The (Unprofessional/ Part Time) Wedding Planner Notes (part 1)

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Now, take a deep breath. You are now planning to make another step that will change your entire life and moving to the next stage of life. You want to make preparations for you big day, where should you start?
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A. Go for pre- wed course
It is a must. When you attend the course, pay attention to the paper works (the forms that you have to fill in later). If you have chosen the date, you can start buying the forms, complete it, go for HIV/AIDS test, etc. and submit it. Bear that you will be interviewed when you submit the form, so be prepared. You may submit your form as early as three months befor your wedding. Once you have submitted the form, you can book the jurunikah. Be sure where do you want the solemnization to be held; home, surau or mosque.
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B. Look for your mak andam
This is a tedious job. If you want the best with affordable price, you have to survey, survey and survey. Words of mouth will als0 help. One reminder for those who are not working at your home town, make sure that you take a leave for one day just to go round and survey the bridal boutiques in your hometown. Avoid weekends, as most of them will be working on weekends.
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Ask if they provide you with trial make up, that's where you can judge them. Pay attention to whom is going to make up you. Based on observation, neat people will produce a good result. If the person who make up you a sissy, again you have to look at their appearance. It is very much reflected through their appearance.
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Look for packages offered. Do not be shy to ask questions, even the silly ones (but not too silly), because you are going to pay for it (if you choose them). When you look for the packages, consider about
i. make up -> neat/ pretty, how many sessions
ii. clothes -> will they make new clothes by the time of your wedding/ look at their ready collections. Are you satisfied with it, any particular preferences in clothing?
iii. dais -> filp through the albums in the boutique. Ask yourself too, what kind of dais that you want and will they be able to do that for you?
iv. extra offer -> do they rent the bedsheets and decorations for your bedroom? is there any extra free make up for you mother of maid-of-honour?
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Ask if the mak andam has any contact for photographer, caterer, spa, etc. This may ease your burden.

C. Look for photographer
Most of them have their own fotopages, blogs, etc. Look at their works. Do they focus on the photography technique or editing the pictures? Know the personality of you chosen photographer. Will they work alone or with a partner? Are they friendly? Once you have chosen them, ask if the have any packages as most photographers prefers to calculate on their own the price as they will ask you about your wedding. When, where, how many days that they have to cover, on side or both sides? You can also ask about the albums that they will prepare. Will it be in pocket album, sticky album or custom album (some will call it as coffee table book or storybook).
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D. Caterer/ food
Consider how many dishes that you want based on how many guests that you will invite. Know your budget too as this will help you to focus on how may Ringgit that you want to spent per head. Ask them if you can taste their food and words of mouth will also help you to get to know about the caterer that you want to choose.
Things to ponder:
Will they have seperate dish for makan beradab?
Will they rent along things like plates, cutlery, glasses, buffet set?
Will they cook at their own place and ask you to fetch it or will they cook it at your place?
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will be continued in the next entry...

Abandon (part 2)

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I know I have a blog, but I really don not have time to update it. There are a lot of things that I want to tell through my this 'so called' not-so-private-diary. Sorry, I will not write anything that had happened to my school. Oh ya, one of the main reason for me not to update my blog so frequent is because I am extremely busy and tired about sports. And every night, the moment I lay my on my bed, that's it! No more staring at the celling, thinking of stupid things, dreams, etc.
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I can now pronounce that I am just like Nobita who can fall asleep in a split seconds. (-_-") That's exaggerating, I know, but that's my life for the past one and a half month. I cannot promise that in the upcoming months that my blog will be back to normal again, I cannot. This year, I have to teach 25 periods (which means 5 classes). And to make thing worst, I have two end classes where most of them do not understand English. For my Form 1F students, it is such a relief that some of them are still interested to study and hey, they actually passed their PK 1! For my Form 2E, I think that I'm blessed with the non-Malay students and the Malay girls for they are very supportive and eager to learn. The Malay boys? It is better if they are not exist in the class.
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Before I leave, I would like to show you my burung besi. It is second hand, but that's what I can afford. Afterall, the car is still in fine condition and can bring me to longer distance. Not that I am underestimating my precious Datsun, but I think it is time for him to rest. Whatever it is the feeling between riding and driving Datsun is stil the best. It is a great experience and I just cannot express how it feelis to be behind its steering. It's awesome and the confidence is different!


