A preparation for my big day!!~

The end is just the beginning

2010-05-17T04:22:00.001-07:00

Salam and greetings to all my readers..

As of 7.22pm today, I've managed to finish all of my job in the office. Alhamdulillah.

I know you must have been wondering what does my work has to do with all of you, that I feel the sudden need to announce it out loud.

See, since I've done all of my work, I'm allowed to take earlier leave than I thought of before. This is part of the conversation I had with my dearest supervisor, who is recovering from her nerve breakdown.

...

Me: Puan, what are you doing here?

My Supervisor (MS): Ikeen, what are YOU doing here?

Me: You're sick!

MS: You're getting married!

Me: I can't take a leave. Dr. M said I should finish my journal first, or else he won't allow me to get married.

MS: He's not allowing you to get married at all until you've finished your PhD! (She laughed)

...

I nearly cried when I heard her laughed. Alhamdulillah, she's recovering.

Back to the story of me finishing my work, then I'm allowed to take earlier leave (though I have to come tomorrow cuz I have a short meeting with the Dean) which means, this will be my last entry in this blog.

As the name suggests, A preparation for my BIG day, I'm nearly done preparing.

I know, the BIG day might not turn out exactly like you want it to be. I wanted a small intimate wedding celebration, but my mum wants it to be grander. I wanted a flower girl, I bought all the cute stuff for her, but in the end, we are not going to have any flower girls. Breaks my heart a little, but in the end, what important most is that, I have a happy ending with the love of my life. Or rather a happy beginning. The ending is the beginning after all.

It is hard for me to let go of this blog. But life goes on. I will still keep it open for public and should you need to seek any advice from me, just email me. I'm here to help.

Thank you for reading my blogs, for the advice, for keeping me strong at times I'm not able to stand up still. Also, forgive me for all the wrongdoings.

I am now counting the days..

And I will upload picture of our weddings, videos and such in my other blog..

Some Stories to Share.

Till then, doakan yang baik2, dengan ikhlas untuk my future hubby and I.

Quoting from what my supervisor told me when she nagged me to take a break earlier,

"Sometimes you do your work until you forget the world,

And one day, when you're not doing your work, you'll realize, the world is forgetting about you."

Mums are sooo funny

2010-05-16T18:48:00.000-07:00

First thing first, the good news..

I WON GOLD IN ITEX 2010!!!!!!! Surely my best wedding gift ever :)

And, i just got back from the Registrar's room.

Yes, registrar. For the whole 7 years in the university, this is the first time I went to the registrar's office.. to send my wedding card, how funny.

So here's the story. One fine day, my mum called me..

Mum: Kakak, can you help me pass your wedding card to my high school best friend. He works in Uniten.
Me: Ok. What's his name?
Mum: Mr. F.
Me: Mr. F as in the Registrar??
Mum: You know him?
Me: Who? The registrar? Of course i know him!! Mum, siapa yang tak kenal registrar??
Mum: But he didn't know you. I called and he said he didn't know you! How come he didn't know you! (Got all emotional) Should have call him again and describe to him properly, he must've forgotten.
Me: Mum!!! Don't you dare! Of course he didn't know me. I am like ikan bilis. And he's like the registrar!!
Mum: He's just an officer.
Me: Mum he's a registrar. Do you have any idea what a registrar means? And all of these years, you didn't tell me your friend is MY registrar?????!! I could've asked him to sign the futsal's certificates a bit faster!
Mum: (Not at all interested..) Whatever, so can you see him?
Me: Nobody sees the registrar to pass a wedding card, Mum. That's the function of PA, even I didn't see my own Dean to pass my wedding card.
Mum: (I don't think she's listening) I can't beleive he didn't know who you are..
Me: I can't beleive you think the registrar knows me!

One of my best wedding gift would be..

2010-05-14T02:50:00.001-07:00

If i get another gold medal for ITEX just now.

I did the presentation since my boss was not feeling well.

Trying to impress the judge within 10 minutes

And yup, another one would be if my boss would be able to make it to my wedding.

I love her a lot. And God knows how lost I am, going through one of the most important exhibition without her. (T_T)

I hope to get that medal for her, to cheer her up, she's a strong person, she'll get through this, i know..

Thanks Iza Lyana!

2010-05-12T19:19:00.000-07:00

I haven't been in a peace state of mind.

BIG day is next week.

This week, my life was hectic..

Monday and Tuesday, busy preparing for QE Audit and 5S. I was the leader for my level. You really gotta see my office room. I looked like a freaking OCD, labelling most of the items in the room.

Wednesday and Thursday, had a short course the whole day! After short course, went back to my room to do my work until 9pm ok! (T_T)

And tomorrow, I am participating in an international exhibition, ITEX! Come over and support us at KL Convention Centre if you have time!

Due to the super hectic schedule, I haven't got time to check my blog, until this morning that I realized a message from Iza Lyana. Soooo sweeeeeeeeetttttttttttttttt okay! I nearly cried.. Thank you, Izaaa!

That reminds me of the card Iza gave me during the bachelorette party, that I treasured so much. Let me share with all of you that piece of advice which I'm sure Iza don't mind sharing..

"Dear Ikeen,

My mum always told me, to love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you corage. So, my greatest wish for you is that through the years your love for each other will so deepen and grow, that years from now you will look back on this day, your wedding day, as the day you loved each other the least :)

-Iza"

Really sweeeettt..

Especially if you know me and you know the ups and downs 'Love' and I had for the past 8years plus.

Some people had it easy, this long term relationship. But, us.. we learned everything the hardest way. There are times I couldn't forget the stuffs my future hubby did to me in the past. But, I remembered each and every little piece of advice from Iza, Nonee, Nadrah and Myra during pillow talk on the night of my bachelorette party..

And Nonee said, "Kalau kat bantal putih ni ada satu dot kotor, kita tak tengok pun bahagian bersih yang lain, kita akan complain pasal satu dot kotor tu je."

I love you, Sayang. hope I will ALWAYS keep in mind all the advices from our dearest friends.

As for Iza, thank *YOU*. May Allah bless you and Shariz forever and for always.

Shariz and Iza

Dear Ikeen,

2010-05-10T08:07:00.000-07:00

I know it's been a month now since your bachelorrete party but whatever..haha! So sorry for posting so late. Honestly..I really have no idea what to write sebab I didn't do much pun....i just brought my makeup and susun elok2 atas meja. That's it. lol!!

Now..it's only erm...less than 2weeks before you officially become a wife. I'm sure you must feel so ecstatic! and nervous at the same time? hehe...Well, I would be if I'm at your place. ;)

With this, since I have your login (haha!! i suggest you better change you password. lol. ;p) I would like to take this opportunity to say something or give some advise..i guess? hehe.

Ikeen, being a wife is not an easy task. Just in a few while, you yourself will be a wife. And you'll be surrounded with wives complaining about finances, and how they wish their husband would help out around the house more. you'll hear the usual complaints about how their husbands do not do the dishes, or the laundry, or how they wish their husbands would change a diaper now and then. In time, you'll hear many of the wives complain that their husbands spend too much time on the computer, or they sit around the house on the weekends, or do nothing but watch football. Believe me, even though i'm not a wife (yet!), I have heard it all! :D Some of the largest complaints are how their husbands forget their birthdays or anniversaries. hehe.

Then, as you sit and think about all that you've heard, you can't help but smile. They have no idea how trivial and insignificant those things really are.

If your husband doesn't do the dishes today, you won't mind, because he has eaten the meal with us.

If your husband never picks up his laundry today, and even leaves his shorts on the bathroom floor, you won't mind, because today he took a shower at home.

If your husband never changes a diaper today, you won't mind, because today he is holding your child.

If your husband spends the day playing video games on the computer, you won't mind, because you able to see him relax..

If your husband lies around the house and does nothing today, you won't mind, at least he has the weekend off from work.

If your husband has his buddies over to watch football every Monday night, you won't mind, because he is home and you get to see him with his buddies.

If your husband forgets your birthday, or anniversary, you won't mind, because you know he always has the best of intentions at heart.

All those things won't bother you in the least. Don't fight over simple things like that, for the bigger picture is much more complicated. Everybody is not perfect, but he has his best intentions at heart. Remember, happy marriages begin when we marry the one we love, and they blossom when we love the one we married. :)

You and your Love, will have the very best days of your entire life. Your Love loves you sooo much tooo much even a blind man can see and feel how deep that love is. You have to do nothing but be grateful to have him in your life and he'll be the luckiest person on earth to have you by his side.

Happy Wedding Day Ikeen.

Lots of love,

Iza

Memories

2010-05-09T20:50:00.000-07:00

Browsing through some old photos of me for the slide show.

Lucky for me, I'm the first child, so I've lots of pictures in each and every birthday, properly stored in the study room. Lucky also for me, my dad loves photography.

This almost brings tears to my eyes, on how such-a-pain-in-the-ass I've been to both of my parents. On how I could get away with almost everything in my life just because I'm the first child and because I'm the only girl.

Well, before I share some photos of my childhood that are very dear to me, let me show you a picture of the pelamin used during the wedding of my parents. I looked at mom and laughed. Mom, we're seriously world apart, please don't compare mine and yours or you'll end up saying the cliche you love most, "Tak meriah!" ;p

The first picture of me! Lying on my Dad's sampin that he wore during his aqad.

During Aqiqah, held by my Dad.

The familiar situation we had during Raya, with both of my parents and both of my grandparents. Me on my dearest grandmum a.k.a Mak's lap!

With my cousins and my childhood friend, Dr. Boy. Dr. Boy and I are still close to each other and he'll be coming to my wedding, yay!

With my Dad's bestest bestest friends during our vacation to Penang. They will all be there on my wedding..

In our old house in Pandan, I miss that house a lot.. With both of my brothers and Mum.

Now i can!

2010-05-09T20:46:00.000-07:00

I can say that now, I'm more at peace to marry the love of my life because I've finally completed a thing I wanted so much to complete before I got married.. One of my nazar..

Baru lepas khatam Al-Quran again yesterday.

Alhamdulillah. :)

Bila niat baik, insya Allah dipermudahkan.

More wedding pose.. i love

2010-05-06T04:22:00.001-07:00

From a friend's fb

Supercute! This will be my most fav wedding picture of us.

Ideas, please! Anyone?

Ohh my..

2010-05-06T04:05:00.000-07:00

Had my body rejuvenating at Seputeh Kapas, two weeks before the BIG day.

Starting with an hour of body massage, you girls really should do this before your wedding. Totally relaxing and your whole body smells like lavender afterwards. But my cousin said, you have to do this at least two weeks before, because after the massage, your body will ache a bit due to the aftermath. And really, she's not kidding.

Then, I supposed to have a 20 minutes herbal sauna. I hate sauna, i can't stand the heat. So, after a while sweating like a pig in the sauna room, I felt like my whole skin was burning. I decided to just leave the sauna room, I figured, it must be at least 10 minutes. That was when the beautician said, "Already?! Miss, you were inside for like 4 minutes only.."

4 minutes? Are you freaking kidding me? It's ok, i don't mind the money at all. It was so hot in there, seriously, thank you. Still, i kind of disappointed, i did 30 minutes on my last visit. :( 4 was ridiculously paranoid!

Then, the best part was the body scrub! I almost fell asleep, when the beautician called me, "Miss, you can take your shower now.."

Ohh my.. this will be the last time for me to hear her calling me Miss, ryte?

Ohh my..

Tiara

2010-05-05T02:32:00.001-07:00

Currently, I am obsessed with the small tiara for the wedding.

But scared that it will look funny on me.

Still, it's too pretty.. so I'm taking the risk. Wish me luck.

Tudung for Aqad

2010-05-04T00:31:00.000-07:00

This morning I woke up early. I didn't really feel like going early to office, so I tried my dress for Aqad.

Then, tried the tudung. Hehe. Sukeeee!! Though I know it's a bit striking, but owh well, I have to be outstanding.

Next, the veil. And owh nooooooooooOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooo!!! My head suddenly looked like a watermelon and I hate that veil so much!

So, I got in the office and googled on what type of veil they wore with tudung. I still have two weeks to shop for a new veil.

Then, I discovered this tudung website, that even I fell in love so much. Zahra Fashion.

And I discovered something that shows how ignorant i am..

Duh! Orang kahwin memang masukkan tudung dalam baju ke?

And to my horror, I bought tudung siti for the aqad. How on earth am I gonna wear it with veil now! Ugh!

This is what a best friend do when you're having a panic attack

2010-05-04T00:22:00.000-07:00

When you're having a panic attack, your friends will say..

But, your best friend will say..

I know, ryte?!!

Thank you, Qdin, you're so sweet! ;p

List of photos to be taken during your wedding

2010-05-03T03:18:00.000-07:00

With my Mum and Dad
With my brothers
With my Mum, Dad and brothers
With his Mum and Dad
With his brother and sister
With his Mum, Dad and brother sister
With my grandparents both sides
With his grandparents
With family of Aunts/Uncles
With bridesmaid and bestman
With close girlfriends
With friends
With colleagues

Further details can be found here and here.

The sweetest guys

2010-05-02T21:40:00.000-07:00

I've received a phone call that I thought would make my day.

It's from BFF Qdin from Aussie, it's been weeks since I last talked to him. I've been extremely busy with work and the wedding preparation that I barely had time to socialize. So bad! Anyway, Qdin told me earlier that he would come back for my wedding, how sweet ryte?

Part of the conversation is somewhat like this..

Me: Qdiiinnnnnnnnnnnnn!!! (At the top of my lung, no hello or whatsoever)
Qdin: Ikennnnn!!! (He had this funny way of calling me Iken instead of Ikeen) How have you been?
Me: I busy gile ok. Banyak kerja, I got home almost 10pm everyday! Rush to siapkan kerja before I take the long break. Tak sabar nak jumpe u wedding nanti!
Qdin: Ala.. Iken. I rasa i tak boleh balik.. I have exams on June, so your wedding week will be on the second week of the last lecture for the sem.

Pfft.. Ingat dapat tips la tu from your lecturer? Ugh!! So, I got quite sad after that.. Okay, SANGAT sad actually. The fact that Kak Sumayyah and Kak Mawar just gave birth and might not be able to attend my wedding. And now Qdin?? I should have told you not to take Masters! HAHA!

Talking about phone, Love just bought a new E71 yesterday. Pity him, something was wrong with his old phone that he suddenly could not receive or making any calls. Biasala, dugaan orang nak kawen.

