Last but not least!

The end of 2010 is just around the corner. In fact the year of 2010 will be ending by the end of today. Hari ni mungkin ramai orang sibuk update new resolutions for 2011 dekat status Facebook, Twitter and blog. Me? Ada la jugak azam baru. This year punya pon belum 100% achieve. Kenapa lah malas sangat diriku ini. *cubit diri sendiri*

There are a lot of things happening this year and did give some impact both my personal life and also my career. So what did I achieve so far? Alhamdulillah, this year kami sekeluarga moved to our own house. After almost a year, scouting, endless planning, scouting lagi, dealing with lawyer and bank (this process took ages to be settled, thus seek a lot of time out of all processes! Not to mention duit banyak habis because of this matter), designing, packaging, moving...finally I can call the place that me and my family live now as OUR HOME. I guess that is the big achievement for me and my husband for this year. The best part of all that is we did everything together. With me working on rotation, sometimes made the process not as smooth as what we planned. Documents pending just because its needed my precious signature. But the moment we got the key to our house, every hassle that we faced seems disappear. It is a big accomplishment for us.












Tengok sikit2 jer dulu yer. Nanti ada entry special pasal rumah (tak tau la bila nak post entry tu) aku tunjuk ruang2 rumah yang lain yer.

Career wise, not that bad. Initially I planned to get my promotion by the end of this year. But maybe I have to carry forward my plan to the next year. Not that I'm not working on my promotion...but there's a lot of obstacles in between. Arghhh..I don't want to think about it. Life must goes on. If we keep reminiscing our past, we will never move on. So, yes next year insyaAllah kalau dimurahkan rezeki I will get to hear the good news. We'll see how it goes.

As a mother, I'm really proud to see what Emir's achieved so far. He barely talk now. He can call me 'Ibu'...Well, that's really big step baby! It's heart wrenching moment when I heard he called me 'ibu'. 'Ayah' dia memang dah boleh sebut lama dah..jealous tau! Sometimes with me pon dia panggil 'ayah' jugak. (-__-') I figured it's not easy for baby less than 2 years to pronounce 'ibu' or 'bonda'. Whatever it is, mother can never give up on her baby. All babies are unique and created differently. They are so unexpected. Never ever underestimate their ability. Emir can count 1 to 10 and sing ABC's song. Even thou it is not that clear but he knows the rhythm. His favorite song so far is 'Itsy Bitsy Spider'. He will literally moves his hand as if the spider is trying to climb on his hand. So funny!






This little guy will turn 2 next month!

As cliche as its sounds, I wanna listed out few resolutions that I wanna achieve (InsyaAllah) in 2011. Well, at least if I look back at this entry, it's kinda a reminder to me. Hihi.

1. Try to accomplish whatever I did not achieve in year 2010.
2. Try to balance my personal life and my career as much as I could.
3. Be a better mom to Emir, a better wife to my husband, a good daughter to my parents and a better Muslim.
4. Buat umrah. InsyaAllah.
5. If ada rezeki lebih, nak beli rumah lagi.
6. Sharpen my photography skills.
7. Read more books.
8. Visit and explore more new places. I really want to go to Maldives.
9. Menjadi lebih rajin and stop procrastinating.
10. Eat healthily and do more exercises..really need to get rid those 'lemak2 berlebihan'
11. Err..get pregnant?!

I guess that's it for now. Risau kalau banyak sangat nanti tak tercapai pulak. Last but not least, I pray to Allah, supaya di murahkan rezeki, dipanjangkan umur dan diberi kesihatan yang baik for me to accomplish those resolutions. Amin.

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Long absent

Yeah I know..I know..It's been a long absent in this blog. And it's quite lame and cliche to tell you guys that's I'm busy. Semua orang pon busy dengan hidup masing2. Okay, fine. Sebenarnya adalah malas sebab this month aku banyak travel here and there. So by the time sampai rumah, I just wanna rest.

Ni pon aku ada dekat tengah2 Laut China Selatan for a short trip job in Vung Tau. Manager aku agak kejam this time sebab dia call aku dikala aku sedang menikmati ikan goreng sambal dekat rumah makcik aku bersama-sama suami. Justeru telah men'spoil'kan my mood cuti weekend. FYI, sekarang ni aku on-loan dekat Labuan. After received call from manager, hari ahad tu jugak aku fly to Ho Chi Minh city then naik boat for about 1 1/2 hour to Vung Tau.

Aku sampai jer Vung Tau terus pergi ke base sebab nak collect coverall and safety boots. I have no other options to use someone's else coverall sebab aku punya barang2 mostly dekat rumah Labuan. Manager aku tak bagi balik Labuan ambik barang2 aku. Jimat cost katanya so from KL straight to Vietnam (sooo cruel kan?? Aku benci manager aku time ni). The next early morning aku terus naik chopper ke platform.

Initial plan aku nak balik weekend je, so memang melenggang jer la aku balik hari tu. Laptop company pon aku tinggal sebabnya kalau dekat rumah rarely aku open company's laptop. Mujurlah email boleh excess pakai webmail. What make me more even happier is the whole platform covered with wireless connection. Tak sia2 ada encik iPhone aku ni. Even display screen kecil tapi still boleh pakai untuk excess email. Ni yang nak kena beli iPad ni, besar sikit display screen. Ewah2, ada je alasan aku nak menghabiskan duit kan.

Alhamdulillah, layanan orang2 dekat rig ni sangat baik. Ehem..maklumlah being the only lady on the rig memang dapat banyak privilege. Bilik pon dapat bilik VIP. Production platform selalunya facility sangat excellent. Just dekat sini makan jer la nak kena be extra careful. Each time, meal time mesti ada si lembu pendek. I have to request for a special meal. Mujurlah chef kat sini baik. Ker sebab aku ni girl? Haha. Apa2 pon yang penting aku masih boleh isi perut dengan makanan yang halal.


Job this time, aku sangat2 enjoy. Firstly, sebab this job is 2 mens job and colleague aku orang Indonesia. So easy to discuss things and boleh in dengan aku. Secondly, company man orang Korea. So each time dia cakap sure aku tahan gelak. Sebabnya accent Korea dia sangat pekat. You can imagine how Korean cakap omputih. Cute and funny. Teringat pulak aku cerita2 Korea. Plus orang nya sangat lucu. Haha. Thirdly, this job is short. Just 1 week. Normally, kalau aku pergi rig paling cepat 2 weeks baru aku balik base.


I really look fat in this picture. Inilah akibat makan 5 kali sehari. Benci tau.

Next week, aku balik Malaysia. Hopefully dapat lose weight before aku balik. Boleh ker ni? Risau suami tak dapat nak beza kan washing machine dengan isteri sendiri. (-____-')

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What song you shouldn't listen when you are mad?

On the way back from my parents' house today, I was listening to the radio, normally kalau aku yang drive aku tak pay attention sangat to what the DJ really says, I will just enjoy the music. But topic discussion DJ masa aku drive tadi sangat menarik telah menyebabkan aku drive selaju 60 km/h.Yup sangat perlahan and aku pon tak tau berapa banyak kereta take over kereta aku sambil memaki². Sebenarnya aku phobia sikit drive laju² waktu malam. Hehe.

Okay, back to my story, DJ tu tengah discuss² pasal macam mana Chris Brown tergamak to whack Rihanna masa dieorang tengah fight. One of the DJ wanted to find out la what song played inside Chris's head when they fought sampaikan dia boleh selamber tumbuk muka cantik Rihanna kan (dayus sungguh Chris Brown ni tau!). That incident leads the DJ to open topic hangat ni "What song you shouldn't listen when you are mad to your boyfriend or girlfriend?" menarik kan topic tu? kan? kan? Haha. At least the topic caught my attention. Aku tak pernah terpikir pon nak tanya soalan tu kat diri sendiri. So ramai la yang tweet bagi song list masing². Mostly listed the song that can really easy to get them feel annoyed when they listen to it. Ada yang cakap lagu "Hey Mickey" boleh membuatkan dia rasa lagi nak tumbuk muka boyfriend dia bertubi² kalau dia dengar time dieorang gaduh. Aku pon rasa lagu tu annoying jugak kalau dengar banyak² kali.

