Wedding Kak Olie (Cousin)

The tower of books on my bed side table. Queuing their way up, waiting to be read.

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My cousin, Kak Olie is married!!

Can't believe she is a married woman now. 

Every single time one of my cousin got hitched or pregnant , 

I am always the emotional ones to react.

I don't know why. 

May be being the drama queen that I am, it comes with the dramatic nature.

Me in the middle of the chaos

Regardless..I am so happy for her.

Since "the tragedy" happened, I need this. 

The wedding prep, gathering of my family, the chaotic moments before the wedding,

 the revealing wedding dress moment, the rewang-rewang, the everything lah.

I need it to remind myself that beautiful things can still happen in life.

The wedding dresses.. 

During the akad nikah moment, I almost cried 

My goodness, over tak?

Orang lain yang nikah, orang lain yang sebak ha.

But its true.

I almost cried. 

My heart starts sinking because the event recalled me of someone.

I tried to retained the tears. 

Not wanting to appear blubber in the middle of my family crowd.

Finally I managed to smile.

Now that Kak Olie is married. 

She's transitioning to a marriage life with her darling husband.

God's willing, she might start having a family of her own soon.

I find this facts are very overwhelming.

You know, we were  kids together, played silly games, then grew up, and now she is a wife.

How Allah SWT has created so much for her.

Syukur Alhamdulillah.

Me and Kak Olie, the bride.

May Allah SWT bless her marriage to Abang Najib. Amin

Thank you so much for tuning in.

Love you. xoxo

Supper at Wondermama! (Updated with new pics!)

Last month, I tangoed my family to this new place. 

What catches my eyes are their menus!

They have banana fritters, cendol, durian crepe, nyonya kueh, and all malaysian local delicacies like curry laksa, nasi lemak as well as western dishes. 

All nicely serve in the vintage-asian fusion theme restaurant!

Cool rite?

Unfortunately I dragged my family to these place at their closing time

 because Papa needed a spot to smoke his lungs out after our dinner at the area nearby.

And since all places are on full-house mode, thus voila,

 Wondemama Cafe has its door smiling at me even at 10pm.

Since it was late, and we just had our dinner, I didn't  get the chance to try out their food.

But I'm sure the food is going to beat you tummies and your taste buds. 

The waiter said their curry laksa is a winner here.

While waiting for papa sailing his cigars out, I do what I did best..smile and snap!

Hoo-hoo. Their hot chocolate tasted homey. 

Not to forget, they have aiskrim potong!

Will definitely comeback here with my girlfriends.

Unfortunately, I only had few photos to share.

But, here is their facebook page if you wish to see the galore of the place.

Thank you for tuning in. 

XOXO

-New photos-

.Iced milk tea and coffee.

.Maggi goreng.

.Durian crepe with vanilla ice cream dessert.

I can't remember what the drink is called..but its actually a blend of KumQuat fruit and 7Up.
It tasted too sweet for my taste buds.

.Banana fritters with vanilla ice cream.

Iced tea in a kole!

This delicacy is called Dancing Squid.

Sedap!

Their Breakfast Plate.

.Pizza. 

Beef Nachos. Sedap!

Rose Lemon.

xoxo!

HECTIC

One word : Kepenatan.

That's the only right word to explain where or what I am right now. But still no complaints.

Here's the summary of whats practically going on these past few months in my silly hectic life.

