A Homemaker’s Diary

We went to Empire Shopping Gallery today because I want to check out the new outlet of Toys R Us.

For those who still don’t know, the outlet of Toys R Us in Subang Parade is no longer operating there, they have moved to Empire.

I kind of like Subang Parade because it is a family place. They have nice cosy places to eat like Dave’s Deli, Chicken Rice Shop, Nandos, just to name a few.

But Empire will have Italiannies and Chillis. Not sure whether they will have any other slightly cheapo eating places other than that two restaurants.

Oh, Empire will also have Fitness First Platinum. The membership monthly fee is RM215 which is RM30 more expensive than the normal passport fee. The good thing is for platinum member, you can access other non platinum Fitness First but those with normal membership can’t access Platinum branch.

Err..there’s one Fitness First at The Curve as well…so Hubby will have no excuse not to work out while both of us (the son and I ) go shopping and check out IKEA..heh!

I hope there’s more interesting shops opening soon in Empire, so far they don’t even have Mothercare, so I ended up buying Son’s BUDS products in Caring Pharmacy..even there, they don’t have all the range..will have to go and buy the Bum Balm soon..somehow I still prefer Subang Parade to do most of the necessary buying..isk!

For those who are still not aware, Mother’s Day this year will be celebrated on 9th May (the second Sunday in May). Of course there are countries which celebrate Mother’s Day on different date.

So, what do I want for Mother’s Day?

Honestly, I don’t want any flower (hubby, you can save that for our wedding anniversary later..heh!). What I want is an hour or two of complete solitude, a time away from the usual daily routine – I want to sip on my drink, I want to dabble on my food, even a movie time at home is good enough. I just want a time out selfishly for myself.

Do you think I’m asking too much? A Mother’s Day should be celebrated with those she mothers, not run away from them, no? huhu..

The last weekend was not that good..I was tired after the craft class on Saturday so we didn’t go out anywhere.

On Sunday we went to Amcorp Mall to check the bargain at BookXcess. It turned out all the good books were taken. I ended up buying 3 books, 2 for the price of RM1 and another one for RM2.

But I got this pinggan lama corak bunga kangkung instead..hehe!

You can’t really consider it as pinggan antik because antique is something that aged 50 years and above (or is it 100 years?)

Well, I bought one pinggan lauk, one piring kuih, one sudu, one piring cawan and another one dessert plate with made in England design, all that for RM35.

So since I want to portray a kampung style cooking, I decided to make this kerang rebus. Will update about this dish in my cooking blog later.

I came home on Saturday after the decoupage class and then I noticed that my curry leaves plant was so togel..waaa..

This is the culprit, and not only there’s one, there were 4 on the pokok kari…sob!

I will blog about the caterpillars on my gardening blog soon. I am still reading about the complete metamorphosis of butterfly in order for me to write a good, informative entry.

Well, if someone ask me what did I do for Earth Day this year, I would say that I helped rear caterpillars..(at the expense of my curry leaves…huhu!) I hope the curry leaves plant will not die after being eaten voraciously by those hungry caterpillars.

*This post is written for Love World Love Sloggi contest *