My don't-you-ever-play-that-song-or-I-will-turn-green is semua lagu dangdut!

Kalau time aku tengah marah jangan la korang pergi sua lagu dangdut kat telinga capang aku ni. No offence yer peminat² lagu dangdut. Aku bukan tak suka lagu dangdut. Aku nyanyi jugak lagu dangdut kalau pergi karaoke dengan suami aku.Tapi please la jangan pasang kalau aku punya boiling point nak cecah 100 degC. It's sooo going to annoy me!

Kan best kalau each time isteri/girlfriend punya boiling point dah almost reach the top, suami hadiahkan kotak yang berisi handbag di dalamnya macam ni..daripada marah terus sejuk la *battling eye lashes ke arah suami* (Husband baru bagi kotak ni tadi, for my belated birthday present..thank you sayang!)

Dah² jangan nak berangan. Kau ingat suami kau tu petik duit kat pokok ker? Kan bagus kalau rasa² nak meletup tu, pergi ambik wudhu' ker, baca Quran ker kan? Bagi tenang sikit jiwa raga tu.

Seriously, aku still rasa lagu dangdut sangat annoying di dengar kalau aku tengah marah. What say you?

Playing badminton is actually fun!

Recently, my husband kemaruk main badminton. Siap beli racket baru. Baguslah kan. Sebagai isteri yang solehah patuh pada suaminya, aku pon join lah sekali. Ada orang tu dah belikan racket untuk kita, kita main lah kan. Takkan nak simpan racket tu buat perhiasan pulak.

My husband said, he wants this thing become a ritual. Every Friday night, main badminton. Well, we'll see how it goes. Jangan awal² ni jer bersemangat lebih.

Yang bestnya, hobi baru husband ni jugak mendapat sambutan hangat dari member² beliau. Ramai jugak turun last Friday main badminton sama² we all. Meriah sikit bila main badminton ramai² ni. Geng JSA pon ada jugak. Boleh bersenam buang² lemak² terkumpul ni kan? Hehe.

Last week, we booked the court for only 2 hours. Tu pon dah tercungap² aku main. Sejak kerja ni aku memang jarang giler bersukan. Well, dekat Nigeria pon aku main tennis bila aku ada dekat camp jer. Kalau aku pergi offshore, tak dapat nak la nak main tennis. Dekat rumah ni ada jugak racket tennis tapi...ermm..cam biasa la sakit malas aku ni menjadi². So bila my husband dah semangat nak main badminton ni, aku pon boleh lah beriadah sekali.

Gaya jer lebih. Tapi shuttle cock tu asyik tak kena racket aku jer. Ker aku yang tak reti main badminton?

Pasangan regu paling mantap seantero dunia. Enough said.

Mereka² yang berada di tempat kejadian.

Kerajaan asyiklah kempen 'Majulah sukan untuk Negara'. Tapi as a Malaysian citizen korang sokong tak kempen tu? For me, it is not only for the country, it is also for yourself!

I wish I have more than 24 hours!

Aku kalau balik rumah jer mesti blog ni akan jadi macam anak terbiar tau...bila dah sentiasa busy dengan anak sendiri, memang kurang sikit masa untuk diri sendiri (eh macam rhyme pulak)...Most of my time at home will be occupied dengan aktiviti di rumah with my family..Bukan tak nak meng'update' tapi setiap kali mood nak update datang dah duduk depan laptop then suddenly mesti hati ni selalu rasa tak senang and nak check balik tengok apa yang anak aku tengah buat..selalu tau macam tu..end up blog ni memang tak ber'update'..

Mesti ada yang cakap, eleh ko anak baru sorang dah kecoh..tu ade blogger anak 2-3-4 still jer boleh update blog tetiap hari..weh aku memang salute la dekat dieorang yang anak dah 2-3 ni boleh update blog hari²..some of them tu dah la berkerja..tapi never fail to update blog with new entry almost everyday..for instant kak merah kita..the infamous blogger..okay maybe anak dia dah besar² kan tapi still la they need her attention..I memang adore you kak red!!..sometimes I wonder how on earth they could do such things..or maybe I'm the one who is lazy?

Tapi dalam masa aku sibuk² tu, semalam aku sempat pergi buat facial..itu pon after my husband bising² tengok muka isteri dia dah macam ladang penternakan jerawat...hahaha..noo lah....of course la dia tak cakap straight to the point yang muka aku banyak jerawat but suddenly he came up with this line " Sayang..you dah lama tak pergi facial kan?..ni adik² ada dekat rumah boleh dieorang tengok² kan Emir while you go do your facial" Masa tu aku pon rasa pelik, dia tiba-tiba concern sangat pasal facial appointment aku..Pastu terus pergi tengok muka sendiri dekat cermin, lantas hatiku berkata "I really do need a facial treatment"..terus call Asterspring set appointment semalam..

Memang dah lama sangat tak pergi buat facial, since my last facial appointment was..wait I forgot..I think it was 4 months ago kot..sampaikan..last time aku balik, I was so busy with packing and unpacking (we were moving to our new house)...furthermore, it was Raya when I was at home last time..super duper busy!! So after awhile not pampering myself, yesterday facial session was such a blast!! rasa sangat relax and aku memang enjoy la..terus set another appointment next week..hehe..

I personally think as a women, no matter how busy you are, you guys really need to find sometimes to ease yourself..especially for those yang dah ada anak tu..jangan jadikan "sibuk dengan anak" sebagai alasan untuk tiada masa for yourself (peringatan untuk diri sendiri jugak)..biarlah hanya untuk beberapa jam..you guys really need it! Buat lah anything yang boleh buat you all feel relax and happy..do massage or facial..watch your favorite movie or read book...barulah diri tu nampak sentiasa muda and ceria!!

Happy mode

Hati saya sangat gembira..~la..~la..~la..

Besok balik Malaysia.

Mestilah saya suka!!

Life is Like a Cup of Coffee

Just wanna share with you guys a spiritual story. The writer's name is not clearly stated but his/her story did give some impact to me.

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups have been taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.

Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups... And then you began eyeing each other's cups.

Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of life we live.

Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee. Savor the coffee, not the cups! The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything. Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly.

This story was taken from here

Manusia memang tak pernah rasa puas dengan apa yang kita ada. We always look for something more even we know what's in our hand is more than enough than we could handle. Sometimes we should learn how to appreciate things we already have and try to make use of them at the very best as we could.

Keep It Simple & Straightforward = KISS.

"Peerenting"

Aku ingat lagi masa aku kecik-kecik, kami adik beradik memang takut dengan mama. Mama sangat tegas garang dengan anak². Abah selalunya cool jer dengan kami. Tapi bila abah marah memang kami adik beradik sangat gerun. Tu sebab almost anything that I want from my mom or anything that I want to tell her I will go through my abah. Kira abah filter dulu la. Kalau abah kata 'Yes', mama maybe says 'Yes' or 'No' la. If abah kata 'No' tak payah la buang masa tanya dekat mama sebab jawapannya adalah sama.

After I got married, everything seems to change. Me and my mom started become closer. Especially after I have my own kid.We share story about pregnancy, motherhood, cooking..or would I say about everything? Now baru aku faham sebenarnya kenapa my mom begitu tegas dengan kami. Bukan senang rupanya nak membesarkan anak² ni. Anak amanah Allah to all parents. So kena jaga dengan betul². Aku pon pelik kenapa ada manusia sanggup buang anak. Dahlah baby baru lahir adalah sangat comel. Macam mana lah dieorang boleh tergamak letak baby comel dalam tong sampah, tepi jalan, dalam toilet. Stupid tau mereka² ini.

