Fever please go away

I hate it when I got fever..

Even worse when I'm alone and away from my family.

I'm now in Brunei for a vacation..tettt..nope..I'm here of course because of work. I traveled to Brunei from Labuan three times in this month. Dah lah by boat! So bad the company wants to cut cost. And by that, I mean always!! My body just getting tired by traveling and I just didn't get enough rest. So I decided not to go to the base today. There's no point going to the base especially on Sunday, if I'm just doing my work in front of my laptop. I can do that at home on the cozy sofa and in front of TV, no?

Oo yeah, I guess I haven't shared the good news with you guys. I don't know if you guys noticed in my facebook status or not...No..no..I'm not yet pregnant..not yet..InsyaAllah we are working on that..Well, actually I just got transfer back to Malaysia! Alhamdulillah. Finally, I'm getting closer to my family. Though I'm not assigned to be working in KL but at least I know I have flexible time to go home more often and my husband also can always come and visit me in Labuan. That's great! I promise myself and my family that I will work on to get any position in KL. Pray for me!


I think I just lost a bit of writing mojo after wait.....I guess 2 months since the last entry was posted in this blog..hahaha..that long, ey?!! I was almost shutting down this blog. ("-_-)

He is my true happiness
Picture taken in London, 2011

Dear flu & fever..please go away...

Aku masih di sini...

Salam all reader (if masih ada yang sudi nak baca blog yang dah berlalang akibat lama di tinggalkan ni)...

Lama sangat dah tak mencoret apa2 dekat blog ni..bukan takde idea nak cerita. Idea tu banyak. Story nak cerita pon ada macam2 tapi for me to fit in some ample time to write tu yang takde.

Since balik from Vietnam hari tu, memang aku busy giler. Sampai2 from Vietnam, aku dapat cuti 2 hari before balik Labuan. Sampai2 dekat Labuan, manager aku dah assigned for me to go to another job. Preparation for next job about a week before I went to Brunei. Ohhh that week was quite hectic. Orang yang nak prepare tak ramai, barang yang nak kena prepare pulak banyak. I ended up masukkan jer apa2 yang penting dalam cabin then sent them to the wellsite. Nasib baik lah job went smoothly.

Anyways, aku just spent 2 weeks in Brunei for that job. Tak sempat nak tunggu sampai job habis pon because I have to go for a training course. Tu pon after aku dah bising2 kat manager aku suruh dia hantar orang replace aku dekat wellsite. My training course almost got canceled because of that. Supposedly aku dapat balik KL awal la before start my training. Hmmphh...takde maknanya. Reliever aku sampai on the day aku naik boat balik Labuan from Brunei. On the day aku kena balik tu, aku siap pergi wellsite (BTW, it was a land job and we were staying in the hotel which located not far from the wellsite in Brunei). Hand over pon buat dekat wellsite. Manager aku tak bagi balik macam tu jer without hand-over to my reliever. Kejam nak mati. Mujur aku sempat catch boat balik Labuan. Besoknya aku balik KL. 2 hari jer dapat spent time with Emir & husband. =(

After that 2 days at home, I had to fly to France to attend that training course. In fact, I'm still in France now. My course is one month course. Next week baru habis. Lama giler. Aku dah rindu nak makan nasi lemak. Haha. Dah la sejuk giler kat sini. Paling aku suka sekali of course la bab shopping! Duit jer tak berapa nak ada sangat. Kalau banyak memang aku dah borong sakan. Kat sini jangan la sikit2 nak convert to RM, memang sakit hati. Contohnya, kalau tengok baju kat ZARA harga 20 Euro. Wow, sure rasa murah giler! Dah ambil dah ni nak pergi bayar kat counter. Tapi tiba2 otak rasa gatal nak convert. Lepas tu letak balik baju tu, sambil mata pandang kat tempat lain konon2 nak tengok baju lain la padahal terus keluar kedai sebab sakit hati baju mahal. Hmmph.

Last weekend aku sempat pergi Amsterdam dengan budak2 class aku. We spent 2 days dekat sana. Nanti aku cerita detail pasal bab tu okay.

Ni aku tengah tunggu Emir and my husband sampai. Huhu. Yes! They are on the way from KL to France to stay with me for a week here. Yeay! Okaylah nak tidur dulu. They will arrive in the morning. Tak sabar!!

