Friday, July 27, 2007
Time sure whizz pass by me much more quicker than I thought. The past weekends were filled from morning til evening with weddings & flurry of activities (like my aqua lessons :)). Monday came in a blink and with another concept presentation to the people in Kuching, we were up to our necks completing the different design collaterals to rush for their end-August opening.
On the 'community cum akhirat-service', I've got the Muslimah activities that needed my assistance in the design department that I managed to squeeze in between work & home & kids.
Its hard to believe its already July & we are in Rejab already. Thank God the kiasu-factor in me kicked in & we have already settled all the Hari Raya tailoring business. As of right now, we are waiting anxiously for dear sister-in-law to deliver the latest addition to the Yusope's family.
Amirul is doing fine in school apart from the occasional 'disturbances' he's experiencing from fellow schoolmates (GIRLS mind you!) whom I cannot fathom why, loves to 'play & joke' with him. They would 'poke' him with a pencil, doodle in his notebook with HIS colour pencils, pinch him in jest and just do stuff to attract his attention I presume, but end up irritating & annoying the hell out of him. So day after day I hear him say what the girls are up to in school. Good thing he did not retaliate or went along with the saying of "with every action there is an equal reaction". He went straight to his teacher & I trust that she have the situation under control. There was one incident where he wanted to snatch back a pencil that was taken away without his permission and he ended up with a bruised upper-lip courtesy of the sharpened tip. So time & time again we told him to never ever respond to any kind of impending animosity with another heated reaction. One of the girls involved, whom the mom we are acquainted with, are duly 'informed' of what her daughter have been up to in class. It was nice of her to assure us that she would indeed 'take action' and request for her daughter to be seated further away from Amirul in class. They sure don't 'make' little girls like they used to - Just look at Mira! But I frankly thought the whole idea was cute though, minus the effect it has on my son that is..:)
So I predict another busy weekend for me & oooh mounting excitement to finally lay hands on my niece/nephew very soon...
Thursday, July 19, 2007
It was a meet-up that almost wasn't. There hitches that stood in our way, from change of date & time, to change of venue, to bad weather ,even a 'tummy-gas-rumble'. But like they say, when there's a will there's a way. So alas we met in the middle of town, in the middle of the week, in the middle of the day for a hearty lunch & good old chat among good chums.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
What drives you? Money? Fame? I guess your priorities would differ at different stages of your lives. What drives you 20 yrs ago may not be important to you now or what priorities you had back then would definitely look a stark contrast to what you want now. I was never driven by fame ie never dreamt of being famous, ever. For a while, I was driven by money, only because I have set targets for myself ie by 25, must save enough to get married; by 30 must save enough for a house & family; by 35 must have enough to live comfortably & save for the future. Realistic right? and not too far fetched for a simpleton like me.After all this is said, I do not understand what makes a person 'abandons' what he/she stood for all in the name of the 'greenback'. Inspite of what I had worked for in my life, I would NEVER EVER do it in the expense of my FAMILY, no matter what. At least for now I know my priority is my family. That is why the decision to work freelance & not full-time is not such a heart-wrenching decision for me. Fortunate for me I have a wonderful support network of close family who never fail to render assistance when it comes to minding the kids or for us just to have a little R&R on our own. I am definitely not in support of gunning for financial success only to have my own family members & friends bear the grunt & suffer because of it. Because at the end of the day, blood is thicker than water, & family is all that you have that you can call your own & depend on, who will never abandon you in times of need. And I wonder when you swim in the 'pool of greenback', you ask yourself are you truly happy & is it worth it?
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
It started with a spurt of vomitting at 4am. By 9am his temperature escalated to 38.7. He ate 2 spoonfuls of Macaroni soup only to regurgitate it out again 5 minutes later. When we went to the Dr at 10am, it was 39.9. Dr confirmed it. Amirul had succumbed to the flu bug - stomach flu to be exact. With colourful rainbow looking medicine accompanying him home, he got himself 2 days MC from school & I get to play mum-nurse to my boy for the next 2 days...
Sunday, July 08, 2007
It was a green Weekend for me. In conjunction with Earth Day, I roped in the whole family to do something fun by donning Green. As it is my favourite colour, I do not have any problem at all wearing green, nor do I have trouble finding enough green tops to last me the whole weekend.My weekend on Saturday, started with the RE-USING of one of the Mosque's room & converting it to a muslimah R&R cum Meeting Room. As it was initially a storage room, we had quite a major task of clearing up the room which was full of boxes & old furniture. After 4 hours of major clean-up, we managed to clear the room & now waiting for other recycled furniture, contributed by our fellow members & me to turn the former storage area into a cosy Muslimah room for our weekly meetings & Flea Market Shop.
Our Mosque's Cafeteria got into the Green movement by serving Green themed food for the weekend, like green Nasi Lemak, green Lime Juice & green Putu Piring.
A reporter came by to interview our mosque Chairman for the green movement & he gathered all staff & volunteers at the mosque for a group photo session & the next we were featured in the Sunday News!
Amirul had his little green movement too, by converting an old unused box into a fellow buddy robot - which he now places next to him when he sleeps at night :)
For dinner, our initial plan was to drop by Taman Warisan to show support to my dear brother-in-law who works there, but we got our timings confused & only found out that the event ended at 7pm only after we arrived after Maghrib. So we had dinner at 'Makan Place' - our first time there - and had a good dinner dinner. Highly recommend the place :) and the place's walls were painted green too, which matched nicely with our outfits. My green weeekend was refreshing & fun. How was yours?
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Its been awhile since we went to Serangoon. While Amirul was at school, we managed to squeeze in a lil' time to have our favourite meal at Komala Vilas. Our lunch of Puri, Bhattura & Masala Thosai was finger-licking good considering its been awhile since I had them. It came to no surprise that Amira have taken to eating Indian food very well considering how she was 'fed' with Masala Curry Chicken & Thosai every other day while she was still in my tummy. And as for most indian food, the smell of curry lingers on your fingers for the rest of the day...I Like :)