next wedding bell

Alhamdulillah the solemnisation between my cuzzie and adam aka Brent went well and they are now safely known as husband and wife. I was late that saturday. I was supposed to be there in the early morning to oversee stuff in her room deco. I came ten minutes before the appointed time for her solemnisation. The Tok Kadi was late and thus it saved my impromptu decision to spice the bedroom's ambience for the newly wed..now next busy schedule will be my dad's side.. our first wedding bells for my dad's side.
So busy following my cuzzie to Johor that i forgot to leave a message to congratulate ct ros on her wedding day.

Have to be catch up with the rest here. new job has so many helpdesk support.. and fortunately one of them is my schoolmate from TP. still adapting to the environment.. and i feel so tame.. so introvert.. hahah whatever happened to me man?!

been working back to back and i'm feeling the fatigueness.. anybody have lubang for easy work PT job so i can save more money and drop STarbucks.. sigh.. i wish they increase the manpower.. we're slogging like bulldozers this few months. grrh!

Lost 37 bucks to short in my till.. MADNESS. i'm so furious that i had to pay 100% of it! plus ten buck on the nets part. AND for the first time in 5 years, i never had lost that much of money lor. which i think is weird! Not to say i'm gd but maths is my strength and sespecially dealing with money.. kalau tak keje selalu pun, everyday i count money.. tak kan lah aku bodoh sangat kasi customer extra 2 dua kali kan.. so ring the bell.. me to blame.. bingit giler la..mood to work dah high.. kena shortage.. dah malas lah nak work lagi..waste my time working on a saturday!lagi!!keje macal 4 orang nyer keje.. bingit bingit bingit!

not made in Singapore

the solemnisation will be held tomorrow at 1400 hours sharp. numbers associated is 74. White theme. english rose.

Since i am so broke to the last penny in my bank, i rendered my help in ordering dinner last night(bill bride pay lah heehee) make sure the home looks nice and cosy for incoming family members.(my uncle married his first cousin so u see how close knit we are from her cuzzie, since we grew up together. plus this tree is at my mom's side not even linked to dad!) Then i babysiit my lil cuzzies and my cuzzie's kid's before the mak andam came to do the henna on her hands. She was late. but it was a great satisfaction since she was peramah and were able to click with us. Halfway through the henna, the bride's sister and me set off to revamp just the top part of the room. the results were great.

I finally added my portfolio, helping my cuzzie set up her room yesterday. It's simply simple and elegant and i loike! coz it's the whitish,english rose theme. and i wish i could load all the pictures but sad enuff PC at home is crashing soon. CRASHING. bushk! anyway.. yeah the henna was done around midnight and all the cuzzies have left.. so i got my hand henna-ed. got my butterly i wanted...and i was sleepless till 4am in the morning. nose block chat with my mom and caught up with OC and slept while watching CSI III.

i'm enjoying my hours here. The thoughful people have been great and i will sure miss all the makciks who have been so great.. pampering me with so much food and warmth. and doting me as thier own daughter. sigh i will miss the jokes they crack and their presence.

off to take picts and picts and picts..

- inayallah my hard disk wun crash with all the pictures loaded in the pc! lom back up lagi!

flu bug flu bug flu bug flu bug flu bug ..Yeahchoo!

So much for anticipating the wedding that i'm falling sick again .. i just recovered last week and now i'm having the flu bug again. sore throat, numb muscles and a slight headache. all the symptoms does not tally to the rest days i already had.

When i first tendered my resignation i was filled with uncertainty as to whether i made the right decision. But after one day left to my departure from SingTel. i guess i am almost 99.9% certain that i should have left this place much earlier; when Kat was gone. Now my next worry of that 0.01% is that the new work place is more challenging and a better working environment which i truly hope so. Sigh so much for this three weeks. it felt like months here and the one year plus sure smells like hell when Kat wasn't around and when all my colleagues were transferred to the other department.
I do hope that better people will take iver them and the TL lives to his doom and get caught on his 'curi tulang' and his 'know evrything' but trutht is it's - doesn't know anything at all.
So much hope and so much good luck. i'll sure miss the makcik2 who has been my pillar of strength working in this dept and of course my engineers who have been so great and caring plus patient with my enquiries and they have been my learning tool.

sigh.. bismillah i do hope the workplace is as good as how they have described it as.

raya raya raya

I had a whole lot of raya during the week that i think this year is raya year for me. With plannings done ahead, i finally made it to jalan raya to most of my friends house!During weekedays, i managed to jalan raya to Johor and to my cuzzies house. It has ben years since i jalan raya till 3 AM in the morning! Cuzzie's getting married this weekend and then another one this Christmas. so busy lah me.The weekends were spent raya-ing with my friends and the Poly gals.

It was a little slow ride for the first raya outing on Satruday. Nevertheless i had great companies from my darling Tatak Juli aka kambeng and the falalot who made the raya more spicier... We snapped so much and we even managed to catch the herbie red car! Managed to look at Tatak Juli's wedding pic.. i lurrrrve her red lace gown.. hmmz... i just hope i dun go gaga when it's my turn to choose some baju too. My Smeagol was unable to join them but i better make sure he could join my next raya outing with the gang this weekend! He was busy working and going raya with his family.

I reached Simei at 10 plus in the morning yesterday. Lagi best, i actually set the time to ten and i WAS LATE. haha. it's nothing unusual though i DID try my best to come early.. pasal kain lepas lah aku lambat! isk. sakit hati. Kat's house was first. Then we went to 'Ida-Wahidah' .. well it was just only wahidah actually. tengok gambar tunang her.. and off to Fiza's house. There, Sanah learnt more about Chongkak. Kat had to leave for work so we head next to Fad's house and head to Punggol next.

