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| short n sweet |
| 12.29.04 (8:00 am) [edit] |
I'm trying to type this before the blardy pc hangs up on me again....
Busy.
Veryyy Busy.
Going off.Again.
Back on Saturday.
Lots to write.
Moving soon.
Will come back.I hope...
Happy New Year everyone!!!
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| Ggrrr....!! |
| 12.23.04 (10:41 pm) [edit] |
Ni pc memang mintak nak kena lempar kat tingkat satu jugak, 1 fine day..!!
geram mak, nyahh....
It's been problematic since Day One...now, dah brapa ribu days pon, stiiillll problematic...
Dah nak tukar tahon baru tu, tukarlah perangai sket..ni tak, 24jm hang up on aku!!
I sooo need a new pc....
Any kind donors out there..??
Niways..
I am *almost* crapping in my pants..
I haven't packed the stuffs this whole family will need, for the weekend getaway this Sunday (and yet I am still sitting here...yawn..)!!
If it were just me and Hunny back in the old days..it'd just be anything we can grab and lay our hands on...
But now..with these [i]things[/i] we've so far produced, it's extra diapers, extra socks, playsuits, wetsuits, beach toys, sunscreen, snacks, waterbottle yada yada yada....
3 days of getaway and my luggage looks like I'm taking 1 year off to backpack around Europe...!!
Sigh...
That's not the only thing I haven't done....
Sssshhh...but err..I actually haven't gotten round to buying Aisyah's new books for next year...yet!!!
Uh-huh...
Next year which is like in 2 week's time....
Hhhmm....
Books, bags....stuffs.....
Sigh...
Can we rewind the whole Nov holidays all over again, please??
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| yakkety yak |
| 12.21.04 (9:28 pm) [edit] |
I like how sometimes my days can be pretty boring but how sometimes my days can be verryyy sinful.......
*smirk*
I mean...not vice-filled sinful kinda sinful lah....giler ker??
I mean, sinful like....hanging out with cool people with mygoodness great food (read: potato gratin, baked meat and cheese macaroni, savoury finger food, dessert, the works)...and just chilling...talking and talking and talking and talking.....and forgetting sometimes that I'm a mommy with three kids.....
Like today....
Just us girls, hanging out and talking about everything under the sun.....everrrryything..!!
Jahat eh korang...!!
:twisted:
Takper, takper...kalau bukan ngan korang, ngan saper lagi aku nak lepakkan??
Did I thank you enuff just now, noty people??!! :twisted:
We soooo should do this again......
sinful but nice.... :twisted:
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| Whooaa!! |
| 12.20.04 (11:39 pm) [edit] |
I hate it when we have so much fun and then the weekend just flew by just like that....haaiizzz...
Friday evening started with me meeting Hunny at Bishan MRT to fetch Aisyah...he was not from his office so I had to meet him half-way...me, the nyonya and the fever-boy...
As you can see, yes, I survived the train ride to and fro..
pheww..
Aisyah, apparently, enjoyed herself sooo much that day, too...
And yes, she loves soccer..
She even taught her dad how to kick [i]pohperly ahh[/i]...
And she'll be taking up the 1 month soccer stint which she won...
Sigh..
And I thought she was a girly girly girl who'd go ouch and ewww....
Hhhmm...
The very same nite, the budak plaza called me up and before we knew it, we found ourselves in this familiar place called...the bowling alley!!
1 bumper lane for 6 kids to play, 2 normal lanes for 8 adults to play and we were there till midnite and beyond...
then off to simpang bedok for supper till 2 and by the time we reached home, showered and fell on the bed, it was 3ish in the morning...
Sigh..
Life....
Saturday saw us being stuck in the darn jb jam for 2 hours plus...
to and fro!!
All bcos I wanted to go get some small stuffs..
Pfftt..!!
But all's not lost....
Bcos I was stuck in the jam, I only needed to be at my MIL's place for a veryy short while...
Hey, it's not a premeditated thing, ok....
I [b]WAS[/b] stuck in the jam, mahh...
And I had to zoom off to my sis's place after that, wat...
:twisted:
So I say, being stuck in [i]that[/i] jam, wasn't too bad after all...
:twisted:
Sunday was Tulang Session...
No, I didn't see any chiropractor...
Hunny's fren cooked tulang and we all came over to sapede'....[i]that[/i] kinda tulang....get it?
It was a nice way to spend the Sunday..great food, great company and I didn't even have to cook anything....
Life is reaally good, aye???
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| quiet morning.. |
| 12.16.04 (5:28 pm) [edit] |
I am having caffeine withdrawal...
Been switching my black cuppa with green tea since Monday..
yup, you heard me rite...
Green tea...
Eeerrghh....
Ni sumer, nak look young peh pasal...
No thanks to some doctor on the Oprah show who said that switching your coffee for green tea will take years off your face...
Uh-huh...
We'll see whether I look like I'm 19 after I've finished the whole box of green tea, ok?
The house is quiet today...
Aisyah's off to this 1 day camp thingy organised by the Young Parents magazine..
Interesting stuff, if you ask me..
From 8.30am to 6.30pm today, her day is packed with stuffs like speech and drama, postcard making, cooking lessons and even soccer!!
Yup..!!
soccer...
how a girly girl like her is gonna take to soccer, I donno...
We'll see when she comes back, ok?
So now, it's just me, the nyonya and the lil' whiner...he who is having fever today...
Nyonya and I were both bored so we pored thru old albums just now...and of all albums, she had to pick out the holidays ones...and make me go "aaww man, I wish I'm at Hay Street now!!"
sighh...
