5 things that you did for the first time

I received this tag from Zara ( you really made your word about tagging me, eh?)

It is called 'The First Time....'

Let see whether I could compose/remember the first time of things happened in my life:

1. First time I was an elder sister

My younger brother came to the world when I was 4. Before his arrival, I was so attached to my mom, I slept at night cuddling with her and I was so manja. Everyone in my family called me Adik. I remember the night my mom was hospitalized to deliver my brother, I asked my father frequently on my mom's whereabout. The next day, my father took me to the hospital and I saw my mom holding a small baby. She introduced to me my baby brother. According to my mom, I was very jealous of my baby brother that I behaved so crankily with my parents. Eventhough I was no longer the youngest, I still use 'Adik' to call myself (and I still do until now whenever I speak to my parents, and my elder sister and brother though I have 6 more younger siblings...hehehe).

2. First time I lived away from my family.

After UPSR, I got an offer from Yayasan Selangor to further my secondary education under their program in KL . I was so excited at first when I arrived, not knowing that life was going to be quite challenging for a 13-year old girl. Not long after I've started staying there, I already was very home sicked and couldn't get along with the lifestyle and the bullies. The whole year I was there, I pleaded to my parents to get me out from there and finally they complied to my request. By the end of Form 1 year, I was out from Yayasan Selangor and stayed with my family.

3. First time I had a paid job

It was after SPM. I worked as an operator at an electronic factory near my house (that time we lived in Rawang). Well, I'm so grateful that I don't work as factory operator for a living forever. Not that I look down for those working as operator but it isn't one easy job. Imagine you are doing the same routine everyday for 8 hours with small pay. And the environment also is very challenging. It really challenges your morality. With guys flirting around you, the ladies inviting you to join their weekend rendezvous (to which I had the feeling it was not healthy activities). I only worked there for a month, then I quit.

4. First time I saw my husband

I was 18 that time. We were in small community doing the A-Level program. Some friends of mine had this funny talk about each of us choosing a boy in our college to be our 'secret admire'. I didn't know to choose whom, cause honestly I had no feeling, I had just broke up from a relationship. But I wanted to be part of this giggling talk. Then one day, I saw him when we were in a bus going back from our college to the hostel. And I was telling myself 'Oh, this boy is kind of cute' and decided that he would be my 'secret admire'. From my friend, I knew his name and what class he was in. But that was all. Our relationship only started months after that when we went for a hiking trip to Gunung Korbu and we were in the same group. I'm so blessed that I met him and now we are married.

5. First time I knew about my twins' existence

I was told that I was pregnant by a general doctor through a urine test. A week after that I had bloodstain on my panties. Feeling scared, we rushed to see an obstetrician. She said I was probably facing a threatened abortion, a condition that may lead to miscarriage. She then performed ultrasound scan. While scanning my belly, she looked carefully on the screen and I heard she mumbled this "I think I see two heart beats here..." Then she looked at us, smiled and said this "I think you both are going to get a pair of twins".

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Ok, I'm done and it's not so difficult to write on 'The First Time...'. So now this tag goes to Linda, Adah, Are-T, Nor and Dalina.

It's 30 Now....

It's my birthday today...the 30th. Feel like yesterday I aged 20, now a decade apparently has passed. Going into 20's was something I was looking forward, but going into 30's is some how makes me feel awkward. I know age is only a number but still I can't help not to feel that I'm growing old.

I found a quote from the Internet :

"Think of birthdays this way: you’re not getting older, you’re getting wiser"

Yeah...that's right!

I also pray that as my age increases, I'll be a better Muslim and life is blessed by Allah s.w.t.

Semoga segala urusan hidup ku di permudahkanNya. Amin.

Minyak Naik!!!!

I guess everybody was really shocked with the breaking news of the new petrol price. It is now RM2.70/liter!!!! Just yesterday's morning I read on the newspaper that the petrol price will be increased in August, suddenly on the evening, they have announced the new price.

Luckily I had pumped in the petrol on my way back home, before people knew about it. By the time I reached Melaka, I saw long queue at the petrol station. I went to a pharmacy, where I found that the petrol price will be raised by midnight. I quickly called dear HB to share the news and he asked about his car (left at home). I said no way I'm going to queue to pump in the petrol cause I needed to take Nabihah to clinic that night. She still has the fever.

After Maghrib, I drove to clinic and found that the road of Durian Tunggal was jammed. Cars queued at long stretch to Petronas and Shell. Felt like there was celebration or festival or something. I'm sure it was the same phenomenon everywhere in our country.

