Apartment to let

Service apartment to let @Pangsapuri Pesona, Permatang Pauh, Seberang Perai Utara. 3 bedroom, 2 bath. Rent : RM400 pm. Deposit 2+1.

Amneties : Security guard, multi purpose hall, playground,
Near UiTM, Politechnic, Carrefour

All in a day's life

Caution : Contained disgusting stuff and terribly boring.

Amri had fever so he was terribly unhappy when I had to leave him in the morning. But as soon as I reached home, he demanded to be driven around for a ride. Adam of course, hopped in as well...invited or not.

We barely leave our street when Amri said he needed to pee. So okay, I made a u-turn to home and Amri was whining that he really, really needed to pee now. We reached home all right but..... hehehehe......guess what????? Aveo's backseat has been turned into a toilet. Partially anyway. Grosssss!!!!!!

Luckily bibik handled the cleaning up without too much fuss. So I proceeded with dishing up express lunch. Just after I finished laying out gourmet lunch, put away the marinated beef for dinner use and start up the notebook, hubby called and guess what???????

Yay!!!!!!!! We'll be going out for da vinci code at gsc midvalley.

Took out the premature marinated beef and nuked it for hubby's lunch. Took a quick shower, dressed up, pumped in some more paracetamol into Amri and ready for lunch. Only to have hubby said that he was not coming in for lunch but lets just go immediately. Kesian itu beef.

We had lunch at midvalley anyway. And bought the promised power rangers t-shirt for the boys. Two pairs each. So that bibik wont be harassed about the shirt every time she had to wash them.

Bumped into long lost friend...Che Diin! She saw me first and recognised me despite I was 15kg more than she remembered. That girl! She still looked like the mischievous 16 year old and sound like one too. Amazing!

Da Vinci Code was great. Only that Tom Hanks would always equal to Forrest Gump to me. The big, ugly hair didn't help either.

Went for a bit of window shopping after the movie. Hubby couldn't find his favourite CJ shop so we just went back to metrojaya instead then bumped into hubby's old colleague. Really, did everybody just hang around midvalley on wednesday?

Reached home quite late and found out Adam with a bit of temperature. Amri was a lot better.

And also...bibik informed us that Adam's formula was totally finished. Oppsss...sorry Adam. Ibu forgot to buy. Well....just drink all those free cans of formula, ok. Somebody gotta finish all those.

Lotsa thank yous to hubby:
....for the wonderful date
....for the movie though I knew you were not really into that
....for my stock of S*II product (can't afford to buy them myself anymore)
....for the new reebok lycra pants and tops (my previous ones had become baggy, either from numerous washes or I had shrunk to one size smaller)

Movie matter

Many members were missing from class today, most of whom had went to watch da vinci code. I'd like to go too but certainly not on first day, or first week for that matter. And I don't really enjoy sitting in the arctic gold class. Brrrrr...... I'd be shivering from start till the end. Blanket???? I do not want somebody else's blanket, no matter how sterile. Plus.....watching movie bundled in a blanket did not spell fun time to me.

So I'll wait till next week and see whether I can manage to persuade hubby to go with me.

Sembang pagi

I was discussing some annual dance matters with a bunch of ladies when all of sudden this one kindly lady tap me on the shoulder and asked whether I've graduated yet. I gaped at her.

My first thought : I must have looked so young to be mistaken for fresh graduate

My second thought : Okay....maybe I looked like somebody finishing her phd or her 10th bachelor degree

My third and final thought : Could be mistaken identity case .....

Rearranged my face and told her that...no, I had graduated centuries ago but if she was looking for students, there are two of them in the club. One is Miss A, doing her master in medical something and is currently is attached at HKL. The other is the funky international student Ms S who is a superb dancer but I've forgotten what her major is. I think something to do with drama or theater. Rarely seen though...both of them.

The lady laughed and said that she heard from somebody that I was an ex accountant on looong study leave. And could the ex accountant please recommend any of her jobless friend for a vacancy at her place.

So it happened that she is looking for Internal Audit Executive. Anybody interested, email me your resume. Unfortunately, the company works alternate Saturday and the candidate is expected to travel extensively throughout Malaysia.

Err....I forgot to ask what was the company name. But, it was at Section 26 Shah Alam.

A day for teachers

HAPPY TEACHERS DAY

I helped Amri with present for his teacher as well as a card. He didn't want ready made card. Said he wanted to make it himself and draw his picture at the front and write a few millions words of nice things to his teacher.

After many discarded papers later, we compromised. We made a card using publisher, say a few nice things, inserted his picture and print in colour. He wrote his name and his teacher name by himself though I spelled out letter by letter to him.

A day for mothers

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL MOMMIES

Another trekking day

This time to the next door Bukit Cahaya Sri Alam aka Bukit Cerakah. Haven't been here for quite some time. The last was when hubby and I organised a reunion for x-PKL students last year. Amri and Adam seemed to enjoy the trip to FRIM last month and kept asking for more. I'm just glad they did. I'd just die if they turned out to be like Auntie Chik's students who peed in their pants during night jungle trekking. They were 12 year olds and for goodness sake, just a feet away from the pavement. Hardly a jungle. God forbid, my sons were not going to be anything like that.

Back to the trip....I planned to walk all the way in but Amri and Adam saw the bus and were so excited I didn't have the heart to say no. Adam especially. Never been on a bus, none that he could remember anyway. We board down at Taman Haiwan and paid a visit to all the animals there.
The kids had a great time feeding the deer. Hubby and I thought all the animals looked starving. They didn't have leftover food on their plate like those animals at KL Bird Park & Zoo Negara.

