Ben!.. How could you do this to Michelle?!??!!!!

I must confess..

I was caught in Johor Bahru (JB) with a Malaysian lady...

We were chatting happily in a world of our own..

Standing just a foot or two away from each other...

Laughing.. Talking about career and kids...

Oblivious to the crowd and happenings around us...

When out of the blue..

I noticed a friend.. A close friend who knows Mich and I..

She even attended our wedding...

A Singaporean friend who went JB to shop with her friends...

The look on her face..

Could almost hear her screaming, just from the look on her face though she didn't say anything:

"Ben!.. How could you do this to Michelle?!??!!!!"

That's what the look on her face says if expression could speak...

The Malaysian lady could feel it too even though no words were spoken...

The awkwardness seems to last forever...

The puzzling look from my Singaporean friend.. Then came the question...

"Ben.. What are you doing here?!"

What to tell my friend??...

What can I possibly say to explain myself??..

So I decided.. to be brutally honest...

Had to tell her the truth because Mich will know of this soon.. REALLY soon for sure..

"Hi.. this is my secondary school friend lah.. before you think I'm doing anything funny.. Mich is shopping for shoes inside the shop with another of my Secondary school friend (points to Michelle so she won't think I'm cooking up an excuse)!"

Mich and I went in with a Secondary school friend who came back to attend our wedding.. For a day of a meal, shopping and massage (which we tried a new place and it was horrible!)..

--Ginseng Tonic Maker-- Honesty is the best policy!

Pre-Wedding Night Shoot

Photos by George.

http://www.cremephy.com/Creme_Photography/CREME.html

SLSS unite!

Gathering of secondary school pals..

Here are some of the pics..

Check out my conversation of the night at http://laughloudloud.blogspot.com/2009/12/lets-all-pretend.html

The Classic Smile

-- Ginseng Tonic Maker-- SLSS!

Stags' Night in Disguise

Thanks to Chong, Simon and Jackson for making the trip...

Not so much a Stags' night.. more like an excuse for a guys' trip to go over and cable-ski wakeboard!

With the usual fare of massage and seafood...

Good clean fun... Haha..

Was talking to the guy at the cable ski place.. Knowing that it was like a pre-marriage trip.. He asked us what did we do the night before..

Our answer: NOTHING!

So he said.. "Come Batam for Stags' night.. You tell people you didn't do anything, will they believe you?"

Well.. as long as my wife believes =)

Complimentary pick up by Isabella Massage

http://www.isabellamassagehouse.com/about.html

Check them out. Just call or email to let them know the arrival details.

Seafood dinner at Harbour Bay

http://www.cable-ski.com/index.php

Cable-ski at Batam. Falling in love with it.

Never had much chance to do it while studying coz it's such an expensive sport to be doing regularly...

Treat from the guys.. Dinner at Vivocity.. German beer and food...

(can't remember the name)

--Ginseng Tonic Maker-- Batam.. Kia!

Thank You!

Finally have the time to blog...

The tea ceremony and "fetching" of bride was over on Sunday..

Everything went well and we would like to thank many people who helped made it possible...

The Brothers: Hsun, Jackson, Chong, Peter

The Sisters: Mandy, Joleen, Jacelyn, Isa

Extra Help, Photographer, Videographer: Ros, Val, Gary

Big Boss Jeff for the Defender

And of Coz my "Mei Po": Vera!

-- Ginseng Tonic Maker -- It takes help to brew good ginseng tonic...

Coming Soon

Preview of our night shoot...

3M

The brand I trust!...

Anything with their logo on it, I only need to consider whether I need it if I want to buy it.

No worries about their quality..

Their products are made for lazy people like me.

Especially love their products where no drilling or nails needed for hooks to put up pictures, frames etc...

Because I have neither the equipment or skill (or the liking) to drill.

Another reason why now I love them even more?!..

Everybody know their products rock...

Now you should be informed.. their customer service is impressive as well!

Bought the above to place in the bathroom for the shampoo, shower gel...

The instruction was to not put anything for 24hours to allow the sticker strip to hold up.

Mich took a shower, shortly after it was put up and the whole thing dropped.

Could be the water, could be the moisture, could be anything...

Though disappointed, I went to buy spare sticker strips to put up the thing again. Perhaps we were partly responsible as well.

But what happened next impressed me!

Went back to Home Fix DIY shop, to enquire about buying the spare water-proof strips.

After they found out what happened, and after verifying some details and contact info, they actually gave it to me FREE!!

3M policy...

Totally sold...

--Ginseng Tonic Maker-- Die-hard fan.. It's all about M3...