VII days - Waiving Goodbye to King Hafiz

♪ Country road, take the King home, to the place, he belongs, Pennsylvania... ♪

In 3 hours, he will be on a plane back home to Philly. It is the end of my sad countdown. (Being positive for the past few days really helps!)

Oh i'm so looking forward for my Spring vaccay!
Or might it be a Winter break?

It is a start of a new countdown now. And i will call it a countdown to the Lalaland.


Couldnt sleep for the whole night. Am i turning myself into a nocturnal? But my eyes are. Owlyana.

VII days - Waiving Goodbye [minus 1]

I wanted a perfect ending, now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

YES, delicious ambiguity.

To my dearest King,
It's all said and done, it's real, and it's been fun...


It is the end of something simple and the beginning of everything else. I just gotta believe.

VII days - Waiving Goodbye [minus 2]

I just want to be happy in these remaining days and making it the most beautiful and wonderful moments of all. For i know, no matter how hard it is for me to waive the goodbye, i just couldn't run from the farewell.

I'll just keep with me all the memories...
For it to be my sunshine after the goodbye.

See you again soon, King. At least I hope so...


Iftar with the Mellowees + loved one(s)

VII days - Waiving Goodbye [minus 3]

Why are we attracted to the same people like us?
Are people usually attracted to someone who looks like us?

I guess it is true.




Mongolians?

VII days - Waiving Goodbye [minus 4]

We only part to meet again. So happy trails to you, until we meet again in March..

zzzz. Replacing the sleep.

VII days - Waiving Goodbye [minus 5]

After long wearing meeting since morning, I guess I just need my stress reliever. Something to help find my inner peace and giving myself the moments of relaxation.

And the best way to combat the stress and when you are unable to break away from the stress in your daily life?

Light a scented candle!

Using candles in the office can relieve much stress and help me to relax after a long hard day of series of meetings. I know, sometimes not all of us just have time to practice meditating yoga or sitting in the hot tub. We are all just too busy at times, so light the candle and make good use of them.

And my all time fave, the Tindra Apple Cinnamon candle!

Oh! The smell of the Apple Pie makes me feel hungry.

And it is 5 more hours to iftar…

"Hey! Miss Purple is having a new friend, Mr. Greeny!" - Thanks to King.

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option?

VII days - Waiving Goodbye [minus 6]

Selamat Tinggal!




Lets fly to the Lalaland!

VII days - Waiving Goodbye [minus 7]

A countdown to a melancholy episode starts today. With all the good times, how do I say adieu to this amazing journey?

And no matter how far you may go, in my heart you’ll always be there...

Well, I suppose there's never a right time to say goodbye. So I just got to comprehend.

A MOMENT IN TIME
You passed through my life and left your mark,
You may never pass my way again,
Or you may stay forever...

No matter what,
I enjoyed the talk,
I enjoyed the walk,
I am blessed, for this moment in time...

I asked myself...
"Why him?"
"What attracts me to him?"
"What makes me want him more?"
Oh, there is so much i want to know...

Even if question are not answered,
There is one thing i want you to know,
I've been blessed by the effect you had on me,
IN THAT MOMENT IN TIME.
yanna 160810 2200hrs

The confession night

VII days - To Eid ul-Fitr [minus 1]

Dear Readers,

I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of you “Selamat Hari Raya” ahead of the Hari Raya Aidilfitri celebration tomorrow. As Hari Raya Aidilfitri means “A Day of Great Celebration”, I wish all of you a joyful celebration with family and loved ones. To everyone, I trust you will take advantage of this holiday period to have a good rest as well.

If you are travelling, I hope you will continue to make safety your top-most priority as you embark on your journey.

Love,
yanna.lyana

My first Eid celebration in Terengganu

My last calorific break fasting session in Pasar Chabang Tiga

Nice spongy watermelon Creme Brulee

Nyummy Roti Goreng

The sweet Akok (to sweet to my savor though)


ha-ha 'pior' fruit juice

ETD SBG at 0715 hours and arrived safely at TRG at 0815 hours. (tengok nenek buat pulut kapit! ape tu? saya pon tak tahu!)

VII days - To Eid ul-Fitr [minus 2]

Finally the raya checklist has all being checked.
And I’m left with packing…
Save the very ‘best’ last?

.m.a.l.a.s.

Working has never been very lethargic and nerve-racking like today; Part of me is wandering around, mainly thinking of the unpacked stuff an the 'many-tetibe-teringat' last minute errands.

t.i.r.e.d


tadi sya dpt semperit terbaik ever, semperit aunty r *nyumm* .tq kamu. sedap please!!!

