Khalean New Best Friend

This is Khalean my 2nd babe with her new AFO, she hates it so much in the 1st palce but kinda getting a hang with it slowly. My heart just melt looking at these pics. Regardless what everyones says, She is just an eye candy to look at!


I hopes this AFO can strengthen her ankle muscle more as hers ankle kinda stiff now, I mean she still cruise along whatever she can hold, she still the fastest crawler in the world, and she definately stands on her own. However to avoid the ankle muscle become too stif, the neuro team doc's best advise would be this AFO.

So, now let go back to my observation post and start y waiting game again. ..

p/s: I have a good feeling about this.


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I'm Still Alive

To whoever of you who is wondering.....if there's any..........

I'm Still Alive! Read more...

Mr. Lonely...

I'm so lonely, with basically nobody to talk to, I mean stuff that you can pour out to your close buddy. Hubby came back and flew back to Delhi just after 1 week, and I'm here all alone again...

Don't get me wrong, I'm still busy as hell, managing everything here and there, busy with the girls and house chores, but have you ever get those feeling that you schedule are so FULL yet late at night you still feel lonely? As if 1 whole day of chaotic errands not yet caused your head to spin like a full blown dryer!

There's so many things I wanna tell hubby, yet he doesn't seem to have enough time for me, even though he is physically here at home. There's always errands to run, meetings to attend, colleague to meet, stuff to deliver and so on and on...Up until it's time to go back to Delhi.

I guess I should be glad that he still manage to spend time with the girls instead of me before he flew back to India . Even though I had repeatedly ask him out for a date just the 2 of us and he always managed to canceled it last minute, leaving me fuming most of the times.

With all of the major world problems, disaster and diseases going on right now, I guess I really should not whine and complain anymore. After all, it is such a tiny problem when one look at the whole big picture. So I will stop my whining now!

Still,

Mr. Lonely seems to follow me everywhere I go...


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Cambodia Happy Pizza

I know, I know, this is not a travel blog, but I just wanna share with you a funny yet scary story of mine when I travel to Siem Reap, Cambodia for the Amazing Angkor Wat, for I just love ruins historical places. That's probably why I always choose to travel in undeveloped countries over cities full of sky scrappers.

I went to Cambodia in January 2001 way before Lara Croft the movie started shooting there, back then Siem Reap was not a well travel road for most travellers, thus less tourist which I LIKE.
Me and Omar my hubby/boyfriend back then travel overland from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for the simple reason, I HATE FLIGHTS! I will try my best just to avoid flights, if there's road or even tiny holes, I will take the latter. Crazy eh?




So the total overland journey from Kuala Lumpur to Siem Reap was 4500km and it took us 4 days on the road itself to reach there, we had used public transport bus, train, the back of the pickup truck(which the guys insist it's a bus!) and boat. we've went through Haddyai-Bangkok-Aranyaprathet-Poipet-Koh Kong-Highway 666 (The Dancing Highway aka devil's road) which was FULL of potholes-Sosophon- Siem Reap.

After 12 full hrs of the hellish back-of-the-pickup-ride on The Dancing Highway (literary!) With our dizzy brain still bobbing nonstop inside and face covered in reddish brown dust, we went around searching for a hotel at 11pm at night hoping that it wasn't full of tourist. The 1st one was a disaster, foreigners screaming and shouting and chatting with the top of their lungs! It is just too much and both of us decided we just gonna pay more for a hotel that sits just nicely in the corner but with so much more calm and quite environment that we needed.





So, the usual stuff, both of us went to The Amazing Angkor Wat and do the usual blah blah...Then came the night that I still shiver whenever I thought about it now. We had read somewhere there's this eateries which offered pizza and apparently it was quite good. So off we went and after finding a nice spot, we noticed most of the patrons was visibly chatty and happy. then came our waiter.

Waiter:'What can I get for you tonight?'
Us:'Can I have a medium pizza please?'
Waiter:'Happy?'
Us:'Sorry?'
Waiter:'Happy, very happy, or extremely happy?'
Us:'???'
Waiter:'You want your pizza to be happy, very happy or extremely happy?' with a impatient look.
Us:'Okay, very happy please.' Thinking it is just a cool thing to say locally. How stupid we are!


Our 'Very happy' pizza.


This is the Happy Pizza eateries.

