36th Week

Gua sudah gabra

1. Macam sudah dekat, but I pray the baby will want to stay longer just a little bit more. Come on baby, it is good for your developmental health or something like that. I read it in Dailymail.co.uk. I am addicted to the Dailymail, it is so trashy and it makes you feel perhaps Malaysia is not as bad. 

2. Jalan sudah siksaa. Tapi kenkadang if I got it into my head untuk do something (shopping la mostly), I will walk my damnedest. Macam 2 minggu lepas. Memula nak makan kat Nasi Kandar Kudu. Tutup :( . Pastu nak makan kat Krathong, tutup jugak. Then pergi la Insaf sebab I want the mango lassi and ayam madu die. Then boleh pulakkk aku jalan-jalan kat Jln TAR cari tudung, sambil minum air asam boi, then jalan lagi kat Sogo. Malam tu terus demam, besok temperature cecah 40, and husband threatened to bring me to emergency. Over tau husband aku... ( I kid, I kid, he was concerned for the baby ). Terus MC seminggu and I missed out on our project dinner kat Mandarin Oriental which was suggested by moi! Dan semua cakap sedapppp. Tapi time tu bubur separuh bowl pon rase macam separuh nyawa nak habiskan, so aku memang tadek la berangan nak makan buffet. Tapi still sedih sebab nak harapkan duit sendiri makan buffet kat Mandarin Oriental memang pikir 4 5 6 kali. 

3. Like many complain, it is getting hard to get comfortable, sleeping, sitting, standing, eating. My feet jugak akhirnya sudah bengkak. Not too bad, boleh pakai lagi my Crocs, tapi kaki berbekas la. Haha. The one that I find tak best is the difficulties walking. Sebab macam limited what you can do. Nak berkemas pon malas ok sebab sakit. Nowww I know why heavily pregnant woman jalan sambil cup perut die kat bawah, the action kinda still your perut, so less pain. 

4. Husband dah balik so it majorly helps! At least no moar bongkok2 bersihkan litter sand kucing-kucing ni. 

5. Spoke of the cats, tetiga ekor sekarang tengah bergelimpangan around me membuta. Seronok WFH then hujan kat luar. Make you feel thankful, that you are not stuck in the jam.

6. Nowadays, aku malas nak keep track kick count tu. Pemalas kan.. tapi I try to be aware jugak la and kira scara rough estimate. The baby pon bukannye kick, more like moving around his leg and body. So terasa ketat and keras je perut ni kekadang. 

7. Sedar tak sedar, next Tuesday will be my 37th week of pregnancy. And it is indeed any time je. Gabra tunggu next checkup ni. 

8. Tahun ni juga I will berpuasa as a mom to be and a heavily pregnant woman at that and the second half of puasa, I will be a MOM! Nak tanak kena sahur, walaupon all those who knew me know that I don't sahur. If I do, I need to tidur balik lewat. I can't eat then immediately sleep, alamat muntah la siang. But I will not be pushing myself too hard, we'll see day by day how the fasting goes. 

With that, selamat menempuhi Ramadhan, and please forgive me for anything that you think I may do wrong, which can be aplenty. 

Telinga yang kembali berkurap

Orang selalu tanye kenapa bagi nama Kurap kat kucing I yang cantik jelita bak diva ni.

Pwetty as a pictahh!

Nampak macam queenly sungguh kat situ kan. 

Well, I took the below pic from my tumblr, kalau dig through dalam2 belog ni adalah gamba die masa memula datang terketar2 depan rumah mengemis. Kesian sangat. But this pic below I think I took around a week after she came into our life. 

Tengok la telinga die tu. Tu baru lepas kena sental dek husband dulu. Dulu pagi before gi keje, husband will sental her telinga yang penuh hitam berkerak tu, balik keje kembali hitam dah. She got really bad ear mites then. Jalan-jalan sikit sekitar rumah, berguguran kerak telinga tu jatuh sana sini okeh. Haha. 

At the time, I kena berpantang lepas miscarriage so, walaupon kena persuade dek mak suh buang her, I was a bit sentimental so I was adamant to let her stay at the house. Nasib baik ade husband yang suke kucing dan tak geli macam aiii. Aku ni suke kucing, tapi geli sikit nak handle2 mende camtuh. Haha. Anyway she got better after some very effective medication from the vet, dan membesar dengan jayanye seperti gambar di atas. 

Anyway... melalut ke sejarah Kurap pulak. Anyway, on Saturday kut, after she came back gallivanting around the neighbourhood, aku perasan la her telinga macam luka sikit ade kesan kena gigit or scratches. She sometimes came back like this, so I let her be. 

Semalam bile I pet her, I noticed the luka gotten worse, bengkak and I can smell the blood and nanah. 

So tungkus lumus la husband and I membersihkan the luka and nanah. At first duduk diam je, but then husband picit2 nanah tu kasik keluar semua, menjeritt la die. The 2 kittens pon sibuk duk usha dekat2 sampai jatuhkan the air basuhan. Busybody kan. Nak tengok diva kena torture sakit. A bit kesian la, sebab kite sendiri pon sakit bile basuh luka yang infected, apatah lagi kucing. I think it gotten worse because she scratched it alot. So pakaikan laaa ecollar Bobby tu. Nasib baik tak buang lagi. 

Husband suruh I tengok luka die, say macam dah berlubang telinga die. I duk "tamawwwww" . Aku dah kata aku geli mende2 tu. I just wipe the blood and pus off and hold her masa husband duk thoroughly clean her, tak tengok betul2. Aku memang geli laaa. 

Depress kena pakai kon. Have to laa luv, or ada nanti tadek telinga terus kang. 

So pagi ni bawak la ke vet. Husband la bawak, wife die berbaringan tengok 2 ekor anak kucing berlari2 macam saiko dari hujung ke hujung. Husband duk tease I tanye kalau vet nak potong telinga Kurap tu, I kasik ke tak. I jeling je, ade keeee vet nak potong . Hahaha. 

Anyway, itu la die. Telinga dah kembali kurap dahhhh. Sesuwai kembali dengan nama asal. Actually takla berkurap, but bernanah. Better lagi bagi nama Kurap dari Nanah kutttt. Gile tak selera nak panggil. 

Total damage at the vet adalah RM100++ lebih ok. Vet pon cam geleng kepala cakap die ni banyak hal. Bontot rabak laa. Masa bontot rabak die tu dulu RM400++ ok. Ai pengsan laaa vet bills ni. Ubat ade 4 jenis okehh. 2 tablet, 2 krim. Aku demam minggu lepas pon dapat 3 jenis ubat je. Siap la bersilat nak bagi makan ubat kat diva ni. She is the one yang paling susah sumbat pills among all the cats yang I ade. 

Partly my fault for letting her out, walaupon seminggu sekali, tapi Kurap ni tak reti limit diri. Bobby and GollyWolly main depan rumah je. Bile panggil menceceh masuk. Kurap ni mmg tak makan saman and suke mengejar kucing2 stray belakang rumah. Selaluuu la panggil die balik die buat dek je. Tapi sometimes I tak sampai hati kurung selalu sebab she always looks so joyful bile dapat keluar and selalu la duk miau2 depan pintu mintak keluar. Tapi kang lepas ni, siap la kauu.. ada dapat keluar dengan leash je. 

