Hidup di dalam Hati-Hati Mereka yang Mengasihi

"Janganlah kamu menduga bahwa orang-orang yang gugur di jalan Allah itu mati, tetapi mereka itu hidup di sisi Tuhannya dengan mendapat rezeki" (Ali-'Imran [3]: 169).

Tarikh lahir: 29 September 1977
Kembali ke Rahmatullah: 8 May 2009

Ucapan takziah dari Jie jie

Sudilah kiranya pembaca blog ini menyedekahkan Al-Fatihah kepada arwah abg long kami, Muhammad Khalil Bin Mustaffa. Semoga roh beliau mendapat kasih sayang dan keampunan Allah s.w.t.

Wild Mushrooms (Cendawan Busut)

We went back to Gamin again. One of the neighbours held a 'kenduri kesyukuran'.

After the 'kenduri' we went to rest at Uwan's house. So... there we found some wild mushrooms.

My side of family are not so much of mushroom lovers but being married to my other half, I'm introduced to quite a number of new edible stuffs or new recipes. Ain't I lucky? So there we were, plucking the mushrooms. Hubby had to run pipe water to soak the soil before we can pluck the mushrooms out. The 'pantang larang' is that we should never dig the mushroom out using any kind of metal or else the mushroom would never grow on the soil again.

US... in action...

Catch of the day...

MIL made 'gulai lemak' to go with the mushroom. Yummy... But as usual, we forget to snap the photo. Since my mother had never cooked any mushroom and I'm not an expert in using the 'santan' either. So... when I brought the cendawan back to Taman Melati, I decided I surf the web to find a simple recipe for it. I'm not exactly a good cook. The only reason I cook is that my mom is working late for these few weeks, my regular routines are usually limited to just chopping the onions, preparing the table and washing the dishes. Which is equally tiring!

Then... I found a recipe for 'Sup Cendawan Daun Kunyit'. This is how it looked like yesterday.

The ingredients for Sup Cendawan Daun Kunyit are:

1. Spring Onion - chopped

2. Garlic - chopped

3. Chilies - chopped

4. Anchovies

5. Daun Kunyit - saute with 1,2,3,4

6. Mushrooms - add after the soup boil and leave for 2 mins

7. Some water for the soup

Duh.... pretty simple huh? I LURVE SIMPLE... mcm iklan Digi pulak..

A proper yet another simple dish to go with this Mushroom soup is omelette. So again, I search for a new omelette recipe. Just to try a different style of making the omelette. My dad always mentioned about how no one can ever make as nice an omelette as my grandma. So... I thought this might be IT. It's an Indonesian recipe which is called 'Telur Dadar Pedes'.

The ingredients for Telur Dadar Pedes are:

1. 3 eggs - beaten

2. Spring Onion - chopped

3. Chilies - grind

4. 3 small onions - grind

5. 1 garlic - grind

6. 1 1/2 spoon flour

7. 2 table spoon of water.

These 2 recipes are not exactly something to be 'WOW' about. Nothing compared to MIL gulai lemak. But edible... and can be used if you are desperate like me. Hehe... So, if you have any ideas on how to improvise on it, your comments are very much welcomed. :)

Arif's Convocation

So... hubby and I became parents of the day... & this entry also serve the purpose of introducing my youngest brother to you guys (kot2 berkenan buat adik ipar). :-)

Venue: Medeka Hall, PWTC

Date & Time: Apr 20th 09, 2 pm

Arrived at home: 7 pm

The president's speech took soooo long.

Confferment of Degree was done as fast as they could accompanied by mostly fast beat musics. Just imagine, the feeling of excitement and suspense in merely anticipating the 1 second to claiming your so deserved scroll on the stage with thousands of others.

Finally, 'cotak' (what we 'fondly' called him during our childhood) obtained his Diploma in Hospitality and Tourism Management from MSU.

Photos with Dato Onn Jaafar, Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Tun Abdul Razak, Tun Hussein Onn, Tun Dr Mahathir and Pak Lah (potraits).

Hubby and I (gamba poyo together2)

Pertunangan Boboy & Arina

Kita mulakan dengan hantaran-hantaran yang cantik. Bahan-bahannya dibeli oleh Kak Long, Kak Sue & Asma. Gubahannya pula oleh Jie jie...

