Wooow people!!!! I've made it!!!!!!! but first of all I like to to wish all my Dayak friends Seramat Andu Gawai/Selamat Ari Gawai, Gayu Guru Gerai Nyamai Lantang Senang Nguan Benua. For those of you who hasn't got the slightest idea what I am talking about; Wikipedia ok.

We are done with David and S'nah's wedding and I do admit I like doing this project. Amidst all the tension, the vulgar words thrown out(out of frustration), the tiredness I still enjoyed it. Now that that's over, I don't know what to do with my life, my weekends...... Maybe now I can make my house more homely eh..... or like Fiona said, I can concentrate on losing those extra pounds.

It has been a wonderful experience to plan this wedding with my brothers and especially with my sister-in-law; Snah. David had never really in a relationship - not that I knew of. I knew
girls were interested but he had always being the cool guy... but one thing for sure, he has always had his eyes on the Orang Ulu girls.... (anybody like to comment)

I remember that day; Mom and Anddy were away@Pelagus. I was surprised to see Abba tagging along with David and one girl@my doorstep. I knew he was serious with this one when he brought her to my house. It didn't take them long to decide; so after the December2008 engagement, the wedding was set on 30th May 2009 (check my previous post for the engagement story).

We anticipated with joy. The last wedding in the family was mine which were 10 years ago and it was no fun coz my siblings were either too young to share the excitement or were away in Sabah/Serdang (during the preparation).

First, discussion with Reverend Trevor. Then, date was set, venue for the dinner where chosen.

Four Season by Sheraton when we first set eyes on it....

Invitation cards were distributed...

Pre-Wedding photos were shot as early as February09

Rehearsal was done the day before....

The Deco in church were by Emil of Emil's Garden; theme -
Gawai Wedding Fusion. Marvellous darling, simply marvellous!!!!

And on the morning of 30thMay2009
at Seri Ijah, Jalan Wan Alwi......

Ezra & Johnathan as Ring Bearer.

Megan as one of the Flower Girls

The men in Toda's family; all looking thier best in white..

Suze doing Karen(Flower Girl) and
Ruth (Bride's Maid) preparing herself

Bride kena make-up...


The stunning and beautiful bride before going down the aisle.

IN CHURCH - the excitement build-up.

Yours truly with Groom's brother and Ring Bearer

The Groom and Best Man.

The Bride's and Groom's dads.

Those that turn-up to give 'moral support'.

The arrival of the Bride..

OK, I want to inform everybody that these videos were taken with my hand phone. I am not a professional videographer but my intention to share is good; so be it; enjoy bits of it...

This is the wedding march but the other guests and photo/videographers' presence were overwhelming and I have to be satisfied with this shots.

This are covers of church's programmes

The rings that binds

The Giving away.....


The kiss....



The Communion...


Mr & Mrs Davidson Toda

Sharing.....

David & Snah together with parents


1 for the album. Welcome Snah to the Toda's clan!!!!
(From Left: Sulau, Nigel, Terry, Nevin, Toda, Ezra, David
Snah, Maysun, Elizabeth Ijah, Anddy, Megan,Ivy, Dolly & Neville)

I have more photos and stories to share. These are just half of it. I will up load some more. There are more photos shown on families and friends FaceBook, so you might want to check that out too. So until then..

Caoo..

Whatsssup...

Sorry.... Too much projects to handle and I know I have not updating anything on this blog but rest assure I will be back with loads of stories to tell. Amongst the projects were birthdays...... and the up and coming is the wedding of my brother; David to S'nah (I will tell.....) Then, there's Anddy's project which will run aggressively after Gawai (I forgot Gawai) then I will be travelling and taking my well deserve break which is also my 10th wedding's anniversary gift.

So, hold your horses people. I'll be back.

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The car broke down again!!!!! I think I get him to consider buying a new car. He just came back from towing the car with ND and Igat and NO!!!! the battery is not low....

Hey!!!Good News everybody.... I lost some ounces... It is not sufficient but it is a progress. Right now I need to get my beauty sleep; so catch you later.

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Lately, my fingers are stiff!. It seems that I am at lost of words. I lost ideas on what to write. That's why most of time there is no update in my blog. I feel life is passing by so fast and just a few weeks back I was awaken by a call of 'death' - sound so serious... yes it is that serious.

It made me evaluate all aspect of my life - financially to spiritually and of coz if you are at the brisk of death you look at spiritually most. If you are a follower of my blog than you would have guess my problems and of top of that the same week I sprained my ankle and dad simply diagnosed it as Gout!!!!!! I wouldn't know coz I didn't let a doctor confirmed it - and it is for a simple reason; I am so afraid to know the truth!!.

So my contingency plans now is to loose some weight, exercise and try to eat healthy. If I can shed some of that fat, I will let you know and I promise myself - I will go for a medical check-up.

My Leave

I am off until Wednesday. I visited Carol who gave birth to Chris Abner last Monday. I just love the smell of babies - don't you all?. I know 'making baby' were supposed to be my agenda for year 2008 but I guess God just said wait so who am I to rebel; at least I have a pair. See how peaceful he look......

Anyway it was suppose to be a light and easy day for the four of us. The children are having Easter Monday off and the parents happened to be on leave.




We went to Roki to extract Ezra bad teeth. I was afraid for him but he proved himself... and I am so proud of him. I managed to take a photo before Roki attended to him and the rest were history but a word of advise to 'young' mother - feed your kid before going to dentist becoz he was hungry but couldn't eat - my mistake. I just hope my dad don't find out about this.

Tomorrow we are planning to do our passport. When I look at my passport photo I am just 'heran' how I aged and 'grown'. My hubby even commented that he married the girl in the photo!!! iskh.... iskh.... iskh.... I wanted to share the photo but thank god I don't have a scanner at the moment. Seriously... I gained so much weight over the last 10 years even the doctors said that I am the perfect candidate for a heart attack, diabetic, high blood pressure...... I bought my jogging shoes a couple of months ago and only used it once. I am not putting any blames on anybody but myself.

On lighter days at the office, if we managed to finish work early, Fiona and I will always make it a point to brisk-walk.... to Coffee Bean.


I just love the Oreo Cheese Cake... yummy..yummy (no wonder......). This is just to let Cat know what we have been up to. No wonder I seems to have difficulties in shedding those kilos..

Why oh...why.....

Today is Good Friday. What is so good about it? The world is so much full of suffering - sometimes it make you wonder whether life is worth living. It is more intense when the suffering involve people around us; who are dear to us; our family. You are more protective of these criteria of people because they are simply the people we love and we do anything for them, shield them from things that might hurt them and would even die for them without even asking anything in return. It's the purest love of all. Sometimes when I look at my children I marvel, the words they spoken, the actions they made and the laughter.... It made my labour-pain worthwhile. Where am I going you may ask? That's the story of Good Friday.




Jesus' Crucifixion - A Violent Portrayal (from the Passion of the Christ) of the Easter Story

Palm Sunday

Before you know it, it's Monday, again. But thankfully enough I managed to do some of the things that I was suppose to do ages ago, thanks to Anddy and Ivy. We went places on Saturday in anticipation of David's wedding - I am the wedding planner, remember. Actually I didn't do much coz most of the items has been taking care by S'nah so I tagged along lah. I guess now is the best time to distribute the invitation cards.

Suddenly I feel that I have too much projects in my hands - I am not complaining but I feel I am abandoning my house......my home sweet home.... I am suppose to prioritise... Suddenly things and appliances in the house need my attention. My washing machine died on me many moons ago. I made arrangement for repair but it seemed like the handy man 'malas' to show up - now I have to to do my laundry at mom's and I think mom is also wondering why I inflicted myself with this kind of suffering...... Then suddenly my lights in the living room failed me too and I have a spider in my bathroom which hubby killed last night. Thank God for my father in law who managed to mow the lawn or else you would not be able to see my house.

It's Palm Sunday today and I was in church with my family. Normally you would not be seeing me around church on big days like this. I just feel sometimes people are just hypocrites and I don't wish to elaborate coz it might backfire. It was the children who got me excited because they themselves were already looking forward to waking up early ( as early as 6am) to join daddy in the Palm Sunday Mass.

And as usual, one should see beyond the reason for the season. It's not the church nor it's congregation. It's even bigger than the crossed palm that we received. So friends.... prepare yourself.....