Hoo...Haa....TGIF

This early afternoon, while working on my PC, I was startled by a seemingly rude outcry “HOOOO……HAAA…” from our office’s PA system. My butt rose from its seat and my heart missed a beat.

A short second of silence and then an announcement was made reminding SMEP staffs regarding tonight’s GAWAI OPEN HOUSE that is to be held at KRP (Kelab Shell Petroliam) from 5 pm until late. Ah! Not to be alarmed then. That’s just a “WAR CRY”.

Phew! What a relief! I was so engrossed in trying to keep up with the workloads left unattended for the last 3 days since I was away on an offshore trip to South Furious Platform, North Sabah. Together with 5 of my colleagues, we were housed in a so called “Kota Belud Hotel” managed by SSB/SSPC as a transit and living centre for SMEP staffs and contractors who go on either a daily or 2 weeks on and 2 weeks off basis, to offshore platforms located within the North Sabah Operations.

People, this hotel is nothing like a 5-star hotel, rather it’s like a detention centre. Except for operation reasons are one allowed outside the fencing, otherwise everything one does is confined within! LOL! Outrageous but amazing!

Thank God, that call over the PA earlier on wasn’t something too alarming! It’s a call for PARTY TIME! Yeah! Yeah! I am going to ROCK the night away. Shaky shake shake, I will be back.
Wishing you a wonderful and blessed week. Take care and be safe.

What are the tallest towers nearest to you that you could see while lying down?

Remember I blogged about the jokes and riddles I once had with my nieces? At the last Gawai celebration, they found the answer to the riddle I dared them. They answered without even thinking but by laughing loudly and said "Aunty, you are not smart enough and that riddle is so easy to answer! Its breasts! He..he..he...". So I lose to them that evening. Nevertheless our dinner went well and was merry. :)

Ticklish Ribs

There was one day way back few years ago where my nieces and I dared each other with few riddles as we drove along the Pan-Borneo highway towards Sibu for a Gawai Dayak’s celebration at their father’s longhouse in Selangau district.

To ease our boredom and making the journey more lively we challenged each other with a few riddles-cum-jokes. These are what we had in our thinking hat then.

The questions were:

Nieces: Which animals wear bra?
Me: The monkeys! They are very silly and funny animals, right?
Nieces: Wrong answer. The answer is Zebra! They blurted out.

“Gee! I didn’t know Zebras are sexy animal,” I said. “Wonder what style and color are their under wears? Pink, G-strings?”

We had a good laugh!

My Questions

Me: What road sign in Sarawak show the reverse spelling of a snake?
Nieces: Don’t know? .
Me: Don’t know is a wrong answer. Try again. They grinned cheekily when they saw me threw back the question to them. I smiled at my nieces’ “rabbit teeth” when she smiled.
Nieces: I don’t know. You tell us la! Please, they begged.
Me: Sure you don’t know? Well, the answer is “AWAS”.

“Why AWAS?” they argued. I replied, “If ‘AWAS’ is spelt backwards it reads “SAWA” which means “python” in English.

We had another good laugh and got a little teary.

Me: Who died the other day while trying to walk on the overhanging telephone cables unaided on a rainy day?

Nieces: What? I didn’t know of this news. Where did you have this information?
Me: I laughed my heart out and said, “Is that your answer or another question?”

“Hey Auntie, we are serious you know. Don’t play play one!” they said.

“Well, I am the witness to this accident and it was never reported until today, to the two of you. And you know what, this happened right at my doorsteps," I said.

“True kah?”, they said in a slang’s way and gotten a little worried by then.

“Actually that little soul was a BIG FAT RAT! A DEAD RAT”, I said.

The three of us roared into laughter! Didn’t realize the three of us were all having funny bones!

Now with Gawai Dayak festival just round the corner, I have gotten one more joke to share with them at our family gathering on the first day of Gawai this year.

Q: What are the tallest towers nearest to you that you could see while lying down?

Till then, here is wishing all people from all walks of life joining in to usher in the Dayak's festival

Selamat Gawai Dayak,

Gayu Guru, Gerai Nyamai,

Senang Lantang Nguan Menua. Hoo..Haa!

