Dog Friendly Places To Hold Your ROM + Our Preparation Journey

Moving on from the Proposal. Of cause we need to get married. HAHAHA.

And HOW CAN I GO THROUGH SUCH A SPECIAL DAY WITHOUT MY DOGS?! 

In case u miss their face haha

I know that the chances of my dogs attending my wedding banquet is 99% impossible, thus I have to find a way to let them be part of my ROM, no matter what. 

And so.. within that 5 months we hunted quite a number of places that is, number 1 criteria:
Dog Friendly.

Our initial plan/ 1st choice was to hold at Lorong Halus, at the educational kiosk because

                                          1) it is big enough to accomodate the guests
                                  2) Super dog friendly cause we use to go there every week 
                                                    3) Nice scenery for phototaking 

                                                              4) Low-cost. 

But but but.. We almost died waiting trying to apply the license. From Npark, got directed to PUB. And PUB took a few weeks to tell me that I should fill up a form together with a fire dont know what plan incase of emergency. I asked them how detailed should my proposal be and after 3 months they finally get back to me. THANKS ALOT. Might as well after my ROM then reply -_-".

Then we also shortlisted Ah B Cafe, it's quite a good choice because
 1) it is definitely dog friendly LOL because its a dog cafe in case you didn't know.
2) It is very spacious, like VERY.
3) They have nice out door bricky walls for photo-taking.
But..... the indoor area is above our budget :X and I am afraid that the outdoor area once it rains all of us will have to get wet.

Image credit: Ah B Cafe's Facebook

Then I happened to spoke to Kevin and he's like. COME TO TORTE LAH!!! I WAS SOOOO HAPPY because idk how come i didn't think of it. haha. Felt like i strike Toto to find a place that is
1) Still dog friendly (It's not a dog cafe but they 100% will allow dogs)
2) Centralized and easy for my guests to find.
3) Nice food!
So we went ahead with all the viewing of venue, rough planning etc and till the last stage of paying deposit.. Sadly due to unforeseen circumstances, they have to stop operations. So T_T. Need to find alternatives. Sigh.

Image credit: melicacy.com

I went on to search for other parks like Bedok Reservoir/ Pasir ris park/ Wawawa Cafe/ Cafes (but alot only allow the dogs OUTSIDE. I cannot. Where got ppl bring dog Rom den leave the dog outside in the hot sun for 2 hours plus while all the humans eat inside and enjoy aircon.) and also some charge a super expensive price like $5k for 3 hours including food. Without decorations okay. Hotels are out because most of them dont allow dogs/ exceed our budget.

Then one day, Belle asked me. Eh, you got try asking Roboyes anot? I'm like. I saw leh but haven't ask. So she helped me to contact them. They are considered a new cafe situated in the neighbourhood near Old Airport Road market. Went to stalk their Facebook and I fell in love with their interior colour - Blue & white and just nice it fits my Under the sea theme! ~.~

Image credit: polarthecurious.com

We are so fortunate to have found them because
1) ITS A DOG CAFE. 

2) Their colour matches our theme!
2) The cafe is new, nice, clean and cosy
3) They are reasonably priced.
4) Location is quite centralized (not extreme east or west)
5) Sharon and Jaren from Roboyes are nice and helpful people, they assisted us in the decorations and arrangement of the tables and chairs without complains and even offered to take down their photo frames and certain decorations in order to match my theme.

Venue: Settled.

Decorations: GA GI LAI aka Ownself do aka D.I.Y

In order to save $$$, we decided to take things to our own hands. And also because I have a bunch of supportive and talented family and friends lah. haha.

Ordered my seashells & starfish from taobao with the help of belle.

Our D.I.Y Frame

Photobooth props: Bought the materials from Art friends, done by Le Hub & me during our free time

Thumbprint Guest board: Canvas & Acrylic paint bought from spotlight, done by le hub & me again


Before


After

ROM Table centre piece: The thing that looks like... idk, jellyfish? Planet? alien? Doesn't matter cause I like it. Done by my dear sister with whatever materials we can find at home. The W&M Styrofoam was painted by me. Bought from Artfriend again.

ROM Chair ribbon: Bought from carousell, creatively tied by my mummy. HENG She used to be a florist because her skills really came in useful and make the whole place look very nice.

