First Weekend In March

Saturday
In the morning, while I was 'busy' at the computer, PaPa let XY play with bubbles at the house compound. XY blew bubbles while CE tried to catch them. He even tried to blow the bubbles that have dropped onto the floor. He sat down on the wet floor (it rained that morning) and blew with all his might. PaPa just let him be coz he's already dirty and wet. Just change his clothes later.

At night, we had dinner at a Korean restaurant in Sri Petaling. It's located on the top floor of a Chinese restaurant. I find that the ventilation isn't very good but we still patronise them coz the food is quite good and it isn't too far. It's better if it's an open air restaurant as it's rather smoky when they barbeque the meat. I know there're some open air Korean restaurants in Ampang. But we're not the type that'll travel far just for a meal.

~ The rice tasted much better than it looks. I forgot
to take the picture before mixing them up. ~

Sunday
For brunch, we went to Puchong (Yap Chuan Restaurant) for bak kut teh. Coincidentally they were featured in Taste With Jason on tv that night for their famous dried bkt. After that, we headed to Sunway Pyramid as Kakak wanted to buy a digital camera. We bought that for her as part of her bonus.

As the kids (especially CE) were fussing coz they've skipped their afternoon nap, we decided to leave early instead of staying on for dinner. And we had a simple dinner at home.

Message In A Bottle Meme

I've been royally tagged by Mimi Queen of Memes.

Here are the rules:

You are about to send a virtual Message In a Bottle across the Blog Ocean. Leave a message in the sand or on the bottle. Write anything you wish. Be a pirate or a poet. Serious or silly. Anonymous or not.

What message would you like to send out to the universe?

1. Compose a message to place in your virtual bottle
2. Right click and Save the graphic below
3. Use a graphics program of your choice to place the message on the picture
4. Post the meme and these rules on your blog
5. Return your "Message In a Bottle" to me via email ~ mimiwrites2005 at yahoo.com, sign the Mr. Linky below and leave a comment HERE telling me you've finished. IF YOU WANT YOUR MESSAGE TO BE ANONYMOUS PLEASE SAY SO.
6. Tag a minimum of five people - or your entire blogroll - to do the same. Notify them of the tag.

Your virtual bottle will remain afloat in the blogosphere ocean for all blogernity (That's a Mimism for blog + eternity.) I will add it to the master list of message bottles. Participation is optional.

And this is my message:

Friendship Chain

I received this from Hazel.



~~Begin Copy~~

This is the easy way and the fastest way to :
1. Make your Authority Technoraty explode.
2. Increase your Google Page Rank.
3. Get more traffic to your blog.
4. Makes more new friends.

Rules :
1. Start copy from "Begin Copy" until "End Copy" to your blog.
2. Put your own blog name and link.
3. Tag your friends as much as you can.

1. Picturing of Life 2. Juliana's Site 3. Hazel-My Life, My Hope, My Future 4. Slavery Bliss

~~End Copy~~

I'm passing this on to :
Healy and Dora

A Tag Of Red

START COPY HERE

Here are the rules:

1. Post YOUR photo wearing red, may it be a red top, bottom, the least would be red accessories if you hate wearing red... If you can’t find one, you still have an option. Either post your Significant Other’s photo or your child’s photo, if you have one. Of course, they should be wearing red.

2. Let us know the reason why you were wearing red that particular day. Was it your birthday? Is red your fave color or was it the shirt that you first saw in your closet that day?

3. Tag 3 people close to your heart. By the way, they have to be in your blogroll. No cheating heart pleaseeeeeeee!

4. Once you’re tagged, could we please keep it going - just for this month?

END HERE.

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Like Dora, I had to think so long when I got this tag. But my reason was the opposite. I can't find any suitable picture to use. So it's obvious red is not our colour. XY is into pink. Almost all her clothes are pink in colour. She has some red ones but we didn't take any pictures when she wore them. And red isn't exactly the colour for boys. But I managed to find this photo of CE in a red top. We were celebrating his first birthday in a restaurant with my in-laws. I wanted to let him wear a collared top and that was one of the few ones he had.

~ staring at his cake ~

Is red your colour?
Hazel, Giddy Tigress & Lovelymummy

Her Good Friend Has Gone Home

Yesterday, my BIL’s maid went home to Indonesia for good. My maid and theirs have become very good friends as they meet quite often. When we went back to PIL’s house together, they slept in the same room. We’d “baby-sit” the maids for each other when either of our families are out of town. So they’ve spent quite a lot of time together and have become rather close.

BIL wanted to extend her contract but her husband didn’t allow her to continue. She had no choice but to turn down the offer. It’s really not easy to get good and reliable maids these days. And she’s highly educated too (till SPM level). It’s really a hassle to get a new one. Have to get used to a new person and train her all over again.

Before they left for the airport, we went over to bid her farewell. We shook hands and hugged each other. Seeing her in tears made my eyes teary too. As for the 2 friends, I can see that they were parting with heavy hearts. I told my maid that good friends don’t come by often and if she really cherishes the friendship, then continue to keep in touch when they’re both back in their home country.

I’m wondering how it’d be like when mine goes back end of this month. CE is too young to know what’s happening but XY is one emotional girl. When we left hubby’s hometown without Kakak during CNY, they were already crying uncontrollably when saying their goodbyes. Now I’m thinking if it’s a good idea for the kids to send her off at the airport or just say goodbye at home. Whether it’s at home or the airport, must get ready lots of tissue papers.

Eat The Seed

One of XY's favourite fruits is peach. When we had fruits for teatime the other day, I asked Kakak to keep the peach for PaPa as he hadn't eaten any. XY immediately protested and said she wanted to eat it. Kakak usually cuts out the flesh and there'll be 4 pieces. So XY will have 2 and I'll have 2. The seed goes to me too, of coz. And this was XY's allocation.

XY : I eat 2, you eat 2.
Me : Then PaPa leh?
XY : Give him the seed.
(I burst out laughing... thinking how kind she is to her father.)
Me : You're so kind to PaPa ah? Let him eat the seed?
XY : Ok loh. I eat 2, leave 2 for PaPa then you eat the seed.
Me : Uh... ok loh. (She's so 'kind' to me now.)

She can really eat a lot of fruits. We normally have 3 to 4 kinds of fruits. And she gets half of the portion. Didi and I will share the other half. Well, didi doesn't take a lot - maximum 2 pieces of fruits (that's like half a fruit). That means, I eat less than her! Hey I'm not complaining. I'm fine with her being 'greedy' with healthy food.

Awards Time!

Last week, I was given 4 awards. Yeah... FOUR! I'm truly honoured and happy.
You Cheer Me Up Award comes from Jo-N.


Room In My Heart Award comes from Jo-N and Hazel.


Hazel also gave me You Make My Day Award and Break Out Blogger Award.

Thank you so much girls. And what should I do with all these awards? Share with all of you, of course!