Friday notes

Many people prefer to tweet these days -- for the simple reason that they basically can express themselves using 140 characters or less. Also, because people are so lazy to read lengthy posts.

Nowadays, people dont have time for anything. Hence the short & sweet tweets. But many still have time to judge, hate, and spend time doing useless things. I'm one of them.

From my previous posts, I've lost everything from my wedding ring to my job (I resigned really-- and never really updated this blog eversince).

I'm glad though that in the midst of letting go many important things in life recently I still hang on to the fundamentals -- faith in God Almighty and being happy for the things I still have.

I am now 6-ish months pregnant and have lost a lil bit of my curvy figure but gained pregnancy glow due to new hormones in my body?

Things like that.

Never thought I'd say this but my pregnancy is the best thing that has ever happened in my life thus far. It is the most humbling and magical experience and we shall talk about that soon as I reckon many people's attention span is not capable of reading beyond this paragraph.

toodles!

blogging again

Its been a while. Alhamdulillah, this year's Ramadhan & Raya have been filled with loved ones, great company & rezeki yg membolehkan segala kelengkapan puasa & raya disediakan. yay!

I'm thankful also for everyone who has been very concern about my raya this year as a wife. thank you, thank you.. we had fun, thanks.. :D. makan banyak, tido pun tak kurang banyaknye.. berehat drp kesibukan bekerja during puasa heheh. my mom in law's rendang ayam kampung was just delicious. i ate a lot a lot.

As hubs is still on his raya holiday, I am not too bumped bout startin work bcos he'll send me, have breakfast & lunch with me pastu pick me up & we'll have dinner later. life as nomads (having 3 houses to stay at) has deprived us of the chance to have our very own kitchen & for me to cook in my very own kitchen. :P one day la ye..

that's pretty much my life these days, very hectic, juggling work & travelling from one state to another; in the process of settling down with my new husband :P it'll be 3 months soon & more surprises in our lives will come so I pray that everything will go as planned hopefully. I am in the midst of getting a new job in kuantan & moving to kuantan for good. So God Help me & i need to go to the nearest kedai gambar to get my photo taken for my updated resume.

Cant wait to charm Kuantan people at interviews. bring it on! :))

the one with the wedding ring

hi everyone, we meet again!

Some vocabulary updates.

Aidil is hubs.
Wedding ring is Forbidden ring.

So here’s the story. Despite the fact that hubs and I only meet each other on weekends these days, sometimes the lucky stars hit us with the opportunity to meet on weekdays :D so last Tuesday hubs was in KL to attend his training in Bangi & we spent the night at the Equatorial Bangi.

The hotel was fabulous! The room is spacious and the bathroom is gorgeous lovely and everything in between. :) Due to time constraint, we did not get to even dip a foot in the bathtub but the shower was just awesome. (Ps: I have a thing with bathrooms).

The room service was delicious too!!! :D I still cant get over it. Hehe..

Come next morning, hubs and I woke up early to go to work. He heads to Uniten while I head to Bangsar. MashaAllah jam gilak!!! Now I know how people at my office who live in Bangi feel *frown* Thank you crazy cones on the road, I reached office at 9-ish a.m. Bleh.

On my way to work, while dreading the whole jam and everything I suddenly remembered that I forgot to pack something & that I have left it in our checked-out hotel room.

MY WEDDING RING!!!

Can you frikin believe it???

Hubs was I think Mad at me, but he went back to the hotel nevertheless to get the ring. And now I am no longer allowed to wear my wedding ring. Boohoo.

Note to ring-less self: I used to make fun of my sister for losing her wedding ring, now Karma has come chasing after me. So kids; never ever do, say, think, or intend to do bad things because Karma will get you.

Note to hubs: If you google on the internet, there are millions of wedding ring stories which are way worse than mine. Maybe you should read it, so that you wont have grudge on me :P

Oh and just so you know, this is the 2nd time this happens to me. Huwaaaaaaaa!!!

I'm married :)

So the last time i blogged, i was busy preparing for my wedding right? Now I'm married! Alhamdulillah, everything went well & today is our first month annie being hubs & wife :))

This pic u see here was taken about an hour after our solemnization at masjid at-taqwa TTDI. This pic was taken outside the masjid. We had so much fun taking pics after nikah esp this one because pokok2 ni kat tepi jalan, so many cars yg lalu kat tepi tu honked at us! hehe... thank you, thank you, we feel your love.. :D

Anyways, I hope to get our solemnization album soon, we had lotsa comments on the draft layout, so hopefully it will turn out to be super great. haha..

see you people soon! :)

counting days :)

*u see this pic? my dress @ Aidil's reception will look sthg like this! Ooooooohh!!!!!!!!!!!

