Our baby gonna turn 1 in less than a week! Time flies like ya wouldn't believe.

At 11 months & 23 days

Spot the gigi!

o1. She now has 2 gigi! TWO! Dua. :P The 1st one is the upper central incisor on the left, and the 2nd one is her right lower central incisor. I've been waiting for those gigi for like forever, but somehow I managed to forget to buy her those baby toothbrush thingy, ya know those little beginner toothbrush which looks more like a teeter stick rather than a toothbrush, so yeah, am so going to get me one of those ASAP. (Okay, I'm overreacting over a couple of teeth. So? )

o2. She loves HI5, and each time they are done with their songs and ya could see the little kids in the show jumping and clapping, she'll clap too.

o3. She can actually stand on her own now - tho just for a mere seconds- and she'd 'walk' eagerly if ya just hold on to her little hands and let her 'walk'.he he.

o4. She'll fake a cry whenever I raise my voice to stop her from doing something. Drama swasta betui.

o5. Still a breastfeed baby alright!Alhamdulillah.

o6. Her fine soft hair is getting curlier each day which is sorta funny since none of us berambut curly. I mean, when we're out people gonna think that she has my hair la kan? Since they could only see C***'s straight hair and they'll simply assume that she got the hair from me. Well, I think she took after her paksu aka my little brother as he used to have curly hair when he's little. Now his hair is no longer curly, just wavy (tu pasal sibuk nak straight kan rambut,ehem) :P

07. She'll raise her hand up if ya call out "Mana Myra angkat tangan?" tho sometimes she just couldn't be bothered, especially when she's busy watching the advertisements on tv. T_T

08. More often than not, she'll sleep throughout the night these days - only waking up sometime around subuh for morning feed, in fact she stopped waking up 2-3 times for milk since she's around 6-7 months which equals to more uninterrupted sleep for mummy!

09. She could be such a decent little eater aka sitting down on her chair during mealtime - whenever she feels like it else you hafta be prepared to feed her whilst she's cruising around the house and the usual 15 minutes gonna be elongated to 45 & you'll have a handful of clothes splattered with baby food to be hand washed. (On a lighter note, body wash works quite wonderfully to remove stubborn baby food stains before washing em thoroughly using baby friendly detergent.I tend to get bored of body washes, so using em to wash baby cloth helps to finish em up rather quickly.he he)

10. She'll demand to watch her nursery rhymes,Upin Ipin and Elmo on the tablet each time she sees it. So pantang nampak the parents holding the tablet, dia pon nak join sekaki & she actually knows how to pick the video and put em on play! Ok I lied, she probably doesn't know how, she might just trying to imitate our gestures whilst using the tablet, tapi most of the time, she's able to select the video from the list and play em which amuses her to no end. :)

11. If ya hold out ya hand to her whilst telling her "Tangan mummy sakit, urut urut", she'll either rub your hand with her palm or squeeze em or sometimes, pinch em. he he. Nenek ajar urut. he he.

12. Her separation anxiety is getting somewhat dramatic these days. I mean, she'll stick to me like glue during the weekend, refusing to let me off her sight else she'll scream her lugs out and the moment I pick her up, she'll hug me,sad face, resting her head on my shoulder, little hands around my neck and all,macam takot kena tinggal. Haih. It breaks my heart a little to think of how I can't spend much time with her during the week days, ya know,I'll usually leaves home sometime after 8am and got back home by 7pm and later sometime around 9pm, it's already her bedtime.So ya see, I have less than 3 hours to belek my baby. I sometimes wish money grows on tree.

13. She could wiggle herself down from her rocker-chair, the sofa and recently our bed - granted it's a bit on the high side and just yesterday, the bed at the my PIL place in Malacca. She'll simply shift into her reverse gear, get a good grasp at the bedsheets and wiggle herself down safely. As much as I cringed at the thought that she gonna fall, I'd like her to be able to explore as much as possible, so I'll  just bite my lips and let her be. Haih, the agony.

Well baby, I know how I can't wait for you to grow up and all, but could you just please do it sloooowly?

That's about it, I'm so going to get her a cake - tho it's not like I'll let her eat it anyway.he he.

I'm having the post-public-holiday syndromes today. So yea, reading the incident logs and working on the codes give me headache.

So let's be random for a bit.

o1. C*** is such a sweetheart. He actually helped to wash my ride yesterday, I mean, this is not the usual, drive-the-car-to-the-car-wash wash, this is the he-went-down-with-a-pail-and-whatnot-and-wash-the-car-himself wash. Terima kasih daun keladi darling,err..next week basuh lagi? :D

o2. Since Myra's turning 1 in less than a month and is currently in eager-to-walk mode, am searching high and low for a nice walker-cum-ride for her. Got my eyes on the Fisher price's stride to ride lion. The online reviews are sorta promising, but hafta scout for em at the store so I could scrutinize em for a bit and get my hand on em asap.

o3. I spent the public holiday doing house chores and nothing else. Managed to cook for lunch for the little one and the adults(it has been ages since the last time I made fish curry, but luckily it turned out okay), washed the seat cover of Myra's convertible chair-rocker. It was blardy berdaki. Urgh. Folded the laundry. Did the usual pumping sessions and sorted out the frozen EBM. Made mango yogurt. Washed C***'s white baseball cap twice (he complained that it's not clean enough previously so saya telah memberusnya dengan ganas.he he) etc. Tired? Yes.

o4. I'm dragging C*** out for hi-tea on Saturday. I've made the reservation,so let's.

o5. Bought a new wedges heels over the weekend, but unfortunately it's a bit too..hmpp..I dunno, fragile (due to the material, it's suede leather)? Inappropriate for work? So yea, probably need to hunt for another pair shoes over the weekend.

o6. Am still waiting for the (rather incompetent) girl (who works at the management office) to give me a call so I could collect some stuff. She works at a snail-like pace as if she has all the time in the world (which is a bit annoying if ya ask me) and I'm starting to think that her promise to give me a call in 2 days adelah actually 2 weeks kot. Haih.

o7. Don't think that I'll be able to use the free movie tickets so I'd probably give em away, I don't think that I'll step into a movie theater in the next 5 years. These days, I only watch movies when they are on tv. How lame.

