Salam aidil adha

Sibuk macam mana pun kena la masak sambut raya. Masak lodeh aje raya kali nie. Lodeh perantau, bny yg kurang, tp feel raya tu dapatlah dirasai.
Eid mubarak

Pray for the best

Salam to all,

My apology for living this "room" for long. Being occupied is one good reason that I can give (I know I have over used this reason, but don't everybody??), but what have been holding up my ramblings most is about an unfortunate thing happened in the family.

I am not good at expressing bad/sad feelings to people, especially to those who I have not meet in real-life. I am known among friends as "a happy go lucky" person. Not that I am not sensitive, I do cry, have cry almost everyday since I start this PhD journey. But I did all the crying inside, on the outside I am what people have known me. So I maybe look tough on the outside, but I am fragile inside. I am frail....

Dear friends, please pray for my dearest Abah. He is undergoing an operation to remove part of his stomach tomorrow. There is a malignant/tumor in his duodenum. Hope everything goes well.

yours truly,

Sepi...

...merujuk kepada blog ini...

Sibuk berganda bila pulang ke Brisbane nie, macam-macam urusan dari study, sampai ke rumahtangga yang perlu dibereskan sebelum hujung bulan ini. Sorry kengkawan, den tak dapat nak bersila dengan selesa, membuka cerita, berkongsi gelak ketawa. Nanti-nanti, bile den dah bersedia nanti...tapi apa yang nak diceritakan...buntu seketika.

standby mode kejap la ye...

jaga diri...semoga kebahagiaan milik anda semua...

yours truly,

Meeting old friends

Days passing by quickly, I have about 2 weeks more left to complete what I have already planned to do. I think I have done 40% of the list (I hope), sempat kot 2 weeks to reach 100% (tetiba rasa bulu roma naik kat tengkuk nie...wakakakakka).

Works but no play makes you a very boring person kan..ahahahhaha so lame. On weekdays, we can't do anything much, for yaya is at school. Thus, our weekends, so far, were hectic, mostly attending open houses, visiting relatives and some old friends. Talking about friends, thanks to these social network platforms that help us in reuniting long lost friends, from everywhere around the globe. So this raya, we took the opportunity to see some of our long lost friends.



Liza, old friends from Jasin. We lived in the same neighbourhood, so technically we are neighbours. The last time we met was before leaving school, lama betul. We got the chance to savour her famous mee rebus, fuhhh....sodap. I was practically full, rugi tak dapat makan banyak ahahahha.... Should have fast at least half of the day :D. Thanks Liza, buat susah-susah aje masak, (tapi kena bagitau awal2 nak datang, because pantang Liza kalau muncul aje kat depan rumah kan ...hehehhehe...)




Between visiting relatives houses, able to squeeze a little time to see Achu, my sparring partner. Itu pun janji pukul berapa, akhirnya dapat jumpe pukul berapa. Berapa kali call bagitau change of time. Alhamdullilah, dapat gak jumpa ye Achu.



Then last week, since I have to cancelled my trips to Malacca and JayBee, and coincidentally Gee who is working in Kelantan, attended conference in Putrajaya and Iza from JayBee had exhibition in Subang, and with few other friends who is living as far as Klang, came down to Putrajaya, and we met at Alamanda. There are my university friends. Some good friends are organising a reunion, this 24th, so we talked mostly about the big event. We left our uni, 10 years ago. It is about time to organise reunion. Owwhh...Iza used to frequent my blog, she was a blogger, now blog dia pun dah bersawang nampaknye. I guess bila balik tanah air nie, kekeringan idea (macam den gak). From bottom left, Baya, nie kawan gaduh, nangis, ketawa :D, glad that we still keep in touch, blog Ilham Mira tu dia la empunyanya and that sweet little girl is the only daughter of Baya; next to Baya's only princess Yu, my first year roommate, her recent achievement is gave birth to triplet, she has 6 boys in total, den mmg kagum kawan2 sebaya yang anak lebih 3 nie, hebat-hebat; that guy far back in the picture is YB Marshar, we called YB sebab kuat politik tu, dari zaman uni, sampai sekarang, mane tau masin mulut kitaorang nie kan; going down, lady in black skarf, Gee, my advisor during saat-saat genting buat PhD nie. Kalau tengah down, mesti carik dia, because she is always on line, well kalau tak down pun slalau gak kacau dia..ahahahhahah; the man yang diapit oleh dua orang ladies, Aca, we were not very close, bila ada aktiviti kat uni je baru borak-borak :D and last but not least, Iza, our entrepreneur lady, sebab macam-macam business dia venture, remember one time, I advertised her sugar paste tu. Hope to see them again this 24th.



