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I moved back to my parent’s house last week for 7 days.

I’m still with my husband incase you’re wondering He actually went to Philippines for a Project Management course coz somebody wants to be a certified PMS. Whatever.

On Saturday as he packed his suitcase, the little one felt like she needed to help her old man out. Except she did more messing around than packing.

Will start helping after I”m done admiring myself Oh the vanity.

Oo I think daddy should pack that, whatever that is.

Excuse the mismatched outfit, contrary to popular belief this child is dressed is ugly-mismatched-yet-comfy-house-clothes when at home Only in asia the term ‘house clothes’ exist, lol.

She managed to get her tiny hands on his underwear and decided to make it her prop. This one is a little comedian I swear. She proceeded to entertain her father and I by getting up to such mischief.

Har har, look ma I’m like a mini mr bean! Btw we’ve been watching reruns of Mr Bean  and guess who likes watching it?

Mama mia I feel fabolous dahling.

Check out her little rice belly

Don’t worry – husband’s underwear is certified clean. I really would like to think so!

And then of course whenever she’s in her grandmother’s house she’s at her naughtiest!! So I’ve proclaimed my parents place as House of Naughty coz we have a silky terrier who is also equally naughty.

Bum-itchy-must-take-off-diaper….who needs diapers when I can go commando!

My mom handed her a clean panty and she proceeded to put it on her head, again! Head covered, I look Jamaican, no?!

This is her cheeky monkey face. She puts on this face whenever she’s in a cheeky playful mode.

Although blur, I really love this photo of her. She was dancing to one of the songs on American Idol and this photo just depicts how happy a child can be just by doing a simple act of dancing.

Do check out these videos here and here. Managed to capture them while she danced.  The hand rolling motion is TOO CUTE.

BabySis might not be too pleased with this photo…..but this is what she does when super naughty. Lie in the basket of fresh laundry and go through her aunty’s bras, tee hee.

Har har I think the leopard print bra is sooo last season dahling.

As for what the hubby got us from Phillipines? As usual, tons of shampoos and conditioner for wifey and 5 2-piece clothes for the little one. Unfortunately only the 2 barbie items were super cute

And these were the other 3 sets he got which looked more like house clothes! I can’t imagine baby girl going to the mall in this.

She doesn’t even like dora!!

Or Tweety and Pooh! Why are they so LOUD?? Think I”ll just let her wear it when she goes for a walk or something!

Of all the frekaing nice clothes they have there…….it’s officially he shall not be allowed to pick her clothes EVERRR! Well unless it’s by Barbie coz they have the cutest collection in Manila and it’s super cheap! Maybe we should make a trip there early next year to stock up her clothes or someting.

SO I am officially not into the whole let’s dine out thing on V-day anymore. Hubby joins my exact sentiments (for obvious wallet-friendly reasons!). I think being a mom/dad and turning 30 makes one have alot of sense :D  But to all you girls, I think V-day should be celebrated nicely at least just that one time so that gives you some bragging rights and a once-upon-a-time story, ahem (hypocritical much? Heh).

This year I found myself questioning the purpose of it and why the heck do people celebrate love and go that extra mile on one stinky day and throw lots of money out for no reason. That came this year for me.

I’m slow, I know.

Hubby didn’t get you anything nice? He didn’t take you out someplace expensive? Throwing a bitch fit now are we?

Nah.

For starters, the traffic was absolutely horrible that Tuesday. It was as though every freaking being left the office at the same time just so they can go home, get ready to smell look nice and take their partners out. I’m sure every one  of em was hoping to get some at the end of it, LOL.

If you know what I mean

But yea the traffic was enough to loathe V-day

And I would think you have gotten some after spending a few hundreds on your pretentious meal. No? Coz let me tell you, I kept an eye for some of the V-day promo and was shocked to see how some restaurants were absolutely milking this event by charging up to RM100+++ PER person!! I honestly don’t remember V-day being this expensive a few years ago. Inflation, dicks willing to pay, call it whatever you want. Even normal restaurants where you could get a meal for under 50 for two had doubled their prices up. Oh why would I pay more just for V-day when I can go the next day and eat the SAME type of food for HALF the price?

So yea,  the number one reason why I would rather not go to nice dinner and blow that amount of money is because we  know that money can be used for something better now.  I wouldn’t want my husband to blow unnecessary money on  overly expensive standardized food (dude would still get laid anyway and he knows it, heh) when I know it could all go to better use.

The diaper and milk tin ain’t gonna walk from the store to our apartment by it’s own ya know.

Parenthood – makes you think with your brains instead of succumbing to peer pressure and the ‘norm’ :) 

So we opted for something simple. For a change he said he will cook. Almost regretted it coz he took forever to make me a sandwich. Not just any sandwich of course. Bitch had to make a chicken garlic mayo with grilled cheese on top of panini bread and go all Masterchef on me. And top it off with oven-baked wedges.

Like so. So luxurious eh?

 I would have been happy with grilled cheese sandwich coz I’m fat like that.

But it was good, so damn good, despite my tummy rumbling and me banging on the kitchen door urging and pleading with him to cook faster. I appreciate his effort of taking time off from work so he could go buy the ingredients that day because I”m a horrible wife who doesn’t stock up food in frigde.

I also made him pick up these chocolate chewy bluberry cuppies from Tearoom in Bangsar. And my god is this bloody good or what!!!

Naturally shared it with my baby girl and told myself, this is wayyy better than sitting in some fancy restaurant looking at all the overly love sick fools whispering sweet nothings into their ears acting all shy and stuff.  Most of them probably break off by the time next V-day comes about.

And funnily enough, my friend Dhash said she tried ordering Dominos and as told delivery would take a while due to unexpected surge in orders.

Oh yea, immediately I knew these orders were probably from people who were once-upon-a-time-a-new-couple-who-are-now-old-comfortable-couples who, like us, opted for something simple and light on the pocket this year, because we know better now

Parenthood, changing the way you think……

As a friend nicely put it, new couples go out to impress on V-day, old ones stay at home to save money.

True Story!

And now I end this post with a photo of my baby having a luxurious bubble bath on V-day after her cupcake

Can’t do this in a overly priced restaurant now can we?

Yea I thought so.

Now bye.

Oh and please don’t take my post too seriously. Just making a mickey out of things :D  Who knows, next year I might go all bitch fitty with the hubby for attempting to make me another sandwich. Just saying ya know coz  I’m a woman There my disclaimer right there.

Either way, hope y’all had a good V-day coz it’s really a good day for the other half to just pamper you, whether he cooks or take you out

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