Forward With The Nuptial Knot

Photo Practive Day

2009-04-17T23:57:00.005+03:00

Spotted a squirrel in Parents-in-law's yard. It was busy for nuts and was so shy when noticed I tried to take pictures of its. It tried to avoid me and ran behind the branches and on the tree. Luckily I have good 200m zoom to catch the moment :)

3 posts in a roll. It knew that I'm doing something to it :)

>Sharing is caring< ---<--<-@

Hiding within the branches...

Squirrel : Catch Me If You Can... 'lol'

I wish to catch the Water Splashing effect as well as, our car looks so brand new like in the advertisement. Besides, the sun shining on car vs the darker object i.e hubby and the car (the contrast)

The effect for the finest of water splashed where the dots are visible

The contrast. Sun lights vs the darker object that make the object sparkled. And water dots are visible at the same time

I wish it looks like in the car advertisement!!!

Easter Dinner

2009-04-11T21:48:00.011+03:00

Thanks to the technology, I have been getting free recipe from the internet for delicious foods. Since we ate the Easter chocolate egg as celebration yesterday. I have decided to cook something good for the Christian day. Here is the outcome. It was super delicious.

Rosemary Mustard Pork Chops that I learned from Zestycook.com
(Recipe can be found from the link on left)

I didn't use the sweet potato because my hubby doesn't like it. Instead, I replace it with salad (we eat salad almost every meal!) and maybe smash potatoes in future. I follow the quantity for the sauce although it was meant for 4 portions because I like to have more sauce. Paprika and rosemary bring excellent sense while the mustard taste was hidden in sugar but, I believed it was the one makes the sauce thicken.

This is the second time I cooked the dish. For the first time, hubby bought the chopped pork instead of pork chop. It was hilarious. Therefore I didn't cook in the oven but only with stove. Taste was good too however the original (using pork chop) is always the best. And the bad thing was the rosemary was still hard due to the short cooking time. Second thing to take note is if the pork chop is thin, searing time should be short and remove from frying pan as soon as it is brown (about 1-2 mins); regardless inside is cooked or not because it will be done in the oven. I cooked it too long in the pan until the meat was hard and tired to chew. Besides, I was quite wondering about adding the pork into the pan with the sauce as per the instruction because the sauce was very little and looks like will dry out in the oven. I followed the instruction anyway and it didn't dry out instead, there was really extra sauce remain in the baking pan to baste the pork before enjoy the food :)

I am so looking forward to create own recipe in time to come. Happy trying :)

My First Easter

2009-04-11T19:56:00.012+03:00

Easter, heard but never know about the celebration. Learned from Wikipedia one of my favorite website that according to Christian scripture, Jesus was resurrected from the dead three days after his crucifixion. Hubby's family is not religious type but they still celebrate the Easter Day through decoration. Best of all, Friday & Monday are public holiday here. Guess it should be a big day here.

The Rye grass (Rairuoho) was planted for Easter Day, as well as the cute chicks. Hubby trim the grass a night before so that chicks are able stand on the grass :)

Professional hair dresser in the house

Before & after cut. The chicks look so cute and hilarious!!! :D

Can't believed I killed one chick on Easter Day!!!! It was an accident, God pls forgive me!

Due to the long holiday, we have to buy more foods from store (feel like winter/pre-war stock up :P). I noticed that beef was almost sold out, as well as beers have a very good market ;). I grabbed meats and vegetables, while hubby grabbed milk and bread. Also, he bought 4 Easter chocolate eggs for us. I was surprised at home, and a bit worry that the whole egg is made by chocolate (because of the FAT fact). Fortunately, it was just the egg shell that made of chocolate and; some goodies inside :)

Welcome toys!

Gardening Diary - Transfer The Plants

2009-04-11T19:36:00.030+03:00

It's weekend and time to visit parent-in-laws. My guru told me to bring my babies yesterday in the phone, say there's some activity for me. Good! Because I starting to get panic that, some of my Pot Marigold babies are start to bend down instead of heading up which; happened the same at my first blindly seedling trial (source said this flower need a bit extra care during growing period). Secondly, a bunch of China Aster are gathered in 1 small area instead of spreading equally in the pot.

