.:Simply Funtasy:.

This happened way before CNY, in the early of the year. I went out for a relaxing ride on that Sunday, which so happened to bump into a pakcik  who plays badminton on the same session as I do. We exchanged Hi's and he was surprised to see (and eventually recognize) me LOL. The rainy season is over, and here comes the spring season where sun begins to get very big, hot and sunny, and it's the post harvest season. It isn't a great time to cycle during this post-harvest season as the color is not attractive at all. Its either dull yellow (dead crops), brown (dried plots) and/or, worst, black (burnt fields). Plus the bad air!! The fastest way to get rid of all the unwanted crops and prepare the field for a new planting season is to burn the field, acres and acres of them. It is one of the disastrous season to come by with but too bad, so far there's no any other 'economical' way of solving this problems. Agricultural and environmental folks, good luck!! ...

时间过得真快，都已经正月十九了呀！！ 今年的农历新年我过得朴素简单又宁静。 在马六甲度过了两天一夜甜蜜情人节，也不算宁静因为人山人海到处都是人，该吃的都有吃就对了。 正月初一到婆婆家拜年，也在这里过了一夜。事隔多年哪~~最后一次在这里过夜少说都有十年了。 在树林里祖屋过夜是一大享受。前一晚我们仨卧在一起看Gone Girl，清晨起来都是晨风吹袭，很是舒服。 既然都在这里了，当然要去河边走走咯。十二月大水灾，这里也不例外。以下两张照片，那个时候都是满满的水。。。 你看，水淹到这么高啊~~ 而且屋子离河水有500米之距离呀~~ 至少三寸的干泥巴等待着被清理 接着都是简单的探望亲戚。大多数家里都遭水灾侵袭，脚下踏着的都是细细松松的细小泥沙，话说被水灾淹过的屋子，最难清除掉的就是这些泥啊，它们真是无孔不入 =( 新年，当然就是见朋友喝茶吃饭叙旧咯！ 新年前第一轮见面： 少不了车上wefie 到新开的The Bold Lab喝晚餐前茶 晚餐在Chiang Mai, Wakaf Bharu!! 超赞！ Wau Kopitiam Ozarra  可看到的，有一班人马都是重复出现的，你现在知道我的朋友圈子多大了吧哈哈！ 每一年都可以在敏欣那里吃到好料。她俩公婆煮了个丰盛晚餐，好有口福！ 正月初五，宝贝宏到KB来 day trip。和倩仪到河边的Bike Station喝茶聊天，敏欣家也做了好料！ Sardin puff yum yum!  基本上，这个新年和往年新年都没什么两样，我要的也就这样，我高兴就好！！ =)

NOT exactly. We went to Botanical Garden (new name) aka Lake Garden aka Taman Tasik Perdana nearby the Parlimen for a breakfast picnic. Wanted to go picnic by a stream or waterfall but I scared it triggered the flu again so we cancelled that plan. It's been awhile since I last visited this park. Last time I remembered I was there because of work - setting up booth for a running event. The park is really big and nice, I wish I could bring my foldie for a ride here. The park is well-maintained, a lot of picnic benches and tables, you can even bring along a mat and sit on the grass. A great place to paktoh, as long as it doesn't rain. Hon caught up with his game so I strolled alone checking out the scenic view and taking pictures. Some big bird, Hon called it 'the big fat hen' when he saw it flew across the stream  We did some random activities like put a peanut and rice on the ground and observe how the ants move them. Moving the peanut, pretty awes...

Attended the Score Fitmob Zumba Fitness Party last Sunday and it was full of FUN!! Yeehaw~!! No to the early rising though, that one sucked max -_- I was first informed about this event on June. The initial date was on 2nd Nov and it was supposed to take place at Dataran Merdeka. There's a lower rate for group registration - RM70 instead of 75, so I joined Chen's group since no one in Perlis was interested that time. Around October, an email from SCORE saying the event has got bigger and " better ", they marked a new date on 18th Jan and shifted the venue to Stadium Merdeka. The word better always has to have the quotation mark on and di- Italic -kan, especially events as such when they make it "bigger". Even smaller events sometimes don't do well, let alone bigger ones. I just hoped it went OK-ish... And, WOW, SCORE does not disappoint! In fact, it was an event with almost 6000 participants, and I did not have any complaint or rumbling or diss...

Finally, a weekend when the weather was good and I'm around - it means cycling spree :) WH had a bad knee so I went alone.  I thought of doing a mini duathlon - cycling + running - but I have a premenstrual breast tenderness and swelling (In short, sucker-PMS-stuff), and because I don't like running that much anyway, so it was off the list. These days, Perlis' morning is gloomy and dark, and it gets bright pretty late - about 8ish O' clock, so that kinda discouraging me to get up. I gathered all my motivation and dragged my sorry ass off the bed because I really need that ride!! Instead of the usual route, I tried something different today, and it was so nice!!

Last weekend, several states in Malaysia were hit by the worst flood in decades, including my hometown Kelantan (Kota Bharu town, to be exact). My house was fortunately spared from the flood but a lot of my relatives' houses and shops were badly damaged. On the first few days, I was very anxious and nervous while reading and looking the FB feeds, every Refresh or F5 came a new update on the water level, new pictures of affected places, even places I(we) never thought the water would go ever. At the same time, it was Christmas and the feeds were very much contradicting to each other as it was a mix between the flood and Christmas celebration. When the flooding went from bad to worse, I asked my sis "is the flood this time worse than the '04?" She said yes, and I shuddered.

Two weekends ago Hon paid a surprise visit to the North. I wasn't expecting him to come at all and he said he already gave me hint the night before by asking me "Any activity tomorrow evening?" Dude that is like routine question how am I suppose to tell from that!?! When he called and asked me to look outside my lab, I 心花怒放 immediately :))) Too bad for him lah when he asked the night before I didn't decide to do anything, but I suddenly inspired to go for a hill climbing, so he had to tag along. Overlooking the Arau, Mata Ayer, Jejawi side I have been sick for more than a week now, nothing serious but fever and occasional running nose and coughing with sputum (suspected dengue but the fever lasted for only 1 night and 1 day thank goodness). I hate getting sick especially after I haven't been sick for such a long time, when I got sick it is really bad. My body aches, feeling really really tired and exhausted, luckily no headache and stuff but the fact tha...