Bye 2013 ... Hi 2014!

在家看直播跨年, 和宝贝儿子一起度过1314! 

Spending my countdown with my beloved son at home watching live show from Seremban & Taiwan! 

WOO HOO... HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Happy 4th Anniversary to us!

It was today I married the father of my son. 4 years of marriage was wonderful with lots of ups & downs in life. Though there were bumps & pit holes on the road but we both nourish our relationship with love & hope. 

Dear hubby, despite of numerous ups & downs, we have learnt through mistakes and thus understand each other through every argument. 4 years and still counting ... love you more each day! 

Q-Dees Annual Concert 2013

My Little Elvis  

Attended his first ever school annual concert at Asia City Convention Hall. Had a big fight with him wearing this banana rock & roll 60's costume, was crying all the way. He didn't like it and of course the performance did not turn out as good as I expected. He was in extreme bad mood the whole night and the above picture was the only decent pic I snapped, lucky enough! 

Moral of the story: Do not expect a 3yo to discipline at a performance. 

Mid Autumn Festival

I love festivals! Festivals literally means gathering & celebration with families. We don't have a huge family, I don't need to crack my head cooking full course meal all the time, just enough for my small family here.

 

Simple yet heart-warming home-cooked from Creamy Kitchen! 

Adrian's first traditional lantern experience, 

he has more interest with the candles than the lantern!

Happy 3rd Birthday to my lovely darling boy!

Time flies! Adrian is a big toddler now! He finally love birthday & got really excited for cake cuttings. 
Birthday celebration marathon for Adrian, from school in the morning and a small family gathering at home at night. 

First round - morning session at Q-Dees Fortuna 

Second round - afternoon session at day-care center Taska Ashee 

Third & final round - family dinner at home 




He had too much cakes this year, so we replaced it with our very own home-made "Liangpopo's egg tarts".
p/s: he loves egg tarts, that's why the grandma suggested to bake him our very own egg tart. 



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Home-cooked from Creamy's Kitchen & cute Pocoyo cookies ordered from a home-baker (Birdie)

Ketupat-Lantern Party at Q-Dees Fortuna

Attended the Ketupat-Lantern Party Little Tiger's school. A meaningful parents-teachers event, appreciate his teachers took the effort to organize such a meaningful event for all teachers, parents & children to get together, we eat, play & had some fun time doing hand crafts (lantern). 

Adrian and even took part in the eating moon cakes competition and surprisingly got the first prize! 

Mums are great!

Motherhood is a tough 24-hour job! No pay, no day off and sometimes it is unappreciated, but yet resignation is impossible.

A mother is a woman who created to bring love, joy, happiness and caring into his world.

A mother's work is never done.

Happy Mother's Day to my beloved Mummy a.k.a Oma (I started to call her in that way after all the Korean drama fever)! Mum, I finally know how tough a mother has to be ... thanks for all your hard sweat contribution to me all these years, even until now!

I LOVE YOU

I can’t wait until my little tiger is old enough to secretly make me a handmade Mothers’ Day card!

It was my first Mothers’ Day! I was 5-months pregnant last Mothers’ Day & I celebrated it as a ‘half mummy’ with my mum because I haven’t earned enough point to become a real mum yet. This year I celebrated it as a new mummy, I was way too excited about it. And I finally feel like a mum!

There is a saying where you're not earned being a mum until you have spent those late nights feeding your baby, getting spit up, changing the smelly diapers, dealing with his teething tantrums & rocking a baby that just won’t fall asleep whole night long. Though it’s tough but I’ve loved every minute of it and absolutely overjoyed about it.

Today … I’m not only celebrating Mothers’ Day, I’m celebrating it as I’ve lived through 8 months joining the mummy club!

We did not really do anything fancy, hubby booked 4 rooms at Shangri-La’s Rasa Ria Resorts and we enjoyed the whole weekend there with the rest of the family members (6 mummies altogether). That’s the greatest & my most favorable moment spending time together with my family and I consider that as the best thing in life.

Cheers to all mummies!

... with my little tiger biting his bun besides me ^_^

Thanks to the complimentary Champagne from the management of Shangri-La's RRR

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My Birthday & My Gifts

So I did not get what I wanted from My Wish List , I got this from Denise, an advance gift from her ... the perfect gift ...

An Esprit gift card worth RM100

Gift card / certificate is definitely the best gift ever, an excellent idea I'd say. I now have 101 reasons for myself to shop in Esprit!

The gift card was accompanied by a can of baked beans ... because I have been starving myself with baked beans almost every lunch. She called me baked beans!

I laughed out loud the minute I saw this with the baked beans ...

Also, greeted by the Angry Bird from hubby & a piece of lovely cake from mum on my birthday!


Colleagues brought me out for a birthday lunch at City Mall yesterday. I consider myself lucky to have them as my colleagues, they are a bunch of kind people! At least I have a birthday lunch on my actual day!

Looking forward to another round of celebration at Shangri-La's Rasa Ria Resort coming 7 May.

p/s: Parents & hubby promised to buy me Coach during our trip to KL end of May as my belated gifts ... that means I'll get 2 Coach in May! ^_^

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My Wish List ...

It's my favorite month of the year because it's my birthday month. Normally, I dislike people ask what do I want for my birthday, I'm the kind of girl who loves surprises. I'd wait for my best romance to appear on that special day, hoping that I would get some out-of-ordinary gifts.

