There is no secret. It's about our shipping boxes. Yes, they are all here. All the London's smell had gone and replaced by very strong fishy smells! Seriously, I think they were using some fish lorry to carry all our boxes.

Remember all these boxes.

Yes, back to the fishy smell. The whole apartment smell of fish. All the loose clothes  in all the boxes are so darn stinky. Ive been chasing the sun these few days to do laundries. 1 day = 3 to 4 washes, sometimes up to 5! I feel like I am the superb-woman! Laundry, airing, drying, folding, tidy-ing. OMG!! seriously, it is so tiring. With so little time I have (due to my KK trip in next few days), I have to clear everything up, pronto!

On the other hand, Alhamdulillah (praise to Allah) that all our stuff InsyaAllah are OK.

These are the boxes in our guests' room and Yusuff's new room. We assembled his toy storage first for safety reasons. If not, the house is in chaos with toys! We have more toys than the monster-sorri.

And all the cothes the I have vac'ed, they all fine. I just need to fold them and put them away - into our new wardrobe in our new boudoir.

Everything else still in a mess, but with our lovely telly on its place and most boxes are out the house. I am happy.

When I was in London, I managed to get something that I'd knew I'll miss the most - foods wise. So, after opening few boxes - I found something that make my heart went whoaaa!! (apart from I found out all my bags are ok from the fishy odour).

I miss our Tesco Metro alot.

Those are Yusuff's favourite biscuits. Malted Milk. We are trying to find some munchies that he'd like here. At the moment - None.

Hi guys, Updates from the TV Series freak. Yes, Vampire Diaries is back!! Airing every Thursday US time. Im Glee'ed and now on Mentalist, Dollhouse, Heroes, Medium and Supernatural - Eastwick is pending (well some people said, it has been cancelled), Flashforward and V only will be airing in March and The Amazing Race is coming soon. Our Astro also here, but, Playhouse Disney and Cartoon Network are the favourites. Yusuff is so into Dive Olly Dive at the moment and keep asking for Jungle Junction - but it only will be airing in February here. I wonder, where Yusuff his TV freakiness. Anyhoo, Glee is so glee. With some 90's songs and new songs it makes Glee so interesting. I was glued to the sofa for 8 episodes marathon - ended sleeping around 3am. Not good. 5 episodes to go! wooohhoo!! Im off to watch another episode al Glee while the muchkin is still napping.

Is KK of course. Rojak daging - I want. And of course the Bakso Campur - I want too!. Then, after transit in KK for couple of days - If everything goes well, we are heading to...my next destination...

Last time I went, I didnt have a chance to enjoy the place, let alone the sunset. This time, if we have enough time - we are definitely will indulge ourselves with the most beautiful scenes of this place. So, girls - wrap up your gears! Don't forget your colourful bikini (i have to pass on this one), your Sunny, nice dresses and of course SPF60 Suntan Lotion. We want to get tan, but make sure its gonna be an even tan huh - (I have to pass on this one as well - I Am Tanned, just need to make it glows). Get ready for great massages and shopping too!! Here we come!!

Housewife. Is a tiring job. Mother. What a stressfull and tiring job. Jobless (staying at home). Even more tiring!! So, Housewife + Mother + Staying at home = go figure!

Being jobless (by choice) is not as great as I'd imagined when I was 27. I was young, I was free, I was wild and of course I was single - job was a burden at that time. Ive wished someone gonna marry me and give me everything I need - car, house, kids, handbags and more handbags. Well, I have all of that (almost). So, staying at home is perfect, but staying at home with your kid (who knows what he want) and so demanding is not as I've predicted.