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Abandon

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Too busy with school. Could not even find time to explore Internet.
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All entries will be backdate (if I have time).
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Regards,
ain yusof
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Bid Farewell to 2009: A (Partially) Journey to Remember

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When I'm typing this entry, 2010 is just around the corner within a few hours. 2009 had been quite challenging to me either in my personal life or my career life. This, is my journey in 2009...
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Career
I personally do not think that I am a good teacher this year. Somehow I feel that I do not manage my time properly in preparing my stuffs to teach my kids. Yes, I am a kind of person who needs planning in almost everything I do. Even when I did my assignment during undergrad years, I even made a story board to arrange my assignment!
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Financial
Owh ya, I got my increament last July but still I am not good in saving up my money monthly. Uhuks~~~ but I guess, I can still achieve my goal to save at least RM10K within two years of working. La la la...
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Fashion
Wow, I think this year I spent a lot under this things. Yeap, and this year I realise that I looove fashion! Ha ha... I follow advices from my favourite magazine by not investing too much on a pair of clothes because you change it every day. Instead, invest on handbag, shoes or watch. I also learnt how to wear contact lense and I received different feedbacks from my colleagues and students. Some like it, others no. What ever it is, contact lense allows me to experimenting with my eyes (now only I realised that I have a pair of sepet eyes...this must be inherited from Mak).
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Passion
Long live literature! I started to write poems again and mostly in English. I even bought a special book for me to write down my poems. And as usual, I bought a lot of books, enough to make my room filled with papers (-_-") But for the time being, I need to stop buying novels since I still have about 10 novels that need to be read up (as if I have a lot of time to read it =D )
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Love Life
No story. Ha ha, it's private baby. I keep it to myself and my BFF
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Debt/ Property
Early of this year, I join insurance. Of course, I have to pay it monthly. Early of this month, I bought someting which I have to pay the installment every month, starting next month. Sorry, no picture of the thing that costs me some $$$ each month. I will upload the picture in later entries.
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Miscellanious
Second hand stuffs: First, I bought second hand clothes aka bundle clothes. Hey, who say that bundle is low class and only for guys? Before this, I was also sceptical about bundle. But hey, tak kenal maka tak cinta, it was proven that I am wrong about it. But one reminder to buy clothes from bundle, make sure that the clothes really, really looks nice, not something tacky. After all, you still use your money to buy it. Second, I bought second hand property (read under Debt/ Property label). It does not matter for me either it is first hand or second hand. As long as it can bring me from one place to another, conveniently, I am fine with it.
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2009 Resolution: Is there any such thing for me? No. Not that I do not believe it. It is just that I am more into making short terms planning (as short as 30 minutes). The longest planning that I have this year might be to keep RM10K withing two years of working.
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2010 A New Book

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New year resolution? Huh, do not even have time to think about it. But I always believe that whatever it is, we must try to make our life better than yesterday. Avoid procrastination. Keep that in mind and you will realise that you have new resolution almost everyday you wake up from bed! Isn't that nice? But of course, sometimes we will face bad days. It is normal as a part and parcel of our life.
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Good bye 2009. Welcome 2010!

