as quietly as falling leaf

"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones."
-- Marcus Aurelius

wanted to post the surprise kitty video that the terrors enjoyed over the weekend and also links to stuff over the internet that really tickled me BUT apparently i'm still go-blog (read: goblok = indonesian for stupid) and unable to work how to insert links and such. TSK. i DID it before in other entries but haven't been able to repeat the process.

since we celebrated the terrors may burstdays waaaAAAY before, this time it was just small tiny cakes for terror 2 and terror 3. the gal got a melody rabbit cake and the boy got cookie monster haha! i sang happy birthday to each of them and that was all. i apologised about the simplicity of it all. but the boy didn't want to hear any of it. he insisted it is the thought that counts and i remembered. putera emir hafeez is perfect 10 today and the teeny wee no. 3, emira natasha turned 8 last friday. terror 1 talked to me about her secret crush and then gossiped about school friends.

best is the girls each made me a mommy day card and i got presents! a flower and a bookmark. the boy of course told me he's been too busy to think about mommy day. later that night after our trek to nowhere, we made sock cats. it was kama's birthday in between the two terrors and yes, mama terrors beleive in menaingful presents. we made him a sock cat, one that he can reheat during winter. we all contributed to the making of the cat and of course in due course we made the living room a total mess. we stayed up till wee hours of the morning to finish it. okay so terror 2 and 3 gave up at 130am because they were dead tired. only terror 1 managed to open her eyes up till 5am before succumbing to snooze. needless to say, i crashed and left the last bits of wrapping and making the card the next day. it was a good simple weekend where i turned naggy terrorist mum at least for 24 hours. such bliss! :p

kama liked his presents :) we included sweets too. i couldn't make the card as elaborate as i wanted too. there is still time i figured because bestdays burstdays are a WHOLE MONTH yeay! also, i got him tickets to watch macbeth at fort canning. i wanted it to be a nice picnic but yeah...i didn't have time to do everything properly. better luck next time. we enjoyed ourselves and i'm glad everyone had fun.

well, its the hols tomorrow and i just googled what is vesak day muahaha..and i got it right. at least close! i said its to celebrate buddha's enlightment and merging at one with the whole conciusness. simply put - The festival celebrated with great ceremonial ritual by Buddhists is Vesak Day, which commemorates the birth and enlightenment of Buddha and his entry into Nirvana. see! all that civic and moral class did some good hehe.

to do tomorrow: write letter to susan! meet lina and write letters to the children. i feel guilty that i have never written anything for terror 3. original that is, so yes...tomorrow i'll take some time and let it flow.

now need to rush off! kama's going to be on tv and i need to pick up a wedding invite.

bestest,
j.

ps: I AM GOING to get it right for future entries! need to master the art of blogging properly!!! TSKKK...