5 My Wedding Reception

This is rather a very late entry for my wedding reception that was happening more than a year ago. After my wedding, i was very busy with my appeal to get transfer from East Sabah to West Sabah. Then, after that was busy with preparation for my childbirth til I feel like it's quite too late to upload on my Facebook however, i will share this post to my FB by the way. I hope you enjoy seeing  these photos of my family and friends during my most important day in life and read my ramblings.

My flower bouquet..pink and with shades of purple. Perfect for me!

This heel are made for walking. I am so loving it because, one have to
tie the ribbon around the leg to a bow to wear this shoes.

My make over session.

My most important make over in life

I love my eyeshadow colors on that day. Pink and dark blue. 

Last touch ups on the lips.

After my make over.

Hubby getting himself ready too. One line that he
kept on repeating that day that annoyed me
so much is, " men can get ready for his wedding
in less than 10 minutes. I am so lucky i am a man."

The veil gave the sense of how pure marriage is.

Bride was waiting to be transported to the reception hall

Parents of both bride and groom

First dance

Mommy in her always " ready-to-panic" mode. In short alert.

I am always amazed by his calmness. I guess even when the rest of the world
in tears, he will still looked this cool.

This is very rare expressions of dad. He always looked as if he angry at something.
Credits to photographer, Benny Liew for capturing this for me.

My make-up artist, Wedie Aning. He worked his ass off right til the cake
is cut. He does his work with his amazing eyes and hands, perfectly and
i really love his job!

I think we were smiling at something. I don't have any memory on that.

My teary friend, Abby. She was overwhelmed by this wedding thingy. Now, she is expecting.

Estranged uncle and cousins. Really appreciate your coming to my
reception.

:) 

One Heart. Two souls. One story to be shared til death do us apart.

My niece, Owen.

Amazing oldest friends from secondary school. From left, Franly (Jaylyn's fiance, hubby, me ,
Atum, Jaylyn and their friend)

We called ourselves, PR. Oh minus Steven. Let me introduce my beautiful friends , from left, Lynorita, Sherry, Maslen, Abby, Elizabeth, Shane, Winnie, Caroline.

The luckiest men on earth, the PR husbands, from left, Maslen's (Junaidi), Winnie's (Dent), Elizabeth's(Joe)
Caroline's (Fread), Lynorita's (Harriet), Sherry's (Linus)

This rather a funny photos of the dads'. My in law looked as if he , "hey, watch where the spoon
going. Don't just camwhoring. While dad, "Nope, im not opening my jaw to those
sugary thing."

During the poco-poco. My aunt, Latimi (in purple punjabi) is a queen of
poco-poco in town!

I think Steven was quite struggling to catch up the steps in poco-poco.
Good try, hun.

My oldest friend, Astie in the middle.

These are the finalist who succeeded in catching bouquet sessions.
Winnie grabbed it first by the way, and her wedding was coming up after
Maslen's.

Aww, something cracked him up hard.

Steven singing , Wonderful Tonight. Good job. He sang to me,
but I didn't sang anything because, I am blinded by music notes. i
I never get it right,t herefore, i am not singing anything.

My left, Savilla( her mom was the my cake caterer), Linah (you remember her  from my travel Philippines
entries), Elisabet (my favorite cousin).

Kissing me. Kissing you.

With gorgeous Shane.

Sherry and Linus. 

The sacred rings. I am no longer wearing it now because i gain so much kilos after my pregnancy.
My finger grows too and it seem like it is never gonna shrink anymore. Huh, i really wanna wear it!

The deco for the car was rented by Spell Bridal Boutique , especially made for me.

Before cutting cake ceremony, smile first. 

Cutting the cake together. 

The sibling in-law. From left, Mariam, Simon and Murneh.

My siblings. From left, Janefer, William.

Mommy, thank you for everything. I am nowhere now if it's not because
of your hard work and unconditional love towards your family.
She also deserved to be credited for making this event ever meaningful
and complete. You are my nerve!

Okay , i already introduce the girls. Gentlemen standing next to Steven from
left is Jeffry then, Azri.

