Ramblings of a Mami of Two

.... there were a lot of tears, heart aches, lonely nights, but I laughed more, I have been happier, I was loved, my nights have never felt warmer, that the tears felt like a mere dust in a beach. Happy Seventh Anniversary, my dear Husband. I just noticed I have no picture of us on our Anniversary. Sobs. 

(and 2 months, give and take) had passed since I first wrote on aChieaJanie. This was my first post: bla bla bla for my first entry yang tak tau jadi ke tak..heheh..yeayyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!dah jadiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!!!!!bley laa mengumpat orang lepas ni...=)muahaha....nanti orang kate aku suke ngumpat laks...tak ler..tipu je..tapi yang betul2nyer...aku sangat sukaaaa sebab ade bende nih...muahaha ntah nape ntah.. Can you feel my excitement? Hehe. I was clearly VERY excited as evidenced by the amount of exclamation marks in one paragraph. I don't remember what prompted me to start blogging, but I think it had a lot to do with the facts that: it was summer and I didn't have much to do;  I had a programmer boyfriend who spent 90% of his time in front of the laptop, coding; I was kinda good with Photoshop and felt like I wanted to use it for something other than airbrushing my pimples and making my skin glow more than it actually did; Blogging was a trend back then...

I have been cracking my head in the past one month for sweet things to write and do for our fifth anniversary. Honestly, I have no idea what to say or how to describe my feelings or how to describe the past five years that both of us have gone through. The experience, the feeling, the whole journey, everything, they are indescribable.  No words could express how thankful I am to Allah for sending me this man, for giving me this life, for giving us this passion (and patience), to live with each other.  Saya penyepah, husband saya pengemas.  Saya tak romantic langsung, husband saya memang romantic gila.  Saya pandai masak gulai lemak cili api, husband saya punya asam pedas to die for.  Saya suka lauk melayu, husband saya prefer simple food.  Saya suka terhegeh-hegeh, husband saya selalu remind saya to be on time.  Saya basuh pinggan, husband saya lipat baju.  Saya mop lantai, husband saya tebang pokok.  Saya siapkan breakfast every mo...

As I told ya last week , its the year of Appliances. On the 7th, when I got home from work, Kimi ran at me and ajak aku naik atas to our bedroom. Ach jerit "Kimiiii jangan bawak mami naik atas!" while giving him the death stare. Kimi cepat2 cover and said, "takde ape ape mami.. jom turun balik jom." Gelak besar aku. That night, we took mak for dinner at Sekinchan Ikan Bakar. Before we left the house, Ach gave me a heavy box, an envelope, a kiss on the cheek and said, Happy Anniversary. Kimi pun sibuk-sibuk, kissed me and said, "beytu mami!", that's I love you too mami in his language. I brought the box into the car, Kimi cakap, mami bukak la sekarang. Bukak, kimi nak tengok. I opened the box, and got this black thingy. Ach kata its a power surge protector. So I ws like, oh okay. Maybe I need this in my house. Yeay! Thanks husband! We ate ikan bakar, got home, I gave ach a power drill, because I know he wants to  DIY a lot of things  whe...

Selamat ulangtahun untuk kami. Kalau anniversary kami macam movies series , kawan nak guna tajuk post kali ni sebagai judulnya, curi idea daripada Scream series . Alhamdulillah dah 4 tahun kami bersama, moga berkekalanlah bahagia hendaknya sampai bila-bila. Macam tahun lepas , tahun ni kawan dan Ajan dah sediakan beberapa post sempena anniversary kami tahun ni.  Tahun lepas, kawan ada kongsikan timeline kisah kami berdua, dari mula kawan kenal Ajan sampailah ke jinjang pelamin. Tahun ni kawan sempat lakarkan graf untuk mengambarkan serba sedikit kisah tentang Ajan sepanjang sembilan tahun kawan kenal Ajan, dari masa dia masih single hingga dah hidup bahagia bertiga sekeluarga. graph of ajan Kalau dulu di masa awal perkenalan, kami ber-saya-awak saja, tapi sejak mula bercinta, kawan panggil Ajan bie/babes dan masih kekal sampai sekarang. Dan sejak ada Kimi ni, kadang-kadang kawan panggil Ajan mami . Satu fakta menarik tentang Ajan ialah dia sangat bangga jadi ana...

Ya Allah, Thank you for the wonderful four years you have given us. Thank you for a wonderful child that has brought us closer than I had ever imagined we could ever be, Thank you for the many fights, the unspoken wraths, the silent days and nights, But most important of all, thank you for blessing me with someone to fight with, And to make it up for. Ya Allah, Please bless this little family of mine, Please let us be like this till the end of time, For I cannot bear to be apart from the ones I love. Ya Allah, Please forgive me for all the wrong things I’ve done, Please do not let this family suffer from my sins, Please shower us with your mercy and your love, For I love this family more than I love myself. Ya Allah, It has been four wonderful years, Please let there be many, many more wonderful years for us. I love this family more than I love myself.

