Celebration of love and happiness.

Salam to all. After a whole year of absence from the cyber world, I decided to write something on my blog. So many things to share and yet I don't know where to start..hmmm..

First of all, Alhamdullillah we've moved in to our own home. It took a year of renovation and a lot of determination, patience and checking on my contractors whenever Shafiz is not around (it's a must thing to do if you're doing any renovation for your home!)...hehe!
House is a necessity and we are trying our best to make our girls feel at home. It is kid-friendly and full of toys and happiness. Girls love the house and are excited the most. So, it is normal to see our new house like a kindergaten or OURWL HOUSE as what my Chempaka will call it because she just can't pronounce 'our' at the beginning.
Still in the midst of decorating it and I am the lousiest when it comes to that..too many colours and everything is all over the place.
I love the most is of course the lovely spacious garden..I did some gardening back in the years with my late Ma so it wasn't too hard for me and my Mom-in-law is so into flowers and plants and gardens, so it was easy for me when she decided to help me in that area..Lucky me!

Before we left our old neighbourhood, we had a farewell meet up with all of them. I almost cried that I had to leave all the amazing people who had helped us in so many ways. Mainly giving us comfort and assurance when things are not okay especially when I needed some advise in so many areas.
 To Aunty Koh and Aunty Betty, you both have been like a second mother to me. The kindness and care that you showed me were immensely appreciated.
Aunty Mei and family, thank you for all the play dates my girls had with your granddaughters. I am pretty sure the girls enjoyed every bit of it and missing it now.
Uncle Phillip, thank you for all the silly jokes which sometimes I just didn't get it.
 To my next door neighbour Cheng and family, thanks to Bibi and Lucky for the safety of our house then..haha! I am so missing my old neighbours...
I hope my new neighbours are just as great as my old ones...

Right after we moved in to or new home, my husband thought that all of us needed a break and getaway and off we went to Amsterdam. It was kind of last minute but all worth it despite it was a very short one. Well, we had like 5 nights but with travelling and the girls it was pretty exhausting.
We had fun indeed. We stayed in Zaandam for 3 nights,not Amsterdam city and next 2 nights in a dairy farm. A quaint cottage and a whole new experience for the girls especially.
We're more of beach gals and it was really cold there, so it was something different for them and don't let me start with the annoyance of them refusing to wear warm clothing..LOL!
Thank you my love for all the effort and beautiful memories. And not forgetting my reliable babysitter brother Hairul, you are amazing as always. Thank you all.
Sorry Chempaka and Melur because Mama got so caught up with so many things that led to more meltdowns. Forgive me please..

April is birthday month for Shafiz, my darling husband. We had dinner with the girls and Mak. We hope that you enjoyed it so much, the dinner treat and 1 day getaway to Port Dickson. So, as I have mentioned above, we're more of beach gals so we headed there for sunny beachy holiday..Thank you for your time my love.

Come what MAY...May is the month full of celebrations.
Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms. I am blessed to have the opportunity to celebrate it with my crazy annoyingly gorgeous daughters and best Mom-in-law one can ever ask. Thank you for the cards my love and girls. It is always thoughtful of you my love to give me one every year. I am all teary and all every time I received them from you and the girls. I love you and the girls sangatttlah gila gula guli..

Today is 31st May marked our 7th year of marriage. It still gives me butterflies in my stomach every time I think of today and the time we were both preparing in the morning for the akad nikah. I am already in tears when I hit the buttons writing this..

Thank you for being there for me.
Thank you for being the husband.
Thank you for being my shoulder to cry on even when I am so stubborn.
My best life-long companion who knows me inside out.
My best friend who listens to my stories and sometimes don't understand a thing about it.
The best father to my children..The one who knows how to calm us down when we get into fights especially between me and Chempaka..
Please know this my love,
I admire you in every single way,
Everything about you, honestly.
I am so sorry if I am lacking in any way.
Thank you and thank you and thank you and I can't thank you enough.
Alhamdullilah and thank you Allah for letting me be his wife.
I am humbled in so many ways.
May Allah grant us happiness and His blessings for many years come together, InsyaAllah.
Thank you my love for putting up with my nonsense all these years.
I hope you still can tahan being my concert buddy as I am to you.
Thank you tau... for everything.
I love you always and forever.

 

 

I think that's all for now. I have written quite a lot already.
Thank you for those reading my ramblings.
Thanks for stopping by.



Happy Mother's Day.

I rarely write on my blog nowadays due to hectic schedule, running errands and other things. When I've the time to write in which is usually in the middle of the night, I would probably too tired or uninspired. However, today I feel like writing this as a reminder to myself.

I lost my Mama is February 2012, just a day after I broke the news to her that I am pregnant with my second child. My Mama was already sick, going in and out of the hospital for a few years before that. I love my Mama dearly but a lot of times I just don't understand the love and relationship that I have with her. I have seen other mother and daughter relationship and sometimes envious of them because my Mama isn't like 'other mother'. I started feeling grumpy complained to myself why is my Mama 'like that'?

