In the 1400's a law was set forth in England that a man was allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have "the rule of thumb"
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Many years ago in Scotland , a new game was invented. It was ruled "Gentlemen Only...Ladies Forbidden"...and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.
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The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
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Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. Treasury.
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Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.
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Coca-Cola was originally green.
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It is impossible to lick your elbow.
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The State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work:
Alaska
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The average number of people airborne over the U.K. in any given hour:
61,000
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Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
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The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
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Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
Spades - King David
Hearts - Charlemagne
Clubs -Alexander, the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar
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111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
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Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
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Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?
A. Their birthplace
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Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested?
A. Obsession
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Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?
A. One thousand
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Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common?
A. All were invented by women.
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Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil?
A. Honey
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Q. Which day are there more collect calls than any other day of the year?
A. Father's Day
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In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes.
When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase......... "goodnight, sleep tight."
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It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month, which we know today as the honeymoon.
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In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts... So in old England , when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them "Mind your pints and quarts, and settle down."
It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's"
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Many years ago in England , pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim, or handle, of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice.
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At least 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow!
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
“WHAT GRIND MY GEARS”
Things that make you go “GGGrrrrrrrrr!!!!”
Another tag from Marisa.
Here are the things that make me so Gerrrraaammmm!:
1. When Hubby can never, ever be on time when it comes to my or Haidan’s appointments!
2. When Hubby can be very punctual when it comes to his work (see item no1.. Grrrr…. sabo je lah!)
3. The dreadful feeling when British viral flu hits you- the GPs can't do anything, the weather makes it worst and despite cups and cups of Lemsip Max Plus, it will take you at least a week to fully recover!
4. Facebook applications and quizzes that forced you to invite innocent people BEFORE you can reveal the anticipated results.
5. Receptionists with that rude “look” (a.k.a assumes you are an asylum seeker seeking for free healthcare, just because you have a different skin colour, not knowing that nearly half of your professional pay goes to taxes to support ‘their’ benefits)
6. Stupid visa and immigration rules
7. Selfish people who think the whole world needs to revolve around them - If you have a problem, fix it! Whining and complaining all day won’t solve anything.
8. The day you left your umbrella at home is the day the rain decides to pour!
9. Kiasu people who purposely do not queue or ‘cut line’ – hate them!
10. After all the effort to get Haidan ready to go out, with matching shirts and pants and shoes and coat all, he suddenly berak and soiled himself just as we are about to leave the house….(especially when we are already late- see item no1).
Now who would I tag???... my usual suspects, of course.. hehe!
• Mate
• Devina
• Ibdil/ Ezah
• Lolyta/ Fabmama
• Dian
• Ghaz
• Sherie
• Fina
• Zura Chikong
Another tag from Marisa.
Here are the things that make me so Gerrrraaammmm!:
1. When Hubby can never, ever be on time when it comes to my or Haidan’s appointments!
2. When Hubby can be very punctual when it comes to his work (see item no1.. Grrrr…. sabo je lah!)
3. The dreadful feeling when British viral flu hits you- the GPs can't do anything, the weather makes it worst and despite cups and cups of Lemsip Max Plus, it will take you at least a week to fully recover!
4. Facebook applications and quizzes that forced you to invite innocent people BEFORE you can reveal the anticipated results.
5. Receptionists with that rude “look” (a.k.a assumes you are an asylum seeker seeking for free healthcare, just because you have a different skin colour, not knowing that nearly half of your professional pay goes to taxes to support ‘their’ benefits)
6. Stupid visa and immigration rules
7. Selfish people who think the whole world needs to revolve around them - If you have a problem, fix it! Whining and complaining all day won’t solve anything.
8. The day you left your umbrella at home is the day the rain decides to pour!
9. Kiasu people who purposely do not queue or ‘cut line’ – hate them!
10. After all the effort to get Haidan ready to go out, with matching shirts and pants and shoes and coat all, he suddenly berak and soiled himself just as we are about to leave the house….(especially when we are already late- see item no1).
Now who would I tag???... my usual suspects, of course.. hehe!
