My Natural Habitat

Ta da.....
My room is finally ready, except for the curtain, grill and lighting.
I am so pleased with it!!!!!

Before....

After......

Close up...

From the other side....

My cupboard....

I love the fact that I can swap sides of the doors anytime I want!

Having 2 shades of green instead of one for the wall.
I didn't expect this light a shade of green, but it's lovely complementing the red and whiteness of my furniture. Now I need to learn how to keep the white clean!!!!!

Overall the room is...........a little childish, I think!
But it's fine because I brought that on myself!

Although it's only 80% what I imagined it will be (the drawers and cupboard doors above are suppose to be of the grain wood tone instead of painted white),
I still get blown away that I got away with having a designer room like this.
I mean, we see this often in show houses, but to actually have it, everything built in with painted walls is just.......a dream for many.
I have no idea why my dad would agree to such extravagant that all I can say and believe is 'It must be God's doing'. So once again, I have to claim

~I don't know what I did to deserve it......but God, thank you!!!~

Haha, the designer being me, anyone wants me to design their rooms? LOL!
Maybe for your nursery room if you're afraid the whole house will turn into a child's playland. LOL!

Will be moving in bit by bit weekend by weekend.


On a thought, faraway on the opposite spectrum from this.....

~Acknowledged~

I have forgotten how much I wanted to hear those words,
for such a long time that when it was finally said,
I'm just bursting with joy,
remembering my former self and now.

And that marks another beautiful day to remember.

PHOP! like Pop! Pop!

Reminds me of when we were young and during CNY we get to play with POP! POP! the tiny 'bombs' we would throw on the floor to go POP!

when we say it that way.....

but PHOP stands for Paddington House of Pancakes.
Their saying goes 'PHOP!, we flip it right!', and to me that PHOP! sounds right you know what I mean.....because if u were to flip a pancake into the air and when it comes back down it has to land with a deep PHOP sound.....unlike the POP! POP! (IMHO)

And with the wide range of pancakes they have......I'm sure they can make a house out of pancakes like the witch house in Hansel & Gretel made of sweet goodies.

We took quite a while to decide on what to eat because there was just too many choices!
And I was tempted to go for the RM75 for 2 people buffet (initially it was RM55), but it was lunchtime on a working day so we didn't. End up also we didn't get back to the office early.....and the delay trying to see if the security camera showed Odie's rapist made us even late getting back to our depts.

But on to the foooooooddddddd,

I tried the Mexican Burger from their Pancake Burgers list,

Yum, yum here I come!

From the other side, 'Oh no, it's leaning like the Pisa tower'
All straighten up! 'Hey, you came with a friend!''Traitor! That's not burger buns, it's pancakes!! ATTACK!!!'
Before demolishing begins,It was a through and through attempt, the chicken and beef so tender, so innocent.........
And there is no hope of survival left for the burger. Muahahaha!!!
This is how it should go into your mouth. Altogether now!! No one gets left behind!Personally, I like the beef patty more because it was much more tender and flavorful than the chicken.......And the fries were big!!! It was such a huge plate that it took me quite a very long while to finish.

This is what Bee ordered, the Pan Fried Dory Fish that came with three 4-inch wheat pancakes.

The tomato up for sacrifice....
A closer look, 'Is it me or there's less tomatoes now?'

I got a third of that, and she got a quarter of mine. No wonder I was so stuffed!!

The pancakes are nice, though I couldn't really differentiate between her pancakes and my pretend buns. But it sure was nice to have a little sweetness instead of plain burger buns for a change.

Our drinks, her Peach Tea and my Chamomile Tea (Oo la la, no wonder I was calm about Odie.)
Thanks to Bee's camera, most of the pictures are clear.
And I was wonderfully stuffed for another day. Hehehehe!

Burnout

None suffered as greatly as Job in the Old Testament.


Job Job Job......


Thank God.
Freewill is comforting sometimes.

I wish they'd locked me up in a cell now.
I don't want to end up like her.

