Wah, sekarang nie dah rajin aku menulis blog kan…
This is about the picture book that I bought last night for my little angel, Luffy. I went to Borders, Queensbay Mall. I have a few colourful flashcards, so this time I want to get Luffy some picture book. Gosh, children book are so damn expensive, why? Why? Why? Most of the picture book costs more than RM20 even though contains only few pages. I’ve come into several selections of interesting picture books, but I just can see the cover. Borders have all the books wrapped, I guess to prevent kids from mucking up the book. Hubby and I decided to pick one book with animal and their skin. Hubby thought it can teach Luffy on his touch and sense skill. Maybe Luffy was not comfortable, so he starts being fussy drive me out from Borders in rush. I just passed the book to Hubby for payment at cashier.
When I reached home, I was so excited to show the book to Luffy. I opened up the wrapper and checked on the content. A chick and its fur, next page is cute kitten and its fur, followed by cow, horse and OMG! Piglet…. Why oh why I didn’t think about it?? Should HALAL mark put on book as well? When I checked the book meticulously actually it does written on what are the animals they have, at the back of the book and with the small wordings. So I guess, this is really my own mistake…. “Buat sesuatu dengan cepat dan tak concentrate memang tak bagus!!”
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Appreciation..
As I was enjoying my M’cD chicken porridge on my lunch break, I saw the rows of cars parking in front of the break area. There are two of my favorite cars; 1 BMW 5 series and 1 BMW 3 series parking among those cars. Suddenly I have the thought, will I have the chance to own this car one day? Lots of positive thinking that came across my mind; eg.. I should work harder, I should do business, maybe its luck..etc. just to make me feels good. As I sighed I looked at other cars, and suddenly thinks how unappreciated I was. I am sure majority of the other car owners have the intention of driving the luxurious BMW, but do we need it?? Do I really need it? It’s only a mean of transportation. I can have it if I really can afford it but to in case I don’t get chance to drive own that car, I don’t lost anything.
I looked around and I see motorcycles passing by and people walking on the road. Now I feel how lucky I am to have my own car and independent of going to any places. Realized on how ungrateful I was and I started to beristighfar (state of asking forgiveness from God). Every human life and fate is unique and diverse. I think world would be too dull and unbalance if all people are rich, good and happy. That is why God create his servant’s fate unique and diverse. My opinion, it’s good that I have a dream, but I don’t have to be SAD and fell failure if I don’t catch my dream. I should fell THANKFUL for what I have, not GRUDGE on one that I don’t have…
I looked around and I see motorcycles passing by and people walking on the road. Now I feel how lucky I am to have my own car and independent of going to any places. Realized on how ungrateful I was and I started to beristighfar (state of asking forgiveness from God). Every human life and fate is unique and diverse. I think world would be too dull and unbalance if all people are rich, good and happy. That is why God create his servant’s fate unique and diverse. My opinion, it’s good that I have a dream, but I don’t have to be SAD and fell failure if I don’t catch my dream. I should fell THANKFUL for what I have, not GRUDGE on one that I don’t have…
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Raya Story.
This time my conteng2 is about Eidulfitr holiday which has passed about a week ago. Since I started working, Eid or commonly call Hari Raya is the time I’ll take the longest holiday on yearly basis. Same goes this time where my holiday would be 11 days in a row..yahoo
I went back to my hometown on Saturday, and it is 4 days before the festival. Looks like this year, my family are going to have moderate celebration. My mum just got a new couch set for the new living room downstairs. The following 3 days passed so fast. I did some chores to help my mum like shopping, cleaning the house and cooking for berbuka. Most of my family member loves the idea of “me cooking” because normally I like to try new recipe and it taste BOMBASTIC… Hehehe… (masuk bakul angkat sendiri lah nie)…So during this holiday, I did cooked spaghetti, Mee Hailam, Bergedil Ayam, Sotong Goreng Tepung and Ayam Goreng taste like KFC. There is one specialty of my mum’s cooking. She very good in cooking curry, and I do not know how she’s done that. I did peek when she cook, and try to follow the same step but in the end my curry is still no so UMPH like hers. Oh, another specialty is her coffee…( pergi coffee bean atau starbuck pun tak boleh cari :) )
The last day before Eidulfitr was very hectic. Everyone was busy with their own task. I missed my baby so much because I got very limited time to play with him. My sister took care of him, maybe it’s an excuse to skip work, I guess, urm…. But i'm allright with that since I love doing this chores, because its boost up the spirit of festival in me. In the morning I was busy with my chocolate cake. It’s been almost two years I don’t bake anything. How time flies so fast? I remember before I got married, I love baking cake, cupcakes, pies and biscuits. It’s one of my hobbies. The chocolate cake was OK, but it is a bit hard because I forgot the setting of the oven. I followed the temperature indicates on the recipe, and I forgot not all oven are the same. Mine one is the small type, so the temperature circulation is very limited causing the oven very hot even with temperature like 70’C.
