Debate

My interest on the political issues is actually very minimal. I read the newspaper, hear the TV news and get to know the latest update of our politic scenario, but that's all. But I am never obsess or excited when it comes to politic.And I can't believe it either that I'm going to write about politics now and probably having myself risked to be caught by ISA...hahahah

When Anwar Ibrahim is accused on sodomy crime AGAIN! I have the urge to read more and find out more on what is going on. 10 years ago, I didn't believe any of the crimes prosecuted on Anwar, much less now. But I always understand, politics is a dirty arena. People would do anything possible for power and money.

So when it was announced that there will be a debate between Penasihat PKR, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim (DSAI)and Menteri Penerangan, Datuk Shabery Cheek (DSC)and would be broad casted on TV, I was so excited.But one thing I wondered was, why Shabery Cheek? Why not the PM himself or TPM or at least the financial minister? Oh ya, the financial minister is PM himself, isn't he?

Ok, I'm not good at summarizing on the debate itself. Go and watch it yourself from youtube or any other sources and conclude. But I find that DSAI is truly someone with caliber and charismatic. He's indeed a good debater and public speaker. And "kudos" to Shabery Cheek for having guts to challenge DSAI for this debate even though I find his speeches is very much not convincing. And if the BN Government is very transparent to give opportunity to the Opposition/PKR to publicly speaking on this oil issue as stated by Shabery, why was it not aired on RTM itself? Shabery Cheek is RTM's boss, and funny...it didn't show live in that channel? It was shown in Astro Awani only. And how many Malaysian citizen has Astro at home? What about those who live in villages and remote areas? Is it so transparent as claimed by Shabery?

Our politics scenario is getting unpredictable it seems. No doubt UMNO/BN has done a lot for the country but it's not the party to be blamed now, it's the people who manage it. Maybe whe should change those people, huh?

I want to live in peaceful Malaysia but not with corrupted leaders....

Visa

We off to Perlis on Friday (I'll write about my trip later). But we had to dropped by at the German embassy in KL. They had called cik HB few days earlier saying that now they need the financial statement to be translated into Deutsch. Our friend who is going to Aachen, Germany did not have to do this, in fact the visa for him and his family is ready for collection. And they only did it 2 weeks earlier than us! But we are aware that visa application is handled by the state (ours is Hessen) that we are going to, so the requirements may vary accordingly.

For one document to be translated means we have to spend more money.One page costs us RM70 with the translator and another RM99 for the embassy to endorse. Expensive, huh? Previously, we had spent hundreds of ringgit to translate some documents into Deutsch. And the translator must the one certified by the embassy. Meaning, even if you can write in Deutsch, you can't do the translation by yourself. Hmmm...so much for procedures..

Now we are wondering whether they are going to ask for more documents to be translated. As far as we can remember, the only document that is still not in Deutsch is my degree cert.(Oh! This is also an interesting (and weird too!) part about Germany visa application, that the accompanying spouse needs to be at least a degree holder)

I just hope that there will be no more issues with this visa application. We are running out of time now and expect that we could get the visa by mid-August.

Which One?

I am contemplating between taking a decent way of leave application (i.e fill up the form and see whether the boss will approve it) OR just take emergency leave. Tomorrow I'm off to Perlis. And I only have 1 more day annual leave to spend. Coming Saturday is my working Saturday and I have no more leave to spend. But I can substitute that Saturday with another 2 Saturdays to come before I finally leave my job. Even if he still doesn't agree to this arrangement, I'm willing to treat that half day as unpaid leave.

The thing is, I'm not sure whether that evil boss would agree, knowing how much he likes to make my life miserable.If I go and see him and konon-konon nak discuss, he would shout at me first, thus will make me feel bad the whole day and night.

So, I'm thinking the best way is just to go on emergency and then SMS him. If he wants to be angry, at least I already did it. So the hell with him!!! Besides, I'm leaving soon, so what the heck?

If Only....