• Currently, I'm in my semester break till 5th March. Then I'm gonna start my final semester for my degree course with 4 months internship in Approve Group. You can look up about the company here. 
• Even though I'm in my semester break, I've been finalizing my thesis for submission. The word thesis practically been lingering in my mind like a weed in my head. Its amazing how just writing 10,000 words research paper can stole your peace in life.
• Since I'm back home, I've never spend more than 5 hours at home awake. There's always meeting papa for lunch or dinner, visiting my brother at his PLKN camp site, weddings, family gatherings, heading to the bank+mechanics+post office, breakfast with mom, and of course, UiTM Shah Alam. And again, I'm not complaining.
• Besides my hectic schedule, I've managed to finished up reading 3 books that I've bought recently. Micro by Micheal Crichton, Angels Fall by Nora Roberts and Priceless by Nicole Richie.
• My brother went for his PLKN National Service in Sepang. It took approximately 30 min drive from the Sepang F1 Circuit, way up in the rural area.
• Last week my mom and I went for our holiday with my aunts and couple of her friends to Yogyakarta,Indonesia. It was epic. I didn't want to come back home when the time came for our departure. 
• Through the holidays, I got to meet couple of new friends, who is both such sweet and nice people.
• For Chinese New Year this year, I got to sated my longing for Yee Sang, twice. 
• I miss my dorm and my roommates like hell. My dorm has always been my salvation for the past 6 years, and now its gone. It is such a sad feeling and I've been trying to adapt to the new scenario that I'm am going to stay at home from now on, makes me miss my roommates +dorm more.
• I haven't been baking or even cooking since I got home for my break. The only food I ever got chance to cook was frying cekodok for our afternoon tea.
• My cousin's wedding here, was intimate and joyful. She's been planning her wedding for months and seeing how well it all turn out, must be such a relieved for her. Couldn't believe in the first place that she choose me to become her pengapit (bridesmaids) for that day. Thank you Kak Marinee!
• Since this is the last semester break I'll be having, I've managed to squeeze my time to meet my girlfriends. So far, lunch with Normy, ice cream session with Sarah and Fyda, a cup of tea with Dahlia, Farahnaz, Izzah and Intan, and blast of laughter with Nadrah,Dyana and her charming boyfriend of hers, Hafiz. Next stop, more dinner dates with ex classmates from school.

 That will be all, I think.

Till then, I'll update my out and about soon to you guys. 

Have a good day peeps!

xoxo

No more SPM horror!

-We bought him a good luck cake before his SPM from here. Tasty and moist.-

Hello darlings!

This is the first weekend since my baby bro has finished his SPM and it has been a blast!

I don't have to go through all that horror of waking him up every morning and have the ritual of uttering the word  "Rizal, study!" every 5 minutes.

This is the morning of his last day going to school.

Last day of wearing those white shirt+school tie and mud green trousers.

Lepas ni bole gantung baju tu and jadikan costume outfit for next year Halloween party! 

=P

-muka kena paksa bukak mata sebab along dia nak amik gambar-

Now its all about spending the time watching TV together, unlimited hibernating hours a.k.a sleeping, which place to have dinner tonight, what's the best movie at the theater and 

no more "Esok Rizal sekolah,kena balik awal ni" everytime we went for our late night 

teh tarik session with my family.

So far its been well. Alhamdulillah.

Now we're gonna try to make an effort to pray hard so that he won't mess up his SPM exam results.

And yes, we did celebrate his birthday.

He is officially a 17 year old. We had Japanese for dinner and was the last one to leave the restaurant.

Its all good.

Before I wrote this entry, there's been couple of unfortunate events that really got me down. 

Then I read some of the struggles by plane survivors who has experienced severe body burns and not being able to do the simple things that they usually do like having a conversation, go out under the sunlight, preparing dinner,hug their love ones, or even stand and walk.

 (You'll be surprised how many survivors blog you can find online. Here's one my favourite )

It started to make me feel that my problem aren't that big. And there's always a solution to it if you try hard enough to look for it. God always help those who help themselves.

So I'm gonna stop being a whiner and embrace what I have now. 

I can walk, I can talk, I can listen and do things without constantly asking help from others and above all I have my family and bumblebees with me.

I am grateful to Allah SWT for granting these beautiful people to be around me. 

And I hope I'll have them with me always.

 There's all for today.

Thank you so much for spending your precious time here.

xoxo

Adinda SPM

 Yes people.  

