Cuti Perang.

“The love of a family is life's greatest blessing” - Unknown.

Hello people! Guess what? I’m back in Kota Kinabalu! As always, it’s good to be home, surrounded by amazing family and friends! The weather’s good, food’s heaven! Was forced to leave Egypt after only three months being there (which honestly felt ages btw), due to current unrest that has taken over the country.

The sights haven’t been exactly pretty the last few days we were there, tanks and armies everywhere, burnt cars at the roadsides with burnt buildings, internet and phone lines were disrupted, ATM systems down, prices hikes, unwanted saboteurs & etc… everybody’s stressed and worried, spirits were broken at some point, but that’s nothing compared to those who died of hunger or war, so I guess we’re good, totally overwhelmed and thankful to be home.

We have yet to receive any news on when we’ll really be going back, not that I’m looking forward to it anyway, so much can be done here too if only you’re willing to find the way and move your ass instead of complaining and whining endlessly, showing off on how worried you are of the classes that you don’t even go to, on exams that you don’t even put much effort on and even cheat on (!), so ungrateful of everything that’s been done for you! And then later when you have to go back you’d be all ‘awhh… I don’t wanna go back, I’mma miss my family & my home & bla bla bla..’.

Okay really, I got a bit carried away in that last part… just sick and tired of some of these kids’ pretenses, it’s repulsing. And seriously, most of our universities don’t even have attendance or what I think people call as ‘credit hour’, the mid-terms barely reach 10% of the total marks too, it’s the finals that are really important. Everybody’s worried, everybody’s got something to lose, but that doesn’t mean we have to rush in everything. Chill a bit and let things work out fine first, it’s not like it’s the end of the world, things are gonna be okay, just give it time a little. Spend time with your families and loved ones.

So anyways! Twelve days here had been awesome. Great news just kept on coming in including a friend’s pregnancy, I was so happy and relieved for you could not imagine the things they’ve been through, after all these years, after all the stressful times we had dealing with superior conspiracies and innocent children (haha), this child truly is a blessing, a child of war! I could not even imagine how these couple and their families must feel. The momma said I’m gonna be the ‘glamour aunty’, don’t even know why’s that, just too excited to even ask why haha! Sincerely wishing that everything’s going to run just fine for them, and the baby!

A friend’s elder sister recently got married to her high school sweetheart too, after 14 years of love and friendship, it truly is inspirational and a story worth telling for it’s rare and almost impossible for most people, been great growing up to their stories; I wish nothing but the best and that they’d last forever!

Okay I think that’s it for now, I have rambled enough. And oh yeah one more thing, I’ve applied for another session of elective posting in QEH starting next Monday, don’t even know if I’d be able to finish everything as scheduled seeing that we’re on a pending status here; I’d just have to go with it and hope for nothing but the best!

Be safe everyone and stay away from the Middle East haha!

Leaving for Doha. Cairo Airport, sundown. 8th Feb '11.