Monday, September 28, 2009

Back to life, back to reality

Just imagine, after more than a week of long Raya holiday... 'bercintanye' nak drive thru the traffic jam again and go to the office... But what to do.. back to life! Back to reality!

This year Raya was quite 'happening' though.. Hubby kemaruk giler main m****n. Thunder cat, thunder clap. Beijing 2008, cake, rocket ... macam-macam ada. Parent's house jadi 'official venue' for all the 'key players' to concregate and have fun. Yang paling happy of coz the kids especially Amir.

Didnt expect that I would be as 'kemaruk' as hubby... :) Maklumla mende2 ni masa bebudak dulu jarang jumpa. 3 days in a row before raya.. sampai la ke hari ni... tak abis-abis lagi... Balik Rembau pun siap compete ngan adjacent neighbour. FIL bising gak ngan hubby... tapi the other siblings and in laws semuanya satu kepala. So FIL terpaksa akur dan mengalah... hahahaha...

Last weekend went to Nasha's house and En Ramon's as well. Ntah naper this year hubby rajin nak berjalan. Maybe sebab Amir pun dah besar. Amir pun dapat duit raya ... equal to the investment that we've made... hahahaha...

Rumah Nasha - makan nasi lauk2 pun sedap. Pastu makan desert. More than 2 hrs lepak kat umah Nasha. Sunday went to En Ramon's. Kak Su buat laksa utara... Kalau tak disebabkan perut yang dah kenyang... mau tambah lagi tu...

So pagi ni dah start work as usual. Quite busy with the preparation for Open House B** on the 12 Oct 2009. With more than 5K invitees every year... you can imagine the 'lenguh and letih berjalan' .... but if you put aside the tiresome.. memang la seronok especially towards the end... dapat tapau balik Al Malik's food. Hmmhh this year Al Malik is said to be the main caterer again for the VVIP.

Whatever it is... today is a bit slow.. Maybe esok mood kerja bertambah baik..
To all my colleagues yang dah start keje, welcome back ... dengan pesanan Audit is coming!!!!
Pada Sally and Kama .. yang still bercuti, we do not know how come we approved your long raya holiday... dengan ucapan ... cukup - cukup la tu.... kat ofc ni CSR menanti, CI menunggu.... :)

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

My special moments

These were some old pictures that I managed to digitize for the eyes of my grandchildren..

I was born in KL.. whereabout? According to my father, the existing PWTC was known to be the Camp of Senoi Praaq. My father was the camp commandant. Believe it or not my 'uri' was burried under the building .... in the heart of PWTC.... I wonder if I can claim this from UMNO....




The first colored photo masa tu... From left Azmin (my late brother, Busu Nana, myself and Azwa).




Some of these pics were taken at my late grandma's house at Sg Tua. My grandma passed away 4 years back. So now the house jarang dijenguk as she has inherited the house to her adopted son and not to my father , his legitimate biological only son... sob sob sob


These pics were taken when I was at International Islamic University, PJ.
I was quite active... Played basket ball, canoeing with Zulai ( recently I was in contact with Zulai ... Thanks to FB! after more than 10 years lose contact)





When we left IIU, our first gang trip was to Langkawi. Went for island hopping but were 'stopped' by the Marine kat tengah laut ... sebab naik boat tak pakai life jacket. Knowing that all of us were lawyers, the officer then released us with a very good advice... :)




My leg was once fractured... Ni dia gambar nya! I actually felt down from the stair case but until now my mum thought the accident was from playing badminton! Best dapat duduk rumah sebulan...




N
i masa joined Komando team... masuk utan.. What an experience!




I had double graduation: First when I finished my LLB (Hons) in 1990.
The second graduation was when I was called to the Bar as an advocate and solicitor a.k.a lawyer. My biography was read in the court. I saw my parents wept... huhuuuu sedih plak rasanya.



After 'called to the Bar', I practised as a lawyer for about 8 years...



Ni masa my big day...
Orang kata I macam Sharifah Aini. Have a look... Amacam? Ada tak cam Kak Pah... hahahah...




I am still here... going strong...
I felt that some how or rather the difficulties and challenges that I faced from time to time have defeated some weakness in me and developed my strength...

After all that's what life is all about!

Iftar - DTandoor

Phewww....