Always, there is a warm welcome waiting for us whenever we visit to parent's house. That is why I love to come here. Further more, Mutsi is very surprised to see my babies have been growing so well. After a delicious lunch, we start to look into relocate the babies without further delay.

Material needed:

1. Separate pot(s)/vase(s)
2. Plant's stick with sharp head(I used ice cream stick at home because I don't have plant stick)
3. Soil
4. Old newspaper

First started with my Pot Marigold~~

1. Use news paper to close the holes of the pot, to avoid soil from escaping.
2. My guru+mother-in-law = Mutsi (and cute looking!)
3. Now use the stick go under the soil deeply and carefully push the soil up. Here some of the roots might get broken (because they are tight up and messy underneath) and have to throw the plant(s) away if it does. So have to be very careful.

4. When transfer to another pot, try to bury plants a bit deeper into the soil. Mutsi did until only the leaves are on top and... Done!
5. Back to the long pot, we need to add soil to support the 'armies' standing straight and up. I feel bad when many plants has to bury under the soil fully but Mutsi said it is ok. They will find their way up. They were born from soil anyway.

Before and after. So huge different [Poor babies :( ]

6. Now we need to manage the traffic in the China Aster pot. Use the stick or finger to make a hole before bury them into soil.

7. Mission accomplished!

Well done!!!

There is no need to rush to water the plant. Let them get use to the new change for 1-2 days then only pour with little water. From now on, every alternate or 2 days with little water is sufficient. Oh don't forget to move them to balcony for sun bathing, reminder from Mutsi. :)

EXPERIMENT & RESULT

I killed a lot of babies iceberg lettuce when I did the transfer back at home. One of the reason due to too many water previously, that the soil was so wet also there is something like a piece of flat wood under the soil and caused all the roots are tie up together thus hard to separate them. Anyway, lesson learned that actually no need to water them everyday. Besides, I tried to replant (transfer) those without root (I was very careless, only the head left :P), with root only no head as well as those broke to half with top part 'hanging' with bottom. Plants are amazing, they will tell you whether they can survive or not right on the next morning. As a result, of course they can't survive without root, the 'root only' is struggling to survive and the broken one; very unlikely can survive too.

Top left is the one without root and dying, the healthy one on right and hope that the bottom one (root only) able to regrow in the new environment.

I trust that I have learned all this knowledge in school however, I have returned it to teacher since the day I left the school :P. Anyway, some knowledge is good the learn through experience than to memorized from book.

Gardening Diary - Planting The Seeds (The Seedling)

2009-04-11T18:55:00.037+03:00

Whenever I say: Ok, I want to do this., then I will start to do a lot of research from the internet, books and ask the expert to make i do it right. As a beginner in gardening, I realised that maybe it is good for me to record my trials and errors in my own term as future reference. Because, information is just within a few clicks but we don't really digest it until we try it. Besides, it always and still happened to me that: "I have already do 100% according to the instruction but why the result is different?".

This idea came yesterday, 10 April 2009; first thing when I woke up. I was so happy to see my babies has been growing very well since the seedling last Saturday and I think I am ready to start planting in new pot without any help. Therefore, here's the beginning.

First of all, I need to prepare the planting materials as following:

1. Portable seedling box with transparent lid or, I use the plastic container as the base that used
to package the meats by supermarket and cover it with transparent food wrapper later.
Note : The base of the recycle plastic base has to be flat otherwise root(s) may somehow come out from the hole at the bottom of the pot. See my observation at the bottom.

2. Small plastic pot.

3. Well-drained soil. (I would describe it as dark brown soft mud, almost for all plants on earth)

4. Trowel (I only use my hand to grab the soil because it is small amount unless I need to fill into
hard reach edges)

5. Hand gloves (If don't want to get dirty. But sometimes is good with bare hands)

6. Old newspaper to cover the floor (if want to save the cleaning works, but still it will be all over)

Now I am ready with many wonders...

