mother-young son' talks...

we (megat, who apparently already 11 years old [see, how times flies...] and i) were having breakfast this morning, when this conversations happened:

megat : mommy, chor (puteri) didn't get ready for school!

me: owh... she complaints that she is having stomach pain, must be because of period pain. see... susah kan jadi perempuan (isn't it difficult to be a female), have to overcome period and all(?)...

megat: ewwwww!!!...

gosh! how lucky am i that i didn't experience it for the whole of my life! yup! i am not lying. i have NEVER feel or come across the menstrual pain. but i can understand the pain, when i saw my darling puteri and most females that i know. their reaction explained it all... *phew* :)

'Like' please...

hey peeps!...

i guess i have never ask for some favor, but this time yes... i am asking for it for you people to 'Like' my daughter's post on project alpha's fb page. all you have to do is just to become a project alpha's fan. then click 'Like' on puteri's post here. tqsm for all your great help!

alright, that's all for now... i will come back for more updates! ;)

the first!

as you all know, today is the first for everything:

the first monday of the year ~ of course!

the first day of schools for many malaysian school-going kids ~ its not that bad for both my kids puteri and megat though; as this is already the 11th and 8th year of schools for puteri and megat respectively. they managed everything themselves, except for megat was a bit slow because of this *glurp* hah! i just have to ensure that they woke up on time, and also to make sure that they had a proper breakfast before i send them to school.

the first working day for those people who work with mat salleh (caucasian) ~ this applied no matter you are malaysians are not. you were entitled for 3-weeks holidays, from christmas right up to the new year! *phew*

the first week of my new 'project 365'! yes this gonna be a new version that i am gonna called it "project 365-10". i left the previous one at week #9. but then i remember that i thought even though i do not have the time to update it via my flickr album or this blog, i still have the materials as i tried my very best to snap at least a pic a day. so along the way probably i will do it no matter what. too bad i didn't manage to do it. in some days, either i forgot to take pic in a day or maybe nothing at all in that week *blerk* then i decided to just quit at where ever i stop updating, and start a fresh new one for this new year... ngeh³ :))

so what about you people. is there any first for you today?

the big day & 100th' blog post...

the title said it all. so let me start the day with~

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
(bismi-llāhi ar-raḥmāni ar-raḥīmi)
[translation: "In the name of Allah (God), Most Gracious, Most Merciful"]

this is being:

• my darling puteri will be sitting for her pmr exams with effective today.


• someone approached me yesterday for a business proposal on my cupcakes :)


• this is obviously my 100th' 1,000th' blog post! wohooo...

i am so blessed with all the above and hope that everything will go on smoothly as planned; amin...

kuE' update at 9.26 am:
this blog post is eventually my 1,000th nos and NOT 100th like mentioned earlier *glurp* walaweiii!!!... what ler i was thinking lol ;)

to my beloved darling puteri...

mama would like to wish you all the best in the pmr exams that will be started tomorrow. may you succeed with flying colours and achieved all your dreams... amin.

XOXOXO
mama!

kuE' note:
pic credit to my cousin niena and shamir. it was indeed has been taken at our well-known green room *winks*

of p/s...

i text this to both puteri and megat when the bus i was boarding from kl about to leave:

mommy boarded transnasional bus at 4.30 pm, frm puduraya. c both of u later!
lurve, mommy!

p/s puteri ada basuh baju?

and here's megat's reply:

K and p/s chor y.e.s. :-)

hmm... looks like something has to be taught here. or else i'll ask him first of what was he meant by that. or whether he knew of what was it mean. i know, sometimes not all acronyms are understandable by certain people especially kids. i did that just to make sure that they could learn. i know they will! :)

according to the free dictionary p.s. (sometimes i wrote it as p/s) or postscript means a message added at the end of a letter, after the signature [late latin postscribere to write after].

so basically p.s.s. means "post scriptum scriptum" which is the complete formula of the shorter "p.s." (written after what has been written)

if you mean an additional postscript, than it is p.p.s. : post post scriptum. nevertheless, sometimes i would write both of them without any dots: ps and pps.

of simpsonize me!...

this is too cool. thanx a lot to julian for recommending this. if you go to http://simpsonizeme.com you can upload a photo and make yourself a simpson. i thought you people would enjoy this. everyone needs to share their pics too. mine is as per attached—

now why not you try it too people. maybe you will look as good as me hiks!... =)

here's puteri:

and megat:

apparently i found another site the simpsomaker. but i didn't try it. i asked my kids to try it instead while i went for my exercise this morning. i dunno you, but looks like they prefer "simpsonize me" than the latter.

the day 14 years ago—

i became a mother to a cute baby, now a beautiful princess *wink*

My Special One...

