Oopss..Another Birthday!

Iman (my god daughter ) is 2 on 27 December 2006. She was borned a day after the Tsunami disastor in 2004.

Her mummy had her share of tsunami-like pregnancy while carrying her with shooting up BPs and not to mention the swollen legs right from the early stage of pregnancy. Anyway that was two years back. Now, she will have the privilege of going through more tsunami-like incidences with Iman...;-))

To Iman " Happy 2nd Birthday and May Allah SWT bless you and your whole family throughout this life and the life after"

p/s guess this is the full stop to this year's birthday parties. Selamat menyambut Aidiladha to my Muslim friends and Happy New Year to all yang rajin singgah blog ini.

2812/1228

Dua nombor plat yang menjadi idaman masa muda-muda dulu. Sempat jugalah merasa satu daripadanya, BCK 1228. I'm hoping the next one will be 2812 and I'm also hoping it will be the final one ( hoping aje ya ).

Today I celebrated my 48th birthday dengan meronda sekitar Jalan TAR bersama a few family members, menemankan mereka membeli-belah. Dalam meneman tu sempat jugalah membeli sepasang seluar untuk diri sendiri ( but this cannot be my birthday present for myself ). Haven't thot of what I should give myself for this year's birthday. Any suggestions from my visitors?

Anyway, biarlah birthday tahun ini dimulakan dengan memberi instead of menerima ( dimulakan ok! ). Lepas memberi, bolehlah kalau nak menerima pula kan? I was able ( God willing ) to do just that, which made me very happy. Syukur kepada Allah SWT for allowing me to mendahulukan keperluan orang lain dari keperluan diri sendiri. Semoga azam baru ni akan berkekalan hendaknya.

Selamat Hari Lahir Ke 48 kepada Pesara!!

A Birthday Weekend

Tajuk yang begitu sesuai sekali. This whole weekend was dedicated to menyambut one birthday after another. And what comes with birthdays??... Food and presents!!

Dari hari Sabtu, the whole ( well almost whole ) Ishak clan were moving from KL, SA to Bukit Subang for the first birthday. Bermula dengan nasi, diikuti dengan mee johor, roti jala, pudings and of course birthday cake. Makan and more makan..( it's safe to say that dieting was not on anyone's mind). Then everyone headed back to their respective base-camp. Ada yang masih meneruskan birthday celebration kat KLCC pulak ( that was a royal one, laporannya kemudian ya, kita kena nanti wakil kita bercerita).

So for pesara and pilotnya, we had to torture our already tired stomach, with a bowl of killer HOT tom yam kung ( jenis yang mengeluarkan cecair melalui every rongga in your body tu lah ) and ice blended mocha/cappucino ( wow lega nya ) kat secret recipe before proceeding back to base-camp.

Sunday pulak started with birthday celebration at A&W next to Amcorp Mall. Yang nii lebih sikit sebab ada majlis tari menari and a bit of some dangerous hugging and forbidden kissing ( for some lucky or unlucky ones.. hehehe ). This was no leisure birthday, everything was quick-quick cos' time was a key factor ( fear factor pun boleh juga lah ).

Keluarga Ishak ni makan kejap tak puas, so we proceeded to another site ( where a different batch of food and entertaiment awaits us ). Kali ini kat some condominium pulak. This was where the SURPRISE!!! occurred.

It was for pesara for her 21st ( ++++..... ) birthday. It was a real shocker ( as seen in the photo yang menunjukkan maximum gigi exposure ..). Tapi here there were no dancing ( or dangerous, forbiden kissing ) just loud, out of pitch, singing and motherly kisses and huggs for those below 2 years of age. Then followed by pool events which included swimming and screaming ( birthady girl sempat jugalah contribute a few cc of water from her very own body to the pool..hehehe, sejuk beb! ).

Selepas dah kenyang and upacara membuka hadiah, slowly-slowly ( kata Malaysian ) one by one started to beredar balik to their respective sarang. Tinggallah our host and hostess to clear what "little" mess ( sorry ya ) we made to especially, her 3 brand new carpets and home in general. That was a real hectic weekend for all involved.

p/s sampai rumah pesara tersenyum lebar sebelum tidur mengenangkan the surprise she got today..A BIG thank you to all involved with the planning and execution of a wonderful birthday surprise.

Another Day, Another Birthday!!

Guess whose birthday is it today 9.12.2006? The morning started with a birthday surprise breakfast prepared by the famous chef of LV. Upacara meniup lilin ( yang agak luar biasa tempat letaknya ). Cuba teka pukul berapa gambar ni diambil?

Pada sebelah tengaharinya pula, kita menghadiri upacara penyampaian diploma penterjemahan seorang kawan di DBP. Sempatlah bergambar sakan kat lobi DBP tu untuk dijadikan kenangan. I don't think we will be going there in the near future, so baik ambik gambar siap-siap.

