Board games

I am blessed that I have my family to look after the kids when we are handful at the shop once a while. Sometimes I get my dad to pick up the kids from baby sitter's house if I am not free in the evening to do so. How would I cope without my family?

Yesterday my sister bought some board games to entertain the kids at home. I was surprised that she went to get those aeroplane game and snake & ladder game boards. Well, we played those game boards when we were small, so it would be good to teach this new generation on what we played as a child, her reasoning. I like her idea!

I am sure most of you played more than one board games when you were kids. It was past time activity besides tv watching.

Now you see, kids nowadays seldom exposed to real board games and mostly play computer and online games. Correct me if I were wrong. My kids are more high-tech than me. My girl will able to browse through the Yahoo! games and find the games that she wants to play! At her age, I did not have computers and we mostly played pretending games (such as cooking, teacher and students etc) and board games. I remember as a kid, me and siblings had a set of few board games such as monopoly, chess, Chinese chess, aeroplane games, S&L and more. It was fun!

My girl was full of questions when I told her yesterday morning that her aunt bought some game boards for her to play in the evening. Why we go down when touch the snake head? How we move up the ladder etc? I think she was thinking that the pieces will move up and down by themselves! Lol!

So hopefully my children would not lose out on those excitement and fun. And thanks sis for introducing our childhood games to my children! My girl has been nagging me to bring her to grandparents' house today to continue the games! *wink*

Short note

A short update from me. It is a busy week for me.

I had an early start at the shop today, after picking up one of my staff and breakfast, we opened the shop before 10am.

Both kids are down with cough and flu. Too much night baths I told hubby! hahaha! And I also got the infection too. Have been sneezing for few days now, but the weather was extremely hot that I cannot resist taking cold drinks almost every day.

I cannot afford to be sick because I am doing stock check at the shop today. Now I am taking a short break. Dizzy looking at all those stocks.

Hubby is supposed to go to KL tomorrow but he declined the trip. One second, he said he is going and the next second, he told me he is not going! I also not so sure he is going or not! Averagely he is flying to KL for training once a month. Not all the staff but only performing staff is entitled to go.

I need a break! I mean a real break from work! Holiday! Probably not this year. Sigh!

Beautiful home

It has been my home for the past 34 years and counting. I used to dream of migrating to other country when I was young. Never like the humid weather, and prefer some Western countries where I could experience the beautiful 4 seasons.

Hubby also shared the same dream as me, thinking of sending kids to overseas and have their higher educations there. Our first choice is New Zealand. I always love New Zealand. I heard so much of it from friends and relatives.

But recent natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunami and political unrest rather turn me off. We are not changing our mind, but rather re-assess our plan. The kids are still young, so it would not happen in 10 years time. We may not migrating over, but instead staying for certain period for children' educational benefit sake. So we are not leaving our country behind.

I am not complaining about my home. We may not have a perfect environment here, but after thinking and weighing this and that, we still think that our country is not too bad. I guess so, because many expatriates and foreigners residing here. There must be some reasons they choose our country right?

(picture taken in front of the jetty near Astana)

I love Kuching because here I can find good food, great people and beautiful scenery. Probably the last one is hard to find now, with many developments mushrooming around the city in past years. Kuching is fast developing and sometimes I wonder are we really ready for all those development?

Girly me

Happy Good Friday, everyone! It is a public holiday in Sarawak today.

So how do you celebrate your Easter's Day this coming Sunday??? Sunday is the family day, so as usual going to church with my family, having breakfast and relaxing at home.

When ever I am free I would have my nails painted. FREE means when the kids are out of sight! Lol! Since I do not cook and do housework much, I can preserve the colours longer. Sometimes I will go a over adventurous with the nail colours and if I like it, I will keep it for few days. If no, then wash them away. So, what do you think of my adventurous nail colours???




Bloody red for that vamp look!


Tried something extraordinary and it turned out disastrous. A bit too much of the red colour. Maybe next round I will just do ala French nail art, lining the white parts.
This is the most DIY nail I had. Colour the white part of the nail with blue polish. Then coated with disco dust polish. The white dot, I used toothpick to dot on my nails.





I manually stick the flower print on the nails!



Ah, I like this one too. Blue has always been my favourite colour other than purple and fuchsia.


And some days I would go bolder with the blue crackle!

I love the silver base because it makes my nails brighter and skin fairer. So I don't look so dark. I have gotten darker in recent years. Seriously, I think I am in need of manicure. Look like my nails need some care and treatment. :p


Other day it will be the normal black & white term. "Like the black and white butterflies, flying endless on the cloudy sky."

And I am celebrating this year Easter's Day with my spotted nail colours. No coloured Easter eggs this year though. *wink* And pardon the "mess" as I took a picture of it prior to cleaning and touch-up. Lol!



Which one do you like most???

My Indian breakfast

Maybe I should re-title this post to "My Mamak breakfast". The owner of this food stall is operating in Batu Lintang for many years and he has many customers from different races eating his famous curry noodle and Indian rojak. Muhammad Kucei stall is one of the well known mamak food around Kuching. Now he is older, he is passing down the business to his sons.

One of his sons opened another branch in King's Centre. The business is good as ever and every day crowded with customers. Why not? Students from nearby institutions and office and government workers having their meals there.

We had our breakfast there this morning. I still prefer the Batu Lintang stall because the curry more flavourish and its rojak is not too sweet. But nevertheless it was a great meal for us because although we waited more than 30 minutes for our food, the waitress and waiter are very friendly. Our breakfast cum lunch! Very filling! You will not regret eating there.

Curry noodle


Sweet Kucei Rojak.

Dream towards your goals

Every now and then, we will make our girl to pray before she is off to bed. Try to instill the good habit of saying thanks to the Almighty Lord.

And before we doze off, hubby and I will have our nightly chat. And we talk mostly on daily events, and our future. We have dreamt of wonderful future for ourselves and children. Who doesn't?

I believe that when you have a goal for the future, you will do something to achieve it. So, we list down and divide our goals into short and long term goal. Short term would be those we need to achieve in one or two months time. Long term goal would be those in 5 or 10 years time.

When you have your goals, you need to list down the strategies. Dream without action is simply passing the times. And time is waiting for no one. Have a goal, go for it and you will succeed! *wink*

Light along the way

I need some inspiration or motivation. When things are not going your way, you always believe that there is a light at the end of the road. That what keeps me going. For better life and brighter future of my children.

What inspire or motivate me?? Everything you can say. From kids (their funny and naive words), hubby's predicament and people that I meet every day to your blog posts.

One of the blogs that I admired is Jemima's Journal. Her journal always full of meaningful quotes and sayings. I actually like the following quotes. And I was telling my hubby this morning when he told me about his office politics. Staff back-stabbing him and boss having double standard, everyone playing games in office etc. Rubbish politics I said. Never ending and everywhere is the same. So I told him to implement the 2 S (Silence and Smile). And if both does not work in solving problems, then let it be. Nothing last forever, as the above quote stated!

Both taken from Jemima's Journal

Alright, time for a cup of tea. My 2nd cup actually. It keeps me going for the rest of the day too.