Tuesday, July 04, 2017

*Mini Honeymoon to Langkawi Day 1

Dear Diary,

I finally managed to squeeze in some dear time to do a short update on my blog. As all of you have known, it has been almost a month plus since #TeamRNAxWedding.

Honestly, I am still not over my wedding yet. Everything about it was just full of beautiful & sweet memories. Yes, the preparations was crazy but the end product, the wedding ceremony itself is something that I would not even exchange it for the world.

D and I are happily married now, Syukur Alhamdulilah. I no longer have to feel the "pain" of his absence whenever he send me home after our dating days. Hehehe! Thank you Allah SWT for making this wedding possible. I get to see him every day and we get to come home to each other every day too (minus the days when he does night shift. Tsk!) Most of all, I get to cuddle & kiss the person I love every single day halal-ified! Lol!

So to cut all the sweetness of this post, I shall do my wedding update details the next time and go into details about our mini honeymoon. Yay!

D and I decided on Langkawi for our mini honeymoon. We had like 3 short days to travel because the week after was the fasting month, Ramadhan. We wanted to go to somewhere that doesn't have anything much to do but more of relaxation. We didn't want to do any water sport activities or any kind of any activities (too tired from the wedding) but just to lay back & relax after a long months and months of wedding preparations. So, after much research and asking around from friends & colleagues, that is when we decided on Langkawi.

Langkawi Day 1 - 24th May 2017

Our flight to Langkawi via Air Asia was at 1015 hours and so by 0730 hours, we did a grabcar all the way to the Terminal 1, airport from CCK which cost us $35. We were too lazy to go public. LOL! We reached the airport approximately about 0830 and we did a check-in via the machine. We did not have a luggage to check-in since we don't think we need any luggage to go along for Langkawi. And pardon us, it was our FIRST time traveling, so we were both quite a noob looking for the counters in the airport to check-in, but we did with some help there, we finally got our boarding tickets printed. Hehe!

Since we were early and I am quite a morning person, I wanted to have breakfast and we settled down for Coffee Bean for breakfast. D were telling me (feeling-feeling gitu) about how this is his first trip without his parents. Oh sure, it wasn't my first to travel far without my parents (second actually) BUT...it was definitely my FIRST to travel without any "adult supervision". Hahahaha! After breakfast, it was just nice for us to enter the boarding gate.

While waiting,

We didn't have to wait that long before we get to board the flight. Hehehe! Both D and I was so excited yet nervous at the same time. Excited because we can't believe we are both adult and qualified to travel just the two of us (without having our parents to kill us because we're both married now). This show how strict our parents can be. Hehe! And nervous too because we don't know if we can manage ourselves there without getting lost.


I didn't get the window seat but oh well, I still managed to capture beautiful shot of the sky.

It was a smooth 1 hour 30 minutes journey straight to Langkawi and I slept throughout. (I declare myself airsick) I always worry about the immigration part when I'm at a foreign country because I've been to Australia and I notice some of the immigration officer can be quite strict and scary. And I've heard from some friends who travel to other country too having problems while at immigration, but Alhamdulilah Langkawi was fine.


So happy to be in a foreign country when I touched down. I look around here and there and it seems like there are many tourist compared to local when we arrived. Hehehe! The airport is nothing much to look at even compared to Singapore's budget Terminal 1, we even had to alight and walk on the ground floor to enter the immigration checkpoint. Singapore make us pampered in a way when we enter is right through the checkpoint and it's air-conditioned. Heee! But we were still so glad and happy to be there.

After we got our passport 'Langkawi' stamped, we were greeted by a few people at the arrival hall (no, we don't know them) who offer us to rent cars during our stay in Langkawi. A lot of my friends and relatives who have been to Langkawi, told us to rent a car because it will be wayyyyy much easier for us to get around with car in Langkawi. I was afraid if we will get ourselves lost while driving, but everyone convinced us that Langkawi is only a "small island" and we will never get lost there. Besides, there is always a first for everything right. And so we did!

We accepted the offer from the first man who approached us to rent from his car's rental company at RM60 per day, which was really a good deal. Even that man told us not to be afraid, assuring us that we won't get lost because Langkawi again, is just a "small" island. Smirking smiley The guy then took D's driving particulars (since he will be the one driving) and we were good to go.

