[~*Vintage^Dream*~]

Friday, October 28, 2005

Ramadhan, Day 18 - 23.

The power of MINAHs combined.

...Minahs United...

Was to be my last flight before Raya leave begins.

And turns out to be one of the best!

Haven't had so much fun and laughter in awhile, alongside the many Minahs

(5 in total! Rare!)

and err, "jiwang" song they keep playing on their I-pods!

To Norfa - Chett! Satu lagu raya pun takde!

To Naz - We'll save my fav foto for Halloween kae...khekhe! (moujiamoujiamoujia!)

To Jamz - U're still my faborit team gerl OTAy!

P/s : To Sumua Sumua who's wished and prayed for my Mum's speedy recovery, I'm truly, truly grateful. Thank you so much. Alhamdulillah, with the berkat of your Doas, she's been better.

Up and about, fit as a fiddle!

May Allah bless U and Ur loved ones with as much selflessness.

Amin.

.....And so.....the leave.....

Begins!

.|. dreamed.at .|. Friday, October 28, 2005

Friday, October 21, 2005

Ramadhan, Day 17.

- Love your loved ones.

It seemed like there were so many that I've had mired in my mind the past few days,

ready to burst just about whenever.

The last few days saw me feeling none lesser than altricial.

I've never had to deal with having the most important person in my entire existence,

ailing and having in turn, but myself, for her dependence.

And who am I meaning here?

She's none other than my precious Mum.

Yes, to those who knew that my Mum had been in hospital and have been giving me well wishes and showering her with your kind Doas, I'm utterly appreciative.

And may Allah reward you and your loved ones with exceptional health and bountiful good,

now and hereafter.

I had no intentions whatsoever to blog about this while she was kept under the caring surveillance of the medical care workers, the trainee and Staff nurses, Jenny who sponged my Mum, the smiley Guy who delivers her meals, the Makcik who went *tada*, All of them including the doctor who doesn't think that English needs No deciphering, and that every Biological term is Not German, and if only she could realise that she can talk to me cos I'm no less than certain, that I am Not invisible.

Nonetheless, I'm grateful.

I've been keeping mime about my Mum, to save all that I've had left of my mental strength, praying and hoping for her speedy recovery.

Plus, I wouldn't have been able to verbalise my worry when my Mum's platelet count took on to a rock-bottom, distressing level, and sky-rocketing temperatures, waning her condition.

I was holding on rather, to a thinning hope that all will turn out well, for Allah will not give up on those who don't on themselves...

But today, all that seemed to have made me cringe underneath that jolly veneer I don upon my creasing temples and darkened under-eyes, have melted away in a pretty heartening diaspora. And cos Ramadhan holds within itself a wonderous and healing emanation,

She has been discharged after 4 days.

Though I can't honestly say that I'm not worried anymore, well at least, I know she'll be resting at home while I'm away for my flight.

I'l be back in time for my Raya leave, Insya'Allah...

On an ending note, Love your loved ones while u still can.

I've been blessed that Allah answered my prayers so as to return

my Mum her health, and me my strength.

A lesson to be learnt from every tribulation,

and we could only emerge stronger, better and more humble.

To my Sis,

I'm sorry for the non-existent Birthday u had...

just to let u know that,

if u do snoop around here

(I'm sure u will now that u can't keep my password off ur mind! Padan muka! Tanya lagi!)

...U're not forgotten and that though what we had was far from celebration,

Ur special day is Special.

Just remember what I said,

"...stay home this weekend, I'l be back soon...to nag at you again..."

ta!

.|. dreamed.at .|. Friday, October 21, 2005

Monday, October 17, 2005

For Chikine...

...meet my Kucintas...

they say "Kitty Hugs" too!

.|. dreamed.at .|. Monday, October 17, 2005

Sunday, October 16, 2005

Down Under with Adi,

Kak Lin's baby Bro...

For once Adi, my pics on this

"freaking corner of the world"

have got U in them!

No reason for u to turn green nor any shrubbery shade this time.

Anyhow, thanks a gazillion lot for bringing me around.

And the Iftar,

couldn't have been a better buka session, away from home and families.

They were such amiable company.

Thanks again Adi!

(p/s: Lollies still in good shape. Will pass to Kak Lin ASAP)

.|. dreamed.at .|. Sunday, October 16, 2005

Friday, October 14, 2005

TAG GAME - The sequel.
Been tagged by Naniz this time.
For you dearie, I'll do it!
Bet I'm gonna take a long time, cos I've never really known all these random facts about myself. Self-seeking is not what I do everyday.
Anyhow, I'll try.
SO...........in the name of all narcissistic Cheerleaders...(READY?!! OKAYYY!!!)
Let the virtual eccentricities begin...
Hahah!

