b3 b0rn.. c0nf0rm, b3 si|3nt .. di3

it’s still not too late to wish all my muslim friends – selamat menyambut ramadhan al-mubarak!

this year’s ramadhan is a bit less flustering than the year before. this time last year – it had been my first time having to prepare iftar and sahur all by myself (seeing that i crashed with my parents for 4 yrs++ after getting married)

no more rushing to feed mid-preparation (ahh.. i miss those days of anaqi wanting to feed frequently -now – back then, was counting the days when he’d wean himself)

the office allows us to knock off early (so long you’ve completed the 8 hrs or so).. so i am almost always home by 5 (latest 5:30)… tried to get in the office by 7:30am (so can leave at 4) a few times.. but jln jelatek is worse than ever.. now @ 7:05am pun the # of cars already on the road is mind-boggling… so am sticking with arriving @ 8:00-ish and work through the lunchbreak

driving to-and-from work is definitely one ‘dugaan’ … try as i might, a few expletives would either emerge from my mouth or i’d think it.. and there goes a percentage of my goodwill. one constant cause for this is this car parked indiscriminately at the corner of one of the junctions leading to yaie’s crib. thing is before ramadhan, the car was never there!

i’ll leave the diagram to explain.

prepared 2 very sopan-ly worded notes – this is ramadhan month you see – in both english AND malay (mane la tau, x paham bahse nye orang) to express my displeasure. planned to place it on the windshield of the car on my way back to yaie’s but it’s been raining every evening – have the notes still in my glove compartment. dah lah sakit hati tiap pagi/petang, i don’t want to catch a cold or fever braving the rain to place the notes.

so how are you guys faring in refraining from eating, drinking, smoking and having sex during the day (this was explicitly stated in thestar newspaper) ? and in my case, from getting mightily pissed off and muttering expletives for every moronic driver (or parker) i encounter.