Goodbye Mak Ngah ~ Rest In Peace

I found out from my mom that my Aunt, on my late father side, had passed away. She was diagnosed with cancer a while back and been in and out of the hospital undergoing treatment. She was laid to rest yesterday evening.

Rest in Peace Mak Ngah.. We love you and you will be missed.

 

Al Fatihah…

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Page Rank (PR) Are Here Again

Bring out the mocktails and the cao cigars, we’re here to celebrate the latest PR rounds. I have 10 blogs to my name and although not all of them are as up-to-date as I like them to be, I try my best to update them as much as possible. So I was pleasantly surprise to see how some of them have improved in terms of page rank and even more pleased that ever since I switched url for my main blog over at LadyJava’s Lounge, it has now a modest Page Rank of PR2. Yeay!

Here the latest Page Rank results for my blogs:

LadyJava’s Lounge – From PR0 to PR2
LadyJava Creations – From PR3 to PR4
Shopping Galore – From PR1 to PR3
Me, The Muslimah – From PR2 to PR3
Blogger Cats– From PR2 to PR3

No change: Still at PR2
LadyJava Life’s Pages

No change: Still at PR3
Online Money Chat
LadyJava Food Paradise

No change : Still at PR0
Being Woman
The Love Den

How has the page rank of your blog fair this round?

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Music Monday : Family Portrait (Pink)

A lovely yet sad song from Pink. Everyone wants a pretty Family Portrait. So let’s all strive for one people.

Happy Music Monday and may there always be love in our lives.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSjIz8oQuko

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Valentines Chocolate: Choose Hotel Chocolat for Valentine Gifts

Hotel Chocolat is an excellent site for luxury chocolate valentine’s gifts. With the 14^th Feb, St Valentines Day, just around the corner it’s a great place to look for a gift for your loved one. Chocolate is traditionally popular for valentines gifts – choosing Hotel Chocolat is a great way to make that gift extra special.

Hotel Chocolat is specialist British chocolatier and cocoa grower, which uses only the finest ingredients – including carefully selected fin cocoa – to make luxury late. The company grows specially chosen cocoa trees at it’s 140-acre cocoa plantation in St Lucia: the Rabot Estate – Hotel Chocolat is the only UK chocolatier with it’s own private cocoa estate. The Hotel Chocolat website has a wealth of information for anyone interested in luxury chocolates from indulgent cooking recipes to news on how the company’s ‘Engaged Ethics’ programme supports cocoa farmers in Africa and the Caribbean.

Online you’ll also find the new 2011 range of valentine’s chocolate, including chocolate hampers and chocolates boxes containing the finest milk chocolate and dark chocolate with which to spoil your special one. Exclusive valentines gifts include the classic ‘Milk Engraved Chocolate Heart’ made of pure, unadulterated 40% cocoa milk chocolate. This delicious velvety smooth gift, with its intricate lovebird design is perfect for the chocolate lover with rich flavours thanks to a high cocoa content. Another saucy gift for that luscious lady in your life is the ‘Hot Lips’ chocolate truffle; a sizzling set of scarlet lips cast in our award-winning house dark chocolate and filled with silky soft truffle.

For more traditional chocolates boxes, try ‘The Melting Hearts H-Box Selection’ or ‘The Sleekster Love Selection’. In ‘The Melting Hearts H-Box Selection’ you’ll find a gorgeous selection of milk, dark and white chocolate hearts finished in passionate pinks and red.  With pralines, pistachios, hazelnuts, zesty fruit recipes and irresistible liquid caramels, this is the perfect indulgent treat.

To make a grander gesture, ‘The Sleekster Love Selection’ presents an array of loved-up recipes including luscious truffles with champagne, armagnac and fruity little numbers, stunning hearts, and luscious lips. Alternatively, ‘Oysters and Champagne’ is another stylish and decadent treat – six milk chocolate oysters filled with melting praline, alongside six stunning champagne truffle pearls for a gift of classic romance with more than a touch of glamour.

Hotel Chocolat offer an array of valentine’s gifts available online for easy delivery. You’ll find luxury gifts for all different tastes, with high-quality, ethically-sourced chocolate making that romantic valentine’s gift extra special!

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Being More Frugal

Speaking of money, expenditure and savings, my home budget is seriously in need of a revision. It’s not because I’m spending like a mad woman in need of retail therapy,  but rather because everything has gotten so much more expensive these days. I mean looking at my budget worksheet right now, it’s more suited for last year’s prices than this year. At this rate, me and Azwaj got to work extra hard this year to live like last year. Petrol has increased, groceries prices have gone up, pet food prices have increased, even toilet paper has gone up 20%!

I am wondering at this point if I need to up my own blog makeover prices.  One thing is for sure, we need to be extra frugal. Perhaps we should start eating more at  home and less outside dining? Perhaps we need to use less expensive litter for the kitties (though that would mean the house might stink a bit more). I’m even considering letting go of our cable tv simply because I don’t watch tv that often anyway.

Whatever it is, I need to find more personal finance tips that might suggest some ideas on how to save money especially for those rainy days. You never know when you might get sick and need more money for that 🙁

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Monica | Mariuca

Save Save Save

I am always on the lookout for great deals and any savings I can get in any form gets me super excited. Like recently I found out that I could save almost RM15 on cat food if I were to get it from the local SPCA nearby our home.. and I not only save money, I also get to help the organisation as all purchases are considered as donation. The only inconvenience is that I got to call the place first before going there as its office opening hours are not regular. I reckon I just need to discipline myself to not wait till the last minute before calling them.

