Gone baby gone

me and my little B

If you had been browsing this blog you will notice that some pictures accompanying the stories were missing. 

That is not entirely this blog's fault or mine either.

Lots of cherished kodak moment of my kids when they were small are totally gone forever when my old laptop was laid to rest few years back sob sob! 

Couldn't even retrieve them. Despite numerous attempts by Mr Husband to fix it.

And this is the reason why I have never contemplate to delete my blog. Its always neatly perched in the bookmarks section for as long as I can remember.

Who knows if I get really bored with facebook and instagram I can always come to this familiar playground and pour my hearts out again just like old times sake.

One day.

Until then.

Hello again

Thanks to all my friends near and afar who wished me a jolly birthday messages on Facebook few days ago.

May Allah SWT bless you all in abundance just as much as you wish for me in your silent doa.

Before I go on rambling I'd like to give a stern warning that this monologue might bore you to death. I shall try not to write anything cliche or corny stuff here.

So here goes nothing..

Ain't Facebook a great invention in the history of mankind. After karaoke that is. Another "leftover" from way past the 90s era and still making its strong existence in the era of social media hipsterism.

We should be thankful to Facebook because it has birthday reminder feature that we get to know our dear friends and beloved ones' birthday ahead of time. Facebook is like your personal assistant without having to pay its salary. You can praise or curse for all the world to see and yet it has no complaint against you. Awesome.

Seriously who can remember err let's say 500 mutual friends and acquaintances (that's my friend list by the way) birthdays effortlessly with a snap finger just like that? I bet not many of us do right. Heck, I don't even remember my kids cell phone numbers even though I call and text them like hundred times a day. Who needs to when you can just search them in your contact list. Makes you kinda take things for granted when life has become so simplified. It makes you lazy and dependable.

30 years ago when smartphone was a strange alien word no one has heard of, we the retro generation always rely on public phones to call someone and we do memorise their numbers by heart. But if you ask me today if I can instantly memorise like for example my sister in law's number I would just shrug off my shoulder with that sheepish smile. Of course I don't. She has like 3 different numbers for whatever reason and she is just a kindergarten teacher for goodness sake. Which is why I am forever grateful that my husband is not a building contractor. Can you imagine the chaos if he has more than 5 numbers lol.

Alright enough with the ramblings.

So what have I gain or learn so far from the many many birthdays that Allah has granted me mercifully even though I am so far away from being a good servant to Him for I have many many sins and regrets that I have yet to compensate them with complete submission devoid of worldly possessions. Pretty much nothing and something I guess.

Honestly, can we all live without technology? Fame? Wealth? Beauty?

I doubt so.

Truthfully I am just so weak a person can be. My iman is like the thinness of onion skin. I may have strong legs to run and flexible body to do all kinds of exercise but at the same time have a weak heart to dispel sins. I am such a hypocrite in that sense.

After reaching 51 years today I have learnt that wealth does not matter. Health does. Health is the most expensive commodity in the world. You can amass wealth by all means necessary but you can't buy health. You need to earn it. You need to invest time in it. Its a lot of hard work. Its never easy but its also doable. You will agree with me on this when you reach the middle age one day. I know I did.

And never ever for a second just when you think you had the best fitness, best stamina and youthfulness that is so commonly associated with exercise, you will never get sick. If you do then you are so vain. Because adversity can come in many forms. It strikes at you just when you least expect it.

Sometimes a little nudge is all you need to knock some senses in that thick skull.

And I learnt my lesson the humble way indeed.

Exercise rawks!

Bumped into an old neighbor recently. I had not seen her for quite a while since I moved out. We exchanged pleasantries and hugs. She was amazed at how different I look now she hardly recognized me. I take that as a compliment. It was I who actually noticed her first. Of course then I had lost so much weight. But what irks me, the first thing she said was what slimming product did I use. I was like cringe and tersengih macam kerang busuk.