When you were a little girl
We did so much together
Come rain or shine
It mattered not the matter

Now that you have grown
We still have so much fun
I want you to know
You are my special one

Happy 14th Birthday...
Puteri!

Love,
Mama
17/12/2008


kuE' note:
i printed the above poem in the birthday card i made for puteri.

what i did last 2 days...

i won't elaborate them in very details, but here's something than nothing.


yesterday--


as you could see, i met with my beloved sis sheryl for "lunch" at paddington house of pancakes (PHOP) @ the curve! that was not my first time though.

for those who dunno, here's something about this place-- it’s a nice light clean looking place with good service and reasonable prices, again not a place you’d have lunch every day unless you are loaded. they have a massively extensive menu with more different types of pancakes than you could ever imagine! normal pancakes, pankoeks, blitzes, galettes? yeah i didn’t know what any of them were either... go here for the story of PHOP. i definitely recommend checking out paddington house of pancakes if you haven’t.

the meet with sheryl supposed to be at 12.30pm but i was about 1/2 an hour delayed. i woke up late that's why! hehe... besides that i was driving from pandan area to see sheryl. at first i thought that i was gonna be very late but i was wrong. surprisingly i find that the road was not bad at all for a saturday (take note that i should reach there around an hour but then i managed to get there fast enough!). i could also easily locate for a parking bay. i guess maybe its because of the new gas prices! where people are trying to start saving for the future-- NO more eating outside, shopping, etc. people are tend to spend money wisely now.


the day before yesterday--


i went to have a late lunch with puteri and my sister at bangsar village' marmalade. a cheerful brightness greeted us as we entered marmalade. a whole side of the cafe is panelled from floor to ceiling with glass windows allowing malaysia’s pride, sunny skies, to show off its hues of blue, white and yellow. the walls, floors and furnishings are bathed in warm sunlight. this is the place to go for a lift of spirits.

i ordered teriyaki treat (pictured above). it has turkey meat in the sandwich. very delicious. i felt like wanna try puteri's lasagna but i scared that i can't finish mine at the same time so i just ignore my intention. o yes... that's puteri in the pic. can you people see of how fast my puteri has grown. even when we were there at marmalade, people thought that puteri is our youngest sister hahhahaa!!!...

we then headed to OU, where my lil' sis joined us there after work. you know what people. she asked me to make sure to come longer days the next time. it seems that she always find me busy meeting up with friends every time i am in kl. i guess its true. well i have worked there for many years before so you cannot blame me ;) anyhow friends to me are like gems--

a friend is a treasure
a friend is someone we turn to,
when our spirits need a lift.
a friend is someone we treasure,
for our friendship is a gift.
a friend is someone who fills our lives,
with beauty, joy and grace.
and make the world we live in,
a better and happier place.

my friday didn't complete there. all of them went back home but i drove to jalan bukit bintang to meet some ol' friends to catch up on things we missed and at the same time of course to wind down! since we stayed till very late so i end up slept over at a bestie' place in pandan area.

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to some of you who i didn't manage to meet, i am so sorry guys, probably some other time ya? in fact there are actually so many more people that i wish to meet, not just bloggers but also fb friends too... argghhh!!!... how i wished that i had more time. dun you think my lil' sis is right :)

the day we celebrate puteri's 13th birthday

first and foremost, i have just awoke then had a nice, great warm shower hehe... i doze-off at the family room's sofa around 6.30 pm, when most of them were still here lol... dah terbayor ler my hutang tido for last night... *phew*
well before i carry on writing, here's something that i would like to share with you people my inspirations. if you could see from my blogspot's dashboard' screenshot, my blog is approaching the 500th' post soon. hmm... wonder what i should write then. any ideas people? but please dun tell me to come up with something like "500 things about kuE". how long it gonna last then. whatever it is we will see how it goes. anyhow people, ideas are always welcome... just holla me occay?