Then after 15 mins, he came back with our orders and being so hungry after 1 whole day in the jungle of Angkor Wat. We ate wholeheartedly. Then we had a few chat with some of the patrons there then after about 1/2 hr, we head back to the hotel as we had to catch the early bus (no more pickup ride!) the next day to head back to Poipet crossing.

Okay here everything goes downhill, the last clear memory I had was using the washroom and oops, the next the next thing I noticed was how cramp and sore my legs was, I tried to stand up and was wondering what's going on with my legs? Then I realised I had been sitting on the toilet bowl for so long that I actually cramp! I called out for Omar but he didn't reply me, so I decided I am just gonna crawl out the washroom on all four. the moment I was out, I saw Omar lying on his stomach on the bed and staring blankly at the TV. I yelled at him to come and help me, he just ask ' what wrong?' and actually start laughing! I was starting panic because there's something wrong with both of us!(Now please imagine I was on all four with my pants down!Not a pretty picture at all! Yikes!)

I crawl to Omar and ask him whether he is feeling okay? He didn't even replied me. Then I noticed I was breathing heavily as with him. The numb subsided and I sat on the bed and tried to think clearly what actually happen to us. Then out of nowhere I heard 'bang!bang!bang!' just outside of the hotel. At that moment for no reason at all I panicked and ran down to the counter on ground floor and screamed (actually I was trying to ask nicely) at the counter staff 'What's happening?What's happening? Is the Pol Pot coming now? Oh sxxx!' (This is how the staff told me what I had said the next day)

To my surprised, they took a look at me and a female staff came over to me and hold me by the arm and brought me to the sofa to calm me down and ask:

'Did you ate the happy pizza just now?'
'Yes?' Puzzle...
'Do you know what is it?'
'What?'
'It's the happy herb.' 'the Marijuana.'

I was speechless... All that wen through my head was how come I had never noticed it, the smell, the happy and chatty faces of the patrons. They then brought me back to my room and to my horror, Omar was still lying on the bed staring blankly at the TV for god knows how long already. The kind hearted staff ask me to lay down and just sleep it off, not forgetting to tuck both of us in.

I woke up the next day at 6am by the morning call from the staff telling us to get ready for our bus at 7am. With a foggy mind we prepared ourselves, went down the counter to check out and thanks all the staff involved for helping us out last night, god knows what I will do if they did not calm me down and brought me back to the room, I can only imagined I probably would run down to the street and start telling everybody Pol Pot is coming!

So, that's the funny and scary travel story I had for you. I had made a pact with myself after that night, no matter how nice/good others tell you so, no matter how nice and cute the name sounds, no matter how hip and cool is it to be seen among in the crowd, I will never put anything down my throat without knowing and checking what is it's ingredient!

For my heartbeat was so fast that night that I feared I almost died!



Thanks for reading.


Apsara


The beauty of Angkor Wat

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Delhi, India

I want to go to India NOW! Like now! Just look at this.



But I had no spare time now, I am so busy with this 2 shops!


I wish I am there now, walking among strangers, Bargaining and negotiating for exotic goods, talking and having coffee under the blazing 40 Celsius sun and coking my brain in the process of it.

But still, as hot as it is, no matter how am I gonna turn out to be over there, maybe as black as ashes. I still wanna go now!

I wanna go now, I need to clear my work ASAP! Which reminds me, I really have to get back to my Himalayan workload now!

But before that, let me daydream a bit can?



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Hiatus

Come on you guys, you gotta agree with me on this, no news is just good news right?

Coz really guys, I still has nothing important to update about. Which feels GOOD!

Kaydine Neurosurgeon had came back with good result which shows Kaydine doesn't really need a shunt inserted after all. She is okay and doing fine just the way she is now.So the Neuro team are going to monitor and sent her for another MRI in another 6 month which is in January 2010.

Yay!




Khalean is doing just fine as well. except for the fact that she still not able to walk yet, (which I decided not too to put so much pressure on) she is doing just fine and can be such a little devil at times that you wish you pull out all your hair just to make her stop bullying Kaydine.


As for me, I am super super busy with 2 shops and stuff that I don't wanna bore you down. It is just plain crazy since hubby took up the post in Delhi, India. Life has been just plain topsy-turvee for me, which is good. At least I got things up and running smoothly. So far...

