November 15th, 2010 | Wedding,WordPress |
Refering my last post regarding wedding website.
Haiyoh. Maybe I hadnt searched well enough. I did overlook this really cool awesome features.
FlashXML!!!!!!!!
They dont only have image slider plugin that I was having hard time finding one that I like, but zillions other yummy flash components that I simply wanna eat em all!! XD
Okay, they’re not edible, but look at this! *drools* @_@
And did I say I have almost zero knowledge in Flash? But I dont need it in order to get FlashXML stuff on my WordPress sites :D So, better than those glam looking ready made Flash wedding site template. (this was the one I had the urge to purchase. And I mean purchase without me knowing how to edit that! LOL, but now my money is safe.)
So!! This is my current image slider for the wedding website (which was the best I found, until yesterday :P, sorry!)
Therefore, I’m hereby announcing, that my wedding site will be combination of this theme plus some features from FlashXML ;) YEAH!
The result?
Well, you have to wait till I start working on it, possibly the first thing I’ll do after I finish my viva! ^_^
November 13th, 2010 | Leisure,Wedding |
Yep, you read it right. Wedding website. I hope it’s not that surprising.
Okay, perhaps that’s the only thing in my mind when it comes to preparation for the wedding. I can design a pretty website yeayy!! :D
I was in a huge conflict weather to use flash template or be loyal to WordPress. I mean, look at this and this and this. Arent they irresistible? I was so tempted to purchase one of the templates even though I really doubt if I’m knowledgeable enough to edit the flash content. And, months ago I came across WeddingKami project which develops online flash wedding invitation (yes, save the earth by not sending paper invitation card – they’re going to trash bin anyway) and couldnt help but fall in love with the flash animation. But they’re more into invitation purpose only.
I wanted something many-things-in-one-place. Invitation, gallery, blog, message board. And maybe wishlist page of what to get for gifts :P (though that would be funny knowing that I actually hardly have friends whom I think would really come to my wedding all the way from wherever-they-live). Anyways.
Back to the website, I finally turned down flash and chose to be loyal to WordPress ^_^. And I found a great theme for it, but as it doesnt come with anything dynamic like image slider, I had to go around looking for a one. I have used vSlider for my serviced apartment website which isgood enough, and many other plugins that gives the boxes effect, but I wanted a fade or slide kind of effect without boxes. Anyway, I have been doing this secretly once in a while whenever I found a few minutes to waste once I get too overloaded with my thesis project stuff and want to relax my mind with something leisure ;D (like for example, at this moment when I waste time writing this blog post). Though it’s so tempting I dont want to work on this website right now coz I’m supposed to be doing my project and it’s still not the time yet!
But dont blame me as when I was reading feeds on my Google reader yesterday, I came across this article and it gave me the thing I’ve been looking for all this while!!! (there were many similar articles before but didnt find what I want). The plugin!! And after trying one after another, I decided to go for this one called Photo Galleria :) which gives fade/slide/flash effect, whichever you choose! It’s so cool!! And I instantly got it onto the website just now, though the editing will be left for later. Yes, later, I promise! I wont be too excited about this thing right now and continue focusing on my thesis writing. I must not work on the website now. I. Must. Not. Okay? Are you happy?
I think I wont be announcing the website before it finishes. Although, if you’re curious…
:)
November 10th, 2010 | Life |
November 6th, 2010 | General,Life |
Pre-marriage course. Note to my foreign friends: the marriage law in Malaysia needs people to undergo a short (usually 2 days) course before they can apply for a marriage. You’ll be given a certificate, which literally qualifies you to get married in this country. Or something like that. What do they teach you in the pre-marriage course? Marriage stuff, of course :P (dont ask me, I’ve never been to any, yet, so I have no idea).
Well, Az is in the hometown attending his pre-marriage course today (today & tomorrow, in fact). I hope he really pays attention, instead of falling asleep in there (which I wont be surprised if he is anyway, knowing that he stayed up last night for work =.=).
