Work At Home

I have been offered work ! I will be doing some work at home using the computer . Searching for some materials for my sisters. Dr & Dr. I have wanted to do something at home since 2007. So here goes. Hooray !!!!

Tompok is at home . I had fed her some raw chicken . She is pregnant again. I think she lost her kittens to the rain. It is raining heavily in the afternoons. No more sunny January to July months. My husband is taking another job. So I see less of him. Due to the economic slow down, many people are searching for cheaper lunches. They do skip the pizzas. Maybe it depends on where you are staying.

I do want to keep the promise to take care of my cat and bring her to the vet when she is sick. After Comel's demise , I felt so sad.Now I have the oportunity to take care of a cat. I know I fed her food so that she will be with me . I feel I need a cat for a companion and with that comes a responsibility . Awang did not appear today. My mother said that there was no food when he comes in the morning . Maybe he is sulking somewhere . Cats do sulk.

I have been surfing for a nice roast lamb recipe. So far I had seen the Morroccan lamb recipe which will go well with mint yogurt sauce and bryani rice. My father is fasting today. Fasting is for good health.

Awang's story

This morning Tompok did not appear at all . So, I fed Awang . I called him Awang for my lost big ,fat cat. When my sister Nas came for the weekend I found some old pictures of Rosa , Elena Daniela, Perseus , Awang and Cleopatra Chomel. Cat's and kitten's pictures taken back in 2005. The year I turned 40.

Life is not complete without these creatures. Today when I came back , I saw some fur. It belongs to Awang. The Awang I lost in 2007 also fought a lot . Just like my Hitam. He had made this house his territory. Could cats come back to their owner ? Or am I just telling my self stories? When Awang disappeared one fortnight , he came back very thin and sickly. Is this my Awang which could have been saved in the SPCA ? Or could he walk back home ? I have pictures of him.

Tompok is here licking her face. I saw a nice programme in TV3 on Saturday , the first cat reality programme in Malaysia sponsored by Friskies. It is a good programme. My niece ,Maryam , lost her her hamster and we went to buy a new one for her. There is a very big cage for cats which cost from RM 300-400 . My sister Dr.Nas is advising me to help my self first. Life is so dull without cats. They do understand you. If my mother tells Tompok why are you sitting on the sofa. She would stare at her and then leave the sofa. Sometimes I speak the Kedahan dialect with them , asking them to come back or asked them to come in the morning .

Awang is outside , he went into the house just now and he is now lazing outside. He refused to be touched.

Exercise

I bought an exercise video three days ago. It was a dance blast for 10 minutes. I have done 30 minutes and I sweated a lot. A physiotherapist said that exercise will be useless without a proper diet. So , I have to look at the food I take. There is a 10 minutes exercise for the abs and another 10 minutes for the thighs.

I saw my sister Sadd yesterday.She came all the way from Jakarta for one day only. I asked her about her cat , a Persian cat. Tompok the cat is in the house. I felt sad when I see her . She reminded me about my dead cats . Hitam and Cleopatra however , I have Tompok as a friend. She is very hungry so I fed her the Whiskas and Friskies. Maybe if I have more money , I will buy a mincer to mince some chicken. I had seen in the net , that cats will grow very fat with raw chicken meat. You have to mix it with some salmon oil , egg yolks some taurine . I hope I can find chicken liver . I know I had seen chicken liver in Giant supermarket but then I have to go to Giant at Kota Damansara. Tompok is resting in the house. Now I have a cat again. Not a pretty cat but it will do. I am afraid to take a kitten for the fear that I could not take good care of it's health like Cleopatra Chomel.

I had gone to Tropicana City with my mother a few days ago. I saw a Brothers sewing machine for RM 599.00 at the Carrefour store. There is another sewing machine. I cannot remember the name for RM 370.00. My mother told me to learn how to sew . I think there is a place to learn to sew at the Brothers in Petaling Jaya . I am not so sure if I wanted to buy the machine. I have to think it through.

Fickle

I am at wit's end whether to work or not. My mother prefers me to work although she doesn't admit it. My siblings said that I would be better off if I stayed at home. My husband said, I should stay at home. Years ago , I would be happy if someone said that .

Yesterday I went to Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman to buy some materials to make two dresses. I also bought some linen to make a blouse. It is very tiring , and at 5.00 pm I went to One Utama. I thought of buying a book but books are not very interesting. I thought of buying a chick lit book .Like " Confessions of a shopaholic" . It looks interesting and it has been made to a movie. I thought of writing a book again but it is very tiring. I feel tired most of the time.

