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My husband officially turned 34 years OLD yesterday!

And because I got super excited and couldn’t wait, I gave him his gift a day before the birthday while we were in my parent’s place. So he could go to work the next day and tell his colleagues what his wonderful wife got him!

While he was downstairs talking to dad, I ran up and arranged his gift on the bed.

Is that for meeee? wonders Baby Sairah.

Okay when daddy comes in, what are you gonna do?

Why, I’ll give him this cutest, sweetest angelic look, like this:

And then, I’ll pass him his b’day card.

He’ll be super touch coz we said we wanted to get him a nice sports car but couldn’t afford it so we had to settle on buying this gift instead. It’s the thought that counts

Then I’ll try my luck at opening the present…

Hmm, wonder what my wifey got me this time? Trust me when I say it’s starting to get tough deciding what to buy this man!! But kudos to me for lugging around this HEAVY gift all the way from Mid Valley to Garden’s carpark despite my poor back.

The smile that says it allllll

I obviously nailed that perfect gift I got him the Nescafe Dolce Gusto Circolo because my husband is a serious coffee drinker. That man drinks at least 3 cups to keep him running. Plus it did help that I caught him checking out this machine a few months ago but knew he’d be too stingy to buy it for himself

Coffeeeee machineeee

And because we have limited varities in Malaysia, I got hold of someone from the UK to help buy me various capsule flavors to satisfy his coffee cravings. Check here out to see how many crazy flavors they have there!

I got the man least 7  packs (I’m crazy I know! ), ahem, so that’s coffee enough to last 2-3 months I reckon But I do seriously hope Nescafe would bring me more flavors coz the current ones we have is kinda pathethic! Just four freaking flavors

Baby girl in her naughty mode

MINE! I WANT COFFEE

Coofffeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee……………Haha proof that Sairah isn’t exactly angelic sometimes, lol

She’s starting to hate wearing socks. Constantly finds ways of pulling it off. Even her shoes too.

Of course we got home and somebody couldn’t wait to set up his new coffee machine. It was set up in a jiffy coz instructions are pretty straight forward.

Oh hai, just setting up me new coffee machine

All done. Doesn’t she look pretttyy? Now we’re quite keen on having nice coffee mugs/cups and the whole works to go with our little ‘cafe’. Shit man, we’ll NEVER have to step into Starbucks or Coffeebean and pay cut-throat high prices for coffee anymore. Now we’ll have good coffee to go. What I love about this is the convenience!  Beverage is done in less than 1 minute (perfect for a lazy wife like me, then again I usually let the coffee/tea making to the husband, heh), you can always pack it to go in a nice tumbler and have this on the way to work…….such a nice machine to have seriously and I have no regrets purchasing this for us the husband. My only complain is the loud sound that it makes when it’s in action, lol but we can live with it….

We were deciding which flavors to try first, but it was late and we didn’t want any coffee intake.

Good thing I bought choco-cino which is a beautiful smooth blend of hot chocolate! You can actually control the milk level if you don’t want it too milky. So far I”ve tried this and the Mocha and just lovee lovee it.

LOL the look that says it all. It was superrr yummy! But now I gotta find ways of making sure we have ample supply of this.

And then on his birthday morning, somebody actually work up EARLY (he almost never wakes up early for work!) so he could get ready and serve himself a hot cup of coffee!

I can already see that this gift was indeed love at first sight.

P.s: I purchased this at Harvey Norman and got a 8% discount with some free samples in view of their sale. Sale is on till end of this month, incase anyone is keen Machine also comes with a 2 year warranty, sweet!

A while ago we were listening to radio and this DJ asked this guy, what has changed in your relationship since dating/getting married.

Immediately I yelled….bugger you hardly take me out to nice dinner thesedays. All we ever do is use the vouchers I buy you bloody cheapskate!

Almost felt sorry for my husband’s ears that day coz out came a bunch of other list. Heh.

So as I was attempting to plan out our Friday he coyly mentioned that he was taking me out to dinner.

See ladies, men always say we nag, but nagging gets things done. True story, tried and tested

Instinctively I had a rough idea where were already going coz I mentioned to him once about this new french restaurant that opened near my office.

Check out me Victorian style ring, me likey!

