attention ladies

dear lady drivers ladies,

if you happen to be very lucky to drive your boyfriend's/your dad's/your sugardad's/your husband's a huge ass car, i suggest you drive with style. by style i mean drive confidently and look good driving it. what's the point of driving a huge ass car with excellent engine with god knows how many horse power whatever when you drive at 60 kmph in the highways? and please do not put the seat at a straight 90 degree angle. and it does not help that your seat is as near as possible to the steering wheel. if you are not confident or brave enough to drive the huge ass car, i suggest you drive a cute little car like mine. please, your boyfriend's/your dad's/your sugardad's/your husband's car the huge ass car is not made of some fragile glass that you need to drive at a snail's pace. come on! langsung takde style lah! one more thing, if you don't know how to drive an automatic car, by all means drive a manual car because you keep on braking every five seconds and i seriously wish that either we are on the bump-bump car track or i'm driving a monster truck so that i could hit you and smash you real hard from the back.

this is just a piece of 'friendly' advise from one lady to another. thank you.

yours truly,
unlady-like driver who is not lucky enough (yet) to drive a huge ass car

weekend project part 7

There was this pizza recipe in saturday's nst so i thought of trying my hands at making one, or two. At first i thought of making the dough myself but it would be so much hassle and i wasn't really in a rajin mode so this came to the rescue.

The thing about pizzas is that the possibilities are endless so you can put anything and everything your heart desires and you can put as generously as you want. So i top some smoked beef pepperoni, button mushrooms and mozarella cheese on one crust while i top another with sliced smoked chicken, button mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, minced meat and mozarella cheese.

PIZZA ONE

PIZZA TWO

COOKED PIZZA TWO

i didn't take a picture of the first pizza after it was cooked because it was a bit on the hangus garing side. the stupid recipe said to set the temperature at its highest, which is 250 degrees centigrade for 12-15 minutes. mana x hangus my pizza! as for the second pizza, i turned down the temperature a bit and it turned out just the way it should be except that it was a bit soggy because the oyster mushrooms produce water. hmmpphh.

note to self:
1. buy a proper pizza pan for future pizza-making sessions (as you can see, i used a dulang for the second pizza hahaha)
2. buy a pizza cutter
3. never put oyster mushrooms on pizzas. i thought i saw Jamie Oliver use oyster mushrooms on his pizza. or was it shitake mushroom?

excuse me...

when people approach one person and asks for direction, the person must answer politely and with a sweet smile. but what are the odds that people approach you and ask for direction all the time when there are other people around? this happens to me most, if not everytime i go to court. don't take me wrong. it's not that i don't like people approaching me or it's not that i'm too good to answer them or give them directions but it happens all the time that it makes me think, "do i look like a muka kaunter pertanyaan?" huhuhuh~ i told a friend about this and he said that those people are trying to approach me as in nak mengorat or konon-konon nak kenal. funny what he said because most of the people who asked me were the defendants and most of them are either a pakcik or a makcik or someone who is old enough to be my dad. i mean, if some putera raja or hans isaac/tony eusoff/anuar zain yang approach, berbaloi la jugak, kan? hahaha~

weekend project part 6

the lil bro has been bugging me to bake a carrot cake and since we didn't get the chance to celebrate Mother's Day last week, i decided to bake one this weekend. besides, it's a long weekend. so off i went to Cold Storage in Great Eastern Mall and i almost spent an hour there just by looking and browsing at the oh-so-many imported stuffs. i even drool at belek-belek the many types of cheese they have on sale. oh don't get me started on the cookies, chocolates and cake stuffs they have. *drool*

THE INGREDIENTS + 4 EGGS

THE WALNUTS WAJIB ADA IF NOT TAK SEDAP

THESE TWO INGREDIENTS..

...ARE COMBINED WITH ICING SUGAR TO BECOME THIS

BEFORE

AFTER THE CAKE IS TURNED UPSIDE DOWN
*don't mind the uneven surface. it will be covered with cream cheese

TOLD YA!

THIS IS A GENIUS INVENTION I FOUND IN COLD STORAGE. I BELIEVE THEY COME IN MANY COLOURS BUT I SUPPOSE THEY WERE SOLD OUT. THE ONLY COLOURS LEFT WERE BLACK AND GREEN AND THIS WAS THE LAST TUBE OF GREEN GEL.

