Eid Mubarak Everyone!!

After a month of Ramadhan (fasting), Muslims around the globe finally celebrate the coming of Syawal - Eid Mubarak!

For us in Brunei, we welcome the 1st Syawal today.

So, from me and my family;

I would like to wish my fellow Muslims, wherever you might be a happy, joyful, festive and peaceful Eid!

Front row: My parents with their 4 granddaughters!!

Second row (left to right): Brother Muiz, Brother Andy, Myself, Brother Wadi, Sis-in-law Noi

and Brother Faiz

Not in the picture: Brother Adi (who was working)

Hope to see the holy months of Ramadhan and Syawal again next year,

insyaAllah!

Look how fast she grows...

... 6 weeks old Cha Cha after the 'bersunat' ceremony...

... 9 weeks old Cha Cha...

... 12 weeks old Cha Cha...

She knows how to smile, laugh and talk!!!

And I couldn't help but to bite on her chubby legs in which she just laughs!

CPSS Lunch

**Long overdue pictures**

After being postponed so many many times, at last after a year and a half later, we finally had our CPSS lunch.

Scattered to 9 health centers, me and my colleagues gathered one Sunday for lunch.

But unfortunately, not all can manage to come.

Nevertheless, we had fun!

I stayed for almost 2.5 hours and you can imagine how many times I made trips to the buffet table.. haha!

Adele - Rolling In The Deep

Ahhh!! Adele....

Currently all her songs are my type of songs LOL!!!

Miss Me? LOL

Fewwwhhhh!!

Gosh! Look at the date! It's almost 2 months I didn't update my blog. What's happening to me? Oh, no worries, I'm still well and alive... thank God! Let's just say that I got bloggers' block (as if!) haha and so many stuffs had been happening in my life lately.

I will try to be back to my usual-chatty-self. But it would be slow. So, my dear readers and fellow bloggers, please be patience with me =D

7 Hari Mencintaiku - Siti Rosmizah

Title: 7 Hari Mencintaiku

Author: Siti Rosmizah

No. of pages: 1048 pages

Publisher: SR Publications

After Andai Itu TakdirNya, Cinta Kau dan Aku and Lafazkan Kalimah Cintamu, the no.1 fastest best selling author (in my opinion, anyway), Siti Rosmizah is back with her 4th novel, 7 Hari Mencintaiku.

Why do I say she is the fastest? Cos with 2 novels in the market, her 3rd novel comes out from her own publication company - SR Publications! Wow! She must be making lots. But can't deny it, for a romantic person like me, myself and I, I have to salute her! She makes the best novel ever!

And I would like to thank my 2 MALE friends, Jace - for recommending Siti Rosmizah's first novel to me and to Memen - for giving me Siti Rosmizah's first novel as a gift =P Trust me, those 2 guys have a good taste in books LOL! Now, I'm hooked to Siti Rosmizah!

Mia Adriana and Khuzairi are 2 people coming from 2 different worlds. Mia is to be considered the most hatred person in the world while Khuzairi is the most beloved person ever. Mia is spoilt, selfish and would only think about herself while Khuzairi is much loved and would sacrifice everything for those he loves. I would say Khuzairi is every woman's dream of a man (if such a man ever exists).

And what happened if these 2 different worlds collide? On her nikah's night, Mia was left by her fiance (due to money matters) and left her no choice but to marry her father's choice, Khuzairi as her dad's dying wish. With no love for her husband, Mia treated her husband in the meanest possible ways but as I said, Khuzairi would do anything for the people he loves except letting Mia go.

This is a novel that would tell you how deep a guy loves his mum, no matter it's just his stepmum and loving his wife, Mia. And how he was torn to choose between his stepmum and his wife. And how he sacrificed his money for the love to his half-brother. And how he kept his promise to his father-in-law and stepmum-in-law to honour, love and guide his wife till his dying day.

But does Mia knows what sacrifices her husband had to make to make her happy and loved? Or would the realisation comes too late when Khuzairi couldn't take it anymore?

