liz's sun hat for Dayana

i got this in the mail yesterday. liz recently blogged about how she conjured up a frilly sun hat using her own sheer creativity (which i envy over =P) and i was tempted to ask her to make one for my dot. the hats my daughter owns all look soo... grandmotherly. even better yet, you know those buluh terbang that Doraemon and Nobita uses to fly? her hats reminds me of something like that sans the propeller. haha.

Dayana owns only 3 hats: 1) Significant Other bought her one pink Anakku hat before Dayana was even born, 2) we received a pink and white Barney hat as a gift, and 3) Significant Other bought her another hat in Bandung, white color with white flowers stuck over it. she looked much better in this hat, but my mom says the hat sort of reminds her of Old Mother Hubbard = granny hat. hehe.

and so liz agreed =D.

i told liz that she could just pick whatever colors that she wanted, as long as it's on the girlish side. in other words, surprise me, i know she has good taste (unlike yours truly who doesn't care about the clashing of colors). i put in the order last week, and it only arrived yesterday *big grin*.

thanks liz! appreciate the effort =). Dayana loves it too. lol.

the wrapping

the end product

it's a snugg alright. i didn't mind the label!

trial test run

i'm thinking she likes it OK

which waves?

help!!! i wanna know... which is nicer?

top to bottom: cassis waves, holunder waves, aubergine waves, sinfonie waves

disregard the last waves (the red one), i put it there only because i love the color, but the mama who had this already chopped it up *sigh*. so it's down to the other three. which one do you think is nicer? =P~

didy didy didy... you're so bloody expensive!

mak ngah is a banana

well... Significant Other is safely in Tripoli now. we arrived back home after sending him to the airport at 2am. he mati-mati ingat his flight was on Sunday afternoon... luckily i double-checked. apparently he was supposed to fly off at 2 o'clock in the morning. another round of curses from him. haha. i couldn't attend the CD gathering held at Nia's due to the last minute packing and preparation for his keberangkatan pergi (if there is such usage of a word).

on Sunday we went to the parent's place to celebrate kak ish a.k.a. mak ngah's belated birthday, which falls on the 8th of June. i thought that Aida's reception was gonna be held that Sunday night (no thanks to you-know-who) so i lugged my baju kurung along with me. turns out her reception was on Saturday afternoon, so i totally missed it altogether =(. oops, sorry Aida, didn't meant to miss it on purpose T_T. talk about getting the times wrong for the past weekend. lol. and you-know-who was already on her way there, hahahaha *pengsan*

anyway, since my sistah was leaving for Seremban in the evening, i was late to leave the house, so by the time i arrived my dad had already gone off to play a round of golf. my brother was also there since morning (nobody told me he was gonna be around! cheese). and the birthday girl? snoozing practically the whole day. haiz. so we had to wait until my dad got home before cutting the cake. by then my brother was long gone off (sorry ek Abang) to frolick with one of his friends or something.

Dayana was taking her evening nap, so we sang the quick version of happy birthday in hushed tones and took photos with my sista's camera (Aya i want photos plizz!). for presents, my brother bought her a book, i forgot what Aya bought for kak ish, and i handed over my present of which i totally forgot to wrap properly, i just jammed it into a wedding goodie bag (oops lagi). daddy got chocolate indulgence, which turned out to be a bit lembiks because mommy didn't put it in the freezer. lol.

my sister is a top banana

i got her one of those momiji dolls =D cute eh?

i added in a freaky-looking alien keychain for kicks... hahahah

Dayana giving it the Quality Control inspection

Dayana didn't want to miss the celebrations too =P

Dayana: happy birthday Mak Ngah! don't forget my duit raya this year =P

cutey crawly

Dayana is awfully good at crawling now. she crawls at every chance she gets. it's pretty difficult to get her to lie down in bed for her schleepy time. she would prefer exploring my bedroom floor than going to sleep. yesterday morning she got up at 1am+ for a Skype call with Daddy and refuses to fall back asleep even after bribing her with a bottle of milk!

i got her a pair of knee protectors to - what else? - protect her knees. dunno how useful it will be though. it's a bit pricey! i'm having second thoughts about purchasing this item from tt. fell in love with rumparooz, but they're a bit pricey as well. not to mentioned i just splurged on an rs, so... *sheepish grin*. oh well. i got a little something for myself too =P *wishing i had gotten meself the square one instead*

should i have not?

