Marsha Maung: Write. Cook. Read. Watch. Try. Innovate.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savoured. By : Earl Nightingale Sent using AppFlute Motivational Quotes Android App. Note: I wasnt a very chill mom this morning. Snarly and a little rushed. This is a good reminder. Be happy, people! =) XOXO, Marsha Credit: iStockPhoto

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily. By : Zig Ziglar Sent using AppFlute Motivational Quotes Android App.

I am so obsessed with lighting recently because I have plaster ceiling in the home and every time the bulb goes off, I have to hire a professional person to come in to change the lights for me. Trust me, I have asked friends and family for help but as they climb the ladder, they go like 'But...but...how do you unstuck all those stuff. I don't even know what kind and what voltage to get to replace so that I don't blow your bill or your ceiling off'. So, I have resorted to hunting down lighting after lighting. Hence, the sudden obsession. Everywhere I go, I look at lighting . This reminds me of....the old days, I think. The ambiance is very soothing and calming. Not great for customers who want to see VERY CLEARLY what they are eating, though. =) These are just too cute!!! Love them. I even looked at the mismatched lighting in our elevator. LOL Resorted to buying a huge stand as lighting...it's huge and NOT IKEA. Hahaha... Took thi...

I see some of the funniest and most random stuff on Tumblr and Pinterest. Sometimes I wish that there was a way for me to just click or tap it and it would automatically be blogged right here. I am not very familiar with Tumblr, unfortunately, so I would have to replicate this. Just for fun. bishounen-jake-english : jackadiddlediddle : bishounen-jake-english : FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DO NOT KNOW THIS IS A TRUMPET THIS IS A TROMBONE THIS IS A TUBA AND THIS IS A FRENCH HORN THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME You mean trumpet Slidey Trumpet Big ass trumpet Drunk Trumpet   I’M GONNA PUNCH YOU

I have to run some errands but before I do that, I would like to share something shared by a friend-neighbor on Facebook. It's ludicrous and quite unbelievable, really. So, this bride invites friends over to her wedding, right? And then the guest went and paid $100 (as much as she could afford) for two persons to attend the wedding. And then, after that, she got a sarcastic message on Facebook AFTER the wedding from the bride asking her why the amount paid was so little. I was like.....???????....... Look, the wedding is yours and the cost of the wedding is to be borne by the bride, groom and family. Whatever the guests give you is already a bonus. They are there to celebrate with you, to create an atmosphere. True, it is by tradition that guests give you money or gifts when they attend your wedding but ALSO traditionally, the guests do not shoulder the responsibility of covering the cost of your wedding . Walau-eh....better not to go to the wedding because....there is no re...

We all knew that there is a drastic rise in crime in Malaysia but except for one other time, it seems like something everyone else was talking about. It was always happening to someone else, somewhere I have never been to, and in situations that I have never been in. These brazen criminals have the gall to relieve bags, purses, phones, gadgets, laptops, work bags and what nots like they are window shopping. They are also said to operate like shadowy thieves when they break the car windows of cars on the road and make a grab for whatever is on the passenger seat. I have even heard that they are daring enough to break the window of the DRIVER's seat and grab things off of you hand! Unbelievable...but that is what I heard. If that was true....sigh... But these modus operandi is quite 'heard-of', of course, in many other crime-dotted countries (read: mainly other third world countries) but it has never been quite so rampant in Malaysia. Recently, they aimed to murder if the...

It's Monday and I am sure some of you out there must be feeling the I-am-so-out-of-zzzzzzzzzzzz moments. As a law graduate (you don't have to be  practicing  in order to feel indignant or protective over a profession as in you don't have to be a female in order to fight rape),  I shall always, always, always, ALWAYS   use long sentences, cover all bases whenever I am writing something simple by giving endless examples, use therefore, thereafter, hereby, hence, and all other cool words we can think of , numberize (I know there is no numerize, I don't care, it's my blog) and alphabetize and roman numeric as many things as possible just in case people can't find it and also......offer people a snide sarcastic remark whenever someone makes a lawyer joke.  13.a (i) Oh. Fun. Ny.         (ii) Ha. Ha. This one, I am sure, we have all seen it but on this dreary Monday, this could serve to bring up a belly laugh or two. Or three. Or four....

The air here is unbelievable! Everything was fine throughout the day, for most parts of the day, that is, until towards the evening when the smoke got really heavy. REALLY Heavy as in it is creeping under the door, past walls, over roofs, into homes, into nose, into lungs and tries to make you pass out just from the anxiety itself. Thankfully (me being pretty smart this time round), I ran out on Sunday and grabbed two air filters and purifiers for the homes. I was thinking it was for the rooms but during the day, I put it in the living room in hope of clearing the living room would also minimize the risk of having to inhale putrid air in the rooms. Anyway, the air purifiers are real life savers. In the evening when it was obvious that the smoky air was penetrating the home, it picked things up a notch and cleared much of the smoke that was coming in! Who would've known that such a device would be necessary in Malaysia, huh? And we all thought air was free. Nope, not here righ...

My goodness, woke up on this amazingly positive Saturday morning, walked out the room, breathed (like every other normal human beings), choked and ran back into the room. What the hell was that?! I keep the windows in the kitchen open for circulation sake during the night. As much as I dislike waking up breathing up smoke, I dislike stale air just about as much. Maybe not but close enough. So, unbeknownst to me, smoke filled the house except for the air-conditioned rooms. BAD! I went to the window and it was hazed up quite bad at around 8am in the morning but it cleared up some a little later on towards the day. I hate to say this but this is not the worst that we have seen. I remember, there was one year when our homes filled up with so much smoke that we couldn't see past the sofa and had to yell each others' names to check where we were. It's horrible, this haze thing.  Being not much of an agriculturally-educated-informed person, I don't know how no...

During the school holidays, I didn't have the time nor the inspiration to cook at home. You won't believe the astonishing amount of money I have spent on meals alone during that two weeks of school hols. Cooking at home saves us/ ME quite a bit of money, actually. For instance, on average, I spend at least RM50-RM60 for meals, for the three of us. OK, we could have gone for cheaper food, yes, but with the weather....well, fine, we wanted air-conditioning. And paid for it. But cooking is really therapeutic to me and honestly speaking, once I got the hang of it again, the inspiration came back too. Nah, who am I kidding. Actually, it's the money I save. LOL Anyway, the simple meals and ideas are slowly coming back now and they are all coming from the countless recipe books open on the table right now...all of them along the lines of 'Quick Cook....', 'One Pot....', 'Easy Cooking....', 'Crockpot Magic...' As long as we get to eat some...