What. A. Year.
Just when we thought 2020 will be awesome as there will be flying cars everywhere cough uhuk cough, the Wawasan 2020 manthra that we heard about since we were kid, and yet much bigger thing came into our lives.
It is called Covid-19, and everything changed.
January
This is when some of us already heard about the virus spread in Wuhan. i was one of them, kept myself updated with the news from the MSN article in my office every morning, as i was fascinated how something i watched in KMovie is actually happen in real world (referring to "Flu" K-Movie).
While many of us didnt have a chance to go oversea this year, somehow i managed to go to Singapore at the end of January with the kids (we planned this since Dec19 pre-covid). During that time, Malaysia have like 2 or 3 cases only, and so do Singapore. Were contemplated whether to cancel the trip but somehow we still went there haha, with mask on, hand sanitizer and zero of using MRT.
The trip went great as there were less people already, I've never went to USS with that kind of crowds - i mean no crowd lol. We managed to covered 100% of the rides without queueing and by the time we went to our hostel, the Grab driver told us that Singapore will close the border at 12am. Gulp. But never the less, we had fun and Alhamdulillah, nothing bad happened and semua sihat sihat, and little that we know that it was our last oversea trip for the year.
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| mask on |
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| see how kosong USS was |
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| seems like no one in front of Shrek's palace as well |
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| & here were it started; picture with mask on the chin hmmmm |
February
My parent were suppose to go to Mekah for Umrah, with my aunts, uncles and cousins, but on the morning of 28th Feb, there were news from Saudi yang akan tutup their border so dekat rumah lagi kitaorang dah macam .. still boleh fly ke tak ni? the news was fresh from oven sampaikan even the travel agency haven't received the notice yet. So pangpungpang the mutawif ask us to still go to airport since no notice yet and the early morning flight was granted to fly (parents flight was on the evening side), but after 8hours waiting at KLIA, the trip was cancelled ultimately. Kesian jugak la dengan all the jemaah umrah, some of them are from Perlis, Kedah so dah halfway to KL and now had to go back home. But at the same time, i was quite relief sebab we heard the morning flight need to u-turn back to Malaysia as imigresent wont allowed them to enter, lagi haruuu weh naik flight back and forth for the long journey.
Also, Malaysia has changed the government (again!) but tak sempat nak bising mana lah on the politics, Covid19 cases spiked really fast in Malaysia and people focus are no longer on this.
March
By the mid of March (18th of March), things had started to shift. Malaysia announced our own first total lockdown (MCO). From there, everything were either cancelled or postponed, we need to work at home, we no longer dine-in outside but had deliveries instead, and yadada yada.
As for our family, we heard a bad news where my uncle was positive Covid19 and was intubated in ICU (we learned that he's the first Malaysia case for intubation for Cov19). Since masa tu case were still not that bad, we did received quite of number of update from the doctors in HKL sebab sekarang ni dengar cerita doctors cant even update the family members on the condition due to so many patient in ICU. Alhamdulillah after 2months plus, he's survived and now is as healthy as before.
April - Jun
At this point, I was still fairly optimistic that this could be back to normal. But as March melded into April, and April faded into May and so on, it was obvious that COVID-19 wasn't going to just disappear, and we just need to embrace and get used to the new norm.
We even had our Cov-Eid on May, everyone cant went hometown due to sekatan negeri for Hari Raya Aidil Fitri, and mosques were not open for the prayers. Fortunately, our family members are all staying in the same neighbourhood so we did have our own family gathering for Solat Raya and simple makan makan. Definitely felt different as no one sleepover at our home on Malam Raya, no friends or relatives are coming to celebrate together but Alhamdulillah, still a happy Eid for us.
On June, i was informed that my Hajj was officially cancelled, so does the whole world. To be honest, i kind of expected it since March lagi. But thats okay, always believe in Allah’s plan. Kalau Dia dah kata kita bukan tetamu nya, cukupla duit dalam tabung haji macam mana pon, dapatla offer letter macam mana pon, is He says no, means no. Takde rezeki lagi.
July - Oct
The restriction are being uplifted slowly as our case even become 0 on July. wowwww gilaaa kan? Eventhough for a very short time, but we managed to go for a local trip to several states - Port Dickson, Melaka, Ipoh, Perak and Genting Highlands, Pahang, Terengganu and Kelantan during this time .. until the case spikes again like nobody business.
November - December
We are back to work from home, stay at home situation, but it was really not effective anymore. As we couldn't longer hold on the economic situation, the strict lockdown couldn't be implemented but rather "KitaJagaKita" approached where the netz should adhere the SOP while living a new norm (which i dont think really works). Nothing much happened during the last month of the year except it was my birthday on December haha.
On thoughts of my 31st Birthday, the few days before the day i was really bad mood. Tak tahu la kenapa, is like i dont like being 31 years old. Haha. Macam why so old maaaaaaaaan? My intention this year was not to let people know when my birthday is, i want to keep it by myself no celebration no present puhlease, so i was reluctant when my mom ask what i want to eat so she can ask my family to celebrate, and i was being very moody the whole week lololol.
But seems like my friends doesnt give a damn about it, i got a lot of surprise deliveries from my friends. i still received surprise present as at this week lol. Thank you all for the thoughts and loves, belanja makan, cakes, handbags, facial set, perfume, flower, sushi delivery, ice cream delivery, Jovian mask, tote bags. i appreciated it very much. Sayanggg lebihhhh.
video was made on the 1st Dec, hence some of the present were not included. sorry guys.