Alang's engagement

We have a new addition in the family (next year insya Allah)
Alang just got engaged last month 26th May in Bangi.
It was a short and sweet ceremony, filled with laughter and joy :)
Rini's side wasn't very fussy and they already agreed beforehand on the syarat-syarat.

I rarely go to engagement ceremony and this is one is just perfect.
We are excited to welcome Rini to the family as she's such a nice girl and got along with us really well.

Here's looking forward to go to Kota Bharu next year and experience the wedding Kelantan style!

Our future sis-in-law

us with newly-engaged couple (note how tall is the younger brother?)

The Reza's family of 5 boys, mak and spouses

of weddings and baju kurungs

Oh wow, it's exactly a month since I last updated my blog, this is insane!
Well, I'm just too lazy to get my fat ass upstairs, and rather glued to the tv all day to be exact.
But now even lying down for few minutes causing me backache and leg cramps!
Is that a sign for me to get myself busy? Haha.
Sign or not, I'll just do whatever I feel like doing. hehe

Good news, hematoma is completely gone (what a relief),alhamdulillah :) baby is growing accordingly and healthily.
I'm trying not to eat so much to avoid ballooning like my previous pregnancy, stick to the healthy food, vitamins and milk!


I got my brother-in-law's engagement this weekend and already bought a nice traditional kerongsang for the kebaya(which I can still fit it but to my horror, I can't even do the zippers! There goes my RM55!

So what should I do now,less than 4 days, I desperately need a new sarong.
Dear just laughed at me silly,
'Cannot fit in already?'
You're not helping at all my dear.

Now I got Ajeep's wedding at the end of the month and more than 5 kain to send to tailor.
What's the most flattering design for a very pregnant mommy (by then, Erie's wedding in August)

Ok, I'm not gonna blab, off to bed now. Hope that I'll find solutions soon!

Back from hols!

Sorry peeps, forgot to tell y'all that we were in Phuket (Patong to be exact) from 10th to 15th April.

Still on holiday mode, Aresha couldn't get enough of the beach (not to mention her 'someone' push her in the water incident, seram!)

We all came back with a 'nice' tan,haha!

Aresha is the most tanned of all, looks more like a real island girl.

Funnily enough I didn't get anything for myself, Phuket is just too expensive compared to Bangkok (:P)
If you count my one-piece Triumph swimsuit that I got for THB 399 (which is a steal and I got it on my last day in Patong, damn!)
That's the only thing tht I got for miself.

Aresha came back with 2 dresses, Hello Kitty belt and Princess nightie (which we hated, but she is a princess, she always get what she wants)

It was too short for dear as he arrived a day later and rode home a day earlier. No fun without him :(

I actually felt empty and lonely when he left on the 14th morning. I think I shed some tears, missing him terribly.
Err forgive my sentimentalness here ;) I'm a hopeless romantic, did I tell you tht?
We exchanged texts (thank God for 12Call prepaid) saying how much we miss each other.

I finally drag myself out to Jungceylon, for retail therapy and daily dose of Green Spot Lime.

37 back in business!

Last Sunday our kitchen is back in business.
Went to JJ to buy all the ingredients and voila! that very night we had homemade fries and jumbo hot dog for dinner.

Yeay!

And I haven't stopped cooking ever since, breakfast , lunch, dinner.

Healthy, home cook for my loved ones :)

We had stuffed omelette for breakfast.
Chicken fajitas w/ warm tortilla complete with tomato salsa - Monday
Fish and chips - Tuesday
Spaghetti bolognese w/caesar's salad - tonite

We have to make do of this menu since I get heartburn easily from spices.
Aresha couldn't get enough of mommy's spaghetti (she call it 'fata') made me smile from ear to ear.

Of course, my dearest is the happiest person on earth and he wouldn't mind doing the dishes, yippee!

Alamak, we're out of flour to make pizza, what's for dinner tomorrow?

p/s: No pics at the moment, not that I didn't take any, as of now I'm online only when dear's home, why?
My harddisk went kaput!

"V" for Vambutan

Aresha has strange pelatness she'd pronounce words started with R with V.

Vambutan = Rambutan
Vabina = Ribena

Where did she get that I don't know and even though I tried to correct her everytime, she refuse to follow.

Poor Aresha , mommy is so cranky these days that I can't tolerate her being disobedient to me, Aiyoh! I feel guilty everytime I scolded her. She'd quickly say sorry( which melts my heart) and the past few days (or maybe I just realize this) she'd say
"Aresha sayang mommy" countless times (followed with a huge hug)

She's very loving and becoming very manja with her daddy.
Whenever daddy's home she'll sit on his lap and watch tv , 80's rock videos (her favorite, KISS), pandai beli jiwa!