Nak cerita pasal pregnancy. Tapi esok2 la. Dah penat pulak menaip. 

Tuan punye blog asyik tak sihat je

Tak sihat sikit je. Alhamdulillah tak serius. Baru baik demam, pastu malam tadi instead of bukak aircond, I turned the heat function on.

Gile kepanasan, asyik terbangun setiap 2 jam rase nak bunuh orang. Lepas solat subuh baru perasan, so turn back the cold air on, dan baru boleh tidur dengan nyenyak.

Nanti laaaa.... (tapi bukan ade ape untuk diupdate)

Ape-ape aje lah

Husband is most probably gonna be home by this weekend. Happy! Ade orang nak mop rumah! Dan gantikan lampu yang dah blow kat porch.

My neighbour cat birthed 4 kittehs. 2 died, and only 2 left now. She kept on asking me, before the first one died, that they looked sick and what should she do. I did mentioned she need to bring them to the vet, ni dah 2 mati still she asks me the same and I kinda lose my patience a bit. I said that "saya sendiri tak tahu la, kena la bawak pegi vet. Anak kucing senang kena penyakit". But I doubt she did. Sigh. Kesian tengok anak kucing tu, she said makan ok, and all. But I am not sure if she really keeps track if the kitten eats or not sebab nampak really kurus.

My other neighbour pulak asked my opinion on how to train a cat in the litterbox sebab her children wants to adopt a cat from SPCA. I am happy to learn of a family who opt to adopt from SPCA! Yeay for them!. Also nampak gaya macam aku ni the go to for person in the neighbourhood untuk advise for cats kaa?

Mainnnnnnnn

For my own cats, I got so many scratches from GollyWolly. She seems really fixated on my face and if I tengah bersantai-santai di sofa, she will try to lick and sniff around my face and mouth. Tak tahu laa kenapa. At least dulu Bobby will only be fixated on my fingers. Mcm yesterday, frustrated that she can't get to my face as I was sitting straight on watching the TV, she jumped up to reach my face, tapi dapat at my throat. Gahhh. Ini semua terjadi sebab Bobby malas layan si Wolly and opt to go to sleep. So if Bobby tidur, GollyWolly will gravitate to me. Die tak berani nak dekat dengan diva Kurap. Kurap depended on her mood will tolerate the kittehs, but she still spank Wolly if Wolly datang dekat2. So she goes to me. If I am at dapur washing dishes ke ape ke, she will be between my legs, bawah kain. I remembered Puteh used to do that, tapi Puteh sebab takut kena wallop dengan Kurap. Wolly do that sebab she wants to play with my kain batik punye hem.

I also thinks I now keep on getting that the Braxton Hicks Contractions. And it is a major pain kalau stuck dalam jam. Maybe because by sitting in one position for so long and blood going upstairs bile ade drivers bodoh on the roads. Rase macam nak on hazard light and tekan hon lama-lama, suruh orang bagi me through so I can reach home and baring. Sigh.

Someone mentioned about how husband and babies make better accessories than branded stuffs. I am like pissed reading it. Because I don't like to think pet as accessories apatah lagi your family. You are comparing family to a material things? Is that even comparable? I much rather see people have their Chanel, than having a kid they don't really want in the first place. Kan? Kadang-kadang in twitter ni, ramai I notice berlumba-lumba trying to come out with the most awe-inspiring, wisdomly quotes, tapi most of the time  punye lah berpeluh memikirkan sentences to look sage, some people ended up looking like a twit. I hate quotes. Do people really got their inspiration in life by reading random sentences! I guess you can regurgitate one out in moment of 'pencerahan Agung' bab kata Asrol dulu, tapi if selalu sangat... ehhh... you got so many problems in life ke? Are you trying to reach for something? Are you just attention whoring?

I guess it is better that FB where the quotes came with big ass pictures of nature. I am now in the processed of unsubscribing people who kept on doing this. Quotes punye la banyak macam nak jadi the next Tony Robbins, tapi next status update duk kutuk-kutuk work colleagues, saying the colleagues dengki kat die. This people laaa!

I think this is most probably I got back to blogging somewhat regularly. Facebook dah lama I lose interest but I mostly open to guris-guriskan hati sendiri setiap kali bukak page KTAJ. So many unwanted kittehs~!! Twitter is fun half the time, half exasperating. Blog I can go and read what I want as I please and ignore those I don't like.

Some people mentioned I update a lot about kittehs. They way they said it like I had let them down or something. Hmmmm.... At first I kinda pissed la , now ... lantak la. I don't owe my readers anything. I don't have ads, and don't depend my livelihood on them. It is after all tempat melepaskan perasaan kan.

Also I spent my MPH vouchers on this! 

Best tahu tak perasaan beli buku baru tu. 

Randomize Thoughts

Mommy to be worries of cats. 

I am crossing my fingers and jari kaki semua that my husband boleh balik next week. Ade orang boleh tolong cuci litterbox. It is such a back breaking chore for me. People keep on saying cats is not good for pregnant ladies that sometimes you macam takut. I berdoa je la everything is OK and after everything I read on toxaplasmosis (malas check if ejaan betul ke tak) , just take some precaution. Macam I wear disposable gloves and mask everytime cleaning out their litter and all. And make sure I thoroughly wash my hands before eating and after handling them. Aku rase my hands will aged prematurely given the amount of anti bacterial handwash I had been using setiap kali handle die orang. 

As for babies and all that about allergies, studies shown that having pets at home reduced allergies in children, so aku berharap tiny tot will have to build considerable immunity against them. I have a vague plan on how to introduce the 2 creatures to each other gradually, but I guess we will see. 

Tapi I tetap sayang the kittehs. Macam I kesian kat Kurap who expected to be petted and stroked macam anak puteri raja selepas bangun tidur siang and sebelom tidur malam. The yowling she gave me if I didn't give in, perghhh. Howlah she will feels in a few weeks! time when she won't get the same treatment I'll give her now? The other 2 kittens is fine as long as they're with each other, although Bobby suke main a bit ganas. But I check so far, everything ok. GollyWolly don't seem afraid of Bobby and always ask for more play.

I read at this blog where a mummy (mat salleh punye mummy la) expressed of how she felt that her love for the cats have diminished ever since she have children. She said she loves her cats still, but sometimes they frustrate her and wishes they are not at home sometimes. Am a bit worried about that, macam will I feel like that? Sekarang boleh la cakap tak, but we don't know how we feel tomorrow, apatah lagi after a big change come over.

However how disturbing that honest mom confession was, I was more horrified at the comments she received at her blog. I guess the other mummies who thought they have rakan yang sekutu (ke sekufu?) dengannye, commented in the blogs, on how some of them basically dump their pets at the nearby shelter after giving birth to their child. They find out that, the cats are too much hassle, so dumping them is the only way, in their very narrow view. Some don't even look back, guiltily! 