Definitely a MUST read for both man and woman out there. It might be fictional but there are lessons worth to be learnt.

Dear Diary...

Gosh! Eversince I discover this thingy called blogging, I haven't even write a sentence into a book with printed lines called 'The Diary'.

Raise up your hands if you have/had one - a diary, that is! I do!!! Currently, I got 10 of it, dated back from 1997 and currently ends with 2009. I got few diaries before that but somehow, I remembered, during my 'bad days', I burnt them. Honestly, I regreted burning them so I said to myself, no matter what happened, I would not burn any of my diaries - not by me anyway.

I was religiously writing in my diary since I entered college. Basically just to jot down what's happening in my life everyday and as I grow older (ehem! younger at heart still! LOL!), I write less. I don't know why exactly. Maybe I was just too tired writing - which is funny coz I'm still blogging (duh!) or maybe there is just nothing interesting happening in my life no more - haha! sounds pathetic, I know! Or maybe I just having less feelings nowadays hence less soul expression.

What happened to all my diaries, you might ask?

I keep them under lock and key. LOL! Diaries are meant to be kept a secret hence the security measures. There are times, I opened up the closet and re-read my own enteries.

Why, you might ask again?

For someone who like to read, I like to read what was I thinking back then. I mean, if I was in that situation again, would I take the same decisions or making the same mistakes or do the right thing again?

There are times when I was feeling so low, rock bottom you might say and I say to myself, what made I do what I did? True, by reading your own enteries won't change the history but it reminds you of who you are and what you believe in - which sometimes I forget. Of course, you would also discover all those nasty, stupid mistakes that you wish you can take back but as human, we learnt from our mistakes. Keep on hoping you and I won't the same mistakes again.

But, unfortunately for me, I (sometimes) never learnt from my own mistakes. I kept on making the same mistakes again and again and again and sometimes I wonder, does history repeats itself or am I making the same history all over again?

There are so many stuffs in my diaries that makes me laugh, cry and smile all over the written pages. All those crushes, all those loves, all those heartbreaks! Friends I had discovered, friends I had lost, friends I would never meet again and friends whom never will be a friend no more. All those hatred, jealousy, envy! And look where we all now.....

"The brightest future will always be based in a forgotten past.

You can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches"

Dear Diaries, in you, where all my secrets lie!!

To a certain someone...

Loving me may leave your heart like a shattered glass,

but keep in mind that there's someone

who'll be willing to endure the pain of picking up the pieces I had left behind

so that you would be whole again

Wishing you the best in what the life can offer you my friend...

as I said to you before, I still consider you as a good friend

... the fourth Adawiyah...

After Batrisyia Adawiyah (8), Nur Rabiatul Adawiyah (7) and Adriana Adawiyah (3),

my brother and sister-in-law fourth princess is officially named

Basirah Adawiyah...

... but this cheeky aunt of hers made everyone called her ChaCha =D

Gosh!

Baby ChaCha is super cute!

As any other babies should be.

**this photos were taken when she was 2 weeks old**

***she was having hiccups hence the small piece of paper on the forehead***

note: miss me? LOL!

sorry for (almost) no blogging for the month of June!

a lot had happened (I think!) =D

Introducing....

... my 4th bundle baby niece!!!

Born on 31st May 2011, weight 3.210kg at 12.09pm,

she is my elder brother, Wadi's 4th child - all GIRLS!

My brother hasn't give her the name yet,

so at the moment I'm calling her Baby ChaCha (seriously!)

Welcome to the world Baby ChaCha!!

The Pros and Cons of the AE Duty

I just completed another week of my AE (Accident and Emergency) duty.

How do I feel? Oh! Too damned tired! 7 nights non-stop working!

Here's MY pros and cons of the duty.

(Bear in mind, it's just my opinion)

Let's start with the cons:

1. Duty starts at 5pm

By the time everyone is ready to go off from work, I'm getting ready to go to work.