yesterday was my mom's birthday. we didn't celebrate. but just some kenduri doa selamat along for the reopening of our premise. o yea... forgot to tell you people that we are back in business officially since last thursday, after temporarily closed for about six weeks or so. thus, so sorry my dear... i didn't expect that i would be sooo busy that time till got no time to entertain you. i was damn busy up and forth from here to sales office in ipoh and another office in prai. whats more with meetings with my other task force members. that time i always wished that i could have 25 hours in a day instead :~)

so since there were no celebration for mom, i just baked this (refer right pic). whats the red thingy in the mixer you asked? hehe... simply click here to read more about it.

after everyone went back, i started to bake again at night. this time for puteri and my sis' simple but meaningful birthday celebration, with our very closed family and friends. it was grandma's idea though. eventually she wanted to cook laksa johor for everyone. at first i just wanna bring them to penang... simple as that. besides that i haven't get puteri's present yet. you know when our kids were small, we can buy what we wanted for them, but as they grow older, i believe that its good to let them choose their own present. like puteri, she wanted an oly digital camera too! but of other model of course. well, maybe we will go jalan-jalan this weekend instead or see hows things goes on :P

so after i completed baking the birthday cupcakes around 1 am, i just slept on the sofa, infront of the tv at the family room. megat was sleeping there too. he always like that when i did my baking especially at night. it seems he wanna accompany me. i already awakes by 5 am to do the frosting for the cupcakes. go here to view more of the close-up pics.

i was getting ready for work by 9 am when megat asked me, "mama, you work on chor's* (this is what megat called his sister) birthday too?". owh... kids, you know of how cute they think people. so i told him that it was just for a while to make sure that everything was under control ;)

whatever it is i came back home around 12.30 pm to prepare some stuff for the party. like i said earlier, it was just a simple one, nothing fancy like megat's 8th birthday. anyhow we still get ready not more than 10 goodie bags, specially for puteri's small cousins. its just handmade paper bags from some recycle wrapping paper we have at home, consist of party size chocolates and snacks like chickadee (we use to have this during our school days remember, then danone started to produce them again), ngan yin's ground nut (or better known as kacang cap tangan), cadbury time out and zip, rice crackers (the one available at supermarkets where kids also adult love it so much) plus a hotwheels car for boys and two blue ribbon clips from maggie t for girls. although its not much, at least we were happy to see the happy faces of our small guest.

earlier when i was happily arranging the birthday cupcakes, my sister came. suddenly i was so damn shocked when she shouted, "WOIII!!!...". she quickly took the one with number, and ran away from me. in other words, both us siap main aci kejor lagik! lol... she locked herself in our parent room's toilet grr... after quite some time, i went back to the dining room. she followed me while teasing me like small kids. everyone were laughing like hell. she then ate the cupcake infront of me. when she saw me snapping her pics, she warned me not to load them in flickr wakakakaaa...

alright then people... here i leave you with some pics of the party. my favourite is the candid pic of puteri and my niece safiya. the last one showed safiya who was being shy, after we granted her wish to blow the candles too. "dunno ler of how many times we celebrated safiya's birthday in a year", safiya's mom (my cousin sarah) mumbling alone lol... viel Vergnügen!

today in history ~ 17 december 2006

caution: this post is gonna be rather long with lotsa pics and such. you know... i was supposed to post this on 17th, but i was damn busy to get near the pc. so here goes...

i have just reached home from penang by 10pm. i had to attend a full-day seminar in prai ler... well actually, i wanted to stay in kl for at least five to six days from the day i arrived there on friday. unfortunately i saw a fax from the company on last tuesday, asking us the whole northern region to meet in pearl view hotel for a seminar :(

the best thing was when one of the pakciks came to me and asked of why i was there. it seems my dad should come instead of me. you know what people? he thought that i was the bride lol... everyone were laughing like hell. he didn't realize that it was a male' name in the invitation card ;)

so i had breakfast with V yesterday morning at kopitiam near his office in plaza damas. the main reason was of course as usual to catch-up on things, besides to hand him my bro's invitation card for this saturday. guess what people, it was my first time there. ya lor... long time never come to kl what lol... i had nasi lemak while he had 1/2 boiled eggs with buttered toast. sorry no food pics this time hehe... not infront of V lol...

alright, let me just go straight to what i wanna post this time. there were quite a number of good and memorable events happened on this day of 17 december 2006.

