Recap of my 2020

 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.

mask on

see how kosong USS was

seems like no one in front of Shrek's palace as well

& here were it started; picture with mask on the chin hmmmm

goodbye Singapore .. for a long time maybe.

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.

after 8 hours waiting in KLIA

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.

solat raya with SOP 

sembang-sembang with SOP 

siblings minus sister at Germany.

the grandhildrens

yes, all of us are staying in the same neighbourhood / Taman perumahan

 hence we are not breaking any rules LOL.

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.

Port Dickson

Melaka

Ipoh, Perak

        

Pulau Kapas, Terengganu

Genting Highlands, Pahang

balik kampung, Kelantan

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.

so, thats it.

2020, a year where to remember.

As for my self, i did learn few things: Gratitude, Resilience and also Trust.

Be grateful on what we have, be resilience to every changes, and to trust Allah for all the things that happened, insya Allah jangan stress stress okay everyone. Hoping for a good 2021 since the vaccines are on their way, and we could get back to a better norms, Amin.

 

She's off too, guys

So, another best friend of mine who deserves a post too.

This one macam tak payah cerita la, one of a millions people who always makes my life easier, aside from kena layan demand dia :P

We were friends since 2009, my diploma and degree's roommates and along the waaaaay she becomes my primary school's friend as well -____-. I knew her friends, she knew my friends so it makes our life so much easier bila nak lepak haha.

There's so much stories to be told about her, she was beside me most of the times, during my ups and during my downs, we judged each other, we cursed each other, we have the same taste in foood, we discussed almost everything from artist gossip to heavy story about our politics / economy stuff in daily basis. Tak cukup dekat whatsapp, dekat DM IG sambung lagi, so basicly when she was planning for her wedding, obviously she will discussed with me too until one time she had to ask me whether im okay with her discussing all these things with me, afraid that i'm going to be sad lah konon. Like hellooo kalau kau tak include aku, lagi aku kecik hati hokehh.

some of the screencap ..

Knowing her from before, i thought she will be one hell of bridezilla but she become much more calmer, rational kind of person lately so everything was so smooth Alhamdulillah, aside from parents/makcik sanak sedara dramas which i believes were a trial for any of pengantin pon haha. The wedding was held at Masjid Desa Pandan for akad and Dewan JPS Ampang for reception - 30 Jun & 1st July 2017. 

I was there from the preparations, a surprise bridal breakfast shower in Cameron, a night before the akad (where she left us the bridesmaid to settle her hantaran while she went for majlis kesyukuran -__- damn you), all the bridesmaid sleepover at her airbnb and i even sneaked out to her bed at night sebab sakit badan (yes Ayoi, aku dah rasmikan katil tu dulu, i tried not to but sorry haha),  on her akad day (made her cried a bucket while im being the cool onee boo), on the morning of her reception day (asked me to brings breakfast for them -____- damn you again) and even after the day after the wedding, she still bugged me with her annoying ws.

So, to say i am happy for her marriage is an understatement. I was beyond than happy, she deserves all the happiness, she's too good to be my friend so she need the best guy to lead and accompanies her because one day i know i will get tired of her so good for you for finding the right man  hahahaha.

the bridal shower in Cameron

Akad nikah day

reception

 I was prepared to lost her after her wedding - this thing is normal especially if you are women, you have to follow the hubs, cooks for the family, entertains both family, etc etc so i was really okay and being a matured friends puiiii i know she now has a new commitment which is much much heavier than me, but i really hope one thing from her though ...

do not turn into 'makcik makcik' please ..

A year later

I thought my life would be boring, but surprisingly a lot of things happened, lot of good things happened, had my bad day as well but every each of them somehow doesn't really affect me anymore.

But there so much is left unsaid as i stop writing in blogs and it makes me a little bit sad. I started to forget all my vacation memories, all good events i've attended and so today i decided to post a btit about my friend's weddings. Yes, with a S coz all my close friends are married already. haha.

