It's a park life

Sometimes.. all I wanna do is lie in the sun all day.
Photo credit to Jules.
Thanks for the awesome birthday present, u have just up my handsomeness by 10.

Touchdown

The day finally came where we packed up and left for our family holday.

And so we did..

And here we are finally! It was a safe flight, alhamdullillah..
All three us boys are knackered to the bone, nevertheless ..

The view and the blue of the sea takes our breath away.

Here we are.. at Scarborough :)

Tomorrow, we'll get on the 990 bus to Ros St station. From there, we'll get on the navy rail line to Fremantle!

Moves like jagger?

Due to my sudden interest in a certain subject, I recently learnt a handful of interesting motivation quotes.

A change is about to come.
2015 will be somewhat different.
I could almost feel it, almost taste it, almost breathe it.

I've been researching in areas I found boring and dry.
And my sudden interest in it make me go.. "why dint I look into this previously?"

In myself, a soft voice said "it's because to succeed, u needed to fail. To feel some amount of humility. Only then u will have meaning and appreciation of what's coming to u next"

I will continue to research, read up and meet people have gone into this. I cant help performing a major HAZOP when it involves my pocket.

So far, the toughest person to convince have been convinced. That is my dad. Mom, she is always sure when it comes to my decision in matters like this. She has this amount of faith in me when it comes to career and choices I make.

With that.. I begin with bismillahhirahmannirahim.

Followed by my "CHECKMATE" move.

Joy

It is true that kids dont hide their feelings.

Max received his letter this morning but he waited patiently to get home frm work a lil after 10pm to open it up.

He found his congratulary note with attachments of his e-tix.

He was so happy, his eyes danced with joy. I got my dad to read this note from the "Postman". Just to make it sound more authentic. He then made dad repeat it with him holding his teddies such that the teddies could hear his achievements too.

He did a "yes! Yes!" With victory arms and all. It was priceless. The amazing sight of this.

We all felt his joy. Yes, the long waited letter is finally here. I know he will be smiling tonite.. and prolly for the next 23 nites or so till our trip.

Alhamdullillah for Max, Jules and my rezeki.

FT

There is this certain person I met.
She would end up being my boss someday.
In effort to seek extra cash.

Let's call her FT.

She emits this positive aura. Prolly that is why she is successful in her area.
Dont get me wrong. It's not anything like that.

But really, everytime I meet her, she leaves this good feeling inside for like 2 days.
And a whole lot of ppl I bet have felt that way too with her.

Someday, I would hope to have that sorta effect on people.
The comforting person.
The positive person.
Like FT.

A girl named Alaska

I know.. pretty kewl innit?

Anyways.. it's been a pretty pleasant Aidiladha for me.
The weather was a bit on the gloomy side.
But I could use something breezy and chilly like today.

It is nice being around the family.
I got a comment, I looked happier than before.
Ironic, i thought.
But it is true. And it is from within.

We had our usual cousins coffee ritual, but deeper conversation this time around.
It was a perfect Sunday to indulge on a slice of white forest.

How comforting.

Tomorrow she will be seeing me.
She is back from kg.

We will all go out for a movie of Equalizer and followed by karox session with mom.
My mom love that sorta thing. Dont ask.

And she came to like Jules because of that too.
Im serious, it was karox that bridged mom and Jules.
Whenever mom did not get a tune to a song, she get Jules to start it for her..
then she continues on with the rest of the song. That's how my mom decided, we should get jules to come around more often.

Only Jules could keep up with my choice of song because it would be fast and upbeat.
Jules is a champion when it comes to singing. We would do a "Counting Stars" or "I Love It" or a "Somebody Told Me"..

I sing outta tune.  And I dont really care. I would just go ahead with it anyways.

Well, my break is off by 8pm tomorrow when Max gets home.
And I will be all geared up for the rush, for the next three weeks before our big trip.
Cant wait, how many days we have aldy ayg?

Break

I decided to take a break from work like a normal person would.
We submitted half of drawings for internal check last nite.
And so it is a break to do whatever I want..

Jules balik kg.
Max is with his dad.

Me.. gym and prolly this..
Some reading is great too!

And of course coffee session wud be great too.. Trixie and I.

Her countdown and my milestones

Hey, hey.. it's october aldy! What u know.. time surely flies.

Jules have been doing a countdown. To our trip of the year. It will be Max, Jules and I.. out together, out of Asean.

