move on already

in a desperate attempt to MOVE ON from seo jun’s dramas, because i desperately want to watch something new by him but none as of yet…i resort to the next closest thing to him. his hwarang brother park hyungsik. but not watching hwarang (coz what’s the point, it will be rewatching seo jun still right), instead, its strong girl bong soon.

and i am enjoying it so far. i realise i like watching funny korean dramas like this. considering the one that got me ‘hooked’ in the first place was Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo…..wait…what is it with me liking funny witty strong girls?! :O

yaaa, it was not seo jun who got me hooked on korean dramas, but certainly got me hooked on everything seo jun.

i am slowly returning back to my self when it was before seo jun. when i really don’t care about personalities, actors and actresses, no matter where they come from. like i can have a favourite drama or song, but i never saw the need to know their personal lives. except for a few. even then, it’s not like i stalk their social media every day. whatever comes up at IG lah. i miss my old me haha.

please know i am writing nonsense as of this post is merely because i wanted to bring up some writing mojo. its not because i really want to write about seo jun…although…it could be something ‘nice’ to write about also haha. watching his dramas on repeat made me noticed things, like you know, how people point out mistakes or inconsistencies along the way. oh well, when i really have much idle time then.

nowadays i also need to have some writing mojo because…..academic writing! here i come!!

chronicles of evil

nothing important. you can skip this post coz it’s not worth reading unless you’re ok with me unbecomingly babbling about a korean movie.

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goodness me!

what is this shocker?! our boy plays a villain?! and good at it?!

i have been searching for chronicles of evil and having a hard time finding it, when alas, found it in an online streaming which annoyingly always stops at random moments to allow for meaningless pop ups. my gosh, this site really test your patience!

its this seo joon-a obsession i have and was determined to watch every drama or movie he acted in. so when my sil (nonetheless!) recommended this website, i decided to catch up on youn’s kitchen 2 and two old dramas he played in (which were not available in Viu/Netflix) before moving on to Chronicles. this was, perhaps since two months ago.

and today, after finally finishing through a painstakingly dreading drama One Warm Word and just skipping on scenes just to get to Seo Joon’s parts, and worthfully looking handsome and fashionable in his winter coats and that uniform. and that hairstyle. sighhh….

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fully knowing the pain and frustration of this site’s annoying pop-ups and rewinds, i brace through the best for last. a 2 hour movie became 3 hours of sorts because it jammed on me a few times!

what do i know? only korean movies can have these twisted plots without anyone guessing in the first place!! it was a ‘WHAT??!!’ moment for me when it was finally revealed who he really was towards the end. and then i go HOW COOL IS THAT?!

quite a cool detective story, but simple plot actually. a bit of mental twist that doesn’t even look like it’s supposed to be psycho, leaving us guessing what is happening all the time. just when you thought you get the answer or the culprit, you can almost hear the director says, nope, we’re not done yet…we’re just revealing the name now, there’s more to come! the heck! and just when the camera zooms in to seo joon’s dong jae’s true self reveal, my heart skips a bit. like how can a villain looks so handsome and innocent (and gay, that’s the impression though).

ok. no spoilers. i like it that he plays in this movie, and acted with long time actors who had a string of movies to their name like train of busan’s Ma Dong Seok and Son Hyun Joo. the next movie star in the making – Seo Joon.

i’m excited for his Saja/The Divine Fury.

and with that… life with seo joon pauses until the next drama and/or movie.

seo joon-a

please keep an open mind. laugh if you will. i prefer that.

i feel like a 15 year old (was that 20 years ago??). but this is my current silly obsession.

and it’s his birthday today. and like his thousands of fans. i want to wish him a good birthday, health and happiness and hope for many successful years. already i am rooting for his next movie. until then, i will keep on repeat mode his past dramas and movies.

please don’t get married yet. 😛

or maybe marry anyone else. not pmy please.

