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the wedding – a shot I love

February 25, 2013 Love, Wedding No comments

This is one of my favorite shots that I’ve received as part of my preview from my amazing photographer Rukshan of Ferndara Photography.

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This was taken at our reception at Red Scooter, I don’t really remember when as the night was such a wonderful blur of happiness.

I love the moment it captured between us, and I love that it shows off the only real decorations I bothered with for the wedding – fairy lights, and hand decoupaged lanterns strung everywhere, like a wonderland.

It’s safe to say that everytime I see this shot, I feel very, very happy indeed at the magical wedding we got to have.

wedding part 1 – video highlights

October 16, 2012 Happiness, Love, Wedding One comment

The amazing Jean-Luc Lambs was our videographer, friend and colleague, and his attendance at our wedding meant so much to us. Even more than that though, he flew all the way from Brisbane to be there, brought about 2 tons of gear, and was the most diligent, caring videographer you could ever hope for.

JL – I hope you know from the bottom of our hearts what it meant to us to have you there being so utterly wonderful, and that we will never forget how amazing you made the day. Additionally, you working tirelessly for 3 days and nights just so we can have a wedding highlights video to relive the day was icing on the cake.

Love! Love! Love!

guess what happened?

October 15, 2012 Happiness, Love, Wedding One comment

Just a little update as to what happened on the weekend. More photos going up on the Facebook Page throughout the week, then in 2 weeks time the Wedding Part 2 and Part 3 is happening, so keep coming back! :)

Sharon Pakir Stephen Krygger Wedding Photo Parliament House - By Ferndara Creative

Photo by Ferndara Creative

can a grown man fit into a baby swim float?

July 26, 2012 Funny, Love No comments

So. Tonight S for some inexplicable reason decided to test the limits of physics.

OH YES HE DID.

I came home and saw this on the kitchen counter.

infant swim seat float

INFANT SWIM SEAT

Yup. Apparently as a prop he’s going to use for some work games thing. (Yes, those are flippers in the background of the shot. No, I don’t want to know what this work game involves.)

So S holds this box up, like something brilliant is brewing in his mind, smiles coyly at me and says, “Wanna see me get into it?”

Err.

People.

PEOPLE.

THIS is a man who weighed almost 11 pounds (almost 5 kilos!) at birth.

Our nickname for him at the dance school is Mr Incredible because he hasn’t exactly changed in stature from birth till now. He’s still larger than life, musclier than most, and well, simply put, HE’S NOT A SMALL MAN.

Plus he bought the smallest POSSIBLE swim float. For 6-12 month old infants. Maximum weight = 11kg (not that he was planning to use it as an actual floating device or anything so PHEW).

And so I watch. With a mix of trepidation and fascination.

And he cuts it up.

And blows it into its intended shape.

Disappears behind the kitchen door to don it.

Don’t worry, this is Safe For Work.

No nudity on THIS site, EVER.

And.

Ladies and gentlemen, apparently, I am marrying a genius. Or a madman.

I present to you, for the supreme cause of THE GIGGLES:

OOH LA LA! VOILA! IT EVEN FITS! *SPEECHLESS*

The thing I love about S? He NEVER stops at a costume opportunity. And will travel the distance to make it entertaining. What’s the most unlikely item of costume you’ve used for a prop?

on love

July 12, 2012 Family, Happiness, Love 2 comments

We think a lot, I think, as young people, about grappling the meaning of love, what it is, whether we’ve found it, who will show us the meaning of its true form. As we go through our youthful dating phases, we are all looking for that magic “true love”. When I hadn’t found S, I used to hear my happily married friends say to me, “when you find it, you just know.”

And every single time I heard it, I cringed.

YOU JUST KNOW? WHAT IN HELL IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN??

But you know what? They were right.

How annoying.

Now that I am one of those annoying “you just know” people, having found the man of my life, and on the cusp of honouring our commitment to each other in the form of marriage, I have been thinking a lot about our vows, about what love is exactly, about its most important aspects.

When you possess young love, love is beautiful, fun, carefree. The beautiful thing is that as we draw closer to our wedding and after 3 years of being together, we haven’t lost any of that giggly, cuddly, playfulness. In addition to that though, I am starting to understand long term love. In addition to all the wonderful exuberant bits that rather delightfully don’t dissipate, there are these deeper feelings that smoulder and burn long and deep, that come with responsibility and maturity, that have true care and selflessness built into it.

These are the parts of love, I guess, that are hard to summarise, and I am looking forward to feeling them even more acutely in our many many years ahead together. It’s a truly amazing thing to grow within a relationship with someone, and is the major part of our relationship that I never want to lose.

I guess I’ve been trying to find a way to describe this meaning of love, not just the good stuff, but the stuff that makes us stronger even when things are difficult, or when we need to be supportive to each other. Life is hard, and marked with twists and turns for us to meander, and riddled with moments of pain. As we get older, more is going to happen. People die. Family members get sick. Friends have tragedies. Work gets more stressful.  YOU get sick. Shit happens. And through these moments, you need your partner and you to be strong and hand holding even tighter. That’s the love I’m talking about.

I’m extremely lucky to have been modelled that very love by my own parents (35 years together and counting!) and HIS parents (almost 50 years together). They have been through literally, several worlds together, whole eras, insurmountable difficulties and raised grown children with trials and tribulations of complex lives. And somehow, maintained that love.

