Friday, June 30, 2006
I checked out Zara SALE today and emerged with pockets & credit cards still intact. (GASP!) So proud of myself...
Thursday, June 22, 2006
I have extremely dry lips. I am one of those people whose lipstick would not stay even with a long-lasting-8-hour lipstick. They say lipstick would stay longer if its matte. But you see as I mentioned earlier, I have dry lips.My lips would peel & crack if it goes without a tinge of lip balm for a mere 5 minutes.No, not even long-staying moisturising lipstick. Trust me I tried them all(almost). I still need the good old lip-balm. I remembered breaking up in cold sweat on several occasions when I realised that I had left my lip balm at home - even if its only a 2-hr outing. That explains the numerous brands that I currently own now, some duplicates, as I have to get one when I forgot to bring one along. Another reason is to constantly try & test which one would really serve and heal my super-dry lips the best. I discovered that a $2 lip balm would work just as well as a $7 lip balm when constantly applied every 2 hours rather than applying the more expensive one every 5 hrs. To avoid another major dry-lips crisis, I have strategically placed back-up lip balms at the places I spend the most time at, home(makeup drawer), home(bedside drawer), make-up pouch(but of course), office & car. .
A couple of days ago I decided to invest in a more extravagant splurge. I bought a Kiehl's lip balm. I've been wanting to get it forever since I read the raving review in INStyle magazine ages ago. So glad it came to Singapore. After a few hours of applying, I can feel the difference. It could be the placebo effect, u know how you believe & feel that its better as in your mind you think it will work better? But so far I've got no complaints. My lips are better-moistured even after lunch. I do not have to constantly apply lip balm every other hour. But i think my $1.95 Vaseline would work just as well too, since its already a habit of mine to apply them every other hour- old habits die hard I tell you. At the end of the day, its the better moistured-lips minus the dry & cracks that counts the most.
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
You know how as a kid, you use to look at the colourful hot-air balloons in mountainous areas and wonder how it felt like? Nowadays, every weekend when we drive to the grandparents' at Eunos, we saw this huge yellow & red balloon hovering above the city area. The kids would get so excited at the sight. So we brought them 'flying' in the big ballon earlier today. I think, as the cable-car ride in Langkawi, the dad is more terrified at the thought of hovering several thousand metres off the ground than Amirul is. We did however manage to enjoy the astounding view & amazing breeze all of the 10-12 minutes that we were up in the sky. 
Being the last week of holidays and all, we try to bring the kids to as much as places as we could possibly able to. We have covered the Science Centre, couple of movies, Toys r Us every other week, Sesame St & Hi-5 show and now the air-balloon experience. With another 2-3 days more to go, we still owe him the soccer game at West Coast Park, Sentosa, The Zoo, The pool (among others that we can still remember that we said we would bring him to)...But with so many places and so little time I think the owed outings will spill-over when school re-opens...but then again, by then we got another biggest headache to date - Primary 1 registration...
Sunday, June 18, 2006
Sunny Day
Sweepin' the clouds away
On my way to where the air is sweet
Can you tell me how to get,
How to get to Sesame Street
Come and play
Everything's A-OK
Friendly neighbors there
That's where we meet
Can you tell me how to get
How to get to Sesame Street
It's a magic carpet ride
Every door will open wide
To happy people like you--
Happy people like
What a beautiful
Sunny Day
Sweepin' the clouds away
On my way to where the air is sweet
Can you tell me how to get,
How to get to Sesame Street...
How to get to Sesame Street
How to get to...
The show brought back such sweet nostalgic memories. I think I definitely enjoyed the show more than my 2 kids :)
Happy Fathers Day to all daddies...especially to my pillar of strength.
Friday, June 16, 2006
Aiman Bin Mohd Saiful was safely delivered by his proud mummy Tina at 1.18pm yesterday afternoon - 15 June 2006. He weighs 3.2kg with ht of 49cm. He's inherited his daddy's features & mummy's eyes.(Daddy's boy I tell you.)Congratulations to Tina & Saiful. Welcome to the world of parenthood.This is just the beginning of a wonderful journey. Congratulations too to his Auntie Lala who stood bravely, staying up almost all night, accompanying Tina to make sure that Aiman was safely delivered. Now my husband can peacefully resume his World Cup match-watching without much worries.
