Business Trip to Jakarta alone..=(

Time flies, when I first received news that I've to fly to Jakarta alone to attend a Asia Regional Director's meeting, i thought "still sometime to go end of October".

and now October has came and I'm flying off tomorrow morning to Jakarta..

*sings "all by myself**

After listening to all the horrid stories of Jakarta and how dangerous it is for a lady to be travelling alone there, i got kind of worried and excited.

Is the place as dangerous and the people as scary as what they had been described to be?

In anyway I do not want to take the risk and decided to take the very first flight there and last flights back to Singapore.

It's a norm in my current job I guess. I'd rather sacrifice some sleep and depart Singapore at 645am than to spend a night alone in Jakarta - it's not like it's safe enough for me to be out roaming and shopping alone at night there too right?

I wonder what will my  first experience in Jakarta be like...less off the fact I've to do a presentation in front of all the directors, most of them are Japanese. That's so totally dampening.....that's also when you appreciate and understand why do they make us do tons and tons of presentation when we were still in poly back then.

iDAT iphone App from Health Promotion Board

I've downloaded this app from HPB that will supposed help you keep track of the calories you've consumed and burnt to track or aid in your weight loss..

and this is what i get..

Very helpful indeed.
At times I wonder if Singapore's BMI health standard is accurate.
You need to have an BMI above 23 to be considered overweight and to be on diet.

But having a BMI of 21 is enough to make me look and appear fat.
To qualify for their BMI 23, i reckon you must be really round and have difficulty walking loh?

a Wedding Dinner

Been a while since I've attended wedding dinners since I'm not supposed to attend any "red events" within 1 year of papa's passing..

Anyway went to Mandarin Orchard to attend Peggy & Eric's wedding dinner. I got to know them from Lunar, so was kind of looking forward to catch up with some of the Lunar Kakis too..

The ballroom itself was pretty unique. It’s a 3 tiered kind of ballroom where the stage is at the bottom so the couple have to walk down tiers of stairs to the stage.

On the downside, it’s really troublesome especially if you have wheelchair-bound elderlys.

Kind of challenging for the bride to walk down tiers and tiers of stairs too…shortens the march-in since it’s not the typical aisle type of marching in.

That aside, something I wana shout about is the Bride’s Gown!! She has LED on her gown…so cool right..

didn't manage to snap a shot of it so took the pic from her Fb instead. hehez.. i remember seeing this on the news lately with the latest-evolved design of bridal gowns.

a photo with the newly weds..they'd an instant booth ready for the guests too..so this pic ain't so clear..hehz..

Our table photo with ang moh erik missing though...

Being a Lunar table, this table naturally became a drinking table loh...Look at our table.

We had liquors in the middle instead of the usual food for a wedding dinner banquet.

Their service standard is excellent! or maybe it's the staff assigned to our table. He actually took the initiative to suggest serving us our food individually so that we can use the centrepiece to put liquor instead.

He also brought chips and peanuts to our table! ahahha....

and this is funny! the usual 5 - 10 seconds stunt for the guys..after tekan-ing the groom, it's ang moh erik's turn!

Mamee ronson's wondering why is he smelling his armpit too..ahahha.

I didn't managed to get the name of the ballroom but it's definitely quite a unique kind of setting, they even have a DJ console inside loh..

Just that if you're looking at a cosy kind of ambience maybe this ballroom won't be suitable ba..

Heartiest congrats to the newly weds too.. both of them met at Lunar also.

Same as uncle des and me, just that we got to know each other through Mr. Shane and the venue we so happen to first meet was at Lunar..haha...

Pre Wedding Photoshoot updated!

My favourite photo of us for now. hehez..

Alrighty had our pre-wedding photoshoto done finally and both of us had great fun!

Uploaded more pics over at our wedding blog...

http://soontobemrskeir.blogspot.com/2011/10/sneak-peeks-candid-shots-of-our-pre.html

weekend updates

not much to update but thought of dropping a short note to self on last weekend so that if i ever need to recall, i can always back track hehz..

Friday:
Dinner with de zhus for Sept Babies Celeb (actually only SY) @ Le Le Pot.
Reckon it's gona be our first and last time there. Food is ok but they actually fined us for having 4 meatballs left over floating around in the soup..DUH..

Saturday:
oh it's definitely an important day for us to remember in future! but someone refused to let me post the pic..sobzz...

After Uncle Des is done with his work, we spent the evening at my place cos it's Mama's off day again! = family day for us..heehee...time to play with BB Zavier too.

Sunday


Went to Taka's Crazy Toy Sale - it's the last day and it's uncle des who wants to go....(yeah he loves toys)
shun bian pop by Daiso to get black board for our photoshoot...hehez..

will take pic of the pretty black board with pretty fluorescent writings on it soon..