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ZOMG IT IS A BIT MORE THAN TWO MONTHS TO OUR WEDDING NOW!!!!

The other day, Fat Her was plopped down next to me, crafting copy for our dinner invitation cards.

He wrote, “….daughter Audrey Ooi, husband Timothy Tiah…”

I said, “WAH HUSBAND” and my hair stood up on end wtf.

Time waits for no man wtf.

In just two months I will be married!!! 2012 is a year of change lo so many friends getting married! Mookie, Kimcun, Cheesie, Bobo, Qiuqiu :D:D

In two months, it will be a whole new adventure.  Adventure is out there!

I will be a wife 

Fatty will be a husband 

We will both have two families now 

He might not be my only child now wtf 

Ok I talking rubbish.  Good night all!

So on Saturday we had our pre-wedding photoshoot.

This is the extremely long winded story of how we ended up doing what we did *clears throat

When we first started wedding planning, a lot of people already asked us what we were going to do about pre-wedding shots.

At that point I was so overwhelmed by all the other more urgent wedding stuff (like think what kind of dress I want wtf) that pre-wedding shots seemed so unnecessary and not time-sensitive.

Also, my friends like Bobo were all going for bridal house photography packages.  Fatty and I didn’t feel like doing that because:

1) I’m not a fan of the commercialization of bridal houses

2) the dresses sure cannot fit me and would have to be heavily altered.  Even so, they would not do the hems and I foresaw myself (a) standing on phonebooks (b) hitching up my skirts every 5 seconds

3) we didn’t want to have to do dramatic shots with lightning striking in the background or whatever that seems so typical of wedding photography

I thought if we did a shoot, it’d be something more fun and casual and subtle and totally not dramatic.  Cos our wedding theme is aready Up, if we were gonna do a shoot, I wanted an Up themed photo shoot!

Then don’t know how people kept sending me links to photo albums and photographers.  And I came across a wedding photography company called One Way Ticket.  They offer not just photography but also photo styling (including props and outfits) which was very appealing!!!!

One of the people behind it is Kim from Kiminpink.  I’d seen her blog on and off over the years and I knew her as someone with awesome taste (in clothes and decor) so I had full faith in her wtf.  Also, One Way Ticket is a very new company and while they probably didn’t have as much experience in wedding photography as say, the average bridal house, I chose them cos I thought they would really go all out to personalize our shoot and achieve whatever we had in mind.

And they did lo seriously.  From what I know (although I could be wrong) for other pre-wedding shoots you’d get to choose your location and your outfit and that would be it.  With One Way Ticket, they sat down with us to figure out the people we were and customized the shoots according to our ideas and preferences.

Haven’t seen the  finished products yet but super happy with their professionalism and effort and artistic sense!  And mostly their effort leh they really gave like 250%.

A lot of behind the scene pictures coming up!

They can do makeup too but I prefer to do my own  That’s Kim doing up my hair for the first theme.  We had three in total!

The setup for the theme.

I only wanted one theme with a long white dress and since my real dress is all princessy and poofy, I wanted to wear a simpler, more elegant gown for the shoot.  I told them to match, I wanted something very simple, a little bit antique-y and rustic.  We decided on brown flooring and green and white setting.

That’s Shu, the photographer.

Check out the old bottle crates!

This dress is also from Weddinspired!  One of his rental pieces.  Actually it’s all pinned up at the back -_______- I was gonna borrow another dress from him wan but last minute I thought I looked fat in it WTF so I took this other dress but no time to alter so everything was pinned behind.  I even had a paper clip behind me WTF.

Part of the photo styling they had

With Kim <3  Flower in hair was from her, necklace is mine super old dunno dig out from where wtf.  Luckily it matched the dress.

With Fats.

Then second theme was the Up inspired one!  Kim sourced both our outfits!  Everything in pastel shades.

Fatty’s shirt and shorts are by Gallo by Thian.  Kim handmade the bowtie for him and found the brown suspenders somewhere.  Based on the colors of Fatty’s outfit (pink + purple shirt, yellow shorts), she got someone to tailor my dress (yellow bustier, pink skirt with a purple collar accessory)

My makeup!  Actually same makeup as the morning shoot except my lipgloss was nude.

A close up of the setting

I think I was instagram-ming #efficient

Oh I paired the dress with ankle socks and fake Miumiu shoes wtf.

Another idea Kim had was that since we both blog, she printed out cutouts of our blogs and had us write messages in the middle to each other.  That’s what I mean by customized

This is what 30 balloons look like wtf.

Thank goodness they didn’t ask me to do anything too over the top!  But the team did ask me to manja to Fats and I responded by attempting to throw him a punch -_- #cold #unaffectionate

Then at night shoot!  The theme was Shanghai hahahahah.

Fatty’s outfit is fawesome haahahahha.

Actually it was because I knew we had to do one shoot at night and I thought I wanted to do it somewhere bright with lots of neon lights.  I thought of Petaling Street (Chinatown) immediately so we decided might as well go the whole hog and do a whole early 20th century Shanghai theme.

