Plan Aborted

Initially I really look forward for today. I woke up feeling cheery, put on my best baju kurung, and I was soo glad that I had a good-skin day today. You see, I was supposed to attend this programme in Serdang later in the afternoon, thus, I had it all planned out-
3.00 – 6.00 pm - Programme in Serdang
6.00 pm onwards - Meet Hidayah a.k.a. HA (as I referred her to in my previous posts)
Afterwards - ML to join us.

Hidayah is my very good friend back to the days when both of us were freshies in UPM. Now she is pursuing her Ph.D in Japan and I haven’t seen her for quite sometimes, I guess since last February. So now, she is back in Malaysia for a short-one-week break and we hope to meet up at least once before I tie the knot. However, our schedules were incredibly crazy, and the fact that I live in Setapak and she resides in Dengkil made it more difficult for us to meet up more often.

So when I got this memo that I had to attend this programme in Serdang, I was so excited as I could arrange my work and personal schedule at the same time. And I would definitely feel bad if I could not make it since all this while Hidayah has always made it a point to keep in touch with me even if we are thousands miles apart.

Her persistence to always be in touch is the main thing help us to keep up our friendship till today. I guess I could say that we never grew apart despite of the distance and time factor. We constantly speak with each other over the phone (thanks to Skype!) to update about the going-ons in our lives, what we been through, current issues..practically everything under the sun! Hidayah is the friend that I could really confide about my feelings, fears, insecurites etc.. and she's a very good listener as well.

I don't have that many close friends, but I'm glad that I have her as my friend. Upon graduation, we lead our own lives. Whilst I jump into the working life, Hidayah completed her Master's Degree and we hardly see each other anymore after that, most of our communication is either through phone call or e-mail. But we made it a point to meet every now and then for a girls’ day-out.

Then she continues her studies in Japan and I joined this *TD scheme, which took up most of my time. However, being a dear friend, Hidayah never failed to keep in touch. We either spend hours on the phone, or writing long email to each other. Even when I was in a working trip to Taiwan and I was terribly home-sick by the second week, Hidayah kept me company by making the effort to call me at the hotel. So I guess she never missed anything that happens in my life.

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Back to my plan to meet up with her, around noon ML called to inform me that he won't be able to join us. Hmm..so I won't be able to introduce him to Hidayah then. So I had to cross out one thing from my 'mega' plan.

Then later in the afternoon, as I was about to leave to the office for Serdang, I got a last minute call to join a discussion in the office. I put my bag back on my desk and reluctantly, I told my other colleagues who were heading to the same event as well, to leave without me. So there goes my plan. My whole plan. To Hidayah, I'm really really sorry that I could not make it, I know you'll understand. "Rakyat didahulukan".

Shrewd

I’m easily irritated and annoyed. Period.

So I (we) had quite a tiring day yesterday. Got up at 4.30 a.m. in order to be at the Kuantan airport in time to catch the 6.50 a.m. flight. Then straight from KLIA we went for a dialogue session at the UN Building which lasted for about 3 hours.

So I went to the office haggard and decided to forgo lunch for a siesta. I woke up half and hour later, feeling a bit refresh and ready to kick back. But my high-spirit did not last for long as a few hours later this particular person came to my desk and asked me to pass this message to a colleague of mine - “Ask *** to make reservation at KLCC for ***, tapi bukan yang twin tower tu ya, the one near the taman,”

I was like OMG- a total annoyance! I’m not quite sure whether I should feel this way, as the message was meant for another person, but the way she said those words in bold – even though not directly meant to me – very annnoying and snobbish. It insulted my (our) intelligence. And I hate it when people do that.

Usually I don't like to blow our own trumpet =), but we had been organizing this particular event for years, at various places, once for almost 20,000 people. Yes there were flaws here and there, but for this person to think that we could not differentiate between KL Twin Tower, Suria KLCC and KL Convention Centre (KLCC)..oh please….

Getting There...

I went for a wedding last night in Merak Kayangan – yes they held the wedding reception on a working day. I didn’t know the reason they had it on Thursday night though, perhaps the place was fully booked during the weekend (I heard that you have to book at least a year ahead!) or it was because some other reason-significant date for the couple or stuff like that.

Anyway, I don’t intend to elaborate on the wedding, it was just that on our way there, ML said something to my great astonishment..

He said, “Tinggal 100 hari lagi before our wedding..’”
I said “ Is it true? OH MY GOD!”

~ silent-fumbling with the buttons on my kebaya batik. I always do that whenever I was nervous, angry, anxiety~

I asked him “ Are you sure, really..really sure?”
~Dumb question, as if I didn’t have a calendar, or just recover from short term memory lost. ~

But instead of questionning my absent-minded respond, ML being ML, so patiently he began calculating the days and the months for me oh-so-patiently and guess what, he was almost right.We got exactly 104 days before our wedding!

I'm getting wedding-jitters already..For the record, I do want to marry him =) I was just nervous because there are too many things to do, but too little time and resources..This is not like organizing for any other work-related-event, this is a personal and intimate function I must say for me, him and everyone who loves us.