few stolen seconds dah kahwing!

I wanted to wait until the pengantin herself dah post pasal her wedding before posting up my official congratulations! So yes, here's wishing Few Stolen Seconds and her husband a very happy and blessed and fulfilling marriage ahead, insya Allah!!! Thank you so much for inviting my mat and I to your lovely reception. Insya Allah ada lorry ada bas, ada hari kita balas (kad kahwin kat awak) ok? Heh heh heh.

(Source: Eleventh October)

So cantik kan their green songket!!! Brilliant choice of outfit, yo! Ahhhhh, can expect nothing less than Versari Ade, really - and I cannot waittttt to go for sendiri punya fitting to see what they have on offer for my mat and I hehe (sempat eh selit)

I'm especially very happy for Rina because when I first started documenting this whole wedding preparation process in early 2012, she was one of the few bloggers who I could ask for advice/recommendation, mengadu nasib and someone I could interact actively with when it comes to wedding planning. (This was before the emergence / discovery of other bride-to-be blogs + By the time I, uhm, entered the market (haha) seasoned bride-to-be bloggers like Blithe Avenue, Raihan and Sofia, Dear Dyan, Elziii and Sugarnova dah pencen because their weddings were over and done with by then)

Plus I still terhutang budi to Rina because of what happened (here) ok!!! Babe, if not because of you, I might have had to tarik rambut and tarik gigi sampai botak sampai bogeh trying to find out the name of Ola Lola muahahaha. 

Ah, well. Time really waits for no one - especially for people who tengah planning nak kahwing eh guys? I still remember teasing Rina about how time will fly by so freaking fast when her wedding was six months away and now, look at where we are - she is happily basking in her newly-wed bliss (Masih ada bau pengantin baru, yo) whereas I am about six months away from mine. 

Before you know it, I'll be the one writing my post-wedding reviews and this kahwin khronicles yang dah almost two years in the making will be all over, fellas.

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!