Merry Christmas to all!

Wishing you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year!

mi and min and nicole

No.No..No...

No, we am still not on my honeymoon... but we are going in exactly 36hours time....

Went back to work for a while...not too bad with hong kong and Osaka..Now here I am, standing in front of the TV watching "Hitch", preparing myself to go to the honeymoon with Min.

I learned that the history of honeymoon is for the couple to sneak off silently in the middle of the reception to go for the honeymoon. I thought that was really tiring to do so...but it sounds cool though...

that is all for now...post wedding celebration begins!

:)
aliying

Post wedding thoughts

Our wedding is done!

So much thoughts, so much excitement, so much fun and laughter, so much to look forward to, so much to learn from, experience, been there done that!

THat is just so much things, but I will keep it...detailed!

Thanks to my parents for bringing mi up in a stress free environment, giving mi a lot of flexibiltiy to do what I want to achieve

Thanks to huimin parent for giving mi the once in a lifetime opportunity to have Huimin by my side

Thanks to Hendrick, Diana, nicole, glendon, Binghui, Huili, Leia, Kok Heng, Huizhen, Carisse for guiding mi throughout my foundative years with Huimin. I thank you all for giving mi the permission to take care of Huimin.

Thanks to Yao, chunhui, YS and Ah Kim for being part of my Chong family.

Thanks to Jeffrey aka Ah frey for being aliying's co-ordinator, advisor, consultant, drink master, banquet co-ordinator, wine controller, time keeper, drink master, everything! He had been my soulmate for a very very long time, over the never ending kopitiam beer, in Nepal doing the annapurna circuit, QM in JJC ODAC, shacking it out in Tahan together, drinking merrily at wala wala, balaclava, wine bar, sam bar, more kopitiam beer, "five token self made"king in mahjong, watching anime, running and more drinking...
Thank you for sitting down with mi listening to mi ali - that really helps alot, my dear friend.

Thanks to Maggie for being Huimin co-ordinator, organise tekan session, consultant, making sure Huimin is the prettiest, watching her every sec throughout the whole wedding, sharing of pointers

Thanks to Dave for being the muscle man in the brother clan..tough time don't last, tough man do...I will always remember that!

Thanks to Lip Chee for styling his hair just for our wedding..believe mi or not, you look damn good man! nearly swept mi off the ground...You are the person that I knew for the longest since sec 1 and we had not looked back since...I am very very happy that we got hitched together to Maggie and Huimin respectively..

Thanks to Mark for all the notes he had passed down to us with regards to his wedding, appointment list, schedule for that day, anticipating problems, table arrangement formula, things to bring..All these can be bought at a special price of 45USD. Contact aliying for more details if you want to make sure that your wedding is a success..Mine is!

Thanks to Efung for making such an "everest" effort to make it for the wedding...one photoshoot inbetn the tea ceremony and dinner and the standard chartered marthon photo shoot the next day is really a hell of a schedule for you! Not forgetting your wonderful shoot given to us as a gift...thanks!

Thanks to Elsen who make sure that his helping hand is always there for mi. It was really nice to have you by our side :) Always watching over mi, never to slightest wanting to claim any credit...You are the MAN!

Thanks to weimin for enduring my demanding request for the audio visuals....Nearly maxed you out on this highly demanding job!! Both min and myself really enjoyed the montages and the music is fantastic!

Thanks to Julian for my last min request for his help...I will always remember how we go through Tahan together, and I always believe that you still cook the nicest rice when we are camping..Tahan clan forever! Rock with leeches, baby!

Thanks to you, my friend -Colin Mark Holmes, for making such an amazing effort to fly in to Singapore from New Delhi. Your very presence makes the whole wedding unique and interesting.. Your megawatt smile never fails to attract the opposite sex to come over to you naturally. I really appreciate the gift of Ganesh and the multi currency ang pao..Thank you once again, my friend.


Next, to the girls..

Thank you, Jaslin for being so onz since I first met you in JJC ODAC..You are very fierce at the tekan session...BUT I CAN TAKE IT!!!

Thanks to Pei Yin for taking time off to be Huimin sister...Though look blur, you are always there to pick up something that all of us miss...This is what I call "looking at the big pic"!

