De-stress your skin

Stress does make your skin break out in pimples and dark spots. Stressed from work and family matters are on rising levels especially for women. De-stress yourself for a better self:

Move around
Stress raises level of adrenalin. Burn it off with a 15-minute walk. Try walking where there is less pollution such as park or up a small hill full of greenery. Walking in the city with polluted air around you will not be as effective

Lighten up
If you feel heavy-hearted, do something light – like listen to music or watch a funny movie

Juice up
Fresh fruit juices perk you up with vitamins plus natural glucose. Try six stalks of celery plus 20 white seedless grapes, a bunch of watercress and ice cubes. Or for quickie, drink Marigold Peel Fresh Apple or Orange Juice. Apple is good for heart and lower cholesterol levels, while orange has loads of Vitamin C to fight depression.

Supplement yourself
A balanced diet is important but with today lifestyle, you are just too busy. Supplement yourself with necessary nutrition. Supplements are great at improve immune system and fight depression

Diary of our Raya day

My neighbourhood is very quiet, mostly gone back to "kampung" for Hari Raya celebration. There were some fireworks playing at night but it was not that noisy unlike last year when other neighbours have open house here. Maybe this year, neighbours have decided to celebrate in kampung instead, so my area is pretty deserted now. As in other part of Kuching, everything is the same. The roads leading to Petra Jaya were packed with cars from the south of Kuching going to visit their Malay friends or relatives residing at the northern of Kuching during Hari Raya. This year is no exception as the roads were very jam when we went to Petra Jaya to visit a colleague of hubby who is staying in Sukma area.

We were on the road for almost 1 hour stretching from the bridge of Petra Jaya to Sukma and that did not include the drive in the area to the house. We reached the bridge around 11am and in front of us was a stretch of countless cars. We only managed to be at the road leading the Sukma around 12noon. And hubby was complaining of tired foot for stepping on the accelerator and break for such long duration. Anyway, we only made one visit as when we finished visiting, the roads were still packed with cars.

We reached the colleague’s house around 1230pm. Just when we stepped into the colleague’s house, there came the rain with thunder and lightning. Luckily the rain lasted about 30 minutes. We were served with ketupat cooked with brown rice, curry beef, chicken rending, mixed vegetables and of course cakes and tit bits. I was busy to eat much. Busy chasing down little gal, who “make herself at home” there, dancing, turning and climbing around. *Faint* Is she active or what?

We spent almost an hour at the colleague’s house. We took a detour on the way back as it was jam every where. Luckily the other road going to Pending was otherwise. The only toll in Kuching was at the Tun Salahuddin Bridge going to Pending. There was never a toll in Kuching so Kuching residents have been enjoying the highway in the past. The toll is RM1.50 and the route going back was smoother.

3 of us relaxing on the bed

It was almost 2pm when we reached home and everyone was full and tired. You can guess the rest of the story, right? Yes! We spent our afternoon on bed. When we woke up, it was almost 530pm. After dinner, we watched some DVD, including cartoon for little gal. She will never bored of watching Mickey Mouse cartoons. As for me and hubby after little gal when to bed, we watched “Death Race” starring Jason Stratham and Singaporean movie “Money Not Enough II”. I watched “Money Not Enough II” when I was in KL at The Pavillion. It was a touching story and I did not mind watching it again with hubby last night.

My poor daisy

If you remember my lovely daisy that I got at a new neighbourhood shopping mall few months ago, and here is what left of the potted plant!

This is what happen when I was away too long! My poor plant. I don’t think it can be saved judging from its condition. Darling hubby has forgotten to water it while I was away.

2 days at work and tomorrow is a holiday

It feels like back to 1st day yesterday at work after 3 weeks training. More like a 3 weeks hiatus for me. In training, they taught you so many theories and expected you to remember all, but on the job, it is experience and hand-on skill.

Today is a tough day! Malay colleagues have taken leave, so not many people in the office today. I am also getting more hands-on task to do and actually get chance to use the system and procedures as well. Towards the late afternoon, everyone started planning where and what time to meet for tomorrow Raya visiting. Hmm, I would not be joining some of my colleagues for house visiting this year, there is always next year. This year, I will follow hubby to visit his colleague’s house instead.

Thinking of Hari Raya, I started to drool over ketupat, satay, curry and cakes. Yum yum! But usually we only can visit 2 houses in a day, as we will be too full to eat or drink after that.

