Home sweet home

Finally..
Arif has been discharged from the hospital..
Oh thank god!
Now it is mommy's turn to catch on her sleep, on the plush 10 inches King Koil mattress!!
Hunney, it's your turn to watch over the kids!

 

Thanks to all for the thoughts and get well wishes! 

Choo Choo..

Nope.. not Jimmy Choo..
It's Choo Choo Thomas the tank engine.. yup.. Thomas and his friends..

 

Don't be surprised, Thomas can entertained him for hours and hours just by going around the track.

Today Arif purged more than yesterday.. almost every hour!
But the poo was getting lesser and slowly became thicker.
Doctor said nothing to worry, that's the reaction of antibiotics.
Now he has rashes on his bum and kept complaining on the uncomfortable feeling of it.

The good news to share was that Arif has started eating too today!
Unlike the days before, his appetite have came back today and he wants to eat everything, although not as much, but still he was eager to try tasting it..

 

 And his favourite of the day is, munching on powdered Horlicks!

 

Numbers

 

6 books have been read over and over again..

5 clothes were changed yesterday, due to..

4 times of purging and twice vomiting

3 bottles of glucose drip already

2 daily inter-venous antibiotic

1 awful smecta oral intake

That's all for yesterday's event..

I wonder what numbers we're gonna be playing with today.. interesting, huh?

Doctor told me that the purging continues because that is how his body is actually responding to the antibiotics and we need to give it 3 days for the diarrhoea to settle down.

He vomited to let the phlegm out, thanks to the every 4 hours of nebulizer.. yeah, he has slight flu and bronchitis too.. 

Now he's already onto his 3rd water (glucose + sodium) drip at the moment.

Hope that's more than enough to counter the loss.

Fun Time?

Oh look.. there's the clown..

and lion... roarrrrr...

 

Looks like fun, huh?

Well, u have to go through this..

 

..to get here..

Yes, Arif was rushed to the hospital this afternoon, due to excessive purging and dehydration..

 

My poor baby boy has no appetite at all today and hardly ate anything since morning..

And the worse thing was that he kept purging with a whole lot of water came out..

And definitely eyes starting to look swollen and dried lips and cracked skin, showing signs of dehydration..

 

A whole bottle drip just for him..

 

Don't worry my cutest.. mommy's here.. 

Just another grey bag?

So far so good, I have been grey-less for more than two months now and have been using my black bags in replacement to match my grey clothings. (since I've sold my Coach Legacy Garcia Grey Leather Tote)
And that brings me to the question, do I really need a grey bag at all?
Hmm.. maybe not..
But irene-alia flaunted her Gucci Pelham recently and oh gosh this is sooo tempting!

So, just for the fun of it, if I managed to struck gold, I'd be getting this in a heart-beat!
I first saw it on Sophia Bush (picture found in tpf)

 

Then, saw it on Reese Witherspoon (picture found in tpf)

 

Also on Lily Allen (picture found in tpf)

ohhhh soooo gorgeous!!

Chanel Reissue Grey Large Camera Case

Emergency Weekend

I can tolerate this...

 

...but this is starting to get me worried..

 

... and helloooo, PARANOID is my middle name!

 

I'm a mom, I have every darn right to get panicked!

 

It's already 2 weeks, since before the CNY break..

..after 3 panel clinics visit..

..after 2 course of antibiotics..

..after 3 bottles of panadol for kids..

..after numerous of paracetamol insert..

Arif's fever still on/ off and ended up worsen!

Especially now with purging and vomiting!

So here we were today, at the emergency ward, admitted, for blood test..

  

 

My poor baby, still managed to fall asleep after being pricked for 3 blood vials.

Blood test proven that it is not dengue fever..

..he's not dehydrated..

..not a blood infection..

..nor a liver infection..

..and not food poisoning either..

It's a viral infection, and Arif was not responding to previous antibiotics..

So, the doctor gave a different type of antibiotic and hope this time, it works..

Thank you very much to all the staffs at the emergency ward today, for taking us seriously! 

Louis Vuitton Trevi just made a cameo.. haha

What difference does it make?

I'm putting myself on the stage here.
This is a very risky topic.
I know.
But, I just had to let it out.
I'm the open minded type.
The type that will speak out when I feel the need to.

I know this came too late.
I should have just fired it up at that particular instance.
But somehow my mind was too occupied with work at that time and just couldn't blurted out my come-back points.
A dear colleague of mine was carrying a fake Coach bag to work and somehow challenged me to identify the authenticity of it, right in front of everybody.
I'm not gonna elaborate what happened then, but now I realised I was being too polite to have kept my silence.

If I was given the chance to turn back the clock, I would have said;

"How do you feel about your 8 year old daughter working in a dirty-crowded factory, sleeping on the cold cement floor with other children, getting raped and molested, just for $60 bucks per month to sew and glue together fake luxury-brand handbags?"

No, I'm not making this up.
This is real.
This is what's behind the production of fake bags.
You don't have to go to Guangzhou to see it for yourself.
Just google it up and try to get it into your thick skull, that this is a serious matter.
Not just a gossip whispered from ear to ear.

