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 What a year.  Random pic of Bobby at the vet  Who would have thought I will ever see a global pandemic in my lifetime. Someone always mentioned this on twitter. " What a time to be alive" Its weirdly privileged of me to start the post out like this because as you know many have lost their jobs, lost income, loved ones during this time. So ... actually I have no conclusion. We cannot know also whats in store in the future for us, therefore I am thankful that we are surviving somewhat unscathed this year and only hopes it get better for all of us soon. Rounding up 2020 in a musing sorta way is not gonna be my style for this post.  I will start in a random order the things of note of my 2020. These are the few things I picked up or had happened this year.  Covid I do not want to state the obvious. But this have to be said.  Mask is now a fashion accessories ( while also keeping us safe. Also good god stop selling the lacey bra looking one) so does Washing han...

When my birthday was near my husband asked, so what do you want.  I answered either 1. A night stay at the hotel all by meself.  2. A YSL bag  3. A piano.  So he bought the third one. Lol. I was surprised it was not a stay at a hotel.  I had always wanted to try to play a piano but since piano is a bit expensive so macam malas la. So now my husband decided to gift it it to me, I can play finally really learn to play it.  I also think since I have a little knowledge in playing the electric organ I can manage to teach myself the piano, so far its been ok.  I will tell a bit more later I think.  Been trying to teach the kids but they are not that interested. Aziz a little bit but then he is more into games and got busy a bit. Aside from the gift, I asked for a day shopping at KLCC because I wanted to buy the L'Occitane Youth Serum which I love wearing. And eat some sashimi.  Semoga muka makin jelita . Haha. Oh I forgot about the cake. I was not ...

As per usual , I will update my books buying habit here so I can track my books. Its easier to see this online. Maybe I should seriously consider an excel spreadsheet. Eh malas la.  This time due to Covid, Big Bad Wolf Book Sale held their sale online instead. It was a bit of a disaster on the first few days tbh. The site was unstable with payment not going through and books list not updated appropriately. I am sure their IT Team was going through hellish week that week.  Anyway I manage to buy some books mostly for the kids and a bit for me on the third day of the sale. I also bought a few more books by the end of the week mostly on school exercises book because those were cheaps.  So below pics! The Paws Patrol for the littlest one, the dinos books are for the second and the shark is for the eldest. Buku latihan for the kids and extra-ish And mine... I had also realized trying to find last year posts that I didnt post my stash of last year. Huh,  no matter so I am ...

 Let me update to the uninterested how my violin playing coming along.  I try to record myself playing. It sounds bad. LOL. But I think its normal..  amateur with a cheap violin sounds like. Sometimes its good. Sometimes I wonder if I buy a violin worth thousands will it actually improve the sounds? I also do not want to find it out because I don't have loads of money to waste on a hobby.  So I had finish relearning Book 1 of my Strictly Strings book and going to Book 2. Its quite ok la jugak learning using youtube ni. There's tonnes of stuffs out there people who taught the book using youtube, people giving simple tips and tricks in how to play the violin correctly. We don't have a lot of that 10 years ago. The downside is that there's no feedback how correctly I am playing it and I have to go by memory on what the teacher taught me how I should improve. There's also a few teachers offering online classes nowadays in these time and I am tempted, but I don't hav...

 Just feel like sighing.  I had started another blog just for the point of reviewing because I feel this blog is too mushed up. Not sure whats gonna review. Probably more kdramas. I had been lagging on the kdrama review updated but more like I don't have energy of it.  But I had also started to learn French and Arabic in Duolingo. The former is because I always wanted to learn that. And Spanish too ( I will learn Spanish next). Arabic because I am frustrated by the text books bahasa arab I have to understand to help my kids with their homework. I meant I get why it is in Arabic, but wouldn't it make sense to also include translated jawi into it so it is not just gibberish to the uniniated? I tried google translate but even that doesn't help me much. I had also kinda 'reprimand' the teacher for just giving vague instructions and expecting students to turn in perfect homework. I HATE vague instructions. This is not about spoonfeeding. It is about a clear precise inst...

