World Breastfeeding Week

I wasn't aware that August is actually World Breastfeeding Week. I was reading Dr. Halina's blog when I saw one of her post promoting the World Breastfeeding Week event which was held last week. I wanted to participate and be part of other thousands Malaysia moms as it will be recorded (has been recorded) as the largest breastfeed moms at an event tapi hajat tak berkesampaian sebab I had other stuff to do on that day.

But I guess it is never to late to write about it since we are still in August.

I am a supporter of mothers who practice breastfeeding. In fact, I am still breastfeed Iman to date. Dah cuba nak ceraikan but it doesn't seem to be working. I have been breastfeeding Iman exclusively for the first 1.4 years. I decided to mix with formula milk sebab Iman dah tak mahu minum susu dalam botol. Macam-macam jenis botol beli, macam-macam jenis punting dah tukar but masih tak berjaya. So then, I bought Anmum Essential Step 3 and she seems to be liking it walaupun tak minum susu dalam botol. But I still breastfeed her at night.

It wasn't easy. Breastfeeding is tough. It's even tougher if you don't have the strong mind to fight yourself to keep the positivity. I've experienced having low supply sampai buntu tak tahu nak buat apa. But Alhamdulillah, the support I have keep me motivated to keep on breastfeed Iman. Kalau tak dah lama dah give-up. I tried almost everything - minum air fenugreek, makan buah kurma, makan supplements, makan rebusan betik muda - you name it, I had it all.... just to keep on having high level of production. Atas usaha dan kesabaran yang berpanjangan, Alhamdulillah my supply cukup untuk Iman. 

There were also the happy days where I experienced having over-supplied of expressed milk sampai boleh buang-buang sesuka hati.

The feeling is soo....satisfying for being able to feed your children with the best nutrients. Percayalah. Alhamdulillah, bila kita breastfeed, In Shaa Allah anak akan kurang mendapat penyakit-penyakit yang serious. Deman biasa tu adalah, nama pon nak membesar tapi Syukur sangat, Iman belom pernah lagi expereince sakit yang serious-serious.

I pledge to continue to breastfeed my children selagi mampu sekurang-kurangnya the 1st 6 months of their lives. And the bonding you have between your baby and you, Masyaallah sangat kuat! And you get to loose weight very fast!

So mothers & mom-to-be(s), my advise is to practice breastfeeding. It's not going to be easy (that's for sure) but with high determination, good support and the semangat to give the best nutrients to your baby will help you throughout your breastfeeding journey. Usaha, doa & tawakal applies, In Shaa Allah. Good luck mommies!

Happy 20 months baby girl

Dah lama tak tulis pasal Iman. Pejam celik, pejam celik dah 20 months young dah Iman Alexandria Muhamad Izwan and it's been a wonderful yet tiring journey that I have had so far. She is the reason why I work so hard so that I am able to give the best I can education-wise, monetary, living and semua lah. 

Having said that, I also want her to experience life the hard way - I mean, she has to work hard to earn something, she needs to know that education is important and she also needs to know that all the money that her parents give her is for her to use wisely and I will make sure that she will grow up not being a spoilt brat, In Shaa Allah. Anak adalah amanah dan tanggungjawab kita untuk mencoraknya sebaik mungkin.

Tiba-tiba I'm being all sentimental + emotional after reading Vivy yusof's post on her delivery. It reminds me so much of my own. 

Syukur Alhamdulillah, I had a smooth delivery. Sakit tu memang ada but it wasn't a long contraction pain. Was admitted on 12AM, 27 December 2011 when my water broke 3 hours earlier. But I experience no pain during that time. Sempat lah lagi order makan roti canai telur, melenggang-lenggang pergi hospital, jalan-jalan sembang dengan nurse dekat hospital. I was only 1cm dilated when I arrived at the hospital. The doctor estimated that I'll be ready for delivery at 11AM latest tapi tup-tup pukul 8.35AM, Iman dah tak sabar nak keluar. I remembered saying "nak berak, nak berak" and all the nurses/midwives gelak je kat labour room.

