Category: Et-cetera

I just realized that today is 30th June, which means that exactly half a year has flown passed us, in what seemed like a blink of an eye.  I remember very vividly ushering in the new year and celebrating the New Year’s Eve at Pavillion and staying a night at Sheraton Imperial Hotel with hubby, Alycia, Sherilyn and Su (my previous maid).  We had a great view of the spectacular fireworks  set out at the Merdeka Square and KLCC at 12 midnight from our hotel room.  I was 6 months+ preggers then.  Now, here I am with another baby, who is 2 months+ and half a year has gone.  Time really flies and without realizing it, I will be ushering in another new year.  My New Year Resolution is still not achieved yet and today, I realized that I have to set my mind to work towards it.

What about you?  Have you met your New Year Resolution yet? 

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The weather has been incredibly hot and humid lately.  With the confinement food that I am eating, I am sweating profusely.  I even sweat the moment I step out from the bathroom.  I have a hard time nursing Baby C during the day coz after nursing her, both of us will sweat….. and we don’t have an air-conditioner in our living room.   I hate it that Baby C smells of my CL coz when she carries Baby C, her sweat touches Baby C’s head and sometimes she puts her face next to Baby C’s.

It’s so hot that not only I have to bathe twice a day, even Baby C bathes twice a day.   Poor Baby C’s face now has a rash flare up due to the hot weather (or maybe due to my CL’s unhygienic way of handling her). 

Baby C  even knows how to whine between 8pm-9pm everyday for me to bring her upstairs to my room which is air-conditioned.  Believe it or not that the moment she enters the room, she stops whining and will smile to me with her sweetest toothless smile when she sees me or hears me talking to her.

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I never really knew how Facebook worked until recently when a few of my old friends tried looking for me through Facebook.  Several days ago, a boy whom I had known when I was 13 years old sent me a message on Facebook. I can’t remember where we had met – it was either at his school’s  swimming pool where I used to go for swimming lessons and tournaments or at a road traffic program for kids.   He saw my name on the profile of one of my old classmates in Facebook and then, tried to search for me.  I had barely remembered who he was but after he had written several things about himself coupled with confirmation from him about the things that I had remembered about him, we finally confirmed that we had ‘reunited’ after 21 years, amazing!

I was so shocked to hear that he had recently gotten up from a coma after being involved in a tragic car accident. He is now recuperating and slowly gaining his vision and balance as he was seriously injured and was on a wheelchair.

Facebook is really a good way of searching for your long lost friends. Are you a member of Facebook too?  Looks like everyone is into Facebook now.

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This is Alycia and Sherilyn’s collection of sharpeners – 6 double hole sharpeners and 1 huge durable sharpener, plus more than 5 single hole sharpeners (not in picture).  They seem to have a thing with sharpeners and keep sharpening their pencils and color pencils. I used to hide these sharpeners in a drawer fastened with a child lock but ever since Alycia the ring leader discovered how to open all the child locks, I have to remove them from the drawer and put them high up on a wall-mounted shelve.

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I was rushing away to meet my deadlines this morning till I had forgotten to put Alycia’s lunch box into her school bag.  I had prepared peanut butter-strawberry jam-butter and cheese toast for her and had cut it nicely into triangular wedges and placed them into her lunch box.  I then left the lunchbox on the table and went upstairs to wake the gals up.  When I came down,  I was busy preparing Aly – brushing her teeth, putting on her clothes and putting on a bandaid on her toe that’s hurt and had totally forgetten to put the lunchbox into her bag.  Guess who reminded me?  It was when daddy had brought Alycia to school and Sher saw the lunchbox on the table and said “mummy, cheh cheh forgot to bring this”.  Quickly called daddy to bring the lunchbox to Alycia.   Sherilyn is so alert and observant!

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We had dinner with my elder brother and his family at a chinese restaurant in Chulan Square this evening and I had some very diluted chinese tea.  Now, I’m feeling wide awake and just can’t seem to fall asleep.  Or is it because I’ve been working too hard for the past few days trying to recover my lost posts and meeting deadlines, so much so that my brain can’t seem to stop functioning and knock off?  Whatever it is, I have to hit the sack now and try to sleep.  Nite nite.

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My eldest brother, his wife and in-laws from Singapore are here in KL for the Deepavali holidays.  He came this morning to pass me the money that I’d transferred from my Paypal account to his Singapore bank account.  Tonight, we’ll be having dinner at Imbi Palace again.

To all those celebrating Deepavali, here’s wishing you ‘happy Deepavali’ and to the rest, have a great holiday.

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Last week, hubby and I witnessed a car theft at our neighborhood.  We had just gotten back from the clinic and were about to get down from the car when hubby saw a man behaving suspiciously at the door of a car about 6 houses away from our house.  Seconds later, the smooth criminal opened the car door of a Proton Iswara Aeroback and sped away.  We weren’t very sure if it was his car or he was the thief.   Anyway, hubby immediately informed the security guards on patrol. 

The next day, 3 young men came knocking on our door to ask if  I have seen a red Proton Iswara Aeroback that was parked  at the spot that we saw the man drove it away.  They told me that the car belonged to their friend and he couldn’t find his car after work that evening.  I told him what had happened and it’s true that the man whom we saw behaving suspiciously indeed stole the car.  My neighborhood is really unsafe. Even with the presence of security guards patrolling the area round the clock, car thefts are still very rampant.  Hubby’s MPV was stolen right in front of our house last year at broad daylight and the previous owner of our house had also lost his Proton Perdana to car thieves.  Even our neighbour lost his Kia Sorento MPV last year.   I think it’s high time we look for another place to stay.  I would personally prefer a condo with tight security.   

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This is the picture of my backyard.  Something must be really attractive with this wall coz the stray cats keep coming to our backyard to pee and poo and they stink like hell!  We’ve tried spraying the area with aerosol and my mil even suggested putting mineral water bottles filled with water on top of  the water but that did not prevent the cats from coming back. Why mineral water bottles?   She was told that when the cats see their own reflection on the mineral water bottle, they will get a scare but I don’t think this trick worked on those tough stray cats.

Does anyone have a better idea of keeping those stray cats at bay?

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