A YEAR OLDER

I am glad that I was able to celebrate my latest birthday. Getting older comes with, like other things, its own pros and cons. Of course, with the years slowly adding on to your age, you will be wiser and have more patience and the ability to slowly accept life as it presented itself to you.

Getting older has its own downside to it, of course, besides getting the wear and tear to your body....not to mention the wrinkles and signs of maturity on your face, you have to deal with the crisis of life that normally comes with being older. If you are able to deal with it with maturity and move on with positive thinking, you will not feel the age creeping in so badly. You will always feel young, energetic, happy and contented with yourself.

My latest birthday was celebrated with my beloved hubby as usual by increasing my growing collections of red roses ( I have lots of dried lovely roses...though they had all dried up and wilted the love and affections they presented always lingers on......I still keep them because I treasured the thoughts that come with them). Besides the very sweet deep red roses I treasured from my beloved, there was also a lovely handbag for me to use...even though that is more practical than the roses, it always seemed that roses are always more romantic...I can attest to that.

As usual from the sweet adorable kids, I had my hugs, wishes, cards and kisses...could not have asked for more from the sweetie pies.

As usual on my very special day...I do not asked for anything more from my loved ones and all the thoughts, the gifts and the efforts are much appreciated and will be forever etched in my memories.

THANK YOU TO YOU MY LOVED ONES for making the day a very special and meaningful one for me...felt much loved and pampered as I grow one year older.....!!!!!

And to you guys, my dearest friends thanks for the wishes to me on the telephone, Friendsters and Facebook...they were all so sweet and they made my day all the more special.

God Bless You!!!!!!!

A WOMAN'S LIFE

To stay single, married or divorced??? That is the choices available for women in the modern era. I have friends who are still single, married and divorced. If asked why the singles had chosen to stay unmarried they will say that they had not met their "Mr. Right" yet. They are the ones who are independent, strong, hardworking and normally have a good career. They already own a decent house, a good car and a handsome savings for their future. They will only get married when the "Mr Right" is willing to give them unconditional love and beautiful off springs. They are normally contented and happy but for how long???? It remains a mystery...



I can honestly speak on behalf of the married women. We got married after we fell deeply in love with our husbands. We know the responsibilities and commitments we have to fulfill once we tie the knot. We agreed to the principles of sharing and understanding that comes with marriage. We know that marriage means a lot of love, sacrifice, endurance, understanding and tolerance. Love needs to be nurtured all the time. Otherwise, it will eventually die...a slow and painful death. Well, being married myself, I can vouch that this path is the best for most women. Being married, you are able to share our beautiful life with someone special that we call a husband. We share our ups and downs, our happiness and sadness with our beloved husbands through thick and thin, hopefully until death do us apart. Life will be one hell of an experience when you share it with the one you love. It is something which every woman should experience for herself to understand the feeling of being married and in love.

I have friends who are divorced and happy with their status. They have bad experience being married and we can't say they have not tried. Some of them are lucky enough to have children to care and to love from their doomed marriages. They are independent, strong and very hardworking ladies. They are proud single parents whom are able to bring up their kids single-handed. In today's era, being divorced is no longer a taboo in our society like before. Divorced women are confident, hardworking, smart and most of them are beautiful in every word.

Ladies, we actually have a lot of choices to make in our lives....either to stay single forever, being married or divorced...are one of the many choices that we have. Choose whichever life that suits you and you will not live to regret.

Against All Odds

Hmmmm...life isn't fair sometimes...or is it so? Let's see...some people seemed to have it all. They have the looks, the youth, tons of money, family....but honestly are they truly happy????? People always feel that they are the unlucky ones including me sometimes...but the bottom line is life is all about how we live it.

When you are struck with an illness....you will start to question "WHY ME?" Oh Dear, Why me??? How am I going to go on....my life and everyone around me will suffer and feel miserable. Is it going to be that way? We have a firm control on ourselves to make it otherwise. Actually we can still be the same chirpy, jovial self or in another word be yourself just as you always have before, during or after the illness...it does not matter.

It all lies within ourselves...I have learnt to live with whatever God has bestowed upon me...good or bad. No one can control what they will get in their life time but they surely have control on how to respond to the situation. Illness is part of life....human life is like a wheel of fortune... we were born to live life to the fullest through ups and downs....

Me...I am adjusting well to my new lifestyle....happy and contented. Dearest Hubby is still as loving as ever, the kids are happy and adorable....no one in the family felt miserable. We feel like we are one of the lucky ones to have a stabil and wonderful loving family.

I think God is being very fair to me...through the sickness and all I am still able to enjoy my life as before. Through the sickness I am able to value life to the fullest.

Life is short, I am enjoying every moments of my life now.....honestly I never felt sorry for myself...NO...NO and I hate people who felt sorry for me. They should be proud of me instead. I never let myself wallow in self pity.

I am proud to say that I AM STRONG, I AM HAPPY, I AM STILL ME Nory !!!!! Nothing has changed.... the only downside of it all is may be I will not be able to travel overseas as often anymore...yeah...!!!!!! Holiday in Malaysia won't be so bad after all, hmmm kids...!!!

Long Lost Friends

It has been very long since I last heard from a few of my friends. I don't know where they are or what they do now. I have many friends whom I have lost contact over the years. I have been missing them like crazy over the years...

Somehow I managed to search for a couple of them through networking medium such as Friendsters and Facebook. Two of them responded and now I am busy catching up with one of them online. Memories came rushing back...it was like we were never been separated before. Those were the days when we had so much fun. Being young, wild, single and carefree. Oh! So much fun and so little worries. I still remember very clearly the long nights spent having fun... the impromptu trips every where ....the four of us having the time of our lives. It always put a smile on my face whenever I reminisced about those days.