I've already spend nearly 1k a month for petrol. Although it's claimable, but the last claim I received was for the month of December 2007. Even my credit card has reached its limit now and I have to pay as much as I use monthly to avoid high finance charge. So imagine how much will it be with the new price. And with the petrol price increased now, I'm sure subsequently price of other things will increase too. I can't imagine how the low income group will survive, cause even us (I think we could consider ourselves belong to the middle class) feel that this increment will affect our financial situation. At the moment, it's just barely enough for everything, and I'm not talking about spending on the luxury. The luxury things that I could say, probably eating out occasionally, going for short holiday locally and bought Clinique. Other than that, it is all normal expenses. Well, guess we need to look back at our expenditure, cut here and there and do new budget.

Oh! Maybe I should bring my own food pack to work......

Hmm.....

HB is off for one week course in JB. Lucky now is school holiday and I've imported my sister to stay with me until this Sunday. Original plan was to send the twins to stay in Tg. Malim but my mother is worried about me staying alone so that's why my sister is coming with me.

As usual without HB at home, I'm so lazy to cook. So last night we only ate pizza (bought frozen from Tesco), mushroom soup (from the can), garlic bread and salad. Sounds very much like Western dinner, huh? Anyway, that was just for last night, I'm not going to make those express foods our regular meals.

Since the twins are staying at home the whole week and my sister is not the cooking type, I have to wake early in the morning to cook for breakfast and lunch. Set the alarm at 5.00 am, but I leave it snooze every 5 minutes before finally wake up at 5.30 am. (I wonder why is it so hard for me to wake up this early on normal days to do my exercise?)

With no man in the house, I'm actually a little freak out because our resident area used to have few cases of house break-in last year. The residents, including HB had set up a watch group, but it was active for only few months. When break-in is no more the issue , the watch group eventually stop. My neighbour next door are not at home, I think they are away for vacation. The other side is always empty. And since school holiday started last week, I notice that our taman is a bit quiet than usual. Last night, we were having dinner when suddenly we heard a loud bang on my kitchen door. And the door was only closed but not locked. I quickly asked my sister to lock it up. "It could be cats fighting", I said this to my sister but we didn't hear any cats sound.

Nabihah also a bit feverish last night. I gave her the syrup, but she vomited it. So I waited until she fell asleep, then inserted the bullet medicine thru her anal. She woke up around 2 am, crying...I asked her why, she kept pointing somewhere while crying. I tried to be patient, kept giving her the favourite pillow but she threw it away, I wanted to hug her, she pushed me away. After a while, when I tried to hug her , then only she accepted and stopped crying. Phew!

I have to admit that I'm not so good at handling a crying-for-not-known-reason toddler. It's always HB's job. I don't know how single parents do this, managing everything without a spouse to help. HB is only away for one day, I already feel so helpless.

Well, guess if the situation as what it is, one will manage, don't you think?

Various Updates

I wrote this entry since last week, delayed to publish it coz I thought I wanna insert some photos of the events. Our camera was faulty before my sister's wedding but HB managed to fix it last week. So we captured some photos on the twins' birthday and groom's wedding ceremony. But last night when I wanted to upload the photos into the laptop, it was empty!!! Gosh, we really didn't know how it happened. So here goes the entry without the photos. (Linda, aku x dapat tunjuk gambar kawin adik aku.)

I guess this gonna be a long entry. So many things I wanna share here, events from last week and things that bugging me, from work, shitty boss, my sister's wedding, the twins' 3rd birthday and let see where I'm going to end up with this entry.

The Evil Boss

I guess those who have been reading my blog must be tired with stories of my boss. Well, me too...tired of telling how miserable my life working with boss from hell (I borrow this term from Adzue :)) Last Friday, at 4.30 pm came the contractor handing the data, we discussed until 5.30 pm (despite my intention to go back at 5pm sharp), and then this boss of mine instructed me to key in the data that day. I told him I was going back to my hometown that night, so if I stayed back, what time will I arrive Melaka and go back to Tg. Malim? He said he didn't care how I wanna do it, since I was taking leave on the following Monday and Tuesday, he wanted the data ready in the network by Wednesday morning. And I swore like hell (of course in my mind!). I felt like being bullied, I knew he did this on purpose. That data is not so urgent, he could have waited until I come back and do it. Besides he already has the raw data if he really wanted to do analysis and furthermore he's so free, he could even key in the data himself if he couldn't really wait until I come back on Wednesday. Arrghh!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, on Tuesday night, my beloved cik HB helped me keying in the data and Wednesday morning I managed to copy it in the network. And this shitty boss when he came, didn't even ask about this. So @#$%%$#$%!!!!

