the-missus-blogs.com

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

Ever since graduating into toddler-hood and being absolutely mobile on her own, Sairah’s room has NEVER looked NEAT and TIDY like how it used to be before. I don’t recognize those two words anymore and my back is slowlyyy giving way from picking up after her.

Now, her room constantly looks like something EXPLODED in there. No joke. I thought these things only happen when they become teenagers? I sometimes feel like I have, not one, but FIVE kids! Coz I can only imagine this amount of messing around would require more pair of hands, feet and evil minds but apparently I’m wrong. My daughter alone is capable of pulling such a feat.

This is her room at a glance.  Not for the weak heart for sure Honestly, how does a baby of almost 16 months manage to turn her tiny room topsy turvy is something I’ll never know. Every toy gets digged out and moved around.

She likes to open up the pink box filled with smaller toys and pull out every single one of em until she gets bored. Sometimes, the whole box gets toppled and pushed down, she rummages through to see what she can find and then leaves it to move on to other toys.

Even her little scooter/car thingy doesn’t get spared. She drives it around and then decides to park em in front of her bears!

Even the play mat has moved it’s position! I don’t even know that’s possible since there are toys on it thus weighing it down. Sometimes when her room gets cleaned and everything is in proper position, I take in a DEEP BREATH and enjoy the view, coz I know in a few mins time once bear-bear makes an appearance, her room will hardly be the same again

Ok the drawing board was moved by her mommie, lol, coz I was updating the board by wishing it a Happy New Year, haha.

Would most definitely be teaching her how to pick up her toys when she’s capable of doing so. What comes out of the box, obviously needs to go in too

But for now, she gets away with it for being a real cutie, seriously with an uber cool face like this, how not to pick up after her?

Ma, I’m too cool to pick up mah toys. I’d delegate that task to daddy if I were you.

Haha my shades are cool like Elton John!

Err Elton who ma?

Ok this thing is coming off…..

So I can put it on my head! Yes I”m a VAIN baby girl.

See la how my nail polish are heavily chipped from picking up ze toys.

Kids thesedays!

No wait, that should be….SAIRAH thesedays

Still loving every moment though

Lately I’ve been feeling like that places I’ve been to just seem to meh in comparison to the real world out there.

I’ve realized the world is a whole lot bigger than I thought it was and now I’m just itching to go visit every part of it.

But then I’ve also realized I’ve got no money in my bank account to visit these countries any time soon. Which is really a shitty feeling. But a girl can continue hoping and wishing can’t she?

Blast you damn life! Why I no win Magnum or was born super duper rich!

Anyho, if somebody is listening up there, or anywhere, or if it’s true that my blog mysteriously converts what I write into reality then hell yea, I’d like to go to these following places, please and thanks

In no particular order

Banff, Canada. You can check out the website here. The only reason I know of this place is because I”ve recently reconnected with a cousin from FB and she actually lives here!! She claims this is truly God’s country and after seeing photos, how can anyone disagree?

Santorini, Greece

New Fucking York!

Of course it wouldn’t hurt to re-visit LA, Vegas and San Fran again!! That was hands down one of the best family trip everrrr. And I’ve just realized my US visa expired last year

Monaco, France

And then we’ll move to Nice, France

I could go on including more places, I really could, but I’d like to keep my list ‘do-able’ for now. And minimize the shitty feeling of not being able to go there soon.

So how do I intend to make these places a reality? Hmm for starters I’m saving   praying alot  brainwashing sending random emails out to the husband on these places and showing him tons of photos hoping to convince him. He has said yes to one place but not before saying it will be in 2013 but I ain’t trusting that man until we’re actually there.

And of course I’d be lying if I didn’t say that secretly I’m hoping this year I can strike it on Magnum or SportsToto to fund these trips.

It will be for a good course dear God! To feed this person’s soul!

What about you guys? Any place that you’re just dying to go to?

P.s: All photos credit to Google, but of course!

