Hectic Month

hmmm looks like we have quite a hectic schedule for this month... apart from the weekly saturday class for fahmi benefit banyak lagi aktiviti2 lain yang dah ambil tempat. our weekends have been taken up.

12 aug - PCM gathering cum picnic by the lake side (i hope so not... harus my lil kitten bertukar jadi ducklings!)

15 aug - dinner organised by my office to appreciate our banker support (sounds weird right? when the one who should be throwing such dinner would be the banker instead to appreciate us their customers. ahh whatever, its the chairman wishes, we as the grateful employee humbly succumb to please him).

the only thing that's been bugging me is that attendees must bring their spouse. i don't want to go, but there's no way to escape. can't see myself sitting among these bankers, what do we have in common to talk about? and to bring my darling along?... i wouldn't drag him into something that i know he wouldn't like. ahh another headache... i have to think of an excuse if people (read my chairman) start asking me why hubby does not come along. with all these headache would i be enjoying the dinner? i think not *sigh*

18-21aug - we'll be off to KT for my counsin's wedding. yihaaaa! suka sangat balik kampung. but i find it weird that she choose to hold the reception on sunday which is working day in the east coast. whatever... as long as the bride is happy, we'll be happy for her :-)

26 aug - tentatively blocked for a birthday bash. haha sooo tak malu we haven't even get the invitation yet *wink *wink kat azie

with our hectic schedule, we might not be able to satisfy all other invitation. harap2 jangan ada yang kecil hati ye.

It's a BOY!

finally my sister's wishes comes true when she gave birth to her 3rd child last Thursday, 2 august 2007. after having 2 daughter she longed for a baby boy and she gets what she wishes for. i am happy for her.

for faiz akmal semoga jadi anak yang soleh dan make your mama & babah proud of you!

Finding A Nest

I’m torturing myself again with the ‘nest’ hunting activities. as if I’ve got nothing better to do like cleaning the house, re-organising the furnitures (pooh, as if I bother so much about re-organising things inside my house ;)), or at least doing my therapeutic exercise in the kitchen … no lah, can’t even stretch my legs let alone my arms in the tiny kitchen can I? apalagi if not cooking! which I did later after the heart wrenching nest hunting activities.

I wonder why I let myself doing this again when all its going to do is breaking my heart even more than whatever damage already done after the 1st hunting at sunway kayangan. it was foolish of me to think that I’d find another dream house out there if I cannot get my hands on this.

the result of the nest hunting was a heart wrenching dream :-( . I dreamed that I bought this house.


but in my dream the windows are different, it has no horizontal and vertical panels crossing each other. it was a straight glass windows. in my dream I had the glass windows engraved with patterns of green daun keladi, and the wooden frame instead of white coloured, in my dreams it was wood coloured. the combination of the carved daun keladi and wooden framed gives my nest a touch of a resort home. on the opposite there was a small pond, with waters from the fountain splashing all over the place. it was greens everywhere, and it feels sooo like… home.

that was in my dream. but this is not a dream… the exterior does send a tug at my heart when I first set my eyes on it.

I like the exterior paintwork.

but once inside I wonder what the architect/designer think when he design the interior of this house? the design doesn’t do justice to the large built up. what’s the point of having a 22x70 home when it gives not much different to the 20x65 home we have in kapar? is that the difference of having a big name compared to a biasa2 name developer?


the bathroom attached to the masterbed is so small, i may need to walk over the wc to get to the other side


nice to look at but the interior is disappointing *sigh*

but one thing i like about this place, in the middle of it there's a surau under construction. if we choose to live here, dapatlah menikmati suara azan berkumandang tiap waktu... mmm

Wedding Bells, The 'X' Week & Birthday Bash

what a weekend!

I went to a wedding on saturday … not just a wedding but my second cousin’s wedding. a second cousin (jaja) that I only know exist when I was 23, whom i’ve last met 5 years ago. if it wasn’t for my first job offer in port klang, I would never know that I have a second cousin that shared first name with me. I felt terrible for not knowing my father’s side of family… he estranged himself from his ‘syed’ kinfolk since young. i was sort of like bringing them together back then. it was the first time I went to her house in taman sri andalas. I’ve only ever met her masa dulu2 at tok wan’s house (tok wan is my grand aunt, grandma to jaja, of course) in port klang.