According to TVB dramas (ahem), at that period, women were still wearing qipaos (the traditional dress) but men had graduated to wearing shirts and slacks with suspenders like in the West.

So like that lo hahahaha.  even had a scarf to stick in his shirt collar.  I wasn’t too sure about the hat cos it looks like Hard Gay to me wtf but the whole look gelled hahahaha.

Kim put my hair up and made me wear (fake) pearl earrings to fit hahaha.

And applied red lipstick wtf.  I’ve never worn red lipstick in my life!  I rarely wear anything on my lips also to tell you the truth and I worried I might look like a vampire after a meal wtf but ok la wasn’t too bad.

From what I saw in the camera, the night pictures looked the best even though I didn’t really put that much thought into it!  We’ll receive them in a week cannot wait

We got the whole world in our hands wtf.

More wedding updates (and some others)!

Lately when people see me all they do is ask me “how’s wedding preparation” and I have to tell them BRB while I go tear my hair out wtf.

It gives me chills everytime I hear someone ask me that T____T

Because I don’t think I’ve done that much leh.  I’m not even that stressed actually.  I’m not panicky at all yet wait until last minute then I die.  I merely get chills because I hate people reminding me what I have to do hahahaha.

My parents and Fatty’s mom also keep chasing me on the wedding invitations eeeaaaaghhhhhhh

Ok talk about chillax things like my hair first wtf.

My bangs are now really long! They reach the bottom of my nose wtf.  But lately I’ve been contemplating cutting them short again because our pre-wedding photoshoot is this Saturday…. and I feel like I’d look nicer with bangs #shallow

When I say out it doesn’t make sense la but I see most brides somehow don’t have bangs wan so I wanna be special and have bangs WTF.

Popped over to 76style just now to do it!

Tadah!

Big thanks to Hikky for always giving me perfect hair <3  Come I give her hickey WTF.

I also redid my extensions (supposed to touch up a few loose ones only) but she said my back ones were terrible too wtf.  And my hair is so short now!  Before it used to touch my waist but right now it’s at my boobs.

When I was there, there were a couple of candidates being interviewed for stylist positions at 76style!  Hikky told me that before she moved to KL to work, 76style in Tokyo put her through multiple tests to make sure she’s fully qualified (and more) to do hairstyling even though she had already graduated from beauty school and was experienced D: D:  And even up till now they still have regular exams for the staff to take to make sure everyone is improving all the time, or at least maintaining the standard.

When I heard that I wanted to tell her to shave my head WTF so skillful shave also sure nice wan.  So if you’re worried about the quality, seriously don’t.  You’ll be in probably the best hands in Malaysia

In other news….

Kitty-chan pooping on Fatty’s head :X

Ahahahahahah damn stupid we were watching a movie on the bed when I turned around and saw this -____________- Don’t know what was going on in (or more accurately, on) his head when he did this hahahaah.

Wedding invites are done!  This is a heavily filtered image.

Design by the immensely talented Chee Ching.

This is the real color.  Front and back.

We wanted something silly and cartoony and Up and Chee Ching is the perfect person for the job.  But then now I’m fretting whether it looks too much like a birthday card rather than a wedding invite.

Oh ya then went with #addiction to Weddinspired to try on my dress.  It’s done!!!!!!!!!  But cannot show you ahem.

Cheesie is also getting married btw! That’s her behind cos we were  playing dress up with Gilbert’s dresses.

Gilbert Ng, the guy behind Weddinspired is also launching a shoe range soon!!!  Everytime I go to his shop I end up playing with all his shoes *wipes saliva with sleeve

His shoe brand is called Gloriously High.  Website still under production wtf.  When released imma update again!

See, playing with shoes.  Super comfortable also.  I think next time I go I wait for him go toilet and steal this black pair wtf.

One of his other dresses.

I liked the picture a lot! But when I went to try I looked extremely fat fml.  I think it was too big for me also but still 

Part of my dress!!!!!!!!! Don’t look so shocked that it’s pink. Have you seen my blog?

1. update my blog layout
2. restart Japanese classes so I don’t forget
3. learn Photoshop
4. take up some form of regular exercise (any kind!!!!)
5. learn how to cook more dishes
6. be a neater person – this one excuses only I think I’ll probably be messy my entire life T_T
7. GET A DOG AND NAME IT BANANA
8. organize my iTunes
9. redecorate our room!!!!
10. frame and hang up all those postcards we bought in New York
11. blog more
12. draw a bubble bath and submerge myself in it for an hour
13. play Bejeweled continuously
14. change my hair color

Duckface is duckfaced.

Title like so drama like that lolol.

Here’s my formspring story.

Bobo for one or two years already had been asking me to join Formspring cos she’s always been quite active on it apparently.

