No Supper.

Over the weekend one of my big toe ran into the stairs and I flew about a meter but manage to land on my feet still. Thank goodness for that because I was at kev’s birthday party. Obviously it hurt like my toe was coming out or something but I thought its one of those pain where it hurts and then the pain will go away. So I did not bother about it until I felt the inside of my shoe becoming moist. Again I dismissed it as sweaty feet due to the warm weather. Finally I removed my shoe and the toe was covered in blood. 

It has been about 5 days since that happened and I am still limping because my toenail is still in place *touch wood* but it still hurts when there is pressure on it. I have no idea what is happening. 

AND IT IS ABOUT A MONTH TO THE WEDDING! Thankfully because ah huat thinks I have deformed toe ( which I totally disagree) my shoes are both cover toe. And WE are still planning to learn Tango. Lessons are suppose to start on monday. How! 

On to a little more about wedding planning here. We spoke to the pastor yesterday about the church wedding. Not that I am christian. We did not plan to have a church wedding from the beginning and the idea never crossed my mind until we found out that we can only get married in one country. Sounds silly but getting ”married” in front of family is important here. At leasts for the Omas. So I have never attended a church wedding and my expectations or ideas about how things are suppose to flow comes from TV. Church wedding in Germany is a little difference. The father of the bride does not need to give the bride away, or maybe it is just our situation. We don’t have to exchange vows, at least that is my understanding from our 1.5hr conversation conducted mainly in german. And we have to find a wedding motto “Trauspruch”. Was not too difficult to find one. 

Yea to summer temperature and hello sleeveless clothes. I have already packed all my autumn/winter clothes. Positive thinking ja. 

But now people keep asking about my keloid :/ I thought after the 2 freaking painful steroid jab people would stop asking about it!

Really looking forward to july because we have finally made proper plans for the wedding and planning for the short vacation when family Tan and Lau ( only 4 of them) come visit. The weekend, or rather the short stay in Heedfeld ( ah huat’s parent’s place), was really great. Got many things planned out. Going for trial make up on 2 weeks, “order” the bouquet ( and hope that it will turn out fine modern because the reference the florist showed me was from some bridal magazine in the 70s, though she did assure that it will not turn out as shown in the magazine.)

And cake shopping. The cake is called Hochzeitstorte and not Kuchen because it is not a real cake. It is more like a buttercream/ cream cake, the sort my mum use to buy in some old school bakery. Cake shopping can be a horrid experience if you go to the wrong Konditorei ( cake shop). The first one we went to showed us Torte made of CREAM WITH MARZIPAN ROSE. The baker suggested a 4 tier cream torte ( If you think wedding cakes in the 70s look ugly the onces we saw were 10 times worst). Almost puked when I saw the pictures. Anyways we immediately evacuated after getting two slices of cake for free ( which we claim we wanted to try before deciding). We drove to another Konditorei and showed them the picture of the ideal cake I had in mind and the baker was able to replicate it without discussion, unlike the other one who plainly rejected saying it is almost impossible to do it. The most exciting thing about the cake is it has three tier and every tier has a different buttercream flavor! Snickers, Nougat pistachio and Lemon. Woohoo :D

So if you are cake shopping and some suspicious old bakers tell you to eat cream never believe them!!