Finally i got Blackberry!

Too late for it? But this is always me. I’m the person who is not daring to see my bank account going to be less and lesser just for a one gadget. I have that kind of patience that people will think that ‘are-you-so-poor-‘and ‘where-all-your-monthly-salary-gone’ just to hold one for current trend. Seriously, I normally will wait for the price drop and it might after 6mths or 1 year after the 1st edition. You should try to challenge yourself on this and see how bad you appreciate it once you have one, like no others. Some say, easy come easy go.

I had my blackberry for my Christmas gift from my hubby, or I should say “I got this phone on 25th December...” (It better that way as a Muslim, *innocent face*). I-Phone was catch my eyes at the first sight, but for person who loves to use short messaging and chatting while communicating, then the blackberry is suitable for me.

I started to love blackberry now. I seem to have more time to reply emails, follow up on something, BBM, checking calendar and tasks or reply texts. Not to forget to check and post the status on my FB. I do understand what the important to have it one. I can’t even leave far from my hand phone and it becomes the most value items must have in my handbag.

Just for info, a ban of blackberry service is being rolled out in Saudi Arabia and more countries to come with the same decision. This country is one of a number concerned that such communications are encrypted and cannot be monitored through blackberry. Thus far, none for i-phone (or maybe not yet).

Is not matter blackberry, i-Phone or any other hand phone that we use. The fact is, using the phone to make close to the family and friends are something that we should concern nowadays. We might forget that the family’s ties and friendship have gone stale and almost forgotten against the toll of time and distance.

So keep calling and sms-ing to each other’s especially to elders. Don’t stop until you lost your hand phone hehehehe.

Pink Maniac

Undeniable, I have too much pink color for my stuffs. If you could open my handbag, you will definitely surprise to see most the stuff that i carrying everyday are in full PINK color, they are my Dior make up bag, coach poppy wristlets, Guess wallet, Lumix pocket camera, blackberry (with case), hair band, mini manicure set and my shopping bag.

Easy to say, I love pink too much compared to the other color. I do not know when it starts, but I think over quite number of years. Those days, I was fanatic to purple color and till to the extent that I wanted my wedding in purple. Too bad, my sister was married earlier than me and she had chosen purple color as her wedding theme. Ok next!

I was moving slowly from Purple to Pink. Both colors, actually has a similar color base. Don’t you think?

When I’m getting older *cough*, I find myself really into pink color. Whatever I see, all look smart and sweet in Pink. And whatever I want to buy, all must be in Pink. It doesn’t matter either light pink, or dark pink, or white pink, or peach pink, or…….

My sisters always yell at me and saying that the color is not suited at all to my age. They always give me that kind of ‘don’t-you-ever-realize-that-you-have-too-many-pink-color-clothes-in-your-wordrobe’ looks every time I went out shopping with them. But, who cares?

Now I know why I always hang out with my husband! (My sisters and friends now complaining that I spend a lot with my husband compared to them. I should try to spent time wisely now).

Thank God that I have a very loving and understandable husband who knows well and support my interest. He even let me decorate my house in pink color and allow me to buy a few sets of kitchen stuff in pink too even I already had a similar stuff in other color. Whenever I asked him to buy something, he tried to crack his head to find the thing in pink color even he has to go back home with nothing than make me annoyed to have something that I love in other color.

All my colleagues know that I love this color even my boss. It’s too obvious to see my workstation filled with pink color. They should thank me too as it would make their life easier to find something for my birthday. *bow nails*

I had my solemnization ceremony in pink color and feel really satisfy to share something that I love most in my life with other people. So, thanks for asking =)

Actually I just notice this pink maniac habit after seeing my travelling stuff all in pink. Isn’t sweet? Hehehe.

All in PINK: My Lancome travelling make up set, Lumix pocket camera, Coach Poppy wristlet, Clinique toilettries bag, Dior makeup bag, Sepora Shower Foam, tooth brush & comb... hehehe

Saufi Ville Janda Baik

My girlfriend asked me to survey this place for her next birthday party, since we were hungry for some short gateaways during the weekend, this was a good timing after all.

The location is quite far but the view is spectacular. This saufi Ville is actually a bunglow located on top of the hill. The swimming pool is nice and the best part is when the bunglow is surrounded by the Titiwangsa Mountains. Oh, reminded me about my geography book while in secondary school.