As my age approached 30, that kind of romance wish gradually fade out. I don't hope for that kind of surprise anymore. They tend to disappoint me, I would rather having a 'no romance' than a 'bad romance'.

So this year ... I came up with a wish list...

If I get these, I'd be happy because I get what I really want.
If I don't get these & get some other surprises, I'd be extra happy.
However, if I get 'nothing' again like last year ... I ain't gonna celebrate birthday anymore!

So here is my list:-

Stick Mixer

If you read my previous post on Creating a little foodie, then you would know why I need this. This is so much convenient than using a blender.


H2O Face Oasis Ultra Hydrator

Simply need it. My existing bottle is finishing soon ... I mean very soon, real soon!


Casio White Sporty Watch

I need a casual sporty watch for my weekend / Sunday outing so that I don't need to wear my Tag Heuer even on Sundays. And I particularly want a white color one ... just love it!


Coach Poppy Leather Rocker (Cobalt)


Needless to say ... my all time favorite -- Coach

OR

Coach Poppy Denim Patchwork Rocker (Light Khaki Multi)

Another pattern!

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Happy Bunny Year!

Wishing everyone a prosperity Lunar Bunny Year
with an abundance of
joy, love, happiness, wealth and good health!

一年复始，万象更新！
小女子在此恭祝各位
新年愉快,身体安康,喜气洋洋,和乐融融
兔年行大运！

Love,
Azizan, Sylvia & Little Adrian

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Farewell to 2010 ~ A Big Welcome to 2011

Happy New Year
to all my families & friends, my sincere gratitude to everyone who walked passed my life throughout the year.

2010 has been an incredible and a fruitful year to me!

I officially joined the "Mrs. Club" in January and joined the "Mummy Club" in September. I'm so grateful all these happened in just one year! Time passed extremely fast especially when everyone is looking forward to welcome a new little miracle last year.

I welcomed the brand new year of 2011, updating my Facebook status. It was my first time doing the New Year countdown in my room accompanied by my laptop and live show from Taipei. Adrian slept through the year from 2010 to 2011, despite of all the fireworks outside the house. He had his first milk of the year at 5am this morning and his first smile of the year at 9:50am while he woke up from a good night sleep! ^_^

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Majlis Bergunting (Hair Cutting Ceremony) for Adrian

This post is a little bit late, but it's finally up as promised!

I don't actually know much about this tradition, according to hubby and my in-laws, this is a part of the Malay culture symbolizes the end of a mother's 40 day confinement after childbirth and its a right of passage for the baby. While the hair cutting shall be a fresh start in life I guess. I presume this tradition should be similar to our baby full moon or baby shower kind of ceremony.

Most of the Malay do this right after the 40 days of confinement but our circumstances did not allow us to do that as my in-laws were in Mecca performing their Haji-ship. So the family decided to do it on Saturday, 4 December 2010, which was about 2 weeks ago. Nothing really significant with the date, but it was just a convenient date for all the family members to attend.

The ceremony was a success one, it started with a prayer and it went on smoothly with all the elderly cutting a little bit of his hair. His hair was then kept in a young coconut and later thrown in the ocean by his grandfather.

Before the ceremony, I've got zero knowledge on what it's gonna happen and what they gonna do on Adrian. Though I was told that not all his hair is cut, but I was kind of worried that he would become a little monk after that. It was just my stupid thought, Adrian was absolutely safe in the daddy's protected arm on that day, everyone was guided which part of his hair to cut. Even the eldest man cut it out of harm's way with his shaking hands and blurred vision. Anyway, the entire ceremony was a good one, it had been a great experience for me, I've learnt something new again.

The Gallery

Our first family pix in Malay costume

It's definitely an honour to have Kung Kung & LiangPoPo
witnessing this memorable moment

The mummy & the prince

Adrian was protected at all times

The memorable moment

The young coconut was placed on a ceremonial tray,
accompanied by kunyit (turmeric) & bunga rampai (fragrant flowers)

Adorable cupcakes for the guests

And last but not least ...

Adrian's first plane ride ... he was sleeping throughout the entire journey

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To be true for You & Me

On this day last year, you & I were in our plain white costume, you uttered the marriage vow in one breathe in front of the imam and our family members, we signed the paper and exchanged our rings. You and I became husband & wife!

I can’t believe how fast this one year went by. We have our trials and struggles just like everybody else, but we have learnt to look past the imperfect parts and noticed the great parts, at the same time working on our imperfections. A year has passed and we are celebrating our first anniversary together with our son today. We’ve gone through various experiences together this year, though the process are pretty tough but it’s all good, I would describe those as sweet challenges.

you’re never a romantic or lovey-dovey kind of hubby that gives me lots of surprise everyday;

you never shower me with lots of gifts even on special occasions;

you do not simply say that 3 ‘magic words’ to make me happy all the time.

BUT

you surprise me unknowingly without showing off to others;

you showered me with lots of loves & jokes everyday, I love the way you have me in your mind every minute & second;

your occasionally cuddle warm my heart, it symbolizes all your love to me.

I know I’m somehow a demanding & fussy wife, I always do. Thanks for being there and bear with me all the time!

We had our advance celebration on Sunday. No candle light dinner, no surprise gifts, no sweet talks. It was just a sweet outing at One Borneo and followed up with a simple dinner, just the 3 of us...

Our anniversary is a time to look back at the good times and a time to look ahead to live our dreams together. I’m perfectly blessed when you came into my life, my life with you is never boring!

Dear, Happy Anniversary … more to come!