I would say that it had been fun walking around with them and though there were a few houses to go, we did not have to hurry ourselves as if there was a deadline in everyhouse. It was 'take our own sweet time', with no worries that we may end up missing the houses we need to go. Conversations were a plenty and how we reminded each other of the fond memories we had; school, lectures, exams, past raya outings, our parents, on top of everything else, how our life evolved within each other and how we treasured each other's presence in school.

It showed how we weren't bored of meeting each otehr everyday in 2000 and still not bored of meeting each other again..

next to look forward to before 2005 ends:
- the raya with echa and the rest
- the wedding bells from Mom's side
- the wedding bells from Papa's side
- my new work environment(wich will be casted in my next blog)
- our 3 night outing to Hasanah's campus life!

Syawal tibe semula.

Keindahan Hari raya tidak boleh diukur dengan Syawal Sahaja.
Setelah sebulan berpuasa,aku menyambut hari kemenangan Islam dengan penuh kegemilangan. Aku penuh dengan kesibukan dikerja dan hampir tiada masa untuk memasang manik di baju, yang telah lama dirancang sebelum membeli kain ela dengan ibu.

Aku telah ke Geylang buat kali terakhir pada petang raya. Aku tak mampu untuk berjalan waktu malam raya kerana aku mau elak orang ramai yang akan tawar menawar di suasa riuh rendah itu. Aku ke sana siang supaya benda yang ku cari itu tidak kehabisan dilelong.

Tibanya di sana, aku berjalan sendirian dan telah terserempak dengan sepupu ku. Setelah mendapat Baju Kurung nya, dia telah menemani ku untuk membeli beberapa kusyen dan tudungku. Sempat dia memilih sehelai tudung untuk ibunya buat raya esok.

Aku melepas dendam dan membeli dendeng ayam dan daging, ayam percik dan terus berjalan untuk mencari Air katirah ku. Nasib ku malang air Kathira telah habis. Lulul dan aku berbuka puasa dalam perjalanan pulang. Kami sempat singgah membeli ice blended di Bazaar.

Rumah ku riuh rendah dengan ibuku membersihkan dapur nya. Bapaku sibuk mengelap lantai dan kami pasang karpet serta memastikan langsir telah digantung rapi. Aku merindui nenekku yang tela memanjakan ku sejak kecil. Hatiku kecil teringat arwah datukku yang sempat beraya di rumah ku ini, 2 tahun yang lalu.Itulah kali yang terakhir aku dapat melihatnya dengan berbaju kurung dan mukanya tercurah keriangan kerana cucunya menjengguknya.

Aku juga memenuhi kotak kuih untuk tetamu datang esok. Keletihanku tidak melarangku untuk tidur jam satu. Aku menikmati ragam dan kerayaan raya yang telah disiarkan di kaca TV. maklumlah tahun tahun yang lepas aku tak dapat menikmatinya kerana telah sibuk dengan lelong-lelong yang ada di Geylang. Sambil itu aku telah menggosok baju raya ku untuk esok. Aku ghairah unutuk solat malam

Tahun ini agak istimewa buat aku kerana ia insyallah akan menjadi raya yang terakhir aku beraya dengan ibu bapa ku. Ia juga kali pertama aku tidak solat raya bersama rakan-rakanku di Darul Islah. Aku telah siap sedia tetapi Papa tidak menggakakkan aku kesana.

Ketibaan saudara ku tiba seawal jam sepuluh. Yang terakhir tiba jam dua. Rumah itu riuh. Kakasambil berkata yang dia rasa rumah kami ini kecil. iada tempat duduk untuk semua orang. Ibu- ibu kami bersembang di dapur manakala yang bapa-bapa di rang makan. sepupu ku telah berkumpul berhadapan kaca televisyen.

Walaupun ramai kawanku tidak merasakan keindahan raya. Aku bersyukur yang tiap tahun aku menghargai bulan Syawal. Ia adalah bulan keampunan dan keindahan hari hari syawal dapat mengeratkan lagi silaturahim suadaraku yang jarangku jumpa. Ia juga mengumpul kawanku untuk mengeratkan lagi persahabatan kami.

hangover.

It's been weeks since i've typed anything on this column....tried ..yes i tried to write them but in the end all were saved as drafts.....
have finally made a decision to have my blog in an all malay version. guessed what. i scored a big fat red ZERO. So much for my malay education throughout the ten years in school.
i got stuck on the first paragraph and ended up speechless, with no ideas and rummaging through my brain making sure that i had used the write phrase and that i was merely not translating from one language to the other. How it suck.

Life's been busy. Been working less in Starbucks but i can't believe that i no time o get my Raya stuff ready on time this yr.. i settled for some shoe that i find too out of match with my raya 'Baju Kurungs'.Then i had no time to go Geylang and get my 'Tudung'. I even had no idea what bag i should get now. Maybe i should just pair my bags and shoe for the basic BLACK.

I miss my frenz that i've not been catching up with. Wat's up with me? where are all my zest to meet up with my Yani, my Tatak Juli, my Ifah, sheda and Ezi.

Trips to Johor were made twice this month but not to get my individual stuff. so that explains why i was so dumb enough to not get my stuff there and not to waste my time now to find my raya stuff like this very minute.

I tendered for a job i have doubts with.

I'm counting the months left and how tied i will be with my budget.i had to tighten my belts.

I've terminated my gym account so i'm left with a month to enjoy the pleasure down at george street (sobs...) . Hopefully, I've mastered what Nicky & Jessie had taught me and put them into good use.

I'll have to spend more time at Starbucks which worries me because i'm getting dead tired working 2 jobs.

maybe the next thing i should do is to cut my Mobile line and save more n my bills.. however that'll be the end of my contact point which will prove useless coz all my adress book is in that one small device and i just simply can' sleep without it.
sigh.