Nowadays, everything is so expensive that sometimes I can’t help but shake my head each time I’m at the cash register. I mean I’m only there with four items, namely instant coffee and some can food and the amount was already RM50 over. Sigh.. That is why sites like Savings.com are to me, Godsend. They have coupons on almost everything, from human to pet food, from health to beauty products, the site has it all. If this site was available for us to use here in Malaysia, this site would be my homepage.

Anyhow, I am now saving up for a brand new phone and potentially a new laptop. Anyone know where I can get coupons that is valid in Malaysia for those?

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See You Later

Ok Ok.. am nodding off here at my desktop and so I bid you goodnight for now. I have taken my hormones pill (not best prenatal vitamins, mind you), my health supplement pills,  and will right this instant go back to bed. I have a late night Skype call with my client in the States and need to stay awake for that.

Have a fantastic day all!

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Working Azwaj

It’s a holiday here in Malaysia and although public holidays “may” sometimes means a rest day for me as most of my clients are foreigners and as I work from home, it’s a super busy day for Azwaj. He usually takes the public holidays as an opportunity to service client’s servers he maintained and to install any new softwares that the clients need. He is in fact right now away monitoring the installation of security cameras at a clients place.

I’m hope he finished after lunch as I want to go grocery shopping..

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Red Delicious Apple

I’m feeling pretty depressed now.

I’ve gain two kilos and my face is breaking out, thanks to the medication I’m on right now. Nope it’s not best pre-natal vitamins or anything but it’s equally hormonal.

I feel so darn ugly. I need something to perk me up but I have no idea what is. Good thing I found this quiz from blogthings and while it is not absolutely true, I am feeling better and just smiling away reading the results. lol!

You Are a Red Delicious Apple

You are beautiful and striking. You maintain a flawless appearance.You shine every where you go. You know how to turn heads with your style and grace.You are quite popular and well liked. People look to you for guidance, and you are a natural leader.  You are an original and even a bit famous in the circles you travel in. You are a good role model.

What Kind of Apple Are You?

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Music Monday: Let's Make Love (Faith Hill n Tim McGraw)

A lovely ballad from this husband and wife duo. Love it! Happy Music Monday everyone!

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPnFp4dVMYk

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What? I'm No Longer A Pisces?

No doubt you heard about the addition of the 13th zodiac sign Ophiuchus? Well, good thing I did not tattoo my zodiac sign on my body somewhere because apparently I’m no longer a Pisces! Darn! I so enjoyed being a fish and I believe my personality really matches it.

So are you rushing off to get that tattoo removal creams even as we speak right now? Some experts are saying this might not mean anything but I guess we’ll see huh?

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lklB5PYMZhU

Here are the NEW zodiac dates:

Capricorn: Jan. 20-Feb. 16
Aquarius: Feb. 16-March 11
Pisces: March 11-April 18
Aries: April 18-May 13
Taurus: May 13-June 21
Gemini: June 21-July 20
Cancer: July 20-Aug. 10
Leo: Aug. 10-Sept. 16
Virgo: Sept. 16-Oct. 30
Libra: Oct. 30-Nov. 23
Scorpio: Nov. 23-29
Ophiuchus: Nov. 29-Dec. 17
Sagittarius: Dec. 17-Jan. 20

On the plus side, I now share the same zodiac sign with my late father, who apparently is still a Aquarius. Yeay!

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Mobile Galore

On my trip back to Singapore, I took the opportunity to check out some of the mobile phones available in the Singapore market. I was going crazy at all the packages that the telecommunications providers were providing. Some were even offering free mobile phones with a two year contract..or at very least the phones, like the HTC Desire I would love to own so much, was going at a ridiculous low price. Let me tell you, if I was still living in Singapore, I would be switching phones each year with the upgrade options the company were offering. I might even give the blackberry torch or the  blackberry playbook a try!

But alas, I don’t live in Singapore anymore and to get a mobile package there just doesn’t make sense right so I just moved away and carried on with my shopping instead. ..hehehe… oh did I tell you I got my long overdue boots? I did! Yeay!.. but I shall leave that for another post 😉

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Music Monday: Suci Dalam Debu (Salim Iklim)

Another brand new week and for those of you with job to return to later today after a wild weekend, let’s mellow down with another song for Music Monday. My selections this week are malay songs from Salim Iklim. I know most of you will not understand the songs but I believe the melody can touch you even though you don’t understand the lyrics.. close your eyes and enjoy…

Happy Music Monday people!

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr_TTUD_fwQ

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Tshirt Printer Review

 

In our hot weather here, tshirt and shorts are always the style by choice at home. I mean how much more comfortable can you get right and I can say this, the tshirt that I received from TShirtPrinting.net, a T shirt printer that sent me a tshirt to review, is darn comfortable. The size that I requested was medium and it is just the perfect size for me. I also love the little monkey design that is in the front. So apt that I am living among monkeys here in my condo area right? lol!

TShirtPrinting.net prices are competitive with a huge selection of garments and colours. So check them out on your next tshirt printing spree.

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A Hot Tub Wish

It’s been a hot day and it looks like it’s gonna be a hot night. I just finished taking a hot shower though if I had my way I would love to take off the hot tub covers and just soak in there for a while. Oh wait.. I don’t have a hot tub :(.. bumer for sure.  Oh well.. here’s to a hot tub that overlooks the mountains and a beautiful sunset! A girl can dream right?

 

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It's A Brand New Year!

Wishing all my visitors today… A Happy 2011! May only everything nice and wonderful fills our lifes in this coming year.

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