 

(picture taken from here)

Don't get me wrong, I am not implying that you have to eat oats daily, drink plain water, use clothes inherited from your siblings and wear flip flops to work, just to save thousands of dollars to buy a Coach handbag!
What I'm saying is, don't buy fakes! (and let alone be proud flaunting it!)

Even if it is a fake of non-luxury brand (such as Guess, Fossil or Quicksilver), it is still a FAKE!
And behind the productions for fake products are all the same!
Yes, not just fake handbags, even fake clothes, shoes, accessories and even CD/ DVD too!
They're all using children, underpaid, and the profit goes to funding crime syndicates.

 

(picture taken from here)

Vinci, Nose, and Memory Lane crafts shop sells beautiful bags.
Even the pharmacy stores have cute canvas totes for about $9.90 on the shelf.
Why can't you just get that instead?
I know you must be feeling so thrilled of getting a beautiful fake bag that has the logo prints at $50, and maybe you feel like you will not give any impact at all to the counterfeit industries because after all, this was just one purchase.
But have you thought that what if everybody on earth thinks like you?
Wouldn't this increase the fakes 'supply-chain'?
So, when will it end?
It's more noble to just use the recycle grocery enviro bag, rather than carrying a fake. 

 

(picture taken from here)

No, I am not perfect either.
I bought a fake Coach bag in 2006, at a night market Batu Feringhi, Penang Island.
And I admit, at that time I was very naive and I didn't know about what's behind the productions of these fakes stuffs.
I'm not kidding, I really didn't know about it, nor did I bothered to google it either.
But what I remembered was that it lasted for only a month as the quality was very poor, and there went into the dustbin my $40 bucks fake Coach tote!  Yeah, it wasn't cheap either for a fake.

There you have it.
And since now you are a little smarter, and aware of what's behind all these, it's never too late to change!
Let's join forces to dry-up the supply-chain and drive the counterfeiters bankrupt!
Stop supporting fake bags!
We can make a difference!

p/s: special thanks to Dana NYTimes for such an inspiring article!

How lost can you get..

... after watching this?

 

me?

completely at lost..

but, I still keep on following it..

why?

enough said.. 

he's the reason why! 

ohhhh look at those steamy eyes!!! aahhhh....

*I heart Josh Holloway*

Stokke Xplory

What the hell is that?
Well my friend, if you don't have kids, then you may not know about this.
But if you do have kids but not that crazy about strollers, then, you too may not know about this either.
Never fear, coz I am here, to educate you!
Stokke Xplory is one of the most innovative stroller ever designed by mankind!
Yes! It's a stroller!
As seen used by Heidi Klum, Minnie Driver and Tory Spelling (pictures found in babychic101)

 

About two years ago, only one boutique in Malaysia that was selling Stokke, which was the Bebehaus at 1utama, and they don't have many in stocks, so if you wanted to buy one, you had to pay deposit and wait for it to arrive.  But today, Mothercare and Planet Enfantes/ Mamours also selling Stokke Xplory, which makes it easier for you to purchase it.

At that time, I was very impatient and was badly infected by the pramaholic disease, whereby I just had to have this Xplory by hook or by crook and thank god, Nad was there to help me get it, all the way from UK.

So what is it about this that makes it very popular (and expensive too) ?
Is it the high-chair-look-a-like features?
Is it the elevated functions?
Is it the ergonomic handle design?
Is it the funky bright colour options?

To prove how obsessed I was with the stroller, I have personally made a review of it, yes, all by myself.
Please head on to Strollers and Prams for the in depth analysis!
You will be surprised!

Sharing our Hong Kong vacation - Day 3 night and Day last

Since the Disneyland post was too long, I've decided to split it up.

Here's us after the Disneyland trip, we spent the last night in HK to once again roam the city with the trains, of course.
Here's us in the crowded train on the way to dinner..

 Waiting for our Briyani rice at a Turkish restaurant located near the Times Square area.

 Here's us on the way back to hotel.. not many people in the train as it was already after 10pm..
This was our last MRT ride here.. as tomorrow we will be going back to beloved Malaysia!

The last day, at the airport, boarding to take the MAS Airbus 777 on 20th May 2009 2.30pm.

 

Oh and remember the Buzz lightyear gun that we bought for Amin's at Disneyland? Well, guess what, we almost got held by the authorities as they detected a "gun" while scanning the bag and that particular luggage had to be tagged and escorted separately by the security themselves into the aeroplane! Goshh.. it was a panic moment for us, but kinda hilarious too.  We wanted to hand-carry it but the security said that is a no-no.. haha..

  

There are plenty of shops at the airport, including the Disneyland store.. So, if you happen to have missed out shopping at Disneyland earlier, no problem! You can shop here and believe it, the prices are indeed the same as sold inside Disneyland itself!  

 

That's all about our trip to Hong Kong.. May we be blessed with health and wealth, for us to embark on another vacation in the future.. Till then, thanks for reading!
Over & Out !