ROM pen: I decided not do D.i.y my pen in the end cause im just gonna use it for 5 mins. So i use a pasarmalam pen I previously bought at $1.50 only!! Woohoo!! *Pls rmb to use ONLY BLACK pen hor*

Pompoms: From daiso, tied by all my friends and fam <3

Balloons: from Party Mama shop

Flower petals: From a graduated bride on Facebook

Solemnizer was 1 of the most tao tiah (headache) thing to settle. That was one of the first few things we did once we set on the date. Ah wai called up like 7 solemnizers but none are free. zzz. Panicked, I went to ask around and texted Mr Patrick Tan. LOL! 1st try and tadah! Chopped him. He's quite friendly and humorous. And taught us what focus for taking pictures, how to wear the ring so can take nicer pics.He's also punctual on the day. But downside is that he can't really converse in Mandarin and pronounced Ahwai's name wrongly a few times. Ok la I pang chance, his name so hard to pronounce, like out of 10 only 0.5 can pronounce correctly at the first try.

Photographer: SMILE Moment PhotographySettled with them randomly cause it's the most pocket friendly price. The PG abit shocked us with his outfit thou cause he came in T shirt/ shorts and slipper like he lived upstairs #faint. But overall he is okay lah, quite proactive. Pictures skills wise, some are nice thou alot of pics I look abit fat. #sian. #fatjiufatdontblamepeople #iknow

The white one not so nice hor?

ROM Dress: Included in our bridal package. Went for first fitting and I settled for a short white tube dress cause after trying so many I couldn't find the ideal dress I wanted. Till like 4 days before when I go for a final fitting and I re-tried this turquoise dress, suddenly it look so much nicer leh. HENG STILL GOT TIME TO CHANGE MY MIND. So i chose that instead. HAHA. #bestchoiceever

Nails: The Nail Lab. This is like the nicest manicure and nail art I ever had in my life i swear. I don't usually do nail art cause, ahem. Im a cheapo. HAHHAHA. But I really got to hands down to Seethi for doing such a great job for my mermaid themed nails.Super love <3

What I initially saw and wanted.

This is the final product, Not bad right! 

ROM Cake: Blackbird Bakery, Salted caramel flavour. Papa last minute say sponsor me a cake for the ROM and HURRAY. Looked for Brenn again from Blackbird Bakery cause previously she did Ahwai's birthday cake. Im quite pleased with my cake, the colours look so nice hehe. For the salted caramel part, it really depends on individual. Some guests says its too sweet. Some don't like. For me, I almost gained a few kg after the ROM cause everyday I go home I will start pigging at the cake. It makes me crave for it everyday~

Shoes: Anna Nucci

Anyhow buy a safe colour at $50 so I can reuse for normal day, if throw away oso not so heartpain.

Then again I doubt I will cause its too high zzz.

Ok. Sibeh long already AND I HAVENT EVEN GET TO MAIN POINT -_-.

Okok, last part.

I bought toytoy's sweet lil dress from Aliexpress (Bought the bigger size and she still ended up looking like bazhang) and 

Tui + Ahwai's collar from Carousell. Ps: I combined one of his old Collar from bkk with the ribbon, and turn out like that! Not bad hor? #igottaltent #quitecreative #can


Hand braided a make shift leash for tui in green and white (string from daiso, hooked from a old leash) #anyhowbraid


Rough planning of layout.

EVERYONE LETS MERMAID THEME YO~ 

#staytunefor2ndpost. #toolong #notime

The proposal

The proposal

Ello! We are back!

Past few months has been sooo hectic I couldn’t really find time to update this space properly. Apart from the fact that nothing much has been happening in the shelter. Haha. 

And yes, I am here to update about The Proposal before I start procrastinating till 2055..

Background: 

Last October, Mr Wai suddenly jio me to apply for BTO one fine day while we were walking Tui at Pasir Ris beach. (IKR Singaporean way of proposing). -___-“ it was so random I couldn’t digest this “invitation”. We were just sitting at the bench and there's this couple happen to hold their ROM/wedding at the beach's cafe then he suddenly ask me. And I was still thinking, wah piang so hot. later the make up all melt. zzz. 

Ok, fast forwarding our lives, we applied for Sales of Balance in Nov 2014 (Reason for choosing balance flat is partly because we hope to bring tui home before its too late. (Count: In 2012 Tui was about 2 yr old, if we were to apply standard BTO, we can only get keys in 2019/2020, by then he already like lao kok kok already..). 

Got our ballot number in February and we were lucky to have gotten 61 / 121 units in SK area. 