Alahaiiii buat penat je aku berzumba pagi petang siang malam (ok I exaggerated that a bit) and that doesn't include piloxing, body toning, muscle conditioning, weight lifting, tabata, circuit training, HIIT and what nots. I practically sweat blood doing all that stuff adeh!

Coolly, I told her that I had never use any slimming product whatsoever for weight loss. I don't even go to slimming spa. Tak mampu beb coz its too damn expensive. I just follow buta-buta the old school way - eat balanced diet and exercise. Lots of it! Took me a year and a half to get where I am today. Its no easy feat I must say. Takes a lot of patience, endurance and perseverance.

I guess the truth is hard to swallow for some people. Maybe they think that exercise takes too much hard work and some simply don't have luxury of time to do it which I think is the most lame excuse ever. No pain no gain right? If you want something so bad you have to work your ass hard for it. There is no quick fix. And the fact that exercise is the most safest, cheapest and effective way to lose weight without any side effects makes it all the more appealing. Besides that it also maintains your stamina and gives you extra energy, you will look athletic, feel fit and active and at the same time reduce the risk of getting heart diseases and other inflammatory diseases caused by sedentary lifestyle, poor eating habits and unnecessary stress over time. I have been told many times that I appear younger than my actual age (mak jemah feel poyo jap haha) and I'm already in my late forties!

I have come to a stage where I no longer need to lose weight but to stay in shape and I have to admit maintaining my current weight is equally challenging. This is where one needs utmost discipline of highest level. But I have no complaints because I simply love exercise. Workout is best done with your spouse or friends in the same boat and in my case I chose aerobic because it combines cardio incorporates dancing and of course great fun. You want to start exercise? I suggest get a chic looking workout attire with good training shoes and you are already there. Make an impact!

And oh by the way, speaking about slimming product, if you take a short cut be prepared to get a short term result as well. I have tried and tested those. Not worth it at all.

Blanje welfie satu.....my awesome aerobic buddies. Spot me if you can haha!

Never too late

Someone once said the secret of getting ahead is getting started. So when someone well known in the blogosphere initiated this campaign of BlogReviveDay recently, I get very excited coz I have not blogged for ages! 

My blog is filled with cobweb (whose blog doesn't right) and left to rot under seldom browsed bookmarks in my laptop. I hadn't use my laptop for quite some time too coz these days smartphones do all the smart jobs even online banking! 

With other popular social media taking over like Facebook and the more favorable interactive whatsapp and telegram joining the club, its easy to understand why blogging has become obsolete, a thing of the past. The novelty just wears off eventually. By the way who reads online diary anymore right?

I started blogging in 2006 and gradually stop blogging somewhere in 2012. I did try to reactivate blogging last year but after like 2 or 3 postings it went dead!

Okay, enough with the ramblings and let's hope after this I will blog as and when I feel like it. I don't want to feel  the pressure to post every single day like some hardcore bloggers do (hehe) as I am not a good writer and my blog don't have substance. I write craps a lot and I swear sometimes. Tak padan dengan imej muslimah kan LOL!

Blanje selfie satu!

This is our poyo cat Peah in her gediks pose haha!

Change is always good

Yeah I've decided to re-name my blog title and this time I chose my former blog title as a new one to mark my comeback to blogging.

Just hope that this isn't going to be hot hot chicken shit out of boredom episodes. LOL!

A moving experience

Whoaa decided to blog again after a very long hiatus. Maybe Facebook has become too restricted in terms of creative writing that I need a different outlet to burst out. Besides in facebook people dont really care to read anything above 250 words on your status unless you're a motivational speaker or a celebrity-famous ustadz or ustadzah. Other than that Facebook is all about hard-core selfies and foodies. LOL!

Okay first thing first. We finally moved out from our first home after living here in Saujana Utama for 13 years. There were just so many sweet sour and bitter memories taken place in this home. When we first moved here my eldest child was just barely 2 years old and I was heavily pregnant with my second. There was a tinge of sadness in my heart about this place. After all my kids grew up here. From when they were babies to being young adults now. How time flies really fast eh. Sob sob.

