Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Brotherly love
I don't have a brother and when I was young I used to think that it would have been nice to have an elder brother around the house. When I was in high school, I used to say to my friends that I was lucky not to have any brothers because most of my friends complained that their brothers were too strict with them. I had two good friends whom I called 'brothers' in my high school. They were always there for me and made me feel special. I used to hear stories from my friends that their brothers get special attention at home. They don't have to do any housework and they can stay out late nights. At times I did wonder if it is better to be born as a guy than a girl.
Mustaqiim was my first nephew in the house and all my sisters, my mom and dad used to pamper him lots and lots since he is the first boy in the family. We all loved him and we would get all upset if he hurts himself little when he was young. Then comes Mubarak, Mohsin and Firdaus.
I am glad God gave me three beautiful sisters instead. I am HAPPY. Shukur Alhamdulilah.
On my way to work this morning, I saw a family outside the family court. The father was holding on to the hand of a small girl while walking up the stairs. She was having some difficulties and the father patiently waited for her to climb the steps slowly. Her brother, sister and her mom were ahead of them. The brother went towards his sister to help but she wanted to walk on her own. He was beside her making sure she was ok. It makes me think how lucky she is to have her brother.
I don't have a brother and when I was young I used to think that it would have been nice to have an elder brother around the house. When I was in high school, I used to say to my friends that I was lucky not to have any brothers because most of my friends complained that their brothers were too strict with them. I had two good friends whom I called 'brothers' in my high school. They were always there for me and made me feel special. I used to hear stories from my friends that their brothers get special attention at home. They don't have to do any housework and they can stay out late nights. At times I did wonder if it is better to be born as a guy than a girl.
Mustaqiim was my first nephew in the house and all my sisters, my mom and dad used to pamper him lots and lots since he is the first boy in the family. We all loved him and we would get all upset if he hurts himself little when he was young. Then comes Mubarak, Mohsin and Firdaus.
I am glad God gave me three beautiful sisters instead. I am HAPPY. Shukur Alhamdulilah.
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Thursday, August 25, 2005
my bday present from GUESS WHO? 
This had my whole department laughing and we are still laughing over it. I kept it on my pc for photo taking only and I threw this 'cute looking' gift under my table. The presents are getting from bad to worse. Thank God the rest of them did not pay for this. She actually left our presents on our table and did not even wish us. So what I did was, I sent her an email saying thanks rather than saying it to her personally. She doesn't deserve the thanks anyway because I did not like her gift at all. I feel only disgusted when my colleague opened my present for me. I've got a GUESS wallet, a flower and a mango pudding (to replace the cake) from the rest, my sis gave me a PERLINI silver bracelet and my DH got me an mp3 player. Well a year older now but also one year wiser like what my good friend spicyaish said. She got a pen holder that has a bear on it and it is exactly the same bear that was in my ex-colleague photoframe for her bday so we all assume it was part two of Y's bday gift. I decided not to share any bday gifts with her ever again.
This had my whole department laughing and we are still laughing over it. I kept it on my pc for photo taking only and I threw this 'cute looking' gift under my table. The presents are getting from bad to worse. Thank God the rest of them did not pay for this. She actually left our presents on our table and did not even wish us. So what I did was, I sent her an email saying thanks rather than saying it to her personally. She doesn't deserve the thanks anyway because I did not like her gift at all. I feel only disgusted when my colleague opened my present for me. I've got a GUESS wallet, a flower and a mango pudding (to replace the cake) from the rest, my sis gave me a PERLINI silver bracelet and my DH got me an mp3 player. Well a year older now but also one year wiser like what my good friend spicyaish said. She got a pen holder that has a bear on it and it is exactly the same bear that was in my ex-colleague photoframe for her bday so we all assume it was part two of Y's bday gift. I decided not to share any bday gifts with her ever again.