dynamic view of my life

oh well.. blogger has a new look. and i’m trying this dynamic view templates. i like the fact that it has different styles of columns and arrangements of the blogposts but i cant seem to change the background colour. let’s stick to this until i figured it out.

i am at home on time off since my sunday was burnt out with work back at the mosque. but coming back home, i wanted to settle some research work whose dateline is really, deadline. and i think i need to focus on this once and for all because otherwise it will be like this cloud behind my mind screaming at me to complete it. so at home, had lunch, on the tv but i couldnt concentrate on it, and my mind already reeling with this research work.

but taking a break from all this thinking and blogger has taken my interest for the past hour. haha.

so what else can i tell you besides work? on which i have a battle within myself in trying to figure out the purpose of why i do the things i do and whether i am being fair to my family, myself, to the community even? but as always, i need to be the strong entity? when things felt like falling apart and going wrong at work? there is really too many things needed to be done.

i tried scheduling my cluster of work in a day, like an hour lesson planning, another hour on becoming a loanshark, another hour as a librarian, another hour as a planner, another hour as a newsletter editor another hour as sports project event, sometimes as a youth worker but thank LORD the new youth officer is much much more reliable with the help of a young project officer. tell me what else can i do within the span of 8 hours?! i tried that and well, it did help in compartmentalising my mind, but it doesnt help me finish my work well. Lord, just help me with all the energy it need to do my work.

my workspace…i got it arranged and cleared up one day, it goes up piling the very next day.

ok ok. enough.

on to MY LIFE…

Ella concert was great, Cranberries was awesome. Hunger games left me crying for most part and in fear, praying that the real world does not end up like the world in the story.  Battleship was engaging until they had to get a museum ship which was 70 years old to save the world after the high tech modern battleships was destroyed by humanlike aliens. haha.

but this is not just what is happening in my life.

and would you believe me if i tell you i am trying to diet? yes, believe it. it is about my weight and about my health hehe. but im loving it. was going to try something called BioSlim, but it takes so much work with all kinds of drinks i have to drink. i ended up not following it. so how is my diet routine? hehe, actually its the Xbox Kinect exercise and dance central game!! that’s the only thing that makes me sweat apart from the housework i do on fridays! but it means i really have to find time to do it. some Mila seeds every morning, vitamin C and supplementary tablets and plenty of clear pure water everyday.

so it comes to this, i realise, it really is about time and just do whatever i want to do (nothing related to work) with whatever time i have. it actually gives me the satisfaction and oh yea, some sense of sanity or otherwise i will become insane because of work. really, i cannot let work rule me, right. it gives me a mental block to everything else i enjoy doing.  i am grateful of this opportunity to serve and make myself useful. but i believe i am useful somewhere else too, like at home and being a wife.

although right now, i am feeling sad, because some sundays i am away at work, heck weekends away at work but my heart is screaming to be with my husband. i know he is being very patient and supportive in a sense that he insisted to send me everytime i go to work weekends, bought/made me breakfast, i know ultimately me at home is what he loves most.

so why is it hard to make a decision?

shortest break

happy holidays for two days! 🙂

i keep confusing the days. i keep on thinking its wednesday when its already thursday. and friday tomorrow..after that saturday the busiest day of my weeks. and we have been watching chinese movies and miotv has been generous that we get to watch big bang theory series~ especially love red cliff 1 and 2. it gives me the same feeling as when i watch lord of the rings. victory for the good sides but tugs at the heart for all the people who had to fight in the battle.

heh, whatever, i’m just glad that i get to spend the day with my abang. it’s been a rush this week sending mil and sil for the eye and leg checkup. mom just had an operation on her left eye and thankfully progressing well now. and i had a sudden high fever but feeling much better now.

work has been smooth so far at the moment. of course with a few glitches here and there but i pray that i will overcome this challenges with wisdom and hikmah. one year on the job has taught me well. it’s all about improvements this year. and i am grateful that i have a group of teachers who are able to work together, much better to say the least, compared to other divisions. other than that, i have to be so much more assertive. definitely. and there are a few things i wish to accomplish this year. giving myself one year to prove that i’m worth the job.