Recently Dealmates.com had this awesome Kiddie photoshoot deal that only cost RM47 that was too good to resist so I bought it and redemeed it on Christmas day. That was the only day they were available anyway

We only had all of 1 hour for this shoot so we promptly got to The Strand before her 12pm session and had a nice chat with Priscilla who is the photographer’s wife. She explained how the shoot will be done and asked us what sort of concept we prefer eg: natural / sporty / seasonal / studio shots and we naturally picked natural and studio shots (as per the photos below obviously).  They also wanted to know the baby’s background and reaction to the camera, new surrounding etc which is all important to the photographer to capture that perfect moment.

And being Sairah personal slave stylist, naturally I brought our OWN outfit

We started off with the natural pose, to capture natural moments and lighting. Helps that they have this cute lil playground indoor.

Look ma, am on a swing!

Dress from Amy Coe from US. I personally LOVE this black peace tutu dress. It’s awesome, bold and unique, it’s not always about the pinks yo.

Can I have a ball pls?

At ease with her photographer.

Oh yea, photographing a child is indeed a passion!!  You require TONS of patient. This is what the behind-the-scene really looks like – you have a child minder trying hard to make the kid smile and laugh, while the parents stand in front of the child giving her the ultimate support you would except out of a parent

The natural concept took all of 10 minutes (though it felt much longer). A quick biscuit break as Bryan sets the studio for my little star.

He suggested we use this bumble bee outfit for the little one , buzz buzz!

We later changed into this gorgeous can can dress Wylane sent allll the way from UK! And topped it up with their retro headband.

Oh hi ma, don’t I look sooo pwetttie?

It’s not always easy trying to get a toddler to sit in one spot, after a few attempts of ‘trying’ to run away, she finally sat put and did her thing for the camera!

Up above the world so high….

What REALLY goes on behind the scene! See told you, photographing a kid isn’t the easiest task.

Next up was this dress I got from Mudpie from the US. I swear it’s a gorgeous little number with its bright color blocking. Topped it up with a pink headband, and cute props and wala:

Clap clap clap

Prepping her to pose

And she NAILED it, cue *American’t next top model theme song* So much intensity in her look! Tyra Banks would approve!

Her daddy and mommy were sooooooo proud of her! Can’t you tell the proud look the father is giving? That plus he was super tired from all that cheering around

Calling for the bill, hahahaha. Baby completely knocked out after a quick lunch. Literally SLEPT the minute the car moved.

And because she did such a great job (actually cheat one la, already ordered this drawing board weeks ago!), we got her a little gift. In view of the New Year.

Though she can’t sit or reach the board yet, can’t wait to see her little scribbles on it.

And to Kiddie Photolab, thank you for the wonderful photoshoot experience. I can’t give them enough praises. Though we just paid a mere RM47, we received TOP CLASS service. Why? Because there is soooo much passion from them to capture  that perfect child’s special moment. They sang nursery rhymes, they made funny faces, they did all they could just to break a toddler to give them the BIGGEST smile of their life. I dont know how they do it. We got tired, sooo tired after that one hour, so I can’t imagine them doing all that for every session. It boils down to passion!

And that’s the sort of photographer you need to capture your child’s moments. Can’t wait to check out all the final photos!

For more info, you may contact them via their FB page.

Highly highly recommended! And I’m hoping Dealmates.com will bring this AWESOME deal back again soon.

Cannot-take-the-X’masy-feeling-out-of-me-yet. SORRY!

But no, am not sorry for blasting this post with TONS of photos coz I went trigger happy this holiday season. *Pats back* for having the determination and discpline for whipping out the camera for every freaking photo opportunity

Told Sairah to choose between her sandals Aunty Wylane got her and the crocs and she naturally went for the sandals. Why? Coz it freaking matches her outfit that’s why. Good job baby girl.

Outfit: Bought by Daddy from Phillipines.