Time stood still for us now...the years we spent apart didn't seem to matter anymore. Though a lot had happened between now and then but it always feels like yesterday we were together.

I have a few more friends to find...Susan Philip, Rashidah Hamzah, Raja Mariam, Caroline Tan , Lynn Kader if you are reading this...please keep in touch. You can find me Nory Evelina in Facebook and Friendster. We might look different from before (hey..I am a mother of three now) but inside we are still the same cheeky, childish screaming bunch of loud girls!!!!

Time flies so fast and waits for no one....!!!!

Hubby's a cook now!!!!

Hmmmm...delicious and very-very tasty. Darling Hubby is so sweet and nice today. In the morning before I went for my treatment my hubby asked for my recipe book. Wow...I was thinking this couldn't be better if he does what I was thinking he would do....

But of course I have my doubt. Can he actually cook???? So I asked him what he planned to do with the recipe book. He said today I want to treat my family with my home-cooked meal. Oh Really???? Shocked and pleasantly surprised I let him do what he wanted so long as he doesn't burn the house down while I was away.

I was not at home for the whole morning and was back only by late afternoon. By then, I was famished. Sweet hubby really cooked his heart out. When the door opened I was greeted by the delicious aroma of curry...oooopsss....curry? Are you sure darling? The aroma led me straight to the kitchen.....there it was in all its' glory....the chicken curry.

Hmmmm....but that is not all....the curry is accompanied by cucumber mixed with pineapple salad and fried fish. This couldn't be better...a complete wholesome home-cooked lunch for the family.

I tucked in immediately and lo and behold...the taste was deeliiicious.....better than expected. Really tasty and I found nothing wrong with the curry. I'm giving him 10 out of 10 points for the delicious lunch.

Thank you my love, for the lovely lunch. I'll have to prepare something special for your lunch on Monday. Your efforts in the kitchen will forever be treasured, my dearest hubby. A million kisses and hugs from your wife...... you are always appreciated.

A virtual friend

I have about 105 friends in my friendster...besides about 10 of my closest friends there, none of them I personally know. So, I made the first move to get to know one whom I'm attracted through her blogposts. She wrote nicely and interestingly. That drew my interests in getting to know her better.

So I sent her my e-mail address and from then on we became friends on cyberspace. We e-mailed each other frequently, getting to know each other, sharing secrets we normally don't share with strangers.

After about a couple of months of e-mailing each other, we finally got the chance to see each other in person. She wrote about the encounter in her blog and even published photos captured during our meeting. That was lovely of her.

JIMY, I hope we will keep in touch with each other and thank you for the lovely saree. The conclusion of this event is of course, there are still honest, sincere and nice people in cyberspace who want to be real friends.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PRINCESS!!!!!

Today is my second daughter's birthday...11th July 2008 . Happy birthday my lovely princess. She is my daughter, my close confidante, my best friend and I'm so proud to have her as my baby. She's grown to be a kind hearted young lady.

Dearest Jasmine, stay smart and sweet and may Allah bless you always. Take good care of yourself and wish you a happy and cheerful birthday. By the way darling, may be you want to include in your birthday wish lists not to be so lazy and be more organise...hmmm...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JASMINE with all my love.

Desperate Housewife

URGGGHHH....this is not happening again. This is the second time it happened since we bought our new washing machine less than 10 months ago. It cannot rinse and spin-drying. I am now a desperate housewife. How could I manage the washing of tons and tons of laundry without the machine.

It is terribly upsetting when my hubby said the technician can only repair it next week? Hmm... I guess I just have to pack the mountains of dirty clothes to the nearest laundrette and take a deep breath....problem solved.

THE KING OF CLAY IS NOW THE KING OF GRASS

wow!!!!!Outstanding!!!!!It's an epic battle, it was out of this world!!!! Unimaginable play more than lived up to expectation. Breathless....beautiful beautiful play, excellent skills!!!!

No ,No ,I'm not gushing about the current scenario of Malaysian politics which is at its utmost nauseating for me....I am talking about the wonderful skillful tennis display by two of the most talented and top tennis players; the 12 times Grand Slam Champions Roger Federer and his nemesis, 4 times Grand Slam Champions Rafael Nadal.

It kept me wide awake with excitement from last night till the early hours of this morning. Two rain disruptions didn't deter me from getting glued to the idiot box. And at the end of it all....it's worth the wait and the outcome was even better than expected. My favourite tennis player, Mr. Rafael Nadal became only the third man to win Roland Garros back to back to Wimbledon win...besides Rod Laver and Bjorn Borg.

It was not that Mr. Federer (who had not dropped a set in the tournament) played badly it was just that they matched each other points by points. Except earlier in the match when Nadal won 2 sets to love.... was the great Roger had butterflies in his stomach the first two sets? He came back fighting and won the tie break at the end of the third set after a short rain delay.

From then on, the tennis was spectacular and no words could do justice to describe their kind of epic play and in the end of the long long battle we have a newly crowned Wimbledon king of grass. IT IS NONE OTHER THAN MY FAVOURITE TENNIS PLAYER RAFAEL NADAL FROM SPAIN....Congratulations to Rafa for a job well done and thank you both Rafa and Roger for displaying such a wonderful beautiful tennis display...fittingly the most entertaining battle in history of Wimbledon Final Man's showdown ever. Aren't we lucky to be able to catch that performance live ?

VAMOS NADAL!!!!