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Sunday, May 24, 2015

Birthday Baby Nani, Ber'GAP and Ber'Chilli's ~~~

Last month me and pak supir were invited to nani's birthday party by Hannah. Oh I get to know hannah through pak supir lah and she always help our NGO specially  when it comes to neutering process at SPCA clinic. The birthday party starts katanya around 4pm so we arrived dalam pukul almost 3pm. I remember dulu melawat nani when she was like a teeny weeny baby jek and now she's like already 1 year old. I did some baking for the party lah, lama dah tak buat blueberry cheese tart so aritu pagi2 aku bangun meng'tart hahahha...

Nie lah bluberry cheese tartnya, lama giler tak buat then bunga die pun herot2 aku lorek... takpe2 nanti aku improve lagi yek skills yang dah rusty tu.
Since I'm on Atkins so banyak benda lah aku tak boleh makan, so sudahnya tengok sajorklah and paw pak supir here and there, menu ada nasi goreng, mashed potatoes, coleslaw and semua2 ni hannah yang masak sendiri..Tapi naseb baik ada grill chicken and sosej hehehhe... sedap grill chicken dia ada rase macam sate gitu..



Ni birthday cake nya..kata emak nya si nani suke doraemon so kek nya harus lah kepala doraemon hehehe.... Aku pun kecik2 dulu suka gak doraemon, hebph kalau ari sabtu malas nak pegi ngaji semata2 nak tengok doraemon kat tv 1 hehehhe... Ni pic kami dengan birthday girl..

ni lah baby nani mase kami mula2 melawat Hannah after dia bersalin dulu..tup2 dah setahun dah umur nya...time does fly kan..sekejap betul..


ini pulak masa her birthday aritu, punyalah meraung ni amik gambar gan uncle gan auntie huhuhu.... yelah jarang jumpa kan, nani pulak jenis kalau tak biasa dia memang tak mau. Tapi kami paksa juga nak dukung dia hahahaha... Ini tandanya, uncle gan auntie kena slalu datang jenguk nani lah hahaha... Sampai dah tak kenal dah... After makan and potong kek, kami beransur lah balik... Tapi bukan balik umah tapi pergi Mid Valley hehehhee.... Knape???? Sebab nak pegi tiga hurup lah!!! hahahha...

     

mana lagi kalau bukan menziarah GAP, kata dutakan so kena lah melawat kawasan jajahan. Lagi pun rasanya dah lama tak pi sini. So I cut him some slack of buying t-shirt lah. Kalau pergi sini nak beli baju kena hati-hati, bukan hati-hati sebab apa sebab nanti pi beli lagi baju yang dah dibeli...mampooooo macam tu??? Dah boleh bukak butik GAP dah kat Uniten tu...huhuhu Last2 beli yang dalam pic nie hah, aku suka yang ni so I said amik yang ini lah...And while tunggu orang tu heboh berselfie bagai dalam changing room aku pun heboh berselfie jugak kat luar hahaha.. sebab tak pro muka kena tutup cos haxab giler....huahuahua pas dapat baju idaman then apa lagi, kita makannnnnnn!!!! hahaha iye cos aku lapoooooo, tadi kat birthday party kan tak makan banyak cos banyak tak boleh makan kan... So aku cakap nak pi Chilli's 

 


Lama giler tak pi chilli's kan ni, last pegi pun dah tak ingat bila, dulu2 masa study everytime dapat duit ptptipu aku, ctot, june, nisah and afa slalu pi sini. yelah masa study mana mampu nak makan tempat2 macam ni kerap kan. Tapi bila dah kerja selalu makan sampai dah tak lalu dah hahaha...so la ni tetiba rasa nak makan semula. Aku order grilled prawn salad....sedappppppppppppppp sangat aku rasa..nanti nak pi makan lagi. Dulu ada 1 menu called shanghai chicken wings tapi dah berkubur kot menu tu huhuu...seb baik aku Atkins kalau tidak mau aku order chocolate molten...sedap bak hang!!! Cisssss~~~ So abis makan konon2 aku nak soping barang dapur kat cold storage... 

