To my soon to be wife...

I once thought that the ideal age to get married was 25, but that was 4 years ago, hence it never materialised. When I turned 25, I thought, I should do it before I turn 30; it looks like I’m track this time. The truth is it’s not about how old you are, but who want to spend the rest of you life with. But of course there will be circumstances as you grow older, which I wont discuss in this entry, he he.  

For me, it wasn’t love at first sight, it wasn’t *Crash!*Boom!*Bang!* the first day we met, but it was definitely the best darn thing that has ever happened to me since…since EVER! (except accepting Christ as my Lord and Saviour)

Loving you has been pure delight to me. Seeing you smile is all I ever hope for, and holding you in my arms brings great joy to me everyday. Some might call it lucky, but I call it God’s grace and blessings. I wouldn’t trade you for ALL the treasures on this earth, nor will I let you go under ANY circumstances.

As our wedding day draws nearer, I want to assure you that for the rest of your life, I will be there for you, to protect and guard you, to watch over you and keep you from harm’s way, to make you laugh and to cheer you up, to support you in times of need and to pull through together when times are bad, to argue for the better and never let the worst stumble us, to always look to God no matter what happens, to walk in his way all of our days, to provide you with the best, to enjoy every funny moments and joy that comes our way, to  appreciate each other, to having our own family, to the day we grow old and death do us part, I will be with you. This is my life commitment to you!

Please do not be afraid, for I know God is there for us. If He is with us, no one can be against us. He will fulfil every promise that he has made, not just the big ones, but also the small. We will rest assured that He has a plan for us. Though we charter into unknown territory, there will be a light guiding us through.

I love you, Eunice Ooi Tsu Lynn! :)

57 days and counting

Exactly 1 year ago, I was still wondering when Gabe was going to pop "THE QUESTION" and today one year from then, I'm about to GET HITCHED. If you ask me, I am kinda freaking out. No idea how this new journey will be like. What is it like to be a wife, a daughter in law? Ahhhh. Gabe says I'm scaring myself too much but I think I'm just trying to mentally prepare myself :D But I can rest assure that I have a God that has great plans for me and my husband to be AND a husband who will love me till death do us part :)

On a lighter note, last weekend was a blast!!! Had y 1st bacherlorette party in Singapore!!!  I have pics but you probably would have seen them all on my facebook so no need to post it here la :) Had fun with the girls and my favourite uncle and ah kim who hosted us. Thanks again :) So many ppl to thank! So greatful. 

So as the date approaches, lots and lots of preparations to be done. I'm so glad Gabes finishing his last MBA paper today cause that will mean he can now fully concentrate on the WEDDING. Woot woot! He's been a great help. Trying to juggle with work, his studies, and the wedding. See, am I not marrying the right guy ;)  

Grandma and aunties are busy shopping for my wedding. People tell me that their super excited to attend my wedding. ( I wish I was as excited. Seriously, I'm more excited for your wedding, Justine...lol) But I promise you guys, you'll have a good time :) It's going to be fun fun fun. Can't wait to see you all again!

Good heavens...2 months to go!

The title says it all....2 months to go!!! 2 bulan lagi!! *pant pant pant* 

So what's new since the last entry...well the cards are ready!!! weee....won't say I like it but since we're so strict on our budget and people tend to throw wedding cards away anyways, so we decided to just stick to whatever the hotel provided. Saved us 400 bucks. Worth it very worth it. Only headache now is sending them out. 

We made quite a fwe mistakes on some cards (HAHAHA, first timers) Should be enough to go ard. lol. Things like, should we put uncle? or Dr? Izzit Madam or Ms? Lalala...who would have thought writing a card could be such a hassle.

On the more interesting side, we've BOOKED OUR HONEYMOON....weeeee!!! Only for 3 days though. Everything's triple during that season (bummer) Had some hard time finding the hotel that we want as well although we were willing to pay 1k /night. So after we manage to book a room through this agent online (Agoda online) we finally got a garden villa for quite a good price. (They screwed up our bookings but something good came out of it, they gave the villa at a reasonable price. We didn't have to pay more than what we were promised earlier) PRAISE GOD! http://www.mangosteen-phuket.com/ :D

So I'm heading down south to SINGAPORE!!! this 24th. My first bacherlorette woot woot!!! Gonna have fun fun fun. Can't wait. Will update more. Then coming back to do some flower shoppng with ming for the church deco...wheee.

