My mini project plan(s)

I wish I could complete these:

1. Greasing up my teak benches with new coat of teak oils. This will totally compensate my last month's gardening exercise. I need a perfectly manicured lawn too. But then, to have a well-manicured lawn, I need the nice grass first. Hark! Now, where's that Philippine grass I wanted to plant last time?
2. Totally scrape all the toys and donate to the needy (this one will create a major war specially with Aisha & Amir)
3. Clear off the area under the staircase so I can turn that into a play area, a totally uncluttered one. But then if I do no 2, then there's no more toys to play with..
4. Upholster the side sofas, but this need quite a lot of dough. Where's my commission boss?
5. Hang all the paintings/carvings that have been staying long in their respective wrappers. Wait, before that I have to have the wall drilled. Ooh well...now I have to wait for my handyman to come home first. Have you booked your air-tickets yet dahling?
6. Sew my own table runner. Hah! This one I think can be accomplished first, provided that I run to the nearest Mode house, the likes of Jakel, Nagoya or Alta Moda. I will put my RM99 newly bought mini sewing machine to test. Once I'm successful with the feat, then I can start sewing the cushion cover for the dining chairs. The cost of upholstering the leather seats for the dining chairs could cost me another set!

Aiyooh, so many challenges! Now which one should I start first?

It's been too long

Sangat lama tak update blog ni. This post is just to make sure my account is still active, heh heh. Lagipun, there's this one good ol' friend of mine likes to check my blog instead of my updates in facebook, so this post is for her, wink! wink!

Mula-mula taruk gambar kids dulu:


Check out Abang dah ada jerawat huhuhu..


Aina, as always my sweet little girl yang mendengar cakap ibubapa


Amir, my most difficult to deal with sebab banyak sangat syarat kalau nak buat anything..


And my little cheeky pumpkin comot! Her hair is a mess coz she hates it when I tie the hair, dia suka gerbang-gerbang gitu..

Anyway, I'm lucky now that I have a reliable maid so far, and she's almost like my first maid yang boleh dibawa berbincang and can do work without me telling her what to do, alhamdulillah, I hope she continues being like this. It was one hell of a time trying to find maid, and I got her not through my agent. It was through a business partner who let go the maid because he thinks the wife is jealous of her (probably true..) Anyway, I'm glad I found her.

I've got a lot of other things going on in life that I don't think I sempat update. Maybe when I have the mood I'll do that. Now FB has taken over, coz it's faster update to friends and siblings especially. Maybe my good ol' friend should check her FB more often hihihi..

Trying times..again

What can I say, time and a lot of other stuff is always in the way whenever I want to put my thoughts down. So I had to abandon this page for a long time.

Actually, that’s another way of saying “I malas…”

How can I not be “malas”, I have not been lucky so far in the maid department.

If I pen down the many stories of the maid(s) I had, I’m sure I need another blog for that. In fact, with just the maid affairs, I really want to have another blog, or even a website for the benefit of other potential employers.

Well, to cut the stories short since I so don’t have much time:

1) I terminated my maid after 1 year of service after I sensed that she’ll be coming back from her raya break looking for another job, in other words, she’ll come back on my visa but will disappear.

2) That was Raya Puasa. After that maid, I couldn’t get a replacement and was maidless for almost 2 months. Had to transport Aisha back and forth my sister’s place in Nilai during work whilst the three big kids are on their own after school.

3) Got a new maid in November. Unfortunately after 1 month FOMEMA found her unfit, so I had to send her back. Maidless again, but this time it was already school holidays, and I took a long leave and took the kids to stay in Brunei with Dad. After we got back, had a new maid, just a week before school started. Thought she was good, but after 6 days, she ran away. I think she already planned that out. Found out she had worked here before for 4 years. Go figure.

4) Then last 2 weeks got another replacement. So the blurrrrr..I decided to send her back. After I quietly told my agent, the maid came to me and said “mahu pulang bu, saya enggak betah..”. I was ok still then but right after she told me, she totally abandoned her work and just watch me cook and took care of the kids while she lied down on her bed crossing her legs. “Mangkuk” was the word I had for her, should have just thrown one to her. I sent her back the very next day.

5) So now I’m maidless again. Was relying on Acik to help out while she’s in between jobs, but then she now down with chicken pox, a nasty one though. Got it from Amir I guess.

So there goes the short summary of my life as a dependent on domestic assistance. My house is a total mess, 2 weeks of unfolded laundry and what with the repair work going on with the ceiling that was attacked by the killer white-ants – killed all my parquets & ceiling.

Dad is back, and making him the babysitter and the domestic god at the moment. Thank you darling.



Second day pox


Third day pox