housewife duty

For the past few weeks, Ijul and I were busy shifting from house to house. We were supposed to settle at his place in KL but since we just got married, it's better to be at family's place most of the time rather. Furthermore, it's Ramadhan now. Break-fasting with family is more happening than just the two of us. Unless, if we were on a break-fasting date ;) 

NEH !! do u actually believe what I wrote above?? LOL ..

I'm a spoilt kid and that is the main reason why we are still stuck at my parent's place and of course, his too (gotta be fair to him)

Few hours before going to KL, my mind starts thinking about so many things ! food to eat, clothes to wash, house to clean (the simple stuff) & when can import the maid to come help me clean, what to cook for hubby & is the ingredient ready.. and stuff like that.. ya know, the housewife stuffs.

Refreshed memories on the recipe , planned on what to cook for sahur,when to start cook, are all the ingredients there in KL?  and yada yada yada. It was pretty difficult in my case. at home, food is already there waiting for me to eat. I was worried sick. Afraid if I fail to please my husband. 


I could give myself few credits with the cooking skills that I have, but I'll save it once I'm a PRO ;) 

As we were about to go home to KL, my mother in law (stayed at his place during the weekend) offered the extra food from dinner to be brought home for sahur. I sighed in relief ! aaaaaaaaahhhhhhh , thank uuuuuuuuuuu ibuuu ! =D 

tomorrow morning, just need to re-heat the packed foods and cook rice ;) ahhh that would be easy brizzy ;) 

goodnight all ! 

took her awhile to adapt

Have I told you before how my siblings and I always sleep together almost everyday? since we were small actually.. except for days when i was at boarding school or abroad.


and that is one of the reasons they were sad when I got married. cos we can't sleep together anymore. 


Imagine four of us on a queen bed? however, one person needs to sacrifice and sleep on the floor since there are five of us. 


Ellyssa would always join the "sleepover-party" and has always been sleeping with me since I got back for good from melacca.


I would watch cartoons with her, watched her play games and yadayadayada.. 


She got adapted to the whole routine. 


comes to my room with a bottle of milk - play games - watches rapunzel or how to train dragon on my laptop - falls asleep


After our reception on 2nd of July, Ijul moved in and my room was out-of-bound.


Ellyssa was excited that her abang ijul is sleeping in the house and in my room. All the sudden, she asked , "Can I sleep with you and your prince?" 

p.s: i explained to her before getting married in words that she'll understand, 

" abang ijul is my prince and i am the princess. we are getting married and will live in a castle in KL." since then, she called ijul, "kakak's prince"

First few days.... she came to the room , chit chat with ijul. played games with ijul. and didn't want to go out. I had to shooh her to mom's room. 

Locked the door. 

She returned, knocked on the door few times.. we had to pretend sleeping and ignore the knocking.

Took her 3 weeks to adapt the out-of-bound rule. *chuckles*

Yesterday, Ijul went outstation for work and stayed there over-night. i invited Ellyssa to sleep together. 

She asked "your prince is not coming home tonight?" .. few times. I guess she had to make sure . hahaha

and we slept together last night. she was very very happy.

same routine. milk - games- this time no movie coz after game she fell asleep. 

the numbers that picked us ;) 1.JUL.11

How's puasa treating all muslims so far? Hope all are well and good ;)


It was our first time spending Ramadhan month together as husband and wife, and our 1st terawih & pre-dawned meal & break-fast were at my parents' place back in Subang Jaya.


Yesterday, 1st of August, marked our 1st month of marriage ;) We got married on 1st of July 2011.


Extra special that date. We didn't plan the date. That date chose US.


Initially, they'd planned our solemnization ceremony on 8th of july , just before my hotel reception (9th of july at that time , before we postponed to 17th july due to political rally). 


I didn't mind at all since 8 is also a special number.


8 NOV 2005 : was his first message to me
8 / 8 / 2006 : our first date
22 / 8 / 2006 : when he told me he wanted to take things serious. we moved from friends to in a relationship on this date.
8 / 8 / 2010 : when his family came for 'merisik'


See the EIGHTs? I love eight. but Eight wasn't for us..literally 


My family planned to have 2 receptions. solemnization~home reception~hotel reception. Hence, 8/7 is not a good date as things will be awfully packful & hectic to squeeze all 3 ceremonies in 2 days ! 


Another date proposed for us was 24/6 2011. I was okaaayy with it because of the pretty number 2.4.6 .. but nothing significant with that number. 


We told them we wanted 1.7.11. 


1JULY2011 - if we break it into half and ignore the second half, i'll get this 
--> 1JUL .. and husband's famous name is IJUL (remember?) that is why we love 1JULy2011 


another reason is because of that 1 infront and 11 at the back, make my card and cert looks nicer. =)) 
1 July 2011 ..


All of the sudden, my parents and his parents discussed and decided that 1st of July will be our solemnization ceremony ! yay !! 


I told dory-hubby that you will never have any reason to forget our wedding anniversary, because your name is on that date . he laughed.


Few days back when I was going to and fro from subang jaya / bkt jelutong to setiawangsa, I realized his house number is LOT 117.  there's a 1, there's 11, there's 7 !  AWESOMATIC ! 


see, the number picked us. Suggested to him to have our plate number 17 on our future cars  .. 


1st of july (1/7) , yes yes ! and and.. 


1+7 equals to...?? YES , EIGHT !  ;)) (literally our wedding date is not 8, but mathematically.. YES! ) 


magical isn't it? 


Alhamdulillah, everything is in Allah's hand and Allah has decided to give us pretty numbers on every special moments ;) 


To all muslims, husband and I would like to wish you a Happy Ramadhan ! May this fasting month brings us closer to HIM, makes us a better person, and tightens the bond between families and friends !! Happy fasting and may Allah blessed us all . We would like to apologize for any wrongs done. 

