Selling the "house", bringing the "home"

Last October we must went back to China, Guangzhou to be exact.
My hubby last job was there. And we bought a house there too. Well ,actually it is a apartment in the ground floor. The compound name is Huanan Country Garden in Panyu area.

When my husband decided to move to Malaysia, we still haven't got the time to settle the house for rent . So to cut the story short, we went back to Guangzhou to settle the house loan payment , to do a bit of maintainance . We just went there for 9 days. And never thought that we gonna sell the house .

But God has different plan for us. We might said it is a blessing and miracle. :)
We sold the house! So the days there were so chaotic, I must juggled between lawyers meetings, arrange time to met old friends, another lawyer meetings, document signing, house viewing , shopping, dinner invitations. To topped it all......the lawyer meeting was all in Mandarin, and I must translate everything to my hubby , and I must translate what my hubby said to the lawyer.
I don't know why....I think my DH just want to torture me even more, during a serious conversation he always talked to me in Italian! So I must listen to him speaking in Italian and then translate it to the lawyer in Chinese......
And remember...my Mandarin and Italian level is not that "good" .
We bring our maid this time, at least she can help me to look after Maya.

We did not sell the house in high price but we are more than please to sold it. At least we don't need to worry about the house anymore.

So to compensate with the "STRESS" and the translation dilemma , I enjoy to EAT .
We went to our favorite restaurant over there, and EAT and EAT! :)
And ...of course I gain 1-2 kg after this trip. But ..hey...I think I deserved it! LOL

So if people asked am I sad to sell the house. Well it is yes and no.
We have sold the house but we bringing the "home" with us.

Lunch at Clifford

With our ex-maid . Indy miss her .

Maya wanted to run away
Indy in our garden
Maya walking in Macao airport

Doulos

I love books. So when I heard from Miranda that there is a floating book shop called MV Doulos will be in KK for a few days before it will sail again, my reaction was : I must go !
Lucky that I still got the chance to go one time to Doulos, just before I will go to China . I would prefer , of course, If I can go 2 times so I can buy more books. :)

So I took Indy together with me. I think this can be the chance of a life time to be in Doulos. Miranda picked me at my place and then we went straight a head to the floating book shop.

The selection of the books is HUGE. And the crowd was also HUGE. The price is very reasonable.
I don't know where to start, or what to choose, I feel like I want to buy everything!

At the end I took a couple of books for me: guide for e-commerce , homemade remedy,baby sleep book, and recipe books for my hubby. And Indy also took children bible , prayer book, Noah's ark, stickers, a cross to be hang in her bed room and a few other books for Maya.

The big drama of the day was: Indy broke her slipper, so we must tied it with rubber band, and she must walk slowly all the way to the parking lot , about 500 m. So from there we go to Karamungsing Komplex to buy her a new slipper and we had our lunch there .

Over all,I Love it. I wish I can still go to Doulos someday.
The ship will be in Papua New Guinea in March. And my best friend who live there, already got a BIG warning from me...that she MUST go!

The crowd

The girls

The city

The baby ( LOL this was take after we arrived at home)

It's 8

Got this tag from Sharine.
Suppose to blog about our trip first, but then I got the tag to do
I was late to do this tag. Unda beat me.... so she tagged half the people I want to TAG! sigh.....kalah cepat with Unda bah!

EIGHT THINGS I’M PASSIONATE ABOUT

- Internet
- Cloth diapering
- online shopping
- Magazines (celeb's gossip)
- E! channel :D
- TV series (Ugly Betty, Desperate housewives, grey anatomy's at the moment)
- Parenting books
- Cosmetics


EIGHT THINGS I WANT TO DO BEFORE I DIE

- See our girls be happy and getting marry tot he right person
- Hold our grandchildren
- Have our dream house(s)in a perfect combination of Balinese style mixed with Mediterranean style.
- Retired with dh in a tropical island
- So we can run our luxurious cottages
- Do charity with children in needs
- Travel around the world, and see Africa.
- Sailing with DH in our yatch.