I miss being in a [b]foreign land [/b]with [b]foreign people [/b]shopping in [b]foreign shopping centres [/b]using [b]foreign currency[/b]...
It's sinful, I tell you!!
I was hoping to be back in Hay Street next year but Hunny told me to wait till Firdaus is all grown up and can run about before we bring him flying...mebbe somewhere further, perhaps...
Sigh Firdaus...grow up and start running, will ya??!
In the meantime, for this year, we'll just have to settle for our chalet getaway on Boxing Day...
Just the 5 of us, slacking away for 3 days with the sun, the sand and the sea....
Life....
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| P is for Partaayyy!!! |
| 12.15.04 (10:53 pm) [edit] |
I never thought I could have sooo much fun but I did!!
It was seriously, the most [b]awesome[/b], [b]coolest[/b] thing I've attended and the fun we had was....mind blowing!!
I still can't believe we did the things we did..!!
Whooaa...
Thank you Renee for having us at your spacious abode..
Beaooootiful house, beaooootiful host, beaooootiful time!!
Monica, Annette, Helen, you people rock!!
I know that sounded corny but it is..!!
I've never attended such a party, did those things I did and laffed myself silly in a long, long while...
Sigh..
Can we do that again, soon, girls??
I'm still all high from all those...things....
:twisted:
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| lost and found.. |
| 12.11.04 (7:42 am) [edit] |
I can't bliv I'm typing this with henna on my hands!!
I tell you, this whole henna thing is [i]soo[/i] addictive...
thank you, jewel..for showing me the henna light...;)
I've been hennaed....
watever...
Ooohh..can't wait for next week's [i]thang[/i]...
it's sure gonna be [i]lav-ly....[/i]
oooohhh....
Oh my oh my oh my...
It's been donkey years since I've updated, as usual...
Citer sedih pon dah tak sedih lagi...
Takmo sedih² ah korang eh...Krismas pon dah nak dekat per...
ho ho ho...
I tell you, the world is really small,aye?
Over the last coupla weekends, I've met/discovered people I've long lost!!
Jewel, for instance, turned out to be my poly friend!!!
I mean..we were from the same batch, knew the same people, hung out at *almost* the same place, went to the same...err, hops...
(sshh..jewel, kalau dorang tanyer amender tu hop, kau cakap jer lah "syarahan"....)
And then, sometime last week, I found [b]TWO[/b] of my secondary school friends!!
TWO!!
In 2 days!!
(Macam hilang wallet gitu, bleh jumpa balik...)
It started with one of them knowing my childhood friend only becos their moms were long lost friends themselves...yada yada yada...
(aper ni, asik hilang² kawan jer..??)
So like later at noon, I'm meeting up with the rest of the gang...like, 5 of us, at one of their places and it's just soo......fun??
God..the last time I saw them was when I was 24 and pregnant with Aisyah....
Whatever am I gonna talk to them about later??!
Oh...watever may come, I suppose...
And then, Mrsbeki's hubby turns out to be Hunny's poly friend too...(wait a minute..aren't we all from the same poly?? so doesn't that mean he's MY friend too..??Hhhmm..oh, sesungguhnyer aku lupa..SP tu besar, nohh...macam satu Sembawang ni adalah...)
My oh my oh my....
Those are the [b]nice[/b] stuffs I discovered....
I'm not even going to start on the eeuwww, eeeuwww, eeuwww ones...
sticky..
sticky, sticky, sticky...
Contrary to popular belief, I don't like all things sticky, you know....
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| sad but true.. |
| 12.02.04 (11:02 pm) [edit] |
Sometimes, when we are young and carefree, we forget that we'd grow old and frail one fine day...
Sometimes when we are still healthy and strong, we forget that we all started as meek, helpless babies...
Sometimes, when we are angry and tired, we forget the words we say can hurt and break the other person's heart...
As this person told me this story just now, I just can't help but hold back my tears...both in my eyes and in my heart, as I listened to what happened....
There was this old frail lady, who, at 72, has already suffered a stroke and was as thin and frail and helpless as can be.
She still has the ability to walk, albeit slowly...so all was not lost.
Her one and only daughter has always been the one taking care of her as that is the only one out of her nine children who bothered to take her into their homes...
One fine day, this daughter had to make a trip across the causeway for a short trip.
Hey, she needs a breather too...
So what did she do with her old, frail mom..?
Why, leave her with her elder brother and sister-in-law, of coz...
They, of the big house and all grown up children...
So this old lady went to stay with her son for 2 days.
All this while, despite her old age and despite her condition, she had never had the need for adult diapers. She can manage to shuffle to the toilet on her own, usually.
But maybe becos she was in a different environment and maybe becos this new house is quite big and she can't quite ask for help in time, it came to the point that she wet the bed of her teenage granddaughter....that oh-so-cozy bed in that oh-so-cool bedroom...
Teenage granddaughter of coz got quite indignant and upset and grumbled about it...
Whether she did that in front of the old, frail lady, I didnt know...but even if she didn't, I'm sure the old frail lady knew....
So the mess was wiped out and the old lady nagged at and they thought it wouldn't happen again...
But as fate would have it, the same thing happened again the next day...
And from what I was told, even her own son nagged at her and scolded her for her mess....
The very same flesh and blood she gave birth to and raised....
The old, frail lady as I have always known her to be, just smiled weakly and kept quiet...
My heart just broke when I heard this story..
Did that son of hers forget that this old mother of his was once young and strong too....? That she didn't want to be in that condition she is in now? Hell,who wants to??