Last weekend my inlaws (MIL, FIL, SIL, BIL) came to join for Buka Puasa. At first I thought cooking on my own would be a great idea. But had to cancel last minute since FD wanted to chip in. Small matter ... she said. We tried high and low to look for 'good food', 'cozy place' with a very- very reasonable price... Hmmhhhh. come on its bulan Puasa okay... buffet promotions are everywhere but the price... fullamak potong kapla! I have set aside few hundred bucks for this 'sweet occasion' with my inlaws...

Asked Jiji's opinion and ahaa.... she mentioned DTandoor. I straight away called Johhny the Operation Director. Hearing my voice he directly asked when are we coming for buka puasa at the restaurant... hmmmhhhh... this is like 'pucuk dicita ulam mendatang'... Ok I set on Sunday for 15 pax including kids.

...... and the best thing I chose to have it at KL Tower. Nampak cam very exclusive la kan... Some snap shots taken by FD at KL Tower:





The food... Buffet RM39.00 (adult) and RM17 (children aged below 12)


Food was great. Ada nasi Arab, roti naan, tanduri chicken... The bubur lambuk was awesome... I didnt have the opportunity to taste the curry mee... Too full...




Amir sempat beli Ben10...

Kami bukan twins ...







The fathers had their smoking session after Iftar. Surprisingly Amir was 'okay' with FD and hubby...

Anyways, we had a good time. Thanks to Johnny for 'sponsoring' the Iftar...
Deep in my heart ... must come again!

Thursday, September 3, 2009

The beauty of Ramadhan

Ramadhan datang lagi...
First day of Ramadhan dah jadi 'ritual' we all sumer akan berbuka dengan family....
So first day Ramadhan, went to parents' house to cook and sediakan apa yang patut.
First day puasa memang teramat mengujikan. Apatah lagi nak melayan karenah-karenah manja Amir...

Last weekend we went back to hubby's hometown. 3 hari you! During the Merdeka Eve, we 'see' how some youngsters celebrate merdeka. Tepat pukul 12 malam, a group of Matrempit were on their modified iron horses scrambling along the main road. It happenned only for not more than half an hour when a group of policeman on their bigger iron horses came into rescue..... Unfortunately they did not notice that the Matrempit group was hiding in the bushes.. macam playing hide and seek plak.. Anyways that was how some ppl (especially budak muda2 the so called new generation) celebrated Independence Day in a very 'shallow' way... whose fault is it ye... Let's dont deal with it now.

So we spent 3 days in a row buka puasa at Rembau. Sumer ada... macam raya pun ada jugak. This weekend they are coming to my house... Have to think what to cook or rather what to buy for the buka puasa nanti... At the same time thought that I need to spring cleaning the house..... But when I reached home today, beloved husband has done everything... This is super unpredictable.. well.. okay he had done that before too... Today is Thursday... no wonder ... hahahahah ....

At the office, we are planning to have buka puasa as well some time next week. Couple of important dates ... new boss will report duty on Monday (Boss, we gonna miss all the MIA) and we will be having Buka Puasa for B** on Friday. Tentatively we shall invite the unfortunates and under privileged communities and give away 'duit raya'. We might also invite the warga emas and saudara baru.

In a nutshell, Ramadhan is a blessed month compensating ppl with good deeds significant 'pahala'. Charity is everywhere.... semua tidak mahu ketinggalan. Even B** plans to borong all Puspanita's unsold kurma to give away to schools in Selangor and KL. Special thanks to P. Azian...

Ramadhan also reminds me more of my late brother Mohammad Azmin who left us on 29 March 2002. You will always be remembered....

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Just for fun

Last week Puspanita B** organized a mini carnival. All the gals, the mcks ... were looking forward to shop around. After I blasted an email on My crosc Rocks of Jiji's, I guessed ramai yang makin berminat... Some of them called and emailed requesting on their sizes. My answer was.. "Please come to the booth".

On the same day we had this talk on aura seri. I didn't listen much as I was assigned to be the 'photographer' of the day.

These were some moments snapped during the mini carnival:

Cun melecun yang bagi talk on aura seri ni...




Tak berkelip mata nengok dia...


Jiji and her crocs. Dengar citer banyak yang beli... Ramai jugak yang frust sebab takde size.



Pus's booth on kurma. This saddened me... Looks like the kurma tak mendapat sambutan sehangat yang lain ....





Kuih raya..




Bumbu untuk buat nasi goreng dan macam2 lagi...
Ni khas buat wanita2 yang 'rajin' seperti saya ....




Overall, everything went well. Even though it was just for fun .... apa yang penting 'masyuk' ..... well done ladies!