Rather than coming up with ten thousand excuses for my long silence, and my many promises of updating this blog every other day, why don't I write a little about my friend Ashley. Even though we have not met (sure hope we will one day), it is such an honour to even know of her existence. I am being dramatic? Of course, not!  Pay her a visit at Lil Blue Boo, if you don't believe me. I stumbled upon her blog last year while looking for a weekend craft project to keep my girls occupied. Till today I am still thanking google for her! I didn't just find a blog with a chock-full of ideas plus detailed idiot-proof tutorials, I got to know Ashley. She is an amazingly gi...

[Picture nicked from my fellow bootcamper's blog www.arminbaniaz.com] I love blogging. But I love "doing nothing" even more ....... at times. This is what happened in March. I was in a staring-into-space-and-doing-nothing mood when my girls were at school. Why? I was depressed. I injured my left knee so NO BOOTCAMP and NO RUNNING for me. Without my get-me-up every morning I felt lost, lousy and helpless. I tried to drown my sorrows by taking afternoon naps. I felt worse. I ended up getting migraine and felt worse. I should have known cos me and naps have never been the best of friends! Actually I have no one else to blame but myself. When my left knee ...

This is the perfect scene I would love to wake-up to everyday, if I have my way. I always dreamt of living  by the sea with my man during our retirement days. We will have our dream house then, incorporating two of our must-haves ....... a whole floor for his music room and a super humongous craft room for me filled with all my "toys". Here we will live our perfect lifestyle, away from the hustle bustle of the city life, with the sea as the backdrop. We will start our days with an early morning run by the sea, followed by a full session of pilates and many many hours of crafting (for me) and reading (for him). Here no cooking is required (yeah!), and my man wil...

It has been a long, long time since we took a local holiday. Each time, we would prefer to take the kids overseas, always planning and deciding which country we should visit, and constantly on the look-out for cheap airfares. Its a natural progression for a developing society and country, I suppose. Can't help thinking about the holidays that I had, when I was my daughters' age - its always to the rest of the states in Malaysia, and farthest I ever went before I went to Australia to further my studies, was to Singapore. And that was by coach! The last time we took a local holiday, was 7 years ago. My elder daughter was 3 years old then, and we desperately needed...