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zzignature closet

2012-01-25T15:25:00.000+08:00

My sister and I are starting an online business selling ladies wear ranging from formal wear to casual gear. It's still new so we need all the support we can get. For the moment, we just launched our first bacth of clothing, so pardon the lack of choice =) We will update it soon!

Please do pay us a visit at http://zzignature.blogspot.com/.

If you found something you or your partner might like, feel free to make a purchase! =)

Much love XOXO

Apple of My Eyes

2012-01-19T18:08:00.000+08:00

Everytime I feel sad, I look at his pictures and there'll be smiles in my heart.

Everytime I feel mad, I look at his pictures and the anger subsides.

I love my son. I love my son. I love my son.

Sometimes, I feel so deeply in love with him, that I'll cry.

Forest's Secret

2012-01-05T16:30:00.000+08:00

Another product review.

I came by this product when we (the company I am working for) had an introduction meeting to this company. I was a bit surprised that its a local brand and have wide range of products.

About 2-3 months later, when I accompanied my colleague to shop at Living Quarters, the Curve during one of our lunch time, I saw Forest's Secret shop - with a big board outside its shop saying "Jualan Mega 2011, diskaun sehingga 80%". When I told my colleague that the brand is actually Bumi owned, she was curious so we went to the shop, just to take a look around.

The products range from skincare to aromatic oil to food to tea to coffee to make ups. We looked around and the lady told us that the lipsticks and mascaras were only RM10, lip glosses was RM5 and a few lotions were just RM10.

About 30 minutes in the shop, I bought this three stuffs:-

First product "The Reviving Hand & Body Lotion" - This Reviving Hand & Body Lotion is formulated from Bamboo, Olive Oil and Sea Cucumber extract that rich in vitamins and minerals to assist in nourishing and moisturising the skin. It also contains Vitamin E to provide relief and protection to the skin. It is also enriched with Silk Protein to improve skin elasticity and leave the skin perfectly soft, supple and silky smooth. (taken from its website)

My verdict - Really love the smell, it moisturizes the skin and not too oily. Suits me well. Recommend it!

Second product is "Lip Gloss in Honey Red".

My verdict - At first I thought it wouldn't suit me since its in RED, but when I tried it on, it actually looks nice, not so REDdy at all. The best part is that it's not so glossy at all.

Third product is "Lipstick in Naturally Peach" - Love the colour, look so natural on me. Very moisturizing. Since I'm the type who have to choose carefully what lipstick I use (most make my lips dry and chapped), I was a bit sceptical at first. But it doesn't do that to me. Love!

I'm planning to get some lotions and scrubs before the sale finishes. =)

FYI, they only have a shop at the Curve, Damansara. Have a try, you'll be surprised. Support our local product!

Toodles~

Welcoming 2012 ~

2012-01-01T14:18:00.000+08:00

I hope you are much better than 2011 =)

Enjoyed the joys of being pregnant in the second and third trimester!

Marks the 4th year of serving the country.

Attended the Pemandu Lab - a proud member of the group who discussed about our importance.

Big fatty bonus and increment from the current employer, woohoo! Promotion by main employer. Double woohoo!

Family holiday trip to Europe - started from Rome - Venice - Paris and ends in London during my 6 month into pregnancy. Shopped as hard as a crazy fat pregnant lady can, mostly for baby's stuffs.

My twin uncle, Pak Uda got engaged! Congratulations!

Had to let go of all the cats at home - a very sad moment. =(

Celebrated my 29th year old not in a good health state, followed by lunch at Alexis, Ampang and dinner at Johny's. Got a licence from hubby, perfume set from twins and iPad II from daddy dearest.

Azzhad Mikhail came into the world! The bestest, most happiest day of my life this year! Watching him grow before my eyes is a feeling I can't ever explain in words. He's already 5 months old and still being breastfed (hooray!) though not exclusively. Has started on solids too, eating like orang besar already, my boy. I love him to death!

Busy year of searching for a house to call our homesweethome. After several visits, phonecalls and repeating that about 3-4 times, we finally found one near to my parents' and near to amenities such as Giant supermarket (easy to get the groceries), One Baby World shop (easy to get baby's stuffs) and Oldtown Kopitiam (nyummy). But couldn't move in this year as the house needs some upgrading to do.

Secondment for another 3 years confirmed! And I've signed into the new scheme and decided not to work until I'm 60 years old. =)

Celebrated our one year anniversary as husband and wife. Time flies really fast ey? I love you hubs! For many-many years to come, sampailah pintu syurga ye bang.

Hubs bought a Forte and I named it Ben - Hubs told me its my wedding gift. I wonder what I'll get next year? =)

My raya this year was different from the previous ones =). Celebrated it as a wife and a mother.

Realised that I'm no longer a size 2, now I am a size 6, sometimes 8. Demmit! Need to start exercising!

Family holiday trip with FIL to Melaka. A first for me and Mik with the in laws =)

My friends and I of DPA batch 1/2008 lost a dear friend, Noria Idris after giving birth. It was indeed a very sad moment for all of us. God loves you more, my dear. You will surely be missed. Our prayers also goes to the newborn, baby Rayyan. InsyaAllah, with hardship, there will be ease (Surah Ash-Sharĥ: 94)

2012 is expected to be a challenging year for me and family. Hubs plans to further his studies, I'm still thinking whether I should join him. We will also be moving out into our new house. Career wise, I need to improve my presentation skills since my boss has tasked me to take over all the presentations. My sister and I are planning to venture into a small online business to help with our shopping addiction (huhu). My bro and sis in laws are getting married. I am still thinking as to where to bring Mik for holiday to celebrate his first birthday. Another addition to the family, maybe? (no, not yet, tunggu Mik besar skit la kan?). All in a year. InsyaAllah, may Allah bless us all.

Bismillah.....

Our New Crib

2011-11-17T10:45:00.001+08:00

So we went to see the house a day after Hari Raya Haji. No electricity so the house looked a bit gloomy. The house needs a lot of cleaning up, especially the roof. *sigh*

I took one week off to take care of Mik since my grandma wanted to go back to kampung. Its not an easy job, working at home while taking care of a baby, so those who are actually doing that (housewife, homemaker, whatever you call it), you have my utmost respect sista! Usually, when Mik's asleep, I asked my other grandma (who can help out from time to time watching him, but not to feed or bathe him because she's very old dee) to watch him while I went out to buy groceries, settle the electricity for the house as well as water supply.

We brought Mr. Goo the contractor to have a look at the house to see what needs to be done. Mr. Goo has been the family contractor (ko ingat family doctor je ada?) and Abah told me that he is good at what he does and doesn't charge that much either (then again we need to take into consideration la kan, charges dia based on his gaji or our gaji kan?). I really hope so la sebab roofing I know we need to do something about it because if something happened to the roof, tido tak beratap la kitorang. Toilet would be the next on my list since aku ni penggeli sikit. And the rest bab cantikkan tu, I dont really mind la bila nak buat. Hopefully everything can be done by end of the year so that by January 2012, we have moved to our new crib.

*sigh* kalau lah aku menang loteri ke agak-agak dalam rm1 juta pun jadilah, kan best.

What's the best gift you have received?

2011-11-03T17:39:00.000+08:00

Introducing the latest addition to the family, Ben. =)

Hubby bought the car and told me its my first year anniversary gift. And then two days ago he gave me this;

together with this note;

as a present for our new home - yup we finally got the keys! Yeay!

Note to Mik: Since you'll start reading this by the age of 2, so maybe we should start with the ABC book now (I know, I know I think I'm 2/3 of the Tiger Mother). See how your Abah amik hati Mama? This is how you should treat a lady. Sweet kan your Abah? Tapi part Abah yang naughty-naughty tu jangan follow ye. I love you bang, jom la gi tengok rumah hari Isnin ni. Hehe.

BFing

2011-10-18T17:38:00.000+08:00

I've written about my breastfeeding problems in my previous post. To be honest, I never thought that I would still be breasfeeding Mik until now. I've tried all the things that I can do just to make sure that I could breastfeed him at least until he is 2 months old. Yup, that was my target - and then 2 months passed by, and I thought, 'Ok God, maybe we can try until he is 3 months old'. I took supplements, kurma-pegaga juice, fenugreek, you name it - and have possibly spent more than RM500 just on making sure that I still have my milk to give to my son. Still in our 3 months region, Alhamdullilah, I'm still able to breastfeed him and my target now would be to breastfeed him until I couldn't possibly do it anymore.

One thing I've learn is that I should have done more research during my pregnancy time, and also share it with hubby. I guess most/some people are very successful in their breastfeeding journey and the people I met is somehow are rather the successful ones, making me believe that breastfeeding would be a piece of cake, which of course in turn making me feel depressed for not being able to do it full time - stress really won't help me in the journey, of course. I'm glad that I got support from my breasfeeding friends, one introduced me to supplements that actually helps me in feeling healthier, if not increasing my milk supply, one actually gave good advices and provided me some tea to boost my milk supply and one actually keep on asking me every day about how my production was and kept on telling me not to give up. But I must say that there were some people/friends that actually encouraged me to give my son the formula. If I had known better, not even a drip of that formula would have entered my son's tummy. A lesson learnt for my future children.

I am still struggling, and there were times when I feel like giving up. But then every day, the only thing that keep me going would be, going back home from work as soon as possible and breastfeed my baby while looking at that big innocent eyes (yes, eventhough there were times when Mik suddenly became this naughty kid who keeps on nibbling at my nipples even after his Mama scolded him - its f*cking painful, I tell you, especially if your nipples are sore from all the pumping done during the day), feeling my happiest and I couldn't even imagine not breastfeeding him anymore.

Can't wait to go home to him now. *sigh* Miss my lil one.

3 months already people!

2011-10-17T16:00:00.001+08:00

Mik is 3 months old already. How time flies. I've been reading a lot and I learn that babies at this age stores all the information they get in their rapidly developing memories, especially languages. So we bought Mik his first book, the Farm Animals.

He likes the bright colours in the book, when he looks at some pictures, he'll go excited and some other pictures, he even talks to it. SO CUTE! So smart this lil boy. I can't wait to teach him the ABCs and 123s.

Product Review - Sleepsuits Mik

2011-09-29T18:30:00.000+08:00

Sejak ada baby, my shopping trend has changed. Everytime keluar mata ni asyik nampak barang for Mik je, especially baju (Abah dia pulak asyik tengok toys, tapi peliknya toys yang dia tengok macam untuk bapak orang je?). Last week tengok Mik pakai baju tido dia (sleepsuits) tapi macam dah ketat, size 0-3 months dah tak muat. Kesian la pulak anakku ni, anak Mama dah besar ey?

So tadi went to Mothercare beli another set of 3 for size 3-6 months. Since I have the membership card, I got 10% discount. The reason I bought the same set like before is mainly because of the quality. Before this I got 3 pieces and it was worn every other night, gilir-gilir. So just imagine la kan, tiap-tiap hari basuh, especially kalau malam tu Mik bocor pulak kan, sampai abis basah baju dia and tilam and kadang-kadang baju Mama dia sekali kena so kenalah tukar baju malam tu. Kalau tak sebab Mik dah outgrown the baju, surely baju tu akan dipakai sampai hancur.

The material is made from soft cotton, so Mik comfortable pakai baju ni. Yang paling disukai oleh nenek-nenek yang menjaga Mik is that it comes together with mittens and booties so tak payah la nak susah pakaikan mittens booties asing, sebab selalu sangat tercicir, Mik ni dah pandai pulak bukak mittens dia. Ada one night tu sebabkan hari tak panas so sleepsuits dia tak kering, pakaikan dia 2-piece pajama untuk tido and stokins, bangun pagi-pagi tengok sebelah stoking ntah ke mana. Lasak!

Another plus point is that the material tak tebal or nipis sangat, bila malam tido dalam aircond or pakai kipas, takdelah Mik mengamuk panas (ye anak saya gedik kalau panas mengamuk) or menggigil kesejukan.

Tapi, one thing aku tak paham, kenapa harga untuk size yang kecil lagi mahal dari size yang besar? Ada sesapa boleh tolong jawab?

The First Year

2011-09-26T09:13:00.004+08:00

Yesterday was our first anniversary as husband and wife. =)

How did we celebrate it? Bangun pagi-pagi, dengan Mik yang tak mandi lagi, masuk keta cabut terus ke Shah Alam. Tinggalkan Mik ngan Mak, Abah and kembar pastu kitorang gi dating. Dating pun tempat biasa kitorang dating before kawen dulu - Cili Merah. As usual mesti pekena menu yang sama masa dating before kawen dulu jugak, bihun sup ngan teh ais sambil borak-borak. Lainnya this time, kitorg dah kawen and dah ada anak yang kena tinggal kat rumah. Hehe.

It might have been simple but its the best celebration ever.

For many years to come.

Happy first year anniversary, my dear husband.

These I Can Promise - Author Unknown

I cannot promise you a life of sunshine;
I cannot promise riches, wealth, or gold;
I cannot promise you an easy pathway
That leads away from change or growing old.

But I can promise all my heart's devotion;
A smile to chase away your tears of sorrow;
A love that's ever true and ever growing;
A hand to hold in yours through each tomorrow.

Product Review

2011-09-22T19:15:00.000+08:00

Tetiba terasa nak buat review products yang sedang dipakai. Kenapakah? Sebab takde kerja nak dibuat sementara tunggu hubby yang baru kuar dari ofis untuk mengambil saya di ofis saya dan membawa saya pulang ke rumah.

Orite, first product! SK-II (the cleanser, the toner, the essence and the moisturizer). I have been using these since a month before I got married. So kiranya dah setahun la pakai. I don't actually have any big problems with my skin, jerawat sekali sekala je timbul, whiteheads kat hidung tu biasalah mesti ada punya. So my only problem would be 'ketakseragaman warna kulit'. Yang kat dahi lagi gelap dari pipi, yang kat mulut lagi gelap dari leher, yang bawah mata tak yah cakap la kan, eyebag tu aku rasa semua orang ada.

So before kawen dulu, lepas berfikir panjang, aku decide kena spend lebih sikit (yes, its expensive!) untuk kulit muka - aku ni jenis pemalas nak pakai all this stuffs sebenarnya. Memang kalau memula beli semangat ya rabbi, pagi malam duk tenyeh kat muka, tapi lepas sebulan, mula la memonteng kadang-kala sekali sehari je pakai. Hehe. But after 2 weeks of wearing it, yes I can see the difference, so I keep on using it until now and eventho I only use once a day, takde lah aku tengok kulit aku makin teruk, cuma maintain je. Owh, kalau dulu saya ni memang seorang yang kalau keluar dari rumah mesti akan tepek at least bedak dan blusher, but now I can say I dont really care as long as I wear my SK-II I can just go out without even powder. Confident kan? Haha.

Second product would be Rexona for Women - Shower Clean. Deoderant memang salah satu product yang alhamdullilah dicipta sebab kalau takde aku merana, hidung aku merana, hidung orang lain pun merana. This product was introduced by my sister and sekali pakai memang terus pakai ni je. Kebanyakan deoderant yang aku pernah try kadang-kadang tak kena ngan badan so boleh end up lagi busuk daripada bau badan sendiri. Tapi pakai bendalah ni sangat-sangat puas hati, YEAH! Rasa-rasanya tak tukar la kut melainkan ada lagi bagus dari ni.

Third product, is from the perfume family. I'm not a perfume person actually. Sekarang pun kadang-kadang pakai, kadang-kadang lupa. So far ada beberapa perfume je aku suka, D&G Light Blue, Britney's Fantasy, Armani Code and the latest would be Juicy Couture's Viva la Juicy. Bau dia sangat la sweet so bila pakai aku rasa aku ni sweet (UWEK!).

Ok itu sahaja untuk hari ini. I think my husband should be here already. Time to pack up and go home to the little one!

Back to Reality

2011-09-14T10:30:00.000+08:00

I'm already back at work. Its hard and tough leaving the little one at home. I keep on calling home to check on him, but I think I misses him more than him me. Huhu.

The picture taken after 44 days of pantang - its hell I tell you. Part ni je aku tak tahan, makan ikan longkang pagi petang. Tapi sebab nak baik punya pasal telan je lah.

Ni dalam hari ke 53, both my husband and I cukurkan kepala baby Mik. Disebabkan Abahnya slow sangat, so Mama dia pulak take over sampai abis. Hehe.

There was this one morning, Mik bangun and look at me and SMILED! I cried a little, I feel like 'he knows me', you know. I'm so worried about taking care of him, if I was going to make any mistakes, stupid ones especially but so far I think I'm doing pretty good. =)

Lil Mik in his Buzz. Macam orang tua je pandang sana-sini tengok lampu dalam stroller dia. Who does he looks like? Me or Ajun? Hehe.

Haih. Tak sabar nak balik rumah.

Sing Along

2011-08-18T11:26:00.001+08:00

Day 42 at home berpantang. Getting better taking care of Mik too. =) Dunno how I'm gonna leave him at home once I have to go back to work. Surely menangis je kat office ni. Huhu.

Since I got married, I didn't have the chance to do what I love doing most, singing while playing the guitar. I tried once when I was pregnant, konon nak nyanyikan Mik tido because he was restless in my tummy, but I guess because of the big tummy, I couldn't sing properly, mengah. Hehe. Layan youtube cari lagu best pun tak dapat. So time pantang ni la takde menda nak buat so duk google almost about everything, and watch 'mostly about breastfeeding and c-sect exercises' on youtube.

I came across SO7's song Hari Bersamanya, making my hands itch to play the guitar again. Rindu those days during DPA playing and jamming with the boys of Rifters.

Can't wait for Saturday, so that I can go out on Sunday!

When there's a will, we'll definitely find a way

2011-08-01T15:49:00.000+08:00

So we've signed the letter of offer from the bank. Now we are waiting for my lawyer to liase with the bank on the documentations i.e. S&P agreement, legal papers etc. My lawyer told me that the other party has signed the S&P and she'll do the stamping the next day. Most probably the whole process will finish in about 2 months, tops. So I guess we can only settle the house in October, after Raya. It's ok, at least save the first instalment for Raya celebration since this is the first year I'm celebrating it as a wife and a mother. :) Got 7 instant 'anak buah' to give angpau to.

