It was exactly 10 days before our wedding – THE wedding. OUR wedding. The one I’d planned for months. The one I’d quit my job to plan. So you can imagine how special it was.
10 days before our wedding, my husband to be (the Hubs) and I returned home from a lovely dinner at exactly 9pm our time. He stayed downstairs for a drink while I hurried upstairs for a shower. We both switched on our respective idiot boxes upstairs and downstairs and coincidentally, telepathically, both had CNN on. When I saw the plane hit the towers, I thought it was a movie. I once watched CNN on telly telling us the world was coming to an end and showed live events happening around the world in real time and suddenly it hit Malaysia. It was spooky…..but it turned out to be a CNN documentary spoof. Fuck. I remember my uncle worriedly asking if we should go out immediately to get some supplies as though war was peril.
Halfway undressed, the Hubs walks in to ask if I saw that the pentagon was hit. After a few moments of discord as to where the plane actually crashed, the twin towers or the pentagon, we both shut our gobs and watched intently as CNN ran the replays over and over.
We instinctively picked up the phone and called our friends in New York one by one. There were 5 in total that were right smack in New York City. We couldn’t get through to any of them! A silent prayer was said for them to be safe and thankfully much much much much……. later, we got through and all was OK.
However, the next 7 days were spent on the phone to New York monitoring the situation when and if they were able to make our wedding after all. The best man was from New York and the Hubs never thought of asking a back-up. Worst case? He’d ask his brother. With all airports closed, what were the chances our closest friends from the Big Apple making it?
Dave turned up miraculously the day before the wedding. He was lucky and smart enough to take the first flight out of New York. He didn’t care where it took him. He just bought a flight out. And it happened at the window when the airport was opened for a day. The rest had to stay behind. After a few connecting flights, he found his way to Kuala Lumpur. He even had to shop for clothes here as everything happened so fast and he didn’t have time to pack.
It was hard for Dave to be super cheerful at our wedding, understandably so. But he did excellent.
We were so, so, so thankful that he was safe. That he wasn’t anywhere near the towers when it happened. His office was 15 blocks down. I cried many tears for all those that became victims to those psychos. But I will always be grateful that our friends were OK.
**************************************************************************Who is Mamapumpkin?
Mamapumpkin spent 7 years in London committing crimes to gain her Bartlett degree in Architecture. She then spent 7 years as a Stay At Home Mom raising her children as documented in this blog of over 15 years thereafter returning to the Corporate World stronger than ever as the Country Director of a British Multinational. She sets out to prove to all, that you can have anything and everything that you want; if you have that fire of desire burning within and the drive to work hard. Even better with much love.
Mamapumpkin has not only grown corporate businesses successfully in the past but has grown not one but TWO network marketing businesses in the notorious MLM (Multi-Level Marketing) industry, achieving success in under 2 years. She believes in the MLM business model but realises the DRASTIC PITFALLS and great stigma attached to it, understanding EXACTLY WHY the majority would shy away (or RUN for their lives) from ANY MLM business. But open your eyes and take time to understand it intellectually, remove your hang-ups, confirm your research, and you may just want to seize an opportunity. She did. And no, she never went about chasing people for sales. She had a sophisticated system work for her through technology and a smartphone.
She now impacts lives authentically with proven strategies amassed through the last decade of her own transformation offering online coaching programmes and always supports the underprivileged. She believes that we can all have a life of our own desires to enable real contribution into the world. But first, one needs to understand what this all means.
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Mamapumpkin is a living testimony that women really can have a lot. Being financially and time free has enabled her to travel the world anytime, anywhere, doing anything, and she spends most of her days with her children, having fun, and supporting others wherever she can. Also having fun.