7 things I like most.

Mama.
Musang, Kerli & Pwincess. (my Koochingslah!)
Spring in Amsterdam/NZ.(BLISS!)
Smell of babies!(Yumm! DO they sell that in bottles?)
PINK of all hues.
Sales/Shopping/Retail therapy/SHOES/BAGS.
Humility & kindness in a person. (I have a soft spot for people who are humble, if there is anyone out there who meets this mark, U'ld move me, hands down, but I'll do the judging ofcos!)

7 things that scares me.

Losing my Mum.
Losing my loved ones.
Offending the people I care about.
Lipas,cicaks and the works, ULATS! (ewwwww!)
Fire. (that's Y I can never strike a match!)
Silence. (that's Y when I'm mad, I'll go silent. I'm so gonna SCARE U!!!)
When I'm late!!!

7 most important things in my room.

Mirror!
My handphone. (which is an extension of my external hearing organ, attached almost permanently to the cartilage, at other times, its just a wee finger stretch away.)
Clock/Watch/Handphone. (so long it tells the time.)
Blanket. (where I seek solace from the unknown,cold,cold world outside...)
My LAPTOP & wireless broadband!!! (how can I not rate u as one of the 7, u're almost like a lifeline ya noe...awww...poor Lappie..)
At least 1 bottled water.
My Doa book. (Jamz can vouch for this from having bunked in at overseas stations ever so often!)

7 things I can do.

Drive.
Swim.
Cycle.
Jog backwards! (trialed and tested!)
Sing. (but that does not mean that I'm good at it...)
Dance to myself. (haha...Jamz...I said, myself...)
Make friends really quickly.

7 things I can't do.

Parallel park without a pole. (I need volunteers...anyone game eonugh? To be my pole, that is.)
See without my glasses/contacts! (I'm a troo-bloo potek!)
Not call my Mum when I've landed anywhere in the world.
Drive and read a book concurrently. (U can do that?!!!)
Not call my Mum when I'm out, to report strength. (Not that she wants me to...but I just can't not do it!)
A split?
I can't say NO. (aik...i just did!)

7 things I'ld want to do before I die.

Make Mama happy.
Be happy, stay healthy, very very wealthy, I dun mind that too.
See Irah happy.
Be married to someone who loves me.
Served my responsibilities as a good Muslimah.
Tell the person I love most that it's been worthwhile.
Mengucap dua kalimah syahadat.- Insya'Allah.

7 random facts about me.

I'm a dripping faucet. ( aka cengeng...)
I can bear pain, but when I fall sick, I'm a goner.
I've had my dreams come true. Some of them.
I'm actually really, really shy!(not shy to say I'm shy tho...hahah!)
I confide in my cats sometimes. (they know all the shit about my ex-bf!)
I treasure true friendship.
I can't wait for my married girlfriends to give birth!!!

7 words I say the most.

coffee, tea? chicken, fish? yu?chi-tan? farn? char? kar-fay? (u noe the usual airborne terminology....hahhahah! Depending on the sectors really!)
dokies
ijit???
haha....
togetherness (every other word with "ness", even if it doesn't make sense, e.g: siowness, sameness, etc)
ape je!
alrighties!!!
SORRY I'M LATE!

7 celeb crushes.

Julia Stiles.
Chad Michael Murray.
Freddie Prince Junior.
Angelina Jolie.
Robbin Williams (not that guy from Take That!)
Gunawan... (err...huge huge crush!)
(so shy ah....dun wanna tell ah!)

Alrighties!!! I'm done oready! And am gonna hit the sac soon, cos I'll be flying tonight with Jamz, again!!! Yippesss! And to someone who promised me a good Iftar session tmr, U better mean it cos I've agreed to be the brat, so long as u can find the *S.I.G* for oompah loompahs!!! Wahahah! Ta semua! Will be back in a jiffy! Insya'Allah!

.|. dreamed.at .|. Friday, October 14, 2005

Thursday, October 13, 2005

Ramadhan, Day 9.

- and the likes of Bollywood movies.

So one particular Air Sahara skidded off runway of Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport.

Caused flights bound for Bombay to be diverted to New Delhi.

Which in turn caused us, the set of 15 crew, bound for Singapore to be delayed for 36hours.

Set of rescuers activated to provide aid in Pakistan enrouted to Bombay.

Putting them up just 5minutes away from us.

Further delay caused by foggy conditions.

A rip off from some Hindi movie?

Somebody Citrus, Series of Unfortunate Events,

or a series of pure coincidences,

or was it fate

or are my prayers being answered...

Whatever it is, I'm glad it all happened.

(no one was hurt in this process, or I won't be glad, trust me I'm not that nasty.)

In the most inexplicable and mystifying way it did.