08. Baby brother celebrated his 24th birthday last Saturday. Happy birthday little brother. Study well, do graduate with flying colors, get yourself a great job & later when you're rich and successful, ingatlah orang-orang yang tersayang, get me a VW Scirocco sebijik so I could drive it untuk pegi pasar. Okay thanks. :P

That's about it, I'm done blabbering.

Tata.

I know it's the wordless Wednesday, but I feel like rambling for a bit

We were in Malacca for the long weekend as MIL had to go for her scheduled checkup on Friday. So yea, our Friday was sorta well spent as the three of us got to go jalan-jalan for a bit, which mind you, is very rare tho we often spend our weekend in C***'s hometown. Yer lah, if ya hoping to jalan-jalan during the weekend, you're better off staying at home kot, as the crowd is sorta unbelievable & not to mention Malacca adelah super panas.he he (I lived there for a year,I know :P), crowd and super kepanasan don't go well together. Now that we are with the baby, the uncomfortable jalan-jalan,more often than not, is not an option.

Myra turned 11mth on Friday hence the jalan-jalan(refer above), I'd take it as our little private celebration - tho truthfully it was me who badgered C*** to take us to the Taming Sari tower days before. he he. I'm very persistent ya see? In a good way of coz which turned out to be great since C*** himself seemed to enjoy the ride - the lack of crowd made it more enjoyable, no long queue and the cabin was somewhat empty. Or should I say that he was more excited about it than I am? After all, at RM10/ride, it's dirt cheap. Boleh la kalau nak naik lagi 20 kali.

After the ride, went to MP which's my 1st in the last..hmpp..10 years? Yea, it has been that long since my Alpha year in MMU. 10 freaking years, it feels like yesterday. The mall has been refurbished but it still has the 'old' atmosphere to me. We stopped by at Starbuck for drinks, Watsons for Myra's vitamin and Mcd for the fattening food(tho we're not hungry) and got home by Maghrib as we had a malam berinai to attend and SIL to visit.

The rest of the weekend was pretty normal, laze around, a quick drive by the beach watching people flying kites (I'm so going to bring Myra out to the beach to fly a kite once she's big enough, on 2nd thought, I don't even know how to fly a kite myself, so how ah?) .

By Sunday night,we reached home around 10pm, exhausted but I still had to unpack the bags, prepared Myra's ebm, cook her porridge,yada yada. The drive back from Malacca lasted for over than 3 hours, thanks to the weekend traffic - if ya throw another hour into that, it would be as long as it takes to reach Kedah from KL. Talks about Kedah, I can't wait to balik kampung already.

That's about it. Hafta write on Myra's 11mth milestones later. Our little precious is turning one in less than a month! :)

Good day, tata.

Finally getting to the end of the current project 1st UAT cycle - without any major issues, which is a hugeee relief.

I detest coming to work only to discover there's something waiting to be fixed, but on the other hand, adelah bagus that they've discovered the bugs here and there whilst in UAT, kot masa production nanti, it's going to be another story.

On a lighter note, now that the moolah is in,adelah awesome as I didn't put much expectation on the performance bonus which turned out to be great after all. I'm thankful for the rezeki. I mean, last year has been a so-so year for me, job wise - as it was quite an easy year for me, not much of workload(except for some phases when I was almost drown in my own workload) due to my pregnancy and looong maternity leave.

So yea, time to spend some of the hard earned moolah, yes?

Work aside.

We finally managed to get our hands on the extra high chairs. Yup, bought 2 more high chairs for the little one which gonna be placed in both kampung, one in Malacca and Kedah later on. I know having 3 of the same stuff is hardly berjimat, but think of it as an investment lah kan and the hassle free balik kampung trip as there are less stuff to angkut, plus it's not like the chair gonna rot like cheese or something, silap silap boleh guna sampai anak yang ke2, ke3, ke 4, eh?

Talking bout high chair which equals to meal time, the little one is having a wee bit of trouble when it comes to food lately, I reckon that she's teething - as her gum is rather swollen and if I'm not imagining stuff, I swear I could already see 2 big rabbit teeth emerging - but since I'm an obsessive mum who can hardly wait for her baby's 1st tooth, I might be imagining stuff after all. :P

Cepat laa anak tumbuh gigi. Your mummy is getting bored of cooking porridge already. Bila la pulak nak makan nasi goreng, pasta, cheese sandwich,bread pudding ke ape ke? Owh, she's having chicken + pumpkin + sweet peas rice porridge for lunch/dinner and mango yogurt with cous cous for breakfast.

I also made scrambled egg with caramelized onions and mushroom wrap for C*** for breakfast (at 6.30am!) - tho he didn't really request for daily breakfast for him to take to the office (he's pemalu just like that), tapi during my malas day, he'll ended up sending texts saying that he's starving and the sort, apekah maknanya itu? Yea another way of saying "I'm starving because my wife was too sleepy to make me breakfast" T_T Fine darling, fine.

Apelah nak masak untuk esok pulak? Hmpph..

On another lighter note, am going to make C*** take us on a little tour of his kampung this weekend. Me likey. :P

Owh tata.

Driving a car with EPS feels sorta weird. The steering wheel sometimes feels as light as a feather(which is almost cartoon like) and the next second, it's as heavy as the steering wheel of the manual iswara that I used to drive years back in driving school (fine, I exaggerated, it's not as heavy). Absolutely something that I hafta learn to get used to.Hmphh..

