Ang Moh Chick Diary Turns 1 Year

Ang Moh Chick Diary turns one year this month and I want to thank all of you who have time after time found your way to this blog to share my happy thoughts, recipes and photos from my travelling and two home countries, fashion and everyday life :) THANK YOU <3

I would LOVE to hear in the comments how long you have been reading my blog and if there's anything, a blog post or a subject, that especially made your day a bit happier. Here's a brief of what's been going on in my blog for the past year and what are some of the posts you readers have enjoyed the most.

1. My chocolate recipe has been pretty popular, and it's one of the recipes I use on a daily basis :)
2. The posts about weddings I've attended here in Singapore are under the tag "wedding" - the first post can be read here
3. You can find some nice pics from the Finnish summer here
4. The most popular recipe I've created is the Chocolate Coconut Cake

5. Ang Moh Chick Diary's all time favourite post is about my husband
6. The post about my Indian friends' wedding can be read here
7. I love writing also about more superficial things, like if I find something super pretty
8. I also write about cultural experiences such as the Chinese New Year

X Ang Moh Chick

Our Wedding

As I told you in the previous post, we are celebrating our anniversary this weekend. Our wedding day two years ago was a magical day. We got just a few drops of rain and then the sun started to shine. The place was more than amazing, food was to die for and after a glass of sparkling I was ready for the big day! My husband's family gave me a necklace that I will treasury forever, mainly because I felt it was so touching they wanted to give me something I've always dreamt of. Our loved ones gave us speeches, we laughed and cried and ate, drank and danced until midnight. My husband even had practised how to sing a Finnish song with our band! Here are some of the photos from our big day, hope you enjoy! <3

The next day we woke up to full sun shine and a great hotel brunch :) I will post later on about our anniversary celebration!

X Ang Moh Chick

Mr & Mrs - About Marriage

We are celebrating our 2-year anniversary at the end of this month. It's then exactly three years since he proposed and two years since the happiest and most perfect day of my life so far, our Wedding day. My husband's proposal was simple and private, yet very meaningful and very beautiful. It happened at midnight on a warm summer night in Finland, in my childhood area, at sea shore. It was completely silent, you could just hear the wind in the willows, nothing else.

Our Wedding day took place on an island in Helsinki, in a beautiful old wooden restaurant with amazing surroundings. I still remember the once in a lifetime feeling of everyone I love being there on my special day. It's a feeling I can't describe. The food was absolutely perfect - the best Finnish food I've ever eaten, my friend sang us the most touching song ever and my husband's family gave us wonderful speaches and a very meaningful gift to me.

The second day after our wedding we read through all the wonderful cards and notes guests had written. It was such a dream. 

Second anniversary is called "Paper Wedding". The first one is cotton, third leather and 60th diamond. This is for a reason - marriage gets stronger year by year. Paper is easily crumbled or even teared, diamonds last wear and tear. I couldn't agree more. Intercultural marriage is not an easy one. Throughout these two years we have gotten to know each other at our best - and at our very worst. I truly appreciate that I can be myself, 100% real, with my husband and he still loves me despite it all. I've always been honest with him, and he always wishes what's best for me. He has been there through fights, tears, days when I'm completely down or very sick. But he is there to share my laughter, my joy and my aspirations.

This is what I wish for everyone, to find someone not having to pretend with. Someone who accepts you for who you are as a person, not for external reasons and not only when you are nice or happy. Someone who cleans the toilet after you have vomited throughout the night when sick. That is unconditional love and it's worth waiting for.

X Ang Moh Chick

Lately

After starting in a new job my days and weeks, even months, are flying pass. If I didn't have friends and family in Finland, I wouldn't even notice the passing of months - winter, spring and now summer. I really miss the four seasons and change of temperature, weather and mood. Somehow winter or rainy days in Finland give people a reason so be silent, shut their doors and just be all alone for a while. Singapore on the other hand is on the go constantly - business depends on pace, consuming, shopping, buying, going, coming, working, queueing. Non-stop. Sometimes I wish I was just sitting on a rock in Helsinki, looking at the sea, wind blowing my hair and listen to nothing.

Anyhow, I'm here and this weekend I had surprise guests from Finland - I'm always so happy to get visitors!! Today our good friends in Singapore celebrate their wedding. My husband is at their gate crashing at the moment which is a tradition of the husband going to the bride's parents house to "buy" the bride over to the husband's family. The bridesmaids prepare all kind of tricks for the best men and the groom to get pass and lots of money and gifts are passed on to the bride and her bridesmaids.

Lately I've been relaxing mostly at home and with friends, trying to cook new dishes - my new bravura is goat cheese&salmon pizza and chocolate cupcakes :)

Another weird thing lately is that all of a sudden Singapore is filled with moths. They are everywhere - at home, outside, at the mrt station, on my office door, in my office lobby...! I tried to save the first ones out of the window but there seem to be too many!

In terms of outfits I'm inlove with combinations of white lately <3

Well, this post was all over the place without any direction whatsoever but oh well, that's life! I hope you've had a great Saturday and lots of nice plans (or relaxing time at home) for today :)

X Ang Moh Chick

H-N of My Life

Helsinki. My home city – fantastic during summer, tough during winter but there’s always a special spot for Helsinki in my heart.

Isi. Daddy in Finnish. I miss my dad and the endless talks we have over coffee about literally everything in the world. I remember my husband asking me once, what do you talk about for so long in skype? Oh well, about politics, weather, work, families, life, culture, psychology, food… haha, everything. Isi olet rakas <3 

J is the letter my Finnish maiden name starts with. Direct translation to English would be “laky” (as in lake-like) even though it’s not a real word :D

K. The most common text I send to my husband. Means okay shortened to ok shortened to k. :D

Love. The reason we are on this earth.

Marriage. The Largest commitment you can make.

Never. People should never say never. I’ve said “I will never marry a foreigner”, “I will never move to Singapore”, “I will never like soft boiled eggs”, “ I will never like yoga”, “I will never overeat sweet stuff again” And yet I’ve done it all :D That’s life. Never say never.

Skirt: London   Top: Zara   Bag: Blush B-Lush   Necklace: Kalevala


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