  

Walaupun aku gumbira tersenyum men'soping barang dapur tapi masyallah kaki aku macam nak meletopsss tau tak!!!! haahahha ni gara2 aku duk syok bukak kasut and hayun2 kaki masa makan kat Chilli's tuk cos kami dapat high seat punya chairs cos tempat tu weekend mmg jam packed with people.. tu jek yang available hahaha.. sekali pakai balik kasut kaki dah kembang huahuahua~~~ Serious nak meletops kaki aku and nak di jadikan cerita kasut tu pulak memang first time pakai... Tu hadiah besday last year pak supir belikan...mampooo tak baru nak pakai sekarang hahaha, tu pun aku hebohh nak beli kasut lagi kan nie.... cepat2 beli barang then terus balik jek, kang kalau ada impian nak jalan2 lagi pastu kaki meletops macam mana kan??? suh pak supir dukung nanti dia guling2 kan jek aku pakai kaki sampai parking kete nanti hahahha....


Oh nie lah kasut bertuah tu, cantik kan floral2 gitu...pak supir kata tak cantik tapi sebab aku suke and asyik berzikir jek last2 di belikan jugak huahuahua... Akhir kata, yes beauty is the curse of the world!!!! walaupun aku ni takde lah cantik sangat hahaha Okies tu jek nak citer...daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa~~~~xoxo...

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Siapa yang kena main??


Sebab aku dah buat draft maka dengan itu aku harus mempublish kan posting ini hahahha.... Somewhere around early of last month lah. Aku pi tengok theater kat Istana budaya, ini semua atas ikhsan bella actually hehehe... Kawan bella kot yang dapat tix free so kawan dia offer to her kalau berminat nak pi tengok and since tix nya banyak so boleh ajak kawan2...so kami lah kawan2 yang diajak tu hahahhaa....


Ni lah bella, malam tu dia sorang jek cos the husband ada futsal, so fix drop jek bella kat Istana budaya so masa kami sampai bella dah ada dah kat sana. Bella pregnant actually, tp dalam pic nie dia tak nampak pregnant kan hehehe..masa ni perutnya comel lagi...perut aku jek yg membuncit macam pompuan pregnant kan ni huhuhuhu waaaaaa bencikkkk!!!~~~sadis kan ni.


Kami gerak dari uniten agak awal lah cos takut KL jem kan tapi alhamdulilah jalan agak smooth except mase nak pusing kat depan Istana budaya tu jek lah haxab yang amat. Kat situ jeklah yang sesak sikit. Kami sampai pun in time before the theater start..


Acix nana and fad pun jejoin sekali tapi depa lambat sikit cos depa dari low yatt katanya tengok2 lappy baru. Pastu bila nak gerak ke sini, macam aku cakap lah jalan depan istana budaya tu sesak ya hamat!!! last2 fad kena bebel lah gan acix nana hahhaha... Since show dah nak start and we need to masuk panggung, so kami tinggal kan tix depat pada adik kat depan tu.. Nasib baik sebelum show start depa sempat masuk join us.


Overall I did enjoyed myself lah, nie karya Khalil Salleh. Aku pun pi lunch date gan Khalid Salleh with Ina and Ctot dulu dekat Equatorial Bangi masa tu dia baru lancarkan buku terbaru dia 'Melayu Hilang di Dunia'. Orang nya memang sangat lah berfalsafah hahaha.... Pada mereka yang gemar theater musical they will rasa cerita ni agak lembab sikit lah. Pas theater kami pi mencekik mekdi kat ampang park then balikk~~okiessss tu jek nak citer...daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa~~~xoxo

Friday, May 15, 2015

Goodbye My Friends~~


End of April hari tu, my Unit dekat office ada buat farewell gathering for some of our friends yang berhenti kerja and bertukar jabatan. This gathering was organize for dear friend of mine@officemate Cammy yang akan tukar tempat kerja, then for kak azi yang akan bertukar from jabatan bahasa ke Fakulti pendidikan and for kak fida yang naik pangkat dan pi pinjam kan ke Jabatan lain. We organized the gathering at Cyberjaya in a restaurant called Nyonya Valley Restaurant. Since cammy is a vegetarian so today we ordered a vegetarian cuisine and had a glimpse of taste on how is becoming a vegetarian for couple of hours hahahha... Cos all this while kalau we organised jamuan dekat office memang susah nak cater for cammy kan so she will always being seen munching tit bit like jajan, kueh, cake or fruits. So sempena gathering ni, we specifically ordered vegetarian food, many were surprise how good vegetarian food can be.    


This is fried rice...since aku atkins mana lah aku rasekan hehehe...

This is mixed veggie, aku suka sangat tapi tak boleh makan kuah lah cos letak tepung jagung kan.

manggo salad rasenya...again tak boleh makan jugak huhu..

Oh yang nie sangat sedappppp, mock fish in curry... mebeles sangat

Nie soft tofu lah, ala kalau pi ciken rice shop adakan benda ni.

Ni dessert kami lah, kueh seri muka and bingka ubi..again tak boleh makan!!!