1 ~ it was my lil' bro's wedding reception dinner for the bride's side at the legend hotel. like the akad nikah on saturday, the wedding planner for this event was pak abu too, who is well-known for his usage of fresh flowers. so we guess of no wonder that he (pak abu) didn't charge shafinaz anything for the hantaran (gift) during the akad nikah. that night, it was full of roses in the banquet hall. in fact i could smell roses everywhere! it was nicely done. kudos pak abu!

kuE's note: more pics can be viewed here.

2 ~ that day also was puteri's 12th birthday. i brought both puteri and megat to berjaya times square (that was my first time there i tell you). our intention was to just went there for jalan-jalan on puteri's birthday. we headed to starbucks for breakfast. since the mall has my favourite store MJ, i bought their school uniforms there. from there, we went straight to jusco 1U to buy a present for mom. we can't find what we wanted in MJ, that's why. we bought aramis life for her i.e. stefanie graf. we bought the same i.e. andre agassi' for dad on his 60th birthday last august. that's why. after that, we had our lunch at tgif. puteri even got a complimentary piece of chocolate cake, while some of the staff sang a birthday song for her.

besides that, puteri was absolutely surprised when VE sang a birthday song for her too. she was smiling all the way lol...

kuE's note:
i. sorry that the video pic was blur as we were laughing and that i was giggling too.
ii. leilanie dear, this video was the one that i tried to send you via mms ;)

3 ~ the same date also marked my sister's 34th birthday. she celebrated it with her friends during the day.

kuE's note: my sister's pic by liyin.

to celli & shafinaz, congratulations to both of you. may you two live happily ever after. lots of lurve from chor!

to my darling puteri, happy 12th birthday. luv from your mama!

to my sista, happy 34th birthday and many more years to come... love, chor!

the test

puteri's ballet test, grade 3 ~ 23 mar. '06

i was not in the office for two consecutive days, people! yesterday i went to bring my puteri to ipoh for her ballet test. while the day before i was in prai for a seminar-cum-meeting with our rsm. so it was basically about work work and work.

yesterday's was more pleasure i guess hehe... we (puteri and me) headed straight to coffee bean for breakfast as soon as we reached ipoh. i then sms Leilanie to be my guest blogger. read her post here. well, i guess once in a while, we have to create something different yea...

we went to the dance centre at 10.30am. puteri's ballet teacher ms tan did her hair as soon as we arrived. i was supposed to meet V after i send puteri to the dance centre. unfortunately he was still in kl, still stuck on some stuff. that was fine with me i think because i was the one whose gabra giler, my heart beat was beaten so damn fast. while i saw puteri like so relaxed. puteri and her team went in the dance hall at 12noon. they completed exactly before 1pm *phew*. like past years, we didn't go straight back home, but we dropped-by some malls in ipoh- it was also a mother-and-daughter day out! now i leave you all people with some of the pics that i took yesterday ;)

here's ms tan, doing puteri's hair.

nice bun, huh?!! ~ it was puteri's.

puteri and her team with ms tan.

puteri and her two friends waiting anxiously for their turn ;)

"its time to go in girls", ms tan said. she kissed every each of them on their cheeks, while wishing good luck.

kuE's note: if i didn't post anything for this few days, that means i will be in marina cove resort in teluk batik, lumut for a family day with the perak region friends. i promised that there will be more pictures! so to all you too people, have a nice and great weekend! mwahhh...

I'm a Guest Blogger, I am

Hello EVERYONE.......................

It's me, Leilanie from the SweetLeilanie blogsite.
A lot of people call me Lanie, but some just call me Leila - pronouncing my name as a whole, Leilanie, seems to be a mouthful to some people. So, I'm pretty much OK with anything as long as it's not Leleni, or Lennie, or Lelaki, or Elaine (yeh! the lady who does my hair calls me that).