Our rented car

Side track:- I actually borrowed a Malaysia prepaid card from my bestfriend, Hernie for GPS purposes. There is actually a prepaid and phone counter the moment you stepped out from the airport and you can get them at 10RM or even 15RM for a week of GB. Unless if you prefer to use the map to navigate yourself, else GPS & google map from the phone is so so much easier. Another plus point with prepaid is that, I was able to do whatsapp update on the go without needing the hotel wifi too. Hehehe!

We could only check-in into our room at 3pm, so we had an hour to do what we wanted to do before checking in to our room. So, D decided to top up the car's petrol first at a nearby petrol kiosk since the car rental company only gave us a 1/4 petrol filled. We drove and asked a local nearby for the nearest petrol kiosk and they said it's nearby, giving the directions like it's near. The thing is, the local are used to this place that everything to them is near. Lol! :lol: We drove around but still couldn't find the petrol kiosk when D told me to start using the GPS to locate the nearest petrol kiosk. He was already annoyed by then because truthfully, he dislike driving but had no choice to drive around here. I had to calm him down and told him not to spoil our holiday, since we are here to enjoy & have fun. And so he apologized.

I was trying to ease D's burden, so I helped to navigate the GPS on behalf of D. I forever sucks at directions & navigating but I did it! Hehehehe! The nearest petrol kiosk was like 15 minutes drive away from the airport and we have been going around the circle. Hahaha!

So after refilling the petrol, suddenly the car couldn't start. Can you imagine how mad D was at that point of time. image It was already hot plus he dislike driving and now the car couldn't start. Hahaha! Thank God I had a Malaysia prepaid with me and the car's rental company number, and so we called the guy to let him know the problem. He came about 20 minutes after and got the battery of the car fixed and we are good to go again. Meanwhile, I bought ice-cream just to calm the both of us down. Hehe! The sales person at the petrol kiosk was nice too, he tried to help us start the car and when failed, he said, we could park here while waiting for the person to fix our car come.

I told D prolly there's a blessing why things happened because now it's just nice to check-in to our room - Meritus Pelangi Beach Resort & Spa, Langkawi.

Picture Credit. Our resort is like 15 mins drive away from the airport.

This resort is slightly pricey compared to some other rooms/hotels/resorts but not the most expensive one here. But I was telling myself, why not pay slightly more for a comfortable room since we are going to stay inside the room most of the time to just relax and not go anywhere.

We park our car at the carpark (I chose this hotel too because they had free parking) and we were greeted nicely by the resort's staff at the lobby. They prepared us a drink and cold towel for us to clean and freshen ourselves from the hot weather while they processed our application etc. before giving us our room.

15 minutes later, we were given a room number and pass. The staff was nice to inform us the nearest eatery and where are all the other nearest places are located for us to get around easily. We were then told to wait at the back of the lobby, which then a buggy driver will fetch us to our room. I was like "Wahh! Buggy?!" And their buggy services is free. They can fetch you from your room to any location in the hotel you wanted to go. So happy I cannot because our room is a distant away from the lobby to walk.

Meritus Pelangi Beach Resort & Spa, Langkawi

Our room was located at the 2nd storey and I remember to say my prayers before entering the room. Hehehe! I fall in love with my room. The King size bed is so comfortable! We had a balcony and I chose the swimming pool view plus they had bath tub in the toilet, so happy I wanted to do my bath bomb and bubble bar. Hehehe! The toilet is huge, I cannot. Everything about the room is nice and cozy. I got myself change and lay down on the bed and look at D (he didn't see this). I cannot explain with words how bless and happy I am now married to this man, blissful reality snap me hard too, that we can travel anywhere just the both of us from now onwards without people telling us no. Hehe!

Sidetrack: I guess our parents did a good job in "controlling" us. So children out there, unmarried couples... Please keep things special to only after marriage. Travel only when you're married and not before you're married, because that feeling is special that I could not even explain. You feel it yourself. Hehe! 

D and I were tired to travel out yet so hungry at the same time, the last meal we had was our breakfast. So, we ordered room service for food even though it was expensive. Hahaha! A plate of kway teow cost us RM45, approximately S$6. HAHAHA! But heck, we are here to finally ENJOY.

