Coretan petang Khamis

salam
ada beberapa orang kawan yang saya sudah kongsi pengalaman diri sendiri.
pengalaman saya tidaklah sehebat mana, tapi saya suka untuk berkongsi.
sapa yang kenal saya, well, u ols mesti tau yang i ols memang suka bercerita kan

saya tak payahlah bercerita siapa saya sebelum kanser. membuka pekung didada kot..haha..

saya start pakai tudung 2 bulan sebelum saya diagnosed with breast cancer.
alhamdulillah. saya mulai sedar banyak perkara.
20 Dec 2012, saya diagnosed with BC, followed with chemo and mastectomy.

well, semua itu saya harungi dengan tabah dan redha berkat doa keluarga, kawan2 dan ihsan Allah SWT.
lama-kelamaan, saya mula berubah sikap. A friend of mine testified to this during our recent teambuilding trip. How and what?

well, berserah segalanya kepada Allah SWT.
Jika sempat, buatlah yang sunat lagi2 yang muakkad. Solat sunat dhuha, Tahajjud, etc.
berdoalah banyak2. serius.

Don't sweat the small things and yet don't ignore them all-together.

Prioritise yang perlu seperti family, time for yourself, time with friends.
Take some time off. Leave at 5.30 from the office and go have coffee.i do this now.
I bought things that i like now, like Tupperware which i thought were outrageous before.
but hey, i no longer feel anything even if i walked into MNG or Zara with full-wallet.
Even when someone actually willing to pay for it. so nak jaga hati punya pasal, i grab a selendang which cost about rm20.

moralnya, material possession is simply very worldly and distracts us what really important.
balance it out and your life will be balanced.
i thought i'm gonna go crazy if i don't do shopping every month.
it turned out, i am a window shopper now except for occasional socks, etc.

apa aku nak cakap sebenarnya, bila sebut rezeki, mata masing2 dah $$$. no my friend.
me myself only noticed this when i slow down a lil.

it's our health. time with family. work. then only the money.
i no longer feel the pressure at work now. in fact, work assignments are completed timely.well, except those that i intended to postpone anyway.

and someone told me i am no longer "fierce" like before.
well, i didn't really notice it but i do know i mellow down a lil bit.
why? avoid unnecessary stress.
if you can't change it, well, why bother stressing over it?

i used to listen to music channels 1st thing in the morning.
now, i will make sure my UNIC CD is played and nyanyilah lagu nasyid ke, Ya Hanana ke, lagu doa harian ke,pastuh baru switch to music channels.itupun kalau aku ingat nak tukar.
why? if we sing along to Penghulu Istighfar every morning, bukan ke lebih baik mulakan hari dengan itu dari menyanyi lagu yang, well, tiada pengisian? and kita sedang berzikir and beristighfar bila ikut CD UNIC? ini contoh tau. suka hati kaulah nak dengar lagu apa pun.

eh banyak dah aku tulis neh.

bottomline, kalau kita nak berubah ke arah lebih baik, buat sikit2 pun takpe.
dan cubalah.
trust in Allah SWT and qada & qadarnya. insyaallah, everything will place into places.mungkin tanpa kita sedari.relax, jangan nak kelam kabut sangat tapi plan ahead.

insyaallah, hati akan tenang. macam saya. hehehe..

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No No No...neh takde kaitan dengan kanser ahkak atau apa2 yang berkaitan dengan adegan potong memotong macam dalam video yang ahkak tgk hari tuh.
errr..yang mana satu?
adaaaa...dalam FB...nanti ahkak carik ek...seriius ganas weyy..sebelum tuh..minum air luuu

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Tempat Molek, tanoh suboooorrrr

Minggu cuti krismas neh ahkak habiskan kat Terengganu.
Best tak kampung laki ahkak?
korang sibuk2 nak jalan pantai timur, ahkak balik kampung je kau...
"tempat molek, tanah suborrr..nanananana teganu kiteeeeeeeeeeeeeee"

Kuala Terengganu Waterfront

Baru ku tahu

Ya Allah.
Hari ini makin sakit dada belah kanan neh.
Mungkin kesan radioterapi. Hopefully it's the effect of it.
Not the effect of metastasis whatsoever.

Sebelum ini, aku hanya membaca mengenai kesakitan yang dialami oleh pesakit2 kanser including seorang senior di SMSS yang sudah pun menjadi arwah. Al Fatihah buat Dalilah Tamrin.

Unwelcomed Anniversary

Dec 20th 2012. I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer which was later confirmed at stage 3 due to the size of the tumour. Which was also later confirmed still contained at my right breast area.

Alhamdulillah. Grateful. yes i am.it could have been worst.

So, it's almost the anniversary of being a cancer patient.