And talking about Love, reminded me that he had his bachelor party last weekend.

Previously, Nadrah asked me if it is okay with me if his bf (our best man) took Love to a bar. Just to see what it is like, not to drink. Without thinking, I just said ok.

Then, these guys provoked me to go to a place called "100" (according to love, it is pronounced as "hundred" bukan "seratus". Ye Sayang, i kan kodi) And according to Mr. Shariz Einstein, "100" is a place where you have to pay only RM100 to get any services you want.

I just laughed all i want.

Because, in the end, i know they will end up watching footballs and playing PS3 non-stop.

And they did just that on the night of the bachelor party. I really mean JUST THAT. No bar or a peek at "100" or whatever. So cute, eh?

Shariz, Ag, Hisham and Love

Ag, Hashir and Love

Thank you, guys! There are no other person in this world I would allow Kapal to go to a bar or a club or whatever disgusting place I never heard of before, other than the five of you. To a bar, or just doing some innocent guy thingy you guys had, Love definitely had the time of his life. I know, cuz he talks about it a lot. Non-stop.

I am for sure going to miss my single life, I know Love is going to miss his too. Cuz both of us had the most wonderful friends on planet earth. But I guess we are too keen to know what life will be for us when we are "together, till death keep us part". 3 weeks and counting..

OMG! OMG! I'm so nervous!

2010-04-28T20:42:00.000-07:00

Wednesday (19th May 2010)
Siapkan hantaran: (Gitar, baju, jam, specs, wallet+belt)
Kemas bilik: (Tukar cadar, pasang flower dekat kelambu)

Thursday (20th May 2010)
Pergi Jusco: (Beli buah, cake, custard sugar)
Pergi Florist: (Beli flower petals, sireh and fresh flowers untuk sireh + mandi bunga)
Pergi Metro Kajang: (Ambil dulang hantaran)
*Call Enalyn, tell her what time to come on Saturday and Sunday

Friday (21st May 2010)
Mandi bunga
Gubah sireh
Prepare bunga telur
Try Hanbok
Inai

Saturday (22nd May 2010)
9 am: Khatam. (To do list – khatam Al-Quran, also practice for the ceremony!)
11.00 am: Make up
2pm: Nikah
6pm: Pulangkan dulang ke Metro Kajang
8pm: Rehearsal at hall. Finalized setup!

Sunday (23rd May 2010)
8am: Make up
10am: Abg Tom Setup live band
11am: Guest masuk, pasang CD. (3 CDs are ready)
11.30 am: Project slideshow with songs. (Find a projector and survey for a place to project)
11.45 am: Alert on perenjis. (Make sure MC has the list of perenjis beforehand. Make sure perenjis ready!)
12 noon: Arrival of bride and groom. Merenjis.
12.45 pm: Makan. (Make sure both parents and whoever yang supposed to sit in meja beradab dah ready) Live band still playing and now showing second slides repeat throughout event without music.
1.30 pm: Photo with family and friends dgn baju Kurung and Melayu
2.30 pm: Meet and greet
3.00 pm: Change to Hanbok
3.20 pm: Cake cutting ceremony
3.40pm: Photo session again
4.00 pm: Free flow.

Monday (24th May 2010)
To Bangi to return things to Enalyn
To bank
To saloon, to wash my hair
Clean the aftermath
Packing to Langkawi

To do in the hall.
1. Find container to put potpourri, buy potpourri and the potpourri oil.
2. Setup guestbook, find one PIC of guestbook.
3. Find one PIC to control the music and volume and the presentation slides.
4. Find one PIC to alert perenjis and our parents during makan beradab, also to alert MC of our arrival.
5. Find a person to be in charge of the flower boy and girl, upon our arrival, stay outside.
6. Payung and bunga manggar, who will pegang?
7. Who will distribute the bunga manggar on stage?

Finalized wedding song

2010-04-27T19:41:00.000-07:00

At 11 am starts with some of these songs..

11.45 am with the live band..

Once entering the hall, continues with live band and some jazz songs from Estrella Sweet Bossa..

Yay! Now nak burn it in CD!

Of BTS!

2010-04-26T02:08:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I went to Berjaya Times Square to watch Clash of The Titans 3D. Yup, Alhamdulillah. Pretty much we have covered all the important things, tak nak stress sangat, 3 weeks from now, we decided to take it slow.

Which also makes me realize relationship has been good for us. Just that yesterday we had an argument on honeymoon. I'm very happy with our progress considering people said the critical moment is when the date is closer.

So, anyway, I've always loved BTS. Guess what cheap thing I found yesterday?? A super adorable fuschia babydoll! And yes, I bought it!! So bad right, the addiction of buying that sexy lingerie, knowing that before this there is absolutely no reason to buy it. I went to almost every lingerie store lately that I received two SMSes from different persons, "What are you doing in that lingerie shop?" Oh my, I should stop.

And I bought this super nice crystal + white gold earring!! Ok, that one is not that cheap, but it's for the reception! Love chose it for me, and I instantly loved it.

Anyway, we went to Mr. Teppanyaki yesterday, and you know they had this offer, buy 2 meals, free 1 meal? So both of us ate three sets of teppanyaki sets yesterday, gemok!

But that is not the reason why I'm writing about the Teppanyaki thingy. See, during lunch, suddenly Love said to me, "Sayang, i know we might be arguing a lot as the stress gets worse. But, I'll try to lower down my ego, kay? Rather than keep making u feel bad, I'll try to find a solution. And I don't care where we are going for our honeymoon, what car will send us to the hall for the reception, who's the driver, i just can't wait for the life after our BIG day."

So sweet. But, then I realized something! He used the Law of attraction technique to me!!! By saying that he'll lower down his ego, and will find solution rather than making me feel bad makes me realized I did that to him also sometimes (maybe most of the times, sorry, Sayang..) So, he makes me want to do the exact same thing to him, to jsut be better.

Hee.. Making him watch "The Secret" is so worth it!

Guestbook - The BUT story

2010-04-26T00:36:00.000-07:00

At first, I thought of doing this..

Found here

A nice glass container for you to put your messages for us before entering the hall. How sweet.

BUT, when I think about it in details, it will be hard to keep and hard to refer back in the future.

So, I tried to find a way to make it easier to browse through. Maybe if my friends come over years later, we can easily show them what they wrote for us on the wedding day. Definitely none other than a guestbook. To make it memorable, I thought of making it DIY. Found some ideas here..

Cantik, ryte?

BUT, considering I'm not that interested to do some tedious work, last option was to just buy it.

I found one in this particular website. I think it's beautiful and sweet..

BUT, Love said it's too small. :( As much as I was heartbroken to let this guestbook go, I know that Love was right.

We searched everywhere, BUT we found nothing that we really like. As much as we wanted to let it go by saying, "Ala.. guestbook je, ryte?" Still we kept on hunting for it.

Then we went to Curve. I thought there would be some DIY guestbook in Flea Market, BUT nope.

After being advised by Dearest Myra, we went to "Take A Note". Found an adorable guestbook, BUT the price was so freaking ridiculous.

So, off to Papier, and that's when we both fell in love with a geustbook that costs us about the same price as the fabric of my engagement dress. (Sigh.. there's always a BUT la kan) As much as we loved it, we said to ourselves, "Ala.. guestbook je, ryte?" Still... (T_T)

Last resort, we went to Borders and we finally found this one..

It's silver and it's cheap! RM 60 je. Yay!

Crystal Peeling

2010-04-23T00:18:00.000-07:00

Exactly a month to the reception day! Yay!!!

Went to my favourite spa just now. Tried the Crystal Peeling this time. Here's a little info on the Crystal Peeling..

It's been a while since my last visit. Life has been hectic plus I needed to save some money for the big day. I've completely forgotten how relaxing the place is and how awesome is the service!

The cost is RM60, and I've also did the lip treatment for RM8.50 since I am the VIP member.

To all the brides-to-be, I highly encourage you girls to give this excellent spa a visit. I'm going again 7th May for the final body touch-up before I'm getting married. Perhaps I'll get to see you there! ;)

Honeymoon itenirary

2010-04-22T02:01:00.000-07:00

ITENIRARY FOR KAPAL AND DR. IKEEN’S HONEYMOON

25/5/2010
1pm: Arrival
Lunch
Langkawi Snake Sanctuary: RM12 x 2 OR Langkawi Crocodile Farm: RM15 x 2
Evening: Hotel Check-in
Taman Lagenda (optional)
Night: Dataran Lang
Shopping

26/5/2010
Morning: Island hopping
Lunch
Evening: Underwater World: RM28 x 2
Laman Padi

27/5/200
Morning: Hotel Check-out
Padang Masirat
Departure

Finally found time to do this. And no, it's not that I forgot about the cable car. I mean, why would you wanna be 600 metres above the earth hanging by just a cable. ~~Scary~~ Weird, rite?

Sya's E-day

2010-04-21T02:36:00.000-07:00

Haven't been updating my blog for quite a while. Busy with works that I went back from office everyday at 8pm (tu pun sbb takut, the whole floor dah kosong), had my dinner and a really longgg time showering and continued doing my work until about midnight. Very tiring..

Anyway, my high school friend, Sya got engaged with her fiance last Sunday! :) The theme is Tiffany blue again!

See that small girl in the blue dress? No, we don't know her! She's smiling because she wants this..

The cuppies Maria and I bought at Wondermilk for Sya! Beautiful ryte? And also delicious!

Pardon me for not taking that many pictures, too distracted with this little guy, Amir!!! Remember him? Posted his picture three months ago, very small. Look at him now, 4 months old and about 9 kgs already ok!!!!

EEEEE!!! Tengok tu pipi! Geram Mama Ikeen nak cubit!!!

Trust me, I did not do this to him!! His dad did this to him! Sigh.. Can you beleive it, pity little baby.

Okay, I admit I helped to bury him with the flower petals a little.

Okay, maybe a lot. But still, I did not start it first! I promise!

My superhero

2010-04-15T01:15:00.000-07:00

I had the most awkward day in human history today!

I had an interview for promotion as a lecturer. I thought it would be a very simple interview, but when I got there this morning, there's about 30 people were waiting for the interview.

It really got on my nerve that I was the youngest. I wore my best Kebaya. They wore suits!!!! I wore my Guess handbag, they wore briefcase with their lots of papers. The only paper I brought was my resume!

I tried to be friendly, and asked this grey haired guy next to me, "What are you doing?" Cuz I kind of freaking out that they all prepared a powerpoint slide. I did not!

He said, "Preparing for mock teaching. You don't bring your own laptop?"

"A what... a... a... mock teaching. I don't even know there'll be a mock teaching!" Starting to panick.

"Don't you check your email? They sent an email the other day," the way he asked started to annoy me.

"I checked my email everyday, but I did not receive any!" Then I got even more panicked, I could hear the guy next to me mumbling about something. I'm pretty sure I heard him asked, "Are u sure u already checked?"

"I'm not so sure now," I answered.

When I saw almost everyone gave me a death stare like, "Why the hell are you here again?" I knew I must heard him wrongly. (Anyway, they did asked why am i here and when i said I'm here for the interview I got like 4 people asking at the same time, "Seriously?")

So I asked, "What did u asked again?"

Dengan muka serious annoying and almost scolded me, "YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT SUBJECT YOU'LL BE TEACHING??"

I guess he asked me, "You will teach what subject?" rather than "Are u sure u already checked?" Duh! Sangat memalukan.

I got so sad, that I texted Love, "I'm panicking! U knw ramai gle orang! I'm like the youngest. I mean wayyy younger! They were like org tua yg pandai. N the worst thing is that they received email to prepare power point. I did not. :("

And he replied, "Sayang.. Don't worry k? You are the youngest? Of course Sayang!! Who else can qualify to be a lecturer as young as you other than you? Don't worry about the powerpoint Sayang. You don't need any slides to prove something.. You present yourself.. They'll love you!!"

Okay.. I know that statement is a bit cocky, he admitted that he himself got panicked with my msg that he nearly typed, "OMG!!! No slides. Howww??" But I'm so glad he did not.

Luckily enough for me, I knew i've impressed them. I heard some nice thing they said about me as i left.

That was when I smiled and took out my phone to thank my superhero of the day!

We love polka dots!

2010-04-13T20:43:00.001-07:00

I found this picture taken by BFF Mimi rather interesting and cute.

I mean.. I've always love polka dots esp in black and white. But i don't know it looks so cute on Love!!!

When we get married, I'm so gonna do you a make over, Sayang!!

Btw, this is what my fiance replied after he found out BFF Mimi uploaded the picture on fb.

Owh.. yaaa.. mind his language, he's kinda illiterate, he couldn't even differentiate between 'book' and.. urm you know, the other thing. Waittt... Am i really marrying this guy?? Hahaha.. Kidding Sayang! ;p

Doorgifts kanak2!

2010-04-13T20:20:00.000-07:00

Spending last Sunday with 'Love' doing this..

Doorgifts for the kids!

♥ Organza we bought at Nilai 3: RM18 for 100 pieces.

♥ Nips (Love's idea!) bought at Kedai borong gula gula dan makanan ringan, Selva, Rawang: RM 4.80 for 30 pieces

♥ Big Top lollipoos (My idea!) at Kedai borong gula gula dan makanan ringan, Selva, Rawang: RM 5.50 for 60 pieces.

So all in all, the cost for this one bag is around 50 cents only! Yay!

And I'm glad cuz Love and I wanted it to be original, where we got tired of having to put several pieces of ordinary sweets. So.. this will do!

Options for guest doorgifts

2010-04-12T18:18:00.000-07:00

I honestly have a great difficulty in deciding the doorgift for the guest.

Previously, I wanted this beautiful butterfly box with 4 small colourful cuppies like my doorgift during engagement, but it costs around RM3 each. Mahal lah!!! So, Mum decided to give it maybe during aqad, or Marhaban.

Other options were:

♥ Bahulu Kemboja from Anis Bakery.

Price: RM1.90 per box.

♥ Muffins from Muffin Monster.
Price: RM1.20 per piece.

♥ Mini bahulu gulung from Rozi Freshly Bake.

Price: RM2 per piece.

♥ Cuppies from Rozi Freshly Bake.

Price: RM1 per piece.

♥ Chocolate Moist Muffin from Ole Ole Manis.

Price: RM1.20 per piece.

