temasek's me, temasek's you

One of the things that my mat and I have established waaayyyyy early on during our preparations is... the location of our photoshoot!

Case takde hek takde hok, you know I know, chop confirm guarantee seal the deal. If you recall from my earlier entry, Temasek Polytechnic was where we met, and surprise! surprise! (or not) Temasek Polytechnic is the place where we will have our photoshoot!

We took one of Bliss Photocinema's event photography packages that offers 2 hours complimentary photoshoot - provided time and weather permits - so we figured that one of the good things about having it at our campus is the fact that even if hujan, insya Allah we'll still get some indoor shots at our alma mater. I've always been a fan of concrete backdrops anyway so this works out well and good for both of us :D

(Photoshoots shot against nature - oh you know, open fields, forestry, lalang lalang, rumput rumput, the whole works - are always very, very pretty and very dreamy and breathtaking but it's just that I iz very the love when I see photoshoot pictures yang ada the contrast between the warmth and colour of human subjects and the stillness and coldness of concrete. Hur hur. Ok, sesungguhnya I don't know if that previous sentence makes any sense lah sebenarnya kan haha)

Ooh, and still very pleased by the fact that we'll be living opposite the very place where we first met in - gasp - 1 year and 5 months' time???!!!!! EH. Kenapa rasa macam baru je semalam it was 1 year and 5 months to our wedding??? Amacam sekarang dah 1 year and 5 months to our flat possession date ni?!?!?!?!?!

 

IT'Z TRUE WHAT YOUR MOYANG POYANG PESAN, Y'ALLZ. 

TIME WAITZ FOR NO ONE, Y'ALLZ.

Ok lah, dah lah, don't wait wait anymore ah, come I show you samples from wedding photoshoots previously shot at Temasek Polytechnic:

(Source: Weddings @ TP)

And because I am always very takde kerja, siang siang buta already I dah go ask TP's Alumni Office about doing a wedding photoshoot within the campus premises:

 Must remember to submit this form two weeks before the photoshoot :/

Anyway! Sometime last two months, my mat and I took leave and went back to TP to have lunch and jalan jalan - we've done this before for about... 3 times now? Saje je nak feeling student, makan cheap food, reminisce old times and waste leave segala.

The difference between the latest visit and all our previous visits is the fact that this time round we also took the opportunity to physically suss out spots inside the school yang kita nak ambik gambar! My mat also made a brilliant suggestion of printing the school map, marking the spots where we want to ambik gambar at, and then planning our route to minimize time wastage so we can max out our 2 hours. Takut if never plan in advance we might waste our time rounding rounding around the school with no clear route and terkejar kejar the shots that we want. Hehe.

So yay! So brillz kan! I give you five star stickers ok, bb! ★★★★★

Now I also want to claim five star stickers for myself pulak - because I jumpa balik the 2008 blog entry from when we first went back to school together few months after graduation (again, just to to have lunch, jalan jalan and feeling feeling student) because we wanted to trace back all the spots where we bumped or met in school.

So ape lagi? Jom kita walk down memory lane lagi sekali ye adik adik! :D

Oh shit. Better not let my mat see this. Because everytime he sees this gambar he will meraung raung macam lagu New Boyz and give me grief! Hanya kerana this picture will remind him of his pre-Farhana-badan-masih-belum-gemuk-sangat days!!! Hahahahahaha. Don't like that lah B, sekarang pun you masih cun melecun, ape.

After we knew each other, I asked him whether he remembers this selenge bacin sotong kering pun tak bacin macam gini incident, and he said YES. He told me he really thought I was beaming to someone else!!! And got confused bila takde orang kat belakang dia hahahahaha ah yelah aku senyum kat angin lah

FAVOURITE PAST TIME!!!!! Mak bapak hantar gi sekolah untuk belajar, ni pergi sekolah cui bontot orang. Kalau dorang tanya, cakap je lecturer yang ajar hahahahaha

Tak glamz moment is tak glamz. Cannot forget how buruk and PBG I felt at that time!!! BUT IN MY DEFENCE. TP Business School punya jemput jemput pisang was sedap ok!!! Made from fresh bananas, one! Tak sah kalau tak gobble down dengan gelojohnya.

Standard procedure whenever I spot him in school LOLZ

 STALKER ALERT. STALKER ALERT.

