A Love That Will Last - Wai Mun & Sharon

Ever had this kind of moments? When things that people said suddenly made sense to you after a long time? Or a joke suddenly sounded funnier when you finally understood the sarcasm behind the obvious! Well that happens to me many times! I had moments when things that people told me does not mean anything but I smile anyway until somehow much later (much much later) I smile all by myself (like a mad lady) because I finally got it! 

This incident just happened to me five minutes ago and I had the need to bitch about it instantly! These words were uttered to me some 30 months ago when I was planning my wedding. When this particular person said these to me, I was so busy running through my wedding plans and assignments that I paid no mind to him until now! SUDDENLY! 

These are the actual words! "Do you know Wings (A person name)? I think you should invite her to your wedding but before that you can get to know her! She is planning an ultra modern wedding as well, with the cost of 100,000 ringgit & I think she has a lot of contacts and stuff to get things done!" 

My answer?! I dunno that person and I don't need her! Thanks (Back to flipping my notes)

I think my nonchalance at that very moment was the right reaction because properly understanding the remarks right now makes me a little pissy! What did he meant by I should get to know this person so that she could help me?! And what's with the big budget on the neon board before the wedding even happened? Come on! 

• Each and every person has their own preferences and ways of doing things especially this is my big day! Yeah she is planning an ultra modern wedding but I am planning a cozy small event to celebrate love! If I need someone to plan it for me! I can afford a wedding planner! We decided to do it ourselves because it will be more meaningful 
• Just because I did not loud about the money spend doesn't mean mine is lousier!     
• Who said I do not have the contacts? I still manage to put everything in place! There were things that cocked up but still the event went on! 
• That person 100K wedding happened in a Chinese restaurant & Chinese restaurants already provide half of the items required for the dinner to go on! They do not have to put up a menu, decorations, tents and so on and so forth! As my reception was on the poolside area and ceremony happened in the garden gazebo, we have to plan everything from tent to food to chairs & tables, to decorations & flowers, to band and everything in between! 
• Plus what do you mean by ultra modern?! Idea curi-ed from Christian walking down the aisle with 4 flower girls and 12 "ala-ala bridesmaids" is Ultra Modern?!? Come on man! Need me to elaborate more on it?! 
• To add to the statement! I knew the bridegroom not the bride and this guy was complaining on the low about the wedding stress & the cost, their newly bought house in Setia Alam & the reason why he is marrying her while trying to hit on my girlfriend & I. I am not going to comment on the matter any further!  

Told myself to blog more coming 2014! I will not called this resolution because I will then have to feel guilty for not being able to achieve yet another one on the list on December 2014! Nothing special about my life! I don't foresee myself making money from blogging but I would love to share some really nice stuff that I encounter from day to day!

I called this year 2014, the year of small wonders! At times we always strive for the big things that we forget how wonderful the things that surrounds us! We become so numb towards life that we couldn't find time to stand still and smell the flower or feel the wind blow on our faces! So I dedicate this year to doing so! Stand still and look around! 

I encountered this beautiful cloud sometime ago! Clouds takes on different shapes everyday and people can see the same cloud but yet perceived it differently! For me the moment I see this very cute cloud, I told my husband, I saw an ELEPHANT! My husband who knows me for being absurd, told me to be more specific as we live in city center and not a nature park! Here it is! For you to judge! Sorry that most of my pictures are taken on my old 3Gs! People that know me will have words for me and my answers will be "Yeah! I am still holding that old scrawny phone! It is still faithfully working! So no need to change it YET" 

We started so many tradition this year! Ha! Ha! Maybe that is one of the sign that I am getting older! We love to settle for stability and norms! Well this is one of them... It is to bring both our parents (My mom and my hubby's dad) for a trip each year! We realize that as time passed very quickly, we should never take our parents for granted! As we mature and grow they also are not getting any younger! I always wanted to treat them the best I can (although at times we do disagree (with my mom) and I do get agitated (with my FIL)) when they are still around! As we were given to them by God when we were a child and they did their best to bring us up, now it is our turn to treat them as a gift that we should appreciate no matter what! 

