Malaysian Wife, Australian Life

We're back in Oz!!!! See? This is why we come back for Christmas every year. :p

Last week, we went to Bandung with my sister & her family, along with my parents. It was short but quite fun. All we did was shop shop shop!  Michael was not so keen on Bandung in the beginning because of his 'got to have beach' policy for a holiday. But he went along with it anyways because he's never been there & we wanted go with my family. So he was happy to let me shop. He was all 'you shop lah , I'm ok, I don't need anything'. 'They're asian sizes anyways, there's nothing for me' bla bla.  So, shop we did..like crazy.  Well..actually. He did..like crazy. Apparently there was a lot of Michael sizes and he ended up with a lot more shopping bags than myself & the kids :p I was not so crazy lah . I am pretty hopeless when it comes to shopping for myself. I take too much time will little success & I am also easily distracted with kids' stuff. We did our shopping at Pasar Baru, Rumah Mode & some of the...

Miss us? Man, I miss my blog!  We're still here, alive & well. So much to tell, too many updates. Don't really know where to start.   Right now, we are back in my hometown of yummy ice kacang & best chicken chop, JB. Been here about a month now. I could've updated earlier but we've been busy.  There's weddings & new babies (my baby sister gave birth and I haven't even blogged about her wedding yet! erk..) & my babies & settling in & Edward Cullen...   OMG! I love love love Breaking Dawn 2! Don't care about the Robsten affair drama. Ok, I did care a little bit & got all emotional when they broke up. Bit sad lah that they're over. But now they're back on and am super sad that the movies are over! :( I wanna watch it again & again, the uncut version please!  Thank you to my awesome hubby - the day before my sisters & I went to see the movie, he surprised me with a Do-Not-Disturb-Mummy day ...

It was a day of double celebration for my dearest husband. First & foremost, Happy Father's Day! Thank you for always, always being there for us and for being the incredible father that you are - compassionately strict yet absolutely loving, extremely busy with work yet still find the time to entertain us all needy demanding kids (me especially!), super duper terrific to be with and always the fun one lah :p Then, it was also our 6th Wedding Anniversary. It's my turn to  organise something this year & together with Father's Day, I was feeling the pressure. I used to be so good with surprises & celebrating him (echeh) but I'm starting to lose my touch nowadays. I made his favorite dessert - Lemon Meringue Pie. I've known forever that it's his favorite but never attempted to make it. Mostly because there's just too much going on and oh so time consuming. First the crust, then the lemon filling, then meringue.. urgh....So many ...

For the 1st time in his life, Eliyas slept through the night for 10 hours last night!!!!!!!!!!! Yabedabada badaba dooooooo!!!!!! Which means, for the 1st time in a very long time, I slept through for 7 hours last night (automatic body alarm clock woke me up!) That's 7 UNINTERRUPTED, no squeaking, no grunting, no really-gotta-get-up-to-pee sleep. It was so so good! I'm so happy I feel like I can do a million things. Ahhh..the little simple things. :)

It's been a while! Lots of stuff has happened and a lot more to come. So much that I want to write about, especially involving Squeaky & Grunty but being the Eid/Raya month and all, there has to be an Eid post. :) To me, a big part of Eid is about being with family. The only time ever that I spent Eid abroad was   4 years ago, in Sydney with Michael. Not much of a celebration but it was ok. See, it was just us.   This year is my 2nd time having to spend Eid abroad and a first for the kids. Well, 1st ever for Eliyas :p I didn't want it to be just ok for them. I wanted them to be with family and to really celebrate Eid, especially for Ayisha who's been spending her Eids this past years surrounded by lots & lots of them.  So off we went on a short trip to Adelaide to be with my brother & his family . Ayisha was so excited to get to see her cousins again, it reminded me of how I was many many years ago, eagerly waiting for my cousins to arrive at my ...

After watching an episode of Peppa Pig called "Work & Play" with Ayisha;  Me: Mummy work or play Ayisha?  Ha: Play  Me: Mummy work too. Mummy take care of you, make you breakfast, that's work right?  Ha: *Looking at me weird* Naaaaw...that's not work. Mummy just played Snap (Dora snap cards) with me. So mummy no work. Mummy play! Daddy work.  Chet...D**n you Peppa Pig!  Aaaanyways.....  Ramadan's here! Maaf Zahir & Batin from us and a blessed Ramadan to all. Happy fasting, happy praying, happy sharing and happy giving!! :)

Eliyas is already 6 weeks old.   He's at such a cute age where he's more alert during the day that we can have a little bit of a chat together. You know, the ones that come with deep meaningful looks, staring into each other's eyes, cute cooing noises coming from the both of us and him flashing what most definitely looks like a smile that melts my heart every time. Every little new thing that we experienced together would take me way back when I first had Ayisha.  He is Ayisha all over again in so many ways. They look so much like each other and have similar expressions and when I look back at Ayisha's baby photos, Eli is in each and every one of them but maybe a tad bigger, a little bit chubbier and a whole lot heavier. We went for our 6-week check up today and he's already 5.8kg! That's huge man. No wonder my arms get cramped when feeding him in the middle of the night. He also got his 1st immunisation and they're nasty nasty nasty! H...