But, since my parents (my mum, specifically!) are like the "easiest" people to please on planet earth, so.. they (more like she) decided to settle on..
Yup, rite, Bahulu Classiq! We've confirmed the booking and such, hopefully everything will turn out to be ok, insya Allah. :)

VIP Doorgift! - The hunt for a cheap Choclairs and Puddings!

2010-04-11T19:39:00.000-07:00

Okay finally the bag for VIP doorgift is already done! Penat.. But this is for MY VIP, for Mum's and Dad's VIPs are another different things, they haven't really decided on it yet, but it's ok, as long as I settled mine, I feel at ease already.

So, after struggling on designing that 100 mugs as shown in previous post, we wrapped it like this! Costs us around RM2 each.

♥ Mugs bought at Nilai 3.

♥ Designed by Love.

♥ Chiffon+ribbon at KK Home Deco, Ampang.

Then, since my grandmum sponsored some Choclairs, I put in this plastic container with 5 pieces of Choclairs each and put a small ribbon on top of it for decoration.

♥ Choclairs bought at Sogo 1 bottle (160 pieces) for RM 11. *But I haven't managed to find it anywhere else, except at Pasar Borong Selangor for RM 14 per bottle.
♥ Container bought at Pasar Borong Selangor for RM8 for 100 pieces *Usual price is RM10, but Mum is a regular customer, so got discount a bit.

Also, I bought some pudding with various flavored.

♥ bought the pudding at NSK Selayang - RM2.40 for 6 pieces *The cheapest i can find. Saw the same brand, the same pudding at MaxValue for RM 4, and at Giant for RM 3.80 for 6 pieces.

Put these 3 items in a paperbag, which we bought in Nilai 3 for 36 cents each.

Takdela lawa sangat, ryte? The paperbag. Wait, till u see the next picture for u to find out why we actually bought this paperbag!

...

Tada! Got it already?! *Hint* *Hint* Read the pantun..

For those who are still blurring, and for readers yang tak kenal my fiance and I, for years, people called my fiance 'Kapal'. Guess who gave him the nickname?! Surprisingly, it was Hizami aka Babun, back when they were in St. John's Institution, way before I knew both of them. As of why he called him Kapal was because of his size of shoes. My fiance is wearing the size 15 US, which is hardly found in Malaysia, so konon2 that shoe is too big mcm Kapal?! (I know, I don't get that either, in fact I still wonder why they called Hizami as 'Babun'.. Guys are so weird!)

So since the pantun reads, "Jauh jauh KAPAL datang.." Macam terasa cool. Then, we bought it. Haha. Tak relevan sungguh.

Law of attraction?

2010-04-10T08:48:00.001-07:00

Kata-kata itu satu doa.

While cleaning up my room, I found my diary when I was 17, 8 years ago. Flipped through and read the very last entry of that year..

Wrote it in pencil, I never fancy pen. Let me share part of the content with you.. The first two lines read,

"I spent my lifetime to plan about a lifetime. I had everything perfectly figured out. By the age of 25, I'm gonna get married..."

The rest of the content is so childish, I'm so shy to continue typing it.

The point is, I forgot that at the age of 17 I planned to get married at the age of 25.

I'm 24 currently, this October I'm going to be 25, so literally I'm 25 in 2010. And I'm getting married next month. Ironic, no?

I just can't wait..

2010-04-08T03:00:00.000-07:00

You know the funniest thing about wedding is that the closer it is to the date, the slower the day passes by.

I am at another lowest point of my life. Caught in another ridiculous fight with Mum, and I don't feel like going home at all. Though I'm lucky this time that Dad is on my side.

Whatever.. Luckily I love my job, you know. I love my job so damn much that I'm happy to stay back to do the codings and all. Now that I'm involved in a Solar Car project, I'm even more excited to get up to work every day.

And luckily I have my own room in the office. My own big room, by the window full of privacy. With a mattress and a pillow and fill with soft toys that when an officemate dropped by he asked, "ni office ke playland?"

Hmm.. It would definitely be a nice place to sleep over tonight... Owh wait, did we say we want to stay with my parents when I'm married. Come on Sayang, we gotta be kidding each other..

Ohh.. Btw, i just realized Nadrah updated the blog on Preparation for the bachelorette party as below. Sooo sweeetttt okay? Thank you, Nadrah. I love it a lot! First guest blogger, and it just made my evening. :)

Note to self: Dear future me, if my kid is ever getting married one day, please do remember what important most is to do mana yang afdal, it's hard to please everyone, but at least the day is celebrated HAPPILY with the loved ones.

Guest Blogging On Ikeen's Bachelorette

2010-04-08T00:39:00.000-07:00

Dear Readers,

This is my first time as a guest blogger. Prepare yourself for a very long post. You must be wondering why her picture is here. It is because this post is on her Bachelorette Weekend. It all started on her engagement day, when Glue(My Boyfriend) thought of working out to get Rain's body like in Ninja Assasin just for Kapal's Bachelor Party.

Rain as the Ninja Assassin. Hubba Hubba

Bachelor Party???!!!!!! The guys are planning a bachelor party?!!!!! When it comes to party plannings, I get super excited and have lots of ideas. However, being new in the group, I kept my ideas to myself and remained quiet. Lucky me, a few days after. IzaLyana, a dear friend sent a message in facebook:

Iza Lyana 24th November 2009

Girls listen up, Shariz just told me AG is planning a bachelor party for Kapal. Don't you think that we should do something for Ikeen? hehe.

I xtau la if there's any of Ikeen's friends yg dah ada something plan for Ikeen BUT kalo xde plan apa2 lg y not we plan something for her? I mean..not fair la kan IF kapal DO have the bachelor party. [Shariz pun xsure jadi ke x.hehe]. i'm not that close with Ikeen and i don't know any other friends of Ikeen. maybe u guys can help out?? (^_^)

Later on, we decided to have a small private one. Guest list:
1. Dr. Ikeen (the bride to be) Miss Single
2. Myra Ron - Miss Wild
3. Iza Lyana - Miss Flirt
4. Nonee Hesham - Miss Sexy
5. Me! - Miss Tease

Our disccussion started from a facebook thread on the 31st December 2009. We discussed a lot and was trying to get ideas on how to give a great Bachelorette celebration for DrIkeen since those kamasutra sex education and wild night with an obsene cake will prolly not suit her personality. In the end, we decided on a wholesome girly weekend.

Agenda:
1. Tea Party
2. Grooming Session
3. Dinner Party
4. Games and activities in sexy lingeries
5. Pillow Talk

For accomodation, we decided on Duta Vista as it was very affordable. Personally, I wouldn't recommend others to go there. The management was really annoying. Well, that's another story. Let's focus on the weekend itself. Each one of us were given a task. Myra is on the romantic room, Iza on the Grooming Room, Nonee on the Bathrooms and I was in charge of the tea area and living room.

I made a lot of research for the tea area and was determined to not spend so much on it. Pictures from websites like The Vintage Garden gave me a lot of ideas. After all the research, I learnt that for every tea party, it is important to mix&match and a little gold adds final touches to the table; a slightly more exclusive look. I ordered a small flower arrangement for the table and got a small 2-tiered serving plate. As for the food, I just bought some take-away from the Cake Sense. End result is:

The tea set up
Us having tea

As for the living room, I focused more on the games. Did you know that it is very hard to find bachelorette games here in Malaysia? Luckily, there is such site such as http://www.bachelorette.com/that offers great ideas for activities. Also, for the night, I found these masks at the Balloon Buzz at One Utama. A pack of 6 pairs is approximately RM30. I layout out these items on the coffee table infront of the telly.

Bachelorette Bingo, Word Scrambler, Masks and La Senza's Sexy Dice

There was also the Bride-to-be corner where we placed a basket of goodies for Dr.Ikeen, a card and also a picture Ikeen. Both Myra and I did this area. In the basket, there was a tiara, sash, a white robe that Glue and I got from My Intimate Lingerie Shop, white roses Myra bought and these cute small butterfly cards from Emma K.

P/s: I must say that My Intimate Lingeria Shop offers a wide range of afforable and attractive lingerie. For purchase of 2 and more items, you will get 5% discount and the delivery is Free Of Charge. Hey! I should get some commision for this.

Here are some pictures of the other set ups made by the girls:

Us in the Romantic Room

Grooming Room

Romantic Room

Candles in the Romantic Room

Bathroom

The Bachelorette Weekend started great. We had tea and chatted since it has been some time since we last met. There was a disturbance from the management end that got us all annoyed and made me so furious that I went to the reception to give them a piece of my mind. After that, all of us took our shower and started our grooming session. Girls, if you plan to make grooming plans, be sure to allocate more time here. One and a half hour is NOT ENOUGH. We ended up late for our dinner reservation at Shorkolart.

Food in Shorkolart was good and afforable. The name tells is all. Everything served there is related to choclate. Who would have known grilled lamb goes well with choclate. For deserts, we had these cupcakes Iza ordered from her friend. They are of lingeries. Nicely decorated and tasted great too.

Before Dinner
With Cupcakes
Cute right?

Us before heading back

After dinner, we went back to Duta Vista and each of us changed into our lingeries. There was a short sexy photography session while we had some sparkling juice. Each of us strut our sexy pose for the photoshoot. There was also a short dance session and we played some games. The winners of the games were DrIkeen herself, Myra and Nonee. We ended the day with a very intimate Pillow Talk Session.

The next day, DrIkeen surprised us with gifts. None other than a sexy panties for each one of us. DrIkeen, you shouldn't have. Hope you enjoyed yourself as much as I did. Thank you so much for letting me share this moment with you. *Hugs and Kisses*

Me posing with the gift from Dr Ikeen.

Dreamer signing out~! ;)

Bye, tuition centre!

2010-04-05T18:14:00.000-07:00

I'm slowly preparing myself for a new life of being a good wife.

Slowly, I make sure I'll be home from work latest by 7pm. Before this, I will be home around 9pm or 10pm. Workaholic, ok..

But, the most drastic thing to do is to resign from my part time job as a tutor in a tuition centre that I've been working for this past one year.

Sent my resignation letter yesterday. Things were fine when I thought of resigning last week because teaching was not fun anymore, this one class gave me a headache, that I left their class without saying anything. And the owner of the tuition centre made me a 'Supir' for having to send this one student home (every week pon!), and the home is the opposite direction to my house.

But, after I submitted the resignation letter, these kids acted sooo nice. For the first time, they did their homework and actually brought a dictionary that I asked them to bring since January!

And the hardest part is this favourite class of mine.. we had fun yesterday, where they learned about the 5 W's (What, Why, Who, etc) and I asked each of them to send a question to 'Love' via SMS, and they were psyched to learn to type an SMS and to get a reply from him.

A quick story, btw. We also learned about animal yesterday. There is this one sentence in the book said, "Ant has two feelers", so this one girl, Tsara asked me, "Teacher, what is feelers?"

So, I said to the class, "Try to guess?" And they came out with stuff like wings, eyes and all the funny things. Coincidentally it was time for Tsara to think of a question to ask 'Love'. She had to ask a question that began with "What". Being a Standard 2 student, I thought she was going to ask a common question like "What is your name?" Instead she asked, "What is feelers in Malay?"

I was about to laugh. They were all so excited to wait for fiance's reply. It took him extraordinarily longer time to reply to that. When the phone finally rang, and they were all excited about it, I said, "Okay Jihan, what is his reply, read to the class."

She stood up and said innocently, "He said.. 'I'm sorry but I'm not really sure..'" And the class was laughing their heart out. We had so much fun. Anyway, to those who are not sure what is 'feelers', it is the antennae of the insects. And Tsara in the end guessed it correctly.

I'm so gonna miss all these..

Owh, well.. Cheers to a new life.. :)

Room deco!

2010-04-05T01:42:00.003-07:00

Bought this and this at Living Quarters, The Curve yesterday!

RM9.90 only!

And this for RM7.90, masih tak sempat nak gantung kat wall and tak sempat nak gantung balik all earrings!

Ok, here's the picture of my room before painting and rearranging the furnitures!

And here are the pictures I took yesterday, so much things to do still, but since not as horror as before, so ok kots..

Still in a mess. Extra fan for me to dry my hair ;p

My mum said, "this part does not look at all like bilik pengantin".

'Love' was so psyched because my room looked so big now, that he said, "can put a drum set!" Guys..

Cards giving!

2010-04-04T19:22:00.001-07:00

Met my Uniten's besties to give them the cards by hand. It's more intimate, I wish to pass the cards to all my guests by hand, but.. owh well.. I guess even to these beautiful gems will do. I don't really agree with the idea of inviting through facebook events only or tagging from the cards. I'm a bit more traditional.

So, anyway, we met yesterday at Garden, The Curve. I love most the ambiance, food was ok, price was good. But 'Love' didn't seem to like his food, the portion was too small for him. Still, it's a nice place to hang out. We tried TGI Fridays, we tried Marche and several other places in Curve, we came out with a conclusion that Garden has more privacy.. and can cater a big crowd like us! :)

Anyway, enjoy the photos!!

Secret Recipe's Black Forest Cheese.. tak sedap!

Our source of laughter! *Happy Birthday, Fiah!*

Housemates, classmates, and lovers!

*My shoulder to cry on*

She is as beautiful inside as she looks outside.
Hubby to be!
Us, missing in the picture, Naidi.

Thanks everyone sebab datang!!! To those who cannot make it, I will organize another hang out session kay?

And to Mimi, Anis, Mel, Pyha, FJoe, thanks for being with me through thick and thin. I love you a lotttttttt!!!

Can I stay with my parents?

2010-04-03T05:45:00.000-07:00

Owhkaaayyyyy... this is sooo ridiculous.

Early this morning, I had to work to invigilate some exam. So my Dad rented a lorry to actually take some stuff from Ampang for our new house (which includes TV, washing machine, bedside table and so on..) We are planning for another trip to take the dining table, bed, wardrobe and etc.

So later in the evening, we went to actually take a look at the house we wanted to rent. It is surprisingly hard to find a house to rent in the area we wanted to stay in. This is one of the most suitable place (in terms of safety, and yes I am quite fussy with the safety) we can find after weeks of house-hunting.

But as we went inside the house, I had this kind of hesitation. I mean, the house is ok, not perfect but ok. It's just 10 minutes away from my parents' house, the parking lot is spacious, the rent as according to Love is "a bargain for this kind of house", and it's not that I want to hesitate, but I hesitated. I've no power against it, I just for a while.. hesitate.

