Last day of 2011

How I spent the last day of 2011:

Woke up, had my breakfast. Figured that it's the right time to start eating healthy, so I started my day drinking a glass of warm water and ate mandarin oranges. Then I had a little bit of fried rice and a little bit of fried noodles.

Showered, got dressed and went to the tailor for my wedding dress fitting. I got 4 dresses:

1) Dress for solemnization ceremony: OK, but it's heavy with beads so putting it on and taking it off is such a hassle.

2) Dress for Reception #1: The slit at the back of the long dress is just too much! It almost goes up to my butt! I didn't realize this when I tried this on at the tailor's because I was busy focusing on other details, but I'm gonna send this dress back and tell her to stich up the slit because it's too revealing.

3) Dress for Reception #2: The most beautiful gown I've ever seen! Unfortunately, it's made of heavy duchess fabric and the tailor used a tiny zip. The zip got stuck and they had to put on a bigger, stronger zip to the dress.

4) Dress for Reception #3: This fits well, too bad it makes me look like I'm wearing a curtain.

So I only took 2 of the dresses home (for solemnization & Reception #1) and I paid for all my dresses to lessen my debt!

Next, went to Felda Villa to submit all the marriage documentation to the jurunikah.

After that, went to KLCC. Got my first full salary already, so I paid off my outstanding zakat for 2011. I was supposed to start paying zakat in May this year, but I put it aside until now, so the total that I had to pay is RM432.

After paying off the zakat, I felt better and I decided to buy a new pair of jeans at Levi's. I've always wanted the Curve ID jeans since October, but when I resigned, I didn't get my salary and last month, I didn't get full salary. The Slight Curve jeans didn't fit me, the Bold Curve fits me but doesn't look that flattering, so I bought the Demi Curve.

Then, I treated my parents for lunch at Dome. They had fish n chips, and I had this horrible grilled catch of the day. The chef can't even marinate a fish! Too salty. I think the best grilled catch of the day is still at Manhattan Fish Market.

Next, went to Swarowski. Nothing interesting there. Tiny, delicate, pricey jewellery. Not my thing.

At Parkson's accessories section, something caught my eye - Monet alphabet gold pendant. From RM248 discounted to RM173. Unfortunately the letter 'N' was not available. There was an 'L' which stands for Liyana, but I don't want to buy it because Liyana is the name my office colleagues call me.

Went to ISetan, hoping I could find the 'N' pendant. No luck.

Saw a Nine West handbag sale and there's a bag that I liked but the display was actually the last piece, so, no thanks.

Since I had no luck with shopping, I went home and tried to make full use of my day by folding clothes etc.etc.

OMG, I'm getting married in 3 weeks!

Temporary Solution for Oily Hair

I have oily, lifeless hair that lacks volume.

Some people have told me that I can't wash my hair everyday because it might fall off. True or false, I'm not sure but I'm not taking any risk so I follow the advice. Well, except if the shampoo I'm using indicates 'for daily use', then I'll wash my hair everyday.

However, right now I'm not using a daily shampoo. I skip one day before the next wash so in between washes, my hair will be oily. So I tried the Sephora Dry Shampoo.
Directions for use: Shake well before use. Hold bottle 10-12 inches from dry hair and scalp, spray evenly. Brush hair.

The Sephora Express Dry Shampoo smells really good but it does NOTHING to my oily hair. Useless product.

There's another product on my dressing table, L'Oreal Nutri-Gloss Light Conditioning Spray.

Directions for use: Shake well before use. Spray on washed damp hair, or on dry hair to refresh and tone hair. No need to rinse. Can be used everyday for daily gloss.

This one works!

Both products cost about the same (can't remember the exact prices though) but Sephora doesn't work as well as L'Oreal does. So if you have oily scalp problem like me, go buy the L'Oreal spray!

Highlights of 2011

Today is the last day of 2011. Time flies huh?

2011 has been an exciting. So many changes in my life. Among the highlights of this year are...

1) I got engaged to my boyfriend after being together for 5 years.

2) I got a new job. Who would have thought this will happen?! I only had 1 year ++ working experience, and people usually got hired for another job after about what? 3 years? This is what you call rezeki.