Going back!

Nothing comparable to what I felt now.

You know when you are on the rig offshore, place you work, eat and sleep all under one roof, there's nothing so excited to brag about besides the news of getting to know you are going to town on the next day.

Yup, I'm going back to town..not tomorrow but today!

We managed to complete the test yesterday as planned. I'm happy to see my name on the list of peoples who are leaving the rig for today. I don't know why, but this time I really feel homesick so badly after spent only 1 week on the rig. I normally start to feel like going home probably after 2 or 3 weeks after being far away from my family...err..I mean soooo badly like if possible I wanted to fly back home right now!. But this time is different. Maybe sebab Vietnam dekat dengan Malaysia and I know it is easy for me to go home and it won't take a long time to reach there. Unlike masa dekat Nigeria or Libya dulu jauh sangat! Journey jer dah take like more than half day.

Okay guys, will blog again when my feet steps on the ground. Planning to go jalan-jalan in Vung Tau city with my Indonesian friend. Probably will spend one day in Ho Chi Minh city for shopping. Can't wait!!





People says that there's a lot of shop selling silk in Ho Chi Minh city. Anyone who ever visited Ho Chi Minh city before?? Boleh share tempat2 best boleh pergi dekat sini.

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Firework

Happy New Year to all!!!

Let's this year fills with more wonderful things and let's make our self better every day ahead!

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called "Opportunity" and its first chapter is New Year's Day.- Edith Lovejoy Pierce

I would like to dedicate this song to all of you..Each person is unique and let's unleash and treasure our uniqueness.

Last but not least!

The end of 2010 is just around the corner. In fact the year of 2010 will be ending by the end of today. Hari ni mungkin ramai orang sibuk update new resolutions for 2011 dekat status Facebook, Twitter and blog. Me? Ada la jugak azam baru. This year punya pon belum 100% achieve. Kenapa lah malas sangat diriku ini. *cubit diri sendiri*

There are a lot of things happening this year and did give some impact both my personal life and also my career. So what did I achieve so far? Alhamdulillah, this year kami sekeluarga moved to our own house. After almost a year, scouting, endless planning, scouting lagi, dealing with lawyer and bank (this process took ages to be settled, thus seek a lot of time out of all processes! Not to mention duit banyak habis because of this matter), designing, packaging, moving...finally I can call the place that me and my family live now as OUR HOME. I guess that is the big achievement for me and my husband for this year. The best part of all that is we did everything together. With me working on rotation, sometimes made the process not as smooth as what we planned. Documents pending just because its needed my precious signature. But the moment we got the key to our house, every hassle that we faced seems disappear. It is a big accomplishment for us.












Tengok sikit2 jer dulu yer. Nanti ada entry special pasal rumah (tak tau la bila nak post entry tu) aku tunjuk ruang2 rumah yang lain yer.

Career wise, not that bad. Initially I planned to get my promotion by the end of this year. But maybe I have to carry forward my plan to the next year. Not that I'm not working on my promotion...but there's a lot of obstacles in between. Arghhh..I don't want to think about it. Life must goes on. If we keep reminiscing our past, we will never move on. So, yes next year insyaAllah kalau dimurahkan rezeki I will get to hear the good news. We'll see how it goes.

As a mother, I'm really proud to see what Emir's achieved so far. He barely talk now. He can call me 'Ibu'...Well, that's really big step baby! It's heart wrenching moment when I heard he called me 'ibu'. 'Ayah' dia memang dah boleh sebut lama dah..jealous tau! Sometimes with me pon dia panggil 'ayah' jugak. (-__-') I figured it's not easy for baby less than 2 years to pronounce 'ibu' or 'bonda'. Whatever it is, mother can never give up on her baby. All babies are unique and created differently. They are so unexpected. Never ever underestimate their ability. Emir can count 1 to 10 and sing ABC's song. Even thou it is not that clear but he knows the rhythm. His favorite song so far is 'Itsy Bitsy Spider'. He will literally moves his hand as if the spider is trying to climb on his hand. So funny!






This little guy will turn 2 next month!

As cliche as its sounds, I wanna listed out few resolutions that I wanna achieve (InsyaAllah) in 2011. Well, at least if I look back at this entry, it's kinda a reminder to me. Hihi.

