Life

How do you tell yourself that 'tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all? Because the reality of it is, it sucks. With everything that's been going on lately it definitely is a bad time for a breakup. I was getting myself for it, playing it over and over in my head but it still sucks. Actually uttering the words is hard, have you ever tried it?

It's been a very, very long time since I have posted on this very rusty blog, but I've been itching to write something lately. My life's been ok, nothing much has changed. I'm getting older, aren't we all? I have a very cute nephew. That's probably the best thing that has happen this year. My grandmother passed away peacefully last Wednesday night. We had a little get together with the cousins and reminded ourselves we probably won't be having any major get together anytime soon. It was sad really.

The night my grandmother died was one of my the saddest I ever remembered, other than when both my grandpas died. We didn't get any sleep that night and day, only slept when she was laid to rest. Somehow it put things to prospective, and things have changed. Only her sister was still living with us. What would happen to my aunts, I wonder if they will come to visit? My sent her to the grave, it was a humbling experience. I hope I get a similar farewell when it's time.

Moths ago my beloved cat Mojo died. He died in my arms. I'm still grieving. I can't believe he is gone. Don't get me wrong I still have my cats but Mojo was my cat. We sleep together, we do things that James wouldn't do. I know someone would thing he was just a cat, but he's not just a cat. He was my baby. No one could replace that. 

I thought I was strong enough to go through another ordeal but I'm not. Truthfully I thought I was strong enough but I'm not. Will I be ok? Yes in time. Has it changed me? Yes somehow. Do I regret anything, many but not this particularly. So do I think 'tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all? No, it's always better to be loved. Always. 

Hello Brazil!!

First of all I am trying to write this on the iPad...I hope this turned out good. As you all know it's World Cup season and we say hello to Brazil. I was honestly worried that the World Cup wouldn't even have its opening ceremony after reading that most of the construction of the stadiums, walkways etc was not completly done. Glad they had their first kick off 3 hours ago.

Group A, Brazil versus Croatia. Croatia was leading the first half of the first half with an own goal by Marcelo. After that Neymar scored twice and to add more salt to injury Oscar scored the third. I really thought Croatia would've pushed forward but after Neymar's penalty I think it went from bad to worse. They missed a lot of chances but they can still do better in their next two games. 

     

Ok, side note. I've been following the transfer window since the football season ends and was hoping Fabregas would come back to Arsenal since he is rumor to leave Barcelona. Arsenal gets first pick to buy him back and also heard they might try to get Carlos Vela back too. But then I saw this and kinda breaks my heart....

It is sad! But he still is wearing his infamous number 4 jersey...in BLUE! Ughhh...disgusts me :P Why Arsene Wenger, why?!???!!! Enough rant. El capitan, you will always be a gunner to me...even in Blue.

Xoxo

Neko

Let's start this story from the beginning. It is really a short story. A few months ago my sister brought home a little adorable cat, a stray she found in the parking lot. She looks like this.

The first day she got home I fell in love. She was so scared I think because she has been living outside by herself for maybe a month give or take. My sister tried to look for the mama and other siblings but couldn't find them. So I am assuming she was dumped there. She really reminded us of our beloved Jumper (who died about 2 years ago). Everyone loved Jumper, even my parents. That is saying a lot. He was spoiled and sleeps on the couch, on a pillow with a blanket.

So when this little girl came everyone was smitten, even our resident cat (he is spoiled and he knows it). Since our resident cat (who's name is officially James now) was separated with his sister he was lonely. Don't worry his sister found a good home with my brother's friend. He was so happy to find a friend to play with. This happened. Cue photo.

Yes, double trouble. They really became friends on the spot. We were hoping they will get married and have beautiful kids together.

 But a few days after new years I found her lying in the kitchen. She was breathing heavily. It was such a sad sight. The night before I was watching her watch me from the kitchen. I sat with her and she sat on my shoulder. I told her she smelled like cat and said don't try to break the vases in the house. A little after that she died. I honestly don't know what happened. It wasn't even my cat (she was my sister's) but I was so sad, I think because we all really like her, a lot. Till today I don't know what happened to her. I am glad it wasn't a virus since James is still well and I think he misses her too. He isn't as hyper as he use to be and I am going to have to let Mojo cheer him up a bit.

