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Helpless Mom

I hate it when I feel helpless especially when my children is sick. I remembered when I was small, whenever I am sick, my mom is always there to comfort me and take away my discomfort. Why can’t I do the same with my children?

He stripe off his clothes, rolled on the bed and cried, “stomach pain, stomach pain”. He is having fever at the same time too. I applied YuYi oil on his tummy but it does not seems to reduce the pain. Text hubby on Google chat for other remedy. “Try rubbing onion on his tummy”, he told me. That worked like magic. After a minute or two, he doze of to sleep! But the sleep was short. He woke up crying in pain again. I cried along with him coz I cannot take away his pain. I felt so hopeless for being a helpless mommy.

When nothing less works, I prayed more fervently.

The next day, he woke up early to his cheerful self again. Thank God for His speedy healing touch. :D

Posted on February 1st, 2012 by Michelle  |  No Comments »

No Birthday Gift for Hubby

December 2011 passed by like a speed of the light. Our family gathering fell on hubby’s birthday. He did not get the quiet birth day like previous years. Thank God his siblings did not forget his birthday. He had a combined birthday cake blowing that night. Time was too short for me to buy one of those titanium bracelets for men. He did mention that we can still celebrate with each other after the family gathering is over but we just couldn’t find the time until today. Looks like there won’t be any belated birthday celebration for him. Well, he will hit the big FOUR ZERO this year. I must plan something special for him. :D

Posted on January 10th, 2012 by Michelle  |  No Comments »

Personalized Gifts for Grooms

t-shirt

Your buddy is getting married. What will be the best gift for him? Guys deserved a present too you know. Not only for the gals. He is taking a humongous step to commit his life to one single woman. It isn’t an easy task so he deserves to be cheered on. I find that the above t-shirt is cool. It is a perfect gifts for groom. It will make his life easier too. Other ladies will step back after knowing that he has “expired”. LOL.

Posted on December 23rd, 2011 by Michelle  |  No Comments »

On My 37th Birthday

I had what I wanted for my 37th birthday. I went for my long overdue facial spa in the morning.

birthday cake

Cake cutting with my love ones.

bbq steamboat

And BBQ + Steamboat with hubby for dinner.

A simple and yet fulfilling birthday.

Posted on December 5th, 2011 by Michelle  |  No Comments »

Weddings in Barbados

The month of December is packed with wedding invitations. Our gas supplier told my MIL that he received more than 10 wedding invitation. My dad has to ask my sister for some cash because he does not have enough money to put in the wedding invitation red packet. Weddings = money.

I just read in FB that one of my friend’s friend had their wedding in Bali. That’s romantic. Wedding by the beach. Not any beach but Bali beach. I wonder whether any of them is rich enough to have their wedding in the Caribbean. The weddings in barbados looks pretty romantic too. And the weather is cooler unlike our tropical climate.

Posted on December 1st, 2011 by Michelle  |  No Comments »

My Husband is Not Romantic

Last Sunday, I heard 2 mothers talking about how unromantic their husband are. One of the received a “Thank You” from her husband when she told him “I love You.” And the other got ignored, her “I love You” fell on deaf ears. Thank God my husband does not fall in that category. They commented that most Asian husband are not romantic. Maybe I should talk to her husband and get him to surprise her with a thank you gift instead of just saying “Thank You” to her “I Love You”. You can send thank you gift fast through Berries. A basket of chocolate can anytime melts a woman’s heart.

Posted on November 8th, 2011 by Michelle  |  No Comments »

Baby Girl Adores Her Daddy

Read this… (taken from here)

Never before in my life have I seen any girl who adores me like she did. It was just awesome to look in her eyes and see such deep adoration coming out and finding its way to my eyes. Even my love partner did not have such deep adoration for me (or maybe I’ve forgotten of the times when she did). She would look at me with her round (or maybe sepet abit) eyes and with the sparkle in her eyes fix her gaze on me for a few seconds before giving me the sweetest smile of joy that melts my heart instantly. Ah… such blessings from God. Thank you Rebekah for you adoration to daddy.

I felt jealous each time my baby girl did that! Can u imagine that! This mommy is jealous of her own flesh and blood. I think it is because she is able to adore her daddy that much and I can’t. Anyway, I am happy now. She stopped adoring her daddy already. I mean she loves looking at her daddy but that adoring look is no longer there. Notti eh, me? hehe.

