3rd e-letter while onboard

Saturday, June 13, 2009

2300 hrs

Salam my dearest princess,

How’s your day today? Have you encountered any fun and enjoyable event? Indeed I have spoken to your dad that he and you had spending day with nanny to a wedding. It was very good for you went out and have blessed day, which at once you be more fortunate to have people loved you around.

Mummy had a very fine day indeed with the very impressive progression by the crew of PGS. We have completed line no 6 and will be shooting the line no 7 as soon as they have made the turn, which will take 3-4 hours. I pray everyday hoping the operation would turn out good and well hence I could go home earlier and see you and daddy. Today I have not had my breakfast as I did pump my milk as usual since I woke up late I missed my breakfast. By the way, as the courtesy of the chef, I had a chance to take a cereal for breakfast.

As usual, very dull and quite boring for me without you around, I had chitchat with the gentlemen and surprisingly they are all from various countries. I rather thought they are Norwegian or British, as the company is wholly owned by UK and Norway Company. But I thought wrong there are some fellows from Thailand, Canada, Scotland and I understand the mechanic crew has been hired from Philippines. With the great pleasure heard a lot of stories from them when they have talked about their family, their wives, kids, experiences in seismic acquisition, and their passion in their job. As one of Canadian fellow, as he saw a picture of you in my Macbook, was telling me he is missing his son as well however it’s pretty hard for him since his son taken care by his mom. With some circumstances, they hardly meet. Poor fellow.. and this is where I think I am real blessed to have you both, ur dad and you yourself my dear.

My love Sophie

Right now right at this moment, they already have stop shooting and wait to shoot again not after they have completed turning. I am actually waiting to make a call to your dad and I’m quite sleepy waiting to go to bed but not until I make a love letter to you. J I must go now my dear child. I’ll write to you soon. I miss you so much. Kisses..

2nd e-letter for Sophie

Thursday, 11 June 2009

Dear my little princess Sophie,

Today has been 5 days since I left you with daddy and granny. I am so much in good health yet still thinking of you everyday. Considerable undoubtedly, I think I can’t live without you two, you my darling and your daddy. Indeed I couldn’t think, I couldn’t breathe and hardly can eat, even the foods were not as delightful as in on shore, you can’t even tell. It has given me such unpleasant feeling whatever I should do made me more suffer of leaving you at home. I am terribly sorry. I am still thinking. Am I a bad mother, the cruelest ever in this world? What on earth can a mother could ever abandon her child for quite sometime when she needed her most? I sworn to myself, if anything bad happen to you, I would pin myself down for whatever reason, I shall have not be forgiven.

My darling,

Every time I was in my cabin made me cold and boring, discouraged me myself from being motivate to do my job. These feeling inside has been ruled me, instead of being independent I am now inadequate. What I worried most is you, have you eaten enough foods, have you had enough sleep, have you ever miss me? I am so deeply thought about it and made me anxious. First thing in the morning I must go to the phone and called your dad of asking about you. How have you been doing without me, which your dad mentioned you’re progressively adapting your routine without me. What should I say this? I was relieved when after gave some hard time to your dad and granny, at least you have had been strong and independent. But after sometime I was thinking that have you had forgotten me already? I know this is the ruthless thought but I can’t help it. Because you know how much I love and I miss you as much as I do for your dad. You both are my life, my home and my destiny. Without you both I am nothing and worthless.

My sweetheart,

There is no intention for me to left you alone but the condition of my job has made me do this, very impossible to just ignore it. I wont be long, as soon as this operation completed, I’ll be home in no time. I would be chasing the flight ticket to get home and be with you and your dad, hope you’ll be waiting for me then. In the meanwhile, I just want you to know that I miss you so much. I love you.

Lots of love for you and your daddy

MOMMY

1st e-letter for my lil' princess

Dear my little princess,

Today is the 2^nd day I’m away from you. I know this is hard.. very hard for me and for you too. You can’t ever imagine what I felt and I acted. The whole was tied up for benefit on learning to be absent from you as you could learn to be more independent when I’m gone. I know I’m going to miss you, hence I miss you so much right now, that I miss your desire to learn a new thing, observing people and new words, I miss your cunning tricks and a great deal of noise when you were mumbling in German.. hehehe..