Ya Allah, Dialah cahaya hidupku, Yang membawa aku jauh dari kegelapan yang menyedihkan, Dialah kebahagiaanku. Ya Allah, Dialah semangatku, Yang tak pernah putus asa dengan aku, Dialah pendukung aku. Ya Allah, Dialah gelak tawaku, Di saat aku duka, Dialah kegembiraanku. Ya Allah, Dialah teman aku, Dialah suamiku. Ya Allah, Berkatilah suamiku, Rahmatilah suamiku, Murahkanlah rezeki suamiku, Jauhkanlah suamiku dari dukacita yang menyakitkan, Kurniakanlah dia kebahagian seperti mana dia membahagiakan aku. Ya Allah, Andainya aku yang terbaik untuk suamiku, Jadikanlah aku isteri yang baik Jadikanlah aku isteri yang solehah Kerana aku ingin membahagiakan dia seperti mana dia membahagiakan aku. Happy 29th Birthday, Dearest Husband. Love, Wifey aChieaJanie, 3rd June 2011, Impiana KLCC

Whoa. Four years. Yeah, our fourth anniversary is coming soon. According to Wiki , (try googling for Wedding Anniversary), fourth year is the year of Appliances. Last year's was leather.Last year, Ach gave me seven handbags. Yeap, you read that right, SEVEN. One handbag a day up to the anniversary day itself. Didn't blog about it for fear of sounding too happy macam kanak2 ribena or monyet dapat bunga. You see, I dont like to spend my money buying bags (branded or non branded, sama je). The last time  I bought a branded bag (not designer bag) was hmmm, 4 years ago. Tak sampai hati nak belanja RM500 for a piece of leather. Ada some of the bags yang aku gantung je dalam almari sebab sayang nak guna. Business Card Holder that Ach use as hiw wallet till now Anyways, yeah, this year's theme is Appliances. Kalau ikut traditional gifts its linen / silk, tapi since we are we are planning to move into a new house next year, appliance...

Being me, I like to give Ach handmade cards. Quite unfortunate for Ach, since I am the least artistic person he will ever meet, he would have to settle with sloppy handmade cards. Hihihi. So our anniversary gave me another opportunity to make one of those cards. Initially I wanted to make either beaded cards or quilled cards , tapi both projects sound too difficult and time-consuming. FYI, I had done both cards and oo em ji I wouldn't wanna do it again. Then I decided to make a felt card. Then ding dong ding dong I decided to make an anniversary story booklet instead of a card, and I'd use felt for the cover. I am brilliant  I tell yah. Next challenge is how to tell our story in few pages. Since I am not the world's best artist, kimi prolly draws better than I do, I have decided to use existing Love is... strips that would fit into my storyline. Gigih ni aku cari satu-satu and edit dekat photoshop. I hope they don't take legal action against me.  Lepas dah jump...

Honestly, I'm running out of romantic mushy mushy words to use here. I gotta start reading more Nicholas Sparks books, I guess. The Wedding was a good start. By the way, it's our 3rd Anniversary today. Time flies when you're having fun. For the past week we've written about us ( a bit too much, sometimes? Kimi wont have any problems telling our grandkids about us ), how we met, what we did... The only thing I think I should write but did not is " Why him ". 'Cause I don't know why. It just feels right. He makes me feel good. Don't ask me how and in what ways, because I don't know. He just knows me. In and out. Like the back of his hands. Better than I know myself. It feels like, if anything happens to me, he wouldn't leave me high and dry. I feel safe with him. Oh well. Too bad you ladies out there, he's taken. He's mine. He loves me. And I love him too. =)

Posting kali ni masih pasal kisah kami dulu-dulu. Cerita pasal salah satu aktiviti yang kami suka buat bersama. Masa kami mula-mula rapat dulu kami selalu abiskan banyak masa dengan aktiviti inner nerd kami, berphotoshop. Agak lame kan. Kawan memang agak incline untuk suka pada art sejak dari kecil lagi. Kawan mula guna photoshop ni dari zaman sekolah lagi. Jadi tahu lah serba-sikit pasal photo editing ni. Ajan pulak pada masa tu baru nak mula berjinak-jinak berphotoshop. Jadi, kawan ambillah peluang masa tu untuk kongsi serba-sikit apa yang kawan tahu. Sebenarnya tu cuma alasan kawan untuk spend masa dengan Ajan. Masa tu kawan dapat perasan yang dia ni sangat fast learner . Sampai satu masa tu, Ajan lagi banyak kongsi tips & trick Photoshop ni. Dia memang tak pernah gagal impress kawan dengan teknik baru, short-cut baru. Time tu kawan pulak yang segan, anak murid lagi hebat dari cikgu. Ajan pulak yang ajar kawan pasal Pen Tool, Brushes, dan macam-macam lagi. Masa setahu...