Came the day on 13 May 2015, we finally confirmed plus chop on our very own house when we selected our unit at HDB ^^ After one whole night of not being able to sleep because we really had limited choices on the units we wanted (PS: I super kia su because appointment at 11am I dragged Ahwai to HDB at 8am HAHAHA thought can jump queue but end up fail). But lao tian bo bi … we got what we aimed for and it turn out to be really good location. And on this very day, we got to know that we will collect keys on the 4^th Quarter of this year instead of 2016 and we had to produce our marriage cert!!! *FAINT* We kept thinking its Oct 2016 then that will be perfect~  But oh well. That’s when we start to rush everything within the next few months. 

We decided to hold our Solemnization in October because 1. We might collect keys anytime between Sept to Dec, Oct sounds like a good choice in between. 2. Oct is also our Pat-torversary, 3. 10.10 falls on a Sat! So why not!

Wah I wrote so much but yet to reach anything on the proposal @.@ Please bear with me. Too much things to fill you guys up with. I shall stop talking about the ROM for now, shall leave it for another post ;) Ok, back to the proposal..

I’ve told Ahwai from the start that I don’t need an extravagant proposal, no need firework or book the whole restaurant, its as easy as 1 2 3 with one condition.. JUST BRING MY 2 DOGS ON THAT DAY. I even gave him ideas like can get the dogs to hold the ring and give me (Or was it I ownself imagine but nv tell him ah? Shit. Memory failing me). 

But as days, weeks and months passed by.. he like no action leh?! So I kept bugging him that : Eh! No time already please. Oct coming liao!! Until I only feel irritated with myself.

One day when we happen to bring Tui to Bedok Reservoir on a weekend, we passed by the Forest Adventure and he had this stupiddddd idea to go and book a slot for BOTH OF US! Hello! I never say I want to join u leh. Can I sit there with the dog and cheer u???

I thought he was joking… and that after a few weeks he forgotten. (*Secretly happy in my heart, no need to go*) but another fine weekend.. He SUDDENLY REMEMBER!!! -_-. So while I was having my brunch he brought Tui over to the booth and booked. Im like sian diao… this time cannot siam.

18^th July 2015

Woke up in the morning, still in denial that I need to climb trees afterwards, I was seriously praying that its gonna rain before we start, but sadly that didn’t happen. 

Upon reaching reservoir, I had this very strong and strange feeling that something is not right. The idea of proposal strike me and my heart was thumping very fast. Im like, don’t tell me its today. I AM NOT PREPARED OMG . As we walked towards the adventure booth, I saw people setting up party decoration and I almost hyperventilate in my heart……………………..

Then I realised.. Eh.. Ang mor. Ok, lame. Not even my friends or fam Think too much. HAHAHHA!!!

So we proceeded to the counter, filled up the forms and went to put our stuff in the locker. Le bf was checking on his phone at the very last min which I find it fishy so I attempted to peep and saw: Sembawang airbase. Ok, boring. (Work stuff again). 

I was dreading the whole time but slowly resigned to fate that I have to complete these courses no matter what. By the 2^nd rope ladder my hands already jelly liao. The only fun thing was the zip line which I only have to sit and zoom down. No prizes for guessing what my facial expression was though out haha. One thing I need to point out was le bf was very supportive and encouraging during the whole activity (thou he failed to motivate me in anyway.) Halfway through our 2^nd zip, there’s this uncle video-ing us and when we land he was commenting: Wah very nice ah … I want take video and show my daughter so she can come also. Then he show us the video. Lol . Like that also can.

Fast forwarding >>>>>>> Else u all will fall asleep liao. Usually Ahwai will be the one to go first because I kia si. So same goes for the last zip line which leads us back to the main area. After he zip over, I was the only one left at the whole course. -___-. Abit scared. But at the same time I was thinking: Eh if I just sit here don’t go down can anot ah? Enjoy the breeze and maybe they will have to run back to check on me after sometime. Who ask them to put me as last one. But then after 1 min I decided to go la hahah. #useless. 

Ok, as I was approaching the finishing pit, I saw this girl standing at the pit video-ing me like STRAIGHT IN MY FACE. My first thought was: This siao lang?! Need to video so near anot?! Why all the people today like to video other people.

As I get nearer I realise why this girl seksek one…………………………EH LOOK LIKE MY SIS LEH!!

Den I look at the ground area… EH!!! WHY EVERYBODY HERE?!

