Malaysia Day

Historically, Sabah and Sarawak joined Persekutuan Tanah Melayu on the 16th to form Malaysia. So, Happy Malaysia Day 2008. Let's make it work.

New Kid on the Block

Introducing...the proud parents introducing... Raphael Olivin Moosom. :). Here's Dr.Rachel Fran Mansa and proud husband, Melvin Moosom with their sons. Congrats!

Raphael Olivin Moosom

sewing world

I was browsing through the net looking for anything on baju-kurung and found a few interesting sites. One is Jurra's and through Jurra's, I got to janesfabrics. Jane's celebrating her 53rd birthday this coming 16th. More amazingly she's making a giveaway... Wah... so big-hearted of her. Those of you who are interested in clothes, cloths and making beautiful items from cloths, click on to janesfabric.blogspot.com.
Happy Birthday Jane!!

Kantin Kem Malangang

After being over-run by wild running river during last month's flash flood, the canteen is now going under reconstruction. (clap! clap! clap! clap! clap!...)

Seamstress wannabee

After closing both my eyes, throwing caution to the wind and splurged on the shoes, I did my last splurge and shopped for a few meters of cloth. 2 different patterns. No seamstress would accept any kain at this moment (this being the month of Ramadan and most celebrants would expect their kain to turn into lovely baju kurungs or kebayas or what nots by the time Raya comes). So I thought of sewing my own baju kurungs. Not too difficult a task I think. Just time consuming. I've sewn a few kebayas and baju kurungs before. Not too shabby I must say. The right sleeve was of the same length with the left. Hahah...
Apart from sewing for my own, I also plan on sewing one baju for my Grandma. Just the top kebaya. She still goes to town wearing the style dulu-dulu. Kebaya top with a nice kain batik . Hope I can sew another good one this time.

Say what?

Saw these three tags on some plants the other day while walking around Gaya St.. I guess some people have different ways of pronouncing certain plants..

"Pokok Godungdung"
"Pokok Apal Hijau" and "Bulasan"

shoes magnet

Shoes galore... Couldn't resist them. Had to have them..

My Marie Claires...

My first Vincii...

My Dell and I

Am blogging from my living room. Found out that the 3G reception in my study room isn't very good. Once I sat my Dell down on the coffee table and logged in though, speed was much better. And I thought mau buang this thingamajig into the South China Sea suda (or pigi complain to the Celcom Dept). Have been at it since 6 pm.
Had come back from 1Borneo with two new pairs of shoes. The last time I bought a pair of shoes was last week from Vess for RM29.90. I was in need of a footwear then and didn't have the needed moolah to get a decent one. Two days ago the straps broke. (d-uh..) Nasib ada spare in the car.
The last..really last time I bought some good pairs of working shoes was...more than 3 years ago. The faux skin of most of the shoes has been peeling off. Although I don't really mind wearing them- nevermind the less than presentable look the shoes present- I am surrounded by attentive and observant young people most of the time, and I guess it wouldn't look very presentable if I wear scruffy shoes all the time. (tehehe...). So...

Kayaking with DBKK Part 4

So tired after the kayak outing, upon reaching home, took a quick shower and straightaway, drove to Kem.

Anyway, it took about 1 hour of kayaking to reach Promenade water that day. I paired up with Ashraf in an open deck kayak. His dad was using the single kayak. (Ngam ka ni term?) For some unidentifiable reason, some UMS students didn't have any transportation from UMS residential to Tg. Aru and so Fadhil had to speed to UMS, cart the remaining students, and send them to Tg. Aru. Which was why the whole lot of the Dayungan Merdeka kayakers didn't reach Promenade waters in one big group. Ashraf and I remained at the beach, waiting for Fadhil and the rest to come so that we could kayak as a second group.

Huih...1 hour to Promenade Waters, another 1 hour plus (paddling against tide and wind) to paddle back to Tg. Aru beach. All in all... it was a good outing. I'm all burnt now but who's complaining? I'm not.

Bliss...Belissimo...

Finally...my own laptop. Picked it up tadi at Karamunsing at TecAsia. It's a Dell. See the color? A deep red color to awaken the senses. There were a few other colors to choose from. Pink, yellow, blue, brown, red and the conservative black.

I also subscribed Celcom Broadband. Can be used anywhere with 3G connections.