Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Open House

I just got home to see 2 of my cats lying lazily on the carpet at the verandah of my house. As always, they would pose like gatekeepers with each at different side of the door. Apparently someone put that particular carpet while I was at work today. When I opened the door, I was surprised. Chairs were arranged to be close to the wall and there were food at every table surface available at the living room. I know that my abah's friend would be visiting him for the Eid (the celebration goes on for one whole month, and so does the visiting) though I didn't expect it would be an open house. Apparently my mak took that opportunity to call up her friends at the office to come and visit so that inadvertently change the small visiting into a full fledge unplanned open house. Felt quite bad about the whole thing actually. Had I known that it would turn into that, I would have asked my parents to push it forward for the weekend so that I could help and that I could bring my friends around. Oh well, what passed has passed. Next year maybe.


All that is left at the end pf the day... still a lot. Food anyone?

Dreams Part 2

Dream No.3
Maybe this was an effect from watching the Japanese drama 'Pride' starring Takuya Kimura (I like!!!) and... I don't know what's the actress' name but she look a bit like Nanako Matsushima, only shorter. The drama was about the star ice hockey player for the team 'Blue Scorpions' - Halu (Spring) playing the game of love with one of the company's employee, Aki (Autumn) but falls for real. Sound a bit cliche' but it's a great drama. Anyway there was one scene in the last episode in the final period when Halu saw the mythical 'Ice Queen' - that is rumoured to be the strength provider for the hockey players, and only the best gets to see them - when he was unconcious during the game. The Ice Queen came in the form of Aki. When the match was over after he scored, Halu kissed the ice rink before finally sank into oblivion.



How does that drama relate to my dream?

Well lets just say in my dream I found my 'Ice King' though he is definitely NOT cold and icy and I kissed the ice rink... well actually kissing him before he became a fragment of my mind and then the ice rink, hehehehe. I woke up in my dream, finding that I was kissing the matress and then I woke up for real to find Snuggles right smack on my face. How nice.

Dream No.4
I was at my boarding school, namely SMKAJB though I know the setting was way too weird and I know its not exactly my school but it was. The paint was still fresh and some of the stairs were undone - I know in real life there's no way the Ministry of Education would allow buildings without CFO to be occupied. I don't know why but all so suddenly I was at the nearby residential area with... this was totally out of element - Jon Stamos! You would probably remember him as Jesse in the sitcom Full House. He was slouching and sitting in front one of the houses, talking about life in general. And then again I got back in my class with my friends, though the ones that were so clear in my dream was Rai - used to not like her in the first year but we became best friend in the second and Deej, we both shared the double decker bed in our senior year - I took the top despite the 'fall-from-the-double-decker-bed' incident in Form 1 that nearly broke my left shoulder. The bell rang, marked our last period and everyone was running - and I mean run like there was fire. Funnily, I realized there was a lift at the school though it was out of order. I woke up at 3.44am and realized that I missed Jeff by 5 minutes. Bummer.

...... tidur tak basuh kaki kot - NOT!

Friday, November 26, 2004

Dreams

Evidently, my brain was M.I.A from my body after the long festive season. I am totally absent minded and all I could think of every single day when I got my rear on my chair in the office was - how much farther is 5.30pm? I guess that would be one of the reasons on why I kept on having dreams the whole week.

Dream No. 1
It was Lord of The Rings and Star Wars mixed into one. There were lasers everywhere, ships and of course there were nazguls in a war and I was in the middle of it. The cool thing was that I was the assassin that look exactly like The Spawn... cool (I don't know how the Spawn manage to get into the LOTR and Star Wars group) I killed the king in the end, who thought he could hide away from my oh-so-good sensor by pretending he was his own personal guard (remember the part when Queen Amidala in Star Wars 1 posed as her own Lady in Waiting?) Mission accomplished.

Dream No. 2
I was on a holiday trip to... I don't know where and all I do was eat, eat and eat. Funny thing was that I dreamt walking into KFC but they sell beef jerky and roast duck. After eating the beef jerky my back tooth kinda went loose but its still there. In Malay myth, if you lose a tooth in your dream someone close to you is going to... pass away. I never believe that part though because I have dreamt losing the whole teeth quite a few times but no one near me pass away. Though some said it means letting go. Anyway, in my dream I still have my teeth, it was just shaky (I don't know if the term is right, bantai ajelah. Any comments on my grammar Granpa Ken?)

I got more, but those are the only dreams permittable to be shared with. No naughty thoughts there, just too personal. Maybe I was too tired, maybe I was having a neverending work blues, maybe it was the jars of tarts that I consumed the whole eid up until now (is there any connection to anything?) or maybe its just Snuggles, the stuffed toy/my sleeping partner that Jeff sent me, hehehe. Don't think so, because I slept without Snuggles last night when I dreamt abt the berserko KFC. Hmmmmm, when will the clock turn to 5.30pm?

