Sneak peek

Fathers

Today my parents and I went to buy eggs for wedding favors. Hundreads of eggs in fact. While on the way my dad suddenly asked:

"You betul dah ready to get married?".

Me thinking he meant the wedding preparation replied," What else is there to be prepared for?". 

He then continue " Are you sure you want to get married to him?".

I was speechless then I laughed. "Of course," I replied.

Later when we were alone with Ryan as I was sending him to the LRT station for his boys day out with Ryan (yes, my dad often bring Ryan for his favourite outing "take-the-train-to-nowhere" means they would ride until Kelana Jaya then came back home, a simple train ride for Ryan who is obsessed with Thomas & friends).

" After this, you are no longer my property, you are his property," he said quietly.

Somehow, hearing that brought a lump to my throat and I am feeling rather sad. It dawned on me that this is hard on my dad too. Letting go one of his girls. He must have mixed feelings seeing i'm so young and becoming somebody's wife. I think deep inside he's not ready to let me go. ='(

To papa,
I'm marrying a good man. Somebody who will take care of me as good as you take care of me all these years. Somebody who loves me as much as I love him all these 8 years. You have nothing to be worried about and even if you do, i'm just a field away. I still be seeing you everyday or every weekend. I will still see you from my house when you have your ritual morning walk. I know you can't help being concerned about your girls, but rest assured you have taught us well in finding our dunia & akhirat partner and we love you for that.

I love you papa. I always do. You are my hero and will always be forever and ever.

Hugs and kisses,
Your daughter.

Mothers.

The most hardworking person who is doing everything for my wedding is my mom. It humbles me that she does so much and I think even more than when my big sister get married. Even I didn't do that much. I would wake up everyday to see her doing something wedding related. Sometimes we take our mothers for granted because we believe she's always there, a permanent fixture in our life, the one we run to when we have problems, the one we turn to when we are hungry, the one we seek for comfort.

Sometimes in fleeting moments, it hit me that without my mom, i'm nothing. This wedding will be chaous and disorganized. I wouldn't know what to do, where to start, who to invite,how to organise everything. So these days i'm extra nice to her. I try not to raise my voice when speaking to her ( well sometimes tak perasan ), when she asked me to do something, even when i dilly dally, i'll do it in the end. She sacrifice so much without asking for anything. She only wants the best for me and doesn't argue about my choices whether they are expensive or not so i try to be sensible when buying things.

Today of all day, I love my mother. Because when I came down, I see how tired she is with these wedding affairs, so many things to do, the house needed to be cleaned, windows needed to be wiped, vacuum and the master bedroom needed new bedsheet and such. So yes, today of all days, I love my mom.

Mothers, we can't live without them, really. I wish when I have kids on my own i could even be half as good as her. A loving mother.

:: Traditional attire at its best ::

Well hello, hows your week? Mine has been hectic and the fact that i'm fasting & sick today really takes the toll on my body. Was out of the house since lunch hour to send my sick fiance to the doctor and quickly came back to bring my mom and baby sister to buy her attire for my wedding. So where did we go if not to BSC. Since my sister first laid eyes on the gorgeous traditional attire at Poya, she's been hooked and said NO to every other shops we brought her to so of course we had to go back to BSC and because my mom wanted to buy something for fiance to add for the hantaran. Penat penat.

I have to admit Poya's traditional attires are indeed pretty and i'm drooling over their kaftans. Baby sis bought two. One for my solemnization and one for my reception. Do mind their price. They're not cheap. Now i'm jealous she has got Poya's attire. *Must borrow one day* .You can buy them at Fashion Valet or just drop by to their shop with much more choices. I've been told FV will be adding new stock from Poya tomorrow. Did you know that Poya is the nickname of the owner's mom. So sweet of her to put her mom's name.

Now that baby sis has been sorted out, i took control of my maid-of-honor attire. She has been wishy-washy about when she's finding a tailor for her reception attire that i told her to send them to my tailor- the one who will be doing my attire for groom's reception. God knows Mimpikita has a lot on their plate right now without needing another demand from me for another attire. So this weekend is operation-maid-of-honor-attire.

Did you guys check out Mimpikita new Raya collection? Here's some of my favourite ;

If you are wondering, the tops are from RM150 - RM350, baju kurung are from RM250 - RM 800 and kaftan/jubah are from RM 400- RM 900. Wah, free advertisement plak. Seriously, if you have the extra moolah, why not splurge on these beauties. I'm contemplating whether to go tomorrow to see them and see the progress on my wedding attire but then again I'm going to that area on Saturday so might as well wait kan. Hopefully they are done by this weekend.

Ten more days to go. * Gulp*

Of Plans

The cards are finally ready last tuesday but because of time constraint I can't deliver them all so instead I created a private Facebook event for my solemnization ceremony. At first I wanted to attached the picture of the card here but as this is not a private blog, it'll be a bit reckless of me to be posting my address for the world to see. So to those who are invited, please RSVP as I need to determine how many are coming.

