Congrats Cousin!

*zHigUo + xiNhUi = kUkU & LaLa *

Yesterday turned out great! We all woke up damn early in the morning, like 5am? I only managed to sleep at about 2am, so that makes it 3 hours of sleep, and a panda ashley~

I went to cousin joey's place, which was 2 levels under my own, and the make up artist just started putting on make up for her. Heez, cousin looked gorgeous, well, which bride doesn't? But it was exceptional for cousin as she usually doesn't wear make up or wear skirt. All of her colleagues were amazed at how she looked with full make up and 3 inch heels.

Our friends, ah dua, ah sui, ah pei and ah mei together with their partners, reached only slightly later than me, and we were all so excited, discussing how to torture those guys later. After cousin was finished with her make up, we were all eagerly taking photos. The photographer uncle was kind of crappy, and we were all sniggering at his cold jokes behind his back. Really never seen anyone as lame as him. we took the 'consecutive 5 shots' with cousin, heez, we were all acting cute, but it was all fun and laughter.

The groom, Mr. Bong, reached kind of on the dot, and we knew it was on purpose; because they know we can't stall time and had to let them in. We actually planned our tricks quite well, and we were nice to not have those drinking and running around 12 levels to find red threads kind of tricks. Ours were simple and meaningful, asking them to blow 15 balloons and tie around the groom's wrist, forming sentences with ginko nuts and crack open with their bare hands, and concentrated ribena ice pop with the door key in the middle.

Well, though our plan was flawless, we didn't have the time to carry out everything. Because by the time they reached, we only had 5 minutes to play. So the balloons were reduced to 5, and we asked them to burst it with their bare hands instead. Ribena ice pop wasn't very well done, as it was too concentrated, the ice didn't hold together. Ginko nuts were simple, just forming the sentence 'I love Joey' and asking the groom to shout out loud to let cousin hear him. Well, but we did have a "fierce" battle for our ang bao. Heez, there were 10 of us, and we were given $888. Not bad lah hor... not too hard on my new cousin in law.

The bridal cars were all sponsored by cousin's boss, 4 Mercedes, they said it was special class type, not the standard big small eyes version. I happen to sit in the sporty one, chauffeured by cousin's boss himself. He was quite young for a boss, and funny and cheeky one too. So nice to know cousin is well taken care of with such good boss. She was really lucky, because her husband works in the same office as her too. They are engineers.

The morning customs ended at about 12.30pm. We had our buffet lunch and headed back home to have some beauty sleep before we headed for the hotel. Cousin Berry met me at our void deck, and we set off to fetch the guys, ah chai ah di, ah yi and wei hua. Baby had to go to work from 2-6pm, so he is meeting us directly at the hotel.

Dinner was at Park Royal Hotel on Beach Road. It was my first time going to this hotel, and it didn't occur to me that it existed too. It's location was kind of not obvious when you are on the road, as the from view was blocked by trees and a bus stop. It was situated just next to Concourse. The first impression of the hotel was actually not bad. Quite posh I would say, and service was great. Hotel room was comparable to Meridian, and the breakfast was catered on the same level as the rooms. Very convenient and has more privacy for the guests.

There were two ballrooms, named Grand and Stamford Ballroom. Cousin's was in Stamford, which was also named Si Chuan Dou Hua (bean curd) restaurant. The entrances of these two ballrooms were very close to each other. Thats my only concern for this hotel actually. The entrances were too closed liao, and the cocktail lounge was shared. So when most of the guest arrived, the place was packed with people, and there were several guest who checked in at the wrong reception. I was helping out at the reception, and we encountered a few guest from the other side checking in at ours and it was quite embarrasing when they found out that they were at the wrong side.

The food was great, everyone else thought so. The cold dish was quite unique as it was with a touch of japanese style, and one of the dishes was chilli crab with fired bun. Yummy!

to be continued.....