................. part II

Happiness is reachable, no matter how long it lasts .
We should stop making our lives complicated.


Life is short
Break the rules
forgive quickly
love truly
laugh constantly
And never stop smiling
no matter how strange life is
Life is not always the party we expected to be
but as long as we are here, we should smile and be grateful.

..............

'Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets,
So love the people who treat you right,
Forget about the ones who don't,
And believe that everything happens for a reason.
If you get a chance, take it.
If it changes your life, let it.
Nobody said life would be easy,
They just promised it would be worth living'

3 Working Fridays!

August! So many events happening in August! And apart from the islamic events, my August is not something I would like to remember! Haha! It's just a week into August and already I don't like August. Bit too judgemental, don't you think? Well, I got my own reasons. One of the reasons is that I would be working 3 out of the 4 fridays of this August.

Considering that we have to do a presentation to the director and the senior officers tomorrow morning (KKC-thingy), me and 3 of my teammates agreed to meet up this morning to do the KKC-thingy. Well, from morning berlarutan to the afternoon and we only finished it around 5PM! YUCK! What a day?! M not feeling that great yet but I can't be to clingy and manja, ryte? It would only make me even more weak and furthermore, I got no one to manja to (long story!).

So, cross off 1 friday for me. Next week would be more hectic. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday would be spent in IPA, KKC-thingy! Then next friday, I have to attend a customer care course! URGH! And the 3rd week of friday, I have to work. It would be a long public holiday and I have to work until 11PM! Hmmm....but I bet it won't be that buzy. InsyaAllah. At least I can do and settle some of my works. And m dreading for next week. My blood results would be out somewhere next week and 80% part of me don't want to know the results coz I don't think it would be that good! M too young to take a long-term medications! I don't want to!!

Oh well! Today, I decided to start a new leaf in my life! InsyaAllah, I try to be strong! Brand new day, brand new start! I can do this! My appetite is back so m eating well again and m eating more tonight coz m planning to start my fasting tomorrow. I think it would be a good day to start fasting. At least it would make me less mad, less angry, less moody and less everything...hehe! And m trying to be a patience person...insyaAllah!

Moments of Weakness

Everyone has their own moment of weakness. Mine would be the last 2 day. It is, I have to say, the greatest moment of weakness of my life. Once in awhile there are people who will dissapoint you in these life and somehow you just have to move on with your life.

I never thought that I would experience that feelings but I did and boy! what a lot of problem it had caused me. I only slept for 2 hours, woke up the whole morning, went to work, having gastric and terrible headache, took an emergency half day off, slept the whole afternoon and woke up with a fever!! Went to the clinic, it was damned hectic but luckily some colleagues helped me out. The doctor said my pulse was a bit rapid, did an ECG and slightly abnormal. He asked me to take blood for further test. Gave me a sleeping pills and a mc for today. Yikes! I don't want to rely on drugs to make me sleep and Alhamdulilah, last night I managed to sleep without the pills.

This morning, I took my blood. I don't like taking blood....I hate the needles but what's need to be done, have to be done! Went to Hua Ho TB. I was supposed to buy Lampuh's food but then I got distracted and ended up buying so many things minus Lampuh's food! Dad called, brought me out for lunch and after lunch, I went and cut my hair!! I love my hair but sometimes, wen m not thinking straight, I did something that I would regret! Which I am now!

Anyway, now m ready to move on! 1 thing I know is that, you will get dissapointed in life, maybe once and maybe more, but what you have to do is to move on, live your life without no regrets! During my moment of weakness, m not ashamed to cry to my bff! That's what bff is for, ryte??

To whoever it might concern, thanx for being in my life, even for a short while. I never thought you could touch a soft side of me but you did and from now on, no more! I forgave you not because I forget what it is all about, but because deep down, I know you r a great guy and I think you are just confused. It's been a pleasure knowing you!

Chance

Once in someone's lifetime, you will get 1 chance or several chances to make life right. But how many of us really take the chance for what it's worth?

Panic! Panic!

I came home today and my youngest brother, Muiz told me that they bought cloth for cara melayu today and when I ask them, what colour, he said "BLUE". What?? I don't have baju baru blue for raya!!!

Initially, I couldn't be bothered to make new baju for raya this year coz well, along this year alone, I made a dozen of new baju. So, I was thinking not to make and rush myself this year for new baju. But then....blue? Gezz!! I have to visit my tailor tomorrow or before the week is out anyway!

And can you believe it, raya is less than 2 months away? wow! or should I said "what"?!!! I think m gonna panic now coz I haven't pay my fasting yet! waaaaa....need to get started on it soon...insyaAllah!

Jerebu O Jerebu!