Although work is crazy these days, I still have a reason to smile because I'm sooo looking forward to my Big Day woooh!! but heck, only God Knows whats playing in my mind right now!! So many social functions to organize, attend, etc. And to balance all that with this masculine work I do. hahahha... I give too little credit too myself maybe?

Ok, first things first -- My dad wants me to tender my resignation this Friday which means by August I can go live in Ktn with Aidil. As much as I want to please him, I've given this a lot of thought & I think maybe tunggu la dulu.. at least until December so that I can get my bonus (ok, now i really have to get sthg kalau tak sia sia) because although it is tempting to go start my own life over there with Aidil but I dunno... I dont really have a back up plan at the moment so to drop everything so sudden like this is risky and as if my dad will give me money every month like i'm earning now!!! :P besides, I think he should spend all his money on my mom & my two annoying brothers who have grown to be princesses. Urgh.

But will definitely leave in december. I dont see myself living separately after I'm married. Thats just abnormal & why put stress on yourself like that??

Second -- Ainsafian's bachelorette party this Friday!! Organizer. Co-organizer. Party Planner. Whatever u call it la. Busy busy... hehehe. Susahnya nak organize parties like these & please everyone (budget wise and comfortableness wise!) but pulled it off in a couple of days! woohoo! with great experience comes fast thinking. :D

Third -- The long restless battle with wedding invites have finally come to an end! Yahoo...!!! At finalizing stage now & having teacher/lecturer/pakar bahasa parents DO NOT HELP. Every single little word nak comment! Stressnyaaaaa.... I just wanna get this over withhhhh...

Fourth -- Pre-wedding photoshoot! Aidil decided to change the theme color at the very last minute! And guess what -- I dont have any baju to wear! I only have 4 days left to go look for it! So God Help me!!!

Fifth -- Mothers Day & Ayah's Birthday. Omg Omg.... must beat last year's self at throwing party & present. No time, no budget, no worries will come up with something soon! *cry*

Sixth -- My Bachelorette party!!! cant hardly wait for that.. hehehe. I know J is planning sthg super awesome. So teruja!! Note to self: borrow Aidil's camera! J says the venue is at her place. But I suspect she tipu ok... mana ler tau she will suddenly take me somewhere else. saje je nak buat orang panic!

Seventh -- I havent even started with this whole nikah procedure. Still waiting for Aidil to complete his. Wow. Selambanye... dah lambat, ok ok should at least go do HIV test. *looks over at piles of paper at work station* esok la HIV test.

Ok so you see I have a million things on my mind; and these exclude crazy work. Am in the midst of preparing yet another write up for some body. oohhhhh... boleh tak??? rasa nak jerit je "i'm getting married you know?? gimme a bride break!"

And can people just stop throwing things in my face just because I'm a lawyer?? some things happened even before I was born and I'm supposed to pick it up??

Grrr... so many things to dooo, but will pull everthing off, insyaAllah. See ya when I see ya!

Ps: omigosh did i wear deodarant this morning??? *smells self* yes i did.

Ps2: I have 46 days before the big day! yeahhhoooo.... Wedding Planner will save my life. thanks WP.

Almost forgot, here's the countdown to our honeymoon!!

Huaaaargh *menggeliat*

Its been forever!! What issss happening to me.. so relax, so malas!!

Even my Wedding Planner & Makeup artist dah risau because I'm too relaxed. They will sms me and keep on asking when they can meet me to discuss! Arggghhh Stress la.. :p

I love them nevertheless cos I know they'll make everything perfect while I just ikut je anything they have planned for me.. So easy kan. :))

Anyways, I recently got ENGAGED Yay!!! to the love of my life!! Chewahhh...

Cant wait now!!! (so why the heck am i so relaxed??) so here are my engagement pics (yang dah over exposed kat fb) :D enjoy!!

Ps: tsk..tsk.. MOM mana official pics kuuuuu...

hey i can count!

This will do it.

Hehe!

Goodluck to us. Lets try and pull this off now.

Ps: once we get our exact honeymoon date i wanna delete this & have a countdown to that day instead. haha...

holidays. got love?

I watched Valentines Day during the hols and what caught my attention most were these lines: "young love-- full of promise, full of hope, ignorant of reality".

Amazing. Though the whole movie was just okay for me, I mean I honestly thought Sex & the City has way cooler & wiser philosophies about love, but hey any movie that emphasizes on love and romance philosophies are always good to me.