The one on the right is my bimbo brother.

And yes, he is sitting for his SPM from 14th Nov till 6th Dec.

His Birthday will be on the 8th. His 17th birthday! 

Can't believe how time flies so fast.

 During his SPM period, I will be home monitoring him from eyes open to eyes shut. 

Like a hawk hunting on his prey. Kidding!

But I'll be home tutoring him and make sure he does his revision.

But oh boy, tutoring a 17 year old boy do has its challenge.

• First, waking him up will be like a pre-war. I had to bang his door,make sure he is awake and wait till I hear the shower runs. If I didn't hear the shower or the bed creaks, than he's not up. So I'm gonna have to repeat the process of banging his door etc
• Then he'll have his late breakfast with the loud TV before starting his revision. I'm gonna have to remind him that is revision time or he'll just forgot that he's sitting for SPM this year.
• While tutoring him, I'll have to make sure not to get his all work-up cause once he feel the pressure, he'll lost interest revising the subject. Yes, that's how fragile my bimbo brother is.
• I also have to be constantly motivating him with words of encouragement. This part can be tough because, the first motivating word I'll utter, he'll rolled his eyes. but I knew, at one point, he's taking the words in.
• There's an SPM question bank where you can download the question from all the states here. I've been tutoring my brother based on this sets.
• Everytime he's having his friends around for group study , I tried to load the table with as many food I can to make sure they won't run out of sustenance.
• Have patience. Always have patience. (I find this part is crucial). And NEVER give up, no matter what.
• Excepting his credibility. My brother may not be an Einstein in his studies, but I tried my best to trust  his efforts. 
• And most importantly, raise your hope to God and prey.

I hope that one day, despite all the worst he's been through,

he'll turn out to be a great man and a loving son.

Cause I'd knew that he is one amazing brother I could ever hoped for.
***smile with tears***

p/s: Once upon a time, I swear my brother look just like this. hehe..

Toodles!

-xoxo-

New babies in the family yo!

I've been meaning to update my blog but unfortunately I have no interesting stuff going on.

I'm going back to JB this weekend for the Hari Raya. 

This is my first time to ever celebrate Hari Raya without the presence of my atuk and atuk mak.

Atuk has past away last march at 92. 

It'll be one sad Hari Raya for my mon's side of the family.

But God has decide to bless us in other ways. 

In the last 10 days of Ramadhan, 2 of my cousins has just delivered their babies.

Which both turn out to be a boy.

I'm genuinely happy for them in ways I couldn't describe. 

They have been married for quite some time and suffered few miscarriages. 

But the babies news has turn them into an overjoyed parents.

That goes the same for my mom and me.

Once we heard the news, we launch ourselves in to car straight to the baby shop.

And we bought this. 

You'll be surprise how much baby stuff cost. They are pretty pricey.

But then, why hold back when you could splurge? =D

Then in the car I remember about the times I had shared with them. 

Those late night phone calls when I really need to talk to somebody.

Those times when we went out for late night teh tarik sessions.

And how I see them gone through all those ups and downs of the fertility treatments.

It seems insignificant to compare those moments with what they have right now. 

What they have right now is the future, a new life to be nurtured and loved.

And I'm glad they make it despite everything.

Congratulation to the new mommies!

May God bless us always.

I'm an aunty once again. Can't wait for them to grow up and bring them to the movies. 

I'll be one hot aunt..Hehe

Thank you for stopping by!

xoxo

Quilling After Cramming

Hello people! How was your day? Mine was not too fabulous.

I'm still in Shah Alam with my fellow hummingbirds. Its been 3 days since my final exam ended.And my work load hasn't seem to be decreasing. Final year project+Paperwork+Mock-crime scene.

