Signing my life away...

No that's not my ride for the wedding. Just a bus my sister saw on the way to my wedding.

Anyway, back to mine. Actually I did my signing on 20 Mar 2009, one day before my wedding ceremony. As our church pastor is not a registrar, we had to go to a nearby church to do the signing instead.

So I took the day off on Friday and went to the church in Desa Melawati with my family and Leslie, my best man who arrived the night before from Singapore.

The Looi entourage having lunch in Batu Caves

Don't I look cute?

Waiting for the bride

Leslie and me

We had to wait outside for a while because wife-to-be went to have a quick lunch with her aunt.

In the church office with my nephew Daryl and sister Hilda

We had to wait for the pastor- probably having his lunch too- so I decide to play with the video cam.

When I grow up, I wanna be a director

Introducing the school debating representatives

Finally the pastor came and explained to both us the implications of putting our signatures on the papers in front of us. After that, came the most important part of the ceremony.

There wasn't any oath ceremony as we would be having our church wedding the next day, we would say our vow then.

Pastor explaining to us where to sign our lives away

Why am I smiling? Coz I got one heck of a deal

Her turn


With any marriage registration, there must be 2 witnesses. The church advised to get our parents as witness, I believe, as a sign of parental blessings. As my mom lives in Penang and I'm staying with OCD, I asked him to be my witness instead.

Believe it or not, he couldn't sleep the night before....

Why is he smiling? Coz he doesn't have to worry about his brother dirtying his condo anymore!

Father-in-law completes the marriage certificate

After that, the pastor officially congrats us as Mr & Mrs Looi.


The senior Mrs Looi giving the new Mrs Looi a hug

(L-R)Daryl Looi, Karynn Looi, Alex Looi a.k.a. OCD,

Tan Chong Keng, Hilda Looi, Alvin Looi

It's been more than a month and last Sunday our pastor asked if we're back from the moon.

The answer?

Still half-way there:)

Ahhh..... Bali!

Definitely the best way to travel around the Kuta beach...

One of the reasons I've not been blogging...

In case you didn't know, I just got married 2 Saturdays ago. And honestly, the whole ceremony and dinner were anything but conventional.

For starters, there's no customary "cip san leong". Instead it was just the best man Leslie and I going to her parents' place to fetch her and her sister.

the Looi clan with the Bentley!

Setting off to get my maiden


If you're wondering why we were dressed in such a manner, coz the wedding's theme is musical. So we decided to dress up ala the 60's like the movie Grease. Thank God I bought my uni jacket and finally put it to good use. :)

We were quite early because there's no obstacle and stuff to overcome. So what to do? Camwhoring!

Just when I thought everything was well taken care of, just as we were about to reach church that I realised I forgot to bring 2 very important things:

1) My shoes

2) The 2 wireless mic for the dinner

While The bride and the bridesmaid get their make up done, Leslie and I were rushing back to my place in his gf's car. It was quite an anxious moment as the traffic on MRR2 was horrendous as always. I was worried that I might be late for my own wedding!!

Fortunately, we still managed to get back to church at about 45 mins before the ceremony- pity Leslie didn't get the time to do his hair. So we just quickly changed into our clothes and got YH's hairsytlist to comb our hair.

All set to go

Ceremony was slightly delayed because my family thought my wedding was at 5.30pm. At about 4.30pm they were still in Kepong and it would take about 20 mins to drive to Ampang on a good day!! Arrgghhh...

Somehow, they all arrived just slightly over 5pm and we started the ceremony at about 5.15pm.

Father-in-law passing her hand to me

Ceremony was sweet with Rev Ronnie Chin of Revival Centre Kuala Lumpur sharing a simple message before proceeding to the vow. We had signed our marriage certificate the day before so the ceremony was even shorter compared to the ones I used to attend back in Penang Christian Centre.

"With this ring...."

Mr & Mrs Shades walking out to the song "True To Your Heart" from the movie "Mulan"

Looi clan photo with my uncle's family joining in

With friends from Penang

Dinner was at 7.00pm which was at Kelab Darul Ehsan. I had a difficult time deciding who to invite to the wedding and eventually settled for the GXMs, GXIs and the freelance instructors I consider close comrades.

