Sat 12 Apr 2008
Woke up in the morning at about 6am, went to help out at my mum's stall till about 12pm. Went home, had lunch and quickly rushed out to meet Darling at Marriott. Purpose of going there: view the wedding workshop conducted by them. Objective: to place deposit for my wedding banquet dinner.
Upon reaching there, saw Darling on the comfy big arm chair again. It's his favourite chair there, everytime without fail, he will wait for me at the usual place in Marriott. It seems to have become our routine as we have been there for like 5 times? When I reached the place, it was about 2pm, headed up to the Grand Ballroom where the wedding workshop is held. Not too many people, or rather not as many as I have expected. I thought it would be packed!
Registered ourselves. Finally got to see Alison (one of the coordinators), we usually go to her when we can't get a reply from Annabel (our coordinator). Surprisingly, she's a pretty young lady. In my mind, I have pictured her to be those very experienced, and by experienced I mean AGE as well. Pretty surprised she's so young, yet much more efficient than our coordinator.
Went into the ballroom after registration. Saw the 3 themes being laid out there. It's definitely very nice of them to lay out all three. You can really see and choose cos' it's the actual layout, effect and lighting for the very night itself. Also, they have launched a new dinner menu and we are given a choice to choose between 2008's menu or 2009's menu. Very flexible of them.
The best thing of this workshop is we get to try the new menu too. There were butlers serving the new menu in the form of canapes. Darling and I finally knew what are canapes. Hee. Fell in love with the prawn stuck into a tomato and the roast pork! Absolutely no fat and indeed crispy! Yummy!!!
We also had a spread of desserts such as mango pudding, cakes, pastries. I love the eclairs and the best of all, I took something that looked like Almond Jelly with Longans. However, upon Darling's first mouth, he told me it's Dao Huay, not Almond Jelly. OMG! Fantastic mix! Yummy!
After which, we paid our deposit and left the place. During our time there, we were 'pestered' by this lady for us to take the MCYS Compatibility Test. Darling was telling me 'what if we realise we are not compatible?' Diao! Then we no need to book the dinner lo! Anyway, after which we left trying to go shopping to find heels for myself as well as black shoes for Darling.
Our shopping spree at Bugis was to no avail. We did not manage to get what we want and we left after our early dinner at Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao. I must comment that the food there is not exactly delicious. Could not match the standards of other outlets e.g. Toa Payoh and also, the service there is lousy to the core! Waitresses are rude! Managers are more rude! Bad bad experience! I will not want to visit them at this outlet ever again! (in my opinion, it may not apply to all out there.)
After that, went home and being the tired and pig me, I fell asleep on Darling's bed. Wanted to wake up at 9+ to head back home. Darling tried waking me up several times but he failed. Lastly, when he said 11pm le baby! I jumped up, took the phone, called home and said.... Tell mum I am not going home. Hee.
Today 13 Apr 2008
Mum woke me up by calling me at 715 in the morning. Headed home, picked my bro up and headed to mum's stall. Helped till about 5pm. Came home, bathed and prepared to tutor my bro. My mum asked me to tutor him all the way till his mid year exams, which is 3 weeks away. I had no choice but to try to help him as much as possible.
I have just finished tutoring him and here I am blogging away. In another few more minutes, I am going to prepare dinner for my parents... Yawns... so tired!
A long dued post... I realized I haven't uploaded pictures of what I have given to my colleagues on my last day with them...
Type 1...
Type 2I personally prefer Type 1... What do you think? Alright... time to go and cook... Ciaoz...
