I tried to keep myself occupied with knitting, reading, work, but nothing seems to work. Seriously… I’m getting worked up for every single sniffle anybody have, especially my kids. I kno I’m being too melodramatic and I shouldn’t think too much. Sigh…

I think I need to do something good to make myself feel better. Anyone needs a liver or kidney?

I was not bored at home but I think I realized I got a little bit lazier every single day. I even started a new expensive hobby. KNITTING IS EXPENSIVE! But I’m loving every single stitch and now obsessed with the kebajikan of my costly knitting needles… I will load up pictures of the ugly Poncho I’m trying to do for Khadeeja…

So how’s everyone doing? I didn’t and couldn’t do much activities during the 2 weeks MC. The wound is healing nicely but still a little bit swollen. Lucky I wear tudung, if not gerenti orang ingat aku mangsa kekejaman Jack Sparrow (which I don’t mind at all). My internet shopping habit pun died down with the existence of knitting…

About the thyroid thingy, the possibility of having it again on my left thyroid is possible high, so I’m on ‘Thyroid Watch 09′. Watever it is, I’m just glad it’s not cancer. Of course I’m being paranoid. The Don passed away due to colon cancer! Scary like hell. And due to my thyroid thingy also, everyone in the family went for health screening and checkups. Good eh?! Heh…

I have to do a lot of stuff today. Will be updating the blog regularly again. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all of you who sent their prayers and birthday wishes last week. I believe your support got me through the days without being depressed about the whole thing. So, please kno that I’m eternally grateful…

I’ve been browsing thru the net to find some books but ended up buying a few not-so-necessary baby items. Nowadays, everything is just a click away, we don’t even have to go out to spend money. Not good for a person like me. It’s enabling my laziness more and more and more! At least when I go out, I sometimes feels lazy to carry the goods around, hence not buying it. Yes… I’m THAT lazy.

Nowadays, apart from my vast collections of illegal DVDs, I love buying baby slings and cloth diapers. I already have 3 pouch slings and now I’m looking at buying at least 1 Mei Tai (checkout Mei’Mei Tai link under ‘Shopaholic parks here’). And I also think we don’t need anymore cloth diaper because we already have enough stock for at least 2 days (if we don’t wash it everyday)… But with all those nice websites and ooOOooogling prices, how to stop? How la? HOW?????????? I kno how but I just want to get this out of my system… Sad… So sad…

I think I need a new hobby. How about knitting (Tatum, you are my idol…)? Hmmmm…. I’m good with sewing stuff. Maybe I’ll start making my own baby slings… Just by saying it out loud (or writing it out loud… Watever…), I already feel the laziness creeping inside me. This seems to work! I’ll just write watever it is that I feel like doing or buying, and then I get lazy. Yeay! Problem solved… I’m so clever!!!

Yes… I’m still in pain and it doesn’t seem to mellow down my irritation against everything else.

 I want to do a lot of things this week but my laziness seems to have won me. This is the 5th time I try to post something but I think I have more ADHD in me than a 5 year old with ADHD. I have the attention span of a teaspoon!

So… I think since I won’t be able to sit still for a whole movie, I’ll watch short clippings of the movies! Yeay! Okay… Adios for now… I’m watching movie trailers for the rest of the day.

My morning started very well. 8am I was already in Shah Alam. Got the LHDN thingy done within 5 minutes. Went to the Imigresen dengan perasaan penuh semangat. Sampai kaunter, budak Imigresen tu pun kata, ‘semua dah lengkap… TAPI yang ini kita kena hantar pergi Pengarah untuk approval sebab yang ni untuk second maid. Jadi kalau untuk Pengarah, kita kena submit employment letter jugak’. Dengan mata ku yang merah menyala like the fire of Mordor, hati ku hancur macam mashed potato, I knew, I had to come down all the way to KL and request the letter from ofis. DAMN! DAMN! DAMN! I guess I spoke too soon about Imigresen…

