Generousity

The best thing about my job is the people surrounding it.

Academicians are a group of very very generous people!! And the generousity varies. From the knowledge they share, the money, the time, and the list goes on.

It's perfectly normal in my office to receive phone calls and so suddenly people wanting to treat you for lunch. Especially from my supervisor.

Or foreigners bringing home-cooked meal in the pantry. Or some fresh rambutan or manggis from those who just got back from their kampung.

And the other day, a colleague invited me to be a committee of one simple event. Of course I agreed, good for my KPI, good for my experience, in fact I was honored to be invited. But today, I received this..



As a thank you gift for joining the committee. How sweet is that? Even more, it's her own money she's using not the club's money.

Also this morning, I received a shocking news.

The person who partly resposible to bring me this far has decided to leave all of us. Sigh.. I need to finish my PhD fast, before everyone walks away.

A day off of my married life

Recently, Love and I had a conversation on "The power of letting go". Since, we sometimes encounter situations where I wanna be alone, he wants me to follow him for futsal. He wants to stay in the office, I want him to come home early, so we deciced to take a day off of being a husband and wife last Friday.

Taking "the power of letting go" for the best of us. :)

His idea of single life was going jamming with his friend.

My idea of single life was to be all by myself doing things i love.

I went for a spa in the morning. Then, shop for kuih raya in Alamanda. Learned to cook ayam masak kicap and kangkung belacan from mum. Learned to cook Korean pancake from mum-in-law. Clean our room and toilet sampai berkilat. And later in the evening and the whole night.. working! Loser gile!! But I have to, else I won't enjoy my raya.

Love thought it was funny, whatever I was doing on our day off. He insisted to send me anywhere I want to go to lepak with my friends, but I don't like going out while fasting. It's tiring. Plus, I barely had time to do all the stuff mentioned above whenever he's around. Because we always have plans.

My friend thought I was crazy to allow him to have a day off like that.

But I think both of us needed that every once in a while.

He messaged me when he arrived at his friend's house, "Sayangku!! Weee!! I dah sampai rumah A*** dah k? Muahhhh!! Love u sayang!! U're the best wife a husband could ask for tau!! Weeee!!! Love u!!"

See.. I beleived when u let go.. both of u can come back and love each other even more.

Like a holiday break.

U're more energetic to work after your break, aren't u? (Ok, at least for me.)

Date night

Sometimes, when some people got married they became.. well.. no longer exciting! They just "disappear" and that was not what we wanted our marriage life to be.

We want to have as much fun as we want, and not using the word marriage as an excuse, but using it as even more reasons to have fun.

Due to that, we happily said "yes" whenever our friends asked us to hang out with them. We went to sahur all the way to PJ at 3 am with Sir, we went through a heavy traffic to buka with our friends after work at KLCC, we had so much fun.

But last week, we realized, we hardly go out together anymore. Just the two of us. On a date, like we always did before married. Always pun with friends or family and if just the two of us, went shopping for groceries. How not flattering!!

So, we decided to go out on a date night, buka puasa together, at Alamanda je since it was the eve of Nuzul Quran, we were expecting traffic to be heavy. BUT both of us got so excited with the idea (sounds pathetic, huh?) that for that two days, our messages would always end with "So excited to go out with you on Thursday!!!"




And dinner was super fun. Just the two of us. Reminiscing on how fun we were, those days after SPM, working as waiter and waitresses in restaurant like this.

Then, we were wondering what to do, when Love came up with a brilliant idea, "Let's go to Arcade!!"

Hahahahaha. As funny as it sounded, we spent a lot of exciting times playing games in tha arcade before we were married. Of course, I think that we were the only married couple there who played laser gun like nobody else's business there.

I don't feel like we're married at all until..



He went to pay zakat for the first time for me.

Snapped back into reality. This is how married life, anyway.. That one simple ordinary date that you had before you're married is the one you really asked for after you're married. So for those yang belum kahwin, do enjoy the moment where you wonder, "What to do this weekend? Same thing, same place, same stuff?"

♥

Love was gloomy the other day. Work pressure.. So, I googled at weheartit and found this..

And decided to make this for him!!

♥

A date with gorgeous

I received a very exciting phone call this morning.

A dear colleague of mine asked for some help in babysitting her baby since she had to attend a meeting and her babysitter was on leave.

I was so psyched!!!

I mean, how often can you see a baby in your office, ryte?

So, anyway, I'm lucky to have my own room, and I have my pillow and comforter and a teddy bear ready by the time he came, I thought that was sufficient enough for him to play and sleep.

But, he refused to sleep without me carrying him around. So, a bit of jazzy music, rocking the chair and off he went to sleep..

Such a beautiful beautiful angel. Adorable. Like a doll!!!

Thank you ye Dr., for letting your baby stay with me, it made my day.

Sate kepala ikan keli

In my in law's house, we hardly get to gather everyone together for makan time.

The reason is because brother in law and us are not staying there, so I always psyched when we get to gather everyone together. Hehe.

Look what we have on the table!!

So many food!! We still have some Korean soup and rice in the kitchen. Tak muat meja makan. Hehe.

Of course my favourite was Kimbap!! My mother in law made this herself. If you're just following my blog, my mother in law is Korean, by the way.

And Love's favourite was none other than..



Sate kepala ikan keli. Hmm.. Yummy!!

Ok, obviously if you buy that, you really don't know Love and I that well ;p Hehe.

Melancholy

Woke up feeling so melancholy..

Was it because.. *check my clander*, not yet..

Was it because the message i received this morning from BFF Qdin? Sigh.. i hate long distance..

Was it because of what Shameem told me the other day?



"The first time you saw Kaabah, that was the nicest feeling in the world, and you just cried".

Or was it because of the dream I had last nite, on how I ended up marrying another guy but my husband..

Gosh that was scary!!

Yet I took it as a reminder on how blessed I am to have someone so different from me as my partner. So different, yet we have that mutual understanding. Alhamdulillah.

As for now, teringin SANGAT nak tengok Kaabah..