Chin Haw & Wendy's Wedding Photos

Continued from here...

I've finally collected all the photos and Chien's video I could get taken during Chin Haw & Wendy's wedding. *Phew* Tough job, considering there were so many duplicated copies and I've to filter them out for the final video.

Anyway, here are some of the photos.. Sorry, selective photos only.. I'll try to get an online photo album to dump all of them in. Anyone knows of a good site?

Ok back to the photos..

The 'heng tais' (brotherhood), all geared up before leaving Chin Haw's place to face the 'chi muis' (sisterhood)'s "punishments"

And they kissed

Chin Haw & Wendy outside Wesley Church before the ceremony

The SAM table

Chin Haw & Wendy pouring champagne

The Sheffield table

And Sunflower House's family photo to end the memorable occassion

Alright, looks like I can start editing for the final video now. YAY! The video's gonna consist of about 450++ slides of photos and many short clips. Hopefully enough to fit into 1 CD. It ,of course may not be as 'changgih'-fied as the one that will be done by the hired professionals, but hopefully, it will be as sweet and memorable as the one I made for the Sunflowerians. ;)

2 Hour Blackout

We had power shortage at about 12.25pm, shortly before lunch break (I couldn't heat up my nasi lemak!). We thought this was normal (power tripping is a VERY common thing in Elid), only to find out that the whole area was affected too. I seriously pitied our next door neighbour, Secret Recipe. Sure make losses... Us? 'Lepak je lar' in the R&D room as darkness surrounded us. Couldn't really go out, anyway, too hot to even want to picnic at the 'taman' in front of our office. Hehe..

Then realized everywhere else also 'kena' - Damansara Perdana, UM, Sunway, Subang, Cyberjaya, Putrajaya, Mid Valley, Bukit Jalil.. Heard that a power generator in Cameron's was shut down also.. Even had trouble making calls from the handphones.. Aduhai.. Thank goodness Bangsar (or rather, my area) was not affected at all!! Coz we've got renovation going on at home! Hhm.. Must be the fact that we chose a good date from 'tong sing' (Chinese almanac) for renovation. Hehe.. Mummy must have been soooooo glad...

Anyway, wanna know the cause? It's due to power tripping in Kapar's power station.. You can read that news here. Other news related to the blackout are in The Star, The Sun, Bloomberg, TV Smith (this is damn cute) and Jeff Ooi. More of fellow bloggers' point of views are in Visa, PapiMami and Oliviasy. ;)

Now that electricity is back, it's back to work for everyone!

The Wedding Dinner

Last night's dinner ceremony was held in Royale Bintang Hotel. Good thing that I was there at about 6pm with Hochai & Chien. Apparently there was a heavy traffic along Jln Bukit Bintang. Most of the attendees arrived late coz of that, so dinner only started at 8.30pm.

Despite that, everything turned out well. The ballroom was very well decorated. Wendy was stunningly beautiful. The Chinese course was not too bad. A presentation on Chin Haw & Wendy was shownr. Their relationship started in 1996 when they were both in Form 5. It went on to both of them attending colleges, then it was the long-distance relationship before he finally came back to Malaysia for good. Then they both started working and now, they tied the knot and are now Mr. & Mrs. Wong.

I've been through long-distance relationship before, so I know it's tough. So much of trust needed, and of course, keeping the communication alive. I would buy a Stg 30 phonecard every week or so just to call sayang, e-mail him as many times in a day as possible, and write letters to him every week. Not forgetting that I had to consistently assure him that there was nothing going on between me and the 5 guyz I stayed with, who have seen me in my best and my worst states. I'm sure Chin Haw went through a tough period as well, and I hope that, in one way or another, I had helped assure Wendy that there were no sparks whatsoever flying between me & Chin Haw. They're the most long lasting couple I've ever known and I'm seriously honoured to be able to share this very historical moment with them. I was flabbergasted when the presentation showed a picture of the 6 of us in our graduation robes, standing in front of the 'University of Sheffield' signboard. ;)

Other than that, I had a lovely time catching up with my classmates from SAM and Sheffield. It's been ages since I last saw the SAM ppl. Everyone is looking good, successful and they're all getting married one by one. These are the people I hung out with during class for 1 year. I realized that I didn't spend a good deal of time with them throughout that 1 year, I just hope that they'll forgive me for neglecting them.

I didn't take much pictures from my camera. But I'm supposed to make a video for Chin Haw, so I should be getting all the pictures from Chien and whoever else were holding cameras. I shall put in some pictures later..

Many Congratulations to the perfect couple I've ever known ==> Chin Haw & Wendy!! May both of you have a lovely honeymoon in Mauritius!!

[Updated] See here for several photos!

The Big Moment

The glorious moment for Chin Haw and Wendy has finally arrived, after all the anticipation that I have blogged here, here and here!! I just got back from the church ceremony. Won't be able to get much rest though, since I'll be out again by 5pm or so to the dinner venue.

Anyway, to those who weren't with us throughout the morning, here's just a short update. The 'heng dai's (yes, me included. Hehe..) gathered at Chin Haw's place before 7am. After all the hustle & bustle of writing a card, writing down the names on the heart-shaped papers that are to be stuck by the car windscreen, tying the ribbons on the car antennas, etc, the whole convoy departed for Wendy's place. That was about 7.30am.

Once there, the 'chi mui's of course, had to block us from entering. "Punishments" were given, like making Chin Haw shout "Wendy, will you marry me?" 2 floors down from where she was "hidden". There were also the eating/drinking part which includes something sweet, something bitter, something sour and something spicy. There is a meaning behind all these. The something sweet was honey 'pau's, something bitter was beer, something sour was super soury yoghurt and something spicy was peas coated with wasabi. The 'heng dai's had to be macho to help Chin Haw finish them all up lar. Finally, they let us in, but before entering Wendy's room, Chin Haw had to sing her favourite song. Hehe..

Chin Haw & Wendy

Then was the tea ceremony for Wendy's side. Ding dong, ding dong, and managed to look through the wedding album. ;) The whole convoy left by 10am and headed straight to Wesley Church.

Chin Haw, in front of the bridal car (Toyota Altis, by the way)

When I first saw the car decorations at Chin Haw's place, I was overwhelmed. They used sunflowers. We only use that as our trademark (hence, we're the Sunflower House), just among the 6 of us. We even bought them a photo album with sunflower designs on the cover (which we will fill the album up with loads of photos). I don't know how to describe what I felt, but, I just felt honoured. Honoured that we mean a lot to them. *sniff*

It was a lovely, lovely ceremony. I felt so blessed to watch one of my 'heng dai's tie the knot. They deserve each other. Throughout the 8 years, I've seen how strong their love is for each other, especially the long-distance part they both went through when we were in Sheffield for 2 years. They're just a perfect couple in any other way! We didn't manage to take a complete Sunflower House family photo, coz Tai Lou and Shirley had to leave after the reception. And because we need loads of pictures for the photo album, we had to make do without them in the pictures..

From L-R: Hochai, Chin Haw, Wendy, me, Aneh and Chien

Anyway, will update again some time later tonight after the dinner ceremony. See ya!

Throwing Confetti to Chin Haw & Wendy

An early Congratulations to dear Chin Haw & his lovely wife, Wendy. They're getting married in Wesley Church in exactly 11 hours time. Oooohhh.. I can't wait for that!!

Just a little something for the both of them on behalf of the Sunflower House...



May your marriage be blessed with eternal love and happiness!! *Hugz*

Ok, time to go get some zzzz. Hochai's coming to pick me up in 6 hours time, we're gonna be the entourage with Chin Haw to pick the bride. Hehehe.. More details later!!