Last night after dinner, she said
'let's lepak, Aresha nak tgk cinta (=cerita, over-generalizing movies and footie match) Adebayor'
Mentioning the only player she knew. Hehe
She knows what daddy loves, and enjoy even watching footie with him :)

Last few hours, while having dinner, she purposely said she wants to poo poo and wee wee because she's tired and wants to sleep. I had to quickly finish my meal, only to find out that she tricked us this time.
Btw, she sleeps early now, alhamdulillah :)

I'm doing okay now, still resting whenever I could though so much chores piling up now, and almost sick of eating out.
Told dear, give it another one or two weeks, tak boleh tahan eating out.
He quickly replied" Can't wait!" Cheh!

Emm craving for fajitas, plan to shop for items needed to make 'em this weekend. Saw Martha made easy guacamole this morning, yumm!

Bun in the oven

I was on bed rest the last few weeks.
Nauseous, fatigue and it's been almost a month that our dapur tak berasap(read I didn't cook at all)

I guess most of my closest friends and family already knew that I am pregnant.
As Dr B said 9 weeks 5 days (yes we switch from Dr A to Dr B)

This pregnancy is DIFFERENT.
with Aresha my morning sickness is only 2 weeks but this baby, don't even let me go to the kitchen even the smell of fried eggs would make me nauseous.

Dear has to put up with me, he has to cook his own breakfast and we now eat out almost every single day.

Last Monday nite, 9pm I bleed and we all went panic.
Out of the blue I felt like having my period again, which is impossible, right?

Too late to go to the gynae, we decided to wait till tomorrow.
I texted Ain, she replied early in the morning.

It is called threatened miscarriege.

We had the ultrasound scan and to be honest we already prepared for the worst.
Maybe not our rezeki this time.

I'm having subchorionic hematoma, bleeding at some part of the placenta.

You can see it from the scan, there's a huge hole in my placenta.

Alhamdulillah the fetus is growing healthily and we can hear the heartbeat.
What a relief! Even Aresha saw her sibling as she called it sleeping baby.

I was given a hormone and it's funny to see Aresha's reaction when the doctor put the needle in my arms. She seems so furious like 'what the hell is he doing to my mommy?'

And I'm now on duphaston for few weeks and scheduled for another checkup in 2 weeks time.

We just hope that we can get through the whole pregnancy without any complication.

I was told to have plenty of rest.

So, there goes my first entry on the second pregnancy.

I'm off to rest now, talk to y'all soon!

Off to grandma's

Aresha and I will be spending the night at my mom's and the next day we're off to Segamat to visit my grandma(papa's side)
It's been a while, I remember eating her specialty, for breakfastputu piring, fluffy , tasty and yellow unlike KL ones :P
Sadly she didn't make it anymore (use to sell though)Sometimes the old methods are the best. She tumbuk her own flour mixture, hard work and she just don't have the energy for that anymore :(

But I've already learnt to make her other specialty kuih bakar kemboja, yumm!

I'm old school, lol!

Alternative nation?

It's interesting tht living in this area made us unofficially subscribed to the alternative party campaign bulletin. 8 full pages of thought-provoking, somehow to good to be true(propagandha?)
I like their ideas anyway

What the ALTERNATIVE would do for the ppl (I can only speak for Selangor but no doubt the flyer would be applicable to all over Malaysia, Peninsular at least)

Health (this is the best part of the manifesto)

- 90 days of maternity leave
- 14 days paternity leave (this is heaven!)
- 30 days leave for wives who recently lost their husband
- free medical for 65 years and above


More to come! But if they could realize the 4 above I would vote for them, no hesitation at all.

Don't be like NATO, you get wht I mean right?

Little miss particular

Had a really busy weekend.

Dear has cravings for mak's mee kari (the best ever!) we spent the whole Saturday @ Cochrane.
Was tres delicioux I ate two bowls, plus countless servings of bubur jagung and spring rolls, yum!

Dear had a luncheon at Mandarin Oriental with his creative team celebrating Ogilvy1, number 6 in world rank!

It's unusual for us to wake up early on Sunday morning, while dear's having a feast at their buffet, Aresha and I had chicken rice at the foodcourt, lol!


Walk around with her, spent almost an hour @ Kinokuniya reading Dora adventures and Blues Clues and searching for toddlers toilet (It's KLCC dammit, most of them are out of service, can u believe that?)

