Turning Twenty Sixty

a year has passed and last 2 months ago it was my birthday. huhuu. a bit down that i've passed the quarter decade mark but then again, when i turned 24 i was melancolic too. hehe. (yet another year without him next to me on my birthday.haih)

the fact is.. im so freakin blessed to have the people around me for their small & big gestures on making the day i dont celebrate so much quite a special one. it doesnt take much to make me happy. i only make it compulsory for the closest in my life to remember dates like this (thank u korg u know who u are. i miss u all so much T_T) & yes.. i was happy & fat on my bday.weeee

13.04.2011

patut amek cuti je tido seharian kat rumah. but that would be just sad. and too lonely for me (hubby xde di sisi) so i went to the office jugak.

eventho hubby cakap tahun ni xde special delivery pasal nanti aku bosan, hehe, dia tetap hantar a cute bunch of roses wif mint chocs (my favourite flavour) ohhh, i love u sayang!!
lunch hour my bubbling bubbies brought me to Levain boulangerie patisserie (mmg aku copy paste saje nama tu psl susah nak eja) off Jalan Imbi. The girls treated me to breads & deserts & my first tasting of macaroons (ok i have tasted macaroons at hotel buffets tapi first try MANIS gila trus aku dislike) . but the macaroons at Levain were quite ok. especially the hazelnut praline flavour :)

tq my sygs alin, maj & mami juyaaaa

back to the office had another suprise waiting :) my office colleagues bought me a cake! eventho we have a quarterly budget to spend on birthdays every 3 months (so patutnya my birthday would be celebrated in June) dorg still belikan bday cake just for me :) kak huda & kak noly lah dalangnye. tq akaks !! me loves u so much!!

macam pose menahan perut je aku kan. habisss diet

(one candle jeh, im officially a year older)

bgambar reramai, skali dgn boss,

it was fun wlaupun rmai lagi yang cuti

after work made a date with alin & syafiq to just hang around klcc. another chance to get me fat. yes. memang berjaya. we ended up melantak kat nandos, syafiq tulun habiskan my food as well (hehe) then yet another set of bday cupcakes :) red velvet (makes me think of my bestfriend kayeeee)

beria dorg ni amek gambar bday girl pastu xreti upload. chets.

thank you darlings for temaning me lepak that nite :)

kesimpulannya i had a fatty birthday. thanx to the people around me for being there, despite my husband, my bestfriends were not with me (all over msia & the world, huu sedih), I really appreciate all your efforts to make me 'the single girl' feel so much less lonely (terharu sebak masih bila teringat)

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well that was how my middle-of-the-week birthday went. GEMUK KAN? gemuk tapi happy. eheheh. ouh, like many other bloggers, nuffnang bagi email 2 days earlier "As part of the TGV Birthday Surprise for Nuffnangers, you've been selected to receive FOUR (4) complimentary passes for any movie* at TGV Cinemas outlets nationwide, which we hope will make your birthday a special one indeed :)"

oh yes indeed! free movie passess of course make any day special :) alin temaned me to pick up the tickets at the Heritage House , Jln Yap Ah Shak

blogging (eventho not so much of income for an anti-social blog like mine)

does has its sweet advantages eyh?

I saved the tickets to go watch Rio at KLCC with my hubby come that saturday!

love birds like us

after the movie, we went home & got ready for a romantic dinner up at the revolving restaurant at KL Tower (hubby's second suprise bday treat). ok pengakuan, eventho I live & work in KL , despite my high school is on the same hill as KL Tower, I have NEVER gone up it, penah sampai paling dekat pun kat entrance bawah je. haha

ramai birthdays malam tu so the cake was at the desert table

end up hubby terchentah yang tersandar kekenyangan . thank u syg for the wonderful night out and I LOVE YOUU (as if you didn't know already)

p/s: oh and when i was in Ipoh my kekasihs abducted me from the expo & treated me to a bday cake slice & Secret Recipe..weee. ipoh style! tq sayangs!