They are actually my childhood friends, from my primary schools. As much as i have my other cool friends as well which i loveeee themm too, but these people have a special place in my heart. Maybe sebab dah kawan lama sangat kot - haha. I know some people said, friendship dont last forever lah, family comes firstlah yada yada but okay let make it simple, they comes after my family lah kalau macam tu haha. We basicly knew all each other's ex (s), the stories, the dreams they have for their future, so it was nice to see on how Allah has planed everything for everyone at the right time.

Atiqah is the first one who settled down among our Gengsentap. When she told me she's getting engaged, i was a bit shock, others too - that we have to PM each other whats going on haha. We didnt know her husband, Hafiez back then and we only got to meet him during their engagement day. For me, the reason why i was shocked because we act didn't text each other for a few months for whatsonoreasons so to actually get a whatsapp sayings you're getting engaged out of nowhere surely terkejut kan? Dah kenapa minah ni? Jumpa mana laki ni? haha. Fast forward, she asked me to be her pengapit which i did, Hanie and i managed to give her bridal shower 1 hour before her wedding hahah and during that time i was on my study leave for my exam so i took some time to lepak at her house - basuh toilet kemas bilik, layan her last minute bridezilla moment haha, helping with the stair decorations which i failed miserably, brought all sort of cream-coloured shawl for her to use for akad nikah -_- and etc and Alhamdulillah everything went well. Her wedding took place at her house for akad and Crystal Ballroom, Mines 2 for reception - 25th & 26th Nov 2016.

The second one, Aki is not losing when it comes to give sudden news too -_-. Still remembered when he suddenly asked me when i'm coming back to Malaysia while i was on my Europe holiday that time coz he wanted to go for merisik the next week. What iz thiz weh?? Tiba tiba je.  Well, it is actually not a shock thing to get married at our age but knowing his past, i cant help from it and he even said to me once that when he started to date Atiq (his wife), one of the reasons was he knew that he will not be pressured of getting married any sooner because he and Atiq have the same thought of getting married after 30. Puiiih la sorang sorang hahaha. Aki's akad took place in Keningau, Sabah where we had a thought of surprising them at the first place but ticket was soo expensive and knowing there are no Uber to take us into the deep side of Mount Brook scare us hahaha, kidding la. Sorry Aki, but we didn't missed the reception on his side at Dewan  MPAJ, Ampang - 25th March & 2nd April 2017.

The second last and last one goes to Wafi & Hanie. Well, these two has been a couple since 2010 (kootttttt?) so they should be getting married lah kan and there's no shocked moment like biar betul? sort of thing haha. In terms of their relationship, i think i knew their stories more than  Atq's & Aki's, maybe because both of them are actually my friends from the first place so sometime i got to know the story from both side haha, or maybe because i like to menyebok join their dates and trips, so i dont really feels like third-wheeling them or feels awkward when then start to manja manja or even gaduh infront of me -_-. And even though they didnt mentioned about their plan at the first place, i was sort of getting the idea by looking at Wafi's instastory post where they had both families meeting that time. Hani is a very well planned person so she had everything on her radar and even we asked for anything to help with pon she was like, 'no problem no problem', althought we (me and Atq) were her bridesmaids on her akad day and we did come as early as we could after our office time but really we did nothing except for arranging the hantaran -__-'. Akad was held at Hani's house and both reception were held at Dewan Siantan Putrajaya and Dewan Perdana Felda - 14th, 15th & 22nd July 2017.

So there goes all my close friends, in one year settled semua lol. Honestly, I knew this day will come and to my surprise, i did not become a sappy friends who cried for being left alone. I know some of them are thinking that i might be sad for being the single friends in the gang, nope, i am not sad because i'm still single - i still don't feel like getting married even though i see how happy they are (ok something wrong with me here) but i am sad when i think that we might not be as carefree as before - we might filtering all gossips/info about each other, we become more cautious of each other, we tend not to lepak too long anymore, well you know - what grown up people do. 

But one the positive side, the gang is getting bigger and merrier, and even bigger as Aki and Atiq are expecting their first child already and a big Alhamdulillah as their other half also can click with the gang which i thinks is the best part yeyyy. They might not realized but they are one of the people that i cherish most and i always pray that may Allah always ease and bless their marriage with happiness and lots of laughter, without any pains. 

Okay, enough la kot about them, now lets focus on myself. Bila nak kahwin ni? LOL.