IP MAN

Have you watch Ip Man? He's not Iron Man's brother or Internet Protocol(IP) Man..Ip Man(Yè Wèn) is adapted from the life story of Ip Man, the grand master of the Wing Chun style of kung fu and sifu (master) of legendary kung fu superstar Bruce Lee. This movie will be the first important record of the master's life. Ip's persistent devotion to Wing Chun is a classic example of the love and respect shown to wushu and the freedom and spirit it represents. Ip Man is a concept, a spirit, a way of thinking - and it represent a new peak in Hong Kong's wushu movies. The speed of his fist is the main attraction of the movie and most of my friends are infected with Ipmangasm after watching it..haha! Well during the movie, some of my friends also shouted Zai Xi's name as he resembles some traits of Donnie Yen(Ip Man). Oh yea, his wife is so pretty in that movie, lol.. Neways it was fun hanging out with about 17 people that day.

How I Met Your Mother

Currently watching How I Met Your Mother...the most awesome series ever!!! It's LEGENDARY!!!

P/S: There are 4 seasons available =)

Chinese Traditional Wedding

~just married~

Congratulations to my newly wed cousin, Nelson Chang & Susan Siah...

In conjunction with that, I'm gonna post about the whole process of a chinese traditional wedding. A bachelor night will be held 1 day before the marriage where friends and relatives get to get the bridegroom drunk.

Firstly early in the morning, the bridegroom's friends and relatives will gather at his house. Then, the bridegroom will pick up the bride from her home with a wedding car(preferably a Merc or a BMW) driven by a driver followed by a fleet of cars(this time round my cousin wanted those cars to be either a Merc or a BMW). As the bridegroom reaches the bride's home, all the cars following the wedding car will honk on their horns to alert the bride's relatives and friends that they are arriving.

The bridegroom won't get to see the bride once he reaches her place. He will have to go through a process called 'Love Test' which will be carried out by a group of bridesmaids(girls who are either the bride's friends or realtives). This includes paying the bridesmaids in form of angpau which the figure would be an absurd amount. The bridegroom will then negotiate with them the figure and he would be subject to the 'terms & conditions'. He and his bunch of friends will be given some hardship like eating sandwiches full of wasabi, pumping, ear squats, signing contracts which is in favour of the bride, etc. Finally, after passing all the tests, he will be given a key to the bride's room and then takes her home with him.(sorry i don't have the pics in this part of the process as i woke up very late that day)

Upon arrival back home, he will be greeted with firecrackers and someone is supposed to carry some oranges and open the car door for him. He will then get off the car with the bride and is welcomed by al the friends and relatives.

He will need to bring the bride to their wedding room which is nicely decorated. Normally, the couple will get a small kid(about 3yrs old) of an auspicious zodiac, say a dragon to roll on the couple's bed and to pee on a pail(chinese kind). If the bridegroom was a second child and the elder brother is not married yet, the elder brother must hang his shorts for the couple to pass through(this was the case of my cousin but he forgotten about it and he regarded that as too superstitious). After all that they will have to go through a praying process which the sequence is quite common and can be recalled by any chinese.

1st bow is to the God
2nd bow is to the parents
3rd is the couple will bow to each other

After that, there will be a serving tea to the elder relatives ceremony which starts with the bridegroom's parents, the bride's parents, and then grandmothers & grandfathers followed by uncles & aunts. This is some sort of blessing from the elders to the couple. After drinking the tea served by the couple, the elderly will give a token of blessing such as jewellery or cash in the form of angpau.

After the ceremony, the couple will get the blessing from the younger generations too(like me =P) but this time they will be giving us angpau instead of us giving them something.

The whole morning process will end with a photograph session of all the friends and relatives of the bride and the bridegroom.

The next session would be in the night where friends and relatives are invited to dinner(normally in chinese restaurants but in modern times people prefer ballrooms) where invites were sent out 1 month before the wedding ceremony.

Guests are greeted by relatives who will deal with the invitation cards sent out earlier which is now accompanied by some cash to show some gratitude & to acknowledge their attendance by signing on a piece of paper

Guests get to enjoy a slideshow of how the couple met, pictures of them when they were young, the wedding process, etc.

Guests are being entertain while the bridegroom and the bride serves guests at the entrance of the ballroom

Guests will then be served with a 8-course meal and liquor. During the whole dinner, the couple will go around all the tables and drink with everyone there with the famous Ya....mmm.....Seng.

My brother was one of the attraction there..lolz

People go around and take photos especially the younger generation. The main attraction would still be the couple and i also did took a photo with the couple but my cousin is yet to sent me the photos. It will be up soon once i received it. Hope this brief introduction will help those who are making preparations for their wedding.

Mum appeared in News Straits Times lately with my sis..

(l-r) dunno who, sis, mum

My sis like damn proud because she appeared in the newspaper for the 1st time..well i rejected the offer first only she got to go =P

A friend of mine, Rebecca juz got this new phone, SonyEricsson Xperia X1...It's a damn good phone but according to her it carries a hefty price of RM3,100( jaws drop down). When i saw it that day, I juz can't get my hands off the phone..damn!! Plus i'm not going to get it after all...it's just too pricey!! Edmund said, " I'd rather get a laptop because you can't play DOTA with this phone" LOL

~front view~

~after sliding down the qwerty keyboard~

~posed with the phone too XD~
(P/S: edgar did pose with the phone too..when you gonna send to me so that we can have a Xperia posing competition..haha)

whispers: i practically screwed up tax..how it feels when u are actually good at something and eventually screwed everything up T_T

The moon was smiling at me!!~
-there's actually 2 stars on top of it so thel real pic woud be :) i'm serious!