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Ok sorry couldn’t think of a proper headline, haha. But I do think bell bottom jeans should be back in fashion yo!

So recent events have made me decide to lose some weight. This time I intend to take it VERY seriously [two weeks ago I lost 2 kgs and quickly put it back on – basket Murphy]

Well nothing tragic really (no one called me fat, but whether they say it silently behind my ample bum, ahem, is a different issue), I just looked into my cupboard, saw most of my clothes that at this point, look ill-fitting on me coz my fats are just piling and spilling everywhere hence have taken the initiative to say goodbye to it.

BIG boyfriend shirts right now are my best friends :D But I don’t intend for them to be that way for too long.

Plus I have 3 major events coming up later this year , one of them – moi turning the BIG 3-0 (no pun intended damn you).

My first course of order – to eat healthily. The problem with eating at the office cafeteria is that there is absolutely no healthy food available. It’s mostly rice this, rice that……..a mecca for a true Malaysian and those who can pile on the food and not put on weight (yes I Ioathe you a lot) but a nightmare for anyone trying to cut down the carbs.

So I’ve resorted to bringing food from home, like this:

It’s a bitch cleaning up (I’m lazy, don’t judge) and much more expensive than buying food at the cafeteria but yea……..no pain no gain.

Then at night, the one MAJOR problem about dining at my parents’ is actually my mom – she tends to cook A LOT and would force us to eat so that’s MORE rice to deal with – the major culprit of my weight gain. Right now I’m just sticking to fried eggs cooked in little oil (LOVEEE eggs), soup and this supplement that I’ve bought recently for dinner. Shall only reveal it if it works and if I don’t die from kidney failure or something.

My vice as the moment is probably my love for teh tarik. I will absolutely NOT give that up no matter what. Without it, I feel so lost and in a twisted way, I love teh tarik more than my husband – after all I have been loving it for years now :D  It’s good to me, and it doesn’t talk back. Let’s no forget how addictive it is too.

As I inch slowly towards becoming 30, my discipline has been shitty. I LACK DISCPLINE! Back in the day I would be able to go on without food, eat everything in half, (I even adopted the sleep-through the noon method in order to avoid eating, those were the crazy days I know. In return I had a 24″ waist :P I still have that bell-bottom jeans to prove it), I could easily stare at a tempting dish (a feat I suck at right now) and say NUH UH biatch, I aint eating you, but then again back then food just never did interest me that much.

I wonder what has happened since, could it be we have various tempting choices now or have I suppressed myself so much then that I’m just making up for lost time? My mom thinks it’s the latter. I say it’s the result of  child-birth and still eating like I”m pregnant, haha. *looks at Sairah and says it’s allll worth it*

*photos taken over the weekend @ Ikea – our first 6 hour outing with her, lol*

Since she’s been saying DADDIEE alot (and even to strangers) I forced the husband to get her a toy

LOL anak siapa la ni!

Oops I digressed….

My only advice to my soon to be 30 year old body: moderation is key. And do you really want to look FAT in the dress you’re eyeing to get for your birthday? That dress shall be my muse! Yes it shall be for everyone needs a muse damnit.

With that, I’m actually drinking HALF cup of tea at work, which also means I’m half sleepy at work But who’s noticing anyway, it gets the work err half done, haha.

What’s your craziest diet story?  Who knows, it might work out well for me

P.s: Exercise for me is NOT an option.

YES it’s Sairah week

It’s been a weekend filled playing dressy with Sairah, my real life baby doll. I’ve realized dressing her up is going to be my life-long hobby/passion and I hope she’ll let her old lady dress her up till she’s 30? Lol

Sairah had her 9 months check-up last week. No jabs whatsoever, just your regular progress checkup and so far the little one is doing great. My ped has advised us to move on to semi-solid food, ones with plenty of textures because to date she’s been having blended food. But we’ve tried semi-solids with her previously and she seems to hate it. She would literally cry until we sieve the porridge making it creamier. Anyway I’m guessing this is because she still doesn’t have teeth? Still no signs of em. The husband and I then went shopping and loaded up on baby biscuits, pasta, breakfast cereal for her and man those little items came up to RM60!! We’ll be slowlyyy adding in more variety into her food now like cheese and bread though I’m still a little skeptical giving these to a baby with no teeth. Hmm.

Her ped loves seeing her in dresses so her mommy picked out a Disney purple dress for her to wear for the appointment. It’s a very princess like dress with puffy sleeves (and why wouldn’t it esp when it says Little Princess at the bottom, lol). I got this from Manila – paid nothing more than RM20 for this I believe. I got the SAME exact design and colour in the form of a onesie too since it was on sale.

