Bleargh

Okay, it’s getting a little annoying this, posting, re-posting, re-booting and whatever. What’s wrong Mr Server Dude??

I can’t even be bothered to correct one grammatical error I found in the previous post… although, it does bother me a bit. Dang.

So anyways.

Last weekend, a group of us from Sabah took a road trip up north to Perlis.

It was for DK and Hafiz’s wedding kenduri, so I joined in the Sabah rombongan (we took a bus which was named "Dayangti", how apt!) to make things merrier. Aiseh, perasan.

Anyways, HH was also on the "tour" so it was okay. Her mum was there too, and many other aunts, uncles, a few cousins and a niece.

Understandably, going to the northmost state in the peninsula from KL would take a LOOOONG time. It took us almost eight hours really, only because we stopped quite a number of times and for long periods too. I think if we had only stopped twice, we would have reached Perlis much earlier, but it’s alright, it was a fun ride nevertheless.

We stayed at the private residence of the Perlis Menteri Besar (he currently stays at his state/official home). There were more than 30 of us in the group so a few stayed at a nearby hotel, but the bulk of us stayed at the house on Jalan Tembusu (hahaha) in Jejawi/Kangar. If you’re thinking of a huge mansion, you’re wrong. It was actually two separate houses situated on one property.

So okay enough of the boring stuff.

The next day, we went to the groom’s parents’ house. We had great food and were given special treatment since we were "special guests who came ALL THE WAY from Sabah". Ahem :P  It’s not incorrect what…

DK and Hafiz looked great in their er, I wanna say lilac-ky, lavendar-y baju… (in print, it’s really not a macho colour for a guy, but it looks good in real life and in pics heh).

How cool is this? The cake is made from nasi minyak or nasi kuning or whatever you call it, and it is decorated with mashed potatoes, cherry tomatoes, cucumber and parsley. I forgot to eat it though haha. I’m sure it was good, since everything else that day was yummy. Mmm….

There are more pics, and if you know me, you’ll know where to find them

Ah, it must be Christmas.

I just lost a pretty long entry that I had written earlier, but didn’t manage to save before the computer hung. And I’ve been trying to re-post this for the past two hours but have been unsuccessful (bloody server down the whole day!). But I’m still a-okay — bar the cursing though hehe.

Maybe because the entry wasn’t so hot. Or maybe it’s because Christmas and the New Year are beckoning so it’s good to forgive and forget.

Or maybe because I’m so hyped up on sugar and caffeine… I do seem to be skipping a lot these past two days.

OR,

maybe because as of yesterday, there’s basically nothing for me to do at work…

Well, not really NOTHING, but I don’t have to worry about daily pullouts anymore, at least for about five to six weeks. Yay!

Also, yesterday we put up our Christmas trees at work. I brought my trusty old tree from home because I decided to do red and white this year, so I bought a new one (a smaller one, though). That white tree has been up for two weeks and yet I’m still adding ornaments to it.

So anyways, back to the trees at the office. We have two this year because I wouldn’t allow any other colour apart from blue/white/silver on the big tree, and the rest were not too happy about that and decided to put up the smaller tree and add all their stuff on that. Both trees look great, so it’s all good!

Besides, we have the space for more than two trees anyway, and our office is on the first floor (so we get loads more visitors than the others on the higher floors), so show off a bit lah.

I haven’t been buying presents though, or even made a list of things to buy. But since I still have presents from last Christmas which have yet to be picked up by friends, I figured this time I would only get presents for those who actually need things.

I was also thinking of sending stuff back home to my family (no cousins though, heh sorry!), since I have never done that before in the 11 years I’ve been in KL. It’s okay, I always make up for it during Chinese New Year

I sent a big package to KK recently for some of the younger kids, and for my mum, dad and sister.

Unfortunately, I forgot about ONE nephew! You see, that’s the thing about having 13 nieces and nephews, you always forgot one person.

The poor kid had just gotten his UPSR results too, kesian… What a bad aunty I am

Oh well, he’ll get a gift in the mail soon enough.