Posted on October 2nd, 2011 by Michelle  |  No Comments »

Who to fall in love with

I like this quote that hubby post on his FB wall…

“Fall in love with someone who deserves your heart, not someone who plays with it.”

Posted on September 29th, 2011 by Michelle  |  No Comments »

Hand of Hope

21 weeks fetus

A picture began circulating in November. It should be “The Picture of the Year,” or perhaps, “Picture of the Decade.” It won’t be. In fact, unless you obtained a copy of the U.S. paper which published it, you probably would never have seen it.

The picture is that of a 21-week-old unborn baby named Samuel Alexander Armas, who is being operated on by surgeon named Joseph Bruner. The baby was diagnosed with spina bifida and would not survive if removed from his mother’s womb. Little Samuel’s mother, Julie Armas, is an obstetrics nurse in Atlanta. She knew of Dr. Bruner’s remarkable surgical procedure. Practicing at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, he performs these special operations while the baby is still in the womb.

During the procedure, the doctor removes the uterus via C-section and makes a small incision to operate on the baby. As Dr. Bruner completed the surgery on Samuel, the little guy reached his tiny, but fully developed hand through the incision and firmly grasped the surgeon’s finger. Dr. Bruner was reported as saying that when his finger was grasped, it was the most emotional moment of his life, and that for an instant during the procedure he was just frozen, totally immobile.

The photograph captures this amazing event with perfect clarity. The editors titled the picture, “Hand of Hope.” The text explaining the picture begins, “The tiny hand of 21-week-old fetus Samuel Alexander Armas emerges from the mother’s uterus to grasp the finger of Dr. Joseph Bruner as if thanking the doctor for the gift of life.”

Little Samuel’s mother said they “wept for days” when they saw the picture. She said, “The photo reminds us pregnancy isn’t about disability or an illness, it’s about a little person” Samuel was born in perfect health, the operation 100 percent successful. Now see the actual picture, and it is awesome…incredible….and hey, pass it on! The world needs to see this one!
— with Brittany Ogilvie.

Posted on September 20th, 2011 by Michelle  |  No Comments »

Mom’s Time

Guest post written by my buddy Keith Kramer

My mom thinks we don’t spend enough time talking so I came up with a really great solution. Every week on Thursdays we have a movie appointment where we watch a movie on TV together over the phone. She loves it and I get lots of credit for being a great daughter! We both have tvBYDirect.com satellite so our channels are the same and we alternate who gets to pick which is a lot of fun. I know she really appreciates the time we get to spend “together” and I just like getting to watch the newest releases when they come out. The only problem is that we have totally different tastes in movies but I guess that’s why we alternate, right? I love my mom to death but I can’t afford to get on a plane and see her as often as I like so this seems like a really good solution in the long run. Mom, if you’re reading this, know how much I love you and how much I want to be a good daughter!

Posted on August 21st, 2011 by Michelle  |  No Comments »

A Marital Advice

This is an email which I wrote to someone recently…

Marriage is never a bed of roses but most important there must be trust and transparently in marriage be it friends or money matters. My husband knows most of my friends; mostly online friends. I tell him everything and sometimes things that i cannot tell directly to him, i blog about it coz he reads my blog.

And when it comes to money, he knows how much i earn n save and so do i with his. We didn’t have any separate savings account; my money is his money, his money is my money. I helped him a lot too with his business when i was still working. I literally support him and the family when he first started his business. Even when we quarrel, we dont bring it up coz i do it sincerely. He is my husband what; if he susah, we also susah mah. i know most my my friends hv a secret bank account that their hubby didnt know about. this is not healthy in marriage. it shows that we dont trust our husband. and when the husband sense that we dont trust them, they will be very defensive and do the same too.

the only way to solve your marriage problem is to talk, talk and talk. no quarreling, no shouting, no screaming and no accusing pls. try to control your temper even when he did not control his. you cant think straight and rationally when both of you are shouting to each other.

for him to envy you, i agree it is wrong. ask him what is his expectation of you. tell him what is your expectation of him. discuss about it. he may not be able to fulfill all your expectation and so do you. find the best way to meet each other expectation.

