Wow! How time flies! I dunno where all the time went! It's just so easy to get caught up with your lives, only to realize that a year have passed and I'm still the same ol' me. Not that I was expecting to win an accomplishment award or climbing Mt. Kinabalu or anything..But I guess, to be fair, 2008 was a relatively good year for me in so many ways..
2008 was the year that..
:: witnessed me adding quite a couple of new Coach handbags to my collection (albeit self purchased or as a gift from GA and my lil sis - muahs I love you both!!)
:: I received my first ever Tag He*uer from GA as our 5th Anniversary Gift.. It was the AquaRacer in Pearl Pink and I love it to death..
:: GA went to Spain for his incentive trip and came back with Loewe handbag fo me (among other things).. Woot!! It was soo worth it kena tinggal..
:: My 2 kids turned 4 (Myra) and 1 (Azriel) and since it was Ayell's 1st birthday we decided to splurge a bit and have a party for him, clowns et al. For Myra's birthday, we had a small do with our closest relatives cum her adoring fans.
:: I unintentionally voted for the wrong party in the General Elections 2008. Altho it would have made no difference anyways, given the majority win.. huhu talk about being absentminded!!
:: I left my "safe" job in the company that I thot was my dream company for a higher paying job in an industry I never dreamed of entering. (sometimes, I still wonder what the hell was I thinking!!). but it also made me a lot happier since I was no longer "invisible" and met a whole bunch of cool colleagues and have "belonged" eversince!!
:: My maid went back for a holiday and I realized that i'm nowhere near the SuperMOM material that some people are. How do those people do it? huhu not that I dun love my kids, but I think they like me better when I'm not the Mummaid.. hehe
:: I realized that you don't actually KNOW a person untill you work with him/her.. In short, it's not a really good idea to work under a person you've known in a different context (friend, vendor, etc).. who knows, he/she might turn psycho on you.. yup Ms. BLING, I'm referring to you!! In this case, I would like to say it out loud that I miss my old MALE bosses!! huhuhu..
:: my Lil Sis came back from her Summer Hols and we went to Bandung just the two of us.. We had lots of fun and really shopped till we dropped that our baggage limit almost went bust. It was also there that a really cute guy was hitting on me and for the first time ever, I wasn't too inclined to reveal my marital status and it was my MATURED lil sis who sort of broke it to him.. It's not that I don't love GA to bits and pieces and the thot of being unfaithful has never crossed my mind, but it was really flattering and a real ego boost, u know? :)
:: Ga & I traded our cool MyV* for our beloved Rush, with the excuse of wanting the extra seating space (5+2 seater).. In actual fact, Myra hardly sits at the back row and the seat is almost always folded to make room for all our shopping bags, etc...Whatever works huh? And I must say, i love the car lots!!
:: Myra started her Pre 1 Kindy at C*C Bandar Puteri and eventhough it took her a while to get used to the whole school thing, I must say that she's pretty much settled and doing really well in school.. It took me a while to narrow down to a suitable kindy for Myra and I'm glad that we finally decided on this particular one..
:: we attended Myra's 1st ever Sports Day & Annual Concert and both times we were very proud of our baby girl!! Who would have thot that the small baby who insisted on being born at 25 weeks would have grown into such a big girl so fast? Sometimes I have a lump in my throat when I think about how fast she's grown and that she will soon be in Primary school..
:: found me enjoying all the food that I loved and craved without a moment's care about the impending weight gain. GA and I were always having a list of things in mind to eat and try, albeit with our families or just the 2 of us.. and now, I can sadly say that all those good food is getting to me and eventho I only weigh 45kg, my ass is the size of me pregger self!! huhu no, it's not my imagination.. it seems that all the fat adalah berkumpul disittew.. stress okeh! I'm gonna have to do something about it..
