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).
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.. 😦
Final product
Yupe.. as it says, I’ve done my final product last night when the boys are out with my mom and sis. Hey, it was a relief for me knowing that it would be my best time to do my scrapbooking while they were away, without any disturbances and distraction, and I’ve got what.. 1 and a half hour? That would be enough to finished off the page. But I still hope to put wording on my page, wait till I got the alphabet sticker lar.. oh ya.. and the journalling too.. cos I don’t have the pen 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.
Been tag
Ya.. this is the first time being tag.. doesn’t even knew about it till Auntie J told me over YM.. adui .. i’ve to clear my head to know what is it about.. tula.. been jamming my brain with scrapbooking..
here goes…
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Rules:
1. Write a short paragraph about your visit by the two Genies and include a link to the blog that passed on the Genie Symbol to you.
2. COPY the Rules and ENTIRE List below and post it on your blog.
3. List down your wish.
4. Place your name below the last name on the list and pass on the Genie Symbol to at least 5 other bloggers.
5. Please put up either one (or both) of the Symbols of the Genies on your blog to show that the Genies have visited your blog:
Genie Princess
Genie King
The Genie King, the Genie Princess and their trusty Genie Buddy have visited:
- Mariuca would like to wish for happiness and success.
- Adrian would like to wish for good health and happiness.
- Emila would like to wish for happiness and success.
- Trinity would like to wish good health for Jan’s brother andYah and Wan and success.
- MPG would like to wish for love and peace.
- Jean would like to wish for stress free work environment and happiness.
- Cbenc12 would like to wish for health, happiness and luck for my family and friends and me too!
- Paris Beaverbanks would like to wish for more publicity! Hooyah! (taps swollen head)
- Giddy Tiger would like to wish for longer weekends and never-ending holidays!
- Shooi would like to wish for peace on earth, love, good health and happiness.
- Chinnee would like to wish for happiness and good health forever!
- Hui Sia would like to wish for love, health, wealth and happiness.
- Chew Lee would like to wish hubby for a successful business venture in Singapore.
- Anggie would like to wish for dream and wish come true.
- Slavemom would like to wish for happiness and good health for her loved ones (and of coz for herself too!)
- Wen would like to wish for happiness and health for herself and her family.
- Bryan’s Mama would like to wish for health, love & happiness for everyone
- Sharine would like to wish for safer world to live in, going green to save the earth and health for everyone
- bZbee would like to wish for less corruption, less handing out IC in Sabah and a a chance all citizen to be treated equally no matter what their races or beliefs are…ams would like to wish for …….. good health and world peace…and for M.A.C to come to kk as long as am still around this side of town. (censored censored………………………censored)
- misslamau would like to wish for…shootsac to be available in KK (but then again if everybody has it, it would be no fun anymore). So…rephrase > to own a shootsac…damn those prints
- alice would like to wish for …shootsac to fall from the sky for misslamau, superb wealth and health for friends and fams, specifically for my dad, damn hoping he wins the lottery.harharhar
- Aunty J thanked Static Alibis and wished for the first prize in the Sabah Lotto Jackpot prize which has reached RM5mil ++ today so Aunty J can do so many many other things with the money!! 🙂
- Hannie wish for a healthy, pretty, intelligent and goody baby girl soon.
Welcome aboard the Magical Flying Carpet for the Ride of your Life!
Alakazam!
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I know this might be too soon to ask for a baby now (cos I’m alone in taking care of Cal and Mer..) well.. since genie is around, might as well make the wish first 😀
Alright now I need to tag one person.. that would be.. Jurra.. ya.. I’ve been reading ur blog without you knowing .. now you must be wondering how did I get your blog site huh.. 😀
New in scrapbooking
I’m overwhelm by the products that I can find over the net on scrapbooking. Found many sites that offer sales and even got membership which send you the kid everymonth with a cost. Check out the following sites:
ScrapGoods – You’ll need to register as a member before you can view their catalogue. It offers monthly kids with instruction to member with a fix price. As a member, you’ll be able to see some of the techniques that they teach which come together with the kid everymonth.
Collected Memories – This one doesn’t ship to Malaysia.. yet. Lots of products to choose from, you can build your own wish list. How nice if I’m staying in the US, then surely I’ll order from them, infact I did and now have to think of the most economical way to get it ship from California.
About scrapbooking – This site give you all the ideas in doing a great scrapbooking, it offers free layout, free die cut. All with pictures. I love this site for its information on scrapbooking.
Surprisingly, I only found one scrapbook company listed in the net which situated in Hong Kong central, “Memory Chest”. However I can’t get much out from their website, which is dissapointing.
As a newbie, I’ve just found out recently that we have scrapbooking magazines on the rack in our bookstore around town. This is really a good news to me, however after much reading about it, where can I start getting the materials around town? sad huh.. could anyone out there tell me if I should start selling this things in KK?
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.
Sleeping with two boys
It is not romantic to sleep with two boys, not even fun! I can’t get enough sleep!
I had to wake up twice middle of the night from his call for milk and complaints about itchy butt. Little Mer had to take off his diaper and pants, and prefer to sleep with his naked butt, not even want to have the blanket over him. But for god sake, it is raining heavily outside…
As for the other guy, I woke up discovering that he wet his bed while I wanted to put his blanket on, where he normally rolled it just around his stomach. I know.. he is 4 and yet still wet his bed, probably too much liquid before bed.
Oh .. what the heck, I’ll just have to cover the wet part with towel so that he can continue with his sleep and wash the blanket, bed sheet and towel in the morning. Easy job, just chug into the machine, but the hard part is drying them cos it is rainy days now..
Other than the above .. I still love to sleep with them as I don’t need to walk too far to attend to that “milk call” and at least Cal doesn’t need to sleep on the wet bed the whole night through… plus Mer got this lovely smell on him.
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..)
Hannie Craft - Finding Joy 