so this month is rabiul awal. the birth month of our Prophet s.a.w.
and i realised i have been too much engrossed with work and what nots, i will spend this month reading books on the Prophet, remember him any moment i can and relieved those feelings of love to him. so help me Lord.

let’s see which book to read….

greek pseudo gods and a stealing monkey

i am truly and really grateful for this chinese new year break. do you know how much i desperately need this break? to be away from work physically and just recuperate. having some proper family time and not having to worry about work.

a good break alhamdulillah, and now on to the other quest that i’ve set my mind on, which hasnt been going on really well. it’s difficult, really. it’s like being trapped in this cocoon and struggling very hard to free yourself from that grip of invisible hands. but i must free myself. and it’s all in the heart and soul. it’s difficult.

i watched percy jackson twice. and not because i love the movie, but one time with dearest one and the second time with dearest ones. but percy doesn’t give me any more excitement than my renewed interest in greek mythology with all its chaos and family feuds, and i mean it, family feuds and all its complicated cosmology. i was truly fascinated with greek myths as soon as i can read by myself and it was the reason i loved fantasy and myths. and yes roman and greek myths are different although inter-influential between the two. looking forward to clash of the titans for something more concrete and real.

valentine’s day the movie was nicer. it shows how much things can happen in twenty four hours and it revolves around love and loving and being loved in all its goodness and bad.

and if i’ve walked 10km or so sometime ago, yesterday, i got to cycle double the distance to and fro (home to upper/lower pierce) and i love it! the thought that i can go almost anywhere in this island and distance become less an obstacle. all the cycling took us only about two hours! it does help ‘clear’ my mind and let out some sweat, which is a rare thing to me:) i love the scenery of trees and reservoir, and the fresh air and i’m still a little scared of the little monkey who stole our famous amos(!) 🙂

i wish this break is longer…even after two day extension of this break. i need more!! hehehe.

but i am happy. and i think i’m refreshed and willing to start work with a new outlook. positivity and clear of doubts or stress.

alhamdulillah. haza min fadhli rabbi.

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are you blogging?

yes i am

like for how long since you’ve last blogged?

hmmmm 10 days ago?

so i’ve purposely missed to blog the past few days. my mind has been preoccupied with work (duhh what else?) and realising that i do need to recharge before the 2010 starts. i;ve been counting days and contemplating exactly which day i will have some time to spend by myself, some quality time with my family and fiance. i mean i did go out with them but i feel like it’s more out of necessity, rather than really spending time with them. and i do need to spend one whole day just reading and lost myself in another world before getting back into reality. but december’s ending and i don’t think i have the luxury of doing items mentioned above.

but i do treasure those times, no matter how short it was with these people who mattered the most to me. like the time when we got to spend one day with your family and then mine, even if its unplanned, and the weddings day and yes, a trip to bottle tree park, although i wished we could have stayed longer (it was our one year after all)…and for that matter, i don’t think i’ve had chance to chill out with the girls this month!! except for weddings~

but in conjunction to the new islamic year 1431. i pray for the guidance, wisdom and patience to face the new challenges, what have them, work sense. it’s going to be exciting, yes, but a lot more to be done with triple the number of students and triple the number of teachers to handle. my Lord, i need to be strong and smart. more than ever.

and for being knowledge-ly stagnant, i need to go to talks and read more! speaking of which, i do have a queue of books waiting to be read.

and then 2010 is THE year. got to start counting the days~ 😉

a lot is going to happen. i pray for health! indeed.

another worth talking about is Avatar the Movie. watched it with dear and my siblings. and i think i might want to watch it again since siti baby didn’t get to come along being away at vietnam. engrossed and indulged in the pandora world of trees and magnificent creatures. it almost makes me want to live in such a world. so connected to nature and strong sense of belief, of oneness and love to all beings. very fantasy. i love it. i see you 😛

so with 7 habits trained and understood, i want to apply those and perhaps change for the better.