I always said don’t want la cos I was like why would I want to go there and answer people’s questions like very free like that.  Probably the same thing my mom says about Twitter – “who’s so free to go and write about what they’re doing in 140 characters or less” hahaha.

Then one day I realized people like Sophie, QQ and Wendy all were talking about it.  I was like eh isn’t that the site Bobo is always talking about why so much interest let me go check it out like any good blogger wtf.

So I created an account, tested it out…  Not bad wor, I thought.

A big reason why I blog is because I like making jokes and be entertaining.  And formspring seemed like a nice alternative to have because it took up less time than creating a blog entry, and I already had a topic to answer to, no need to think of what to write about.  I also thought it was easier to be funny on fs just because what I wrote had to be bite sized.

So for a couple of weeks I played formspring lo.  Also let’s be honest, formspring lets you talk about yourself unabashedly and who doesn’t like that?

I expected trolls but there weren’t that many actually!

Got some dumb questions here and there and repeated questions which I’d have to answer more than once but issokay.  Fatty and Ooib and Kehrole started playing it too (and Strawberry WTF) and we all formed a nice funny formspring community.

Then the horrors had to come into play wtf.

I saw this on Ooib’s fs one day.

Snake what snake what!  Seriously she thinks I’m stupid in the first place is it get “snaked” by people to be best friends??

I was so angry because firstly, who is this person to comment on the breakdown of a relationship that happened between two people she does not know and has never met in her life?

Secondly, what right again does she have to say that Suet “snaked” me into being friends again?  Again she knows neither of us! With that one line, she implied that:

1. Suet is a snake wtf

2. I’m stupid enough to believe a “snake’s” lies and that after that I or Suet (can’t tell who she means) are pretending nothing happened

3. I’m not close enough to Ooib to talk to him about what happened in their relationship.  Even if I did talk to him, I’m still stupid because I was still eaten by Suet the snake (or whatever metaphor she has in mind)

THEN.  I saw this in my formspring inbox.

WTF!!! Talk about snakes lo!

I cannot believe this person has the audacity to leave identical questions in both our formsprings to get our reactions? As though create trouble on one front is not enough, she had to come  to my formspring to try to incite there as well.

Like I said before, how can she presume to know what exactly happened between the three of us?  Was she a fly on a wall?  Did she install cameras in our house wtf.

Just because none of us spoke out publicly about this does not mean nothing happened.  Suet and Ooib went back and forth for a year or so, trying to figure themselves and their relationship, and of course it was a painful process.

It was also very painful for me because I was caught in the middle between my younger brother whom I guess I’m quite protective over, and my best friend. I was angry and upset at Suet and for a year or so we fought continuously — I was angry and sad, she was sad and dealing with guilt and the prospect of losing my friendship in addition to her relationship.

But this was none of anybody’s business except ours so of course we never mentioned it.  Until this fucker came along.

Then the fella further replied with this…

Serious dafug??? Was she part of the relationship? So clever to say that she knows why Suet and Ooib broke up? Her stupid alleged reason wasn’t even true!!!

Some more she dare say I should not abuse her because she did not do anything to me.  Trying to create trouble between me, Ooib and Suet is not doing anything to me!? And what of her abusing Suet anonymously, in public?  If she can do that, why can’t Ooib or I abuse her back?

Hypocrite.

These were the comments left by Carol and Suet in response.  Suet was particularly upset because she doesn’t have my rhino skin and not used to disgusting subhuman specimens lurking around wtf.

And then there were all these anonymous questions left abusing Wendy also.  When I responded to them and told them off, I got further anonymous comments saying that I should not have published those.  What? I like to publish so I can scold them cannot? Urgh cannot win.

Then last night I got this.

Seriously -_________-

This one I really got angry and answered with expletives wtf which I kind of regret.

Cos this idiot sounded so presumpteous and smug! What’s with the “can we conclude” WTF?

And who is “everyone”? How can she conclude this when everyone I know sends in job applications through their contacts!?

Stop kidding yourself la.  I don’t know if he/she is lying la, possibly not but then how would I know?  Didn’t even leave a name it could be anyone for all I know, and I would never know if what this idiot is saying is true.

I don’t get the logic at all! Then what if you send resumes through jobstreet or jobsdb? Are those not connections too?  Or headhunters?  What on earth is supposed to be bad about sending in resumes through people you know!?

There are even companies who reward employees who pass on their friends’ resumes and their friends get hired.  Then what are they doing? Bribery isit?

Her logic numbs the mind wtf.

And seriously so what if he/she got their job by themselves? How does that make them better than everyone else?  Does that prove that you’re more capable, more honest, a better team player, a kinder person? No it doesn’t.

Then someone else said this..

So I replied the above.

Then I got the below.

God.

This makes me lose faith in humanity a bit wtf.

I always thought people were inherently nice or relatively intelligent that they can be reasoned with. Formspring proved me wrong wtf.

