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Today was a simple day. Me and YX worked.. then we went to decide on what the lunch gown should look like and then we headed over to Marina Bay Sands to meet up with family.

Got some sushi and a chicken leg for dinner, walked around the marina bay gardens thing and then went to Ikea to look for a table. We were really quite late then the staff were literally chasing us down the path to get out. Got a hotdog and some ice cream then it was back home for me! Getting nana to her art class tomorrow morning, gonna be a nice day..

I updated a little on FB that I had a few random thoughts about PRCs, my YX’s gown and ring engravings. Let start with the random:

PRCs in Singapore are really quite a topic. Most people hate them but not all. I just think their stereotyped behaviour (which has quite alot of truth) annoy me but that’s no reason to have the negative sentiment we have toward them. For one they are just a bunch of people who left their land to come here to find a better life. Their loud talking and exclaimations are really quite annoying but thats just who they are. In the same vein, Singaporeans are a complaining, kiasu another word for selfish) bunch and have just as many traits that annoy me. Most posts about them online are quite extreme (think toddler driven over by car.. squashing cute animals with high heels..) but it doesnt reflect mainstream society. Nobody posts “China man gives up seat to elderly on MRT” but that does actually happen. In fact that day I saw bangla (yes, by all means you may condecendingly disapprove of the term) help an old lady carry many bags of groceries across the road + walk with her. Now you might think the Bangla could have followed her to her flat and robbed her but I choose to think better of him. The world’s anicer place like that.

Moving on, yesterday I went down to Tanjong Pagar to get measured up for my tux and choose an evening (lunch) gown with her. I don’t know what the actual wedding gown looks like so DON’T spoil it for me. It was kinda interesting how long and far the journey to our marriage has been and how everything has been provided for. I think I will have fond memories of everything that has gone down so far. Basically we haven’t chosen the gown yet.. but we’re getting there.. haha

The day before on Thursday we put in the instructions for our ring engravings. Since the theme of our entire dating/courtship life has been God’s love personified in each other. It stands to reason that we would have nothing less than the great 1st Corinthians chapter 13 engraved on our rings.

The Way of Love

13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have aprophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, bso as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 cIf I give away all I have, and dif I deliver up my body to be burned,Some manuscripts deliver up my body [to death] that I may boast” href=”http://www.esvbible.org/1+Corinthians+13/#f1-1″>1 but have not love, I gain nothing.

4 eLove is patient and fkind; love gdoes not envy or boast; it his not arrogant 5 or rude. It idoes not insist on its own way; it jis not irritable or resentful;Greek irritable and does not count up wrongdoing” href=”http://www.esvbible.org/1+Corinthians+13/#f2-1″>2 6 it kdoes not rejoice at wrongdoing, but lrejoices with the truth. 7 mLove bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, eendures all things.

8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For nwe know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but owhen the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For pnow we see in a mirror dimly, but qthen face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as rI have been fully known.

13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Thats abit too much to be engrave on our rings so we went for a simple name and date and 1 cor 13. It was a tight squeeze but we like it that way.

Lastly, we’ve also done up our invitations now to actually fabricate/print them and address them to the whole load of people we would like to invite. Dinner food tasting is on the 29th November (if i remember correctly) so it’ll be just great!

The fiancée has finally found her bike! A nice Scott Speedster Contessa S15 from a nice Irish Guy at Nassim road. He was really friendly and told us he and his wife picked up cycling after a car accident she was involved in and never looked back. Heh, the house was really beautiful.. But anyway, here’s the bike!

I’ve decided to blog abit again because I think although I’ve realized the now and the future are the most important to me, keeping track of where I’ve been really keeps me grounded and humble.

In today’s episode, I managed to

1. blast thinner into my eyes and not go blind
2. clear coat my bike with urine colored clear coat
3. have dinner with the Wangs and Mincys (this one was completely normal thankfully)

Went over with the cousin to the shop to clear coat the rest of the bike. Unfortunately the clear coat is really a light shade of urine colored yellow so over the white bits you really can see that someone pee-d on my bike. Blue is fine though! Its a dark enough color to hide the yellow tinge of the clear coat.

Spent quite a while flushing the airbrush, checking if the cup is the problem and seeing if the clear coat had yellowed but we don’t have an explanation. Well at least the bike doesn’t smell like urine. While flushing the airbrush I blocked the outlet to kinda allow a little air to backflow and bubble into the cup but… it blasted a large amount of thinner into my face. Ouch! It really burned quite bad! flushed my eyes with water for a couple of minutes and felt fine again. Not gonna look into the cup again in future… zzz..

Been working on video editing and am pretty excited at what can be done! just that it takes ages and I’m not too creative with moving pictures. Trying to work on some basic technique to piece my own video together for next year! Hope it turns out fine. Some pictures of the painted un-coated bike.

I’m building a little bike from bits all over the place.
So far I’ve gotten for free:

• a nice steel shimano oldie frame from the 90s
• quill stem
• drop bars
• bottom bracket
• fork

I’ve gotten a bunch of parts from my cousin from a distributer and got a good price on everything, those include

• an SR Royale chain wheel and cranks,
• shimano exage brake levers,
• calipers
• a chromed Tange Headset.

I also picked up from yixuan:

• Shimano RS20 rear wheel

Still missing some

• pedals
• a seatpost
• saddle
• wheels
• chain
• rear cog

I primed it with some brown primer (wish it were white) after using a wire-brush on a drill to strip the existing paint. Going to spray the tubes blue and leave the lugs white.. Here are some pictures.