can't leave Dayana unattended now. goodness knows where she'll end up crawling into, or what sorta stuff she'd find and cram into her mouth *pengsan*. i can't leave her on the bed for more than 5 seconds anymore. babies really have no fear of falling, haha. she can climb over obstacles too. her favorite obstacle is her Mommy. haiz. she doesn't like the walker Daddy bought her, she howls like no tomorrow whenever she's being put inside it. need to check with the maid on her latest progress with the walker later.

her first time in her super canggih punye walker

her current pastime is babbling to herself, and engaging into a scream war with Tok Mami. her first blurtings were 'da da'. *oh how annoyed i was, penat ku jagamu and you mention that first??* so there she was, playing and mumbling 'da da da' non stop. pagi petang siang malam. until one day i got tired of it so i taught her how to pronounce 'ma ma'. which she finally managed to pronouce after a few tries, yay! but not as often as 'da da' though. pagi2 bile bangun sebut 'da da', bile nak tido terus cariek 'ma ma'. ok la tu. lol. but i read from babycentre UK that all this syllables mean squat to Dayana at the moment. but that's alright. whatever puts you to sleep at night =P~~~

she already knows how to protest when you take something away from her. hahaha.

she's fascinated with mirrors! i'm not sure what she thinks of her own reflection though, because sometimes she'll attempt to talk to her own reflection. heehee.

Dayana: mirror mirror on the wall, who's the cutest baby of them all? lol

now she's in the process of trying to pull herself up onto her feet. she'll crawl up to me and she'll hold her hands out, so i'll take them in mine and she'll struggle to pull herself up. hehe. i cheer everytime she successfully manages to do so. she'll beam at me like Little Miss Sunshine, and i'll sing her the hotdog dance. lol. i wonder when she'll move on to furniture cruising. there isn't much furniture to perch onto safely in the house.

i haven't thought of getting her shoes yet. tried one of my old pairs last weekend and she was slipping and sliding in them. haha. anyway, mil bought her a pair of red soft soles, her very first pair (minus her Adidas). they totally match with her IB. hehe.

tappity tappity... those are MY shoes ok

tag from Joely, Sasa and Mi

i've been tagged again!!! huarghhhhh (the feeling is similar to being splattered by a gigantic paintball... no matter how hard you duck you'll eventually get hit... i've never played paintball before though, but noreen says it hurts each time you get hit... ahaks).

i find that since all three tags are more or less the same, i'm gonna sum them up into one boring tag... hope you don't mind... =P

i'll start with joely's tag since i saw my name typed at the end of her tag post one fine day... moving on to sasa's tag, and ending with fahmi's tag...

Blogger Friendship Award

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1. Joely a.k.a. Jolai =D (i looooOoOve calling her that =P)
she was my housemate back in our Uni years starting from our second year, if i'm not mistaken. before that i just knew her from afar as the-girl-i've-seen-around-but-had-no-reason-to-mingle-with. haha. dah la kurus like me, we eat like nobody's business yet still manage to maintain our stick figures, haiz (although i think she's doing better than me right now, i'm a measly 37kg. the horrors!). got to know her better when we shared the same house in V4C-S1 despite taking different majors, and the rest is history =P.
p/s. joli ingat lagi tak the time i had to pick you up in Lumut in the middle of the night that one time? hahahahah.

2. Sasa a.k.a. febeles! =P
we were from the same batch back in Uni, but we weren't really close. i took IT, she was from the IS degree. she had her own group of friends, i had mine. but we ended up in the same company during our internship term in third year (although not the same department). and i think we were both sponsored by PTPTipu last time, so i guess that's something in common, boleh tak? haha. there's alot i don't know about Sasa though =D.

3. Fahmi a.k.a. Ozy (i got no idea why he's called that. is it because he used to live in Australia before?)
i don't think i remember him back in my Uni days, knew he used to be Significant Other's colleague back in his PwC days... (were you in 'kampung' too back then? i dah lupe) then he moved on to the kerang for a while before returning to the former. i seriously can't remember what brought us close together, but i guess because of Significant Other, i got to know him much better i think, by attending the same functions and meeting up for lunches and whatnot. he even offered to help me change my tyres last time (which i am really greatful for). he bought my daughter her first pair of shoes (which she hasn't managed to grow into yet), he's really into Chilli's (seriously) and loves getting a bite to eat with Johanna =P. is that enuff? oh yeah, and he has this really cute cate named Barb. i love cats. that's something in common, don't you think? =P.