I know for a fact that she cant wait.. I however have been clearing off milestone after milestone. It has been like that ever since Raya. And these involves money. Hence, I decided to clear off one by one.. when the time is right.

Those Ive cleared so far:
1- Flight tix booking
2- Raya
3- Max's b'day
4- Hotels booking

Those in time to come:
1- Visa applications
2- Buying the Aussie currency (And hopefully it stays below rm3 per AUD)
3- Trip!
4- Service of car
5- Welcome 2015!

In between I have been sourcing for extra income. That requires planning and execution. And before all, this weekend I have to come out with "the letter".

Months before, I promised max that: if you berdoa to Allah and perform your solat.. Allah will give you good rezeki, inshallah. On top of that, you have to be a good boy. With that you will receive a letter from the postman saying you are going to a holiday somewhere only the postman knows. If should you behave badly and abuse the maid.. you might only get a trip with train ride tix to klcc. However, if you are polite and perform your solat and berdoa to Allah for good things.. you might get flight tix to a special place.

Hence he bought it, did his homework when he shud becoz it is his responsibility to remember his hw. And prayed every nite. Also he toned down with my poor maid that bares with him and myself tru thick and thin. Now all this good habits have stuck on to him tau.. if I prayed wto him, he will sulk. If I couldnt pray.. I will have to inform him or else he wud ask me the golden questn "mummy, why havent u been praying?"

And with that... it is 27 DAYS to go for our trip and boy oh boy I am excited too, ayg.. cant wait to do the Baywatch with you on Scarborough Beach!

What a pleasure this came in earlier today:

Run like you dont care

It was one of those working weekends.
It's that cycle where projects got released and Alhamdullillah my company won lots.

And so come that time where most of the time would be spent tada! At the office. No suprise.

Ppl in my line are pretty much used to it. Im glad as I am expecting good returns on my hard work. It means we are doing well. When the oil price hikes and the ppl start to moan, I usually kept quiet. In my silence I would say Alhamdullillah, it's gonna be a good year.

It means the country can venture to deep sea waters.
Projects kept coming in, and I get to keep my job. This time, the company won one international project and a couple of local ones. Non were deepsea because the oil price is still ok but still, Im pretty happy as these are some of which, will bring the "keching!" to the company. Im hoping it will be shared and distributed amongst us employees by means of bonus and a nice fat increment.

There were times when per barrel price was low, and a lot of us went out of projects and got kicked out. That year, I had my boy and I took a year out to complete my MSc.

But this time around, I would focus on a balance. So I made sure I finished everything I should on that Satday so I get Sunday to spend it with Jules and Max.

It started off with Boxtrolls.. oh what fun :) followed by a run at the dogpark. The dog park is located away from where I live or worked and so no one I knew went there. 

Couple of weeks ago, I showed Max this video on Run for your lives, where one cud choose to run or become a zombie. You cud guess my pick. Somehow Max knew he was too young for it.. and so he decided to become a zombie on Jules and I during our easy jog.

First, he had one objective - that is to achieve 10k steps on my SHealth and second, out of the blue he was determined to inflict Jules and I. We played along, as you have guessed. Jules always made sure she stayed behind with Max. So she got eaten first.. then after many failed attempts.. Jules decided to inflict me and share her bounty with Max.

Imagine a sight of 3 running zombies at the park?
Even the dogs got scared.. we were grunting and running like we were zombies. We din care. We laughed, Max fell a couple of times.. but all was good.

Baskin Robbins session ended our very hard zombie run.

U shud try.. the zombie run. U are worth the effort d;p

Patience

Patience cultivation in progress.

Datelines, financial re-structuring, difficult clients.. I could use something to take my mind off things for awhile..

Apart from reading easy chick lits, watching chick flicks.. i resort to this.. thanks to Jules for presenting me with it.
Once it is done, this glow-in-the-dark piece goes on her walls :)

Damsel and Datelines

How many of u actually take a walk and quick check of your ride prior to ignition?
Here is why u shud. Just a quick one wont hurt.

This happened yesterday, leaving me feeling heroic and all.
A yellow car happen to make a quick cut in front of me.
I was driving with Trixie by my side as usual.
Then I noticed that, that yellow car is running happily, to my horror, on a flat tyre.

I also remembered how I had one of those moments until a good samaritan honked at me to prompt me. But that guy was on my left and we were stucked in a jam. Or waiting for the lights to turn green.

