Dont forget our date!!
Tonight, April 9, 2013 at 9pm on Astro Mustika HD 132 & Astro Ria 104.
The chaotically romantic!! Haha..
P/s: I don’t think we will be watching this show.. Haha.. Malu!! 
XO
Photos credit to CST Production, Kak Akmar of Astro & Miss Wany Idris
Here’s our Romantika preview as seen in Astro.
Don’t forget, this coming Tuesday, April 9 on Astro Mustika HD (132) and Astro Ria (104) at 9pm.
Huurmmm.. malu sebenarnyer y’all tgk ni.. Haha.. tapi, urmm.. takpe lar..
Enjoy!!
XOXO
After Bali, we were in PD for a short while because my husband had to attend an event there. And again, this time he brought along his little entourage!! Hehe.. Mommy, Bella and Tasha and my parents. We stayed in a resort by the beach and our room in exactly above the sea water. Bella and Tasha doesn’t seem too excited about that somehow.. Haha.. Mommy yang over 
There’s a small pet farm at the resort, which is good for children. Since in KL she only sees chicken as nuggets, I think it’s a good idea for her to get to know how a real chicken looks like!
That’s Bella impressed by the chicken. Babatok, her grandfather is in-charge of chasing the chicken since that seems to be his forte. Hehe..
Another Bella’s favorite toy-stuffed animal, now in real life!
She likes rabbit the most.. she kept chasing the rabbit round and round the pet farm..
and kept feeding them with long beans..
Owh.. and here is Tasha. Since she’s not yet running around chasing the animals.. Here’s her picture on the bed..
The next morning, daddy woke us up early in the morning to bring us on a boat ride. On our way to the jetty, we saw this…
Peacock’s butt!! Haha.. yup, we’ve seen the front too often.. now we change view 
Here’s us on the boat with my mom and my youngest brother..
And Bella got to know another new sea creature..
Crab!!!
So, in this trip, we have covered rabbit, chicken, turtle, peacock and crab!! Haha.. Good for Bella!!
X
We are back!
More tired than ever!! Haha.. Travelling with two kids under 2 is no joke. But we had fun.. family kind of fun!
Our flight was at 0905H, that means we have to be at the airport at least 2 hours before the take off. To wake the girls up and get them ready in the morning is not easy as both of them decided to sleep at 0200H the night before. Haha.. even the mommy also had a tough time waking up! All luggages are already checked in by my husband’s PR, Miss Wany. But we are still late! Hehe.. The airport personnel even announced our name looking for us. Maaluuuuu jer! But we made it!!
Smile!!! (tp sebenarnya mengah!! Hehe..)
Tasha slept half way through the journey..
And Bella.. here she is..
We stayed at the Hard Rock Hotel.
Yeah, I know it’s hot.. kesian Tasha. Don’t worry, it was just for few seconds! The weather is really really hot there!
Our Kid Suite is awesome! Bella had a fun time staying in her little bunk bed! 
They even have PlayStation with Guitar Hero in that room for the kids!! So thoughtful! Unfortunately we didn’t have the chance to try it. No time, or when we have the time, the baby is sleeping!
Anyway, we went to many places in Bali, from the beaches to the volcano area, to the shopping place, and a few beautiful sites by the sea..
That’s our dinner by the sea at Jimbaran.
This beautiful place is called Tanah Lot. It’s a must-go place if you come to Bali. No wonder all my friends who went to Bali have this picture in their FB album. Now I wanna put mine too!! Heheh.. Memang cantik.. MasyaAllah!
Kintamani is the name of this area where the volcano is located. I didn’t manage to snap the pictures of the mountain because I was busy breastfeeding Tasha.. tapi depan restaurant sempat 
That’s Bella fooling around with daddy’s goggle..
That’s B with her daddy doing their TV interview by the pool in their matchy-matchy Adidas jumpsuit…
OK, back to Romantika story!!
