May Bliss

May almost comes to the end and I didn't have a post published on my favourite month. Ish ish ish. As usual, May always my busiest month (alasan!). So many events happened in May 2013, whether personal event or country event.

On personal event, this year both of us, has celebrated our birthday by joining the 3 series club. No more in-the-twenties age group range. Honestly I didn't feel a thing. It's not like at 12 am on the 4th May, my wrinkle double up la kan. Age is just a number but what matters are the insides. Managed to gather the busy people of my family to have nice dinner at Bubba Gump Citta Mall on my birthday.

My talented 7 years old niece homemade birthday card for me. So sweettt

The family that eat together, stay together :)

On the second day I turned 30, I used my right to vote for our 13th General Election. One of the most controversial election in Malaysia's history, and it happened a day after my birthday. Haha. Now that we have chosen our representatives, I do hope that this political issue can be closed and now let's unite in developing our country. 

Towards the end of May, I have to sit for 2 CIPS (Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply) exams in Kuala Lumpur and that means I was back in Subang Jaya. Yeah, 2 weeks in Subang felt like heaven. You have no idea how I miss my own house and my town. Oh man, I really can't wait for this 1.5 years to end.

And at the last day of May, we are going on a vacation. First vacation of the year! Yeay... The frequent weekend flying has cheated me on being on vacation but the truth is we didn't go anywhere this year. Oh, except Brunei. Ok, Brunei doesn't count coz it's just a day trip.

I wish May never ends which means I don't have to go back to Miri. But that impossible right? Blerrrgghh...

Happiness found in handbags

Sometimes I just don't understand women, which include myself. I don't understand what is the relationship between handbag and happiness. But I do understand that new handbag can bring so much happiness that cannot be understood by men. Hahaha

I'm in the cloud nine now coz few minutes ago, I just clicked 'submit order' to an early birthday gift for myself. It has been sometimes since I bought a new handbag. I worked hard last year and this year, I need to award something to myself isn't it. Hehe.

Masya Allah Mun, semua ni duniawi sahaja. Tapi sekali sekala boleh la kan :-)

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The agony

I miss my husband so bad that I wish I can pack my stuff and fly home right now.

I really hate this feeling I have every Sunday night. My inner voice keeps on screaming I dont want to be here, I want to be with my husband. Then it keep on questioning me why am I here. Is it worth it?

I should be next to my husband and not here.

Ya Allah, please help me and please make my strong.

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When a man loves a woman

Since Hallyu Wave has spread across the world, Korean dramas are shown in all tv channels and Astro even has 2 dedicated channels for the K-Drama fans. Honestly, without embarrassed, I admit that I'm one of them. Their drama is so addictive and bring you out of your current mundane daily life to another world. Me being me, I'm only watching those romantic, funny and melt-your-heart kind of drama with handsome and pretty actors and actresses. I avoid those serious and thriller type of drama. If I want to distract myself from my daily life, might as well goes to the extreme happiness rather than making you depress right.

From the drama that I watched, I noticed that their romantic-ness are somehow over the top and obviously not realistic in real world. In real world, men will not do things like that. Sometimes I'm scared that some naive ladies out there who dream of having a man that will do what the actor did in the drama. I once read in forum that a guy wrote that he was sad that his girlfriend wanted to break with him coz he was not romantic. And the worst part, the girlfriend actually used K-drama as a benchmark of romantic-ness. Haih.. we need to differentiate what is entertainment and what is reality.

In reality, this is what a man will do to show that he loves his woman (based on personal experience):

1. Accept that she doesn't know how to cook and patiently teach and help her with cooking
2. Ate whatever she cooked even it taste really sucks
3. Charge her iPad/phone at night so that she can use her iPad the next day with full battery
4. Switched on the light when he went out for his night shift so that she will not come back into dark home
5. Support her to follow her dreams
6. Be her shoulder to cry on when her dreams face challenges and motivate her to not give up
7. Pick up and send her to airport every week
8. Bought network wire when she complain the hotel wire not long enough
9. Spoon feed her when she sick
10. Wait patiently for weekend to watch the new episode of tv series so that they can watch together
11. Skip futsal so that he can spend the all night with her before she moved
12. Quietly buy breakfast for her before she wake up
13. Remember what she likes and dislikes
14. Hate people who make her sad
15. Help her with the house chores
16. Make sure her car is in tip top condition
17. Kiss her before he leaves for work everyday
18. Provide 24/7 computer technical support
19. Never fail to call her everyday 
20. Become her biggest fan and biggest critic
21. Concern about her safety
22. Don't let her carry heavy stuff
23. Hold her hand when walking
24. Always on her side even the world is against her
25. Remember her favourite songs
26. Frantically search for her when she is not by his side in underwater
27. Make sure she always gets the best
28. Guide her when she's lost
29. Accept her during PMS
30. Cuddle her tightly every night
31. Keep a portion of his favourite food for her so that she can taste it
32. Buy her supplement so she will be healthy
33. Encourage her to be healthy
34. Respect her belief and principles, never force her into anything
35. Love her unconditionally

