Man and Wife of 28 Years

A quote says that :

"Parents are a privilege from God that you don't choose nor can change"

Well, I don't ever want to. Not even the thought of it.

Being their daughter is a privilege I wont trade, not even for life.

So, the best gift I can give to them on their anniversary is...

Dear God,

All these while, I've been kept and brought up in very good hands, therefore, I pray that You will always keep them safely in Your good hands.

.....and it'll continue for the rest of my life.

THEME SONG

They still look at each other the same, even after all these years.

Counting My Blessings

I just realized that there are so many things that we don't appreciate in life. People always say count your blessings, then only you will be grateful. But do we really count them? Literally?

Neither did I. 

So I gave it a try.

Then I realized that they are actually countless. In fact, they are plenty of blessings that we overlook at it as something normal just because we get that blessing everyday! If we were to say thank you for each blessing, then that will be the only word we'll be humming throughout the day.

Like being at home..

I'm having a great time being at home. Plain fun. It's a bliss to be waken up by Dad for Subuh and pray together with the family. At home, I strictly refuse to use the alarm clock to wake up. Simply because :

1- I miss being waken up by my parents, like I always do when I was a kid. I know eventually I'll get married and won't be living with them my entire life,  so I want the most of things when I can still have it.

2- since I was 13 I've been waking up by alarm clocks, from boarding schools to college to university, so basically I just want some time away from that annoying thingy for a while

3. When I'm at home, I couldn't care less where my phone (my alarm) is. I don't see my phone for days!

Then, breakfast will already be prepared on the table by mum (shame on me!). Still, we always have our mother-daughter fun time preparing lunch together. Sometimes shopping for groceries, watching some Korean soap opera etc. If not enough fun, we'll do some smurf baking, trying out some new recipes.

It may seem like just an ordinary day to some people, but to me, it is the day(time) I know I'm never gonna get back. I've been living in a different county than my parents for 13 years, meeting up with them only during school breaks. I know well how it feels to wish you could do something with your loved ones but you just cant. So I'll  do whatever it takes to make the best out of it when I get the chance. Let it be just an ordinary day. Point is - and ordinary day is still a BLESSING. 

Of course there are million other blessings but I don't intend to publicize it. Rather to highlight our lack of appreciation of how blessed our lives are but we  keep wanting more, and even more never seems to be enough.

Let's all start counting those plain, normal things that we get everyday and say Alhamdulillah.

Back In The Kingdom

Im back in Saudi Arabia about a week ago but only now we manage to get the wifi fixed. Yes, so much time for readaptation,huh? As if there were so many things to do around the house. Actually no. We all were fasting for the past 6 days so were taking things one at a time.

- Stocking up food, spices, perencah and all the what nots from Malaysia that you can never get here. (Sometimes we do get it over here but it's the mind set that says THAT Malaysian brand is the best and your taste buds are so used to it that you can't cheat them and change to another brand)

- Wardrobe space-making to fit in the purchase from Malaysia (and being in denial to throw old ones that are barely used anymore, for the reason it has sentimental values). As a result, your wardrobe seems smaller than the last time you remember it was. 

- Arranging the whole rack of souvenirs to put up the new ones bought during our recent trip. Then we realized we'll need a whole brand new rack for all the stuffs but there's no room for another rack. Again, the house seems smaller than the last time , too.

- And, of course, cleaning the whole house. My parents left this house for the whole June for eurotrip and again another  month in Malaysia so you can bet on how it was.

This time I'm here for a bigger purpose other than taking a break before I make a suicidal jump into the working world - being an intern. Will not talk about that yet. Im estatic  about something else. 

Mandi rice + Iraqi Kebab + Grilled Chic + Hummus (my diet goes down the drain)

For the past week we've been fasting sunat for 6 days but manage a couple of dine outs. Boy, why I love this place so much, 2nd of it being home to me, is that all the favorite food on my wish list are available here - everywhere!!