Stay tune! (that's if I update soon :P)

Oh so stressful

It's been stressful I have to admit! As the time draws closer, the level of stress increases. Lots of heated argument (we've been warned :) ) but all for the good.

Anyways I'm not in the mood of blogging anything much right now. Things are going according to plan. Only thing to worry about now would be decorating the church. (Oh God help)

I shall leave you guys with pics of our pre-wedding shoot taken back in June. It's finally out. YeAH!
Didn't post everything up on facebook...so here's wat's NOT on facebook :P

Not our favorite but oh well...for tradition sake. :)

:)

Busy busy and 4 months to go!

Gosh, it's been hectic. From buying furniture to bed spread to king size quilt :) It's been fun nevertheless getting all ready for the BIG day. I look forward although I am starting to feel a lil panic attack * pant pant*.

So yay, we've got our wardrobe for half the amount we thought we would be paying and still get the same amount of space ( Yay more place for new clothes! hah!) I'm getting very excited to start filling it up with CLOTHES and more CLOTHES. Next on the list would be a LCD tv. kaka. Still waiting for a good buy and knowing Gabe ( always looking for reviews and specs and good bargain) this might take some time :P We've agreed that I'll be taking care of the bed spread and quilt cover and he'll take care of the TV.

Our ring got a lil delayed...apperently the guy told us that it's bad luck to make wedding bands during the 7th month. ( yea i know) So now it's delayed to another week. bummer.

So the bridal house told us that our pics are not ready BUT I found some of our pics on their website. Hmm...one point I was a lil upset that they kinda lied but on the other hand, I'm a lil proud that they actually used our pics HAHA.

Was going to post them all up on facebook but Gabe said don't spoil the fun so I posted only 4. But I figured not many knows about our blog here, so for those of you who does, here they are!













:) Love u all:)

2 wonderful years and many more to come :)

Was clearing Gabes luggage bag 2 days ago after his trip back form Bangkok and it suddenly crossed my mind so I stopped and immediately turned to him and said "oh my goodness, our 2 years anniversary was 2 days AGO!". We have both been so busy that weekend that we totally forgot about it. Lucky for him, I've forgotten about it as well... Hah.

It's been a 2 wonderful years together. We've both learned so much from each other and ABOUT each other. We've loved, argued, make peace, argue again, yada yada yada but it's been all good. I look forward to the many more years to come and our commitment to love and cherish one another till death do us part *HEH*

So I shall leave you all with some pics of us of the great times that we've had together and we're both looking forward to see YOU at our big day this Dec. For those who've helped in many ways, thank you. We love you guys dearly :)

Our first trip together. (Singapore 06')




Memorable moments (Bali 07')

Bangkok 07'

Gabriel dearest, thank you for putting with all my nonsense. Wo ai ni!

my man :)

5 more months and counting

Ok...I guess it has finally hit me that I'm getting married in 5 months time! One word...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. *faints*
And its become a norm that when I meet up with frens, the "how's the preparation" question never seems to end. And to be honest with you, I really don't know if I've done enough considering I have about only 5 more months to go. 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5. *faints* I'm starting to freak out but I dunno what I'm freaking out about. Getting married or the whole big preparation towards the big day. Justine gave me this wedding planner as an engagement present 5 months back and there are guidelines of what is needed to be done month by month leading up to THE day. I think I can safely say that most of it we've managed to follow and that the bigger part of the preparation is almost done.

1. Renovation of the "love birds" nest is done! What's left to do is building the cabinet, buy some nice curtains for the room (although gabe insist that there's nothing wrong with the current one. I shall blog the pic one day... it's "bluek" )
2. We've hired the band for that day.
3. Got Ming to be in charge of the church deco (thanks Ming, we love you :) )
4. Booked the wedding car with a fren :) Thanks to Chi Eng and Clement for offering. And it comes with a driver too. Who would be a better driver for that big day other then Mr Teh himself.
5. Taken our pre-wedding shots, booked the dresses for the big day.
6. Gotten the cards from the hotel. What's left is to send them to the printer for printing.
7.Hired the photographer and videographer for that day

What's left to do:
1. Finalize the guestlist again. The list never seems to end. (one of our biggest headache)
2. Buy our wedding band.
3. Finalize the decoration details.
4. Book a caterer for the wedding ceremony.
5. Food tasting in the hotel.
6. Find an emcee
7. .........GET MARRIED!