After lunch, we both accidentally fall asleep and wake up at around 1700 hours. D, said we have to drive out to get our toiletries and small bites for us to munch in our room, plus we wanted to get dinner as well. Heee! I navigate the GPS to drive out to Cenang Mall (since it's the nearest to our resort), half-way up we saw a provision shop and we stopped there to buy our shampoo, soap and I needed my coffee while D need his Milo.

We then drove up to Cenang Mall and I was so happy that this mall is not exactly outdated as I think it will be. Lol! They have Starbucks, McDonalds, Guardian store, KFC, Manhattan Fish Market too mind you. Lol! D and I decided to get a drink from Starbucks, food from Manhattan Fish Market for myself and KFC for D. We wanted to try the local food there but the food are mostly street food and we weren't too daring to try food from most shop, not because we think it's not clean (you know I', not that kind because I rembat all food) but we don't see much tourist at the food places, mostly local compared to places like those in KFC, Manhattan Fish etc.

Cenang Mall
 
Both D and I bought slippers

Bought these at Cenang Mall

Bought our food back to our resort and we had dinner in our room, while letting time past and watching TV.

I was that tired that I didn't wish to start my bath bomb and bubble bar activity but I had a lot of it and I don't think I can finish all of it tomorrow, since I have only left 1 more night left to finish up the bath bomb and bubble bar And so I did it, drag myself into the toilet, watch the bath bomb colour disperse inside the water in the bath tub and had a one hour long.

My bestfriend bought for me these cute bath bombs!





I wasn't feeling quite well on that day, I guess I had stomach flu and I vomited non-stop especially before bed time. So basically, I didn't really have anything left on my dear stomach. But D  was the sweetest, never fail to make for me Milo, so that I at least have something in my tummy before bed time.


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Stay tuned for the next update..

XOXO,
Princess Azie Anni ♥

Thursday, June 08, 2017

Selamat Berpuasa

Dear Diary,

I have been so busy ever since D and I got married and even days before when we were about to get married. So many things to prepare, so many things had to be settled that I didn't have a chance to blog about anything. Hehe! So truly sorry about that.

Syukur Alhamdulilah!

Our nikah & majlis or rather our solemnization & wedding reception went well. Everyone was happy with the food, they love my deco and just about everything about my wedding. Alhamdulilah! I still remember how worried I was few weeks before my wedding if everything is going to be okay and if everything will go smoothly.

I still remember too, how I wanted my wedding to be over soon but now looking back, well minus the bitter and sore things part about my wedding preps, everything is just beautiful - my kind of fairytale + twilight wedding. Hehehe!

I will blog slowly bit by bit about my wedding preparation when I have the time (hoping to find time now that I'm now actually a wife to someone - still feeling so surreal about this. Hehe!) And also to update on our mini honeymoon trip. Yassss! I'm actually blogging at work and I totally forgot to bring my hard disk to upload the necessary pictures. Blogging without pictures is boring.

So happily married to the man of my dream. Syukur Alhamdulilah!

And to all my Muslim friends,



XOXO,
Princess Azie Anni ♥

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

25 days till we get married.

Dear Diary,

Where do I begin? HAHAHAHA! It has almost been a month since I update anything about the wedding. Honestly, how do other BTB do it? So busy yet having time to update. Okay let's skip the little talks and move on to serious business. Cehhhh!


We're technically left with 25 days to date till our wedding day. Alhamdulilah and hooray to this! Can't imagine we've been through all the odds and obstacles together for the past months. Crazy ones especially that literally make me cry my eyeballs out + scream my lungs out. Okay a bit too dramatic on that one but somewhere around that line. HAHA!

Excited. Nervous but most of all, I just want to faster get it over and done with please, for now. 😜

D and I are currently on our pantang (superstitious) period already, pantang period yang tak menjadi. I'm unsure if his parents take the pantang period strictly because some parents do, except for mine. I was telling my cousin who just got married 2 days ago that D and I will keep up with our pantang days (macam faham) when he said "Awak nak pantang? Susah sehhh. Banyak benda nak kene settle together."

