Cats and Mess

At first this photo was meant for my IG story, but the mess is too much. So I opted not to, and in a whim decided to just post it here. Because I don't think people are reading. Also there is a certain satisfaction posting in an IG story. You can who had clicked past your story. They don't have to interact or like your upload. They are just there briefly. 

For a moment then, you feel seen. Ah.. this person care or curious enough to view what ever picture of cats/ food/ randoms things I upload. My vanity then stroked, and I feel a little bit less lonely in an ever expanding world of content engagements. 

In a way, blogs really are  quite pure in their own way. 

I wanted to talk about mess. There's too much in my house. I need to get rid of it. Sometimes I manage to pack away some, but then it comes back again with a vengeance and I feel defeated. I now sympathize with chronic hoarders. They must be very tired. 

 

2026 first update

 Goddamn. 

So my last update was that I got a new job. 

My now update is I got no job currently. 

I am now living a tai-tai life. 

How do I feel about it? 

Sometimes I hated it, sometimes all I wanna do is doomscrolled job postings, sometimes I am tired. very rarely content. 

It is maybe the mid life crisis looming in, or had already settled in... but I felt alot of the time I am looking back on my life and feels regret. 

A lot of what ifs. 

But what load of good will that do to me? None. Nada. 

I am trying to snap myself out of this funk and charged forward.

 Then what is out there...  forward? 

2023 Recaps

 Actually I have memory of a goldfish. I can't remember much what is happening. The main thing is that I GOT A NEW JOB. 

The earlier year was a bit of haze. Oh yes, it started with me trying to rescue 4 cats abandoned by my neighbour but then the cats died one by one. And never had I feel so tired and incompetent. Only Mini survived. 

NOTES

( I put this in draft and gonna hit Publish. It is now 2025, end of 2025.... and a lot had happened. Just wanna say the 3 cats that died particularly one of em is still one of the cats I hold much love in my heart. I will do a separate post on my 2024 and 2025) 

Updating my hoard of books

As my blog here, is my means in getting my thousands ( because I think it is now thousand of books ) of books inventoried, I need to update my books for the past years. I think the one I bought from 2021 to 2022. 

2023 update of books will be done probably next year? lelz. 

I think this was 2022 BBW sale book. Couldnt be arsed to go to Mines and bought it online. I think I already have ZOM-B. That book is probably gonna be drop in some community shelf

The Shallow Seas - Dawn Farnham

A novel of intrigue and Romance - Michaela MacColl

Not The girls you are looking for - Aminah Mae Safi 

Song of the Sea Maid - Rebecca Mascull

The dust that falls from the dreams - Louis d Bernieres

Zom-B - Darren Shan 

The World Worst Explorer ,  Fintan Fedora

Marie Antoinette, Serial Killer 

Wishing for Tomorrow - Hillary McKay

Snowfall - KM Peyton

Girls Walk into a blind date 

The fantastic family whipple 

Love and Friendship - Whit Stillman

The Romance Reader's Guide to Life - Sharon Pywell 

Meet and Delete - Pauline Lawless

A History of Johore by RO Winstedt,  Bought this at a sale in Muzium Negara. I was also feverish at the time. I wonder bila aku nak baca buku ni because while I am interested, faced it.. it looks boring as hell. 

Bought this batch at the Kedai Buku. The manless second hand bookshops. They were selling it at RM5 apiece then

Roald Dahl - The Witches and Charlie and The chocolate Factory

Lisa Kleypas - Secrets of Summer Nights

Left Overs - Stella Newman

Memoirs of a DJ , Life in Progress - Vernetta Lopez

Wicked Angel - Julia London

Bollywood Night - Shobhaa De

Matthew Reilly - Hover Car Racer

The Two Lives of Miss Charlotte Merryweather

I think this one is the 2021 BBW sale. 

The invisible life of Euridice Gusmao

Freshers - Tom Ellen and Lucy Ivison

How to start a fire - Lisa Lutz ( i def had bought this one again )

Love and Friendship - Wait I also had bought this again?

Re Jane - Patricia Park 

The Woman Who Upped and Left - Fiona Gibson

As good as it gets - Fiona Gibson

Finding Colin Firth - Mia March

Incarnations - Susan Barker 

                             The Sum of All Kisses, The Make Believe Husband - Julia Quinn 

The Lady Most Willing - JQ , CB and Eloisa James.

Eloisa James - 4 Nights with the Duke 

Love in the Afternoon , Married by Morning - Lisa Kleypas

The Girl who played Go - Shan Sa

Miss Purdy's class - Annie Murray

And this batch is kinda bittersweet because I bought it from the closed Ampang Point's Reader's Paradise book shop during their closing down fire sale. I hope the owners are doing well again and having the nicest of time reading their books. 