The birthday celebration wasn't over just yet. Pada malamnya the chef prepared another dish, spaghetti marinara, ala-ala syok sendiri..hehe. Walau pun tak sama dengan yang dekat restoren di ibu kota tapi good enough sehingga menjilat sudulah katakan.

Bila agaknya celebration ini akan tamat? The night is still young when this entry was written. Jeng, jeng, jeng..... Apa-apa pun hope the birthday girl had a great time celebrating her ...th birthday at LV.

p/s banyak betul birthdays bulan disember ni...agak-agaknya siapa punya lagi yang belum disambut?;-))

Happy 1st Birthday Maya!

Last Saturday, 2 December 2006, genaplah 1 tahun umur Puteri Nur Sumayyah. We had a small celebration for her tapi Maya tak sihat pada hari tu. Walau pun Mummy dia dah ready with ice-cream cake for her to blow her first candle but Maya was too tired to get up from her sleep.

Untuk tidak menghampakan sambutan hari tu, we managed to snap some photos of the birthday girl with her birthday cake ( while she slept away...)













Anyway, the rest of the tetamu masih dapat meraikannya dengan antara lain, jagung bakar dan nasi ayam berempah. Only after we all had the celebration, baru the birthday girl got up. Tapi it was time for the guests to leave...what a birthday celebration it was, lain dari yang lain.

p/s Maya jangan risau ya, Mummy and Daddy akan adakan satu lagi birthday celebration for you ( walau pun you are too young to know..hehehe )

The Two F's...

These two F's memang tak dapat dipisahkan. Di mana ada satu F akan ada the other F. Apakah F yang dimaksudkan itu?

Last night I had the pleasure of meeting up with 2 old Friends that I haven't seen for a long time ( one longer than the other ) and 2 other friends that I just saw a few days back. Anyway, what I wanted to record in my blog is the meeting with those 2 old friends. It brought back the "feel" of being in campus again. We had the meet-up at One Utama and had Food at one Thai Restaurant there. At the beginning of dinner there was some commotion over how they serve their Chinese tea but that had us in a very jovial mood through out the whole meal.

We chatted about old times and about what some of us went through since the last time we met. There was alot of laughing plus abit of finger pointing as to who did not keep in touch with who ( resulting in the long time no see syndrome ) and parents health updates. We were still chatting away long after our bill was payed. Tu lah lain kali we should meet more often....( jangan nak salahkan sesiapa cos all of us had to accept the blame, right? ). We all had a great time, old and new, all enjoying what little time we had with each other. God bless us all, my friends.

Though I know ( deep in my heart, cos this is not the first time ) we might not see some friends in the near future ( being in a year or two ) but whatever time we had with each other will always be something to cherish and be grateful for. Like what was said by my oldest friend " ..when we die, we are all alone..."

So I have made a promise to myself today to give my oldest friend my e-mail address, my phone numbers ( which I know she has ) and my blog address, so we can always be in touch and she will never have to feel " alone " while she's still alive ;_-))

p/s to my dearest friend " Have a safe trip, and hope that we stay in touch ( kalau tak pun, hope to hear or see you again when you get back in 5 months time ). Have a productive sabbatical.

Trial and Error...

Just a few minutes ago I did an experiment that set my microwave up in smoke! What was I thinking?? Once a researcher, always a researcher.

It started with an inspiration from my all-time idol yang suka makan strawberi bersalut coklat tu lah. So off I went to my second home AA to get the ingredients. Sedang berjalan2, I met one of the tutor at MLT College walking with her husband. She stopped and asked if I'm on leave from work. I told her I dah pencen ( pilihan ) so she asked if I dah reached 40 ( at this point I was smiling... ) She is going for her Haj so we hugged and I wished her all the best. Anyway, back to the earlier story. I got the strawberry and a bar of chocolate ( with no nuts ) and headed home.

Lepas tengok my favourite soap opera ( Bold & Beautiful ), I was ready to start my experiment. Simple enough, I broke the chocolate bar and put them in my microwavable container. Set the timer to 30 seconds and washed my strawberries. It didn't melt, so I set the timer to 1 minute. That's when I saw smoke coming out of the microwave. Cepat2 keluarkan bekas yang dipenuhi asap and membuka tutupnya. There was a burned smell and part of the chocolate was actually burned.

I quickly dipped my strawberris into the melted chocolate and that was the end of the experimant. Had to throw away the partially burned container. ...and the end result is as seen below..

p/s kalau ada rezeki may be some of you might get to taste my version of strawberry-chocolate one day...( selagi Datuk M bersama, it shouldn't be a problem! )

Jalan2 dan Makan2...

