Legal and Official

Yay, the real BIG day that we have been waiting for is finally here! It’s been a long tiring troublesome journey to get this piece of paper. It involves changing religion, flying here and there, mailing via DHL, take 6 – 7 hours bus for 3 times, went through so many dead end road only to find the correct road, etc. Thanks to our parents for helping us throughout the process; by fetching us to the consulate office and all. I shall end my Oscar speech here before it gets longer.

Went to JPN (Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara) early morning 8am and waited for our turn. We must wear formal apparel, including our witnesses. No Hudson jeans and slipper are allowed. So here I am with my cheongsam which was intended to be wore on Chinese New Year and my boy in long sleeve shirt and suit. All simplified, I just tied up my hair and applied very light makeup.

Here is the door to the wedding room, where we officially tied the knot. Madam T, the Chinese lady officer who is in charge of marriage stuff, is having a Chinese New Year leave I suppose. The person who replaced her was so KNS. WTF cannot take picture in the wedding room cause it might disturb the process and only we and our 2 witnesses can be in the room? We went there few times and we always see bunch of people going in or coming our from the wedding room. Not just 4 people lo.

Then WTF she was so confident saying that we won’t be needed that original single-status-letter when filing the marriage certificate in Indonesia? Never heard of a back-up plan is it? I doubt she knows well about the procedure in Indonesia and simply give us some general assumption. Just like how Madam T told us that it is impossible Indonesia gov doesn’t allow inter religion marriage (Christian and Buddhist). But see what happened, it is really impossible lo. In the end we have to waste more time thanks to the assumption.

With our witnesses, my boy’s friend and girlfriend.

After the short simple oath and signing process, here’s our marriage certificate. If you are wondering about my citizenship, I’m still holding my Indonesia IC with tourist visa. We will take time in getting the long-term-social-visit-pass. Regarding Malaysia citizenship, we’ll see our luck in the future. Or we might be adventurous, find other better country and move there. Who knows.

Finding Foods on Raining Day

Weather has been crazy lately. It rains for almost everyday though it is oh-so-sunny few hours ago. I am craving for kompia, the local ‘bread’, so the three of us (me, my boy and his friend) decide to head off to usual tea time place. Nearby the kopitiam is a small park for jogging and running, free and best cholesterol treatment ever.

But, it rains cats and dogs out of a sudden which almost brings down our plan. Ugh. Then we remember of a kompia stall at central market since they have indoor parking. Luckily it is opened. But the kompia isn’t as good as the usual tea time place at Rejang Park there. Less meat and less omphh effect.

I miss Medan’s snack and junk food! Sate padang, martabak coklat, ouh…. slurrpp..

My Custom Made Cheongsam

Just got my cheongsam on the evening of Chinese New Year Eve, which means it takes almost 2 months to get this done. The cloth was bought at Kamdar store when we visited Kuching last December. I can’t remember the exact price but it’s super cheap; 2 meter for RM10 or so only. It costs RM65 for sewing and the beautiful buttons.

It looks quite good though the sewing isn’t as neat as I expected. Some more it isn’t body hugging enough to show off the curve. Most probably the auntie is giving me some space to grow fatter. Better than getting a smaller size of cheongsam, I might need phentermine reviews to fit this stomach in.

Well, it’s my first cheongsam and I’m loving it. I still have about 1 meter cloth left in my wardrobe. Not sure what to do with it. Hmm..

Firecrackers Party is On!

It is my second time celebrating Chinese New Year in Sibu and also my first time witnessing the Chinese New Year Eve here. Thanks to that, I finally found one good reason to love this town which is the firecrackers party!

No need to squeeze in with the crowd and trapped in traffic jam (like in Cemara Asri Medan) just to see the beautiful firecracker on New Year Eve. Just drive to the housing area or stand in the house balcony and I can see various kind of beautiful firecrackers already. Free entertainment and natural treatment for depression at the same time!

Here’s our neighbour’s front yard on the next day.

Here’s our front yard.

Happy Chinese New Year~!

Wedding Pics is here!

Pfiuh! Finally we received our actual-day-wedding photos (CD only lo, where is the 100 print out pics as we agreed on?) after a long waiting of more than 2 months. Longer than the time one has to wait to see the result of quick weight loss program. Sigh.

*rant mode on* I’ve anticipating to get it on January cause the photographer said he had too much order on December so have to wait until January. Fine, I’m very understanding one as long as you have a valid reason. *putting patient mode on although so curious to see the result*

Then I contacted the photographer again on the second week of January and I was asked to wait until the end of January. Fine, I didn’t mind giving more time. The promise date came but he still couldn’t deliver the photos and have to delay for another 1 week. The level of my patience already went down to 50%, out of 100%.

However, I thought it wasn’t so bad if he can deliver it one week later which is our 2nd monthiversary. But, he failed to meet his own deadline again. I lost my patience immediately. All the while it was me – as a client/customer – who asked the photographer about the deadline and delivery. I wonder if I didn’t ask, will he inform us about the delay of deadline consider that we (stupidly) paid full after the wedding ceremony was over.

After he failed to meet the previous deadline, he promised to deliver it 1 week later – on the week before Chinese New Year. We already predicted that it will be on CNY eve and yes it is.

