tribute to daddy

More often than not, people would ask me, how come you’re in private practice? Why didn’t you join judiciary? Why didn’t you follow you father’s footsteps? One person even said to me, “kalau I jadi you, mesti I dah jadi Majistret sekarang.” While some would tell me, “Mesti senang kan you nak deal dengan orang2 di court bila tengok nama bapak you.” Not really but yes, it has its ups and downs. I am proud to carry my dad’s name but that also means that I am carrying a heavy burden on my shoulder, especially in my profession. People would expect me to be at a certain level, their expectations would be so high and of course I couldn’t afford to screw up. In the event that I do (which I hope I won’t), not only will I be malu but my dad also will be malu! Someone once asked me, “your father garang tak di rumah? Di court memangla dia garang but di rumah?” To which I answered, “kalau tak garang, tak jadi orang la I adik beradik.”

So dad, Happy Father’s Day to you. Thank you for making me the person I am today. I think I get my garang-ness from him lah. heh~

not a weekend project

the last time i was in Cold Storage, i bought this genius little invention. this is a perfect invention as baking a real no-bake cheesecake would be such a hassle and requires a lot of time. read here under the post "my first". if you're in a hurry or intends to make a little treat for that special someone, this will definitely do the trick. you can always tell them that you baked it from scratch though.

it was not so smooth because the mixture has started to set. perhaps next time i should put the mixture in a piping bag and pipe it out on the little cups.

i presented this box to the Boyfy. i am such a model girlfriend. he better count his blessings. hahaha. as for the writings, go figure.

even though the box says it's a 'real cheesecake', nothing could beat a real real cheesecake. taste-wise, nice and yummy but not so cheesy. however, the Boyfy loved it and my brothers loved it so I'm happy. the whole box could make about 20 pieces i think but i only get to eat two pieces. alternatively you can prepare it in a baking dish.

this weekend's project will probably a hunting session for more genius inventions. =)

all the more reason

Some people say it is not good to hate Mondays since it is the Penghulu Hari. As much as I hate Mondays, I think somehow rather it is the matter of the mind. I mean, I could hate every other day if I want to, right? So I tried not to really hate Mondays and try to be positive but then fate has to play its part too. Just when I was starting to be positive, it had to happen on a Monday.

I came home yesterday only to find the maid missing. Missing as in disappear as in nowhere to be found, nowhere to be seen, nowhere to be traced, kapish. No wonder when I called home, nobody picked up the phone. I checked her room and none of her stuffs were there except for a blue ‘gucci’ towel. The good thing is, at least she didn’t leave the kitchen in a mess (except for a used frying pan ughhh) and had already picked up the clothes. These kinds of stories are always reported in the newspapers and now it happened to us. I dread to think about situations where the maid left the house and leave little kids all by themselves. So far, I don’t think anything major is missing, alhamdulillah. But then I won’t know because she might have picked some stuff that we are unaware of. The thought that somebody might have come by to the house to pick her and they may have duplicated the house keys sends shivers down my spine. It is surprising to know that she had made ‘friends’ (if at all, unless she’s so used to KL and knows where to go and how to get there) here because she has only been here for about 2 weeks. Apart from that, she said she’s worked in Sg. Petani back in the 90s. I guess these people can never be trusted. No matter how nice and well you treat them, they will somehow rather betray you, in one way or another. We have changed the house keys and I hope the house is safe. Now we have to go through the trouble all over again to get a new maid.

On top of that, lil bro’s handphone was snatched yesterday while walking from Pavilion to KLCC. I am sure that his life will no longer be the same without his phone on his hand, 24/7. This happened while he was walking while sms-ing. Heck, he’s always sms-ing anyway. It is indeed a tough lesson to learn. Unfortunately he did not get to see the motorcycle’s plate number as it happened so fast and he said the motorcycle was berasap. If only he had pulled back the phone strap slightly stronger, the pencopet could have fallen from his bike and he could beat him to death.

Yesterday also I literally mengamuk with the people from Streamyx as they said that we could not have internet connection due to the large number of people using it in our area and that they have limited number of ports(?). Now we are put on the waiting list and they can’t even tell me what number I’m on in the list. I was so pissed off that I told the person, “lebih baik awak dengar saya mengamuk kat telefon daripada saya pergi sana, mengamuk kat sana. Yang mana satu awak nak?” If they had told me in the very first place that the area can no longer have internet connection whatever, I wouldn’t have signed up and registered for the so-called combo, would I? It is simply ridiculous. Now they’re telling me that unless and until someone terminates their line, then only we can have ours, that is if we are number 1 on the waiting list. i am waiting for them to call me today and explain or else I'm so gonna serang TMpoint. just wait and see.

So there. And it all happened on a Monday. Of course, it was a coincidence.

nothing is free

…except dreams. For now, I can only dream about driving my dream car, which has somehow turned into a nightmare. Unless, I marry find a dying old filthy rich, multi-millionaire geezer, make sure he transfers all his worldly possessions into my name and then kill him die.

Of course, I am just kidding. Duuh. i told the Boyfy this so-called 'plan' of mine and that after I got all the worldly possessions, I will marry him. hahaha. alternatively, I suggested to him that we migrate to other parts of the world. he just shook his head. hahaha. the things he have to put up with, that poor guy. I told him this when i made him he teman me refill my tank the other day.

Terima Kasih negaraku tercinta. pfft. the least they can do to ease the rakyat's anger over the fuel price hike is to declare a public holiday on Monday in conjunction with the Agung's birthday tomorrow. those in favour, say aye!

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