And it's a place for us to stay for a year (bonded for a year actually), so not a good sign if i hesitate ryte? Cuz i don't normally do. So, over our Big Apple break, we talked things through. And Love came up with a brilliant suggestion, he said, "Why not we stay at your parents' house for a while until we buy our own house. Because it's not worth it to rent a house that is so near to your parents' house and we don't even like the house that much."

Not really a good option. I mean I love staying with them. In fact I have the coolest room on earth (your own room is always the best). I love my room and my bed so much that I even get 'bedsick' when I stayed in the hotel.

BUT.. I guess the best option for now is to stay with them for a while.. Sigh.. Bye bye all the beautiful furnitures.. Looking at it at the bright side, I've another 7 months to spend with Mom and Dad.

You... are soooooo sweet okay?

2010-04-01T03:23:00.000-07:00

Today, fiance helped me (voluntarily, without any hints, mind you!):

♥ Find a dwarf rabbit the moment I said I want a pet rabbit for our new house!

♥ Take my altered wedding dress from Kak Zana.

♥ Pay for the hall of the rent.

Since he had 1 week plus of MC, these mean a looottt to me. Saaayyyyyaaaaannngggg youuu!!

*gambar undergrad dalam Wira lama, I missed that car!*

P/S: Kapal did lose a lot of weight now compared to that picture, didn't he?

What happened to Kapas?

2010-03-31T18:38:00.000-07:00

Last night, 'Love' went out for a dinner at Cozy House with his family. And he rang me up when I was on the way back from work.

Love: I've 2 news for ya. 1 good news, and the other bad news, which one you wanna hear first?

Me: Bad news!

Love: I couldn't find the King Tut book. (We went out the other day at Curve, and I found this hard cover book on King Tut, thought of buying it, tapi super-expensive. He wanted to buy it for me at Great Eastern's MPH).

Me: Yay! Not a good news after all. (I don't want him to buy it for me, because the priority is our wedding now. Plus, he pampered me with quite a number of gifts lately, not that I'm complaining, hee.. thank you Sayang!) The good news?

Love: KAPAS DAH TUTUP!

Yup, I'm talking about the same Kapas as I've mentioned in my previous post --> Critical review on Butik Pengantin. Though, none of us were surprised with the news, but seriously what happened to Kapas? Pindah somewhere else? Can someone enlighten us please?

Prosedur kebenaran berkahwin

2010-03-31T18:17:00.000-07:00

1. Kursus kahwin. *Fee is RM80

2. Make an appointment for HIV test.

3. Do the HIV test at government clinic. (Note that the HIV test lasts for 6 months) *FOC

4. Take the form from JAIS/PAID.

5. The guy fills in the form.

6. Submit to imam masjid near his area, bring along sijil kursus kahwin, HIV test and 2 saksi.

7. Submit to JAIS/PAID in his area.

8. It'll take around 2 days to get the approval. The approval will look somewhat like this..

9. Pass it to the girl, and she has to fill in her form.

10. Wali and 2 saksi will bring both the girl's and the guy's form (and sijil kursus kahwin + HIV test) to imam masjid in the girl's area).

11. Submit to JAIS/PAID in her area. JAIS will take around 15 minutes to approve, you don't have to come back the next day. *Fee is RM10

12. You'll get a form from JAIS, fill it in, and submit to imam masjid.

13. Now, mcm saya.. just wait for your big day, yay!

Explicit content

2010-03-30T19:28:00.000-07:00

I just got my red flag today! Phewww...

I have ALWAYS BEEN regular, every month. I think the last time I was irregular was like during third year degree, stress exam. So it scares me a bit, cuz I was already 15 days late!

So.. I've been waiting.. and there were times I was so confident that I'm gonna had it, but not as yet. Mum said I've been under a lot of stress, so lambat a bit.

But, I think there's more to it. I would like to think that it's a gift from above. Because if I was to follow my regular cycle, I might not be able to have my khatam ceremony because I was going to have my red flag couple of days before my wedding day. Meaning that no real honeymoon for us too.

So now, with Allah's will, I can have my khatam ceremony and my real honeymoon. Yay!

Okay.. Okay.. I know it's a bit silly to like announce something so private up to public. But, see.. my point is that everything happens for a reason that we at the moment might have no idea why it is happening and we're worrying like mad. And we pray for it to happen, but it is not happening and we thought, "What did I do wrong to deserve such thing?"

But, He is actually so great, too great that I will forever treasure what BFF Qdin once told me when both of us were having the lowest point of our life (I don't remember the exact word, but it is somewhat like this..),

"When Allah grants your prayer, that means He loves you.

When Allah grants your prayer, but a little late, that means He wants to test you,

When Allah does not grant your prayer, that means the thing you asked for is not good for you, and He'll grant something better for you."

Wallahualam. :)

Photos of my bachelorette party - The event

2010-03-29T20:06:00.000-07:00

Upon arrival, they greeted me with white roses, so sweeettttt...

Made me wear these accessories for the day ♥

Then, proceed to hi tea!

After having a shower, Iza Lyana did my make up and hair, and now we're ready to Schokolart!

Some of the pictures at Schokolart..

My cuppies that I love much! (I don't fancy the ****-shaped cake and they understood me well, thank youuuu...)

As yummylicious as it looks

Head back to Duta Vista for our slumber party, where we had our games, dance lesson, err.. 18sx photoshoot and pillow talk. Since all of us were in our lingerie, I couldn't upload the photos here. Hehe.. But, we had a REALLY fun nite!

Slept around 4.30 am, woke up the next day to clean up the house. And nooo.. I don't want to go home!!! (T_T)

After lunch, I head back home.. contented. And ever more ready to marry my knight in shining armour. Thanks lovers. I heart you girls a lot.

This brilliant bachelorette party was organized by:

MISS TEASE, NadrahTheDreamer

MISS WILD, Myra Ron

MISS SEXY, NoneeWhollyDolly

MISS FLIRT, IzaLyana

Photos of my bachelorette party - The deco

2010-03-29T19:20:00.000-07:00

Venue: Duta Vista

I really think that the deco of the apartment was superb! I'm not involving in the preparation at all. It was a surprise, but I seriously think my beloved friends did a wonderful job in this. Will try to persuade them if they would like to be a guest blogger to tell the readers on their preparation for this wonderful weekend. As for now, enjoy the photos of the apartment.

Hi Tea by NadrahTheDreamer

Games by NadrahTheDreamer

Romantic room decorated by Myra

Bathroom decorated by NoneeDollyWholly

Grooming room by Iza Lyana

My Bachelorette Party

2010-03-28T07:59:00.000-07:00

Still feeling all excited over the bachelorette party the girls organized for me yesterday.

We spent a nite at Duta Vista with Masterminds Myra, Nadrah, Iza and Nonee.

A lottttttttt of 18SX pictures were taken that nite. Waiting for Nonee to share it in our private events, tak sabar!

Also waiting for Nonee to upload some other decent pictures that I can share with my dear readers, sooo... tunggguuuuuuuu....

To the Masterminds of my bachelorette party (Miss Tease, Miss Flirt, Miss Wild and Miss Sexy),

Thank you for everything. The splendidly beautiful apartment. A very memorable time we had during hi tea, the fun we had during grooming for our dinner, and the dinner that was really awesome, the dance lesson later that nite by Nadrah that Nonee and I eventually found it hard to excel, the games, the wild photo session that we had and the best part of all the pillow talk. Got up so tired the next morning and still smiled the whole day, or maybe the whole week. Thank you. I seriously love you girls a lot. Thanks for the advices and most importantly for helping me convinced that I'm doing the right thing marrying the guy of my dream. Remember this kay, I will be there in your bachelorette party later on. Each and everyone of you. Though I'm no longer a bachelorette myself, but hey.. I can give good advices on the first night later on! Haha! Naughty naughty!

Love, Miss Single.

Seriously, I had the best bachelorette party ever.. like million times better than what I've imagined it to be, honest! Hold your breath and get ready for the pictures of the bachelorette party I'm about to upload soon!

Grey is the "in" colour?

2010-03-24T19:39:00.000-07:00

Here's a photo from Guek and Mira's wedding the other day. Grey again. I think it's the "in" colour now. Nonetheless, it looks perfect on them!

Some of the pictures...

Me and 'Love'. Notice the beads on my Kebaya, yes I sewed it myself. My very first attempt.

With the bride and groom, yes I love the pelamin also.

Hareez, a photographer from Tampak Karya, I like this guy!

Kun Faya Kun (Be and it is)

2010-03-23T01:02:00.000-07:00

Friday, 19th March

Received a phone call from 'Love', I was in PD for my company's family day. Was the organizer and was dead busy with the dinner that nite. 'Love' texted me (since I couldn't pick up the phone) telling me that he was going for futsal, but he was a bit dizzy.

Saturday, 20th March

Around 1 am, while in our hotel room doing the questions for treasure hunt, received another pone call from 'Love' telling me he was on the way home and injured himself quite badly.

At 9am, went to the Dr. and suspected ligament tear. Which took around 2 months paling awal to recover. And wedding is 2 months from now. But not yet sure. Have to see the specialist on Monday.

Sunday, 21st March

Visited him at house and he looked worse than I thought.

Monday, 22nd March

After receiving an approval letter from the company he worked in, went to see the specialist. Dr. said 80% sure to undergo operation the next day. Admitted to the hospital, did his MRI scan and waited for the result to come out also the next day. All that we have left is to pray. If he needs to operate, there goes our wedding preparation.. :(

Tuesday, 23rd March

Waiting for the MRI scan dari pagi. Fasting the whole day, getting ready for operation. After lunch, I almost fell asleep in the office, having a stressful week, when he called. Guess what the Dr. said?

"Sembahyang hajat ke malam tadi? Ada doa orang dimakbulkan, tak payah operate. Next Wednesday recover, but everyday kena physio."

MIRACLE!!! Alhamdulillah. Wedding preparation and house hunting, to be continued next week. This weekend is for the girls. Who have spent so much time for my bachelorette party. Love you all, i can't wait!

Picture was taken in Aktif Futsal, Bangi, retiring until the BIG day.

"His Command, when He intends anything, is only that He says to it, "Be' then (and there) it is - (Kun Fayakun)" - Verse 82, Surah Yaseen.

Mugs!

2010-03-22T22:36:00.001-07:00

The house is already filled with my wedding items. Berkecamuk otak tengok rumah. And the smell of the paint is the worst. We painted back the whole house. Including my room to slightly darker purple tone, nanti bila dah kemas bilik I'll upload the pic, k.

The doorgift that is quite time comsuming is the mug, one of the item in the VIP's paper bag.

Kelakar a bit, but not that bad ryte?

My wedding card!

2010-03-21T18:39:00.000-07:00

Let my reader be the first to look at my wedding card (other than my family member, even extended family pun belum tengok yet)..

I really like the design!! Black and Silver!!

Map is done by my dad (mind you, he used to be a designer)

Anddd I love most the wording!! Created by Lailatun Nazirah (BFF Pedot's wife). Such a beautiful beautiful wording. Layout by my Dad.

Tak sia2 suruh my Dad design. We are the first to use this design!! Now, available at Kadkahwinmall.com. :)

Thanks Daddy dearest. Just another news to share. Yesterday marked the date, all of us went to visit Dad's new printing factory at Serdang. Fully owned by my Dad at last, after being cheated twice by his business partner, now opening his own factory.

We are proud of you Dad!

His first job :)

Bantal Nikah

2010-03-18T00:11:00.000-07:00

Just got our bantal nikah from Dr. Sumayyah!! Thank you. Borrow je, sewa is so not worth it.

Anyway, this has nothing to do with the wedding but sooo ~~freaking~~ (Kapal tak suka i guna this word) ~~damn~~ (ni pun dia tak suka, apa nak guna ni Sayang?) excited to share this excitement.

You know how in love I am with Mini Cooper. And previously 'Love' gave me the Cooper model, the magazines, the pictures, the mousepad, bla.. bla.. and the list goes on..

Today, he gave me an exact replica of Cooper's key, only that it is an 8GB USB stick.

Yay!! Let's stick together!

I saaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggggggggggg u a lot! Pasni u nak bagi i kunci Cooper betul2 kan kan kann?

MATTA fair updated

2010-03-15T01:42:00.000-07:00

My first visit to MATTA fair, and.. got a bit.. disappointed. :(

I did my study before I went there, I familiarized myself with the price of the hotel and flight ticket and so on..

The best package I got from airasiago.com to Langkawi for 3 days 2 nights for 3 person costs us RM805. Bayview Hotel + Flight ticket + Airport tax and all. Of course Awana Porto Malai is the cheapest 4 star hotel around with nicer view than Bayview since tepi pantai.. buttt... BUT.. haha.. dengar dengar cerita menakutkan about Awana Porto Malai, so don't want to take the risk. ;p

There's nothing that caught my interest there. Mimi's sister got cheated once in MATTA fair, buying a package from a company that did not even exist. So, I only looked for the bigger company with familiar names like Ping Anchorage, Berjaya and all. But, as I said previously nothing really caught my interest. Dahla ramai gils orang with a lot of babies. Don't get me wrong. I love babies a lot. But.. hey, who bring babies in such place?!

Was about to get back after getting tired of being introduced with some cheap motels in Langkawi. Not even a single booth that offers a package to Egypt! What a waste of time. When we suddenly came across the Firefly booth and decided to drop by.

That is when we get this!!!!!!! Alhamdulillah, at least it's worth of something kan. Cheaper than airasiago.

So, lovers.. Here are some tips for u before u go to MATTA fair (from my own experience)
1. Survey before u go there. Surprisingly, it is not that cheap. U can get wayyyy cheaper price online.
2. Know what u're looking for.
3. If the company sounds fishy, forget it. If you have your BB or iPhone with u is even better, google for the company's profile.
4. Go there early morning.
5. If you wanna go at noon, get a public transport.
6. The best attire to go there: Cotton shirt+jeans-handbag.
7. Bring your cash/debit/credit card+IC.

Maxi dress for bachelorette party

2010-03-11T17:00:00.000-08:00

I am blessed to have such lovely friends, Nadrahthedreamer, Myra, Nonee and Iza Lyana to organize a Bachelorette Party for me. And hope to meet my dearest high school friends during my prewed gathering organized by Fau.

