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From newborn to toddler to preschooler, it’s amazing how one’s feature changes over time. When our children were tiny babies, it’s hard to tell whose features they’ve inherited. Then as they grow and reach a certain age, you stare at their faces and thought “Hey! I’ve seen that expression before!” Then you start to dig for those old albums of yours from the corner of your shelf and start flipping through them looking for evidence that they resemble you when you were younger.
Many times when we meet up with relatives, those from my side of the family tend to see that they resemble me or my parents. Those from P’s side would say they look more like him. Similarly, his friends would say they follow his features, and my friends mostly say they follow mine. Then we would either vouch for or go against their comments.
To avoid any form of disagreement, I’ll post up these pictures side-by-side and let you be the judge.
P vs Misha
Sarah vs Mika (I)
Sarah vs Mika (II)
P vs Anaqi
We both wanted to have a day out, just us without the kids. The idea was to have some fun by ourselves, bringing back the good old times from before our marriage days. Not saying that life isn’t good now, but just that one day to have that little time away, a break from the kids to restore a fraction of my sanity would be really great.
The initial plan was to send my 3 kids over to my parents’, but because of the whole kitchen/bathroom renovation going on at their place, we decided it’s best to let them stay home, and my siblings come over to babysit them instead.
So in the morning of Dec 20th, my siblings had come over (Thank you Dhiah, Ana & Musli!! Luv ya all!). We made sure we covered all their needs and made them comfortable (I hope!) with Internet, DVDs, baking ingredients, etc. P even cooked up a meal for them early in the morning – Ikan goreng sambal and sayur kicap with beef!
First itinerary of the day was to head down to StudioPerfect to have our couple makeover shoot. Bookings were made weeks earlier, and we’re both very excited we’re doing this again, many years after our previous makeover at CoverLooks.
I had my make-up and hair done by Diah and Nurul respectively (and yes, P got powdered too!), and photography by Nurul. It was a superfun shoot, and I’m not kidding! We laughed so hard till our tummies ache (Okay, at least mine did!)
Here’s one of the edited photos I snagged from their Flickr. (Nurul, hope you don’t mind…)
Ta-da!
Will post more photos as soon as they’re ready.
If you’d like to have your own makeover shoot at StudioPerfect, do email them to make your bookings now. For more details, visit http://etrangle.net.
After our shoot we headed down to Lido to watch the all-hyped movie, Avatar. The initial plan was to have our car parked back at our residential carpark, and take public transport to Orchard. In P’s words, “Dating naik kereta macam tak ada ‘feel’ gitu” (No ‘feel’ when you go on dates by car). Then he babbled about how I would be busily tweeting in the passanger seat while he drive and engage in minimal, or sometimes no, conversation throughout the journey. Haha!
But ultimately, the idea was scratched because we lost track of the time (don’t we all when we’re having fun, no?), and figured we might not reach Orchard in time by 3pm when we’re still at Pasir Ris at 2.30pm!*gasp* So zoomed down we did in our little red car, and by God’s will, we managed to avoid the heavy traffic along Orchard Road – the norm during X’mas season.
Generally, Avatar’s a great movie to watch (in my opinion at least). I love the whole storyline, and of course, the action-packed stuff. The whole magic mushroom journey leads us to believe James Cameroon may potentially be a hippie, hurhur!
Anyway…
Post-movie, we went for dinner. We wanted to have dinner at Carousel initially, but no thanks to a late reservation weeks earlier, they were not able to accommodate us. So luckily, we’re able to reserve seats for two at Straits Kitchen, Hyatt!
We ate to the brims of our tummies! I managed to stuff myself five plates of their buffet spread, while P only had two (he blamed the large popcorn he had during the movie earlier that he couldn’t consume more).
P enjoying his Indian meal
…my second serving…
After a full stomach, it was time we headed home to reunite with our kids. It has been a very fun and enjoyable day for the two of us, and we wish to have more of such outing in future, especially more so once we have a helper around, insyallah.
At Hyatt Hotel lobby.
12.12.2009 marks the day my second cousin, Syiq, ties the knot with long-time beau, Zainal. Five years ago, on this very day, it was P & I who walked down the aisle as husband and wife. Fancy them sharing the same wedding date as ours! Heh.
