Coffee Break With Me

Just pin the insert onto the outer layer and when it's time to change (roughly 4 hours later, if baby didn't poo), un-pin the insert and change with new one!

Doesn't it look just like regular diaper, only more chic and stylo?

Since I love style, comfort and convenience, this is one purchase that I'm not regretting an highly recommended. Seriously, sangat la senang memakai lampin kain moden jenama Lunatots ni.

Kan Diyaluna kan? :)

Khayla wearing the purple cloth diaper macam takde apa2 yang baru berlaku

Pernah tak bila family korang datang melawat korang di KL dan korang memecah otak fikir kat mana nak bawak dieorang makan?

Well, aku selalu mengalaminya. Sebab. Kami suami isteri jarang makan di luar dan tidak berapa food adventure semenjak ada anak ni. Tiba2 kena makan di luar agak sedikit culture shock.

Tapi al-kisah. Suatu hari aku kena melawat seorang staff yang tak sihat di area Keramat. Dalam perjalanan balik, tiba2 (ceh, semua dalam cerita aku adalah peristiwa yang tak dirancang!) aku terserempak dengan sebuah restoran ni:



Ya, itulah dia restoran Salero Negori. Lokasinya agak tersembunyi, mungkin sebab tu la tak ramai pelanggan.

So since my dearest sister ni beriya2 nak merasa masakan negori ni, ater kome bawak la dia ke mari (eh, betul ke slang aku ni?).

Kami pesan daging salai masak lemak, sayur paku masak tempoyak, ikan masin, dan ayam goreng kampung. Not exactly masakan negori, tapi saja nak merasa. Minuman pulak, order teh botol.



The verdict. Servis cepat dan mesra. Suasana santai. Makanan pula unfortunately bagi aku takde la special sangat, sekadar memenuhi syarat je. Nak kata tak sedap, bohong la tu. Tapi nothing to rave about. Harga, agak mahal dan tak sesuai dimakan hari-hari sebab poket akan confirm ranap.

Aku suka teh botol tu, rasanya sangat klasik dan mengingatkan aku teh kampung. Overall, boleh la bagi 2 bintang :)

So next time family datang dari jauh dan mintak masakan Negeri Sembilan boleh la bawak makan di sini. Not the best in town, but at least there is one in case someone feels like it.

Next, kami singgah di KLCC dan jalan-jalan cari makan di Ben's pada sebelah malam pulak. Tapi itu next story ya? :)

My sister is in town.

Bila ada family datang haruslah membawa makan di tempat yang sedap. Eh. Bukan tempatnya yang sedap, makanan yang sedap.

Sebelum ni kalau cerita tempat makan sedap (makanan sedap maksud aku), terus terbayang Gold Coast, Bagan Lalang. Tapi tidak terasa hendak spend time yang lama di dalam kereta semata-mata untuk seekor ketam dan sejemput udang.

Lalu teringat bos En Suami Terchenta pernah bawak kami makan di sebuah restoran Cina yang halal di tengah bandar.

So malam itu kami pergi ke Hokkaido. Jangan silap ye, Hokkaido tu bukan daerah di Jepun tu tapi restoran Cina di Jalan Pekeliling.

Restoran tu sangat la penuh, tapi memandangkan kami datang dengan sebakul bayi (HAHAHAHA!) - si Khayla tengah tido pulak so haruslah mengangkut dia dan car seat nya sekali. Terus kami diberi keutamaan dan dapat pulak seat di dalam, directly di bawah aircond. Terus bertambah nyenyak bayi itu tido.

Walaupun restoran penuh tapi servisnya amat cepat. Tak sampai 5 minit pelayan datang untuk ambik pesanan.

Kami order ketam sweet & sour, dimakan dengan mantou (ban kukus), ikan siakap stim kicap, asparagus goreng belacan dan prawn butter.

Tak sampai 15 minit, ketam dah sampai:



Tak lama kemudian ikan pulak sampai, diikuti dengan asparagus. Aku suka asparagus tu, memang terasa sangat udang kering tumbuk which blends perfectly with the taste of asparagus...