Thanks to Judy for your "horny" song that I am obliged to dance with....It is really nice, fun and enjoyable to have the element of the "good church girl" for our wedding!!! More Long island tea, my friend!!!

Thanks to Mingyun, aka "Miss Chong", for being such a close friend to aliying and Huimin. YOU!!! I say YOU!!! really had a good time tekaning mi ha!! All the extra large tomato, extra sour lime juice, wasabi with chilli padi and raw bittergourd(I can take on this easily!!!) must be your idea lor....the 1 bird, 1 bird 1 bird +++ mahjong combination, the matriculation no, etc...must be your IDEA!!! YOu!!!!
However, despite all these tekan session, my brothers and I really enjoyed it very much!! All the laughter, all the fun, all the enjoyment and all the rowdiness makes my wedding a very much memorable affair for many years to come.

Next...bear with mi...

Thanks to all our friends, relative and colleagues for taking time off to grace the ceremony.

Like to thanks also those who cannot make it for our wedding, but still, in one way or another, offer gifts and tokens to us - Wayne, Chin leong, Chia Sheng, Eizac, Ting Ting, April, Hanrong, Youtian, Coral, David Teng, Daniel, Fuhan, Daniel Tan, Betty Boo, Gina, We really appreciate that! Thanks

Thanks to all those people who had made this wedding possible - esp Sheena from Grand Copthorne Waterfront hotel, Hisham the floor manager, Stefii florist, my fav florist Eunice, Connie, Timothy, Alex and ah Long the actual day photographer, Ah ju auntie aka matchmaker, the mouse of the day Junda, Sandy(Golden Horse award), Sam and Linda, weiquong for the make up, Shan (Engagement party and outdoor shoot Make up artist), Eugene from Chris Ling and many more...Thanks!

So many people to thanks, so little time...Time for mi not to be too ali alreadi....

Have a good evening, ladies and gentlemen

:)
aliying
T-4days to honeymoon

P.S : photos will be put up shortly due WIP...stay tuned

My wedding - 02 dec 2006

Good morning, my brothers and sisters! Rise and shine! TOday is my wedding day!

:)
aliying

t-2 DAYS to the wedding....

Mine oh mine...T-2 days to weddings...today kind of a breather cos just stepped out of the black box...feeling good, listening over and over again the songs to be played on the act wedding itself...

Feeling: relaxed
Thinking : that i had one more free hour to go b4 I hit on the table allocation
smelling: the good old sunshine...today is one of the rare day that it does not rain in the afternoon
seeing : my LCD screen...if not how to type blog....

T-2 days to the wedding
:)
aliying

The boy just wan all the ang paos!

Glendon boy : "I wan I wan ang pao!!!"


Uncle Aliying : "okie okie..I had all these prepared for you alreadi"










:)
aliying
T- 4 days to the wedding of alimin and aliying

AH Frey

Ah frey is back! And when he is back, he is winning mahjong money again!


Still, but still, welcome back!

:)
aliying

Congrats to Judy and Julian

Happy marriage, Judy and Julian(extreme left)! It had been so nice to see the both of you tie up the knot together...

Never would I expect that bringing the both of you to a trekking trip, unknown to each other then, will led on to a relationship and follow up to be husband and wife...

My heartiest congrats to the both of you, once again.

:)
aliying

My schedule for nov and dec

KUL(16) BLR(19) JNB(23-26) SIM(30) LVE(2-4DEC) HKG(5-6) KIX(8-9) LVE(11-21) HYD(22) HKG(25) SIM(26)

Wat I had done for the last few days...

I am simply not writing as much as I should! The last few days had been intense and enjoyable,..lots of catching up with people and sorts of!