Seingat aku lah, aku memang tak pernah kot cerita pasal kekasih² aku ni dekat mama aku. Kalau nak rasa kena pukul dengan hanger or telinga berdesing dengar bebelan mama, try la cerita pasal boyfriend² ni dekat dia. Even abah aku seorang yang agak cool, dengan dia pon aku tak pernah nak cerita pasal kekasih² gelap aku. Serious weh sampai aku masuk university pon parents aku tak tau aku ada kekasih kecuali kekasih aku yang last sekali tu. *Ehem* you know who you are. Ada certain kawan² aku masa aku primary and secondary siap boleh cerita² pasal boyfriend dieorang dekat mak ayah dieorang. Siap tu mak ayah jemput datang rumah makan tengahari sama². Aku tengok parents zaman sekarang ni pon more open la pasal boyfriend-girlfriend ni. Ooh tapi lepas aku jumpa last boyfriend aku (now my husband), tiba² aku jadi berani nak bagitau my parents. Aku siap bawak jumpa mama abah lagi. Masa tu risau giler kalau mama halau dia balik kan. Up to my suprise, mama beramas beramah mesra lagi dengan dia. Jodoh tu ketentuan Allah. Manusia pon boleh berubah kalau dah ditakdirkan oleh-Nya.

Recently, I watched an American television series called 'Modern Family'. It's about a big family which portrays husband, wife, kids, gay couple raising an adopted daughter, mixed raced couples..which somehow exemplifies today's family. So in one of the episode, one of the character mentioned about 'Peerenting'. He was actually trying to understand the problem faced by his daughter and her boyfriend. The father is trying to berlakon jadi kawan kepada daughter dia instead of being a father so that his daughter lebih rasa selesa untuk share masalah boyfriend dia.

Source

Apa yang menarik perhatian aku, is perkataan 'Peerenting' tu sendiri and it's simplified from 'Peer' and 'Parenting'. Peerenting is when you act like a parent but you talk like a peer. Dalam bahasa yang lebih mudah di fahami, korang treat anak² korang like a friend so that anak² lebih selesa nak share apa saja dengan parents tanpa rasa takut. Parents act 'friend' role instead of 'parent' role.

I call it "Peerenting"

For me, aku suka konsep macam ni but not for all the time. As a mom, aku suka bila anak² refer pada aku kalau dieorang ada any problem. Even aku pada masa tu aku takde solutions for their problem but at that time I can still comfort them and calm them down. Kenapa aku cakap 'not for all the time' because for sure la at times, we also need to be strict to our kids at certain things especially anything yang bercanggah dengan tuntutan agama. Kalau tak sure kids, pijak kepala act beyond our limit kan? In the same time, we as a parents, also need to learn to listen to our kids first before make any judgment. On the other hand, kids need to understand there's must be a reason why that parents, sometimes say 'NO' to things that you desire or request from them.

Dalam mendidik anak² ni masing² ada cara tersendiri. My parents pon is typical 'parent'...strict and always wanted us to listen to what they said. But I guess they did a good job because Alhamdulillah we are all turned out okay. As a daughter to them tak semestinya aku kena ikut cara my parents didik anak². But most of the time I will try to seek advice from them and also my in-laws.

You all pon sure ada pendapat masing² pasal issue 'Peerenting' ni. I believe this concept has pros and cons. I would like to hear from your point of view. Care to share guys?

Masa berlalu ibarat siput sedut yang sedang mengesot

Tick..Tock..Tick..Tock..

Lagi 12 hari nak balik. Makin dekat hari nak balik makin aku rasa time goes very² slow. Macam siput sedut. Mungkin siput sedut lebih laju kot. Encik Masa kau naik lah bullet train nanti cepat la sikit sampai waktunya aku balik.

My life on the rig pretty much stagnant for the past 3 days. We are still on preparation mode. Operation belum start lagi. Tu sebab korang boleh tengok aku update blog tiap² hari. Tak berapa nak busy sangat sebab most of the things dah settle. Lepas tu pulak shift aku 12 jam jer. Lepas shift memang free la. Aku pon bukan la bayi yang memerlukan tidur selama 12 jam. Supervisor aku pon sempoi jer orangnya. Bukan macam supervisor² aku yang lepas² asyik nak serius jer all the time. Tak boleh la tengok we all chill² sikit.

For now, tak semua crew boarded on the rig, the rest of the crew members will join us on this Saturday. Reason kenapa semua crew tak datang sekali sebab, preparation yang we all kena buat ni just minor jer because all set of equipments are permanent installed since 2 years ago. So we all yang dah sedia ada dekat rig ni just datang untuk buat function check before the job started. Berita yang paling buat mood aku ceria sikit today is because my supervisor mentioned one of the crew yang datang nanti is from Malaysia. Best giler!! Dapat aku gossip dalam bahasa ibundaku..Jarang sangat² dapat jumpa orang Malaysia dekat rig selama aku kerja ni. Hopefully mamat yang datang ni tak poyo sangat. Kalau poyo aku campak kat dalam laut. Hahaha.

Husband and Emir pulak malam ni (Malaysia time) bertolak ke Sungai Petani. Husband is going to attend his ex-school reunion organized by his batch. Rugi pulak rasa tak dapat join. Aku selalu jugak join meeting organizer reunion ni sebab my husband is one of the committee. Secara tak langsung aku tau la aktiviti² nya. Niat sebenar nak jumpa geng² gossip aku (Geng JSA). Tapi husband aku informed tadi ramai pulak geng² JSA tak dapat join sebab ada yang tengah berpantang and what not. Kiranya ramai datang sorang (read: bujang) la. My husband pon will drop Emir dekat my in-law's house in Sungai Petani. Suka la tu para² suami. Jangan nak ber'party' buih sudah lah. Aku memang pantang kalau buat party buih tanpa kehadiranku ini. Hahaha. Takpe lah aku kasik dia enjoy dengan kawan² dulu. Nanti aku balik Malaysia, you are all mine. Roarrrrr...=P

Okay guys. Will keep you guys updated.

Tata.

Anakku persis gaya seorang artis

Tahniah diucapkan kepada mama saya sebab berjaya meng'transformasi'kan anak saya persis seorang artis. Dah macam Vidal Sassoon la mama ni.

Ibu ni tak boleh simpan rahsia la.. Emir segan lah dengan Mya eh silap kawan-kawan nanti. Emir nak low-profile jer..Emir tak nak mem'capub' macam Dafi "Baik Punyerrrrr!"

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Abu Bakar Ellah..dia artis bukan?

Baru aku tau Abu Bakar Ellah inspired by Fantaghiro si cantik ni. Kalau begitu Ibu tak kisah lah kalau Emir nak kekalkan gaya rambut macam tu.

Mari belajar bahasa melayu dengan Ben bukan bendi..

I've stumbled into this video from facebook..Mamat ni kelakar giler. Dah la *cough* cute dan comel jer gaya percakapan bahasa melayu beliau. Beliau belajar bahasa melayu within 1 1/2 year jer. Tanpa intensive class or what so ever. Just by talking to our local guys and reading. *thumbs up*.

Mat Saleh pon beriya nak belajar bahasa melayu tapi kenapa orang melayu sendiri tak nak agungkan bahasa sendiri *pelik*. Haa, termasuklah aku sekali.

Korang tau tak mostly anak² menteri kita pon cakap bahasa melayu bersepah macam mana lah nak tunjukkan contoh yang baik kepada orang lain. Korang tengok anak President Jepun siap bawak translator kalau pergi mana². Bukanlah nak tunjuk beliau kaya, beliau boleh bayar translator. Bukan². Bukan jugak sebab beliau tak tau berkomunikasi dalam bahasa Inggeris tapi sebab beliau nak orang² lain tau yang beliau memartabatkan bahasa ibunda beliau even kat mana pon beliau berada.

