One More Week Before the Big Move In

In a week's time, my hubby and I will be moving in to our new HOME. For the past weeks, we have been busy  - hubby busy building his "empire" at work whilst I, being the organized, creative freako, took the responsibility of making sure our home looks perfect to us. Thank goodness for my hubby's flexibility, he could hop over to our house to make sure things are ok as and when I need him to, whenever I cannot get off work in between the working hours.

This afternoon, we arranged cleaners to clean the entire house today. The house was a mess initially but when we came back to pick them up 5 hours later, the whole house turned sparkling clean! Like magic! We can't wait to move in - our favourite spot in the house: The big cozy balcony that faces the reserved forest and most importantly we get to escape the massive peak hour Cheras traffic!

Furnitures will be delivered on Tuesday and Wednesday and there are still a few more small tiny items yet to be completed and we all hope it could be done before next Saturday! (If it doesn't, I'm going to give the contractor another round of lecture! You wouldn't want to mess with pregger ladies I tell ya. We have short fuse you know).

My MIL will be flying down with her maid tomorrow to do another round of cleaning for the next few days for us before they both return to Brunei, whilst my parents are preparing all the cookery stuff for the big moving-in ceremony next Saturday. They are doing this for the love of their children - US! We absolutely love our parents very much. What would we do without them??!

This post is specially dedicated to our Mom, Dad (The Ngs and the Wongs): Tim and I love you very very much. Thank you for doing this for us. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

Boarding Time

Goodbye Brunei....

Here I am, sitting at Coffee Bean waiting for the time to strike 6.40pm (boarding time). 1 week in Brunei is never enough, Tim & I are getting used to this place now, and I for one, definitely love this place. Some may say its boring, but to me, its relaxing. Its safe. Its tax FREE.

Once we return, the busy life starts again. Renovation for our new home at Andalucia, Pantai will start in March. Tentatively we should be able to move in sometime in June/ July. Honeymoon? Well, I'm hoping to land tickets to watch M.U game against Chelsea, that would be an ultimate honemoon trip! If not, it would probably be end of this year after we settled in the new house for sure!

Ok...its boarding time. Time to return to good ol KL.

See you guys in KL, I'm looking forward to a good reunion with my mates Ben and gang this weekend!

Bon Voyage!

The view from Coffee Bean

I didnt realize there was this cyber cafe-thingy in this airport!

Was it here all along??

Looks pretty busy...comparing to 2 months ago (end of Dec)...

Ranting on...

Darn...stomach churning, eyes wide open, brains ticking timelessly telling me to sleep but i ignored it silently... Gosh! Am I addicted to the world of www?

Just got home from Sue's house. Today passed so terribly fast! In the morning, I went back to the office to get some last minute things done, working on my emails with the sun streaming in...warm as I felt, I was just too lazy to turn on the aircond.

I thought I would be done in 15minutes but hardworking as I pretended to be, I was in the office for a good 2 hours! At this point of time, I really do wish I should have taken the offer of getting myself a blackberry!

Got home later on, had a quick lunch and off I went back to PJ for a good cousinish reunion. After treating my Aussie cousins for some nice scrumptious korean barbeque dinner at Hartamas, drowning ourselves with few glasses of soju (and later on whisky), I was done for the night. Not drunk of course (Cindy never gets drunk...not when she's driving that is haha =)

Shucks....i really should be sleeping now. Its already 0113hours. I'll be flying off to Bangkok again on Monday... excited? Pumped? Nah.... not when you've travelled to the same place in the same month!

What I'm reallyyyy looking forward to...is February 4th, my QB convocation! Lawyer robes, lawyerish attire...I wonder how I'd look like! After that February 14th! Brunei! Miss good `ol Brunei, peaceful, quiet, serene.... no emails to read...no phone calls to attend to... sweet!

February....my favourite month for 2010 (for now lah).

The Future...

5 days have passed since my reigning as one Mrs Ng. Few asked me, "how does it feel to be married?" I answered, "Pretty good!" It is good indeed because once you tie the knot, the relationship blossomed to another level where commitment and responsibilities becomes an important factor. The commitment & responsibility are not just for the 2 of us, we now too must show our love and care for both our parents by "making" a new inclusion to the family (like my mummy said, "do it fast, no need to wait already...") Get it?...nevermind. Go get married, & you'll know what I mean!

My FIL and MIL will be celebrating their 30th anniversary in 2 years time and last night, we were already having thoughts of doing it big for the both of them as my FIL planned to renew his marriage vows with my MIL. Sweet, as I thought to myself. After 3 decades, they still love each other like no others. My parents too already reached their 32 years of marriage and looking at the four of them (my in-laws and my parents), for them to stay on together for a few decades and continuing together, inspires me as marriage as sacred as it is, will work, will be rock solid if the 2 of us believe, understand, and support one another, love each other through good times and bad times through rain or snow...(yes, I still wish there's snow).