I was grateful that everything that had been planned for that went very well on that day. I never had good sleep months before the reception. I was always busy with phone calls since i arranged everything from afar as for the record, i was still working in East Sabah when all this mess happening,  and waste my timeworrying at nightime until there were times when i even dreamed that things goes outta hand during the day.
 I can't stop imagining how my reception is gonna be like because i had attended numbers of beautiful wedding reception of my family and friends. I might be nervous that my reception was going to be awful one.
 I was very worried by my preparations and it seemed like it  could never be finished. But, right after the guest goes back home after the reception over, it felt like the a burden has been moved away. And suddenly a whole new life is seem crystal clear ahead. Okay, it was not blurry before but, it just that the reception has to be over first then i could go on with life. 
So those who had same or almost alike experience with me, share it! 
Those who is going to get married and planning a reception , good luck and be patient if you found that everyone in the family wants a piece of that. I mean that they are going to be very generous with ideas for your big day and might me contrasting with yours. But, in the end of the day, you are the one who's getting married, it is you who determine how you want it to be! 

0 Abraham Lincoln :Vampire Hunter

Abraham Lincoln. What can i say about this man? The greatest president of giant country, America of all time.

First time i saw the trailer on tv, my eyes set on his very name then the vampire then the hunter. Irony. But, the trailer really shows that no one would regret buying the ticket to watch the movie.

This movies tells the untold stories about the secret life of Abraham Lincoln. The young him. What the people today hears, knows or read about him is just a part of his life. This movie starts when his mother killed by vampire and since then, he is going to hunt the killer of his mother but he fails until he meet this vampire who dying to kill his kind. This gives a little twist on the story line towards the climax of the story where one would think that Abe should have just kill him. But for Abe he is his 'wise man'. His master to be exact.


It also gives a touch of romances on the parts where Abe meets Mary Todd, his wife and where the scene shows that Abe needs Mary in his life and she could be very helpful in his fights for the nation. You have no idea how this great man could also be so in touched with his emotions. Especially when his son died of vampire bites too. But who would not shed tears when one lost their child, right? By the way, i am wondering if Abe really lost his son in reality? Despite of the vampire shitting bites.

Action packed with war scenes and axe-silver bullet gun shootings has never been this perfect. Sends me shivers and one can tell that you are not bullshitting about this when the whole cinema crying in shocked in most of the action scenes. Scenes that i love most is when the first time vampires army are sent to the war, disappear in a blink. Then when the captain blink open his eyes, his whole troops are finished by the fast creatures. But, it was quite funny anyway because the he was like striked by a really bad whirlwind but when the whirlwind finally resides, he still stood there untouched, clueless. At first, i thought that maybe because he was one of them too. Because, Adam, the chief of vampire said, "maybe it is God's trick. That vampire cannot kill a vampire." But i was just exagerrating the already exagerrated story of Abe. As a strong macho character.


Another scene that is worth eye catching is the dusty scene of running horses where Abe finally satisfy his vengeance over Jack Barts ( why do this kinda name often possesed by the villain? ) who bites his mothr to death.

By the way there are many more action scene that is so great it freezes you on the sofa. Questions mark arises when Abe's former boss and become his best friend, Mr Speed on his loyalty towards Abe also gives the story some twists when he goes telling Abe's and the gang's plan on transporting the silver weapons and bullets to the only lady in the vampire troops. Why oh why must in any stories of good versus evil must there a backstabber? And the backstabber must be a close friend? By the way,what makes this story different is that, this is only a set up planned carefully by the Abe's gang to avoid attentions from the women that was recruited by Mary to transport the weaponary.

Overall, i give 3.5 stars out of 5. It is a movie of action, fantasy, thriller and horror all at the same time. Seriously, it was a good story to watch though through the entire movie, i looked i was froze on my seat while leaning my head to my husband's shoulder. But, what goes in my mind was that, i think it is very funny to imagine that one of America's greatest president was a vampire slayer. He might be very good at catching spinning axe as if the axe is a boomerang to him but i couldn't stop myself from giggling when i think about how insanely creative the filmaker was to made up Abe has an untold stories about him, and the bomb is that he was a vampire slayer. I was like, NO, he can't be. He wouldn't kill in coldblood. The idea of Abe as a vampire slayer to me like it was impossible and way too ridiculous. Funny. Hihihihi...now he is a vampire hunter? I do not know about you, if you say, it is not ridiculous to me, well good luck with that.

