Shop Till I Drop

mood: grumpy and angry and throwing an allowed tantrum
music: diatas normal (beyond normal) - peterpan ("pikiranku patutnya menyedari siapa yang harus dan tak harus ku cari" / my mind should realize who it should and should not be looking for")

oh well peeps! i'm back from a long break away from the cyberworld and ill health thanks to a certain antibiotic called amoxyllin.

i was in kelantan over the weekend for abang ngah's wedding. finally! i love family gatherings such as those (even though i was only half conscious to actually sit thru the entire ceremony). found time to go to pengkalan kubur, very near to the golok border to shop for dirt cheap items like nice fabrics, knick knacks and clothes. of course mother and uda went berserk with the tudong-shopping while i was actually melting under the 35 degrees sun. but still managed to find a very nice telekong for awak to give me as part of hantarans. *yay*!

we also found time to go down to terengganu on saturday. the pasar payang is a huge place! undoubtedly the objective of visiting the market was to buy songkets and batiks for me and awak to make more hantarans. it was there i realized what a terrible bargainer i am. i think i am every shopholder's dream customer. i never question the price, and certainly i don't have the guts to bargain the price down, even though i know i should. hahaha! but that's what uda is for! she bargained the price of the two songket sampings that i bought for awak down that even the shopkeeper was impressed!

and uda also insisted that i go to this boutique silk batik shop. allegedly, it's the best in malaysia and if you want to buy batik, you buy from noor arfa. and at uda's and mother's strongly worded encouragements, i got a lovely deep red batik cloth to make into a nice baju kebaya for awak to give me as yet another hantaran. i'm ashamed to share on the price i paid for that one. it seems terribly exorbitant, even when in rm. but, as uda rightly pointed out, "you get married only once! and this hantaran thing lah is the time for you to get him to give you stuff like this. once you're married, hah! don't even dream. husbands in general never do!"

hahahahaha....is that true guys? awak? really? will our hantarans be the last time you get me nice stuff like that? i hope not...but seriously, i don't mind if you never get me the kindda of stuff that we're having as hantaran...a nice 0.8 carat princess cut diamond solitaire set in platinum will do just fine. : )

so i'm pleased with my hauls...and given more time (and surely more money), me and awak would surely have found almost all the things we need for our hantarans. but since he wasn't there and seriously my pocket was getting lighter and lighter, i decided it was wise to buy stuff we had previously agreed on.

went back to work on toosday...for a dragonboating teambuilding challenge. a very useful session for today, i'm feeling muscles i never knew i had! cliche-dly, it was a fun activity, but it worked when it tried to get us to get to know each other and break the ice among peeps in the new divisions. ranj, baguana, coffeebean and me of course have our reservations about the prof...but we’re all adopting a wait-and-see approach.

but when it comes to work, seriously i don't care anymore.

that's about all that's happening in my world. yeah pathetic i know...but i like my life simple, thank you very much.

here's that seven thingy toots tagged me with. follow the instructions, peeps!

seven things that scare me
1. my ability to sin
2. my ability to forget
3. not getting His blessings for everything i do
4. speeding cars
5. dark places
6. watching incredible tales on channel five (blardee spooky man...)
7. flying cockroaches

seven things i like the most
1. my faith
2. His love
3. chocolate
4. chicken and cheese
5. my liana
6. teh peng
7. ok this one i hate to admit but...awak's corny jokes.

seven important things in my room
1. my praying corner
2. my bed
3. my fan and the wonky remote control
4. my curtains (coz i leave the grilles open and don't wanna do a full monty)
5. cici my cat (hey sometimes he's under my bed)
6. my terribly large collection of bags
7. by laundry basket (which always overflows coz i do laundry like once a month?)

seven random facts about me
1. i have long black hair (which i'm thinking of cutting soon...shld i?)
2. i'm a crybaby during pms-tic times
3. loud
4. i don't care who hears when i sing in the shower
5. i hate cleaning
6. i love cooking
7. the only place in america that i really wanna visit is the yellow stone.

seven things i plan to do before i die
1. pray and repent for my sins
2. repay my parents for every intangible deed
3. complete all the articles of faith
4. get masters in sociology
5. get masters/degree in seerah
6. do umrah at least once more
7. marry awak and have at least four of his kids. (he wants 10. he can have them himself!)

seven things i can do
1. row in a dragonboat (just learnt!)
2. drive
3. sing and yoddle
4. cook a mean spaghetti
5. sleep an afternoon away
6. talk to cici
7. find liana when i've parked it

seven things i can't do
1. read a compass
2. write or read mandarin
3. see beyond 20 meters without my glasses/contacts
4. fix stuff that i've broken.
5. understand why morons and idiots exists
6. remember anything i learnt in sec school maths class
7. my gce o levels combined science paper

seven things i say the most
1. "ha?"
2. "ya Allah!"
3. "sure..."
4. "ta ma de!"
5. "what? why?"
6. "why not"
7. "blinking..."

seven celeb crushes
1. taufik batisah!
2. bryan greenberg - jake in one tree hill
3. milo ventimiglia - jesse in gilmore girls
4. chris pratt - bright in everwood
5. ariel - lead singer of peterpan
6. noah wyle - dr carter in er
7. anthony ruivivar - carlos in third watch

seven people who will have to do this
all y'all who's reading this! even if it exceeds seven!