I'm leaving.....

Dear Neighbours,

Life as a farmer is hard, too hard that I decided to leave. Yup! You heard it right. I’m leaving you, and I’m going for a vacation. Will I come back? Don’t know yet. But what my mom said when I was young was true.

My wise mom always reminded me and advised me to have a better life. “Don’t be a farmer like your grandparents and your aunties and uncles and me. Be a doctor, lawyer, engineer or a teacher. Don’t ever be farmers,” she reminded me.

I took her advised. I studied hard, slogged through school and colleges, burned midnight oil just to avoid being a farmer, and now I have a successful career. Not a doctor or an engineer or a teacher nor a lawyer. It’s just a career.

I was happy with what I’m doing, and BOOM, came the Internet and the world of cyber. I was sucked into it, into the world of Facebook and Farmville. Yeah! Farmville.

Ohhh…. I can still be a farmer without having to sweat and play with the farm animals. Yes, and off I jumped into the world of cyber farming without thinking.

Veni, Vedi, Vici – I came, I saw and I conquered. Haha! That’s my high school’s motto, and I applied it to my farming world. I relentlessly worked my farm from 14x14 to 24x24. I became a multimillionaire. I owned tractors, harvester, seeder, and you name what ever vehicles I need to farm. I have wine factory and farm in England. That’s how rich I’m in the world of Farmville.

After two years of constant farming, I grow tired of my farmer’s life. What my mom said before was true. Farming is still a hard work. Winter, spring, summer and fall I have to farm. Take care of my plants and my animals. Hah! No resting.

We helped each others,  neighbours. I appreciated that. But now I’m tired. I wanted to take a vacation. At midnight, I would pack and leave. Yup, I’ll be leaving on the jet plane. And I don’t know when I’ll be back again…. But I will drop by to pay you a visit.

Salam, adios, chao….

Your ex-neighbour.

I'm sad....

I am sad and very hurt today. I was okay in the morning. In fact, I was very happy this morning when my hubby gave me a package which he took from the mail box. I knew the package was from my friend in Canada. I also had a nice chat with my new boss, Mr. G. We talked about work and his home country. Such a nice gentleman. Polite and soft spoken.

After he had left for the other office, I began my mission in searching for the right song for us to sing this Friday. I listed four songs to be chosen by them. The first song was Umbrella by Rihanna and followed by Memories by Barbara Straisend. Both were not accepted as they find it difficult to sing.

The third song in my list was I’ll be missing you by Puff Daddy. They liked the song, nice and easy to sing, but we can’t find someone who can rap. Our Mr. Rapper has resigned. 

The last song in the list was Somewhere Over the Rainbow. It was very well received, and they loved it, but somehow after we listened for a few times, it was not an easy song to sing it in a group.

Finally after cracking my head, I remembered one of my favorite song, Under the Broadwalk by Bruce Willis, which I would sing along whenever it is played on the radio. Yeay! Finally, it was accepted.

I also had a great time during my lunch break. I went out with friends, and we discussed our plan. It was a great discussion, but not the food. We have great ideas and plan what we wanted to do.

While I was doing my work, I saw a message coming to my Facebook. That’s the beginning of my bad day. It was so offensive, and I found it very abusive. I didn’t finish reading it. I seldom lost my temper and get angry, but this afternoon, I was really mad. I replied a short message, and for someone who never used the F-Word before, I used it this time.

From that moment, my day was spoilt. Eventhough, I tried to be jovial, but I can’t. I was so sad with what happened; it brought tears to my eye. At least I managed to talk to someone who helped me to improve my mood.

And tonight, while I was working on my office laptop, it crashed. It just frozen, and when I rebooted, it cannot find the booting disk. I knew I was attacked by a virus. And this afternoon, a spammer hijacked my Facebook causing my account to spam others. Luckily someone alerted me, and I changed my password immediately.

It was really a bad day for me. I hope tomorrow will be a better day, and my technical support team can fix my laptop. Otherwise, I will be crying tomorrow as I do not do any backup to my data.

He Made My Day

When I reached home last night, my oldest son, Syafiq asked me to check my facebook.

"Why?" I asked.

"Just check it out," he said. 

I totally forgot about until when I logged on to my Facebook before I went to bed and saw that he tagged me his video playing guitar.

"Hmmm..," I said to myself, wondering whether it the same song that he did earlier. Yes, it was but there's a different than the previous one he played earlier. This one more sadder than the earlier one and the ending was awesome and by the time I finished watching the video, I feel happy after a bad day in office. "Thank you, Afiq."

So here it is the link of him playing My Heart Will Go On, sambung. 

Well, he never has any formal training. He picked up guitar on his own 3 years ago. 

So what do you think? Okay? 

Facebook, Twitter and Smartphone Equals to Naked

Today everything was perfect for me. Traffic was clear. No jam today. I guess they heard me complaining about them yesterday so they make sure the road is clear for me. The weather was also good. It was cooler in the morning and also the sun was not hot either.

