translate them boy...

i have been wanted to blog since morning but only He knows of how busy i am... hence now only i have some time to breath *phew*

its the second day of schools today. i am sure megat will bring more homeworks later... in fact he brought two homeworks yesterday, even it was the first day of schools. its well known that school children in chinese school in the country intense to get more homework than national school. i know some malay parents (of those who send their children to chinese school) got so many says on this but for me... no hal! at least megat would do something good at home during his past time. well if you people don't like that then don't lar send your children to chinese school kan? we could see nazmi, megat's malay friend from kindy since 2003... all his bro and sis (five of them including nazmi) study in chinese school, now the eldest is in form three. the thing is if we can't do it the hard way, then forget it! if you wanna the best for your children and you think you can get it at chinese school, then face it!

megat came back from school yesterday with so many stories. even during lunch time, he told us so many things. he's excited! yes... especially when he starts going to the main school, the one in town from this year. from what i understand from megat, the children at the main school there get to have malay bahasa melayu language teachers, not like the previous one where chinese teachers teach all subjects except agama, where an ustazah from the main school will go there when they have agama classes. a malay guy teacher came to megat's class during the bahasa melayu subject. according to megat, he got problems to communicate with chinese children. luckily megat and nazmi were there, so both of them helped him to translate to their chinese classmates, of what the teacher wanna say lol... funny or not? teheeheee...

mama is so glad of you boy! ;)

kuE's note:
pic showed this morning when megat was walking in to the main school. take note that the side entrance is just behind yut loy! ;)

the first day of school

i am very sure that most of the parenting bloggers i.e. here; have already posted about their experiences on the children's first day of school by now. i could see that everyone were kinda busy with their day's schedule. i guess most of the people took a day or half-day leave to make sure that everything would be okay, and tomorrow's another day.

my kiddos been warned from many days ago that we can't get out of the house later than at least 7 am even though we reached home around 10.35 pm from kl. same goes to the rest of the school days. if not, you know... owh how i hate the word l-a-t-e! puteri has to be in school by 7.15 am, while megat 7.20 am. anyhow they made do with a quick nap in the evening to readjust their timing :)

punctuality is a real sign of discipline, a practice we try to instill in our youth through school bells. not being on time is a sign of disrespect to someone or to the persons you are about to meet. we can also scold people for being late, let them go or fine them, but sometimes it can be a nuisance that people lack consideration and discipline for keeping an appointment. perhaps we need to institute some school bells even in the offices. maybe it could be effective.

this is megat's 7th year in chinese school, practically 3 years in kindergarten. its the first day of school, everyone knew it. but he already came back with some homeworks! ya... being said that chinese school pupil have homeworks to do almost everyday. that's fine for me. although its already 7 years, i am still worry about him to get good grades— 2 more years to upsr! he has to sit for an extra paper which is of course the chinese language *phew* no doubt all the teachers agreed that megat can talks mandarin very well. he was even asked to deliver a mandarin speech at his kindergarten's last year's of concert.

puteri— she will be sitting for her pmr exam this year. so this means that not just puteri has to work hard to achieve for success, but looks like her mama has to be hand-in-hand with her too. and now i could feel of how really fast the time flies... if you know what i mean *winks* now that schools started, puteri has to adhere to the simple rules i.e. NO mobile phones and NO internet during school days, except for weekends and public holidays... hah! this same goes to megat. anyhow, maybe they have the flexibilities to get online if they wanna do some research for school projects, assignments or things a like. we survived ourself without all those things during our time anyway kan? :)

kuE' note:
pic above was a part of megat's school, taken this afternoon, just before the last bell's rang. i was sitting outside the school's hall.

of coping with our kids' schedule...

megat has quite a number of homeworks to do yesterday. ya... he goes to a chinese school, so what would you expect right. he even already got homeworks on his first day of school. at the same time his yesterday's schedule was kinda tough as well.

megat came back from school at 2.25 pm. but i tell you what... by the time we reached home around 2.50 pm, he was still hungry! he ate rather a lot as soon as he reached home. everyone were kinda surprised, cuz its not that i didn't bring him his lunch earlier. end up we found out that he shared his pack lunch with some of his friends. well actually we were not that surprised also though.

the same thing happened from last year. actually megat already started to attend extra class in school then. but that time it was once a week only. we knew that megat's friends were not lucky enough like him. their parents didn't send them any food during lunch break, in between their extra class. they just make do with extra monies that their parents gave, and they have to survive themselves. so i as a concerned mother, packed lunch in two plastic containers instead i.e. one for megat, and another for his friends to be shared among them. the idea was for megat to have enough lunch. since the extra classes this year are from monday to friday, megat has been warned of not to share his pack lunch. its the matter of economics as well you see... but megat, being a noble boy i guess, still shared his lunch that i packed for him. oh boy!...

