This is LiN's Life

Here I am at work but my mind is thinking of what I need to do first once Im back home and how I wished I dont have to go to work so that I could finish up all the housework and cleaning up that needs to be done before Syawal comes next wk...which btw is only...1...2...SHEESH! 5 days away!!!

Its silly lah coz nobody actually comes to my house during the first few days of Raya. So I dont actually have to clean everything now. (heh...actually last yr we only started cleaning our windows a wk before the first batch of visitors who are my hubb's aunts and uncles came. Anyway the windows got dusty again less than 1wk after we cleaned it! Damn those constructions going on at the school nearby) I guess cleaning up the house gets me in the mood for Raya coz I dont bake cookies or cook ketupat, you see?

So anyway, last year I had only 2 rombongan of visitors. Which means all the kuihs were hardly touched and the gassy drinks were guzzled by us in the following months...no wonder both of us put on so much weight lah!

Anyway, initially my hubb insisted on not buying any kuih2...which got me worried coz at first I thought that my mom was going to donate some of her kuih to me but she didnt make much this yr and so she couldn't give me. So I persuaded my hubb and he finally agreed to make a fast trip to Geylang tomorrow morning to buy some kuih.

Which reminds me that this will be my 4th trip to Geylang. 2 in the afternoons when I was on MC..hehehe...one tomorrow and last Sunday, with my mom and sis. I realised that this year's bazaar is not as meriah as last yr's and that some of the major stalls are missing eg the dry flowers stall that used to be infront of Tanjong Katong Complex, alongside the road. And that got me scampering looking for dry flowers in Ikea instead coz my hubb says that our home concept is modern and so only dry flowers will match it....haiz...

Before going to Ikea, I had written only 2 things to purchase there:
1. Carpet for Living Room (our Geylang bought carpet "died" on us just 2 yrs after we bought it!)
2. Door mats for the two toilets and the front door

But the total damage was $458! So yes, we bought alot more things than those written on the list!

One area of Ikea where my hubb and I will always have disagreements with is the flower/decoration area. My hubb usually will choose bright colors like red or yellow or orange but I usually stick to my safe beige and browns. This year I gave in to his request of Orange but not without some beige flowers too.

So last night, after coming home from Iftar with his friends at Charco's, (haha..my stomach is rumbling as I type this as I recalled back the taste of those delicious tender ribs I had last night! Ish batal posa nanti...) I sat down trying to arrange the flowers into the small vase for the TV console as I watch Ayat-ayat Cinta on dvd. Of course Nurul had to lend me a hand, pulling out the leaves from the flower bunches...hehehe...in the end, I finished the arrangement 3hrs later!!

That leaves me with:
1. Arrange flowers for big vase
2. Iron out the new curtains and hang it up
3. Sweep, vacumn and mop the whole house
4. Lay out the new carpet
5. Lay out the new table runners
6. Put up the stick on decoration from Ikea
7. Alter Nurul's first day Raya set
8. Iron all 4 sets of Nurul's baju kurung and dresses etc
9. Iron my hubb's new attires
10. Hand wash and dry out my Hari Raya attire
11. Hide! Nurul's mountain of toys
12. Change the bedsheets

Well, these are all that I can remember as of now. And all to be done by this Sunday! Yikes!!!! And at these times, my hubb will go "Tulah, suruh ambik maid tak nak..."

So anyway, incase I wont have time to log on again, I would like to wish everyone

Selamat Hari Raya, Maaf Zahir Batin