of a blog visitor from budapest

as i was checking my blog's statistics, i found out that i had a visitor from budapest in hungary who visited my blog via ok.hu —

my ubudiah mosque's pic attracted him/her to browse my blog weee...

so i guess this is important- where i was supposed to leave watermarks on my pics. you know... just in case someone stole your online pic kan kan... anyhow ya although it will take some time to do the process of leaving the watermark, definitely its for our own benefits!

alright people, i'm gonna see of what we gonna have for our second day of sahur now... ta!

*coming up: a blog post about our simple buka puasa meal for last night ;)

ramadhan is here...

may the festival of lights be the harbinger
of joy and prosperity
as the holy occasion of ramadhan is here
and the atmosphere is filled with the spirit
of mirth and love
here is hoping this festival of beauty brings your way
bright sparkles of contentment
that stay with you through the days ahead

our best wishes for you on ramadhan...

here's a reminder to all of you people no matter muslims or not, who is going to pasar ramadhan later in the evening:

• spend wisely


• bring your own food container, to save the environment people!

kuE' note:
pic of megat and i has been taken by my darling puteri on 10 july 2009. we were attending a kenduri organized by mom and her siblings at the ubudiah mosque. sorry people, puteri is so damn shy to take pics these days, what when redmummy said: and KuE ada Puteri yang hot, betullllllllllllll! =)

project 365: 8th week—

day 50 — i went to puteri’s school to meet the teachers and discussed about her achievements. i was waiting for my turn, then as usual i took out my oly to snap a pic for my project 365! :) i find that some people do not even bother to attend this day. for me, no matter our kids are good or not in their studies, we as the parents should make sure that we do our responsibilities. show them that we care!

day 51 — the next day was megat’s turn! here we were at yut loy, having some morning break while waiting for the time to fetch puteri in school hehee…

day 52 — i got megat to snap this pic for me. i wanted to show-off my first handmade backpack! that’s mine of course! i sew it according to my likes as per megat. he is 100% correct. that’s one best thing about handmade item; where you can do as whatever you wished, and it will be one-of-a-kind! i used black and white butterfly cotton from ikea. i simply lurve this fabric. i did patchwork for the front part, and added two butterfly appliquè that i cut from the same fabric. so if you like this, then you should visit my kualè girl designs page on facebook to view more of my collections :)

day 53 — help save lives with just one signature! i found this form in the sunday star paper. and because i care about the environment and nature, i quickly filled in the form and seal it to be posted the next time i went out to town—no stamps needed anyway, as it’s a paid postage. its to show my support for laws that will ban the sale and consumption of all turtle eggs throughout the country. go here to do this online.

day 54 — don’t wait! remember the tv and radio ads, that reminding publics to see the doctor whenever they don’t feel good. that’s what we did that day. megat was not feeling well, so off we went to the clinic as soon as he finished his mandarin tuition class. thank god its only minor thingy… *phew*

day 55 — another side of masjid (mosque) ubudiah. pic was a bit blur, not because it has been taken by puteri. i forgot to bring my oly, so i had to use my n76 instead… blerk! we were waiting in the car, for mama who was meeting the mosque’ imam.

day 56 — another pic while waiting. this one was at the junction going in to the d.o.’s bungalow. form 3 students had to attend klinik pmr this week, thus puteri also has to go back around 5+ pm huhuu…

project 365: 7th week—

day 43 — a pro in the making? puteri was so happy when her gong gong gave her his old DSLR camera. yes, an old one— the one that use film roll; in fact i can’t wait to see the results of the photographs that she snapped hehee… ;)

day 44 — this pic has been taken at approximately 7.18 am, just after i send-off puteri to school. the white building was the school’s hall. so if you know this road going down the resident‘s hill towards the jam besor (clock tower), i bet you could imagine of how bad the traffic was when we were late in the morning… not bad huh?!! what to do… so i entertained myself by listening to “you are not alone” by MJ via hitz.fm . he passed away that morning at about 5.21 am local time. i dunno about other stations, but hitz.fm spinned his songs for the whole solid day! *glurp* well people from young to old know him very well. may mikhail rest in peace… amin.

day 45 — kidz went to school on last saturday, to replace the upcoming raya holidays. the first day was few months ago. on the same day as well, an auntie married to my uncle here in kualè. yes, both of the newly wed are related to me J but anyhow ayah jap asked us to join their side instead. nevertheless since their parents passed away few years ago, they really need our help; especially bah who eventually knows about most of the adat resam of malay weddings very well. ayah jap is the bride’s big bro. he’s the one in pic who was trying to learn of how to tie a sampin, from my dad hehee… my father was the one with sampin koleq, of course weee…

day 46 — masjid (mosque) ubudiah at night.

