Today is the 13th day of Ramadhan. Life’s getting busier and busier for me as the days progress towards Aidil Fitri… with husband (Nik) away in Jakarta, with two kids in tow and with all the cookies and cakes to bake for my customers… I bet it’s gonna be the most challenging time of the year.
Last weekend was the busiest day in my entire life for Year 2005 (whhooaaa!!!) and it was an extremely tiring and gloomy weekend for me. Saturday, after sahur (around 5am), I stayed up to bake some 500 pcs. of my hot-selling Chocolate Oat cookies. The baking lasted until 9am -10am (wasn’t really sure as I was too engrossed with my baking activities). After baking, I cleaned up the utility room downstairs, Nik removed the extra bed and a cabinet from the room and fixed the cable TV… haaa… now I have ample space to store my baking supplies and cookie-jars, PLUS I can now watch the TV while baking (no more missing on CSI, Desperate Housewives, Charmed and the likes).
Around noon, I was already exhausted but had to do some last minute shopping for Nik’s trip to Jakarta on Monday. We went to Mid Valley and he bought a pair of Nike Shox – after spending a mere 10 minutes of brain-cracking moments to decide whether he should get a pair of shoes worth RM200+ or RM600+…… will let you marvel on the decision he made. (I forgot to snap a photo of those cool shoes…maybe will do that when he comes back), toiletries stuff and some stationery items. It was almost 3pm when we decided to go down to Jusco supermarket to buy some dried food for him. Then suddenly he thought that he needed to get something from 1-Utama… zzoooomm….. Off we went to 1-Utama. It was almost 6.30pm when we were back at home… running through the items that we bought before it was time for us to break our fast.
On Sunday, like it was planned, the cycle of shop-hopping repeated itself. Only the trip was shorter as we have bought most of the items already on Saturday. We were back at home quite early - around 2pm. Speedily, I put on my ‘baking-suit’ and started running around the kitchen, like a woody woodpecker, and crashing through every single thing that got in the way, baking my cookies again. Pheeewww…. What a weekend for me.
Although I was busy all the way, I tried as much to avoid talking / discussing about Nik going away. There were times when thoughts were not shared or exchanged between us….. Just silence being sandwiched by the two of us, as we sat there in the car. This is the first time he’s going away for a period longer than 3-4 days, after almost 9 years of staying close together since we got married. That explains the gloominess I felt last weekend despite my busy schedule….I guess sometimes you hardly think about the things that you share with your other half... like your life, your time, your laughter, your sadness, your joy, your passion, until times like this. Hmm....life is really an experience.
Nevertheless, life has to progress, no matter what and here I am, not progressing much since this morning….. hahaha!
“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards."
-author unknown
Last weekend was the busiest day in my entire life for Year 2005 (whhooaaa!!!) and it was an extremely tiring and gloomy weekend for me. Saturday, after sahur (around 5am), I stayed up to bake some 500 pcs. of my hot-selling Chocolate Oat cookies. The baking lasted until 9am -10am (wasn’t really sure as I was too engrossed with my baking activities). After baking, I cleaned up the utility room downstairs, Nik removed the extra bed and a cabinet from the room and fixed the cable TV… haaa… now I have ample space to store my baking supplies and cookie-jars, PLUS I can now watch the TV while baking (no more missing on CSI, Desperate Housewives, Charmed and the likes).
Around noon, I was already exhausted but had to do some last minute shopping for Nik’s trip to Jakarta on Monday. We went to Mid Valley and he bought a pair of Nike Shox – after spending a mere 10 minutes of brain-cracking moments to decide whether he should get a pair of shoes worth RM200+ or RM600+…… will let you marvel on the decision he made. (I forgot to snap a photo of those cool shoes…maybe will do that when he comes back), toiletries stuff and some stationery items. It was almost 3pm when we decided to go down to Jusco supermarket to buy some dried food for him. Then suddenly he thought that he needed to get something from 1-Utama… zzoooomm….. Off we went to 1-Utama. It was almost 6.30pm when we were back at home… running through the items that we bought before it was time for us to break our fast.
On Sunday, like it was planned, the cycle of shop-hopping repeated itself. Only the trip was shorter as we have bought most of the items already on Saturday. We were back at home quite early - around 2pm. Speedily, I put on my ‘baking-suit’ and started running around the kitchen, like a woody woodpecker, and crashing through every single thing that got in the way, baking my cookies again. Pheeewww…. What a weekend for me.
Although I was busy all the way, I tried as much to avoid talking / discussing about Nik going away. There were times when thoughts were not shared or exchanged between us….. Just silence being sandwiched by the two of us, as we sat there in the car. This is the first time he’s going away for a period longer than 3-4 days, after almost 9 years of staying close together since we got married. That explains the gloominess I felt last weekend despite my busy schedule….I guess sometimes you hardly think about the things that you share with your other half... like your life, your time, your laughter, your sadness, your joy, your passion, until times like this. Hmm....life is really an experience.
Nevertheless, life has to progress, no matter what and here I am, not progressing much since this morning….. hahaha!
“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards."
-author unknown
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