Four years have passed since her husband’s disappearance, and Nurlaila, 44, admitted that she had come to terms with fate.
Now, she is a single mother to their children Wan Amirul Haziq, 16, Wan Aemer Hafiz, 14, and Wan Afrina Sofea, 12.
Bearing the responsibility of a mother and father to her children, she is determined to provide them with the best to have some semblance of stability.
“May my children grow up and live their lives like everyone else. Beginning this year, I have started working at a firm and am managing my own time.
“My main focus is my children’s education and my work as a financial adviser at a company in Shah Alam,” she said when contacted by the New Straits Times Press.
She said to provide for her family, she did not mind travelling back and forth from her home in Nilai, Negri Sembilan, to her office in Shah Alam.
Previously, she also took care of her mother, who was ill for three years.
“My mother was suffering from diabetes and had a stroke. She died in September last year, just three days after Hari Raya Aidiladha.
“Since my mother’s death, I follow my children wherever they go. My father, Ngah @ Awang Mahmud, 76, lives with us in Nilai,” she said.
Nurlaila said she would attend the Flight MH370 commemoration programme organised by crew members and passengers at Publika in Kuala Lumpur.