Gloomy Weekend

So... we didn't go to visit the grave in Y*manashi on last weekend. After discussing, seemed like there were some unavoidable circumstances which made at the moment as not a suitable time for us to go there until after our holiday in M*sia. Since I don't need to blog everything in here... so let's just leave it there without elaborating further.

Somehow... maybe it is good for me to not to go there yet in short time to come due to what I said in previous entry. If you could noticed which part. Sebab as usual... I don't share everything in the blog. Moreover, my never-end prayers will always reach him every time; no matter during whenever and wherever I be at for the moment. Lagipun pegi sana bukan ada apa. The cemetery area is also very well-maintained by the monk who also acts as the caretaker for that area. I don't actually need to cabut rumput ke apa ke. Owh in the wide cemetery area ada sections for each religion including Isl*mic Cemetary section ye. Karang tak cakap ada plak yang rajin tanya soklan bernas yang malas sungguh nak dijawab. Anyway I got to see a picture of his grave from a friend when she and her family went to visit their daughther's grave last 2 months. It looks good as always and the small plants we planted were still alive. Basically... that's more than good already. Perhaps, we will go there after coming back from M*sia next year and at that time we can fix new tombstones at the grave too. We are planning to order a new tombstones set for his grave and my PIL had already checked on this and they said it will be better if we go to see by ourselves and select the most suitable one. Hopefully we can find the one that has high resistant with the weather and not soo heavy for us to bring in our luggages later. However... I'm still hoping too that there will be a suitable square fence set for the grave. Or else... we have no choice other than to order the square fence in here much later. Semua ayat2 memujuk hati sendiri hahaha!

Also... we didn't go for any autumn-viewing last weekend mostly because the weather was gloomy almost all the times. It had been drizzling alot every now and then... the ground was wet... the mist was thick and all we could see was grey environment and got our pants soaked every time we got out. We could find a better spot still if we wanted too but the big thing is autumn scenery isn't at its peak yet at our place. We could hardly find any golden and red autumn view yet except 1 or 2 trees at here and there. Well... it has just started in here for the leaves to change to significant colors. Perhaps by next weekend or another week to come the weather will be very promising enough for us to enjoy autumn-viewing. Owh I can't wait! But... there is also a spoiler. Hubby needs to go to T*kyo this Saturday for work and he needs to work too on the next Saturday phbt :P :P :P Which means... I only have like only 2 days of precious Sundays which I must not waste at all. I pray that nothing will spoil the day and especially not from me or hubby. Or else definitely I will meroyan sebab kuciwa tak dapat autumn-viewing. Ayang... you are warned here hahaha! Kalau Rinny sesaja merajuk pun silalah pujuk tauuu! I kan drama queen ;P ;P ;P

Owhhh by the way... yup we are going back on this coming new year, yeay!!! woot-woot!!! Makcik sangat happy yer! :D :D :D We will be going back on December 20th, 2008 until January 10th, 2008. So that's gonna be like 22 days or 3 weeks to be exact. That's actually not so much of time since if we divide by 2... hubby and I are only gonna spend like 11 days for each family side. At the same time, there are lots of things we need and need to do and there are also many places we need to go. I already have such long lists for Things To Do, Things To Buy, Foods To Eat, People To Meet and so on hehehe ;P I'm gonna blog about this and show my lists when the date has reached me nearer. I really want to meet the soo many long-time-no-see friends so I really have to organize our schedule wisely. But still... I just need to say that families and our personal matters are on top our priorities. So, to whom it may concern... I'm gonna try my best so that we can meet up okay? If not, I hope you will understand. Anyway sesiapa nak ajak g open house new year ke nak belanja makan ke nak ajak jenjalan ke sangatlah dipersilakan ye muahaha! ;P All in all... there will be like 55 days? before the exact date. Semoga semuanya dipermudahkan so that we both boleh pergi dan balik dengan selamat, InsyaAllah. Amin. Tolong doakan jugak ye ;D

Lastly, now I'm gonna answer the tag given by Kak Yati previously during the fasting month kot. Kan? :D I don't know thew title of the tag. So... here it is...

