杏仁的私家屋

Earlier the MUA i confirmed cannot make it on my big day as i reschedule from Nov 6, 2010 to Nov 20, 2010.  So she will transfer me to her partner with the same package and offer...  and she promised that if i'm not satisified, she will give me a refund...  i deeply appreciated.....  thank you...
 
Schedule the trial make up on Dec 30, 09 at 7:45pm. 
 

Yes, we went there again...  again and again...  hahahaha  coz this time we received invitation by mail for free!!!  plus we still have to check out packages for wines, wedding + evening gowns, body check, wedding rings, etc etc...  Most important was to visit Tsui Sir and Manager See as promised~  kakakakakka
 
Visited Francestar's booth and saw Manager See!  hahaha  chatted for awhile then Tsui Sir spotted us and said HI to us...  woahhhh  he remembered me!!!  awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww  he said "u're yee man rite?  i posted your pics in my blog~~~"  awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww  so sweeeeeeeeet~    kekekekke...  hahaha then Manager see said "hao er xin ohhh...  ni jiao ta yee man~~~"  hahahahahhahahahaha  then Sandy gave us a wave and we chatted for awhile again!  hahahahha  she introduced us lots of good food in tw!!  then we saw Monica!!  hahahahahha  she's so pretty with make up!!  (even my sis and my mom said she's pretty!!)  then hobee said "you being the model today!??!"  hahahahhahahaha  they're really sooOoo nice and friendly even after sales service!!!  my gosh...............  then didn't wanna bother them so we continued with our business...
 
Then we went to look at the local pre-wedding photos packages...  just to compare...  hhahahaha
Seriously, we both won't regret for taking pics at taiwan after looking at the local albums...  even a bit out budget...  oops~
1)  Scenes:  studio, boat, beach, central for night scene, Ma Wan, Noah's Ark, Pak Lai Wan...  errr...  not really interested
2)  Albums are not decorated with design.  1 page 1 pic with effects added for some pages...  that's it... 
 
For example, asked one company, package as below
Ma Wan + Pak Lai Wan
HKD 7,988 (less 1,000 today for expo discount) = HKD 6,988
took around 80 pcs but the CS said of coz not...  up to 200 pcs...
19 pics
1 x 6" x 6" album
1 x 8" x 10" pic
1 x 10" x 12" pic
1 x 10" x 14" album
1 x 20' x 24" pic
1 wedding gown (studio)
1 wedding gown (outdoor)
2 suits for men
make up x 1 time
* accessories all included
* transportation not included
 
took 8 hrs...  if decide to take night scene, shooting progress will start later.  If no night scene, will start earlier...  ha!??!  ng hai gwa....
after hearing this and look at the album...  ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...  we both like mines better!!!  hahahha
 
ok...  then tasted wines, checked out wedding + evening gowns, wedding rings, body check, saw some cat-walk........  hahahahahha  so tired............  we walked till the expo finished!!  my god...  hahahahahhaha  supposed just plan to take a look and walk...  hahahahah  oh well.....  yeah!!  more tasks completed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
 
Things confirmed:
-  Wedding + Evening gowns rental
-  Wedding rings
 
tomorrow will need to go to Cite du Louvre to book our pre-wedding pics for next year!  hehehhehe   
 

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　　【生產日期】巨蟹月（6月22－7月22），年份憑用戶愛好。
　　【主要成分】敏感52％，忠誠18％，脆弱15％，粘黏5％。
　　【主要功能】
　　1、 她是“保姆”機器人，可以全方位的照顧用戶及家人。
　　2、 她也是保險、收藏櫃。 
　　【適用人群】重視感情、懂得保養愛護本品的雄性優先。
　　【注意事項】
　　1、 本品出現故障時，應採用以退為進，靜觀其變的方式處理，等其自行修復之後，方可繼續運行。
　　2、一旦決定使用本品就得承受其強大的黏性，若用戶有反感舉動，該品將長時間處在排斥使用的狀態。
　　3、在使用的過程中，用戶稍有不愛惜，本品將會出現不服從用戶指定的情況。
　　4、在使用本品時，不單要愛護該產品本身，其附加產品也應一齊愛護，方可保證其有效使用期的無限延長。
　　5、本品過去儲存在體內的東西，用戶不可擅自讀取或刪除，否則將有一段時間無法使用該品。
　　6、用戶遇到很難解決的問題時，可直接向“科技紫微星座網”進行諮詢求助。
　　【禁忌】家庭觀念不強者請勿靠近；長期在外者使用權將嚴重受限。
　　【貯藏】請用戶將本品放在和諧、寧靜、遠離危險物品的地方，若偶爾能帶其四處散心，可起到充電作用。
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　　【備註】本品具有唯一性，不可複製，好好珍惜。
　　非試用品、贈品，決定使用，責任自擔。 
 
