I'm trying to get the scanner to work. Hmm, benda ni mogok agaknyer - setelah sekian lama aku tak pakai, tiba2 jer nak scan the wedding photos.

Neways, as I was trying to locate the driver, I found this legal song I downloaded from starhub's site - play or something. Guess what song? Firehouse' Love of a Lifetime. Heheh. Best tau, lagu ni. I've been trying to find my Best of Firehouse CD for the longest time. CD case ada, CDnya yang takde.

I'm getting a new boss tomorrow. A boss I know well enough. She told me something yesterday, and I wasn't quite sure how to react. It was a positive thing, though, about me. Oh well, maybe I shouldn't read too much into her. Maybe I should just learn from her.

We've yet to choose the photo we want blown up. Somehow I feel, our photos are so-so, so quite difficult to find the one. We'll do it soon. Once we find the time, coz both are so busy now. I really can't wait for my Sep break.

And every starlobe in the sky was made for me & you - hehe, I've always liked this part of the song. Eh, betul ke starlobe? Hahhhah!

I really miss being a bride. Just sitting there, look pretty, and have everyone fuss over you. Wonderful. Then you get to eat twice (yum yum I miss the briyani) after doing all that smiling. Bliss.

Ya yaa, I know my time is over. Now it's back to endless paperwork. My backlog is piling steadily but today went by so quickly, I didn't even have time to clear even 1 case recording. I hate meetings. And the noise level in my office is really getting quite ridiculous.

Something funny happened this afternoon. I don't think I've ever mentioned this in here, but I am in absolutely "good" terms with a colleague who sits right infront of my workstation. We pick on each other, say nasty things most times, share a few silly jokes & laugh over all of that.

Today, I found myself being given 2 new datelines ON MY LEAVE DATES! I was like...what the?!! So, I turned to my learned neighbour to ventilate. For once (ok lah, actually he's quite a good listening ear, nevermind he's 40), he stood by me & told me to turn down the assignment, coz it's simply ridiculous for me to submit a report when I'm overseas. So I sharpened my refusal skills, and walked to the Manager & told her, Hey, can I not do this report? I'll be on leave you know, and I already have a report on hand for the 13th Well turned out that she overlooked my leave schedule. And then, ta-duh, I didn't have to do the report after all! (Yipppeee!!!)

So I told my 40 yr old neighbour the good news...then 10 minutes later, I saw him waving something towards me. A familiar brown folder emerged - the assignment was transferred to him. HAHAHAAHAHAHAH! I found it quite hilarious lah (is this normal?!) I mean, he helped me, but in the end dia yang kena buat report tu, ekhrehkrkher. Oh well, hari ni hari aku, besok lusa hari dia pulak :P Anyway we narrated the story to a few colleagues & they all laughed too. Maybe it's just us, the bunch of pple with a strange sense of sadistic humour.

Alah, ketawa pon sekejap jer. Besok, atau Monday, SURE aku kena marah punyer. Tapi doa-doakan tak kena marah lah yer? Boring lah, dah tua2 pon kena marah.

But I think being married has its perks. Although I returned to work only 2 days after the wedding, I've resolved not to hang around there too much. Nowadays I make it an effort to walk out of the office door after I finish work. I'm getting a new boss and I cringe just thinking about it. But I'll try my best lah, after all, I suppose she's on the right track after all.

Besok? Besok will be another crazy day. I'll just stay cool & calm - nak panic pon apa guna, kan? Hari2 macam gituuuuuu jugak.
But for now, I shall wait for AH to come back. He's gone out to send some bancaan rice (apa tu?) coz he's now an uncle, three times over. Alhamdulillah. I've posted the photos here, so feel free to look :)

I'm down with a slight fever & sorethroat that amplifies itself only in the evenings...
How I wish I can be on MC again tomorrow (was on MC on Saturday) but no way lah, my diary is packed with appointments & also Tuesdays are always no good for MCs :(

Photos from the H & V's photographer are ready. OK lah, simplicity is the key. I kinda like how we look in photos, as compared to the real live thing. I wanted to scan the photos but guess what? The scanner cable is missing *groans* so I won't be able to post some of the lovely shots taken of you! (Mrs Hs - gambar korang pon ada, tengah ngap! Hahahahahaha!)