Of course, i have worries. questions. but don't get me wrong, i have fully accepted my fate.

fully accepted the fact that my life will never be the same.

The truth is, this year hasn't changed me that much except maybe, well, i have  surrendered my right breast along with some lymph nodes to the good doctors.

and i am much more forgetful.

and I feel nice, like sugar and spice

i feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel nice neneneneneney!!

haaaamboi kau jah. happy nampak?

mana ahkak tak happy. hmmm...the right term is actually "feel good, feel nice".

Lack of outdoor activity for so long makes me feel lethargic.
I needed to do something. Anything.

Then, it came from Syed. Idea of feeding the homeless is great. Of course, tak pernah buat kan.
adalah sceptical sikit. but still do-able. can, can. why not try something new kan?

Next, out the emails and commitments from friends on the sponsors and donations.
Next thing we knew, we already had everything in no time.
Alhamdulillah. Won't you feel good if you're surrounded by good-hearted people?
The sponsors not only, well, sponsor, but they also helped during the packing of stuffs and on the actual itself. They have my respect.

Sempat lagi posing kauuuuuuuuuu....lepas pekena teh tarik seme naik high ke hapa?

huish...bahaya...

Into the coldness :Cameron Highland

First thing first.

Survival tip in CH: Bring your sweater/thick cardigan/windbreaker.

Ko nak pakai baju sejuk yang berketul2 tuh pun takpe.

It was purely an ad-hoc trip.

Planned and booked on saturday Nov 30th itself.

sp, ke Cameron la kami.

Last trip as in 2002 or 2003 kot.

Aku pun dokla mencari hotel. Takde research sangat la pun.

ambik je mana yg ada least negative remarks kat tripadvisor.

nak pegi stroberi park bilik mcm RM400 je..mcm mahal je...

bottomline, aku taknak yang dekat town.

dan dengar2 Brinchang is the most sejuk part of CH.

so, off we go.

Finale of Radiotherapy

Nov 27th. #15.

Just like that. My radiotherapy session has ended today.
15 times in-a-row except for weekends.

15 times of to-and-fro driving from Glenmarie to UMMC/PPUM/UH via NPE.
15 times of seeing the almost familiar faces everyday.
15 times of chit-chatting with a bunch of friendly radiographers.
15 times of changing into hospital robes.
15 times of feeling nothingness when strangers look unto your body and draw lines with markers.

i am just glad it's all over.
Parking space in PPUM is precious especially during the school holiday.

Options?
1. Get someone to drive you there and wait for you. The procedure minus the waiting time is only 10mins.
    Get yourself to the Oncology-Radio section by 11.30am and the most is having 3 people ahead of you.
    If you go at 8am, you will have at least 20pax ahead of you
2. Park at Crystal crown hotel and take a cab there.
3. Park by the roadside,
4. Naik taxi all the way. habis citer.

Now, i get to enjoy my "sunburnt" skin and it's starting to get itchy here and there.
Panas but bearable.

neh la gambar machine yang aku dok mengadap tuh. Baring je kat atas katil pastuh mesin bulat tuh akan pegi mana yang disetkan.
excuse me, mmg tak nampak hapa ok. ko cuma tau mesin tuh jalan sebab ada bunyi.
kat PPUM cuma ada 1 mesin je. so, kalau rosak, mmg dorang akan call untuk postpone treatment.
last week, ada sehari mesin rosak. so dorang ganti hari sabtu pagi.

jadi kaedahnya, lepas neh ada appoitnment for review saja.

insyallah, everything is gonna be fine saja.

hopefully dah tak payah lah pegi mengadap semua2 neh lagi,

A Taste of Indo-China III

haaaa....yeayyyy...boleh balik dah katanyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...........

Okay. Pagi2 sempat lagi pegi kedai Rohani Collection kau. mana taknya, sebelah hotel je.

sebenarnya sebab kedai neh je yang kami jumpa jual kain cotton 4m bidang 45.

ok. enough with shopping2.

on the way balik, dalam cab vitasun yang bersih tuh, i tried to absorb the pemandangan la kan.

1 thing that i've been noticing since i set foot in HCM.

Generally, the city is clean. No obvious sampah sarap.

pembersih jugak depa neh ye,.

huh...

ko tengok one of the parks yang ada di sekitar HCM.

tempat orang melepak2 hujung minggu. dating kot..

tapi dari jauh memang nampak bersih.

so, is it mentaliti? apa yang depa ajar kat sekolah? interesting.

Lah..aku dok harping Vitasun..rupanya nama cab depa Vinasun..hahahahahahha

ada je cab lain tapi cab neh recommended lagi,.

Haji Karim ada cerita history cab2 kat HCM neh tapi malas nak repeat :P

So, sila lah naik taxi bermeter neh dengan konfiden ye.