Housewife chores, more or less just routine. Laundry. Cleaning. Cooking. Cooking again then another round of cleaning. But if you have interference in between your chores - this is way a mother's job comes in - Then you have lunch. Cleaning. Tidy-ing. Cleaning again, "excuse me, mummy", "mummy, mummy", "Please mummy, just one sweetie mummy" - Mummy says "No" - "I dont love you mummy" and more "Mummy, mummy, mummy" - Makes all the Laundry. Cleaning (twice). Cooking(twice) and tidy-ing alot harder! I seriously hope its only a firstchild syndrome kinda stuff. Then in those chaos moment, the "baby, im home, hungry, get me something" - just wanna make you screeeaaamm!!!

I only have one child. Im not complaining, I just want some people to know how hard it is to be all of the above.I respect my mother, she was a working mum. I respect all the working mothers, Ive been there before - I was in a 9pm-knocked-out state most of the time (sometimes it wasnt even 9pm). SAHM (Staying At Home Mom) is a critical job. People dont understand the concept, once you experience it, then reality checks in!

But once you see your child smile at you, saying, "thank you mummy", "I love you too, Mummy. Good nite", and when you ask, "how much you love mummy?" and he replied "20 pounds, thats expensive, too much money" - You just felt, im the luckiest mother on earth - my son loves me as expensive as £20!! His aggresiveness only towards me, his mother to show me how much he loves me - sometimes it hurts me physically, but that loves.

My dad once said, your kid(s), they are your poison and they are also the cure.

Believing that,thats why we are planning to have some more. Well, if Allah wills, then insyaAllah. Amin. Will everything be much more easier when the other siblings around? We'll see.

The weather here is so horrendous. Its has been raining 4 nights in a row, nonstop! Heavy shower - sometimes i've wished our bathroom shower as hard as the rains. Anyhoo, I cant really do the laundry. Last laundry stucked in our empty room with fan on to dry. Same as us, stucked, cannot go anywhere else since the rains started.

Other than the dreadful weather and me cannot stop eating and munching food all the blardy time, everything else is great! I've found a bakery near hasben's workplace - they have the most moist ever carrot cake cream cheese, the 4Cs. I love it too bits - no sharing please. I could have it everyday if possible - well it is possible but God, help me! Where the extra F.A.T gonna go? Seriously, I want my Wii Fit - NOW!

Speaking about Wii Fit, our 19 boxes InsyAllah will arrive pretty soon. They are now in Port Klang as we speak and please please please, let we have them before my next trip to KK with Yusuff.

Till then. Congrates to a friend of ours on their new bundle of joy and Sue of Egham on their new arrival Aidan. Semoga menjadik anak anak yang soleh,Amin.

Happy weekend and love you all.

Hi all,

As per title. Enjoy some limited photos. Love you all.

Take care and Happy New year.

Yusuff's Grandparent and his 'monster uncle Kashif'

 Brother-ly hug and good luck

 

Yusuff on air.

The Wedding - more photos on my facebook.

Im awaiting photos for the last night of 2009 at K-Box. Will upload as soon as I got them. My camera out of battery that night hence no photos what-so-ever.

More photos will come for the New Year 2010. Now go back to work.

Long long time ago.. i came across to this man. A reader. No, no, not the same as the movie The Reader. My reader reads palm, hands, emotions, face, present and future too! And yes he read mine!

What would you do if someone told you that you only had limited life-line to live on by giving you the exact age you gonna leave this world? Spooky things were - everythingelse he read about you were accurate at that particular time. Like which flowers are (were) your favourite, what was happening surround you, who you were with and the chances you gonna be with him forever, the aura I had that day - well, i remember vividly, my aura that day definitely a bad one! Please-car-run-me-over-broken-hearted-wanna-kill myself's aura and yes my reader read that and he said, not worth it! You might as well live your life now as you wont have long to live! oooouuuch!

So, what would you do?

I really really want to see my kid(s) grown bigger. I want to love my hasben forever and vice versa.

What would you do? Only Allah know bests. Amin.

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We have just moved in and still waiting for landline telephone to be installed and satellite TV (OMG! we seriously need one of those TV-dish) and of course the most-most important thing - Broadband!!! InsyaAllah soon. Ameen.