Did he forget that one fine day, maybe, say...in ten, 15 years, he'd be old and frail like her, too??
Did that teenage girl forget that no one likes to be scolded and nagged and grumbled at?
Especially if that someone is a meek, weak,frail, stroke-stricken old lady of 72??
Sigh.
Of coz, we, myself included, can all say, we'll try to not be like that when the time comes and we're tested in such trying situations...but when we take the time to sit down and think about it, can we even begin to feel the hurt, embarrassment, sadness, helplessness that the old, frail, weak lady felt...?
All those years, all those times....sacrificed and gone...for what? For this...??
When I grow old, sometimes I wish that my children would just put me in the old folk's home so that they can get me over and done with....
At least in there, if I pee and poo, there's someone who's already being paid to clean me up....
My own kids??
Who's to say they won't go so far as to yell at me for doing so??
Sigh...
I just wish that sometimes ...just sometimes, we can try to stop, take a breath and think about what will come out of our mouths next...
Just because the other party doesn't answer you back doesn't mean they don't WANT to....
Sometimes, they just can't...
Sometimes, their hearts are too broken to even think of saying anything back....
sob..
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| T is for....?? |
| 12.02.04 (2:17 am) [edit] |
...Taufik lah...abudhen??!!
Even Nadiah knows that....she, who started chanting his name from 7.15pm to the point I almost banned her from watching the telecast....
..sket².."Taufik! Taufik! Taufik..!!"
baca, tulis sumer blom betol, ada hati nak si Taufik...
I bet she's now in luurve with him....
So now, we all know the Mat has won...
wa caya sama lu, Mat !!
But he IS good...
When he sang that Mrs Jones-ke-aperbenda song, I was like.."wow!!he sooo can sing!!" and I was like "please, please let him win even tho' I am so not sms-ing for him.."
No..nothing against him...prolly I'm just one of those [b][i]makciks² who tak main ah sms² ni sumer[/i][/b]...
When the results was announced, I can actually hear neighbours from across the block whooping and cheering...and when I looked across the living room, err... the No.1 Taufik supporter had actually gone to sleep...
aper jer...
kata nak support Taufik..
member blom menang, dia dah tido...
ni macam ker nak jadi Taufik peh groupie...??
Kalau aku Taufik, aku sack ni macam nyer peminat!!!
Cheh....
(Actually, budak tu bukan aper...penat jalan raya sakan ngan mak dia ngan mak dianyer kengkawan dari pagi tadi....dah lah tu, kena naik [b]MRT[/b] lagi....maner tak penat....!!!Nak buat aper kan, ayah dia takder on-site work smalam.....)
Kesian dia...
kesian mak dia....
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| grow up, Aisyah... |
| 11.29.04 (9:33 pm) [edit] |
My Bobbi Brown catalogue came in the mail yesterday...
..yes, I'm a Bobbi Brown devotee, too...
sigh..
so pwetty yet so expensive....
So there I was, sighing away when along came Aisyah and she asked me why I looked so sad...and so I told her all about the art of being vain and how the stuffs I'm eyeing in the catalogue are all oh-so-so-not-cheap... and she promptly told me to "use the money in my bank and buy whatever you want, lah ibu..."
sejook perot mak, nyah....
And I was teasing her and asked "Really? But this is really expensive, you know....I thought you want to save up all your money...??"
and she said.."nevermind, ibu...I just want you to look gorgeous..."
sigh...
Of coz, I didn't tell her I need [b]more[/b] than Bobbi Brown's help to look gorgeous but aahh...I was so touched by her gesture....
Imagine...parting with your hard earned moollah to make your fat, old mom gorgeous...
Man.. I sooo can't wait for this girl to grow up, start working and earning her own money....
...imagine all those make-up and shoe shopping spree we'll be embarking on.....
...tak sia² aku branak kan budak ni, nyahh...
of coz, I didn't bother asking the nyonya for financial help with regards to my Bobbi Brown purchase cos she had clearly told me earlier that [b]HER[/b] money sitting in the bank is for her to...and I quote her "save up, get married and go Genting..." !!!
sigh...Genting??
tak class seh dekninyer honeymoon destination choice.....!!!
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| Warna Raya... |
| 11.28.04 (8:24 pm) [edit] |
Before this blog turns to fossil, I had better do some updates, aye??
Hhhmm...
Where shall I begin...
Ok.
My Raya-sakan visitings are *almost* over.
I think.
The main VIPs' houses are all done and over with.
Pheww..
However, this year, I've got a new category of people whose houses I'd like to label the [b]G.G[/b] houses....
...G.G for [b]GUA GIVAP [/b]!!
Aper kan tidak....dari aku baru kawin, dapat anak satu, sampai anak tiga, 8yrs throughout, tak SEKALI pon dorang ni ada hati nak datang rumah kita....and yet, we go to their houses year in, year out, without fail...
I don't expect these people to visit me every darn year but gee, at least [b]once[/b] will do..??
If I can make the effort, why can't they??
The best part?
They live just around the neighbourhood...!!
Pfftt...!!
So I told Hunny, ni sumer dah masok kategori rumah Gua Givap nak pegi lagi..!!
there...
Ok.
So...the VIPs are done, the neighbours too...so I'm just left with some friends' houses..which I can do sometime this week....I hope.
I must remember to activate my superhero alarm so he can come to my rescue and send me to/fetch me from these houses where hubbies are not invited...
Hhhmmm..
