It’s Xmas eve, yo!!! Time for the Xmas dinner and pressies!!
Looking forward for tonight, dinner with family… I hope that everyone is having their own happy way of celebrating Xmas. Be it on 24th evening; or 25th evening, I think this is one of the many families holidays in the year.
This year, there is no Xmas tree in our houses (either in Nancy or Brussels). Better one next year I hope 
Hope that everyone is having a great Xmas celebration or if you’re not, at least enjoy the Xmas decorations and the hustle and bustle of people shopping out there!!
Ho ho ho!!
SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDIL FITRI!!!
This year we didn’t make a personalized raya card 
Lack of time, lack of nice photos and lack of motivation.
Time flies, and suddenly it’s already hari raya. However, I managed to cook a little bit for myself. Lucky I found some leftover ketupat mini Adabi and rempah rendang Ayam brand. Otherwise, hmm don’t feel like cooking.
But then had a great time spending a Saturday with the malaysian students. This is something that I never regret. They are bunch of funny and happy people. I’m grateful to be accepted amongst them. Otherwise, tomorrow, Sylvain and I will be going to the Malaysian Embassy Hari Raya Open House in Paris. Hope that there are great food. Mmmm… My parents in law will be joining us too! This is the first time for us. I didn’t know the people there that well. I still have my baju kurung from last Raya in Malaysia, that was in 2001. That time hari raya was in December! I remember that I have a nice green baju kebaya. I like to wear it. I think it is at my parents house at Kota Tinggi.
Anyways, hope that it’s not too chilly. More report after tomorrow 
Hope everything goes well tomorrow. The train schedules are a bit tricky. Again, Selamat Hari Raya and Maaf Zahir Batin.
I have been meaning to write about supersticious for some time because this topic is in my mind in and out and in again.
I hate being supersticious..I don’t like to lead my life with some untrue beliefs. But despite of all my efforts, I’m still supersticious. I believe that something that I do, or said could lead to something else. Some things or some actions could lead to certain luck or events.
Take a simple supersticious - it is bad luck to open an umbrella indoor. I am well aware that it is not true, it is because it’s dangerous that opening umbrella indoors may injure someone. But still I will never open an umbrella indoors. I know! Crazy right?
I won’t walk pass under scaffoldings, or under ladder.. I look at black cats with suspicions…
Sometimes I even invent a superstition of my own. A classic nyanya’s superstition is perfume. A perfume can give me luck or the opposite. For example, if I wore a perfume and something bad happened, I swear that I will lay my hands off that perfume. Eventhough it is a very expensive perfume and I just wore it once. But if I wore a perfume and it brings me good days, not so much good luck, I will wear it over and over again, and buy it again until they didn’t produce it anymore.
I like to try on another perfume, but I always have this dilemma when I took this new bottle of perfume and thinking do I want to risk my good day today? I know! Crazy!
Problem is, my so-called good perfume has finished.. So I must put on new perfume tomorrow. We’ll see what will happen. Wish me luck!
Nowadays, with time flies so fast, so many things to handle, crisis here and there.. we tend to forget to acknowledge. It’s very easy to ask for something, but not to acknowledge when you get what you want. Acknowledgement can be done easily by a simple “Thank you”. Even the acknowledge word itself can be used. For example, I acknowledge your help in fixing my computer.
People tend to shy away when they acknowledge someone. I’m sure that if you do something good to someone, deep down, that person appreciate your kindness. But knowing this is not enough. We must acknowledge the helping hands to know that they are appreciated. In other word, we must voice out our appreciation of someone. Don’t assume that the person knows you thank him/her. Voice out. Say Thank you often. Even for no reason. Just say thank you.
Thinking back, I did not grow up in an acknowledgement environment. We just “know” that our parents are happy. We assume that they are proud of us. We assume that they know how much we love them and appreciate what they have done. Voicing out is not a thing in our house.
Being in France, I found that people acknowledge other people very often. The word “Merci” overflows everywhere. In the house, in the shops, at dinner table, at work, at school.
I blame it on the language. In Malaysia, it’s hard to say “Terima Kasih”. It’s not like “Merci”, or “Thanks” or “Ta” or “Danke” or “Grazie”. So you see… one word is the key. Is this true? or am I just looking for a reason.
But what about Japanese.. they have “Arigato Gozaimasu”. And any other languages?
Anyway, in whatever languages they are. We should never forget to acknowledge people surrounding us. Make them know that you appreciate them. Once you appreciate people, people will appreciate you back.
Start acknowledge now!
I think I’ve written a gratitude entry some time ago.
But after reading Mr. AZ’s blog where he listed out 10 gratitude items, made me wanna do my list too.
Here it goes 10 things I’m grateful for today:
1) Having to see the day starts and ends, living and breathing
2) My families who are at the moment scattered all over the world and doing god knows what, but still we managed to catch up with each other
3) Having my supportive husband who still can survive living with and without me (*^^*)
4) Gaining income doing what I like and what I do best
5) Having friends whenever I need them
6) All the technologies that I use today to keep me company, in touch, amuse and that life is not so much a boredom. MSN, Skype, Facebook, iPhone, Twitter, PC, Youtube and many more!
7) My new nephew (and his bro and sis) photos!!!
8 ) Shops for my retail therapy
9) Food glorious food
10) Musics and songs that serve various purposes - to start the day, to remind me of good times, to give hope.
Thank you.
Hey peeps!!!!
July last year I wrote about regretting for not going to BSB concert
Well, guess what???
I’m going this year baby!!!!! and double slam wham bam… the BSB concert in Belgium is on my birthday!!! Swweeettttt….
Being a fan of BSB on Facebook really paid off.. so that is something good coming out of Facebook! hehehe
I saw their posting about announcing European tour dates and I straight went on the ticketonline website and bought the tix..
And gues what?!!! triple slam wham baammm…. there will be 5 of us! yes we are more than BSB themselves hahahaha… yipppiiee yaayyy!!!
Now I’m waiting for their new album to come out
(p.s: almost bought NKOTB album on iTune)
I ran again after work today. Something wierd happened… Someone wanted to hi5 me. Whadeheelll… But it is good I think because it is not easy to run around one of the famous lake in Brussels. You have people passing by, picnic-ing, traffics. So you are either very healthy or like me, just wear my thick skin and run! So I think joggers supporting each other is an energy booster.
So hi5 back to ya!
Brussels is a city of jogging. Everywhere you go in Brussels, you will encounter a jogger. I don’t know what inspire these people to jog. Is it a belgian thing? or just in Brussels? Anyway, after 5 months living in Brussels, I finally get over the “shyness” to run. Yes, today I jog. Honestly, I don’t know what to call the thing that I did. It is more like small jog. I won’t say run because I am far off from running. It is like I am lifting my feet and stay at the same spot! I started off jogging around the lake. By almost 2 rounds of the lake and merely 10 minutes, I’m kaput. I think my face is all red and I wouldn’t surprise if someone approach me and tell me I need to stop coz I look like I’m going to faint LOL
Then I walked back, then get the urge to run a big more. So I went around a block…twice, mind you. Then I’ve completed 1hr of exercise.
I don’t know in what state my body will be tomorrow. Hope that it is not too shocked. I wish I could run again tomorrow. I had my iphone on me. Good musics motivates you to move along…
Hope for the best….
Been there last year… this time I just enjoyed the city after stressful day…
The 5-hour train ride is painless when you have good entertainment, food and drinks…
