Our Chef Wedding Reception

The wedding reception was at 6.30pm last Saturday. While waiting for the rest of my colleagues to arrive, I seated at the lobby area just in front of the big Chinese New Year flowers arrangement. I like it very much. I also noticed that there are a lot of Chinese tourists in this hotel, hope they enjoy their stay in Sabah.

This the flower display taken from where I was sitting.

This time I did not take the photos of the food served, only photos with my colleagues.  The groom is a head chef in one of our Company's resorts.  It is his turn to be served for his wedding reception in down town hotel, usually he is the one who head the resort's kitchen for the guests' wedding receptions.

Lovely newly wed couple, wishing them a happy and long lasting marriage.

Wedding Anniversary Dinner

This month this year, we are into 16 years of marriage, a lot of ups and downs, happiness and disappointments, arguments and forgiveness. We are blessed with 2 precious daughters with our Lord God in the centre of family, there is nothing else I could ask except for His continuous Blessings for Good health, lots of Love, happiness and safety for all of us in our family. 

Celebration must have good food. With 2 additional voices and opinions, we came to a consensus to have our anniversary dinner at Grill'z Kitchen. This is one of the only few restaurants that served pork in their menus. 

If you happen to be in KK, you could try Grill'z Kitchen at :

Lot 3 & 3A, 1st Floor, Block A,
Kepayan Point, Jalan Penampang By-pass,
88200 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah,
Malaysia
Tel : 088 701300

The engagement of Prince William and Kate Middleton

Prince William, the heir to the heir to the throne has finally announced his engagement to Kate Middleton, his long time girlfriend at the State Rooms of the London's St.James's Palace on Tuesday, both are 28. Their wedding will be some time in Spring or Summer 2011.

Prince William gave his future bride the same 18-carat Sapphire diamond ring, which his father, Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales had given to his mother, Diana, the Princess of Wales, for their engagement in 1981. It is an oval sapphire surrounded by 14 diamonds in a cluster setting chosen by Diana herself.

The country is delighted and wishing them every happiness.

This has brought back my memories on the engagement and marriage of Prince Charles and Diana in 1981. Only If the Princess of Wales were still around, the occasion would be much more merrier.

18th Wedding Anniversary

HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY TO EDWARD & KIM

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Edward & Kim celebrated their 18th wedding anniversary last night at the Masarap Filipino cuisine restaurant, it was a special dinner treat for us and the Wong family. It was truly the first time that me and my girls experiencing authentic Filipino cuisine.

The dishes are not spicy hence suit small children perfectly. Like always Pearl requested for noodles.

Happy family of Edward & Kim

Masarap is a 2-storey restaurant at Lintas, there is a Filipino singing band on the 1st floor where we were entertained with music and songs throughout the dinner. BILs, Edward and Nicky both presented a song or two.

Edward are more familiar with Filipino dishes, he ordered some popular dishes from the menu.

Crispy Pata (Fried whole pork leg)

Daing Na Bangus (Fried milk fish)

Pansit Canton (fried noodle)

Tortang Talong (Fried egg plant, ground pork with eggs)

Tinolang Manok Soup (Chicken soup, Ginger with vegetable)

Mango cake dessert

Coconut milk with corns pudding

Filipino style ABC

In front of the restaurant on our way home

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A wedding token

I received this wedding token my colleague, Rosalind, who got married in August this year. Besides having their wedding dinner reception here in KK, they had another dinner reception in Kuala Lumpur a week later for her mum is from West Malaysia and her dad is working there as well.

She brought back this token from KL for us. I like the design very much and had not seen one like this KK. It is a red hard cover ang pow pocket stuffed with sweet chocolate inside. I specially like its bright red colour and the smiling couple. I am still keeping this pretty ang pow on my desk as decoration.

Weddings we attended in August 2010

We attended 2 weddings in August 2010.

My colleague, Rosalind married to Jehezkiel on 7th August 2010. I brought Crystal and Pearl along with me to the dinner reception at Shangrila Tanjung Aru Resort.

Rosalind & Jehezkiel

Just last Friday, 27th August 2010, we attended Clare and Fynn's wedding reception at Dewan KDCA Penampang.

Fynn & Clare

Taking a photo in front of the wedding car with hands holding the key chains, the souvenirs taken from Lynn and Clare's wedding. They like the key chains so much that they wanted them to be fixed on their school bags.

At cousin's son wedding dinner

8 course meal is the basic for a wedding dinner. The price of each table is very much depends on the type of food that are included in the dishes. Dishes with shark fins, abalone, prawn will definitely more expensive.

At my cousin's son wedding, it is the first time that I have and tasted abalone in fried rice. My cousin, Mr & Mrs Yong Chee Loong's youngest son wedding was on 12 November 2009. Here's the snapshots of us at the wedding dinner and the delicious 8 course meal.

Mum and aunties meet. chit chatting before the dinner.

Sister and son, Jasper

Me and my only sister

Crystal, Pearl and Daddy

Happy with the balloon in hand

Cousin's wedding

Yesterday was a popular day to wed. My cousin picked the 8th August to wed as well. It was a church wedding followed by a nice and cozy cocktail and lunch party at the church hall, a simple and relaxing party with plenty of food. It was also an occasion for us to mingle around with cousins whom we have not seen quite a while.

The newly wed (this photo was taken by Pearl..)

Crystal and Pearl with the beautiful bride

The bride throwing her wedding bouquet up in the sky...hahaha..the nearest lady got it.

lunch is served

plenty of satays and lamb

sanwiches, curry puffs and malay kuih were served before lunch

A little heart shape gift box filled with cookies and Ferrerro Rocher for guest to bring home, the heart shape can also be converted into an ice cream serving cup.

The bottle of drinking water specially label with the newly wed photo

The wedding cake and cupcakes

Wedding - Stephen & Pauline

It was our nephew's wedding reception yesterday evening after the bride's last week. We had a buffet style dinner at the Wong Kwok Restaurant in Penampang, the food was plentiful and the evening was joyfully filled with songs while we were having dinner through till the end. Crystal and Pearl picked up the microphone presenting a song "Your are my sunshine" towards the end of the reception. Here are the photos of the evening:

Wedding - Stephen & Pauline

We attended the wedding of Stephen and Pauline at the bride's resident at Membakut on Saturday, 9th August 2008 and the photos tells it all.

While everybody was busy with the celebration, the children were having their own fun, running, jumping, balancing, dancing, just about everything they can think of. Crystal and Pearl were sweating all over but they sure had a lot of fun playing with their cousins , Jojo, Kathleen, Edson. I guess the feeling of them being let loose in the compound must have given them so much different from living in the city with all the restrictions and space limitation as compare to living in the countryside.





They were having so much fun that Crystal refused to go home and leaving the party with tearful eyes. The daddy gave her a bit of "lecturing" in the car and not long after that both of them fell fast asleep on the way home. They must be very very exhausted.