Me? I have not yet attended any course, and it makes sense that I’m supposed to do it too, probably soon. But I’m in between busy and lazy, and how could you expect that I can occupy my mind with another sudden new thingy like speeches about marriage and laws when right now all I know is a huge partition of my mind is fully occupied with questions like what on earth is this (2p+1)x(2p+1) window in this image Fuzzy algorithm?? I mean, window??? What window?? Cant I use the image size mxn instead like most algorithm to work on every image pixel? And why I need to solve other people’s methods in the first place when I already got mine working and giving result? Why make it so complicated?? Agh.
Nevermind.
Back to topic, the pre-marriage course. It’s actually finally I know the useful thing with the fact that I went to religious high school before, and with the Kelantan State Marriage Law’s Dept is actually giving me the privilege to be exempted from taking the pre-marriage course as I did the Sijil Menengah Ugama (SMU) exam back then during Form 4 and I own the SMU exam certificate, and I dont know the relevance is, but it doesnt matter coz WHAT MATTERS IS I DONT NEED TO GO PREMARRIAGE COURSE IN ORDER TO GET MARRIED! Yay. It does save my life now.
Never mind the fact that I barely remember anything of the Fiqh subject I studied for the SMU cert – which covered a bit of many things of Islamic marriage laws (come on, it’s 10 years ago, and doesnt everyone learn things at school for the sake of exam only and later we forget everything?).
Not that I object the idea of going to the course – going anyway even though I’m fully qualified for an exemption (ceh, cakap besar pulak hehe), but I think in this critical time I’ll just make use of the exemption for the marriage application purpose, coz I really dont have time and mood and a sane mind to go some formal and spiritual and legal session like that. At least not now. Okay, maybe I’m a bit lazy actually. And I’m not ready. For the purpose of polishing back the knowledge, maybe I’ll go to the course after the marriage, if needed. Can or not? ^_^
November 1st, 2010 | India,Travel |
I guess it’s time for me to announce officially here that WE ARE GOING TO INDIA IN APRIL 2011! Got very cheap deal for AirAsia the other week so we thought no further! :P Total price of RM858 for return tickets for two persons (including taxes, luggage, insurance, airport bus etc) to New Delhi, isnt that a real bargain?
Well the reason I keep holding from talking about this to the world is coz when I think again, I know it seems weird that I’m busy planning for the trip with my (to-be) husband even before thinking and planning about wedding =.= I do look way more excited with the trip than the wedding even though it makes sense that the trip comes after the wedding. In fact, months after the wedding >.< I dont know, say I’m a weird species, I dont mind. I dont know if I ever plan anything regarding the wedding and kenduri yet. Ugh.
OHHOHO, forget the wedding, it’s not important yet :P let’s discuss about India, shall we?
Roughly that is our plan for now. Since India is too big and we can barely cover 5% of it for a 2 week trip, so we decided to go to somewhere important first. Actually the word ‘important’ isnt right here, coz all places are important, so basically we wanted to go to somewhere we feel like going first. Of course, New Delhi as it’s where we’re landing and it’s the capital, and Agra to see Taj Mahal (speaking of Taj Mahal, kindly check my post in the postcard blog with Taj Mahal postcards I received) and also India postcards in my Flickr doesnt that justify that I really need to go and see those for real? :)
And. Az suggested that we go to Kashmir. Simply coz we can have snow in the mountain there. Though in April I cant expect snowfall like winters, but it still DOES have snow in some places in Kashmir in April! We have to learn about safety there as well, and I joined some forums like IndiaMike to get to know more about the place, where to stay, what to see, the transport, hotels, etc. It sounds like a huge work to make this independent trip, but it’s been exciting planning so far! :D Our route will be: New Delhi -> Amritsar (meeting my old penpal Manu there) -> Jammu -> Srinagar -> Gulmarg/Pahalgam/Sonamarg -> Jammu -> New Delhi -> Agra -> Fatehpur Sikri -> New Delhi. Do I sound like a travel expert already? :P
And like I said in previous post about CouchSurfing, we’re looking forward to experience a few days surfing at some hosts along the way to make the “Get to know India” mission more real, and we’ve actually contacted a couple of people for the purpose and got some lovely, welcoming response :) Therefore it’s a good news, and the more I’m impatient about the trip!