What-a-Wonderful-World

I was worried about Sheila. She supposed to deliver her babies anytime. I used to call my wife to pay attention to her behaviour. She would feel unease and meowing intensely once the right time is coming for her to deliver. This was her second time to deliver. The first delivery ended up with casualties. All her three babies died. Two died  in her womb and the other she ate it. The weather was not good presently. Haze covering the entire Klang Valley and most of the activities wasslowing down. It went along with my mood.....then to be little bit moody...hahahaha. As usual if there is not much work to do in the office, I would drive home early and sharp at 4.30 am. It took me about 1 hour to reach home. If the traffic was bad it might take more than that. As I arrived home my wife approach me and lead me downstairs to Sheila. Automatically I knew that Sheila alteady delivered babies. And I heard Sheila was meowing consistently in the toilet. When I opened the door I was suprise ...

Time flies so fast that you never realise that you are almost half of century. I could still remember my childhood time where I used to catch fish with my brother in the stream. Both of us will climb the trees to find baby birds and bring them home, put in a small cage and feed them with rice. I was very lucky because mom never scolded us but corporative enough to take care of the birds. When I was small, I have a little bird 'Burung Gembala Kerbau', if translated it means the Shepherd Buffalo. I was playing with it and suddenly it flew and landed into a boiling curry. Everybody was panic and the bird died. There are many sweet memories about my life and if I were to narrate it, it would be my entire biography......hehehe. Now is different! I have my own family and kids to take care and huge responsibilities are shouldered upon me. I am feeling older day by day and it is hard to catch the time. Last wednesday was my 48th birthday. We didnt really have a grand celebration ...

I know that avocado provides many benefit to human body. But I rarely eat avocado because we never grow avocado and it is not easy to find. You can only find in a hypermarket but the price is quite astonish. I have found the cheapest one at Giant hypermarket i.e 1.99 per piece. And the most expensive is at KLCC in the Coldstorage and Isetan. The price is rm5.99 perpiece from Australia. The taste is not that good compares to mango or apple. It is almost tasteless. Anyway, looking at it, I always have a thought that we can grow avocado here. When I was in Bandung, I saw plenty of avocado fruits along the roaf leading to Tangkuban Perahu. They have different sizes as long as a cucumber, round like an apple and ellipse like a pear. I stopped by and ordered 3 kilos of them to take home. My first intention was to collect the seeds and grow them at home. I gave them to my wife and she sowed few seed to let it grow. It is so simple. Just pushed the seed into the soil. Thats it! When I google...

I just realised that my interest and hobby come and go like four seasons. Do you know why? You can browse my previous write up and you would realise that I have written about my hobby in certain period of time. Would it matter to me? No.....its ok since I keep myself busy negotiating my wonderful life. I was once crazy about plumerias. Hhhmmmm.....I am still crazy but looking at my limited space of my garden and the plant has grown bigger, my interest has already subsided. I was an addict collector of heliconia years ago. I have spent a lot of money buying the varieties of heliconia from a nursery. It end up with a similar faith when the space of my garden undergone massive renovation. Some I passed to my friends and some I managed to grow along my house boundery. Similarly what happen to my waterlilies Luckily I have made a permanent pond and they grow nicely in the water with beautiful flowers. Now I am planning to grow roses and let it climb over the wall. It would be a nice terra...

Can you see my group of plumerias in front of my house? They are about 10 varieties of wondeful colours and they were so frangrant. This is the only land available for my plumerias. People used to say,"Sekangkang kera". Never mind...... Since no more land to squeeze any new plumerias, i have no addiction to it anymore. Lets we get new plants to be crazy....

Weekend always be a very busy moment. Time just simply goes as it wishes. My mom was at home. She came to my house with my sister on Friday. I must give her full attention so as to keep her entertained. If not, she could easily getting bored and started to think about her home. We talked a lot and I could feel she has so many things to tell me. I wanted to go to IKEA and asked Hadi to accompany me. I was a bit late to prepare myseft with early shower. Ohh....Leo and Lea were waiting for the bottle feeding and needed my early attention. They were too small to manage themselves for everything. It might be easier for me to handle them in 3 weeks time. By that time they would be nearly 2 months. I tried not to disturb my wife to mingle with them coz she has many more house keeping to be managed. I was late and feeling guilty to IKEA while my neighbour was having the wedding feast. Finally we cancelled our plan to IKEA. I saw people started to come for the feast and the food was ready. It...