i wonder whether his friends' parents aware of what has been happening. or they just make dunno about it. in fact i wanted to buy a loaf of bread at a nearby mamak restaurant yesterday morning after dropped megat at his school, when i bumped into megat's senior noraini and a chinese girl. when asked, she told me that she was buying a roti canai and wanted to eat before the school hours start. oh dear... poor noraini. looks like she didn't eat her breakfast at home. when i gave this a thought, i know that my kids are lucky enough to have a proper breakfast at home before going to school. alhamdulillah... but on another thought, if i can wake up as early as 5am to start my day, why can't other parents do the same... argghhh!!!... this is all actually the matter of wanting to give the best for our youth.

so after megat had his extra lunch at home yesterday, he watched the tv for a while while relaxing. then he started to do his homeworks. he took a break for a while in between because he was too tired. while from 8 to 9.30 pm, i had to send him for his taekwondo class. he has his dinner after the class. he tried to complete his homework then after. but he was already too tired after quite some time. so i had a deal with him to let him sleep first, and he has to wake up early this morning to finish-up his homework.

pity megat. but what to do. if we as the parents don't lead him on doing things in the right path, how is he going to cope with his schedules well. anyhow, i did help megat to do some colouring while he was doing his other written homeworks early this morning hehee...

"ma... please make sure that you put back the colour pencils at the right place", once megat told me.

wahhh... banyak songeh plak dia since i already helped him *big grin*

so as for today, i told megat that he can get a quick nap after he comes back from the extra class at 2.25 pm. then he has to go back to the school about two hours later for a sports practise *phew*

what i did on 08.08.08

the number 8 is most auspicious for success whether it is in relationships, family, health or in business. therefore this ‘triple 8 for prosperity’ day which comes only once in a hundred years is very special indeed. so unique in fact that celebrated and highly respected positive energy specialist Dr Silvia Hartmann, PhD has named the day The World SUCCESS Day, the first day for the whole world to celebrate success and prosperity.

for further information on The World SUCCESS Day visit www.starfields.org/080808 .

as for myself, its just a normal friday for me-- school days you know? what we do expect right. its just that the date 08.08.08 has "special" significance. so say the chinese and polybore. the chinese have 5000 years of experience of getting this sort of stuff right, almost as long as polybore. you have been warned *glurp*

so basically our night was different than any other night. everyone were all ready stand-by in front of the damn tv by 7.45pm! the official opening of 2008 olympic games in beijing was tremendously awesome!!! words really can't describe it all. i bet everyone have witnessed it right.

and today...
the kids go to school as usual to replace their raya holidays. puteri has one more saturday to go. surprisingly megat also goes to school today ya... looks like chinese school people also wanna enjoy the raya holidays this time around too! well we most probably going to ipoh later today after they finished school. i'll update this InsyaAllah.

as for now, may good luck be your friend in whatever you do and may trouble be always a stranger to you. have an awesome weekend people!!!

kuE's related post:
oh what a dream!
08.08.08
can't wait for tonight!

of packing a healthy and cheap lunch

today is only 4th of february.
megat is only in year four this year.
upsr exam is only two years away from now.

no matter what the circumstances are, megat and his batch (year four) have already started to attend extra classes after school hours with effective today, organized by the school' PTA. take note that megat is schooling in a local chinese school. so as for now he will be going home only at 2.55pm from monday to wednesday, while on thursday and friday is at 2.25pm. parents are allowed to deliver their kids lunch during their second break i.e. when the normal school hours end (1.35pm for monday to wednesday and 1.05pm for thursday and friday).

so as for me it's not a problem at all to bring megat's packed lunch to him at those hours. normally it would be like that anyway, where i would fetch puteri right after megat anyway. so it's definitely fine for me. and the best thing is we do not have to be worried for food poisoning, as the food is home-made. home-made food are more healthy i tell you. if not why on earth we could see quite a number of chinese mothers do the same. in fact one of them who always chatted with me when we bumped in to each other in school, told me that even she do not trust canteen food. she prefer to cook her kids' packed meal herself. besides that, we can teach our kids to save their pocket money since they already bring packed meals/lunch from home.

so as you could see from the above pic, that is the school' side entrance gate. that is where i usually waited for megat. and the missing grill are meant for us parents to pass anything to our kids, vise versa. kewl huh?!!...

i tell you what... isn't it good for you people to adapt this packed lunch ideas for work., no matter whether you are single or married. lunch is the meal where most people end up scarfing down whatever fatty, greasy food they can find. but it only takes a little pre-planning to create a healthy, energy-boosting meal, at little cost to you or your long-term health.

