A Mother's Monologue

Resolution #1 – 2007

Posted on January 1, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

OK - I've thought about it. My first resolution for the year has to be working hard. Working hard enough till I can implement my invention of the T-1703 MUM - every mothers' dream machine. The T-1703 MUM is the latest user friendly.......click to learn what next.

Tis I bid farewell to 2006….

Posted on December 31, 2006 by Mamapumpkin

and welcome 2007 with fresh perspective and positive spirit. I had a beautiful family lunch today with my family - My mother (the anchor), the Hubs and T, my younger brother and his girlfriend, my youngest brother and his girlfriend and my mother's.......click to learn what next.

Blogging as breaks

Posted on December 30, 2006 by Mamapumpkin

So I was wrong..... It feels like I'll be writing another 10 posts before the year is up. Reason being, it is so much more fun than researching for a bloody coffee table book. So I blog in between as breaks. It is my.......click to learn what next.

My new COACH bag – First & Last

Posted on December 30, 2006December 2, 2009 by Mamapumpkin

One of the recent Designer outlets in KLCC is the American COACH brand. Usually a loyal fan of Ferragamo & Chanel, I walked into a COACH store, just out of curiousity and liked the casual American style more fitting for mothers than the high.......click to learn what next.

Merry, Merry Christmas and a HAPPY, EXCITING, BLESSED NEW YEAR!!!

Posted on December 30, 2006 by Mamapumpkin

What the hell. This is quite likely the last post I'll do for the year 2006 so bottoms up! Under our Christmas tree this year.... Our Christmas Cake - Santa with Mrs Claus on a superb tropical holiday in Malaysia! The cake was super-duper delicious,.......click to learn what next.

Ammunition for dealing with Government agencies and idiots

Posted on December 29, 2006 by Mamapumpkin

I have it sussed. Ever since I became the secretary for a charity organisation I volunteer with, I've had to make dozens of phone calls to Government agencies in order to keep ourselves legal. It is no picnic but I no longer stress.......click to learn what next.

Fish soup shampoo

Posted on December 29, 2006 by Mamapumpkin

I have been getting very little sleep. No, that's nothing new but more so now because I have been commissioned to write a coffee table book for the Government. The routine is, I am working every waking hour as much as is feasibly.......click to learn what next.

Guilty Mother

Posted on December 29, 2006December 6, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

If there were ever some powerful emotions that set forth in a woman on the onset of Motherhood, it is surely love, patience and guilt - in that order. Last week, T and I woke up bright and early to send the Hubs.......click to learn what next.

Doing her bit for Charity

Posted on December 20, 2006 by Mamapumpkin

I am proud of my toddler. She is no longer a toddler really, but a very mature little girl of 27 months. She even looks it, her maturity, as people always mistake her for being older than she really is. And the expressions.......click to learn what next.

The love for my child

Posted on December 12, 2006 by Mamapumpkin

It has been 7 days since the Hubs went abroad for work and I have been alone with T. It is the longest that I've ever been alone with T. We have been painting the town red, just the two of us, and.......click to learn what next.

What is happening to my country?

Posted on December 12, 2006 by Mamapumpkin

Whilst reading the Star this evening, I started getting really worried. This is the country's leading newspaper that sits on more than half the office receptions and desks of CEO's in KL. Mainstream media. It seems....... How about joke comics? For it sure pushed my laughing buttons! Here's.......click to learn what next.

Litter Menace

Posted on December 10, 2006 by Mamapumpkin

The Hubs is away and with my new found freedom, T and I have been gallavanting and painting the town red, practically everyday since he left. Hey, when the cat is away, the mice come out to play...... With going out comes hours.......click to learn what next.

My friend, Sam….for always.

Posted on December 7, 2006December 9, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

This year, Sam would've been 34, just like me. But she has missed out 13 years of what we were meant to share together as friends, to my detriment. I met the beautiful Indonesian Italian Samantha Barlian of a lithe 5'6" at architecture school more than.......click to learn what next.

Protected: The Sensitive New Age Man

Posted on December 6, 2006April 23, 2008 by Mamapumpkin

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  I lunched with 2 moms today who also had daughters Ts age. Dita has been with her husband for 18 years of which 5 they were married. Yasmin has been with her husband for 10 years. Dita's husband is Malaysian Chinese while Yasmin's.......click to learn what next.

In the middle of Tatler

Posted on December 3, 2006February 5, 2015 by Mamapumpkin

Today I found ourselves in the middle of people often seen in the Malaysian Tatler, a magazine of high society. Anyone who's a who's who will have had their face plastered on this monthly glossy provided their cash net worth is enough to.......click to learn what next.