So, me, being in the ofis means that I missed AI finale… I managed to catch the announcement bit from Rickey.org live telecast tho. Kris Allen won is the biggest upset ever. But I actually thought he would win after last nite’s performances. Why? I think he won because of sympathy vote. The song, No Boundaries, was so obviously biased meant for Adam Lambert. Kris couldn’t hit those high notes. Even Adam sang it pitchy. The song is just horrible. It sounded as if an amature wrote it. As what Simon said, ‘the mountains and hurricanes song’. IMHO, it was the ugliest song ever in AI history. Whatever it is, my Wednesdays and Thursdays are empty again… Congratulations to Kris Allen. But unfortunately, we all kno Adam Lambert will be the bigger star.

Ok… I’m all zen and calm. I’ll do some work before I drive back home and continue work from home. Adios!

No… Nothing bad. I’m actually impressed with their customer service quality. Stop glaring!!! I’m not being sarcastic here. I’m actually happy with the answers the officer gave me. It was very clear, concise, and most of all; assuring. Even the receptionist sounded very friendly. I was already in my ‘battle mode’ this morning before I called them. Like a big fat cat, ready to pounce on the unknowing prey… Wasted betul all the no-nonsense scenarios I planned in my head. By the way, I called Imigresen Shah Alam pagi tadi.

Cerita nombor dua, LHDN Plaza Perangsang.

Yang ini memang bikin sakit hati. Do you kno that kaunter untuk duti setem tutup pukul 3.45pm? Yes… Bukan macam ofis hour biasa. I had a lot of stuff to do in the ofis today. I only came out from The Weld pukul 3pm, thinking that LHDN and Imigresen tutup at least pukul 4.30pm. Dengan segala gembiranya, I parked my car, walk briskly to Plaza Perangsang, naik la lift pigi tingkat 9. And teruslah meruju ke kaunter ambil nombor. This was the conversation yang menyakitkan hati, jantung, dan kepala ku;

Kakak montel LHDN: Nak beli setem duti ke dik?

Aku yang comel: A-aah.

KmLHDN: Ala dik! Kaunter dah tutup.

Aku yang confused: Huh? Baru pukul 3.50pm.

KmLHDN: Besar-besar kita letak sign TUTUP tu kat depan pintu dik. Bahagian duti setem je yang dah tutup. Sebab diorang kena buat balancing before ofis tutup.

Aku yang mintak kesian: Ala kak. Saya lambat 5 minit je. Kat kaunter tu masih ada orang tengah beli setem. Boleh la kak. Saya dari ofis ni.

KmLHDN: Itu last customer la. Datang besok la pukul 8 pagi.

Aku yang dah bengang gell: Ok. Kalau saya datang besok pagi, pukul 8, gerenti boleh dapat duti setem tu 8.01am? Ke nak kena tunggu 8.30am, bila orang kaunter dah siap buka sistem?

KmLHDN: *senyum tersipu-sipu*

Moral of the story; kalau bab tutup ofis ni, TERAMATLAH PUNCTUAL diorang. I kno it’s my fault but at least be a little bit compassionate.

So I have to go to Shah Alam again tomorrow morning. Punah lah harapan aku mau menengok AI live results 8am tomorrow… Sigh…. Hopefully everything will be fine and I can still catch the announcement part. Sigh… I need to stop sighing also… SIGH… Bak kata Gregory House; ” House’s house of whining. State your complaint please”…

Warisan Srikandi

Very clear and concise explanation about the process/procedures and yang paling penting the cost breakdown. Pengurusan mengambil maid ni sebenarnya tidak lah sesusah yang kita pikirkan. Dari bahagian kita sebagai employer, kita cuma perlu pigi LHDN untuk dapatkan stamp bond (1 contract bond + 4 employment contract = RM50), pigi imigresen to submit completed borang-borang, after 3 (or 5 days) pigi imigresen ambil calling visa (if everything is ok), send calling visa to consultant (or ejen di Indonesia if you buat directly with them, which cost lesser), and go pickup the new maid at the airport (once confirmation given by ejen di Indonesia)… And of course, duit lah… Siap kan aroung 5k – 6k for everything.

