3. Twilight (The Twilight Saga #1) byStephenie Meyer. I haven't watched the movies, but earlier this year, the short clips always pop up on my Facebook, and I still don't feel like watching the movies. Then I took why not read the books since the movies were so famous. Then I started reading it. It was well written, very easy to read, and followed through the story. Love it.
4. A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)- Sarah J. Maas. About halfway through, then I realized that I had read it before, in 2016.
5. 365 Days by Blanka Lipinska, didn’t finish it, I prefer 50 shades of grey.
Why do I feel like I did a lot of mistakes that I regretted this year?
Why am I getting more careless and not wiser as I gets older?
Is it something to do with ageing?
My big mistakes in 2022:
- Bought the wrong phone
- Iron burnt my favourite jacket
- Lost my diamond earrings.
Should I end this post with positive things that happened in 2022. Thank God, there are plenty of good things happening this year. That will another story for another day. Today is about regret and reflection.
Adios. May 2023 be a good year to me, my family and all my silent reader, yes you. Good bless.
Never thought that I am going to have a really bad experience with iPhone.
The story started from the release of iPhone 14, I went to few malls in Kuching looking for a device. I was not 100% sure that wanted to upgrade my phone yet. Reasons for my hesitation were 1, I wanted to switch from Celcom to Maxis, 2, there are few features that I wish included in this iPhone 14, but were not there.
So last weekend, after another round of frustration at Aeon Mall, visited Maxis and Celcom (even tried to book from Celcom Blue Cube but their line got problem), hubby persuaded me to order one online. I have never bought from online store before, hubby done it a few time with no issue. So while watching movie on Netflix, hubby helped me to order for my new phone from Celcom online.
On Thursday, the courier guy called to inform that my phone is ready for delivery, but I was only available on Saturday morning. Come Saturday morning, I was excited to get my new phone. During unboxing, I was surprised to see the big size of the phone. I said to hubby’why is it big, is this Pro Max?’ We had to check the email again and it was confirmed that we ordered an iPhone Pro Max 256GB. Huwaaa I dont want a Pro Max, it’s too heavy!!! And I even pre-purchased the Pro casing.
That was my 1st from a series of nightmares.
Then I started the phone to phone data transfer, after few hours of waiting, it got disconnected my storage was at 230gb out of 256gb at that time. I had to stop trying at 5pm since I had to back to kampung.
Next day morning, I tried again after deleting some of my App, storage now at 180gb, after few round of failure, with error snot enough capacity. At 10pm, I gave up, and hubby said he will do the pc backup and transfer from there. This is another option but I prefer the phone to phone transfer as it was a seemless experience for me previously.
1st round hubby did the pc transfer, it stopped halfway due to insufficient hard disk space. Who has 256GB space in drive C?
After some reconfiguration and manual transfers of photos, hubby finally managed to transfer my data in pc. He asked me to go to sleep and promised that he will figure it out. He knew I was getting frustrated.
On the next morning, my new phone was ready on my bedside and I did the face verification. But I had to reset most of my password since I don’t remember them, iCloud, gmail, instagram, all was reset.
Next night mare, my previous sim does not support eSim. Arghhh, 10am we we’re queuing at Celcom Blue Cube the Spring, really, thank goodness for the public holiday on Monday. Then I had to look for new casing and front cover.
In between all that, there were so many things that did not goes smoothly eg my record on Health app, the data only show up to 2021, no I don’t like that, I had to rebackup iCloud on the okd phone, but I dunno how to import that portion of data only. I had to log out and log in again on the new phone, luckily that worked.
Another night mare is that I store most of my working file on gdrive, which I accessed using my laptop, and the password does not match, again the retrieving password is was so difficult with all the 2-way authentication now. Why?!
I really feel like giving up, never in our 12 years of experience with Apple had we faced so much hassle in upgrading. I felt defeated. At 1st I thought of using this phone for a year before chaging it to 15 Pro, not Max, now I dunno. I am scared.
After analysing the error, I gound out that there was an eerror in the Voice Memo file size.
How can the Voice memo be at TB when my old phone is only 256GB.
Also on Saturday afternoon, Emmett got scratched by our cat, Coco. How dis that happened? It’s another story for another post. Needless to say, I had to being him to Bornwo Medical Centre for vaccination even though our cat had rabies vaccination already. Better be save. Kesian dia, 3 jabs on the 1st day, another 2 followed up.
Last week, my home-baker neighbour gave me something that looked like a big muffin but with a light texture.
I didn’t know what it was. I brought it to office the next morning for my breakfast.
Surprisingly, it was so tasty, fluffy, a little lemony flavour. It was so good.
I had long and busy days that week and I forgot to thank her for the ‘bread’. Though I did thank her that night, that was before I tasted the bread.
So came the weekend and I texted to thank her, and then only she told me that it is called Panettone. It cost more than RM100 for that 1 big muffin, and it took her 1 week to make it.
I was like…. What???!!!
Ok, so sakai of me, this was the 1st time I heard of Panettone, but at least I recognised good food when I had one 😅
Thank you neighbour for giving me a taste of Milan 🤗
*photo taken after I took 1 bite and was surprised of how tasty it was. Nasib baik ada tanggap gambar.
This is my 2nd time staying in this hotel. The 1st time was many years ago. The room and the bathroom look a bit old now. The bathroom needs a bit of deep cleaning and my colleague’s room faces the inside of the building, due to these minor reasons, we were so glad we chose Clio Hotel for our family holiday in June this year.
My room on the 6th floor, 06149
The bathroom
Breakfast at Sunway Resort Hotel, just next door. Lots of choices.
Nasi Lemak Ganja ni pernah viral satu ketika dulu. Nama bukan main gik bahaya nak oo, halal nasi lemak tok, sikda apa2 barang terlarang dalam tok. Tapi camne boleh lepas nama camtok ho? Sikpa, kita cuba jak dolok.
Baru 1st time cuba tok, sedap, tapi sayang hari tok sikda sambal sotong kembang. Terpaksa lah nak datang agik tok. Kambing nya nyaman juak, lembut jak isik nya. Iouls suka.
Day 0: just like any normal Sunday night, he went to bed quite late, passed midnight.
Day 1: Woke up at 7am, took bath and attended his Sunday School class at 8am. Reached home at 10am, having mild headache and fever at 37degree. Took 1 panadol at 11am. At 4pm, temperature at 37.8 degree, took 2 panadols. At 8pm, did selftest for him, double line shown on 1st try. Immediately did the 2nd test, also double line. So confirmed. He is positive. Took another panadol at 10:30pm, temperature at 37.1. Lap muka, belakang n ketiak dia dengan towel basah selang 1 jam.
Day 2: took only 1 panadal after breakfast
Day 3: 36.8 degree
Day 4-7: he is back to his normal self. A bit of coughing but nothing else. Temperature on day 7 is at 36.7 degrees.
Tomorrow he will be out of his home isolation order. Yeay.
