Show case of flowers & plants

On once fine Sunday many weeks ago, we headed to Gaya Street to look for plants.

The Moss Roses or 9 O'clock flowers are the ones that I was looking for, cheap and easy to grow, so long as there are water and sunshine. I managed to buy these bundles of mix colours Moss Roses for RM1-RM3 (USD0.32 - USD0.99) per bundle.

Just plant them in a pot with good soil

The Moss Roses will grow easily and bloom in 1 - 2 weeks, this is what I like about these flowers, I have no time to take care of any flowers and plants. I only manage to have a glimpse of them during weekends and public holidays when I do not have to go to work. Because Moss Roses only open their beautiful petals from 9am or 10am and shy away around 3pm to 4pm, this is the time I am still at work.

These are some of the beautiful Moses Roses or 9 O'clock flowers at our front porch that I captured on one of the weekend.

and some outdoor plants which I do not know what's the name of these plants, hope you could help me out to identify their names...:D

This outdoor plants need plenty of water, no soil needed

very sharp leaves plants, I once asked my hubby whether this plant is suitable to be placed by the door, according to Feng Shui School of Taught, sharp edges items are not good for Feng Shui, what do you think???

These plants have more leaves than flowers, their leaves are of different colors, they are of same species...I think..??

Preparing for Christmas

November will soon be over, it's time to prepare for Christmas, the first thing to begin with the preparation is to put up the Christmas Trees, yes we have 2 Christmas Trees, 1 big and 1 small revolving Christmas Tree with lights.

Our girls are ever so excited to put the ornaments on the Christmas tree.

After attended our niece's abacus arithmetic competition at Suria Sabah this afternoon, we went into Metrojaya to have a look and feel the Christmas' atmosphere. They have put up a lot of very beautifully decorated Christmas trees at very departments and every aisles.

This red colour theme Christmas tree is our favourite.

Ornaments have been put up for sales, many type of colours to choose from for you to decorate according to your Christmas colour theme this year. Since we have many of our Christmas decorations which we have been keeping for many years, we did not buy any as we have already have enough.

Silver colour ornaments

The red ones

Admiring some of the beautiful ornaments

The purple ones

Ladies, the sales are on at Metrojaya in KK, some items are up to 80% discounts. I desperately needed to change my handbag, after searching through the bundle of handbags, I managed to get myself a very reasonable price handbag, it is not Coach, definitely not LV for the moment..it is only a GF (Gio Fiore), at 70% discount. Can you guess how much it is???

Free Giveaway contest by Inspired Mom!!

I have been seeing many posts and pictures on the colourful macarons on the internet lately, they look yummy but haven't got the chance to have a taste of these melt in the mouth macarons. The are very pricey.

I am happy to learn that our dear blogger friend, Inspired Mom is holding a free giveaway macarons contest at her blog. The contest is very simple, just go to her blog follow her instructions, comment on her "12 Days Skin Food Challenge *Product Review*" posts.

Skin Food's skin care products are very new to us, have not even hit the shore of East Malaysia yet, but it is coming soon. Inspired Mom is trying and reviewing these products for the 1st time, hope these products will bring a supple and youthful looking skin for her..if it is proved to be good, I want to try them also as you can see the price is very reasonable, check it out from her Day 7 - Price Revealed post.

Learning to Play Guitar

For the past 1.5 months, Crystal has been attending guitar classes at the church once a week. Pearl is able to join in the class after their daddy bought a ukulele for her from his trip to the Philippines 3 weeks ago.

Lesson in progress. Guidance by teacher

Both of them has shown some progress in their guitar playing skills after having their own guitars but still need a lot of practices before they can play smoothly. Interest in playing guitar play a major part, they seem to have the interest thus far and hope they could progress further and be good in playing guitar. I would love to see them playing their guitars and sing along soon.

Pearl seriously practicing with her ukulele

Thanks to Michael, our church member, in sacrificing his time for the free guitar lessons every week.

Angry Birds Dressing up

With all the Angry Birds waves in town, I couldn't help but to buy 2 pretty angry Birds' dresses for my 2 little princesses. In fact, they never asked for any Angry Birds' goodies, not a big fan of Angry Birds as they do to Barbie and Bratz.

Though they are not a big fans of Angry Birds, because of the waves are so strong that they have received many birthday presents and gifts featuring Angry Birds.

in a hypermarket with their new Angry Birds dresses

The Kudat Golf & Marina Resort's Best Year End Bargain Deal!

Frankly I do not like people put any advertisement materials on my car, I hated it most when I was in a hurry and realize a piece of paper stuck in front of my windscreen when I was about to go, need to come out from my car again and take it away again.

This piece of paper was stuck at my car wiper this afternoon when I was off for my lunch break. Like always, I quickly take it away and squeeze it like another piece of waste paper. While waiting at the traffic light, curiously I reached out to this paper to find out what it is all about before I throw it away.

Interestingly it is a flyer about room promotion Best year End Bargain Deal at Kudat Golf & Marina Resort, I have been to Kudat several time mostly on day trips and never have the chance to stay at this resort. The package is pretty attractive. The Room Deal "Pay As You Book" package is at RM188 nett onwards for 2 Adults & 2 children with room, breakfast and dinner provided or you could choose a room for 2 at RM118.00 nett onwards for room and breakfast for 2.

If you plan for a Cuti Cuti Malaysia, Kudat is a place of visit to consider for a short stay trip this school holiday, it is about 3 - 3.5 hours drive from Kota Kinabalu. You could also visit The Tip of Borneo at the same time, it is situated at Tanjung Simpang Mengayau, the northern most tip of Borneo. I have been there once and do not mind having another visit there again.

