I’ve been working pretty hard with the running & rushing around meeting clients as well as completing projects the whole week. This weekend, I managed to “play” as hard too.

My weekend started on Friday, 18th Dec; right after rushing to collect our company chop/stamp & meeting a client for a short meeting. I met up with my lovely ladies at Raffles Hotel Longbar Steakhouse. It was only when I sat down & May asked that I realized I had forgotten to take my camera in all my rush. Thankfully, May’s colleague had a camera in the office. We’re saved!

I love catching up with the ladies. As the years go by, our topics matured. I’m glad for Stef that she has completed her final exams to her part-time degree. So it was kind of double celebration at the dinner. We also did our yearly traditional gift-exchange, though I’m so ashamed to say that my presents for them were not exactly complete. Oh, did I mention that I bought my very first LBD (and a darn sexy one at that) especially for this dinner with them?

Althou it's a steakhouse, I had a medium-rare tuna. yum!

Ann had lobster

Only May had steak

While Stef had cod fish

I love the colors of this photo!

From Raffles Hotel, I rushed up to Marsiling Rise for Nadrah’s henna night. Helped her out with her henna and we sat & talked till about 2am. I finally got home at 3. Then we woke up early on Saturday, 19th Dec, to attend Nadrah’s solemnization at An-Nur Mosque at 10am.

Nadrah & Zaihan

As soon as the Solemnization was over, we headed down to Illuma at Bugis for the launch of Six Rocket. Thank God we made it to the launch.During their Q&A session, they actually gave away HUGE prizes. Guess what? I was the first to answer a question and I got to bring back a Sony Digital Photo Frame/Printer! The Wan went on to answer another question and he brought home this Panasonic Lumix GH1 baby! We also got a $20 Cathay Photo voucher during their lucky draw. But we had to miss the free movie screening of Avatar after the launch cos we had to rush back to Nadrah’s wedding ceremony.

with Six Rocket CEO, Pete

the Wan with his prize

Six Rocket's textured notebook packaging

With all our prizes, we had to make a pit-stop back home to leave the bulky items. We finally arrived back at Woodlands at about 4.30pm. The newly weds were already going to change into their Javanese outfit.

the Javanese royalty? hehe

Saturday night ended close to midnight after the newly weds offered to drive us home. hah! So sweet of them =D

In conjunction with her 5th Anniversary, my eldest sister had informed us that she made reservation for our family at Causeway Point’s Seoul Garden for lunch. Just before heading out to Causeway Point, our cousin Lyn had initiated an impromptu day out. So we actually suggested to fly kite at the Barrage again. The best thing for this time’s Barrage, my whole family tagged along. We arrived at the Barrage around 5pm and headed to the Roof Garden directly to fly our kites.

Me fly kite with Dad while Nadia's fiance Imran flying one

As we were all so excited flying our kites, the rain poured! It can only mean one thing – head down to the Water Playground!

Asfa's best swimming "pool" ever!

After the kids had been washed up, another impromptu decision was made for dinner. For the first time ever, my family headed down to Badoque Cafe together. This time, my whole family, plus the 2 in-laws and 1 future-in-law, together with Dino & Lyn with Nardyne – 13 in all! I was so excited that I called for reservation right away! It was also to surprise my brother-in-law whose birthday falls on the next day, 21st Dec 09.

the Birthday Man

All 13 of us at Badoque

And with a very sumptuous Badoque dinner, we ended our Sunday. It was definitely a great weekend of hard “play” for me. It’s been a long while since our family went out for lunch AND dinner together like this.

I love how the weekend was filled with love from the closest friends & my family. It’s a nice end to a long week for me. Definitely.

It has really been awhile since I last watched TV. The TV in our room hadn’t been switched on for more than 2 weeks except for The Biggest Loser Asia on Tuesday.

I’ve been wanting to blog a long one since last week as it is quite a therapy for me when I type out words from my thoughts. But I’ve been positively busy the past few weeks. We almost went around Singapore in a day but thank God we had Dino to help drive us. I’m very thankful for the busy November & December, really.

Our clientele has definitely grown substantially. We’re also working with some established brands this time. It makes me nervous thinking about them but excited at the same time, with the challenges of these projects. I guess it was the right thing to do; stopping  my pro-bono services – as I can see how fast & far we’ve moved on since.

I managed to pick up more skills as I go along myself. When sometimes the Wan isn’t available to assist me on some projects, I managed to pull through. The standard has been set for PlayPause. Alhamdulillah. We just need to revamp our site again; a 3rd version is imploring to break out!

Meanwhile, as my thoughts are being interrupted by a client’s phone call, here are some photos taken in November 09 when we checked out Orchard Central’s Roof Garden.

Click to view the rest of the photos

It’s the New Year for Muslims around the world. Our calendar is now dated 1431.

I’m quite disappointed that, yet again I have not managed to complete my personal project. But then again I thank God for the opportunities which have been rushed to me. I’m thankful for I’m being kept busy rather than brooding over having nothing to do.

Well, here’s to another productive year. NYE comes early for us Muslims =D hehe

Happy New Year / Salam Maal Hijrah to all Muslims around the world!

After the high-energy of last weekend, the week followed was just as high energy as it went. We had a couple of deadlines to rush for this week.