  Just one of my meals.  The lockdown had also forced us and me to cook more. The above is nothing special, just telur dadar, kobis lemak and asam pedas daun kesum with ikan tenggiri.  I never made asam pedas, but the kids seems to like it so much and it is a simple meal actually. I always thought it is annoying to prep. But not really. I tried to make asam pedas daging last night, and it was good too except the kuah is much too pekat, next time need to add more water.  I even tried to make mini chicken pot pies, where at first I want to try to do the pastry from scratch, but I remembered I had some pastry puff in the freezer and used that instead. I like how it turned out. I didn't take pics of it, because it is no beauty but it does taste nice. Maybe next time. I will try from scratch. If I can do that, maybe the next time I will do the beef stew pies ( I love those!) .  Okay. Gonna have some breakfast now. 

  Back its not as strict as before. But the kids will be all at home and having to oversee their online classes again. I am not looking forward to that.  Anyway aint this picture seems apt on what essentially I am going through. Playing the violin in my room and I also had just put there my newly bought masks.  Don't you guys feel that nowadays you seen a lot of disposable face masks littering our streets. Its really annoying. I prefer cloth masks because while I am not like very environmentalistic (is that even a word), but I like trying to at least create less sampah in the world. Also cloth masks are cute.  later. nak gesek biola. 

 Its October now.  Our Covid cases are rising no thanks to the politicians. And right now I felt like they are really dropping the ball in handling the crisis. I wont say more because then the language will get more colourful.  Anyway... whats up?  Its been tiring. My little boy was in the hospital end of August due to high fever. My youngest ni while even sick , his energy is still really high. Then afterwards of course another great water crisis hit Selangor yet again. Its almost as dramatic as last year one. But the difference was last year I was handling it alone while this year I manage to get my husband to book us an apartment in Genting to get away for a while from the non water issue. Genting was boring btw. We ended up in Bentong for ice cream and nasi lemak.  Then we went to Tioman. My 2 siblings and their family and my mom. It was good. Last time we spent time at Bharat which was very peaceful and laidback, but payar beach resort is interesting too....

Not sure who here from 10 years back still are reading my blog, but those who do maybe did read I used to take violin lessons. I took it for like 3 or 4 years? I was never good because I was lazy. I simply have no time to practice ( ini adalah alasan). During the PKP when I was going out of my mind I feel like I need to play music again. My organ had long kaput and now lying in dust. We enquired about fixing it ( which no one can confirm it can be fixed) but it was a 20 years old one and I am like it will probably cost as much as buying a new one.  What I do have is my old violin, which need to be restring. That is a whole other thing where I was trying to buy it online but the shop sent a guitar stand instead which when they asked me to return and I asked for a confirmation of their shop address and fucking postage fees to be at least sent to me because that thing is huge (and i still havent got my violin strings!) they just went silent!!! I am banning that shop forever and it suc...

I am busy scanning in my son's homework. Kenapalah bila dah scan baru kau jumpa kesalahan?  My raya was beshe2 je?  Did you get back to your hometown? Well considering at the time, travelling to Sarawak is gonna be a big hassle and kinda uncertain (in terms of health safety) we are just at home at this time.  Like I said I did cook laksa Sarawak. I really like one of these days to cook and make it really presentable for a photo. But most of the time I will be running around the kitchen like stirring, the slicing this, stirring again, mixed up things, washing up dishes. Jeez how does people like ribboncircus (I love her IG , she makes it so pretty and homey) makes everything looks good.  I also bought just kurtas for the boys to wear on their first raya. I bought from Zalora and it is the cheapest I could get at RM40 per piece. Can't see the the other two eldest, but the colors are mint green and since for that color they did not have Sharif size, I bought a pink one....

