21 Nov - Woke up early and headed down to Alice & Weijian's wedding. Supposed to meet Cui and her friend at Bukit Panjang Plaza at 830am. Ended up the rest were late. Woke up at 7am and only reached Rasa Sentosa at 1028am. The ceremony was supposed to start at 1030am! (-_-''') Hah.
The wedding was beautiful and it was by the beach (first time attending beach wedding!). Alice and her family had everything done from scratch. Apparently, the hotel didn't provide any decoration with the package, but only a small sea-facing lawn for the ceremony. Heard that cash top ups were needed for additional decorations, which weren't too fancy either. Anyway, the wedding was really dreamy. Alice's dad even had the structure made for the ceremony. You know the one that looks like an arc with flowers? The rest of the family members helped with the tree decor, wishes area decor as well as the flowers decor all around. The hotel did provide a nice door gift - Shell necklaces. Kind of enhanced the event because everyone is now deck in a little sea-sidey accessory.
We proceeded to the ballroom for the lunch reception. Alice and Weijian's friends performed too. One couple sang a sweet love song, another did beat boxing (first time to see a person perform that in a wedding!). Amazing. It's really a blessing to have friends who would do that too. Plus, the newlywed did a really cute and creative photo montage, impressive!
Met Sports Club ppl at Ion Orchard at iCanton (first time!) for dinner. It was Cece's bday so we celebrated for her too. The food is not bad, all I can remembered was the fried carrot cake. Yummy! We discussed about the upcoming christmas celebration too. Qijia as usual, chaired the meeting. Haha. Proceeded to Qijia's new home after (first time! I've only been to the previous home). Not his matrimonial home but his parents' home. Not bad. The existing decor is really nice. It was so funny the way he tried to explain everything to us in a discovery channel way. From his newly bought flat to coffee machines. He should seriously be a real estate agent. Sure can sell lots of houses. This guy even had a miniature done up for his matrimonial home using Lego! Sweet! (first time see people do that...)
22 Nov - Woke up at 530am and started preparing myself for the Special Olympics Help-out at Bedok Reservoir (first time there!). That Sihui overslept and we got in late. Sihui's mum came along too! It was fun though. Got to know a lady called Carol who's really friendly and lovely. We were mainly at one of the water station. And in front of us was this huge reservoir and the breeze was constantly blowing! Sihui's mum decided to go for the walk around the huge reservoir (4.3km) and she hadn't come back when we packed after the event. Sihui's mum was really hard at work. The sun was seriously scorching.
Carol headed back to the main station for a leisure run with the rest of the helpers and Sihui and I headed down to the reservoir area to see if we could catch her mum's location from the fantastic paranomic view. We decided to lay down on the benches for a rest. The floorboards were kind of floating on the water, so we could literally feel us floating together. The feeling was amazing. With the water, and the blueness of the sky, it was just heaven. I will come back again with WY!
Sihui's mum came back and we headed to Tampines mall for lunch. First time had a meal with her mum and Carl's Jr too (first time this year! Wait... in 2 years. Hah). Had a nice time chatting with her. Took a cab back to the West and I headed to Ankur's home (first time!). He's my ex-colleague who is helping me with the demo tape recording. Haha.
He shares an apartment with Rajeev (also an ex-colleague and a close friend of my ex-boss). I walked into the house with my slippers. Funny. (So first time too!) Rajeev has a husky called Buck (first time meeting him!) And... this is the first time I did a recording of my voice professionally. So awkward! I had to sing in the hall with Rajeev and the other roomie (his cousin). It was weird. So basically I had this headphone where music was coming in, and I was singing to this awesome mic which looks like something from a real studio. And Ankur was there adjusting everything on his pc, sort of like synchronizing. Haha. Did 2 songs, and he's gonna do them up nicely before passing them over to me. Nice!
Met mum for quick shopping after and told her about BLP. Had a great time catching up. Next, met Sihui & Guobin for dinner at Swissotel Merchant Court for the crab buffet (finally!!! so first time)! GB just went for some chess tournament lo. That guy is really unique. PF joined us after. I had so much food! And people were really aiming for the crabs! Not even trying out the appetizers first(which had crabs too btw). There were so many different favors and I tried most of them. Recommended, but too bad this is the last day for the promo. Next time!
Anyway, I heard a really shocking news yesterday morning before the wedding. The news came from a really close friend of mine. It's shocking mainly because I wasn't expecting it. The news is a pleasant event, of which I'm really glad. I guess the shocking aspect was the way the news was delivered. This is the first time that happened and I do hope there won't be a second time. It's depressing how I can be blinded to things around, which sort of kept me thinking recently. I'm glad it happened, because I now see some blind spots which I can change into visible events.
I realised a decision of marriage is a commitment, may not the biggest issue for any individual, but, it is definitely one of the most important event in a person's life. And wedding does not equal to marriage, because marriage is a life-time journey and a wedding is a 1 or 2 day event. Marriage may end in divorce, but what keeps people from going that way, is the commitment to sustain it, in an agreeable manner sanctioned by both parties. It cannot be considered a game or a tryout, if so, the notion of dating would be meaningless. True, the future is impossible to foresee, but it is this unforeseeable future, which makes the commitment factor even more important. Marriage is a commitment to stay together no matter what happens. It is this objective that keeps a marriage going, and thus marriage is nothing but a responsibility to the person itself. So what keeps two people together? It is the ability to understand truly what commitment is. Which sadly, many do not realise that.
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