My mat told me that during one of canteen instances, one of his friends did tell him that I was staring at him but somehow I managed to avert my gaze just before his friend told him so by the time he looked, it seemed like I was just minding my own business and his friend was just being ultra sensitive to me looking their way. Haha! Padahal, padahal.

Ahhhhh..... the day I put a name to the face that I've grown fond of.

*wipes lone tear*

The first time he acknowledged my presence in school by smiling at me at the bridge linking TP to Bedok Reservoir!!! One of the best damn days in my life, if  I may say so myself. Ada betul lah whoever yang cakap "Never frown because you never know who's falling in love with your smile" HAHAHAHAHA

Note: The reason why he is frowning in this picture is because the weather was pretty merciless and this puteri lilin was feeling very panas berlengas... but I still forced him to take a picture hahaha what what

Oh, and last but not the least...

Adalah harus to have a shot at the spot I wished him happy graduation and where I asked for his number ok! Harus harus harus! :D

All these angan angan seriously making super excitez! Hehe. Shall welcome the long weekend with open arms because we can once again discuss more wedding-related stuff (and catch up on our Running Man episodes, of course.) I'm also a very happy bunny because my mat dah fix tailor appointment for his groomsmen punya outfits next month!!! Shall hustle bustle wrestle my girls to send their kain to the tailor's soon too, and kalau they can make it on the same date as the groomsmen punya even better - boleh turn it into perjumpaan Kahwin Khronicles Klan LULZ

Have fun over the long weekend, gaize! Especially to the three lovely brides-to-be on my blogroll who will finally see your sweat, tears and effort bear fruit and ultimately nikah the loves of your lives!!!!! May the BTB force be with you. Amin!

this is a story about my McDreamy

Have you seen how berjangkit the love story timeline post by Eleventh October is?! Few Stolen Seconds and Elziii have already done theirs and now that I have a little bit of free time at home, I'mma give it a shot jugak! Jeng jeng jenggg.

Ok lah, actually there's nothing really much to say since there's a brief outline of our story in the Al-Kisah tab but I thought I'd do something I've been wanting to do - which is to officially compile selected special moments that happened before our relationship started into one entry so I don't have to waste time choosing archives at random whenever I start feeling nostalgic about the beginnings of our relationship haha (Yes, that's what I've been doing, and YES, AKU BETUL PEH KUASA)

I've been blogging since I was 14 and have pretty much stored all my teenage and young adult life memories in blog entries, including the zaman purba days when I used to blog about my then-crush, now-fiance! Sekarang bila baca balik, very the geli hati with how kentalan buah lychee I was!!!

And it was only recently baru I let him read the blog entries himself - before this I've always refused to let him read the blog entries no matter how hard he begged or whatever beruang comel face he made. Maklumlah, sejak dua menjak nak dekat jadi suami isteri ni kan..... everything also want to share share lor. Hehehe.

Ok lah, our story ni takde main chak chak sampai actually ada chance to meet each other at earlier stages of our lives ah but you know what they say in peribahasa lists - ikan di laut, asam di darat, akhirnya bertemu di belanga juga! (Well, in our case, the belanga was called Temasek Polytechnic ah hahahahaha)

I also don't have a manis semanis kuih koci high school secondary school sweetheart story because I didn't really warm up to the idea of tying myself down to one person early in life and preferred to see what kind of boys (and girls hwa hwa) the world had to offer - seriously tabik you all you all yang ada high school secondary school sweetheart love story! Attention span baik pe geng.

Personally I didn't have enough attention span (or love!) to give to the guys I went out with in my teens on an exclusive basis... well yeah, either that, or I just didn't meet the right boys earlier on ah kwa kwa kwaaaaa (I'm on good terms with most of my exes because they are lovely individuals, though, and we've had really great times together; cuma unfortunate our jodoh memang not written in the stars.)

I guess in a way this is why my mamat is extra awesome and extra special because someway somehow he managed to keep my attention, win my love and be the right person for me when the others weren't? :P

Anyway, let me now bring you back to the world of a 19-year-old who experienced crush-at-first-sight when she saw a big and dark mamat Melayu with bontot kurang ajar at the entrance of Business School back in 2006...

11 May 2007

I first saw my mat loitering at the Business School entrance while people-watching outside the school library in late 2006 but it was only on my birthday the following year that I finally blogged my first entry about him in my private blog. Little did I know my belated tuah birthday will datang the week after... 