I also discovered (sheepish...) that I was a moderate (bordering on severe) hoarder. I had kept unneeded unused items in my kitchen for so long that when its time to pack things I had no recollection whatsoever how they got there. No wonder I complained so much about not having space in my tiny kitchen. The junks were so many that the moving truck had to make a second trip to dispose them. Good riddance!

If you think moving out is tiring and exhausting wait till you move in another house. We rented a smaller house whilst waiting for our new home to be renovated in 3 months time. We think that moving into a single storey 3 bedrooms + 2 bathrooms house was much easier for the unpacking and sorting out stuffs. Not really. Its double the work coz we dont have much space left to accommodate our belongings and we ended up storing less-used items in the 3rd room that had been converted as a temporary storeroom. Since the 3rd room cant be used for proper sleeping requirements, naturally Little B (I probably had to use his real name after this as he's no longer a little boy now huhu...) had to share room with us. Can you imagine sleeping next to a very lasak boy who also has an equally lasak dad and ohh I had developed back pain ever since then. And I also made a few trips to see the chiropractor about this problem. I just need to bear all this for a short while. It seems like eternity...sigh!

On a good side, it is refreshing to move in a different neighbourhood surroundings though the environment is somewhat the same. Different neighbours of course but same ol' attitude haha! No matter where you go this is Boleh-Land. I shall not elaborate on that coz its too boring. But I do notice one thing apparent. The concept of greeting and welcoming new neighbours is slowly diminishing. We are reduced to smiling each other whenever our paths crossed. I guess that's the price we had to pay in the name of urbanisation. You win some you lose some. 

Having said that I'm looking forward to move to our permanent home when the time comes. I hope things will get better if not perfect. One can only hope to have nice and problem free neighbours whom you can rely on when there is an emergency situation. A mental note to myself. Make sure to do housewarming party and invite all neighbours alike and probably make new friends and avoid animosity. Sounds like a great idea to start with. LOL!

Meanwhile I just keep adjusting to my otherwise mundane routines to  a very quiet neighbourhood. Cheers!

Pic left I was carrying Kak Long in my arms before moving in at our old house and pic right taking one last photo of us together after moving out...Kak Long is too heavy for me to carry hehe...

Been a while

Whenever I need some inspiration to uplift my spirit high I turn to Reader's Digest. Feel good stories are abundance in there.

By the way, its good to be back where I'm good at. Rambling that is.

My new love interest

Nice eh?

Just got it last weekend. A gift from dear hubby. Thanks to him for being generous and kind enough to buy me this cool gadget. Baik ada makna tuh haha! 

My old smartphone has decided to become obsolete after 2 solid years of providing good service. She was such an excellent and conscientious Personal Assistant. 

No wonder they are called smartphones. They look and work smart. 

Tale of a bantal bucuk

any takers for this item? sold for 10 ringgit...hey there's a sentimental value attached to it so that explains the steep price tag :P

It (pic above) once belonged to this girl named Kak Ngah. It was her most sayangable favorite item since she was a toddler. It had served unconditionally as her sleeping aide, her best buddy, her pacifier, her punching bag (when she throws tantrum) and as play-doll in the absence of a doll. I don't really understand how she managed to picture it as a doll but she did anyway. Some imagination that kid has.

I somehow believe this strong attachment with bantal bucuk has some connection with the feeling of insecurity and a sense of emotional comfort for its owner. Its a great soothing device for a dispirited soul be it young or old. And its hereditary, (the attachment to a bantal bucuk) being passed down from a generation to a generation. In this case, Kak Ngah got it from me!

