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Amaran: Very Long Post

Roti Bakar Telur Satu!

Oh Tidak... Ini bukan tempat makan yang mempunyai khidmat hantaran melalui panggilan mahupun menerusi sms. Sebaliknya... haruslah pergi terus ke Transfer Road bagi menikmati kelazatan sarapan pagi yang paling common di Malaysia - Roti Canai.

Yes.. sambil melayan suasana pagi di tepi jalan raya.

Secara rasminya, ini adalah aktiviti ulangan iaitu Jalan-Jalan Cari Makan-Siri II. Siri I adalah pada tahun lepas 23Feb2008.


Lokasi Pertama (gambar di atas tadi) - Transfer Road, Penang (island)

Keistimewaan tempat itu adalah sarapan pagi Roti canai dengan suasana Penang Town.

Lokasi seterusnya adalah di seberang Pulau Pinang. Jadi 3 kereta berkonvoi ke destinasi seterusnya.


Lokasi ke-2 di kenali sebagai Rope Walk, Taman Selat (Area Perai). Ini merupakan tempat jualan yang mempunyai pelbagai variasi barangan, daripada yang baru kepada yang second-hand. Siap ada kedai jual kaki burung unta weh? apakah motif?

Antara list of things bought by some of us:

1. buku coloring untuk kanak-kanak

2. eraser bentuk haiwan yang ada kaki

3. mercun pop-pop

4. dinosor plastik

5. seluar track imitation yang sungguh lawa

6. pil chi kit teck aun

7. etc...

Lokasi Ke-3: Adalah makan tengahari... di sini: Ikan Bakar Din, Kepala Batas

Memang mengancam hati dan perut sesapa yang memandang, apatah lagi apabila aura hasap ikan dan daging sedang dibakar menusuk idung.

Antara lauk yang kami ambil. Ada lagi yang tak masuk dlm gmbar ini.. ada sotong dan ikan bakar. Untuk pengetahuan anda... daging bakar (di belah kanan gambar) tu marbeles lah! Ada certain part daging itu, dipanggil harimau nangis, sbb kalau harimau makan pun, sampai dia bleh menangis... Nak tau kenapa... kenalah cuba makan dulu ;-)

Memang kenyang dan puas hati lah....

Selepas makan... kita kena lah rehatkan perut, ye dok?


Lokasi ke-4: Pantai Robina, Butterworth

Dengan harapan menyedut keluar kalori yang di isi tadi...

Lokasi ke-5: Buah Cicah, Butterworth

Eeeeeeeee.... Sedap.... sangat suka....

Lokasi ke-6: Rumah Nando & Emme, Perda Bt Mertajam

Ini adalah sesi pre-housewarming. Pasangan tuan rumah baru berpindah seminggu dan kami sangat berbesar hati menerima undangan mereka. Di sini, kami dihidang dengan jamuan ringan minum petang. Ouhh sedap sungguh nescafe BB buat! Setelah berehat-rehat dan agak-agak dah rasa ada ruangan sedikit di perut masing-masing, kami pun berangkat ke lokasi seterusnya, lokasi akhir.


Lokasi ke-7: Juru - Nasi Ketam

Mengikutkan perancangan, kami mahu makan di tempat ini:

Memang sodap la nasi ketam di sini. Malangnya, tempat ini tutup pada hari itu. Selalunya dibuka pada hari Ahad... hmmm... apakan daya... namun, worry not! Di perkampungan itu, ada beberapa lagi pilihan tempat makan yang tidak kurang hebatnya...

Kami memilih restoran ini:

Menariknya tempat ini, adalah ia betul-betul bersebelahan jeti nelayan... or you can say, kinda attached to it.

Permandangan matahari mula terbenam. *kawasan paya bakau.

Si Bangau menangkap ikan dgn bantuan cahaya matahari yang makin malap.

Menu yang dicari-cari: Masak Ketam

Ada yang memilih Udang sebagai hidangan. Mee Udang antara pilihan fofular kt sini.

Destinasi akhir ini merupakan dinner kitorang, dan dengan itu mengakhiri projek jalan-jalan cari makan Siri II. At the end of the day, semua orang pulang dengan kekenyangan dan heppi.

reincarnation of a bookworm

Went to the library (after some nano years)… I borrowed 4 books... weeee...

Library is a mysterious place.

It is! Simply because that’s how I remembered it when I was younger. The primary school library was a dark place (tak cukup illumination), with 60% of the books beyond readable. Hard covered, dusty, yellow n dust catching pages, small writings, and traces of book worms. Sure didn’t look like it would attract kids 7-12 years old right? I heard that place has changed a lot, with replacements of furniture and books over the years. But all I can remember… it was a mysterious place.