I’m going thru this process again since my maid will be going back in September. I hope everything goes smoothly… Sigh…

I recently was “assaulted” by a road-bully wannabe. What?! What happened? Are you ok? Did you tell your mom??????

What? – “Assaulted” by a road-bully wannabe…

What happened? – He came out of a junction so fast, he almost hit my car. But being the kewl me, I just swerved and stared at him. He make face like ‘Whaaaat? Nothing happened whaaaaat!!!!’. I then showed him the finger and just drive away. And suddenly, he revved his poor, poor, battered proton saga engine, drove so fast to my side of the car, try to intimidate me by konon-konon mau langgar my car, and showed me the finger.

Are you ok? – By now, most of you will definitely say, ‘it’s your own fault! Who ask you to show finger?????’. Well my friends, as I have said earlier, unfortunately, I don’t have those ‘patient’ thingy. But I have INTELLIGENCE… By ‘intelligence’, I’m using this definition of the word; secret information about an enemy.

What did you have??? – I have his car punya nombor…

What did you do with it? – Like all good citizens of Malaysia, I reported it. Good thing also when you have a lot of friends and family working in the polis department….

And then? – They found out that the car is registered to a lady (assuming that’s his mother). Duh!!!! With that kind of attitude, he won’t go far in his dream being a race car driver… Anywhooo, they asked me if I would like to proceed with charging the dude with assault.

So? – I told them, I want him to come and apologize to me. If he does that, I’ll drop the charge. If he refuse, he will be fined. So, I’m not that heartless. I still have compassion (once I calm down… Heheheheh…)

Did you tell your mom? – I’m not scared of road bullies or lipas. I’m only scared of God and my mom. God, because He can smite you into pieces, and your mom can sumpah you jadi batu macam si Tanggang… So hell no! I’m not telling her… (AJAN; DO NOT TELL HER!!!!).

Moral of the sory? – Kepada sesiapa yang menjadi mangsa orang-orang sebegini, cara terbaik untuk mengajar diorang is to make police report. Paling minimum pun diorang punya lesen mesti kena gantung. And also, try to be patient. Don’t show finger to people. I’ve learned my lesson and WILL TRY to be more sabar next time. Padan muka sendiri…

I’m back in KL since yesterday. Travelling with a 2 year old is really, really, really tiring. Khadeeja didn’t stop jumping until before the plane took off. We went up and down the travelator/escalator a few hundred times. Kurus aku di buatnya.

The Don is in KL. We called SOS International and flew him to KL by air ambulance. I get to ride with him in an ambulance from the hospital to the airport. Damn fast those ambulance driver! That’s my new ambition. To become an ambulance driver. Also because of the fancy lampu nenong-nenong on tthe van… OooooOOoooo… Liiiiighhhhtttttssss!

I have a few topics to write (American Idol, cloth diaper, lasik…) and will do it tomorrow. Next friday is Baby K’s birthday. She’s going to be 2 and I can’t believe it. They really grow up fast. Too fast… Iskiskisk… Si Amoi is 3 months and Baby K’s 2… Iskiskisk… And before you kno it, they will be telling you ‘mom, friendship bands are sooo old skool!’…. I cannot do this… HUWAAAAAAAA!!!!!

I just started watching HOUSE. What a brilliant characther! The script is just excellent… Will write more on it as well. For now, selamat malam! Kepada yang bekerja tomorrow, selamat bekerja! Aku cuti besok… Heheheehee…

Yes… Lagi panas dari KL. I think this is mainly due to the laut surrounding KK. Yes… I’m still here. The Don (me grandpa) is doing mucho better, thanks to all those prayers and loves sent… I’m here until Saturday. Just need to make sure he acknowledge my presence (heh… Jangan nanti dia bilang ‘I sakit you didn’t come and see me!’). 5 pm today we’ll get confirmation on his condition (if he needs surgery or watever).

