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Just a quick one to tell y’all that I’ve updated my entry on Prae’s Wedding — more photos are up!

Gonna upload a few more photos and videos as soon as I can sort them out (there are hundreds!).

Enjoy, chickadees.

Was in Bangkok over the weekend and I attended the most beautiful wedding. Ever.

Prae is one of the most important people in my life — I have many great memories of studying and living together with her in Exeter, UK. She was the very 1st person I had gotten to know there. We met on the bus to campus on the 1st day of term of our 1st year at Uni. She was extremely chatty and engagingly charming. What really made her so special was that she gave me her telephone number by the end of that bus ride (without me asking for it!). Haha.

Anyway, I’m so proud of her and happy that she’s found someone to spend the rest of her life with. Yes indeed, they make a great couple. I wouldn’t have missed her wedding for the world. No, not even if a cockroach ate up both my legs and arms.

In a nutshell, it was a wedding celebration that lasted two days - starting with an evening boat cruise up and down the Chao Praya with cocktails and wine onboard, followed by a gastronomic Chinese-fusion Rehearsal Dinner @ YUAN (Hilton Millennium).

The next day, the wedding itself was held in a vast and gorgeous cathedral; it was a solemn, poignant and extremely touching ceremony. Yep. everyone had glistening eyes by the end of it. After that, we adjourned to The Oriental Hotel tea-room for some cakes, tea, wine and extremely delicious prosciutto on breadsticks (which we shamelessly gobbled on greedily).

In the evening, we were led to a magical garden covered with a thousand rose petals and walkways lined with flickering candles. There were hundreds of red and pink roses everywhere in this resplendent garden! We ate heartily from a buffet spread that included a most memorable Mussel Omelette (Mmm… delicious) freshly cooked by a dextrous chef with strong wok-flipping wrists. A live jazz band was playing and the garden faced the river so there was a cool breeze throughout… It was an amazing and lush experience.

We then took a party boat across the river to Hilton Millennium where we proceeded to dance and drink ourselves silly at The Beach, a super duper chillout club with an abundance of cushions and an Ice Bar that served alcohol shots in Ice Glasses. There was a stage built over the pool and a few famous Thai bands performed some tunes specially for the newlyweds. Buddha Bless really entertained with their energetic brand of Thai ragga-hiphop-reggae-pop. You should check them out; they’re pretty amusing!

Well, the night ended with everyone getting soaking wet. Whaddya expect when there’s a pool inside the club and a very, very drunk bride running amok? Haha… Such an unforgettable weekend.

Okay, it’s time to let the rest of the pictures do the talking…

Thanks to Stephen & Nina for being such great company and for sending me the photos. We gotta party again soon, either in HK, Bangkok or Singapore! And of course, dear Trixie, for agreeing to be my wedding date… I’m glad to have shared this experience with you.

Gonna upload more pictures and videos soon. Bookmark this entry!

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I had a deep and meaningful conversation with an attractive woman last night.

She’s not just any female of the species who happens to have beautiful expressive eyes and a gorgeous warm smile (yes, I’m a sucker for heart-melting smiles) — no, this is one very special woman indeed. She possesses a huge heart that never seems to stop loving; she’s always ready to listen and she’s always armed with wise words of advice when I most need them.

I know her as an iron-willed go-getter. She is as intelligent as she is beautiful. She’s now jet-setting around the planet… making the world a better place with her social community work. Geneva, Beijing, Washington, New York, Lusaka, Johannesburg… trying to keep up with her is tougher than spotting the Loch Ness Monster (well, almost)!

Best of all, she shares my passion for music and is very competent at singing jazz numbers. She’s one of the biggest supporters of my music productions and unfailingly nags me to “never lose your creativity”.

We used to date a few years ago. When we were together, I can’t deny that our relationship was intense. I think we learnt so much from each other that it’s made us better people in the end. She’s one of the few people in my life who has inspired me and still continues to do so today. When I think about our relationship, it still makes me smile whenever I recall how she once described me as…

A man that has created a steep learning curve in my life, where creativity and thinking out of the box is the way to go for him. Psychology should have been your calling though as I find that you know me better than I know myself.

Haha, I guess that’s me… intense. Yeah, I go deep. The same could be said about her impact on me.

So anyway, why am I writing about her? I guess this is my tribute to her.

I wanna say THANK YOU for making a difference in my life. I’m so glad that we can still share so much. Last night’s 3-hour call to Beijing was worth every minute because it showed me that you haven’t changed — you’re still the Superwoman I think you are, although I think you shouldn’t always try to carry the weight of the world on your shoulders.

Whatever it is, just remember that I’m here if you ever need me. Remember to keep yourself happy, babe.

A couple of weeks ago, Kristal RockHardMelons shared with me a very poignant short story by Haruki Murakami entitled On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning.

It really moved me , so I thought I’d share it with you…

It’s a bittersweet story, speaking of the simplicity of finding a soulmate (the 100% perfect person)… how it could happen in just a blink of an eye, yet how we can also lose it all just as quickly. It explores how humans perceive perfect love to be impossible, when it’s perfectly possible. The true tragedy occurs when we have found that miracle but we become skeptical about it.

What happens? We end up challenging it, turning something so perfectly possible into something impossible to attain anymore.

A sad story, don’t you think?

Does such a girl exist? Yes, I believe she does.

Have I found her yet? Maybe, maybe not.