I get by with a little help from my friends

Posted on January 24, 2012 by hanibunny

*play the song below before you start reading

I spent the whole of yesterday with my 2 of best gfs – I guess it was sort of a farewell get together type thing, without the soppy part (which I’m sure will come later when the actual day comes hihi). This coming weekend Gruffy will already be here and from then till the day I’m leaving, time Gruffy and I have left here belongs to the family.

So the 3 of us took advantage of the CNY holiday to do something fun together before I leave…

…by being tourists in our own country! =P

We first went to the KL Bird Park in the morning and spent good few hours day snapping photos of different birds, chasing around birds, took photo with bird, watched bird show, fed some birds, quizzed each other on our bird’s knowledge (we found out we were totally ignorant about birds!=P) and yeah, pretty much did everything that had to do with birds.

Except eating them hehehe

There were lots of peafowls roaming around and we came across a peacock showing off to the visitors which was a good photo op. An interesting fact I learned when observing the peafowls was that they weren’t exactly flightless. Obviously they can’t fly like normal birds do, but they are capable of ‘flying’ to get on trees and fence and whatnot – kinda like chickens.

I did not however try to take photos with them because I know they could get quite vicious – on our first date at the Grounds for Sculpture, Gruffy was chased by a peafowl when he tried to get close to it. True story hehe so I took pictures with the seemingly nicer birds instead!

Asserk bought us some fish food for the fishies at the pond and Cyan bought us some sunflower seeds&milk for the parrots when we walked through the parrot area where you could feed them. Both Cyan&Asserk were very popular with the birds there for some reason. Most of the parrots only drank and ate out of their hands and ignored all the other visitors – I suspect they both have feathery secrets they haven’t told me about =P

Funny story from when we were saying hi to the ostrich:

Asserk: (insert look of amazement on her face) How do people eat this thing – it’s huge!

Me: Ermmm they sliced it first?

Asserk: No how can it fit in the serving plate?!? Look at it, it’s huge!

*couple minutes after

Me: Were you thinking about thanksgiving/Christmas? Cos people have turkey then, not ostrich

Asserk: Oh yaaaaaaaaaaaa! *LOL at her own confusion*

Me: -___-

I love my silly friends =P

After the bird park we went to Yellow Cab for some lunch – if you consider 2 large pizzas, one serving of Charlie Chan pasta and some hot wings as ‘some lunch’ =P But hey, between the 3 of us, we managed to kinda clean up the table.

Once we filled our tummies, we decided to head over to the National Monument (which is in the same area as the bird park) since (malunya!) neither of us had ever been there before! What a great time to go since one of us is leaving the country for God knows how long soon =P

I know it’s cliche but I was in awe standing right in front of the monument. I spent like good 5 mins just staring at it (I don’t know why) while other visitors were busy snapping photos. Then I went back to my silly self =P not as silly as Asserk and Cyan though. Asserk gave names to each of the statue and Cyan was asking one of them why his fly was unzipped -___- Lucky no scene like in Night at The Museum took place or we would have been in really big trouble.

When we were done taking silly pictures and trying to be artistic by taking shots of the floor, they got me ice cream (they should treat me this nice more often =P) and we sat down, talked and laughed about random ridiculous things.

When I left TKC, I’ve made new friends who became my close friends. But none would get me the way my close friends from boarding school do. I love all of my friends, don’t get me wrong. But I guess living together for 5 years does make us closer than close. These two were the important people at my wedding – they’ve been important to me prior to that and will always be important in my life.

They’ve seen me at my worst yet still stick around regardless of my flaws as a person and as a friend.

It’s been hard to not have Gruffy with me. I think it’s a huge challenge for any wife to not have her husband by her side. He’s been amazing at helping us to get through the distance but without my best friends, it would be a lot tougher.

I definitely get by (and high! – from silly jokes and laughter) with not just a little, but with a lot of help from my friends.

I am going to miss them tons and I can’t wait for them to come visit us in FL – thanks so much for one of the most wonderful, amazing day. I love you both so much. We will be apart but I am still going to bug you guys like I am still in the country

mean

Posted on January 18, 2012 by hanibunny

despite having a great day (will talk about that some time later), I failed to maintain the stability of my emotion. Aunt Irma is coming fairly soon so that’s one reason, the other, well let’s just say that ‘haters gonna hate’.

I watched the latest episode of Glee and that cheered me up a little bit and helped me turn my instability to a different kind. Still unstable, but slightly positive. If there’s such thing. The whole episode just reminded me of how it felt when Gruffy proposed, how he professes his love for me every single day regardless of how undeserving I am of such great man.

How lucky I really, really am.

Then I wandered about my favorite blogs and read this by Sherry of YoungHouseLove. I love the message of the blogpost and I love point no. 1 : I don’t have the perfect marriage. It was like as if she knew what was running through my head the whole evening and I’m really really glad she wrote that.

Of course their marriage and ours aren’t similar. But the key point is that imperfectness does not equal unhappiness.

It’s a great reminder to me that ultimately, this marriage is about Gruffy and I. We are in this together. Sometimes it’s going to be tough, other days we are our normal goofy selves having the best time of our lives. Tough or goofy, we are in this with each other, together. Not with others. Especially not with those who enjoy making snide remarks about our marriage and about what we both do.

Both Gruffy and I have strong personalities. We listen to each other and talk things out like the civilized people that we are. But sometimes the cave(wo)man in us roars to get out and that’s when we sometimes clash. Good thing is, we never let other uncivilized cave peeps to add more wood to the fire so everything can always be resolved the good way. Not that they can anyway – well they tried, but underestimating the kind of relationship and marriage Gruffy and I have was their mistake..

Yes, we aren’t perfect, after all, we are only human. We are flawed, we make mistakes, we mess up. But we put the past where it belongs – in the past. We greet a new day with renewed hope from before and stronger faith than yesterday. And love each other, just the way that we are

So you can keep buzzing around trying to tell us how imperfect we are, trying to tell one of us how imperfect the other one is.

While Gruffy and I are just gonna keep moving towards our goal and happiness. And I don’t remember having invited any kind of fly or bug to be in this journey with us.

Buzz off.

big loud opinion but nobody’s listening

MAS Flash Mob

Posted on January 17, 2012 by hanibunny

How awesome would you feel to be greeted by this at the arrival hall after a long flight?

While we’re on the ‘arriving’ subject, someone is arriving in 11 days! =)

(no baby, there will be no flashmob when you arrive, unless you count me jumping up and down as a form of flashmob’ing’ =P)