17 September 2007

Autumn is here

Woke up to a cloudy 15C. Looks like the sun has gone for good. Luckily we had fine weather last weekend. It was quite a full weekend, on Saturday, S had to go tracting for our upcoming gospel series in Hope Hall, Kilburn, London. All are invited! (Detail will be given later) After that we were to have a nice picnic at Hampstead Heath with a few of our friends. Seeing that I have never been there and that Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts had been there in the movie Nottinghill, I was quite excited. It was a fantastic autumn day, sun was shining and all the babies were well behaved. Our friend N even packed some leftover 'nasi lemak' for us. Thank you! It was really yummy, I cannot believe how much I missed it. Back in Malaysia, would not even have thought to order that when we go out. Yes, I am still homesick. Obviously.

Due to the lack of a proper nap in the day, Josiah was knocked out from 8pm till 8am on Sunday! WOW, WOW, and WOW....I have not slept that late for months now. With all that extra energy, I decided to make 'char siew' for dinner - it was better than the first attempt but still far from "the best char siew in the world". According to my cousin, M who is stuffing his face with the actual best 'char siew' in Malaysia right at this moment, to make a good 'char siew' one would need really fatty pork. Apparently not easily available in health conscious countries like UK and Australia.

On Sunday, we went to church as usual but Josiah was awake for the full meeting. He was really quite active in participating. He wanted to sing hymns and talked loudly. After that we had to do the mundane weekly grocery shopping - HRH Josiah decides to act up as soon as we step into Tesco (no surprises there) - but S was upset too because I decided to nip over to H&M to grab some final reduction sale items for Josiah. Come on....it's another 50% off the already half price original. I loaded up on couple of pants, tops, raincoat and even a bath suit - each costing no more than 2 pounds! I think it's definately worth the whining from both my man, don't you think?? Being a mum now, nothing beats the feeling of shopping for stuff for your baby. It will cure everything from tiredness due to lack of sleep, depression, loneliness, anger and even homesickness! So my advice to all new mummies - shop, shop, shop away it would do you wonders.... Too bad I am stuck with a baby who is allergic to shopping. Sniff. Must be the genes from his Daddy. Sniff. Any cure would be appreciated.