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Tuesday, January 25, 2022

I dance as I'm falling.........

 But I never touch the ground.......

It's been a long while since I checked back into this dimension. My mind has not been able to focus on anything,really.

For one, I did go on a short holiday just to let the kids go see dinosaur animatronics. It was fun. I liked how the Brachiosaurus was in full scale since it was outdoors. I have been missing the sea breeze and sunlight and just wetting my feet in sea water while walking by the beach and collecting shells. Managed to get shitloads of bug bites all over my legs.

Yusuf turned 9 on the 21st but we had to keep the celebration on the minimum coz he's not well. He's been coughing and with his history of lungs that are very sensitive, Shu and I are always looking for out him extra when he's sick especially when it involves him coughing. The doctor said he's not wheezing or anything serious. He's just coughing and it hurts his rib cage when he gets into a series of coughs non-stop. Sometimes, I'd see him fall asleep looking exhausted. 

He's 9 this year! OMG! He understands the value of money so he's quite careful when asking for a birthday present. Also, he realized that he has shitloads of toys anyways. The 2 babies wanted to go to Toys 'R' Us of course........to get Yusuf's birthday present. Shu took them to a game store instead and got him a game card for his switch.

Our last meeting with Eeno was on the 20th. He told me that he's never worked so hard in his life. I think it's good that he feels that way because when you work in an office environment, you don't always give it a 110% and even on days that you slack off, you'd still get paid at the end of the month. And still, people complain about their jobs. 

Shu has been managing people working in his office for years and everytime he comes home and talks to me about people in general, we'd always have the same conclusion. People who work and gets paid at the end of the month regardless, would never appreciate how much effort it takes to actually makes a profit when it comes to the planning of the business and having to go for meetings to get clients. They slack off and then just apologize insincerely about their mistakes and go about with their lives and expects a paycheck at the end of the month.

I don't belong in an office environment. I don't understand what people talk about half the times and most of the time, they complain. 

Went to see my parents the other day after dropping some stuff off over at Eeno's new place. My mum was going about how my sister and her "friends" have this place for "Muslimah Women" and that they'd have yoga classes and there's a montessori for the kids and there's a cafe. I find it strange how she said it's a place for women only and when they are there they dress down. WTH does that mean? I dress down at home everyday. 

My mum always thinks that I need to belong in a community. I finally told her that I cannot belong in a community and I won't ever fit into a community especially THAT kind of community. I don't understand half the things they talk about. I can't relate to anything they talk about. They're not into abandoned properties or proton packs or welding machines.........or even cars..........WTF is Yoga?! Isn't that some sort of old people exercise because it's so low impact?

I think I just cannot relate to most people anymore and whatever it is they think is just not making sense to me.........Of course, if I start saying shit like "I am against feminism" or the term "women empowerment" has lost its true meaning, I know for a fact I'm gonna get kicked out immediately. 

Thursday, January 13, 2022

Late night hotel balcony talks

 Everytime we are on holiday somewhere away from home, Shu and I like to let the kids mellow down in bed with the lights dimmed low. Usually, it's after an entire day of activities like swimming or playing by the beach. Sometimes, we'd have coffee. Sometimes, we'd just sit outside and talk in the dark. It used to be us smoking something but we don't do that anymore........

Last night's talk was long and pretty good. We'd be married for 12 years this June and every year, we try to always be on the same page and be as transparent as we can to one another. I am usually brutally honest with a lot of things but my problems are usually emotional and just me trying to understand other human beings. Shu deals with real problems and he used to think that in order to not let me freak out or over think, somethings are just better left unsaid.

That's gonna change. I need to fucking grow up. I can't spend all my money on coffee and toys -_- and other random nonsense that only makes sense to me...........

Well, it's not a money related problem that we talked about last night. I think we're ok with that.

I seem to be facing problems understanding people, in general. People that are related to me and just people who know me. Sometimes, I have people like my cousin who'd just text me about whatever. I am the type of person who would personally text someone if I needed to ask something or say something on a personal level. It's just better that way. I also like to express things that make me happy and share the experience however I can.

I am aware that we spend a lot of our time away from home in a year. Sometimes, we're away from home every week. Sometimes, every month. It's just a way for Shu and I cope with our mental stability. A different environment. A different ambience. A different atmosphere. We don't have "friends" to have an actual "social" life. I don't know about Shu but I usually find it difficult to connect or understand people in general. I find that I am more productive when I am on my own in the studio or just dancing with the kids or working out.

