Remember I just went to the unit on Saturday and only saw piles of sand waiting to serve its purpose? Husband went to the unit yesterday (which is Monday) to look see since he couldn't join me on Saturday and this is how our unit looks like now:

What a pleasant surprise to see such quick progress! 

The renovation progress so far:

• Cement screed settled for all areas (Small portion in the last picture should have been completed by now)
• Adhesive for our bathroom tiles already laid out
• The batu for our kitchen sink dah naik
• Service yard door and side window panes already removed (at our request); and 
• Glass windows for our service yard already fixed as well. 

Lincah pe! This is considering there were only piles of sand on Saturday, no work was being done on Sunday, and husband arrived at the unit on Monday at about 4pm.

If we knew our contractor was this bloody efficient, we wouldn't have bothered waiting for HDB and layankan their cement screed delays *shakes fist at HDB Tampines* 

Ooh, and can you see that rectangular panel at left bottom part of the last picture??? Sneak peek of our vinyl flooring, y'all! Hehe. Unsightly stains on the panel is bekas orang pijak so hopefully those will be gone by the time they install the flooring and buat acid wash. Yang one panel tu dorang letak is to gauge whether cement screed is thick enough.

Okay lah guys, I know it is boring to tengok pictures of cement and concrete so I shall negate that experience by sharing some pictures of glorious glorious food from our first wedding anniversary dinner k.

Wanted to go to our favourite J's Restaurant initially but Saliheen was due to mendarat in Singapore from his work trip at about 7pm local time so I didn't want us to rush the night. Offered to pick him up so we can do a quick anniversary dinner at Swensen's Changi Airport Terminal 2 instead. Lucky we did that too because poor bugger was exhausted like crazy!

Had the Festive US Beef Short Ribs (Christmas menu), the Boston Lobster Roll (promotion menu) and the classic Mac and Cheese to share, as well as their Salted Caramel Gula Melaka and Coit Tower ice cream for desserts. We were soooooo stuffed! But I guess that's our own fault lah eh, order makanan macamlah satu tahun tak makan. Padahal setakat nak celebrate our satu tahun dah kahwin je pe.

Happy 1st Wedding Anniversary, Sayang

Saliheen and Farhana - Nikah, 2 November 2013 on Vimeo.

Has it really been a year already? Saliheen and I are not the sort to celebrate monthversaries so this first year of marriage really went by very quickly for us. I am thankful to God and my husband everyday for keeping our marriage loving, supportive and full of fun and hilarity, and I hope I never have to experience a marriage of any other kind.

Thought I'd mark this milestone by sharing our official wedding video, which I haven't shared on social media before (except for snippets on Instagram). Mostly because we were not very happy with what happened di sebalik tabir with our videographers and our wedding video highlights were somewhat an unfortunate reminder of what transpired. 

But it's been a year now so I'm willing to make peace and embrace that this video is just another part of our marriage journey. I have to admit that it is nice to re-watch our wedding video on our anniversary, and reminisce the little moments that we're especially fond of!

I still don't recommend these people as wedding videographers, though. Terrible service and broke our trust. Even if you think our nikah video was nicely done (can't say the same for our sanding video, we suspect our videos were editted by two different people) take my word and choose someone else.

Beautifully Imperfect

'Funeral' TV commercial commissioned by the then Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS), developed by Leo Burnett Singapore and shot by the late Yasmin Ahmad via Dragonsgate Studio. ****************************** I came across an old blog post while privatizing one of my old blogs, and it was about this TV commercial which came out for a campaign sometime in 2009.
Have you guys seen this commercial?