The day I turn 34

Another year, another birthday... I think as I'm chalking up the numbers, birthdays celebration is like a thing of the past.

So far, once I turn 34 , I realised that:-

• I'm no longer a spring chicken
• took longer to warm up & longer to cool down
• injuries are easily acquired and took longer to heal
• increasing appetite but slowing down metabolism
• things that were easily done 3-4 years ago seems laborious now
• the songs that I could sing to was not in the 'contemporary' stations
  

but then again, there's no way one could stop from gaining another year to one's life other than being six feet under so I'm grateful and counting my blessings. Especially when your loved ones gave you this for your birthday...both decided to be funny ....

One from the mrs, one from the boy..which one did I got, thats for me to know for you to find out ... wink .. wink ...

The week that started with ....

• A BANG !

• Some installation in the southern art of the country sent BANG with some fireworks which puts the TOP managements panties in a knot
• everyone was like a headless chicken, spewing out instructions which borders close to be considered brainless
• Instruction were given for the investigation to be conducted as quickly & thorough as possible ( note that those two would never come hand in hand)
• so off to the south I went, working & cracking my head & I think I managed to figure out the cause of it
• Now writing an endless report on how this could be affected

• A SPLASH!

• Was out and about during the weekend to do all those impending DIY repairs around the house and part of it was replacing a faulty faucet in the bathroom
• got a new hose for it, hence did the necessary replacement etc and it was all fine and dandy
• until Monday when an SOS was issued that the replacement gave way.. so much for cheap products from China
• after returning form my trip down south, I repaired the whole thing , which wasn't easy & almost drenched me

• BLINKING!

• all those above happened during the first two days of the week and thinking by some cruel twist of fate is not enough, my car seems to be giving me problems
• The alarm would turn on by itself and couldn't be reset with the normal mean
• so off to Amiaq's I went to diagnose and troubleshoot the problem, which ended up at 2 am but with no possible solution found
• Now have to manually lock the car whilst waiting for the appointment to uses the official diagnostic software from MB, which leave me wondering how much its going to hit me ($$$$$$$$$)

These events all happened during the week leading to my birthday & didn't leave me in the mood to celebrate .....

Adriana Doing Some Housekeeping

Adriana trying to get her hands on some housekeeping ... her style ...

Aidilfitri 2008

Eid Mubarak to all. This year we celebrated raya at my mum's before proceeding back to kampung on the third day raya. Only my brother Angah and family is not around as it is his turn to go back to Kuala Pilah.

Us

My parents & sisters

All the siblings and DIL's minus Angah & Family

Aiman & Adi

Collect duit raya - boleh isi minyak kereta & tol

Trying to fix Adi's hairband

Adi sayang Syafiq

Aksi poyo form my sisters

My Mum

Ni muka duit raya tak cukup

Makcik Poyo - umur lapan tahun

Collage of us goofing around during the shots

What else did we do this raya? Ohhh.. makan la apa lagi, all those lontong, rendang, lodeh, ketupat pulut, lemang, cookies etc. I think I managed to cover all the weight lost and adding up some more. Efforts to return back to normal eating routine seems futile at the moment what more to go back to some kind of calories burning activities. Now must trim down the flabs ... hehe

Ikan haruan di dalam paya,
Ikan sardin di dalam tin,
Selamat Hari Raya,
Maaf Zahir Batin.

ps. siapa yang tak dapat duit raya lagi tu, sila datang rumah. Permintaan kiriman melalui pos tidak akan dilayan.