School Holidays Again!!

School holiday is back again. Only two weeks but I know the kids will be restless if I were to let them stay at the day care for the entire two weeks. Hence I signed up 3d2n "Kem Anak Soleh" for them which is located in Masjid Wilayah Persekutuan. It is like 7 mins from my home. I know it sounds lame but I could not bear to send my kids for holiday camp in the woods or going for a trip in Malacca with their schoolmates. All those stories about kids being missing under their teachers care is making me scared. Am I being over protective as a mother? I can't help it. With all those scary stories nowadays, how can I not be.

Paddling and Floating

Guess what? I can float and paddle from one side of the pool to the other...hehehehehe I'm so proud of myself. But I still need to fix my breathing technique as I could nor held my breathe longer underwater.
And the headache has slowly disappeared. I have change the lenses' power and I feel a bit better.
Can't wait for the next lesson.

Love's Secret - William Blake

Never seek to tell thy love,
Love that never told can be;
For the gentle wind does move
Silently, invisibly.

I told my love, I told my love,
I told her all my heart;
Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears,
Ah! she did depart!

Soon as she was gone from me,
A traveler came by,
Silently, invisibly
He took her with a sigh.

My Obsession Pt.1

Whoever knows me, I mean really really knows me, would know that I'm so deeply in love with high tech gadgets, well apart from my books. I can do without golds or diamonds or fashionable clothing or even branded handbags. I don't mind not having Louis Vutton or Gucci or even Prada. No thank you to Tiffany or 916 gold or platinum diamond ring. But I can't sleep properly without at least one high tech gadgets in my possession.

Well since I'm not a millionaire, I couldn't afford to be buying all the high tech gadget most of times hence I just make do with what I can afford.

I have a Blackberry Bold II  and when Blackberry Touch II has been introduce, I just keep myself calm because that Bold is actually a gift so I told myself to shut up and be happy. Well I am happy, I got it for free, didn't I.

Then I got Vaio net book for my birthday and I was ecstatic. The Dell laptop that we've been having since year 2001 is like a dinosaur now, the RAM is so slow and the battery cannot be used anymore. We have to connect it to plug it to the power

Now, Ipad II is out. I'm going crazy over this item. I mean really really couldn't stop thinking about it. It is a cool stuff.

Why do I need one when I have Vaio?

Well, for me Vaio is more for formal, work related stuffs. If I need to do work from home, finished up my report, then Vaio would be the best choice since it has MsOffice installed in it.

Whereas for Ipad, is more for entertainment. For browsing, playing games, or reading blog.

Just wait for it, I shall own it one day.

I'm Nobody! Who Are You? by Emily Dickinson

I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us -- don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!

Second Chance - Jane Green

I've finished another book last Saturday, Second Chance by Jane Green. I've been having this book since 2009, if I'm not mistaken. I bought it online during one of my book mania shopping spree. Since it is softcover book, it is easy for me to carry in my handbag.

The Story :
Holly, Olivia, Paul, and Saffron are mourning the death of their close friend Tom. They were all close friends when they were school mates in London, but now they are in their late thirties and are all in various stages of life and relationships. Most of them haven't seen each other in years and had mainly kept in contact with each other through Tom.

Holly is fairly wealthy, has two adorable kids, and an unhealthy relationship with her distant lawyer husband. Olivia is single after dating a man for the better part of a decade and runs an animal shelter. Paul is married to the beautiful and successful Anna, but they have been unable to have children which is making Anna miserable. Finally, Saffron is becoming a successful movie star and is moving on up, but her relationship with a very famous star who is married could bring her ruin.
Tom was always there for each one of them and because of his death, they are all reuniting once again. And maybe because of Tom, they will all get their second chance at happiness.

This is book is a bit similar to Maeve Binchy style where it is about a group of friends reconvened after a death of one of their friends. It is however, this plot is more focus on Holly as the main character though Tom's incident actually brought them back together. And the ending is a bit surprising where I thought she would be together with Will but it didn't happen because of Will's commitment phobic.

Somethings just never gonna be forgotten...

I stayed in UK in 1997-1998 and basically it is fun to be able to travel. I was actually ecstatic when my boss back then told me that I will be the hostess in one of the resorts in UK. It was totally a new experience for me. I fell in love with their country side, cottages, fresh air in the morning and the sunday market especially. Loves the afternoon walk that I normally take through the open fields. It is awesome and the memories still stucked in my head like a poster pasted on the wall....never gonna fall.
I just hope I could be travelling there again.

Second Lesson

I finished my second swimming lesson today. The headache is still there but on the mild side. There's some improvement in my breathing as per the instructor told. But I tend to sway too much when I paddled.
Hmmm..sway...now I felt like singing Bubble's song...hehehehe...
She showed me they correct way but it seems she does sway also....heheheh oh well...I'll just try my best not to sway too much then. And I can float also hihihihi... I'm so happy.

Lunch @ KLCC

I'm meeting my friend at KLCC for lunch and I haven't seen her for couple of months. We go way back together since we were in secondary school. Walking towards my car, my head started felt like being hammered. Damn!!! not again..not this headache. Ignoring my thump-thumping head, I drove all the way to KLCC. I remembered someone once said to me "The things that you do for your friend!!!!!" It was like an open ended statement. Can't blame the person who gives this statement nor my friends cause they didn't force me. They asked hence I agreed. Well, we went to Cafe Vienna, since I kinda had heavy breakfast, I order Apple Strudel and hot tea. Thought, it might calm my pounding head but it didn't. My friend had some pasta (which we couldn't pronounced it, not even the waitress knows how to pronounced it properly).
Next time, when I'm there I shall have the chicken dish which looks so yummy and perhaps their signature coffee as well.

Supplement for cloudy days

I'm in need of something joyful to clear my clouded mind and I could no longer depend on food as my jeans are getting tighter each day. So the other precious thing that I can turn to is my collection of unread books.
Amongst all the books I haven't read yet, I found two Carole Matthews. Something lite and does not requires me to be in deep thought to clear up my cloudy days.

Since my days are occupied with houseworks, officeworks, kids and other stuffs, I managed to get "ME TIME" only during breakfast... 30 min a day and I managed to complete reading these two books within 2 weeks.