The owner of the blog pon expressed her concern over this. Like while she sometimes feel like the cats are a nuisance, she can never give them away. It is a horrible thing to do. The cats had been loved and pampered, and tetiba kena dump like that. Don't they know cats can die of a broken heart or depression. Kesian taw, I hope whatever I may feel, I can never be like that. At the very leastla kan, find a good home for them. Bukan dump at shelter.

Fuhhh... aku nak cerita pasal kucing sikit je. Tengok dah berjela. Depressing pulak tu.

Untuk kurangkan sikit je depressing tu, ini gamba Fasha masa die kitten lagi. Aww.  I miss Fasha. RIP lovely cat. 

Cream Crackers Hankering 

Sejak pregnant ni, aku suke sungguh dengan krim krackers. Naseb baik at ofis ade free. Kalau zaman kecik-kecik dulu, malam2 nak tengok movie la kan, so my sisters and I, will buat air milo masing-masing and krim krackers tin ade dah tersedia tengah bilik tv tu. I pulak, will have 2 mug. One mug adalah untuk dunk the biskut in, the other one is for minum. 

But the best memories is always SBP time. The supper for our SBP is usually just Milo and whatever biscuits they can muster up. Ada la once in a blue moon, some roti or kueh. Usually the girls will tapau the Milo in their mug. Bukan bekas tumbler ok ( adalah a few yang rajin bawak tumbler but kami malas ni guna mug aje ), sesekor bawak mug and perlahan-lahan jalan to our dorm. So the Milo was drank with cream crackers depan almari storage makanan dorm masing-masing, while gossiping. 

I guess biskut sedap mana pon, usually, I will always hankers after the plain krim krackers. It is such a nostalgic biscuit. Especially untuk para ex budak asrama yang duit tiap kali outing, memang dah disediakan untuk topup krim krackers ni. Tak tahu la kalau bebudak asrama sekarang semua got loads of money and sume makan Oreo with their Milo dinosaur. Plain Milo don't satisfy people tastebud nowadays, kalau order kat Mamak mesti Milo dinosaur. I pulak will eyed the serbuk kat atas drink tu suspiciously if people around me order. Tak rase nak batuk ke minum tu?

For me, the best Milo is always the one I buat sendiri. Boleh adjust kemanisan and kepekatan Milo to my liking. But I rarely dunk my cream crackers in there now, tak best ade serbuk biskut in the mug. Usually, I'll spread my many, many variation of jam on top of em.

Gile boring aku ni (campo kebulor). Orang lain tunjuk gamba die orang dengan pakai baju Poplook dan camwhoring bagai dalam blog entry, I am composing love letters about Cream Crackers. Cream crackers Hup Seng patut jadikan saya spokesperson!

Nescafe Milk Coffee 

Macam sedap. I tempted. Tapiii... 

Iklan dah merata, ko jual kat mana? Cets. Cakap banyak, bayang tiada, tiada guna la customer tak boleh beli. 

Saya orang miskin so saya mencuri. 

The recent issues is of course of women being targeted by criminals in parking malls or the vicinity. Aku penah victim of snatch theft. I hate to say partly my fault because why should it be the victim fault if we are being robbed? Lain la if got sign "I got money! Come , come take!" . I mean, to say a victim, any type of victim, is at fault partly sebab putting themselves in that vulnerable position is something I  find macam... tak patut. The fault lies solely on the people committing the crime. 

Well... sambung cerita balik, well, I was then walking, head in clouds as always and it took me a few seconds to realize my bag had been snatched from my hand easily by this motorcyclist. Kureng kan. Not so many money dalam tu, RM50 je kut, tapi leceh la for the usual stuffs seperti kad2 tu kan. Tapi I guess cukup la tu for the guy to buy some drugs.  

But after that incident, I was no longer so ditzy when walking alone. Making sure, handbag not facing the road, always be aware the sound of motorcycle, if any approach, I'll quickly put a distance between the side of road and me. And usually, handbag is clutched firmly at front. That means jackshit la kan if the guy decided to brandish a weapon in front of you, but hey... at least we try to cover the bases. 

Sekarang ni with the criminals targeting car park, lagi la tak best. Tak best to balik lewat, and I guess my fav pastime tengok wayang if the jam is unbearable, bile nak balik tu I will feel tension. Sigh. I can't comprehend hurting another people for gains. I can guess how they react after they got it, but what they justify it with?

Macam dulu at BBU ni, a couple have a routine of going for prayers at the nearby mosque during the night, so I guess ade orang perhati la kan and take advantage to pecah masuk while the occupants is not there. ( That is wayy more preferable than pecah masuk while people in there ). Anyway malam tu pulak, the owner of the house tertinggal something and patah balik to get it from their house. So they find pintu terbukak, and pencuri tu terkedek2 lari turun bawah rumah, trying to get away. When caught " Maafkan saya encik... saya orang miskin". That is the same dialogue we got, when someone was caught mencuri seguni buah mangga at our house dolu2 ( when we still have pokok mangga). One or 3 mangga, tak kisah la kan, tapi seguni tu.. nak botakkan our lone pokok mangga la tu. Cets.

Speedy book reviews

Ingatkan sejak pregnant ni kurang baca, but not bad at all eh. Though, I don't know why the interest is not so overwhelming cam dulu. Adakah baby ni will not be an avid reader?? Noooo...

The Wonder Spot by Melissa Bank
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Like it well enough. It was different. Most definitely not chic lit, and not about love. It is more about relationships. Your relationships with family, friends, potential love in different stages of life. Interesting, but not compelling.



Glimpses by Adibah Amin
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Adibah Amin is one of Malaysian great writers. Not in the likes of other literary author that is infamous, but almost there.

I have the privilege of knowing her personally as she tutored me in English and BM at one time.

Thus when I was reading this compilation of articles, in my head, it was in her voice. Her gentle soothing voice, that seems to always have a tinge of humour in it.

It is must be very appalling for her to to see my state of English grammar nowadays. Anyway, I am digressing.

I don't love this book, but I never love compilation or short stories anyway. Writing a review on them is even much worse. So, I'll just say, some I love, some I chuckled, some bristled me and some I just passed through. But always her gentle voice vibrates very loudly throughout this book.

So my review maybe biased. :)

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

Would I be called as ignorant if I sai... I hated it.

I thought I don't like Alice in Wonderland, but I enjoyed Alice in Wonderland, somewhat, somewhere along the pages, in part.

This book, I didn't. I can't wait to finish it.. and not in a I want to know the ending way. Maybe it is just not my cup of tea.

How to Be Popular by Meg Cabot
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Like the story. The heroine was cute. The story is a bit too simplistic for me. Same argument as I made with Jinx (other book for YA).

I think I should remember that perhaps the book is aimed at tweens instead of teens. However, it does not distract my enjoyment of it, a lovely cute simple story of a girl trying to fit in. I think maybe I'll be only sticking books by Meg Cabot that is aimed at an older demographic as I really enjoyed Queen of Babble.