Words are difficult to find though, to demonstrate these role models we have, and it took this Sufi poet’s lines to take my breath away and encompass, rather perfectly, what this love means.

Oh yes it does. ENJOY.

random bits and bobs

May 22, 2012 Funny, Lifestyle, Love One comment
oooh! ahhhh!

Well, it’s once again been almost a MONTH since posting.

The reality is, I used to have oodles of time to blog, what with spinal injuries and whatnot. Now though, with working some stupidly random hours most days, planning the festival of S & me (our wedding madness), trying to catch up with my friends I’ve neglected over the last 18 months and OH my godness the travelling I’ve been doing, it’s been a little bit hard.

My poor blog sits here like an abandoned child with a mummy who’s forgotten to pick it up from school.

Anyway.

In the last 4 weeks, I’ve been to 2 interstate weekend events to teach & perform (Sydney Bachata Fest & Doudoule Dance Camp), 2 different countries (Singapore & Malaysia) for teaching and performing with my team, taught SEVEN daytime workshops in iPad for Seniors, taught 2 brand new modules of workshops in blogging and Facebook for Seniors, trained 2 couples for the upcoming Australian Latin Open (including choreographing one of their routines from scratch), cancelled a wedding venue, found a new one (oh nightmares!), attended a wedding, designed and am halfway through the endless printing, cutting and assembling of invites, and then some. It’s been a little bit crazy, and the neglect of my sanity has shown in the house that until yesterday looked like a tornado had run through it, my needing 10.5 hours of sleep 3 nights in the last week, the fact that my back that hasn’t hurt in a couple of months is now acting up for no reason again.

And then suddenly I got to today, and it’s 4 days before my birthday, I haven’t organised any kind of celebration which is frankly QUITE the downer given last year I had a birthday MONTH, and I haven’t updated the blog with the thousands of photos I’ve taken of late!

So here’s a bunch of bits and pieces from the last few weeks…

S and I discovered a lovely little restaurant in our neighbourhood. It’s Japanese, which pleases me immensely – I was about to give up hope that our area had ANY good Asian eateries at all. We’ve been there for date nights twice in the last month.

aww date night

See, it looks so nice and sweet and lovely until you see the text messages I was typing out to my sister as we sat there.

sigh.

When we were in Malaysia, I spotted this HILARIOUS Engrish. I actually look at this at least once a day and can’t stop giggling uncontrollably. A DOUBLE ZIPPER OF RELIEF!

bet you can't guess what this actually is/does...

And do you know why you can’t guess what it is? Because it’s a CUTTING BOARD SANITIZING BAG. err. WHAT? Who needs those things? Don’t people wash things in the sink?!

I got rid of the hair extensions I got in January. Before I got a chance to even blog about them! I will be getting them in again soon, so the short version of the story is – I loved them. I loved having hair that swished around my shoulders, and twice as thick as my natural hair. I loved that I could shave my head last August and now have long hair, and no one seemed to be able to tell I had fake hair. I’ll be putting them back in for the wedding because S’ only request is that I have long hair for our big day. Well, NO PROBLEMO BEBE, it’ll be long and luscious alright. When I removed them, my hair was lopsided from when I shaved half my head last year. It doesn’t look so bad though.

a sleepy morning photo I took in Malaysia to send to S

Last weekend, Sam and I performed our cha cha routine for what may be the last time before he moves away (SHRIEK OF DESPAIR!). It was a pretty good execution and a nice way for us to finish off an amazing 6 months of working together, travelling and performing this routine everywhere in Australia as well as overseas.

sharon pakir & sam schlanger sydney latin festival 2012

photo by jc photography

I’ve always been a Scrabble fiend, and I’m lucky enough that my friends and family are all pretty clever and provide many moments of challenging games where I’m never sure if I’m going to win or lose. This was a pretty sweet moment though – this particular cousin is HARD to beat and I was extremely smug with this move.

ha!

To finish off this very random update, I thought I’d show you something that has been driving me mad for the last 2 days.

This box arrived yesterday and I’m only allowed to open it on my birthday (this weekend). That nasty little satin ribbon is just taunting me, begging me to tug on it and let it loose!

oooh! ahhhh!

S has prepared a myriad of spoiling me options for my birthday week, and I’m looking forward to it all, but this one is making me antsy because I want it NOW NOW NOW!

birthday boy

March 29, 2012 Family, Love No comments
correct me if I'm wrong but he looks like he is LOVING IT!

A bit over a month ago (and before we got all engaged), it was S’ birthday.

He wanted to keep it low key, and so we had a small family barbeque for him at home with his folks and girls.

quite nice actually!

The problem though is that S spoils me rotten ALL the time – and here we were making the poor man work like a smoke chef on his own birthday. So I decided to keep it low key, whilst trying to show him just how special he is to all of us.

Firstly, as soon as he got home from work, I made him wear a BIRTHDAY BOY badge. He was sooooo thrilled!

aww! cute!

I also decorated the table we set all the food on.

By the end of the night, after a lot of eating, a bit of champagne and a lot of merriment, I ended up decorating him as well for the clincher.

correct me if I'm wrong but he looks like he is LOVING IT!

All in all I think it made S happy, even if it was nothing like the scale he tends to pamper me with. I don’t think I could possibly match up to his impossibly high standards though, so really, he only has himself to blame. :)

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