step 1
create a healthy shopping list, with easy-to-pack, nutritious foods in mind. opt for low-fat granola, dried fruit, nuts, low-fat meat slices, whole wheat bread, fresh fruit and deli tray-sized bits of fresh carrots, broccoli, cauliflower and sweet baby carrots, eggs (you can hard boil or create egg salad sandwiches with vegan mayonnaise or olive oil mayonnaise), and peanut, soy, or sunflower butter.

step 2
strategize the night before. it's best to pack more than you think you'll eat. that way you won't run out of the food you need to keep your energy up throughout the afternoon. plus, you'll have a little extra for mid-morning and even a quick breakfast on the run or during the commute.

step 3
include three components to make a meal: a main, snack and side. a salad, sandwich or whole grain wrap is a good choice for a main. throw in homemade trail mix (see #4) or granola for your snack. add in a salad with your sandwich, a container full of bite-sized veggies, or cubes of various fruits and honey for your side.

step 4
make your own trail mix. homemade trail mix can be customized to suit your taste, and can be created as a low-fat alternative to the store brands. mix together some sesame sticks, soy nuts, sunflower seeds, a few dark chocolate chips, dried cranberries, cherries, blueberries and almonds. the result is a snack that's tasty, low-fat and packed with protein and antioxidants.

step 5
try new variations on old standbys. there are hundreds of variations just on a whole wheat wrap. try a garlic or basil flavored flatbread or tortilla. brush on vinaigrette dressing instead of plain old mustard. add almonds for a protein boost, or just switch up your standard wheat sandwich bread with a whole grain roll. that way you'll never get bored and be inclined to stray from your healthy DIY route.

step 6
pack your items in reusable containers. bags formerly containing your snack mixes, veggies and sandwiches have only one place to go after you use them: the landfill. do this for the environment, while you revamp your lunch routine for yourself.

step 7
eat with co-workers in moderation. don't completely cut off lunches with colleagues. these are good morale-boosting sessions (or venting sessions, whatever the case may be). be a team player. you may be overdoing it when your lunches out really start to show up on your account balance and your thighs.

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on another note, kay came over to my place yesterday evening, for us to visit the late kak fairoz' mother. i think probably that time her (kak fairoz) brother was already on the way back to kuale from klia, to bring back her remains. read more about her in today's news here, here, here and here.

"may she rest in peace"... amin.

wake-up my dear :)

i was so terrible this morning. i really thought that its tuesday huhu...

"cepat adik. today you have an essembly in school, if not you will be late", i told megat hehe... btw chinese school' weekly essembly on a tuesday meh?

we went out of the house before 7.20. as usual i sent puteri first then megat. as usual also megat salam and kiss my hand, then both of us kiss each other. i waited for a while to see megat walked into the school. he was half-way there. suddenly i saw his classmate came with his mom on a motorcycle. i clearly saw that he wore a school t-shirt. then i thought, "oikk... why the boy wore the school t-shirt today?". my mind was boggling. "oh my god... its wednesday lar stupid". megat has p.e. classes on wednesday!!!

well megat already more than half-way there. then i thought to myself again, its not that i cannot take his t-shirt and give it to him because our house is so near. i just wanna megat to be independent. let him do his own decision. i'm sure he will make so much noise when he comes back ;)

kuE's note: the main reason i thought so was that megat just started school yesterday only, after a long chinese new year break. other schools started theirs on last thursday.

the day when no one is at home

mom followed dad to kl this morning. she will be attending a cousin's engagement ceremony this weekend. at first i thought of going too, but megat has to go to school tomorrow as usual to replace the extra holidays for the upcoming chinese new year. megat goes to a chinese school, remember? ;)

so here's what we normally do on a friday-- puteri's school ends at 12.10pm, while megat's is at 1.05pm. both puteri and i rather spent the extra time together rounding around town instead of going back home and forth. then when its almost 1pm, we would normally be at none other than yut loy!!! hehe... told you people before that the school is very near with yut loy right :D and since no one at home today, we had our lunch at yut loy-- we approached one of the twin bros from the back door and ordered our food. then after we fetch megat, we walked back to yut loy (yes! you read me, that we walked there)... and voila... the food were all ready on one of the tables! simple as that...

i had chicken cutlet with two sets of buttered toast bread (thats four pieces altogether you know... hah!) and two glasses of iced nescafe. i was lapor giler (damn hungry) occay?!! ;)


while puteri and megat had chinese fried rice with egg and iced milo, hmm... yummy!!!...


so... can you all people see the stairs behind megat? fyi that's lead to a secret location that only budak koleq knows *glurp* lol... :)

lantern festival celebration

according to wikipedia: the lantern festival 元宵节 is a chinese festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunar year in the chinese calendar. it is not to be confused with the mid-autumn festival, which is also sometimes known as the "lantern festival" in locations such as singapore, malaysia. during the lantern festival, children go out at night to temples carrying paper lanterns 兔子灯 and solve riddles on the lanterns 猜灯谜. it officially ends the chinese new year. read more here.

