Tuesday, March 08, 2011

Lights Part 2

After 5 months we move to our new home, I finally manage to snap some picture's and share with you all.

Great thanks to TS brother who came several trips down from Johor and install those lights for us. Note that all lights and lamps are assemble by TS and his brother(Save us alot of money). I only manage to help on installing the glass crystal of the chandelier light.

Here is the Chandelier for my living room. I brought from here. Thank got I snap the picture from the shop, else I wouldn't know how to assemble the glass crystal. It turn out to be very elegant and beautiful as it matches with the color and theme of the living area. Price for each Chandelier is RM99.

I brought 3 Rubine Fan for RM218 each. It is in black color with a remote control. We put them in the dinning, living and the master bedroom. The rest of the rooms we install KDK white ceiling fan. Beside the fan is the Chandelier light before installing the glass crystal.

Here is a stand light which is in the living room, we brought from the LDP Furniture Mall. We grab it from a discounted price at RM269. Same shop where we got the Chandelier.

Finding lights for the living area is such a pain. What I notice from design magazine, usually no ceiling fan at dinning area's. Well, I think it is very impractical unless you have air -con on that area. We initially brought lights around RM60 that are quite similar to the Ikea's BRASA black lamp(which cost RM200++), but when TS brother hang it before installing it to the dinning area, we do not feel like it matches with the area. We finally used TS brother's lamp's as above for our dinning area (yellow lights) & dry kitchen (white light).

We install several down lights on the middle of the living + dinning area. It is just a backup light source if in case the main lights from both area is insufficient. Each down light cost us RM36 with twin energy light bulb. Due to the blur surface of the glass on the down light, some times I few like it is not bright enough. We have install 2 more at the car pouch and at the wet kitchen.

Let's go upstairs... We brought these twin wall lights (RM69) for the stairs and for the family area. Surprisingly with just 2 energy saving light bulbs, it is bright enough for the family area. It handle made from wood, which matches well with the apple white color of the wall and green feature wall at the family area.


This rottan round light is around RM99, Top Ten told us to use yellow lights for warm and relaxing feel. I think it's a great suggestion, he even suggest us to get the wooden wall lamp as it will fits perfectly with this lamp.
Love the effect when the yellow dim light is open ~!
My master room light, each cost RM280, the most expensive lights in my house. The worst part was I need to buy 2 as we have 2 lighting ports in the master room. It is a very beautiful and modern light. It end up to be very matching with my purple room. One thing bad of this light is it is too bright. Each light holds 3 bulb. And it is very eye sore when we are lying down the bed and accidentally look on the bulbs. Planned to change to yellow light's next time.

We was worried that wall lamps are not bright enough. I suggested using normal fluorescent light for other small rooms, but TS insist getting more beautiful lights for the rooms. This wall lamp surface is made from glass and the lights is very bright. Just one of them are enough for the whole room. It cost RM125, slightly expensive then we thought. If we knew the wooden wall lights would be bright enough, we might consider buying them from those smaller rooms too.
Simple round moon like lamp for the toilet. It is RM38 each and the bigger on is RM58 that we install it as the main light at the car pouch. I think this is suitable for toilets as toilets are wet and the plastic casing will protect it. The disadvantage was the light isn't that bright on the car park as the plastic casing blocks some of the light off.
Almost all our light's we brought from Top Ten, I think they offer most reasonable price for lights. If you buy alot from them, try to ask for more discount. I hate to go to lighting shop's where they set the price very high and then mark 50% or 70% off where the discounted price is around the same as per the price labeled at Top Ten. Just to be careful and double check your items before you leave the shop.

Top Ten Lighting Sdn. Bhd.
1-G, Jalan Bandar 3,
Pusat Bandar Puchong,
Puchong
47100 Selangor
Tel: 03-5882 4606

Business Hour:
Mon - Sat: 11.30am - 9pm
Sun: 12 noon - 4pm

I think I still missed photographing some other lamps in the house, will do it on the next post.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Wedding Ceremony + Lunch (2nd Jan 2011)

Finally get my photos from the photographer for my actual day wedding pictures.

Great thanks to PerfectEdge Photograhpy for those wonderful pictures.
Thanks to YC Video Recording Studio that shot memorable videos on my special day
Thanks for Grace Wang - the leng lui makeup artist which makes me a princess for a day.
Many thanks for my family members and friends that have lead a hand to help on my wedding day.
Appreciate those friends that have came from Penang, KL, Johor down to Pontian just to attend my wedding. A million kisses to you all.