After finished with my chocolate cake, my cousin took charge of the oven. She baked fives types of biscuit non-stop. My gosh! She’s really good and so enthusiastic with the cooking. I think she really should quite job and open up a bakery shop. My mum is busy with her lemang. This year, she co-work with neighbor to do lemang and the kitchen was very messy to prepare for lemang’s ingredients. I wished I did take a photo shot for that but I missed it. Wait for next raya, insyaAllah. My next task is to do Rendang Tok…yeehaa, quite excited actually because rendang is an essential food to eat together with lemang and ketupat. Imagine all the guest will be tasting my rendang and say, “Sedap rendang Mak Jang thn nie..” FYI, my mum is widely called as Mak Jang. Plus provided if my rendang is really taste good and I really hope, wish and pray (u named it!!) for and exquisite rendang.
I started my work with mincing 3kg beef. It’s really a tedious job; if you don’t believe try it. However I managed to finish it about 1 to 2 hrs enough to make my back and hand sore. After that I prepared the other ingredient eg. Kerisik, santan, onions, garlic, ginger, lemon grass and rempah ratus. Kudos to my mum for helping me prepares the kerisik and santan. These are another time consuming task items to make. I really looked like chef on that time, not the chef you’d seen in hotel, but the chef you’d see at kenduri kendara like makcik2 type. But the one not good thing is that its fasting and I can’t taste my rendang before the berbuka. Luckily there is someone who is tak puasa. She is not purposely not fasting, but due to her condition which forbid her to fast. Thanks to Etet, my sister I asked my mum whether she already put the salt into the rendang, she says not yet. So, it’s time for me to pour some salt before Etet tasting session. Etet suggest of one spatula of salt, since the rendang is quite lot, just imagine 3kg mince beef inside my rendang. Thank God, I didn’t follow her advice instead I put only one teaspoon of salt. She tasted it, “MASIN!!”….I was like huh??? Puzzled and suddenly I remember my mum did mention the coconut milk she used was already mixed with salt. Both of us were forgotten about that, and there it goes all my effort. I felt quite frustrated that time but Etet knows how to fix it. According to her the rendang is not that salty, it tasted fine if you eat together with lemang, ketupat or nasi. Just that if eat on its own, you can taste it’s quite salty. During “berbuka puasa”, she was right. My mum and I felt relieved.
Later that night, my Pak Lang family from KL arrived. He is my mum’s third brother. His daughter family came together so my mum’s house was quite a crowd that night. They looked so excited to see Luffy and I’m glad Luffy sleeps and behaved well that night which made people likes him. They also bring a few dishes for the Eid, at least people can try other dishes, not my rendang alone.
The Eidfitr falled the next day, which is on Wednesday. Early morning I ask forgiven from my husband for all the wrong doing I’ve done (sungguh sayu dan hiba). After getting some mild breakfast, we went to mosque for Eidulfitr prayer. Going to mosque with full stomach is a bad idea, I think. After finished with the prayer and listen to khutbah raya we went to visit my grandmother and grandfather cemetery.
