30 September 2010

Eid Mubarak 2010 - Part 2

Hello peeps!  How's your Raya celebration so far?  As for me, I've stuffed myself silly and is in a quest to lose a few kilos, 5 kg to be exact.... Okay, seriously, even if I starved myself to death, I won't be able to achieve my dream curves especially when it's Scarlett Johansson's perfect figure that I've been salivating at. lol.... Confirm, tinggal angan2 je.....

Anyway, as mentioned in my earlier entry, I promised more Raya pix of the family (as most of my girl & darlng husband's photos will be in my other blog).  So, here it goes.......

 "Kasih seorang anak"

 Cucu2 Maktok

 Some of the 'adik-beradik'

 Mak & her sons

 "Air dicincang takkan putus" - Kak Long & Amok

 Us

 Last but not least, pose gedik... My 'over' SIL & me



Well, that's all for the time being.... Me loikey!



11 September 2010

What A Wonderful Raya!




It's the second day of Eid Mubarak and I'd like to wish all Muslims, Selamat Hari Raya.....

I dunno whether it's the age factor or what, but I feel that Syawal is less significant now as compared to how I welcomed and embraced Ramadhan.  Despite the 4 days gastric attacks, I was  a bit sad to bid goodbye to Ramadan... Owh well, I think it's definitely the age factor!

Nevertheless, we had so much fun yesterday and were 'camwhoring' at my brother's place (where our mom currently is) like there's no tomorrow and by the time we visited Kak Teh's and Kak Ngah's, we're to busy at the dining table for another heaps of 'rendangs', 'daging dendeng' (to-die-for la at Kak Teh's) and 'kuah kacang', which reminds me of my 7-days Detox program, and extremely occupied with more 'juicy' gossips, not to mentioned too tired to pose for the camera plus makeup-pun-dah-cair.....

Okay, enough babbling for now.... Let the pictures do all the talking and Alhamdulillah, we really had loads of fun plus some 'waterworks' dramas for some ;P


See, I told you.... it's a happy and joyous occasion, everyone smiled for the camera

One of the many 'future supermodel' pose
My girl 'interframe' in what was supposed to be a family pix ;)
Guess, who's in her mid 50's?  Obviously not moi la kan! But, sheeeshhhh... my Kak Net always always looks younger than me!!! Darn!
Posing maut from Soraya...

'Bunga Api' session at Kak Ngah's....Thanks to my brother for the 'supplies'....
At Kak Ngah's house in the evening of 1 Syawal



p/s:  Dunno la what's wrong with the alignment..... Anyway, stay tune for more pix in part 2......

13 August 2010

A Bit of This & That......

I know I’ve kinda neglecting my blog again and in all honesty, I don’t have any excuse except for the fact that I’ve lost the mojo to write a lengthy post, especially when I can have sporadic updates on my daily happenings via FB and Twitter. Furthermore, I can be rest assured that only selected and approved list of friends are able to view my profile. Well, I guess with the advent of Twitter and the not-so-new FB, it’s easier and more convenient for me to connect with friends and family via these channels comparatively to blogging. But..........., I’ll still update this blog every now and then ;)


Time really flies and little did I know that my last post was about 4 months ago, and what have I been doing all this while?. Well, read the perfectly explained article below if you wanna know why mothers with kid/s don’t have time or for better and clearer view, click here, where my girlfriend, Toughcookie has kind enough re-typed the whole article to be shared with.



Okay, what else yeah?

Owh! Today is our 3rd day of Ramadan and I sincerely hope that it’s still not too late for me to wish Salam Ramadan to all my readers and fellow bloggers, and I’d also like to take this opportunity to share this beautiful Hadith with all of you who frequent my blog and to seek for forgiveness in this Holy Month of Ramadan.

Hadith No. 20
The Month of Ramadan and Seeking Forgiveness
Imam Ali (A.S.) said: It is incumbent upon you to seek forgiveness and supplicate excessively in the month of Ramadan. As for the supplication, by means of it the calamities are warded off from you, and as for the seeking of forgiveness, it erases away your sins. Al-Kafi, vol. 4, pg. 88

Speaking of Ramadan, I can’t help but to notice how ungrateful, unspeakable and gluttonous some people can be in a restaurant. Those, in my FB list are aware how annoyed I was yesterday when I saw the leftovers of food on the table next to ours. It’s perfectly fine if they found the satisfaction in piling up their food as high as the twin towers or spreading the array of food as wide as a football field, and are able to finish it off but what infuriated me was the fact that I was able to see ‘mini twin towers’ (read : leftovers) being cleared away. Seriously, I just don’t get the idea on too-full-a-plate or perhaps they thought the buffet line would vanish once the Azan fills the air. But, then again, I digress...... Who doesn’t eh? Especially when they are low on sugar, like yours truly.