Nice right the Titiwangsa mountains?

Nice isn't?

Fully recommended to those who love natural view and really want to have a very private party. But off course, is expensive Man!

ATV for a good cause on 9 Oct 2010

I had picked a red ATV bike suited to my pink helmet. I love it as it was really me. If they have pink ATV bike, for sure I am more than happy to grab it before others.

We were all really excited to ride it. My colleague even warned me to be careful and she was too scared if our accident story will be captured in the main page of Metro newspaper. So mean. We were about 21 of us and a few group of mutual friends. So we had a new activity with a new friend there.

We had divided to 3 groups and each group has 2 instructors to tag along. Before the ride, we had about 10 minutes briefing and 15 minutes trial ride. I had a lot of complexity to handle the big bike compared to other team mate. It wasn’t easy task as I thought to hold the big bike with my tiny hand and on the same time using the same hand to accelerate the pedal and another hand to control the speed, ouww. A few time I made a stopped and took a deep breath especially when the bike trying to climb up to the uneven road.

I almost cried at first and insisted not to go along with the rest of the teams. Luckily, the instructors so patient and he had even ride the bike with me for a few minutes just to increase my confident level. I was the first one who started the journey behind the instructor. The first means the weakest!

The opening trek was a small hill with uneven surface and I just wanted to turn back the moment I saw it. How if I fall during the ride? How about if my bike turns upside down due to uneven surface? How if I accelerate the pedal too fast and fall down from the hill? Too many questions were playing in my mind, and I reprimanded myself for being there.

But surprisingly, I told myself that I can do it. So, I accelerate the pedal, have power over the handle, control the speed and vrommmm…. Yes! I managed to reach to the peak and from that moment, I had the confident to ride it to the end. Nobody believes that the weakest participant reach the end before they do!




We stopped at Warisan Rimba for BBQ after ATV. Damn nice place.

For those who are panicky like me, take your sweet time to blend well with the bike. Once you ready, just believe to yourself and ride it confidently. Don’t scare to accelerate the pedal and don’t forget the break too, God created them for a reason. Stop thinking that you will fall down as there is no way the bike will be turn upside down except in fairy tales. The road surface in Malaysia is nothing for them. The most important thing, DO NOT put your leg down while you riding. If the bike means to fall, your leg will be the first victim. So save it before it’s too late.

2 week after the ATV ride

Reading email at office and spotted this: "Next staff activity will be ATV ride….."

Me: (Can’t finish off the sentences) Oh no! I had enough the mixture feeling when riding it. I keep thanking God that I am still alive till now!

1st Raya as a WIFE

A few months before Raya, I had prepared our Raya outfit. Raya theme this year was peach color and not quite difficult to find it one as my hubby will wear back his outfit during our solemnization day. I had 2 outfits only and bought it at Sogo Supermarket. I’m not really fancy about Raya outfit as I’ll think twice to wear it again after Raya. Beside I wear it to the Kenduri; it really unusual to see me wearing Baju Kurung to office.

so ugly right???

I was so excited to celebrate this Raya as a wife. During Ramadhan too, I manage to gone through the fasting days and break fasting dinner with my hubby. This month also, he started to learn how to pray and remember the surah to read during prayer. A bit funny to listen how he pronounced it, but may God will accept his weakness and sincerity for doing it.

Hubby is even excited to celebrate it. He sponsored a lot of thing to bring back home. Every Raya, my task not to buy the Raya cookies but the snack and sweet that we can give to the children. So we bought cheap stuff at Selayang, a few big packs and all were finished in the first day Raya.

Every house that we go, all our neighbors also excited to see my hubby as a person. They are even happy to serve my hubby with the local cookies and dishes since hubby is a Chinese. My parents are happier than us as to see the neighbors that always hangout with them are willingly accept my hubby as a new person in the community.

This Raya too, all my siblings and nephew were at my parents’ house to celebrate the Raya. Around 35 people in the house and trying hard to find the space to sleep and sit =). We were also celebrating it in the new house (partly). 2 weeks before Raya, the contractor only manages to complete the front part of the house only and you can see so obvious the house half 'batu' and half 'kayu'. We went back Kampong a bit early to paint the new house to golden yellow color. Can you imagine how we manage to complete the paint after 'sahur' till to the dusk during Ramadan? It was really tiring and all of us were dehydrated but still happy while doing it.

the whole family

Only the Mother & sisters in the family

Hubby is in charge of the wiring and maybe to hot and tiring, his BP goes up very high 2 days before Raya. Luckily, still have the shop open to complete the wiring thingy. So end up, he needs to sponsor for the wiring cost. Serve him right.

