Noritake Tak Halal?

now, who can confirm this?
baru je nak teguk air mineral untuk basahkan tekak pagi tadi aku received call dari hubby menyampaikan khabar that he heard over the ikim.fm radio a debate over bahan yang digunakan untuk menghasilkan noritake's fine china tableware adalah dari sumber yang tidak halal. terus je aku hilang selera nak basahkan tekak.

terkedu sekejap sebab kat rumah kami memang ada tea set fine china noritake. bukan aku beli pun (tak mampu sih) tapi sedekah (pemberian orang yang dia tak mau terima tapi tak sampai hati menolak) dari bos, dah quite sometime dapat tapi tak pernah guna, masih elok dalam bungkusannya. maklum jelah nak guna pun segan sebab kami ni orang 'kebanyakan' je duduk rumah pun tahap pipit je.

it was said (over the radio) that noritake's tableware was made from animal's bone termasuk tulang babi. eiii geli geleman aku mendengarnya. but since i didn't hear it myself and when i ask over and over hubby pun not quite sure what he heard, i guess it is left to me to find out. so i goggle up and found an article yang sangat berguna.

the thing is aku tak pasti tea set yang masih kemas tersimpan dalam kotaknya tu adalah fine bone china atau fine china atau porcelain biasa. i dread to find out. terasa so ignorant sungguh aku ni, macam mana boleh terlepas pandang, tak ambil tahu. dah namanya pun fine bone, it should have triggered me to find out sooner except i am still naive when it comes to tableware. maklum jelah kat rumah masih guna pinggan mangkuk percuma colgate & darlie untuk kegunaan harian!

kalaulah benar then i had to part with my precious noritake so be it. yang haram tetap haram.
lebih kurang beginilah corak tea set noritake ku... entahlah aku pun tak pasti sebab dah bertahun tak membeleknya!

My New Bakeware Set

i got these baking dish set at 50% from living quarters warehouse sales last month. so i made two sets of chicken lasagna for dinner malam khamis lepas. one set for hubby & me and the other one for fahmi to share with yaya & kakak.

Menu Orang Malas

i'm suffering from 'cooking withdrawal syndrom' (if there is any such thing). aku jadi tak tau nak masak apa when weekend comes. i become too absorbed with baking sampai lost touch with cooking real food for real life eaters.

so, my escapism adalah pizza! sebab buat pizza sangat mudah dan sangat laris dalam rumah kami ini, jadi buat apa aku nak spend masa berpanas di dapur bila all i have to do is menguli tepung, tabur inti dan bakar selama 12 minit. siap!

BBQ pizza, potato salad & strawberry itu sekadar penyeri ;-)

Man U : Asia Tour

nope, i'm not about to write an extensive entry pasal the Man U vs M'sia match, coz i don't even go and watch the match. mintak mahap bebanyak, aku tak minat nak berasak2 pergi stadium bukit jalil semata2 nak tengok orang main bola atas padang yang cuma sebesar batang mancis kalau dilihat dari tempat duduk stadium. dan walaupun once upon a time dulu aku memang minat giler sama itu Man U, tapi alhamdulillah aku dah tak gila lagi, jadi lupakan pasal writing an entry memuja muji Man U. it isn't the same team that i used to puja puji dulu.

sungguhpun begitu, aku takkan sekali2 menolak kalau ditawarkan tiket match Man U vs M'sia. sebab sungguhpun minat aku terhadap Man U sudah luntur, tapi minat hubby masih kental. pun begitu minat dia tu tak lah sampai mendorong dia membeli tiket match tersebut. kerana itulah, aku tak tolak langsung bila di offer dua keping tiket match tersebut. semuanya kerana incik hubby. owh sungguh bertuah kan dia kerana beristerikan aku? ;-P nasib dapat bos yang duduk kerusi panas FAM, dapat merasa tiket hasil sumbangan dia... hehe.


dan aku dengan rela hati menyerahkan tiket tersebut kepada hubby yang mengajak kawannya incik zul untuk menemaninya menonton perlawanan tersebut, sungguhpun aku sebenarnya lebih suka dia membawa fahmi kali ini (fahmi begitu teruja nak menonton football match dengan daddy selepas daddy tak mengajak dia tonton match chelsea dulu).

apapun, tiket ini bukanlah tiket pertama yang kuhadiahkan buat hubby. tahun lepas kuhadiahkan dia tiket perlawanan chelsea di stadium shah alam. punyalah isteri mithali aku ni dengan rela hati menyerahkan tiket yang aku dapat daripada celcom (sampai hari ni aku masih confuse kenapa celcom mail me the tickets walhal aku bukan pelanggan celcom, owh whatever!) kepada incik hubby yang membawa bersama kawannya incik kimball yang sangat meminati chelsea.

ok, enough of my rantings about ke obsesan incik hubby terhadap bola. i better get some rest before i go out again to buy a birthday present untuk anak kawan hubby. we are going for the birthday party tonight sebaik hubby balik dari bukit jalil.

Sapa Nak Urut?

