Happy Birthday to Danish

My eldest son Danish turned 10 today. Being the second day of Ramadhan (holy fasting month for Muslims) we didnt take him out to celebrate. We did however had an earlier celebration last weekend since we know that his birthday will fall on fasting day. Nevertheless today, we did buy him an ice cream cake to be eaten after the breaking of fast. It supposed to be a surprise for him but the younger brother was too excited and blurted out that we had bought an ice cream cake and it's hiding in the fridge.

Beyond the sea by Robbie Williams

I'm so embarassed to confess that I've just only ... watched Finding Nemo. I know, I know!! But the thing is I always thought I 've seen the movie before. Hmm .. Anyways, more importantly I heard this song at the end of the movie and being a fan of oldies, it didnt go unnoticed. Somehow the song sound very familiar? Then it dawned on me that I have the French version of it in my mobile phone. The one called La Mer. It was a double thrill for me when I learned that the movie version was sang by Robbie. Oh, this is such a catchy tune and a wonderful song. Do listen to it. Enjoy!

Fridge magnet (83) - Chicago

A friend who was an ex-colleague recently got back from Chicago for a training. She shared many of her photos with me by emailing it to me after several attempts asking me to join Facebook failed lol. One of the photo showing she and several new colleagues riding a Hummer limo!!! Huge thing!
We were suppose to meet up for coffee but just couldnt find the time or rather ... I was the one who couldnt find the right time. Anyways she met another colleague of mine and passed me the little souvenir she got for me. Oooh I like it very much. Now I really feel bad for not being able to receive it personally from her.
Thank you dear (yes, I know I owe you coffee)

A day at MAHA 2008

The whole family went to MAHA 2008 yesterday. It's short for Malaysia Agriculture, Horticulture and AgroTourism Show 2008. My goodness, the exhibition was hugeee!! We didnt cover the whole place of cos. But we did took the tram twice which managed to cover all the different locations. Nevertheless, the place was still crowded with millions of other people since it was the last day of the expo. On top of that, it was really a HOT day. So walking, even a short distant proved to be very difficult for all the males in my family including hubby. We just missed the Rodeo show at
1100, where they had Aussie cowboys showing off their skills.

My intention to the expo was to introduced some of the different breed of livestocks to my urban living boys. True enough, my boys were like seeing exotic animals in the zoo for the first time even thou it were only cattle and goats. My eldest saw a bull and asked me, 'ma what's that huge thing hanging out from the bull'? what's else would it be, I asked him?? its testicles of cos! and his mouth formed this huge O in disbelief. I had a fun time explaining the different breed of cattle and where it originated from compare to our local breed.

We were rushing to buy some fruits towards our exit, when the wind became stronger. We didnt made it to the parking lot when a heavy downpour started. We took cover at one of the stall selling fried currypuffs. 25 minutes later, almost soaking wet, we managed to made our way to the car.

Althou' my husband doesnt share the same enthusiasm, but I'm glad the boys learnt about the livestocks. It was indeed tiring but to me it was worth it.

Memory Keepers Daughter - Kim Edwards

I finally finished reading this book. And it was so painfully hard. Until now, I still couldnt pin point why I dont like the book. I mean most of its reviews said otherwise. I tried to be open to what is it that makes the book so appealing to many readers. Tried to sympatise with at least one of the main characters Dr Henry or Norah or Christine and even Paul. Each of them with their own 'little' secrets. But alas, I can't. I simply don't enjoy the book. Period.

Breakfast at the beach

My family returned from our short vacation to our hometown yesterday night. I slept thruout the journey and poor hubby drived all the way. I didnt do much of anything during this short break especially 2 days towards the end at my parents place. On Monday it rained the whole day starting from 03:00am and lasted till 4:00pm in the afternoon. So all I did was read my book, watch the Olympics and sleep. On Tuesday our last day, the boys were pestering us to take them to the Kuala Senangin beach at my parents place so we decided to have breakfast there. So I packed the food plus we stopped at one of these very small shop or gerai known in Malay to buy more home cooked food and off we went. Kuala Senangin at present is still very much a sleepy fisherman beach. Being a weekday, we had the beach almost entirely to ourselves. The boys had so much fun. At first, we dont allow them to swim, just play with the sand but they somehow get themselves wet and at the end -why bother saying no?!?

After 4 lazy days I had to drag myself to go to work today :-(

HSM Ice Tour

Received complimentary tickets from Disney to see High School Musical Ice Tour last night. Being the last school day before the mid semester break starts, so my kids were very excited. Althou my eldest actually thot he got to see the actual casts and I had to explain to him, what's this show all about and who are the actors. Nevertheless we enjoyed it very much. Even hubby who was very reluctant to go initially but at the end it looked like we the adults enjoyed it most!! ^_^ Thou hubby actually wants to see Vanessa Hudgens and me Zac Efron lol.


We are bringing the boys to visit their grandparents from both sides for the next 4 days to come. I'm taking this chance to unwind. Maybe catch up on the Olympic games. My cough has developed full scale now. Coughing like mad.