And the wait begins

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Last Tuesday 21 November 2006, exactly one month to the day from my birthday, I was presented with a letter from my husband. According to the letter, a fund aptly named the "B-day Fund" has been setup for me and a portion from this fund has been allocated for my upcoming 27th birthday (well, no more secrets here!! 3 years to the big three-oh). To claim this portion, I am required to return the letter with a list of FIVE (and no less mind you or the allocated fund will be revoked) most desired birthday presents to my husband by 5pm Friday 24 November 2006. The terms and conditions are as follows:

1. EACH item must be worth between RM300 and RMxxxx.
2. EACH item must be an actual product. Meals, holiday trips, hotel stays and items of similar nature are not allowed. But, these items may be granted to me as complementary presents, subject to my husbands discretion.
3. In order to claim the birthday presents on 21 December 2006, I am required to keep a copy of the letter.

According to the letter, my husband will choose a maximum of three and a minimum of two items from the five items I've listed.

As soon as I received the letter, immediately 3 items came to mind. But listing the last two items was very hard indeed. You must understand my predicament here. If I only submitted 3 items, I will get nothing at all. So by hook or by crook, I had to think up two more items.

Come last Friday I was still short of 2 items. So I had to request for an extension to the dateline. Luckily, I was given till 10 pm yesterday 27 November 2006 to finish up the list. However, I was only able to submit the letter today because I forgot to make a copy of the letter (as per TOC 3 above) yesterday. Lucky for me, the husband wasn't very strict on the deadline part of the deal.

So, as the title of this post says...the wait begins!

Eid in Kangar and Retreat in Bukit Tinggi

Gosh it's been ages since I played with sparklers..

Aidilfitri was fun and we certainly enjoyed the trip back to Kangar. We arrived 4 days before Eid and had a whale of a time breaking fast each and every day in Kangar as we ate lots and lots of seafood. You name it, talapia fish, king prawns, squid and crab. We had it all thanks to Shah's Dad who bought RM250 worth of them all. It was enough to fill a small freazer. Shah's Mum made grilled talapia for dinner on 6 out of the 7 nights we we're in Kangar. Anyway, needless to say 1 week in Kangar oblterated my Ramadhan diet. I swear fasting for one month made me lose weight (although I did not officially weigh myself) but I put them all on again during that trip to Kangar. Now I have to start a over again (although I don't see the start ever materialising up to this very moment).

Anyway, once we got back to PJ on the 4th day of Eid I did go visit some relatives and my grandma in KL. Then went back to work the following Monday as Uni**n started exams that very day and the final exams for my subject was that afternoon. So from then onwards it was grading, grading, grading all the way. I'm not going to waste my energy talking (or should i say typing) about the results of grading. I'll just keep that to myself.
Now, amidst all the grading, Shah and I were asked to facilitate at a workshop for top-level management staff of our uni at Bukit Tinggi. So we jumped at the chance of having an all expence paid work-cum-weekend holiday. Even though it was tiring on the first day at Bukit Tinggi last Friday, the next day we spent there was quite fun. The whole Saturday was filled with brainstorming sessions but that night we had a wonderful barbeque dinner. Shah said it was the best barbeque he had ever. We were definitely spoilt for choice and at the end of the night our stomach was partically on the verge of bursting. Most of you from Malaysia would surely know that Bukit Tinggi is also called 'The French Village Resort' since it is designed to mimic a typical French Village. I must say a visit to Bukit Tinggi is definitely unique and different from all other highland tpurist attractions in Malaysia. I liked the way the resort has a main street with food shops just like the high street in a european village. But the shops are pricey and I am fairly sure the management are capitalising on the fact that the nearest town/shops is almost half an hour drive away. Luckily our meals were included in the seminar package.





Well, I guess that's enough of rambling. Suffice to say I enjoyed our stay at Kangar and Bukit Tinggi. The next time Shah and I go to Bukit Tinggi will be a day trip to the Japanese Garden and Rabbit Farm as we did not have time to go there this time around.