Liese - Good, clean fun!

September is the month where wedding invites start to pour in! But how can Mrs Koo go out to meet the world with her black outgrown hair?

Not wanting to waste money on another expensive colour job, she decided to give Liese a try.
Sold at $19.90, it was the most expensive hair dye on the counters. That's like almost twice the price of the average hair dyes! Despite the high price, she decided to give it a try, since there were some raves on this new Japan hair dye.

After spending some time pondering over the pretty pictures and endless colours, she decided to get the one in Mocha Orange, cos the hair colour looks the nicest on the girl, although the Horny Devil thinks she looks the ugliest, lol~

And so the experiment begins.

See the horrendous ah lian hair - the black and brown so super obviously sticking out?

Kua simi? Kiam pa ah!!

My Goddess has tried to DIY her hair before. But it was never successful. First the hair colours are damn messy, it drips everywhere! Then the ammonia smell is super strong and smelly! And it's really troublesome - you have to make sure each layer of hair gets evenly coloured, and at the same time you can't really touch the roots cos the chemicals isn't good for your scalp, blah blah blah... Most importantly, the colour never gets into her hair! The black roots will still remain black, while the rest of the coloured hair (previously done by the professional) gets even lighter!

But with Liese, the steps are easy as 1-2-3!

Paper Polly NDP promotion

Calling all shopaholics! Show your love for Singapore and don on a pink/red attire this month!

To top it off, Paper Polly is having a NDP sale, where all items are going at $4.60 less.

Promotion ends on 9 August, 1159hrs, so what are you waiting for?

Goddess & Horny Devil Wedding Part 1 - Wedding Childhood Montage

Every once in a while, it's always nice to look at my Goddess and the Horny Devil's wedding pics and vids.

Here's a look from the beginning - the growing up years of my Goddess and the Horny Devil.

It was really fun looking through the old pics... brought back loads of wonderful memories.

Here's a look first at the Horny Devil...

Doesn't he look like a girl?	Big head since young

Lancome Feature

The advertorial that my Goddess shot for Lancome is finally out! My Goddess grabbed a copy of Her World/Female/Nuyou to check out which picture they selected in the end!

I quite like the other frontal shot pic, too bad they didn't choose that.. Guess this was selected for a variation in picture angle (as compared to the other 2 ladies) and perhaps for the dimples?

Here are some other behind-the-scenes shots:

Happy Monthsary!!

Time just flies doesn't it? It's one month since my Goddess and the Horny Devil tied the knot!

And I know I owed so much of backlog updates on their wedding! Well, for some preview pics, you may visit The Wedding Bureau (TWB). They've got lots of pretty pics and lovely inspirations for those BTBs in their preparations for their big day!

My Goddess was approached some time back by TWB to feature their engagement shoot. After sharing their pre-wedding video and their AD photos. These got featured as well. Woohoo~ Congrats to the two lovebirds for having such a beautiful wedding once again.

View their engagement shoot write-up here

View their actual day write-up here

Thanks to Vivi from La Belle Couture for her fabulous make-up and hairstyling; William from Goh K. H. Photography (engaged by La Belle) for the stunning pics; Moo Media for their hilarious pre-wedding video and heart warming Morning Highlights; Rahman from Goodwood Park Hotel for acceding to all their requests and making the venue decor dressed up to their theme; Ling Zhi, Coco & Kenny from La Belle for their excellent service and beautiful engagement photos and album. And how can I forget, La Belle for the gorgeous gowns which many people have lots of praises for!!

Event-full Day - Bacherlotte Party & Chinese Customs

One weekend before my Goddess' wedding was a darn packed weekend. It's after all the last weekend before the wedding!

First on Sat, my Goddess and the Horny Devil went for facial in the afternoon. This was followed by my Goddess' bachelorette party @ Raffles Town Club.

The girls booked a room.

All the wise words of marriage advice

Taboo

Everyone was super exhausted by like 12 midnight?
Think we are all Cinderellas

I heart Genefique!

Ever since my Goddess got her hands on her first sample bottle of Genifique, she hasn't stopped using it ever since. It's like better than miracle water! After a few weeks, the fine lines on her face disappeared. Powered with her Laneige moisturiser and Fancl Tense Up Ex, her skin became more plump, clearer and radiant!

