I’m planning to print out one of these as stickers to paste on my wedding invites.
Which is nicer?
Courtesy of The Wedding Chicks
Category: Musings of a Bride
Oh look!
new header!
and if you press F5 repeatedly, the pictures will change. *jakun*
Some random stuffs:
- my left feet still hurts. I am still limping to work. The only good thing is, i can wear slippers to work and not feel guilty. Bad thing is, with the bandage on, i look like i wore only one side of socks to work. tak lawa.
- I’ve got no time for DIY Stuffs and it’s 3months to the wedding. The mother is helping me with the bantal hantaran though but i still don’t have time to do a prototype. Just in case. Those tissue flowers pun belom kasi habis. oh no.
- Bill api air baru datang tu ari. Our 1st bill is S$14.03. Random much, but it was so cool to see our first bill together. Macam nak frame and simpan. lol
- I have not lost weight and i am still sinfully binge-ing on snacks. The sinful kinds. Not those raisin and the healthy snacks i’m supposed to feed myself with. But if it’s any consolation, i ate one pear yesterday and 3 cherries. Well, at least i ate fruits. *screams healthy!*
- I need to finalise my wedding itinerary and make changes on ROM website for my venue and i have not finalise my wedding songs, still. Nape lah part aku, susah betul nak carik lagu. Part orang lain kahwin, pandai pulak aku suggest.
- We’ll be getting the photos from Hasemi this week and my card design will start this week or next week, depending on how free / rajin i am and i still don’t know what design i want.
- Finally decided that maybe, i don’t wanna take the Henna that Lyanaz Bridal gonna give me cos i still like Syra Skin’s henna. I just hope that she is still available on my date cos i prefer my Henna to be merah and not dark brown. 😦
And also because Syra is really, really super duper friendly, i cannot wait to meet her again and talk about makeup. haha - I have finally applied for my October leave. I swear my Director eyes was so huge when i got him to sign, cos my manager will be going for her maternity leave at the same time. Selamat lah ko.
Almost a Home!
Last week was busy for us. We finally managed to paint the house, meet the flooring guy and choose our colours and also managed to get it installed asap!
I was amazed at how fast they took to get the floorings done!
They started work on Friday 9.30am and by 12.00pm, just before they went for lunch, 2 of the rooms and half of the living room was done.They actually told me everything would be done by day afternoon, but looking at how fast they managed to install everything, i knew it would be ready by the end of the day.
True enough, it was done by 5.00pm!
I was so excited lah tapi bila part nak kemas2, sapu habuk tu, punyalah malas…. 😦
I totally love the floorings. It made such a huge difference to our place already!
Here’s the living room area.
Before:
The process:
We painted one side of the wall with Dulux Pentalite “Stone Cave”.
Half of the laminate floorings done.
After:
The TV Area of the Living Room.
The dining area.
The almost completed look. We have yet to get our TV Console and our curtains though.
For the floorings, we used the colour “Snow Teak” as we wanted a more modern and clean look.
The Master Bedroom:
We painted the Master Bedroom with Jotun Strax “Lys Jord”
*sorry for the crappy quality. Picture was taken using my iphone at night.
We used a darker flooring colour for all the rooms as we wanted a more cosy warm ambience for all the rooms 🙂
The Entertainment Room:
Hands down, my Favourite room! hehe
This room will be used for:
- Storing musical stuffs for Jentayu
- Store all my cards and posters for The Card Maison
- Relax and watch Internet movies. lol
I’m so happy the house is starting to really look like a home now. The only thing pending is the small little stuffs and also the kitchen.
3 months to go before our wedding. Scary.
The Outdoor Experience
Yesterday was awesome! We went to Sentosa for our pre-wedding shoot and although i have to wake up really early to get ready etc, it is all worth it!
I woke up at 5.00am to get ready and the boy picked me up at 6.30am.
I decided to do my own makeup afterall cos i don’t know who would be willing to do an early morning makeup for me. lol
Everything was kept to a minimal. I didn’t even do much for my hair, just pinned a white flower pin at the side, which i got from New Look for only $3.90!
I wore a simple dress from Dorothy Perkins which i got the week before and that’s it!
However, we brought loads of props with us.
- Pink Umbrella
- Acoustic Guitar
- Picnic Basket
- Balloons
- Pinwheels
- Hearts on sticks
- Mat
Ok lah, not that many lah kan.
Our photographer, Hasemi is totally awesome! I only have great things to say about him. He is so easy for us to talk with, he has got great ideas + angles and he’s always suggesting poses for us (which we truly need). It was such a breeze working with him.