Anak-anak ku? Khadeeja is definitely happy because she can play outside the house. There’s a lot of attention on her as well (and since she’s a diva, she just lurves the attentions). Si Amoi? Macam tu la jugak. All she does is sleep and hisap susu. My mom is definitely busier than ever (hospital… cucu… masak… hospital again…). Kasi chance la once in a while. After this week, the house will be empty again and she’ll get her peace.

Obi Wan? Apple Malaysia REFUSED to fix it. They only take the ones from Maxis. I say WTF?!!!! They have the odesity to tell me ‘you pergi Low Yatt kasi betul la’… HELLO!!!! Kau ingat itu barang ciplak ka??? So what if, I’m a foreigner, whose iPhone gone haywire during my visit in Malaysia, and wants it fixed? You cannot fix it here? Bukannya suruh diorang buat kerja free! I’m willing to pay the cost of service. Bloody fool punya Apple Malaysia… I anger ok… ANGER!!!!!!!! It’s dethhhhpicable!

Ok la… Have to finish my work before I go hospital (tukar shift with my sister). Till pen meet paper…

p/s: American Idol pun ndak tertengok sudah… Sigh…

I want to sleep but I can’t sleep.

I want to complete my work but the server connection is so slow.

Everyone’s tired today. After spending 2 whole days (baru 2 hari!) in the hospital, either standing or sitting on kerusi yang lagi keras dari batu, I deserve a good nite sleep. But here I am… Not leeting myself get the sleep that I deserve. So what now? Since the server is so slow and I can’t sleep? What do I do? How do I entertain myself????

Semalam punya cerita di Singapura, perjalanan yang teramat lancar. We even arrived 20 minutes earlier than schedule (or as the flight attendant pronounced it ‘thayjuel’)… I try not to laugh until she started the briefing in BM and sebut perkataan ‘asal’ dengan penuh arabic nya. Kalau boleh di spell dalam jawi begini la lebih kurang ‘ain-tha-lam (eg: thila kembalikan meja anda ketempat yang ‘aaathal)… Yeth… Sthe thpeak like thith…

Anyways… I arrived home around 9pm, immediately started packing for our trip back home today. Why the rush? My Nenek Aji (grandfather) is in the ICU… Alhamdulillah, the flight was not delayed and the powerpuff gals pun behaved very well… Somewhere in between, before we landed, Baby K started screaming ‘sakit! sakit!’ sambil menunjuk telinganya.

Nobody in KK knos that we were coming home. So I surprised them by suddenly showing up at the hospital. We’re supposed to take the flight back home on Saturday but at this stage, I guess we have to wait and see until my Nenek Aji is out from the ICU. I was at the hospital until 7.30pm just now. I’m bloody tired but I have a lot of stuff to do tonight. Baby K is already asleep and Si Amoi is with her Nenek… I can barely open my eyes… I think I have to leave it at that for tonight and do my work tomorrow morning…

• whether or not I should go to Singapore next week. I plan to go for a day trip to visit the ofis there… Won’t cost that much pun. The flight (unfortunately by Air Asia) is only RM158 (to and fro)…
• I wanna go back to KK this month or next… Just looking for the cheapest seat I could get.
• which book to read… I have a few ‘pending’ books which I bought during pregnancy and haven’t read any yet (which includes New Moon, Sisterhood of the travelling pants part 4… etc…).
• should I go back half day and work from home today? I have this crazy sakit tekak – coughing marathon going on. I think everyone in the ofis are scared of me. I might lick their mugs when they go out for lunch so that everyone will have sore throat as well. Roll la your eyes… I WILL lick your mugs!
• whether I should watch Boys Over Flower (the Korean version of Hana Yori Dango/Meteor Garden) online or wait for the DVD…

Ozone layer semakin nipis and I have THOSE issues in my head…

I will lick your mugs!!!

Dude: … Kept stealing glances at me while waiting for the lift…

In the lift;

Dude: Hi…

Me: Err… Hello…

Dude: I’m new here…

Me: Err… Ok…

Dude: Err… Ok then… (I think he might be thinking ‘this lady is so sombong’)

Me: *wth is the lift so bloody slow*… He kept looking at me…

Dude: I don’t mean to be rude but I think you are cute.