By the way, I wanna share few things that I've been doing since the finals ended. I've google few blogs and stumble into this blog. It's about paper craft called quilling. I have been so tempted by the simpleness and the colours.  So I decided to do one for mom's birthday card. I watched couple of tutorial video on Youtube. You can watch it right here. Since its my first attempt to do this, don't expect an extravagant one. Plus, I had limited source. It took me 2 hours to made it,from scratch. 

I considered my work was okay for an amateur.

I'm actually looking forward to making more of these. And I am dying to go home. I miss baking! I thought I am so over cupcakes,but after days of google-ing for dessert recipes,I always find myself staring at the cupcakes recipes for hours. So I'm gonna start to bake it again, together with all those recipes I've been bundling. Hooray! Wish I had the time. Remember last semester break? I seriously don't want that. Where I'm always out and not home. I wanna be in my bed, in my room,with my books and the breezing air blowing from my window. And its mom birthday this weekend,so being here has sort of limited my sense of freedom-ness from planning mom's birthday party.

I have also upload new pics on my facebook. Thanks to the constant badgering of my colleagues. Their pics are like 40% from the total pics on my phone. Therefore you'll find most pics are with their picture on it,not mine. 

I've also made the cake+menus+dessert selection for the birthday party. Once I got home,I need to settle the invites and went shopping for my baking materials. Owh, did I tell you my new maid can make bread crumbs,seriously. Mom told me on the phone that she make a croquette-alike,with prawn filling for mom's teatime. Mom thought that she'd used my baking stuff, then she said no,she made it herself. Now I envied her. Haha.

Anyway, thank you so much for stopping by.

I LOVE YOU!

xoxo!

Vanilla Cafe

Went to a place called Vanilla Cafe in Empire,Subang couple of days ago with mum for a tea time.

The placed was recommended by a friend of mine, Syazrien.

They offer rm 18.90 teatime set for 2 person.

 The set consist of a pot of flower tea/BOH,which is refillable and desserts platter. 

It has couple of macaroons,mini pies, mini cuppies, biscotti, mini scones,garden sandwich and baby brownies. 

The place were not exquisite but its a nice place to zone out. 

Plus the dessert menu were quite tempting enough. 

They have Pavlova( meringue with fruit toppings), Banana Cheese cake and scrumptious looking bread pudding.

When we arrived,I was quite hungry at the moment ,so I ordered a lasagna. I haven't eat  it in ages!

 The treat was not sensational,but still it tasted okay.

If you insist on trying out this new place,it is located at the 1st floor of the building,opposite the escalator.

The cafe doesn't promote the teatime set, so you're gonna have to seat down and browse the menu or asked them about it. 

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 Every Friday till Sunday, Empire held a street market scattered at each floor. They offer common items such as necklaces and bracelets, earrings, shoes, blog-like clothes at really low prices. Worth checking it out,I say.

Anyways,thanks for dropping by.

Love you,xoxo!

Moment To Be Remember

I would like to start this entry with,

I just had the best birthday's ever.

It was a birthday marathon!

(my birthday is on the 16th February btw)

On Monday night,my dad fetch me from campus.
Tuesday was a holiday. 
So we had dinner with my family at my favourite restaurant, Passage Thru India in Damansara. 

I know its not top notch but the food was spellbinding..

And I've been trying to get both of my parents to go there since my semester break,and when we finally do,it was so worth it.

Their naan,dhal,keema n briani are absolutely divine.

And the best part of it all,there was only 4 person at the dinner table.

(It has been my long lost wish to have 4 person at the dinner table)

  

Even I looked like a mess,I couldn't even care less. 
That night my head was giddy with joy. 

And I even think it as my birthday night. 

That night ended with me and my brother watching dvd Inception at 1.30am over a cup of hot Milo at home. 
Point to be noted,do not watch complicated movies at those wee hours, because it tends to get more complicated to understand the movie than it already is.   

The next day I woke up at noon,packed my things up,ready to get back to campus. 

Mum decided to have lunch at IceRoom. I have never been there before but Mum and Rizal has been bragging about their Mango dessert,so we went there. 

