The One with the Weekend in Pain

A pair of Pain Aux Raisins....

'Pain' in French doesn not means 'Pain' in english!!.

A sad, sad weekend last week! I was down with pain starting Friday night. Could not sleep, and at last at about 4am, I woke up and took painkillers. I was menstruating by then...I was asleep soon after taking the painkillers...

Hubby woke up for Subuh prayer and after the prayer I noticed that he was dressing up. I was wide awake by then...curious!! He informed me that he had to be in Perak on that day i.e Saturday and also Sunday. Then straight to Kedah for Monday meeting.. I was speechless.. I asked him. 'Naper baru bak bagitau?". He said he only knew on Friday aftenoon, well he actually had the whole nite to let me know but he didn't..

We were supposed to go to Subang to check on the house we were about to rent to a new tenant this October, also to a dear friend's open house on the evening..I was really mad but I did nothing...I remain silent even when he kissed me good bye and said that he was sorry..

As I was not able to sleep that nite, I continued to sleep after he was gone and woke up at about 9am with pain..I was so much in pain the whole day even with the pain killer! The pain was lesser with the painkiller and became more intense as soon as 4 hours were up! So the whole day and Saturday nite, I was on painkillers, non-stop!

I was on bed almost 24 hours! Bilik pun bau minyak panas! Peha, perut ada kesan lebam due to my intense 'urutan' masa sakit tu...I was only up and about on Sunday morning as I took the stronger painkiller at 4am... Went out to wash my car and bought a few ingredients for baking. By 3pm, the pain has started again...

However determined to fight the pain, I continued to do some house chores and also baked 'Pain Au Raisins'. I did took painkillers at about 6pm, the milder one. And Alhamdulillah able to sleep, though quite late that nite, and the pain resurfaced again at about 2pm today. I am in pain while writing this entry and had just took another dose of painkillers preparing for driving home after work as today Hubby is in Kedah...

Though in pain yesterday, I had successfully baked the 'Pain Au Raisins'.. (these are French buns and the name is in French and did not relate to the word pain in English!), finished my washing, drying and folding the clothes, swept and mopped the floor! Yey!!!

My Pain Aux Raisins......Yummy

Welll...That was the story of my weekend....in pain but quite fruitfull!!!

The One with Aidil Fitri 2011

Selamat menyambut Aidil Fitri to all Muslims.....

This year Adil Fitri (Tuesday the 30th of August) was celebrated with fewer siblings, only I and my brother's family were at mum's on the 1st day of Raya. Alhamdulillah 1st day of Syawal went on smoothly and my youngest sister, Sis A arrived home safely that nite. Sis R arrived on 2nd nite of Syawal and Sis M could not made it though had earlier planned to be back home in KB on the 1st day.

As this year I got a new camera, photography session was again in motion, after 2 years without the photography session! he he he. Our theme this year was Brown! All was going well until on Thursday the 3rd raya. Why?..... hemmmm.

I was down with pain as my period came that morning. The pain was quite significant and Arcoxia almost did not help me...! I was down for 2 days and up and about on Saturday!! Alhamdulillah. However, as I was almost pain free, Mak and Sis A were then down with flu! Fuhhh...what a celebration! Sis R had since then went back to KL on Friday.

That evening, Mak decided to go to my brother's house in TM and Sis A to depart from his house. I contacted hubby as he was supposed to come back either on Friday or Saturday. He asked me to stay and wait for him, while Mak and Sis A proceeded to TM. Earlier, I was quite curious and taken back when Mak actually did not even once mentioned Hubby's name and sort off did not count Hubby as one of her son in law...Well there was a story behind it actually!

Though I was curious, I just ignored it and took it easy. However, things became clearer as to why Mak acted that way. She was informed by somebody about the incidents when The Other came to my house looking for Hubby. Mak was furious with Hubby for letting that to happen. The 2 incidents happened years back and she had just found out and assumes it was recent. Furthermore the stories were twisted and far from the truth that I laughed at it.

It was my sister in law; Sis D, who informed me about why Mak was acting that way. Hubby arrived at about 2am and we went to TM that morning for breakfast. When we arrived Mak did ignored Hubby, however Hubby did not noticed anything unusual and followed Mak to the kitchen to Salam!! Sis D, broke the story when we were out to buy groceries for lunch that day. We chatted while Hubby went to bank. I corrected the story and asked Sis D to convey the real story to Mak.

Mak did not come out for lunch and gave reason ' tak lalu makan'. Hemmm.. Never mind..! Now I knew that though I told the story to my trusted persons, one of them could not be trusted and I did not know who. Best not to tell anything from now on. Sometime I just want to confide in my family and share my grief and unlikely incidents with them. I could not trust them anymore...Those things should not be told to Mak as it would make her worries unnecessarily.....

So that was the story of this year's Aidil Fitri...Aidil Fitri never went by without unwanted incidents for me... And to make it worst, The Other kept on calling Hubby, until he was fed up and switched off his phone. She contacted me instead via SMS and also voice call. Hubby did not allow me to answer any of them.

Her 1st sms, "Salam. Ada m*** kt situ?". When I did not answer, she called, and when her call was also not answered, she sms-ed again. "Sy x pernah myakiti awak. Sy cuma sms atau call utk tau pasal dia shj. Nape dia terus off hp itu shj.." huh? I said to Hubby, "Who is she kidding?" Tak pernah menyakiti?. I cannot help laughing after reading the sms and so is Hubby...I asked Hubby to contact her and put me out of the misery of being hassled by her. He did and I too, then switched off the phone.. Tak kuasa!!!

All in all, Alhamdulillah I was still in 1 piece and life has to go on... I am living with pain again! Allah helps me and cherishes me! Insha’Allah

"Tiada seorang muslim yang (sabar) ditimpa oleh keletihan, kesakitan, benda yang dibenci, kedukacitaan hati, kesedihan hatta duri yang menyucuk kecuali melalui Allah menghilangkan dosa2nya."(hadith riwayat al-Bukhari).

I keep on telling myself, be patient, cherish the pain as my sins will melt way with my submission to Allah's gift of pain to me...Aku redho ya Allah...Amiiin.