http://www.sleeplessinkl.com Over kids/travel/photography Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:10:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en SleeplessInKlhttp://feedburner.google.com For the past few days, I've been knitting furiously as if my life depended on it. This is what I get for procrastinating for the past 8+ months -- suddenly, I realised that A will birth anytime soon and that I haven't touched my knitting needles at all! Panic set in ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SleeplessInKl/~3/2zdQHnkBeOg/knitting-up-a-storm http://www.sleeplessinkl.com/2010/09/07/knitting-up-a-storm "Our Lord! Condemn us not if we forget or fall into error; our Lord! Lay not on us a burden Like that which Thou didst lay on those before us; Our Lord! Lay not on us a burden greater than we have strength to bear." http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SleeplessInKl/~3/sb6vxsvkdmk/this-too-shall-pass http://www.sleeplessinkl.com/2010/09/07/this-too-shall-pass Every language in the world has its formal version -- used in official documents, correspondence and newspapers -- and its informal daily version -- slang, bahasa pasar (literally: 'market language'), streetwise lingo. Here are 10 Malay terms that fall in the latter category:- 1. "On The Way" I dare say that this phrase ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SleeplessInKl/~3/PQrTJeNIR40/10-colloquial-malay-terms-to-learn http://www.sleeplessinkl.com/2010/09/01/10-colloquial-malay-terms-to-learn This may look like Arabic to you, but it's not. This is Jawi, previously the standard script for writing the Malay language. Adapted from the Arabic language, it uses all of the original 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet. In addition, Jawi has six unique supplementary letters: va (same as wa ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SleeplessInKl/~3/HDsYzwGIoj0/going-crazy-over-jawi http://www.sleeplessinkl.com/2010/08/25/going-crazy-over-jawi The last time I visited the Science Centre Singapore (SCS) was in the early 1990s, way back when I was still single and was in Singapore with my girlfriends to watch 'The Phantom of The Opera'. The SCS made quite an impact on me at the time that I made ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SleeplessInKl/~3/mv6Z5WdcrUk/science-centre-singapore-singapores-3rd-most-visited-attraction http://www.sleeplessinkl.com/2010/08/22/science-centre-singapore-singapores-3rd-most-visited-attraction [caption id="attachment_3769" align="alignright" width="388" caption="Pre-departure lounge in a small airport in the southern part of the Philippines"][/caption] The problem with us, humans, is that we tend to think that those things we see on movies or read about in the newspapers will never happen to us. But they do. Oh yes, ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SleeplessInKl/~3/r2qxOM6R8B0/what-to-do-when-your-flight-is-overbooked-cancelled-or-delayed http://www.sleeplessinkl.com/2010/08/19/what-to-do-when-your-flight-is-overbooked-cancelled-or-delayed I was attending a seminar at JW Marriott last week. The first session was a bit slow and before I realised it, my mind started wandering and my pencil started sketching. (It's an unconscious habit I have -- doodling or sketching whenever my mind starts to wander.) I was quite pleased ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SleeplessInKl/~3/QjGMWEaUDAk/the-model-the-sketch http://www.sleeplessinkl.com/2010/08/14/the-model-the-sketch This video started as a simple requirement for a series of reviews of the HTC Desire that I did for Maxis Communications. Long after the review programme was over, the video just seemed to have taken a life of its own. First off, there was this tweet that popped out of ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SleeplessInKl/~3/Xi9sl_fq-Bg/the-video-that-took-on-a-life-of-its-own http://www.sleeplessinkl.com/2010/08/12/the-video-that-took-on-a-life-of-its-own It's that time of the year again when Muslims all over the world -- and all over the Malaysia --  abstain from eating, drinking, smoking, and having sexual relations with their spouses from dawn 'til dusk for 29 or 30 days (depending on the moon) during the holy month of ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SleeplessInKl/~3/WsMT1mfCjFM/ramadhan-mubarak http://www.sleeplessinkl.com/2010/08/10/ramadhan-mubarak To MyEldest, In the blink of an eye, you have gone from this... ...to this. Whenever I hug you and teasingly ask you "Where did my baby boy go?" and you'd tease me back by replying "Uh, grew up?", I don't think you realise that my heart breaks just a little bit each ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SleeplessInKl/~3/7sjW1pDHwIM/in-the-blink-of-an-eye http://www.sleeplessinkl.com/2010/08/07/in-the-blink-of-an-eye