Majlis Kawen Yana & Kidir

Salam semua!

Firstly, kiteorang nak ucapkan ‘Selamat Pengantin Baru’ buat Yana & Kidir! Sedar tak sedar, dah besar dah dak Yana ni, dah mendirikan rumahtangga. Semoga perkahwinan ni diberkati Allah SWT dan bahagia ke anak cucu…

It was a beautiful wedding

Dah lama tak menulis pasal Geng KAMIE. Dulu kemain rapat lagi kiteorg, pergi camping sama-sama, buat majlis buka puasa, pot luck, berkaraoke, jalan-jalan ke Melaka & macam2 lagilah. Seronok tak hengat masa tu. Punya la rapat sangat kiteorg siap boleh tinggal baby Khayla dengan Sis Lin pegi jalan-jalan ke Singapore.

Sanggup datang dari JB nak join pot luck kat rumah kiteorg masa ni

Kecik lagi si Yana ni masa join first activity GENG KAMIE dekat Sedili, Johor (Yana paling kiri menyorok belakang En Suami Terchenta)

Wedding Yana & Kidir ni dekat Ariz Hall, Eco Palladium. Serius cantik teruk tempat ni! Nak cari parking pun senang. Sampai-sampai je, kiteorang tunggu Kak Retna & Kak Linda dalam kereta. Sempat la perasan pengantin datang naik kereta sendiri, suami Yana yang drive. Dalam hati, kagum betul dengan pengantin ni sebab sempoi je takde karpet merah, takde kereta berhias dieorg sampai pun ramai yang tak sedar.

Dari dalam kereta, kiteorang tengok perarakan pengantin masuk ke dewan, diiringi kumpulan penari tradisional & kompang & gendang. Lepas pengantin dah masuk, barulah kiteorang perasan Kak Retna & Kak Linda dah masuk dewan. Apa lagi, tergopoh-gapah la kiteorang keluar kereta, tapi sempat lagi kak Siti Delima call kat belakang. Tu pun mula2 tak cam sebab tak tau pun dieorang dah tukar kereta BMW. Kerlass Kak Siti! So takde la menunggu kak Siti, terus tergesa2 ke dewan. Tapi sebelum tu, kenalah register MySejahtera & scan suhu badan ikut SOP sekarang.

Tak nak cerita banyak, kita layan je gambar-gambar kiteorang masa majlis kawen ni:

Dengan Sis Lin, ambik gambar bukti kedatangan katanya 😆

Bila Che Mat & Suami Terchenta bertemu, mesti citer pasal kerja ni 😜

Kumpulan penari membuat persembahan tarian yang berjaya menambat perhatian Khayla

Acara memotong kek. Berseri2 dak Yana kat sini

Rasanya kiteorang la yang paling havoc bergambar dengan pengantin dak Yana & suami

Kecoh-kecoh diteruskan dengan Sis Lin sekeluarga kat bawah pentas pulak. Kalau tak havoc, bukan Geng KAMIE namanya 😂

Kemain kiteorang kecoh lepas dah isi perut, sampai 3-4 kali photographer ambik gambar. Barulah suasana meriah di majlis kawen kan? 

Posing dengan kakak pengantin pulak, dak Naz

Sebelum balik, kita ambik gambar kenang2an di photobooth. Kak Linda posing macam bukan mak anak 2 😆

Ikutkan hati nak lagi lama bersembang dengan Sis Lin tapi memandangkan dia sibuk melayan tetamu mungkin kena tangguh lain kali. Lepas majlis mesti penat kan Sis Lin? Apapun, tahniah diucapkan kepada Sis Lin & Abang Sabar yang menerima menantu. Persiapan kawen dak Yana ni memang tip-top, takde cacat-cela di mata kami. Walaupun tetamu ramai tapi penganjur & tuan rumah berjaya menjaga SOP. Takde berebut-rebut ambik makanan, makanan caterer tolong cedukkan, dewan pun tak sesak. Khayla & Khadeeja suka sangat dengan doorgift cotton candy sampai 2x ambik & of course la aku paling bahagia bila dapat telur pindang Johor hehe.