Me: I kno…

And then, I left… Leaving him staring blankly at me as the lift door closes and now he must be thinking ‘what a b***h’…

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I mean, I’m never pretty/beautiful. I kno I’m cute. I should’ve said ‘thanks’ because NOBODY ever said that to me directly. Kesian budak tu. So to the courageous dude, whoever you are; THANK YOU! You just made my first day back at the office much much better than I expected. Even the hundreds of emails that I have to read doesn’t bother me now. Kembang hidung aku kejap…

I started refusing plastic bags this week. I carry 5 or 6 reusable bags when I go out for groceries. I ALWAYS have 1 reusable bag with me. I kno it’s hard and too petty to keep carrying these bags but once you train yourself to do it, you’ll get the hang of it. Here’s how we do it;

• Have a list of your groceries and decide how many bags you need to bring to the market/supermarket.
• Always put the bags inside your car so that you won’t forget. For me, every time after I kemas barang groceries, I will immediately put the bags back into my car or put it right next to the front door.
• Buy small foldable bag to make it easier for you to carry inside your bag all the time. I got mine in Tokyo, a foldable Roo shopper bag. You can also get it here. Or if you don’t want to pay a lot on a grocery bag, go to Daiso at The Curve (it’s like the 100yen shop), or the 100yen shop in Sunway Mentari or SS2. They sell it for RM5. But there’s no harm in being fashionably concious in our fight for the environment. Heh…

It’s okay if you don’t carry enough reusable bags. Even if you carry 1 reusable bag, you already refused 1 (or even more than 1 if your items are small) plastic bag.

Folded...

Big enough to carry a 3kg sabun cuci kain

Hand made by moi!

If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make the change

- Michael Jackson, Man in the mirror -

So yesterday, my sister and I went to Sushi King Subang Parade for tea (she got this weird obsession-cravings for ocha and sushi now). There were only 2 other tables filled with people and 1 assistant manager at the cashier. So we took our seat and waited for the assistant manager to come and take our order. There was no usual ‘irrasyaimase’ greetings, so we assumed that she didn’t realize we were there. After a few moments, she came out of the counter, saw us, and IGNORED us… She kept doing watever it was that she was doing. Me being in a bitchy but not really in a bad mood started complaining softly but loud enough for her to hear to my sister. It was my usual “mana orang ni? diorang ndak mau kasi kita minum ka? ka dia ndak perasan? wat kind of service are they giving? bloody hell it’s been 5 minutes and she still ignores us!”… I kno my sister was already scared that I make the girl cry, so I decided not to embarass her and kept my anger to only mumblings. And then, the girl came and STARED at me. At first I thought she was angry because she heard me. And so I ignored her bulging eyes. After taking our orders, I realized she was stealing glances and was still staring at me whenever there’s chances. I kept asking my sister if there’s something on my face. Maybe I was too pretty for her common eyes. Yes, I kno I probably deserve the staring but did I mention she ‘threw’ the receipt on our table? Dalam hati aku ‘kalau ndak mau kerja balik rumah la!’…

The whole point of this post and the title especially is, Sushi King is very well known for their japanese greetings and stuff. You may not think it’s necessary and even hypocritical or annoying but you bloody work in a bloody japanese company so just say the bloody greetings because it’s the ‘japanese’ work ethique to greet customers properly. I hate people who don’t follow the proper work I ethique. I DEMAND my ‘irrasyaimase’ and ‘arigato gozaimasu’!!!!! Even after we paid them, there was no ‘thank you’ at all. The girl kept talking to her colleagues ignoring the customers. I hate it when people never say thank you to their customers. I hope Sushi King punya management read this post. You should do something about your people in Subang Parade. The food quality is not good as well. The kaiten belt was empty. Your tea was burning hot. Your staff treats customers like shit. I will NEVER eat there anymore!!!! And that’s why that assistant manager will be an assistant manager forever. Bad attitude doesn’t go well with that small small brain of yours…

You people just love my angry posts don’t you? Heheheheheh….