I might stop giggling if someone would tell me that there is chances that he might be one. Still, i just love him in his wisest president character. Seriously.

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2 Make Over Date for Farewell Dinner

It has been years since i did not attend any formal dinner except for wedding dinner, i think since i was still in uni. But early this month i had a make over date with my sister for her farewell dinner. This was arranged since months ago and the date was still just around my comeback from Philippines. Perfect because i was still on holiday and it was one good excuse for me to go down to the city despite of my husband sick leg.

But before i was going to drive myself to her hostel, i got a call from her that her two friends asked if i can do make over for them too. Aww, it was three hours away from the dinner and i need one hour aside from the 3-hour, i was like, can i do 3 people in less than 3 hours preparation? What if they expected more of me? I might be able to nail their make ups, but i am never good at hair. I warned them about that by the way, however they are more than excited to trust their faces to my humble hands.

This is not my first time doing make over with people, i 'd done number of make over for flower girls, bridemaids and dinner but this is first time ever i have the guts to record the end products and publish it on my blog. Well, i wouldn't be able to publish it anyway because i only start blogging recently. Now, i see i had been typing for 3 paragraphs,just mere ramblings. Without further ado, check out the photos of before and after make over.

Olga: Before. She has very good skin , even if she does not
wear make up on daily basis, she still looked
pretty.

Olga: After. Forgive me for the blurry shot. I put on
smokey black and glittery highlights team up with
pink blusher, lipstick and nude lipgloss.

My sister, Janefer: Before. She has oily and acne -prone skin.
By the way,the dark circles can be fixed using foundations.

Janefer: After. No more dark circles. I put on smokey brown eyeshadow team up
with pink blusher and pearly pink lipstick.

Claire: After. I don't have her before make over shot since
i only got 30 minutes left to do her make up.
Was quite in a hurry at tne time , only managed to
shoot the after make over sessions. She also had oily and acne-prone
skin , but as you can see after the magic of make up do his job,
she looked like she has the perfect skin. I put the same  make up on her as i
put on my sister's. 

 If you realize, none of these girl have the fake eyelashes going on. They refused to put it on as they were quite scared if they looked too over the top for the ocassions that night. Fyi, fake eyelashes could be overwhelming for them since it is their first time wearing this much of make ups on them.  I  simply agree to their request by the way, they looked beautiful even without it.

Thanks for reading! 

0 Everyday Work Play Hard Make Up

I am grinning as i type this post title as it sounds like the technique is so hard to work on. Don't fret, make ups techniques that we bring to work i think is the simplest and the easiest to do. To me, choosing make ups style also applying the principle on dress to impress. Means the techniques and the degree of the thickness of the make ups depending on the ocassions we are attending.

When i am going to work, i prefer to wear the natural brown with a bit glitters, very light and simple unless i am involved in any sports or extracurricular activity in school. I will wear only eyeliner. As usual in any make ups rituals, we prep our face with moisturiser. I will wait for about 5- 10 minutes to allow the moisturiser to absorb into the skin. Then, apply foundations on the face evenly. It is best if we apply thin layer first and do not skip the neck to avoid masking effect and funny looking. I am using the BB cream white Maybelline with SPF 50 which i love for now for its long lasting effect and it does not oxidised and gimme the grey tone face at the end of the day when i am using a mere foundations. Wuhh, please forgive me if the photos go little blurry or and the color looked washed out. Still learning and trying to get perfect shot when doing make ups tutorial.

1.  First the eyebrow need to be defined by the eyebrow liner. I am using the powder type from In2It.

2. Then,  we take the second darkest color from the palette to be applied to the crease of eyes. I am using the Za Dramatic Eye Color in Gold palette.

2. Then, apply the glittery one to eyelid. This glitterry effect makes the eyelid looked bit more obvious for an Asian woman plus bigger eye effect.

3. Then apply the darker color to the outer eyelid, blend it with the color by its side to avoid harsh lines looks. Apply thin layer at a time is better than taking thick potion of the color to the eyelid because this make the color harder to blend and will likely looked uneven.

4. Then by using the same dark brown, apply it on the edge of the nose to make the nose looked higher. If i am not in a rush, i always do this since i am not blessed with perfectly shaped nose. Not that i am not thankful with what i have but i just want to enhance it sometimes temporarily with make ups effect.