Although there have been tons of nice and insightful comments (sometimes unwarranted cos I think they view me in a better light than what I really am), I didn’t realize there were also so many judgmental souls in the world.  People who are so quick to jump to negative conclusions about others, so eager to think badly of other people.  And people ever so ready to leave an anonymous sentence or two to try to anger or hurt others.

Wendy and Qiuqiu always talk about The Secret, which bases its theory on the law of attraction.  Law of attraction states that if you surround yourself with positivity (think positive, do positive, be happy for others, etc) positivity comes back to you, and vice versa.

Of course I don’t know if it’s true but I like to believe it is.  It can’t be healthy thinking and doing negative pessimistic things what, even if bad things don’t necessarily happen to you.

But if the law of attraction is true, f all the people above’s lives wtf cos they’re just screwing themselves.

I really don’t need to listen to all this and get irritated by hypocritical cowards lo Already not much free time want to spend it on this unpleasant shit ah!

So Imma quit it.  At least for now.  Babai!

Another lazy-mazy picture post!

Finally reorganized my accessories box.

Did eye mask!  The lengths I’ll go to nowadays to preserve youth

Tried  to slap one on Fatty but he refused >___>

Photo of me that doesn’t look like me.

Went a bit crazy at the Topshop Personal Shopper launch the other day :X They gave us vouchers so I went mad wtf.

Bustier and denim jacket from Topshop, leather shorts from Azorias.

-______________-

When I wasn’t looking, Fatty took my phone and changed his own name to this WTF.  Then he called me at work.

I took my revenge! When he was showering, I took his phone and changed a bunch of names HAHAHAHA.

My name became Throbbing Penis (HAHAHAHHA), Nicholas from Nuffnang had two contacts and I didn’t know which was the right one so he became Buttock Hair and Man Boobs HAHAHAHAHAH.  And Michelle (sorry Michelle) became Mama Mia Santa Maria because I heard Fatty coming out of the shower and panicked and simply keyed that in hahahahahaha.

Super love this EMODA hairband!

Same jacket! Bought few months ago but found myself wearing it repeatedly recently only!  Shorts from Bangkok, white tank top from Forever21 I think.

See jacket again.

Saved best for last!

No harm showing this la hahahaha.

A few months ago, Chloe from Queen Chloset contacted me and asked me if I had anything planned to wear for my registration of marriage (signing paper to be legally married, not real wedding) and I said no.

She sells corsets so she suggested putting together one of her white corsets with a skirt to mimic a short wedding dress.

I was worried about corsets looking too slutty but she asked me to try one of hers on.  The above picture (on the left) is a close up of it.  Quite sweet demure and not cleavage-y at all!

She let me try on a skirt she created herself which she thought would match me.  She is fucking talented and handmade the entire thing out of tulle!

It was very frothy and ballerina-ish!  I thought it was awesome but Mummy Ooi had her concerns about looking like a swan wtf.

So Chloe revised her design.

Tadah! I put it on and I was stunned.  Entire skirt is handmade!!!  It matched the corset totally it looks like a dress! I couldn’t believe it and kept asking her how she made it and what did she study was it retail wtf but she said marketing wor.

Where got people so talented!  I wouldn’t know what to do I’d just cut two pieces of cloth and sew them around my own pepet if it came down to it wtf.

This is still not the final version cos she has minor stuff to tweak but it’s like 95% there.

So now I have this pretty doll=like dress to wear to sign ‘I do’ to Fatty thanks to Chloe and Queen Chloset. Thanks Chloe you’re amazing!!!  Check out her site for corsets all very good quality and pretty! I was thinking if I should get another one for uhh…wedding night. HAHAHA.

About a billion years ago I wrote a “What’s in my bag” post.

I swear I wrote it but now I can’t find it even after intense googling….

Ok I found it. Couldn’t find it at first because stupid me titled it “tag heuer wtf” WTF.  Here it is.

So I’m updating what’s in my bag, 2012 edition.

Read my old post for reflection purposes and god I must say there was so much pink wtf.  And I was so different I hated wearing black.  How times have changed wtf.

Ok here goes.

My bag!  Stupid Fatty behind hahahaha I was laughing cos I saw him.

Loose white tank top – Forever21, denim jacket – Topshop, ripped denim shorts – Bangkok

Super love denim now it’s like my leopard print obsession last year when I kept buying all items in leopard print.  Then become very hard to wear together wtf.

Love this bag!  Addiction helped me buy it from EMODA the last time she was in Tokyo.

Speaking of EMODA and Addiction (and Qiuqiu) they both have a very awesome offer that will take them to Tokyo soon!!!!!! Don’t know if I can say this wtf so no details.  But very happy for them!  If we weren’t friends I’d be bitter wtf.

There my bag items!  These are the usual things I carry with me at all times.  Actually I lie.  The packet of tissue on the bottom left is not something I usually carry with me.  I just thought I should pretend to be more of a woman than I really am.

First up, wallet.  Wallet is obviously a must have because what else would you use to bribe policemen? HAHAHA I keed. Or am I?