And it has been a wonderful journey ever since - dengan tak cukup tidurnya, dengan dugaan bergelut dengan breastmilk production, dengan dugaan Iman demam kadang-kadang, dugaan pabila kesabaran diuji, dugaan takde orang nak jaga Iman dan macam-macam lagi. Being a mother really mengajar erti kesabaran and in a way, ia mematangkan diri kita.

Here's to you Iman Alexandria.

Happy 20th month birthday sayang. Thank you for bringing that happiness to our family. You are the joy and happiness to all 5 of us - me, your dad, Atok, Nenek and your Aunty Ara.

I pray that you will be a good and solehah daughter. And when you grow up, you will be able to serve and help people who are in need. You will be a responsible elder sister and you will never stop helping your younger siblings. You will be the one to help me when I'm old. You will be the responsible sister looking after your siblings when we are gone. 

Please know that we love you so much. You mean the world to us. And I promise that I will never let you down, In Shaa Allah. I will be there with you every step of your way, helping you, guiding you through your ups and downs coz my love for you is unconditional.

And please, please be a good girl when I'm off to Bangkok this weekend ye? Don't trouble your kakak and nenek please?! Love you to the moon and back.

Miley Cyrus 2013 VMA

My initial plan was to post Mariah Carey's Beautiful music video together with its full lyric sekali, before I can even finish writing Mariah's full name dah terpangpang keluar "Miley Cyrus VMA" keywords.

I wasn't very much interested when they mentioned about how cocky her performances was on the award show tetapi dah alang-alang tak nak ketinggalan zaman, so I watched it finally.

Mengucap Astaghfirulallahhalazim saya di situ.

Who is she kidding anyway? I think she's trying her very best in being as cool as Lady Gaga tapi tak berkesampaian.

Anyway, everyone has this "experimental" phases in their lives and I guess this is her's.

Good luck Miley Cyrus in everything that you do. I was never a fan of yours and I don't think I will ever be but you produced good music though! But please remember, please don't be like Lindsay Lohan. Don't kill your talent just to be cool coz there's nothing cool in going in and out of rehab. Take care of yourselves girl, you are still YOUNG!

My weekend was good, how about you?

I had a very fruitful weekend. From going to a friend's wedding to hosting a mini open house.

Saturday 

One of my closest friend had her wedding reception on Saturday. The event was held at Kem Wardieburn, Setapak. Very meriah wedding event of anak askar ni. 

Sedikit touching during the event as Umi (the bride) is someone that is very close to my heart. We've known each other since primary school. We were classmates since primary 4 up till Form 5 (not counting Form 1-3 as we were not in the same class then). We were on the same school bus during both primary & secondary years. We have shared our love-hate friendship throughout our growing years in BBGS hating each other sebab konon-konon "I am too cool for you" and we have also helped each other in scoring our Accounting paper for SPM. And eventhough we went on our own separate ways (I went to KMPP & USM while Umi went to KMK & UITM) but we still keep in touch with each other. She is on of the girls who I can cakap merepak with.

And she's married now to her loving husband. May you have a wonderful married life fill with love and happiness hingga ke Jannah, In Shaa Allah. I am so very happy for you my friend.

And of course, I met my usual bunch of girlfriend during the event. Meriah mak!

Sunday

We decided to host a mini open house for friends and family yesterday. Mini open house because we only invited close family & friends to our house. Alaa, my house very small, can't fit a lot of people at one time.

We had Nasi Lemak sambal sotong, Nasi Arab sedap & Macaroni soup malay style. Unfortunately, I did not have photos of each dishes. Tapi nak cakap makanan memang habis semua and kaki sangat penat selepas mencuci pinggan & kemas rumah.

Of course, the usual bunch.

And......The whole gang. Thanks for coming guys. 

Ohh, I had so much fun making other people's tummy happy. I'm happy when your tummy is happy :)

But now, here I am still in the office waiting for client's proposal at 7pm. I want to go home!!!!

Have a nice day kawan-kawan.

Preloved Item #1

You see, one of the major changes I experience once becoming a mother is that I don't actually have leisure time to go shopping. My weekends are pretty much occupied. It's either I have to go out sending Iman to her play school or attending my Master's classes. Nak pergi dating dengan husband pon sekali dalam 2-3 bulan kot. Memang sangat rarely we get the chance to out together without having to cancel our plans halfway. 

