Back To School

Day 4 of 2016. First day back at work!

One of the things I did during the last 2015 blocked leave, I wanted to get bored of the leave period and get restless so that I cannot wait for day 1 back at work. 

Guess what... Goal achieved!

I was super excited to head back to work and get things done. Since most of my things were prepared during the blocked leave period, I had a great time catching up with my friends on their trips, their holiday, whatever happened and all. 

During my free period, I got on Facebook and pretty much everyone was posting pictures of their kids starting school or starting back after the long holidays. I foresee Ayu and Ratna doing this as well a few years down the road. Since I do not have any kids of my own, here's what I posted:

A picture of my desk. I had fun decorating this. Fizah gave me a Sephora calendar to complete the look. Sephora must be related to me because as you can see, we (great minds) share similar taste in our design visuals. It's like fate! This look is gonna be a great view as I stay at work late to complete my work this 2016.

Amidst all the catching up, running to classes, orientations, collection of books, more surprises came my way. 

See... what a pleasant surprise to see my dear friends wearing almost similar-slash-alike colour schemes. We had so much of laughter today due to work and our colour choices in our clothing. 

One of the great things which I believe exists in hopefully a lot of workplace, is the friends that colour up our everyday lives. They sure make a lot of difference and lighten that heavy workload on a daily basis. I can never have enough of gratitude, thanking the Almighty for presenting me with not just a few, but many wonderful people at work. They are not just mere colleagues, but they are my friends. 

Oh 2-0-1-6, it looks like it's the start to a fantastic year ahead!

Capturing 2016

Wow. It is 2016 already? What a year 2015 had been. 

No one-word answer could describe the experience I went through the past 12 months. 

2015 taught me something which I have heard of, but never really took serious of; to expect the unexpected. Allah is the best planner and at times, no matter how much we plan for something to succeed and fall through, if He says no, you have to learn to accept that He has better plans lined up for us. 

Happiness would be too mild of a word to say. I learned to be happy everyday, even though at times I did wished I could remove the person or things hindering from that happiness. But hey, there's loads to be thankful for.

I have been tremendously blessed with so many wonders in life; living and non-living things. Family, friends, neighbours, acquaintances, short getaways, fitness classes, a glass of the tarik, blocked leave (which is ending soon and quite frankly I can't wait to start back work) and many more. 

While many would be thinking, penning, jotting and perhaps even listing down their doable 2016 resolution, I reflected on my life all these years and thought of my own personal goals which I too should consider woking on. Since the past few years, I gave up having any resolutions becoz seriously, I never really worked much on achieving them. I always had tonnes of excuses for not ensuring that resolution happened. Fact was, I was downright lazy and pinning the blame on everyone else but myself. 

So Ratna, Ayu and I were hanging out on whatsapp a few days ago talking about 2016 and how we are gonna do things differently. I love how my two besties' goals revolved around their families, significant other and their juniors. I have been giving this some thought to myself and what the heck, let's this be my personal baby project to myself. 

This baby project of mine is entitled Capturing 2016. 

You see, I can't possibly control certain things in my life, like the qada' and qadar, settling down with the one written for me since in Loh Mahfuz as well as when it is my time to be called back and return to Him. What I can work on, is making every moment count and potentially living life to the the brink of happiness. 

Here's a list of things I have in my mind at the top of my head now:

• be MORE productive at work and push the boundaries
• expand my own personal limits and abilities/capabilities
• find time for me-time to broaden my horizons, chill, relax, read, etc
• heighten up my personal expectations, no use staying put in the same space as before
• I plan to overcome my fear of water and be able to swim at least 1 entire lap in the pool

The fifth one may be the hardest to achieve and I wonder if I am shooting myself in the foot now. But that is part of heightening my personal expectation right?

At the same time, I will be continuing with my usual fitness classes such as zumba and yoga classes once the registration is open. I have a feeling 2016 is gonna be a fantastic year. I do hope (as always) to be able to blog more. This blocked leave season, I was busy doing nothing this time round. All I wanted was to get bored of all this free time and prepared myself (mentally and spiritually) for 2016.

Now that 2016 is here, I am ready!

Where to now?

To the kitchen to fill my tummy with my mom's top of the menu Chapati!