so when you can't sleep

i'm up at this hour. woke up with the tv watching me and couldn't go back to sleep for some reason.

last night when i just got back home after a stressful journey on the road, Dinara came into my room and made a beeline for the carpet. every morning when the maid sweeps my room she'll fold up the carpet nicely and store it in a corner of my room. so every time i got home after work, i let the kids in the room and we unroll the carpet together so that the kids could lepak on the floor and watch tv. and then Dinara will happily stomp around the carpet as if she'd just achieved her own little accomplishment.

this time i wasn't in a hurry but i guess Dinara was impatient because she started patting the carpet and making gesturing motions for me to unroll the carpet like, immediately. and after i unrolled the carpet on the floor, she made a beeline for the container of Cheerios on my side table and brought it to me, demanding for a Cheerio. lol.

did you know that she bites now? the maid told me earlier that Dinara sunk her 6 pearls into flesh today. hahahah. i've gotten a taste of what those teeth can do for myself T__T. she'd slink up to you, open her mouth real wide like she's gonna kiss you, then takes a bite out of you. sigh. she thinks it's a joke when i scold her for doing so. the maid says she does that when she gets impatient for her milk. to me she'll start to get all whiny if she wants her milk.

i didn't watch it on tv, but i hear Harimau Malaya won last night? congratulations Malaysia!

i'm dreaming of Bamboletta now. sigh.

and she shares the same birthday as Dinara

did you North America was once connected to Asia by a land bridge? you can read more about it here.

ok i'm signing off, i got work tomorrow and i'm sure the kids will wake me up before 7am.

to all those who've already sent me wishes, i thank you and appreciate all your wishes :). it feels great to be remembered once in a while (even though i know Facebook does a real good job reminding people lol!).

good night / good morning!

xoxoxo

- ME just a year older but still looking 20 =P~

a couple of preloved

iKit iPad Carbon Case for iPad2
Condition: New
Retail Price: RM118
Price: RM60 (please add RM6 for shipping)
Status: Available


Diesel Red Tank Top
Color: Red
Material: Stretchable with sequins sewed in front. Detailing at the back. Machine/hand wash
Size: S
Condition: Used
Price: RM20 (please add RM6 for shipping)
Status: Available


Zara Basics Tank Top (left of pic)
Color: Forest Green & Turquoise Blue
Material: 95% viscose, 10% spandex. Machine wash
Size: EUR M
Condition: Used
Price: RM15 each (please add RM6 for shipping)
Status: *SOLD

MNG Basics Tank Top (right of pic)
Color: Dark Brown & Red-Orange
Material: 96% modal, 4% elastane. wash
Size: S
Condition: Used (red-orange), New with Tag (brown)
Price: RM15 each (please add RM6 for shipping)
Status: *SOLD


Soda Exchange Dress (left in pic)
Color: Purple
Material: 92.8% rayon, 7.2% spandex. Hand wash
Size: 04
Condition: Used
Price: RM35 (please add RM6 for shipping)
Status: Available

Blook Dress (right in pic)
Color: Purple
Material: Satin-ny feel, zipper at the side. Hand wash
Size: 10
Condition: Used
Price: RM35 (please add RM6 for shipping)
Status: Available


Radioactive Bubble Skirt (left in the pic)
Color: Black, Purple, Silver
Material: 96% modal, 4% elastane. Hand wash
Size: S
Condition: Used
Price: RM15 (please add RM6 for shipping)
Status: Available

Soda Exchange Bubble Skirt (right in the pic)
Color: Denim Blue, White
Material: 100% Cotton (top), 100% Polyester (bottom). Hand wash
Size: 26
Condition: Used
Price: RM20 (please add RM6 for shipping)
Status: *SOLD


MNG Off-Shoulder Top
Color: Black and White
Material: 100% Polyester, zipper at the side. Hand wash
Size: UK8
Condition: New with Tag
Price: RM35 (please add RM6 for shipping)
Status: *SOLD


Maa Arwaak Fragrance for him, EDP 50ml from Dubai (left in pic)
Ingredients: Fragrance, Distilled Water, Denatured Ethyl Alcohol 90% Vol.
Condition: Unwrapped in Box
Price: RM40 (please add RM6 for shipping)
Status: Available

Daarej Pour Femme EDP 100ml from Dubai (right in pic)
Ingredients: Fragrance, Distilled Water, Denatured Ethyl Alcohol 90% Vol.
Condition: Unwrapped in Box
Price: RM40 (please add RM6 for shipping)
Status: Available

batu seremban

yesterday i took the kids out for a dinner outing at the Curve with Lix and Lits, all kids in tow. i wanted to pick up the snoods i borong-ed from DV, my sil pun tumpang a few snoods as well and i think she seemed more impatient than me to get them hahah. we had dinner at their favorite restaurant: SweetChat. i shared the mac and cheese dish with Dayana and Dinara, which i am happy to say they both liked. Dinara seemed very much determined to get far away from Uncle Nizam as possible though. i guess the kids haven't seen them for such a loOOOoOOng time, sigh.