Having stayed here in Brunei for 11 days, I am begining to get comfortable and contemplating the idea of moving here. With my legal background, I have the option to extend my career as a lawyer in this country and Tim, with my FIL's heartfelt wish, could take over the family's business. However, all these are mere thoughts as Tim still has his own company to run in KL...

Whatever the future holds, we yet to know. However, what I do know is, the next busy schedule for us would be our new house, Andalucia in Pantai. Renovation should begin after CNY and we are absolutely delighted about it!

1 more hour to go before we head back to the airport. Till then, see you all back in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia!

Now & Forever

Sealed with a Kiss (Morning of 13.12.09) - Part 1

Pictures speak a thousand words...

Allow me to sketch it out here through photographs from the morning of 13.12.09 where the alarm buzzed off at approximately 5.00am for makeup session to me closing my eyes (either from lethargicness or drunkeness) at 2.00am the next day...

Food of torture: The sweet, the sour, the bitter, and the SPICY

The weapons

Me sitting at the end of the bed waiting for my man

Still waiting for the clock to strike 9am,

hence some cam-whoring moment with my maid of honour

Me and my new sista!

The lovely girls & I...

Amongst these 2 ji muis of mine, who do u think is older? The blue? or the pink?

Can't tell right? Cuz they are soooo sweet & innocent!

Oh yeah! Tim is an ardent fan of Leeds United

and he absolute can't stand me loving Man United

So, I had to 'convert' him

They are here!!!

My man & his 8 mafias...they don't know what they are up against!

8 mafias against 9 foxes!

Their first torture: Tim had a hard time swallowing what he hate most -

hotdog, mustard, mountain full of wasabis, cheese & bitter leaves!

Look at his mafias...especially the one on the right! LOL!

They were so happy to see my ji muis actually served them "drinks" to

make the swallow easier...only thing was, that drink was super extremely terribly SOUR!

Ok....my girls aint that bad... we saved the best for last

The boyz were like hungry wolves...chomping on the ice-cream

like as if they've never tasted ice-creams before...

All rigthtey...I was told that one of the boyz instructed the rest to blow as small as possible

as he claimed he knew what this trick was all about (yeah right!)

Small balloon eh? The smaller the balloon, the closer they are to the ass! LOL!

The boyz wanted to kill the one who gave them that stupid idea of blowing the balloon smaller!

(earlier, they were made to kiss each other on the cheeks too)

(p/s- after u kiss, u.. f**k)

Go figure out these compromising poses above lol!

Jeff, the best man, had a leaking balloon...he was shocked to find out

he had to "bang" Tim's backside with the balloon in between

As the game drags on, his balloon became smaller and smaller anddd smaller

till he actually literally looked like "banging" Tim's ass for real

Wicked! LOL!

The boyz had the balloons, Tim HAD to wear the Man Utd jersey

I was told he wanted to tear the jersey! LOL!

Tim had to sing infront of my room door (room 2503 - anyone wants to buy 4D?)

to his own version of "RIGHT HERE WAITING"

 He had to come up with his own lyrics to beg me to open the door!

(Lorraine was holding up her Sony Ericsson phone to play the mp3 song to assist his singing)

This was pretty funny as in the moment of madness he could still rhyme his lyrics!

Did I mention before Tim actually sang to me on the first night of our very first telephone call back in 2008?

I was laughing so much I was almost in tears

Tim came into my room and lifted up my veil....

We then sealed with a kiss.....

Brunei - Malaysia - Brunei

Have you ever been in a country for 2 hours then out again? Is it really possible? (If you are in JB, of course that is a different story).

Well, today it happened just that. Amazing! We arrived at Brunei International Airport at 3pm (note: we were at KLIA since 7am!! MAS delayed its flight for bloody 6hours!). Despite the dreadfullness of hanging around at the airport doing practically nothing (we entertained ourselves by me sitting in a trolley and Tim pushing me around joyfully with cheerful airport employees laughing at our silly-ness) we arrived at Brunei with my M.I.L waiting for us with open arms. I'm home!!...only for 2 hours, that is.

Not long after when we got home, my F.I.L came back to pick us both up to go to Kuala Lurah, Malaysia about 45mins drive from Bandar Seri Begawan. With our passports stamped once again, we were out of Brunei and back to our home country again!

