Friday and Saturday

wheww....i was actually gasping for breath on friday...i was swamped with work!! didn't even have the time to update my blog (u poor thing, you...)..turns out that a colleague of mine had to take compassionate leave as her grandma had passed away..(innalillahiwainnaillaihi raajiun..)..so, had to take over her duty...but that was fine cause there was a new trainee, whom i had specifically taught what to do in case me or my colleague went MIA...UNFORTUNATELY, another colleague, developed a migraine early that morning and had to take an MC...the thing is, in a dealing room of about 10 people ( one of the smallest one in Malaysia, i believe...) only i know the ins and outs of the job...so i had to take over her duties..normally that would be ok cause it would keep me busy...but they had LOADS of transaction that even kept me away from lunch!! i was actually gasping for breath by 3 p.m...

didn't even have time to check my email inbox..oh, that's another thing...after 4 days of being away from the office, i discovered there was at least 130 new mails...yikes!!...i was too busy too open them all, so i deleted those junk ones and repeated ones...however, throughout the course of the day, being a friday so i guess these people don't have much to do, my reduced number of unopened mails increased due to the inflow of brand new ones!! didn't have the energy to even open one so i left to deal with it on Monday...

so...went home in the pouring rain...read a new book on the komuter...Under The Duvet by Marian Keyes...hilarious!! i kept chuckling to myself...thanks nona for the book and the entertainment!! anyways, had briyani dinner in bangsar with dear friends and cousin...had a good chat session...walked out only to find my mom's car covered in bird poop! oh man! she's gonna kill me! hehehe, luckily, my cousin's car suffered the same fate so we drove over the house and this new-found friend of mine helped us to hose it down...

we had the brightest idea to have a sleepover at my place that night...very spontaneous..just like old times, huh afti...but, not without a drive round good ole pj first...went to the 7E to get dessert...hahahah, Lidah Jeli from the Mat Kool monkey...yummy! went over to this friend's house to look at his cats...me? i'm not a cat person, but petting them didn't throw me in fits of hysteria anymore like it used to few years back, heheheh....went up to Bukit Gasing only to fiind that it's pretty scary at night...when all the rendezvous-ing was over, we finally made the long journey back home...

did we have any energy left? you betcha!! stayed up till 5 a.m. talking and eating potato puffs that has crumbled till it resembled potato mush...never was a good cook me...hehehe, btw, had my sis to fry them..(!!)..nona, had long gone to Never-neverland as a result of her trip back from Kelantan the day before...

so on Saturday, woke up around 10 (haha, whoops! )...dilly-dallied a bit..then started to sent them home...we had prior engagements...but, the whole thing was transformed into high drama when we discovered that we were all late for our appointments..and that the briyani we had the night before didn;'t exactly agreed with our delicate stomach...so, guess who had a mad rush from shah alam amidst traffic jam, long queues,accidents and excrutiatingly loong traffic lights, with our stomach churning up a storm inside? yup, that was us...let's not divulge who had to keep quiet the whole way for fear that her faith in her bowels would be dispelled here...hehehe...well, thank god, afti lives in pj and has a decent enough, ahem, powder room....so the unthinkable didn't happen...alhamdulillah...

went for a facial that afternoon...it was supposed to be a form of pampering for your face but i didn' t feel pampered at all (ouch!) but it was great fun hanging out with my dear, dear friends...missed them a lot...they had plans to go dancing that night (dancing...how cute! brings to mind the images of ballet slippers and pink tutus doesn't it, but with this clan, pink tutus would be deeemed too decent, heheheeh...)...so went home, courtesy of the Great Nona, to have dinner with the folks and early bedtime...tiring day that was...

Sunday

Happy Mothers' Day! and so, in light of the celebration an aunt decided to have a pot luck lunch over at house...so off we went for lunch with the FAMILY...had lotsa good stuff to eat...kampung food and all...lovely, lovely..can't help but have seconds, hehehe...there was gulai nangka, sambal petai, lala goreng, pari masak merah, ikan masin, sambal belacan, daun ubi kayu rebus, and to top it all of pengat pisang and jagung...heavenly, i tell ya! my grandma even made her specialty..a concoction of fish, spices and daun keladi called the bobotok...don't ask me how its name got about, but i tell ya, it was yummy! hmm, i think only pure sungai choh-ians would know what it really looks like...

played around with this adorable bundle of Pampers that was my youngest cousin...charming little guy who had such big, droopy, chewable cheeks that makes you wanna pinch them till they come off...*sigh* they grow up so fast....ooh, anyway, highest point of the day...got back on the bicycle!! well, it was my cousin's and kinda high..but managed to cycle round for a bit...hahaha...looks like i still got it...kinda wobbly at times...but hey, it has been almost 8 years...

hence, my weekend...an activity-filled one with lotsa laughs....lifted up my spirits so i can face this brand new day in the office...good thing they have a 2-day holiday this week! :)