Khayla pulak menikmati ban kukus dengan penuh berselera dan sangat suka ikan kukus yang segar tu.

Tapi paling aku suka ialah udang butter. Rugi pulak tak ambik gambar tapi memandangkan tangan masing2 kotor meratah ketam, so tiada perasaan hendak mengambil gambar. Maybe next time.

Kami makan sampai tak larat. Bila bil sampai, to our pleasant surprise harga makanan dan minuman semuanya tak sampai RM150. Memang berbaloi :)

Kalau sesiapa terasa nak makan seafood di tengah KL ni, boleh la pergi ke restoran Hokkaido yang terletak bertentangan dengan Vistana Hotel (kan En Suami?), dan tak jauh daripada stesen bas di Jalan Pekeliling. Datang awal sikit, sebab restoran ni memang ramai pengunjung tak kira bangsa.

Thanks sis, belanja makan malam tadi. Really sedap dan truly appreciated!

Today when I picked up Khayla at the daycare, her babysitter related a story about my precious lapis lazuli while putting on her shoes,

'Today she shows her temper. She was playing with a toy and cannot took it apart. So she screamed angrily at it! Huiyo, this girl ah, got temper satu macam!'

I thought back of myself at the office - how I easily lose mine too whenever something went wrong.

*slap on forehead*

Like mother, like daughter!

Tonight I have nothing better to do so I decided to de-clutter my wardrobe and make room for new clothes (heh, my new year resolution is to buy nice clothes that I will feel confident in my own skin!).

I started the de-cluttering process at 8pm. At first I wanted to change the shelving system by moving the lower shelf to above the hanging rod. But my ever so helpful hubby told me that the cupboard is not designed to be flexible.

Immediately I hate my cupboard. Baru nak berangan2 ada wardrobe macam dalam katalog IKEA. Ces.

Anyway I had to work around the same look but I lowered the shelf to just above the bottom box where I store our kain batik and pelikat. I'll probably nail the shelf tomorrow when we can do noisy work (night-time is a no-no).

I racked my brain and godek2 the Internet to find some inspirations as to how to fully maximize my very small cupboard to store our clothes.

To my irritation, when I googled 'how to organise clothes in small cupboard' the images that appeared are wardrobe that are not small at all, they can even hold a few shelves of shoes! Hmmph. I guess the Western people's idea of small is not that small. Spacious to them is a walk-in wardrobe or closet after all!

So yeah, i was on my own to create a tidy, organized and highly functional wardrobe out of such a confined space.

The first thing I did was to take out all the clothes and separate them according to 'daily use', 'work wear', and 'cannot use anymore'. The latter is then further filtered into two categories - 'torn/yellowed/broken zip' and 'can't fit anymore but can still wear'. I then decided that I could make some money by selling the expensive pre-loved and not fit clothes anymore later.


I bought this top at Communique, price RM79

Once I've sorted out the clothes, I chose which clothes to keep folded on racks and which to hang. Basically those that are hung are jackets, trousers, coats, robe, and baju Melayu/kurung, while daily wear like blouses and work wear shirts are folded and kept on racks.

My biggest headache when it comes to messy cupboard are t-shirts. They are worn on daily basis, and therefore cannot be stacked folded because they'll end up coming undone when we pull them out. Knowing my dear hubby the type that can't be bothered to keep the cupboard in pristine conditions, I had to find a solution to store then in such a way that won't create a mess when we need to take one.

I had the 'a-hah!' moment when I remembered that we had a shelving organizer bought from IKEA we hardly used now that we had moved into new house. Previously I kept our little stuffs like socks and undies in the organiser but it was usually under-

I tied the organiser to the rod, rolled the t-shirts and slot them into the small shelf according to colours. When I was done, I beamed at my own creation:


Don't they just look lovely and tidy?