I'm so bored and sleepy. So I did some works in Polyvore.com. And I came out with this:



Ah! That jacket just look marvelous and the jeans too. How I wish that I am more slimmer so that I could look fabulous with those outfit. And I want to switch to eye glasses instead of contact lenses. Now my current eyeglasses look so outdated and I look older with it so I hardly wear it in public.

If only I could lose weight.......

Diet la weh!!!!!

Monday Blues

I have just arrived at Melaka from KB this morning after a dreadful 12 hours journey by bus. And then I have to drive another 1 hour to get to work. So, it's one miserable Monday morning today. I'm still so sleepy because I couldn't sleep well in the bus. And number of times while driving this morning, I actually drifted to sleep. Oh! So dangerous....

The bus we rode on Friday night from Melaka to KB only took us 10 hours to arrive. Apparently, the bus we rode to come back which is C*pat Express bus was actually using longer route via Segamat, Bandar Muadzam Shah, Tangkak and Muar. That's why it took 12 hours to arrive. Ayoo!!! No wonder it took so long.

Luckily the twins were very good through out the journey to and fro. They slept so soundly in the bus. It was just me who couldn't sleep.

The wedding ceremony also went well. Congratulation to my sister-in-law MN and her newly- wedded-husband, K. I wish you happy marriage.

The couple posing with the dowry

The couple on the dais

This coming weekend, we'll be off to Arau, Perlis for the groom's side wedding ceremony. And this time I bet we'll be more tiring as we will travel by car.

A Miserable Night and A Grumpy Lady Story......

When I answered one of the questions in the last tag on what do I hate about myself, I forgot to say that I hate it when I am easily become stressed up and grumpy when things are not in order or not running as planned. Last night it happened again and I still hate myself for allowing it to happen.

Two days ago cik HB told me that he got free coupons to watch movie at the newly opened GSC in Dataran Pahlawan and asked me whether I wanted to go. Of course I wanted to go, it's free and I wanted to watch Narnia: Prince Caspian so badly. So we planned to go last night. When I arrived home after work, I was already in bad mood coz I had entertained my most-impossible-boss who made me stayed back 45 minutes late just to do some editing on not-so-urgent letter.

I reached home at 7pm and as we wanted to catch the movie at 9.15 pm, and driving to Bandar Hilir will take 1/2 hour from our place, I had to rush doing everything. I hate being in rush! I asked cik HB whether is it worth to go, thinking as the movies were free, there would be a huge crowd with everybody wanting to get a ticket. He said no need to worry, there were so many movies and if Narnia is already full house, we could watch another movie.

By the time we reached Dataran Pahlawan, it was 8.40 pm and finding a parking lot was challenging. And I started being angry. Then we managed to get a parking lot but walking to the cinema was another thing. Cik HB insisted to use lift and I insisted we use the escalator. First, finding the lift is time consuming and second I was sure there would be a lot of people wanting to use the lift as well. He won, we went around looking for lift and as expected a lot of people waiting at the lift. After a while waiting (the lift didn't even stop at the floor), finally he agreed we use the escalator. And I started being grumpy and walking so fast, dragging Nabihah with me (I'm such a bad mother, huh?)

When we reached the cinema, there were a huge crowd at the floor and all digital display showed all movies were full-house. Well, it was free...what were we thinking? If it's free, means you have to fight for the ticket la, what else? It's either you go early to get the ticket or go much earlier during the day. Even the Chinese elderly crowded the place. I can tell you, these elderly were as old as 80, yet they were willing to join the crowds for free movie.

I was disappointed, not just because I couldn't watch the movie but because I was stupid enough to consider going to watch it. Didn't I know that it will be this way? Back in KL, even when I was single, when there were freebies like free movie, say for example you just have to bring the cut-out coupon from newspaper and get the free ticket, I wouldn't go. Because I knew it wasn't worth the time I had to spent on queuing up.

And I felt like blaming my dear husband for bringing up this idea and for not being able to analyze the situation (ya, the bad me for just wanting to blame him). Then I wanted to go home straight but he still wanted to do some window shopping. And I started boiling inside. Then paying for the parking lot was another story. The queue was long (cik HB queued) and some idiots had the nerves to jump queue. I could see cik HB's face changed (reddened, not green, ok! if you think of Incredible Hulk...hahaha) . When it was his turn, the machine rejected his money and he called me to ask for small change. I, with hand full holding the children's drinks, jackets and controlling the children from running around, just passed him my hand bag and asked him to look for the money himself.

