Weekend

Had quite a productive weekend. Manage to make breakfast on Saturday with Eddy. It was grilled cheese sandwiches, french toast and tomato soup. Watched a spy movie on TV with him afterwards. Went to a coffee festival. Too many people. Too hot. Spent too much on not so nice coffee. 

Eddy had to work in the evening so I was at home, rotting. He came back before dusk and we decided to go bowling. Bowling was fun, as usual.

On Sunday, i finally made the viral waterless chicken soup with fried rice. Was very pleased with myself. Before that, we went to One Utama to get a few things and had a very nice coffee at Lovns. Their dirty dream Latte is truly a dream. After lunch I remembered that I had to buy balloons for my boss. Went out again. Eddy went to work, again so... I was left at home, rotting. 

I found an interesting Pokemon channel on Youtube - Deep Pocket Monster. Learned a little bit about Pokemon cards. I binge on that until Eddy came back around midnight. I spent less time rotting than i normally would on a weekend. That is a worthy of a post kind of weekend I guess.

Ceasefire

After 5 weeks of non-stop bombardment between Israel and Iran, they are now negotiating for a ceasefire. Not too sure if either parties are really serious on the ceasefire or they are merely taking a break replenishing their stockpile or what. Whatever it may be, this ceasefire is very much welcomed. 

As far as Malaysia is concerned, everything other than the share market and petrol/diesel prices, everything else remains very much the same. 

Today is Friday. I am looking forward for the weekend. Hopefully a restful one. There are chores to attend to. Laundry and such. There is also a coffee event taking place over the weekend. Hope Eddy is not too busy. 

 Last weekend was a bit too hectic for me. My parents came over. We went for a wedding ceremony and met many family members. On Monday, I woke up early and helped my mom to cook roti jala for my office raya makan. It was super tiring. My mom's roti jala was a big hit, so.. that went well. 

2026 So Far

This post started as a manifesting post for 2026. I started the para with just a summary about our trip to Japan in January. Now that feels like a distant memory happened a million years ago.

Today, we are in April. We had Chinese New Year, Ramadan and Hari Raya. In the middle of all these festivities, we have a war in the middle east. Started by Israel, joined by US against Iran. Israel is also wrecking havoc in Lebanon but that's old news. 

The attack on Iran has resulted in the closing of the Straits of Hormuz, a narrow waterway near Iran, As a result of that closure, the whole world is experiencing energy crisis. let me repeat that again, THE WHOLE WORLD!

I have been feeling rather overwhelm. Firstly, I am wondering if I am financially prepared for these uncertain time. Our share prices tumbled. Petrol prices increased. Thanks to our fuel subsidy, we still can afford to fill up petrol. Many neighbouring countries like Cambodia, Indonesia and Philippines are in chaos due to riots. Some countries even face power cuts.

Yesterday, PMX reintroduced Work From Home for government and GLCs in the effort to reduce petrol usage. Many leaders of other countries gave the same recommendation/advice to their citizens. Trump announced yesterday that the war will continue indefinitely and insist on bombing Iran into the stone age.

There are a lot of speculations flooding the internet and being a naturally curios and somewhat anxious, I read and watched a lot of news channels. This causes further anxiety. The same feeling I had at the start of pandemic. The feeling of uncertainty, insecurity.

I can no longer do the one thing that I like to do when i have spare time - planning a trip. We do have a trip to Turkey in the middle of this month. I am praying that it will get postponed. We were planning to visit Hokkaido in the summer. that is postponed as we foresee that Japan will faced a severe energy crisis resulting in higher fuel prices.

We have to be resilient. Energetic and resilient to be exact. The world economy is out of our control so we should focus on things that are within our control. Have a budget, stick to it. Write more. Focus on the now and what we can do to help our community to stay resilient. 

I hope to share a more positive writing in my next post. Let us pray.