Come back from that, comes my favorite part, which is visiting relatives and neighbors. This is also part where I need to provide ang pow or duit raya. For this year, I was late to do the money change ( break the money into other notes of smaller value) and a few days before I took leave I went to few banks and they don’t have the change anymore. Luckily there is one acquaintance at my kampong worked in the bank at Pantai Remis, managed to help me. This year I spent about RM600 for duit raya. Luffy also got duit raya, but cannot cover back mama’s money lah… :). I went to Uda’s, Andak’s, Tok Uda’s, Ulong Kama’s, Mak Long’s Setiawan , Ngah’s Batu Gajah and Pak Teh’s house. We were so exhausted and terribly full with the feast offered. Not forgotten, I feel happy to see my relatives and exchange stories. This is the time for family gathering and to update the particulars. Sometimes I just love to join aunties’ conversation, so many stories :). Not forgotten to refrain and to reminds myself not being such makcik ok!
Di rumah Mak Long Sitiawan
Geng Raya OTW rumah Tok Uda.
Soto di buat oleh fabulous Syuhada
I went back to my hometown on Saturday, and it is 4 days before the festival. Looks like this year, my family are going to have moderate celebration. My mum just got a new couch set for the new living room downstairs. The following 3 days passed so fast. I did some chores to help my mum like shopping, cleaning the house and cooking for berbuka. Most of my family member loves the idea of “me cooking” because normally I like to try new recipe and it taste BOMBASTIC… Hehehe… (masuk bakul angkat sendiri lah nie)…So during this holiday, I did cooked spaghetti, Mee Hailam, Bergedil Ayam, Sotong Goreng Tepung and Ayam Goreng taste like KFC. There is one specialty of my mum’s cooking. She very good in cooking curry, and I do not know how she’s done that. I did peek when she cook, and try to follow the same step but in the end my curry is still no so UMPH like hers. Oh, another specialty is her coffee…( pergi coffee bean atau starbuck pun tak boleh cari :) )
The last day before Eidulfitr was very hectic. Everyone was busy with their own task. I missed my baby so much because I got very limited time to play with him. My sister took care of him, maybe it’s an excuse to skip work, I guess, urm…. But i'm allright with that since I love doing this chores, because its boost up the spirit of festival in me. In the morning I was busy with my chocolate cake. It’s been almost two years I don’t bake anything. How time flies so fast? I remember before I got married, I love baking cake, cupcakes, pies and biscuits. It’s one of my hobbies. The chocolate cake was OK, but it is a bit hard because I forgot the setting of the oven. I followed the temperature indicates on the recipe, and I forgot not all oven are the same. Mine one is the small type, so the temperature circulation is very limited causing the oven very hot even with temperature like 70’C.
After finished with my chocolate cake, my cousin took charge of the oven. She baked fives types of biscuit non-stop. My gosh! She’s really good and so enthusiastic with the cooking. I think she really should quite job and open up a bakery shop. My mum is busy with her lemang. This year, she co-work with neighbor to do lemang and the kitchen was very messy to prepare for lemang’s ingredients. I wished I did take a photo shot for that but I missed it. Wait for next raya, insyaAllah. My next task is to do Rendang Tok…yeehaa, quite excited actually because rendang is an essential food to eat together with lemang and ketupat. Imagine all the guest will be tasting my rendang and say, “Sedap rendang Mak Jang thn nie..” FYI, my mum is widely called as Mak Jang. Plus provided if my rendang is really taste good and I really hope, wish and pray (u named it!!) for and exquisite rendang.
I started my work with mincing 3kg beef. It’s really a tedious job; if you don’t believe try it. However I managed to finish it about 1 to 2 hrs enough to make my back and hand sore. After that I prepared the other ingredient eg. Kerisik, santan, onions, garlic, ginger, lemon grass and rempah ratus. Kudos to my mum for helping me prepares the kerisik and santan. These are another time consuming task items to make. I really looked like chef on that time, not the chef you’d seen in hotel, but the chef you’d see at kenduri kendara like makcik2 type. But the one not good thing is that its fasting and I can’t taste my rendang before the berbuka. Luckily there is someone who is tak puasa. She is not purposely not fasting, but due to her condition which forbid her to fast. Thanks to Etet, my sister I asked my mum whether she already put the salt into the rendang, she says not yet. So, it’s time for me to pour some salt before Etet tasting session. Etet suggest of one spatula of salt, since the rendang is quite lot, just imagine 3kg mince beef inside my rendang. Thank God, I didn’t follow her advice instead I put only one teaspoon of salt. She tasted it, “MASIN!!”….I was like huh??? Puzzled and suddenly I remember my mum did mention the coconut milk she used was already mixed with salt. Both of us were forgotten about that, and there it goes all my effort. I felt quite frustrated that time but Etet knows how to fix it. According to her the rendang is not that salty, it tasted fine if you eat together with lemang, ketupat or nasi. Just that if eat on its own, you can taste it’s quite salty. During “berbuka puasa”, she was right. My mum and I felt relieved.