To be honest we have settle quite a few things already albeit for one more thing to buy for our dulang which is our perfume set. Honestly, I can just buy anything for him and he can just get me anything for a perfume. If I don't like then I'll get D to buy me another one after the wedding. HAHAHA! But most important of all, we realized our pantang cannot be truly fulfilled because we both haven't buy our bed set yet. Yes! I think this one we cannot just anyhow buy. I may agree with certain things and he doesn't and vice versa. Lalalala!

We will meet less or probably one less occasion to get our bed set or maybe twice or thrice. 😜 Because I don't think it will be as easy to make a decision for a bed set. It's a few years down the road investment kind k. It's a memory of our wedding day too, so we need to make a proper decision in this.

Till here. I was supposed to do other things on my honeymoon itinerary but I end up blogging. Well, better than never. Till I blog again, I promise.

XOXO,
Princess Azie Anni ♥

Monday, March 20, 2017

My Bridal Part 2

Dear Diary,

Last week I headed to my bridal again for the 2nd outfit selection. But now, I have everything nice to say about it. Hehehe! We were supposed to do the outfit selection on a weekend but I figure weekends will be busy for them, since I guess people who work office hours would prefer weekends appointment and they will have lesser time to "entertain" this fickle-minded girl. So I decided to do it on a weekdays instead. Still, we had to change to another weekday appointment from the first one because D has been OT-ing quite a bit.

I was afraid V would be annoyed at us because we kept changing the outfit selection appointment and we were planning to change our photoshoot date (after Hari Raya) as well. Hurhur! But thankfully V was very nice to us, to me. She even call me 'sayang' when texting me the other day (because they had to change our final fitting day a day earlier from the day we wanted) but I was contented. big grin

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I took half-day from work and D drove on that day. So he fetched me from work and drove down to where my bridal was located. Honestly, I was feeling slightly afraid that I might feel like how I felt during my first outfit selection but on a second note, I was ready to "brave through the storm." In any case, if anything not nice remarks were thrown at me, I'm going to be strong and just put on a deaf hear. HAHAHA!

But that day, everything was different......

The moment we reached their doorstep, V greeted us nicely. She asked me if I was feeling better and have a much clearer mind today compared to the previous day. I answered her 'hopefully'. We sat down and she asked me what kind of gowns or outfit I was looking for, for the photoshoot. I came prepared actually. A week before, I did my own research. I look through their website, their Instagram, their Facebook and even stream their videos to screenshot and select a few gowns that I prefer.

V was being very patience with me on that day, she told me to walk around to see which gown catches my eyes and D followed me too. Our package consist of 3 outfits for indoor photoshoot and 1 outfit for outdoor photoshoot. I have settle for one indoor outfit - traditional baju songket on the last appointment and thus, I'm left with 3 more outfits - 2 indoors and 1 outdoor.

All the gowns were big and flairs. There were just too many gowns there that I just couldn't decide right off the closet. So, I gave up and showed V pictures instead, of some of the gowns that I have already screenshot in my phone and this part of her I must praise. V knows her things well. One look at the 'white dress' that I showed her from my screenshot, she knew what dress I wanted and where exactly the dress was hang and took it down for me to see. Initially, I thought she wouldn't allow me to try because she was like "Confirm ah this dress?" And I don't want to sound very difficult, so I said "Yes confirm!". Then the best part came when she brought the dress to the fitting room and say "Later I let you try the gown." And asked me what other more outfit I wanted since I have 2 more outfits to choose for the photoshoot - 1 indoor outfit and 1 outdoor outfit.

No idea why but I'm always attracted to white gowns and white wedding outfit, probably because they always look nice and elegant, I look at another white but D was like "B, no more white eh. Semua baju you ambil white. Pick other colours lah at least." So bye bye white Hurmph and I picked 2 other wedding gowns in 2 different colours. A royal blue and a pink. So happy with the gown that I let go one of my traditional baju for the indoor photoshoot for a wedding gown. :zonked: I was happy with my royal blue gown, it was a bustier dress. You should seen on V's face when I picked that dress, she was like "This one tube dress tau." Because she knows D was very conservative much. Lolols! Sadly, the dress couldn't be brought out for outdoor photoshoot because it's long and heavy. I was feeling slightly disappointed at that point of time because I have already set my mind on it and would really love to wear the royal blue dress for my outdoor photoshoot. Unfortunately, you don't always get what you want.