1 of the reasons for you to put on ur mask! It's hazy outthere! Yesterday, there is a fire in KB and as one of my colleagues said, "be prepared to see ur cars covered with ashes" or something like that! And yes, eventhough m not living and parking my car in KB, still my car was covered with ashes this morning but it ain't that bad! The air smelt of something burning (haha!) and Alhamdulilah, I don't have any respiratory problem. I pity whoever have asthma and so on. With the air and weather like this, I somehow can feel their suffering (hmmm...). Even me sometimes couldn't stand wearing a mask 8 hours a day so once m out of the clinic, off with the mask too! I just couldn't stand it. But if this haze situation getting worst, I guess I have no choice but to wear it most of the times. Man! Terbantut exercise macam ani eh!

The Proposal

2 words - LOVE IT! Oh yea, just incase you guys don't know what the heck m talking about, m talking about the movie, not me being proposed! Haha! That would be funny or....weird, I think! Anyway, I love the movie!

I have to say Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds is the best couple so far this year! The movie is awesome. It's a combination of everything - it's funny, it's sad, it's emotional, it's romantic and the place - do they really shot the film in Alaska? The surrounding looks like Alaska but hey, I never been to Alaska or USA, so I might be wrong.

There are so many scenes in this movie that I like. 1 funny part that made me smile just by remembering it is this guy, Ramon(e). In that small town of Sitka (if I remembered it correctly), Ramon(e) is a bartender, a stripper and a priest! LOL! I don't know if Sitka is short of men or the production crews are short of cast but it's hilarious! I like to think Sitka is short of men...hehe! There are many more and I can't wait to watch it again! I would give this movie 8/10! The storyline is good, the cast, feewwhhh, remarkable! And the scenery, breathtaking beautiful! Watch it f you like the romantic stuffs! *wink*

Hot, Buzy Weekend

Woke up early (kindda) in the morning coz I need to run some errands before going out with my bff. I had to take some drugs from RIPASH. It was a hot morning. Arrived at RIPASH around 10am, chit chat with the colleagues and then went straight home coz my bff was about to fetch me around 11am.

Came home and managed to eat a quickie breakfast of roti canai (ceh! standard malay g tu!). and around 11ish, my bff fetched me. We had our lunch and brunch - me and my bff respectively - at WYWY in Sengkurong. Then we went to the Empire to watch The Proposal (my review coming up). By 2.15pm, we came out of the cinema and me, got not destination to head to, so my bff decided to go to Best Eastern, to get the next Greg's Diary aka The Diary of a Wimpy Kid. For once, I managed to control myself not to buy any books considering that as of today, I got 5 unread books and 3 unfinished ones! I know! M horrible! M reading 3 books at the same period of time. But ntah ah, lately I just couldn't concentrate reading 1 book without being distracted! (Distracted by new book..hehe). M a very impatient person. Well, I guess who knows me, knows that..hehe.

Anyway, after done with some window shopping, we decided to call it a day and I came home around 4ish pm. Once I came home, Dad asked me to run some errands - to buy hand sanitizers for the department (his department!). So me and my bro Faiz went to Hua Ho Tg Bunut and bought 41 bottles of hand sanitizers and a guy passed us buy and said, "eh! bnr2 jua". I didn't reply to that coz I didn't know he was talking to me. My mind was somewhere between counting the bottles and calculating the cost. Hehehe! We stopped by at Guardian to buy some necessities. Came home just before Maghrib. Fewwhhh! What a weekend!

The night? Hmmm..I couldn't remember what I was doing. But I do remember watching Scrubs season 3! Hehe!

3 New Alaf 21 Novels

Dad went to Miri last Firday with 3 of his colleagues. Truth to be told, I only go to Miri for their Guardian and Watson; do some shopping mainly for contact lenses + the solutions, books, perfumes and Aussino! God! I love Aussino! And can you imagine how much cheaper it is to buy Aussino bedsheets in Miri rather than here in Brunei?

Anyway, I asked my dad to buy me Alaf 21 books. I listed down 5 novels and he managed to buy 3 of them. Well, 3 out of 5 ain't that bad! Hehehe! He managed to buy me:

Ucapkan Kau Rindu - Murni Aqila

Sanjungan Kasih - Aimi Husna

Bila Ada Rindu - Emma Maizura

With the additional of these 3 novels, now I officially have 150 malay novels in my collection! Yay!! *hehe..iski*

Tummyful Friday of Muffins

Mum made the best muffins ever! It might be a simple muffins but boy, it is superlicious! *nyum nuym*. Last Friday afternoon, mum made muffins by request - by me and my brothers. It had been quiet a while mum didn't bake any muffins. So, after we promised to help, she agreed! Hehe!