when it comes to sharing about our daily life; what we do, where we go, who is our friends, what we eat, what we talk about with our friends etc. for men, you must ask them. man are not made to be a chatter box like us ladies. they will only tell if we ask. and they dont tell in detail also. so we have to be specific with our questions.

don’t give up so fast in your marriage ok. marriage is like a marathon. u run, u fall, u get up, you run again, you feel tired but you must not quit. u must finish the race. “till death do us part.” the first 7 years of marriage is very challenging. after that, it will be easier but not without problem though.

in a way problem is good. it helps the couple to know each other better n when both of u come out of this problem it is like a big wall that is separating both of u is broken down. u’ll appreciate each other more n love each other more too.

Posted on May 18th, 2011 by Michelle  |  1 Comment »

On Our 10th Wedding Annivesary

us This is us on our 10th wedding anniversary. This year we have a 4mo baby tagging along. ;) We had lunch at Kenny Roger’s Roaster. I browsed through our previous anniversary post, we ate at Kenny Roger’s during last year’s wedding anniversary. Hubby picked the place!

Before lunch, we have a good massage session at Phoenix Health Care & Foot Reflexology Centre, Melaka Raya. Hubby went for the 2 hours Body Massage with Oil and I had 1.5 hours of Foot Reflexology while carrying and nursing my 4mo baby! She was quite an entertainment to the Myanmar masseur.

We actually planned to watch movie, Thor but decided otherwise because the show is in 3D. Not comfy wearing the 3D glasses with our specs on. So, after lunch we had McD Sundae and Pretzel Stick with Eclairs for dessert. Then we head home to fulfill our parental duty; making sure the school goers complete their homework, and eat their dinner before we go out again for dinner.

satay celup

We had Satay Celup for dinner; 16 sticks each. ;) I wanted to eat Satay Celup at Capitol but by the time we reached the shop, we saw lotsa people queuing outside the shop to wait for an empty table. No-uh, not my style to queue for food, with or without baby around. I will only queue for food at the canteen or if I have no other food to eat (kinda life n death situation). We ended up at Ban Lee Siang, Jln Ong Kim Wee for our Satay Celup dinner; plenty of empty tables.

We do watch movie. Not in the cinema but in the comfort of our room. We watched Waiting Forever.

That’s about it on our 10th Wedding Anniversary. :D

Posted on May 13th, 2011 by Michelle  |  No Comments »

Birthday Treat for My Firstborn

My firstborn daughter turned 8 years old yesterday. Instead of bringing everyone out for a dinner, we brought her alone; just mommy, daddy, baby and herself. It is her special day and we granted her wants. She wanted to eat wedding food. We treat her with these yummilicious dishes.

sweet sour pork

Sweet and Sour Pork

salad chicken

Fragrance Chicken Salad

cheese beehoon

Creamy Cheese Beehoon with Tiger Prawn

seafood fried rice

 Seafood Fried Rice

I bought for her a roller skate and a book, Big Nate (she has been requesting me to buy her this book for quite sometime already).

roller skate

We still walk around on a polished, black cement flooring. Dunno when we can afford to change to pergo flooring. ;)

big nate

The Malay book is an incentive when she did well in her Chinese spelling.

But she told me that she preferred the book more than the roller skate and wanted to spend her birthday Angpow money to buy more books. Since I have RM50 MPH voucher, we brought her to MPH to buy some books of her choice. She got all these and paid RM44.70 on top of the RM50 vouchers.

books

While at MP, she couldn’t resist the smell of freshly baked Famous Amos cookies, so we allowed her to buy 100g of it. If on other days, I would tell her that I will bake for her later. Not worth the money spent for just a 100g.

That’s about it. You know what, I still remember the labour pain that I had to go through to give birth to this beautiful daughter of mine. It was the toughest and most painful birth out of 5. Hubby still remembered the “dirty job” that he did.

Posted on May 5th, 2011 by Michelle  |  No Comments »

My Hubby Can Cook!

sambal fried rice

All this while I thought my husband only knows how to cook instant noodle and fried eggs. He surprised me by cooking the above Sambal Fried Rice all by himself. Only after 10 years of marriage and 5 kids he cooked for me for the very first time. That was the best fried rice I ever had. :D

Posted on May 2nd, 2011 by Michelle  |  No Comments »

Wedding in March

We have a wedding invitation to attend this month. I was kind of looking forward to attend the wedding reception and also dinner. Wedding brings me goose bumps! Seeing the bride walking down the aisle, eyes fixed at her groom wearing his cute bow tie, the wedding vow and the I dos.