Thanks to online shops, I am now able to do my shopping at any time possible.

Ever since I was introduced to thepoplook, I have been their loyal customer and I can say that 80% of my working attire are from them sampai tudung pon saya beli online.

It has become a "habit" to purchase clothes from their online shop every month sebab tu duit tak pernah cukup tiap-tiap bulan. And I don't think I have the skill of doing the real shopping anymore.

So anyway, I decided to get the nicely printed blue Penny Chiffon Maxi Dress from thepoplook. But the problem now is that I bought a wrong size. Budget konon badan kecil, I purchased a S-sized dress. So bila dapat, sangatlah happy until I test pakai the dress. Amatlah mengecewakan when I can't fit the dress nicely.

I made a new purchase of the same dress with a bigger size of course and it fits me perfectly well.

I'm selling the newly purchased Penny Chiffon Maxi Dress for RM50.

The measurement as below:-

Length: 134 cm

Bust: 38cm

Shoulder: 35cm

Armhole: 20cm

Waist: 27 - 36cm

Hips: 50cm

Fits UK size: 6

Postage is FOC and email me at ajlaa0907@gmail.com if you're interested.

I know there are Asos, fashionvalet and hell lot more in the market but yea, I'm still sticking to thepoplook.

SOLD

CCRIS vs PTPTpu

Photo credit from Mat John's FB page

There has been a highly talkable debate over the issue of graduates who have yet to pay their PTPTN loan to be listed into Bank Negara's CCRIS system. This announcement was made by the 2nd Education Minister, Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh couple of days ago in order to encourage the graduates to do their payment. With this enforcement, Bank Negara will have the access to asses prospective borrower's financial profile. Dalam bahasa melayunya, ini akan menyukarkan si peminjam untuk membuat permohoan/urusan bank untuk urusan yang berbeza (car, house, personal loan).

His statement received numerous of responds as this issue went viral minutes after his announcement. Some were good tapi yang lebih banyaknya adalah dengan membantah. Yang lebih menyakitkan hati when comments were made by those who didn't go to the Public University for their higher education and obviously not a PTPTN borrower. Tapi bila buat statement, mengalahkan penasihat Perdana Menteri. Cakap macam dia tahu segalanya.

This is just my personal point of view as I believe that I am eligible to make comment as

1. I am religiously paying my PTPTN debt
2. I went to the Public University for my higher education

And I strongly believe that PTPTN is not doing a good job handling this whole process.

Yes, as an adult we are responsible to our own debts. And I believe that every graduates are very much thankful to PTPTN for giving them the opportunity to further their studies. After all, we are not the children of some Datuks or Tan Sris that can afford our own education fund to study at some private unis/colleges or even abroad. And for that, thank you PTPTN. Also, I strongly believe that the borrowers are also been paying their debts just that not consistently. Kalau tak bayar, tak kanlah PTPTN dapat collect some millions of ringgit every year.

Yang menjadi persoalannya, adalah comment daripada sang "cendiakawan" yang cakap bungbang bungbang menagalahkan menteri.

If you have been receiving PTPTN yearly statement, you'll notice the high (%) of service charge that has been charged to you monthly that caused more that your actual loan amount. Furthermore, you have been charged the certain (%) of interest on top of your loan amount into the account. And if you remember profoundly, some (%) of interest has been also charged to you even before you received your loan. So, si pandai cediakawan, bukankan ini riba? And tolonglah PTPTN, your are charging the borrowers more that what they should pay which I think is unfair. We are getting less amount of money but we have to pay double from what we borrowed. Ape nih? Riba close to 100% you are taking from your borrowers and that is why some of them decided not to pay or stop paying because even after making monthly payment, the amount does not reducing at all!

And please, when some of the non-borrowers made comments like "oh, dulu hidup mewah dengan PTPTN tapi bila kena bayar, cakap tak ada duit". I seriously feel like slapping their face. Pleaselah! You were lucky that your dad were the one paying for your education. Some of us are not that lucky enough to be born rich. So keep your comments to yourself. 