A little worn out over nothing

Last week was incredibly tiring to me. Kemungkinan sebab Bobby sakit, so taking care of a sick cat is very back breaking business for a heavily pregnant woman. 

Aku rase lain macam bile type woman tu. Sebab walaupon umur mahu mencecah 30 tidak lama lagi (wuaahhhh), I still feel like a girl. Even though husband is not around for most of the time, and a lot of the chores at home is taken care of moi, bile time makan I still goes around to my sister house for dinner so I don't feel fully grown up. Macam ade orang lain still taking care of me. Dapur aku tu jarang gile la berasap unless tetiba aku rajin nak goreng hotdog ke or buat tah hape. Menunjukkan betapa jarangnya I cooked, ever since we siapkan the dapur which is more than a year ago, almost 2 years kut... GAS TAK HABIS LAGI OKEHHH. 

So this week rase penat tu macam tak habis lagi. Atau pon mungkin akan rase penat sampaiii la this tiny tot keluar? Fuhh. There are times, I wish I mahu beranak awal bile rase penat sangat tapi most of the time, mahu tepat pada masanye just so I can juggle time easily and husband will be here. Macam sedih je nak kena siap2kan barang ke hospital sensorang wooo. Need a backup plan too if say my sister and bro in law not available time puasa, (balik kg) and I am alone in KL and tetiba time tu pulak baby wanna come out ... who's I gonna call??? Ghostbuster! (Saje sambung). But if anything happened pandai2 la kan hidup. Bukan ke ade perempuan in Mexico, yang alone at her farm, tetiba beranak have to perform caesarean on herself, pastu jalan ke town berdekatan to get medical treatment for her and the baby. Kalau die bolehhh... setakat perempuan manja kat KL ni. Cets. 

Anyway the pregnancy is going on OK. Everything seems to be going smoothly, Alhamdulillah. I myself pon apart from the rase nak muntah bile tiba malam tu ( die datang kembali, tapi still can control), can still move around, albeit like a duck, tapi gigih lagi nak buat simple housechores. Weekend ni cita-cita nak mandikan Bobby and GollyWolly lagi. Fuhhhh.. tinggi cita2 aku. 

My legs slightly bigger tapi not swollen , weight gain not too worrying, naikkk.. memang naikk. Especially area peha. Fuhhh.. even in pregnancy, all the food seems to settle to my thigh first. Tapi berat naik dengan kadar yang bersesuaian la. Lagi2 nowadays, I don't have much appetite pon. By the end of the day, aku dah rase macam nak muntah sume mende, so I drink Anmum to settle the stomach. Anmum tu pulakk, dalam label suh letak 4 sudu.. aku letak maksimum 2 sudu jeee, kadang2 1 sudu bergantung kebesaran gelas. LOL. Sebab aku memang suke susu cair and rase susu tu sbelom tidur kurang kan sikit keinginan nak muntah tu . Takpela baby, dapat gak sedikit zat. 

I am freaking out a bit that I am now in my 8th months of pregnancy. Baju/towel baby sume dah basuh and simpan, beg hospital belom packed, but will be, and will be sterilizing some of the bottles a bit just in case. Bile cakap 8 bulan tu macam dah anytime je kan. Gua gabraa. 

Ok. Bebel2 ini panjang ... 

Shopping untuk anak bulus

AWAS: Post yang sarat penuh mengenai kucing dan gambar-gambar kucing.

Pet Fair yang ku tunggu-tunggu was on last Friday. And I manage to buy some stuffs, such as scratching posts! Bought one mini size for the kittes and one yang tinggi for the adult diva.

Kurap claimed the smaller one at first. GollyWolly played a bit at the taller one. The smaller one is RM 21 I think, aku dah tak ingat. The taller one is RM35.

gamba ni comel sikit, sebab I guna my nicer camera instead of phone. So you may get  different quality of pics for this post. (Macam orang herannnn)

Then she claimed this one as hers jugak. GollyWolly dah out of frame. Sebabb.. die dah syok main mende lain, sepertiii

Litterbox is RM19. Murah bagi aku! 

Main di dalam litterbox. Which I bought for GollyWolly sebab perangai Bobby and GollyWolly ni is suke mengkambus pasir ke luar sakan-sakan. Mahal tahu tak litter sand korang tuu. Kurap got her own special hooded litterbox sebab she is mostly dalam rumah, while the 2 kittens tidur kat belakang rumah (kandang kucing i ).

Aku also beli a mini pet condo. Not so small, but not too big. Kinda like a small-standard size la. The price is RM120 for the below. It is not that cheapp. But cheaper than the one I seen so far.

Memula got 1 kitty

And then there were 2

And then kucing gemok makes it 3. Kurap also become interested tengok GollyWolly main.

Pet Condo tu nowadays si Wolly je excited main. Sometimes Bobby join in the fun. Kurap likes to play with the scratching post yang taller tu and her other toy. Scratching post yang kecik tu, macam kurang sambutan. Kureng tul kucing-kucing ni. Kena place some of the toys to a more appropriate location I think, including the pet condo so the cats find it more attractive to play there instead of say, using my thigh as springboard bile main kejar-kejar. Sekarang ni rumah macam tongkang pecah, sebab I malas so I just put mana yang senang. Hehe. 

Apart from that, I bought other stuffs . 

Cat collar yang GollyWolly tak muat pakai lagi, the biru one for Bobby. Mainan for all the kittehs, cat dish sebab comel dan pink, and bookmarks and car sticker from SPCA. Fancy Feast punye makanan tin tu I got free.

Tapi afterwards, lepas I dah mandi and turun bawah balik, found them excitedly main plastik.

Which just proves the theory of cat owners that sometimes all it took to make a cat happy is a box or a plastic bag.

The Pet Fair itself, I think on Friday tadek ape sangat. Weekend mungkin meriah because there is a whole lot more of animals being brought over to cater for more people. So booth yang ade adoption drive pon tak berapa banyak cats though I know there is a lot of cats that needs to be adopted. I was attracted to one tortoiseshell at the KTAJ booth kut, comel gile, I think around 1 to 2 year old. Sungguh mandom je dalam cage. Mentioned to my husband he replied me with " You can't adopt every cat in the world even if you want to". I guess the person can't really have what the heart wants. Also aku rase kalau aku bawak kucing tu balik, setiap malam aku drop of exhaustion kut and kemungkinan the cat kena abuse dek kucing diva. 

There is a lot of booths that catered to doggie stuffs, a lot of premium cat food booths, but I think I will be sticking with just Royal Canin sebab tak kuasa nak cari brand yang jarang jumpa ni though it might be good or better. Royal Canin so far senang je aku nak cari kat area Ampang ni, hehe, so no prob for me. And no RC booth to be found that day. 

Other animals kali ni, is just for rabbits and hamsters. Last time ade tarantula, tapi mungkin tak banyak sambutan so they malas to come back. I still think RM5 for the entrance fee is a bit steep and might put off potential adopters. I hope that the money is used for charity / shelters. 