I will summarise this all at one shot to justify the reason why I am not writing as much as I should, also for myself to look back and say that it had been ain good doing all these stuff!

here is goes
weijie wedding on monday - it had been really nice attending a sec school friend wedding at Hyatt + lots of catching up with kok heng, Rijian, lijun, Sizhen, Yee Hean, Mr Bear See siong lim, ziqi father Jinkun, etc.... >>>sorting up my financial policy,...that is tough work to insure myself, went through alot of intrinsic details b4 finalising what I want,, that should be able to cover mi comfortably for the time being>>>Celebrated Min birthday, for the same purpose, for the different experience cos this time round, it is spent with Mahjong and friends>>>Penang to and fro>>>Family gathering, out of the sudden, I found myself talking non stop to Binghui, nicole and Glendon>>>Sort out the details with Sheena of GCWF abt the wedding details...yes, it is just less than a month b4 my wedding>>>met up with my secondary school friends3 times in a week..it is simply amazing that the fact we had not caught up with one another for the last 10 months, it is squeezed up in a week of 3 gatherings...A good one organised by Daniel, along with the ever laughing Kama, the stern and steady father, Jerry and the full of C**p Daniel...not forgetting mi, the pilot turned security guard after work...>>>Hari raya celebation at Kama house..it is so goody to be able to enjoy the malay goodies, self made further>>Oops, how can I forget the exciting Metal slug game whereby you are supposed to drink a bit of reds when your character dies? We end up finishing two bottles of red...haahah! >>> And lastly, sending off Ah Frey at the airport..he will be back in late nov....see you soon, dude!

:)
aliying

~Happy 10th Anniversary, Min~

I guess I will keep this short and sweet...

Happy 10th Anniversary, Min and many good years to come!

:)
aliying & alimin

Should I stay or should I go?

I was reading Mr Miyagi blog and realised that he is moving on from the Mr Brown Show... Kind of sad that the good times had ended, but one had to realise that as one gets himself in the comfort zone, is it time to stay or should I go? Miyagi is the best man to answer himself.

The pastures may be greener on the other side, but there is always a risk there. For one, I am not the super chio ster garang trooper man, so I tend to be more on the conservative side. But too conservative is no good either. Balance is the keyword here..Am I am still working on it....

Was reading Dion blog and realised that much of the year had gone past in the blink of an eye! Very much I wished I could had done more, but there is just too little time(ooh, come on, aliying...think you spent too much time sleeping alreadi and also too much time spent finishing a trivial affair)

For myself and the rest of the readers, let's cherish the remaining days till the end of 2006 and make it a new natural high!

:)
aliying

The 5 day leave had been good!

The last 5 days of leave had been good....

Too good that I had not been blogging for a while....

Many apologies to all...Had accumulated alot of thinking thoughts during these five days...will jot it down and post it soon!

:)
aliying

The last bachelor drinking session...No holds barred!

Was reminded by my friend -...."eer, when are you going to do a write up on the drinking session at ECP chalet?" Still feeling strong after the mumbai experience, I carried on to write abt the last bachelor drinking session with my uni guys at ECP chalet? "what, still got chalet gathering at your late twenties, OMG!!!"

A strong turnout of abt 18 of us came...In good spirit of the class gathering since year 2000. It felt so good to be at the receiving end as Mark and weimin were the ones organising it. It felt so good to be able to attend the class gathering, even though everyone was very busy with their own personal committment.

Kudos to Mark and weimin for organising it. It was a nice and breezy dinner at Scruffy Murphy. Even Kat aka Jieru aka Chio haolian came by to say hi. Believe it or not, the guys do appreciate your effort! You could have just steer clear of us with your roller blading, but you came by to say hi! Nicey!

Back to the no holds barred drinking, after the dinner, it was the time to say "Ta" time. "Ta" to Mini Martell, "Ta" to vanilla volka, "Ta" to Chinese Atomic bomb, "Ta"to Coffee Liquor, "Ta" to Laos beer, compliments from Efung. The drinking is fierce, even for myself....Man, it is time for the previous best three drinkers to step down and to witness the arrival of the new gen drinkers, Mark, Elsen and Thomas...(Thomas would be my next target....whack him big time next.....hahaahahh!)

Good Time? Definitely...Next time still have good time? Definitely!

Pic are belows, copyrights from Mingyun. Enjoy!

These are the MEN!

Aliying and Chin Chew:"you want sake or volka 7 Up??"

Jamson(far left):"I want both"
Three going-to-get-married men(from left:Aliying, Jamson aka big boss and Chin Chew)

Next day breakfast - 2 bowls of Katong laska each....No home sweet home feeling!

