September is coming to an end...

Assalammu'alaikum family, friends, readers and followers of this blog. I know, more than a month of silence. Apologies for the hiatus.

Time flew eh, it has been over a month since our home warming, more than a month of living on our own. I am adapting slowly to the new home duties, the new journey home, the cleaning up, the laundry.. endless!

Thankfully, I manage to request for a 4-day work week to spend with time with mom. Yup, rare, I know. A pay cut necessary, but time is something I wont be able to buy. So it became very necessary for me. I took a permanent Friday offs.

Baby M is also with me a day longer and mom enjoys the company she gets, just us. Noone else, just the way she likes it. We talked a lot, we do a lot together. On my first Friday off, I invited some friends over for a sewing sharing session, and my mom had fun talking to a few of them. After that we went to do some hair pampering, and then we got home for me to cook and serve her lunch/dinner.

The quiet company we yearn so much for. I guess I will be requesting for another day off in a year or two. The body is old, I am constantly tired from the inevitable rushing, the peak hour crowd gushing through, the need to quicken my steps.. It drains me. That 1.5 hrs journey chaos drains all the energy I have. I got home tired, but couldn't rest. I rush to set myself on fire cooking for us dinner fighting the hunger and fatique. When all that was done, I am left with 1-3 hrs to clear my laundry, which often leaves me 1hr max to rest my butt and watch some tv on lucky days. On not so lucky days, I use that window to sew my orders. Yes, alhamdulillah, I receive a few orders.

I keep driving myself to just do this a while more, just another year more (repeat that for the next 5 years or so), before I can throw in the towel to be home and do what I truly love. It is rather strange that I love the wet market visits more than anything these days.

I like getting things fresh and get home to use what I had just bought and turn them into delicious meals. Not that I cook great, but I cook enough. Enough to chase the hunger pangs I have and enough to feed us well. My husbands took up the cooking duties 1-2 times a week. And it will allow me to really clear the laundry out to a good zero (for the next couple of hours to come).

And I just had the best weekend! Sat 24th, after Baby M head home, husband and I decide to get out for dinner by public, taking the DTL to Beauty World. We were wowed. the shops there have changed termendously. Our favorite snooker and karaoke spot is gone! Replaced by childcare centre, there were cafes, indoor playground, inline skate classes, karate, and more shops. We crossed to the familiar food stretch, even that has some new names! We walked a little more to find Uncle Ringo! Recalled memories.. but the prizes are not like our era. We used to have games, gadgets, etc as a good prize and the bottom ones will get soft toys. Currently all the prizes are balloons and soft toys. Not that worth to play games apart from just recalling good ol' memories la..

There were water play, bumper car, merry go round and I think a haunted house of some sort. Those definitely make me go back to my childhood, although I don't really get to until I was 12 when my sisters are out working. I remember going on bumper cars as a teenager and bumping everyone that was in my way, and well.. that is how I met my first boyfriend I think. Oh puppy love!

And today, I walk with my husband smiling, in love and blessed to be his wife. We walked quite a lot that day, on the way back we even walked through the other neighboring  clusters and finally home.

On Sunday, we went to visit Bapak, then went to the workshop to get our car's brake light fixed, then we went to the market to get breakfast and some marketing. Got home, clear up the marketing items, clean the kitchen, while husband took the vacuum to clean the house. We rest for a bit, perform our Zohor then got ready to hit town. Hehe. Yup, I dated Mr Husband at town!

The last we came here together was probably on our 2nd anniversary to have our lunch at Park Royal, and oh boy we walked and walked. We ended our walk at Coffee Bean Ion to have late lunch before we headed home for MotoGP and his delicious Ayam Masak Merah. Yup, he cooks alright!

I had a relatively early night while he stayed up to finish his work. And shortly after, here I am, greeting Monday with much dread. And husband said he will cook again today. I am so blessed! 2 off days from cooking back to back!

With that extra window, I really need to change the bedsheets and get the laundry back to zero again! The washing is easy, the folding is bearable, the ironing though.. oh I dread!

Have a good day, people! Let me just walk away and find myself more good things to smile about.

Love,
Jun

Wassalam