I would like to do more exercise and I think I will try the Latin exercise. For 10 minutes I can exercise without doing the crunches . There are the Kathy Dennis and Denise Austin exercise Cd's but I do not like doing crunches .

So , now I will see what happens. My mother always tells me that god knows best. She is looking forward to go to Seychelles in June. My sister Yati will be going to Dubai, god willing in September. As for me , I would like to try to work but if it feels daunting , I will be a housewife.

New Book

I went to Kinokuniya bookstore in KLCC yesterday to buy a japanese book called "Floral Embroidery" by Ondori. The flowers are so beautiful . There is another book on roses but it is more expensive at RM 90.00 . I thought of buying a book on how to make bags but that can wait. I realise that I have to buy a sewing machine to make bags and a host of other items like an olfa cutter. I think I will buy a Raleigh sewing machine at Tesco. My mother is concerned if I buy a Singer machine and I would not use it and it would be a waste , what with me not working and so forth.
I have another book to dream about. It is called '' Redoute's finest flowers in Embroidery " by Trish Burr. It is crewel embroidery. I think I would go to Kinokuniya and ask if they can get it for me. That too would be later.My sister Nas and her children had stayed for a week during the school holidays. They brought their pet hamsters, Bubbles and Momo.
My other sister Yati came, my mother made pizza using her tupperware cookware. In the afternoon my mother made chicken bryani. And then my brother Akmal made beef lasagne. I made greek salad. Since my husband went to a Arab shop in Chow Kit to buy some olive oil , I took the opportunity to buy some Feta cheese. At night I felt so full.
Last week I made some body scrub. I bought some French Salt at RM 6.50. Fill it half in a small plastic jar. I added some olive oil , sesame oil and castor oil. And then I added a few drops of an old wrinkle oil for steaming which I seldom use. So I have a basic body scrub. I think I will to use brown sugar and honey the next time but for now the salt is good. It is supposed to be good for scars and it does scrub well. No more chemicals ....

Overweight

I am not only overweight but have reached the obesity status. I eat a lot especially at night. The cravings for food could not be controlled. My father wanted to know if it is safe to take slimming pills or powder. I had attended a wellness program especially for the overweight. I have to take 8-12 servings of carbohydrate and to follow the food pyramid. I have to do more activities and less food. All I know is that I skip breakfast, eat a lot during lunch, 1-2 cookies after lunch .I have a pre dinner at 5.00 pm , dinner at 9.00 pm and munching all through the night. Especially sweet food.

Today I went to Ikea after following my mother to the ASN office in Ampang. Before that I had lunch.Then after the salmon dish at Ikea , I bought some prawns and I was still hungry for a hot dog.

I have been thinking of my cats. I missed them terribly. I want a cat .....

My favourite channel is Asian Food Channel ,Travel and Living and Malay dramas. My mother refused to take the HBO channel or the News channel. I am surfing mostly on food especially on the You Tube channel on fat laden food like ,ribs , steaks, potato Au gratin. My brother GG also supported me when I tell him that I would buy lamb shoulders. He had high fever the last time so my father said not to buy any lamb because lamb is hot and his fever would not subside.

I feel out of breath now. Perhaps because of the long time in the car . A nice nurse told me to eat a cracker or a fruit instead whenever the hungry pangs attacks. I need to do more exercise but I don't like to walk alone . More exercise. I feel tired already. I saw in one of the my favourite channel how a woman became too fat a.k.a obese by making and eating brownies at home. I too had thought of baking brownies and munching them while watching the Food channel. It would be heavenly .....

Awang

My sister from Penang is here for three days. I told her that a cat reminiscence of my lost cat Awang had come to the house. Since I have fed him fish and occasionally pieces of chicken he dutifully come everyday. He refused to be touched. He ran as soon as I get close to him. Maybe he is a stray cat . My niece had brought her hamsters so the Awang the cat as I call him would come in the house. At first I wondered why , but now I know that this cat had smelled the hamsters.

I was surfing for and I found a website called Tea and cookies. I found about a nice soup called creamy garlic soup which looks nice. Today my mother had made some prawn and vegetable fritters . She told me that my sister in Jakarta would make the vegetable fritters in the morning.

Awang had just been chased out of the house because he wanted to come in . Poor cat. It is quite difficult to care for a cat since they pee a lot in the house. Perhaps I just feed the cats that come . Just that.