• Me being a shopaholic.
• Me being a chocoholic.
• Me having to WORK to feed my family.
• Me living in the middle of chaos instead of somewhere in Maldives.
• Me being a romantic person.
• Me being a hippie.
• Me missing my friends.
• Me being homesick when I’m away from my teeny-tiny house.
• Me being too much in love with Abu.
• Me being too proud of girls.

How???? Tuhan marah lah kalau over-over terlampau ni!

• I think the fact just sink in that I won’t be seeing Arwah Fify anymore. Yes, life does go on but it will never be the same again. I just miss her so much…
• If I were to be a housewife, I think we’d go bankrupt. I spend more $$$ than ever when I don’t work.
• Everything is saleable nowadays. Pasir pun dijual untuk kucing berak. Yang paling best sekali is the fact that we have to pay for plastik sampah which translate literally, we spend money just to throw it away.
• I need to find a new maid asap… My current maid will be going back in September. Why now? Sebab I want my current maid to train my new maid how to handle 2 kids and make sure Baby K wants to kawan the new maid. She’s very picky.
• I just realized Baby K is EXACTLY  like me. We get cranky when we are hungry and sleepy, and super cranky when we are at other people’s place for more than 12 hours.
• Meena is very bulat. Heh…
• Akademi Fantasia 7 sucks!

Itu sajalah buat hari ini… Sehingga kita bertemu di lain post.

Sekian, terima kasih.

• I went to Toys R Us yesterday, wanting to buy an educational toy for Baby K. Something like an electronic ABC reader… Went in, and there wasn’t even one simple ABC thingy. Everything was so hi-tech that I thot it was not worth buying if she doesn’t understands it. Rugi… Sudah la mahal… Rosak kalu, sakit jiwa ku…
• We went to see the paed for vaccinations. And there’s this thing called PVC and Rotavirus vaccination which cost a bomb. Nasib baik la optional. Not that I don’t care about whatever penyakit it prevents but I just don’t think it’s necessary. What happen to the usual BCG punya injection only? I pity the kids nowadays… They need so much extra jarum just because the medical experts says it’s good (which is true…). And parents nowadays (termasukla gue sendiri), are paranoid about everything! Having a furry pet at home doesn’t mean that your kid will end up having asthma, so stop asking me to get rid of my cats!!!!!
• Kalau dulu-dulu, kita nyanyi ‘burung kakak tua’ or ‘twinkle twinkle little star’… Sekarang, Khadeeja DEMANDS me to sing ‘Munajat Cinta’ every time she wants to sleep…. I had to search for the lyrics sebab I kept singing it with different lyrics. Heh…
• Ameena is allergic to cow’s protein, hence the eczema all over her face and kepala. Terpaksa la kasi susu soya. Yes, I breastfeed her but usually, susu badan not enough. She’s about 4.3kg already and feeds at 3 to 4oz each time. I’m actively finding ways to banyakkan air susu and found a tea (it’s called Milkmaid Tea) that helps lactating moms. You can buy it from the link or at Sunway Hospital punya kedai runcit.

Whatever it may be, life as we kno it is gone… I wish my kids can just go out and climb trees like I did.

I thot it was hi-time that we introduce Baby K to outdoor activities. And so, we decided to bring her to see the animals. I wanted her to see and touch the animals upclose. That’s why we went to the petting zoo instead of the big zoo. We (termasuklah mak bapak dia) had a blast playing with the animals and stuff. It was a lovely weekend overall. However (yes… I always have something to complain about!), I’m just not happy with the service they give. Most of all, I’m unhappy with the ethique of some of the visitors. I think the park management needs to do something about it;

1. To the cashiers: The way you greet your customers is as if you kena paksa bangun pagi-pagi suruh kutip duit. You are the first person we see before entering the park, so greet nicely!
2. To the visitors: Please lah beratur dengan betul. If you are not buying the tickets, don’t crowd the enterance!!!! You will get your freaking tickets once your friend pay it!!!!!!!! Macam lembu terlepas dari kandang!
3. To the food/operators: Buat kerja cepat la sikit. We ordered fish & chips and it took almost 25 minutes. Sudah la orang kelaparan….
4. To the Banglas yang jaga binatang: Well done! They are the friendlier service persons there…
5. To the management: THERE ARE PEOPLE SMOKING INSIDE THE PARK INFRONT OF THE TIGER AREA!!!!!!