Aku ada nampak outlet Adidas somewhere along the way.

Tapi laki den cakap mahal drpd Malaysia regenye.

so tak rugi la kot tak pegi pun.

Kedai neh plak, biasa je.

tapi bila tengok menu dekat2, siap tulis kau "Ice Kachang".

Jangan lupa, kat sini kan ada Melayu Champa.

either that or again they ol memang familiar dengan bahasa melayu.

Neh airport HCM.

Sekali pandang macam airport KK pun ada..

Airport nye takde surau. ke aku yang x jumpa?

so overall, i enjoyed my 3D2N trip to Ho Chi Minh.

aku nak pegi lagi tapi dengan syarat either:

1. Beli barang untuk dijual OR

2. Jalan2 jauh2 sikit like Mekong. Tunnel tuh aku x minat sgt. x muat...hahahha

Jangan lupa bawak botol air - untuk ke bilik air. 

most toilet takde paip air ..

Antara hasil rampasan yang ada kat HCM:-

Cantik kan greeting card tuh?

Ko nampak? duduk sederet dalam flight ..beg sammaaaaaaa je..hahahah

Antara kedai2 yang kami pegi:-

Sila baca description kat beg plastik depa..dan jangan gelak tau..

so, sapa lagi nak pegi?

jangan lupa ajak aku :P..

(tapi kalau ko tak bawak makanan macam Tini & Put aku taknak ikut..hehehehe)

Sekian. Entry last untuk trip ke HCM.

NOTE: Geng2 mak2 dara SMSS94 - nak ke mana pasneh?

Bandung jom.heheheheh

A Taste of Indo-China II

Did is share what we had in Serai on our first night?

oh well, i had Fried Rice in Coconut..

but i couldn't even eat the coconut flesh nor did the rice taste coconuty at all.

The fried rice was nice yeah but..no coconut la weyy machaaaa...

Tini has Tomyam fried rice minus the tomyam taste (how on earth whould they call it Tomyam fried rice if daun limau at all? helllooowwwwww)

Put has Pho. Traditional local food in Vietnam.

I guess it's also the national food kot..

ala..macam Tomyam for Thai, Bakso for Indon, Telur-ada-anak-ayam for phillipines and nasi-lemak-what-nots for Malaysia.

ko nampak sesuatu yang bentuk love tuh? tuh bingka ubi. not bad tapi kuih-muih biasa je la.

yang jeli2 tuh plak jeli kelapa. again, bersepah kat Malaysia.

Spesel nye? Jeli kelapa tuh la. sebab dia ambik guna tangan je kau!

dan aku dah makan 2 biji...b4353243212122234345645%#$^^%%$%&^ betul la!

Credit to Putriati : Pho, Coconut Fried Rice & Tomyam Fried Rice in SERAI

Okay. The morning of 2nd day.

We started the day by having breakfast at the 10th floor of Thien Xuan hotel.

The top floor la kan.

ada balcony and these are the view:-

Nampak apa pun tak tau la

Yang Central2 neh hotel kot?

haaaaaaa..this one baru meaningful...hahahahahha.

ko nampak bangunan 1 tingkat penyek atap buruk tuh?

tuh la Ben tHanh market. tp bahagian wet la.

yang atap segitiga immeadiately sebelah tuh baru the dry section.

Yang neh plak location of Taka Plaza, Hong Anh, Kedai beg.

belakang2 tuh Saigon Square, Maybank, etc.

Since during breakfast, ada pakcik siam-keje-kat-Malaysia bagitau Russian market is a place to go, so we decided nak pegi la.

Naik cab Vitasun. Rege dalam 30k-40k DONG. ahkak x hengat la uolsss...

so equivalent to 6-8 hengget la satu kereta.

memang tak mahal sebab xla jauh sangat.

Bangunan apa ntah tuh.

korang tau?

tapi Russian Market neh opposite sungai Saigon.err..ye ke?

ce ko cek..kuakuakua..

neh la Russian Market.

dah kenapa? ko hengat macam Ben Thanh ke?

Russian Market

takde maknanya..dalam dia macam ...hmmm...supermarket apa yang 2 tingkat dan penuh dengan baju2, ada kasut sikit, beg sikit...

pakcik siam tuh kata, ada satu kedai, jual beg ORI tp murah.

bila kami tanya, mana dapat? dia selamba kata, CURI.

hahahahha..ntahla labu. ahkak pun tak tau betul ke tak

yang pasti, kami pegi jugak kedai tuh. Orang kata nak tau ori ke tak, tgk zip. kalau handle zip tuh dari YKK, then ori la.

suka ati la...

Taka Plaza

Haaaa...lepas tuh kami direct ke Taka Plaza plak..

