….. to my dear husband,

You are fine with the dishes I’ve cooked for you, aren’t you? I just can’t take your saying ”I want to cut all the meals and skip dinner for the sake of losing some weight ” and thus asking me not to cook too often and too much. You broke my heart because cooking for you is my favourite thing to do. Yes, I’m very serious!

When I’m leaning on you and trying to kiss you, that doesn’t always mean I want to buy something. But I have a bad news for now as I’m currently eyeing on a lot of new fonts online and most of them aren’t free. So, thank you if you would kindly grant my wish, tee hee.

You’re most intimidating when you’re asking me where I put this and that, and I don’t have a clue. Because I’m a such an awfully forgetful wife, haha! Really sorry. But please, those eyes could be less intimidating, couldn’t they?

Please just tell me clearly what the manual book says about how to bake with our oven, because I really want to bake cakes and I’m too lazy to swallow words by words written on that manual book. Prettyyy pleaseeee.

I really hate if you laugh or make jokes when I’m mad (which makes me laugh, too. Am I that weak? Sigh)

but anyway, thank you for making me feeling like a million bucks when you land on thousands kisses on my cheeks and forehead every morning, when you sneak some kisses for me when I’m in the middle of sleeping. That’s kind of the cutest thing ever. And also thanks for every simplest things. I love you.

I couldn’t quite believe we’ve stepped into the second month of our marriage. Has it really been two months since each of us pronounced our wedding vows? Two months, seriously? Seems like everything goes really fast on us, but hopefully that only means we enjoy our new life over here. Alhough I won’t say we’ve always had the best and sweetest times, still these two months have been the most fascinating and exciting. We learn many new things. We have been in some silly fights, too (Thankfully, no big fights so far) But those silly fights somehow bond us even closer together. I remember a couple of months ago, in our pre-marriage class we were told that fights and arguments were actually part of communication, so it’s good to argue as long as we do it in the most proper manner. But mostly we have good times, anyway. Here I’m going to share my personal thoughts about the yays and nays of married life according to my own experience. Please don’t get it wrong about the nays. They are nothing bad, only it takes time for me to get used to them thus I need to put extra hard work on the nays ones, haha.

- yay’s - 

1. Endless talks and conversations with Husband. It’s precious and relieving at the same time having someone to share all your thoughts, happiness, woes, and complaints without any limit 2. Our praying time together, after and before bed, because we realise that we are nothing without Him. We want Him to get involved in our family life every time and everywhere and somehow it really strengthens us as a couple 3. Getting new extended families, knowing new people, friends and colleagues and taking part  in many activities with them. It’s really good to feel that we are not alone, we have a circle of people which makes our life more lively and honestly we have never had boring weekends. There are always exciting things to do with them. 4. Teaming up in building future plans together. In fact, nothing feels more surreal and fascinating other than this. Both of us like to dream a lot, then we’ll set goals and define the actions in order to make those dreams come true. 5. Waking up to the same person next to me everyday and simply feeling safe. 6. Sharing and doing a lot of things (also chores) together and that makes everything a lot easier to bear and way a lot more fun to go with. 7. Doing silly things and making jokes that only we understand. Sometimes we can laugh till death over the matters that aren’t really funny to most people but we found it very funny anyway. Weird. 8. Having a lifetime supporter who can also act as a police at times. He’s really that kind of person who will boldly say big no over things that are not quite deserving and I’m grateful for that.

- nay’s - 

1. When Husband has to go for a field trip, I feel like losing a grip and days and nights feel unusually long. haha. I would usually get on with so many activities and be busy during those days just to distract myself from feeling lonely. 2. Managing household finance, which really isn’t my knack. I’m such an impulsive one and least thoughtful about expenses while my husband is the contrary. It’s no surprise this matter often puts us on arguments. But I really thank God for having him, otherwise I’m going to be in a big mess my whole life. 3. Doing house organisation, which I’m not very good at, too. I’m still learning and learning and learning to be on top of this. And good news is, I think I’m making a littleeeeeee progress here. Really look forward to making this organised thingy as habit in order to live happily and healthily around the house. 4. Getting on with our partner being in a bad mood. I think it’s the hardest part this time around. I’m not talking about his bad mood only, but also mine.

We have a big list of plans ahead but we want to live in the present, too. What we have now is more important and we learn our best to be grateful every single time though it isn’t always easy. Let’s hope everything goes well. For the closest plan, fingers crossed we can sneak for a short vacation not too long enough. We’re (well, I am) really craving for one. Wish you a grand weekend! x

So the past Saturday, we did a photo shoot for our first collection. Well well.. Our first collection? Did I just say that? Okay I’ll just tell you. I partner with my friend (her name is duhita) starting up business of an online clothing shop, which will be launched this very near future. I can’t quite explain how magical it feels that we finally make it until this point. Our deal has taken place in mid 2011 but we went really slow due to the wedding preparation thingy. Therefore, I’m quite relieved that we’re now very close to the launch time. Despite having no ability to foresee the future as to where this business will lead to or how things will unfold, we’ll stay positive still. Because the truth is, we really enjoy every single step: picking the theme, creating mood board, shopping fabrics, taking to the tailor, working on the website, thinking hard on every details and bits of our business strategy, and the list goes. Doing all those stuff is really fascinating! Enjoying what we do is what exactly matters, isn’t it?

The past weekend we drove again to Bandung for a small gathering with the family from my mum in law’s side, particularly for Michael’s grandmother (which practically becomes my grandmother, too) birthday celebration. We went a bit up north of Bandung, to Ciater, precisely. It’s quite a shame that during my five year living in Bandung I hadn’t been to Ciater, not even once. haha. So I was glad to finally have the chance to visit this well-known place. It was a high land and I gasped quite often at the beautiful scenery along our journey. I can’t get enough of beautiful natural scenery. Tea plantation and pine trees lied on the right and left side of us, everything was in fresh green nuance and just beautiful! The gloomy weather even made a perfect addition to the laid back and relaxed moment we looked forward to.

I’m trying to convince Michael that we should go for a short escape to places of this kind more often (say once a month), also that we should get us a new lens for our camera (canon 24-70mm) or a decent new pocket camera (Fuji Film X100, yes pleaseee), but no luck! Haha. Ok, to my wish list they go! Anyway, this Saturday (tomorrow!!) will be covered a photo shoot for a little project I’ll tell you soon. So excited! Happy Friday, have a good weekend! x

I just added a couple of books into our mini library for me to read. Those are a few who are waiting in line to be read. Last year was a crazy packed one for me, I barely had my me-time to nurture my hobbies and enjoy myself. However, this year, I’ve set a goal or target to read more and more books (at least finishing those pile of books I bought last year). It’s that awesome feeling to flick through the pages, dream myself while reading, contented with the emotion in the story, engage with endless curiosity, and feel relieve at last as I arrive on the last page. Reading books really allow my imagination to go wild and explore things that matter to my mind.

Anyway, last week was quite a whirlwind. Hope this week ahead will be a happy happy one. Have a good Monday and wonderful week, readers! x