Wallet was a birthday present from Fatty three years ago <3 It’s getting a little bit scuffed up now but I loves it a lot.

Makeup pouch! Addiction and I were buying YSL makeup (acting rich) at Kansai airport and we got free stuff!  One was this makeup pouch and the other was eye serum I think so we split the goodies.

It’s a very jarring black against the rest of my things wtf.

What’s in my makeup bag which is in my handbag. Bagception wtf.

Quite standard stuff.From left to right: Heavy Rotation lip gloss and Canmake lipstick.  I only look good in nude lip colors so all the ones I own are same color wtf.

Then a Charmmy Kitty mirror from my host sister.

Eye makeup corrector cotton buds – my eye makeup is always running so these are good to fix my eyes halfway through the day.  They come loaded with makeup remover and what I have to do is break off one end to use. So convenient!  Got it from Sasa.

Above that is liquid eyeliner from Urban Decay in case I need to touch up makeup (usually if I’m going somewhere after work)

Then a Hello Kitty pendrive from Akihabara.  I love it! Until now I think it’s the prettiest pendrive I’ve ever seen.  It cost like 2000 yen.

Then Hello Kitty bandaid case with HK bandaids.  From a Sanrio store in San Francisco.

Below is a bottle of eyelash glue I bought in a hurry outside Platinum Mall in Bangkok cos my lash fell off wtf.

Then Loccitane lip balm from Cheesie’s kareshi :3 He super nice wan la when he was going after her he bought her stuff, but because I was with her (must think I’m damn irritating wtf), he also bought the same stuff for me WTF?? Where got people so considerate wan!

My office tag (I slotted it into the pink card holder).  Card holder was also from Tokyo.  I like attaching lots of things together so the bigger it is, the harder it is to lose.  Carebear was a present from another friend, blue bird thing is actually another pendrive from Churp Churp, and that black device is what I use to log in to Internet banking (it’s a security device)

My camera and its pouch!  It was originally my makeup pouch but it fit my camera so well so I put them both together happily ever after.

I just got the camera recently! Thought very long if I should get it (because I was surviving with my iPhone) but the last straw was when I went for a food advertorial and my iPhone couldn’t take any nice pictures of the food #failblogger

Keys. Again, notice the trend of attaching things together.  Hello Kitty key cover was a souvenir from Cheesie and Wendy when they went to Tokyo (again Tokyo wtf).  Domokun is from when NHK came to film Tokyo Kawaii in KL.  Key chain is also Hello Kitty from Universal Studios in Osaka when me and Cheesie went recently.  Also super pretty.

My Kindle <3 From Amazon.  I’m getting a bit tired of answering people repeatedly about where I got my Kindle.  I got it from Amazon!  It’s an Amazon product so that’s the only place you can buy it.

I also bought the leopard print decal from Amazon to decorate it cos it’s default color is an ugly dark grey.  The pink bow on the corner was part of a old hair elastic.

Sunglasses.  Just bought from Aldo very cheap RM30 wtf.  I don’t usually like wearing sunglasses but recently I don’t know if I’m getting old or what but whenever I go out in the daytime I feel like the sun is so bright T__________T

Bright until I cannot see properly and it hurts.  *prays this is not a cataract

Aih I hope it’s not astigmatism either.  But for now sunglasses make my eyes feel better.

Random pen bought from Curve flea market in case I need to fill anything out / or go meeting forget to bring stuff.

Ipod touch.  Started using it again because I cannot stand the battery of my iphone anymore -____- Each iOS update I download decreases battery life more and more kns.

I play a lot of games so the ipod touch is useful.  For everything else that requires a connection just use back iphone lo.

Phone itself.  Just changed from my black and white MURUA case to a pastel pink one.

This is the back.  So cute right <3 Got it from my supplier Eric Soong.

I actually thought I had more black than this.  Now I scroll through this whole post everything is still pink -___-  Nothing changed from 5 years ago actually.  Older but not wiser wtf.

I’ve never really talked about this before.

I’d always been  very reluctant to refer to myself as a blogger.  Like I don’t go around introducing myself as “Hi I’m Fourfeetnine” or “Hi I have a blog” wtf cos I don’t know I just think it sounds gross and presumpteous.

Like how embarrassing is it if I say “Hi I’m a blogger” cos it sounds like I expect people to know me and it’s most likely they won’t wtf.  I think only people like Xiaxue and Cheesie can say this and not sound like douchebags.

Also, bloggers get a bad rep in Malaysia leh.  They even made a Youtube video called “Shit Malaysian bloggers say”

People who don’t blog tend to view bloggers as kiasu, greedy, pampered and arrogant.  And as much as I hate to admit it, a lot of the stuff in the video is true.  I’m guilty of some of those things also wtf.  But that’s a story for another day.

The point is, I don’t like referring to myself as a blogger.  If I had to, I’d say I blog, or I have a blog.

But then the other day I was thinking.

