I’ll be forgoing flowers and use my wedding favours instead as a centerpiece together with a pile of pistachio nuts instead of kacang for people to munch on. Am going to consider using either steel containers - I’ll need about ten (which my mum can use again for her cooking and etc) - or nice bowls from Royal China.

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Here’s what I have so far with a little bit of bling bling from some blue, green and gold beads here and there. One or two more repeats and I can get started on the edging!!!! I already love the shine even though I have yet to complete it. Jaeggerspun Zephyr is absolutely addictive!!!!!! ^.^

Note to self: I need to check on the following at the restaurant PLUS get samples/pictures.

1. Flower arch
2. Centerpieces (for all tables/VIP table)
3. Overall room deco
4. Backdrop
5. Reception area deco - placecard, flowers, etc
6. Stairway deco - cloth, etc
7. Table cloth & napkins
8. Chair covers
9. Stage deco (glass fountain + dummy cake colours + table cloth)
10. Function room layout
11. Guestbook (if it’s ugly, DIY)
12. Wedding favour boxes/packaging
13. Plates for serving pistachios
14. Sample menu

…and last but not least, FOOD TASTING!

In the meantime, I ought to complete or purchase the following:

• The “hei” stickers for my invites
• Rosebud tea
• Guest list
• Dinner bags - pink and gold
• Earrings for dinner
• Ink stamp pad for vellum wedding favours
• Corset for my kebaya

This is crazy no? O’well…the price of doing everything yourself. Heh.

Work is going crazy with assignments and exams scripts pouring in. It’s kind of depressing sometimes when I think about it.

My wedding preparations have slowed down as I search around for corsets (saw a few online but I think I’ll look here in PJ/KL first and then see if Nil can find some nice ones in France for me) and wait for September to come. September is the month for finalizing album design as well as churning out the last of my invites. In the meantime, I’m just going to concentrate on scouting for cheap/er wedding favours. I reckoned August - as in one entire month - will give me some good results. ^.^

My so-called knitting business has taken off with about five shawls in the queue. @.@ I hope to finish one today or tomorrow and get it set for blocking while I start on the rest. Am still waiting for that cashmere yarn to arrive. I hope it hasn’t gotten stolen or stuck in customs. I’ll totally be a bytch if that happens.

So yeah. Getting boring. Sorrwee.

ps: Looks like gold got outvoted but we’ll see the end result. It could be very different, no? ^.~

I’ve decided to go against the flow and show up at my wedding dinner with a kebaya, courtesy of my Nyonya roots. So which one?

Dear Reader,

One of “us” made the headlines again.

Malaysian-born songbird Che’nelle has clinched a recording deal with New York-based recording company Virgin Records.

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She was born in Kota Kinabalu but moved to Perth, Australia, at the age of 10.

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I’m glad for her. Now thanks to this little thing called mass media, she has become an iconic symbol of this so-called patriotic craze the Malaysian media has kicked start since gawd knows when.

She joins the ranks of people like Guy Sebastian (Australian), Penelope (Penny) Wong Ying Yen (Australia), K. Kamalesvaran (Australia) and that beauty queen from the US. I forgot her name but you know how it is with celebrities today. One day they are popular, another day, they are but a fleeting memory.

Now it’s not easy to join our little party here. First of all, you have to leave your home country - the trend has usually been either you leave when you’re young and I mean very young OR your parents made the choice to leave and had you on foreign soil. Secondly, your education must be different and NOT according to Malaysian standards. I mean I’m sure they have intelligent locally-educated people but they aren’t making it to the papers like we are, no? So there has to be something wrong somewhere and according to one member of our group, the education in Malaysia sucks. (Never mind that he did mention that a lot of M’sians are educated in private institutions as well.) Thirdly, you must have done something - it can be anything from serious stuff like politics to “soft” stuff like winning a reality TV contest for wannabe singers.

It’s funny when you look at it. We are just regular people in our current homes, Australia, UK, USA, wherever it may be, and suddenly in Malaysia, a country that we have never been to before OR have been to once in the last few years, we are celebrities and all because we were born there or have Malaysian parents. It’s fantastic really! I mean we didn’t even contribute to anything whatsoever and here we are…mini-celebrities…our tiny little lives made to seem more spectacular, more grand, more unique and more worth living for.

Sometimes, I feel sorry for the “simple” folk in KL-land. To be told time and time again that you’re only worth something if you leave the country…to pour your energy and soul into a country that doesn’t appreciate you…to be encouraged subtly to “leave” in throngs yet be accused of lacking patriotism when you eventual do so. (It’s hypocrisy, mind you.)

O’well, their loss is my gain, don’t you think?

Sincerely,
Another one of those Malaysian-born people.

This isn’t a final version but have fun anyway!

Amusing and shocking even.

MPH, Popular, Times and Harris bookstores have decided to withdraw the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows novel from their shelves in protest against Tesco and Carrefour’s move in selling the novel at a much cheaper price of RM69.90. The retail price of the book is RM109.90.

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Asked if their decision was to pressure the book’s distributor, Penguin Books, to remove the books from the hypermarkets, she said: “It’s not fair to allow hypermarkets to sell such a popular book when they are not in the book business.

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More here.

I find this Harry Potter saga between bookstore giants and the hypermarkets amusing…and even shocking. Having been part of the publishing line with some knowledge of trade practices law (woe to me), I’m appalled to see that bookstore giants have the audacity to demand that a price be fixed for a certain non-controlled item like a book. (Would it even had been an issue if it was some other non-selling title like (insert any book title here)?)

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