a wonderful splendid perfect beautiful memory

Yushan from ambi photography posted the fantastic fabulous highlights from day one. It's an awesome way to come home from the honeymoon! :)

You can check them out here !!

Here's some for a sneak preview :)










I kept adding pictures to the list until i told myself i have to stop cos there are all in the website! :) hee hee.

bits and pieces from land of love :)

The skies' so blue and trees so green and our hearts sooo in lurrrvvee :) The honeymoon was filled with so much adventures and surprises. Thank God Isaiah loves me enough to deal with my nonsense and crazy itinerary! :) :)

Have yet to transfer all the photos from the cam so here's some bits and pieces for you to enjoy!

Colourful Colourful Houses!
Brighton Beach, Melbourne

Ross Bakery
Ross Village, Tasmania

Dove Lake
Cradle Mountain National Park, Tasmania

Strawberry a-picking!
Launceston, Tasmania

Soaking in lavenders in the lavender farm
Launceston, Tasmania

Freycinet National Park
Freycinet, Tasmania

Drooollllllls
Hobart, Tasmania

blue skies in Tassie... finally!

Praise God for blue skies finallly :) :) :)

excited excited!!

waves HELLOOOOO!! from Melbourne

I can't believe it, it's exactly a week since we were married.
We are married for 7 days.
It's been 168 hours or about 10,080 minutes or 604,800 seconds.
Wow. It's been a week! Heeeeey, i want to relieve last weekend :)

But honeymooning totally rocks too!

After a wind whirl of activity last weekend, we lazed around Four Seasons (sigh, can we go back?) till Tuesday... living the dream where Border's and Kino are our friendly neighbourhood stores. At home on Wednesday, we did a mad pack and left for the airport to catch our night flight to Ozzzieeeland. Thanks a million Yu-Shan for the Melbourne tips... we totally didn't have time to research. Your tips saved the day!

a new morning, a new beginning :)

Look what an anonymous Mr Yan and Ms Tee surprised us with

It was an absolutely lovely start to the morning when an air stewardess and steward came by saying, 'Mr and Mrs Das (still gives me goosebumps hearing it! hee), happy honeymoon'. Awwwwwww. Though it was a bummer that we had to finish the cake before we reached customs.

Thank you :)

Check out the view from our hotel room

There's a lovely day bed by the window where we can lounge and watch the city. Aside from that, the hotel totally rocks because they allowed us to check in early at 10am. Coolness or what?? :) Couldn't ask for more. Thank God!

We spent the first day lazing and exploring town.

yummmliicciousss

...that's why honeymoon comes after the wedding. so i won't have to worry about fitting into the gown.

It's 8pm by the way!

We declare late nov/early dec the best time to visit oz! Temp is still rather chilly and days are lonnnggg! Sun rises at 5.30am and sets at 9pm. Awessommee! And well, we packed clothes that were way too thin, so time to shop!!!! Laa laaa laa.

Day 2: Yarra Valley

By the time we got to the rented car it was nearly noon. Yeeha! We had brekkie at the quaint Degraves alley and Isaiah was so sweet to shop with me in Country Road. When we finally travelled to Yarra Valley, I fell asleep in the car (hee hee)... only to wake up high up in the mountains. Eh.. wrong!

Moral of the story - 2 sleepyheads cannot be the only ones in the car!

Anyway, a very kind owner of a Tarvan gave us the right way and recommended us to Innocent Bystanders (similar to Little Creatures in Freo) for pizza and wine. The pizza's so lovely and the wine so awesome. Especially cos it's ice cold. Guess i gulped it down too fast on an empty stomach (and i figured i had to drink Isaiah's share cos now we are married, his is mine and all.. hahahah). Everything became woozy after that.. and sleepy.

Having said that, the wineries were beautiful. Will post up more pictures soon :)

Day 3: Great Ocean Road

favourite :)

That's all from us for abit. Gotta rush cos the internet's running out :) It's AUD$25 for 24 hours. :)

Love ya from Aussieland
Isaiah & Matilda

We are leaving on a jetplane!

Off to hunnnieeemoooo! :)
(Last call as usual. Hahah!)

God bless and speed!

Lurve u all
Isaiah & Matilda
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Thank you!!

