"Balik Kampung"

Floral Painting

Housewife has fallen in love with floral painting so teacher suggested to focus on this area till able to master the skill before going to next. Therefore, there'll have more floral paintings for now onwards. :)

Fot those who have some floral pictures, could you please share with housewife? :)
Really appreciate it!!

White Lily - One of the favourite paintings

- Orchid -

This is the first floral painting drawn on the day of our anniversary.

Housewife specially dedicated to hubby as an anniversary gift. :)

We did it!

Excitedly, we want to say:” Yes we did it for our driving test!” 

"Pass-liao, Pass-liao. Phew!!!" was our response after the test.

Alright, some of you may wonder, what should housewife excited about? This is just a driving test! Yes, indeed it’s JUST a driving test but both housewife and hubby have been stressed out, especially housewife (Hubby said he stressed out because of the stressfulness of housewife. :P) for the test after registering it a month ago.

Before registration, we have heard many people have failed the test few times before they got it passed. So both housewife and hubby thought it’s really tough! Again, we couldn’t get a car here without the conversion of driving license. Therefore we hope we could pass once and for all.

Like hubby said, never so hardworking in life for a test. LOL… Believe it or not? we did ‘revision’ and exercises day and night as there has 700 questions in the practice questions. Crazy!

Finally, we could take a deep breath as one less thing to bother. The next mission is to search for a car and housewife can drive in new city… Yahoo!!

Now, we want to officially raise our hand in farewell to this book which we were holding for a month.

 Goodbye! :P

花非花

喷张的花瓣，正面地向四面八方伸展。

像极了对生命的展望，敞开双手去拥抱。

然而，还是会有不安。

因为超出的，是无法预知的地方。

用光包围着，给它力量。

希望呵护着的内心种子，能迎在背影的前头，精彩灿烂。

（可见宗教和信念的重要性）

笔于多丽丝

(http://duolisi-surf.blogspot.com/)

 

(P/S: Thank you to Jie Jie, Doris, for the writing. It gives life to the piece)

Joy of their coming....

Since young, housewife and siblings are not allowed to have any pets at home. To parents, this is a troublesome non-value added job. Therefore, doggies are something new to us. In fact, we scared of doggies because we have never got closer to them.

Ever since the coming of doggies and puppie, the house fills with joy and laughters. Our topic is all about their activities as they have brought so much fun to us. Housewife miss them so much and thanks to sister and brother who always keep housewife updated about these 6 little prince and princess at home....

Trust me, you'll fall in love with them if you meet them one day....

  

Teddy Bear!! 

My Boy!!

Little Naughty!

Experiences in Bandung...

Hubby and housewife had a little getaway to Bandung last week. Perhaps, the 2 shopaholics had some expectation on the shopping spree and  It ended up with some disappointments. Before the trip, housewife only did homework on ‘where to shop’ where hubby on ‘where to eat”.

For those who are going to Bandung, be smart when doing some study about factory outlets. Factory outlets are what Bandung famous for! Check out the date of the trip review. Housewife did find some recommended factory outlets from the reviews of some travellers but eventually we found out that most of them were closed down. We argued with the taxi driver for bringing us to the wrong place. They were right and we were wrong! The info we have had were not up-to-date. The address was right but the outlets have no longer existed. It really spoilt our shopping mood!

There were some experiences we had in Bandung, be it good or bad.

a. The traffic jam happened anytime anywhere, especially 4 major shopping areas. It sometimes took us an hour to reach a destination within short distance. It’s a pain to be stuck in the jam all the time!

b. There are not many road signs in the city, if you noticed it obviously. Probably they don’t need it. Most of the taxi drivers could simply take a U-turn in the middle of the road whenever they want or go into the road with “No Entry” sign. There are few occasion where the taxi driver made an U-Turn in busy roads and didn't care if it'd cause accident or road jam. Housewife had this palpitation each time taxi driver running risks on the road.

c. Interestingly, when we stuck in the jam or stopped in the traffic light, here come few different group of people playing guitar, selling food or flowers, begging & etc along the road, hoping the car passengers would give them a penny. This is how they earn a living. It etched my heart when seeing children putting their lives on risk by walking along the busy roads to earn every penny they could.

d.  After visiting at least 15 factory outlets (FO) in the city, there’s ONLY one FO, Rumah Mode, that have some overrun/rejected branded clothing but honestly, not as many as they have had over the years. Well, shoppers, open your eyes bigger when choosing one for yourself. Moreover, most of the FO carries ‘pirated’ branded stuff so beware of it. Don’t be blinded by the brands tagged on the clothes or bags. Don’t pay for nothing!

