Lagi 36 hari...Esah and I akan kembali sebaya.

Today marks a milestone in my life. Alhamdulillah, masih dikurniakan akal yang sempurna dan tubuh badan yang sihat - ok la, not counting the sakit pinggang, sinusitis, asthma, the occasional gastric...

Sepatutnya tahun ni punya birthday would mark my freedom from my studies...apakan daya kita cuma merancang (laa....cuba kurangkan jadi Ratu Bongkang. Ni bukan i cakap, ni Esah yang cakap ye. Dia kan kejam, selalu jeruk purut hati i). When you have reached my age (38, 39, who's counting?), you start to be more aware of your health. Masa ni semua dah rasa longgar and not functioning at its full capacity. Last week i went to see Dr. B. Bagitau dia pasal i rasa lutut belah kiri macam dah start mengada2 dah. It's not pain but i know something's not quite right. Seperti biasa, i kan cepat emo..masuk2 surgery dia je terus cakap, 'i'm prematurely aging!! I've got osteoarthritis! Tell me i haven't got osteoarthritis!' Drama kels habis!(well, some people may beg to differ. I was told that i don't show my emotions well enough. Apa? You nak i menangis guling2 macam kaplam mati laki and sampai keluar air mata darah baru you dapat tangkap yang i tengah sedih? Or be all over you macam sotong baru you tau yang i syok kat you? Btw, the bit that i said my akal is still sempurna, please omit yee...ternyata tak berapa center. Akak tengah reminiscing sekejap tadi. Two different situations, two different people, two different era). Anyway, Esah memang tau I minah emo...saja tak tunjuk depan orang je. I consult MSU (Tak....MSU bukan boipren i dan bukan sekali2 bff i. Tak main le bff dgn jantans ok..but he has known me dari i masuk kerja sampai sekarang. Dari i anak dara rambut free hair kaler2, babysat anak dia kat UK dulu and until now. I asked him, don't i show my emotions? Adakah i set2 ikan tuna juga? He said,' no, that's why we do what we do. Kalau kita ni set2 yang cepat gabra, cepat tunjuk emosi, we won't be good in what we do. People are not going to have faith in us'. Trust him to  say all the nice things...(but he's still not my bff because malam2 tak boleh text atau call dia kan? pasal dia laki orang...). Ish digress lagi.

Anyway, after Dr. B has kepak kaki i sana sini, he said it's just muscles pulling awkwardly. Cemana tah, belah kiri badan i ni tak betul sangat. My left arm cepat kebas, now my left knee dah start playing up. It's all about bad posturing kata Dr. B lagi. seperti biasa, Dr B urged me to get back to my exercise routine (eh, pernah ada routine ke?). He said pilates would be good, yoga pun ok..and start now, don't wait till New Year. Aisey man! seperti biasa, i went into mode aku yang menurut perintah. Stress tau nak pi cari yoga / pilates class dekat2 rumah i ni..and i so don't adhere to schedules well. Nanti kang stress memikirkan alasan2 napa tak datang kelas. But for god's sake kan...dah mencapai milestone ni kenalah be my own woman kan?? But still i'm terribly hopeless at saying no...paling gempak pun protest secara senyap je. He told me that i need to go to bed earlier than my usual 12-1am routine. Cut down on my power nap in the afternoon (power nap konon! Kalau minimum 1 jam idaknya!). So i took heed of his advice. Kul 10 dah terlelap (pasal kepenatan takdak 'power nap' tadi)...tudia....kul 3 pagi dah terjaga and terkebil2. And by the time i nak bersiap pi office at 6am, i dah start ngantuk balik. Tiba office, kul 10 dah terbongkang kat sofa. tsk tsk tsk. So Dr. B cakap, oo..you are one of those people that can survive on only 5-6 hours of sleep...so i'm back to my old routine.Ok lah Dr B, akan kugagahkan cari kelas pilates/yoga demi mu..eh..demi lutut and tulang cenonggeng ku.

Two months ago, i started to notice that my right eye cam ada cobweb. And the cobweb dok gerak2. Of courselah kita panik, kan? So, i decided to go see the eye guru herself at PCMC. Well, it's just floaters katanya...age degeneration katanya lagi (don't you just hate the word aging? I've just gotten used to sprouting grey hair and now kena get used to bebenda lain). But i can lasik your eyes. Phwoaarr! 3 years ago i was told tak boleh kan? Apparently, PCMc has better technology which enables yg power2 tinggi but thin cornea macam i pun boleh buat. And that was before Raya Haji. She wanted to schedule the op the next day and i said nooooo! She asked me why?? I said er....because i have some bakings to do. Ada orang tempah..hehe. Bunyi cam hardcore baker je. But true ONE friend did tempah the kek SS and thank god jadi. But the truth was....lepas lasik surgery, the eyes woulld take some time to adjust for night vision. And..my friends and i dah beli ticket nak tengok.... Chicago!..sapalak nak drive i balik memalam tu kan?? So, it was scheduled to a few weeks ago. Now i'm no more four eyes, no more contact lenses. Thank you eye guru (thank you Allah) and thank you PakNajib kerana merealisasikan impian saya (geli! Ni bukan kempen PRU13 ye). Thank you to one of my bffs (i have a few, each with different function - saya ulangi, semua XX) who drove me all the way home even though memula i mintak hantar ke train station je (gila! at least four hours dgn gaya2 steviewonder ada hati nak naik public transport).

There you go!