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Sindorm Pra Sekolah

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Bukan, bukan. Ini bukan sindrom yang terjadi pada budak- budak yang baru nak masuk sekolah. Tapi sindrom yang terjadi pada aku bila sekolah dah nak buka semula. Okay, mungkin tak sepenuhnya datang dari aku sendiri, tapi dari pihak pengurusan sekolah.
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24 Disember 2009
Menghadiri (baca: gantikan tempat orang) taklimat e-Kasih di SMK Sultan Alauddin Riayat Shah, Muar. Dua slot. Slot satu ngantuk habis, slot dua ada umphhh. Penceramah pun cun (sempat ushar heels dia yang mengancam habis!)
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28 Disember 2009
Mesyuarat pertama untuk sesi persekolahan 2010. Sesi dimulakan dengan takwim sekolah, jawatan- jawatan yang disandang, hal- hal kewangan. Edisi warm up yang paling hip, hot dan hangit adalah pengiraan headcount. Cikgu- cikgu yang baru masuk sekolah 'ni nampak blur 'ja. Ha ha...
Jawatan yang bakal disandang tahun 2010
> Guru Tingkatan 2A (-_-")
> Guru BI Tingkatan 2A, 1A, 1C,1F,1G =D
> Guru Anti Dadah (yes!!! suka)
> Guru Kebajikan (apa kes?)
> Guru Pengawas, hah???????
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29 Disember 2009
Pagi: Jualan buku di koperasi bagi pelajar Tingkatan 4 dan 5. Tak ramai budak Tingkatan 4 yang datang, sebab tak tahu masuk kelas apa. Ada yang datang menyongeh 'ja. Dah baik-baik buat list buku, h****m dia tak beli. Cuma nak buku kerja 'ja. Kena potong balik list tu. Haish!
Petang: Mesyuarat Panitia. Tak pasal- pasal aku kena jadi setiausaha Panitia BI. Haish. Tapi yang bestnya, dapat pinjam kamus elektronik (semua cikgu BI dapat seorang satu). Mula guna dengan main game Tetris (-_-")
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30 Disember 2009
Pagi: Jualan buku di koperasi bagi pelajar Tingkatan 2 dan 3. Kaunter penuh sesak. Ada pula budak- budak Tingkatan 4 dan 5 baru nak beli buku. Kalau tengah sesak, kena halau 'ja. Bukan tak bagi tahu awal- awal. Sendiri cari pasal. Hangin betul.
Mula berjual pukul 8 pagi.
Habis berjualan 12.30 tengah hari.
Waktu pulang 2.30 petang.
Sampai rumah pukul 3 petang.
Gara- gara-> bungkus buku pelajar Tingkatan 1 dan Peralihan untuk hari esok.
If yesterday was bad, today is worse and tomorrow will be worst!
Petang: Kalau ikut status di Facebook, sepatutnya bagi makan rimau. Tapi rimau bercuti dari makan sampai minggu depan (3 Januari 2010). Dah macam budak sekolah pula rimau ni. (-_-")
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31 Disember 2009
(Akan dilakukan)
Pagi: Jualan buku di koperasi bagi pelajar Tingkatan 1 dan Peralihan
Petang: Nak buat apa ya?
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1 Januari 2010
(Akan dilakukan)
Pagi: Mesyuarat Jawatan Kuasa Disiplin dan Pengawas. Tak pasal- pasal kena datang. Baru ingat nak me'ronggeng rokiah' dengan Mr. K ke Melaka. Apa kes?
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Tapi sebenarnya, mood nak kembali ke sekolah sudah lama aku dapat, sejak mula cuti lagi.
Satu: Berusaha keras mencari buku-buku rujukan dan latihan baru bagi teks sastera baru Tingkatan 1
Dua: Berusaha (dengan gigihnya) menyiapkan Perancangan P&P Tahun 2010 bagi Tingkatan 1 dan 2. (Ketua Panitia minta satu salinan sebagai panduan Panitia ihiks~~~)
Tiga: Mengumpul, mengasing dan melabelkan baki- baki lembaran kerja tahun ini. Dah siap boleh buat portfolio seh.
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Sungguh, kalau aku tak jadi cikgu yang lebih baik dari tahun ini memang tak patutla. Rancang 'ja lebih.
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We do not plan to fail, but instead, we fail to plan. So, work out your plan. If you do not want to fail.
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