day 47 — food recycle(?). pic showed me preparing some chicken sandwiches for the kids recess’ meals. the chicken was actually of some left over’s from the day before’ KFC take-out orders. see… we don’t just recycle plastics, papers and such; we do recycle food as well :) i always remind my kids of the importance of not wasting any good quality items. you must think of those who are not as lucky as us… amin.

day 48 — transformers fever is back!!! that bumblebee toy was for megat. but of course he paid me back RM15.90 *glurp* the thing is i am not buying him anymore toys at this age. so that means he has to find his own good way if he wish to get any. do i have to elaborate more on this? nah… i tell you what… i know that we still have my lil’ bro’s big box of transformers toys that my dad bought him about more than 20 years ago. i am very sure that its somewhere in the store. i WILL show it to the world as soon as i have the time to get it out from there! we still remember that the last time my lil’ bro played the toys with his koleq friends. they were here during one weekends in form one! hehee…

day 49 — any of you people are up for checkers and/(or) chess? gotcha!… this ain’t the normal checkers or chess board okay. its black and white fabric patchworks that i am in the mid of sewing right now. make sure you people get the updates on kualè girl page soon! :)

salam ramadhan...

so finally ramadhan 2008AD/1429AH is here. i would like to take this opportunity to wish all muslims in the whole world to have a nice ramadhan, hope you'll have a happy and blessed fasting month.

kuE's note:
masjid ubudiah -- ranking high on the list of malaysia's most beautiful mosques, the masjid ubudiah (ubudiah mosque) stands proudly and majestically in kuala kangsar. go here to know more about the history of this mosque :)

*pic taken at 7.03pm ;)

of where kuE live...

this is basically where i live, of which is my hometown too--


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can you see the railway station location there? our place is somewhere there ler... so if any of you people happened to be here, knock! knock! ler occay? ;)

eas some of you people may know, i am so glad of this wonderful royal town of kuala kangsar, in the state of perak, malaysia. i blog about it many times, like this one, or maybe i shall ensure to type in "kuala kangsar" in each post' label columns.

part of kuale's landmarks are like istana (palace) iskandariah and masjid (mosque) ubudiah and the recent one like jambatan (bridge) sayong. go to knizam's this blog entry for night views of the bridge. i found a wonderful blog post about kuale in this blog. it can be a very good guide for whoever wanna visit the town too. tqsm!

you know what people... its been so sad and shameful that some local people, mainly in other states especially, still dunno of kuale's location. well enough said if i answered to their inquiry, they know that its in perak, ok ler tu... but too bad they will happily said, "ohh... perlis?" duh!... like recently, a new bank officer that has been transfered to a local bank said the same thing. what a shame! worked in the bank industry some more... do i have to mention the name of the bank here? hehe...

a new online friend i met yesterday at scrabulous site, happily said that our country is-- "interesting, a place with lots of fish farming". fyi this is the main reason for this blog post. a former supervisor at a hotel i worked in subang jaya before, told us that his university mate in switzerland only knew about penang, when he mentioned about the country ;) well its better than nothing right. some knew us because of klcc. whatever it is find out more about malaysia truly asia from the tourism malaysia site here. there are even some special campaigns for visit states of terengganu, kedah and kelantan this year. so make sure you check it out ya... cuti-cuti malaysia...

the indon clans story

my grandmother's late elder sister married a guy (decease) from medan. that's how roughly we attached to the indonesian heritage a bit ;) unfortunately i have never been there yet. even kechik is likely knew more about it than me! lol... cuz she traveled there often. read more about her java travels here. i know i know... the places there are damn beautiful. ya i am sure i will stepped there someday.

so i was asked for trips there by our medan relatives earlier--"ha... kuE enggak pernah lagi jejak kaki ke medan. bila nya mau ke sana?" hehe... we met at my cousin ijoe's wedding reception at bukit chandan [that's where the masjid (mosque) ubudiah and istana (palace) iskandariah are located]. the akad nikah (solemnisation ceremony) was held last weekend at the bride's family place in gombak. i didn't go cuz i was so busy with my own agenda hehe... only mother, grandmother and some aunties went there. gosh!... i didn't even have the time to blog about my previous trip to kl, also with the school holidays :)

alright, back to ijoe's wedding reception, its just a simple one where only closed family and relatives were there; the spread of their indonesian food were so scrumptious i tell you, all done from a gotong-royong by the indonesian clan--i like! o yes... do check out my plate, as it may looks familiar? if you don't get me, go here. that means it was indeed a truly kampung (village) style wedding.

my favourite pic this time is the above, of megat with his cousins shahriman and didin. view the rest of the pics in the slide below--

to ijoe & nita,
congratulations! may both of you live happily ever after...
love, chor!