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Sunday, August 21, 2005
get together
I had made arrangement with my elder sister to look after DZ for couple of hours on Friday night. My twin sister and I have the same group of friends during our high school days. We used to hang out together. It has been awhile since we met our friends and we had an appointment with them after work on Friday night at HarbourFront banquet. I left work at 6.30pm and took a bus to HarbourFront. I reached the place at 7pm. After checking with the information counter staff the location of the banquet, I started walking towards that direction. There I found my two good friends Anu and Premala waiting. We hugged each other and were very excited about the meeting. We waited for my sister and Uma. They reached the place at 7.25pm. We went to the banquet and luckily it was not crowded. Each of us went to order the food and we ended up with 2 tables spread of food. I ordered fish & chip, chicken set, my sister ordered carrot cakes and chicken rice, Uma ordered satay and drinks, Anu ordered rojak and Premala ordered Mee goreng and Murtabak. Well it was definetly alot for the five of us. We agreed not to talk about dieting that night especially with all those delicious food infront of us. We heard how each of us are stuck in our first job and could not get out of that place. We complained and complained about our work. We were the gossipmonger. We practically updated each other's life and gossip about the students and teachers where we once studied together. We laughed our heads off and we definetly had heads turning to our tables. But we paid no attention to them as we enjoyed each others company. We ate our food slowly while we discussed about everything and everyone we knew. Well inbetween I had to do my duty as a mother as I called my sister place to find out what my DZ was doing. She was playing with my nephews. I did not call my hubby at his workplace that evening because I was enjoying myself hehehe. We finally finished our food at 9.30pm and we decided to walk around the shopping mall. Most of the shops were closing as it was near to 10pm. We promised to meet up again for a movie the next time. My bil fetch my DZ before picking us up at HarbourFront. I went back to my mom's place which was near HarbourFront. My DH came back from work at the same time. I packed my DZ's stuff and we went home. The next two days I spent my time playing with my DZ.
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Wednesday, August 17, 2005
birthday cake
XL-
If you both don't want cake, please give the committee 10 good reasons each.
For your info, the committee comprises of WP(chairperson), myself, CW and GL
Crazy Harp-
Why should I?
Me-
1. We are on diet
2. Cake is fattening
3. We just ate CW's cake
4. We don't feel like eating any more cake for the month
5. We are trying not to put on any weight , as we find losing weight is more difficult.
6. As we are a yr older, we need to reduce our sugar intake (amended)
7. We are more interested in our presents
8. We want to have our normal breakfast
9. We are TRYING NOT TO GAIN WEIGHT
10. WE ARE FAT !!!!!!!
Crazy Harp with her list-
1. Save the money for the cake.. use it on our presents!
2. GL is broke!.. too many birthdays this month.
3. I cant bear to see all of you going FAT becos of my bday
4. Cant bear to see WP gain any weight..1kg more and she will look too FAT..
5. XL too much of cake this month.. one more bite for her and she will look FAT
6.CW is only 23.. dun want her to be obese at 23 by eating our birthday cake!!!
7. I m going to start my dieting on 25 Aug.
8. Boss said that the juice look like PEE today..on our bday, she will say the cake look likes SHIT
9. Save you all the trouble of thinking where to stick the the 57 candles.
10. I M FAT!!!!
I like no8 of harp's list. Well that's all we did to save us from blowing candles for our birthday.
*GRIN*
We celebrated CW's bday today. We bought her a cake and her present. It was the usual birthday party for 15-20mins where we gather around and sing 'happy birthday'. We ate the birthday cake, took few pics together and then back to our work. Well CW got an orange sling bag with 2 fishes on the front of the bag from our wonderful boss. The orange color and the fishes were really 'eye catching'. She pretend to like it alot kekeke. The rest of us present her a soft toy plus photo frames which she wanted. Well at least she liked what we got for her. Nothing too dramatic for this birthday. Next on the list is me and crazy harp. Hers is on the 27th and mine on the 25th. We both opted not having a cake for our birthday. Crazy harp sent an email to the rest to say that we both don't want a cake and this is the reply we got to her emails.
XL-
If you both don't want cake, please give the committee 10 good reasons each.
For your info, the committee comprises of WP(chairperson), myself, CW and GL
Crazy Harp-
Why should I?
Me-
1. We are on diet
2. Cake is fattening
3. We just ate CW's cake
4. We don't feel like eating any more cake for the month
5. We are trying not to put on any weight , as we find losing weight is more difficult.
6. As we are a yr older, we need to reduce our sugar intake (amended)
7. We are more interested in our presents
8. We want to have our normal breakfast
9. We are TRYING NOT TO GAIN WEIGHT
10. WE ARE FAT !!!!!!!
Crazy Harp with her list-
1. Save the money for the cake.. use it on our presents!
2. GL is broke!.. too many birthdays this month.
3. I cant bear to see all of you going FAT becos of my bday
4. Cant bear to see WP gain any weight..1kg more and she will look too FAT..
5. XL too much of cake this month.. one more bite for her and she will look FAT
6.CW is only 23.. dun want her to be obese at 23 by eating our birthday cake!!!
