Project 1

I did a lot of internet browsing at work today and I came across a website that has MANY baby nursery ideas with pictures heavy. I already have a theme for Maya’s nursery in which I’ve already worked maybe 50% on it; however it has been like that for the passed 3 months :/. After going through all those beautiful nursery photos, I have now a new project, a project that I MUST finish. One thing, decorating in Malaysia is no fun since most things here are just overly priced. You can’t find great bargains here like you can in the U.S.
I know for a fact that this project might take some time due to budget constraint. *sheeeshhh*

Nevertheless I’ll try my very best to make my dream baby nursery come true.

Can’t wait for the end result. My brain is overfilled with ideas that are ready to explode.

*ehem*

Dear Self,

Before going on this mission, please do something about Maya’s clean laundry. FOLD THEM UP & PUT THEM AWAY!

Your action will be very much appreciated.

Thanks & Regards,
Farah

Mak Andam for Hire?

First and foremost, Eid Mubarak y’all!

I had an awesome Raya with my loved ones even though I had food poisoning on the 2nd day plus a fever and a cold. Believe it or not, it’s the 11th Syawal today, and I still have the cold and Maya too caught it from me. BOOOO.. Nevertheless, I had fun dressing my baby up and collecting duit raya for her :p


~Our 1st Day Eid~

I didn’t take any extra leave for Eid so I had to be back at work on 4th Syawal or September 13th. Here in Malaysia, Eid is a one whole month celebration. Therefore, each weekend is filled with food, love & fun FUN time. From September 13th till the 17th, I worked from 8am till 8pm (except for the 16th since it was Malaysia Day). We were short in staffs and our foreign clients were placing crazy amount of trades (it was more than the usuals), of all the time when were short handed, just GREAT. I get to see just a little bit of Maya after work just before she’s off to la-la land that whole week. I haven’t had any rest since Eid. If I’m not at work, I’m at someone’s home stuffing my belly up :)

This passed Saturday, my sis-in-law had her bertandang ceremony in which it consists of two events and they were all held in one day. And guess what, I was chosen to help do her make up. I was so excited when I was given the task but super nervous whether or not if I can do a good job. I watched uncountable times of makeup tutorials on youtube (thank god for their existent) and studied wedding looks after looks. For the afternoon session I was a tad nervous because 1) I don’t do bridal makeup except on my self (which I did it on my own for my wedding) and 2) I have to impress the bride herself. In the middle of working my magic, Maya was hungry for mommy’s delicious milk, so I had to go for an intermission and feed my baby while the bride had someone else over to do her hair. I was running out of time to have her ready and the whole bridal party which were my MIL, my other SIL, maid-of-honor and MY SELF. Not forgotten MAYA, she was still in her jammies! The bride’s entourage was expected to be at the venue by 1:30pm and guess what I was doing at 1:30pm, yeap, I was busy getting Maya ready.


~Afternoon Session~


~Blessing Ceremony~

We had a good time eating, mingling and I was relieved when I was told that I can work on the bride again at 6pm.

Around 5-ish, the bride called me and she was under a panic attack. The salon that she wanted to do her hair is no longer in business! I recommended her to go to a different salon and she said she doesn’t want to go to the mall because she’s afraid she might bumped into someone there. She asked me if I could do hair. ME??? Me do HAIR??? Errr…. was my answer and I heard my self saying “yeah, I think I can do hair.” What was I thinking? Hahahahaha.. I still chuckle whenever I think about it now. I told her to get some hairspray since I don’t own one. So I rushed over to my MIL, worked my magic for the second time around, and WALLA, I was quite impressed with my self. Never knew I had some talent that still needs some polishing.


~Night Session~

So those were my weekend highlights & not to forget we went to an open house on Sunday and a wedding at night. (O.o)

Yours Truly

I'll Miss You Ramadhan

Can you believe it, Ramadhan is almost over. That when by quick! I missed a lot of days this time, especially during the weekdays. I had to because Maya needs her mommy’s delicious milk and if I were to fast, which I did for the first week, I can barely pump milk when I’m at work. I thought I was drying up when I couldn’t pump as much as I did when I wasn’t fasting. My body was just too dehydrated from the fasting. However, I do fast on my weekends since I don’t need to pump when I’m with Maya. To date, I’ve fasted 12 days. I’ll be fasting most likely on the last day of Ramadhan and maybe the day before that day too.

This passed Sunday, Faliq and I hosted a get together buka puasa with our friends at our home. I cooked for all 13 of us! I made chicken rice and chicken pie. I’m so proud of myself :)


Chix Pie


Rice & Chix Broth


Fried Chix To Go With Rice


Soy Sauce & Sambal & Other Condiments

and of course the desserts which were brought by Leey



I haven’t cooked for these many people for the longest time, so I was a little terrified on the tasting since I was fasting on top of it. I think the food turned out pretty well since all my food was almost gone. Thank god I had my mom to help me out with Maya and also helped me with some garnishing and condiments. *phew* I finished cooking just minutes before maghrib. The only boo part about last night's serving was my sirap, it was tooooooooooooo sweet. My taster, Zafirah, said it wasn’t sweet enough and she told me to add a lil more of the syrup. It was already extremely sweet in the beginning so just imagine how diabetes-prone the taste was after I added just a lil more. *yuckie*

All and all I had a great time hosting the dinner. Leey, Mom, and I had our gossip session in the room while the others were watching some movie in the living room. Gosh, how I miss those late night talking + Aza.

Maya, Mommy and A Webcam

“When your baby starts spitting saliva, your hair will start to thin-out”

Helppppppppppp! It’s really happening. I’m BALDING. *cries blood*

I thought I was the lucky one but I was wrong, just WRONG!

I see my hair E-V-E-R-Y-W-H-E-R-E, all over the floor, bed, couch, tables, MAYA -- oh when will this end.

Finally, my hair is at its almost desired length but I think my scalp is too weak to bear the weight of my long hair. I was too closed to having my hair chopped off the other day. *sniff*

Hari Raya is next week and I want to look good with my long hair but I don’t think I can afford losing more hair. Mind you, I do have a lot of hair; it’s just that I hate seeing my hair all over the floor just minutes after vacuuming the house.

However, if I do go ahead and have my hair short, will it end this misery? If no, I would have to wait for another year or more to have it back to where it is at right now. *sigh*

Short or Long?

If I were to ask my husband, his answer would be -- “just wear a hijab”

As I’m typing, I’m running my fingers through my ponytail, and guess what I see, EXACTLY, I see few strands of hair in my hand. :’(


I is sad

Farah

How do you do Thursday?

Since Ramadhan is around the corner, I was supposed to fast today to make up the one day I’ve missed last Ramadhan. However, for some reason, my alarm didn’t go off this morning. On top of that, it didn’t even go off to wake me up for work. W.E.I.R.D. I could’ve sworn I did set my alarm. I was, of course, a little late for work this morning :/ and nevermind, I still have tomorrow to fast.

Thank god it’s Friday tomorrow. I can’t wait for the weekend. Nothing special will be going on. All I’m looking forward to is to be with Maya all weekend and have a good time with Mom & Aza before Aza leaves this Wednesday Aug 11th. Booooo =(

Faliq is not in town. He’ll be away from Aug 4th-Aug 11th. He’s in Taipei at the moment and will be heading to LA in few days. How lucky! I wish I could spend my weekends at different cities like he does (with Maya in tow of course =D).

Mom came by with Maya for lunch today and we had our lunch at Pavilion. Maya was awake the whole time so I had to hold her because she fusses when we leave her in her stroller. I don’t mind holding her because most of the day I don’t get to do that. Since I have a little time left after lunch, I wanted to SHOP! But, my dear sweet Maya wasn’t working with me. She can’t stop crying when we were in Zara. I think she’s trying to tell me to save up instead of spend spend spend :p Oh well, maybe some other time. Soon I hope because I seriously need more work clothes and Zara is having some real good sale. I heart them sales =D All in all, I had a great lunch *family*food*window-shopping* especially I get to feed Maya twice! Once was immediately after I entered the car and the other was when we were on our way to drop me off at the office. *bliss*

So now I’m typing this blog while waiting for the market to end. I can’t upload this entry right away because, like most office, we can’t open google-related sites. *bummer*

Oh well gotta go. Gotta work on those trade confirmations.

Toodles!


Mommy + Maya = Inseparable

Ready or not Farah is back!

So my last entry was about how anxious I was waiting for my baby’s arrival and for the passed 2 ½ months, I’ve been loving the life of motherhood.

After 39 weeks and 2days (finally), my Maya Suraya was born on Tuesday, May 18th 2010. She weighed 3.54kg and 48cm in height. She came out bigger than what the doctor expected. Well of course she’s big, I ate whatever and whenever I wanted to =D.

So now I’m back at work. I was away from work for 60 days and believe me, it wasn’t enough. Confinement it self was 40-44 days and 20 days later you are back in your office with no baby in the belly :( I miss having Maya with me alllllllll the time. However, thank god for hubby’s super cool work schedule, for the passed 1 ½ weeks since I’ve been back at the office, I see Maya everyday during lunch break except for 1 day. I get to breastfeed her during lunch break. How cool is that! Oh yes, Maya is a straight-up breastmilk baby. I was super duper worried about her taking the bottle because she loves to nyot-nyot even though she’s not hungry. I was procrastinating on practicing bottle feeding. Why was I procrastinating? Well…I was just so lazy (of course) to do the whole process – express milk and then store it and then warm it up and while waiting for the milk to warm up, the baby is crying frantically in the background. Just TOO MUCH work. I love breastfeeding it’s just so E.A.S.Y. Anyhow, Maya is doing just well with the bottle.

Since I am now around the computer more, I will try to keep my blog updated.

Sincerely,
Farah~