i want to paint rainbows

Is it 2012 already? I swear sometimes I still remember things when i was 7 and can’t beliee that 20 years have past. I remember the time when my dad says things like 20 years ago this and that and it felt like centuries before and yet now I myself can say that and actually remember what happened. Like how 20 years ago I was seven and went to school.

We didn’t celebrate the new year in the city. We basked in the fireworks lights in port Dickson. Nothing like a 1 hour drive to the seaside to ring in the new year. No big resolutions this year just saving up spending less and losing weight.

I mis out on the whole post about reminiscing what 2011 was all about. Can I still do that? Somehow 2011 seems so long ago. So long ago that I went back to the states, stop working in Brunei, changed jobs and all that. It seems eons ago and yet it was just last year. I wonder how did that happened.

Is 2012 promising to be better? I hope so. Here is to the year to be a better Muslim, better daughter, better person and all that!

i guess its human to be jealous. to want what others have. to want what you cant have. 

after all we are human with limitations aren’t we? or are we humans who just want too much? to want it all? 

the career and the mother

the money and the time

the cake and the body

its always hard to choose. and so you be jealous instead. 

to those who have it all. 

so i was working from home last friday, and since i call kl my home i decided to work in bangsar. other than that my mom has a lunch date and needed someone to drive her there so it was a perfect arrangement. then my sister is off to work and my dad for friday prayers and my brother with that cheeky face of him so i decided to bring him along. 

so anyone who knows me know that i simply adore pasta. what’s not to love? its noodles with just any imaginable sauce you want. the simple tomato sauce, the humble olive oil, or the heavenly cream. pick your choose and you have comfort food to last you an afternoon. 

so off to alexis we did (i did give my brother the choice to choose between alexis and the thai restaurant next door - he chose alexis) and pasta we ordered. then it was some sauntering around and fooling around and i’ll let the pictures tell you the story. 

of course no picture of moi since i dont trust my brother with my camera. my ipad though is a different story altogether

so anyone who knows me knows i love stripes. i just adore those freakingly loud horizontal stripes that just defies all good fashion sense for the XL me. something so nautical or parisian about them that just draws me to those horizontal lines. i once had a shirt dress with black and white horizontal lines on it and movie buddy asked if just broken out of jail. yeah - like criminals wear topshop with ruffles on its sleeves :P

so anyway i was on my way to buy sushi for dinner when i walked pass uniqlo. uniqlo has this amazing striped tshirt collection that i got one from last year and have been overwearing them with my navy capri pants. 

and lo and behold the collection is back! with more colors, navy with white stripes, white with colorful stripes, gray with black stripes, black with gray stripes. a girl who loves stripes can not feel like more in heaven!  i was spoilt for choice, but chose the safe navy one. 

but alas, i am kind of tight for money this days so in the end decided against it, and left it on some unmanned shelf. and left with a heavy heart towards jusco.

but my face was lit up again like a christmas tree because the new laura ashley is open! 

yum! if i have the money and the right size, i would have bought the WHOLE store! i tried on a mermaid skirt, against my very rational head that just knows it would look horrible on me and my very wide hips(yes it did). who actually looks good in a mermaid skirt? size 2s? urgh. anyway. left the skirt nicely in the changing room and sauntered towards the home area. the wallpapers are lovely! i would very much like to cover a wall in my room with it. we’ll see. maybe a 2012 project. 

so i ended with nothing else but sushi. but all is well. after all i go to OU 5 times a week. ;)