"WATCH OUT"

Today is my 4th day at the college, classes have not commence, so kind of light and easy mode here, furthermore it's exam week over here and most lecturers have taken the opportunity to clear their leaves, put their hair down and leisurely preparing for next semester's lectures, assignments as well as exam questions.

Joining the college at this point of time is one of the best arrangement, it allows me to fit in the environment, get to know other colleagues as well, wander within the perimeter of the college, get a glimpse of the college working culture and also foretaste the life of a full time lecturer.

Yesterday while having lunch with my colleagues, she pre-warned us of some practical jokes played by the students on her and possibly on my other colleague and I (since we are the 2 new ones) when the semester reopens. What she encountered so far was a fake arm on the chair in one of the lecture hall, a fake cockcroach (gee.. I hate it) and student bringing their "pets" to registration day.....

Okay... with this realistic preview of some of the students' tactics here, I shall prepare myself to face them i.e. do not shout and jump over the sight of any cockcroaches in the class, do not be overly concerned on an extra "helping hand" that may appeared before me, learn to associate with whatever "pets" they wanted to introduce me to, do not overact over the sight of blood stains, skeletons, "dead objects", foul smell etc (God knows what are they up to...)

All the best to me ya! God gave me wisdom to deal with whoever that He wants me to deal with starting from this 10th Aug!!

Your Legacy

I watched MJ memorial service last night and woke up with swollen eyes this morning. Yeah you guessed it right, I shed tears during the entire broadcast of the service. I certainly agreed that when a person's time on earth has passed, we ought to celebrate that person's life besides mourning for the loss. I told my husband that I wanted a few close friends to speak something about me during my funeral service, I wanted to be remembered and I'm not sure how my close friends will remember me, have you ever thought of that?? Hubby answered that he did not want to organize the service for me but asked me to organize his instead... ah...whoever need to go first, let's celebrate that person's life and remember that person as genuine as you can. I personally like Brooke Shield's testimony on MJ. MJ,may you rest in peace.

Bali (2)

Random shots of Bali...... enjoy

Stir-fried Kangkung..., fresh and crunchy

Sweet-sour crab... hmm not fresh... I vomitted this

Wow.. nice sunset at Uluwatu

A shot at Semara Spa... Balinese massage is different from Thai massage according to hubby, I went for the "French" style massage with slimming effect, they massage both back and front portion hor.... aiyoh "paiseh"..

A must go shopping place.... cheap cheap price especially in the morning, the place to try out your bargaining skill...

A temple built on the rock overseeing the Indian Ocean... spectacular view

The labour of "hard bargaining" (1)

The labour of "hard bargaining" (2)

Sunset at Tanah Lot



Tanah Lot, strong wave splashed against the rocks

Rows of rows of shops to test your bargaining skill again

Balinese art... nice we bought plenty of them

Babi Guling, roasted pork rice with pickles and sambal

Temple at Bratan Lake, a cooling place
Taman Ajam, a former King's residence

Harris Resort, Kuta, the place where we stayed
Prevention at the airport, we can see a big fuss over at KLIA but not in Bali, look like "Transformers"?

Bali Vs Reality

Yeap, we're back from our 2nd honeymoon and back to "reality", no more late nights, lazy mornings, long buffet breakfast, wonderful relaxing spa session, crazy shopping days, sun breeze, fantastic sunsets, macho surfers, good food, back to nature, quiet couple time............ One thing is sure, we were glad that we made this trip and I've the best time in my life shopping... bargaining like never before.

Ah...now that we are back home.....the only reward is we get to see our princesses again after 4 long days of separation. Emily and MIL came to fetch us in the airport last Monday and Emily was like jumping hysterically and once settled down, immediately demanded for her gifts (don't know missing us or the gifts more). Michelle is equally excited and was calling for me before even reaching the front door when she came back from school.

I've uploaded the photos in my facebook and will upload some here later. At the mean time I've got to adjust going back to work especially that I'll be lecturing on a full time basis starting from next week. No more hazy lazy days ahead but then at the mean time I still have 5 days enjoying my resort life at home..... Stay tune for more Bali posting ya!

Our little artist..

Emily loves to draw nowadays and her passion has became my collection as most of her masterpiece were dedicated to me (that's my girl!). Hubby asked me to find ways to unveil the potential in her. She decided to stop the drawing lesson when her jeh jeh stopped, so I was thinking maybe I'll bring her out to the field more frequent and by doing this maybe she'll find more inspiration to draw....

The Fact of Life

I'm sure parents will be asked this question at least once over their lifetime as a parent: "Mummy/Daddy, where do babies come from, how are they made?" LOL, I remember my daughters asked me this some time back, well this is how I explained it:

"One day daddy and mummy love each other so much that we decided to make a baby, well to make a baby, you'll need this. Mummy has an egg and daddy has a worm, one day, daddy's worm swam into mummy's body and met the egg, the worm joined the egg and a baby is formed, mummy fed the baby through the food that mummy takes each day and as the days passed by, the baby grew and one fine day when the baby decided to come out, mummy experienced a big "stomachache" and when mummy pushed hard, out came the baby, so that is how mummy and daddy made both of you"

While explaining this I made some action, of course they giggled and was amazed by the storylah....

On another note... for those who are concerned and eagered to know the updates... I was tested.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... negative through a self pregnancy test yesterday. Still no sign of menses, dizzyness has improved slightly, no sigh of nausea but still with a gigantic appetite throughout the day. :D

The king of pop - MJ is dead

I dropped Michelle to school today and on my way back I heard the song "Billie Jean" playing over the radio and I recollected the good old 80s day where my brother and I were so called "fans" of MJ, even my late mom knew him and was fond of him, songs and MTVs like "Beat It" and "Thriller" were so famous then.

While back home, I was searching a book over Amazon.com and on the top right of the website I saw this shocking news "Michael Jackson, 1959 - 2009.....". Can't believe my eyes, I googled it and read the news over the net, indeed MJ had passed away.

You see no one can actually escape death, human history revealed that no Emperor, Kings, Queens nor anybody is immortal. Life on earth is just a short journey and in the hands of the Almighty God, so while you and I are still alive on this earth today and God knows until when, let's live it to the fullness, to me a well lived life is a life lived under the perfect will of God.