Agaknya yesterday was the last day for Raya Open House. Last weekend was the most " all over the place " weekend. Bukan all over as in bersepah tapi kita orang telah drove all over for the jalan2 and makan2 . Hari raya has been very "good" for the appetite but "bad" for the cholesterol. Kalau BP high macam awal2 pencen dulu, sure dah kong memandangkan redang daging menjadi hidangan of choice. Nasib baik satay yang dihidangkan selalunya satay ayam.

Tapi I still have 2 functions ( food related ) to attend. Satu masih lagi berkait dengan raya ( at my old office ) and satu lagi just makan2 dengan geng lama. I am still, despite my choles level diancam, looking forward to both occassions. Not so much for the food but for the chit chats. ( Rois bukan Azwan ). Maklumlah bila dah pencen ni kita dah kureng bercakap dengan orang ( face to face ).

Ada orang "komplen" dah lama I tak menulis dalam blog I nii, so I thot I just scribble something for my die-hard readers..hehe. Some photos yang sempat dirakam masa some makan2 function everywhere to share with you all...

p/s Harap semua orang dah makan dan bermaaf- maafan dengan sepuasanya raya kali ini...

My Wedding of the Year...

Last night I had the opportunity to attend my ex-boss's son punya wedding. All the while I thought it was just another wedding kat dewan, no big deal. I biasanya malas nak go for wedding sebab nak kena pakai formal. Semenjak jadi pesara nii bertambah2 lagilah malas nak pakai formal2 nii. But I did not regret going for this wedding, and let me share with you all why...

I went with my buddy Puteri ( from my ex-office ). As usuallah because malam and hujan we had to really concentrate on the road so that kita tak miss entrance to Dewan Risda, Ampang tuu. My friend nii kurang sikit penglihatan kalau drive malam tapi dia gemar bercerita. Anyway,we arrived at the Bangunan Risda and were looking for a place to park kat basement tu when we saw a few more cars driving in with some of the men in the cars wearing songkok. So we knew these must be people also attending the same wedding. There is a reason why I'm mentioning "men" at this point in my entry.

Since dah lewat, kita pun rushed up by lift to the 1st floor. As the lift opened we were greeted by my ex-boss punya second daughter ( dah besar pun budak ni ) and told to go to the dewan on the left, which was for women katanya. Terasa pelik juga tapi since both of us are women so, no big deal lah. Bila masuk dewan tu barulah kita realised rupa2nya hanya ada women dalam dewan tu. No sight of any man ( not that we are looking for one ). It's felt so odd attending a wedding without being able to see the bride and groom in the same dewan ( plus not seeing any kind of man, including my ex-boss yang invited us to the wedding in the first place ). Terkilan jugalah sebab we did want to congratulate dia for the wedding.

Rupa2nya the story is, anak my ex-boss ni is involved dengan tabligh so dia insisted that women and men be in separate dewan. So it's strange to be in a wedding where you don't actually get to see a wedding taking place ( more like a group of women having dinner ). Kalau you can see from the photo below ( sorry not that clear sebab takleh go dekat2 to snap ), on stage pun is a bunch of women with the bride ( that's the one with the purdah ). Anyway, "Selamat Pengantin Baru , Semoga Berbahagia hingga ke akhirat" ucapan to the I'm sure lovely couple( takleh nak komen sebab tak tengoh the groom) .

p/s part of the female guests ( wondering if their partners are having fun in the other dewan?? )oh lupa the only time we saw men was at the lift and car park. The organisers really had things well under control. Syabas!! except for that little incident.

Why can't we be brave all the time...

Kadang2 kita dihadapkan dengan masalah yang tak semestinya rumit tapi biasanya melibatkan orang2 yang begitu bermakna dalam hidup kita sehingga menjadikannya sukar bagi kita menyuarakan apa yang tersirat di hati ini..

So much wrong is going on around us that we feel we cannot change. The truth is that we are not brave enough to execute changes to the things we feel are not right. We see or hear about the wrong doings but we somehow feel it's too big for us to try and change them. It's not so bad when it involves people that you don't know, but what if it does? We hope that they will have the courage to change things themselves. Even when we are fully aware that they cannot....

Inilah sebahagian dari apa yang bermain di kepala semasa menyambut Aidil Fitri kali ini. Walau pun bergembira di samping keluarga dan sanak saudara tapi masalah yang melanda tak dapat dilupakan walau pun pada hari kemenangan ini.

Hari ini I mengambil kesempatan ini untuk mengucapkan "Selamat Aidil Fitri, Maaf Zahir Batin" kepada pengunjung2 setia blog ini dan semoga Allah SWT memberi kita kekuatan dan keberanian untuk mengubah apa yang kita mampu mengubah dan memberi kita ketenangan dan kesediaan untuk meredhakan apa yang tidak mampu kita ubah. Amin.

p/s hope everyone had a good raya celebration with your love ones...