1. Add soil into the pot, about 2/3 of the pot.

2. Pour seeds into palm. Easy to distribute and avoid too much seeds if pour directly into pot.

Iceberg Lettuce. Small yet big contribution to us :)

3. How many seeds is ok in the pot? I'm wondering all the time because I don't know how big each plant will be. So I start up with 5-10 seeds first and labeled the different of seeds amount in each pot, as well as the name of the plant. (Well, a lot of works for a beginner)
4. After adding the seeds, slightly press them into the soil or, slightly cover them with some soils.
Babies need the blanket to keep warm :) No need to put them 6 ft. under the soil :P I really don't know where shall I put them into the soil the first time before Mutsi taught me, and was so afraid that they will be buried forever in the soil. Ha!

5. Watering. This part is always overdo by me as a new comer. Since here is a four season country, the plants no need to water all the time as well as the seeds. As long as the soil is wet (feel with fingers) it is enough for them to grow at the initial stage. I have once encountered that watering is hard to separate the plants' root when transferring to bigger pot though the plants survived with too much water. So no flooded the soil. Also, it was a bit challenging for me to pour the water with 'big mouth' water kettle. It will over pour!!! So I have to use my finger to help the water pouring. I think mist spray is good to avoid the over pouring but then the seeds will running around however it is ok. Just need to spray a bit far and slow and blanket the seeds again.

ops... too much water

6. Now I need to give the seeds another big shelter to keep the moist and warm - the transparent wrapping paper. Some source said that plastic bag also can but I prefer this because it is best to get the sunlight. I was so silly at the first time that, I afraid they will suffocate without having oxygen if I would keep it seal all the time so I keep on open and seal back the shelter. In fact they wouldn't, they are just seeds. Ha! Shame on me!
7. All ready and now just place them at a bright place with sufficient sun lights and water them daily (with very little water) or alternate day. I did 2 experiments: water daily or water them only on the first day with no water on next 2 days and they still grow. So either way but I prefer alternate day to avoid killing them with too much love and cares (this time is the real suffocation) :) Last but not least, clean the inevitable dirty floor!!!
8. As soon as the plants pop-up from seeds about 2cm with 2 leaves open widely then unseal the pot. Let them breath freely. Since their height is not reaching the shelter limit yet, I would wait until the rest of the seeds to pop-up before I unseal it because I am still not sure how well the seeds will grow without the shelter. Still under experiments anyway.

OBSERVATION & RESULT

To make sure the pot is steadily stay on a flat base. I transferred the baby spinach pot to green house box and let it stand on top of a hole (because the pot is bigger than the hole) for higher shelter space as some of them has grown tall and some still struggling to pop-up from seeds. The result was some roots even grown over the hole from the pot base and I have to transfer the particular baby spinach to a deeper pot.

I am glad that I found a way to recycle as I feel bad all the time to throw them away. So I started to collect them but, another thought in my mind was : I could probably collect more than 100 plastics in a year if I am keeping them all! According to hubby, there is no plastic recycling yet in Finland. I hope there is as soon as possible and if anybody know where is it available here, please tell me. Oh yes, don't forget to keep the film for future use once the babies no need the shelter. Please feel free to share your experience with me :)

Sun Tanned Day For Babies

2009-04-08T22:55:00.020+03:00

Spring is about gardening and sun shining. For the first time, I felt so in love with sunshine which; it used to be my biggest threat in Malaysia because we have a big hot sun all year round. Besides, our mind has been poisoned by those advertisement (again it is advertisement!), what is worse than having imperfect skin and pigmentation on the face? But here, is a whole new meaning of sun shining. It means life, and bring life.

Gardening has been my new hobby, and I am very much obsess into it. I have been waiting for our sun father (when earth as mother) since Saturday. I felt myself like a mother now to take care of my plants. And I use 'babies' when talk to hubby. I can be really sad if I notice they are dying. Since then, I am no longer anxious about how dry is my skin every morning when I wake up instead; to check how well is my babies are growing. Luckily, I have a gardening guru - my mother-in-law to consult whenever I have doubts.

Today, sun is so shining, land is so brightening, birds are singing and plants are so awakening! It is about 7c outside in the balcony. Therefore, compared to seeing them grow healthy and faster, the hassle of moving them to balcony and back to house at sunset means nothing to me even though I have to do it everyday. Now let's see how my babies enjoy the kiss of the great father :)

Everybody is enjoying the splash of sun shining
The chicks love to have sun tan too. Luckily they didn't become roasted chicken
Prosperity in the (green) house

Sneak Preview

Wedding gift from Jaarno & Marit (hubby's bro & in-law)
I wish our love is shining forever <3>

~Who is that (obsessed) girl I see?~

Reminder from Mutsi : move them only when there is sun shining in the balcony. As now is still too cold to the babies (early Spring is around 2c-7c), it is better for them to stay inside the house if there is no sunshine, even the sky is bright but the sun is hiding. It is enough to put them near to a bright window.