I love walking along beaches and wetting my toes in the scorching hot sun. I enjoy collecting random shells or whatever and sharing it with my kids.

Last night, I told Shu that I cannot understand the signs or signals that people are sending me. I don't know if they are unhappy with themselves or if they are unhappy with what I am doing with my life or how I choose to spend my time. Either ways, Shu told me a few things that made me think a little differently about how I am perceiving all these signs. One of it being the age gap. Older people have different ways of trying to confront me. Other people are just deflecting their shortcomings by picking on every little thing I do. 

I've said this before. I like spending my time and money and energy on doing things that make me happy and the things I do may not make other people happy and that is OK because we are not the same. They make decisions which I would not choose to make but I don't think of it as a problem because that's not my call. Some people cannot accept or tolerate this and thinks that I must do what they would do.

I have come to a point in my life whereby if you were to tell me something and that is what you truly believe in doing, I'd say "you do you!" And I am happy for them. No resentment. No hard feelings. The problem is not everyone is on the same page. I really can't help them.

Anywho, the other thing we talked about was my band, RadioEdit. We were living in a different time and we had different things to deal with in our lives. Ayie was married and had a kid. Kamal was working but lived on his own. Rashid and I were university students who were living with our parents and had curfews. I spent all this time thinking that I let they guys down (Ayie and Kamal) by walking away just like that. We never actually spoke about things. 

I, for one was very much aware on how much we were spending on jamming studios. Kamal and Ayie were talking to Shu but not to me. It was weird. Maybe because I was the only girl in the band? Maybe because I was to naive and stupid to understand real world problems. But I found out from Shu last night that Ayie was actually thinking of quitting anyway because he found an actual job with a stable income for the family. The rest of us never understood that because we weren't married with kids.

Now, Kamal is beginning to sound like Ayie back in the day. I just happen to have a supportive husband like Shu and my kids are old enough for me to do the things I want to do coz they have their things to do themselves.

We had awesome materials. We worked on them real hard. Now that Ayie is no longer with us, I am more than happy to actually do something with all of the stuff we've written together. I am in it to see just how much it's worth and I am splitting equal parts with Kamal, Rashid and Ayie's family. There are millions of bands out there but I am not doing it for the fame and glory. I am not seeking any approval from anyone. I just enjoy doing it and I want to savor it for as long as it lasts. We are not the same people we were back then but we had our music. That was our connection.  

Wednesday, January 05, 2022

Legoland Friendship Fest

 The festival started in December last year but I didn't want to go get tangled up with the crowd so we delayed our trip down south. Also, the monsoon was not a good reason to be out on the roads. Weather forecast were a bit off for some reason.

We missed the opening ceremony of the Park coz KL traffic can never get any better. Years. It's been years and they only ever manage to make traffic worse EVERY. DAMN. TIME.

Anywho, the trip was short and fun. Coming back wasn't as long as heading south.

Lego Chef doing his thing

Safiyya went on the jousting ride all by herself........she even went for the second round without telling me. I was waiting for her to get off.........

Me. Dancing to Lego Friends. Typical.

Ali Imran's first time shooting hoops

Safiyya needed more help shooting hoops

Ali Imran wanted to go sea the octopus over at Sealife so I watched this show from the outside

Party in the elevator

Castle Tour

Coloring activity in the hotel play area




My favourite spot at Sealife

This was my first time seeing seahorses feed


Nusa the Octopus

Safiyya at Mia's Stables

We did our first karaoke together over at Andrea's Karaoke booth. I wanted to sing BFF or Together but they only had Bright Lights or Girlz.........so......I kinda detoured and did an Avril Lavigne number instead :p


The kids get friendship bands for trying activities at the booths

We were hungry. This was brunch.


Safiyya queuing all by herself

Jousting away


ANUBIS!


Boarding the plane over at Lego City Airport

There was a show outside while I was waiting in line for the Lego Friends live show

Waited for so long and got front row seats.........


Lego Santa

Ali Imran wanted to see the Lego Christmas Tree

Funny how Safiyya wasn't in this pic

Hotel Lobby


Our room this time

Kingdom themed


Playing Duplo blocks before bed

Breakfast




Frosty outside the hotel entrance

Christmas tree

I have a photo of Yusuf at this same exact spot doing the same thing when he was a year old and we first took him here.

Lego Christmas Tree

Coloring



Coffee is a must

Beluga loving people


Clams




Baby sharks


Shu coloring





Nusa the majestic octopus

Lego Knight at the hotel lobby

Mr White????