Pencuci molot, buah2an lah honeydew, papaya and melon..juga tak boleh makan ni.


Nie lah overall makanan nya menarik tertarik tak??? Oh ada lagi 1 dish, mock chicken something but aku lupa nak snap pic cos meja dah penuh sangat. oh appetizer depa kasi samosa and popia macam dalam pic ni. based from apa yang aku makan aritu, memang sangat sedap dan aku boleh recommend lah kat korang2 semua tuk try kat sana.


Ni plak a token of appreciation for cammy sempena dia nak berhenti kerja ni...


Aku sebenar sangat sedih cammy nak pindah tempat kerja cos dia masuk kerja sama dengan aku tau, dan our previous them kerja pun sama. kami start keje kat  sini december 2008 and cammy berhenti middle of april 2015. We have been seen each other everyday for the pass 6 years++.  Siti plak masuk 1 or 2 semester after us. We are officemate cos bilik kami is the largest at that floor so that's we are sharing. kalau lecturers lain depa stay 1 bilik sorang but we don't mind at all sharing. Dah macam2 kami buat and share sama2, dari hal kerja sampai lah personal matters. Aku dah tengok dia marah, menangis, gumbira dan macam2 lagi lah and vise versa jugak lah hehehehe...Me and Siti are surely gonna miss her dearly lepas nie sobs..sobs..sobs..


Ni kad cammy kasi aku, I didn't open it until 2 weeks after that cos nanti mesti aku sedih and nak nangis huhuhuh...gembeng much kan ni. Sedih sangat bila baca kad dia. Ape2 pun cammy I'm gonna make sure that we will always be buddies.. I will always menghantui u jugak, can wait for our lunch soon okay. Orait tu jek nak citer.......daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa~~~~xoxo....

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Rendang Ayam dan Daging Teringin~~


Biasalah once in a while pasti akan craving benda yang susah nak dapat or beli kat kedai (kalau ada pun mesti tak menepati selera tekak ni kan) so sudahnya kena lah menrajinkan diri mengopek bawang and menyiang ayam. Adalah one fine day tu (like 2 months ago lah) aku kemaruk nak makan rendang ayam ni, even aku sebenarnya lagi suka rendang daging. Dulu2 masa arwah mak ada, aku champion gak lah masak rendang sebab time raya mesti muka ni lah yang bersilat kat dapur. Yelah arwah mak kan kena stroke, and aku ni anak bongsu,  so abang2 and hakak aku busy pi raya umah mertua masing2 dan tak hingin nak raya rumah kami ni. So every raya it was either they singgah sekejap rumah kami masa own the way balik rumah mertua masing2 or they will come jumpa arwah mak lepas 4 or 5 hari raya saja. Sadis kan??? Kesian arwah mak, selalu kena jadi second choice pada anak2 dia. So that why bila raya its always me and my mak and my abg sulung yang at that time die belum kawin but now dah 2 dah anak dia. From beli barang dapur, kupas bawang lada, siang and cuci ayam semua nya aku lah. Menu kami slalu nya, ayam masak merah, rendang daging, lodeh and ketupat lah hahaha typical food jek. Tapi lepas arwah mak takde dah almost 10 years aku tak masak for raya so my skills pun dah rusty. Thats why I will miss her the most especially time raya, even aku ni slalu bergaduh dengan dia  masa jaga arwah dulu. (what do you expect, I'm on my teen years okay, orang lain duk huu haaa gan kawan2 aku kena duk umah jaga mak yang sakit keluar masuk hospital and mengemas, memasak and study at the same time...let me tell you IT WASN'T EASY) But I'm glad that I'm being able to take care of my own mum and do something for her and be there when she needed me the most. Okay lah apekan aku merepek ni...go lets get back in track hahahha...


So resepi untuk rendang ayam ni, resepi campak2 jek. alah resepi rendang basically bahan-bahan dia sama jek kan. So tak payah lah aku share yek hehehhe...malu lah nak letak resepi campak2 macam gini. Ni rendang ayam yang aku masak aritulah, yang ni during the process. Pastikan paste di tu kena garing dan naik minyak baru masuk kan ayam.


Haaa!!!! yang ni dah siap masak aku suka buat die berkuah sikit sebab ada orang suka buat kering kan. Aku suka dia kering bila dah panas kan banyak kali then makan gan nasi impit wooooooo... terangkat wei. Tabur daun kunyit kasi naik bau....perghhhhhhhh meleleh air liur kan ni hahhaha...

