8 random habits/facts about myself

Ghoyye tagged me to do this. There’s a set of rules. Upon looking at all these rules, I know exactly what I want to do -to not follow any of it! (Sorry Ghoyye, me, rules - tak masuk la!)

Ok so here goes:

1. I love my living room langsir (curtain) so much I look at it everyday adoringly. I even wrote a poem about my langsir. Beep, beep - crazy lady alert.

2. The only food I can cook decently is porridge. I campak everything in, I wait until everything melt and soften into a mush. Then I eat.

3. I am madly, ‘head-over-heels’ ly, crazy-in-love with my husband Big Z. I know people say ‘oh, sebab you baru kawin lagi, tak de anak, bla bla’, and I don’t understand why they said that. Can’t people just be happy that other people are so in love with their spouse? (eh, melencong plak). While I am so in love with him, I also everyday without fail bicker with him on every single thing. There’s also a lot of things I found annoying about him (which wife doesn’t?), but I still love him to bits anyway.

4. I love the subject marketing. Everything that has got to do with marketing. In fact, I love to think of myself as quite the marketeer. eheh.

5. I am ‘marginally overweight’ now, as decided by the software that calculated my body mass index. All my siblings, including the hubby teased me about it. I am determined to lose the word overweight, how marginal it may be.

6. I am not easily embarrased. For instance, (refer above statement). I see no point in trying to cover up every single of my weaknesses. It’s tiring. I found it easier to let it all out in the open and deal with it one by one. Senang cerita.

7. I am inspired by Lini’s gardening story and decided that we (read:Big Z) should also plant organic vegetables. He plonked a lettuce root into a bottle of water and call it ‘hydroponic’. Bile la boleh makan tu :P.

8. (agagag..susahnye nak pikir sampai 8!..ape lagi ni…). I need to do my stretches and yoga everyday. If not, I will feel very stiff to a point I feel like a wooden puppet - crack, crack, cracking.

9. (to not follow the rules I must do MORE!). I bought a water sprayer from Carrefour and use it to squirt water at Periwinkle and Mika when they misbehave. According to the ‘how to take care of your cat’ books, that is the most humane way to discipline your cat. It’s true. Very effective too.

10. Among the Desperate Wives, I think am most similar to Lynette. Minus the troop of kids. Big Z thinks I am a cross between Susan and Lynette.  

Cukup Ghoyye? Sungguh self-indulgent terasa malam ini. (as if I wrote about world hunger and environmental crisis in my other entries..*roll eyes banyak2 kali*)

 

 

Mrs. Wind’s Dilemma

Mrs. Wind’s first anniversary is fast approaching. And she didn’t have anything. planned. yet. *sigh*

It’s not that she didn’t remember. Or she didn’t care. It’s just she is just so used to Mr. Earth’s plan, she sort of not yet develop the skill of planning things for a husband. And also, because she swears by spontaneity in everything that has got to do with relationships.  

So she thinks of a suprise thing. But.

The only surprise she ever did to the husband is to surprise him by preparing a rice chicken (all by herself) but the surprise is not totally a surprise because halfway through the preparation she needs to call and ask Mr. Earth’s what to do if the rice is ‘undercooked’. And yes, she is using the automatic rice cooker, thank you very much!

So, back to the dilemma, what to plan..what to plan..it does not make it any easier too when the anniversary is on the eve of one major celebration in Malaysia! Great isn’t it?

So in her panicking, she asked Mr. Earth whether he has anything planned yet. And in a very typical Mr. Earth style he asnwered:

‘Yes, months ago’

Arghhhhh. *running around going berserk around the house, pulling hair out*

 

WeeWind’s Day at Home

WeeWind spent her whole day in her brown caftan, doing her work on her laptop. Safe and sheltered from the scorching heat during the morning and the mid-day pouring of the rain, because she works from home. She felt a bit happy and accomplished today because she managed to do a few house chores and also managed to get some work done!

Bravo WeeWind! (but she felt a bit sad because her husband, WeeEarth was drenched in the rain)

 

WeeEarth’s Rainy Day

 WeeEarth hoped he brought along his umbrella to training today. He was drenched when the rain poured out of nowhere. The day started very sunny and bright. How would he know that he will be dripping wet by the end of the day.

Poor WeeEarth

 

Introducing: WeeWind and WeeEarth

 This is how Mrs. Wind in Wee version, WeeWind looks like. She wears her headscarves like that, most of the time (that’s the closest style I can find in WeeWorld). She loves colours and am not afraid to wear them. She loves to match prints and plains. She also loves layers. She’s quite fashion-savvy and loves to mix-it-up. She wears open-toe sandals all the time because she can’t tolerate high heels and covered shoes made her feel uncomfortable.

This is Mr. Earth, Wee version, WeeEarth. He wears muted colours (except when dressed by WeeWind). He is practical dresser and wears what is most comfortable to him. He normally wears formal or semi-formal clothing with covered shoes. Of course, whenever he went out with WeeWind, he will also wears sandals.

 

Beauty and the Geek - Oh So True

 

By some miracle or something, Mrs. Wind was introduced with this reality TV show just a few months after she got married to Mr. Earth. Oh, how bizarre it is looking at our exact behaviour being replicated by the beauties and the geeks on the show! The squabbling, the tense moments, the never-ending arguments, the eye-rolling, the tantrum, the awkward moments and of course the most common - the nagging!

Mrs Wind is not the stereotype ‘beauty’ but boy did she got has issues with scientific terms and of course everything logical. Mr. Wind, although not the hardcore geel but is geeky enough to not have a single sense of rhythm in his body, and of course the sensitivity of a wood. 

