050507 *grin*

thank you to all of you who've tagged, smsed, commented, wished in person all your congratulations. =) I'm glad you're able to share Yi Xiang's and my joy as we begin this new phase.

anyway, i promised to blog about Saturday so here i am... actually fell very sick on mon night and have been on mc since... so figured i might as well do something other than lie down and feel fluey.

abbreviated version is that he took me to places that mean something to us via amazing race style with pitstops, clues and tasks. some tasks easier than others... ultimately landing up in church where he proposed!

long version... ahem... clears throat... stretches fingers... (sorry no pics of the various places cos i didn't know it'd end up with such a nice ending... heehee...)

7 am i'm up cos i know xiang has planned a day full of activity... okok, don't laugh now, we were celebrating v-day. yup! u read it right... we figured we'd space out our celebrations with my bday being so close to vday just didn't seem to make sense... so 1st may we decided will be the day we celebrate vday... lol... but of cos as things would turn out, his exams were on 30th april and 2nd may... so we pushed it to 5th may. (here i must say thank you to mervin and huifen because they specially pushed back their pre-wedding meeting with all their helpers just for us! thanks thanks! truly appreciate it!)

so showered, dressed (was given specific instructions to wear t-shirt, berms and comfortable shoes... and i was thinking.. oh oh! what are we going to be doing?!??!) and waited... he appeared early! supposed to go out at 8.30am but he arrived at abt 8.15am...

he looks at me and with a laugh he asked "so, are you ready?" and i go 'uhuh' not knowing what to expect... with that he continues "today you're going to play amazing race!" and i burst out laughing feeling very touched that he actually went through all that trouble and effort to planning an amazing race just for me!

"you'll be given clues and tasks. the clues will lead you to a pit stop, and upon reaching the pit stop, you'll receive a task. there are 9 pit stops, and one of the tasks is a bogus task. you must use the street directory and direct me to get from pit stop to pit stop. if you choose a wrong destination, so be it and we'll just go get lost... (yes his daddy lent us his car the whole day) here's your first clue"

but he handed me the wrong colour envelope... heehee... purple ones were the clues, pink ones were the tasks. so i got to see my first task by accident. it said "buy a loaf of gardenia bread" and being me my mind kept racing and thought of all the possibilities.. were we going to make sandwiches? but the excitement of the day was overwhelming so i just left it at that and waited for my first proper clue.

clue #1

A man dies and finds himself in front of 2 gates, each guarded by an angel. He is told by a voice that one of the angels tells only the truth and guards the gate to heaven, while the other angel tells only lies and guards the gate to hell. He is allowed to ask the angels only one question, after which he has to make a choice and enter one of the gates to face his eternal destiny. Can you help him think of a question to ask?

background to clue #1
when we were in secondary sch, xiang and i would meet up occasionally as friends. one of the attempts to study made me prepare this for him hoping he'd take ages to solve it and thus leave me free to study... but he solved it in half a minute! lol... ah well...

my guess:

serene centre

and it's correct! so off we go... and u see, while i can get fr destination to destination by car, i needed to direct him. problem is when i direct pple it's usually by what i see, and not road names... so that was a wee bit tricky... but serene centre wasn't too difficult. now i was hungry and was delighted to know we'd have my fav breakfast, MACDONALDS!!!! heehee...

so we had a nice relaxing chat over breakfast... just enjoying spending time together... and i got my official task #1 when we were done with breakfast.

task #1
Buy a loaf of Gardenia bread

I asked 'are we going to eat it?' and he just smiles and goes 'maybe!' his fav answer in the last few months whenever i asked if he was going to propose that day... lol... so it was with this same frustrating answer that i had to go buy a loaf of Gardenia bread.

so we proceeded to the Tierney's upstairs and to my horror they had lots of sunshine bread but only raisin gardenia bread! now for those of u who know my eating preferences, you'd know that i don't eat cooked fruit in any form, so the thought of eating that one was a big nono!

now xiang told me there were other options as to where i could purchase the bread... and i mentioned there was a cold storage nearby much to his disappointed cos he had hoped i'd walk all the way to the coronation plaza ntuc... so far!!! but yeah, cold storage we went and this time he was nice enough to nod and say we could get white bread instead of just shrugging and going maybe... after buying the bread (he paid for everything that day) he gave me my next clue

Clue #2
Raphael, Crush, Poke, Koopa, Tickle

i stood there in cold storage, i knew they were turtles... lotsa turtles... so i guessed his sister's room... cos she really likes turtles and tortoises and has plenty of them... that's when he relented and said he'd tell me if my guess is wrong. guess he didn't want me rushing to his house and shaking his sister out of bed saying "what's my next clue?!?!" heehee...

so i was thinking out loud... turtle turtle turtle TURTLE! BREAD! feed turtles at botanic gardens! (this was xiang's fav moment cos apparently my eyes suddenly brightened up as i beamed and held up the loaf of bread, happy to have made the connection)

so as we walked back to the car, with me feeling very pleased with myself i suddenly realised i faced a problem. i know botanic gardens is nearby but how are we to drive there from serene?! so i flipped open the directory and to my dismay all the small roads were just where the maps ended and joined so it was quite hard to tell which road joined where... but i knew we had to go to cluny park road... we came to the t-junction and he asked me, left or right, i peered both ways and whined "i don't know!!!" he sighed and indicated right... hehehee.... whining helps! plus another car was coming so he couldn't just pause at a t-junction when there weren't any cars in our way... heehee... and ta da! we were there!

as we approached the turtle pond, i was wondering what my task would be... would it be to spot the odd shaped turtle we saw last time? or to count how many there were... altho that would have been plain impossible... i didn't know...

background to this pitstop was that we used to love going to that pond and feed those turtles. many like feeding the swans but these turtles are just too funny for words... esp the baby ones! they'd grab a piece and they'd swim away for dear life and i'd imagine thought bubbles going *pant pant pant... mine mine mine! bread mine!*

task #2
Feed the turtles. Take your time, have fun!

heehee... he's too sweet lah... he was afraid i'd just toss all the bread in and rush off since it was the amazing race... heehee... fun fun...

whoa... this is taking a really really really long time to blog... shall keep u all in suspense for the remaining 7... gotta go see a doctor now... stay tuned!!! heehee....