Still think that some(note the some before ya go berserk) "big car" owners, are those with small brains or none at all. I mean, they probably sold off their brains for gold - hence the money for the spanking big cars - else I can't see why they think(if they ever think at all) that it's OKAY to cut queues (aku pakai kereta mahal, make ways!), park in the middle of the road/parking entrance for their convenience's sake etc etc. Owh, people with small cars pon sometimes included, it's just that most of the time it's the one with the big car, big car = big powahh = ignorance! Owh, kau susah nak parking sebab kereta aku ada kat tengah? Sooo? o_O

Talking bout car,think that I need to get the new ride to be tinted asap. It's not amusing to drive a car whilst feeling like you're inside an aquarium. Sungguh jelas segalanya tanpa perlu bersuluh. T_T

On a lighter note, the company financial year gonna end this month, otherwise known as hujung bulan tiga dapat bonus. :P

Not expecting much as last year KPI is only somewhere above the average (due to my long maternity leave, limited projects yada yada) compared to the year before yang sangat lah super flying color, but I do hope that it's enough for me to spend em on something for the loved ones(something new for everybody perhaps?) and probably a short trip for our little family, C***, Myra & me! :) (Myra's going to have her 1st plane ride in June! Yey!)

On a lighter note, it's the time of the year again, let's fill up the efiling - (whilst hoping ade terlebih bayaq :P).

Tata.

Time flies eh?

Our little precious is already a wee bit older than 10 month and gonna hit the 1 year mark in 2 months.Alhamdulillah.

Time really flies indeed.

At 10 month 20 days,

01. Still no gigi. ha ha. Do forgive my I'm-waiting-for-her-1st-tooth obsession.

o2. Has been introduced to egg (yey!) and no allergy or whatsoever.

o3. Still a bf baby,Alhamdulillah - sometimes she'll take her milk sambil tertonggek2. T_T (It's just that I'm a bit worry bout my decreasing supply especially when I am at work - adekah saya stress?, owh well, I'll try to strive through - at least until we hit the 1 year mark. Can't say that I'm not trying my best ey? Because I am.)

o4. She's getting pretty expressive of her feeling these days, demanding bukan main. Sib baek la she's everybody's sweetheart so semua pon sanggup melayan. :P

05. Could stand and cruise really well in her babycot and crawls like nobody's business.

o6. She'll clap to tepuk amai-amai song or when ya go "yeay!" - think that she's been doing this since the past 2 months or longer, tapi lupa lak nak jot down. :P

o7. She's been great during bath time since forever, but recently developed an undying love toward water. So each time we take her out of the baby tub, adelah menangis sebab nak main air lagi. T_T

o8. She has been introduced to straw! Like yea, I'm getting sick of the fact that sometimes she gonna be sucking hard on the sippy cup spout and later let the water dribble down from her mouth. She think it's amusing, but not so much for the mummy - especially when we're out jalan-jalan, abeh basah baju okeh.

So yea, the other day when I was in Midvalley, thought of introducing her to something new and impulsively got her a cute water bottle with a straw! Gave her the bottle right away after I'm back from work and in less than say..5 minutes, she was already drinking from em. I'm a proud mummy. Way to go baby! v(^^)

o9. Ya know how you could make the farting sound by blowing onto someone tummy? Which we usually buat dekat budak kecik to tickle them? In my case it's another way around. The baby pulak yang pi buat bunyi-bunyi dekat perot mummy. Whenever we're on the bed and upon discovering patches of exposed skin (tummy, arm, kaki even), macam-macam bunyi lah dia buat and adelah geli, so I'd usually scream and she finds it amusing, so lagi laaa dia buat.Owh ya, tonnes of saliva included in the process.Euwwiii :P

10.She's so mobile these days - she could climb onto her portable rocker-chair in a jiffy, wiggles herself down from the sofa and whatnot. It's getting harder and harder to put on her diapers/clothes without her trying to crawl away.

So we included the Mamy Poko pants(the easyfit one is blehh tho it's mamy poko - macam pakai plastic, the other variety of the pants adelah better,tapi the name escaped my mind pulak, something comfort?) for day wear besides Huggies Comfort dry as I still prefer the normal Mamy Poko and Huggies ultra for nighttime. (Our slim baby's still on size M diapers, we've stopped purchasing diapers since last month since we still have like 9 jumbo packs of various diapers in stock o_o )

11. She loves Upin and Ipin! ha ha. She also loves Shaun the sheep and Timmy time. Dunno lah why she find em entertaining but if one of the show is on TV and it's meal time, adelah senang,her eyes gonna be fixed on the screen, tapi mulut automatic bukak bila nak suap makanan. he he. I know it's hardly a healthy habit, makan depan tv, but sometimes she's so busy and easily distracted and somewhat curious by other stuff, adelah susah dia nak makan. So the method sekarang, anything that makes ya happy baby. Anything.

12. She'll be giddy upon hearing the word "jom", she'd usually start cruising or crawl dengan pantas whilst grinning - jom usually means that she gonna be carried outside, pegi jalan-jalan or simply a dukung. :)

13. Whenever I kiss her whilst making the mmmmuahh sound, she gonna press her open mouth to my face too, sambil buat bunyi mmmwaaahhhh. She probably doesn't appreciate being showered with too much kisses sometimes, but it's fun to see her mimicking ya action. :)

That's about it. Owh, we love you baby. ♥

Finally back to the office after a long weekend.

Well, our short weekend getaway was pretty much eventful and fun - since ya get the chance to spend em with the families. Did nothing much but laze around (whilst enjoying the cold weather), had bbq dinner and the usual jalan-jalan at the tourist spots - Bharat tea, the pasar malam, Kea Farm, strawberry & bee farm.

