Until I really have time (and mood) to write a proper travelog for our India trip, here’s the first video featuring Delhi (New and Old Delhi) with Az throughout the clip and no ilyani!! >.< Coz the camcoder filming was my job, and he does the photo. Enjoy.
Excuse for low-quality, I just did smallest resolution possible in movie maker. I could have opt for HD but uploading (and streaming) with slower connection isn’t fun.
For the past one year I have come across many visitors arriving at this post of mine when they google ‘DIY pelamin’ or something, and while I am so impressed with the fact that my pelamin photo was featured among the first results on Google image, I feel regret for that post being too wordless and couldnt even describe a thing. But hey, I was busy preparing the wedding and writing a decent blog post during those days was almost, nearly impossible. So now, after reaching a year LOL, let me describe what’s that that I really did myself (and what’s not).
I guess it’s understood that what I meant by DIY pelamin is that, I didnt hire someone, like wedding planner, mak andam, package, or anyone to set it up. Everything was pretty much done by myself, or rather, my family and me. But the DIY was my idea afterall, and I had to do it on my own, in order to stop my mum renting from countless wedding packages she was looking around. I was so much opposing renting from wedding package because 1) I dont want to waste my parents’ money when I had none 2) most of them are either too ugly or too expensive 3) I believed I was born to be creative and I could set it up better on my own 4) I was being a horribly introvert bride-to-be and didnt fancy alot of people (especially strangers) at my house, so the idea of having wedding planner crews around me was rather unacceptable (okay, I am weird). 5) If you rent the pelamin package they only set it up 1-2 days before the wedding, and will take it out just the next day after the wedding ends, no? I started drafting the setting a few weeks ahead (slow and steady), got ready by 2 days before the wedding, and the pelamin remained untouched for the next one whole month at the living room corner! :P (it would have remained until today if it wasn’t my mum berleter asking us to unset and clear the area ASAP). So we literally got one month time to camwhore on the pelamin until we really got bored.
So my pelamin consists of:
1) The arch: probably I wasnt able to DIY if I didnt inherit this wedding arch from my aunt (she got married around 5 years ago, and the family bought the arch at RM500 I guess, so it can be said I inherited the DIY idea also ^_^)
2) Flowers: I chose brown and white flowers, some green leaves during a shopping with my mum at Pengkalan Kubur (my aunt dragged us here claiming the stuff were cheap, but later when I entered some craft shop in KB the price wasnt that different =.=) Cost around RM100. Oh yeah, I arranged the flowers by my own!
3) Satin fabric, two tones: golden and white.. around 15 meters each? Cant remember. But it was cheap: RM2/meter, and my mum is a loyal customer at this fabric shop in KB so the tokey gave discount some more. The beige satin piece was inherited from my aunty’s wedding ^_^ So I got two tones as the background, and white satin to wrap the arch, also the stage. Cost around RM30. The wrapping and hanging and twisting the fabric was done by me, as well.
4) The stage. Ask a neighbor’s favor who has the skill :) He made the stage out of plywood.
5,6) Some more flowers: this time bought at KB, with some laces, ribbons small flowers for hantaran, all around RM100.
7) Long rug: old one that is already at home.
8) Jati bench. This wasn’t me. It was my dad who insisted to buy this, RM500. I was only thinking to use whatever chair available at home. Nevermind.
9, 10) Alas kaki, golden shoes, small pillow, hand fan: all these accessories which I didnt need and didnt want, but the chronology like this: My grandma wanted us to wear Songket costumes -> need to rent them last minute although I had more than enough of wedding dresses already -> my mum dragged me to go and choose to rent one -> mum asked the package to give those accessories FOC. Sigh.
11) Spot light! This was my greatest idea among all.. I went to buy 2 sets of lights, small one to light up the background, and 2 powered ones were attached at the top in front of the pelamin, like this:
Coz this closed area next to the living room was a bit dark and couldnt get too much natural light because of the windows facing to the car porch. I cant remember how much.. but I guess less than RM50. There was someone who helped us attach the light up there.. I cant remember who, it’s either from people who came to set up the outdoor canopy, or the one who change mum’s new curtain. But those spotlights remain attached there until today.. probably can be useful for my sister’s future pelamin ^_^”
The awesome lighting effect of the spot light + the satisfaction of convincing everyone that I REALLY did the pelamin on my own = happily smiling bride.
Not so good news to my dear friends in Europe, Bunny hereby declares that I am still too poor to make a trip to France in any near future. The only exception is if MYR to have an equal value to Euros, but that’s unlikely to happen.
On the other hand, 2012 will be coming with a new mission to work so hard coz we have an adventure to accomplish :)
We’ll be in the center of Asia mainland in April.
I dont bother to know the number of posts I have managed to write in this year, as much as I dont see any point of even writing blogs anymore. Az occasionally asks why I havent updated my blog as much I used to do before, when he never really stops me, and on the other hand, always encourages me to continue writing, for this blog has been the place he found me. It puts me into a realization that the actual reason why I blogged so much back then, was because I practically had nobody who’s ready to (read: forced to) listen to my ramblings and whines and cries and all the emergency things I need to tell somebody right now, any second, any minute, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. So, writing something in a blog suddenly becomes redundant lately, which is hard to explain why.
Well, I got a new job in Damansara Heights. Since August, actually, so it’s been a while. I would say it’s a dream job of mine when you speak about distance. I can go out at 9am and manage to reach office in 20 minutes, and yes, I love the flexible working hour this company has. And being in an organization with a lot of people, suddenly I feel small myself, prefer not to be so loud. Hmm and I come to think ilyani.net could be too identity-revealing. I should move so somewhere discreet with an anonymous nickname.
I have a plan (read: dream) to visit Paris next year. Paris and Colmar, at least. The budget looks impossible so far, but let’s see if I can make it.
I’ve always wanted to think that my absence from my routine from pre-job (also, pre-married) time was entirely because of hectic career life I’ve been having ever since. Say blogging, Postcrossing, writing letters, taking Bunny pics, chatting on forum, FB, etc etc.. all those activities I never failed to miss regularly. OK let me get it straight, I rather blame my job for stealing all my time but truth is I am in denial from blaming myself being a wife who is always too busy being with her husband to do anything else =,= Her husband who apparently seems to be comfortably at home all time.
Maybe it’s half true. Coz at this hour over a weekend I’m all alone sitting at home while Az is out having his own time outside, which is odd, and it’s me suddenly having time writing this post! I had a long pending post about New Delhi and it’s been more than a month T__T and I dont know if anyone is still interested to read it anymore. (Or maybe, if I still have the mood to continue blogging about the trip anymore). Worse, I’ll just keep it for the sake of our own memories only.
Oh and I’ve resigned from my job (YIPPIE!) and am in transition on moving to a new place, which currently is still unknown. *sigh*