Got a facebook message from Nadrahthedreamer..

'Piolho Momon' Nadrah March 5 at 12:10pm
27th&28th...
sat nite w us ok....
get white dress ok and white ******** ready... ok! ;)

******** ni 18SX punya content ;p

So, that weekend, I went for dress hunting with Love. Excited! Plus I never had a white dress before and I think it is a must-have item in a girl's wardrobe my age.

It's not easy for me to find a dress that is my size and that doesn't look like a pyjama when I wear it. (Since I'm so skinny and petite). But I found this less than an hour, and I love it.. a lot!

White dress check.
White ******** check.

Availability on that day check. (I swapped the invigilation date with a friend, thank you Kak Bada, i owe u BIG time).

Now it's time to bring the sexy on!

P/S: If you want to find a budget dress, try Jalan TAR on Saturday! :) Or Curve on weekends. I don't really fancy blogshop yang I'm not sure the owner cuz I got cheated once. But some of the blogshops I love..

Ezu's purplepeppermint

Akma's HelloFashionistas

FashionTruth

And latest is BFF Maria's Cottonandcandyshop!

Didi's wedding

2010-03-11T16:54:00.000-08:00

My childhood BFF got married the other day in Dewan Komuniti Ampang Hilir. Since the hall is new, it looks really nice! If you're staying in Ampang, you might want to take a look at this hall. I especially love her pelamin!!~

And the gamelan, which made me thought of having gamelan also for my wedding. Hmphhh...

MBF - My best friend

2010-03-10T17:04:00.000-08:00

I can't wait for a new life with my hubby..

A new house..

And a new car.. Yup, you read it rite! I bought a car last Tuesday, yay! Before HIV test spend the whole morning in Sincere Cycles, Ampang.

I know it's a crazy thing to do. I'm getting married two months from now. My salary is still the same, waiting for my transcript to come out, then only can apply for the lecturer post, meaning double the salary I received currently.

The truth is I'm not quite sure if I can be comfortable with having a car to commit monthly. BUT, I just have to. I'm using Mum's car currently. And my youngest bro is going to uni this year (waiting for his result to come out kejap lagi, yup SPM result keluar today!) And I don't want him to have to share a car with the other bro. Pity him. I hardly share anything in my life since I'm the only girl, so.. I want him to have the pleasure of having his own car jugak.

So, I bought a second hand Savvy. Waiting for my loan to be approved, Insya Allah.. harap sempat before next Monday, cuz next Monday interest rate increases to 0.25%. I'm applying for Public Bank loan, the interest rate is 3.75%. Paying 10% down payment. Then have to pay some other things like the insurance, the inspection fees bla bla.. that costs another RM2K extra from the down payment. I'm using the money I saved during undergrad. Duit untuk kerja is for the wedding. Insya Allah cukup.

I will be having my Savvy by next week. Plat number is MBF, by the way. So I called him "My Best Friend". Hee! Anyway, I found my MBF here!! At mudah.my.

Mine!

HIV test

2010-03-10T16:40:00.000-08:00

Went to Klinik Kesihatan Keramat yesterday for HIV test. Went as early as 10am. But it turned out that Klinik Kesihatan buka at 8.15am rupanya, so dah ramai orang. Anyhow, we still did not manage to do our HIV test there. Sebab Klinik Kesihatan Keramat did not accept walk in rupanya, have to do an appointment first. And they accepted only 10 people a day and fully booked until 17th of March.

I applied a leave since last month. I thought we could settle everything in that one day. The HIV test and all the borang2 kahwin. We are not quite sure of the procedure, but rupenye tak boleh. We’ve encountered so much problems with these procedures, so I would better explain what I think is the simplest way to go through.

First, sebab HIV test valid for 6 months, I would suggest u and your partner go for HIV test dulu. Form HIV test u can get it at the clinic. Some klinik kesihatan, you need to do an appointment mcm kat Kajang and Keramat. But, Ampang tak payah, first come first serve. Normally HIV test is at 2 to 4pm. So around 4.40 camtu, we all dah beratur and get to be the first couple to do the HIV test. Makan masa around an hour jugak cuz the service is a bit slow. Result keluar immediately, thank God.

Result saya!! Kat tempat S tu is where they put a drop of ur blood. Then, if C it means negative. Alhamdulillah.

Then you have to buy the borang kahwin from JAIS in Shah Alam or PAID in your place. Kalau address kat IC and where you are staying currently is not the same, need to take boring permastautin. Guys fill it in first. Then hantar pada imam masjid, bring along 2 witnesses and all the related forms (HIV test, kursus kahwin, bla.. bla..) then submit to PAID nearby.

Then, I'm also not quite sure what to do. Will keep u updated after this ok?

Honeymoon!

2010-03-04T18:15:00.000-08:00

One of the thing that I really looked forward for is my honeymoon!

Was quite hesitant at first, thinking about the budgeting and all the money we need to start a new life after the big day, but then, we only get married once. So I remind myself to still have my honeymoon by imagining this particular scene from the movie ‘Click’ by Adam Sandler. The scene when Sandler ran to his son despite of him being sick just to tell the son to go to the honeymoon with her wife.

If ever there’s a place in this world (other than Makkah and Madinah) that I would so love to visit, it would definitely be Egypt. I wanted to go there for as long as I could remember. From when I was a little kid, when my Dad would read his geek book and I fell in love with the pyramid. For when I was a teenager had a serious obsession towards King Tut and Cleopatra. For when I am an adult now, setting a reminder in my phone to remind me that the story of the Pharaoh will appear in Discovery channel in half an hour and shouted to my brothers, “No one touch the tv, I want to watch Discovery!”

But, to be realistic, I can’t go there for honeymoon! Honeymoon is supposed to be in a romantic place, with nothing to do but lazing around and relax. If I were to go to Egypt, I would have a sleepless night and just went to all the places and indulge myself with all the geeky knowledge that I would bet bore Love.

So, anyway.. Love said he wanted an island. He wanted to do an island hopping and all, but he did not want to go to Indonesia. I have no idea why. He hated Bali. Which I was more than happy to agree, cuz I always had a goose bump when it came to Indonesia. Maybe cuz of the tsunami thingy and the earthquake in Padang recently? I don’t know.

He suggested Perhentian. And I was not really psyched with the idea. I don’t really fancy beach. I don’t know how to swim. Plus my dad loves fishing, and we used to always follow him to all sorts of beach until one really scary incident happened to our family once that made all of us.. kinda stopped looking forward for a holiday by the beach.

So.. BFF Maria suggested Langkawi. I’ve never been there before. But I think it’s a good idea. Love can have his beach there and I can have my geeky research on Mahsuri. Plus they have underwater world, rite?

So, we’ll be heading to Langkawi on 26th May and November 2010 to Egypt!!!~ Yay. Luckily MATTA fair is just around the corner. 12th to 14th May in PWTC! Joms!

Finalizing guests list

2010-03-01T18:00:00.000-08:00

Phewwww... Finally we are able to finalise our guests list. One of the hardest thing to do actually.

Both Love and I are allowed to invite only around 450 friends. And we found it quite devastating to choose only close friends to be there. But, it's okay.. :)

First step now, is with the facebook invitation, to get the RSVP and address. Then, to find the address of friends without facebook. Next step is to pass the card either by hand or by mail.

Currently inviting friends batch by batch through facebook invitation. Starting with childhood and high school friends, then to uni friends.

My dearest friends, pelase do RSVP and drop in your address k? Thank you very much!

Official photographer!

2010-03-01T17:47:00.000-08:00

Now that I've paid the 50% deposit, I am happy to announce our official photographer and videographer for the big day...

Non other than the newly wed couple..

Ariff Aris and Khalidah!!~

One of my fav, from the website.

Really looking forward to work with them.

And a huggggeeeeeeeeeee thanks to Eleanor and Melly for suggesting!

And here's the criteria I looked for in a videographer which I found them all in both of them:

Photos : Absolutely gorgeous, one of my fav.
Editing : I don't fancy too much editing, and they understand just what i need.
Professionalism : They have whatever it takes.
Price : Suits my budget, and I'm happy for it.
Bonus point : Two videographers, a man and a woman. I always feel more secure with a woman's touch!

Booked them for 22nd and 23rd of May. For both solemnization and reception! Alhamdulillah.

Room :)

2010-02-28T17:07:00.000-08:00

Bought some paints for my room! Decided to go with purple again, only a darker tone. Also paints for the door, changing from light brown, to somewhat darker.

Also bought this mosquito-net at Ikea for RM39.90 after suggested by BFF Maria! Still need to buy some flowers for decoration and need to drill the ceiling.

Hope it turns out to be something like this.

And bought some pot pourri for the room. Bau peach! Bestt!!!~

Things to buy next:
Bantal
Alas kaki
Stand fan

Hmm.. What else?

Inai

2010-02-24T23:04:00.000-08:00

Owh.. So this is how they wear inai so that it is not able to smudge.

Okay.. Okay.. They put masking tape like this rupanya..

Anyways.. Ada anyone has any idea macamana nak merahkan lagi inai? Share k, please? TQ!

My fave doorgift's blog!!

2010-02-23T17:23:00.000-08:00

Isn't this just gorgeous?

I love this blog a lot! --> Ole Ole Manis

From Glee, dedicated to 'Love'

2010-02-22T00:57:00.000-08:00

I could have danced all night!
I could have danced all night!
And still have begged for more.

I could have spread my wings
And done a thousand things I've never done before.
I'll never know What made it so exciting;
Why all at once My heart took flight.

I only know when he
Began to dance with me
I could have danced, danced, danced all night!

P/S: Hope to dance with you on our wedding day :)

Thank you sticker

2010-02-21T17:07:00.000-08:00

Honestly, I kind of having a bit of cold feet last Wednesday. I didn't expect that coming, so.. I was quite surprised when I had it. On the contrary, I absolutely think it's normal to have it.

I talked to BFF Qdin about it. I am again so thankful for having such mesmerizing friends all over the world, and I now know that it indeed grows stronger over the longest distance. He called me all the way from Aussie and tried to comfort me, I felt better but, the feeling just lingers deep inside me and it just wouldn't go!

But yesterday, we had sooo many things to do. We picked up my dress, sent his baju Melayu to taylor, went to survey for door gifts, went to a wedding, met our band and the list goes on. Was a hectic day, then we dropped by to Ampang Point, first floor to do our thank you sticker.

1500 pieces, ready in 10 minutes and cost us 5cents each. And when they were ready, when I saw our name.. "Shaharil ♥ Asyikin"... I had this emotional feeling that I was not quite sure how to express. I knew Love felt the same. Cuz he said, "Wow! We are finally getting married kan Sayang?"

Like... FINALLY. And when he said that, I imagined this bottle in my office.

Separuh heart shape.. Love had the other half. He gave me on the third year we were together. And he said, "Someday when we get married, we can then have the whole heart and put this in our house."5 years ago. And we are almost there. Everything I ever dreamed of. Everything WE ever dreamed of.

I looked back at Love, he was smiling dengan mata bersinar2 macam anime. And that was it. That was when I touched my feet and.. it was warm again. :)

Baju for reception siap!

2010-02-21T16:58:00.000-08:00

Went to Selayang to pick up my baju yesterday. And was surprised by the beauty.. and the price, waaayyyyyyy beyond my budget (T_T) But, serious cantik and kemas.

Only that, it's too.. urm how to say that.. sexy. Haha!

Not only it accentuates every curves, but also it is kinda.. hurm.. how to say this. It'd be better if i tell you how the whole family reacted. I brought back the dress and wore it in front of my parents+grandparents+auntys+Love, and the reaction I got was..

"Oh my God!!" with eyes wide open. My mum said, "nak pengsan Ibu tengok". And obviously Love's reaction was no more than a smile and said, "cantik!"

So, that must be bad, right? I think I should return this dress back to my taylor to see what she can do to make it looks more decent.

Phew.. Alhamdulillah I sent it to the taylor earlier, still have time to alter :)

My first wedding gift!~

2010-02-20T01:44:00.000-08:00

My very first wedding gift from my bridesmaid and my BFF, Maria!

Not one, but two pairs of shoes from Primavera for my wedding!

We went to Mid Valls this morning. BFF Maria wanted to buy me a shoe from Charles and Keith. But we couldn't find anything that really caught our interests. And so.. we went from one store to another till we found this!

Suke saaaaaaannnnnnnnnggggggggggggaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatttttttttttttttttttttttt!!~ Thank you, Maria!

For reception, perhaps?

For aqad, definitely!

My first Primavera, VERY comfortable and it has my size!

Kak Lin + Shafaryll

2010-02-18T17:50:00.001-08:00

I so like the theme colour.. Fuschia!

And.... I really love the caterer. The same with Esan's caterer. Langat catering!

I love their pose!~

2010-02-15T22:12:00.000-08:00

Taken from Rintis Images

Taken from AriffAris.com

Taken from a friend fb. I don't know who they are, but I just love the pose.

The two videographers I love!

2010-02-15T22:03:00.000-08:00

I now have a videographer for my wedding!

Now here are my top two fav videographers..

CST :) --> here

Jabbe Production (doing BFF Maria's wedding) --> here

Can you guess which one is mine?

Bakul for doorgifts + flower petals

2010-02-15T21:56:00.000-08:00

Was busy doing this during the CNY holiday..

Girls! Do remember to decorate the bakul for your doorgifts and flower petals. Small stuff like this, some people tend to forget, so I remind you again, ingat k!

I need a videographer please!

2010-02-11T17:41:00.001-08:00

I badly need a videographer. A good one. Please! The one I want is already booked on that day. Pleaseeee... any suggestion?

Currently waiting for quotation from CST.

My hantaran (DIY)

2010-02-11T17:29:00.000-08:00

7 downs.. and 2 more to go..

A basket for fruits!

Chocolate (inside the basket is a book just for show)

Shirt and Tie

Wallet and Belt

Watch

Specs

Cake

Not bad for a first timer, kan? Kan?

This week, I'm going to try do my own sireh junjung. Alang2 menyeluk pekasam!

Inai pengantin

2010-02-10T18:10:00.000-08:00

One of the most important thing on your wedding day is the henna! I especially like this design..

From here

Here are some of my fav websites I've found online that provide the henna services:

Sakina
Dayu's design
Revhenna
Sali

But, the truth is.. I don't really fancy henna. I don't really fancy inai at all in that matter. Let me tell you why..