If you ask UM, USM (and I think UKM too) students, the PTPTN money that they received sometime is not even enough to pay their semester's fee. They have to add in their own money to pay the fees. You know how I know? I am those who have to fork my own pocket money to pay the fees on top of receiving the PTPTN yang tak cukup tu. Not that I'm not thankful, I am! And that is why I am so angry when I saw those stupid comments from people who does not know the head and tale of PTPTN and their process. Yes, if you ask students from UITM (sorry to say lah ye. Jangan terasa pulak), their course fees are way cheaper than those who studied at UM/USM/UKM hence why sometime you see some students living a luxurious life with their PTPTN money.

But hey, some people struggle to pay their PTPTN debt ye!

Oh, satu lagi. PTPTN is nothing like house/car loan. At least yearly you get to see the deduction of your car loan unlike PTPTN yang tak nampak pon hasil menolakan. Jadi, awas ye dengan setiap kata-kata.

With this, I would like to suggest to PTPTN to re-look on their policy or at least, stop charging us the monthly service charge yang melampau itu or else you will keep on having graduates who will never going to pay their loans.

Sebab tak ikhlas nak kasilah orang jadi tak ikhlas nak bayar hence the repayment rate will be lower each year.

Yesterday, they announced that the parliament has agreed not to proceed with this idea as it will effect the graduates especially those who just graduated or still looking for a job.

After all, with the promotion of 20% deduction if one pay total lump sum is a very good offer. Why change?

My workplace

I believe I have been posting a lot of stories on how cool and uncool my work is but I have never really posted pictures of my workplace.

Well, my agency decided to do a major renovation to the current office. The initial plan was to move to another new building (together with other agencies under one roof). But I guess the plan is not going to happen anytime soon. Plus putting all agencies under one roof requires the company to rent a whole building approximately a building with at least 12 stories high. So, no-no for that!

Finally, after rounds of getting approval from the management team on the designs and placements, they finally proceed with the renovation during the week of Hari Raya. It only took the construction team 3 days to put everything in place - move our cubicle and replace it with a new one, move our heavy drawer to its place according to the right owner, put in the new floor carpet, place in the new files drawer for on each department and make sure that we get our desktop/laptop ready to be used. Seriously, tabik spring!

This was how my department looks like before the renovation

And this was my old cubicle. Very crowded and bersepah-sepah. Budget rajin lah konon!

We were given 3 days to pack our stuff and to clean our department. The thing that I love the most about my  company is how we always bekerja sama. We managed to get our department clean the day before the construction day. Seriously memang penat gila.

Anyways, they promised that we can get our new renovated office right after Raya and voila!

My new renovated workplace. 

The new renovated department. See, my colleague all Chinese and I am the only Malay but we work with each other very well.

At first I was shocked. Downgrade from a bungalow-sized cubicle to terrace link-sized cubicle. And we were all complaining about not being able to put all our rubbish at our cubicle tapi lama-lama dah okay dah. A bit sempit on size but it's still manageable.

So, that's it!  

Sunday loving with the family

I was watching Anuar Zain on the big screen while the lil one was watching Barney on her small screen. That's how I spent my Sunday. A good Sunday!

They had Anuar Zain's 3 decades concert on TV3 earlier this evening. I was eagerly waiting for it although I've been to the real concert last February. The thing is, I can never get enough of Anuar Zain.

Anuar Zain is the only, ONLY local male singer that I really adore. I adore his personality, his voice and everything about him! Tak kesahlah kalau orang cakap dia gay (Gay ker?) or dia terlebih metrosexual, yang penting dia tetap menawan kalbu di mata ku.

I remembered having his songs played almost everyday when I was 5/6 months pregnant. Konon-konon nak mendedahkan my baby dengan kelunakan suara Anuar Zain. Poyo big time masyaallah, patutnya memdedahkan baby dengan alunan Al-Quran - that's how obsessive I was towards Anuar Zain. He's like very.....addictive. I mean his songs!

Well, ada orang obses terhadap Siti Nurhaliza while I on the other hand, super adore Anuar Zain.

Oleh itu, to end my Sunday, dengarlah Sedetik Lebih - my most favourite Anuar Zain song (semua lagu dia pon favourite sebenarnya).

Have a nice week lovers.

Friday, 16 August 2013

It's a must photo kalau naik kapal terbang. Taken on my way back to Kedah.