Bought pretty much nothing - except for boxes of tea & honey sticks(sucking on em whilst watching tv adelah chenta) - as I couldn't see any point of dragging kilos of vegetables down from the highlands as I'll get pretty much the same stuff at home. he he. Sayuq kat giant tu pon from Cameron, no?

So yea, I'd probably go there again in say..3-4 years. Yea, I need that long of a time to recover from my motion-sickness. Like why lah the road hafta be so bad. Tsk tsk. I love the cold weather(at night, siang adelah panas), greenery and all that, but the road is a turn off for me. Rasa macam nak muntah 100 kali. Urgh. Owh and make it sometime when it's not public holiday or school holidays. :P It's hard to enjoy the nature when it's too crowded.

That's about it, welcome back to geeky life. Hello reality.

Yesterday went by like a dream, C*** did great in taking care of the baby whilst I was at work - fidgeting in my seat. he he.

C*** gloated on how easy it's to take care of the little precious. She ate well, sleep well(thrice!), poop well(he he) , drank her milk and behaved well too.

Yea, the little precious decided to be extra nice for her daddy, after all, it's his 1st time taking care of her, alone. Maybe takot nanti daddy dia serik pulak. :P

Whilst all is well for C***, my day started pretty early yesterday. I had to get up early for the usual morning pumping session, labelled the EBM, whip up some fried rice for C*** lunch, made banana + oatmeal + yogurt for Myra's breakfast, bathe the baby, dressed her up before taking a shower myself and off to work.

Long story short, got back home sometime before 7pm to a starving C***. Kesian. :P

So I made him chicken and beef quesadilla (which was good but not cheesy enough for him, yer baiklah, next time letak cheese sepuluh kati) with tomato and onion yogurt dip for dinner.

Also made a fresh batch of chicken + carrot + broccoli porridge for the little one (for today's lunch and dinner) and whilst waiting for her porridge to cook to perfection, washed and sterilized the bottles and pump parts.

Rasa seperti super mummy, but not quite as later that night, I'm suffering form a backache. Adoi. Even a whole day of tampal koyok won't do it.

On a lighter note, I'm really looking forward to our short weekend trip, am planning to drag my trusted tefal pot to make yummy caramel popcorn during the bbq night. :D

Later.

I think that I need sometime off from work, ya know, a short getaway or something to unwind for a bit. I'm planning to have a wee bit of that during our family weekend trip to Cameron later - the crowd and traffic won't be pretty as it's the weekend + school holidays, but since I'm not driving, I'll suck it up and live with it.

Anyway, the weekend was eventful for me. Cooked pasta for C***, made a batch of caramel popcorn for our movie time on Saturday (it has been ages since the last time we went out to catch a movie, but being with the other half + homemade popcorn will do jugak lah). Had a good eat out and a shopping spree on Sunday.

Bought some cute cardigan,tops and sweater for the little precious from Mothercare(on sale yo!) - as the ones that we have (which were bought by my parents during their various jalan-jalan trips) are currently over-sized, mau lagi few months or probably a year baru leh pakai kot. T_T

Managed to satisfy my crave over pearl milk tea and cinnamon rolls. I heart cinnamon. Hmpp..cinnamon caramel popcorn sounds good kan? :P

On a lighter note, the new ride is here, Alhamdulillah - tho I can't say it's a dream comes true, as yes, I've been wanting a new ride, but it's just that, it's not what I want. I'll take it as a sacrifice on my part lah, so that we'll be able to get our hands on a better something later. he he.

So yea, something gotta give but fret not, after all it's just a ride for me to drive to work, which is like less than 50km daily - so no use of wasting too much moolah on it - talks about being a grown up with a family, you'll learn to prioritize. :)

On another lighter note, it feels a bit strange to be driving a compact car when you've been driving a big car for so long. Rasa seperti cartoon.

Talks about car, now hafta get the fixing and painting of the 4wd sorted out asap so that we could sent it back to Kedah - else how lah to keep 4 cars since we only have 3 parking bays. (p/s: Darling cousin, if ya reading this, if ada ternampak C*** car parked at your parking tu, ampun maaf dipinta, tumpang saaaat. :D Kalau nak guna, roger okeh. )

The PILs are going back to Malacca for MIL's checkup sometime later, guess who hafta babysit the baby since the mummy can't take leave sebab tengah UAT? :P Yey C***! Fret not darling, you'll be just fine.

Have a great week. Ciou.

So, we went back to Malacca during the weekend, without C*** - again. T_T

Had MIL's ayam bali and fatty food during SIL's house warming on Sunday, yeah, I did nothing but makan. Like what's new about that kan? Makan is like one of the things to do once you're back in kampung.

Owh, I've finally come to term with the fact that Myra gonna turn into one fussy little eater whenever we're away from home. So yea, she only allowed herself to be fed with oat + banana or oat + fig +raisins and the usual organic baby biscuits besides her susu. Well, as long as she's eating, then fine lah.

Bought Myra a mini baby pool which can be converted into a mini balls pit, together with a bag of colorful mini balls (100 of em all together) in Tesco which cost me less than RM60 (what a cheapskate mum to do, plus I don't think she gonna be amused with it for long, murah-murah sudah, benda yang fun is not necessarily expensive :P ) - only to realize that I forgot to get my hands on a pump to inflate the pool. Kalau tiup sendiri, ade yang pengsan pulak, so the pool hafta wait. T_T

C***'s back last night. *hugs*

I desperately in need of a bunch of new clothes. The paycheque's in, ape lagi? he he.