Reason number 1: The last time i put the inai on, it didn't suit my skin tone well. Merah gileeeee and I looked like a witch, seriously, my friends were making fun of it, and it took one whole semester to get rid of it!! Look at the pic below.

Please, tell me I'm overreacting!

Reason number 2: I did henna once, and I developed a serious allergy reaction on my skin! (I have a sensitive skin, btw). And my skin looked like "ular bersalin kulit" as according to my parents.

Reason number 3: My dad hates henna.

Reason number 4: Again, may i emphasize, it takes months to get rid of it.

I took quite some times to think about it, then I decided.. Man, I'm getting married. Once in a life time. A little inai doesn't hurt.

BUT.. but.. there's always a but.. I refused to do all the flowery funny design on my skin, just a normal Malay traditional inai would do. Like this..

Mum thought I'm being too old-fashioned, but I told her take it or leave it, please. And since Dad didn't like the whole inai idea thingy, he backed me up on this matter. Thanks, Dad :)

I asked around some shops that can do that simple traditional inai and how much would it cost them. Mostly the price is about the same with having a design because of the transportation and all. So, I decided to do it myself. (Not myself actually, asked for my Aunt's help. TQ, Aunty).

Another problem.. mum asked, "Mana nak cari daun inai zaman2 mcm ni? Siapa nak tumbuk apa semua?" I said, I'll do it. So, I asked around Kg Pandan to look for daun inai, but did not manage to get it. Plus, I'm not really sure how daun inai looks like. ;p

Then, my Indian friend suggested me to buy the powder type in Brieckfields or Jalan Masjid India. I said, I don't want the powder, the colour is black, I want red. Then, she said, you can ask from the salesperson, they have it in black and some in red.

So, Love and I went for Inai hunting in Jalan Masjid India. Got a bit dissappointed at first since most of the salesperson were not sure which is black, which is red. Until, we found one proper shop which the salesperson really knew inside out of the henna.

So if you're looking for henna powder, this brand have it in red!

Cost me RM7, for all three items

Whee!! :) Hope it turns out nice on my skin :)

smile

2010-02-07T23:20:00.000-08:00

.3 months and 2 weeks.

.Which makes it around 14 weeks.

.And 98 days.

.How time flies..

.And yet it feels so slow.

Will my hair grow long enough on my wedding day.

2010-02-07T23:15:00.000-08:00

I want my hair to be this long on my wedding day...

Cantiknye Aaina, I envy her..

Kak Irda's wedding

2010-02-07T22:56:00.000-08:00

If you love red roses, you should take a look at this!!

Sukeee sangat flower stand dia! Take a closer look..

And the food is super nice! This is the katerer..

I can still remember the taste of the Nasi Goreng Kampung! Sedapnyeeee... (T_T) Highly recommended if your number of guests is less than 1000.

And look who's there..

Amir version Botak!! Sooo cute. Mama Ikeen misses u, Amir!

Baju.

2010-02-01T16:41:00.000-08:00

I have a lotttt of work to do today. In two days time, I'll be participating an exhibition in PWTC (the admission is free, come and give us a support --> click here). I wish to get a gold for this competition, so I put my 100% efforts, but now I'm not really in the mood to work.

I hate the fact that when I came early to work but that stups punch card was not working. Ugh! And I hate sangat sangat the annoying sound from outside my room yang memang merosakkan mood to work in the morning. And I hate it when I finished marking and documented the marks, that these lazybums just came and submitted their lab reports like 1 week plus late! And even worse, when u put a book rack outside your room for them to put their reports, they still slide them under your door and you accidentally stepped in the reports once u enter your room!

Ugh! So now I'm trying to cheer myself up.

Last weekend I went to Nilai (again). My parents were there too. They bought curtains and the carpets and so on for the house.

Love and I bought some fabrics for our pengapit. Theme: Greyish Silver. For BFF Maria (bridesmaid), I bought her a really nice chiffon!

My parents thought of buying silver coloured Baju Melayu and Kebaya, but they couldn't find the tone of silver that they liked (Not too many options for silver coloured Satin in Nilai, surprisingly), so they ended up buying black.

My mum's Kebaya

Black Baju Melayu for Dad, Alif and Hadi

I have faith :)

2010-01-31T17:01:00.000-08:00

I am as My servant thinks I am.

I am with him when he makes mention of Me.

If he makes mention of Me to himself,

I make mention of him to Myself;

and if he makes mention of Me in an assembly,

I make mention of him in an assembly better than it.

And if he draws near to Me an arm's length,

I draw near to him a fathom's length.

And if he comes to Me walking,

I go to him at speed.
[Buhkari (also by Muslim, at-Tirmidhi and Ibn-Majah)]

A piece of advice from a guy friend whom i truly care about..

2010-01-31T07:48:00.000-08:00

I am sooooo happy that BFF Qdin is back. I mean, not for good.. For a while until Valentine's and I'm happy to share some insights with him.

I've always think he is one heck of a wise guy. We've had a lot of intelligent talks and everytime after our conversation, I felt more mature than before.

Today, he shared something with me that I'm willing to share with ALL the girls out there. An advice on relationship from him that I will forever treasure. Let's consider these situations..

Situation 1

One day I was online and saw BFF Qdin was online. We haven't talked to each other for quite some times due to my hectic schedule and it was one of the critical time where we really needed to talk about something. Got so excited that I buzzed him straight away..

Me: Buzz.
Qdin: OMG. A buzz is all I get?

Situation 2

When Love arrived in his office and sent me a message..

Love (exact same message): Sayangku the lecturer yang comel!! I dah sampai office k? Rinduuuu!! Love u sayang!!

My default typical message to him EVERYTIME i reached the parking at my office..

Me: Dh smpai. Love u.

Situation 3

When I left something in his car. And Love was in the meeting.

Me: Sayang, did i left my butterfly hair clip in your car?
Love: Ada2. Busy sikit sekarang. Love u.

When he left somthing in my car and I was in the weeting.

Love: Sayang, sorry kacau u. Ada tak i tertinggal my thumbdrive dalam kereta u semalam?
Me: Ada.

................................

That was some simple examples yang I could think of. Sounds familiar?

According to BFF Qdin, girls do not have any effort in typing a message. Is it true? (He should know better cuz he was an outging person)

My true nature would say, "Nooooooooo......." and start to find some excuses cuz I'm good at doing it.

But it's Qdin that I was talking to. He knew me better kots, so I just laughed and reminisce about all these stuff and said "yeah.. I was such a lazy lame fiancee.."

What more to compare with Love and BFF Qdin which both have been given such talents to write ever so beautiful messages without that much effort.

"I rasa kalau u buat extra effort to think before u write messages to Kapal, he would love u more kots," Qdin later told me.

Well.. I think so too.. And Love did agree with him. So, as of today.. I would promise to put an effort to write. Thank youuuu, Qdin! :) And welcome home!! Home is soooo much better than Aussie!

Auwwwwww......

2010-01-31T07:40:00.000-08:00

Look at this!! Untuk aqad nanti, batal air sembahyang!!

Auwwww.. *Speechless* Thank you 'Love'!

Cantik kan? With the two gorgeous diamonds dekat huruf 'i'. Sukeeeeee sangatttt!!!!~

Marhaban group in Seri Serdang

2010-01-27T16:31:00.000-08:00

Last Sunday, went to Baby Amir's Aqiqah in Seri Petaling. See, Baby Amir is my high school best friend's newborn baby. Hafiz got married November last 2 years with his lovely wife, Ain. Aqiqah was held in his mother's house and just before the event started, they had Kak Irda's aqad (Hafiz's elder sister) in the same place.

So, anyway.. here's baby Amir's latest picture. Sangat gorgeous.

Asyik tidur je Amir ni!!

Anyways, I was looking for a Marhaban group for my majlis khatam Al-Quran for quite some times. Since I've just moved in to Equinne, I hardly know anyone in the housing area. I asked the boutique, they wanted RM500 and it was.. to be frank, slightly higher than my budget. So, i thought of using the Marhaban group from my old housing area, Pandan. But to transport them from KL to Equinne costs around RM300 (using bus) and so, it wans't the most brilliant idea la kan..

I asked and googled around for Marhaban group in my area, but I couldn't find any. Thought of asking the Pelitawanis group, until I met these women at Baby Amir's Aqiqah..

Marhaban group from Seri Serdang! Alhamdulillah. Memang dipermudahkan. :) The group leader is Dr. Pat's (Hafiz's mum) friend. So I met the Ustazah and did the booking straight away. The charges is ok. You've to give them travelling allowance of around RM20 per car (they have around 5 to 6 cars) and yang lain2 ikut keikhlasan hati. Email me if you need the contact number of the ustazah. My email add --> asyikin.radzi@gmail.com

That's about it for the Marhaban group. Now i wanted to show u Kak Irda's pelamin, which I found really simple and sweet.

Mama Ikeen, Uncle Kapal, Mama Sya, Papa Hafiz, Ibu Ain and Baby Amir.

Alamak! Not that clear, but this is the only picture I have..

Hey, guess who I met at Hafiz's house?

Saiful Nang from Candid Syndrome.

Saiful and his team were very professional. They wore the same black coloured Baju Melayu and u know how gorgeous their pics la kan.. I mean, siapa yang tak nak Candid Syndrome to be the photographers for their wedding, kan? But.. they were exceeding my budget like.. I don't know almost double? Sighhh...

But, anyway, I have found and booked the photographer for my wedding.

Tapi, nantilaa.. belum boleh reveal ;p

House deco

2010-01-25T01:48:00.000-08:00

This week, we started to get the house done for the big day. Agenda for the week is to paint the gate.

There's still so much to do. Need to repaint the living room. And my room. Need to buy the curtain. Need to do some decoration for the house. Banyak nyee.. But, I'm not in charge of any of that. So.. now what i need to focus on is my hantaran, 2 down and 8 more to go. :)

Ribbons and hantaran

2010-01-21T19:38:00.000-08:00

I'm very determined to do the hantaran myself this time. At least, if it doesn't turn out ok, i won't blame anyone for it.

First thing to decide is the theme. I want black and silver. And as simple as possible. I don't really fancy lace, satin looks more elegant for me.

So, I went for ribbon-hunting for the past few weeks. First to Nilai, but i don't quite like the ribbon collections there. Then, to Jalan TAR (Sin Yin, Bunga Reben, etc.). I quite like Sin Yin. Fah Lean in Balakong also got my interest, but.. the best shop for ribbon-hunting is surprisingly KK Home Deco Jalan Ampang. It has a lot of silver coloured ribbons and flowers. Sukee..

The ribbons I bought

After I got everything I need for the hantaran, here is my first attempt of decorating the basket..

I don't really have any specific idea in mind, but I kinda like how it turned out to. Though of course, my mother thought it's funny and my brothers agreed with one simple word on the hantaran, "Gothic!"

Still, i did this myself, man! Tq youtube, for teaching me how to do the ribbons. Now 1 down, 8 to go!!

Melting

2010-01-21T08:01:00.000-08:00

After work today..

He went all the way from Rawang..

To stop by at Murni SS2 to buy me "Nasi Goreng Tomyam"

But Murni is closed today, so he looked for another branch of Murni..

Then went all the way to Equinne..

Park next to my car, and waited until I finished work at 10pm..

Just to say Congratulations on finishing my thesis!!!

I ♥ u a lot, k Sayang. A lot a lot a lot.

Cabaran bertunang?

2010-01-18T01:17:00.000-08:00

I've always heard of people saying "bertunang ni banyak cabarannya". But, I've always wondered, betul ke? Cabaran macamana? Being in a relationship itself bukan dah memang banyak cabaran ke?

But, now that I'm engaged, I got a better understanding in that statement.

I personally think it's a final test for you to think whether that someone is really meant for you. Sometimes, you had a second thought. All the mistakes your partner did in the past came right in front of your eyes and you wondered, "Am i really going to marry this person?" Syukur Alhamdulillah, I haven't had the second thought as for now. And despite of all the mistakes he did on the past, I'm more than happy to have find him being a better fiance for me. I hope I'm being a better person for him too.

Sometimes, you fight because of the wedding preparation. Of course, there's a lot to do, and u won't always agree on the same thing all the time. And u argued, and since u're tired with the preparation and stuffs, small fights can turn into big ones, and it's normal.

And sometimes, as a guy, he always take things for granted. When you asked to help you with the wedding preparation, he put it on hold until the very last minutes. He couldn't care less about it. Again, it's a norm and guys are just born to be kind of ignorant. Sometimes you might think, "Am i the only one committing?" I personally think the guy cares, buy GUYS, PLEASE BE SENSITIVE ABOUT THIS K.

Even worse at times, to all my guy friends who is reading this, please take note.. At times, guys got so scared to commit.. And over some small arguements, they turned to other woman. Konon nak fling2 for the last time. Then sangkut, like this very dear friend of mine. Nasib baik kahwin jugak. Buttt still, it did break our heart into pieces dengan attitude lelaki2 mcm ni.

If you are preparing about ur wedding preparations and encountered such problems, please do know it is perfectly normal. Do not overreact. Don't get panic. There's always solution k. Dear friend, Dida even has to postpone her wedding sebab overreact. But, postpone takpeee...

Just before I write this, I received a news from a dear friend... Yang bertunang a day after me. Yang her engagement I did review here. Among the words I could grasp (sebelum fikiran melayang sbb terkejut)..

Now I'm single. Sedih. I think this is what best for me.

Sigh.. Just 5 more months to go dearest, fikir baik2 k.

Jalan TAR

2010-01-15T17:51:00.000-08:00

Going to Jalan TAR after this. Needs to list down what to do and what to buy:

Drop by to First Impression to give measurement for our stage (pelamin).
Hantar baju Melayu Sayang untuk tempah for Aqad and reception.
Buy some of the stuff for hantaran (flowers, ribbon lace and grey satin)
Buy some glue.
Bunga manggar (perhaps lagi 3).
Inai.
Permanent pen that we can use to design dekat glass.
Bakul besar untuk letak doorgifts (Today is Saturday, so Pak Cik jual bakul cantik kat Jalan TAR ada till evening)

What else? What else?! Please don't make me forget anything else this time.

Rozek!! - Step by step guide

2010-01-13T16:38:00.000-08:00

Last week, when I went to Nilai 3, I totally fell in love with that place. And would so love to spend my whole day there one more time please! Betul kata Reza, Nilai 3 is the most rambang mata place ok!