Headband: Bought from KLCC in one of the kiddie store

Sairah’s CRAZY hair: Model’s own, thanks to parent’s bad hair-genes. You have NO freaking idea how I am sooo thankful for rebonding. Which btw, I totally need to do soon, anyone wants to sponsor?

Went to redeem our O’ Earth Cafe voucher and to check out what’s the whole fuss about organic food.

Organic soya bean with barley and organic coffee. Am in love with their organic soya bean that I decided to buy the powder. SO yummy and easy to make!

Healthy organic chicken pasta -  flavorful to the core. I believe their usual set meal is only RM7.90 which is a major steal.

Even Sairah LOVES their spaghetti and soya bean.

APPROVED! Says the soya-moustache

Hahaha don’t know what’s with the expression.

Went to BSC for a bit to do some grocery shopping and baby enjoyed all things X’masy in that mall.

Oooo daddy what’s that??

Why it’s Christmas carollers!!

Hmm, I could roll with that.

Princess doing her princess-y walkabout

Har har I LOVE coffee breaks

Daddy squeezing chubby cheeker’s cheeks!

Swear imma gonna kill daddy in his sleep if he does that again.

Har har I’m kidding mommy, who would buy me milk then?!

Well if only the little one knows it would be mommy, with daddy’s inheritance, just saying, lol.

BIG wet kiss for Baby girl.

We finally got to collect her prize from Marvelous Baby and the calendar that we ordered.

ALL MINE!

Received a gorgeous Geboo cloth diaper with a tank top, a bear (perfect for bear-bear), a copy of the calendar and of course a pretty nice straw bag.

Typical GIRL to go for the bag

We ordered 10 copies to be exact! You know la how it is when you’re Indian and family members all want to have one copy each!

Har har, that’s ME ME ME!

Oh random, we got this Casio Keyboard for her as a Christmas gift

Later that night, got ready for a Christmas eve dinner with our family friends. Cam whore first as we wait for the vain father to put on his makeup.

SO much food, stuffed myself silly!

The same old Pumpkin Patch dress making it’s appearance for the fourth or fifth time now. Spiced it up with a kitty headband (thanks Wylane) and the giraffe necklace.

Of course after a while someone puked and had to be changed. Sigh.

Nevertheless, she had a ball opening up her X’mas present.

She’s quite a patient baby when it comes to opening gift. So much class and self-control, like her mother, lol

Let’s dance and jiggle like Santa.

My star standing among the stars

Check out the amount of cakes and cupcakes!

Cupcakes sponsored by BabySis, bought from our usual go-to-person, Eunice!

Too cute! How can someone be this talented?!

It was Deric’s birthday a week ago so thought it would be a nice idea to cut a cake nevertheless.

Typical Deric posing with the wine I got em.

What is X’mas without an array of sweet things.

Patiently waiting for a slice.

Kept giving her more ‘gifts’, little did she know those were empty boxes. But to see the look on her face was priceless nevertheless.

Oh more gifts for meeeee?

I musta been a good girl this year Santa. Well not quite baby girl, you have your moments

Who knew I’d live to see the day where I cam-whore with my 15 month old baby girl!!!!

Beady eyes looking for more gifts. If I keep up this puss-in-boots face, I might get more presents!!

Face-time to keep the baby busy

And angry bird to keep the aunt occupied. Kids!

HA HA HA I LOVE CHRISTMAS!! And to think 2 years ago, someone was conceived on this very day

By the way, if you’ve tempted to know how many photos are there on this post, there’s 59 photos to be exact.

Thank you for having the patience to scroll and check em all. What is a blog without tons of photos depicting happy chirpy moments.

Hope ya’ll had a GREAT Christmas. I know we did.

And here’s to a blessed New Year, live life positively and live it to the fullest coz no one else is gonna do for ya Now that’s the smartest thing I’ve said in this entire post.

Peace out hommies.

Next update shall be in 2012!!