1. What were you doing five years ago?
That was in 2003 isn’t it? I was in my 2nd year in university. All I can still remember is, that was the most thrilling years in my life. I didn’t study much and I didn’t know why I was so dumb to waste my time in university not studying. I was busy lazing around. I was at the lowest phase of my life in term of everything. Langsung takde apa nak dibanggakan. Kinda a bit lost but still striving to improve myself in terms of study. The main reason was I got too carried away being in love with my exbf. Although once in a while I could sense we were not suitable for each other but still I stayed in the relationship because I thought love need sacrifices and I didn’t dare to hurt him. But it turned out he was the one who decided to dump me. It was during the beginning of the year. Well the turning point was actually because he had family problem and it was on its most crucial time. Thus he became lost in everything and didn’t care about anything else. Which obviously shown that he wasn’t a good man for me. The incident eventually made me hurt my parents too unintentionally. To cut the story short, I kept chasing him to accept me back and he kept running away from me. That was going on for good 2 months until one day I became soo tired with all of that and was at the point of started to dreadfully hating him. I just realized that why I was being so stupid to put myself with all the troubles when he never care about me at all. That was when I started to hate him so much and kept praying that if only I never met him before. Later… it was during the mid semester holiday that I got to know hubby indirectly via my best friend. It was duirng the end of the year. It all happening so fast and I am so grateful for what had happened between me and my exbf. My exbf did try to befriend me but I said to him thanks alottt for leaving me. It was really a blessing in disguise since actually God had a better plan for me. He blessed me with the most amazing person as my other half who will always loves me back unconditionally and appreciates my presence in his life. The rest is history :) There were so many lesson learned from the breakups (gatal ni banyak exbfs ;P) especially from the latest but one thing I learned the most was it obviously doesn’t worth it at all to hurt all other people who loves me and myself even more merely for a guy. There are so many people around me who really care and love me so I shoudln't be selfish to others and ignore their feelings just like what the exbf did to me. Of course I can say this now since I’ve already met my Mr. Right hahaha! Kepada adik2 yang bercinta… kalau putus cinta jangan sedih lama2 sangat dan jangan buat benda2 yang bukan2. Semestinya ada orang yang lebih baik untuk adik2 nanti. Jangan cakap I can’t live without him ataupun takde orang lain yang lebih baik/sesuai dari dia. Belum bercinta lagi dah luka parah macam mana lah plak dia boleh jadi yang paling baik/sesuai ye tak? So semua itu adalah bullshit hahaha ;P Lebib baik doa kat Tuhan supaya cepat2 bagi kiter lupakan exbf yang berkenaan dan cepat2 temukan jodoh yang betul. Talking from experience. Kalau dah tak suka ur partner pun cepat2lah clash. Buat apa nak go on with the relationship if the love is no longer there kan? Soon or later mesti diri sendiri or the partner will hurt even more badly. Opsss talking from another experience kehkehkeh! Owhhh ditujukan untuk adik2 saje ye hohoho ;P

2. What were the 5 things on your to do list today?
Clean the house
Cook for dinner
Take a look outside
Wash my hair
Do some calculations on a few thing

3. What are 5 snacks that you enjoy?
I don’t really eat snacks. But I love...
Cake
Bun
Pastry like pie and puffs
Chocolate
Green tea/ Red tea/ Coke

4. What are 5 jobs you've had?
I never work officially yet. Owh, only for once as a practical trainee for 4 months during my 2nd year in university. At the moment, I’m a homemaker and I love it to the bits.

5. People I want to tag?
Ainul
Murni
Syana
As Comei
Mai – Mommy Rayyan


Toodles!