I reckon, I’ll stop right here since my energy is running on a back-up power generator and I need to go find my lip balm as my lips chapped rather badly. Owh, btw, do eat lotsa high-fibre food during ‘sahur’, in my case it’d be Oats and lotsa fruits coz’ high-fibre food are slow to digest, so, they tend to fill you up. Thus, this is my ‘secret meal’, which I found a few months back when I was in the midst of ‘ganti puasa’ and trust me it’s very helpful since I do suffer from an occasional gastric problem. Due to this problem, I do have lotsa of puasa to be replaced and thanks to Kalkulator Fidyah by Lembaga Zakat Selangor, I am able to keep track of the number of days I need to replace and fidyah I need to pay. “Kalau hutang dengan orang kita kena bayar, hutang dengan Allah swt, lagi la wajib kena bayar” :o).



Selamat Berpuasa & Berbuka......

18 April 2010

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOMMA!


I’ve been staring at this space for more than 10 minutes not knowing what to write, although, my heart is overflowing with love and my brain is working overtime remembering all those amazing moments with Mak, but my mind just went ‘kaput’ and now I’m struggling with this syndrome, which they called writer’s block. I doubt I could ever find the right words to tell her how much she means to me, to all of us adik-beradik and we could never find a better mom.

It’s just unexplainable! She’s indeed the ‘awesome’mest mom in this whole wide world and YES! We LOVE her so very much....

When words failed me, I try to remember things she said and sometimes, albeit her being clumsy (now you know where I got this special trait from, eh?) and ‘orang cakap A, dia ingat Z and then dia cakap B’ kinda person, she never ceases to amaze me with her words and advises (ya lor... she’s only a std. 6 graduate mahh...).

The most vivid conversation I had with her was a few months back and it’s about me, her once-career-minded-‘gungho’- daughter-turned- SAHM. During that particular casual conversation, I asked her whether she’s disappointed with me for being a SAHM. Well, you know....sometimes mothers do have high expectations on their children, be it academically, materially, and professionally and they’d always want their children to excel in every aspects of their life.

Honestly, I didn’t expect my mom to say what she said and it reduced me to tears to know that I have the most understanding and supportive mom. What she said in a gist was, as her daughter, my then responsibility was to ‘masuk Uni, get myself a degree tak kisah la course apa-apa pun and work’. I did just that and made her proud (well, at least my mom merasa la duit kerja I – that’s her words okay!), although at the same time I did give her hell with my perangai yang sungguh tak senonoh (they did say that bad girls have more fun, no?).

She continued by saying that I have additional role and as a wife and mother I now have different responsibilities and priorities, which is to my husband and my lil’ girl (and she went on and on and on about this responsibilities of mine), and as much as she’s worried about me being too dependent on DH, there’s only so much that she can do and that ‘much’ she leaves it to none others but the Almighty to eternally bless my marriage. That’s what matters the most, right? I always believe, when a married couple received a blessing from both their mom and mother-in-law, it kinda strengthened the whole family foundation.

So, yeah! That’s among the conversation I had with my mom. Isn’t she the coolest mom in this world or what??! Okay..okay.... maybe I was just being a selective listener, you know, you kinda listen to only things that interest you and simply shut down to other conversation or advises when you feel that they’re not on your side. But, well.... in my case, I’m confident that she’s happy for me and with my decision to quit my job, although there’s nothing ‘glamour’ about being a gorgeous & still very much desirable SAHM because if she cares, she’ll talk and talk and talk until cow comes home but when she has given up hope on you, that’s where she’ll be in total silence and that’s the time where I’ll start to shiver and go helter-skelter to find ways to make her talk to me again. I sure hope I won’t do stoopid things to incur such ‘wrath’ from her.

But I digress.... and since I’m so predictable, you’d understand by now how often I ‘tersasar’ from my writing mission here..... So, again, Happy Birthday Mak! Semoga dipanjangkan umur, dimurahkan rezeki , disihatkan tubuh badan dan semoga ALLAH swt sentiasa memberkati hidup Mak....Aminnn..

Here’s a poem for you, mom.....


Before I was Myself, You made me, Me....

Before I was myself you made me, me
With love and patience, discipline and tears,
Then bit by bit stepped back to set me free,

Allowing me to sail upon my sea,
Though well within the headlands of your fears.
Before I was myself you made me, me

With dreams enough of what I was to be
And hopes that would be sculpted by the years,
Then bit by bit stepped back to set me free,

Relinquishing your powers gradually
To let me shape myself among my peers.
Before I was myself you made me, me,

And being good and wise, you gracefully
As dancers when the last sweet cadence nears
Bit by bit stepped back to set me free.

For love inspires learning naturally:
The mind assents to what the heart reveres.
And so it was through love you made me, me
By slowly stepping back to set me free.

*A poem from Poemsforfree.

12 April 2010

BOOOO...



Isn't the pix above cute????

I can't resist putting it up in my blog as it seems that I'm impossibly the most irresistible person to some beings.  Owh...come on.... just spill it!  You miss me, eh?

But...... I'd rather have 'it' physically rather than virtually coz' I'm very 'the' expressive person.


p/s :  to those who doesn't get the drift, it's okay coz' it was never meant for you......


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