Put aside the deadline problem, the photographer is very friendly actually. But still, it is a major downside if you are friendly but can’t meet your own deadline. For us who works on our own (not under any company), meeting deadline is extremely important. Not only that, we always remember to inform our clients about the latest progress instead of leaving them wondering and wondering.

Anyway, there is 296 pictures in total, covering the simple wedding ceremony in the morning, casual photoshoot in the afternoon and wedding banquet in the evening. Overall is good but I think it’s over edited and too much contrast . I would prefer a very minimal Photoshop work and rely more on one’s photography skill.

It will take me some time to upload those pics to our wedding site and my Facebook. Super lazy have to resize and upload. Bleh.

Yo Wassup

I’m having an early to bed and early to rise situation today. It feels oh so good to greet the sun by 7am. Besides that, waking up at such early hour means tunning on Hitz.fm for the Morning Crew session. Their Gotcha! prank is my fave one while taking college bus in the morning. Thanks to internet I get to listen to the channel despite the location. Hehe.

Moving on to my latest news. Finally we decided to book the flight ticket after asking about the procedure of applying long term social visit pass (6 months – 1 year) at the M’sia immigration in town. According to the officer, it will take at least 3 months until I can get that pass and we can only start applying when we have the marriage certificate from both countries (Indonesia and Malaysia). He was kind enough to gave us the list of necessary docs. Hah, another waiting to go. More patient is needed.

Anyway, we will be in KL on 26th Feb (night flight), spends few days there to meet local clients and friends before we fly to Medan on 3rd March. It’s going to be a long visit as we’ll be in Medan until 28th March. More than 3 weeks, should be enough to settle the marriage registration there and the 3 months social pass, also to meet up with friends and indulge myself with Mum’s cooking & Medan’s foods. Slurrpiee… And buy some stuffs to bring over here, i.e. Anilox cleaning and refill ink kits – the kit costs IDR100.000 only and here it costs RM100, thrice the price, can’t understand why.

With that said, I’ll be back to Medan after Chinese New Year is over. Slightly run away from our earlier plan.

Maid of The Year

… is the one that says she often forgets some tasks which we ask her to do because she is lack of vitamin.

This happened on yesterday, when Mum Lee (my Mum In Law) just took her daily vitamin consumption. After that Mum Lee continued baking cakes while saying that maid in Malay language (how careless and don’t know how to do work bla bla bla). I was sitting in front of my computer when I heard that KNS maid said Ini.. saya kan nga makan vitamin. Kurang vitamin. – something like this. Wtf, I almost fell down from my chair.

… is the one that turns on the air-con herself and lies on the living room’s floor, cause the weather is so hot.

I’m so gonna kick her *ss if I were there. My boy and I have to think twice before we turn on the air-con in living room – think about the electric bill and the effect to this earth. But this KNS maid just use it like it is natural wind. The 40sth woman is so lazy when it comes to work and yet knows how to enjoy life. Wtf, she never hears about ‘menyelesaikan kewajiban baru menuntut hak‘ (do your duty first, then only ask for your right) is it? Just because Mum Lee is so kind and chinchai then she climbs on her head. Ugh. I wonder if she were ever being sent to work at four seasons country, will she ever allowed to turn on the electric fireplaces herself or not.

… is the one that asks you want to eat or not. If you want, she will fry eggs for you.

This often happened before dinner time. My boy’s Grandpa and that KNS maid usually have early dinner. After that, the foods left so little only. Then that KNS maid will ask me (us actually, but don’t know why she always asks me and not my boy, scares being scold I guess) whether I want to eat or not and that she will fry eggs if I want to. Not once or twice, but almost like every evening. On the surface, it sounds as if she is so concern about me. But, wtf, fry eggs? Everyday? Siao. Macam memang ciak nui po nui.

… is the one that asks you want to heat the foods or not. If you want, please do it yourself with microwave cause she doesn’t know how to use it.

Luckily Mum Lee didn’t teach that KNS maid on how to use microwave. Otherwise, it will be her easy way out and doesn’t want to heat foods using the stove. Like the above fry-egg’s story, this doesn’t happen once or twice only. Each time I answered that I don’t want to eat first, she continues asking about heating the foods as if she never heard me saying NO.

And this afternoon she asked the same thing again after Mum Lee asked if we wanted to eat or not (cause it was 1pm already).

She : Ti, mau makan?
Me : Nga, nanti. *continue clicking the mouse*
She : Makanannya mau dipanasin?
Me : -__-” *KNS didn’t hear that I said later meh?* Iya, iya panasin lo. *you so want to do, go do la*
She : Tapi.. ini.. saya nga paham cara pakainya. *point to the microwave* *hint me to do it myself*
Me : -___-” *kill me please*

Again, on the surface it looks like she is so concern about me. But, it sounds like ke mui in Hokkien. KNS, if the stove is occupied for baking cakes and she doesn’t know how to use the microwave (and not allowed to use it), by all means no need ask whether I want to heat the food or not. After I say yes, she told me to do it myself. Then, what for asking me that question? Just cut the crap la. Not like she never saw us heating the foods ourselves. Haihz..

Now I understand why some people can have so many complaints about their maids and why that cruelty towards maids can happen. Be in the situation and you’ll get it.

End of the rant about the maid. No worry, this rant doesn’t overpower the blissful feeling for having a maid. I’m still thankful for having one although her attitude is KNS one. I guess it’s best to say that I’m having a love-hate relationship with house-maid.