So far my life has been pretty much the same everyday. The nights are no longer ours anymore, mostly it's for lil Mik, who wakes up every 3 hours. Hubby has been very supportive, most of the time he's the first to wake up and get Mik and give him to me to breastfeed.

saya di dalam pantang bersama baby Mik

To me breastfeeding is not that easy for me. Nope, there's no problem with latching or my nipples hurting, it's more on the poor milk supply. The first few days were the hardest for me. I remembered crying because I somehow felt I can't handle everything, since I was c-sect and can't do much and still adapting with Mik with his feeding time. The stress didn't help with the milk supply and worrying about it all the time seems to worsen it. Aku dah risau dah, meroyan ke apa aku ni kan?

With advices from friends, I tried each one of it - you name it I tried it, from drinking lots of water, eating white carrot, drinking ubat sensei, nursing Mik every time he wants to - which means every 30 minutes, to pumping the breasts every time he's asleep. It's not easy I tell you. We had to mix breast milk with formula since my supply is low - sekali pumping can only get 0.5 - 1 oz only, frust tak? But I keep on thinking, at least I give him my milk everyday and hopefully he can get all the antibody and nutrients from what I can provide. Sorry ye Mik, sedih Mama.

People say boys kuat menyusu compared to girls. Yeah, and its true what they say, if you don't have the will power, it's so much easier to give up than take all the trouble to keep on doing it. So far I'm trying my best to breastfeed him and only give the formula like once during the day and once at night. I'm trying on the fenugreek now to increase my milk supply and also been drinking lots and lots of water and soy milk every single day. I am hoping I could breastfeed him exclusively without giving him any of the formula at least until he's 6 months old. And you know what? Mik will be turning 1 month this coming Thursday, how time flies. =)

As he is still so small and fragile, I dare not bathe him on my own yet. So the bidan who comes in everyday to urut me will bathe him and tuam him as well.

Need to go! Mik just woke up. Time to feed him.

Project Home #2

2011-07-20T16:50:00.000+08:00

We have signed the S&P agreement last Sunday and paid the remaining balance of the deposit. Now waiting for the other party to sign it and we can proceed with the loan part.

We applied for loan from 4 banks so far and 2 out of it has already approved. Waiting for the others so that we can compare and make the best decision. It was surprisingly quite fast to get the approval and I still feel like all this is so surreal to me. I mean, we've been trying to find a house since even before we got married, now we are on the final stage of having one. Bestnyaaaaaaaaaa!

Takyah la nak berangan-angan sambil jalan-jalan di Ikea lagi, after this can actually plan and buy the stuffs and design the house. Wooweee!

Hopefully by Raya we can call the house ours.

Having A Baby....

2011-07-18T16:55:00.001+08:00

...is like falling in love again,

both with your husband and your child.

~ Tina Brown

Azzhad Mikhail bin Mohd Zuhail was born on 7 July 2011, on a Thursday night at 10.56pm through ceasarian at Ampang Puteri Hospital.

I was on EL on the 6th since I wasn't feeling good the night before. In the afternoon, I had some spotting. Called the hospital and was asked to come immediately if I have any contractions, but since I just feel uneasy, I decided to see my gynea the next day.

During the check-up, my gynea told me I was already having contractions, 20 mins apart and the opening was only 1.5cm - doc told me to be admitted. Since I still felt like this is too early and I wasn't yet ready, I asked to be admitted in the afternoon, after lunch - because I wanted to have my last 'best' meal, knowing that during the 'berpantang' it would be hell to restrain myself. So we went to KFC and had Zinger burger, mashed potato, cheesy wedges and pepsi - best kan meal aku? Haha.

At about 3pm, I checked in, all the while having contractions about 15 mins apart. During the CTG, the baby's heartbeat was strong and the nurse gave me this medicine (can't remember the name) inserted in my vagina - bloody hell it was painful and doc told me since my pain threshold is very low, I need to take the epidural or he would cut me open. Erk, ok doc! whatever you say!

After that I was sent to the labour room.

Putting in the epidural? PAINFUL.

The contractions became few minutes apart and the opening was 3cm. It was already 8.30pm, so doc said, it may not be possible that the baby will come out tonight. So he said he'll go home and change first before coming back around 12am.

However, I guess my baby can't wait and really wanted to meet the parents on that fateful night. A few minutes later, doc came back with the nurse and told me that we need to do a surgery because baby seemed to be in distress and he didn't want to take any chances. So into the OT we went and I was put to sleep because I was worried sick and afraid.

And then he came to the world.

When his father Azankan him, his eyes were actually wide open - surprising the doctors and nurses around. Memang la tak sabar nak kuar budak kecik ni.

With my two boys - May Allah bless us. I love you both.

How are you identified?

2011-07-05T18:21:00.002+08:00

I think a few weeks ago, on a front page of one local newspaper, there was news about the problems with MyKad chips among the card holders. Recently, I found out my dear lovely husband is one of them.

Without the card, he can't get the EPF statement through the kiosk, or get the Maybank pin to register for his Maybank2u online, or get his bank statement online, or renew his passport asap because he has to do it manually instead of do it online. All these annoyed the hell out of me. And I worry about all these things (well, we ARE expecting a child - and since he'll be the one registering the baby 14 days after the birth, I don't want any problems during the registration especially if the problem is because of his MyKad, furthermore, we ARE in the process of buying a house, and since my baby will pop-out anytime soon, I would certainly prefer to submit all the documents needed to the banks to get the housing loan before that actually happens, and trying to get HIS documents are so difficult).

So yesterday, while trying to get JPN Taman Melawati's branch's no (somehow I still have the perception that if we were going to do all this application process, it will take us a very long time at the counter - the number taking, the queing, the waiting, the meeting the officer blablabla), for the first time, I browse through their website and found out that we can actually apply the MyKad online if its due to three problems, 1. damage/chip replacement, 2. upgrading 32k to 64k chip and 3. lost of card. If you decide to pick it up at the HQ in Putrajaya, you can collect it within 24 hours after you made your application and payment. Since my hubby is trying to save his leaves for more important occassions (like sending me or the baby to the hospital for check-ups), this is like a god-send to us.

We registered through MyEG, applied for the new card, made the payment (RM10 + RM2 for processing fee) and received the receipt that the application is successful in less than 10 minutes. Ok, I'm impressed. And then it was stated that we have to check through their hotline or website or sms after 24 hours payment was made whether the card is ready to be collected or not. We did the application on Monday around 5.45pm, and we checked the status on Tuesday around noon (actually I checked every hour since morning haha, pscyho tak?) andn guess what? Its ready to be collected at Putrajaya HQ. Wah, impressed sekali lagi ya'll.

So now we're just waiting to collect the card, maybe on Friday after my check up. Hopefully once we collect it there won't be any problem with the reader, or the details on the card, or the chip. After all, we can't be THAT unlucky right? Huhu. Will update on the outcome, JPN may get more compliments from me, or not. =)

updated:

Went to collect the IC on Thursday after my check-up with gynea. When hubby did his thumbprint check, somehow it can't be read. So, there reset the prints and install the new ones in the card. SETTLE.

Kudos to JPN. I think I would like to update my IC to 64k chip as well, and update my picture, tak suka gambar tu because tak senyum. Huhu.

A Place Called Home

2011-06-27T14:39:00.000+08:00

On Friday around 5 pm, Abah suddenly called and gave me a number to call. He told me to set an appointment to look at the house advertised in the Star newspaper (everyday my job is to look at iproperty.com and mudah.my while hubby and Abah prefer to check the newspapers ad). I delegate the job to hubby, hehe. We agreed to meet up with the agent, Carmen and see the house around 6.30 pm once Abah reached home from work.

To be honest, I wasn't that excited because I didn't really like the area. A friend stayed there and I think his house area is quite compact. Little did I know the house advertised is actually the one facing the road and is quite big (old houses are bigger than the ones developed now, this house is 20x80 and developed in 1983, gila ko umur rumah tu dah 28 tahun).

When we enter the house I was like 'GILA OLD SCHOOL RUMAH NI!' The owner didn't do any renovation and kept the house exactly the same as when they bought it. 20 years and their parquet floors are still in good condition! The toilet and the kitchen still uses that small mosaic design in blue colour! I was like, impressed gila. Even their air-conditioner was exactly like the one we used when we stayed at Ampang Hilir before (and that was like more than 20 years ago ok!)

I like the house, I think the design is practical. Takde senget-benget bengkak-bengkok macam new houses yang we all selalu tengok, just a square simple type of house. At the front of the house they have a small garden and when I look at hubby's face, I know he already have some plans in mind with what to do with that area. =)

Before we left, I already knew we were going to buy the house. Since I have no idea whatsoever how to purchase a property, neither does hubby, I asked Abah, how do we negotiate the price and he suddenly negotiated the house for us. Hehe. More than 20 houses we went to see, this is the only one he actually approved of (I guess because its big enough for both 2.5 of us, the design is practical, and the price is not as expensive as other places we went to see, plus its freehold title! oh and of course because its just 5 mins from his house). Carmen told us that there were two other potential buyers who wanted to view the house during the weekend, so we told her to cancel the others, and we will pay for the booking deposit the next morning. Punyalah confident kan?

Paid the deposit on Saturday, signed the offer to purchase documents, got the copy of house title from the owner and today just sent the documents to my aunty to prepare for the SPA. In 14 days everything have to be ready and signed and of course la bayar lagi 8% balance, and in 90 days, well we have to by hook or by crook, secure a loan, haha (part ni yang aku cuak ni). Pray for us everything will go as smoothly as Mcd's vanilla ice cream cone yeah? (Ok buat aku rasa nak pi McD pulak)

Last night hubby dah siap lukis design garden dia kat luar rumah, termasuk lukis gambar pagar rumah semua siap (dia terpaksa lukis and show it to me because I'm not the kind of person yang boleh imagine apa yang dia explain, huhu, muka annoyed dia sungguh cute!). Excited betul mamat sorang tu. So far I agree with the design. We all plan to move into the house after my baby is about 7 to 8 months old, so rasanya banyak masa untuk prepare the house. Since both of us love doing things ourselves, silap haribulan pasang pebble wash kat dinding luar tu pun pasang sendiri, not just that, cat rumah pun plan nak buat sendiri. Hopefully baby tak merajuk la nanti. Hehe.

I'm so excited. Finally, another milestone will be achieved. =)

False Alarm

2011-06-23T22:29:00.006+08:00

I had a scary day today. Quite panicky for me.

I was suddenly woken up very early in the morning, around 4 am and couldn't get back to sleep because my back hurt like hell. Tried every positions to make myself feel more comfortable and tried to sleep but failed. My lower abdomen felt hurt too, which made me think 'Oh no, please la don't tell me the time has come'. Wanted to wake hubby up but he was sleeping so soundly, just don't have the heart to do it. What made it worse is that my sis in law whose due date is a day after mine is already in the hospital several days ago because her water broke, so my paranoia elevates. Read salawat few times, tried to talk to baby and just close my eyes and will myself to sleep.

Hubby woke me during Subuh and I told him about the back pain. He just ask me to rest today and not go to work, especially when I told him I wanted to drive to work since I got to go to Putrajaya today. By 8 in the morning, the pain worsen, and it doesn't help when I suddenly got cramp on my right leg, called Mama and asked her should I be worried and she told me to go to the hospital just in case. Called the hospital and explained the situation and the nurses asked to come in today instead of on Friday. Called hubby and told him, thank god he's not the kind of person who get panic easily and told me to go to the hospital and update him if anything. Asked Boy to sent me (kesian dia, dah la tido lambat) since my cramped leg made it hurt for me to walk properly let alone drive the car.

Once at the hospital, I was asked to do the CTG to check for the baby's heartbeat and detect any abnormal situation. The nurse told me there was a contraction during the 20 mins process. I was like, when? Haha. So we continued for another 10mins and met up with my gynea after that.

Doc said just to be prepared, rest for these 2 days, baby alhamdullilah is healthy and ok, nothing to worry about. He told me that all the things I felt were common felt by all pregnant ladies. Eve tho still in pain, and still couldn't walk properly, I'm glad to hear that. Went home and was on bed until the evening came.

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children.

2011-06-21T12:07:00.000+08:00

One is roots.

The other is wings. by Hodding Carter, Jr.

Last night we went to see another potential house to buy. It was actually near the dream house that we went to see before. Semua gara-gara daddy dearest reject our proposal to buy a condo nearby because its not a landed property. Haih. Ni la susahnya bila kena cari a house yang menepati citarasa semua orang termasuk orang yang bukannya akan duduk kat rumah tu pun. Hehe.

The owner is a Chinese but the tenant was a small Malay family, a nice one at that. They were very honest about the house and told us about all the problems and things we need to do if we were to buy the house. Abah said the design was a bit off and some remodelling need to be done. Haiya. Dah la nak beli satu hal, nak kena renovate dulu before dapat masuk? Confirm tercirit la nak bayar rumah ni. Huhu. But I'm hoping that by end of the year we can move to our own house, so that we can really start our own life (you know, our own personal space to put all hubby's, baby's and my stuffs as well as being a real wife where I have to take care of the house and actually cooks for hubby, or maybe it's better that he cooks for me? Haha). =) And I can definitely have my own walk-in closet in this house! Yeay!

And tonight, hubby and I will be going to the Sound of Music Musical at KL Convention Center, another YEAY! Ready to sing along tonight bebeh!

source: google

I'm already in my 36 weeks pregnancy now (or some even say 37 weeks) and I'm getting really, really nervous. Since hubby already given his permission, I would like to share with all of you the gender of my baby - it's a BOY! Yup, after 3 to 4 times of check-ups, so far the 'bird' appeared all those times in the scanner. It was so hard to get a 4d picture of his face but my oh my, he wasn't shy at showing his birdie. Wonder who's perangai yang dia follow? Hmmmmm.... Takpe janji sihat dan sempurna cukuplah.

Birthday Celebration

2011-06-06T15:36:00.000+08:00

This year I welcome my final year in the 20s with a little bit of sadness. I used to think numbers are just numbers, it doesn't matter whether you're turning 20, 30 or 40, if you're young at heart, it won't matter. But I realised the night before I turned 29 that this would be the last year before I entered the 3 series, so what have I achieved so far in my life?

Let see, I'm already married - a wife to a husband I'm madly in love with (mad is an understatement =)), I'm going to be a mummy soon (which really make me nervous, be it because of the labour or realising that soon I am responsible of another human being - for LIFE!) and I really love my job (I'm preparing myself mentally just in case my contract won't be renewed, huhu). But like it or not, I still don't own any property yet (its very, very hard to find one near my parents, huhu), I'm still nowhere near 'greatness' in my cooking (actually since I moved back in, I don't cook anymore coz I don't want to disturb the other 4 people who usually cook at home) and my bedroom is like a 'tongkang pecah' because we don't have enough room for our stuffs (let alone baby stuffs, confirm la after we assemble the crib, it will be like a store room). I feel like the time moved so fast, tau-tau dah nak masuk 30 tahun dah hidup kat dunia ni. Haih.

On my birthday, MIL actually called around 6.30 in the morning to wish me (so SWEET!) I didn't feel so well (being 8 months pregnant doesn't sit well with me, the vomiting came knocking again although it wasn't as bad as the first trimester, it hurts more because of the big tummy), so I took the day off. For the past 4 years, I didn't work on my birthday, but this year I planned to not take leave on the day, since I have been on MCs and ELs quite a number of days this year because of the pregnancy. But I guess the baby has different plans for the mother.

After the trip to the hospital, we went to Alexis, Ampang to have lunch with my uncle and his fiance, his treat =) I had beef lasagne (its good, not too cheesy) and hubby had the chicken. I had a surprise birthday cake, banana cheese which is super nice (even hubby likes it, and he doesn't like cake that much!) Thanks uncle! (Please ignore my tired face - tepek make-up macam mana pun, I still look like a fat pregnant lady!)

After lunch, we went home and I slept from 2pm to 7pm. Baby pun senyap baik je so mama could sleep like a baby, unlike during the nights when sometimes I woke up in the middle of it to pee or because I can't breathe or because baby too active to settle down. Bangun je, perut lapar and hubby treated the whole family dinner makan steamboat. Yeay! Adik bought an ice cream cake (choc mint flavour) from Baskin Robbins - sangat-sangat sedap! Sila TRY!

And tho I feel a little bit sad getting a year older, I'm so happy that I got some presents for my birthday! Wee!

Thanks Pak Cu!

Early birthday present from daddy dearest.

But hubby's present was way, way, special =) thank you sayang!

So that's how I celebrated my birthday this year. Tahun depan tak nak sambut langsung dah. Nak stay in the 20s. Forever. Sekian.

I Never Thought...

2011-05-31T09:49:00.000+08:00

I could ever love a person that I haven't even laid eyes on. I know I'm gonna miss you in me once you arrived and a great adventure is about to begin for you, your daddy and I.

Most of the stuffs for the baby is ready. We got our travel cot from Mothercare, KLCC which just opened recently - I really love the new shop because everything is still neat and in place. Hehe. Got myself a membership card as well. Weeee! Confirm la selalu ke Mothercare after this for baby stuffs.

picture from google image

I also received my breastpump from Ami which I bought at a very low and reasonable price. Itu pun after so many hours researching on the internet and trying to find the best vendor. Now I just have to figure out how to assemble it and of course how to use it laaaa kan?

picture from google image

Emergency bag pun dah ready. Itu pun after my colleagues bising sebab I haven't prepare one. Hehe. I have 7 weeks roughly to go. I'm getting really, really nervous tho. Need to start exercising to help me with the delivery! Just praying that everything goes as planned.

Last Sunday my parents buat a small kenduri doa selamat (to welcome the baby and pray the pregnancy and delivery will be ok) for our families and close friends. Alhamdullilah it went well. It was very tiring sampai malam by 10pm we were all already asleep and Monday morning bangun fresh je nak pergi kerja. =)

Blissful life....

Pregnancy and Engagement

2011-05-23T18:24:00.001+08:00

I am in my 32 weeks of pregnancy. Macam sekejap je rasa, and I'm due mid July (OMG, dah start getting nervous!). My baby has been very active, kicking and punching mummy like nobody's business. My tummy is getting bigger, so big that until now I can't actually believe it was once a flat (ok, with a little bit of lemak here and there) one.

picture from Babycenter.com - at 32 weeks

I can't even see my *toot* when I look down, its blocked by the tummy.

I can't wear my undies or pants standing up, I might lose my balance and fall.

I can't cut my toenails cause everytime I tried, I get chest pain.

I get back pains and most of the times I feel like sleeping.

Ok enough of pregnancy-complaining session.

