Sunday, January 30, 2005



My darling husband is taking super precautions (according to his standard) because of the dengue fever breakout in Malaysia -- No, of course, he won't be going around the place to ensure that it's super clean or calling in people to fog the place down. That is my department. He did something else unimaginable by my parents or friends. He went and bought both Balqis & Adam Children's Repella -- Herbal Mosquito Repellant Cream. 100% Natural Ingredients. Moisturises As It Protects. He made sure the kids are splurged from top to toe with this cream everyday (if he is home) after the kids' evening shower. According to the article I read, the mosquitoes are most active between 5pm - 7pm every evening and 5am - 7am every morning (echoing what my darling husband had told me earlier). Please have all of your windows, doors etc closed within these time frame for extra precaution. My mom though, agrees and ended the discussion the other day very firmly with her favorite saying : 'Prevention is better than cure'.

When I first moved into this place, there were still bugs that you have never come across even in the Britannica Encyclopaedia. I didnt try the 'Bugs Encyclopaedia' though. But nevertheless, I encountered all different colored and types of bugs that I got to see for the first time in my life. And I am petrified of bugs, creepy crawlies, 'pacats' and the likes. There used to be a lot of squirrels roaming around. If you have any leftovers, just leave it outside your kitchen door, the plates will not only be empty but cleaned without a morsel of rice(if it was rice that you've left them, that is). I used to also feed the birds. You know, the normal brown colored birds we have here in Malaysia. They used to make their nests at all of the windows of my home. Just imagine the cheery chirps in the morning.

Nowadays, I see less squirrels and the little brown birds. But adding to the menagerie now, are monkeys, the pigeons and cats. I found out that I actually end up feeding all these animals from the same tray. And oh yes, after almost ten years now, cockroaches and lizards came in to be a part of our lives too.

Balqis and Adam are also petrified of all these bugs and creepy crawlies. But that does not stopped them from approaching these creatures, with caution I might add, hands held tightly together, to just get a little closer for inspection. The moment it moves, the two will run off squealing their heads off.

Gosh it's another hot night. I wonder what's the temperature is like now. Perhaps around 33C? My husband just told me that mosquitoes dont fly out when it rains because they cant flap their wings. Dont know whether he's pulling my legs but I sure dont want any encounters with them at the moment.

Gotta check on the babies. They both got to bed pretty early tonight. Must be tired from their horse rides. Now what's that ringing in my ear?



signing off..Hazelinesnow at 9:30 PM [ | ]

{Takes all sorts to make the world .. the world..}



Wednesday, January 26, 2005



Balqis have been requesting for her own laptop for about 5 months. She has not given up yet and has been very consistent. A few days before the Adha holidays, she asked again,'Maa, have you bought me the laptop I want?' And the mother answered (again, for the 20,325th time or something like that),'No Balqis. Mommy does not have enough money. It's very expensive you know. And I cant buy only one. Adam might want one too.' Balqis, the regal princess, looked at me indignantly and answered as a matter of factly. 'Maa ... how many times must you tell me this?' 'I told you before, tell Adam, you no money. You can buy for me only.' 'Yes, see... that's the point, I dont even have enough money to buy one.' She has an answer to this. 'Then go buy some moneylah and you can buy me the laptop. That one also dont know.' I can never win!

She's been waiting for Adam to fall asleep tonight so that she can use my laptop to surf her websites -- Barbie and Playhouse Disney. She's very good at it. She controls the mouse better than some adults I know! She knows how to connect to the Internet and pick the sites from the Favorite tab. What she does mostly in this websites are playing games like puzzles, coloring, listening to stories, do make-overs and a lot more. They do have very interesting online games. I always limit her time spent on the internet because I do not want her to stay up too late and because I also do not want her to be carried away with the games. Luckily, she does understand this and will normally stop on her own accord to go to bed.

Balqis & Adam had a good time at my parents' home. My parents own a big home with a lot of play areas... and oh, two staircases, enough to encourage Adam to go up and down and back up and down at the speed of lightning. I honestly think that his feet barely touches the stairs. Balqis will go around the house, exploring. After awhile I had actually stopped calling out for her because it's just too tiring and stressful. And I found out, she knows when to come back into the house, without arguing.

