January 2018

When we were back in Kuala Lumpur, my friends came to visit me. We played some board games that Yy brought and we really had fun. Honestly, I love having my friends over at my place.

It’s probably because I am a potato couch.

Then I was back in Sibu for proper recuperation from the surgery. I had a lot a lot of nutritious food back home. My grandma fed me. My aunt fed me. My mom fed. Everyone back home fed me really well. I was there for a week before I went back to Kuala Lumpur again to rest for another before I was finally back to work.

In that same month, the husband joined his club’s contest and won both. Double champion. Glad I was there to support him.

And to end January? AIA had an off-site team building for Corporate Solutions Department. No doubt it was fun but at that time, I had already made up my mind to make a big move.

December 2017

..was a wake-up-call month for me.

Why?

Wait till you read the end of this post.

In the early of the month, the husband and I made a special trip to Penang to celebrate our beloved friend’s birthday. It was a great catch-up that night accompanied by great food.

On the day of our return, my cousins were around. Therefore, we decided to meet them for lunch. All of us witnessed how manly the husband is. Long story short – a waitress was being rude to me. When the husband took the bill, he called out to the manager on duty and lodged a complaint on her.

My father was in KL too. We made a plan to have dinner with him and also to see him again at the place he was staying on the day he was leaving.

Coming to the end of the month, the husband and I made another trip to Penang to celebrate Christmas since it was a long weekend.

Look at that smile of mine.

It was gone after that night.

I was in pain for the longest time that night that I had to wake the husband to drive me to the nearest 24 hours clinic to get a pain killer jab to kill off the pain. I thought the pain would be gone the next day.

I was wrong.

The pain crawled back slowly and hit me real hard that Jag drove us to the hospital. I was admitted to the A&E department. Fortunately, we had Jag with us. The attending doctor diagnosed me with gastric while Jag insisted to do ultrasound on me.

That was when we found the real culprit – gallbladder inflammation. Well, it became inflamed as I had been in pain for 2.5 years and I did not take the right medication, thinking it was gastric.

Fast forward, I had surgery on Christmas Day and stayed in the hospital for the next 2 nights before I was discharged.

Lovely friends came to visit me at the in law’s place before the husband and I returned to KL.

It was definitely a wake-up call for me that health is more important.

That was when I made a big decision…

November 2017

..had been a very busy month for both of us.

The husband moved to KL on 1st November and that was also the day that I moved out from the room that I had been renting ever since I moved to KL. Fortunately the place that we are renting is in the same block so, I needed to move upstairs instead to a different block or condominium.

Then, we had to fly to Sibu on 3rd November. Our wedding was on 5th November. Fortunately we were doing luncheon so, it was not that tiring.

We left Sibu on 7th November.

And flew to Taiwan on 8th November. It sounds crazy, I know.

Back to Malaysia on 16th November.

I was then assigned to be in Penang from 21-25 November for work.

Later, I had to drive to Ipoh (last minute’s notice) on 28 November.

Sounds crazy but it’s all true!

Taiwan: Day 9 (Taipei)

This marked our last day in Taiwan. Hence, I was thinking that since we had been passing by this shop many times in Ximen, why not just the food a try.

What is it?

Sarawak Laksa.

All the way to Taiwan to have Sarawak Laksa? Well, why not? It was surprisingly good, though. It has the authentic taste.

Since our flight was night time, we decided to drop by Xinbeitou to dip our legs in one of the public hot springs. We went to the one in the park where there were a lot of locals, especially the seniors. Most importantly, it’s free admission. There were 3 levels and we chose to go for level 1 – and I was already struggling with it. Imagine those at Level 3.

I took an advice from a friend – took a cab to airport. It was not that costly and more convenient since we brought a huge luggage.

Taiwan, we will definitely come back again!

Taiwan: Day 8 (Taipei)

It was a simple day in Taipei.

We had our breakfast at Ximen Mango Shaved Ice. Well, they have other stuff apart from mango shaved ice. However, being the special and weird person my husband is, he ordered mango shaved ice.

We went to Taipei 101 after. The sky was clear so, we were fortunately to view the whole city with a clear view. We had another round of mango ice-cream. This city seems to be famous with mango, a lot.

Next destination was Houtong Cat Village. You can see a lot of cats roaming around this small village. My husband is a cat lover and therefore, I planned this specially for him. Unfortunate for us, it rained heavily not long after we arrived the place. Hence, we were not able to see a lot of cats on the streets.

When the rain stopped, we moved on to the next stop – Shifen. This place is famous to set the Chinese lanterns into the sky after you wrote your wishes on it.

The sky got dark really early and as most of the shops or eatery were closing, we decided to head back to Ximen to have our dinner and did last minute shopping as we would be leaving this wonderful place the next day.