Posts Tagged ‘abah’

Happy birthday abah!

// January 6th, 2009 // No Comments » // birthdays

Kinda late wishing my dad a happy birthday today. Now he’s 53!

A father means so many things
An understanding heart
A source of strength and of support
Right from the very start

A constant readiness to help
In a kind and thoughtful way
With encouragement and forgiveness
No matter what comes your way

A special generosity
And always affection, too
A father means so many things
When he’s a man like you

- unknown author

Post-mortem

// August 27th, 2008 // No Comments » // personal

So here’s the post mortem of everything.

Hmmm…. my dad bought me a PDA. Well, not really a PDA but he gave me the money to get one. Was joking (but a little bit hopeful) when I asked him about it yesterday. So this morning I was all smiles driving to work. Came in late (5 min) but who cares these days. It’s tiring traveling from Telok Panglima Garang. Have to wake up early, be out of the house early, have to spend so much time alone driving,  just to get in office before 8.30am. Urghhh cut me some slack. What a cruel way of robbing someone’s life. What an unnecessary babbling to start a day.

My brother is home right now before going back so I want to play all available LAN games with him and Otel even if it continues way after my bedtime….. heheheh…. If I bring back my laptop, there’ll be 4 machines enough for us all but sadly Mueh is not a gamer at heart, maybe can ask abah to join us? Ooohh brings back Diablo memory.

Mom baked a cake after so many years – yum yum chocolate cake with very creamy, tasty, delish chocolate sauce. If we had pineaple slices last night, I would’ve covered them with sugar and bbq them until it’s golden and then dipped that sweet stuff into that even sweeter choc sauce! Strange how I don’t eat chocolate (the bars and ice creams) but I eat choc cakes, choc muffins, choc sauce. My mom bought me a baju kurung, from the look & feel of it, it looks expensive. Not that it matters, maybe it didn’t cost much but she knows how to pick stuff that will look good. Besides, she understands my taste, so all the more better.

Throughout August, I discovered a good spot for shopping – tapak-tapak convo di seluruh universiti di seluruh negara. Oh you wouldn’t believe the prices you could get there. Almost all major unis convos are over now. Normally you can find clothes and tudung at student’s price – I got 2 shirts for RM25 that would set me back RM70+ in shopping malls. Recently when we went for Otel’s convo (now where did I put the pix), my mom bought this fluffly unbelievably very  ‘cuddlable’ pillows. They’re made from goose feathers, the soft ones on the breast side, normally retails at RM290++ each. We got it at RM34. See the huge difference there? I’m sure you’ve heard of second hand stuff from hotels – this is one of those. We took home 6 pillows, 2 bedsheet (I think) and something else made from Egyptian cotton. Go google for Egyptian cotton and you’ll get the idea. All below RM1k.

Well known Pelita Alam, main shop in Tambun if you know where that is. Basically it’s a great place to find home furnishings especially if you need furnitures for new home and stuff. You can get RM40k bed for RM2200 – good bargain right there.

And good bargain also exist in the form of eBay. Do not underestimate the power of eBay regardless of you being a seller or a buyer. You can easily get addicted to eBay. I like to purchase all my cosmetic stuff there. Real cheap. Go browse and test the real thing in shops, go back home and buy them online. Malaysians don’t offer alot, yet, but it’s growing and I like that.

Just for the record, I don’t like the way papers trashed Anwar Ibrahim – they should have 2 sides of the story. Anyway, I don’t believe the sodomy allegations. It’s just preposterous! Like my mom said – “Tak masuk dek akal!”. By the way, last night on RTM1 there was a documentary of some sort on ISA detainees and they showed their everyday lives etc. All I can say is, kalau masuk tv mesti la tunjuk yang baik-baik saje. An interview with a detainee also all gave good comments. There was a short appearance of ex-detainee saying stuff like “ISA membantu membentuk sahsiah saya kini bla bla bla..”, haiya that guy was in for the shortest moment. Get someone who had/have been there for years. Anwar spent his 6 years there. If you are to showcase the real news, get it from real sources. Hape lah!

I’m going to be absent the rest of the next 2 week starting this Friday. Thanks to my team for being understanding – see I told you they’re great people. My camera still with friend, so I’m going to lose the chance to snap pretty pix…. *sigh* … Doubtful to borrow from friends coz I feel they’ll be abit reluctant parting with their cam more than a weekend, unless they have extras. So will snap pix and save in my real memory I guess.

My shoes are not here yet! Why oh why? Been waiting anticipating… Shucks.

Oooohhh am surprise at the lenght of this post here. Well like I said, it’s post mortem of everything.

Pagi yang gelap

// May 14th, 2008 // No Comments » // personal

Yesterday morning, at the garage going off to work…..

Yours truly: Mak, ade payung free tak dalam rumah ni. Kaklong sebenarnye nak beli tapi tak terbeli-beli. Tak tau la nak beli kat mana. Selalu kaklong tengok diorang kasi payung as a gift jek. Tang mana nak beli ni?? Stesen minyak ka?
Mak: Tengokla dalam kete mak kot ada lebih. Mak rasa ada lebih payung kuning. Ambik la hat tu.

Melihatkan keadaan kereta yang masih berkunci dan kemalasan yag amat untuk mengambil kunci kereta di dalam rumah…

Yours truly: Ala takyah la. Kalau takde takpe (kat mana nak beli payung nih?….alahai….)

Terus saje menuju ke kereta and started loading stuff, backpack, beg merah, sneakers etc. Then teringat alamak lupa handbag, masuk balik dalam rumah to switch stuff from old handbag to new one and came back out to the car. Jeling-jeling kat kereta mak, eh bila plak mak ada kat situ, pintu kete terbuka, siap ada payung ada kat tangan lagi.

Mak: Ni haa nak yang mana. Yang ni ka (lifting the grey one) ke yang ni (handing me the pink one).
Yours truly: Erk ada lebih ke? Mak tak pakai? * terus amik payung yang mak hulur *
Abah (from out of nowhere): Haa amek yang tu, senang pakai (referring the pink one)
Mak: Tu bukan pink. Dalam kuning.
Yours truly: (Kuning? Apesal cover kaler pink?)

Lepas selak cover….

Yours truly: Pink la mak…. hikhikhik (suke suke suke)
Mak: Uih lawa la plak. Tak penah bukak pun.
Yours truly: Hikhikhik.

Kesimpulannya, now I have an umbrella! What a breakthrough.

Tag

// January 7th, 2008 // No Comments » // tag

1. Name one person who made you laugh last night.
I don’t think I laughed last night. Not that hard to remember one. Abah made me laugh today though. He forgot Mueh was in the car before driving away from his place.

2. What were you doing at 0800?
Still in bed.

3. What were you doing 30 minutes ago?
Reading blogs.

4. What happened to you in 2007?
Most of it involved work, nothing much on personal level. In no chronological order, I got off Brunei project, started joining TN + MT team, joined Mofaz team, trained as an FPX plugin installer, implemented symfony in projects, had my first part-time job (and gonna get paid soon!), changed job, went to Redang, laptop lost and replaced, phone lost and bought, joined facebook, bought a car, learned to use chopsticks, finally got over The First Love and managed to meet him face to face, was in brief relationship with The Foreigner, was in brief relationship with The Jerk (yes I was in 2 relationships this year – hard to believe myself), opened a trust fund account, Ammar went to Egypt, Mueh got a 4.00 CGPA, started to like Hugh Laurie.

5. What was the last thing you said out loud?
Oi!

6. How many beverages did you have today?
Ice lemon tea, chrysanthemum tea and plain water.

7. What color is your hairbrush?
Blue.

8. What was the last thing you paid for?
Parking fee.

9. Where were you last night?
Home.

10. What color is your front door?
Reddish brown.

11. Where do you keep your change?
Purse.

12. What’s the weather like today?
Cold. It’s been raining.

13. What’s the best ice-cream flavor?
Vanilla.

14. What excites you?
KFC, my job, shopping, 206

15. Do you want to cut your hair?
Planning to.

16. Are you over the age of 25?
HA HA. What’s the point.

17. Do you talk a lot?
I’m a quiet person. But surprisingly the most relaxed time when I bound to talk more is when I’m driving.

18. Do you watch the O.C.?
Not anymore.

19. Do you know anyone named Steven?
Nope.

20. Do you make up your own words?
It has been one word and one word since – nunungs. It’s a sibling thinggg

21.Are you a jealous person?
Not unless I’m unreasonably provoked.

22. Name a friend whose name starts with the letter ‘A’
Adda.

23. Name a friend whose name starts with the letter ‘K’.
Kamil.

24. Who’s the first person on your received call list?
Pakcik Nasri.

25. What does the last text message you received say?
Nuhaa tdooo! esok keje!! ^_^

26. Do you chew on your straw?
Nope.

27. Do you have curly hair?
Nope.

28. Where’s the next place you’re going to?
Bed!

29. Who’s the rudest person in your life?
There’s this little girl in my distant family, belah mak, anak sedara ke hape ntah, she’s around 10 or 11 but god only knows how rude she is with older people. Sangat la takde manners bila bercakap dengan orang tua. I witnessed once when she suddenly interrupted (verrrryy rudely) abah and an uncle talking, somewhere along the line “Hah! Bagus la tu, borak lagi, borak lagi!” at which I responded a quite verbal “Whoa!”. Terkejut weh tengok budak kecik buat camtu kat orang tua. Well dia memang dah kena cap ‘budak pompuan kurang ajar’ by all of us adik-beradik (who were there witnessing as well) ever since.

30. What was the last thing you ate?
Kuew teow goreng.

31. Will you get married in the future?
Insyallah…

32.What’s the best movie you’ve seen in the past 2 weeks?
I Am Legend <— so-so

33. Is there anyone you like right now?
Yes but I think it’s unrequited.

34. When was the last time you did the dishes?
This morning.

35. Are you currently depressed?
Anxious is more like it. New job and new house.

36. Did you cry today?
No.

37. Why did you answer and post this?
Avoiding what is avoidable. Filling up time. It’s been ages since I did tags.

38. Tag 5 people who would do this survey.
Adda (aku tau ko suka tag lalalala)
Amrah (apdet le blog)
Blek (hmmpphh apdet!)
Aran (pengubat dikala buntu hahahahhaha)
Tipah (asik post pasal training jek, try tukar resipi sattt)

My address now read Putrajaya

// January 6th, 2008 // No Comments » // birthdays, family

Yay! Found a house! Much much cheaper than what I had earlier. It’s not a high rise apartment or a condo or a single storey house. It’s a flat where they don’t have attached bathroom for the master bedrooms (sangat tak convenient) but I don’t really care as long as the housemate is cool, I’m cool with it. Also I was hoping to find a place where they have security 24/7 or at least gated residence but the place looks impossibly tranquil I don’t really mind about it now. I was considering the late hours I’ll be doing (or not!) but that’s not really the point. I was just taking into account my safety and also to keep my mom happy. Well, as long as I don’t wonder around in quiet place then I’ll be fine.

Also,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ABAH!