A Polka Dot invite.

Haven't been writing these days...
I have been studying these day... On and off to be honest.. (tsk tsk tsk)... Not consistently...

Do you have that moment when your boss asked you some questions and you can't answer even though you HAD read about it 2-3 nights ago, but NOW you can't remember? 

And then you feel super lousy because now you boss thinks you never study what he/she asked you to... As you grow older, you can't help but bow to the regression of brain cells.. And the fact that memory do tend to decline too... Oh well, guess I just have to keep study and study and repeat the same thing over and over again until my brain decided "OKOKOK Enough I'll store it in the temporal lobe now PERMANENTLY".

But one thing that I have learnt is that - I can multitask all I want but not when studying.....
Last time, I can listen to songs, sing to it and even cook halfway study AND still able to understand and remember what I had read through... Now, I have to sit quietly and focus and concentrate... And read slowly.... Hahaha.. Otherwise it's hard to understand. If you don't understand the flow of the facts, you can't remember it well... *&%$@&!!! Oh well, I'll complain some other day about this...


So.... lately I have been quite busy... with....

PLANNING FOR BABY MAYA'S FIRST BIRTHDAY PARTY THAT IS!

SHE IS TURNING ONE THIS COMING APRIL....!!!!

We have been blessed with her presence in our lives and she is such a joy to be around..

She laughs at anything, prompted anyhow.. Hahahhaha
You don't need to have an apple a day... You just need to have a Maya... lalalallala~~

You will be exhausted no doubt, but you will find every waking moment of your living day is so worth coming home to this little angel who has little little small features that takes over form you, some from you beloved hubby... I look at her, sometimes I see myself, 20 years ago punya face... At times I actually see my sister's face in her! Hahaha... Weirder is that my cute niece, LeSleepingBeauty actually looks more like me and LeSister, when we were young than her mother... What can you do when genes' taking their course!

Here is it... The super giant invite that I have posted up on my FB event...

So super cute right!!! Made with love love love by yours truly!

We will be having a small party with friends (of mine and Dear Hubby's of course) and we hope Baby Maya will make some new friends there!!!

Weekend come and gone....
Yesterday we went to this Boarder Cafe we found! Wish I have time to blog it...
Made a dinner reservation at 6pm for some Thai food tonight!!!
Need to go get ready while that cheeky girl of mine is still sleeping....

Will blog more soon-ish... Hahaha..

Laters...

#PrayforMH370

A dark cloud hovers above our nation today.

A sad piece of news taunting the rest of the day.

A tragedy have fallen.

Really was quite unsettling perturbing news early in the morning.

I suppose the news would have been on everybody's newsfeed by now. 

MAS flight MH370 KL to Beijing lost contact with the main navigation since around 2am today and no one seem to be able to detect the aircraft or the total of 239 passengers (plus crews) including 2 children onboard. The list is here and my heart goes out to all relatives and friends of the affected ones. Latest update was that the ?plane crashed into Vietnam Sea and search teams from many countries have been activated to help and rescue. Yet so far, no news. All next of kins have been informed. And it is still not confirmed if the plane really had indeed crashed into the sea.

To some, it may be just 'another aircrash'.

To me, it is much more. 

To me, it is the MAS airplane which crashed. Or 'lost contact'.

We fly by MAS. We are the Enrich members. Even the mere 10mo Baby Maya has flown more than 10 times by MAS. And it was a MAS aircraft Boeing 777 lagi! One of the safest plane, supposedly. If that can happen to MAS... I can't bear to think further. 

To me, flying is the only mode of transport for me to see my family. Takkan I take a ship and travel one week all the way back to peninsula to see my parents. Takkan I ask them to do the same to come visit me! This piece of sad unfortunate news will forever be in my mind whenever I fly and there is heavy rain or thunderstorm or turbulence. It might take me some time before flying, to be honest.

Some smart asses - blaming the pilot and even the government. What! Accusing the MAS of being inefficient, retorting that the search team being inefficient. What's the point la..... 

Some even blame the pilot, calling him 'useless', as if it was his fault. Why laaa... Newsflash: he is one of  the 239 missing victims. He is a senior pilot, having flown more than 18k hours. I bet he is a safe and good and brave captain. He was in-charge of the aircraft and responsible for the rest of the people in his plane. I am sure for someone as experienced as him, he would have done everything he could to save the plane and the rest to avoid such catastrophe. I am sure he is a good and caliber man. Have mercy on him and his family. They are suffering enough with the fear of losing him. No need to haunt and cause more troubles. Respects to him. He might have flown us many times and we are still safe and sound. Thank you, Captain.

And what's with the dumb people making jokes about the crash and the insensitive comments about the missing people. I don't even bother sharing it here. You can see those in my Twitter account @wendy_choc or any other sites.