Wow! it has been a crazy lovely beautiful weekend! And before I forget, i need to thank everyone whom i can remember (sorry if i forget your contribution!)

• God - for making everything beautiful in His time and providing for all our needs, in Him there is no lack and no worry!
  
• Our parents - without you, there wouldn't be us!
  
• OCX & Karen - our wonder, power coordinators - you 2 r awesome and definitely "better together"!
• Ps Mark - our Senior Pastor, marriage counsellor, solemnizer and now Uncle!
• Wai Kwong - thanks so much for spending your anniversary with us and sharing such a special message! And thank you for the wedding car as well!
  
• Yizhen & Roanna - our super deco team...AMAZING!
• Ereen - for the loveliest guest book i have EVER SEEN! so NICCEEEE!
• Lesley - thanks dear for the lovely church program. no one would believe you took less than a few hours to do such nice work!
• Jason & Irene - our lovely MCs and supporting coordinators. We came to church and everything was ready to go! and of course ASHER! haha so cute, so sweet! When you are older, we will show you your video! :)
• Emelda - my niece and beautiful fairy flower girl :)
• The brothers - Jon, Nic, Benny, Mike, Sam, Paul, Kenneth, Ocx, Daniel Yan, Bernard, Daryl, Dan Fung, Nat. You got shaved, dirtied, insulted, unclothed.....thanks bros!
  
• Isaac - for staying over at my place, thinking he would get more sleep - only to end up working till 2am!! thanks bro!
  
• The sisters - liwen, nina, yanjing, char, pl, gail, karen, vyn, elynn, marilyn
• Marilyn - for being so nice and helping with all the videos and stuff at the ultra last minute!
  
• Suiying - the super "everything also help"! from buying ties to do deco and usher!
• Zhuang Mao - for especially coming down to help Nic and I shift ALL the tables to Amtech!
  
• Huijun - beautiful sax! thanks for playing :)
  
• Worship team (shalom, danyan, eliz eng, eliz lee, nat, luck koon, josiah, joel) - thanks for taking the challenge! It was fantastic!
• benny - the super media man and cow-bearer.
• Mike & Dot - the video was AWESOME! Thanks to Jude too! We were so so touched! sob sob..
• Our receptionists - Xiuling, Sook May, Junie, Evan, Ruth - thanks ladies!
• Ushers - Adriel, Jon Lee, Joey, Rachel, Huijun, Jeremiah, Rochelle (did i miss anyone???)
• Cleanup Crew ( you didn't have to help, but you did!) - Kevin, Marcus, Matthew Fung, Yongqing, Wenjun, Ying Xiong, Jeremiah
• Our Dinner MCs - Nic & Jon. Nonsense - but superbly funny!
  
• Aunty Selina - thanks for the beautiful beautiful cake! so NICE!
• Peiling - the loveliest wedding invites!
• Weiwen - thanks for the IM(Love) t-shirt design!
• The band - melissa, justin, dan fung, nat - thanks!
• To our lovely impromptu guitarist and singers - (shh..secret) thanks! :)
  

Thanks as well to:

• CJS catering - Elgin & Aunty Justina - thanks so much! food was fantastic! Thanks for everything!
• Bartley Christian Church - Uncle Sam & Tony - thanks for being a God-sent miracle!
  
• 1950s - CF, thanks for the great pre-wedding shoot! lovely and no one knew what we suffered in the winter there!!! :)
• Ambi - thanks Yushan & Vince - lovely express highlights! Can't wait for the rest of the photos!
• Dreamz Production - thanks for the super funny animation! awesome!
• Four Seasons - FANTASTIC! thank you!
  
• Poppy - thanks Sarah for the lovely polka dots ribbons and beautiful flowers!
• Caroline - you made the most beautiful wedding gown!
  

Looking at this list - it is an amazing celebration of talent! and most importantly, thanks for sharing that talent with us and loving us through this. It is so part of us now that matz & i can't stop talking about the weekend and watching those slideshows and video over and over again!

Thank you for loving us :)

The difference btw us

In preparation for the honeymoon and boring nights in OZ, we went book shopping on Kino :)

It rocks to stay in Orchard, even for a few days! Thank God!
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Wooooooooooots!! :)

Thanks for coming everyone!
We love you!!
Everyone single one of UUUU!
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When I got bored waiting this morning!