The list can go on and on and on. Actually the list is based on my husband. I'm so lucky to have him as a husband. He never lavish me flowers, jewellery, poems, poetic words, but his love is clearly seen in his action and decision for me. That's usually not capture in drama. So be wise and appreciate your husband.

Oh, lately I always see posts shared in FB about a good husband needs to do this, this and this. It is always about husband not being good enough and I will judge you if you share that. I will assume that your husband is not doing what you shared no matter how much you try to comment back saying "oh, my husband is the best, he's doing this bla bla" coz if your husband is ok, why you need to share and tagged his name at the first place? If I'm the husband, I will be pissed - why ask him to do things publicly on things that he already doing which giving an indication to public that he's not doing it?

I miss my husband T_T. Can't wait for Thursday!

Things that I miss

Things that I miss while living in Miri:

1. My husband
2. Eating with my husband everyday
3. Sleeping with my husband every night
4. All activities that I do with my husband
5. Gardenia bread - all kind
6. My colleagues in Cyberjaya & Damansara Heights
7. My family
8. My friends
9. Fly FM
10. Ikim FM
11. Good food
12. My dryer
13. My bathroom
14. My bedroom
15. My kitchen
16. In short, my house
17. Unifi

Things that I did not miss while living in Miri:

1. Traffic jam
2. That's all

The first 30 days

Today marked the 30th day of my arrival to this 'quiet' town of East Malaysia, Miri. It has been a roller coaster ride for me. I thought I will survive this with a breeze, especially after living in US for 1.5 years and used to be away from home. Boy, I was wrong. Every place has different challenges and I sometimes underestimated what I will face.

Week 1

Arrived in Miri on Sunday afternoon alone as I didn't want to feel comfortable to have someone with me. I checked in into my temporary accommodation that the company has generously provided to me. I chose Marriott Resort and Spa as I wanted to be as comfortable as I can, even though the hotel is the furthest hotel from the office, which is 20-30 minutes away driving (in Miri standard, that is far). The first week was the honeymoon week. Everything was a new discovery to me. I excited to see boats, river and sea on the way to office and everyone at the office was good to me. What made it better was the fact on Wednesday one of my good friend in Cyberjaya came to work in my new office and made me less officesick.

That weekend, was the long Chinese New Year weekend and my husband came over. We had a good time exploring Miri and the neighbouring country aka Brunei while enjoying Marriott's facilities. Together we shortlisted areas that I should looked into for my permanent housing here.

In short, I can imagine myself doing well here and whenever people asked me how is the new place, my answer was good.

Week 2

Week 2 went by quite fast. The first 2 days were public holiday and Zainal was here, so whenever he by my side, I'm always ok. The other 3 working days were quite quiet as many people took the opportunity to have long holiday. At this time I started to have officesick. I started to miss my old colleagues and friends, missed to have lunch and chat with them. It was not helping that I still haven't given any jobs. I ended up reading all the material in company website and even managed to finish a 50 pages manual.

That Friday my parents arrived and weekend was not so bad. As usual, there's nothing much to do in Miri except driving around and Brunei. At least I wasn't lonely that weekend and it has been awhile since I spend time alone with my parents and this was a great opportunity.

Week 3

This was the week that I discovered things going down the drain emotionally. At third week of working in new office, I still haven't have lunch buddies, not even one. Not even one person asked me if I want to join them for lunch. Everyday I need to ask around if I can join them. This is where I realized there's 2 kind of friendly -  a genuine one and a fake one. The lowest point of the week was when I was so down and lonely, I drove to McD drive thru with tears running my cheek, bought my lunch and parked at the side road to eat it. 

However Allah has answered my prayer that day when I met a friend who moved here from Cyberjaya and we made a pact to become default lunch buddy. I realized she was having the same issue with me and that made me feel better as I know I was not alone in feeling this. 

This has definitely lighten up my sadness a bit but I still didn't have any works in the office. I raised this to my supervisor and she asked me to use this time to myself while she sort out my portfolio. At this time I was restless at office, I started to think more about this job. Is it worth it? Why am I doing this? Is this what I want in life? When I started thinking like this, I know this is not good.

Alhamdulillah Zainal came that weekend. Not seeing him almost two weeks added the stress and made me emotionally wreck. At least being with him for one night released a huge amount of sadness and loneliness that I have been carrying all week.

Week 4

Finally I started to do my work. The real work. Business invited me to join him in a meeting in KLCC which means I got to go back home! Even for less than 24 hours -arrived in KL at 10.30pm and my flight back to Miri the next day at 9pm, it means a lot to me.. But it is definitely recharged me. This week brought me more good news. My car has arrived and so were my stuff. Finally familiar things! Ditched the new car that my company lend to me to drive my old faithful Gen 2. It felt so good to be with something that I familiar with which remind me that I'm not far away from home.

That weekend I went home. It was so good to be home and I missed everything about home. And that is how I survived my first month here.

Oh, 18 months, please come quickly and let me finish this as soon as possible.

The day is (almost) here

Phew... first hurdle has gone. Household items and car are on their way to nearest port (I'm guessing Port Klang) for their own new adventure in the sea. Mine will be tomorrow. I haven't packed a thing and all I have is two empty luggage with food surround them. I'm so worried about not able to have decent food there than having more important stuff packed. Haih, priority Mun!

The mover packing my things

Take care car... You'll be my best friend there and I need you to be healthy. No one will come at a phone call away anymore.

Hubby asked what do you want to eat for dinner tonight? Immediately I said Carl's Jr coz I don't think there is Carl's Jr there. I just received email from my new boss that GSC just opened there and everyone was excited about it. Good timing!

Honestly, I don't know what to expect. I will embrace what may come with open arms. And trying to remember what I did in US that I finally able to feel comfortable and less homesick. Good luck to me!

The surprise farewell

I thought today was going to be another normal weekend. We were planning to have a lunch with Zainal's ex-colleagues at The Curve and maybe some shopping after that. We arrived 15 minutes before 1pm and since Zainal said they were planning to meet at Marche around 1pm, we walked around the flee market to see if I can find something for my company's Crazy Hat Party this Thursday. I guessed Zainal was hungry so he suggested to go to the Marche right away. 

Upon entering Marche, I saw a lady that was smiling and waving at me. I thought I've seen this lady before but is she Zainal's colleague? Then I saw Intan and Dhira and I was like, hey, you guys are here! Don't know that everyone decided to eat at Marche today. After that I saw Sue, Sara (she's the lady that smiled and waved at me!) and lastly Mas. I was like heyyyyy.... ape ni? One of the lady, couldn't remember who said, surprise!! This is a surprise for you. I was like ??????? I was speechless. Didn't know what to say and saw the cake. Tears was just at the corner of my eyes but I hold back of course (don't want this to be a joke later.. haha).

The cake and the gift basket

I was never in the position of being surprised. I don't know how to react and what to do. I'm actually quite blur the whole lunch. I couldn't even think of what to eat. I was actually surprised and overwhelming with so much love thinking that my girlfriends took time to organize and make it all the way to The Curve. And my husband, wow, he can really keep a secret and knows how to cover the whole surprise lunch.

Thank you so much for the best surprise farewell lunch. I love you, ladies. You make me harder to leave thinking that I'm leaving such a wonderful best friends. Last but not least, the gift basket. Love it! The truth is, most the items in the basket are the items that I'm planning to buy, including the basket. I'm bringing all of that to Miri :)

Love you gals :)

The anniversary dinner

For us, celebrating our anniversary is something that we always look forward to. We tried to plan a holiday somewhere around it and if time (or money) not permitted, we will have a nice dining plan out. For this year, holiday was not planned as I will be moving soon, so we decided to have a good dinner to celebrate our fifth anniversary.

