Buka Puasa surprise

The office had a buka puasa do for the staff last night. Spouse and family members were invited to join. I brought my girls, of course.

Went to pick them up from school at 3pm and rushed back to work, arriving at the office at 3.45pm. I was going to join in a discussion with Angkasa*wan Negara (yes, that's what it says on his namecard) Major Dr F*aiz Khaled at 4pm.

We took the lift from the ground floor and it stopped on the first floor. Guess who was in the lift?? The Angkasawan himself!! (he was early for the meeting). That was a nice surprise for the girls. A couple of months ago, Dr F*aiz was at their school giving a talk and Misha had come home complaining that she waited in line forever to get his signature but when she reached Dr F*aiz's table, the big boys pushed her away and she fell on her knees!! Kesian :-(

Back to the scene in the lift -- my boss who was with him introduced me and I told the Angkasawan about Misha's incident and the friendly Angkasa*wan terus shook her hands. Malu pulak Misha time tu... haha... it was cute.

I later adjourned to my meeting (sans the girls, of course) with the Angkasa*wan and he later joined us for the buka puasa.

Dapatlah Maira & Misha ambik gambar with him puas-puas!

The friendly dentist also layan all the anak-anak yatim from two orphanages who were invited to the do. He was genuinely nice, that I can say.

In November last year I took the girls to meet with the first Angkasa*wan Dr Sh*eikh at one of the exhibitions. After a session of picture-taking and shaking hands, the girls (who were on cloud nine for the rest of the day) claimed they did not want to wash their hands forever!! Haa... penangan Dr SMS. I must add that he is really really good-looking (kalau tak bercakap le) :-)

Dr S*heikh with us in Nov last year.

Bz, bz, bz...

Too many things, too little time. Work is stressing me out. Won't be blogging for awhile!!

This and that...

I barely had anything done in the office today. First half of the day was spent moving my stuff to our temporary office two floors down. This is to make way for the renovation works at our current place.

We'll be at this 'transit' office for about a month before moving back to our renovated space. I also had to attend an internal meeting in the morning.

Second half of the day was spent attending another meeting in Cyberjaya, together with my boss and our consultants. It was such a hectic day that I didn't have time for lunch. Thanks to Z who treated us drinks after the meeting. I had more than just coffee, to make up for lunch.

Driving home, Maira called to ask me if I was going to pick up her swimming suit which I had sent to the shop yesterday to have the zipper fixed (the zipper got spoilt last week when her friend helped her zip up for swimming lessons). Thank God she called, coz I was ready to just drive straight home. Totally forgot that I had to pick it up for her lessons tomorrow.

Came home to Misha's "Mommy, I need to bring potato stamps for art tomorrow". Ok. So, this was what I managed to carve out of the potatoes. Not so imaginative, eh? Mommy dah tak de idea, la Misha...

While helping them with homework, they realised that both of them need to bring water colours to school for art class tomorrow and there's only one set at home (which puzzles me coz' I distinctly remembered getting one each early in the year). And Maira kept saying she needed to bring Manila card as well. Why lah only tell me now?

So off I went after Isya' to the nearest store to get a set of water colour and some Manila cards.

Now here is the best part of the day! It was quite a long queue at the express counter (I had like 5 items) and so were the other four people in front of me, all anxious to pay and get going as it was already past 9. Suddenly, here comes an old auntie, in her 70s probably, with a Colgate toothpaste in her hand who 'potong queue' in front of the guy before me.

I had hoped the guy wouldn't get mad at the old lady (she was really old) as she is, after all a 'warga emas' and probably really badly needed to get that toothpaste at that certain hour heheh! Thank God he didn't say a word.

Next thing I know, the auntie was saying terima kasih, terima kasih and touching the guy's arms and appearing to be so grateful. She even had some tears in her eyes and kept on saying something else in Mandarin while touching the guy until he got embarrased.

Wanna know why? The toothpaste cost her RM5.20 and she only brought with her RM5! And so, upon hearing from the cashier that the old lady is short of 20 sen, the guy took out 20 sen from his pocket and paid the balance.

The thing was, she was so so grateful at this young Malay chap -- seriously, her eyes were gleaming. And the guy tertunduk malu-malu... It was like watching a scene from one of Yasmin Ahmad's ads. So sweeeett... so muhibbah! Just wish I had my camera with me!

I tell you, seeing that made me feel alive. Made me realise there's still compassion and gratitute amongst people out there.