The Pre-Wedding Preparations (Part 2)

After part 1 of the pre-wedding preparations, here comes part 2!

Yang ini will cover some of the stuff that happened on the last weekend before the wedding.

25 October 2013 (Friday)

Final Fitting at SY Boutique (Tailor) with Ishq By Nora Zee

We had our final fitting at the tailor itself (which is SY Boutique) lepas kerja because Kak Nora wanted our outfits to fit really well and it's better when the tailors measure the baju against us directly instead of referring to pre-taken measurements aje... and I think I quite like the auntie tailors at this boutique! 

Yang buat bonus: their workmanship pun good good jugak so I might consider sending kain to tailor to them besides Manja. No pictures from this trip to SY Boutique because we looked really masai lepas kerja hahahahaha

26 October 2013 (Saturday)

Purchase of Norethisterone

First order of the day was to visit my regular doctor to purchase Norethisterone! (You can read up about this pill here, here, here, here and here... or you know, you could always Google it up yourself.) Serious adult stuff going on there, y'all.

I actually forgot all about wanting to do this until about 2 weeks before the wedding, and the only reason I remembered was because an angry pimple popped out on my forehead... so gua panic ah geng, sebab dah dapat tanda.

So I re-read Ili of Eleventh October's entry which mentioned the topic (here) because I remembered ex-BTBs commenting on that entry about the existence of a "pill that helps to stop menstrual period temporarily". Asked around after re-reading that entry before taking the plunge because I really didn't want to risk getting my monthly friend during the wedding and honeymoon. 

Disclaimer di sini! As with most medications and approved drugs in the market, this may cause different effects and reactions for different people, so it is always always always best to consult your own GP as to whether you can take this in the first place and how, if you plan to do so!

For my personal experience, I didn't experience any other side effects except for bouts of giddiness, I didn't get any allergic reactions and the pill worked its magic perfectly. And my monthly friend really did make its appearance about 2 days after I stopped the dosage eh.

But I really must stress on this point - as with most medications and approved drugs in the market, it is not healthy to take such pills on a regular basis, unless otherwise prescribed. I only wanted to take this for my wedding and honeymoon (imagine the discomfort throughout the day kalau period tengah heavy duty during the wedding and honeymoon yikes). Might take this again when I plan to go on a long holiday trip in the future, but other than that I'll let my cycle run naturally, which is really the best thing to do for my body and its system.

26 October 2013 (Saturday)

Charity Bake Sale at Penny University

So yes, anyway! After getting that little adult business out of the way, I hopped down to Penny University! And why??? Remember me blogging about the charity bake sale which was to happen one week before my wedding???

Decided to spend my last weekend as a single girl grabbing and gobbling down some omnomnom bakes by Minah Crocker and Dimpled Chicks at the bake sale which was also co-planned/organized with The Tudung Traveller!

Me with the three lovely ladies behind the charity bake sale :D

You can read more about what happened at The Alternative Food Blog - which, by the way, is the blog to read if you're constantly looking for halal as well vegetarian cafes and F&B establishments all around Singapore! You can also follow their latest finds on Instagram here. Had the privilege to meet the dynamic duo behind the blog as well but totes forgot to take a picture together after the kekecohan! Apadah.

Had to reschedule my facial appointment with Spa Jelita to the following day just so I could have the time to drop by the bake sale but it was no biggie - what's a rescheduled facial appointment if I get to contribute to a good cause and get a box of sweet treats while I'm at it, right?! I mean, what bridal diet?

Plus I wanted to bring some sweet treats to our inaugural visit to #shamsyah's new home anyway (more on this later) so it was ala ala kill two birds with one stone lah gitu (Asal kill birds with stones eh??? As far as I know birds kalau kena campak dengan batu dorang terus terbang away seh hur hur)

26 October 2013 (Saturday)

Waxing Appointment at Fabulous Aesthetics 

But there was one appointment that I didn't have to reschedule because it was to happen after I left the bake sale - which was my waxing appointment!

It was my 1st experience of such nature and naturally I was apprehensive and uncertain jugak! Must really thank Bride Barista for layaning my Whatsapp messages, because she is, like, the BTB guru of waxing, y'all! Hur hur hur. In fact, the reason why I booked my waxing appointment with Fabulous Aesthetics instead of other established shops like Strip or Pink Parlour (which I initially considered) is because she recommended it hehe. Thank you sayang!

Moments before my first experience!