Ok, we also should admit that we had a fruitful shopping spree for ourselves and family although we only shopped in ONE FO. 

e. Not many sightseeing in Bandung unless you want to take about 1.5 hours (or more) journey from city, to visit volcano.

Well, what did housewife and hubby do during this little getaway?

Answer: Eat & Sleep! 

Oh ya, quite happy we managed to watch the finale of TV Series “ House 7” in Bandung. :P

All in all, this is a ‘new’ travel experience we had although we should admit that this is not a place for us to visit again in near future. Who knows we’ll return to the place one day? :) After all, we have had a great time together.  :)

Not many pictures but taken bits and pieces here and there for sharing…

 Airport or Shopping Complex?

Housewife thought it's a shopping complex near airport but in fact, it's airport!

What does it call? It seems like a pet as they were selling it outside complex

Crocodile Fishing???

Feeding crocodile...not fishing...

Street food - sausages!

Indonesian dessert but didn't know its names. It taste quite nice!

We had the most satified meal in this restaurant!

The first "Xiu Long Bao" housewife ever had because it's Pork-free "Xiu Long Bao". Yummy!!!

Our delivery after losing idea what to eat for dinner......

Breakfast @ hotel everyday...

Street food - Bakso. This is nice!

A Food to swallow but not food to savour....

Big No No to plane food!

End of the trip....

Of course, with our fruitful shopping spree....... :P

Out-Of- Town Notice

Housewife is out of town (again!) for a short excursion with hubby in Bandung till Sunday!
You may know that Bandung is a shopping paradise. Thus, the 2 shopperholics are going to have shopping spree soon!! :D

Light luggage go and heavey baggage back???!! *blink*blink*

Wish you have a happy week ahead!!

Little Gift of Appreciation to Hubby!

Hubby is always a supporter of housewife and in order to show appreciation to him, housewife made a first attempt on baking. Some of you might know housewife doesn't really show passion or interest in baking. In fact, housewife has never had any baking before. However, hubby has a sweet tooth so housewife had this idea last week, out of the blue, baked the simplest cake - Steamed salted biscuit cake, for him. Well, the simplest one was a challenge to housewife. Butter and egg were everywhere in the kitchen as well as on housewife's face!!! Gosh!

Nevermind, since this is a  little gift of the day to surprise hubby and appreciate his support, encouragement and love all thie while.
Again, he gave his support by grobbling down the cake! hahha...

What a wonderful hubby!!!

Before steaming....

Steaming...

Done!

Closed-up view

Hubby said it looks like 2 puppies kissing each other.. haha...

Li-Ning Singapore Open 2011

Last Saturday, housewife registered the first time of watching Li-Ning Singapore Open 2011 Semi-finals in stadium. It was an exciting personal experience! Thanks to hubby for bringing housewife along. :D

Well, our Datuk Lee Chong Wei skipped Singapore Open to save energy for Indonesia Open (too bad! Housewife wanted to see the match between Lindan and Datuk Lee!) so housewife’s focus was on Lindan. LOL… sorry, housewife wasn’t good in badminton games and has limited knowledge about the players. The only thing housewife knew was housewife lost the bet to hubby when Lindan lost to Datuk Lee in All England 2011 so housewife wished to win the bet again…. :P

The matches were great but housewife looked forward to see Lin Dan, just like many audiences there.  Heheh… When came to the match between Peter Gade and Lindan, everyone were so excited and you could see many people stood up with camera just for some shooting of Lin Dan. He’s really a superstar!

However, Lin Dan withdrew from the match last-minute during finals, claiming he had gastroenteritis. (Luckily hubby suggested to go for semi-finals.. heheh..) His withdrawal definitely upset audience especially his supporters. Heard that the crowds booing him when he apologized on court.

Alright, here’re some pictures housewife took … :D

Li-Ning Singapore Open 2011

See, Lin Dan from far

Match between Lindan & Peter Gade

Lindan lost to Gade for the first match!

Lindan fought the match...

Finally, Lindan receovered from the set down against Peter Gade to win 20-22, 21-17, 21-15 and

the audience started to capture the moments of him....

Painting & Sketching of the Week

After few lessons, housewife decided to pick up sketching skill too.

Here you go for painting and sketching of the week.....

Pumpkin

 Mangosteen & Vase