On the 3rd Raya, hubby left the house for Sabah to work. I was sad to let him go and my cat Pinky was even more. 1 day after hubby left, Pinky went missing. Hubby kept calling from Sabah to find out about Pinky every single hour. I knew he was really sad and even more when he can’t do anything to find Pinky from there. I supposedly to go back to KL with my sister, but Hubby insist to go back Kampong to find Pinky first. Too bad, it wasn’t easy to find a cat in a huge place and we finally went back KL without Pinky and his tears burst along the way.

One week after that, my sister called and informed us that Pinky was back home. We both damn happy and without thinking, we were going back straight to my parents’ house. Pinky was so thin and dirty. He was also hurt and bleeding. He might not have anything to eat during those 7 days. Quenny and Tommy are really happy to see pinky back again.

Since that day, we grounded Pinky and he seems very scared to see others cat too. But we were happy to see how he eat and put some weight so fast. This Raya really give us all mixture feeling while celebrating it. But some say, this is what we call life…

Okey not too late to wish all the Muslim friends Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri & Maaf Zahir Batin.

I lost future 'new comer' in my life...

“Why I had a miscarriage?” “Why me?” I asked the D&G doctor aggravated.

“My wife had 3 times miscarriage before our 1st baby and I’m a D&G doctor, can you tell me what I can do to prevent it?”

He is a doctor, he should know better!!!!!

2 months before my marriage, I was taking the Folic Acid (Fertility Supplementary) and Evening Primrose Oil (Dietary Supplement) in order to increase my fertility level.

First month… failure

Second month… period!!

Third month…. Yes! Yes! Yes!

Believe it or not, we had a big butterfly companied us for a dinner in 3 days on the roll. Like an old folk said, if the big butterfly comes to our house, it is a symbolic of somebody will be visiting the house. So you know already, how this story will be going right?

In our family, we do have our own magical history to know our pregnant status. My mom will normally have been given something by ‘someone’ in her dream. She had a diamond for my sister’s pregnancy and had necklace for my youngster sister’s turn (I wish if it was real). As for me, someone had given her an egg but after a moment, the egg slipped out of her hand and fell.

That was a symbolic of my case. I was pregnant for about 6 weeks before miscarriage. I remember how excited I to get the pregnancy test result after 1 week missed my period cycle. 3 days after that, I had a heavy bleeding and a doctor from Klinik Bersalin Razif, Klang had confirmed that I had miscarriage.

He had advised me to do the D&C (Dilation and Curettage), one of the most common surgical procedures performed on pregnant women to remove dead fetus in the womb.

Me: “It’s pain doc?”

Doctor: “You are given a full general anesthetic, so you will not feel anything during the procedure”

Me: *relieve*

It was only 20 minutes procedures and definitely I didn’t feel anything. The last thing I remember was the pain on my hand after the injection. But, by the time I woke up, the funny story begun.

I vomited a lot when I was still laid down on the moving bed. The nurse said it was due to the anesthetic effects. But once I reached my bed at the ward, the unusual pain attacked my tummy. Muscle contractions and somewhat by pressure on the cervix, to be exact. I think, this is the delivery pain that people always talk about. Oh my God, I had it before the time.

The pain plus the on-off anesthetic effects, makes me really out of conscious. I screaming like a hell and for sure the whole open ward can hear my voice. Sorry to my hubby as he need to face the embarrassment. He tried his best to make me calm and until he shut my mouth with his palm. Hahaha. End up, the nurse came with some pain killer injection to make sure that I rest well without that kind of ‘ugly’ screaming.

I got one week medical leave to rest and long list of food and drink that I can’t consume for the whole 2 months. Don’t be kidding!!!. I didn’t go back to my mom house for confinement as just only for miscarriage kind of confinement (actually I don’t want more list from my mom hehehehe). So I stayed at my sister’s house to rest and bring the 3 cats along.

My hubby had a day trip to his mom’s house to get some Chinese medicine for me. Imagine, apart from long list of confine foods, now I need to consume the Chinese and Malay traditional herbs to keep my body healthy (but my tongue not healthy after all). The best part, due to some ‘ikut pandai sendiri’ kind of confinement, I got the wrong message on the confinement thingy.

