simpLy m.e.

Oh this is nice! I just received an e-mail containing this quotation – originally in Indonesia which if translated to English -  says: “we don’t live in this world to find a perfect person to love but to learn to love an imperfert person in a perfect way”.

I seriously do not intend to write any entry for the blog this morning but it is such a lovely morning that I can’t resist.

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I wrote the earlier post early this morning. Thereafter I continued reading my thesis before I went to bed at about 8.00 am. I woke up about an hour ago, freshened up myself then found my husband was having his breakfast. He told me: “you should not have said you’d pause posting at your blog”

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to pause and put on hold most of my routine is what I must do right now

I am supposed to write about Dubai day 2 part III post but I seriously cannot afford that – not with the very restricted time I have to prepare myself for the viva.

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We were approaching Burj Al Arab by 1.00 pm on the 20 January 2007 – the date of our sixth wedding anniversary.

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We wook up a bit late that day, just minutes before 8.00 am (oops, but we went to bed very later too – what a justification *winks*)

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Every one was looking to where the dhow was heading. The disappointment was obvious on everybody’s face. We were expecting that the dhow made the turn to let us to go on board so that we don’t have to miss the experience (especially since many of us could not catch the cruise on the next day). Some were so disappointed; two families were about to leave when others pleaded: “Oh, don’t desert us, we need the crowd to fight for the cruise this evening!”

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I can’t recall the exact time I got up on our first day in Dubai.  Anyway, we got ourselves ready then we went to the hotel restaurant for the breakfast. I was on holiday so I had all the excuse not to avoid carbohydrate (what an excuse, right?) and thus, I took the pancake which was wonderful (or maybe it was just because I missed carbo) but the maple syrup was good. We also had veal sausages, saute mushrooms (which was my favourite and I took plenty of these), beef bacon, etc I also took a bite of donut (oops..)

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I am quite sure if I had said this before but let me just repeat it here, I was having a fever the day that we were traveling to Dubai.

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I will elaborate those later, but at this very moment, it is sufficient if I write down those as the summary:

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