Don't get me wrong. Aku tak bermaksud yang korang tak payah berkomunikasi dalam bahasa Inggeris langsung. Bahasa Inggeris kan International language. Even aku pon communicate dalam bahasa Inggeris time kerja. Tapi jangan la sampai jadi poyo sangat sambil berkata "Ooh, I forgot to speak Malay la" atau "Sorry, speak in English please, I don't understand you (dalam loghat Kelantan)", padahal makan budu lebih hebat dari aku. Memang nak kena pelempang.

Ooh..you all boleh kelik dekat sini untuk jadi kipas-susah-mati (die hard fan) beliau. Sabar dik² non. Akak tau korang tak sabar nak kelik link tersebut sebab nak tatap wajah cute beliau mengenali beliau dengan lebih rapat.

Beliau akan ke KL bulan December ni kot. So siapa² nak buat temujanji panas (hot date) dengan beliau boleh la hantarkan email ye. Oh aku tak boleh. Aku ada temujanji terpanas dengan encik suami *tak nampak ke encik suami dah jeling² tu*..=P

Gaya penulisan yang agak kurang matang

HyE K0wAnG!!! HaWau u GuYZz?? hOpE kOwAnG seE-hEaRt dAn SeNtIasA cHanTeqEu sElALu.. kItEw sEe-HeArT jEwW. HaRiE nIeW kItEw MaKaN eSkRem ceKLat yAng SaNgaT seDAp..(Hi korang!!! How are you, guys?? Hope korang sihat dan sentiasa cantik selalu.. Kita sihat jer. Hari ni kita makan aiskrim chocolate yang sangat sedap).

Okay. Stop it. Annoying, bukan?

Aku nak type pon lenguh. Asyik nak kena tekan shift jer.

Korang yang baca pon mesti rasa nak tekan butang 'X' kat sebelah atas kanan tu.

Umur dah 25 tahun tapi gaya penulisan serupa budak umur bawah 5 tahun. Grow up please.

Kalau Puan Rozana (cikgu BM (bahasa melayu) sekolah rendah masa aku darjah 6) tengok ni sure aku kena cubit sambil berkata "Amirah..coba (cuba/try tapi cikgu selalu pronounce coba) kamu ubah sikit tulisan kamu ni. Nak dapat BM penulisan E ke?"

Aku tengok budak² sekarang ni gemar betul type macam tu. Bukan budak² jer la. Golongan umur pertengahan pon masih nak type camtu. Kononnya ayat manja berbaur comel la type macam tu? Tak comel langsung okay. Tak kira la dalam blog, hantar SMS atau type status dalam facebook. Orang nak baca pon pening. Macam mana la you all ni gigih type macam tu. Especially yang rajin hantar SMS tu. Serius sangat gigih. Kalau aku one word nak type huruf besar huruf kecil tu mungkin ambil masa 1 minute. Imagine kalau nak type sepuluh perkataan. Jap nak ambik kain lap peluh jap. Berpeluh akak dik non!

Aku ambil contoh abah kesayangan aku la kan. Memang aku respect, kalau dia hantar SMS dekat aku mesti ayat lengkap, siap di setiap hujung SMS mesti ada perkataan "Terima Kasih/Thank You". Aku ada jugak la campur aduk perkataan ringkas kan sebab nak cepat contohnya 'yang' kepada 'yg'. Tapi tak kuasa nak type huruf besar huruf kecil tu. Lagi2 nak ubah perkataan seperti 'sihat' kepada 'see-heart' (tengok hati?), 'how are you' kepada 'hawau u' (dah macam mencarut pon ada aku rasa). Kalau abah aku dapat SMS macam tu dari aku, sure dia terus delete. Bukan sebab dia benci dekat aku. Tapi besar kemungkinan dia beranggapan handphone anak dia kena curi lepas tu ada orang gile hantar SMS yang sukar di fahami. =P

Adik-adik jangan contohi gaya penulisan di atas. Nak dapat BM penulisan A tak?

How well can you accept criticism?

"Eh, apesal make-up ko ni tebal sangat?"

"Tulisan kau ni dah la besar² pastu macam cakar ayam pulak tu"

"Report macam ni kau kata terbaik, adik aku dekat tadika pon boleh buat"

"Keciknya rumah kau, macam rumah kucing!"

"Baju kau ni aku pernah nampak la dekat uptown Danau Kota, kau kata kau tempah dekat Rizalman eh?"

Sakit hati tak kalau dapat kritikan macam ni? Rasa macam nak terjun bangunan 14 tingkat. Okay fine, melampau sangat tu. Bila kau dapat kritikan macam ni, kau rasa self-esteem kau terus merundum, say from 100% terus decline 0.01%. Tu pon mujur ada balance 0.01%.

Tak melampau sangat kalau aku cakap, dalam hidup ni kalau takde kritikan memang kita tak boleh maju. The thing is, how you face that criticism. Tapi kenapa sometimes (or should I say most of the time) susah sangat kita nak terima kritikan ni? Is it because we expect our self too high then we can't accept our weaknesses? or sebab sejak kecik mak bapak tak pernah tegur kesalahan kau, so kau ingat semua benda yang kau buat tu bagus²? So bila now orang tegur, itu salah ini salah, kau susah sangat nak terima?

Orang yang bagi kritik pon ada macam² jenis jugak, ada yang positive and ada yang negative.

Golongan I
Jenis suka nak condemn orang lain, supaya dia nampak lebih bagus dari orang yang dia kritik.
Orang² macam ni sangat keji tau. Orang macam ni, memang jenis tak boleh nampak orang lain lebih sikit dari dia. Memang dia pantang, kalau orang lain lagi bagus dari dia. Contoh ayat² kritikan dia:

Si Jenab baru beli sofa baru color merah, lalu ditegur Sepiah,

Sepiah: "Jenab, aku tengok kerusi baru warna merah kau tu dah sama macam color kain buruk alas kaki rumah si Jenah. Kalau aku, aku tak beli color cenggitu"

Tengok keji tak keji si Sepiah ni. Biarlah si Jenab nak feeling² dengan kerusi baru dia, kau tetiba nak dengki apesal?

Orang² yang tergolong dalam golongan ni memang akan sentiasa bagi kritik tak kira la if kau dah buat yang terbaik pon dia kritik, kau buat tak terbaik, memang of course lagi teruk kau kena kritik..

Harap korang boleh relate contoh yang aku bagi untuk golongan pertama ni. Boleh kan? kan?

Golongan II
Jenis yang suka kritik tapi kritik belakang², tak cakap straight to the face.
*Ehem*.
It's been our culture kot suka bitching2 belakang orang. Kalau kau tak puas hati cakap la depan² kan. Ker kau takut dan tak boleh nak menerima kenyataan?

Jenab: "Si Sepiah tu kalau pakai lipstick baru dia yang kaler merah dah macam bibir Missy Elliot dah aku tengok"

Apa kena mengena bibir Missy Elliot dengan warne lipstick si Sepiah? Memang dasar pendengki tau kau Jenab.

Golongan III
Jenis yang suka bagi constructive criticism.
Golongan ni memang harus dicontohi. Bagi dia, do right at the first place. Orang2 macam ni memang takde hasad dengki. Kalau dia kritik or tegur memang ikhlas sebab nak orang yang ditegur berubah ke arah kebaikan. Contoh ayat² kritikan yang very constructive:

Si suami melihat isterinya memakai tudung dengan blouse color kuning striking, lepas tu pakai seluar color merah mak ngah dipadankan dengan lipstik color merah jugak. Lalu si suami berkata kepada isteri:

Suami: "Yang..yang..abang tengok kalau yang pakai seluar color hitam dengan lipstik color beige/natural nampak lagi sexy stylo la yang..lepas tu yang pakai handbeg color brown yang abang bagi present masa birthday yang aritu tu..pergh memang kalau abang tengok pon abang rasa nak tengok yang jer tak nak tengok perempuan lain dah..oppsss..jangan marah yang..abang gurau jer.."