I had second thoughts about going, I have not met or communicate with them for the past 5 years, I wonder how they’d react in presence. they were a bit aloof , but I couldn’t blame them considering what my dad did by estranging himself, could i? plus I’ve never return to tok wan’s since I left 5 years ago. but I’m happy that I went anyway. I’m happy to see the faces that had given me shelter when I needed one. I’m sooo happy that I re-united with Rahmah@Sharifah Rahmah, another second cousin. she’s a warm hearted young girl, so warm hearted that I clique with her instantly masa menumpang rumah tok wan dulu. I left before the bride makes her grand entrance, rushing for fahmi’s tumble tots class in subang parade. I left a gift for the bride, just to let her know I was there. Selamat Pengantin Baru Sharifah Asyukeen Aleeza, I used to call her jaja, hope I get the name right.

okay enough about wedding/family reunion. so next week gonna be the ‘X’ or ‘ekkss’ week for fahmi’s class. got to prepare something with ‘x’ for him. with limited words and things which begins with ‘x’ the teacher gave us leniency to come up with something not only begins with ‘x’ but also anything with an ‘x’ in the middle or at the back of the word. so what it’s going to be? I don’t know yet… not now when we have to get ready for baby hakeem’s 1st birthday bash (liza@putralady’s baby). we are late! supposed to be there on time for cake cutting at 3pm… but my lil’ kittens are sleeping. so does my luvvyduvvy ‘wild cat’ ;-) . time to wake them up…

Weight Issue

I’ve been consuming herbalife formulas for one and a half month now (excluding the days that I missed taking them). I take it regularly on weekdays; twice daily for breakfast and lunch, rest on weekends. people who know me would ask why I take herbalife when I have succeeded in losing weight without taking any pills or supplement before? let see how things have changed.

while colleagues at the office awed at my transformation from XL to M, they don’t believe that I didn’t take or consume any of the slimming pills, or herbs abundant in the market to be back in shape. until now after two years plus they still want to believe that I’d done something to my body, I’d taken something or else I wouldn’t be back in shape. how very shallow human brain sometimes. they don’t believe in the power of controlling your own mind to be able to control your desire, your body.

that’s exactly what I did when I first started to lose weight. I combat the urge/crave to eat continuously. the fact that I was nursing yaya at that time didn’t do much help. everytime after expressing milk or nurse her I’d felt the urge to eat.

but I was adamant that there is nothing in this world could help me to lose weight but myself. mind you, I’ve tried slimming pills after fahmi was born, despite having taken the pills and cutting down my food intake nothing happen. Alhamdulillah, the time with yaya, I manage to see the results in 6months and I continuosly lose weight until she is one and a half. I was ecstatically happy when I hit 54kgs. Maintain at that spot for months, lose some more when I had my tonsils remove and had to be on soft diet or I call it as ‘confinement’ period. but after that I stopped losing weight and now in total I’ve gain three kilos. I felt like a cow at 57kgs. I’ve been eating like a cow; eat whatever I crave and cannot touch during my ‘confinement’. Serve my self right.

I can start to watch my diet again, and combat the desire to eat like I did before. I’ve succeeded once right, should be no problem to do it again. But there’s the problem. Ever since I’ve started with the new post at the office, I need to do a lot of thinking, running here and there because all the divisions/department I’m overseeing is scattered all over the building. Before I can skip taking breakfast or lunch without experiencing any effect on my brain let alone my stomach. But now, I’d be feeling dizzy and my stomach would churn if I didn’t feed myself something.