He's out tonight, attending a class. It still feels a bit surreal, having him around the house & having him next to me when I wake up. But he has been nice lah, and not a bit of patience lost at all ...in fact, I think he has learnt to tolerate me even more (oooops).

Still a bit woozy now, but I won't take the medication till he returns home, if not, nampak gaya, tido lagi lah aku...

I took a photo of my wilting flower bouquet this morning. The flowers smell funny now, but I won't throw it away until it's truly truly dried.

Married life has been good so far. Yesterday night was exceptionally good & memorable. We did something for the first time together, as husband & wife. He was a bit too fast for me, but oh well, practice makes perfect, I guess.

Thanks dear, let's make yassin recitation a weekly affair? Insya-Allah :)

I'm working tomorrow, but somehow I'm really looking forward to what follows after work. And I'm off on Monday, so yippee! :)

3 days after the wedding

I'm back at work. Hehe, so anti-climax...

The wedding? Alhamdulillah, I think it went fine. Not as rushed as I thought it would be & things fell into place nicely. It rained really heavily after the nikah, around 12-ish, but syukur when we left for the CC, it was bright again & the weather remained clear until the majlis ended at night.

I couldn't recognise myself after being so heavily made up, but in photos, I didn't look that heavily made up - ni semua make up tricks! But overall, I'm really happy with the mak andam, deco & photographer we engaged - all from Hearts & Vines. Now, I'm looking forward to the photos from the photographer.

Photos? Herda took some at her blog, plenty more at Mona's & some thru my sister & old time friend, Filza's eyes at my multiply site. Got some more too at Kak Yati's fotopage... hmm that's about it lah :)

Thankful to everyone for making this a memorable day for us, to the guests who came & to my family & friends who really gave their best efforts. And I feel really blessed about the whole event...I had this really calm feeling, alhamdulillah syukur.

Cuma maybe, the aircon at the CC wasn't cool enough. Berpeluh2 pengantin tau! Hope the guests didn't perspire as much as the pengantins did.

Now that the wedding is over, should irrispreps be over too? Or maybe I should keep this - after all the url is irrisdiary, not irrispreps, kan? :)

It's the wedding eve. This, insya-Allah will be my last post as a single.

I've been instructed to sleep by my nenek sedaras, who are probably now, downstairs, fixing the last bit of the fruits giftpack to him. They all don't know I'm still awake, typing away on this laptop (heheheheheheheheehhehe!). Nana's sleeping beside me tonight...it's really warm tonight.

Geee, random typings ey? Not sure what I'm getting at.

Just now, Mak pulled me close to her & kissed me on my cheeks. She said something about me being married soon. She also talked to me about something else....

Anyway I just can't get my thoughts together now. I'm hoping & praying really hard that insya-Allah, may everything go well tomorrow, and may the new, big step we're taking, be a blessed one for the rest of our lives. Amin.

To all you lovely ladies, hey, thanks for being there with me for the past 8 mths (wow, that long?!). Every teeny bit of comment, doa & note you've posted for me have helped, in one special way or another :)

For now, as what Mak said to me just now,

"Good night & sweet dreams"

I suppose I won't be going out anymore after today. Not anywhere too far, at least.
Went to raffles city to get some last minute stuff. Rushed back coz my mak andam was coming to send the outfits, and when I finally made it to the lift, I saw her getting out of it. So insya-Allah, 7 am it shall be then, on Sunday.

Tomorrow, I shall do my last bits of laundry.
Then, Mona's coming over to help with the gubahan decorations (I'm not half as talented as you, tea :P) then insya-Allah at night, Bik Yati'll come & fix some henna on my hands. Hope she brings along the 2 cutie pies.