Last night you’ve been giving a hard time to daddy, grandpa, grandma and your aunt Noi. Which I supposed this would be harder as I think you might be not needed me around and learned to sleep without me. I feel sorry and please do not get me wrong on this. Please do not think that I was to be rather cold-hearted and rather selfish to left you alone with daddy, since you know… he is capable to take care of you. He’s fantastic; please do help him as you’re helping me before. I know you’re good girl, with as much kindness as you could. I know ur daddy done a very good job.

How differently did every thing now appear in which I was concerned! I was expecting a phone call from your dad this morning in telling me that everything was all right. However after some time, I thought differently and called him and the moment I listened to his voice I know something must be wrong. I’m now stuck in Bintulu while waiting to be on board tomorrow and you know it willl take some time. My dear child, I won’t be able to hug and kisses you as always, I wont be able to put you in my arm, but I hope you know that I always love you.. always…

 

SAD, CONFUSED - the challenge begun

One fine day… 

“the meeting was great, they have decided to send few people on board. 1 people from acquisition and probably 1 people from PMU. They have asked if we are going to send our people, boss”

“Yes, I’ve told them, that you’re going” Gulp!!

“oo but I need to renew my BOSET. It has been expired a while ago”

“It’s ok. Get it done by next week” double gulp!!!!

“ok wil do boss”

So bermula la hari yg kelam kabut bg diriku, mixed feelings, and terrified on leaving my little ones even it would only take about 1 week. But, how I ever say ‘NO’ to my boss since it was only 1 month I’ve been moving in to this dept? Furthermore, flexibility is crucial in the ‘world of geoscientist’. Hmmm….

Day by day, it was beyond words. I really did not know how to describe my feeling was. It’s my first time to leave Sophie for few days and I know I’m going to miss my other half. Dugaan.. plus, I was still breastfeeding her and she’s really attached with me especially during nite sleep. How does she ever sleep without me??

Tik tok tik tok.. I was getting nervous. I have settled on having my parents looking after Sophie while I’m gone and I have settled on packing stuffs especially my breast pump. I was promised to myself that I’m going to continue pumping even I know this is going to be end of my effort on the possession of breastfeeding my baby. Sighhhh…

HK Pix - Day 3 & 4

HK pix - day 2

Hong Kong Trip (Day2 & 3)

Day 2
The agent had called to make sure we were ready in the Hotel lobby – first, they have taken us to this one Buddhist Temple in Hong Kong Island(I couldn’t recalled the name) – from the trip we had seen a very beautiful luxurious house in the hills facing the seaview in Repulse Bay, which the agent told us that one house costs about HKD 80m (RM36.5m) – giler ker hapa??? Mmg 100 thn kejer pun blum tentu dpt beli.. but seriously, it was serene and an awesome view, perhaps you should buy that all together then costs you that much huh?? – we had also noticed the HK Aquiarium and we were thinking “knp la x terpk nk pg sini? Kalo tak mesti Sophie happy giler tgk fish (dolphin)” hmmm.. indeed.. we definitely have to have more proper plan for the next visit in HK.

Next stop was to Aberdeen Fishing Village, we had a ‘sampan’ ride (they also call it sampan) for about 20 mins. This sampan ride conveyed by former fisherman, and we were told the gov suggested them to occupy themselves in this tourism business as they have already retired. Even though it was costs us about 20 HKD, but the ride was good. Soon after that, we stopped by at HK Jewellery Factory before we headed to Victoria’s Peak. Since we were riding a bus to the peak, we had no chance to take a tram. The peak had a very beautiful view. From there you could have seen some of building facing each other between this island and the mainland. We have captured some pictures with some helped of the agent.
Then, we went to Madame Tussauds, spent some time in here especially with Sophie around, she was obviously looked at the wax mannequin with the curiosity. “How are these people just stick around without moving?” hahaha.. The exhibits was quite the same as in London, except they have put their stars as Aaron Kwok, Andy Lau, Leon Lai..etc..etc.. Then, end tour at Avenue of Stars and free at own leisure at Tsim Sha Tsui which we had our own arrangement for return trip to hotel.

