No..no..no, I am not trying to follow those teenagers by saying “galau” and put up status on their twitter or facebook account. I realize that I am old enough to use such word.

Actually when I write this post I am not that in the mood. For those who already married you would notice that sometimes marriage life is not always as smooth as you wish it would be. However, live goes on and you just need to hang in there. Try to survive, to keep your head and heart calm. Try not to be guided by your ego. Yes, I know that this is not easy for everyone, including me.

Lucky me, I have an android phone. Nope, not that I am trying to chill out by playing angry birds nor tweaking my phone. It is just that I can see pictures of my pretty adorable daughter every time. The one and only Mikayla. Those who are blessed in their marriage and have a child might know very well that their son/daughter can release all the tense (baca : kalo kata ABG sekarang sih “galau”). Well, perhaps not totally heal your emotion but at least it will reduce to a certain level.

Why I said so? Yeah, this morning I woke up with the same feeling I had last night, it is not a happy one. I made myself ready to go to work and when I reached office it feels so empty “inside”, feels like not going to do anything. I purposely open the gallery folder on my phone and surprisingly when I look at Kayla’s pictures it gives me different feeling, yup I smile while seeing her pose.

Here are the pictures:

Ya Alloh, jadikanlah aku sebaik-baiknya imam bagi isteri dan anakku, jadikanlah isteri dan anakku sebagai penyejuk hati serta kuatkanlah kami agar dapat senantiasa membentuk keluarga yang sakinah mawaddah warohmah, amiin.

Yupp..one picture tells million stories, indeed. I am so excited to write this post yet  a bit confuse on how to present the writing. It started a few days ago when i was organizing file in my laptop, trying to delete the unnecessary files and basically making my files more organized. I accidentally found a picture of Kayla’s Mom and I, the picture was taken in one of the Graduation Dinner held by a company where we worked together. It was somewhere in August or September 2007. Wheew..a long time back, you see how slim i was right? hehe

For this post I actually asked my wife what should we write about this and she excitedly says “well, we can start with how we met, how our friends tried to make us as  a couple, then continued with the proposing moment, a marriage life, a process in welcoming a baby, etc”. Woww..it was agreat idea I said to her, but wait..I think it will be too much to be presented in one single post, so..I think we will split into several parts (i hope we are given enough time and long life to keep on sharing our stories, insyaAlloh).

Here we go..

1st chapter : “How I Met Your Mother”

It was back to October 2005, I was hired by one of the Education Company as an IT Officer. Well, it was not a hard recruitment process I had (either I am too good in IT OR they just desperately need a handsome IT officer who could pose as a model as well) hehe . Back to the topic, even though she sits not far away from my office and I see her every day but i started to realize that i have a crush on her after around a year. Yes, a polite pretty lady has stolen my heart (weeitts…ini gaya banget ngomongnya, hihihi). However there was a very big doubt in me. Knowing that she holds master degree, came from a family with good social status background and bla-bla-bla (read : thousands of reason), makes me not that confidence to approach her, which is so unlike me (biasanya ayahnya Kayla ini PD abiez, kadang-kadang over PD) hehe

It is a good thing that in one of occasion (Sandy’s birthday I think), one of our friend try to make us as a couple. He says “Come on bro, staff gets staff is very common, try staff gets HoP”. Honestly speaking, at that time i was a little bit shy yet challenged. But, when i looked at Kayla’s mom’s face I sense that actually she has a crush on me too (atau ayah nya Kayla aja nih yg ke GRan). Anyway since then, i always encourage myself to be braved to talk to her, either face to face or thru email or via local network messenger. A month or two passed by and we were getting closer to each other and without our notice that we are just like a couple. Even though so many people asking “are you with her/him now?” we always says “ah nooo, we are just close”. Yesss…a camouflage yet can be seen very obvious by others, hehe

Since then…just wait our next stories

Luckily, my wife still have some pictures of us from the Singapore trip. All of these pictures were taken from camera of her cell phone. Even thought there are some limitations of the quality of the pictures, I think Kayla will be happy to see these pictures when she grows  up to have a  flash back of her childhood

Well..it was not actually a vacation, I was sent to attend 3 days workshop from my office, obviously I took this opportunity to bring a long my family. So, we finally stayed for 6 days in Singapore. We were quite lucky, the hotel that was provided by my office is in Clarke Quay area, where the hotel’s atmosphere and the surrounding were very impressive. Almost every day Kayla and her mom had a morning stroll as soon as we finished our breakfast while I am attending the workshop.

It was a memorable trip since this is the first time we brought Kayla overseas, in fact she enjoyed the moment so much. We can tell by looking at how cheerful she was, every day in every places we visited. One of the unique thing of this visit is because it was Ramadhan time. We need to adjust the time and arrange the “Sahur” with the hotel officer, we need to rush to get the taxi to go to several culinary spot that offers “hallal” food for us to break our fasting. Several places that we visited during our staying in Singapore are Gaylang Road (on 1st day, to break our fast), Mustafa a.k.a Little India (on the 2nd day), we went to Arab Street then Marina Bay then  Esplanade on the 3rd day, Chinese Mid autumn festival at Clark Quay river side (on the 4th day), River boat (Clarke Quay to Esplanade return trip on the 5th day).

On Idul Fitri day, I prayed in the Masjid Sultan at Arab Street. The speech was transferred in Melayu and English. The mosque was so much crowded, unlike Indonesia apparently it is something unusual (or prohibited?) to have an Idul Fitri prayer in the main road of the city. We ended up had another breakfast at the hotel since it was quite hard to get our common Idul Fitri food like Ketupat.

Unfortunately, Kayla had a fever on the last 2 days that makes us impossible to bring her to Sentosa Island and take her for an MRT trip as we planned. I think it is just because she was exhausted and need some rest. Perhaps someday in the future. Overall, it was a tiring yet a pleasure trip

Alhamdulillah.