Assalamualaikum Hi!
My Croatia blog is in the process. But today I’m in the mood to update my yesterday activity with my husband. On Thursday I told my husband to bring me somewhere where I can chill in nature. These 2 months I ve been busy even during weekends, doing on calls and donation campaign. Initially I was asking him if we can go to Penang Hills with funicular and had breakfast with view overlooking Penang and the sea. However, we had haze for time being. It’s basically no sun at 8.00 am and lil bit of it at 10ish above.
So, my husband gave idea for us to go outside Penang instead, and we went to Teluk Batik. We went there yesterday on Saturday, which I was post call, but it was okay. I had some sleep during my call night. We left at 7.55 am, 5 minutes before my call time ended. We finally reached there at 10.30 am. Before, we stopped at R&R Gunung Semanggol for some breakfast.
We initially didn’t plan for a picnic, which we ended up doing it. Somehow, I had a thought that we have an unused picnic mat which I bought years ago just in case we wanted to go for picnic. Finally the day had come. And we also took a pillow which was in our car for my use during road trip. The only thing we didn’t have was book.
We found a shady area under a tree and we set our mat there.
Here we were at Teluk Batik.
Lying down peacefully on the mat.
I saw all the visitors there were with their family, big or small. And every each of them brought along kids. There were kids’ laughters sound everywhere. I had some thought, a picnic is the most perfect with kids along. Picnic should only be for those with kids.
There lied my husband, had his time. Minutes later, he asked me to join him.
Minutes before I decided to join him. We shared the pillow.
This was the view when I lied down. The sand was soft so it was comfortable. Sun hasn’t really set in at least not at our area with some soft winds and ocean tide sound. I shut my eyes for some good seconds. The kids laughter now has become more and more distant. The ocean waves sound hit in every several seconds. I felt so calm, there’s some knots in my mind felt released, my body felt more relaxed. Then, there come this thought; This is the life Allah has gifted to me, and it’s blessed and blissful. I don’t have much worry in my mind. I have my family, my husband, and my career is going on. I was having that moment and didn’t have to be bothered by a child asking me to bring him to water, or feeling scared to blink my eyes without having a worry if the child was in hazard or not.
Yes, this is the life I’ve always wanted and the life Allah has given to me. I should be more grateful and not having a second thought on our decision not to have child for time being. (There I said it)
After some time at that position, my husband and I had some talks about our pasts as children, about our last vacation at very beautiful Blue Lagoon in Split, Croatia and a lot of other things. We had a lot of laughs. It was so nice. Not that we do not usually have talks, but talking with the background of ocean and winds was much more relaxing.
At 11.45 am, we decided to leave. And stopped by some local restaurant to have lunch.
We had some local specialty; kari ikan semilang, very huge sambal udang, and some sambal belacan with tempoyak. It was really nice that my husband went again to buy us extra rice.
Then, we decided to go home. I was sleeping during the journey.
I really hope I can do such activity again.
Goodbye, Assalamualaikum.