I also came to know that the groom is a very close cousin of my office colleague. Talk about small world!
To Syiq and Zainal, a brand new chapter in your lives has begun! May Almighty grant you all the happiness life will bring.
More photos can be found on my Flickr site: Syiq’s Wedding Photos
After nearly 7 years, it’s time to bid goodbye to my existing webhost, SGDomain. It is during this period that I was able to pick up PHP web design on my own, created a number of fan pages for Valentino Rossi and Camoranesi of Juventus. But ultimately, I am now no longer able to maintain it, so I’ve decided to stop renewing the hosting service.
At the moment, it is hosting mismyra.net. It’s a small gallery I initially put up using PHP webpages – it has a couple of albums including my best-friend’s wedding (Yati), my engagement photos, and also my wedding and honeymoon photos. But sometime ago when I had signed up for a multiply account, I had migrated these photos (or mostly) there.
So if you haven’t got a chance to view them yet, here’s your last chance before it goes down permanently. You can view them at http://mismyra.net before 31st December 2009.
I would still retain the domain for future use.
My girlfriends, Ria and Sue, are embarking on a new project called Suu.Chic.Baby, an online shop showcasing chic and fashionable line of clothing, brought in from the USA, for baby girls and boys. These items are perfect for Christmas gifts, Birthdays and even Baby showers!
My personal favourite is their Mudpie Baby Buds and Gifted Initials Tote (see pictures)
Mudpie Baby Buds
Gifted Initials Tote
Do feel free to check out their range of products here: http://suuchicbaby.multiply.com
If these adorable items are your cup of tea, go ahead and start making your online purchase now! 
I took an IQ Test on Facebook and got a result of 197. Apparently I beat Albert Einstein AND Bill Gates. (o_O)
So smart, huh? For REAL OR NOT?!
Dear P,
Today marks 5 years since we’ve been married, and 13 years since I’ve known you. This is to thank you for all these years. I appreciate the sacrifices you make that allows us to go this far. I’m grateful to the One above to be truly blessed with this family that we’ve built, to be thankful for the walks of life we’ve traveled together no matter how rough or smooth-sailing they can be. We share everything life has given us, and given back good what we could. I hope with each day we spend together our love will grow and forever blossom. Cheers to these 5 years. Here’s loving you today and always.
Happy Anniversary!
xoxo,
Sarah
Looks like these kids are being forced to smile here. See how Misha turned from all demure-looking in her class photo last year, to all gangsta-looking in this year’s.
And….can you spot the-one-who-cannot-stand-still? >_<
Have you ever had that butterfly-in-your-tummy feeling when you’re caught in a situation where you needed to make a decision but you do not have enough time to really sit and consider, yet you set out to (or about to) make that decision anyway, even though you’re bound with uncertainty that down the long winding road that you’re taking, you’re going to regret or be content with that very decision you make?
When you thought there might be a greener field on the other side of the fence, yet each time you want to take a peek something holds you and assures it’s always greener where you stand, but yet all you see is thick mist and fog that come and go?
That’s exactly how I’ve been feeling of late.
I know I should have performed solat ‘istihara to seek for guidance, but the intent was shortlived (no thanks to Ms Flo). I sat and kept thinking about it again and again, but all I see is gray. How can I be sure? What if all go wrong? Who will I blame, myself?
Then yesterday as I stepped into the train, going home from work, quite oblivious to my surrounding I kept meddling with my phone, until halfway throughout my journey, I looked up. And the first this thing I saw?
This FOX advert.
Is THIS a sign?
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For those who asked, it’s not the guy in the picture (who cares who he is, right?), check out his shirt!
For years I’ve been using Livejournal to host my blog, and now it’s time to move on to a new arena; a place where there are more functionality and easy customization to suit my needs.
So here I am now at WordPress, having imported all my entries back from year 2004 to-date.
What’s left to do now is to re-map my aprima.org domain which requires at least 72 hours to take effect.
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Domain name www.aprima.org has now been mapped to my WordPress blog. Finally!