My uncle got engaged last Sunday so we had quite a busy weekend for the preparation. On Saturday my sis and I went to Choffles to collect the cake for the hantaran and then prepared the bunga rampai. My goodness, cramp jugak la tangan ni kan nak siapkan secopot bunga rampai tu. Once ready, we sent it to Kak Lin's house (she's the one who did my hantaran for my tunang and nikah) and the result was 'mak ai memang grand la, lagi grand dari my hantaran nikah ok!' That night we went back to kampung for majlis doa selamat at my uncle's place - as it was raining heavily since that afternoon sampai banjir la pulak Ukay Perdana tu kan, the journey which should only take 1 1/2 hours drive jadi dekat 2 jam lebih, membuatkan tongkengku naik cramp jugak la. Tak masuk sakit belakang lagi. Haih.

The next morning, hubby and I went to Kak Lin's house to get the hantaran since all the family members will be meeting at our house first before going to Kampung Pengantin, Setapak, where the event took place. By 11.30am we arrived and majlis pun bermula. Abah was the representative from our side. The bride-to-be was beautiful, the food was nice, but the back pain was still there. Haih. Selesai je majlis we went home. Alhamdullilah the majlis went smoothly and it helps when weather pun tak panas sangat.

Congrats Uncle! Walaupun tak nak pi letak gambar (apa takut jatuh saham ke?) Dah bertunang ni kena jaga diri elok-elok, jangan nak buat-buat hal pulak. If not, ....... (isi tempat kosong dengan ayat yang sesuai).

Uncle Dan who came back just for the engagement, so sweet!

after party high tea - god i am fat!

Hantu Shopping

2011-04-25T15:04:00.000+08:00

There are lots of things I want to write about but somehow couldn't find the time. I want to write about our family trip to Rome-Venice-Paris-London, which is so f*cking awesome!, to share about how I feel getting increment, bonus and promotion, which marks another step forward in my career, to tell the whole wide world about how excited I am (well both my hubby and I) preparing for the baby, where this includes a lot of shopping, with a capital S, to share about all the experience I'm having right now, as I just entered my third trimester (7 months and counting).

From the P*mandu lab of 6 weeks, to another 1 week plus of holiday, then coming back to work and trying to get focused again on work that has been piling up, to researching and finding the best bargain on the baby products, to shopping the baby products (I really LOVE this part of course), to feeling all sorts of back pain and the sleepless nights, memang la 24 jam sehari ni tak cukup.

There'll be a post specially for the trip - so that one day if I forgot about the trip I can just come here and walk down the memory lane.

On career - I had a big fat bonus, yeehaa! Rezeki baby (settle semua barang untuk baby - yes, only the best for you sayang). Siap dapat increment. Siap dapat promotion. Alhamdullilah. Meleleh air mata bila dapat tau all this.

On baby stuffs, we already bought the stroller, car seat, baby clothes, some toiletries and baby care sets plus feeding. Planning to get the crib and the breastpump next. Excited kan? Excited sampai hubby can't say anything. Haha. I'm worried that if I try to get all these later, I might not get what I want (kalau dah tak larat nanti kena suruh hubby beli, and kalau tak dapat apa yang kita nak takut bergaduh lak kaaaannn? hehe), better be safe than sorry. And so far I'm very happy with our purchase. Can't wait for the weekend!!! Another shopping spree!!

Cool aight? Sila cari yang 'on sale' for the best price!

Babies are bits of stardust...

2011-03-21T08:48:00.003+08:00

....blown from the hand of God. - Barretto

Instead of being in the lab this morning, I have to come to my office for the townhall session - we are going to hear from the big boss about our bonuses! Weee! For the past 4 years of working with the Government, baru once merasa bonus (tak ingat which year) and eventhough I'm only on secondment here with the company, I am entitled to the benefits just like any other staffs here i.e. the bonus, maternity coverage etc. Hubby pun got good news when his boss gave him a raise this year. Alhamdullilah, inilah orang kata rezeki baby eh?

In few weeks time, my family and I are planning for a very long holiday way across the seas. I can't wait! Since my geography is very very bad, I had to google every single place that we plan to go and printed it out so that I can read about it and familiarise myself with the places and hubby won't get the chance to laugh at me (yeah, dia sangat pelik camna orang yang pernah di Wisma Putra so bad in geography - I agree with him that I am THAT bad). I'm hoping to get some of maternity and baby stuffs over there if its cheap - designer handbags, bye-bye la jawabnya. I'm also hoping to visit Hana if there's time since its near one of the place we plan to go (OK ni aku tau pun sebab Abah yang bagitau tempat tu dekat, how dekat I don't know). Harap-harap my condition won't be a problem laaa. InsyaAllah baby baik bagi Mama jalan-jalan kan?

Owh, we had a scan last two weeks and the gynea actually took a 3d picture of my baby's genital. Aku ke excited, gynea aku yang excited ni? Will inform you guys once hubby give the licence to tell the whole world.

Bersyukur sangat (even though sedih tak dapat THAT house). Hehe.

Dream House

2011-03-19T22:12:00.001+08:00

We've been trying to find a house to built our new home. After lots of driving around, calls being made, frustrations, driving around again, calls being made again, more and more frustrations, one day, this one agent called me up and told me about THE house. The size is good, the location definitely in the area that I'm looking for, there's a school nearby the house, and it's just 5 minutes away from my parents, but the price was too high. But I decided to just have a look at the house, of course with the knowledge that it is definitely a house we both can't afford to buy.

Once we reached the house, I was like 'OK, from outside the house is just OK, not bad, not much to do since the owner already made some renovation'. Entering the house 'OK, the hall is just nice, big enough to imagine the TV in the middle while the three of us watching dvds'. Then the kitchen, 'Alrite, they already have the cabinets, the kitchen doesn't need much renovation and there's quite a space for a laundry area'. Up to the second floor 'Ahhh, another small hall, I really like it'. Into the master bedroom, 'God d*mnit, my walk in closet space!!!!'.

I fell in love with the house. I can imagine myself living there, raising our children, with my hubby having his own small garden at the front.

Too bad it's way too expensive. =(

Ni yang aku rasa nak try beli loteri ni.

An Update

2011-02-26T13:36:00.000+08:00

Done with the first week of the lab. Interesting so far. =)

Got news that one of my close friend has popped the big "Will you marry me?" question to his sweetheart and she said yes. So so happy for them! What more is that he will also be joining us as a Muslim brother before they get married. InsyaAllah.

20 weeks into the pregnancy, now I don't just feel the fluttering, I can actually feel the baby's doing loads of things (maybe somersaulting, kicking, punching I'm not sure) whenever I put my hands on my tummy. What's great is that my hubby could also feel it too when before he could only listen to how I explain the feelings. Can't wait to know if the baby's gonna be a girl or a boy, or if he/she'll get my eyes or the dad's, if he/she'll looks like a mix of chinese and indian heritage. =) Can't wait to meet you sayang!

Kelija

2011-02-17T12:33:00.000+08:00

Today I'll be leaving for Sabah - to KK to be exact. Because of work of course. =( Kalau bercuti memang la aku happy.

Yesterday went to the Lab briefing session, I reckon it will be a very interesting yet tiring 6-weeks sessions for me. Not sure if I can survive it. Plus, pity my boss cause he'll be alone for that duration. Ye sapa suruh nominate aku kan?

Tomorrow will be coming home in the afternoon. Trip to Kuching had to be cancelled last minute due to human inefficiency. Blergh. Such a waste of resources, the trip will be postponed to another few weeks. With the election coming up, we were hoping the trip won't be postponed indefinitely la. Politics schmucks. Ergh.

I'm really looking forward to a very peaceful and relaxing weekend.

Cuti oh Cuti

2011-02-07T11:50:00.004+08:00

Wow what a long holiday, but surprisingly today I woke up excited to go to work.

So on Thursday, we got up late (theehee, kalau mak mertua tengok sah aku kena reject bangun lambat nih) and decided to go jalan-jalan. Since we still have our Jusco voucher (wedding present) left, we decided to go find hubby's work clothes (sebab pagi-pagi dia dah ada perangai macam aku yang tengok almari lama-lama tak tau nak pakai baju apa). Mama yang boring sebab Abah had to go to Thailand for work followed us. We had our lunch at Johny's then hubby got his 3 shirts and 3 pairs of socks. I didn't get any (the maternity wear is so boring, can't they design something nicer for us??). We then had our coffee (ok aku minum hot choc je la) at the Oldtown White Coffee. Mama wants to belanja us a baby cot to put in the nursery tapi since it's CNY, the targeted shop is closed. I think its still early pun nak shop barang-barang for baby. Until now, there's nothing I shop for the baby.

comel tak perut aku? at 4 months, dah rasa fluttering inside my tummy! =)

On Friday, Mama, Neneks, our maid, hubby and I went to do a spring cleaning at the Kajang's house. God, how I miss the days living here with Jojo and Shira. I vacuumed the whole house, Neneks and hubby washed the floors outside (I tak kena bagi coz they were playing with clorox, hehe), kak yana cleaned all the habuk in the house and Mama was in charged of the toilets. It was definitely a good exercise for me. The house dah livable balik after nearly a year I left the house. Huhu. Then we had late lunch at Sup Urat Ketin in Bangi.

On Saturday, we went to visit the in laws. Kebetulan, my SIL's newborn son was there so I get to hold him and play with him. Kus semangat, baru 2 bulan, dukung tak sampai 5 minit dah lenguh tangan. Aku tengok SIL yang lain relax je tukar baju, dukung dia, lambung-lambung baby tu, aku baru pegang kejap dah panic sebab takut tersalah pegang. Macam mana nak jadi mak budak ni pun tak tau lah. Haih. Risau.

baru 2 months tapi macam lagi tua je sebab badan sangat semangat.

On Sunday, aku takde mood nak kuar, so lepak je rumah. Habis lah cuti panjang aku begitu sahaja. Sekian.

p/s: kepada yang tanya pasal Enol, dia dah kuar dari Cairo awal-awal lagi and pergi berjimbaria ke Europe, so don't worry. He'll be coming home to KL once his trip's over. Dia tak tau menahu pun pape pasal Egypt since he wasn't around. Hehe. Thanks for asking! =)

Sometimes, there are times....

2011-01-21T15:37:00.000+08:00

when you feel a bit melodramatic.

I've known my husband since we were 12. We were classmates - 6 Pahlawan at SRK Seksyen 6, Shah Alam. He was the class clown, always doing something stupid to attract people's attention - sebagai contoh:- makan crayon, and panggil satu class tengok dia telan. I just moved to Shah Alam and new to the school and this boy definitely annoyed the hell out of me. He was the Class Monitor, and he told me that I was his Assistant (although I can't really remember whether I was or not). Nope, there was no love or puppy love stories about us. I only remember that I didn't like him. Heh.

Kalau terer cuba teka mana satu kitorang (this is the only picture of us in 1994 - his collection)

Enter high school, we didn't exactly move in the same circle. He said we had our 'moments' but I can't remember that either (what do you expect when you keep on moving around since you're just 6 months old? and it only stopped when you're 16? developed "love 'em and leave 'em" attitude la kut. Heh). And then I moved back to KL and so there goes the 'friendship'.

After so many years of not being in contact with each other, I remembered that we met at the F1 (tu pun sebab ada gambar ahahha). Aie and I was helping Ash with the Proton booth - rasa macam bodoh jugaklah bila pikir-pikir balik kan, jadi Proton girls, tapi kawan punya pasal, tolong la jaga booth, duit pun masyuk! Nope, still no sparks then, I hate guys with long hair btw. I think he had a gf then and I was seeing someone else. But one thing I remembered is that he never fail to wish my birthday every year from then on.

He had very long hair, eww ergh.

Fast forward to a couple of years later, we met again at a friend's house warming party, if I'm not mistaken. Since I was going through a rough patchy relationship with my then-bf, I decided not to bring the then-bf to any weddings of my friends. So my husband became my wedding partner, when he got a wedding to attend he'll ask me to be his date and if my friends got married, I'll invite him to be my date. Easier than bringing the bfs/gfs so that people won't ask you when is your turn, rimas la kan especially relationship tengah tak tentu arah kan?

And so that is how our great friendship started. Slowly, he became my best friend. It was an easy friendship for both of us since we share the same likes and hobbies i.e. golf, movies, karaoke, lepak mamak etc, plus having no expectations from each other helped a lot.We shared our problems about our love life - hell there were lots of that, me with the 'invisible-bf-who-always-not-around' and him with the 'ex-still-in-life-and-most-likely-to-be-around-till-the-day-he-dies'. Haha. Teringat balik rasa kelakar.

When he proposed that we should get serious (he thought that since we are so great at being friends, we might make it as a couple), I laughed. Well he has his reputation and since I had so much bad experience with my love life, I'm too lazy to do a trial-run with him and certainly would hate it if the relationship doesn't work in the end - the friendship was too good to be spoiled. So we decided if we are going to do this, we should make it a really serious one, with the capital S - so he sent his family, and bring his big butt to my house to merisik yours truly in December 2009. Yup, that's how we got serious.

We decided to get engaged in February 2010 and get married a year later but the parents decided that we should get married as soon as we got engaged because they really don't like the idea of a long engagement. So we got married in September 2010. In 6 months time, we'll be welcoming a new family member, insyaAllah.

Macam pantas masa berlalu kan? Padahal kitorang baru je kenal 16 tahun yang lepas. Pastu anniversary date bercinta pun takde, kena tunggu date nikah tahun depan la nampaknya.

Thank you for being a great and a very patient husband, I know I've been a very spoilt brat this couple of months, complain je kan? Pastu ada je la benda duk merengek mintak kan? Jangan marah eh, perasaan dan tindakan luar kawalan. Tu belum mimpi emo hubby kena ngurat ngan model pastu ter'injured'kan hidung hubby tu yang tengah nyenyak tido tu kan? Or kacau hubby tido sebab nakkan waffle A&W kan? Or jadi annoying yang amat sangat sampai tak bagi can hubby tengok TV tak kira la bola ke, history channel ke kan? Beberapa bulan je lagi,baby ni kuar lain lak perangai yang nak dilayan kan? So sobar yo lah bang yo.

I heart you lah. Remember that. Always.

Another Decade Gone....

2010-12-30T16:32:00.000+08:00

And we shall welcome the new year ahead with open arms!

Moved to our new office at Surian Tower - yes, sila jeles my office is next to the Curve, Ikea and e@Curve as well as a few minutes away from OU.
Entered the Almas Bowling Competition and Melawati Clan won 3rd place -Yeay! Dapat la pingat gangsa yang boleh gantung kat leher tu.
Joined the Suku Batu Hampar Meeting for selection of the next Datuk Lembaga - I don't think Pak Lang got the title. Heh.
Went to Bandung and Jakarta to do some shopping for the wedding - kain for the dresses were bought in Bandung. Its just a wedding heaven man!
Secondment for 2 years confirmed! - another 1 year to go.
Marks the 3rd year of serving the country - tanah tumpahnya darahku babe.
Took PTK 1 and passed - even though tak dapat aras 4, alhamdullilah la upacara belajar sambil menonton TV yang tak dibuka bersama-sama Jojo membuahkan hasil. Jojo was a really good study partner!
I got engaged on 27 February 2010.
Jojo got transferred to Kuching, I lost a housemate and miss her dearly. =(
Recorded 3 songs with USJ band - songs are Roses, Shocking Coding and Server.
Got 7 kittens - Snarf, Cheetara, Tigra, Mumbra, Leia, Wily-Kit, Wily-Kat.
Joined the BB group - long live Bold.
Celebrated my last birthday as a single lady - got a surprised celebration from my parents, sister and twin uncles.
Sara met with an accident (--',)
The busiest year to prepare for the wedding - tahun paling stress.
Joined the gym - Celebrity Fitness @ Wangsa Walk Mall - been a veryyyy long time since I last went there. *sigh*
Office retreat in Penang - we had fun staying at Rasa Sayang Resort.
The World Cup year - my team Holland lost in the finals.
Got to know Djulia is pregnant, again.
Got to know Ila is pregnant, second baby too.
My raya this year was very simple - all the siblings were around but we were so busy preparing for the wedding.
We lost a grandfather, father, teacher and leader. Miss you so much. =(
I got married on 25 September 2010 - the happiest day of my life.
Now I have 2 sets of moms and dads, 3 elder brothers, 2 elder sisters, 3 younger sisters and 2 younger brothers, not to forget 5 nephews and a niece. One big happy family at home ~
My side's wedding reception was held at the Dewan Perdana Felda on 3 October 2010.
My husband's wedding reception was held at Kelab Shah Alam on 31 October 2010.
Went to Bangkok for honeymoon - present from Mama and Abah (well they also came along plus Adik. Heh.)
Cheetara gave birth to 5 beautiful kittens, they have Snarf's face and bulu.
Tested myself on 11 November 2010 and it was positive. (ok panic sikit)
Tested myself again on 13 November 2010 and again it was positive. (ok panic-panic)
Went to the doctor to get myself tested on 22 November and the result is I am pregnant.(happy tapi still panic la)
The first trimester was and still is a phase I find hard to cope with. =(
Ainil got married in Kuching but I didn't get to go. =(
Got the news that Hana will be posted to Geneva and she's also expecting. I am going to miss Hana.
From all the list, we can conclude that next year will be the year of the 'newborns'. Ainil has to speed up the process to keep up with the rest of the married Triple A girls. Hehe. Pressure.
Leia gave birth to 6 beautiful kittens - so now we have 20 kittens at home including Nenek's. OMG.
Get to watch the Harimau Malaya final training session. Congratulations Malaysia! You made me so proud.

Hopefully 2011 will be better than this year. A lot will be happening next year, InsyaAllah. May all our lives be blessed, in peace and always in faith.

Malas

2010-12-27T15:34:00.000+08:00

Lama tak update sebab tahap kemalasan beta adalah yang tersangat melampau.

Beta malas sebab badan beta rasa sangat tak best:-

muntah dah jadi perkara biasa (yang kuar tu isi atau angin lain cerita pulak)
susah nak makan (tekak loya) satu hal so beta selalu rasa lapar
penat tahap gaban yang end up asyik nak baring je kat katil sambil tengok TV je
bau tumis-tumisan terpaksa dijauhi sebab bau semerbak yang tertusuk walaupun sedikit dalam hidung beta confirm buat beta ke toilet serta merta
appearance takyah cakap la, siapa kata ibu mengandung ni berseri-seri beta rasa semua itu penipuan nak mengambil hati sahaja sebab beta rasa sepanjang masa beta malas nak mandi, basuh rambut, sikat rambut, tepek make-up kat muka dan beta rasa boss beta tengok beta yang selebet ni pun menyampah nak bawak gi jumpa potential customer.

