Wedding thankyou gifts

As my blog partner now busy everyday wedding shopping (for her sis!) I thought this blog is helpful...

To be honest, I hate going to weddings of people I dont know cos all you do is sit there and eat and stuff yourself with disgusting chinese "wedding" food! I just think its so pointless... so in my opinion, even tho you are inviting ppl u dont know, it is always nice to keep those "unknown" entertained so that they wont go home and blab on how damn boring and what a waste of time the wedding is for us. The 3 musts to keep "unknown family guests" happy is:
1) Good videos to show in between the banquet
2) Good and must be funny speeches, speeches should be about the groom and bride and the speech is best when its about their personalities and memorable + easy to understand recap of incidents and not of past stupid behaviours or incidents which no one understands except a certain group of people.
3) Table gifts that can be taken home and USED. I know that since its your wedding gift and you would love to put your name on the gift so that everyone remembers the "memorable day". From my experience, any gift with a name on it usually ends up in the bin (if that happens, why bother?)! Picture frames, phone straps etc usually never fails, CHocolate which tastes good are a good idea but ones that doesnt taste good, then dont bother wasting the money.

I have been to many many man weddings these 2 years, so many that I cant even recall some of them and mostly to people which I hardly know. The rule of thumb to newly weds who want a really special wedding that everyone remembers is that just to keep all speeches and videos simple, easy to understand and funny at the same time, the more you do, the more no one understands and hence bore them outta their minds!

Hope this is useful D.

Just got some pics to show you my favourite wedding gifts which I have kept!

Ko.

hamburgers that is not from maccas

Haevnt bloggged for so long that I almost forgotten the password of the login haha... thanks to kay for reminding us that our blog is nearly dead .. i decided i should save it and relive its glory!

why maccas so successful?
During school days, everyone of us has done the activity called "brainstorm", when I give the word "hamburgers" to you, what is the first thing that comes into your mind? McDonalds!! (whether you like maccas or not, it just comes to your mind) For me actually it will be Triple O's

everytime i go to Pacific Place, I will definatley go there for dinner and usually I will order the mushroom burger with extra cheese. The mushrooms,the beef patty and the cheese is really juicy! On top of that, the beef actually smells and tastes like real beef!

The other must order would be their milk shakes (more like thick shakes), it feels like drinking icecream!

Tips:
Dont order the fries because its not nice, another reason is because a normal female wont be able to finsih a burger and milkshake! Best to Go with a friend, order 2 singular burgers and 1 milkshake to share! If not, you will be wasting half of the food! The price aint cheap as well so dont over order.

Ko.

happy hens

the most delicious eggy dessert....creme caramel from france
1 pound at borough market in london.
how cute is the tub it comes in?
france have happy hens, hence they laid happy eggs, hence yummy creme caramel!

D.

and wait! there's more foie!

our 2nd meal at les deux magots
salad with smoked duck and foie gras!
i know for a fact that my liver has became a liver of an overstuffed goose.

is that humanly possible?

D.

more more more foie gras

this is my first lunch in paris.
most memorable, simple and delicious lunch

lentils with 2 giant sticks of foie gras....hmmm....
12.95 euros

les deux magots on blv st germain
good cafe creme, too!

D.

more fauchon

this has got to be the poshiest sandwich I ever had in my life, drum roll please....
baguette filled with foie gras (goose pate, the real stuff not the fake stuff thats mixed with chicken livers), champagne jelly, walnut and rocket...heavenly!

13 euros, merci!

perfect (posh) brekkie

so I read somewhere (in a magazine) that a carbs + protein loaded breakfast is very good for you, it helps concentration and increase productivity at work.
so i reckon some fluffy pastry and eggy madelienes will do no harm!

yum!
hazelnut croissant
very eggy and delicious truffle madeliene(with a dollop of creme friache inside)
lemon madeliene

at fauchon in paris (place de madeliene)

ps and you would think the coffee there is good, NOT!
came out of a machine, they didnt even froth the milk! for 4 euros a pop, it's so not worth it!

D.

kate moss for topshop

I am finally blogging, I have so much back blogging to do, but this is all the stuff from sydney! and i already left sydney for a month (!).. so guess those materials is not good for blogging anymore, it's too old! so I present to you, something current...my trip so far...

I took this at the selfridges in london, cos I cannot be bothered to go to topshop on oxford street! it's crowded,overpriced and overrated.

anyways, since i had some time to kill this arvo, i went into selfridges to try on this kate moss for topshop cape, it's quite dramatic, quite fine for london's winter. but maybe not so in hk! or sydney!

I think there are a few cape inspired coats in zara, but has anyone seen something like this one, with no sleeve, but not as warm and dramatic?

D.

New member in my room

Girls and shopping! you can never think of what a girl ends up buying during aimless shopping tours. Friend (Nat) and I walked past this street stall showing vase with a plant and around the plant is decorated by different colour beads sized of glass marbles. Out of curiosity Nat touched it and went "OH !!! its slitery slimy!!" In this situation obviously the owner would use all his sales skills to tell us what they are and why they are like that and how miraculous they are to persuade us to buy it!

As a normal human female, of course we bought it but its really cheap. For HKD25, you get a pack of beads (looks like a pack of seeds), 2 bean shaped seeds and a welcome phone strap gift. All you need to do is pour all those beads in a vase and fill up the vase with water, the next day the little seed-like beads will become the size of a marble. Its the same idea with sago.

Supposedly the plant should grow in a week and the beads are the plant's source of water, we do not need to water the plant at all for 3 mths until the beads shrink. When it shrinks, we fill it up with water for it to grwo big again... this should go on for 2 years. This new life has become a very important person of my room because everyday i am waiting and waiting for it to grow. So far the seed has blown up but no plant yet! will update later of the progress...

Ko.