She has a thing for potty and the miniature toilet, and recently we realized tht she is meticulous ala daddy dearest :) as in arranging her shoes facing forward, which tee goes with which pants/skirt etc

Such a daddy's girl eyy?

All grown up

Mama and papa came to send my ol' powerbook and took Aresha with them :(

Well, actually she wants to follow them home which is really strange.
She smiled all the way and didn't even hesitate on her decision.

She is a BIG girl.

How can I underestimate her all this while?

She's capable of making up her mind (especially in the wardrobe area)

Now I'm left alone, staring at the ceiling.

Baby talk

You know it's crucial to have a second child when your toddler is talking to her toys as if they're her friends!

Aresha did just that and I can't help to laugh but pity her at the same time.
Why does it took us so long to have another one?
So many reason which is so irrelevant now.

To start over is one thing but I always love pregnancy and baby smell.

Aresha has grown out of tht smell and we miss it so very much!

Those cute little shoes and onesies.

Ahhhh, can't wait for my baby bump to show up, lol! (not tht I've peed on the stick yet!)

Blissful fourth :)

Anniversary once again!
As usual we stick to Fridays (tho was thinking of going to Tony Roma's , maybe next time) Aresha emptied her 'kids eat for free' plate of chicken fingers in just few minutes.

We had a really big meal, my 3 course meal and succulent steak for dear.
even Aresha had enough of the ice-cream, haha!

Joyful joyful and we're blessed with a wonderful year(s) together.



while waiting for our meal

love you mommy!

she got it from daddy, Skuirt would kill if I post the picture here, lol!

Aresha now loves to make funny face everytime the camera's pointing at her.
I guess she'd beam proudly, "I got it from my daddy!" LOL!

Baby making

After doing research and what not about trying to get a baby boy we finally decided...let's just do whatever we could and leave it to Allah :)

I look through Chinese Calender and found out that January is the month to conceive a baby boy and my birth year (according to Chinese zodiac)coincide with the calculation :) Not that I believe it 100% but at least it gives us a good feeling, hehe.


So we've tried and my most fertile dates are only 2 days left. It's so much stressful when you really want a baby rather than doing it without any expectation like 4 years earlier, lol!

Aresha has begin to understand the idea of having a sibling. She wants to hold the baby and sleeps with him/her. We watched'In the Womb' on National Geographic last Sunday and she gets so excited seeing a newborn baby :) That's a good start.

I know it wasn't easy being the eldest. I remember (tho I was only 2 1/2) being so jealous of my cute baby brother when suddenly the attention goes to him and ppl commenting on how adorable he was. I hit his head once when no one's looking, lol! Evil sister!

It is important to introduce Aresha to her soon-to-be sibling as early as the baby bump starts showing and remember to let her touch the baby (and not get too paranoid) anyway she likes so that she won't feel left out or even worse less special than the baby.

Here's hoping to hear baby cries and laughter by the end of this year :)
And start digging out all the bottles, sterilizer and old infant clothes, ha!

the unintended playdate with Aiman

Sunday has become flea market day for us the past few weeks. We always lepak at Amcorp Mall, the military stall owned by Che Mat & Kak Nori.

Aiman rarely come with his atuk and nanny but today, he was there.. with his mom, too bad he's already sleeping under the table.

When he woke up, these two best friends clicked instantly! They shared toys together (which is rare for kids their age) and smiled sheepishly (malu-malu kucingla konon)
but as soon as they saw my camera, they posed, giving me the best shot!

I love the last pic.Imagine when they grow up, they'd be so ashamed to admit they were friends back when they were toddlers. But mommy got evidence!

Before saying byebyes, these two hugged each other, awww so sweet! Looking forward to see Aiman again, right Aresha? ;)

First, 10 years

Today marked 10 years we first met :)
Time flies when you're having so much fun right?

And in few days, we'll be celebrating our 4th anniversary.

So much has changed but we're still going strong as ever.

Here's to wonderful years ahead!

Bkk , Xmas eve

that's Nammon our host, such a darling

us with fellow SEA Csers,Manila, BKK, KL unite!

Our journey didn't start as smooth as we received a text at 2pm from Thai Air Asia that the flight will be delayed for an hour and when we arrived at the airport we have to wait for another hour before we could be onboard!

Poor Honey, luckily she could receive text from us that she has to wait for an hour before we arrived! Mind you, it may be Xmas holiday in Malaysia it is not the same story in Bangkok. we arrived 1.30 am Thai already Christmas and missed a
party that our host, Nammon wanted to bring us.

