Perihal Raya 2018 [Part IV]

Okay, sebenarnya bukan nak cerita raya dah pun. Nak membebel je haha.

Tiba-tiba rasa nak makan ketupat palas dengan rendang. Huhu. Padahal menu tu ada je raya pertama baru-baru ni, tapi tak sempat nak makan. Haha, kemain tak sempat, macam busy bebenor. Tak pastilah kenapa sampai tak sempat nak makan, mungkin sebab banyak sangat makanan lain kot, sebijik ketupat pun tak termakan. Uwaaa.

Tahun lepas pun macam ni. Lepas raya, dah balik JB, mulalah teringat-ingat. Satu hal pulak nak cari ketupat palas kat JB ni 😭

Perihal Raya 2018 [Part III]

Sebenarnya bersyukur sebab bila pergi beraya, orang tak hidangkan teh ais. Ehehe. Kalaulah semua rumah jamu teh ais (atau kopi ais), memang demamlah jawabnya time raya. Sebab lepas raya ni, ramai orang dah start sakit tekak dan batuk dan demam, mungkin sebab penangan minum ais masa beraya. Owh, kopi dan teh panas pun tak jumpa jugak sepanjang beraya, jadi terkawal jugaklah sugar intake (konon!). Padahal makan kuih raya tak ingat!

Tapi memandangkan orang keliling dah sakit-sakit, maka aura tak sihat tu dah mula nak menyinggah jugak. Harap dapatlah ditepis, insyaAllah.

Perihal Raya 2018 (Part II)

Raya kedua hari tu pergi melawat nenek saudara belah mak, dia kena second stroke, dah tak boleh bercakap, tak boleh bangun.

Sayu sangat masa salam, dia pandang aku lama, rasanya dia tak kenal kot sebab jarang sangat jumpa bila dah besar panjang ni.

Patutlah kita ni diwajibkan pergi melawat orang sakit. Bila tengok keadaan Tok Su terasa ada satu keinsafan dalam diri. Betapa selama ni tak jaga kesihatan (esp in terms of food intake and exercise) dan juga bab-bab ibadah - betapa beruntungnya kita yang masih mampu solat dalam keadaan sempurna. Dan dari segi komunikasi pulak, adakah kita ni gunakan nikmat dapat mendengar dan bercakap tu dengan benda-benda yang baik dan bermanfaat sahaja. 

Semoga Tok Su dipermudahkan segala urusan, dikurangkan kesakitan dan diberi kesembuhan.

Perihal Raya 2018 (Part I)

Cerita malam raya. Aku memang plan dari awal Ramadhan kalau dapat berjaya azam Ramadhan tahun ni, aku nak buat pulut kuning dengan rendang. Jadi, malam raya tu pulunlah buat rendang ayam dan daging kat rumah nenek.

Nak dijadikan cerita dah dekat pukul 12 tu, black-outlah pulak. Nasib baik bateri phone ada separuh lagi, maka memasaklah di bawah sinaran flashlight. Dan nasib baik jugaklah masa tu tengah tunggu rendang kering je.

Lepas setel bab rendang, badan dah letih, kepala dah rasa ting-tong, tapi masalahnya tak boleh tidur sebab kepanasan. Haru sungguhlah memikirkan esok nak bangun awal nak mengukus pulut kuning pulak. 

Tapi mujurlah ada jugak balik elekrik setelah berapa lama menunggu. Tengah nak lelap tu, dua kali pulak lagi black out balik. Sampai dua pagi jugaklah keadaan tu. Dugaan sungguhlah di malam raya. Jadi esoknya tak dapatlah bangun awal sangat. Pukul 6 pagi baru mula bahagian pulut kuning.

Sekian cerita malam raya.

Facebook Status (Part II)

Sambungan.

The stories are not happily ever after.

But the stories are written by Allah.

Ever after or not, Allah knows best.

(Some stories doesn't have happily-ever-after ending.

But the stories are written by Allah.

Ever after or not, Allah knows best)

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People live in denial because it's always easier to believe the comforting lies rather than an unbearable truth.