So I decided to take herbalife as a supplement. Since it can also be consume for those who want to lose weight, I guess I’d be lucky if I can shed a kilo or two while taking it. The person who introduced me to herbalife assured me that I’d have no problem to shed 3 kilos in the 1st month consumption. eh, now there is a problem. I’ve pass the 1 month timeframe and still not losing any kilos… except I’ve notice my abs is slightly flatten and so does my bosom! darn it i’m losing fat at the wrong places! tak boleh jadi ni…

Reaching Out

when i left the lush green grounds of UKM 6 years ago, i lost contact with almost all my uni mates, faculty mates, kamsis mates, housemates and roommates. except for norashida @ shida (we were in the same classes coz we took the same major) & rohayu @ ayu(girl next door at kamsis - she used to bully me into translating her anthropology assignments). i envy those people whom from time to time still be able to catch up with their uni mates. i dont know what went wrong or how it went wrong, but i felt as though my 3 years of uni days doesnt exist at all. i hardly saw the same faces in uni anywhere around kl. it really made me feel sad coz when i left uni i thought that someday me & my unimates would bump into each other for at least once in our lifetime.

for the past 2 years i've been dying to hear about all my uni mates. the only connection i have is through shida & ayu, since they are both so far away in alor setar & ipoh, we only get connected once in a while through emails (which both of them hardly send me any for the past 1 year) and sms (which i noticed that my sms to ayu for the past 4 months came unreplied, i wonder why). still not much i heard about the rest of my unimates from shida & ayu. i'm dying to know whether suraya@sue, my roomates for 2 years from penang who aspired to become a radio DJ did really become a DJ? or whether she is married coz while we were busy with our last year papers she was busy courting... the boy she was dating at that time had already asked for her hand. but i've never received any wedding invitation from her so far, on the contrary i'm the one who'd been sending wedding invitation to all my frens a year after graduation! i send invitation cards to many people from uni years, those whom i called frens, kalau acquaintances tu ramai sangat, satu FSKK jer ada 500 over, yang satu kuliah komunikasi jer dah 200 lebih. but none turn up... sad :-(

so the result of nil connection with all of them is... i've forgotten most of their names... but not their faces. i can't believe it... i'm very particular about peoples name, i used the remember all my 43 mates from class of '94 & '95 names, with their bins and bintis and their d/os and s/os and family names.

so, i've given up any hopes to bump into my old unimates. until last night, when hubby took me & the kids to tesco shah alam for our dinner, he's been telling me that there's a food stall operated by chinese muslim family selling homemade yellow mee dishes. except i've forgotten niat asal nak try the mee when i bump into my old fren from uni having her dinner kat foodcourt tu. we were looking for vacant tables when i saw one lady sitting alone at a 6 chairs table. i would never forget how she looked like, she's still the same chubby girl i used to know, except she's not wearing glasses anymore. but i recognise her immediately... i would never forget her name coz we shared the same first name, tapi second name tu yang slow skit nak ingat. ah yesss... sharifah fauziah... syukur pada Tuhan... akhirnya jumpa jugak sorang. so we chit chatt and with the limited time we had tried to catch up on each other's life. she's seemed surprise with how my life progress... me married with 2 kids. i think i know why fauziah ;-) .i'll talk about it in my future entry, hopefully soon haha...
i've got her number saved in my hp. so will catch up some more later. fauziah, if you're reading my blog, jangan marah ye on my remark kat atas tu... hehehe

i'm feeling... happy, no not just happy... puas! Allah answered my prayer...

what about the rest of them? honestly i've lost count... i need to re do my unimate list and try to ingat balik nama2 semua orang... pencarianku baru bermula

The "M" Week

today we had to prepare something for fahmi's 'letterland' class. they wud be rotating alphabets every 2 weeks in random, and the children is required to bring things beginning with the 'letter of the week'. so this week is the 'M' week.
ever since the teacher told us what's the letter of the week i've been trying to figure out what fahmi should bring for the class. hmmm ... my 'walking dictionary' is short of word beginning with 'm'. i can't figure out anything else but 'muffin'. but we can't be bringing more food item to the class can we? not after the 'W'afer that we asked fahmi to bring in last 2 weeks, the teachers wud think we really are the food frenzies family. every letters wud be associated with food. ha ha ha...
so i have to think fast and list down everything that begins with 'm'. so here's my list:

muffin - emmm... reject
mango
mirror - we can bring the one dalam bilik komputer tu
marble
margarine
moon
money
mask
mountain
milk

hubby finally went for 'motorbike'. okay whatever, since hubby yang hantar fahmi to school today so i let him get away with it. i think i would go with mango (boleh makan jugak hehe), beli kat kedai buah depan rumah tu, bukannya susah pun ;-)

i need to dig for more words and simpan dalam my 'walking dictionary'...