My colleague, JLo, asked me whether I was going to put on those hideous things called henna. Quite funny lah, the way he described it. And he insisted he'd come early to be the horse (kuda) & that his 2 yr old kid would be a pony during the kompang performance. He'll also bring the little tamborine we got as a national day souvenier along to the performance. Hahaha, macam2. But thank God for him & other pple, who preserve my sanity at work.

Btw, hari ni sempat aku submit one report for vetting to my lovely, supervisor.
Gosh, I'll miss her so much.

I hope she comes over to my place on Sunday. Then I can pass her the Spiderman OST if I remember. That's the least I can do, after all she has done for me.

4 days to the wedding

In the morning, Mak, Nana & I went for breafkast at Komala's. Later in the afternoon, I had erm... a virginal experience...I went for a little body spa. It felt quite odd, sitting there, perspiring, all alone in the steam bath. But the massage was good. I feel light now. So light, macam nak tertido, haha! (Is this the effect I'm supposed to get?)

I got the rambu2 for the bunga manggar. I bought some cheap paper to wrap the galah for the bunga manggar. I do hope it's usable. If not, balik kedai tu lagi lah nampaknyer...

I feel happy, I feel excited, I feel nervous. The house is in a mess right now, and sometimes I just feel so lazy to do work. Macam nak lay in bed all day ajer. This is so not normal right? I mean, I thought pengantin-to-bes were supposed to be full of energy, zipping here & there for last minute wedding preps. But I...I am exactly the opposite!

I felt a bit sentimental this morning on the way to work. Insya-Allah come Monday, Bapak won't be sending me to work anymore (coz erm....AH, u'll be doing it right?). Just now I said, "Pak, ni last ah Bapak antar gi keje." His reply? "Kenapa?"
Aiseh man Bapak... Then he added, "Tak antar Nani, antar Mak la ..."

I really gotta thank Bapak. He has been most patient, waiting for his perpetually late daughter as he either flips thru Berita Harian, or wipes the window panes of his taxi. I mean, what have I done to deserve all this? By just being his daughter?

But on a brighter note, now, Bapak can kayuh more as he won't have to return from his trips just to send me to work. So that's good.

I'll miss the rides to work, getting safely in there, although it's just sitting quietly beside Bapak, not saying anything at all.

8 days to the wedding

Alhamdulillah, I turned 25 today. My family is not the makan-kat-luar type, but today, Mak suggested having dinner outside. So we went. And Tok went too (yey!).

As I was munching, I thought about next week. This weekend, will be the last weekend for me as a single. Next Sunday, insya-Allah I'll be someone's wife. It's going to be different, I'm sure.

Just now while walking home, Mak held both me & Nana close & said in a tune, "My 2 girls...one is getting married". I wondered how Mak felt about me getting married. Happy, I know. But will she miss me? I teased Nana & said she was the daughter who was getting married and she let out a little "Eeeee..."

And guess what? I received our first wedding gift (gee, that's early!) from Mak's good friend who popped by from Perth (AH, i do miss that place *sighs*). It's a lovely desktop wedding album. I love it & it comes with a lovely wedding card too.

So 8 more days is all we have. Lots more things to do, but I'm not wishing I'll have more time till next Sunday at all.

10 days before the wedding

I took the day off yesterday. Collected some brochures from pinkysis & then got my mask (i've not put it on for like erm 3 months, notty nany). Then, I hunted for yes, bunga pahar.

This is bunga pahar

And yes, I found something not yellow & too shiny & I like it! Not that obit after all. Phew~~

I got a haircut too (yeah, I like the lightness on my head now) & then we went for fitting. Things are going on alright, thank God.

And by a stroke of miracle (actually plus lots of effort on Mak's & his part), we managed to get the cc to open up an hr earlier. Alhamdulillah. Really, for the first time ever, I lost sleep thinking over the lack of time for deco preps.

I still haven't purchased the tokens for the kids. But thankfully, Mak has agreed to buy them for me. Yey, saves me a trip to the shop.

I'm so looking forward to Monday, the last day I'll be in office. Can't wait!