Nie tapau kan sebekas tuk food tester aku kat uniten tu... Food tester aku tak cerewet tapi very particular bab2 masak nie mengalahkan pompuan hahahha... kalau dia masak presentation memang tip top katanya

yang nie lemang segera, tapau kan juga supaya boleh makan gan rendang. Not too bad lah rasa dia cos lepas lah craving  kalau tak dapat lemang buluh yang authentic tu
Tak lama lepas tu pak supir aku request tuk masak rendang lagi, kali ni dia beli kan daging batang pinang katanya. Mahal gak lah sekilo tu, dah kemaruk rendang jugak agaknya.  So kali ni aku masak rendang daging tapi guna resepi lain lah, aku google2 resepi kat internet pulak... macam biasa lah jom lah layan pic jek ekk...

These are the bahan2, bawang merah, bawang putih, cili api (the more the merrier), serai, buah pala and daun kunyit (for bau and garnish jek)

Once the gravy tu dah naik minyak and garing boleh lah letak daging. Nie daging batang pinang so cepat empuk sebab tu aku potong besar2 cos tak mau dia hancur kalau masak lama nanti.

Okay last but not least, letak daun kunyit yang di racik halus. Then siappppppp!!!!!

Nie  versi dah siap nak boleh ngap masuk molot!!!!

Macam biasa hantar sebekas besar kat my food tester, komen nya adalah he prefer rendang ayam campak2 tu compared to rendang daging yang hekot resepi kat tenet tu. In a addition katanya, rendang daging ni agak kering suppose kena becak sikit lah huhuhu... Rupanya2 resepi campak2 lagi champion rupanya hahaha... Aku ni suka masak provided ada orang makan and give constructive comments lah, and I will really appreciate  that. Okiesssss tu jek nak story~~~~ daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa .....xoxo~~

Monday, May 11, 2015

Ladies Lunch Date & a Family Affairs


At least like once a month I should find time to go out and have a lunch or dinner session with moi bff si ctot lah. Dulu kami 1 faculty so it's easier for us to eventually stumble upon each other in the main office or during meeting but then we both went for separate department so sangat lah jarang dapat jumpe dia kat opis sometimes. So last couple of weeks we set up a lunch date and decided to KLCC cos later we are going to go have a high tea at Great Eastern Mall for pakcik (ctot's abah) punya birthday. Dah sampai KLCC mane lagi lah, kami pi lunch kat Ben's. Lama dah tak makan kat situ.
For me now plain water is all the way~~~ Hidup plain water!!!!!! hahaha

           

I've always being in love with pasta, tapi since dah start Atkins~~~Sorry Mr. Pasta we need to break off for a while sobs sobs sobs.... At first the steak was on my mind (oh the steak in Ben's is one of best steak in town I tell ya so go and give it a try) but later I changed my mind and ordered a chargrilled chicken breast stuffed with cream cheese, mascapone and dried tomato  and ctot order creamy mushroom pasta (sedap bak hang cos aku cukai sikit lah). Makan2,gossip2 alah beselah when girls hang out kan. This girl I'm telling you, been listening to all my crap and nonsense since forever!!! hahahaha...thank you babe, love you long time xoxo...



I heart this dish a million times, sedap giler...even though I'm not a big fan of chicken breast but this one made me lick the plate~~~ hahahaha
We didn't stay long kat KLCC cos kena rush balik keramat tuk siap2 pi high tea plak katanye. I've been knowing ctot and her family since we were doing our degree way back in 2003. She was my bestie during uni and is still my bestie in the office. I always have a thought that I must have done something good in my life so Allah awarded me with such goodfriend  and I'm forever thankful for it. The one who always listen to all my grandma stories, my never ending family saga, the not-so first love but got me going crazy hahaha, all the tears and happiness (very der melancholic sangat ni). Her parents, siblings and relatives are such darling to me, always invited me to any of their family gathering and kenduri, all the makan2 session or holiday. Pendek kata, I am always the penyibuk one who tag along with the fam bam. Di mana ada siti di situ ada rose hahahha.... To those who know me pretty well, they eventually will know how hura hara is my family is, so I always envy people who has a strong support system from their family and you know you have a place to turn to when things just didn't work out for you. People like that, you don't know how lucky you are!!!! nanti2 kita sambung citer soppy2 ni ekk.

