Wan Leng & Kevin ROM @ Thien Hau Temple

Had the opportunity to attend Wan Leng and Kevin's ROM at Thien Hau Temple. Below are some of the outdoor shots that i manage to capture, dont ask about the indoor, i was running a bit late...

















With this, wish her and Kevin congratulations. Hope to see more magical moments on the actual day :-)

Winnie's Registration of Marriage (ROM)

Attend Winnie's ROM previous weekend at Thien Hou Temple on 27 June 09. Went and did some shots even i was late. I was not technically late, just that they started the ROM without us where they started earlier than the time slot given. Sigh, missed it due to the poor management of the people there...

Enjoy the pics :)



Winnie and Nick, Congratulations!!!

Great weekend...

Weekend was GREAT!!! Why? Able to spend quality time with my loved ones as i have been busy throughout the weekend for the past few weeks, probably 3 weeks ago. This weekend, due to the slow down of activity for PCSB rigs, i was able to spend more time with my family, friends and Sarah. As time past by, come to new week again, hence thinking if the coming week will be busy one for me or perhaps i might need to go offshore? Hope not as i would still like to have some relaxing weekend if possible :-) Hope all well for the coming week then!!!

06.03.2009

Happy Anniversary to us :-) May not be a fancy day with lots of things going on, but it was indeed a great day spend together. May many more happy years to come :-D

True and everlasting love... What a man can do for his wife...

This is one of the stories that was passed on to me from my friend and i find it worth sharing with everyone that i know.

A weird love story has come out of China recently and managed to touch the world. It is a story of a man and an older woman who ran off to live and love each other in peace for over half century.

Over 50 years ago, Liu, was a 19 years-old boy, fell in love with a 29 year-old widowed mother named Xu. At the time, it was unacceptable and immoral for a young man to love an older woman.
To avoid the market gossips, the couple decided to elope and lived in a cave in Jiangjin County in Southern ChongQing area.

In the beginning, they had nothing, no electricity or even food. They had to eat grass and roots they found in the mountain, and Liu made a kerosene lamp that they used to lighten up their lives.

Starting the second year of living in the mountain, Liu began, and continue for over 50 years, to hand carve the steps so that his wife could get down the mountain easily.

A half century later in 2001, a group of adventures were exploring the forest, they surprisingly found the elderly couple and the over 6,000 stairs of hand carved ladder.

“My parents loved each other so much, they have lived in seclusion for over 50 years and never been apart a single day.” Liu MingSheng, one of their seven children said, “He hand carved more than 6,000 steps over the years for my mother’s convenience, although she doesn’t go down the mountain that much.”

The couple had lived in peace for over 50 years until last week. Liu, now 72 years-old, returned from his daily farm work and collapsed. Xu sat and prayed with her husband as he passed away in her arms.

So in love with Xu, was Liu, that no one was able to release the grip he had on his wife’s hand even after he had passed away.

“You promised me you’ll take care of me, you’ll always be with me until the day I died, now you left before me, how am I going to live without you?” … …

Xu spent days softly repeating this sentence and touching her husband’s black coffin with tears rolling down her cheeks.

In 2006, their story had became one of the top 10 love stories from China, collected by the Chinese Women Weekly. The local government has decided to preserve the “love ladder” and the place they lived as a museum, so this love story can live forever.

Real life story of the couple as appear on TV:

The question that I am having now is that, how are we willing to go for our partner that we have now?

Meaningful Thought...

One of my friend blogged something meaningful to her blog the other day, its regarding relationship. The question goes like this "How do you perceive a relationship?" The content of the blog is related to Family, Friend and Love relationship. I find her post so right and meaningful where i would like to this opportunity to make a duplicate of her topic and to voice out my view as well.