On Formspring I get a lot of comments, some asking me why I’m so lucky and why my life seems so perfect, and others saying they want to start blogging too how to get higher traffic yadda yadda.

Obviously my life is not perfect la shit.  Did you not read that entry about me crying due to pressure wtf.

But I do realize that I’m very lucky in most things!!! And that my life is actually really good!  Don’t count stupid random suay things like car door always bang on my leg or vehicles always break down wtf la those small problems make way for the greater good of my life wtf.

Like I was thinking about my bridesmaids.  Here’s how I met all of them.  (Someone also asked me to blog about them so here it is!)

1. Angela

Met at Mount Holyoke.  Add water and get instant soulmates wtf.  Did everything together including studying abroad in Japan and remained soulmates.  Separated for nearly four years now but we’ve both evolved and grew up in the same way and we still complement each other perfectly.  She even has her own category on my blog called AngieEntry wtf.  And now she’s my maid of honor.

2. Suet

Met her because she was dating Ooib.  Didn’t like her at first WTF.  I thought she was rude.  Actually she was just awkward and uncomfortable wtf.  Only got closer after Ooib left for the States because she was so used to coming over to my house that she still came over to hang out after he was gone.  Also probably because she missed him and we look alike WTF.  She later applied to Mount Holyoke because I was there.  Bonded because of (among other things) blogging.  She also introduced me to Nuffnang.  Our friendship survived through graduation, moving back to Malaysia, the SuetBaz breakup, to today.

3. Tze Ching

The fake story: We met through our ex-boyfriends.  Real story: We met because the three of us (me, Suet, Tze) read each other’s blogs and Tze at that time had the best permed hair out of anyone I know up till today wtf. Suet met Tze first and later introduced us.  We made up the fake story cos we thought it was very lame to meet people through the internet HAHAHAHA. We clicked instantly.  And somehow although both of us are the most selfish people we know, we’ve managed to be close friends for years and through long distance (she lived in the UK for a few years) without fighting wtf.

4. Jammie

Met through Tze whom I met through blogs.  Do you see a pattern here wtf.  Jammie is two years younger but she started work early so she became my confidante when it came to work, office stuff and money matters.  Tze and Suet were out of the country so it was Aud and Jam forevertogether for a time… until she moved to Melbourne.  She missed us so much she came back like a year later and we’ve stuck around ever since.

5. Hui Wen

Also met her through blogging wtf.  We read each other’s blogs, and when I went to Melbourne to visit my then boyfriend, I met up with her and there were instant sparks wtf.  So much so that we laughed the entire time we were touring the Melbourne Gaol (not very funny place actually) and all the way till nighttime into a club and up a podium where we danced so vigorously we forced everyone else off WTF.

6. Cheesie

Met her because I was meeting Kenny Sia (ALSO A BLOGGER) and she happened to be with Kenny.  I should add that Hui Wen and Tze were at the same gathering.  And that Kenny was the one who bought me my fourfeetnine.com domain <3 Cheesie’s the only one of my friends whom I didn’t instantly click with…for two years wtf.  We’d meet each other at events and be friendly and take pictures together but we never kept up the friendship beyond blog events.  I thought she didn’t like me and she thought I wouldn’t want to be friends since I already had Tze, Suet and Jam.

We were talking about this and couldn’t figure out when we made the jump from acquaintances to #addictions and I think it was one time Fatty and Ming went to Tokyo with Cheesie and Xiaxue for work.  I couldn’t go because I had no days off -___- so Xiaxue and Cheesie very very kindly bought ALL the cute stuff for Fatty to bring back home for me ^^ And that was the turning point of our friendship wtf.

7. Wendy

Obviously meet Wendy through blogging la wtf.  The first time I met her was at NAPBAS and I was super star struck and honored wtf.  Then pretend to act very cool and relaxed when she said she reads my blog WTF.  I don’t know her as well or as long as my other bridesmaids but she was so awesome and helpful about wedding stuff (and buying me presents from Tokyo) even though she doesn’t need to do any of that.  Plus we clicked cos we are both damn gossipy and shared mutual love for pink.  (She hates me and Cheesie now for going mode)

8. Bobo

Also through blogging!!!! She read my blog and replied me on Twitter so I followed her back because I thought she was pretty and I liked her clothes #shallow.  Then one day she tweeted a photo of a pink polka dot suitcase and I was all “WHERE DID YOU GET THAT YOU HAVE TO TELL ME” and she told me Taiwan, and proceeded to buy another one for me and lug it all the way back to Malaysia T_____T And thus friendship blossomed wtf.  I remember her first question to me was “do you speak Mandarin”.  I said no and thought it wasn’t going to work out wtf but of course it did hahaha.  She and her fiance Jo are Fatty and my double-date couple friends.

DO YOU SEE WHERE I’M GOING HERE.  Blogging to me is not just about the freebies and sponsorships and fun opportunities (although they are undeniably awesome).  It’s beyond the journal that it is to me too, although the memories in here are invaluable.

