Honeymoon - Part 1: Paris!

Wedding pics!

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COMPLETELY Married!

That's it. Marriage #4 is in the can.
And, BOY, was it a doosy!!! This one was a BIG banquet in Chicago. 450 guests. 1 table for reporters/journalists! 2 more lions dances, a SUPER talented 7 year old violinist (she's soooo adorable) a dancer, a few singers. And a palanquin!

What's a palanquin, you ask?!?

It's a traditional chinese bridal carriage. Carried by 4 guys. It's a rough ride... so said Lina. We even went through the "kicking the door" ceremony in front of the audience. Felt like a play. Was in all good fun.

My wedding gown also got upgraded since the Vancouver banquet. Got a big traditional red bow tied around me. We made the newspaper!

Man, are we exhausted! Now.. onto our honeymoon. Paris/London: here we come.

Again... sorry. I'm sure you're interested in the pictures. They're to follow. Just too much to sort out. 8D



The SingTao Chicago paper August 30, 2006 edition. Front page! This was first of 5 papers! haha ... I think we're gonna be on the local news too. We're famous!!!!



















An awesome cake topper (and a cake made of towels) made by my sister, Lillian! She's sooOOooo Martha Stewart!









Some of my Vancouver family (sans 4 of them) that flew over to Chicago just for our wedding!!!






This has GOT to be the funniest wedding gift EVER! (almost as bad as our vancouver wedding favors! LOL) It came with a Dominick's gift card. NOTE: Names has been blurred to protect the innocent(gifter).

I thee wed... again

So, we got married. Again. For the third time. This year.

But, it does feel more and more "official" though. This time we actually went through our traditional tea ceremonies on both sides of the family. I liked that. (got more loot too! Booyah!!!!)

And of course the banquet! Ah.. the good times.

(Pictures too follow... there's just too many to sort out. I may just end up posting another blog at another time... like when we come back from our Chicago trip! Sorry)

Stag!

um... yea... well...

Blame Ron, Will, Ram, and Will!

My Bridal Shower

Yesterday was my bridal shower and almost all the girls in the family came to celebrate it. We had plenty of yummy food (salad, fruits,pizza,candy apples, cheeze cake,drinks...) What did we do? Of course some crafty...scrapbook! No male stripper though =(. But we made it up by exchanging a pair of earrings which is so much better =))))))).

Vegas!

Old Vegas. The Fremont Experience. Good parties happenin here.


At the Coke Cola shop, we tried their "Tastes of the World" sampler. Sixteen cups of sodas from all around the world. (The Chinese ones were the best. go figure) I peed 7 times that next hour! weeeeeeee


At the Hilton, sans Paris, we went to the Star Trek Experience. It's where we had two small shows. Kind like a play where we, the audience is a part of. Followed by a dinner at Quark's bar and restaurant. This was Lina's highlight of the trip! And she never did watch any of the Star Treks.

KaPla!

We also went to see "O", a Cirque du Solei water show and experienced an indoor skydiving at FlyAway! pretty cool. We should've divorced and gotten married again... Vegas style! Probably could've done it through a drive-through.. and lasted 10 minutes for the entire ceremony. haha

Oh.. and yea.. I did win on Black!!!! woohooo

it's my birthday

Happy birthday to me.
I'm gonna go to Vegas now!!!! woohoo!
I'm putting my whole life savings and betting it on BLACK!!!!!!!!

wish me luck.
See yous Monday.

Canada Day (Lina's 2nd post!!)

O Canada ...our home and native land!!! The family wanted to celebrate this special day on our "native land" so we decided to do something outdoors. The sky was clear and the breeze was perfect to fly a kite. As we (Andrew, Cat, Snowie, Lili, Tonee, and I) drove to Gary's Point we listened and sang to "CRAZY" by Gnarls Barkley. Everyone had a fun time especially when we discovered that even Snowie can fly a kite. Cat was laughing so hard... -Lina

AutoX 06

It was a beautiful day today in Vancouver. Great for an autocross event at Bounday Bay. It's Terry private event. Only 40 cars MAX entries! That meant alot of track time for each driver. Six runs today! That's pretty good when you consider most days you'd only get 3 or 4. And it was a long course too. Average time was roughly 65 seconds. Since it was Terry's event, most drivers were from his online forum members, Dori-kaze. (An Hachiroku/AE86 club). We were split up into three groups...AE86, Integras/Hondas, and other. I was in the other with Lina's Miata. I was gonna run the Skyline but we ran long and we never did get in a third heat. Still overall... it was a blast. Even with the sun-block... I'm still well-done... with raccoon eyes.

More pictures here.
(Barney: I'll have some vids up soon.. my PC went down)