GDL aka Guo Da Li

This one of a must for chinese wedding. By right, the male should get his dad, brother and a Mei po to come and ask for my hand in marriage. But due to some reasons, my poor darling come all by himself. Luckliy, mummy dun mind. And She even took a day off to help him.

By right, someone should help him carry all the things to my house. So in the end, I had to help him. Look at all these things, Cakes, 2 big heavy baskets.
This are the things the groom must give to the bride:

1st level: Me Sua, Gan(even nos of oranges), Pin Gin(ang pow), Yang Er Yu niu(ang pow), Si Dian Ji and Sweets.

2nd Level: 2 set of Long Feng Zhu(candles), 2 pcs of red cloths and sweets.

3rd Level: 2 Martell and 12 cans of pork leg.

And Over 25 boxes of Xi bing(cakes). The number is consider very little already.

My Beloved mommy, and her baby gal that is getting marry.

This are the things the bride give the groom. Yes alot of more things than groom to give the bride. That matteress sheet alot cost my dear mommy, almost 900RM. Thanks to my parents for doing so much things for me. I love them.

Look at how happy he is when he see so many things. hahaha!!

Wedding Album

Here is the Photos for my wedding album, the actual album looks better as there are more special effects and computer backdrop. Silly me I should had ask for the soft copy for that as well. Ah well, but I think I had a very good deal with this Bridal studio, Elegance wedding studio. They are located in JB, Taman sentosa. Thanks to my dad and mum, for going throught all this sourcing for the right bridal. In the end, we chose them for their good service and the package that was given to me. 3 wedding album that is a lot. and 30 poses. It is worth the money, and it is better than Singapore one. My personal view.

I'm Back In action!!!

Haha.. It had been awhile... Do you miss me? Muhahaha

Let had a quick updated what had happened in my life so far.

Back Track:

Before returning to Singapore on the 20th Aug 2008, I had baked a cake for my dear. Well it is his 32 Birthday. Muhahaha. Hi there "old man".

I know his fav food is Jiao Zi. So I decided to make him alot of them. And of course bake him a cake. Well with the limited resources, like beater, pork and etc. But not to worry, I solved most of the problems. I found a German Butcher, that sell only Pork and his pig is very save. As for the beater, I use my god speed hand to do the job. hahaha!!!

I made alot in case I'm not around. He can cook them for a quick snack.

The big one is Him and the small one is for me.

I prefer homemade Jiao zi. I can place as many fillings as I like and any fillings I like. Look How big it is. haha...

My pineapple turnover cake for his birthday. Happy Birthday my dear!!! Love you!!

As my Dear's birthday is on the 18th Aug, and I'm leaving on the 20th Aug. I'm worry that he have no one to cook supper for him so I make a lot of jiao zi and also I make cookies for him to eat. I hope he like,my butter raisin cookies!!

What to do with this cat?

The cage is his sleeping place. He got use to it when living in the pet hotel for 1 months. Sometimes he sleep on our couch sometimes in his cage.

The photo was taken when he's awaken by the sound of my footsteps, he crawled out (exactly like the way Sadako crawling out from the TV), but his sleepiness got the best of him and he gave up half way, and continue his sweet nap!

Despite been living in Cairo for 10 months, the return stir up a familiar feelings: the internal struggling on making choices.

I faces many situation in Cairo that needs me to decide and make a choice, both at work and personal life; whereby a right choice might not be the best choice.

I think it's a process that bothers most of the foreigner. The struggle is amplified when that foreigner is living in Cairo. I can bet on that.

The language, the environment, the culture, the people....sometimes you really don't know who to trust except your loved one.

Our friendly neighbour who is from China and runs a restaurant opposite our house, used to speed his car during mid night after some drinks: His way of venting out his frustration while living here.

I understand it's an even greater struggle for Eve.

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I sold my 2.5 years old Toyota Vios, god blessed and I didn't have to lose too much.

Letting go is not easy at times.

This is my first car that I bought with my "blood" money. It gave us plenty of memories and lead us to many places that we won't be able to without it. It is a great car, low fuel consumption and reliable. Thank you.

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We hired a maid to clean the house. Her name is Lamia (Dear, I wrote it here so you can refer if you forget again ^^). So far she's doing ok, we'll see. We are still waiting for more great Egyptians to walk into our life.

-VinCe

Brief Update

We have returned to Cairo, after a month of whirlwind stay in Singapore.

The house is very dirty, we tried to get cleaner to clean the house before we return but "Hey, it's Egytp!". So, it didn't materialise as planned.

I tried to get the company cleaner to clean today. My face gone black when Eve called and tell me the cleaner didn't come.

The cleaner came to my office later and pull his colleague to help him to appologise to me, telling me that he didn't make it because his baby is sick. Feel quite bad about my anger, again, I shoudln't expect everyone to meet my expectation.

I have too many negative "qi" around me and affecting me after I touched down in Cairo, I need to generate more positive "qi" to fend off the bad one.

PiPi gave me some much needed good "qi", I picked him up from the pet hotel last night and he was so happy to see me, so was I. After 1 plus month not seeing him, he has put on another 1kg and has grown up to be a very handsome cat. His changes in size and appearance make me don't know how to scold him if he is naughty, because he looks like a matured adult now.

-VinCe