We havent have a chance to drive around Bandar Seri Begawan yet. Mawdud's boss' sons took us around couple of times and their good-heart-man driver, Ajiz have been so-so nice and kind to us - *(theres a story behind this) - his wife, Banu is so into Yusuff. Playing with him, keep on eye of him in Giant Supermarket (mom's instinct or Grandma's instinct i'd say). She cannot speak Malay or Inglish very well, she's Muslim-Tamil by the way, they both are - some how, she manages to play with Yusuff and make him laugh! They keep popping in to the house just to make sure we are settling in OK. I thank Allah, in our hard time (tired, settling in, not with it, etc) moment, theres always angel(s) sent to us - and for that im so grateful. Alhamdulillah.

* The story behind the close-ness between Banu and Yusuff. Banu married to Ajiz about 40 years! They've given 3 kids - 1 daughter married in India, 1 son working in India and 1 son here in Brunei, working. Banu just arrived from India a year ago after the last trip to India was the longest one - 4 years! Their daughter in India, was pregnant with their first son so she was in India helping her with all preparations for the newborn,- unfortunately the baby died in mummy's tummy at 39weeks!!! I was so sad to hear the story eventhough i dont even know their daughter. That would be an ultimate test from Allah to her (remember, Allah only testing us for what we can handle - HE know bests), I will pray hard, Insyallah for their daughter to have another son. InsyaAllah. Ameen.

So, that was 4 years ago. If the child is alive(their grandson), he would be the same age as Yusuff. Its a sad scene to see when Yusuff willingly hold her (Banu's) hand  (as we dont want to remind her of her arwah grandson) but we are happy to see smiles from both Ajiz and Banu with Yusuff's being Yusuff.

May Allah bless us all. Amin.

Hi all,

Yes, we are finally arrived in the new country, Brunei Darussalam. The journey was way to long for all of us. We've worn out when we reached Bandar Seri Begawan (BSB) on Thur's afternoon. With all hectic packing (the entire universe), with 19 boxes, 6 silver waterproof, 15 brown, 1 clear and 3 fragile selotapes - we've managed to do the shipping, cleaned and moved out of the house @ 4am (1/12/2009)!

Yusuff didnt even say goodbye to the house as everything was moving so fast! It broke my heart everytime when Yusuff talks about home, "Yusuff's hat at home, mummy get it"  (as the weather is so hot and sunny here) or "Yusuff get ready to go didu's (grandma) or kakak's house" or  just simply " Yusuff's going home - Yusuff's house"

I miss home. I miss Lynton Avenue. I miss you guys already - Jetlag still on, im off to bed!

We've moved from this view and weather

to this view and weather....

(Sorry for the jemuran kain and the kepala mop - enjoy the coconut tree and sunny day)

Pray for us please so everything will go smoothly.

p.s: Mawdud's first day of work. Good luck baby, we love you.

To all moms and mummy-to-be, please note this post.

My son is 3-and-a-bit years old and at the moment he is so much copying whatever we said - he called me 'baby' one morning because his dad calls me 'baby' - it was funny at first but then we thot - oh no!

Anyways, this post is about Disney's movies that he loves so much, the not so best part is - these movies contains naughty words as he called them.

From CARS movie - he learnt the word MORON (when Lightning McQueen thot it was MACK he was chasing, and that truck said " turn your light, moron"). I wouldnt want my son to call me MORON one day, would you?

From TOY STORY movies - Woody is the culprit, he said SHUT UP like millions times. And he has been using it on me and my hasben for quite sometimes after that - but after serious explaining we did - he now says "SHUSH Mummy, Yusuff's watching TV" - We arent happy, but Insyallah by time he will learn. Ameen.

From MONSTERS Vs ALIEN - he learnt JERK words by BOB at the end of the movie. We didnt highlight it or angry at him, we just told him not to use that word, because it is naughty.

Please be aware what our kids are watching, and all these naughty words normally at the end of a sentence, thats why its easy to pick up!