kuE' note: this blog post supposed to be posted a week already. but i don't care ler... its better late than nothing or never hor? i updated my twitter anyway :)

ever since i joined my line dance group, my life kinda hectic with other activities too. sometimes i was asked to perform with them in functions or events here. i remembered that my first experience was for a mother & father's day celebration organized by a chinese community. it has been attended by local umno leaders. so i had to do a zapin number and some other line dances to english tunes erm... layan je ler. to tell you the truth, of course i lurve english numbers more especially all those fast tracks.

then there was this function organized by umno people quite some time ago. it was radically damnnnnn delayed i tell you. i stressed out the word damn because it was really late by 2 hours!!! blerk!... pity the kids who followed us. we don't have choice but to stay as we had to do some performances. if you could see my chinese friends, they were all crazy like mad. what to do. anyhow you can view one of my performances that has been recorded by megat here.

so basically my performances last saturday was obviously my third one! it was for a lantern festival celebration held here in kualè. unfortunately i didn't manage to take lotsa pics as usual though as my oly was running out of battery huhuu... now i dunno whether to blame myself for not charging my oly's battery beforehand; or my friend-cum-translator ms tung who didn't explain to me about the function properly. never mind lor... ms tung, no sweat ok?

lesson learned: every night before bedtime, i will ensure that i fully charged my oly's battery before the next day turned up, no matter whether i have anything going on or not! ;)

the function started with everyone singing the national song; as soon as the guest of honour, minister in the prime minister's department datuk seri mohamed nazri abdul aziz arrived.

there were variety of music and drums and of course the chinese lion dances and firecrackers.

children carry their lanterns around the village and families come together to eat sweet rice balls for good fortune and family unity. chinese lanterns were traditionally made of silk, paper and even glass. although the most common is the typical red balloon lantern, nowadays chinese Lanterns come in a variety of shapes, sizes and colors. there are lanterns in shapes of boxes, lotus flowers, dragons, butterflies and all sorts of animals. they range from the small lanterns carried by hand made of paper by school children to gigantic floats shaped in the chinese zodiac animal for that year made by teams of craftsmen. lion dances came to the main stage then along with these group of people. i knew that they have some kind stories and meaning behind the lion dance performances.

towards the end of the performance, both "the lions" tried to peel out the mandarin oranges skin. they then presented the oranges to datuk nazri, who is also the mp of padang rengas.

i tell you what people. i could say that the function that night was really celebrated with 1malaysia spirit although it was meant for a chinese festivity. there were dance performances of all sorts of cultures like malay, chinese and indian, not forgetting shuffle dance by kualè youth itself.

my performance was the first one. i didn't get to ask anyone to capture a video of it though. none of our kids followed anyway as the function was at night, and we afraid that it would be dragged till late. i should have asked bebudak shuffle tu to record a video of mine kan kan... :)

the function wrapped up with lucky draws. looks like people were already looking forward with it from the beginning, as prizes offered were not bad i.e. hampers, bicycles, electrical items like blender, stand fans, and tvs too! but we didn't wait till the function ended though, as we knew it that there must be jammed if everyone were to go back together. from what i understood, since the function happened to be during syawal, datuk nazri also gave away raya money packets to all children who came that night.

and before i sign off this blog post, i am so glad to present you part of the performances held during that night... enjoy!

lantern festival celebration from kuE on vimeo

so how's the lantern festival at your places celebrated. care to share them with me?

see... when i blog, i really blog away *phew*

• coming up: more delayed blog post and sponsored blog post.


• coming up as well: the most bloggers' events talk of the blogosphere! can you guess of what is it? tungguuuuuuuuu... (wait) *winks*


• besides that, i am also waiting for ms tung to pass me a china press newspaper cut-out about the function. they actually have a pic of me there you know. i wonder whether any of you people realized it ;)

wash & blow in kuale

i have just came back from puteri's school. her school finished at 12 noon on friday. while megat at 1.05pm, but he will only go back at 1.35pm, for extra class. thats how chinese school here i.e. year three kids already have to attend extra classes in school. well its not a problem for me at all, as its for their own good also ;)

i dropped by the saloon earlier to get them to 'wash & blow' my hair. believe it or not people... its been almost a week since the last time i did it cuz i was so damn busy ler... *glurp* :~) luckily i have to attend my former primary school's (also puteri's) PTA AGM at 2pm, if not... hmm i dunno ler... hehe... one of the sisters at the saloon asked of the place i am going after that. hah! can you see that people? she's very much aware of my style already-- always wanna do my hair nicely whenever i am heading for any special functions or sort.