I am looking forward to the 2 days holiday, as I need some time off to polish up some theories that I learned over the past 3 weeks. Too many things cramped into a small space of my brain, but luckily I have a master at home to consult with should I have any doubt. Yeah, my master is my hubby (who else?). *wink* He is always the wiser between two of us where as I am the more calculative type. So when come to decision making, he will be the one, while I am the financial minister at home!! LOL!

Back to work today, I found out that the company will be organizing a team building sometime middle of October and the week later, a family day. Team building in Permai Camp (where I am expecting some tough jungle trekking and stamina indulgence training there) and Family Day, an overnight stay in Damai Beach Resort! Wow! Of course I signed up for both. One, to be able to get to know my new colleagues and secondly, it is compulsory especially the 1st event. The Family Day is just excuse for me to bring little gal for a swim on the beach and hubby to relax on Saturday afternoon. He needs a break as he mostly go to office on Saturday afternoon. You know women. Nag their hubby when they are not spending much time with them and go to office on a Saturday when it is not a working day! LOL!

I would like to wish my Malay friends, “Selamat Hari Raya” and everyone else, “Happy Holiday”. See you guys around!

I feel okay!

Hi there! I am back to the blogging world and I am very happy to be back to my hometown too! Reached Kuching around 6.35pm yesterday. And what a surprise I have when I reached home! Darling hubby made some changes to our bedroom. Some furniture arrangement. I have to keep asking him where is that and this. And not only that, the room was a mess. Clothes not folded and books and stuff were everywhere. *Faint* He has been living like a caveman for the past weeks, he said. LOL!

Nevertheless after cleaning and clearing and a good night sleep last night, I am feeling fine this morning. We have hearty breakfast with my family. After 3 weeks, I feel my little gal is taller and babbling than before! Oh boy! She can sing more songs and learn many new words too. LOL! What a surprise when she said "gila" (BM for crazy) when I praised her singing this morning. Also not forgetting emjei for passing me a wonderful tag. Thank you emjei for visiting and passing me the Feel Okay tag last week. Why shouldnt I feel okay? :) It is good to be home and been with my family.......

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From the hotel room

Hi to all my blogging friends. What's up on a Saturday evening? I am missing you all and really off hooked from the blogging world for the past 2 weeks. And I really want to thank you all for visiting and leaving comments in my blog, I appreciated them.

Every morning I with few course mates would walk from our hotel to the course centre, which is about 15 minutes walk. Every day we would have our meals (lunch and dinner) in The Pavillion. You can say, that I am putting on weight, although the weighing machine is stating the same kg. I can feel the fat, as my pants are getting tighter!! Oh dear, really got to do something with my weight when I going back to Kuching next Saturday. And yes, I miss my family too. Sigh!

Here I am in a course mate's room, tagging to her internet access. It has been fun for the past 2 weeks. Everyone is friendly and helpful. My course mates are from around the country, and I am the only East Malaysian this round. It is great to meet other friends from the other states. As for the course, it is full of interesting facts and boring slides, and not forgetting the examinations too! Thank god we all passed the examinations without the needs to stay back and resit! :p But that is not the ending of learning as we still need to sit for some more examinations in the near future. As for the time being, we will just enjoy the remaining 1 week in KL before heading back to our respective offices. That's all from me for the time being. I shall update more when I go back next weekend. And thank to some of you that awarded me interesting award and tag. I will claim them when I settle down in Kuching, okay? Good night everyone.

M.I.A. for 3 weeks

Dear friends, I would be away from tomorrow for 3 weeks. Where? And why?

I am heading to KL for 3 weeks training. So I would not have the advantage and time to blog there as my whole 3 weeks would be packed with induction courses. Let just say that I am giving my blog a rest for the next 3 weeks. Meantime, feel free to drop by and leave your comments on my previous posts in this blog and my other blog.

I am going to miss visiting you guys, but no worries, I will do so once I am back or even if I have chance to do so there.

Till then, happy blogging. See you guys around! Wishing everyone "Selamat Berbuka Puasa", "Happy Working", "Happy Mid Autumn" and for a cousin whose wedding is on 13th Sept, "Happy Wedding" and "All the best to you and your wife". Oh yeah, guys? One more thing. Please leave some mooncakes for me, ok? *wink*