This was taken the day she died. He stayed with her. It was so sad to see him searching for the little cat. James is doing well, he is just a little spoiled now. We will miss you girl cat. I honestly don't know if we ever name her. I just call her 'girl'.

New Year celebration Part II: Birthdays

Two days after our family new year celebration we got a call from my granduncle saying that he is having another party for families at his house. We were wondering if it was just an extension of the new year celebration on Tuesday. No fireworks this time though only good company, food and karaoke sessions. Hahaha which I feel is a must at all these parties. We found out it was also my aunt, uncle and their son's birthday. So it was like a triple whammie. So far new year is not good for me. I need to start eating healthy but since it was a family thing I will give it a slide.

There was a lot more families that turned up I think because the next day is a weekend. It feels like the weekend comes twice for me. So far 2014 is good, I need to be more positive for the next 361 days to come.

Day 2 photo: Something that starts with G

Grandma of course. I can't wait to see her again in a few weeks. I miss you grandma!! If you are interested to do these photo a day you can go check out Fat Mum Slim blog

Happy New Year!!

Happy new year everyone!!

I have been neglected this blog since last year (can't believe last year was less than 24 hours ago!!) and I hope this year I will be good and blog more. I hope things will look up for me in 2014. I hope many things and I am trying to think more positive for 2014. :) I do hope you guys had a wonderful new year celebration with family, loved ones and friends.

So many things are happening this 2014. Marriages, surprised marriages from friends...family gathering, etc. I can't wait. I hope time don't just past us by like 2013. I feel like 2013 was just breezing through. It is kinda scary. I hope to do things I put off in 2013, change for the better, be a better person over all, get in shape and all kind of good thing.

Wish me luck you guys and I hope to leave you with love notes here everyday :). I can't promise cause I don't want to break it but I will try my hardest.

First photo of the 2014,

I am doing the ever so famous 'Fatmumslim' photo a day and hopefully I finish it this month. I have been skipping the last couple of months. Hehe...today is Day 1: Lunch. I did not eat lunch but instead I had a karaoke session with my sister. It was fun, I can't wait to do it again tomorrow. LOL.

That is all for now. I am rambling. I hope you all have a great start of 2014!

Playlist Friday: Baby it's cold outside - Ceelo Green ft Christina Aguilera

Happy Friday! I have been very bad and I have been wanting to post things but haven't yet. Sorry! It has been a busy-ish few weeks for me. :)

Today I wanted to share this song that's been in my head for awhile and it is a christmas song. Haha.. I don't know why it is only October. Every time when my birthday comes around I tend to listen to a lot of christmas songs.. It is how it is I guess.




I love Christina's voice in this song. I love this song in general. But I don't get the video though. I have been cleaning and we are celebrating my birthday this weekend with my sisters. It's the only time we have together and we might be having pizza and steamboat party. Hope I have some photos to share.

Have a great weekend everyone! What is your favorite Christmas song? I would look to give them a listen.

Playlist Friday (Saturday Edition) : Louis Armstrong - What a wonderful world

Happy weekend! I wanted to post this Friday but I lost track of time. Since its our (mine and CLK) birthday weekend I thought I would share one of my all time favorite song. I fell in love with this song the first time I heard it when I was about 10. It was in my reading class or something. I can't remember. After listening to it, it just captured my heart.




What a wonderful world by Louis Armstrong has got to be my number 1 favorite song. I wish the world was as simple as the song. We need our wonderful world back. :) Birthday weekend again, can you believe it's been a year since my last birthday!!!? Crazy fast the time flies. I hope you all have  a wonderful weekend. :)

Playlist Friday: I'm outta love - Anastacia

Happy Friday peeps!! Sorry I have not posted anything more this week. I was super busy catching up with all my favorite shows that have started. It is like OMFG!! :P Been watching some catch up episodes of NCIS and the new season, The Blacklist (I am liking so far!) and Sleepy Hollow. I might just do a post on all that.

So today is a song that I usually bust out if I need a lift me up. This is a dance song, at least for me it is but it is a breakup song in my opinion.




I am not sure of her other songs but this song by Anastacia is my favorite. :) How was your week?? I hope you have a wonderful Friday!

Playlist Friday: Stacie Orrico - I Promise

Happy Friday. I have been away and I feel bad. I can't give a (good) excuse but I just had a lot on my mind. Family stuff and personal stuff, I try to cut back on internet time. You can always find me tweeting or IG-ing away though. I even cut down on Facebook, believe it?