7. I m going to start my dieting on 25 Aug.
8. Boss said that the juice look like PEE today..on our bday, she will say the cake look likes SHIT
9. Save you all the trouble of thinking where to stick the the 57 candles.
10. I M FAT!!!!
I like no8 of harp's list. Well that's all we did to save us from blowing candles for our birthday.
*GRIN*
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Tuesday, August 16, 2005
the girls enjoyed themselves
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The baby contest was over last weekend. Sad to say, both the girls did not win anything but we are happy that they enjoyed that day. There were so many cute babies all dressed up for the contest. All the parents were just as excited as the babies. It wasn't really that great not because the gals did not win anything but we did not expect the doctors to be the judges. They asesss each baby based on their age. I went into the room with DZ and DH. The doctor asked me couple of questions as to how many words can she talk and can she walk on her own. I answered her and that's it. DZ took one of the toys from the table and she threw it down on the floor. Well guess what , it broke. Not her fault and the doctor wasn't that happy. We left the room saying sorry. DA (darling amiira) went in to another room with her mom. According to my sister, the doctor did not ask her any question, she simple gave DA few toys to hold on. That's all. We went back to the hall and waited. The gals were sleepy by the time they announced the result. Well we expected it. But the baby boy who won the top prize was cute. His sister won the other category in which DZ was in :-). Well they are of mixed parenting and looked very cute. All not wasted as we had nice buffet lunch and we took lots of nice pics of the girls together. I told my sis that there are more contest coming up :)
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Thursday, August 11, 2005
one night affair (with a sari)
Now for that pic, I must have deleted it. Just got another photo of aish from my fav movie devdas. Well the costumes in this movie were all inclusive.
crazy harp mentioned in her blog that her 3yr old son oppose her wearing a sari so I got reminded of sari. It was only yesterday I told my mom that I wish to wear a sari on my sister's wedding day...when will that be? We don't know but I actually told her let's have her wedding fast because I want to wear a sari. A sari and a hijab? Hmm why not? I have seen ladies in sari and hijab. Of course there are ways to hide everything underneath a 6 meters material. But how would I look in a sari? I remembered the one and only time I wore a sari was on my cousin bro's wedding. It was many years back and I think I was only seventeen or eighteen then.My aunt bought us saris from India. Mine was bright yellow and pink in color. My twin sister's was a green and blue sari. I was looking so bright on that day and guess what, I did not know how to walk in a sari. I must have looked so stupid and gawky. Instead of helping out in the wedding, my sister and I simply stood one corner because we could not do anything wearing that sari. What if I had tripped and fell while serving, oh god it was scary to even think about it. Well I regretted wearing a sari then. I told myself never to wear it again but when I see ladies in sari, they look pretty and nice. They are so comfortable in it. Some even wear it at workplace. Hmm hats off to those ladies in sari. The one person whom I admire in sari is Aishwarya. Well she looks great in everything and in one particular sari, she looked dashing. Let me find that pic and post it. By the way, my hubby likes me to try out sari too so will I be in a sari on my sister's wedding day...hmm I need to practice how to walk with poise in a sari. If I don't get that one, I will probably skip wearing a sari. No sari for me even on my wedding day. I don't regret it. :-)
Now for that pic, I must have deleted it. Just got another photo of aish from my fav movie devdas. Well the costumes in this movie were all inclusive.
8:10 PM |2 comments
The house was in a mess. Last weekend, I went to my mom place because dh was working and dz was feeling bored. I can't do any housework with her behind me always. DZ was happy because there were my mom, sister and dad to give her all the attention. My other sis and I planned to bring the children out for shopping. We need to get some nice cute outfits for the baby contest. My mom joined us too. We went to the shop 'LIFEBABY' at Robinsons. I saw one cute jeans and wanted to try it on DZ. I took off her cloths to try the cute orange kurta and the jeans but she was busy looking around the shop wearing only her pampers. I ran after her and quickly put on the cloths before someone else enter the shop. She looked cute in the jeans. We got something for DZ and next was for amiira. My sis took out a peach colored sleeveless top that has frills on the front and a bare back. She tried it on for amiira and she looked very charming. My sis liked it alot too and we were both very happy that we managed to get something nice for the gals. We head back home after shopping. Back to my messy house, I did not do any cleaning that week and I kept complaining to DH that the house was very dusty. Monday I really could not take it. I told my DH to take care of zoha and I started with the store room. I arranged the things neatly and cleaned the rest of the rooms and the hall. My DZ was asleep by the time I was done with half the work. I was dead tired but I felt happy to see the house clean ;-) . We had our dinner at 11.30pm. It was National day the next day. DH took leave from work to spend the day with me and dz eventhough it was a public holiday for the rest of us. He helped with the rest of the housework while DZ was sleeping in the morning. I better give him some credits before he jumps at me after reading this blog :-). My DH has protested number of times at some of my post but when I told him to write it down on the comment, he did not want to do it. He said he will deal with me alone on those posts :-)
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Friday, August 05, 2005
Doll Making
This is the outcome of my first try in doll making. I found this doll making site from dawn's page and I was not in the mood to do my work because of my migraine. I decided to try out the doll making and here it is.
