Dec 22 2008

Modern Day Fairytale – The Wedding Of Rinaz & CartCart

This is as close to a modern day fairytale romance as it gets. Four years ago, Italian guy meets Singaporean girl in a virtual 3D world and was besotted with her avatar. Guy relentlessly pursued her but she was resistant to his charms. Girl finally found a side of him that makes her fall unwittingly in love. After months and months of knowing each other, girl takes the plunge and accepts a ticket from guy to visit him in Italy. Cartcart, the Italian guy and Rinaz the Singaporean girl are married on 18th of December 2008, exactly 4 years after they got married in the virtual world, Second Life. A marriage that transcends continents, distance, race & culture; the rest of the story of Rinaz and CartCart would be best read at her blog or at ST.

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It reads "Krisandro & KKNN". WAHAHAHAAHA!!


I had the pleasure of being invited to this lovely Muslim wedding and it was my first Muslim wedding of a friend that I have ever attended. Rinaz is very active and well loved in the local social media scene and throngs of bloggers were seen at the wedding, furiously snapping away at the couple. I don’t know if it’s a normal thing but I had to actually queue up to give them my blessings and once again to take a picture with them.

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KKNN cam whoring in the car

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Absolutely cute wedding cupcakes

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The suave looking CartCart and the SEXEH Rinaz in a beautiful gown

The suave looking CartCart and the SEXEH Rinaz in a beautiful gown



Rinaz will soon move over to Italy and she will be sorely missed in Singapore but I’m happy, knowing that they will live very blissfully over there! And besides, we will always see them online. :-P


May 13 2008

An Unusually Busy Saturday for Krisandro

My Saturdays are usually planned with one or two highlights like maybe a movie, clubbing, an ad-hoc trip somewhere or maybe a dinner with friends. So, KuKuNehNeh and I were quite worried when we had 3 events lined up for last Saturday.

First up was an ROM ceremony for KuKuNehNeh’s cousin at Swissotel Merchant Court. The couple chose to hold the ceremony at the poolside and the weather was very kind. These couple of weeks, Singapore either had blazing, underwear wet-wet, scorching hot sun or downpours of dogs and cats and whatever animals you can think of. KuKuNehNeh remarked to me that the couple were Christians and they probably prayed very hard for good weather the night before. I am such a free-thinker that Singapore might encounter its first sight of snow if I tried to pray for good weather on my wedding. So, don’t say that I didn’t warn you guys when the day comes.

We lazed on the chairs in the cool, cloudy midday and took some pictures.

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The couple, Ray & Rachel

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KuKuNehNeh’s brother-in-law, Melvin

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KukuNehNeh’s sister, Ruiqing & her bf, Wee Peng

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KuKuNehNeh & Me

After the ceremony, the guests were invited to a high-tea buffet at Ellenborough Market Cafe. The food was pretty good that I promptly forgot to take any pictures of it and gorged myself like a pig who went through 2 years of famine.

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After lunch, we got a lift home from Wee Peng and changed into a more casual attire for a crab feast at Ang Mo Kio Ave 3.

The kind soul treating us is none other than a funny dude called Ah Lee who was celebrating his Birthday!

“HAPPY BIRTHDAY AH LEE!”

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Ah Lee with a present from us on the left and a Gucci wallet from the rest.

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The sniff test to determine if its 100% cotton

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Ah Lee holding the card me and KuKuNehNeh made

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Softcopy of the card. “Don’t worry about being ‘too cold’” is a private joke btw…

Oh, Ah Lee is SINGLE! All you ladies better grab him fast! All he asks for in a woman is only ONE THING! And it can be described using TWO NUMBERS and ONE LETTER.

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“36F”

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Ah Fat & Ah Lee

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Ah Pui & Shumei

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Billy – Don’t let his que-mor(curly hair) and constipated face fool you. This guy can SING!

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Ah Lee, Ah Man & Alwyn – One of them tio 4D and I don’t need to tell you who.

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Expression #524

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Expression #281

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Expression #472

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“I want 36F! Give me 36F! 36F!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

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Caught in the act

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Why do I look like I have a bf in this pic rather than a gf?

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After saying our goodbyes to this group of friends, we went home again for another change parade and this time it’s down to Orchard Road!

Leon is KuKuNehNeh’s SIM ex-classmate and he invited friends over to Acid Bar to celebrate his birthday.

“HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEON!”

If KuKuNehNeh is the ‘walking Friendster’, then Leon must be the ‘walking Facebook’. He probably had 1/4 of Acid Bar filled with his friends that night. KuKuNehNeh and I had a round of Erdinger while I waited for the right time to get Leon to drink with me.

Two hours into the night, I decided that it is time and asked Leon to drink with me before we went off. And this is what he said over facebook.

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Yeah! Me LOVES FLAMING LAMBORGHINI!

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We took a couple of group pictures as well.

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Unknown Leon friend #1, Unknown Leon friend #2, Leon, Me, KuKuNehNeh

The photo above looks normal right. But I noticed something….

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Why is there a big prominent BULGE in my pants facing Leon?

KuKuNehNeh! I am straight! REALLY! That is the PHONE in my pocket! REALLY!!!