A Homemaker’s Diary

I was browsing yesterday (after feeling slightly better with the help of doctor’s medication) and stumbled upon a music box website. (Since Firefox hang while browsing now I forgot the site’s URL..damn!)

They have great collection of customized music box and one of it came with the song “You Are So Beautiful”. Since I’m not sure how the song sounds like, I searched in torrent and found it among Top 100 Pop Love Songs.

I’m still downloading the song but look what I heard today – the old love song when I was in high school, Vanessa Williams – Save The Best For Last.

I searched for the video clip on YouTube and found one with good quality (I think the beginning has some broken tune to it, but the rest sounds OK). Happy weekend, everyone!

I’ve not been sick for quite some times (I think so!) and yesterday I was down with fever and cold. Went to see the doctor and she confirmed it. I hate it when I’m down with fever, the body ache just killing me.

I took all the medicine and slept since 8pm last night till this morning, 9am when hubby bought rice and sardine for my breakfast and lunch. Now I feel drowsy with the effect of the cold medicine. I think I have to lie down and doze to sleep again.

I feel that my body is telling me to stop working too hard and listen more to its internal well-being…huhuhu..

I was listening to 8pm news on the TV last night while having dinner when they announce the plan to charge single driver into KL. I’m not sure whether it’s good or bad but hubby feels that for the state of traffic in KL nowadays, he would be willing to pay if that means he can drive smoothly.

I hate to go to KL, no matter on weekdays or it’s worse on weekend. All the main road leading to main attraction, the shopping centers, tourist attractions will be jammed and packed with zillions of cars, buses and cabs, not to forget the reckless bikers. It took us 2 hours to reach the Kompleks Kraf last time I wanted to visit the National Crafts Exhibition and Expo.

Check this news dated Dec 19, 2006 I found on the net when the congestion pricing and car-pool lanes proposal was done by KL Mayor. Read more about the feedback on implementing the peak hours congestion charges.

Usually if I really have to go to KL on my own, I will take ERL from Putrajaya straight to KL Sentral and take LRT to the next stop I intend to go. Once the train reached the LRT stop, I will walk to the shops I need to go. Of course in noon, the walking distance will be like miles away and it’s really, really exhausting especially when you have tons of shopping bags with you. But I rather do that than get stucked in the traffic congestion for hours. 🙂

I found new thing to explore today..hehehe..while chatting with a friend on GTalk, she was telling me about eating brown rice. She said it taste better if you eat brown rice with soy sauce..huh! This is something to try..so it reminds me that about a year ago, when hubby and I was into gym regime, we were planning to go on healthy diet and bought all kind of health food including a packet of brown rice.

A few months passed by yet the packet of brown rice is still intact. So after reading what my friend was telling me, I decided to go down and check in the kitchen the well-being of my brown rice. I can see a lot of small ants and rice lice (?), or what Malays call as bubuk..huhuhu

*Updated at 4:28am Wednesday, the rice lice real term is rice weevil. Checked on Google and the picture is the same as the rice weevil in the brown rice packet..hehe

So read what the Internet says about brown rice, quoting this from About.com

“Keep in mind that standard brown rice takes twice as long to cook as white rice, although there are some quick brown rice products available. Brown rice should be used within 6 months because it has a high level of natural oil within the outer bran layer making it subject to rancidity. Brown rice may be refrigerated or frozen for longer shelf-life.”

Nevertheless I still cook the brown rice. Luckily my fuzzy logic rice cooker has the menu program for cooking brown rice so I’m waiting for the outcome of the rice. Will update about it later, OK!

Setelah kupahami aku bukan yang terbaik
Yang ada di hatimu
Tak dapat kusangsikan
Ternyata dirinyalah yang mengerti kamu
Bukanlah diriku ..

Kini maafkanlah aku
Bila aku menjadi bisu kepada dirimu
Bukan santunku terbungkam
Hanya hatiku berbatas ‘tuk mengerti kamu
Maafkanlah aku..

Walau ku masih mencintaimu
Ku harus meninggalkanmu
Ku harus melupakanmu
Meski hatiku menyayangimu
Nurani membutuhkanmu
Ku harus merelakanmu

Dan hanyalah dirimu
Yang mampu memahamiku
Yang dapat mengerti aku

Ternyata dirinyalah
Yang sanggup menyanjungmu
Yang ramah menyentuhmu
Bukanlah diriku..

*It’s sad when the one that you love can’t love you back in return*