Hotel, check! Bridal Studio Package, check!

Well, 15 months away and so far we've settled our wedding banquet place and our bridal studio package.

our wedding preparations happen in spurts. well, for me anyway... i'll be excited and do all my research intensively and settle on something. then boom, select, downpayment, settled. then i'll usually wait a week or two before starting the next intensive. haha...

the next thing on our list, is our wedding ceremony venue. already have a place in mind, so just gotta view it and ping! one more down...

yes, i'm quite an extreme J type personality according to the MBTI test, as such, preparation (in orderly fashion) runs through my veins! lol... btw, my wedding list is all done... every single one of my 100 over relatives, written out in descending age, groups according to families, all done. now just need to type it into a spread sheet and i'm all ready... lol... so far so good...

wanna thank eliza for the lovely surprise gift of a wedding magazine! xiang also got me one... but haven't poured over every single page yet... now it's time to decide what sorta gown i want, but will be taking my time on that one cos wedding shoot won't be till at least middle of next year anyway. =)

had my staff appraisal too and praise God for letting everything go really well. I marvel at how God has worked in my life and at my work place. work will inevitably have trying moments, but i praise God for His faithfulness in all things, and no matter the circumstance, i'm sure that if my mind is focused on Him, He will be glorified through it all.

so that's my life in a nutshell these last three to four weeks. blogging a lot less cos i'm really not a night person, and mornings have been busy as well... so this is a rare occasion that i get to blog on a saturday morning. =)

august - fast or slow?

was telling xiang the other day that august seemed awfully slow. and yet it was such a hectic month! in my experience hectic months are usually deemed as fast!

how odd! perhaps so many things were squeezed into it, that it seemed a lot longer than it was.

take the last week of august for instance. our parents finally met to discuss all the wedding stuff. and with that we were finally able to proceed to search for suitable venues and what have you. in a span of two nights we visited four places... so much so that by sunday when cell members asked 'how'd the parents' meeting session go?' did i pause to realise that it was just a mere 7 days ago.

after visiting four places, and many searches online and requests for bridal packages to be emailed over, we've found our place. going to their bridal fair this coming 23rd, and likely to sign up the day itself.

and no it's not that early (as most pple have exclaimed heehee) cos if u think abt it, it's already september, and our wedding in 2009 isn't in the last quarter, the third or the second. it's 10days into the new year. so nope, not too early in my opinion.

august also saw myself taking on a new mentee and being a close friend's accountability partner. plus my tuition kid's CAs meant going down 7 times, and plus the other tuition kid it was a total of 10 times the entire month. 10 nights of tuition, with 3 nights for mentee and accountability, partner, 1 day to remove a cyst in my mouth and recuperate from mini surgery, celebrated 4 years with xiang, met up with a few friends, wedding banquet venue search took a week... it was truly a packed month.

in the last week, the days i do get home straight after work i found myself going to bed at 8.30pm. nice long restful sleeps they were... just had one last night. lol... looking at my planner, sept is going to be equally busy. but at least no more wedding banquet venue searches.

anyone know any good photographers, church reception caterers and bridal studios?

here's what i thank God for in the past month and a half that i've been missing from blogspot

1. shared Christ with another colleague and she's since signed up for the alpha course! =)
   
2. met up with a dear friend and ex-colleague early aug
3. 4 years with xiang! (wow...)
4. meeting up with my mentee and seeing how God worked in putting us together
5. catching up with a close friend which has resulted in us committing to spend time studying God's Word together
6. swift and painless removal of the cyst in my mouth. it's healing beautifully and really praise God for that!
   
7. helping xiang and i find a suitable venue that we both like very very very much
   
8. giving me the strength to help mum lug groceries around the market and subsequently help dad wash his car
9. the safe return of a cell member from china
10. the answered prayers to a dear friend's fast
11. catching up with a newly wedded friend and learning so much from her... she's like the no. 1 bargain-er!
    

alrightey, gotta head off to work... =)