4 months ago i wrote an entry about my mom and stepdad getting married. and today im here to tell you that my stepdad has peacefully passed away in tan tock seng hospital during maghrib last night.
he just found out he was in the final stage of liver cancer 13 days ago.
i might not be close to him but i feel for my mom who just told me a few weeks back that she and my late stepdad were planning to rent a car for raya this year. and she was pretty excited to be celebrating raya with a husband after almost 14 years of being single.
yesterday i skipped chinese lecture to accompany my mum at the hospital. it was in the afternoon when i reached and his legs were already ice cold, it was freaking scary. my mum told me she'll be staying over at the hospital that night so i was about to go home when we saw him stopped breathing and nurses came over and drew the curtains close, rushing in and out, like a scene ripped out from a drama serial. my mum hugged me tight and started to cry. Maghrib, she said.
God. the best i could do was to hug her back.
may he rest in peace.
Innalillahi wainnailahi raji'un.
anyway,
lets make this update quick.
so many things to say, i havent updated for so long.
so what did i miss?
hmmm.
lets start off with qatar rowing guys. they came over to singapore last month for a rowing holiday. and they're bloody rich. so rich, they spent almost S$200 at bossini. and dont ask me why bossini. and dont ask me why they dont look qatar-ish.
elsie said they looked like LL Cool J. HAHAHA.
like which century was he in sia.
then i went KL like 2 weeks ago for the UNITEN Invitational Rowing 2007 at Putrajaya. PJ is gorgeous. but it can get pretty hot in the afternoon. i came back even blacker. my competitors were malaysian university women so dont ask me why i came in first in my event. hahaha. im kidding. okay, yes. i was first and i won RM100 and a huge trophy and medal. like yah, RM100 only? but the trophy's pretty cool :)
lawa kan?
we ate like CRAZY at KL.
mam mam mam.
we ate jalan ampang, mr ramen at berjaya times square, A&W at puduraya, dunkin' donuts, starbucks, burger ramly and the best had to be Little Vietnam at Mid Valley Shopping Mall. okay, MV is hugeee! we went there on the last day so we were pretty tired and had no mood to walk around, we were too lazy to find seats at the food court and it was so bloody packed we got frustrated so we entered this vietnamese restaurant. i had spicy noodle and something like lychee stuffed in chicken and so many weird dishes lah but it was so sedap, definitely. so were the prices. our bus back home was at 10.30pm and we had like 8hrs of free time so we decided to get a place to sleep for a while and we got a hotel room opposite puduraya for RM5o. the room has bright green walls and neon pink curtains that matches the pink bedsheets. bloody sleazy i tell you. oh and A&W's coney dog and waffles and ice cream and root beer is da bomb. why they dont sell them in singapore anymore :(
when i reached home, i grew fatter.
i wonder why.
imah was my 'team manager' who earned RM150 for being an official, which was more than my winnings. and this mugshot is so slenger nak mampos, dont u think? haha!
well, school's been pretty okay. okay? thats a lie. its terrible. bidding for the modules and ballotting for tutorials was a torture. i still do train every morning and then i rush down to school right after that. which means i wake up at 5am every morning, still. so please lah eh before u start complaining to me about how early u have to wake up for 8am or maybe ur 10am classes and having very little sleep, dont you even think about it. so most of the time i'll be falling asleep in lectures and watching babi terbang in tutorial classes. and the workload, my goodness!! im taking 5 modules and theres less than 5 months to exams, there's so many to read, so many books to buy, nehnehpok! its driving me crazy! and shaik found a strand of white hair on my head the other day. :(
i just bought the psych textbook and there goes my allowance. i still have 4 more books to buy.
boohoo.
and i need a wadrobe change, ive been wearing the same shit day by day, i wonder if ppl realise. or if they even care.
hmm.
i tried out for NUS girls soccer and the coach was my jc pe teacher and he said i had potential but he needs me to show him that i can give my commitment to soccer, which is impossibleismo with rowing in hand.
i went for silat trainings and coincidently i know the coach too cuz i coached him rowing before. freaking small world. he said if i joined silat he'll put me in competition next year too.
and ive decided to turn down the netball offer.
and sorry im just too good.
HAHA.
taklah.
too much play.
play play play then sleep in lectures.
how liddat?
not easy being me huh?
haha.
anyhoo,
oh there was a machine rowing competiton at the waterfest last week. thank the heavens if you didnt go cuz it was a freaking hot day and the marina platform has the littlest shade and i got sun burns on my forehead, and yes, u know i hardly get burnt. tells u exactly how bloody hot the day was. well, i rowed even thought i had this stupid gastric the day before. and came in first, almost dying tho. and i won $100. yay.
excited okay.
and just last week i participated in the womens day out's 5 hr aerobics. it was right after training and i almost died. i also entered the her gym quest competition where i had to complete a series of stations in the shortest time. there was a 1.5k cycle, 30 push ups, 30 sit ups, 500m row and 0.15k cross training. and i got first place. kaching kaching, $500. mum was more excited than me.
then there was this one night when the persatuan bahasa melayu NUS had their welcome tea and the theme for the night was hollywood glam and we're supposed to dress up like stars for the night and only me, filzah and hafizah did. haha. it was so paiseh maiseh, we were so semangat we planned for nights what to wear and we decided on being destiny's child which was so tak jadi. and my white shirt was so tight that night, i realised im THAT FAT.
and we soooo dint expect to win best dressed female okay. muahahaha.
okays and quite some time back me and my family went out to celebrate my adek's birthday. we ate at this minang kabau restaurant at arab street and they have the best tahu telor there okay.
my brothers are monsters, i tell you.
they would lick the plates clean if they could.
and they're annoying, cant you tell?
then we were making our way to marina square to bowl when this group of people stopped us and interviewed us cuz they said they were searching for 'cool' people. then they took pictures of us individually. mengarut!
and yeah, bowling was fun. :) we were competing against each other lah please. intense!
seriously!
syahir said i bowl cacat-ly. i dint said i was good at bowling. :(
but i scored a strike once. first time okay?
mum was so semangat. she's so funny.
then there was this other time so long ago, like super long ago, my og group went to laserquest at cdans. we played like a few games and gawd, it was really fun! terpekik here and there, run run run and hide, super fun i tell you! we were drenched with sweat at the end of the day. i like.
VORTEX love :)
im pretty good at this. haha.
and like ages ago, PBM had a reunion at east coast. walid won best male faci and hanan won best male camper. and i lover vortex i swear. i miss them so much. we had so much fun, we played polar bear until like 11pm!
and then there was this other night i went out with shaheen, nad and elly. and we talked about relationships, marriages, future, u know matured stuff, WOMAN TALK. and i feel so, so old and grown up. its scary to think about it. sheesh.
i love them anyway. :)
aisyaheen forever.
im so lazy to write lah thus the picture-story entry. and i lost track of time years ago i cant remember what happened when. gawd im sorry. im so stupid and lazy now. help. :(
and i wanna train hard for rowing. and make my mom proud.
Insyaallah.