I started to develop neediness on bantal bucuk when I was into my teens. Back then, it was cool and trendy for girls to have one or multiples in their bedroom. Its a must-have accessory I tell ya. And my bantal bucuk was more fashionable (retro?) and colorful with flowery designs and smelled naturally good too. You don't really get to see all those "maps" all over the place unlike my daughter's bantal bucuk. Lo and behold if she caught me trying to put her precious bantal bucuk in the washing machine. Do that and she'll bawl for hours on end till I surrender. I tried to smell it once and I felt like puking bile coz it was that bad. Not to mention the color changes from spotless white to yucky yellowish that I swear it could turn crystal clear water to teh-tarik look in split seconds. Awesome.

Well, to make an obviously long and tedious boring story short, the bantal bucuk that has faithfully accompanied Kak Ngah for such a long long time has finally been neglected, abandoned, ditched or whatever you call  it when you don't need that person/thing anymore. Such a cruel fate at the hand of an 11 year old heartbreaker girl. Sob sob.

She seems to no longer need it though it still lurks around the house, sometimes under the sofa or between the sofa cushion, sometimes under her bed for God knows how long it has been down there collecting dust, sometimes stucked behind the door or crumpled in the dirty laundry basket and wherever it wants to be lah. It never stays in one place at a time. It travels a lot lately. Macam dendang perantau gitu. Today maybe in Kak Ngah's room and tomorrow maybe under the dining table or on the fridge top who knows. Come to think of it, I seriously think that bantal bucuk has a life of its own! 

Macam dalam cerita anak patung yang berhantu tuh. Penama dia, Chucky?! Yikes!


P/S: To this day I still have my bantal bucuk and I'm happy to report that it has been with me for more than 20 years. During those time only the pillow cover keeps changing but the content is still the same and my bantal bucuk had on several occasion shared some lovely threesome together with the husband and I. Oopss nothing kinky of that sort ok he he :P

Carpe Diem if you can

I just checked my foursquare check-ins on facebook recently and I realized to my horror that the world revolves around me is less than 50km radius wide! Its like living black and white  in Pleasantville (its the movie in case you don't know what it is..) back and forth going the same route and doing the same  mundane routine over and over again. Sigh.

What a boring dull life! 

A long time ago, I wrote about the 50 things I wanna do before I die. Some of the things I wish to do then I had accomplished them now and to tell the truth I had never ever thought of doing it before because of the "malas" attitude and also fear factor. Now that I had conquered the fear (not entirely yet hehe), I should be able to reach other things in life if I put my mind and soul to it. Its possible to succeed your dreams and aspirations if you are really serious about it and stick to it.

The 50 things I wanna do back then in 2007 (see list). 

1. perform the ultimate pilgrimage for muslims - the haj
2. visit the 7 continents and wonders of the world
3. learn skateboarding or surfboarding (either one)
4. be the 1st tourist astronaut to visit Mars
5. meet oprah winfrey
6. learn 1 or 2 foreign languages
7. learn scuba-diving 
8. learn to write feature-writing and become a good columnist
9. treat myself to an expensive spa treatment
10. attend andrea bocelli's performance of a lifetime
11. learn to bake cakes
12. do a duet with Josh Groban
13. sponsor education for underprivileged kids
14. do braces for my teeth
15. do lasik surgery for my eyes
16. do a major makeover
17. do a liposuction
18. buy a bigger house
19. get my writing published in a form of a book!
20. start my own business that I enjoy doing
21. donate money to charity
22. sponsor medical bills for people who can't afford them
23. take a self defense course
24. take pottery classes
25. learn to play 1 or 2 musical instrument
26. get a supporting role in a Steven Spielberg movie
27. do exercise seriously and not just talking about it!
28. grow a small but charming garden
29. read as many books that I can
30. buy an expensive dress
31. learn how to sew well
32. attend a live classical musical concert in Vienna
33. invest in a stock market and become a millionaire
34. be an inventor
35. learn how to draw and paint
36. learn how to skate on ice
37. buy my dream car
38. learn to swim and be a good swimmer
39. do skydiving feat from 30,000 feet above sea level
40. do bungeejumping
41. live in a farm somewhere in Tuscany, Itali
42. learn to fly a small plane
43. learn to ride a horse
44. go on a cruise ship
45. take up photography
46. learn bellydancing
47. be a little more kinder and compassionate
48. devote myself to a cause that I'm passionate about and volunteer for it
49. learn to appreciate my imperfections
50. do backpacking all over the world

