It has been a busy week indeed. Let me try to summarize it for the sake of keeping up with the wonderful memories.

1 - 2 Nov - My brother’s wedding

That’s right. We finally arrived on the D-day. The day when I host a Pengajian for my brother. The day we went to his soon-to-be wife’s house for Malam Midodareni. The day of big hair, heavy make up, tight kebaya and good manner for 48 hours. It was really nerves wrecking. And it did took steel nerve to coup with Mom who freaked out for every single deviation from original plan that she orchestrated since 12 months a go. It’s like during Start Up period. When Project’s grand design failed to meet Operations reality.

It was a challenge as well to keep up with the protocols like…keep an eye with two rows of fake eye brows open. Let alone keeping BOTH eyes open. It’s killing me! I cursed the make up artist every single second.

But it was wonderful to see my youngest brother finally got married. I was happy to see him happy. And the kids…they behaved wonderfully. My little gentlemen. They were in such a good manner so both hubby and I could do our role peacefully. Hubby chaperoning (is there such a word?) my brother to the altar, and I lead the group carrying bananas and pineapples tower before my brother. Whatever that means.

Needless to say that it was drop dead tiring, and yet it was fun. And oh, I met my other brother’s girlfriend. Other brother’s girl friend. Not brother’s other girl friend. So don’t get confuse.

3 Nov - Interview with a Witch

I went for interview in my dreamed business school. The interviewer was an old lady who arrived 10 minutes late and was not impress with my psychological profile resulted from the psychometric magic test. Including my “assertiveness” in badgering the Receptionist demanding to know where the Interviewer was when the clock was ticking away from the promised hour. Well, I was not impress either with a guy who tried to get to know me better and interrogating me about my personal life, keeping me away from scrolling my beloved blackberry trying to catch up with the e-mails. I would rather badgering the Receptionist rather than having me badgered by a guy. The time for that was so over! And the pick up line was so un-innovative (is there such a word?).

As predicted, I was told that flunked the math and informed that I have to redo. I was also assessed as impatient and demanding, so this has caused concern on how would I blend in with the class. You would not want a demanding, impatient and slow in mental arithmetic person in your group, would you?

I was also questioned on my motivation. Why do you want to study again? Will you get promotion because of that? Rrr…No. Will you get salary increase? Rrrr…I would love to, but no. But you have two small children, you will have no time for them, you will not be able to see them sometimes including Saturday and Sunday, are you ready for that? Rrr…No.

The bottom line is: quite disheartening. I went into a soul searching period like: why on earth would I want to do this? I have a happy good life, why do I want to rock the boat? Ah that’s right, because I like it. Me. The restless person. Slow in math, nevertheless. So I will have few weeks to think, and redo the math, so lets see where my soul searching period take me.

4 Nov - Ehm!

My 35th birthday. What can I say more? Life has been wonderful and consistently to be series of surprises for me. Good job. Good husband. Lovely boys. I am grateful to be surrounded by family and good friends. It warmed my heart that some of them sent me heartfelt praying. The best one was “Hey girl, I hope you are getting richer!” Wow, really mind blowing compared to the standard happy birthday line…it lighten my gloomy heart.

And my client celebrated my birthday as well. We had cake in our goal review meeting. And coincidently, we had nice dinner. I am blessed.

5 - 7 Nov

I was engulfed in rating calibration process and presentation for my trip to Beijing next week. But I managed to watch Bond’s new movie Quantum of Solace. It was a bit boring and I was sleepy. But it’s good to be able to spend time with hubby. I seldom see him in awake condition lately. It’s a good change.

And now, I have packed my winter clothes. I am happy to be able to wear my pink overcoat again. And I will be traveling with a good friend who is merry and cheerful. But I am sad to leave my family for a week. So if you excuse me, let me spend my time with them. Tata!