gigit your shoes...

There's an old wives' tale that if you want to avoid having blisters when wearing a new pair of shoes, you ought to gigit the shoe first before it gigits you... an advice that I did not heed and am now paying the price.

Tu lah... the price for wanting to be a fashionista yesterday. Decided to wear this grey baju kurung yang sangat comfortable and senang gosok... and when I went to ambik kasut I remembered that I have the perfect pair of shoes to go with it :) Felt good in the ensemble... received compliments too throughout the day walaupun baju tu bukannya baru and dah pakai banyak kali. Must be the shoes... me strutting around in it, hehe. Too much strutting kut, hence the blister.

Went back to work yesterday. As expected, mailbox full, various documents required reviewing and I had no less than 3 discussions. What's new...

But the best thing about yesterday were the smiles that I see when I give people their things... even the simple act of distributing Reeses invited grins. Bliss!

The day before, similar excitement with my family... Before I left, Farisa had mentioned that I'm relatively generous with my family members. Well, when the simple act of giving brings such joy... it makes me feel good. Patutlah people exchange gifts during Christmas.

Last night I tallied the receipts... goodness me! It was more than what I had expected... habis lah all the arrears that we recently received. Nasib baik for the salary revision. But like that Mastercard advertisement: the feeling and experience is priceless :)

Today awal2 pagi lagi I dah made plans for lunch with ARG. Nowadays if nak lunch together, kena arrange awal2... via email, sametime. Tak macam dulu... just angkat muka and toleh kiri je. The same with the rest as well. Everyone dah spread out and with new responsibilities... But nonetheless, managed to get a quorum with the usual suspects. Cuma MM je takde coz she's baking in the sun in KK with her family. AAA is always dependable for suggestions on tempat makan and MZ completes the quartet.

Tapi sekali around 12pm got a call from suruh ikut pergi office FSTEP pulak. I frantically sms-ed ARG, AAA and MZ on my way down to the basement apologising that I have to pull out. They all semua merajuk kata I ditched them... wahai abang2 ku ini, dinda tak bermaksud untuk meng-ditch. Will have to make it up to them one of these days...

So instead, ikut the group pergi makan kari kepala ikan bawah pokok ceri. There were 9 of us. Personally, I prefer kari kepala ikan wahyu. But this place was extremely popular... panjang betul queue. Lunch today was courtesy of DBB#3. Lepas makan, NSY ajak singgah Lee Meat Supplier... nak beli lamb cutlets. Oh... now baru I tahu the place yang AAA has been talking about all these while. I also bought some, planning to do some cooking this weekend ;)

Petang tadi QIA singgah office to discuss some things. Sambil tu he mentioned that he saw 4Ms pix on my blog (btw Linda... everyone is saying that you look radiant and happy!). Eay?? Since bila pulak he knew about this babbling site of mine? Dia kata he got to know about it from some others, whom I'm also quite curious how they came about to know about the existence of this site. I wonder who else has been reading? I guess from now on I'll have to be extra careful on what I menceceh. Aiyaa... self sensoring isn't something that I wish to do. Not that I intend to say mean things, but one can never be too careful. Perhaps, the alternative would be to allow access on invitation basis?