I then had trouble choosing the last outfit for the outdoor photoshoot because basically all the outfit I shortlisted were for indoor photoshoot, they were the long and heavy kinds. cry Some colours for the outdoor outfit were not very much to my liking and they have many outdoor photoshoot gown in white ones which D told me 'No more white' and as much as possible to go for other colours since I already picked 2 whites. So I picked one 'red' gown out of curiosity and V asked me if I wanted to try it on, even though I don't really like the colour 'red' for a photoshoot since it's a bit too Chinese-y but I was left with no choice.

My favourite colour has always been red but I guess as I grow older, red doesn't seems to be my favourite colour of dressing anymore but when I tried on the gown and seeing myself in 'red', I some sort like it. And the good thing the 'red' gown could be interchangeable into a bustier dress or you can wear a lace over to make it look less sexy. LOL! V was suggesting the lace because she knows D is a conservative about my clothing. But for some reason, D allow me to wear it without the lace for the outdoor photoshoot since he said it's going to be hot and he doesn't want me to feel uncomfortable. Hooray!

And while I was busy trying out on the gowns with V inside the changing room, D was already being very "helpful" to himself with the blazers on the open closet. He was already so busy choosing the different blazers to match my gown and looking at the mirror. Hahahaha! V whispered to me while in the changing room telling me D is busy choosing blazers for himself which is probably the reason why he is being slightly "lenient" for me to wear the bustier dress and "can't be bothered" on my dressing today. LOL!

After the selection, we sat down and V took our measurement. At this very moment, I have finally brace through the favourite part of my wedding process. Alhamdulilah! V also said she will just adjust the 'red' gown's lace to my measurement for me in case last minute D or I wanted the lace on during the photoshoot. HAHAHA! Probably hinting to D's leniency that day which could change during the photoshoot day and my fickle-mindedness. Lol!

Came back home feeling happy on that day. V was very patience with me and I got what I wanted except not feeling very much content with the red dress but it's alright. It looks pretty somehow. And my late mom always say "Orang kalau dah cantik, pakai apa pun tetap cantik."

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Feeling curious what red gown my sister wore during her photoshoot since she also wore one red gown and we took the same bridal, I told her to send me her photoshoot pictures and guess what? We chose the SAME red gown. HAHAHAHA!

After that my thoughts are filled with if I should change to another wedding gown or should I just leave it as it is? Hmmm... Till here. See you bridal again in 2 months time!!

XOXO,
Princess Azie Anni ♥

Friday, March 10, 2017

Ayer Hitam

Dear Diary,

Last week weekend D's family and I headed to Ayer Hitam, JB intention to look for our berkat and other wedding necessities there. It was sweet on his family side to bring me along as well since there is no one in my family particularly could drive me there and since I am the ONLY person who settle almost everything about my wedding - ON MY OWN. Haiz!

It was a long drive to the place but of course not that long compared heading to KL by car. Probably about an hour and a half long drive. And we stopped in between places for toilet break and breakfast before reaching our destination. D's parents and sister had prata while D had Nasi Lemak and I had rice + asam pedas + spinach and kalian vegetables for myself. I THINK his family probably looked at me slightly surprised, probably thinking that I could really eat. =X But...that's just me in the morning, I usually have super heavy breakfast and slow down on lunch and nothing or probably as light as drinking just a glass of milk for dinner.

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Ayer Hitam, JB

Upon reaching, I was so happy to see the whole stretch filled with wedding stuff. From your gubahan (wedding tray), bunga pahar, sirih dara and sirih junjung deco etc etc etc and definitely wedding favours which can be bought at a much much cheaper price there. Considering the RM rate VS sgd rate now, so why not.

We walked down the stretch of shops when one shop caught his parents' attention (no apparent reason) and so we went in. Just happened, everything they wanted can be found in that shop and we decided to buy everything from that one shop. The tactic is:- The more you buy, the more you can bargain, the lesser you pay, hopefully.

