Life's a Journey

Hmm...nice title, huh? I will be on leave until the Raya Haji. I plan (mark the word plan) to practice working from home with my two babies. I am preparing myself for the actual plan to work from home. Sounds like a BIG PLAN.Well so far so good. What I can tell you is that it feels so wonderful to be home and doing work. When my lady boss asked me to attend a meeting with a client tomorrow, I agreed. No fuss. That's because I owe it to her for this wonderful moments I am having. Am sure gonna enjoy it while it last. Feel like I should be on leave the whole year!!!

I think I have conciously thought about year 2006 resolution. Making a list, checking it twice. So here goes: 1. Be a better Muslim 2. Be a better wife 3. Be a better mother I think that should sums up all the best things in the world. The list shall be my ultimate goals to achieve. I should start prepare my to-do lists. On the work side, just got an affirmative from my lady boss that this week is the week to breathe. That means I AM FREE!! So Ok...gotta start the to-do list right away.

My two lady bosses just gave a green light to go for a vacation leave in APRIL 2006. Yay!! I have already made my travel arrangements as of today. Talk about early planning, huh? Well, to tell you the truth I have printed out the monthly schedule for year 2006 until July together with all the public holidays already marked. Since I still have some 20 days of annual leave left carried forward (every year) from last year, I can afford to plan my leave luxuriously. And I still have some 15 days left. Anybody wants to buy my annual leave? Wish I could sell them off. At least they are worth some $$$$ value. Hmmm...

Just taken this rating quiz from Lin's page. This Is My Life, Rated Life: 7.5 Mind: 7.3 Body: 6.6 Spirit: 7.2 Friends/Family: 7 Love: 7.3 Finance: 7.8 Take the Rate My Life Quiz Looks like healthy colors to me !!

I haven't been blogging for quite sometime now. Work is quite hectic. Everything demands my time. So what else is new, eh? Also I have started this new hobby. Got so hooked up until my eyes are blue from the intense staring at the computer screen. My hobby is also known as Diner Dash. We have been thinking of sending Fatin to pre-school next year. More like a play-school. We wanted to go for Malay-medium-not-so-serious-stuffs kindy just to get her mingle around with children her own age. Our objective is to get her to socialize. I am not worry so much about her formal education yet, because she will still have another 2 years before starting her primary school. I went to kindy at the age of 6 and I turned out fine. Just would like her to enjoy her childhood as much as she can. Fatin has been in kampung for almost a week now. This morning I got a phone call from MIL. She told me that Fatin wanted to get her ears pierced!! Oh no!! I started to feel some gut-wrenching feelings at the ...

I was writing this blog while chatting with a friend. Suddenly I feel like sharing my feelings when hubby told me his ex-girlfriend called up to update him on her life. Yeah true that she's married. And yeah true that hubby's been very loving and true to me. But still, as a woman "the feeling" is still there. Accepting and handling this type of emotion shall require skills and determination. Alhamdulillah, I accept him and his pre-myself life as it is. And people whom he might have met prior meeting me. And yes I can't dictate who he can or cannot be friends with. But just to be fair, I shall constantly remind myself that I won't take it as a competition because obviously I had won. And I think hubby is just being honest. Thanks, sayang. p/s: The Too Phat song about being "just a friend" keep ringing in my head the whole time I was typing. Hmm...

When taking the elevator up this morning, there was a Chinese lady and an Indian cleaner lady in the elevator with me. Only buttons for floors 8 and 12 were on. I was wondering if that Chinese lady was actually a colleague. Yups...on the 8th floor, only the Indian cleaner lady got off. Hmm...so this Chinese lady is actually my colleague and I don't even recognize her face, let alone her name. And I think it's vice versa. These days, the office is very quiet. All you can hear is the keyboards clicking. It became more obvious after the Hari Raya break. Unlike the previous years, the girls will always bring some kuih raya and nasi impit and rendang and kuah kacang for our own Raya celebration at the office. But not this year. You know why? Because everybody else has left the company except for me. How boring!! It has become so mundane and lifeless. Work is no fun anymore. Worse, half of the force are newcomers. Nobody knows anybody anymore. And nobody seems to care. What next?? ...

Raya Day 1 We celebrated Hari Raya 2005 at my MIL house. We went back after buka puasa on the Deepavali day. Raya was OK. The usual salam-peluk-cium-nangis stuffs. Duit raya this year tak banyak sangat. Mostly gave RM1. After the salam session, makan ketupat laaa...apa lagi. And so we eat and eat and eat. Cuma this year tak puas makan lodeh. Raya Day 2 My hubby's Pak Long's second daughter got engaged at her grandma's house. Our Opah wanted to be there early, for whatevar reasons. So we all went there by 10 in the morning. My bad, I brought Syabil along. Having Fatin around was not so bad because she's as "grown up" as she is, dah pandai main sendiri. But Syabil was another case. Since we were early, and it was Friday, we had to wait for the groom-to-be families to arrive at the next door neighbour's house. And they only arrived at 3:30 pm, after the Friday's prayers. Imagine the waiting hours. Syabil dah biasa tidur dengan buaian, so member tak sena...

The office is pretty quiet now. Almost everyone has gone for the Hari Raya break. Am listening to evergreen Hari Raya songs on my notebook. My business starts picking up, Alhamdulillah. May it grow bigger and bigger. I want to be more focussed next year. Minding each day like I mind money. Am really targetting to catch some BIG FISH in the sea. After all I don't have that many days left on my countdown -- 279 more days. Puasa has been good, InsyaAllah. It's just that my "best friend" came twice this month. Hmmm...actually I wanted to do my claims but malasnya...so I went blogging instead. Also read my sis' blog -- http://dafikaz.blogspot.com/ . No updates since last February!!! Hey sis, wake up!! Tried looking for oshkoshbgosh -- but ended up at somebody else's blog. Achik, where's yours? Can't find it. Syabil will be 9 months soon. How time flies. Also am checking out some kindies around my housing area. I think I want to send Fatin to kindy next year...

