Valentine Monday Blues

It's not a catastrophic matter when we as human beings, occasionally do have blues. I know this is just plainly normal.

As for the time being, this blog is my platform.

This morning I feel so.. blue. I have a reasonably bad PMS, I argued with Bigfish, I'm upset and my workload is massive, I had a meeting with client that I had to pretend confident, happy and professional but in fact, inside I was screaming.

To make it worse, it's Valentine's Day ie the day to celebrate love.

I literally feel my heart sinking down to the ground every time I walk around.

On this day, I choose not to allow the pessimist thoughts take over my mind and body, and that I decide to stay cool.

It's truly difficult to your mental and well being acting you're okay when you're actually really not, but somehow I always practice this one remedy and it helps. I lace my negativity mode with the feeling of gratefulness (bersyukur). And I feel better.

Not a lot better, but when you still thank God despite the shortcoming of events or problems you have to face in your life or which have been given to you, naturally the feeling itself will soothe and comfort you. Of course it takes time for a wound to heal, but if nursed and taken care with the right way, before long we will realise it's just how life is. There are joys, hiccups, beauties and tragedies.

Then I recall my prayers to God. I've always used to pray for happiness and smoothness in everything I do, besides continuously asking for His Blessings. But I'm still the same, here I am with my decent executive job, I'm not rich and still cannot afford to buy so many things that i want, I still have arguments with my boyfriend, I think my life is far from perfect.

Then I've come to realise that no, I cannot say that my prayers are not granted. Maybe the happiness doesn't always have to come in the form of wealth or great boyfriends. Or the ability to buy nice branded bags and clothes and car. Not to mention the perfect life that I want and imagine, in fact everyone imagines a simply perfect life!

I'm grateful because God grant me strength to go through these difficulties. And since I'm aware of this, this is my reason to be happy. There, happiness can be translated and taken in many ways. Some people may take this as total craps and nonsense, but I'm glad I finally managed to nurture my soul to remain grateful during trying times like now. I hope I will be able to stay this way.

No wonder people say count your blessings, sometimes it's not about being pious or angelic, it's indeed a remedy for the soul.

I wish all lovers around the world a fantastic time celebrating the day to remember the most beautiful precious gift for mankind, LOVE.

JoJoBali Spa

Who would resist being pampered and gently massaged from head to toe?

Yeahh..quickly I add, I mean massage session and spa (before anyone starting to get different ideas *wink*).

I’ve always loved getting body massage. It’s a total delight having a full hour of relaxing aromatherapy massage with a bowl of scented petal-laced warm water next to you. The background is enchanting tunes of oriental, or Balinese, depends on the presented concept.

This is quite outdated but what the heck y’know I’m busy, me and my boyfriend went to this spa at Hyatt Regency Saujana (on the route to Subang Airport, y’know RP Club? Yup, there), JoJoBali Spa.

This friend of ours working as a sales manager there, and he gave us a piece of promotion voucher, something like buy 1 free 1 hence you pay for a session for one and your friend/partner will get the same session for free.

We thought, for a good deal like this why don’t we just give it a try. Being a massage-loving gal, my all-time favourite spa this entire while has been Holistic Spa at Jalan Bangkung Bangsar (near 7-Eleven inside residential area of Bangsar). After a couple of good years visiting Holistic, my initial expectation on JoJobali wasn’t that high. I’d say I was a bit skeptical, just another expensive over-rated poseur spas. But buy 1 free 1 right? I was tired, I needed a massage and as always I’m poor. Bigfish can pay and I can get the free one, I thought *tanduk*. And so we went.

My first impression, the staffs’ costumes are very nice, light brown blouse laced by darker shade at the seams, with dark batik sarong. Apparently they are all ladies, and amazingly they’re all very sweet and polite. Their gestures and the way they move around are just so.. graceful. I’d say I was impressed. For the record, Holistic staffs’ uniforms are plain white,the nurse-kind. And they are just normal people. Read: Not that graceful.

After payment was made at the counter, (yes, pay first) we were greeted by two seemingly-Chinese ladies, introduced themselves as our masseurs and led us to a nice hotel room.

The music’s soft Balinese, room temperature was perfect, the scent seemed rosy citrus hint, the light was dim. We changed to provided towels and slippers. And I’m not going to reveal my masseur’s name ever. To correct my first impression as mentioned, she’s no Chinese, a Sabahan instead. I love her, okay we’ll come to that later.

There are two massage beds, y’know the kind with the holes that you can comfortably slot your face into that, perfect massage position. Bowls of scented oil were placed right below the holes so that when you breathe and sniff, it’s very calming and relaxing. The two beds separated by a Balinese designed screen.

We had the JoJobali Touch Package. It started with Aromatherapy Foot Bath. It was fantastic. I guess even my poor tired feet were pleasantly flabbergasted suddenly being handled so royally such a way.

Followed by an hour of aromatherapy massage, that was my favourite hour of the month. The masseur was very professional and attentive. She actually asked me before starting what sort of pressure would I prefer, either soft, medium or hard. I said I’d go with medium. For the first 5 minutes when she thoroughly stretched and pressured my body with her medium stroking and kneading, she kept asking whether I am doing fine with the massage. I mumbled fine, fine and fine. I actually meant it was good.

I was intoxicated by such deft gentle hands, rolling and stroking. Sometimes the punching. Then she asked me to flip. That was when she put a long rectangular shaped aroma eye pillow to cover both my eyes. That’s for the eye treatment. And girls, don’t be surprised or scream, because when your eyes are covered, they will remove over your towel and there you are, lying naked only with your panty on. For info, they massage your boobs too. Try not to gelak or senyum. Believe me, the feel is never not awkward. But somehow, Holistic masseurs do that too so I'm kinda used to it eventhough they never see under the dim light my ears always blushed.

She finally informed the session is over and moved off the wet eye pillow. She helped me to lightly stretch out and both of them looked away to the wall politely when me and Bigfish were putting on our clothes.

I recall having only one thought in my head that time, if only I had known that place earlier. I’ve been to Holistic so many times and yet that was the best massage I’ve ever had. And for that, I love my masseur for her soft chubby hands and perfect pressure. I am firm to be having her again for my next massage session there.

We rested at the lobby in front of the small counter while being served warm cup of ginger tea. I remember I couldn’t feel any fresher.

In fact, to be honest I felt so energized and fresh for two solid weeks until yesterday when I started to get backache for carrying loads of loads from Sayang You *wink*.

Care to try? I tell you it’s worth it. At least to me a total convert with no turning back. The packages are handful and the prices are fairly reasonable.

So my dear friends, check this out and be inspired from my experience. Heheh

www.jojobali.com