:: we took the kids on some cuti cuti malaysia with destinations such as Kuching, Langkawi, Penang, Damai Laut, Ipoh, Cameron Highlands, Port Dickson, JB and of course GAs Hometown - KB. It ain't cheap and it ain't easy to bring kids, let alone 2 kids on a holiday.. what with all the stuffs to pack and bring, ensuring that we stay at comfortable hotels with the kids, the many toilet breaks for Myra, the buying of the small things that they saw and wanted during our many shopping expeditions, ensuring we only eat at "decent" restaurants to ensure that the kids are eating 'safe' foods.. huhuhu but the happy look on their faces, their appreciative ways to show us how happy they are, that just makes everything worth it..
:: GA & I are at the height of our busy-ness at work.. my new job seems to demand a lot from me and there are times when i have to keep long hours. sometimes I would already have fallen asleep by the time he comes back from work and I would have to drudgingly get up to heat up his dinner and etc. Sometimes we're both too busy at work that we don't get the chance to call each other as often as we'd like. GA's been traveling a lot due to his job, leaving me with the kids for a few days at a time, and god knows how much I miss him everytime we're apart.. sometimes I get a bit resentful but I do understand that fact that he can't change being the workaholic that he is and that it's all prolly for our family's sake (especially so during the year ends when he gets his annual bonus.heheh). Alhamdulillah, so far, we're still holding strong and still spending quality time together and with the kids as much as possible..
:: saw me meeting up with my fellow Mummy bloggers quite a few times, while enjoying their company and the makan makan..my friendship with them is almost as old as Myra and our relationship is much stronger as we share with each other a myriad of things like our kids, our passion for food, our passion for handbags and shopping, sometimes just to bitch and vent and let off steam, sometimes to share our personal problems and lots more.. Over time, we've lost some of the gals to the 'black hole' to the point of no return, but here's hoping that the rest of us will remain as friends aka soul sistahs!!
:: shocked my family (maternal side) with a scare that left everyone very anxious and sad and so many other indescribable emotions. it was also a trying time for me as we were not allowed to tell my lil sis about it, and for someone who shares almost everything with her, it was very the stressful!! but alhamdulillah, allah is kind and allah is great. there was good news and we were all very happy for the clean break.. of course, its ugly nose might come peeking out again, for which we can only pray for Allah's merciful help.
:: also saw my paternal grandma (Nek) being admitted into the hospital for the very first time, and it saddens my heart to see how frail she's become.. I've always seen her as someone who's always strong and healthy and seeing her in the hospital the other kinda gave me a wake up call. a rude reminder how both my grandmothers are getting on and they're prolly not gonna be around forever. it was also a reminder that I should see them and spend time with them as often as I can.. mintak dipanjangkan umur Nek dan Wan berdua, semoga sentiasa sihat and may there be many more healthy years to come.. i love the both of them to bits and pieces.. huhuhu.. :(
so that was more or less 2008 in a nutshell for me. alhamdulillah, it has been a good one for me and here's hoping 2009 will be just as good, insyallah..
and as for my 2009 aspirations:
:: to try and squeeze in some time for some good ol' exercising (to get rid of the ass)
:: to read at the very least 1 book a month (i've got a bookcase full of books that I've not read)
:: to travel to at least 1 overseas destination for the year (Singapore pun ok what)
:: to allocate a bigger % for my savings (rather than have the money disappear with nothing to show for)
:: to only buy necessary stuffs and no more buying on impulse, especially clothes for the kids (since they can only wear it for a few months and also coz their almaris cannot take it anymore)
:: to skip my annual "pilgrimage" to BDO this year (I should prolly spend my money elsewhere and see other places)
:: to start saving up for our impending trip for NJ's graduation in 2011. (pengsan woo..)
:: to buy my 1st LV (huhu krisis ekonomi konon)
:: to better balance my thankless job of being a wife, mom, daughter, sister, granddaughter, daughter in law, sister in law, employee and employer to the maid. (huhu multi-tasker..)
:: to not let the demands of my job and my control freak of a boss take over my life..
:: to keep my temper at bay (jgn mudah sangat naik angin, especially with Myra)
:: as always, to be a better muslim.. i need to work harder on this
:: and finally, to try not to abandon this blog completely.. hehehe (we'll see about that)..