Honey is sweet and definitely fit a profile of a real Thai and also a Bangkok Cs Ambassador, soft spoken, always smiling and energized even after a long day at work and fetching us at the airport!
She even brought a teddy for Aresha, thought that she's joining us, hehe. Err we didn't say it clearly I guess, haha.

We were welcomed by Nammon, dressed in pure cotton Thai clothes to his awesome one bedroom apartment complete with a really comfortable couch. He made us frangrant tea at 3am and albeit have to be at work @ 8am, he's still wide awake to give us an excellent direction and even drew us a map to get around the city! Oh yeah, he even gave us a spare key-card too! How cool is that! Prepared bread and eggs for breakfast, basically made us feel at home!

First after 4 years

We'll be leaving to BKK tonight sans Aresha :(
This is our first holiday together after 4 years :)
We found a couch for the whole 6 nights and tht's just awesome!
It comes with air-conditioned room and a swimming pool!

I have mixed feelings, I know I'm gonna miss her and think about her all the time, but we need this holiday badly so that we can get her a sibling, ha!

Nah, I guess it's not the right time to bring her along, she's so distracted with toys, clothes etc when we go to malls , imagine what would be like if she goes with us? She might just stop at every stalls at Jatujak and we won't have enough time to explore! LOL!

We promised her everything from Dora to Spongebob to Strawberry Shortcake. I know I'd buy a whole lot more!

Have a great Xmas and 2008!

See you guys on 1st Jan!

What it's like being a CS Ambassador

First of all, what is Couchsurfing Ambassador (CS Amb)?
Well, it's a title that came with a huge responsibility. Not just a fancy cute little yellow flag on your profile. It wouldn't be so hard if your city is small and not many participating, but if the community is growing, then you might be dealign with cases like member disputes, miscommunication, sexual-harassment so on and so forth.

I applied to become one a year ago after that whole-in-a-pocket Euro trip since I feel like helping Csers who comes to Malaysia and those who wants to learn what Cs is all about.

I'm very much involved with this job now, it's full time and mind you it's a non-profit organization to begin with.

I've been organizing meetings, attending member's potluck, or just join an event just to show support. Sometimes when you give so much ppl step on your head.

I'm not bitching about how much I have done but there are ignorant ppl who feels like they travel so much, lotsa 'ang moh' friends and hey why not apply to become an ambassador as well?

Why bother if you're not helping the other ambassadors?

Can't believe ppl would go crazy over this status cause I'm ready to hand over my burden to anyone interested now!


That aside,

I received a sexual-harassment complaint from a member.

It was a very busy day yesterday handling this matter and some member disputes over a thread in our group postings.


Never imagine a day like this would come, but you know, when there's a huge crowd/participant, you just have to expect it coming.


On a lighter note, but makes it all worth, we received couchsurfers from Brazil who is just,just awesome.

They know how to carry themselves well and makes us think of visiting Brazil World Cup 2014.

Ana Maria & Andres you guys are always in our heart.

Aresha refers to all our couchsurfers as 'friend'

This couple are just great with kids, Aresha even missed them when they left :(

'friend mana?' LOL!

After all the headache, hosting wonderful Csers just brighten up our day.

Monthly update

I didn't realize I've stopped blogging for a month! What happened to me eh?
Ain has been wondering wht the hell happened to this almost dead blog, lol!

Yeah I've been lazy, I'm online at least 6 hrs a day but why laaa so hard to blog again?

I had Raya Open house early this month and Aresha's 3rd birthday bash last 2 weeks, CS meet @ Pavillion and even went to Flyfm 2nd bday bash just to watch Hujan live and met my long lost bff Eva there!

while typing and watching Hitz.tv's Skool of Rock, The Cure's End of the World video clip were on!It wasn't easy to see their video ok, they're not your average rock band anyway. Aresha was stunned when mommy got so excited and telling her it's The Cure and tht's Robert Smith on tv, lol!

Hey tht girl is slowly becoming mini-me, she could sing Hujan's "Pagi gelap sudah gelap' and last night to our surprise she sang "Lalallalalallalla" ala Meet uncle Hussin.

She surely can talk now, adoi, she only stops talking when she's asleep can you imagine having 'burung apa?' 'Murai' conversation everyday? But her's would be 'apa?' 'Mana?' repetitively, Pening woo.

till then I shall wait for Dear's Macbook to update on pictures.
Ain, tunggula kejap ek?

Aresha's trois anniversaire

Look how excited and anxious we are waiting for Aresha to blow all the candles!


Csers who came to celebrate Aresha, thank u guys for the lovely prezzies :)