with you and my family. i think i can go through all this.

of songkets, lacy affairs and stomping rebana

last weekend was probably one of the weekends that will remain in memory for quite some time.
for the first time ever, in a gathering with delicious scrumptious food, i wasnt able to enjoy them as much as i would have imagined. macaroni medley, bread and butter pudding, sate, brownies and just everything nice! if you’re wondering what event? it’s a teachers’ day cum eid gathering at begonia downtown!

i happened to be the so called floor coordinator where i oversaw that everything is on time (or at least try to, when we started 30 minutes late!) and alerting the emcee-dj warna of what comes next and all. by the time it was lunch, i was just so exhausted i couldn’t care what was on buffet~

i guess things went well except for a few glitches, like our video clip couldn’t play out nicely with the music, since the laptop was lagging, and the few minutes undecidedness of whether to continue with the performances or continue after lunch and whatnots. people might not noticed, but at the ‘floor’ its not that organized. i don’t know if it’s just me or instructions are just coming from everywhere! i was just glad it was over! still, i enjoyed it all the same. everyone did work hard for this.

so afterwards, went to the lacy affair of red and pink at the majestic with the bride’s maids and the bride aka the devil in manolos! the place was fantastic! i love the place and i love spending the day with them girls! managed to catch two movies the proposal (although we didnt finish it) and bride wars. tabooing the words ‘wedding’ and the groom’s name and anything related to it was the funniest, apparently most of us seems to forget the taboo rules and unconsciously mentioned them words couple of times! penalty? spanked by the devil’s fork-

and scrumptious pasta, chips and dips, chocolate fondue with marshmallows and strawberries ~drools~ and yes, cameras and pictures of us!! and for once, i got my ‘wish’ of being in america’s next top model~ 😉 the pics made my day~ but well, restricted to only 7 of us, not for public~




and if being there during your wedding marks a sincere friendship, i will want to be there, it won’t make up for the years and part of your life i’ve missed but i hope it shows how much your friendship is important to me and a big chunk of my school memories revolves around you, i mean, there’s roswell, and endless notes we passed during lessons in class just so we’d stayed awake and rave about max and liz and whatever comes to mind and introduced me to local bands and was it Big O mag that was our supplement english readings? i have always admired your intelligence and confidence and unique creativity like a personalised invitation card for studygroup, birthday cards and whatnots. and it’s not dyan if it isnt chuck palahniuk’s books…

it’s just sad i couldnt stayed for the night, and i hate to give the reason that i had to work on sunday mornings!! i hate saying it becuase i shouldnt be working on sundays~ *sigh* i would love to jump into the pool!

that was what happened on saturday…
sunday was about stomp, ear thumping and clappings and amazing beats out of cans, rubber tubes, plastic and whatnots. entertaining much! i love it!
still having the drums ringing in my head, and guess who i get to see just at the concourse?
maman of teacher’s pet singing live!!! and playing the last song: Kasihku pinjam wajahmu!!!
and our music adventure doesnt end there, when we went out and saw there’s a malay cultural performance at the outdoor stage @ esplanade (or was it called outdoor theatre?) it was riau cultural music with much drums and kompangs, i can’t understand a word-songs and dance performances.

as much as i was exhausted and tired last weekend, i enjoyed everything. 😀
thank you to the bride and bridesmaids(!) and dearest, for my weekend felt almost like a getaway from the word ‘work’ and anything related to it (although i did bring along some paperwork, albeit ‘unseriously’ read)…

and thank dearest you for being there for me.

art folly random

definitely a nice feeling to be awaken to a nice sunny day(despite the heat), looking out to the green park and breathe fresh air, and not have to go to work! haha!

some very random thoughts to fill up the space.

