Happy 2nd Anniversary to us!

Wow…I can’t belive it’s been two years! I still remember it like it was yesterday. I know this year we said we weren’t going to buy each other gifts but I still had to get something…a little something. I will post after what the gift is. =)

Just in case people are following the traditional anniversary gift giving. Year 1: paper Year 2: cotton Year 3: leather Year 4: fruits/flowers (that’s going to be a hard one) Year 5: Wood. And if you make it that far, I’m sure you can figure the rest out! =)

Here are some of my fav pictures from my wedding:

Getting ready

We saw each other before the wedding so we had time to take pictures

We did a simplified tea ceremony. My dad started tearing and that got me and hubs to start crying

Family portrait

We’re married!

My beautiful girls

I love this picture of me an my mom

Sneaking a kiss during the slideshow

The wedding couple

Location: Stone Manor
Photographer: Josef Isayo
Makeup: Joyce Luck
Catering: Truly Yours
Band: Rik Howard Music
Hotel: Standard
Cake: Gigi Bobb
Officiant: Father Ara
Engagement picture location: Greystone Mansion
Rehearsal Dinner: C & O

We were so happy! Advice I can give brides: Don’t forget to have fun at your wedding, enjoy every min of it and don’t worry about the small stuff. After all the planning, you deserve to enjoy your own party. Trust the vendors you chose and share a quiet moment with your new hubby. It will be a day you never forget.

China Trip 2004

I dug these pictures out because someone is getting marry and need group pictures of our China Trip. And since I uploaded them…here they are for y’all to see.

These pictures are from our MBA school trip to Shanghai 2004. The school trip itself was for a week but a group of us decided to stay additional week and head to Beijing. The week in Shanghai was spent visiting companies, thus we didn’t do much sightseeing. Most of the pictures are from sites in Beijing such as the Forbidden City, Summer Palace, and Temple of Heaven. Oh, and these pictures are scanned (thus the bad quality). I guess we were so old school none of us had a digital camera. Yes, we used pagers instead of cellphones in high school and only started using email in college. Gosh I’m OLD!

Funny story: Students to Shanghai were grouped into A & B. Everyone visited companies according to the Group A or B schedule. As you can imagine, the day came to visit Reeb Beer and that particular group had too many people to fit the bus. I have no shame in admitting, I was not suppose to be on the bus. But did I get up when the professor asked people to leave (that wasn’t in the group)…NOPE. I was looking forward to it the WHOLE week. And I knew all the other little sneaks that wasn’t suppose to be on the bus. SO HA…I win. =)

Shanghai – Reeb Brewing

Clowning around – I guess they got bored taking the traditional pics



Girls at the Forbidden City

Forbidden City

Summer Palace

Summer Palace


Temple of Heaven

Rented costumes…isn’t she too cute?

Another lazy Sunday afternoon

It looked like rain.

I woke up and took the dogs out to do their business and notice the weather. It’s windy and gloomy. The sun comes and goes as the clouds shift. Hubs told me it actually sprinkled for a second. It’s Taiwan weather. Make both of us want to go back. =(

After high school…we rarely go back to Taiwan in the summer. It’s too hot and sticky. Fall and Winter are usually the best time, even though we are face with fierce winds and downpours, anything is better than the hot thick air you could barely breath in. We usually make a yearly trip to visit my sister and the in-laws. One distinct memory was the year my sister got married.

It was the 921 earthquake year. The quake was 7.3 on the Richter scale (Northridge earthquake was 6.7), 2415 people were killed and over 400,000 left homeless. Coming from California, we’re use to earthquakes. I wasn’t terribly scared when it started…but it last forever and we were up on the 6th floor. Hubs was stranded with me at my sister’s since it was only a couple days after the wedding. The aftershocks continue days after. I often use ‘old Christmas light’ to summarize electricity transmission in Asia ~ one light goes out and so does the rest of the string. We were without power for a couple days, follow by rolling blackout. My parents were down in Taichung with my aunts (much closer to the epicenter). My aunt’s home had floor to ceiling glass window that shattered. Everyone ran out with their slippers on and drove out to the baseball field of a nearby school. We also drove out (sis, BIL, hubs, and I) but felt it was safer to stay home since none of the traffic signals were working. It was into the next day when the telecommunication was up and we were able to check with friends and relatives. We ate dumplings by candlelight, took showers when it was our turn with power, and bonded. With no other source of entertainment, we only had each other. Days later as the reports came in; I realize how lucky we were. We had our homes and none of our family members were hurt.

The devastation to the rest of the country was a different story. Buildings collapsed taking hundreds of lives with them. Buildings remaining are crooked. Stories of bodies left on the street because there were not enough body bags. Sections of land were raised as much as 23 feet into the air. Bridges destroyed cutting off traffic for weeks. We were lucky.

Another lazy Sunday afternoon

It looked like rain.

I woke up and took the dogs out to do their business and notice the weather. It’s windy and gloomy. The sun comes and goes as the clouds shift. Hubs told me it actually sprinkled for a second. It’s Taiwan weather. Make both of us want to go back. =(

After high school…we rarely go back to Taiwan in the summer. It’s too hot and sticky. Fall and Winter are usually the best time, even though we are face with fierce winds and downpours, anything is better than the hot thick air you could barely breath in. We usually make a yearly trip to visit my sister and the in-laws. One distinct memory was the year my sister got married.

It was the 921 earthquake year. The quake was 7.3 on the Richter scale (Northridge earthquake was 6.7), 2415 people were killed and over 400,000 left homeless. Coming from California, we’re use to earthquakes. I wasn’t terribly scared when it started…but it last forever and we were up on the 6th floor. Hubs was stranded with me at my sister’s since it was only a couple days after the wedding. The aftershocks continue days after. I often use ‘old Christmas light’ to summarize electricity transmission in Asia ~ one light goes out and so does the rest of the string. We were without power for a couple days, follow by rolling blackout. My parents were down in Taichung with my aunts (much closer to the epicenter). My aunt’s home had floor to ceiling glass window that shattered. Everyone ran out with their slippers on and drove out to the baseball field of a nearby school. We also drove out (sis, BIL, hubs, and I) but felt it was safer to stay home since none of the traffic signals were working. It was into the next day when the telecommunication was up and we were able to check with friends and relatives. We ate dumplings by candlelight, took showers when it was our turn with power, and bonded. With no other source of entertainment, we only had each other. Days later as the reports came in; I realize how lucky we were. We had our homes and none of our family members were hurt.

The devastation to the rest of the country was a different story. Buildings collapsed taking hundreds of lives with them. Buildings remaining are crooked. Stories of bodies left on the street because there were not enough body bags. Sections of land were raised as much as 23 feet into the air. Bridges destroyed cutting off traffic for weeks. We were lucky.