A Homemaker’s Diary

Still about the Dinos Alive exhibition at Pusat Sains Negara. As you walk away from those T-Rex and Apatosaurus on the ground floor, you will come to the second floor. I don’t know why they have to make the exhibition area for the carnivore and herbivore dinosaurs so dim and scary. More roaring dinosaur sound can be heard when you enter the exhibition hall. My son cried, well most kids who were dragged into the exhibition were crying and scared.

I didn’t manage to get any of the dinos name. I was so busy handling my crying son who tried his best to wiggle his way out. If it was up to me alone, I might be posing with my head almost being eaten by those carnivore dinosaurs..haha!

See those 2 dinosaurs savoring the dead animal. I didn’t notice that when I was there since by that time Hubby already took our crying son out from those scary surrounding. I grabbed the camera and took as many pictures as I could and then I went to the next hall for herbivore dinosaurs.

Anyone know the name of this winged dinosaurs? (or is it fin on his back..haha!!) I am yet to edit the pictures for herbivore dinosaurs and upload the video I mentioned earlier. Will try my best to update before the exhibition end this 12 June 2011.

Ever since I have been taking part in scrapbooking and paper craft challenge, I have came across the term upcycle many times.

I’ve been wondering what is the difference between upcycling and recycling. It turns out that upcycling is taking waste and making it into something that has equal or greater use or value. Remember when we recycle plastic bottles? The output of the recycling process of such plastic, are actually downcycling it into a lesser grade plastic.

But if you manage to create something more valuable from something you would throw otherwise, then it is upcycling.

So let’s dig out our stuffs at home and see whether we can upcycle them rather than buy something new just to satisfy our craving to have nice and trendy materials in life.

Ever heard of the phrase “in the pink of health” ? Check out this link – in the pink.

I was once told by a teacher during high school not to use that phrase in our future letter to her. (I don’t know what make the phrase sound so repulsive to her, anyway) Well of course after I finished my high school, people hardly write letters to each other when they can simply email people to say hi. Gosh, how I miss getting hand written letters with great looking stamps on the envelope.

The pink rose picture above was actually taken last year. I just found it while looking for materials to be scrapbooked to be entered into monthly challenge. It’s hard to get good pictures of non-people related since most people who scrapbook usually will use pictures of their family members..huhu!

BTW, just to wish everyone reading this a great pink month of May ahead. April has not been a good month for me personally, thus I am hoping May could be a much better month for all of us.

Well, for all the mothers out there, happy mother’s day in advance. It’s 8th May, right?

I’ve been playing Cityville on Facebook for a while now. I’ve never thought I would be a diligent game player, not when I have a household to run and a toddler to chase after. But somehow I managed to play Cityville almost everyday.

There are many things I’ve learned from playing Cityville.

One, you have to prioritize based on the limited sources you have – cash, coins and most importantly energy. You can’t do everything at one time. You have to choose your goal.

Two, you need to ask for help if you want to achieve something bigger and make it work faster towards your goal. And if you want others to help, you must be willing to help others as well.

There are times that you have to be patient and wait for the greater things to come. Sometimes you have to wait for days and even weeks for the goal to be achieved. You must not give up easily. Even while waiting, you must not sit futile, plant crop, harvest them, deliver goods, visit friends. My point is do something worthwhile with your resources.

You must make sure that you do something to completion. You cannot just build a community building (i.e build a hospital) and not make effort to get all the necessary items (gold plating, marble etc) to make it a complete work. If you find the effort to get all the materials as tiresome (you need to ask your friends, or give them one, you’ll get one in return), then you can’t achieve the ultimate goals of having bigger population in your city. Conclusion, the minor things and the small details are needed to attain greater level in life.

I guess it could be applied in life as well.

Certain days you will wonder whether what you have done is enough or you could stretch yourself thin to achieve more. There are certain days that make you feel like you accomplish nothing special, just running a mundane daily routine. Even if it doesn’t get to your goal any closer, you will still earn something (like getting XP which will bring your city to next level).

Same goes with daily life, the routine might be boring but it will still give you something – a way to get things done more effectively (in my case, how to cook while holding a crying son, or how to take a shower in 5 minutes while brushing your teeth, shampoo your hair, scrub your face and body), which in the long run could make you wiser and somehow if you choose to, could let you see life in a totally different perspective.

Entri ini akan ditulis dalam Bahasa Melayu dan English rojak**

I noticed a lot of viewers yang datang ke blog ni, cari pasal gubahan hantaran, cara buat bunga dip, gambar bunga telur dan sebagainya.

I realized not many people are willing to share cara-cara buat bunga dip online. I for once don’t have the facilities utk ambik video or gambar step by step utk buat bunga dip ni. It takes a lot of effort and time to do such thing.

This is one of the latest pictures taken during March class. For those who are interested to learn cara-cara buat bunga pahar dan bunga dulang utk gubahan hantaran, the class for April is still available. Of course you can learn through books and magazine.

If you buy Alaf 21, Variasi Gubahan Pengantin or Variasi Hiasan Hantaran books, you will see how the author shows step by step technique to do all kind of bunga telur (bunga dip, bunga sabun, bunga organza) and bunga dulang as hiasan for hantaran.

Even the magazine Pesona Pengantin shares such buat sendiri techniques, but of course not as elaborate and detailed if you learn on hands in class.

Personally I feel that not all people can learn through books and online learning methods. For those, I will advise you to find a teacher or someone who is willing to teach and guide you along the way.