The interior of La Vie En Rose, which is located in Jalan Raja Chulan

Instintively I also had a bad feeling of them not having a baby chair. And true enough, they didn’t! I was quite annoyed. But I dont’ blame them, whoever takes a baby for fine-dining anyways? This will be probably Sairah’s first and last until she’s a bit older coz let me tell you it’s not easy! Gonna stick to normal restaurants coz she behaves so well there. Well maybe she does coz they actually HAVE a baby chair

A good baby for now….good thing we brought her stroller though she only used it for a good 10 minutes.

The menu….pretty pricey. And food selection is pretty limited. I want BIG soft fluffy french style crossaint on the menu. As main course!!

You can almost tell he’s regretting bringing his wife here after seeing the menu. If we choose to leave now the bitch wife will nag, haha. Yea I can read his thoughts!

But too late! We’re here! With one naughty kid in tow. Ah yes, she was her naughtiest that day.  Refused to sit, refused to eat, refused to let us eat…….all she wanted to do was walk walk walk and fml, I forgot her shoes! And if we didn’t let her walk she’d SCREAM! I felt sorry for the other diners who were trying to get some romantic time, haha. Almost wanted to tell them also to enjoy every minute of it coz once a kid comes…….they can kiss that good bye, hehe.

Happy shot before the naughtiness begins….you can already see it on her face how she’s planning out some epic misbehaving…

We were given a serving of warm bread which was pretty good and with what you call a shot of julienned carrots with a dollop of cream. Ooo julienned I feel so posh, lol.

Had a simple salad while we waited for the main course. The salad was pretty divine. The cheese portion was very generous.

And that’s when it started……..the naughtiness! Her father had to walk her around the restaurant in her socks while I sat there eating my salad ALONE. We were lucky they were only 3-4 occupied tables.

Mommy tried to distract her by letting her rummage through her bag.

Mom, you lied, there’s no chocolate in there! Did YOU eat it all?

After a while she got bored with the bag so mommy had to distract her with a bangle or whatever random object she could find.  At this point of time I was praying that our main course would arrive pronto.

Oh but it did not. So I did the next best thing I could do – turn the camera screen in front of us and cam-whored! Which lasted about a good 10 minutes.

Nobody messes with my mommie. Word.

Okay I lied, haha, I’m no gangsta. Just naughty.

Pouty pouty pouty…

Yes I’m a bad influence to her

I was almost certain I ordered the chicken with cream sauce but got the coq au vin instead. But no worries, chicken with red wine – I can eat this. The chicken itself was soft and moist but the sauce was a bit too over-whelming. Hats off to the wonderful mashed potato with truffles though!! It was totally out of this world. Even the naughty kid approved. I would go back for this!

Hubby’s lamb shank which he claims had alot of fats. But still okie.

We didn’t even stop to have dessert. Coz I wanted a shake from Milkshake Factory, yums

A little more naughtiness before we leave.

Misbehaving in a fine dining restaurant……….yup, that’s my girl right there! Again to all diners who were dining there on Friday – we’re SOOOO SOOO sorry

I”m so fabulously naughtyyyyy.

Hmpff, guess that means hubby has a fine reason not taking me out somewhere nice. But no worries, I’ll make sure any new restaurant will do for now.

Total bill was RM184 inclusive of a beer and apple juice.

Baby terrorizing people on a fine night out: PRICELESS.

Would we return again? Probably not. One time experience here is enough

You can check out this blog for more substantial reviews on this restaurant.

The hubby’s aunt who visited from US complimented me on my hair recently. She asked me what’s my secret to such shiny hair *bounces hair and strokes SHINY hair* Little does she know it’s because I was sitting under the light and as you know it, dark locks reflects light better, ahem.

Said awesome aunt who thinks I have shiny hair I was obviously grining from one end to the other coz hardly anyone compliments me thesedays Story of my life.

Before that let me digress a little bit. We met them in Pavillion for dinner on Friday and Sairah wore this gorgeous dress a friend bought from Melbourne.

This is her shocked ‘home alone’  look that I taught her!

OMG NO MILK???! THE HORROR!

She’s totally in love with this dolly, wants to carry it where ever she goes, wants to baby it and give it milk….too cute! Only thing missing is the baby’s stroller which I think is a tad creepy to buy….have you seen that in Toys R Us? C-R-E-E-P-Y!

Sayangggg dolly!

And I should let you know that Ben’s has one of the dumbest most uncomfie baby chair everrr!!!