So semalam Malaysia menang lawan Indonesia, aku tak gi stadium tengok game, cuma duk depan TV dengan Mama, Neneks and Hubby. Hubby menang slogan competition Hitz.fm ngan Nike (slogannya = Go Raja, Go Ball! those who get it memang bijak) so we had the opportunity to watch the Malaysian team practice kat Stadium Bukit Jalil on Saturday. Mula-mula malas nak pergi sebab aku tengok macam lama je itinerary dia - stadium tour, minum-minum and tengok the training, confirm leceh kalau time tu nak muntah, time tu lapar, time tu nak gi toilet kan? Tapi, aku rasa Hubby buat solat hajat agak eh the nite before suruh baby berkelakuan baik, bangun pagi tu tak muntah langsung ya'll, makan pun sodap je. So aku pun ikut la Hubby, memandangkan kang emo lak orang tua tu kan? Dah la Sabtu tu kitorang punya 1st quarter anniversary. Hubbyku sangat bersemangat la sepanjang tour, siap skipping bagai nak jumpa idola dia player jersey no. 8 safik ke safee ke aku asyik silap. Masa tengok diorang training, I realise that the players are small, ada yang aku tengok besar Hubby aku je. By the time diorang abis training, aku dah beberapa kali tersenggguk-sengguk la kan, sebab boring bukan nampak sangat pun baik tengok dalam TV je. But Congrats to the Malaysian team! Kalau korang main macam last 30 minutes tu all the way kat Jakarta insyaAllah boleh menang.

Last weekend we managed to get ourselves registered for an auction house. Sebabkan baby sangat baik takde buat perangai dapatlah kitorg pergi mencuba untuk menang rumah. Rumah yang kitorang nak tu rupanya banyak jugak peminat lain, dekat 10 orang, sudahnya tak sempat aku nak angkat mendealah tu, kitorang dah kalah. Huhu. Takpe Mama cakap, masa dia pregnantkan aku dulu pun, dia ada gi auction and kalah, end up dapat rumah kat Melawati sekarang. So moral of the story, maybe aku akan dapat rumah sebelah rumah Mama tu nanti kan? Hahahaha. Apa salahnya berangan kan?

11 weeks - and I can feel my tummy expanding (tak banyak, sikit je, Nenek Timah pun pelik asal aku still nampak sama je, dah jenis kecik nek oi nak buek camno, genetik nenek la agak eh ese ni ha). Jeans dah tak boleh nak button, tapi sometimes aku selamba kuar pakai je tak button seluar sebab MALAS nak shopping. Haih. Surprisingly kasut aku pun dah rasa macam ketat, ke kasut shrink ke aku tak tau lah. Darn!

Bayar Saman

2010-12-03T09:00:00.001+08:00

I've been a good citizen, most of the times I follow the rules. I said most of the times because there were times, a long long time ago, when I urm did something that wasn't so erm nice.

I got 4 summons. In the year 2006 (2) and 2007 (2). Mostly around Kajang area - because I was already late to work so I HAD to speed (after all its for the country kan?). And when I got the letters, I didn't pay for it. First because well, procrastination is a disease you can't really control. Second, when the due date actually passed, you end up pretending you didn't get any of it.

When it was announced in the news about the 50% discount on the summons, I decided maybe its time to clear all the summons. The total of my summons was RM950 - with the discount I only have to pay RM470 and since I paid through myeg.com.my, there was additional RM8. So melayang la lagi duit aku. Camna nak simpan duit beli rumah?

To those yang belum bayar saman, come on you can do it!

Now I can sleep soundly without having any nightmares that the police will come and arrest me because I didn't pay my summons. Oh yeah!

What the writer thinks.....

2010-11-30T18:04:00.000+08:00

I know I have always been a smart kid, even when I was small. I studied hard, I love getting good grades, my parents didn't even have to tell me to study or do my homework, I would just do it, happily. Enter Uni however, all that changed. Haha. Still a smarty-ass, just less hardworking, resulting in a not-so-good erm CGPA. But you know one thing I learn? Most well rounded students is average in their studies but have great personalities. And I know I am well rounded. Hehe.

I think however rich you are, or however high-ranked your parents are, you should be humbled by it, not get prouder and think other people are beneath you. My parents always taught me this, and I'm so proud of them. Sometimes you meet people who doesn't even have ranks in front of their names, but wow they act like they are the king of kings...sooooo not deserving my respect.

I just don't get people who keep on spelling words like Itew (itu) or jew (je) or cumey (comel). It's not cute, it's just plain annoying and show what kind of IQ you have. Especially if you're not from Generation Z - come on grow up! And please stop spelling words mixing the lowercase and the uppercase like 'sOrRylAh' or 'jOm KitA MakAN'. Come on lahhhhhhh.

Be happy with what you have. Why do you need to compare yourself with other people? Why can't you just find peace and live your life the way you want it? Just because you don't have lots of money, doesn't mean you can't be happy. Just because you don't have a job that requires traveling doesn't mean those who have it are happy with it. Just have faith, accept life as it is and be at peace with yourself. You'll have a happier life.

Karma sucks. So don't do unto others what you don't want others do unto you. If you took someone else's husband, be ready to lose him the same way. If you think sleeping with someone else's boyfriend is OK just because they are not married to their girlfriends, then be prepared if you can't have children with your current husband. If your husband is currently having an affair with other girls, maybe that was because you stole him from someone else and that someone hope you would have a taste of what she felt. I'm no miss goody-two-shoes but I always believe that you shouldn't mess with other people's lives, especially when "Doa-doa orang teraniaya sering dimakbulkan Tuhan". Now look who has the last smile? Like I said, karma sucks.

If you're not a good person, don't say that you are. If you THINK you're a good person, don't tell people that either. Just because you want to show the world that your girlfriend is such an angel, you keep on telling people how angelic she is. When in actual fact, she smokes, wears hijab when she's with you and your friends but show her hair to the world on her FB/Myspace/Friendster/Twitter/Blog picture profile (wth is that for? split personality or just gatal?) and is just another plain kid who hasn't mature. And please don't try to ACT nice either, rotten fruits smells. Its embarrassing and yes I PITY you.

To be honest with myself, I have no plans what to do with my life. Well, if people were to ask me how do I see myself in 5 or 10 years time - I have prepared a smart answer for it of course, being a smarty-ass. But the truth is always the same. I'm not sure. I have been 'going with the flow' for most of my life, following advises from the great ones (my parents of course!). Some people may think what an unambitious person I am, but why should I care? So far my life has been good to me. I am happy, I think my parents are happy for me (at least they don't have to worry about me anymore, now that I'm married haha), I TRY my best to make them happy and I have a husband who loves me. On top of that, I'm carrying another life in me. What more could a girl ask for?

I'm nervous around kids, especially babies. Mainly because I don't know what to do with them. I do hope I'm going to be a good mom, I know my husband is definitely going to be a great dad to my children. I'm just worried that I would screw things up, the thought freaks me out, that's all.

I'm trying to find a house to build our new home. Preferably near my parents' so that I can go to them whenever I need help (I can't help being a kid to my parents, being the first born, I think I'm allowed =)), where it would be near amenities like 7 Eleven, Kedai Mamak open 24 hours, playground, school, etc. But why is the property so blardy expensive? Even if I start to save up some money now, in a few months the price will definitely increase a mountain. Takkan nak tinggal ngan parents sampai anak dah besar gabak kan?

I love Japanese food but I can't take sushi now. I love teh ais too, but I'm cutting it to once a week. Coffee is no longer in my drinks list and soya bean is a must-drink everyday. I couldn't eat rice more than 10 suaps, and this makes me hungry most of the times. I don't find masak lemak cili api eatable anymore (which saddens me very very much) and I hate the smell of anything fried. The beauty of being pregnant, I presume?

Somehow we have been taught that you can only have either the brain or beauty. Since I am a smart-ass chick, I always knew my looks are not my best asset. But you know what? I have seen so many pretty girls and watch them missed out opportunities in their life because they can't think properly. I would just like to say to the girls 'That's the beauty of having a brain...please get one".

Expecting

2010-11-24T09:11:00.000+08:00

I think my husband knew about it even before I realise the changes in my body.

There were a lot of pimples on my face (mind you, I don't have it most of the time so this is kind of a surprise for me), my breasts felt sore, every morning I feel nauseous (even tho I didn't vomit anything except for angin), the mild cramping and also the tiredness (like so tired you don't feel like getting up from the bed at all).

Again, not knowing that you count the weeks from the first day of your last menstrual date, I thought the first week will start only after I missed my period. As usual la kan, first timer, always salah info.

On the day my period was supposed to come, it didn't. I was worried, because I hate it when it comes out of the blue without me having a spare pad in my bag. It didn't even come the next day, I thought to myself, could I be pregnant? That's like so damn soon man! Blardy hell. So I went to buy a home pregnancy test kit, I wasn't sure what I was feeling at this moment. I bought 2, just in case being clumsy I would mess it up the first time. Talk about feeling excited.

So the following day, after hubby had his shower, I went into the bathroom along with the test kit. Peed on it and guess what? The (+) sign came out. I wasn't sure what I was feeling, excited? panic? happy? sad? It was a mixed one.

first try

I came out of the bathroom to get my towel when hubby was actually waiting for me outside.

"So what's the result?"

"Look at it yourself." He looked at it and then back at me.

"What does it mean? What should I look for?"

"(+) sign means yes, Abang. Yes we're pregnant!"

The look on his face was priceless. He hugged me and my tears came running. I don't know why.

We decided not to tell anyone about it until it was confirmed by my gynea, which was arranged 2 weeks later. I even tried on the kit again 3 days after the first try, just in case it was all in my head.

pharmacist ckp this is the best brand,

but I think she only said it because that's the only brand they were selling

On the day I went to see Dr. Marlik, I thought he's gonna do all sorts of tests. But he just said 'lets do the scan now.' And we saw the sachet and we heard the heartbeat. I wasn't expecting that, the heartbeat, and as usual meleleh la airmataku lagi kan. And hubby can't stop parading the scanned pictures of that 23mm tiny thing. He's damn excited. But I think he has to start reading the book on what to expect and not just the sex part. This still feels so unreal to me.

The only part where I know I'm really pregnant is the morning sickness - and its not just during the morning, for goodness sake, its like ALL THE TIME! And I feel tired all the time, its turning me into a complaint-mommy-to-be-monster.

Its still at the early stage, I know, so wish us the best my dear friends, and pray for us for a healthy and perfect baby. Amin.

Eid al-Adha

2010-11-16T17:17:00.001+08:00

It'll be the first Raya Haji celebration with my husband.

We are going back to my hometown, coz Abah made korban this year.

Salam Eid al-Adha.

p/s: hopefully to perform hajj when we're still young.

New Members in the Family~

2010-11-15T15:06:00.001+08:00

Presenting, the 5 new members.......

Ada seekor hitam, seekor kelabu hitam, dua tompok-tompok kaler Cheetara and satu kaler Snarf.

Because Cheetara is still a baby herself, I think she doesn't really know how to take care of her kids. Huhu. So terpaksa paksa dia jaga anak dia.

And Alhamdullilah, we just got the news. Pray for our well being yeah my friends! And I cut my hair last Saturday sebab sudah bernazar.

Ada rupa budak Form 4 tak? Hehe.

Our Cats

2010-11-02T08:18:00.000+08:00

Snarf

Abang, Tigra and Aboo

Wily-Kat

Leia

Cheetara

The preggie Cheetara

Mumbra

There's another one who were very camera-shy = Wily-Kit.

Since we got married we've been really busy and couldn't spend time with them. I miss just layan them everyday after I got back from work when we stayed in Kajang.

Now that Cheetara will be delivering soon, I guess the family will grow bigger.

B.Wax

2010-10-28T16:42:00.001+08:00

I've never done it before - in my entire 28 years.
I thought only people who are crazy enough would do it.
Well, those who have guts la.

But the day before I got married, I decided to do it.

And last Monday I've decided to do it....again.

Walaupun first time sangat menyakitkan sampai menjerit meleleh air mata, tetapi disebabkan oleh resultnya yang amat memuaskan dan sebenarnya kesakitan itu hanya ku tahu hanyalah sementara dan sakit beranak lagi sakit, ku gagahi pergi kali kedua.

Demmit, the second time still f***ing hurt.

But baybeh, no pain no gain.

I'm recommending everyone to do it. Find the Strip @ the Curve.

Your partner will be very happy. Hehe.

25 October 2010

2010-10-25T09:21:00.001+08:00

Happy 1 month anniversary Mr. Hubby.

Happiness in marriage is not something that just happens.

A good marriage must be created.

In marriage the little things are the big things.

It is never being too old to hold hands.

It is remembering to say "I love you" at least once a day.

It is never going to sleep angry.

It is at no time taking the other for granted;

the courtship should not end

with the honeymoon, it should continue through the years.

It is having a mutual sense of values and common objectives.

It is standing together facing the world.

It is forming a circle of love that gathers the whole family.

It is doing things for each other, not in the attitude of duty or sacrifice,

but in the spirit of joy.

It is speaking words of appreciation and demonstrating gratitude in thoughtful ways.

It is not looking for perfection in each other.

It is cultivating flexibility, patience, understanding and a sense of humour.

It is having the capacity to forgive and forget.

It is giving each other an atmosphere in which each can grow old.

It is a common search for the good and the beautiful.

It is establishing a relationship in which the independence is equal,

dependence is mutual and the obligation is reciprocal.

It is not only marrying the right partner, it is being the right partner.

The Art Of A Good Marriage by Wilferd Arlan Peterson

Jihad

2010-10-22T12:35:00.002+08:00

A very trying period for all of us.

The bond we've nurtured so long is at its breaking point.

Do they forgot what have been taught to us?

Do they forgot our history?

Do they forgot why He was sent to us?

Do they forgot WHO He is?

Power and money became gods and the knowledge is being push aside.

The funniest part is that, because they forgot who they were before He came, they bite the hands who've helped them before.

I don't care what you say about me.

I don't care if you hate me.

Because I KNOW.

But I do care when you treat my parents badly - you know why? because they are the ones who were there for you when you needed help, in case you forgot.

So before you do something that could humiliate yourself further, stop and think carefully. You might just regret it one day. Once the line is crossed, you can never go back and we can't do anything about that.

And to those who love being 'batu api' and would do anything to stay in power, I'll let God decides.

But rest assured, we will fight for our religion. Jihad.

Exactly one month since He left, look what has happened to us.

Undangan

2010-10-15T15:34:00.000+08:00

Kring..Kring

Wifey: Hey you...

Hubby: Hey, where are you?

Wifey: Office ler. Nape call?

Hubby: Takde ape, saje je.

Wifey: Ok.

Hubby: Nak cakap rindu kat awak. Ok bye.

Comel la comel kan?

This coming Saturday, we gonna go on a road trip balik to my kampung - mengadap all the aunties and uncles. Since the penganan isn't ready yet (we planned to do it before Mr. Hubby's reception end of this month), I guess we have to mengadap with other gifts. This is one of the tradition of orang Negri. Once married, the couple have to go and see all the family members and introduce themselves, and get to know each other better. I think this is a good tradition, bringing your partner to meet up with the family members - biar kena brainwash sikit hehe.

Haih, my baby Cheetara is pregnant, thanks to Snarf the pedo.

And to all my friends, I would like to invite all of you to our wedding reception on my husband's side, 31 October 2010 - Sunday at Kelab Shah Alam. Since the Majlis akad and home reception were mainly for families, and the dewan reception was quite limited, so I couldn't invite everyone to those two events, but hopefully you guys would come to this one, end of this month.

Nampak ke tak gambar nih? kalau tak nampak nnt bagi email address and I'll email it to you guys k?

Another hectic weekend ahead. Enjoy yours!

My Akad Nikah

2010-10-12T18:12:00.000+08:00

It was a very hectic day. I couldn't get enough sleep the nite before because I had to wear the inai, it was so uncomfortable wearing all the plastics to sleep, I tell you.

dimulakan dengan jari-jemariku

p/s: inai didatangkan khas dari Mekah, ihsan Mak Tih Ani

diikuti dengan kaki - tu bukan muka nak nangis,

tu muka muka gatal kena langgar dek rambut tapi cannot do anything pasal jariku dipenuhi inai.

nasib baik adik sepupuku sanggup membantu menggaru mukaku.

akhir sekali, tangan dan kaki dibalut sebelum pengantin dapat pegi tido.

The make-up session started at 1pm - target by 3pm dah settle sebab pengantin lelaki plan to arrive half and hour later.

make-up sebelum pakai baju kawen kita.

pengantin lelaki call inform hujan di Shah Alam

ya rabbi lebat gila - mereka bertolak jam 2pm, sampai dalam kul 3.30pm

sentuhan En. Baqi - I loike.

nervous memikirkan future. cheh.

rambutku yang tetiba panjang. nice kan?

yes, I akan buat bisnes sewa rambut palsu I ok?

saya sudah siap, mana pengantin lelaki?

Pengantin lelaki sampai on time, tapi Pak Imam pula tiba lewat, dalam 40 minit lewat. Tapi alhamdullilah, KL mula-mula hujan juga, tapi by the time majlis nak start, hujan pun semakin reda (maybe sebab baju aku yang dibaling atas atap tu kut? ish)

pihak pengantin lelaki dah sampai

bapa mertua dan abang iparku

abah menyambut abah suamiku

pembawa hantaran

saudara mara sebelah Mr. Hubby

Mr. Hubby segak dengan baju Melayu putihnya

(sape lagi nak puji kalau bukan aku kan?)

And then the Pak Imam came with his witnesses. I pun tersipu-sipu turun ke tempat dudukku.

tak tau la time ni apa perasaan aku

Pak Imam seorang yang kelakar

tetapi si dia tetap nervous - rosak bantal nikah weyh

khutbah dibaca

tambatan janji, izin berwali, ijab bersaksi

and with sekali lafaz, I became Ajun's wife.

Immediately after, he went for his solat shukur.

and then gave me my hantaran and bracelet......

his hantaran to me - 7 dulang

my hantaran to him, balas 9 dulang

- credits to sepupuku, Kak Lin for the decoration.

Finish with the majlis akad, all the guests were invited for high tea.

Sekian.

That's basically the story of my akad nikah. The edited pictures from OP will take a while so the pictures are from cousins (Syuhada, Khairul, Kak Watty), uncle (Errie Zin), nieces (Kak Tolly and Jaja) and unedited version from OP (Anuar from PlanBWerks). Credits to them! (Aku tau kalau aku tunggu semua gambar siap, basi dah by the time aku nak buat post ni, tu pun kalau rajin, kalau tak rajin, maybe takkan buat langsung kan?)

