You're My Pillar of Strength

Couldn't help but hold back tears as my mom told me that she still mentioned me regardless of doctors saying she's no longer sane, a few days ago. Mom, through audio teleconferencing said she asked if I was coming home anytime soon but mom told her that I can no longer fly. She kept quiet.

Should I take the risk to go home and visit my sick grandmother who is at her critical stage right now and so am I, in a different stage totally?

When dad informed those of us who are out country that Nini was getting from bad to worse, the first thing came to mind was should I go see her or should I not. Yet, after getting advice from the wise, they recommended that I should not. How can you calm a rumbling heart?? It just keeps bothering me. Unless I am not close to my grandmother, I won't feel that bad but she is partly why I am here today. Her unpertubed attitude, even on her sick bed, has taught me so much about perseverance and patience. She has seen through all my good and bad, ugly and beautiful, ambitious and appetant life! I wish I could spend some more long conversation, sitting down folding 'tinggat' bond moment with her. As dad said, there is always an end to something started. Hobbit and I only have one wish -- that little baby Hobb will at least get to see great Nini.

As of now, love and prayers are urgently needed for her to press on while she can. Like what Nini told her adopted grandson, Meldy, "I am tired now and I want to rest in God." Coming from a strong, couragous and full of life 94 years old woman. I am sure it will be a beautiful ending for her and I should proudly say Amen to that.

"Nini, you're our strong pillar of faith, hope and love."

Crocheting The Days Away

Last Friday I was asked by my doctor to go on a bed rest. Once I heard bed rest, nothing came to my mind except boredom. Well, maybe if you really needed the rest, it could sound luxurious yet I didn't think it was a good idea since I needed to finish up a lot of work in school. Yet in my condition at that time, I knew bed rest was for the best. 

 

My favorite booties

Despite not going to work early in the morning, I woke up at the same time and started some errands around the house before I really settled on my "bed rest" which equals to couch rest. I brought out a bag of yarns and started fixing several unfinished projects and added a new one in--baby booties! I wanted to make a pair a few months back but was too busy with a lot of things. So yay to my couch rest, I was finally able to crochet cute booties! Once I start crocheting, nothing could stop me until I finish my goal for the day. Managed to crochet 3 pairs in a day! Such an achievement...

baby's sandals

Made for my friend's twin babies

Made for me self!

For my little smurf

Here are several stuff I made on my own self-proclaimed 'bed rest'. I also did some online search of spyder jackets since a friend mentioned them to me. Not bad! Check them out yourself. My favorites are the pink ones. Back to crocheting, my current project is a basket weave baby blanket! Can't wait to finish it this week! :) 

Big Papers = Big Pandas

Exhaustion totally led our life this week!! 

My aunt and her friend decided that I would be the perfect person to destroy edit their final papers for their Masters studies this week. Since this wasn't my first time editing my aunt's paper, I simply, without doing any intelligent thinking, nodded in agreement! I thought, ah..no big deal, 30 pages or so...kacang saja!

Kacang my *toot*

When my aunt told me about it, she said I have one week to work on her paper and her friend's paper would not take up too much time. 

So I received my aunt's paper last Saturday night and her friends paper, on Monday morning. So I thought, one week...one week...Oh ya sure ONE Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeek! 

All of a sudden, my aunt sent me a note saying that she needed to bind her papers and show it to her lecturer by Thursday and that the papers have to be in their hands on Wednesday. Now now now, I don't just sit back and check papers. With back-to-school work, house work, breathless work, leg-cramps-middle-of-the-night work, you name it...I couldn't possibly finish checking badly written papers in one sitting...Yeah, sorry to say BAD but the papers were really that bad! Nil editing done before handing it to me. All the information and data collected was just dumped into the paper, no signs of deep thought before writing, no signs of intelligent, not to mention a few research findings were written in Malay expected to be translated...Basically...I totally had no idea what kind of papers they were writing! 

Long story short, Hobbit and I had to sacrifice two consecutive nights just to work on those papers and just because I said a big fat YES or did I say kacangggggggggggggg??!! Com'on...Before someone edit your final draft, spend some time to edit on your own first...Not just dump it to another person to do the tough editing! Haiyoh...

We were finally done yesterday, Wednesday. Everything felt so good after, especially the shut eye part! Today, Hobbit and I started to pick up our rhythm again. Aunt kept saying the I love you a million times. Her friend kept thanking me not knowing under what circumstances I had to go through to get her papers done...Honestly, even though I complain aloud, it was a learning experience too! I got to learn a lot about customer's service and career development while reading and re-searching to make the papers work. Even though my aunt promised me circuit city coupons when Hobbit and I get home, I wouldn't care less...But, what the heck..sounds good to me!! I would say, I will do it all over again...without my "big, protruding ball" when that time comes around. :)

Husbands, Love Your Wives

Every Husband must Read This. Wives, read it too! :)

Love her …when she sips on your coffee or tea. She only wants to make sure it tastes just right for you.

Love her…when she "pushes" you to pray. She wants to be with you in Heaven.

Love her…when she asks you to play with the kids. She did not "make" them on her own.

Love her...when she is jealous. Out of all the men she can have, she chose you.

Love her…when she has annoying little habits that drives you nuts. You have them too.

Love her…when her cooking is bad. She tries.

Love her…when she looks disheveled in the morning. She always grooms herself up again.

Love her…when she asks to help with the kids homework. She only wants you to be part of the home.

Love her...when she asks if she looks fat. Your opinion counts, so tell her she's beautiful.

Love her…when she looks beautiful. She's yours so appreciate her.

Love her...when she spends hours to get ready. She only wants to look her best for you.

Love her…when she buys you gifts you don't like. Smile and tell her it's what you've always wanted.

Love her…when she has developed a bad habit. You have many more and with wisdom and politeness you have all the time to help her change.

Love her…when she cries for absolutely nothing. Don't ask, tell her its going to be okay

Love her…when whatever you do is not pleasing. It happens and will pass

Love her…when she stains your clothes. You needed a new one anyway :p

Love her…when she tells you how to drive. She only wants you to be safe.

Love her…when she argues. She only wants to make things right for both

Love her…she is yours. You don't need any other special reason!!!!

All this forms part of a Woman's Character. Women are part of your life and should be treated as the Queen.

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) advised concerning the woman:

• Treat the women well.

• The best of you are those who are the best in the treatment of their wives.

The Dragon Has It All

Attempting my first post this year. Happy New Year 2012 everyone. It's the year of the DRAGON! Beware of those who were born and will be born in the dragon year because it is their time to shine and grind! So far, I have three precious 'dragons' that I love to death and good news is one is on its way!! So who always come to my rescue when I am in trouble? The dragons in the family of course! They say, those who are born in the year of the dragons will have no problems living in the same roof with the monkeys. So I am considered lucky! :) Anyway, I tend to talk about zodiac here, doesn't mean I believe in it. Lets just say my Chinese blood is brooding right now...

So Hobbit and I moved to a new place. Still taking time to let this new surroundings and home to sink in but as a caring friend puts it, sometimes what is less feels more. This new place has less space compared to the previous one but what we like about it is the distance to our work place, the same utilities charge as our old building and good location. Funny thing is, I dislike cooking here. I rather fix a quick-to-go food for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I even mentioned to friends that they should come over and cook for me since I am closer now. Anyone wants to volunteer as Food Preparation Worker - Manager Jobs? As for pay, well, you can eat what you cook for me too! :) 

Back to school in few more days. I should get my work done or else I will be working like a dog again night and day!

Can't Get Over 17/275

I think exhaustion is totally sinking on me. This evening marked the fifth time we moved and drove to our new place. A small midget could only carry thus much plus two heads doing it all by themselves! I know people who told us they can help but knowing us, we just hate to disturb others on their holidays. Thank God I have a hubby who persevered through it all. I just wish I was more than able to help him lift, move and arrange. Yet I could only do as much and get hell tired as if I have ran a hundred laps! My sister asked me about my birthday gifts for boyfriend aka Hobbit and I simply told her that my gift is still baking in the oven! LOL! Anyway, settling for something less when you have tasted the best is hard but we are doing it for the good of our family. I just can't get over this place (my old place) just yet but with time, I believe I would find many things to be thankful for as we start our lives in our new home.

Teman

While going through my dust covered treasure boxes, I unearthed lots of old pictures and old letters mostly from friends and families. Browsing through some of them, I couldn't believe how many precious friends I have made throughout the past years and with the depression of moving (to a new place), it made me felt so much better! So this song is to all my friends out there!

Greetings from Ropoy

Greetings to all readers of this blog! This is her Hobbit aka Ropoy, your guest blogger for today! This is one of those very rare opportunities where I get the chance to spill out all my nonsense. And yes, before I continue, Babb would like to wish all of you a very merry Christmas and a joyful new year 2012! 

All righty, let's put all the silly humors aside and get serious.

Last Monday I had the chance to celebrate my birthday with some of my friends (some of my friends only because most of them are away for the holidays). Well, all I could say about that night is it was awesome! I thank God because I had the chance to dine with these great and beautiful people. Life has been quite good this year. Although I had some bad experiences still, the goodness of it outshines all the gloomy ones! The best gift is yet to come people! I'm pretty sure that next year will be quite challenging because me and my missus will be walking on uncharted grounds (at least for us). Yay! That does sound scary but hey you! Bring it on! Whatever the collision estimation is.....both of us are all geared and set up to go! I guess I have said enough folks, again, God bless you all and have a safe holidays!   

Love on the Guitar

I first learned how to play the guitar when I was in high school because of my desperation to accompany a crush while he sung in church. As time went by, my deep interest in guitar just died off just like my secret love towards the crush! As I entered college, a teacher managed to get me into classical guitar for a while but this too died off just like my relationship with that particular teacher. So when my husband aka. Hobbit was suddenly into Gibson Les Paul, I had to ask whether it was a person or a thing! Apparently it is a branded electric guitar that he wants and with what we make each month, it would take years of earnest savings just to own the one that he has been dreaming of! Anyway, because of Hobbit's interest, my love for strings was suddenly revived all over again. Yes, Gibson Les Paul makes beautiful sound and music. One day if my bank allows, I will get him the one he has been wishing for! :)

Thai Father's Day 2011

It's the King's 84th birthday today. We usually would join the annual Run for The King organized by Standard Charted Bank every year today but this time, we decided to skip and walk with the baby around Suan Luang King's Park. Apart from that, we also decided to visit a new place we just came to know of but forgotten our handheld gps. 

Two days ago, we visited the same park to celebrate Dollie's birthday and to fellowship with friends on a clement Sabbath. That was fun because not only we got to spend time with friends but also enjoy good food! Speaking of food, it's the main highlight for me nowadays. Be it day, noon, night or dawn, I think nothing but of food. It's a wonder how I haven't gain much yet. I'm trying and will keep trying...

 

Back to our walk at the park, Hobbit and I were surprised that the majority of the visitors this morning were foreign Burmese workers. You can immediately identify them by their looks, outfit and the language they spoke. Hoards of them...In fact it was funny how most of the girls came in fancy dresses and high heels (to the park) and the guys came with fake leathery jacket, skinny jeans and overdone hairdo! Not forgetting inches of powder showered on face and body! Not that we were belittling them but they really stood out from the rest! Oh well, I had a good walk, good time and good appetite after that! Too bad we didn't get to see the magnificent fireworks tonight. Hope we don't miss next year! Happy Thai Father's Day to all Ye great DAD! :)