my dream wedding (I)

Tak sangka my dream wedding mahal rupanya. Ingatkan simple je, tapi yang simple itu la mahal.. huhu Furniture for a start, white furniture lebih mahal daripada color lain given the same set. See.. saya nak yang cam ni la..

Dinding dah cat color pink, so white furniture makes my bedroom de very de english one… i like~ ok tapi costwise, not very wise lah u know. Buat pe beli furniture mahal-mahal then tinggal kat kampung je. Bukan bleh bawak KL pun. So tengok another option like this one,

Something like this is is cheaper. But still more expensive compared to other colors.

And for the deco, saya suka konsep modern english (not too classic), konsep ni saya reka sendiri je hikhik.. modern english for me means konsep lovely lace campur modern elements, nanti saya tunjukkan dalam gambar.

See, table lamp and candle holders tu klasik kan. Saya dah tengok table lamp and candle holders yang lebih klasik di Lovely Lace and guess what, harga dia RM259 and RM59 respectively.. huhu Ada satu kiosk di Mid Valley jual lebih murah sikit table lamp RM169. Kat Amcorp ada yang lebih murah, tapi belum tengok lagi.

Okie, candle holder yang ni lebih simple and modern, ini lah campuran klasik dan modern yang saya cakap tu. Tapi simple pun, saya tengok kat SSF semalam harga RM2++ jugak lah.

Yang di atas ni pelamin Umie Aida bertunang. Saya suka konsep ni simple, cuma my colours are in the region of white, light pink, peach, a little bit of red to set the contrast and a very little green. Yang penting lighting mesti perfect and ada flowers yang bulat-bulat mix of pink, peach, off-white and sedikit green untuk daun-daun. Tapi kerusi rotan tu saya tak suka, saya suka a single white chair macam ni,

Basically this is how the flowers will look like,

Pasu transparent dah tengok semalam di SSF lebih kurang RM20. Bunga beli yang raw punya, Mak boleh gubah kan jadi bulat. Lagi bunga-bungaan..

Oh I wish to have this bouquet around pelamin, harap-harpnya ada package pelamin yang macam ni. Bunga bulat di tengah-tengah candles. Sangat kewl!

Saya nak letak bunga macam ni atas meja pengantin dan VIP (hehe ada ke VIP datang..) space efficient bunga macam ni.

See, cantikkan reception flowers kat atas ni.. Biasa western wedding bagi each guest dia sounvenir macam ni. Tapi kat sini tak dapek la nak nolong.. brape cost seketul ni, nak cari fresh flowers lagi. Actually Mak suggest wedding saya berkonsepkan rose. So semua roses colours la.. red, pink, peach, white, off-white.. tapi saya suka Daisy. I think nak campur jugak sikit Daisy and Lily. Deco bawah ni pun kewl, ada candle tepi bunga.

Oh ya, wedding saya nanti takde cake. Mak kata buat pulut kuning je hias cantik-cantik pastu potong. Kalau cake tak habis nanti membazir macam wedding Along dulu. Lagipun malam nya nanti ada acara memotong cake dan amik gambar lagi. So saya nak tempah cupcake yang comel-comel berkonsepkan pink macam kat atas tu sebagai dessert untuk tetamu istimewa dan meja pengantin. Anyway, pulut kuning tu macam gambar bawah ni, tapi tak kena dengan tema la, boleh tak saya nak warna pulut tu supaya jadi pulut pink?

Balang kaca yang ada candy kat dalam tu macam kewl kan.. Letak colourful candy and bagi pada guess yang menepung tawar.. hihi tak praktikal langsung. I mean tak hygienic la. Tapi comel!

Anyway, sesiapa pun boleh berfantasi about their dream wedding. Ini pun saya cuma berfantasi je. Memang can’t afford that much. Saya saja je bagi gambaran pada u olls about my dream wedding, so nanti kalau datang wedding saya u olls bayangkan la wedding tu nanti macam “modern english” style. Sebab in realilty nya tak macam tu, cuma budget wedding saje.. huhu Berangan saja sebenarnya!!

p/s: all pictures taken from projectwedding.com, stylemepretty.com, daisypinkcupcake.blogspot.com and google search

how to make a house a home

Bukan senang rupanya pindah rumah ni. Dan bukan senang nak mengemas rumah yang lama dan baru. Dan kalau ada rezeki nanti akan pindah lagi aduyai..

Tadi saya baru habis cuci bilik air master bedroom, OMG, saya rasa benda yang paling malang di dunia ni adalah berus cuci tandas! Kesian. I lupa nak beli glove u, habis kasar tangan i.. huhu Esok saya rasa nak gi beli cover untuk toilet bowl tu. Rasa geli plak nak duduk.. hehe

Anyway, kemas punya kemas di bilik lama, macam-macam la harta karun jumpa kan. Rupanya dah dekat 4 tahun jugak saya menumpang, sampaikan terjumpa satu supplemen expired December 2007! Huh.. Tak 5S langsung bilik.

