Monday

I don't feel like getting showered and going into the office. It's 10:59.

I think I'll just work from home.

And at the same time try hard to get through buying AirAsia tickets.

Yipeedee--doo-dah!

A loooong week.

Wow. I am beyond exhausted. Tired does not even begin to describe me. And yet i still ended last week with not many things completed.

A broke-down car, three-hour invigilation, my paper being held at night on a friday, script markings, four rounds of laundry, hub's sixteen pieces of unironed shirts in my trunk, a teething baby -seriously where do i even begin?

Monday i had invigilation. Tuesday had scripts to marks, free-lance copy-righting job halfway done. Wednesday invigilation- three hours. Dang! Met my supervisor. And baby s would simply not sleep through the night. Whining at every hour. Man i was just glad the sun was up and i could rest in my room at the office. Thursday invigilation again. Friday had a discussion at 11, Board Meeting at 3, my first ever MPHil class at 3pm. I went to both. No, i really did. Class ended at 6, car broke down at the petrol station, i went in, had a coke while waiting for hubs. Hubs came at 7ish, i took his car while he fixed mine, rushed home showered and got changed to go to my students exams on campus. My literature paper was going on that night. Whew!

Got a few "Miss S why Ms why??" cause the paper was tough - they were creative students anyways - not english major. Oh well.

Went to bed probably sighing.

Today was up early, hubs and me rotating vacuuming and mopping, four loads of laundry, folding and other shit stuff. Went to openhouse one, missed openhouse two and now we are at MIL.

Yes, the maid is currently on sabbatical. Don't ask.

47 scripts await me.

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Want. This. Bad

I love Roald Dahl. His books for children, adults - love all of them. Have read mostly the books in these titles but would love to have the entire collection. Probably for Baby S? He's past the stage of eating books and moved on to other things such as newspapers and Archie Comics.

I want this bad.

My sister, the blogger

Stalk her now. You know you want to. Freak.


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Yes, baby!

Ola! Superhappy that i finally manage to post from ipad. Had to install a software first but all is good. :) still waiting for hubs to return - no, more like can't wait for him to come home. Baby s has so much energy it's almost impossible to keep up. Yesterday he started yelling in his sleep. What on earth. Had no idea what was going on there. Told hubs about it he just laughed and said that baby s is mengada - ada as usual.

Yesterday was the fourth day of fasting. Cooked a meal of sup ikan kurau ( suddenly imagined my confinement dish mummy cooked - super yummy) loaded it with black pepper and ginger. Lol! Then made prawn sambal - my all time favourite and puyuh goreng. Yums. Afterwards me and sister03 got a sweet craving so we hopped over to TGIF. Sadly they pulled out the amazing mocha mudpie from the menu. But i had an eton mess which was a fabulous meringue with frsh cream dessert. And raspberry coulis drizzled. Oh yums. Sister03 had the caramel ice cream..equally sinful.

Taking about food, i'm gonna do an honest review of the few places we visited during ramadhan last month. Some were fabulously good and others were just baaaadd! Not that we went to many places, maybe only about three or four but totally blogworthy mentioning. Im trying to get the pictures of dessert yesterday and flaunt but gotta figure out how that's gonna work first.

Okay. Baby s is climbing all over me tugging on my hair. Every grammar and spelling error here i will blame it on him. :)



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Cheeky :)

What a busybusy weekend we had. Started on Friday where Hubs wanted to treat me to iftar at Seoul Garden. Big mistake risking the Friday evening traffic. Left home at 6ish reached there at 9! Dang. But we had tonnes of fun. Sister03 joined us and Baby S was content feeding from the fruit bar. Oh what a mess he created.

Saturday, went to Open house and Aqiqah of one of my parent's neighbor. Aqiqah of their 2 year old daughter(!). Lamb was superb had a great lunch. One Aunt tried to feed my son chocolate, Daddy freaked out. Was funny watching. Baby S is still on a strict non-sugar, non-salt, non-processed food diet. Which also means everything I feed him is home cooked and not from one of those can cereal thing. Yes, it's a chore but at least I know what goes into him. I haven't even fed him bread. Nope. Nothing processed, but bread has a wee bit of salt which I am avoiding. Daddy (D) is great at helping, me and Baby S were too tired, he took over preparing baby food. Bless you munchkin :)

Usually his food would be

Half a cup of brown rice
A slice of Salmon or King fish
A handful of carrots
A handful of broccoli
A handful of spinach
A handful of colored capsicum
A handful of French beans

Yes, a healthy diet has to be a multi colored diet. Read up people.