Happy 2009 u ols!! muah muahs!!
2008 was the year that..
:: witnessed me adding quite a couple of new Coach handbags to my collection (albeit self purchased or as a gift from GA and my lil sis - muahs I love you both!!)
:: I received my first ever Tag He*uer from GA as our 5th Anniversary Gift.. It was the AquaRacer in Pearl Pink and I love it to death..
:: GA went to Spain for his incentive trip and came back with Loewe handbag fo me (among other things).. Woot!! It was soo worth it kena tinggal..
:: My 2 kids turned 4 (Myra) and 1 (Azriel) and since it was Ayell's 1st birthday we decided to splurge a bit and have a party for him, clowns et al. For Myra's birthday, we had a small do with our closest relatives cum her adoring fans.
:: I unintentionally voted for the wrong party in the General Elections 2008. Altho it would have made no difference anyways, given the majority win.. huhu talk about being absentminded!!
:: I left my "safe" job in the company that I thot was my dream company for a higher paying job in an industry I never dreamed of entering. (sometimes, I still wonder what the hell was I thinking!!). but it also made me a lot happier since I was no longer "invisible" and met a whole bunch of cool colleagues and have "belonged" eversince!!
:: My maid went back for a holiday and I realized that i'm nowhere near the SuperMOM material that some people are. How do those people do it? huhu not that I dun love my kids, but I think they like me better when I'm not the Mummaid.. hehe
:: I realized that you don't actually KNOW a person untill you work with him/her.. In short, it's not a really good idea to work under a person you've known in a different context (friend, vendor, etc).. who knows, he/she might turn psycho on you.. yup Ms. BLING, I'm referring to you!! In this case, I would like to say it out loud that I miss my old MALE bosses!! huhuhu..
:: my Lil Sis came back from her Summer Hols and we went to Bandung just the two of us.. We had lots of fun and really shopped till we dropped that our baggage limit almost went bust. It was also there that a really cute guy was hitting on me and for the first time ever, I wasn't too inclined to reveal my marital status and it was my MATURED lil sis who sort of broke it to him.. It's not that I don't love GA to bits and pieces and the thot of being unfaithful has never crossed my mind, but it was really flattering and a real ego boost, u know? :)
:: Ga & I traded our cool MyV* for our beloved Rush, with the excuse of wanting the extra seating space (5+2 seater).. In actual fact, Myra hardly sits at the back row and the seat is almost always folded to make room for all our shopping bags, etc...Whatever works huh? And I must say, i love the car lots!!
:: Myra started her Pre 1 Kindy at C*C Bandar Puteri and eventhough it took her a while to get used to the whole school thing, I must say that she's pretty much settled and doing really well in school.. It took me a while to narrow down to a suitable kindy for Myra and I'm glad that we finally decided on this particular one..
:: we attended Myra's 1st ever Sports Day & Annual Concert and both times we were very proud of our baby girl!! Who would have thot that the small baby who insisted on being born at 25 weeks would have grown into such a big girl so fast? Sometimes I have a lump in my throat when I think about how fast she's grown and that she will soon be in Primary school..
:: found me enjoying all the food that I loved and craved without a moment's care about the impending weight gain. GA and I were always having a list of things in mind to eat and try, albeit with our families or just the 2 of us.. and now, I can sadly say that all those good food is getting to me and eventho I only weigh 45kg, my ass is the size of me pregger self!! huhu no, it's not my imagination.. it seems that all the fat adalah berkumpul disittew.. stress okeh! I'm gonna have to do something about it..
:: we took the kids on some cuti cuti malaysia with destinations such as Kuching, Langkawi, Penang, Damai Laut, Ipoh, Cameron Highlands, Port Dickson, JB and of course GAs Hometown - KB. It ain't cheap and it ain't easy to bring kids, let alone 2 kids on a holiday.. what with all the stuffs to pack and bring, ensuring that we stay at comfortable hotels with the kids, the many toilet breaks for Myra, the buying of the small things that they saw and wanted during our many shopping expeditions, ensuring we only eat at "decent" restaurants to ensure that the kids are eating 'safe' foods.. huhuhu but the happy look on their faces, their appreciative ways to show us how happy they are, that just makes everything worth it..