Ma, I love the dress but something is missing, can’t you see?

LOVE the tie on purple sash at the back

Aaah, there we go – a nice headband always complements a dress and more importantly makes Sairah look like a baby girl, lol

MOM are you SURE there’s no jabs today? I’m not convinced!!

On Friday night, hubby, sis, mom and I decided to go to Subang Parade to have dinner with the cousins followed by shoe shopping (coz I don’t have a single wearable heels in sight!). Except I bought ZERO shoes and ended up with 5 pair of baby socks and a toy for Sairah from MotherCare (they are having a fab sale btw!). Oh how life has changed!!

This top actually comes with a checkered leggings but it was easily a dress for her given it’s US sizing. I love putting on dresses for her because it’s easy when it comes to changing her diapers and great for warm days Also – it’s easy to check if she’s made a poo-poo. The matching headband came with the dress which was a gift from the husband’s aunt from US. A perfect casual dress for a shopping trip me thinks Socks are from Mothercare and I seriously do think they produce socks of great quality.

Side profile, lol

Hi I”m Sairah-Bear and I have an outfit for every occasion, wheee!

On Saturday night , we were invited to Kavin’s moms 60th birthday bash. Pool side party we were told so I wanted to put on this very cute tube top for her but thought it would be a little too much (or is that less), lol. So she ended up with this Super Baby spaghetti top which I got from Manila and teamed it up with a pair of bright PINK hot pants which the hubby bought from Perth.

Right, so why am I not dressed in a swimming suit if it’s a pool party lady??

I later on changed her headband coz I thought the one with the bow was a bit too loud, hehe

With Uncle Prabin

And Uncle Shera

And this little boy was following my baby that night! The boys had a good time teaching him about dating and the reality of life (wasn’t a good one obviously), they’re so horrid that way

Big smile for Uncle Kavin

Sairah’s Uncle monkeying around………..and that’s how doctors behave when no one’s watching, haha

So many uncles…….where are all the aunties at??!

She was a major hit that night, lol. The entire time we were there I only carried her for 10 minutes, tops. People literally took turns carrying her. Someone asked if we send her to a baby sitter due to her ‘friendly’ nature, I told them no. She does have her clingy days but the husband and I were VERY proud of our baby girl that night So proud that we’re thinking of having another one soon.

It was Father’s Day on Sunday (did you wish your daddy?!) so I put on this I Love Daddy pink dress for our lunch outing. I told the hubby to enjoy every second of it coz that dress will only come out once a year, haha. Her shoe-like socks are just sooo adorable, I bought a few of them in various colors and paid not more than RM3 each

Oops it’s Father’s Day today? But I didn’t get daddy anything!

@ Monte’s, BSC

Daddy’s little girl who has her father all wrapped around her lil chubby fingers – that is how we should all roll ladies :D

And something tells me she already KNOWS it!

Bet you didn’t see this one coming, or did you hmmm?

I first looked upon this photo as my inspiration for Sairah’s room.

It had all the colors I strongly believed in for a girls’ room – white, indicating purity and giving a clean cut feel and obviously PINK – which is THE color to have for a precious princess’s room. No other color can make a girl’s room feel like one.

When I look at this photo, it’s clearly sums up what I would have done for her (if $ wasn’t an issue in life), but being on the realistic side and realizing that her room isn’t as big as the one in the photo, I chose to adopt something different. Infact, I wanted to make sure it’s a room that was created by her mom :D  and not something that was flicked off the internet

Next, I asked myself if I wanted it to be roomy or cozy. I picked the first as that would mean more space for baby to play/walk around. And also less things to clean, hehe. I love the idea of a cozy cluttered room as well but figured that would be more appropriate once she’s older.  

I got this signage in  Bangkok – a warm inviting sign for those who enter her room

The room came with ugly brown cupboard and bookshelf so I insisted that the husband get someone to paint both furnitures WHITE and this went in hand with her pink walls. By doing so, it created an illusion of a bigger space.

White Cupboard – the house for Sairah’s clothes, haha

White bookshelf.

I think these two piece of furniture totally changed the look of the room once it was painted white. I decorated the bookshelf with some simple items bought from Ikea. The Carebear dolls were shipped in from the UK, the doll house was something I picked up during the sale (paid less than RM50 for it) and the plush toys were all gifts. This space is definitely not cluttered, with just minimal items for decorative purposes

And slighty away from the bookshelf is actually Sairah’s play corner. It’s small, extremely colorful (thanks Dhee for the play mat!), has all her favorite toys and keeps this baby BUSY most of the time. And when she gets bored, I’ll just place her in front of the mirror (thank god the cupboard came with that) and play her some music using her dad’s ipod and she’ll dance for a bit (and eventually tire herself out in the process, heh).

