Monday, February 7, 2011

Ye Olde Smokehouse, Cameron Highlands, Pahang, Malaysia.


Hujung bulan Januari lepas, saya & beberapa rakan melawat Cameron Highlands. Ini adalah kali ke 6 saya berkunjung ke sana. To my surprise, Cameron dah banyak berubah sejak kali terakhir saya ke sana pada 2006. Untuk mengelakkan bosan, saya dan rakan bercadang untuk melawat tempat-tempat yang belum pernah kami pergi dan tercetuslah idea untuk melawat Ye Olde Smokehouse.

Mengikut ringkasan yang dibaca di Time Tunnel, rumah ini dibuka pada Krismas 1937 oleh Mr Douglas Warin. Pelan asal pembinaan rumah agam dengan 6 bilik ini adalah untuk kemudahan orang British di Malaya yang inginkan suasana percutian / penginapan seperti di Eropah. Menurut catatan tersebut, mereka hanya balik ke Britain setiap lapan tahun.
Kesimpulannya, rumah ini diwujudkan untuk warga Britain di Malaya yang home-sick!

Seperti biasa, apabila bercuti, saya akan mencari ilham atau idea-idea unik dari tempat-tempat yang saya kunjungi. Di sini, saya ingin kongsi beberapa hiasan dalaman dan taman di Ye Olde Smokehouse ini.

Keep calm!

Lampu unik di laluan ke 'new wing'.

Susunan pokok yang menarik.

Pondok telefon merah - ikon kota London!

Susunan meja di restoran.

Hiasan di tingkap.

Pinggan & piring hiasan dinding.

Rumah burung melengkapkan gaya taman ala Inggeris.

Ruang untuk tetamu 1.

Ruang untuk tetamu 2.

Laluan ke ruang paling belakang.

Ruang untuk tetamu 3.

Nice setting.

Bilik berciri Inggeris lama.

Idea untuk hiasan dinding yang simple & menarik.

Pendiang.

Antara lampu antik yang terdapat di sini.

Sinki & cemin dengan susunan yang lain dari biasa.

Lampu antik. Lampu ini juga terdapat di teratak ayahbonda saya!



Ruang tamu utama.


Sudut menarik berhadapan ruang tamu utama.

Pandangan pertama yang dilihat dari arah restoran.

Ruang makan.

Jom minum teh!

Meja kecil di tengah-tengah restoran.

Lilin.
Kepada sesiapa yang berkunjung ke Cameron Highland, bolehlah melawat ke restoran & hotel ni. Memang nice visit!
=)

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Published, Finally! (Yay!)

Hi! We meet again! Last Sunday, my gift ideas was being published in Berita Minggu. Thanks to miss Bennie!. For those who didn't have the opportunity to read it right from the 'actual' paper, here is the link to the 'virtual' version of it ;)

 http://www.bharian.com.my/bhar
ian/articles/Bungkusanhadiahkreatif_unik/Article/index

Smile! =)

Friday, December 24, 2010

Anne's Wedding Day.

Last June, my only younger sister, Anne was getting married with her beloved (now) husband, Syafiq. As usual, I appoint myself as the creative 'director' for this event (^^). Despite my very busy schedule at work, I did the preparation for her big day since March 2010.

For this big event, I did the design for both side's dowry (hantaran), bridal dais (pelamin) & decorations for main table & the couple's bedroom.

The marriage vow ceremony (akad nikah) was held on the night before the big day. Every of us wore a nice white baju kurung / baju melayu.



 The wedding ceremony was held on 6th June. The theme colour was green & white. So, I blend these two colours in every of my creation. Same as the night before, all of us wore the same colour - green!.











This is the arch done by my friend, Saiful from Bridal Kayangan, JB.

We also did some other soft touch at the entrance

Let's go in the house!. I did the design for the bridal dais (pelamin) & Ina Gallery, Parit Sulong was helping me with the set up. As this ceremony was a very simple family occasion, the pelamin was being designed to be as simple as I could.
2 bouquet of fresh flowers was also being arranged at both left & right corner of the pelamin. I do not know where to get a very good fresh flower arrangement as what I need in Batu Pahat but after searching all over the town, this is the best I can get..
I found this nice photo frames at The Rooms & decided to arrange their pictures on the cabinet
The hand bouquet I did specially for Anne. White & pure..
and this is the couple's bedroom. The comforter is white embroidery cotton series from Akemi. This is also my design & done by Ina Gallery, Parit Sulong.


The dowry (hantaran) is very important in any Malay wedding. I took about 3 months to plan for the design & everything. So, after so much effort, this is what I did.


From him to her:









& from her to him:














The ceremony runs smoothly & I am actually quite happy with everything that I did for Anne.

May both of you live happily ever after!