We would like a special marriage, please.

No turning around now

On Monday the 14th of December we made this whole event official by signing the dotted line in a Government register.

First, we found a few people who would be brave enough to sign on a piece of paper to approve our marriage. (Thank you Papa, Sonia & Denzil)

Second, we found a Government official to approve our signatures. (Definition of a 'Government Official': Show up for work at 11:30am although the office opens at 9am. Then have a cup of tea and make the people wait another 30 minutes.)

Third, although this isn't necessary to the process, we even found an audience of people who were kind enough to participate although they were sweating it out to get their own bills paid and properties registered.

Now that we had all the right pieces together it was time for the signatures.

Finally...done! The footballer was very happy that I signed. :P

(Pictures courtesy of Shabri D'Cruz)

Overdose of Sequins

Sequins is the theme for the pre-wedding night out with my girls. With only four weeks left I was getting desperate and bought the first sequin-cy outfit I saw.

Three weeks left and I saw another which was still not good enough but I bought it cause it was better than the first one.

Two weekends left for me to leave Taipei and *VOILA* I see two things that would work brilliantly. Of course I bought them too.

My last weekend and Im walkin on the street (not looking for sequins anymore) and OMG did I find sequins or what!? Was it worth buying it? What would I do with all the sequins' outfits I have?? Well...what the hell...Im not going to do this again...lets buy it! :D Maybe I can give some away to other people who might not have any sequins outfits for the night. (Anyone need any one?)

NTD 100 for happiness

A few weeks ago I was at the Pinxi township, famous for the lantern festival, and the idea of releasing a sky lantern was very enticing.

The first step in releasing sky lanterns is to pick your colour. Due to a lack of other events in my life, the colour red was most appropriate which is used for celebrations...and in my case (as corny as this) would be for weddings. Other colours you can pick from are white for health (which I can do without for now), orange for wealth (which I could do with but wasn't convinced that the lantern could actually bring any) ... and any colour that you can think of actually.

The next step is to make a wish. I didn't really want to make a wish but it seemed like I wasn't making any sense to the people around me coz - 'why would u buy a sky lantern if you didn't want to make a wish??'. So I made a wish for happiness. (Now, 'happiness' is a very broad term and I would've been more specific but I didn't want everyone reading my real wish. :P )

So here I am with my 'wish lantern' (which has some very ugly art on it). It probably would've been more fun if I were doing this at night where you could see the glow in the lantern...but too bad that I had to get back home.



And there it goes. All for a 100 NT.