Even her colleague and the Horny could see the difference! She didn't need much makeup and could still look fresh and radiant, even with those late nights!

She even introduced Genifique to the Horny Devil and now he's a fan of it too! His lines were also less visible, his skin smoother and more radiant. What a miracle just in time for the both of them for their big day!

And so when my Goddess saw on Lancome fanpage that they are looking for ambassadors for Genifique, and the 3 selected will get to win a year's supply of Genifique, she signed up for it immediately! What better way to show her love for Genifique by saying good things about it and then win more Genifique?

And sign up she did. And to her pleasant surprise, my Goddess was selected to take part in the shoot! Thankfully everything worked well for her. The shoot was initially scheduled in the day time on the last day of my Goddess' work! And of course she couldn't take leave and almost couldn't be part of the shoot.

But the SPH and Lancome team was nice enough to postpone the shoot till after work. And so yay for my Goddess!

And so the shoot went on rather smoothly. My Goddess loved the makeup done on her! And I love it too! Think the whole makeup was rather natural even with the slightly thicker eye makeup. That's the kind of eye makeup my Goddess has been trying to achieve!

With the help of makeup, my Goddess' eyes looks much bigger, and her face slimmer. woohoo~

And here are the shortlisted pictures after an hour of shoot. Which is your fave?

Married Life

A couple of people have asked my Goddess how's married life, and so she's sharing her response here.

Generally, it's not much different from being single. Things are going on more or less as usual.

But guess my Goddess is feeling less of the impact since they are staying at her place currently. Once she needs to pay her own bills, clean the house and wash her own clothes, things will be more different.

Something different now is that she now has to plan her schedule more or less to his. No more going to gym at least 3 times a week or going home alone early. So now they ended up sleeping later after going back from dinner at the in-laws.

And now, she has to regularly remind herself that she's a married woman so must be more accommodating to him and plan things taking into consideration of them as a couple and not separate individuals.

Think for him, the major inconvenience is travelling to work. There's no mrt around her place so he has to take buses to work, and it takes him at least an hour and half to work. Plus he's not used to having the bathroom so far away from the bedroom and now he's beginning to understand why my Goddess sometimes feel lazy to bathe. And they have yet to sort out their laundry yet, so her mom is still washing her clothes :p and he intends to bring home his for his mom to wash.

Furthermore, the 2 of them have peculiarly different habits. He's often feeling warm and needs the aircon cold she's afraid of the cold. She needs to have the tv on in the morning to wake herself up but he needs peace and quiet in the morning. And despite them being a messy and lazy couple, he's more messy than her and even she cannot stand it herself and have to pick up after him.

Think the happiest person in the house is me. Whenever they come home, I will jump and bark and growl like mad. I will follow them upstairs to check out what they are doing. It's great fun to have one more person playing with me!

Hair today, gone tomorrow

Time flies, the day that my Goddess and the Horny Devil spent 1.5 years planning is now over. And they finished not just one, but 2 wedding dinners already.

Yes, I know there's so much bad log to catch up on, especially on her wedding day and dinners.

Not to worry, I will try to update it one by one, from the preps all the way to the actual day, over the course of a few weeks months.

Anyway, today is the first day that the 2 of them got to spend time together officially as man and wife, without having any wedding plans in mind.

And so they went to catch  Kungfu Panda. It has been weeks since the 2 of them caught a movie cos for 2-3 months, every weekend was spent on wedding preps.

Surprisingly, the queue was very long given that it was Monday afternoon at 1pm!

The show was hilarious. It's a must-watch! And luckily for my Goddess, she had some Shaw vouchers left from her intern days, which was like so long ago, but it still could be used. However, the minus points were that the popcorn at Shaw Lido was laohong, and the headrest for the seats were a little too high so it blocked the view of not so tall people like my Goddess.

After the show, my Goddess decided to visit her fave salon - Salon Vim and her fave stylist - Gary. For the longest time, she has been harbouring the thoughts of snipping her hair short after the wedding. Now the time has come, and she was still very hesitant while waiting for Gary to come. It after all took her 3 years to grow her hair this long.