• Mate
• Devina
• Ibdil/ Ezah
• Lolyta/ Fabmama
• Dian
• Ghaz
• Sherie
• Fina
• Zura Chikong
LISTS OF EIGHTS
I have been tagged by Marisa to do lists of eights:
8 things I am passionate about:
• My family & Boboy
• My good friends
• Travel
• Career
• Spice Girls
• Cats & tigers
• My SK2 essence
• Mild Seven Lights
8 things I say often:
• “Ayang…”
• “Haidan Arief”
• “Oh my God"
• "Yes ah?”/ “Iye ker??”/ “Is it??”
• "I love you” / “I love you too”
• ”Assalammualaikum”/ “Waalaikumsalam”
• "Sure or not???”
• “Balik pukul berapa ni???”
8 books I've read recently:
• My Best Friends Guide to Motherhood by Vicky Iovine (I love her!)
• My Best Friends Guide to Pregnancy by Vicky Iovine (did I mention that I love her?)
• The Complete Baby & Toddler Meal Planner by Annabel Karmel
• What to Expect in your 1st Year
• What to Expect When You’re Expecting
• Bounty magazines
• My weekly doses of celeb gossip mags – Grazia & Look
• My IET magazines
8 things to do before I die:
• Travel the world with my family
• Have another baby (hopefully a girl this time)
• Get my Professional Engineer Charteredship
• See the Cirque du Soleil
• Perform the hajj and/ or Umrah
• Have our own house with our own way of making it our home (get it??)
• Organise my children’s wedding (if they want me to lah… or at least convince them to let me do the montage hehe)
• Kiss and hold my future grandson/ granddaughter
8 songs I could listen to over and over again:
• Satu Dalam Sejuta (Amy Mastura) – I listen to this every night before I sleep when I was pregnant. It’s now Haidan’s favourite song- everytime it’s on, he’ll smile and gets excited coz he recognizes it.
• Stop (Spice Girls)
• Viva Forever (Spice Girls)
• Who Do You Think You Are (Spice Girls)
• Kerinduan (Sheila Majid) – our wedding song
• Penantian (Kris Dayanti)
• Kini (Feminin)- yes, serious! Hahahah
• Trauma (Elite) – our must have karaoke song, eh Vas?? hehe
8 things I've learnt in the last year:
• Motherhood changed my life completely- I never knew how much I can love and be willing to sacrifice anything and everything for my son
• You cannot get your pre-pregnancy body back within the first few months (without plastic surgery)
• Hubbies don’t get hints. If you want them to get it right, just tell them!
• Appreciate your loved ones and never ever take them for granted. You’ll never know- they might not be there tomorrow.
• LOL means ‘Laugh Out Loud’ and LMFAO means ‘Laugh My F***ing A** Off’… oooohhhh… iyer ker?? Now I get it….
• People who likes to call other people fat or who likes to boast about their huge savings account are just insecure
• RM120 for a weekend is nothing compared to the time you spend with your best friends who were there for you through thick and thin… that’s priceless!
• I believe in karma. Good things happen to good people.
8 people to pass this tag to:
• Dian
• Zura Chikong
• Ghaz
• Devina
• Mate
• Vasantha
• Ibdil
• Sherie
8 things I am passionate about:
• My family & Boboy
• My good friends
• Travel
• Career
• Spice Girls
• Cats & tigers
• My SK2 essence
• Mild Seven Lights
8 things I say often:
• “Ayang…”
• “Haidan Arief”
• “Oh my God"
• "Yes ah?”/ “Iye ker??”/ “Is it??”
• "I love you” / “I love you too”
• ”Assalammualaikum”/ “Waalaikumsalam”
• "Sure or not???”
• “Balik pukul berapa ni???”
8 books I've read recently:
• My Best Friends Guide to Motherhood by Vicky Iovine (I love her!)
• My Best Friends Guide to Pregnancy by Vicky Iovine (did I mention that I love her?)
• The Complete Baby & Toddler Meal Planner by Annabel Karmel
• What to Expect in your 1st Year
• What to Expect When You’re Expecting
• Bounty magazines
• My weekly doses of celeb gossip mags – Grazia & Look
• My IET magazines
8 things to do before I die:
• Travel the world with my family
• Have another baby (hopefully a girl this time)
• Get my Professional Engineer Charteredship
• See the Cirque du Soleil
• Perform the hajj and/ or Umrah
• Have our own house with our own way of making it our home (get it??)
