The Outdoor Photoshoot

Whoa whoa whoa.

Looks like there are two Malaysian weddings to watch out for this coming 11.12.13!!! Especially excited for Jovian Mandagie and Nina Sabrina's wedding (read here, here and here) - I'm sure their baju pengantins will be so awesome lah kan?! And then there's the wedding of Zain Saidin and Rozita Che Wan, of course, which has attracted controversy and criticism for its whooping RM13 million price tag (read here and here and here)

Mesti ramai orang in Singapore pun kahwin on 11.12.13 eh.

BUT I am not here to blog about orang lain punya weddings lah kan, but to blog about mine! Heh heh heh. Since I've covered my nikah proceedings and my sanding reception, next up is our outdoor photoshoot session with Bliss Photocinema and vitraiture session (ala, video footage of pengantin cakap cakap pasal relationship dorang dengan feeling feeling tu) with CST Singapore.

And at where else but Temasek Poly! Because that's where we first met lah, I've mentioned this before here. Photos were taken by Bliss Photocinema, of course, and again, quality and resolution reduced to be uploaded on Blogger - quality and resolution of photos are much better in their original form.

This "cak" shot below is actually one of my favourite couple shots haha! We look so damn happy to be doing such a silly shot padahal dah start berpeluh, dah start melekit and tulang belakang macam nak patah segala tau.

And a few shots in front of our future home! :D I've blogged about this here.

We almost excluded our orang orang kuat from the outdoor photoshoot because of some rearrangements but now I am so so SO glad we didn't!!! :D

Bridal party <3

And these are my absolute favourites of the whole group! :D

Oh, Saliheen and I had the shock of our lives and almost pengsan from laughing so freaking hard at the last shot with Sham's bontot jack pose that came out secara tiba tiba lah ye hahahahahahahahahaha abang korporat tertukar menjadi abang kaberet for the weekend eh, Sham??? :P

And some more shots with the girls! :D

Very pleased with Bliss for taking the above candid back shot because the girls were very happy with their kain belah belakang so to have it captured in a picture is great for memories :) 

(We had to argue for this kain design with the meanie auntie at Manja who grumbled about it being "too sexy" okay, EH EH excuse me auntie, you pakai ke my bridesmaids yang pakai ni, auntie??? And do you know how difficult it will be for bridesmaids to run around in tight kains with no slits, auntie??? Darah go upstairs ah kalau berbual dengan orang bitter macam gini. Pfft.) 

 

And then the boys... will be boys.

Ah, yang ni bukak pencak silat ke, bukak pencak salah bawak sak hahahahahahahahahaha

The "pok pok pok bujang lapok" shot...

... and the feeling feeling Top Gun shot ah korang hahaha gua takbley angz

Love love love this last shot as well because it's very ada makna, you know??? Macam we are moving up from where we first found our jodoh with each other (Temasek Poly) towards our future home which is coming up in the horizon. 

Fuh, tak ke dalam maknanye tu????? :P

I know it doesn't show in the photos (oh thank God) but we were really freaking exhausted from the whole day of festivities and almost wanted to collapse and crash on the cold wet floor by the time the photoshoot was over (padahal we were at it for only an hour gitu???) But we couldn't take a break pun because CST Singapore had to record our vitraiture next *grumbles*

I have to admit, we actually dreaded the vitraiture portion because like I've mentioned before: Saliheen and I are not the romantic mushy touchy feely sort of couple and our fingers and toes always curl up in unison when we hear or watch something that is too cheesy for our liking haha

So when it came to our turn kena feeling feeling jawab questions like "What is love?" and "What makes the other person right for you?" for our wedding video, both of us kept groaning and whining and tried to protest with exclamations of "Kita tak boleh lah buat gini!" and "Kita kaku sebab kita tak biasa mushy mushy lah!" "Kita tak boleh lah cakap benda benda mushy gini, kita geli" Unfortunately, our videographers wouldn't hear of it!!!!! So in the end terpaksa lah kita cakap something. 

We were crazy awkward and had so much trouble articulating for the video footage lah seriously but I guess the videographers should have seen that coming because when they wanted to record me saying something to Saliheen before our nikah, I was really reluctant and saying stuff like "Ah, tak nak lah!" "Tak nak record tak boleh eh???" "Tak tau lah ape nak cakap, I'm not used to saying mushy things!" and then, when they wanted to record Saliheen - separately - HE SAID THE SAME THINGS TO THEM ALSO LOR.

I've said this before, and I will say. it. again. - Saliheen and I, we love having fun. We like cracking jokes and making each other laugh, we like goofing around and being super lame, but if you ask us to tell you why we are in love with other, WE. FREEZE. UP. We freak out and then we freeze up and what you get is a ridiculous merepek hesitant piece about how "love is about trust and commitment" WTF love is about trust and commitment, what did you do, read off a motivational poster, Farna??? *bangs head on wall*

What I wanted to say after I finished saying my piece for the camera lol:

And nowww we're really really really scared at how our wedding video will turn out like seh. Confirm merepek and awkward gila. Good luck lah eh to the person editting our wedding video! Tapi jangan sampai use that as an excuse to deliver our wedding video lambat lah yer.

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!