Since our first date , ach and I were unofficially an item. By unofficial I mean, ach never said " Jom kita couple !". We just got closer and closer, and sorta assumed that we're dating. Our dates were just like normal dates. Dinner, movies. Nothing out of ordinary.  We usually went to Crossgates Mall, beli ticket movie, pegi Johnny Rockets makan chilly fries, Route 66 and minum strawberry milkshake. My favorite dating spot would have to be Prospect Park. There was this one summer, I cant recall which one, we ordered chinese take out and makan dekat park. Lepas tu we just spent hours there, buat hal masing-masing. That was when you've been spending a lot of time with each other  that we could even enjoy each other's companion even when we're doing our own things in the same room. Paham ke? On special occassions (birthdays, anniversaries) we'd go to Outback Steakhouse. Makan roti tah ape name. Sampai harini I still crave for that roti. Nasib baik it...

Semalam Ajan dah tulis kisah date pertama kami, salah satu milestone besar dalam perhubungan kami. Banyak lagi milestone sepanjang kawan mengenali Ajan ni dan kawan baru sedar yang kronologi kisah cinta kami berdua tak berapa jelas. Jadi kawan rasa Anniversary Week kali ni merupakan masa terbaik untuk ingat kembali macam mana uda bertemu dara, mula bercinta, ke jinjang pelamin.. macam tipikal kisah cinta.. 2002 Spring: Kali pertama kawan duduk semeja dan berborak dengan Ajan. Masa tu di Common Dining Hall. Memang tradisi, freshmen belanja senior makan disitu. Fall: Ajan hantar email ke komuniti MASA RPI, minta tolong uruskan logistik RPI International Fest. Kawan reply dan offer untuk tolong Ajan. Dari situ kami mula rapat. Winter: Date pertama kami. 2003 Spring: Moving ahead from "hanya kawan" dan mula spend lebih masa bersama. Winter: Kami pulang ke Malaysia untuk cuti musim sejuk. Pada malam new year, pertama kali kawan berjumpa keluarga Ajan. Kawan ke ruma...

5th December 2002 It was the last day of Ramadhan. I was a freshman. He was a sophomore. "Ajan dah bukak puasa?" "Dah buka dekat Commons tadi." "Jom teman Amal buka puasa. " "Boleh gak. Ajan tunggu kat bawah." I called myself Ajan. He called himself Amal. It was winter, it was cold. I was wearing my favorite Applemint black tank with my favorite grey cardigan. He was wearing his dark blue long sleeve with yellow stripes. Not one of my favorites. It was still too early to have favorites, anyways. He came to pick me up. I saw his Putra from my room window. Cary 304. I met him downstairs, near the dump bin belakang Cary Hall I grabbed the only handbag I had, a denim Marie Claire handbag. I rushed down the stairs. He said hi. I smiled and said hi back. He opened the car door for me. I thought he was charming. We arrived at Shalimar 15 minutes later. I ordered chicken vindaloo with naan, he ordered chicken tikka masala with plain...

7 December 2007, rasa macam baru je semalam kawan dan Ajan get married . Macam tak percaya, diam-tak-diam dah hampir 3 tahun kami bergelar suami isteri. Minggu depan, genaplah 3 tahun perkahwinan kami. Cepat betul masa berlalu. Orang kata ' time flies when you’re having fun '. Betullah tu, tiga tahun ni kami betul-betul rasa gembira! Kami rasa nak berkongsi kegembiraan kami di sini, kawan dan Ajan akan dedikasikan seminggu ini untuk berkongsi cerita kami berdua sebagai suami-isteri. Welcome to our " Anniversary Week " . Sebelum tu, biar kawan imbas kembali apa yang berlaku 3 tahun lepas. Setelah lebih setahun bertunang, kami pilih untuk melangsungkan perkahwinan pada 7 December, satu hari selepas hari lahir kawan yang ke 25. Ikut Nabi Muhammad SAW kawin diusia 25 tahun :). Akad nikah dijalankan pada kira-kira pukul 10 malam 7 December, di rumah Ajan, di Gombak. Kawan dinikahkan oleh abang Ajan, Banglang dengan abang dan adik Ajan sebagai saksi, Bangcik dan Shaf...

On the Wedding Okayy I know the Wedding was three months ago, I knowww its kinda already basi to talk abt it.. But still.... the blog wouldnt be complete without updates on the newly-weds. So anyways... I hope its not too late to thank all of you, close friends and cousins mousins for coming to the wedding. Oh, and thanks for the presents too. You guys made me feel loved. aaaawwwwwwwwww.... =) Special thanks to NadZawTam for being an AWESOME pengapit. Dudes I cant believe you made me laughed in the middle of akad nikah. Everything about the wedding was gorgeous. Makeup was awesome. Pictures turned out awesome too. OMG there are too many things to puji I dont even know which one to write. To list a few, these are the ppl who made all the beautiful things happen: Pelamin & Meja Makan - Cahaya Bridal Wedding dress - One of the boutiques at Semua House, I forgot the name. Makeup - Sharifah Murianna, SACC Mall Pictures - Udey and Jay, candidsyndrome Caterer...