Induction Program. . .

Just some shots taken randomly. . .

I love you. . .

Boy 1: "Bye Mommy! See you later. Love you!!"
Boy 2: "Bye Mommy! Good girl, kay. Love you!!"

The very words that started my day as I was about to speed off to work. Friday morn. Papers strewn all over the desk, handphone beeping somewhere, files pulled out from somewhere under. . . .uuhhh, wouldn't believe the mess today. Again people of higher rankings will be visiting Monday, so it was the hustle and bustle of getting every last minute thingy done. The whole darn week was like hell, so I guess we were rotting there too!!! We were, well lets say I was (I wouldn't want to say about the others) getting edgy and probably growing those terrible horns as well as tainting that halo (wish I had!!). All I needed was 'de fork' as my colleague supplied me with that thought after slamming the door to the face of another colleague and muttering those awful otherwise surprising (!) words.

Hmm, not much of being a good girl as Ed puts it every morning. But as I sat down and let the steam around cool off, I'd smile at the thought of my two boys imitating what their mama says to them before leaving them. Anytime of the day I would surely hear those same words ringing from a 'bigger boy' and it will make my day. . .or else to ease the tension all I need to do is speed dial the 'bigger boy's' number and taa-daa. . .I'll smile.

TGIF people. . . that indeed has also made my week. . . .have a blast this weekend!

. . .and there was clicking. . .

Hello Eyes;) Here are some pictures I took a few days/weeks back. . . .

a) . . .ahhh. . .blue. . .sunrise shooting but it rained so Wendell, Josie, Beevy and I had to make do with what we got.

b) Lona, Michelle, Arlene & Mich's mother-in-law...New year countdown at Mich's place

c) Waiting to flash away during the TA4XDC New Year Challenge (Andy, Wendell and Frisco)

d) At Poring.....Edward & the kids while I was taking pictures, well someone had to;)

Simply...

It's 1.22 p.m. . .

Still in school...hmm, weird?? Weird especially on a Friday...

No...not overtime...not get paid for OT what!!!

Waiting for the "Ok pick me up at..."

Deciding whether to upload pictures to this blog and probably flickr...

Stomach growling...

There goes my sms...I guess I've got to pick my passenger up already...

GTG people....have a wonderful weekend:)

Happy New Year. . .

Happy New Year everyone. . .it's our second day of school and the new school year welcomed us with 'busy-ness' even before we punch in for the day. Nazirs were around and some of us were 'caught' in class unannounced. I had my share of encounter with them. . .pleasant in some ways that I had almost every 'right excuse' to their probing fault-finding (in a way! *grrr*) interrogation. We have a new lady principal in and pity her. . .her first day in school was chaos.

Hope your start of the year was as you might have wanted it;) Cheers people!!!

Merry Christmas everyone. . .

Am I too late to wish you a Merry Christmas??? I would like to think the greeting is never too late. There's the song "12 Days of Christmas" and the saying "Let Every Day Be Christmas" which makes me think "Merry Christmas" will never be ancient anytime of the year. It's been great fun this year round always. As a child, I look forward to Christmas which meant travelling miles to a kampung - visit my maternal grandparents, mindahu, meeting my cousins and of course there is that gifts we kids always 'hope' to get;). As an adult now, the enthusiasm is probably slightly different considering that I have my own family now. Still, the family reunions (busy you know!), carolling, and wrapping of gifts (now for my children) has that same kind of tingling feeling in me.

This time we - just us (Edward, myself and the kids) - spent Christmas as a family. We were up at Kundasang (and even at this moment as I type this, we're still here) having not a white snowy Christmas but a cool, foggy (in exchange of snow!) Christmas. It has been a worthwhile time spent together before school reopens (arrghh...dreading it already). While Edward was busy at the KWM (Kundasang War Memorial) we - the kids and I of course - would be, hmm...lets say snooping around every inch of Kundasang (well almost *giggles*!)

I hope that what ever 'style' your celebration of Christmas was, it was meaningful in many ways. Merry Christmas everyone...

Tamparuli in flames then to ashes...

This was among the first shots I was able to take

at about 6 a.m. . .

. . .at 8.30 a.m. . .

. . .and at 3 p.m.

"I would die for you, lay down my life for you...", sheezzz....the vibration and the ring tone from my handphone within reach woke me up. Checked the time 5.45 a.m., checked the caller - my aunt....hesitantly I answered.

"Hmm...?"
"Tamparuli on fire! Ru Lim's block!"
"Wheennn..?"
"Now lah...still burning oh...we're going there already."

The line went dead. I rushed out of the room and found two inhabitants of my parents home watching football...well, probably that since they mentioned it previously.

"Shops on fire. Come!"

Wait...I had to retrace my steps back to the room...realized that I only had a big, flimsy t-shirt on *giggles*. Slipped into what I really needed, grabbed my camera bag, threw my car keys to Andy and off we went to witness the flames devouring every bit of the old wooden block of shops. Well, down it went and so were the speculation of many who were there. A lil' bit of excitement today....that and bringing the kids like almost every hour there to satisfy their every excuse to see the fire-engines, firemen/policemen at work, what remains of the burnt block and of course their search of keropok and ice-cream.