Long Read - Look around

Hello again. This time I want to share my love for Nature's beauty that we sometimes tend to look past in our hurry and rush to continue with our daily life. 

I have not been lucky enough to witness sun rising or sun setting. But I have been lucky enough and blessed to be able to see and witness the beautiful and pretty skies. Pictures below captured randomly.

 

Some people would not understand the obsession and love for the sky as they feel such sights are common and there is nothing amazing to look at. I beg to differ. You get to see different colours in the sky. Sometimes it's orange. Sometimes pink. Sometimes it's a mixed of colours.

Not just the sky, I love seeing the Moon too! There is just something magical about them. Something romantic, mysterious.

 It's just a pretty sight, don't you think so?

Long Read - Westwood

It was just for a short period but plenty of memories here at Westwood.

The makeshift office for CSO.

 
I was supposed to be in the MA team but joined the CSO team first. Slowly it became an inside joke of me swinging both ways to support External (MA) and Internal (CSO).

There were several occasions spent working overtime till it was this dark. 

 

The surrounding views from level 14 or was it 18, the highest for the development. 

Long Read - Different Directions

Current year - 2018

Checked the draft box and saw there are 2 posts that were not published.
Did a quick read on the 2 posts and somewhat it talks about similar topic: Marriage & Settling Down.

Instead of cracking my brain to come up with more content, why don't I just combine both of them! Such a brilliant and smart idea :-)

I can't remember exactly how long ago I had drafted both posts but my instinct is telling me it could be easily 2 years ago. One major hint is there was an assignment due but being the clever person that I am, I came on blogspot to type away instead of utilizing the brain for the more urgent task on hand.

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1st Draft Post


Assignments.. Assignments.. Assignments..

As I'm typing this, I'm listening to Alyah's Kisah Hati (love her dresses in this MV, Remy!!) Alright enough of the sidetrack :)

Actually my brain is stopping its supposed task of continuous typing for an assignment due this Friday. 750 words and I'm only 130 words done. Still a long way to go I know..
Yet, I need to stop as it's past 1am plus I'm working tomorrow plus I really need to sleep. So why am I still typing here?!

Actually, it just came to my mind that at this stage most of my peers including cousins whom are settling down while there are a few waiting anxiously to be a new mom/dad. Yet, here I am chasing books, assignments, attending night classes. So it dawned on me that the pathway we chose, I chose and am currently on actually, seem to be different from the rest.

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2nd Draft Post


Been thinking about this lately. Not often but sometimes this thought does visit me time and then especially since I'm getting older..

Reaching 30 in couple of years. The BIG 30. Not sure what is so big about it actually.
Never heard of the BIG 20. Only BIG 30.

I don't hate them I love them weddings, marriages. Magical romantic, romantic at heart
- To make them feel proud but it will only be for that one day and then what? Life still continues

- Society expectation.
Don't make it seem as if we're losing out. Those terms given to women of certain age and still unmarried.


My life story is made differently and so I'm still as how I am, getting older and still single.

I will get married one day (only God knows when) when the time comes and when I finally meet the man is that made for me just like how I am made for him in his life story.

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Back to the present 2018. 

Nothing has changed. Wait. Actually there is. I have since completed all of my modules except for 1! Like finally after so bloody long! One final retake exam for Financial Management and hopfully I'm done for school and will get to wear my gown and mortarboard and collect the scroll on stage and that's it for my studies! I just can't wait to finish school. I really believe I am of the minority group that took lesser modules each semester and thus the long and slow years to complete my studies. Some people I talk to while at school mostly seem to be graduating from school after 3 years or within 3 years.

Coming to 5 years of studies is really tiring. I would be lying if I say I didn't get the itch to just dump everything and call it quits. But it would be such a waste of money, time and effort if I did just that. I had to kept telling myself to look back and see how much progress has been made, how much money has been spent and it would be really stupid of myself if I just leave everything just because I was getting tired of the journey that never seems to be ending any soon.

Aside from studies which is progressing very well (hope and pray November will be the last time I'm taking this final paper), nothing has changed on the L.O.V.E front. Still wondering where to find love. Still waiting to meet that someone I can call my Love.

P.s. To my Encik Jodoh, are you still lost?

Long Read - That Time We Went Staycation

The year 2016. We wanted to go holiday as a family as it has been too long since we went as a family. There was some limitations and suddenly we were looking at holidaying in our own country instead. Staycation! It will feel like being on a holiday as well if we choose the correct location. After much researching, not much honestly as we already had in mind the location we wanted to go. Finally we made the decision and here are some photo memories of the place we stayed over the weekend.

 

  

We went year end thus explains the Christmas decoration. Very festive feeling!

                        

As someone who loves old buildings (mainly because they make such good photo), I really marvelled at the building each time we walked past the corridor. 

The iconic Merlion! The hotel is very near to the tourist attraction but sadly our room view was not facing the Merlion :(

No prize for guessing for who the above bed arrangement are.

          

Night time view. There really was not many people around. Either we missed them or they missed us. we only saw the crowds in the pool during evening and after 9/10am on Sunday. 

Speaking about the pool, I still remember mom being cute. We asked her the night before to join us in the pool early in the morning next day. She told us she rather stay in the room to enjoy the quiet and peace and asked the 3 of us to go and enjoy ourselves. Can't remember how we managed to convince her to come down and joined us and after much persuasion she joined us in the pool. As the crowd has not started, we had the entire pool to ourselves. Basically pool party baby! Obviously mom would enjoy and I think she said she would have joined us earlier if she knew it would be so much fun! Hahaha 

  

        

 The Merlion decorated with party hat.

The End! Till we meet you again Le Meridien!