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my craaaazy rayer schedule included these things :-

1. driving from penang to KL and sleepover at Ampang

2. driving from KL to Rembau

3. 1st - 3rd raya in rembau (N9 ppl dont eat anything else but lemang+rendang, do they?? phewww can you spell HEARTBURN?!)

4. 3rd raye - lunch at Kualapilah. Drive off to Kemaman.

5. Raye at Kemaman. Makan nasik dagang sampai puas ati aku. 5th raye drove 3 hours to Kuala Terengganu.

6. Drove back to Kemaman.

7. Raye kat Kuantan.

8. Drove from Kuantan to JB.

9. Raye and project landscape umah JB hehehe

10. Drove back to Penang on Sunday and only reach home @ 11 pm!!
At the end of the holiday i wasdead tired!!!!

This was us, last nite, breaking fast w/ all my staff. The guy on the left is my TA - tgh melantak his 3rd kari kepala ikan. Food was good - fish head curry, siakap 3 rasa, sotong, telur etc (hubby tambah 3 kali!), price was okay (RM20 sorg), and we got some rebonding time w/ my beloved Unit Landskap Team - depa dok asik wat lawak we cant stop laughing ;]

Next wik maybe ajak some frenz over - supposely this wiken, but everyone’s off balik kg (except for us huhuhu) - so kena tunda. Hmm…nak masak pe ek?? Hubby’s colleagues alreadi reminded him - have to do open house after rayer - so I’m getting panic attack cause my skill of culinery is for a maximum of 4-5 ppl - more than that i’ve no control watsoeva over the taste lagi dah! hihihi so am browsing the net for simple tasty recipes that’re easy to do and hard to mess up =P

yeaah..last Tuesday we had a Jabatan’s gathering, the Planning Dept Sport&Social Club AJK for 2007 were bidding farewell. They were doing some speech and all, and I was actually not feeling too good inside my tummy …so off I went to the ladies, was back within 10 min - and whaddayaknow, everybody was congratulating me for being the new club’s president - sesi 2008! what??? can ppl do that? vote you while you’re off accepting nature call? can someone say conspiracy theory?!

and so anywaay… i’ve waved off the rights to my pan, kuali and stove today, for a yummy pizza hut buke pose! but tomorrow i might try something - hubby’s frenz who went to US brought back some extradelicious Reese’s peanutbutter cup - and I’ve been hooked on ever since! Tried my best searching for it here and KL, but to no avail! I looked up in http://gilly.ca/ yummy foodblog - and found this!! cant wait to try it - hope it’ll turn out marvellous!!

Peanut Butter Cups

2 parts bittersweet dark chocolate
1/4 part unsalted butter, softened and divided
mini muffin liners (I used silicon, but paper liners are probably fine)
fine pastry/paint brush
1 part natural peanut butter (I used homemade)
1/2 part confectioner’s sugar
1/8 part brown sugar

Melt half of the butter, along with the dark chocolate over a double boiler.  Using the fine brush, paint a layer of chocolate around the sides and bottom of the liners - thick enough so there are no translucent spots.  Set the liners into the refrigerator to set - ~10 minutes.

In the meantime, combine the peanut butter, confectioner’s sugar, brown sugar and half of the butter together until uniform and soft.

Remove liners from refrigerator.  Working quickly, add a small spoonful or two of the peanut butter mixture to each cup.  Using the greased tip of a spoon or fork, lightly press until the cups are ~3/4 full.

You may need to put the chocolate mix over low heat again to melt.  Once the chocolate is ready, spoon a little bit of chocolate over each cup, and smooth as well as possible.  Set the cups into the fridge to set ~10 minutes.

At this point, you can either freeze some of the cup, or remove them from fridge and allow to sit for 5-10 minutes to soften slightly.  Enjoy!!

Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I’m not perfect, & I don’t live to be,
but before you start pointing fingers
- make sure your hands are clean.

Bob Marley

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And - which is more - you’ll be a Man my son!

kemalasan melanda berganda-ganda >_<

giloss tak rajin nak update bendalah nih (but still here i am!)

am going to C I T Y O F M U D (literally) tomorrow for a International Federation of Landscape Architect’s World Congress

one whole week T-T

ok laa..kira cam holiday cause it will be the two of us ^_^

***second honeymOOOOOn…..***

have been quite busy lately… dah tak rajin nak lepak lame2 dpn pc

rindu seme member2..tp nak wat cane ek

time running too fast now..

dupdapdupdap dah 9 bulan married

and dah 50% expert tempat2 kat penang hauhau

getting used to hectic working life

(sape yg kate kije gomen relax does not know what they’re talking about, seriously!!)