I told Trixie.. I bet it's a woman.
And the fact that it was on her side of the car.. kinda confirms it. Women dont really appreciate their machine. I dunno, maybe coz a lot of my friends who are girls just think their ride.. is just a ride.

Guys normally take pride to the point.. it has a name. And a gender too. And normally for guys, it would be a 'she'. Mine's male but he is gay. And he is called Roccofella.

It must have been Damsel's day, coz we got into a stuck rutt. I took my seat belt off, got off the car and walked in front, up to her. She was ON HER PHONE!. Yes, fb-ing prolly. Lol. By then the traffic was moving and I ran back into my car. Too late, perhaps.

And like magic, she changed lanes.
I told Trixie to bring down her window and give tell her while I honked out to her. She got the message and did an "ooooo".

Oh, we saved a life! Yeay. So that was Friday.

Also, I havent been posting as I was busy on datelines.
I got off work today at 7pm. Thankfully, Jules understands. By the time I met her at The curve, I was all walking dead minus the torn clothes and bloody face.

Romas tasted like cardboard and my appetite just vanished as I was too tired. Later we talked about money and I was all awaken again. Lol.

Home with her, I just cant wait to crash and prolly some massage wont hurt either d;p

Here's to my version of art that have been keeping me occupied. Enjoy!

Celebration and singing

Everything went as planned.
I could see and feel the joy in every face that walked out the kindi today, equiped with their party pack :)

We the went home where max had a freshed up, after lunch we headed for Maze Runner. Mom came along with Trixie, Jules and Max.. We wanted to get ice cream but went for something better.. we went some karox session!

Max and I did our usual number. Baby by Justin Bieber!!
Everyone was having a great time off work. Lol.

The evening dint end there. Jules and I sweat ourselves off with 30 mins of baddie time.

Now it's time for kewl off, shower and solat.
Off to post the awesome pix on Fb then!!

Have a good weekend all..

And of course.. some of you might take a long weekend off.. oh how I envy ya'll! And in case I dont post before Tuesday... Selamat Hari Malaysia d:)

Cake

And the cake safely arrived.
Alhamdullilah.. nothing brings me more joy than to see Max happy like he is on top of the world..

Max my lil Jedi,
You are a blessing.
The greatest gift from Allah.
Alhamdullillah.
And so Im gonna try to give you the best in life..

So here goes, it's gonna be a blast tomoro at an unnamed kindi..

My lil Jedi have been playing light sabers wt Jules from the time the cake arrived. Lol.
Boys will always be boys..

Pls stop the bouncing

My target last year was to keep a healthy normal bmi.
In the process, I consumed protein shake.
In truth, the protein shake actually made me bulky.
For some reason, I stopped it.. it was also an experiment on myself to see what happens. To my surprise, I lost more.. and pretty constant also. Now im on the 2kg band under my targetted weight.

I feel awesome and happy but that's not really what Im gonna say today.

I got on the stationary bike today, typically doin a 15mins on it. They revamped the gym I wud normally go and fitted LCD tvs at the spot normally ignored. Funny I never noticed the screen before. I figured it's coz usually I wud sit on the front row facing KLCC. This is also an effort not to distract myself.. the view of bouncing cute butts can be very distracting. U get my drift..

But today my front row was occupied. Not very interesting view if u asked me. So I finally noticed that hidden TV. They were playing some kpop mtv hits. No harm.. until this.

FYI, person in pix is not relevant. Some random person caught in my effort to focus on TV. d;)

Kesetiaan pada negara

It's one of those days that ended leaving me flattered and flustered.
It is also one of those 'skydive' days.

Let's start with my act of sky diving.
For the second time, the Turk oppoturnity came knocking. At the back of my head, I could hear a lil voice saying, "u gotta take this. It's the beginning". And so I signed up for the Turk Challenge. But it'll be an onshore visit. So it's not gonna be so bad. Plus we have at least 5 women nominated on that list. I said yes. Now just pray for my safe journey and return. The visit is scheduled just before my Aussie trip with Jules and Max. If it overlaps.. then I will have to let it go.
Anyways, that was my act of skydiving. Sometimes, a boi  has gotta do what a boi gotta do.

Then as I was about to leave, this pair of interns came to say their good bye. That was normal.. what came next was a bit outta norm. We have a bunch of interns and we have a bunch of trainees. I would normally deal with trainees, one is because I happen to be a mentor of one. And interns, I let the young engineers have them.

