My boys also got affected by the Raya mood. They go “asalamalaikummmm” all around the house last night with their “end-of-pants-songkok” (I call it this way ‘cos it is really made from the end of pants cut from jeans).
Category: Just Life
Our sky
“Look at the sun”
That’s what I got from my colleague yesterday while I was having lunch with two other colleagues. I don’t get sms from this colleague, and she is working in the reference, so the first thing came into my mind is “The Sun” newspapers. Lastly I found out it is the real sun that she is talking about, so there I go, went out to the open space, look up at the sun. Yupe, found a rainbow ring around the sun, amazing.. seldom see this. (or maybe I haven’t been looking at our sky often enough). It is call the Halos, also known as icebows. Too bad that I didn’t have my digital camera with me. (But I think you still can see the photos in the net elsewhere.) This phenomena even came out from the news last nite (TV3).
Since we are at it, (about the sky) so I pay extra attention even after work. Guess what I discovered.. TWO RAINBOW! at the same time! This time I got ready my digital camera. (no, i didn’t do any trick on it.)
Sorry that it is a bit dark, ‘cos I took it straight from inside my car through the wind-screen.
As for this morning, due to the coming Raya holiday, there are less cars on the road, so the drive was extra smooth, and I’ve a chance to look up at the sky while on the road. This time nothing extra ordinary, but hey, we have got a clear blue sky which is hard to find in other polluted places. Glad that I’m here 🙂
I’ve done it again
Yay!! I’ve done another scrapbook page last nite. On top of that, I’ve added the word SWEET on my previous page. That is after much tracing and cutting and gluing.. I hope the glue really stick the photos and wording there ‘cos it seems that it is not that strong.. or is it suppose to be like this? Someone please tell me. (I’m using a flu pen which turn blu when wet and clear off when dry, but it seems that it dry off very quickly.)
Here.. below are the pages that I’ve done last nite, still no journalling yet.. 😦
Finally …
Yes, finally I’ve started my real scrapbooking with the right kind of materials, but I’m already in a dilemma on whether I should put photo A here or there.. and if I should cut my card-stock, whether I should use the ribbon like this or that..
I guess you’ll be asking where did I get my srapbooking materials. Found it in a craft shop in Wisma Merdeka, on 2nd floor of the ‘new’ phase. But they don’t sell the album 😦
Before putting myself down in doing scrapbooking, I need to make sure that the boys are not disturbing, meaning they are either sleeping or not in the house with me. So last night wasn’t a good start, ‘cos I was too eager to start doing scrapbooking and I didn’t wait till they were sleeping, so these two brothers with their ever curious-selves were there demanding to look at this and that, touch this and that.. buoy.. I ended up shouting at them, so bad huh.. then finally they went to bed after much westling over the potty, the milk and their mommy.
So now I’ve two layout to decide on, which do you prefer? I will put more things on the page, like ribbons, cut out wordings..etc.
So, people, which do you prefer? or you’ve better idea, please let me know. Thanks a bunch.
Scrapbooking
I’ve done all together 3 pages of scrapbooking but with all the wrong materials as I can’t find the right one here in KK. What I should have used are acid free paper, approved adhesive, pen.. etc.. well.. I thought to myself “heck to the right kind of material” and just started doing it with sketch papers, wrapping papers, glu stick, double-sided tape, technical pen and ribbons.. Only later that I found out it is important to use the right kind of material for preserving purposes.. else over time, my photos will be rotten due to the wrong type of things that I used.. well well.. let me just show you one of my pages that I’ve done.
This was done using photo of Mer having his haircut. I love this picture because he was all smiling and laughing, and was not a bit scared with the razor. He used to be scared of haircutting in salon, so I used to cut for him during his bath.
I used wrapping paper for the background, with some journalling on the side. The picture of bird and flowers are from a magazine, fortunately it wasn’t stick on to my precious photo as surely it is acidic.
Scrapbooking is fun and it is some sort of therapeautic ‘cos it let you settle down yourself, clear your thought and start creating your page layout, which then give emphasis on the subject of your pages/photo, which to me this help me to clam myself down whenever I start to get angry with my kids.
Gonna do more of it once I’ve got all my materials sent over from California or Perth, sure gonna have more fun then.
Telephone conversation
“Is Cal sleeping? No? Get him over to the phone please..”
The babysitter goes…”CAL… here.. ur mommy on the line..”
“Mommieeeee…., you get me chocolate and lolipop ya…”
“Huh? You always ask for that.. but mommy is not outstation.”
“Ya.. but mommy get me the rolipop when you go on the plane ya…”
“But mommy is NOT going on a plane.. What are you doing over there? Did you sleep?”
“Yupe. oledi sui jiao (sleep in mandarin).”
“What’s is DiDi (little Mer) doing over there?”
“He is putting his head on the bed.”
“Huh? Is he is sleeping?
“No.. his eyes are open and he just put his head on the bed.”
“Were you kwai (good-boy) today?
“YES!!”
“Alright, bye-bye..”
“Bye-bye..”
This is just to fufilled my promise to Cal that I’m going to call him at 4 just now.. he even said that he wants me to call him in school too. Well, if I’ve promised him and yet I didn’t call him, he’ll nag me about it later tonite and even remember it days later.
The photo below was taken last year in China.. they were just playing with the phone there.. but not for long, else will need to get a new phone.
And just few days ago, I let him call his grandpa all by himself and after that he remember the number, probably his grandpa is his bestfriend.. *sigh* (instead of me..)
A day in the farm and river
I know.. they are posing for the camera.. “The big guy” – Cal, asked for the trip to the farm the other day and wanted to go to the nearby river, that of course include stepping into the river instead of just watching it. As for the “little guy” – Mer, anything the brother did, he’ll just follow and even more creative.
With my own strenght, I don’t think I can carry them down or lead them down to the farm below the hill from where we stay, so I got big sis to help out carrying the little one down and I lead Cal down there. Mom was in the farm as usual working on some scrub.
Before going there, I need to get a towel ready to chase away any mosquito and also just in case they wet themselves in the river, at least I’ve got a towel to dry them off.
They enjoyed it pretty much, but one thing I don’t understand is why little Mer likes to thraw stones pick from the river banks… he just pick them up and thraw..
The 2nd time we went there on last Saturday, Mer did the same again, thrawing stones.. This time, I got them in swim suits cos the water is much cooler cos it rains the day before, plus I wanna try how they look in their swim suit.. too bad, didn’t bring the camera with me… still .. they had enjoyed it and surely wanna do that again.
Having fun with drawing
Yupe, the boys like to draw on anything including their faces, this is one of the evidence in photo. Taken in November last year in Shen Zhen when we went over to visit my hubby.
Kids.. they only know that drawing is fun and they don’t care where is the drawing board. The fun part is the drawing itself but the hard part was getting it off their faces, well, at least they have enjoyed it 🙂
Hannie Craft - Finding Joy 