We actually decided to go to Macau on that afternoon, so we took a walk, stopped by to buy some parfumes (very cheap indeed) and stopped for a lunch. We had a sumptuous lunch in the Arabian Restaurant – it was incredibly delicious yet very expensive (I think most halal food is expensive in this kind of country). Then, walked 15 mins to Ferry station, hoping they were ferry still available at that time and we turned back to the nearest MRT station with the disappointment. Why? Because of that stupid rules stated that we have to pay for 1 year-old and above as same rate as adult, as if Sophie have to seat at her own seat. Which we think it was ridiculous, where we have to spend almost RM1K, for return tix to Macau. Cancelled it and return back to hotel.

Day 3
The day that Sophie and I waiting for!! Disneyland trip. We spent whole day to explore the Disneyland. Which I would say we unsuccessfully done that since we were tired to queue up for each games and tired in handling Sophie. Poor Sophie, she was restless, and we spent about ½ an hour done nothing since she was sleeping in my lap. Conclusion - enjoyable, excitement and explicitly amusing trip. You could see the pictures on the slideshow in the left panel of this blog. I couldn’t tell you more. But I can tell you this, Tokyo Disneyland much much better; even I’m not have yet the chance to go there.

Eventually, that night despite of very tiring day for us, we have done some shopping in Ladies Market, Mongkok. Very well and good price for us, caught an eye items, bargains a lot for some jewelries and cloths. Also encountered with some unkind and harsh vendor, which I would say it’s common in there and I was warned by Angah that that would happened. So none taken, we had what we wanted with a good price from other vendors. So I won’t mind at all. It’s exhausted as Sophie falls asleep while on our way back to hotel. What a cruel parents we were.. hahaha..

Day 4
Relax, spent most of the time in hotel while waiting to go back to KL, Malaysia. Home sweet home.. Nevertheless, what a very sweet moment of our 2nd anniversarry :)

Hong Kong trip (Day1)

The travelling to HK took about 3 hours and 10 min with 1,556 miles, means it was the longest period Sophie has been in the airplane. Of course.. she was restless and crying a lot because of the. There are othe babies out there who had the same as Sophie. We had travel to HK for our 2nd anniversary on the 14-17th May,2009 from the package we bought in MATTA Fair. The package includes with ½ day tour to some attractions in HK Island and the mainland, 5* hotel, free tix to Madame Tussauds,free 2 MRT card (1 day full pass) and return air tix. Which I would say, the vacation was great, and even great with the travel guide sent us to every attraction (since it was our 1st time travelling to this country) and it was perfect with Sophie around.

Travelling with her obviously made us happy yet it was tiring. Fortunately I’ve brought the baby sling so baby wearing made our trip much effortless in handling Sophie. Obviously, she was always trying to get free from being stranded in baby wearing all day long but, we couldn’t bear to get her walked around especially, during this H1N1 spreading out. As such, you could have imagined how worried we were but there’s nothing we could do, unless we had to cancel the ticket. We were almost thinking to cancel it, and since we had a consultation from her pediatrician, we were hoping it won’t affect Sophie and Alhamdulillah, with taken some precaution during the trip; we had successfully come home with H1N1 free!!

Here are the summary of the trip

Day 1
LCCT – AirAsia to HKong International Airport, taken to Royal Plaza Hotel by our agent – next thing we did is tido since it’s already 8pm. It was nice to see some night view in HK especially when we have seen the world's seventh-longest span suspension bridge, Tsing Ma Bridge. The bridge was named after two of the islands. It was exhausting; need to revive some energy before the tour tomorrow. We were fortunate having to stay in this 5 stars hotel which the hotel was comfy, with the nice bathroom where Sophie always couldn’t wait to spend her bath time in the bath tub, and the service was good. This hotel actually located in the middle of Mongkok town and easily reaches by the MRT. It also attached together with shopping complex, I think sort of MValley in here. So location wise, it’s brilliant we have had book this hotel with the agent. Made the journey quite easy.