Isteri: "Yeker bang..alar abang ni pandai la fesyen² ni..okay la yang tukar sekarang tapi abang janji jangan pandang perempuan lain tau.."

Kan elok kalau cakap macam tu..kritikan yang di campur dengan cadangan yang membina. Bukan sahaja boleh membawa kepada perubahan yang lebih baik, malah hubungan antara kedua belah pihak pon menjadi lebih baik..

Aku rasa cara nak mengatasi criticism bagi golongan yang pertama dan kedua tu, you always need to know in your heart that what you do is right. Don't think too much about apa yang akan di kritik sebab benda ni boleh menjadi kan kau stress. Kalau boleh, instead of waiting your enemies to criticize you, become your own severe critics of your failure. Think that no one but only you can blame yourself for your fall. Be positive.

Pergi lah mana2 pon dalam dunia ni, memang tak boleh lari dengan 3 jenis golongan pengkritik di atas. Sepanjang aku kerja ni pon, aku dah di kritik oleh pelbagai jenis bangsa. Ada yang aku boleh boleh perbaiki, aku cuba perbaiki. Yang mana aku rasa macam tak patut jer aku kena kritik aku dengar jer. Paling tak pon aku discuss dengan colleague aku yang lain. Mat saleh ni kalau kritik orang memang dahsyat. Takde nyer dia nak pikir perasaan orang lain.

Bagi aku selagi kritikan yang aku terima tak invades my personal life and my family, I will always look at it on the bright side. Sometimes, aku pon degil jugak and suka melawan tapi seboleh² nya aku cuba dengar dulu kritikan tu, fikir then baru jawab. Bak kata three wise man, 'Diam adalah pintar'...Apa? tak tau three wise man tu apa? KRU lah. Dalam lagu 'Fanatik' tu.

I heart you Yusry KRU. Tiba-tiba. ("-_-)

Islam..bukan sekadar tertulis atas kad pengenalan..

Sebelum saya mulakan entry ni, saya nak mintak maaf awal² kalau ada sesiapa terguris hati bila dah baca nanti..entry ni sekadar nak share pendapat..Saya pon bukanlah pandai sangat bab² agama ni dan bukanlah alim ulamak nak ulas bab² fiqah, tauhid, ibadah, tajwid dan sebagainya..tapi cukuplah ilmu di dada untuk membezakan yang mana buruk dan yang mana baik, yang mana dosa, yang mana pahala..

Saya pon tak terlepas dari buat dosa, lagi² lepas berkahwin ni....tanggungjawab makin besar..kena jaga hak suami dan taat kepada suami bukanlah satu tugas yang mudah..Tidur membelakangi suami pon dah dikira berdosa..apatah lagi kalau naikkan suara, lempang suami (ganas betul isteri dia kan)...dan kita sebagai manusia ni pon bukan la 100% perfect..mesti sikit pon ada cacat celanya..Kena selalu berbincang suami dan isteri..Hal² rumahtangga kalau boleh biarlah between husband and wife..jangan duk canang kat orang lain (saya pon kadang² terlepas jugak..maafkan saya wahai suamiku)..

Okaylah, actually entry ni bukanlah pasal hal² rumahtangga..tu just mukadimah jer..panjang giler mukadimah ingatkan dah start cerita tujuan sebenar entry ni di type..Eh dah², makin banyak pulak aku merapu ni..

I have 3 issues that I wanna bring up in this entry:

Situasi 1:

Di suatu hari yang damai di atas rig tengah² lautan asmara, kawan sekerjaku bertanya kepadaku ketika kami sedang beratur untuk mengambil makanan,

"Eh mira, aku tengok kau ni concern sangat lah dengan apa yang kau makan..pork babi kau tak makan, daging dengan ayam tak halal pon kau tak ambik..asyik makan ikan jer dengan sayur..tak boring ker?"

Aku diam disitu tak terus menjawab soalan beliau..FYI, kawan aku ni mat saleh non-muslim..

"Aku ada kawan, dia muslim jugak, tapi dia makan jer pork babi semua..takde hal pon"

*Gulp*...Terkedu aku di situ..

Situasi 2:

Di sebuah majlis formal yang di organize by the company, sedang aku rancak berbual dengan rakanku, ada seorang teman sekerja menyuakan wine air kencing setan ke arahku..dengan sopan santun aku menolak,

"No, thank you..I don't take alcohol"

"Oh, I'm so sorry..I don't know you don't drink wine"

"Don't get me wrong, not that I don't take it, it's because I can't drink alcohol at all..As a muslim, we are forbidden to drink any kind of alcohol"

"Really, I have a muslim friend as well, and he drinks beer, wine, whiskey when we had a party or when we went to club"

*Gulp kuasa dua!!*...Aku memang tak tau nak jawab apa weh..serius aku malu dengan diri aku sendiri sebab aku tak boleh bagi a good answer for him to understand the situation..

Situasi 3:

Ketika aku sedang membetulkan hijab ku, rakan ku (a guy) yang agak curious dengan apa yang aku tengah buat pon bertanya,

"So I can't see your hair? Why?"

"Ooh..because I'm bald..Hahahaha *laugh my lung out*.."No, I can't show my hair to anyone who doesn't have a blood relation with me except my husband after I've reached puberty"

"I guess, your husband is lucky to see your hair"

"Kind of, I'm specially made for my husband *sambil tersipu²*"

"But why I see some of our colleagues, who also a muslim don't cover their hair"

*Gulp kuasa tiga!!*

First of all, no offense kepada kawan² blogger yang tak pakai tudung *lagi* yer..korang jangan band blog saya tau..Saya doakan insyaAllah satu hari nanti akan terbuka pintu hati untuk berhijab..InsyaAllah..

But again, how am I going to answer them?

Kalau korang la what is the best answer you can explain to this group of people yang obviously bukan Islam, supaya dieorang tak salah paham..You all jangan expect la dieorang tau semua benda yang orang Islam tak boleh buat, makan, minum dan sebagai nya..Mungkin non-muslim dekat Malaysia, most of them, faham dengan Islam sebabnya, mereka² ni dah bergaul dengan rakan² yang majority nya orang Islam dekat Malaysia..Tapi macam mana pulak dengan mat² dan minah² saleh out there?

Korang rasa apa yang dieorang (non-muslim) ni pikir pasal Islam, bila dieorang dapat tau yang sebenar nya orang Islam tak boleh minum arak, tapi kawan2 Islam mereka minum malah lebih hebat dari mereka..

Takkan nak jawab, "kubur asing², lantak dieorang la nak minum arak ker, nak makan babi ker kan?..nanti menjawab la dengan Tuhan.."..nampak kurang matang dan jahil kalau aku jawab macam tu..

Jawapan yang selalu aku jawab,

"I think it depends on individual, if they think what they did is not right for them to do, they should stop doing it"

Sepanjang saya kerja overseas ni, 3 issue ni lah yang selalu depa dok tanya dekat saya..ada banyak lagi issue² lain yang dieorg tanyer..ramai gak yang interested sangat nak tau kenapa orang lelaki muslim boleh kahwin 4..Wahhh korang lelaki memang suka la kan bab² kahwin banyak² ni kan..selalu aku bagi contoh terbaik dari Rasulullah masa zaman perang dulu..ramai perempuan² yang kehilangan suami di medan peperangan, so Islam bagi kahwin lebih dari satu sebab nak jaga maruah wanita² Islam yang kehilangan suami supaya tak jadi buah mulut orang..Tapi orang kita sekarang ni, bukan sebab nak jaga maruah kaum wanita tapi sebab NAFSU!! benci tau...

