Budget!

We are doing a lot of budget planning lately. Budget on renovation of our new house. Budget on money to spent to get a car (new or used one). Budget on air-ticket to visit my hometown before I start working again. Budget on furnitures. Budget on electric gadget. All these involve money!

Okay, I forgot another very important budget. Budget on money that we need to pay for my girls' nanny fees and their school fees. I actually have a lot of plan in mind. I want them to learn ballet, swimming, karate, piano and arts. All these classes involve a huge amount of tuition fees. Anyway, when I talk about this with hubby, he splash a big pile of cold water on me! He got his point also, we must make sure the girls are interested in all the classes that I intend to send them. No point waste money on something they are not interested in, right? Correct! In that case, I would prefer to invest my money to buy gold bullion which is a better way to invest my money!

Cookies

I love cookies, especially butter cookies. So when my friend gave me 3 boxes of cookies from France, I was so happy. Here's the cookies:

100% originally from France! So far we only tasted one packet, the third one. Very nice. Very tasty, I luv it! For the other 2 boxes, I am thinking to keep it and bring back to Malaysia and share with my family. It's really not that easy to get these kind of cookies in Malaysia. Good food must share with love one, right? :-)

Spring is finally here!

I see green leaves growing out! Definitely a great feeling for me as I hate cold weather!

Will start bringing the girls out to the playground more often :-)

New house = more expenses

We bought our first condo unit during our 3 weeks stay in KL. This is going to be our home when we finally go back to KL for good coming September. So, we need a lot of money to do renovation now. At first, we thought that since we are getting euro monthly, and the exchange rate was pretty good (during that time lah!), we decided to save up most of our money here so that when we go back to Malaysia by September, after the exchange, we can have enough money for the renovation.

Oh boy, the decision was so wrong! If you are aware with the exchange rate, you should have notice that the exchange rate for Euro to RM is dropping... dropping dramatically! From almost 1 euro to RM5.10 to RM4.30! Such a big different! Errr... I should have invest my money in GOLD! My mother always told me that gold is proved to be a successful method of preserving value. Should have do more study on buy gold bullion earlier!!

Spring?

It should be spring now. But the weather is still pretty cold. 5-6'C in the morning, and we are lucky if the temperature will rise till more than 10'C in the afternoon. Anyway, I can see that it's getting warmer, just slowly.

Plan to have a day trip to tulip farm, hope that we can make it as this is going to be our last spring in Holland. Wish to take pictures with lots of Tulip!

*Oh Summer!

We have a very nice weather for the past few days. 25'C at noon! Oh, I miss sunshine so much! When I saw those rustic furniture from www.scenicfurniture.com, how I wish I could have this set of 3’ Stained Exterior Finish Outdoor Bench so that I can enjoy myself under the big bright sun, at the same time have a great outdoor activities with my girls. I LOVE summer!

My Love-Hate feeling with weekend!

I like weekend because:

• I have extra pairs of hand helping me with the girls and cooking.
• The possibility for me to go out is higher.
• I can have more quality time with the girls.
• I do not need to rush in the morning - IF we are not going anywhere.

But I hate it when YOU are at home but YOU are making yourself so BUSY in the KITCHEN!!

I prefer you to spend more time with the girls, NOT in the kitchen busy with your NEW recipe with MY new oven!!!!! Please! Spend your time with Anne when I was in the room with baby! In a typical weekdays, she is already playing alone, by herself! I hope someone can play with her in the weekend! SO! Don't play with the OVEN! Play with YOUR GIRL!

*Insurance when living abroad

When we were in Malaysia, we basically no need to worry about our medical expenses as everything was covered by my company. When hubby decided to take the offer to futher his studies in Netherlands, situation changed. I will be taking unpaid leaves for 4 years and we are no longer covered by my company from the day I started my unpaid leaves. We need to get an insurance policy specialized for families living abroad with worldwide coverage.

Getting an international coverage policies is very important when you are living abroad especially when you are in Netherlands where the medical fees is super expensive! Sad to say that, I don't think we can afford the medical fees here without an insurance.

Now that my mother in law will be visiting us this June and stay with us for 3 months, Hubby is trying to search for a suitable international travel policy for her, I think I should try to get my free quote for international coverage from MultiNational Underwriters. We can't take the risk to let her travel without any international coverage policies. 

Spring!

After been staying at home most of the time for the past 3 months, I glad that Spring is finally here. If you know me, you should know that I hate cold weather! I am so happy that I can switched off my heather now and open my window enjoying the fresh air out side!

It's time to plan for more outing before our family vacation to Vienna!!! Yes, we are going to Vienna! Our first family trip this year! Can't wait for it!

