Civil Registration

With all our heart, we thank those, especially parents, who made it to our civil registration last Saturday (21/04/2007). It meant a lot to us. And for those who missed, thank you for all your SMS, email, phone calls, support and well wishes.

Here's the photo

Enjoy!

CMPC and Family Planning

CMPC 2

We were upset because of our action. Truthful to each other is what we going to practice from now on.

We need to make a decision to love.

CMPC 3

Marriages involve God. This is important because only with God’s blessing, the marriage will work in God’s plan. So basically, a marriage is not just 2 person working things out. A Catholic should acknowledge God before he or she decided on what plan to follow.

We need to love freely, truthfully, faithfully and fruitfully.

World’s plan is great! But it changes every time you step outside the front door. It can never be the same. Without careful measurement and prediction you may lose the precious thing in your life – LOVE. But God will always be there for you and your love ones.

Have faith, and you will be blessed if you promise each other to love freely, truthfully, faithfully and fruitfully.

“Of course, you have to work on it lah!” Andrew, the guy who conducted CMPC also said.

CMPC 4

When God created man, he also created woman with the man rib. He did not created woman with the man’s head, he did not created woman with the man’s feet. So Man and woman are equal.

Sex in marriage is not just part of life giving; it helps couples preserve love with the intimacy they share with each other.

Jesus always refers church as a bride as he always loved her. So is when it comes to man and wife.

To make marriage work, man and wife should always acknowledge each other’s differences and work things out before going to bed. That is to love truthfully.

CMPC 5

Catholic and the sacrament of matrimony.

This is harder for non-Catholic to understand what the practice is all about. But, it is just as simply as to love each other freely, truthfully, faithfully and fruitfully.

“Love one another like I have loved you.” Jesus says.

Today sharing is pretty simple. It is not difficult to understand we should love each other with our own free will, at the same time, we need to love selflessly. This value is the most difficult to follow.

When asked as a non-Catholic, what do I think about the sacrament?

I said, “To live up to the value is not easy. It requires a lot of practice and it is worth trying.”

I remember when Father Albert asked me if I willing to raise our children in Catholic way, I said yes, and it’s a promise.

“A child needs proper guidance. If we follow the world’s plan, he might be lost because the world is changing. But the church is always there and it will never change. So what’s more do I want for him to learn the value and also the discipline to be a good person? When he is old enough to join the world, the mould is already there.”

They didn’t ask for more, but I figure this is the least I can do for them because we learned in CMPC 3 that God’s plan is greater than world’s plan.

I learned this from my mom. She is the first person who influences me that good value should also be learned with the help of the society.

Church is a society, and they offer great value for a child upbringing, and I totally agree to that.

Family planning

We learned about understanding your body and the Billing Ovulation Method… hmmm… it was quite an interesting subject but the presenter wasn’t so great. Anyhow, it was good to learned that you can avoid pregnancy naturally since woman only fertile once a month.

Doing the chart now, ta!

Call me Mrs. V

We just signed our life away on 21st April, 2007 at 9:30am in St. Francis Xavier Church, PJ; conducted by Mr. EK John; witnessed by our beloved family members.

The night before, my big sister asked me “how does it feel to be legally Ms. Foo for one last night?”

I said “darn sad!”

And she sent me a kiss.

When we raised our right hand taking the vow, I can hear my sisters giggling away when Mr. EK John trying to pronounce my name. It sounded so WRONG!!!!!

That’s why I’m YY!

Anyhow, after we vowed our life away, the mother in law was asking if we should exchange rings now. Mr. EK John said not yet, “they have not sign the paper yet.”

“Haha… so I can still change my mind.” I said.

Well, I didn’t change my mind, someone must had pray very hard.

So we exchanged ring and hugs and kiss and everybody congratulated everybody more towards the relief of finally our children are married and they shall resign from playing Giraffes for so many years.

So all is done and everybody is happy.

So, I’m married. You may call me Mrs. V because his family name starts with the “V”. Like my name, it is another name that is too long and too difficult to pronounce it properly. If not careful, it is an insult without releasing it.

Ok… Mrs. V is it but I’m not changing my name! So I’m still valid as Ms. Foo, you may call me Madam Foo when I hit 40s.

On a Missing Note

Alvin, Julian, Ling and I went for tea just now and they reminded me about the photographer.

How can I forget about it?

Hahaha… so here goes…

I think during Christmas, Becky told Alvin about a few photographers that her friends’s friend knows… those are Ferdinand, Mr. Ting and a few others while one particular person condemn Alvin Leong photography for some reason and then we sort of like Ferdinand a lot and we thought if he is affordable we will hire him because his work is convincing.

And then I found this photographer who is quite happening and cheap and his name is Andy Lim. But Alvin was not convincing that we should hire someone from here to go to Kuching to shoot our wedding.

Well then that’s the cost I’m looking at and I thought it’s pretty reasonable and all that but since Alvin is in charge of hiring I just concentrate on all my girly stuff like hair and makeup and dresses.

Juggling with costing I came out with a solution to sell some of my share in some fund with some bank and we could afford Ferdinand. So we were happily saying “Wow! We can hire Ferdinand!”

It turned out Ferdinand is off the hook because he is booked for the weekend and then we thought we can hire him for the family studio shoot but he didn’t reply so we decided he might not be interested in doing it since he is already fully booked that weekend.

Alvin was upset but, what to do?

And then someone Becky knows recommended someone to her who knows someone along the line and lead to this guy whose girlfriend is someone to someone else and the boy friend is Andy Kho.
Andy kho is Alvin Leong Photography’s associate photographer.

We thought, well, the quality of the photos in Alvin Leong Photography is quite impressive, he shouldn’t be bad right?

So Alvin called him up and started the Kuching people to Kuching people conversation and he agrees to shoot our wedding.

And then we met up and it turned out he is quite cute. He is a Sarawakian looking boy who doesn’t smoke, doesn’t consume alcohol and he doesn’t drink coffee.

What a guy!

So he showed Alvin his work while Adila was trying to do my hair that very Saturday.

Well Alvin was happy and I care less about what he can do because I already seen his work so I let Alvin decide on what he wants to do.

So Andy Kho got the job and according to Alvin he is a jolly kind of boy.