I told my husband to surprise me. He ruled out any buffet as I'm on my PB diet and finally he told me that we are going to Tanzini in G Tower. Honestly that was my first time hearing that restaurant and after looking at the online review, I was excited to go.

Tanzini is situated at the 28th floor of the G Tower and has 2 floors. The Upper Deck is serving the set course meal only and the lower one is the ala carte menu. Husband chose the upper deck as it is more private and have better view. 

The set menu consist of 4, 5 or 6 courses that you can choose. We chose the 5 course meals and beef and lamb as our main course. Then I ordered their specialty drink, Tanzini T - black tea, strawberry (with real strawberry floating), mint and pomegranate syrup. I really looovveee it. Husband ordered apple juice with lemon glass and it's just ok.

The first course was smoked salmon. It was delicious. In fact it was one of the best course that night. Then the waiter served our starter, mine was dried scallops with something something and Zainal was duck with something something. Well, it was ok. Next was the baby kailan soup with crispy chicken. He poured the soup in front of us to ensure that the crispy chicken didn't not turn soggy swimming in the soup. Between the soup and main course, the waiter served us watermelon sorbet to rinse our taste palate before the main. I don't like sorbet, so I didn't enjoy it. Then our main was served. I chose lamb while Zainal chose beef tenderloin. My lamb was so tender with some grill taste outside. It was so yummy. Compared to husband beef tenderloin which I think is just average, the lamb is better. Lastly was the dessert. The huge disappointment. It was a scope of ice cream on top of chocolate cookies and reddish. The ice cream and cookies was ok, but the reddish, omg, seriously just spoiled my whole experience of the food that night. Maybe I don't like reddish but man, that's not dessert!

For left top: My delicious drink Tanzini T, smoked salmon, the starters, sorbet, Zainal's beef tenderloin, dessert and my lamb. In the middle is the kailan soup.

Despite the limited food choice in the upper deck session, I love the restaurant. The ambiance was so romantic, with high ceiling glass ceiling where you can see KLCC in front of you. The couch as the seat where we can cuddle (if only the waiter stopped coming checking on us) and the hanging round lights in the middle of the room made the whole place very cozy. You can also hang out at the balcony before you leave enjoying the soft breeze of KL night skyline. There were 2 couples including us only for that night and made us felt like we own that place. 

The ambiance

The service was excellent. The waiter was very attentive, checking on us so many times, explaining what is the dish that have just served and took time to take a lot of our pictures. The best part was when we ordered a beef dish, he came back to us and told us that dish was marinated with wine. So he told us to change it and gave us different menu. 

On side note, I always respect and have a high admiration to restaurants that are very sensitive to their customers religion belief and inform them the ingredients. I found out that how I dress, for example like me which is wearing a hijab, always save me in restaurants. Few restaurants that I went, Tanzini, Alexis, Chocolate Bar at Marina Bay Sand in Singapore and few others, has warned me that certain dish in their menu has alcohol as ingredient. The funny part is they informed me but not my husband (in the case of Chocolate Bar). So I always believe if we dress as a Muslim, we will be respected as one too.

Back to the Tanzini, overall the food and the ambiance there was above my expectation. I really enjoy our dinner last night. 

Thank you husband for the great dinner and as my lifelong companion. Happy 5th anniversary and may our love last till Jannah. Love you bunch <3 p="p">

The marriage numbers

19th of January is our 5th year wedding anniversary.

We dated each other for 5.5 years before we got married.

We knew each other for 5 years before we dated.

Therefore, we have known each other for 15.5 years. Which means we have known each other more than half of our life.

:)

Still no peace

When I told my husband about her, how she made this and that, my husband just smiled and said, when you hate someone, everything he/she did is wrong and will make you angry. Why don't you just sit back, watch her burn herself and walk away?

Well, I just can't. Every little thing she did to me just so annoying and making me so stressful. Of all the people I need to handover, why it has to be her? I remembered people used to warn me about her. I thought I don't want to judge so early, be neutral and let me experience myself. Ya Allah, how true what people said. Masakan pohon bergoyang tanpa angin..

She's like a knife stuck in my heart. Everyday she twists a little bit and slowly tearing my heart. Some days the knife goes in deeper, crushing my lungs leaving me gasping for some air. Leaving it there cause pain, trying to remove it cause pain too. At the end, my motivation slowly dying.

