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I'm back! That didn't take long, did it? It's weird but those few days really helped clear up the verbal constipation within me.

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Posted in Delectable Design, Randomness

Everyone in blogland has been talking about their piles lately. Here are my favourites right now - Lisa's, Louise's and Gracia's. What I want to know is why does everyone's messy piles look so artistic and fun? Mine just looks like one big junk heap.

I've decided to take a blogging break. Life is just way too overwhelming right now. I keep wishing there were 60 hour days. My home is a mess, my workload is endless, my personal life is lacking. I keep making lists and they just give birth to more. I am trying to find some balance in the insanity. I want to be able to cuddle with my cat and lovely husband for longer than 2 minutes.

I am not really sure when I plan to be back. It might be sooner than I think. But hopefully, I'll see you all very soon.

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Posted in Much To Do About Nothing

Ryoko Sabelle finally made her presence known around 6 a.m on Sunday morning. Here are pictures of Aunty Jenna, Uncle John, proud papa Bernie and the most beautiful little girl in the world. I know I am being totally biased but isn't she adorable? Darn that Marie for not liking her pictures taken. I hear she is well and glowing.

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Posted in Joy-Friends

My best friend is having a baby, as I am writing this. I got a phone call from her sister at 4 pm. And updates every hour or so. I am overwhelmed.

So happy that baby Mernie is finally coming. Worried that it's taking so long (it's almost been 12 hours labour as I am writing this). Hoping that she's not in too much pain. So happy for the both of them. Heartbroken that I am not there and cannot be there until November. Heart bursting, because I already love the baby and the mother giving birth to the baby so much. Words cannot describe.

The wait is agonizing.

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Silence from me. What's going on, you ask? What is NOT going on, should be the better question.

About a month or so ago, I implied how I was going a little mental but I didn't explain why. Call me superstitious but I really don't like talking about "big" decisions until I've actually decided and done the thing I've decided to do. Like my marriage. I feel like if you say anything before, you might actually jinx it.

I was more than half way through my first year of business when I suddenly realized that I had outgrown the space I was working out of. I had basically been fortunate enough to work out of Stefan's office. I was offered a couple of new lines that came highly recommended by friends in the industry and all of sudden, I felt like Alice in Wonderland, grown too big and everything around was tiny.

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Posted in Joy-Friends, Much To Do About Nothing

Sometimes having your brain twin on the other side of the country is very inconvenient. Marie and I have to schedule our phone calls around our different time differences, and debate ideas on things especially fashion and design through pictures and email.

I've been working on decorating ideas on a soon to be revealed surprise and am having a bit of a harder time having no female perspective other than my own. The boys around me are like Stef and tend to like the modern European clean look. I like to mix it up a little with quirk and vintage. Since time and money is tight, it leaves me with very little options. I can't really go antiquing or garage shopping.

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Last night, I was lying in bed at night with Mindy and having one of our "chase my hand under the duvet" games. She was like a lion after it's prey and all Stefan could hear was random bouts of giggling. He popped his head in to see what we were up to and we both looked at him with,"What? We're not doing anything!" looks and he just said,"You're such a little girl", shook his head and went back out.

Later on at night, we were having one of our random night conversations about having children -

K: I really am still a little girl. I can't be anyone else's mummy.
S: I know. I would have to do everything.
K: But if we were to have daughters, wouldn't you want them to be like me? I'm fun.
S: Hmm....I would like them to be a little less mischievous...
K: What do you mean? I'm not mischievous.

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Last night I decided to cook some mee goreng, a Malaysian style stir fried noodle dish. I had been feeling homesick for food. It's funny how I've lived in Canada for almost 15 years and after all this time, I still crave food from my hometown in Malacca. The last time I went home which was about four years ago, no one could understand why all I wanted to do was eat. Even though my mum makes a lot of food from home, it never tastes the same. I think it's because the food is missing the spicy, hot, sultry, sea tinged air of back home.

Sambal is essentially a chili paste used commonly in South East Asian cooking. It varies from ingredient to ingredient and you would use different sambals for different types of food. It is the base or foundation for many types of Malaysian food, from laksa lemak , a noodle soup dish with a spicy coconut broth to beef rendang, a spicy nutty curry.

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Posted in Homage to Hunger

We were at the cottage again last weekend. It's always so nice to get away from the city. It's been such a disgustingly hot, humid summer. For me, this is probably my last "hurrah" at the cottage for the summer as I am just about to start my crazy-busy time at work. I was so happy to be able to spend it away and with some lovely friends. Maureen and I went up early on Friday and the boys came to meet us after the footy game.

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Posted in Joy-Friends, Travel