We started the shoot at 8.00am at Tanjong Beach, Sentosa. It started off great until we were walking on a grass patch and i accidentally fell into a hole, twisted and sprained my ankle. That was only 45mins into the shoot.
Hasemi and the boy panick-ed sekejap cos i couldn’t get up at first cos it was so painful. I knew confirm salah urat. But i didn’t wanna spoil the day, so step gung-ho, told them to just continue with the shoot. So i went on with the rest of the shoot with a sprained ankle which i tried to hide cos i didn’t want the boy to be worried. It was exceptionally painful when we were taking pictures at the beach and the pressure of trying to walk on wet sand. Sangat lah sakit.
At the end of the day, my ankle looks like this.
See that white powdery portion? That’s the swell. It’s even worse today.
I think i may need to go to the sinseh. bleargh.
Anyway, we spend most of the time looking in each other’s eye. (Which we don’t normally do, because i am shy like that) haha
And also because i will just burst out laughing, but yesterday was easy breezy for us. Ok lah, we did laughed a lot. But we made small little talks while gazing at each other, it made a whole lot more sweeter than laughable. *beams*
Hasemi must have been really excited / too free yesterday cos by 6pm, some of our pictures were already up on Facebook and he will be uploading few more by this week.
Will definitely be using some of the pics for our wedding invites, poster and other stationeries!
Here goes a few of our pictures. I wouldn’t be uploading all. Maybe after the wedding.
One of the first pictures he uploaded and currently my personal favourite.
I look like i’m in total bliss. Which i really am. 🙂
The props!
The picture that will never go to any of invites / posters/ stationeries because it’s too hot! hahaha
But we will blow this up and print as a poster and put it in our house.
This picture was taken few minutes after i sprained my leg.
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Also one of my favourite!
Now, i can’t wait to get the CD from him. He showed us lotsa nice pictures from his camera that day.
Ohh.. he also mentioned few of you readers asked him for a quotation.
Some of you even mentioned they got to know of him through my blog.
Thank you for mentioning that, seriously! No, i did not get any commission or anything, but it sure feels nice to know some of my readers are also considering him!
Right after the photoshoot, we then went to Loyang Rise to choose our baju for the Big Day. I was expecting to stay there for like 2hours max lah considering my kaki dah start meragam.
But we stayed there for 3 hours! We managed to try on a few baju and see if they are nice for us etc. So happy we went on a weekday afternoon cos no-one was there and the mak andam let us try the baju cos if we were to come on weekday nights, we can only choose and not try. So yeah, kalau boleh, u go and choose baju when it’s not the peak hours! hehe
We chose our baju already and the next fitting will be on 3rd October!
Exciting sangat!
We took pictures of us wearing the baju but i’m not gonna post it though pasal nanti dah tak surprise. haha
After the whole choose baju thing, we wnat back to ur place to meet the flooring guy to choose our colours!
They’ll be delivering the floorings tomorrow afternoon and fix it on Friday. It should be ready by Saturday!
best sekali!
Will update you guys on the flooring soonish!
happy.pills
I’ve got these killer shoes!
I rushed down to Anchorpoint during lunch to grab these shoes and some other stuffs like a queen size fitted sheets because they were on sale. (ciri-ciri housewife sudah terserlah. Lol)
Ok, enough about the shoes. Here comes the next barang baik.
My Spanx has arrived! Love it!
I think i’m gonna get another one just for the fun of it.
It arrived just in time for tomorrow’s photoshoot!
Lastly,
I painted a bimbotic barbie pink room at the new place. Haha
This is supposed to be the Study / Entertainment room (i know these 2 words don’t go together. Haha)
U should see both of our reaction after i finished painting.
He went “Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh” while i go “Aaaaaaaawwwwww” whenever we walk past the room.
Ok, gotta sleep! 2moro wake up time is 4.30am. Bleargh
The Wedding Shoes
I was out at Plaza Singapura yesterday cos i needed to go to Dorothy Perkins to get a dress for the outdoor shoot next tuesday (yaaaay! tak sabar!).
Sambil2, celebrate our 2 years 6 months anniversary (lol), which i conveniently forgot about until the boy asked me “Nak celebrate?” and i was like “huh? celebrate apa?” oh oh. hahaha.
Sambil2 nak naik lift pergi Swensen’s tu, ter-singgah Pedro which is just next to the lift lobby. Was asking the boy if he wanna see his shoes for the hantaran tray.
He found something he liked and i told him to keep his options open first and then… i saw something i really really like and sumpah mata tak leh lepas.
Cantikkkkkkkk!!
I fell in love with it at first sight. Honestly, it looks nicer in real life.
When i saw the heels, i was pretty much intimidated. Cos it’s high and skinny.