Out of the 50 things listed above, I had done no 7, 13 (though the amount is so little huhu), 18 (Alhamdulillah for the rezeki given by Allah SWT), 27 (still doing it actively insyAllah), 29 (does reading catalogues count?) and 38 (still learning the strokes and techniques) and its still a long way to go from there. There are of course some things I will never be able to achieve even if I live to be a hundred but what the heck, you'll never know what you're getting at. Life is like a box of chocolate so says Forrest Gump.

(pic snagged from google)

The survival skill everyone should learn..

I wrote in my previous entry that I've started to learn swimming late last year and I'm still getting the hang of it. I can now swim but I still need to practise my strokes and techniques in order to become a better swimmer. Here's 12 reasons why you should take up swimming. 

Article courtesy of Health Assistant website.

We all know that it takes years of practice to be likeMichael Phelps who is collecting golds in the Olympics and breaking world records, but like Michael Phelps we too can enjoy swimming as our sport and benefit from it specially in our health. So we should start a sport like swimming. Here are 12 reasons why swimming is good for our health:

1. Swimming supports our health, boosts our immune system - The water temperature, which is in all cases of swimming training, lower than the average body temperature of humans which should be 36 to 37degrees Celsius. The difference in temperature loads the work rate of the cardio-vascular system. With the ability to adapt to those temperatures, We achieve a solid resistance to diseases, like flu and colds. It also influences our breathing (the colder the water the harder the breathing), which is a health benefit especially for patients (or swimmers) with asthma problems.

2. Improve Breathing -The water pressure, which is exerted onto the human body (skin) increases with greater depth of the water.This effect will influence the blood circulation through the human body and improve one's breathing as this pressure concerns the lungs.

3. Swimming is a sport for rehabilitation of injuries, and after operations, as the special gravity condition in water allows people to execute movements with lesser body weight

4. Stress Management - We are experiencing a more and more hectic daily life and swimming supports the relaxation and recovery, which leads to a more balanced lifestyle

5. It's part of the physical education and water safety - In schools swimming is a part of curriculum. Everyone who wants to Scuba Dive or do White Water Rafting has to be able to swim.

6. It's a social sport - we can swim with friends or family enjoy the water and bond with your friends and love ones.

7. Swimming is a full body exercise - It tones our entire muscle spectrum and it works as our fitness.

8. Job requirement - Some jobs require the know-how to swim.

9. Low risk of injuries - It is a sport where, if we are a beginner or an expert, there is very little risk of injuries.

10. It's an affordable sport. - specially if you are near the beach

11. It's a substitute to other sports - especially to running as it trains one's upper body.

12. It's a competitive sport - Master's, Open Water, Triathlon.

Euphoria

For the first time in my life today I am left alone in the house all morning. The husband has gone off to work and the kids are all in school except Kak Ngah. Kak Ngah is having a hockey tournament in Sekinchan and won't be back home till late evening. Kak Long has a Merentas Desa practise at school the whole morning and will be back before noon and Little Bee is in the morning session. Its disturbingly quiet and lonely.

I'm getting a dose of temporary empty nest syndrome and I'm enjoying every little bit of it. 

Yeah some ME-TIME at last! 

pic snagged from google

The wedding season

Renjis-renjis dipilis

Ditepungi lah tawar

Hai beras kunyit ditabur

Disiram si air mawar...lalala

Yeah who could forget that song especially at this time of the year huh? Wedding invitations either sent by snail mail or phone calls are pouring in like spilt milk. And since facebook is the fad these days, it is quite common to receive invitations through them as well. All you need to do is just tick at the right box given under the EVENT page and walla you had just confirmed your attendance.

