my bridal shower

it was one of the nicest gathering of friends i've ever had. adelyn organised it soooo well, together with ann. we had a sushi party, and i heard they were preparing since the afternoon. ann painstakingly went to look for all the required recipes etc etc. so semangat! i would have been quite happy with dominos pizza haha.

but the whole spread was very impressive, for a bunch of sushi novices! even the miso soup was delicious, and packed with all the yummy stuff inside which you only get a smidgen of when you eat out. i think everyone had more fun preparing the sushi and secretly hoping it would turn out ugly so that it would be deemed too ungainly for the sushi trays, and they would have the excuse of gobbling up. heck, even i wished that when i tried my hand at a california roll. i was way too greedy and the ends couldnt quite meet to make it a roll hahaha. tasted just as nice though.

the process & the results:

after dinner, they sat me down with questions to answer about my relationship with ad. i had to choose my answers from a variety of cut-out pictures which they had earlier cut from magazines. it was quite amusing how they know us quite well by now. i could find almost all my answers from the stack of pictures they offered. one example: what would ad love you to do with him. answer: outdoor-sy stuff like camping etc. and they had a picture of a four wheeler splashing through a river. in the end, all pictures of my answers were pasted on a big black board, which will be framed up for me.

photo of my board:

after the interesting Q&A, of which i won't divulge here, they each presented a gift to me. the theme was kitchen tools/apparatus which i can use in my new home. awwww... they are so sweet. each tool presented came with a card from the giver, stating the meaning of their gift, with other encouraging words. i was so touched by all the thought that went into this.

my darling friends: