from nagaoka with love

it has been a year and now comes the time to say goodbye.  I joined the class purposely to fulfill my leisure time and now the time has become less since dada enter the primary school.  She will be at home around 3 and i want to be there to welcome her home. I gained a lots of knowledge of water color drawing from the class and surely expect to apply and continue drawing when i have time.  For me, drawing is some kind of mind therapy and i put myself into it when i draw and it really makes me feel free and light.  Actually old folks here love to attend these kind of class as a hobby and one of their way of socializing. There is variety of classes including calligraphic, dancing, language, flower arrangement, music, sewing, aerobic and knitting. That is why i'm the youngest in the class. if you have followed this blog over the last one year, you may recognize this picture below. this is my very first drawing of the class and i named it otte dori after the name of the street.

i dont want to be fat. it is because it will make me feel lack of confident in something i do and the most important reason is i want to be fit to run the responsibility as a mother.  while we went back to Malaysia recently, i saw my mother, grandmother and almost my family members who are women are big in size and i then realize that i will inherit the gene if and only if i  neglect the exercise and not keeping the proper diet. my family tend to have dinner late at night which is after isyak or may be later than that. After dinner they will go straight to bed.  Thus as we know food that we eat needs several hours to be digested and the food that not digested properly will assemble into fat.  Worse come to worst many malaysian like to have heavy supper at mamak stall while watching the football match on the wide screen provided.  This is really not a healthy eating pattern. While we in Terengganu for about a week, we had this nasi dagang, nasi minyak, nasi kunyit, nasi lemak everyd

it has been a while since my last post and i dont even know how to start again.  Errmm let talk about shingles or herpes zoster.  Have you ever heard about the disease?  Actually my eldest daughter is now being infected by this disease and for those who still clueless about it, shingles is caused by the reactivation of the dormant virus in the nerves of people who have previously had chickenpox or whose immunity has weakened.  A typical rash or small red blisters, which are very itchy and painful may appear on the chest or face.  In my daughter's case, the rash appear on the back.   In Malay, we called it "kayap" but i really dont like the word cause it sound like another one skin disease which is "kurap". Dada is given one week leave and next week is a golden week here(the whole week is holiday), which means she will be at home for 2 consecutive weeks! So, i have to plan activities to do with her so that she and me will not going crazy hanging together for