VII days - To Eid ul-Fitr [minus 3]

If raya were to be a disease, then I am a stage 4 patient.

I have grown out of that remedial phase,
I am too weak to feel the exhilaration,
Maybe the convalescing spirit has gone astray,
Bringing along the mood away,
Or is it the custom is unconsciously dying,
Or we are just failing to remember.
Maybe we just don't be bothered anymore.

I am trying desperately attaining that recuperating spirit.


Awak, sorry.

VII days - To Eid ul-Fitr [minus 4]

Today lyanaazera:

Missing her girlfriends so much; elle, farina, asni, farah, alynn, ina akmarina...she misses u babes!
Had a wonderful conversation about nothing with her aunty,
Watched her twin’s bros sleeping! One snoring, one whirring,
Clipped her nail,

Not fasting,
Finally having a towering valor to put her on the weighing scale,
Saw people all around her, rejoicing their life in little ways,
Doing minor spring cleaning and major bumming *sloth-erella*,
Continued with her balik kampong packing,

Paid all her credit card bills and hp loans and left broke,
Having her own lets-singing-ear-splitting session in her chaotic room,
Realized that we will tend to eat more when we are happy,
Went shopping with someone nice,

Get a new Folli Follie bracelet from someone *i loike*

Learned a new undiscovered streets and shortcut in KL from the road sifu,
Discovered that true love is just undeniable, despite the price that we have to pay,

and..err

Of course hearing a lot of Hari Raya song on the radio,
And she started to become emotionally attached,
Loose the control and started to cry,
Just because of the random deliciousness and the wonderful images of the happiness of Hari Raya that she normally had,

Envisioning herself when she hears the Takbir this year,
But mostly, it makes her remember the ones she misses,
My sweet Opah, Tok Wah, Tok Ghani,
You're always in my heart and in my doa’s.

my doa is for my mellowees gf's that we will go through it together... grow old, wrinkled and smelly bersama! *luff*

VII days - To Eid ul-Fitr [minus 5]

Opened up my office email this morning and queuing to be read, are about 32 emails from colleagues and friends. And I would say 85% of it is the Eid greetings and about quarter of it is the work related email. Whether it is from those celebrating it or from my Chinese / Indian colleague, I believe as how we always conceitedly claimed Malaysian to be, “Rakyat Muhibah Berbilang Kaum” everybody feels very excited at the moment or at least for others, it is the attractive sales and the striking calorific food carnivals. *heh* It is indeed true pon kan? Seriously, the sales are what people are really looking forward anyway. As how we impatiently killing the time for the Christmas sale (how I wish there’s a Boxing Day here)

Back to the Eid greetings, the trend of sending out the e-greetings makes me miss the time when I excitedly opened the envelope and reading up the cards and it is the best, if it comes together with a creatively formed pantun! (I bet if you are the 80’s babies, you will be smiling evoking this ‘cute’ primary-school-memory; the pantun 2 kerat)

Pecah kaca pecah gelas,
Sudah baca harap balas!

Pecah kaca pecah tong,
Sudah baca harap gantung!

If you are fortunate enough, somebody will paste a 20 cents coin on the card as “duit raya” and will blatantly put a note below it “Ini duit raya awak. Nanti kita nak duit raya lebih bila datang rumah awak”. And the scripted content of all the cards:

Raya tahun ni dekat mana?
Dah beli baju raya?
Jangan main mercun!
Raya nanti datanglah rumah!
Puasa penuh tahun ni?
Dah beli baju raya?
Baju raya warna apa tahun ni?
Banyak kuih raya tahun ni?
Raya nanti datanglah rumah!
Buat open house tahun ini?

Oh how I miss those “hey-day”!

And I do keep all the cards until now, nicely ordered according to the year placed in my “magic box”. (Knits if you are reading this, I still have yours too! nak put up the content ke?ha-ha) Today after 15 years, I am “humbly “announcing that I didn’t receive even a single physical Eid card! *yeay* except from those with non human attachment effort; Patchi, MPH, Yves Roche and Robinson.