I want to have my own love philosophies compiled one day & I wish to inspire people to love the way I see love.

Right now-- nothing matters to me other than my wedding prepos. But I got one thing to say to you still.. as always...

You'll know you're in a right place when u can get through all the crap the place gives you scarless. Muahhh i know u love me. Come back for more!!! :P

tweet me!!

You know when you leave a place unoccupied for too long, we malays believe that "someone" or "something" will find itself a way into it. Blogs are no exception apparently. U see I get these email notifications for comments people send to my entries & since I have not been updating for a while, this anonymous creature has been dropping many comments and I suspect they're some sort of spam/virus/sthg.

Is my blog therefore unsafe to even be visited by me for I will then be infected by this virus?

I dunno, but here's the thing: I'm getting married people! So yeah just to put this on record because for what its worth, I dont want to be posting up about me getting all pregs and skip the gettin married entry so just to keep the flow flowing right.

And to a certain level to remind myself that I'm getting married and maybe yearsssss from now when I read this entry again, to reming myself that I Am married.

Yeah so we're in the midst of getting things to fall nicely into place so that this memorable day of ours will be special to both us and our guests. You ARE coming right??? :p

This whole preparation process for me so far has been very enjoyable and interesting because we got to meet new people & talk and talk and talk & then of course at the end of the day there's always a price to pay for all those wasted salivah. sighhhh sighhh.... the way i see it: maybe there's a bright side for things to be sooooo expensive for weddings, at least we'll probably appreciate our constitution of marriage more.

But heck, when we get old and stuff, maybe our kids should get married virtually & save all the cost. wakakakkakaka....

Okay, so hopefully I'll come back with more great news in the future, till then pray for us & we'll see you on our big day!!! If you're not invited, you must not be very nice so I suggest you work on that attitude, no just kidding! Tweet me people, I'm on twitter!!! :D

End of the year entry

The year 2010 is going to be busiest for me.

We have not set foot in 10 yet and already i am booked for half the year. And i'm so thrilled to be sharing my friends' BIG days!! I just dont quite get when people dont like wedding seasons cos I LOVE EM!!!!

I can wear my best clothes.... do my hair.... wear matching shoes and clutches... matching jewelleries (when i can afford it).... meet friends i have not met for so long.... shopping for presents.... cards.... talk about anything and tell each other each other's updates... man.... i have so many nice things to say about weddings that I cannot begin to imagine how one can hate weddings.

I hate people who hate weddings.

I wish all my friends who are getting marrid next year all the best and may your party be more fabulous and glamorous with my presence. :p

Okay, so 2009 has been amazing and so damn awesome I mean i think the word awesome in my life is not overrated at all! The best part about this year is of course my trips to Jakarta, Kuantan, Cherating, etc and my gile banyak birthday celebrations!!! I think there were altogether 4 celebrations! Thanks everyone for forming the awesome part of my life and for rocking my parties!!! But the bestest party yet is the awesome awesome HALLOWEEN PARTAY!! Rrrrreeeaawwww!!

2010 will be more awesome and as much as I have better resos for 10, i hope my life upgrades to having better quality (i mean i started running and i hope i wont stop) and my 4 year relationship should start moving to a whole new level already :p. its not really 4 but if you calculate everything its 4. I dont really care thats just a number, but I'm just concerned with me getting older and i mean look at the tiny wrinkles on my face ????? *cryyyyyyy* (Time to steal mama's night and day creams).

Career wise i'm hoping for a job that will allow me to show my real personality and that is a super damn hard worker but only if i'm paid good and allowed to have fun at the same time. I am hoping that kind of job exists. I have to be honest I feel pretentious doing what i do now simply because I am losing myself as a lawyer and becoming more like an engineer and becoming an engineer was never my ambition.

My ambition was always to become Boss.

Hey so this is a happy entry! hehe which means I had a great year this year and have forgotten about every little unpleasant-ness for this year so you should too!

Lets start 2010 with a positive spirit as we're Really just closer to death as the new year comes.

Toodloooo!

boy crazy!

The last time I spoke of this expression was probably when I was 12 or 13 when my teenage friends were all going through that phase of hormone changing, and developing desire for men.. I mean boys.

As we grow older, everyone grew out of their boy craziness and liking boys moderately made more sense somehow.

But today, boy craziness staged itself to my face not by a teenage lady but by a makcik. I mean seriously makcik, dont be so bias towards your own gender, what are you, like a widow? :p :p

So I was having breakfast this morning at my usual place and everyday I will literally check my wallet to make sure I have small change. I hate shops that bugs me about giving them exact change but I have come to peace with this whole issue and have decided to deal with it by giving in.

