Saturday, December 27, 2008

Less than 32 hours

Less than 32 hours before 27 hours of journey.

Less than 32 hours of 8 hours of warmth hug and free kisses every night.

Less than 32 hours of tropical climate and everyday sunshine.

Less than 32 hours of home cooked meals.

Less than 32 hours of comfort life and bundle of love.

Less than 32 hours, I'll be starting a new chapter in my life at different side of the world.

Wish me luck!

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Stress adalah perkataan hari ini

Stress kit daripada beberapa blog

Hari ini adalah hari yang stress bagi kami pasangan yang selalunya bahagia. Jarang sekali kami stress sekaligus. Biasanya saya akan stress sorang-sorang iaitu semasa saya bekerja atau en hubby akan stress sorang-sorang bila dia dah tension dengan assignment dan thesis. Walau bagaimanapun kami juga terasa stress jika salah seorang daripada kami stress, ye lah bak kata pepatah, cubit peha kanan, peha kiri terasa jugak.

Hari ini dimulakan dengan awal sekali. Pukul 6.50 pagi kami telah bertolak ke Embassi US untuk membuat visa. Saya dengan visa F-1 dan dia visa pelawat. Sebenarnya saya bercadang hendak buat visa F-2 (pasangan untuk F-1) tetapi apabila universiti minta penyata kewangan untuk setahun yang berjumlah RM25 000 dalam masa beberapa hari, bagaimanakah saya ingin mendapatkan itu. Jika kasi beberapa minggu pun mungkin tidak dapat. Oleh kerana en hubby hanya akan datang untuk sebulan sahaja buat masa ini maka kami membuat keputusan membuat visa pelawat sahaja dan F-2 akan difikirkan nanti pada tahun hadapan.

Oleh itu dengan bersemangat waja kami pun pergi temuduga di embasi itu. Nombor saya awal 1 daripada en hubby jadi saya dipanggil dahulu. Selepas menjawab beberapa soalan, visa saya diluluskan. Tetapi, saya baru tahu saya tidak membayar wang I-SEVIS yang bernilai $200. Tetapi saya dah bayar visa fee yang bernilai $130 + RM35. Mana la saya tahu kena bayar banyak sangat fee. Memang cekik darah betul la negara Pakcik Sam ni. Jadi orang embasi tu pulangkan balik pasport saya dan suruh menghantar kembali setelah membayar I-SEVIS itu. Nasib baik tidak perlu interview lagi.

Kemudian, suasana di ruang temuduga itu menjadi sepi seketika apabila ada seorang mamat ni ditolak permohonan dia. Apa yang diberitahu en hubby, penyataan si mamat ni berubah-ubah bila ditanya dan akhir sekali saya dengar orang embasi tu cakap, "Even with your blue tie couldn't save you. I will not approve your application. You can apply again later." Oh ya, ruang temuduga itu adalah berbentuk kaunter-kaunter yang dimana ada speaker yang agak kuat boleh kita dengar walaupun kita hanya menunggu. Tu la sebab semua orang boleh jadi pak sebok.

Apabila begitu terjadi, saya sudah menjadi cuak. Bagaimana kalau en hubby tidak dapat visa. Ini boleh melunturkan semangat saya. Kemudian no en hubby dipanggil. Nasib baik dia dapat orang yang sama dengan apa yang saya dapat. Setelah membaca borang permohonan, dia meminta surat nikah tapi en hubby memberi kad nikah kerana dia tidak bawa surat nikah (padahal saya bawa tapi dia tak tahu itu). Yang peliknya, orang embasi tu tahu pulak pasal kad nikah ini dan pandai pulak baca melayu. Selepas itu dia mengatakan bahawa en hubby sepatutnya mendapat F-2 bukan visa pelawat kerana dia pelajar. Tetiba dia teringat yang dia baru je temuduga saya dan menyuruh en hubby memanggil saya untuk ditemuduga sekali lagi. Dia meminta I-20 saya untuk menukar permohonan en hubby ke F-2. Tetapi mereka inginkan I-20 baru untuk en hubby. Ini hanya boleh dapat melalui universiti sahaja. Saya pun dengan muka selamba bertanya adakah penyata kewangan diperlukan? Dia menjawab tidak. Wah, hati berbunga riang.

Walau bagaimanapun, hati yang berbunga riang berubah menjadi gusar bak awan gelap. Saya menelefon universiti saya untuk meminta I-20 en hubby tapi seperti biasa, dia meminta penyata kewangan. Apabila saya kata orang embasi kata tak perlu, dia kata orang itu salah. Alahai....