My last 2 weekends were all filled with convoy-outings where we go out in groups and 'attack' other people's houses.
Very fun.
Very kecoh.
Veryy tiring.
Ok wat...Raya stahon skali, nyahh...
So now that my visitings are almost over, I can have a closure with Raya.
Yes, I need closure with Hari Raya oso..u donno meh?
And what's my closure?
Why...stop listening to Warna, of coz...
Sigh.
Yup.
I 'fess up...
I listen to Warna..
I NEVER do.
But during Ramadhan and Syawal, I kinda [i]stray[/i] there...
Ramadhan, for the sheer need to listen to azan and lagu raya and Syawal for the sheer need to maintain mood Raya...
But after 1 1/2 months, I think I've had enuff of Malay songs to last me to the next fasting month lah...
Yah.
Hey, I've even fallen in luurrve with Anuar Zain's Mungkinkah..(did I get that rite??) and I'm hooked on Misha Omar's song from the soundtrack-of-that-movie- the-title-of-which-I-dont -even-dare-mention....and that Asmara Dana song and gee...what else is worth remembering eh? oh ya!! that Waheeda and Giggle?Geigle? song..'cept of coz, I'm sorry, Waheeda's voice is soo not made for that song...so very the spoil market...
So there.
I've been Malay-nised once more...
not too bad eh?
N'mind.
As of today, I've switched back to Class....
It really is so painful listening to Suharti Ali and Faridah Onn in the afternoons trying to sound.....fun?funny??
I miss Glenn and Rod.
Yah.
only these 2.
Even FD is trying too hard sometimes...
I kinda don't like people who try too hard.
It's too obvious, lah...
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| It's so hard to say goodbye... |
| 11.19.04 (6:13 am) [edit] |
This afternoon, I went for Nadiah's Parents-Teacher's Meeting...(yup, you need such things even if your kid's merely in nursery....) and it was such an eye-opening experience....hearing the stuffs her teacher had to say about her...
If I recall correctly, these were some of the things her teacher said :
1) Don't worry. She looks small but no one dares bully her in class cos she's very vocal...she can answer you and put you back in your place...
2) The other kids in the class adore her simply becos she's tiny. They *still* think that she's this genius of a baby who starts going to school at age 2..!!
3) She's improved a lot. She can write her own name and whatever words you care to spell out to her.
Even four-lettered ones, if you care to....of coz, I haven't tested this one yet...
4) She gets along well with the boys more than she does with the girls. *yawn*. Like what else is new...??
(dari maner ni dia blajar ni sumer eh...padahal mak dia punyerlah pemalu orangnyer....)
5) She can really express herself. Even to the point of answering her teacher back. When the teacher told her to go to a less-favoured corner, she'd actually explain to her teacher.."but yesterday I did that corner already...I don't really like the puzzles corner...."
6) She doesn't exactly have great self-confidence, tho...Ask her to do something in front of others and she'd start scratching her neck...a sure sign of discomfort...
....and then, of coz, there was the story of Greg....
Ok.
Like all this while, we've heard how she's soo in love with Greg and all...but here's the reason why...
Ok.
First thing's first.
This Greg, if you must know, is truly an intelligent boy. He speaks very well, he's very confident, very smart...very.
He's tall and of coz, he's handsome...
And somehow, this two hit it off really well.
They have this special kinda bond...very different but very strong...
Greg and her, according to the teacher, can really sit down and talk about [b]anyyyyyything[/b] under the sun.
And she really meant anything.
These two even discussed about cars some time back...talking about how expensive Nissan cars can be, yada yada yada....
They sit together at the same table..just the two of them and of late, another new girl...but it's always been just the two of them, chatting, talking, laughing..being the best of friends...
Just as she adores him, he adores her too..
Just like an elder brother.
Teacher says, he's very protective of her..like she's his kid sister or something...
When she does something wrong, he'd advise her in his wise voice, saying stuffs like "Nadiah...you shouldn't treat your friends like that..you must SHARE...."
When she sometimes loses her temper with him and hits him, he'd just close one eye and let her be.
He never retaliates..
When she can't reach the tap in the toilet, he'd come and lift her up so she can wash her hands...
And apparently, he is only like that with her.
Not with anyone else in the class...
Only with this tiny Nadiah..
But the sad thing is, he's moving to Bishan next year and won't be in the same school anymore...
So she's going to lose a very, very good friend.
I donno.
When the teacher told me about it, even I was kinda sad...
They're such good friends and he looks out for her...looks after her....
she's not gonna have a buddy like that, ever...
it's almost a rarity, I think...
She didn't know about him moving to another place..so when I told her about it after I came back just now, she looked crestfallen....she looked so broken hearted, my heart just ached....
..imagine...not seeing your good friend again, ever...
and the worst part is not being able to say goodbye for the last time....and take pictures together......
sob....
.......and of coz, nadiah being nadiah, she promptly told me to move house to bishan, too......
sigh....
sad but true....
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| the morning after the nite before.... |
| 11.18.04 (5:45 am) [edit] |
...i woke up pwetty early...
semangat, beb, nak raya..!!
ah well...'tis my usual practice anyway....
so i got up, showered, then woke Hunny up for solat raya....he went off and I set about doing 2 things he didn't get round to doing the nite before...changing of tableclothes for the dining table and the coffee table...
(takperlah....member penat per mop satu rumah sampai kol 3 pagi....)
So, that settled, I went on to prepare breakfast...the big feast of my six dishes and the lontong...
I donno.