Poor baby struggling in that stupid chair. She obviously sat on it for a good 10 minutes. But I”m so proud of her for leaving her hair clip on

Ok before I disgress furtherrr………..my secret is actually this followed by an awesome potent hair serum which my parents bought from Hong Kong. At least that’s what I think is responsible for the shine coz I have 1001 hair products in my bathroom.

Picked 2 tubes of it during our trip to Bali. Am currently running low on it, any ideas where can I get it locally?

And before I digress further again, I should have you know that I haven’t cut my hair in THREE freaking months. Or is that four months?? It’s super long now.

Below bra length to be precise *strokes super long hair, my preciousssss*

Banshee like hair until you can ‘t see me face, haha, but oooo so shiny!

It’s not that I don’t want to cut my hair and get rid of the split ends, I seriously just don’t have the time to step into a hair salon. It is indeed a luxury. Moms would tell you this.  Gone are the days of spending hours in a hair salon to get it  washed, steamed and treated using glorious treatments.

I feel so bad about lying to my new hair-stylist though coz I happily promised him after my hair cut that I”d like to color it and said I’d be back in one week’s time for that.

It’s been months since I went into hiding.

I don’t want to piss him off coz he’s actually an awesome hair-stylist, having worked in London and all for years.

Well now I’m hoping he’d forget my face and my big mouth when I go back there next

I only realized my hair was super long after seeing that photo. So naturally I shoved the camera in front of the husband’s face to ask him if I should maintain this wonderful length or cut it.

Immediatelywithout hesitating or even looking at that damn photo, he screamed, CUT IT. CUT IT OFF.

But but I look nice and feminine in long hair don’t you think? Just like old times….I said.

But you spend so much time getting it blow dried and ironed. It will be a whole lot faster if you have it shorter, he argued.

Hmpffff, MEN! What the hell do they know. Short or long hair, I stil take about 40 minutes to get ready which I think is a pretty awesome feat coz I can manage to wash my hair, blow dry this thick mop of a hair and iron it so I don’t look like a lion, slap on makeup, change bags and transfer its contents (happens when you’re a bag-aholic), pack up baby’s diaper bag AND still get dressed. Did he really think having shorter hair would cut down my preparation time to like 15 minute? Hmpff, fat hopes. I am a woman afterall I say it willl only take off 5 minutes, the most coz seriously how can cutting off 2-3 inches cut down time significantly? My sillyy silly man.

Come to think of it, I really oughta let my hair grow LONGER and let it shed all over the bed at the same time. In particular, his side of the bed Just because I can.

What about you? How long does it take to get ready? Hair and all? And don’t lie, esp if you’re a woman, haha :D

So we know the little one loves the camera.

And it’s safe to say she takes this great trait after her mother, ahem

Good God, look how slim I was back then! Damn you child birth!

Yea you’re right, these pics are actually TOTALLY irrelevant. I found my old folder yesterday containing lots of photos back in the day and couldn’t resist putting it up. Please la, let me have my moment pleaseee. More to come for sure, hehe.

Okay now I’m depressed coz I look so different now

Moving on moving on…..

The little one’s father is quite the artist. Not the glam type but the one who can draw really well. I’ve seen some of his paintings and man, it’s amazing how those stubby fingers can actually draw that well. So I wondered, hmmm, would she take after her father’s skill? For the record Sairah has these freakishly long fingers like mine, so there is no doubt she will flourish at playing instruments but have to give in to the hubby a bit sometimes too I say.

Oh we’re gonna do what now on a Sunday?!

Are these even edible mommy?

Scribble scribble scribble….imma gonna draw a gieeeee.

The ‘artist’ giving some pointers to the little one.

After a while, this was the outcome. Except most of the retarded part came from mommy

You can tell I have zero drawing skills. I used to cheat in school by making my mom draw and swapping it with her work during exam

That’s daddy alright, you can tell from the nose, lol. And those little green obsession around him

After the drawing session, she managed to find my brand new eyeliner and decided it was something she would prefer to do with her free time!!

Naughty face ON! Let’s see what mischief I can come up with this thing in my hand.

Can I eat it?

Can the horsey eat this?

Oooo reckon I should hide it in my bicycle?

Oh hai mom, swear I have no notty thoughts going through my little head.

There, now mommy’s not gonna get to use this at all.