Kreatif kan... ;)

Kek ni plak... mcm bese la... Aunty J yg buat, very sweettttt

Jom kite tgk plak bakal pengantin bersiap

Fuyyo Macho la RAMBUT abg ni...

Hantaran da siap... bakal pengantil pon da kacak... ready to go!

Rombongan merisik & meminang sekaligus...

Sebelum perbincangan dimulakan... Tuan rumah telah menjemput kami menjamu selera dulu

Da makan... Boleh la start Majlis... Silakan masuk...

Anak dara mengait benang

Benanglah kapas benang dikanji

Tibalah masa majlis bertunang

Tanda sehati mengikat janji

Wakil dari pihak perempuan...

Batang cangkah akarnya mati

Batang pinang akarnya licin

Orang berkasih bertukar hati

Bila bertunang bertukar cincin

Acara menyarung cincin oleh bakal ibu mertua & bakal menantu...

Hantaran dari pihak perempuan...

Benanglah kapas benang dikanji

Dari benang menjadi kain

Tanda sehati mengikat janji

Nikah ditetap hari yang lain.

Bakal pengantin yg ayu & tampan bersama ibu masing-masing

Cameraman of the day & wifey yang serabut bersama dengan bakal pengantin...

Anak kala memanjat pinang

Nampak dari tanah Mekah

Masa ini kita bertunang

Sabar-sabarlah sebelum menikah

Boboy's Pre Engagement

Nk update psl ni lame dah... but had been quite busy at work these past 2 weeks. Walaupon lambat tp bley la wat kenangan & untuk tatapan anak cucu sebagai sejarah. Cheewahhh...

Ni la die muke org yg nk bertunang tu. Encem tak abg ni? Tpkan abg die yg no 2 tu lg encem laaa. Ehemmm...

Specially made by Aunty J for the nite...

Kek yg comelllll...

Melepak2 sebelum perbincangan orang tua-tua. Istilah je ni tau... x tua lg...

Inilah dia.. mereka-mereka yang hadir. Meriah sungguh. Ade makan free lg.. Makan free mmg SYIOOKKK...

Amoiiiiii... x pandang lain dah mereka ber2 ni. Yum yummmmm

Perut pon da kenyang... br la semangat nk wat keje secretary. ;)

Sebagai penutup cerita... dipertontonkan gambar kembar siam lain tahun lain generasi...

Si Batik

Suami Mak Nani jerit2 suro panggil Uncle Din suro cepat datang ke rumah Wan Induk. Ehhh pehal plak ni cam suspen je bunyi...

Rupe2nye ada sesuatu benda yg menjadikan kolong kat rumah Wan Induk sebagai tempat persalinan rasmi die.

Ini lah gaya persiapan Uncle Din...

Inilah gambar si batik sedang bersalin. Kurus & panjang die ni... rasa2nye ade la 2 meter.

Gamba kitorg berposing2 dengan si batik, kunun terer la ni... Tp kesian jgk tak pasal2 si batik ni terkorban. Lain kali nk menyalin tu jangan la dlm rumah org... seksi...

Gambar2 sampingan yang langsung takde kene mengenaaaa dengan Din Beramboi...

Anak-anak dara sedang mandi manda...

Kampung Gamin yang permai... Kampungmu kampungku jua...

Working Trip to Dubai

Went to a working trip to Dubai. Departed from KL at 1245pm and reach Dubai Airport at 6pm, Dubai local time. To my despair, the airbus wasn't equipped with television screen (whatever people call it). I'd expected to kill my time watching the latest movies with 10 hours on the flight. But no, I can't so I'm forced to sleep...

Carless, that I am. I dragged my heavy bag all the way from my house to Taman Melati LRT. Climb a few stairs with the bag. Took KLIA Express. "Syg... jgn lupe bawak cross stitch tu, nnt borink2 bley la buat..." my hubby told me. So whilst one chic classy lady reading financial daily or something that most high powered business people always read, me feeling a bit stupid but boring, took out my cross stitch thingy and started stitching away. I felt like some old lady in the old folks home but hey... this is what I actually enjoy doing, so tak class pon takpe lah...

And the consequence of me doing so was that, while I was waiting to board, I thought I had lost my handphone. There were 3 possibilities: 1) I dropped it on the train 2) Somebody took the handphone from my backpack's unzipped compartment (my mistake for not zipping it up) 3) I'd mistakenly put it together with my cross stitch kits in the bag which I'd checked in. I called my hubby using the public phone & got scolded. Huhu... suits me... "You are not even in Dubai & you make me more worried than I already am!". Xpe la... mara tu kire syg la kan kan?? Kih kih...