On a totally unrelated note, I detest people who can't freaking park in their stupid parking lot. Like, what's your problem? Tak nampak kah the terang tak payah nak bersuluh white lines itu, park within em, will ya? Owh, this goes especially to a macik, the owner of a white mpv. Only last week, I came home to find this macik driving her car into the parking lot, since I hafta park mine next to hers, I stopped for a sec and gave her some time to park dulu lah kan? I noticed lah her ridiculous parking skill tu sebab at that moment, her ride was like a few inches into my lot, ingatkan dia nak adjust, tetapi..tidak. T_T

Dengan muka toya, went out of the car and walked away. Oih, I felt like giving her a good honking, tetapi saya hormat orang tua (& it's due to the fact that the car's honking sound is sorta loud that ianya boleh membuatkan orang kena heart attack, kes naya pulak nanti). T_T

So yea, imagine lah my ultimate skill of getting out of the car whilst acting like I'm some sort of escape artist and as thin as a paper - I can't simply park sesuka hati, nanti termakan space org yang lagi sebelah pulak( & then it gonna make me "the macik yang tak reti park kereta the 2nd") and it's not helping that I was driving C***'s big car yang obviously big.

Well, if ya wondering, this is not the 1st time, it's just that the last week's incident adelah the best ever, sungguh epic. Like how ignorant could you be? It's like throwing rubbish into someone's lawn when ya know they're watching.Might as well say "Saya tumpang buang sampah kat rumah awak yerrrr?". Such guts.

Macik, I hate yuuuhh.

You're lucky that I'm not a lioness else I'll give ya car a good scratching. You're also lucky that I'm this *holding 2 fingers closely together* to punch a hole into your car, tapi tak jadi. Grr grr...

On a 2nd thought, maybe I should write her a note or something.

"Dear Macik, if you're suffering from acute blindness, please don't drive"

Sincerely,
Your loving parking bay neighbor.

Well, have a great week.

We spent our long weekend in Kedah - like finally! :P

Planned to start the long drive back early on the Friday morn but our long trip started sometime after 11am instead(it's like real hard to do the usual get up-pack our bag-and-drive routine within the intended time-frame now that we have the baby). Ye lah, dulu both of us dengan pantas boleh siap, now ya have to bathe the baby, feed her breakfast, drag our bags which are twice as much now. Then we could lenggang kangkung with a bag each, now? 4 bags, minimum.

How la to travel light like this?

So yea, we reached my parents place by 3pm. Moi parents were excited to see their beloved cucu so was the Paksu(aka the little brother) lah. Had an extravagance lunch (sampai confuse tatau nak makan lauk yang mana satu, dah la I'm the type yang reti nak mix up my lauk - so much so I had to divide my place of rice in quarters so that I could have a taste of semua lauk. Lauk here stands for the ikan and the meat, veges not included,sayur boleh pulak campuq. T_T )

Since C*** is a big fan of curry, he obviously enjoyed the fish head curry (which was in his food-wishlist, each time balik sp jer, mak mertua dia(otherwise known as my mum) sah2 la buat curry, macam tau2 je.)

Me on the other hand, was more than happy to see the masak lemak ketam nenas. Oih and yeah, the ikan bakar and the ape tah lagi? The next day pulak, came the udang galah besaq pinggan. Such a nice way to fail in maintaining a good diet. Owh well?

Whilst we're enjoying the food, I can't say the same thing bout Myra as she refused her porridge. T_T

Dah mai dah perangai tanak makan dia - tho we brought along her portable chair which she refused to sit on. I think it has something to do with her being in a new place as the same goes when we were in Malacca weeks back. She was more excited in exploring the place rather than eating - which explains why she only accepted hand-fed banana for breakfast and rice + grilled salmon for lunch and baby organic biscuits in between- whilst climbing on the sofa in the living hall.

Perhaps we really should consider the idea of getting 2 extra high chairs for both kampung, one in Kedah and another one in Malacca. Ya know, the high chair = meal time. Daddy, next week, mari lah pi beli. Your treat. :P

Moving on,on Saturday, we managed to visit my grandma who was thrilled to be able to see her cicit since it has been quite sometime since the last time. :)

Long story short, once we're back in KL, Myra's back to her normal happy-eater self and both of the parents pulak hafta get back to work.

Getting back to work after a long weekend = owh malas.

Hmpp..I'm so going to drag our little family for a cuti-cuti after this.

I think it has become a norm for me to post a write up on Myra's milestones approximately 2 weeks before she turns a month older. hi hi. What to do, her geeky mommy adelah busy.

So here goes, at 9 months and 16 days

o1. She still loves to pull her neng yatimah act each time I'm about to get off to work. I think she could tell that I'm going away as I'll have the tudung on. hi hi. So yea, whenever she sees me with my tudung, she'll get pretty restless and cranky, knowing that she might kena tinggal, yet again.

02. Still no gigi. Period.

o3. Is turning to be pretty selective when it comes to food. Previously ape sumbat semua okay, now whenever she detest the food, mula la dia nak gosok mata la, buat-buat tak nampak the food coming la, tepis-tepis la. Haih. I think her food selection won't be as limited as it is right night provided dia ade gigi, which she doesn't, owh well?

o4. She now beginning to cruise around in her baby cot - which is the only place that's considered safe - living hall is a big no no - tho sometimes terlepas lah jugak as she'll cruise from one end of the sofa to another.

o5. She loves Elmo - so mummy hafta download like tonnes of Elmo videos into the tablet to keep her happy.

o6. One of the ways to keep her quite is to recite the selawat/zikir or simply turn on the tv masa tengah azan - she'll stop whatever she's doing and stay still like a statue. :)

o7. She loves her mommy, but adores her daddy. Bila daddy balik, berdesup merangkak nak suruh daddy dukung okay? Tsk tsk. Dah jalan nanti, harus lah berlari.

o8. She's like so manjaaaaaaaaaa. So much so, tengah elok-elok bergelak ketawa, tetiba tukar tune jadi mengada. Sometimes you'll be like "Myra, are you laughing or crying nih?" T_T The same goes when you caught her waking up on her own, like if ya left her sleeping in her baby cot, then if she awakes & nobody's around, she'll sometimes entertain herself lah, belek-belek ape-ape yang ada, but the moment she saw ya walking into the room, teruih la uwaaaa. Sungguh drama. Anak sapa la ni?

o9. Still a bf baby alright. 3 months more to go before hitting the 1 year mark. Go mommy go! :P( Uih, mommy dah ade tiga bp nih - C*** was like "Why do you need that much bp?How many boob do you have again?"-, harus lah meneruskan usaha, else guess who akan menaga? haha)

10. Finally grasped the idea of waving = bye bye. he he. Now that she knows how to wave, adelah super cute (mummy dok masak kat dapur pon nak babai) - but it's not like I could see her waving me off to work - sebab pegi keja senyap-senyap to avoid the separation-anxiety drama. :P

That's about it, will write more later.

