Quantum of Solace

Spread the Love team is back!! After we got 'disconnected' for so long, the Spread the Love crew is back spreading happiness and kindness at the unexpected times and place in our community. Yeay! All thanks to Shiefa, a.k.a. The Chief who re-activate the team through a new WhatsApp group - now we have more friends getting on board =) I like to think that we're like Care Bears! This time around, we go on with our project based on our 'Impian' or wish. All of us were to share our wish to bring happiness to the subject matter which is close to our hearts   and the rest of the team will help out in what ever possible ways that we could think of in order to make the wish comes true - one at a time. We are hoping that through this random act of kindness, they know that  someone cares about them. Everybody needs a little love, right? =) About my wish... For the past couple of months, I had been frequenting the hospitals - public hospitals to be exact, wh er...

Entry 1/2016 It's been a while since I last posted in this blog. In fact, it has been 10 months! Surprisingly, I never consider of shutting or abandon this blog. Once in a while, I would logged in and wrote something, but for some reasons, it always ended up in the draft box. Thus far, I have 65 writings that never made to the 'publish' section. That bad, huh?  However, one of my resolutions for this year is to read more and to write more .  I already started my ' One Book A Month' - a specific goal in order to keep me on track with my reading.  But haven't started anything similar on the writing part yet. I guess I am yet to find my motivation to write - other than for work and educational purpose. And for someone who loves writing, to be in the state of not writing other tha n for the necessary purpose is quite devastating . My writing sk ills a re getting rusty! So, a couple of weeks ago, I got on the first move - giving my blog a freshe...

Today is one of those days where everything went wrong. I wore the wrong color, wrong tudung and of course, the office attire that I had chosen earlier this morning didn’t make me feel better too.  So my mood is ruined.  It was lucky that my contact with human beings today was minimal. Otherwise, they might appear in the news tonight with this headline: Colleague was tortured to do an essay on "Why it is important to check and re-check the numbering and format" due to wardrobe malfunction of his supervisor . Heheheh drama sangat. But don’t get me wrong. I’m not THAT superficial . Sudah tentu, baju, tudung, mekap semua tu hanyalah luaran. Yang penting adalah apa di dalam bla bla bla. It’s just that I’m the type of person whose mood can be easily affected by the clothes and colour that I'm wearing that day.   I have discovered this habit of mine when I was an undergraduate. In the morning of the exam, despite the 1,001 things that I need to re-read, I ...

I used to be a shoe collector. Once upon a time, I got a pair of golden round-toe pump, a  super high  peep-toe pump in neon and a grey platform that was almost impossible to walk on in my possession =)    But motherhood has changed me. I got too complacent wearing flats during my pregnancy that I decided to stay with the style throughout life after pregnancy. But I still need the heels for the office and special events. However, post pregnancy, I found that I can’t really wear heels anymore... sob..sob . The most I could go with super high heels nowadays were  3 to 4 steps before my leg and back start to ache. My 'disability' to walk in high heels had made me  ‘closer’ to comfort shoes like Clarks, Snowfly and Scholl. They are all great, but my 2 major dilemma with these comfort shoes are: (1) DESIGN It is really hard to find the right design. I mean, they are undoubtedly comfortable, however it was hard to find one that...

Today marks the 15th day that we're maid-less.   Hahaha itu pun ada   milestone   kan ? Well, this is not the first time. We've been in this situation before - about a year ago where we were left with no maid for almost one month. But the situation was different then. We were expecting for the replacement maid to come, but there were delays, hence the 'maidless period'.  But this time around, there is no replacement or even back up plan. We terminated the service and that was it. No plan at all. No preparation.  The circumstances that we are facing (which is too complicated to be explained here) has made us to the conclusion that getting a new maid is not an option, at least for now. How are we doing so far?  Well, quite okay if I can say so myself. Our  house is still in order:  NO piles of dirty dishes and clothes - T his is my proudest achievement as it proves that the amount of time and effort that I h...

Undoubtedly, our children’s firsts will always bring excitement to the parents. The first smile, first word, first step, first tooth and the list will go on and on. Nevertheless, whatever milestone, achievements or occasion, it will definitely make us, the parents to squeak with joy, brimming with pride and happiness. Aren't parenting make us more sentimental? So the last couple of weeks had been about Adeelia’s few firsts. First, it was her first school concert.  Adeelia just loves to perform. I suspected that she had watched Barney and Hi-5 a little too much that she might think that we are all living in a musical-where-everything can-turn-into-a-song world .. hehehe. Even though we had seen her voluntarily performing   ‘Let it Go’ (well sort of, the lyrics was quite a mouthful, right?)  during family gatherings,  on top of   her thousands of times rendering the song in the house and in the car,  attending her first school ...

Sebenarnya setiap hari, setiap perjalanan baik suka atau duka yang kita lalui adalah pengajaran dalam hidup. Terpulang kepada hati dan fikiran kita sama ada hendak mengambil sebagai iktibar atau sebaliknya. Seminggu yang lalu antara minggu yang banyak mendatangkan pengajaran dalam hidup saya. Takut terlupa, baik dikongsikan di sini untuk pengajaran kepada diri sendiri dan mungkin sedikit manfaat kepada yang membacanya.... Tentang hati  Segalanya bermula dari hati.  Hati yang mendorong kita untuk berperasaan dengki atau bersenang hati.  Hati yang membawa pemikiran untuk positif atau negatif. Hati yang menghala mata untuk melihat kebaikan atau kejelekan. Hati kalau cantik, tindak-tanduk dan percakapan pasti molek. Hati adalah cermin diri. Oleh itu, jagalah hati agar sentiasa bersyukur, positif, bersangka baik dan merendah diri. Nescaya rakan tak mengata, musuh tak mengeji. Tentang hidup dan kepayahan Walaupun pernah susah, kita mungkin terlu...