Kejutan 28-2-06!!

Macam biasa bangun pagi solat subuh, baca yasin and terus panjat katil to watch berita pagi and MHI on TV3. Tanpa disangka-sangka tajuk berita " Harga petrol naik 30 sen bermula hari ini.." dipaparkan. Bayangkanlah terkedu sekejap.

Lepas dah hilang the temporary shock, kepala pun mulalah berfikir apa yang boleh dibuat untuk membantu mengurangkan beban kenaikan, mula-mula petrol lepas tu barangan yang sewaktu dengannya. The first thing that comes to mind when we think about petrol is of course your CAR. For me the question is OIL CONSUMPTION, is it small enough. Now, this is without any doubt related to the cc of the car but one must also think of the kilometers involved. As for me, the cc is quite ok ( 1.3cc ) and kilometers, not so bad. Tapi since sekarang dah bergelar pesara ( with no other income )every kenaikan harga is not something we can take lightly. I can also reduce expenditure here by getting myself a smaller car ( maklumlah kereta ni pun dah kuat kena pukul ). This is definitely something to consider!!

The next thing ( in my case lah ) the meals taken outside the home needs to be reduced. Not only because you spent more eating ouside ( what with the possibility of price increase ) but you also have to drive there ( more kilometers ). So the solution is to do marketing once a week, cook my own meals ( this will also help reduce my choles and bp ) and eat out once or twice with my friends ( not when I'm on my own ). Seriously my choles and bp are still not what I wish for them to be, geram betul !!

Inilah salah satu jenis sarapan pagi sekarang Quaker oats with banana and teh O panas ( kurang manis )

p/s Apa perancangan member-member di luar sana ? Bolehlah kongsi sama..

Ada benda yang sedang dicari...

Bangun pagi-pagi semalam bersiap untuk bersenam kat Titiwangsa dengan MAH tetapi ada small rain pulak. Di sebabkan semangat yang berkobar-kobar tu kita orang tunggu juga hingga hujan berhenti. Off we went and got that part of our weekend chores over and done with. It was a good sweaty workout. Lepas exercise we did something evil, we had a medium weight breakfast at our favourite eating place Damai Selera, thus explaining the weight pendulum.

We had a late lunch at about 3.oopm, makan KFC ( jangan terkejut, kita ordered Fish burger and Dinner plate, shared between 2 healthy adult ) tak le banyak pun makan. Lagi pun kita tak makan kulitnya ( yang by the way nampak ranggup and juicy ). Lepas ni baru started the search for an Omron BP set. We had to drive from one side of Wangsa Maju to the other side of Selayang, Gombak and Batu Caves. All because I wanted a BP set that is reliable, cheap and autocalibrated. Meet a few sales personal yang tak tahu the meaning of calibration to the one who showed me a blood glucose detection kit.

Anyway, we found one that is cheap tapi jenama baru Microlife at two pharmacy shops in Gombak. One shop had a cheaper price tag with free clinical thermometer but no pharmasist and another shop had a pharmasist to explain to me that even though the brand is new it's Swiss made ( tapi harga kat kedai dia was RM100 more than the opposite shop with no free thermometer). He had one on display so we tested our bp. Mine was 152/85 and MAH was 121/82 ( lebih kurang le ). I'm not so sure if the set is out or it's because we have been running around town before we reached that last stop. Mind you we have been looking at closed pharmacies for the last half hour earlier. At the end of it all the decision made was to go back to the cheap shop and talk to the pharmasist when he/she is in (another day lah nampaknya ).

Ini pun BP juga tapi bukan blood pressure tapi BOTAK PAIR...

p/s When all this is happening I did manage to get another 3 metres of thick clear palstic for my balcony. Well that's another story...

Look out Spain/Portugal...

These pass few days I've been busy packing and weighing my virgin luggage. I've never brought this luggage anywhere yet you see, and it's scary to think if its weight exceed 20kg. I was told Qatar airline is very strict with the weight you bring with you onto their aeroplane. The extra weight can cause me a whole lot of euros. Now, that is something I am not willing to part with ( you pun tahukan 1 euro dah RM4.50, kalau kena 20 euro tak ke parah ). The luggage by itself pun dah 7kg.