Most of the stuffs above I bought at one booth, which I think sell the stuffs reasonably. Not dirt cheap, but cheaper than the one I seen around petshop yang I frequented. He mentioned his kedai is at Uptown and I can take a look to see a lot of other stuffs he is selling which I laughed sebab tak dapat la eden nak pergi sampai ke Uptown nu. 

As for Bobby, kenapakah die kena pakai kon kepala tu. Kesian okeh. On Monday I ingatkan sakit mata, but bawak gi vet, she said it is actually a flu virus which causes this. 

By this time, when I took the pic above, die dah ok dah. But I put the kon on because I do not want him touching his eyes after I put the eye gel in his eyes. So he have to bear the kon for a short while. Compare the the first few days where there is no relief from the cone. He hated it, and I always caught him tengok atas while slowly geleng-geleng kepala die, macam trying to adjust his eyesight. Comel je. 

First day kena pakai kon. Pathetic okeh. Mata dedua bengkak. I kept on swabbing his eyes to clear out the taik mata and brownish liquid. He hated the sight of me holding a cotton swab nowadays. Mest lari bile nampak.

A couple of days later, only one eye slightly bengkak.

Sudah kembali sihat!

It was not easy I tell you applying that eye gel. Penat aku google and tengok youtube bagai. Both of my knees have several scratches. Sometimes kena main kejar-kejar sekitar rumah lagi bile die nampak I am armed with cotton swab. Kenapa bile vet buat, macam easy peasy. Fuhhhh.. gigih gile la kan those who wishes to be a vet ni. Respect aku. Ni kucing, cuba kalau kena forced bagi kat anjing yang macam San Bernard tu, sure ketaq. 

Surprisingly, forcing a pill down his throat is easy. Fuh. At least that is one difficulty I am spared of. Quarantine pon memenatkan because penat all those placing and displacing of things I have to do. 

Ok ... penat update. 

Random

1. I had changed the commenting to Disqus if you guys had noticed. Akhirnyeee.. (aku dengar Syikin, aku dengar). Aku nak off comment verification, tapi annoying gile spam spam ni datang hari2 mintak tolong aku rejekkan komen die org ni. Then word verification die got slightly better, tapi still annoying la. But then baru-baru ni I noticed Blogger punye word verification included picture of numbers. It is ok if the number is clear. I got once yang blur gile. Also several times, the number is in weird order so you don't know what to type in first.  Orang nak komen je kut, bukannye nak enter password untuk access system NASA. 

2. Bobby sakit mata from flu. Jangkit dari GollyWolly la tu. Ingatkan dah separatekan dah. But probably traces of the flu ade and still jangkit gak. Kurap is still ok, Alhamdulillah. Penat gile kalau all kucing sakit serentak. Ni pon Bobby is fighting me tooth and nail whenever I want to put eye drop in his eyes. Eye drop jee. Belom lagi eye gel yang kena apply secara gentle and hati2 kat eyelid. Itu macam next to impossible. Bobby punye badan ni quite muscly. Kucing jantan kut, so he can really twist and turn. Calar balar aku 2 3 hari ni. Hope he gets well ASAP. I penat taw. Kesian Bobby jugak. Sungguh mandom. Not his usual cheery self. 

3. Pet Fair Jumaat ni! Fuh. Nasib baik dah dapat adopt GollyWolly. Kalau tak ade aku angkut 1 kucing bawak balik nanti. Usually there is a few adoption drive going on there, SPCA, PAWS. Tak tahu la tahun ni bertambah lagi ke. I usually went in for the cheap toys. Though if you guys nak pergi, entrance fee RM5 taw. So kalau ko nak tengok-tengok tu, baik la takyah. I guess for die hard animal lover yang sanggup nak bayar RM5 ni boleh la. I am planning to buy few scratching posts, so am hoping I can get good price there. Teringin nak beli pet condo, tapi aku tak terbayang mak buyung ni nak angkut semua tu sorang-sorang. 

4. Sekarang ni duk marathon Parenthoood Season 2. I forgot how good the series is. I am also always struck on how Monica Potter really looks like the Khaleesi in GoT. True Blood dah start but I am getting sick on how annoying Sookie is, so last season pon tak habis tengok. 

5. Kenapa Frapuccino punye promotion ni tak start pukul 3pm haaa? Pukul 5 pm dah malas nak kuar dah. . 

Ni post menunjuk barang y'all

Saje je tajuk kasik bakar kan. 

Anyway, the best thing about working in Midvalley is sebab bile time die buat warehouse sale ka, or ade expo pelbagai ka I don't have to make an effort to go there because I am already there. So my weekend rarely involved me joining the mass in filling up Midvalley unless aku kena keje. Midvalley ni bukannye best sangat pon *flip hair gaya orang yang selalu sangat tengok Midvalley sampai rase nak muntah*. 

I had already stated in my Twitter that there is a Global Indian Festival going on. Officemates and I are thrilled sebab kain-kain adalah murah ( that's what she said, she bought loads tahun lepas, I malas sebab kain I berlambak lagi yang nak kena hantar ke tailor ) and baju2 Punjabi and kurta adelah sangat murah. Tahun lepas I bought one for rm20 and another lovely pink blouse for RM45. Tu mahal sikit, tapi ko tengok gak la berapa lawa die kaitkan. Tak boleh nak expect sume mende murah dan lawa. 

Tahun ni, I macam loathe to spend so much, so malas nak spend up to RM20 per blouse. I still not interested to buy kain sebab I still have a few kain in my almari yang maseh on hold to hantar to tailor. 

This time I bought 6 blouse. Dan each and everyone of them is RM15. 

At first I bought the green for mine, and the black for my sis. Tapi my sister don't like the black, "Meriah sangat" katanye. So I am giving the green instead with heavy heart. Huhu. Lawa kan hijau tu, but I got loads of baju hijau already and aku suke aje baju meriah-meriah ni. 

Purple and the brownish looking one is actually more maroon looking. Under this lighting nampak brown plak. I bought another similar to the brownish-maroon one, in black. Not pictured sebab already sudah bagi to my sister. She kirim one. Baju brown-maroon tu je yang aku muat pakai sekarang ni. Yang lenlain sume kena tunggu lepas I dah bersalin. LOL. Aku tak reti nak bajet size sekarang ni. All the above I bought at the same stall.

Only this baju I bought at another stall, also for RM15.  I nak warna mustard, tapi ade seorang awek telah berjaya cilok baju warna mustard tu dulu. Rugi2. Nampak besar kan, tapi still ketat kat perut. Aku ingatkan lepas. Sigh. (jerit pada diri sendiri : HOI KO TU DAH 7 BULAN PREGNANT, JANGAN LA BERANGAN NAK MUAT PAKAI BAJU2 BIASA). Ah well, tapi I simpan selepas sudah bersalin nanti. 

So I bought 6, 2 of them for my sister. Each one only RM15. Bile balik rase puas hati. Rase puas hati dapat beli baju murah ni banyak-banyak, lagi berkali ganda la dari beli baju branded. LOL. Husband patut bersyukur wife die tak tarik die gi Zara, but instead went crazy at the RM15 rack bile ade expo. 

