Out of the 7/8 years of blogging, I swear I think this year is the worse for me.. I mean just look at my posts count! Tsk tsk tsk.. How am I ever gonna remember anything in 2015 when I'm old and wrinkly and can't even remember where I put my car keys?!
Imagine guys, when we get to that age (insyAllah if panjang umur) we'll be the most tech savvy grandparents, ahahahaha.
Anyways, let's do some major throwback to 2nd of July 2015!
*steps in a time machine*
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The project that I was on back then was supposed to finish by June 30th, initially. So I made plans to go on a short break from the 1st of July til the weekend in conjunction of not only my birthday, but my friend from UK, Dani, was also in town and Zawir was also coming back sometime that week.
A day before I was supposed to go on leave my colleagues were so nice, they took me out to dinner! They even let me chose the venue and since it was fasting month, my taste buds were all over the place hahahahaha. In the end I settled for Italian and it was a choice between having aglio olio at Pizza Uno's or arabiatta at Antonio's. I was going back and forth a lot and decided to go to Antonio's.
My mini celebration round 23.1
Now that we're no longer working together (as we're all on separate projects) I miss them :'(
Thank you for dinner guys!!!
So how I spent my actual birthday?
The summary version is well, I spent the morning half of it in IKEA, the middle portion of it at home and the night portion of it having dinner.
Please read below for a lengthy version.
Project Re-Style for my room is probably the longest personal project I've taken for myself.. It started sometime in 2014 and in November 2014 I bought a bunch of stuff for the room. Remember that Deepavali IKEA trip? Which somehow became an annual thing because guess what people?! I went to IKEA again this year a day before Deepavali... But that's a story for another day, at this rate it's a miracle if I manage to tell the story by NYE. Lol
Anyways, those things took months to get assembled, not because they were hard to assemble or anything, I just had other things to do. Once those things were finally assembled, I realised I need more stuff hehe #girlproblem. So I told Zawir way earlier that I need him to follow me to IKEA as I need help cause some of the things I want are just too heavy for small me. And what better day he can't say no to me?! My birthday!
So off we went to IKEA in the morning and bought my nightstand and drawers for my vanity when I went to IKEA with him, because all other things, namely 1 wardrobe frame, 3 wardrobe doors, and whatever stuff I need for inside the wadrobe, were bought 2 days in advanced and I got them delivered and installed by the IKEA men the next day after my birthday.
Now you may ask why couldn't I just buy everything and deliver it one shot? Well, that'd mean I'd have to carry my drawers and nightstand to the checkout counter and they were heavy. Plus I'd have to pay extra in terms
of delivery and installation charged.. I cheapskate. Hehehe
Once we were done at IKEA we went straight to my house and project pasang furniture begins!
Am I the only one who gets excited doing these home improvement stuff?! Zawir was so cranky doing this for me but since it's my birthday he can't say no lol.
We took quite sometime to fix it up because Zawir is the kind of person who likes to separate all the screws and make sure everything is accounted for as per the manual.. I on the other hand, finds the manual and find what I need as I go along. But you know, I'm asking the man for help so gotta do things his way.
End product :)
I give myself a good pat at the back for choosing drawers all enough to double as a vanity table. At the same time I also get to keep other stuff that doesn't really go inside my wardrobe (like extra toiletries, travelling bags and etc.)
If you're observant and have eyes like a hawk, you're realise that my left and right drawers handles are different (something that kills Zayana on the inside). This is because when Zawir and I were in-charged of fixing it up respectively, we both disagreed on which way it should be fixed.
I opted for the non-conventional way which is for the opening (place where you your fingers and pull) to face up, so that when you want to open the drawers your palm does not have to face up (which is quite unnatural isn't it?!). Zawir on the other hand disagrees and thinks that's how palms should face when trying to open a drawer..... -________-'
But whatever, we were late for dinner so we didn't have time to change it to my way.
Before dinner I briefly met Dani I swear it's been almost a year since I last saw her (which was on graduation day) and when she saw me she gave me a hug and carried me right in front of Pavilion! I've never felt tinier in my entire life!!
Dinner was at my favourite Thai place in entire of Malaysia (probably even the world) which I realise after dinner that it's been my birthday dinner place with Zawir for three years in a row...
No, this isn't what we were wearing to fix the IKEA stuff if that's what you're wondering..
But yes, that was my simple birthday celebration round 23.2
Look out for round 23.3 and 23.4! ;)
