Condomium For Rent?!

PANTAI HILLPARK
- ANDALUCIA - THROUGH THE SLUMS...I SEE A GREEN OASIS OF CALM, PEACE AND
SOLITUDE - HEAVEN!

Well since i cant get a tenant for my apartment in Malaysia, i thought what the hell, mite as well advertise on my blog...that way i can get as many pictures of this gorgeous place as possible online.

We are so in love with our new place, we're taking our time to decorate this apartment to make sure that there is a theme at least..Making sure that everything matches...hopefully!and that it looks as cool to others as it does to us.

This pic on the right is the view from the kitchen patio...You know the are where you have the washing machine, and the airconditioning units etc..very pretty...looks out onto the pool

Above, is the living room.

This is the view from the main door. Tv, chinese antique chest, sofa, what you see is what you get. All are included.

The kitchen..marvelous - hood, hob, built ins, fridge, just get some gas and your ready to go!

The master bedroom washroom, toilet...dont you just love the details that have been added by YTL....

Concept is an open concept for the hall and dining. behind the curtains is an 8ft x 9ft balcony, which can double up as an information dining.

Away

Away again. 4 months into being a mom and im away again. i wonder does my little boy even know i am away. and if he does, am i a bad mother?honestly i hope he misses me as much as i miss him. The only way i deal with this is to imagine that the whole week, is just one long work day, and soon its going to be over!!!! In Hong Kong now, just in from Shanghai this morning, and will be back to KL tomorrow. Need to be up and at the airport in 5hours. All this i did since tuesday this week. What a life....and everytime i hear people say they love to travel, they want a job which allows them to travel, i roll my eyes, and think .."if only you knew"..

Travelling for business equals hours in airports, hours in taxis and limos getting to and from airports, spending time in the fanciest of hotel rooms, which you would never be able to afford if you were on a holiday with family, time with people who are sometimes the most boring people in the world whom you have to watch every single word you say...cuz businessmen are worse than nenek tua...every single word you say will be repeated over and over again with every1 else they meet.

The only thing that keeps me going is knowing that at the end of the week, i will be back with my boo boo's. Michael has been doing a great job with our boy. Rushing home from work cause i dont like nick to spend too much time with the maid. Fought with his boss in fact to go home and spend some time with our boy after work and his boss said something that made me think, we really need to get out of this raT race.

his boss told him (after he said at 8pm that he wanted to go back to spend time with his son) that "work is more important than family and that to succeed we need to make sacrifices". That's the reason why life in Asia sucks. Not the bad service, not the politics, not the conveniences...its the mentality. Work work work till you die..thats what every1 does.

Work is done out of necessity. Sometimes out of passion and very few people are that lucky. Family is what keeps you going. We do all this to keep our families comfortable, to sustain our dreams, to offer all there is to offer to our future, and we should write this down somewhere so that its never forgotten.

Anyone who happens across this blog, never sacrifice on love. Its not worth it.

The economics of Parenthood

Most blogs on parenthood talk about the joys, the goos, the gahs, the gurgles and the coos...but people dont share the truth about parenthood, that it requires a great deal of money these days to be a parent (or at least to be a lazy parent).

Nicholas is now almost turning four months..and he has sucked us dry. Not just on the necessities, the nesting instinct just makes me want to get him the best. Even if hypermarket stuff will do, i just must get him the best toys, the best books, the best stroller, the best car seat..and i tell you these manufacturers really know their customers. Im convinced that 90% of all web sites that claim to be by parents for parents, are getting a cut of the profits.

Diapers alone could drive a person to bankruptcy, much less the milk that they consume. All these web sites that talk about breast feeding and how great it is for kids, and how vital it is to their development (they of course dont mention how traumatic it can be for a first time mom to attempt breastfeeding after 24 hours of pain, bleeding, stitching, and piles) Missed out on one important link to the story - they should just provide on their welcome page a financial calculator!!!!

