The B-Side of My Mind

Panic! At The Disco (P!ATD) has been one of my fav band of all time. Been listening to them since their first song (2003 i think?!) til now. I just love how clever their lyrics are especially in this song. The 1st verse compares being a musician to being a hooker selling songs, while in the 2nd verse goes on describing honeysuckle phonies having any level of success can attract. The entire song, in my opinion is a reflection of the burdens of success and the struggles one might encountered to get there.    I guess that is why i'm so attached to this song as you know, success is not easy to achieve but the journey (the hardship, the blood and sweat) will certainly be worth it in the end. 

The reason for my recent " disappearance " again on the blog sphere is because I was busy with my doctoral proposal defense that happened on the 4th of August and guess what? I PASSED! Yeayyyyyy.. I just need to submit my amendments within 1 month and i'm good to conduct my research.  Being a working mother of 1, a wife AND a student all at the same time is tiring! only God knows how overwhelmed i am feeling sometimes. But to be honest, being a mother while doing my doctoral degree is a blessing in disguise. Without my baby, I don't think I will be motivated enough to defend my proposal in the first place. I am so motivated to finish what i've started 4 years ago -- I was single and bored that's why I signed up for this haha.  Last year, I remember my supervisor coming from Shah Alam to KK for a meet up. I was already 2 months pregnant that time. Then she told me about one of her student who just got married and she advised her not to have a baby yet ...

I'm almost 8 months post-partum. To be honest I sill haven't gotten back into my pre-pregnancy weight. I tried dieting but since i'm breastfeeding it's so hard. I get hungry easily LOL. Dieting for me means not taking much carbs like rice but the thing is, rice especially  brown rice is my milk booster. The other day, I only had fruit juice for breakfast and fried spaghetti for lunch. I pumped for 40 minutes and got only 1oz. Diet plays a significant role in producing milk so I can't afford to diet now. So this morning I had oat + banana smoothie for breakfast and brown rice for lunch. This afternoon, I pumped nearly 5oz.. I'm one happy mommy! Almost 5oz ! I learned that different people will have different type of milk booster food. When my baby was still a newborn, I was told to drink young papaya soup. I tried but the result wasn't as good as oats and rice for me. Oh, and drink lots of fluid :) The truth is, you don't need to spend alot...

  Finally I've figured out Blogger LOL. I actually had given up on it and moved to Wordpress but I find the interface to be not as user friendly as Blogger. So this morning after my morning class I worked on it and here I am :) My new blog on Wordpress was called "Pammie knows it all" . I think i'll retain this blog's name because this blog has historyyyyyy.. let it stay as it is lah kan. So yeah, I just want to say... I MISS THIS SPACE SO MUCH AND I'M GLAD I'M BACK!   Thank God I didn't delete this blog last time :) So stay tuned OK because i'll be posting more updates on this blog starting TODAY .  P/s- I guess the other blog has to go LOL.  Til the next post!  P. 

I have been wanting to get away from the hectic work life and studies since may. So this is it. A domestic getaway to Kuching, Sarawak :) Our flight to Kuching was at 8am on AirAsia. We arrived early, at about 9:15am. 10 minutes early. The first thing we did was went to the hotel to confirm our reservation of room & have breakfast. We were really hungry by the time we reached the hotel. The area that we are staying didnt have that much of eateries nearby. The hotel's frontdesk lady said we have to walk 10-20 minutes to the nearest eatery. We were searching for Laksa, by the way.  After walking not 10, or 20.. But 30 minutes!!!! We found an eatery at Chinatown. It was a small coffee shop (i forgot the name) but it served kolo mee and sarawak laksa. So we had our breakfast there. After that we walked somemore and went to sarawak plaza, tun jugah and centrepoint. I was surprised that the malls here are not like the ones we have in KK. I could walk around each malls in less than 5 ...

It has been a week since my last post. I was suppose to post this a day after the last post but procrastination got the best of me. So on the 3th of May, we were suppose to do 2 things which were 1) Collect race pack and 2) USS!! We didnt get to collect our race pack that day because it was too far. By the time we get to USS it would be past noon. So we decided to just go to USS and collect our race packs the next day. Me and Mas headed to Sentosa that morning. We were told that we can just show our USS ticket and we'll get a free ride all the way to USS. But that was not true for us. We had to purchase a ticket to ride the MRT that takes us to USS. So we purchased our ticket through the kiosk and we're ready to board the MRT We arrived "early". While waiting for Riz we took some photos around the area just to find out that Riz and his family was already inside USS LOL.  So touristyyyyy I just love the candy tree behind us. So pretttyyyyy...