I used to rent books there. Sigh. I used to dream of opening a rent sorta bookstore. But I think this fad had died now? Used to be popular in the 90s. 

From classical to not

One of the reason why I started working is money. I want more freedom to spend on myself. I had also discovered I really like classical music and now attending my classical music performances. Most of it I went alone. Because I don't think I found anyone who is content to just sit and listen to just classical music for 2 hours and more. And I dont really like inviting anyone to come with me, because I feel like I would be disappointed if they wont enjoy it as much as I do. But if you do, lets go be silent together and enjoy the music. 

Its not boring for me, in fact I am always captivated. Recently someone in Twitter shared that Istana Budaya will do one of those classical performances by their National Symphony at RM30 per ticket. As someone who usually bought the cheapest ticket at RM130 for MPO , these are CHEAP. 

So I went ahead and just book myself tickets and had already jotted down their setlist so to speak. I found that listening to the setlist first, will make my listening in during the performance more enjoyable.

I think this year , I already went twice or thrice?, The Rachmaninoff one which is magnificent, and also Brahms violin concerto which I also love because the playing was so energetic. The next MPO performance I will be going to is the Hans Zimmer one. 

Dewa concert in Axiata Arena last year

But I am not a music snob, I am fine with the non classical concert too. Since I love Dewa, went to the Dewa concert last year. I had gone to the Dewa concert in 2019, in Stadium Malawati. And I love it. ( I also have better seat ). The seat for this Dewa concert in Axiata Arena. I hated. Its not worse as in cheaper, but I dont know why but I hate it. Everything feel cramped and I cant move. But we did get Ahmad Dhani back, so thats a plus. 

Next month I am gonna see Muse. I don't know what to expect from that. And of course I had scored Coldplay tickets. Standing . We will see about that too. I had also registered myself for the Taylor Swift tickets, but I am not putting much hope into that and just hope I get a cheap ticket by sheer luck. 

Figuring out what

I am back to work now. Why? Why do I work? As the rains poured down hard this morning... I was also like ... WHY DID I GO BACK TO WORK. Money. More money. I am not sure how long should I be working... we will see. 

I am still working in the HR IT line, no longer doing SAP, but more to other system. It is interesting.  So far. 

I am finding I have less and less of things to say here. The thoughts bubble and froth but when I got to this page, its mostly a blank. Maybe I should just put it as a travel sorta diary. 

What else I am up to? Kids? The boys are usual. Getting on my nerves and everything. Growing up does that. They are very helpful though, especially the eldest. But once they got a phone in hand, a fiery hale might come down and it would not faze them. 

I actually find it hard to concentrate or get stuffs out when everyone is talking around me. I am used to a quiet office I guess. Not here. Good God WFH should be mandatory. 

Putting in Monkee as big ball of fuzz to offset the boringness of this post

Been a while

 In fact its heading somewhere half into 2022. What the heck. 

So many things happened. Yet I can't remember. Its this whats getting old is all about? 

I got covid on the 31st of Dec 2021, so thats one way to start the year. Then the next month it was my husband. Nowadays everyone seems to be getting it. But with post vaccinations , it is almost not scary. The after effects of covid fatigue is very real though. And I had some up to know some taste change. 

Then the kids started school again with my eldest now going for the morning sessions so it was tiring and hectic and I feel like how can I properly make sure these 3 boys gets all the right kind of educations. I feel I should have just stick with cats sometimes, but even the cats dont turned out well sometimes. 

Thats the kids pic otw to Niah Cave. Ye orang lain beraya, we went to Niah. It was scary and we weren't that well prepared but it was fun. It was an INTENSE WORKOUT post raya though. 

AND... So Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri to those who still persist in blogging and reading their fellows bloggers. I seen some writings back again after a few years and that makes me fire up this old blogger again. 

Maybe at the very least update some holidays, because like I had said, memories fade and sometimes I look back on the old blog updates of my holidays and like "eh that happened" . 

Anyway. I am suppose to be showering and then putting the kids to sleep and the kids are screaming (probably playing beyblades and acting like someone who do not have to wake up at 6 am tomorrow. ).

Its November

 I am feeling kinda tired all the time. 

Absolutely transfixed

Miraculously I havent manage to get one more cat into the house, but having 3 boys all the time at home, I feel like the house are filled to the brim already. 

The kids are going back to school now, but with sistem penggiliran in place. So it had been somewhat peaceful. Before this I feel like so tired sorting out their online classes, who needs to go where, which homework needs to be submitted, making sure they are engaged in classroom and not off somewhere playing Legos. 

