Thank you #51

Past few days I was feeling quite down due to the fact that I don't have a lunch buddy yet. So I made a conclusion that maybe this is the sign that I should start fasting to replace all my fast during Ramadhan. Even though I already make a pact with a friend to be her lunch buddy, but I already set my mind to fast today. So I managed to wake up for sahur and fast.

Alhamdulillah, I have -1 day of days to replace my fast :)

Thank you #50

Today my friend decided to follow me back to hotel to see my room. Then we decided to have dinner and we ended up talking about our experience in Miri. She is also from Cyberjaya office moving to Miri, so we can compare what we had and what we face right now. I'm so glad that I'm not the only one who has this uneasy feeling in Miri and we shared the same issue.

So we made a pact: to become default lunch buddies. We will include another of our friend that also in the same position with us to be the buddies. At least for now I don't have to ask around everyday who can I join for lunch.

Alhamdulillah for friends :)

Thank you #49

So today my dad send me to office. I love it when I don't have to drive. I love it when I have someone to send and pick me up. Then both of them when Bintang Shopping Mall (the one shopping mall that decent enough here). When they picked me up in the evening, mak bought me a new top, a peplum! So pretty, yet looked professional to wear at office. Thank you mak!

 But they are going home tonight..

Well, Alhamdulillah for mak & abah coming to visit me :)

Thank you #48

Finally we are eating seafood today. Been waiting since the day I arrived in Miri to eat one but because of Chinese New Year, a lot of restaurant closed. So today we went to Dragon Seafood, one of the seafood place that halal. We forgot to tell them the portion is for 3 people, so we ended up eating butter prawn for I dunno 10 people maybe. So much, we ended up eating it for dinner and still couldn't finish it. Haha

Alhamdulillah for good food :)

Thank you #47

When mak and abah is here, what else should we do then going to Brunei... Again. Haha. Had funny incident coming back and managed to convince mak to eat sushi at Excapade Sushi.

Alhamdulillah for healthy mak and abah :)

Thank you #46

Last week, my sweetheart was here, this weekend, my parents are here. They arrived this morning and I asked them to ask for my room in the hotel. Brought them for lunch and after work, I brought them around Miri town, starting at my new found apartment. Abah already excited that my house facing golf course. Haha. Had our lunch at that famous lalapan restaurant, Muara. This is the 4th time I'm in this restaurant eating lalapan within 2 weeks I'm in Miri. I should take a picture and pasted it here for memory. Hihi.

Alhamdulillah for parents :)

Thank you #45

Last night I called a property agent to find a house/apartment to rent. Renting in Miri is not a nice experience. The house is expensive to rent, the ones within my budget has safety issue. The ones that in safe neighborhood is more than my budget. Deja vu, like Durham circa 2009. Promised to see one house with the agent on Friday, not my first choice but I need to start somewhere. Husband prefers I stay in an apartment in Kampung Pulau Melayu but it is above my budget. Afraid of my safety, he said, he will add the additional amount. Thank you sayang :)

Just my rezeki, after husband said that to me last night, today I asked the agent and she said there's an empty house in that apartment and I can see it today. Went to see it and fell in love with it. The owner was there and I negotiated with him as the price he offered is way above what I thought the price will be for that area. Alhamdulillah he agreed to that price and I immediately said yes. Hand still shaking coz I think my decision was quite haste. But I think this is the best as I have prayed to Allah few times before to give me the best place to stay here. I'm sure Allah helped me making this decision.

Tonight I felt better. I think I made a right decision.

Alhamdulillah I found a house already :)

Thank you #44

Definitely having post long holiday and post meeting my sweetheart day today. So down that I didn't even have any mood to ask people for lunch. Lunch used to be something that I looked forward and now I am actually dragging about it. Forced myself to ask few people for lunch until one said yes. Tsk tsk tsk. At least I have someone to have lunch with.

Alhamdulillah :')

Thank you #43

Finally it's sunny today. After few days of raining, a sunny day is most welcome. Met my Mirian friends as they were here for CNY. Had a nice lunch and catching up. Both of them had making my working life in current company a wonderful time. So sad that we are not in the same team anymore.

The not-so-nice about today was, my sweetheart went back to the mainland. Haih... Counting days to meet him again. Like I said to my buddy, I live my life week by week right now.

Alhamdulillah for friends :)

Thank you #42

I really love holidays. Another long weekend in Malaysia, that's mean no Monday blues. Managed to try the hotel huge swimming pool. They said it is the biggest free form swimming pool in Sarawak. Ookaayy..

As usual my muscle memory loaded quite slow today. Forgot how to swim, couldn't hold my breath and whats not. So I did some basic training again at the corner and managed to swim without a goggle. Definitely a new achievement for me.

Alhamdulillah :)

Thank you #41

We went for a road trip! Road trip to Brunei. This was our first time to Brunei and we encountered we funny incidents. But the best of all, cheap and delicious sushi. The famous Excapade Sushi has wide range of choice until we didn't know what to order. The most choices I ever see in a sushi restaurant.  I will go Brunei just for sushi only.

