That's our future room and DIY renovation is in progress. We have been working on it for a month now and hopefully it'll be completed in another 3 weeks time. I can't wait to move in because I love love love to have my own bathroom. The little wooden door in the 1st picture is the door to my own little bathroom. :D. We have another wooden door that leads to the rest of the house and a glass panel sliding door that opens up to the backyard. Cool huh?

Anyway here's the work we've accomplished so far:

1. Scraping off the "Popcorn" ceiling
2. Filling up cracks on the ceiling
3. Painting the ceiling. We chose pale yellow to go with the new wall colors
4. Removing the old wall edging strips/wall trims
5. Replacing the old wall with new ones. As you can see from the 2nd picture, the old wall is the white area in the picture with small little holes texture. We thought it looks kinda weird and painting it would be a toughie
6. Painting the walls. We chose bright orange and dark chocolate for the walls to create a little bright and dark contrast as we didn't want the room to be too bright nor too dark
7. Fixing the new little edging strips from hell!!! Man, taking them out was so easy but putting them back was tough as hell. The toughest part is getting the angles and measurements right. So next time, when your contractor charges you a little more for the edges, don't complain
8. Painted the edging strips from hell white

And that's all for now.

Stay tuned for more info as we progress further in the makeover project.

11th of Oct 2008 -We are finally pronounced as husband and wife in a beautiful court room on a bright and sunny day :D

It was a joyful day joined by my mother-in-law, father-in-law and 2 little brothers. Though my own family couldn't be with me, I know I have their blessings and love with me.

The Judge who performed our marriage registration ceremony is wonderful. She shared with us some very beautiful poems. It was so touching, it brought tears to my eyes. Our little ceremony was accompanied with bubbles and yummy Hershey's Kisses, all thanks to the Judge.

It was a beautiful day and I have my husband to thank for making it all happen and for bringing me such wonderful joys.

This past few days I've finally learn the lesson to never over indulged...the hard way >< ... and still learning it, the HARD WAY. YES! INDIGESTION, from OVEREATING! WTF right? The day right after my little Raya dinner: Tummy a little bloated but I thought I should be fine. Probably just a little indigestion since I always have the tendency to overeat and suffers a little indigestion. So I eat more and more and more. The result: NOT GOOD...diarrhea, nausea and so much gas I swear I would explode! Took some medicine and applied some ointment then go to bed.

Next day: Wokie dokie, I think I feel a little better today and I'll continue to be better plus I'm a little hungry. There you go, I eat again and again (rice, chips, bread, grapes, lotsa soy milk and many more, I can't remember) and as expected I'M DOOMED!

Till today: No longer overeats but yet still suffering. I even had to cancel my shopping trip in Oregon. That's the worst of all. Shopping -> price to pay for overeating -> definitely not worth it! I learn the lesson alright.

p/s: I can't even write right >< . Please pray that I get better....sobsobsob

First of all thousands of apologies for my MIA. Reason being, I was too busy preparing to visit Vietnam and move to Seattle and then got too busy trying to get settled down in Seattle. Now still busy with renovating my future room which will be highlighted in my later post. Now I bunk in MoofMoof's old room.

Okay a quick update of me here before I move on to my main topic:

Sept 02 : Flew to Saigon, Vietnam to visit MoofMoof's relatives
Sept 08 : Flew home to Seattle (new home lo)
Currently : Still in Seattle la, abo then >< :D
Oct 11 : Shall be my wedding registration day in King County Court House, 3rd Ave Downtown Seattle

Aite, back to my cerita:

Have been bising-bising hinting to MoofMoof for the past 2 days that Raya is here and I'm not home to go to all my dad's friends rumah terbuka for all those yummy kuih-muih, rendang, lemang and ketupat. So today MoofMoof suddenly messaged me on MSN while he was at work saying "Hey, lets have Malaysian food for dinner". I was obviously trying to hide my overexcited-ness by just saying "Really?" but padahal I was jumping like crazy in my room already. KK fast forward to dinner time.

I was so happy when I saw the menu at Malay Satay Hut (the only Malaysian restaurant in Seattle if I'm not wrong). They have my favourite rendang but no lemang or ketupat though. Neway, we ordered rendang with rice, roti telur (not very original. why? there's red and green pepper in them -.-), tom yam soup, buddhist yam basket, teh ais (for me of course) and lychee drink (for MoofMoof). Food's good but definitely ordered too much and plus you know la the orang putih usually eat very big portion so si kecik like me sure tak abis makan >< . What did I end up doing? Tapau home la! Surprisingly tapau-ing the leftover in US is a norm since everyone has a microwave at home. So wherever I go makan, I tapau back lo since no matter how hard I try to chuck those food in, it never goes all in. Here are some pictures I took from the dinner place:

(Entrance to Malay Satay Hut)

(MoofMoof ala ala promoting the food)

(The so-called Roti Telur)

(Tom Yam Soup)

(Beef Rendang)

(And last but not least my TEH AIS)

p/s: My dog, Roccio is also here with me now :D