:: GA & I are at the height of our busy-ness at work.. my new job seems to demand a lot from me and there are times when i have to keep long hours. sometimes I would already have fallen asleep by the time he comes back from work and I would have to drudgingly get up to heat up his dinner and etc. Sometimes we're both too busy at work that we don't get the chance to call each other as often as we'd like. GA's been traveling a lot due to his job, leaving me with the kids for a few days at a time, and god knows how much I miss him everytime we're apart.. sometimes I get a bit resentful but I do understand that fact that he can't change being the workaholic that he is and that it's all prolly for our family's sake (especially so during the year ends when he gets his annual bonus.heheh). Alhamdulillah, so far, we're still holding strong and still spending quality time together and with the kids as much as possible..
:: saw me meeting up with my fellow Mummy bloggers quite a few times, while enjoying their company and the makan makan..my friendship with them is almost as old as Myra and our relationship is much stronger as we share with each other a myriad of things like our kids, our passion for food, our passion for handbags and shopping, sometimes just to bitch and vent and let off steam, sometimes to share our personal problems and lots more.. Over time, we've lost some of the gals to the 'black hole' to the point of no return, but here's hoping that the rest of us will remain as friends aka soul sistahs!!
:: shocked my family (maternal side) with a scare that left everyone very anxious and sad and so many other indescribable emotions. it was also a trying time for me as we were not allowed to tell my lil sis about it, and for someone who shares almost everything with her, it was very the stressful!! but alhamdulillah, allah is kind and allah is great. there was good news and we were all very happy for the clean break.. of course, its ugly nose might come peeking out again, for which we can only pray for Allah's merciful help.
:: also saw my paternal grandma (Nek) being admitted into the hospital for the very first time, and it saddens my heart to see how frail she's become.. I've always seen her as someone who's always strong and healthy and seeing her in the hospital the other kinda gave me a wake up call. a rude reminder how both my grandmothers are getting on and they're prolly not gonna be around forever. it was also a reminder that I should see them and spend time with them as often as I can.. mintak dipanjangkan umur Nek dan Wan berdua, semoga sentiasa sihat and may there be many more healthy years to come.. i love the both of them to bits and pieces.. huhuhu.. :(
so that was more or less 2008 in a nutshell for me. alhamdulillah, it has been a good one for me and here's hoping 2009 will be just as good, insyallah..
and as for my 2009 aspirations:
:: to try and squeeze in some time for some good ol' exercising (to get rid of the ass)
:: to read at the very least 1 book a month (i've got a bookcase full of books that I've not read)
:: to travel to at least 1 overseas destination for the year (Singapore pun ok what)
:: to allocate a bigger % for my savings (rather than have the money disappear with nothing to show for)
:: to only buy necessary stuffs and no more buying on impulse, especially clothes for the kids (since they can only wear it for a few months and also coz their almaris cannot take it anymore)
:: to skip my annual "pilgrimage" to BDO this year (I should prolly spend my money elsewhere and see other places)
:: to start saving up for our impending trip for NJ's graduation in 2011. (pengsan woo..)
:: to buy my 1st LV (huhu krisis ekonomi konon)
:: to better balance my thankless job of being a wife, mom, daughter, sister, granddaughter, daughter in law, sister in law, employee and employer to the maid. (huhu multi-tasker..)
:: to not let the demands of my job and my control freak of a boss take over my life..
:: to keep my temper at bay (jgn mudah sangat naik angin, especially with Myra)
:: as always, to be a better muslim.. i need to work harder on this
:: and finally, to try not to abandon this blog completely.. hehehe (we'll see about that)..
Happy 2009 u ols!! muah muahs!!
