cerita atas bumbung

So what were our plans after we left Jentayu Gallery Wedding Showcase last weekend?

Rooftop barbeque and hostel staycation with some of our orang orang kuat, that's what!

My mat and I rushed off to Shophouse the Social Hostel for our long weekend plans with our orang orang kuat after the wedding exhibition last weekend - we opted to go to a hostel instead of booking a hotel room to lounge around and be lazy and silly this time round so staycation with a difference lah konon! Asyik staycation kat 4-star, 5-star hotels, this time kita tukar angin - angin on the rooftop of Shophouse pulak.

I mean, kitaorang Melayu seh. Atas bumbung pun kita boleh ajak lepak, betul tak? :P

This was before Nani, Poji, Ahmad and Mus (one of the hostel owners who is also my mat's closest buddy) joined us for the barbeque and lepak session... Nina was in KL stuffing herself with Wondermilk cupcakes so she couldn't join us.

We ordered food and BBQ pit package from BBQ Wholesale because it makes things sooooo much easier for us! I've always disliked having to lug around a lot of things for barbeques and there's always something that you'll need to remember, kalau tak, leceh ah nak kena gi keluar and beli - the arang lah, the thongs lah, the firestarters lah, wire mesh lah, what lah. When we ordered from BBQ Wholesale, tinggal choose the package we want, add on whatever additional food items kita nak, and that's it. Everything else is in the package (except the protable BBQ pit itself which you'll need to add on from ala carte) and they'll deliver it to your location with a fee.

It was a very simple and laidback lepak session but I loved every minute of it!!! Took the chance to explain in detail to our orang orang kuat why we're having venue issues but it took all of 15 to 20 minutes before we started chatting about other things - it was great to be able to let loose and not think about the wedding for the weekend ok!

By the way, can I just mention that this rooftop space will be awesome for bachelor and bachelorette nights?!!! Asked Mus whether the space is up for rental for parties and he said yes, which is great because I think the space is awesome for small private events - it is right smack on Arab Street, there's ample tables and chairs, a sink for washing, and you'll get an awesome view of the sky (if your event is at night ah.) If you takut you'll be too tired to trudge back home after the event then you can just book yourself a bed in one of their hostel rooms instead and crash for the night (or do what we did if you're in a big group - we paid for all the beds in the room and had the room all to ourselves)

You can browse through their website here and email them for the rooftop rental rates!

Oh, one of the awesome things that happened that night was us making friends with an Austrian guest who wandered to the rooftop area at around 1am, I think? Everyone else was either sleeping already or not back from their partying so we got her to join us and it was really fun exchanging stories sampai pagi. Sham even took the opportunity to show her his and Aisyah's wedding video by Flipside Stories because we were telling her how Malay weddings work! Sempat betul promote wedding sendiri eh ini pakcik!

Then my mat did something that both of us have thought of doing before - he asked her whether she was open to us bringing her around Singapore... and she said yes!!! So after the night was over (at 5am eh lol), we slept for about 5 hours before starting the day as unofficial tour guides for our new Austrian friend, Katharina. Woot woot!

You see, my mat and I, we've agreed before that once we're married and have free weekends, we'll drop by the Shophouse to mingle around with the hostel guests and then bring out whoever's up for a free ride around Singapore just for the fun of it. But since we were at the hostel over the weekend and we were presented with such a great opportunity, my mat decided to just kickstart the whole thing!

We had a reaaaaally great time because it was so interesting to interact with someone who has different experiences and perspectives and was in Singapore for the first time and now we can't wait for the next free weekend to bring out the next guest that comes to town!!! Which might not be so soon lah since most of our weekends now are filled with wedding-related plans and stuff boohoo.

Really really really love the fact that I'm marrying someone who enjoys doing such fun stuff as much as I do!!! (Or probably more, that over-friendly bastard) Guess this is one of the great reasons why I know he is the one for me??? Hehe. Kekasih-kekasih lama aku mesti dah kirim salam seh kalau aku ajak buat kerja macam gini.

Oh! One of the good things that happened from bringing Katharina out to various spots in Singapore was being able to singgah the kedai which sells these colourful babies!!!

SUKAAAAAAA!!!!! Can't wait to use them babies!!! Sooooo tak sabar ok!!!

Now my head dah start ah planning macam macam for the photoshoot MACAM MANA NI NAK CONCENTRATE KAT KERJA NI. Step concentrate kat kerja in the first place je lol

collaboration between the card maison and pesona belle

(Source: Dear Dyan)

Looks like y'all know where to go during the long weekend if you're looking discounts on invites, henna, gubahan, sireh dara and bunga rampai for your wedding! Kalau you memang going to Jentayu Gallery and friends punya wedding gallery on 24th May 2013, boleh singgah Singapore Expo sekali to visit The Card Maison and Pesona Belle's booth and terus turn it into a kahwing kahwing weekend woohoo! Have fun ok korang :D

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!