*under construction*

As you can see, my blog is kindda in a mess at the moment. hehehe. my female bff taught me how to modify my blog and hence, the learning process. i'll try to update my blog once m settled!

Don't waste the good weather

Definition of good weather here is where the sun is shining bla bla bla aka not raining. With unpredictable weather here in Brunei, I had been missing a lot of exercise. Well, I couldn't blame on the weather 100% though coz 80% is because m just plain lazy! But now m getting 'bigger' (tummy-wise) and I need to cut down on my tummy fats for certain occasions (which planned to be next year!).

Yesterday afternoon, the weather is a bit cloudy, no sign of the sun and afterwork, I forced myself to join my male bff and a friend to hike at Tasek. Almost 2 weeks not hiking, m slow! Slow sehabis-habisnya! Urrrghhh! Boreng eh! But I got sporting hike partners. They waited for me..hehe!

This morning, I went for a jog and a brisk-walking around JP. M not an early bird (unlike my bff - she woke up so early, I don't know how!). So, for me waking up early during public holiday is a very rare rare occasion. I only wake up early if I got something to do! Went with my 2 brothers and my mum coz dad is going to Miri with his colleagues.

I don't know whether m up tis afternoon. My hiking partners bring me to Shahbandar, Bkt 17! Done with bkt 17 once and m looking forward to do it again but hmmm....we'll c whether m fit tis afternoon....

If I have you, I don't want anything else.....

What were you guys thinking???!!! Hahaha!

Who wouldn't want to get one of this baby. If anyone out there generous enuf to give me 1, fully paid, I don't mind taking...kweng kweng kweng! Oh well, no harm in dream, ayte?

All Time Favourite!

I am grateful for both my male and female bffs. I am a big fan of Lucy Maud Montgomery and I have to say I love the Anne of Green Gables novels. To tell the truth, Anne of Green Gables in my first novel that I read when I started take interest in reading and i had been a wondeful read. It kept me going to the bookstore more often and spent my dad's money on books (hehe! I was a kid back then, no money leh!).

Now, you were thinking what my bffs got to do with this considering that I didn't know both of them back then when I started reading LCM's novels! Well, I was trying to look for the Anne of Green Gables videos, DVDs all these years, even when I was in Singapore but couldn't find it. Trust me, it's that hard to find. I was thinking to buy online but then my male bff offered to download it for me from the net. Yippppiiieee! Hehehe! It took him around 2-3 weeks to download the whole 4 DVDs! When he's done, all the clips were separated. 1 clip runs for more or less 30 minutes. Then my female bff saw it and because she is sooooooooo good (hehe) at this computer, program stuffs, she managed to combine all into 1 movie. Now, you know how m grateful to both of them! Thanx all!

So, now I got Anne of Green Gables which runs for 3hr 15 mins, Anne of Green Gables - the Sequel which runs for 3hr 40 mins and Anne of Green Gables - The Continuing Story which runs for 2hr 57 mins! Last weekend, I did all Anne of Green Gables marathon which took me nearly 10 hours! Few years back, I only managed to watch until the sequel. I know that they made another movie of Anne but never got the chance to watch it (the reason trying so hard to find the video). And now, m a very happy bunny (figure of speech) coz Anne finally get married to Gilbert; Gilbert went to the war and all those happy ending stuffs.

Watching these movies made me miss reading the novels so last night I took the liberty to open one of the novels - Anne of the Island! I don't know why but of all the Anne's life, this book I like the most. Maybe because in this book, Anne is no longer a small child but a grown up woman. I missed 2 of Anne's books though - Anne's House of Dream and Rainbow Valley. I surfed the net this morning to download these 2 books but then, my female bff offered to download it for me in pdf form. M8! you know how grateful I am with what you did for me! Love ya! Hehe!

So, now my Anne of Green Gables are complete. I got all the 8 novels (6 hard copy while 2 soft copy) and 3 movies of Anne! It is definitly my all time favourite reading!

Diary of Greg Heffley

Few enteries back, I wrote about a book that I recently read, lend from my bff - Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Well, my bff loves the 1st book so much that she bought the 2nd 1 last weekend - Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules.

I haven't finish reading this book yet (I know! For a simple book, it took me a while to finish reading it!). But basically it's the same thing. Grey continues writing in his journal (not a diary - as he said) and Rodrick is Greg's brother.

I let you know how it is once I finished reading it, mmmkay? Hehehe!