Well time change, and people change.
How I wish that things (everything) will be London Almondy sweet forever…

To finish, a set of pantun for all of you!
(Taken from the e-greeting received this morning)

*cheers*

Kelantan
Make ikke cicoh budu
Jange lupo tamboh satar
Kelik rayo taksir laju
Nanti rayo dale sepita

Terengganu
Makang ubi jamang jepong
Makang kepok cicah cuke
Bulang pose mung bengong
Bulang raye mung gile

Pahang
Sepadan Pahang ada kasino
Nasi dagang ikan patin
Jange mu masam muko
Raya makan rendang sadin

Johor
Cegitu cegini awak suke
Awak suke kite tak suke
Esok luse hari raye
Sama-sama bersuke rie

Melaka
Hawau kau berak merate
Kaki bengkak ulau patok
Kalu balik naik kerete
Jangan pandu kalau ngantok

N. Sembilan
Masak lomak cili api
Campo dongan daun turi
Hari rayo kolumpo sopi
Tinggal penyamun dongan pencuri

Selangor/K.Lumpur
Wa cakap lu wa tak tau
Tapi wa tipu sama lu
Raya jangan buat tak tau
Angpau ada bagi gua dulu

Perak
Gulei tempoyak ikan mayong
Deroyan busok tebok tupei
Pandu hemat ingat kampong
Ase(Asal) teman selamat sampei

Kedah
Aloq Staq terketaq-ketaq
Lapaq perut makan pau
Macam mana tak ketaq
Kena paksa bagi angpau

Penang
Nasi kandaq kedai mamak
Anak mami juai pesemboq
Lepaih raya jgn dok triak
Kalu ceti mai kot dapoq

Perlis
Padang besaq kecik aja
Tempat siam lalu lalang
Hari raya kita berbelanja
Jangan sampai menambah utang


Liyana Bank of Broke is now ready to disburse the cash to her relative pockets. (.MSB. terima kasih sebab awak tukarkan duit)

VII days - To Eid ul-Fitr [minus 6]

Eid ul-Fitr Checklist

Raya Present

Parents^done
Siblings^{Saturday(*heh* what a very last minute shopping!). 27/9: done with .MSB.}

Baju Raya

Kebaya - crossing fingers that it'll fits this time *funny* it’s the 2nd alteration!^{26/9-taken. My tailor is raising her white flag! *heh* "awak boleh tak jangan tiap kali datang kurus? sampai bila-bila pon sy kena alter ni!ini dah 3 kali saya alter! awak ambil dulu, lepas raya baru hantar lagi kalau nk kecikkan" ha-ha,so now i would prefer to call it kebarung instead!}
Baju Kurung 1^{collected on 29/9}
Baju Kurung 2 - Need pressing^{26/9:makasih bibik!}
Baju Kurung 3

Honestly, none of the kain bought recently as I just don’t feel like celebrating raya this year. The kebaya kain bought last year! Yurpy, last year. Baju kurung 1 and 2 bought my dad. And baju kurung 3 is from my mum. My own effort: Zero

Raya Cookies

Mum:
Strawberry Frost cookies - still with Elle
Pineapple Tart^26/9:done

Dad:
Cookies^{collected all}
Dodol (Ika)^{26/9:collected}

.MSB.
To pass the kuih siput^{27/9: done}

Raya Packets

Mum: 3 sets^{done - 26/9}
Dad: 3 sets^{done - last week}
.MSB. : 3 sets^{done - last week}

Duit Raya

To be changed by .MSB.^{29/9: done and sya juga dapat duit raya! *hee*}
Relatives and Allocation List

Flight Ticket

SBG - KT ^confirmed
KT - SBG^confirmed

and finally...the most hated part...

Packing Up^{*phew* it is 1/2 done!}

Wrapping up the celebration checklist:
Whether you are considering yourself celebrating it, or your self justification on how you are treating it, it’s the month of: burning the pocket *heh*

ina, i love this cute list! Selamat Hari Raya to you too dear.

VII days - To Eid ul-Fitr [minus 7]

It is one more week to Eid ul-Fitr or Hari Raya Aidilfitri as what we would prefer to call it, an exactly 7 days to do all the preparation needed for the big celebration.

I still haven't clean my room yet and looking at all the mess, it needs a real reformation *sigh* Knowing that this will be the time when our private place would be part of the public place for the relatives – a place to plunk their tired body after a long tired convoy visiting the relatives and as for the girls, a great place for gossips and peaking through others collection of baju raya! I guess the piles of cloth on the chest of drawers, the stacks of magazines who has loyally become my bed partner *heh* err i really need to do some major dusting and scrubbing. Lalala.. finding time to put the duster and the bin liner in action!

Now, everyone's talking about raya preparation; how much they have covered for the raya preparation. As for me, I will call it a really low celebration, just for the sake of making everybody around me happy. The cookies bought, the baju raya purchased and the duit raya prepared are all for others and as for myself, sadly, for this year there is no spark of excitement. I prefer to call it a celebration from within. And it is even sadder to leave the Ramadan as honestly it’s a really blissful month for me and I gained so much peace and tranquility.


Elle dear, we celebrate raya from within ‘togeda-geda’