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Last Wed was my birthday, and I took a day off… planned for quite a few things to do, but ended up spent my whole day in the saloon!!

I don’t quite like the way I look in the new hair style. I went in and expected something similar to what I had previously, but I ended up with a different style. The hair stylist said “What’s wrong with that? You look very foxy!”

Ahem! I don’t really understand that term “Foxy”. But I do know almost everyone commented that I look nice in this, except myself. People that I don’t know in the office, came to tell me that my hairstyle is good. Hmm… maybe I have bad taste that I don’t appreciate this? LOL!

Anyway… DH took the first half off, and we had a good breakfast in Coffee Bean nearby. I planned to visit my sister but had to cancel it as my hair-do took me 6 hours to complete!! I read my “Change of Heart (Jodi Picoult) the whole of that 6 hours, and ended up with puffy eyes. LOL!

In the evening, DH came home with 4 small cartons… from Alexis! They are 4 slices of cakes: 2 slices of almond tiramisu (DH highly recommended), a slice of bitter sweet chocolate cake, and a slice of strawberry cheesecake.

I had my candle on the highly recommended tiramisu…

Aiyoh, these 4 cakes, added up, even more expensive than a whole cake! But they suit the different taste buds in the family. Ian dived into that cheesecake, Isabel practically had the whole choc cake on her own… buried her whole face in the carton! And we adults went for the tiramisu. LOL! Good idea for a family with distinct preference!

I have been planning to buy myself a GPS device, since I have to drive a lot in this new job (to meet different clients). There was once I took a taxi to a place in port klang, ended up stranded there, 1 hour post meeting still couldn’t get a cab back!! Been asking DH to help me enquire one, and…

Here it is! DH bought it for me as my birthday present!!

We tried using it the first time last Sun (before my BD, an advanced present). Not very satisfied with it. We tried to go to my sister’s house in Sri Kembangan. The routes it showed are not that practical, there are many other alternatives much better than what it showed. Luckily DH knew the general direction to get there. So I lost faith of it.

Then, on Thursday, the day after my birthday, I had to go to a new place on my own (client meeting). I just couldn’t find the place in my Garmin. My colleagues helped me to find also couldn’t… So, I went there based on my general gut feel. I arrived without any issues, but lost further faith on it.

Yesterday, I went to my sister’s house again, relying on it. Again, I had to make a few judgement calls to not follow its direction.

Sam (sister’s hubby) checked my device, and found out that there are too many maps in it, which could cause confusion. He helped me to fix (which I hope really fixed).

I can now find Merchant Square in it! LOL! Nevertheless, it is still a good tool to have. As long as I have the general direction to get near the place, it really can help me with the more refined routes etc. Once, I was stuck in heavy traffic, I switched it on, simply turned into a small route (after checking the map to ensure it is not a deadend), and it led me out of that traffic easily!! My new toy!! Looks like I have many new toys this year. LOL!

Well… since… I think end of last year, when they had this billboard of 2012 set up along LDP, I already wanted to watch this movie. Then, you know lah, I don’t follow entertainment news, I thought it has been showed and of the cinema already.

When I knew it is going to show this month, I already planned to spend my birthday in the cinema to watch this!

So, I bought the ticket on Monday, and watched it last night (ahem! a few hours earlier celebration). It was 6:15pm show.

Well, well, well… since many years ago, I started watching a movie on my birthday ALONE. First time I felt odd. But after tried it, I loved it. Movie is a personal thing. You go with a bunch of friend, you still watch alone. I feel that it is a waste of your sweet time with friends, spent in a cinema.

Back to the movie… After buying the ticket, I read some reviews, mostly negative. The critics complaint that the movie plagiarizing Independence Day (same director), and also plagiarizing itself (like repeated similar scenes), My colleague who have watched it, also said it is boring. She said after a while, she just wished the movie ends soon.

Maybe my expectation was set so low after reading/hearing the reviews… I actually enjoyed myself!