A colorful playmat filled with toys keeps this lil one a busy bee

And on the left corner of the room, the hubby and I decided to stick some wall stickers of bears (and why wouldn’t Sairah bear not like this, heh).

The only thing missing is her cot against the wall of bear stickers which we’ve moved into our room since she sleeps with us. Now  I’m thinking of getting a cute activity table to fill up the bare-ness of that corner. Anyway, for now we have a cute rocker and a white sheep rug which I picked up during my pregnancy from Ikea knowing that it would be PERFECT for her room. The Sairah signage board was a gift from her Aunt and there’s no better place to put it but there as it catches people’s attention the minute they walk into the room. The little bear stools are pretty unique, we got it in Malacca a few months before I gave birth I think they only cost RM30 each?

I absolutely adore the chandelier. We spent sometime in Puchong walking into different shops before I came across this one. It was actually a display unit, since I wanted it badly, I managed to get a small discount on it. Her sheer peach curtains were made in Kamdar in Mid Valley. We chose something sheer because I wanted the room to be bright with natural sunlight.

When Sairah is busy playing with her toys, her mommy plops herself on this blue bean bag that was given free by purchasing our furnitures. Though it wouldn’t be the color of my choice but I say it still looks good at this corner and comfy to boot. Ocasionally both mommy and daughter would sit on it together and just hang out

The only thing is missing right now are photos of her on the wall which we’re in the midst of doing.

Her room at a glance. My stupid camera does no justice to it. But I do swear that everyone who has seen the room adores it. It’s simple yet very inviting and we can spend hours just hanging out in her room. It’s the best I could do while not trying to spend too much on her room.

And when she’s bigger I’ll tweak the room around to suit a toddler. Can’t wait for that!

So what do you think?

It’s been about 2 months since moving in yet I still haven’t got the time to organize Sairah’s wardrobe. I keep telling myself she needs a proper organizer system yet most of her clothes remain in storage boxes making it hard to look for something specific.

This is how it looks like for now. And mind you there are 2 more BIGGER boxes at my parent’s house. Filled to the brim. Not pictured here are her socks, bibs and headbands, they’re in a different cupboard. Even her mother’s clothes are just HALF the amount. Sigh.

I’ve got all her clothes folded and kept into it so you can imagine how many clothes are actually in there. If you look on the right, you’ll notice there are more clothes stored in two huge zip lock bag. I believe these are her 1 year and above clothes, just waiting for missy to turn 12 months.

And that’s not all, I’ve managed to hang her dresses up and would have hung more except I”m out of baby hangers and don’t know where to get it!

Then recently the husband’s other uncle emailed to say they were coming down to KL from US for a one month holiday. I obviously took the opportunity to shop on Ebay and ship the baby dresses to their home: D  I was specifically warned by the hubby to be considerate and not overshop taking up  their luggage space (bah!) so I only ended up with 7 dresses for Sairah. But I do take comfort in knowing that they come down once a year to Malaysia so…..wohoo.

Believe it or not, I paid nothing more than RM30 each for these babies (shipping included), which is a bargain considering they’re good brands like Gymboree, Bonnie Baby and so on. I just ADORE summer dresses on a baby girl.

I’m really digging the black peace tutu, now she just needs some awesome punk like accessories to complete the look.

But my favorite handsdown are these two dresses from Mudpie, a brand that I absolutely adore for its vibrancy. It’s a dream wardrobe for a baby girl and I would buy them ALL if I had the $.  I bought both for USD50 (with shipping within US) and what can I say except it’s worth every freaking penny!

The real deal, gorgeous in person too. And I’m not taking them out from the plastic till she’s old enough to slip into it

Then the other aunt from Guam gave Sairah these gorgeous outfits last weekend. And she ALWAYS gets my baby girl outfits whenever she goes to Guam.

Really dig the checks on this.

This piece comes with a BEAUTIFUL purple legging and comes with the softest chiffon blouse – imagine a toddler having the luxury to a chiffon blouse, baby clothes thesedays!

And what was my darling bear bear doing as her crazy mother snapped away those photos?

THIS – pondering about God know’s what – she would probably agree that I need a better organizing system for this lil fashionista’s wardrobe – though she really does dress up like a lil gangsta at home with her sleveless truck-driver see-thru tops and nappy (comfort first yo)

That said, I have some of Sairah’s clothes to sell (only been worn once and some, none *don’t judge*), I wonder if anyone would be keen in buying em? At a very affordable price that is If yes then drop me an email All proceeds will go to MDDB under Sairah’s name.