Hubby buzzed me on YM this morning. He suggested that I should have this link in my blog. Go on girls..check this site out: http://lilypie.com/create_baby_days.php Funny how he can came across this link (I haven't asked him actually..shall do it on our way back from office today). Some updates: Am doing a user requirement specification due tomorrow for review. Been busy a bit but I am looking forward to enjoy this current project. Unlike the previous one. I think this project will perform better than the previous one. Tengok laaa sapa yang buat user requirement ;) -- yours truly moi. Also I have finished (sorta..can always shop for 1 more piece) shopping for raya. Got Fatin's baju kurung for RM15.90 at TEsCO Mutiara Damansara and Adik's baju Melayu for RM18.00 at pasar malam. Theme of the year is light blue. Since hubby's one still new from Angah's wedding, I only bought for myself baju kurung. The first ever BLUE baju kurung. Memang best shopping for raya at Komple...

I was trying to get responses from old friends back in MCC to gather for buka puasa. As I was writing an email to them this morning, I was thinking to myself. My email should not sound like I am the only person in the group who actually cares about maintaining our friendship. The more I try not to sound like that, the more I think I MIGHT BE the only one who cares about our friendship! Wow !! I still remember us back in MCC, the students used to name us 10 Budak Hitam. We used to hang out together at Kompleks Teruntum and Kuantan Plaza. I think we were one of the girls clique whom never really care what others think of us. We never bothered to put on make-ups to classes (the most will be lipsticks), we wore bathroom slippers for outing and we listened to alternative musics. We were really something back then. And the friendship that we had back then was thicker than water. As we grew up and graduated, and started working and now having our own families, we saw less and less of each oth...

Tomorrow Malaysian Muslim will start fasting for year 1426 Hijr. Am at work, trying to sort some of my stuffs while chatting with Malynn, who's now far way in Thailand (she specifically wants me to mention her name on my blog!!). Was at the client's site the whole day yesterday for a presentation on my current assigned project. Got tonnes of emails from the mailing groups to sort. And also some claims to fill and submit. And a lunch date with a UT prospect. Busy Bee. Syabil is not very well. We had to take him to see Dr. Serena yesterday. At first we drove all the way to TTDI to go see Dr. Altaf but his clinic was closed. So we went to see Dr. Serena instead. She got her own clinic now. She recongnized us instantly. Cool. The happiest person is Fatin laaa. Orang sihat syok laaa main. Sian adik...lentok jer semalam. p/s : Hey finally I have gotten the time to start reading the GD (How to Teach Your Baby to Read) book. That was during the silent fight with the Hubby on Saturday ;...

I bought a GD book - How to Teach Your Baby to Read -- some months back. So far I never had the chance to even flip to the Acknowledgement page..well accept at the MPH some time ago. It is still there, on the side table in my room, gathering more dust each day. Since I plan to run a business from home, I should start train myself to produce a humongous will power and effort to stay awake after putting my babies to sleep. Hubby said if we were to own a business, we might be busier than we are now. I should prepare myself for that since I don't have that many months (positive thinking). With Fatin before, at least I didn't fall sleep easily after putting her to bed. With Syabil now, I couldn't even stay awake half way through feeding him. Always thought of staying awake but usually end up awaken by his next feeding cry somewhere in the middle of the night. Hmm...I guess as I get older, I get tired easier. Maybe not enough physical exercise contributes too. It is too much for ...

There's nothing I would love more than being my own boss. Of course, such a simple statement is actually a big dream plus hard work. But still it is really tempting to have a business on my own. Since I will be bonded in this company until next year, my life plan has definitely need to adjust. I have planned to leave my IT job by the age of 30 (which is like a couple of months away). So far my life milestones were not far off the target. Alhamdulillah. I still remember back in my Sociology class by Mr. Adnan in MCC. On the very first day of class, he asked us to picture ourselves 10 years from then and write down where we see we are. All these 20-year-olds started to scribble something -- a 10-year future projection of who they are and where will they be. Seated beside me was my ex, he actually peeped through my writings. And he was smiling to himself. As if what I wrote down is too much of a projection. Hmm...I guessed I am pretty much where I pictured myself to be at the age of 3...

I get envious to see other people's blogs being updated daily. It's not that I don't have anything to write, sometimes I think too much before typing anything down, end up with nothing typed at all. I made a promise to myself to just type whatever that is on my mind, and I can always amend later should I have to. Well anyway, today is just another day at the office. Nothing new. I have just signed my bonding agreement letter this morning. Just a nice way to start my Thursday morning. I feel like my loyalty to the company had to be bought. After working (serving..more likely) for this company for 6 years, they still feel they need to send me to a MS.Net Development course. They very well know that I am not doing coding anymore!!! Idiots!! I have been taking up the analyst tasks since 2003. And still they sent me to an irrelevant course just to bond me. They must have been very desperate seing other team members jumping out to other companies. Or they must have love me SO MUC...

Many of us belong to the mid-range income group. The type when comes month end, duit gaji pon dah abihs. This is the time when we accumulate as many wealth as possible, of course within halal means. Some people said easy money aren't always good. But if there is actually an option for you to get easy income, would you do it? Why not!? Accumulated wealth isn't achievable when you work makan gaji sampai tua. So if you wish to have more, can always drop me a line. I will get back to you. And don't forget to check out the link ya?? http://www.studiotraffic.com/index.php?refid=631456&username=fazlina

Am so inspired to start my own blog after reading Mothercare Junkie's and MokcikNab's. So here goes... Welcome to my space and enjoy my shared experiences....