Later that night, my Pak Lang family from KL arrived. He is my mum’s third brother. His daughter family came together so my mum’s house was quite a crowd that night. They looked so excited to see Luffy and I’m glad Luffy sleeps and behaved well that night which made people likes him. They also bring a few dishes for the Eid, at least people can try other dishes, not my rendang alone.
The Eidfitr falled the next day, which is on Wednesday. Early morning I ask forgiven from my husband for all the wrong doing I’ve done (sungguh sayu dan hiba). After getting some mild breakfast, we went to mosque for Eidulfitr prayer. Going to mosque with full stomach is a bad idea, I think. After finished with the prayer and listen to khutbah raya we went to visit my grandmother and grandfather cemetery.
Come back from that, comes my favorite part, which is visiting relatives and neighbors. This is also part where I need to provide ang pow or duit raya. For this year, I was late to do the money change ( break the money into other notes of smaller value) and a few days before I took leave I went to few banks and they don’t have the change anymore. Luckily there is one acquaintance at my kampong worked in the bank at Pantai Remis, managed to help me. This year I spent about RM600 for duit raya. Luffy also got duit raya, but cannot cover back mama’s money lah… :). I went to Uda’s, Andak’s, Tok Uda’s, Ulong Kama’s, Mak Long’s Setiawan , Ngah’s Batu Gajah and Pak Teh’s house. We were so exhausted and terribly full with the feast offered. Not forgotten, I feel happy to see my relatives and exchange stories. This is the time for family gathering and to update the particulars. Sometimes I just love to join aunties’ conversation, so many stories :). Not forgotten to refrain and to reminds myself not being such makcik ok!
Di rumah Mak Long Sitiawan
Geng Raya OTW rumah Tok Uda.
Soto di buat oleh fabulous Syuhada
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Hey, its me again..
Assalamulaikum....
Actually this is not consider as my new entry, as I've started blogging almost 2 yrs with infrequent update though. However that blog was not user-friendly enough that I've decided to create a new one. I hope I'll make more attempt to decorate my blog colourful and cheerful.
Let me motivate myself on the first entry of conteng2ceritaku. I came into this interesting quote
"Work while you work
Play while your play
One thing each time
That is the way
All that you do
Do with you might
Things done by halves
I am not done right"
I totally agree with this, if we want to accomplish a goal, we must do it wholeheartedly. Relates back to the quote, this was happened at one of the famous hypermarket in Malaysia. Me and my friend are paying for our stuff and the cashier was busying keying our stuff price and talking with one of the guard standing nearby. They look very fond with each other until me and my friend started to get agitated. In the car my friend told me she got free lingerie, the cashier forgot to scan it. Hahahaha.... Lucky for you!! Lesson of this, do you job with focus, dont get easily distracted!!
Actually this is not consider as my new entry, as I've started blogging almost 2 yrs with infrequent update though. However that blog was not user-friendly enough that I've decided to create a new one. I hope I'll make more attempt to decorate my blog colourful and cheerful.
Let me motivate myself on the first entry of conteng2ceritaku. I came into this interesting quote
"Work while you work
Play while your play
One thing each time
That is the way
All that you do
Do with you might
Things done by halves
I am not done right"
I totally agree with this, if we want to accomplish a goal, we must do it wholeheartedly. Relates back to the quote, this was happened at one of the famous hypermarket in Malaysia. Me and my friend are paying for our stuff and the cashier was busying keying our stuff price and talking with one of the guard standing nearby. They look very fond with each other until me and my friend started to get agitated. In the car my friend told me she got free lingerie, the cashier forgot to scan it. Hahahaha.... Lucky for you!! Lesson of this, do you job with focus, dont get easily distracted!!