It’s about all the people I’ve met through my blog T___________T If I didn’t blog I’d never have met so many of the people who are so important to me now.

God I might not even have gotten my job WTF because my bosses knew I was a blogger and thought I might have a fresh perspective on social media and advertising.

I’m so glad I started up that blogdrive blog eight years ago.  Who knows what my life would be like right now if I didn’t?

Which brings me to …

9. Fatty

Met him the same time I met Cheesie.  Complete story here.  I’M GOING TO MARRY HIM.  HE IS STUCK WITH ME FOR FIFTY YEARS OR SO.

Need I say more?

Happy 8th Birthday, Fourfeetnine.com!

Today was a very productive day for wedding prep!  Actually wedding preparations have been going quite well, so much so that I’m thinking you don’t actually need a year like everyone says to plan a nice good sized wedding.

(say only later choi tai ka lai si some shit happens and I go into hyperventilate mode)

1.  Theme

Fixed our theme!  Actually we already decided on our theme a long time ago.  But I kiasu didn’t want to tell anyone about it in case they steal our idea WTF.  But now I realize it’s a better strategy to announce my idea here first so if anyone does it, they read my blog and copied me *bridezilla.

Anyway, our theme is… UP!  As in the Disney/Pixar movie. Is that awesome or is that awesome?

We didn’t want anything very elegant or romantic because we’re totally not like that at all.  We wanted it to be fun, cheerful,very colorful, and a little bit quirky and cute!  Plus UP is like my all time favorite movie wtf.

So most things in our wedding will allude to the theme and its elements!

2. Wedding Planner

With theme sorted, wedding planner also kautim.  Our planner is only doing the decor because we didn’t need them for everything.  We found most things ourselves – venue, dresses, photographers, videographers, etc.  So our planner’s job is really to transform the ballroom and translate Up into a wedding dinner.

3. Invitations

Work in progress wtf.  Working with the very talented Cheechingy on this so I guess from her blog you can tell what the invites are gonna look like.

4. Bridesmaid dresses

HAIYO this one fan dou sei I tell you.  Initially Hui Wen’s manufacturer in Korea was supposed to produce eight bridesmaid dresses for us.  Because the theme is colorful, each bridesmaid is supposed to have a dress in the same design but different colors, all colors of the rainbow.  Then now he come and tell us he cannot do it, each dress would cost us USD300 WTF CRAZY.

So now I’m kind of at a loss T_T The easiest thing would be to buy dresses from a blogshop of Forever 21 or something.  But it’s nearly impossible to find eight colors of the same dress ANYWHERE. So yalor this is my dilemma now.

5. My wedding dress

Went for a first fitting with Gilbert today!  It was too tight WTF.

I could put it on but I couldn’t breathe in it fml.  Going to send it in for alteration and a bit more detailing and that’s it! Besides that, it’s absolutely gorgeous and I’m so tempted to post pictures here but bridegrooms are not supposed to see the bride in the dress before the wedding day right!?

I keep taking out my phone and looking at the pictures *crazy.  Then using my hand to block the screen so Fatty won’t see wtf.

6. Wedding shoes

Gilbert is also launching a shoe collection soon (besides his usual wedding shoes)!  Help him pimp a bit ok.

I tried on the above sample pair (pink and black polka dots are my weakness) and now I super want a pair!  Thinking if I can wear this with a short dress for registration of marriage or something…

He’s already designed a pair for me to go with the white dress though.  Still in production.

7. Evening gown

Settled on a design so it’s going to start production soon.

8. Booked a Kuah for tea ceremony

I was trying to decide if I should wear a Chinese kuah for the tea ceremony.  It seemed quite expensive event to rent, and besides most of the kuah in stores were quite big and I look like someone shone a shrinking ray on me and I shrank but my clothes didn’t wtf.

But Mummy Ooi found a shop in SS2 that specialized in wedding paraphernalia including kuahs.

Went to have a look today.

This was my favorite design actually. The red is a bit deeper and I like the colors of the embroidery.  But it was a little big at the shoulders

Liked this one on the mannequin but it looked so garish when I put it on!

Hated this one on first sight cos of all the gold thread but when I put it on it was the nicest!!! D: Don’t judge a kuah by it’s mannequin wtf.

This also fit the best and it was quite inexpensive to rent!

So I’m wearing a kuah

Mother said my blond hair makes me look like an ang moh wearing Chinese dress -_-

9. Said no to buying chamber pots

It’s tradition for the parents to give the daughter a chamber pot wtf but this is where I draw the line.  Where am I going to keep a potty -_-

Parents stocked up on red umbrellas though.  Apparently when the groom goes to pick up the bride from her house, she has to be sheltered with a red umbrella when she’s walking from her house to the car.  The umbrella is supposed to block the view of jealous goddesses who might be jealous of the bride HAHAHAHA.