Char was so loud and the rest of them so happy I so wanted to sabo e guys too!

Here's me, bored! :)
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Hahahaha!

Liwen goes, 'I heard Matilda say your IQ very high!'

For the set of IQ questions :)

I can hear e blender! Haha
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Come on!!

I can hear liwen going come onnn come onn eveery few minutes!

Waay to go gurl! :)
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Gatecrashing

Its hilarious listening to them argue and scream :) super loves my very loud bridesmaidss!

I can't help smiling to myself!

Ahha!!

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All dressed up :)

Waiting for the guys in e room, all dressed up! My bridesmaids are so lovely and perfect :)

And... The guys are late! Typical! :)
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0 days: ITS THE DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's my last night as a single lady.
It's also my first morning as a married one :)

After many months of fretting, worrying, hesitating and what not, i feel strangely at ease.
I know when God prepares the way for me, everything will be alright!

Actually.... I'm sooooo excited!!! :) :) :) See you in church. Leave some ice cream for usss!!

Isaiah just proposed! :)

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Collected the gowns :)

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3 days: HUNNNNNNNNNNNIMOOOOOooon

We are finally getting our honeymoon details settled :)
It rocks to see Isaiah joining me in my crazy idea to settle everything ourselves, from flights to hotels to car.

3 more days. 300 more things to do!

music and lyrics!

arrgh! can't decide on the songs for the wedding!

march-in
march-out
return

how how??? need these 3 songs TODAY!

i can't decide the feel. do we go for cool acoustics or disney fairytale love songs? sigh...

heart melts

Went for SGX Bull Run with Isaiah. :) First time i actually got up close to the starting line when the runners are starting! Saw these cute white balls with children's drawings on them. So sweet and simple... reminding you that life doesn't have to be that complicated. :)

5 days: almost there! i heart wedding planning.

Day one of my actual holidays and I've gotten a really good rest before starting on more wedding preparations :) The only thing i remember about last night was my mum asking me to shift myself from the living room to my room and Isaiah coaxing me to go upstairs. So sweet :)

Managed to get the photos for the guest book settled today. Emailed lovely Chrissy about the slides. Poor girl is stressed up but i know she will totally rock :) Pretty Lesley finished the program in 1 (!!!) night for us... if that's not talent, then what is? :)

I love preparing for the wedding. It's like waking up to something you love eveyday! :) It's just the jitters that get to me sometimes. It would be perfect if i'm planning a friend's wedding! hahaha :) Maybe it's time for a job change! *coughs. (whispers - anyone wants to hire?)

But i love Isaiah more!

6 days: hello Uncle Sam!

Went down to Bartley Christian Church to get some logistics in order today :)

advance party :)

Yizhen and Roanna are Pros! :) They are super well equipped!

New reception (carnival) location. Watch it transform under the hands of the pros!

Super efficient OCX :)

Thank God for Uncle Sam, the lovely staff from Bartley Christian Church who have always been so kind. He's never without a smile and a kind word for us. Uncle Sam attends to all our queries with such love and generosity that he puts our worries at ease. He's wonderful :)

Just a gentle reminder, BCC is just next to Bartley Train Station (Circle Line). See you guys in 6 days!!

7 days: FOR YOUR EYES ONLY Hen's Night

Of course i won't reveal much. Isaiah's been trying to ask me what we've done or discussed (bout him). Not telling :)

Here's a sneak preview:



Now that i've whet your appetite.... continue to be hungry! :)

8 days: we got the loot!!!

Collected the ROM cert today! :) It's a happy government agency to be in! hahahah.

We had to do a declaration (with our right palm up) of certain requirements before collecting the cert (not withholding info, no false info, nationality, etc). It was kinda hilarious because we were not expecting it. Nevertheless, we had fun.

The ROM officer was a blast! She totally memorised the whole script. :) She was going about doing her paperwork and she would suddenly pop the next word on the script.

Ok i have to admit that i had to try very hard not to giggle :)

After collecting the cert, it was our national duty to take photos outside ROM. Everyone does that!! :) So we went snapper crazy. Or rather, i drove Isaiah crazy :)

We are eloping. Flying on arms like eagles. Byeeee!!

i think Isaiah took this picture to remind me of something... hmm..