When someone sent you a wedding invitation there's always that nag feeling of wanting to find the right gift much more if you knew the bride/or bridegroom really well. And you don't want to give the same thing what others might give. Takkan balik-balik nak bagi blender or toaster or tea set or worst picture frame kan? LOL. That is sooo effortless. Just so you know we have given same item twice to two different newlyweds and its a blender (ngeh ngeh) brand Pensonic and some more very cheap less than RM50 per item...good deal kan? Of course lah its a good deal especially when you have only hundred bucks in your purse and masa tu belum gaji lagi hehe!

Now that we're getting wiser and also lazier each year we think that by giving gift in the form of monetary is the most sensible and acceptable thing. Senang gitu masuk dalam sampul terus bagi kat mak atau ayah pengantin. Tak payah pening kepala masuk shopping mall keluar shopping mall carik hadiah yang sesuai kan?

However there is another ingenious way of finding perfect wedding presents without ever forking out money. Try re-gift! What's that? It means to recycle your unused wedding gift yang berzaman tok kaduk duk ataih lemari atau bawah katil tu and re-package or re-wrap macam brand new. Isn't that a little bit unethical you might ask? The thing is who really cares about ethics. Disposing your unwanted gift by re-gifting it to a deserving person is the most righteous thing to do at least to me. You probably haven't heard the phrase Want-Not-Waste-Not eh? Nowadays being prudent is a lifestyle not a cheapskate. I repeat not a cheapskate.

Err just don't forget to remove the greeting card (if its still inside) or else go figure! :P

Pardon me

as usual pic snagged from pakcik google

Hey, have you guys ever done simultaneous blog-hopping and came across different song background at the same time?

It sounded like a broken record okeh! LOL.

Luckily, there's a mute button down there...pheww! :P

Distasteful

I love jokes. I can take all kinds of jokes be it dirty or delightful or even practical just as long as no one/ego gets hurt in the process its fine by me. You can find a lot of these stuff on the internet and by virtue of that on facebook the most popular social network site ever created to interact virtually with your friends wherever they are at the touch of a keypad.


The adage laughter is the best medicine as told by many is an effective way to reduce stress at work or mild depression suffered due to prolonged negative feelings. Have you seen how the faces of these stressed out people lit up after a good joke? It breaks all form of barrier and can even relieve emotional pain and therefore bring greater happiness. Such is the wholesome benefit of good old fashioned jokes.


However, I can't say the same about bad jokes. Really bad jokes with bad aftertaste. The ones that degrade certain races, gender and of course religion. When told in a certain way it can be downright crude and offensive. More so if the jokes are supposed to instill morality and religiousness but the message somewhat backfired. I just couldn't fathom such jokes no matter how hard I try to make my laugh muscles move!

One such example below.

Ali seorang anak murid darjah 6 bertanya kepada ustazah semasa kelas pendidikan Islam...

Ali : Ustazah, boleh tak kita pegang babi?

Ustazah: tak boleh sebab babi tu najis mughallazah..

Ali : Kalau tengok je babi tu berdosa tak ustazah?

Ustazah: Kalau tengok je tak lah berdosa..

Ali : Kalau kita tengok perempuan yang tak tutup aurat, berdosa tak ustazah?

Ustazah: Kalau perempuan yang tidak menutup aurat, kita tengok mestilah BERDOSA!.. kalau dah tengok pun berdosa apatah lagi kalau kita pegang lagi lah berdosa Ali..

Ali : Ooh maknanya perempuan yg tak tutup aurat tu lebih teruk dari babi tu la ye ustazah?

Ustazah: erkk..!!

Ali: kalau lebih teruk dari babi tu kategori najis ape ustazah???

