The weather has gone crazy. Normally the month before Chinese New Year, it will be very hot, windy and dry but not this year. It has been raining almost every day and some places are flooded due to continuous rain.
I love it when it rains during the night or early in the morning. It is so nice to sleep in especially if you have a heated blanket. The other day, I continued sleeping after sending my 3 kids to school only to wake up when clock strikes 12noon! And I felt so refreshed and rejuvenated. Thanks to the cold weather.
But no thanks to rainy days when I have laundry to dry especially my baby’s cloth diapers’ inserts. The urine smell does not go away without the sun. Last night, I ended up changing him to disposable diaper because I can’t stand the smell of the urine on his inserts.
This afternoon a clew of worms committed suicide in my aromatherapy diffuser!
Before taking our afternoon nap, I placed the ceramic aromatherapy diffuser at the sink in our bedroom. I was using the Rose Buds fragrance oil. My eldest girl commented that the smell “taste” yummy and makes her want to eat it! 
I was awaken by the smell of something burning and I was so shock to see that my ceramic aromatherapy diffuser caught fire. There were flames coming out from the candle hole. It is impossible for it to catch fire coz there is nothing flammable at the sink.
I tried blowing the fire out but to no avail so I used water to put off the fire. Out flow the water with black particles. I splashed more water and more black particles came out from the hole. I suspected that an insert committed suicide in there but after getting my eldest girl to switch on the room light, I got a shock to discover out that the black particles was a clew of burnt worms!
How did they ended up in my diffuser? Did they crawl all the way up from the sink hole? Actually, for the past few weeks, we came across this clew of worms a few times; plus today, 5 times already! I wonder which insert brought them into our house!
Hubby suggested that I burn the same fragrance oil again tomorrow. More might crawl up the sink hole! I might do it but this time, I cannot nap. Must investigate how all this happened.
I am not a flower person. Hubby can never forget how I scolded him for wasting his money to buy me an expensive bouquet of flowers on our marriage registration day. hahaha. Why do you need to bring flower on the ROM day? We need to sign papers you know. Not to pose here and there at the marriage registrar office. Later I found out that the registrar who was also our church member told hubby to buy flowers for me! At least, tell me lar right? 
But I don’t mind receiving flowers once in a blue moon. I still remember how my hubby (my then boyfriend) surprised me with a bouquet of roses while I was working at a jewelry shop at MP. I still have 3 stalk of roses (dried up) which hubby gave me after his trip to Cameron Highland more than a decade ago. My blogger mommies made my day by sending flowers online on my birthday.
I hope I will get a bouquet of flowers this coming birthday. It has been a long, long time since I receive any (excluding those wild flowers that my children pick for me when they play outdoor. hehe).
All happened in one day to the Indonesian. Thank God this time, they did not take many lives compared to the first Tsunami. When we here all this, aren’t you thankful that you live in Malaysia instead? I informed my maid about the earthquake, tsunami and Mt Merapi eruption but even with onecall coupons she can’t call home to check on her family because her phone number is stuck in her bag pack pocket. I told her not to worry coz those natural disaster did not happen anywhere near her home.
At my house, we have 2 types of farm; the real “dunno how many acres” of banana farm) and a mini farm started by our ex-maid and MIL before she (the maid) left us for good.
This is the fruit of their labor…
We like them steamed. Since they are fresh from the farm; they tasted so sweet. 
MIL and hubby likes eating them with the light soy sauce and pounded chili padi. I like eating them with sambal belacan with some tamarind juice. Since we have plenty of them, we have steamed okra for lunch almost every other day!
Besides okra, we have a row of long beans too but they are not matured enough to be harvested. Maybe in a few days time.
Most ladies that I know of have boots. I also want. Peer pressure mah. But I must buy boots that is practical for a stay-at-home-mom like me. Something that I can wear almost EVERYDAY. If possible, a few times a day. 
After looking at the cash in my purse and considering the practically of the boots, I finally decided to buy a VERY cool boots, no other mommy has worn before. As far as I know of lar.
Tadaa!!! I have a Purple Boots! 
Don’t laugh arh! These boots are very practical you know. It protects my legs from the grasses at the laundry area. No more scratching my feet until bleeding each time after hanging and picking up my bajus. No matter how I wash my legs after that, the itchiness won’t go away. It stays on my legs for a very long time until my wound healed. Bila gatal, garuk bukan main sedap lagi; sampeh melecet pun tak perasan. Then bila dah melecet, dapat garuk kat keliling the melecet area pun jadi. That is how itchy my legs are due to having contact with the grasses. I reckon that I am allergic to the grasses there. 
When maid is around, itchiness also gone coz I don’t have to hang or collect my bajus. hehe. Now, the maid is gone for good. I better do something about it; if not, there goes my sexy, smooth legs.
Last Friday, hubby was around the whole day so we took this opportunity to get him make a bird nest for the Black Magpie out of a milk can.
The Black Magpie has been making nest in our mailbox for months. After their Babies grow up, they will lay eggs again, hatch, grow some enuf feathers then fly away and the cycle continues. I am not so sure whether it is from the same bird or not.
Here’s a slideshow of some picture I took last Friday. First time trying out the slideshows from Smilebox.
I have a story to tell. It is kind of a funny one coz it involved a coconut not a durian.
When I was small, my family has a durian tree that is being shared by 3 families. We have a mutual agreement whoever pick the durian first, it is theirs. It was a very fun running and chasing season when it comes to durian season especially for us, the children.
We do chase after a durian but will you chase if a coconut dropped from the tree? Definitely not us. I find it really funny when my neighbour chased after a coconut that has just dropped within our compound (well, like the durian tree, the coconut belongs to the family too).
Next time if the same happens, I will jokingly ask, “Does the coconut has legs that it can run away?”
We have two trees lesser at home now. MIL decided the 2 Jambu Air trees must go coz nobody has the time to wrap the fruits (too many of them), too many fallen leaves and they are also the cause of so many black ants coming into the house. Furthermore, her maid volunteered to plant some veggies on that small piece of land.
So, over the period of last week, hubby chopped down the trees. I think hubby took 3 days to chop down the trees; that is on the days when he can start work later in the day.
That side of the house is brighter now. Unfortunately, the 3 rooms on that side of the house has no more shade from the evening sun. Hot! Hot!
The only durian that was saved from being savoured by the squirrels dropped a day before MIL returned home. What a perfect timing right? Unfortunately the flesh was hard and not riped; we call it “Mangkau”. Have you heard this term before? There goes our one and only durian.