Some even politisicing it. I don't know if there is such word but I don't care. Hey people, this is 239 lives we are talking about!!! Two children lehh!!! ARE YOU STUPID OR LOST YOUR HEART AND SOUL??? Why you wanna connect politic to tragedy of such scale??? Nobody thinks you are funny. Nobody thinks you are smart. 

These are people's somebody someone. All those people have loved ones waiting for them to come home safely. Please have respect. 

To be fair, when the AirFrance crashed in 2009, I remembered it took them a long grave 5 or 6 days to find the bodies. And not all bodies were found. Some were just pieces of it. What do you expect the search team can find in less than 24 hours? They are already bearing the bad weather in Vietnam, risking their own lives, trying their very best to find the aircraft and/or survivors and those of you, sitting comfortably at home in your sofa clicking your iPhone, actually have the decency to scold and accuse them of 'inefficient' and 'useless'. If you can dive all the way down thousands of meter under sea level, go volunteer and help la. If not, don't talk so loud so much and no need to point finger. Sit tight and pray and their safety (those in MH370 and of the search team - high risk profession too).

I keep imagining the fear the 239 people in the MH370 must have undergone, knowing what was going to happen in the flight. I hope nobody experienced pain. I keep thinking of the two poor children. They must have been so afraid, not understanding what was happening. I'm sure they were in their parents' tight embrace. They are so young. As I type this, Maya is just sleeping next to me. This is very hard to accept and take in. 

LeCousin said her friend's cousin's whole family were in the plane. It was supposed to be a happy family vacation. At least they had each other at that moment. I don't know if it is a comforting thought or tragic. Her friend's sister was supposed to be in the plane. She missed the flight because of the notorious KL traffic jam. 

For once, I don't curse the jam. It was like she was fated to miss the flight. 

When tragedy like this happens, you can't help but stop and ponder.

Life is so short. Anything can happen. Anytime.

Everything might have been destined. 

I don't know. You don't know. Nobody knows.

Only He does.

What a sad sad disheartening news for Malaysia today.

#PrayforMH370 

Deeply sorry to all the family members of the passengers of MH370.

So very sorry.

#ourprayersbewiththem

Not a very happy day to blog happy stuff. Or about women's day.
In fact, it is a gloomy day over here in Malaysia for us.

All of us are praying for the safety of the 239 passengers 'lost' in MH370 flight from KL - Beijing earlier today. Of those, 2 are infants.

My heart just winched when I read it. Very disturbing news. I rather it be a cruel joke.

It's a sad day for our nation.

My heart just goes out to the family members of the passengers.
Even more to the 2 babies onboard and the rest of the passengers and crews onboard as well.
They must be in terrifying state, shocked and scared. Hopefully not in pain.

Keep wondering how can a modern plane be undetectable or 'lost contact'? I mean, it is a big plane with all the canggih technology, right. Best case scenario is that the plane has mechanical technical problem and had to stop somewhere emergency and managed to land somewhere safe but no satellite connection (okay at this point, I'm not sure if they contact via satellite or whatever else mode of connections that I have never heard of) and thus unable to 'contact' the main tower and then found out no proper runway to take off and also no fuel. So they are merely stranded and everybody is fine. Safely and soundly complaining about MAS planes being inefficient.

This especially touches my heart and soul because all these while, I have always wanted to go Beijing and see its sophisticated city and admire its beautiful modern people and enjoy its cultural richness and climb the Great Wall of China and do something forbidden in the Forbidden City, like conceive a baby there (something that I always joked around with my close friends, pre-Maya times).

Just last September or October, we were actually planning to book a trip to Beijing in March 2014. Cheaper fares for all government servants.
What stopped us then was that I left my credit card at home, in PineappleLand.

Just shudder recalling that.
Choy choy choy!!!

We hope that the authorities and the rescue team will and can quickly find them before more speculations made by insensitive public taunting the poor family. Be strong and hold on to your hopes.

It's been more than 6 hours. If even Dear Hubby and I are anxious to this level, I can't imagine how it is for the ones involved. I hope they will update us soon.

I think I speak for all when I say all our prayers are with them.
Please let them find all the 239 people.
May God bless them. And their family waiting at home. Let them all go home safely.

Happy Birthday to Me!

Super belated birthday to me.. *lalala*

I did have quite the superb birthday... *lalalala*

Thank you dear friends for all your kind wishes.. I'm bound to be happy for the rest of my life with the abundance of blessed wishes! *lalalalala*

Turned 29 earlier this week. 

Wow... I'm old. 

But I don't feel old. Which in a twisted kind of way quite confusing. Sometimes I don't know how a 29-year-old supposed to behave or should have owned or should have done or dress, for that matter.