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Wednesday, August 03, 2005
BBDC 
I have stopped going to the driving center for almost two years now. I was learning driving for one year plus and was at the end of stage 3 of my practical lessons when I decided to concentrate on my studies then. Now I regret not completing it. I did not continue with my lessons after I got married and then I got pregnant and that is the end of my driving lessons. I have spent nearly $2000 for the package and I find that it is a waste to let it go. I always see myself going back to the center and finishing the rest of my lessons. For that I need to put it more money in my account and I have to sacrifice my weekends for my 2 hrs of driving lessons and another 2 hrs of traveling to and fro the center. Right now our monthly salary is enough to pay all the bills and for our expenses for a whole month. Where do I squeeze in for more money? Maybe I can cut down on my expenses to save that few hundreds and book couple of lessons online. But (there is always a 'but' for me)...who is going to look after my DZ. Mom has been kind enough to look after her for the whole week while I go to work and on weekends, she get to rest or catch up with her friends. DH is working on weekends so there is no way he can help me out. My mom was complaining that I have wasted my money. Well I really don’t want it to be. I must do something. I have to stop being lazy and stop finding reasons not to complete my lessons. Not that I will get a car once I get my license (inshallah), on second thought maybe my younger sis and I can think about that in the near future (inshallah)…by the way she has got her license after her 2nd attempt and my twin sis Jamaliah only took the test once. She is good in driving and yes she motivates me to complete my lessons. I went out with her for a drive once and she looks chic behind the wheel. Oh no I am drifting miles away. (Back to the present) I must start going for classes once again. My friend lia has got her license too. In fact we both registered for the class together and now that she has got hers. I am ashamed and I feel like a loser.
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Monday, August 01, 2005
Things to look forward this month
He will be 31 in few days to come. But one thing puzzles me. He never shows concern that he is getting older each year whereas I start worrying and thinking what will it be like after 2 or 3 years esp now that I am going towards the 30s range.....aarrrrgggghhhh (screaming in my mind at the thought of this). My dh always correct me to reduce his age by 2 yrs whenever we talk abt his age. Eventhough it is stated in his BC that the year is 74, he says 'NO it should be 76'. I've got a girl friend who was born in India and she has the age problem too. She always reduce her age but that is not what was written in her BC. Maybe it is common in their countries. I don't really know. But I always argue with my dh that his BC is correct :P
9th Aug - Nation's 40th birthday
This year they are going to have the celebration in Padang as well as in Jurong East, Tampines and Yishun. Well Padang is nearer to my place but I did not manage to get hold of the tickets. It is free by the way. Every year we catch the celebration live on TV but this year we will be going to Marina (near to padang) where we can catch the firing of the fireworks. We will miss out the other events but they will show a repeat telecast of the celebration some other days. We did manage to catch the preview of the fireworks last weekend and what a spectacular moment it was for all of us( mom, anishar, amiira, DH, DZ, jamaliah and her hubby). The firing of the fireworks were directly infront of us and it was really breathtaking. My DZ was simply amazed looking at the flypast and fireworks. My bil took some pictures of the fireworks and DH will make sure he doesn't forget to bring his video cam on 9th Aug. I will post a pic or two when my bil has uploaded them.
