I'm flat tired...

"That's how I feel after a long hard day in the office... I need to take a break again soon!"

A hard day's night

It's been a hard day's night,

and I've been working like a dog

It's been a hard day's night,

I should be sleeping like a log

But when I get home to you

I find the things that you do

Will make me feel alright

You know I feel alright

(Beatles)

Kerengga Challenge...

“If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich...” - Lao Tzu

(Once bitten, twice shy...)

For a few consecutive weeks we have been busy harvesting rambutan and dokong and have been bringing full basket loads to the office and some we sedekah to the Masjid. Most of the rambutan has been harvested. Except for some higher up which we didn’t manage to pluck, we’ll leave them to the resident bats and the visiting squirrels to feast on.

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(The dokong is ripening fast)

We have not been to the kebun for almost 2 weeks as we were busy with the happenings in KL. And last weekend, when we went to inspect the dokong trees there were a lot more to be harvested. While hubby was busy bush-cutting around the chalet, the harvesting was left to me to manage.

(Baskets of sweet dokong)

Unlike rambutan, harvesting dokong is quite a challenge for I have to climb the trees (with the help of a ladder, of course) and to carefully pluck the fruits to avoid them falling to the ground and scattered all over the place.
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Further more I have to bear with the painful bites of the kerengga to get to the fruits…. Arghhh…

Grandmas & Grandpas Reunion @ The Summit

“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late…” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It all started in April 2009 when I received a comment in my blog from a long lost friend who has created a link and triggered the chain of events. A classmate I have not heard of or met after I left form 5 and KB for good! After a few calls and emails we decided to get connected through the facebook and planned for a re-union. And on the planned date, we met our long lost friends, some we have not met for almost 40 years. 20 of us met at the Summit Hotel and the presence of YB Ubai from KB, Wan Nor from Penang and our musicians Lokman@Lord and Ishak Haji Muda were bonus surprises!
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We have become grandmamas and grandpapas. Externally, we have changed a lot. Internally we are still our old selves…
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Standing from left: Dr. Wan Yunus, Adilah Hassan, Hasni Hassan, Noriah Abdullah, Dr. Mohd Helmi, Capt. Wan Aziz, Harun Muhamed, Lokman@Lord

Sitting from left: Nasidah Ahmad, Nik Aminah Abdullah, YB Wan Ubaidah, Rohani Yusoff, Habsah Hassan, Nong
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Thank You Allah

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thank you Allah

for creating this path in cyber

thank you Allah

for showing the route

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ending my decades of searches

to a heart i wish to mend

the heart that i cracked

amidst mine that was shattering

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thank you Allah

for taking away my bed of thorns

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~TokNgah~

April 15, 2009

SMKB Girls Re-union @ Secret Recipe

"Maybe some secret should just stay secret..."

The SMKB girls re-union was also graced by Col. Abdul Waley the thorn among the roses and he brought his 2 daughters and youngest son as bodyguards. We were all excited and when we met everyone was so engrossed trying to tell their stories and so much to off load in so little time. Anyhow, we managed to snap some pictures to capture the precious moments.
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Meeting old schoolmates after 37 years separation: " macam jejak kasih je!!!.." said the Colonel. And there will be another gathering with the rest of the guys on 25 July 2009...

The Crossroads

(by Tara Simms)

There were promises made in childhood,

In the days of our innocence

We laughed, we played, we cried.

Throughout high school dramas,

Broken hearts and adolescence,

But our special friendship thrived...

Rejuvenate body and soul...

"The heaviest baggage for a traveler is an empty purse..." - German proverb

(Reflecting on life adventure)

After 2 days of struggling to clear the in-trays, reply to e-mails and return some calls, only this morning I disabled the ‘out-of-office’ message and had time to sit back to reflect on my journey.

Friends started calling and e-mails filled up my in-box again. Friends questioned on how I managed to drop everything and go off for a long holiday without having guilt feelings to leave work and family. I had fun listening and reading their comments and I responded – what work? What family?

I told them, so very often when we are engrossed in work and daily matters, we forget how important relaxation is. It’s true. Ever since I first stepped in this organization, I have been a workaholic. I never went home before the day was dark and be in office before the sky was bright. Since the children were small, I seldom take leave, even when they were down with fever. I leave it to the nursery to take care of them. I only see them when they were already in bed and many times I missed kissing them good nights. The same thing goes to my hubby, full time job and no-slow-down.

Too often we are so busy building our wealth that we neglect our health. But now we are making an effort to have a work-life balance. While hubby had slowed down significantly when he left his corporate job, I am still high in adrenaline into my work for I just do not know how to sit still, yet.

My advice to friends… Don’t wait till you retire. Take that vacations and rejuvenate!

Your body will thank you a lot.