4. The eyeliner. I cannot go nowhere out without it. Currently i am using the Masterliner Maybelline in brown. Apply it really close to the upper lashline that you get the slightly thicker lashline. Do not forget the lower lashline. Apply the eyeliner thicker at the outer lower lashline then slightly thinner towards the middle of the eyes. It is better to stop right at the bottom of the middle of eyeball.

5. Then curl the eyelash before applying generous mascara on it. I am using The Falsies Volume Express Maybelline in black. Apply it in zig zag way up to the end of the eyelashes to fan out every eyelash. Then without dipping the mascara brush to its tube, apply it to the lower eyelashes too. Though there were times when i was in a hurry, i always skip this step. Actually it has long way to go with the lower eyelashes as it makes the eyes looked bigger.

6. Smile and apply the blusher on the ample of the cheek up til close to the upper ears. Try using the largest brush you have as the blusher won't looked like a harsh pink circle on the cheek. I am using the Wet n Wild Coloricon blusher in pink. It gives me the healthy look on my face. Looked like i just finish a 200 metres run with it on my cheeks.

7. Apply some lippie. I like nudy or pinkish color when i am going to work and even random outings during the day. After applying some, i am  good to go. If i already fix my hair. :)

The end product. Eh, with different lighting and
hair set.

 How long do you spend time to do your make ups before going to work? For me, i need  at least 45 minutes. I may rush on any other thing in the world but   never go anywhere rushing my make ups time. But only if I need to groom myself to get there. For instance, I don't need to wear make up to get to the grocery stores which is only a kilometre away from home. Seriously.

1 A Son becomes a Mother's lifesaver

Bradley Mitchell, 10 receives his honarary firefighter after saving his mother
in a car crash last December. 

This morning i opened my tablet  browser and came across a news that touches me. I was like, a kid? Woaah! 10 years old. Truly a blessed family with God-send-from-above son.

 We usually heard about parents saving their child's life. But here is an inspiring story about a 10-year-old boy who saves his mother's life in a car crash by giving her a CPR which according to him , he watched from tv how people did it therefore he felt like it is very natural when doing it. The accidents which happened last year on December suffers his mother from broken neck, pelvis and ribs, with severe internal injuries was survived because of his son's brave and immediate actions. This Arizona boy is named an honarary firefighter for his heroism act. Mother was very grateful for having his son that she said, " without him, i wouldn't be here today."


Bradley, you makes every parents in the world proud.
Parents, appreciate your childs though raising them might be the hardest thing that we ever done in life. They are blessings from Above. Stop throwing infants, the society does not need to hear any awful ugly news like this anymore in our country.
Drive safely on the roads, folks. Do not text, drink and drive. Be cool while handling the steering wheel. Do not drive angry.

Hugs,
Proud Momma, JV

0 Principles On Shopping Chemistry

Shopping is still pretty much of my most favourite things to
do rather than calculating my hand off my scien
tific calculator

Before i was married, the only thing that i could think of on what to spend my excess money is to shop every dress, stilettos and handbags in every shop i passed by in mall. Never had i failed to take at least one thing from a shop. Back to when i was still in college is worse. I had my pocket money mostly from ma and pa and my scholarship. I even thought that i had more pocket money than what i have now in my purse. Of course, after i was married, i could not just think of what should i wear but, also to my family's needs and household items though i am only the one who goes to the store , not the one with the purse opened. you got what i mean! my hubby technically the one who support the household spendings, me practically just spending my money for me and half on my lil son. hmmm, i am one lucky woman in the world but still i don't understand why i occasionally complaint about money. when i have my husband settle for my stomach's needs.


But no matter how crazy i was about shopping, i would never let my principles on shopping left at home. My ultimate shopping principles is never about the high-end products but products with good to medium quality combo with reasonable prices, on products, i wanna make sure that it is approved to be safe to used.