One more thing

HAPPY 17TH BIRTHDAY TO MY BROTHER A'AN
I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU KEEP ON MAKING BLUNDERS WHILE TALKING LATELY
(THE 'ADA ORANG DALAM BALDI' INSTEAD OF 'BILIK AIR' PHRASE WILL ALWAYS BE MY TEASING ASSET, HEHEHE)
MAYBE IT JUST SHOWS THAT YOU ARE GETTING OLD, HAHAHAHA
GOOD LUCK FOR YOUR LAST SPM PAPER

Friday, November 19, 2004

A Cute Surprise

19th November 2004 marks the 5th month of our anniversary. Look what manage to creep into the mailbox in the afternoon - other than more cool stuff that my baby sent me, hehehe.

First peek.......

2nd peek.........

The name is still undecidable though one thing I know for sure, I would be having a bedmate from tonight onwards ;)

Thursday, November 18, 2004

Selamat Hari Raya

Hari Raya - full of joy, laughter, relatives and of course, food. My holiday finally ends. I have to start working today..... feeling so lazy :D For this raya entry, I could only post this family picture we took on the first day of Eid.



Anybody heard of Thursday blues?

Wednesday, November 10, 2004

Heelies from Hell

The nearer it gets to the holiday, the crazier the crowd at the shopping complex begin and the crazier the price slash. Spent my day yesterday with Eena and her boyfriend Helmi. The original plan was only for both of us to go and check out stuff at Plaza Angsana and accompany her in finding her baju raya. Since Helmi was feeling kind of left out when us girls went out together, he joined us. It was okay actually because he paid for the food :D Traffic was crazy on the way to Angsana due to the heavy rain and people who are doing last minute shopping because Thursday is already a holiday for Deepavali. Most I know, including Eena start taking Eid holiday from Deepavali towards after Raya. Lucky her. Since I don't have annual leave yet (have to wait a year for that) I made a compromise with Ms Lee that I would work on Deepavali in exchange for a day off on Wednesday.

We broke the fast at Vivo Restaurant because of the Ramadhan buffet promotion that went on there. We piled up everything we could - buruk lantak sikitlah, and sat at our table to wait for azan. One thing we found odd is that the mushroom soup tasted funny. To be exact, it was burnt-off funny. We look skeptically at other table. One uncle actually ate the soup greedily like it was the best soup ever and so does some other people at other tables, dipping garlic bread into it and sipping them. Was it our taste bud or they couldn't tell that the mushroom soup taste awful? Anyway we cleared off our pizza plate, arranged our bowl of soup in it nicely and snuck it on the dessert table next to us to make way for other food at the buffet table. A few minutes later, horrificly we found that one of the soup bowl was gone. If the waiter/waitress took it why does he/she have to leave the other 2 bowls? We burst out laughing at the thought of someone actually ate our leftover-but-looked-like-untouched soup.

Set out our shopping journey afterwards and boy, was it eventful. Kids all over with their heelies on making misfits and bumped into us so many times. We even thought that they sound they made from wheeling over the wood verandah over our head was the thunder. Eena was picking up her prospective dress and one thing that we found out, my opinion and Helmi's clashed. When I said the dress looks nice, Helmi doesn't and when he held out a dress for Eena to look, I gave it thumbs down. Went around until 9 when 3 of us finally agreed upon a dress, after giving comments like "Macam minah kampung daa" on a very short kebaya and "Eh, mbok dari mana?" on a batik print dress as Eena stepped out of the fitting room. But sadly, The L size dress is way too big for Eena and the M size was restrictive. At 9.30pm I surrendered and took my leave because my eyes were drooping. I woke up yesterday at 12 midnight and haven't slept since.

Driving was a very hard feat providing that the road towards home mostly doesn't have any lights and I was so sleepy. Got home 14 minutes after CSI started and watched it, but at the end it was CSI that watched me. Went into my bedroom, start off my pc, connected to the internet and I was lost the moment I put my head on the pillow while waiting for my yahoo to log on. Had a nightmare that I became a school prefect at primary school (which I actually was) and trying to fend off kids wearing heelies. Woke up after the nightmare and found out that Jeff was online 18 minutes after I logged into yahoo. Darn I missed him again *sighs.

A day in the life of a person named Nadiah, with a screwed up sleeping time hehehe.