3. Setiap blogger mesti menyatakan 10 fakta/hobi diri sendiri sebelum memilih penerima award seterusnya (anda di-tag).

ala... i don't like this part. what facts would you like to know about? hmmmm...

1. i eat alot. on a really good day, my appetite is really good. you can ask some of my friends who've seen me polish the food off my plate. or you could just ask Sarah about my 'tomyam' escapade (hahaha, even she couldn't believe her eyes ok). yet we all wonder where all that food go, i'm so skinny it's annoying! i can't fit into proper dresses, i look like a sticklady in them =(.

2. i'm superstitious about sitting in the seat i'm assigned to on an airplane. i'm not willing to exchange seats with anyone, it doesn't matter if you're some old couple who pretends to get their seat number wrong just to get my window saet (teruk tak me? =P). my reason is that just in case anything were to ever happen to the plane that ends with the plane being unable to reach its destination safely, i'd prefer to be identified correctly and not to be mistaken for someone else.
ok i'm crazy i know, but that's what i think.

3. did you know i had this dream that my fate were to end in a car accident? i don't know how true dreams are though. some say things will happen the opposite of what you've dreamt. i remember my friend panicking one time back in Form 5 when she dreamt she scored 10A's for SPM, haha. there are some things i just don't beleive in, but there are others in which i do. like how the traffic light turns red each time it sees my car coming? definitely jinxed (or probably because the last digits of my car's chassis number is 444. hahahahha).

4. my favorite number is 9. i just like it, so don't ask me why not 5 or 2 or 11? *slap*. i used to like the number 7 but then there were too many of my friends who liked 7 so i decided to change my favorite number to 9. hahahaha. and i'm more in favor of odd numbers than even numbers.

5. i can swim pretty well (although i haven't reached saving lives status, i might get drowned in the process) but i'm a bit phobic when it comes to swimming in open waters where i can't see the bottom. seriously, once my imagination runs wild, there's no stopping it. i remember going for a quick dip in the Tasik Dayang Bunting some years ago on my honeymoon trip, and i kept imagining piranhas were about to bite off my toes any moment. or that i'd be kicking my legs in the murky depths of the water and suddenly knock them against something, like dead pieces of wood or some slimy stone or some really creepy looking sea creature. eeks!

6. i love chinese food. malay food and thai food follows a close second and third.

7. i'm superstitious in a way that i don't bring back anything off the island with me. you know like, bringing back a souvenir or two from nature itself for free? i heard one time there was this person who took something from the island as some kind of proof that he visited the island or something, and his life was never in peace after that until he actually went back to return it to the island. i think it's just a way of scaring people off from ruining nature's beauty, and to leave nature as it is for other people to enjoy. there won't be much to look at sooner or later if people keep bringing back a coral or two, right? so... better safe than sorry =P.

8. i hate ironing. i suck at it. iron ten thousand times pun yet it still looks crinkly, especially Significant Other's working clothes. i'd sweat buckets of sweat just trying to iron it properly, and i'd break my back in the process *grrr*. i even burnt a small hole in my roommate's kain baju kurung once =P but it could still be worn as the hole wasn't visible (but later on my rommate ended up terminating the baju kurung completely by burning an even bigger hole, haha).

9. i'm a shopaholic. but i think everyone know this already. but i'm the worse kind in the sense that it is cumpulsory for me to join one of those Shopaholics Annonymous, if there ever was one. and i need a sponsor to ensure that i'm kept in line. lol.

10. before i delivered my first child, my initial plan was to have 3 kids at the most. after having Dayana however, i wouldn't mind having enough to form a football team. hahaha. the more the merrier! think about how sunyi the house will be once they've all grown up and entered Uni. at least with many kids with different age gaps your house will never feel lonely =P (ok what kind of reasoning is this i have no idea wahhahahahah). and i'd love to have twins! if God permits me one day *prays*

DONE!

4. Anda perlu memilih 6 penerima award seterusnya dan menyatakan nama mereka di blog anda.

haiz... do i really? this one also needs alot of thinking. haha.