….have been busting my guts everyday huhuhu! 

paperworks + meeting + project coordination + administration + site visit + budget management + public inter-relation + side events and programmes + documentation + handling 200 staff under the unit

sorting things out..personally and professionally..one by one

sometimes it can be so darn tiring and mind-boggling i wish i could just stayed home and sleep for 3 days…

but most times i just feel contented and feel so thankful to Allah i couldnt wish for anything more…

(ahemm…well, maybe some few things more like healthy cute children who call me IBU and tons of money and ILAM corporate membership and a rexton II SUV heheheh….)

but all in all thank you Allah for blessing me with wonderful life

am reminding myself everyday : to be grateful for everything I have in life and to not fret over what others have cause if not He might take all of it back and left us stranded with nothing but regrets

have a wonderful life, everyone!! ~_~

SALARY MAKAN CELERY

One more week to salary day *lalalala* ~ gov servants salaries, as you might’ve heard, have hiked-up up to 35% (but in my case only 15% jek huaha) … that, plus the additional RM300 COLA allowance, will definitely ease up the burden of metropolitan living (a car, a house, a shopping spree, ability to eat junked fast-food once a week and catch a movie twice a month and pay up your traffic summonses).

WAR OF THE PRICE

I am not a savvy buyer. I can’t tell you whether susu pekat manis cap teko in giant is pricier than tesco or if we can save extra 15 sen by buying 150gm pack Nescafe instead of a 75gm one or whatever. You’re saying cooking oil price hikes up two cents? Hoho I didn’t notice. I tried not to be a hypocrite and complain about the recent war of price when I didn’t even bother to check the price tag the moment I put it inside the shopping cart. Recently there was a lot of complains about mamak stalls charging iced Milo for RM1.80, roti canai for RM0.90 and so on… I think the solution is simple, if we detest the price hike so much, just boycott the stall and let them rot. Teh tarik can’t be good for us anyway, might as well go back home and drink air masak!

WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU CANT SLEEP 

1. Answer quizzes about your middle name or whether you believe in love at first sight or what you had for dinner and other important questions - then post it on Fwenster Bulletin and risk your frenz assuming that you have an Attention Deficit Disorder (or maybe I have… maybe I have…hahahah)

2. Close your eyes and imagine all those nasty people that has ever hurt your feeling or piss you off, stick their faces on a dart board and woooiisshhh…strike a dart to their nose hahahah

3. Watch reruns of LOST 2nd seasons onwards – they tried so hard to dazzle you with never-ending long twisted plots (his drunken father met up with his son’s enemy who’s on the way to kill his mom’s secret lover that had the entire family suicidal but turns out it was a wrong guy his other friend set him up to kill, then whaddayaknow, turns out the enemy is not an enemy after all, he’s a good guy and the good guy is kinda bad himself and power-crazed… and they both love the same girl who’s a convicted criminal…and lets not even get to the island part and the others and a Korean speaking chap outofnowhere…you get wat I mean? ) …You’ll finally gave up trying to figure things out and became so pissed off you’ll start picturing Jack’s head on the dart board

4. Close you eyes…pretend you have a nice semi-D house….with four bedrooms and large backyard….slate tiles the size of a tyrannosaurus’ feet…build-in closet…walk-in dressing room…all the Ikea stuff you can stuff in…water curtain going off on one wall…huge LCD screen and home theater that can blast your eardrums off…large marbled top kitchen cabinet that can clean itself up…unlimited supply of groceries…and now I’m off to Atlantis forsaken land….babai now..~~

5. Reply all your unanswered email and messages and SMSes so that people know you’re not dead. Yet.

Well at least these are what I’d do when I’m having one of those insomniac nights after consuming too much caffeine. Or you could count the sheep. Always an option.

hello there folks!

life’s been tremendously busy, work is extraextrademanding, and i treasure every minute i have at home, not wanting to leave it for anything, except buying groceriesss!!!

last week we had a jolly good time going around penang island for penang’s landscape competition - got some pics up in my photo-blog - http://peekingthruthetube.blogspot.com/ click on the pics to get better pics yeah!

live life good =)

happy weekending!!~