I had a beautiful weekend filled with quality time with family and friends.

On Friday, I had a quick lunch date with the hubby at Hadramawt. It was one of those rare moments, lol. My voucher bought on Groupon was about to expire (guilty as charged!) and since the hubby actually loves free food, he made it a point to drive all the way from our apartment to city centre before proceeding to go to work in Cyberjaya.

This is the I-like-free-meals face

Been wanting to dine here like forever!! But somehow it never happened until I bought the voucher. I told the hubby looks like I have to resort buying discounted vouchers in order to eat out since he does not take the trouble to take me out to nice restaurants no more, sob

The chicken kabsah was absolutely divine!! Shit I”m salivating just thinking about it now. It had sooo much flavor. Satisfied with the deal offered! And to think I only paid RM34 for two of us in a nice restaurant, hah

It was very hard to go back to work and well……work after this heavy meal!

Then at night, mom helped to take care of Sairah because I had two invites for the gala premier of Magical Musicals in Sunway Lagoon.

Seat number 40D – sounds like the bra size of this woman who sat next to hubby, masssiveee, lol

Again with his free-loader face, it’s an annoying face, I know

We got there a bit early and even then there was a long line. Good thing seats were numbered, though those managing the crowd could have done a better job. Show was suppose to start at 7.30pm as stated on the ticket but only commenced at 8.30pm, I was naturally not too pleased coz I wanted to get home asap. The show was pretty good, my only gripe is that I felt it was a bit draggy with some boring unknown songs (it took 2.5 hours in total), and there was no proper story line to it but as a musical, the performers were really amazing. They hit some pretty high notes that night! And will do so for the next 5 weeks. For more info, you can get your tickets here.

Jaiho was actually the crowd’s favorite, everyone went wild. They even had a few punjabi guys playing the dhol. I told the hubby it always takes a bhai and dhol to spice an event up coz we iz cool like that naa :)

The show ended a little late (around 11.15pm), we then went back to my parent’s place and the cousins then came over and we had lots of laugh just catching up!

On Saturday night, I decided to be a nice host and invited my friend SC since she wanted to see our apartment. I also invited Anusha and everyone was eager to taste my cooking, lol. I must say that did put ALOT of pressure to not F up but am happy to report that they were impressed! SC actually said my cooking was wowww and she never knew this side of me, hahahaha.

Because of that I promised them pasta night soon. I’m a sucker for compliments

Sairah’s permanent play date But at one point  (and kids being kids) she pulled Sairah’s arms and my baby wailed like she was being tortured. Took me a longgg time to calm her down.

Eh, why you play rough just now? LOL my baby girl’s look is classic! 

On Sunday, I decided to treat my family out to lunch since I got my bonus recently (hellooo shopping spree!). Granted my hubby has been raving about the lamb burger to my dad,  we decided it had to be Sid’s Pub. For starters, I’m not sure if Sairah was the first baby to step into that pub, lol, but we take solace in knowing that we were the only ones  there during lunch time.

Going to a pub are we woman? Meh mom, why not a club where there’s MUSIC.

Sairah wears a two-tier like dress romper from US (tagged a size 3-6 months) with socks I bought from Mothercare.

If I bat my crazy long eyelashes like this, reckon I’d get free milk ma?

Oops busted playing with the Heineken coaster. On the flip side, it’s green and matches my clothes!

Sairah and fav grandmother

And with the grandparents who spoil her silly!

Said awesome lamb burger

But I had the hot dog instead. It’s home-made hence very the yummeh

Mom and sis had the porkie burger. Dowan to upload a photo coz I don’t like pork!

Manja mode with mommy – ON

We later headed down to KL to catch up with the hubby’s aunt who just came back from Guam. My parent’s are actually very close to them despite them being the hubby’s side :) They’re really such nice folks.

Sairah was sooo taken up by her cousin (tho technically he is the husband’s cousin?) that she kept giving him the look and was very attached to him. My baby girl is SUCH a girl I tell you. Everyone had a fun time watching her antics. Who knew a baby this young can be so flirty, lol. I can already imagine her following him around when she’s bigger.

Even when he was playing his Xbox (and on a very HUGE TV screen I might add), my baby continued lying down on her tummy quietly. Something she doesn’t do at home for long.

BABIES!

But it does look like she prefers playing with older kids. Boys in particular, lol so ladies with baby boys, hollaa!

Ok that’s it about my weekend.

Now off to plan the next few weekends, bye.