I’d take having special powers over being a normal human bride any day wtf.

10. Went to wedding dinners

Practice makes perfect wtf.

Fats and I at Weng’s wedding.

Me and Bobo!

Just as I moaned and groaned about my stressful life, things suddenly started looking up!

If you read Xiaxue and Bongqiuqiu, they’ve both talked about the power of self-affirmation to getting what you want in life.  I believe in it cos once Wendy and Mike were in KL staying at our place and their car broke down just as they were going to leave for Singapore FTL.

Mike was trying all sorts of things to figure out the problem/fix the car/whatever but it didn’t seem to be working.  Then Wendy asked for a piece of paper and she wrote down like twenty times for their car to work and to get home safely and the car suddenly started up and they left and made it back to Singapore safe :O :O

So ever since then I believed it.  I’ve never practiced it consciously though but I can’t help wondering if I do it on a subconscious level cos I always believe everything will turn out fine in the end.  And so far (touch wood), things always have

I think the period just passed and I’ve never been so relieved T____T

Last week I was asked to speak on professional etiquette at Monash University!  Why me? I also don’t know wtf.  I also asked the organizers this wtf.

But I was asked to speak about makeup in the workplace so it made sense!  I have a full time job and I like makeup so I guess that makes me an expert ahahhah.

SOme of the attendees!  Later on more people came to fill up the space.  That’s Fatty who came to support me wtf.

With Hui Wen! We did the ‘workshop’ together.  I talked about makeup and hair, while Hui Wen, coming from Azorias, spoke about dressing.  Actually not really workshop la we say until damn good wtf.  It was just a talk given by two girls who have corporate experience and vain experience wtf.

With Amanda, my student model  I did a makeup demonstration on her.

I put super super light makeup on her only! (as befitting someone in the corporate environment)  I slapped on some BB cream and concealer on her, then defined her brows a bit with pencil, dabbed on light eyeshadow, lined her eyes and mascara and brushed blusher across her cheeks.

And got the shock of my life cos she transformed utterly under my brushes WTF.  Seriously I was quite taken aback at the change such little cosmetics made.  Ah the power of youth wtf.

I swear to god I have to use double that amount of makeup to look like how I do on my blog.  FML.  And she’s only like… six years younger than me… Maybe the need for makeup increases exponentially each year you age.

Us and the team behind the workshop.

Do you see my cape top? Look like Momoko Ogihara’s one ornot!

Mine is a super accurate inspired version from Azorias

Can wear it three ways –  as long sleeves, as a cape, and as a sleeveless top.

Another picture with Amanda!  Forgot what’s her surname.  Should be Young. Lolol.

Photo from a couple months back. Company had a charity run.  Please look at the effort it takes for me to smile at this point.

Every year we take a day to do something for charity and this year FML we had to collect donations and run a marathon.  All donations go to charity.

This concept baffles me completely.  We used to have these runs in school too where we’d have to collect money, then run and proceeds would go to school renovation or something.

Why must I not only go around asking people for money but then kill myself running after that? Why would anyone give money in exchange for me running?  Why – if you want to be kind and charitable – would you then be unkind by expecting other people to run for the money wtf.  It just doesn’t make sense to me.  But then that’s what everyone does.

As it turned out, I donated money to myself wtf.  So essentially I paid money to run.

We gathered in the middle of the night for the run.  If you think I’m exaggerating, it was 5am.  So there wtf.

See my tulan face hahahahaha.

Broke out my running shoes for the first time ever.

Also broke out my trusty baobei umbrella HAHAHA.  I think the organizers wanted to kill themselves looking at me and Bobo running with umbrellas.

What! Wedding in a few months ok cannot afford to look like a laborer on wedding day.

The umbrella must have slowed me down a bit because uhhh… Bobo and I came in last WTF.  I think Bobo wouldn’t have been last but she stayed behind to accompany me and give me motivation wtf.

We were so slow that the organizers were rolling their bikes behind us cos it was too slow to ride hahahaha.

And when we finally reached the finish line, the people there were just standing by waiting to close the gate after us hahahaha.

I was hoping for a standing ovation or something when we finished — cos last but it’s no mean feat ok! Like maybe people would applaud us for not giving up even though we sucked so much and completing the race.

But no.  When we reached everyone else (like 200+ people wtf) were chilling and eating and the gatekeeper looked bored and annoyed with us.

Never mind!  We got certificates proclaiming we’d finished 6 kilometers!!! And biscuits yum.

Moving forward! With Tze at the Topshop personal shopper launch today.  Forgot to take photos of the launch -_-

Cos I was too busy getting my nails done!  It was a blessing man.  My nails look like shit cos I haven’t done them since my birthday so I jumped at the chance to paint them with Topshop nail polish.

Mine was turquoise and Tze did coral.  So spring/summer right!

Really wanted this sheer tunic top!  But thought it was too expensive so didn’t get it T_T I’m trying to get rid of my spendthrift reputation ok wtf.