On make ups and beauty products:
First, we saw commercials on tv, then i will check out the product reviews. Then meet the products face to face.... Check out ingredients, approvals, tests then i make sure that i can afford it, to maintain the goodness it does to me. Even if i can afford it now, especially these high -end products,i must ask myself if i can afford it again next time around. I can't afford to risk my already sensitive skin by constantly changing products that i can only afford financially at times. Principle to look on to, never change it if it doesn't troubled you. So, for me if one products does good to me, doesnt matter what brand,  or how expensive, how cheap it is,  i dont change it for as long as it serves me best. Show some loyalty, because some products can take about two weeks to show results. Be patient on beauty products. Make ups, no matter how good it is, it is still highly advisable not to bring your face down with it to the bed,  means it always has to go away in the end of the day. So, what is there for me left? So, instead of only wearing high-end lines, it is enough for me to wear those approved and safe, bonus with long lasting, minerals, vitamins and rich colors from drugstore make ups products.

On clothes and handbag : Fashions come and go, for that i don' t mind wearing from retails as long as it is comfortable and in trends. It is not like i must wear the newest trends but i am holding on to the principle,  dress to impress. Second i will look on if it suits to my body type. Of course, handbag doesn't counted like that. If it looks cute and elegant, buy it doesn't matter if it really Guess or not because in maybe two months or three i might get bored with it and not gonna ever wear it again. Finally, comfort. Huh, any girls should admit that the most desirable dress will not be so comfortable on you even if it suits you. Haha!

Why i dont mind wearing cheap handbag sometimes and clothes, because i like to change myself with clothes i am wearing. So i dont really thinks that i will spends hundreds on something that i might only wear for a month or two or one night. You dont have to wear million dolars clothes to look stunning.Trust me, there are lotsa girls who have plenty of one night stand with their dresses! I feel guilty pleasure about it but, the thought of wearing same dresses for other occasions that is specially bought or sewed for particular occasions at first, always sends shiver to my spine. Okay, it is not that awful or like the world is gonna end that i am being a bit of overreacting about it, but come on, folks. I am only imagining worse case scenario. I kinda have insecurity when people starts asking, is that the same dress you wore on here and there dinner?
Argh, it is not like there will be paparazi showing it on Melodi or Astro Awani news. Or be mocked on Mangga or Harian Metro. But really? However, I am simply typing the over the top statements here, i hope that's fine, at least to my thinking set.

On some stuff like watch, shoes,  sunglasses, i will choose the high end products for quality and comforts. I am also likely to have a long -term relationship with these. So, can't say that i am against the fine stuff but, i am only have to be a smart shopper.

0 He is 9 months old

My little precious is 9 months old today. He is more active, an expert in crawling, and now he can grab a hold on any furniture that is within his reach to stand on his own. There were times i saw him trying to let go off his hand from the furniture, but he always ended up fell to the floor sitting or directly lying down. Poor him, if he hits the floor hard he will squirm hard. His fingers also can pick up smallest thing on the floor like ants, therefore it is never advisable to let him play alone even on the floor because he might picked up dirts or any dangerous insects.

His favorite thing to do is to squish a box filled with blocks. If he is given a soft pillow or toys, he will grab them hard to his body and kiss it. He has his favorite pillow which he likes to hold and throw his body on the bed with it. It very pleasant to see him playing happily and rolling over and over with his favorites.


Since he is very attached to his caregivers which is my mom, he could not stayed any longer than 15 minutes if he went to co-sleep with me at night. I feel frustrated at times but, i am used to this already since this has been going on since he was 7 mo. Therefore, i really cherish every seconds i spend with him.

He is also like an anti social kids now. Whenever a stranger came on him, no matter how many tricks they tried on to see him smiling, the encounter will only end up hearing and seeing him giving the 'n' shape mouth, crying. But, when he is around familiar faces, he is more than happy to make people laugh. He also babbles, mama papa now and usually cried out loud, like deep, aarrr, that could send any people coughing if trying to imitate his very own language.

He eats two times a day now, rice porridges on daily basis. Porridges must be cooked with various vegies, chicken, anchovies or fish as protein resources. Of course there were a lot of times he does not has his appetite but all my mom and me can be is to keep being patience. We also gives him snacks to chew on like the Milna rusk. It melts on his mouths and gives parents sense of relieves that he will not choked. He looks very beautiful when chewing.

Since i only get to see him on weekend, i really going to spend quality time with my son when i am home. I really can't wait for his next milestones. It is truly exciting and challenging at the same time to have and nurture children but he is the one who makes my day.

How about you? Do you have baby too? How old is she and what does she do at the age?

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