A Homemaker’s Diary

I should have known better when we (or should I say I) decided to go to Floria 2010 during noon.

You won’t believe it the crowd in front of the entrance to the pavilion..it was not that many, but the door was closed and at 2 pm (Sunday), people were queuing up, scorching under the hot sun with kids on their shoulders..

So being me, the permaisuri lilin who couldn’t stand queue and what more waiting under the heat, we walked around in the bazaar hoping the next round we came back to the door, it will be opened again to public, but alas it was still packed. So we went home with incomplete feeling. Padahal hati dah tangkap a few type of plants to buy later.

Then after dear Son woke up from his evening nap, we decided to go there again. Gigih tak aku? This time the door to the pavilion was opened to public.

One of the best exhibition is this flora and fauna. Got a few more pictures yet to be edited. Terubat la hati mak..and I got myself a kenanga plant and booked a few more pokok bunga wangi from the only stall there which sells pokok bunga wangi…jeng jeng..

Hubby will be collecting those plants later after work tomorrow. Tercapai la cita-cita ku nak create a garden full of pokok bunga wangi like cempaka, sundal malam, akar dani, kesidang, kemuning, melur..Thanks so much Hubby, muahhh! Oh, hopefully there will be mayang sari as well. In fact that was the first time I heard the name (for a plant), googled about it just now. Jauh tau, dari Kuala Kangsar pokok-pokok tu di import..heh!

Can’t wait for tomorrow’s evening..nyeh nyeh nyeh! Err..I need more pots and soil.

The Internet connection at home for the past few days has been killing me!

It took me 2 hours last night to keep on reloading the page as I lost connection every now and then. Wonder when will Unifi coming to my place? huhu..

The neighboring precint is already in the list but our precint is not..gosh! If only we have many other Internet service providers in Malaysia..isk!

I hope the situation will improve in the next few days. I hope to update about the KL Bird Park trip – Part 2 soon.

Oh, I also hope we could make it to Floria 2010 this Sunday..maybe some new pots of plants could cheer me up!

“What can we do with thirty seconds? What can we not do with thirty seconds!… Suppose your little child looks out the window and sees a collie. ‘What’s that?’ he asks you. You have five options, which will each take about thirty seconds to make stick:

1. We can tell him, “Look, baby, Mommy has to get dinner.”
2. We can tell him, “That’s a bow-wow.”
3. We can tell him, “That’s a dog.”
4. We can tell him, “That’s a dog called a collie.”

The fifth option is to tell him that it is a dog called a collie and then go on to tell him thirty second’s worth of information about that animal…

How sad it is that we put information into a computer with great skill and great precision and put information into our children’s brains in a hit-or-miss, slip-shod, and often untruthful way.”

-Glenn Doman

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We went to KL Bird Park last week. Hubby was on leave since Wednesday and since we already bought the tickets (it is RM10 for adult instead of the usual RM20) at Ikano Bird park show the week before, we decided to go and drenched ourselves in the hot scorching sun..huhu!

Actually we only managed to walk half of the park, a little bit farther than the photo booth..huhu! I hope next year once the son is bigger and is able to control himself, we will manage to walk from end to end. Quarter way to the ostrich area, he was frustrated and threw tantrum because we didn’t let him jump into kolam burung bangau..huhu! Hai la anak…

As scary as the flamingo looks to me, I find them funny as well. Some sleep with a feet up, some with twisted neck. Honestly, I was so scared of all the free birds there, it feels like going on a scary roller coaster ride. There’s one time while we were passing on a bridge where all the burung air melepak, then suddenly a big pelican flew and perched on the bridge rail. I quickly hid behind Hubby and walked passed the pelican..eerr..and the park was smelly as well..bukan la kotor sampah, but more to the smell of taik burung and bau burung..huhu!

The best part for me is the feeding fish time. Those Mandarin ducks care nothing about people feeding fish, although a pair did try to snatch some food we threw to the fish..heh! I will upload the fish picture in part 2 later.

If there is one thing I really hate, it is packing and unpacking for moving..huhu! Of course if you have to move abroad or even locally to a new town or new house you just bought, there are options like hiring moving company to do all that messy tasks..which usually will cost a bomb especially when you are a hoarder like me with a lot of junks..haha!

Well, unless the company you are working for is paying for the relocation costs, make sure you have done your homework and survey around for the best Moving Company Quotes before you decide on which moving company to hire.

Make sure the company you want to hire is bonded and insured. And do check out what others have to say about the service. You wouldn’t want to risk your family valuable heirloom in the process of moving if the mover is doing a lousy job in packing.

And be warned that the cheapest quote is not necessarily the best as the company might hide details on other charges such as refuels or insurance coverage that you have to bear later. It is advisable to get on-site moving evaluations from as many of moving companies available before you settle for one. Those online evaluation is not very accurate as they could never estimate how much work and total inventory of your household goods that need to be moved just by reading the details you fill up in their online form..heh!

Personally, I find that besides packing and unpacking, the next gruesome task when relocating is the scheduling and coordinating the switching of utilities from your old residence to your new home and streamlining the service activation of all the important things, like TV, Internet and phone.

The last time we moved to this current home, it took us more than a month to settle everything, not to mention the changes of address for billing, magazine subscription and official letters. Luckily some could be done through online and phone. Hopefully we won’t need to move anywhere else anytime soon!