Please dont panic!

Just realised i got another 102 days to go until my nikah day and i have NOT finalized anything yet. From the wedding gown to the wedding dais =s breathe in breathe out~ fuh fuh fuh!

i was so hooked up with the room renovations and activity men-survey for its accessories and our wedding invitations =s Plus, for the past two weeks, we had family weddings including this week and the following week and even on xmas day and 1st January next year.

I must stay focus on the wedding preps and spare some of my own time to prepare eveything. Tawakkal and usaha. InsyaAllah dipermudahankan  Allah. aminnn..

Now back to the wedding preps. 

I've had appointments for my wedding dias and wedding gowns. InsyaAllah will spare some one or two hours for our second appointment this week to re-confirm everything =)

Last week one of the selected vendor came for the room measurement for the flooring and wallpaper. And hopefully by next week (cos this week will be another hectic family wedding activities), i'll get a different vendor to come over to measure the wall for our customized wardrobes and other furnitures.

This week "Must Do List":

1. Send materials for my Nikah dress.

 - Tailor - selected!

 - Design - confirmed! 

 - Veil - need to check the cheapest veil in town, otherwise sewa saja (price ranges from $30-$60)

 - Nikah accessories - tbc

2. Wedding gown.

 - Colour and design have been proposed, waiting to get feedback from the shop.

 - Get measurement for both bride & groom to be.

3. Bed selection - i've been trying to make a decision since the past 2 weeks. And surprise! surprise! one of the selected shop called last week and gave me a good promotion (from 1.3 k to 1k and now up for grab for only $888!) but the fiance don't really fancy the design as much as i do. 

Nya, 'simple banar eh'. T_T So might decided the other bed (our first choice awal2 hari atu) Hopefully, i can get them to order the bed this week and sampai prolly by end of december or mid january next year, insyaAllah.

3. Down payment and to confirm the wedding theme for all the 3 events - Nikah, berbedak and sanding for both bride and groom side. 

4. To decide my MUA for Nikah & berbedak. Alhamdulillah, MUA for sanding confirmed udah =)

5. Call and make appointment with a vendor to measure my wall for the customized wardrobes & furnitures.

Utk menghilangkan rasa 'panic' saya and biskita, i'll list down what has been done so far. hehe

1. Caterer - Alhamdulillah. Booking done last september for all 3 events. 

2. Pengangun - booked! pengangun yg sama masa my brother and my other 2 cousins =)

3. Wedding invitation - Draft completed. Proof-read by the parents. Kan choose the best price saja lagi. We went to the popular vendor, and honestly i was shocked! Dulu price nya nda jua cani ani =s so we opt to survey the price in miri, kl and indonesia. 

3. Room renovation - 40% completed? The contractor need to rise the flooring saja lagi to balance it, supaya sama level with the room yg kana extend and paint the walls. 

Once this part is completed, i can get my vendor to start installing the laminated floor and tampal the wallpaper for my feature wall, get my bed, mattress, carpets and tv. 

4. Hantaran

We came to an agreement that we will have atleast 10 hantaran and max. 15 only.

Bride - 5/10 (atleast half of the list dpt udah. hehe)

Groom - 2/11 (ini fiance memilih wooo =p)

5 needs to be done and only 4 half half done, so far. Kira okey lah tu.. ehehehe *ketawa nerbes*

*tarekk napas panjangg.....*

- Live. Love.Laugh xx

One quick post!

Im in love with her pelamin & baju! Simple yet elegant.

& i like this too!

Credits to Arma Couture, she got great collections for engagement, nikah and sanding.

You can refer to my regional wedding boutique link on the right bar =)

one of my fav - made locally. kudos to him!!

- Live. Love.Laugh xx

Room progress continues

Hello lovelies~


I've mentioned about wallpaper in my previous post, where the fiance & i managed to get the best price in town after weeks of surveying and benchmarking. We came across around 4-5 shops and the price varies from 100+ to 250 per roll (excluding the installation cost). I remembered one shop that quote me above 300 per roll, in an instant i lost interest to con't further discussions. i even tried to changed the subject - curtains etc,  but i failed. hehe.


