Thursday, March 03, 2011

More details on Ceremony decoration











I have started the discussion with Kike about the flower arrangement for the ceremony hall, Sponza Palace. I figure it is better to take care of the things that's not time dependent first.
According to what Kike told me, the decoration in Sponza Palace is usually two flowers stands, one at each side of the registrar's table. There will be a small arrangement on the registrar's table and four decorated chairs. The table and chairs will be covered in white clothes. It would look similar to the pictures. I really liked the pillar decoration in second picture. However it requires 8 meters of green garlands and ribbons for each pillar which would be 50 euro x 6 = 300 euro in total. I mean it's nice, but I gotta be realistic here, 300 euro it's more expensive than my wedding gown!! So I gave up on that idea, without even discussing it with Bear. But we decided to have some fresh flower petals on the aisle. It will be a mix of white and dark purple flower petals which will cost 20 euro, much better compared to the 300 euro. I have also asked Kike to prepare our guest some paper confetti to throw at us as we are leaving the ceremony hall.

Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Reception Dinner Entertainment

We have decided to cancel the dance floor and DJ due to the small number of guests and lack of interests in dancing among the guests. I hope this is a okay decision. We figure it is rediculous to spend $1200 if no one is going to use the dance floor, plus it would look a bit sad to see an empty dance floor on the photo.

We have decided that we might use the money we saved on dance floor and DJ to hire a videographer to record the whole wedding. We were originally not planning on having the wedding filmed. But after considering that fact some people can't really make to the wedding due to health reason, we have decided we should record the entire wedding and share it with them.

So right now we need to figure out who would be the MC at the reception dinner. We have a suitable person in mind, hopefully he won't reject. Bear and I had a brief discussion last night about what sort of things we can do at the reception as entertainment. Here is the current list:

toasts, cutting cake, bouquet tossing, garter tossing, chinese tea ceremony....

I think we should also play a few games....but I don't have any idea yet. Since we are not going to have a DJ, we also need to research on what songs are appropriate to play at dinner. I love Beattles....other than that I don't have any idea yet :P

Tuesday, March 01, 2011

Wedding flowers







So wedding flowers....to be honest, as much as I love flowers, I am totally clueless in this area. All I know is that I really like roses. Cliche, but I have no problem admitting that I am sometimes as typical as it can ever get.
Anyway, I understand that I would be the one to know what flowers are for our wedding at the beginning of our planning process (it is not likely Bear will be the one choosing flowers) . For that reason, we picked Kike as our wedding planner, since she is originally a florist. We figure she would be very helpful when it comes to bouquets and decorations.

So recently I have been talking to her about flowers and decorations. At the same time I have been doing a lot of research online, trying to figure out what I really like. There are just too much information online, super overwhelming. At the end, I told Kike our theme colours are dark purple and gold and asked her to give us some suggestions in terms of flowers. She sent back a few pictures for me to look (see the above pictures). I like them all (or I am still clueless), the only idea I have is that I want a tall and semi-sphered top center piece.
As for the bouquet, I "think" I already found something I like but I am not posting the picture so it would be a surprise for everyone. But who knows I might change my mind.

Monday, February 28, 2011

Wedding favours

Ever since we decided to have a destination wedding, we concluded that it's definitely necessary that we put a bit more thought into the wedding favours as a way to show our guests that we really appriciate their attendance.

So the choosing criteria are:
1. we want something that's meaningful.
2. Practicality. Basically, I want to make sure the favour is actually a favour, instead of becoming some useless item that we force our guests to take home and fill up their storage space.
3. Another consideration how easy it is to transport them to dubrovnik.
4. Price. Yes, we do want to spend a little money, at the same time we don't want to break the bank.

Research of wedding favours started from internet, wedding planner, friends who has been to wedding a lot. Here are a few items we have considered so far:

Souvenirs from Dubrovnik such as natural cosmetics and local art work. Local weddding favours seem to fulfill the criteria 1 and 3. They will definite remind our guests where they attend our wedding. The wedding planner kike is able to order them for us locally, so no tranportation problem. However, local art work and practicality they dont' seem to go together. And I don't think any of our male guests will consider natural cosmetics practical. Also as a thumb of rules, souvenirs are never reasonably priced.