THE END PRODUCT

are you drooling already? hehe~ maybe i will post a picture of the cake when it's cut. or maybe not. anyway, have a great weekend to all and happy wesak day to those celebrating it. in the meantime, let's not forget about those unfortunate people in Myanmar and China. may God bless them.

tribute to mummy

due to some idiotic internet connection back home, i was not able to post this earlier but i believe it is never too late to wish my beloved mummy and all mummies, mummies-to-be, new mummies out there A VERY HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY. without you mummy, i won't be standing where i am today. thank you for everything. yes, we may have our differences, our arguments and whatnot but what's a mother-daughter relationship like without one, no? i love you with all my life. *hugs*kisses*

Tag 1

The Rules :
1. Each blogger must post these rules first.
2. Each blogger starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
3. Bloggers that are tagged need to write on their own blog about their eight things and post these rules. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
4. Don't forget to leave them a comment telling them they've been tagged, and to read your blog.

1. I’m a contest junkie. I love entering contests, be it in the newspapers, magazines, online and also radio contests. It started out after SPM when I entered this one contest in Youth2 (a newspaper pullout in NST for teens) where I won two tickets to see the Disney movie The Emperor’s New Groove. And the rest, they say is history. To date I have won perfumes (Burberry Brit for Men, Body Shop and Armani Night for Him & for Her), movie passes, cosmetics, shampoos, CDs, t-shirts, movie merchandise, a limited edition Swatch watch, Osim thermometer, Munchy’s hamper and lunch with celebrity impersonator, tickets to The Sound of Music and Fame the Musical, some cash, food vouchers, entry passes, Maybelline makeover and a return ticket to Bangkok. The best thing that I have won so far was my *CLK. Last week I called in Red 104.9 and won a goodie bag of some sort for mother’s day. Now that I’ve won a car, I want a bigger car but Lady Luck chose not to smile on me for the CIMB Dream, Deposit and Drive Contest or the Petronas Super Car Craze. I already see myself driving away with the real CLK and/or the Mini Cooper. But it would be awesome to win a house too or some huge sum of cash, don’t you think?
2. I am the most impatient person I know and it is definitely something that I am not proud of. I will never win MTV’s boiling point, that’s for sure. If there was a patience-booster pill of some sort in the market, I’ll run to the store and be the first to buy.
3. I hardly take rice. The only times that I take rice is probably during the weekends, when the parents are around. But I don’t know why I’m still like this. Oh, I think it’s the sinful stuffs that I take along the way hahaha.
4. I love watching cartoons. Until today, I still watch cartoons. I think I’m the only one in the house who watches Nickelodeon, Disney Channel and Cartoon Network. I also love animated movies. It’s my must-see kind of movie.
5. I can be happy just by smelling freshly baked bread, freshly brewed coffee and Famous Amos. I’m happy just by looking at cakes, chocolates, donuts, buns and other desserts on display.
6. Since I don’t have any pets anymore, I can spend hours in a pet shop looking, ooh-ing and aaah-ing at the cute pets (iguanas, lizards, reptiles, spiders, crabs and the like not included).
7. I would tegur any cat I see, be it stray cats, cats at the kedai mamak, cats in the longkang, cats inside someone else’s gate. Basically I would say “meow” to any cat I see, with the hope that they would respond and come to me. Speaking of cats, there was this fluffy orange cat that makes our house as his own. He sleeps on dad’s car or bike (this, memang cari nahas because dad just couldn’t stand the sight of the cat), sits on the fence looking cute and regal at the same time as if he is one of the lights and drinks from the fish pot. Since he is super cute and fluffy, I would quietly try to call him and umpan him with the hope that he would be all manja and come to me but no luck. Instead he would run away. Mentang2 la comel and gebu!
8. I'm a sucker for horoscopes. I love reading them. The problem is, I only like what I read if it says something good or something that really kena. If it says something interesting but it didn't happen, I'd go "penipu! takde pun" or "tak jadi pun" hahaha. But I don't totally believe them. I'm just reading it for fun.

so there. the eight not-so-random-anymore things about me. I hereby tag...
1. Eyzzah
2. Cik Angah Lee
3. Azim Pele Pele
4. LittleHid
5. Cikin Bonitadiosa
6. Ida Tway Blade
7. Len Bukan Nama Sebenar
8. Cikgu Yuz

If rajin, buat la ye. If not, kindly ignore.

*Cute Little Kancil

weekend project part 5

for a person who is konon2 beria nak kurus, diet, lose weight, inches and what not, this is what one should eat.

FRESH SALAD

but instead, that one person has little or no willpower when she was introduced to this by her lil brother who says it's so sedap, heavenly, creamy and yummy. so that person just HAVE to try, doesn't she?

just look at those gorgeous vanilla cream oozing out. who can resist?? not me! gosh apparently this has become my new addiction. i can resist those holey, round thingy but this, so far i have succumbed not once but thrice.

and to make matters worse, i made these on Saturday.