Took me a while before I could get hold of it back. I suspect this girl is going to be going through my makeup stash in a few years from now.

Btw, never knew I”d see the day where I would pick this up. It was a spur of the moment thing but I have to say, the eyeliner is pretty good, I have it on right now, hehe Support local brands!

And this was something her daddy picked up being such an artsy person that he is. He got it at a bargain and after much thoughts where we should put it (I should mention that we have enough paintings in the apt already), we decided it should go in Sairah’s room.

I suck at interpreting paintings but all I could say to the hubby was, ‘the white goes really well with her pink wall’

Which is why I’m always in charge of dressing up baby girl coz I can color coordinate well, ahem, lol.

 TOP! (I sing this theme song to my baby girl almost every day and yes it drives some people nuts and more nuts now that she has picked it up, hah)

A while ago, I posted at the side bar for votes for my Baby Sairah to stand a chance to win a contest. She didn’t come out first, or second or third…….but came out no 9 (hey like her birth month). All 12 babies were then asked to attend a photo shoot as Marvelous Baby is coming up with their 2012 calendar.

Yup it’s going to be a super duper CUTE calendar! More info on that later.

We were asked to attend a shoot last Thursday. More specifically at 9a.m!! My darling girl now wakes up at 10 a.m everyday so I was very nervous the night before whether we’d be ready on time. I put her to sleep slightly early and although I kept waking up a lot, I was surprised to see how Sairah slept through the night!! She promptly woke up at 7.50 a.m (which is indeed amazing) even before my alarm went off so we rushed to get her ready and were there in the nick of time. I don’t know why but I was SUPER nervous!! On Sairah’s behalf!

But the little one on the other hand was quite the diva, lol.

Oh can’t you tell it’s really early?

Mom, chill, I OWN this alright, let me just have my turn so we can go back home!

The wait was indeed long, about 1 hour, so daddy entertained her by walking around

While mommy gave her some prep talk to build up her confidence

And of course some beary-licious HUGS.

We were given two sets of clothes so we changed her into the first.

We got to work with the wonderful Asther Lau who coincidently did my pregnancy and family shoot. Sairah went off in pairs with a pair of twins from Ecuador (talk about being international eh).

While Asther was busy shooting the twins, I put my little one on the tiny baby bed to prep and warm her up. I started getting her into the mood by taking photos of her and after a while Asther noticed that and decided it was Sairah’s turn to shine.

When is it gonna be my turn?!

I”m pissed with the hubby because he was too busy juggling the diaper bag and errr my handbag to even take those real posing shots of Sairah hence I only have these warming up photos

And boy did she make us SUPER proud!! She posed almost instantly like a pro, smiled for the camera, did the whole hand under the chin (and I really don’t know where she picked that one from)……..she was throughout a happy happy baby!

She got her shots done in under 5 minutes I think. PERFECTO!

Then it was off for a second change!

More prep talk going on, lol. My husband says I’m living vicariously through Sairah. Pffff. What a BIG word! I am officially Sairah’s manager though

Truth be told, I see alot of potential in my baby girl………..and I intend to be the sort of mother who polishes their natural talent while allowing my child to dip their itty fingers and toes into anything they want! And I wont even hold it against them should they decide to switch into something else a few months down the road because variety is the spice of life!

 I’m cool like that.

I really love this outfit on her. And I absolutely LOVE the Sereni and Shentel baby headgear on her. Unfortunately it was a bit of a tight fit so……..hoping they’d make bigger size ones soon You can pick it up on Marvelous Baby’s store soon too

Shine baby shine (picture credit to Marvelous Baby). You can tell how fat proud I am in the photo. Asther took some pretty nice shots of her before missy tumbled down with the baby chair. A model’s life is tough I tell ya

It’s a wrap!!

We truly did enjoy this session so much. Now the hubby is so convinced this is Sairah’s calling (that is until she’s big enough to do more good things for this world like be a world famous surgeon, ahem). All he did was talk about how well his princess did at the shoot the ENTIRE day :D

I’m a star fish mommie!

I love moments like these…..where you discover your child’s potential and have that absolute annoying smirk on your face that money can’t buy.

Even the child has a smirk on over her own accomplishments

Sairah and her Pangy (aka Penguin)

And yes if you need a baby talent you know who to contact. Ahem.

Can’t wait for the end product!! I’m almost tempted to give away these calendars to those who comment on this post, lol