6 of these people can collectively teach 9 programmes in club

My sis Hilda who's working in Beijing's Westin

My 26-yr-old nephew Daryl serving tea to his new aunt

The first part of the dinner was quite straight forward with only a duet "A Whole New World" which was preceded by a opening video.

Halfway, we had the speech time and both of us sang out our respective speeches- Me singing "Part of that World" and YH with Fergie's "Finally".

Then came the fun part- the first dance.

We started nicely with Rod Stewart's jazzy "Till There Was You"...

...which ended abruptly before Grease's "You're the one that I want" took over. The whole thing was supposed to be cheesey, so we just had fun with the song.

Shaking that shimmy, baby!

Before the end of the night, we came out again with another performance - Grease's "We Go Together".

Waving goodbye to everyone as we finish the dance and proceed to the exit to thank everyone as they leave the place

So unlike other wedding dinner where you sit down and watch some dance or listen to songs by professionals, here you get entertained by the bride and groom. What to do... we're cheap We just like the attention so much we just want something different for our guests to remember our special moment.

Picture with my ex-colleagues from my first job in Padini after graduation

With the GX people

With the matchmaker Zen

Honestly it was kinda fun doing all those things for my wedding. Before the actual day, part of me did not feel like doing the performances but the other part of me was saying "this is the ONLY time you get to do it" I'm glad we did it though it was tiring and we didn't get to eat much.

Looking forward to our honeymoon this Saturday!!!!

Umbrella - the blue black remix

You broke my heart
And you treat me like another tart
May be in magazines
But I'll always have the scars
Baby cause in the dark
I still remember that you hit hard
And that's when you whack me there
With you I'm always scared
Because

[Chorus]
from the start you promised my father
Told him you'd be there forever
Said you'd always be a friend
Took an oath you'd stick it out till the end
Now that it's raining more than ever
You didn't treat me a little better
Just bash me with my umbrella
You just bash me with my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh)
Bash me with my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh)
Bash me with my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh)
Bash me with my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh eh eh eh)

These news reports, will never come in between
You're like a foul disease, here for infinity
When the law has done it's part
When the world has dealt it's cards
Even though the hand is hard, I don't think you'll ever stop
Because

[Chorus]
from the start you promised my father
Told him you'd be there forever
Said you'd always be a friend
Took an oath you'd stick it out till the end
Now that it's raining more than ever
You didn't treat me a little better
Just bash me with my umbrella
You just bash me with my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh)
Bash me with my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh)
Bash me with my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh)
Bash me with my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh eh eh eh)

[Bridge]
You promised me you'll do no harm
that I should never be alarmed
Oh silly me
(When you put on those boxing gloves)
You went on and close the door
Begged you to stop but you gave me more
Because

[Chorus]
from the start you promised my father
Told him you'd be there forever
Said you'd always be a friend
Took an oath you'd stick it out till the end
Now that it's raining more than ever
You didn't treat me a little better
You just bash me with my umbrella
You just bash me with my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh)
Bash me with my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh)
Bash me with my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh)
Bash me with my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh eh eh eh)

I'm hurting
Ooh baby I'm bleeding
Baby stop hitting me
Stop hitting me
I'm hurting
Ooh baby I'm bleeding
Please stop hitting me
Stop hitting me

I'm feeling pain
I'm feeling pain
Stop hitting me
Stop hitting me

Get well soon, Rihanna!!!

我们都是一家人

(L-R)nephews Leroy & Daryl, OCD, Mom, me, Karynn, future sis-in-law, future mother & father-in-law, eldest bro Eric

The main cast for the wedding, minus sister, sister-in-law and niece.

Life as a musical

Have you ever come out of a musical wishing that your life could be like one?

The Sound of Music

One moment you're talking normally, the next moment you burst out in songs?

West Side Story


Marry Poppins

Better still, the people around you start to dance together as if you've all been practising the moves for the last 3 months?

Grease
Hmmm... maybe my life could be one too?

*hint* *hint*

It's been a while....

My my... after taking a break from blogging, it's so hard to start again!!

The fact that there are a couple of things I need to attend to over the last 12-13 days also didn't help the situation:

1) Wedding stuff

2) New condo repair

3) GX stuff

4) Annual dinner performances(yup, more than ONE performance!)

So basically both work & private lives were in need to serious attention. Sorted out a few things, but still got a few things to do. Things should be better by the end of the week when annual dinner is over.


I'm so looking forward to my CNY break!!!!