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Kelakar…

This is the original version…
If you love someone, Set her free…
If she comes back, she’s yours,
If she doesn’t, she never was….

The New Versions…
Pessimist:
If you love someone, Set her free…
If she ever comes back, she’s yours,
If she doesn’t, as expected, she never was…

Optimist:
If you love someone, Set her free…
Don’t worry, she will come back.

Suspicious:
If you love someone, Set her free…
If she ever comes back, ask her why.

Go-getter:
If you love someone, Set her free…
If she comes back, she’s yours,
If she doesn’t, go get her!

Hunter:
If you love someone, Set her free…
Don’t even wait whether she comes back, go hunt her down!

Impatient:
If you love someone, Set her free…
If she doesn’t come back within some time, forget her.

C++ Programmer:
if(you-love(m_she))
m_she->free()
if(m_she == NULL)
m_she = new CShe;

Possessive:
If you love someone,
Set her free? NEVER!

Paranoid:
If you love someone,
When you let her go, she’ll be out to get you.

Fascist:
If you love someone, Set her free..
She WILL come back or be shot.
She WILL be yours or be shot.

Dah sebulan dah aku lapor diri. Progres? Eh, banyak… Dah jumpa lecturers, dah dapat kerja, kena gi conferences etc. Tapi sampai sekarang aku tak berapa paham kerja2 yg wajib aku buat and kerja2 terpaksa sukarela. Kalau ada lecturer mintak tolong apa2, aku angguk. Pastu aku balik bilik menganga… kesian sapa yang jadi anak murid aku nanti. Sama-sama menganga dalam kelas nanti.

Kat fac Law UM ni ramai orang berpangkat. Bukan pangkat Professor aje, tapi pangkat Datin.
Ada Datin Mary George and Datin Nooraini. Puan Seri pun ada.

= Puan Seridevi Thambapillay. Kitorang panggil dia Puan Seri Devi…hah kan glamer tu. Kalau ada students tegur dia kat Metrojaya sure salesgirl semua ingat dia wife Tan Sri mana… So kalau nak anak2 korang menikmati pengalaman yang sama, namakan anak2 anda bermula dengan ‘Seri’. Tak kira la Seri Langkat ke. Seri Buana ke. Sri Lanka ke.

Aku kat opis ni, tengah tunggu ada minah jual diapers brand Maman call. Nak try pakaikan Adam dengan diapers tu sebab heard good comments about it, and cheap ie RM37=80 keping. If it’s good, I’ll recommend it to all the mothers. Kalau tak elok, sedekah aje la kat anak sapa2 yang ju*o dia tahan dengan diaper tuh. Esok pagi kena gi Serdang hantar survey questionaire, malam esok kena gi dinner Postgraduate Symposium. Suzanna takleh gi, so aku paksa Nazri ikut. Dia kalau bab ada makan dia ON aje, hehehe…

Saw Oprah’s show last nite, about couples having doubts before getting married.
Well, THEY SHOULD!
YOU MUST HAVE DOUBTS BEFORE GETTING MARRIED!!!!

You can go around asking all the wives in the world - how many of them lost their ‘identity’ after their marriage? After getting married, a wife’s top priority is her family. Of course the priority should be the family, but most wives like me tend to forget what we really want for ourselves. Most of the time we also have to deal with the feeling of guilt.

I myself finding hard to find time to go to the gym. I’d like to register at a gym, but I started to think how much time will be ‘lost’ there…I’m depending on my maid to take care of my boy when I’m not around, but I don’t want to be too dependent on her and I don’t want my son to be closer to her than me. That’s why I try to spend time with my son as much as possible…
Now, let say if your mom complained about something and tell you how she sacrificed going to the gym/a trip to Europe etc just to spend time with you, what would you say to your mom? Yes yes we appreciate her actions and her commitment towards us, but aren’t we still going to encourage her to do so? Yes, I will. I feel that it’s not fair for her to babysit her children all the time and miss a lot of other things. Go ahead  -join that trip, buy that car, have that drinks…we all will still love our mothers… I think we all would like to see out mothers to be herself and not being ‘trapped’ in this married life. Unfortunately for the mothers, this is easier said than done…*sigh*

Sometimes, to ‘preserve’ our identities, we had to make a pact before getting married. Try that…most of the times it does work. For those of you who are still not married, consider this as one of the ‘tips’. My neighbour made a pact with her husband that she does not have to iron his clothes after they got married. More than 20 years later the wife still never has to do the ironing. My friend told her husband that she would like to continue to go swimming after their marriage, and she still has that wonderful figure up till now. In one marriage, included in the ta’liq (promise) was a clause saying that if the husband ever get married with any other woman, that a talaq will ‘jatuh’ automatically. Interesting, huh? You can never be too careful in marriage…

The point is not to let yourself go after your marriage. Take a stand and be firm. The sweet, nice, caring and romantic guy that you’re dating now might not be oh so romantic after 18 months of marriage. Your marriage might not turn sour after a while, but it can turn bland, easily. After a while, your husband might see you as HIS wife, not as a sweet, pretty girl whom he had fallen in love with… Instead of having passionate kisses, a peck on the cheek is deemed to be enough. No more holding hands, no more wiping those sweat off your spouse’s forehead. So watch out, and find some stuff that you can still do with your friends even after you get married. My hubby still go out to play Counter Strike with his friends at night and I encourage him to have fun. But me? What do I do besides playing with my child, going for window shopping and finishing my dissertation? Not much. Not much. I really would like to sky-dive, but my husband won’t let me. In case if the parachute does not work, I have to think that I have a son who’ll become motherless, not a wifeless husband. Damn, there goes my so-called adventure in life.