1. munira - i don't care even if you decide to discontinue your blog
2. mawar - but she decided to terminate her blog. how la then?
3. shasha M - OMG you're getting engaged? congrats dear! =)
4. sara - my cousin in Terengganu =P
5. yatt - my colleague! go update you blog wokeyh!
6. aya - my sister a.k.a. ashu, lol
7. my roommate - if she has a blog one day

my trip to Kedah

we went to Kedah last weekend! Significat Other agreed to go, and boy was i excited. even my parents were going back to Kedah, my cousin was getting engaged in Langkawi. practically all of my close friends back in uni (all seven of us) would be in Kedah at the very same time, it's been ages since we actually got together like this. and we were bringing Dayana for her furthest trip ever!

we wanted to leave for Kedah in the wee hours of the morning to avoid the traffic but i ended up oversnoozing and only got up at 5am Saturday morning *oops*. i crammed a bunch of stuff into two bags (one for us, the other for Dayana) and hurriedly threw them into the car. by the time we left it was already 7.30am.

Dayana schleepy schleepy~

driving past the speed limit... shhhhh

the roads were still busy with traffic heading up north, but not as busy as during midnight a few hours earlier, which i later found out from my dad (they left for Kedah at midnight and got stuck in horrendous traffic on the way). we took turns driving, i drove from Sungai Perak up until Gurun. we arrived in Alor Setar around 11.30am (thanks to Significant Other, who speeded most of the way) and headed for my uncle's house to drop off our stuff. my uncle and family, including my dad would be leaving for Langkawi after lunch and since they're staying overnight there we practically had the house for ourselves. it would just be my mom, my two sistahs and us. whee~~

Aunt Ina made great nasi lemak and yummy cupcakes! *mouth watering* *reminds meself to get the recipe from her later*

our first stop of the day was to go to Eiwa's wedding reception, held at her newly renovated house from wood to stone (woohoo~ my peeps keep saying 'siap ade aircond office, occay~!'). it was almost 3pm by the time i reached her house. my mom accidentally took the wrong set of keys and we ended up being locked out of the house. gwahhhhh. everyone was already at Eiwa's, minus Sarah, who arrived shortly later. my mom and sistah proceeded to hang out at Hanim's house while we continued to do our visits =P. *congrats Eiwa and Kian!* *finally!*

kian & eiwa

with the whole bunch

Dayana mingling with Wally

the girls

the guys

we headed off to Noriza's place next to see her 44-day old baby, Muhammad Hafiz Naufal =). sungguh rock ok, siap pakai striking red mitten and booties, lol!

naufal =)

next stop: Wanza's place. she was having her son's cukur jambul the very same day so we dropped by her place for a visit =). her baby, Muhammad Irfan Danial, was roughly about 2 weeks old (i think). *congrats Wan!*

our final stop was to Aida's house. her wedding solemnization was today but we decided to skip that and serbu her house for the food instead =P. *congrats Aida!*

aida's reception the next day

i couldn't make Aida's wedding reception the next day because we had to head back down south to attend Rijal's wedding at Nibong Tebal. but i told her i'd try to make it for her wedding in Shah Alam the next weekend.

after we bid our goodbyes we headed back to Hanim's place to see her 2-month old baby, then whisked everyone to Kangar, PERLIS with my mom and sistah to pick up the spare keys that my uncle left us to get in the house. *jauhnya! pengsan*

it was almost 9.30pm by the time we reached Alor Setar so we went to pick up my other sistah who had gone to lepak with her Kedah peeps and made a beeline for Riverland =D. yummy! my most favorite chinese restaurant in Alor Setar. one of the things i miss about leaving Kedah, lol. it's Dayana's first time in a high chair!

Dayana and Daddy

Dayana wants to order food too

wanted to drop by Kuey Teow Iman for a late supper, but we were too tired and decided to retire early that day.

the next morning we packed up our stuff, left for the tailors to drop off some kain for raya, then headed off to my grandparents' place to say a quick hye =). tok wan was getting older, his eyesight wasn't as good as before. after saying hyes and byes and promising to drop by for a longer visit next time (and a quick photos with the grandies!), we headed off to Penang.