Future Star VS Future Life

2009-04-06T17:10:00.042+03:00

Yesterday we have been invited to watch hubby's nephew, Teemu's football tournament in Kerava. It is about 13km from our home. Since the weather started to get warmer, about 5c-7c last week; I decided to wear a short jeans skirt+black long john+boots+blue jackets that I have been wanting to wear since I was here in February. So 3 tops and 2 bottoms with a slight make up, we were ready to watch the kid's big game.

When we reached there, I saw Jarno's new toy - A big white van van is proudly stand in between all the small cars in the car park. He bought the van in last month after we bought over his Toyota Avensis. Part of the reason he bought this van is because Teemu will be having a lot of trainings and games in outdoor and is convenient for him to change. What a thoughtful father! Besides, they have been very supportive to Teemu's game, even wake up at 5am for him.

Our location in GPS

Later we found that the tournament is actual held at outdoor. Shit! I thought it is indoor because the last game
that he had was at indoor. Now I have very thin layers to stand in the cold. Everybody on the field seems to be well wrapped up except me. I was a bit embarrassed when I met with Jarno and Mari with my inappropriate clothes for this occasion. However, I was 'brave' enough (or thick face?) to tell Jarno that : It's ok, I want to get use of cold weather when he asked me don't I feel cold?
Supportive mum & dad, Mari & Jarno.
I salute to you!

Alright back to the game, Teemu first having warm up while waiting for the competition time at 3pm. I always envy this sporty boy. He is only 9 this year and has already so interested and actively in playing football, ski, jogging and even treasure hunting. Let's me show you our future David Beckham skillful yet stylish kick.

Handsome boy is a bit shy :">

"Full Concentration"

Here We Go!
"Hey!"

Half an hour standing on the field, it is freeeeeeeeeezing! I knodded my head flashly quick when hubby suggest to buy some sausage and bread to eat. Oh my gosh! 1 sausage+2 sandwiches (with ham and vege)+1 banana+1 drink only 3e? Hubby said they are like wanting to clear the 'stock'. What a good deal, and it was delicious!

3pm and the game started. The boys are playing so hard and looking so pro. I'm not really know about football but it is enjoyable to watch the game. Best of it, our team won with 2-0, hurray!!!

Come On! Teemu! Teemu! Teemu!
"Watch my left foot!"
And the girl in black was the referee. Wow! Impressive!

Let's see who run faster?

Sorry mate, this is no friendly match. The ball is mine!

Yes, No. 10 is me!!!

I would die to get his jersey and autograph on it. The value will sure goes up sky high after a few years :)

We are so proud of you!!!

What a happy ending. Our next programmer is for me to practice to drive to hubby office because he has a meeting, sauna, eating & drinking (and of course no other than beer. Grrrr!!!!) in this Thursday in office and I will have to fetch him to work and home. The road seems to be quite easy, with him next to me. I'm not sure how well I can drive alone to home on that day. After all, it is challenging for me to switch to left-hand drive and different road system and I can't read that's the worst >_<"! Hopefully I can remember the road signage when back home alone.

Hush Puppies, fulfill dog lover's dream...
Will it help us to live in the West End?

Since we were already here in Espoo, he decided to take me to the West End, one of the richest residential area in Finland and it is next to the sea. Houses are huge and cars are posh. One Audi we saw looks brand new, what a place in earth! Is all the money has been gathered here or what? Alright, it was just my jealousy :P. Ok one day I will live here! (and the radio suddenly play the song "Dream~~~dream, dream,dream...) Hubby suggested me to take photo next to the frozen sea. Yes, it was totally frozen and so freezing!!! I stood at the beach for 3 minutes and body already start shiverring~~~~ I surrender and run back into the car without taking any photo. My clothes are too thin man, too bad! However hubby managed to snapped a few nice shot before we ended our sunday outting. And he ran back into the car too, of course :)

My first no sunny no sandy beach. Feeling so blue~~

So frozen, so freeeeeeezing....