1. Try to accomplish whatever I did not achieve in year 2010.
2. Try to balance my personal life and my career as much as I could.
3. Be a better mom to Emir, a better wife to my husband, a good daughter to my parents and a better Muslim.
4. Buat umrah. InsyaAllah.
5. If ada rezeki lebih, nak beli rumah lagi.
6. Sharpen my photography skills.
7. Read more books.
8. Visit and explore more new places. I really want to go to Maldives.
9. Menjadi lebih rajin and stop procrastinating.
10. Eat healthily and do more exercises..really need to get rid those 'lemak2 berlebihan'
11. Err..get pregnant?!

I guess that's it for now. Risau kalau banyak sangat nanti tak tercapai pulak. Last but not least, I pray to Allah, supaya di murahkan rezeki, dipanjangkan umur dan diberi kesihatan yang baik for me to accomplish those resolutions. Amin.

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Long absent

Yeah I know..I know..It's been a long absent in this blog. And it's quite lame and cliche to tell you guys that's I'm busy. Semua orang pon busy dengan hidup masing2. Okay, fine. Sebenarnya adalah malas sebab this month aku banyak travel here and there. So by the time sampai rumah, I just wanna rest.

Ni pon aku ada dekat tengah2 Laut China Selatan for a short trip job in Vung Tau. Manager aku agak kejam this time sebab dia call aku dikala aku sedang menikmati ikan goreng sambal dekat rumah makcik aku bersama-sama suami. Justeru telah men'spoil'kan my mood cuti weekend. FYI, sekarang ni aku on-loan dekat Labuan. After received call from manager, hari ahad tu jugak aku fly to Ho Chi Minh city then naik boat for about 1 1/2 hour to Vung Tau.

Aku sampai jer Vung Tau terus pergi ke base sebab nak collect coverall and safety boots. I have no other options to use someone's else coverall sebab aku punya barang2 mostly dekat rumah Labuan. Manager aku tak bagi balik Labuan ambik barang2 aku. Jimat cost katanya so from KL straight to Vietnam (sooo cruel kan?? Aku benci manager aku time ni). The next early morning aku terus naik chopper ke platform.

Initial plan aku nak balik weekend je, so memang melenggang jer la aku balik hari tu. Laptop company pon aku tinggal sebabnya kalau dekat rumah rarely aku open company's laptop. Mujurlah email boleh excess pakai webmail. What make me more even happier is the whole platform covered with wireless connection. Tak sia2 ada encik iPhone aku ni. Even display screen kecil tapi still boleh pakai untuk excess email. Ni yang nak kena beli iPad ni, besar sikit display screen. Ewah2, ada je alasan aku nak menghabiskan duit kan.

Alhamdulillah, layanan orang2 dekat rig ni sangat baik. Ehem..maklumlah being the only lady on the rig memang dapat banyak privilege. Bilik pon dapat bilik VIP. Production platform selalunya facility sangat excellent. Just dekat sini makan jer la nak kena be extra careful. Each time, meal time mesti ada si lembu pendek. I have to request for a special meal. Mujurlah chef kat sini baik. Ker sebab aku ni girl? Haha. Apa2 pon yang penting aku masih boleh isi perut dengan makanan yang halal.


Job this time, aku sangat2 enjoy. Firstly, sebab this job is 2 mens job and colleague aku orang Indonesia. So easy to discuss things and boleh in dengan aku. Secondly, company man orang Korea. So each time dia cakap sure aku tahan gelak. Sebabnya accent Korea dia sangat pekat. You can imagine how Korean cakap omputih. Cute and funny. Teringat pulak aku cerita2 Korea. Plus orang nya sangat lucu. Haha. Thirdly, this job is short. Just 1 week. Normally, kalau aku pergi rig paling cepat 2 weeks baru aku balik base.


I really look fat in this picture. Inilah akibat makan 5 kali sehari. Benci tau.

Next week, aku balik Malaysia. Hopefully dapat lose weight before aku balik. Boleh ker ni? Risau suami tak dapat nak beza kan washing machine dengan isteri sendiri. (-____-')

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What song you shouldn't listen when you are mad?

