I’ve just uploaded a bunch of photos from our honeymoon to our Flickr site.

Go check it out. Have fun!

Greetings from The Andaman, Langkawi! It has come the the end of our honeymoon! Boo hoo :““( But it has been simply superb! The place is incredibly beautiful and close to nature. The sun, sea, rainforests, impeccable service and of course, Michael’s new found friends, the crabs! Lots of them! (He spent more time catching and examining them than he did anything else!) No wonder he can be so full of c!@# at times. *smile* Everything went well, the weather was kind to us and we got to enjoy lots of sunshine before it poured yesterday night. The food has been memorable too. The first night, we went to Barn Thai, a Thai restaurant in the mangrove swamp. Very romantic indeed. The second night, we decided to save some money, and bought buka puasa juadah for dinner instead. We enjoyed the simple food while watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (a movie we missed). And yesterday night was a blast! We had steamboat with lots and lots of fresh seafood! It was really a new sight watching Michael gobble down so much crab, prawns and his favourite- the sea cucumber. *smile* Ok, I’ve done the food bit, let’s hear it from the groom…I mean, the male.

Well, this post is two days late. But, hey, if you were every married, it’s difficult to blog when you’ve geared up to get the bride.

So what happened?

I’ve got some pictures which I will upload later. So that will explain the things I’m going to write here.

First, some of the ‘heng tai’ came over the night before (29th Sept) and we worked on getting our stomachs filled with hokkien mee and hainanese yin yang noodles. Then helped with covering the ribbons of the bridal car. It rained quite heavily that night.

We then got together and started to chat while Chee Yeong and I worked on our guitar gig.

Yep, the surprise was that I would be singing in Mandarin (a language I don’t speak, read or write). And playing the guitar (which I have never learned to play, I used to play the Electone/electronic organ) I was a bit worried that I would forget the lyrics and mix up, since I was still messing up the lyrics, and even the guitar. Meanwhile dad was working on my MacBook on the guest list. Finalising the table arrangements. It was already past 11PM.

When he finished, we were still working on the guitar gig. The rest of the boys just watched and gave support. Thanks guys!

Then I went upstairs to print out the guest list and other items. The last thing was extra angpows and the big angpow for the Jee Mui. Yep, we had planned to give them fake ang pows and then only to finally ‘console’ them with the big one. If they were going to have fun, we should have fun too!

Finally we went to bed. I was the second last to go. I keyed in the last entry for the pre-wedding events and finished up my speech. Chee Yeong was still working. Poor boy.

0600 hours

Look… the boys were all on the floor, even as the alarm rang. I had a headache. The fan was blowing and the air was deflected onto my head all night. I quickly went to take my shower and came down for a good session of True Light.

Donevan and Li Kun arrived. Li Kun, a girl, was walking in the house while the guys were still in their underwear and pants unzipped… gosh.

We certainly did not expect any girls to come in the morning! But after the guys slowly got ready, had breakfast and True Light, we were all good to go. Except for me. I was the last to dress up. Interestingly I felt so unprepared. A little scared and half-wishing that all this was not happening.

Weng and Pei Yuh, arrived and started shooting stills and video.

After I got my hair damped (in Don’s words “WET!”) Don was going to style my hair, but Li Kun got into the picture and havoc ensued. She took the gel into her dainty hands of hers and… World War 3 started. She kept spraying that gel at POINT-BLANK range. I screamed for mercy everytime the cold liquid impacted my scalp. In the end, I did not even look at the mirror. I was supposed to look good. I suppose the end justifies the means…

Pei Yuh could not keep the camera still as she was in stitches watching the scene.

With my parents helping me with the jacket and corsage, we were ready to go. Final hugs to mum and dad, and we were off.

0900 hours

The bridal car with me inside lead the 4 car convoy. We moved with ease through the KL morning traffic. Since it was a Ramadhan Saturday, the roads were clear. We reached quickly and got in quite fast. The only boo boo was that Sean, my cousin got bitten by Chin Jin’s dog. Poor thing, he should not have tried to pet her. Sean, Ong Ong is not the same as Buddy (Seans large dog)

We waited for the bride to get ready and the relatives started taking photos with me. Boy, there were more excited than me.

1000hours

The girls (jee mui) probably had the most fun. After the few rounds of ‘questioning’, they demanded to have Ang Pow. One for entering the house, and one before they open the door to the room. So we negotiated to give them one Ang Pow for every step I take in the house. Every time I put my foot on the floor, I would have to pay them one red packet. This was a problem because I only had 6. Then the guys came up with a brilliant idea.

So I payed up one red packet and they opened immediately to check. So I took my first step in.

Immediately the girls ran upstairs to protect the second ‘gate’.

So the guys lifted me up! Ya, I was off the ground. So I was flying up the stairs!

Human Shield

It was so unfair for them to use young boys as human shields. *smile*

Anyway, we were faced with three of CJ’s little cousins and they all demanded money. God, what’s the world come to.

So after that we reached the top of the stairs, we had to pay them. They took all my money!

They gave me a glimpse of Chin Jin, no, not once but two times! I wanted to just give them the money, but it was going to be no fun. So we haggled until Oh Papa came to intervene. He told the girls to hurry up. Hahaha. Thanks Papa.

So we got in after they snatched all my red packets.

She was so beautiful! I dropped to my knees and passed her the bouquet.

We went to offer greetings and tea to the ancestors and went down for prayers and serve tea to the relatives. Then we were off!!

1130 hours

We reached my house and it was great! We got down and went in. Tea ceremony and my dad was so emotional. SO unlike him. He is usually very calm.

Soon we were finished with the tea ceremony and went up to have the bed jumped on my my little baby cousin, Tze Min. Then my brother punctured the ‘tamtung’ and we were done!

1230 hours

Lunch for the bride and me. The heng tai left to the Mahikari Centre. Soon, when we were done, we left. So off to the spiritual union ceremony…

More later. I got to rest my fingers now.