Hiatus

Looking back at my last entry, it's been a month since I last wrote. Things had been getting pretty crazy over the month and will be getting crazier in next 2 weeks. Just a short note to say I am still alive!

ps: I am getting a bit sad and teary to leave my current home, leaving my dream house and going to another unfamiliar place. 

Long Overdue Updates

I did a check on my last post and oh my..it was like almost a month ago. Things had been very hectic for the past month with my weekends were fully booked for wedding stuff, buying stuff for the house and getting myself the tittle Mrs just last weekend.

Yup, I am officially no longer Ms.Wong. Colleagues and friends asked me how I feel, but honestly, the feeling have not really sink in.

Anyway, the next few weeks will be extremely busy as I have a final fitting for my wedding gown, confirming on the guest list and the photos from the bridal house, guo dai lai and many more. Not sure I will have the time and energy to keep updating this blog.

Oh btw, I had the most amazing hens night ever, organised by the best ever bunch of chickas and yup I am the mother hen, I guess, haha. Wearing a sash with the word Bride-to-Be and a tiara do serve a good purpose when trying to enter a bar full of of people.

By the way, here's a photo from my ROM ceremony. Love my green shoes and gerbera bouquet A LOT!

Table Mountain, Cape Town

I realised I have tonnes and tonnes of travel stories that I have yet to blog and with the current wedding preparations, my blogging time has been significantly decreased. Been hitting the gym almost everyday after work and every weekend is booked until almost the week before wedding. Even my spa has been postpone for numerous times until I have lost count! And very excited for this weekend as I will be going to choose my pre wedding photos and judging from the photos uploaded by my photographer, I think I will have a tough time narrowing to just 50 photos.


Anyway, enough of wedding stuff. This is suppose to be a travelogue long due as this trip was back in 2010 (it's already 2 years).

Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa is definitely one of the must visits when you are in this continent.   What I love about this landmark is that, you can view Table Mountain from far and it's so name due to the physical appearance of the flat landscape of the mountain which resembles a table. We were lucky as the days before, it was raining quite heavily and one of the people we bump into in Johannesburg during the football match told us, he could not see much from the top of the mountain when he was there few days ago.

To get up to the mountain, you can choose to hike or lazy people like us, we choose to take the cable car. One special thing about the cable car is that it is revolving allowing everyone to get the best view of the mountain and Cape Town which ascending and descending the mountain. You can buy the tickets online through this website or risk getting there and queue in a long line. We choose to take the risk and manage to get there in the early morning before the crowd and truckload of tourists start pouring in. The rates can be check from the same website as well.

 

check out the long queue

Props

Just a short update on the pre wedding photo shoot last Tuesday. It was great fun to pose in front of the camera with pretty clothes and makeup. Here's the prop I used for the picnic scene during the outdoor shoot. I replaced wine and food with books since the both of us were geeks in school.

Another photo is the behind the scene of me of being photographed lying on the grass pretending to be pretty, haha. I definitely enjoyed the photo shoot more than the man! Now can't wait to see the rest of the photos.

Sun Moon Lake 日月潭

Just a short post on Sun Moon Lake, the largest lake in Taiwan. The reason why it is named that is due to the shape of the lake which resembles the sun and the moon. 

Photos are mostly taken during the ferry ride between the last stop back to the first stop. The tickets were bought together with the package that comes with the bus ride throughout the lake, tickets to the aboriginal theme park and bus ride from Taichung to the lake. 

Kumari, the Live Goddess

Kumari house from Durbar square

After losing my blogging mojo for the past few weeks, decided to blog something that I enjoy more; travel.

I know it's been almost a year since I visited Nepal and witnessed this event but it still remained one of the luckiest thing we encountered during the trip. Even the guide told us that it is very rare that we can see Kumari so upclose and she's out from her house at Durbar square. Each day, Kumari will appear at her window for only 1 minute and no photos are allowed. So we are very very lucky that we managed to capture her in photo while she's out from the house. According to the guide, she will only be out 3 times a year.

To those who do not know who is Kumari, basically she's a child worshiped as living goddess in Nepal. It is believed that the goddess Taleju is incarnated into young virgin girls and will leave them once they hit puberty. So there is no permanent Kumari and every time the current Kumari hit puberty, a new Kumari will be selected among young girls. So far, according to the guide, these ex Kumari girls remained unmarried.

Here's some shots I managed to get at the current Kumari.

Kumari will appear from these windows everyday for only a minute

Wedding Updates

It's another 3 months to the wedding and many people have ask me how is the preparation. There are plenty of things to do and plenty of things to buy and yet I have not done much preparation in the last few months. I have yet to shoot for the pre wedding photos, have not file for the ROM (now not even sure whether the date we wanted is available), have not chosen my gown yet, have not gotten our wedding band which I am almost certainly sure I will end up with a stainless steel ring for the rest of my life with DeGem or Love & Co only in my dreams :(, have not buy my wedding shoes and I am not even in the mood to hunt for one right now, have not gotten our bed and mattress, have not gotten the curtains because I don't know which colour to coordinate and match the room, have not gone for food tasting, have not printed or even finalise the wedding cards design, so many have nots till I lost count!

Sigh, just thinking of all these things already made me stress, depress and sad. Stress because I have to handle many things on my own. Depress because I could have gotten a better quality on some of these things if the budget for reno does not burst until it can not burst anymore. Sad because I can't even change my handphone although it almost certainly hanged each time someone calls me and because if I do change, I can't afford to buy him a ring. Even super sad because I won't have the luxury of having a shoe cabinet for my shoes.