A Homemaker’s Diary

Bought this A5 size notebook from Daiso quite a long time ago. I almost forgot about its existence until I found it stacked under a bunch of my crafty stuff in the craft room. Last Sunday, while having some solitary moment in the room, I came out with the idea to alter the front cover of the notebook.

Inspired by a button crazy video by twopeasinabucket, I decided to use my collection of Prima flowers as the main embellishments. The Mod Podge I bought about 2 years ago was used to glue the scrapbook patterned paper and the flowers.

Very happy indeed with the outcome 🙂

I’ve never been to one, but I know this weekend there is MATTA Fair in PWTC. I think it will be held from 11th to 13th March 2011, 10 am to 9pm.

For those planning to travel this year (and have ample time and energy), this is your chance to get a dirt cheap package.

Actually I am planning to see how much the travel agents could offer for package to Resorts World Sentosa but since we are not sure the exact date that we could travel this year, I rather not waste my time and money to book the package.

I know a few people who got great travel packages especially newly married who planned for overseas honeymoon. For us, until we could sort out dear son sleeping time, all this travel will only alleviate the problem.

Dear Son, grow up fast, Mama wants to go to see Taj Mahal..haha!

I’ve spent almost the whole Wednesday figuring out how to manually upgrade the current wordpress to 3.1 version and install new theme for this blog. Well, for the past 5-6 years that I have been blogging, all that kind of technical works have been done by dear Hubby.

As the result of my experiment I lost many visitors to this blog because I activated a plugin that corrupts the front page..huhu! Unless the visitors are clever enough to click on older posts link, they won’t see any post on the home page..damn!

Fortunately, no serious mistakes have been done (except for the lost of mental energy and precious time) and by the time dear Son took his evening nap, I managed to install the new theme and put the widgets back. I am currently using theme Coraline. The header above has been customized using a picture of Son’s feet painting.

I am now confident to upgrade wordpress for my other blogs. But this time I think I will do it at night so that I won’t lose visitors during day time especially during office hour..haha!

We have been planning to take our son to see real animals at Zoo Negara since last year. However due to his sleeping time, we couldn’t make it.

Somehow during the last CNY long weekend, he woke up early around 1pm and we quickly got ready to go to the zoo..phewww..we managed to reach Zoo Negara around 3pm.

With only 2 hours to spare before the closing time, we walked around the zoo to see elephants, giraffes, lions and tigers.

We were not able to see zebra since we were running out of time. The lack of direction inside the zoo plus the hot weather were among the reasons that made me pissed off..huhu! Not to mention that I have to carry my son most of the time..isk!

Even the queue to ride the tram was very long, of course the ticket was not included in the RM20 entrance fee per person (adult rate) we paid to enter the zoo, you have to pay another RM3 per person to ride the tram.

In the end, we decided to walk to get to those animals rather than wasting at least 30 minutes waiting for the tram ride.

It was a disappointing experience for me but I think our son did enjoy watching those animals which he has been reading in the books. I hope we will be able to visit Singapore Zoo soon.

It’s been a while since my last update.

I am drowned in daily life routine. I have a lot to share but seems to be lacking in term of time and energy.

We managed to go to MAHA to let the little one see cows, sheep and goats in real life. We brought him to Rabbit park in Berjaya Hill as part of his birthday celebration. We let him feed the swans in the lake at Colmar Tropicale.

Other than that, the usual toy shopping, new clothing to fit a bigger boy. Outings with him are much better now that he can run on his own and enjoy food. Still the attention span is not long enough as he gets bored quite fast, but we found out that if he has a toy to play with, we can at least eat our meal peacefully. For once, we were able to have a decent time at the restaurant without having to take turn to eat.

I know things are getting better and can foresee that parenthood won’t be such a great burden anymore as our dear son is getting wiser. But I am still not interested (or rather feel repulsed) with the idea of having another child. Why should I when having one is more than enough? Unless you can afford at least 30K per year to pay for first degree tuition fees in a local private U, the idea of having more children just for the sake of procreating is just too absurd and stupid.