Monday, September 30, 2013

Something missing before Two Thousand Thirteen

I'm gonna close 2012 with the previous post I guess.

But before that, I realised, I didn't talk about a roadtrip with the girls and the closure of Boiler!

A quick one on that, the girls (7 of us) planned and went ahead with a 3D2N road trip in just 1 car. Dearest Ping drove us 80% of the time. We were headed to Port Dickson. Departed on a Friday night, then head up all the way to KL.

Spent a night in KL, in an apartment style 'hotel' where our rooms were linked. The carpark was creepy and dead quiet. We checked in pretty late at about 12 mid night or so? Head down and tried the famous Oyster Egg which Ping can never have enough of. Really 2 thumbs up for that. Would love to have it again if there's a chance to.

Head on to Port Dickson the next morning. Managed to check in at about 3-ish. Mus say the room is huge. Bathroom too.. and there's a indoor pool! Head out for dinner shortly, 'shopped' at their night market before heading back. We swam, chilled out. 2 of the guys came to visit their darlings all the way from SG.

We checked out the next day, heading back to SG. On our way back, we stopped for the much missed A&W waffles. Head on to a Jap Restaurant in JB for dinner. The 2 guys came in for dinner too before we went back to SG. It was a simple but of course, memorable roadtrip. My first to be exact.

31 Dec 12, was not just a goodbye to year 2012. It was also a formal goodbye to a place i used to call home. The Boiler Room. Having hitting the place for so many years, the friends i've made there, the memories, the fun, the music, the laughter, the joy... had came to a close. St James had decided to close it down for good. It was really an emotional night even till now, I still miss those days... It will be arched as a forever memory in my mind. Missing everyone heaps!

So before I continue to 2013, I'll just link up things a lil' from where I left off.

After the lost of dear Boy, it was Christmas not long after then along came news of Baby's paternal grandma hospitalized which was in late Dec that dragged till early Jan. We're in the midst of discussion on working out our wedding plans. Ping had urged me to sign up a pre-wedding bridal shoot pacakge during our roadtrip and so, baby and i had been discussing on our plans, working on the timeline.

We did ultimately signed up a bridal package without sufficient homework done though. It was a package where we can have our photoshoot done in Taiwan, signed up unintentionally at a roadshow.
The plan was for us to do venue sourcing in 2013 since our INITIAL plan was to wed in 2014.
I had started on shortlisting and contacting some hotels in late Dec, early Jan. Good thing I did. because, baby's paternal grandma passed away early Jan 13. His parents being more traditional, wanted us to get hitched either within 100 days otherwise, 3 years later.

So that's where and how we ended up getting hitched on 7 April 2013.

That's all for now... I'll be updating 2013 in bits... and will try to close 2013 together with the calendar...

Ciaos.