Here's some of the few pics that i managed to get, from several interior deco shop. the simple wallpaper cost around 100+ to 250 per roll, and the texture type cost around $3 - 4.50 per sq.feet.

a mixture of gold and silver - not bad.

a retro style

the texture wallpaper.

i got the zen style wallpaper and some several others, but i couldnt find where i kept it.

will update more in the next post =)

- Live. Love.Laugh xx 

The room progress..

Im dying to write a post since last week but have'nt got the time to sit down, relax and post at proper entry. Im actually rushing for this entry as well, ada appointment in the next 1/2 hr. So, here it goes....


The room is still in progress, and the plastering work finally completed. I've make a re-appointment with the flooring vendor to measure my room today. Yikes! They supposed to come last wednesday or thurs, but it got delayed, pasal cuti raya qurban, so i gave them cuti. hehe.


Here's the latest picture of the room. It used to be the garage and was converted to my room, hence the ceiling is low. Im sooooo looking forward to complete the room, so i can start buying the bed, wardrobe etc2.hehe

See that red+blue pole, andang sengaja ku biarkan so that i can do a dance pole nanti. lol! i kid! 


The pole cant be remove since its the original tiang rumah. Removing it means, the house wont be stable. im not sure what u call it, tiang utama kah or kepala tiang rumah? i leave that to the expert to answer. 


The fiance and i had also survey for the wallpapers for our room. It took us 3 weeks to find the best price and for the wallpapers. We also have decided on the colour scheme to match the wallpaper. YAYYYY! double celebration to that! hehe.


Will con't the post on the flooring and wallpaper in the next entry =)

- Live. Love.Laugh xx

Khasiat Taugeh

Got this email from a friend of mine. Worth to share for all the ladies out there.


Im not a big fan of taugeh. Actually, i'm not a big fan of anything that comes in green, hehe. Might start to change the daily menu slowly =)

Menu TAUGE untuk hidangan makan tengah hari mahupun makan malam sering kali dipandang sebelah mata oleh kebanyakan kita.

Tauge dilihat sebagai hidangan yang langsung tidak menyelerakan.

Tapi tahukah anda, tauge yang kerap kali menjadi pilihan terakhir untuk dijadikan sayur ini sebenarnya mempunyai banyak khasiat.

Tauge dikatakan mampu menyumbang kepada kesuburanlelaki dan wanita. Pengambilan tauge oleh kaum lelaki mampu membuatkan sperma yang dihasilkan oleh golongan ini makin baik. Begitu juga wanita, ia cukupberkesan membantu kesuburan telur yang dihasilkan.

Bagaimanapun, khasiat tauge tidak sekadar penyumbang kesuburan, ia juga terbukti melalui kajian mengandungi bahan yang dapat melumpuhkan bibit kanser, usus besar, pankreas dan juga penyakit leukimia.

Mengikut kajian yang dijalankan tauge sama ada dari jenis kacang hijau, alfalfa dan sebagainya mengandungi banyak unsur fitokimia ya berkhasiat. Salah satunya ialah kanavanin (canavanine), sejenis asid yang amino. Kanavanin, dikatakan mampu melumpuhkan bibit kanser leukimia, usus besar dan pankreas. 

Selain itu, tauge juga mempunyai estrogen semulajadi berfungsi sama dengan estrogen sintesis. Estrogen dalam tauge dapat meningkatkan kepadatan dan susunan tulang, serta mencegah kerapuhan tulang (osteoporosis)

Pengambilan tauge oleh wanita secara kerap dapat membantu mereka menghindar mereka dari kanser payudara, gangguan menjelang menstruasi,simptom pra-menopaus, dan gangguan akibat menopaus.

Sewaktu kacang-kacang dicambahkan untuk dijadikan tauge secara umum kadar saponinya meningkat sehingga 450 peratus.

