Been awhile..

It has been awhile since i last blogged. I've been very very busy and didn't have much time to blog. Been busy at the office that by the time i go home, i do not have the mood to blog, just needed the rest.

I just want to post some photos. My relatives from KB came down to KL for school holidays and as usual hubby & I will invite them to our house for some get-together 'makan-makan'.

I invited them for dinner. I just cooked some very simple dishes, 'Ayam Masak Merah', 'Dalca Terong & Ubi Kentang', Mixed Vege, & Tumeric Prawns. All i cooked by myself with some help for my dearest hubby.

And for supper, its home-made Cheese Cake which i topped it up with sliced peaches & some currypuff & guava fruits dipped with 'rojak' sauce.

Later its photo time.




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Tuesday Girls' Outing

I don't quite fancy outing in d middle of a working week....but its the only time that all of us are available. This is the outing which was postponed last 2 weeks ago. Nevertheless its an opportunity to meet-up and catch-up.

I left office earlier to give a few minutes of 'jalan-jalan' with bee...'sempat' pulak tu tryout some blouses and bought one cos its on sale...hehehe. Everyone was on time. We all met infront of J.Co at 6:30pm. After the guys splitted with us, we had a short discussion where to eat. Decided to tryout new eatary...Sushi Zanmai. Since none of us have any idea where the place is, we asked the very attentive customer service guy and we didn't lost our way.

I just loved the food and its reasonable. Great ambiance and we got a good private seat. I donno why i ordered so much but thank god we shared our food. Cuzzy had salad n the salad dressing was really tasty. S ordered a bit of tis n tat. Hey S, thanks for the "chawanmushi".

Its more of an outing for S to meet up with cuzzy cos they've not met for nearly 10 years. Imagine within that short period there were so many updates to catch up. After dinner, we sempat shopping and had the last stop for dessert....donuts!! I was too full and just ordered yogurt. D guys came by and joined us later.

It was indeed a fruitful meet. I enjoyed the food, the gossips, the dessert gatherings, etc. I think having the first meet at Sunway Pyramid makes it a comfy one too.

Happy Prophet Mohamad

Selamat Menyambut Maulidur Rasul. Maulud Nabi Mohamad S.A.W (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)

Its a good day today. Tis morning both bee n me decided to treat some of our close relatives for brunch. Its a simple affair of get together and eating mamak food. We chose Peli*a Subang Jaya cos of its nice environment & easy access for everyone. Its a nice weather today, cool & windy. We all met around 11am and most of us had nasi kandar, paper-tosei, roti sardine wif glasses of kopi-O and teh-tarik.

We had a good time chatting, joking and some serius discussions regarding current issues, etc...etc. Eventho its a short gathering but considering we are close, it turns out to be a nice one. After lunch, everybody just went back. Hope to do it again in future.

Both of us went back home. Since we're both still full after the heavy brunch, i just tried my hands on 'crispy squid'. The recipe is easy. All you need is 2 tablespoon of flour, 2 tablespoon of corn-flour, 2 tablespoon of rice-flour, 1 beaten eggs (depending on how much is your squid) and squid. Clean squid, cut and pat dry. Mix all flour with salt + pepper. Dip squid in egg mixture and pat it into flour and fry. This is how it turn out lar. Bee said ok woh....hehehe..

Then i cooked 'Masak Kuning Ikan' or the rawas call it 'Gulai Lemak Ikan'. Its pot-luck for dinner at my mom's place. I used jenahak as its my favourite. Mama cooked her vegetable soup with crab and chilli XL prawns while my sister-inlaw made masak jawa tempe with kacang & tauhu. Its a small gathering as its been like 2 weeks i didn't see all of them together.

Later we had karipaf and cakes for supper and i made marble cake.

Bubba Gump & Kayu

Saturday, our close couple fren Sabaq & Azmi called up to meet at Bubba Gump. Both of us can never resist that place. We always welcome any invitation from them. They're one of the few frens that are 'non-pretentious' and are always a good company to be with.

We suppose to meet at 8.30pm but bee and i got caught up in a jam just in front of Ikea. Usually both of us are quite on time. For a change to day bee and i decided to share a main course cos we had rojak/pasembor for tea at 6pm.


Bee and I shared Bubba's After The Storm "Bucket of Boat Trash"....its deep fried Shrimps, Lobster's tail and Barramundi, served with lotsa fries (RM42.90). Really generous helpings, thank god both of us shared this meal...its really filling. And i just lurve fried shrimps....its fresh!!

Later i ordered their recommended desserts. It is just meant to be shared among the 4 of us. Its definately the best cookie i've ever tasted. And the scoop of ice-creams were just generous. Its their best selling dessert called Chocolate Chip Cookie Sundae, a warm fresh, baked Chocolate Chip Cookie topped with vanilla ice-cream, Caramel, Chocolate, Peanuts and whipped cream...simply sinful and yummy (RM13.90)...and its warm cookie memang sedap!!

After dinnr all of us jalan-jalan along the flea market area. Later, we adjourned to Kayu Nasi Kandar at Kota Damansara for supper. Such a nice place to hangout, its new, its clean, airy and plenty of space to sit...we'll definately come back to this place.


We (the 4 of us) shared a roti tissue and 1 plate of maggie goreng to be shared among 4 of us!!! We can vouch that the maggie goreng is nice and we all definately wanna come to this Kayu to lepaq in future.


The nite ends so perfectly after a perfect meal with the perfect couple.

Sunday Outing

My aunty frm Kuching came down with her family for the school holidays. It is very rare to see her husband come down and actually wanna have holidays spent with the wife's family. But alhamdulilah, everything turn out well. Her itineraries were packed with outings with her other siblings too (altho some of the nieces/nephews could not make it).

