After 3 years in my property, I decided to quit.

Why?

Simply because I was not happy anymore. Don’t get me wrong, I love my friends, I love working in Food and Beverage. However, we sometimes go through times that we need to let go. I just got used to doing the same thing all over again, there wasn’t any challenge anymore, and certainly not motivated enough, and there are certain events that had happen in my work that I woke me up and finally to decided to look for a new opportunity.

I am thankful, for all the learnings I have gained, for the person that I have become because of my work, for all the beautiful people that I have met. Will never ever forget them!

I am writing this on my phone and with a needle inserted on top of my right hand to keep me healthy and to make it even more exciting, I'm also in a hospital.

I haven't been active for the past weeks since as you guys know now, I got sick. The initial diagnosis for me was HSP one of the many vasculitis disease. Anyway, so make things simple for you, this disease of mine usually targets infants to kids, and since I'm a kid at heart it decided to attack me, which makes this very rare in my case. Been suffering this now for almost 2 weeks, but hey there is a good news! The doctors and nurses here are very professional and hard working, that in a quite a short time I'm feeling a whole lot better than I used to the past week!

September 8, 2017 - Unlimited Dimsum and Movie Day

Weeks of craving has been satisfied today! Me and ace have been dying for some dimsum action for days now, and since we are broke (as always), we took a little time to find the place that serves unlimited dimsums. And God has answered our prayers! We decided to give The Royal Buddah a try! It was located in Holiday Inn Al Barsha. 

It was worth every penny! It starts with some soup then they have loads of options for dimsums, out favorite was the seafood one. I think we had 1 round reach dimsums.

After lunch, we decided to head over to Dubai Mall to watch a movie, but instead we ended up just having coffee at Starbucks, we were discussing if we are either drinking or watching a movie, we talked about it for hours and just decided to watch a horror film instead, but when we went to the cinemas, it was all fully booked, so again we went over to Grand Hyatt cause apparently they said they had VOX Cinemas there (which was in a different building btw!!). 

I just ate a burger and couldn’t sleep, so I decided to write something.

I have always wanted to make a scrapbook of my life. It just seems like a really great idea specially now, since most of the memories that my generation have are on the internet, and yes, I got to be honest here, I don’t think life would be easy without the internet and all of these gadgets that we have now, but having like a hard copy of all the great memories that you have is I think irreplaceable.

I grew up with a pretty creative mom, which is really cool, she loved making scrapbooks and taking loads of pictures when I was younger. And I remember when I was a child, I would always open my baby book and see myself growing up, it has such nice feeling, the way the old book smells, it’s like a part of me, the way the pictures grow as you grow. I want that, I want myself to experience that in the future, I want my future kids to have their own baby book and not just rely on facebook or what-not for their pictures.

That’s why, for months now, I have been thinking of saving up and buying either an instant camera or a portable printer (most probably I would go to the printer, the instant camera just looks cool). I know it would be worth it. I need to start creating memories and go out and explore the world. I just feel like I’m still living inside a box, that all I do is work then sleep. Life can’t be all about work, it just cannot! I need to be hardworking and at the same time a great explorer! (It may take a lot pressure in my schedule, but who cares! Life is short!).

Hey,

I’m back. I know I promised myself that I would be active in writing here again, but for some reason faith had other plans for me.

So recently, like 2 weeks ago, I got sick. Yes, I thought at first it was just a normal rash from an insect bite, but it turns out that it wasn’t and it was an Auto-Immune disease (means my immune system is attacking something with in my body). Anyways, like I said, it first started as a single rash on my right knee, it was on a Monday, August 21, 2017, that I noticed it, then it started spreading on my other leg and then my right knee started to really swell that I could not even walk nor stand properly, on that note, I knew something was wrong.

I left work early for me to get checked up, by that time I literally was dying whenever I take a few steps, good thing one of my best friend here in Dubai was off that day and she accompanied me to the clinic that afternoon. So I got checked up by the doctors in the clinic, and turns out they said I had HSP, one of the many kinds of vasculitis, they said that it was a rare disease that mostly attacks children (since I’m a child at heart maybe that’s the reason why I got this). The gave me some medicine to lessen all my join pains and swelling and they also have given me 1 week of Sick Leave.

I thought I would just be staying home for a week until I felt better, but instead I felt even worse. As days passed by, I noticed that I could not even drink nor eat anything and the swelling and rashes are spreading all through out my body. I did not have any energy to do anything but sleep, and even though I would sleep, my body would always wake me up because of the pain that I was feeling in my abdomen. That’s when I decided to be admitted in a hospital, and boy it was a roller coaster ride. I got rejected by 2 hospitals before finally being admitted (I’m so pissed and irritated about the whole experience that I don’t even want to bother on putting in here). Stayed at Prime Hospital for almost a week, had the best doctors and nurses who took real good care of me.

And now, I finally got home, although still on recovery.

I don’t really want to sound overly dramatic (like I always do anyway) and I know my illness wasn’t nearly a near death experience kind of thing, but it did made me realise a lot of things. Like first, I now know that people who truly cares and respects you will always stick by you no matter what, good or bad, they would be there for you. Second, I started to think about the things that really matter, like time, your family, your friends, your work and your faith. And lastly, I did value my health, after that I promised myself that I would gradually start to eat healthy, I could not bare going back to the hospital.

So that’s it, just a little update on my life right now. Will take to you soon K!

Love lots,

KM

SETTING A ROUTINE

I have been to Dubai for 2 years now, and I have noticed something, all I do here is work and work and work and work. I mean yes, you only live once but that doesn’t mean I get to slack off or spend every dime of my salary to things that I know won’t do me any good after 10 years, but I’m pretty much sure that if I just continue with this cycle of just working, I will eventually hate myself and my job (which I do not want to happen).

Hey!

I just came back from work and Abu Dhabi, when I suddenly got bored, and had a thought; I used to write every single day in my blog, why not take a look?. And I did.

I started from the recent years to the oldest post. I got to admit, I was pretty impressed with myself. To tell you honestly I’m feeling kind of empty this past few days without knowing what the reason is! But after reading all my post, I actually felt good and became positive.

When I was younger I used to be very positive, and as I got older it slowly fades, I mean I’m still a positive person, but I could say not as positive when I was younger. Then when I started reading what my thoughts were a few years back about making mistakes is just a proof that I’m human and I’m growing, made me thought about everything that have happened to me.

And that is I’m very lucky and blessed to have a great job, a great workplace, an amazing family and a wonderful set of friends. I mean I got every thing that a person needs! Now I feel amazing! I can’t believe that only my past self could wake me up like this!