The one question that no one can answer me, not even God! My Mama is just like that! As simple as it sounds. My Mama provided shelter, food, education, love and everything she could in my life. We fought and argued almost all the time and sometimes for the pettiest issue but now it is all gone.

I felt bad for feeling envious of other people's mother when the fact that my Mama was just the perfect mother for me. She taught me how to be independent and trustworthy when she allowed me to help her run her small food business. She pushed me to be tough and strong when someone tried to disturb and bring me down. She drove me to believe that I could be great debater, poet and writer. Even though I felt annoyed by her possessiveness, but I still feel responsible to call her and let her know wherever I am. I still cooked and fed her during her stay in hospital even though she said she hated my cooking. I was so persistent to check on her well being despite her hurting me with her words that broke my heart and crushed my soul. How she hated all my previous boyfriends and made a drama out of it so that I would leave them. She mentioned before that I am too fussy, meticulous, bossy and stubborn and she herself was just the same.

Above all, she was just being her, a mother!

All those nagging, yelling, shouting, complaining, playing, educating, are actually to prove that she loves me. Those years of hardship at 'pasar malam', O & S coffee shop are well paid off after seeing me all grown up as a responsible, mature and independent young lady.

She was contented to see me married to a respectful and decent man and enjoyed the company of my Chempaka before she left us. I am certainly sure she is so happy to see me and my family now wherever she is now.

I don't wish my Mama was like any other mother because I accepted her just the way she is.

I know even better, I understand even more because I am now a mother to my 2 beautiful angels, Chempaka Naura and Melur Maira.

Happy Mother's Day to all Mothers. May we have the chance to share our happiness and sadness with our children and mend and strengthen our bonds together.

Love and peace to all.

I do miss you Mama. Al-Fatihah.

Our first Disneyland Adventure.

I know this is so last year post but I insist on blogging about it. As you can read from the title above, it was our first trip to Disneyland and we started our first adventure of that fairy tale journey in Hong Kong. Firstly, it is the nearest Disneyland from our home country Malaysia, flight time is less than 4 hours (so we can still manage the girls tantrum and crankiness within that amount of period!). Secondly, it was during school holidays, so my brother tagged along as my most reliable babysitter. Thirdly, that's the only time my husband managed to get some time off despite his hectic work schedule. Last but not least, the obsession of my eldest with Disney Princesses and the fondness of my youngest to Mickey and Minnie Mouse. So, fair enough that we (as in me and my girls) have never been to any Disneyland and we decided to try the one in Hong Kong as a start.

Preparation journey to the happiest place on earth were fine despite some passport issues 2 days before we left KL. Though there were some problems with the seat at the beginning of the flight but thank God we arrived Hong Kong safely by noon. We spent the first day resting and lazing around as we were dead tired from the early morning flight before.

On day 2, we started our Disneyland adventure at 10-ish. Took a shuttle to Tung Chung town and train to Disneyland. My girls were all dolled up according to their choice of 'Princess' costume. Chempaka is Princess Belle and Melur is Snow White. And we were all excited to watch our girls' reaction when we arrive there, beaming with smile and joy and happiness.

The park was quite full with adults and children (Duh!! It's Disneyland!) mainly because we went there on Sunday. So, it was flooded with foreign tourist plus the local ones too. Honestly, I love the vibe there. I always love theme park. It is happy to see other happy faces. Although there were some craziness surrounding there but come on! It's a theme park. There will be some craziness in there!

So, I shall spoil you all with the photos from there. Here we go!

 

The girls were excited when I woke them up at 5am to get ready to fly.

 

 On-board to Hong Kong.

 



Good morning! Girls and their Uncle Hairul.

 

All dolled up to meet Princesses.Chempaka is wearing Belle costume and Melur is Snow White.

 

On the way to Disney Resort station via train.

 

At the entrance of the magical world of Disney.

 

 

And 'here's to never growing up' me!

 

Us at the front of The Sleeping Beauty castle.

 



 ThinkerBell

 



 

 Parade and it was amazing enough for my little Chempaka.

 

 

 

With Princess Rapunzel, Cinderella and Aurora. Kudos to them for being true princesses and enjoyed their moments with young kids even though some were cranky or chatty! 

 

The only ride that we took because Chempaka and Papa were too busy chasing after Princesses.

 

Cheery Chempaka posing like a model.

 

 Melur with Uncle Hairul.

 

 At Harbour City.

 

 Christmas decoration with Disney theme.

 

 

 Tung Chung shopping day with my girls.

 



 Where we stayed for the trip.

 

 I love this photo!

 

 

Going back home. On-board MAS A380 bound for Kuala Lumpur.

 

 

Thank you to my dearest husband for taking some time off to bring us especially our girls to the magical world of Disneyland. And thank you and sorry for the hassle that we had to through prior departure. The passport and seat etc.. Thank you to my Dad for making time to help us in every possible way. Thank you Hairul for being the best babysitter when I am not the best mother. Thank you for your patience and I admire the way you handle the girls when they're so mischievous. I know that you are a great uncle to them and InsyaAllah, superbly fun Dad to your kids in future.