YET ANOTHER GENIUS INVENTION

THE INGREDIENTS

MIX IT ALL UP

BEFORE

AFTER

THE END PRODUCT

DUST LIGHTLY (OR GENEROUSLY) WITH ICING SUGAR AND ENJOY

thankfully i still have about 10 days left at the gym so i am gonna try to make full use of it. but it doesn't help that Beard Papa is located in the same building. tsk tsk. told ya life's a biatch.

the Saturday night that was

I am pretty sure almost everyone subscribe to Astro nowadays. Even houses in rural areas have Astro. What do you get when you subscribe to the only cable service available, which has no competition? You get really lousy, bad and f***ed up service. Hujan sikit, service unavailable. Wtf? Despite numerous complaints, nothing has been done by Astro to improve its services. Why? Because they have no competition. Look at telco service provider. Almost everyday they come up with new plans, gimmicks, promotions etc to attract customers. Simply because they have competition.

After numerous complaints (and warning?) Astro decided to change its smart card to a new, gold-colored smart card. I thought with this new so-called improved smart card, the service would be better. So I followed the instructions with the hope that everything would be updated on time for me to watch Konsert AF but the screen showed “Please insert smart card.” I tried a few times, inserted the new card, switched off the whole thing, switched it on again, took out the card, inserted it back in but still it appeared the same. Hmm. I have no choice but to call the Customer Support Centre. However, I find it absolutely annoying and a total waste of time when you call something and the operator would tell you to press 1 for something, press 2 for another thing, press 3 for yet another thing and the list goes on. I was put on hold forever and had to put up with the annoying voice of the operator telling me about its services, packages and what not, until finally someone answers the phone. Every minute that pass by, my boiling points raised one notch. Blame it on the hormones but too bad for the guy who answered my call. I told him I couldn’t get the service so he instructed me step by step as to what to do, which I did. Then he told me that after 10 minutes or so, service will resume. After 15 minutes, the screen showed that the decoder is being updated and it will take 10 minutes. I waited for another 10 minutes or so. Nothing happened. Half an hour later, I am sure that I’ve missed one if not two performances by the singer wannabes AF students. I dialed the 1-300 number again and again, I had to endure the annoying voice. Every now and then it would say to me, “Harap maaf. Talian kami sedang sibuk. Anda akan dilayan sebentar lagi.” (or some crap to that effect). Once, twice or thrice, I can accept but try six, seven, eight times! I feel like throwing my phone to the wall or smashing the decoder but that would be stupid. After almost 15 minutes later, somebody finally answered my call. Since I was put on hold for about 15 minutes, missed the concert, wasted my phone bill and have imbalanced hormones, I literally mengamuk to the poor guy. But seriously, I couldn’t care less. He apologized saying that a lot of people were calling. I said to him, “mesti ramai orang call sebab ada masalah, kan? Konon nak upgrade system, tapi lagi teruk ada!” To which he replied, “itu saya tak tau la kak” then I said, “aaaa kalau awak tak tau, ni saya bagitau. Kalau takde masalah, takkan semua orang call, complaint segala! Takkan dan dan ni semua orang call!” I suppose he checked the system and said that it was supposed to be ok. If it’s ok, I would’ve gotten the service and wouldn’t have called, would I? Finally he said to me that he will have to send me another smart card and send a technician over and it can only be done in 72 freakin’ hours. I was like, WTF? I said to him, “habis tu, tak dapat tengok lah ni? Bil bayar bulan bulan, tapi servis teruk. Ni kalau tak dapat tengok ni, bil jalan jugak kan? Kalau lambat bayar, itu jam korang potong. Kalau macam ni, patutnya tolak la dari bil saya!” He replied coolly, “kak, macam ni, nanti akak boleh call bagitau berapa lama tak dapat servis dan kita akan pro-rate bil akak.” Then I said, “OK, saya akan make sure bil saya ditolak. And suruh technician awak datang malam. Tapi make sure call saya dalam tempoh terdekat ni untuk arrange bila technician awak akan datang. Kalau tak, saya akan pergi ke office awak jumpa CEO awak sendiri. Nama awak siapa?” *evil laugh*

So I have ruined someone’s Saturday night. And my Saturday night. Damn it. Confirm that guy menyesal that he was the one who answered my call. Seriously, these people should be taught a lesson. Doesn’t anyone out there want to come up with a new cable TV service? Let’s give Astro a run for their money, shall we?