Just for your information, the confine foods for delivery and miscarriage are totally different. As after your delivery, the body will be very cold, that’s why you need to wear socks, ‘bertungku (massage with hot stone)’, eat gingers and some hot foods and drinks. But for those who had miscarriage, their body will be very hot. Hence, the food and drinks that they consume should be something can remove the body heats. What I had for my confinement days was all the delivery ladies had during their confinement.

So I had bleeding during my confinement and the next day I had overnight trip to my mom’s house to heal it. My mom gave me to drink the warm water mixed it with the ‘biji selasih’. The bleeding had stop after 2 glasses of water. Alhamdulillah, it works well for me as when your body heat, the biji selasih will help to remove your body heat away.

Thank God as I had my diet well during the confinement. For sure that was a good memory to remember apart of losing the future baby for both of us. The doctors said we will need at least around 2 -3 months before planning to get baby again. Just to make sure that my womb will be rest well before it starts working back.

So please pray for me that I will get twin babies ya!

Note: my cats are used to sleep in the aircond, so at my sister’s house was very hot without proper ventilation. Pinky had 6 hours sleep after went back to our house, in the aircond for sure. Hahahaha. Demanding cat!

otw back house!

6 hours sleep non stop hehehe

My Honeymoon

Short break to Hadyai Thailand for so called our pre-honeymoon getaways. This is happened when we married in summer and have a dream honeymoon trip in winter -__-

We might go overseeas by end of this year to find snow for our real honeymoon. So not bad to have Hadyai as a short getaways just to go out of town for a while.

I made a stopped to Songkhla, there was nothing to see except the ugly mermaid.

This was at Floating market, not as i imagine!

Hubby enjoyed eating the dessert, purposely made like a red chili.

So creative.

I love the hadyai's tom yam, reminded me of the tom yam that i eat in Bangkok. I shopped a lot of office attire there, i got a few of slacks and blazers and....... new hair *cough*

The day when I have a perfect life - my wedding!

Being such of wonderful women for the big day, doing everything that I think that was good at that point of time, I really proud to myself. The day when ‘Tok Kadi’ confirmed that I’m someone’s wife, I’m happy that certain thing that I enjoying (and forcing sometime) has reached to the end. The trips to ‘mandi bunga’ sessions, the trip to the restaurants, cafés (or may some clubs which I can’t recall now? Being such a good girl ah =)), hoping that I might be bumping to a prince charming, the trip to meet up some old friends and by chance if they can introducing me to ‘someone’.

It is too much for me to say that my life is complete now? I have a concrete reason to live, do, walk and work now. Everything seems to fast as my eyes blink.

The chance to have full power to sort out my own wedding, give me more than headache, nervous breakdown, mental illness, lack of sleep and short of time. The feeling has gone mess in its way. I have a tendency to make mistakes (a lot of them), tend to confuse on what the best for me, tend to be choosy and of course tend to be tense when my budget has burst more than I expected. For sure, I learned a lot as I go. At least, I took charge for everything as I wish, I know what the color suit to me, the food go well to my taste, the deco that fine-looking to my eyes, the wedding flow that how it should turn to be and the guest who I think can be the best companion ever (credit to my hubby as being the most understanding partner along this process *wink*).

For a long time I really understood how so many people struggling to choose for their wedding theme. Don’t worry, I had too many of them too. To the certain point, I wanted to have a traditional matrimony comes with ‘silat and kompang’, when I watched the wedding scenes in the Hollywood movies; I think I should go for it too. When I went for the holidays, and I wanted it to be a special day and having a wedding in the train or bus or in the street, should be cool enough!

But when I reached to this age, the theme is does not matter to me. I just wanna it to be simple, nice and surrounded by the people that I adore much in my life. We had decided to have only ‘akad nikah’ (vowing ceremony) and ‘makan beradap’ (eating session) at my hometown. I wish to have a big kenduri to celebrate with the relatives, but it will cause my parents tiring in the whole day. Don’t you agree that the good things always come in the small package? =)

Instead of having the parents, auntie or relatives comes along to the bride’s side, my hubby only came with a few of his friends. Being a new comer to Islam, he had facing a lot of obstacles to dispute his move (I will story in details about this in my next post). But he had a good time during the eating season. At least nobody will question ’what’ ‘why’ ‘who’ ‘when’ about our wedding. We can even eating while laughing and gossiping and finish all the foods served, especially ‘ikan patin masak lemak cili padi’. *never see this kind of pengatin*.

Theme color for my side’s event was pink and I had forced all my family members and relatives to wear pink, includes my father, brother (and in law) and nephew. Everyone was complaining to how difficult to get pink outfit for them and especially for guys. Who cares… this is my wedding anyway! (So mean?)

Our wedding dress was peach pink. Only one outfit for the event and the price is RM300 only and still can be worn for the others event. *save*.

The reception’s dinner was in cream and black, with a background of cream and red. We had it one month after our akad nikah event. This is the good way to save money and time since we were the “one man show” to run this wedding event. At least it was worked for us okey! (Tell me if it work well for you too).

Speaking about the wedding dinner venue, we are the amateur who become specialist now till can give you an advice hahaha. All kind of restaurants, halls, hotels and gardens that we had ask for the quotation and surveyed. At the end, we chose the Felda Villa Restaurant, Jalan Semarak Kuala Lumpur. We had reasonable price and can accommodate about 300 guests since I just wanted the small wedding gathering with the close family and friends only. At least, I can recognize all the friend attended. It’s really embarrassing if I can’t remember who come and not to my wedding.

“You know that you look nice in that wedding dress…”

“I think the photographer had edited my photo well (just referring to those photos that I uploaded in FB)…”

“I saw you in your wedding dinner lar…”

“oh really…gulp”

It’s really turn out as a garden wedding theme that I envy so much. I wanted this dinner more cozy and relax in a mixture of English and Chinese style. We were rented our wedding dress from Venice Wedding Galery Jalan Loke Yew. We had a pre-wedding photo done by them as well, so it was 2+1 package together with that wedding dress. It was really cheap, around RM2, 300 inclusive of make-up too.

We included the Yam Seng session which is a must have in Chinese wedding and I was so surprised when most of my Malay friends are never had this. Thank God that they were enjoying it so much.

What is your first thought if you look at this sign? “RSVP?”. Even in French words, I’m pretty sure that everyone is aware about it. Just to put in another way, RSVP is when the person sending the invitation wo¬uld like you to tell him or her whether you accept or decline the invitation or will you be coming to the event or not? Etiquette rules followed in most Western cultures require that if you receive a formal, written invitation, you should reply promptly, perhaps that same day. This is something that we didn’t get smooth as we planned. I’m not sure either most of them are not understand what it means or too lazy to bother.

We as a hosts who are planning a wedding reception (not easy okey!), this is important from a practical point of view, because we need to know how many people to count on and how much food and drink to buy. More important, though, is the simple courtesy of responding to someone who was nice enough to invite you, even if it is to say that you regret that you will not be able to attend. *headache*

Another big wave we had during the dinner when out of 400++ quests that we invited; only 300++ were turn up even in the RSVP said that they will be coming. I’m trying not to be calculative here, but if they take this invitation as important as how we appreciate them, at least just put aside what was the reason behind it. Only once in lifetime that I get married or might be others people’s lifetime. It doesn’t look nice when people had put so much hard work just for you to sit, watch and eat during the dinner, end up the chair left empty. Or if you have known that you will not be able to turn up, at least notify early for the hosts to make another arrangements or to invite another guest, which for God’s sake really wanted to attend too. It’s better than make the hosts feels embarrassing and sad to see no people to turn to their wedding. You wouldn’t feel it until you had faced it one day. *what you give, you get back*.

Needless to say, those who attended had a smashing time. It’s just ordinary Malay & Chinese wedding but organized with our full heart and sincerity. So much details and efforts were we put into it and all of the guests appreciated it as well, I’m hoping.

The big celebration has come to the end but for us as a newlywed it is just a start of our new life together. As we go home, may this day be memorable for all of you and to us too. We would like to thank to all the families and friends who had sacrificed their time to help us a lot with the preparation and not to forget to those who are attended. You know who you are and may God bless you forever.

Amin.

Corporate Social Responsibility

My current Company’s commitment to our communities is a vital part of our corporate initiative. It is the company's goal to promote healthy, high functioning communities in locations where our major plants and offices reside. Our continuing mission is to be a socially aware and responsive global citizen wherever we operate the business.

(My Company means that the company that I am working with now. Not yet my own company. Thank you.)

We take the charge as per Government order to give back what we have taken from the Community. So, in collaboration with my birthday this year (ehem… only me who so perasan about this collaboration thingy, it’s got nothing to do with other colleague hehehehe), I made myself free for the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) event on 15 May 2010 at Petrosains Discovery Centre, KLCC Kuala Lumpur with the orphanages from PERNIM (even more had to organize the event too, 3 weeks before the event).

It wasn’t an easy task to handle about 50 of them and even more, they came from the same house, same friends and with the same guardian. So, they used to each other, they didn’t feel scared or awkward or anything to at least make us easier to handle them. Moreover, out of 7 of the guardians that following us that day, 4 of them were blind. Oh my God! My tears almost burst that day, to see how they survive. Some of them are now suffered from HIV/AIDS, some of them are losing the parents and the guardians are not someone who is at least being able to take care of themselves.

I give two thumbs up to the founder of this house. I manage to speak to her before the event ends, and she told me that all the basic life were fully extended to the children, yet they live in luxury compared to other orphanages centers. She didn’t even allow us to let the children to queue before entering the Petrosains, because she doesn’t want people to treat the children as an orphanage than normal child. Oh my God, again, that wasn’t our intention to do that, we just only following the procedures before entering the centre. Hopefully, she understood.

Oh, that’s explaining how they came by with Toyota Alphard, Toyota Estima and Honda Accord 2.0 that morning. =)

The children came by with their own uniform and there were 3 different colors to differentiate the age of the children. I love the green one; they were 1 – 3 years old and love to attach to us. I addressed them as ‘geng gagak hijau’ because they were the naughtiest among them. We need to hold (dukung) them most of the time. Can you imagine how tiring it would be? The moment we finish the event, our face were turning white and I am pretty sure that we were exhausted and dehydrated.

But, for sure, we were happy while doing it. When I looked at them, only God knows how grateful I am on what I have now. Even far from perfection, but at least I still have parents and family who I can be with whenever I need them.

The children need us more than we think. If you have a free time, why don’t just drop by and spend time with them. Sometime, they don’t really need your money since they might get from the government or the corporate organization through this CSR program, but they just need someone who can with them while they having their homework or someone who can company them before they go to bed. You don’t lose anything either, just you might need to spent just a few cent to buy a tissue to rub your tears. Believe me, it worth than you think.

The orphanage centre details:
Rumah Kebajikan Anak Pesakit HIV/AIDS Nurul Iman (PERNIM),
Lot 46 Jalan 47, Bukit C,
Cheras Baru, Kuala Lumpur

Tel: 03-42950775, 017-8860208
Fax: 03-42951079
Email: norlina_pernim@yahoo.com

Account No.: 2-14013-6000-3173 (RHB Bank)
Account Name: Pusat Perlindungan PERNIM

First snorkelling ever - Krabi Thailand

Me and the other 2 friends has decided to celebrate our friends’ birthday at Krabi (don’t falling chair now as she was the one who initiate this and we pay for our own expenses). It was so sweet of us.

So 4 of us took a trip down to Krabi on 23-26/2/10 by Air Asia and I had very crazy cheap returns airfare. Make sure to be clever to book the ticket at least 8 months ahead if you wanted the cheap holidays too =).

For so-so beach lovers like me (that’s why I got cheap ticket), apart from had a great time with the biatches and the scenic & relaxing backdrop of the island... I would rather not to have any beach-trips for the next 1 year. I had enough salty water to my stomach and extra tan to my skin. I’m sure I need at least 3 months to get my skin color back and I’ll kill whoever asked me for the beach trip again. Make sure don’t be a first person okey.

2N in Phi Phi islands and 1N in Ao Nang, offered us a great package of holiday especially the 1-day island hoping on the private boat (as Donald Trump’s lifestyle so called ^_^) and the Minah Rempit series when we rented a bike at Ao Nang. First time ever I had myself to snorkeling activities at the 8 islands with different of coral pattern and colorful sea life.

The island is beautiful but much more interesting if you go with bunch of people that you love. We were laughing, taking picture with some ugly poses, UNO-ing, shopping, swimming and a lot of ‘together’ kind of activities.

Oh ya, we did learn some new words while in Krabi:-

"how long u setay here?" (how long do you stay here?)
"you here setadi or soping?" (do you here for study or shopping?)
"no polit!" (there is no police there)
"no far, 10 kilomit oli" (that's not far, 10 kilometre only)
"no esepensif.." (not expensive)

hahahah... reminded me on the my first year trying to speak English. Two thumbs up for them, at least they are trying hard. If by chance you will be travelling to Thailand, make sure to use broken english while communicating. It will help you to get to the point easily.

To my girlfriend Shaq… Happy Birthday to you, may you have a wonderful journey in your life ahead.

We were too busy and didn’t bother to have a birthday cake… so thanks for asking =)

Welcome Chinese New Year - The Year of the Tiger

CNY for me every year seems nothing except for some break during the week. But for sure, the only thing that I love most about CNY is the mandarin oranges. I can even finish the whole box as it’s really tasty, sweet and free *cough*.

But starting this year, the CNY brings me some joy and excitement since my bf is a Chinese *ehem*. We had decided to celebrate together even not to follow the Chinese traditional way of celebrating. It was nice to have him 7 days a week even during CNY. He did not go back to his hometown at Kedah since he has some family-argument going on between him and the siblings (just reserve the comment to him).

On the CNY eve, we had some nice seafood steamboat tom yam at Klang. The reunion dinner without parents, siblings and the nephews around. There was only me and him. But we still had so much fun and *burrpp* at the end.

Since we were in Klang, we made a break at one of the famous temple in Klang to see the impressive of CNY decoration. I was surprisingly to see so many people were there even on CNY eve. “Are they supposed to be at home to help the mother to decorate the house or arranging the kuih box or something?”

The place was so packed and it was really not so me to come to this kind of places. But the decoration was great to attract the guest. It was full with red and orange colors at every single corner of the temple. They also had some live show performance by the local artists which I have no idea at all who are they.

Apart of “celebration-between-boyfriend-girlfriend” kind of excitement, we were really looking forward to celebrate it this year, the day of change of the year in Chinese calendar. Last year wasn’t a good year for us; the Ram (last year was the Ox year). We had so many obstacles in career and life. I’m not going to become a superstitious here, but everything happened seems far from the coincidence. It was really as per predictions. But thank God, we manage to go through the difficulty and learned so many lessons as we go.

This year is the year of Tiger and hoping that we will be roaring well in our life with good health, more wealth and many good returns.

We both born on the same year, thus we are sharing the good and bad behavior and thought of the Ram. The prediction says that the Ram has very good compatibility to the Ram itself as a life partner. *relieve*

To all my Chinese friends, Gong Xi Fa Cai and safe journey home.

Happy New Year 2010

Happy new year all!

Here’s hope to many, many more to come!

I want to get married *ehem*

I want my parents feels proud to me as their daughter *flip hairs*

I want more salary and bonuses *Boss, please listen this*

I want my body healthy *put me on the treadmill and I’ll silent*

I want all my family and friends always next to me *sob sob*

I want my life smooth with little obstacles *I’m a small girl, cannot take pressure*

I want more money and wealth *but still a humble person*

Whatever our resolutions are, I’ hoping that all of us will achieve it!

This New Year eve, first time in my life, I had gone out to celebrate it. Still, I want (I notice that I used a lot of ‘want’ words for this year) a quite place and not pack with the humans. We knew that we can’t get this kind of place in KL, so we created our own celebration place.

On roof top of the building in the middle of the city! Not very high rise building, but we find it as the tallest around that area. Those who are staying in KL, I’m sure you are pretty familiar with it. The building where the Maybank Kg Baru branch located and just next to the Petronas station with NGV gas available. Familiar enough?

Theme of the night was WHITE 

UNO-ing before countdown

See the KLCC background at the back

Smiling face but inside only God knows that i was really afraid of height

Climb up the TNB server house to have nice view

Fireworks... i think this was from Dataran Merdeka

To watch the KL view from the bird’s eye, it was fascinating moment for me. I manage to start my New Year with friends that I love the most, with party stuff and surrounded with the fireworks from many directions.

Actually, I really scared of the high and especially when I need to look at down from the very high place. I feel some kind of feeling. Too many feelings. So that was the first and last time I’ll climb up to the building roof top.

For sure, I had very good memories to start my year and I’m hoping that next New Year eve I’ll celebrate it oversee, with some snow surrounded me. Ameen. =)