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Right now, our dear friend Tina is in Thomson Medical Centre's labour ward awaiting for the arrival of little Aiman. We are praying that she will be strong as she will ever be to fight the battle, as our dear mamu is up in the air flying back to the good news that will wait for him. Her contractions started yesterday afternoon and it got stronger by night. At 10pm, in the middle of the Spain-Ukraine game, we headed to the hospital. She was already 10cm dilated. She still have a long way to go accroding to the nurses there, so she got warded for the night for observation. As at 10.30am this morning, I just got a call from my hubby, who is at the hospital with Yan, that she is now 5cm dilated.I hope Saiful will be calm as anyone in his position can possibly be and arrive safely later. I hope Tina, our dear heroine will be at her strongest to welcome another hero in her life. As we wait for a few more hours...
Monday, June 12, 2006
Last Friday, father & son went to watch the movie 'Cars' together. Nothing unusual, as they have watched countless of movies together before. This time however, the movie is about cars. They both loved it. They talked endlessly about it, the characters and the cars in particular. On Saturday, we went to Toy Town at Takashimaya. And like all other disney movies, it comes with merchandise products. So father & son grew all excited, the son I understand as he always have a penchant for movie toys - our house is like a shrine to Woody & Buzz Lightyear. So father decided to buy the toys, not 1 car, but the whole cast of cars(almost as they ran out 3 of the characters) for the son - but believe me,looking at his glowing exuberant face, we know who is more pleased with the haul. So we were poorer by $158.But 2 men in my life are happy, that should be more than made up for it. A good weekend I should say, of course made more excited by the World Cup.(but of course!)
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
We finally caught MI3 last night. I think its about time considering our posse will be popping-out the lil one anytime right now. My husband is still not 100% up & about yet but he braved the night & the cold so that we can go out with the parents-to-be one more time before we see them with little Aiman the next round. He got himself all geared up & prepared with ointment all over his body & little plastic & tissues to standby for his cough & phlegm. So excited.. with the impending birth, my husband is of course pushing Tina to deliver before the start of World Cup...like as if those lil ones operate like wind-up jack-in-the-box. The movie was heart-pounding and of course Tom Cruise have got to be Mr-Everything(Actor, producer-hero,stuntman)but I guess it was worth the 1-mth wait.As with all other meet-ups with them, we have to 'lepak' for a while and had coffee at Forum, & what do you know, we bump into Paul not-one-but Twohill, having a drink with 3 young girls that look like Charlie's Angels to me. And mind you it was already 2am then. So the candi-face that my husband is, called out to him, had a chat like he's known him for ages and that fella kindly obliged. Nice guy..my husband got his autograph - to invest in, in case he's the next Singapore Idol, and an 'oh-so-cosy' photograph with him. So now hy husband have got to part with 60c and vote for him as he has told Paul that he would.Oh and we also got 'tagged' by the Traffic Police, who thought that the Great Singapore Sale is still on at 2.30am...on a Tuesday
Thursday, June 01, 2006
I've decided to start selling my first batch of bags whose time in my treasure chest is up. All is priced at $7.50. No discounts nor bargains. The details of the bags are as follow. Its first come first serve system, no bidding or outbidding. So happy buying :)
1. Orange striped tote
dimension: w:45cm x h:25cm
2. Flowery Reversible tote - reversible inside out to blue denim
dimension: w:40cm x h:30cm
3. Sari-sequinned tote with black base
dimension: w:28cm x h:32cm
4. Small 'cat' red tote
dimension: w:29cm x h:15cm with a base thickness of 9cm wide
5. Black sequinned tote with wooden handle
dimension: w:25cm x h:30cm
6. Black oriental chinois tote
dimension: w:34cm x h:28cm
Ok people, let the sales begin..leave me note...