with limited guest or a full blown wedding. I'm actually leaning towards a smaller wedding with like maximum 200 pax.

http://www.halia.com.sg/ 

I like this place where I can semi fulfill my darling dream wedding which she described to me last night. I mentioned to her before that this was the place where I left my past behind and started on a new one. I'm not too sure whether the place can hold 200 pax but I guess it will be one of the location I will consider. How the wedding will take shape will be highly dependable on our guest list.  A garden wedding where we will be able to walk down the aisle with non traditional chinese food. I wonder how much it will to reserve the whole place. Regardless of which, I will try to fulfill my sweetie's dream wedding.

It is nice discussing such stuff with her. Our usual canoodle pillow talk which we discuss about everything under the sun but most of the time about us. I like our open mindedness when we discuss about things. Another topic we discuss about is actually having her dog living with us when we get our new place. I'm alright as long there is minimal dog odour and fur at our new place and that means loads and loads of cleaning. Will keep in view the plans of having her dog over with us, just got to revolve our renovation plans around the dog if he is living with us.

My drive buddy for the next few days

 

You

I'm so bringing you to Elizebeth Hotel to catch an Arsenal Match

It's been a while since I have blogged not because I have lot the interest to blog but I've been too caught up with work and the jobscope now is making my worklife so colorless which in return is making my life very colorless.

The few things which is brightening up my life now is:
1) My love life. She never fails to bring out that cheeky smile of mine. I miss her everyday when I leave for work and I can't wait for the day to end so that I could be back in her arms. I want to have more time with her. And I want to have more energy too because my work has been draining me out so badly I just want to head back home to rest so that I have enough energy for work the next day which is not what I want in life. I want to be able to do after work activities like rollerblading, stroll in the park with Ling, hang out at coffee joints with her, go swimming, soccer on tuesday nights, etc etc. And I'm so looking forward to getting the keys to our house which we will be calling it home in a few years to come.

2) My family. I feel guilty for not spending enough time with them. I love them a lot and I think I have to make it a point to take time off to spend quality time with them.

3) My ride. My little convertible never fails to brighten up my life after a whole week of work. I love the wind blowing in my hair. I love it when my partner enjoys the ride as much as I do.

I love doodling art with you.

I want to use these soon

I love you so much that I would even kiss a computer screen.

Silly stuff that I'll buy you at times to remind you how silly I can get when I'm with you.

My dream is to set up a business with you so that everyday when I wake up for work, it will be you I will be seeing when I reach work, you I will be enjoying the day with at work, and you I will be heading home with. And with you, I will always be a happy boy for the many many years to come.