See what I mean? I bet this joke was written by overzealous holier-than-thou ulamak wannabe. Sigh!

Ermm on second thought maybe I should just chill out coz its just a damn joke right? Kinda feeling stressed out lately. :B

Not another boring weight-loss story

Cringe for all I care. This weighty issue has bugged me ever since my teeth started to grow in my mouth and I had developed a liking for food just like vampires crave human blood. And my body needs food to membesar bagai johan but over the years, this over-penchant for food has taken its toll on my body. I did grew up as a johan but not johan in academic department la kan or whatever. Just an average achiever. 

Truth be told, I was never a fat kid during my formative and adolescense years but my weight soon grows rapidly after the birth of my eldest child. Isn't this a very lame excuse? Women always blame childbirth the main cause for mutating their then perfect hourglass Jennifer Lopez (yezza?) figure into out of shape jumbo Adibah Noor. I was a whopper particularly in the 3 serangkai section - you women should know which section I was talking about right?  The baby fat is still stubbornly stored somewhere there...sangat susah nak tanggal okeh!

from rear view - humongous! 

Long story short, I went for a full medical check up late last year and that's when I received the wake up call I badly needed. I remembered the physician, a lady doctor told me point blank after she looked through the result and she was so straightforward about it. 

"KC (of course that's not my real name hehe), I'm a bit concerned about your LDL level (bad cholesterol)...it is quite high...at your age, this is an indication that you should tone down your food intake...you should take less sugar, less sodium, less fat, less oily stuff because if you keep on eating what you're eating now and you don't exercise at all, I will not be surprised if you have a heart attack in less than 2 years!!"

Pangggg! I felt a sharp pain on my face like I was being slapped hard. All this while I still think that I can devour whatever I want and not have health problems but in actual fact I do. I was just in BIG denial. And it took a warning like that to make me realize that I need to live healthily onward and this time its for real. No more excuses. No more empty promises and resolutions. I have to have control over what I eat and the most important thing I had to start exercise damn seriously. 

So early this year, I started aerobic exercise 3-4 times a week at the local gym and at the same time alter my diet by having healthy food for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Slowly, my weight and size decreases though it took some time to show. Over the months when compliments began pouring in from neighbours and friends alike only then I realize I had indeed lost weight and I was so freaking happy when I got to wear my old jeans which have been neatly stucked and discolored in yellowish mildew in the lower corner of my wardrobe for a very long time. The best part is my stamina has increased tremendously and I seldom feel lethargic or drowsy during the day coz I feel fit and recharged all the time. Of course, I do reward myself every once a week or so with foods I love coz there are times when I have cravings. It was also this year that I started to participate actively in marathon or walkathon event just for the fun of it and at the same to push my limit and endurance.

I was at my heaviest 78kg last year (when I weighed in for the medical checkup) and now at the time I'm pen-typing this, my weight has dropped to 65kg! Awesome indeed though I still have more kgs to lose but I'm not complaining. Slowly but surely I will achieve my target hopefully by end of this year. If it doesn't turn out like I expected I would still be proud of myself coz I did it. My way.

*KC hasn't posted latest picture of herself coz she wants to flaunt it when she lose another 5 kg..*

Self-explanatory

While waiting for my sister in law being admitted in Sg Buloh hospital a couple of weeks back, I happen to see this quote appropriately displayed on the reception counter at the ER section.

*in case you haven't heard, the government hospital is famously known for its longggg queve!* :P

Shout out loud

I had just reactivated this blog and already I hate blogger's new setting! Has it been that long? Its gonna take a while for me to get used to this new layout. Sheesh!

In the meantime, stay tuned! I'll be back!

Potong Stim

I'm currently in a nothing-better-to-do-right-now mode to come up with this masterpiece (no sniggering please!). I was watching some monster movies (hurmm cant remember which one) some days ago when the sudden thought of myself in the same predicament as were the characters in the movies sprang to mind. Yeah, I could be that absorbed. Totally.

