I have a thing for drummer boys…

Ian and I started dating since November 2004. At that time I just broke up with my ex of almost 5 years and he just broke up with his ex a couple weeks before I did. So our friendship grew more out of our support for each other…

During the first few days of Hari Raya in 2004, I went to Penang with my family. Ian is also from Penang so he too, balik kampung for raya.

After few days there, I was bored, so Ian asked me out. I tot, no harm “friends” hanging out right? So he came over to the hotel, picked me up and went out. He took me to an open house, one of his friends. Which was fun. Anything is fun when there’s Penang food involved!!! Some more home cooked!!! Yummay…

The next night, we went out for dinner (food, food, Penang food). Not just the two of us, but with his friends. After shopping at Feringghi walk, I tot it would be nice to take a walk by the beach. U know… just to talk and stuff :P

A funny thing happened that night. As we got there, we walked past a group of people having fun, playing by the beach. Some children were laughing and I can see some adults fishing or something. Then suddenly…

“KAK NADIA!!!!”, said my lil sister.

Kantoi! Lol. I know. I know. What was I thinking right? Want to bercinta at a place where I knew my family was going be at. (For the record, I tot everyone would be asleep already by that time!)

Hmphh…So anyways… everyone was there. My mom, my stepdad, my sis, my uncle, his wife and their two daughters, my maksu… oh gosh. (But we still found a nice place to sit and talk).

I guess it was the moonlight, sea breeze, I dunno. But I fell HARD for him that night. The warm tingly, feeling you get when you fall in love. Sigh… We talked and talked, and I knew that there was no turning back. Fast forward a few months, drama here, drama there. We became an item on December 1, 2004.

Now comes the reason why I wrote this whole post. (Peeps, please prepare a bag or something coz I think you are gonna barf after reading this… or tissues.. :P)

I’m writing this post is because… after almost 5 years down the road (and a shitload of couple issues) I just recently started to feel the kinda love I felt the first time I fell in love with him…

Not that I didn’t love him throughout the years… but I’m starting to get that warm and tingly feeling again every time were together. I don’t know what he did, what I did. But I really feel like whatever shit that happened in the past, really meant nothing. And I’m really glad that he stayed by me through good, the bad times and the really REALLY bad times. I guess it just makes us stronger.

So to my dear Ian Johan Ariff, my drummer boy, my best friend, my husband… my life. I love you with all my heart and soul.

Addiction…

Right at this very moment, I’m happily sipping my second bungkus of Nescafe Ais. I just had a cup about 3 hours ago. The sweet and rich taste of sweetened condensed milk, mixed with coffee … oooohhhh…. it really gets me going. I try to limit it to once a day, but its Friday… might as well let loose and indulge?

HAPPY Birthday?

What a birthday. Before I start ranting about what a nightmare of a birthday I had, let’s talk about the positives shall we. I’d like to thank everyone who called, text, Facebook-ed… reminding me that I’m another year older. I still feel as if I just left uni, but in fact it’s been almost 3 years! And almost 10 years have passed since I left school. Its time for a reunion people!!!

Oh, and thanks to Ian, Hirda, Shaz, Aainaa and Yasir who came and celebrated with me that night. Thanks sayang for the beday pressie… I LOVE IT!!

Here is how it all started…

I woke up the next day, feeling dreadful and I know already that this is not going to be a good day. Today was the day I have to deliver some products to all the publications in town. And I know that it’s going to be tiring. So I decided to go to the office earlier to clear some emails, etc.

The moment I left my apartment, I was stuck in this really bad jam. Usually the jam would start a bit further down at Jelatek heading towards Jalan Ampang, but this time, on my birthday, the jam was soo bad that it took me like 20 minutes to just pass two traffic lights.

Then, things got worse. I was soo immersed in cursing and swearing about the jam that I didn’t notice that I had a flat tyre. Thank god this nice guy pointed it out, otherwise, habis koyak my rim. It was around 8ish so workshop belum open lagi. Had to wait for hubby to come and we switched cars.

Because I was late, I didn’t go to the office, so didn’t check emails. Whatever. Off I went for my delivery… after about 4 stops, then my shoe putus. So I had to wear this really uncomfortable kasut for my delivery. Then I noticed this other shoe pun macam nak putus. But I kept on wearing em coz I didn’t have a choice. The other shoe i had was a killer! Then, the other shoe pun gave up on me. Haih.

At about 4ish, we still had a few more stops for the day. I was excited to finish off a bit more today so that we could finish everything by tomorrow earlier. Happily I walked back to my car. I sat down and then “Prrakkkk”… my seluar koyak!!!

Because of that, I had to cut my delivery short. Went back to the office and cleared some urgent work. Even that turned out bad. Last Saturday client realised I made a boo boo and selected the wrong copy for this brochure that I’m working on. This was the biggest boo boo to top off my unlucky streak. I mean it was only one word that was wrong, but still... no one noticed it. Not even client when they approved it! haih..

So there. Some birthday eh?