Tonight is a hot night. Weather hot, that is. I may have two cranky babies at hand soon. I'd better prepare the feeds now while I contemplate another shower before hitting the sack.

It's been a pretty hectic month this January. I wonder what February has in store for me. More surprises? We'll see.



signing off..Hazelinesnow at 1:44 AM [ | ]

{Takes all sorts to make the world .. the world..}



Tuesday, January 18, 2005



Somehow the weather's been pretty breezy over at where we live. At night, the sound of the wind arouses the curiousity of two kids -- while they wonder out loud whether it's the monster coming out to take them away, we use it to ensure that these two kids slumber off early. Tonight of course, is an exception. Because Mommy announced that she has work to complete and everybody must be in bed early, they decided that they are not sleepy at all. Perhaps. But then their eyes could no longer stand the test of time and they succumbed to acute lethargy. With that change of event, I pray for my inspiration to finally find me so that I may complete my work tonight.

It's way past 1am and I can hear Adam tossing. Perhaps he needs his first feed. I'd better prepare the feed while he is still not in a bad mood due to a late feed. The meal in a bottle had better arrived as early as the first whimper else there'll be hell to pay!

The wind has stopped it's howling and the night is calm. My mind is far from the calm nature of the night as it turmoils with my next wave of inspiration, which I needed rather urgently. No inspiration.

I forgot it's Aidil Adha this Friday. The fact kind of just slipped my tired mind. I confirmed an appointment on Thursday afternoon and it was hours later I realised that I'd promised my dad to be back early to celebrate with him. And, I just realised that I'd committed to a presentation first thing Monday morning after the Adha. What has got into me! I realised the sad fact when I was contemplating the idea of spending the weekend right up to Monday with my dad.

Tommorrow's another day. Perhaps I should be reformatting my mind with a special tool to take care of my acute memory lapse. Will see what can be done to undo.

Sigh ...


signing off..Hazelinesnow at 1:21 AM [ | ]

{Takes all sorts to make the world .. the world..}



Thursday, January 13, 2005



I am back at home now. I couldnt weave my way inside KLCC for my 3pm media interview today. All of KLCC's entrance have been blocked. I had to make a huge round from the Ampang elevated highway (after finding out the entrance to KLCC on that highway has been blocked) to Jln Sultan Ismail. Nope that entrance is off limits too. I then make another big turn, passing by Jln Pinang to get myself to Jln Ampang. That parking bay is closed too. Then I saw the mayhem infront of KLCC. Everybody was outside the KLCC instead of being inside! A sea of people walking about, some hanging out, some just basically sitting on the pavements were all outside the building. The whole building does not have electricity. The world's tallest building is having problems with it's electricity supply. Luckily the traffic police were everywhere today guiding the traffic. You know how it is sometimes when they are never around when we, the people need them the most.

The blessing in disguise is that of course, my meeting is postponed to next week. I get to go home early. Get Balqis & Adam back home. Spent time with them. And they get to watch their channel 63 Playhouse Disney too. Both Balqis & Adam, oblivious to the mayhem in downtown Kuala Lumpur, screams with delight when the Big Blue Bear 'sniffed' them from the TV screen.

Everything looks ok on the home front for the time being. Let's hope that we are not getting any electricity problem tonight again, at home. Or there'll be hell to pay.



signing off..Hazelinesnow at 5:32 PM [ | ]

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There is a dead cockroach on the floor in the second bathroom. Balqis & Adam refused to go into that particular bathroom until somebody removed it. Balqis & Adam investigated and peered as closely as they could despite the fear, holding on to each other's hands, to see whether it still can move. 'Dead already,' the coroner announced while the other one nodded his head in agreement. 'Maaa ... I dont want to go shee-shee in that room. I scared.' There are normally two reasons given: the first, there's a dead cockroach and the second, if the monster come and eat me then how. Sigh.