(By the way, in case you're wondering about the McDreamy nickname - I used to be a huge fan of Grey's Anatomy back in poly (not a fan after the second season because that damn show became more and more sappy and ridiculous with every episode argh so menyampah) and decided to name my mat McDreamy, a nickname popularized by the TV show, since I didn't know his name back then.)

18 May 2007 

The first time I talked to my mat and asked for his name was a week after my 1st private blog entry about him!!! It was Campus Care Network (CCN) day in school and his class was selling kaya toast at their booth. Approached his booth with the intention of asking for his name and after successfully dodging his classmate (who wouldn't stop talking to me ERMAGAD SERIOUSLY HOW INTERESTING CAN KAYA TOAST BE YOU FREAK, WHAT IS THIS, A GUIDED TOUR OF THE KAYA TOAST MUSEUM?!), I managed to strike up a conversation with the man himself while he was preparing my order: 

"Hello! What's your name?" 

"Errrrr... Saliheen..."

"Oh hello Saliheen! Is your... kaya toast any good?"

"Uhm... You'll have to taste it yourself to know..."

Aku macam nak reply, "Baby, I'd taste *you* myself to know if you're as good as you look" HAHAHAHAHA BUT CANNOT TUNJUK BELANG MASA TIME FIRST INTRODUCTION LAH KAN WTF

By the way, have I mentioned how surprised I was when I first heard his voice? I WAS SO SURPRISED BY HIS VOICE OK!!! Badan abang abang body, muka fierce matrep tapi bila berbual suara macam wanita Melayu terakhir. Kalau masuk pertandingan lawan suara siapa lagi lemah lembut, mesti perempuan melayu terakhir tu yang kalah, geng.

1 August 2007 

ERMAGAD THOSE EYES! ~ CAIR ~

[Explanation: The reason why I said this was "the first appearance of my school crush in my blog" is because of the fact that I had 1 Livejournal account that I'd set to public or friends-only viewing (main public blog) and 1 Multiply account that was private to a select group of friends (side private blog). So this entry considered his first appearance on my main blog lah kirakan. (That's a very irritating explanation, I know.)]

22 May 2008

We took our first picture together masa time ni! Might put up the picture when I'm less malu hahaha

Oh, and sorry kena black out some portions! Tu part a bit the ~controversial~ topic so kena censored sikit ah hahahahaha. (Oh, if you're in my Livejournal friends list you can still access and read the entry kalau you semangat Hang Jebat ah haha)

I didn't think much about the whole exchange, really - at that point of time, I only saw him as just another fantasy, another crush, another boy I'll chuck aside after knowing him in person because he'll be too boring / too serious / too burdensome / too possessive (paling benci!) / too much of a douchebag - all my previous crushes always turned out to be different from what I fantasized them to be and I expected him to be no different.

But a text message one week later turned into another that turned into an MSN chat that turned into another that turned into a phonecall that turned into another that turned into "coffee at Spinelli" that turned into another that turned into "drinks at Coffee Bean" that turned into another that turned into "dinner at TCC" that turned into another that turned into...

1 November 2008 

And there you have it.

A few months into the relationship, despite our very rocky start, I decided that our relationship felt right (this coming from a girl who never once muttered "I love you" to her (ex)boyfriend from her previous longest relationship) and he agreed that we felt right - so we promised each other that kalau takde aral melintang we'll get married to each other in five years' time, in shaa Allah.

And now that our five-year plan will finally come to fruition in eight months' time, it looks like we're keeping our first promise to each other and we're pretty much right on track, yes? :D

Post-editted [as at 25 February 2013]:

I really shouldn't have started reading back all my blog archives about our relationship's early days for my earlier entry because it has the same damning effect as makan Pringles - once you pop, you just can't stop.

Found two old videos that I posted on my old blog because it hit very close to home during the early stages of our relationship, and now I'm chuckling over how I was (is?) very much like Cristina Yang and my mamat was (is?) very much like Preston Burke (Told ya I used to be a huge Grey's Anatomy fan lulz)

Ah, such bloody sappy memories. Kenapa time muda muda very emosi eh?!

Also found this gem of an old blog post dated 3 July 2008:

(By the way, ME is uhmmm... me (haha) and MD is shortform for McDreamy.) Fancy talking about the possibility of getting married to each other on our first date eh?

That said, I look forward to receiving a nice black box on our 10th wedding anniversary, you sentimental bastard.