  • spent the first half of the day doing bits and pieces of what i’ve always wanted to do since started working at the mosque, and havent had the chance to. the room looks more…well like a girls room …
  • helped to clear the kitchen and ….
  • was thinking of doing more of the gifts deco but ended up…
  • reading The White Tiger (Aravind Adiga). speaking of which, i just realized i tend to enjoy Man Booker Prize-d novels…
  • and i still prefer Yuna to Zee Avi
  • 4 more weekends to go
  • and i’m actually doing the Gifts do-it-yourself way!! and i think it turned out pretty nice with some hot glue and laced ribbons here and there and you have a themed set of Gifts.
  • and then i remembered i have many other things to do work-related but i refuse to do anything…
  • because i’ll be working on the weekends. (right…welcome to working saturdays AND sundays, albeit half day) just like the ‘good’ old days — although i hope this will change come July

and throughout all the chaosness,


i had the opportunity to appreciate art although very much a newbie and knowing pretty much zilch of what’s in the scene…thanks to dear with the heart of gold~

there’s orchestra on Final Fantasy, and since our seat was on the second floor(or was it the third?), we got a good view of the screen where they show scenes from the many Final fantasy episodes and a bird’s eye view of the talented talented musicians.
(i think they should soon have one on Lotr + orchestra!)

first time ever watching the performance of young shaolin martial arts, although very much contemporary.

and tricky Seven Boards of Tricks. i mean seriously tricky. with triangle and square boards to make whatnots..although we got pretty sleepy since some of the songs were in chinese and we can’t for the heck of it understood what it all meant.

i know there are meanings behind every moves and dances but i couldn’t figure it out, just like the cullberg ballet..although there’s some sort of a storyline which i could follow but in all i can appreciate just how much talent and the energy and time put in to come up with a 100 minutes performance. all those passion they put in. pretty amazing. never had the chance to view performances before but it’s a ‘new breath of air’ to be able to catch and see what’s the hype is all about. have always wanted to experience them and you have given me that chance. thank you.

full force

super duper busy since i step in full force at mawaddah. and it’s only been a week!!! and time seems to fly double fast rate. straight away when i come in at 8.30, there’s no time to ‘warm-up’ get to gear 2 and do emails, pick up calls, making decisions, and trying to decorate two classrooms as best i can, with the help of dear mother and my little sister nuri who tagged along last friday to help out. and somehow found ourselves staying a bit longer till 8pm~

last friday, i had to present in front of a whole auditorium and share a little bit with the volunteers what alive is all about…with a few last minute slides which alhamdulillah turned out pretty nice and straight to the point presentation. since it’s also more of like a briefing to the volunteers so they know that we’re conducting aLive as the madrasah. mother said it was a good presentation. thankfully it was an informal kind of setting since i mixed english and malay up there on stage! and i believe i spoke too fast!

and next week is going to be another looonngg week! but in any ways: everyone of you are invited to the family buzz at mawaddah this friday – saturday!

on to the next thing, somehow word got round among the aunts at the mosque that i’m…hmm…taken ;)because apparently some aunts were ‘inquiring’ about me and mother had to be clear about my ‘status’ with them. at the same time, it turns out everyone’s excited for my birthday month…and i thought it’s going to be a family affair!!
on that note: i don’t know where to start and ideas all around that i need to focus, haha! these are like big things for me, the mosque, the family affair and the next year in line~

the weekend has been a short escape for me, watching Wolverine which is awesomeness, and glad that my brothers and sisters enjoyed the movie and the company as much i did.;) i mean, it’s X-men!! who wouldn’t enjoy it? i think there’s more action to this than the Last Stand. and i’ve always liked stories where they tell you how things started and me being a non-comic reader, i appreciate the storyline. and first time truly watching star trek with real interest and enjoyment, even though there’s some parts i don’t understand in the movie. i told you i’ve seen more movies within these few months than i ever did in my 25 years of living.

mono: God has always directed my decisions and meeting you must have been part of the deal…