Welcome Aryssa!

On Saturday we went to visit Aryssa. I haven't seen Hani since she gave birth and she looked great. Unlike me, she's lost all the weight that she gained during her pregnancy.

Aryssa is such an adorable baby. I really like her lips! I think she looks more like Azmir. We had a lot of fun taking pictures of the two girls. They're only 1 month apart. In our close cirle of friends they're four 2009 babies: Syaza, Zara,Sarah & Aryssa. It would be so cool if they all went to same school nanti, just like the mommies!

Atok & Opah

When I found out I was going to give birth to a girl, I immediately thought, " Oh no, she's going to be Daddy's Little Girl".

But I was so wrong! Sarah is Atok's Little Girl! She absolutely adores my dad. When she's crying and whatever hubby or I try to do doesn't work, I just pass her to my dad and she just keeps quiet.



So far she likes my dad the best and then followed by mom. She likes her Umi and Ayah the least. I wouldn't be suprised if her first words were Atok & Opah instead of Umi & Ayah.

Thirty Three

Yesterday was Bro #2's birthday. In the morning SIL organised a surprise bday celebration for him at home and for lunch we went to Favola, the new Italian restaurant at Le Meridien.



The deco of the place was realllyyyyy nice. Umfortunately the same couldn't be said about the food and service. I ordered the wagyu beef lasagna. I couldn't really taste that it was wagyu though.



I tried hubby's pasta which was angelhair with garlic, chilli, olive oil and seafood. Sedap jugak but it was a bit too pricey for just a plate of pasta.

My verdict is that the restaurant serves so so food and nothing really to shout about.You can read a full review of the place here

Oh Prada!

My SIL and nephew just came back from London and they bought Sarah this:



Yup she has her own designer item at 6 weeks old! Sarah, you better cherish this keychain. I don't think Ayah is going to buy you anything from Prada anytime soon.

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

I've always liked watching crime shows. CSI, Cold Case, Law & Order..I'll watch them all. Hubby doesn't understand my fascination with these shows. I think I was influenced by my dad who loves watching them as well.

So when I saw this book , The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo at the bookstore the other day I thought I'll give it a try. It's written by a Swedish author, Stieg Larsson. The story is about this financial journalist, Blomvkist, who was convicted of libel because he wrote this piece on a famous businessman in Sweden. The truth was he was tricked.

He decided to lay low for a while and stopped being a publisher and journalist for the magazine he owned. At the same time, a prominent businessman of a family empire, Henrik Vanger asked him to write a book about their family history but more importantly to solve the murder case of his niece, Harriet that happened years ago.

Of course he refused at first but Henrik told Blomkvist that he had information that would clear his name so finally relented. And that's when the story gets really interesting. Along the way he teams up with Lisbeth Sander, a weirdo private investigator who has a dragon tattoo hence the name of the book.

I really enjoyed how Stieg Larsson wrote about how Blomkvist with the help of Sander slowly uncovers the mystery and the deep dark secrets of tha Vanger family. It was a real page turner and I'm definitely going to buy his second novel, The Girl Who Played With Fire.

Black Out

We were lying in bed trying to go to sleep when suddenly the power went off. I thought it was going to be just for a short while but it lasted for almost two hours.

It was too hot in our room so we lepaked in Mama's room. Amazingly Sarah didn't realise a thing. It must be because we all took turns to fan her. Such a princess!

Bapak called TNB and they said there was a trip or something like that. But come on, two hours to fix that? Baaaaddddd service...

The next Habib?

Yesterday hubby & I went out for dinner to bid farewell to Si Busuk. She'll be going to London for a short course in jewelry designing. I'm sooo jealous! The course sounds so cool and London is my favourite city in the world after KL.

Dinner was good and it was really funny to see Si Busuk's bf constantly sakating her. It didn't help that most of the time hubby and cousin M would always join him.

So Busuk, good luck and make sure you ace the course! Sarah & I are expecting hand made jewelry for our birthday this year!

3 Gs

Although it has been 10 years since I left high school, I still enjoy watching tv shows about them. My current favourites are Glee ang Gossip Girl.

I had a great experience during high school and the best thing is the friends I made during that time. We started being close when all of us were in the same class during Form 4. Just like in the tv shows we were all very different characters but got along really well.

If I imagined we were a cast in a tv show :

H*** would be the captain of the cheerleader squad and an honor roll student. She would also be the prom queen. (She was the queen for our prom actually)

H****** would be the really loud one who isn't afraid to tell it as it is. She would be the creative one, maybe in the drama and arts club or something like that.

J** would be the captain of debating team and have lots of guys fall for her.

S** would be a Martha Stewart, organising all the school events with her creative ideas.

And all of us would be besties and have great times together just like now!

Look a Like

Everyone who has visited Sarah have said that she looks like Ismail. So today when my aunt said " She looks like Zeti now". I was soooo happy! Over the moon in fact. Finally after 5 weeks, she looks a bit like me. I guess the Malay saying that states if you say something 40 times it will come true is TRUE. Lol...

See, even Sarah is happy that she looks like her Umi. :P

Her Fearful Symmetry

One of the things I enjoy is reading. When I was young I was a real bookworm and was always bugging my parents to buy me the latest Sweet Valley book. ( That was the craze back then). As I grew older I had less and less time to read. Now that I'm under house arrest I'm taking the opportunity to catch up on my old hobby.

The latest book I have completed is Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffeneger who also wrote The Time Traveler's Wife which has been made into a movie.

The book tells the story of a pair of identical mirror twins from the US, Julia and Valentina, whose aunt, Elspeth (one that they have never met) just passed away and left all her money and her apartment in London to them. The apartment is next to Highgate Cemetry, a famous cemetry in London. Their neighbors include Martin, who has severe OCD which triggers the wife to leave him and Robert, Elspeth's partner who volunteers at the cemetry and is writing a thesis on it.

Elspeth's spirit still lives on after her death and the twins and Robert communicate with her and find out what happened between Elspeth and their mother, Elizabeth. (they're also identical twins BTW). I really like how Audrey unfolds the story and the twist at the end. It's not a romantic book like The Time Traveler's Wife but a really complex and interesting tale. So if you're looking for a quirky read, go and get this book!

Oh and I love the title...If you pronounce symmetry in a posh British accent it'll sound like cemetry. Cool pun eh!