Mereka yang berisiko penyakit strok dan serangan jantung, gara-gara kadar lemak darah yang tinggi dianjurkan lebih banyak mengambil tauge dalam menu harian mereka.

 Saponi dalam tauge, menghalau "lemak jahat LDL, tanpa mengganggu kandungan lemak baik HDL. 

Selain sarat DNA, tauge padat dengan antioksida kuat yang menghalang tubuh dari radikal bebas perosak sel DNA. Pelindungan ini menguatkan kesimpulan taugemerupakan sayuran yang membuat anda menjadilebih muda.

Satu lagi khasiat tauge yang tidak kurang hebat adalahmembantu membuang kotoran dalam usus besarkerana mengandungi banyak serat dan air. Inilah yang menjadi tunjang utama tauge dalam memerangi sel kanser.

Apabila kotoran segera meniggalkan usus besar, tiada lagi zat-zat racun dalam kotoran yang yang dapat diserap tubuh. Ia akan mencegah pengumpulan bahan beracun yang dapat merangsang berseminya benih kanser.

- Live. Love.Laugh xx

The room

The room contractor had just finished demolishing the old walls and almost complete plastering the other 3 walls. By now i can declare that my room is barely 20% complete *clap2*


Last Sunday, the fiance & i went to surveyed for tiles, laminated floors, carpets, curtains and wall decorations for our room. I had my room theme colour in mind, so it makes it easier to filter the colour scheme for the wall and floor. Since my room will only have one window, so we planned to get light-coloured furnitures - which includes light colour flooring, walls etc. We might choose a little darker feature wall though, so we surveyed dark coloured wall decorations and wallpaper just to give a contrast colour in our room, insyaAllah. 


So far, we went to the Fabrica, Yani's, AmHome, SGL and and the tile shops in tutong and sg.duhon (which i forgot the name). A friend of mine who is now busy with the construction of her new home in belait suggested us to go to one of the warehouse in Jangsak. They did her home at salambigar and offered cheaper tiles at wholesale price (attractive much!) and another colleague suggested to go to the tile textile shop nearby bangunan sumbangsih. We have yet to check it out since we only had weekend to do it.


Oh i did checked few carpets for the room, but it always ended with an endless sneeze. hehe. so probably, its no longer an option kot. And price wise for tiles and laminated floors, i was amazed that laminated floors are cheaper nowadays compared to few years back. So, my first and foremost priority will be the laminated flooring. Its worth the money, atleast for me =)


Below are the snapshots of the flooring that we were allowed to take. Other shops, reluctant dikit to let us take pictures =/

we love the designer's choice, 'picasso' - the one with the rare colour. otherwise we might go for the classic 'beach color' for a light furnish. Will see how it goes, once my room is ready. Cant wait!! =D

- Live. Love.Laugh xx

8 Step To Get Ready Your Room For Your Wedding

Thought i shared this for all the bridezilla-to-be =)


By Eric Leong 

Step 1: Determine An Interior Design Style
First things first, before you start buying any furniture or paint for your room, you should determine what kind of interior style you want for your bridal room.

There are many interior styles available such as a, Luxury Touch - English Style, A Simplicity Approach - Zen Style, An Exotic Living - Balinese Style etc.

The important factor is to choose an interior style to fit the size of the room, as not every interior style is suitable for every room. A small room should adapt Zen style rather than English style, as the English style needs a lot of big and bulky furniture whereas Zen Style only requires straight and simple line furnitures.

Step 2: Select A Colour Scheme For Your Entire Room
Selecting a colour scheme for a bedroom is different from choosing colour schemes for other rooms such as living rooms.

Colour scheme for bedroom must not be too strong such as vibrant colour scheme as this area is your rest zone and usually soothing colour schemes as earth tone is suitable for this area. This colour scheme will not only cover you wall area but also the soft furnishing such curtains, bedsheets, comforter etc.

Step 3: Select The Feature Wall
Feature wall concept is to increase the visual depth for a particular room. As we know that most of the room size are not to big thus we need to create “visual depth” to make the room look big. Feature concept is all about choosing a wall to be the focal wall or feature wall and make the rest of the walls as the non-feature wall.