This year, I think I might forego the annual sale BBW because I am broke, also my books are way too much, also it is held in somewhere I don't have the energy to drive to. 

Mostly here still watching kdramas, gaining weight and stroking cat furs at every opportune time. Been job searching too, but its been hard. HARD. Also countless interviews that goes nowhere can really break a human spirit. You feel like you are worthless to anyone and this kinda sabotage you more on the next interview. Hard to get out of this funk yo. 

I feel probably I need to start writing more. Just because. I may talk more on my progress on piano/violin playing here. Still playing. Little lagging on the piano part because I am on a hard page, need to push myself a bit more, I will , I will. I will try to get through that piece next week! 

Later, also did you guys went on a spree this 11.11?

Tiny Little Bobby

 

Thats what I call him when he first came to the house. He was so bulat ( from worms then bulat from all the eating) but so small in my hand, and he always came running when he heard that call name, perut gently swaying side by side. As he got bigger and fatter, the name stuck that my son asked me why I call him that because Bobby is not tiny. I said he is always tiny to me. 

He had his fault. Whenever he came upon a stray plastic on the floor, he will definitely peed on it. Bags too. It forced me to not leave things on the floor at the very least. 

He also like to scoot his butt on the floor after pooping when he was tiny. He stopped that habit when he was older. 

He eats a lot and became tubby. He always look to me like a kitten even when he was the oldest cat in the house. So I never stop calling him tiny little Bobby. 

This tubbiness then make his bone to cause issues in his senior years, which then led him having issues with his bowel movements, which led to a whole lot of issues.

Went to 2 vets, the later vets finally diagnosed the issues but it was getting too expensive. I was also frustrated by the solutions that does not seems to work with Bobby. Anyway its back and forth with vets, and I thought I finally gotten him to do better with a change of diet and regular lactulose, but it was not to be. A week before he passed, he stopped pooping (or pooped very little) and I thought I had more time to get him to the vet. He passed on the morning of 3rd of July 2021. He was 10 years old. 

I was concerned seeing him vomitting and basically being very lethargic but also restless the night before. I gave him fluid by subcut and thought that I will try to call the vet next day. I woke up and he is gone. 

I found him curl up next to his food, with poop around but otherwise looking the best he ever had for months. My heart it breaks. I hope he didn't suffer much, and if he did, it ends quickly for him. 

Put his body on a pile of news paper. He looked like he is sleeping. It breaks my heart.

I am sorry Bobby. I felt like I let him down. I was crying the past few days. I have a box full of his pack of wet food and canned food still and it breaks my heart that I didn't give him more of it. The other cats now enjoy your food Bobby. 

I will always remember the time I scoop you out of the top of lorry mewing loudly. I remember how you love to run around the small yard. And you always comes whenever I call your name, without fail. Only after you got sicker that you stopped coming. But when you feel healthy, you will come. 

I will miss you. You are free of pain now Bobby. 

Hey 2121

 I had been late and you had not been great. 

What happened earlier this year? 

Nothing much. Lockdowns, PDPR and more lockdowns and PDPR. Things are getting worse which is ridiculous because the lockdown had been long. 

The second kid is now in Standard 1 and my heart ached for him that for his last year in kindergarden and his first year in primary was mostly stuck at home, learning from the tablet. 

As for the other... I can't think of more. I just want to write here quickly before June disappears, and I didn't make an entry before the latter part of the year. 

My husband and I though had been vaccinated. First dose. Now its the waiting game and hoping we dont get covid first before we can manage the second dose. In the mean time, I am still thankful for whatever protection the first dose may offer for now. 

I will talk more. But later. More scanning to do. 

I do not want it to be a bare post, so here's a pic of my eldest with his Seni homework. After all instead of vacation pics, nowadays our phones are filled with our kids homework pics and vids.

Oh 2020.

 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 hands, socially distancing, schools closing, online lessons, many hours of cooking, empty cities early this year are all what we had seen/faced these past months.

Music

                                                     

Taking up the violin again. Still playing badly. No matter. Though I think my playing is better than before.

Start to learn by myself the piano too. So far so good. 

Its been good for me so far in taking up music again. It soothes down the demons inside so to speaks.

Travel 

In a year with no travel expected, we manage to go to Tioman twice. I love it both time. Also finally got to kayak again after quite a long time. 

Oh we also managed to go to Cameron Highlands which the kids super enjoyed the tea plantation, butterfly farm and strawberry pickings visit. Sharif didnt enjoy the ride up the winding mountain though as he puked thrice on the way. 

Hospital Stay

The youngest suddenly gotten feverish was admitted in August. At leas it was during the time when there was not much covid cases compared to now. Going to hospitals nowadays with more than 1k cases daily would be worrisomes. 

