Time flies, as always. This is the time of year when everyone wonders…where did the year go? It never fails. It seems like only yesterday that we welcomed 2009 and soon its time to say goodbye. We were on board the Crystal Symphony on 1st January 2009 – cruising the Palmer Archipelago – a group [...]
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Celebrating Eid a.k.a. Raya
Hari Raya Aidil Fitri or Eid al-Fitr is the festival that follows the completion of Ramadan observance and its celebrated quite differently depending on where we are. While living in Malaysia, we would traditionally hold our “Raya open house” on the second or third day of Eid. Many of our Muslim friends would usually be [...]
Finishing touches
A couple of weeks ago, when Lau had more or less completed the renovation of our Windsor apartment, I sat down with him and “ordered” the last couple of pieces of furniture I wanted (rather we needed!) for our apartment. One – we had no shoe cupboard. Every house needs a shoe cupboard! And I [...]
Kitchen 101
Did I say I came back to KL with a mission? Maybe I didn’t but yes, I’m on a mission: to get design proposals and quotations for our kitchen in our apartment at Waldorf Tower. This kitchen came with the apartment i.e. we did not choose it. It was very basic and we planned to [...]
Not on traveling day…..!
What a day. It was really busy for a travel day and I’ve never had a travel day like this before! And I’ll have to make sure it never happens again. I don’t know how it happened but it happened. Guess I was just too confident that time would turn out the way I planned. [...]
Mission accomplished
I cannot believe that I’ve been here in KL for two and a half months. Its really the longest ever I’ve been away from Kuwait! Its the longest time I’ve ever been away from my dear husband. I never thought I could manage it but I guess having a goal and being kept busy by [...]
Got art
My eyes wandered around the empty walls of the apartment as I spent the greater part of Thursday and Friday stuck here again with workers buzzing around their busy-ness. Thursday – The people from V-Kool finished installing the tinting in the living room and all the bedrooms around 3:30pm and I went around checking what [...]
Fragile – handle with care
I had geared myself up for one more day of workmen in the apartment today. The carpenter was coming to do one last bit to the AV panel and cabinet. I didn’t like the way the lights had been fixed under the hanging cabinet so he had to fix some kind of pelmet to conceal [...]
Friends, guest rooms and a sanctuary
It was the first time my friends came over to visit since I moved into the new apartment. Zuraidah was supposed to visit at 3pm with her son, Amir. Mariam was supposed to come tomorrow morning for breakfast. When Amir cancelled because of a college commitment, Zuraidah and Mariam both came at 3pm and it [...]
