Guess what this is.

It's the serving plate used at Fullerton! Nice hor =)

I attended a wedding dinner at Fullerton hotel yesterday. The groom was a colleague's son. It was my first time attending a wedding dinner where I did not know either the bride or the bridegroom.

Anyway, during the dinner, some of my colleagues asked when it'll be my turn. Haha.

Well, some of my friends would know that, given a choice, I would not hold a wedding dinner. A church wedding would suffice. Because, to me, it can be rather pointless to splurge so much on a wedding and end up neglecting the more important things, like the marriage.

In fact, I think the simpler the wedding the better. Sorry I'm not a big fan of extravagant weddings. I mean, go ahead and spend on your wedding if you can afford it but is there really a need to spend beyond your means? And maybe only people like Kel can afford to hold his wedding dinner at a hotel like St. Regis (and he'll invite Ting..wahaha).

Posted on 29 March 2009, Sun, 11.30pm

Post-exams...

I am so glad my exams are over. I think I've blogged before that I do missed my schooling days. Just not the exams. Haha. And maybe I can finally use the book vouchers from Kia (as a birthday pressie) and the other from my company's D&D. Yay!!

Anyway, just a little update on what went on for the past 1 month. Nothing much actually since I've been 'rejecting' my friends' invitations to go out as I've to study =P. But there are some invitations that I just couldn't refuse because it will only happen once in a lifetime. Like the weddings of my two friends. Cindy's and Calvin's on 16th Nov, followed by Paul's and Huiling's on 29th. Maybe I'll put up some photos when I received them. Kia said RJ had put up photos of Huiling's wedding on his facebook. But since I've no facebook, I couldn't see them. So I shall just wait for the 'official' photos from Huiling. Oh, Kia also made us these lovely pearl bracelets with a little ribbon. So sweet right (:

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"To have and to hold, from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part."

I remember hearing these vows on TV shows when I was young. But the strange thing is, of all the church weddings I've attended so far, I don't remember hearing this whole phrase in its entirety. Especially the last five words. Some replace it with, 'for as long as we shall live' (I think), which has basically the same meaning I guess.

And another phrase that I like...

"What God had joined together, let no man separate"

Unfortunately, this is not the case in some marriages. Whatever happened to "til death do us part"? Yet who am I to judge here? I am not condoning divorces but are there times when it would be better to divorce than to stay on in a loveless marriage?

Well, like the old saying goes: "Marriage is a gamble". And I shall just stop here in case I got carried away and start ranting again.

Something happier then. Hortpark on Saturday morning with Ting and XQ and a piano concert with Kia and Yuejia in the evening. Thank God for dear friends like them...

Posted on 9 Dec, Tues, 11.45pm

22 March

Watched "Step-up 2" with Renee today. Not much of a storyline but the dance moves were amazing. And Renee thought that I only go for jazz and social dances. No, no. I like all kinds, except 'para-para'.

Yesterday was Good Friday. I went for service in the morning, and met Kia for dinner before going to a friend's wedding at night. Quite a packed day wasn't it? Kia drove me to the wedding at the Singapore Swimming Club. She's so sweet. Which guy wouldn't fall for a gal like her? (Kia: pls dun bash me up. I really mean this k) If only I was half as nice as her, then perhaps...

Well anyway, the friends who got married yesterday was a JC classmate. She was the second JC classmate's wedding that I had attended after the one last year. And there will be more to come I supposed.

Wedding

Just came back from an ex-classmate's wedding. He was someone I knew back from my TPJC days. Also got to catch up with the other JC classmates there. Think I had blogged sometime ago that weddings might be the only time we could catch up with old friends when we start working in future. Didn't think that it'll happen so soon. Anyway, most of the girls were already working while most of the guys were still studying. Except for one who is already married and now pregnant..hehe...

And typical of most weddings, we started asking each other who will be next. Then another classmate inform us that hers will be in March next year.

Wonder when it'll be my turn?
Oh well...it's all in His plan...

Last Sunday

Just attended a friend's wedding last Sunday evening. That was actually the second wedding that I've attended in a span of 3 weeks. Maybe I am getting old after all, though the bride and bridegroom were not exactly from my age group. Guess it is a reality that I cannot run away from, considering that I'll be graduating soon and so would most of my peers. Most of them would probably be working and ready to settle down in a few years' time as well. A few years down the road, perhaps weddings will be the only time that we are able to catch up with each other.

Don't get me wrong. I've nothing against weddings. In fact, I loved the way two people are able to come together before their friends and family, and most importantly, God, to profess their love for each other. I'm really happy for my friend who got married 4 days ago. She was someone who had made an impact in my life in my first year in NUS, not only through her teachings but through her actions as well. I'm glad that she was finally able to find someone who she could spend the rest of her life with.

You know, weddings always leave you with this kind of feeling and at times it makes me wonder:

when will you ever appear?

do you even exist?

maybe i should just forget about it....