Anywaaaaays..(am getting sidetracked here)
After the openhouse, the original plan was to go to the Putrajaya Parliamentary Member's openhouse but me and D were too stuffed and too sleepy, so we took a nap while my parents went. Later that evening we went to Grandma's at KJ to meet up with everyone since we missed Raya with them this year. Baby S's duit raya for this year is a lot~ more than I ever got in a year. (I didn't know the starting rate is RM10...no longer RM5 eh?)

Sunday, D had invitation from his clients for an openhouse at Hotel Istana. Off we went. So much food! Everything under the sun. Again Baby S was happy with salad bar. Munching away carrots and cucumber and beans. We managed to find a highchair in the hotel ballroom. Imagine that! Sunday nights as usual was spent with Baby S's paternal grandparents and cousin Zara in Shah Alam. Left around 10 ish, went home - cooked some baby food then went to my parents house to sleep over since D left for outstation to meet his client.

Today is fasting day 4/6. Hope all goes well.

Snob

My Dad is an academic snob. That's why when I wanted to pursue my post-graduate studies he insisted that I did an MPhil instead of MA. And I did. Sigh.

Tuesday I went for my registration. Met with my supervisor. Paid my fees (thank you husband!) Much has changed, notably the presence of quite a number of international studies, terutama dari negara yang satu itu - yang saya tidak begitu gemar. Where we use to park has now become exclusively for staff and there's also the bar that goes up and down. wow.

Met one colleague about to complete her course and an ex-classmate from my undergraduate years. Am still amazed that lecturers still know my name. Well, some of them anyways. As usual registration on campus is very systematic, better than some other unis i know.

I met an old old classmate. I saw her first, wanted to avoid her but didn't think I could - she was coming straight at me. I had no choice I looked at her and managed a feeble smile. She was all like 'S!!! OMG..yadda yadda yadda bla bla bla..!!"

Let's backtrack. I'm not a fan of hers because the last time I talked to her she called me stupid. Yes, stupid. It went something like this:

"Eh aku dengar best friend ko dulu kawen dgn ******. Ko tak mintak die belanja ke bende best2. Bodoh la engkau ni. Takkan tu pun aku nak ajar."

..the fuck?

She went on and on about how great it was to see me and stuff while I smiled coolly at her. Then,

'Lepas ni ko buat ape?'
'Pergi taklimat.'
'Yelah! Lepas tu..??'
'Hmm. tak sure.'

Sensing that I was not mirroring her enthusiasm for a little reunion, she recoiled and said oh,okay bye. Duh.

I'm not nasty, just ...selective.

Blogspot FTW

im here blogging again from blogspot after i moved to wordpress. wp is so anal, huge fonts the images come out horribly and i just dont feel...the chemistry (?) blogging with wp.

ive decided to actively blog again bcos my dear sister has departed to the UK to pursue her studies as well as live with her husband. hmm. according to her she does not want to miss any of the good stuff happening here back home nor does she want to miss out on baby S growing years and milestone. god forbid this turns into a parenting blog. hmm, no.

let's see. ramadhan this year was a fantastic run. i managed to avoid the evil Pasar Ramadhan (overpriced expensive food, no?) managed to fast with only 1 day miss and terawikh the best i could depending on Baby S's mood swings. We ate out only 4 times i think. aren't we fantastic? most of the time i cooked, or we ate at Mummy's.

i only love this picture cos it reflected the superb job
i did mopping the floor -_-

Baby S in his baju raya. Actually it was recycled from
Aunty G's wedding do family theme. Was a bit big, now it fits perfect.
The songkok is new, outgrew the old one.

Took him for an evening stroll back on the last day of Ramadhan in JB.
It was drizzling and we put the rain cover on, he seemed to think it was hilarious.

This was taken quite a while back during Aunty G's reception in Kelantan.
Think it was his nap time. He was nearing 6 months and was still in breastmilk diet only.

Okay. will try to blog again. Have to be somewhere at 11 and I'm still here. Toodles.