:)

aliying

Bombay/Mumbai

The trip to Bombay/Mumbai is worth mentioning cos
1. First time I am there
2. My good old American friend, Colin Mark Holmes is working there and it feels really great to hear from him that he is fine.
3. It feels so good to be near the himalayas again. The weather is not the same though.

The trip to mumbai sorts of trigger the desire to explore new places...Here it goes..

1. Took a tuk tuk to the train station Andheri. It costs abt 25rupees(Rs) and it is similar to the Thai tuk tuk... the usual horning and near misses along the road.

2. Took a train down south to a place called churchgate terminal. Cost abt 30Rs one way. The mumbai train is really notorious and not for the faint hearted. But I must say that it is really an experience. The train, though very out dated, cramped and very crowded. But it still remains as one of the most efficent and cheap way of getting around Mumbai. People of all shapes and size SQUEEZE into the train as one, and people would squeeze into the almost impossible space available on the train. If you are alighting, you better be slightly aggressive and fast cos everyone is pushing one another to get off the train..Must take care! And yes, I saw somebody climbing to the roof and inbetween carriages to hook up on the train. And there is also a drunkard hidding himself under the seat. NOW, I really know that the Singapore MRT is really not too bad after all!

3. At the churchgate terminal, continue your journey to a tourist place called Colaba by Tuk tuk again (20Rs)

4. Colaba is the tourist place where you can find cheap bargains in books (made in India), clothings and accessories. There is also the Colaba market where there are various sales of spices and fruits.

5. Poverty is very much visual on the streets. A lot of built up slums and young singlehood mother...Very much I like to chip in my five cent ten cents worth, but I know I must not...cos this will make them believe thet begging can get them round...And once you give to one, all the rest of them will come swarming to mi. The recipent may not benefit as he or she may be robbed after that...Believe mi, I had seen that with my own eyes in Nepal.

Enough of the mixed feeling, life still goes on, the earth still spins. Photography wise, lots of interesting sights to take of...enjoy!

Anyone want a cooking pan from my head?
Eer, I say again - which telephone line is unservicable?
On the Mumbai train. I am coming home, mama!
Believe mi, this is still not full yet on the mumbai train
Ladies cabin only - no guys are allowed..Interesting!

:)

aliying

Turn left turn right?

Ah Frey and Aliying

:)
aliying

Not blogging, I am

I am not blogging recently.....

So the next thing I tasked myself to do is to blog a good entry when I come back from Bombay on wed nite....

The drinking story will be out on wed nite....

:)
aliying, sleeping early to wake up really early tomo..

Drinking and dining this weekend

This weekend may seems to be a nice chillout dinner at East Coast Park with my classmates...but it seems that there is a even more evil plan to get some of us grooms-to-be to be drunk. We will see, we will see.

Met up for a beer with Efung and Jeffrey yesterday. Showed them to the Maple Bar along Jalan Jurong Kechil around Bukit Timah. A nice cosy pub with Kathy serving us the drinks. They also had Yakitori if you are hungry..definitely goes well with the beer there....Crowd wise, we are looking at executives chilling out after work, some middle aged uncles gathering together for a drink and 3 young punks in their T shirt and Berms standing at the entrance going in for a drink.

Five bottles of beer(SGD33.30) + 3 guys = nice chillout

We chatted alot, talking abt project everest b4 38. It felt so good to realise that the mountain is still in Ah frey's agenda. Initally thought that Full Ironman would be his main stream ever since the start of last year. Now looking ahead, we have two gay friends (Aliying and Ah frey)to climb everest(may not be that mountain, but at least somewhere close to it..) is something I had not done for the last three years alreadi... Kind of miss it...

Efung's Laos trip is very enriching too. Nearly missed his transit as he makes his way from new Bangkok to old Bangkok airport...haahah! Coming back lies more challanges and projects ahead for him....Overseas work next year,...cool stuff!

For the drinks portion, stay tuned!

:)aliying

Haze!!!

The haze is back!
Can smell it in the air, can see it with my eyes, can feel it beneath my skin....

When the real Sunny sun please stand up!

:)
aliying