So far, everything is going as plan. I'm just a bit nervous about what's coming by 24th. It'll be the busiest day for everybody. I insisted for my sister a.k.a my maid of honor to take a few days off prior to the wedding. The day itself, we have to go buy fresh flowers, design the hantaran, decorate the house, the caterer and people responsible for the dais will be comin, i'm doing the henna that night, we have to go pick up the cakes and other treats etc etc. Phew, even thinking about it is exhausting. I'm still looking for suitable wedding shoes. Been scouring KLCC, Pavilion and BSC to no avail. My baby sister still doesn't have anything to wear for that day because she's so fussy. Ey, sapa yang nak kahwin sekarang nie?? Well, doesn't matter. She can always wear whatever in the closet if she puts off finding her attire till the last minute. Now my maid of honor still have not find any tailor to sew her dress for the reception day. I know it's after Raya but she's the second-most-important-person on that wedding and if her attire is not ready by then, I WILL KILL HER. ;)

My solemnization dress should be ready by next week. * Fingers cross * and then we'll discuss my reception dress. Got some few changes in my mind. Have met with the photographer and we hit it off alright. It's important to feel comfortable with your photographer so it's easier for you to pose for him. As of now, i'm finding some of my favourite images and will be emailing him so he knows what type of pictures i'm looking for. It has to be a combination of candid, pose, black and white and vintage feels on them. I'm not hiring any videographer as I think none can replicate the one that i really wanted but too freaking expensive to even mention here so taknaklah tangkap muat je choosing videographer so i let that idea go. Pictures will suffice and i'll treasure those forever.

Fiance has booked the flight tickets to our getaway destination a few days after the wedding. It took me few days to find a suitable accomodation and countless reading on Tripadvisor reviews on hotels and finally I found one where there are 96 positive reviews out of 98 reviews and everybody wrote highly of that place. I got excited looking at the pictures and the facilities they provided. So finger crossed yet again whether we'll be getting a room there. At first, i didn't bother to even mention about honeymoon getaway to him. I thought we could just postpone it to a later date maybe after our reception as MATTA Fair is in August and we would like to check it out first but somebody was telling me how important honeymoon is and how you would like to get the wedding started off in the right way and well i got curious and one discussion lead to another and voila we're going somewhere. I'm praying everything turns out as plan.

;) Two more Saturdays. Are you as excited as I am?

Bob Marley.

I once wrote about unconditional love or rather i share what i found; an article about it. At the same time, i posted about Bob Marley's quotes which i truly like. Here it is if you have forgotten about it;

And here's another one that i came across to recently.

He's so smart and he is of course right. I have found mine. Have you?

Counting days now. 15 more days in fact. Wish me luck.

Sharing is Caring

Recently my future SIL entered herself in Dentyne competition where she has to sing acapella style with no music whatsoever to get herself into Top 50. She sang I Have Nothing by Whitney Houstan and she was superb. Check out the video.




As expected she got in the Top 50 and now to get to Top 5 she has to do 2 videos where one of them, she has to create her own song and write her own lyrics on why she deserve to be in Top 5. The video is hilarious with the extra actors involved. Do see and laugh along.






Now, do you think she has what it takes to be in Top 5?

Ranting of a Stress B2B

I'm in the mood to rant. Everybody said i'm PMS-ing with my hormon churning and my need to feel frustrated over everything. People, it's June and i'm beginning to stress out. And what do I get from all that? A pimple right smack on my forehead. Oh, bertambah stress aku.

Well, as of now I'm a bit frustrated with one of my vendor. Well, she's handling my solemnization card. I'm refraining from actually pinpointing her to everybody since that's her side income. Again my frustration might be because I'm a bride-2-be. So here's the story. She was a friend of a friend. See how difficult this situation is. If i'm rude to her, it'll be ackward but then again I'm paying her and I need her to be commited. Can u believe we just send the design for printing last week. Freaking insane when normally the wedding cards should be handed out a month before. I don't have to follow her schedule, she should follow mine, as a client, right? I met her early April and she told me that my card will be in my hand by May. She told me I should get my first design a week after meeting her and guess what after a week i didn't get anything as she's too busy with her day job. That should be the alarm bell by right. I gave her a lot of leeway over these 2 months because she's delaying so many times i lost count because she's BUSY. I'm being borderline strict with her the past 2 weeks when we are trying to lock down the final design and she assures me over and over the deadline will be met. She's wrong of course. I'm just so dissapointed. The printing will take another week. Hello, if you know the printing will take another freaking week, why can't you finish it earlier? But again, i withheld myself from being too RUDE/STRICT with her. A friend suggested for me to ask for a discount since she's clearly lack the commitment on me. I know i'm not paying as well as her day job but HELLO, YOU ARE DOING A BUSINESS AND I'M A PAYING CUSTOMER. BASIC RULE: TAKE CARE OF YOUR CLIENTS OR YOU'LL GET BAD PRESS. Yesterday, I ask her to email me the the card design in jpeq. She promised she'll email to me by yesterday. I didn't get any today so i message back with no reply up till now. Really bad customer service. Yes, I do feel like I earn that discount now. Urghh, I'm so over this.

Well another thing is my baju nikah. I know I know they will finish it in time but I just wanna be a lil bit panic just because it is not finish yet. The second fitting will be this friday and even then, it's not completely ready. Oh, tolong I taknak stress about this. If I do, definitely another pimple will pop out for sure.

Thirdly, all the small2 details. We haven't finalised yet what we gonna put on the desert table. Still haven't find henna artist. My cooking skills, well I should say non-existence. Beside that one time when i baked tomatoes with eggs, but i dun think future hubby will be impressed that much. Lidah Melayu so he prefer all this lauk2 kampung which i have not master any yet. Die la like this.

The last few weeks, I should just relax and pamper myself, right? Well my first spa experience was last Monday. Let just put it this way, I'm a Spa Virgin. I never go to any massage or spa centre. So to those who has experience it, you can imagine my discomfort and believe me, if I can blush, I'll be as red as tomato. I don't have to elaborate, you know if you know ;)

Dear God, please make these last few weeks as blissful and peaceful as ever. Amin