Garden Paradise (not exactly)

On the first sign of spring, I was so eager to start my first attempt on growing the garden strawberry. Today after work, I rushed to the little plot of land at the back of the house armed with my garden kit and started digging up the soil and adding up some compost in the hope of creating a small nursery for the strawberry seedlings. I must admit I don't have the "green hands", the dexterity of a master gardener like my Indonesian driver who could turn my backyard into a botanical paradise. But I was so keen on trying to see if I could give this one a shot. I got the help of my two kids, Ameerah and Nizam who were just as excited as I to see if we could turn this little plot into a garden paradise. Ameerah had her hands full of tabby's poop as it turned out the plot she was working out was our cat's favourite pit stop to answer the call of nature. I was laughing so hard when I saw her face cringing in disgust. I told her if she wanted to be a gardener then touching animal's poop would have to be second nature.
Strawberries are known to bear fruits very quickly. Hopefully by June or July, we could reap the fruits of our labour. We are keeping our fingers crossed on this one.

A visit to Paris won't be complete without this photo shoot with that famous tower as a backdrop..

Easter break

We managed to have a stop over in Paris city centre on the way back yesterday. As it was sunday, not all the shops were open except the ones along the busy street of champs elysees. As this year we also happened to celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary, I promised mrs to get her a present and what better way than let her roamed along the shopping street of Paris and asked herself to choose her own fancy. True to a woman's heart, she chose the LV store (women and their handbags!)

We only managed to spend time at Champs elysees as I wanted to get home early when there was still daylight. Although it was a very short break for us, the kids enjoyed it the most as it was the first family break that we had this year. We only wished our eldest was there. That would have been a whole family break.