Thanks to Kak Lin who helped me with my bridal bouquet.

And to those yang membantu mencantikkan bilik pengantinku - I loike.

And not to forget thanks to Huda Adlie for helping me out with the Guestbook.

clean copy when I got it

meja Guestbook (yang dah dialter sedikit) =)

And to all yang telah membantu menjayakan majlis....takut ada yang terlupa tersebut terkecik pulak hati kan?

Next.....the home reception.

Sewel?

2010-10-11T17:32:00.003+08:00

Semalam, tetiba Mr. Hubby cakap kat aku, "Saya tak sangka saya kawen ngan orang sewel rupanya."

"Laaaaa bang. Saya ingat saya sorang je rasa camtu!" Pedulikan cara selamba dia memanggil aku sewel. Fokuskan kepada kecomelan aku panggil laki aku Abang. Gedik sungguh kan? Ye, saya tau. Hilang ke'rock'an aku. SO lepas ni kalau korang terlepak ngan aku dan terdengar panggilan manja ni, jangan usik aku ye. I malu.

p/s: Abah aku cakap dia bagi setahun kat kitorg untuk dia rasa jadi Atuk. Haiya pressure sial. Tak pasal-pasal minggu ni aku sibuk baca bila time aku paling fertile/ovulate/subur dan semua-semua yang sewaktu dengannya. And bila dah baca, baru aku tau camne kira period cycle aku, boley? Hahahahaha. Siap salah bajet timing - cheh laki bini pun blur tak tau camne nak kira ni camne??? Ko suruh dua kanak-kanak kawen, ni la jadinya. Ye, moral of the story - fahamilah sistem reproduksi anda dan jangan percaya pada the opposite sex walaupun dia lagaknya macam semua benda pun tau. Sekian, terima kasih.

ku rindu pada kucing-kucingku, tetapi paling ku rindu pada budak hitam itu.

I'm Back

2010-10-08T09:59:00.001+08:00

After a few days of cuti to prepare for my wedding receptions, plus few days just to rest after the wedding, now I'm back in the office.

I haven't got my wedding pictures from the OP, and since Abah and Ma are in India (siapa kawen siapa pegi honeymoon ni?) and brought along the camera, I don't have any pictures from my reception. So, I don't know what to put in here, about the preparation towards the solemnization day, the home reception or the dewan reception. All I know is that everything went smoothly, tho there were some tense moments, I guess we did it beautifully. Nantilah, bila ada gambar, and kalau aku rajin, aku citer lah sedikit sebanyak.

So its nearing 2 weeks, being husband and wife. We're staying at my parents' home - adat orang Negri is that once you're married, the husband moves into your house. Since we don't really have a long honeymoon holiday, we quickly settled down and started to make ourselves more comfortable with our new life.

Orang kata kawen ni best, BEST LA BEST!

Sometimes I forgot that I'm already married. Hehe, kesian laki aku. Time makan kadang-kadang kena tinggal, sebab bini dah lapar nak mati. Baju pun, dulu seminggu basuh sekali, satu round dalam washing machine muat aje. Sekarang, seminggu dua kali kena basuh baju sebab dua kali ganda. Tapi dulu takde orang tolong, sekarang ada. Dulu, remote tv tu sendiri punya, so channel E! je memanjang 24 jam. Sekarang kena share dengan hubby channel History ngan Sports. Dulu tido sorang-sorang, sejuk pun sorang-sorang, sekarang ada teman. Ye kawen memang best.

Paling best bila masuk waktu, ada orang imamkan aku kat depan, dan orang tu adalah suami aku.

Alhamdullilah.

We're Married!

2010-09-29T10:41:00.001+08:00

Alhamdullilah, with sekali lafaz, he became my husband on 25th September 2010.

The akad's done, now let's make some babies, shall we? =P

Selamat Hari Raya

2010-09-15T16:50:00.001+08:00

Selamat Hari Raya everyone!

Yes, yes dah basi but was so busy with preparation and work (tak cuti sebab nnt nak kawen cuti lagi panjang. huhu). Have to finish most of my work so that office wont disturb me during my cuti.

Raya was the same like last year, cuma this year everybody ada kat rumah, and banyak berjalan raya sebab nak menjemput terus ke majlis.

Selamat Hari Raya. Mohon maaf sekiranya ada terkasar bahasa, tersakit hati, terundum jiwa.

quik apdet

2010-09-03T17:06:00.000+08:00

Got to do a lot of stuff last weekend since its a long one plus the Merdeka holiday (yeay)!

Proud of myself of getting 2 new shoes for my wedding dresses, I thought I have to spent around RM300 for a pair, but I found this one shoe shop (chokiya punya kedai la, takde brand pun) at Wangsa Walk Mall and guess what???? they have the exact design as Rockin Reptile's except the price is way way cheaper - somewhat HALF of what I have budgeted for. Terus beli dua. Hahaha. Habis jugak duit aku. Demn. Tiada gambar sebab takut jinx.

Tadi round di Ikea, hati amat senang melihat barang-barang di sana, sangat ingin membeli, tapi kepala sakit memikirkan duit yang akan hilang walaupun dapat barang yang diingini. Kalaulah aku ni Zeti, kan best? Boleh cop duit sendiri.

('',)

2010-08-25T11:40:00.000+08:00

Exactly one month from today,

I will marry my best friend.

InsyaAllah.

You may not hear me say it all the time,

but you know that those words

can't even describe exactly the way I feel for you.

- i heart thee -

Licence to Marry

2010-08-23T17:02:00.001+08:00

Today we gonna learn how to get all the papers done so we can get married. Just to share with friends who will be getting married, who live in Selangor (both b2b & g2b), both are first time getting married, b2b still has a father as wali, mana la tau if my sis got married to another Selangor guy ke kan, at least kalau tak ingat sini ada info and to b2b & g2b who just hate the small petty things, because I assure you, you will get annoyed in the process (to avoid gaduh-gaduh between bakal pengantin yang berdarah manis as well, yes I KNOW).

1. Both to take Kursus Kahwin and make a copy of the Sijil.

his

hers

2. Both have to take HIV Test at Klinik Kerajaan. Not sure about other states, but in Selangor this is WAJIB.

his

hers

3. Get the g2b to fill in the form - Borang 2A (you can get it from the Pejabat Daerah Agama in your district or download it from JAIS's website). If the address on the IC is the same with the home address - no need to submit the Borang 1.

Borang 2A

4. For guys who have not been married before, please get a surat akuan bujang. You can get the Commissioner of Oath or your employer to verify it. This surat akuan is only for the g2b.

5. Once the g2b done with the form, with these documents - copy of IC, sijil kursus, HIV test result and surat akuan bujang; identify 2 witnesses, get them to make a copy of their ICs and bring them along when you submit your form to Pejabat Agama Daerah. In this case, since Mr. Fiance is from Shah Alam, he had to submit his to PAID Petaling to get the Penolong Pendaftar and Pendaftar Nikah's approval.

6. Done with that, he will receive his surat kebenaran berkahwin and will pass all the documents to the b2b.

7. B2b needs to fill in forms 2C (kebenaran berkahwin) and 2D (borang wali).

Borang 2C

Borang 2D

8. Along with the forms, bring with you the copy of IC, surat beranak, sijil kursus, HIV test result and sijil nikah your parents. Identify the witnesses (make a copy of their ICs) and meet up with the Penolong Pendaftar Nikah along with the father (as wali, dont forget his IC as well). The Penolong Pendaftar will then give his approval and we need to submit all the forms to Pejabat Agama Daerah Gombak since I am staying in the area and plan to marry at home.

9. PAID will then process the forms and give the kebenaran berkahwin (yeay!) along with another form to submit back to the Penolong Pendaftar Nikah, the guy who will be the Tok Kadi (not the wali) on the nikah day.

10. Wait nervously for the day you dinikahkan.

Ok, selesai sudah kelas kita pada hari ini.

Yesterday, adik beradik Abah and Mama berbuka puasa at my house, before that adalah acara berkampung (kalau dah nama orang Negri Sembilan, ko pegi la ceruk rantau mana pun, confirm bawak jugak adat tu kehulu kehilir - biar mati anak jangan mati adat la katakan~). Abah jadi chairman (sebab dia dah banyak practise), aku jadi pencatat minit (sebab aku 41 je, kat rumah pun aku jadi kuli huhu~). Basically kalau nak tengokkan our prep mostly covered. Tinggal tunggu tarikh nikah je. Kadang-kadang seram, kadang-kadang excited, kadang-kadang nervous, kadang-kadang tak sabar. Haha. Nasib la everytime aku cakap kat Mr. Fiance, dia buat bodoh je malas nak layan. Bila takde orang nak layan aku pun malas nak emo-emo buat bodoh jugak so hilang semua rasa tu.

Exactly 1 month and 2 days left. Pray for my peace. Pray for my happily ever after. Just pray for me.

Alhamdullilah.

Apdet Gedique

2010-08-20T16:56:00.001+08:00

My boss gave me 3 books to read. 1 down, another 2 to go. Senang kan keje aku? =S Haiya.

satu lagi with Leen

Semalam sambil mengikat riben di kad (baru 150 kad settle, ada lagi 300) tengok cerita Made of Honour.

The movie Mr. Fiance surprised me with masa mula-mula dia nak mengurat yours truly (aku rasa dia nak ngurat aku la kan). I knew the movie was gonna come out at a certain date, and we went out to Pavilion a week before that. He said he wanted to watch a movie, must be some stupid movie because I remember I was a bit liat to watch it. Masuk je cinema, movie dah start, then WALLA - tetiba nampak my Patrick version muda. I was like 'WHAT? Apa Patrick buat dalam cite bodoh laki ni nak tengok ni??' Then I realise it was Made of Honor. Mr. Fiance just look at me and smile while I was still in shock and dah separa bertakung pulak air mata. Rupa-rupanya dia surprise aku sebab dia tau aku nak sangat tengok cite tu. Aku tak leh betul la orang buat benda sweet-sweet camni. Gua nampak je garang, tapi dalam hati ada taman babe! Sebabkan aku ni slow sikit bab2 hati ni, time tu still tak sure apa mamat ni nak ni, suka aku ke apa ni, boleh?

Tetiba teringat kisah lama, mengapakah? Aku punya point sebenarnya cite ni best. Tengoklah kalau belum tengok.

And just now I got my new shoes! Was browsing thru diahlicious's blog (aku tak kenal pun dia tapi dia agak famous among b2b bloggers) when I got to know that her friend is selling a pair of 9West shoes size 7 yang masih belum dipakai sebab salah beli size - harga RM100++ rugi la tak beli kan. Being a shoeholic (always been a sucker for shoes), I know I wear 7 for pumps and 6 1/2 for strappys so terus je booked and tadi met with the lovely girl, Bahiya (kalau aku tak salah eja la) to get the shoes (masih dalam kotak dan plastiknye ye). She is so sweet and such a friendly girl and at first I thought nak amik and bayar je but end up lepak dalam keta dia sambil try kasut sambil borak-borak (mati la kalau boss aku nampak kan?) Hehe. Aku happy.

kita try tengok kena tak kalau pakai ngan baju nikah aku.

heh alasan.

Esok pulak nak amik dress beli from my friend, Min of Flower Pot. Shopping ara? Ye lama tak membeli-belah, bagi la can (padahal last month banyak gila spent utk hantaran) Huhu. Semoga Mr. Fiance tak tau yang bakal isteri dia sangat gemar bershopping (ala kalau tak pakai duit dia, sure dia tak kisah kan?)

Have a great weekend ahead ya'll. I'm off to play another round of golf later at Monterez - tangan cam gatal nak main walaupun badan lemah tidak bertenaga dan tekak amat kering memerlukan air sejuk. Erghhh...lambatnya nak berbuka. Bye.

Baju dan seangkatannya....

2010-08-18T11:48:00.000+08:00

Hari Ahad pergi dress fitting. Baju nikah dah siap. Sangat SUKA!

Simple kan? I told Jee I wanted my baju nikah to be kurung moden, beads dekat bahagian dada, tangan and bawah - but it has to be simple, walawey, I loike! Tapi untuk menampakkan baju tu baju nikah and bukan baju aku pakai hari-hari biasa, dia buat kain tu 360 darjah, so that bila aku berjalan, kain tu akan swish, swosh ke kiri kanan. Siap suruh try dengan selendang and kasut - so terus decide nak sewa kat dia selendang ngan kasut sekali.

Untuk dress di dewan, baru separa siap. Jaket dah siap tinggal nak tempel beads, dress tu pun nak kena tempel-tempelan jua. Aku suka la, tapi semua orang kata aku kurus sangat kena bagi naik sikit badan takut nampak macam lidi je pakai dress tu. *sedih*

Semalam balik je dari ofis, terus start melekatkan riben ke atas kad. Berbekalkan semangat yang ada, gagah juga la menyiapkan dalam 40 kad sampai jari aku terluka akibat terkena gam panas - bapak sakit sekarang dah ada satu benjol putih kat jari aku. *haih buruk la jari pengantin*

Sambil duk berhempas pulas meng'gam'kan riben, nenek datang tolong buat riben - cantik lagi dari aku punya. Patutla, nenek kan dulu mak andam, so dia banyak buat hantaran bila orang kawen kat kampung. Sungguh memalukan, cucunya tiadalah genetik artistik neneknya. Huhu.

Hari ini perlu buat at least 40. Berbintat la lagi jari-jemariku. Huhu.

p/s: tetiba macam excited nak blog selalu. hehe. so that I wont forget how I feel.

Road Trip to Damai Laut

2010-08-17T15:26:00.000+08:00

We started of as golf buddies, all three of us, Mr. Fiance, Faiz and myself. Now we are trying to get Faiz's wife, Dayah to play as well =)

Since we got engaged, I decided not to play for a while sebab tak nak get 'tanned'. But its really annoying listening to both of them babbling about how good it feels to play, how great the course they played in, that they have improved la blablabla. Definitely I can't just sit and listen to them telling me how good their games were, knowing that mine surely gotten worse since I haven't play for so long! So with my vacation club - SGIVC, I book all of us an apartment and book ourselves a game at Damai Laut Golf and Country Club. Abah played there before and he said its a very nice course and told us to enjoy our game.

We started the journey around 7ish from my house, with Mama looking very 'jealousy' hehe (nasib la dia percaya kat anak ngan bakal menantu dia kan? well, of course we have Faiz and Dayah as our chaperon as well). Met Faiz and Dayah at Rawang R&R and had our breakfast and off we go.

Seriously, if you plan to go play a round of golf then come back, please don't. The journey was so long, my butt went numb once we reached Lumut.

So now the review of the course (of course together with Mr. Fiance punya review la kan?):-

A Par 72 Course In The Heart Of Nowhere That Should Be Listed In The

“Amazing Wonders Of Perak Darul Ridzuan’

Since its a private area, we had a very enjoyable game without golfers traffic. They offered great service, they have amazing facilities and the environment is very chilling and relaxing. A good way to have a vacation as well!

Since its like in the middle of nowhere, with all the bukit-bukaus and the nice landscape, it is a must try course for the nature lovers.

The overall course is well maintained:

Short courses mostly - I LOIKE ver much!
Layout is super nice - Their signature hole no. 15 - ocean view!
Fairway super CUN - WIDE
Rough very well maintained - not too thick
Green is nice
Bunker is first class for a hot and humid Malaysian course
The sea breeze definitely added excitement in our games
Buggy in good condition - can even bring it into the course.

Fees - I got 50% discount for green fees so totaling to about RM110 for me and about RM20 more for others. Affordable!

Service is two thumbs up! We won't think twice to give another go!

Verdict = A Must Course To Try For Malaysian Golfers - Its worth every penny spent.

on the way

arrival

Damai Laut Golf and Country Club

Hole 1

Tee Off (Mr Fiance siap tgk takut salah pukul lagi, kata lama dah tak main kan?)

Putting yang jauh sekali putt masuk, yang dekat 10 kali putt pun tak masuk-masuk

nice view kan?

signature hole

Ok. Penat dah menaip. Bye for now.

The heart has eyes....

2010-08-13T10:18:00.000+08:00

which the brain knows nothing of. - Charles H. Perkhurst

So why don't you start believing the heart? =)

Got my second wedding invitation cards from Sarah of Chenta Weddings last night. I'm loving it, its simple, and its just me! And Sarah is a very nice girl, very friendly. Too bad we had to meet at a petrol station and it was kinda late I had to go back home early.

And since the cards I got from LH Creative was too simple - I've decided to put some ribbons, last night, I managed to get one, err actually one that is halfway done. Hehe.

And I'll be getting my pre-wed pictures from Adik of PhotoConspiracy later this afternoon. They are still new in town - Adik is the guy who help me with my E-day last February and since then they've gotten serious. Adik and his partner, Shahrir are easy to work with, and since they are new, their package are still cheaper than those who have been in the market for quite a while la kan?

Clock is ticking and I've decided to DIY most of the things for my wedding. Nampak gaya bridal bouquet, birdcage net, guestbook semua buat sendiri. Tak tau la sempat ke tak!!!!! Arghhh (rambut makin menipis asyik gugur sebab stress, abislah aku jadi pengantin buruk! huhu)

Baju nikah dah siap, Yes! Dress kena gi fitting this Sunday - EXCITED! Tolong lah jangan buruk. Kalau tak, aku nangis dalam diam je lah. Tak sempat dah nak buat ape.

Photographer amik my cousin Anuar of PlanBWerks since his price is within my budget and as cousins, dapatlah layanan first class (hehe, family kena jaga lebey sikit aaa). Videographer pula amik another cousin abang Azly of Anjung Saujana coz yeah same reason - the price is within budget and because we're like first cousins package that he gave me is quite ok la - 4 majlis plus slide show and editing. Collected some pictures and drafted some ideas for my slide show siap dah berangan pakai lagu apa. Tak nak bagi langsung Mr. Fiance tengok sebab tau mesti dia kata cheesy (nak ROMANTIC sekali sekala pun tak boleh ke????)

Sekarang nak cari quartet or live band to play during the majlis at the dewan. Anyone has any contact? Please help!

My new boss is in. And I think my counterpart in the Govt side loves him. Makes my job easier! Weeee! Ok now have to go back to work.

Puasa Datang Lagi....

2010-08-11T09:23:00.003+08:00

It's the time of year again! Alhamdullilah.

Happy fasting dear friends!

Quickie....