The Day Our Paths Crossed

It is sunny today and the weather is quite lovely. Not cold, not hot :) I woke up pretty early today at 9.00 a.m. Well, actually I got up at 7.15 a.m as usual since I needed to prepare hubby's breakfast and his bentou. But when I was about to complete the chore, he said he wanted to go to work a bit late today. So, I accompanied him to sleep for a little bit more. He called the office and told that he got stomach ache but the truth was he wanted to sleep a bit longer ;P Lame trick. But I guess everybody else also did the same thing every once in a blue moon and after all I think everybody would understand too. So... no one would dare to question each other either since I'm sure everybody else would need to slack off a bit some times ;P

Updated!
Pagi tadi after taking bath hubby rub some V*cks on his perut. I was still baring2 n upon seeing him I asked like... apsal buh v*cks kat perut?. Then he said... sebab sakit perut la. I thought betul la sakit perut sebab muka serius je. Then I said lagi... sakit perut apsal buh v*cks plak bubuh la balm gamat tu. Then dia pun terus campak v*cks n amik balm tu and put it into his jeans pocket. Tadi dah balik keje I saw the balm gamat on the cabinet. I took it to simpan balik in the bedroom. Tetiba terasa macam musykil n terpk nak tanya... Abang bawak balm ni sebab betul2 sakit perut ke sebab sesaja nak buat2 sakit perut? Masa tanya ni memang dah tegelak2 dah. To which he answered... hehehe sesaja la buat2 macam sakit perut... sapu2 sket bagi ada bau. Hahaha terus cubit pipi dia! Keji tau tektik pakcik ni. Ayang tak baik tau tipu2! ;P ;P ;P

Actually I really don't like to blog now or do any massive typing at the moment. It has been since a few days ago I noticed that my right ear is very sensitive to the thumping sounds on the keyboard. It is as like the sound bounces back to my eardrum very hardly thus I could feel like something is hitting it every time. Hubby said that I type too violently on his keyboard. I can still remember that my friends made same exclamation on this too during my university years. Even some times I noticed that the whole people in the lab would look at me when I was typing during open lab and at that time I thought what did I do? I rarely realized this on me. I think I made a lot of noise back then, and now still. I think... this is just my style of typing... but it is not good for my ears and the poor keyboard too :D So... I should train myself to always slow down a bit with the decibel.

Owh yeah first and foremost... lat Thursday, October 16th, 2008 marked the 5th year our paths crossed each other's. Started with a short Hi and the rest is history :) So, that's why the date for today's entry is as above even though it is actually the October 21st, 2008. Well... seems like our relationship is still... very young in age. But amazingly we have gone through so much with each other, ups and downs. I'm not meaning to brag but I feel proud that we actually managed to still standing side by side holding hands with each other to move forward together most of the times. Perhaps all of these would strengthen our love even more for more years to come and even continuing in the afterlife, InsyaAllah. Honestly... I totally forgotten about the day. But on last Saturday morning while waking up; hubby wished me something like this, "Happy belated anniversary first time kenal, Sayang", and gave me a kiss on the forehead. I didn't realize the word belated at first and was quite surprised hubby didn't forget it. I asked him the date of that day, he told me; then only I realized he also had forgotten the day and only remembered it on that Saturday morning cehhh! ;P Well, he said at least he didn't forget it totally like me ;P Then... we reminisced back how the day had taken place on the past 5 years before he went to work :) Yup, he got to work on last Saturday... so it was a quite boring weekend as an overall.

Hmm we are planning to visit our 'Ab*d Darling's grave in near time to come. Actually we have been talking of doing this since past a few months. It is already about 5 months since we last made a visit there and I had been there once, whereas twice for hubby. I think... I should go there very soon since I kinda tend to feel unstable emotionally more frequently nowadays. The tingling sensation would easily arise in me and my eyes would become teary without fail to spill a few tears as soon as my mind rekindle back towards remembering him. I guess I just miss him so much these days. So I need to go there to refill the strength tank in me. Truly... I kinda feel dragged to go there too at the first place. I don't know why. Last time we went there, we were very calm and in fact I didn't feel anything heavy. We even laughing towards each other while taking pictures with 'Ab*d's grave. However this time, Im scared instead of feeling better; I would loose my composure and drown in my sea of emotion there. I don't want to be in that state. I don't want to be weak. I always make myself believe that I am a strong and an amazing mom to him. He would be sad in there if I be sad. Plus, I don't want to be sad in front of his dad too. So... I must make myself believe that I actually can do it. Because actually I really can do it, no? hmm...