Libraries got less and less mysterious as I grow up… the secondary school library had wider range of choice of books. But hehe… I secretly had an obsession over older books… a section where not many would end up in. Reading on science discoveries and encyclopedia (seriously weh) when the rest hunt for Tin-Tin series and Heinemann books. Oh ya.. Heinemann’s books... I was after those books too :P so I was not a total weirdo all the time lah.

I hated matriculation’s library… a boring place with number of tables more than the books. The library was used for Prep-session, which I hated to attend. There were no good books to read, so all I did was chat with friends despite getting annoyed stares from the good and behaved ones :P

Then the Uni library. I remember this library! I was there during a field trip when I was 13. At that time, I saw some students reading some thick-thick books with small-small writings with their face almost kissing the pages… “Is this life in uni? dun tell me we gonna have to really read all those thick-thick things?” Horror sight for a 13 -year old!

One year passed in Uni and I didn’t even go 2the library to borrow books… When I was in my 2nd year, I needed to borrow a book, but was clueless of the number of books allowed and period of loan. A junior had to tell me the info… haha… and I never remembered. If I needed to borrow one (once in a blue moon), I had to ask and re-ask :P Haha… I usually google things up rather than spending time in the library. In these once in a blue moon occasions, whenever I go to the library to look for some books, I like the feeling of walking in between the racks n books. Makes me feel so… urmmm… educated! Gagaggagagaha… feel so bookworm-ishh.. like bangga berbunga-bunga. Hahahha…

How things have changed huh… I used to love spending time in a library, but now… it feels like nostalgic and like walking into a museum when I walk into a library… teruk betoi… Apa ni? (Blame the Internet!) I am officially back as a student now… So after this recent visit to the library, I bernekad not to be too alien to a place called a library. I want to feel bookwormish again… konon...

When u say "Sweet Dreams", make sure u don't use numbers

I'm a dreamer.

Some people have dreams occassionally, some just once a while, and some rarely. Me? I Dream! I dream almost everynight... I know, some of my close friends who I at times torture with my dream stories are rolling their eyes right now. Mwahahaha.... Like "No, not about your dreams again" Hahahhahaa.....

I dream sooo much... most of the times, I don't pay attention to em. But if the 'storyline' in my dreams involve some friends or sound interesting, they will be victimised with my stories.

I can recall back my dreams from as early as I was 5. What can a 5 years old kid's dream be like? Some 3-4 monsters circling around the dining table. Round and round... and round and round... and... round and... Ok... I think they get the point!

There's one dream that has been bugging me for quite some time though. I just dreamt about it again a few days ago. A dream where I'd be back in secondary school, in Form 5. I love it when my dreams transport me back to the memories of school days because at times, they just felt so real (revisiting places I used to hang out, joking and running around with friends). But sometimes, this dream would be interupted with an anxious feeling.

I would have a feeling that I have not prepared anything for my SPM, specifically for Add Maths. Suddenly, towards the end of the dream, I would be feeling worried-sick that the big exam is just around the corner and I have not studied a thing, especially Add Maths. I dunno how to put this feelings into words... Like "u start to feel butterflies in your stomach"-kinda feel. It feels like my whole future was at stake and I was not ready. Yalaa.. big exam kan.... and it was as if I was totally clueless and unprepared. I'd be awake after a while, feeling a bit anxious. By then, I'd realise it's just a dream and boleh tarik nafas lega.

I don't dream about this very often though. But I have this dream like from time to time... after a few months or years... but the feeling is the same = worried and Not prepared!

Hmmmm.... but why Add Math? This has to go in X-Files.... kan kan....

Since it's a repeating event, I had some time analysing this X-Files of mine. I've thought of some possibilities:

1. I was a lazy student who never did her Add Math homework. I used to leave my homework blank until the following lesson, I'd be the one asking most questions when Mr.Lo announced to the class "Any questions you want to discuss?" I'd fill in the blanks when the answers were discussed and written on the blackboard. It's weird... I'd do all other subjects' homeworks except for Add Math...Could this be the reason??
2. I never liked tuitions. But the only subject I chose to enrol for tuition was Add Math... I'd be listening to what Mr.Rao taught and tried to remember and understand them. But.. again.... I never did the homeworks.
3. For our debate team, we each had our "so-called bombastic" introductions. Elena, first speaker "As long as Titanic remain sunk, and shall never sail again, I will stand affirm with....." Prema, second speaker "As long as the electron....bla bla bla..." and mine was, "As long as the formula of the roots of quadratic equation is negative b plus minus square root of...bla bla bla" (LOOK at the FORMULA wehh... damn long....) Why on earth did I use that as my intro? Never did AddMath homeworks... got guts to use it for some literature purpose some more!
(maybe I should ask Elena if she has dreams of Titanic ship or... Leonardo di Caprio, maybe? :P)
4. SPM revision? I would do some exercises from revision books, just to get familiar with the structure of the questions and answers. A few days before the paper, I memorised the important formulas for every sub-topics... so even there were certain questions I couldn't answer... I wrote down the relevant formulas and fill in any numbers I'd see in the question, just to bag some marks from my answers... Maybe my method of studies/ answering had violated Pythagoras' theorem or some algebra ethics?? so.. i'm haunted?
5. Maybe Mathematics keep haunting me because I was supposed to take up Math course in my tertiary studies??
6. Or... maybe my Soulmate will be a mathematician?? :P:P HAHAHAHA.... oppss... lari topik!
7. Or is it a sign or a reminder not to take things for granted?