I don't mind slogging in the kitchen for hours on end just so my family can sit down and enjoy a hearty meal cooked by [b]the lady of the house[/b]...and not just anyone else...
Sitting down for this feast/breakfast has always been the tradition back with my parents when I was still that *yawn* virgin living with them and I like it...the sitting down and having a proper meal with your family.
Very warm, very nice, very proper.
No doubt, I can make things convenient and simpler by just asking my mom to cook for me...or my MIL, for that matter (even Hunny told me to do just that)...but then, what warm memories will my children hold many years down the road about their Raya mornings..??
That we had a quick breakfast of bread and nutella and milk before heading down to nenek's house for real food..??
blergghhh...
So I cooked. And I cooked. And we ate.
There were so many dishes on the table, we actually got a headache just deciding which ones to eat first....
Ish...kita headache nak choose aper nak makan...owang lain headache takder makan.....sigh.
Niways...
We had our breakfast, Nadiah whined (like what else is new), Firdaus woke up whilst we were half-way thru and then it was just bumming around time till about 11plus...when I decided to get ready to go out...
..and I tell you, getting ready three small children, especially on a big, grand day like this, is no mean feat....fening kafara dah.....
I had to make sure the girls' brooches are on, hair brushed and tied back, tiny chains and bracelets in place...even Nadiah had to remind me to put on her make up for her....yes, vain, vain Nadiah....
(she reminded me "cheeks, cheeks!!" when I forgot to brush some blusher there....)
By the time we left our house, it was about 1pm...off to Bishan cos that's where my PILs are stationed this year and..I donno....every year, without fail, since we got married, it seems more like Chinese New Year's gathering than it is a Hari Raya gathering....
..imagine, in a big 5 room flat, we didn't have anywhere to sit...cos gee, his chinese relatives were [b]ALL[/b] there, his bro's chinese colleagues were [b]ALL[/b] there, his sister's chinese colleagues were also [b]ALL[/b] there....the ones that were missing were his [b]MALAY[/b] relatives......farny eh??
I'm not against inviting chinese friends and relatives over...but for heaven's sake, cant they do it on another day?? Raya 30hari per...
Can't they just allow this precious first day for close family members only...??
year in, year out...same ol, same ol.....
sigh....
what can i do...I married him oready.....
:twisted:
I tolerated my time there till about 3 in the afternoon when we made our way to my mom's place...this year, my granma is not stationed there...she's at my aunt's place in pasir ris...so we gotta rush there fm my mom's place in tampines...
waited for my 2nd sis to reach tampines, ate, did our traditional salam-ing session (which is waaaayy more proper and traditional than his family's...) and then off we went to pasir ris where my dad's *almost* entire clan was....
...as usual, it was a riot...all my cousins, my aunts, my uncles, nieces, nephews....
kaching, kaching, kaching....!!
kering...kering...kering....!
heh..
it was also there that I saw an uncle who just got out of rehab.
I donno.
I just am not bothered.
He acted so nonchalantly....macam muka sardin gitu...like he just came back from Oxford or something...no hellos, no how are yous....
he acted like the past 9 years didn't exist.
aper sajerrr...
mak pon tak kuasa lah, nyah...
Ok.
that was that.
Then, after maghrib, it was off to Marine Parade to visit one of our last...in fact, the remaining grandaunt we have.
We normally would head for another house after that but that granduncle had just passed on a few months before Ramadhan.
Somehow, that was what made my Raya this year a lil' bit different.
I won't get to see that side of my family...
nice people, they are...
Whilst we were at Marine Parade, the Club 18 guys (which is Hunny's group of friends) sms-ed to inform us that they've reached our ustad's place and sigh...back to Pasir Ris we go....
It was fun, as usual...this group.
I kinda click very well with the husbands than I do with the wives.....
relax....it's only bcos I knew them way back in poly before their wives met them...
cool people.
And after that, it was time to go home.
By then, it was 11ish and the kids were still not tired..but the parents were...
And it was during this drive home that she said this....and trust me, the dad and I are still in shock till today....
She : "Kakak, I got money. I can get [b]married[/b] oready..."!!
Ibu, Ayah and kakak : ???????
Hai anak...dalam banyak² barang dalam dunia yang kau bleh buat ngan duit....kau nak [b]KAWIN??!?[/b]
asal tak nak beli gula² ker, menan ker??!
givap, mak!!
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| I can cook..so can you... |
| 11.17.04 (12:11 am) [edit] |
On the eve of Raya, I was very proud of myself...because I didn't realise I *CAN* be an iron chef...
Jangan main², nohh...chek masak [b]ENAM[/b] macam lauk pauk!!
Gee...there was rendang ayam, ayam masak merah, sambal tumis udang, sambal goreng, daging sate goreng and kuah lodeh....
The best part was that I started cooking right after the last sahur and ended at 10.30 AM!!
That freed the rest of the day for me to shake legs and everything that is shake-able....
Yah boy..I was amazed that I *CAN* cook so much, so fast....
HA-mazing!!!
But that was a good time to cook...after sahur, that is..cos all the kids *big and small* were sound asleep...so that meant no lalats to come a-disturbing in the kitchen....which explains the short frame of time I took....
After I was done cooking, I woke up the entire household and typical of a mom/wife, I nagged at them to "hurry up and clean up cos besok raya oyy..!!"
So one by one they woke up...the only one who ended up doing *any* cleaning, if at all, was the dad....
Actually hor, throughout the whole time we've lived together, for all my complaints and naggings, he's the one who actually clean up the house the most....thoroughly somemore....
hhmmm....
but hey, he *still* needs someone to tell him what to do, mah....that's what I'm here for....
