House hunting + Jalan-jalan cari makan :)

Its the weekend and so we decided to check out some places in Dubai coz we are currently house/home hunting as we call it and we started off from Sharjah and then to Dubai and at the same time in between had some lunch and went to check out the beach :)

Leaving Sharjah.....

I like how you can see the small boats amongst the tall buildings :)

Finally....Dubai :)

Love this Petunias on the streets in Dubai and apparently they are everywhere in Dubai

Very much a city

Air conditioned bus stops......hmnnn interesting indeed:)

See the Petunias again....aren't they beautiful? :0)

Beautiful indeed :)

@ Jumeirah beach and i didn't wear any sun blocking cream hence i wore my light shawl to cover myself from the sun.

Kepanasan indeed :)

Ohh...a photo of my bola too :)

at the back of Jumeirah Beach

Nice :)

I guess we are going to this beach again soon :)

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Our very own World clock :)

 Every time we move to a new country we would have three clocks lining up to indicate the time in Malaysia, France and the current time we have and in this case we have Dubai time. All this is to help facilitate us to know the exact time at our respective home country in order to help us catch our family back home at the right time to call them :)

so here is the result of my hubby's handy craft using postcards of famous monuments in our respective countries and stick them on a 2 dollar clock that we bought from Ikea and Voila!
We have ourselves a wold clock just like at the airport hehehe :)

Until our next post :)

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Goodbye Angola! & Hello UAE :)

Finally i have some time or rather the mood to write something on my blog and that's because we have said goodbye to Angola and Hello to Dubai.

Our last ride to Luanda Airport

t didnt take us too long to venture out into Dubai city and of course our first stop is surely Ikea Dubai :) We had to check out this place to get us some supplies for our temporary abode at the moment. So it is busy bee for both of us for now but at the same time enjoying every minute of  our stay here and discovering new things especially when soon we will be discovering parenthood together in this new place we call hme at the moment and making the best of it :)
 


Overall look of the mall

And here are my deprived food extravaganza :) hehehhe
For all the times we were living in Angola i couldn't get my hands on any of these yummy food and now especially when i am  pregnant, i was going crazy craving for these stuff and in Angola i could only imagine having them  and it was hard....then FINALLY, we move to Dubai and the first chance we get my hubby lets me have my Day by letting me lose at one of the burger king outlet here and  demanded the biggest burger they have and it was like walking on air when I sank my teeth into them XXL Whopper burger!
What a Whopper indeed :) Kept me quiet all the while we were having lunch :)

Here was my handsome XXL Whopper burger...yummmmy!

Then we got busy inside Ikea for a good hour and a half before we had to scoot ourselves to do some groceries shopping.

Although im pretty good at camouflaging my pregnant belly but i sure cant hide my penguin standing position. hahahah :)

Some mug shots of us, Happy in our new place :)

Until our next post, stay tuned folks! :)

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My OB-Chan :)

Just wanna share a photo of my OB-Chan :)
didnt get to spend much time with him during my visit in December so this is all i got of him :)

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2009 and 2010 anniversaries :)

Anniversaries :)
Last year i didnt get to blog about our outings during our 1st anniversary of our marriage due to flying here and there and so just never got the time to dig out the photos until now. So here are the photos of our anniversaries of 2009 in Nantes and 2010 in KK, Sabah :)
 
2009
Location: Restaurant Cigale
4 Place Graslin
44000 Nantes, France

interior of the restaurant and our photo together

Our dinner

Our bubbles :)

Just after Dinner @ the hotel

The morning after the anniversary Dinner we went for a short tour of Nantes before we head back to Beauvoir to get ready for our departure back to Angola. All in all it was a wonderful time out with each other just to celebrate privately our 1st anniversary :)

2010 
Location: Rasa Ria Resort
Pantai Dalit Beach, Kota Kinabalu 
89208, Malysia

In 2010, we were fortunate enough to be in KK, Sabah during our 2nd wedding anniversary and it was definitely a memorable weekend together and time out from the hustle and bustle of the busy city and just escape to this magnificent paradise and revisit the Orang Utan which we visited during when we were still engaged to each other back then and promised that we will revisit the orang utan sanctuary again and perhaps stay in the resort the next time we went visiting. And finally during the weekend of our 2nd anniversary we had nothing planned but suddenly hubby thought of a brilliant idea which is to revisit the orang utans and stay for the weekend  at the resort and celebrate our 2nd anniversary there and that is exactly what we did. With the help from the staff at Rasa Ria resort we managed to make some arrangement to have a small cake for us during  our buffet dinner at the Hotel Restaurant called Tepi Laut. It was a double celebration as we were also celebrating hubby's birthday at the same time.

so here are our pictures during our stay at the resort :) 

The beautiful beach :)

Our beautiful room :)

Our beach stroll in the evening :)

The night of our anniversry dinner view from our room :)

Cake and the celebration :)


The happy birthday guy with his cake and also the spontaneous birthday singers :)

The day after was our revisit to the Orang Utan Sanctuary which we love very much :) and at 3 months pregnant i was still able to give a small hill a good hike up :)