Cuba teka apa yang saya jumpa? Gambar di atas, mould gigi saya sebelum memakai braces pada tahun 2005.. hehe Saya tak sanggup tunjuk gambar dari pandangan hadapan, semak u ols. Dentist tu sapa nama dia, from Gleneagles Hosp, dia cakap saya punya jaw kecik tapi gigi besar-besar, so memang la bersimpang siur je. Gigi yang dia crossed tu gigi yang telah dicabut so that other teeth can be put into proper places. (SIMPAN)

Gigi yang ni pulak bila construction dah siap sepenuhnya, well kalau ikutkan dentist perfection memang tak boleh bukak lagi, sebab center line not aligned yet. Tapi tuan punya gigi dah tak sabar so dentist pun remove la braces tu. Dan oleh kerana saya pemalas nak pakai retainer, sekarang gigi saya sudah jadi gigi rabbit semula. Oh rugi, takpe lah rabbit sikit but at least rata ok. (SIMPAN)

Saya juga terjumpa medal ni. Saya dapat medal ni tahun 2006, beberapa minggu setelah join department. Wow hebatkan saya main bowling, boleh dapat medal department level. Dah la baru masuk, memang fofular la akak time tu.

This is the other side of the medal. I memang terer ok.. nak cerita apa lagi. Sendiri baca la.. huhu (SIMPAN)

Menatang warna merah ni pun dah bertapak di bilik saya sejak tahun 2006. Ingat lagi, waktu nak pi OBS macam-macam beli, actually insect repellant pun ada lagi. Bedak ni saya beli sebab takut kena rashes, maklumlah masuk hutan berhari-hari tak mandi. (BUANG)

Benda ni pun saya simpan, tahun 2008, ketika cinta mula berputik. Ini biasa, semua barang dia memang saya nak simpan, tiket wayang, name tag, sweater, gambar, u name it.. but this one.. (BUANG)

Yang ini saya dapat early 2007. Tengok apa dah jadi? Kenapa dia nampak cacat macam tu? Sebenarnya masa tukar kad dulu, kad yang baru stuck, so u know.. tapi boleh gunakan lagi. But now since I’ve moved out, saya dah terminate akaun, jadi benda ni dah tak berguna lagi, kad saja saya simpan. (BUANG)

Oookayy.. itu belum cerita pasal baju lagi. Dua plastik saya bagi kat Rohingya. Rasa kelakar plak bila t-shirt purple hitam saya dipakai oleh budak tu, there and then! haha.. cumil, t-shirt zaman saya kurus. Lepas ni, jgn beli baju no more!!

Boleh caya ke… heh

Tunggu sehingga gelembung itu pecah

I always think about the increase in properties price recently, especially in KL, as ridiculous. The price increase is not in proportion with the increase in income and GDP. Honestly, developers are capitalists and opportunists.

I have not yet taken economy in my study so am not really sure how to use the demand-supply curve to explain the situation. But I’m sure that it has something to do with the demand. Demand for real asset properties is always there. Why? Not enough houses? It’s true that not everybody has owned a house, but I guess that’s not the reason. Many people now would like to own more than one houses, for the sake of investment. When houses become the medium of investment the price will skyrocket. People buy houses today with the hope that the prices will appreciate in the near future and sell them off. That way, the developers will mark-up the price as high as they wish because of the speculation that the price will greatly appreciate in the near future.

So how’s the market reaction? People are freaked out that they could not afford to own a house in the future as the price is increasing faster than their wages. With the soaring price, those who can afford will continue to buy and those who can’t will be depressed. So the rich is getting richer and the poor is getting poorer. What a capitalist!

The question is, how high the price can go? When the market will be saturated?

Let’s reflect upon the financial crisis in the US at the end of 2008; it started with the speculation of house prices that was then double from 2000 to 2006. They anticipated the prices would appreciate even more in the future. A lot of people bought houses for investment even the ones who could not afford to do so. They even had the schemes or some sort of sophisticated lending sector that allows this subprime borrowers to pay mortgage at adjustable-rate. Back to my question, how high the price can go? When properties get very expensive, people will not buy it, or simply they can not afford, or the market may have been saturated. What happened then in the States, the prices fall, interest rate went up and the housing industry slowed down. Many owners default resulting in many foreclosures. The housing bubble finally burst! Leaving with so many less liquidate assets, the banks shorted of cash hence cannot lend money to the industries and manufacturers. This went on and on as a spiraling effect or domino’s effect as a result of greediness.