How I wish life is as peaceful as the above picture. Le Sigh!

Life in the advertising world

My sister forwarded this article to me yesterday and it reminds me so much of my early days working with one of the well-known local Advertising Firm.

Being a fresh grad, I was fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to work in one of the well-known local Advertising Firm right after I completed my final semester. I remember having only 1 month break before starting my career with the agency. I started very small, with zero knowledge on Media Planning & Buying. My basic salary was very little, very very little. Well, the pay wasn't what I was looking for. All I wanted was to gain knowledge and experience hence I don't mind taking the public bus to work.

With zero knowledge and background on Media Planning, I've gained interest on the field and decided to expand my career and go for a bigger challenge. I was searching high and low to get the opportunity to work with a bigger media agency. I submitted my resume to all the media agencies in Malaysia and Alhamdulillah, after few months of searching, I received a call from my current agency and the rest is history.

I owe it to the GM of the local Advertising Firm. I shall not put his name down but seriously, I owe him big time. If it wasn't because of him, I don't think I'll be where I am today.

I got to be honest, I got more exposure in the bigger Media Agency compared to the local one. This, I believe is because of the account that I am handling - some or regional clients while some are locals and the amount of money they put into advertising are way bigger compared to the ones under the local agency.

Having said that, I actually agree with the article written below. But, in order to be big, one needs to start small. 

Whether it's from the local/small agency or coming from the well-established International Media Agency, both give you a different kind of experience. It's totally depending on how you take it.

Security, of course the bigger ones are more established but then again, it totally depends on individual.

I got to agree with what's written on the article. But what I always believe and said earlier, in order to be big, one needs to start small.

Rendang Minang Hajah Kayah

Rendang Minang has always been our main dishes for raya. Tak lengkap raya kalau tak dihidangkan Rendang Minang dengan ketupat di pagi hari raya. Ever since I was young, I always help to "kacau" my late grandma while she prepares the rendang. I remember seeing her squeezing bags of kelapa parut (grated coconut) to get a fresh coconut milk for the rendang. She'll go up and down for the rendang and no one, no one is allow to disturb her while she prepares the rendang.

It took us 4-5 hours at least to get the rendang cooked as it is cook directly from the kayu api. This Rendang Minang is traditionally cooked that way and that is what so special about it.

No one in the family knows or have the patience to cook rendang hence it is always being prepared by my late grandmother. Well, not blaming anyone though but my late grandma doesn't really share the recipe with others, not even to her daughters.

One day, my uncle decided to learn how to prepare the rendang. Nenek doesn't favors sharing her rendang recipe with others but lucky Abg Eri (the uncle), nenek decided to share her ilmu memasak rendang with him. It took him years to master the skills. Yes, you need the skills to masak Rendang Minang else it won't jadi.

Nasiblah ilmu turun ke anak, my uncle is the one now responsible preparing us the Rendang Minang. 

Now, we are taking a step further with our Rendang Minang. Instead of having it to us only, we are now commercialize it and share the good taste of our home-made Rendang Minang with all of you rendang lovers. We are still keeping it on a traditional way - cooking it on the kayu api hence we ensure the good quality and long lasting good taste of the Rendang Minang.

This is how it looks like after rounds of re-hit.

A good rendang can last for a month, I'm no kidding. It even tastes good after rounds of re-hit. Sedap hingga menjilat jari.

We have rendang ayam and daging. PM if you are interested with our rendang or email me at ajlaa0907@gmail.com for enquiries. 

We are open for orders at any of your convenience as rendang is not only served during festive season, it is also good to be served with hot white rice (nasi putih) or during weddings/events.

So now you know where to get a good taste of Rendang Minang. 

p/s: If you're not sure of ke-minang-an this rendang is, well, to be honest, the rendang is prepared by a proud Minang-born lady. Yes, we are the Minang-clan!

Syawal 1434H

This year was rather sederhana. Had our 1st day at my kampung as usual. Headed back to Kedah on the 2nd day of Raya. We didn't even have family photo this year. Blame it all on the husband for being to busy with his phones and motor baru. Siap boleh pergi tempah sticker bagai. Hai, keciwi big time!

One for the album

Presenting you the ladies of the house.

