Trip Kak Long: Sipadan Jul 2017

Bismillah,

After 3 years, I finally went back to Sipadan with a new bunch of friends. It was not that difficult to arrange the trip since I'm already familiar with the flow and I'm so happy that these peeps were such a sport that we had a great laugh throughout the trip.

It was just the same as my previous trips to Sipadan; arrived Friday night, 3 dives on Saturday and snorkeling on Sunday since we took the last flight on Sunday night. I still want to put this on my blog because it was such a great trip that we straight away planned a camping trip in August.

O ya, we applied the RM 1 penalty to anyone who initiated conversation about work and this worked well! This proves that we are actually still able to connect with each other without talking about work fuuuhhhh....

When we arrived that morning

Luckily we took this picture quickly during registration upon arrival. DC and LH had a really bad motion sickness after our first dive and we had to wait for them to get a little better before we continue our next dive.

When they got better... Pink again~

UNO Spin

AJ insisted for DC to bring this game over and it definitely added more fun to this trip! We were, perhaps, the noisiest group that weekend. None of us knew how to play it that we spent about 20 minutes to figure it out and once we did, all of us switched on our competitive mode except for AJ! Hahaha 

On our last day

The current was very strong on both days. On the last day, I was pushed to the bottom of the boat and was stuck there for a few seconds. I tried to kick myself away from the boat and had to do it a few times before I succeed. I was already thinking of releasing my life jacket since I was running out of breath. Luckily during that last kick, one of the DM saw me struggling and pulled me away from there. 

Back to Semporna safely

 Manage to safeguard my skin to minimal damage hehe thank you Korean beauty products! Z treated us with scrumptious seafood before our departure; like the most delicious ever! All of them took the picture of the restaurant's signboard because it was so good, they wanted to come again.

(^^)v

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New Template... For the umpteenth time~

Bismillah...

As a result of my unproductive day today, I decided to make some changes in my blogger template hahaha. This is the 9th year of its existence so lets just keep up with the latest trend of dynamic templates.

I've been using the basic templates for ages; just a little adjustment made to the themes sometimes but I always stick to Pink background. I'm not particularly a big fan of pink. I always love red more than pink but my mom said the colour red influenced my temper so she suggested that I go for softer colour and I've complied since then.

There are 7 styles in this dynamic template as you can see below the blog title. So you can freely choose how you want to view my blog. The picture shows the display when you click on Snapshot but for me, I found the Magazine style as the most convenient.


I seriously have no idea from where does the traffic of this blog come from since I haven't been too committed in updating it with anything trendy. I'm adhering to my conventional style and have no intention to make this blog sensational or discovered more than what it has achieved today. Anyway, thank you for becoming a loyal reader of this blog hahaha I hope this new template doesn't annoy you :p

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2017; On Parents~

Bismillah...

7 years after I graduated, most of my friends are already expecting their third child. And it's pretty normal to see my friends captioning their children's pictures with "Don't grow up too fast..."

Well, this is not a post about my desire to become a parent myself or anything. It's just that recently I had some conversation with my cousin and some friends about our parents..

"You know, my mom terasa betul bila I nda mau ia bayarkan makanan..."
*You know, my mom was so upset when I didn't want her to pay for our food (at a restaurant)*

"Aku stress betul bapa ku bagi hadiah yang nda di minta ni..."
*I'm so stressed that my dad gave me a gift that I didn't ask for*

"Bukan style aku bha ni mo meminta minta dari bapaku pulak.."
*I'm not the kind who ask money from my dad*

As we grow we actually don't want to trouble our parents that much anymore and tried to be independent. We try our best to settle our own problems, pay our bills and pay for their necessities as well. When I just started working, not being able to contribute to my parents can cause me a lot of stress. I feel so obliged to pay my 'debt'.

But I realized that even though we have turned into an adult who is able to manage our own life, our parents actually haven't lost their parenting instinct. I guess, it gives them peace of mind that we have grown so well. But deep down, they still want to feel they are needed.

It disturbed me at first when my Dad buy breakfast for me everyday, when the Milo jar is already refilled after I've just bought one because I'm always the one who finished it, when I keep getting my favourite Ayam Penyet even when I didn't ask for it, when I woke up late and my favorite Tapai and Rojak Johor is already served on the table etc etc...

I thought, I don't want to be treated like a kid anymore because it's my turn to give back.  And when I'm given something that I don't want at that given time, it will end up wasted. I tried to tell them that it's not necessary but the pampering continues~

After I noticed this pattern, I'm guessing that they just want to feel that they are still needed. Still a big part of their child's life although the child no longer fills them with the details of their life as much as before like in school

"Mommy, tadi kan si N kena marah cikgu~"

or ask them curious questions

"Kenapa rumah nenek ni nda cat?"

So these days, to avoid wastage, I'll come up with my wishlist beforehand. And my wishlist has always been FOOD...

And one more thing that I think that is very important to parents besides seeing their child land a good job and live a comfortable life is.... to see their child still embracing the good moral and spiritual values that they've instilled~

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