so can you people guess of the cost i have paid for the 'wash & blow' session only? RM9.00!!! yea... u heard me... i paid them RM9.00 only ;) i asked one of the three sisters of the damage that i should pay. first she told me that it was RM10.00; but then she quickly reconfirm it with her elder sister. after that she turned back to me and said, "RM9.00 saje lah". i was like, "owh ok... tq!".

look at that people-- how on earth you could get that price for a 'wash & blow' session in kl huh?!! tell me. well maybe that price is for a regular customer like me. but anyhow RM10.00 still cheap right. correct me if i am wrong 8)

i used to be very regular at thomas & guys when i was staying in subang before, so i know. beside, prices in klang valley are well known to be a boom! whatever it is, i dun care lar... as long as the local' are good too! take a look at my today's hair people, not bad right? so how much do you pay for yours?

stupid fool day

yesterday was really my first bad day for 2006. i have to do things like as though i dun have any other stuff to do grr...

i felt so tired because i dun have enough sleep. my big eyes were like zombies... so no big eyes yesterday lol. my bed was ready for me to jump-in but unfortunately not myself. it was really hard for me to go to sleep the night before. i was worried about what's gonna happened yesterday. that's how i would always be like if i'm so damn nervous of something. gosh... my mind was really miserable, dunno what to

do. i tried to read, or maybe do some house chores (in the mid of the nite? lol...), etc but failed. everyone already fast asleep except me. almost 1.30... i opened my chest of drawers, took my sewing kit box (?). yes i'm good in sewing. i think i've mentioned this wayyy months before. i will post my show-n-tell session some day here. btw i ended up hand-sewn megat's school badge on to his white shirt. yup... haven't fix it so far yet although school already started more than a week ;). i did one only anyway, within 20 mins! i used white quilting thread instead of the normal cotton thread. i decided to do so because i thought that the quilting thread would be much stronger than the other one. it would look much nicer too. try it i tell you... you won't regret it. after i have completed that, then only i felt so relieves that i needed my sleep. it was 2 something!

i still woke-up at 5 as usual. puteri's school declared tuesday and wednesday as the holidays for hari raya aidil adha. not megat. he is in the chinese school, remember. so he just got one holiday. for me its not a problem at all. the most important thing is their education. megat still went to school anyway even though he is still not that well. i handed his mc to his class teacher. at the same time i told her to excuse megat for his p.e. lesson this time. although megat do not have to do anything, he asked me to accompany him during that hour. well of well... he is sweet mama's son... i waited for a while, after he went back to his class. suddenly my fon rang from an unidentified number. i mean, i dun recognized the number as its not in my list. gosh... it was from asp nazri! he wanted to reconfirm on the hearing date for THE case. and to my surprised, it was supposed to be at 8.30am yesterday. i looked at my guess watch. it was exactly 8.25! now? "taiping?", i asked him. "no no... here" *phew*. lucky it was here but still... my heart beats more faster. after i hang-up the fon, i called dad to let him know. he... as a tempered person was mumbling blah blah blah... so i told megat that... "police called mama. tok and me have to go to the court. so later if i cannot make it for your recess time, you have to eat yourself okay darling". megat just hangguk-hangguk.

once i reached home, i washed my face. i quickly put-on some make-up and perfume; changed to my black jacket suit. i wore it with my dark blue esprit camisole that i just bought in gurney plaza few weeks ago. by 8.50, we already reached the court compound. i drove my 4wd this time as per dad request. maybe not to show that his volvo was around. we sat on a bench with a policeman outside the court room. i was damn nervous, really... my eyes were watching other people walking around. the policeman (kpl rahman i think) talked with dad. while my right hand slowly took my fon from my denim guess hand-bag. i already put it to silence from home actually. so its nothing wrong with that. my fingers were quickly sms-ing my closed relatives and friends about my feelings that time. gabra giler u...

here's part of the replies that i got. tqsm friends for your support-

RAZARIZAL 11/01/2006 09:20
banyak bersabor dan tenang serta fahamkan soalan. jikalau tak faham atau tak jelas, minta ulang. jawap dgn tenang (this one really shows like it came out from a policeman's mind lol).

V 11/01/2006 09:21
gud luck. buat muka kesian sikit... (err... how huh?!!) he he. salam aidil adha.

ROSE 11/01/2006 09:21
u attend hearing apa dear? keep cool eh ;-)

SHAIDI 11/01/2006 09:46
sabo je... (yes sabo je ler...).

while my area manager asked me to keep him up-to-date. shaidi called me this afternoon anyway. we talked a bit about the case, also about my experience yesterday. he gave his full supports mann...

asp nazri came while i was busy sms-ing. he smiled at me. i just smiled back to him. i was the only female there, shy lor... it was almost 10, someone from the court room came out and called our name (my dad and me). blimey... he just wanna make sure that we were there. suddenly dad and the police man showed me to two guys who were walking around outside the court room. i saw two ladies and a girl were with them when they walked in. must be one of the guys' family. i was shocked when dad and the police man told me that those two guys were one of the culprits. gosh... they are free. that's what worries dad (and me also now). more gabra ler... not long after that, asp said (he is the police magistrate if i'm not mistaken) asked us to wait at the witness' waiting room with him. he asked us a few questions, just to rectify that we are giving the same correct answers. it seems that he wanna call three people that day i.e. the police photographer, dad and me. i saw two police woman as well. both of them were the one who received and typed our police reports. wow they have to be one of the witness too? waiting in disguise.