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New year.

Looking back - it's amazing what CAN and CAN'T happen in a year.

Life goes on, anyways.

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Behind a successful man is a very mentally and emotionally strong woman.

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Facebook is becoming a place where people generalize their private issue. In order to tell that very someone in specific, we just have to tell the whole world in general.

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I always feel that something is not right when the strong ones (read: men) are always excused for house chores.

What the strength is for, after all?

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Making a scene in public is not cool.

Meroyan in media social is not cool, either.

BUT having affair with someone's husband?

Beyond 'not cool'.

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Justification doesn't make a wrong right.

And the fact that it needs justification actually answer itself.

Because if it's the right thing to do, you'll just feel good about it.

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Many people has greatness in them.

Only a few with goodness.

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It takes a real man to handle a difficult woman.

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I get really confused sometimes.

Why do some of us make fun of old people just because they're old?

I thought EVERYONE OF US gets old, too, eventually?

Well, unless, if you die young.

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It's a world full of scam and hoax.

I wonder where do I stand (or fall) among them.

Facebook Status (Part I)

Before I went on deactivating my FB, I took some (crazy) effort to copy my statuses from the beginning. Memang macam tak de kerja, but I actually feel very attached to each of them, because sometimes they just pop-up in my mind out of nowhere, so I must 'preserve' them somewhere that is not deactivated. Of course-lah boleh je re-activate balik FB tu on and off, but, let's not do that eheh.

While going through my old posts, I think, deactivating FB is really a right decision. Entah apa-apa aku mengarut dulu-dulu kat situ, haishh 🤦🏽‍♀️

Sekarang kalau ada quote yang tiba-tiba pop-up dalam kepala, aku letak kat sini je @mygoldpen

So, after finding and filtering, here are some of it:

Although i am not an emotional person, that doesn't mean i have no emotion.

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I don't wave the flag

Or be presence at the merdeka parade

But that does not make me a non-patriotic Malaysian.

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All I need is a nightmare.

To wake me up.

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I am not paranoid.

I just don't know what to do.

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"Some things are better left unsaid"

(but please read my mind)

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Don't judge me.

You don't even know my shoe size.

What makes you think you can fit in it?

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I want to be a good person.

But all I am is just a rational freak.

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The reason why most people can't see is because they don't care.

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It's not lost.

It's not forgotten.

It's subsconscious-ed.

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Sometimes we forget to count the blessings when we are too busy being miserable.

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I don't know what to do anymore.

Maybe because I still don't know what to do.

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It's when we close our eyes that we feel our heart.

But life requires us to open them to see reality.

Whatever, whatever.

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What's the point of trying to try harder when you actually don't even want it anymore. 

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There's a HUGE difference between being ego and being upset.

Just so you know.

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Don't judge people by their facebook profile.

What's on the wall is only their alter ego.

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The worst part is not being trapped.

The worst is believing that there is no way out.

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I am not comfortable with people worrying too much about me.

It makes me worry even more.

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Bank Simpanan Nasional (part II)

Actually, after all of these years of blogging, I just found out recently about this "Stat" thingy in the blogger dashboard. Rupanya kita boleh tengok blog visit kita daily, weekly, monthly. And even boleh tengok post mana yang ranked as the most-visited post.

**haha. makcik malu.

So, I noticed rupanya my post which was titled Bank Simpanan Nasional was among the most read ones. Why-lah? Seriously, ramai-ramai google Bank Simpanan Nasional tu, untuk apa ya?

Last time I talked about my personal experience to get the 3 months bank statements from BSN. Actually cerita tak habis. After blogging about my disappointment, I actually went to another branch of BSN, and surprisingly, I managed to get the statements on the spot. Of course ada charge-lah, tapi tak banyak pun, tak silap 50 cents each and they deducted from my account.

