a “geram” maid story.

My maid has returned from her balik kampung trip today – I let her off for 2 weeks and I was actually left for peace the past weeks without her. My agent sent an excellent replacement and she did her work quietly and efficiently with just few instructions. However, her permit and contract was over [...]

a social experiment

I guess I’ve burnt my ships… no retreat into anonymity now. My daughter just told me about how her friends are also reading my blog, probably out of curiosity. Should I then make my blog private? I’m not sure. I’ve dwelled on the subject a long time ago when I felt obscure about the things [...]

a safe arrival

Alhamdulillah I just got back. First thing I did was to make appointment with my gynae to check on the baby – after two weeks of stressful walking and travelling, I’m sure the baby was quite in a shock. Fortunately throughout the travel I felt fine, well, minus the first 2 days where the baby [...]

homeless in a hotel.

Last night was scary in our hotel room – it was as if people were moving furniture next door at 1 am! Both hubby and I couldn’t sleep so we called the reception to complain. Someone attended to us and actually climbed outside the window to check out what’s wrong. Apparently some pipe outside our [...]

a Malay homecoming

Finally, I’ve arrived in London. We returned our car to Hertz and head towards Holiday Villa in Bayswater – I rang up my niece Farah to join us here. Sebrina’s friend from Scotland, Jazmina also sleeping over with us so I’m surrounded by familiar faces amidst the alien London city.
I guess it’s crazy that being [...]

a great bonding time

I’m updating my post from a small town in Lake District called Windermere -we’re stationed here for two nights to enjoy the rolling meadows and hills. I managed to visit William Wordsworth house and museum which is a complete delight for any English literature enthusiasts. Even hubby wanted to be known as Malik’sWorth after learning [...]

flying overseas while pregnant

I’ll be leaving for UK today to visit my eldest Sebrina and have a bit of a tour for 2 weeks. This would be my first long-haul journey while pregnant and thankfully I’m in the comfortable zone of my second trimester. All checklists checked and bags packed – I plan to travel light anyway because [...]

the big belly dilemma

While most people would say that the size of your girth won’t be that big during your first pregnancy, mine has gotten quite large. 6 months down the road and I looked like how most pregnant females would look like in their 7th or 8th…well, I don’t know, my belief would probably differ in other [...]

tribute post to MJ

I switched on the news at 6 am today and saw the headlines – MJ has passed away. I’m not exactly his biggest fan but hubby and my daughters are, and I could imagine their shock. The whole world was shocked in fact, and on the way to work, all radio stations were playing his [...]

stopping for a relief at Perhentian.

I’m updating my posts from Perhentian island this hour. I’ve never been here and been lucky enough to follow hubby on his business trip to survey some land to develop. He has left me alone to go trekking with his engineers and here I am on a RM10 per hour Internet connection – geez…gonna make [...]