Guess which one of those 3 came out to be true? :) PHEWWWW... The person who's supposed to pick me up from the airport was not there. After scouting and asking around at the 'greeters area' thick faced asking something more like "Are you waiting for me?" with no avail, I finally decided to hit the cab alone. This is no interesting story but I might as well go on just to draw a picture that attending meetings overseas is not all glamorous and fun. What I felt are mixtures of these feelings: lonely, vulnerable, homesick and small (wandering around in places which I'm not familiar with unfamiliar faces). Nobody will come to my rescue should I get into trouble (I'm a very careless person). Tp redah je lah... buat mcm negara sendiri.

My first meeting overseas took place in Phuket 3 years ago. At that time, I was very fresh from the oven & actually I didn't really know what my job entails. Org tny lain, I jawab lain. But the best thing about this job, my boss let me learn on my own & at my own pace. I'm very well aware that there are many bosses having this penyakit of checking every small piece of your work up to your grammar & sentence structure. RIMASSS... tgk keadaan la kan.. Lain la klu you work as a journalist..

Our meeting was held at Dusit Thani Hotel. I thought the key looked a little bit different than usual.

Constructions are everywhere in Dubai. These people are so obsessed on tall buildings.

The food in Dubai are basically either sour or salty. I thought.. most Arabs must not have known how to make use of spices.

You must've always heard that a whole Arab family can gobble up a goat whereas here, a goat can feed a small kampung. According to Khadija (an expatriate who works at Abu Dhabi), the Arabs love luxury and they tend to be lavish on everything. They just need to have the whole of the goat on the table, eat a little here & there & then stash the leftovers, plenty of them still into the rubbish, one whole goat. MassyaAllah... these people are so damn rich! & reckless...

Our host had been too generous; they arrangged for a dinner at the ATLANTIS, located at the end of the palm (Jumeirah).

Before embarking the bus...

Our Chairman, Sher Bahadar a very warm man, retiring soon & therefore this would be his last meeting. He said many times "I believe we shall never meet again". Bukan senang kerja Chairman tau... Just imagine how Yang Dipertua Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia managed to get through chairing our Dewan Rakyat almost everyday.

I got to see many interesting properties during our 45 minutes journey. They are extremely expensive for someone like me but I think the upper class income earner in Malaysia could be able to afford them. It's just that the properties are only accessible to the locals & also the famous & influential. I really like this design (I took this picture somewhere in the web; it's difficult to shoot while the bus is moving + my phone camera is not that canggih but this is the exact piece I saw).

We were able to get a glimpse of the Burj al Arab. Beautiful colors. I was told that the burj keep on changing its colors every now & then. &... you would have to pay AED200 Just To See the hotel.

The luxuries of the Atlantis was beyond my imagination even though I didn't have the access to all the places. It would cost you at least 250 AED per person to enter only one particular venue (lost chambers, aquaventure, dolphin bay, etc). The Arabs are incredibly wealthy! Please click here to see what I mean.

We had Lebanese food for dinner. We also had plenty of Lebanese restaurants within Ampang housing area. But it's not about the food, we were here to have a taste of the environment...

We were entertained by a belly dancer. The tall, slim & muscular girl is not an Arab. I think someone told me she was from Bulgaria... I'm not so sure. These girls came to UAE to learn & practise belly dancing as a career, they are paid rather handsomely. Believe it or not, a fresh graduate in UAE can earn up to 30k AED per month i.e. almost equivalent to RM30k!! HUWAAA... I feel like migrating! 3-4 year will do. Hehehe...

I watched her entire performance in awe. The way she moved her belly, bloat... & then swallowed them in... INCREDIBLE... just like the ocean waves. She did it repetitively & very fast. It must have took the entire muscle of her body... I can't do it if I learn it my whole life. 2 more amazing actions; she swirl her head round & round, up & down it's amazing that she's didn't fell down out of dizziness (I felt dizzy watching her did it); dancing & circling the restaurant with the tip of the sword on her head for 20 minutes non stop. Meleleh air liur tgk die menari... Haaa IGT APE, its not out of eroticism ok... just dumbfounded.

Souvenir from our host, Etisalat.