A Homemaker’s Diary

Auckland has been known among New Zealand’s indigenous people, the Maori, as “Tamaki Makau Rau”, a maiden with 100 lovers. Located in the North Island of New Zealand, it is the largest urban area of the country with over 1.3 million people.

If you are into sporting events, don’t miss the chance to join the Harbour Crossing event, the largest ocean swim in the country, to be held this 25 November where over 1000 swimmers take part in the 2.8 km swim across the harbour. Book yourself affordable Auckland accommodation in the area of Stanley Bay Beach, Devonport as you will be swimming across Auckland’s Waitemata Harbour.

Or if you are into horticultural splendor, get the best rate for Auckland hotels in the area of Manukau City as there will be a 5 day event this November for The Ellerslie International Flower Show at the Auckland Botanic Gardens.

And as of now from 25 October – 4 November, there is Waitakere World Junior Badminton Championships 2007 held in The Trusts Stadium, Waitakere City, where teams from twenty-six countries will compete for titles in the 2007 world junior badminton championships. Get the best rate for hotels in Auckland to support your favourite badminton team.

But if you ask me, if I ever go to Auckland, I will not miss the chance to try the world’s first harbour bridge bungy jump where anybody aged over 10 years old can leap over the Waitemata Harbour…bet Hubby will kill me first before I can jump under the bridge at the pier..heh!

I know this is so bad of me to gossip about such thing, but I have been reading news about the handsome Malaysia Angkasawan being gay..though it hurts because he shouldn’t be but with ever weird world now, sometimes the most unthinkable is actually true. So while searching for wedding picture of Erra Fazira with Engku Emran (they got married on 25 Oct 2007 – Thursday), I found this picture on this site : Angkasawan Malaysia Pertama & Girlfriend.

Even if a guy has the lust for woman, it doesn’t mean he’s totally straight. I knew few men (one is a well-known Datuk) who has kids and wife but still go for another guy’s ass..huhu! I’m not sure which one is worse, totally gay or a bisexual. What do you think?

Anyway, if she’s a girlfriend at least half of my doubt is already cleared but then again the clarity is still blurred about the issue mentioned above. Please Dr Sheikh, tell me you are really straight!

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Although I said earlier that I wanted to do the shopping etc on Tuesday, I was so tired to wake up early so in the end I went out to KL on Wednesday.

But before I took the ERL ride, I stopped by at ePerolehan counter in Putrajaya to renew the smart card. It took almost 40 minutes to settle everything ( I was the only person at the counter) and when I was about to stand up and move, the lady said I have to wait 24 hours for the card to be activated, huh! I thought your so called smart eP enabled system has enabled everything, now why the 24 hours wait? Damn the system, whatever the Government is trying to make money out of this online service.

Despite the unhappy feeling, I was just glad that everything could be settled on the same day. I really hate when I have to go to any government service counter, they make me feel like I am the one who hard up for their not so efficient service while the reality is their salary were paid using income tax money from people like us, people who work hard days and nights to earn, not have the liberty of having 40 days paid leave every year..heh! For that kind of slow service, you should work in private sectors and see whether you will still get good appraisal and increments from your boss.

Enough said, I went to KL with ERL and 2 LRT and stopped for brunch in Delifrance, Sogo. Met my friend for our ribbons shopping and arrived at Putrajaya with the ERL around 4:30pm. I was planning to buy some clothes in Sogo but by that time the plastics bags I carried seem too heavy to stop by anywhere else. It was still too early to fetch Hubby (plus it started to rain) so I went for facial in Bangi instead. I thought the facial should finish in 1 hour time but then the session ended up around 7:10pm..huhu! Another case of inefficient salon helper, duh!

It makes me wonder how come most of the people in this world go about their tasks leisurely with no regards of the value of time for other people. Don’t they know that time is money or maybe they just don’t have any clue of what else can be done with their time everyday.

*This post is written for IDrive.com*

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