9 years have passed in a blink of an eye

My hubby and I just celebrated our 9th year wedding anniversary a few days ago. How time flies!!!! I have known my husband for about 5-6 years as friends before finally dating and marrying him. I know it does not count but you can say our friendship is in its teens (after all your husband should always be your best friend).

Being parents to 3 beautiful children, we of course had to plan our anniversary carefully. Thank goodness to an angel of an aunt of mine who babysitted our kids we were able to celebrate it this year. We have not really celebrated the past few years so this time it was better planned. Dinner was home cooked (that's always the best anyway). As both of us love meat, for sure dinner was Steak!!! We bought 2 generous portions of Angus Grain Fed Ribeye steaks to grill and with it we had vegetables and chips. Hubby did all the cooking because he's a much better cook than I am. The meal was 11 on the scale of 10. It was heavenly!

Later we went to watch a movie, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. We both enjoyed the show however after knowing that the re-make of 'Clash of the Titans' was coming soon, Percy Jackson seemed to be more a teenage flick. We had about an hour to kill before the movie started and so we went to have some drinks. It was so nice to be chatting and laughing away without any distractions. No kids screaming for attention, crying kids to comfort or telling off to be done. I really miss chatting with my husband which when I look back was how things started off for us. We got to know each other through endless conversations over the phone.

Movie finished close to midnight and we could not believe how tired we were. Plus the fact that both of us were working the next day was not comforting. However it was a lovely night and I look forward to celebrating more anniversaries with my pride and joy of a man, my lovely husband!

Football

I got to watch my eldest, Hazim play football yesterday evening. He has been going for football practice only a few times and his dad usually brings him there. So on my day off I told myself to make the effort to be there to see him play. There were many kids on the field from probably the age of 4 to teenagers around 15-18. All being trained at different levels. My son is at the beginner's level with a group adorable little fellas around his age. It was such a cute sight to see them chase the ball around.


Here is the picture of the group of kids warming up. Before this they ran around the field 2 rounds but my Hazim ran only 1 round and walked the other. I hope he will develop better stamina in the future to run the full 2 rounds. Hopefully he's more sportslike like his dad but if takes after me, I'm hopeless when it comes to sports.


Then after the warm up, the kids practiced going around cones and kicking the ball into the goal. Hazim got a bit distracted and soon a group of little boys were basically foot deep in a puddle of mud (Hmmm! Mud seems to be more fun to them). I was at the side of field wishing I could tell him to stop playing with the mud but then what fun would that be. Boys and mud, its just happiness through and through.

After that the kids were split into two teams and played against each other. Hazim opted to be the goalkeeper which I think was not a good idea. He was so bored since the game was more at the other goal than at his goal. He ended up playing with the cones, talking to the bigger boys playing behind him and when the game finally moved towards his end he actually called out to the players to "shoot the ball to me!". Shoot the ball to the goalie, I think my son has not grasped the concept that he was supposed to be defending the goal. Aargh! the antics of my child that bring that big smile to my face.

Here's my little footballer.

Tea and beautiful jewellery by Nishi Murli

I have always thought myself as a simple person but what girl/woman does not love beautiful jewellery. Last Saturday, my cousin arranged a small tea function and invited a quite well known jeweller named Nishi Murli to introduce her wonderful designs to the ladies attending. She brought with her a few of her beautiful semi-precious stone collections of which I liked more than just a few, I liked many. I attended with my little girl who also loved almost all the necklaces and bracelets on show. She really is a girly girl. Does she take after me, maybe a little... I remember my mum telling me that I never liked wearing pants and always preferred dresses and skirts. However I think she's more like her aunt (my sister in law) who is very ladylike in every way...unlike me.

Anyway I did bring my little camera to snap photos of the jewellery in hope to expose Nishi's collection to more people. I think her jewellery is just gorgeous and simple and can be worn to brighten simple outfits most effectively. According to my cousin, she has quite a following in India, Dubai and Jakarta.

I had a hard time controlling myself from buying anything which was so difficult especially since I had my eye on 2 or 3 necklaces. I tried 2 of them (one in the picture below and the one on my daughter). I also love the gold chain with the knot with hanging stones below it in the picture above...lovely isn't it?

Nishi's assortment of necklaces and bangles

Me (with a lovely gold and white pearl knot chain) and my sunshine

My little princess wearing a gorgeous gold knot and pearl chain

The tea function was quite a success and hopefully there will be more functions like this to come. Maybe with Nishi's jewellery again or maybe with other ladies doing business showcasing their products. This is a good way to assist businesswomen in their endeavours as well as raise publicity for my cousin's restaurant, Enak KL.