Weekend in a flash

It was a fun-filled weekend packed with activities and family get-together time.

By family, I mean my nucleus family of three (or is it four?). Me, my two babies i.e Bigfish and Aaqil, not forgetting my maid in tow, Dana.

On Saturday we spent the afternoon at The Curve which is technically a walking distance away from our place. Not that we ever walked there. Having mentioned that however, our Korean family neighbour are always in sight walking to Tesco every weekend with their little Shih-Tzu. They seem to be having a good time. I told my hubby, strolling is good. But not for him though, not in this life.

Just for info, Tesco is a stone-throw away from The Curve.

We had tea at Teh Tarik Place which serves very tasty mee goreng mamak, crispy roti telur and just nice teh tarik to quenched with. It's the new mamak cafe with Asian touch, not bad really, but the location is fairly hidden from the busy eating walkway. Somehow, if you stand right infront of Royale Bintang entrance, just pan your head to the left. It's there.

The following couple of hours were at Borders, doing our so-called relaxing activity, fished out 20 books from the shelves and have a free reading. We were two of those people who consider bookstores as public libraries. Unfortunately always in the end, we were still two of those people who bags home over hundred something valued books that we thought really must-haves. We kinda supposed to be on a budget, especially on books. *sigh*

I was once chowed down mee goreng Indomie with half boiled egg for three straight days for lunch after buying three expensive books at one time. Note: Mee Sedaap sambal goreng memanglah sedap! Telur rebus sebijik, sprinkle chopped spring onions for that ala Nigella flair. Hoho I can live with that..!

At 4.00 pm, still at Borders, there was a loud announcement about a storytelling session for children organized by Julia Gabriel Learning Centre. At the time the announcement was made, it was another half an hour away before the session starts. Having been familiarised with this children-development establishment by my monthly flipping over Mother & Baby mag, I insisted my husband to wait and participate my baby among other raving kids at the platform corner inside the store.

Apparently the little kid is smarter than his over-eager parents by choosing to doze off at 4.28 pm. Since we’re not insane parents that force and wake up a sleeping baby so that he can listen to ‘Thomas and His fellow Carriages’, so we left the bookshop after 5 minutes of storytelling, enough for me to make my evaluation. Upon that, I firmly decided to come again next Saturday with a mental note of Aaqil’s sleeping time arrangements so he’ll be all wide awake and enthusistic at 4.30 pm 6 days from now.

Saturday evening, us and two other couple friends metup at Cineleisure Damansara to ‘Pandang Belakang’ though have been warned not to. So it’s Jangan Pandang Belakang. The whole thing derived from my idea as I’m a sucker for scary and horror flicks. Bigfish finally let himself to be dragged along after having listened to my not-so-short speech about Malaysian movie industry, Malaysian viewers’ responsibilities and how it relates to Malaysia economic situation in the end. Letih kan I suddenly have to be a programme host of RTM1 just to get my hubby to watch a Malay movie.

Anyways, there we were at the cinema. And please find my short unofficial review on the movie after this post. Thank you.

We started Sunday with my polished fried pasta. Yay! Finally I have perfected another simple dish inside my pro-cooking list. (Got only two, Bolognese pasta and here, fried pasta. Terer kan?)

I throw fresh button mushrooms, celery, carrot, minced meat, some oyster sauce, a little Lea & Perrins and finally sprinkled with chopped spring onions..voila! This is breakfast in the purest sense. Hehe. Delish ok!

Afternoon, we still are not finished entertaining the very much energetic little Aaqil so we took him to Bangsar Village. On a side note, Aaqil’s mommy was the one who can’t wait to check out the talked-about Bangsar Village 2, where the high end stores chose to be nested. Not bad. The best is the transit Skywalk from the old wing to new, it’s so like the one at KLIA. Same architect ka?

Gymboree Bangsar Village is the place to be if you wish to send the little one to play and socialize with other little people his age. Fully equipped with play gym, music sessions and dedicated instructors, Gymboree offers classes from newborn (wow!) to 5 years kids. With colourful ambience filled with laughter of excited kids with their just as excited parents, I wouldn’t have think twice to sign Aaqil up for a session next week. Looking forward to the fun it will bring!

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I just finished reading my initial paragraphs from the beginning to the word ‘bring!’

I’m astonished to the person who wrote it, so laid back, positive and she seems happy with where she is now. Being a wife and mommy.

I always think there are so many things I want in life, so many that I am yet to achieve, and ohh do I have plenty of flaws. And the thought of it sometimes make me forget that I have just as many other reasons to be happy. I do not know that I am happy enough. I have to read my emotions with my very two eyes to actually realize it. It’s easy to be dissatisfied with the general analysis and measurement made by head for matters in the head. Dissatisfaction easily led to ungratefulness.

And I believe ungratefulness is the ultimate ingredient to mess up a life.

Hopefully I’ll survive well on today’s Monday.