So, what say you? Maybe you all boleh tolong saya to come up with the helpful, best, simple answer and most importantly, tak bagi golongan² yang tak tau ni tak confuse dengan situation yang melanda umat Islam sekarang ni..

Rough sea, sea sick

Salam guys!! How are you guys doing?? Me? I'm doing okay..Today is the second day I'm on the rig..and for the first time ever I've got sea sick..blerghhh..rasa macam kena morning sickness tau..dah2 you all jangan nak pikir I pregnant pulak..I tau jer apa yang terlintas di pikiran kamu² semua..Pastu rig I pergi ni bukan jack-up rig tau (jack-up rig ni, structure dia attached to the sea bed) tapi this rig is floating rig..So imagine la bila big wave hit the rig, memang terasa terhuyung-hayang..Semalam masa I tidur pon, I boleh terjaga in the middle of the night sebab rasa macam nak terjatuh katil...Laut dekat North sea ni a bit rough especially during winter time...Pastu pagi tadi cerita la kat my colleague, dia cakap kat I wave sekarang baru ala² manja gitu, belum teruk lagi..What??? Ala² manja?? Tak leh nak imagine kalau wave ni mengganas..Dia kata dia pernah experienced yang lagi teruk dari ni sampai semua orang kena evacuated dalam accomodation tak boleh kerja dekat luar..seram sejuk lak I dengar..I doa supaya takde la anything bad happen while I'm here..dah la dekat tengah² laut ni..Nauzubillah....

Sejuk tu tak payah cakap la...sekejap jer duduk dekat luar tangan dah rase kebas² dah..I duduk luar kejap² jer , pastu masuk cabin warm up myself then baru keluar balik buat kerja..Mujur I dapat winter coverall, tebal la sikit from the normal coverall yang I selalu pakai..Tapi I pelik betul la dengan Norwegian ni, kulit dieorang macam kulit biawak la..or maybe dieorang berdarah sejuk? Hihi..pakai coverall dah la yang nipis punyer pastu kat dalam pakai selapis jer..Gagah giler okay..I ni dah dengan winter coverall nyer, pastu pakai lagi 2 lapis baju dekat dalam pon masih tak tahan duduk dekat luar lama²..Maybe dieorang dah biasa kot dengan weather camni..I ni berdarah manis panas..=P

Pastu my skin jadi a bit dry...The same thing happened when I was in Libya and Paris during winter..I rasa my skin memang sedikit sensitive..My friend cakap time sejuk2 ni kurangkan mandi pakai air panas + sabun..so takkan nak pakai air sejuk pulak?? takkan tak nak sabun badan pulak kan? Eww!!..Has anyone got the same problem as mine?? share la tips sikit..even dah pakai body lotion sebeban plus dengan Vaseline yang dilumur satu badan, but I still feel itchy almost all over my body...I mandi 2 kali sehari yer..Perlu ker nak explain??...especially tang betis dengan peha..Dah try tahan from scratching, but kadang² 'ter'garu jugak..sekali dapat garu perghhh memang nikmat..tapi nanti menangis la kau tahan pedih..

Ooohh..tapi I nak puji sikit la dining dekat rig ni..memang best giler!! the best dining I've ever seen so far..makanan pon sedap² boleh tahan...tapi tak leh nak nak expect ada gulai masak lemak dengan asam pedas kan *drooling*..tapi macam biasa I kena be extra careful sikit, boleh dikatakan selalu jugak dieorang served pork..I kena belajar Norwegian language a little bit especially words like pork, chicken, meat, fish and mostly foods name la because everything is written in Norwegian..My favorite is the dessert section and salad bar..Macam² ada...European kan suka makan salad² ni kan, so salad dia memang fresh² and topping pon ada macam²...ice cream dieorang siap letak topping macam dekat Baskin Robbins..sedap-licious!!Kau ni mira kalau bab makanan mesti semua nak sedap kan..memang dasar pelahap kuat makan betol!

Banyak lagi nak cerita kat you all..tapi nanti I sambung la yer..nak pergi mandi, solat and tidur..

Tata..Titi..Tutu

Lagos - Amsterdam - Stavanger

*Shivering*..Sejuk weh dekat Stavanger ni..

Alhamdulillah..I safely landed in Stavanger, Norway pukul 8.30 in the morning Stavanger time..International airport dekat Stavanger ni kecik jer. Tapi a way better la from international airport dekat Nigeria..hihihi

Journey from Lagos to Amsterdam took about 5 1/2 hours.. I bertolak from Lagos around 10 PM..flight tak berapa penuh sangat..Sampai in Amsterdam around pukul 5 AM. Transit for about 3 hours..When the plane touched down kat Schipol airport, I had to rush a bit sebab nak beli jacket. Did I tell you guys that I don't have any warmth clothes or jacket? Yes, I am in need to have at least one jacket with me..Tapi faham² jer la kalau dekat airport, most of the clothes are designer clothes..Mujur la I jumpa one jacket yang ada discount 40%..brand pon tak berapa nak famous sangat..yang penting comfortable and boleh keep me warm..Tapi...kan...kan...tiba² 'terbeli' benda ni jugak...I couldn't resist la..actually dah lama teringin mengidam tau nak ada benda ni..tapi tak tau bila nak pakai..sekali bila ade peluang nak pakai memang tidak ku lepas kan lah...huhu*cakap jer la memang kau suka jer nak belikan*...

My first ever UGG boot..Super duper comfortable and cute..I heart the boot so much! I think kalau beli kat OZ murah sikit kot..kat Amsterdam harga dia *gulp* in Euro la tapi...tutup mata jer bayar, lepas tu sakit hati bila tengok bil credit card..('__')

Ooh..masa I lined up dekat counter immigration, I jumpa ada sorang aunty ni dengan anak dia..Peramah sangat aunty ni..Dia and her daughter on their way to Paris ada conference..Orang² macam ni la yang I suka jumpa kalau pergi overseas..tak sombong langsung..Ada certain tu macam poyo giler, tak nak tegur langsung..

Tengah² asyik berborak dengan aunty tadi tu, sekali ternampak muka sorang pakcik dengan wife dia yang agak familiar..Aunty tu pulak dok waving² dekat dieorang..I macam ingat² lupa nama dia "Aunty, tu bukan mak Linda Jasmine ker?"..Aunty tu slow² whispered to my ear, "Itulah Datuk Murad Hashim dengan Datin Kay.."...I memang sumpah tak ingat nama dieorang okay..But I surely knew that I saw them somewhere, probably in the media..Datuk Murad Hashim was a former vice president for Petronas..Coincidentally, they also on their way to Stavanger..I met them again dekat boarding gate, sampai² dekat situ, Datin Kay Hashim terus offered me a seat beside her..She is so generous and humble..Siap ajak I datang rumah celebrate birthday cucu baru dia, Ratu (anak Linda Jasmine and Que Haidar)..

Wahh..kau mira terus nak mesra² dengan Datin Kay..Serius weh, lepas borak² dengan dia terus rasa mesra..Datuk Murad Hashim pon sangat peramah..siap cakap Penang dengan aku..sempoi giler..

For the whole period I'm in Stavanger, I will be staying in Quality Airport Hotel..The hotel is very closed to the airport..boleh jer nak jalan kaki from airport..tapi tadi I dengan luggage besar and ditambah pulak dengan angin sepoi² bahasa dekat luar, so memang sangat malas nak jalan kaki..

Quality Airport Hotel, Stavanger, Norway

The room isn't that spacious but comfortable enough for me to stay alone..not suitable for family la..

Giler boring nak tengok TV kat sini..semua channel in Norwegian language..Lama² I rasa annoyed pulak dengar dieorg cakap terus I tutup TV..Movie channel kena bayar pulak..semua nak charge la hotel..Mujur lah ada free wifi..

Nak tengok tak jacket yang I beli kat Amsterdam airport? *cakap jer la ko memang nak tunjuk* =P

Sekali tengok terus suka...Love at the first sight la bak kata omputih...Nasib baik la harga kau murah jacket..Kalau tak telan air liur jer la aku..I like the front button on the jacket..ala² Army Jacket gitu..

*Ehem*..UGG hand gloves..Bila pakai terasa macam menyentuh bulu kucing yang sangat lembut..okay I'm a bit exaggerating here..tapi memang sumpah sangat comfortable..Lepas try terus letak dekat counter and bayar..*Sila jangan tanya harga sebab nanti aku sakit hati jugak!*

Sampai bilik terus try boot dengan jacket..Kalau memang dah camwh*re tu, anytime, anywhere boleh jer nak tangkap gambar kan..

I am so glad and relief that I bought the jacket dekat Amsterdam airport, sebab bila sampai dekat airport Stavanger, semua shop tutup..Ari ahad most of the shops tutup dekat sini..Kalau tak bersejuk² kan la I dekat sini..

P/S Besok I ada offshore survival..hopefully takde la aktiviti dalam air...Otherwise I will freeze till death...I doa supaya air dalam training pool tu bertukar menjadi ice..hehehe

Wedding photoshoot segempak Wedding Photoshoot Datuk Angkasawan..

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Semua pasangan yang melangsungkan perkahwinan mahukan saat² manis mereka di rakamkan or di photographkan..wahhh ayat permulaan sangat macam nak buat karangan UPSR darjah 6..

Sekarang ni pengantin dah makin demand and high taste..Dah tak nak lagi tangkap gambar sambil pandang² atas katil pegang bunga..Most of brides and grooms more prefer their wedding pictures to be taken naturally or in other word candid picture (walaupon sebenar nyer berlakon jer adegan gelak² manja bersama pasangan)..gambar atas pelamin pengantin perempuan duduk sambil letak tangan atas peha pengantin lelaki itu di anggap outdated...eh masa aku kahwin ada la gambar camtu.so kiranya aku ni outdated la agak nya ek...Outdoor picture menjadi demand yang tinggi bagi pasangan pengantin sekarang..

Bukan setakat gambar masa nikah and sanding + outdoor jer, now a days siap ada pre-wedding shoot lagi..macam² kan..gambar² studio kedai cina apek sekarang pon dah tak berapa laku lagi..

Disebabkan itu jugak, bakal² pengantin sangat teliti mencari OP or official photographer untuk menangkap gambar di hari bahagia mereka nanti..Nak hire OP sekarang ni pon, boleh tahan jugak harga nya..Kalau nak OP yang famous, kiranya kalau muka tu banyak jerawat batu tetiba jadi flawless and fair giler dalam gambar, badan yang gedebuk gedebak berisi boleh jadi kurus macam Erra Fazira, bayaran nya pon tinggi la..So tepuk poket, tengok ada tak duit berkepuk² nak bayar OP..

Teringat pulak masa I kahwin tahun 2008 dulu, masa tu outdoor photography baru² nak naik la..During that time, I tak la berapa ambik tau sangat pasal benda² ni..Majlis on my side, ada OP tapi yang datang dengan pakej pelamin, mak andam sekali..So kira all in one la..memang murah tapi end product nyer paham² jer la kan..Majlis on my husband side pulak was 3 months after majlis on my side (because I masa tu dah start kerja dekat Libya and on rotation)..My husband suggested to me to hire OP yang lain pulak..Initially I agak kurang bersetuju and I cakap dengan my husband ambik jer la OP yang datang pakej dengan mak andam kan..Then my husband cakap, why not we try something different this time and try tangkap gambar outdoor pulak..After few discussion, I was finally agreed with my husband considered we all takde majlis sanding on his side so budget lebih untuk di salurkan ke tabung OP..hehehe..I was glad, I agreed with him because all pictures taken by OP sangat cantik and different la from OP yang tangkap gambar on my side...

This picture taken during reception on my side..Gambar ni dah boleh dikategorikan antik..jarang dah pengantin buat pose camni..=P

This is taken at the studio...ala² macam tangkap gambar kat kedai gambar cina apek...zaman kurusku..
Outdoor photo shoot..after reception on my husband side dekat JB..'Art of seeing' photography jelas disitu..

One of my favorite..Segala jerawat and cacat cela dimuka yang tak dapat dicover oleh make up ghaib tiba² setelah diphotoshopkan...Now a days, dah banyak gambar² yang lebih kreatif..

So kalau you all yang bakal nak berkahwin November 2010 on wards, and nak hire OP yang telah menjadi OP for majlis di kayangan Datuk Angkasawan kita dengan Dr Halina,..silalah click picture kat bawah for further details..For me, this is really a good bargain..Saiful Nang tu uollll!!!

One of the picture snapped during Wedding of the century Datuk Angakasawan..Very impressive shot!

Pakat² la dengan pasangan anda untuk pergi ke Galeri SNAP (Saiful Nang Academy of Photography) dekat One Puchong on 23rd October 2010..Tempat terhad for only first 50 couples sahaja..Sila RSVP your seat by sending email to inquiry@candidsyndrome.com..Pada hari yang sama ada cabutan bertuah..Siapa² yang bertuah tu akan dapat free outdoor shoot with Saiful Nang worth RM7200!! *gulppp!*...Kenapa la Saiful Nang tak buat offer macam ni masa aku nak kahwin dulu *agak terkilan disitu*...

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Me, being clumsy and skeptical

Sedih. Malas. That's what I feel now. Sedih sebab hari ni pergi kerja, takde orang wish birthday secara live (dalam facebook and blog dikira secara virtual), lain tau feel dapat birthday wish secara live..Lepas tu jari terkepit masa tengah buat kerja. Sangat clumsy hari ni. Macam mana ntah my thumb boleh terkepit masa tengah check tool. Masa mula² tu tak terasa sangat. Dah sampai rumah terasa berdenyut². Adoi la...

Arghh..barang tak kemas lagi. Besok awal² pagi dah kena pergi domestic airport kat Port Harcourt. I will fly straight to Lagos and stay half day in Lagos then after that catch a flight to Amsterdam. Transit in Amsterdam for few hours, after that I'm gonna take next flight to Stavanger. It's gonna be a long journey tomorrow. And worse thing is I'm gonna travel alone. Sepatutnya ada my colleague yang pergi sekali. Tapi atas sebab² tertentu, he will join me in Norway hopefully next week. So yes, it somehow makes me feel down a bit. Bukan la tak biasa travel alone tapi sebab masa kami dapat tau yang kami kena on-loan to Norway together, we all dah plan la macam2. Furthermore, seronok sikit kalau ada geng travel sama² kan..

Memang takde mood sangat nak mengemas. The other reason is because travel kali ni bukan sebab nak balik rumah for days off but because atas urusan kerja. ('_') ..I should enjoy my trip to Norway, shouldn't I? Dapat experience baru, expose to new culture, meet new people..I bet I will enjoy the scenery the most. I've made some research from Mr.G.O.O.G.L.E, Norway ternyata sebuah country yang sangat cantik. But silly me, I left my DSLR camera at home. Last time bawak datang Nigeria tapi tak fully utilized sangat dekat sini since I pon duduk dalam camp jer kan. If I've known that I will travel to Norway, I should have definitely brought the camera with me..=(

I rasa I dah terbiasa kerja dekat tempat² yang di kategorikan 'red zone' in the company, so it made me becoming a bit skeptical. I tanya² macam² dekat manager in Norway, sampai I rasa dia pon macam dah malas nak layan I. Because of this, I easily will become panic if I encountered something which beyond my expectations. Lagi2 bila travel alone and pergi pulak tempat² yang totally different from where I come from. Sampai manager kat sana cakap "You dont have to be worried, people here are nice and civilized and they speak english very well". Okay, first of all, mungkin I dah biasa bila sampai each location ada company driver pick me up and I don't have to bother to take taxi or any public transport. Dekat Norway semua kena buat sendiri, nak pergi base pon kena naik taxi sendiri. Second, I tanya dia taxi dekat sana accept USD or Norwegian Krone, sebab nya I ada USD jer sekarang ni. Nak tukar dekat airport of course la currency exchange will be a bit higher than exchange duit dekat Money changer kat luar airport (tu pon aku nak berkira kan? Claim jer la nanti..) Ada banyak lagi soalan yang I tanya kat dia. I think I need to be a bit more relax and try to enjoy my business trip this time.

Makin terasa berdenyut² pulak ibu jari aku ni type panjang². Bukan pakai ibu jari sangat pon nak type ni. Tapi mungkin ada urat² saraf jari lain yang interconnected dengan urat ibu jari. Okay la, I better start packing now.

Tata.

Anniversaire heureux à moi

*Ehem* Hari ni hari jadi saya..

Tapi tak seronok la hari jadi bila sambut sorang² tanpa kehadiran orang² tersayang disisi..
I wish to have my husband, my son and my family with me here..

"Happy Birthday to me"

Alhamdulillah..masih lagi di beri kesempatan untuk hidup di atas bumi Allah ni..Semoga saya menjadi lebih matang dan dimurahkan lagi Rezeki...more babies, maybe??=P InsyaAllah..Aminnn

The cutest wedding montage ever!!

Ooh this is absolutely not a wedding blog..But I really admire this video montage...how I wish I had a wedding montage just like this one..It is sooo cute and creative..This wedding montage is tribute to Dr. Sheikh Muszaphar and Dr. Halina wedding day...Saiful Nang and team really did a really amazing job towards this 'Wedding of the decade"...

The second video highlight the wonderful moment during their solemnization and reception..Dr Halina looks so fairly beautiful and I can't stop looking at her face through out the video..cantik sangat² la..!! Bertuah Datuk Angkasawan kita..

Aktiviti membuat cookies beramai2

Even thou raya dah lama habis, I tetap nak update entry ni..

So before raya lepas, my friend Alin, nak merasmikan oven baru beliau...Turut join on that day, Tshee, Keynote, Sara and Ijan..Mereka² ni semua wife kepada my husband's ex-schoolmates..sebab we all selalu jumpa and rumah pon dekat² jer..Jadinya kami sangat close to each other...Mula² tu we all cadang nak buat kek sebab senang sikit and tak complicated sangat kan..Almaklum la masing² pon baru² nak cuba..tapi sebab nak dekat raya so finally we decided to try buat kuih raya..

When we decided to make kuih raya, we actually takde idea pon nak buat kuih apa..Luckily, Tshee's mom selalu ambik tempahan buat kuih raya and mak dia jugak bukak kelas untuk sesiapa yang nak belajar buat kek, kuih and memasak..Kira memang expert la buat kuih raya..So kami pon mintak recipe buat kuih raya from her...

Proses membeli barang² buat kuih semua kami buat a day before nak buat kuih..Siap beli mixer baru uuuu..semangat kan nak buat kuih raya yang pada masa tu tak tahu akan jadi kuih or jadi karipap..=)..takpe yang penting semangat tu ada kan..

Ni lah oven baru yang kami rasmikan tu..=)

Alin invested on this new mixer..Sangat berjasa mixer ni..next year boleh pakai lagi..

Geng suami² kami actually agak ragu² dengan niat kami nak buat kuih ni tau..Tapi kami sahut cabaran tu..Kami cakap you all tunggu jer la end product nanti..sure kalau makan nak lagi punya...confident giler cakap kat suami² camtu tapi dalam hati "matilah kalau kuih tak jadi"...=P

Tshee..

Alin..the owner of the new oven..Oven mu sangat berjasa..
Geng ibu mengandung gigih membuat sukatan

Emir helped us too!!

Initially we all nak buat satu jenis kuih jer, tapi disebabkan bahan² kami beli terlebih, jadinya kami buat TIGA jenis kuih!! Yup you heard me right..tiga jenis kuih yer..dua jenis kami buat pada hari yang sama..then sejenis lagi kami continued besok nya..

Sambil² uli tu kami hangatkan suasana dengan gossip² terkini..

Okay..masa ni sangat berdebar okay..This was the first batch..kami risau kuih jadi keras..tapi tidak yer..Kuih yang terhasil sangat lembut dan enak dimakan begitu saja..hikhik

First kuih raya yang terhasil..

Kuih raya kedua..Kuih ni ada rasa coffee sikit..The third one I lupa nak snap gambar..
The end product..So masing² dapat la bawak balik 3 balang kuih..I letak kuih raya ni dekat rumah my mom..bertahan sampai seminggu raya jer..lepas tu I nak makan tengok² dah habis..Maknanya sedap la kan??? Ehhh perasan lah ko ni..=P

I did have fun buat kuih raya dengan mereka² ini..sambil buat kuih sambil gossip..Memang sangat² meriah lagi² dengan kehadiran anak² kami..hopefully next year kita dapat arrange lagi aktiviti macam ni..baru la suami sayang lebih kan??

Libya "Malaysian Mafia" get together

Before I balik Nigeria the other day, I managed to organize small get together with my friend who used to work with me in Libya..In conjunction with that we also wanted to farewell Nurul who will follow her husband to US and tak tau lagi biler boleh jumpa..Plus I wanna meet her cute little angel Aiyu Isabella..

Because it was a last minute call, there's only few of us who showed up...the rest tak boleh join sebab kerja and takde kat Malaysia (sorry guys, I promise I will arrange one get together next time InsyaAllah)...I pulak on that day konon² nya jadi single sekejap sebab my husband kerja and I left Emir at my mom's..Bagi chance kat Ibu nak bergossip bersama rakan-rakan..hikhikhik

Apart of "Malaysian Mafia" Legend...From left Amir, Nurul, Colby, Nasa, Farah...missing in picture is me (obviously because I snapped this picture), Ochee+Ayu, Abuyazid, Alhafiz

We met at Chilli's KLCC, since Amir had only 2 hours lunch break so I needed to find place which closes to his work place..Dia actually kena assign dekat Bintulu but for the moment until he gets his work permit he stays in KL office..He used to work with the same company with me and Nurul..Nurul pulak dah jadi housewife hot mama sekarang..Nasa pulak sekarang ni attached to Algeria but during that time dia tengah days off..He brought his wife Farah and his daughter Aisha yang sangat comellsss!! The one who is missing is Abu Yazid, Ochee + Ayu, Alhafiz and our godmother Kak Faizah + family...We used to call our selves "Malaysian Mafia" masa kerja kat Libya dulu..memang sangat rapat dengan dieorang..berkongsi susah senang makan meggi sesame masa dekat sana..Kalau takde mereka² ini, I rasa mesti bosan giler hidup dekat Libya..

Kawan makan meggi sama² kat tengah² desert, Nurul and my non-biological twin, Amir..Amir ade biological twin named Amar who is also my non-biological twin..hahaha..alamak double chin yang tak dapat ku nak sorok..balik Malaysia sure berat naik..blame all the good foods I ate..=P

Nurul's my husband-is-American, Colby and their cute daughter Aiyu Isabella..best kan nama tu?? boleh isi form buat menantu tak? Abang Emir masih available lagi tau..hehehe

Cik Puan Nurul kita..Masa kat Libya I selalu mengadu nasib kat dia ni lah..I miss those days..

Amir..ni pon kawan yang setia mendengar rintihan susah senang I masa kat Libya..

Farah (Wife Nasa)..Aisha menikmati panorama kat luar..

Foods we ordered..yummy!!

Memang tersangat puas hati dapat jumpa mereka² ini..Lama giler borak and I berjaya menghasut Amir supaya extend curi tulang lunch break dia..ala tak lama pon another one hour jer..Next time Puan Nurul balik Malaysia kita boleh arrange lagi lunch date camni eh! Hopefully next time semua boleh datang...