How did I get here............ hmmm...........
Here's my SMS conversation with kuE at 9.55a.m :

kuE :
gm dear. fyi m hvng bfst wz pu3 @ coffee bean. she has 2 b at d dance centre at 10.20, jus a few blks away. i'd like 2 b my guest blogger if u r free. my id-xxxxxx n password-yyyyy. mwahh....

Leilanie :
Huh? Tak paham. :)

kuE :
fyi m having bfst wz pu3 @ coffee bean. puteri is hvng her ballet test 2day. i'd like u 2 b my guest blogger if u r free. my id-xxxxx n passwrod-yyyyy. mwahh.....

Leilanie :
oh ok. But what do you want me to write about? Anything specific? I have a meeting to attend now and can only do later, ok. My love and luck to your sweet Puteri for her ballet test.

kuE :
anything that comes out frm yp mind ;)

Leilanie :
Orait dear

kuE :
pu3 said tq. hugs n kisses 2 u.

Leilanie :
She'll do well......... Tell her she will........ Because she's an angel :)


So, I'm done with the 10am meeting with CXXX and the 12pm meeting with Bank MYYY, and am now happily typing away for kuE.

Then, I realised that I keyed in every single word - I spelled everything in full (look at the SMS above) .............. I crossed every single T and dotted all the I's; while kuE was just selamba-dek using all the shortcuts. No wonder I couldn't understand what she wanted me to do when I read her 1st SMS. hee hee.
But it's not her, it's just me. I'm such a %#$@&(*^#.
I admire people who can come up with such creative ancronyms.

So, to Pu3 from Auntie Leilanie - here's a special message to you, with love :
Gd luck 4 ur ballet test 2day. I knw U will ACE e' test. U R 1 talented girl N U will do well rgdless. Dance l'tle princess dance...... Study smart N play hard! Hugs N kisses 2 U fr aunt Lei.

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kuE's note:

Leilanie dear, thank you so much for being my guest blogger yesterday. it was such a fun and great idea isn't it. hmm... wonder whose my next victim lol. i guess you'd be wondering of how i came across all those ancronyms very well huh? well, i used to be a secretary and P.A. many years ago thats why hehe...

FYI i didn't change a thing on Leilanie's post except my cyber-nick name. it was supposed to be typed as such to emphasize the pronounciation correctly i.e. kuE ~ pronounced as ku - E ('e' as per the letter E) ;)

i am so sorry people for the misunderstanding. my nick-name kuE was given by an auntie whose also my dad's koleq's friend' wife. of course my real-life nick name is different. i guess maybe a few of my new friends knew like cikun, hasnul, rose (?), Leilanie (?) and Sheryl (?). Annamox also dunno my real-life nick name even if we have met once. sorry people i do not want to use my real-life nick name here in this cyber world. i hope you all understand me.

p/s- pics of puteri to be posted soon.

hugs, kuE

24 March 2006 (10:17)

my puteri & upsr 2006

upsr 2005 exam results that came out yesterday really makes me nervous. i dunno why. its not that i kave a kid that sat for the exam. my puteri only will faced hers next year. in fact my heart-beat started to beat so damn fast already. when is this gonna end? *phew*

i read leilanie's post this morning regarding her son's achievements. congratulations kawan! double kudos to emil too for the 5As. puteri is in kl now enjoying her school holidays. i just finished talking to her on the fon. she told me that my auntie nabilah (puteri's grand-auntie) got 3As and 2Bs for her exam. congratulations to you too, nabilah.

i never send puteri to any tuition class but i supports her by sending her to the extra classes organised voluntarily by her school teachers. besides that i bought (and will still carry on to buy) work books for her. we do it together unless i asked her to revise some of the hard stuff with her teachers in school. i also started to check-out links on upsr topics. i know this is hard especially for a single mom like me. whatever it is we'll prove to everyone that we could do it. anyhow from years ago, i've promised puteri that i will bring her for a holiday in down under (yes... australia) if she could do 5As. insya-Allah ;)

this is a special message for my puteri... good luck & all the best for your upsr 2006!