Yu (refer above) is working at MAMPU. I am lucky I have a friend who is working there, ada research material nak carik kat library MAMPU tu. So a day after Alamanda meeting, we met again, nak pinjam buku kat MAMPU. Sape sangka Yu nie pun layan rock macam den, sebab dulu Yu bertudung labuh... I caught her one day, playing my alternative cassettes on my radio ahahahahhahahah



And last night, we lepak at one of the mapley in Seremban, met up with some old Georgians friends. Ini ladies only picture, ada men aka husband group gak, tapi den tak snap, diorang tgh sibuk borak2, malas kacau. Next to me, Fitah, infront Fitah, Jas, aka jyss @ jipang, she is now back in Malaysia for good, but tabik dia sebab ada idea lagi update blog tu..ahahahhaha; and last but not least, Amai, her mom is also my mom's friend so a common story that we shared (amai n me) is she was born 2 days before me, hospital sama, so mak cakap, hari mak masuk hospital, aunty A kuar hospital...hahhaha...

Tu yang sempat jumpe. Ada lagi kawan-kawan lama yang nak jumpe nie. Very hopeful I will able to see them. Itu aje la cerita seminggu sekali den nie. Enjoy the rest of the week friends.

yours truly,

Gelagat orang dan citer makan-makan yang sudah semestinya ada...

Tengah buat data collection nie, although it was very tiring, tapi seronoknye dapat jumpe user yang citer macam-macam, baik dari segi sistem yang sedang dinilai tu, sampai la citer raye. Den nie pulak mmg suka berborak, bila user tau den nie datang dari Australia, lagi la panjang citer nye. Yang kelakarnye, masa mula-mula nak start communication tu, diorang macam layan tak layan la den nie, sebab den tau, kalau den cakap student, mesti diorang ambil endah tak endah aje. Tapi bila den citer den nie keje kat so-and-so, sambung belajar PhD, baru la diorang layan den macam kakitangan. Ini lumrah alam la nie, den pun mmg expect benda macam nie berlaku. Jadi den anggap nie semua learning process. Manusia nie macam-macam ragam, macam-macam persepsi, macam-macam fikiran. So den kena la professional kan... wakakkakaka...takpe...den tak kisah. Jadi den layankan aje....

OK ..dalam borak punye borak tu dengan pelbagai user nie, yang lawaknye, bila den kata den sambung buat phd, remark yang diorang bagi, issshhh muda-muda dah buat phd.... den reply, "ehhh tak puan, saya dah tua nie, anak dah dua". "haaa anak dah dua, yang tua baper tahun?". "sekolah dah, darjah 1".... "laaaa umur berapa nie? ".. sambil sengih-sengih, "XXX" (ceh XXX kunun wakakakkakakakk...den bagitau la kat user2 tu, kat sini den tak disclose laaa :D)

OK tu bab umur, bab lain, diorang banyak tanye pasal makan la kat sana. Halal tak? Makan macammana? ada sorang tanye "KFC sume ada kan...". "Ada, tapi tak Halal"."Iye...laaa....macammana sini boleh halal pulak". "Sana ada daging tu la puan." "Ohhhhh....." Diorang pun kesian tengok den buat muka kesian..wakakakkakak....

Issshhh macam-macam citer lagi laaa.... hilang penat den naik turun tangga kejar user nie, bila dilayan macam tu sekali. Tapi kalau diorang offer sirap limau air batu lagi best...wakakakkakaa

OK... balik kali nie den tak merayau sangat, macam-macam keje kena buat. Ini pun banyak lagi nak kena buat. Lepas tu ngan kejadian cirit birit raya haritu, kena conjukvitis pulak kami 3 beranak minggu lepas. Memang tak ke mana sangat la kami. Lagi misi mencarik makan pun kurang kali nie, maybe sebab dah banyak kali pulang Malaysia kot. Apa-apa pun ada gak la yg kami teringin....



Dah ada Manhattan FM kat Jusco Seremban laa....mussels garlic butter die mmg marvelous.



Satay R&K...jangan tanye den R&K tu apa maksudnye. Yang den tau satay dia memang sedap. Dah lama jadi klien nie. Kuah kacang dia yg paling sedap, daging satay rasa manis, tak rasa ubat (setengah2 satay tu terasa ubat pelembut daging tu). Fuhyooo....satay....



aaaa yang nie den beli kat pasar malam yo.... banyak2 yong tau foo yang den pernah rasa, 2 tempat je den rasa yong tau foo dia orang tak bleh celen punye.... satu kat plaza kotaraya JB (tak tau ado lai ke tak nie), lagi satu kat foodcourt The Mines. Yang kat JB tu, sup dia mmg sedap, lepas tu kuah dia mmg macam yong tau foo cina punye...alamak susah pulak nak explain. Kalau sempat kat JB nanti den gi terjah, kalau ada lagi laaa. Yang kat The Mines tu, special dia, sebab dia goreng dulu semua Tau Foo yang kita ambil tu, so dia garing2 sikit la. Sedappp.... adehhhh....
eh kengkawan.....tau tak resepi kuah yong tau foo nie.... kalau tau...sudi la share ngan den yo....hehehehhe

Itu aje la citer hari nie...Minggu nie den ke JB, insyaAllah. Sempat kang den citer lai yo...

yours truly,