Sapa Ingat?

Not quite like this la.. Ni dah kira ekstrem ni.. huhu...

Dulu2, masa kita kat skolah, kan kita biasa buat camni. But instead of Quran, kita letak buku teks. Kat dalam tu komik.
Tak pun balut sume buku teks dengan kertas pembalut hadiah. Pastu guna pembalut hadiah yg sama balut buku cerita. pastu kat luar tu tulis "Matematik Tingkatan 3".

Sapa pernah buat angkat tangan!!!!!

Sedih Sob Sob

Ye.. saya tau lama sangat saya tak update apa jadi dengan saya kat sini... Sebabnya saya sangat sibuk. Mana nak uruskan diri. Mana nak uruskan kerja. Mana nak uruskan kawan kawan lagi.. huhu...

Anyway, saya dah kehilangan 2 kawan yg sangat baik dgn saya kat sini.. Sob Sob!!

1. My Colleague Sari...

I was quite closed to him in the office. Sesama buat projek. Luahkan perasaan tak puas hati. Saling bagi semangat. Gaduh pun pernah. Menangis nangis sebab stress... He taught me a lot about work-life balance. But unfortunately he cannot find his here in GE. Proves that money is not everything...

I miss him a lot. Cried when I was pressured to the lowest by other Comops missing him. I will keep missing him...

2. My spare driver Shuhaimi....

Satu keputusan yang mengejutkan. Bukan sebab tak sangka tapi sebab terlalu cepat. Mie going back to Malaysia for good. For almost 2 years here, I've sent home a few others. But sending him home was the hardest to accept. He's a good man. Very good man. Rajin tolong orang walaupun diri sendiri terseksa. 

I will miss him too. Not just me. A lot of other Malaysia. His name will be spoken a lot by us. Even the little kiddo... Bergenang air mata setiap kali teringat pesan Mie kat little Amni.. Now Amni lost her favorite Uncle Mie. Takpe Amni.. Aunty Mariah will always love you sayang...

Bersempena itu.. aku tujukan lagu ni untuk korang berdua (walaupun Sari tak paham bahasa melayu and Mie most probably tak baca pun blog ni..)

MAY OUR PATH CROSS AGAIN....

Birthday Month

I always LOOOVVEEEE the month of June. Why? Because it's my birthday month. Yes. I celebrate my birthday all month long... U got problem with it?

This year, it's a little bit different. I planned carefully to be back in Malaysia on my birthday. But due to work commitment, I can't. I was so sad realizing I'll be celebrating my birthday for the first time ever not within my circle of people.

But, it also made me realize how good the people here. My new friends in AD made all the effort to make sure that I don't feel alone celebrating my birthday. They threw me TWO PARTIES. One at Marinna's Crib on Saadiyat Island. She lives in a beautiful St Regis apartment with access to the beach and all. I actually requested to have a pool party but June is already too hot for an outside gathering. Thus, Karaoke Party it is..

U've seen this pic right???

Sate, Mee Rebus and Lontong

Best Party Hostess Eva!
Cake by Mama Lin.

Then my second party which is my real birthday was with only my closest friends in AD at Chilli's.

Birthday Girl!

My Steak and Strawberry Lemonade

My cute birthday cake. Owh, yes. They sang too...

Thank you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Suap menyuap

Ni dah tahap sumbat menyumbat

Besar ok portion dalam sudu tu!

And as for my birthday gift.... Hmmmmm... Tak banyak. None are from my list. But I love both of them!

From Mr Kohl

From Nadia

Plus more than 50 birthday wishes over SMS,FB,Whatssapp, Emails, Calls... Woweeee!!!!! Luv them all!!!

Can't wait for next year!

My New Love

I know... I know.. How many handbags do you 'need'? That's the question my colleagues always asked me.
Well, I'm a girl... We don't buy Football Jersey... And that's the answer that will shut them off.

This is my new love. My latest addition to the handbag gala. Burberry Charcoal Shoulder Bag.
I wanted this bag for almost one year. Maybe more.. Let's check... Hmm.. Not that long la kottt.. Hehehhe...

But I've been eyeing it. Looking for it in the whole blogshop I can find. Asking for quotations. They're all saying it's gonna be at least 3200++MYR... Hmmm.. Still too much la... Even though I'm madly in love with it, tak sanggup kottt..

Sabar is the answer.

I was suppose to go to Paris when I was diagnosed Pneumonia. Was hoping to find this one there. Takde rezeki.

Sabar lagi..

Then Mubashir went to Florence. He knew I was looking for a Burberry bag. He went to The Mall and found this bag. He was describing it over the phone and asked me if I want it. I was not sure if it's 'the one', but I was like "Tak dapat yg tu pun takpe la.. lama dah puasa handbag ni". Mubashir was saying that the bag looks like you. Wow! So I said, "Go for it!"