From animal farm, we took a leisure walk to the pool as well....our reunion spot last year. Luckily Adam & Amri didn't insist to take a dip. Things looked a bit better off than last year.

R&R


Canopy walk. The kids really frightened me by running all the way to the end. Gosh! Thank God the holes in the net securing the sides of the canopy were small enough to prevent the boys from accidently fall through them. Thing is, when they ran, I had to run as well to catch them. Then the canopy would sway like crazy. Imagine a hippo running on the planks...that would be close enough picture.

The boys were too tired to walk so we waited for the bus. Amri was exaggerating anyway.

Amri learning that rice originated from paddy, not tesco

Icecream on hot sunny day

June Tea Dance

Oookaaaay ladies....here we go. The annual hi tea organised by my fitness centre. Could be the last though because the owner is closing down the place *sob*.

Date : 17 June 2006 (Saturday - after school holiday)
Time : 1.00 pm to 5.30 pm
Venue : Holiday Villa Subang (anybody can help me get a better price here?)
Price : RM60 per pax
Dress code : Mama Rockers (die...die...i can't get into jeans yet)
Strictly ladies only

The members ruled out belly dancing because they already did that last year. So, it'll be hip hop and perhaps latin dance show by us. There'll be karaoke, games, contest, lotsa food, lucky draw and of course....dance till you drop.

Come and join the fun! I still have a lot of tickets to sell.

Parent Teacher Day @ Little Caliph

I used to dread this kind of day. Truth was...I still dreaded it a little bit. I knew Amri would never be one of those bright overachievers. Not yet anyway. I was not into pressuring him to excel academically...there will be enough time for that in the future. But I need him to be able to read decently and count money.

I went there late. In fact, i was the last parent. Well...no matter. Teachers could speak to me for as long as they wanted to.

Surprise....surprise! Amri had done fairly well. He read well, suddenly becoming good at hafazan & qiraati class, a lot less troublemaker and flunked math grandly :) Well...I guess I just had to teach him math my way. Somehow, he had acquired a longer attention span, perhaps due to maturity and peer influence. He was overpossessive of his stuff, which surprised me, because at home, he was a big mess and couldn't care less of his things. Teachers said he kept his things neatly at his locker and did not hesitate to get into fist fight if any poor soul ever touch his stuff without his permission. Really...that was new. Perhaps because at home he has bibik to pick up after him and his only rival is Adam...whom he considered to young to be punched.

I just hope that Amri would try reasoning many, many time first before he decided to punch anybody's nose. I'm getting really nervous now.....

Twist of fate

I went for morning aerobic and the instructor told me that the buyer for her fitness equipments was hospitalised for brain tumor. Emergency operation this Friday. Due to that, the instructor was postponing her plan to close down the centre until her buyer get back on her feet. Oh my....

I didn't know what to feel. It was bad that the buyer ended up with brain tumor. And a big one at that. She was just 42 and so full of life. Already had her fitness centre at Bangi fully decorated. Just waiting for the equipments. She'll either has to postpone or scrape it altogether.

Well...if she postpone than I'll have to postpone my plan as well. If she scrape her plan to open her own fitness centre, then perhaps I could buy the equipments from the instructor and do something with it.

Just wait and see.

Oh no....

Hopefully I wont get addicted into this. Found it at Elisa's blog, decided to try out and gee....can't snap out of it. Already Amri was harassing me to do him & Adam. Did the picture look like me? Perhaps so....after deducting 50% off my current weight and age :) Well...who cares. It was fun. Amri certainly agreed it really looked like me. Most probably because that was what I was wearing now...hihihi. The luxury of blogging and wearing whatever ridiculous clothes that took my fancy....aaahhhh.

That was not entirely true however. I was dressed up in gym suit because I needed to go off early to aerobic today. The ladies were having a meeting for annual dinner/hi tea or whatever they'll decide later. See....my fitness club has annual dinner :) And I was the committee member. Truth is, I'm not entirely sure of what am i supposed to do/organise. Belly dancing contest?

M.I.A

Nothing to do with chartered accountants anyway. I was referring to stuffs in our house that went missing-in-action from time to time. I have come to accept that as another facts of life when it come to living under the same roof with two undiciplined boys and not so competent maid. Many small items have went missing before...watches, cds, dvds, ring, feeding bottle, toothbrush, books, hairclips, broochs, screwdriver, lipstick, thumbdrive and a million other stuffs. More often than not, I'd be able to find them after I ransacked the places where the maid and the boys dumped stuffs in. Or they simply reappeared with no reason.

Well....not this time. The wretched pen decided to stay MIA even after I turned the house upside down. Not once, not twice...but many, many times. Every nook and cranny. Sheesh!!!! As if I didn't have anything better to do.

But then...the search itself was not difficult. It is a small house anyway. What made it a bitter pill to swallow was the fact that a peek inside my bags was deemed necessary in order to locate the stupid pen. Have I gone that absentminded not to notice that big ugly pen inside my bag which only carry a pilot pen at its most extravagant days?

Yes, admittedly...most of HIS belongings ended up as HER stuffs. Sunglasses, notebook, digicam, books, bank account, camera but honestly....a pen? Didn't it fell under the same category as belt and briefcase and shoes? Expensive and showy but hardly a unisex stuffs.

Maybe I should reconsider those web surveillance thingy. Or send the boys and bibik to 5S training.