Deliciously Me
Putting the 'licious' in everything
A whole super sunny Saturday spent in Little India!
After lunch at Woodlands, we went from one shop to another asking for the bridal makeup package. The first shop was full, so we left after were shown the makeup package by the Indonesian worker. We then went to the second shop. However the owner told us that their makeup artist no longer works there. As for the third shop, the owner wasn’t in and all the workers were busy threading customers’ faces, so nobody was free to entertain us. The forth shop’s worker served us with super bored face. She didn’t sound energetic or passionate when explaining to us. Feeling dispirited, we left.
Then the mum brought us to a gold shop to show us how a Thali necklace would look like. I was told that a Thali necklace is made of a centre amulet and few pieces of ‘connectors’ joint to a chain. It said that the Thali has space (I supposed the connectors) for the relatives to add ‘charms/pendants’ to it as sign of welcoming the bride to the family during the wedding day.
Today I’m feeling very spiritual.
I didn’t know what hits me – I just couldn’t stop listening to chants the whole day. And when I said chant, it’s not the normal chants that you used to hear in temples but the very relaxing chants from Imee Ooi. I’ve never been so relaxed for so long. The last time I had such feeling was when I went for IDC. This feeling is so awesome, so peaceful. Even when negativity surrounded me earlier, I’ve managed to manage it very well. I’m so amazed with myself – to be frank. Big Lol!
Eh wait. I did feel at peace when I was at Shi-tennoji temple. Prolly it was because there’s a monk chanting that time. The power of words. Haha! Or was it physiology effect?
Anyway this is my current addiction. If not mistaken, ‘Namo Amitabha’ is repeated 108 times.
I feel like updating my blog today – supposed to write a foodie post but not so fit to do so. Suspect myself to be a victim of food poisoning as my tummy is in discomfort the whole day today! Argh. Hate it when I’m not feeling well. Grrr
Since I have no energy to write, I’m thinking why not post up photos! I went through my photo album earlier and found few great photos waiting to be published here. You may not find them great, but to me they are. So, keep your opinion to yourself. Wahaha! 
Photo 1: Brown shoes.
Brought myself a new pair of shoes. Tomorrow will be a big day for me, so a lil shopping spree helps wonderfully. 
I came across this hotel when I was googling on capsule hotel in Japan. An article on world special lodging mentioned First Cabin and instantly I clicked on the link.
The website shows a night stay starting from Y4,800 per person but luckily we managed to secure a cheaper rate at Y3650 per person from Booking.com. Without much hesitation, we placed booking for our first night stay in Japan.
When the day finally came, we took exit 13 from Osaka Namba (Nankai-Namba) station as mentioned on the First Cabin’s website. Thankfully I saved the map of our guesthouses in my phone, else we had to dig our bag to take out the printed maps.
We took the left turn and walked towards the crossroad. Unsure of our direction at that time, we asked a Japanese lady for her help. She had a look at the map and then looked up at the buildings around us. Tho she spoke in Japanese, I can tell that she said that she wasn’t sure of the location but she felt it’s in this direction – her hand pointed straight road across the busy road as she spoke. She even asked us to keep left and the hotel is on the left side.
So we did what she said. After thanking her for her kind time in assisting us, we crossed the road, walked straight and kept looking at our left. As we walked towards the end of the road, fear arose as we thought we’ve misinterpreted her. That’s when we spotted the First Cabin’s signboard.
The building looks new and classy. We walked in and to our surprised there are only two lifts on 1st floor (1st floor is the ground floor in Japan). There’s a sign on the left indicating the levels and the tenants of the buildings. We searched for First Cabin. It’s on 4th floor.
Few months back I wrote about my dilemma in finding the correct venue to host 700 guests. Now that I’ve secured the venue, I have another headache – finding the right wedding bands (rings).
Last year I proposed to Satkuru on getting gold rings as our wedding bands and he agreed. But as the price of gold increases and the designs of gold ring is not to my liking, I decided to put that idea aside.
After coming back from Japan, I happened to have a long conversation with my girls in Whatsapp. What a place to have girls talk right? I know! We somehow touched on the wedding bands topic. You see, I was thinking to just get our wedding bands a month before our registration of marriage (which we haven’t decide on the date yet) and my girls encouraged (in fact, pushed) me to do survey on few jewellery shops first. According to them, they took months to decide on their perfect wedding bands, and had to wait for few months before getting their rings as the jewellery shop has to order it. They even told me which jewellery shops to go to – let’s just said that they have surveyed all and concluded for me.
Feeling contented with the information, I told Satkuru that it’s time to walk into the jewellery shop to scout for our wedding bands. When he asked for the reason, I told him what my girls told me. He gave in and we started scouting last week.
