Out Of Commission

I've been out of commission for about 3 weeks. First, I started feeling weak. Weak as in if I let it, I would just collapse like a heap of dirty laundry on the floor whether I was standing or sitting. I do have low blood pressure but it couldn't be this bad. I thought I may need some sugar so I ate. I only felt better for 15-20 minutes. If I continue eating for every 20 minutes just to keep my energy up I would be in trouble.

I visited the clinic and to the doctor's question of what's wrong with me, I answered "Nothing!" He laughed before I continued and tell him I felt weak. He took my blood pressure which just proof it was low. Checked if I had fever which I wasn't and proceed to prescribed multivitamin and advised me to take 100 plus on alternate days. Sigh! That didn't tell me what causes the low blood pressure.

The week after that, I finally had the fever. Not that I welcome the fever but at least I know why I felt so weak the previous week. I had the whole fever package. Sore throat, flu, cough. It started with dry cough because I have stuffed nose, I had to breathe through mouth which causes dryness of my throat. Then the cough turned to phlegm cough which was not good for my asthma at all. I had to cancel my outstation training, lucky for me somebody can take over.

It wasn't fun when I'm on MC but couldn't do anything because I wasn't up to anything at all. Eventhough that's the reason the doctor gave MC because I needed the rest and not supposed to do anything like clean house or shopping or blogging. So there goes my weekend too. Too weak to do anything. That was last weekend. On Monday I couldn't cancel training because nobody can take over my class. So it was really painful talking and coughing, it gave me chest pain. I wonder what goes through my participant's mind when I coughed so bad I had tears on my eyes and my face turned red.

I still have the occasional heavy cough every now and then... until now. But I felt so much better. Really, really better. God gave us some test like hardship and sickness to remind us to appreciate the easy times and our health. I felt like jumping up and down now that I felt better. I have the energy to do so many things now... the normal thing I couldn't do when I was sick. I got really worried I couldn't even take care of myself last week. Every little things becomes such a chore. This entry is a reminder to myself not to take my health for granted; to appreciate every second I can do the normal things because I'm healthy. I'm OK everybody :) I'm fine and feeling GREAT :)

Our First Holiday - Shahr il 'Asal

Here are some photos from our first 'real' holiday together. Or Shahr il 'Asal as my friend called it :) If you want to know the meaning, open up your Arabic dictionary. What I meant by real is we went not because of work. It's 100% holiday but of course hubby has to take 1-2 phone calls related to work.

Just the two of us :)
Dear hubby	Blue sky and sea
Hubby in the sea
White sandy beach	We have a long journey ahead of us
Nice view

After my SPM, a group of us went to PD for a 3 days 2 nights holiday under the supervision of one of my friend's parents. What do you expect from a group of girls? We really had fun. There were quite a number of couples at the beach at that time. Some of us would remark, "Oh that couple is so romantic... this couple is sooo.. romantic". And others would reply, "Alaaa... later when I have a boyfriend, I would walk at the beach just like that". That statement kinda stick to my head and I'd remember it whenever I'm at a beach. I'm glad that statement became a reality with dear hubby and snorkeling together kinda put the romantic scale at many many notch higher :)

The last time I had the chance to go snorkeling was at Perhentian. That was many years ago while I was still studying. This time I dare go further and deeper because hubby is around. I can't swim... yet :) The view was really amazing and breathtaking. I wish whatever my eyes saw can be captured in a video. Here's a video of colorful fishes at Taman Laut courtesy of a group of friends that shared boat with us.


I didn't know we can rent a camera for only RM50, complete with underwater casing. That is really a good deal considering underwater casing is as expensive as my camera and I might use it only once in a blue moon. This one is taken near the water surface. More photos below - all courtesy of the other group in the boat.


Hubby and I


Hubby and I


Our Boat


The colorful fishes


The beautiful coral


Fishes near some coral


A turtle at Turtle Cove


Watching the turtle is another amazing experience. The water is so blue and the sand so white. I'm just speechless.

My Wedding Reception

Alhamdulillah... after going through so many challenges, we managed to hold our wedding reception successfully. No words can express our gratitude to friends who helped make it work.

Just like everyone who wished for our happiness, I also hope we'll have love, happiness and strength to go through challenges life throw at us.



Although we've had our solemnization ceremony (nikah) few months back, this reception kinda make it really official with the attendance of friends, families and colleagues.

I didn't really understand it before but with my own wedding reception, I kinda realize how important everyone who attended the reception is, all the best wishes, every little gift, even a plain card.... all are very important and if only I can inform everyone how much I appreciate everything.

No wonder it is mentioned in a hadith about the obligation of attending wedding feast:-

Ibn 'Umar, may Allah be pleased with them, reported:
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: When anyone of you is invited to a feast, he should attend it.
-Sahih Muslim: 2574-
One thing that I'll never forget during my wedding reception day, I couldn't contact my husband for few hours. You just can't imagine how worried I was at that time. Turned out he has to stop at a workshop due to some bearing problem and he left his handphone in the car. Despite trying very hard to remain calm and prepare everything to be brought to the mosque, I forgot hair cream for hubby and the nasyid/wedding song CD. Thank God he's wearing songkok so it's not so obvious he didn't wear any hair cream and the mosque has some nasyid song that we can play during the feast.

I was very happy with the way everything turned out. It was sweet and simple, definitely memorable. Many thanks again to all who came, all who gave their best wishes, all who sent gifts and all who helped.