• Organise my children’s wedding (if they want me to lah… or at least convince them to let me do the montage hehe)
• Kiss and hold my future grandson/ granddaughter
8 songs I could listen to over and over again:
• Satu Dalam Sejuta (Amy Mastura) – I listen to this every night before I sleep when I was pregnant. It’s now Haidan’s favourite song- everytime it’s on, he’ll smile and gets excited coz he recognizes it.
• Stop (Spice Girls)
• Viva Forever (Spice Girls)
• Who Do You Think You Are (Spice Girls)
• Kerinduan (Sheila Majid) – our wedding song
• Penantian (Kris Dayanti)
• Kini (Feminin)- yes, serious! Hahahah
• Trauma (Elite) – our must have karaoke song, eh Vas?? hehe
8 things I've learnt in the last year:
• Motherhood changed my life completely- I never knew how much I can love and be willing to sacrifice anything and everything for my son
• You cannot get your pre-pregnancy body back within the first few months (without plastic surgery)
• Hubbies don’t get hints. If you want them to get it right, just tell them!
• Appreciate your loved ones and never ever take them for granted. You’ll never know- they might not be there tomorrow.
• LOL means ‘Laugh Out Loud’ and LMFAO means ‘Laugh My F***ing A** Off’… oooohhhh… iyer ker?? Now I get it….
• People who likes to call other people fat or who likes to boast about their huge savings account are just insecure
• RM120 for a weekend is nothing compared to the time you spend with your best friends who were there for you through thick and thin… that’s priceless!
• I believe in karma. Good things happen to good people.
8 people to pass this tag to:
• Dian
• Zura Chikong
• Ghaz
• Devina
• Mate
• Vasantha
• Ibdil
• Sherie
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Life as a (part-time) desperate housewife...
... is actually not bad at all.
I'm now working part time Tues-Thurs and am off work to have a very long weekend Fri-Mon to sort out stuff at home. At first , I was quite dreading it coz I'm not much of the housewife type- I can't cook too well and cleaning are on an as-and-when-needed-only basis. However, now I'm beginning to enjoy this arrangement. I finally wiped the dust off Mama's recipe books she gave me for my wedding present (..yup, after so long!). Last Friday, after sending Haidan off to his nursery, I was suddenly on a 'master-chef' mode. I cooked 7 lauks all in one day! Masak and portioned them to freeze - itupun I "had" to stop at the 7th lauk coz tak cukup tupperware for freezing. If not, I could have kept going! That's 2 weeks dinner sorted!
Next, was the laundry. I sorted Haidan's wardrobe- oh my, he can't wear half of his clothes already! He's growing too fast now... how ah??? I washed everything- from the bedding to the bath mats. I even managed to iron ALL of Hubby's shirt (which was much to his surprise coz I usually moan and groan everytime I picked up the seterika).
Last but not least was the cleaning- the dapur and bathrooms got a good scrubbing and polishing and I managed to re-organise the cupboards and shelves.
Phew! By the end of the day, my body was all aching.. but it was worth it! Now that it's all clean and organised, I feel like Bree from Desperate Housewives.... everything in the house must be perfect in its place. I was so "over" that Hubby's getting a bit irritated now coz he'll get my deadly stares and sneers if he tries to move ANYthing out of its place in this house.... Muahahahha....
Tomorrow, we'll be taking Haidan out to town. He's feeling so much better now after a hell-ish 2 weeks of fever and diarrhea. Thank you so much for the well-wishes guys! Here's Haidan's latest- all smiles and kicking again. Yup, he got his chubby cheeks back!
Hopefully on Monday, I will be updating more pictures and replying to the tags (coming soon Marisa!). Till then, I better get some rest... I'm totally knackered.
OK, over and out!
I'm now working part time Tues-Thurs and am off work to have a very long weekend Fri-Mon to sort out stuff at home. At first , I was quite dreading it coz I'm not much of the housewife type- I can't cook too well and cleaning are on an as-and-when-needed-only basis. However, now I'm beginning to enjoy this arrangement. I finally wiped the dust off Mama's recipe books she gave me for my wedding present (..yup, after so long!). Last Friday, after sending Haidan off to his nursery, I was suddenly on a 'master-chef' mode. I cooked 7 lauks all in one day! Masak and portioned them to freeze - itupun I "had" to stop at the 7th lauk coz tak cukup tupperware for freezing. If not, I could have kept going! That's 2 weeks dinner sorted!