Eventually, she mustered the courage and was ready to embrace more changes in her life with a new look, and so cut she did.

One last look at her long hair

Wedding Preps - Cert collection

My Goddess utilised half of her precious leave days to collect the ROM cert yesterday morning.

End up things weren't going on very smoothly, probably cos it's Friday the 13th.

First, the Horny Devil went out of the house halfway and realised he forgot to bring his father's IC. So he has to go home and take and grab a cab down. And the cake doesn't have small change for his $50 note!

Then, there was some minor cock-ups in office, and my Goddess keep receiving calls and was even asked to go back early!! (Note that this is already half of her VERY PRECIOUS 3 days)

Anyway, life has to go on. So they waited for their turn, said their oaths and then had a brief meet-up with their actual day photographer to discuss the programme.

All ready to get married!

Counting down10 more days

My Goddess has long wanted to share this video, but she has been too busy doing all the planning and DIY-ing. Anyway, now it's 10 days more and she's still busy DIY-ing. Hopefully all the things she wants to do can be done in time!!

Here's the Save the Date video which she has done months before. It took her 3 whole weeks to snap the pictures and piece them together bit by bit. And not to forget, with the artistic inputs of the Horny Devil. Enjoy~

Save the Date from missbibi on Vimeo.

And if you are wondering why frog & pig? Well, cos my Goddess is born in the year of the pig and she's as greedy as young. And no, there's no frog year, but haven't you heard of Freddie the Frog? And with the pig being pink and the frog green, that's where their wedding theme colour stems from!

3 more weeks to go!

There's only 3 wks left to my Goddess' wedding and I'm feeling all jittery for her!

There's still bits and pieces of stuff undone and they really need to go full steam now!

They just finished their voice-over for the pre-wedding video, my Goddess dunno what to make of it and hopes that people will understand the story.

Childhood montage is 70% complete. An chuang and guo da Li stuffs still have items in bits and pieces not bought. What else, songs compilation, finalisation of actual day programme and helpers roles. Hopefully there's time in between to do some DIY decor for the reception.

Scary, all the months of planning coming together in just one day - very soon!

Gambate, my Goddess and the Horny Devil!

Weddings are not for the poor

Planning for her own wedding has made my Goddess realise that weddings (she's referring to the conventional and traditional types with the take bridal shots, 过大礼，嫁妆，安床，接新娘 followed by banquet dinner at a good hotel and ending off with a honeymoon) are not meant for those who are poor.

With inflation, prices of everything is rising. Hotels are increasing their rates at an average of $50 per table per year, some even more. My Goddess booked her hotel in end 2009. Now bookings for the same place has increased to about $400 more per table. Of course a lot of things are thrown in the package to make the deal worth it - tie ups with invite card designer, live band, better menu, hagen daaz ice cream etc. But are all these really needed? I'd rather do without these and get a cheaper rate.

Prices of gold are increasing like mad if you intend to follow the customs of 嫁妆 and 四点金.

Not to mention the ridiculously sky high property prices that you'll spend the rest of your life paying off the loan of.

So unless:
1. You are born in a rich family
2. You will be married into a rich family
3. You stay at your in-laws place after marriage
4. You skip all the traditions and customs and just have a ROM

Then you won't be able to have the typical wedding that costs at least $30k, and now even more, with the price hikes.

So for those who are thinking of getting married, start locking in the prices before they start rising further and good luck!

Busy wedding prep weekend

This weekend, or rather, these 2 weekends have been super duper busy for my Goddess and the Horny Devil.

With only 6 weeks left, they still had a few things not completed for their wedding. So it's pia time for them!!

To start the weekend of madness on a good note, they had a good brunch at Cedele!

Food Tasting

On Tuesday, 15 March, my Goddess, the Horny Devil and the 2 families went for food tasting at Min Jiang restaurant. At first they thought this could be a treat to celebrate the end of their pre-wedding video shoot. But unfortunately that was not done then.

Anyway, the food was really good, and the portion big! Love the cold dish appetiser. The duck was yummy, but the jellyfish was a bit bland. Not very keen in the kungpao prawns and kungpao scallops too since not fresh prawns was used. But oh well, since the FIL likes them she has no choice. She also loved the soup even though it wasn't shark fins. Again, the FIL thinks the presentation not grand enough...