My Sister's Wedding

Alhamdulilah, my sister, Siti Rahimah aka Shima is safely married to her fiancee, Fuad. But of course the whole family worked so hard to make sure everything is smooth as planned. Months of headache thinking about her wedding finally over especially for my mum and my eldest sister, Kakak. Though I didn't go back frequently to TM to help with the wedding preparation but I had helped financially and also lent my ears to hear complaints via phone from Mak and Kakak. I heard these two quarreled a lot doing the preparation, up to the point they cried and hugged after a fierce argument, teruk kan...heheheh. Even the bride was not as emotional as these two. And I was quite glad I didn't stay near my kampung, if not I'm sure I'll be more stressful dealing with Mak and Kakak.

Resignation

Yay!!!! I've finally forwarded letter of my resignation to my company after working nearly 6 years with them. With 2 months notice, I'll be working until end of July. Luckily when I handed the letter, my boss (in my HQ office) was not around, so I was safe from being interviewed why am I resigning (actually I have just received a good increment in March, so the management must be wondering whether it's another good offer) . Can't hardly wait for this 2 months period to over.....

Twins' 3rd Birthday

Their birthday fell on 27/5/08, 2 days after my sister's wedding. We celebrated their birthday at their school. But I was such a fool, I didn't call the teacher and asked how many kids arethere on the day. I did ask the teacher a month ago, and she said at late afternoon, there are 40 kids at the school. So I prepared 40 bags of goodies. Apparently, since now is school breaks, there were not many kids coming to school. When we came, there were only 8 kids there. Lucky I didn't buy the 2kg cake (we thought of ordering the 2 kg cake previously, thinking that 1 kg cake is not enough for 40 kids but I didn't have time to go order, so we just had the 1kg ready made cartoon cake I bought from Jusco).

Hey, this is not as long as I thought it would be (I love to elaborate, don't I?).

What's wrong with my YM?

I don't know why but I keep having problem with my YM. I can log in, I can see people online but I couldn't send message to them. Always the YM is not responding. I've removed and reinstalled the YM, the Windows reported that they couldn't find the solution to the problem. I have installed the latest version. But still YM is cranky, why?

So friends, sorry I couldn't chat online with you at the moment, I miss you guys. I'm trying to figure out the problem with YM. Wish me luck!

Checklist

Minggu ini sesungguhnya akan menjadi minggu yg sungguh sibuk utk aku dari segi career wise and family wise, dan semuanya aku kena buat before Friday ni.

Career wise:

Aku kena siapkan surat perletakan jawatan aku dgn selengkap2nya sbb Isnin nanti aku nak singgah opis KL n drop surat ni....hehehe, dah draft dah tapi mcm aku kena edit here n there. Sungguh pon org kata surat resign x yah nak bagus2, tapi mana la tau esok2 aku nak masuk balik ke, so kena la puji2 sikit diorg kan....

Since aku nak cuti Isnin n Selasa minggu depan (sempena adik aku kawin n besday si kembar), maka haruslah aku siapkan mana2 keje yg penting sebelum bos aku membebel. Dia mmg suka dengki sikit kalau org nak cuti2 ni.

Family wise:

Aduh...ini mmg byk perkara...

Wedding adik aku: aku kena cari tudung utk baju kurung boria (semua family aku yg pompuan pakai baju yg sama), mak aku pesan beli kek span kat Tesco utk makanan ringan tetamu yg dtg, kena beli sandals for the twins, kena buat list utk brg2 yg nak diangkut bawa balik kg.

Majlis bertunang adik ipar aku: since aku x dpt nak balik KB utk majlis pertunangan dia, aku nak kirim satu item brg hantaran. Coklat aku dah beli, bakul n bunga hiasan pon dah ada, cuma aku kena cari masa nak arrange coklat tu dlm bakul. Aku kena pass kan coklat ni kat adik ipar masa nak balik TG Malim ari Jumaat ni....adoi...sempat ke?

Birthday kembar: Besday diorg jatuh on ari selasa, 27/5, dua ari lepas kenduri adik aku. Dan aku dah lama plan nak buat besday diorg kat school diorg. Aku dah tanya teacher school dia apa aku kena prepare utk celebrate birthday diorg kat school. Teacher kata up to me tapi selalunya parents akan bawa goodies n cake. Budak2 ada 40 org, so aku kena prepare 40 gift bags. Semalam dah ku beli coklat n goodies utk diisi dlm gift bag. Terbeliak mata si kembar tgk coklat punya byk. Nasib aku dah mmg ajar diorg x boleh makan selagi belum bayar. Aku belum jumpa lagi gift bag utk isi goodies tu. Yg dijual kat Giant n Jusco mahal sgt. Ada ke 6 beg plastiks aje dah RM3.90. Kang budak2 bukannya appreciate beg plastik tu, mesti buang aje. So aku x mau buang duit beli benda2 camtu. Aku rasa aku akan buat sendiri gift bag. Tapi sempat ke?

Hmm......