Tubs of hot, hot wax! I actually thought the shade for the red coloured one looked very pretty glistening in the light and reminded me of raspberry sauce whereas the golden coloured one looks like honey wtf

I feel that the only downside about Fabulous Aesthetics is the fact that they only have 3 outlets in Singapore. Meh. But the service turned out pretty okay and truthfully kan, I'd rather go to an established name recommended by someone who dah lau chao with these things (hehe) rather than anyhow chop a promotion deal off Groupon or Deal.com with a salon whose reputation and credentials are questionable, just because it's cheap seh.

Sure, you can Google for reviews before purchasing off deal sites but I don't know lah, I'd rather hear from someone that I can put a face, a name and some form of credibility to, and not just random reviews on the world wide web yang tak tau mana asalnye and tak pasti kesahihannye when it comes to such... sensitive things. Heh. But that's just me lah, you know.

Anyway. I won't blog publicly in detail about my experience but I can tell you right now - without having to set my entry to 'private with password' and then shamelessly haggle for 'likes' or 'shares' on social media before I share the experience with you lol - that the experience is really not as bad as it sounds!

In fact, I loved the experience so much that... I actually signed up for a package with Fabulous Aesthetics in the end hahahahaha. If you want to know more because you're planning to do for it yourself then feel free to email me directly so I can share my experience privately and comfortably okay! (Although my reply might come a liiiiittle late than usual, because I still have a backlog of emails to reply to wtf, maybe I should employ someone to be an admin person EH ILI can pay you to be my admin not hehehehehe)

It wasn't as intimidating or torturous as I thought it'd be lor - but that might be because I'm ~pretty~ comfortable with me, myself and my body, I can be quite confident when put in such a... errrrr, "precarious" situation haha AND I have a high threshold for pain.

(I have many weaknesses of course, which includes anything to do with DIY and mathematics (urgh mathematics) but if I had to list my strengths, it'd be everything I just listed hur hur hur. Unfortunately ini macam punya strengths tak boleh pakai eh during job interviews hahahahaha)

In fact, when my bridesmaids and akak Bride Barista asked me whether I found the process painful and how I fared during and after the waxing session, my reply is basically encapsulated in this fabulous GIF:

HAHAHAHAHAHA GOT SEE ANYONE MORE EKSYEN NOT?! 

Hahaha okay lah okay lah maybe I was lucky to get a nice consultant who did the job well - ask for Eunice to do the waxing for you if you're going to the Bugis outlet! In fact, if anyone wants to bump one session off my package ($41 per session, I think, usual price is about $60+) and want to ajak me as teman, I'd gladly do so if you can align with my next appointment :D

26 October 2013 (Saturday)

Bridal Room Setup By Bonito By Bob

So after the waxing appointment, I rushed home because the team from Bonito By Bob was coming over my place to store their barang barang and do the necessary drilling works! Process took about an hour or so, if I remember correctly, and they didn't need me to duduk macam bongok tengok dorang buat kerja so I left them to do their work while I temankan my mother tengok Hindustan hahaha (Not a fan of hindustan because they are too auta for me but I can take their autaness in small doses once in a blue moon ah hahaha)

How my bedroom looked like after the necessary drilling and props are stored:

Had small tingles up my spine when I saw my room all tidied and packed up like this, because I then knew that the special day was coming faster than I can say "Selamat Pengantin Baru! Semoga kekal ke an-" EH EH CIK BEDAH the day dah sampai pun?! *auta*

After Bonito By Bob left (proper review will come in a separate entry!), I had a quick nap before washing up to go to #shamsyah's new home for our final meeting with our orang orang kuat!

26 October 2013 (Saturday)

Final Run-Through with Orang Orang Kuat

This one is another kill two birds with one stone sort of situation - kitaorang memang nak meet our orang orang kuat to discuss and finalize the wedding details and at the same time, memang nak sebok sebok tengok Sham and Aisyah's new home. So ape lagi, sambil menyelam minum air lah kan. 

(Although I can never quite understand why anyone would want to selam dalam laut or sungei and then minum the air.......... unless you tengah selam dalam air bandung or iced milo ah, which then begs the question as to why you tengah selam dalam air bandung or iced milo in the first place..........)

Copies of the wedding itinerary for our bridal party to refer to!

I've had quite a number of people asking me for sample itinerary for their own weddings but I'll only upload mine for reference in a later entry. Sorry gaize! Still need time to edit and delete the crucial names and contact numbers away from my actual one. (But seems like sample wedding itinerary for Malay weddings is really hot in demand eh?!)