I just hope that the good selfless deeds of the rescuers and aid personnels, find them in excellent health and safe conditions...and may Allah provide all the strength in those who are victims of the quake in Pakistan,

and brings us back to where humility stems off.

Please come back soon.

(Been in my prayers and thoughts mostly.)

.|. dreamed.at .|. Thursday, October 13, 2005

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

A LOVE STORY

- made in YINDIA

Theme : Soppy

Plot : Soppy

Mood : Soppy

will update when I feel less so...

To Han, schmaltzy virgoan trait manifesting.

To Jamz, let the sulking.....BEGIN!

( vhy?vhy?vhy? )

.|. dreamed.at .|. Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Hello all...

I'm bacK!

Haven't been in hiatus...or in hibernal...

Was just stranded...

Will update tonight.

Timecheck

14mins to Buka...

*YIpeS!*

.|. dreamed.at .|. Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Thursday, October 06, 2005

Ramadhan, Day 1.

- When I grow up, I want to be like her.

I was quite lucky to have had a headstart for the upcoming Ramadhan before it inaugurated yesterday. As I was around for almost a week during the last few days of Sya'ban, I managed to qada' my puasa that I have failed to fulfill last year, and hence had a run-through before the actual Ramadhan kicks off.

Again like previous years, I was excited about the approaching Ramadhan and the beauty and goodness that it promises. But I can't totally deny that I had my other concerns and worries too. For instance, having to work on long-haul day flights. And not being around to fulfill the virtuous duties that are so greatly encouraged that promises bountiful good in abundant prodigiousness, during this sacred month of Ramadhan.

Yesterday marked the first day and yes, I had to work too. It's not exactly a bad thing cos honestly, honestly, I'm grateful for my job. Though not to somewhere far, which is already quite advantageous, and considering its late reporting, it wasn't so taxing afterall. Ofcos I wasn't going to claim martyrdom that I only had a proper buka after we checked in at the hotel somewhat after 10pm and I was in the midst of service when the kind Captain, who coincidentally, is a Muslim himself, gave us the thumbs up, for our break of fast, at sundown, at 35,000 feet, mid-air. But all of the other 5 Muslim crew, rostered on yesterday's flight just had a swig of apple juice to break the fast and presume our duties, right after.

Yes, and so that is what it's like for us during Ramadhan, when we have to gratify duty calls, before everything else. But I have to say that I'm lucky to be back on the second day, to buka at home.

Nothing quite as blissful as that.

As I trudge along this journey again like I had on previous years,

I will encounter one realisation after another, insights, a repentive course to embrace,

isolated and exclusively useful.

A self evolution process.

Each and everyone different, and on Ramadhan, Day 1,

I learnt,

for the umpteenth time,

that

Allah is Great,

my mum is wonderful,

so I am blessed, Alhamdulillah.

She cooked and packed buka for both Jamz and me for my first day of Ramadhan,

breaking fast in Bangkok...

(but being the glut that we are, we ordered room service too!)

Is'nt she the sweetest?

I so wish to be like her when I grow up!

I really do!

InsyaAllah. :)

.|. dreamed.at .|. Thursday, October 06, 2005

Tuesday, October 04, 2005

*Ramadhan Al-Mubarak*

Selamat menunaikan Ibadah puasa.

Bersama kita leburkan kekhilafan.

Agar dimakbulkan doa-doa.

Dan diampunkan segala dosa.

Amin.

.|. dreamed.at .|. Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Sunday, October 02, 2005

THE TAG GAME

Not that I haven't been raving much about myself already. But since Sis Anies have decided to tag me, I shall, by all means, in the name of a non-party pooper, oblige.
Dokies here goes nothing, just 3 facts about urs truly...

Fact Number 1) Back in my upper-sec school days, when exams are drawing near and I'm all frazzled and tensed up, I used to pierce my ear lobes for reliefs (pain for reliefs...mana entah I blajar...I pun tak tau...). Which also reminds me when I had this bogus (cos otherwise, Ma might disown me!), pierced-nose look, by inserting a puny magnet into my nose to secure the lil stud on the outside, I onced sniffed in the magnet by accident...and I renounced myself of anything that involves needles and piercing and MAGNETS, bogus or unfeigned! It is just SO OVER!!!(SeriK!)
Fact Number 2) I used to associate Black Bras to Bad Girls! (tu dululah!)
Fact Number 3) I just found out yesterday, that I still do not know how to strike a match.(selenge u said??! yes..so I agree)

Just so the game continues...I have to tag 3 others, u said, Adik?...rite?
And the nominess are....hmmph...
1) ItIsSheYerda!!!
2) NiNie!!!
3) Princess!!!

.|. dreamed.at .|. Sunday, October 02, 2005