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Busy like crazy but been missing blogging...

1. Had a lovely dinner on our anniversary at Kensington Restaurant in Era Square near Terminal 2, Seremban. A western & fusion restaurant that seems to be hitting the right note with Malaysian food bloggers, and an affordable one too. The ambience is nice but no candle light dinner was served, contrary to what I was told when I made the reservation. But since we were already seated, we thought - never mind lah and ordered anyway. We had mushroom soup with garlic bread and prawn mango salad for starter; lamb chop & venison steak as the main entree and apple crumble (with ice cream) for dessert. Oh, and the not-to-be-missed huge air-flown from Canada, baked cheese oyster. Yummy! Food was fab, alhamdulillah although hubby was not too happy seeing bottles of wine lining up some tables. The waitress was obliging - I asked if they could play any other CD than the Christmassy one that was on, and she changed it to a light & easy CD (and romantic too - stuff like Eric Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight" and Richard Marx's "Right Here Waiting").

We only managed to take some pictures of the soup when the camera's battery went dead. Oh well...

2. The kenduri of my brother in law went okay, alhamdulillah - although the "making of" and the "post-production" part was very tiring. No kidding.

SIL, wife of hubby's cousin & I in the process of hanging a self-made satin scallops in front of the house (so as to make it easy for guests to identify the rumah pengantin)

3. Dramas during in between the three functions (akad nikah, kenduri on the bridal side and kenduri sambut menantu on the groom side) include, among others, last minute lintang pukang shopping for bunga pahar, satin sheets to be turned into scallops, fresh flowers as cake decoration, a worrying episode of the eldest nephew in the family, Ahmad Hassan, experiencing acute pain in the chest, which after being inspected in Tuanku Jaafar Hospital, was diagnosed as some clutching of the nerve near his heart or something like that, plus receiving last minute goodies from well-meaning relatives who insist on them (souvenir face towels and bunjuts of jellies of various color and taste) forming part of the door gifts, Huzaifah tresspassing into a closed and locked kindergarden with Humaidi looking on while trying (and failed) to enter the kindergarden through closed gates and some huru haraness when the bridal side of the family came to the kenduri sambut menantu due to the caterer's lack of waiters/waitresses.

Ish, ish, ish, anak siapa lah tu ye?

"Ayah jangan pukul ok? Ujai nak keluar ni"

"Yelah, yelah Ayah tak pukul. Tapi Ujai jangan masuk dah, ok?. Tak Boleh. Salah. Tau?"

4. Should a Malaysian Malay newlywed couple opt for the honeymoon first or go and make the obligatory rounds of visits to the elderly before going for their honeymoon? I asked around in the office and the majority seems to believe that it is better to make the obligatory round of visits first before leaving for honeymoon. But what if one gets pregnant (bunting pelamin) before they could go for a 'proper' honeymoon? For the record, hubby and I spent our first week as husband and wife visiting relatives in Seremban and Kedah with just one night/day in Penang spent on our own. We planned on going back to PJ that night but we were both so tired from all the visits that we decided to spend the night in Penang on our way back from Kedah. Boy oh boy - it was really difficult finding a vacant room that night - school holidays, weekend and all. Alhamdulillah, we finally found one in Naza Hotel - yes, the very hotel we went for the family gathering during Eidul Fitri season this year.

5. Because my husband is not that 'jiwang' I don't usually consider him to be a romantic. Stuff like him refusing to give me flowers (even for my graduation) seem to support this notion. It wasn't until his aunt, Busu Bibah, pointed out that "Busu tengok korang selalu je pakai baju sama kaler" when it hit me that well, my husband is not that bad for a non-romantic husband. Busu went on to moan, "Pak Busu kau, hmm, jangan haraplah nak pakai baju sedondon ke apa ke..." Yes, like I said before, I am thankful for what hubby and I have and are together, alhamdulillah.

We both wore turquoise during BIL's akad nikah ceremony,

maroon during the bridal kenduri,

and golden yellow during the kenduri sambut menantu.