Unfortunately today, I had ran out of small change and had RM10. The next best thing was an RM50. And its not even mine. Its my boss' rm50 note and its in my keeps because he told me to buy some stuff but when I went to buy them someone else offered to pay. I know. Whats up with people nowadays? :p I only have God to thank! :D

Anywayyyy, my breakfast was RM1.80, so I handed my last rm10. So makcik made a bigggg deal out of it, and told me to pay later.

*Me annoyed*

After I had my breakfast (and after carefully observing how many people had come in to have their breakfast hence all the small changes makcik would have made), I went back to her to pay.

At the cash register was this man WITH RM10. I FRIKIN SAW MAKCIK GAVE HIM HIS BALANCE OF WHAT LOOKED LIKE RM8-ish.

So I was positive that she would do the same to me. But since we're recording this in this blog, u can certainly imagine what happened to me! She said, "bayar nanti lah, takde duit kecik lah.. tunggu lagi ramai2 orang datang. Takde duit kecik ke?"

MAKCIK!!!!

At least she was smiling. To the man who she just gave small change to.

:(

i know exactly what to write in my book :)

I will never forget the day paper pompoms spoke to me.

I realized my destiny was to become a professional party planner when I folded my boss' note into a paper pompom.

Buy my book to read more......

another new post

No matter how careful you are with the hot cuppa coffee to make sure it doesnt spill, at the end of that journey from pantry to your place, it spills.

bloody hell.

Just before your big day, function, party, that zit conveniently pops out to say hi to the world, and the list goes on.

No, I'm not talking about unexpected events.

I'm talking about being too cautious or too careful in the course of living your life. that bloody hot coffee will spill sooner or later no matter how steady your hands are and you know it.

So what we should really prepare for is not for the coffee to get to the table safely, but for the coffee to spill seconds before it reaches the table.

new post

Selamat Hari Raya, arent we all happy everytime the festive season revisits us? *smilllleee*

Raya was fun for a few days, then everything restores to normal comfy city life then holidays came to an end and now i'm in the office again. Oh and today's Aidil's birthday!!! :D Aidil turns 27! Amazing. The first time I got to know Aidil was when he was 23. Giler muda la dia masa tu. :p

Speaking of muda, I'm not too young anymore too. boohooooooo... But u know what happened today? I always come to the office with this kerek look on my face, like I wont look at anyone- jalan straight je, cam bagus. So this morning was not an exception. Was walking like I own the whole damn building then my pumps got stuck at some old curled up grey (ugly!) carpet, my feet came out of the pump and onto the cold marble and do i dare to look behind?? No. But I had to since I had to take my shoe backkkkkk.

One guy (old!) chuckled. The rest of them was too sleepy to be bothered with that blooper but will probably tell the story to them friends at breakfast. Nice.

Time chases you when you've got so many things to do and thats great because as a woman u always need to be chased. Na mean?? hehehe... huhuhu...

I'm into this thing this project this thing thats taking quite a lot of my time but if i get to pull it off, it will be a story to tell. Think Oprah Winfrey. Ok think Wanita Hari Ini la. Giler. I want to be on tv! I want! :P

Keeping my day job is the hardest thing to do right now because i'm so distracted with other things. There must be a way out for people like me who gets a bundle of nerves when being confined in a place for too long. Or perhaps i just need to have a friend in here.

Ok gotta run to do some more thinking for the future.

How much of a future do I have if the world is really expiring in 2011/2012? Seriously now.

advice column

Honestly, how do you offer your 2 cents to someone... say ur friend... whom you know will not listen?

You dont.

Hey, after all, nobody likes to be told what to do.

But they expect you to be around when things do not go as planned.

So do just that.

Setting examples are the best way to impose teachings on someone anyway.

Makes me wonder, how will generation Z take advices? The eight ball, perhaps?

old man's sayings are still relevant

We; the much younger generation always attempt to prove the elderly wrong, to some extent. One thing fo sho, I always try to prove my parents wrong. For no reason at all (and dont try to relate it to me having a legal background) but simply to have the taste and thrill of having independence in producing my own opinion, which is good i must say. But at the end of the day, we have to face it. THEY ARE RIGHT. ALWAYS.

For one thing many of us can relate to is that saying Opposites Attract. This expression is frikinly flawless that Hollywood should make a movie by this title already! Starring Johnny Depp and Reese Witherspoon of course.

Last night I attended a gathering of Toastmasters. Pretty awesome given that the bunch consists of people who are brought together by their passion to talk publicly and be good at it. I thought hey, finally a bunch of mes.