Err, any suggestion?

My oh my what a hectic and tiring week! Suzanna and me went to a 3-day workshop at UiTM, a half-day conference (and dinner) at the Bar Council, and a full-day conference at UIA. As you can read from the last sentence in my last blog, I did not want to go to this workshop/conference. I also complained about it to my friends when we had a gathering at my house just a day before the workshop. I had a basic idea what it was about, but I wonder why oh why does it have to take THREE days?

  After I attended the workshop, I know why. I found it to be probably the most useful workshop that I have ever attended, and it was my first workshop as a tutor! It was about how to set up our own legal clinic at our universities - the same thing that I have been waiting for since my days a an undergrad. I felt very nervous and timid and shy because Suzanna and I were the only ones without any teaching experience in that workshop. Just imagine, sitting next to professors and doctors (Ph.D doctors la) from other universities… I’ve been very quiet during the workshop, but I still remember Prof. Rajes from UiTM kept encouraging me to talk and praising me after every presentation. He has a resemblance of Prof. Balan, and was sort of a like a ‘father’ to all of us. I felt very comfortable talking to him (although most of the time I had no idea what the lecturers and lawyers were talking about, hehehe!). We also learnt various teaching methods that we can apply in our class..(coming soon)…

We had 3 instructors at the workshop - two of them were Caucasians (Prof. Bruce of USA, MAriana from Romania) and another instructor was from the Philippines, Prof. Marlon. At first, I had no idea that Marlon is one of the instructor, as he looks like a Malaysian. After he began to talk only I realized that he was one of the instructors.  I thought what can a guy from the Philippines teach us? Apparently A LOT! He was full of knowledge, very down-to-earth and smart. He already obtained a Doctor of Juris, became the Executive Director for an NGO in his country, is a prominent lawyer and a Professor. Guess how old is he? = 36 years old! How did he do it?? I have no idea. He’s married by the way, and has two beautiful daughters (he showed me and Suzanna his daughters’ photos in his cellphone).

Right now I am inspired to help the faculty to set up a legal clinic at UM. In my mind, the ideal way for me to live my life is to become a pro bono lawyer and work from home. Maybe one day, if my hubby suddenly becomes super duper rich that I won’t have to work, I could realize this dream. Think - how many people can actually afford a lawyer or even a legal advice in this country? There are a lot of things that we can do to help. So, i beg to all the lawyers out there, including my friends, to help us by offering some of your time and precious knowledge in helping us to make this dream come true. I will inform you when the time comes. Think about it, pleaseee…??

My lesson for this week is NOT TO JUDGE A BOOK FROM ITS COVER. Not to judge a conference before I attend it. Not to judge a person from the country where he/she comes from.

I’m glad that I had that chance. Point taken.

Lamanya tak masuk Friendster, check e-mail dan sebagainya… Internet baru OK last week after berperang dengan streamyx for a month!

Mid April, aku pindah rumah dari Damansara Perdana ke Seksyen 5, Kota Damansara. Dulu dok condo, sekarang dok rumah teres. Masa mula2 pindah tu, rasa rindu giler kat rumah lama… Terasa rumah baru ni terlampau besar untuk duduk 3 beranak + maid sorang. Mak aku belum sempat datang lagi rumah teres ni, kalau dia datang sure dia bising sebab kena naik tangga turun tangga… Semput jugak wei… Nak settle down tu lama jugak. Nak unpack lagi, susun barang lagi, kemas lagi. Tuan rumah tu pulak tinggal barang (dia gi oversea for 2 years, so kitorang sewa for 2 years only kat rumah baru ni), so kena packing barang dia sekali sebab barang2 kitorang pun dah banyak! Dissertation ntah ke mana…buat setakat yang boleh dulu dalam kekalutan, kesepahan dan ketensionan takde internet. Komputer pun dah gila. Tuan punya dia pun macam dah nak gila jugak.

End of May lepas lapor diri kat UM. Dah lah tersilap lapor diri awal satu hari, macamla aku eager sangat nak masuk kerja -padahal tersilap tengok tarikh! Rugi one day. Fulamak, banyak nyer kursus kena pergi!!! Dahlah dissertation tak siap-siap lagiiii!!!

Nazri dah confirm dapat SLAB Radiology kat UH. Alhamdulillah… Sama tempat kerja, tapi naik kereta lain2 sebab dia turun gi kerja pukul 7 lebih, aku kekadang pukul 9 lebih baru blah. That’s the beauty of kerja kat university masa budak2 tengah cuti…

Sekarang ni dok kat ofis kat UM, boringnya Suzanna takde… Ni dah puas menaip dan dengar lagu, tak tahu nak buat apa. Gula kat rumah dah nak habis! Aku gi merata-rata kedai runcit tapi diorang kata gula takde! Bangsat betul tokey gula Malaysia ni, dah jadi the richest man in Malaysia pun tak cukup ke! Sapa2 tau kat mana ada jual gula bagitau gua ok.

Anniversary last week gi makan buffet. Bayangkan, tiap2 kali birthday, anniversary and any celebration sure gi celebrate dengan makan buffet, mana tak ’sehat’.

OK la that’s it for now. DOk pening pikir camne nak gi kursus seminggu next week, bohsan boring tak sukaaaaa!!!