Niways...
he finished up vacuuming and mopping the house...small lil' stuffs to do...nothing major....all the curtains have already been hung up way before that...I'm not the typical old skool makciks who'd go.."E'eh..tak leh gantong siang²..nanti hilang seri!!!"
*yawn*
So, what did I do whilst he was cleaning up?
Why...play with henna, of coz..!!
since I already missed out on the henna gig that Jewel had a coupla days before, I went out and bought a big tube of it and spent petang raya doodling with it....
tak sia² dulu gua terror art, ahh...
of coz, my art, if you may call it that, is nothing compared to the stuffs jewel comes up with....
ha-mazing..!!
Ok.
back to the raya stuffs..
oh.
then, after buka, we solat jemaah togedergeder and spent the night bertakbir...which was so...nice.
I can't quite put it to words...
Go do it yourself next year and you'll know why...
Then what eh...
Oh..then, it was just simple cleaning up of the kitchen...wipe² here, wipe² there...really nothing frantic...nothing like those yesteryears when I was still that virgin living in my mom's house.....
eerrgghhh...now *THAT* is horrific.....
imagine, lepas maghrib, tu dapor masih cam tangkuban prahu terbalik..!!
masaknyer blom game²...
mak datok bandar.....
and the curtains for the whole house have *YET* to be hanged....
sigh..
(u see why I got married early..??)
So...
that was all we needed to do...
the funny thing was, despite not having much to do, we still ended up sleeping late....at abt 3am...
I suppose we were too highstrung to sleep..
which explains why I'm still sleep deprived till today....
in fact, I'd continue abt the other 3 days later, k...
...much later....
*yawn*
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| 4 days long... |
| 11.16.04 (11:46 pm) [edit] |
E'eh...
Dah 4 hari eh kita Raya??
Ok..meh sini mak update!!!
Lemme see...where shall I begin..??
Shall we start with the eve?
:wink:
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| wow...!! |
| 11.10.04 (10:19 am) [edit] |
Aderkah anda ingin tahu braper ribu kuih telah pon saya buat..??
Saya dah pon tutop tu bakery and this is what I've done:
oat cookies
kuih tart
choc.chip cookies
cashew cookies
cornflakes macaroons
choc.tots
Add to that, aku nyer popiah kecik² and epok² kecik², plus kropok fishball plus kek lapis cempedak.....mak datok bandar...sungguh over!!
Ni macam korang datang kena makan kat DINING TABLE!!
Sigh..
aper nak buat...ni tahon kita Raya All Out...pasal tahon lepas dan tahon² sebelomnyer kita raya [b]ala kadaaarr[/b]....so tahon ni kita raya bayar niat gitulah....
for heaven's sake...even Firdaus has [b]THREE [/b]pairs of baju kurongs!!
...and 2 kain sampings...
baju kurong jer tau..blom baju shirt and pants...!!
Kakak² dia pon sumer baju 3 pasang..blom termasok dress...
Mak dia...?
Mak dia korang toksah tanyer lah..
Mak dia nyer baju satu almari skali...!!!
Ni pon mak dia nak gi carik [b]lagi[/b] *another* pair(s) of kasut to match the different² karer of her bajus.....
Sigh....
Raya, you...
setahon skali.....
bukannyer slalu aku buat keja cam ni.....
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| aku champion!!! |
| 11.08.04 (8:15 am) [edit] |
Tepok ah sket...
For the first time eva....selamer 6 thn ni aku dudok kat rumah sendiri ni beraya, I finally made my own kuih tarts!!!
whooohoooo....!!
kira tu, pada aku, dah cukop peh champion...
Slalu, kuih tart is pretty lengit to do....
And I don't even bother...
It's like..you wanna eat kuih tart, just go to any Timah, Kiah and Leha's house and you'll find kuih tarts...
(That's what I tell my kids, anyway...)
But somehow, this year, I was like...hhhmmm....the kuih tart is like the mother of all kuihs, aye??
So how come I don't have the mother with me..?? :wink:
And so I set forth to that oh-so-crowded Phoon Huat and got my stuffs, reached home and made 'em kuih tarts...
...and according to the Q.C inspectors at home, they're as good as nenek's (my mom's)...so if those inspectors say they're good, they must be..!!
(penat oy aku buat....!!)
So far, I'm done with the kuih tarts, choc.chip cookies and the oat cookies.
Tomorrow, I'm game for 3 more types...
champion, kan??
Oh...one other thing...
remember how in August there were two birthdays in the family...?
Mine and Firdaus'??
And how last Wednesday was Aisyah's?
Well, today, at 8.45am, is the grand nyonya's birthday!!
She's turning aaaall of four and nothing to show for that!
Hai nak...bilerlah kau nak besar??
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| yaaawwnn.... |
| 11.05.04 (9:51 am) [edit] |
*yawn*
will ya look at the time..??!!
God..I'm sooo sleepy...but I can't afford to go zzz now...cos if I do, konfem dorang tak bangon sahor..!!
Sigh...
I've been up baking cookies from 11pm just now and *yawn*...I can hardly open my eyes and *yawn* yet...I must, I must, increase my bust..
eh, salah line.....
*yawn*
ni lah dia kan...
dah ngantok, merapek raban plak..
ada hati nak blog....
*yawn*...
..u think if I take a short nap now, I can wake up again at 4.30am??
*yawn*
*yawn*
...i don't think so....
oh boy...the bed sure looks delicious from here.....with Hunny in it somemore....
but I don't think the man is game for some hanky-panky at 4am in the morning.....*yawn*......