* For a good cause

I started online shopping since I came to Netherlands 2 years ago. Recently, I shop online so frequently. Main reason is I cannot find a time to go out. I have a 3 months old baby and a 3 years old toddler to handle. It will be so troublesome to go shopping with them. Hence, I choose to buy thing online. I am glad to find this www.eengoedezaak.nl.  What is so special about this site? Online shoppers can actually do charity when they shop! We pay the normal store price for the product but the retailer donates part of the purchase to the cause that we have decided to support. Sound great, right?

aGoodCause has just launched globally- in 8 countries. To become an AidMaker and support charity, please click on the link for your specific country and download the software onto your computer. Because I am in Netherlands, here's the link for us: www.eengoedezaak.nl.

Alive again!

I know I had abandone this blog for some time... No time to maintain 2 blog... I cannot understand how some stay at home mother and maintain so many blogs at the same time... I think, I have to learn from them...

Will try my best to write more... be patiance! Wakekeke...

Weather forecast...

This is the weather forecast for this week until 26th December.



This is too cold for me... I have been staying indoor for 4 days already... Yeah... I refused to go out in this kind of weather... Now, I am counting down to the day I go back to Malaysia!!! Might be snowing on Sunday somemore!! Eeeeee....

PPP: Special Number plate

My new house is going to complete soon. Heard that we can get the key in a few weeks' time. Which mean, we are able to see the house when we go back to Malaysia. For my new house, of course I wish to have something special. I found that we actually can create Number Plates - Funny & Novelty from this site: http://www.4plates.co.uk. From the site, you can design and create your own unique picture plate. The site is very easy to understand and the step to create a picture plate is easy and most importantly, it's user friendly. You just need to enter your text and select pictures or background that you like. It's that simple! I think I will try to create a special picture plate for my futere new home! :-D

Finally...

After 16 months of waiting, we finally receive a letter from IND stated that our application for temporary resident permit in Netherlands is approved! Yes, I can go home on 1st Jan! In another 21 days, I will be on my way back to Malaysia. Oh, I miss my family so much! I am sooooo happy now! I am going to spend 3 months in Malaysia... I want to eat a lot of nice food in Malaysia... I don't want to cook when I am in Malaysia... muahahaha... I am VERY HAPPY NOW!!!!

PPP: The invisibleSHIELD

I only have a handphone. I do wish to get an ipod long ago but still no action has been taken. Why? Because I am pretty sure that if I have an ipod, my tomboy girl will sure want to play with it. She already treat my handphone as her toy, I do not wish my new ipod have the same fate as my handphone. Anyway, with invisibleSHIELD, I think my wish to own an ipod may come true soon. The invisibleSHIELD is a clear film that protects your iPod or iPhone from scratches. It's great because it doesn't add any bulk to your device like any other ipod case, but yet it provides great protection. Don't you think this is a great protection to your ipod?

Sick!

It's winter now. Weather is cold. So, Anne is sick. The mother is sick. Daddy also not feeling well now. We stay at home most of the time.... Anyway, after 2 weeks of runny nose, Anne is getting better now... But, this lazy mommy just too lazy to bring her out. We need at least 15 minutes to dress up... Put on clothes one by one... very tired leh!!! Better to stay in our warm house! Hehehe...

PPP: A Special Gift!

Looking for a special Christmas gift for your love one? Now, starting at only £6.95, you can get a fantastic, special and unique gift! You must be asking what's that, right? It's a Personalized Blurb books! Blurb is a creative publishing service that allows you to easily create a professional, bookstore-quality book from photos, text, or a mixture of each, and gives users templates for creating things like travel books, cookbooks, baby books, wedding books, and poetry books. I believe your lover will definately love this special gift from you!

What are you waiting for? Hop over to place an order now!

Cooold!

It has been raining since 10am. We are at home for the whole day. Do not wish to go out and get wet! According to the weather forecast, next week will be a raining week. Meaning, rain for one whole week! Iakkkk.... I hate raining day, espeacially rain with strong wind! It is so cold now even tho we are at home with all heater turned ON! When I can get my ID so that I can go home as soon as possible? I wish to run away from this winter ler...

PPP: Free Web Polls for Blogs

Since I started to blog, I like to change the layout of my blog. I play with the code and I will search for different widgets or some code to install to my blog. I want my blog to look nice and unique! Now I actually can create and add a web poll to my blog easily by using Easy-Poll. Their system is designed in a way that I need no database of my own, no additional software or IT support – everything is handled and calculated on their servers – quickly and safely. You even can find a top online slots from the website. I believe this is gonna be fun! Want your to create a special poll for your blog? Do it now!

She needs more friends...

At the Sinterklaas Party, I found that Anne was pretty slow in warming up with other kids. When others were playing together, she would stand a side and watch! Yes, watch only. After I join in and play with the kids, she then only join in. And then slowly she can play with them without me, with condition I am near by. She loves to play with kids, but she is pretty slow in mixing with them. When others already feeling tired, she just started getting high! We need to send her to school so that she can have more friends to play with. She looks pity when she is alone.