We have ended the car outting, now starting the leg outting. It's jogging day! We have planned to go jogging for long but timing was not right. Yesterday was a perfect for jogging. I wear 1 layer of cotton long sleeves plus a cotton blue jacket and 1 long john plus cotton running pent. And never forget the pipo (hat) and gloves to protect ears and hands from freezing. My heart was a bit resistant to jogging. I'm just afraid that short breath feeling. But I can't hide myself forever, I have to meet my fear factor and I have promised hubby to make jogging a habbit to us.

We first started with 5 mins warm-up walk, follow by the slow jog. Target 10 mins jog with 130 pulses heart beat. Suprisingly, I didn't actually feel very tired through the whole jogging time. I wonder if it was the weather or my swimming stamina that I had back 2 weeks ago (I went to swim 5 times a week until my skin was dehydrated. What to do? I'm too bored at home). It was good, I feel refreshed. We targeted to go jogging at least 3 times a week to gain a good health and to reduce hubby's beer belly :)

Later the night, we enjoyed a candle lights spicy chicken wings and rice dinner. What a day!

Spring In The Air, Kevättä Ilmassa

2009-04-04T23:50:00.074+03:00

It is always the beautiful scene in movie during spring time, where everything come alive. Today, was my first happy spring day.

My day start with meeting my parents-in-law, Mutsi & Patu (means mum & dad in Finnish local slang) in Ikea. Initial plan was to buy cooking utensils rack for drawer but unfortunately, non of it suite to my kitchen drawer's size. However, I still manage to get S-hooks and container to 'enlighten' my dear kitchen :)

After we had lunch in Hesburger, we proceed to Plantegen, a plants hypermarket (in fact most of the concept stores are very huge in Finland). I shall say that, this is a very lovely place to
browse because they have tans of flowers & plants that cheer
me up. No women will hate flower, i believed. Mutsi seems to be
very happy here, she grabbed quite a lot of plants while Patu has
decided to wait at the corner near to entrance after a tour in here. As for me, I've bought a lovely rose and 2 vases, as well as 'little green house' to plant flower from seeds. For the pass 2 weeks my baby China Aster & Pot Marigold were born and die and only a few is still surviving. That's is why Mutsi came today, to rescue my poor little 'baby'.

Aster, Spinach, Iceberg Lettuce & Paprika (in green house) China Aster & Pot Marigold

I will never give up until I get a blossom house

In fact, I'm not the lousy at all. I managed to grow the Rairuoho grass (Ryegrass in english) for Easter Day celebration (but hubby doens't know exactly when is it, ha!). This is one of the Christian culture in Finland (I don't know about other countries). And no wonder there are many chicken toys selling in supermarket because they use chicken or chicks to decorate around the grass but hubby can't tell the reason why chicken and not Aku Ankan, the Donald Duck that has a significant position here in Finland. But but but seriously, why chicken?

Mutsi is a lovely mum, she is patient and talented. Though she try to explain in Finnish which I don't understand at all, I'm always enjoy to have her around :) Chicken & duck always get along very well (means we speak differently and can't understand each others). Besides, she bought us Narcissus (Narsissi in Fin.) from Plantagen, also brought baby flower that she planted at home, and I love them.(Left) Narcissus (Narsissi), The sign of Spring.
(Centre) Thunbergia Alata (Mustasilmäsusanna), commonly called Black-eyed Susan vine &
(Right) Pelargonium (Pelargonia)

Me & hubby always wanted to have green and flowers in the house. The joining of new members have inspired me to decorate the window corner in living room and kitchen and, not bad...

Living room window corner.
Picture retook on 05/04 and the Narcissus flowers already can't wait to be in the picture.
My hubby bought the Buddha statue months after we've met in July 2006 just because I'm a Buddist.
How sweet :)

Our hardworking temperature reporter - Hairy Bear
Picture took on same day we bought the Narcissus and there was no flower yet

Exotic aroma stick bought from erotic porn store. Hehehe...