But my over imaginative mind has decided to twist the story. Here goes.

Instead of running for life, I would take the heroic are-you-out-of-your-mind act of fighting back the aliens. Yeah, those big demon-looking giant aliens that really pissed me off. They killed all my neighbours, friends and foes (God forbids in real life....) but my family were spared. Kinda like War Of The World eh?

While we were running here and there looking for shelters amidst the ruins that were once a progressive city that placed the world's tallest building, we stumbled into this odd looking rundown shophouse and decide to go in there. We were dead tired and hungry from all that running. Little Bee was tugging my shirt and asking for milk. I had to carry him all along and my back was hurting. He must have weighed an easily 20kgs. Kak Long and Kak Ngah kept murmuring they were starving and hubby was badly wounded.

I look around the room and saw a broken refrigerator. What the heck. There could be food in there. I scavenged it and found some leftover chicken rice and pepperoni pizza. I quickly handed them to my daughters who were clearly starving. They gorged on them immediately. I looked around again and saw a tin of nesphray milk. Ah, milk for Little Bee at last. Though the date on the milk tin is already 3 months expired, I don't really care. All I want is to give it to Little Bee. Little Bee was so happy to see milk that his eyes sparkle. To him, it was the best drink ever.

The End.

*Okay, I know the story ended very abruptly but my mind went blank suddenly and I just didnt know what to write next. Ok tak reason bangang ni? Sorry to dissappoint you readers :P

P/S: err maybe there's a sequel coming on...watch this space!

Drivers from hell

*pic snagged from google*

Every now and then we all see moron drivers in some situation or another. Sometimes it makes your blood pressure boil up to its maximum limit. Sometimes all you could do is just shake your head in disbelief. Sometimes you automatically spew out expletives. Yeah, I sometimes tend to do that (say the F word) but only without the presence of children on board. Self-control is the word here.

Let me tell you a bit about these so called drivers from where I live. Here, you could always witness some F1 driver wannabes recklessly speeding on a narrow two-way roads with total disregards to the safety of other road users. Not just drivers even motorcyclists are not spared. These speed devils are a sneaky lot. They would cut you abruptly when you're making turns to right or left lane without giving signals and expect you to give way to them. And if you do happen to knock into them and it is not entirely your fault you'd still get the blame!

There are also drivers who do not park properly. I just don't know what to make of these inept species. Some like to double park on a very cramped road and would not budge when they see oncoming cars or cars from behind struggling to move past them. What can you really do in that tight situation? Me? If I managed to get out of it without a scratch, I'd just give them that jeling-jeling look lah what else. You think I dare to flash my middle finger and get into trouble afterwards? What if they are hidden psycopath road bully? Sape nak tolong kan huhu.

And how many times have you seen a car conveniently parked outside its designated parking spot? Sometimes these moron do not bother to adjust their car to fit nicely into that parking spot making the remainder spot useless for other drivers. And what makes me so damn geram is when the car happens to be a minuscule Kancil! Grrr! 

And don't even get me started on people who do not signal. Do they really think that people can read minds so they don't see the benefit of giving signal when making turns. There are also others who have the audacity to think its pointless to give signals when there are no vehicles behind or from the opposite direction and that its also permissible to run the red lights when there's no oncoming cars. I find these judgement call a grave error. What if there's a motorcylist or pedestrian or cyclist suddenly appears out of nowhere and crossing the road? Do they ever think about this possibility? I doubt so.

What about those coming from side lanes and not slowing down a bit to enter the main lanes. These drivers certainly expect us from the main lanes to slower down for them and some don't even bother to signal. I've had my fair share of dreadful encounters with this type of drivers and they always give me a fright. Sheesh!

How about lorries and buses? Huh, that's another story. Whatever it is, I don't want to be sandwiched in between them, beside them, in front of them or behind them. Whenever I see these monsters approaching by I'd just speed up!

Opss hehe.