Anyway while I was discarding things from my room (in the hope of clearing all the crap - trust me I have a lot of crap) I stumble upon stacks and stacks of CDs and DVDs I made while in college. I went through them (well just 2 for now) found old favourites and OMG! I miss them. Today one of the song I want to share with you is by Stacie Orrico.

I don't know if you remember this lady but when she came out I was like Oh-Em-Gee?! She has this sexy voice and unique look - I gotta have her album. And I did. Bought it and now I wish I had something to play it (when I was young we only had tape). I love most of her songs that I can remember. Then she just kinda disappear. I don't really know what she is up to now.




I love this song. I listened to this over and over and wish I had that someone...you know those days when I was still single and available. Such sad stories I must say. I love her look and voice...she's so pretty. Don't you think so?

I hope you guys have a great weekend. Honestly for awhile there I lost interest in blogging. That was the biggest reason and then realize all the 'friends' I've made here. I will try to get back on the blogging band wagon. I hope I keep my horses happy this time.

Playlist Friday: Lucifer - Shinee

Happy Friday! Been slacking in post but no one reads it right? Had a lot going on with the family, I will have to post all my daily July challenges soon. I just want to share this K-pop song that I have been listening to a lot lately. I don't listen to a lot of K-pop but if I heard ones that are catchy, sweet or reminds me of someone I will listen to it over and over again.




This one is by a group called SHINee and thy have some catchy tunes. This song is one of them...makes me want to bob my head and break some moves.

I hope you guys have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by. I will post all the photos I took everyday this July hopefully this weekend.

16 Bottle || Photo Challenge

Or bottles in this case...I like to group things in 3s or pairs. I love the bottle shaped like the violin...or cello, however you see it. Definitely something I ant for myself :D. I do not know what was in it or maybe it was just a vase but it could be a bottle right?? Lol...the right one is definitely a bottle though. I am so glad I don't collect bottles :P

15 Outside the window || Photo Challenge

Sorry for the late posts. I have been kinda busy since my parents wasn't around and they just came back yesterday. I tried to post them on the day but I think I am 2 days behind. :) Also I think I am slightly under the weather. Been losing sleep and getting up early and doing all the work...it has taken a toll on me. I hope this sneezing/coughing/sore throat go away soon.

Taken outside my mom's window. There use to be a bigger bush next to this small tree (?)/plant but I don't know what happened to it. There was a bird nest in it and I took a couple of awesome baby bird pictures :).

14 Edible || Photo Challenge

I wish I had something more interesting to post for edible but....I think I got the most colorful.

Reminds me of alphabet soup. Had them a lot when I lived in Wisconsin. I kinda miss it... XD

13. 4 o'clock || Photo Challenge

I couldn't find my original photo so I decided to post this instead. wWe went to watch Pacific Rim this weekend and it was pretty good. Wayy better than after earth. I need to do my movie date post. We got home at 4am. So that is my 4 o'clock theme :P Have you seen Pacific Rim yet?

12 A Bad Habit || Photo Challenge

No reading manga is not a bad habit..but procrastinating is! I do it A LOT! I know it is so bad....and then sometimes I regret doing it. It is something I had to change...I need help! I was suppose to be preparing dinner for my sister and I but I was reading the new episodes of Fairy Tail..hehe.

Day 10 & 11 || Photo Challenge

I forgot to post day 10 yesterday, I was too tired from picking up and dropping off. So day 10 is smooth.

Day 10 - Smooth. There was so much thing I wanted to take a picture of but the day was winding down and I just thought the car drive smoothly and the drive was smooth so...hence the picture of the steering wheel, which I might add feels pretty smooth too.

Day 11 is 'I wore this!'.

Sorry for the blurry photo but these were taken from my Instagram so...yeah, and the camera of my phone is pretty crappy. I think I may need to upgrade, ahem ahem. LOL So today decided to wear my NYX Indian pink, which I don't remember buying. I have worn this a couple of time. I love the NYX round lipsticks but this is not a must have. I think I am more of a matte person. I don't like shimmery lipsticks but the color is nice. And I wanted to wear this dragonfly earrings that was a birthday present from CLK's mom :). I feel so loved. I should remember to take another photo with my camera next time.

Have a great day everyone!