By the time they got to the lotus rice, she only had like 2 mouths as it was like REALLY filling, though the rice was good. Haagen daaz ice-cream was served for them to try. But no way are they going to pay an extra $88+++ per table for it. First, the guests will be too full to appreciate it. Two, no one will pay an additional $10 in angpow for this. To get them to pay $100 per person is already a big mystery which my Goddess doubt especially the relatives will give.

K la, for the food, since my Goddess won't get to each for the night, she will leave the FIL to decide. If he happy, then the guests should also be happy.

Pre-wedding shoot

As the Horny Devil loves my Goddess too much, and want to give her as much as possible, her dream wedding as possible, he agreed to fork up a sum of money to engage Moo Media to shoot their pre-wedding video.

Much to his displeasure on doing something that is totally not him - he's a runner, not a cheerleader, and some more we have to mobilise all our brothers and sisters for 1 day of training (it was initially 3 but cut down to 1) and a full day of shoot, which he felt super paiseh about it.

Oh well, the money has been paid, and that is the fact about how they have met, so the shoot must go on.

And so bright and early on Sat 12 Mar, the whole jing gang met at Orchard at 8am for a 8.30am shoot.

Unfortunately, my Goddess was so busy trying to finish the shoot that she didn't have time to capture a lot of shots, especially the last time the two of them will be doing a chair stunt together.

Monogram

And it has been designed and ready. After weeks of research and fine-tuning, this will be the symbol to represent my Goddess & the Horny devil. Nice?

Save the Date

My Goddess was very much inspired by the US style of getting their guests to save the dates. She found some cute 'save the date' cards like this

and this

However, after seeing this video, she thought a video may be more unique and interesting.

Wedding Save the Date! from Joe Fayer on Vimeo.

And so try she did to make her own Save the Date video. And it turned out more tedious than she thought it would be. Making a video involved taking pictures of each frame by frame, and then piecing them together. And before that, the pictures were not perfect, and she had to touch them up one by one! And so it took a total of approximately 3 weeks of consecutive late nights to complete the whole dang video.

Of course it didn't look as the one posted here, but what the hell, it's my Goddess first attempt to make an animation video, you all better say it's nice. Anyway, won't be putting it up so soon until her wedding date is nearing, as this is specially meant for her invited friends to see.

To keep you entertained, here's another super nice Save the Date video.

jenny+nick {savethedate} from 618studios on Vimeo.

Engagement Shoot

After a long break, I'm back! The long silence was cos my Goddess was so busy for the past few months! First there was annual report to rush, and Paper Polly to manage, and then there's also wedding to prepare.. It's so tough for my poor Goddess now.

So now let me update you on my Goddess' life, or should I say wedding preps.

First and most importantly, there was the Engagement Photoshoot.
Weeks before the shoot itself, they headed back NTU to do some site-recce.

More wedding preps!

Since a month ago, every weekend is wedding preparations weekend for my Goddess and the Horny Devil.

Last Sunday, my Goddess and the HD went down to City Square to do some wedding prep shopping.

After braving through the incorrigible jam, they reached at 2pm and went to "客人来" for lunch.

Nice noodles but super salty egg and taopok!

Then it was dessert time at Baskin Robbins!

This was followed by hours of shopping and searching - for the HD's shirt, vest, their props etc.

Resting time with Roibo!

Catching a wink of sleep

Initially they wanted to go out for some cheap and good food one. But they ended up shopping till very late - 8pm and it seems too late and dangerous to head out. So they ended up settling their dinner in City Square too.

When they finally left JB, it was like 10pm already. Luckily for my Goddess, her home wasn't too far away from there, and so she reached home in 30 minutes time!

And the trip was really fruitful cos they bought a vest for HD, some props for their shoot and most importantly cheap contact lenses that are less than half the price in Singapore, and these lenses are meant to enhance their eyes too! Hee~

This weekend, it's gown fitting and make-up trial time!

Taken while talking to the MUA, hence the idiotic facial expresion - lol