...but I am!!....
(oh shut up and go to sleep, will you??!)
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| 1,2,3,4...... |
| 11.04.04 (5:42 am) [edit] |
Before I forget, I better jot down stuffs that happened yesterday....
...yesterday being such a nice, wonderful day....
Numbers of the Day for yesterday was 7, 14 and 24...
Yesterday was Aisyah's [b]7th[/b] birthday...
It was also the [b]14th[/b] year Hunny and I are together...
And after his hospital check-up, Firdaus was on this holter kit for [b]24[/b] hours....
(More on that later...)
The morning started with us rushing to buy extra goodies for her party packs which she pleaded with me to distribute to her classmates...all 35 of them...plus 31 more in the mother tongue class..!!
(Aper dia ingat mak bapak dia Santa Claus ker..??)
Then, off to school and it was off to the hospital for us...
And after that, a quick stopover to MIL's place to drop off some kuihs for her...
Then, time to pick up the birthday girl and off to Swensen's we go...
And then, more shopping to be done....maklom, dah terlanjor kat shopping centre....that's what it's there for...for people like me to shop, wat...
Ok.
Back to the holter thingy...
You see, upon arrival, we did the routine ECG check and alhamdulillah, he's getting better and better. But just to be on the safe side, his cardiologist ordered for him to be on this 24hour holter [i]thing[/i]...it's this lil' portable ECG kit that, again, measures his hearbeat rate.
The doctor did this to be sure that the stable readings aren't only when he is in the hospital.
He wanted to be sure that Firdaus' heartbeat is ok now throughout the day as he goes on doing his routine stuffs like shower, sleep, play etc...
The only hitch was that, since the 5 wires are all stuck to his chest and leads to this dangling end, it followed him wherever he goes...much like, a discman of sorts...
So this morning, to solve the problem of me practically following/carrying him around just to carry the holter, I placed it in a wee, tiny haversack and made him carry it on his back throughout the whole day...
...which in turn made him look like some small lil tortoise crawling around the house with that haversack on his bag...
Baru kena pakai 24jam, aku dah rimas...
Aku tengok dia pon aku rimas....
But at least I get to take it off after 24 hrs...
Some of his old wardmates have tubes sticking thru their chests and had to be hooked up onto machines 24hrs a day for almost the rest of their lives.... (and I complain....sigh...)
I still wonder how they are doing right now...
Do they get to get dressed up on Hari Raya, go out and enjoy the day in their cute, wee baju kurongs and sampings and songkoks and kebayas..??
Sigh.
Anyyywaay..finally, her exams are over...which is as good as school being closed for me..!! whoohooo...!!
No more revisions, no more assessments, no more work!!!
All I have to endure now is her hogging the pc whilst I [b]wait[/b].....
Sigh..
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| Puasa or not?? |
| 11.01.04 (10:32 pm) [edit] |
I have lots and lots to write but lemme begin with Nadiah's fasting weekend....
The whole of last weekend, she said she puasa.
That's rite.
[i][b]She[/b][/i] said.
This is her version of puasa...
When she doesn't feel like drinking up her cup of milk, she says she's fasting...
But when she sees the rainbow cookies in the jar, she told me straightfaced : "If I puasa, I don't eat, how to grow? So I cannot puasalah.....one cookie, ibu...??"
Then...when lunch time comes and she doesn't like what I've served for lunch, she'd wrinkle her nose and said...
"I puasa, wat ibu....you forget ahh??"
But later, when she sees her favourite peanut butter spread, she'd ask for TWO slices of bread and said she's only 3 years old and cannot puasa...
And best of all, in the mornings, when she showers with her sister and the latter doesn't brush her teeth, she'd also insist that she doesn't need to cos she's fasting just as well.....
And when I'd nag at her and say, for heaven's sake, can you decide whether you're fasting or not, she'd say things like..."yah lah..i sometimes can puasa, sometimes i cannot puasa...."
Ya ampon....givap aku!!!
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| I said |
| 10.29.04 (1:00 am) [edit] |
Nowadays, I am afraid to ask Hunny to buy things..
..namely food.
..especially when he's fasting...
The other day, I asked him to just buy me 2 types of [i]kuih[/i] which I've been craving..[i]kuih koleh and putri salat. [/i]That's it.
Just 2.
Doesn't matter whether he got 1 of each or 2 each..
Just 2 types will do considering there's only 3 of us breaking fast and the nyonya absolutely doesn't like to eat kuihs...
He came back with these :
2 samosas
2 goreng pisangs
2 gendang kasturi
2 getas-getas
2 epok-epok
and 1 packet of air kathira....
I distinctly remembered saying only [b]TWO...[/b]
..hhmm....
Then the other day, just like a small kid, whilst grocery shopping, he was picking out snacks and cereals like we're going to war and need to stock up on food...
when I asked, who's gonna finish them, he assured me "I am lah..you don't worry.."
..hhhmm....
Then just now, he called and said he bought some [i]kuihs[/i] already...
And I asked, how [b]MANY[/b]?
He didn't elaborate.
Just told me there's [i]kuih koleh [/i]and [i]pulot serunding[/i].
When I pressed further, he said "alah....later you see lah.."
*shivers*
Later we see, hor..??
Later after buka, I'll give you guys a roving report on the number of kuihs we had, ok??
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| Yikess..!! |
| 10.27.04 (8:27 pm) [edit] |
Egad!
It's the [b]14th[/b] day today and I *still* haven't done anything to the house..!!