Guess what was I complaining?

Shit man i look like pumpkin -_-

Before I can digest, le bf already took the bouquet over and said some stuff I still cannot process but the next thing I said was: Tui!!! HAHAHA. Because Tui and Toytoy were present too! :DDD He was wagging his tail at me, awwww. 

And so the proposal happened. I shall not elaborate because I was so paiseh. 

My handsome boyfriend waiting for me..

while toytoylim wait until want pengsan liao:

You all want to know ah? Go watch the proposal video specially recorded and edited by my sis <3 Love her so much. And of course a big thanks to now le HUSBAND for planning the proposal way back like 2 months before. And also not forgetting to bring my 2 Ts plus my all my close friends and mama and your sis and brother in law and jonanthan ~ 

PS: Oh you know hor... Actually his whatsapp chat the Sembawang Airbase one is actually the Proposal group chat!!! Wah this guy, so smart. He say cause once i see sembawang airbase I sure switch off one. And wont suspect. LOL!!! This one i give u 5 stars for knowing me so well. HAHA. 

Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNNl5TwwiN8

Largest Shihtzu Gathering 2015

The haze's getting from bad to worse. But there's only so much, or should I say, nothing much we can do to help the shelter dogs and community cats. Sigh.

Alright, have be missing in action since my last post in July.. 

Early this month (5th Sept 2015) we had our very first Largest Shihtzu Gathering during the PETAS Pet Show. 

As we are still considered a rather new dog club, we had limited resources - manpower and $$$. 

So an ad-hoc committee was formed. I was roped in because I helped to get one of  the prize sponsorship. The rest of the committee members really put in a lot of effort like Pauline, Skippy mama, Vince (John john papa), Melissa, Apple and our Emcee Aileen + a young girl I didnt catch her name. But she was brave enough to "host" the show hahaha. All of us adults all siam because stage fright. 

We had games, lucky draw, Eileen went up to demo on how to express anal gland, September Shihtzu babies cake cutting, photo booth and lucky draw! 

Our photobooth might seem abit, erm, not too professionally done but I would have to say it's alot of work and effort put in by Vince. All the props are his and he has to double up as the camera man for the whole day until his back ache like siao after the event ended. Nonetheless we hope everyone had fun! It was like a dream come true with SOooooooooo many Shihtzus around. 

Next year, we will be back. And if you would like to contribute in anyway to make the event a even more successful one, feel free to approach our admin aka Founder Ms Apple poh :D

Here's the pictures. So sorry ah majority is Toy toy de face but bo bian I am her mummy of course take more pics of my kid la. :P

She had a mini fashion show with her boyfriend Johnjohn because John pa is very kind to buy 2 couple wear for them <3 

Xiao pang came in this.. Our shihtzu club tee.

Start of the fashion show....

Beach wear ~ John pa feels that this one very sexy for toytoy so he ended up buying it too.

Toy look damn happy idk why

We took thousands, ok la hundreds of shots to get this.

And we thought it makes a nice pre wedding shoot for them HAHAHA. 

In actual fact...

John john is very scared of toytoy because toy is a "cia charbor"/

Fiesty girl

This is like the closest they can get, usually toy will growl or bark at him AHHAHA. 

While waiting for mama to be free..

Johnjohn realise im holding the camera and he quickly run infront to photobomb

Toytoy: Ei Johnjohn why you now then come. I wait very long for you liao..

And let's see some of the other furkids:

I would give him/her the Happiest Smile award!

And a teddy bear look alike Tzu

No prize for guessing who is this..

NIUNIU! (Pic credit to vince)

Koped this from ST Club Facebook.

Cookie meimei

Ruby with her colourful tail everytime

Lollipop with his cute butt

I forgot this is ramen or udon who already but his name is food related de! 

This girl here i think got  12 yr old if IRCC.

So cute!!

Meat Loaf cake for the Sept babies. 

Group pic koped from Facebook again. :X Sorry ah.. no time to take. 

Eileen demo-ing

Group pic of the ad-hoc committee with some other owners

Oh yea, did i tell u..

We actually had a clash of clothes that day. HAHAHHA.

Met 2 babies (one boy one girl also) wearing the exact same pinafore and so...

Are you ready for school??? 

My son in law and daughter~ 

Okie dumbdumb toytoy to end the post. 

Last but not least a final group pic of the day: 

 See you all next year!! And hope to see more tzus around :D
XOXO