Her saturdays have been booked by Uncle N. They went to see the KLCC twin-tower bridge and Petrosains. Initially those were our plans cos earlier that week, my family n i have brainstormed about the outings we gonna have on sunday. But since it has been taken, we quickly had a quick decision on other spots which Aunty L has not been to.

So on sunday, we fetched them at exactly 9:30am (everybody was punctual) and went straight to KL Tower. The crowd has not set in yet, so there is no queing up for tickets. We were at the observation tower for about half an hour. Of course you get to see the whole of Kuala Lumpur and the weather was good and the sky was clear, you get to see clearer view.

View from the observation tower


Outside KL Tower

Later, we went to Eye of Malaysia at Taman Tasik Titiwangsa. Fortunately the place is still open. They've extended the ride till end Oct 2008. Its fortunate again cos the queue was fast and short. Its my first time too and quite an experience lah.

Inside the gondola

View from the gondola



Everyone after the ride

Its nearly 1:00pm and its just nice for lunch time. Took a drove to Corus Hotel and had lunch at Dondang Sayang for their lunch buffet. Papa's treat. The food is tasty and we all enjoyed the food. Sat there for about 2 hours plus.

Dondang Sayang Coffee House

Later we adjourned to Islamic Art Museum. It was bee's idea since we know Aunty L's husband is into art and islamic ideas for his furniture business. The entrance fee is RM12 for adult and RM8.00 for child and 'warga-emas'. We spent at least 1 hour plus as the place is interesting with islamic artifact from overseas. After taking picture and all, we sent them back to their hotel.

Outside view of the Islamic Art Museum

We picked them up later at 8pm to have dinner at Johnny's Steamboat Restaurant at One Utama. Since in the afternoon we all had heavy lunches, we thot having steamboat is a nice balance for the nite time. Furthermore, Aunty L's husband likes soupy-soupy dishes (as a host kenalah peka dengan guest's taste kan). They enjoyed the food nevertheless.

We sent them back to their hotel at 10:30am. After sending them back, we all head back to my parent's house for our post-mortem about the day's event. We're all very satisfied becos everybody enjoyed themselves. Mama suggested that she wants to call them to the house for supper on Tuesday. Hope it goes as planned.

Saturday nite gathering

It has been a long long long time since we last had 'saturday nite gathering' at my late grandma's house in Kelanajaya. During our teens, we used to frequent the place to gather with all the aunties, uncles and cousins!! There'll be a big feast (everybody will pot-luck) and black 'kampung' coffee will be served!! There'll be lots of noice cos lots to catch up with each other. Everybody will come and sit everywhere in the house from the floors to every available chairs. From the main hall to the dining hall, there'll be people. Many topics will be covered from family, politics, work-place, cooking, latest gossips, etc...etc. And most of all its also a time to bond. Everybody goes home after midnite, usually in the wee morning.

Boy!! I missed those days, and surprisingly so does huby. He did had the chance to be in the crowd during those days. Now my grandma and an elder auntie has passed-away, the house no longer has that much 'life' to it. We still make your trip there once in awhile when we have time to visit another auntie who is stayin there.

Last saturday, i got the chance to meet my other cousins which we only meet nowadays during hari raya. Altho the atmosphere is not the same but the havoc is still there. I can tell you, the neighbours might be cursin' at us. We're so loud with our laughters and conversation cos when my bro n wife came, he said our voices can be heard miles away, hehe. Even when its time to go back, we're sort of dragging our feet cos it was so much fun!!

The food. Ada macam-macam malam tu.

The cousins!!!!

Last but not least , the merapu pose...hehe.

Happy Birthday Ma

Yesterday was Mama's birthday. Last minutely (yeah, i'm a last minute person when it comes to organising mini gathering, hehe), i called up Anty M and her maid, cuzin F, bro and SIL. Occassion : to celebrate mama's 63th birthday. Time is set at 10pm, which is supper time!!

Hubby bought chicken satay, A.M has voluntereed to do mihun goreng, cuzin F bought kuih bakar and pandan chiffon and i bought Berry's chocolate cake. Unfortunately, bro and SIL could not make it cos she has something on at her workplace.

They all came around 9:45pm. While they were busy chatting and looking at photos, the maid and i set up the table. The maid helped out setting the plates and make her 'kopi pak sarip'. Once everthing was set up, we called them to the dining table. I think mama was a bit surprise and papa pulak yang terover excited. We sang birthday song for her and she blew the candles, later we sang again for cuzin F for her belated birthday...saje suka-suka.

Earlier that nite huby and i had diner at my parents place. After dinner, mama gave a plastic bag of our goodies from Japan...yay!! Didn't expect much but greatful that we get our gifts. I just requeted for a t-shirt from Tokyo Disneyland but i got more then 1 t-shirt...hehehe.. We got a Hard Rock T each and i asked papa when did he find the time to go there. He said one of the guys in their tour-group were a Hard Rock collector so he (a young chap) went there on his own, papa sempat lagi pesan dia belikan those shirt....i'm soooo touched!! Lately, i've been trying to collect those t-shirts especially for huby...for fun!

Not forgetting, i got my mochi (japan's sweet delicacy) too...yummy!!

Mama/papa enjoyed their trip especially Universal Studio and Disneyland. They've been talking and talking about the trip non-stop so i concluded that they've enjoyed it to the max. Unfortunately papa said things/souveniers in Japan is extremely expensive so they didn't really shopped much altho they said they've already spent thousands of RM..hehe..

Last nite has been a memorable one. I'm sure mama is very happy with the surprise arrangement. She's been thanking me this morning. I hoped and prayed that my parents will be blessed with good health, wealth and lots of happines, insyallah. I also prayed for their long-live so that there'll be more trips for them and us in the near future.