Citizenship

Me: Sophia nak jadi Australian?
Sophia: Nak.

i wish the place we're staying at has wifi!

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G’day from Gold Coast

Or g'nite more like. Am finally chilling after a long exhausting day. Reached Coolangatta airport at about 7am local time. Slept barely 2 hours in d flight.

The place we're staying at is awesome! Am enjoying a beautiful view of the beach and surfer's paradise below. Will blog about it later coz this place has no wifi, the only downside of it. Wanna enjoy my lemonade n crisps with hubby at the balcony :) Soph baru tido. I can see her fr d glass door entrance to the balcony. Good night! :)

Choose who you will please

I wanna cryyyy :'(

I spent I don't know how long writing up a list for things to pack for my holiday, and I had to leave it at my office.
Sakit hati tak terkataaaaaa!
I decided to write the list coz I left my baju raya at home when we went to my hubby's kampung for raya last year.

I should be packing now or writing up a new list since Soph just dozed off.
But i'm soo upset I can't think!
I just need to cool down.
Ada la hikmah tu, perhaps I missed something in the list.

Today was not a very good day.
I worked non-stop from morning till evening.
Well, I did stop to have lunch at my desk waktu lunchtime, but if I hadn't felt dizzy I prolly wouldn't have stopped coz I was so pressed for time.
I didn't manage to squeeze in Zumba too.
All I did was go to the class at half past 1, recorded the attendance, collected some fees, then went straight back to my office.

I have to say, I am a bit pissed about some things.
Please allow me to be vague.
I need to vent.

So.. it is confirmed.. I don't like it when people slow me down because they can't do things on their own.
I hate it when people ask me to wait when we could each go separately and have things done in half the time.
I don't mind if the person needs my help or if the person wants my company.
If you know me, you'd know I don't mind helping out. I am not the type to berkira.

However, it absolutely annoys me when a person slows me down because there wasn't anyone else to make her 'not alone' or 'not on her own'.

Not because it's unsafe or anything like that.
I would gladly accompany anyone if it's for safety reasons.
Sometimes I even insist if the person seems to want to wing it at a place I deem unsafe.

This is when a person simply can't carry herself alone or do things on her own.
Everything they do need to be done with someone in the same shoes.
The more identical the shoes, the better.

I know I used to be like that too when I was much younger and more immature.
But I would like to think I tried not to be a burden to anyone.

Why do I have a feeling I'd have to face this much longer than I anticipated.
Sabar...

Perhaps it's me who's much more aggressive now than most people are.
I know I have less patience about dealing with this kinda thing nowadays.
I feel like I've had it up to here with bearing with the attitudes and impositions of others when they don't give me or my needs a second thought.
I hardly think i'm being unsincere. Tell me again why I should bend over backwards, paying (more than I bargained for) for other people's selfish actions? At the same time sacrificing the needs of those people I actually care about?

In short, I would sacrifice my wanting to do things quicker on my own if I believe it would at least be of great benefit to the person I'm doing it for.
In most cases though, they could've gotten the job done quicker and more efficiently if they'd done it on their own too. So maybe the problem lies in them not prioritising getting the job done, but prioritising having someone/anyone to do it with instead.

Conclusion,
I guess you've got to be cruel (to some) to be kind (to others) sometimes.
I'm not referring to crimes.
I don't endorse crimes of any kind.
I'm just talking about who we should aim to please.
We can't please everyone, so choose who you will please, wisely. - Deensy
(haha. am making myself appear quotable :P)

Back to my original dilemma.
Do you find it stressful to pack for a vacation?
Have you ever been successful at travelling light?
And does it bother you as much as it bothers me, when you forget to bring something important (to you at least) despite your best efforts?

Since 2010

It's been a week since I wanted to update that Soph recognizes colours! :)
Pink, blue, black, purple, yellow, green, red and orange.
And she's beginning to recognise letters/alphabets, slowly.
Well done, Sophie!

Here's a photo collage of Soph doing her thang,

I LOVE my new Sony Nex-5N coz it captures the best moments in my life so beautifully (at least I think so) with hardly any effort on my part.

xo,
Mom since 2010

Si Cilik Manja

We're featured in InTrend March issue!

How did that happen?

I don't know!
But thanks anyway, InTrend :)
Am honoured and flattered.

I suspect whoever it was (from InTrend?) who nominated us, must've arrived at my blog from Diah's.
heheh
Diah was interviewed to be featured in the same segment.

How did I find out?

It came as a big surprise to me.

On Saturday, I logged into my nuffnang account and saw that I had a huge spike in the number of viewers that day.

How many people read my blog on an average day? let's just put it this way, I've never earned anything from blogging ;)
I only have nuffnang to keep track of where my readers come from, and who/which blog directed them here.

So I was astounded and curious at the same time.
I thought it was weird coz if someone had blogged about me, I would've been able to see that this group of viewers had arrived on my blog by clicking on a link somewhere.
Instead, there were lots of clicks from people searching for 'deensy', 'deensy.blogspot' and 'deensy.blogspot.com'.

I twitted about the astonishing heavy traffic to my blog at a particular hour and left it at that.

On Sunday morning, I logged on again and saw barelysupermommy.com under my referral list.
Clicked on it and was dumbfounded to see Soph's photos and a photo of my blog header, as well as the URL to my blog.
The blogger had posted a photo of a page off a magazine in her entry "Barely Supermommy is in the mag!!".
I quickly realised that the magazine page she posted showed snapshots of her blog too. It just so happened, my part of the page was included in her photo, which I am thankful for, coz I probably wouldn't have known about it otherwise ;)
It clicked then that the heavy traffic had come from this blog and/or directed here by the magazine feature.
I immediately left my laptop to find my hubby to tell him about my discovery.
He was shocked too, so we decided we were gonna get the magazine when we go out to get lunch later.

Later in the afternoon, we dropped by the row of shops nearby to look for the mag.
Flipped through it right away in the car while Soph sat in her car seat playing with my ipad.

At home, I visited barelysupermommy.com again to say thanks.
That was when I realised who the blogger was!
She's actually Dr Halina, the astronaut's wife and mother to adorable Sophea Isabella.
Hop on there if you're not already a reader, she has a really nice blog :)