TAGGED - 2ND TIME

I have been tagged by Laura's Paris Cooking Notebook -

LAURA , I HAVE ALSO TAGGED YOU ON THE 22ND NOVEMBER 2008... This time I have to take a little bit longer to fill up the rules of the game... hope you won't mind... see you soon.

Thursday, December 11, 2008

I have been tagged

I have been tagged by Simone whose blog I visit regularly.
Let's make this blog chain an opportunity to visit blogs 'round the world.

First of all, I'd like to welcome my dear friend Spangler Cummings , from Malibu, California, in the blogshpere!

To have a good start, let's kick it off with a kiss or beso from Karina who blogs from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Royal T Lady from Malaysia, brings delightful memories, everyday things, and delicious recipes, such as this Fish Curry while sipping tea.

Chez le Laquet writes out of his home in Kent, England, about all the things he loves: family, traveling, music, cooking and recipes, eating in & out with loved ones & friends, France, the Internet, teaching & learning, shopping, reading and new shoes.

If you're looking for good recipes, visit Morsels and Musings since Anna in her Sydney, Australia home spends most of her time thinking about food and sharing her recipes with us.

Pomegranate and Patchouli Alya, who writes from Kuwait, wants her blog to be sweet, colorful and exotically intoxicating.

So, dear bloggers, these are the rules:
1. Link to the person who tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Write six random things about yourself.
4. Tag six people at the end of your post and link to them.
5. Let each person know they've been tagged and leave a comment on their blog.
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is up.

Enjoy the journey!
12/12/08: UPDATE FROM LONDON!
Thank you Simone, you're right when you say you didn't do rule #3 young lady....hehe (though not so young I must say ..)
So here they are:
> I love traveling (I am in London, I was in Amsterdam last week, I'll fly to Los Angeles in february and could do more and more ..)
> I am a Clinical Psychologist (PhD) of psychoanalytic orientation. The reason why I'm saying this about myself is is that I "forgot" to follow rule 3 ..
> I have been married to Jean-Louis for almost 35 years (that's why I said "not so young")
> If I had the money, I'd buy a trip in the space shuttle (grew up with Sputnik and the space race)
> I still do not know what I'd like to have for Christmas
> I love computers, emails, blogs, statistics, google, and the like.
Now you know!

Posted by A World in a PAN at 8:42 AM 8 comments

REASONS FOR BEING ABSENT

Latest and simplest... From an amateur beader... Took me two days to complete...including intermission of lunch break, Harith's chores ect, etc......

 

This dress aged ten years old... a make-over on the sleeves

 
Another make-over (above) ... it was previously beaded for AH's Mama's wedding reception...(below). Carefully unpicked every single beads and re sewn... on the sleeves only.

 My first bead work done for Harith's Mama's third wedding reception held in our home...two years back. A daring attempt on this art work using needles, threads and beads. The sewing was done on the sleeves, on the body's middle portion, bottom corner and shoulder... The design was beaded on the batik prints of 100% cotton fabric. 
The fabric was a gift from my elder sister, Paezah. TQ sis.

Free Estee Lauder bag was half beaded for a little glitter.  It was beaded on a denim fabric with ready-made floral design.

Below was thought to be the best... a few days later...I changed my mind and  it transformed as above... The fabric was a 53rd birthday gift from La Vie en-rose...

Below was how it once looked like. I thought it was too simple and resulted as the above... the completed version. This costume was another gift from my sis Paezah.

Below... lilac Baju Kurong with One of my favorite designs ...

 A head scarf that was 10 years old and traced with beads to add glitter and a little face lift...



Since "The Lady Next To ME" is home after her major SMP exam... less of my time was spent in this blog ... thus I missed reading blogs and email updates

BUT trust me...time was well spent.....most of it was with my needles, beads and sleeves of my dresses... My bedroom carpet and floor suddenly became pricky... they were caused by  fallen beads that missed the needle and thread...

I have not ventured further by using sequins and bigger stones... perhaps later...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Thank you children, my beloved children and grandson

Birthdays come and go

People gets older each passing month, year and by the seconds too

Children do remember the date without fail

Because they LOVE their mothers so much

Beautiful words are scribed twice a year

Once earlier in May, on Mother's Day

The next would be in December for her birthday

They are not easily forgotten by them

Thank you children of the Blessed Family....

Pst....dearest blogger friends...

From December the 4th till today...25th December 2008, I feel so detached from this blog sphere... I just dunno how to begin but knew too well how to end...

Happy New Year, Enjoy ALL the gatherings you are having....

I have SOOOOOoooo much to write but just couldn't cope at this time... three weeks absence... is just like being away for three months.... somehow I have lost track, path and sence of timing.

more picture related to birthday coming up later in 2009....