Kenangan Malam 28 Ramadhan 1427H

Last nite I berbuka bersama MAH. Kita janji to meet at 6.00pm at my place to keluar cari nasi dagang at Bazaar Ramadan Sri Rampai. Dia sampai lewat at about 6.20pm so we had to rush through the buying of food. Nasi dagang takde ( orangnya dah balik kampung kut ) and we end up buying ikan pari bakar, cendol, karipap and wadey ( teringat pula nii makanan kegemaran Datuk I ).

Lepas selesai membeli, again terpaksa pecut ( cos'the time now is 6.50pm ) and sempat sampai rumah just before azan magrib. Nasib baik I ada masak nasi dan sup ayam untuk bersahur, so kita berbukalah dengan masakan sendiri.

Selesai makan, it was time to go for terawih kat Surau At-Taqwa. Hari ni hujan lebat pulak. So MAH suggested that I jadi Imam and kita terawih aje kat rumah. Since I tak ready to jadi Imam, we decided to pergi juga ke surau dalam hujan ( yang by that time dah mulai renyai2 ).

Selesai terawih, kita pun berangkatlah balik. Semasa sedang drive back tu, terdengar pulak macam ada bunyi pada kereta ( gededup-gededup, macam tulah lebih kurang ). What could that be? MAH kata bunyi air berkocak kut ( dalam but memang ada bekas air ). Nasib baik rumah dekat aje. Sebaik sampai, terus check kereta. Rupa2nya tayar punctured. Apalagi kita orang yang masih dalam dalam telekong ( as for me, tak boleh ditanggalkan sebab tak pakai tudung) terus bertungkus lumus menukar sendiri tayar kemek tu. MAH memang expert bab menukar tayar puncture ni sebab selalu terjadi pada keretanya. Anyway, apa yang nak I share with you the readers is the surprise we got when we took out the SPARE TYRE to replace the punctured tyre. See for yourselves the photo below.... ( MAH tak habis2 ketawa bila teringatkan tayar spare tuu ). Tayarnya besar cenonek aje ( macam tayar motorsikal, Hyundai- Hyundai ish ish ish ).

Semangat Ramadan...

Memang kita harus mengalakkan anak2 belajar berpuasa pada bulan Ramadan dari usia yang seawal mungkin supaya bila besar nanti berpuasa adalah satu perkara yang biasa. Akan tetapi, ada anak2 yang dapat menyahut dugaan berpuasa dengan cemerlangnya dan tak kurang juga yang tewas ditengah jalan.....seperti yang tertera di bawah ni...hehehe

Macam ni lah gayanya sebelum berbuka puasa ....
















p/s kesian cucu2 saudaraku ( sorang tu macam mabuk susu..hehehe )

Antara Lala dan Serai....

It's been a while since my last entry. Ada sorang kawan ( nun jauh di sana ) telah bertanya kabar kenapa takde cerita bulan Ramadan ni. Sebenarnya ada tapi lupa nak cerita. Macam nii ceritanya..

Alkisah, pada suatu hari di bulan Ramadan 1427 , anak buah I kat Shah Alam tu dah tempah sanak saudara dia untuk berbuka puasa di rumahnya pada 14 Ramadan ( Sabtu hari tuu le). Anyway, being a relatively good aunty, I decided to cook a dish instead of buying from the bazaar ramadan yang bersepah everywhere tu. What I wanted to cook was Lala masak serai ( hmmm..masa tu keluar air liur ). Tapi pada hari khamis ( petang tu ) kawan I si MAH pulak ajak I temankan dia ke Ipoh the next day ( fridaylah ). Being a relatively good buddy I pun setuju to temankan dia sebab kesian dia kena drive jauh2 ( puasa pulak tu ). Anyway, we spent the night there and came back to KL the next morning.

Sepanjang perjalanan tu I dok memikirkan nak masak Lala tu le. So we decided to stop by kat Alpha Angle sebaik sampai KL ( to buy the Lala ). I sebenarnya dah beli serai terlebih dulu sebab excited nak masak ni. To my dissappointment, takde Lala kat AA, so we decided to cari kat kedai runcit near my place. My driver pun rushed to kedai runcit tu, tapi hampa. Then I told her to go to another kedai runcit but she suggested Pasaraya kat Gombak. So off we went. Dah le jam masa tu, selepas menyelit di jalan dan di dalam pasaraya, NO Lala. Punyalah sedih masa tu ( dan BP pun naik juga sikit ). We went juga to the other kedai runcit tu. Guess what? NO Lala. Geramnya tak terkira, tapi sebab puasa, buat2 rileks ajelah. Soo tinggallah serai 5 batang dalam fridge until today...( this morning that is ).

But that is HISTORY!! Today I got my Lala and tonight untuk berbuka ( and bersahur besoknya ) I will be enjoying my Gulai lemak Lala.....lalalalalala ( nii nada menyanyi :-)))

p/s Jangan terkeluar air liur ya !!

Jasamu Dikenang....