And here are the little fellows that we could not get enough of looking at them year by year and we promise again to come revisit them gentle hearts and next time it will be three of us :)


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New Year Eve 2010 & New Year 2011 :)

31st December 2010

New Year's Eve Lunch

What did we do during New Year's Eve?

well i must say, after just arriving in Angola for two days, and going home to a huge mess at our fridge and congelator because of the one week power cut here while we were away  was not what we expected to find on our arrival day and spending the whole day cleaning the mess and not mentioning trying to get rid of the stench smell was no easy task but poor hubby was doing most of the cleaning coz my pregnant senses is too much to handle with the awful smell and all so hubby was left doing all the cleaning himself. So, since we didn't have much to fix anything for lunch so i wipe up this no fuss lunch for both of us just by using tuna, bow tie pasta, dried tomatoes, cheese, mushrooms and potatoes. so we had a vegetarian lunch that afternoon :) I call it Baked tuna pasta in potatoes :)

 

 surprisingly it tasted yummy as i put mashed potatoes on top of the pasta and baked it to golden brown crispy :) Hubby gave it a thumbs up for my newly invented recipe :)


New Year's Eve Dinner

 I must say i dint have much inspiration as to prepare our New Year's Eve dinner except that i knew that its going to be Asian cuisine  coz thats about all my senses are pointing at since im pregnant. So here is what i have prepared for the night, mainly its for satisfying my baby's preference for food so i made two dishes and one is Green Thai Curry Chicken  (For me) and Tomatoes Beef (for hubby) 
so we both ended up eating separate dishes all together one  for each heeheh :)

so here are the foodies :)

 

 Mine :)

 Hubby's dish :)

And finally..... Dessert!
This dessert  is special as it was flown from France in my luggage and it survived the journey inside my luggage without any damaged! It is called Gateau Tourteau Fromager
 

 Le Tourteau Fromagé is a French cheesecake

Oh and yes, what's a new year celebration without a toast with some bubbles and so we got one that is non alcohol and surprisingly again, it was yummy and it has a peach flavour to it :)

 
 A wonderful bubble to go with the slide to the new year 2011 :)


 Good Morning 2011!

 Here is the pancake i woke up to the morning of 2011 and thanks to hubby for them delicious fluffy pancakes yummmmm indeed :)

 

 And finally our first photo together taken in 1/1/11

Have a wonderful year ahead everyone!!

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New Year Eve 2010 :)

Before i go any further with this post would first like to give hugs and calin to everyone coz it's new year's eve and we are away from both our families so this big teddy bear or nounours to help me give everyone a joyous big hug :)

It's the time of the year where we reflect back to what we have done through out the whole year and what we have achieved and what is not yet realized and what will be brought forward to the next new year. And just like the year before here is my summary of  2010 :)

The 1st thing that i obviously didn't managed to achieve is to post in my blog for 365 days for 2010. I must say it's the most difficult thing to do coz i kept getting distraction after distraction especially when an event happened and photos seems to be piling up and cant process them fast enough to post them. Big events such as going on vacation and getting oneself pregnant certainly took a lot of my time off  blogging so overall i have been a bad blogger indeed :(

Other then that, hmnnn, i cant think of any :)

Now, let's talk about the nice things in 2010 :)

Firstly, my baby sister's marriage in KK in May a wonderful event indeed and then our short vacation and  reunion in KK and KL . Finally our vacation in Europe, our holiday trip to Italy with the newly weds which was a memorable one. Then our Air Balloon ride, and visited 4 chateau which was a superb wedding gift from our family and friends in France when we got married in 2009 and only get to realised it June 2010. 

Secondly, managed to make another round of walking down the memory lane when we stayed again in Paris and relived again our memory of July 14th 2008 when we attend again the fireworks display at Champs De Mars at the Eiffel Tower.  Experienced my first Fete de  la Musique in Paris. And finally managed to squeeze some time to visit the Madieval City in Provins, superb indeed :)

Thirdly, which was the most happiest event in our life is when we found out that we are pregnant in September :)  The most wonderful news indeed :)

and finally, our December Vacation in Malaysia and France to celebrate Noel :) and a short vacation with my parents and petit Ferdinand in KL and not forgetting also Numerous Reunions in Lyon and in KK  and KL and Beauvoir Sur Mer and La Baulle just made up a wonderful and memorable December vacation for both of us :)

There you go my summary of 2010. I am sure that 2011 will bring a much more colourful  and beautiful moment for all of us and we certainly are looking forward to the arrival of our Little One in June and that will definitely change and enrich our life for the better :)

here is to all our family and friends wherever you are, have a wonderful slide to the year of the Rabbit 2011!

Bonne Annee a tous!

njj
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Merry Christmas 2010 and a happy New Year 2011!

Just wishing everyone a very 

Merry Christmas 

& A Happy New Year 2011!

Would like to wish all my beloved family and friends wherever you are a very Happy and Merry Christmas and love all of you always!
Picture taken @ Basilique in Lyon

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