They fought like cats and dogs - no, mad cats and mad dogs. Mrs Wind has no idea why she overlooked most of the extreme geeky details in her husband’s personality when they were going out. Mr Earth has no idea that Mrs. Wind is so against his extreme analytical and deliberate style.

Thanks to the show, Mrs. Wind understand geeks better, and hence were able to understand Mr. Earth better. So did Mr. Earth. He knows that at certain time, on certain subject he needs to just nod his head and restrained from giving logical reasoning. Mrs Wind knows that Mr. Earth needs his personal space and time and also when he took long time to answer certain questions, is not because he’s not listening, but because he wants to give it a thorough consideration.

As it turns out, Mrs Wind is also Mrs Beauty and Mr. Earth is also Mr. Geek, to a certain degree.

 

Mr. Earth’s Lesson about Chakra

Mr. Earth is all about the fact and the prove and the information. Well, his first lesson about Chakra was not an easy one!

Mrs. Wind is determined to make Mr. Earth sees the benefit in learning and knowing about the Chakra. She explained, and argued, and debated, and cajoled but Mr. Earth is as firm and as static as a mountain when it comes to his understanding of life and human nature. Naturally, it leads to an argument.

Mrs. Wind does not believe in Chakra as in ’solely belief that is the source of all ailments and when she sneezes she need to re-aligned her Throat Chakra’. However, she believes in learning and becoming more aware of the ancient belief system. According to her, there is no harm in knowing and learning as much as you can about the many aspects of spirituality. The bottom line is, you learn more about yourself, your world, and your religion.

But good luck making Mr Earth appreciates all that!

( arguments to be continued…)

 

Mrs. Wind’s Conferences

Mrs. Winds thrives on new experiences and meeting new people. She loves the opportunities to just explore new situations and environment. That’s why when most people find conferences boring, she loves them! She loves them so much in fact she spent her long weekend attending 2 full day different conferences - back to back.

She also loves learning new things, which is why conferences is a good thing for her too. She is able to indulge in her thinking and evaluating and coming up with better solutions to her daily life and business.

She is very grateful that her husband, Mr. Wind is very supportive. He lets her be who she wants to be by going where she wants to go. Of course, Mr. Wind probably becomes much more supportive because Mrs. Wind never hides anything from him. She tells him everything, where she is going, with whom, who she met, what they talked about. Not because she feels obliged to confide with him about everything. She just loves to share and while sharing with him, it makes him feels involved in her life - although he was not there.

When Mrs. Wind is allowed to be free to explore and learn new thing, her spirit is free and soaring. When her spirit is free and soaring, of course she is happy. And when she is happy, of course, Mr. Earth is happy.

 

Mr. Earth’s Passion

Mrs Wind enjoys listening to Mr. Earth’s stories on how he taught science and did science experiments to school children on weekends. Yes, science is Mr. Earth’s passion.

 Mrs. Wind didn’t know how passionate Mr. Earth was about science and the whole aspect of it, until she married him. Of course, she always knew that he was some kind of a geek, but she thought it was only computers. Apparently it runs through all aspects of science - something that Mrs. Wind is very challenged in. She doesn’t even know the proper jargon to use in describing science ( hence the over-usage of phrase ‘all aspects of science’ in this entry )

The artistic Mrs. Wind, in all her eagerness to ignite ‘passion’ in her husband’s head, desperately taught Mr. Earth a liitle thing or 2 about art. About painting and Monet. About dance movement and ‘So You Think You Can Dance’. Although Mr. Earth is always obliging and did shows some interest. He is, far from ‘passionate’ about it.

Mrs. Wind was frustrated. She didn’t understand why is her husband is so ‘lukewarm’. He didn’t has a passion, and in her dictionary - if you are a person without passion, you are like a walking mannequin.

Until Mrs. Wind found out that a person doesn’t has to be passionate about art to be passionate. Some people are just clueless about art. And that some people is her husband. And she understands now that although her husband is not passionate about art, he is passionate about science. And knowing that makes her happy.

 She loves the way his eyes lights up when he talks about how much he loves doing the experiments with those kids. How he wanted to make some of the experiements better so that the kids will be able to learn more. How he was very committed by it. She also loves the fact that her Mr . Earth is higly concerned about the environment. How he is very conscious of the issue of renewable energy. And many, many more ‘other aspects of science’.

Although Mrs. Wind can’t really understand them all, but she encourages her husband to keep pursuing and doing things that he loves and passionate about. Because that makes him happy. And when he is happy, Mrs. Wind is also happy.

 

The Conversation

Mrs Wind: Yang, I got an excellent idea about this new business! It’s brilliant and I know you are going to love it. It’s about yada yada yada bling bling bling gebush gebish gebush. I am so excited yang, I am so excited! What do you think?

Mr Earth: ( about 3 minutes later ). Ermmm…Good.

Mrs Wind: Whattt??!! *&*^%&(* That’s all you have to say??!! ( pout, pout, pout )

Explanation : While Mrs Wind is rambling like a mad lady she is well, practically has decided on everything she said. She doesn’t need to pause. She’s compulsive and acting on impulse is what she does best. While Mr Earth on the other hand, like to think things through. And in the span of the 3 minutes before he answered he practically has planned the whole 10 years business plan for the business.

And Mrs Wind went to ‘merajuk’ for a bit before Mr. Earth puts her back in good mood by coming up with list of things that Mrs Wind might want to come up with for the business.