Majlis " Jasamu Dikenang " telah diadakan at my ex-working place to meraikan para pesara and those staf with 25years and above servise and still working in the imr. Obviously, since I am a pensioner, I too was invited to the function.

It was quite a memorable event especially it started off with the Director performing the ponco-ponco ( a kind of dance ) with the other performers. Here's a photo just to prove to all that it really happened...hahaha. Bravo to the director ( the one and only, I think ) yang sanggup bergoyang bersama staf-stafnya.

Since this will probably be the last formal event that I would be attending at my old office, so me and my buddy labmates decided to commemorate the occasion by taking a photo of the three of us ( I, the pesara and they, the 25 years or more servisers ) in the auditorium with the backdrop signifying the occasion.

But when we got there, the auditorium was locked ( takut orang masuk curi speakers ). So we managed to find some nice trees instead, for the "backdrop". This is an important photo to be "blogged" cos' someone looks thin in it..hehehe ( would you care to make a guess which one? ).

Cerita kerusiku...

Bila tengok pada tajuk di atas you all must be wondering what this entry is all about, right? Lepas tu disaji pula dengan gambar 3 buah ( or biji ) kerusi yang tiada persamaan sama sekali dari segi bentuk dan saiznya. Eventhough they come in different shapes and sizes, believe or not, they use to be ( the first two on the left ) my computer chairs. After last night, only the one on the right is.


Last night my "sobak" and I struggled to assemble that tiny chair. We had everything in place except putting the back of the chair to the seat. Macam biasalah, kalau dah kena pasang sendiri tu mesti lebih dari sekali kena buka balik skrunya. Anyway, we got it done just before midnight. Takda lah marah sangat sebab dah sental masakan Thai sebelum start kerja tu. The appetiser ( kerang bakar ) was fabulous.

Itulah cerita kerusiku, bukannya apa pun just nak share with you that I ada kerusi baru...

Ke mana kita malam nii?..

Last night I ikut MAH ke Sheraton , Subang Jaya untuk berjumpa dengan organisers for a seminar involving Datin Paduka Sharifah Mazlina Syed Abdul Kadir ( yang gi kutub utara tu ) untuk dia mendapat last minute instructions ( maklumlah jadi AJK pun last minute juga )for tomorrow's event.

Sampai2 aje kita dikejutkan dengan bunyi musik yang kuat. Dia orang sedang praktis aerobics atas stage. Anyway, got to meet the Datuk ( walau pun I bukan AJK, sekadar meneman aje ) and got to see the stunt yang bakal diperform olehnya for the occassion. Interesting juga, siap dengan lagu tema "Airwolf" and " James Bond " lagi. Tapi tak sempat nak tengok apa steps tarian yang bakal dilakukan oleh Datuk dan peserta2 seminar nanti, mesti gempak punya.

We didn't stay long, just an hour. Lepas tu ke Gazebo for teh ais and kerepok lekor hehehe. Masa kat Gazebo tu teringat.....di suatu malam yang hening, kita berempat meraikan hari jadi seorang teman dan menghadiahkannya sepasang kasut sukan ( harap2 dia masih menggunakannya ) tapi yang syoknya, I juga dapat hadiah sampingan....

p/s Semoga seminar hari ini berjaya mengutip sebahagian dari dana yang diperlukan untuk Datuk ke North Pole nanti. Syabas!! kepada semua yang terlibat, terutama MAH, yang masuk last minute tuu..

Kerjaya Selepas Bersara...

" Kerjaya Selepas Bersara?".. itulah salah satu soalan yang telah diutarakan oleh bekas majikan I tempoh hari. I wasn't sure how to answer that one. I wanted to just write " Biarlah Rahsia " but I hate to insult the person who's going to read that as part of my introduction during the coming function.

You all might be wondering what the two photos have got to do with the topic being discussed? Well, they kind of answer the question being asked. What I do selepas bersara is visiting these two places. One I called the Input station, the other the Output station. Both involved counters and waiting chairs.

The IS is worth waiting for whereas the OS is worth going to because it keeps me happy when I am at home. Kalau tak dilawati on time nanti banyak kemudahan yang akan dihentikan. Itulah basically what I do after retirement. Now, how do I put that in words to answer the question post to me by my ex-employer in order to make me look GOOD when they read my biodata (as they call it ) out loud....

p/s hari ni tak payah masak for lunch kerana telah mendapat bekalan dari teman semalam..terima kasih ya!

What I saw....

Last Tuesday I followed MAH to Ipoh for one of her meetings with a local agency there. The drive was slow at the early part of the journey due to the kesesakan at MRR2, lepas tu it was 140-150km/hr. She was supposed to meet them at 10.00am tapi we were still 15km from Simpang Pulai exit at 9.45am, hence the speed.