Raya in KL. 

Bobby terpaksa kena amik gamba raya

Because we were still in those strict MCO at the time , and no one was expected to travel out of state, we raya at our home. Well for us not at home la, we went to my sister house in turns. But its the first time we had done raya aidilfitri in KL and the cats dont have to endure boarding but spending their first raya at home with us!. 

I also manage to cook chicken curry for raya for my husband for his leamng eating. I cooked for raya (from scratch!) the first time evah!

Learning a new language via Duolingo. 

I talked about this before and I am still continuing my lessons in that app. My progress in Arabic is dismal though I think at least from zero knowledge I know some arabic. It is so hard to remember words in Arabic!

 But French lessons is going better than I expected, partly due to a lot of french words are part of the english language anyway. 

I can even understand some people tweets in French nowadays, if not fully but half of it. Its exciting! 

Skincare

This year. Maybe due to boredom, I try to put on makeup. I don't do makeup before, but I got bored. This turns me towards using more skincare because your makeup does not look nice if your skin is not nice (unless you have awesome skills). I also realized how nicer my face will look if I put in eyeliner. But my eyeliner skill is really shaky. lelz. 

Anyway, because of that, I followed a few skincare influencer and manage to gain a few knowledge on basic skincare routine and whats needed to improve my skin. I was so excited to try out a few things I had amassed quite some products.

I also put some of the skincare products on my bedside table because if I don't put it there I won't be wearing it as often. I quite like this organizer that I am using to store my stuffs.  

As for the result of my interest in skincare now?  I think there's a marked improvement on my skin where it doesn't look quite as dry and listless as before. Had a few breakouts which annoys me, but I am trying to battle it through so to speaks. 

Lost weight!

Relatable even if not related

I almost forgot it but I did try to lose some weight this year and only after lockdown I manage to succeed. During that time I manage to shed around 8kgs! 

. I still have a long way to go because I am not that consistent and my weight somewhat plateau now to my annoyance.  But I am happier I can fit into some of my old clothes back. Let's hope I will continue to move more and tampers down my cravings so I can get to my ideal weight. 

........

Anyway I think thats that? Maybe there's more but I can't think more. But thats the gist of this year and a bit more I don't divulge. 

My next post will be on 2021! 

A birthday gift

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 impressed when I first took a bite, but then I put in the fridge and eat it when its cold, it was the best! I seriously love it and I especially love cold desserts, so to eat a cake that is best eaten cold is nice! 

Ending this post with a picture of sashimi because why not. 

Books Stash Update

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 now updating it here. 

 

Graduated meself

 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 have much to spare. So youtube I guess is the way forward! 

Okla. Later.

Sigh

 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 instructions that you don't ended up wasting you and other people time. This is also the thing ALL people need to learn. 

Don't even let me get started on the kids textbooks nowadays? It is a lot of pictures with not much info. I think I know this is one way to reduce the heaviness of the books, but some of the information is not there??? I guess this is balanced out with the teacher instead teaching it (and have the infos in their guidebook???) but with this covid era where homeschooling is now the normal, they certainly did not expect that. 

Oklah ranting. Oh I provided my review on DuoLingo app there on the blog I mentioned earlier. 

Menu day to day

 

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 to Quarantine

 

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. 

Recents

 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. 

Then my kid got mild chicken pox ( the same youngest one). And now we got covid cases rising and a lot of us are afraid to go out much. Lots of parents are also not sending their kids to school. I am not included in it, but lets not get into that. 

What I had been doing instead? Same old. Read. Kdramas. Play the violin. Binge on some shows. 

Anyway. I want to talk more but not feeling up to it more. Also its 2 am. 

Relearning old interest

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 sucks more for them since that guitar stand is more expensive that my violin strings , but I have no use for a guitar stand. 

Then I thought it is easier to go to a physical store and buying it in Yamaha music shop instead (which is fooking expensive) and it broke and I gave up and went back online and ordering it from overseas since no one locals can be trusted! 

Thats the whole saga. 

Anywayyyy ... I am back learning the violin once again based on my memory and Youtube, and I am not sure if I got better, but I can shakily manage 2 notes of vibrato which I can't before so that's nice. Not sure how long does this self learning thing can keep up since playing the violin is HARD, so we'll see. 

Just briefly writing in

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. The eldest balked at the idea of wearing pink now, so Sharif is the only one have to wear pink. And i wore pink to match his. 

Yes our bookshelves are a mess. Tu pon I baru susun sikit. Pening sebenarnye nak susun bookshelf ni. 

Anyway, I am off to play my 2 points hospital . Later.