Nadiah Alwi

It’s been a while since I heard this song on the radio and decided that I liked it: Someone Like You. Playing it again and again on my laptop, until my daughter can sing it, and hubby likes it.

Yet, hubby seemed to find Adele’s live performance version on the net and he liked it less than before. So, he looked for other covers and found Boyce Avenue’s version on YouTube. He posted it on his facebook timeline this morning.

I like both. In a way, I might like Adele’s version just a ‘lil bit more. Maybe since we’re the same gender. Er, no…that couldn’t be the reason. Could it? Or, maybe because I listened to Adele’s version first, so hers sticks kinda deeper in the musical part of my brain.

So, here they are. Enjoy.  What about you? Which one do you like better?

Adele’s version:

Boyce’s:

A little note on the video: Both use black and white. This song is kinda gloomy. So, that fits, I guess.

It’s been a week since my Mom got hospitalized. It’s been 10 days since I first took care of her, after my brother told me that Mom was not feeling well.

Now, she is in bed, sleeping in front of me.

As far as I remember, this is the second time she has to stay in the hospital. Before, it was 2004. She had some surgery. At that time, I was pregnant, so I couldn’t accompany her in the hospital.

But now, out of 10 days she has been sick, only 1 day I spent the night at home with my daughter and hubby. It was yesterday. Simply because my daughter told me that she missed me so much. However, my heart was actually in the hospital with my Mom.

Mom being sick never occurred in my mind before. She is a very strong woman. Let’s say, she’s not feeling well, it doesn’t stop her from doing lots of activities. She always has something to do. Especially, cooking.

She just loves food and cooking. Everything she makes tastes delicious.

Now, she has diabetes. She is on a diet.

She is still sleeping in front of me, in the hospital bed — and my Dad, too, sleeping on the couch.

Hope tomorrow she can go home. Aamiin.

Finally, I’ve got a decent pic of my SOHO. It was taken this morning, after I cleaned it up of course. Yesterday it was a mess…you know deadline and all.

I still need to add stuff here and there such as shelves where I can put dictionaries and other books to help me work. But for the time being it’s not so bad.

Love this corner so much!

This one is SOHO ideas part two. Let’s enjoy them.

Pretty, aren’t they? But, why do I have this feeling that mine will actually turn out to be something real like this pic below?

By the way, I really can’t wait. It’s less than 10 days now. Just saw the house again today. And I miss it already.

PS: You can click on those pics and get directed to the original site where I found them. You’ll find more amazing pics there. For the last one, the real one, it belongs to Fabio Bruna that I found on his Flickr.

As we all know, I am a WAHM (Work at Home Mom). So, having a small space where I can work at home (or what people call SOHO) is a must.

I’ve been browsing for simple, cool, and cute design for SOHO. Here are some of them:

I have five more designs that I bookmarked yesterday. Will share it at part two. Now, I gotta go back to my translation. Still 10 pages to go today. And, I will have to go to my in-laws for breakfasting this evening.

To see more designs you can also click each pictures up there, they will lead you to the sites that I visited to get them.