Seram nak pakai. But the boy told me to just give it a try and so i did and it was so comfortable and i knew i want the shoes.
But good things don’t come that easily.
It was the last piece and the display set. As much i really really love it, i don’t think i wanna have a display set to place on my dulang. (yes, i’m gonna place it at the dulang on Saturday when i nikah and then wear it on Sunday!) hahaha
So dengan muka kesian, i asked the sales staff to ask other branch. Their stystem shows that they have it at ION Orchard and Marina Bays Sand.
I called ION this morning, size 39 takde. size 38 je. 😦
Because i’m persistent like that, i called Vivocity outlet since i’m going there later to watch Transformers (woot woot!). Tapi Vivo tak carry that style. Tapi dia suggest Anchorpoint.
So i called Anchorpoint and they have it!!!! Ter-squel sekejap tadi kat office.
You know what i’m gonna do now?
I’m gonna go out for a long lunch and take a cab with my colleagues to Anchorpoint and get my shoes now!
Staycation: Amara Sentosa
Last weekend was great. My company did a weekend staycation for all of us at Amara Sanctuary Resort, Sentosa. It was a god-sent cos i was supposed to go for a Tioman Trip on the very same weekend but Luxury Tours cancelled our booking cos they don’t have any more rooms at Paya Beach. bleargh.
The place itself was nothing special to be honest but it was super relaxing cos there was not a lot of people in the resort itself and because it’s a beach resort, u almost feel like it is a beach holiday somewhere.
Too bad it was a 2D1N affair. I wouldn’t mind staying longer. If the company is paying. haha
*All pictures taken with my iPhone, so they are of not the highest quality.
So awesome to be spending Friday afternoon at the beach instead of the office despite the unforgiving sun. I slapped on so much sunblock, i smell like one.
Random hotel pictures i love to take. lol.
I didn’t even get to berendam at the bath tub cos i was so busy having fun with my colleagues.
Their infinity pool was so tempting lah. Macam nak berenang tapi takut gelap.
I’m having my outdoor shoot next month and i don’t wanna look dark in it. sigh.
Dinner was so-so but we managed to catch up with each other and because i was sitting at the same table with my MD, i had to minimise my talk-cock session with my other colleagues. lol
i.want.that.udang.
The chempedak creme brulee is to die for. Seriously.
I have never tasted anything better than this.
Right after dinner, me and my team-mates retreat to our room to play Monopoly Deal.
It was awesome. We had so much fun laughing, perut macam nak pecah.
But kalau main Monopoly Deal, takde forfeit macam tak best kan.
So siapa kalah, conteng muka. This is a tribute to my abg guitarist. lol.
Lady luck wasn’t on my side early in the game, hence my conteng-ed face.
yes, that’s sh*it on my forehead. thanks uh. Pipi sebelah tu angry bird that looks like a chicken. haha
I started to gain momentum and won most of the games nearer to the end. Siap ah..
I had a great time with my team-mates.Fooling around like we usually do in the office.
I had a great laugh and it was so hilarious when we called Housekeeping for an extra pillow, then bila budak housekeeping dah picit doorbell baru kita teringat muka kita ada conteng2. Tiga2 tak nak bukak pintu. Dah budak china tu tertunggu2. lol
Luckily my colleague went over to the door, grabbed the pillow and closed the door immediately. lol
Ok, last picture before i go.
:p
Of wedding planning.
I have a new-found respect for Wedding Planners. Really I do.
I don’t know how they manage it, but aku suspect kuat, because it’s not their own wedding, hence no emotional strings attached to it, and making it a whole lot easier for them.
For you girls whom would be planning your own wedding (like most of us, cos we are just ambitious like that), we need lots of luck and hugs.
While the bigger things are not really stressing me out anymore cos it’s more or less settled, it’s the smaller things that’s popping pimples on my face.
Siang2 lagi, the boy’s mother told us, try to refrain from wearing white. In fact kalau boleh, jangan pakai white langsung pasal kita dua2 bulat. Kang nanti makin bulat dalam gambar. But i wanna wear white! boohoo.
So, the boy told me maybe we can wear a cream colour or maybe other pastel colours instead.
So i gave in. I told him if we can find a nice pastel colour nya baju nikah from Lyanaz Bridal, we will go ahead, but strictly no light green or even yellow. Pasal aku tak peberet kaler tu. Maybe Pastel Blue or Cream or champagne gold. Pink tak boleh pasal deco dah kaler pink and i don’t think i wanna see the boy wearing Pink Baju Kurung. hahaha
But i am going ahead with a white wedding gown. mati2 gak aku nak pakai white wedding gown.