Okay dah, back to our last meeting with our orang orang kuat before the wedding! Kita telah ambik chance to turn it into a homemade steamboat dinner gathering heh heh heh NOM NOM NOM

The girls fussing around in the kitchen! (Gender stereotype much?!) Tapi orang rumah feeling malu that night so she kept her face away in all of the pictures taken that night lolololol

We ambik kesempatan to get some tips for home renovation and interior design from Pak Sham and Puan Aisyah that night as well! Super in love with their white and tiffany-coloured guestroom and they can haz a walk-in wardrobe!!! 

Would love to share picturesss but since it's not my rumah sendiri takkan aku nak pandai pandai ye. You all pun tau kan, sepandai pandai tupai melompat, akhirnya tak masuk Olympics jugak kan. (Takde link ah actually hahahahaha)

If it was about my own house, tadi pagi dah announce pun kat front page of Berita Harian, nyah! Hahahahaha. Oh oh oh, I also have a picture of Nadai collapsed on the floor of their walk-in wardrobe which is sungguh buruk lolololol but not sharing that as well because... well, it is buruk, you know. LOL.

Our speech givers Ahmad and Nadai comparing their speeches after dinner. 

Suruh hantar drafts for vetting kat aku, tak nak.

Discussion was long and intense, and thank God for technology because kita sampai hook up laptop to TV and flash the itinerary on the TV monitor for everyone's easy reference lah eh hehehe.

And remember I mentioned about our orang orang kuat groaning about our initial snoozefest of a march-in song and we had to change to another kind? I really wanted to see if a regular march-in is possible with a fast tempo song so I made everyone practise walking down a few times to our eventual march-in song, which is Mozella's Love Is Endless. So yes, we had 10 adults walking down over and over again. In front of #shamsyah's toilet. At 2 freaking am. 

Hahahahaha eh, eh, but seriously, puas hati ah geng, at least bila kita practise I could see that the song could work for the march-in and I was more than happy to make the change. Hurray! 

And yes this is the TV which we used to flash the... ummmmm, wedding itinerary presentation haha. And that wall at the back, ladies and gentlemen, is the feature wall which pasangan suami isteri Sham and Aisyah painstakingly built up themselves okay!!!!!!! :O Very semangat, and very cool eh korang.

Don't think Saliheen and I will do anything like that for our own feature wall for our new home though since kita laki bini are such lazy asses when it comes to DIY stuff.......... 

(Sorry for the sudden turn to home decor topic, you must understand that my mind is now tuned to home renovations and interior decor since the wedding is over and done, and the next major project we have as a married couple is our first home together! Hehe mega excitez)

Okay sampai di sini aje kali ini, part 3 akan datang shortly!

sneak peeks of 2014

One of our future neighbours (whom I've been acquainted with since zaman secondary school) recently posted a picture of our BTO site on Instagram:

MAK DATOK, DAH BESAR ANAK MAK.

Even though my mat and I will ride/drive past the BTO site at least once a week, we'll always jenguk from belakang only and didn't realize that the blocks in front pun dah cecah 13 levels + multi-storey carpark dah naik 2 tingkat!!!!! The alarming part was when this future neighbour of ours cakap the 2nd level unit dah ada glass windows dah. GOT LIKE THAT ONE MEH??? The block itself belum habis building the levels and 2nd level dah ada glass windows?!?!?! :O

We're very terkejut katak at the rate our friendly neighbourhood construction workers are working and the speed the flats are being built - the probable completion date is supposed to be 31st August 2014 (a day before my mat's 30th birthday!) but nampak gaya macam will get earlier kan?! Our block is left with 1 more level (altogether 14 levels), block block depan left with 3 more levels (altogether 16 levels) whereas the multi-storey carpark left with 3 or 4 levels, I think. 

If we do get our flats earlier, say, early 2014, that means... this year will be my last year spending Ramadhan and Raya at my parents' place WTF I've only mentally prepared myself to move out from my parents' place after next year's Ramadhan and Raya lor!

I'm not really sure what to make out of this for me personally - while I do want to have my own place and have freedom and privacy with my own husband, I think I'm starting to panic at the idea that I'll no longer be with my family under one roof and for them to be there for me to layan, to kacau and to fuss over like how I've done for the past... twenty odd years? Ok sudah eh geng, I shall not talk about this any longer for now because I tak nak become emotional wreck dalam office. Kalau suddenly start bergelinangan airmata dalam office nanti my boss pikir I dah lose my marbles pulak.

(My mamat jangan cakap lah, dia punya yahoo yahoo yang lebih sebab boleh pakai boxers je and have his own kitchen at our own home nanti instead of having to be tertib in front of my parents and sisters and sharing the kitchen with my supermother)

Anyway! Can't remember if I've updated about this already, but since my last entry about our post-wedding living arrangements, my mat and I have decided to stay at my place after our wedding because of these two main reasons:

(1) my room is much bigger and better equipped to accommodate the two of us; and

(2) my mat needs to familiarize himself with Tampines before having his own home in Tampines next year nya ha ha ha.