I had a fun time balik Kodiang. Really rasa macam balik kampung. Sangat tenang and sejuk.

My MIL's house is exactly next to the sawah bendang yang terbentang luas. We, again didn't take group photos during our stay at Kodiang as we were busy preparing for my BIL's wedding reception which again, we didn't have a family photo for that. 

Maxis line was very terrible here. I was 3G-less whole of my 4 days stay which was actually a good thing else I will be busy fiddling with my phone all the time. 

Had a not-so-short visit to Padang Besar (Takde gambar juga). Had the whole KL gang as Busu wanted to visit the place. Drove all the way through the biggest ladang tebu in Malaysia. Glad that we went through that route. The boys were very happy to see the ladang tebu and the sawah bendang.

Sedih betul tak ade gambar. Tak ade rezeki. I'll shall be in Kodiang soon. This time, I'll promise to post more picture of the nice view of Kodiang, In Shaa Allah.

Cerita Baju Raya

Being a wife is not an easy job. Apart from the usual-looking-after-the-family duty, a wife's duty is to determine the color scheme for her family especially when it comes to Hari Raya. Dan saya tidak terkecuali daripada memikul tanggungjawab itu.

Every year, it is my duty to pick the theme color for our Hari Raya. This is not because I am the wife, it is simply because I have a lot of different color clothes that I can wear for Raya. And to avoid miscommunication between the husband and I, he, the husband allows me to be the person in-charge of our Raya theme color. 

The 1st year of our raya together, we picked green as our theme color. It was because I was 5 months pregnant and the only baju that can fit my body then was the green kebaya I had donkey years ago. The kebaya was tailored made to a bigger size hence why it was left in the wardrobe untouched. So, with the growing tummy in 2011, I can finally fit the kebaya and the husband have to look for a green baju melayu. Nasib baik jumpa. Sekali pakai lepas basuh terus hancus. And the baju melayu is nowhere to be seen now.

Our 2nd year, I was busy getting myself used to the new environment - a working-breastfeeding-mom. I did not get the chance to do raya shopping so my sister did it for me. My parents and kakak went to Kelantan for a cousin's wedding. They bought me a chocolatey-pink batik material for raya. And since it was our first raya with lil Iman, preparation was all on her. Luckily, the husband already have a chocolate baju melayu, he did not need to get a new one. Settle baju raya in 2012. I made a simple baju kurung that is definitely fit for a breastfeeding mom. Senang nak selak-menyelak. 

The time has finally here to prepare for this year's baju raya. Well, my priority is still on lil Iman. Untung si kecil itu. And since last year I made a lot of baju baru for friend's wedding, I decided to recycle them and be my baju raya. It was one of my bestie's baju dulang. The only thing that I need to do is to get the baju beaded. Sent it to the trusted cousin and voila! Cantik dengan gayanya. 

And this year's theme is shades of orange

Bought both husband's and lil Iman's at BAK tailor. Nasib baik they open a new branch here at Boulevard Ukay Perdana and it is very near to my house. Bought them last week tak sampai setengah jam and very convenience as I don't need to drag myself to Jalan TAR and berebut with other thousands of people preparing themselves for raya. Cepat dan mudah.

There's a story behind their baju raya which I don't feel like writing it in here. Buat malu je sampai kena pergi kedai tu dua kali. Nasib baik dekat tak payah susah-susah. Little that I know, this color is this year's favourite color. Punyalah susah nak get the matching color but Alhamdulillah segalanya sudah selesai.

All I need now is to practice cara-cara memakai tudung dengan sesuainya yang mungkin.

I will also like to take this opportunity to wish everyone Selamat Hari Raya. Maaf Zahir dan Batin. I would like to seek forgiveness if I have ever hurt your feelings intentionally or unintentionally. I hope that this Syawal brings the best out of us dan bersama-samalah kita bermaaf-maafan. Buang yang keruh. ambil yang jernih.

And to those who balik kampung, have a safe journey. We will be heading up Kedah on the 2nd day of Raya, In shaa Allah.

Selamat Hari Raya.