my current favorite colors :D

so later we went for a round at the street market. guess what sort of damage i created this time? never in a million years would i have thought to stumble across these anywhere, especially in this era! so of course i went a bit nuts mulling over what pattern to take T__T. too bad i forgot what the name of the stall was. oops. and i do feel like going there again, hahahahahahaha.

pretty pouch bag

batu seremban!

i mean come on, kids these days only know PS3, Nintendo Wii, iPad, iPhone, mana main all those old traditional games skarang ni, kan? (think Lat: Kampung Boy lol). when i was young i used to play batu seremban with my friends. i used to have my own set, i had a friend of mine sew them for me (that was almost 20 years ago. don't ask me where they are now). at one point my dad even offered to sew some for me too, but they turned out weird-looking and most of them were not the same size hahahhahaha (it's the thought that counts though eh?).

batu seremban or five stones is a game originally played by girls. you can either play with five, seven or nine stones determining to what type of game you are playing. the objective of the game is to throw one of the stones one at a time and sweeping another on the floor simultaneously, catching the one you threw earlier on. the higher you advance levels, the more complicated the game gets.

the stones would either be triangle-ish (like in my photo) or rectanglish, but they don't really make a difference (although balancing them on your hand face-down would be much easier to do with the pillow-shaped ones =P).i remember playing with five stones when i was in primary school. i can also vaguely recall playing with seven stones (which they refer to as batu tujuh). i sudah forgot how they both differ. the stones were usually filled with green beans, or rice (biji sagu ade orang pakai tak?). Lits asked what would happen if the stones get wet. hahahaha. Lix lagi la tak pernah main the kain version, she 'literally' played batu seremban lolz. maybe i should get a couple more sets to pass down to my daughters one day, hahahahah.

tried googling batu seremban, came across this website that teaches you how to make your own batu seremban. and here's a blog that sells them, in fact for a much cheaper price than what i bought mine for.

besides the batu seremban, Lits showed me an awesome stall that sold really good quality inners, the only thing was i was down to my last rm5. eeep.

brought out my KP yesterday. i think Dinara is a 100% wrap and rs baby, this was what happened when i tried to strap her in an ssc:

Dayana and those shoes

here are a couple of ramblings from her at Tesco:

Dayana: Mommy, i botak.
Me: ???

oh... what she meant to say was, i batuk.
ROFL.

Me: Mommy wants to buy roti, diapers, sugar and broom. Mommy nak beli apa again?
Dayana: roti!
Me: lagi?
Dayana: diaper!
Me: good. lagi?
Dayana: boom.
Me: one more?
Dayana: shoe!

er... either she has new shiny princess shoes on the brain or that's short form for sugar. haha. for the record, kids have excellent memory. provided you don't ask them to memorize the Oxford dictionary on the spot.

so i went sightseeing at Pyramid in the evening with Dayana. the original plan was to drop by Tesco for the above-mentioned neccessities, i didn't have anything in mind to buy but i was hoping the leggings i saw at Jusco MV would be available at Jusco Pyramid, i find it difficult to estimate her sizing these days. i couldn't find it, either dah habis or what i dunno (oooh i wished Uniqlo opened at Pyramid!!!). so we walked walked and walked... and dropped by Cotton On Kids (ni lagi satu punye store that i wish opened at MV!). aiiiiiiiiii the dresses were tdf. i could only afford to look and drool this time.

Dayana however, decided to charge in terus. the mannequin at the entrance door was decked in a tutu dress complete with fairy wings and Dayana was going 'look Mommy, princess!'. then she saw all those shiny strikingly pink shoes on display and immediately demanded me to buy them for her. tried bribing her with crocs and ice cream, but failed miserably. sigh. just looking at the shoes i'm reminded of Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, it's really shocking pink.

shocking pink

i got them in size 10 which was still big for Dayana, but i thought at least she could grow into them later as opposed to growing out of them too soon. another girl was also smitten by the very same pink shoes. her mother pun beriya takmo beli because apparently it wouldn't match her envisioned outfit. then i was about to pay when the cashier told me ade offer: 1 for rm44, 2 for rm50 @_@ haih. i took aeons just picking one (she rejected all other designs except for that pink one which she refers to as 'Princess', and now you want me to choose another??). i decided to get a pair for Dinara in size 6 (which i think it'll take awhile for her to grow into them), and in a color i wanted Dayana to take but she refused point blank. beriya Dayana cakap 'i want the shiny shoe Mommy, princess shoe!'.

shoes for Dinara, less bling

as they grow older, shopping for clothings get really challenging T___T.

oh oh i dropped by Guess to see if my new-found friend was there, and she was. chomel lah minah tu, hahaha. she looks gorgeous yesterday and today (jealous betul i orang muda2 ni). i felt like the harassed-looking mom just standing next to her ahahahaha. maybe i should overhaul my wardrobe, hmmm. babe if you read this could u approve my twitter request? i don't even have your number lol.

slow Sunday

since i spent the whole day at Subang yesterday and didn't bring out the kids, today i woke up early to bring them out to jalan. ok well i actually had a different agenda, i wanted to drop by the Curve's street market, i read Qhaty was gonna be there and i soo wanted to try one of her Bisky Bosky CPs.