Talking about this, my mom did send me a book together with all the food stocks and kuih raya stuffs a month back during R*madhan. When she was here I told her to find me a book which can gimme some explanations to all the questions that kept boggling my mind over what had happened to me. Being in here, it is hard for me to find such particular information especially reading materials. Even the world wide web couldn't be of so much help some times. So apparently she did find one. The book is actually a compilations of hadeeths from many hadeeth narrators and including some verses from the Q*ran. She said there were only 2 copies left in the shop so she took the better one. Both books were already old and isn't published anymore. Once it reached me... I was directly attracted to the some of the titles in the table of contents. So I jumped from one page to another to read them. Truly, I felt as like the book is specially dedicated to me. But... my bad that I haven't finished reading it yet or should I say I haven't started to thoroughly scan the content of the book yet ;P It is my bad habit that I find it is hard for me to start doing whatever I need to do. I need extra efforts to push myself but once I started, I just couldn't stop :) Anyway... maybe this is the right time to start reading it. I'm sure reading by reading the book will make me able to maintain my composure or even more to strengthen it so that I can survive the day without messing my face, InsyaAllah.

Some wordings from the book that manage to put my mind and soul at ease :) I would read them again and again whenever I fee like I need to recharge myself.

At the same time, I wish to go for autumn-viewing too since if I'm not mistaken it is the peak of the season when the scenery becomes very enchanting at least in my place and up to the north. This is my 3rd year experiencing autumn but I never went for autumn-viewing yet and I don't have any pictures of me with the autumn scenery phbt! ;P So... pertaining to my plan of visiting the grave earlier... I think we may give it in one go. Just to save time, energy and COST ;D Furthermore Y*manashi is situated slightly above so most probably the trees has changed to significant colors already. I must tell hubby to find the places that we might pay a visit which situated in the same way towards the cemetary. Anyway for peeps in N*hon, just so you know; there are only two M*slim cemetery areas in N*hon. One is in Y*manashi while the other one is in H*kkaido as what we had been told by the Isl*mic C*nter J*pan. So that's why our son is buried in Y*manashi, okay. This is because many people asked why we buried him there. Hopefully the number is growing perhaps in other parts in N*hon so that it will be more convenient for other M*slims in N*hon in handling a decease especially to those who are living far away from these 2 places. Talking from experiences :)

Anyway, fast come weekend! ;D I love outing moments with hubby bucuk ;) Kiter gi weekend ni lah nak tak Ayang?

Ringo Gari

How's your weekend? I'm sure most of you have had the chance to stuff your tummies with loads of delicious foods from the open-house, or open-houses to be exact? Well... ours weren't bad either, we managed to fill up our tummies by taking bites on fresh apples and pears from the trees. Except that of course we needed to pay for the entrance, while attending open house is definitely free. It was on last Saturday that suddenly hubby decided that we were going to apple-picking. Actually I didn't have that in mind and thought of doing some window shopping at first. But I didn't object either upon his plan. I did question back for a confirmation but he didn't answer.

Well, he was being cold towards me because we had a fight on the night before. Nothing major really but I reached my limit then burst. But he thought I was being gaga over it and not reasonable thus he got mad and annoyed with me :P :P :P We woke up late due to the dragged fighting until the middle of the night. You know things like... I spoke up to him... he talked back to me... I cried... he ignored me... I asked why he didn't coax me... he told me that it wasn't his fault so he didn't need to... I sulked even more... he got angrier and so on :P... To cut the story short, so after waking up on that day; I thought no way I was going to waste such a lovely day. I went to him and saw there he was lying in front of the tv watching to his anime. I lied next to him and hugged him but he ignored me and said not to disturb him :P :P :P That was when I asked him about going out and he answered me nonchalantly about the apple-picking.

Just so you know, we are living in the town of apple and pear. Which means there are all apple and pear orchards available in every directions from my house as near as a sight away and as far as at the edge of the town. Once got into the car, hubby just drove away and finally decided to stop at a quite appealing apple and pear shop. Just like any other shop, the orchard situated right at the back of the shop. There were quite a number of customers at this shop and in fact there were a small tour bus which brought quite a number of pakcik-pakcik and makcik-makcik from elsewhere. Once I entered the shop all I could here was oishi ne... oishi ne... nak dekat 10000 kali. Which means each of them would say oishi ne... for an average number of about 1000 kali kot? Okay, of course I was exaggerating there hohoho! We scanned the fruits in the shop and then paid 500 Yen per person to get into the orchard. An obasan lead us the way into the orchard and she gave us a basket to put plucked fruits, a small trash pail and a knife. There were about 2 or other 3 families in the orchard too and we sat at the cafe like round table and chairs.

