blue ... my unusual hue...

ps: i love me!!

september in vienna...

wednesdays have been my days off since my youngest started nursery school here. they have parents meetings and activities held at the nursery every wednesday. hence, today.. my daily routine begins at slightly after 10am...even now when it is the school holidays. the boys wanted to play with their newly bought water-guns...so i let them play for almost an hour in our back garden..in their pyjamas, after breakfast. i watched them play from my kitchen window while at the same time..washing the dishes. alhamdulillah, they are both very well and healthy.. with the usual, normal everyday brotherly fights over whos winning what games and whos water-guns are you holding i think its mine and stop doing that it hurts!! they drive me crazy sometimes but without them my house feels really empty! i hate it being too neat or too quiet.

my vienna trip in september has been booked. so, it is official. my first alone trip to europe. the farthest i had done was london which was march earlier this year for two nights. have never expected this but i am looking forward to test my travelling alone capasities (read: without my mobile gps aka my husband and two young boys in tow). but this time i am going for five nights. five nights away from my boys and having to stay in the same room with strangers-but-also-future-new-friends. i am sure that i will be fine (actually, pretty sure not surely sure)...rest assured though that my husband, he really believe that i can do this alone. he can't come because the boys will be at school and he has to be in school himself and its lots of money and besides i will be working for five days and so whats the point him and the kids coming along? therefore, Yang... lets save the money for something else like go somewhere when you are not working (so he could have me all to himself and the kids, i suppose) and when we are all not at school and we will have fabulous time touring european cities together. he also specifically said...i certainly can't handle the boys by myself should i wanted to go to germany from vienna. its a long trip! thats why somebody wrote a book entitled man comes from mars and woman comes from venus! if i had a (good) babysitter or a (good) nanny.. the boys are definitely coming with me to vienna be it the school holidays or not! but, nevermind, i am a big big girl..in a big big world.. somebody sang sometime ago ;p... so, my spirit now is vienna, here i come!!!!!

i have started packing my books and my magazines today. theya are safely tucked away in boxes at the corner of my bedroom. i am going to sort my clothes tomorrow. i must label the souvenirs otherwise i'll forget whose who. i also need to print out boxes labels... and buy bubble wrappers and tapes from ebay. i must do that tomorrow.

i am in a happy and chirpy mode. i can do this. i function better when i feel better about myself. how about you?

suamiku bukan seth tan ;p

everyone is still talking about nora elena even after the final episode yesterday.. the character seth tan telah menggoncang hati ramai isteri di luar sana. my facebook is bombarded with continuous and various comments about seth tan and nora elena until... i scooped the 16 episodes out within an hour over the youtube.. simply to track the storyline and to find myself some answers, as to why women in general fell in love with seth tan. his romanticism, his undulant character, how he cared for nora elena despite her unhappiness towards the whole arranged marriage thing-y, everything about seth tan drove us crazy (maybe not all of us but i could assure you that 99% of my FB friends are very much overwhelmed by seth tan ;). not to mention, aaron aziz in personal can be categorized as someone extremely good looking (oklah...aaron aziz hemsem oke...happy girls?) very well suited for his career as model/actor... dengan watak seth tan, rupa paras yang digilai ramai... you get the 2 in 1 watching nora elena..

but, my husband is no seth tan. although when asked why did he marry a petite me albeit his tall figure, he said..senang nak dukung sok kalau nak naik tangge...hukhuk... tak pernah lagilah dia buat cam seth tan tu dukung nora elena naik tangge. yup! i am no nora elena too..just, simplyme. i don't do flowers...although i love them. so when its my birthday..no fancy presents or gifts or big cakes...when asked wheres my birthday pressie... he said...tu yang hero dua orang tu ;p..i will be like alaaa.... tu adam harris. and then his smiles, his gaze simply erased the thought of birthday presents but instead, i thought of how lovely it was having cuddled our babies when they were newborn..with my husband on my side, a proud man, a proud father, an endless love from someone i could call my husband.