Even if it would make me look like a whale. Yes, degil aku ni pun boleh tahan gak.
We both agreed, on our 1st fitting with Lyanaz Bridal, to choose our outfit, strictly the two of us. We are not gonna bring anyone else with us cos nanti kepala serabut, dua2 mengamok, kahwin nanti pakai Baju Raya je nanti.
Tu baru part baju. Belom part the Hantaran trays. His mom casually mentioned, the theme colour for the hantaran from them to me is Yellow. Walaupun aku dah berjuang untuk dia tukar fikiran, maybe colour brown ke tapi dia kata Yellow tu Royal colours.
Ok lah, tak pasal. Pasal his mom and her friends are the one who is gonna do the hantarans themselves so aku tak nak cakap banyak.
The other day, i was casually telling the boy, “nanti your hantaran i kasi Light Blue k. Tapi i tak tau ah nak letak bunga kaler Red or Pink.”
Dengan pantasnya member jawab “RED!!!!”.
Dengan pantas jugak aku cakap “Nope. i think White and Pink flowers nicer.”
Kalau aku ada wedding planner, confirm dia dah resign. lol
Spanx my tummy.
Alas, i got spanx-ed.
I’ve won the bid for a Spanx Bodyshaper on Ebay.
Such a great deal. Rugi kalau tak beli.
I got the In-Power Line Super Higher Power in Bare Nude as recommended by Fei (thank u darling!)
Yes, babat-babats ku memerlukan yang super higher power tahap maksimanya. Yang lain confirm tak jalan. Kalau yang ni tak jalan jugak, aku wrap sendiri pakai plastic. bleargh.
I chose Nude cos i felt since it’s closer to my skin colour, jadi nanti kalau pakai baju putih tak obvious sangat. Although i’m really really tempted to choose black instead pasal black nampak sexy sket. Colour nude macam grandmother nya style. Tapi takpe, takde orang nampak selain mak andam aku.
The original retail price was going at US$38.00. At first i thought, ok lah reasonable enough. Sekali part nak checkout, direct shipping to Singapore would cost me US$31.00. That’s US$7.00 shy from the Bodyshaper itself! Tu takpe, dia ada discount US$5.00 for International shipping tapi ada hati nak charge additional US$10.5o handling fees. The total price came up to US$74.50 which is equivalent to S$102.80.
Waaaaaaaaaah… Rasa macam nak give up and wrap pakai plastic je time big day aku.
Then i remembered Fei mention Ebay would be cheaper. So i went Ebay and check it out. True enough, it was cheaper. Walaupun dia tak lah murah sampai US$10.00 but at least the shipping was cheaper. So much cheaper.
I got my Spanx at US$26.00 and the shipping was only US$9.99. Total amount was US$35.99. Cheaper than the orginal Spanx Retail Price, siap masuk shipping lagi! All i know, Paypal made me paid S$45.00 which to me is a great deal!
At least S$45 sounds reasonable enough lah kan dari S$102.80. (bloody international shipping)
All i hope now is the bodyshaper reach me safely and hopefully before 5 July cos that would be my outdoor shoot day and i wanna wear my bodyshaper! Menyesal tak beli siang2.
So kalau sesiape nak beli Spanx, pi lah Ebay. It’s Brand new but probably takde kotak pasal it’s either ex-stock etc but who cares about the box kan? At least i don’t! lol
But if you all betul2 nak brand new nya and die2 nak beli direct dengan si Sara Blakely tu, u can try getting Vpost or Borderlinx to ship it for you. Not sure if there’ll be much difference. Or better still, gi ajak your girlfriends ramai2 beli and share shipping since Raya pun nak dekat. Boleh pakai ngan kebaya. haha.
Guestbook Poster
Ok, some kahwin-kahwin talks before i get back to the house again. lol
Since getting the house, i have been thinking of ways to decorate the house and there’ll be one so-called “Entertainment Room” which i’m pretty sure the boy will just end up making his Jamming Room. lol
So i told him he can store Jentayu stuffs there and all the music stuffs but i want to have the feature wall Fuschia / Bubblegum PINK! amik kau.So far, he has agreed to it. Tak tau lah kan kalau tetiba dia phobia main music dalam bilik pink. haha
Back to decorating the house, i want the house to have our personal touch, little bits here and there and i know i’m gonna put up posters of us, pictures from our wedding and i figured, why not.. put up a Guestbook Poster in our Entertainment Room? Brilliant kan idea aku? :p
So i went to Google Guestbook Posters and saw some i really really like.
Cantik kan? At least i can hang it up the wall and not let my guestbook be redundant after the wedding.
Annnnnddd… it’s cost effective!
Ok done!
Deardyan 