It was sunny and fun trip. I love it.

Alhamdulillah for road trip :)

Thank you #40

Brought my husband to eat lalapan at Muara Restaurant. One of the famous dish in Miri and Muara was one of the famous restaurant for lalapan here. Next will be mi kolok and seafood! (Honestly, I think lalapan is just like ayam penyet.. hehe)

Alhamdulillah for food :)

Thank you #39

Absence makes heart grow fonder, it is true indeed. So much I said time will move so fast that 1.5 years will be gone in flash, everyday I miss my true love back home. However, my 5 days agony was gone as he was lying here in flesh next to me. I'm so happy that he is with me right now. This is going to be a wonderful weekend.

Alhamdulillah for loving husband :)

Thank you #38

I rarely joined any competition. If I joined it will not required most creative slogan or something like that. My ex-team organized slogan making competition for the team last month. As usual I ignored it coz 1) I don't have time 2) I'm sucks at slogan. But then one of my teammate send me personal email to me to send slogan since the participation from our cluster was very bad. So I said I will think about it and send something to him by end of the day. I asked the newjoiner who sat next to me to join too.

Who would thought that I will won runner up for this competition and I'm not in the team anymore. I don't even join the webcast. I was so funny when suddenly few of the team members that based here shouted out to me saying that I won second place. I didn't even remember about it. The hilarious part, the new joiner that I asked him to send won second place too! So each of us got USD 60. Ok la tu kan... Then, floods of IM from my ex-teams flooded my monitor. They were so excited about it. Haha. I miss them!

Alhamdulillah for rezeki :)

Thank you #37

My friend (ex-teammate) from Cyberjaya was here today! She's a local here and she's back for Chinese New Year. Instead of taking leaves, she looked at my new office. It felt so good to have someone familiar and you are close with in the small office again. Even just for awhile. Finally since I came here, I talked and laughed a lot. I'm actually officesick. Missed my old offices, both SH and CBJ. Funnily, one of my stakeholders send me the pictures of the dinner last week and asking if these pictures made me miss them.. Teruk! haha

Alhamdulillah for friends :)

Thank you #36

I woke up a bit late today coz my body still not costumed to be 1-hour-early-of-everything here. My buddy wasn't able to bring me to lunch as he has meeting and would have late lunch. So, I joined another team that I have met when they were in Cyberjaya. They brought me to eat lalapan, which to me look and taste like ayam penyet. The restaurant was at some new area called Permy Jaya which is not far away from office. 1 look at that place, I knew that I want to find my house around that area. They got Giant there and Pizza Hut! Things that you never appreciate in Klang Valley. Haha..

Alhamdulillah for discoveries :)

Thank you #35

First day at new office. New environment, new colleagues, new roles and new process. I'm so glad there are few familiar faces in the office. And they are many of them actually used to work in Cyberjaya and Damansara office. That's good. I don't feel like an outsider anymore. People are friendly and seems nice. The best part, the onboarding is more systematic and have support documents and checklist to refer to.

Alhamdulillah for the opportunities :)

Thank you #34

This is very hard day to find something wonderful to write. Few tears was shredded in the KLIA when hugging my husband goodbye. 1 week only he told me, but that feel so long. However, Allah has given me a beautiful sunset that can be seen from my room to cheer me up. Then I tried making my room comfortable and liveable, now I am ready for the first day at new office tomorrow.

Alhamdulillah for beautiful sunset :)

Thank you #33

It was packed today. Firstly the car mover came and then 2 hours after that the household mover came. All the items have been packed and now on their way to their new place. Despite all the chaos, mak and abah came to pass abah's IC copy and then we went for a lunch. After this I will meet my parents at Miri airport 2 weeks from now. Hihi.

Alhamdulillah for everything :)

Thank you #32

While the KL folks having their public holiday today, we in Selangor have to work. I asked few of my colleagues if they are in this Friday and surprise surprise many of them are actually said yes. So today I was so happy that many of my teammates were in the office. Usually, Friday is like dead town in our department. Many choose to work from home so that weekend can start early and avoid Friday horrible traffic jam.

So we ended up going lunch at the Tokio Cafe in Cyberjaya. I have my favourite food there - baked cheese tomato rice with chicken. Recommended to few people and ended up being their favourite too. Haha. The dessert there was good, so we decided to buy few pieces of cakes and eat it at tea time. At 4pm, everyone was like let's eat cake. Due to unforeseen circumstances, we only managed to eat at 5pm. What a great day to end my role in Cyberjaya. Cakes and friends.

From left top: Japanese cheesecake (the one with jongkong emas), Orea cheesecake, Red Velvet and Choc Moist. You can actually guess which one was the one I chose. Haha

I managed to clean up my drawers and table, and all my 1.5 years life in Cyberjaya was packed into 1 large Ikea blue bag. So sad that I'm leaving Cyberjaya. The place that I always fond of. At the same time, I'm so happy that I going to another new adventure.

Alhamdulillah for opportunities :)