i am not sure if my husband could take the same menu everyday? could yours do? seth tan did...yaaa... he sooo did and very patiently makan nasi goreng setiap hari. i still cook even when i am angry (although mesti rasa tak berapa sedap lah!) but still... thats my way of cooling down, releasing my stress at work, something that i love to do for my family especially for evening meals. i've never had my husband called my parents to cook asam pedas or any other meals for him. i am always the one who will have to try new recipes.. and his constructive comments certainly have improved my cooking skills over the years of our marriage..(8 years if you are wondering ;p). i cook nothing fancy.. but, mainly his favourite dishes which eventually became our family's favourite. in my humble opinion, it is rather important for most wives to try and cook their husband's favourite dishes themselves.. for a busy careerwoman to prepare family meals at least once or twice a week as you'll never know..someday, how your no seth tan husband would answer to your curiosity..abang makan hari ni sedap tak? and he said... you masak memang selalu sedap (comments dated 16th june 2011, dinner time, menu tomato rice, lamb curry, stir fried veg).. me rasa nak menangis bile my no seth tan husband jawab cenggini taw taw.. as, its not like nora elena who gets compliments and undivided attentions and flowers almost everyday..but sincerity and appreciation are priceless... especially when they come from your husband, your very best friend..

nevertheless girls.. this is neither a comparison between our beloved husband to seth tan nor ourselves to nora elena. we may watch sooo many movies, films, dramas featuring characters such as seth tan..the dream husband. sekadar suka-suka tak salah kan? but, always remember that suamiku is neither seth tan nor aaron aziz.. we love our husband just the way they love us.. we do what we are supposed to do as wives and vice versa. romantics, flowers, dukung angkat naik tangge, suapkan makan are no measures for sincere love. some of us are very lucky to have the perfect seth tan in their lives ( i know some of my friends do have really caring and romantic hubs) but to those with the suamiku bukan seth tan... sekali sekala suami puji rasa sangat-sangat dihargai dan amat-amat bermakna kan kan?

till my next ramblings.. lots of luv and shiny sparkles! muahs!

beautiful rainbow on a late wednesday evening

my kitchen view...adam is having fun in our garden

the legendary lamb curry ;)

a girl's must haves..

i've recently bought a new point & shoot camera. i love it to bits especially when it comes in ruby red color! i was in between Nikon D3100 or Nikon Coolpix series. after a lot of asking around, inboxing some of my camera-chic friends on FB and browsing the lots of reviews on cnet, pcpro and even face-to-face browsing and asking lots of questions at pcworld in northumberland street, i couldn't be happier and content with none other than my new IXUS 220HS. thanks to its super-pocket size and various functions that allow me to explore the basis of taking great photographs.ms ruby red will be accompanying me to my next paris trip at the end of the month (i know... a tad showing-off here but just can't help it!!!!)

my new IXUS 220HS

 since, i am not a gadget-y person, i realised that iPad or iPod is not really my thing-y? therefore, my next highly personal purchase would be a Toshiba netbook. i am currently looking at the newly released and 5-star rated Toshiba NB305  in mocha-brown color. superlight with a merely 10" screen. unfortunately, pcworld doesn't have the slightest idea of when the new baby is coming into store :( due to the current crisis in Japan :( so, i'll just have to wait and see lah kan?

i am not into any new handbag EXCEPT a personalised Longchamp complete with my initial on it..(you can do this with online purchase you know :)), not into any new shoes EXCEPT a new pair of trendy wedge Princess Catherine Middleton's look-alike that she wore on her last night as a commoner, at a fraction of her price of course, not into any new books as I haven't even flipped my newly bought Jodi Picoult's with absolutely no-time whatsoever to spend on drowning myself into fiction's fantasies, not into any new clothes BUT ohmygucci!! isn't that summery top in M&S are soooo pretty?? and... I've just made a LIST of affordable IKEA stuff for our new little nest bearing the codename wisteria lane ;p.

so much so..i am not into eh?

lots of luv and shiny sparkles..
am going to bed to avoid troubles
me and puffy eyes we want NOT inseparable!
my pretty girl friends.. you are all so adorable
i now shall stop with my babbles..
lets not worry..i'll see you all again
in a few days..
less than a couple!!

taaa...