Silver Wedding Shoes 18 June, 2008
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Without further-a-do, here is Dear2’s wedding shoes!
Hunting for wedding shoes is not an easy task. Sometime I wonder, why is there such a big fuss over wedding shoes? Why is it that in every video montage about wedding, one of the scene will be dedicated to the wedding shoes? And why is it that wedding packages doesn’t come with shoes? -_-
After some time, I realized that one of the possible reasons may be, that wedding shoes just isn’t customizable, or alterable. Wedding dresses are always design with some leeway or at least some ingenious hidden secret that allows the designer to alter the dress to suit a variety of bride shapes. Shoes on the other hand, are more or less fixed to their design so nothing can be changed, so that’s why it has fallen upon the bride to seek her own pair of perfect shoes.
Then, why must it be silver? After asking our wedding make up artist/stylist, he replied that silver is the easier colour to match a gown, be it wedding gown or night gown. Quite true. And according to him, the added advantage of silver shoes is that it can be reused easily to match other types of clothes on a day to day basis so that it would be a one-time-use waste of money. Icic.
The last point that I can think of is something that I realized myself while shopping for wedding shoes with Dear2. That is, everybody’s feet shape is different, and that calls for different shoe shape design. Very interesting fact that I noticed is that ‘pointed toes’ shoes is more suitable for Dear2’s feet rather than the ’square toes’ shoes. Nvm if u dun understand, the important thing is that I understand.
With that, we went hopping from shopping centre to shopping centre along Orchard Rd looking for that perfect pair of wedding shoes. But as always, things are not smooth sailing. First, we can’t find silver shoes at all! Hmm… Then somehow, the silver shoes started appearing, but Dear2 didn’t like them, one of our criteria was that the shoe must have back straps, Dear2 liked back strap shoes. As we walked along, we finally walked into OG at Orchard Point where there was suddenly a whole rack of silver shoes. Yeah!
But lady luck wasn’t on our side. The first few pairs of shoes that Dear2 had her eyes on doesn’t have her size in stock. Grr… After the 3rd or 4th pair that had no size, we were both visibly irritated. We even got the salesgirl to help us make a call to their other branches, namely Chinatown and Bugis, to check if they have stock there, but there wasn’t. Where didn’t all the shoes go to? Was so many people getting married at the same time?!
Just before leaving, Dear2 manage to spot a pair that looked alright. After asking for the size, we had a long anxious wait while the salesgirl went to check for the stock. They have it, Yes! Finally. This pair was not bad, not the first choice though, but still quite elegant. And so we decided to buy it. The price was $30 something, I can’t really remember, Dear2 u remember? *Update: The receipt shows $39.90.
Now, the more I look at this pair of shoes, the more I liked it, especially how it looked on Dear2’s slender feet. This may be my favourite pair of shoes out of Dear2’s entire shoe collection yet. Gee…
-Dear1
Stop that LEGO criminal! 17 June, 2008
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At 3.54pm this afternoon, a LEGO criminal escaped on a hijacked police motorcycle. A pedestrain manage to capture this photograph at the very moment of the escape.
According to eye witnesses, the police transport van and the accompanying escort patrol stopped by a local kopitiam for an afternoon coffee break.
On pretense of asking for a toilet break, the criminal managed to trick the vehicle driver into opening the rear door. An unofficial report says that the criminal had already loosen his handcuffs earlier while under detention and was able to escape once the doors were opened.
One LEGO police officer was injured during this incident. As seen in the picture above, LEGO officer Helm Etra Dio was knocked off his patrol bike by the runaway.
“Suddenly… [I] felt a hard *thump* on my back… and [my body] fly through the air and [my] face hit the ground.” said officer Helm during an interview.
The LEGO police is taking this escape very seriously, describing it as “outrageous”. A four member committee will be appointment to lead the investigation of this incident.
-Dear1
p.s. We got this 2-in-1 promotional LEGO set at the Takashimaya toy fair, that’s $17.90 (U.P.$27.90) for box 7235 and 7245 which comes with a total of 3 LEGO figures. :D
Marathon photos 1 June, 2008
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Do you know that there is a website that hosts all the marathon photos from around the world that you can think of? The website is http://www.marathon-photos.com/index.html. And of course, the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon is no exception.
Last year, Dear1 and Dear2 participated in their first ever full marathon. When we were approaching the finishing line, we already knew that there will be sport photographers taking pictures of runners and will be hosting them at the marathon photos website. So in an effort to make a picture perfect finish, Dear1 and Dear2 decided to run the final part of the race holding hands and crossing the finishing line together. This way, the photographers will know that we are an item and will hence take us together as the focus in a single picture. This way, we get to buy 1 photo with 2 people inside, more worthwhile. :P
The photos aren’t cheap, and we realized this only when we were viewing our photos online. It’s $38.95 for a 20×30cm photo and $9.50 for postage, that’s nearly $50 for a photo, kinda expensive by our books. Even though running the marathon is a milestone for us, the price really made us reluctant to buy those photos.
After lots of consideration, we eventually forgotten about it, until very recently. So one weekend, I was like ‘heck, let’s just get it! it’s memorable.’ And so I went ahead and order 1 photo of us from the website and paid a total of $48.45 for a photo of Dear1 and Dear2 holding hands and crossing the finish line red carpet. About a week later, the picture came, flown in from New Zealand. It was well worth it, Dear1 and Dear2 conquering the marathon for the first time.
But there was another problem which we realized after receiving the photo, what about the framing? OMG. Custom made frames are easily going to cost another $50 or so. -_- Sigh… So we decided to do a little shopping to see if there are any suitable photo frames in bookshops or gift shops that have a suitable size. And we found one, in Puzzle World @ IMM. The white colour frame that we bought was meant to be used for the zig saw puzzles from the shop, but the size was just right, about a few centimetres larger in both height and width. So we bought it, and also some nice printed paper from Popular Bookshop to make an inner frame for the space between the photo and the frame.
Our marathon photo is now sitting on the window grills in our study room, reminding us that we can do anything together.
-Dear1
