Sheryl's Quaintessential

03 March 2010

My Sister's Big Day 06-02-10 – Morning Session

Finally! My eldest sis is MARRIED hehe….

She is soo lucky to find the MAN of her life and her happiness was truely shown throughout the wedding day.

Decorations at our house before the wedding day!

The couple’s pre wedding album taken in Bali

getting her hair and make up done! This is crucial to every bride and choosing a good make up artist is a MUST. Behind the bride is my bro, who was in charge of opening the car door when the groom arrives!

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Meanwhile, the Jie Meis are hard at work in the kitchen!!! On the right is bitter gout with wasabi and chili padi as the xiong di’s appetizer!!!

Good Stuff for the Xiong Di!HE HE HE….

Work in progress! Love the hairstyle, so elegant and femine!

Everyone is so EXCITED! Check out ah our grandma’s happy face..

AND the bride is ready! Picture shows my sis's friend helping her to wear her Mikimoto pearl necklace, a gift from us siblings to her.

One of the most important moment – Dad covering sis with her veil!

soon enough, TIME TO MEET THE XIONG DIs!!!

Game No.1 – passing of serviettes with letters on it to the groom to make up the sentence!Their saliva made the serviettes turned wet…EWWWWWWWW

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Game No. 2 – look for keys of our main entrance through the flour inside the tray, NO HANDS ALLOWED..!EASY RIGHT..

The groom has such an easy job! Lucky for him that he has all his xiong di helping him out!

Game No. 3 – I LOVE YOU in ten languages!Xiong Di is helping the groom out!

Due to constraint of time, we can only have these three games. Very mild but no choice, I think my sister also want to see her groom faster as well haha!

FINALLY!!!!!!!

KISS of a lifetime! AW…..

The couple then proceeded to pray followed by tea ceremony. No pictures of tea ceremony because we have amazing photographer Adam Ong shooting it!I will upload the photos once he is done with editing it!

To be continued……

25 February 2010

My CNY Celebrations in Pictures!

Hi all, hope everyone had a great CNY~!!!

As for me, I am very happy because I get to meet up with so many relatives and friends that I haven’t seen in a while.

Best part for me was to meet up with my primary school friends, I haven’t seen them in more than 10 years’ time!

I am so GLAD that we have this opportunity again! Even more amazing is that we have so much to talk about, trying to fill each other’s up about what happened in the past 10 years.

love this hairstyle! Considering to perm my hair this way!

dearest mommy and I

baby sis and I…we always have so much fun together!

Bro and Mommy, haven’t spend CNY with bro for 3 years already!

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adorable kids of my cousins!

RED is always the choice of colour for us on the First Day of CNY

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Nice CNY decor can be seen everywhere at my uncle’s place

Nice manicure is a MUST too!

One of our tradition is also to have vegetarian meal on first day of CNY

GONG XI GONG XI

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Very yummy vegetarian food. This restaurant is located in Taman Desa.

Went back to my hometown Batu Pahat on 3rd day of CNY, after sending baby sis to the airport as she is returning to UK after spending two weeks in Malaysia.

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more adorable kids! Baby Valene, Baby gugu with her sister!

Tossing Yusheng with secondary school friends!

Visiting Wan Chin’s place

long lost primary school friends……so glad to have meet up with you girls again!!!

Jill and I

We also visited Teacher Koh, who is also on Facebook!

Met up with Tania babe when I return to KL. Haven’t seen her since my visit to Taiwan in May last year!

The picture summarised my CNY todate. Tomorrow will be Yusheng tossing with colleagues!

There are still few more days left for CNY, continue to have fun and toss more Yusheng!!!

14 February 2010

Gong Xi Fa Cai 恭喜發財!!!

Wishing everyone HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR,

年年有馀

岁岁平安

and Have loads of fun and enjoy yourselves!!!

I am back in KL for a week for celebrations!

This blog will be updated when I return to Singapore, I have yet to share with you guys my birthday celebrations and my sister's wedding!

Stay tuned! :))

29 January 2010

Fell in Love with Taiwan – Last Part!

As requested by Dune, I am going to sum up my Taiwan trip last year with today’s post.

After visiting Alishan (see HERE), the rest took the train back to Taipei where Tania and I went to Tainan for a quick visit!

Not many photos but here you go! I was feeling real exhausted and the weather in Tainan was a killer! Bear in mind it was Summer when I went over last year!

We had 铁路便当 (Railway Bento) in the high speed train! It tasted sooooo good I tell u!

Then we visited Chikan Tower, one of the tourist spot in city centre

Built in 1653, during the Dutch colonial rule, Chikan Tower was initially called Provintia which meant eternity in Dutch. However, the tower was renamed by the Han Chinese as 'the tower of savages' or 'tower of the red haired Barbarians'. The Chinese called it in different names such as Chikan Tower, Fantselou and Honmaulou.

We then walked around the city centre. I was amazed at the amount of food shop there, especially shop selling prawn rolls! Prawn rolls are definitely a popular souvenir in Tainan!

It was quite crowded the other day as well.

tried some street snacks!After trying some snacks, we took the train back to Taipei!

The next day, I met up with Anita, my ex flatmate in Manchester.

Anita and I in front of Sogo, take care babe!

Tasty Taro dessert near Tania’s house!

refreshing taste but very filling!

On my last night in Taipei, we went to a local restaurant, Taiwanese called it the 热炒店！Oh my, the food there was simply yummylicious! They sell dishes in small plates.