Disclaimer: I am definitely not made for TV!!
First, obviously the camera will add extra 10pounds!! Thanks but I have more than enough pounds on my body!!
Secondly, I dunno which camera to look at! Hahah.. It is so confusing with 3 cameras around you. You’ll see my wandering eyes!! And HD camera makes everything super clear and by that I mean double chin and a little flabby areas here and there!!
Thirdly, it’s really hard to express feelings to each other while the cameras are staring at you!! Hahaha.. I feel awkward. And I look silly! I dunno how the Kardashians can live with cameras in their house!
Watch this unromantically happy couple on Astro Ria 104 and Astro Mustika HD 134
.. Tuesday April 9 at 9pm!
We are leaving to Bali tomorrow morning to shoot for our Romantika episode in Astro Ria.
We will try to be as romantic as possible on the show with our children around Hahaha..
While we are away, I leave you with Tasha’s sleep smile photo..
Till then..
Love, X
Hi all!!
Yesterday, I followed my husband to a press conference for “Jejak Tanah Suci BaitulMaqdis with.. urmm.. him”
Guess what?!!
This is your chance to go there. We are gonna go to Palestine to visit many Islamic historical places like the tomb of Nabi Musa, Nabi Shuib, Nabi Ibrahim, the mosque that was build by Nabi Daud, fort that was build by Nabi Sulaiman, many historical islamic museums and the most important thing.. Masjid Al-Aqsa!!
I really really wanna see the footprint of our Prophet Muhammad SAW before he went for Isra’ Mi’raj. Yes, Isra’ Mikraj started from Al-Aqsa!!
MasyaAllah.. do you know Al-Aqsa mosque is one of the three holy mosques in Islam?!
#1) Masjidil Haram
#2) Masjid Nabawi
#3) Masjid Al-Aqsa
Another interesting story.. there’s a hanging stone in Al-Aqsa and it’s called Qubbatul Sakhrah. Correct me if I’m wrong but according to history, that huge rock wanna follow our beloved Prophet Muhammad SAW during Isra’ Mikraj but to no avail. So, the huge rock is left hanging. Subhanallah! According to the tour agent guy, the Jews built pillars so people will not see that the rock is hanging. (Biasa lar the Jews kan, always full of agenda!! Huh..)
Owh.. and not forgetting the Dead Sea!! You know you can’t drown when you’re swimming there, right? SubhanAllah! I’ve read somewhere that the sea mineral content made it impossible to drown at the Dead Sea.. you’ll be floating!! Suitable for people like me.. (who can’t swim!) Here’s my chance to float effortlessly!!
This trip is from April 29, 2013 to May 8, 2013 and only available for 32 + 4 persons..
Wonder who is the “+ 4″ is??
Mr Astronaut, Sophea Isabella, Sophea Natasha and mommy!!
Yes, we are gonna bring our two daughters. Bella and Tasha is going to see Al-Aqsa!!
Honestly speaking, I’m really looking forward to this trip. Alhamdullilah I’ve been to Masjidil Haram and Masjid Nabawi. And here’s my chance to go to Al-Aqsa. I know its gonna be hectic because Tasha will only be about 3 month old and Bella is so active running around. The challenge for me is to maintain my milk production because when mommy is stress up or tired and combined with lack of sleep and possibly not drinking enough water and knowing the weather in Middle East country.. Wish me all the best!
Haha..
The ‘damage’.. it’s RM7230 for adult and RM6730 for a child.
Grab your opportunity mommies. Seats are super limited!
If you’re interested, you call Miss Wany Idris @ 017-305 2663
or you can contact GOTZ Travel and Tour Sdn Bhd at 03-7727 0585
And that’s Bella giving her daddy her talk-to-the-hand face during the press conference yesterday..
Much love, X
Tomorrow we are going on a cruise!! Yay!! From Penang to Phuket than Krabi.. together with B’s daddy’s fans and supporters!! 