It rained every day and we (Baby K, Amoi and myself), semua came down with flu and fever… A lot to write and update. I have this great piece about the recent hiatus on English as a medium for Maths and Science. But I’ll do that later when I’m in full swing. I will also update pictures from our kampung trip later.

Also, my apologies for not posting the usual AI comments last week. The internet connection kept bumping me off! All in all, I’m happy with the judges pick for Wildcard. I’m rooting for Jorge but I don’t think he’ll make it that far. I’m just glad Tatiana’s not in….. Psycho….

Okie dokie… I promise to write soon… As for today, I have a lot to do in my list…

Malas mau cerita panjang-panjang lah! As you all kno, me and Air Asia don’t see eye to eye anymore. And I’m not gonna say ‘I expect shitty treatment from AA but not from MAS’ because ALL call center customer service officers should treat their customers accordingly. Just because people pay lesser with AA doesn’t mean that people deserve lesser service as well. Having said that, since I paid a bomb to fly with MAS, I DEMAND a better service from them. What tagline???? MH stands for Malaysian Hospitality my ass!

As a Quality Analyst for a call center, I tend to compare the service I get from other companies with the service (or at least the calls) that we give from our company. I’m not saying that we give the best service but we try. There are a few bad apples in the team but nothing compares to the shitty service I got from the MAS officer. I don’t want to re-live the conversation. My blood pressure is rising just thinking about it. The officer was lazy. Buat kerja senang pun malas. Suruh check reservation pun macam kena suruh angkat kayu bikin bangunan. If you are rude, I can maki hamun you there and then. But if you are lazy, I can’t do anything but recommend that you are fired from the job. I need to stop it at that and breathe now…. Fuhfuhfuhfuhfuh (ala-ala orang mau beranak punya breathing…)!

To the director/manager of MAS call center, either you need to re-train your staff or hire me as your QA.

Sekian, terima kasih!

I’m doing okay with the confinement. Although my behind and my below are still sore and sometimes painful, I’m adjusting well with Meena’s sleeping and feeding pattern, and also playing sessions with Khadeeja. Nowadays, Khadeeja seems to sebut ‘nenek’ very often. Sampai mengigau malam-malam sebut ‘nenek’. I dunno which nenek tho. Her nenek Kuantan just went back last Sunday. And she usually will look at my mom’s pictures and say ‘neneeeeek’…

Meena is having some sort of allergy reaction towards I dunno what. Her face and body have spots/rashes all over. Kesian… Sampai mata dia bengkak. I think it’s due to the jamu I took and she’s breastfeeding… So, I stopped the jamu and for now, she have to settle with susu lembu.

Last nite’s movie? It was the worst 30 minutes of Keanu in my whole life… I usually will TRY to endure any movie with my favorite dudes but TDTESS is so bad, even his beautiful face can’t keep me occupied. Bloody bad movie…

Ok… A short note for La Signora: Mau si Meena? Boleh bah kalau kau… Kasi jak address. Aku hantar pakai pos laju…

Sleeping Beauties…

KKK kaler pink…

I cut her hair… Now she have Victoria Beckham’s bob hair…

A lot of people been SMSing me asking whether I’ve given birth or not. The obvious answer my friends, is NOT. If I could update my blog the second my kid is out, I will… For now, I’m settling in with the pain. I’m not being zen about it and Abu’s been telling me I’m pathetic (WATEVER!!!) but it’s the final stretch of the marathon… If I wanna be pathetic, LET ME!!!