Having said that, I dont really know this pair of interns. I dont know their names. Which reminds me, I prolly should get to know some. Im shy tau. Not sombong. Just vy shy. Lol.

And so as I was leaving.. this happened. Interns run up to me.

Intern1: Nak salam...
Me: Oh yes, it is your last day.
Intern1: Kak Jest, thank u for your guidance.
Me: But I dint do much for you *rasa bersalah seyes.
Intern1: I like you from the first time I saw you.
Me: ??? *muka start merah
Intern1: I like your voice..
Me: *gasp, seriously budak ni. "Oh... thank u"

--- effort utk kaver line: take the lead in where this is going ---

Me: All the best, I hope you both do well in hour studies.. Erm nama siapa? Sorry lupa.
Intern2: I saf.
Intern1: Im Zety.

Me: Ok, take care. All the best.

- Heads for the door nak balik -

Text Jules cecepat.

"Omg. Ada yg confess."
Jules: Siapa dier?

Kalau takut bini, harus cakap yg benar.
Kesetiaan pada negara.

"Intern. Thank God it's her last day"

Jules: *senyap sampai jumpa.

Trixie's verdict: Some girls are like that. Diorg anggap mcm kakak.

Phew. Let's hope that is true.

And so that was my Friday. Monday's task: GET TO KNOW YOUR INTERNS.

P/S: Really? My voice of all things.. I thought it would be more like coz you are so damn cool. Or cute. Or carefree.  Or wakdoyok to the max ke.. ok nvm:
"KESETIAAN PADA NEGARA"

1042 Hits

This is dedicated to you my lovely Jestians..

I created Jest Goin YOLO because I was bored.
Also I wanna make a come back frm the deleted blog.
Only this time my fingers will type this as a tool of what's written in my heart.

This lil space was created in late June and yesterday I received my first 1000 hits.
As I speak, it's now on 1042.

And so thank you my lovely and hansem Jestians..

For your time and interest :)

Take care, God bless and I hope you keep on following my adventures.

Next Im gonna skydive.
Kidding - im too chicken shit for that.

Enjoy!
And always look at the half full part of the cup.

Trainers and R2D2

Today is an awesome day.
I found a capability I thought I dint have.. for one.

You'd keep a pair of trainers, change of gym clothes and a racquet somewhere in your car, just in case. You are a sports dyke.

Im one of them gym class heroes.
But this hero has a weakness. THE TREADMILL.

I'd do cycling. Body combat. Weights. Badminton. But...
I never thought I cud run. Until today.

Normally, when I feel my toxins are high and like a slob.. I have trouble sleeping.

That means my mind is tired but my body is not. Imbalance.

That is a sign - I need to gym.

Gym until I cud almost feel blood oozing out along wt my sweat. Then I call it quits. I cant help it, Im an extremist.

Today I made a change. I did it because I missed her.
I wanted to see her. I knew she was gonna run at the park. And so I asked her if I cud join her. And like we both won a trophy, she said "Yes of course baby!"

And so, for the first time, I ran.
And omg, I ran. Like for the first time. We joked. I didnt care if the other serious runners saw me playing as we ran along. Felt the wind against my face. Felt my happy hormones dirembeskan. Lol!

Mmg pergh to the ohsem!

I went home knowing that the personalised goodie bags came today. Max' birthday party bag, chocolate coin, bubble bottles and kitkat. All with a msg a young jedi knight, Master Max is turning 5. With his fav character - R2D2.

It was like my birthday wishes that was coming true. My dad looked at the items and said "kids birthday these days tsk tsk tsk". Maybe I dint get a birthday like that, but my dad spent everything to educate us overseas becoz he saw the importance of it. But I saw the importance of giving the best of everything to my son. Be it birthday, clothes, toys and of course an educatn.

Afterall, this money cant follow me when Im dead and gone but he wud remember me for all the memories we had.

And so.. today is surely an awesome day.

And girl, I would run again, only if you are by my side.

Catching ma breath, letting it go...

And some modelling wont hurt - running aftermath.

Solemnizatn and such

I for one dread this kinda event, mostly becoz of the pity shit that I dont need, that I get from some "caring" family members.
Those that know me personally know im a free happy soul.

Mostly I dread sbb kena dress up. Kali ni mother of the bride requested everyone to wear white. Well, the only white article I have is my own baju nikah and in effort not to over-shadow the bride, I found yg ini.