 
MUAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHH~~  yeah yeah~~~  give me all ur money baby~~
 
Ref:  http://hk.huaxia.com/hxjk/xzcs/2008/08/1073190.html
 

                                    ...............................  like a giraffe!!!
although coming back to hk not long ago, feel like i wait for decades!!  kekekekke 
edited version will send to us on Dec 30, 09 but... but i wanna see it right now already, like right away!!!!!  awwww  *kekekek*  coz edit takes time....  they send to us and we have to check and send back to them if we wanna add/remove something...........  donno how long will it take...  awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww 
looking forward to our photos so that i can post it out for sharing coz so many of my friends already ask me to do so...  of coz i won't post up all or will take me forever.  again, to remain a sense of secret/mystery, i will just upload the best ones...  kekeke~ 

Tadaaa~~~  Here's are our pre-wedding photo @ Francestar
 
Too keep it secret, I upload the best ones we WILL NOT publish in our albums~  So, it's raw files = not yet edited!!!  hahaha
 
(We bought 116 pcs in which 96 pcs will put in the albums)  
 
 
 1.  Red Bridge / White wedding gown
 

 

 
 
 
2.  Lava Rock + Ocean / Purple evening gown
Adventure 1 - It's on our way to the Club house...  Tsui Sir spotted this place so there we go!  kekeke  New place, new scene~ 
 

 
 
 
3.  Club House / Another white wedding grown
I like this scene and this set a lot!!!  and this the reason why I choose Francestar~  hehehe  
 
 
 
 
 
4.  Stream / Black & White short dress
Adventure 2 - This is a undeveloped place!  We needed to slide down the hill~  omg...  Again, not many ppl been here before...  GOOD!  ahhaha  for special us only~

 
 
5.  Ferris Wheel - Night View @ Taipei / Pink evening gown
 

 

Dec 2, 09 - Time Flies~ Last RUSH Day
Ate all u can eat breakfast at 8:50am...  hashbrown + veggi are my all time favourite!!  *drools*...  hahaha ng ho sit!! 
 
 
 
Then went to take pics again la!!!!!!!!!!  hahahahah  din jor~  hai gum jump jump jump!!!  then it's time to check out and took bus back to Kee Lung lu..  ><
 
As we had to carry our heavy luggages around, we cannot go to cafe or restaurants which located upstairs but so many indeed were located upstairs!!!  Gosh...  so we took some pix near the port...  so tired walking and pulling our luggages.  Finally found a place that we only had to walk 1 step which was near the train station!  GOOOD!!  hahahha  so we sat down and took a rest.
 
  
 
 豬扒飯 again...  so tasty~ 
 
 甜不辣
 
 ComeBuy choco bbtea!!
 
Back to Taipei station but we didn't want to carry our luggages around so we decided to store them in the lockers.  By that time was around 3:00pm and we had to figure out where to take bus to Taoyuan Airport.  From Taipei Station to Bus Station took us 15 mins.  The employee said bus arrived at 3:50pm and took 70 mins to airport (we still had to go back to grab our luggages which took about 30 mins back & forth!), obviously not enough time... T____T next bus arrived at 4:10pm which was so rush for us too coz our flight departed at 6:40pm!!  But we wanted to give it a try, so we rushed back to 地下街 and......  ate tofu fa tim..  hahahahhaa  by the time we finished was 4:15pm!  Shooot...  impossible to go back to bus station or else we gonna be late for sure!  Therefore we decided to take 高鐵 which departed at 5:06pm and arrived Taoyuan at 5:26pm then took taxi to airport...........................  whew~~~  of coz we were in time!  yahOoooo  arrived aiport at 5:50pm!!!
 
 
 lockers to store our luggages @ Taipei Station (NT 50 for the bigger lockers x 2)...  really so free when we dun have to carry the luggages around but shouldn't or else we can take bus instead.....  hahahah 
 
 忍唔住...  食o左豆腐花 (NT 40) in 地下街 on our way to get back the luggages....  hahahha  
 
 所以...  趕唔切要搭高鐵 (NT 135) then took taxi (NT 305)...  $_____________$ hahaha
 
In conclusion, this trip is RUSH, BUSY, and LACK OF TIME!!  hahahha  and this is *our* first trip to Taiwan 
 
 
 
YAHHH...  finally finished 5 days blog laaa...
 

