Hot Cockroaches

Last Saturday was an extremely hot day for me in Penang. It was sooo hot even at night. The reason why I said is hot?? Well, there were about a dozen of large cockroaches roaming around our bathroom when I wanted to take some bath to cool myself down. My guess was they were trying to cool themselves down with whatever water left on the wet floor. I quickly rolled few pages of newspaper and gave them a whack of the lifetime. It was a minute too late as after i flushed all the dead cockroaches down the toilet that I realised I've forgotten to take photo of my killing spree.

Another Baby Full Moon

My husband came back from work yesterday and presented to me a very cute packaging, saying that it is a gift for me. I never thought that he can be so romantic by giving me a surprise gift without any reason, and was very happy to accept it. However my happiness was short-lived as it was actually a thank you gift from a proud parents of a newborn baby boy.

This was the first time that we have received such thank you gift, and i find it is very special indeed. Inside the packaging was a small teddy bear, a cute Pooh mini mug, some candy, cookies and the baby's photo. Obviously from the photo, most of the candy and all of the cookies are missing, thanks to my husband for finishing it before passing it to me.

Le Chevalier D'Eon

Now this anime was highly publicized by Animax recently, prompting it was one of best animation in 2007. It has 24 episodes in all, and so far i only manage to watch the 1st half of the whole series. The anime is drawn in very nice detail, especially the lighting effect on water, background layout and the internal castle structure.

As I have not completed the whole series, so i can't really comment much on the show. The characters recite alot of words in the bible though. As the story is loosely based on historical facts, i can say that the creator of the series is very creative instead. The historical character, d'Eon de Beaumont as written in Wikipedia tells about a guy working as a spy for France, was insisting that he is infact a woman, and dressed up as a woman as well during his spy missions. In the anime series, it tells that the character had a sister named Lia (non-existant in the history) who also worked for the King of France, was killed during one of her own mission. As both d'Eon and Lia are very close to each other, the spirit of the Lia ends up possessing the brother at times. Of course to make the anime more interesting, you'll see people that can cast spells and control gargoyles to attack our heroes.

There's lots of blend between actual historical events in the anime. Of course, you can't really depend in watching the show in order to score your history exam. The examiner would not know what the heck you're talking about.

Knitting Project

I came across 2-in-1 knitting kit in Toys R Us store in Queensbay mall and bought it for RM42.9, reason being the kit will guide you how to knit a fashion bag, scarf and also a teddy bear. My husband paid for me during the trip, as he bought other toys for himself as well. I will pretend to forget in paying him back :P


I have not been serious in knitting all these while. The last knit i did was when i was in secondary school when my mother taught me when i was bored to death. But nothing materialized because my hands got tired after a while. Seeing the teddy bear picture on the box really tricked me 2 whole days in knitting.


The instruction book is very confusing for a beginner. It taught you how to make a slip loop in order to start, then following by casting. It was ok upto this step, but as when i start to knit, i noticed that i will end up with a very long tail by the time i start on the 1st row and i recall that when my mother taught me, there's no such long tail. I called my mother on the phone for help, but she was busy perming her hair with a hairdresser and did not answer my call at all. I end up surfing the internet for help, and realise there are 2 method to start knitting. I followed back the style which my mother taught me last time, to save up the yarn. Here's how the teddy suppose to look like from the box:

I ended up something else when i finished:

My husband called it doggie with fat legs. He even purposely tied the arms and legs to make them look fatter :(