A Homemaker’s Diary

Since last week was my birthday, I decided to take a short break from the blogging world, plus I need to accompany SIL and Hubby’s niece shopping for her upcoming wedding in August.

We had good time finding items like lace and wedding attires, walking from Jakel to Sogo to Pertama complex to send the cloth to tailor. And it did cost a lot too..huhu..sometimes it amazes me to see how people spend for wedding.

Oh, talking about money, a friend asked whether I did get paid from Nuffnang. I know it’s not much but simply to prove to everyone, even a mere blog like this could earn money locally.

Well, I have to get back to what I was supposed to do today, to complete the order due this Sunday but as usual Monday won’t be really productive. Hopefully tomorrow I will wake up more energetic and in full spirit to do the bunga dulang..heh!

I know, I know..I’m still stuck with those pictures taken during the Singapore trip. I have no other bunch of photos to share except some pulut kuning I bought at pasar malam, jemput jemput pisang I made at home and photos of my students doing the craft work.

Anyway, tomorrow will be Hubby’s last day at his current office and I think we will celebrate that by watching Alvin and The Chipmunks at the GSC Alamanda. They are giving free tickets till tomorrow before the cinema is officially open on the 3rd. Oh, BTW for my birthday I am thinking of having good meal at Sri Ayutthaya (craving for hot and spicy food so no Italian food will do here..heh).

Thursday we will be going out the whole day, first to get my supply of craft materials and perhaps if we have enough time a visit to KL own Butterfly Park will be accomplished. I hope they have more varieties of butterfly at the park. Will share more pictures later. In the meantime I have to prepare the materials for the corsages..tomorrow is the only time I could do the dip flowers while Hubby is away at work..heh!

Just as I thought I won’t be having any class this weekend, timing proved it wrong. On Friday afternoon, 5 students confirmed to come for Saturday class and another 2 interested to be in Sunday class. So my plan to jalan-jalan poofed in the air and in return I got RM400 for the 2 days of freedom (not the whole 2 days, just the first half of the day light..hehe..exagerate je lebih).

On Saturday we still managed to go for dinner (after sending off a friend at ERL for his Helsinki trip), I was craving for som tam and the only decent place to have it is in Johnny’s. I noticed their portion of food is getting smaller but who cares since I’m not a big eater either, frequent, yes but in very minimal amount. Oh, Alamanda now has GSC but since we were rushing last night (I still need to prepare the kit for Sunday class) we didn’t have the chance to check out the cinema.

On Sunday, Hubby went to discuss about the new IT project which hopefully if he gets could pay for my ticket to US. There is a possibility of Hubby going for training in US soon so if we can get extra money, I might be going with him. Well, that story asides, my students came for bunga stokin class and the last one went back around 2:30pm after discussing about bunga pahar she would like to order from me. If there is one thing I like the most of my job as craft instructor, it would be the opportunity to get to know all kind of people, chatting and learning more about their life, their job, their view on life.

Once she left, I watered the plants and by then I realized that I was starving but Hubby was still in KL. So since I have nothing edible in the fridge and the fact that I am usually on cooking strike on weekend, I decided to order food from Pizza Hut. Thai tuna roll, meatball spaghetti, a can of Pepsi, soup of the day and garlic bread costs me RM28.04. Having the freedom of a homemaker – priceless..heh!

Hubby is back at the moment and we plan to watch Heroes he downloaded. It might sounds like a boring weekend, but at my age, at the edge of 30 I just don’t have the curiosity and excitement of a teenager anymore. The thought of window shopping, walking around aimlessly at the mall just drain my energy. Perhaps it’s about time that we consider having a child to play with..haha!

I know this picture of calla lily in yellow tone is long overdue, in fact the client who happened to be my junior from high school got married early this March.

I was supposed to go to sleep after reading Danielle Steel The House (managed to read a few chapters), ate a bowl of Maggi Asam Laksa and watched Jamie At Home on Astro when I realized that I feel really, really bored today. Hubby promised that we can go out this weekend but somehow the emptiness of my life is creeping wild into my head, like I want to shout..bosannnyerrrrrr..aaarrgghhh..

I have a lot to be completed and yet I don’t have the mood to do all that. What is wrong with me? huhu..

I think I’m getting back the sense of direction after days of doing nothing…heh! Well, this is what I plan to do (especially with Hubby on leave for 11 days).

Things I want to do:
1. Go to The Gardens and see the new art shop called Art Friend
2. Pay my friend a visit at her songket booth in Pameran Kraf Kebangsaan in Jalan Conlay
3. Attend the quickies classes for glass painting and porcelain painting in Craft Haven (hopefully I can squeeze the 2 hour straight class during one visit)
4. Buy materials for bunga telur
5. Go to IKEA to browse for new sofa to replace the old one (the 5 year old 2 seater where my students usually sit and pose for pictures now almost ranap)
6. Buy mugs for decoupage class (I only have 4 mugs left)
7. Go to Fah Lean/Woon Hua to look for artificial flowers
8. Buy more nylon brushes for decoupage class to replace the jahanam one..huhu..(my students seal the brushes bristles as well when they seal the napkin on the mug)

Things I have to do by this week:
1. Complete the bunga dulang sample for a May client
2. Do bunga telur sample in lilac and olive green
3. Prepare the kits for classes on weekend
4. List down items to buy at Jln TAR

I think I have to shelve aside my plan for the second Singapore trip. That beef steak kuah could wait for another time..It seems that I’m back to busy schedule..huhu! Work first then vacation later, OK!