I wanna go India too... Can somebody borrow me some of their time please....



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Blank...

I am blank, I don't know what to blog about?


My mind is completely BLANK!

Can somebody put something in my brain please?

Gimme a topic, will you? Help me out...







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The Crybaby Performer

Well, me and Kaydine went to the kinddy Mothers day concert and that girl was seriously giving me such a nightmare! To begin with, all the schooling kiddos have to stand in front of everyone and sing the Mothers day and Teachers day song. When the teachers start to gather all the kiddos after everyone arrive to go up the mini stage, She refused to let go of my arm and started to bawl with bucket full of tears streaming down!


So, to make the long story short, she didn't went up he stage to perform anything, when the teachers tells her its okay not to perform on stage, she stopped crying and gladly just sit there and clapping along with the crowd. It's really a pity this is her 1st performance and I didn't get all this nice pics and video of her doing her thing when she had practiced so hard at home and public places.

Funny stuff is, as soon as we are back home, she started to perform in front of us. Even when we brought her to the shop she is still performing in the shop without any shame and shyness.

So I only manage to get this video of her strutting her stuff in the shop. Not an ideal place but it will make up of what I had missed in the concert.

Baby, eventhough you are such a crybaby, but I still love you to death.
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Mothers Day Concert

There is no mothers day for me... I mean it is the same thing every year. Work work work! Even hubby don't say or show anything! I know, PATHETIC right?

But this year I am feeling quite warm hearted coz Kaydine had just started kinddy and those teachers are teaching all sort of funny and weird dance move the these little people on mothers day as there will be a Mothers day and Teachers day concert on the 15th May, And believe me, this little girl are training like there's no tomorrow at home, at the shop and even in the washroom!

Those move sure are the most funniest that I had seen in my life!


It will goes on like this, whenever Kaydine wanna start her dance practice she will say "Tutup mata!"(close your eyes!) but you are allowed to peak through your fingers! Then she'll do all sorts of funny movements and hum it along too! Then when she is done she'll say "okay mommy! Buka mata now!" (open your eyes now!) Then you have to ask her when is she gonna show me and she'll replied by " Soon!"

This will continue on and on with those weird movement but I guess as hilarious as it can be, I am actually looking forward so much for the concert! Even though I'm really suck at mingling among the crowd of strangers, but I am gonna attends this concert! To see those little arm and legs and hip swaying are just too tempting not too!

p.s. 2 more days to go! and I'm cleaning my camcorder and loading a new memory card now! will post it up soon! Even though YOU my dear readers may not really wanna see it! I am posting it up anyway. Ha ha!




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Someone Please Tell Me What Is THIS?

I took these picture in the shopping mall where my hand made bags shop are located in Kuala Lumpur 4 days ago. Read on...


Can ANYONE tell me what the hell is this?

a) An alien
b) The latest hat/cap design
c) A baby bath tub
d) A motorbike seat cover
e) A Plastic Horsey look alike toy
F) A lazy guy whom simply cannot hold onto the stuff well
g) All of the above

So, WHAT IS IT?





After approaching the guy, he just told me this.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................The latest design of Banana Boat's spare parts.

Got it?

Because I still don't....hahaha!



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A Toilet Story

Yesterday I came across a really really funny stuff on Facebook. Read through the whole thing and try to control your bladder please!


My little guy, Cade, is quite a talker. He loves to communicate and does it quite well. He talks to people constantly, whether we're in the library, the grocery store or at a drive-thru window people often comment on how clearly he speaks for a just-turned-3-year-old. And you never have to ask him to turn up the volume. It's always fully cranked. There have been several embarrassing times that I've wished the meaning of his words would have been masked by a not-so-audible voice, but never have I wished this more than last week at Costco...

Halfway, through our shopping trip, nature called, so I took Cade with me into the restroom. If you'd been one of the ladies in the restroom that evening, this is what you would have heard coming from the second to the last stall:
''Mommy, are you gonna go potty? Oh! Why are you putting toilet paper on the potty, Mommy?
Oh! You gonna sit down on da toiwet paper now?
Mommy? Oh! You gonna sit down on da toiwetpaper now?
Mommy, what are you doing? Mommy, are you onna go stinkies on the potty?''

