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Briton on his Singaporean wife: I thought of marrying her the first time I saw her
It was a long distance relationship for most of Mr James Pelham and Ms Erni Salleh s two-year long courtship.PHOTO: ERNI SALLEH
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Indoor Dining Resumes in N.Y.C.
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It’s Friday. We’re off on Monday for Presidents’ Day, but we’ll be back on Tuesday.
Weather:
Partly sunny, with a high in the upper 20s. For the long weekend, periods of flurries or freezing rain, and highs in the low 30s at best.
Alternate-side parking: Suspended today for Lunar New Year and Lincoln’s Birthday.
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Nearing a year into the pandemic, it seems that New York is moving closer to normalcy.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is loosening several restrictions meant to contain the coronavirus. Starting today in New York City, limited indoor dining is back more than a month after Mr. Cuomo had banned it and just in time for Valentine’s Day weekend.
A Recruiter Finds Her Marriage Match, With Due Diligence
Serinna Chau recognized early on that Kevin Lau met her dating requirements.
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Jan. 22, 2021
Serinna Chau knows how to dig into the backgrounds of prospective candidates, evaluate their strengths and weakness and match them with suitable roles. It’s her job as a senior associate at Spencer Stuart, a recruiting and consulting firm based in Chicago, and it’s also how she’s always approached dating.
“I vet everybody,” she said. “It’s almost in my blood as an executive search consultant. I do my due diligence.”
After meeting on the dating app Hinge in January 2020, Kevin Lau, the emerging companies practice director at the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, made it through Ms. Chau’s rigorous screening process and less than a year later the couple was married on Jan. 2 by the Rev. Jonathan Lau,
A Wedding Postponed Gets a Smaller Ceremony and a Silver Lining
After Linda Zang and Tricia Reville decided to postpone their wedding in favor of a Covid-safe gathering, they realized that Ms. Zang’s family overseas would be able to participate remotely in a way they hadn’t envisioned. Patricia Reville, left, and Linda Zang.Credit.Happyhaha Studio
Jan. 22, 2021
In November 2012, Linda Zang was on her way to her first date with Patricia Marie Reville at Kitchen Zinc, a pizza restaurant in New Haven, Conn. They had matched on the dating website OkCupid, and Ms. Zang, who was a law student at Yale at the time, picked out the restaurant for their first date. There was only one problem Ms. Reville, who goes by Tricia, had just let her know that she was at the wrong restaurant.