The apples seemed like not at the peak of its ripeness yet but still already ready to be plucked. I noticed that the trees exposed to sun light have the fruits more reddish compared to other trees. The obasan showed us which trees ready for apple picking and which one we couldn't. She also told us the kind of apples available in there. But we couldn't care less and all apples looked the same to us. All we knew was there were green apples, red apples and pears available in the orchard and we just searched for the big ones to pluck. We ate like 3 pears, 2 red apples and 1 green apples before we became so full. The fruits were indeed very big, heavy and definitely fresh and crunchy too! Apparently we didn't take lunch before going out so that's why we managed to gobble down quite a number of fruits. By the way, I brought a peeler along in my handbag since both of us didn't know how to peel a fruits skin using knife hihihi ;P Plus being an ever prepared me, I brought along a tumbler of water to drink, a handkerchief, a small pump bottle consisted of water for easy hand-washing and a few pieces of kitchen towel for cutting space :D That was why I had my spacious tote cramped ;P Nasib baik aku tak bawak sabun sekali ;P

We were there for about 2 hours because we spent like half of our time there taking pictures with trees and fruits hohoho ;P We were the last to left the orchard. We plucked 4 apples to bring back and paid about 400++ Yen. The pakcik thought we were Ind*nesian but we told him we are M*sian. Obviously because I was wearing scarf so that's why he was asking. But we didn't tell him that we actually live quite nearby hehehe ;D Anyway, we were lucky that he gave us 2 more extra apples; not so fresh and big ones but still way much better compared to the ones sold in the supa. Seems like we don't have to stock up our fruits supply for 2 to 3 weeks to come, yippie! :D Actually the orchard we went this time is about 10 minutes away from home. Hubby didn't want to go to the ones nearby the house because it might not be so exciting especially he afraid there would be people he knew in there hehehe ;P Well, think about act-tourists hihihi ;D

Here are our pics on that thay. Well... having the face covered with the smiley, I can't really share what were expressions that we had on that day; right? I'm giving you guys the freedom to imagine how we were feeling like hihihi! ;P But of course we were happy lah ;D I think this kind of place could be a very romantic wedding venue isn't it?

On the Sunday nothing was interesthing since I was left home by hubby. He went to F*ji Q with the trainees. Actually it was as usual one of his job to bring the trainees sight-seeing. I could tag along but as usual we think that it was going to be troublesome if I tagged along. So he promised me to bring me there at another time. He left the house at the wee hours of 6.00 am and reached home at neary 12 midnight. He brought back some H*lal P*kistan-Ind*an foods he bought from Y*amanshi when they stopped for dinner. We don't have any H*lal restaurants in our place by the way. So, I really enjoyed my foods consisted of nan, vege curry, chicken curry, butter rice? fruit yogurt, tandori chicken, beef something and spiced fish, chicken and prawn. Yummeh! *Mekacih ye Yang! XOXO* I saved my tummy since the morning to give space for these foods, you know. But I only managed to eat half of them. The thing about P*kistan or Indi*an curry I noticed is, the smell of their curry could last on the hands for as long as 2 days despite of the amount of soap I put and scrubbings I did.

On yesterday, Monday; apparently hubby was having public holiday. So, in the afternoon I just reheated back my last night's foods and asked hubby to join me. He kept refusing by saying he bought it for me lah... he had have enough on the night before... he pitied me and knew I like the foods very much and bla bla bla. But at the end, the foods were finished by half of them landed into his happy tummy *rolling eyes and gnashing teeth grrr!!!!!* Belakon baik je dia tu. Siap curik2 lagi from my plate. Ceh memang selalu bagi betis nak peha tau ;P ;P ;P *Kasih ditarik baliklah macam ni! hehe* Then after that we went out for some window shopping. There were sales at the places we went but nothing caught my eyes. Finally I only grabbed 1 purple top and a pair of pajamas. I love the pajamas so much because it felt so comfy while trying it last night and it has pink ribbons and small pinky flowers. Soo kawai!!! But I haven't snapped the pictures of the clothes and I have dumped them into the laundry basket. But please believe that the pajamas is really kawai okay ;P Lastly, we brought some groceries and headed back. On last night before going to sleep we had good laughs watching the movie, G*t Smart :D

As of today... the weekdays routine have started back as usual. It is raining today since the morning and it is definitely very cold. I turned the heater on beside me but this heater isn't that powerful I think. No doubt, it is a very old one :P It is 3.40 pm and it is 12 degrees C brrr! Hmm... the rain has come to sprinkle now. I'm gonna cook nasi lemak sambal sotong for tonight's dinner. Balik2 benda sama. I don't have any idea what else to cook ;P Okay, I better drag my butt to the kitchen now.

My Raya Journal

Hi, I'm back. So... how's your raya? Mine was better if compared to last year. Actually this is my third raya abroad and the sixth for hubby. As of now my raya has officially ended. I didn't really feel sad or syahdu whatever on the 1st Syawal since perhaps because I've gotten used to it and I kinda expected it already of how it should be. But of course I missed the foods more than anything else as always. I'm soo jealous! Yeah... I missed the families too but I do miss them too on every other days. So... basically that didn't make any difference on the raya day itself. My principle is simple... hari2 pun boleh mintak maaf n hari2 pun boleh rindu2. In fact hari2 pun mesti mintak maaf n ingat families sumer tau :) I couldn't care less about raya as long as I have beloved hubby (though sometimes meny*mpah dan rasa nak lari dari rumah ;D) with me, nothing else matter. But of course if I have hubby and could celebrate raya just like in M*sia at the same time it would be a bonus! Perhaps that's gonna be 2 to 3 years to come. Well... we'll see.

*alamak pakcik (xingat nama) tgh potong rumput kat luar lor. bising laa. takut pun ye. tak suka. tapi takpe... rumput dah panjang! mekacih pakcik! jangan potong memain tau! (sebab penah sekali dia potong macam tak potong je :P). nanti cukup bulan mintak kaisya bayar lebey kay haha! ;P alamak... camner nak sidai kain ni?*

Honestly... I really don't have the mood to blog :P Not that I have interesting stories to tell pun kan? Well... I do have lotsss of stories but everything has already gone with the wind and I couldn't care less to even think to write in here. Hihihi I do sound soo lazy right now. Yup, I really am! So, that's why! :D Moreover I have soo many things to do and at this point of time everything has piled up and I feel so unsatisfied with myself. I feel so non-productive. I really have to start back whatever I have planned to do and finish up the projects I have set up one by one. What projects? Nothing important pun but just as for the sake to fulfill my desire, needs, and satisfaction; that's all. One of them is to sew all the clothes that need fixing so that they can be worn again. That is a need and is a must! Hmmm malas! Anyway, my bloghopping activity is going on as usual. I visit all other friends blog as well as all my silent readers blog too. Hmmm yeah... I rarely leave comment nowadays or even a simple Hi. Honestly haritu n skrg macam xsempat2 nak visit sumer blog. Sorryla ye. Even to a few others', I never leave any reciprocate comment yet. I maluew la ;P If not nanti kiter sama2 dah tak jadi silent readers dah la kan hohoho ;P

Throughout past R*madhan I think I only manage to shed off 1 kg more or less thus makes my weight now is about 46.5kg. Not much of losing isn't it? Perhaps it is because the fat that left in me is the stubborn fat which I have restored since before I got pregnant or might be long before that. However as an overall of course I have gotten back in shape already a few months ago. Only that I haven't achieved my target yet. Yes, I want to be kerempeng so let me be okay ;P Well, I'm gonna talk about this next time lah. Somehow I'm afraid if I have gained weight pertained to raya festival's foods. There were lots of foods although not as much as if in M*sia. I ate more than usual but kept reminding myself no to go overboard though. This is also why until now I have restricted myself not to cook various raya foods all at the same time or consequently one after another. There must be breaks in between or else all my efforts of losing weight will go down the drain. I am not gonna let that to happen :P