By the way, the technician came over last night.

nuts over numbers

i don't know about you but i don't think i like the idea of rounding up the cents to the nearest number. the tagline is "JIMAT DAN SENANG KIRA". the JIMAT part, i may agree but SENANG KIRA? i beg to differ. well you see, for a math bimbo someone who sucks at numbers, counting and anything to do with maths (by suck, i mean really suck-my bimbo-ness with numbers started even when i was little where i would always get the numbers 6 and 9 mixed up so i think it is justified that i suck really bad) like yours truly, i find it so bloody confusing. i always have this puzzled look on my face when the cashier returned my change. so embarrassing. i always have those copper coins in my purse so i have no problem paying things that costs say RM 8.24. but now no more. bye bye one cent coins. i think it is troublesome having to do some mental calculation to round up the figures. pfft.
that aside, what would you do if you have paid for something that costs RM 9.95 for example. you give the cashier RM 10. of course you would wait for your 5 cents, right? but most cashiers would tell you, "duit lima sen takde lah kak." how would you react? i mean, it is your money, although only 5 cents. would you just walk away? you might think, "takpelah, lima sen je." if you do, you're the loser here. imagine ten people walked away, that would add up to 50 cents already. but if you insisted on your 5 cents, would that make you a cheapskate? the cashier might give you one of those looks as if the word "CHEAPSKATE" is stamped on your forehead. as consumers, we have the right, don't we? imagine giving the cashier RM 9.90 for something that costs RM 9.95, would you be able to buy the item? no, right?
i honestly don't know what i'm crapping about here so i better stop but the point here is, i hate maths and numbers.

work it out

Some time last month, two people came to my office and promoted this RM30 for 30 days membership at True Fitness so I thought; I should give it a try. So the other day off I went with my officemates and we were greeted, attended to and treated very nicely. They even called me a few times confirming my attendance. We were each assigned a trainer and unfortunately I got a female trainer. How boring Anyway the trainer was friendly, a bit too friendly, which made me feel weird. First she said that I look like a twenty year-old. Right. Then she said I’m cute. Uh huh. And then when I was about to ride on one of those machines, she said, “ala cutenya cara u naik benda ni.” Hmmm. And when I was looking myself into the mirror, she said, “dah lawa dah.” Ok, that was it, I thought. It struck my mind, “is this girl lesbian?” Not that I’m anti-lesbo, mind you. I mean come on. How much can a girl compliment another girl, right? Of course I appreciate and was flattered with the compliments. Well, who doesn’t? But if a person compliments me a bit too much, I’ll start thinking that that person must have something fishy going on. Unless, of course, they are really sincere about it but I’ll never know, would I? Anyway I knew right from the start that it was just another tactic to make me feel appreciated and happy with their services that I would sign up for membership. Tough luck, guys. You ain’t foolin’ me easily. At least not with your sweet talk.

By the by, I didn’t know that the gym is full of hot cute trainers and customers. Hahaha. I told a friend about this and he said, “kalau nak pergi gym, niat kena betul. Ni dah lari niat ni.” Duuh. I said to him, “kalau ada trainers yang cute, lagila motivated I nak pergi gym, kan?” I’m sure I burned a few calories just by looking at them because my heart rate definitely goes up So my session with my trainer went well. She pushed me to the max. At the end of the session, it is the moment of truth. She gave me my evaluation. Apparently I am overweight, obese, in the red zone, have massive body fat, have no endurance, no strength and all things bad. Gaaaaah! I agree about being overweight, no endurance and no strength but obese? She showed me the figures and it is scary. If I am obese, I dread to think about those people who are bigger and fatter than I am. I seriously think that the figures are lying. It is probably one of their strategies, or ploys rather to get me to sign up. She suggested me to have a personal trainer for this whole month and guess how much it will cost? RM100 per hour per session, which she suggested me to take 8 bloody sessions!! That will be a whopping RM800 for one month. If I’m earning 5k per month, then that will not be a problem lah kan? They were very very persuasive but I managed to turn them down, much to their obvious disappointment. They tried very hard to sell us the package saying that with credit card, I get 0% installment yada yada yada. Somehow rather I am glad that I don’t have a credit card (yet). Yes, they were surprised upon learning that I don’t own a credit card. However I am pretty sure that I would have sign up if I have one. And this, my friends is one of the the reason why I am still contemplating refuse to apply for credit card.

And oh, as for my trainer, it was obvious that she was disappointed and perhaps angry that I did not sign up that finally she said to me, in a harsh tone and muka taik, “dah, sign sini!” I was like, wtf? So unprofessional. Pffft.

Now i better start thinking of another method of losing weight. Perhaps i should also cut down on the donut intake. tsk. Dunkin' session was done but i still have Big Apple to go. tsk. life's a biatch.