9 Three things || Photo Challenge

3 things I don't take off well prior to this photo :P I have been using them for almost a decade so yeah. I don't take jewellery off because I tend to forget to put them back on. The gold bracelet is from my mom on one of my birthday, the silver ring was given to me by my sister on one birthday and the other one is a toe ring. I don't know why I wear a toe ring but I love it.

Funny story, I spent a night at a friend a few years ago and her mom thought I was married cause I was using this toe ring. In Indian culture, you only wear toe ring when you are married. My friend laugh and said it was just an accessory. :D

Hope you have a wonderful day!

Day 7 & 8 || Photo Challenge

Happy Monday everyone!! I wanted to post day 7 photo yesterday but I couldn't find it online so I had to wait till today to post it :) Day 7 was 'Where you are'. So here is the photo I took.

I don't think this needs a lot of explaining. :D Golden arches restaurant. My brother was so excited to go because he wanted to try their samurai burger (I didn't get a picture because he ate it all up before I could). He said it was the most delicious McD burger he ever ate. I don't really like beef burger so I had their chicken burger, almost every time. Although I wish he waited to eat the curly fries with me! I love curly fries!!! I love McDonald's fries as a whole, even when they are soggy. Especially when they are soggy. Hehe...I know I am weird but if you have soggy fries you can give 'em to me. Thank you very much.

Day 8 was 'Path'. I wish I was at the park or in a magnificent castle or something so I could take a photo of a beautiful path but all I had was the path to my dining room :P.

This would be the view my cats see every time they run pass this little hallway. It is nothing magical but when you get on the ground you feel like sleeping. It is very nice down there. Haha. I hope you all had an amazing weekend. I just spent my weekend with my grandparents who came back from their holiday with my uncle and his wife to Langkawi. So nothing exciting really. Oh and I got a big brim hat from my aunt so I can use it to the beach next time! Yay! I will have to take a picture of that next time.

Have a great Monday everyone!!

Movie Date: The Croods

It has been awhile since I posted a post about movies. Not that I have not been watching any, some of them were just meh in my opinion. For instance I have seen The Croods around when they came out but I didn't think I would like the 'caveman' story. It just reminded me of that movie with Jack Black... I can't remember the name of it but yeah, it didn't look really interesting. So then someone told me that The Croods was awesome. Well it took me this long to watch it. And I tell you what, it is awesome!! I mean it doesn't take a lot for me to love animation so...I love this!!! Not as much as Finding Nemo or Despicable me but I like it enough to say I laugh (a lot!) and I felt sad...I didn't cry though. It was just awesome.

In my book I would probably watch it again :D (it is high up there on the list of my must watch!).

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I love Douglas and Belt (tan tan taaaa) and the big cat!! Ok I think he is suppose to be like a sabertooth or something but he is so cute!!





If you like carefree movies and love to watch it with the family this is it! I think the little ones will love this, I mean I am not little and I still love this! If you are looking for something complicated this might not be it but you could still watch it and see if you like it. :D I didn't know who was the actors behind the characters but as I watch the credits towards the end of the movie surprise, surprise. Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds and Nicholas Cage are the voices behind the main characters. Score!

In my opinion this is an awesome lazy weekend movie. Definitely would watch this again with my man...I think he would enjoy it. :D Lazy weekend for me peeps!!

6 Fave Smell || Photo Challenge

So every time I wear this out people always ask me, 'What are you wearing?' and every time I say 'Bondage' they look at me weirdly. LOL. Come on, you gotta love the name. And yes I was sucked into this because of the name but when I smelled it, it was love at first smell. Can't you see how much I love it? I have 3 bottles.

My favorite would have to be the original Bondage by Jean Yves. It smells sweet but not candy sweet and it doesn't give me a headache. I can't describe it and I wish I had the box and another back up. It seems like it is hard to find this perfume these days. I've had it since I started college...that's like a decade ago. This is my second bottle. And then I fell in love with Bondage extreme. Yes, why not go extreme bondage right? LOL Bondage musk is pretty good too. The scent is not as strong as the other two.

I dread using it because I don't want to run out of it. The closest thing to Bondage and I found this by accident is Poême from Lancôme. It does not smell the same but as you wear it the smell kind of fades and the scent is a little like Bondage. I like it. Definitely one I would ask CLK to purchase for my hantaran. Hehe. So what is your favorite smell or favorite scents?