Salam Maal Hijrah and welcome 2009

Like everyone else, I'd like to wish everyone Salam Maal Hijrah 1430 and an early Happy New Year 2009. I hope everyone has a good year and achieved as many azams as possible.

As usual the most asked question during this time of the year would be, "So, apa azam tahun baru?" Hmm... Baru ke? Or sudah 10, 20 tahun masih tak berubah? The latter seems to be the more appropriate answer. So this year, I've decided to not have any new azam. Maybe I should just pay more attention to those that I made in the previous years, put my focus on them (years? them? Plural nampaknya!) and try and achieve a few if not all. But then again, I pun dah lupa apa azam(s) yang dah dibuat. Hmmm...camno tu?

Maybe I should concentrate on the easier ones rather than bersusah payah nak capai the sky. Tidy up the mess around me like getting rid of all the junks in my room so that I would have more space to put new junks, update my work like finishing them before going home (that might mean I would have stay til late at night kat ofis...arghhh) then I would have more time to bergumbira, less talk and more work (definitely akan kroh dok sengap-sengap kat ofis!) and less interaction dengan orang (boleh ke? I don't think so. If ada good ketupat to make, don't want to miss that!).

Anyway, 2008 has been a good year, if not the best for me. Although academically I'm less productive this year, but I've learnt a lot from the work that I've done and the friends, new and old, that I made and met. Socially, life is getting more exciting everyday. Relationships rekindled and new things learnt.

To my family and friends, thank you from the bottom of my hearts for making my life a blessed one, Alhamdulillah. My yours be a blessed one too.

Banyak pulak nak ceta...

I am forcing myself to write something today although I am not up to it. I have not been feeling very well since I got back from KL last thursday. Been having fever and cold and I'm coughing like mad. Rasa nak tercabut anak tekak. My head rasa nak tercabut because the sore throat has sort of affected my eyes and the rest of my kepala. My eyes felt pain and watery, and I had a terrible headache. Still do. Everytime I sujud during prayer, I felt like the blood all went to my face causing my eyes to feel the pain. I lost my voice since friday after my PJJ class. Although the sore throat is now gone (adale rasa sikit-sikit) which means I can now eat food that I wanted to eat, I still need to be very careful. I'm still in a daze right now. Difficult to pay attention to work as the headache and the cough are still bugging me (or is it just an excuse to go home early????).

Oklah, enough said about my health.

A bit about my long break. Well as I said in the last entry, most of the time I spent lepakking - with friends and family. My sisters, brother and I went back to Segamat for Raya Korban as we also performed a korban. It was raining on the raya morning. Nevertheless the ritual had to go on. The korban was carried out at a surau close to my sister's house. We only need to go and watch our korban. But my sisters were not enthusiastic about watching the slaughtering process. So got there slightly late. Everything was over by the time we got there. (depa ni ada sikit sensitif bab sembelih2 ni...) So no camera shots to post here.

The melapah was done at my sister's. My task was to cook the sup tulang and gear box. One big pot of sup tulang! Habis!!!! (Again no shots sebab camera woman sibuk masuk sup and lupa nak suruh orang lain amikkan). But I did get to snap a shot of my nephew Man cleaning the ekor. Nobody else but him knew how to do it. So dialah yang buat.

Back in KL, it's lepakking time. Visited my old colleagues kat KLIUC. Kalau jumpa tak buat ketupat tak sah le. But that was after a sumptious lunch kat La Rizz. We had lamb and sotong bakar. AWESOME. I tried making the sotong bakar and almost jadi. Taught bibik how to do it so the next time dia boleh cook for Along. Takle kena complain je.

Saturday pi makan kenduri back in Segamat. Apparently this was my only makan kenduri this holiday season. The food was good. I wouldn't say awesome, but good. Then pi shop kat Jakel pulak. Managed to control myself from buying more materials but Angah bought a few pieces - unplanned! Me, I have to control myself. Earlier in the week I collected five pairs (which I never knew I had that many) of baju kurung from my tailor which cost me RM500 and before I left for Kedah I collected four more. I spent almost RM800 for the tailoring this time! Luckilah ada duit terpijak nak bayar. Kalau tak.... I have to stop buying material for now or I'll be broke.

The next few days are spent lepakking with KL friends. Apa lagi kalu tak makan. From pasta to gulai kawah to ketupat sotong and the ever-popular telur dadar. I am blessed!

Lepakking and makan-makan with friends kat
Kelantan Delight @ Sooka Central

The ketupat sotong which is not my cuppa tea. It's sweet!


But then I guess Tuhan nak bagi padah kot. Makan banyak-banyak 2 3 hari ini ko makan jele bubur nasi dengan telur masin!

See ye in the next entry. Ciao!

Hi, I'm back!

A friend yesterday said to me, "Kak, masih Los dan Faun lagi. Bila nak update?" Hmm, been pretty busy memalaskan diri lately. Tu sebabnya takde entry baru. Anyway, today is my first day in the office after a long break. You may ask, cuti lama pun tak dan nak buat entry baru ke? As mentioned earlier, plain malas. Lagipun, I was back kat kampung for several days during raya. Tak ada access to Internet. Back in KL my access is only my sister's. Anyway, whatever excuse yang I bagi, the keyword here is lazy! I just wanted to relax and do nothing serious like staring at the wall and watching cerita Cina yang was never my interest. That's just what I did and a few other things like lepak with friends...

I actually had a tonne of work that I brought home with me. Konon-konon nak try and get it done before the semester starts. Hmm... the only thing that I managed to do was my lecture notes for tomorrow's PJJ class. Itu pun cut and paste from my previous lectures. Nothing mind-cracking.

Anyways, good to be back. willwrite more in my next entry.