Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Chinese New Year Break - Cameroons

CAMEROONs... oops... I meant Cameron Highlands.

Just got exited while typing the name as it brought memories when Senegal won against France. It was the that world cup that got my interest into watching football and since then never missed it. Though to clarify things... I LOVE GERMANY!!!!!!!!

Ok that was out of topic, back to present!

Well I'll make this short...we went to Taiping lepak... went up Camerons... visited the fellowship camp going on, and the went to the tea plantation. It was actually my first time to a tea plantation!

Lovely Trip With Lovely People

Let the pictures say themselves





YAY!

Friday, February 11, 2011

My Dear Brother's Wedding!

NEREMAL SINGH WEDS TARANJIT KAUR
*** 29 JANUARY 2011 ***

BEFORE 27 JANUARY 2011

The time of preparations - it felt like it was never ending, no matter how much time we had, it would have never be sufficient. Janj flowers, Wedding Car, Maiyan Thal, Palla, Decorations, Sew New Punjabi Suits, Gutte, Jewellry, Tents, Pagri Deco, Chairs, Food, Drinks, Tables, Sehra, Bidde, Veri, Surma, Dhei, Mithey Chauwl, Shoes and Sandals, Maiyan Fetti, Bus Transportation, Maiyan Specific Grass, Suits for Grandmother and Aunts, Dinner Performance, Gervi, Sangeet Koriyan and Geet, Dinner Agenda, Ganne, Serbala, Tol Envelopes, Veri Bag, Mackup, Wedding Cake and most important the Groom.

27 JANUARY 2011 - MAIYAN

With the help our creative cousins - we managed to make a beautiful colorful peacock.

Maiyan thal, it was a headache looking for the right grass for the teil. Once we got the grass another issue was to cut or not to cut...some say cannot cut...some say can...hajjo.

Brother all ready to get polished...

That's me there, under the beautiful Fulkeri.

One by one all line up to do their part... =) My brother got to eat his favorite berfi and in addition a bit of yogurt and haldi because they fed him with the same right hand.

Finally, what we had been waiting for .... malish or may we call it ATTACK!

After he takes his shower, sweet rice time....if you notice, Naamjit got a big spatula to feed. What goes around comes around as he got fed back with it.

Serbala is well known for being bullied, well here's how we do it!

The amount of photographers we had was awesome... most of them were friends of my brothers. What else when your brother is a professional photographer.


27 JANUARY 2011 - SANGEET

The atmosphere was mesmerizing...

Aj viah valle kar vich vejje dholki...sajje dolki...

We all, young and old together singing old and new boliyan...

We had our experts too. =)

And of course guidelines ;D

We had a blast as we had practiced many songs...


And then gomes JAGO... What a wonderful job my brother did to decorate
and add LED's to the jago...It looked sparkly...

The Sad/Sadni...munda aya veleto tey voti liaya deso...
The Sad and his flashing DENDA and the Sadni with the Velna!

Of course how can we have a Sangeet without the DJ...NAAMJIT!
Dance all night with the awesome songs. We planned to stop at 11pm and we did, at the same time the police came as some neighbors complained.

28 JANUARY 2011 - Break

Well it wasn't much of a break as we had to finish up all the last minute preparations before the BIG WEDDING DAY. Wedding Dinner Performance, Ironing Clothes, Preparing morning sagan stuff and confirming stuff. We hardly could sleep.

29 JANUARY 2011 - DEPARTURE OF JANJ

Morning we got ready did all the customary sagan, surma, sehra, ganne, tel cho, and tie the gutte in front of the wedding car.

As my dad joined in the wedding car, I drove my car with my mom and sister, the rest of the janj went in the two buses and some by their cars. That's my car behind the wedding car. =)

As my brother try to peep out to see the surrounding, photographers rush in ...his friends la.
Not forgetting us... =)

The bride's company anxiously awaits and the milni.

Ik hi sali (The one and only sis-in-law's sister) berri nekre vali...
Only accepts USD for breakfast tol...

Of course how can we forget the Serbala.

And the best MAN - ANDREW.

29 JANUARY 2011 - ANAND KARAJ

Different from normal weddings, the bride and groom walked in together into the darbaar.

The wonderful awesome Rasvinder Singh who did the kirtan and laava. His voice is simply heavenly.

Not forgetting his shy brother Suvin... playing the tabla... what a combination!

With Waheguru's blessing everything went well and the anand karaj was conplete.

Then they smile...

29 JANUARY 2011 - REST HOUSE

At the rest house we waited and waited for the groom to arrive there....
He took his newly wedded wife dating in Taiping Lake Gardens...
When finally he arrived, of course we sang him his birthday song...

29 JANUARY 2011 - LUNCH & BACK HOME

We went to the lunch hall prepared by the bride's party, had a wonderful lunch...and laughed a lot. Then we went to the bride's house where the serbala was bullied in the most unique way...
It was a tiring day...

30 JANUARY 2011 - PRAYERS

The thanksgiving prayers was blissful.

30 JANUARY 2011 - WEDDING DINNER

What a blast...



With lovely performances...



The lovely couple...

Starting their journey...




THE END - Next would be recovery period!

Tuesday, February 01, 2011

Welcome 2011


It's a new year and there calls for major changes. It was about time for a change in my life. My year started of jobless - pretty interesting. I had to focus on my brother's wedding while looking for another job. Well the looking for a job wasn't so difficult, and the brother's wedding was the agenda that ripped of the whole month of my life.


Seriously, one whole month, where did it go, I wasn't going to work, I was mostly at home. I can't believe it myself, one whole month has vanished and passed by. Though I must say I enjoyed the wedding fully.

I'll make sure to post the links for all the pictures and video for my brother's wedding here. From the maiyan, sangeet, wedding, prayer and until the dinner, everything was fabulous. And since my brother is a professional photographer, he had so many friends taking pictures as they are all professional photographers.

That's something I could blog about some day too.... Advertising my brothers phography skills... =)

Ok January passed and Chinese New Year was my break or in other words, time to recover from wedding... he he he... Then 8th of February 2011 came.... back to work...new job, new friends, new environment... YIPPIE!!!