I figure, I'd just live MY life My way, set my own rules and we shall see from there.

Flashing back to when I was 16, sitting behind the classroom with my best friend, talking about our futures. I still remembered parts of our conversation... How fun those"adults" 22-year-old working and driving their own cars and how anything above 25 sounded sooo "old" and then reassuring ourselves that those were "so far away so many years lagi don't think so much".  

Bam! Here we are. And I have a child already. Everything that I have achieved seems so "adult" but sometimes I still feel like the sixteen, eighteen-year-old me. As though, nothing have changed! Oh well, young at heart they say!

Dear Hubby stumbled upon this selfie and exclaimed, "You seem like you never age at all! You still look like the 19yo girl I first saw in anatomy class. But now with better clothes and fashion sense".
Like I would ever let myself dress shabbily or out of style... Hahaha!!!
So this has officially become my favourite picture, ever!!! ❤️ Best compliment ❤️

*cheers to more 29 years to come!!!*
At least I know that all the money I splurged on cosmetic, product care for vanity was not in vain!
Always invest on yourself first!!!
You will never go wrong with that investment! Hahaha....

On my birthday eve, Dear Hubby prepared my all-time favourite breakfast (from when I was a medical student in Cold Moscow). Maggi curry instant noodle + egg + sausages, a cup of hot Nescafe and a side of magazine. So sweet my man!!!❤️❤️❤️

My dearest darling giving me one of her favourite mini teddy, although that was originally mine... Hahaha.. Oh well, she had given me an even more tactful gift that day - a rare 2.5-whole-hour afternoon nap, which gave me a joyful peaceful two-full-hour for myself!!! *best gift* ❤️

❤️This shiny new black-framed gorgeous glasses that I have been sporting recently.... is actually my early birthday pressie from Dear Hubby... ❤️

Me all geared up for the 'MOST IMPORTANT EVENT OF THE DAY'!!!!*cracking fingers* 

Hahahaha... Bersemangat wake up for the free RM100 cash voucher at Parkson The Spring with purchase of RM300. LOL!!!! Inadvertently it was on my birthday eve!! ❤️ Perfect perfect!!!!

I was there at the strike of 10am, already there were many cars parked and soooooo many ladies mostly (like myself) at the cosmetic department liaoooo... Check out the queue for the voucher!!! *faint* Gua queued up for more than one hour okay!!! But it was all WORTHWHILE because after that I have more to shop!!!

Very twisted financial advice, which would probably make me the worst example in finance class. "Spend to spend more? You, don't be like you anymore. The rest of you, don't follow her". Shoo me out of the class.

*Head up Chin up* Continue queueing.... No time like the present for a selfie!

Presents for myself! ❤️❤️ My buy that morning - pretty baby blue wedges from Hush Puppies and primer make up base + moisturiser essence (small size) from Laneige. 

Then we headed to Manhattan Fish Market for lunch. Heavenly creamy garlic herb mussel with bread and a heartful tasteful garden salad for starters. Followed by FLAMING SEAFOOD platter!!! *burp*

This man who never failed to surprise me... He brought me balloons this year!!! With smiley faces.. *teehehehheee* I love him! ❤️❤️❤️

Outfit of the day.. New chocolate knee length skirt with loose ruffles on the sides with a black modest simple top. And a pair of heels to match! No, I did not take a day off.. My mum LeHomemaker probably did, 29 years ago. Hahaha... 

The loves of my life! Brought me out to celebrate birthday dinner at FullHouse, the new upcoming cafe at CityOne Mall. Very girlie with its white pristine layout of the two-storey shop. Very heavily K-pop cutesy themed decors. *me likey likey*

As you can see here, the sofa is of white leather. White table tops. White lanterns dotting the area giving out a very cozy ambience. Crystal chandeliers hanging from the top with flowing dreamy white curtains giving much of the princessy-in-a-castle kind of vibe.

Our drinks of the night! Mojito and Honey Pomelo. Note the details - cute stirrer and straws!

Mushroom soup with crunchy almond flakes. I am a mushroom soup fanatic and THIS ABSOLUTELY ROCKED!!! ❤️Can even bite the chunky mushroom bits!!!

Layout of our meal of the night - Korean-style soft shell crab with glass noodle and kimchi on the side for him while I had FullHouse famous chicken chop with mashed potato and greens.

OMG!!! SUPER DELECTABLE SUPER DELICIOUS!!! ❤️ I don't know what dark brown sauce what Korean recipe was that, but it was sooooooo yummy!!! ❤️

Both of us still couldn't figured out what that round round thing was - not nut, not pea. Tasted like grapes? What a special thing to be in a sauce. Well, perhaps that explains the yummiliciousness of it!!!

Happy family at Full House!!!