Added: Truth be told, as responded in the comment, I was very playful and kind of carefree during SPM (teruk rite :P). When the whole class would be intensely doing their own revision, I would jump around finding people who I could entertain or sembang2. At home, my sis would be studying for PMR and I would be on TV... Hmmm... Maybe I was too relaxed last time, that the anxiety had been diluted and dispersed into my dreams... possible, no? :S :S but still... why addmath?

But if the Add Math-phobia is a price to pay in order for me to get dreams of beautiful memories of my school days... I'll write the cheque... But then again, I don't really have a choice of what to dream when I fall asleep rite? HAHA....

With That....

GOOD NITE u ollss....

SWEET DREAMS... (or should I say sweet-non-mathematical-dreams) Ahakss....
Sleep tite... ZzzZzzZzzz....

dancing to the throne

This week I did 2 unpredictable things...

1. I went to a camera shop to trade in my flash lite... I end up trading my D60 camera for a second-hand D300. My D60 buyer happened to be one of my friends I brought along to survey camera in the same shop. I misssss my D60 soooo so very much now...

2. I bought something from eBay.

Number 2 is a norm to some people... What is so unpredictable about buying things online? :P Well, it is for me. I am a very skeptical person. I don't think I can buy things I don't physically see. What is happening to me? Doing unpredictable things lately? Ayyaa....

Btw... I bought THIS!






HAHA...

I went to Forever 21, where Jane bought a tiara crown a few weeks ago. Found it. RM39.00. Nice... I liked it. But then, the tiara is not tudung-friendly. For someone wearing a tudung (hijjab), it will be impossible to keep the tiara still.


Since my "expertise" is on Malay wedding, and most my clients wear tudung, I needed a tiara that can fit them. Was not able to find it.

I need a Tiara to cater for outdoor shooting, in case the couple have returned their accessories back to the bridal house.

So I tried eBay. Found a few nice sites with some interesting tiara. I prefer something more simpler, but then I don't think too-simple will look outstanding for tudung, so I went for this one. I really hope it looks nice in real life... ?Need to wait another 1-2 weeks to verify that.

RM 20.00, plus shipment and insurance = RM52.00. Ok laa kan...

I wanted to buy this one. If you notice, there's a heart shape in the middle. It is also simple and fancy at the same time. Eh.... wait!! Why didn't I buy this one??? I am confused! I think it's because it was still on bidding, I didnt want to risk losing it in a bidding... so I went for the one I bought. Huhu....


I like this one: SIMPLE! But looking at it a few times.... it looked more like a hairband than a crown. But I like it... simple and clean. Will look perfect on elegant/contemporary hair-do.


Hehe... was one of my considerations. It has a classic look, but then it won't fit with Malay attires very well. A bit too medieval and too fancy.

Then I saw this... A butterfly? I hope no one wears this for a wedding photoshoot... hihi...

There are some pinky stuff that caught my eyes... I like this one. I think this one is cute, it'll look sweet on a soft/classical hairdo and also will suit garden concepts.
I get so carried away.... tsk tsk tsk....
Weihhh..... Crown shopping is FUN lah !!!!

:D

Revisiting

I used to blog here from 2005 to mid 2006... then I closed my blog (for some unidentified reason), deleting the posts, but kept em in my PC. I didnt know how to delete the blog back then, so I just left it until I realised that my account is still available. 

I blogged back, using friendster's blog. Haha kinda normal syndrome among bloggers eh... change2 blog laa... apa laa.. hhahaha...


I switched back to blogspot as it's easier to link friends etc.. and I dragged along my previous posts from friendster blog here. So what happens to my previous posts from this blog before I decided to "close"? Hehehe.. just for my keep, I guess...

I happen to go thru these files... and reading it back, makes me smile... coz this is one of the posts I'd read and read and read back... Not because I sooo siok sendiri (mungkin jugak, haha)... but because it brings back good memories... good feelings :-) I just want to repost here, so dat I can read back any time I want... (without having to search for the files in my digital treasure box)... for old time sake...

Some posts are re-posted here :P