Owh let's see how did my raya took place. On the night before raya, I cooked chicken rendang, nasi impit, steamed glutanious rice, and prepared some salads and cucumber. Actually I was craving for lemang. Then it occured to me that suddenly it popped in my mind thus blinking the bulb in the center of my skull to improvise the way of cooking the lemang. I shouldn't really need to fire lemang on the ground using bamboo, should I? :P What was important to me was to get to serve the taste of lemang on my tastebuds, that's all. Of course the taste, shape, and texture of my 'improvised-lemang' were huge different compared to the original one. But as long as ada rupa and rasa sket2 dah la hihi ;P So... that was why the steamed glutanious rice was in the menu. I put in thick coconut milk secukup rasa, a bit of salt, a bit of water, pandan leaves for the smell and finally tadahhh! There I was savouring the taste of rendang and 'improvised-lemang' in my mouth, yummeh! Alaa yelah panggil pulut je lah! Poyo je nak panggil lemang jugak haha ;P Ke I am the one yang ketinggalan baru terpikir to make lemang this way? ;P

After having dinner on that night, hubby tried to call his family but all handphones were unanswered. Tengah bertakbir kot sumer orang. Suddenly my father called us and he and my brother insisted to talk with hubby. Hubby told my brother about me making lemang by saying, "Kak In* buat lemang! Terer takyah guna buluh pun! Jadi plak tu!". Hahaha rasa nak gelak guling2 masa ni when I heard hubby cakap semangat plak tu. Comel la Ayang ni kan! XOXO I also called them back when they already got home from my grandparents' house of my mother's side. I got to know that the whole day they were busy membakar lemang untuk makan sendiri and orang2 kampung tempah. They also masak rendang dalam kawah outside of the house as usual. Alamak teringat rendang paru. Sedapnya! :( Then, we continued watching tv. When we were about to end the night, hubby wished raya greeting to me in bed dengan penuh gedik. But I didn't entertain him because he should wished me on the tomorrow of the day itself lah kan.

On the 1st Sy*wal nothing much happened since hubby has got to work on that day. Unfortunately raya fell on weekdays this year. Hubby didn't take leave since kalau cuti pun we weren't going anywhere since we are living quite far from any mosque or surau and nothing much we could do that day. Plus hubby needs to save his annual leave balance for coming holidays in M*sia soon. I served the rendang and my so called lemang I made on the night before for hubby during breakfast and off he went to work as usual. We didn't even wish raya greeting towards each other perhaps because we didn't even remember or feel like raya at all except that we didn't need to fast anymore. Throghout the day... I just called my mom in the morning but I didn't get the chance to talk with others since they were still at the mosque. I asked for forgiveness from her, mintak halal sumer2 and mintak doakan then she suddenly started buat suara sedey. I teased her and langsung dia macam bengang hahaha! ;P Then I told her I would call again on the night because it was so cold and I wanted to continue sleeping. So much of hari raya for me kan? ;P In the afternoon till evening, I started to cook 2kg chicken rendang for the party with the trainees on that night. I also cleaned the house a bit. But when hubby got back from work he told me suddenly the party was cancelled so I just distributed the rendang to them and hubby helped them grilling the satay. He brought back the marvellous satay and peanut sauce. The trainees also sent some chicken rice and marinated fried chicken. All in all... everything was delicious and definitely it was good to taste others cooking. Even tak berapa sedap tapi masih la sedap hingga menjilat jari. How's that? ;P

After hubby was done with all the grilling and lepaking with the trainees; he got back and called his family. He also told MIL about my lemang thingy hoho! Again... hubby was being comel. Dia mesti tak paham why I say like this. In fact I don't think all of you would understand too hihi :) On 2nd Sy*wal... nothing special to tell about. I made some custard marble pudding because hubby said the trainees wanted to visit our house. But they didn't come pun sebab hubby didn't invite them hihihi :P So I told him to send the pudding to them aje. Alah rumah jauh selangkah je takyah datang pun takpe lah hohoho ;P After that, I called my family again and heard to their stories. We were YM-ing with them, talking and webcam-ing. They sent me the raya pictures and we chatted about so many things and of course nearly 80% of them were all non-sense things lah ;P On 3rd Sy*wal also nothing interesting to tell only that I baked yummiest chocolate cake (it was my 2nd time and I'm gonna stick with this recipe always) in the afternoon, ironed our clothes; and prepared for the stuffs to cook chicken rendang again. On the 4th Sy*wal just after the dawn, I started tossing everything into the wok and let the rendang to simmer and dry.