My house going to be hectic next month. With my 9 children around running up and down stairs chasing each other would make my routine more kelam kabut hassle. It does not really mind and not really matter to me. As far as I am concern if something or somebody is willing to make me happy and jovial, I am for that. Life is so beautiful! We are preparing for our new family member coming from Russia and Mordova. From Russia her name is Thumbelina and from Moldova his name is Oscar. They are from different country but they will be solemnised in Malaysia i.e my house.....hahaha. Dont you think it is wondetful? All the correspondances and paperworks are in placed and jush waiting to be shipped after all the minor issues have been settle. People would wonder why I want to breed the cats? There are so many answers I could reply but my only answer is I like cats. I afore cats! The only thing that would happen to me is to manage and rearrange my daily and weekend program. With Leo and Lea still...

Of course it is not a tiger cub. This is the cub of Asian Leopard Cat. I never knew that this cat exist in the wild until I saw in the facebook, Pasar Kucing Malaysia. For the first time I saw a picture I knew this must be a beautiful animal. The dotted, strips and and spots were amazing. It is really like a mini tiger. Before I decided to rear the cubs, I went to the Youtube and search for this cat. I acknowledged that there were many people keep it as a passionated pet. It took me a while to understand the behaviour and character of this cat before I made a decision to own this pet. The hardest part was to convince my wife. I knew that she has to take part in sharing this pet. I might burden her with additional activities...... Hhhmmmmm....how could I do this? Finally, I made a call to the owner and forwarded him so many questions about caring this unique cat. Since the babies were separated from the morther at the very early age, bottle feeding might be tedious. Can I manage this ...

If I would say that doing this intricate pineapple design is like a tiring journey, would you agree with me? Hhmmm....I am so exhausted today trying to complete and join the blocks. I was sitting for the whole day in my studio attempting to finish my project. Finally I have to surrender after completing almost half way through and my backache has called me to stop stitching. Never mind, I have another day to spend to complete my quilt top with boarders. Sometimes, I told myself to stop making quilt and let focus to the other areas. Yeah....my thoughts had always asked me to do something rather than eating, sleeping and doing nothing. I have not been to my lovely kitchen for a while baking new pastry and recepies to my children. Roasted chicken with buttery rice and colourful salad. Do I really missed those activities having Adah and Yusuff helping me messing the Kitchen? And my little Hana keeps asking me so many questions about what I am doing? Yeah....time is to precious to be wast...

Now is the time to creat motifs. Yeah...you can find in so many motifs from the books, magazines and internet. You can creat it base on floral or fauna and many others. But to creat your own characteristic motifs is not that easy. It means that when people are looking at the design people automatically know or could recognise that it is your design. It is truly yours! For a time being let me start with a simple one and would generate mine later.....hahaha

Firstly I would like to thank Madam Pam Furniss for her clear illustration about hand applique. By watching her delicate technic in her video presentation, I would say that 40% of my ambiguous questions already answered. Yesterday during lunch hour I quickly went to Hubby Wool to meet my friend Jenny. There were so many things we were taking about especially our last election PRU13. Hhhmmm.....lets see what would happen for next election. Ok let we leave about politics for a while. The purpose I came to Jenny's shop was to buy some materials for my quilting work. I went to the rack to find bias maker. There were four of them with different sizes and I was thinking which size should I buy. When I thought about my girl's dresses as well I really need more than that. Finally I decided to have three differen sizes and the quilting tread and also needles. All together cost me for rm130. Its ok coz I used the money from friend who paid for my queen size quilt. Hope I could start b...

We were invited for makan kenduri i.e a wedding feast at Balik Pulau, Pulau Pinang, by my arwah father's brother on Sunday. It would be a nice time and another chance to visit my eldest brother. My sister would like to accompany me but she turned down because she needed to go to her office at the last minute. Balqis reluctant to follow and would like to stay with Ikhlas and Adah at Wan Lah's house. Finally only my mom and Ubai accompanied me. It only took an hour to reach the place from my mom's house. It was about 1 pm when we arrived and there were so many guests started having their meal and being greeted by a host. I just had a very late breakfast at Ambangan Mall, Sungai Petani earlier with my mom and Ubai. I just ate laksa and would like to eat later since my stomach has already fulled. I met all my uncles and unties. Everybody has changed. Yeah....everybody is getting older including myself. When I was a kid, my father would take me to kampung whenever there was a ...

