I Love You More Sweetheart

My little angel will be turning 17 in a couple of days’ time. She has been a real joy in my life; everything thoughtful is my little angel. She loves makeup, shoes, bags, clothes and many many more girlie things.

We decided to surprise her for a kick start to the celebration of her big day by giving her loads of makeup to play with. Boy, was she surprised? She was smiling from ear to ear, and keeps on repeating “wow”, “wow”, “wow”.

Later before she kiss me goodnight, she just hugged me and told me that, “I am so lucky to have a mom like you”. What other words can complete my day?

I love you more sweetheart.

And Boris……………………. Thanks a million.

Life Is Just An Experience

Yesterday I spent some good time talking to my Chef Diva. She was not really in a good mood, as there were a lot that was going on her mind lately. However, throughout the conversation, I realized that the field that she’s currently in is not giving her the satisfaction that she’s looking for in her life right now.

As a single parent, I wanted always to give the best to my kids. Therefore, when what she is doing is no longer satisfying her, I can only be there to support her in every way possible. I will be there in her every step towards something new that she might want to do instead in the future.

Along the way I remember how I have built my own career. It was never a smooth sailing one, I remember falling too often and the feeling of being so hopeless since I have no one to help me along the way, to encourage me to pick all the pieces of me from the fall and start standing again. It was a feeling that I want none of my kids to ever experience.

Yes, I have been there and done that, I have been to the peak of my career path and I have enjoyed each journey despite the pitfalls that I had to go through. I treasured all the experiences and try to bury the trauma in a deep deep grave.

To my Chef Diva, remember you are not alone and never will be alone as long as I am still breathing. Follow your dream, if you feel that you are not happy then do not continue doing what you are doing. Life is only an experience and it is not important to stay stagnant on a path that you found too grilling to go on.

I love you and your sisters love you……………….. always remember that.

OxTail Goulash

 Oxtail Goulash is just fantastic to be served in this rainy, cold weather.  Here is how I cook them in my own kitchen

Add 2 tablespoon of flour to a kg of oxtail.  Heat pot on medium high, add 3 tablespoon of cooking oil, and brown the ox tail for approximately 5 to 6 minutes 

In a blender, blend together 2 whole yellow onion and 5 cloves of garlic 

Once the oxtail is nicely brown on all sides add the blended onion and garlic and fry for 3 minutes or until onion turn translucent but not brown 

Add two cans of tomatoes.  You can see here that I used two different kind of tomatoes, as I discovered that it resulted in better taste of the goulash 

 Add 4 cans of water to the mixture, and the following herbs: Mixed herbs, mixed pepper, bay leaves and some dried small chili (if you want your goulash to be a little bit spicy) 

 Leave it to boil for at least 3 hours, so that the oxtail will be really tender and the meat will just fall off when served

 Add 2 cups of chopped potatoes during the last half and hour of cooking time.  Do not overcooked the potatoes as this will make the goulash a little too thick

 

 Ready to be served

Friday Night Skating

Government encouraging its people to green the word by skating and cycling at least once a week on a Friday night.  Great idea and fantastic turn out.

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fashion Week

 Daily pass for my little angel

VIP pass for me and hubby

 Crowds from all over Europe

  

Fashion Show Week

  Mingling with the models and make-up artist before the show

 The brushes

Make-up artists at work

The Model

 The Model

 The Model

 The Model

 The Model

 The Model 

The Model 

The Model

The Boss

The hubby and little angel

The unofficial photographer :P

Just Rambling

What I have in my room, just rambling on another gloomy, boring, cold day……………..

1-    Medicine, medicine and moreeeeeeeeeeee medicine
2-    A cold mug of coffee, ¾ can of diet root beer and ½ a bottle of plain water
3-    TV, Sky box, two laptops, and ipad and an old Nokia phone
4-    Books, unfiled documents, old cards that I received and cherished
5-    Hubby’s golf set
6-    Two grandmother chair, I settee, and a small table for my laptop
7-    Random bits of stationary.
8-    Two mattresses
9-    A painting that I did for hubby
10-  Hubby’s boxes for socks, and undergarment
11-  Pillow and lots of them
12-  Soft toys that I got for hubby, I got for myself and one from Chef Diva
13-  My praying mat and attire
14-  Two large Persian carpets

Ok that’s about what I have in this room that I am sitting in right now. It is a comfortable and cool room, may be too big for one person but nevertheless, I love the laziness that this room give me each time I enter it.

Unintentional Laziness

 

 

Today is my sad day.

The temperature suddenly dropped to 12 degrees and it is not going to help me much, but then how can I be sad for I know that summer is no longer here.

I feel the fever creeping in on me again from last night, and all I can do all day long today while waiting for my beloved hubby and little angel to be home is just lazing around. I have been lazing around since they left this morning.

I hate the fact that I cannot open the windows of the house now; I did actually as soon as I got up this morning, and left the windows open for more than 3 hours but that only left the whole house so bloody cold. Therefore, I was left with no choice but to close all the windows again, leaving only the one in the kitchen open and closing the kitchen door.

Lazing around is a form of unintentional laziness, I guess, and it is sad when you make yourself lazy for no apparent reason.

"Me Time"

 

This is the quality “me time”, not alone but alone among other crowds walking in the garden, and enjoying the last few days before you really have to dress up to keep yourself from the chilly weather.

In this moment there were many things that came to mind. Some pretty happy thoughts, some funny that almost make me laugh out loud, some sad but mostly the thought of “where do I go from here?” I must admit that I am a thinker and there were time that I think, I think because I just love thinking and not because of anything else.

Cry a little just thinking about what could have been and what could have been not. I tend to hold back my tears a lot more now because tears make me sad, but then again, isn’t that the very reason why people cry? Well, of course we cry tears of joy too.

Most of all during my “me time”, alone in a crowded area, I love people watch. Peoples’ faces, body, character etc are so intrigued to me, and I often wonder do they see me the same way that I see them in my eyes? Who cares, I don’t, I love people watching and am not shy to be critical about them in my mind.

Love me, hate me………. I am still me.

Please Be Artistic Not Vandalistic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

 

Artistic graffiti can be very creative and pleasing to the eyes. However, today in Europe almost everywhere you go, you can see that graffiti has become such a nuisance, especially to the public properties and usage of abusive language to express one’s feeling.

In Europe vandalistic graffiti largely outnumber artistic ones. It is evident that they are a form of expression for many urban young against the government or the authority. This to me is worth researching on why and how to stop such nuisance.

Please be artistic not vandalistic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!