As most of you guys yang baca my blog would have known that my travel buddies and I are going to shock Spain/Portugal this 4th-13th March with our presence. I am having mix feeling about this trip. Not that I don't want to go ( I am looking forward to it ) but after reading about the kind of food they serve and the long flight, they really got to me. Anyhow, I'll be bringing our local delights such as the most frequent life saver maggie mee ( yang packing kecil punya )and the from small health drink Milo 3 in 1 ( except this time it's Fuse 3 in 1, that means ada cereal added to it ) . These delights will go into my backpack I guess.

Hopefully lepas balik nanti I will have lots to share with you all regarding the trip. Tunggu dan lihat!!

p/s by the way, the weight of the luggage as of this minute is 15kg.

My new adventures...

"You've got to exercise.." those are the famous advice most of my friends gave me whenever we meet. They are concerned for my health you see, 'cos lately nii I have been visited by many new "friends" choles and beepee.

Last weekend I decided to give it a go, this thing called exercise. Me and by buddy wanted to start our new hobby on Saturday evening ( after she had her facial done ) tapi macam biasalah kita merancang, Allah swt yang menentukan. Kita orang end up at another friend's place helping her to carry her new flower pot. It's heavy you see, so she needed a pair of strong arms to help carry it from the car park, up the lift, into the apartment and straight to the balcony. So dah ada kat rumah dia tu, start borak and berperang mulut ( biasalah kalau I am with this friend, we will always end up arguing tapi lepas tu kosong kosong balik ), jadi the plan for jogging was postponed to Sunday morning. By the way, I too got a pot for myself ( she said it's good therapy for singles).

When Sunday morning came, eventhough mata tak nak bangun, dengan azam baru ni we dragged ourselves to Tasik Titiwangsa. I dengan my walkman of course, ( there's no way I'm going to walk a few kilometers without music ) walked while my buddy jogged ( anak-anak ) beside me. It was refreshing this exercise thing nii ( just hope the semangat will last ).

p/s malam tuu dapat pulak sms from another friend ajak gi jogging lepas office hour ;-))

My seeing aids..

Lately ni I have headaches whenever I sat down to do some form of reading either from my books or my computer. Is reading not my cup of tea?? Kalau you all tak tahu lagi I'm not one who is friendly with books. Books are only read for exams. Kalau buku yang berbentuk gosip tu bolehlah baca. Tapi I do read books for knowledge every now and then like my RD and some scientific articles :-)) All these readings of course requires me to use my seeing aids, and I have plenty of them as seen here...

I have them strategically put at various places in my house; at my bedside, at my lazy chair in front of the tv set, next to my notebook, in my handbag and next to my Quran. There's one in my car just in case I need to read the sms or send one. They are my next pair of eyes you see, so I cannot leave or be home without it.

The problem now is I think some of them is giving me the headache, which one do you think they are? ( not the books, I hope ).

Whatever it is, the first thing for me to do is go get my eyes check. Who knows, may be what I need is a new pair of glasses. If that is true, which one of my seeing aids should I throw away..hmmmm??

p/s and for those that needs to use them ( whose names I won't mention here ), don't be shy to use them, 'cos they create wonderful sight hehe

Malaysia's Most Beautiful

I came to know of a few good people who were blessed with a baby girl (BG) these last two years. These babies are the pride and joy of their mums and of others who have had the chance to be in their lives. I love watching babies and trying to learn things from them.

I have personally witnessed them grow from "tembam" infant into beautiful babies ( how did that happened ). As I watched these babies grow, I wondered what hopes and dreams their mothers had for their BG.



Isn't she cute!!







Kalau cukup tidur, awet muda!









Dah bangun rupanya dia!

Well mums you have a whole lot of things to do and think about before these sweet innocent creatures turned into Malaysia's Most Beautiful.

p/s some people are blessed with beautiful BG while I am blessed with awful BP ;-))

Some nice pictures to share..