Why la some people are like this?

I think I need to stand up and stop being bullied.

So how do I start?

Finding my peace

I just want to leave this place with good memories and less heartache. After one and a half years, the last thing I want to do is to leave a bad impression after building up a good reputation. Of course, it was not that simple. People still want to make my heart bleeds with irrational decisions.

I used to ignore everything and focus my energy to the things that matter. But then, when the replacement came, suddenly I realized I'm a black sheep. Everything I did was a mistake. Every now and then I heard complaints and dissatisfaction about me. The complaints came from someone that didn't matter much but clearly important to him. No complaints came from everyone that matter, but did he care. Of course not. Comments and feedback was very satisfying from everyone that matters but to him I'm just a headache. Ah, I forgot that pleasing him is more important than getting the job done with everyone that matter. 

Even at the last days of my service, the unthinkable still happened. Few people volunteered, but he chose me. Yes me. To organise my own goodbye. What on earth people organize their own farewell? Clearly bedazzled most of the people, but I kept on repeating this mantra to myself to keep my sanity, everyone is different and we should respect. Again and again. It just happened that the person with authority that is different flock.

Oh well, I'm doing this for Allah, to please only Him. Allah will take care of me, not him. I have given my best and leave everything to Him.

I will find my peace soon. InsyaAllah.

Wonderful 2012

There is only one word to describe 2012: Alhamdulillah. All praise to Allah. So much has happening in 2012, even though I have ups and downs, but the amount of love I get from Allah and people, is just unbelievable.

We traveled a lot this year. It's like a revenge for 2011 for the lack of traveling. The highlight of the year is Umrah. But the worst of 2012, the hospitalization after Umrah.

Well, let's recap 2012:

1. We travel a lot, on average of once every 3 months:
1. January : Bali for our 4th anniversary
2. March: Umrah
3. May: Penang
4. August: Alor Setar
5. September: Langkawi
6. November: South Korea
2. Hospitalized coz of Influenza B - then doctor took the opportunity to do endoscopic procedure since I always have stomach problem. Who would know the equipment I used to repair during internship become my diagnostic tool.
3. Alhamdulillah no death in the family this year.
4. Steep learning curve in my career. But it was very satisfying. 
5. No diving trip this year :(

I guess that's all this year. I see only 2 common themes: Travel and work. And sickness. Haha. My stakeholder actually put this twice in my performance review this year: She needs to take care of her health. Ok, that will be this year resolution.

I always looking forward to do each year reflection (this blog tradition) just to remind myself to be thankful of all the things that happened in my life and as a learning to improve myself. On a sad day, I will search this list every year and smile at all life experiences that I have been through.

Complicated

Husband: When are you going to buy all the stuff that you want to bring to East Malaysia?
Me: Don't know yet.
Husband: So you want to do it last minute and rush everything? Oh wait, do you have checklist things to buy?
Me: No.

Husband looked at me. I'm feeling scared.

Me: Ok, I will do it today. I'm confused what thing to bring. Should I duplicate everything I have here?
Husband: Or you can bring things from here rather than duplicate everything.
Me: But then when I come back here, I don't have all the things that I need coz some are there.

Husband looked at me.

Husband: God, your life is so complicated, isn't it?

*Grin*

Ok, I better do the checklist ASAP.

Happy new year 2013

It's new year again! This year I'll be hitting the big three oooo. I feel so old. The only decade people look forward is the 20's, after that everyone wish the the age just stop there. Huhu.

For this new year, I wish to pray more, travel more, learn more, give more, smile more and exercise more.

Specific resolution will be done as needed basis. For example, I want to cook more and eat out less. Managed to achieve that in this month and guess what, my skin has improved a lot. Eating out is not healthy especially with excessive oil and MSG that they dump into our food. Alhamdulillah, small steps into monthly resolution goes a long way.

To all my friends out there, happy new year 2013. May our wishes come true and may Allah bless us always.

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Continuing the journey

For once I wish the mover will be less efficient. Suddenly everything moved so fast. I think I just said yes to move there earlier this month. I talked to the new line manager a week after that and a week after that, the HR send me a note to accept the offer on that day itself as she's going for on leave until new year.

Then only it struck to me that this is not about just another empty promises that I heard before, this is going to happen. I panicked of course, started to call husband if I should accept it. Husband consoled me and said that we have discussed about this and I should accept it. I accepted it and few days later saw an email saying that the HR has already prepared for my movement.