Same goes for the bath towels. Initially I plan to keep the towels in the bathroom cabinet once it is installed. But since our bathroom is still in progress, I just stack them vertically in the box so it can easily be pulled out when we want one without messing the others.

The de-cluttering process ended at 12am. Phew! But overall I'm happy with the result. It just goes to show that even with limited space,I can still have a pretty organised cupboard.

I've also made up my mind with each new item I purchase, I'll take out one item that I hardly use so I won't end up hoarding stuffs that will end up overcrowding my wardrobe.

Now I can stock up on new clothes. Hurray! If only I have tonnes of money to buy clothes right now in the midst of home renovation! :P

First of all, Happy New Year 2012 everybody! May this year brings only the best and nothing but the best  for each of us :)

It's 1am, I know. I sound a bit too perky at this hour because I had a cuppa two of coffee. Yes, I'm supposed to study because exam is just around the corner. It's waiting to jump out on me, catching me by surprise. I'm freaking out because I have not been studying at all! Why I'm so lazy, only God knows!

I'm about to enter the phase of 3.0 . Nope, it's not web3.0, nor is it Globalisation 3.0 as per my MIS lecture notes. The truth is, ladies and gentlemen, I'll still be in my 20s for another 6 months and then hello, age 30.


Before that, have you guys watched Disney-Pixar's cartoon movie 'Up'? The old man's wife fascinated me deeply because she knew exactly stuffs she wants to do when she grows up and actually had it written down in her 'Adventure Book'. Of course I was not that gung-ho, but I do remember some of the things I wanted to do when I grow up.


At the age of 6, I wanted a lot of things to happen. Simple, innocent things like boarding the plane, and going to university. Read my post about my dreams as a six-year-old in my post written 7 years ago (wow!).


At 10 years old, my idea of being 30 years old is well, old. With a few kids (5 to be exact, like what I told my friend Nick Chang when I was 14). Definitely a grown-up. Even being 20 years old is considered a grown-up back then.


Ok, fast-forward to me at age 20.


At that age, I was already in university (cross out this item from my life plan) and working hard towards being what I want to be at age 30. A successful career woman. My vision of me as 30 years old  was, well - a confident, wise and very much well-to-do woman (WOMAN ok) who is breezing through her career in an international MNC and married to an engineer (what can I say, I went to an engineering varsity). Oh, I also revised the number of kids down to 2, although I'm still keeping an eye on the 5 kids vision. Let's just be a bit more realistic here, Internet.


So here I am. Almost 30. Have I actually made it, or did I break it?


1. Married, 2 kids (originally 5) - I would say, I almost made it. I got married at the age of 24, in 2006. I first became pregnant at the age of 26 (2008), but it was an unsuccessful pregnancy and left me traumatized for a few months following the miscarriage. Praise be to Allah, I became pregnant again at the age of 28 (2010), and we welcomed Khayla in December 2010. But, if my first pregnancy was successful, I would have taken this off from the list of stuffs I will do when I become 30.


2. Go to land of mat salehs (part 2 - Europe) - Refer to my entry in 2005, this was one of my to-do item back then. I'm proud to say - yes, this is definitely a completed item! Thanks to my sister who read my blog and then offered to take me to Paris in 2007. It was the most fabulous trip of my life. Then we had another accidental trip to Europe when my previous Company sent me to a conference in Madrid, Spain. Managed to persuade En Suami Terchenta to tag along so we could have our nth honeymoon (we lost count of how many honeymoons we had before Khayla come).


3. To own my own car and house. Still working on that. Checked. We bought our first car in 2006 (not a pleasant experience, mind you), but it was definitely a worthwhile purchase. Our CLK had brought us to countless destinations and served us most loyally despite my initial dislike to it because it wasn't the blue car that I ordered. Thank you CLK!
Secondly, the house. Like most things that happen in my life, it was pure accident that we found ourselves as house owner. We were shopping for household items at Jusco and a month later, found ourselves signing S&P agreement. Will blog about the house in details when I have the time.


5. To go to Mecca - still working on this. 

6. To have a grand wedding (later revised to a simple but sweet wedding) - What was I thinking when I revised the vision?? Of course every brides want a big wedding! I wished I had paid more attention and details to my own wedding. As it was, I was too busy working and being in denial of the fact that I was getting married and forever tied down to a big commitment.  So, suffice to say that my wedding preparation was my biggest regret and if I could turn back time, I would take all the time in the world to make it my big day. Yes, on top of a sea cliff, wearing white gown, sauntering beneath a beautiful arch, complete with perfect weather and everything.

Woke up this morning feeling not so well-rested. Hubby had crashed next to us after burning the midnight oil finishing his report. Khayla was already awake and doing her favorite activity - standing and holding to the bed head. Thinking to tease her, I shifted over to hubby and cuddled up to him - and as expected, Khayla felt left out and started to crawl over and try to get between us. She is such a jealous baby. Camane la nak ada adik ni?

Morning activity is the same. Prepared porridge for my little girl (broccoli, carrot and blended anchovies), and while waiting for it to cook, bathed her. Khayla soon started to crawl after me and whine for food after her bath - so I gave her a plate of chopped banana which she contentedly ate and afterwards, played with while sitting in her baby chair. After she had had enough of banana, I scooped some porridge and we settled down in front of the idiot box watching Babytv while having a proper breakfast.

Hubby had to leave for a group discussion and there was just the two of us to continue with the day. After finishing her porridge, she nuzzled closer for a cuddle and a round of breastfeeding session. After she dozed off, I put her down and went to hand wash her clothes - then put them for a spin in the washing machine. By that time, Khayla had woken up only to find Mommy is not around. It was already 12pm, I scooped her up and then brought her to the guest room to iron our clothes - we were going to a kenduri kahwin in Bukit Damansara.

After that, I had to leave Khayla by herself while I took a quick shower. She was in full tantrum mode by the time I was done, and yet I could not pick her up because I had to: 1) put on my clothes, 2) re-heat her porridge, 3) prepare a bottle of formula milk for the journey, 4) store the warm porridge in a container for the journey 5) pack her bag, 6) put on some makeup and my headscarf, 7) put everything in a carrier bag ready for the trip. After all was done, then only I picked up my crying little girl and changed her into a matching outfit ;)

Then we went down to the car, but once I had settled Khayla in her car seat, I couldn't find the GPS holder - then I remembered it was on the fridge (dammit!). So I made a quick dash (it was drizzling some more!) back to home (with Khayla) to fetch the GPS holder, and also to fetch her dummy. After she was settled down for the second time in her seat, I noticed that one of her sandals is missing. So it was a third trip to trace the sandal (without Khayla this time). By the time I went back to the car, my little girl was crying - again.

All set and done, we drove off to our first destination - the petrol station to fill up on fuel. Then, to the gift shop to get a wedding gift. After all that needed to be done was completed, then we set off.

It was lucky that I simulated the journey before we went for the trip because most of the journey, the GPS was not working. It is the stupidest GPS navigator I've ever invested in (it's called Papago, installed on iPhone 4). So I had to rely on my memory to reach the destination, based on the journey simulation.

We reached there at almost 2pm, Khayla had fallen asleep in the car after a bottle of milk and a nibble on a biscuit (she dozed off while holding the biscuit - such a dear sight). Getting out of the car while holding the baby, a bag and the gift was a chore - luckily I got a parking close to the entrance.

Khayla was hungry when she woke up and she ate a good deal of her porridge. After the wedding, she was in a better mood and she fell asleep again during the journey back. We decided to stop by at a bakery to order her first birthday cake this coming 15th. Gosh, I get teary-eyed whenever I think of my little baby who is growing up into a little girl. I wished we could spend a lot more time because I never get tired of my little baby.

We reached home at almost 4pm. By that time, I was tired and my hands were aching. After settling down a bit, we both took an afternoon nap - such a wonderful nap it was!

Never will I venture out of the house with only the two of us - it's too tiring! So, how's your weekend, my friends? :)