My Hari Raya

Yesterday (Saturday) was the first day of Hari Raya and I stayed at home to do something important - prepare and submit my income tax returns hah..hah...

I had to dig out all those receipts to support my claims for personal reliefs. I used to have a system whereby I put those relevant supporting documentation into a separate file for ease of extraction when it was time to prepare tax returns.

Well, somehow I forgot about it and those receipts were tagged with my credit card statements. But at least I remembered what I spent and could retrieve the invoices/receipts for things like purchase of books, internet subscription and purchase of mobile phone.

This year I will be sure to separate out those things so that my income tax filing next year will be easier. My sister-in-law sent me a few text messages asking questions about her tax returns and among the questions were the payment code and instalment number (nombor ansuran).  

Just on case anyone else is wondering, your payment code is 084 and final tax balance payable instalment number is 99. By the way, last day of submission for those of us with non-business income is 15-05-2023.

With my tax returns out of the way, it was time to relax!

This is how to lepak. Total chill out with legs in the air. While waiting for my partner to come home, I did a spot of reading.

I am currently re-reading this book, Ravenous. When I love a book, I read it a second time. Upon second reading, I have a better appreciation because I may have missed certain points on first reading.

These days the weather is terribly hot. Too hot! And the hottest spot in my house is upstairs, my master bedroom. I cannot tahan. So in the interim, I sleep downstairs.

My three seater sofa is very cosy. That's where I sit and watch TV when I am on my own.

Girl will join me when she is in the house.

Then I like to kacau her.

She is very distracting. Or am I distracting?

hee..hee..hee... I love it when she licks my fingers.

This is the two seater, where my partner and I sit when we watch TV together.  

Ah, I got myself this Sterra air purifier last year. It was so worth it because I no longer get bronchitis attack when I spend lots of time downstairs. During a flare up (caused by dust/cat dander) I get wheezing in my lungs and chesty cough with lots of phlegm. Now with the air purifier installed, I no longer experience this. I have another unit in my bedroom.

This is my new toy. Also purchased last year during one of those sales promotion. It is a toaster oven/air fryer. I used this for reheating food and light baking. So that the oven does not get super oily.

Those cookies were in the freezer since I don't know when and apparently they were still edible. 

So that was my Hari Raya, mission accomplished with my tax returns and enjoying reheated frozen (ancient) cookies.