I had a good breakfast at home and when I reached office, the email in my inbox was kind of unusually low and I cleared it by 10.30am. And at 11am, I attended a talk on Security and Facebook. Wow! That guy made me scared and naked. I clearly remembered his word that "Facebook/Twitter + Smartphone = Naked" and that what I have. I have Facebook and Twitter installed on my iPhone and I always tweets from my iPhone.

The guy also revealed how most of what we shared on the Facebook and twitter are being read by the whole world. There is no more privacy and you are basically bare naked to the eye of the world. There are people who will sniffed all your data and then sell it off to this marketing company. Then you wonder where do you get all those junk mail.

After listening to the talk, it make me realized that some of the tweet has Geo Location tagged to it. Just imagine all your movement will be shown and if people wanted to kidnapped you, that's it they know where you are. Nauzubillah!

The talk were getting very interesting but I have to leave halfway caused I have farewell lunch to attend in KLCC. But the most important thing that I picked up from the talk is be careful in sharing you updates cause some offensive updates can haunt you back. Chao...

I love my Sunday. Do I?

Well I always look forward for my weekend. After a long week in the office, I always look forward for Saturday and Sunday to wind down but since beginning of October, I don't have the luxury to sleep in late on Sunday anymore. On Sunday, I have become like other parents who are busy driving the kids from one class to another. Let see how my Sunday looks like.

6.30am. Up for my morning prayer but I will sleep again until 7.30am. Hubby will already be at the wet market will give me a wakeup call.

7.45am. Fresh from shower, will grab my phone and book to go downstair and to boil water only. Hubby will buy breakfast and bring it back with him. Oh! Since second son has his football practice at 8am, I have to make sure he eats his cereal or bread for breakfast. While waiting for the water and my son, I will check twitter first. I think I'm addicted to twitter. Let me say it again here "I am addicted to twitter". I guess some of you are also twitter addict.

7.55am. Send my second son to his football practice which is 5 mins away from home. Hubby will be home from market with breakfast so I only have to make Milo, tea or coffee. Depending on what they want. Easy life for me when it comes to breakfast.

8.30am. Get my little girl ready for her piano class. Normally there will be battle to get her ready to class as she is kind of playful girl. There will be lot of laughters and shrieking and shouting. Stress level up a little bit. This is also our favorite time together. Mother-daughter time.

9.10am. Off we go to Cadenza Music Academy in Bangi for her 9.30am session. Will wait for her since class is only 30mins. My iphone and novel will become handy during this time. Tweeting and reading to kill the time.

9.45am. Remind hubby to fetch second son from his football practice otherwise the poor boy will be waiting until I come and fetch him at 10.25am.

10.25am. Reach home. Need to get the other two boys ready for their music classes. Second son needs to get showered and it is another rush. Zaki will be searching for his drum stick and Amir will be rushing to get his things ready. Not sure they have practice or not for the session. Let them face the music...

10.40 Off me go driving these two boys. Zaki is more playful than Amir and he will disturb Amir whenever he has the chance. I just let them do whatever they want as long as no crying. But there are times that they got physical and one of them will cry. Stress level will definitely up when I have the boys in the car. I also bering bring my laptop with me as Zaki's class is at 11am whereas Amir is at 12am. So that a long waiting time for me.

12.40pm Will be driving home and by the time we get home it's lunch time. Heh! You see I don't cook lunch either on Sunday. Hubby will be kind enough to buy lunch.

1pm. Hubby home with lunch. So lunch time!!!

2pm. Afternoon prayer time and it also means my nap time. Will be lucky if I can have my peaceful nap coz Zara and Zaki will definitely try to enter the room no matter how I lock the door. Whenever I'm home, they will follow me. Cannot be out of their sight. I guess it payback time as Monday to Friday, I'm kind of busy with work. My nap time normally between 30mins - 1 hour.

4.30pm. Tea time. Hubby or eldest son will buy kuih from the nearby stalls. Normally it will be fried banana, curry puff. Again depend on what is the request, I will get the drinks ready for them.

5.30pm. Evening prayer and time for me to check my mail or facebook or twitter. In other words, computer time. Sometimes this is the time we will go out with the kids to do shopping and will be back by 8pm.

7.30pm. Maghrib prayer and also dinner time. Normally we will eat out as the kids have been eating home cooked food from Monday to Friday.

9pm. Will be a headmistress. Going through kids homework and also their revision. At the same time my computer time.

10pm. Kids bed time and also time for me to read or do things I have wanted to do. After the night prayer, I will normally ready for about an hour before saying good night.

My life is kind of boring right. No fun activities there and if you see no exercises too. Normally I will do in the morning but since I have to rush here and there, I have to reschedule my exercise time. Haven't really decides the best time for my exercises.

Okay..since this is a boring topic, I better go first..Chao! and see you soon.