I did have a wonderful Tea Ceremony session. A funny, yet joyful morning. Some nice shot of the






The lunch wasn't going as smooth as we thought, but we still manage to handle it with a happy heart.





Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Wedding Gift

Gosh~ it's terrible there was no internet connection for the pass 1 week at home. Things got miserable when dealing with the Telekom staff. I have to shout and yell at them, being very pushy to get back my connection back in 1 week time. Talk more on that later in another post.

Back to some bits and bites on my wedding gifts that I got. I think I got most gifts from my younger brother - JQ which he is back from overseas. I think part of the gifts are my souvenirs and part of them are my wedding gifts.
Tatty Teddy Wedding Series from JQ, there are just too adorable. Once I love them a lot, but it's hard to find them in Malaysia.
(I have "stole" another bigger size Valentine Tatty Teddy doll from my brother last week .... wahahah...)
Kid jersey set from JQ, it comes with a pair of socks too. ~ wishing us to find a owner for the jersey set. (Hidden meaning - Wishing us to have babies soon...)

I think this would be the most expensive give from JQ - Gucci bag for my wedding present.

A belt and wallet set from JQ to my husband.
Body Shop diffuser from lovely ex-housemates, they really know what I like :)
Cute Wedding dolls from my mother...

Polo shirt for hubby and and Anna Sui perfume from my sister

Precious Moment wedding musical crystal ball from TS friend. So Romantic.

Thanks everyone for those lovely gifts ~!

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Pre-wedding photos Package

Let me share with you my pre-wedding photo's package. Please take note that this is just a guidance, and you might not get the same package as every year the price increase. Furthermore, every packages differs as each wedding studio have their own pricing.

Original package includes:
- 12 x 18" - 20 pages (30 poses) Design Album
- 10 x 15" - 20 pages (20 poses) Full page Album
- 20 x 40" - Design photo frame for hanging at the bedroom
- 10 x 12" - 3 piece photo frame for mum's & in law's
- 4 x 6" - 80 pieces(10 poses) for guess.
- DVD - 1 piece (2 songs) 50 poses
- CDR - 50 poses (Original size touch up files)
- Special guest book - 1 book including the 50 poses that I choose for my album.
- A book printed with 200 poses which are not from the selected 50 poses
- 2 photographer
- Car Deco
- 1 Actual day wedding gown, 1 actual day evening gown, accessories....
- 1 Actual day coat.
- Pre-wedding dress - can select 4 different types
Total wedding package is RM3600.

I have added additional RM600 for requesting 20 pose + design album + enlarge album from 10 x 15" to 12 x 18". So two album are in the same size now. Grand total will be RM4200.

20 x 40" - Design photo frame

10 x 12" - 3 piece photo frame (1 missing because already given to my in laws)
2 album of 12 x 18" - 20 pages (70 poses) Design Album
The album are so heavy as the surface is full glass ~ its the trend nowadays.
It comes with a protector cover and a brief case.

Guest book (left) and book printed with 200 poses(right)
Some pictures that are not in the album will be printed at here.
Our guest book

My advise is if you do not have too much time to DIY your own album, do not have budget to buy wedding gowns, getting a wedding house to handle all your pre-wedding photos and actual day gowns is the correct choice.

Some personal tips:
1. Make sure to survey enough thru the internet, friends comments and forum before approaching the wedding studio. As most of the wedding studio are very pushy on selling their packages.
2. The wedding studio I sign do not have too much selection of dress, but surprisingly they manage to take excellent photos which make a non eye catching dress become a princess to every girl. Just walk to any wedding shop and look at their album, if you don't like how to photo's are taken, no point asking for the price.
3. Ask for more poses. 1 poses == 1 photo. Designed album usually consist more photos. My 20 page album consist of 35 poses. Each additional poses will have a price from the wedding studio.
Mine is RM30 per pose extra and the highest price is RM80 per pose.
4. Ask for more bargains and freebies. Or swiping those things that you don't want for more poses. Going to wedding fairs for better offers.
5. Every details need to be black and white written in the receipt.
6. Ask for photos soft copies. I think the best is to sign up with a wedding studio that give you all the soft copies back.

Hope this will help those future's brides that are planning their pre-wedding photo's decision. Good luck ~!

Friday, January 07, 2011

Pre-wedding photos

Share with you, some of my pre-wedding pictures. These are all my favorite~! Great photography thanks to Keep Gallery.