I dont see the need in having to go out there just to buy something for the nite. No, im not that sorta person. I buy what I want, when I want.

White shirt, burgandy jeans.. nice black watch, cray shoes. Im still within the thema they chose. Just the versatile sort. And thank god for my gun, that's my perfect alibi.

To the beautiful bride and groom,
Yang penting bukanla hari perkahwinan tetapi mengekalkan perkahwinan itu.
So im gonna doa for a long life happiness, together, forever. Ameen.

Incident-al.

Incidents.
Sometimes it is a muse just observing and seeing the way people react towards Jules and I. Im glad Jules have the same sense of humour so we can both laugh at it, and say... chomei.. *these straight ppl.

Streties.
Streties have evolved into the cooler, more understanding species. I have friends who started questioning the change in my FB account. These and that. I've also friends knowing my whole life story, and come to accept the present part of it.

Sometimes they dont understand, and then they try to and make up their assumptions based on the amount they can accept and comprehend, and Jules and I find that cute.

Incident 1 - Tagging tak ikut standard yg ditetapkan. (Is there one to begin with?)
Jules have a sweet co-worker called Zoey. Zoey is genuinely nice. I know so from the stories Jules have told me. Zoey acknowledges Jules as a bro. She drops comments such as "awak sgt hansem hari ni". Typical gals comments. Then came the day Jules introduced her to me.. and so, I walked up to them and looked at Zoey.. "hi you must be zoey?" She said hi, i intro-ed myself, shook her hands and like lightning zoey made an exit to leave for home.

Then the next day, she told Jules how shocked she was because we looked alike. She din even hear my name when I intro-ed my name. Wow. We look alike ke?

And suddenly it hit me, she meant alike as in same polarity! She was expecting a girly girl, until she met me. It shocked her and prolly she cudnt comprehend and digest that much, so she made her exit. So chomei kan?

We'd give her time, she'll figure.

Incident 2 - Curious, unsure of tagging.
Jest enters the toilet, my sporty spice friend spots me..
Sporty spice: "Eh Jest, do u wanna join the walk by N3stl3?"
Jest: *thinks and hear.. a walk? "A walk"
SS: Yea, its a walk. U can bring ur son to join in and that "one" you always take picture with.
Jest: *lol "It has a name you know"
SS: what's that one's name.
Jest: Her name is Jules.
SS: Yea all your pix u post online must hav her and your son. Who is she ahr?
Jest: *i swear i cud say that is my bride but instead "she is my best friend"
SS: Oh, always must have her wan.. u guys stay nearby izzit?
Jest: *yea we share a bed and at times... "something like that" and continues to talk about N3stl3 walk then.

SS was just trying to accept it, or curious. And an invitation to join similar activity means she is ok with it.

Streties chomei.
The genuine ones ask you stret to ur face.
Those that wants a gossip will ask your friends.
You will come to know which is which soon.

If you think your label of dating gets the "eyes" from ppl around.. lol what till you see us, even gay couples stare at us!

Meloney and Baloney

Walking my sister's big Tony Meloney at the dog's park.

That was how the weekend started.

Or the idea of it, because Tony is such a blob, it was more like we carried him around.

Jules, Trixy and I agreed we shud get him one of the dog stroller's.

He is minimum 7kgs and having to carry him, in his cage is NO JOKE!

Today we did the same, only all three us boys did the walking.

Prior to that we ran errands.

Max' birthday is coming. We got us party pack goodies for an unbelievable price.

A toy item that is being sold for rm 5 at the mall, we got it for rm2 at wisma kenanga.

Jules and I both did a jaw drop as we walked out of the shop!

Kakak indon yg jual tuh igt kitorg niaga! 

Oh well, im glad I have frens who knows where to get what.

Im done with almost everything except his cake!

Kes gaduh dgn mom pasal slipa crocz Max pun dah settle.

The modern granma try to control everything.

When I questn about nenek controlling how she brought us three gals up, she sentap.

But I am well aware she wants the best for max.

So I focus on her good intentions.

So tonite, Jules and I will be happily curled up.

Knowing we completed our tasks for today.

Jules baby,

Kasut ayg we carik at ave k or klcc.

sama2 kay ayg?

S Health says we all walked a handsome 10060 steps today!

Yeay!

Happy Monday fav jestians!

Hah, ni dier tony meloney who feeds on baloneys..