Happy birthday Hafiz!

Today is Hafiz's birthday, who is going to get hitched soon. Yang bestnya, semalam, 29th March was his fiance's birthday. Kuasa Allah sebagai "adjustment bureau" yang menemukan these two lovebirds. Can't believe the boy in the blue cap is going to be someone's husband kan??  Disaster sungguh pemilihan pakaian masa budak-budak. Tak salahkan ibu bapak sebab masa tu Globe & Kamdar pun dah kira hebat. How we wish we had better fashion sense. My husband pun kata kalau dia tengok gambar ni dulu, dia sure reject. Ceh. Nasib baik dah pandai stylo mylo sekarang :P

So anyway, I'm keeping the checklist close so that I would be able to jot things down whenever there is updates on the preparation. As of today, the hardcore items like baju pengantin, tempahan dewan, katering (for sure takyah risau), goodie bags, photography & videography semua dah settle. Tinggal the minor-minor details je yang kena follow up and make sure takde benda yang tertinggal.

Nikah

Date  27/4/2012

1. Pakaian Pengantin

2. Make up pengantin

3. Photography & Videography

4. Hantaran

5. Hand bouquet 

6. Family yang follow

7. Hantaran boys

8. Waktu bertolak from Ampang - to confirm

9. Siapa siapkan pengantin lelaki

10. Siapa drive pengantin lelaki 

11. Pengapit pengantin - both

Reception - Bride's side

Date 28/4/12

1. Pakaian pengantin

2. Make-up pengantin

3. Photography & Videography

4. Family yang follow

Reception - Groom's side

Date 6/5/2012

To make sure tak miss every details, kita breakdown under beberapa cateogry such as, F&B, Dewan management, Pengantin, Family, Order of events etc. 

Things like susun atur meja keluarga pengantin belah perempuan pun kena plan, walaupun majlis adalah semi-formal. To make sure things run smoothly, lets hope that things tak akan constantly be changing to the last minute. Apa-pun kalau benda yang terlalu remeh dan tak menjejaskan perjalanan majlis, takde lah nak pening sangat fikir.

Ultimately, objektif untuk meraikan tetamu dalam satu-satu majlis especially wedding reception is to make sure that :

1.  Tetamu dapat tempat duduk selesa, bersesuai dengan venue yang dipilih
2.  Makanan memuaskan, eventhough tak mungkin dapat memenuhi selera semua, tapi biasanya orang makan je kan sebab dah namanya pun jemputan.
3.  Tuan rumah layan dengan baik,
4.  Lagu tak terlalu memekakkan telinga. Penting ni sebab selalu experience pegi wedding lagu macam tak sesuai untuk majlis kahwin.

What we are trying to do is maintaining konsep kesederhanaan. Coordinating an event memang seronok, since wedding ni ada timeline yang panjang, so banyak masa untuk buat preparation. Dengan rasa rendah hati memohon keberkatan dan dipermudahkan segala urusan sehingga selesainya majlis nanti. InsyaAllah.

Something Blue

Inspirations. I think what we need more of is not just money but jealousy. If we are more jealous, we would do anything to get what we want.

Might not be too suitable for our unpredictable hot weather, but this is just beyond. 

Never a dull moment

One of the things that I really take with pride as a restaurant owner is the experiences that I get serving different backgrounds of patrons. To me, falsafah penyediaan makanan ni simple je. Serve the food, just like how you would like it to be served to you. Ala, macam do unto others as how you would have them do to you. Something like that. Be it the taste or the presentation. So, when you know what and how you would like your food to taste and look like, hey, you can open a restaurant already!

Just the other day, our customer brought his friends, a pair of American Indian husband & wife, whom also are very strict vegetarians. Terang-terangan our menu kebanyakannya berunsurkan ayam, daging dan kambing. Segala jenis haiwan ternakan gitu. So it was rather challenging for any vegetarian yang menerima jemputan dibelanja di kedai kami, one thing for sure orang yang mengajak tu sepatutnya aware yang kawan dia vege and orang yang diajak, tentu tak mau turn the friend down. I managed to convince the couple to have our rice with the dalca, yang sememangnya berisi sayuran sahaja. In fact, selama ni kalau ada customer vegetarian, memang diorang takde choice lain. Maybe we should include one or two choices of vegetarian dish? However, this lovely lady ordered a plate of rice and rojak buah with extra cili padi potong. To my surprise, she finished her meal berlaukkan rojak buah. I can only imagine how would that taste. Kuah rojak petis ditabur ground nuts lepas tu gaul dengan nasi briyani saje.  Mungkin ok kot, it was just me yang tak boleh terima kombinasi tu.

On another occasion at our outlet in Ampang, sepasang Korean membelek2 menu dengan khusyuk. Mungkin memang lapar sebab hari hujan, the guy seolah-olah push the girl to order fast tapi the girl just can't decide which one to order. Bila hujan, maknanya cuaca sejuk. Lepas the guy order "Mee Kari" (dengan fluent bahasa Melayunya, mungkin dia dah lama duduk sini) dia order juga "Beer". Dengan harapan dapat memanaskan badannya kot (betul ke beer memanaskan badan pun?) Then I smiled. And his lady friend kind of shuush him which in return he said "Sorry Sorry" sambil menyusun 10 jari tunjuk minta maaf. He was undoubtedly forgiven.

Oh well. There are too many other unforgettable moments that we made through 2011. Tahun pertama in the business, terlalu banyak yang kita belajar. Experiences are too valuable you can't even find them in those university textbooks. Nothing beats real life expreriences kan. Some sweet, some maybe bitter. I would say, when it comes to managing the ups and the downs, there is no real format that you can follow. It is important that you develop the perseverance trait inside of you. I read from other successful business people that it is really the key.

"In an enterpreneur's life, it is always the matter of juggling, whether the chicken or the eggs come first" - Sahar Hashemi, Coffee Republic. 

Mr Chow Miami . Extravagantly stunning. 

Laksanakan tuntutan jiwa

After much consideration, I am channeling my personal views to Bomb Diggity. Ruz Aladdin will have its own official website soon, InsyaAllah.