We spent close to 5 hours shopping for liquors and drinking (plus karaoke-ing) at a nearby shop with 9 other friends of my F.I.L (all hail from Brunei). It was like a mini excursion - with one purpose: LIQUOR! As 1 person can only purchase 2 bottles back to Brunei, with 12 of us in total, we bought 24!! Plus cartons of beers, we all looked like crazy alcoholics! With 12 passports to scan, 24 bottles + dozen of cartons to pack and 12 thirsty wolves to serve, the shopkeeper became an overnight profit-maker.

Its Monday today, 6 more days to go before the crazy wedding party begin (or rather, continue) AGAIN...

Coming Up Next: "Holiday Wedding"

Sitting here in one of the pubs at Jaya One with Tim and his boyz (Jeff, Gabz & Charlie) in my office attire drinking ... H20 (whatt??!). Oh yeah... I made a vow to myself not to have any beer (not a tiny sip) until 13th of December 2009. It's pretty amazing how one need to look after their weight, they are willing to forgo any types of temptation! Unlike Tim of course, he whacks noodles and beers whenever he sees `em! Hence, his Jacob Black's look-a-like body (opposite).

Today is my last day of work and I will resume work after 2 weeks from now. Holiday? Oh Yeah! Holiday Wedding I'd call it! This coming Monday we will be travelling to Brunei via MAS and I am hyperly excited about the coming plans for 13th December 2009.

Could there be another different type of wedding dinner march-in? Will there be surprises again for the guests just like how we did it in KL? Log on to find out! For sure, the other highlight on that day would be....how Tim and his boyz survive the tricks organized by my girls on the morning of 13th Dec at Empire Hotel & Country Club!

This is yet another exciting event for Tim & Cindy -NG!

Memoirs of 27th

We are now entering the 4th day. Time really flies. Everyday I wish I could turn back time to witness once again how it was on the night of the 27th. We all truly enjoyed ourselves.

Today, my wonderful photographer George gave me a link for a little sneak preview on what he has captured on the night of the 27th. His style is mostly candid, natural, highlighting the best moments (see http://timcindy.blogspot.com).

After the night of the 27th, we received numerous feedbacks, all of them were praises - on the FOOD (we had sharksfin, piglet, abalone & lobster but I didnt get to eat any of them!), on the DECOR (angelic theme, garden concept with fairy lightings & candle light stands along the red carpet), on the PERFORMANCES (the grand openning with an angel appearing on stage & masquerading down the aisle), on the MC (with his fantastic dual language capability - especially with his rap in mandarin) and most of all on the BAND (excellent song choice and performances).

Some asked if my cousin Adrian who sang on stage was a professional singer (he looked dashingly handsome that night, not to mention he has a great voice too)! Some even asked if Tracie was seeing anyone at the moment! (p/s - 'some' is an understatement. I have received loads of compliments on Tracie - I think I'll change my profession and be Tracie's manager for her fan club soon)

I can't believe it has already been 4 days since the wedding! If only there's "groundhog day" and I can live through the moment again and again...and again. Don't think I can ever get enough of it...yet. Hearing these feedbacks brought huge wide smile to my face as my 1 year preparation and imagination on how I want the wedding dinner in KL for Tim & I to be, finally became a reality.

Well, pushing aside the memoirs of 27th, it is time to concentrate on the next big one! 13th December 2009! A custom wedding in a foreign land! (for me that is). We will be holding an official wedding ceremony and on that day, I can label Brunei as my home sweet home from then on...

My stunning S.I.L and my handsome prince

Jeff, our MC

Adrian, my cousin - serenaded us on our first dance as a wedded couple

My new beloved family

Kiss of love

Count Down: 2 days....

The clock is ticking...and ticking real loudly.

I had a sudden nervous breakdown last night and thanks to my wedding planner Jeff, he gave me a call to calm my nerves out. "3 more days and we will make it really memorable for you & Tim", he said. Tim on the other hand, got really excited and did a fashion show on his new suits & his new fashionista tie for the wedding for me parents downstairs.

My in-laws are in town until this Sunday. Soon, Tim's relatives from Thailand, Singapore, Australia will be down for the wedding too. Everyone is looking forward to this day Friday. And we will do our best to please all the guests on that night. Great food, great live music, great programme.

Lets rock it!

Greetings from Brunei!

Hello from Brunei!

We arrived here in Bandar Seri Begawan last night and its a wonderful feeling to be back in this peaceful country, away from the hustle and bustle of KL.

Today, we met up with the wedding favour's vendor (choosing our wedding favour gifts for our Brunei wedding) and met up with our Event Organizer, Edgar - to go through the plans for our wedding come this December 13th. Time passes reallll fast ...the sun is setting ...(6.46pm it says here). It felt as if I just woke up an hour ago...

Time to go for dinner now. We are leaving tomorrow back to KL and till then, will blog more on the latest "news" (hint: it has something to do with a "dwelling place").

Tootlelooo!