 Kedai beg gojes kami pun sebelah Taka je. Banyak gila beg. Tak hengat nama dia tapi mmg beg saja. Harga beg pun murah untuk beg yang cantik. Locally made, suede lagi, minus the brand2 yang memang ahkak tak mampu nak beli poooonnn..

 Kaedahnya Taka Plaza sama mcm Russian Market.

Cuma sini lebih banyak barang spt gelang2, rantai2, jam2, acce handphone, mainan KAYU (yang Tini & Put bargain kaw2 smpi 200KVDN. Hambek kau,...1USD pun depa takmo kasi..

aku plak dok sibuk tengok baju kat kedai baju kat situ...budak neh lagi fluent cakap melayu kau..

siap tolong aku top-up kredit lagi.

rupanya dia pun dah biasa ke Malaysia. Adik dia dilahirkan kat Malaysia siap ha.

Then,either Put or Tini beli Jubah kat situ. hmm...ke dua2? 

yang penting, adik tuh siap tunjuk lagi kat mana Maybank. Belakang Saigon Square je...

at least dia sanggup bawak kami jalan about 100m untuk tunjuk jalan je...okay la tuh...

Pastuh, kami singgah butik fave Tini, Butik Hong Anh.

Nama je butik tapi rege lebih kurang je dengan kedai2 lain. so mmg best lah.

tapi aku perasan dia ada jual barang2 guna kain cotton putih. and as usual, mmg pricey la.

again, design nye either you like or not je la. otherwise rege ke, kain ke, sama je.

Kedai seterusnya, lain cerita.

Kedai Duc Thinh silk store. kedai neh walaupun ada jual kain cotton, chiffon bagai (kami masuk pun sebab nampak baju kurung chiffon selling at RM50 kau), dia specialise in silk.

macam2 silk ada.

ada satu tu, ya ampunnnnnn..lembut gilak!!!

stop meroyan zatul oii....tak mampu ko nak..dahlah ko tuh x pandai jaga baju..okay.aku diam.

Ben Thanh Market

Okay. Kami meneruskan perjalanan ke Ben Thanh market yang Tini agak tak berkenan.

hehehe...sebab ? bila bahagian yang bukan BTT (non-fixed-price area), depa bulih main tarik2 cuit2 ko lagi,

"akak, sini murah", "akak, beli sini", "akak, cantik2"..takde plak yang kata "akak, meh saya bagi free".

aku wat bodo je la. lagipun aku dah bengang tgk rege baju oya. sebab aku beli kat Pasar malam the night before mahal daripiada pasar! viva betul la...

lenkali beli kat pasar sudah..

so, aku ada misi kat pasar neh. aku masuk bahagian kain nak tgk kedai yang fofular kat forum tempatan.

takdela murah punnnnnn.....murah lagi kat kedai haaaaaaaaaaaa

choyyyy..tapi at least aku dah tgk sendiri...so seeing is believing.

Tapi kat pasar neh macam2 ko boleh tengok dan beli.

dan memang dipenuhi dengan orang malaysia ko hengat ko ada dalam Pasar Payang hokkkaayyyy...

Kedai Haji Karim

Lepas makan, kami terjah lagi kedai kain Hajah Basiroh & Haji Karim untuk beli barang yang  dikirim..ehem...dijual...

Masuk2 kedai Haji Karim, hambek ko, hujan lebat.

sempat lagi kami jadi fashion advisor to a Malaysian Chinese lady nak beli baju kurung.

Berborak dengan other Malaysians bagai nak rak padahal kalau kat Malaysia, belum tentu bertegur sapa kalau jumpa kat bus stop pun,.,,,

Vietnam Coffee

sebab lama sangat tunggu, Haji Karim siap order kan air dari cafe kat atas lagi...Coffee Anh nama kedai tuh..

ke Anh neh bahasa vietnam untuk kedai?

aku dah gugel dan aku konpius....hehehhehe

terima kasih abang-yang-dah-setahun-duduk-HCM -tapi-tak-pernah-round2.

Dia belanja okaayyy....mau 6 hengget gak kot...ye ke? lupa laaa

oh ye...on your way to HCM, be nice to the people you gonna meet

sebab confirm ko akan terserempak dengan dorang masa ko round2 HCM or masa ko nak balik

macam kitaorang, 150juta kali kot jumpa orang yang sama..

termasuk satu kakak dan adik dia yang hensem. Jumpa kat kedai Hajah Basiroh je.

pastuh, kalau kami neh bukan mak2 orang, mau aku kata antara kami neh ada jodoh kot ngan mamat tuh,...

huahuahua..

pastuh balik pun flight yang sama tau!!!

haih..kecik nye dunia..

so, day 2 ends here. 

nanti aku sambung meroyan kat last entry pasal HCM trip neh.