stuff after wedding
October 26, 2008
Some people would ask, how’s married life?
Not much difference I guess. It’s more convenient as I don’t have to dash back and forth between my home, his home. one drawback, both of us have a lot of stuff and when those stuff put together in 1 house, there’s only 1 word: chaos :). Well, I tried my best to sort through those, throw away stuff we don’t use, donate good stuff but never-used for all sort of reasons, and just organize things. What’s nightmare is our closet management. I still have bunch of clothes and girl stuffs need to be organized. Hopefully, I can get it all done by the end of this week.
A side effect of this, I don’t have time to sort and upload pictures on our website and write those thank-you notes. So, for those of you who read this, please bear with me. I’m not saying that my new hubby won’t help me but… I think this is girls stuff and I don’t trust him that much that he’ll do exactly as what I want (Sorry, hubby, this is not me, this is the micro-managing side of me talking ^.^). I promise myself that everything will be done before we went back to our home country. Cross your finger ;)
3 days…
October 15, 2008
dear hubby-to-be, it’s about time that you contributed to this blog 
Thanks for loving me so much and I can’t believe myself that I’ll be a wife very soon. The word seem to be far-fetched but now I’m there. I really thank God for His blessing that allow us to come to this stage on our relationship. Let’s work together as we’ll begin our next journey in life. May God always bless us all…
Love you so much…
4.5 days to go…
October 13, 2008
This is the first time ever I contribute to this blog… Life really comes at you fast and in 4.5 days, I will stand in front of families and friends to seal our marriage.
Few weeks ago, I was soooo nervous about the ’day’, but as the time goes by, I did not feel nervous anymore and I felt really calm. However, just few minutes ago, I printed the church program and as I read through the detail, my hand is shaking really strong. I feel that I’m sooo excited that make me soooo nervous…
If you asked me what makes me nervous the most, I would replied back and say I don’t know. I really don’t know what makes me nervous, I know it’s not about the vow, I know it’s not about the speech, and I know it’s not about arlene it self. The only reason I can think right now is I’m nervous because I’m sooo in love with Arlene and I’m too excited. God is so kind for both of us and I can’t believe that our journey as couple will be taken to the next level, I can’t believe that our wedding day is just 4.5 days from now, I can’t believe that I will be a husband soon.
94 days until the wedding!
July 16, 2008
That’s what the days counter said on top of the wedding page.
It’s been a while since I updated this blog. The day is coming closer and closer and I don’t feel prepared at all. To be honest, I’m really anxious during this time. I know I shouldn’t have that feeling but… oh, well. Part of me never wants the day to come at all while the other part of me wishes that today is ‘the day’.
Let’s do some soul searching… What makes me worry? I’m worry neither about the future nor the life after marriage. Living together with Edy? It’s not a big deal since I can adapt quickly :D. The wedding day itself?……yeah, it’s more like it. I know it’s silly. It’s just a wedding (and… 1 celebration thereafter in Indonesia, mind you) but just like any other girls want (I presume), we want our wedding day to be perfect. I feel like I’m worried about everything on the day ^.^’. Will the flower look beautiful? will the dress fit perfectly? will the ambience be perfect? and so on…
I tend to micromanage on everything (I know, that’s not the best trait to share) and I hope I can let go of this feeling. In fact, I really have to; as part of my personal development. I just want the day to be a very joyous occasion where I’ll remember it always, full of love, laughter, and happiness as how any wedding day should be. And the most important thing, I’d like to share this feeling with all of those around us.
sweetest day ^^
June 12, 2008
I just met with one of my vendors and she informed me that my wedding date coincides with the SWEETEST DAY celebration. My reaction was like, “What!?”. I never heard that before. So, I googled it and found out that it is indeed the sweetest day in 2008.
So, what is it actually? It’s celebrated every third week of October, mostly observed by MidWestern US, which in year 2008 means the 18th of October. The formal description for the day is “an occasion which offers all of us an opportunity to remember not only the sick, aged and orphaned, but also friends, relatives and associates whose helpfulness and kindness we have enjoyed.” Some believed that the day is created by candy industry to increase their sales. I don’t really care about this but it’s just nice to know that my wedding will be on the sweetest day of the year :).
my birthday
April 30, 2008
Well, let me recount what happened today. I spent almost the whole day in front of my computer (just started working again last Monday), went to cell group afterwards, and went to a friend place to surprise a friend’s birthday (and got surprised myself as well ). Nothing special today (except the surprised part) but Edy and I celebrated my birthday yesterday (pretended that we were in Indo and it’s already the 30th at that time 
). We had a nice quiet mignon dinner and he gave me presents (2 items! (not flowers^^)) that I really, really like. It’s all just perfect for my birthday. Wow, time goes so fast that in 11 days, we will be engaged for a full year already.
valentine’s day
February 15, 2008
Happy Valentine’s Day! During our years together, this was the only time we didn’t celebrate it together. Edy had marvelous time having dinner with friends celebrating this Valentine’s day. How lucky of him while I’m stuck at class listening to marketing lecture. Hope that next year I won’t have any class on this day ^.^
5th year anniversary
January 3, 2008
Yesterday was our 5th year dating anniversary. Our last dating anniversary ^^. However, we couldn’t enjoy this moment as what people normally do since we spent the entire day waiting at the airport.
How did we end up being stuck at the airport? The answer was bad weather and SKYBUS! We heard a lot of publication about skybus and we’d like to give it a try. So, when we visited Edy’s sister in California for our Christmas holiday, we decided to fly with this airline. We had pretty good experience on our way there but… got a lot of trouble on the way back to Columbus. We promised ourselves never to fly with Skybus again eventhough it costs lower than others. The airline doesn’t have customer service hotline number and kept changing the expected departure time so that we practically had to stand-by at the airport to make sure we could hop on-board once the plane is ready. All of this hassle just doesn’t worth the savings from the airline tickets.
Anyway, we think this experience is pretty memorable and didn’t regret it. There is always something to learn in every experience you encounter in your life and you should treasure every single moment of it. And that’s what we did!
some random blabberings
June 30, 2007
Getting ready to go home….to Indo! I miss my family so much.
As part of our wedding preparation, we decided to use this opportunity to have pre-wedding photo shoots AND video clip at Bali. These are getting popular nowadays in Indo and since you just getting married once in your lifetime and you only live once, we’d like to give it a try. We don’t want to miss the experience; no matter if we’ll enjoy or hate every moment of it, no matter if we’ll enjoy or hate the end-result of the pictures/video.
Finally, we found our photographers and videographers for this Bali things. Luckily, I live in modern world where communication tools such as SMS, email, internet is already developed. These tools help me a lot in planning for this photo shoots. To make the story short, I happened to see the works of this photographer and this videographer from friends who previously use their service and we like their works so it’s a no-brainer that we decided to hire them.
Really can’t contain my excitement now… Want to get home ASAP ( OK, realistically, I’ll be at my real home only after 24+ hours of flight and transit time).