Unfortunately, I just got a news from hubby that his part-time staff can’t work on Saturday night. So, there goes my wedding dinner which I really look forward to. :(

Posted on March 5th, 2011 by Michelle  |  No Comments »

On Our 10th Marriage Annivesary

Yesterday we celebrated our 10th Marriage Anniversary; the day we legally become husband and wife. Being someone from a legal background (my dear hubby), he prefers to observe this day compared to our wedding day that was on May 12. I prefer to celebrate May 12; the day I wore my beautiful wedding gown and walk down the aisle with my dad. In the end, we got 2 anniversaries to celebrate. Yay!

At first we were quite disappointed that we won’t be able to celebrate this day because hubby got to work till 9pm. The day before yesterday, hubby managed to get his ex-part time staff to come in for a few hours while we go pamper ourselves on our special day. :D

Shabu Shabu

We went for our massages, then to lunch at a Japanese restaurant; San Ramen at Mahkota Parade. I had Shabu-Shabu and hubby, Salmon Ramen. The food is kinda bland to our taste bud. Japanese food is not for us. We then bought some bread at Pattifrance.

Then we went to Bunga Raya to buy some felt materials for me to make hair clips then we rush back home because hubby got to start work already.

Posted on March 2nd, 2011 by Michelle  |  No Comments »

Men after Marriage

Why is it that most men will become fat after getting married? Especially the belly part. I still can’t figure out the reason to it. They are less stressful after marrying the girl of their dream? Or they are so stress up that they often hang out with their friends for a round of beer; that’s where the beer belly appears. Their wife feed them well? I doubt it coz I can’t cook as good as my mom or my MIL! Hah! I know, they stop keeping fit and taking muscle building supplements after they get to “tie down” the girl of their dream. Won the girl’s heart already, no need to be Mr Macho anymore. :P

Posted on February 19th, 2011 by Michelle  |  No Comments »

Strawberry Cream Liqueur

strawberry cream liqueur

I almost buy a bottle of Strawberry Cream Liqueur as a birthday gift for my dear hubby because it is cheaper than Bailey’s Irish Cream. I did not buy because the shop can’t provide a box for it. Btw, do you know that there is actually strawberry cigars? Macam-macam eh these days!

I really want to give hubby a birthday gift. Something within my means. Something that he will really like and enjoy. So, I ended up buying a bottle of sweet red wine for him. Something to keep him warm at night before he head the bed. Ya! I’ve long resigned being his warmer at night. :P

Posted on December 19th, 2010 by Michelle  |  No Comments »

Happy Birthday To Me!

Good Morning World!

Nothing special on my birthday except the kitchen renovation started today which made me woke up early. I only had 6 hours of sleep. I hope I can stay awake during Harry Porter later this afternoon.

Still have no idea what my birthday lunch and dinner will be. Don’t think hubby prepare any surprise birthday gift for me. He does not know what I want and he won’t simply buy me things coz previous experience taught him not too! hahaha.

My children expected me to buy them a gift. I have not thought of what to buy for them. I need to save up to buy textbooks for next years. Not cheap as my soon to be 5yo son will be going to private kindy. His books alone is more than RM700. Two of his sisters will be in primary school and their books’ cost is only 10% of his!

Anyway, Happy Birthday To Me!

Posted on November 30th, 2010 by Michelle  |  No Comments »

Malaysian First Astronaut Tied The Knot Today

Maybe couples are tying the know today. In my kampung itself, there are a few weddings going on. Maybe Chinese went to register their marriage today too. Our Malaysian First Astronaut did not want to miss this perfect 10 date either. I managed to watch for a few minutes the “acara bersanding” on TV3 just now. Looks like our Malaysian First Astronaut wedding is more grand than the wedding of the Sultans. He has royal guests from all around the world and 100 astronaut came to his wedding too. Sungguh bertuah. ;)

Posted on October 10th, 2010 by Michelle  |  No Comments »