After taking off Michael to work, I always start off the day reading at least a chapter of a book, drinking lots and lots of water, a bit of house cleaning then exercising. Let’s call them my morning routines. I’m hoping to successfully fulfil my 2012 resolutions, in which two of them are 1) be more organised as a person, and 2) read all the books I bought then abandoned last year (haha). I have a lot of new books displayed in our mini library at home and I feel guilty every time I want to buy new books (but seriously, we can’t never have too many books, right?!) Wish me luck!
Have a good day!
Hi all! How are you? They are some pictures of our pre wedding photo shoots. All of my clothes were tailor made. I picked all the fabrics and searched for the designs myself, based on the inspiration board given by the photography team. The photo shoot themed “Summer of love” all in vintage 60s vibe (biggie thanks to Lighthouse Photography team for the superb job). I’m so glad they turned out really nice. We had massive fun during the photo shoots. Michael even suggested that we do this kind of thing every year (not the pre wedding but the photo shoots) and he regretted later after seeing me overexcited with this idea, haha. He should have anticipated my reaction. Find more of the pre wedding pictures on our wedding website.
So it’s been almost three weeks since we got married. I really enjoy my new role as a wife, and thank goodness Michael has been really helpful with everything about domestic chores. We are new to many things but we are very excited to do those new things. Needless to say, we are happy! Note to myself, I need to put extra hard work on organising and keeping the house clean, haha. That Michael is very patient about this matter makes me a bit guilty. So I promise myself to learn and be better.
We are currently considering about creating a blog together. hmm.. we’ll see how it goes later.
I promise this is the last post about the previous trip to Bali. haha. That hat is everywhere in the picture because my hair was having bad days after being given an excessive amount of hair spray and backcombing on the wedding.
We picked Bali as our honeymoon destination only 2 weeks before our wedding and everything was done in last minute. On Sunday night after the reception we went to bed at 2 am and had to wake up 3 hours later to catch our flight! We didn’t make a very good preparation. However, despite the epic moments, we still made the most out of Bali.
I nodded to Michael when he said this holiday had got to be very very laid back. He knows me too well that I can even be busier and fussier during holiday. Wake up way earlier than usual, rush to get dressed, take my big camera and stroll around from 9 am to 9 pm, take picture of everything, go back to hotel and be ready for the next day. I just want to explore and don’t want to miss a single thing. However, this holiday was different. As my husband’s command, it was very, very laid back. So, all we did was only waking up, having breakfast, chilling around, going to the beach, pool, hopping from one eating place to another. No rush. No fuss. I didn’t even bring my DSLR camera (all pictures were snapped by a pocket camera). And it was soooo much relaxing. Another beach escape, please, husband?
It was my first Bali visit after 6 years and Bali has a lot of new cool places. Karma Kandara is my favourite on this visit! It’s so tranquil in there that all the tensions I’ve had these past few months were released all of a sudden. A 3-day trip wasn’t enough (oh yes, a year of holiday isn’t enough for me either, thanks for reminding me haha). However, I’m so happy we still made it.
Holaaaa, I miss this blog. So, to start off, let me tell the world that Michael and I… we’re now married! We’re husband and wife now. It still feels weird (and a bit of magical) to call him my husband but I’m going to get used to it. Haha. We did the Holy Matrimony on 6th January and the Batak ceremony followed after on the same day. Two days after, 8th January, we held the reception. All those events were much blast to us and I can’t quite explain how happy and thankful we are about how everything turned out. Thank God for the most, thank our parents from both side (still crying as I remember everything they have done to us. My prayer never changes, God give them happiness, please. And teach us as children to respect and love them. They are just the greatest!) and thank everybody (our big family, wedding organiser team, vendors, and everyone who had come to be part of our big day) for the helping hands. The party would be nothing without them.
We just got back from 3 day sweet escape, I mean honeymoon, in Bali (a post about our honeymoon will arrive later on!). I didn’t feel like leaving that place of tranquillity to be honest. Haha. Hell yeah, the reality of married life starts now. Bring it on! Haha. We have a temporary place to live just the two of us, at least for 1 year ahead because our real home is estimated to finish in 1 year time. And as happy as I am to live only the two of us, I’m also a bit worry about staying alone at home when Michael isn’t home, haha (such a spoiled brat). Mum is the one who keeps encouraging me that the adjustment will take place only one or two months and I’ll get the hang of it very soon. Then she said about being tough. Ok mum, thank you, I love you.
We got a lot of valuable messages on our wedding day. Wedding is only a day (or two days in our case) but marriage is a lifetime. All of our elders told us to put God first in our new family. We must be aware from the first place that marriage isn’t always about sweet things and romance. There are times that things are allowed to just go wrong and sometimes we just keep questioning why this or that happened. However, if we put Him and set aside our ego, we will get strength to go through the marriage storm, they say. I must not say it’s going to be easy. There is a teensy bit of worry, honestly. However, worry not. Trust in and lean on Him as the source of our love so that when rocky periods kick in and love seems to fade away, He the source of love himself will restore the love between us. It’s no easy if not impossible. On the bottom line, we are looking forward to seeing things unfolding in our little family. Hopefully and faithfully, good things will unfold. Amen.
Anyway, Happy New Year people (better late than never, haha)! Good wishes to everyone!