Aku tempted ni nak pegi lagiiii.. camne ni haaa.... tempted ni. 

So kepada yang sempat baca blog post ni. Haaa... sempat la kamu-kamu nak pegi lagi as the expo end this Sunday. If you think the above is not that pretty, maybe it is so, it is only for RM15 but I am satisfied. Ade jugak certain stalls jual pretty blouses at much higher prices, so adjust your price and expectation for more quality stuff la kan. Aku ade tempted jugak nak beli yang harga RM50 nye blouses. Tengok laaa... hari masih muda, expo masih jalan. Ade jugak aku tambah satu lagi. 

Edit: Oh lupa, I also bought a bracelet for RM10. I like as, nampak ala2 vintage.

Pretty! I like it !

Introducing GollyWolly

Muka macam tak ikhlas kena introduce

I had been wanting to adopt another cat untuk peneman Bobby. Bobby ni suke terrorize Kurap si kucing gemok ni. Kucing gemok ade masa-masanye will layan Bobby punye hyperactivity, but being an adult cat yang menuju ke arah obese... ( ye ye I kurangkan makan die and bagi makanan diet sudah ) she have a lot of downtime. So Kurap got frustrated a lot when all she wants to do is sit quietly by the sliding door watching the view dan tetiba ade seekor kucing berupa bull terrier ni ( I don't know why, but everytime I looked at Bobby I am reminded of bull terrier) datang hurtling down like a hurricane ajak main. 

Bobby!

Bull terrier!

Ape??? Tak sama??? Dari certain angle kut. 

Anyway back to the new kitteh. 

Husband balik hari tu rajin la nak melayan perangai wife die yang mahukan kitten. I prefer adult cats actually, because having kitten ni memenatkan. However I know Kurap won't tolerate an adult cat and she will just barely tolerate a kitten seeing it will be smaller than her so not much of a threat and I needed a young kitten to match Bobby hyperactivity. 

Dengan itu aku duduk la scoured PetFinder and KTAJ punye adoption page in Facebook cari mana yang sesuai. So I came upon a post of a tuxedo (black and white fur, where the white is mainly at the underside, hence tuxedo! ) kitten, sms the owner and she said the tuxedo kitten had been given away, but she have another few kittens to give away. ( I do hope the owner will now have spay the mother). It is younger than I wanted, but I guess what the heck. 

At first I was interested in another female ( I only want female), however kucing tu macam ade sakit mata and the owner wanted to keep her until she is better first. So she said GollyWolly, (her previous owner called her Demok , tapi sebab die tak gemok, I gave her a new name) should be ok as well. Knowing more of her traits, she is more fierce than the one that I want, that I agreed. I needed a spunky kitten that can hold her ground when Kurap feels like giving a walloping. Kurap memang diva. 

When meeting the owner the past 2 Sundays ago,  I noticed GollyWolly eyes are starting to get red, probably infected by her sister kut, but the owner tak notice. Bile dah letak dalam carrier on the way home, GollyWolly bersin non stop. Ah pulak. Leceh jugak adopt new kitten ni. Tetiba pulak sakit. I think she is just starting to get the infection. Sunday pulak most vet tutup. 

So Monday, husband being on holiday brought her to our favorite vet which sekarang jadi kedai petshop sahaja sebab vet die resign. Huh! So he kena lah brought her to another favorite vet yang harga memang pengsan, tapi bagus. (The other one bagus jugak tapi cheaper, this one likes to be thorough so memang lagi banyak kena bayar ). The vet looked her over and thankfully said, most probably just a normal flu and eye infection, but to keep her in quarantine just in case. 

Now, her eyes is OK, which is bagus. 3 - 4 hari her eyes got back to normal but the bersin-bersin persist but not as often as before. However she didn't present any other flu symptons, hidung tak berair, mata tak berair, selera makan dan minum tip top. Will brought her to the vet this Saturday, but she is now partially quarantine. So boleh la main gomol-gomol dengan Bobby. 

Nak tunjuk side view die. Very inquisitive kitten and not afraid of people at all.

How does she gets along with the other? 

At first the 2 cats tak suke langsung. Bobby memula la yang paling emo. I dah susah hati. I dah cari-cari teman sepermainan untuk die, kalau Bobby tak suke, it kinda beat the purpose. Everytime Bobby came near her, he will hiss and spit and run away. Weekend first tu, Bobby merajuk tanak tunjuk muka kat bawah. He slept at the tingkat atas rumah tanak turun, sampailah we put GollyWolly ni away in her cage. He wouldn't touch his food and drink for 2 days, so lagi la I susah hati. Haha. 

Kurap macam biasalah. Nampak je terus hissing, tapi the reaction is not as bad as Bobby. I am used to Kurap being like this, so I let her be. After all, GollyWolly needed to be friend with Bobby not Kurap. Asalkan Kurap tak attack and chewed her like a toy sudah. So far she didn't do that.  I did found her giving GollyWolly a wallop or 2 with her paw but I corrected her and the kitten does not suffer any injury so far. Lagi suke nak nyakat Kurap adalah. 

Kurap being wary of the newcomer. Mesti Kurap macam "hellooo, tak cukup jaga aku sorang ke"

In the past few days I noticed Bobby and GollyWolly is getting along splendidly. At night I still put GollyWolly in her cage to separate them so she would not share the same food dish and sleep near Bobby, but Bobby can now sleep, drink and eat with GollyWolly in front her. Bobby tidak lagi mogok lapar. Sekarang ni seronok2 die org main kejar-kejar dalam rumah.            

Kurap kenkadang join in the fun, but bile GollyWolly tu dekat , terus Kurap hisses and spat and stop duduk muka emo. 

Why the name GollyWolly? 

Sakit nyawa nak amik gamba die ni. 

She kinda looks like an Ewoks, especially part kaki tu. And she reminded me of this Gollywog doll, so I called her GollyWolly. Husband nak panggil Mollie, tapi I vetoo. Die dah namakan Bobby (very unimaginatively). However memang tergeliat laa nak panggil GollyWolly. Kenkadang, OggyWoggy, GollyGolly, UggyWoggy dan ade sekali tu husband tanye I "Where is Aglio Olio" 

So while her name is GollyWolly, I shorten it mostly to Wolly okeh. Penat sepanjang post ni duk type GollyWolly. Kalau panggil die dari jauh, akan panggil nama penuh. Kalau marah, memang "Wolly!" sahaja. 

Hope she continues to be well and be BFF dengan Bobby. 

Makan - Makan Post

I had been hankering for a holiday for my pregnant self. Nak pergi mana-mana. Tapi dengan keadaan husband yang ade kat Malaysia macam biskut chipsmore, kejab ade, lagi lamanye tadek. So tak kesempatan. I sangat frust, he knows I sangat frust. Though some might argue there is still time (weekend lepas or weekend ni) tapi aku tanakk okehh beramai-ramai sangkut dalam jem dan aku kepenatan time cuti sekolah ni. Aku memang banyak songeh. I don't like quick weekend getaway. I prefer an extra day leave for my trouble of travelling.

