Thursday, December 31, 2015

recap of 2015












the big day (at tim palace)

we reached tim palace! 


we are the most swag wedding couple. btw i forgot to credit the kuas. my costume - red rope and red vest from nuscd, personally prepared for me by fen! darling's kua is from the gown warehouse. 
  

the ballroom! looks nice isnt it? even better than alot of hotel ballrooms, because this ballroom got no pillars at all. i remember one ballroom got alot of pillars. if i am not wrong it is g_ _ _d cop_ _ _ _ _ _  water _ _ _ _ _ .  

i got a surprise by this, that was given to us by my reservist friend, seng joo, who cant come for our wedding. seng joo is my pioneer platoon sergeant. a very hardworking guy and i love him for his humour and straightforward-ness. 

our ang bao box hand-made by both me and darling. so proud of it!

the dancers came early to rehearse!


presenting to you mr ah sen hok fen, the wedding dance choreographer! 


we also rehearse together with them. hahahahaha.

敬茶 to my FIL & MIL~


xuanxuan's turn to 敬茶 to us!


she rejected my ang bao. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. 



still rehearsing at the side while the tea ceremony is going on! the most hardworking dancers i have ever seen! 
  
my sister, audrey and andrea. audrey stand in for elena as the receptionist because elena was still rehearsing. 

xian ming, my mortar PC; thomas, my maths hod, who is xian ming's jc classmate (sg is too small); victor, my science hod


darling's colleagues from ktph

MAJ Sim! my fellow contract teacher at tpss, after that we go nie together and are pe classmates at pess, and both of us are also from armour! the connection between both of us is simply remarkable. 

my sisters-in-law and my niece, xuanxuan. :)

with the dancers from 新艺: peter, regina and sandra!

my student, ya nan. :)

first march-in!



our banquet manager, daphne. she is so calm and so clear in her instructions. most probably is her experience and she must have done alot of wedding banquets. 

my little sis, ellison tan yuyang, who was so good as the wedding emcee. she herself alone speak both english and mandarin, and she herself alone 撑住整个场面. simply magnificent. EVERYONE have positive reviews of her. everyone says she speaks like a DJ and in fact she is a part-time DJ at 100.3 fm! if anyone of you need to engage her let me know! :)
  
group shot of all the dancers before the 2nd march-in! 






removing the cork. hahahaha. i am quite bad at this. 



交杯酒。

the brothers coming up to lead the yam seng! 


pardon my expression. hahahahahahaha. 

my students enjoying themselves during the yam seng. 

our wedding speech. it is the fastest speech ever. less than one minute. my colleague told me everyone was totally stunned that i finish the speech so fast. she said i was too epic. hahahahaha. 

even my little sis also shocked that i finish the speech so fast. 

special performance by xiuhao and wanxin! wanxin speciall wrote this song for both of us! 

the kevii friends! glad to have ray coming for the wedding. i got to know ray through handball, and he trained a few of the kevii handballers to become better handball players. 

my armour friends and instructors! 

my reservist friends! my OC is standing beside me. beside darling is the pioneer pc. sitting from left to right are: scout PS; scout PC; mortar PS; CQ

my wonderful students! doing my trademark pose! 

another table of wonderful students, also doing another trademark pose~

nus chinese dance! i am so thankful to fen for pulling me in to join the nuscd family and from there on i know many many dance friends outside nuscd, and also have many performance opportunities in nuscd and beyond nuscd. 

my pess classmates! love this bunch of people. unfortunately some of my close pess classmates cant make it because they go for hols. :'(

新艺 dance troupe! plus nickson, renee and chinhuat from the 感恩 performance that happened in 2013. 

rhythm n moves! where did derek seong go? hmmmmm... 

my sunday football kakis! 

my jc classmates + tjc wushu friends + tjc wushu instructors

the jc clique! we were very close during our army days and went out together almost every weekend. 

my colleagues. this table is the KP (Key Personnel) table. power packed table. batman is seated right in front of me. 

 another table of colleagues. so happy to see them. :) 

my show choir instructor, deniece, was invited, but she can't come because she was sick. she specially came down at the end of the wedding just to pass me angbao. so touched by her sincerity.

 thank you hiong yi once again for the beautiful flowers. thank you mr nickson for offering us your BMW and your chaffeur services. we are really indebted towards you. 

my lovely students! 

the yong sisters are not just my students. i really treat them as my god daughters. especially audrey, who has done so much for us: taking photos for us in dec 2014; being our photography assistant during our pre-wed photoshoot and helping darling with all the changing plus touch-up of make-up; and being our official wedding videographer.  

nuscd! is there any dance items that all 6 of us do before? hmmmmmmmmmmm... ok i cant think of any. hahahahaha. i did 出路 with yuanyi and xinyi. did 清朝 with zhunian and xinyi. did 我的家园 and sexes in the city with peiyi. too many dancers. too many items. memory getting worse. 

thank you everyone for coming to our wedding. we are so blessed to have your presence, and so happy that all of you are here to share the joy with us. 

thank you so much to the brothers and sisters for making the whole wedding a success. 

now darling and i are preparing for our next phase in life: making babies and renovating our new house! hahahaha~