The collections of Rozek are endless. The curtains memang sangat cantik!! The paperbags pon sangat variety! Also bunga pahar (Tapi the best thing about bunga pahar is that I found one exactly like mine, only more expensive. So, still.. Yay! Tak sia2 survey like mad)!!! Butttt... Butttt... (There's always a BUT), the ribbons and flowers for the hantaran is a bit off. Urmm.. Not so up-to-date, well at least for me. Because I went to Fah Lean in Balakong and I think that one is better kots.

Anyway, I bought a lot of stuff there sampai penuh kereta. Paperbags, mugs, candy bags, bunga manggar, bla.. bla.. Banyak.. but today, specifically I want to talk about Rozek!!

I bought my Rozek at a shop called Thank Q in Nilai 3. It is the type that is not yet attached with the pins because when both of us looked at the Rozek, we had this kind of feeling that, "Gosh! this is the one!" So, sanggup untuk spend some time to put the pins and all.

Cantik k! Black and silver!!! I sukeeee...

So yesterday, a miracle happened when I went home around 8+pm. I was tired since I have class from 2-8pm. Thought of hitting the bathroom, had my dinner and sleeeppp, but as I entered the house, I saw my whole family in the living room with Rozek everywhere! My parents helped bought the glue and the dawai and all, so my brothers and my parents helped me do the Rozek, all 70 pieces of them. Siap semalam jugak! Sangat sweet!

So, here's some suggestion on how to do the Rozek.

What you need:

1. Flower for the Rozek

2. Pins

3. Dawai yang colour green tu.

4. Gam tembak

5. Duit kertas

Steps:

1. First, lipat duit RM1 like this..

Ini my Dad main hentam main2 origami, kire lipat from the corner of duit.

2. Then, the second RM 1, fold it in such a way that dia jadi something mcm kipas, stapler in the middle.

Ni, my mum dapat idea dalam magazine.

3. Then, ikat both of duit RM1 dengan dawai. RM1 dalam Step 2 letak in between RM1 dalam Step 1 so that it will look like this..

Ikat gune playar, done by my youngest bro, Hadi.

4. The whole thing now, you ikat to the pin like this..

Make sure ketat and kemas

5. Lastly, gam everything to the flower..

And walla!! Rozek dah settle! Alhamdulillah :)

So Dad's comment after everthing was done: "Macam tak naik seri je, Kakak. Why on earth must it be black and silver again? Tak meriah."

Jawapan dalam hati: "Tak meriah? Dad, our definition of meriah has 27 years of gaps in between k."

Whatever, I ♥ you, Mum, Dad, Alif, Hadi. You guys are definitely the best.

Live band!

2010-01-11T01:14:00.001-08:00

Yay!! They're going to perform for my wedding!! Alhamdulillah!

Evert, to listen to their music, click here

Evert, picture taken from their album

Ehh.. Sayang!!! The guy on the left nampak macam u jeeee, only a bit younger ;p

Anyways, dear readers, I'm thinking of songs to be played by the live band. Any idea do let me know. TQ!!!

More tips on how I saved for my wedding

2010-01-09T22:50:00.000-08:00

I cut a lot on my shopping spree. I seriously mean, a lot.

I used to buy new clothes every month, and every now and then bought new handbags or shoes (or even stupid-but-cheering-up-gift for myself like some cute accessories for my room or car), so now I slowed down to half the rate.

Still, I need new outfit every now and then for my hang out session. And I need a new outfit to work to light up my spirit during the lowest moment. So I figured to do this..

With Nonee, Nadrah and Myra on Nadrah's Birthday at Marche, The Curve.

Buy an outfit that can be used for work and hang out at the same time. Saves a lot.

Not that I'm that fashionable to give advices on what to wear, in fact I'm the total opposite. (Just look at the stylo+hot chicks around me in the pic)

Just thought to share some insights. I think if I wear loose belt kat my waist and pakai slacks and sanggul my hair, and put some pearl jewelleries on, I should look more like a lecturer with the outfit.. kots? Then, I'm ready to work.

Sigh.. I need help from all the fashion advisors out there, please! Of course, I need something decent to work, kalau pakai hot sanagt nanti, student tak boleh concentrate! ;p

Currently, learning a lot from irenelim.com, and I so want this shirt, maybe in grey.

Wedding and more wedding..

2010-01-09T22:03:00.000-08:00

Three weeks in a row of wedding and heading to the fourth next week.

I'm tired.. both emotionally and physically. Went out around 10 am yesterday, headed to Nilai 3, borong sampai penuh kereta. Then, rempit all the way to Tampin for Dida's wedding. Sesat a few times and reached her home around 4+ pm. Too late, but still got to spend a lot of time chatting with the bride. Around 5+, drove all the way to my home while 'Love' had a nap. Had Nadrah's Daisiesfromadreamer Surprise Party at Curve, 7.30pm.

Unfortunately, I arrived home around 7+. So, changed my outfit (just grab whatever I could) and just manage to apply the foundation on and headed to Curve. Reached at Marche around 9pm. Had dinner, then around 11pm got a message from Love's brother that his Uncle passed away. So rushed back home, arrived around 12.30 night and that was how I called it a day. Today, rushed to settle my work before a new week begins.

Got tired both physically and mentally. And wish I could for once disappear for a day.

So friends, if I barely keep in touch recently, I hope u understand what I'm going through, please bare with me. I'll try my best to sort my life out, then I'll sort out my social life k.

I haven't even update BFF Maria's picture on her reception at Penang. I attached here some of her photos, and Dida's from her wedding yesterday at Tampin.

With BFF Maria

Brown suits her best :)

Pelamin

BFF Maria's bedroom in her in-law's house

I ♥ this a lot

In Tampin for Dida's wedding with Fadhil's and pregnant wife who's wedding I reviewed here.

P/s: See how Dida plays around with her long wedding dress to make her picture looks more elegant. I love that :)

May i please have my outdoor wedding photoshoot here?

2010-01-07T16:48:00.000-08:00

I used to love Penang because of the food. I uber-love the Pasembor+Ketam there.

But, now that the price of the food in the island starts to get ridiculous, I'd so much prefer to makan2 in Seberang. So, on my last visit to Penang (for BFF Maria's reception on the guy's side), Love and I were clueless on what to do in the island that morning. Suddenly I remembered how Dad always love to bring us to Botanical Garden when we were still so small. And I grew fond of that place.

Knowing that 'Love' is such a Putera Lilin, I felt quite guilty to suggest the idea. Plus many years have passed by, and I'm not sure if it's still as beautiful as I remembered. But, we went anyway. And yes, it wasn't as what I've imagined...

Unless if you take whatever i'm imagining and multiply it by 10!!

I so heart this place. If you live in Penang, maybe u can take this place into consideration. And if your wedding dress is red, memang laaaa sangat cantik. Here are some picture taken by Love, me and the timer.

I so love this pokok, so perfectly shaped, like a drawing or something.

'Love' had a thing with this scenery, all the brown coloured rocks, and the various tones of green for the trees and him in his red liverpool shirt, it looks so lively.

I so love the waterfall. Seriously there are so many little fishes there.

We've had a lot of fun there

I took this picture and I like it a lot. Lol!

Okayy, so we might not be the best photographer in the world. Maybe you'd say.. "Ala biasa je.." You have to just experience the place. Go the the top of the hill, there's a place to sit there. Sit with your partner there silently, u'll see the leaves fall from the trees like it's autumn, the insects sing a continuos peaceful song and u'll never want to go home. Seriously.

I'm not a romantic person. But this is the place where I am happy to be one. I heart Kebun Bunga!! (That's the name of the place in Malay, and i know.. Burok gils! Taman Bunga is so much cuter.)

Kedai hantaran murah di Rawang?

2010-01-03T04:08:00.000-08:00

Last Friday I went all over pekan Rawang cuz my cousin said the stuff there was cheap. I wanted to buy some Rozek and paperbags.

Merapu betul. Siapa cakap murah???? Geramnye.

Dahla semua barang old fashion, tak murah pulak tu. And the service, lagila tak payah cakap.

Kedai mana yang murah, tolongla bagitau. I went all over Pekan Rawang kots.

So, kesimpulannya, I still like Jalan TAR the best. Kat Balakong pun ada warehouse murah, nama dia Fah Lian. Lagila murah nak compare dengan Rawang.

But next Saturday, I'm going to Nilai 3. Maybe lagi murah. Will keep u updated. Doalah sempat pergi sana, cuz up until today, stillt ak dapat singgah CM. See ya!

Tips to find the best caterer for Malay wedding

2009-12-31T19:52:00.000-08:00

(Put together from multi resources and own ideas)

Make sure u like the menu (As for my case, I changed from Nasi Beriyani to Nasi Minyak cuz my mum wants it to be more Malay-like)
Keep in mind sometimes there are service charge (meaning that for pelayan or transportation u have to pay extra. I've encountered during my engagement, even different charges for pinggan mangkuk)
Make sure it is within ur budget, of course
The best way to find, is when u've already tasted the food in ur friend's wedding (sometimes masa food-testing and masakan yang betul2 on that day tak sama. We've experienced this during our graduation dinner when I was the committee. I can give u the name of the caterer if u want.) Which reminds me..
Make sure u have a food-testing session
How many servers will be at the event (Kalau sikit sangat, tak terlayan guest yg dtg at peak hour)
Can they provide wedding cake?
What kind of deposit do u have to pay before the event? (Preferably, try to find yang 50-50.)
Are they established enough? Look at their portfolio or asked for all the pictures of events they've catered before. (If they hesitated, forget it)
The service! Some caterers (esp the one established and overrated) are so arrogant, I couldn't stand.
Make sure they provided extra food. (During my friend's wedding, there are slightly more guests than expected and the food is not enough. This is crucial!)
What is the refund procedure like.
Before u make any decision, discuss with ur parents cuz they know a lot better than u r.

From:

Eventcateringideas

ideamarketers

weddingchannel

If u have any other suggestions, please do not hesitate to add. Tq in advance.

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Caterer confirmed!

2009-12-31T19:11:00.000-08:00

It's 2010 already? Yayy! Its the year I'm getting married la kan?! Whee!!

Yesterday was the last year of 2009. We celebrated our New Year's Eve by playing Partini at Nadrah Daisiesfromthedreamer. Buttt.. before that, we have settled one of the most important thing for our big day..

CATERER! Yay!

I've surveyed for quite a number of caterers and I really fall in love with this one --> Marhaba Catering and Events

Why I like this caterer?

1. I think they're established. From the first time I started to buy Pengantin magazine, they have the advertisement there without fail.

2. The price is affordable and among the cheapest! RM 11 585 for 1500 guests.

3. The taste. Surprisingly with the price, sedap k!

4. Went to their office yesterday, and it was convincing!

5. My parents and Love's parents love it.

Ethics

2009-12-29T18:51:00.002-08:00

There's a thin line between inspired by and copied by (even worse, replaced by)..

I'm a Master student that have been taught by my supervisors (and my acting supervisors that I appreciate a lot) about the importance of citing and referencing other people's work. About how low plagiarism is in a research world.

I did plagiarise when I was in undergrad for my quizzes and assignments. And I was not proud of that, seriously. I learned that now and I hope I never did plagiarize anything in my thesis or my work. Minta dijauhkan, Ya Allah.

I have a serious issue in people plagiarizing my work. My simulations are all discrete, I worked a year and a half, day and night, only Allah knows. I slept with my problem and I woke up excitedly to solve the coding, only to discover it was not working and slept again with the problem, which u can't imagine how hard my brain worked everyday. So, I did not appreciate when my vendor requested for my coding and my documentation, which I think was very unethical, cuz he did not even dare to go through my supervisor. So, agak membengangkan.

But that's about work. Now it's about wedding.

I've been inspired by this one pretty lady that I've never met called LadyNoe. Because of her blog, I felt inspired to blog about my wedding. She's original and I really looked up to her.

I read her entry recently about this one particular wedding card company Mediagraphy plagiarized her wedding card that she designed herself (she's a designer) and copyright reserved as theirs without LadyNoe's knowledge. And I think that is so unethical and unfair. Memang takde originality, go get a life please!

The same goes with my wedding preparation. I worked extremely hard for this. I brainstormed like mad. I fought with 'Love' and mum like nobody else's business. So, when stuff like this happens to me, it gets kind of.. u know.. frustrating.

She reminds me of the west side story :)

2009-12-29T02:14:00.001-08:00

This is the post that I've been itching to type for so long! BFF Maria's wedding!

Me and "beautiful Maria". ♥

Arrived at her house around 8+ in the morning to see her looking ever so gorgeous with the make up and solemnization's dress that with no doubt looked sangat cantik! Maria has absolutely no problem with her dresses. She chose the perfect dress for her tunang, sweetest kurung for aqad and princess-like Kebaya Jawa for wedding. Suke sangat!

Hazim arrived around 9+ and with sekali lafaz, they were already..

HUSBAND AND WIFE!

Our BFF from high school, Sya and Shary were there. And I've had splendid times with them. Happy to share some happiness from the newly wed. I especially like the deco in her house and her room. Simple yet beautiful, and done by themselves, no interior designer needed. I could not capture all the photos for I was too busy enjoying myself, but here are some that I managed to take..

Tempat nikah.

Hantaran, top from her (done by her mum), bottom from him (hantar kedai)

Around 2+, after her final touch up by the Mak Andam (who did a splendidly wonderful job), we went to the hall. I love her idea of having her two little cousins; a girl to throw the flower petals and a boy to blow the bubbles, both of them were wearing baju kurung and baju melayu. Sangat comel, cuz normally they were wearing coats and dresses ala2 mak salleh la konon. Hehe..

Ni kanak2 comel

Ni pelamin cantik!

I like her pelamin. Well, she knows that. I like her doorgift (gambar terlupa nak capture), bahulu gulung in a website I suggested. Dahla sedap tak ingat. I love her hantaran. I love her photographer and videographer. They are the coolest. I will ask her which one and I will keep all of you updated. I love everything, especially the bride.. :)

Cekal-ians (missing Fai, and the bride herself)

.Beautiful.

Interviewed by the coolest videographer on earth!

P/S : Darling Maria, congrats. I'm happy for you in such a way that words could not expressed. I wish you all the best. And babe!! I'm coming to Penang!!