After VAT it was 544Euro. Which means it's 2710AED. Which means 2168MYR. BEAT THAT!!!!!

Then Mubashir sent me the picture to my Gmail. I was jumping up and down once I saw it.

IT IS THE BAG THAT I WAS LOOKING FOR!!!!!!!

I treated this as my advance birthday gift for myself.

Memorable Farewell

Not mine. At least this time it's not mine. Some other time maybe.... ahhhehehhe...
It's for our boss, Martella. According to the organization he's actually the boss of my boss's boss. Haaaa... Can figure out or not???
We chose Prego's at Beach Rotana simply because he's Italian and he only likes Italian food. Not that he doesn't eat anything else but that's his favorite. And since we're in the desert, we decided to sit outside with the view of our soon to be office.
We ordered our food and drinks. Drink arrived together with the first cloud of RAIN!!!! Being Malaysian I should not be afraid of rain right... But the fact that I know what rain can do to you and that I just recovered from the worst sick time ever... This is not good. But that first cloud was really like one drop every 10 seconds or so. So I figured that it's not gonna last long. So we stayed.
The food arrived together with THUNDER!!!! Oh my..... Again, being Malaysian I know what will come after this kind of thunder. We ate really quick. Like super quick. Some of us manage to finish up the food right before the HEAVY cloud of rain came. I couldn't. I just picked up the plate and the drink brought it to safety. Pull the chair to there as well and finished it there.
Really, a farewell in Abu Dhabi with RAIN. And lots of it to spice it up a bit..

Martella reading our 'card'

Mont Blanc Pen

Sunglasses in the RAIN

Abu Dhabi Team
-at the back is our soon to be office

Recovery

My recovery was not easy. Staying at home 24 hours a day has never been my strong quality. Unfortunately I can't go out of the house and feel the heat when I really need it due to the unpredictable sandstorm coming and go. Even rain, which is very unusual for me in this part of the world.

I lost my appetite since the day I took out my wisdom tooth. As a result I weigh 2kg less, which I like very much. But that doesn't help in the recovering process. I need energy. I need to fight these bacteria. But my throat cannot accept those take out food. It taste the same.

Until my dear friend came and started to send food to me. Home cook meal. Aaahhh.. Alhamdulillah.. Since then, I manage to get some additional energy. I manage to get the protein that I need. I'm able to walk around a bit. The medicine was able to kick in the system and push those bacteria out of the system.

I am not fully recovered yet. I am hoping that will happen real soon..

Malaysian vs Arab

Aku baru je pas cite kat kollig aku pasal 'Oh mak kau!' tu...
Apparently the Arabs way of 'tekejut' is 'Ya Ummi!' which means 'Oh MY mother'.
Tercengang diorg bila kita terkejut kita tak ingat 'mak kita', tapi kita ingat 'mak kau'....

Wakakakkakkaka....<- kalau org lain tak gelak pun aku nak gelak gak.

My Generasi

Do you still remember?

When there were no facebook nor friendster

We were close to each other

Just by playing baling selipar

Do you remember it all?

How cool to collect the most of tudung botol

Not to mention life in hostel

When pengawas rule the world

How can you forget?

All the stupid games we played

Batang aiskrim, lompat getah, you name it

And how you really miss the good old days

Gigi Bijaksana

Salah term tu. Sebenarnye Geraham Besar. Tapi dalam bahasa inggeris omputih panggil Wisdom Tooth. Ada 4 bijik semuanya. Kalau ikut buku teks skolah dulu, wisdom tooth ni akan tumbuh antara umur 17 hingga 25 tahun. Masalahnye wisdom tooth aku mula tumbuh masa umur 27 tahun kott.. Mak aku kata "Laaa.. selama ni tak wise lagi ke?" Sabar je la..

Kita selalu dengar ramai yang demam masa proses pertumbuhan wisdom tooth ni. Kenapa ek? Tu soklan aku dulu dulu la. Ye la.. orang sibuk2 tumbuh gigi. Aku releks je kan. Skang ni orang dah releks. Aku lak la yang kelam kelibut.

Alhamdulillah, aku demam sekali je kott.. Owh.. gigi geraham ni dia tak tumbuh sekali gus. Sama macam gigi gigi yang lain jugak la. Mungkin cuma Kumpulan Gigi je yang tumbuh berderap macam tu kann... Yang aku ingat kawan aku ni setiap kali gigi naik sket dia demam. Macam baby la bajet nye. Aku rasa la sakit tu. Tapi tak demam. Selalunya aku abaikan aje rasa sakit tu. Ala.. kejap je pun.. lelama dia dah tumbuh baik la dia..