The only cleaning up we did (err...actually Hunny did it, I is the no mood to do...) was the perpetually messy toy room...but even that has gone back to square one...as I'm typing these, Nadiah is actually stripping Barbie off and playing with the teeny weeny accessories....
(I don't know what it is with Nadiah...she likes Barbie naked...hhhmm....)
We've also stripped off (eh, asik main stripping jer.... :twisted: ) the sofa covers so now, even our sofa is naked.
(I think it's not only Nadiah...it's the dad, too....this whole [i]naked[/i] thing...)
The only thing I did was to clean up *some* of my kitchen drawers...out of, say 10 drawers, I only did 2.
[b]eight more[/b] to go.
mak datok....
bila nak game..??
Sigh.
I am *supposed* to re-arrange the clothes in the cupboard actually...
Actually jer...
But everytime when I open the cupboard, I find myself magically sleepy....
Magic eh??
Oh man...
I sooo have to buck up and start cleaning up...
Gee...what else do I have to do..??
1) polish the furniture in my room
2) rearrange my bookshelves
3) rearrange the cupboards
4) Ok. I think I'll stop at 4 cos the list is actually very long. And very depressing.
Oh oh.
I can feel the magic oready.
*yawn*
I'm going to go clear 'em cupboards, k...?
*yawn yawn*
Really...
*yawn yawn yawn*
pwomise !!
*snore...*
(eh, actually kan, I don't snore..I just drool...!!)
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| Life.. |
| 10.26.04 (6:28 am) [edit] |
It is amazing what I learn or read about from other people's blogs...
So many different people, so many varied lifestyles...
I always thought that, life is life...we all wake up, eat, work, sleep etc...
Apparently, some people's day are so varied...so much different than mine...
I've been bloghopping to far out blogs that I don't normally go to and it was like whoaa.... people in love, people out of love, depress, in loveless marriage, contemplating divorce, co-habitating...
And I thought life was simple....
...wake up, eat, work, sleep.....
(at least I think mine is....)
It's amazing issin't it?
Ni baru local jer...
blom yang all over the world...
Amazing...just plain amazing to me...
(Did I just sound like some mountain tortoise or something..?? :roll: )
Niways...
My days have been pretty ok.
Besides the wake up, eat, work, sleep routine, I have had some other stuffs in between...
I am amazingly still fasting despite nursing my lil' smelly fella...
Mornings are kinda difficult for me nowadays...imagine..I have difficulty waking up at 10.30am!!
I is the so happy I no longer working..!! :twisted:
That happens cos I go back to sleep only around 7ish in the morning and it's like lengit capital [b]L[/b], man....
Aisyah has been going to school on her own since time innumeral.....poor girl...dah lah posa, kena pegi skolah sendiri....beg plak sket peh ringan...!!
Nadiah...
Sigh..
Just the other day, she asked me this..:
"Ibu, if married then can shower together rite??"
"yah lah...married only can..."
"Then why you never shower with ayah ahh?"
"Got what...sometimes.."
"Cannot sometimes you know..must [b]EVERYTIME[/b]..."
"???"
Sigh.
I wonder where she got all these [i]stuffs[/i] from....
So you married people out there.....remember hor...married oready must shower together [b]EVERYTIME!![/b]
cannot sometimes only...
Bak kata pepatah, mandilah kamu sebelom kamu dimandikan.....
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| Biskot lemau |
| 10.20.04 (1:25 am) [edit] |
Today, I is the no mood to write engrish...
Nari, kita nak citer pasal biskot lemau...
Pada satu hari, iaitu pada hari first² posa, sekeping biskot (actually biskot ni badan dia berkeping²) bangon dari tido dengan lengitnyer...
Maner kan tidak...lepas subuh, asik tido-bangon, tido-bangon...ni sumer gara² minom air belambak² lah..tu sebab every 5 min, dia kena pegi toilet....
Lepas dia bangon dengan lengitnyer, biskot pon mandi....lepas mandi, dia mandikan baby biskot....dan lepas tu, tros dia berasa lemau bin lengit selengit lengitnyer tidak, hingga dia terbaring kat living room tu, right smack in the middle.....terkelip², terkebil²...
Selamer biskot ni hidop, tak pernah umor lah dia jadi cam tu...agaknyer pasal skarang dia dah kena jaga 3 biskot kecik ngan 1 giant biskot maka dia rasa penaaaat skali...
Mata biskot tu pon macam dah tak leh bukak...padahal baru bangon, baru mandi...
Kesian...
Terok skali keadaan biskot tu...sampai anak biskot kena pegi skolah sendiri...(dah biasa dah budak tu buat keja cam tu...)
Lepas tu, biskot lemau tu pon angkot belen 2 biskot yang lain dan tarok dorang kat katil...ngan mak biskot, ngan baby biskot, sumer lepak kat katil tengok Sesame Street....
Mata mak biskot dah tak bleh bukak lagi tapi dia tetap kena maintain...pasal kalau dia tido, saper lah nak jaga baby biskot yang kecik tu kan, kan, kan janet kan?
Tapi..bila jam menunjukkan pukol 1, dengan magicnyer, biskot yg lemau tadi menjadi segar bugar dan tak lagi merasa lemau bin lengit....
Maka, dia pon spring back to life and pegi lah ke dapor untuk menyiapkan kentang goreng untuk dibuat makan taim buka....
Kesian. Kentang goreng jer...padahal biskot tu champion nak buat kentang balls in soup....
Takperlah...kentang pon kentaaang larr.....
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