Kesimpulannya, sama macam kalau kita pergi "jabatan-jabatan tertentu", kalau kita jumpa Pegawai 1, beliau akan cakap begini begini. tapi bila kita jumpa pulak Pegawai 2, ehh, lain pulak jawapan dia. Maka jangan putus asa. Teruskan mencari jawapan sampai ke Pegawai berapa pun sampai ada jawapan yang sahih.

So, konsep yang sama lah dengan BSN ni, I guess. Pergi satu branch katanya begitu. Pergi branch lain, ehh, boleh pulak. Gitu.

So, no prejudice. Just keep looking for the answers / solutions. Walaupun macam bola ditolak ke sana ke sini. Hmm..

..Kuching Trip Part III..

Sebelum bercerita pasal this very meaningful weekend, let's finish up the previous entry of Kuching trip.

Day 3 (last day):

Flight ke KL pukul 3 petang, jadi pagi sempatlah meninjau suasana Pasar Tani Satok. Top-up souvenir mana-mana yang rasa macam tak cukup. Sempat beli seaweed walaupun totally clueless macam mana nak masak ia :P

Gambar yang sempat diambil @ Pasar Tani Satok:

Right after that, pusing-pusing cari tempat breakfast. And we decided to have it here:

Mee kolok special (which was served with sup tulang)..

Satay

Nasi lemak. First time saya jumpa telur masin goreng, bak kata orang sini "Nyaman" :)

Yang ni paling special. Roti canai ni ada daging kisar, disalut dengan telur, lepas tu letak sos cili dan mayonis (lebih kurang macam tulah, tak ingat sangat turutan dia). Nyum-nyumm...


Kedai Coffee 'O Corner ni memang ramai orang so I guess it's a local favourite.

Lepas tu kelam kabut balik homestay mengemas apa-apa yang belum dikemas. By 1 pm, En.Razak (suami Kak Su) hantar kami ke airport.

Departed from Kuching at 3pm. Rasa macam tak puas lagi berjalan kat sini, tapi oklah sebab managed to go to those most popular places.

Bye-bye Kuching, we surely miss you.

..Kuching Trip Part II..

Day 2.

As planned, we went to Pasar Sarikin and perkampungan kampung melayu di seberang Sungai Sarawak (nak cari kek lapis).

The day before, Kak Su (homestay owner) ada pesan kalau nak pergi Pasar Sarikin, better pergi awal dalam pukul 7 pagi. Dia concern sebab our group ada baby (lil' Soffea) - katanya kat pasar tu panas that's why she suggested early morning so that by 11 we should be done with the shopping.

But, that morning, tangan Soffea melecur sebab dia terpegang goreng pisang panas. Poor her, kesian sangat tengok dia sakit camtu. Luckily, after going to clinic, Soyya dah tak nangis-nangis lagi, maka at around 11 am kami bertolaklah ke Pasar Sarikin which took about 1 hour and a half.

And hari tu pulak hujan, so at least kami tidaklah berpanas.

Scenery along the way:

Sampai-sampai je, benda pertama dibeli adalah payung hehe.
Tak banyak gambar di-snap as we were quite busy with the shopping. Kebanyakan (ke semua) yang meniaga di sini adalah Indonesian.




This was taken semasa sesat-sesat mencari jalan pulang hehe.

So, malamnya, naik sampan tambang 50 sen seorang (no life jacket). Kejap sangat rupanya nak ke seberang. 2 minit pun tak sampai kot. Nun di seberang sana dah nampak dah lampu-lampu meriah.



Sampai dah ke jeti seberang sana.

Asalnya nak cari kedai Dayang Salhah tapi entah kenapa bila dah sampai sana, kami beli kat kedai Mira Cakehouse which is not bad :) Kek harga RM10, except for jenis asam manis, RM12 kot. Beli 10 dapat 1 free.

Tokey kedai minat kat Aisya, siap bergambar dan dapat souvenir cake hehe.

Dah beli kek, lepak makan-makan kat foodcourt. Servisnya agak tak okay lah bagi saya. Dengan waitress yang tak berapa nak polite and gerai nasi ayam penyet tu sungguh tak efisyen dan lambat sangat-sangat. Tapi nasi ayam penyet nya sedap :)




To be continued.

