Well hellooo.... 3 day weeks!! :-) :-)

On a more positive note, it's a 3 day week and Hari Raya this Friday! Looking forward to meeting up with the family, and also this would be the first time I'd be spending Hari Raya with the missus as well! Happy eid mubarak to anyone who is reading this, if there is even any readers whatsoever. Take care of yourselves, and each other.

Fasting month this year...

Ramadhan. Every year, it comes and goes, and at the end of it, we celebrate Eidul Mubarak, or what we call it here in Malaysia, Hari Raya. I just wanted to highlight a slight observation of the Ramadhan month lately.

Lately, the ramadhan month has been equaled to ramadhan buffets, pasar ramadhans (or "params" as they are refered to now, I have been told) and a whole load of eating. Ramadhan buffets in hotels now cost on average more than 100 bucks in a decent hotel. And even with the high prices, you would be lucky to be able to make a booking if it wasn't done a few weeks before. I actually tried making bookings at a trendy hotel a week before and couldn't make bookings. And people go to these buffets to gourge down food like it's running out tomorrow.

Also, going down to Params lately, I have to say has not been a totally enjoyable experience. I've only been to it once this year, and that was to the Taman Tun "param" and the place was packed full of people. Such that the crowd sometimes get rude, bumping into each others shoulder and swearing at each other. Also, everybody seems to be buying a whole load of food. I am not saying everybody does this, but I see a lot of people just tend to buy so much food during these params, and when they get back, they tend to again gourge down their food until they are packed full, and still have loads of left over food, which ends up being thrown away.

And I thought the spirit of Ramadhan was a month of personal self control and moderation.

Sometimes there are more important things to life than football

Did not catch the match last night as it was the wife's birthday last night.

Instead of bumming on the sofa / mamak / sport bar / wherever, watching the match and screaming my team on, I decided that there are more important things to life. We went for a nice dinner in KL and ended up having a quiet chat over coffee at our favourite coffee hangout joint. Ended up hanging out there until the late night and going back home to sleep. Absolutely lovely day just spending quality time with the missus. We don't really spend time like this anymore that often, since both of us are getting busy with our lives and work and all. But it is just nice taking some time off our hectic schedules, to just spend some time, making sure we still know who each other are, and why we got married to each other in the first place.