Monthly Archives: January 2007

    One of the Hakka tradition was that, once we’ve announced our engagement this would had to be distributed to ladies side’s friend and family. As it is just basically to announce that she has gotten engaged. But nowadays, most of this tradition were not practiced and what they do was that, just publish it in the newspaper and thus you have announced your engagement. Deluxe made the organza all by herself, she went to India street to purchase the materials. After that, we went to my aunt’s place to borrow her sewing machine and started the production for this piece. Forgot to take my camera back, so didn’t managed to take her while she was doing it in action. Anyway, inside this organza we had 5 items. 1 pack of curshed sweetened peanuts, 1 pack of compress peanuts, and 3 sweets. After realising that the organza wasn’t enough, rather than to make again we went and purchased some more organza from this nice seller on eBay.
    Once that was done, we had to go and print our engagement cards out. Apparently that card cost more than what we expected. But it’s all good anyway, we went to the one just behind cutting edge 2, if I’m not mistaken. Can’t recall the address of that place, but anyway we’ve seen their quotation and saying that it’s expensive is because of the printing iron already cost so much. Managed to bargain a little bit, and that was done. So that’s pretty much about it.

Additional Tips When Preparing Engagement Sweets
    When going to the printing shop, please clearly state for both husband and wife grand parents are still around. There will be an additional term that is needed to be printed out which will let people know that whether or not the grandparents are around.

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    After a long week of debate, finally the date has been set. Due to the reason if it’s postponed longer, mom was worried Granny would be disappointed as she is trying her best to get better. Anyway, apparently since we can’t postponed the whole thing, then the other solution was to bring forward the date. The date of our wedding was finalized on the 7th of July 2007. Apparently we didn’t want to choose this date in the first place because we were worried that it will be a very hot date and many places will not be available. So what happen was that, I’ve got my Dad to call up to church to see if the church is available and to our surprise it is. So it was a good thing, and the only thing left to worry about would be the dinner place. So apparently I’ve called my sister to see if she can come up with any quotation of the place. As she got back to me quite fast and told me there were a few places that are still available. So I think that was a good sign so it was set, and we started to book our tickets using Airasia. We were blessed because during that time the ticket were all free. Yes free, so we only need to pay the airport tax. And and to think the amount of money had been saved in air tickets.
    Our engagement will be on the 27th Febuary 2007 whereby both my parents will be flying up here to Kuching to have it here. We’ll be also having another function in Jakarta, on the 24th of June where this will be sort of like a dinner to send off the womens side. And we’ve managed to get the place sorted already. So basically, all the dates were set and the only thing left to do now is to prepare for the wedding and also invitations to be sent out. Updates more later….

Tips On Selecting The Date
When choosing a date, it is best if you would see if both sides of the family are superstitious or fussy about the dates. This will indeed help avoid any unnecessary problems as well as misunderstanding between two families. Plus if you intend to select a hot date to get married such as 07.07.07 or 08.08.08 (which I think everyone would rush for it), book it in advance. As you will not have any problems with the restaurant later. And also it would be best to choose a day whereby all your friends will not be working so that at least someone will show up on your wedding

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Business seems to be pretty much very slow lately, but God has always been giving us enough each day so it’s all good. Anyway, think this would be the best time to take loads of pictures and prepare to list them on ebay as well as the webstore. Already packed the item that will be sent out tomorrow to a few places. But most of them are going to the US. Now as I’m pretty much trying to try out a lot of things to see if it works or not. Pretty much will sell all my other stuff on the local auction site. Cuz no point keeping those stuff at my place or else it will either rot or collect dust. Hahaha..
Anyway, currently blogging something on another site. Hehehe. Will probably reveal everything in another 3-4 weeks time as I’m trying to get it all sorted, before import all the blog to this site here. So basically been pretty much very busy with lots of preparation for the new year. OK. Got to update the other side for now. Have a nice day.
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Deluxe and I went for a marriage counseling with James. We managed to have 4 session with him, to cover about 12 chapters. But that night, Cassandra was there as well joining us. But apparently she was just there to fellowship so ended up discussing a few chapters ahead. We talked about financial issues, as this issues seems to be a little bit sensitive. As James suggested to us that, it will be good to have a joint account for both husband and wife. Whereby both salary will be dumped inside there, and both can access it anytime, without any questioning. Johnathan (I think that’s his name) wasn’t really happy about the whole idea, and Cassandra was thrilled. But as James said that in due time they might work something out. Whereby husband and wife always fight about money, and a lot of cases if the wife is making more compared to the husband. Tendency of jealously or being pushy will occur. That is why by having a joint account, both side will trust each other and will not compare each other’s salaries. And it would be really practical, and by then both sides will not feel any problem if there were anything to happened to either one of them. There were a lot of practical issues that were raised up, and the benefits of having a joint account will solve a lot of future arguements as well.

We also talked about in-laws what will be happening then. Whereby when two couples join to one, it means two families will be united. So after the engagement you should start calling your in-laws mummy or daddy ^_^ So by the time once you’ve gotten married, you won’t be calling their in-laws uncle or aunty X_X” Hahaha.. But it’s all good. I love the way how they put on that chapter, in-laws or out-laws ? Hehehe.. Ok, got to run. More updates will be coming soon. Have a nice day.
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Last Sunday Deluxe and myself went around looking for somewhere to get our wedding pictures done. We first went to French & Taipei. We first look at some wedding picture samples, and they started to promote their packages to us. After negotiating with the budget of 2K, they gave quite a good package. But we told them that we’ll think about it and try to go other places. Another place we went, won’t say out the name it wasn’t as professional as how F&T did it. They weren’t really selling their product but rather kept on comparing their product with another company, which really turned Deluxe and I off as we weren’t interested in listening to comparison. Maybe because of that, which made us not really pay too much attention on them. So that place was out from our list. We went to My Wedding Collection a few days later, and found out that their packages were not as bad as French & Taipei. After a long discussion Deluxe and myself decided that we should go back to F & T, and see if we could get anything else from them. And in the end, we managed to get quite a good deal out from them and pretty much put in the deposit. Apparently it is all good Think we will be going to their place this Saturday to see the gowns out for the pictures, and most likely we’ll start shooting somewhere early March. Will update more and post some pictures on our next events
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