..Kuching Trip Part I..

It was a month ago.

My sis and me booked Air Asia ticket since December 2010. Approximately the return ticket fee was about RM230 (including tax, seat booking, luggage) per person.

Sebelum pergi saya survey-survey tempat-tempat menarik di Kuching kat internet. Antara info yang saya dapat : Pasar Satok (untuk cari ikan terubuk masin), Pasar Sarikin, Top Spot Seafood, Waterfront, perkambungan Melayu seberang sungai Sarawak (tempat kek lapis), kilang pasu Batu 4, main bazar (berdekatan Kuching Waterfront). Antara makanan pulak : Mee Kolok, Laksa Sarawak, Umai, Ayam Panggang madu.

Tapi, itu survey punya cerita. Kami tak sempat khatam semua tu pun. Bab-bab muzium tu memang my sis and me dah tolak awal-awal - memang jiwa tidak ke arah itu ehehehe.

So our trip was on 29 April until 1 May. En Hubby and me from JB, while my parents together with Buyan's family from Kemaman - our meeting point was at LCCT. Despite the almost-can't make-it-on-time drama before departure, we had arrived in Kuching around 11am.

We stayed here during our visit to Kuching. Homestay ni ada 3 bilik so ngam lah untuk kami yang kira 3 family ni kan. Untuk 3 hari 2 malam, harga adalah RM370. Kak Su, the homestay owner also provide transportation service which is RM380 untuk 3 hari 2 malam tu. Saya rasa memang berbaloi-baloi.

Husband Kak Su datang jemput kami kat airport dan terus bawak kami makan, *tapi nama kedai tu saya lupa. Excitedlah kami order Sarawak food walaupun dalam flight tadi baru je makan hehehe.

Mee kolok.

Teh C Special

Laksa Sarawak

Welcome note from Kak Su - thanks a lot :)

Petangnya, kami ke sini. Well, it actually opens only on Saturday and Sunday tapi kami sajalah datang jugak nak tengok-tengok. Tak jauh pun dari homestay.


Tapi dah ada orang jual ikan terubuk masin maka terus borong.


Right after that, singgah sebentar di Waterfont. The background is DUN Sarawak.

Kebetulan my biras, Kak Suzy pun happened to be in Kuching masa tu, jadi buat family gathering kejap kat Top Spot, yeay, seafood time! Thanks Kak Suzy for the treat :)

Sotong Bakar

Yang dalam mangkuk tu tasted like Shark Fin Soup, kalau tak silap - sup tauhu kot? And yang dalam pinggan tu sea weed *lupa masak apa. Dua-dua ni totally marvelleous!

The famous sayur midin masak belacan. Sedap sangat...
Ketam masak black pepper

Ikan merah masak sweet sour *eh ke tiga rasa

Udang galah *tak ingat masak apa

That's all for day one. To be continued :)

..Entri Tertunda : Mak Abah's Departure for Haji..Part II

Ok, sambungan.

Aisya & Tok Abah

Friendly Aisya pergi tegur and salam-salam kawan baru :)

Of course there were teary moments which were successfully captured by the paparazzis tapi tak nak letak gambar-gambar itu.

Mak Abah on the big screen.

Later that evening, I went to the airport (with En Hubby, MIL, SILs and BIL) again when Mak Abah informed that there were 'rumors' the flight will depart at 640 pm, which was not. Sapela yang buat rumors tu ek..

Ramai jugak orang yang nak tengok flight berlepas ni hehehe.

That was my hand, waving at the plane :(

The plane took off at 8pm.

Mak called the day after at 630am Malaysia time to inform they had safely arrived in Jeddah and will be taking bus afterwards to Madinah.

At this present moment, Mak Abah already in Mekah. We all miss our parents so much. Last Friday I called Mak, she was having flu. Really hope Mak will get well soon.

Mak Abah will be coming back on this 2th of December. Until then, let's pray Mak Abah diberikan kesihatan yang baik dan dipermudahkan semua urusan.