Homecoming

The past two weeks have really been something.

Last week Atuk went for an angiogram which went well, Alhamduilllah. He says that he's not as easily tired as he once was so that's awesome. I love you Atuk. :)

And then a couple of days ago Spyro broke his tail so we had to send him for surgey. Poor baby lost two inches of his beautiful tail. Here he is with his new pretty satellite dish collar. He's fine now, albeit a little groggy and weak from a jab the vet gave him.

I have three days left to the holidays.

I think I'm just going to take it easy. No epic war-on-boredom plans, no deliberate jumps into activity. If things happen, they'll happen. I have to teach myself to accept that not everything we plan will come through ... sometimes Allah has a different plan for us. :)

Beautiful

Atuk got admitted to hospital yesterday and he went through an angiogram this morning. All of us drove down to Singapore last night but didn't get a chance to see him so we went to the hospital this morning and waited about for him to be done with the procedure. Picture above was taken on the way South, somewhere over the Johor sky.

Everything went well Alhamdulillah and we went to see him in the recovery room. His lunch was already there so Papa asked me and Mira to help feed him. We were going to, but Atuk said that we should let the nurse do it since that they have experience. So we left it at that.

A male nurse came by after a while and offered to feed him. And Atuk just laughed and said that he wanted 'the beautiful nurse' to feed him. The male nurse just laughed and called out to the nursing station behind him for a beautiful nurse and the nurses there just laughed. I left the room for a bit after that.

When I came back in later, Atuk was having his lunch - Maktuk was feeding him.

She used to be a nurse.

There some moments in life that are so beautifully scripted that you're completely blown away. This has got to be one of the best ones I've ever seen in my life.

Looking down the ladder

I was watching Fellowship of the Ring and I realised how it's been almost ten years since it first premiered. Can you believe that? It's been almost a decade since I finished reading the trilogy and all the other books I had gotten myself into. It's been such a long time.

I was delighted to see that the movie was dripping with dramatic epicness. I mean ... wow. Some of it is horribly cheesy but it works so well and damn, Frodo is such a damsel in distress. Blegh. I used to have a crush on him, hehe. Pretty blue eyes.

I'm in the midst of rearranging a lot of stuff in my mind. One thing I'd like to change is my lack of drawing, writing and reading.

Maybe I should go offline more often.

Hahahahhaaha.

Moar plz

O rly.

This makes me feel like watching the Keira Knightley movie again. I haven't watched it yet this year. I've seen it once every year ever since it came out and I have yet to grow tired of it.

Been pleasantly busy the past week, couldn't be happier. The war I have waged against boredom is still ongoing ... sometimes I emerge victorious, la championne de la bataille. Other times, I sink to a shameful defeat. But hey, I may have lost a few battles but the war's not over. ;)

Today in particular was good because of 3 things.

One being productivity!

The second being that I have achieved my personal goal of sitting in every chair in LT3. Fo realz.

The third being that Jov and I found a place which sells bubble tea near campus.

I am at the moment a very content human being.

Our specialty

Today's Aishah's birthday!

So we planned a little surprise for her yesterday. Hehe.

We drove up to her house and got Sheik to do some baiting for us while we hid behind the wall.

Outside her house. Unsuspecting.

This is a surprised person, everybody. :D Success!

Went to Lake Gardens for a picnic, had KFC chicken and potato salad. Yummeyh. We just finished packing up when it started to rain. So we ran for the nearest shelter but not before we got totally drenched. Mandi hujan, baby!

It was a hapeee day. :)

Keep your mind busy

My initial plan for today was to do something I haven't done in months.

Instead, I ended up doing something I haven't done in months.

Heh.

I shall now call this particular DIY frame kit My Little Pony Antidepressant.

I bought this thing in ... I dunno, December? It's about time I got to making it.

The window. I repainted all the wood they included in the box with acrylics.

The swingset was my favourite part!

They included cloth to sew the cushions with but I messed up and cut it up too small. So I made do by taking an old shirtsleeve and snipping it up. Why yes, I did have an old shirtsleeve lying around. Long story.

Flowers, basket, a tiny book (I love this one) and a mug.

Detail shots.

Time to get a new box! :p

Messages

Here're some things I'm thinking, directed at certain people.

1. You've only been gone a few days and I miss you. :/

2. I'm disappointed, that's all.

3. It's so hard to look at you now. I'm actually angry.

4. I don't talk to you as often as I used to. I don't know what happened.

5. I'm glad we got to meet up again. :)

6. Do you have any idea where we're standing? Cause I don't.

7. I want to talk to you, but I don't know how to initiate the conversation.

8. Stop all this self-pity. Tell me straight out please.

And most importantly, to the most important person:

Always have a back-up plan.

Ps. Siapa yang terasa, it could be directed at you. Or maybe it isn't. You'll never know.

Semaine deux

I think it's time for a holiday update!

And blurry cat photo is blurry. Very aware if that.

Week One of holidays was ... actually sort of depressing. But emoboy tendencies aside, I got to watch A-Team and eat durian mochi, which by itself chases most troubles away. I also got to eat real durian, which also chases most troubles away. Except for bad breath, but hey that's what breathmints are for.

Week Two is so far miles better than Week One. It's been interesting. :)

So yeah, things I planned to do at the beginning of these hols:

1) Paint shoes

2) Make DIY kit

3) Get a part-time job

4) Put together Book of Motivation

5) Read books

6) Short film

7) Sleepover

8) Morning swims

9) Sky Trex

10) Paintball

11) Rock-climbing

12) Draw portraits

13) Picnic

14) Learn at least one guitar song

15) Make at least one piano cover

16) Shoot zombies

That's all I've got so far. Must get my butt into gear.