We finally got to spend the weekend together. Daddy, mummy and Myra. :)

C*** has been busy going in and out of the country for the past 2 months that it has been quite sometime since the three of us got to go out jalan-jalan and just enjoy each other's company - which is what I love most.

So yea, we decided to go out after lunch on Saturday but got somewhat delayed since the little princess had a longer than usual nap(we let her be as it's never a good idea to go out with a cranky sleepy baby.he he) so we only reached KLCC around 5pm.

Well, tho KLCC is one of the nearest malls to our place - compared to OU, MidV, The curve and whatnot,but it has been ages since the last time we went there. So imagine our surprise lah bila some of the shops are no longer where they used to be. hihi.

First thing first, we headed straight to Maxis since we need to switch our mobile plans - which ended up with a rather amazing discovery. C***'s name has been used to register an account years back which has been deactivated but it has an eye-popping outstanding fees which hafta be settled by nobody else but C***. T_T

But, fortunately, the registered address didn't match C***'s address etc. So yea, later we hafta drag our sorry asses to the police to log a fraud case - in order to waive the outstanding fees - which if ya ask me, adelah menyusahkan hidup when it's not even our fault to begin with. Kataaa canggih, tetiba boleh pulak boleh allow those sort of manipulations. Haih.

Sooo..the sucky part is, we can't do anything with our account, not until the issues are cleared - which might take them like what? 2-3 freaking months. Awesome possum lah Maxis.

To cure his heartbreak, C*** got himself a new pair of jeans - after much persuasions on my behalf. This other half of mine and his never ending issues of spending his own dough for himself. hi hi. :)

We bought some pretzels and cream puff for tea after a quick pit stop at Isetan's baby room - as the little one wanted her dose of susu. Wanted to buy some new toys for Myra but the Toy r us is no longer where it used to be and we were too lazy to find its whereabout.

We later stopped for yong tau fu in Melawati,our local giant for groceries and reached home sometime after 9pm. After a hot bath, the little one pon tertidu, leaving the parents nursing themselves with fatty foods. Bliss. :)

Today's the end of yet another long weekend(HELLO miserable morning traffic!) - thanks to the public holidays, so yea, the next one gonna be in what? May?

Well, we went back to Malacca, without C*** for the 1st time - and am not planning to do it again. It's like balik kampung without the orang kampung. It felt different, but I lived.

Myra was attacked by the nyamok as usual - not that I wasn't equipped will all sort of nyamok-killing stuff, I even got us the all-natural ubat nyamok (mungkin terlebih natural sampai tak berkesan, I even spotted few nyamok in the gel container, I thought it's suppose to halau the nyamok, not attract them to it.Urghh), I even sprayed the room with fumakila segala before bedtime and whatnot, tatapiii...the nyamok still managed to have countless bites of me and Myra. Talks about nyamok zaman sekarang, maybe sudah mutated to super-nyamok.

So yea, the little precious is looking rather spotty. he he. Among all the traits that she inherited from me, why lah it includes the super-sensitive-t0-nyamok-bites skin (& not the dimple?). A tiny nyamok bite will make the skin swells macam digigit naga, not pretty. She'd be better off with her daddy's amazing nyamok-proof skin. Owh well. Enough complaining.

Besides the nyamok, everything else was rather dandy. The little precious got daily visit from her arrays of fans - her little second cousins. They came over to PIL house as early as 8am to play with her and took like 100010 pictures. he he. Myra loves the attention tho she'd sometime went ek ek after realizing that her mummy's not around. Oih, dah banyak dayang-dayang pon nak mummy jugaakk.

A note to self, must bring her convertible rocker-chair during balik kampung next time as she's been eating rather poorly without her high-chair . Punya la susah nak kasi makan if ya just put her on your lap. Now that she's so mobile, she'll wiggle herself free pehtu sebok nak memanjat segala. Oih..mak stress nak. She was basically living on milk and fruits throughout the weekend as I'd stuff her with banana/dragon fruits whenever possible as more often than not,she refused to stay still for porridge.

Owh, but fret not, she's back to her usual good-eater self when we got back home on Monday. So all is well.

On a lighter note, little brother has been calling me daily, from India. Yesterday he called, told me that he bought me a yellow saree.(Yellowww??? I hope it's not in one of those blinding tones) ha ha. I intentionally skipped from answering his 'kakak-nak-saree-color-apa?' question from him earlier, as I've been wanting to see his taste in choosing those kinda stuff. Ya know, since our dad has an awesome taste when it comes to fabrics and whatnot, so mari lah tengok whether his only son pon sama or not. :P

C*** on the other hand, will be back, bearing tonnes of teh botol, I hope. I'm a sucker for jasmine tea hence the love for teh botol. :)

That's about it, hope that we'll be able to have a trip back to Kedah in a week or two. I'm missing my parents quite miserably - and they've been complaining about not being able to see Myra for more than a month now. Sob.

Have a good short working week (again!).

Tata.

Us,at an organic shop, somewhere.