Dec 1, 09 - Green Bay
Around 9:30am, ate breakfast 麥味登 again coz nothing good to eat near hotel.  i dun wanna have beef noodle, sushi, fried stuffs in the morning... hahaha
Then went to Taipei Station to get tickets to Kee Lung and went back to CityInn to check out.  Finally bought a cup of bbtea at 50嵐 on our way to take train to Kee Lung...  booot boooooot.  35 mins later we arrived Kee Lung~  older style...  carried our heavy luggages and walked to 廟口一條街... for what??  of coz EAT AGAIN LA!!!  and bought some souvenirs there too...  finally...  whew~
 
 my first time to take 火車~
 
 @ 廟口一條街
 
 蟹肉gun (NT 50)
 
 油飯 = 糯米飯 (NT 25)
 
 好好味ge木瓜牛奶  (NT 40)
 
and transfer bus to Green Bay from Kee Lung took around 40 mins.
 
 
 
 Room 1601 @ 愛琴海套房~  what a romantic name!  haha
 
   facilites @ hotel
 all u can eat dinner & breakfast!! 
  
 
 
 
last but not least, of coz took a lot of pics man!!!  many pre-wedding photos are taken from here!!  hahahahha  jeng!
 

Nov 30, 09 - 銀包大出血 Day
 
Really look forward to our photos... 
 
Woke up around 11:00am then went to 地下街 searching for food before we went to Francestar.  Passed by 焗工坊 and saw so many ppl there, so we gave that a try.  After lunch, walked around and bought some stuffs for my mom~  hehehe 
 
 地下街 is very long and big... 
 
  baby's fav. SORK PAK~
 
 豬扒飯 + all you can drink  (~ NT 50) - yummy...  those 配菜 are good too!!
 
 白汁焗海鮮飯 + all you can drink!  (~ NT 50)
 
*Those travel books are not reliable coz ppl paid for advertisment!  Local taiwanese people told us, whenver u see a long line up, food will be good!  which is so true and we followed that concept throughout the trip! kakaka*
  
Arrived Francestar at 1:15pm and Manager See + Tsui Sir already there waiting for us!  hahahha  ok...  started to browse and choose our pics....  Woah, we both like the ones we took in the club house & Lava Rock~  the rest are ok...  but the red bridge scenes (our first stop), probably it's too early in the morning and i wasn't ready, i looked weird...  hahaha  overall, we like our pics so much!  hehehehe..
 
Then Mananger See discussed the package with us...  sigh...  of coz over budget again!!  oh man, upgraded both albums to 18" PVC!
18" - 66 pictures
18" - 30 pictures
20 pictures in CDR
Altogether 116 pictures
 
Chose pics from 1:30pm - 7:00pm...  omg...  longer than what i expected so i had no time to buy souvenirs...  wuuwuwuw
 
For dinner, hobee wanna eat 麻辣火鍋.  Manager See suggested 馬辣 & 天外天, but 馬辣 is more popular and both need to book.  Therefore he booked 馬辣 and wrote the address for us!  so nice!!  he also said, next time if u guys gonna wedding expo again, call me and i'll give u guys the passes!!  omg...  super super nice ne...  thanks in advanced~   
 
Then went to 馬辣 @ Ximen.
 