Elegant pink ladies hubby chose from Plantagen today.
Too bad didn't check the name of the flower

Our very first green from Ikea, bought few weeks after I settled here.
And it is proudly stand in living room watching the fellows that stay at the window rack

MY KITCHEN - MIX OF BALI, ENGLISH ROSE & THE RETRO

My kitchen cabinet is the typical Scandinavian design, white in color. I was wondering if the table mat could match the whole look and I always suffer from the total matching concept. From the cabinet, to the lamp to the table and to everything. That's is why until now I can't decide a new lamp for kitchen. I'm not rigid, just because I'm not so good in designing and have to be very careful not to waste the money. But maybe I have to learn to be a bit flexible of the mix & match and, it turn out to be like this..... You judge.

I really love the table mat. We got it from The Jonker street, Melaka Malaysia on Oct 2008

Speechless......

Cushion from Ikea today. To please our eyes and ass

Oh lovely polka...

Love love love ribbon like a little girl. And it takes me many minutes to tie & tie & tie & PERFECTLY SWEET! :>

When I want more than the dots...

At the end of the night, me and hubby both can't help and sing the song 'Green~~~ green! green! green!' Adapted from a song that start with 'dream~~dream! dream! dream!' but we don't know the name.

Congratulations And Celebrations!

2009-04-01T22:48:00.004+03:00

Ha! That was hubby's response when I shown him my identity letter from the govt. It finally arrived!!! We are so happy! It means I'm now officially join the society and no need to suffer hard to my 'Bourne Identity' ;) Soon I'm going to get the KELA card, a social health care card by Finland govt as well as to open a bank account to get money from wall, hehehe.

Besides, I had set a yearly goals for myself and us yesterday. I'm so glad that my first mission - To study at least 10 Finnish vocabularies a day and it has been progress very well today. I've learned 18 words for animals. I feel so motivated every since Monday and my brilliant hubby found me a great language software by Byki, from www.transparent.com and it is FREE!!! It is an excellent software for a beginner that I have to go through many practice to make sure I memorized the word even for spelling. Oh I just love and appreciate this software so much! I hope I'll keep my motivation up and have a good learning progress everyday.

Further today, we visited Jaakko's house as he invited us to watch The IT Crowd together. Poor Jaakko caught some cold since one week ago and his voice became a bit rough. However, I found that is clearer and louder to listen to his strong RRRRRR English speaking than usual. I'm somehow wish that his voice could be maintain :P (Oh! That is too evil of me!) Well, I'm really glad that Jaakko invited us because he is a very quiet guy and still, get along very well with hubby and me, too (as he doesn't talk, so no argument, no fights :)). Plus, the movie is so hilarious that helps to added many fine lines on my face. Kanasai!

So, April fool, is not so fool but very full for me; this year!

What A Wonderful Day - Triple Happiness

2009-03-30T15:58:00.006+03:00

10am and my phone rang. It was my hubby call to inform me that my PR application is processed and can be collect from Immigration office. However, no status of approval was reveal in the phone :( Anyway, I'm excited because the long waited day has finally come! I am already bored and die without can do anything prior to know the application status (regardless of today's result, of course).

Alright, get my lazy bug body out of the lovely bed and meet the first issue of the day, I've got no money!!! Dig, seek, pick and luckily, there's 5.60e in the house. Not bad because I only need 5e for a bus return ticket, else I can walk to home ;) (only 5km for a boring housewife. Call me crazy? Not if you would bored to die :P ) Almost ready, just need to fill up my stomach with milk and cookies before 'kissing' with my long stayed winter 'friend'.

11.15am and there I was, in the immigration office. With 15 numbers ahead me, I sat on a long comfortable leather bench (with a beautiful mood, of course it is very comfortable :) ) and watch the 'Monday TV Program for Housewife' - poison advertisement. A programmed advertisement that sell from house appliances to cosmetic to bla bla bla.... and they talk and talk bla bla bla to poison those boring and decent housewife like me and I did somehow get attracted :P However and luckily I'm alway concious enough to find the information from internet especially the forum before convince my hard working hubby to buy for me :). I think this program is very smart to choose Monday to hard-sell their product because housewife is very much moody and down that their husband left to work, consiquences from the happily ever after Sunday.