10.30 my staff called. it was about megat. my staff told me that someone told him that megat cried during recess time. gosh... maybe he forgot of what i told him in the morning. so i asked my staff to go to school with mom, to bring megat back. 15 mins later, my staff called again. megat dun wanna go back. pity megat. i just stay calmed. more waiting. when it was almost 11, we were told that the hearing has been postponed to a later date tba. grrr... what a waste of time!

later i make sure that i fetched megat on time. he was 'merajuk' actually. i bet that. it was really a tiring day. i was already sangap by 8.30 :P

meeting the old and the new

i was at my former secondary school earlier for our OGA' AGM. nothing much to say as the response was okay LAH! it was rather disappointed that some OG not willing to come with the excuse of-- "busy". duh!... everyone are busy, but how on earth some people like us can still spare some time for this kinda activities huh?!!... i did 'membebel' (mumbling) before here anyway.

some people may not be like me though... i love my school sooooo much! dun ask me why. ya... maybe its written in the history that the school's main building was formerly belonged to a wealthy lady che' midah. then it became british resident's residence (1876). but still, whatever it is, i am not kidding you, i love my school very much no matter what! well i guess this is my one and only way to help the community.

i think my thoughts been realized by some of my former teachers and an auntie, whose also are old girls too. thus i have been selected as one of the committee members of our OGA 2008/10 8)

now here's some pics for your viewing pleasure--

me with my former teachers, pn hajjah zawiyah (former headmistress), mrs silva (english teacher) and cik hajjah nazipah (discipline teacher, now headmistress). i dunno the chinese lady, she simply wanna join us hehe...

the new committe members of MGS/GEGS/RPK* OGA 2008/10

"down memory lane with mrs n.c. partridge", the book i got from the lucky draw session.
i even felt more luckier when my name being called the first! yea...

kuE's note:

• i am sure some of you people may wonder of why there's so many school names/initials stated above (*). i will explain about it more in my future entry, specially on my school's history.
  
• i created a new group on facebook specially for RPKians. so for those of you old girls who eventually come across this, please join us there. or else if any of you people know any friends or family members fron the same school, do spread the word for us. tqsm in advance! your great help is very much appreciated. go here to join.

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i don't think i will be there tomorrow as i have more important things to attend to in kl next week insya allah. i just would like to wish all you KLites "Happy Freezing" ;-)

damai laut here i come...

i am gonna deliver this later with megat. puteri is in kl since wednesday, enjoying her raya holidays. megat has to stay cuz his school started on wednesday. take note that megat is studying in a chinese school. whatever it is, no harm what, cuz school is more important.

about raya this time, i guess its a bit different from the past as i was busy baking cupcakes that people been ordering. its all started from wednesday, few days before raya till last night! anyhow i enjoyed doing it. thats why you didn't see any raya updates here hehe... check-out my baking blog for more on my raya cupcakes ;)

guess what people. since i have been invited to kechik's engagement too (well, i thought that my job is to just deliver the cupcakes hehe...), i will take the chance to take a quick break here -- didn't had the chance to enjoy it the last time though. hope that you people will have a great weekend with your loved ones too.

the day we saved quite a number of plastic bags

i know i know some of you people may feel boring seeing me write about the waste of plastics everytime. but thats the truth... i am the one who supports the environment as far as i could. i taught my kids about how important for us to save the environment. and if my kids can understand it, i am sure you people can teach your generations too.

i brought a big shopping bag today instead of the normal handbag. and inside it contained some other fabric and pvc bags too. its the usual thing that i would buy things without plan when we go to shopping malls, so the bags really saved my day. i hope that you people know what i meant ;)

i was so glad when i was paying for disney's school bag for megat, at the same time he told the cashier in chinese (for those who dunno, megat goes to chinese school) that we DO NOT need the plastic bag. ya lor... the bag already covered with a clear plastic carrier, so there's really no point for us to get another plastic bag what, right? another example is when puteri and i bought some accessories at an accessories shop, for sure we do not need any plastics bags. when you think about it people... accessories i.e. earing, hair clips and sort are small, so you guess it, we just placed them in our shopping bags! but of course we kept the sales receipts as the proof of our purchases.

so eventually the above pics explained everything. besides that, i also carried some of our buyings myself in the extra bags that i brought. so what are you waiting for people, blog about it, teach your generations about it, spread it out to everyone... support environment...

