#hariharihariibu

Pasal sambutan hari ibu pun jadi isu.

Hmmm... Ada satu masa tu, aku pun tak pasti hukum Hari Ibu ni, so aku rasa tak payah lah sambut. I wrote about it here. Sebelum tu pun bukan sambut beriyer. Cuma telefon Mak kata I love you & mungkin belanja makan atau bagi hadiah. Bagi orang lain, mungkin la setiap hari dia buat macam tu so betul lah tu hari2 Hari Ibu. Tapi bukan aku. Rasa pelik pula telefon Mak saje2 nak bagitau sayang Mak. Ntah lah segan kot. Masa Hari Ibu atau hari jadi Mak, baru hilang segan tu.

So back to the year that I was kinda againts of Mother's Day, it made me think that I loose the opportunity to show appreciation to Mak, make her happy & gain pahala along the way. Fine, I could find any other day but I guess I didn't have the drive to do so since any other day is just other day.

So when people talk about everyday is a mother's day, I kinda feel annoyed. Yes, we should make our mother happy everyday by shower her with love, attention & presents ;). Just like I stated above, if we could do that everyday, so yes everyday is mother's day. But I'm pretty sure not all of us capable of doing so. Even worse, some of us at most of the times treat our friends better than our mothers. Not that we don't love our mother, just that we always take our mother for granted.

So if there's a day, any single day or couple of days that we can take sometime to actually show our love to our mothers, why not? Lillahita'ala.

Kepada mereka yang cakap tak perlu sambut Hari Ibu kerana hari2 adalah Hari Ibu, tanya diri sendiri kelmarin, semalam & hari ini apa yang kamu dah lakukan untuk buat ibu rasa istimewa & dihargai . Kalau ada jawapannya, alhamdulillah

Anyhow, it's a good goal to make everyday as a mother's day. Everyday is a day to do good deed to our parents & make them happy.

Simple... Let's being good to our parents first, then others.

Wish list...

It's just 10:30am, but I already feel sleepy. What a very unproductive weekend if I take a nap now.

So let's update the blog.

Guess what, contrary to my previous post, I've decided to buy an iPhone! It's all because I've fallen in love with Apple watch or iWatch. So in order to maximise the usage of the watch, I have to have an iPhone. Even for the 1st time setup, the  watch needs an iPhone. So ok fine, iPhone that's it. But I don't want to rush. I'll wait as long as I can wait & hope the 2nd generation of Apple watch will be launched by then. It'll be good too if I can wait until iPhone 7 is launched. But I bet the price will be very high. It'll be even better if I finally change my mind. The temptation to go to Machines right away & just bougth both phone & watch is always there. Right now I'm just being patient you know.

I'm still mad about Pandora. Hate it at the same time because if I couldn't control myself, I'd spend lots on it. Don't wanna to for a so called branded silver jewellery. So I have to contain my madness over Pandora.

Haihhh macam² nak beli. Kalau kaya tak apa lah. But even I'm not rich, it's ok. I have enough :). Alhamdulillah...

©2015 Posted from my Xperia Z

Two weeks ago actually...

2 weeks ago, Monday, 28/3/2016

Well one of my resolutions for this year is spend less & save more. It's not easy when the temptation is about everywhere... name it friends, families & social media. The temptation to have everything or something nice, new, high end, latest & fun.

The installment for the car that I'm driving now has settled already. The car itself is almost 11 years. At first, JD did... I don't know the word even in Malay... pujuk? Kenen? But it was something like that... me buying a new car. He suggested quite a few cars. I don't see the point since I'm very comfortable with the car. It's old but it works fine. That's all I care. Serve the purpose of transporting me to work everyday. Sometimes we switch car because he wants to go to his work site. Fine, his car is big, comfortable but seriously I don't like driving it. I have to be more careful because I can't just squeeze in like I normally do, need more space to park & feel bulky.

The handphone that I used now is already 3 years old. Can be considered as an old phone for some people. JD himself had changed his phone thrice within these 3 years. He used to use the same handphone like mine. He also encourages me to buy a new phone knowing that my current handphone is not up to standard compare to the latest one. My friends did suggest me buying an iPhone. Yup, I do think iPhone 6S in rose gold is gorgeous. But I'm comfortable using Android. I don't wanna a headache trying to sync my iPhone using iTunes just for the sake of transferring musics & videos. But for some using iPhone is considered cool & lavish. I do consider of switching to iPhone because I don't find any Android phones that I like nowadays. I don't want Samsung & Sony's Z5 design turns me off. But I kinda afraid I might don't like it. I don't like iTunes for sure... used to have an iPod & decided to stop using it just because I don't like to deal with iTunes. It might be the same situation like the car. Something lavish, nicer & considered cool for other people might not be for me.

Actually I typed the above paragraphs last Friday. Now reading it again, I'm not sure where I'm leading to. So let's just continue & finish it with whatever I'm thinking now.

Not to talk about handbag. I have several friends who wear high label designer handbag like LV, Prada, Gucci & even Chanel. But there's no pressure for me to wear one too. I do have a couple but I rarely wear them. There will be pressure if we feel like to compete. We tend to have the same luxurious thing & so called high lifestyle. Even the definition of high lifestyle is vague. Some people think by having branded item, some by dining at fine restaurants & some think it must be all of them.  We'll spend on something unnecessary just because to be looked great in a real life & worse, social medias especially.

Alhamdulillah I guess I'm not easily succumb to "peer-pressure" which actually doesn't really exist. It only exists in our mind. When other people talk about their achievements, vacations, meal they've eaten & goods they've bought, it's up to us to think that they're just bragging or showing off or just sharing their joy & excitation. Just like an FB status that I recently read about people who's 'eksyen'. It's either we 'eksyen' back or just listen & try to learn something from their stories. If we don't agree, just keep quite. That's what our Prophet (PBUH) encouraged. So we don't waste time on arguing, trying to compete on something that is only duniawi.

It's good to have a big house, a big car, spend on fine meals, travel oversea & wear designer things but in the end it's our life. How do we want to lead our lives are up to us. Do we prefer to have a lot of saving with moderate life style or just spend lavishly & have only enough until our next pay day? Am speaking in the context of middle income just like me & most people around me, not about rich people. The ideal of course having both. But as I always remind myself the best place to live is within your budget. & even we've gained more money, it's not an excuse to spend more cos when Allah blesses you financially, don't raise your standard of living, raise your standard of GIVING! InshaaAllah, as a reminder to myself.


Today, Friday, 15/4/2016...

Let's recite al-Kahf!