And when we were in the car, he nagged me for giving the handbag, not giving the money straight. He said people at his back was making noise because he was taking time at the machine. I was really boiling up and snapped at him. And he snapped back at me. Then in the midst of tense, Nabihah who was standing at the middle of our seat, suddenly threw up, a smelly content of milo and orange juice which she drank earlier. We had no time to stop, so I shielded myself and the jackets I wanted to prevent the vomit from splashing onto the car seat. And made me more stressful, of course and felt like crying. I was so quiet then, entertaining my own anger ( I think being quite is better when I'm angry cause I don't want to say things that I would probably regret later).

Back home, I went straight to the toilet, and got a bath, washed the dirty clothes. But I was still grumpy and felt angry. The truth is, I didn't even know what was it actually that I was angry for. Was it for not getting to watch the movie? HB's nagging on the parking fee issue? Nabihah vomited on me? Or was I tired, I blamed it on everything?

One good thing about me being angry, is I would channel the anger by doing housework. So with my sulking face, I ignored cik HB, then dumped the dirty clothes into the washing machine, cleaned the kitchen (I even scrub the sink, mind you!) and folded the washed clothes that was left piling up in the spare room. I finally went to sleep at 1 a.m.

When I was drifting to sleep, cik HB came talking to me to make up. He always leaves me alone when I'm grumpy or angry, then he would make up with me. He said "kita jadi bodoh sbb wayang bodoh". I was still grumpy, so I didn't say anything.

Yes, it's true....why because of that stupid movie offer, did we put ourself in this tensed situation? Why must a married couple get into a fight because of something not worth for?

Setan2 mesti bersorak sbb satu laki-bini sudah bergaduh! Somemore because nak tgk wayang punya pasal. Sebelum tidur aku muhasabah diri dan fikir kenapa la free2 aku buat dosa ngan somi.

This morning as usual before I left to work, I kissed his hand and managed to bring myself to apologize for my attitude last night ( susah nak minta maaf sebenarnya). But after that, I felt better.

Well, what I'm sharing here is not to "buka pekung didada" thingy. I'm sure this kind of disagreement between husband and wife happens in every couple. It's just that I want myself and married couple out there to realize that to live in a happy marriage, elements like patience, loving, forgiving are important.

Married people, let's work towards happy marriage, ok!

And don't be grumpy, it's not good for health and makes you grow older faster ( a reminder for me as well!!)

Oh! By the way, any idea how I can get rid the bad smell of the vomit? I sprayed the Feebreeze already and drove this morning with opened window and no air-cond. But it still so smelly...what to do la?

July is Finally Here!!!

Yay!!!!

This month is the last month of my working period. And not to mention, will be a busy month as well.

We will be going back to KB this weekend for my sister-in-law's wedding. By bus. Will be my first ride to travel from Melaka to KB by bus and the first ride for the twins as well . We had not planned initially to go back to KB since we had chosen to go the groom's wedding reception in Perlis next weekend. I don't have enough annual leave to spend anymore. So it was either KB or Perlis.

We called KB last week and heard that everybody is planning to go back to KB for the wedding despite the earlier statements that those (our siblings) who stay outside Kelantan do not plan to go back due to not having enough annual leave and have dedicated their leave for the wedding in August. And suddenly we felt guilty of not being there. Then we thought about going back by bus. Cause if we take bus, it is more convenient in terms of time. We can sleep through out the journey. So we went to buy tickets. Apparently the cost of travelling by bus for the four of us is equivalent to travelling by car. But since money is not the issue here ( I mean, we can afford it), riding by bus is the best option.

HB is excited about riding the bus coz he said he has not travel to KB by bus for so many years eversince he bought his car. I just hope that the twins would not have any problems riding in the bus.

Oh! July also is the month I should start with the preparation to go to Germany. I'm going to have very long list of things-to-do.