Be safe and God bless always.

~ Flowers leave their fragrance on the hand that bestows them.~ Chinese proverb.

Quilting Like There's No Tomorrow Part 3

Where has the quilting time gone these two weeks? Since I last posted about the progress of the baby quilt I am making for my new grandson, I haven’t done any quilting. Why is that? On weekdays I am at work. On weekends and in the evening I am home most of the time and I have been kept busy baby-sitting and nursing my grandchildren, Nigel and Nicole who were both down with flu, fever and sore throat. Nigel didn’t go to school since last week because he will get nauseated after taking any kind of food or drinks. He lost his appetite for food and he doesn’t want to drink his favorite malt drinks like "Horlick" or "Milo". Nicole’s appetite is just okay except that she took smaller portions of her meal. Both of them lost weight a little and I could see how unhappy they both were from the mirror of their eyes! Thank God, Nigel’s’ asthma bout was at bay, otherwise what a miserable week my dear Nigel would have.

Then, came the Holy Easter Week starting with Palm Sunday and the whole week before Easter was the Daily Evening Mass for Station of the Cross. In that week, Trevor (the Little Sheriff), my new grandson caught the same illness as his cousins. There I go again busy with attending to the health of my dear ones.

The weather has been fair, rather hot and humid in the day and occasional rain in the evening. It would be just nice to stay out in the garden and pull the weeds from the flower gardens and pots. Alas! So much to do with so little time! :(

By night time, as I retired, I somehow didn’t sleep well. I would be thinking of my unfinished baby quilt and the quilts tops piled up in the cabinet and the many other things I want to do all these while. There's the stamp and coins collections and pictures of family and friends that are yet to be sorted out and arranged in their respective albums. My thoughts would be endless throughout the night, until I am too tired to even realised when sleep actually put me to bed!

I do feel self-pity sometimes because I am not able to enjoy the freedom of not being disturb whenever I want to do anything that interest me. Much has changed and I got to divide my time between my interests and my family. Naturally, the family will come first.

However, I am hoping that by the next two weeks, Trevor’s baby quilt would see some improvement and ready for him to have to keep warm. At least by accomplishing this one single task, I will be very happy. I still believe in not giving up hope.

~The plans I have for you are good, to give you a future and a hope.~ Jeremiah 29:11

My Family - BB Grape

People are born with talents. They have their own ways of doing things. These may be for the fun and joy of it or for the reason to vent their frustrations, release their boredom and relief their loneliness.

My dear niece aka “BB Anggur” ala “BB_Ggrape” has her own ways of “killing” her boredom. She likes to have company and not just any sort of company, she chooses her companion that is. She is specially closed to her siblings and I could guess her favorite was once her elder sister, “Tita” aka “Genut”. Genut found love, so “Sorry BB.. My sweetheart is already at the door, I got to go!” Poor BB, she’s left alone to “fend” for herself. (She’s gonna kill me if only she so happen to read this statement!)

Then dear “Jisi” aka Toy” grew up a teenager, BB found new company and she is happy. As we all would know, young teenagers normally have so much in common and they could either easily “click” or “tick”!

Alas! Toy is a college student, so she got to go back to school when the time arrives. So poor BB will be again has to fend alone! Ok, there is her little brother “Clif” aka “Baba” but he is so naïve and not too interested in young girls talk. He has his own best friend, THE PLAY Stations!

Now the interesting part about this “BB_Ggrape” is, she has a few talents. She enjoys doing graphics with her PC. She’s a music lover and she plays the piano and organ well. She strums her acoustic and electric guitars melodiously and she sketches! Yes, she sketches. I especially like her sketches the most, because that is where I would know how she is getting on. When she is alone she think. When she is thinking, she sketched whatever is in her mind. She poured out and painted her feelings by sketching them. She has a very intriguing and interesting behavior. I love her for her sheer honesty in expressing her true feelings at that moment of time. Luv ya, BB..kisses...and more kisess…

Here are some of the graphics and sketches she made and I let you to enjoying her beautiful arts! Good day.