I realized it says no camera but I kinda snap the photos already. =X Hehehe!

Ayah has already decided to give 'Telur asin' (Salted egg) as my wedding favours. Egg is really the traditional and classic kind of wedding favour which I love about and it also signifies fertility. Examples of different 'Egg wedding favors'

 
 
Cute rightttt?

While, D parents decided to give a more practical favour on his side - a towel. Examples of 'Towel wedding favors'

 
 

I wanted to give towel too initially but a lot of my colleagues doesn't really fancy towels because they said they have too many towels at home. Lol! So I decided not to give them something they don't want, afraid they will dump it away. :zonked: I really want to give something that people would use/like/eat.

Anyway, D's parents bought 700 of those towels which was pre-packed nicely in a cute little box (really) and stuffed everything inside the car. It was funny how we came empty handed and headed back home full with stuff inside the car that we can't even see our face. Lol! I bought another wedding favours just for my non-muslim friends and other friends, who prefer to have things that they can 'keep' to remember my wedding day because some of my friends are sentimental like that. :biggrin: They said if they received food favours, once it's consumed, it will be gone and nothing to be remembered of. But for us Malay/Muslim people who have always attended weddings, we usually prefer food favors because we don't want it to be space consuming and to collect dust at home. But to each its own, so I have 3 favours altogether to cater to people wants.

I went to Larkin, JB as mentioned the other time and I bought Hand fans. I think its quite practical since Singapore is so hot nowadays and I've seen many people carry hand fans everywhere. Examples of 'Hand fan wedding favor'

 
 
Pretty designs aren't they?

I wanted to get more hand fans because the last time I didn't buy much of it but sadly, Ayer Hitam doesn't carry anymore hand fan.  I wanted to get 'Coasters' as the next option BUT they don't carry coasters as well. So I had to look for another option for wedding favour. This time something else caught my eyes and I found it quite practical as well,

 
 

Tadaaaaa! No amount of fork and spoon is ever enough? Lol! To those friends who don't prefer to carry hand fans around (probably guys especially), they can bring home this. Hehehehe!

Okay, the slightly complicated part comes in when I have to distribute the wedding favours on the wedding day itself, because not everybody will get the egg, the hand fan and the fork+spoon. I have to find ways on how to distribute the wedding favors to the right person. But Insyaallah, I'll get my Bridesmaid to help me with that. Sorry Bridesmaid, you all cannot just sit down and look pretty, everybody's gotta work, work, work and help, help, help around. Hehehe!

Uh, the many beautiful bunga pahar that was available there. This is only a few of them. They have a lot of it! Different colours that I wish I could buy ALL of it.



Not bad right the price? And I should have bought 2 boxes lahhh. Tsk!

We even ordered Sirih Dara and Sirih Junjung there as well and to be collected only by next week. And Ayah wasn't too please that our sirih was actually plastic. =X Because my dad is more of the traditional kind whereas D's parents said, nowadays nobody eat sirih, thus, plastic ones will do. Hurhur! But I'll look into it how, I'll try to learn if I can make one because I still remember that I actually did Adik's sirih dara 2 years ago during her wedding. I remembered some of my superstitious auntie was telling me not to touch it. According to them 'Anak dara cannot do sirih dara' BUT...Mama was terribly sick on that day, she was lying down fighting and battling her cancer pain and Mak long was doing the sirih dara all alone by herself. I couldn't help it, so I just put on a deaf hear and helped Mak Long with Adik's sirih dara.

All in all, we were supposed to head to another place to look for many other wedding stuff but due to the many amount of loots we bought back, we decided to just head home. Lol! So people, if you have a car or a vehicle to travel to the other side of Malaysia to look for wedding stuff at a cheaper price - Ayer Hitam is the answer to your everything. But you really have to bargain your way (which is what D's mom did and she is really good at bargaining. Lol!) because they know a lot of Singaporeans come over to buy from them. Alternatively, Larkin (Joo Bee) shop too.

Haiz! Even blogging about this Ayer Hitam place makes me want to go back there again because I still have many things to buy but sadly, I have no vehicle to travel there....  And I don't want to trouble D's parents anymore.

Till here people.

XOXO,
Princess Azie Anni ♥