Nibong Tebal apparently resides closer to the Perak borderline, so we didn't get a chance to drop by the island, since it was pointless to patah balik. this crazy Rijal pulak didn't give us his invitation card, and his scanned version for the original basically sucked =P. but thanks to Significant Other's fantastic Garmin GPS, we managed to reach his house without seriously getting lost. haha.

a smile for the camera, lol

fascinated with the fan

the bride and groom

Dayana: do i know you?

we continued our journey around 3ish, but the traffic was really bad after the Semanggul R&R. it was my turn to drive, and i guess i kinda burned rubber due to the sluggish traffic flow and utter boringness sampai nak tertido driving like a snail. we stopped at Tapah for fruits and ice cream (and gas for the Civic) when Significant Other decided to continue the journey via the trunk roads. the trunk roads aren't that bad, actually. traffic was smooth for one thing. the GPS however, insisted we get back onto the highway pronto. haha. we did eventually because the trunk road only had one single lane per side, and by the time we got back onto the highway it was already three lanes =D.

marvelous GPS creation

we arrived at Subang toll around 10ish and headed for fil's place first. i was so tired (i was still in my baju kurung okay) i fell asleep on the sofa waiting for Significant Other to finish tinkering around with the fil's PC, leaving Dayana to her grandparents (funnily she took an instant liking to Bibik, while the Grandad had to work a little harder to earn her trust, haha). we finally reached home safe and sound at almost midnight.

luckily we were on leave the next day *grin*. btw congrats to my cousin on his engagement!

p/s. at the time i'm typing this tower 2 is announcing that there's a fire situation two levels down. is ordered to standby until further notice. hahahahhaha. and i see that everyone in office is still cool as a cucumber. lol. apparently it was activated due to a technical error in the system. blueks.

fashion is...

i have an f3 coupon i need to utilize at the end of the month and so i've been eyeing this dress at Dorothy Perkins last weekend... seems that this type of dress is the in thing this season (or so it seems, i've been seeing them draped on mannequins in store windows), so i've been wondering whether i should own one or not. i like the cutting of the dress of course, but i'm not too sure of the print. sometimes when i look at it it looks really nice and sweet, but when i try and squint my eyes a little the pattern will start to resemble one of those old-fashioned curtains. lol.

decided to browse through the f3 shops online... came across a couple of nice ones... and then some =P.

collection from Dorothy Perkins

the dress i'm initially interested in is the leftmost one, the pink dress with floral print and pink waistbelt. the mannequin was modelling it in the store so that kinda caught my eye. i saw the other two dresses online: the cream-colored dress in the middle, and the pink/purple rose dress with purple waistbelt at the righmost of the picture. i don't know if the other two are available at the stores, does anyone know?

since i was already browsing at Dorothy Perkins, i might as well browse through Topshop and Miss Slefridge, right? =P.

collection from Miss Selfridge

the dress on the left is the White Lurex Bandeau Dress, the dress on the right is the White Dropwaist Dress. the left one is also a kind of cover up, so now i'm half wishing i had bought that instead of my colorful one (which Significant Other tends to compare with the colorful umbrellas by the beach... chis). the one on the right is actually just too cute for words, i've always been a fan of white, just that i rarely buy things in white because i'm afraid i might soil them.

but i prefer to see them in front of my eyes before making a purchase. sometimes items look really lovely in online photos, but when you see it for youself some of the magic that has captivated you earlier seem to diminish. haha. it happened to a couple of tops i tried on when i was looking for a new top at Topshop. in the end i bought something completely not in my list (and it was also relatively cheaper than my initial selection! lol).

uber coolness from Dorothy Perkins

i am soOoOo not into heels anymore. either that or i gotta start practicing wearing them ever since i abandoned them when i delivered my baby. but one of the shoes from DP caught my eye. check out that super cool pair of heels! if i was a huge fan of heels i'd get them in a jiff. haha. btw, does DP sell shoes? i don't think i've ever noticed if they did or not. i was never a DP fan, even though Significant Other is =P.

apart from these lovelies, i've been eyeing a couple of other stuffs as well. note the word 'eyeing', because they cost a bomb!

didy dyed purple waves waves wrap... the one that got away... sob

aubergine waves OMT - photo from tbw

aqua waves OMT - photo from tbw

was browsing throught the FSOT section... came across the above and immediately fell in love with them. unfortunately they're still selling at a crazy price, so i can only hope =P. i just realized that didy waves patterns are absolutely lovely! and check out the third photo, the kid looks absolutely happy sitting in there. i don't own an OMT except for Aidafiqs (which is currently on loan to my roommate). do you reckon an SSC would be better?

on another note, Significant Other is going to Libya this Saturday. lol. and i so need to get myself a webcam.