Next we moved to consider wedding favours from Taiwan. The first thing I thought of was the traditional pastry that groom's parents would send to all the family and friends. It is a sweet and savory tasted pastry. I didn't know what exactly it is, the only thing I know is that I love eating those, and if I can order some for my guest and save some from myself that would be super nice :)
After consulting with my mother, she convienced me that it is a lot of trouble to ship them to Dubrovnik. The pastries are very heavy. My mom also revealed the myth of the ingredients in the pastry: pork fat!!! Importing meat to Dubrovnik might get my mom into trouble. So this option is definitely out of the picture. There are a lot of little things that I found on line, like little rice gift boxes, small bottle of soy sauce, but again they are just too heavy to ship to Dubrovnik.

The quest of searching for a perfect wedding favour continued. So I was reminded that a while ago I found some wedding favour that was very meaningful, practical, and easy to ship. However, the price was skyrocket so we had to give up on that idea. But recently, I have found someone in Taiwan producing something very similar (with no packaging) for much lower price. I have sent my wonderful mom to contact the person and negotiate the price. Bargaining - that's something my mom specializes, I figure why waste it. So I am not revealing that the favour is since I think there is a very good chance this will end up to be our wedding favour, and I think it's more fun to keep it as a secret until the wedding day.

Are you curious? Come to our wedding to find out what it is!

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

I want an iphone 4

Bear bought himself a HD Desire this trip to Taiwan. Even bear has a smart phone now, I just can't resist it anymore.

I am so shallow, everything has to be pretty, so I am always the biggest apple fan, and I would only go for an iphone. And yes, coz of my ocd, i only want iphone 4, coz the shape of iphone 4 is more consistent with my ipod nano.

My contract with rogers will end Dec 11th 2010. After talking to customer retention, i have got everything i want for 52.98 plus tax.

everything I want is:

500 mb data, 200 daytime min, 2500 text message out, early evening 6pm, call display, voice mail, unlimited canada-wide my 5 calling...

This is the best deal compare to other provider...but the problem now is i need to wait for iphone4 to be in stock....is that going to be forever? no idea...what's the best thing I can do at meanwhile?? I googled about iphone4 availability earlier, someone say they got customer retention to ship it to them, maybe I should try it? anyone has any idea?

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Travel Itinerary-Taiwan, Australia

So...bear and I have been planning this trip for a few months, now it's slowly coming together. I have decided to post our trip plan here, so I can easily share the info with the friends we are visiting. (Also servered as a reminder for the forgetful bear).

Trip Overview:

-Duration: Oct 9th - Oct 31, 2010
-Destinations: Taiwan and Australia

Trip Details:

Oct 9:
-Departing Vancouver at 01:55am Sat, Oct 9

Oct 10:
-Arriving Taoyuan at 06:05am Sun, Oct 10. Connie will pick us up :) and hopefully we can go have some traditional taiwanese breakfast
-Meeting Cathy at Paul's international for brunch at 10:00 am
-Hotel Check in at 1:00 pm
-North-East Coast Tour and dinner with mom's family (meet at 1:30 pm)

Oct 11:
-Jiufen (九份) and Jinguashi (金瓜石) tour with Connie (additional travel info at http://wikitravel.org/en/Jiufen)
-jilong miao kow night market
-go up to taipei 101

Oct 12 - Oct 14:
-Formosa Express Train Tour: depart 8:00 am at Taipei Train Station
http://www.eztravel.com.tw/event/2008formosa/2.html
-Tour Ends at Tainan Train Station

Oct 14:
-meeting Mom at Tainan Train Station in the afternoon and head to mom's home town in tainan county
-Hot Spring at Tainan county at mom's home town

Oct 15:
-Visit Dad's home town in Chiayi county
-heading up to AliShan and stay over night

Oct 16:
-explore AliShan
-Heading to Taichung (yay, I wanna try high speed train) to meet paul

Oct 17:
-sun-moon lake
-heading back to Taipei
-meeting sundy for dinner at 6:30 pm

Oct 18:
-National Palace Museum
-hang out at YangMingShan with Cynthia

Oct 19:
-Explore Danshui

Oct 20:
-To be planned, maybe Shopping before leaving taiwan
-Depart Taoyuan at 11:55pm.

NO SPECIFIC PLAN for Australia yet
Oct 21:
-Arrive Sydney at 12:05pm, Thu Oct 21.


Oct 22:
-Heading to Melbourne in the evening

Oct 26:
-Back to Sydney

Oct 30:
-Depart Sydney at 10:10pm

Oct 31:
-Arrive Taoyuan at 4:40am
-Depart Taoyuan at 11:30pm
-Arrive Vancouver at 7pm home sweet home

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Wedding Card for Cyn





This is the wedding card for Cyn. I feel really bad that I can't attend her wedding, to make it up, I made her a Wedding card. I printed out one of their pre-wedding photo from facebook. The quality isn't super, but it's reasonable (didn't wanna ruin the surprise so I didn't ask them for the photo). Again, first I picked the colour scheme, brown and pink, then I started my design from there. First picture is the front of the card, second picture is the back.

Friday, February 05, 2010

Birthday Cards




This is my first attempt to handmade birthday cards. It's actually quite simple once the layout is picked. I was flipping thru paper craft book, one of the project in that book inspired me to this layout. When I was trying to put together the ideas for this card, I realized the importance of "eyelets". Yes, it seems very small and non-significant, but guess what, this little metal thing is the key to make a card or a tag look much more professional.

This layout is very simple, the most important thing is to pick a colour scheme. From there pick a solid colour paper stock and a patterned paper stock. I made two birthday cards using the same concept.

If you have any comments about my cards, leave me a line. I would love to have feedback from people, so I can get better :)

Thursday, February 04, 2010

here I begin again!

So...I have abandoned this blog for almost 5 years, just yesterday I have decide I should clean it up and really start recording all the fun things I am doing these days.

I think this time around I would have better motivation to keep the blog going, 'coz I don't like to be called a quitter, well that's only one reason, but I decided to dedicate this blog to my hobbies. So it would be mostly about climbing, crafting, snowboarding and cooking.

Anyway, let's hope I will be successful this time :D

Wednesday, August 31, 2005

笨蛋又出現了

昨天晚上颱風來襲, by the way, I am still in Kingston, 對, 就是因為這裡很少會有颱風, 大家都大驚小怪的, superintendent 還挨家挨戶的敲門, 叫大家記得關窗.....晚上也沒怎麼樣, 就下了點雨, 小小的颳了點微風

第二天早上, 草笨蛋, 看到地上濕濕的, 又一廂情願的打起了傘, 往lab走去.......一年前的笑話再度重演....根本就沒下雨, 害我還白白痴痴地撐著傘走在路上 (refer to 16度C的八月天).....改變不了的笨....

其實人常常就是被侷限在一個框框裡, 只看到外表, 沒辦法用心的體會真正的事實, 就算我明明後來也知道沒下雨了......還是想要據續撐著傘.....了解一件事對我並不困難, 最辛苦的是接受事實,但願有一天我會有勇氣, 去接受真正的事實

Sunday, August 28, 2005

軌跡


那一天, 我們很用力的在沙灘上踩下自己的腳印, 是想寫下永恆嗎? 其實晚風吹過的那一刻, 永恆才在我心中劃下不可抹去的痕跡...

Tuesday, March 29, 2005


let me kiss you LuLu!!! Posted by Hello

Thursday, March 24, 2005

Wednesday, March 23, 2005

飛到哪裡 愛在那裡...

在人群中 他們背對而行了
她突然叫住他 他回過頭來看她的笑
小心翼翼的把那張笑臉印在心裡
她揚揚手上的紙袋 大聲的說"剛剛忘了謝謝你..."
短短幾公尺的距離 她卻不自覺地放大聲量
她跟他都懂 是宿命在他們之間放了一段最長的距離

看著她篤定的眼神 他更確定
這是最後一次機會 那麼近地看她笑
紙袋裡裝著的是 他一直想給她的祝福

遠離了喧鬧 她打開了紙袋
是一對love bugs 輕輕在她耳邊細語
"飛到哪裡 愛在那裡..."
"........你們叫我們花媳婦 洋人叫我們love bugs"
"不管叫什麼"
"都是愛..."

她 終於懂了...

Monday, March 21, 2005