Usually we will choose the first wall we see as we enter a room as the feature wall and paint the particular wall into a darker tone (usually this colour will be the dominant colour of the room and it will determine the rest of the colour scheme) and paint the rest of the 3 walls into off-white or cream.

Please take note that to choose the feature wall for bedroom is different from the other room, the feature wall need to be at the bed headboard rather than the first wall you see when u enter the room.

Step 4: Select A Suitable Furniture
Selecting a suitable furniture for the interior style is not an easy task. Don’t just walk into the furniture showroom and buy any of the bedroom sets (usually a full bedroom set comes with a bed, bed side table, dressing table and wardrobe), consider your room size, your interior style and the most important is do you need bigger storage area?

Usually I suggest not to buy the full bedroom set even though most of the furniture retail shop offer good price for the bedroom set, as some of the furniture may not suit your room’s size and the other important factor is that you may need bigger storage area. Thus I usually suggest to custom build your wardrobe as the custom built wardrobe usually provide bigger storage area and what’s more you can custom-make your internal storage compartments for individual needs.

Please don’t ignore the bed side table, most of the rooms I have visited are without bed side table and many of them told me that they do not have enough space for them. Bed side table is a very important element for the bedroom. It can be used to store small items, first-aid kit for the room, etc. And for those who have to read before you go to bed, u need the bed side table for your book and the bed side table light.

Step 5: Select The Light
As I always mention, please use warm light for your interior to create ambience especially in the bedroom as it is the intimate place for the couple.

The lighting design for the bedroom is different from the other area of the house too; usually I suggest the up-lighting type of design as with this type of design, the light source will shoot up to the ceiling rather than shine above your eyes.

The voltage for the light in the bedroom should not be too high as you don’t need it to be too bright in the bedroom, remember that this is the place for you to rest. Suggested light bulb voltage is minimum 25Watt, maximum 40Watt and strongly recommended frosted bulb instead of clear bulb.

Step 6: Select The Soft Furnishing
Soft-furnishing refers to curtain, bed sheet, comforter, rug, throw cushion, etc. Soft-furnishing is the soft-touch for the bedroom. It plays a very important role, we usually use the soft-furnishing to connect or to link the furniture with the walls.

The colour for the soft-furnishing always refers to the feature wall’s colour, use feature wall’s colour as main colour to co-ordinate soft-furnishing’s colour scheme.

As mentioned, bedroom is the place to relax, thus don’t use too strong colour for soft-furnishing especially the bed sheet and comforter as it will cause discomfort to our eyes. Same goes to the prints or the designs on the material we use for the soft-furnishing, geometric designs will make our eyes discomfort too, especially in the morning.

Step 7: Selecting The Suitable Accessories
Please take note that in interior design, we always want to create an impact-the visual impact. The most economical way to create impact is to use decorative accessories.

When buying the home décor accessories, don’t buy too many small or tidy size items, buy big and over-sized items instead. Use these big or over-sized items to create the visual impact.

Finding the right place to place the decorative items is important too. Try to walk around the entire room before placing any of them, check which angle or direction will give a maximum impact. Please take note that the décor accessory need to be matched to the interior style (refer to Step 1).

Step 8: Final Touch
The final touch will be the candles and the fresh flowers. Candles are the most economical warm light source. As I always mention, it is good to use warm as the main light source for an interior but this would not apply to every house especially those that already have day light installed, thus the candle is the easiest warm light source to create ambience. Don’t forget to switch off the day light when u light up the candles!

I always use flowers, especially fresh flowers to enhance the interior too. Fresh flowers can add energy to the room and also to make the particular interior lively. Please take note that not every type of flower is suitable for any kind of interior style. For example, big bloomed roses are suitable for English style, small flowers and leaves suitable for Country style, etc.

And if you are creative enough, you can always use the fresh flowers and the candles to create a nice flower arrangement for the table top.

Happy Decorating!!