14th Aug- Baby Show Contest at Telok Blangah CC
DZ and amiira will be participating in the baby show. My sister and I are very excited. We really hope both our gals will enjoy themselves and not start crying. Zoha will be participating in the 12-18mths category and amiira will be in the 6-11mths category. We don't know what the judges will be looking for or what activities are plan for the babies in this contest. All we know is that we got to be there on 14th Aug at 8.30am. DZ and amiira are usually sleeping at this time. My bil suggested making their hairs to small curls but who would do it for them? There was one time I brought DZ to the hair salon to have her hair cut but the moment I sat her down on the chair, she started crying and pushing away the lady's hand. Lucky my DH was there and somehow she had her hair cut but looked very ugly :-( . I decided not to cut her hair again after that day. My sister and I even plan to tailor-make their khameez (sleeveless) for the show. Another one week or so, we are all looking forward to the baby contest.
25th Aug- J & K birthday
It is our birthday (me & my twins). The thought of closing up to being 30s...well eventhough we still got one more year for that...but still it is like arrrrrggggggghhhhh. I am happy I am not alone because my sister is there with me to share part of what i am feeling LOL. Plus I am treating my colleagues for lunch this month because last month WP gave treat for her promotion, crazy Harp gave treat for becoming a Singaporean, XL gave treat because the rest were treating and I am the only one left so I decided to let it be my birthday, a birthday treat.
27th Aug- Crazy harp birthday
We always get to cut our birthday cake together in the office for the past 3 years except last year when we both decided we don't want a cake as we were both dieiting LOL and of course we are not looking forward for our birthday present from our boss.
I am definetly looking forward to September - my annual increment ....yess!!!!!!!!
6th Aug - DH's birthday
He will be 31 in few days to come. But one thing puzzles me. He never shows concern that he is getting older each year whereas I start worrying and thinking what will it be like after 2 or 3 years esp now that I am going towards the 30s range.....aarrrrgggghhhh (screaming in my mind at the thought of this). My dh always correct me to reduce his age by 2 yrs whenever we talk abt his age. Eventhough it is stated in his BC that the year is 74, he says 'NO it should be 76'. I've got a girl friend who was born in India and she has the age problem too. She always reduce her age but that is not what was written in her BC. Maybe it is common in their countries. I don't really know. But I always argue with my dh that his BC is correct :P
9th Aug - Nation's 40th birthday
This year they are going to have the celebration in Padang as well as in Jurong East, Tampines and Yishun. Well Padang is nearer to my place but I did not manage to get hold of the tickets. It is free by the way. Every year we catch the celebration live on TV but this year we will be going to Marina (near to padang) where we can catch the firing of the fireworks. We will miss out the other events but they will show a repeat telecast of the celebration some other days. We did manage to catch the preview of the fireworks last weekend and what a spectacular moment it was for all of us( mom, anishar, amiira, DH, DZ, jamaliah and her hubby). The firing of the fireworks were directly infront of us and it was really breathtaking. My DZ was simply amazed looking at the flypast and fireworks. My bil took some pictures of the fireworks and DH will make sure he doesn't forget to bring his video cam on 9th Aug. I will post a pic or two when my bil has uploaded them.
14th Aug- Baby Show Contest at Telok Blangah CC
DZ and amiira will be participating in the baby show. My sister and I are very excited. We really hope both our gals will enjoy themselves and not start crying. Zoha will be participating in the 12-18mths category and amiira will be in the 6-11mths category. We don't know what the judges will be looking for or what activities are plan for the babies in this contest. All we know is that we got to be there on 14th Aug at 8.30am. DZ and amiira are usually sleeping at this time. My bil suggested making their hairs to small curls but who would do it for them? There was one time I brought DZ to the hair salon to have her hair cut but the moment I sat her down on the chair, she started crying and pushing away the lady's hand. Lucky my DH was there and somehow she had her hair cut but looked very ugly :-( . I decided not to cut her hair again after that day. My sister and I even plan to tailor-make their khameez (sleeveless) for the show. Another one week or so, we are all looking forward to the baby contest.
25th Aug- J & K birthday
It is our birthday (me & my twins). The thought of closing up to being 30s...well eventhough we still got one more year for that...but still it is like arrrrrggggggghhhhh. I am happy I am not alone because my sister is there with me to share part of what i am feeling LOL. Plus I am treating my colleagues for lunch this month because last month WP gave treat for her promotion, crazy Harp gave treat for becoming a Singaporean, XL gave treat because the rest were treating and I am the only one left so I decided to let it be my birthday, a birthday treat.
27th Aug- Crazy harp birthday
We always get to cut our birthday cake together in the office for the past 3 years except last year when we both decided we don't want a cake as we were both dieiting LOL and of course we are not looking forward for our birthday present from our boss.
I am definetly looking forward to September - my annual increment ....yess!!!!!!!!
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