it's just another manic monday.. wo wo..

... i wish it were sunday, cos that's my fun day, i don't have to runday (what the hell was the singer saying?), it's just another manic monday...

i got bored of the previous template, hence this fresh new look. i think this will be a regular thing from now on... the changing of templates that is, not sticking to this one of course.

so anyway, the wkend was a very moving wkend. not moving as in touching, moving as in moving things.

saturday saw the arrival of the new furniture (whoop!:) and then the house was temporarily full of new and old furniture.. we needed to get rid of the old ones pronto.

on sunday the cleaner came to clean the house and we asked her if she'd like to take the stuff from us.. she said her house is too small and can only take the mattress.. but then after she left she must've gone to another house to clean and she told the people she was cleaning for that we're giving away furniture. they came and looked at the stuff and said that they'd give them away to the poor, which was a better option cos dapat la pahala sikit, kan.. so a lorry came in the evening to pick up hunny's furniture that he got when he was a bachelor (really bad furniture i tell u, what would he have done with the lovely house without me? i shudder at the mere thought!)

so now our house is "lighter" and feels a little bit newer to me, i so hapsie :D

oh ya, i went to the MPH warehouse sale on saturday and bought meself 5 chicklits and 3 interior decor magazines (konon nak belajar on how to decorate my house la ni, i'm so hopeless at it u know!). all these cost me RM92 ONLY! best gilos!!! now i have books to bring to phuket! woohooo!!!

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last week i received a mail from an old fren, she was my senior back in ssp and my roomie for a while in ppp. she sent me a card and a keychain from california with a little palm tree and the sunset in the horizon print when she went to visit there in 1999 (the keychain, not the card). she apologised for the delay in giving me the souvenir (8 years to be exact! hehe) but a gift is a gift, no matter how long ago they purchased it. i loved it instantly cos she had my name engraved on it. it's super cool!

when i got it, i saw that she had my name spelled as z-i-e-d and memories came flooding back. that was how i used to spell my name back in school (z-i-e-d-a). i did it just because i wanted variety in the letters of my name. u see, it was accidental that my schoolmates called me zeeda. i was a latecomer in Form1 and there was already a Sharifah in my own class (go figure) and she was already called Sha (my primary schoolmates still call me that) so i had to blardy choose another name to be identified with. my family calls me "nor" and i adamantly didn't want to be known as that in school. so the only other option is either "ram" or "zeeda" or "ramzeeda"... and u know which one i chose...

so back in high school, i perasan i was creative.. i used to design my name (the z-i-e-d-a) in so many ways and put it under the plastic cover of my desk. if there were 2 'e's, the designs wouldn't be too design-ish la.. so that's why i changed it to one 'i' and one 'e'.. konon cool la tu.. tah pape tah.

but my point is, and i do have one, is that i would like to thank KAK NORESH for remembering that - quote: "california would've been your playground had the economy did not turn out as it did back in 1997" - unquote. i almost shed a tear when i read what she wrote in the card *sniff*.

THANKS KAK, it really means a lot to me. now it's hanging off from my bunch of house keys and i proudly carry it around :)

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phuket is 3 days away! and i'm almost as excited at the thought that my one and only sister will be staying over at my house the night before we take off! whoopie!! :D

she'll be leaving the 2 monsters at her sister in law's place while all of us adults gallavant away on the island. she's feeling the pang of leaving them behind already now. alamak... she's taken pictures of them already to bring as "bekal". ayoyoo...

this was one of them...

we haven't packed yet, can u imagine? the wkend was so cramped, we didn't get a chance to. shucks.