Next, was the laundry. I sorted Haidan's wardrobe- oh my, he can't wear half of his clothes already! He's growing too fast now... how ah??? I washed everything- from the bedding to the bath mats. I even managed to iron ALL of Hubby's shirt (which was much to his surprise coz I usually moan and groan everytime I picked up the seterika).
Last but not least was the cleaning- the dapur and bathrooms got a good scrubbing and polishing and I managed to re-organise the cupboards and shelves.
Phew! By the end of the day, my body was all aching.. but it was worth it! Now that it's all clean and organised, I feel like Bree from Desperate Housewives.... everything in the house must be perfect in its place. I was so "over" that Hubby's getting a bit irritated now coz he'll get my deadly stares and sneers if he tries to move ANYthing out of its place in this house.... Muahahahha....
Tomorrow, we'll be taking Haidan out to town. He's feeling so much better now after a hell-ish 2 weeks of fever and diarrhea. Thank you so much for the well-wishes guys! Here's Haidan's latest- all smiles and kicking again. Yup, he got his chubby cheeks back!
Hopefully on Monday, I will be updating more pictures and replying to the tags (coming soon Marisa!). Till then, I better get some rest... I'm totally knackered.
OK, over and out!
Thursday, April 10, 2008
I'm back....
... but not for long.
We got back from KL 2 weeks ago and we have been so busy trying to juggle between Haidan, work and home. I hardly have time to turn on the laptop nowadays!
Last weekend, Haidan was hit with a viral fever. He's temperature soared to 39deg and had diarrhea. He lost so much weight coz he refused to feed. We rushed him to the Emergency ward at St Helier's last Monday night coz he was not getting any better. The doctor kept him for a couple of hours to do some checks. Fortunately, it wasn't too serious but he was still a bit dehydrated. He's now recovering at home (with me & hubby taking turns taking day-offs).
I'm now at work, bored (not much work yet..) and can't wait to go home and check on my little baby. Hopefully Hubby's taking good care of him....
I am so tired... exhausted. Mornings have to rush to get Haidan ready and catch the train to work. Evenings have to rush to pick Haidan up from the nursery and then prepare dinner for the family. Now that Haidan's not well, he's been very clingy and there's nothing that I can do, except cuddle and nurse him.
After this 2 weeks ordeal, I hereby salute all the working mommies & daddies that have managed their family without the help of parents/ inlaws and maids. Tabik spring!
I miss Mama now more than ever...
Oh well, until Haidan is fully recovered, I might not get the chance to update this blog with all the happenings and dramas while we were in Malaysia. So many pictures, so many stories to tell... gosh..
We got back from KL 2 weeks ago and we have been so busy trying to juggle between Haidan, work and home. I hardly have time to turn on the laptop nowadays!
Last weekend, Haidan was hit with a viral fever. He's temperature soared to 39deg and had diarrhea. He lost so much weight coz he refused to feed. We rushed him to the Emergency ward at St Helier's last Monday night coz he was not getting any better. The doctor kept him for a couple of hours to do some checks. Fortunately, it wasn't too serious but he was still a bit dehydrated. He's now recovering at home (with me & hubby taking turns taking day-offs).
I'm now at work, bored (not much work yet..) and can't wait to go home and check on my little baby. Hopefully Hubby's taking good care of him....
I am so tired... exhausted. Mornings have to rush to get Haidan ready and catch the train to work. Evenings have to rush to pick Haidan up from the nursery and then prepare dinner for the family. Now that Haidan's not well, he's been very clingy and there's nothing that I can do, except cuddle and nurse him.
After this 2 weeks ordeal, I hereby salute all the working mommies & daddies that have managed their family without the help of parents/ inlaws and maids. Tabik spring!
I miss Mama now more than ever...
Oh well, until Haidan is fully recovered, I might not get the chance to update this blog with all the happenings and dramas while we were in Malaysia. So many pictures, so many stories to tell... gosh..
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