NT 505 per head all you can eat
beef, pork, lamb, seafood, veggi, mushrooms, balls (better than the balls in HK~  i think), hagan daz icecream with cones, bottle drinks!!!!
 
 
so full...  was gonna grab a cup of bbtea after hot pot...  coz didn't have a chance to drink so far!!  but still.........  too full....  really can't stuck a cup of bbtea in my tummy~~  Orz
 

Nov 29, 09 - Photo Taking Day
Woke up 7:15am in the morning and hobee said..."u grind teeth for the whole nite!"...  oppsssssssssssssss  yeah...  too worry........  ummm @.@  hahahhaha 
quick quicky ready go!!!  when we left the hotel, we had to give them the room card...  so weird...  ?__________? 
Breafast at 麥味登 near our hotel, ordered a 樂活套餐 + 火腿蛋餅~ yum yum yum!  but too early in the morning, not much appetite... 
  
then rushed to Francestar.  Arrived there at 8:15am (15 mins late lorrr...  muahhahaha), Monica did make up & hair styling for us first.  Tsui Sir arrived at 10am, discussed the style and route and off we go!!!  <Tsui Sir...  really so DAK!!  dak as in his look and his working attitude!!  i buy!!!>
We had 4 ppl followed us during the day: Tsui Sir, Siu E, Monica, and Milk Tea the driver!
1.  Red Bridge / White wedding gown (tail)
2.  Lava Rock + Ocean / Purple evening dress
-> Tsui Sir spotted this place as we're on our way to the club house...  we eventually had to CLIMB!  hahaha  omg...
3.  Club House / Another white wedding gown (tail)
-> i like this scene the most...  that's why i look prettiest and also my wedding dress is better than the first one....  hahhaa =. ='  and that's what hobee and my sis said too!!  kakaka  although entrance fee is expensive and route is pretty far away, i still prefer to go there!!  no regret!!  and not so many ppl choose there becoz it's expensive and far away!!  hahahhaha  gooood...
4.  Forest near Club House + Stream + Beach / Black+white short dress
-> It was the 2nd time Tsui Sir went to this stream.  We needed to discover the route (like we're hiking and i got to hold Siu E + Tsui Sir's hands!!!  wohOhohoh~~  )  so not much ppl been this place before.  Thanks Driver Milk Tea to open a road for us to go down the hill + Siu E/Tsui Sir to tie the swing for us!!  heheheh
-> Beach, by that time was getting windy + tide rise...  our clothes got wet including our undisss~~~  OMG  so afraid i gonna sick after this...
5.  Ferris Wheel - Night View @ Taipei / Pink evening gown
Mission Completed!!  This is an adventure pre-wedding photo shooting!!!  hahaha~  Back to Francestar around 7:35pm~

Of coz need to take a group pic la!! 
From Left to Right: Baby, me, Monica, Siu E, & Tsui Sir
After photo shooting, we went to 永康街 and ate 中壢牛肉麵 + 冰館!
  excellent!!!
  good Good!
 
My thoughts:
Tsui Sir is the spirit. He's really pro & take good pics with good angles! He's not afraid of troubles & climbing around! He even threw away the garbage for us... Although he's quite cool at the beginning, after warm up and stuff, he's really friendly, nice, and funny with all his gags... ahhaha He will say "u smile dak ho ga" and pretended to fall down from the cliff~ stupid him... he said the "dau yu" ate the two goldfish we wanted to bring along for photo shooting! hahaha
Siu E is very cool at the beginning too and funny as soon as we warm up.  There's one time he held hobee's hand when crawling and climbing through the lava rocks and he said "i am afraid u will fall in love with me, now get back to ur wife!!"  muahahhaha  and as we slided down to the stream, he held my hands and said to me "ingore ur lo gung and gang wo jou~~~~~~~~"  hahahha  he helped me a lot too!  Kept asking me to "ting hung" & helped me with the dresses + styling + poses...   
Monica is really a good MUA and good/fast at hair styling.  I like all the styles she made for me.
Thanks all for the effort and we enjoyed very much...  辛苦o西~

Nov 28, 09 - Arrival + Chose Dresses Day!
 
Woke up at 6:15am, sky was still dark and i was still in sleep mode......  zZzzzz~~  finished packed up at last min and left home at 7:15am.
Arrived HK airport at 8:00am, met up with hobee then went to check in and met up with Elmo afterwards.  Breakfast at Fairwood again......  hahahah  always Fairwood when leaving HK coz nth good to eat at HK airport.  Our flight departed HK at 10:35am and arrived Taiwan at 12:30pm.
 

 
Yah!!  arrived Taiwan!!!  our plan was to store our luggages in the hotel we're staying then went to Francestar...
Took bus from Toayuan airport to Tai Pei Station took around 70 mins and sigh...  traffic jam on saturday?!?!  we arrived CityInn 2 at 2:15pm & rushed to Francestar by MRT.
 