Ok. Paragraph atas tu adalah complain semata-mata sebab aku nak berjalan wehhh. 

Fine. Sebab tak leh berjalan sebab salah sendiri pon, aku paksa husband belanja at Tamarind Springs, the Indochine restaurant one. 

Tu adalah starter free. Ko pergi tempat mahal bagus la kan ade mende2 free disogok dulu so tadekle rase keberatan nak order yang mahal kann. 

Ala ... kerepek je pon tapi sedap la jugak. Dan dalam sudu tu adalah ... tah la. Kerabu kut. Aku amik secebis daging je, and rase macam kerabu. Sebab aku jenis makan lauk dengan nasik, tadek nasik... tak selera aku nak kuis-kuis lauk macam orang diet ni. Sekali bile nasi and lauk datang die org angkat sudah sudu tu. Kalau aku tahu awal-awal, aku telan semua. 

Kemudian lauk yang lain sampai, ade 3 je lauk we ended up ordering. Which is masa memula order tu the waiter inform cakap cukup for 2 person, pikir balik macam tak cukup pulak. Mungkin die averagekan aku dengan perempuan yang bagaikan model di kiri dan kanan meja aku yang kanan tu duk kuis-kuis makan kerabu mangga je dan kiri tu teguk air je. 

So the thing that is inside the bowl is the chicken green curry which is delicious when it is hot sebab aku memang hantu green curry. The one in pinggan panjang is fish cooked with spicy sauce (which spicy is a very relative term when you go to a restaurant that catered to taste mat salleh ). The fish is deboned and not in a fish state ( I was hoping the fish was deboned in a way that rupa fish tu adalah maseh intact tapi tiada tulang. Ade kann? Aku rase aku penah makan tempat buat camtuh ), however it is nice. I prefer steamed fish, but husband like his fish fried, so I opt for the fried one. So he liked the fish best of all the lauk and I liked it least. Yang belakang mangkuk tu is half of a lobster, cooked in what I can't remember tapi adalah sangat awesome dan sedap. 

And thatt is all the picture of food I gonna upload here sebab... tu je la. Aku segan la nak berusaha tangkap sesatu lauk. I should take a pic of my drink sebab my drink was sedap, tapi tadek. Dalam gamba di atas tu is my husband honeydew refresher ( ala2 ice crush juice ) which is nice, but not as nice as my lychee mint drink. 

Oh yes. We did order dessert. Tu mangkuknye at the above pic tapi it is not worth a shot or a mention actually, because it is basically pan fried pisang in a really sickly sweet santan soup. At the very least the pan friend pisang is nice, but the kuah sweetness tu kinda put the whole taste thing off. Pity. Nasib baik I decided to just share the dessert. Rugi if order 2. Letak sekali gambar orang yang belanja alang-alang tu. And yeay... at the very least his eyes is not glued to his new phone most of the time. 

Nah tu gamba I pregnant. I'm afraid I may have ruin my dress. Erk. Tapi tak nampak sangat the belly, maybe the dress design makes it so. Nampak fat jeeee.

Ok kite try side view pulak. Pon macam sama. 

Nanti la yek. I'll try my best untuk amik gamba lagi. That is the only pregnant pic I have pon. I was never much for taking picture of meself which I think alot of you guys already knew. 

Summary of the restaurant: I'm ok to go again, the price at the end of the meal, is ok to me. While the dessert is ugh, the fish was so-so (walaupon paling expensive), the lobster and green curry makes me think that the meal is not lost. I may opt for other dessert and other fish kut. Also tambah lauk lagiiii. 

p/s: Yeay! Post of a pic of moi at long last!

Point Rambles

Aku adalah super tempted nak beli satu kipas letak atas meja ni. Kepanasan niii. 

Tetiba. 

Nak menulis blog tapi my head feels like it is in a jam as I am feeling super uncomfortable with the heat. Boleh tak aku nak work from a coffee shop yang aircond die bagaikan angin artik??? Maybe in point form? 

1. Aku maseh kepanasan. Kenapa opis tadek ice machine??? Kenapa opis punye cold water dispenser is lukewarm at best??? kenapa... kenapa... kenapaaa....

2. They cancelled The Secret Circle, which makes me a bit sad because the show is finally finding its groove. But it got its groove like in the last 3 or 4 episode before the finale so too late, unlike Vampire Diaries, that got good and better and better around episode 10. Kevin Williamson needs to build better buildup. I am interested to watch Cult though. 

3. Bought a clutch which I used as a purse. Senangg. Boleh sumbat handphone sekali

4. It is still kinda funny to me to see my stomach moving on its own. It feels so alien-like. 

5. My lips cracked and bleed so bad the past few weeks that I takut I may lose my lips altogether (ok.. taklaa), just that maybe disfigured for life. Hehe. Read in the forum, people used lip balm ( only works if I apply every 3 hrs which I always forgot) or olive oil. One of the forummers used her anti stretchmark cream, and I took her advice. Haha. I am using Burt Bee's Belly Butter to prevent stretch mark (which so far seems to be working ok ), so every night I dab a bit at my lips. Dalam kepala I think it should be OK since the product is suppose to be organic and all. Dalam 2 malam je sudah kembali ok my lips. No more cracked painful lips!

6. Nasib sungguh. Got no work for so long, then came back to work today after so long and having problems with my connection. Time ade problem with connection tu jugak laaa, time tu keje urgent gile yang complicated maut datang. Hoh! 

7. Am in my 28th week, and now in third trimester. Pergh.. time goes by so fast. Baby is fine, 1.1 kg. Sudah berkg beratnye which I found soothing. 

Dah-dah. Mengantuk blur-blur ni. 

Super malas pikir title

I almost typed titties up there. If you played Scramble with Friends with me, tit and tits are also the words I frequently added, sebab senang nak ingat. Haha. 

Husband is coming back tomorrow. Die sedikit merajuk sebab I malas amik die kat airport. Tapi last time I amik die, I turned up in a ladang kelapa sawit punye estet ok. My navigational skills is that bad ( nasib baik my brief stint in pengakap tadek test kena baca map ), that even the jalan ke KLIA pon I boleh fail. And I was using GPS! GPS suruh masuk ladang tu (tuding jari ke arah GPS). Nasib baik bukan tengah malam! Kalau time I amik die pukul 12 tgh malam, mesti aku dah stop kereta, nangis kejab dan sambung drive balik. Tu pon sekejab je nangisnye, sebab takut mende lain tumpang. LOL. 

This time sebab, immediately after he arrived here we planned to head back to JB, I asked him to take a taxi to my home. Got lots of chores to settle also before going back, so lagi senang for both. 

Can't wait to get back to JB for makan!! I nak yong taufu! Dan ABC cekelat and tauhu bakar at pasar malam Larkin. Die bakar tauhu tu sampaii layuuu which is just the way I like it sebab I don't like the taste of tauhu. Mende2 lain tu adalah optional. Seperti pergi ke JPO untuk membeli wallet baru. Wallet lama sudah kokak. So now I am wearing my faux Anna Sui wallet bought in Vietnam. Faux wallet lagi tahan dari original wallet ni camne ni. 

