The best anniversary gift is being able to spend time with the love one. Talk about movie date {Petaling Street Warriors} with a trip to IKEA, picking on house decor and discuss over it, check out trash pump on sale, ended with dinner at Pizza Hut Delivery kiosk.

Basically a NO WORK day on a regular weekday. Superwoman and superman need to take a break too!

Anyway, stepping into the third year of marriage. We have gone from staying with in-laws in the small town to moving back to the city and rent a room, and now renting an apartment. Just the two of us, no baby, still feel like newlywed.

No, we aren’t celebrating any birthday or special occasion.

He was meeting his friend this evening and came back home with a black forest cake! He phoned me that he’ll be slightly late for dinner (by few mins only) as he went to buy something. Ok, so I thought it must be men stuff like cable cover or driller related thing. Cake is the last thing that came into my mind.

“Why you buy black forest out of a sudden?”
“For supper?”
“Then, why must it be black forest? Why not just bread like usual?”
“Cause you like black forest”

Yea, I’m the annoying melancholic type with all the w-h-y question. And hey, my tough man can be sweet too. Thank you dearest!

With two posts in a row showing blessing and thankful, I am thinking of making this entire month’s posts to be thankful related topic, cause Thanksgiving is just around the corner.

Or rather rainy week, with strong wind making it so cold like living in highland.

Anyway, I’m living the not-so-glamour tai tai life now which will last for a few days. Yes, am back to hubby’s hometown.

Renewed my pass, still for one year term only. I was hoping to have two or five years along with working pass but nah, not that fast yet. Let alone PR or citizenship.

Speaking of that, we met a few friends last night and was asked whether I’ve received citizenship already or not. Common question, so we said no bla3. Everyone thought you will automatically get MY citizenship once you married to M’sian, as easy as changing canon camera batteries. Or at least a PR after living here for a few years. Sadly it’s not that easy.

Sometimes we did wonder about the future, what if we’re an old grandma grandpa already and I still don’t get the citizenship here, how if we are separated by *touch wood* death? Many what-if for us and we don’t have any certainty answers. Let’s see what does the almighty God has in store for us.

Besides, if one day the gov grants me citizenship, I’m not sure if I’m ready to let go of my original citizenship. I quite like this country, but so far I don’t feel that I’m belong to here.

Imagine if I have a new citizenship, by law I will be a foreigner to my home-country and holding a tourist visa when I want to visit my parent. Writing this has made me feel weird already.

Using the classic quote, let’s go with the flow, shall we?

It’s a long weekend for us cause my Mum was here since last Friday for medical check-up. After the first check-up on Friday afternoon, we went to a shopping mall nearby and bumped into a wedding expo.

Although we have passed those wedding-thingy period, we still went into the expo and check the photography package offered by local bridals. Well, not like one can’t go to atv winches expo if don’t own an atv.

This is something that I haven’t experience before, cause I was bridal-hunting with my parent instead of my husband-to-be due to the LDR status back then, while envying other women who were there with their fiance.

It brought back the familiar feeling of a bride-to-be, but not that anxious cause I knew we didn’t really really need the package, but just asked out of curiosity.

But actually we’ve been thinking about taking another pre-wedding pictures. Ok, probably by now it’s not pre-wedding anymore, but let’s not care much about the term.

I know, our pre-wedding pictures are quite nice and beautiful. But it looks dead to us and it’s not ‘us’. I mean, it’s all about posing according to the photographer’s point of view.

For example (in Indonesia language): “Ci, kepalanya nunduk dikit, miring ke kanan dikit, dagu rapat ke dada, kaki kanan ke depan, kaki kiri ke belakang sedikit, senyum yg natural, tahan ya tahan, bagus, bla bla bla”.

Wahh, I (we) aren’t supermodel and I don’t recall signing up for a cover magazine/modeling photoshoot.

At the end of the day, we do look good in the pictures, nice makeup & hairstyle, everything looks so right and good, but it’s not ‘us’ at all. Just two person posing in wedding gown and tuxedo with beautiful scenery. *two thumbs down*

So, we want something that is more us. Once we look at the pic, there are items that represent us, dear to us, so us, places that contain our memory, etc. And definitely not looking like a supermodel, but two person who are in love.

I am so glad that we bumped into the wedding expo. I hope we’ll have something great by next year. Our home sweet home needs to be brighten up by our pictures.