Time to get up, close and personal!
The cruise passengers are gonna go to Penang by flight from KL, but we are gonna drive up to Penang! Roadtrip.. hooray!!! Having our own transportation in Penang means we can go detour makan2 in Penang for a while before boarding.. We are sooo looking forward to see the beauty of Phuket and Krabi. Heard the beach there is heavenly!!
The activities arranged on board are fun and entertaining. There will be prizes sponsored by Empire Gallery Furniture (expect a big prize since it’s a furniture shop!!) for these categories…
1) Winner for fanatic fans of Dr SMS2) Winner for sporting fans of Dr SMS3) Winner of trendy and fashionable reporter4) Best attire during trip/ dinnerand TOP MEDIA keep updating our programme through twitter with hashtag #CruiseWithAngkasawan
Hi there! Some of you might know that me and Bella followed my husband to Riyadh and managed to perform umrah during our stay in Saudi last month. Its was almost a week stay in Riyadh, followed by 3 days stay in Mecca. Short.. too short in fact but alhamdullilah we managed to make full use of our time there, insyaAllah..
The reason we had to go to Riyadh was because my husband had to attend the Association of Space Explorers XXV Planetary Congress. It was my third time meeting all the astronauts from all over the world!! Most of them attended our wedding when the Congress was held in Malaysia in 2010.
And this is Bella’s first time, of course We all had to wear a name tag, and Bella got hers too!! Haha.. cute or not!!
Check out her name tag.. So full of bitemarks and kelepet2 coz that’s what she did to her name tag!! Haha..
Anyway, we had fun there. While the astronauts attending their conferences, forums and interviews, we (spouse and children) will go around pusing2 Riyadh Quite a challenge for me as Bella still needs her short nap at noon and susu every 3-4hourly and at the same time I wanna see the city too. Bella probably the youngest kid attending the conference. Lucky me, a lot of makcik2 wanna play can carry her around. Heheh.. 
One of the most beautiful scenery I’d seen in Saudi is their desert. MasyaAllah.. Unbelievable. We were brought to see the sunset at the desert in suburb Riyadh.. and it’s breath taking. But to my surprise, it’s actually not easy to walk on the desert sand.. No wonder camels have such a lean leg!! Hahaha.. We had fun riding the camels.. OK, not me.. just Bella and daddy. I don’t think riding a camel would be a good idea for a 7 month pregnant lady, either I will fall or the camel will break their back!!
But Bella had a lot of fun!! She looks like she wants to conquer the world!! Woohoooo!!! You go girl!! Check out the cloud! It’s so thin because of the geographic location of Saudi Arabia, that explains the weather and minimal rain there. Yup, their rain only twice a year!! In KL, it can go up to twice a day!!
And that’s Bella trying to make friend with the falcon, little that she knows that the falcon can bite her fingers. We almost got a mini heart attack she she genuinely wanna manja2 poke the falcon’s head and the bird was already turning its head to wards her wanna bite her back!! Hahah.. OK, that’s it. I took her away from that bird!!
After about a week in Riyadh, we travelled back to Jeddah before entring Mecca. I remember looking at Kaabah for the first time when we perform Hajj after we got married.. my heart skipped, probably 3 beats!! Hahha.. 
This time, we come back again with Little Bella. How I wish she understood what was she seeing..
But I’m sure she had fun, from all our three days stay there, never even once she cried or buat perangai. She behaved very well. During prayers time, we brought her down for prayers despite thousand of people in Masjidil Haram. Since Bella can walk on her own, we just let her walk on her own, the only thing that we needed was patience to wait for her to reach her destinations! Haha.. too small steps lar.. But she was good. Really!