Family
Family would be the first and most essential love or relationship of all to each of us. Why? Like the Chinese saying, we don't break out of rock, so we all would have parents which is also known as our parents. In general, our parents aka family would be the first person we meet and also to care for us in this world since our birth. Therefore the Family is the most essential and also valuable to us before achieving the love of Friend and Love. With Family love, we would be able to receive support and care from then as we progress thru the path of childhood, from the age of 1 and above. Family love is not only available during the young days, but also throughout the rest of our life. Why? As all parents would behave, their child is forever their child regardless of what age their child have achieved and they would always have the love of their family. Most of all, they would be willing to support and care no matter what situation that he/she encounter. Isn't the Family love being wonderful of all where it starts from the moment we are born until the end of our journey of life.

For me, i am blessed with a good family members, being supportive and helpful at most time. I once thought why my parents were being so strict with me previously and also care for me so much all the time. But now as i grew elder, i have understand the need of this and also know that if without what my parents have done previously, it would be hard to be whom i am now. Thanks daddy, mummy and all :)

P/s: The above is on a general basis where the child lives and being with their family and not of those on special cases where either the parents not with the kid or those kids that live under broken family where not able to receive the full of Family love.

Friend
Friends would be the most common in life unless if we choose not to befriend with anyone. If we open out our heart to those around us, it will be easy for us make friends, but regardless if the friend is out of pure heart of not, but that really depends on how to make sure that friendship is of pure and both mean for the best of the friendship. Friends would be the one that we spend most of our time in life, either we call it as school friends, college friends, university friends, working colleague/friends and other individual we meet throughout the way. Friend will be the one whom we share secrets, problem, spend time, hanging out together, doing some crazy things while being young and etc. Without the love of friends, our life would be so boring and rather dull, also when we need someone to be by our side, either to support us or help us in any way, then if without them it would be something regretful in life as we live the life in emptiness, without friends to be part of our life.

My bunch of friends that i have developed throughout the years, i have no complaints with them. They are great friends and i do admit that some of them i have lost contact and also some have got distance as we get busy with our daily life or distance grew between us, but i deeply remember those great time that we have shared in part of our life together, as great pal or friends. I hope in the days and years to come, we would be able to reunite and catch up on old times and i do think i need to find the time to locate most of you :)

Love
Having said about family and friends, i would have to reach Love finally. Love, it is so magical yet best thing that could ever happen. Why magical? As we would never have been lovers if we were never been Friends and after we been Friends, we could then proceed on to Love each other as a special one in our life time. What happens after Love? Then he/she would be Family, the Family of his/her in their life. See how the family of one got extended, also extended would be the friends of life for both he and she. See the magical of it? Not only that, having said about the magical part of what i have mentioned just now, imagine having found someone whom you truly love and care(from both sides), isn't that magical? Our love that we find to be the eternal, might not be the first love or the second, it might be the third, ten or more as the journey to look for someone compatible and suitable, that is never easy so that both can build a life of their own. Having the loved ones, then we would be able to rely more to them for most of the things that happen in our daily life, not that we need their help to solve each and every issue identified or to do each things together, but having someone to share some stories, jokes, happenings, laughter, sadness, grieve and etc is always blessful as we need not go through all those alone. I admit that we can always share that with friends, but do remember that friends might not be available 24x7 but hopefully our love one could be avaiable more than that :P

For my case, i have found my love :) Though it took quite some journey and time consuming also it does gave me the bad names at some time as some may have perceived me as player, where i like to play about, flirt here and there. Yes i agree that i flirt, who doesn't flirt being with great individuals? So that we gain acknowledgement and so that they take notice of our existance. I don't really want to walk past someone and that person never took notice of me, no i don't want to be that. So most of the time, while being friendly some may perceive it as flirting. Sigh, can't change how some people may perceive some things of a gesture of friendliness as flirtatious. But to heck with their view or belief, i know what i am doing :) and i know i am not what they perceive me as. Everytime i get know to anyone or a friend, i am being true to them and not with that intention of - I am going to tackle that girl and etc... I am happy being with my loved one now and great that i have found her :) I love her much :D

Hmm...guess that is what i have to say now, if there is more to be said after this where i remember more, i would certainly add it in :) Sigh, a little tired already after blogging so long, let me listen to some music to relax a bit :) Cheers, and may all have the best one deserve for Family, Friends and LOVE !!!