Let’s celebrate the fact that we had our first guest to our new home yesterday (family members don’t count). Yay! It’s quite an impromptu one (for me) so I didn’t prepare much for dinner. Aiks. And I know, we don’t have a proper place for guests to sit or hang out yet – the thing that we call sofa – but hang in there, it will come along the way.

So we chit chat about hot tub covers at BeyondNice.com and wedding; typical prewedding photoshoot, video on wedding day, how expensive the package is, blablabla; and played back our wedding video for hubby’s friend to see.

When I looked back at the video, I can’t deny that it’s so typical Chinese wedding ceremony, to be specific – typical Medanese type. And the video is just like a documentary, nothing artistic at all. Can’t believe we paid so much for the video and prewedding photo where we needed to bend our body in whatever angle so we looked photogenic. (more…)

There is a quote saying:

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

So true! Though the term ‘play’ can have different meaning for each people. It could be going for the extreme Skydiving in Melbourne from 14,000ft or the girlie type play with Barbie doll (my dream!). It’s up to us!

Anyway, few weeks ago hubby just got himself a simple remote control car {read here} and it’s been his entertainment during break time.

Seeing the red remote car so lonely, I got itself a friend, I mean Gundam as a belated birthday present. Bought it online from gundam.my, there is loads of choices there. Being a noob in Gundam, I just picked based on how attractive the color, number of weapons it comes with (not in the pictures below), how complicate it is (the complicate the better ).

Gundam Exia (MG) – Celestial Being Mobile Suit GN-001 (30 Anniversary)

Luckily the package arrived on Saturday morning instead of weekday, perfect time for hubby to assemble his first Gundam kit. Spend 4 hours of his afternoon to get the Gundam done. If it’s me, it would be 1 to 2 day I guess, although there is guide-book. Suddenly he’s like a 6 years old flooded with excitement with his toy.

Once done, we took several pics of the Gundam in various pose from dance to doing kungfu. Next is to have the Gundam pose in various sport like Skydiving maybe.

More Pictures after this jump (more…)

It’s funny to see how I never get the pressure to get a boyfriend and to get married. My Mum even thought that it was too fast to let me go, as in married. But now that I’m married for more than a year, they’ve started to bring up the baby topic and prenatal vitamins whatsoever, especially on last Chinese New Year.

We were having lunch when my Mum asked,”so when do you plan to have baby?” *surprise* Just so you know, she’s never been this straight and to the point before. I told her that it’s not the time yet, that we have other business plans to do. Ok, so I’ve tackled my Mum.

During a dinner, I was asking what is my Mum’s activity nowadays since my bro already studied at KL. Nothing, very free, she said. My Dad entered in,”that’s why faster have a baby so that your Mum can go there and help you.”

On another time, he will remind me that next year is a dragon year and it’s good to have a shio dragon baby.

I can see it as a pressure, or that they care for me. But geez, here I’m stating again (a note to myself actually), we aren’t mentally and financially ready.

I’m not so scare the financial part cause as we work hard, the green paper will surely come, unless we stop working and lazying around. Some more I heard this quote from a Christian radio that goes something like this,”When it’s the right time for you to have a child, eventually God will give you enough to raise the child.”

The mental part is the hardest one. A friend said, having baby means splitting the love between spouse and baby, also means losing freedom. Yes, so true. No more spontaneous dating, traveling, work like no tomorrow, and more.

We won’t be young for a second time, so whatever with the society pressure cause we are the one living our life.

Probably 5 years later I will look back at this entry and laugh at how I was so scare of losing my freedom etc. But for now, we are happy with just the two of us, and maybe a puppy.

While other couples had candlelight romantic dinner at some fancy restaurant/cafe whatever it is or taking vacation cruise to Bermuda, we had dinner with my in-laws at our fave restaurant. I would like to call it as crab’s party time!

It’s on top of my must-eat-foods in Sibu, cause of the reasonable (or even low) price RM19/kg and yummy taste – I like it with black pepper. If you notice at the top of the picture, there is a small hammer to help you in cracking the crabs.

That’s our Valentine’s Day this year. Dining with family, doesn’t sound romantic at all, but my stomach is happy.

Anyway, when I was a teenager, my ideal Valentine’s Day is to dine out with my love one along with gift like teddy bear & flowers. But as I grew up (or getting older maybe), my ideal V-day is to cook and dine at home! As simple as that.

I think most of the people have the same mindset like the teenage-me. Hence it’s hard to have a romantic candlelight dinner out there unless you book an expensive restaurant.

Otherwise, you will have to queue for hours and end up sharing table with other couples. If you’re lucky to get a table for two only, the distance between each table is only 15 – 30 cm (speaking from experience of dine out on V-day with my parents few years ago) cause some cafe/resto just want to maximize their income on V-day so they simply place extra chair & table. How to talk romantic with your partner like that? Not only that, (my) stomach will get upset due to long queue and have to wait for the food. Duh.

Another turn-off is, speaking from last year experience when we thought of dining out at cafe in Sibu, some cafes will only serve their so-called V-day package (appetizer, main course, dessert, drink, whatever it is) which is usually oh-so-expensive. Normal menu is unavailable on V-day. Wah, forcing people like that. I hate it the most.

So yeah, stay at home at such ‘peak’ hour is the best for us. Otherwise, do a booking on expensive restaurant. Or better, have a short getaway to beach/other countries.

Til V-day next year

Simple really defines our style and it’s portrayed in our wedding ring – a simple white-gold-ring with an extremely small diamond shape in the middle. Choosing white-gold instead of yellow-gold as wedding ring doesn’t seem to be the best decision. Many thought us haven’t married yet, wtf seriously. Some more now after almost 1 year, the rings start to wear out already.

Story #1
This happened not long after our wedding day. We went out for supper with his friend. The men were talking about where to buy cigars and the girlfriend suddenly asked,”Why are you guys wearing silver (or aluminium, I forgot) rings?” Oh well, I wasn’t sure if I should blame the dim light or the ring cause diamond isn’t huge enough to blind one’s eyes.

Story #2
Back in university time, hubby had an internship at the sign-board vendor during semester break. He met with the Boss again few months ago for business.

The wife of the Boss asked: Have you married yet? Do you already have a girlfriend? How if I introduce my younger sister to you? She is elder few years old only from you.
Her husband interrupted: He married already on December last year.

I wasn’t there on the spot though. But I guess can’t blame the lady Boss for being out-dated, cause hubby hasn’t kept in touch with them since the internship years ago. But still… there is a ring on hub’s 4th finger, didn’t it look like a wedding ring at all? -__-”

Story #3
Since we got married and moved to his hometown, we’ve been a regular visitors to this coffee shop nearby our housing area. Then one day before our moving out flight, we went there for breakfast. Hubby went to pay the food, the lady Boss was there as cashier and there was a hair-care salesman talking to the lady Boss as well.

Lady Boss said: Eh, your girlfriend so pretty already, buy this hair product for her la. After use this product sure becomes prettier.

She spoke so loud I could hear it from where I sat. -__-” Wtf auntie, you didn’t see the ring on our 4th finger? *cry out loud*

After those experiences, we concluded that we might need to purchase a pair of gold ring. So people won’t mistaken our married status. Just saying.