Me: "Dear look, organic alphabet pasta!"
C***: "Hmpp..colorful."
Me: "Let's buy em for Myra okay, cute lah pasta abc, pastu color macam-macam..yada yada"
C***: "So..lepas makan ni, terus terer abc lah?"
Me: T_T

Guys, they just can't appreciate cute stuff as much we do, yes? :P

Owh, my C*** is back. 2 long weeks without the other half is kinda miserable for me. I miss having someone to talk to after a long day at work - not like I can't talk to someone else,but it's just different. Talking to C*** is like talking without thinking(ya know what I mean?), it goes naturally, without any sort of filtering or whatnot.

After all, our relationship kicked start on those hours spent talking to each other years back.

So am I thankful to finally have my C*** back? Owh yea. :P

On a lighter note, our little precious is 9 month young today! Alhamdulillah. (This calls for a cake, but just for the mummy and daddy of coz.)

She got her 2nd dose of pneumococcal shot last week. She's doing fine, tho her paed was a bit concerned on her slow weight gain. Which got me thinking that I should stop her usual oatmeal menu and supply her with more milk. Yer lah, she's been eating well and whatnot, cuma berat je tak macam dipam-pam and selalunya orang nak lose weight makan oat lah kan? ha ha.

My bad, the mum unintentionally put her 9 month old sweetheart on a diet. So yea, no more oatmeal for her for the time being. She needs all the fatty goodness in the world for now. Say hello to cheese. :P

Owh she loves her baby-version of mashed potato. White potatoes + sweet potatoes + pumpkin + a small dollop of unsalted butter and cheeeese. Serve em warm. Nyummeh.

Talking bout her weight, if ya ask me, I think it's in the genes. Both of her parents adelah sorta scrawny when we were little(I stopped being scrawny during high school and the same goes for C***), but look at us now! Bagaikan johan. T_T

That's about it. Have a great week - tho it just gonna be another short working week for yours truly.

Tata.

The 1st day at work after a long weekend is bleh. Like yea, especially when you ended up coming to a half empty office - so demotivating.

Well, the holiday was sorta well spent - tho I was initially hoping for a trip up North - I got to have like tonnes of Myra&Mummy time with the little one. It's heart-warming that she'd just be quite whilst we're on the bed,cuddling. Ya know, it's amazing when the little one's starting to learn how to be manja and all that. hi hi. Yea, I'm a mum, excuse my I'm-easily-amazed-ness.

January has been a lucky month for us (awesome way to start a year ey?) , we won a month supply of Huggies for Myra(to add up to her piling supply of diapers, tho we half expected the diapers to be our usual Huggies Ultra, but it ended up to be the one in red, the dry comfort thingy, owh well, boleh lah. Benda free.) and I got my hands on free movie tickets. It's nothing much really, but it's amusing to find yourself getting stuff for free - over nothing. An indicator of a prosperous year perhaps? Alhamdulillah. :)

I'd like to think that I've grown up to be someone self-sufficient but I'm missing my other half,terribly. Well, C***, I hope you're not reading this. :P

Myra loves kiwi. hi hi. (Why do I have to write stuff bout Myra in each post? Errr..) Introduced her to gold kiwi(the normal one tend to be a wee bit masam, I don't wanna risk her sakit perot) last weekend and she loves em.

MIL complimented her good palate - which obviously inherited from her parents yang suka makan, plus I think it's due to the fact that she's a bf baby, a bf baby adelah sangat bagus when it comes to variety of food since she's been familiarized with em thru the milk . I mean, at 8 months, she'd eat almost everything that I prepared for her. Today she's having quinoa + broccoli + tofu + carrot + pumpkin.

Owh, I finally introduced her to ikan bilis. To tell ya the truth, I don't really favour the idea of ikan bilis for babies as it's on the salty side. So yea, the ocd mummy, went ahead and soaked the little fishes overnight before frying em up in a wee bit of olive oil before grinding them.

Talking bout the fishes, it reminded me of our conversation

Me: " Orang letak ikan bilis dlm porridge baby, tapi sikit jer."
C*** : "Apesal sikit?"
Me: " 1st time lah kasi, takot dia allergic, nanti susah pulak."
C*** : "Ade ke orang allergic ikan bilis? Tak penah dengar pulak."
Me: T_T

I'm too paranoid for my own good, but only on certain stuff, else I'm pretty much adventurous lah. Seriously. :P

I'm looking forward to get myself some nice stuff this year(a new ride included, tho we hafta down-sized a little, owh well? I don't mind as long as we'll be able to reach our goal), ya know, for the past 8 months, I'd usually spent my paycheque for the little one, now that I think we've got everything covered, let's start to spend on things for ourselves lah pulak, tho I doubt that I'll stop buying stuff for the little one. People in the baby stuff industry are evil I tell ya, they tempt ya with cute stuff like all the time. Urgh.

That's about it. Have a great (short) working week people.

Myra gonna turn 9 months in 10 days - then the mummy baru terhegeh-hegeh nak update on her 8 month milestones.

