What Have I Been Up To?

My first project with a series of training ended last week. Alhamdulillah it went well and Madam Kucing has finally started to purr and mew instead of bark :) I'd give credit to the power of 'buat bodoh' and not take 'pot' with pettiness and idiosyncrasies hehehe...

After South East, I have to go North. I went alone for this 5-hours drive. Since I got the room all to myself and the wifi worked well in the room, hubby make arrangement to be here by bus. I missed him so much. We barely see each other last week. After the tiring 4-days training, hubby drove us back to KL. Hubby make a stop at one of the R&R to rest and I woke up only for a while to offer him pillow and an extra shawl. All the traveling has taken a toll on me. I totally zonked out.

We had our dinner earlier at one of the restaurant before we enter the highway and as we're about to reach home, I started feeling dizzy and nauseous with an upset stomach. Probably the place was not so clean. Hubby has to make a toilet stop too somewhere before Tg. Malim if I'm not mistaken. I felt totally sick the moment we reached home and I ran to the bathroom. After cleaning up and taking a charcoal tablet, we went to sleep. Thank God I felt better the next morning.

I have few days to rest, do the laundry and pack again for the next trip. Hubby went to East Coast when I went South East right. All his clothes for the trip were still in the laundry basket. All in all, I have to do 5 laundry trips. Sigh! On Monday mom's in KL so I fetched her and we spent the day catching up. She just recovered from fever and flu after her umrah trip. Next trip was to Cherating. This time I have a room mate and hubby has few meetings in KL and then Kuantan. I took his car and hubby used mine while in KL. He reached Kuantan by bus and I went to fetch him after my training. It's not like I was familiar with the road and know where the bus terminal is but I prayed to God to make it easy for me and Alhamdulillah I found my way.

I stayed with hubby in Kuantan that night, he sent me to Cherating in the morning and after his meeting in Kuantan that day, he went to Cherating again. My room mate is checking out in the evening so we can stay there for the night. Supposedly hubby has another meeting in Kuantan the next day. I really crave for durian on our way back the next day but we don't see any along the way. I'm too lazy to hunt for durian once we reached home. I have the weekend all to myself and I have to attend a training on Monday and I have to left for East Coast in the afternoon.

I have booked a flight ticket earlier but hubby suggested I cancel it because he has to be in the East Coast at about the same time. But in the end he has to be in Kuantan first and go to East Coast only later. So he drove us to Kuantan. After checking in and having our dinner, I have to make my way to the East Coast. After driving for a while I got upset because hubby didn't even call to ask how I was doing. I was thinking of not calling him till I reached the place but I reached a confusing roundabout and needed his opinion. When I called him, he told me his phone was barred. Sigh! No wonder hehehe... Lesson: Jangan cepat merajuk :p

All the traveling makes us tend to handle our bills to the last minute. As a result, that's what happened. I normally pay my bills just before or when I received the final warning via SMS. By then, payment with M2U or even it's own online payment page is too late to stop the system from barring our line. I finally asked a local and found out I have to make a u-turn and go the other way. I was only about 2km off with the u-turn and finally reached the place by midnight. Hubby has offered to drive me to the resort earlier but there is no way I'm going to let him drive for 4 hours and another 4 hours back to Kuantan. Besides, he has a meeting with a few contacts on the same night. If we make a move after his meeting, we'll probably reach the place around 2 a.m. and I need my rest for training the next day.

I slept like a log that night and feeling fresh for the training in the morning. I even managed to go out for a short walk by the beach. It was very quiet and peaceful and I called hubby and asked him to listen to the sound of the waves hehehe... Hubby took a bus from Kuantan to KT later that day after his meeting. Again I have to fetch him after my training. From the resort, it's about 45 minutes drive to town and again I have no idea where the bus terminal was. I have only vague recollection of the bus terminal when we went to Redang last year. We hang around town for about two hours before taking the cab to airport on our return trip.

Again I thanked God for giving me the common sense to figure out the direction till I saw the 'Perhentian Bas' sign. This time we have to stay at another resort because I have a room mate and the resort is full. I love the room and the seamless pool but too bad I can't enjoy it. We checked in after Maghrib and hubby sent me for my training very early the next morning. Hubby hang around near my training room because the wifi connection is good. He only returned to the resort after his laptop battery went out to enjoy the seemless swimming pool and rest in the room until after 2. After checking out, he waited for me but this time the wifi connection's out so he did some work offline. I finished my training few minutes after 5 and we make our way to KB. Hubby has a meeting in KB the next day.

We stayed at one of the 'homestay' house near his meeting place. It was very hot that night we opted to sleep on the floor. I can rest while hubby went for his meeting. I even washed some clothes because hubby's concern he don't have anything to wear for tomorrow. I know there's enough but I washed a few anyway. Then we don't have to bring back so many dirty laundry. The weather's nice for drying the clothes. I have to pack again because we'll make a move after hubby's meeting. He has to be in Kuantan again the next day. So off we go to Kuantan that night. I checked out with hubby the next morning because I don't want him to make the return trip to fetch me at the hotel. I also can't wait to reach home after all that traveling. I waited at the cafe with a book and my laptop and was having a bad flu the whole day despite taking my allergy medication.

We bought some lychee and rambutan the night before so we finished that in the car and then we saw so many durian stalls along the highway. I asked hubby since I don't feel well already, why don't I just take the durian hehehe...He agreed and we bought 1 durian which is really worth it. It was sweet and juicy and we finished it in the car. My flu stopped while I was enjoying the durian and commenced again after we finished the durian. I even almost ran out of tissue paper. We reached home at about 4 I think. Thank God my meeting in the afternoon was cancelled or otherwise I'll be very very late. So that's how hectic our schedule was the past few weeks.

We'll be off again tomorrow very early in the morning but this time for a well deserved holiday. My treat after successfully completing my first project but I'll get hubby to chip in too lah. I still has not received my full payment :) By the way, today is the anniversary of the first time I met hubby 3 years ago. We've known each other online for a few months before meeting and it is supposed to be work related because hubby has some training contact and I'd love to do freelance training so it's natural for both of us to meet before we talk about any project. In the end we talked about a different kind of project hehehe... Not after the first meeting of course but not long after that. Anyway, I better get ready now. I'm going Muslimah swimming suit hunting and has to pack for tomorrow :D