So it is the end of Ramadhan. Had I fully utilized it. I have to say no. I also been in my period for half of Ramadhan. So thats that. Not that my 'perangai' is any better.  Aside from that, this Ramadhan in MCO had its challenges. Finding new dishes to cook, finishing the many many food that my mom cooked, waking up almost every sahur to prepare meals when I am not a sahur person at all. I am also missing and not missing the raya bazaar. I miss going through the stalls of food, but the food we sometimes ordered from the taman whatsapp had been pretty great too and had never got a disappointment (tak sedap,basi,etc) like if you buy food from a ramadhan bazaar.  What about Raya? I don't intend to cook much this Raya though because my husband will be buying lemang and my mom will cook sayur lodeh for all. There is a ketupat palas I will probably boil tomorrow. On the second day of Raya I will cook laksa Sarawak. I had already made the sambal belacan in advance yesterday. I am...

One of the earlier Kdramas I watched was Scarlet Heart Ryeo and so IU is one of the actresses I am always excited to hear about if she is going to be involved in the projects. I found that also I watched a lot of her dramas. Not all, I think I didn't watch Bel Ami and don't intend to either and few of her minor roles, so I will list down starting from what I think her least best drama to the best. DREAM HIGH Plot:- Anyone who haven't watched it well, I don't really want other people to watch this either but it got Kim Soo Hyun, Suzy and Taecyeon . And I really like Suzy here. What is it about? Its about a bunch of kids who went into this sort of music academy with the intention of becoming top/pop/kpop stars. The leading star of this was the above I mentioned earlier and IU was the supporting actress actually. Review:- It is kinda silly sometimes but it does have its moment. Its kinda fun to watch though and the songs are nice to listen to.  Basically I went into it...

Note: It is now Day 33 of MC0 and I feel we are all getting a lil crazy.  You know how people keeps on saying that during all this time we are forced to stay at home we should learn a new skill or gain knowledge. Well that would be nice. But also be free to not feel like we have to do all this stuff. This is a life altering event that is damaging to our health, economy and mental well being. The main aim is to flatten the curve and get through it with us and our loved ones alive. So... sometimes we need to keep this in mind. Now back to the usual rambles of...   What I have been doing in this PKP or MC0?  - Making sure all the kids got their online classes without issues. It is such a hassle. But you know. We have to do it. But it such a hassle!  - Making sure all the homeworks get to the kids, then to the teacher. I swear arr, I feel like I have my own homework and deadlines to keep up with all the printing, screenshotting, overseeing and th...

I love Park Bo Young.  First of all she is so darn cute. Secondly she is the same height like me. So aku jua boleh bajet cute pendek like her!!! ( Ah let me have my fantasy) .  I can't review all of her drama series since I didn't watch all of her works. Come on. I have my limits.  So I will review the last 3 she was in...  I won't go into much details. Just going with the flow here. So here... from worst to best.  ABYSS Plot:   Cha Min ( An Se Ha) and Ko Se-Yeon (PBY) died, and they came back from the dead looking completely different from their old self. There is also the main mystery of the series - which is finding and catching the serial killer who killed Se Yeon. Review:  Absolutely a waste of my time. I hate it so much.  I wanna pile on it more but really, it is just not worth it. Just NO. Was Park Bo Young OK in this? She absolutely nailed it of course, especially when she have to play dual roles. But...

Well... I just have to put that title in nonetheless. Anyway here we are in the midst of a pandemic. The worst seen in this century, hundred thousands infected, tens thousands of death. This is surreal. People are in isolation all around the world. If you try to talk people everywhere... they will be in their house. In solitude. Social distancing. Bored out of our mind. Itching to go out. For Malaysia its been what? Day 12 of Restricted Movement Order? I will call it here as lockdown because that is a mouthful. Weekends and weekdays had merged into one. I am now playing classical in full blast while writing this post because my playlists had gone on many many loops. Now now... of course I should and need to be thankful, to be bored in this lockdown. It is a privilege. Some are forced to be stuck in a small 2 bedroom house filled with multigenerational families. Some are out of work and working side gigs to the best in this limited movement to get food on the table. Some are ...