A Homemaker’s Diary

I’ve been meaning to update this blog since last weekend, but I don’t know why it seems so hard to do so. Maybe because of a few unhappy things I heard and received..what a life these days, the up and down, happy and sad, annoying and heart broken news seems to be all mixed up.

But I know this phase will pass and things will get back to normal happy days onwards. I’m going to the clinic for the glucose test most probably tomorrow (hubby got time off from his boss in US) since the result takes time and I can only see the gynae for check up after that. Well, that leaves next week since the gynae will be on leave this Friday and Saturday.

I have 2 invitations for open house this Sunday and another one end of this month. I’m sorry to all friends who are waiting for my own open house invitation, I won’t be able to do one this year. Even the routine daily chores seems to be very taxing for me these days. I have to stop, lie down and sit for a while every time I need to finish cleaning up the dishes and cook the normal easy dinner.

Can’t wait for the baby to pop out and get back my energetic self..heh! BTW, I cook nasi ayam today since we had Johnny’s last night. I didn’t get my meal of rice yesterday so I have to get a good one today. I’m still waiting for Hubby to come home after his usual weekly meeting with the US and Prague team so that we can have dinner together.

Oh, I finally found the recipe for baked kek lapis masam manis..yeay! Hopefully I can get all the ingredients by this weekend so that I can bake one next week..heh!

Thursday was a better day for me, at least I feel that way. A friend stopped by after running her business errand, brought lunch with her knowing that I hardly have anything to eat for lunch..haha! I reheated the Raya leftover dishes for her, we chatted and then Hubby came home with fever and cold, must be the burden of working too hard these past few weeks.

I decided to make biskut mazola for hubby, thought of buying the ready made in Jusco, but amusingly most of the kuih raya were no longer available. Maybe people bought them for their coming open house, I don’t know..huhu..oh, I never know that the corn oil is so expensive, a bottle of 1.1litre is priced at RM15++. Since I was already in Jusco I bought groceries and KFC for dinner.

After watching the usual Lock and Load series on StarWorld, I managed to make about a jar of biskut mazola and Hubby said it tastes good when he sampled the first batch hot from the oven..heh! It was really tedious to finish up all the dough into the size of a marble, and I only used like 200g of flour. No wonder they sell the ready made cookies so expensive these days, must be the extra charge for their workmanship..haha!

Oh, I got 2 students confirming that they are coming for this Sunday class. Just nice for the color of the dip solution I still have and the amount of thinner available. Most of the old dip solutions were already hardened. Some are still usable but I will need a lot more thinner to dilute them. Oh, I watched Friends With Money after baking those cookies. It was a good movie for my standard, the usual drama of life but not too heavy.

Well, I guess I’m off to bed as I need to practise sleeping in a bit early as I will have morning classes this weekend. See you guys later and Happy Friday! 🙂

With the busy schedule Hubby has this week, it would be great if I have craft class this weekend..well, at least if I am busy in the morning, I wouldn’t feel so bored in the afternoon and later will be too tired in the evening..haha! The person who contacted me earlier about decoupage class SMS me today confirming that she is able to make it to Saturday class..yeay! So that leaves Sunday class, whether the student will be able to make it.

Hubby has been working diligently since morning on the Release Prep tasks and at 6:30pm I decided that it was best that I cooked for dinner. I was not sure what to cook but the simplest would be sambal tumis udang and some kailan goreng…(lucky I cleaned the prawn and other ingredients yesterday so that cut my cooking and preparation time) I am not so much into nasi these days but still have to make sure that I have some carb intake daily. Can’t wait for the big release to be over since Hubby will be quite free to go out and dine out. Even the monthly check up which was supposed to be done today has to be postponed. I asked Hubby to take leave next Friday so that we would have easy time doing the glucose test, check up, my second tetanus shot and hopefully the hospital tour.

I am reading Coming Out today, well at least I still got half of the novel to go. Can’t seem to remember when I last pick the book…(I’ve read the first half, stop reading and did something else more important and now I found the book again among the stack of magazines and books..heh) It’s the usual Danielle Steel work of fiction. Later after I finish that, I plan to read the last book of Harry Potter.

Now, what will be in store for me tomorrow..another boring day, perhaps?…huhu!

I finally got the Dunstan DVD I bought through eBay today. It came in the mail by morning postman and Hubby put it inside together with other letters and bills, lucky because it was raining heavily in the afternoon. Otherwise all the mail will get soaked in the mailing box, oh the packaging for the Dunstan DVD did come in plastic anyway..heh!

I haven’t watch both the DVDs but I have checked the pamphlet. Maybe if tomorrow is still a boring day for me, I will spend some time learning the baby language from the DVD. The stray cat which we have been feeding was nowhere to be seen when I opened the door but once she heard that Hubby came home at the main gate around 8, she quickly came in and demanded her Friskies. I wonder what happen to her kitten though, haven’t seen the kitten for quite some time.

Hubby said every morning when he closes the gate to go to work, the stray cat will come running and start meowing for food. So today Hubby has told her to come in early for tomorrow’s morning meal..heh! I wonder why the cat doesn’t want to stay in our garden, maybe because of the raining season and most of the garden compound get wet, even the area where I put my cangkul..huhu!

This weekend I schedule craft classes since Hubby has to work both days. I got a response from a potential student today regarding bunga dip class but still not sure whether she will be able to make it, especially with many people holding open house during the weekend. Hopefully by November more people will be more free to attend the craft classes. After all this is going to be my last chance to conduct the classes before I give birth soon and be very busy with the baby..heh!

I suddenly have the craving to eat ketupat palas with gulai (curry) daging for this Hari Raya. I was thinking lemang won’t taste the same, tak de excitement like when you open up the palas leave to eat the ketupat..so off we went to Alamanda with the plan to buy beras pulut, santan and whatnot after break fasting at any of the available eating outlets.

Turn out there were many people shopping in Alamanda on Sunday. At 6:40pm we were out of choice of places to berbuka (apart from Manhattan Fish Market and JM Baryani). So in the end we went to the Coast and got 2 seats for their buffet.

After that we went to Carrefour but all mission failed. I was looking for alas plastik for dining table, some plastic container to put all the sudu garfu for drying (after 5 years, the old one pecah already and Hubby threw it away), bamboo blind to put up on the kitchen window (now the window all very bersinar-sinar after Hubby cleaned up on Saturday)..satu pon tarak. Even santan M S and beras pulut pon habis…wah, I’m not the only one who want to eat pulut this Raya..huhu!

Hubby suggested we try kedai runcit nearby our place or pasar borong. So after buying my new pair of raya sandal, we went to pasar borong. Amazingly punya la banyak orang jual daging..jeng jeng..bought 1/2kg daging pejal, some daging cincang with lemak-lemak, freshly pressed santan and spices.

Funny thing, both of us tak kenal daun palas..punya la upset when we thought those daun palas are actually daun kelapa tak bukak lagi..keh keh..luckily I was gatal mulut tanya the seller “ni daun palas ke” Dengan tamaknya bought 2 ikat, in case la salah bukak daun or the daun terkoyak..amatur la katakan..seikat baru RM2, boleh dapat about 20++ biji ketupat tau (we bukak the daun and practise folding to 3 segi shape last night)..heh!

Last stop to Balaji, bought 1kg beras pulut and 2 packs of MS santan kotak. Ni baru la rasa mcm nak raya sebab boleh masak2 kan…now have to wait whether my first time ketupat palas menjadi ke tak..will update later as I need to get ready, we are going to KJ for 4D scan today.

Another mission after that to find alas meja, bamboo blind and bekas sudu..huhu!