Vanity of vanities

I found this HUGE pair of sunglasses in my cousin's car and couldn't help myself.

Makes you grin or shake your head too, right?

I have this policy that I won't put up any photos with me in them here, but here I am breaking it.
THAT went on all the way to Qmall and all the way back. But I don't want to put the rest up. And there's only one with the lips that way. I blame it on the chamomile tea I had during lunchtime.

Coming back from lunch at PHOP (which I will blog about some other time), I saw that Odie has been.......raped. Badly. No notes left or sign of the culprit.

Yet I can still laugh about lunchtime and this above.
And somehow remembering this in the process.

Ecclesiastes 1 (King James Version)

1The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

2Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

3What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

4One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

5The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.

6The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.

7All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.

8All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

9The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

10Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.

11There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

12I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

13And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.

14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

15That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

16I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

17And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.

18For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Odie will be fine and so will I. :D
I'm laying it down for the joy of the Lord.

Junk food and the health inspector

From tomorrow onwards I have to forgo my junk food and instant noodles.

Why?

Because the health inspector is on his way home!!!!!!!
Eek! Bleah!

Which was why last night I more or less.......eliminate all proof of junk food. How?
Means go into my stomach la. Technically by now it has gone down the toilet.
The only proof is that I have a worst sore throat now.
Blame it on chillies. Teehehe!!!!

Houses are now spic and span waiting for inspection!
Dog been groomed!!
Healthy food have been bought to replace the empty spaces where junk food was!!!

The only trouble is..........I can't hide my stock of instant noodles.
There's at least 20 packets.
Oh boy, I hope no one mentions my food cabinet. Or opens it.

I swear if he repeats that line 'Your ideal weight is XXkg...... you should lose at least XXkg....etc etc etc'............he is so gonna get it this time.

Thank God it's only for a week.

I CAN DO IT!!!!

That aside, it's been a while. I can't wait to squeeze some kids!!!!!!! I wish San can like, follow me around and be my photographer....she sure can take good shots of how I want my face among the kids to be.

In the beginning....

There was darkness.
And then God said, 'Let there be light'
And there was light.

Spoken from a five year old at night.

'Hold my hand'
'Why?'
'I'm scared'

A conversation with another five year old at night.

It's beyond my understanding.
What is it about night and the little ones?
But it's good enough for me.

I have not been acting like an idiot for a very long time.....(donuts not counted! At least that was not in public.....)
Night Safari did me in. Squealing at almost every animal. Trying to wake up zebras sleeping on their legs and scaring deers to move. Sadly, they must be used to all that idiotic methods of gaining their attention. They just stared or totally ignored me. And the zebras slept on.
All around, most of all, it was awesome to see these creations of God. The rhinoceros and hippopotamus with such small ears and huge bodies. A nursing baby elephant. A lone white swan that should be in bed by then (I bet it was a teenage swan, rebelling). The prowling black panther that looks ready to eat you. Silly otters dancing in the water.
The zoo is the place to go to if you wanna be amazed and be filled again with child wonder.
Unless the sights of caged animals isn't your cup of tea.

Hello......

I'm still alive.

Some thoughts floating about (more like one themed thoughts).

Deciding on lightings for a whole house is difficult. So is a door handle.
And we are only halfway through.
I hope no one have to make such grown-up decisions as I did, skipping a few years, marriage and money-making part that helps build maturity thus make better decisions.
Sims or Sims 2 was fun, but real life is darn scary. Since there's no 'undo' button.
And money isn't just typing 'kaching!' or 'rosebud'. I miss my Sims.
The current colors in my blog represent the colors of my room.
I can't wait to see it all come together! *fingers crossed, it will be awesome!*

I hope I won't regret the choices I make, waking up to them for the rest of my life. *sigh*

That's all for now.
I actually planned a diarrhea of thoughts, recaps and stuff......but that would kinda defeat the purpose of having had a blog fast, won't it? :P