The food was okay and the dessert was okay as well.

I tried the Black Sesame Ice Cream. 
The ice cream texture was flaky,like ice. Not the common creamy or milky texture,which I think its nice and fresh. But my phone batt went down,and I didn't get to take picture of it!!  
But the Mango dessert taste really good.

Then off to sending Rizal to his tuition, and me to campus. 
Along the way my mum and I went to visit my uncle,who underwent a knee surgery in SJMC and he did well.

Next,we went to Subang Parade for teatime.
Mama kata kopitiam da boring,so we went to Ice Blog and then bought rotiboyyy. 

Mum says her Ice Blog's Guava juice+pearl tak sedap. 

My Hong Kong Iced tea+pearl sangat sedap.

Before heading to the car, I manage to bought these cuties. 

I considered it as a birthday gift from mum.Yeay!!

Then,that night I was studying for my test tomorrow until at 11.50pm I got a call from this dude saying,

"Happy Birthday Along! "

Aww,so sweet. 

I totally forgot that it was my birthday!

Then at 12am, mum called,dad texts,cousins texts+called,and all the warm wishes start to coming in. 

Mum was practically yelling Happy Birthday on the phone.

I was overwhelmed. 
I couldn't even concentrate on my lecture-notes anymore. 

Later that night,I went to sleep with a huge huge smile on my face.

On my actual birthday, 
I get to meet my buddy at the cafeteria with whom I haven't seen in awhile and she wish me Happy Birthday. 
I was back at my excited state..

For lunch, I had Subway. 
It was a generous treat from Miss N. Thank You!

Followed by double scoop of B&R mint-chocolate chip ice cream for dessert.

People, I am content. 
Later I went to 4pm class and my colleagues sang the official birthday anthem..It was so sweet. 
I wish I could've record the moment so I can played it over and over again.

In the evening my dad called and asked if I wanted to go out for dinner later that night.
We went to Secret Recipe. 

I haven't been here for like almost a year. 
It seems they have couple of new recipes on their menu. 

I tried the Banana Crumble.
Sangat tak sedap. 
It taste like roasted twigs with chocolate toppings. 
Then I bought couple slices of moist choc cake from the counter for my roomates before heading back.

At my dorm,we ate the choc cake together. Since my roomates are Culinary Art students,one of them has baked choc cheese cake and saved 2 slices for me. Teraharu sangat. 
Then my other roomates even baked apple pie and brought back to the dorm. It was a night of feast. 


On the next day,I had lab at 2pm. 
So I took a long 9 hours sleep. 
I woke up with feeling heavy and still sleepy. 
Can I get hangover caused by eating too much? 
Caused if it does,I think I just had a food-hangover.
Than,I went to lab.
Today we are doing fingerprinting analysis. 
It was interesting.
After lab, I found that there's a colourful paper bag stuffed in my bag. It was a present from H&N. 
Its a frame with our picture and our names on it.
Thank you dalink!

Bila I tengok frame ni,it reminded me of a friend,who has actually made a frame for me,handmade ye,just like these but a little more fancy. It also has a photo with both of us in it.
Remember S?


And then ada this sweet lady who's been trying to reach my phone,leaving 8 missed calls sebab nak wish happy birthday,but when I finally answered the call,my phone batt pulak low..sian dia. Hopefully we'll meet soon ya!


Having to feel all of this,I feel so blessed by Allah SWT. 
Even though I didn't have an official birthday cake or candles to be blown or wishes to make, I already feel so happy. 
To be surrounded by these wonderful people and their loves,it is overwhelming for me. 

Syukur Alhamdulillah.

For all of these,I thank you,my families,friends and my bumblebees. 

I love you,forever and always.

xoxo!

Life Needs Frostings-Cinnabon

Few days ago,I was homesick,missing my family+friends and pretty much everything else.

