Save the date!!

Its 25th of June, 2011.

PLEASE SAVE THE DATE!

The wedding will be at Church of Holy Rosary, Kuala Lumpur.

Its a 100 years old church, can you believe that! I remembered when i was still a young and innocent college student, i always saw the church through the windows of the LRT everytime the train passed by Pasar Seni heading to KL sentral station. It is standing tall and magistic in white, and i cant helped but wonder how the church looks inside.

And now, am gonna get married in the church. * Awe Stuck *

"The Holy Rosary Church was completed in 1904 but suffered some damages during World War II. Therefore, renovations took place in the 1950s to repair the building, resulting in the structure that we see today. In addition the Holy Rosary Church at the time of complete construction was different from the present building. The roof of the church was flat and the wings were not added until 1950.

Easily the Holy Rosary Church is one of the most beautiful of the Malaysian churches. Little is recorded of the history of the church except that it was constructed by Father Francis Emile Terrien, a French missionary. The church took 18 months to build, and was blessed on December 18, 1904.

The attraction of the Holy Rosary Church lies in its Neo-Gothic architecture style. Its characteristic features include the pointed arch, the ribbed vault and the flying buttress. The Neo-Gothic architecture is most familiar as the architecture of many of the great cathedrals, abbeys and parish churches of Europe. It is also the architecture of many castles, palaces, town halls, guild halls, universities, and to a less prominent extent, private dwellings."

Extracted from http://holidaysinmalaysia.org/kuala-lumpur/holy-rosary-church/

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Wedding at Church of Francis Xavier

I came to know Peter's God brother and his wife through the Catholic marriage preparation course half a year before, and yesterday we have attended their wedding at Church of Francis Xavier. They have a very happy theme with Brunos Mas, "Just the way you are," as their theme song. Its really an out of norm kinda selection, but i love the way the song had brought alive the entire ambiance of the wedding. It was fun and the couple really enjoyed their special day.

Anyway just to share some photos here.

The colorful windows of the church, they looks magistically beautiful.

Their theme was blue, so all the flowers are in blue.

The wedding bulletin (which is super thick) and the cute clipart of the wedding birds at the back of the bulletin

The wedding favors- at first i thought it was a gingerbread man biscuits, until someone pointed out that it is a candle.

Aren't they adorable?

Peter and I at the banquet

I have to confess that after i attended their wedding i felt a bit depressed, I havent done much cuz the date is yet to confirm. Any volunteers to help me with the prep??

Wedding Diy: Wedding Car Deco

For the whole of last weekend, am putting my creativity cells into great test. The challenge is to reuse my sister wedding car deco and diy it according to my own taste.

Frankly, i really dont mind reuse some of the old deco staff for my wedding. Both Peter and I believe in spending money in its appropriate place, and funny to say wedding decoration comes at the least in our list of priority.

This is what i've 'inherited' from my sister. There is 2 sets of the big ones (for both front and back of the car) and 2 sets of small ones (for side handles). Its not my favourite color, but well at least it pleases the elders (Red - good color for chinese).

I bought this white-pinkish color artificial flowers with shiny edge from a shop called "Ribbons and lace". Each cost at RM1.50. The important thing is that it must have a sturdy (preferably long) metal stem which is easy to bend, yet tightly seal to the flower. It will be funny if the flowers keep falling off from the car during the drive to the church.

Some other essential materials are the metal wire (RM1 for 25 pieces), and the white web like plastic wrappers of the same materials (RM 2.20/metre) with the original car deco (red and pink). Fold the wrapers into three layer from the side, then back and forth from the end. Tie the middle with a piece of the wire. The output will look something like this.

Next, release the folds from the sides so that it looks fluffy. Tie the fluffy white flower with wire in the middle to the original red-pink deco.

Then add in two flowers on top of the white fluffy flower, make sure all the wire stuff goes through the main deco structure to the back and tie all the wire together into a knot.

TaDa! this is the final outcome. Wonder how my Myvi looks with these decos.

Back on track

Before starting my food post, first of all i really need to thank all my friends for the concern they've showered upon me after reading my previous post. It'd all settled now and yours truly is back on track. I know i may sound like a pms fella having a bad mood swing of "one min-i'm in hell, next minute- i'm ok", honestly its not easy for me to summarize the entire incident with a simple "It's ok", but what good is there to continue to indulge in the swirl of self guilty and sympathy. I believe every human have a certain level of reserved capacity inside of us, an inertia which help us to fought back the the centrifugal force which determines to pull us down into the swirl of misery and bitterness.

Anyway, being survived from getting drowned entitles me a reward of good food.

Peter and I went for an spontaneous food hunt yesterday at Sunway. And since we really wanted to try something new, we have decided to go for a fusion restaurant of two types of cuisine we loved the most- Japanese and Italian- Pasta Zanmai.

My unagi rice with a pouch egg, peter's Japanese Pizza with alot of seaweed on top

This is the set which Peter ordered (as shown in the menu), but i forgot to take the photos of the seafood spaghetti. The green tea in a pot on the right.

Beef stew in a crusty pastry, warm and satisfying to eat on a cold rainy days.

Not bad at all for spontaneous food hunt on Sunday night.

I wish

I have a slow walk around the neighborhood with Peter last night. It was after an hour of workout at gym and an exhaustive day i had in office. The workout had been a way for me to stretch and release the stiffness i had on my shoulders, but it was the walk with Peter which soothed and untangled the strain in my heart.

I reached his place around 9pm, his mom was pretty much in a nagging mood, and believe me, you don't want another round of 'i-want-to-change-some-songs-in-the-wedding-service-program' conversation after a hectic day. i guess Peter sensed my tension and dragged me out for a walk before i snapped.

We haven't see each other for a week, and i miss dearly the quiet time we had together. We walked aimlessly while making small talks, it calmed me down tremendously by simply holding his hands while walking beside him. I told him i made a wrong decision and that had cost me losing a precious friendship. I told him that i wished i can shrug it off like a man and not fretting it over and over again like an indecisive and moody woman.

I wish the question "what should i do" stop lingering in mind, all the time. I wish i had been more determined in my decision and made a better judgment instead of doing what i've done.

But you know, if i were to consider all my thoughts, every thread and every pieces of my thought; and i were careful enough to not miss even a tiny glimpse of what might possible go wrong, to calculate even the smallest details and analyze it in every possible way; And if i can rationalize myself to do things right everytime and to minimize the destruction as much as possible.

... then I'm not human.

I don't know how others accept the wrongs they made. Try to fix it right, then move on? what if its beyond fixing? shrug off and tell yourself that you have done everything you can and therefore your conscious is clear?

Well, I wish i can do that. i wish i can say doing wrong is making space for the right. I wish i can say the wrong move is worthwhile taking cuz i am learning from the mistake. I wish.

But most of the time, you just dont get what you wish for.

Ps: A very humbling song, nearly shed a tear when i first heard it. Enjoy.

Humble uploaded by atlantisian

Back to work

Its 5.25pm. I have to dissociate myself from the mounting office work for a few minutes just to ease the the growing ache in my head. The Chinese new year holiday was a bliss; but having to face the TONS of email and backlogs after being away from the office for a week is hell.

Boss was jumping at me for some documents...

Did one hour presentation to the client on last minute notice...

Head of IT was bombarding his email missile on me (as usual) as if he didnt know i am off for the whole of last week...

And i still have like 20 over emails to reply....

Yeah, holiday is over and welcome back to work.