Lunch with a schoolmate

How frequent do we make an effort to catch up with a schoolmate? All of us are so busy with our lifes, daily chores that do we make an effort to catch up with our friends ?

Thank you Jo, for taking the trouble to check on me for lunch (you know what I mean).....

Moving, FINALLY !!!

The big move is tomorrow, 27 November 08. This time, we've engaged professional movers , Felix Relo, to pack, seal , wrap our furnitures from our old rented condo to the new house.

The last few days, Danny, maid and me was really knackered out from moving the small (but heavy) items. We had to lug everything from the car park, up to the living room and up to the bedrooms. I've moved all the clothing (except enough for a couple of days) and kitchen stuff to the new house. The movers will charge a lot more to pack for us, so for the small stuff, we'll do it ourselves. Hopefully, tomorrow's move will not take too long. I just cannot wait for another couple of weeks to properly settle down.

Amber has been really demanding lately. She asks for our attention the moment she wakes up. She wants me to feed her milk, change her pyjamas and 'scratch' her. She's been having mild eczema attack recently and I must admit, I've been slack in applying mosturizer on her lately.
I'd better be more diligent in keeping her moist and healthy before I send her to new babysitter next month.

Amber's Cousins

Amber and Natalie cher cher

Amber's cousins came for a short visit from Australia recently. They last saw Amber on her 1st birthday celebration last year and it's been a looong time. Amber do remember them by names but I don't think she recalls playing with them.

Although their trip was a short one, the moments spent together was fun and memorable. I wish they would visit more frequent and hopefully we get to got Melbourne to visit them too.
















Sharlene, Amber and Rosalyn

The cousins having a good time, dancing and singing

Rosalyn was very close to me and hubby couple of years ago when my brother and his family was based in Singapore and visited KL more frequent. We cherished the times spent with her, taking her along for our coffee sessions and all our makan sessions.

Although their trip was very short, and we were very busy with our house move, we did spend some quality time together and hopefully they will visit again soon.

Guest Dancer at Westin

Last weekend, we attended Alan & Ai Lee's wedding. Amber had the most fun. As usual, she'll be restless after a couple of minutes and we were at the foyer for cocktail reception for an hour. She was getting very very restless and I was even more restless having to chase her around and get her to behave.

Well, dinner started and I kept her busy with crayons and chocolates. The chocolates were most yummy and delicious. I let her down and dance during the toasting session. They popped the champagne and the cork hit me ,,, how lucky can I be ? Amber took the cork and danced around with it, as if it was her mike. She went on stage and danced and danced, the emcee gave her a round of applause. ... lol... When dinner was almost ending and desert came, I wanted to bring her down, I had to threaten her by leaving her behind... she said,, "FINISH THE SONG FIRST! FINISH THE SONG FIRST !!".. she clearly wanted to dance all night long..

I was very amused and yet shocked with her antics.. she's so daring or like they say, children knows no fear .. wait till they grow up...

Amber's attempt with my Powershot A550

This is Amber, taking a snapshot of her pink Croc shoes. She loves gadgets, papa's phone, mama's make up tools, mama's handbags, etc. One day, when I upgrade my camera, I'll pass her the Powershot A550 to toy with. At the moment, it's mine , too handy to upgrade and too lazy to learn more on better photography.

Our new kitchen-in-progress

This is our new kitchen in the making. Like the color ? Not exactly conventional and hubs chose it. I left the coloring schemes to him. The kitchen equipments were my choice and I am very excited over the new Bosch oven. There was some problem with the aluminium shutter though. I told Alice, my contractor, I wanted to place a toaster oven inside and she made sure there was electrical supply, in fact there was to power outlets inside... but.. but... but... it's too narrow to fit in the toaster oven. Dang !!!!!

I gave her 2 options, to change (uninstall, remove, cut, spray paint and install again) or FIND ME A NEW SMALLER TOASTER OVEN TO FIT IN !!!!!!! And so, the hunt it on for mini and narrow toaster ovens.

A word of advise to all of you fixing up your homes, be very very specific on what you want, go to the measurements in detail, the cm, mm and H x W x D.

We have chosen a black galaxy granite top for the kitchen. It's a starking contrast to the kitchen cabinets...

Today is hubby's birthday. Yesterday was Amber's. Amber is now a boisterous 2 year old.
We had a little birthday celebration for her at Mdm Kwan's MVC with my inlaws. FIL got her a Tweety Bird cheesecake. I'll be gettin hubs a Dark Chocolate cake tonight. He wanted to test some newly arrived wine with his friends at home and I'll make a simple dinner with good cheese and wine, I think hubs will be pretty happy