Expensive industry

Weddings...
such expensive industry...
"once in a lifetime" reason often used to maximize prices and elaborate expenses sometimes more than one can afford..
The same food sold in the cafeterias and food courts or malls can be charged three or four times higher in a wedding catering.. sometimes even with lower quality. A simple dress or 'kebaya' tailored with a slight complexity for the bride may cost millions just because of the 'bride' tag in the dress.. The photographer's fee may be twice as much as a regular event.
Sometimes i just wanna hide and get married quietly without all the big hush hush and all those money spent to entertain hundreds of people i hardly know..

Saat cinta itu mulai luntur, ingatlah bahwa.............

"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Cinta kepada manusia lain tidak akan pernah abadi.. hanya cinta kepada ALLAH lah yang akan kekal selamanya..
Jangan pernah mencintai ku karena apa yang ada pada diriku.. tapi cintailah aku karena ALLAH SWT...
(dan begitu pula lah sebaliknya.....)

Future couple..

@ kawinan windi...
Thanx to Windi's mini studio and Ezi's camera.. serta didorong oleh keisengan Ezi dan mba Dhuny... akhirnya kami berpose di mini studio yang sudah mulai ditinggal empunya karena lagi sibuk moto-motoin pengantin dan keluarga di pelaminan..

sayangnya, karena berkeringat, bedak dan make-up ku sudah mulai luntur... :(

Puji syukur kehadiratMu Ya ALLAH SWT, karena telah menghadirkan dia dihadapanku, menjawab doaku...
Mudahkan jalan kami untuk mencapai ridho dan berkahMU, tetapkan hati kami untuk istiqomah di jalanMU...
Berikan kami kesabaran dan keluasan hati untuk menjalani hidup yang telah kau gariskan untuk kami...
Amin..

Change

Finally, the big inevitable change has to my life...
No longer will i solely cruise this life because a wonderful person now walks beside me and together we will walk until death do us part..

I am truly grateful for this blessing and hopefully this lasts forever..

mampukah?

Hanya ada satu cinta yang kekal dan abadi. Aku ingin cinta itu.
Adakah dia di luar sana yang juga menginginkan cinta yang sama itu?
Mampukah aku mencintainya hanya karena aku mencintai Allah SWT?
Mampukah dia mencintaiku hanya karena dia mencintai Allah SWT?

mampukah aku?

Long lost friends

Today is the birthday of someone who used to be special to me. I met him about twelve years ago. It was july 1996, first day of high school. I developed a crush for him immediately. The little crush grew stronger and became the biggest crush in my life.. I kept it going on until we part, which means high school graduation. After that, i never knew anything about him... no news what so ever.. not even a trace.. In a way, I kinda miss him...

Thinking of him got me thinking of another friend, my childhood friend who i lost track of when we finish elementary school. Even my mom remembered him. A friend said that his family moved to Dumai, Riau, but I never really knew. He was the first close friend i ever had. We were in the same class for eight years, since kindergarten all the ways to six grade. Once in kindergarten, he hit me with a broomstick. When I told my father the story, he told me that if someone hit me I should hit him back. And so I did, a few days later. I hit him with another broomstick :D In the six grade, he had a crush on one of our classmates but she turned him down cold and harsh. I stood by him and lent him an ear.. This was my first experience as a 'relationship advisor'. The funny thing is that the people seeking my advise usually have more experience than I do. I seem to know all the theory and logic, but not the experience.. I finally stopped doing this in college..

If by any chance any of you read this, I really would like to see you again...if its okay..

Innalillahi wa inna ilaihi rojiun.....

One of my cats died. Hit by a car, so they said. We don't what exactly happened or when.
He didn't come home for days. We went looking but he was nowhere to be found. A neighbor finally told us that she found a dead cat in her garbage box. Her description matched our missing cat.

He was very strong. He survived many illness. That's why we never thought that he would die this way.
When he was little, both his rear feet was paralyzed for unknown reason. Yet he kept crawling everywhere, especially in reaching his food bowl. Before reaching full recovery of that bizarre sickness, he got bitten by an insect. We suspected it was a bee. It made his neck swell therefore he couldn't bend it. Eating and drinking became a torture for him for he had to throw his head to the bowl to reach the food. He had to 'hammer' he head to the bowl, and he survived.
We also have reason to believe that he fracture his spine and healed, because he was the only cat (that i know of) that could sit the way he does.

I miss him, every day.