2010-08-06T17:43:00.001+08:00

Lots of things to do, so little time. *sigh* Lets have a quickie then. ;P

Took a few days off and had a very long weekend to settle some wedding preparation and just have fun holidaying.

I went to the Dewan and had food testing with Mama, Adik, the twins and some of Mama's Puspanita friends. Considering that I've been to lots of weddings there, I guess the food tasted the same, and yeah we still choose the 'tapai icecream', yummeyh!

Before the food-testing, went to get my wedding invitation card at LH Creative with Sis Lin - yup, its ready! Now I need to get some ribbons to add on so that it will follow my theme colour. DIY la jawabnya aku tiap-tiap pagi lepas sahur.

And then we went to Jakel, KL - dapatlah aku beli kain untuk aku and kain untuk dia, for both our hantaran (oh i loike ok! aku rasa kain aku gila lawa. hahaha). Also bought the alas dulang, bekas telefon and kain for decoration at home.

Next week I'll give my review on Damai Laut Golf & Country Club and Nilai Springs Golf & Country Club. I miss golfing.

pictures from dayah

Lights, Camera, Action!

2010-07-26T10:20:00.006+08:00

We've done our Pre-Wed shoot!

Do Everything With Love

2010-07-08T14:51:00.000+08:00

So we're back in the office.

I don't like to talk about my work/job in the blog but I just have to write about my last weekend when we had a retreat in Penang where the whole office had to go and some sort of team-building exercise for the staffs. It was fun, but seriously I think the two days for the retreat, 5-6 hours drive-away (we had to go by bus), it was very tiring. The food however was superb. I think I've gained 3kgs just eating that delicious cheese cakes. Nyum nyum. Shopping for dvds were great as well . Pictures...hmmmm it was stupid of me because I didn't bring my camera so I have to steal these from Azira's facebook. Hehe.

in the bus

at tapah r&r

team-building session

waiting for the bus - to go home!

chowrasa? chowrasta? ntah tak ingat, tapi shopping la pendek citer

Now, I think its been awhile since I last got so disappointed or being angry at someone (because its a waste of time and energy), but seriously, of late I was easily annoyed with most people I've encountered (either my patience level is getting lower OR its just my luck meeting idiotic people). Dengan adegan drama yang menyusahkan orang, kependekkan akal dalam memahami sesuatu perkara yang sangat mudah sepatutnya untuk difahami, kebangangan dalam membuat kerja tanpa memikirkan kesan pada orang lain, keterbuangan masa yang banyak untuk membuat kerja yang dirasakan sangat tidak berfaedah. Serious la, tolong lah pakai otak yang dah diberikan so that aku tak payah nak menyumpah seranah kamu semua.

To me, life should be simple and I am a simple person. If someone were to ask me what would I want for my last meal if I were to die tomorrow, I would just say - "nasi ngan ikan keli goreng berlada and kicap", simple kan? So bila cakap ngan aku ni cuba bagi overview je, takyah nak berdrama-drama panjang lebar, aku penat ko tau. Bukan aku ni bodoh ke tak paham ke, just that a story that can be told in simple and straightforward way, ko pi tambah bunga lah, garam lah, gula lah, jadi macam besar la sangat isu, aku penat weyh penat sebab bila aku summarize, benda tu simple je. We have a life you know, and our lives do not revolve around you. My time is precious you know, but I guess you don't have a life to really care about others. Technology doesn't help either since it made you so out of touch from reality. Life is not a fairy tale, its not like in the story book where the prince and princess live together happily ever after, that's just bull shit because in the end somebody dies, either the prince goes first or the lady, and you'll be left alone - if you got to be with each other after death bagus la kan, but I can't say about that since I haven't gone through it. You can't expect everything to go your way, or to be OK all the time, because it won't. So wake up, grow up and look at the world we are living in. And stop being such a drama queen or king, for that matter.

Ok now that's off my chest, I feel a lot better. Hehe.

Disebabkan aku gi Penang, I didn't have the chance to do any wedding related activities. But like I said, I bought a few dvds in Penang, mostly series - The Vampire Diaries, Cougar Town and Melrose Place. I chose the first one because, well its about vampires of course, dah semua episode (I loike!) and the Damon Salvatore (played by Ian Somerhalder) guy is so HOT, HOT, HOT - that's what I call a VAMPIRE! And the heroine is not that bad-looking, compared to 'Sookie' in Trueblood (who can't really act btw).

Ok the other two belum sempat layan.

hot mama!

the chinese guy who sold me the dvds said this is a good series, I don't know if its true or not

I also bought a dvd - Wake, and guess what? Yes the same Ian Somerhalder is in it. God! That piercing eyes could just melt anyone! Its an indie movie and seems to get a good review, can't wait to watch it.

Next topic - FOOTBALL! Now that MY TEAM (HOLLAND YES BEBEH!) is in the FINAL, I AM TREMENDOUSLY HAPPY! Tu la sapa yang asyik kutuk team Holland aritu? Panggil aku Dutch baby/lady aritu? Kutuk takde tel*r lah konon player Holland aritu? Meh sini aku nak tanya, Brazil ko mana? Argentina ko mana? Pelajaran pada kali ini - LENKALI KO TU SENYAP JE LAH, KAN SEKARANG DAH MALU. Haha.

I've always been an Oranje supporter (ok, sebenarnya since Persie ada, hehe yea cakap aku bimbo pun tak kisah - dah final so lantak aku la kan?). Tapi Persie banyak mengecewakan aku, tapi aku nampak pemain lain (Sneijder, Kuyt, Robben, Elia oh awesome!) yang terer dan aku tak menyesal pilih Holland sebagai team aku. LET US PRAY TOGETHER FOR HOLLAND TO WIN THIS ONE - THEY DESERVE IT (ok Spain pun deserve jugak because they played well). But win or lose, Holland will always be number 1 in my eyes! (ok tapi kalau tetiba Malaysia masuk, aku sokong Malaysia!)

My Love for Shoes

2010-06-30T18:11:00.000+08:00

Shoes have been one of my passion, ever since I got my first PTPTN money, that's the first I bought, followed by architecuring my hair of course. Then, I MUST always buy at least a pair wherever I go. Back when I was in Wisma and had the chance to travel a lot, I always bring a pair of new shoes home every time I went overseas (ahhhh, I miss those times). So when I got to know about this "mad about shoes sale" info from shoppingNsales, I just know I have to go and have a look. After all, I NEED to get 3 wedding shoes rite? Happy aku nyah, tak payah rasa bersalah beli kasut banyak-banyak ok.

Btw, I wasn't even sure how I wanted my wedding shoes to look like (open-toe? bertutup semuakah? strappy sandle? with bling-blings?) until I went to search for it at Parkson Pavilion last Saturday with my baby sis.

Ok for nikah I definitely want to find something like mary jane pumps like these:-

isn't it sweet? i am so in love with mary-janes!

or something elegant and maybe can add-on bling-bling skit

or this one in white - notice the bling-bling at the back? wah

but I don't mind getting an open-toe heels like these:-

simple yet elegant

comel la kan got riben somemore

For my reception at the dewan (since Gee will provide the baju and kasut for the home reception, I only have to get the one for dewan), I plan to get strappy heels with rhinestones either in hot pink or blackish grey colour. Reason being? I fell in love with THIS Rockin' Reptiles shoes!

They dont have it in 6 - if not dah grab je. =(

glamour nyah pakai kasut ni malam itu nanti

i love, i love, i love - tetiba terbayang pakai kasut dan bawa beg di atas dengan dress yang sgt class makan malam di restoran bergerak menara KL kenapa?

I also love alexander mcqueen's shoes!

and this Manolo Blahnik:-

ok kasut-kasut ini juga I heart yeah:-

Haih. Dapat google and ogle je lah. Ok I didn't get any shoes last weekend, but I did end up with a black flat shoes sebab kepenatan berjalan dengan my working shoes/heels satu Pyramid masa teman Jojo shopping (Jo came to KL on Tuesday for her meeting on Wednesday, the Triple A organized a reunion last night and dejavu lah, macam time kita lepak during DPA days pulak! hmmm how I miss having Jo as my housemate).

This weekend the office is planning a retreat for all the staffs, so I'll be in Penang over the weekend. Hmmmm leisure times tu sempat tak agak2 cari my wedding shoes? Hehe. Hopefully no activities yang boleh buat I jadi kegelapan.

I still haven't meet my pre-wed photog and plan with him about the pre-wed shoot. Hehe. And I still haven't meet the videographer. Cepat la settlekan Ara weyh!

Flawed Assumptions Can Be Catastrophic

2010-06-22T12:13:00.001+08:00

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything - Billy Graham. but being cold-hearted is better than being hurt.

I think one of the problem of trying to get married is the procedures of getting married. In Jais form, it stated that for singles with IC address in Selangor, we need to do the pre-wedding course organized in Selangor - I did it in TTDI, KL. I was worried when I read the form (I went to the course first before getting the forms huhu) but when we check with the Ustaz, he said that shouldn't be a problem. I guess somebody should update their forms so not to confused us single-but-really-want-to-get-married people.

Then before submitting the forms, we need to take the HIV test, which can only be done in government clinics - I think this is ok, but I was a bit worried because I wasn't sure if I can simply go to any clinics - either we can only do it at the clinic in our mukim only, or any clinic in the state of Selangor, or any government clinic who does the test. At first we wanted to do it at GH, where my sister is working but we ended up going to the Poliklinik Komuniti Kelana Jaya, near Mr. Fiance's office.

Some people say that we need to get the RM10 form-for-HIV-test from Jais before going to the clinic, but we called the clinic beforehand and they informed us just to come in, no need for appointment, no need any forms from Jais (see, another confusing info!) So, there we were, in the hot sunny day, arrived outside the clinic at 3.00pm and took the no. giliran and the HIV Test form.

Sila ambil no. giliran anda, dan isi borang yang diberikan oleh Cik Nurse

Borang yang tak sukar diisi melainkan memang jenis seorang yang pemalas

After that, we have to wait for our numbers to come up and paid RM1.00 for the service (so total RM2.00 for both of us). SO cheap isn't it?

Next we send our borang to the blood test lab, then a few minutes later they call us and took our darah (ala sakit cam kena gigit semut je). But Mr. Fiance, who doesn't like it when people make him bleed (eventho dot dot sikit je pun), got annoyed with the lady (not sure whether she's a nurse or doctor) - mengada kan punya makhluk?

Makmal Darah - sila berdiri di kaunter dan beri middle finger kepada cik di dalam kaunter dan akan dicucuk dan diambil darah tak sampai berapa titik pun

Rupa darah yang terlekat pada kain

So we have to wait about 45 mins (it was stated on the bunting). So we waited lah. Mr. Fiance dah sleepy kat sebelah, yours truly pun dah start tersengguk, then suddenly Cik Nurse yang lain called for my name and his and gave us the yellow paper. Woohoo! Settle.

Ambil perhatian = cuma valid for 6 months.

Basically we settled it in about 1 hour-time. Not bad la kan? But there are still lots of procedures to be done (Mr. Fiance to submit the forms, then my turn where Abah and 2 witness perlu disusahkan) Sigh. Have to cuti lagi la nampaknya. Huhu.

On Saturday, my sis and I went to Jalan Panggong, near Petaling Street to get some lanterns sample - OK I know, I know, the reception at home was supposed to be a traditional one, with the songket and all, but being a quarter Chinese, don't you think I should get something to show that I'm proud to be a mixed blood? So lanterns it is. I'm gonna get the white, light purple and light pink in 3 different sizes and maybe design it something like this:-

picture by google

or like this:-

picture by google

Over kan? Imagine the pictures and make it 100 times simpler. Yeah, itulah saya.

And then we went to watch Sex and the City 2 at KLCC, hmmm I expected more drama and conflicts but that's not what I got. They got loads of big names / artist in the movie tho, and Aidan was in it as well. The only part I think I could relate to is the part where Carrie afraid of being boring being married - what with no kids and all, but in the end Carrie being Carrie la kan, when you have it you don't appreciate it, when you don't have it, you complaint. Ergh Women!

picture by google

On Sunday, bought an oval low vase at Hinode Shop (yes we love the RM5 shop) - thinking of doing a DIYing centerpiece for the tables for reception at home. Put some water, floating candle, few petals and wallaaaa, a simple centerpiece yang hopefully budak2 takkan buat tempat basuh tangan. Now where can I get the floating candle yang wangi and pink and purple in colour?

p/s: got to know something bad and it made me so sad. i feel like shouting "you suck! you can go to hell! i hate you! i don't want to see you anymore!" to that face. how could this person do this to me? ok, no more miss girly-next-door for you from now on. i'll make sure you regret ever doing those things to me!

Preparation of The Year

2010-06-17T17:27:00.000+08:00

An update on my wedding preparation (ye, sebab ada lagi 3 bulan lebey kurang, I only have the wedding preps in my mind, dah kata buat keje semua last minit kan? haaa, sila la meluat baca).

I've confirmed my wedding dress, since my wedding going to be during raya month, and lots of people are getting married in the same month, my tailor told me we needed to settle it earlier. so I'm damn hoping my body won't change drastically to either fatter or thinner! Its a baby doll dress with short sleeves and maybe once the dress is ready I might just post some bits and pieces on the dress, and to be somewhat different, I plan not to wear a tiara but a birdcage net something like this:-

picture by google

but without covering the whole face. in black. hehe. yes. I won't be wearing white for my reception.

And then I was thinking of having a DIY guestbook table (would need help from Boy and Enol I guess to do the cutting, nailing, panting of the board), and I got my friend, Diana to do my bridal bouquet, I simple adore this one:-

picture by google

Purple and white would be for my nikah and home reception and pink and white for dewan reception. Simple.

Abah already confirmed the ustaz who's gonna be the Tok Kadi, thankfully he said he can do it at my home but he wanted to meet with the groom-to-be first for a small session (sudah, nak buat interview ke? demn!), so I guess Mr. Fiance need to be fully prepared la kan (takpe aku confident, suruh mengaji pun confirm lepas!). So that one settle.

We're taking tomorrow off to settle our HIV test. Once its done, Mr. Fiance can settle his part and I can do mine. Pheww.

So lets hope this weekend banyak benda boleh disettlekan lagi.

Ok I think I need to stop blogging about my wedding.Work? othing new, just waiting for my secondment confirmation. Golf? Lama tak main dah. Cinta hati? Aku dah gatal nak kawen so meluat lak orang nanti. Family? Now staying with them, ada time argue macam orang gila, ada time ok je, drama sungguh. My kittens? They're so damn cute now, tapi kesian la duk KL agak limited skit freedom diorg =(. Kereta kesayangan? Masih dalam workshop - itu pun banyak drama sampai semua dah kena marah ngan aku lah, tinggal belum kena sumpah je. Band? tarak tau apa citer sebab ada konflik kut, aku pun tak paham.

Well, in the end, biarlah aku dengan dunia aku.

p/s: pelik la kenapa lelaki kebanyakannya ego tinggi? langsung tak nak kalah, come on lah, if you dont know something just admit it. you dont have to act like you do and bila kantoi salah, try nak cover cara bodoh. what you did show how stupid you are. (ayat ini tiada kena-mengena dengan Mr. Fiance. hehe)

Ting Tong Kepala Ting Tong

2010-06-03T15:38:00.001+08:00

I had a very interesting long weekend. I was on leave till yesterday since last Friday (imagine getting up after everyday getting up late -oh wait no I still got up early like I'm going to work everyday!).

Went to Khairani's Wedding at Concorde Hotel, Shah Alam and they had the Red & White wedding theme. I went to her big sis's wedding two years ago and the flow was the same (seriously! with the food presentation and cake presentation, its like dejavu~), maybe the hotel should offer something different? (yeah rite, terkena kat aku felda buat benda sama je macam orang lain punya wedding camne kan? ok i need ideas people!)

Went to settle the wedding cards during the weekends (ye akhirnya berjaya juga setelah Mr. Fiance tolong designkan free-of-charge). Monday just lepaking layan Chinese movie - Murderer (Aaron Kwok berlakon), the story tu kira ok lah, up to a point when we got to know who the orang jahat is, serious potong! Psycho ok cerita tu, same like Kick-Ass, psycho - not advisable for kids to watch it!

Birthday celebration - Vacuum rumah, mop lantai, basuh langsir, bawak kittens gi vaccine, makan lunch sorang-sorang (nasi goreng usa best kat section 7 bangi), balik rumah tengok dvd 'Did You Hear About the Morgans?' (so-so la, ada time gelak, ada time frowning) then thought to myself 'DAMN THIS IS MY LAST BIRTHDAY AS A SINGLE LADY!' and I started crying (I dont know why, trust me!). Its not about being older and alone, more like acknowledging that you'll be shouldering a bigger responsibility, somehow it felt like I'm gonna lose my freedom, that I cant just DO what I WANT anymore (does every bride-to-be feel this way before you get married or is it just me?). It sucks feeling that way (lebih-lebih lagi dengar sana-sini, yang bercerai-berai, tinggal anak bini untuk kawen lain, jadi second wife, affairs sana-sini. serious aku takut) And while I'm trying to embrace and understand that sucky feeling, my sister and my parents did a surprise by coming to my house and bringing 3 types of cakes (thanks to Mr. Fiance yang tak nak tunang dia duk sorang-sorang melayan perasaan. hehe). Even my twin uncles who's just back from OZ came to the house tapi tak makan kek pun kan? =D Thank you lovelies! Thank you so much! Love all of you!

Then, the day after my birthday, while on the way to work, I accidentally hit the car in front of me (demmit, kesian SARA). First thing I did was to call my dad, and cried! Then we (Jane, the owner of the car that I hit and I) went to Balai Polis PJ to do our reports. On the way, called Mr. Fiance and cried, again. Then called the office, spoke to Azira and cried, again. It took us 3 hours to settle the reports (seems that they are upgrading the system so it kinda haywire in the station) and then the tow truck send my car to Ulu Kelang (since its nearer to Melawati so Abah can have a look at it) and send me home. I had to borrow Abah's car and hell, makan minyak banyak gila, I dare not jalan-jalan meronda-ronda with the car. Today, I drove very slowly to work, kinda have that takut-takut feeling. Seriously, 8 years of driving, now konon sebab darah manis ke accidentnye? Wallahu alam.

Then there's this story about the PTD who died during her DeePeeAaa. Haih. I got to know that she is my close friend, Janggut's cousin. I think this is going to be a political issue. Enough said.

Ok later I am going to the gym. And I am moving in back to Melawati this weekend. Enough with this suckiness!

