Kungfu Movie night and a Special Wedding Lunch

Movie Night, Friday, 06 June 2008

On Friday night, we decided to bring the children for a movie – Kungfu Panda. Both Anthea and Anders has seen the movie thriller on TV and requested to see the movie.

Under the UOB Rewards program, card holder can use their existing points to exchange for instant Movie tickets at Cathay Cineplex, so I thought of using my points to redeem for the movie tickets. And after work, I went to the AMK HUB Cathay Cineplex to book the 3 tickets for the 8.05pm show.

After getting the tickets, I fetched the children from school and went home to change.We had a quick dinner at the coffee shop near our house. The children were very excited when they knew we were seeing the movie. Adrian joined us at the coffee shop as his meeting ended late but lucky was still in time for a quick bite before the movie.

We reached the cinema around 7.55pm and they just started seating for the movie we were watching. We were in luck again...we bought 3 seats for the movie as usually Anders will sit on my laps. The seat at the corner was empty, so we actually had 4 seats and Anders sat comfortably on his own seat throughout the whole show. The show was very entertaining and the story line was quite good. Both of them enjoyed the show whole heartedly. I also had a good time and learnt an important lesson from Master “乌龟” – he said: “yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a Gift, that's why it's call Present.” ..hee!!

After the movie, I think both Anthea and Anders also learnt a new skill – KUNGFU. Both of the started practicing what the Master taught once we reached home...and it was really so hilarious. Hmm..i should consider sending them for martial art class.

Wedding Lunch, Sat, 07 June 2008

This is my 1st time attending a wedding lunch and it seems to be a trend now that wedding couples are hosting their wedding banquet at lunch time. Not a bad idea.

It was the wedding of Avin & Hui Qiong (Avin is the only son of my FIL's youngest brother.) So needless to say, it has to be a SPECIAL ONE. I think special is an understatement, it should be a SUPER SPECIAL AND UNIQUE Wedding... : P

(with Beautiful flower girl, Jasmine)

Usually after the couples walk in, dinner/lunch will commence. However, unique as the name suggested, the groom's father aka Uncle Philip decided to commence the event with table game. He prepared 2 questions for the audience and provided answer ang pow on the lunch table. Once we had written the answer, he will pool all the ang pow into a bowl and then conduct a Lucky Draw. 2 tables won table gift, the 2 tables was 31 and 16. The lunch commenced after the games ended with everyone already “warm up”.

The 2nd uniqueness of the lunch was the hotel service staff did a bit of “Grove” when they walked in with the dishes. The dance move was well choreographed and although it was just a few simple steps but it was really good effort on the banquet staff.

The 3rd uniqueness of the lunch is we were all served individually. Usually at a banquet, only the VIP's tables get such treatment but in this hotel, we were all given VIPs Treatment. The food served was very high quality and the service was excellent. I guess with all the IR and F1 events upcoming, all the hotels are gearing up their service to meet the marks.

The 4th uniqueness was when the couples did their 2nd walk in. The groom actually sang “Falling in Love” when he appeared suddenly among the audience and the walk to the door to bring in his Bride with him, the moment was so touching when you see the couples see eyes to eyes with this song. When they reached the stage, both of them sang a love song together. It was beautiful.

The 5th uniqueness – there was Live performances throughout the lunch; the couples friends had voluntarily go on stage to sing for the couples. We were entertained with familiar tunes of “一人一半” and other songs. The couples are really blessed with all the songs from their friend.

The last but not least uniqueness is Table Photography. Usually for a wedding, there will be A professional photographer, at this wedding, we not only have 1 or 2, we had 3 photographer taking our table photo…isnt it just amazing…haha.

I think the standard of weddings had gone up so much since our times and each one just get better and better. Of course, the market price of giving ang pao is also UP and UP. Lucky for me, my mom was available to look after Anthea and Anders at home, otherwise, our pocket will sure “burnt” a BIG Hole. : P

I am really glad that I had the chance to witness this wedding as this may be the final wedding among cousins on my FIL’s side of relatives. It may be a long long time again before we will have the chance to meet all the uncles/aunties /cousins again.