Let’s start with my sleeping habit. I don’t get to sleep properly at night. I don’t get to sleep at all at night nowadays. I’m not complaining tho… Since I work from home until giving birth, I get to sleep anytime I want to. Usually around 11am until 3pm. So to those who wants to call me and tell me about you dreaming that I gave birth last night (Junida, you are not the only person… 3 people SMSed and called with the same dream…), do it around 6pm or 7pm… I don’t entertain calls when I’m groggy and drooling very well. And to those who caught me at a bad timing, my apologies if I don’t give a shit about watever you are saying… Just kno that I still love you people, okay?!

I’m currently preparing myself for the birth… Watching all those birthing videos and stuff. I’m the kind of person who needs to mentally prepare by learning and seeing how it goes. I did the same thing with Khadeeja. From breech birthing to episiotomy, I watch them all. Now, I think if some other pregnant woman wants to give birth, I can be their bidan…

I also have this condition whereby my hemoglobin is too low. How does that affect the birth? If my hemoglobin is too low, the doctor will have to transfuse blood into me. Dalam bahasa yang lebih mudah, I don’t have enough blood in me. Watching all those vampire movies doesn’t seem to help at all… Hmmm…. So, I’m on iron tablets and strict red meat/liver/sayur bayam diet. Weird haaa? Most pregnant women gets high blood pressure. I, on the other hand don’t have enough. Worst case scenario? My sister or my husband or anybody with O+ blood can donate segelen of their blood to me… Anyone???

Baby in tummy is doing fine… She’s engaged but moving very, very actively still. Hence me having all those pains. Baby K? She’s excellent… She now can do the ‘peace’ sign and say ‘pish’. And she kept calling my sister and sister in law ‘adik’… I think it’s because she heard people calling the both of them ‘adik’. So instead of calling them auntie and bibik, she calls them ‘adik’. And once in a while, she will call me ‘kakak’. That’s because my maid calls me ‘kakak’… Funny little girl…

Abu’s been working these CNY holiday. I had to entertain myself. So today, I FORCED myself to walk. At this stage, walking helps to induce labor (according to the doctor). So I went to Subang Parade, Carrefour and RHB to pay my car. That’s a lot of activities for me. The past weeks, the farthest I walked was from my room to my living room, which is only 15 steps away (I counted…). And also, I finally waxed my legs (not that you’d be interested…). It took almost 2 hours for me to finish both legs because I can’t reach those areas near my ankles… But I did it… So, I’m all waxed and set to give birth… The question now is, WHEN??????????? Let’s hope it’s next week…

Actually I have something to write about but I’m emotionally tired to write about it. I screamed at some cina kampung at Maybank Sunway Pyramid last Friday for being rude and stupid. And the story goes; I was there to ask a question about opening a Joint Account under 3 names (not allowed btw…), and this cina kampung (a lady with ridiculous mani + pedi and a lovely LV bag – damn I liked her bag…) came and interrupted me in the middle of my discussion with the branch manager. Her problem was that the deposit machine telan her duit and it got stucked. So she started screaming and blaming Maybank for the incompetence machine that they have. The branch manager CALMLY asked her to fill up a form and the money will be credited in 3 working days. She started screaming and screaming and screaming and blaming the manager for not being efficient (wtf???? It’s not human error… It’s a technical error you stupid woman!). When the manager asked her how much was the amount she put in the machine, you want to kno what her genius answer was? —> I dunno leh… Why must I count the money?! The machine will count for me maaaah!!!! Genius, I tell you… I gave her some time to vent out but after almost 15 minutes of the interruption of her screaming and abusing the manager, I couldn’t take it… So I started shouting at her and kept telling her she’s stupid. I did… I said, ‘Why you so stupid did not even count the money?’… Everyone was looking at us, the bank manager looked relieved, and I bet everyone was scared that I might give birth there and then…. Heh…
Moral kepada cerita ini: wait for your turn… Don’t intterupt people and don’t be an idiot!