just don't bother

there's one simple thing that everyone in this world needs to know - you can't get along with everyone.
there must be someone or more than one person that you really can't stand with - be it your bosses, your neighbours, your inlaws, your 'friends', your coworkers, etc.
it may be of his/her/their attitude - annoying or difficult or selfish or irrational or whatever bad negative attitude that they may have.

but there's also one thing that we need to understand - others' attitude got nothing to do with us.
all we need to take care of is ourselves & stay focus on our objectives/goals.
and if we really have to work or deal with them, all it takes is patience.

for example, when you have to deal with arrogant people, seriously there's no point to argue.
we can't stop fire with fire.
when we are dealing with fire, we need to be water.
to argue with that kind of person (person you can't get along with) will only make things go worse.
the best way is to just stay quiet.
and sometimes, all we need to do is just listen.

so far, i have met a few people with attitude that i can't stand with & i think i have learned something from that - don't bother, be positive, stay focus & be patient.

the award of "the best husband" goes to.....

for the past six days, i have had a bad sore throat, cough, running nose & headache.
it's a complete package.
the temperature was quite high but only for the first day & subsided after i took some panadols.

i didn't go to any clinic because i thought it was just a normal fever that would last for 2-3 days.
my husband insisted to bring me to a doctor, but ohh well, stubbornness rules!
after a few sleepless night, a few days of coughing & up to the level that i feel pain in my chest, i finally go to the clinic 2 days back.

you know why i'd prefer to buy my own meds from the pharmacy than seeing doctor.
because i don't see a point of seeing doctor (for normal flu) when i can get the meds directly from the pharmacy.

you know what has happened that day when i went to the clinic.
the doctor asked me as soon as i entered his room "sakit apa ye?".
and i said, "sakit kepala".
he checked my temperature & he just said, "okay, saya bagi awak ubat sakit kepala".
it's weird when i kept on coughing n sneezing in his room, but he didn't ask a thing about that & just let me go back with just painkillers.
ohh he did ask me, "nak MC tak?"
wow, maybe normally people go to see him to get easy MC.
i replied, "takpe, saya tak kerja".
i think the so called 'consultation' only happened for less than 5 minutes, err, or maybe 3.
and i have been charged 25 bucks for the painkillers + 'consultation'.

later in that day, my husband came home from work & i came home early that day because i can't stand the headache.
i felt cold & warm at the same time & the temperature was quite high.
he then went to the pharmacy to get me some additional meds plus antibiotics, forced me to eat all & zzzz.. i slept early because some of the meds cause drowsiness.

ohh i forgot to tell you.. he made me breakfast for 3 days straight already, he made sure my prayer mat is ready before solat, he folded my telekung everytime after solat (more to gulung-gulung sesuka hati actually), he made me hot milo every now & then (walaupun tawar sebenarnya).. and he did many more sweet things.

at 5am yesterday, i woke up by myself & felt quite good.
no headache, no running nose, but there's still cough.
i was actually really touched by my husband's sweetness (okay, boleh muntah sekarang), so i decided to write some love notes for him that he can read when he wakes up for work (he always woke up earlier than me).

the problem was, i don't have any art card or fancy papers with me until suddenly i got the idea of writing that notes on his ipad & make it as the ipad's homescreen background.
so this is it, drew on doodle buddy app for ipad.

wah, very much earth-friendly!

owh, sorry for the geli-geli entry.
just take it as the after-effect of watching ombak rindu LOL.

wordless wednesday: taking drugs..

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ombak rindu

i'm proud to say that i am a fan of romantic movies, be it comedic or serious type.
i'm not really into action / thriller / horror / fiction ones.
for me, movies are medium that are used to change our state.
i like to watch romantic movies because they really can change my state.
from one state to another, for example, from sad to happy or the other way round.
the most important thing for a movie to be claimed as successful is if the movie can inject feelings among its audiences.

i do watch both malay & english movies.
and i have to agree that english movies are better in terms of quality compared to the local ones.
but that doesn't stop me from watching our local-made movies.

obviously this entry is for 'ombak rindu' that i watched this morning.
the story of 'ombak rindu' is taken from one of the famous malay novels back then which is titled, well, 'ombak rindu'.
i don't know who's the author & i'm too lazy to google the name, but i have read the novel before.
it was a very long time ago, i think about 8 or 9 years back when i was in matriculation.
if i'm not mistaken, the novel belongs to one of my housemates.
that was the first & the last time i read that novel.
and honestly, i don't remember the storyline at all.

watching it just now made all the stories come back to my head.
you know it when you go like, ohh i do remember this, ohh i know her, ohh i remember him, ohh dialog ni aku ingat lagi, ohh lepas ni rasanya jadi tu jadi ni, yada yada.

i can say that the movie of 'ombak rindu' is a duplication of its novel which is translated into visual.
the story is very much the same as what was written in the novel.

selection of actors & actresses is just so-so.
aaron aziz fits the character very well, but not for the heroin, which is maya karin.
it's weird to have a naive village girl who speaks malay with pelat matsalleh.
and being an ustazah mengaji there are couple of scenes where she recites alquran, well, i'm not really good myself, but i know basic tajwid & i think the recitations are not properly delivered by her.
it's okay if she's just a normal village girl, but it's not okay since she's an ustazah mengaji.
as we all know, bront palarae is a good actor & yes, he serves the character really well.
as for lisa surihani, i think, there's a slight improvement on her acting, but still, there's a lot more room to improve.

the story runs too fast & looks a bit 'rushing', but i take that as the weakness of putting a novel into a movie.
it's actually impossible to deliver the whole story from a novel into a 2-hour movie.

overall, i rate the movie as 3/5.
above average simply because i love watching romantic love story, so i'm being biased here.