The Journey of a Distort Soul....

Fadzli's Wedding in Pokok Assam Part 2...

Our breakfast is provided at my grandmother's house; nasi lemak with sambal sotong. I went with Arief first and we shared a plate of nasi lemak. Back home, Arief and Ilyas was playing all-out at the living room while I slept; needed to rest due to my slight migraine. The wedding starts at around noon and I ate first; my task is to welcome the bride's family at around 2pm. My in-laws is already there; Eliza & Arief join them for lunch. Weather was a bit gloomy; it did drizzle a bit around 1pm. I really enjoy eating "daging rendang". They also served "cendol" and "teh tarik". Eliza, Arief and my in-laws waited inside the house for the "bersanding". By 1.30pm the bride's family arrived at my house before proceeding to the Fadzli's house. I went with Abg Adi to welcome them with "bunga manggar" and "kompang". Acik Nan also arrange for "silat" to welcome the "pengantin". By the time Fadzli & Azura started their "bersanding" ceremony, Eliza & Arief went back home as Arief was tired from playing the whole morning. The ceremony finish at around 3pm and I went back to rest (Eliza & Arief was sleeping). I couldn't sleep as I had slept earlier and I went out with Haza & Wandi to do the alignment and balancing. We also went to the "Weng Sport Store" where Haza bought his new badminton shoes and table-tennis bat :-)

We went to Sri Kota late in the evening and as usual Arief plays all out with his cousins. Eliza was not feeling well due to her tonsilitis and I went alone to "buka hadiah" session. I thought it would start early but there were still guest at the house. I had my dinner there; "lauk kenduri". The "buka hadiah" started at around 10am and Kak Eeta was the emcee (official emcee for Fadzli's wedding) and we laugh our socks off as it was hillarious. All of the relatives need to give speeched and I gave one on-behalf of my family. I really like the speech given by Fairuz and he addresses Fadzli & Azura as "tok". Acik Nan gave the final speech, thanking us for the job well done and it was really touching. The highlight is the karoeke session but I was too tired; went back to Sri Kota for a good night sleep :-)

Fadzli's Wedding in Pokok Assam Part 1...

We went back to Taiping on Friday morning; plan to start early but we ended up watching "Prince Caspian" on DVD and we began our journey at 10am. We had our breakfast at Miza Kopitiam at Seksyen 7 Shah Alam before starting our journey. We reached Pokok Assam by 1.30pm. Arief was sleeping during the journey and it took us awhile to convince him to go to my grandmother house for lunch. It was a simple buffet spread with prawn curry and "ikan masin" with "ulam kampung"; not forgetting the sambal belacan. Eliza finished the "pekasam" while Arief enjoy eating the prawns. My sister arrived at around 2.30pm and Arief & Ilyas continue playing at my grandmother's house. I wanted to do our car allignment and balancing but it was raining heavilly in Taiping; we went to my in-laws house instead and Arief spend time playing with his cousins. We went back to Pokok Assam at around 8.30pm for the "Doa Selamat". I went with Arief first and he played continuously with Ilyas nearby the "pelamin"; strutting their ultraman pose and hitting me and Aiman in the process. "Doa Selamat" began as schedule and Acik Nan prepared "sup daging" with "ulam kampung" and "sambal belacan". It was simple but extremely delicious. I didn't particularly like the fat residues after eating "sup daging"; it took me awhile to clean my hand. Eliza and Arief went back home early as Arief is tired and wanted to sleep. I went back for the "Naik Pelamin" session; just-in-time for my "merenjis" :-)

Fadzli's Wedding in Bidong Part 2...

The entourage going to Bidong for Fadzli's Akad Nikah will start their journey at 7.30am. As I was still recovering from my tonsillitis, we decided to just join the entourage for the wedding reception. We went out by 10.30am; Abah went with us to the reception. The journey took about 1 and half an hour and we went to the rumah "singgahan". Haza sms me the direction; quite thorough but we got confused at the final stretch. At the end Abg Amin guide us to the house. Everybody there was refreshing themselves for the reception. Arief was keeping himself busy playing toy cars with Dodi's son. BTW Fadzli only need one "lafaz" to recite his "akad". We drove to the Azura house by 1.30pm; it was just driving distance. We gather at the designated parking place and we walked to Azura's house. Some of us went into their house for "merenjis" and some of us went to eat our lunch: including us as we were hungry. The lunch buffet was excellent; we really enjoy eating daging kurma as well as the fried chicken. And they also served "bubur gandum jagung" for desserts and Arief likes it. But to Eliza bad luck, rain water from the top of the tent spill on to her while she was eating due to the wind. Minimal damage though. We went to main table to greet the newlyweds; and told them that we have "daging kurma" and "air assam" for lunch. My mom immediately request for it to be served on the main table. We drove back by 3pm and I am still out of voice :-)

Fadzli's Wedding in Bidong Part 1...

We went back to Taiping with Aiman for Fadzli & Azura wedding at Bidong Kedah. We began our journey at around 11am; after breakfast at Guthrie Expressway (expensive and Arief spill his iced milo). We arrived in Pokok Assam by 1.30pm; Arief as usual slept all the way. I was still recovering from my tonsilitis and I lost my voice. My mom prepared lunch for us; very delicious as always and I slept after that. We went to Sri Kota in the evening to visit my in-laws. Later that night, it was the "berinai" session for Fadzli and almost all nephews and nieces "inai" their fingers; including Aiman. I told Aiman it was not compulsory and he immediately clean his fingers :-)

007 at GSC Signatures courtesy of Discovery Channel...

I won another contest via Astro Life; online Discovery Channel contest via astro.com.my and I won 2 Premier Class tickets and a goodie bag from MythBusters. I plan to go with Aiman as he just finished his final exam at INTI. We were supposed to drive from Shah Alam by 7.15am but I was stuck in massive jam from Cyberjaya to Kelana Jaya and I finally arrived home by 7.15pm. We went out by 8pm and we use the LDP (it was the right choice) and we arrived at GSC Signatures just in time. BTW locating GSC Signatures in Gardens is very confusing (no doubt it was the first time for us there). I received the door gift @ Bag with Discovery Channel pen and we waited for about 20 minutes before we went in the cinema. I choose P3 & P4; not realizing that it was the front seating. Luckilly it was still clear. They served us free large popcorn with coke. We thoroughly enjoy the movie, fast paced action. There is a lot of empty seats; we were tempted to take the popcorns but we were too full. We went home at around 11.30pm and had supper at Pelita Seksyen 9 :-)

Eliza's UiTM Exam & Subang Permai...

I was with Arief over the weekend as Eliza is busy studying for her exam on Sunday. We spend the whole day playing Nintendo Wii and only went out at around 2pm to visit my apartment at Subang Permai. Arief was sleeping but woke-up once we wanted to enter the apartment. I'm hiring Pai to re-paint my apartment; seeking for new tenants by November. Arief was curious at the new surroundings and was exploring from rooms to rooms. We went to the nearby Petronas Station to buy our packet drinks before driving back to Shah Alam :-)