Properties auction sales

Today, Clet conducted the property auction sales for Maybank. 7 properties up for sales, 2 were cancelled last minute (glad that the house owners managed to update their payments), leaving 5 for auction, at the end of the day 2 properties were sold.

New Home for our Hamster

Actually this cage was bought more than a month ago, I just haven't got the chance to post it here. We supposed to have a pair of hamster, the female one has escaped (set herself free) and never returned, leaving the male one all alone.

It's growing day by day, the small baby hamster cage no longer provide a comfortable space for him to walk, limited space has deterred his movement. 1 day, when feeding him, I noticed that it is limping, one of his leg has turned black. I quickly moved him to a bigger storage container and left him there for a day or two to observe. With more space to move around, his leg has thus recovered. We have no choice but to look for a bigger cage to house him so that he can grow healthily.

We checked a number of pet shops around town in order to get a nice cage with reasonable price. With few choices to choose within our budget at one of the Pet Shop at Bornion Centre, we finally decided to buy a big pink cage.

Pick and choose which one is more suitable

In the same shop, we saw a very cute and well behaved Poodle, he just sits and walks around the table with no fuss.

There the owner of the shop also showed us the new pet in town, an animal size slightly bigger than the hamster, look like squirrel but slow in movement, forgot what's the name of this animal. But it's not the kind of pet for us.

Just to show the baby cage that house the hamster before and the new big pink cage.

Logos Hope berthed in Kota Kinabalu Port

My colleague passed to me a copy of this..at first glance I thought it's just another product sale leaflet. At second look, it's actually something new in town, the Logos Hope will be in Kota Kinabalu for the first time from 18 November to 11 December 2011, just in time for the School holiday break.

There are over 5000 titles of books to choose from on their fully air-conditioned deck that opens from Tuesday to Saturday from 10am - 10pm, and on Sunday from 1pm to 10pm, Monday - closed. The entrance fee is RM1.00, free entrance for children under 12.

It would be a good opportunity for school students, parents and book lovers to visit Logo Hope this school holiday..a great outing for the whole family to experience.

My Next Car Purchase

We are always having problems with the power windows of my 10 years old Proton. We have changed all 4 sets of the power window motors some three months ago at the Proton Service Centre, and this morning there show some signs of problem again, wind down and it will not go up, it’s STUCK!!

I had an experience of winding down the driver’s side window to collect a parking ticket at the entrance to my office, the window was stuck, I had to find a safer parking space, spent the next 15 minutes to get this power window up back, and I wouldn’t dare to press the button to wind down that window again. I was late to work as a result. If it was a raining day, I would had become soaking wet till I got to the office. I was told by the car repair workshop that it is the common problem for this make of cars.

After this morning incidence, hubby and I were talking about the age of my car, unavoidably there are areas need to repair and maintain for it to be in good running condition.

I am always thinking of changing or getting another car for the reason that my car is getting old. I have been observing those new cars on the road, local brand cars would be more affordable but again I have been driving local brand cars all this while, upgrading from one after the other, why not consider other made cars, right!? There are a few Toyota Cars that catch my eyes. I particularly like the Toyota Harrier, a metallic gold in colour would be nice, probably I could just dream about it right now, who knows one day I will be able to buy one..a new model one of course!! Alternatively, I am setting my eyes on a Honda CRV, a smaller model of 4-wheel drive that suites me better.

I am working hard on my business now and hope it will allow me to buy the car of my choice..Soon!!

Wanna get a free ticket to Japan?..

Wanna give yourself an opportunity to get a free ticket to Japan??

My colleague msn to me this link this morning and I thought it would be nice to share this opportunity to whom like to have a ticket to Japan for FREE!!

Check on the link : 10,000 Free round-Trip Tickets to Japan for more information. You could be the lucky one!!

Manufactured Homes

Buying manufactured homes and park model homes from factory is something very rare in our country. Our houses are all built on sites. It is interesting to know that homes can be built in the factory and be delivered as per our requirements and needs in the United States. These homes are built in compliance with the building code set out by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and are also constructed to meet the standard guideline to its quality, durability, strength, transportability, and fire resistance.

At first I thought these manufactured homes are meant for temporary used, in actual fact the structure and design are very much for a long term residential used. Many factors that are required in a modern living like what they have today such as plumbing, electrical, air-conditioning & heating system are all being taken into consideration and can be in-built into the these homes. Extension can also be added to the existing construction of the homes as and when required in the future.

As the park model homes are all manufactured in the factory and deliver to the actual site for assembling, the noise and dust pollution in building homes can be eliminated at the actual building ground. I assume a lot of us would welcome the idea of having the homes built without having the noise, debris and dust around.

Everything that need in building a home can be picked and chose in the factory itself, it would be very interesting if we could find park model homes or manufactured homes factories in this part of the world.

My ebay purchase had arrived

A long waited purchase from ebay had finally arrived today, it took 16 days to reach me from China, it is an international delivery thus took a longer time..glad that it did not gone missing.

This is the parcel, want to know what's inside?

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Can you guess what is it??

Is a black plastic earrings display holder, I bought it for only RM7.18 (AUD2.29), a very reasonable price for an earrings organizer which I have been looking for. Now I can organise and display my earrings properly rather than placing them in a plastic container in my drawer like this....

I am pleased to see now that I am able to organize and display my earrings in a more proper manner, and also easier for me to pick and choose which pair I want to wear whenever I need them, I am an earrings lover, must wear earrings when I go out..whenever possible :D

Don't look so hard, you won't be able to spot any real diamonds or real precious stones collections here..I need another display for that..*.*. A number of them are handmade by myself, gonna made some more once I manage to find my beading tools..they have gone hidden ever since I moved house.

The only setback is that it is a bit small for longer tangling earring like this one,

The longer earrings will have to be placed to the back so they will not cover the bottom ones, like this....any how I am happy with it.