I enjoyed every minute of it, and went home feeling pleasantly exhausted with a crystal clear realization that I will just die if I marry someone who talks more than I do.

I might as well make a list here:

1. Racing to tell a story or to beat the volume of someone else's voice is the hardest thing to do and I do not have the will to compromise with that.
2. If you see me turning quiet, I have been turned off by ur story or ur attitude.
3. When girls gather and talk, and the only thorn among the roses talks as much or more, will be voted out.

But one good point made by one of the Toastmasters yesterday was; if the marriage goes completely silent, you might wanna start getting help.

Silence is bliss as long as it is not within the marriage. Quote me.

So what if I'm a female driver?

Female drivers have been incessantly accused for their bad driving. So we drive like sheet yah? Shut up......

And by shut up I mean dont la stand there and STARE at me when i'm trying to get out of my parking, pakcik! That car parked behind me is not even your car! So clearly you were soooo concerned because I'm a female driver kan?

Anyway, this pakcik (garang looking somemore) with janggut and kopiah and cekak-ed pinggang, stared at me while i was trying to get my car out of the parking yesterday. FYI pakcik, my car has that censor beep to tell me if i am too close to the car behind k.. Dont look at me like that ok.. I have been driving for 9 years now ok..

Female or no female, I dont deserve to be babysitted while driving. ish!

When I succeeded in getting myself out of that misery, I vroom-ed pass the pakcik trying to avoid looking at him, when what I really wanted to do was exactly like what deer did to Diego when Diego failed to catch it, "uh tip toe tip toe!"

Sorry I didnt make your day, pakcik.

Ganbatte

It is pronounced gam-bat-tey, really. A new word everyone in the department is supposed to submit selves to. meaning-- to do your best at all times, in any situation. okay great. nice. thanks for choosing a simple word I can remember. Love.

My very own ganbatte will start from ceasing all kinds of complaining activities. Complaining will get me nowhere but slowing my pace in life. So yeah just fret like a second and move baby. When we save time from complaining, we can actually achieve so much more. And hey if you want to really complain about something, save those words and put em into actions-- write letters, emails, whatever. Dont rattle like a snake and just sit on that a** and wait for other people to make your life the way you want it to be. We care about ourselves, and so should you.

Like right now, I just came out out preparing an opinion and have to start on a new issue, and I feel like screaming, but when i look at the clock, its 11.50 am so that means its lunch time soon! Yay!! I am going to eat a cow! Oh just for the record, while eating lambchop a couple of days ago, i almost choked to death. Calmness is the key to survival in this world. that is another thing you must learn from me today. If i had panicked, i would have not had the time to think of what to do to get out of that near out-of-breath situation.

I'm so hungry I'm gonna ramble around the pantry for food now.

Are you a giver or a taker?

Yesterday I watched Faith and Hope (or is it Hope and Faith?) on Star World, and I'm not at all a fan of this sitcom, I just came across it while flippin thru channels. I have literally watched it about once or twice this year, and perhaps once or twice last year.

Anyway... something Hope (or was it faith?) said carried massive amount of truth i thought.

"It is not about what you get, it is about what you give.."

This morning, while rushing to go to office after my daily quick breakfast stop, an angel demonstrated those words quoted above.

there was a bloddy car semi-blocking my car and i couldnt get out of it. seeing me in distress, she patiently stood by my car and helped navigate my way through the impossible space and wallah! i managed to get out and reached the office in time!

She didnt get anything besides my thankful wave to her before i drove off, but had she cared about "giving" she wouldnt have demonstrated the act of a true samaritan to me.

I am very guilty of the same feeling sometimes, thinking what will i get out of this and that. but no, hope (or faith) was right. It is about what u give and have given that truly counts.

PS: but when someone gives u something, do appreciate it and say thanks dammit! =p

Hope

I'm sure you will agree with me that "hope" is such a strong word.

No doubt everyone has a million things they hope for in this life.

I am seriously hoping for what you know? For H1N1 to disappear right now because it restricts me from travelling to places I want to go to.

I was at the airport twice in the last couple of weeks and people seem to be travelling around normally (some with masks on, bravo!) despite the threat of the disease. I am not mad at them. Because some people have to travel kan. They cannot avoid it. In a way, I am kinda glad my job isnt really the type that requires me to frequently travel all over the world. I love travelling nevertheless. But not for work. REMEMBER.

Anyhow, I hope by December travelling will be safe again because we're going to ******!

Who can guess this one correctly, will win a souvenir from me from that place that I'm going to.