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How I Decorated and Furnished My House Under RM5000

Hello readers! We've just updated our house look and yeay, so many people are lovin' it! We have several people calling up to view our rental house after advertising this on Mudah.my and many queries of - 'is this the actual unit?' like they can't believe our ad LOL.

Let's have a look at after vs before photos:

After re-decoration - Scandinavian minimalist concept

Before - bulky furniture and heavy drapes made our house look small and cluttered

At first, we wanted to hire ID people to re-decorate our house but when the quotation reached us, the numbers made my eyes bulge. Since the reason we are re-decorating is to rent the house out and there rental rate at our area is not exactly premium, we decided to wing it and re-decorate the house ourselves. The best part about DIY decorating is we can actually do it all under RM5000! 

Dining area

Guest bedroom

Hallway

So here are step-by-step how to decorate with a shoestring budget for beginners:

#1: Have an ID sense (like, fashion sense for the house)

It's not necessarily be you yourself. Heck, I don't even have much ID sense as seen on the before picture (like I can't even budget how big is the sofa compared to the living room and ended up with the sofa taking most of the living room space!). So what I did is I consulted my close childhood friend because I know she has better eye than me :)

It's important because someone who has good ID sense can already picture in their mind the finished look and know the right concept for the space and layout in your house. I took my friend for a tour of the house and she immediately suggested we went for Scandinavian minimalist concept because 'it just blended so well with the greeneries outside' (her quote).

If you don't have such friend, then ask yourself what kind of style you want? Knowing the concept/style is good because you can search furniture by the style keyword so you will end up with a 'put together' look for your house.

If you are as clueless as me and don't have a point of reference, there's always a good apps around to help - mine is Houzz apps which has thousands of photos I can filtered by room, style, room size etc.

So many photos to browse by the concept that I like

#2: Have a realistic budget and stick to it

What I lack in ID sense, I made up in budget department. I'm a budget person. I'm not a people person but I love numbers. Drawing up a budget is not hard, guys. All you need to do is list all the things you want to get for the house style that you picked and then put a price tag to it. Next, decide how much you want to spend for the entire project. For me, since I plan to furnish and update my house look, I decided that I only want to spend not more than RM5000 on the project. The lesser the number, the more creative you have to be and I'm not that creative. Or maybe I can but I don't have Finance people to challenge my number. Anyways, I think I can pull it with RM5000 budget and here's the snippet to prove it:

We ended up only spending RM4.8k for the house furnishing / re-decorating

Important note - I don't list it here but in my mind I have divided the list into 'essential' items vs. 'nice to have' items. We bought the essentials first and then updated our budget (Actual column). Anything that exceeded the budget means we have to slash our 'nice to have' items i.e. either we get something cheaper or we remove from the budget list. For example, initially I wanted to get a nice armchair for the living room but since some of the essentials are under-budgeted, we removed the armchair from our list.

#3: Scout for best price

Thank God we live in the era of online shopping! I must admit that a large chunk of the budget went to Shopee because Shopee has the best price that we know of. We bought bed frames, wardrobes, coffee table, carpet, dining table set, wallpaper, bedside table and mattresses from Shopee and they arrived within 1-2 weeks.

Apart from Shopee, we also shopped at Kaison for some home decor items. We bought the Queen bed frame and mattress, as well as the sofa from a small furniture shop (note: we should've checked SSF first, because they apparently had huge discounts on beddings and sofa that matched the price we spent but SSF had better quality furniture sobsss).

#4: Set a project timeline

This is optional of course. Some people with constraint budget may put on hold / buy in batches whenever there's a good deal. Since our goal was to let the house by end of this year, we had only 2 months to plan and execute our project. Project timeline helped me to plan shipping lead time, installation time and lastly when to finish the touch-ups for photo-shoot session to start advertising our house.

There you have it. So let's recap:

What - is your dream style & budget?

Who - is someone you know with good eye for home decorating? If none, go to Houzz apps/Pinterest for inspiration

Why - reason to re-decorate e.g. to rent it out at best rate

When - draw a project timeline

Where - Shopee, Kaison, SSF are a good start to look for best price items

How - Refer above steps of decorating and furnishing a home under RM5000

Happy decorating!

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