.......1 hour waiting is pretty long and sleepy and finally is my turn. Hahaha!!! Aplause to Finland Govt, my PR was approved since 15/03/2009! :D 5 mins with the officer (and she told me she always do mistakes on Monday, I think she's bored because she told me this hehehe, and we both laugh). Next I walked with happy feets to Finland Mistrati which is just 100m away to get my Social Identity No. Hmmm hmmm hmmm, need to fill in some form and I was so worry if I need to pay some money. Huh, luckily not neccesary and now I just need to wait for 1 week to receive my ID no. by post.

Back to street and walked to neareast bus station. I ran to catch the green traffic light and then I realized I need to run run run because the bus is coming!!! Oh gosh! Thanks to the cute driver that wait for me :)

Can't wait, can't wait.... have to call my dear hubby to tell him the good news. Then I receive the second happiness of the day, my new phone service is activated! Though this is no big deal but it is a good deal for us because we can save money for a better phone package :) I was first told my hubby the application is delayed and have to wait for another 2 weeks to process and he usual reaction is : Oh Shit! Oh Shit! 5 seconds and I told him the good news and we decided to have a nice dinner outside tonight for celebration (before that we were so worry that it will be rejected).

Back to our home sweet home, there was 8 dogs waiting for me at door step! Haha! It is the movie 'Eight Below' that hubby ordered online. I am so happy because this is one of my favourite dog movie!

Although all these are small things but this is what me and hubby is aiming for, some simple stuff and can very happy too. After all, life is short. Cheers!

p.s. thanks to my hubby who always remember to give me a warm and lovely hug whenever I'm upset. Like last Friday, I was really upset that he forget to call the Immigration to check the status (because it close at 11am on Friday). I throw his mail paper to him and he throw them to the floor. He was upset too. And when I calm down and feel bad and want to apologize, he just come to hug me from behind. Oh so sweet! Thanks for keeping your promise honey (he promised to hug me whenever I'm upset and he did all the time) :)

Here I Am....

2009-03-29T01:45:00.009+02:00

Started the first blog in my life at 29/03/2009 1.52am. Wanted to write something down but clueless and there's always a say: First step is better than non. Well maybe just myself first...

MERELY ME

A typical Scorpio at teen and now gradually learn to be a tame one at the dramatic aging stage. Yes I felt very much older and slower at the late second decade, towards the third. Older in term of mind; never mind, fever fight (for right, just; let it be), lesser stay late night. Slower as in make up my mind (need to scan through million of consequences before hand), response to fight (should I fight?), more facial cream before the night; and else.

To start a new life at coming decade is not easy. Luckily my keen to learn has a strong anti-oxygen to carry me on although, it is tougher and slower to keep new things in my mind. Language, cooking, gardening, housekeeping whatever that is deal with the housewives, I am in. And now what I am doing everyday is research+research+research.

Cooking is interesting with 50% of risk, whether love it or hate it (the food). Especially hubby is a picky type, no onion family, no 'room room room' fungus, no seafood (luckily fishes can stay),
keep the soups to myself and many Nos is yet to be discover. But as long as he doesn't mind I eat whatever I want, I'm fine. Basically I eat almost everything except human (eow!). And what do you think a housewife expectation everyday? To pray that husband love the food! So long as he is happy, I am happy (Oh where am I? Pathetic!).

Gardening, are you kidding me!? I could never do that in Malaysia. Why? Busy and stressful life. Because we need to work hard to push our country level's up from 'A Developed Country'. And plants in Malaysia always like to make friend with mosquitoes and share their friendship to us - the fatal dengue decease! Most of all, that is the job for boring, traditional & lots of time housewives. I always think I will be a modern working wife and I only want to have a beautiful garden by myself when I am success and have a lot of money and free time. Further more, I didn't have free time to take care of the extra others as it was already hard to take care of myself and my pockets.

However, all those humiliation thoughts (sorry, housewives!) were wrong. That's is why I always believed in karma, what you did or said will eventually happened back to you. Because here I am now, have a lot of free time to do it and I love it! I love to learn the how, when, what, which of the plants and their characteristics. I am so happy to see them grow, feel like I am doing a good mother job and so proud :) I will continue do this even if I have to go to work in future.

Many excel sheets are well keeping my new hobbies' studies. Let's see how many sheets will be created throughout my life :)