Bunga tangan

2009-12-29T01:50:00.000-08:00

I know it's not a big deal. It's just a bouquet of flower you'll hold throughout your wedding.

But, aaaaawwwww.. look at that one. Cantik kan? I so want this flower, thank you. But in purple and white kays?

My most fav wedding hantaran is here!

2009-12-25T22:57:00.000-08:00

I woke up yesterday morning and the first thing I remembered was my conversation with Qdin before i fell asleep. He called in the airport and he said, "I call u balik, I dah kat counter ni". And that was our last conversation cuz he did not manage to call back. Sigh..

I had a mixed of emotion yesterday. BFF Maria is getting married in two days time and Qdin is leaving to Aussie. It feels like seeing my two most fav BFF in the world growing up almost instantly.

But yesterday was the day BFF Maria khatam Al-Quran. I dropped by to her house that morning to send her cuppies made by my mum. Her relatives were already there, her house was already beautifully decorated. I couldn't beleive she's getting married this Sunday!

From her house I dropped by to Zana Fashion to send my wedding dress. Then, we dropped by to HUKM, 'Love's' uncle was in CCU. So, I accompanied his sister while he was having her Friday prayer. After Friday prayer, we had lunch and then went to visit my grandparents. Around 4+, we headed to Low Yat. Such a hectic day, in fact there were 2 more things to do on that day, but due to the heavy traffic, we could not squeeze in the time.

In Low Yat, I fell in love with the purple coloured Dell. But, Love suggested HP DV2. I've always love HP. But compared to its specs, I think HP is a bit too expensive. But 'Love' insisted cuz it was very light and beautiful, and still within his budget (he was payingf or it). After a lot of thinking, we decided to settle down for this one particular lappy in dark blue metallic!

Acer Aspire

Windows 7 Home Premium
Intel Core 2 Duo Processor
4GB DDR3 Memory
500GB HDD
3 years warranty (Dell dgn HP 1 year je)

For only RM2400!! Thank you. Such a great bargain. Dahla dark blue Metallic. Yayyy!!! Thank you, Love. I nak gune now sebab you dah gune your Gibson! ;p Heeee... Semangat nak buat research! PhD, here i come!

VIP doorgift

2009-12-23T01:30:00.000-08:00

My parents as expected, was not keen with my idea of VIP doorgift during my previous post.

They thought that thing is useless and overrated. So they suggested a mug. But a mug??!! I thought, "Hello, how uncool is that?" Then, Dad suggested to put our pictures or signatures there to make it more meaningful. And suddenly the mug idea seems kinda cool. Haha!

Well, I talked to BFF Maria about it. And she suggested this one particular website, kugeeku.com. Cantik!!

At RM2.50/pcs.

So.. This Friday, I'm going to Central Market to survey for the mug (and other possible item to be customized). Will update soon, till then!

:)

2009-12-22T03:23:00.000-08:00

Email from my supervisor and my boss to my department...

Salam Shbt,

Our heartiest congratulations to one of our new tutors, Nurul Asyikin Mohd Radzi for passing her MEE(structure A) viva today.
From start of her masters to viva = 18 months, excellent achievement and example Syikin!!!

WRgds
Shidah

Yes, you got it right.

As of 4.15 pm today, I've just passed my Master Viva. Alhamdulillah. One of the biggest thing i aim to do before I got married.

Hantaran in Gray

2009-12-21T03:23:00.000-08:00

I've had a depressing week last week.

I had a fight with Mum. I lost my key. I missed a two weddings (silap haribulan). I had a fight with 'Love'. I had a lot of work that I slept at 2am during the weekend.

Despite of that, I really am anticipating for this week. I ended my disaster week with a nice hang out session with Qdin, Mel, Pyha and 'Love' at Ole-Ole Bali, Pyramid.

Qdin is a very dear friend to me. In fact, he is the best guy friend I ever had. Let me rephrase that.. He is the best guy friend one could ever have. He is leaving to Aussie to further his Master this Thursday. I'm not mentally prepared for that... I can't imagine what life's gonna be after this. ;'(

If it's not because Qdin is leaving to Aussie, this week would be one heck of a wonderful week for me. Why? First is because BFF Maria is geting married this week! Then, tomorrow, I am going to pass my Master Viva finally (Ameen!)

Anyway, was browsing through an engagement album of one of the IT tutor in my uni. And.. I fall in love with her hantaran!

Stylo k!

Who would've thought gray would have such effects? Sukeee... Nak hantaran gray please!

Some pics from yesterday makan2 session. TQ Sayang, ambilkan gambar!

I sayang Qdin, Mel and Fiah a lot!

To Naqiuddin Basharudin: I heart you a lot! Thanks for everything everything everything! For coming over all the way from Shah Alam everytime I'm in need of a shoulder to cry on, despite of ur condition. Life is gonna be really different after this. No one would come over and lepak outside my house to talk about aliens and stuff. But trust me, one fine day.. both of us are going to be one heck of a cool dean (with our own toilet inside our room!) I'm going to miss u a lot. And already am missing u now. You're the next BEST guy after my BFG! Sigh...

Engagement ring - Should you wear it all the time or save it for special occassion?

2009-12-17T17:59:00.000-08:00

Personally, I love all sorts of accessories. I wore the Valentine's ring love gave me 5 years ago, never took it out, more than one day as far as i remember. And I have the anklet Mum gave me for my SPM, pendant my great grandmother left me before she passed away, bracelet Dad gave me when I first start working, and the list goes on.. with me ALL the time.

So, I have sort of like a mind set to wear the engagement ring all the time, and because of that I keep the diamond simple. I thought, if we spent that much on a ring, might as well make full use of it.

But, Mum and Aunts had different opinions. They said it should be save for special occasion. And so, I wondered.. And did a lot of thinking..

Then, this occassion hits me..

These past three days, I've attended an IEEE international conference in Seri Pacific Hotel. Probably one of the best conferences I've attended so far. The food wasn't that good, nor was the door gift, but the crowd was splendid. In my session, I was the only Malaysian presenter and the only woman, so I made a lot and I seriously mean A LOT of friends from all over the world. From Korea, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Sweden, Austria, and the list goes on..

The first day, I was having quite a difficulty to mingle around with them. I don't know how to start the conversation with them as I was alone. And during lunch, most of the guys started to make friends and I was still alone, lucky I have Avinash, a presenter from my university as well. Still, I was wondering on how to break the ice. Normally, we would exchange cards and contact numbers for our networking. So, this one guy from Sweden approached me and said, "I thought of asking for ur card, but am I allowed to do so? I saw a diamond ring?" he said jokingly.

And that was that. We started to talked and talked and he introduced me to his friends,and his friends to other friends and by the end of the first day, from being so hesitant to go, I can't wait to get back to the conference the next day. But that was not yet the best part. The best part is that, due to the engagement ring, most of the times we talked about wedding and engagement and photographers and the different cultures of wedding ceremony in each country rather than technical stuff.. Which to be honest, though I might disappoint my supervisor, but technical stuff other than what I'm doing most of the time make me feel so hopeless. These guys had seriously one heck of amazing brain. Not only they were an expert in their field, they understood my work perfectly.

So, wedding topic is so much better la kan. I can be an expert in that field. And by the end of the day, not only I have contacts all around the world, I also have the list of place to visit for my honeymoon and people to seek help for in that country. Of course I'm working with geeks, of course u're expecting half of the list to be something like, "AIT university in Thailand cuz it has the biggest library in Asia.."

Whatever, I am more than happy to keep on wearing the ring all the time if this is what I'll get in return :)

P/S: Haha.. Sayang? AIT sounds good to me. I'm going to be a geek sooner or later as much as we both found the idea funny. ;p

Album Tunang!

2009-12-15T01:40:00.000-08:00

Well, I haven't yet found my office key. I don't think i ever will. That is not the bad news.

The bad news is that the university has no back up key! After one depressing day calling every person in charge yesterday, I discovered that they were either on leave or on MC. I came today with a very high hope to get scolded for not taking care of the company's property. Yes, my mistake, but heyy.. shit happens. Not that i purposely want to lose it.

So last resort, today they had to break the door, and change the key. Hee! Gomennasai!

Despite of the chaos.. I'm happy to look at this...

Yes! You guessed correctly! My engagement sticky album dah siap. Sent by my photographer to my home last Saturday! Whee!

I am so satisfied. The work is neat. The pictures are all splendidly beautiful. I especially like this page..

Creative kan? Now, let's talk about the cost that will make u amazed.

Abang Remy the photographer usually charged around RM160 for every 36 pieces of photos edited and printed in a sticky album.

But, since he is our official family photographer for the past five years, he gave me a VERY special price for this!

RM 300 all in, 109 pieces of pictures edited and printed together with the sticky album. Yay, Abang Remy best!

Again, I have forgotten to ask the url for his photopages. But, if u intend to talk to him personally, without hesitation, i will give u his contact number..

Abang Remy - 0162628539

Hee! Sebab u bg best price, i tolong promote u, Abang Remy!

Baju Pengapit

2009-12-14T01:56:00.000-08:00

I've felt a lot better than Friday.

In what seemed like an attempt to cheer me up, 'Love' helped me picked up my kebaya from the taylor for Maria's wedding.. without me asking for it (or giving any hints)! Such a sweetheart! ♥

So, this is what I'm going to wear for Maria's wedding, kain sponsored by the bride herself, tq!

This time, I sent it to Lindasu rather than Zana Fashion since I wanted it quite urgent. But the price is slightly expensive than Kak Zana.

Wheeeeee!! I don't really have a tips on what ur pengapit should wear. Just, of course, don't make her overshadow you, it's your big day after all.

And, do keep in mind that this occasion is when petite people like me comes in handy since we came in a small package, so we won't steal that much of your limelight! ;p

Nervous breakdown

2009-12-10T22:08:00.000-08:00

I had a major nervous breakdown yesterday.

First, i lost the key to my office room. Since I hardly lost anything important in my life before, I really am clueless on what to do.

Then, I caught in another fight with Mum. Again, about door gifts. Previously we agreed upon some little cuppies wrapped in a beautiful box (something similar to my engagement door gift), but suddenly the aunty said, she couldn't do it. So, I have to search for another door gifts. Of course, I was a bit frustrated about it.

At the same time, 'Love' suggested to give 'Nips' or 'Oreo' for the kids. I thought it was a really great idea and the price is still within budget. So, I told my mum about it. And as my other ideas, she rejected them just like that. I guess it became natural to her that she thought I got too excited easily, and there was so much options i didn't put into accounts.

She suggested 'Mentos', but it was more expensive than 'Oreo'. So, I told her so. Then, she said something like if i wanted something cheap, might as well I buy some organza, and put some candy inside. She said something like she suggested that to me too many times before and I hated it but then, that was really cheap.

And that was when I had enough.

I went to my room and I cried my heart out. It's not really about the price. But, I just really don't like that ordinary doorgifts and some cheap candy inside. I wanted something.. different.

And I cried not because of the doorgift. But, the fact that when I think about it clearly... I don't have anything AT ALL that I can decide by myself regarding the wedding except the hall. And itupun, I have to fight gile2 for that.

I've always thought a wedding is not only to celebrate us, but it's to celebrate family and friends. So, I put into consideration whatever my family told me. People asked me to find something better for my doorgifts or for anything about my wedding when i proposed something, I did. And i came back to them with some fresh ideas, all I received was a complaint and even more complaint. But, they never did try to figure out themselves what other options are.

Do you know how much time I spent looking for anything.. anything at all for MY wedding that my family or my fiance's family would be satisfied for?

Does anyone even bother how late I went back from office everyday. I worked. And i studied. I taught 10 hours a week, 2 different subjects. I finished my Master in 1 and a half year. And for every paper i've published, I went to more than 20 times revision. And in 1 and a half year, I published 12 papers and journals. I have my thesis. I have an algorithm developed, from a simulation and yet to be patented. I have my wedding to be organized. I have 30 lab reports to be marked every week.

And have i ever complained? No. I just wanted to be appreciated at least for once, my idea to be put into considerations at least once.

And as I was writing, I'm actually in the lab. Looking for my office key or anything else that can at least give me some sense of peace inside. Well, at least I still have control of my project.

I still couldn't find my key. Or anything that could lift my spirit for now.

But, looking at it at the bright side.. Hey, I am settling down with my studies, and career, and next.. my love life. Who would've been so blessed? What important the most is, I'm getting married.. with a guy who's been calling me almost every 10 minutes asking if I've found my key. Begging to come over to help me find the key or anything else I've lost.

Maybe if i finally find the key, my spirit would be lifted up a bit. Please pray, I'll find the key.

Kad kahwin

2009-12-09T17:22:00.000-08:00

Last weekend, drop by at Kanda & Dinda in Puchong with 'Love' to survey for our wedding card.

Fall in love with several cards, but i heart this one a lot!

I think the price in Kanda & Dinda is so affordable. BUT, I have a problem with the salesman. Ok, it'd be great to listen to his opinion, and it was absolutely fine for him to reject mine too because he was the expert after all. But, it's how you did it that matters. I was looking for a square shaped card. He said the trend now is rectangular. So,I told him..

Me: The trend is not my concern. What I had in mind is something traditional, something more squarish like this.

Him: Ok, noted. But, if rectangle, the map can easily be fitted in, we don't have to cut the map anywhere else.

Me: Takpe, I only need a very simple map, sebab i'm doing it in a hall, so map tak sedetail kat rumah.

Him: Pandan Lake Club? It's not a famous hall. I've never heard of that before. Kene detail juge.

Me: I don't see any problem. It's not that people are really going to depend 100% on the map. Ada signboard, maybe they use google earth beforehand, and of course ramai je ada GPS nowadays.

Him (dengan cara yang sangat annoying, seriosuly): You use GPS? I don't!

Hello, I'm the customer kots. Why the heck would you want to care what shape is my wedding card. Ok, emo, emo.

Anwyay, i brought some sample home. And was excited to show my dad.

And his question was, "Kenapa semua card 1 or 2 colour je?"

And I was like, "Sebab ni je yang cantik!"

Then he said, "We need to find something colourful. What would my clients said when they saw this type of card. I'm working in a printing company kan.. Just let me handle the card. I'll do it for you."

Owh.. Okayy.. What a waste of time+fuel+emosi! Haha! But, from my experiences lately, on work also on my wedding, I discovered that I am so very much comfortable working with women, make it an engineer or even a salesgirl.

Haha. GIRLPOWER!!