EIGHT THINGS I SAY OFTEN

- Pingsan
- oooh like that
- ok
- Ciao
- maffavan******
- Si
- Dont lar
- ehmmmm


EIGHT BOOKS I’VE RECENTLY READ

- guide to e-commerce
- Parentpreneur
- Baby sleep
- Super Nanny
- People
- Woman's weekly
- Meat & poultry
- Children bible


EIGHT SONGS THAT I COULD LISTEN TO OVER AND OVER

- I will survive
- say a lil prayer for you (same like unda?)
- the whole new world
- A broken vow
- do i make you proud
- you are still you
- canto alla vita
- Kau yang terindah.


EIGHT THINGS THAT ATTRACT ME TO MY BEST FRIENDS
1. simple persons
2. what u c is what u get kind of person
3. not pretending to be someone else to be FIT in....
4. not scare to show their opinions
5. can act completely silly n become idiots with each other
6. can laugh out of loud
7. can cry out of loud
8. Love to eat is a must..


EIGHT THINGS I’VE LEARNED THIS PAST YEAR
Learn to to run my own small tiny kind of e-store
Learn to blog
Learn to use some HTML codes
Learn to balance time between biz and family
Learn to do budgeting
Learn to enjoy the simple things out of life.
Learn to be a better wife and mom
Learn to celebrate my body's curves after 2 children with gracefulness!


EIGHT PEOPLE I THINK SHOULD DO CRAZY EIGHT MEME

- Christine
- Farrah
- Angie
- Phantasma
- Montesorri mom
- Kitty cat
- The suzette
- Wawa

Game

Remember when you use to wish to play with dress up dolls and make up?
During my childhood we got nothing like this to play. Now over the internet , we can find plenty of dress up games, room decoration etc.

So here is something to bring back our childhood memory. :)


Make-over Evie



Click here to play this game

awesome 3 some

Got this tag from bzbee

Three things that scare me
bad health
horror movie
debt

Three people who make me laugh
friends
children
hubby

Three things I love
Desserts
Shoes
Bags


Three things I hate
no water
no electricity
no money

Three things I don’t understand
MEN
Accounting
web designing


Three things on my desk
modem
speaker
mobile phone

Three things I am doing right now
typing
talking on the phone
watching tv

Three things I want to do before I die
travel all around the world
attend our children wedding
holding our grandchildren

Three things I can do
speak Italian
baking a cake
making greeting cards

Three things I can’t do
sewing
write in chinese
speaking in public

Three things you must listen to
Our creator
my inner voice
parents

Three things you should never listen to
negative people
Evil
your own anger


Three shows I watched as a kid
Candy candy
little house
Unyil

Now, tag three awesome person....
Christine
the suzette
Amie

Caught in action! thief at Kenawai 5!

Friday morning.... I was near my computer to reply emails as usual and to take a sip of my morning coffee.Alma ,my helper was not around, she took Indy to school and went to market , and I just remembered that I bought baby toothpaste the other day , so I took it out from my bag and I left in on the coffee table near me. Maya was around....as soon as she saw Mamma brought out something from the bag this little girl will take it. And I just couldn't resist not to take any pictures...and adding my "imaginary" wording to it. So here is what I came up with :

tag: my b'day

This afternoon got free time to do tag from Christine

Rules to the tag:


1. Go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday (month and day)
2. Write down 3 events, 2 births, 1 holiday, and tag 5 friends

Its that simple !

Here goes... on my Birthday
3 events occurred:
1968 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.
1929 - JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.

1987 - March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights attracts an estimated 200,000

2 stars were born :
1968 - Jane Krakowski, American actress
1671 - Frederick IV of Denmark (d. 1730)

1 holiday:
# United States - National Coming Out Day




Now to tag !

1.Sharine
2.Taty
3.Charish
4.Miranda
5.Farrah

Happy tagging!

Play date!

Finally I get this up...
Mehrnaz and Maya first union...Born in the same month , just a few days apart, make them so cute to see when they are playing together.
We should make video next time, Charish! ;)