On the way back from my parents' house today, I was listening to the radio, normally kalau aku yang drive aku tak pay attention sangat to what the DJ really says, I will just enjoy the music. But topic discussion DJ masa aku drive tadi sangat menarik telah menyebabkan aku drive selaju 60 km/h.Yup sangat perlahan and aku pon tak tau berapa banyak kereta take over kereta aku sambil memaki². Sebenarnya aku phobia sikit drive laju² waktu malam. Hehe.

Okay, back to my story, DJ tu tengah discuss² pasal macam mana Chris Brown tergamak to whack Rihanna masa dieorang tengah fight. One of the DJ wanted to find out la what song played inside Chris's head when they fought sampaikan dia boleh selamber tumbuk muka cantik Rihanna kan (dayus sungguh Chris Brown ni tau!). That incident leads the DJ to open topic hangat ni "What song you shouldn't listen when you are mad to your boyfriend or girlfriend?" menarik kan topic tu? kan? kan? Haha. At least the topic caught my attention. Aku tak pernah terpikir pon nak tanya soalan tu kat diri sendiri. So ramai la yang tweet bagi song list masing². Mostly listed the song that can really easy to get them feel annoyed when they listen to it. Ada yang cakap lagu "Hey Mickey" boleh membuatkan dia rasa lagi nak tumbuk muka boyfriend dia bertubi² kalau dia dengar time dieorang gaduh. Aku pon rasa lagu tu annoying jugak kalau dengar banyak² kali.

My don't-you-ever-play-that-song-or-I-will-turn-green is semua lagu dangdut!

Kalau time aku tengah marah jangan la korang pergi sua lagu dangdut kat telinga capang aku ni. No offence yer peminat² lagu dangdut. Aku bukan tak suka lagu dangdut. Aku nyanyi jugak lagu dangdut kalau pergi karaoke dengan suami aku.Tapi please la jangan pasang kalau aku punya boiling point nak cecah 100 degC. It's sooo going to annoy me!

Kan best kalau each time isteri/girlfriend punya boiling point dah almost reach the top, suami hadiahkan kotak yang berisi handbag di dalamnya macam ni..daripada marah terus sejuk la *battling eye lashes ke arah suami* (Husband baru bagi kotak ni tadi, for my belated birthday present..thank you sayang!)

Dah² jangan nak berangan. Kau ingat suami kau tu petik duit kat pokok ker? Kan bagus kalau rasa² nak meletup tu, pergi ambik wudhu' ker, baca Quran ker kan? Bagi tenang sikit jiwa raga tu.

Seriously, aku still rasa lagu dangdut sangat annoying di dengar kalau aku tengah marah. What say you?

Playing badminton is actually fun!

Recently, my husband kemaruk main badminton. Siap beli racket baru. Baguslah kan. Sebagai isteri yang solehah patuh pada suaminya, aku pon join lah sekali. Ada orang tu dah belikan racket untuk kita, kita main lah kan. Takkan nak simpan racket tu buat perhiasan pulak.

My husband said, he wants this thing become a ritual. Every Friday night, main badminton. Well, we'll see how it goes. Jangan awal² ni jer bersemangat lebih.

Yang bestnya, hobi baru husband ni jugak mendapat sambutan hangat dari member² beliau. Ramai jugak turun last Friday main badminton sama² we all. Meriah sikit bila main badminton ramai² ni. Geng JSA pon ada jugak. Boleh bersenam buang² lemak² terkumpul ni kan? Hehe.

Last week, we booked the court for only 2 hours. Tu pon dah tercungap² aku main. Sejak kerja ni aku memang jarang giler bersukan. Well, dekat Nigeria pon aku main tennis bila aku ada dekat camp jer. Kalau aku pergi offshore, tak dapat nak la nak main tennis. Dekat rumah ni ada jugak racket tennis tapi...ermm..cam biasa la sakit malas aku ni menjadi². So bila my husband dah semangat nak main badminton ni, aku pon boleh lah beriadah sekali.

Gaya jer lebih. Tapi shuttle cock tu asyik tak kena racket aku jer. Ker aku yang tak reti main badminton?

Pasangan regu paling mantap seantero dunia. Enough said.

Mereka² yang berada di tempat kejadian.

Kerajaan asyiklah kempen 'Majulah sukan untuk Negara'. Tapi as a Malaysian citizen korang sokong tak kempen tu? For me, it is not only for the country, it is also for yourself!