A day later, I got an email from the mover company that someone will be contacting me about my stuff. True enough, few hours later someone did contact me. I tried to buy time by asking what the date bla bla, but yesterday, he asked me again when is the date I want to move and he wanted to come over to see what stuff I want to move.

Seriously, I'm sad of leaving my house. It's not even 1 year yet and I'm moving again. Sure, I'll be back every weekend but I will spend another 5 days somewhere else. I wish I can move the whole house including the person who is living there too. Then the whole situation will be perfect.

Oh well, another episode of my nomadic life.

Knowing that my kitchen has not gone wasted

Sometimes daughter in law needs to bake something for the mother in law (especially for her birthday). This will show that her son will not starve by marrying this woman.

Does my statement legit?

Haha.



Finally I managed to take the whole pavlova before being attacked.

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The big bad wolf book sale

Thanks to Big Bad Wolf book sales for stocking up our yearly reading material. We went there yesterday night, and if not because my leg was in pain and my arms were tired carrying the box of books, we might have more damage to the wallet.

It was damn cheap. This year there was more business books which delighted mr hubby. Lots of Nigella's and Jamie's recipes book. Though I have promised myself not to buy any recipe book anymore, but I felt guilty not to buy at least one coz it's cheap. So I bought one. No self control at all!

This is the books we managed to grab:


The damage: only RM 307 for 34 books! Totally worth it..

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Extra fat in the tummy

This week in office:

Colleague: Mun, are you pregnant? *looking at my stomach*
Me: Nooo... This is just rice *sob sob*

Today after family dinner:

Niece: Cik Ngah mengandung ke?
Me: Eh, tak lah..
Niece: tipu la cik ngah, perut cik ngah besar...
Me: Waaaahhh.. *lari balik*

Though I will be sooo happy if I'm really pregnant but people assuming I'm pregnant by looking at my tummy is sooooo frustrating.

Really need to lose this annoying extra fat... Arghhh..

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What do you collect when traveling?

I'm sure all of you who love to travel will collect some memorabilia when traveling. Some collect t-shirst, newspaper, snow globes, fridge magnet, maps, mugs and so on. From all of this, we chose the easiest, cheapest, lightest and small memento which is fridge magnet. I know it is so common but the beauty of fridge magnet is it is light, wouldn't add any weight to our luggage, easily found, cheap- most important when you travel to countries where the exchange rate is high and the best part is, you can turn anything to fridge magnet by just adding the magnet.

Still got empty place. Means more travel! Hehe

This is a pin  that I put a magnet on.

Front view..

We started to collect fridge magnet when we were traveling in US. At that time we were considered hardcore poverty by the US government, therefore we usually travel using as minimal expense as possible. Even though we wanted to save the money, souvenirs from each destination that we went is a must. That's why we choose fridge magnet.

Besides that, I also collect Hard Rock Cafe pin. These pins have turned into magnet too. See I told you, sometimes when you go to some place, you can't find magnet. All you see are key chains and pins. What I do is I will buy the pin or key chains stick a magnet behind it, walla! it's a magnet. It'll be unique coz nobody has that magnet.

The collection so far..

Another best part of magnet is that since it is not expensive, we able to buy many. So instead of just buy one for a destination, we usually buy the magnet according to the places we've been. For example instead of just buy one magnet for San Francisco, we bought 1 magnet from Fisherman's Wharf, 1 from Alcatraz and 1 from Golden Gate bridge. Every specific places that we went, we would bought one. I love it coz the design from each places is unique and very much specific what are the interesting part of that.

Other than that, Zainal collected Coke bottles and cans. Coke from different part of the world are quite unique in their own packaging which is very interesting. My favourite Coke can is the one that have Duke logo when Duke won the NCAA in 2010. Precious.

Coke congratulating Duke becoming NCAA 2010 National Champion

Of course we also like to keep all the papers that involved in the travel process. From maps, itinerary, tickets, subway tickets and cards. I actually wanted to do a scrap book with all that, but it never materialised. I only managed to do New York trip, then everything was trashed into a file. A fat and bulging file. Hai.. don't think the scrap book will be happened anytime soon.

All the paper memorabilia

That pink file having problem containing all of these

So what is your collection?