At this point I started mentally counting how many women had been in the bathroom when I walked in. Several stalls were full ... 4? 5? Maybe we could wait until they all left before I had to make my debut out of this stall and reveal my identity.

Cade continued: ''Mommy, you ARE going stinkies aren't you? Oh, dats a good girl, Mommy! Are you gonna get some candy for going stinkies on the potty? Let me see doze stinkies, Mommy! Oh . Mommy! I'm trying to see In dere. Oh! I see dem. Dat is a very good girl, Mommy. You are gonna get some candy!'

I heard a few faint chuckles coming from the stalls on either side of me. Where is a screaming new born when you need her? Good grief. This was really getting embarrassing. I was definitely waiting a long time before exiting.

Trying to divert him, I said, ''Why don't you look in Mommy's purse and see if you can find some candy. We'll both have some!' 'No, I'm trying to see doze more stinkies. Oh! Mommy!'' He started to gag at this point. 'Uh - oh, Mommy. I fink I'm gonna frow up. Mommy, doze stinkies are making me frow up!! Dat is so gross!!''

As the gags became louder, so did the chuckles outside my stall. I quickly flushed the toilet in
hopes of changing the subject. I began to reason with myself: OK. There are four other toilets. If I count four flushes, I can be reasonably assured that those who overheard this embarrassing monologue will be long gone.

''Mommy! Would you get off the potty, now? I want you to be done going stinkies! Get up! Get up!'' He grunted as he tried to pull me off. Now I could hear full-blown laughter. I bent down to count the feet outside my door.
''Oh, are you wooking under dere, Mommy? You wooking under da door? What were you wooking at? Mommy? You wooking at the wady's feet?''
More laughter. I stood inside the locked door and tried to assess the situation.
''Mommy, it's time to wash our hands, now. We have to go out now, Mommy.'' He started pounding on the door. ''Mommy, don?t you want to wash your hands? I want to go out!!''

I saw that my wait'em out plan was unraveling. I sheepishly opened the door, and found standing outside my stall, twenty to thirty ladies crowded around the stall, all smiling and starting to applaud.

My first thought was complete embarrassment, then I thought, where's the fine print on the 'motherhood contract' where I signed away every bit of my dignity and privacy? But as my little boy gave me a big, cheeky grin while he rubbed bubbly soap between his chubby little hands, I... Read More thought, I'd sign it all away again, just to be known as Mommy to this
little fellow.

(Shannon Popkin is a freelance writer and mother of three. She
lives with her family in Grand Rapids , Michigan , where she no
longer uses public restrooms.)

By Shannon Popkin

The above article was taken from Michelle Elkins Stenske Facebook post. Thanks Mish!







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Alien

It's confirmed, It's undeniable, Even though I had been avoiding to say this after so long! Omar my hubby is an ALIEN being!

I mean of course he still looks HUMAN on the outside.
But inside, God knows what?...

This alien Omar thingy has a tendencies to change his time zone whenever he wish, if he is working outstation and he promised that it will only take 1 week and started to give the poor wifey dates and day of returning, even the flight's no and arrival time and sometimes the copies of flight details. And when the day came and the poor wifey call him up just to remind him not forgetting everything, the alien Omar just said" But I've told you it's 2 days later!" I would be like" Huh? you told me today!" " Nope, I sure didn't say that." And He said it in front of at least 5 friends over dinner 1 week ago?!!

My friends, , this is not the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, for as long as I've known him (13 yrs to be exact), this alien always managed to make me feel as if there's something wrong with my hearing, I even considered of getting the hearing aid and check myself into the memory loss therapy. However after few confirmation and support from the kind HUMAN friends, I'm 1000% sure I'm not the alien here. He is.

Up to today, I still don't understands why he always change his time zone anytime he wish. There were NEVER once he is on time, on schedule with what he informs me. And trust me, It is not a good feeling at all! Especially when there's crisis going on in the country he is working at that time, remember Asia Tsunami? He is in Thailand and we lost contact about 2 days and I was ready to leap into the ocean to find him and it turns out he is in another part of the disaster zone!!! And he got such an earful from the poor wifey later on!

I had just called him today as he is in Kuching, Sarawak now and supposed to be back today.

Guess what?

The alien said
" Huh? I didn't tell you it's today, did I?"

Someone please shoot me NOW!
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