kuE's related links:

• a friendly reminder to save the environment
  
• we care

project 365: 6th week—

day 36 — the last day of the week before, i snapped a hinting picture of what i sew for redmummy; while this is how i shipped my packages ie via pos malaysia’ pos ekspres! the best part of it is the recipients can keep track of the packages shipped online with the code number provided. i would like to take this opportunity to thank ayu for helping me to arrange for giving out the personalized laptop sleeve to redmummy!!! terima kasih daun keladi, lain kali kita plan lagik ek? lol... the best thing is she lurves the gift sooooo much! *big grin*

day 37 — actually on that morning, i attended a farewell function for my former teacher cik hajjah ramlah who has been officially retired on 22 june 2009. it was a very nice event indeed, unfortunately yours truly forgot to bring her camera!!! eventually i never took it out from my handbag unless i wanna snap or load any pictures. but i did the night before to charge the camera’s battery— importantly to prepare for cik ramlah’s retirement and also a function that i was supposed to attend as well over the weekend. so at last i end up with this picture of a chinese temple near our house. i had a line dance practice for a function on last sunday, at a hall next to it.

day 38 — it was a wedding reception night of my uncle at royal ipoh club. that’s me with my cousin nenen. he can speak mandarin very well occay… just like megat, yes… he went to study in a chinese school in ipoh. besides that he was also a basketball player for the state’ team if i’m not mistaken.

day 39 — it was last sunday night, when i performed for the first time with part of my line dance group. it was for the MCA kualè mother & father’s day celebrations. i was kinda nervous though when I danced the first song, to a zapin tune… walaweiii… what more when i heard a guy shouted: “come one, kuE!!!” wargghhh… i focused to the audience and i saw shafizan, an old cliffordian i knew since my school days. he must be one of the UMNO guys that he has been invited to the function, blerk! anyhow sorry ler dude, i wore my dad’s sampin koleq on that night lol… credit goes to megat for helping me to take some pics and videos :)

day 40 — it was a hazy morning in kualè, and i bet it was the same to other places around the area. luckily i happened to have my N76 with me that I snapped this pic from the river bank, before i started my line dance session— you can’t even see sayong! take note that normally i didn’t bring my mobile phone when i go for my morning exercises; but i did that morning because i wanna show-off my new N76 case to my friend ms tung hehee…

day 41 — busy at work: people take note that kualè is clean thanks to those MPKK guys for making sure that everything are in order and in good condition at all time.

day 42 — work in progress: nothing to capture? must be like it huh… that’s me anyway, trying to finish sewing the “in-the-mood” handbags that i am selling. as you could see, not all parts of the handbags were machine-stitched; thus the prices are as such.

miracle happens...

we were waiting for megat at his school earlier. as usual, if its gonna be kinda long, i would off my 4wd engine and wind down the window. then out of the blue i saw a chinese lady walked by. she was looking around at us. i was worried. my right fingers started to search for the left window's button, when suddenly the lady approached us and asked me, "halo... adik, you ada pakai hangbag ka?".

"ada... kenapa?", i answered. but at the same time, i started to get damn worried already.

"haa... saya kasi lu ini handbag lar", the chinese lady said, while gave me a black handbag (refer pic) thru my 4wd's window.

"oikk... pasai apa?", i asked her.

"alar adik, saya kasi you ambik lar. sebenarnya boss saya kasi punya, dua lagi. buat apa mau dua serupa, tu lar saya mau kasi adik satu", she explained.

"o ok, itu macam ka... thank you arr?", i said.

"tarak apa", she answered and left.

the chinese lady walked towards the school's main gate, joining a group of other ladies. i thought that they must be waiting for their kids too like me. puteri and i looked at each other and smiled.

what say you?

tsung wah' 95 years

tonight’s function that i attended was rather a bit rare. it was tsung wah’s school 95th anniversary at the primary school’s main hall in town. the guests were all chinese except me. it’s actually because megat was performing with his other school mates. lau-se (that's teacher in mandarin) goh asked us to be there at 7.30pm. unfortunately we reached the hall almost 7.40pm instead. we break our fast first lor... megat eat a lot so i make sure that he ate as much as he could, so that he could manage himself later.

as soon as we saw lau-se goh and his friends at a dining table near to one of the side doors, all of them were like so relieved and said this in mandarin to megat— ”wahh… you are late. we were so worried if you are not coming”. i told lau-se goh in malay that we had our break fast, and then only we went there.

“ayo… akak… i thought megat won’t be coming”, said another lau-se in malay.

“megat break his fast first”, i replied.