Tapi entah apa fasal aku pun tak tau, kali ni nye rasa sakit aku rasa lain macam. Aku takleh nak bukak mulut utk suapkan makanan. Ini sudah lebey la kann.. Aku dok story kat kollig aku. Mamat ni kata g la jumpa dentist. Tgk dia kata apa. Kalau the tooth is coming out at the correct angle then just take a pain killer and deal with it. Kalau the tooth is tolak menolak the original tooth better take it out now when u don't have to travel. Tapi perbincangan ni berlaku masa aku tgh travel la.. Oman.

Aku balik AD. Pegi la NMC. Try nak jumpa Dr Rashid, tapi dia full with appointment. So walk in je dengan Dr Syed Ahamad. Boleh tahan hensem. Sedap la hati sket nak nganga leluas tu kan.. Dia tanya sakit atas ke bawah? Yang aku tau cuma sebijik je gigi aku tu tumbuh. Kat belah bawah. So aku pun kata bawah. Dia pun suh nganga n mula tekan sana tekan sini. Mak oii aiii.. sakitnye kemain haaa.... Rerupanya gigi yg belah atas yg buat kacau. Patut la bila aku nganga kat cermin aku nengok gigi bawah tu mcm tumbuh molek je kan... gigi atas ni yg nak tumbuh senget rupenye.. alkisah...

Dia amik x-ray skali. tunjuk kat aku. Haa ko.. senget mcm menara Teluk Intan tu ha.. Jadinya di suggestkan utk aku keep the bottom tooth and take out the upper one. Aku dah menganga kat situ.. Dengan senyuman manis doktor tu cakap "don't worry. you won't feel the pain. i promise" Siap promise habaq hanggg... Aku pun pikir dlm 20 saat then agreed to take it out there and then. Sebabnya kalau aku tunggu minggu depan maybe kena travel lagi. dan minggu satu lagi juga. dan minggu seterusnya juga. Jadi alang kepalang aku dah berbaring baringan kat kerusi dentist tu aku pun pikir buat terus je la kan... selesai...

Yang bestnye kat sini dentist galakkan kita makan aiskrim. Lelagi lepas procedure ngan diorg. Pas aku wat scaling dulu pun dia suh aku makan aiskrim.

Jadinya skang ni aku dah officially 1/4 un-wise..

My Best Friend Wedding

Cerita 3

Ini bukan My Best Friend Wedding the movie. Ini betul betul. My best friend is finally married. To a super tall guy. Sesuai dengan dia yang juga tinggi melayut.

Bermula dengan bachelorette yang tak berapa nak berparti sebab tak cukup korum. Just the bride to be, Kak Lin n me. Teman g test mekap, beli barang2 yang tak cukup, berinai, nikah, langsung segala. Saya lak yang sayu bila Fahmy terima akad. Congratulation my dear Un. My love for you remains.

Was really glad I could be part of your wedding. Pakaikan inai. Tunggu sampai inai really merah and tanggalkan. Witnessing the akad n sit by your side all that time. Hulurkan cincin and sambut the wang hantaran. Owh, and susun the cute wedding cake for you. Really love it. It's a simple and cute wedding. And you look stunning.

Jangan lupa pesanan penaja...

Wedding Kompang

Cerita 2

Baiklah.. saya sambung ye.. Cerita 2 ialah my brother's wedding reception at my side. Dewan Bistari Ayer Keroh was the venue. Preparation memang penat. Melayan Mak's request, Kak Li's demand and work calls. Conference call hampir setiap hari. Tu yang tak larat tu.

Hari majlis, bangun pun kol 9. Tuan rumah ni... Tapi kol 10 dah sampai dewan siap mekap ok... Our family was dressed in Batik Hijau from Chanting Bonda. Even my dress was designed and sew by them Luv it.. Very reasonable price considering 5 pasang kain untuk perempuan and 3 pasang untuk lelaki. Designed according to our favorite flower lagi.. Kelllasss ko Maria..

The reception of course got flaws here and there. Ramai yang jadi 'bidan terjun'. Including myself yang jadi bunga pahar girl terjun. 

Cerita sebaliknya, tempat cucuk bunga pahar mak andam tak sediakan due to miss communication. Dia kata kita bagitau bunga pahar nak buat sendiri. Kita kata mmg bunga nak buat sendiri tapi paharnye takde. Sudah nya Kak Su pegi beli kat Kota Fashion dan tu jugak. Siap cucuk orang dah penuh dewan. Takkan nak angkat g letak tengah ramai2 tu. There goes the story... Luckily, due to Mak Su and Auntie Sali bawak bunga pahar, Marisa setuju jadi flower girl. Comel Marisa..

Kali ni semua gambar Haris yang ambik. Gambar kitorg sekeluarga tak de dalam my camera. kena tunggu official photog bagi. Walaupun ada flaws di sana sini, tapi rasanya it is almost a perfect wedding.