At the exit we were escorted by our Ipoh GFO ( girlfriend ooiii ) to the designated place(which is Pejabat Tanah or something ) instead we ended up at Ipoh museum ( bukan salah GFO, long story). The meeting was postponed to 2.30pm and the PA lupa nak bagitahu. Anyway ada hikmahnya 'cos we got to spend sometime with our GFO and visited her business place. I had the opportunity to do some catching up with some local dramas at her place while waiting for MAH to finish her meeting.

We drove back to KL at about 5.30pm in some sunshine and heavy rain on the highway throughout the 3 hours journey. Here are some shots that I took to share with those interested...

We got to witness a strange looking car (having some metal stuck to it's back ), a rainbow and ,in Ipoh town, a cave .

p/s We would like to thank our Ipoh-mate for having to spend the day with us. Hope it wasn't too agonising ;-))

Satu malam yang gilang gemilang....

Apakah yang sedang ditonton oleh jejaka-jejaka matang ini?

Apakah agaknya yang sedang bermain dalam fikiran masing-masing?

Apa-apa pun kita hanya mampu tertanya-tanya..semuanya telah selesai dengan jayanya.

Pesara turut mengaminkan doa yang telah dibaca.


p/s sayangnya tak ada gambar yang berkaitan dengan tajuk...

The reality is...

Some of us would like to think that increasing in age does not mean that we are getting old but just more experienced. We refuse to accept that changes will be taking place to or in us that we cannot avoid or improve. Bila dah sampai masa tu kita kenalah terima hakikat yang usia telah melewati ( atau melawati ) kita.

Just to share an example of what age will do to someone for a start.....














walau pun dapat dikaburi usia sebenar dengan mekap dan pakaian mau pun ubat-ubatan tapi hakikatnya bila hendak membaca , reading glasses wajib dipakai juga....renungkanlah!

Dari PSSN...

Tinggal beberapa minit lagi siaran langsung pernikahan Siti ( yang diminati ) dengan Khalid ( yang masih belum dikenali ). Walau pun ramai teman dan taulan yang masih meragui perkahwinan ini tapi I have long time ago ( actually after the announcement.. ) accepted it.

Bukan nak bermukaddimah pagi-pagi ni tapi hanya sekadar berkongsi pendapat. Kita sepatutnya percaya dan yakin pada jodoh yang telah ditentukan olehNya kepada kita. Whatever it is, only time will tell. But I believe there's no such thing as the wrong choice ( how can it be, when it comes from God ) only who has God chosen for us to face everything and everyone he has install for us before we face death. Kalau bahagia, maka itulah yang dijanjikan Allah SWT kepada kita , tapi kalau sebaliknya , maka itulah ujian yang telah ditentukan olehNya jua. Kita sebagai hambanya kenalah menghadapi dan redha dengan Qada dan Qadar yang tertulis.

Penulisan hari ini I tujukan khas buat Siti Nurhaliza dan Khalid Mohamad Jiwa, dengan ucapan "Selamat Pengantin Baru, Semoga dapat menempuhi segala yang tertulis dengan tabah dan mendapat keredhaanNya."

Baru sahaja selesai upacara perkahwinan Siti dengan Khalid tadi so I nak put a few shots of the wedding ceremony untuk diabadikan dalam blog ini.. tapi dah try beberapa kali tak boleh download pula . Oh well, 1 keping nii pun kira memadailah .

p/s Selamat Pengantin Baru juga pada my nephew Wan Hasnuddin Wan Hassan dengan pasangannya pada 18 Ogos 2006.

Buat Abang Joe...

Walau pun kita bawa videocam it was not functioning at the last minute..so these are just 3 of the shots I got using my trusted mobile phone. As they say.. this one's for you !!

Introducing the models for Winnie the Pooh...

Aksi models yang sempat dirakam dalam suasana kelam kabut. Seorang tu sibuk nak main dengan minyak urut sementara yang seorang lagi is trying to get it from her. As for the youngest of the models, she's just trying to survive through the whole ordeal of having to put on something that's too big for her at the moment.

8.08.06

Abe dan Kakak pun nak juga guna blog CikSu untuk ucapkan "Selamat Hari Lahir untuk Mama pada hari ini . Semoga Mama dipanjangkan umur dan dimurahkan rezeki. Kami tak sabar nak tunggu kedatangan Adik .









Kami juga berjanji akan jaga Mama macam mana Mama jaga nenek bila besar nanti. Mama jangan risau ya!"

7.08.06

Hari ni hari jadi mummy Maya. Maya mintak CikSu tuliskan dalam blog dia yang Maya nak ucapkan " Selamat Hari Lahir ke dot dot dot kat Mummy, Semoga Allah SWT panjangkan usia dan murahkan rezeki Mummy supaya boleh jaga Maya sampai dewasa ".