But the best part of all these is that we've realized that we have so many good friends around us that are more than willing to help out in one way or another. Thank you guys we truly appreciate your sincerity to help.

Here are some pics of the room still looking very bare. Yet to fix the cupboard and a LCD TV!!!...charity anyone? heh.

The extension :) This is where the build cupboard is going to be
The light we got for the extension :)

Heading down to Ikea this 15th Aug!! Woohoo...as you can see, there are alot more to buy! $$$$$.

That's done...more to do.

So the photoshoot that we've been anticipating for is finally over. Wasn't that bad after all. Lot of the poses which I thought I would never do I did hah! More importantly is that we had fun! There were suppose to be 5 costumes for the indoor shoot but we decided to scrap off the Japanese costumes cause we figured we don't really want/need/like the idea or even how the pic will turn out to be.
Hair and make up took up the longest time. Poor Gabe was a lil bored so he had to kill his time reading through magazines and magazines. Went through 5 costumes and many many poses. We always almost burst into laughter when the photographer goes " look each other, look each other, smile some more smile some more" but of cause we didn't coz that would appear to be rude.
So by the time we were done with indoor it was 4 in the noon! By the time we reached our outdoor destination, it was about 430. We went to the Peranakan Baba Nyonya house at church street. Interesting place I would say and thanks to Gabes mom who knows the owner, we didn't have to pay RM 50 to use that place for the photoshoot. Was there for an hour, absolutely love the setting of the place. Hopefully the pics will turn out well. *fingers crossed*. Once we were done, headed to Gabe parents antique shop in Penang road. We figured we wanted some shots there for memory sake. Turns out, the photographer likes the place although it's a lil' too narrow and limited space to take a nice shot but I'm sure he did a good job with whatever space he had. By the time we were done, we headed to our lastttt destination, the beach behind paradise. We were both dead tired by then but still had to pinch ourselves to stay awake and smillleeee. Kept reminding ourselves that these shoot is the most expensive part of our wedding package, so die die also must make it worth. And because it was the beach, and our last few shots, we went allll out. So that's when all the jumping, running, carrying took place hahahahaha and I would alllways laugh at ppl doing those kinda things.......
It was a indeed a tiring but yes fun and full of memories. I don't think I regret a single bit doing it. Can't wait to go select the pics in a week time! wheee. Meantime here are some "illegal" shots. At Gabes parents shop :) While waiting for the photographer.... after a whole day shoot. (Because of the make up, I think Gabes look a lil like some guy from a Chinese boy band. kakaka. My very own F4! hah! )

We're late

Ok...so this blog is a lil' too late. Have been contemplating whether to start a blog since my very own blog(euniceo.tabulas) died many months back. But everyone has been telling me to start one just for the wedding. (or rather to journal down every single event or preparation towards our big day) for memory sake.

So where should we start?:) As most of you all would have already know, Mr Ch'ng proposed last Dec when we were in KL for my work/holiday trip on the Eye on Malaysia :) Was I taken by surprise? Yes and no. I think as much as a girl can guess that it's going to happen, still when it does, it's still as exciting. Okay, so this was many months back. We've done a quite a few things for the big day like getting a hotel to throw our dinner reception, book the church for the morning ceremony, booked the bridal house, started our marriage counseling sessions with Uncle Heok Hooi and Aunty Phaik Lean etc.

There are a few more things to be done like, printing of our invitation card, confirming the guest list once again ( that alone is a BIG headache).

But more excitingly, we will be taking our pre- wedding shots. Excited but yet I'm dreading having to sit on the chair for hours to get my hair and make up done. On my own, I got my nails done!:) Its really pretty, my first time doing a manicure HAH! Pray for a good weather! I'll update more on the shoot very soon!