... bukan maksudku bertanya siapa yang ber urut, tapi siapa yang boleh/mahu/sudi meng urut ku? aku penat, tak cukup tidur & sakit badan. dah 2 hari 2 malam kerja keras dan tidur lewat. kesan tidur lewat pertama pada malam khamis, hari jumaat aku macam zombie di opis, otakku beku, respon agak slow dan mengantuk yang amat. meronta2jiwaku nak balik cepat, duduk kat ofis rasa macam dalam detention class.

dan kesan kerja lebih keras serta tidur lewat the following night buat aku nyaris tak bangun pagi tadi. kalau tak kerana aku tengah 'mens', dah tentu aku miss subuh tadi. pagi ni tengkuk ku sakit, gara2 malam tadi terlalu tekun meng 'ice' kan kek. pun begitu ketekunan ku masih tidak membuahkan hasil kerja yang memuaskan hati. ye, aku tak puas hati dengan hasil kerja ku sendiri. i cannot help to feel kalaulah aku ada lebih masa untuk menggarap idea deko...

my mum stayed up late juga last night. menemankan aku bekerja. owh i am so thankful to her but at the same time i feel really bad coz i spent more time with my toys rather than with her. i thought of taking a break from baking today so that i can entertain her but heck i just remember that i have to go to usj to collect the edible image and then a quick trip to top up my baking supplies. uwargh... tentu ma serik nak datang lagi rumahku lepas ni.

so, selepas membaca keluhan ku ini, ada sesiapa yang sudi mengurut aku? i really and terribly in need of a good hour of massage.

cuci mata dengan gambar2 ni

Fahmi's Report Card Day

we (me & hubby) were invited by the school to collect fahmi's report card and to discuss our son's first half semester progress at school on wednesday. i went alone as hubby had urgent inspection of goods at his workplace.

fahmi tagged along as his class teacher (teacher lilies suraya) briefed me on his progress. he seems to be doing very well in his half semester exam and scored 99.94% to finish 3rd in his class of 17 pupils. the other two top student in his class are girls, one by the name lydia ( i reckon fahmi mention her name a couple of times) who grabbed the no. 1 trophy and the other i didn't quite get her name. he scored 100% for all other 5 subjects except for spelling which he made 2 mistakes to earn 96% only. he spelled the word 'bola' wrongly. apparently my boy has no patient to sit and check the spelling that he wrote before he hand over his exam paper back, it is not the case that he doesn't know how to spell the word 'bola'.

i am relieved that he did so well in his exam, because knowing him and based on the feedbacks given by the teachers before this, i know my boy is such a naughty and playfull at school. it is a wonder that he pays attention at all in the class. owh, and according to teacher lilies, he has a new partner in crime, an indian boy who is slightly smaller than him.

when teacher lilies mention the boy's name, i quickly reckon that this is the boy that fahmi used to bully before. owh well, bukanlah bully pun, it's just that one day i saw fahmi giving the boy his killing stare i believe to scare the boy away because he was having fun with a bunch of friends when this boy came over, attempted to join them. so, finally the boy became his new partner in crime uh? teacher lilies had to make fahmi as the 'ketua kelas' just to make him more disciplined. i admire teacher lilies approach and think i'm going to apply the same approach at home whenever he & yaya starts getting into their mischievious act.

i told fahmi just now, that if he maintains his result until end of the school semester, i'm going to get him a present, something that he fancy most. another transformer toy, fahmi ask. we'll see my son.

Sudden Hectic Week

the rest of this week going to be very hectic days of the week. i have 4 orders yang perlu disiapkan - 2 pre-order, the other 2 last minute order, and my parents are coming and will be staying with us sehingga hari ahad ni. now, i'm cracking my head organising and re-organising my schedule to fit the orders yang perlu disiapkan and entertaining my parents at the same time.

kalau nak diikutkan my parents memang dah plan nak datang this week and we are ready to accept them. cuma secara tiba2 dekat2 penghujung minggu begini bertambah-tambah pulak order. dengan rumah sewaku yang kecil ni, ruang makan yang bercantum dengan ruang tamulah tempat aku menyiapkan kerja. kesian pulak my parents nanti, dan aku semestinya tak terlayan mereka sebab sibuk melayan baking! heheh

hubby is going to fetch them after maghrib malam ni. and i bet that mum mesti bawa nana tag along. when i mentioned it to hubby, hubby mengomel, aku faham 'ngomelan' dia sebab aku pun mengomel pasal benda yang sama dalam hati aku, iskkk. i jokingly told hubby nana umpama 'bantal busuk' mesti dibawa ke mana2 je pergi. and i also add that kalau dulu kita tinggalkan fahmi terus bawah jagaan my mum, tentu fahmi juga jadi 'bantal busuk' ma. sebagaimana farah was mum's 'bantal busuk' suatu masa dulu, but now farah dah dibela semula oleh my sister farah dah tak jadi 'bantal busuk' ma lagi.

apa persamaan ketiga-tiga nama (fahmi, nana & farah) yang aku sebutkan tadi? all three of them adalah cucu-cucu yang pernah (dan masih) diletak bawah jagaan my mum untuk satu tempoh yang panjang. except for fahmi yang memang cepat2 aku ambil semula selepas aku pertimbangkan 'implikasinya' in the future.

ehmm, since nana pun akan ikut sama, memang enjoy sakanlah anak-anak aku sebab 'kekuatan' diaorang bertambah... mmm banyak2lah bersabar ye dengan jerit pekik diaorg, jadi kapal karamlah rumah aku.