Tidak lupa juga Maya ucapkan " Selamat Hari Lahir kepada Yu besok, 8.08.06, sama jugak macam Mummy semoga panjang umur dan di murahkan rezeki. Nanti hari jadi Maya, Yu, kak Maisarah, Abe dan adik boleh datang KL sambut birthday Maya kat swimming pool ya.."











Ni gambar Maya ambik ( masa Autumn ) kat Paris masa bercuti ngan Mummy dan Daddy tahun lepas. Nampak tak daun kekuningan kat pokok tuu dan belakang tu nampak Eifel Tower..hehehe

Just my thots....

Hari ni genap 7 bulan I menjalani kehidupan sebagai pesara. Tak terasa pun begitu cepat masa berlalu. So I guess things must have been good for me. Like they say " Time flies when you are having fun".

Apa fun yang I had for today? This morning I was on my way to pay one of the many bills that made their way into my pigeon-hole. I was in my denim jeans ( I rasa fesyen pipe-line ke something ) driving and listening to light and easy channel. Terasa macam berada di zaman 80's. Syok rasanya bila memandu with just a few cars on the road ( no jam or kaya ) while listening to lagu zaman muda2 dulu. Harap2 my readers can imagine that situation. Kalau zaman 8oan dulu takde pulak the luxury to drive at that hour to go to the shopping complex. Lesen memandu pun takde lagi until 1986 kut.

Satu lagi cerita yang nak dikongsi oleh pesara ini is semasa I kat Carrefour getting some food at the counter, I had to ask the staff to put the price tag on the item that I just bought. I saw one woman ( with her back to me, cos she was putting something in the oven ) so I called out " Dik dik tolong kira ni ". Semenjak jadi pesara ni I feel that I'm older than most staff kat Carrefour tu, but bila dia berpaling to take my barang, she was definitely much older than me. She was of course, smilling happily. I can't help but feel older than most people sebab sekarang dah ada ramai cucu.

Sambung balik, in the car while driving back to my place my mind was wondering how many people get to enjoy what I have right now. Whenever I meet people that knows me, they will be asking what I have been doing sepanjang masa pencen ni. I tried to tell them but somehow I feel that whatever I say is not the whole truth. This is because people only want to know what physical ( or tangible ) things that you do with your life. The emotional and spiritual aspects are never highlighted. My retirement is more for these reasons. To be free to wonder about things and feelings. To think about what makes your life meaningful to you. How to be a better person or how to always be thankful with what you have...etc. This is something that you can't explain to people because you cannot set a schedule for such things ( at least not for me ). That's what my early retirement is all about.... ( ada jugalah kekadang tu memikirkan hal seperti, kenapa CT memilih Khalid bila terpandang lelaki yang sebaya dengan kita kat mana2 tu...hehehe )

p/s ..itu saja for now, kalau panjangkan jemu pula membacanya....
bila I cerita pasal pakai seluar apa tu, bukan bererti itu saja yang I pakai masa tu ya ;-))

Where did I eat last week....

Being a pensioner, last week I had the chance to have my food at two totally different eating places. Satu was hot and dusty and the other was cool and cosy.

The first is an eating cafeteria at UPSI, Tanjung Malim. Stopped by at the students' canteen to have my lunch while waiting for MAH to finish her meeting at the ICT building. On the way back bought some "pau istimewa" dari Tanjumg Malim.

The second is at a Cafe in Hotel Renaissance, Kelantan. Had breakfast alone while MAH is at an exhibition in Balai Islam. On the way back brought home Alya to her parents in Shah Alam. Now that she's beginning to walk, she refused to let her aunt Nieza sit but instead walked with her all over the place at KB airport's waiting room.

Hari Penentuan..

This morning I heard over the radio yang Siti akan bagi press conference berkenaan dengan perkahwinan dia and it's going to be live on TV3 melalui rancangan Wanita Hari Ini. Sebaik saja orang-orang lain tersedar mengenai hal ini, my phone tak henti-henti di hujani sms telling me to watch tv3 at 12.00 noon. Messages datang sejauh Kota Bharu, Kelantan. I did not get this much messages masa menyambut my birthday last year.. hahaha

Nampaknya Cik Siti kita begitu sinonim dengan blogger ni . Apa-apa tentang Siti mesti dikongsi bersama dengan peminat yang satu ni. Terima kasih semuanya ya. Semua perancangan untuk pagi ni ditunda ke besok because I want to be infront of my tv at 12.00 noon today. Masa sedang menonton pun masih lagi dihujani sms , panggilan telefon dan juga pertanyaan online melalui Yahoo Messenger. Terasa diri ini sama seperti wartawan dalam tv yang sedang menunggu ketibaan Siti dan rombongannya ..hahaha

At about 12.45 tgh tadi semua teka-teki pun terjawab. Again, reaksi kawan2 dan kaum keluarga diterima melalui sms dan online. Mixed reactions yang diterima, ada kecewa, tak terkejut, tak kisah, menyampah but my own reaction is terkilan tapi redha dengan apa yang disampaikan.