1.JuL two-oh-one-one

These past few weeks were very hectic ! Wedding preparations were madness !! Now that I was in "that" shoe few weeks back (and still is this week since there's another reception this coming weekend) , I totally understand weddings. 

Very tedious job. No matter how simple you planned your wedding to be, it will never be EASY. 

Guestslist were endless ! up to the date, guestlists will always be the main problem .. 

Apart from guestlists; invitations cards, food, canopy, dias decorations, room decorations, doorgifts, floor plans etc etc etc.. 

Once you're in 'that' shoe, you will understand what all the-brides had to go through before their wedding day. 


Cause I understood already and learned not to take invitations lightly, and will always keep any comments to myself (I'm not a criticizer but we always have something to say when we go somewhere :P ). Because hard-work should be appreciated eventhough they sometimes are not up to "taste" .. 

Despite all the hassle, nothing beats the happiness of the bride on that special day ! 

On 1st of July , 2011 was a very special date. A date where Ijul & I tied the knot, a knot to forever ;) a night to be remembered. With only one pronouncement, we are husband & wife, Alhamdulillah. 

My feelings before were very jumbled-up in a very good way . I was not at all in doubt, instead, I was SURE he is the one made for me. I was nervous to step into another new world, new life with big responsibilities as a wife.


I was sad. Sad that I might be a lil distant with my siblings & parents. Sad that my comfort zone will no longer be comforting as much. 


But despite all that, I was happy and excited :) 


It was a bliss, a wonderful feeling to have the one I love as my husband, to have my man to look up to, and my bestfriend to live with for eternity. May Allah blessed us all the way, amin.

will update more soon ;) 

treat points

I have been using my personal credit card for almost 3 years now. And I didn't know that they have POINTS that can be redeemed!! *slapsface*


I knew that I have points when I shopped in One Utama late last year, and the cashier asked if I would like to redeem my points. My heart jumped gleefully as I needed to pay few bucks instead of few hundreds.. I USED ALL OF MY POINTS @ Warehouse, OneUtama not knowing there are other cool stuffs to redeem !! oh gosh........ 


So few months back, I login to Maybank2u.com.my , checked my balance and I saw the points !!!!! How on earth did I not realize the points marked blue on the screen of my balance =( oh-my-god.. 


I clicked onto it and they redirected me to treatpoints page. 


There were so so so many amazing things that can be redeemed !! I got blind for a while. But my points were too little then.


The genius me, as always, had ideas to increase my points. So what I do was to SWIPE intelligently ! 


Intelligently by all means were to swipe as many times but not having much credit on the card !


HOW?


by swiping credit card and then login m2u later at night after done with shopping and pay what I swiped immediately (on the day itself) . 


Or if I want to buy something which requires a huge sum of money, I deposit the big sum into my creditcard via ATM cash deposit machine , and went to the shop and swiped that amount. VOILA !


see the point?


oh well, I don't know if it works but my points seemed to increase :) been monitoring them since I was AWARE of the points .. pfftt!




Now my points are 30k.. I need 76K points ! Something caught my eye and I need 76K points to redeem "IT" !!!! will share it here once I have succeed ! wish me luck?


Moral of the story, please check your m2u creditcard points and use them WISELY.. 

journey to becoming a bride

a bride to be needs to prepare physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually before the big day. And my maids seemed to play important role too !

One of them used to scrub or what the indonesian called 'lulur' me. She is pretty amazing. I used to do 2 days once but lately, NONE! since I woke up extremely late and she has other important work to do than scrubbing me ... thanks bibik ! pfft

She also advised me to drink sireh.. *pukeface* ... sireh???really?? 

and another maid this morning while cleaning asked me to drink air pinang muda.. -_- 

Just few minutes ago after the maid suggested air pinang muda, my mom informed me that all kind of limes are downstairs. limau kasturi la. limau lipis la.. i guess i'm gonna soaked my whole body with those later this evening.. 

don't come near me this evening. I might turned you ehem on with the lime smell  ! *batting eyelashes* 

shopping-craze..NOT!

There's a BIG FAT SALE going on at AirAsia.. tempting....................
But my pocket ain't full to grab them ... *sadface*


"neehhh it's ok. They have promotions almost every month. plus, it's AIRASIA.. not EMIRATES or MAS " . Monologued to make myself feel good .. haha!


Money flows like water these days especially when the big day is coming really near. I felt guilty for the cash burden I've put my parents into. And I always tell them that I'll pay them when I'm rich *insyaAllah*.. and that the wedding is for their beloved daughter .. *grins* I will never ever survive without them. No kidding. I love you mom & dad


Shopping seemed pretty tempting these days too !! gosh, can't the devil stay quiet so that I'll be an angel till I receive my first pay? 


I was born genius and so I've found my way out. 


1st. : Always go to shops which are not too pricey but worth buying. My favourite place nowadays were 'cotton on', 'forever 21' and flee-market @thecurve during the weekends. Too pricey are those below rm100.. or buy 1 get 1 free kinda thing.


2nd. : Always have only few cash in your purse. Probably RM100 ... So that you'll be lazy to go to the ATM.. but, hmmmmmm credit and debit card always got into the way.. darn!


3rd : Always go shopping with someone who is shopping craze.. Not that they'll influence you but you will influence her ! Channel your craze to her so that she buy stuffs.. and help her choose !! it feels good when your pocket still full and hers/his is empty.. *evilgrin*


4th : If you are doing online shopping,go busy elsewhere,  far far away from the laptop/pc after checking out the items chose . You might have forgotten about the cart you'd checked out. 


5th : patience... Good stuff comes to those who waits !


hope these few tips help !