This was just ‘trial’ before we brought her into the tawaf crowd. We wanted to see how she reacted to wards big crowd of people before joining the tawaf crowd. We performed our umrah twice and one tawaf for tawaf wida’. Everytime we went into the tawaf crowd, Bella will fall asleep even before we finished our first round and she will only wakes up after we finished our saie’. Subhanallah! She didnt disturb us at all during our tawaf and saie. Unbelievable isn’t it?! Even during our tawaf wida’ which was performed after asar and temperature outside was 38′C, she still fell asleep..
And this is Bella, performing her saie when she woke up after we finished ours
Little Bella was so amazed with this gentleman’s janggut, she went and pulled it and played with his tasbih!! Hahah..
OK.. I’m guilty as charged!! I couldn’t finish my blog on time last night coz the moment I updated my FB saying that I wanted to finish it last night.. Bella did her “big business” then she wanted milk.. then we fell asleep while talking to each other.. So, janji tinggal janji lah.. Now I’m back from work, Bella’s daddy has put her to sleep.. Here I am in front of my computer *wink*
Alright.. most of you wanted to know about our trip to Turkey.. Firs, I wanna ask you.. Do you know what’s the capital of Turkey? Nope, it is NOT Istanbul.. it is Ankara!! Hahahah… I got that one wrong too!! It was Istanbul until 1923, they moved the capital to Ankara We learn something new everyday! Hehehe..
So, remember I told you the temperature there is 0 degrees.. I was wrong!! *dang* Few days before we arrived Ankara, it was minus 20degC.. and the day we arrived there, it was minus 14degC!! But at the same time.. the sun is shining… aaahhhhh… I just love living in a fridge with sunlight!! And guess what?!! Bella loves the cold weather… Initially she was quiet, like she’s thinking what’s going on around her, after a while, she get used to it.. and really enjoys the snow..!! Owh.. did I mention about the snow?? Yay!!
“Mommy.. can I eat the snow??”
This is when she really put the snow in her mouth, and she got diarrhoea for the next 3 days!! Hahahaha..
Istanbul is full of historical buildings.. very Europe-ish.. well, it is actually half Europe and half Asia.. Anyway, my point is, it is very Europe-ish without any problem finding halal food.. I whacked everything edible.. just to enjoy Turkish gourmet.. They use a lot of meat, lamb and cheese.. heaven!! Don’t even think about asking me about my weight.. the answer is “No, I’m not telling you!”
One place you MUST visit in Istanbul is.. the Grand Bazaar!! Taddaaaaa… Not a surprise that one coming from me, eh It is huge!! More than 3400 shops in the Grand Bazaar, and I believe if I need to go to all of the shops, I might need 4 days to finish it all… unfortunately, we only managed to spend about 4 hours there.. Bella’s dad schedule is jam packed!! No time to leisurely walk in the bazaar.. haih.. They have everything you need from Turkey. Love. Love. Love…
Serving my duty as mommy.. Breastfeeding Bella at the Grand Bazaar.. Don’t worry, she can breathe from under my breastfeeding cover
We stayed at the Bhosphorus area where part of Ottoman empire was located.. It is facing the sea with gorgeous view of the other side of the town..
And that is little Bella stylishly waiting for her flight back to KL.. she had fun in Turkey.. wishing she (and mommy) could come back again.. *hint to daddy*
No, it’s not a statement.. it is a question for all of you.. Hehhehe.. Tomorrow we are leaving for Istanbul. Bella’s daddy is giving a talk there.. Mommy and Little B will tag along But what frightens me is the long haul flight.. its gonna be more than 10 hours of limited space and toys for Bella. And no place to go jalan-jalan also in the flight except to the back and front again..
When we went to Maldives, Bella was only 3 month old. She slept a lot more than now. Quite easy back then. My mom was right, it is a lot easier to travel with small babies rather than the older ones.. wait until they can run and keep poking all the flight passengers.. laaaagi susah!! Hhahhaha..
Here’s my baby traveling bag checklist:
and I also like a few baby song apps. Takkan I nak nyanyi dlm airplane kan.. hahaha.. malu lar suara tak sedap 