Itulah saja laporan untuk diabadikan dalam blog ini mengenai apa yang bersejarahnya tentang 17 Julai 2006. Untuk bakal pengantin " Selamat Pengantin Baru ( dan beberapa kali Baru ) , semoga berkekalan hingga ke Akhirat ( bukan akhir hayat) "

More joy!!

At 11.03am on 16th July 06 another baby girl was force out of her cozy home into this world. Welcome into the family baby girl!! ( without a name yet, sebab kedatangan yang tak disangka sangka ). Anyway, Congtratulations to Mama and Papa Alya and Alya ( big sis ) for the new addition.

Kata Si anak kecil " Harap2 kakak dan mak sepupu ku tak hot kat aku sebab sampai lebih awal ni, risaunya! "

Beginilah rupa kakak dan mak sepupu bila menerima kabar berita kehadiran another baby in the family.

Si Kakak berkata " Apa!! Dah datang . Alya dah jadi Kakak??? Cepatnyer!" dan sahut Si Mak Sepupunya " Aiik, Maya bukan lagi yang termuda? Apa kita nak buat kat budak ni?? Baik fikir cepat2 kita dah takde masa ni, dia dah sampai pun. Ingatkan bulan depan "

My weekend with turtles..

What can I share with you about the turtle trip to Ma' Daerah? Yang pastinya pada trip itu I was down with flu and fever. The bas trip was too cold for me. Half way thru' I had to get down to get my jacket.

Bila sampai kat Kerteh we were picked ( or packed macam sardin )up by our friend cum facilitator, Cik Rahayu, in her Ford Frontier. There were 5 of us ( 2 XL, 1L and 2M ) dan bagasi masing2. The trip to the turtle santuary takle jauh sangat, so tak kisahlah bersesak sikit tu. Thank you driver!

Sampai sana we were introduced to our lodging for the weekend. Tak payahlah I describe macam mana nanti tengok gambar2 ya ( kita akan bagi dalam bentuk yahoo fotopage bila dah dapat semuanya ).

Aktiviti yang disediakan memang interesting and exciting, cuma I saja yang takleh enjoy fully sebab keadaan kesihatan waktu itu. Anyway I tried my best to be in every activities eventhough not fully. Antaranya tidur di pantai till midnight while waiting for puan penyu to finish bertelor; standing in the 12tgh hot sun recording the number of UD ( undeveloped ) and UH (un hatched ) eggs and don't forget enduring the "sweet" smell of rotten eggs ( thank god I had the flu ) and having to be all alone in the long-house one night (sebab demam) while the rest went to look at another laying egg process. Tapi semuanya memberi pengalaman yang berharga at the end of it all.

I also had the opportunity to get to know an energetic 69 year old Muslim British woman, Zaharah ( or Patricia ) whose life is so colourful. You can listened to her stories for hours ( if there was nothing else to do lah ).

Lastly, for those of you yang interested to attend such programme, bolehlah melayari www.wwf.com.my for more information. I memang rekomen pun.

Gambar menunjukkan aktiviti mengeluarkan telor dari lubangnya untuk dikira jumlah yang menetas, tidak menetas, tidak menjadi dan yang dimusnahkan oleh predator. Tengoklah ramai yang menutup hidung menahan bau wangi hehe..Ada juga yang masih boleh tersenyum...

Today a small part of me died....

Today I got up as usual ready for my morning exercise at Titiwangsa tapi my exercise buddy kata dia tak sihat ( she hasn't been well for the last couple of days ) so tak pergilah. Since I'm all dressed up and ready to go OUT of my apartment ( but it's still dark outside ) so I decided to do my news reading earlier than usual.

To my horror ( and I meant HORROR ) there it was, berita yang paling ditakuti, Datuk K merisik Siti ( terus rasa tak selera nak breakfast nasi lemak ). Baru semalam I was trying to tell myself ( and friends at IMR ) it's not true BUT I'm still hoping till now as I'm writing this, that she will tolak the pinangan.

Anyway, I'm sure alot of my people would like to know my opinion ( or at least that's what I thot ). Like I always say, when it comes to loving a MAN, there's this gene ( I named it the S gene ) that otherwise lay dormant in women, gets activated and not only that it's activity is also enhanced. It doesn't happen in all women but in some unfortunate ones. What this gene does when activated is, it suppresses a few good and beneficial genes ( such as the ability to be clever, to make good judgement to name a few.. ). So these women will never see things or react to situations the way they use to before they were infected with this disease called love. As for the few fortunate ones even when infected, is able to keep the S gene inactivated because they have a double dose of LHG ( level headed gene ). Siti oh Siti....

p/s so you single women out there ( in Datuk K's age group ) now you can go after Dr F since he is available hehehe...( provided the news is true )