Thursday 30 April 2009

why are people the way they are including me?

hi people,

I am so enraged sometimes by people and their intolerance but I am the same many times so I should not see these things? Wrong I still should see it, I mean here is a fine example, here I am waiting to get a taxi on the road, it is almost fifteen minutes of waiting now, I happen to carry two heavy bags on both my hands, my kids are getting tired and whiny and I also have another family member beside me who has promised a friend of hers, she would meet her soon to go somewhere....this friend calls her to ask her where she is and how long she would take to get back home, she explains the situation and in a few minutes we get a taxi and head home, within fifteen minutes apart again she calls to find out where she is??? What do you call that???


Today I took the this quiz on facebook 'Get Your Own Japanese Name' and guess what my name is? Ruri Karasuma! That is hilarious and I wonder if I was given that name when I was born, would my life have been any different?? A question to ponder about! Anyway my holidays or rather the holidays for my kids are about to end and school is opening on Monday, I dread those early morning wake up time again, I really do feel that when your kids start grade school you go back to school all over again, and what about those homeworks??? The fractions and long divisions and, the synonyms and antonyms....I could go on and on. I had more stress than my daughter during her last exams and I was so relieved when it was over, I was jumping for joy secretly! The whole point is I should really decsipline myself and go to bed early these last few days, but how can I, when I have this blog on my mind ! This is my joy for now, like my baking frenzy which had been last month....Oh that reminds me I still need to make that pie from the recipe my Arabic friend has given me!

Let me be honest here, since I just started this blog, I am so very new to it, I have been reading up on tutorials, on how to adjust this, or how to add this and what have you! I am not a very computer friendly person other than the basic average course! So I have had alot of time spent on research but that is how you learn by doing stuff over and over again I think. And I must mention one friend of mine, let me call him Blackbird as thats what he calls himself on his msn!! He has been giving tips and I share my blog problems with him!! Thanks for your encouragement Blackbird!! I hope I will inspire you more than you have inspired and advised me many a times on different occasions and I hope to see your blog out here soon!! Cheers man!

Talking about friends I miss one very dear friend of mine back in Maldives, who I always share my writings with, I call her my Dog and many more names dependng on the mood. Dear Dog I hope you will be reading this soon and will as always give me your wise comments that always puts a smile on my face!

So today once more here are some 'happy feeling pictures' continued....stay tuned.....

Delightful water puddles!


the typical Maldivian food....

Green and sunny, a peaceful feeling in what I call the late afternoon lull.....



Tuesday 28 April 2009

another day, another thought....

There are some days you have so much in your head you dont know which way to go and yet you have to ignore those feelings and go in one direction which is the obvious, the daily expected ways....yet you know I feel I should not be guilty to stray from these routinals and just say I dont give a damn and do what I want to do...be it...nothing but just sit n look up the sky while my kids swim n splash in the pool. Well these are sunny days, after many days of typical Malaysian weather of cloudy rainy days with an almost timed heavy shower that falls without fail every evening! I love the rain and normally wouldn't complain but I must say sometimes when you get that every day it wears you out. I used to love the rains in Male' cos there it is so humid and when it rains you really welcome it especially after a long period of dry weather......ok now enough about this rain and lets get on a more sunny topic.

Today I tried to take some photos on my nephews Nikon pro camera, since am not a pro on this yet, I dont even know the model it is, but I can tell you it is not that hard to handle it and believe me takes awesome pictures. Unfortunately i could not many picture today as the battery went down.

I will post some photos which I consider are my 'happy feeling photos'. They are a mixture of photos taken different times but not too long ago and at various locations including Maldives.



the sunrise from my balcony...

the windy Marine Drive...

the sunset on a sandbank....













Monday 27 April 2009

Here I am starting one very wakeful night.....

hey there,
just starting my first blog....wanted to plan this in grand style but sometimes i feel a spontaneous outpour is better! well lets see how all this will go....right now I'm going through a very relaxing period...a school break for the kids so its a completely out of routine,doing this and that kind of period with lots of eating and sleeping!! And not to mention very late sleeping and that is one reason and how I came about to the blogging idea!!

Anyway I thought since I am in the start of things and am as I say exploring a new country even though now its over a year I thought I would start with photos of where I live now and photos of my country the maginficent Maldives which i have said a temporary goodbye.... so here it is


Male' the capital island of Maldives, one speck of an island amongst its many scattered in the Indian Ocean. I know am sounding like the way they do in the travel catalogues, and to be honest Male' being the capital, its become one heck of a congested place with many buildings and houses that there is no more any greenery and it looks more like a concrete jungle than a lush green island. Not to mention to the over population on the island itself. But I will post a more nicer picture before I finish this off for now....