Being A Wedding Planner

My younger, only sister and the youngest in the family, Teh, selamat diakad nikahkan on 4 June 2006 nan lalu. At last she met her hero, selepas beberapa calon lain tidak memenuhi kriteria pilihan dia lantas direject. Mak Lijah tak kisah siapa pilihan dia, dah jodoh, walaupun satu kriteria tu, hilang markahnya. Tak apalah. Semoga berbahagia ke anak cucu, ya?

Yang Mak Lijah nak citer ni, perihal menjadi wedding planner for her akad nikah. Planning in KL when the event is in Perlis is one kind of a challenge. Kesian Ayah and Mak had to do all the reservations and arrangements all by themselves. But it's even harder for me, because I had to do all the thinking, organising things, buying all the stuff, choosing the theme, menggubah hantaran and many, many, many other things in KL while the rest just implement them. Wah... power juga Mak Lijah ni...

Anyway, bukannya Mak Lijah komplen. Sebenarnya, Mak Lijah simply luvvvv.... doing all these. I had 'planned' for two weddings before yang berlangsung di rumah Mak Lijah -- 'mengahwinkan' adik ipar dan anak saudara, for two consecutive years. However, Teh's akad nikah was especially special. Ya lah, dah ler adik sendiri, sepusat sepusing, she's my only sister, and I'm her only sister too. She relies entirely on me. And also, because she's the last of the four of us to get married.

So the preparations for her was especially sentimental to me. I want to make sure her akad nikah is well planned, smooth going, that someone is organising and in charge from A to Z, not like mine. So yang jadi mangsa of course lah Ayah, Mak and the rest of the family.

"Ayah, make sure the khemah are ALL WHITE, no stripes. We don't want to represent any political party. And please book NOW coz masa tu sure ramai nak buat kenduri kawen juga. "

"Mak, NO COOKING. ONLY CATERING. I don't want you to worry about having to buy all the bawangs, halia, ayam, cili etc. I don't want you to be thinking about the menu, who to berangkit, and more importantly, so that you and all of us will not be tired of washing the dishes etc after everything is over."

"Abang, nanti please remove all the big furnitures kat depan tu, to the back sebab nak letak pelamin. Please make sure all our sedara mara tak park keta (kereta) within our compound nanti. Let the groom's delegation park within the compound. Ask our sedara mara to park kat rumah Ngah or just walk here. "

"Daddy, I have to break this news to you. You are hereby officially appointed as the spokesperson."

"Teh, nanti belah lelaki nak dok mana?"

I have to think about all those things and I enjoyed doing all of them, every moment... all for my only sister. And these tak habis kat situ coz, the real kenduri will be in November. And the script will be re-written.

Good luck to me!

Frying Friday

Hari ni Mak Lijah "melawat kawasan", kerana hari ini hari Jumaat. "Kawasan Parlimen" YB Mak Lijah ialah di Jalan TAR dan yang sewaktu dengannya. Hari Jumaat ini agak istimewa dan 'panas' kerana dua peristiwa menarik telah berlaku kepada Mak Lijah.

Hari Jumaat kali ini Mak Lijah ambil kesempatan untuk membeli kain lagi untuk Mak Lijah dan mak Mak Lijah. So berjalanlah kami, rombongan Cek Kiah dari Pertama Complex ke arah deretan kedai sutera yang femes tu.

Kami melintasi depa Sogo dan cuba untuk melintas di zebra crossing dekat kedai Da Vinci. Then this stupid taxi driver, number plate nya, HP 6876 simply refused to at least slow down to let us cross, dan nyaris melanggar kawan Mak Lijah ni. Chiss... kurang ajar..! Kawan Mak Lijah ni pun apa lagi, menyumpah-seranahlah dia. Then that stupid taxi driver slowed down his car and got the guts to marah her back! Siap cakap nak langgar dia sampai mati..! Gosh... Orang macam ni boleh hidup lagi kat dunia ni? Yang peliknya, tadi langsung tak nak berenti, tapi bila orang marah, siap boleh slow down to scold my friend ni back.. C*la*a!!!! Tak cukup dengan tu... terus-menerus memaki-hamun dan threatened kawan Mak Lijah ni. But we just walked away sebab felt so disgusted and frusted with this kind of Malaysian. Buat malu rakyat Mesia jer.

Dah selesai shopping kat kedai kain femes ni (Mak Lijah bought a piece for myself and two pieces for Mak), we all pon berjalanlah balik ke arah Medan Mara. On the way tu, singgah kat this ATM machine. Punyalah panjang queue, tapi disebabkan desperate sangat nak $$, queue jugalah, dah ler mesin sebelah tu rosak. Tunggu punya tunggu dekat 15 menet, datang sorang Kakak ni, mencuba ATM sebelah yang rosak tu. Cuba punya cuba, baru dia sedar yang mesin tu rosak. Kebetulan Mamat yang tengah berurusan di mesin yang tengah kami queue tu pun selesai mengambil duitnya. Dengan selambanya Kakak tu beralih ke mesin tu dan dengan selambanya memasukkan kad ATM dia tanpa mempedulikan kami yang beratur sebegitu lama. Pada masa tu, kat belakang Mak Lijah, ada dekat 10 orang dok beratur. Aduh.... kecewanya....Pun begitu Mak Lijah hanya mampu mengeluh sajalah...

Tapi Mamat yang beratur di belakang Mak Lijah sudah bengang... Dengan selambanya dia pon sound..

"Kak..Oh Kak... Cepatlah sikit... Lama kami tunggu ni..."

Kakak tu buat-buat tak dengar jer...

"Kak...Kak..? Kak.. Oh...Kak... Cepatlah... Akak ni dah potong queue ni.."

Buat derk lagi... And that Mamat kept on berleter sebab dah lama menunggu and sebab the Kakak was being so slow etc. Dan akhirnya Kakak tu pun berpaling ke arah Mamat tu.

"Oh, ye ke?"..dan berlalu begitu saja.

What an interesting Friday...

I want to go there

It's in Saleve, near Geneva. Arve River. Beautiful isn't it? Bilalah...agaknya. Berangan tinggi..