 

I love all of you so much. Pardon me for my nagging, complaining, scolding etc. Above all, we did enjoy the lovely trip.

 

More holidays please InsyaAllah!! WooHoo!!





Happy 1st Halloween Birthday Melur Maira.

Melur Maira turned 1 on 31st October 2013. We had a small party at our place with a Halloween theme. I won't elaborate more and let the photos do the talking. I hope she enjoyed it so much even though it was just a simple gathering. Mama and Papa loves you Melur Maira.

Some of the party decorations.

 

Birthday girl is wearing Snow White costume.

 

Lovely cake from Wonder Milk.

And us four...



Hi 5 Live in KL 2013

5 in the air, let's do it together. HI 5!

Hohoho Hi 5 was in KL for their live concert in December 2013. I was superrrr excited this time because I get to bring both Chempaka and Melur to watch it together. This would be our second Hi 5 concert in KL. We went to the first one in 2012 when I was heavily pregnant with Melur.

The show was awesome and great as I expected. There are 2 new members replacing Tim and Casey. They're Mary and Ainsley. They are just as enthusiastic and cheery as the other three, Dayen, Lauren and Stevie. However, I still do miss Tim and Casey and of course Fely.

The show that I went started later than the appointed time. Some children were restless and agitated waiting for the show to begin. The management didn't make any announcement to inform the parents on what's going on. Unfortunately, I am sad to say that there were some parents over reacted on that situation and started to behave like hooligans. Or shall I say like uncivilised human beings. Well, somehow the management opened up the doors and let us in after approximately 15-20 minutes delay.

As we waited for the concert to start, I came across some irresponsible parents who ( I believed!) bought the cheaper tickets but they dare to let their kids stand at the mosh pit area ( mind you, mosh pit area ticket is the MOST EXPENSIVE one!) while these IMPRUDENT parents will try to find any empty seats around to keep an eye on their children!

A mother of two girls and I had an argument with one INSOLENT father who did what I mentioned above and he was unhappy with us and started scolding us using vulgar words! All the F*** word came out of his mouth in front of other parents and hundreds of innocent children. The worst part was, he brought along his sick and coughing and sneezing (non-stop) wife to the children's concert. I can't imagine what sort of person is that couple. To disgrace themselves that way and rude and disrespectful to other parents. They have become totally insane by behaving like that not only in public but to their own children. One should sit or be at the assigned seat, according to the ticket that you bought (regardless of any price or amount!!!) so that you don't trouble others with your uncivilised and audaciously rude manner. I wasn't surprise that it happened at that Hi 5 concert but I surely learned my lesson from it. Thank you Mr.Rude Man!

Enough of the negativity of the show that is not even done by the Hi 5 members but the miserable parents themselves. Shame on you people....BOOOOO!!!! The show was spectacular and my girls enjoyed it so much that I hope to go again in future.

Well done Hi 5. You never disappointed us with your show. It's just this time the concert is more of promoting the new Hi 5 House and introducing the newest members. Personally, I still love Hi 5 Holiday because it has a storyline that you can relate to and the songs that come with it actually helps you to understand the journey of the holiday itself. Anyway, KUDOS to the Hi 5 members for putting on an incredible show! Thank you to the management for bringing Hi 5 to KL! Despite all the things that happened before the show, I will still bring my girls again next time Hi 5 in KL!

Some photos to share with you guys...

Girls with Papa and Mama.And yup I had to buy Hi 5 dresses for them.

 

Parents dashing through to the entrance impatiently. (sigh!)

 

The Hi 5 House Party stage set up before the show started.

 

Cheeky Melur and Mama.

 

The Hi 5 members from left to right,

Lauren, Ainsley, Dayen, Stevie and Mary.

 

Dayen in Dragon costume and Ainsley in Dinosaur costume at the concert.

 

Highlight of the show. The infamous Mr.Rude Man. You're on my camera and now in my blog.

Too bad!

 

 



Disney Live!

Okay, sorry for the long delay of updating my blog. I have been very tied up with so many things and my poor time management didn't really help either. Hence, the absence of me blogging.
Anyway, a couple of months ago we went to watch Disney Magic Live in KL.

And may I say the show was MAGICAL! We truly enjoyed every part of it. Well, I only brought Little Miss Chempaka. Melur had to attend her play class on that day.

We only managed to snap few photos. But lovely indeed!!

 

 

As you can see, my eldest girl is soooooo into Disney Princesses now. Hence we had to bring her to the show. Also, Disneyland. Well, I'll blog all about it soon I hope.

 

I love to see her eyes sparkling with joy and happiness. Next time around, Melur is tagging along!

 

Oh my! The trio who captured my heart entirely for life.

Thank you for making my life more colourful than usual!

I love all of you so much!