Friday, June 20, 2008

Juicy Anticipation

Today! I get my Juicy Couture bag today and I cannot wait to get home to see it!

I’ve been pining for a Juicy bag ever since I realised how cute and preppy the brand’s products are. Didn’t take long for me to set my eyes on the Baby Fluffy Velour bag. I lurrrrve the velour material and soft leather base. It’s soooo pretty!

It’s selling at a ridiculous amount of AUD$325 at David Jones and I couldn’t bear to pay so much for it when it’s only retailing at US$185 in America. So Pen came to the rescue! He got his work associate in Seattle to buy the bag for me and hold on to it until one of their guys could meet up with Pen in Japan. Best part was, this bag happened to be on special at the store and it only came up to about US$120. OOoooooh, score!

And as if this wasn’t good enough, my sweetheart of a husband bought me the Juicy perfume to go with the bag on our wedding anniversary. :) Oh, I’m in couture bliss!

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Jazzing up an Anniversary

Yesterday was our one-year wedding anniversary and we celebrated by going to see Michael Bublé sing at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre. It was an amazing night and extra special to Pen and I because we used quite a few of his songs at our wedding ceremony and reception last year.

As expected, Bublé gave a spectacular performance and connected with the audience exceptionally well. My favourite song for the night had got to be Me and Mrs Jones. Unfortunately for Pen, his much anticipated Home was ruined by the crowd’s joyful cheers when a photo slideshow of Michael in Brisbane appeared on the screen. To make things worse, we could only see a fraction of the screen as we were seated towards the corner of the stage.

What was truly worth mentioning though, was the opening act by Naturally Seven. They are an award-winning gospel, rhythm and blues, jazz and soul vocal play crew from New York City. Their performance blew everyone away – the “instruments” (drums, bass, electric guitar, etc) you hear in their songs are all their voices! You really have to see it to believe it. See the You Tube video below.



Photos of our night out:
Quick dinner at Wagamama before driving to the Entertainment Centre at Boondall

Tucking into some Japanese

Our tickets!

Happy snaps while waiting for Michael

Standing at our corner seats

Opening performance by Naturally Seven

Bublé struts his stuff

Me with Roger (Rap) and Garfield (Harmonica) from Naturally Seven, at the autograph session after the concert

Pen and Armand, the bass guy

Can’t believe we’ve been married for one whole year! It still feels like we just got married a few months ago. How time flies. God has blessed us so much over the past few months and has kept our relationship going stronger day by day. More exciting times ahead I’m sure, as we prepare to move into our new house in the next few months.