7 + 2

Had our annual breaking fast get-together with the usual gang last Saturday. Terlewat pulak this year due to commitment and to get everyone's free time is very hard nowadays. It's either I'm free or they're simply not. Finally, we managed to settle down last Saturday at Dashing Fish, Bangsar Shopping Centre (BSC).

I actually planned to write about the restaurant. Tapi memanglah tak jadi sebab bawa Iman so nak jadi photographer sememangnya tidak berkesempatan. Furthermore, I was not feeling well that day. Makan pon taklah banyak mana. Tak banyak langsung in fact. I don't even finish the small portion that they gave me. Ikan lazat semua tak dapat nak ratah pon. 

The only picture I have from our dishes. Not convincing at all

Based on my sakit tekak punya rasa, I gotto say that Dancing Fish is a place to go. It's an Indo-Malay cuisine and they serve marvelous dishes. We ordered the fish with kerabu mangga sauce & a black color sauce which I can't remember the name. We had the egg taufu as well which is highly recommended, the black pepper beef (I think) and lemak pucuk paku.

And since my tekak is super sakit, I had their Teh Koci which was very nice. It's soothe my sakit tekak.

I shall visit again and I promise I'll write a proper food review of Dancing Fish.

To my surprise, they were actually planning for my belated birthday celebration. Agak terkejut jugak. Didn't expect it anyway. Buy yea, thanks girls. I love you guys dunia akhirat.

12 years and counting

They got me the chocolate cupcakes. Sedap lah jugak but as I said earlier, tekak tak berapa nak sedap so I had few slices of each. It was so nice of them to belanja. Terharu jugaklah.

Anyway, we expanded our group member. Introducing Miss Lil Iman Alexandria & Lil boy Qaysar Farish to the group.

To many more years of friendship. Love love so much.

Sunday, 26 Ramadan

This is how I ended my weekend.

Masyaallah.

Tak apelah, kerja pon adalah salah satu ibadah bukan?

22 signs you're an ex-convent school girl

Got this from Facebook. Who ever who posted this, I got to say that I am 100% agree with you. I went to an all girls school, spent 11 of my wonderful years learning and living my life surrounded by great and wonderful friends.

So, here you go:-

1. You're cool with doing the heavy lifting - as long as it's manageable. What? Wait for the guys to come help out? Girl, we went through 11 years of school without a single guy in sight (unless you count that wimpy math teacher), and we did just fine.
2. You have that one group of girlfriends that you know will be there for you. FOREVER.
3. "Friendship problems' don't throw you anymore. We've been through 5 years in a school full of girls going through puberty all at the same time. It was hell. There would always be at least one person in any classroom PMSing at any one time - plus we pretty much hung out with the same group of girls so much that our cycles literally synched up. Yes, it's not a myth; it's true. Which basically means WAR every few weeks. I repeat. It was hell
4. But then again, that's what make our friendship stronger than anything else in the world.
5. You went through a lesbian phase - or there was at least one moment in your life where you actually looked at another girl and went.."hmmm..not bad"
6. You recognition that lap lap dance scene - yes! it's from the L word.
7. You remember the first time you wore a skirt without shorts underneath - your thighs had never felt cooler
8. Lesbian tendencies aside, a lot of your conversations with friends had to do with Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Josh Hartnett, Jude Law...and well, every male celebrity that came to our attention
9. For years after secondary school, you never wore a skirt that went below your knees, thanks to a ridiculously strict dress code that you had to follow for a full decade. 
10. You look pretty presentable and kind of demure to strangers. But when you're with your friends, it's a whole different story
11. But in spite of that, the morals you learnt at school have somehow stuck with you through all these years.
12. An you still kind of remember the words to Our Father.
13. And some hymns will never ever leave your mind for good. Like As The Deer, What was with that song?
14. You went through a major vain phase.
15. And have heard people bitch about the weight one too many times
16. You understand that skirt rolling is an art
17. And you hate it when young girls cross the line and go full slut.
18. You're definitely not afraid to speak your mind
19. Because somehow we've been trained to be strong, independent women.
20. And even though we've been through a lot of shit as ex-convent girls
21. And at times it sort of felt like this - "All I want to do is just finish high school in peace and go away to a state with lots of people who don't know who I am and just start over"
22. The experience, memories and friendship were all kind of worth in the end

Kan?!