This was my school. I was here from form 1 until form 5, year 1978 through 1982. So many sweet memories and wonderful experience when I was here. I really missed all my old friends and teachers and dont really know their whereabout. Only few of them I still get in touch and in few occasions I invited them for a chat and teh tarik. Facebook helps a lot to find my old friends....

Balik kampung would always be nice. Do you know what is balik kampung? Ooo...it is returning home to a place where you were brought up with your family. The first intention to balik kampung must be visiting parents. Let our children paying respects and homage to them and this is the time they would be so happy and entertained. Secondly, is the time to meet our childhood friends and to say hello to our old neighbours. Kampung always brings peace and tranquality that I would never get in the urban's lives........

When I say that the entire weekend I'll be so busy would you believe that? Weekend is the time for me and my family...ooooo..ooooo...it is the time for my hobby too i.e. My quilting work. Now I realise that I am to engross with my quilting design and I would focus my entire work sitting quietly in my studio crafting the fabric. My children will never bother me as they all know that I was concentrating towards my work. My latest design is the pineapple quilt. I really admired the pattern and was searching for the technic. I have seen quite a few with different method. I saw a video showing the amish pineapple quilt that impressed me with the cmbination of light and dark rustic colours. It was so amazing. I keep on browsing the youtube further and I found the video from Dianne that explained every details right from the beginning. The illustration helped me a lot to start the design. I commite no mistakes but the light fabric of 2m was not enough. Now I have to mix with other colour...

I almost finish joining the bocks for my dresden quilt. Another row to attach together and join to the main. The borders will be finalised this weekend since I have no time to work it out during the week days. I thought to have additional row and column to make a perfect size but the green fabric already out of stock. Do I need to use other fabric? I can do that the consistency of colours and patterns wont be that nice. I have to bear with it now. In order to make up a perfect size I need to extend the border for few more inches. I have the intention to present this beautiful quilt to my daughter, Shamim as a very special gift from her father. It is a wonderful heirloom created by her father and hopefully it would last to her first child....

If you want to buy a beautiful batik, Indonesia is the best place to visit. You can get batik fabrics every where in Indonesia. It is closely synonym batik and Indonesia. You can choose to buy a ready made shirt or blouse. You can get a wonderful sarong or a cut fabric. I bought few of them to make my new quilt design. I know it would be very beautiful and the fabric is very cheap...... Jom to Bandung again......

Yesterday I received a parcel from US that I have been waiting for weeks. It was great when I opened it and my devices were wrapped nicely and no sign of damage or broken. They are my quilt tools to cut and shape my fabrics to a precise size. After I saw the rapid fire lemoney star, the sportlights and the V shape, demonstrated by Deb Tucker, it would be a better idea to order these tools. I would be able to provide new designs and concepts for my quilt making. Eventhough the price plus the shipping was quite expensive, it really didnt really matter as long as these tools will satisfy my hobby. I have other tools as well that I ordered earlier from US and still finding time to start the design. Now I am looking forward for every weekend to come to continue with my projects.......I am very impatience now....

As usual I was busy stitching the fabric for my new quilt pattern. Eventhough I was really tired to complete the remaining cuts, I was still in focus to complete it. My wife and my children were busy at the kitchen having their dinner. Suddenly I heard my wife and my children were shouting about the baby. I already expect the new born after seeing they were mating two months ago. Even when I used to feed them, I saw the pouch was bulging. I had told my wife about it before. I went downstair and would like to join my family to celebrate the new born. There were two babies and still tiny and fragile. One was climbing the cage and the other one was clinging to the mother. It seemed that everybody was excited especially Yusuff. I also felt excited in my own way....hahaha. Biasalah nk control macho kan.... Anyway, one already died which I believed the one which was climbing the cage. Perhaps he has used to much energy and become very weak......

Just got these two magazines last Monday for a fresh and new ideas. I would rather spend certain amount of money to learn and find new informations to improve my skill. Not only the design but also the combination of colours  of the fabrics. Now the ideas are coming regularly and now I wonder how to cope with my personal time. Hhhmmmm still fighting hard to manage my time...