Next week also is my 28th week checkup which I am excited for because my husband is coming with me. I can't believe whenever I saw the countdown on the BabyCenter that I now have 2 digits instead of 3 digits to go. So fast I felt like I am hardly ready at all. 

Heh. Kesian husband who have to go to great length to lessen the car odor so I can comfortably be in the car. There is a certain smell in his car that I can't tahan. I can't describe it, he can't smell it but he suspected it was an old Ambi Pur left in his car too long. Walaupon sekarang dah jarang muntah2, if whenever I have to enter his car the feeling to vomit is overwhelming. Sungguh la weh aku tak tahan. Every time I drove his car nowadays, aku pastkan aku ade lollipop to suck in nak counter rase nak muntah tu. 

Pagi ni tengok kucing gemok tergolek2 tidur tepi I rase a bit sad sikit that I may not be able to manjakan die macam sekarang in a few months time. Hehe. Kucing gemok sangat manja, ikut I gi mana, kul 11 sibuk nak masuk bilik untuk tidur. Aku ade kucing untuk remindkan aku untuk tidur kalau die nampak tuan die masih melagha depan komputer. Makan nak me beside her, stroke2 die sikit. Penat layan. At the very least ade Bobby, she got peneman la macam 2 malam lepas, she does not want to sleep with me, opting instead to go at the back of the house ( kandang kucing ) untuk main-main dengan Bobby. 

Maybe all will be well. 

Kita end post dengan gamba. 

Woke up one morning to find her sleeping sambil jadikan my spek as bantal peluk. 

Book Review : Mirror, Mirror

With all the fascination with Snow White nowadays ( the movies, series Once Upon A Time) I think it is only fitting that I finally read my copy of Gregory Maguire Mirror, Mirror. The retelling of the famous fairytale. 

First I wanna say why I bought this book. I was intrigued by Gregory Maguire books, because I always like a retelling of a famous tale. I had once read Wicked, but I only half enjoyed it, and found this book at Book Xcess. Tahu je la Book Xcess, the book is cheap... and beautiful. 

The book is a hard cover book with a beautiful dust jacket for only RM24. That is the outer part. If I take out the dust jacket... 

Pretty! So of course I was intrigued. 

Dan ini adalah kes, don't judge a book by its cover in a literal form. Sebab the story bored me to tears. While I half like and half bored/confused with Wicked, Mirror Mirror left me feeling resentful towards the author. 

The Retelling: 

Well, this Snow White retelling are set in the Renaissance Era and the villain/villainess are the infamous Borgia family. Snow White and her father itself, are nobodies, but merely a pawn in the Borgias puppet play. 

It works like the father is ( I am never clear what the father really do) a servant/staff of sorts for the Borgia family. Father and daughter lives happily for a while, then the Borgia family, the beautiful sister and her charismatic brother, descended upon their farm and basically upheaved their lives. 

Father was sent for some idiotic mission to get the tree of life as so the famed Apple in this story can get its spotlight and daughter was cared by the sister and the rest is fairy tale history so to speak. 

The Review: 

I feel like the whole story is idiotic. 

I hate all of them. I can't connect with any of them, and they feel really one dimensional. 

The characters motives, feelings and reason are never clear especially the villainess. So I feel really muddled reading through this book. 

There is no joy in this book. The story is dark, yes. But darkness can have its beauty in passion, raw despair or anything that can tap into a human emotion. This book feel soulless and made even worse with the glaring lack of humour in the writing. 

Summary: I am never picking up another book by Gregory Maguire again. Noo.. I will even withheld from my keinginan to buy Confession of a Ugly Stepsister (retelling of Cinderella from the stepsister POV. Bunyi mcm interesting kannn... tapi I am afraid I will be disappointed again). 

Note: I am not sure if I hated a lot of serious / classic books while I am pregnant because I am dreading to sambung read Alice in Wonderland and couldn't get through Sophie's World, but I was utterly charmed, devastated, enraged ( all in a good way!) while reading Atonement by Ian McEwan. Wanted to review it, tapi dah malas pulak, so I will just say here ... it is a really, really, really good book and beautiful writing by Ian McEwan. I am totally looking forward to read his other works. 

Isolation

When I was in uni, I like to do stuffs alone. Go out alone. Shop alone. Go to class alone. The early years. I got scoffs and mocked for it I think. But I think I was happy then. While I am happy when I am with friends, I don't get the vindictiveness some people have, just because I prefer to do things all by myself. 

The thing is because... simply I hate asking. I don't like the thought that asking people to accompany me.  I always feel like I am not a good company. I don't feel like they want to hang out with me, and rather to see people hesitate when I ask, I rather not ask. 

Nowadays, I found the joy of doing stuffs alone again. I am not burdened with girl dramas so I can go out anytime I like doing whatever the things I like. Maybe not go out with random guys like I used to :p but I can basically do stuffs I want if I want it and I don't need other people to go with me. 

Sometimes I think I like to isolate myself. Perhaps I idly wondered why people don't incline to ask me out, which only increase my belief that I am really a boring person to hang out with. But I also recognize communication work both ways. I don't like asking, I don't feel like asking. 

This post is not an encouragement for people to start calling me and asking me out anyway. 

I like my hermit life. At the very least I have a sister next door if I crave human talk, but I am fine by own too. 

I am going to enjoy my state of solitary life because pretty soon a tiny human being will need me to be his lifeline. 

MTV dream

Now and then I'll have a completely wild dream. No zombie. No.. it is more like rom coms type of dreams. 

Recently I had a dream. It felt like I was in a music video. 

I dreamt I was young, wild and Caucasian. ( Ni kes banyak sangat tengok series US ni). 

I was waiting to perform , fiddling, at a bar during the twilight hour. I remember because everything is orange. The sun is setting down. I was sitting clutching my violin, eyes rapt on the stage. There was a young man, performing on a stool. Rocking a guitar. He looked a lot like Christian Kane with his long hair (if you watch Leverage it is Elliot Spencer, but to me he will always be Lindsey from Angel). 

He finished performing. There was a wild applause. He was good. Very, very good. I remembered I then stood up, walked up to him as he walked off the stage and then practically I threw myself at him. Jumped at him, wrapping my legs around and we kissed. A long incredibly passionate kiss. We broke it off because it was then my turn to perform. 

Then my dream ended. 

MTV dream. It is like taken straight from a cheesy music video. I would like to think a better music video than the one you normally seen in karaoke. One of the many, many joy in karaoke, is also laughing at the incredibly cheesy videos. Especially the 80s one. You can't beat those. 

It was a nice dream. I basically get to have an affair and be beautiful without all the hassle and trouble. LOL.  Maybe it just shows you that husband tiada lama sangat so I gersang. Haha. But nothing erotic was going on, it was just incredibly cheesy romantic. 

p/s: But kenapa mesti Christian Kane. Kenapa kalau orang yang I kiss in my dream mesti bukan James McAvoy but always some random guy I never minat. James McAvoy is persistently absent!