A Homemaker’s Diary

This is a topic which I have no expertise on..being married for almost a decade now but people always give me the remarks, rumah baru pindah ke? korang baru kawin ke? well..the truth is I am a practical person. As much as I love watching LI TV on Astro, watching how the interior designers and stylist do their magic, it just won’t happen in my own home.

I guess it’s like me teaching people to cook rendang by mentioning just the main ingredients without telling the exact measurement (because the truth is memang masak main campak-campak or the mat saleh term is by eyeballing the quantity based on experience)..haha..if you get what I mean..errr, anyhow..this rendang recipe is an old story, maybe later we’ll revisit.

I think the main problem with decorating the house is that I hate cleaning up. You see, all the tiny decoration pieces, those console table and whatnot need a good wipe every now and then. The only thing I have the energy to wipe at the moment is my son’s puke and poop (which he rarely does outside the diaper).

Hubby has a better solution with my problem. He said, yang..when the time comes and we have the massive budget to decorate our house, we just hire the ID, we both definitely are not born with such talent..betul betul betul..bagi chance la kan org lain pon nak cari makan..hahaha!

These pictures of my roses were taken in December 2012. By now most of the roses are out of bloom and some even don’t have leaves..huhu!

It has been raining almost daily every evening and for roses, it is not good. They need about 6 hours of sunlight. I just hope the rainy season will be over soon and my plants will start to thrive again.

I have tried all effort in fertilizing, spraying foliar and such but up till now not much improvement could be seen on the plants.

Just hope no more rose will die on me this month. So far I have lost 7 plants due to stem canker..huhu!

I know it’s been a while since I last updated something personal on this blog. I tried not to write personal stuffs on this blog since I don’t feel comfortable sharing as much as before..I guess age is catching up and I get more paranoid with a lot of things these days.

This picture of peach rose was taken on Saturday. It was not raining when I managed to snap the picture. Otherwise it has been raining for the past few days in the afternoon that made it impossible for me to go out and smell the roses..haha!

The good thing with raining almost daily is that I don’t have to worry about watering my plants (except a few in the hidden area where they don’t get soaked from the heavy rain). But the bad news is roses are susceptible to disease when they get too much water and moist. They actually thrive well in a direct 5-6 hours of sunlight.

Anyway, since I am currently busy completing orders for bunga telur and custom made decoupage, I have to worry less about those roses in the garden..heh! I hope by the end of February when I am done with all the orders (provided there’s no new order accepted in the meantime) I will get the chance to do my daily gardening again.

Happy Monday, people! Be awesome no matter what you do 🙂

I finally got to clean up all the photo shoot stuffs. I was down with fever, flu and cough for the past week and the week before taking care of my sick son. The photo shoot for the magazine went well and I really hope to see all the materials coming out in their next printed edition.

Now, more house cleaning tasks need to be done before Ramadhan so that I can really relax and enjoy my Ramadhan this year in bliss.

It’s been a while since I last wrote about my other plants in the garden. I know..hehe..I think my rose obsession is getting under control now. The gardenia bloom again in May. I found this edited picture in June folder and thought I might as well write something.

It has been a pretty busy week since last week, or rather I am tired because I started to fast daytime to replace my puasa. Funny how when I am not fasting, I don’t really feel that tired or hungry or thirsty no matter how much house chores I do but when I fast, I start to feel really out of energy..mind game, huh?

Oh, coming back to the topic of my bunga cina plant, I saw today that there’s a new bud coming from the second plant. Early this year I started to propagate the gardenia and most of the cuttings survived. Maybe it’s time to propagate for the third one, what do you think?