FaizalAzwin : Reception Video [301010]

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FaizalAzwin : BAJAU FAIRYTALE [301010]

Date : 30 OCTOBER 2010

Time : 8.00 AM - 3.00 PM (ketibaan pengantin, 11 AM)

Location : Kampung Dambai (Pengalat), Papar, Sabah

Theme : Bajau

kesinambungan entry terdahulu..on an early beautiful saturday morning after sleeping for (almost) 3 hours, we woke up to take our showers & solat subuh & to get ready for the reception. We changed into our bride & groom t-shirts (wajib!) and me & hubby took turns pakai inai (memang instant habis! hehe) helped by my bro & sis-in-laws, dila & fadhli :)

while we were waiting for our henna to dry off (hubby occasionally dozing off to sleep), my darling 'PuRe arrived :) yays! walaupun they were all dressed up and were actually supposed to be my wedding guests, tetap aku mintak dorg teman & help me out (i love u gals foreverrr)!

(macam askar2 to the rescue je ok)

outside the wedding was already going on, with the kulintangan (the alat music) playing beautifully in the background, us dengan kelam kabut angkut all our outfits and me non-stop on the phone with my videographer & make-up artist, we hurried off to hubby's uncle's house across the road. We were gonna get ready there.

Masa tu dah almost 8am, but org kampung ramai yang dah sampai and tngah makan-makan, so we tried to blend in with our t-shirt & jeans (kantoi a bit coz we were carrying our gold outfits!) and my syg kna tahan la 2-3 kali org ajak dia borak to wish congrats, hehe (ok another kantoi point was our screaming t-shirts kan? haha)

after safely arriving at uncle ghulam's house i went to put in my contact lens (oh for ALL my receptions i wore contacts, yg effect nmpk mata besar tu, 'FreshLook Illuminate' ~without any power), sangat best contacts nih, especially since im a first time user, ehehe (oppp selingan plak)..me jabbing my eyes & make up & syg gets down to bisnes, briefing his bro's on the tentative program (which he planned & i typed the day before)

and then it was make-up time!

sementara tu c-nah tolong make-up kan my pengapit. hee

lepas itu, sesi memakai baju bajau traditional,

memang perlukan bantuan dari yang pakar ;)

terasa macam princess zaman dulu (hahah)

after we were all ready & made up, we climbed into our cousins car for a ride to the 'usungan', with was about 600 meters away

sempat, mesti sempat

we had two cute-dressed up horses and a

kompang group to lead us to the reception

our 'usungan', kenderaan yang dihias seperti perahu

INFO: There are different customs for each suku kaum, my father-in-law is from the suku-kaum Bajau Samah (Bajau Darat), thus it is also different for the customs practiced for those berketurunan datu (nadhirah i pinjam ur link k, sgt informative). Maka, bagi kaum bajau yang bukan berketurunan "Datu" (seperti Faizal & Azwin), usungan yang mereka naiki berbentuk perahu.

lovely blue sky on our wedding reception day

 (despite it being rainy for the whole week, we were truly blessed)

heheh, the groom waving to his neighbours

we caused the small traffic jam :D

when we reached our house syg went off the usungan first

anddd...as the truck apperently did not have a small ladder, thus came the sweet gesture that all the wedding guests thought as our suprise gimmick. and i honestly tell u now. all of that was totally unplanned!

after getting off the usungan, we were lead to the pelamin

before we were to proceed to the dais,

 we had traditional dancers performing

(oh yeah, the male dancers lebih lentik dari pengantin perempuan u olls!)

then uncle nih bawak ktorg round depan pelamin,

x ingat brape kali, 3/4, ktorg tak tahu kenapa, follow saje

our traditional pelamin that i am so proud of my hubby of!

 (will story on details later)

us on the bajau wedding dais :)

our emcee (green shirt) & pembaca doa

then it was time for the merenjis ceremony

mama my beautiful

abah merenjis camera man skali :D

father-in-law salam semua including pengapit

getting blessings from nenek bongsu :)

we had fun on our wedding dais!

then we got off the pelamin to mingle around

and 'acting' to eat for the cameras.

meanwhile music & dancers entertained the guests

our Uncle Ghulam also sang, his voice is Amazing!!!

we joined in the 'Manuk-Manuk' dance

us running away from the dance, hehe

then it was picture time :)

us with the kulintangan music players.

 we look so costumed-up

my loves (hakim je xde, demam so dia tido somewhere)

my kekasihs (plus another 3 not in the pic)

with my in-laws

then we went to the nearby beach for a brief outdoor shoot,

but it was a drizzly afternoon (hujan rahmat) hee

p/s: this entry is named 'fairytale' as that is how our uncle & cousins called it..it did feel magical tho

p/p/s: next up -our official sabah reception vid