This morning, Balqis was cranky and didnt want to let me go when I dropped her off at school. Her teachers came to my rescue. I said my goodbyes after Mrs. Law signalled me, with her head and eyes rolled to one side, to go off. I can hear her screams as I drive away from the school. Adam was bewildered but didnt offer any explanations to his sister's peculiar behavior. He sat there wearing his Lil Rock cap, hands clutching the green bear he's picked out before going out of the house and appeared unperturbed with his surroundings.

Took Adam directly after that to the doctor again, so he could have his nebuliser. The doctor said that he's improved tremendously. I hope his cough will cure soon too. A bout of cough always leaves Adam breathless and I am scared every time I look at him cough, with tears in his eyes, and his face turning red. Applying the nebuliser was not an easy task. Adam hates having to be confined to the same place for more than 5 minutes thus having to sit on mommy's lap, with the the green, smoky thing over his face, was always a big challenge.

There was a blackout early this morning, around 5am. It was sweltering hot and the two kids cried together in unison, waking me up from my deep slumber, thanks to the antibiotics, cough drop, flu medication (Do not operate heavy machinery) and panadols that I took before going to sleep. Their father scrambled around to find something to fan them, in his dire effort to keep his kids cooler. We lighted the whole house with candles after a 10 minute grope in search of them.

Today is a bright sunny day. The afternoon promises to be scalding hot. I, no doubt will have an umbrella handy. Just in case, if I have to walk out in the sun. No need to add to the million of freckles I already owned with great pride. No whitening stuff, cheap or expensive will do any good.

The day looks like it's going to be a cheery one! :o)



signing off..Hazelinesnow at 9:17 AM [ | ]

{Takes all sorts to make the world .. the world..}



Wednesday, January 12, 2005



New year's here and gone. Now we are back into the swing of things that will determine the paths taking us to that horizon where dreams are suppose to come true. To go forth towards the roads that has been taken before or to venture to new possibilities, the roads that has not been taken, perhaps. But let me tell you, some things never change!

On the very first day of school, Balqis was in a bad mood, not because of anything but because there was somebody's mother in there taking her kid's picture. According to the bewildered teacher, she was allright when we dropped her off. And then all of a sudden, she cried and sulked. When asked about this later in the evening, she asked, 'Why were you not in there taking my picture?' 'Because that wasnt the first time you go to that same school. That boy is new.' 'Yes but that boy's mother were there taking his picture. You were not taking mine'. I can never win. We didnt hang around much that first day of school because our darling Adam was having fever, flu and cough. So, we dropped her off and decided to pay the doctor a visit, before dropping him off at the babysitter. But we did go back to Balqis's school to choose Balqis's curriculum. Of course, we had to sneak in because we needed her to stay in school and we do not have any intentions of bringing her back with us. We chose for her to be in the Monday - Thursday: Mandarin medium -- 8.30am - 11.30am (with breaks of course), Monday - Thursday: Ugama 11.30am -12.30 and Friday: 11.30 - 12.30 Ballet. We told her of the decision later and she was pretty pleased with our choices.

This week, all the three of us are sick. Fever, cough, sore throat and flu virus has transmitted itself over to us. The only one still going strong is my darling husband. I have had to take care of both Balqis and Adam before contracting the same virus. Balqis and Adam are both on the road to recovery. I am the only one lagging behind now.

For the past two weeks, I have been working from home thanks to the wonders of technology. I get to spend some time with both Balqis & Adam first in the morning before I send them off. Then again, if I really am on a tight deadline, I send them off pretty early before positioning myself infront of the laptop. Let me tell you - one of the perks of working from home is that you have fresh crisp blankets, pillows and comforters every night, fresh from drying them out in the sun!

Adam is starting to speak! We can figure out what he's saying now. Of course, I am the walking dictionary who had to translate some of his vocabularies. But then again, he will scream the words out if he noticed that you didnt get him the first time. I dont know why but perhaps out of exasperation of having to say the words out a few times.

We shall see what else is in store for us this 2005. I look forward to it. Me, my Boss, my CEO and my COO! What am I in this picture? Non other than the Executive Secretary with a very long list of job requirements to fulfill. No promotion, no increment! What a life!




signing off..Hazelinesnow at 11:53 AM [ | ]

{Takes all sorts to make the world .. the world..}