Thursday, January 06, 2011

幸福女人 ~ Hubby cook

We started cooking after moving to our new house.
Why?
We need to drive out to buy food instate of walking 5 minutes to buy a meal.
A bit waste as we have spend thousand Ringgit on furnish our kitchen and not using it.

Yesterday TS is not working and he prepare our dinner. Although there are not looking well in pictures, but definitely there taste good.


工作回家后,还有亲爱的老公亲自准备的晚餐~~ 感觉好幸福!

Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Happy New Year 2011

Neglected my blog for a long long time.
Not to say I forget, just that I was too busy with my current life.

2010 was the busiest year that I have ever been.
So much thing change, life changes from one stage to another.

Here is some recap on year 2010
1. Longest - 17 days, self planned trip with TS to Taiwan.
2. Change Job although it is still IT related, but different roles of job, new challenge.
3. ROM at July 2010. From girlfriend 6.0 upgrade to wife 1.0.
4. Planning, designing, monitor renovation and move to our new house at Kota Kemuning
5. At last, wedding ceremony in Chinese culture. Which includes tea ceremony and wedding lunch.
6. Start picking up driving as I need to drive to work daily.

Well, spending money is like spending water this year. So much to spend on the trip, wedding and the house.

I think now I have more time to blog / rest / and continue crafting soon.

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Christmas @ Mid Valley 2010

I adore all of these cute huge bears, puppet, nutcrackers at the Mid Valley 2010 Christmas Decoration.


I think it's a dream of every child to have such wonderful toys. I even see some kids hug and lay down on those toys until their mum have to pull them off ...
Not forgetting to place myself among these cute toys.
And hugging a huge bear at the mall for photographs. How I wish I can take him home with me ... to me new home :)

Tuesday, December 07, 2010

The 1st Day @ New Home

After almost 3 weeks of packing all my stuff in to boxes sponsor by Joan, we finally move out from Wangsa Maju at 30th October 2010 officially to our new house at Kota Kemuning.

I hired a 5 tan lorry- Mr Tan 019-2778829 from Wangsa Maju (Condo) to Kota Kemuning (Landed) cost us RM400 with 3 workers. They are movers workers, which provide service for house moving or office moving. (Not those temporary lorry and workers that work partime). I am quite satisfy with their service. Quite impressive the speed they move our things which is very fast. I add extra RM30 for the wrapping of my mattress. They also provide service such as un-install and install your furniture. And of cost they will charge extra too. Cons are they didn't fill the lorry fully which makes me need to travel another time back to Wangsa Maju to collect some remaining stuff. My fridge and washing machine was working fine as usual after the move, but my LCD Monitor got a bit of problem after the move to my new house.

Alternative you can select and call any number at the tiang that I snap a picture down near my previous condo. Price around RM350 for 3 tan lorry with 3 workers.
Here we reach our new house. The wiring is still pending for TS brother to come and fix it, so wires wondering around the electrical box until today.My Guan Yin Goddess looking great ~~ The most perfect part on my entire house. The rest of the house was a total mess now.

TS brother couldn't finish installing all the lights on his last visit, so some areas of the house are with lights, no fan(craft room and 2 bedroom upstair); some areas with fan no lights (master room); some areas totally no light (kitchen, car park). But we manage to have a temporary workaround where we use stand lights and table lights for almost 1 month. We didn't want to spend extra money for lights installation. It is better to let the person who did the wiring (which is TS brother) to install the lights as he will know which wire connect to which wire.
Here is the living area, he manage to install 4 down lights with fan for us.
Here is the living area/ dinning area. Notice there is a small mattress beside the photo, we have a small rest and lying around that small mattress while waiting for the furniture to arrive.

The first furniture that arrive on the day was the dinning table. I like wooden dinning table, but for the sake of cleaning and long term use, we go for temper glass dinning table. I initially wanted a full white color temper glass dinning table. But after a few walks into the furniture shop, we order this temper glass dinning table with black borders. Why not the one we ordered? This is because the one I wanted at least cost us RM2000 and above.
The shop have communicate with us as the previous model was out of stock and advise us to have this. I gladly said YES ~ of course. The dinning table cost us RM1300 including 6 chairs. The dinning table are made from solid wood and they are extremely heavy.

The room down stairs are now in a mess of all the boxes that contains things which belongs at the ground floor.

Here is my dry kitchen. The contractor manage to install the sliding door before the day I move in. Looks great hor~~? But it cost us RM1500.

Next: Curtains, more lights, sofa...

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