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Monday, February 13, 2012

2012 Pics #32 Mr. C's Dumplings

Sunday, February 12, 2012

2012 Pics #31 Planning a Hens Night

Saturday, February 11, 2012

2012 Pics #30 Just another day...

... in the city.

Friday, February 10, 2012

2012 Pics #29 The Vow

Prepared tissues but never got to used them...

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Early in the week, our photographer for our special day, Creative Clicks posted this on their FB page. Darren and Sze Ming were the photographers for The Day. Initially, I dealt with Darren but since the meet up onwards, I liaised mostly with Sze Ming, two really approachable and friendly guys. ;)

He informed me last week that our photos should be ready this week. Pretty excited and I can't wait for the outcome... feeling apprehensive about it though. Post wedding and even on that day itself, I felt like I was in a daze, The Day came and gone, just like that. Behind the scenes, it was messy and disorganised at times. Hence, the apprehension part.

I FB messaged Sze Ming if there were many good moments to be captured and if the photos were good, to which he replied,"good photos". Then again, I kid back that he couldn't say otherwise. Well, fingers AND toes crossed!!

I look more like I am doing some kung fu moves. LOL. Not exactly bride model material eh.

In case you couldn't tell, this was Mr. C singing his heart out to gain entrance to the room I was at.

And today, I saw that Nigel Sia of Nigel Sia Visual Storytelling, our videographer of The Day posted up the above picture on his FB page.

First impression: WAHAHAHAHAHA... what's with Mr. C's LOL expression?!!

We appeared in Nigel's blog post, 2011 - one heck of a year! If my predictions are right, 2012 is going to be an even more amazing year for Nigel as he goes on to capture the true essence of each couple's one and only special day, edits and stamps each wedding highlights with his signature and unique style. And I gather, there'll be a whole lot more exciting projects awaiting him!

Yet again, fingers AND toes crossing as I await the clip that summarises The Day. Am curious what's going to be on it... and how Mr. C and I will look. Suave and elegant? Or two little kids playing dress up?

Ps: I will blog more on this team of professionals in later posts.

RECIPE : Aglio Olio Mr. C style

I always thought all pasta dish were complex and required lots of hard work to cook up but it really isn't! ;) This is the second time Mr. C is cooking this dish. It doesn't taste 100% like the Aglio Olio you get from outside but it still tastes YUM! And I am not saying this just because he's my hubby. I take my pasta seriously!

You definitely need spaghetti, prawns, scallops (we just added this in, you can also put in other seafood ie squid) and lots of chopped garlic!

Serving : 2

Preparation time : 5 - 10 minutes

Cooking time : 30 minutes

Simple and easy to follow method :

1) Firstly, boil a pot of hot water. Put a tablespoon of salt and oil into the boiling water.

2) When water starts to bubble, put in the Spaghetti, off the fire and cover the pot for about 7-10minutes depending on what is stated on your Spaghetti pack.

(You can also leave fire on if you so desire but check to make sure Spaghetti is not over boiled and becomes soggy)

3) As you're boiling water and Spaghetti, boil another pot of hot water to cook and 'clean' the prawns.

4) Once water starts bubbling, add in the prawn and leave it in for about 3-5minutes. You don't want to overcooked the prawns, only to rid the fishy smell and taste. Bear in mind that you also have to fry it later with the Spaghetti, so, if it's semi cooked, it's alright.

(uncooked prawns look transluscent and blue ish where else as it cooks, it turns orange in colour)

5) Heat up wok, put 2 tablespoon olive oil, stir fry the garlic and red chili. Next, add in the prawn and stir fry for about 3-5 minutes. After you've sieved the Spaghetti, add it into the frying wok and after 5-10 minutes of continuous stir frying, VOILA!

Your meal, is ready. ;)