Sunday, November 07, 2004

Home Delivery

The heat of Raya is drawing closer. Every Malay speaking radio station all over Malaysia could be heard playing the favourite all time raya tunes - from Uji Rashid and Hail Amir, Sudirman, M Nasir and the old tune from Saloma (honestly I forgot who sang the famous Selamat Hari Raya song but I have a strong feeling it's Saloma). For today my Mak gave me the duty of cooking the nasi himpit and pre-frying the chicken for our advance food exchanging session that usually happens on the eve or on the day of raya i.e: munjung - Javanese word that covers up visiting and bringing food for neighbours / relatives. Kinda like the Malay word kunjung, means the same anyway. I was on a fast tempo doing the cooking because of my weekend date with Jeff until one of the stove sets ran out of gas. Called up Abah as fast as I could to buy new gas cylinder while checking up my pc (good thing having a network hub now - no need for the constant fight over the modem and pc with my big lil bro). Managed to get all done at about 11 and went over to spent the day with my baby.

By 5 pm start packing up the food to be distributed to nearby relatives and neighbours and as always I was given the duty to drive up and send the food. First trip was to Tok Long's - my late granma's oldest sister. She was still asleep, didn't manage to meet and greet her. She's one of the coolest 'atuk' around and she's 90+. Next stop was to my aunt's house. By the time I got home Mak already finished distributing the food to our neighbours. Even told my mom to ask our front neighbour if the pineapple tart we ordered are ready yet - sadly no. Had to wait for raya for that. Mak Intan's pinapple tart is the best!!!

And of course, the lontong for buka puasa (break fast) was fabulous, hehehehe. Though I am really really sure that the sambal kacang (nut gravy) taste fine. I accidentally used yesterday's chrysanthemum tea (oops!) to blend the dried chilli instead of plain water. Mak mixed the tea container up among the group of jugs. Didn't realize it until I washed it up... sure figures for the ants that I kept on swatting.

Saturday, November 06, 2004

8 Days Towards Raya

Paycheck got cleared today, and being me who isdesperately in need of stuff for Eid grabs it as a lifeline - not really. Hari Raya is few days away and I still haven't found the matching tudung for my baju raya. At about 3 after I let Jeff boot myself out of yahoo (a really rare occurence since my booter can't load up really well at the office and the only one that I could load up is the one that only require 2 bots and I never let him boot me out) I start out my shopping spree.

Went off to Jusco (where else?) since I'm much too lazy to drive extra miles to Angsana and did the whole shopping there. Whole sounds like a lot... to be exact, 3 things for raya - cookies & biscuits, shoes and some clothes. Parking was crazy - many were out to shop for the season, both Deepavali and Eid and of course the crazy price slashing sale that went around the place. This is definitely one of the moment that I am really grateful driving a small Kancil. I could park off basically anywhere and in this case, I parked at the trolley bay, hehehe.

If there is anything familiar about being in the midst of a crazy sale, it would be the constant announcement of lost kids. The funny thing is, it won't be the parents announcing for their kids lost but the kid would go out to the main information counter to be announced or someone would find them crying and sent them off to the counter. The announcement would always sound "To the parents of ...... please proceed to the information counter" or "To anyone who lost their kid wearing....". Good thing so far there are no case of kidnapped child in a shopping area. Parents would be too absorbed looking for their intended things and forget about their kids sometimes.

Done shopping at about 5 with a satisfied feeling and a dent to my wallet, what else. Got the shoes that I have been eyeing on and it was good to know that there was only one left for my size. Hard having a big feet sometimes.

These are my Raya wishes for everyone:

My Family
To Emak and Abah (save it for raya during the 'salam-salam' session) To my sister, both brothers, uncles, aunts (esp. Mak Jun because she reads blog), cousins esp the head of the 7 dwarves, Dayah, Selamat Hari Raya Maaf Zahir & Batin, love everyone of you a lot.

My Baby, Jeff
Selamat Hari Raya, I'm sorry for everything that I've done to you (esp those that inadvertantly causes your hurt) , intended or not, accidental or not. I love you so much and you'll always be my 'Sexy Pringles' ;)

My Friends
Selamat Hari Raya, 0-0, Maaf Zahir & Batin. I miss all of you guys esp the studio 4 dwellers of '04 ex-schoolmate both secondary and primary and the AE chatters especially the exilers.

To the Blog Reader
Selamat Hari Raya :D

Monday, November 01, 2004

Tulang Belut, Tulang Ikan, Tulang Ayam

Finally, after 4 long years of waiting I could finally wear the intended baju kurung that was supposed to be worn years ago. Bought that particular fabric while my mom was searching for a fabric to be given to my future to be sister-in-law at that time (now my sister-in-law lah, imagine how long that was) Due to some cutting error by my sister, the fabric was cut out based on my mom's size and not mine. After stewing for quite some time had to make the decision of giving the baju kurung to my mom because I definitely could not fit into it. But my mom just save it up, leaving the neck area unsewn because she said the colour was too vibrant for her taste.

I've just finished sewing the neck up with tulang belut sewing style, that's eel's bone... because it resembles the eel's bone wht else ;) Raya is not far away... so does my paycheck, hehehe



Work In Progress


Done :D