Maka kami adalah stress dan en hubby lagi stress sampai tak oleh belajar untuk ujian dia esok. Keadaan begini menyebabkan saya terfikir untuk tidak pergi aje la. Kerana apakah erti hidup tanpa orang tercinta di sisi. Walaupun pun sekejap, yang penting dia mesti datang jugak.

Ada sesiapa nak pinjamkan RM25 000 supaya kami boleh buat penyata kewangan secepat mungkin?

Oh, bilakah penjual kereta itu ingin memberi wang jualan kereta supaya kami boleh buat penyata kewangan?

Tapi kalau kita tengok gelas separuh penuh, secara positifnya embasi telah meluluskan visa kami cuma tak dapat lagi je status seterusnya.

Dah la stress dengan visa, lepas tu banyak pulak perkara-perkara kecil tetapi boleh membawa stress berlaku dalam hari ini.

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Now that you are gone...

She has gone. I couldn't believe she left me this fast. The goodbye seems so quick. We don't even take a proper picture together.

I thought they just wanted to meet you. How do I know they immediately took you away.

Now that you are gone, I started to miss you. There are so many things suddenly I wanted to do with you. It's like the time I'm with you was not enough. Who will come with me to lunch together. Who will go to Pavillion with me when I'm alone. We have so much bittersweet memories to let go. You were there when I was down, crying my heart out while driving crazily at Federal Highways, you were there when I was happy, during my courting years with my boyfriend, now husband and you were they during our wedding day loyally carrying all the wedding dresses and accessories.

We are best friends. We cursed each other sometimes, but no relationship is rainbow all the time right. But you always be there through shine and rain, hills and slopes. You never complained. If you do, you never made me felt so bad.

Well, for everything in this world there's no forever. Whatever start will end. We meet and we part. So are we. The last 4 years has been incredible journey with you. I will forever remember you. Thank you.

In memory of ....Me and my Gen-2...


Wednesday, December 10, 2008

2 great products

In the midst of preparing for a long journey and packing stuff for a year's need, I stumbled 2 great products. I'm not sure if this is new to some of the people, but to me I think these products are recommendable for others to use it.

Note: I did not get any incentive or any extra points for this free advertisement. Hehe.

First product: Vacuum bag

Where to buy: I bought it at Cosway shop. (yes, I joined the Cosway coz the shop was right under my apartment in hoping to gain extra pocket money, but my dream was crashed when the kakak at my office who was easily influenced by anything you sell resigned. Coz that's the only customer I had in mind beside my mom, of course. Hehe)

Ok, back to the product.

It can reduce space of your cabinet, closet or your lugagge. It vacuumed out all the air and leaving the bag becoming so thin which is around 1/3 of actually space taken. Actually I was sceptical about it, but since the price was cheap, I bought one to see if it's really work. And it works. Here some pictures of my experiment.

I used a small pillow as my experiment. (That's the nearest thing I can find while holding vacuum host.)
Top view of the pillow. Both pillow are the same size and thickness.
Side view of the pillow and the pillow in the vacuum bag. See the different? Cool huh.

Price: RM 7.90 for the size50 x 60 cm and RM 8.90 for the size of 80 x 60 cm

Difficulty of using it: It's so easy. Put your stuff in the bag, seal it and at the round socket, use your vacuum cleaner to suck the air out and voila, it's slowly becoming thinner and thinner.

Suitable for keeping clother, pillow and comforter. And if you have limited space in your lugagge, you can maximise it using this bag. And it's reusable. Not pakai-buang type.

Second product: Neck pillow

So what's so special about this neck pillow you might ask.

The answer is: Another additional support on top of the pillow.

Actually it's an usual blow-it-neck-pillow that you will find at any travel shop.
However, there are 4 things that worth mentioning:
1) it's cheap. At travel shop, it cost around RM 30 plus. But this one cost only RM8
2) it's washable as the outer clothes can be removed for washing.
3) when you remove the clothes, it become a plastic neck pillow that you can use in your bathtub or swimming pool.

When you remove the clothes, pillow has the pelampung kind of material.

4) there's a small additional thing that makes the head felt more comfortable.
See how comfortable it is?

The normal neck pillow. See how not comfortable when you lean your head backward?

Where to buy: I bought it at Carrefour, Alamanda.


Cool huh this 2 products. Something that worth sharing info with.

Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Not wanted


"It's ok, you'll be gone soon."

It's like someone stabbed my heart and moved the dagger around it and minced every cells that form my beating heart. That one sentence hurt so much even an ocean of tears will never justify that feeling.

It's as if my existence only bring misery to others.

Ok, I'm going off soon and I won't be in your way.
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