Here it goes,

o1. Separation anxiety, yes she got it. It hard for her to see me off to work without breaking into tears. Don't cry for me Argentina, err..Myra.

o2. She had her 1st jatuh-katil moment, ya, it's a milestone. I think my heart skipped a beat that night - tho she escaped with nothing but a tiny bruise on her upper lip (yer, dia tergolek terkena her toiletries basket that I happened to put on the floor next to our bed) and I swear to myself to never let her sleep on our bed alone anymore. Now once she's asleep, she gonna be transferred to her baby cot.

o3. She's good in eating. I've introduced her to yogurt,quinoa, tofu and some other stuff and she's fine with em. Her current favourite is homemade mango yogurt with oatmeal for dinner. She also loves her salmon - tapi lepas tu bila kiss kiss, bau ikan. :P

o4. She's like sooo manja now, every morning, she'd wake up and crawl over to me (she usually wakes up in our bed as I'll bring her in bed with us when she wakes up for her morning feed, which usually around 5-6am) and sondol-sondol until her head rested on my chest, tummy or celah ketiak.ha ha. The famous saying of 'suka duduk celah ketiak mak' is somewhat true. :)

o5. She (finally) calls me mama! Yey! Yea, it's for real now. Previously I thought that the 'mama' thingy is just one of her various blabbers. But these days, she'll scream(yea, she screams) mama when she sees me back from work or when I suddenly disappear from her sight or when I walk right in front of her and refuse to pick her up. Sungguh dia pantang if balik kerja tak dukung dia, lagi lah dia scream for her mama dengan penuh drama. Eh, it rhymes! :P

o6. She could stand whilst holding to something with one hand, and yesterday I caught her trying to stand by herself, tapi of coz lah tidak berjaya .hihi

o7. It's hard for her to stay still, so much so it takes tonnes of perseverance to put on her clothes and diapers - the same goes when changing her soiled diapers. Baru jer nak basuh her bum, dah laju dia bangun nak crawl.Aaaa..the horror.

o8. Still no gigi. Gigi dimana kau gigi, tho her toothless grin seems to be harmless, but if kena geget still adelah sakit. Yea, don't underestimate the gum okie.

o9. She's still a bf baby. She takes 3ozx5 bottles of ebm whilst I'm away at work - besides her solid food. :) Yea,I'm thankful for the rezeki. Let's see if we'll be able to hit the 1 year mark in April. hi hi.

1o. She likes to copy stuff that you do. Last night,I was in bed, watching tv whilst scratching an itch on my arm, suddenly she crawled over to me and rubbed my arm on the same spot.hihi. Baik hati sungguh nak tolong garukan mummy.

Well, I'm eternally grateful for our healthy and happy baby.



Mummy & daddy love ya baby, like a lot.♥♥♥♥♥

I know. I know. We're already in the 2nd week of the new year but I still shy away from the usual new year resolution post.

Owh well, I've decided not to write one this year due to its- not- suitable- for- public nature. Okay fine, I'm just plain malas, but personally I do want to be better. A better servant, a better wife, a better mother, a better daughter, a better sister,a better friend and a better employee.

2011 has been a great year for me, Alhamdulillah. Got promoted at home(I'm now a wife and a mum.Yey!), at work( a senior geek now yo!). Went through a humbling experience aka beranak-yang-macam-serik-but-I'll-do-it-again-anyway and we've been blessed with Myra and life's never the same again - err.. in a good way of course and it's true that having a baby brings the marriage to whole new level.

Like, you'll be more sehati and sejiwa (like stealing glance at each other over something that only both of ya can understand) and you'll argue less on where and what to have for dinner when you're eating out sebab takot budak kecik mengamok kalau lambat-lambat sangat. Okay, that's too shallow of an example, but ya know what I mean? :P

Well, truthfully, I have nothing specific to rant about, so let's be random for a bit.

Myra turned 8 months 10 days ago. Alhamdulillah. She's one healthy and happy baby and I couldn't ask for more. (Yes, her 8th month milestones coming up, err..later.)



My 1st day of the year was celebrated (or should I say, spent?) with darling C*** and Myra, with a home-cooked pasta lunch with fresh white mushrooms, baby asparagus and our favourite mussels in creamy garlic sauce (I could finish up kilos of em if ya let me) and dessert at the Alexis, the fattylicious chocolate mixed berries meringue. What a 'healthy' way to start a year.

After much procrastination on our side, we've decided to get our hands on some gadgets. I mean, dah penat-penat keja, dah dapat paycheque, mari lah beli benda-benda yang lagha sket, yes?

I have like tonnes of stuff to do at work. So much so that I keep on thinking bout em whilst on my way back from work and tetiba I'm already at home. Yea, there are like so much stuff on my mind that I'm driving on autopilot. Scary.

I'm desperately in need of new working attires, like yea, it has been years of I-dress-casually-to-work that I rarely bothers to update my array of baju skema for work, tapi sekarang tidak lagi.

Moving to the new office is a blessing as I get to reach home before 7pm tho obviously it comes with a price, the toll fees, the ridiculous parking fees and the boring food. Owh well? At least I'll get to spend more time at home rather than on the road.

Myra tends to get rashes on her cheek and chin sometimes and it sadden me to see her spotty face - so much so that I bought her a bottle of baby facial cream(which actually cost more than my own). Haih, kids these days, kecik-kecik dah ada facial cream segala. If it were me 27 years ago, maybe pakai cornstarch je kot?

Tho having a mini-us is awesome in so many levels and in so many ways, but I just can't sleep in anymore these days, not even during the weekend since Myra's such a morning person. Sleep deprived much?

C*** is such a darling. Yes he is. His ganas look is somewhat misleading. :x

I don't know bout you, but I'm a big fan of seasonal fruits, namely cherry and pulasan.

I'm hoping that we'll be able to find our own place this year. Ya know, the one with the right location and the right price tag. Ya Allah, permudahkan lah.

We're into homemade mango lassi these days - it's way better than those in bottles. Mango + natural yogurt + fresh milk/fresh cream + honey/sugar. C*** could finish up a tub of em in a jiffy. Myra loves it too - tho her version of mango lassi only consist of mango + natural yogurt.

This year, I'm planning to travel for a bit. Probably after Myra turned one - since I'm like the most travel-deprived person ever. Oih.

The boss previously asked whether I'm willing to travel abroad for work - which obviously gained a big fat NO answer from me. Well, the baby's too small to be without her mum. Kalau sehari dua takpe(takpe ke? he he), but it's more like months since it's a project-based stuff. How ironic.

That's about it. Have a fabulous year people. :)