So I went home,back to my amazing life with my fam.

And I found that,

I'm happy that my mum are super excited when I told her I wanna go home.

I'm happy that one of my friends who's been MIA for awhile text me to ask me to join her for dinner at Subway 

I'm happy that my brother is sharing all his stories with me like we used to.

I'm happy that I get to spend my time at my favourite place in Bangsar.

I love the moment when my brother and I are sitting down at the kitchen for our late breakfast.

I love the feeling laying on my bed with my imagination running through the sky limits.

I love to know that there's a new furniture store in Bangsar. The store look very vibrant and yet very cosy.

I love waking up to the smell of my mum cookings.

I'm glad to be spending some time with my colleagues over a cup of ice-cream

I'm happy to know that I have average exam grades just like everyone else in my class.

I love how my room smells each time I walk in.

I'm happy to be enjoying Cinabbons with my bro.

I love the new cream coloured cardigan that I just bought.

I'm so happy that I got to eat my favourite food in the whole wide world over the weekend,Kambing Bakar! (Since it is so hard to find on the regular menu, so yeah,I went a little bit nuts while eating it)

I'm happy my cousins decide to drop by to our house for a chat at teatime.

I'm glad to feel that my new dorm are my own territory,and not a strange place anymore.

I'm surprised Mr. Sorethroat didn't stop by after I ate a cup of ice cream.

I love that I got to spend some time at the bookstore and bought a book, To Kill A Mocking Bird.

I'm glad I don't have to face this anymore. Thanks to the new friends I've made.

For all of these,I feel blessed. And prayed that I won't loose the sight to see and feel ALLAH S.W.T greatest creation around me. 

Amin ya Rabbal Al Amin.

And now,here I am,back in my own territory.

Thank you for tuning in. I love you always! 

-xoxo-

Yesterday,

Yesterday was a blessed since the previous day was plain.

Miss Syazreen pick me up in her blue car and  I enjoyed the ride. ( Because for once, I'm not the driver )

Went out with my girlfriends for a lunch and bowling. 

It was a blast! 

I miss them sooo much.

Oh. ha,we went to Wangsa Walk.

Movies, Shops, Karaoke, Food, Bowling Alley..all under one roof.

 Later that night,my family and I went out for dinner.

 It was Japan vs Paraguay. Paraguay won. 1-0

Japanese. Singing their national anthem.

And the picture below is my two lovely..'pengulas sukan' for 

 the Rashid family..

xoxo..! Love u

Unfortunate Events..

"to all my dearest,may Allah SWT answers all our prayers.."

This semester holiday of mine has end up with series of unfortunate events that left our family with nothing but despair. It started out after celebrating Hari Raya Haji holiday in Johor Bahru last month.

A week after, news about my beloved grandfather,Atuk, was rushed into the hospital due to short of breathing. And it turns out Atuk has a renal failure and he required dialysis 3 times a week from now on. Grief wash our whole family through,ending up all of us to canceled our end of the year holiday trips to be with him.

Later, a close uncle of mine was admitted to hospital due to short of breath problem in the midnight and he ended up in ICU. Since he has been sick for a while,the news of my uncle ended up in ICU has put me and my family in agitation.

The following weak, one of my uncle was admitted to HUKM due to dengue fever where his platelet count has drop to 29(A normal platelet count in a healthy individual is between 150000 and 450000 per μl (microlitre) of blood ). i hope the strict doctor that was assign to treat him do cure him well.

Few hours later then, we receive a phone call saying that my cousin also has been admitted in Tung Shin Hospital and discovered he has sickness that is as equivalent to a minor stroke. and so we went to visit my cousin. He said that there was no sign of sickness nor any symptom before that could lead him to this. In the hospital basically he looked normal,but the movement of his left side of his hand and foot was sometimes out of his control though he can still move it.

After been through to see all of these,i hope none of this will ever happen to our family ever again.

xoxo