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Langkawi trip 7-9 aug 2008
Hello again... urgh!! i really need to be motivated to update my blog regularly.. It's been sometime since my last entry, and i almost forgot my password. Luckily after a few trial and error i managed to get access. Without further bla..bla..bla, let me update my blog with my recent trip to Langkawi. As a token of gratitude to my mum and my sister, Etet for taking care of me and my baby during the confinement, i decided to take them for a vacation to Langkawi. I've been to Langkawi 3 times in the past, but one good thing this time is that I'm going there with flight. I managed to get cheap ticket with fireflies, RM120 round ticket Penang-Langkawi.
Early in the morning, we all were rushing to get ready. My mum was all ready by last night, so she helped me to prepared luffy stuff. Around 8.00 am, we started the journey to airport. Luckily the road is no jammed, eventhough is was slightly slow. Yerlah, hari kerja, plus it's the time people go to office. We parked the car at the airport car park. The charge is RM20 for 1 day, which is almost the same if we were to call cab.
We boarded the flight at 9.35 am and reached Langkawi 10.00 am. Short distance flight should be good for my mum since this is her first time travelled by air. We stayed at Berjaya Hotel which is not that far from Airport. The resort is a walking distance to Langkawi cable car. The first destination was Crocodile Farm. Oh, to mention here, I had list down the places that I want to go this time and as usual, my husband will buy a map. Its really handy before the trip you plan on where to go and you have map with you so you can have efficient trip without wasting time on the road. EHm.. About the crocodile Farm, the entrance ticket is RM10/ adult. There was a few cages where they kept and segregate the reptiles based on their species and size. There is a big pond and long wooden bridge across the pond, so that visitor can observe the crocodile from top. Its a bit scary for me, because the are lots of nasty big giant in the ponds looking at they prey on top.
The next trip was Langkawi cable car. On top of the Bukit Mat Cincang, our view was quite limited due to intense fog. But it was so chilly and windy which reminds me of wether during autumn. My presumption that my mum would be scared and dizzy was totally wrong. She was all well, instead me and my sisted were giddy. We spent almost 2 hours there before move to next place which is Makam Mahsuri. We had our lunch at food stall situated next to Mahsuri's Sanctuary. The entrance ticket is RM5. When we entered ,there was a museum which enlighten the brief story of Mahsuri and her descendant. There is Mahsuri's tomb, Mahsuri's well, Mahsuri parent's house and the neighbourbood surrounding.
Early in the morning, we all were rushing to get ready. My mum was all ready by last night, so she helped me to prepared luffy stuff. Around 8.00 am, we started the journey to airport. Luckily the road is no jammed, eventhough is was slightly slow. Yerlah, hari kerja, plus it's the time people go to office. We parked the car at the airport car park. The charge is RM20 for 1 day, which is almost the same if we were to call cab.
We boarded the flight at 9.35 am and reached Langkawi 10.00 am. Short distance flight should be good for my mum since this is her first time travelled by air. We stayed at Berjaya Hotel which is not that far from Airport. The resort is a walking distance to Langkawi cable car. The first destination was Crocodile Farm. Oh, to mention here, I had list down the places that I want to go this time and as usual, my husband will buy a map. Its really handy before the trip you plan on where to go and you have map with you so you can have efficient trip without wasting time on the road. EHm.. About the crocodile Farm, the entrance ticket is RM10/ adult. There was a few cages where they kept and segregate the reptiles based on their species and size. There is a big pond and long wooden bridge across the pond, so that visitor can observe the crocodile from top. Its a bit scary for me, because the are lots of nasty big giant in the ponds looking at they prey on top.
The next trip was Langkawi cable car. On top of the Bukit Mat Cincang, our view was quite limited due to intense fog. But it was so chilly and windy which reminds me of wether during autumn. My presumption that my mum would be scared and dizzy was totally wrong. She was all well, instead me and my sisted were giddy. We spent almost 2 hours there before move to next place which is Makam Mahsuri. We had our lunch at food stall situated next to Mahsuri's Sanctuary. The entrance ticket is RM5. When we entered ,there was a museum which enlighten the brief story of Mahsuri and her descendant. There is Mahsuri's tomb, Mahsuri's well, Mahsuri parent's house and the neighbourbood surrounding.
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