I've broached the idea of sprucing up my current bedroom since we'll be staying at my place after our wedding and my mat immediately jumped on the chance to list down several things that he wants to do and change to my bedroom. Oh bila part ni kau hidup eh! Teruk sangat ke bilik aku??? Kadang kadang memang nampak macam concentration camp ah tapi once in awhile bila aku rajin kemas, ada sipi sipi macam bilik Duchess of Cambridge jugak, what. (Ni lah orang panggil, perangai perah santan ("perasantan") hahahahaha)

I don't really mind the change though because it'll be a nice mini project that we can embark on other than the wedding preparations... plus it will help us to run through decor ideas for our actual home! Siang siang I dah promise my mat that I'll leave all the details and the fussing to him when it comes to home decor (since he's letting me have my fun with the wedding) and I plan to keep to that promise as much as I can. I hope.

Unsurprisingly, ini anak dah declare that he will paint my bedroom in grey and white (tak habis habis, gi kahwin lah dengan cat colour grey and white kau tu!!!). But since we've talked about adding at least one more colour into the combo, I'm thinking of adding red or pink! He mentioned turquoise / mint during our discussion too, and I think that would make a pretty fab colour combination as well.

My mat suggested chevron prints to "spice" it up a little but I think I like stripes better when it comes to home decor.

(Source: My House of Giggles)

Very prettz hor!!!

There's a few ways that we can consider painting up our stripes: Vertical, horizontal, thin, thick, multi-coloured or on the ceilings, so we'll need to agree which type we want to incorporate! I quite like the striped bedroom ceiling idea, actually. Something like this:

(Source: Googie Momma via Young House Love)

How adorable is this bedroom kan?!

Plus it has elements of what my mat and I thought of separately - he wanted to pair light grey and white with light turquoise/mint whereas I wanted to pair light grey and white with red or pink! Combine them together and we'll get an awesome colour combination for our bedroom right??? (As you can see, I am trying to sneakily bring in more than three colours to the mix muahahaha)

Or maybe we can leave the walls and ceiling alone and paste/paint stripes on the ceiling fan instead! OMGZZZ too cute.

 

If I had my way, I'd paint our walls in a mix of colours, like this, of course:

(Source: Davinong)

Heh heh heh!

But I don't want pressure him into having a colourful bedroom or a colourful home and be an "isteri derhaka" so let's leave it at that, shall we??? Hahahahaha.

(About the "isteri derhaka" reference: It's actually a running joke between my mat and I. My mat can be quite an action bedek hero hindustan sometimes because he is SO DRAMA MAMA OMG mak si heroine yang kat dalam cerita hindustan pun tak drama macam si dekni eh. Which is why, when we get into one of our heated arguments once in awhile, he'll become bloody dramatic and say things mockingly like "I sedih sebab you derhaka dengan I!" or "You zalim! Kenape you zalim dengan I!" or the whole menusuk jiwa dengan duri berbisa works hahahahaha. This method is quite a good thing actually, because most times by the time I finish laughing my ass off at his OTT dramatics, I'd have forgotten what we were arguing about)

[Related story: Last year, I pulled a trick on him prior to our 3D2N Bintan trip with my polymates - my polymates and I have a history of doing very merepek things together so the night before our departure I told my mat that he has to wear his baju melayu to the ferry terminal because we had plans to record a Hari Raya music video onboard the ferry. It took me less than a minute of convincing before he offered to wear his black baju melayu for the occasion. Later that night I tweeted about successfully tricking him, but he only checked his mentions on Twitter the next morning and realized that he'd been tricked HAHAHAHAHA and this was what he sent me via Whatsapp:

HAHAHAHAHA DRAMA MALAYSIA SAK INI ANAK.]

Can't wait for end of June now because that's when we'll start painting and cleaning and making the necessary arrangements in anticipation for his move-in after the wedding. Need to get it done before Ramadhan and Raya because if you look at our checklist, our schedule after Raya is starting to look very, very tight. This is all very very exciting, but very real and very scary at the same time. Gah! Here's to busier days ahead, guys!

P.S. Sorry if this is a repetitive post because the later portion of this entry was actually filed under Drafts from my previous Wordpress account... and I have no idea whether I've published it before because I can't seem to find a published version! Kalau barang repeat pun, you terima je seadanye lah eh.