• Think about it a tin a week, at 35 bucks, so for 6 mths - 1000 bucks
• Bottles/sterilizing equipment/ and the works (must get the anti colic one cuz every1 has blown colic out of proportion and there actually aint no bottle in the world that does not give gas) - 400 bucks
• Swanky diaper bag - 400 bucks (like angelina jolie and brad pitts)
• bottle heaters - 100 bucks
• total of 2000 bucks just to feed a 3kg baby for 6 mths.

Breastfeeding cost = Zero..

Diapers is the other big cost...breastfeeding = less poop = less diapers to use = a richer household

Advice to new parents...love and all is fantastic, but to make sure you can keep the love alive, make sure you are financially ready for a child, else dont procede, much less have more than one!

And to all manufacturers out there, you guys are really milking us dry. It is an abuse of parental love, the reports that you print, and the prices that you then put on products which are suppose to be sooooo beneficial to our children. I assure you if any one sees this blog, i will start my shop, where we will not be taken for a ride by all these shops in KL.

FIFA 2006 : Italy wins and proves there is a GOD!

In the last 5 seconds of a football match, Italy gets a penalty in their favor and converts. Somehow, through all the euphoria of seeing these 11 (down to 10 by full time) gorgeous men win by a hair, you just know the pope had something to do with it.

It amazes me, how life always throws us curve balls. And you just realise that the saying " Man plans and god laughs" is the truest of all the quotes people have come up with.

Life as we know it

Sometimes melancholy takes over. A feeling that hey, ive done all this, now im here, all is good...bought my fridge, my microwave, an apartment, got married, had a kid, what else is there. Alternatively, sometimes when all is good, there is an impending fear that disaster is around the corner. Well the best advice i would give myself is live for today, and that is exactly what i have been doing...updating myself on other blogs on the net.

Over the weekend me and hubs were discussing what we can do as a family. We have been bumming around the house since i gave birth, cause its just so hard to plan an outing, to do anything that we used to do before the baby. No more having coffee with friends, no more dinner in swanky restaurants (its chillies or fridays for us..and in fact the mcD's at Midvalley was like a romantic dinner last friday)..that whole era of our lives is over. It takes about 2.5 hours for our family to get out of the house, by the time we are at our destination, we are shattered, nicholas is hungry, cranky, tired, and hot...and we are ready to go home. Life as parents is something else.

The conversation never found its conclusion, we were too tired to even think of activities. And so the weekends have been. and so the weekends will be..

.......at the end of the long day, with our eyes half open, as we were about to put our heads down, came the angelic sound of whats keeping us alive, and so so so happy..."Ah gurrrr...said nicholas with his famous gerber smile" and we survived another weekend smiling.

Reality Bites

Well the truth of the matter is im a new mom who has just returned to work and am bored stiff in the office thinking and fantasizing of ways and means to spend more time with my son who is now a week shy of being a dashing 3 month old tyke!

So i thought i should start a blog that i remember these precious days when i do miss him, and i want so much to be a mom before i get stuck in the rat race again. I know most women with & without children will think me medievil but i dream of being a stay at home mom. Its gotten so bad society that im actually embarrased to tell people that...all they would say is jeez u have a fantastic job and u want to give all that up to change diapers and clean poop all day long!!!! HOW WRONG THEY ARE....

Women are irrational, emotional creatures, and the biggest mistake in my mind is our so called battle for equality by trying to be as awful as men are...thats illogical and plain stupid. If all the women in the world were to stop working our husbands would all get promotions and would be able to quadruple their salaries based on the ratio of women to men (4:1) in cities in this day and age. Wouldnt that be great....we get to do all that we want with our babies, our relationships with our husband wont suffer cuz by the time they get home, we would have had it up to here with our lil monsters that they wil get all the attention they need and we could all live comfortably.

Today my son and i babbled with each other for almost two hours...indecipherable yet absolutely wonderful gurgles & coos! The day before yesterday his belly button finally inverted and today he was in an excellant mood. Playing with all his purple toys....

Thats another story...the reason barney is the favorite toy and he is PURPLE....KIDS LOVE PURPLE!

First Time Here

Its the first time so im a bit word shy and still just playing around to see how this works