I can see the similarities between what happened in the US with what is happening in Malaysia right now. Again, how high the price can go? When will it burst? Another important point to note, the housing bubble expands quite slow in Malaysia in comparison with the US (even though we feel it is fast) because our lending sector is not as well engineered as compared to them. We don’t have so many layers and ’sophisticated’ financial system that would allow such rapid expansion of the bubble to happen. But I believe eventually the bubble will burst. I’ve been thinking about this but am not really confident to talk about it because it’s just the opinion of a layman (or laywoman) and not based on facts and figures. But as I learned in school, read articles esp this article (The Dubai crisis: A case of the inevitable) , I know I have a basis. When talking about the Dutch and Dubai financial crisis;

While the Tulip Crisis was caused by over-speculation in tulip bulbs, in the case of Dubai, the cause is over-speculation in the property sector.

But the essence of the two stories is the same: people got excited with the booming price in a particular sector.

They then borrowed heavily to engage in speculative transactions causing further increase in the size of the speculative ‘bubbles’.

Eventually the bubbles burst and many people became financially unstuck causing a downward spiral of price and more trouble to the economy which eventually led to financial and economic crises.

We are lucky though of not having that complex layers of lending system, but the bubble will burst eventually due to the equilibrium theory of market price. I just can’t wait when will it be and see at what price a certain property will stop.

Disclaimer: This opinion might be biased towards the knowledge that the writer has. Open to discussion.

(edited: 01/02/10)

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Smile like a clown

If only I could plaster a smile on my face, then I would do that now and for another couple of weeks.

Am waiting for the silver lining.

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Happy new year

I’m writing from the not-so-comfort of my room after struggling to finish the Beef Prosperity (that unfortunately didn’t taste as good as the previous years). The superstitious feeling in me says that for a start, this is a bad sign. Not to mention that I had stomach muscle-spasm yesterday (u know what that means) and feverish cold plus sore throat today.

The only nice thing about the new year is that Mak and Abah returned home safely from Hajj and I got to hug my 8-month old baby nephew.

The rest is so bleak and I’m on the verge of losing all my motivation (pms is over mind you). What is damn happening?

I refuse to get myself paracetamol (enough of having painkiller every month) with the hope that if I can’t wake up tomorrow morning then I’ll see the doctor for an mc.

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My old friend back in college died last month on the 26th. He was at my age and died of a seizure and cardiac arrest. That was so shocking, but thinking about his wife and two-year old baby is far more devastating. Putting myself in her shoes is even unbearable. I heard that he passed out while going for Subuh prayer with his FIL. Usually he would drive but that particular morning he insisted his FIL to drive before he fell unconscious.

First lesson, take care of your health and get your heart checked regularly.

Second, keeping your body healthy and fit do not guarantee a long, prosper life though. So much to think about here.

Third, I’m dying to die on my way to the mosque and it is such a great honor to me (but not so soon God pleaseeee I wanna get married and have kids and watch them grow up and find flowers for their weddings and have my grandkids laughing at my dentures.. oh my)

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Hmm.. think I better get some rest now. I’d love to write more but my brain is jammed up and writing is way harder than u think. Hopefully the unspoken thoughts and the unheard words will be told otherwise lost into the thin air. So not to crack my head some more.

Gudnite dear :)

i miss u like crazy

I miss Mak & Abah so much. Tak tahu kenapa :(

Orang kata kalau kita teringat kat Mak, Mak pun tengah ingat kat kita jugak sebenarnya..

Vampire vs Werewolf

Apa ke sengal la dia pilih pontianak tu jugak. Kalau gua mesti gua pilih serigala jadian tu, tengok perut la beb.. perrghh muscle nya sungguh mengancam! Pontianak tu dah la pucat je muka macam kekurangan nutrisi,  badan pun kering, lemah lembik je, pakai lipstik plak tu, muka pun tak tahan kena matahari (pakai sunblock meh?).. Memang bukan taste gua.

Tapi gua rasa citer ni better daripada citer ninja turtle tu.. eh, ninja assasin. Darah sana-sini, gua rasa nak muntah! Nak tau tak, masa gua tengok citer ninja assasin tu, memang betul-betul muncul ninja jadian kat dalam panggung! Serammm… :)

Pokok Ketam

Finally, after some surveys, I’ve got my self a set of Pokok Ketam with 4 items init. The hand & body lotion, hand therapy, body wash and soap. I added one more rose water and after being discounted twice, the total price became less by RM108! OMG that was soooo worth it. Saya puas hati! Thank God that I haven’t terminated my CIMB credit card.

I love the smell, sangat refreshing. The gift set pun sgt cute, I love pink. Memang sangat kena dengan theme colour. Huhuhu… I smell rose in the air~