              

So from keramat dah sangat ler dekat dengan Great Eastern kan. The high tea or actually dah jadi macam early dinner plak sebenarnya took place at Alexis. All ctot punya siblings ada to celebrate their father's birthday. While everyone was busy munching the food me, ctot and nabilah sneak out pi SR beli kek. When we asked the waiter there to bring out the cake at the end of the meal, they said that any outside cake they will charge rm80 additional just for serving, exception if your ordered in-house cake depa lah...very der easy moneyyyyy~~~ 
       



Since actually aku just had my lunch yang quite heavy tu kan so I just ordered a simple dish jek. Ctot ordered a steak and the black pepper sauce that came with it was superb, very peppery I tell ya. We all abis makan sume around 7pm then headed back to keramat and sambung lepaking until malam. After that baru balik rumah lah cos besok keroje kan. Okies tu jek cerita hujung minggu with the bff and duk menempel gan family orang lain hahahha... Oh talking about that, remember post merempan aku aritu bout marriage tu, part of the reason dolo2 I really want to get married is because if I have a family of my own I will make sure that my kids won't experience all the shit that I've gone through. I will never have a second chance of having a proper family, but I can give it to my kids. When you gone through something bad you just don't want others to experience the same thing that you gone through. But then come to think of it, men nowadays are screwed up and so as kids nowadays are even more screwed up. Then lets just have cats, the most brutal kind of act that they can do is leaving scar in some part of your body that eventually will fade away rather that people they will leave scar not 1 but multiple scars in your heart in they are forever there!!!! Okies tu jek nak citer~~~~daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.....xoxo

Sunday, May 10, 2015

Steak yang 1 jam lambat~~

I've been complaining to my pak supir saying that we haven't go out for a picnic for quite sometimes (I know this quite a nerdy kinda activity hahahha....but I love it). So after much delibiration with himself okay let go and have a picnik session, oh mind you the last time we went was ages ago tau iaitu piknik makan nasi lemak lepas so-called morning walk. We went on sunday morning lah and nak dijadikan cerita a day before tu we went for jungle tracking at FRIM kepong and memanjat tangga batu caves. On that faithful sunday I waksap him saying that can we meet around 9.30am instead of 9.00am, first it was quite weird that he didn't reply but I said myself takpelah. Then mase on the way pun waksap lagi and still no reply. Then dah sampai parking uniten waksap lagi stil no reply then of course lah dah sedap hati and tergerak juga in my heart saying that tido lagi ker...huhuhu Then I called him over and over and over tak berangkat then sah membuta lagi ni.. Since I'm a very nice boss keep on tunggu jugak nie. Ntah kepercubaan yang ke berapa ntah die tergerak sedar agaknya, trus called me. Dengan suara bangun tidonya hurmmmm sah lah ketidoran...

         


Seb baik dapat boss balik like me nie tau hahaha tak kena marah pun boss siap tunggu dengan sabarnya dalam kete tu tau...Even dah lambat nie still jugak nak masak katanya, then I said okay lah go n masak lekas. Nasib baik all the barang2 masak dah prep malam tadinya. So he picked me up around 10.40am macam tu then straight away we went to putrajaya. And sampai sana around 11am macam tu...hahahha boleh tak konon2 nak picnik pagi trus jadi afternoon piknik.



Nie makanan piknik kami hahahha steak uolsss... mampu tak piknik pepagi makan steak hahaha.... For atkiners macam aku ni, memang heaven lah kan. One thing about him, presentation kena mantop katanya so nie hasil masakannya. I can't really eat the gravy so our steak is gravy-less (actually tak sempat buatkan nie cos bangun lambat kan hehehe).  Mine yang tak ada mashed potato tu, tapi aku sempat cukai bersuap2 jugak from his plate, mak oiiiiii sedap wei. The steak was a bit well done, cos teknik pembungkusan nya cepat sangat so told him that next time kena rest kan dulu steak tu baru put dalam bekas. Oh I really like the sauteed veggies especially the celery


Kali nie kami piknik kat different spot kat putrajaya, selalu pi piknik kat area astaka Morroco tu. Ni area hot air ballons aritu, banyak pokok so kami bentang tikar piknik bawah pokok so agak shady lah despite berpiknik hampir ke tengahari hehehe.... So abis jek makan suddenly macam drizzle so kami pun pack barang dan chow lah...and just nice nya masa tu dah around 12pm then kami pun memang ada lunch date with acix nana and fad kat Pastry House Lakefield. So overall untuk piknik kali nie boss kasi 8 bintang out of 10..2 hilang cos 1 boss kena tggu sejam and 1 lagi steak dia agak well done...tapi for effort boss kasi 10 bintang cos gigih ni masak and prep barang hehehe.... nanti pi piknik lagi hoh!!!! thank you wakdapy...okiesss~~~daaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....xoxo

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