OPs! A FALL but NOT TORRENTIAL

Busy as ever! That was, is and would always be ME. Harith was fast asleep. So I was up and down to fetch this and that from my bedroom. On an instance, I missed the fourth step... We put two chairs in front of the stair case to barricade Harith's path for a quick "steps climbing".

Landed on my right arm, right hip, right leg and knee...every parts were right! Suddenly the movement froze, head ache was strong, almost passed out... Diyanah's instant reflex action was to reach for the ointment and for the next half an hour was massaging me. I almost dozed off but not quite. I could hear peoples' voices.

When I got up to have a nap upstairs, the knees were swollen. But I did not go to the Hospital for x-ray... it was getting late in the evening. Had I gone, I would not know what time I could get my turn.

The next morning, I went with Harith's Mama. Gosh! The place was refurbished. Everything turned blissfully white, new coats of paint, new flooring, machines and reception counter. Everything was new.

There was no cracks or broken bones found. Alhamdulillah!

The following month, we have this new "gate" installed to the frames...

Harith made a fast movement to shake the "gate"...

Testing the structure... could he pull it apart OR pull it down?



Trying to take the camera from me...

PART OF BEING ABSENT

Reasons for being absent... photos shots, editing and admiring them all

Forever busy with a-much-less-sleeping Harith

A three day sewing of beads... a make over project! Sewing beads into the ready-made-embroidered head scarf. Its almost 9 years old and now looking as new

PICTURES SPEAK LOUDER...

Rise and shine ...7:40am? Believe it or not? YES, It was.

smallest bloom around

The most prominent "Pink Lily" ever flowered...I wonder if that name suits them

Pinky and smiley = makes my heart merrier

All sorts of herbs

Hello! We have a yellow visitor that enjoys my photography session

Mosquito was caught on my hand...urgh!

A large soil ant, enjoying my morning snaps

Do enjoy a tour of my garden...after such a long absence...

OF A JUNIOR LIBRARIAN

the BIGGEST word ever learned by this young, budding and very disciplined librarian is of course...pendulum! Each time Wan says, pendulum, I would turn towards this clock. Lemme think, 6:00 o'clock...mmm must be evening?

Pst! it is just outside Wan's bedroom and it was one of Mama's wedding gift. Wan couldn't get a clearer shot with one hand holding Harith (me) in her arm and camera in another. Another pst! The clock never worked since the day Mama received it but its a beautiful piece.

mmm... late lunch again! This is bitten by the librarian himself... not by ants or any pests. I have actually swallowed those bitten pieces and this is the only book around "soft enough" to eat. So the portion for cataloged coding is no more there. The beautiful pink table runner was bought by aunt Zaza in Sarawak. Ah haaaaaa, they match perrrrfectly!

Although bitten, Leo the Lion is still smiling. He did not want to protest in case I would get annoyed and finish up the whole book. Good young Leo still managed a "squeek" each time I bite him.

Shooo shoo, I told you the library is closed. It's already 6:00pm. You come back the next day, you hear? But, yes you can hang out there. The table is large enough for your family. See ya!

overtime......no extra allowance....
still Busy at work and thinking out loud!

How do I start decoding Mama's book? Shall I use digital cam or scanner? Those "Oscar" characters on the bolster case are my close friends from my early days...I am upstairs in Wan's bed.

These are some of my collections in my little library... the coffee table is my display corner. You are all welcome to enjoy my books. Sometimes I get to lick the glass table top... mmm nice...cooling!

This is one of the books that has moving parts and characters. The Farmer's (Farmer Tod) arms was severed quite some time back. The tractors face (Toby) and tyres were long gone and now the book could be opened spread wide in Wan's bed.

Okay folks...I really have to lock up the place. It's dinner time. See you next day, you hear me? Enjoy your dinner and don't forget to come back to my beloved Wan's blog each time you log on and of course to my little library.



Nighty nite... aaaaaaaah am I exhausted?

I have been away from this lap top since the "Lady Next To ME" has come home after finishing her major exam. Harith the librarian was also quite sick after his Jakarta trip, thus the looking after was on Wan's shoulder although Papa took a long annual leave.... Today, we drove > 500 kilometers (to and fro) for aunt Diyanah's scholarship interview which was held in her college, in Jasin, Malacca. After getting an sms from Doctor Azhar, asking why the long silence and empty blog post... I am determined to post this scribe tonight. The images were uploaded yesterday but I couldn't finish the captions since Harith woke up and was ready for his tea time "feast".

Actually I have not been watering my plants either but they are all surviving despite some neglects. Tonight it rained a little, so the soil should be wet. Some plants were flowering... not much but sufficient to cheer me up and to tell Harith they bloom to share our joy.