2. Gosh! The weather!!

5 afternoons out of 7 was super hot!

3. Working ALONE!

... for freaking 7 hours (with 30 mins prayer break, super fast dinner break and toilet break).

4. For someone as chatty as I am, I get bored easily with no colleague to talk to.

5. Working alone means you have to do everything yourself and that includes more patience-tolerance (cos there is no one to back you up if you lose your temper).

6. Why do hospital parking lots are so dark, dull and eerie? Furthermore, why do they place the morgue near the parking lot? Getting off at 12 midnight and walking alone to the parking lot makes my imagination running way way way too wild!

7. Disturbed sleeping pattern.

By the time I came home, it's around 12.20am! I had my super late dinner, I had my prayers and with these and that, I slept around 2am!

8. By the time I came home, everyone's asleep... hence dinner alone, all by myself... so boring!

And the pros:

1. I can woke up late! The latest I woke up was 11am! LOL!

2. Less traffic! Cos I'm going opposite direction - everyone going home, I'm going to work.

3. I can get parking easily.

4. By the time I leave the hospital, the roads are super empty and super quiet and it only take me 12 minutes to arrive home.

5. I got 2 days off! Yea!!!

But then as you can see, there are more of the cons than the pros! LOL! So you can summarized whether I like my duty or not!

But I shall be grateful that the duty is only till 12 midnight rather than some ungodly hours! Working alone makes me appreciate more of my colleagues. Don't get me wrong. I am more than capable of working alone but you can't deny that the presence of colleagues would ease up the burden a bit.

And yes, these are the times I wish I have a bf /husband that I could order around to send and fetch me from work. LOL! I mean, which bf/husband would let the gf/wife drive home alone especially after midnights? Right? LOL!

Ah... these allergies!!!

Believe me when I say this,

One of these days, my allergies would eventually KILL me!

Yup!

It seems to get worst these days.

I just recovered from a 2-week flu (fever, headaches, sore and itchy throats, coughs... you know the stuffs) a week ago and now, I'm down with it again MINUS the fever and the headaches.

I suspects it must be trigger from my sinus problems that leads to my throat.

You might be wondering why it took me 2 weeks to recover from my flu. No worries, I didn't have any major complications. It's just that I didn't take any medications.

Yup! I get tired of seeing, inhaling all these chemicals, day in and day out that I just didn't take any meds for my flu; not even a single antibiotics.

Now, thinking that my antibodies are lot more stronger (cos of no antibiotics intake), I thought that I wouldn't have any flu.... so soon!

Turn out, I'm wrong!

Oh well, as long as I can still cope without meds,

I think I would be doing just fine.

Don't you think?

My Weekend... Let's hit the beach!!! Part 2

... and the photos continue...

-look what I found on rock island - a boiled (dead) crab...

and just to clarify to others, the crab was already dead when we reach there... -

-on the way to venture to the other side of the beach, first we have to cross this 'river'-

-the other beach-

-checking the best place to cross-

-the river that leads to the sea-

-the calm, cool beach-

-the vast sea ahead-

I had a great weekend!

Okay, I was wet, sweaty, totally sunburn and my feet hurts by the end of the day

but I had so much fun that I couldn't care less!

Hope you guys also had a great weekend!

My Weekend... Let's hit the beach!! Part 1

We had our mini family picnic last Sunday at Tungku Beach

and gosh! don't I just love the beach!!!

The weather was hot but the wind was super nice

hence I don't complain much going down to the beach, play with the sea water,

climb all those rocks, venture a bit further to the farthest side of the beach (with no footwear); and forgetting to put on sunblocks!!!

Yup! Now, I'm a bit darker than usual... LOL!

- nice sunny weather with calm water-

-cloudy all of sudden... but luckily it didn't rain (yet!)-

-the rock man-made island... to 'slow down' the waves-

-the brothers... on our way to the rock island-

-on top of the rock island - the view of the shore and you can see where the 2 waves meet-

-overlooking the South China Sea-

More photos in the next post...