Finally arrived Francestar at 2:35pm and Jin Jin served me very patiently...  she gave us some suggestions and she's pretty nice too!  OK..  started to pick dresses...  5 styles and i decided to choose 2 wedding dresses & 3 evening gowns coz our purpose was to take wedding pics!!!  hahaha
 
At first, 1 chose 10 pcs evening gowns + 9 pcs wedding dresses...  here comes the problem...  sigh...  so hard to choose 5 pcs out of 21 pcs!!!  coz all looked good on meee....  hahahha
after discussing and fitting, final decision: 2 long white wedding dresses (tail), 1 purple, 1 pink, & 1 back+white short dress...  then did tailoring aftewards...  saw from bloggers' comments, the tailor jie jie was really good & fast & pro!!  I agreed too...  she didn't need any pins to mark, just simply use her hands to measure and then use the sewing machine...  each dress took around 2 mins?!?!  omg...  super fast...
 
The process went smoothly...  good!  and we stayed in Francestar from 2:35pm - 6:00pm~  woah..  mamamiya~~
 
Left at 6:00pm and Jin Jin sugguested us to eat at ShiLin nitemarket, supposed we planed to eat there after photo shooting but she said we gonna be exhausted and tired.  So we listened to her advise...  kakakak... 
 
Arrived Shilin nitemarket, my fav of coz is the "豪大雞扒!!!"  eat Eat EAT...  but i can't eat too much coz i need to take care of my tummy coz next day will be our photo shooting day!!  but i was so hungry...  sigh... 
 
 yummy 豪大雞扒!!
 
 squid in soup~      Or Jai Jin
 
 Animals 雞蛋糕~     Honey Green Tea!  Jeng
 
 Fried Potato with chesse + assorted toppings!  yum yum yum!!
 
 ordered 3 skewers...  甜不辣, 豬血糕 (ewww i dun like it, hobee KO this skewer), 腸仔
 
Total cost for eat + drink = NT400 ~ HKD100!!!  yummy & cheap!!!   *satisfied*
 
 
went back to CityInn 2 in Taipei Station by MRT...  so tired...  hehehhe
the hotel is pretty new and our room...  hmmmm  pretty small..  really...  hahah but very pretty and neat with decoration...  not bad not bad..  good service too! 


that nite, hobee and i "full" a mask...  ready for the photo journey for the following day...  but still worry about the weather...  haha keep checking checking and checking!! 
 
a Za A za FIGHTING!!!
 

wkakakakakaka done!!
 
thank you Monica, Tsui Sir, Siu E, and Mr milk tea the driver...  without u guys, the progress won't run smoothly.....  hehehe  and we have 100% trust in u guys!!!
 
ahahaha  we had a lot of fun too...  as usual, i smelled/laughed too fake again -_____-  then Tsui Sir will said "ho ga ho ga"...  hahahahahha  and i think this is more like adventure wedding photo shooting!!  hahaha  we had to climb the cliff and walked down the hill!!  hahahah  there's a place where really not many ppl went there...  a not developed place...  and the route wasn't for ppl to walk!!  holy...  as i walked down, i was so worried that i gonna fell down...  so lucky i got to hold baby, Tsui sir, and Siu E's handssssss...    so funny.. siu E said.. ur wife will follow "gang wo jau lo"...  hahahahhahahaha  omgg...  but that place is really nice...  and i felt special coz not so many ppl been there before!!  hahahah
 
睛天公仔 & Wong Tai Sin really worked!!!  ahahahaha  didn't rain and there's sunshine too!!!!!!!!  hahaha  as we on our way to taipei.. a bit rain but once we got down the car...  no rain!!!  kakakak
 
so tired now...  update more when i come back~~  kekeke
  

arrived Taiwan at 12:30om then went to Francestar to try out the dresses from 2:35pm - 6:00pm!  hehehehe  awww...  all dresses look pretty...  so hard to choose...  hahahhaha  i picked 19 dresses in total and filtered to only 5 pcs.....  decision making is tough!!  T___T  hahaha 
 
then went to Shilin nitemarket for dinner...  omg ate 440 NT which is about 110 HKD!!!  hahaha  ho DAI arrrr
 
now at Cityinn 2...  so tired...
 
update more details later la! kekekekeke
 
tmr will take pre-wedding photos la....  ehehehheheh  need to rest early...  ^^
 
last but not least, PLS DUN RAIN!!