Don’t care whether it is logic or not lah, the movie was very gan-zeong. All near misses. Ya, ya, a lot of exaggerations, I know, and the hero has a lot of luck also. But as I said, put away the logic, you will sure enjoy the movie.

I only suffered 1 thing… hehehe, before going into the cinema, I forgot and drank a lot of water. The movie was long… it ended around 9pm. Imagine, 3 hours inside with a bladder full?! Towards the end of the movie, I did wish it ends faster. LOL! BTW, I did empty before the show started, of course!! ;P

Hayden was born yesterday, in between 33 and 34 weeks. Premature baby.

Initially we thought he would be put in incubator, and that my sister’s breastfeeding journey would be tougher. Of course, we also worried if he would be strong enough to be born so early…

Praise God that Hayden was born a big baby. He was 2.0kg, passed the weight threshold and could go without incubator. He was with his mommy since birth.

At one point, he has low blood glucose, and has high risk of brain damage if prolonged. Sister had to breastfeed him as much as possible to increase his glucose. He had to be dripped too. Pity boy.

This morning, sister said his blood glucose was okay now, but the dripped place was swollen, pity boy…

And he slept the whole morning refused to be fed…

Anyhow, so glad that everything is alright now. Whew!

This is a long belated post! DH’s birthday was mid last month. I originally planned to bake a Chocolate Banana cake, the Secret Recipe style, but because of this new job, and still without a maid, I just couldn’t spend time doing that, we ended up bought a very small cake from the shop.

I think it was some baked or Japanese cheesecake. Hehehehe, everyone said that my cakes taste better than the one I bought! :p

Well, it was so fun seeing the kids ransack the toppings. I normally won’t allow this, coz worry of bad habit, but I gave up!

We went to this shop for dinner, and it is famous for its satay. It is not normal satay, it is DUCK MEAT satay! Because it is special, so I also tried a piece lah! :p

Well, actually the taste and texture so so only lah. It is located in Desa Kepong, at the square near the mosque. The corner shopwhere we had our dinner is facing the wet market, but the satay is from the nearby stall. I heard that the stall was featured in a TV program.

So, that was DH’s birthday. My birthday is coming soon, and I managed to take a day off. I never liked to work on my birthday!! I already planned that I want to take the car for servicing in the morning, and then to do my hair (5 hours, the saloon said!). Maybe the night before, go to watch a movie… 2012? Hope I get to do things I plan now!! Ah, got to skip swimming that day, Piggy/Aiyu!

Ian is only 5yo and Isabel 3yo. I already think I don’t understand them, I can’t imagine what would it be when they reach their teenage…

You see… I went to Bangkok 2 months ago, and bought this nice dress for Isabel, which I called the ‘princess dress’. I thought she would be very happy seeing this:

She was very excited, waiting for me to show her the ‘gift’ from me… and then she face turned wrinkled upon seeing this dress!! She didn’t even want to try it on. I tried to persuade her to at least try it, to prove to her that it is of good quality and that it won’t make her itchy. She just wouldn’t even give it a try. It is still in the wardrobe, untouched, 100% new!

I also bought this shirt, before I saw the above dress. If I had seen the dress first, I wouldn’t have bought it, coz I thought the dress is nicer. But… Isabel loved this dress so much that she would want to wear it every time it is available!!

As for Ian, I thought he is easy to understand, and easy to buy things for him…

Remember I said that he doesn’t have enough pyjamas, and that I was under pressure to wash them? I finally went to Carrefour to buy. I thought he likes Ben10, wanted to get one for him but couldn’t find. So, I ended up bought this:

And then, my mom saw Ben10 pyjamas in pasar, she bought 1 for him:

He was very excited, waiting for me to wash before he could use them… To my surprise, he wasn’t excited over that Ben10 pyjamas, but the blue one! He wore it once, and then begged me to let him wear it again the following night (which I intended to anyway, to save laundry). He completely ignored the Ben10 pyjamas!!

See, I find my kids are getting harder to guess. LOL! Wait until teenage!