In Loving Memory

Our 12-year-old cat Skip died last night, and since then, I have been crying on and off. When I got the news at about midnight last night, I cried until 3am, fell asleep, woke up, got ready for work and I continued crying while I was driving. Even in the office, when no one was around, I could feel my tears flowing.. I never knew that losing a pet could be this hard. I keep telling myself, she's just a cat, just a cat... but no! She's not :( She was family. She has been with us since 1999 and has been a source of joy and happiness for me and my family, especially my girls, for more than a decade and with that I will miss my darling Skip terribly.

I always thought that Skip was not a normal cat. She was very intelligent and thoughful. I remember when once my sister was sad and she locked herself in her room, Skip sat patiently outside the room looking as if she wanted to make sure that my sister was okay.

And I will always remember Skip's reaction when we first brought back Audrene. She was so excited and curious! She ran around and when Audrene was in the cot, she would peak and take a look at Audrene. She even kissed Audrene when she thought that none of us were looking. She was such a sweetheart. And when Audrene cried, she would rush to us as if to tell that the baby's crying and would only go when we have attended to the baby. Oh Skip, we love you dearie :'(

Oh Skip also brought me a 'present' once... a mice!! Hehe! I remembered screaming and jumping around when I saw her with the dead mice and I locked myself inside the room but she just waited outside the door with the mice. I guess she thought I loved the mice because I screamed so much and she wanted to play.. Yes, that's one funny memory.

There are just so many memories with Skip and for now I couldn't bear remembering it because it will bring tears to my eyes. I just can't wait to go back home so I could have a quiet moment and digest all the emotions and memories. It is just too overwhelming right now.

Here's a photo of my darling Skip... May you rest in peace. You will be missed dearly :(


Skip, Sept 1999 - 2 June 2011

Art Workshop

Hurrah! We have found a place to keep Audrene busy for at least 1 1/2 hours. And what's great is that she gets to learn to draw and paint in a very colourful and vibrant class where she could leave a mess and mummy doesn't have to clean up hehe ;)

Here she is... Busy drawing!

Drying her artwork..


Some nice craftswork displayed at the workshop.


Nice!


And what was Maira doing while waiting for Kakak? Makan....




...and main!!


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What Else To Watch?

Sigh! What else to watch now that Idol has ended? I will miss this show so much! Now I will be bored every Thursday and Friday, and I don't have anything to look forward to to make my week faster :(

So what do you think of the winner? I love Scotty, I think he's a cutie pie and a real sweetie. However I do think that the finale between him and Lauren last night was the boringest finale ever. I nearly dozed off really! I think that it would be way better if it were Scotty vs James or James vs Casey or even James vs Paul!

Oooh it's Teacher's Day celebration at Audrene's school tomorrow and the excited girl has a performance for the teachers! Too bad parents couldn't attend to watch the mini concert. I would have loved to watch what she has been practicing in her speech class.

Here are the gifts that she'll be bringing tomorrow. Pink little bags for her teachers. She even wrote 'I love u' on each bag :)

Ok all, goodnite! Busy day tomorrow.. Hugs!

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Sunday Morning Breakfast

Breakfast with the girls.... Yummmm said Adik!

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Current!

I think I have been watching too much tv series lately. Honestly that's all I wanna do. I no longer want to walk around the malls during weekends because I would rather curl in front of my tv watching Criminal Minds, Fairly Legal, Hellcats, Gossip Girl, etc etc. There are just too many series that I follow right now. And then there's American Idol. If I were in the States I would be crazy voting for Scotty and James. They are just so good! So I am sooooo bummed that James is out! How can that be???

My lil girl finished her exams yesterday. She said Eng and Agama were tough. Yeah I was worried about her English as she didn't understand some grammar stuff and as for Agama, she didn't open up her Agama book to revise at all. It's ok. We will try better during the finals. For this midterm exams, I will just cross my fingers and see what happens -__-

So what has she learnt after being in school for 5 months? Hmmmm she knows that tudung saji is made of daun and timun and tomatoes are fruits which are in the vege category (confusing!). She now knows how to float in the water, develop the interest for tennis and has made some good friends. There are one or two who are sometimes not that kind to her but oh well that's life. But definitely mummy will monitor this ok. Nobody's gonna make my darling sweetheart upset!

My darling baby Maira is not a baby anymore. She doesn't even like it that much when we call her adik. She wants to be called her name. Very good, very opinionated and very clear in giving instructions hehe. She is so into Barney now. She carries her Barney toys everywhere and watches the show all the time. She'll sing and dance along too and when she does that she will say.. Eii jgn tengok ya!! Hhehehe love you darling!

Alright people, time to get back to my fav spot... In front of the tube! Goodnight and have a great weekend! Hugs!

China!!!

Hello!! How is everybody doing in the middle of the week? Me - I am a little bit stressed because my darling daughter is having her exams now. Her first exam ever!! She's alright, not at all stressed but mummy on the other hand has knots in her tummy :p

So... to destress myself, I went through the pics taken during our recent China trip. We went there last month and during the 4D/3N trip, we went to a few beautiful places - Macau, Zhuhai, Panyu, Guangzhou. The trip was packed but we, esp the girls, enjoyed it very much. Shopping was not that great, but we loved the safari, circus and the sunflower garden. I loved Macau, too! The girls were super happy because they got to ride on the plane, bus, tram, cableway and boat - all during the 4 days!

The weather was also lovely. We thought it would be cold so we brought a number of longsleeved blouses, but nope, it was sunny but a lil windy. Just nice :)

Some photos from the trip.

Here's the fishery lady statue which takes care of the city Zhuhai. It is located along the Lovers' Road, the main street in the city. The history is this lady was so kind that she left her husband to hold the pearl as this would keep Zhuhai safe and prosperous. Our guide said that Zhuhai is always safe from natural disasters.

This is the statue of the husband of the fishery lady. It is located on a hill and we had to take the cableway to get to the top. Only Audrene and Daddy went up the hill cos the cableway was a bit too scary.

Here are photos of us at the safari. The place was awesome! We took the tram to go around the safari. Cars were also allowed.

Whoooops! We also caught a couple of zebras on action.. hehe


Audrene with sunflower seeds at the Sunflower Garden in Panyu. This was the first time we saw such huge sunflowers which were as big as Audrene's head.


Sea of flowers... Breathtaking!!! Little Maira slept while we strolled around admiring the flowers.



At the Guangzhou monument. Our guide said we had to go up and take photos here. So up the stairs we went to reach the popular goat statue. Audrene and Maira in matching blouses. This is history as Audrene usually refuse to be in the same attire as her sister :)


Till later! Wanna watch Law & Order... Goodnite!

Weekend in PD

We spent the night at The Legend Intl Waterhomes and loved the place!! We wanna come back here!!

At the kids pool:

In our room:


In the private pool at our room.. A bit cold tho:


Mother's Day celebration at the hotel hall last night. Buffet was yummy and they had a giant cake for all moms :)


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