It has been awhile since I wrote anything in my blog and I'm sure peminat-peminat blog ni menanti karya terkini dari pesara ini. Buat masa ni there is really nothing to share yet so I decided ( just so my blog is active ) to share some pictures that meant something to me personally and hope that you the readers of this blog could enjoy them too!


This picture was taken when I was in Pantai Sri Tujuh Tumpat Kelantan. Ini memberi ketenangan kepada sesiapa yang melihatnya.

This picture was taken when I visited Langkawi. I was trying to capture sunset at Datai but we could not locate the beach ( it went missing?? ) so I took this shot on the way back to the hotel

This was taken when I was in Trengganu. There's nothing much to tell except that I love taking pictures.

This was taken when I was in China. You can see part of the Great Wall from the cable car ride ( just kidding, this is in Langkawi hehehe..) The ride was quite scary but enjoyable.

Siti Nurhaliza and keropok lekor...

Semua orang yang kenal I tahu I ni peminat setia Siti Nurhaliza. So rasa2nya tak sah kalau I tak include satu artikel pasal Siti dalam blog I ni, right?

Semalam tu masa tengok AJL ke 20 tak sangka akan nampak Siti semasa Red Carpet tu, ingatkan Siti takde kat Malaysia ( kata peminat setia, tapi tak tahu Siti kat mana, ish ish biasalah tuu) Anyway, bila nampak Siti appeared dengan trophy at the end of the Red Carpet tuu terkejut juga. Apa yang dia menangi? Maklumlah masa dia tunjuk tu I sibuk kat dapur mengoreng 20 batang keropok lekor losong trengganu ( yang diambil dari Ona the day before ). Pagi nii baru tahu what the trophy was for, Juara Lagu antara Juara2. Good for you my Siti. Happy kejap pagi ni.

Another thing yang buat I happy is the fact that Siti tak lagi mahu bertanding dalam AJL and dia telah diangkat ke taraf Juri. Bravo! lagi sekali untuk my Siti and syabas tu TV3 yang, for the first time, showed some brains instead of asyik nak cari gaduh dengan Siti aje ( semenjak dia tarik diri dari AJL )

Ni nak cerita sikit pasal keropok lekor tu, lepas dah goreng all 20 batang, me and my regular week-end guest sat down and mengadap the bowl full of black, garing keropok until, either our stomach nak pecah or mulut rasa nak terkeluar semua ( which ever comes first ) baru kita orang stop. Selepas tu, tak siapa pun antara kami yang nak tengok or lalu dekat dengan that bowl again ( by that time adalah 10 keping lagi ). Now, I rasa it will be another week before I can eat another keropok lekor ( that's right, just another week hehe ). Jangan ingat kita orang ni teruk, you see that was our dinner for that night.

Itulah my story di malam AJL ke 20...

Family Futsal anyone?

When I was back home for the long CNY holidays I was fortunate to be able to enjoy some form of Kelantanese cookings, had kenduri aqiqah for my newest niece, Puteri Nur Sumayyah. Did some shoppings at Pengkalan Kubur for kukusan, kuali and tempat panggang ikan. We also did some family get together for breakfast and dinners. Had a fair share of some home nursing for our beloved mum whose going through a difficult time in her life.

Just when I thought there was nothing more to look forward to, I was surprise with the opportunity to be part of the first Family Futsal ever.

Futsal was nothing new to me though I have never participated in one, playing or watching life, but this time I was there to cheer for both teams, why? because they are made up of a bunch of related men and boys. Everyone is either someone's father, brother, cousin, uncle or nephew. It was fun watching them trying to win but at the same time trying not to hurt the other in an attempt to get a goal for their team. Mana taknya kalau yang bersorak tu pula is either their mother, wife, aunty or cousin. With treats like " main elok-elok sikit, tuu ayah atau pakcik tuu" or " jangan kasar sangat tu adik, abang atau sepupu kamu tuu" followed by long loud laughter being shouted out over and over again from the bench. It sure is a memorable holiday for me. I

managed to video taped some of the action on my hp for rememberance.

The Futsal guys posing after the tiring but fun game. Who won? nobody remembers.