Actually, we were invited to celebrate raya with others in other parts of N*gano and their place happened to be far up north compared to us who are living far down south. Jauh ooo! Masak duduk dalam kete! They invited us last year too but we couldn't make it. Some of them are already working and some of them are still studying. There were only 1 girl but still definitely I had so much fun to be around them. There were lots of foods like laksa, nasi Turki? (I can't remember), beef rendang, mutton rendang, peanut sauce, satay, nasi impit and including the cake and chicken rendang I brought. I didn't eat much since we were busy chitchatting and taking pictures using their canggih DSLR cameras. Actually we reached there quite late at 3.00 pm and we spent time there for only about 2 hours before we decided to leave. It was already dusk in the horizon. Owh yeah everybody was donning in traditional baju raya except hubby who was wearing t-shirt, shirt and jeans. Buat rosak gambar je hihihi ;P Somehow, we went to K*ruizawa Prince Shopping Plaza, the outlet plaza. Hubby managed to grab 2 jeans and a hoody at L*vi's. We got into C*uch outlet too but I couldn't think properly since it was already nearing closing time, 8.00 pm. I hate to shop in a very limited time so I really wasn't in the mood. We also didn't take any picture with the K*ruizawa trademark background since it was already dark and I wasn't in good mood, remember? So we decided to leave since we have long journey home. Finally we reached home by 10.00 pm and feeling incredibly exhausted.

*budak2 trainees tengah bising2 in the compound in between our houses. what on earth they are doing ye? by the way, rumput dah pendek yeay! this time pakcik tu potong betul2. bagus ;)*

Regarding baju raya, my mother ordered baju kurung for me but I told her not to send the baju to me since I thought of wearing that baju during any occasion which gonna take place when I'm home soon. At the first place, I didn't think I was gonna celebrate raya in other place except home either. Fortunately I was offered with a red kebaya from a friend. I got that baju just before hari raya from her since she decided to pass the baju to me because it didn't fit her right when she tried it. Turned out the baju fit me perfectly! :D Somehow the baju has reached me much as a saviour. The best part is I looked slim in that baju kebaya on that day, yippie hahaha! ;D Or else I would have to wear my blue baju kurung without a matching shoes, tudung, and handbag and definitely I would be looking fat. So, thanks very much! :D

Here is the picture of us.

So... that was it how my raya took place. As an overall it was quite an okay one according to perantau standard. Well... although it is already a week after raya but I haven't really got the chance to eat trademark raya foods. I wish to make satay again maybe on this weekend and lontong some times later. Obviously I'm not gonna make rendang anymore since I have had enough of it. As for raya cookies, I only made 1 raya cookies since it seems like I have many other cookies sent by my mother and MIL. I'm afraid to see these varieties of cookies what more to eat them. So... I think I'm gonna postpone making other cookies much later. But if I feel rajin... maybe I'm still gonna make them since actually I plan to give some cookies to some particular people. Hmm we'll see.

Chocolate chip cookies. The only type of cookies I made and it is hubby's favorite too.

All the cookies posted all the way from M*sia. Gigih angkut ke hall nak amik gambar nyer pasal. All are delicious and sinful isk isk!

Hari raya dishes we had at home.

Pictures of some of the foods we had for iftars during past R*madhan.

Now, before I end it... previous entry was actually my first attempt trying on digital scrapbooking hihihi ;P I know it looks well... not creative at all. But not bad for a start I think, no? Now I'm hooked with doing this stuff. I'm so excited and engrossed each time doing it and couldn't complete 1 peace yet even for hours because there are soo many embellishments, fonts, papers and whatnots to choose from. In fact, I even don't know which picture and what theme to start with every time! ;P

Salam Aidil Fitri 1429 Hijrah