Happy Christmas! A week after Christmas, I now have time to sit down and write about it. This Christmas had been busy for me! Care-A-Lot Hotel has the opportunity to hold both our families under our roof! Yay! 

Let me start of by saying Christmas nowadays is just a little overrated and taken out of contrast! It is both bittersweet to know people around the world are celebrating it but it is also sad to know that many who do, just didn't know why Christmas was celebrated in the first place! If you ask around you will get all kind of answers, for example, Christmas is about present, nicely decorated trees, lights, musics and worst still Reindeer and Santa Claus! No matter how adorable St. Nick is being portrayed I do not agree with him! I detest him as much as I detest people who uses the word Merry Xmas! Why Xmas?! The same reason as they celebrate Christmas for all the wrong reason! They X the Christ out of Christmas hence they get Xmas! So they could go on celebrating their habit of spending without any guilt! Celebrating Christmas without knowing the real reason is like celebrating our mom, sister, spouse or children birthday without having them around! Sort of like "Syok Sendiri" 

For me I too could also easily get lost in the preparations as well! The making of cards, gift-tags, setting up the Christmas Tree, shopping for the perfect gifts for each person, getting the house ready for the arrival of my guests, sneaking out on my own to buy pressie for hubby or even preparing the menu for Christmas dinner and buying groceries can get overwhelming at times! I had to stop and remind myself the real reason for Christmas! 

Yeah! I know! I am suppose to do the Christmas post before the new year post! Now it is downside up! Just like I said, I get a little lazy uploading the pictures so I finally got my lazy self to plug in the camera to the computer. So now I got loads to share! 

Christmas every year, hubby and I got a tradition! We will drive all the way to Singapore to watch the lighting at Orchard Road. Before that, we will fly in a week before Christmas just to walk through the crowded street and enjoy the Christmassy atmosphere along the way! Now we just drove, one of the perk of staying in Johor! This is the third year we are doing that! Although every time after sitting in the causeway jam for hours we will swore off going to see it next year, still when the time comes we will pack all our kids (7+1) in the car and off we go! 

This year trip did not start all too well! We planned our little sight-seeing on a Friday (BAD IDEA!). Friday is a day where there are terrible jams everywhere & to add to the severity of it, Christmas is just 5 days away! By the the time the husband arrived home it was about 6.30pm and by the time we were out the door, it 7.30pm, we got a quick bite at McD and when we started along the Causeway getting our passport stamped it was already 9.00pm and I was feeling a little dizzy from i-don't-know-what-was-the-reason?! So one could guess the mood wasn't really as great as it was the last year! Plus to make the matter worst! Our car were right behind a heavily modify old Lancer with lousy exhaust sound! It was like a terrible radio show that cannot be shut down! It went Vrroooo-Vroooo without the VROOM beside us the whole time! That dampened my mood all the more but hubby was sweet and he tried to cheer the mood up by telling me jokes and thank goodness after a few sips of Coke my terrible headache was gone! Kudos to Coke and now I wonder what you guys put in! From washing toilet, removing rust to curing headaches! Wow! You should change your name to Miracle Soda!

After sitting in the jam for hours finally we arrived. After consecutively going to watch the Christmas decorations, I would say this year's was a little plain compare to all the years before! The years before the whole street were decked with various colors ornaments and trinkets while each shopping malls and hotels compete to be the most extravagant amongst all but this year it is was just little plain.

I went on some kind of hibernation mode for a while! Nope! I think it was just lazy mode I guess! Every time I read a really good blog I will tell myself "Should go back to my blog" and I will get all "gang-ho" and started to create what I wanted to write in my head but when I got to the front of my computer everything just "shoosh!" lost in the air! How good if they invented something that can actually let me air-write (Oh! They do have that now?!? Technologies! Hashtag: I am so outdated) Then there is this "I am too lazy to upload those pictures from my camera" moments because nobody will be interested in a post that has no pictures in it! (Ok! They have air-transfers or whatever they call it as well! Tell me about that?! I guess I have to crawl back into the cave that I just came out a while ago!) Anyway just wanted to say: