celebrating january and february babies..

well, this chinese new year holiday, we celebrated our family's january and february babies and they are:

syariq (8 january, 7 yo)

uncle D (11 january, 74 yo)

kak ani (25 january, 46 yo)

ME! (29 january, 36 yo)

kak sya (4 february, 44 yo)

danish (7 february, 14 yo)

we sang birthday song for each person and that's mean we repeated it six times, haha.. here are a few photos from the event.

and as usual, since i am a very lucky girl to be surrounded by loving families and friends, here are this year birthday presents.

i've received four set of nanoblocks (shop series)

my colleagues surprised me with cake on the day of my birthday

another block set from kak ala's bunch.. i already finished this and honestly, it's quite hard for the different types and sizes of the blocks, haha..

from izz and areef (abg ijan's and kak intan's bunch) and their wishes are so sweet and thoughtful.. kak intan even bought me 'kain baju kurung' today at jakel when i accompanied her there.. 

received by post, from fiza and yati, these two always manage to surprise me every single year with their gifts..

from abg ain's and kak ani's bunch, i love the unicorn light! it had become my night light!

i don;t have to worry about 'baju raya' this year, yay! kak sya's bunch gave me this beautiful 'batik' from terengganu..

this one is from miss a and rafiz, also received by mail! since they bought it from kinokuniya, i first thought that kinokuniya gave me a birthday present...

i also received lots of wishes via whatsapps and socmed. i cherish every single one of them. thank you all for wishes and presents. may Allah bless you and your family.💓💓💓

happy birthday to me!!!

alhamdulilah, Allah gives me another year to live on this earth. i celebrated my birthday by getting annoyed at KLIA2's myNEWS.com. after coming back from our trip to hong kong and macau, i suddenly wanted to drink milk so much. it was 15 minutes past 12 and the only store that was opened is myNEWS.com. i took a 500ml goodday fresh milk and the price tag is RM5.70. but when i paid, the price hiked to RM7.10. i told the worker, and he rudely told me he couldn't do anything about it. i already reported this to myNEWS.com and eAduan KPDNKK.

spot the diffrent!

but later that day was all sunshine and rainbow for me. first, i celebrated my birthday with aisyah, rafiz and ateng and sushi zanmai, d'pulze, putrajaya. this is the first time, i ate ate sushi zanmai and i was really interested in the way it send your order. there is a track where this cute 'train' with your order on top that send your order. it will stop at the table and asking you to take you food. once done. you have to press this blinking button for it to go back to its starting point. btw, these beautiful meals were paid by the evergenerous, mr. rafiz.

salmon maki and salmon nigiri

salmon temaki (yup, i do love salmon)

after that, i went straight to restoran ana ikan bakar petai bangi to celebrate my birthday with family this time. both the company and the food are great! we ate almost everything from seafood to chicken and beef! they sang the birthday song for me and and my sister-in-law, kak ani who celebrated her birthday on the 25th. as usual, the little ones, alif but not syariq since he had a cough blew the candle. syariq really pulled a long face for not be able to blow the candles.

mak su is me and mak long is kak ani

i'm grateful for having a very tight and closed-knit family. no matter how 'crazy' i go, they will always stick by me!

the oreo cream and cookies cake was chosen by syariq

this birthday might be the best and biggest celebration ever! i received a lot of wishes and gifts. i quote back what i said at FB, 'As vain as it sound, those wishes made me feel special, important, appreciated and needed. These feelings are the reason that keep me on going in this life. Once again, thousand of thank you and may Allah bless all of you.❤️  '

from fiza and yati

from kak ala's bunch

from officemates

from (clockwise): abg ijan's bunch, abg ain's bunch, ateng (nice packing. at first i thought he gave me a secret medicine to help with my bipolar since he is a pharmacist, haha..) and the HRC honolulu bear from aisyah and rafiz

ps: i went to a trip to hong kong and macau on 25 - 28 january 2018 with dear aisyah as usual. maybe, i write on this trip first, not laos while it still fresh in my mind, huhu...

sonnet 129

i was born on january 29 . so it be translated to 129 in number form. without the year apparently. so, i googled the number since i was a little bit obsessed by numerology at that time and came upon this sonnet by william shakespeare. The sonnet consists of an unknown narrator having an internal mediation with himself about his sexuality; he fears it and harvests feelings of self-disgust for having such desires. "Omne animal post coitum triste est" is a Latin saying that is often quoted in association to sonnet 129. The phrase literally translates into "after sex, every animal is sad."(Wikipedia, 2017)

i first knew shakespeare when i was 11 years old. my house was equipped with a mini library, well not so mini since both of my parents and teachers and they really encouraged us (my siblings and i) to read by buying and providing us the right and suitable reading materials. so, we had access to various reading materials growing up. i was out of children's reading material so i try picking up shakespeare's book. to be fair they were in comic and simplified form, but i fall in love anyway. growing up, i read the original version and falling deeper in love.

honestly, i prefer the comedy and i dislike the tragedy. amongst my favourite are the taming of the shrew (kate reminds me of me, haha..), twelfth night, much ado about nothing and midsummer night dream. if i have to choose the tragedy, hamlet and macbeth. frankly speaking, i'm not a hardcore fan of shakepeare. by hardcore, i mean i couldn't quote shakespeare without googling. the only quote i remember is to be or not to be! fogive me, dear all shakespeare devotees if i misquoting. 

brothers vs sisters

guys are always practical i think, and gals usually are more 'in tune' with the receiver...