A Life Lived in Love

2010-05-26T10:24:00.001+08:00

will never be dull.... =) - Leo Buscaglia

Last weekend we went to Jalan Pudu to look at some of the kad kawen shops. 6 of us, Mr. Fiance with his two sisters, Mama, Adik and I started shop-hopping after we had our lunch at one of the mamak restaurant in Jalan Brunei. We went to the third shop, LH Creative and found what we wanted - a simple dark grey card with 2 pieces of info and rsvp cards (too simple that we decided to have maybe another card design for VVIPs, so we gonna have 2 designs). Mr. Fiance dengan efficientnya telah buat booking card - siap dah bagi design semua, sungguh pantas. Hehe. Yours truly yang sangat tidak kreatif ini masih terkial-kial berfikir macam mana la aku nak rupa kad kawen aku ni. End up, "balik rumah nanti fikirlah".

Over the weekend, I get to watch some Dvds - The Wolfman (serious slow - terlampau slow sampai tak abis tengok), The Backup Plan (nice one by Jennifer Lopez and that actor is so yummy I have no idea whats his name but yes I like that kind of guys!), Leap Year (agak slow tapi ntah camna aku boleh nangis jugak in the end) and last but not least, Bounty Hunter (so disappointing! 2 A-list actors and this is the best you can do? Seriously Gerard, shame on you!)

This coming weekend would be a long weekend for me. Heeee. Took 2 days off just because I don't wanna work on my birthday (God I'm getting old, and you know what? I did plan to get married when I'm 28 years old and at one time I thought 'Nah, its not gonna happen.' Now I just hope it would come true. =P) So I'm gonna go to Ijan's sister's wedding, join Almas' family day, watch Prince of Persia with my family (free tickets! =D), do my HIV test, teman Mr. Fiance confirm his wedding invitation card and send the kittens for their second vaccination.

Hectic weekend, it will be.

Movie Date

2010-05-18T13:06:00.000+08:00

I've watched Robin Hood - I like it!
I like the dialogues, the scenery, the costumes, the acting.

Basically, Robin and his mates confront corruption and lead an uprising against the crown that will forever alter the balance of world power. Some people might call him a hero, others may perceived him as a thief, but the movie tells a story of a man from humble beginnings and becomes a legendary symbol of freedom for his people.

And then, to celebrate our anniversary, we went to watch Nightmare on Elm Street. Serious boring. Takyah la tengok. Buang masa.Baik la aku balik je terus tido. Huhu

I'm planning to watch Bounty Hunter - hopefully its good, I like both the actors.

My Own Checklist

2010-05-14T13:51:00.000+08:00

Ok I know I haven't write in a while, what with the preparation (4 months left, can you believe it? I still feel like only yesterday we got engaged!) and the workload at the office, and the working out and the gym (cheh baru start work out kecoh!) and the new kittens (yes, I have 6 now, love em!) and every single thing that's happening in my boring life. So today, I didn't go out for lunch (because I'm too tired to go out - ni office sebelah Curve ni ok! Tak jeles ke?) so instead I stay in and tried to post something. Even though the truth is that I am rather upset with an incident happened few days ago (and it still bothers me, and I really don't wanna go into that because I might just get more upset), I need to do something to lift up my mood.

Now, lets talk about me and my 'busy' life (like thats gonna really lift up my mood la kan?=S)

Checklist Majlis (untuk menakutkaan diri sendiri supaya lebih prepared and jangan nak buat keje last-last minute.)

Akad Nikah

Date : ?? September 2010

Time : 3pm-4 pm

Place: home sweet home. subject to kadi's request

Theme: magenta & silver (still discussing)

- ~~Kursus Kahwin~~
- Submission to JAIS (for both)
- Confirm Jurunikah
- ~~Baju Nikah~~
- ~~Selendang/tudung~~
- Shoes + Accessories
- ~~Hair & Make-Up~~
- Bridal Bouquet
- Hantaran (hantaran checklist)
- ~~Photographer~~
- Videographer
- Deco (Room)
- Deco (Rumah)
- Pelamin (bantal nikah)
- Catering (high tea)
- Canopy + Tables & Chairs
- Bridesmaid

Reception at home

Date: ?? September 2010

Time: 8pm-11pm

Place: Home sweet home

Theme: magenta & silver

- ~~Baju Sanding (L+P)~~
- ~~Shoes + Accessories~~
- ~~Hair & Make-Up~~
- Bridal Bouquet
- ~~Photographer (same as above)~~
- Videographer (same as above)
- ~~Pelamin (bekas untuk berinai – bunga rampai, air mawar, inai)~~
- Bunga telur (lepas berinai)
- Doorgifts/favors
- Catering (dinner)

Reception at Dewan

Date: ** October 2010

Place: Dewan Perdana Felda, KL

Theme: Ash Gray + Pink

- Invitation Cards
- Itinerary – perjalanan majlis
- Transportation (kereta pengantin)
- Guest book (reception)
- Usherer
- Table seating (by no.)
- ~~Wedding dress~~ + Suit
- Shoes + Accessories
- ~~Hair & Make-Up~~
- Bridal Bouquet
- ~~Photographer~~ + Videographer
- Bridesmaid (baju + make-up)
- Deco for dewan
- Deco for VIP table (centerpiece)
- Pelamin
- Bunga telur for VIP berinai
- Wedding Cake
- Doorgifts / favours (on table – with thank-you note)
- MC
- ~~Pembaca doa + selawat~~
- Video slide presentation (audio video system)
- Musical band/show during dinner
- Tempat letak hadiah

Checklist Hantaran

from ara to ajun:

1. sirih junjung
2. jam
3. kemeja & seluar
4. Quran & sejadah
5. kasut, belt & wallet
6. Handphone
7. Perfume + toiletries set
8. buah-buahan
9. cake
10. ??
11. ??

from ajun to ara:

1. Mas kahwin
2. sirih junjung
3. wang hantaran
4. perfume & toiletries set
5. quran & telekung & sejadah
6. ~~handbag & kasut~~
7. Baju & seluar / kain.
8. cake
9. fruits/chocolates

mood: I miss the feeling of being secured. I hate feeling lonely or being taken for granted.

Music is What Feelings Sound Like...

2010-04-07T10:04:00.000+08:00

music is what life sounds like ~ Eric Olson

so i've heard my own voice singing. its different, i tell you.
its like "what? that's my voice?

that's actually the sound people heard coming out of my mouth?

all this while?"
4 songs, each about 3 rounds.
result = my voice became serak la, what else?
but i had fun, new experience, plus very challenging!

i went to see Jee last saturday,
and we sketched some ideas on how i want my dresses to look like.
weeeee! so far, i'm liking the designs.
i didn't choose white for my reception, so i guess it'll be different.
and i have to choose the theme carefully.
and if we are going to do a small reception at home a.k.a malam berinai,
i guess we have to wear something traditional like songket.
plus the inai (which i plan not to wear).(^^,')

i didn't get free tickets for F1 this year,
so didn't get to see it live.
but you know what? i'm proud of the malaysian team.
do your best heikki and fairuz in your next race!

before that, i've been trying to get a new BB, thanks to Umar.
he kept on marketing the BB Bold and told me to get it before the sale ends.
went to bluecube@curve = no stock!
then to bluecube@themines = no stock!
end up to bluecube@pavilion = guess what?
there was a celcom promo, only for the weekend, you can get the device free!
so the results = ara went home smiling because she got herself a new toy. =D
sampai lupa beli pasir untuk kucing kesayanganku,
(^^',) sorry Snarf!

and today, i got the service! woohoo!

Crazy Love

2010-03-15T09:03:00.006+08:00

If anyone would ask him, why Ara? Or if someone were to ask me, why Ajun?

More pictures for the engagement day by Adik at http://antradikaphotos.bub.my/.

Thicker Than Water

2010-03-05T12:09:00.001+08:00

I think sometimes people forgot

that the bond that links your family is not only the blood,

but also of respect and joy in each other's life.

And we can't choose who to be our family.

We are born into it.

Bonnie Jean Wasmund said

'People will forget what you said,

people will forget what you did,

but people will never forget how you made them feel'.

Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family.

Most of us would give our own life
for the survival of a family member,

yet we lead our daily life too often as if
we take our family for granted.

(Paul Pearshall)

From what I can see now,

water seems so much thicker than some blood.

I am hoping that I am mistaken,
and it is just a stupid misunderstanding.

I'm thankful to have a family who
will always be there and support me.

And I pity those who already have a family

but instead chosen another, the one that they want.

Let them be I guess, they forgot it can work both ways.

Cause they don't know that karma sucks big time!

Blood Is Sweet

2010-03-03T10:55:00.002+08:00

Yes. I am. Engaged. =)

After the tough few days of trying my very best to at least get a pass, fighting the battle with the rest of my rakan seperjuangan, finally the exam ended. And then of course came the engagement day.

After I was done with my presentation, I went home to Melawati and started to prepare for my engagement. By Thursday, only one dulang was ready. By Friday, thankfully, everything was ready. So fast eyh? I even have the mini dais ready (prepared by Syeila d Place – find Gee, she’s great!) that night.

Had my make-up test with Mr. Baqi (my cousin who’s doing freelance make-up for tv shows) together with the baju tunang and I actually put my face into his hands, trusting him completely. I ended up liking what he did to my face.

Then the morning came. I thought I would be nervous but somehow I didn’t. We did our make-up, and Mr. Baqi end up changing the make-up a bit differently, which was better. =) Natural!

And then came the time when I had to come down for the sarung cincin ceremony. I was so embarrassed by the number of people downstairs. Its like the whole kampong came to celebrate my day.

The FMIL came and sarung the cincin and I nearly cried, of happiness. I thought ‘Hey I’m his fiancé now’ and smiled.

And then the camwhoring session. Do I need to elaborate on this? I think not. =P

To my family, thank you for making this happened. And the help and the taking charge, because I didn't have the time or energy to be fussy over everything since I was so busy studying.

To my dearies, Joanne, Hana, Ainil, Djulia and Ila, thank you for being there for me. I’m glad you were all there in the room, 'teman'ing me. And also for the cake and bakalava (how does it spelt?). I’m glad you guys were there sharing that moment with me.

Till today, I’m still adjusting to my new status as ‘tunangan orang’ =). It’s a great feeling.

The best part of the day would be saying ‘Hey you, fiancé’….

Now lets prepare for the wedding, shall we? Anyone knows how to get free sijil kursus kahwin? Hehe.

*pictures credit to Adik, Jojo and Syuhada*

Translate 'Wo Ai Ni' Please...

2010-01-27T23:55:00.002+08:00

Saya semakin excited. Kenapa? Kerana tinggal lagi sebulan saja. =)

Last weekend we went to Nilai 3 (with Jojo, Mee Ferng and his mother and sister) and then to Jalan TAR (with Mama and Abah plus Jojo and Mee Ferng) to have a look at some of the stuffs to be used for all the majlis. I think if you want to do your hantaran on your own and you really know what you want and what to buy, Nilai 3 would be a great place. I was just looking for the prices and I think most of the stuffs that can be used as favours are so common.

Jalan TAR wasn't that bad either. Went to all the material shops and I found the colours that I like for my solemnization and wedding receptions. Mama doesn't have an objection on my colour choice, hehe, but when I told nenek, she gave me that look of annoyance (tapi tak kira, wedding ara la nek!). The price was OK la, about RM500 for 4m of chiffon beaded with free lining (for the nikah) and free kain baju Melayu (ok la kan? mahal ke tu? ada tempat lain lagi murah ke?) but the lace was damned expensive (about RM200 per metre? huih). I wasn't really into the laces because it looks just like netting (Jojo pun cakap camtu hahaha) but then we realise that the 'netting' tu la yang buat cantik the whole baju. Haih. And then there's the question of who's going to make the dress, nak kena cari fashion designer yang bagus la kan? if not rugi la beli kain mahal-mahal, later result menyakitkan hati.

I'm off to Bandung and Jakarta this weekend to have a look at the barang-barang there (because people say its cheaper to get the lace materials there, and all your favours would be a bit unique la konon because some of the stuff there you can't get it here) and also to play a round of golf with Abah, Mama and Adik. Hehe. Aboy kena tinggal.

Btw, the process of my secondment InsyaAllah will be completed by this year. And I hope I could sit for my PTK this coming February (demn, a few days before my engagement party). I like what I do now, and the team makes it more enjoyable. Alhamdulillah.

Ok, now the updated list for engagement party:-

Select day, time, venue - done!
Theme - Champange/beige/off white for my family.
Hantaran stuff - to prepare 7 dulang. Need to order the cake and cupcakes.
Baju tunang - sent to tailor, get by 7 Feb 2010
Makeup artist - done! test make-up after baju tunang received.
Photographer - done! Adik si kawan Jojo.
Invitation list - done!
Favours - still not confirmed.
Caterer - still tak settle. haih.
Canopy + chairs + tables - tak settle jugak. haih-haih.
Area for upacara menyarung cincin - to prepare the tempat duduk and some deco i.e langsir and flowers.
Cincin - tak settle jugak lagi. erk. hehe.

Mode: Rindu.....

Six Billion Souls on EARTH...

2010-01-19T17:40:00.000+08:00

and all I need is one.....God I miss my partner (why la we are so busy today sayangku? hish!)

And God, I am so busy with work I couldn't find the time to write. So here's some bits and pieces of my life since the last post.

Came home earlier with a few thousand less. I managed to get myself a handbag, a tote bag and a matching open toe-heels, two pairs of jeans, a long black pants, a short pants, a baby tee and my biggest splurge in the land of down under, the iPod Nano. Yeay! Gambar bercuti tiada coz I'm too lazy to upload. Huhu.

pictures from apple.com

Then I moved to my new office at Surian Tower (bangunan biru sebelah Cineleisure tu lah!) - it was so demn nice, I feel like going to work day and night. Work has been so demanding that I couldn't even open my blogger account. Yes, I am so demn busy. I'm kinda like attached to the finance department and doing the asset thingy. It was a bit stressful I ended up wearing spectacles to work coz my lenses couldn't take it anymore. *sigh* But I must say I'm enjoying my work!

Almas organized a bowling competition and my sis, my bro, Mee Ferng and I formed a team representing Keramat (yes, we are the Melawati Clan - nama poyo tapi takpe), another team from Keramat was formed by Pak Uda, Azmeer, Azlan and Nora. We played 3 games each and who got the highest points (combined total for each team) is the winner. We got THIRD PLACE ya'll, out of 14 competing to become the juara. Power tak power? Hehe. PJ got no. 2 and who else but Selayang got first place (well-known sebab satu family diorg semua bapak terer macam pro). Nevermind, we went there just to have fun, it was a bonus for getting third.

with Mas (cousin), Jaja and Kak Tolly (nieces) and Elia (cousin)

Then we got this perjumpaan for suku Batu Hampar Kampung Tengah to choose the next Datuk Lembaga and met with families we never knew before. Ritual semua not yet la, they say got some stuff we need to do and most of the time my uncle was explaining to all of us, I seriously have no clue and couldn't understand a thing (bear in mind that this adat thingy mostly are not practise anymore and since the new Yamtuan took office, I guess he wants to revive all this), but basically it would be an honour for those chosen la. My uncle, Pak Lang Piji was being nominated so now we're waiting for the results. Seriously rasa macam 'whatever'. Heh.

Si baju biru itu adalah Pak Lang saya yang telah dicalonkan.

The Batu Hampar cawangan Kampung Tengah's clan.

Plus some other suku la macam aku ni suku Anak Acheh. Hehe.

with Mak Ngah Eda (Batu Hamparian), me and Adik (Anak Achehs),

Elia (sudah tiada suku) and Mas (Biduandas)

With Mak Andak Yam, Mak Lang Ita, Mama and Adik

gila vain dan sangat excited makan SUMI ok!

berapa tahun tak makan SUMI?

Ok, for my engagement; our baju tunang, both his and mine have been sent to the tailor already but not yet ready; I'm planning to go find stuffs that can be used for my hantaran this weekend - which I think would be a failure if I do it on my own because I have no talents whatsoever in this creative-using-hands-to-make-artsy-stuff, but whatdehell maybe if I just try I could actually succeed? Hehe. I must say I'm getting more excited by the day, can't wait for the day to arrive.

Ok, now back to do the balancing, tallying act. Ergh!

*pictures from Edi anak Pak Lang*

The Year of 2009 : The Good, The Bad..

2009-12-31T07:31:00.000+08:00

And The Everything Nice.....

2009 has been a refreshing year for me.

Marks the 2nd year of serving the country.
PTD Batch 1/2007 graduated!
Joined the office's programme - get to know new friends / collegues.
Djulia got married - she is now a proud pregnant mommy-to-be.
Hana got married - still can't believe it.
Ainil got engaged - this one is still hard to believe. Hehe. Lagi suka nak tipu. Haih.
I went to see the F1.
I went to see Jamiroquai.
I got to see Maliq & D'essentials and Atilia
I went to Pulau Lang Tengah with Jojo and our newfound friends.
I learn to care about cats. Unfortunately, all my cats died except for Nala. Doctor said it was because of viral infection and it infected all the cats because they shared the same litter box, food, drinks etc and since they didn't get any vacination, its quite common for them to die secara berjemaah. I miss them dearly that I can't even look at their pictures without shedding a tear. Nala has been sent to Mee Ferng's house since I have to 'cloroxise' (wth?) the house before bringing her back home. =(
Joined the Piala Samad DUN Seri Menanti Netball Game - Team Kampung Tebing Tinggi and we are the JUARA!
Alhamdullilah, Mee Ferng became one of us.
I've committed myself into a serious relationship.
JJ and Ean of Hitz.fm did a Gotcha call on me. I was made famous for a few hours. Dem.
Joined a bowling tournament at Mee Ferng's office and we ended up in first place!
Hosted an FLB party at my home in Kajang.
Mee Ferng joined Almas futsal tournament and Keramat end up in third place.
My raya this year was exciting. Tok Wan and family came over to kampung on the second day of raya. Adik did a surprise by coming back just for Raya.
I went to see the Black Eyed Peas. Demmit it was great!
Mee Ferng met up with the whole big family.
I got to meet up with some of Mee Ferng's big family.
Became friends with an ex.
Enjoyed NRG performed live during my birthday.
I was invited to join a band - the Ugly Space Jelly (USJ) as their vocalist.
I became really, really, super-really addicted to golf.
I started working at a new section taking care of regional development.
After 2 months, I was sent to work at a new private company. Hoping to get a proper secondment by next year. But my DG seems to have another brilliant idea for me. (-_-')
Entered the Frenzy Futsal PPTD with the girls of Diamond Raptors and lost at the quarter final.
Ijan got a baby girl - Nur Jasmin, a cute baby with a loud voice. =)
My relationship moved to another level, Mee Ferng and his family came by and 'risik' yours truly. =)
My sister and brother, Adik and Aboy, finished their studies and are back for good!
I went to Melbourne and had a blast shopping on Boxing Day. Now I'm broke!
Karaoke is my latest favorite hobby.
Biggest splurge - Rainbow vacuum (-_-').
I'm still clean from any recurrent cyst - but still have to do check-ups every 4 months.