pre-outing with hrs

the kids woke me up super early at 7am, knocking on my toilet door @_@. by the time we left the house, Dinara was already woozy, so the journey to was smooth, thank God, because i didn't bring Bibik along this time. and as my luck would have it, i walked from one end of the market to the other until i finally came across Qhaty's booth @_@!!!. cantik-cantik CPs dia (i'm usually smitten by design if anything). Qhaty says her liners are popular but i don't really do liners, they're too thin, so i got myself one day pad and one light pad. but i chose dark colors so that i would be less bothered by the stains later. so... can't wait to use them. heck i don't even remember when was my last cycle, hehe.

syiok betul velour. almost sayang mau pakai lol

brought the kids to the playground in front of Mothercare after that to allow Dayana to let off steam, before heading to Ikea for meatballs. heck pukul 11.30am pun dah ramai orang aaaaaaa nyampah betul. and me with two kids in tow too. did i mention bringing out two kids on your own is suicide? haha. ok that's overreacting. but two is already a handful, belum lagi 3 T__T. didn't help that Dayana spotted orange juice boxes and demanded for one on the spot. reasoning with her that we have to follow the line failed, and Dinara was getting restless in FCC. i noticed HRS got diggy in the shoulders after awhile, but maybe it's me (because my shoulders still feel stiff even now). AHI wasn't so. at least Dayana enjoyed the eyeballs meatballs, and her orange juice. Dinara was just happy clutching a french fry in her fist. oh the mushroom soup was good too. Dayana taste tested it first before gulping down 1/2 of the bowl contents.

i was about to go home when Dayana started asking for the 'car'. earlier on the way to Ikea we passed by the kiddie land where you could rent a toy car for 5 minutes or so and let your kid drive it around the mall. Dayana rode on one before, remote-controlled by her Daddy zaman bile ntah i sudah lupa. so this time she was asking me all the way 'Mommy where's the car? carcarcarcarcarcarcarcar bla bla bla' so ok fine, we went back to kiddie land upstairs. i thought sitting in a stationary car would be enough for her, but she decided she wanted it to move as well so i paid rm3 for a 5 minute ride. Dayana specifically wanted the pink car so we had to wait. we did.

then you know what? just as soon as the car was vacant, that very same lady who i specifically mentioned that Dayana wanted the pink car had the audacity to give the car to another kid who just came out of nowhere. wth? wtf? tunggu sikit punye, Dayana was bouncing up and down, and you do that? ok i was pissed. and of course as soon as she got back to the counter i yelled. i already paid, i had waited, i'm wearing a cranky kid, and you simply give the car away? huh. sorry naik lorry. bukan tak tau, dah tau dah. and it didn't help that the kid's turn lasted for like what, 10 minutes or so? lagi lama la we had to wait (i'm not blaming the kid ok, kids are innocent).

it didn't help that at least four of the cars there were not functioning. by the time Dayana got the car she didn't want to ride in it anymore. the lady didn't even offer to compensate, at least that's something la kan. i think Dayana could also sense that i was not in the mood either, either way she seemed totally different from the time she was bouncing up and down waiting for her turn. gahhhh. i ended up yelling at the lady again and demanded for my money back. overreacting? sorry. you do that to me i can understand, you do that to my kid, well... tough luck on you.

the lousy culprit

i reached back home at 1pm. haha. surprised myself. the kids zonked out right after we left the Curve. thought of going to Pyramid but decided to bring the kids home instead, in actuality i yang tak larat nak angkut two kids by myself. maybe it's about time i testdrive my SSCs that's been collecting dust in my closet. huhu.

ok going out to Tesco now, if i don't get my butt moving now then i'll never will. toodles!

back to Dinara

if Dinara gets a tissue, she'll help Mommy to wipe the table/floor. oh sungguh rajin anak Mommy sorang ni. haha. after that she'll rip the paper to shreds. dulu pantang nampak tissue box, she'll tarik kluar tisu satu satu @_@.

she seems to understand what i tell her. like recently i told her to throw something into the dustbin, and she did! but she also threw other things into the dustbin too, like the syringe we use to give her her meds T__T.

sudah ada skill melukis. give her a pen and paper and she'd lie on her stomach and scribble sepenuh hati.

anytime, anywhere

our bathroom adjoins with the kids' room. so just now i entered the toilet via the kids' room to wash Dayana's butt and i closed the door because Dinara tends to follow and usually end up on her butt. oooh bukan main marah dia. but she was smart too. since she couldn't open up the door in her room, she decided to round the other side to see if she could enter through there (tough luck, i closed both doors =P). i found her in our room bawling her eyes out. hehe. pandai jugak minah ni.

Dinara sudah pandai gigit! T__T she has 6 teeth visible. for fun, she bites me in the flesh. bile kene marah, dia gelak. aiya.

if she's mad at her elder sister for stealing the limelight, she'll tarik rambut Dayana. hahaha. which obviously doesn't help because it'll end up making Dayana mad.

so... a little of what i've observed on my younger cheeky monkey. =)

when dreams should be realized once in a while

morning i had an appointment with this:


and evening i had an appointment at this: