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Know this handsome guy? Well he is Ariel, the vocalist of a famous Indonesia band named Peterpan, which they were once quite popular with their number one hits "Mungkin nanti" few years ago. Guess no need to tell much about him la kan. Everyone knows that he has involved in a super hot sex scandal with some hot indonesian artists & was sentenced to jail for indecency. For how long am not pretty sure actually.

By the way that's not the highlight for this topic. Today I accidently browsed through a local gossip website saying that Ariel finally ready to be released from his punishment by this coming 23, October. Well I guess it is time for him to get back to his career & produce great music again. Let the past be the past. But I was so surprised with what I saw.

"Banyak kes rogol yang terjadi selepas video klip 3gp Ariel tersebar luas. Mungkin ramai yang teruja dan mahu mencontohi kehebatan Ariel Peterpan."

Hahahahahaa OMG! what statement is this? What is the rational? From where they get the proof that Ariel is the reason for all the rape cases that happened?? Is that means before Ariel's MV were spread, rape cases are decreasing? :@ ......Hahahha I have no offend with what has written, that's the author's right to write whatever things they like, but this so funny man! Real funny! That's why I am so 'Proud' to be Malaysian...LOL

"Harsh"

I want to share this great story, hoping that it somehow will open one's mind of how harsh they are to their loves one. I wonder why we can be nice to a stranger but be harsh to our own family members or partner or the children? Some might think they just wanting to be firm to their loves one, but there is a vast difference between being harsh and being firm. Being too harsh will only destroy one’s dignity. Make one feel reluctant to share anything with you. After sometimes it may sounds boring to them since they always get turn down. Thus, leads to deadening effects.A lot of people choose to set up so many rules, so many NO NO NO, ain't you think you are actually setting up harsh and unkind rules against yourself and also your loves one? No one is born without faults. We all live with mistakes, we all learn from the mistakes, and that is the way we survive. Remember, a round egg can be made square according to how you cut it, words would be harsh according to how you speak them. Well I am here not to censure anyone, cause I know I am one of them. I admitted that and I learn not to be harsh, to anyone. So, don't be harsh people, cause it hurts.

I ran into a stranger as he passed by.
"Oh excuse me please" was my reply.
He said, "Please excuse me too;
I wasn't watching for you."
We were very polite, this stranger and I.
We went on our way and we said good-bye.

But at home a different story is told,
how we treat our loved ones, young and old.

Later that day, cooking the evening meal,
my son stood beside me very still.
When I turned, I nearly knocked him down.
"Move out of the way," I said with a frown.
He walked away, his little heart broken.
I didn't realize how harshly I'd spoken.

While I lay awake in bed,
God's still small voice came to me and said,
"While dealing with a stranger, common courtesy you use,
but the children you love, you seem to abuse.
Go look on the kitchen floor,
you'll find some flowers there by the door."
"Those are the flowers he brought for you.
He picked them himself; pink, yellow and blue.
He stood very quietly not to spoil the surprise,
and you never saw the tears that filled his little eyes."
By this time, I felt very small,
and now my tears began to fall.

I quietly went and knelt by his bed;
"Wake up, little one, wake up," I said.
"Are these the flowers you picked for me?"
He smiled, "I found 'em out by the tree."
"I picked 'em because they're pretty like you.
I knew you'd like 'em, especially the blue."
I said, "Son, I'm very sorry for the way I acted today;
I shouldn't have yelled at you that way."
He said, "Oh, Mom, that's okay.
I love you anyway.
I said, "Son, I love you too,
and I do like the flowers, especially the blue."

Budgeting

First thing first, the wedding budget. As a bride-to-be, of course first thing that popped out in my mind was my dream wedding. I want it to be like this, to be like that, to be like fairytales wedding. The excitement just over the top & reaching to the maximum until I do not know how or where to start. Luckily I have my hubby at that time, suggesting me with an online wedding budget worksheet that I can download & list down everything from A-Z.

For me, a wedding budget is absolutely essential to planning your wedding. In fact I think setting your wedding budget is one of the very first things you should do to ensure you will always stick with your budget & prevent any extra expenses. Yeah of course there are situations when we really couldn't avoid and money needs to be spent but at least it is spend for something valuable & worth. I have this handy wedding budget worksheet to plan out what I'll need to pay for, and how much I should plan to spend on each thing. I would say it wouldn't be exact figures of every single thing as this is just a rough estimation based on the budget that we have. It was really helpful to me as I am a forgetful person eventhough am kinda scrupulous. ^^

Here is the sampel of the wedding budget worksheet that you can easily find online or maybe you can just use the template in the microsoft office.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/wedding-budget-planner-TC006089822.aspx

SASA Charity Makeover

The long waited annual fragrance fair & awards by the leading one stop beauty store Sa Sa is back! Basically this fair is main to award the best fragrance votes by the Malaysia consumers which emerged after 38 weeks of intensive promotional campaign through the voting form at Sa Sa store and also via event microsite.

In conjunction with this campaign, Sa Sa did actually contributed back to society by donating RM1 for every bottle of fragrance sold & also through makeover once RM10 spent for cosmetics to the Breast Cancer Welfare Association (BCWA). So I took the opportunity to contribute my little pennies & get a makeover!

Black & White version

Smile-less

Well I know I seems looked slightly older in those photos..LOL

The Proposal

Well, everything starts with a proposal...

It was Friday October 23, 2009, on our 10th anniversary,unlike past years nothing much we could do to celebrate since we were far apart. Thus, we decided to be less extravagant this year, just stayed home and "skyping" . No flowers, no romantic dinner, no hugs, no kiss as I used to get every year and it was our first time not to celebrate our anniversary together. It all begins on our anniversary eve while I am on my way back home after work, I received a call from him telling me how sorry he is for not able to celebrate our 10th anniversary together. I was a little bummed but I told him that's fine. As usual, he asked me to wait him come back after work at 7pm and "skyping". (which is actually 11pm Malaysia time).


So the night, once I reached home I turned on my notebook & started waiting for him..

1 hour passed…
2 hours passed…
3 hours passed…


It's 11pm but no online sign from him. Strangely I didn’t feel upset at all but in fact I started to worry about him. I then tried to call him, but couldn't get through his number. My heart beating so fast as if anything might happened to him. I mingled around my tiny hut, crying alone in my own, thinking of how to get through him. Darling, where are you?:(


All of sudden, the skype call rang!! It was truly breaking the silent night. The “blink blink” sign of his name was really gave me an immediate joy! I was so glad to see he's safely home. At that moment, I just couldn’t help myself; my eyes started welling with tears. I told him how much I hate him for letting me waiting & worrying. I hate him! We started to chat: we talked and laughed pretending that we were sitting in a restaurant together with candle light having our romantic dinner. Of course, deep inside we feel sorry for not able to celebrate the day together but we tried to get that off our mind and enjoy the day as much as we could. Initially the conversation goes as normal as it used to, but suddenly I felt awkward when he started to talks in the way of more (and more) romantic and he kept talking without letting me to interrupt.


To make it short, here are some of his sentences that is always fresh in my mind;

“Babe, we’ve been in love for a decade long and it’s been an amazing and unbelievable journey we had together. Thank you so much for your constant love and special way of caring for the past years. I sincerely appreciate all that you done for me. I enjoy every second of our time together. In whatever condition good or bad you are there to give me your full support consistently in whatever means. And now I guess it's time for us to move on to the next level….If you do realize the clock now pointing sharp at 12am midnight, and babe I wanted to share my life with you for as long as we live and breathe, so will u marry me?”


My response was..

“Oh Dear…this is not a right time to play such joke” and spontaneous I said,
“No” (with laugh…hahaha).
“I am not joking, I am shaking here. Will you marry me, Babe?"
I looked at him in disbelief and said, “What? Are you serious?”

At this moment I know that he really meant it by the look at his face, but I still kept asking if he is being serious. Within few seconds,it brings tears to my eyes and again he asked me for the third time and this time I finally said, “I’ve been waiting for this moment to come for so long, and the answer is definitely YES!!!”

Finally, he got a big smile. It's a precious moment in our relationship especially when it happened on our anniversary and yet the best anniversary gift I've ever received from him and it came miles away from Abu Dhabi (Thanks to Skype!!!) And now here we are, together hand in hand we gonna start another new chapter of live, not only as husband & wife but as best friend, partner, companion, teammate and soul mate. When I posted this, We are actually married. Yeah..Finally!

There is no Israel! Bravo!

Looking at this video it reminds me during my teaching time in Shichida back in year 2006. As a fresh graduate at that time, to be honest I always have doubt with what Shichida able to do for just an hour lesson per week, plus no need to say la with the pricey lesson fee, I really doubt why so many parents really willing to spend their money on this program. Is Malaysian getting more Kiasu now? LOL~

Well, that's my old-school thought la... After time goes by, I started to experienced amazing moments happened almost everyday while I was teaching. Imagine a 2 years old baby able to arrange 50 pictures based on the storyline given, and looking at how they could memorise the name of each car's models, I was impressed (speechless). I believed in one thing is that Genius is not only because of God's will, but it can be created! I wonder why some of us still tend to be so paranoid & reluctant to give more activities to the toddlers. One might think it would pressure the kids. To certain extend, I agreed. But whether it is pressuring or not, it is depends on how one see and judge the things. If you see it as you need to force the kids to learn, then of course it will be real damage to them. Why don't see it as a way of communicating with your toddlers? In other perspective, we are able to spend more time with our children. Ain't that benefitial to both parties?

Don't get me wrong. Giving education to your kids doesn't mean you need to enroll them to any enrichment programs. That's bullshit! Nobody need that formally, to become a genius. It can be in any forms. Easy to say, steal your 1 hour time everyday (when you actually use to online shopping or busy kepoh-ing who & whose daugther's bf is richer ..bla bla..) to flash cards to your toddlers or maybe read storybooks with them. Susah meh...?

Lives has changed, the era has changed, the mindset should be changed as well bah..

I am yet a mother or parent on my own. Perhaps I have no rights to talk on behalf of those real parents...:) But from the educator's point of view, no harm to give as much input to your toddlers. Kids grow as flash. If today you neglect their development, you might missed it for the rest of your life. Think about it.