I didn't get to do anything in my list of things to do for this year except for throwing a party (and it wasn't even my party to begin with, I was just lending them the place. Theehee). So for next year, I've foreseen few huge events thats gonna change my life, InsyaAllah. Panic? Of course. Excited? A little bit. New Year's resolution? Already started the first one - a very personal resolution =)

Still in Melbourne, but I'm coming home tonight (God, how can I think I could stay here more than a week? seriously dah homesick!). Gonna update about the 'so-called' holiday in my next entry. Till then....

SALAM MAAL HIJRAH (yeah lambat about a week!) and HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I'm A Simple Person, Once You Get To Know Me.

2009-12-22T14:58:00.000+08:00

The simple pleasures in life doesn't have to be something that is so extra ordinary, it could just be small little things like dipping your finger in the soup and have a taste of it, or touching the hair of your loved one, or even seeing a smile of a child. Could you find someone who enjoy the same things as you do? Aaaawww...how insane you can be when you're in love. =)

I've already bought the material for my baju tunang, including his material for baju Melayu, much to his chagrin on the colour chosen, hehe, but haven't the time to send it to my tailor (-_-'). Lucky for me, his mother is fond of the colour =).

And I also met with the band members of Ugly Space Jelly, the band which has invited me to become their vocalist (-_-'). Heard their songs, and they weren't that bad. =) And these people have very high expectations (-_-'). Can't wait for our first jamming session together.

In three days I'll be gone, funny that I forgot to get my visa done (-_-'). Thank God it only took me about 10 mins to settle it and of course AUS20 too.

Need to go play a game of golf before I leave.

Need to send the material to tailor.

Need to save some money for shopping.

But the most important thing, need to do my LNPT. (Jo, ko lupa nak ingatkan aku laaaaaa)

You are Exactly My Brand of Hmmmmm....Drug?

2009-12-17T12:09:00.000+08:00

I tot we will be moving into our new office in Surian Tower in about a week's time (dem, abislah duit aku asyik shopping je kat area tu, Ikea, Ikano, Cineleisure? haih), but it seems that the place is not ready for us yet. I'm kinda excited, I mean nobody really like to menumpang at other people's office kan, or menumpang mana-mana la for that matter? So yeah, I'm excited, to get a new office and hopefully a new laptop. =)

So last weekend we went to play golf at Bukit Kemuning Golf and Country Resort. I was late so tak sempat nak take any pictures. It took me about an hour from my house in KL and we had to tee-off before 2.30pm (sorry babes, at least aku sampai on time kan? hehe).

Review:

Course

1. Well-maintaned

2. Some are long, some are short, some are very short courses.

3. Wide fairway - OK!

4. Rough not too thick - tak takut nak bantai je pukul. (some laa, ada yang dekat ngan pokok tu tinggi rumah, sapa suruh pukul kat situ pun?)

5. Green - a bit undulating and fast but very enjoyable!

6. Maintenance a bit teruk. Rumput dah tinggi, siap uncup-uncup dah sampai peha (ok, tipu sampai betis je)

7. Bunker - FINE SAND, I love it! ni baru la bunker (sebab aku suka sangat, bola aku end up asyik dalam bunker (-_-') testing sand. huhu)

Fees

1. Very affordable, even on weekends!

Service

1. No buggy to/fro the car. Leceh.

Buggy

1. On track only - tiring a bit because of the huge fairway.

Verdict: A GOOD COURSE FOR BEGINNERS TO START UP FOR A MORE SERIOUS PLAY. N IF KNA ARI YG BAIK, WEATHER SGT LA BEST. TRUST ME. I'VE EXPERIENCED IT! IT WAS AN ENJOYABLE ROUND - review by Mee Ferng. For me, even tho I played teribbly (sangat-sangat teruk yang memalukan, altho I am happy to say that I have learned how to use my rescue 4 and iron 8), I would certainly come again and play another game. The weather was certainly a very nice one that made me really enjoy the game despite the scores (-_-')

Enough about golf.

Checklist for engagement (after some compilation - Thanks peeps!)

Select day, time, venue - done!
Hantaran stuff
Baju tunang - get material and send to tailor.
Makeup artist - done! end up asking Baqi to help out.
Photographer - done! wanted to get Anuar, my cousin of PlanBWerks, unfortunately he got a wedding shoot so I asked Adik, Jojo's friend to do it (boleh la kan masuk dalam portfolio kamu tu nanti). I wasn't planning on spending too much money on photographer, the pictures pun maybe print sendiri tampal dalam album sendiri, hehe. majlis kawin lain cerita.
Invitation list - done!
Favours
Caterer - ni mama punya keje, aku pilih kang dia tak suka lak kan?
Canopy + chairs + tables.
Area for upacara menyarung cincin - no, dowan a mini pelamin. serious rasa macam gatal dah tak sabar nak kawen je kalau ada pelamin. hehe.

Since the 2-person plan already became 10++++ person-plan, and my parents are in Melbourne attending my sister's convocation, I had been given a task of getting the place and make sure it is available before Zainol go back for his next semester. Fortunately, there is a slot available and Pak Uda already blocked it for me. So for my wedding checklist, the date and place already booked!

Now I can really enjoy my holiday without anything to worry about. Another 8 days left!

Oh Yeah!

Taken and Loving It

2009-12-11T17:13:00.004+08:00

Kita sudah belajar adat merisik, sekarang kita belajar adat bertunang pula ya? =)

Ibu bapa sudah bertemu, cincin telah diberi.
Tidak sampai 7 hari, jawapan telah diberikan.
(Yeay, kata tuan empunya diri!)

So, selepas risikan telah diterima, pihak lelaki dan wanita pun kumpulkan lah orang semendanya basically untuk tujuan menghantar (for lelaki) dan menerima (for girls) (jangan tanya aku ape semenda tu, aku pun susah nak explain, kalau ko dari kecik dah biasa dengar kira ko paham-paham sendiri je lah, ni ala-ala perkataan 'godang', 'umang ai', 'bongak', 'bongai', 'menureh' dan banyak lagi)

Basically orang yang telah dipilih ni (biasanya pakcik-pakcik sendiri, adik beradik your parents la) akan hantar cincin meminang ke rumah si perempuan (biasanya kena pilih yang kelakar and quick-witted, so apa-apa soalan yang diajukan atau lawak-lawak yang ditembak dapat dijawab atau ditepis dengan baik. Kalau pandai berpantun, lagi bagus!). Cincin tunang ini untuk si perempuan, biasanya cincin risik yang telah diberikan dulu dipulangkan kembali kepada pihak lelaki.

So bila pihak lelaki dan sampai ke rumah si perempuan, pihak perempuan ni pun ada orang semendanya jugak (sama je la lebih kurang macam pihak lelaki pilih orang diorang) yang menunggu mereka.

Lepas tu, apa lagi startlah percakapan antara dua pihak and biasanya pihak lelaki akan bergurindam, berpantun dan buat lawak mengikut akal fikiran masing-masing.

Bila pihak perempuan kata OK (ada yang berani kata tak ok?), majlis sarung cincin kepada bakal isteri si lelaki akan dibuat. Biasanya, bakal mak mertua sarungkan pada bakal anak menantu. Then adalah makan-makan sikit dijamu oleh pihak perempuan. Time ini juga family masing-masing dapat berborak-borak dan berkenalan.

Lepas tu, apalagi??!!! BOTH OF YOU ARE ENGAGED LAAA. Dah jangan nak gatal-gatal keluar ngan pompuan/lelaki lain dah. Start planning untuk KAWEN!

I've felt like I'm in a pressure cooker for the past few days. I'm not really a good planner, especially not on ocassions that made me play the main role, hence planning for this will be very, very, very, stressful for me. Choosing the engagement and wedding dates have been our favorite topic nowadays (-_-'). Betul kata orang, its easier when it was just between the two of us, but it's a totally different story when the family get involved. Planning yang sepatutnya lain, bila ibu bapa masuk campur, dah jadi lain. *sigh* I'm not complaining tho, I mean they terlebih dahulu makan garam, so they know better, I guess. I have roughly about 2 months to prepare for my engagement (insyAllah) and it doesn't help when I already plan on having a very long holiday at the end of the month (-_-'). Satu benda pun tak buat lagi, sempat ke? Have been doing some research on things to do/needed but when you have too many choices, you became rambang mata and end up, not knowing what to decide (-_-') Back to square one, again. *sigh* Sorry ye yang.

TOLONG! Anyone who has a checklist or something to help me with the preparation, tolonglah share ngan aku, please (aku belanja minum teh tarik mamak =P). (-_-')

p/s: CONGRATULATIONS IJAN AND RIZAL ON THE BIRTH OF THEIR FIRST BORN CHILD, NUR JASMIN (tak tau la betul ke tak spelling anak dia ni.) GOD, I cant believe Ijan is already a mother, budak yang duk selalu memonteng ngan aku masa sekolah tu dah ada anak ok! Tak confident je aku tengok. haha.

Single But You're Welcome To Change That

2009-12-07T12:37:00.000+08:00

Birthdays were never a big thing in our family.

So it was kinda funny when suddenly Aboy wanted to have a birthday celebration for his 22nd last Friday. Seriously, budak tua bangka buat birthday party kat rumah sangat lah hilang kemachoan ok, siap nyanyi ramai-ramai macam 22 tahun tolak 20 tahun je umur dia. Tapi nak buat macam mana adik sendiri, kakak dia still sayang jugak lah kan. Aboy even told Mama, "Ma, nape Mama tak pernah cakap turning 21 is actually a big thing? Aboy pelik kenapa semua macam semangat celebrate 21st birthday Aboy last year" (he was in Melbourne to further his studies, and just finished his degree in Accounting and is now back for good - so sapa tau mana-mana bank/investment companies yang nak cari fresh graduate sila inform aku, aku nak suruh dia keje cepat sebab aku dah malas dengar dia mintak duit kat aku sebab nak keluar asyik takde duit).

Aboy's 22nd Birthday

But since he came back, nampaklah sikit yang dia dah makin matured, being a better host than before. Kawan-kawan perempuan, mesti nak hawt saje ok. Aku tengok sepesen je rupa, kurus-kurus, rambut semua nak panjang, sexy kemain, rasa nak je sound sorang-sorang, 'Kut ye pun ko nak gi club lepas makan-makan kat rumah ni, pakai la sopan sikit, short-pants? spagetthi strap dress? come-on lah. bawak je lah spare'. *sigh* BUDAK-BUDAK ZAMAN SEKARANG.

Pak Uda, Nenek Long and Me

After the cake-cutting ceremony, my twin uncle Aie and Uncle Dan kidnapped me and belanja gi Sky Bar, Trader's Hotel. It was my first time there and a really nice place to chill out with friends, the ambience (level 33, ada swimming pool, open air), the people (no teenage boys wearing triple-extra-baggy-pants where you could only hope it wont fall down and show their b***ocks/d**ks or teenage girls wearing their senget sebelah hair like very short on their left head and very long on their right, seriously wtf? sense of style OUT) but the food and drinks are a bit on the high side (yes, ni pasal i prefer mamak stalls, aku sengkek sekarang).

The next day, had a date with my long lost friend (takdelah long lost tapi sebab lama dah tak jumpa and I'm like missing him so dearly), Janggut, and lepak at Sungai Wang's mamak for like the whole day, updating about each other's lives, and he is still him, like those days when we used to hang out in UTP, the jokes, the high, the 'aku suka life single aku sekarang' attitude, the advices. He even teman me trying out shoes and dresses. End up a couple of hundreds poorer from buying a black open-toe heels, stripe 'very-comfortable' flat-shoes, a dress and dvds '500 days of Summer and Coco Before Chanel'.

courtesy of Google search

Watched 500 days of Summer with Abah and I like it. A few things I like about the movie:

The narrator's part when he said: "This is a story of boy meets girl, but you should know upfront, this is not a love story."

We meet people everyday in our life, we might fall in love with one of them, but they might not feel the same way, and vice versa. Some people do not understand this, in the end, they keep on using karma so that the other party would feel guilty. WTF?

When you like someone, you would like/love everything about her/him. Especially on the earlier days of getting to know each other. Then, when bad things happen, the same thing that you like about that person suddenly became the things you dont like about that person.

Tom: I love her smile. I love her hair. I love her knees. I love how she licks her lips before she talks. I love her heart-shaped birthmark on her neck. I love it when she sleeps.

Tom: I hate her crooked teeth. I hate the way she smacks her lips. I hate her knooby knees. I hate that cockroach shape splotch on her neck.

When we are in a relationship, all we can do is be and do our very best to make things work. We are talking about two people here, two different way of growing up, two different values, two different minds, two different ways of seeing things. And you find the one you're compatible with. I found this somewhere I couldn't remember where and I think its true.

"We are all a little weird. And life's a little weird. And when we find someone, Whose weirdness is compatible with ours, We join up with them. And fall in mutual weirdness. And call it LOVE"

Rachel: Just because she's likes the same bizzaro crap you do doesn't mean she's your soul mate.

Right to the point! Need I say more? Soulmates can even be from the same sex, I believe.

Tom: You don't want to be named as someone's boyfriend, and now your someone's wife?

Summer: I woke up one morning and I just knew.

Tom: Knew what?

Summer: What I was never sure of with you.

It hurts, yeah. Knowing the person you were so very sure of wasn't feeling the same for you. But if you were in the other's shoes, what would you do? Stay and be sad and keep questioning what-ifs for the rest of your life? Or move on and find your happiness, after all you don't expect other people to make you feel happy, rite? I mean, you have to help yourself first, before anyone can help you. To me, its like, "Yeah you may call me your best friend, but I may not feel the same way, cause I already got my best friend." I've been in both shoes and I think, if your partner is not happy with you, why force him/her to stay? If you love him/her so much, you would want them to be happy right? You try your best, you didnt give up, but you should know when to quit and to find your own happiness when the time is right.

Panjang review. Hehe. I haven't seen Coco Before Chanel, planning to do it later. =)

Dan akhir sekali, 6 Disember 2009 adalah tarikh gambar di atas diambil.

=) Tarikh saya telah dirisik.

The One and Only Me~

2009-12-02T11:56:00.002+08:00

On our way to Shira's wedding, we made a crazy plan to find a course in Perak, play a round of golf and made a review about it. As we started our journey pretty early on Saturday, it was either Bukit Beruntung Golf Club or Taiping Golf Resort. But because it was just the two of us, and Bukit Beruntung allow 2 balls only after 12pm, we decided to shoot straight to Taiping.

The journey took us about 4 hours (penat gak buttock aku duduk je, tapi sebab bukan aku yang drive so tak kisahlah kan). The furthest so far for me just to play a game. We took the Taiping (U) exit and the course was about 20mins from the exit. We arrived at 11am and tee-off at 11.30am, start at hole no. 10.

after the Taiping Exit

Welcome to Taiping! Tried calling Janggut and was hoping to meet him but somehow his phone got prob kut, susah betul nak contact!

Yeah, sudah sampe!

Review:

1. Short and narrow course.

2. Green in very bad condition. Very bad!

3. Fairway is not maintained that we got confused with the rough. Some were soggy, ergh.

4. Bunker - seriously dont know what they actually put in there, sand or pebbles.

5. Buggy on track only - imagine playing under the sun, hot like hell!

6. For RM138 per person, its not worth it.

Verdict: Even if you offer me RM1000 to play there again, I'd say NO WAY. But kalau RM1mil, boleh dipertimbangkan.

Enough about golf.

On Sunday we went to Shira's Wedding at the Dewan Mes Pegawai Kanan Polis in Ipoh. They wore yellow and made a beautiful couple and after the reception ended we did some camwhoring session outside the hall.

while waiting for VVVIP to arrive. hungry alredi!

baby Alya tido, penat sangat kut.

Yeah, sudah jaga. Ohhh, I like her very much!

She only let girls hold her. Kecik2 dah pandai tak menggatal. Bagus.

With the beautiful Bride!~~

The buah tangan~~

With the Bride and Groom. Congratulations!

There goes my housemate, who's next? Best makan free ni!

SELAMAT PENGANTIN BARU SHIRA AND HAIROL - SEMOGA KEKAL KE ANAK CUCU!

At around 3pm, we headed home. But unfortunately, traffic was bad. It was a long weekend plus school holidays. Ergh, took Simpang Pulai's exit and we (convoy 3 cars) thought if we took the jalan dalam it would be better. So we took exit to Tapah and guess what? JAM LAGI TERUK! SO sempat camwhoring lagi. Hehe.

suatu tempat di dalam kawasan Tapah.

kereta berjalan merangkak-rangkak, siput babi pun jalan lagi laju.

MAKA TERHASIL LAH GAMBAR-GAMBAR VAIN DI BAWAH,

nak jugak interframe tag ofis tu, haha.

tak cukup gambar sendiri, gambar kereta depan pun tangkap jua.

Then, eh eh, YANG, ADA KELAB GOLF TU YANG, TAK NAK SINGGAH KE?

SET DAH ADA KAT BELAKANG TU HAAAA~~

Around 9pm we reach KL, went to Uptown to have our dinner with Abang Hadi (yang bila mamai nampak kedai nama Faraj Koyak instead of Fajar-~~apentah~~ Rojak) and Fariq (hahaha, soklan 'ada tak steak tapi tukar ayam?', 'tu bukan chicken chop ke?' masih terngiang-ngiang di kepalaku), bought ourselves some dvd harem and off home.

Wew, what a weekend.

pictures credit to Gab, Jojo and her ~~Nikon~~ Canon. also my simple old Olympus. hehe

Happy Eid!

2009-11-27T08:00:00.003+08:00

Eid-ul Adha : The Feast of Sacrifice in Islam.

If I were to be in his shoes,
Would I be able to do what Ibrahim a.s did?
His faith and obedience and the mercy that God can show.
And that's the reason his lineage appointed the leader of mankind.

To those who have made Hajj, Happy Eid-ul Adha!