Having in mind the seminar’s most-repeated quote, “TAKE ACTION”, I decided I had to invest my time in exercising. On Monday morning, I just put on my jogging gear and went jogging. It was a hard start and I found myself jogging for as far as 800 meters only.

I went for another jog on Thursday morning, earlier than Monday. I caught lovely sight of old folks working out in one end of the stadium and another group of yoga ladies in another corner. Then I came across this quirky character. An old lady, perhaps in her 60s, who was jogging with her hair down earlier, was now at a corner of the stadium working out her hips rather vigorously. I found myself grinning with a very mischievous thought in my head.

Actually, I’m very motivated to lose alot of weight within a month or two after watching The Biggest Loser Asia’s 3rd episode. Some contestants shed off 5kg in a week! I’m aiming to join a marathon in 2010. I CAN DO IT!

Yesterday I spent a whole day sitting on my fat ass at a seminar in Expo. This is my first time attending a seminar on Internet Marketing. It was the Wan who found out about it and enrolled us both for the 3-day Global Internet Seminar. Today will be its 2nd day.

I never realised how expensive food around the Expo is until we had to spend the whole day there. This morning, we woke up way earlier to prepare sandwiches and potato salad for lunch and break-times.

All the time when people mentioned about Internet Marketing, I always had the mindset that I’d need a lot of time to sit and make it work. Yesterday, I learnt that Internet Marketers make money easily! They don’t want to work hard, that’s why they quit their day-jobs. They work easily so the money comes easily too!

Knowing the right techniques and take action creates the money for you. I had fun learning from Shaun Stenning. He was so engaging and lively during his 90mins on stage. I look forward to his session again later.

MAKING MONEY IS EASY!!

Starting today, the new day of the month, I noticed my calendar is filled with events, meetings and deadlines up through the next couple of months.

It gets exciting as we’ve got concerts to go to as well.

Tonight, we’ll be enjoying Earth, Wind & Fire at the Indoor Stadium. Next month itself, the most exciting month ever to happen in Singapore – Green Day (14th Jan 2010) & The Killers (24th Jan 2010) will be performing at Indoor Stadium too. And not to forget MUSE for the 2nd time in Singapore on 3rd Feb 2010. We missed them when they came in 2007.

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I love my random changes. Or rather, I feel the need for change after some time. With the new month today, I decided to have a change of layout. I’m loving this iNove layout by mg12. There are flexible options which I really enjoy, being the meticulous me.

Over the weekend, I got together with my eldest sister & cousin along with their respective families for kite-flying at the Marina Barrage. Their children then enjoyed the Water Playground too. It was indeed the best Sunday spent, ever!

And with this new layout, I created a gallery where I upload photos that I’d like to share. So here’s my first gallery created: Marina Barrage – 29th Nov 09.

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Esplanade – 9th Nov 09

The morning of EidAdha, 27th Nov 09, from my room window.

The evening of EidAdha, at Fajar Road level 8.
The sun peeked through the clouds after the rain.

Last night as my husband lay asleep, I found myself pacing this little room. I couldn’t sleep. I laid in bed and spent some few moments watching how peaceful he looked asleep. I tried to close my eyes and sort of count sheep to try to sleep. I didn’t switch the computer on as I know I’d just be on it for hours.

So I stood by the window. Enjoying the cool air of the night. There wasn’t much space for me to go anyway. I have a nephew-in-law who sleeps in the hall and I need to get properly dressed if I want to leave the room.

Earlier last night, during Eid visiting to my uncle’s, his mother-in-law asked how long I’ve been back in Singapore. It was the most asked question of the night actually. Like I said, I returned and went into recluse. So I answered her with a tinge of guilt, “A few weeks already”. Her next question totally caught me off-guard.

“Have yet?” with her eyes looking down on my tummy.

I faked a smile and shook my head, “Not yet”. Her next statement killed me.

“So long already”.

I felt my blood drained out of me. It was as if my soul was sucked out of there, right under my nose.

Perhaps it’s because she’s an elderly and I couldn’t be rude to snap her out of the question. Suddenly I felt so lonely in a house filled with almost 60 people.

She went on, “But it’s not so bad, you can still do things together.” Maybe she saw pity through me. When she paused, I just stood up and went in search for my husband.

I found him in the boys’ room having a go at XBox with my younger cousins. He certainly has his ways with kids, he always do. I wanted to pull him away, out of that room and just burst into tears in his embrace. But seeing him having fun with the boys, I didn’t have the heart to.

So I found myself standing by the kitchen door, sipping hot tea and staring into space. I cried to myself, inside.

I cried silently by the window. I didn’t want to wake him, the light-sleeper he is.

Sometimes, I tell myself that my condition is a blessing in disguise. But sometimes, I cannot help but to just crumble and cry and ask when. Last night was just one of those “sometimes”.

I don’t want sympathy nor pity. I want people to stop asking, but really, how can I stop them? Am I supposed to leave the house with a tee that says, “I’m trying godammit!” I thought I’d get over it. After all, it’s been almost 3 years since people have been asking, “Are you pregnant yet?” “Are you taking birth control pills?” “You don’t want children eh?”

The only way for me to shut people up is for me to stay in recluse. Stay away from people. That’s what I’ve been doing.

Once my reply to people was, “I’ll tell the whole world when I’m pregnant,” but now I think when I do get pregnant finally, I will just go back into recluse.