Tamiflu

How many of you outthere consider yourself lucky being a Bruneian? I am! Hehehe! Apart from some of the Arab countries, basically you can feel comfortable / safe being a Bruneian. Education - free! (apart from the school fees and so on). Medical - free! (apart from the registration). Fuel - subsidised! (that should be a BIG relief). And there are sooo many things that we take for granted. I (most of the times) took things for granted. Who doesn't? That's because we are living comfortably in our Adobe of Peace!

I used to tell my younger brothers how difficult life was when I was living in Singapore. Didn't own a car, hence had to wake up early in the morning, walk to the nearest MRT station, walked some more and sometimes, had to run chasing the bus! Hahaha! You wouldn't catch me chasing after a bus here in Brunei!!!!

I wanna say something that I know about - medicine! With the increasing of the H1N1 cases in Brunei (I don't know the exact numbers), vaccination was given free until it ran out! Yes, we are running out of the influenza vaccine. Heard that it's coming either September or October, couldn't be really sure. Now, Tamiflu is given to almost all high-risk patient, children and adults who have hi-fever. And it's FREE! Don't you just love being a Bruneian! I love being a Bruneian, grateful even! Don't get me wrong. It's bad enough that if you are given the Tamiflu coz that means you are 50-50 at risk but 1 thing you need to have a positive outlook is that your country is taking care of you. If you are sick, seek the doctor! It might cost you your time (waiting and all) but it cost you nothing (in term of money). Think about it!

Be grateful with what your country is doing for you. Take a lil' of the bad, take a lil' of the good and now, walaaa, you got a lil' of both!

Scrubs

Considering that all the upcoming season of TV series are not due for another few more weeks, I had been watching a lot of the reruns lately. Last weekend, I spent the long weekend by watching Scrubs season 1 and now thanx to my bff, m watching Scrubs season 2 and The Nanny season 4.

Don't you just love watching reruns! Eventhough you know what's happening next but still you couldn't stop yourself from laughing again and again!

Firework at Empire

There was a firework held in Empire last Saturday night in celebration for HM's 63th birthday. Initially m not interested to go coz well, fireworks are just fireworks afterall...nothing special about it. But my elder brother called me earlier that evening, asking whether m going coz my 2 nieces badly want to go and both my brother and sis-in-law were too tired to go. So, told him, m not going.

Around 9pm, my brother after me, Andy said that kesian jua to my nieces and I told him, I don't mind going and accompanying them f he's willing to drive. I don't fancy driving in a crowded place. So, me with me 3 brothers went to fetch my nieces in Beribi and we headed to Tungku beach and fewwwwhhhh! What a crowd! We were using the Tungku highway and the que already started around the DST building! Luckily, as I said, m not the 1 driving hence I just relax and nagged when my brother cut the que...hahaha! But then, who cares? It was even a worst situation around Empire hotel; cars parked on the roadside; basically it was hectic.

We missed 3 minutes of the firework coz we were stuck at the entrance of Tungku beach and once we managed to find a spot, it was far but we managed to see the fireworks. As I said, nothing unusual. It was splendid, no offence but it's just fireworks. Nevertheless, m happy both my nieces, Trisya and Atul, 6 yrs old and 5 yrs old respectively, love it! It's a nice, warm feeling to make kids happy. I know they don't demand much to make them happy (they are happy most of the time by playing by themselves) but to know that you are causing their happiness....that's what I'm satisfied for!

Metrosexual

M not gonna discuss about this topic in general coz truth to be told, m not actually understand myself about metrosexual. Hahaha! Whoever interested to enlighten me, well, feel free....nyeh nyeh nyeh!

Anyway, it's a Thai movie that my bff gave me few days back (or was it last week? - m getting forgetful dah!). She said it's a nice movie and I should watch it. I did! And I kinda like it.

It's a story of 5 (best) friends. One of them getting married and when she (the bride-to-be) introduced her fiance to her friends, they started to question the fiance's identity (straight or gay). From the way he shops and knows all those branded things that women know, they are getting suspicious.

It's a nice story, I have to say. Friendship, trust, honesty all rolls into 1. All the 5 characters all lead different lives and if the writer admits it him/herself, it's an adaption of the real life. You might encounter all these in your own life but to watch it playing in a screen is something like a self-discovery.

I mean, when my bff introduced me her then-boyfriend to me, of coz I asked so many questions. Call me buzybody or anything (I called it emotional intelligence, mind you!) but as a friend (bff especially), we have the rights to ask questions, right m8?! *wink*wink* The reasons I (we) being buzybody with our friend's life is that because we care for them. Can this guy makes her happy? Can this guy holds her when she cries? Can this guy to go all those hardship with her? And I guess this movie explain exactly just that! You would go any roads to find the truth (if he got a skeleton tucked sumwer in the closet)! hehehe!