3) I did 3 different jobs in a year. Jan-Jul : Systems, Aug-Oct: Inventory (best job ever!!!), Nov-present:Pricing.

4) Mr.Y got transferred to KL after 1 year 7 months in Kluang. Another rezeki.

5) Mr.Y and I got a house. When I was working in MH, we thought of renting somewhere in Kota Damansara. Then I got the offer from QR, and we planned to rent somewhere in Wangsa Maju. If we were to buy a property, we could only afford a condo. Then unexpectedly, we got a house. A landed property. Alhamdulillah. Another rezeki for us.

Apart from these highlights, there were also plenty of sad memories but I don't think they're worth mentioning here. Better move forward and be positive!!!

2012, please be good to me! :-)

Wedding Updates...

On Saturday, my parents and I went to a relative's house in TTDI to collect the things that she helped to decorate for my wedding.

One of them is the duit ambo-ambo (not sure if I spell this correctly).

At Johore traditional weddings, an elderly person (usually the bride's mum) or even the bride herself, will throw coins at the guests. Sometimes, the duit ambo-ambo is decorated nicely. My relative decorated it using 2-tone fabrics that matches my theme colour, gold.

Duit ambo-ambo

That relative of mine also helped to decorate the wedding favours for the main table.

Pink flowers with a hint of gold

On Monday, both mine and Mr.Y's family had a meeting to discuss the last minute details of our reception. Then, we went to Empire to shop for our hantaran. Both of us got 1 last pending item to give to each other.

I already knew what I wanted...

A Coach bag!

Coach was having their clearance sale. The handbag I chose is a convertible and has many compartments. I can't remember the full name... it's Madison Op Art Sateen something. I just love the Madison collection! The handbag I chose for my engagement hantaran was also from the Madison collection.

Next, shopped for fiance's hantaran. Shopping for men is so difficult! For our wedding, I've bought him shirt & tie, belt & wallet set, perfume set, ring, watch...and the last item (other than cakes and fruits and chocolates of course), has been pending for too long because I didn't know what to buy! Some of the things we've considered before...

1)A Parker pen...but everytime we wanted to buy it, there's always nobody at the counter to assist us.

2)Coat/sweater

3)I've thought of surprising him with a painting of both of us, but I'm too chicken to go to Bintang Walk at night and approach the artists there.

4)He wanted some PS3 stuffs but I don't think it looks appropriate as a hantaran.

So in the end, I bought him...

an Olympus digital camera!

Initially, we saw a RM399 camera at Sony and he mentioned that he has never own a camera before. So I asked the salesperson if they have the camera in black/silver, but sadly, they're out of stock.

So we went to another electrical shop and found Panasonic - Lumix cameras. The lazy ass at the counter did not assist us and Mr.Y suggested that we go to the photo shop at the ground floor to see more camera brands.

Then we saw Olympus cameras and I remembered something...my mum had an Olympus camera and I like my photos if taken using that camera. Fazilah also has an Olympus camera and I love the outcomes whenever I take photos using her camera.

We asked the salesperson if they have the Olympus camera in black, and fortunately they had it, and at a special price of RM350! Mr.Y tested the camera by taking my photos and as expected with Olympus cameras, I loved my photos! So I bought the camera for him.

Now we're done with hantaran shopping!

Dare to be different?

I studied engineering in college.

I've worked in 2 different areas in my first job (1 year in Systems, and then I moved to Route Revenue).

Now in my current job, I'm doing another different thing - Pricing.

On the negative side, it might seemed like I'm the kind of person who fails to settle down and unsure about her career path.

On the positive side, I'm learning and discovering a lot of new things in the past few years and I think I've heard somewhere that successful people must be able to adapt to changes & new things and are well-versed in a lot of aspects? *trying to think positive*

Yasser's wedding card

Yesterday, the invitation cards for my fiance's reception were finally ready! He was super excited to pick up the cards and distribute them to the guests.

Front pocket

Very beautiful doa at the back of the pocket.

There's even a customized envelope ;-)

So now I'm in the midst of sending out invitation to ex-colleagues at MH, new colleagues at QR, old school friends through Facebook. It makes me happy seeing the 'attending' number growing on my Excel spreadsheet!