“o ya… sorry, almost forgot”, the lau-se said.

then they quickly put some final touch for megat. it was a dinner function. the entire guest had dinner first, then it was officially started at 8pm sharp (not like malay’s promise i tell you)! first of all as usual, there were speech, speech and more speeches. megat and friends dance performance was the first one. the second one was about after 45 minutes later. i didn’t take pictures of them dancing as the hall was fully crowded with round dining tables. i only took a pic of the above. i guess it was okay rather then nothing ;)

we left the place at about 9.30pm. we dropped-by at kat kopitiam for some snacks. fyi all the chinese owners of that kopitiam are megat’s friends. he was so excited telling them about his performance. we found out that one of them was at the hall earlier with intention to watch megat dance but too bad she was not allowed to go in as she didn’t buy any ticket. we also understood that the function was organised by the MCA committee. so i told megat to say sorry to them because megat didn’t know that to get an entry to the dinner were by tickets only.

"paragon of fashion"

i have been called as "paragon of fashion" by harjinder, a junior of my school. it started when i saw this on a canadian fb friend's status:

WANNA SEE WHO DOES THIS... Let's see how honest FB friends are. Leave a 1 word comment that you think best describes her. It can only be 1 word. No more than 1 word. Then copy & paste this post on your wall so she can leave a word about you. This should be interesting... Wonder if she has 20 brave friends who will do this~

so after i typed a word about heather, i copy and paste the above on my fb status. i was kinda eager too to see of what people would say about me. it was an honour for me though to find out that there are some people who secretly adore me for my fashion. i just dunno what to say but that's me! i guess harjinder could see it from our school days till now. basically i lurve to dress up according to the occasions, functions or events i am attending. i dunno about you, but for me i would definitely feel odd if i don't wear according to the theme...

like recently when i attended a chinese wedding, i wore cheongsam (i know i know i didn't blog about this YET)! guest were kinda impressed seeing me. even most of the chinese people themselves don't wear their traditional clothes during functions like that :(

and i wonder if you could still remember about an indian wedding that i posted some time early this year. i chose to wear lehnga. ayuuuuu... you could read it here, plus more close-up pics of their wedding traditions.

i also owned áo dài, a vietnam traditonal clothes that my dad bought it tailor-made for me during his vietnam trip many years ago.

besides lehnga, i have wore saree too at a company dinner some time ago. it was a bollywood theme. i chose to wear saree to create something different from other people. i wanted to show them that malay girls can wear saree too... then voila!

well, all the above pics were part of the other clothes that i wore apart from the normal baju kurung or kebaya. and now, i am in the mid of thinking of what to wear for a christmas line dance party that i am going to attend next week. any idea people? ;P

megat's name

megat finished school late today at 3.30pm. he has to attend extra class after school hours, then co-curriculur activity where he's with the basketball team people ;) when i came over at around 1pm to give megat his lunch, he and some of his friends were so glad to show me this--

its megat's student id for his school's library. if you happened to know chinese language then you should know megat's full name. so go figure! that word 'megat' is not on a wrong alignment occay?!!... of course it has been edited by me dammit :P


and this one is megat's recent pic taken earlier today around 4+ pm. megat's schedule on a thursday is kinda tough. so his looks speak for him. he has a taekwondo class (twice a week) at night that finished at 9.30pm. so normally after reached home and taken his quick shower, he would doze off in a split second... poor megat... besides this, he also has 3 times a week' mandarin tuition class to attend, scouts on wednesday, and mengaji [translation: learning to recite the quran rigorously in its native language, arabic] on almost every nights with his pom (po-po). but anyhow thank god that megat understands that those are for his own good ;)

of punctuality

we have been invited by megat's former kindergarten teacher to their yearly concert at 8pm sharp. do you all people know that for chinese people here, also the one that i have known all this while... when they said 8pm sharp, they really mean it. take note that i said chinese people here, cuz i dunno about other places. but i guess all chinese are the same (?). they are really particular about punctuality. read about 'how to be punctual' here.

megat and i arrived at the tsung wah's primary school hall late, about less than 10 mins after 8pm. the function already started by then with prize giving ceremony first. then followed by speech by three kids in three languages i.e. mandarin, malay and english (refer first video). megat has done that before, during his last year in kindergarten. he presented the mandarin speech. i didn't manage to post the pics that time sorry. maybe i will do it one of these days, to pay-off everything that i owe ;) i didn't realize it at all, until i glanced thru the post for me to place the link here :)

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the second video showed a group of the kindergarten kids singing a few songs, just like past years.

besides the two videos, here's some pics of megat with his former teachers--



alright then for now... i guess i better call this a night as we are heading to penang (especially here for the first time) early tomorrow morning. can you all people guess of what we gonna do. one hint: those people (for tomorrow's event) are particular about punctuality too. every time i am going to such event, i would always make sure that i will be there on time (like all the previous events i went, even with the kids). don't forget to watch this space tomorrow occay? for more great pics insya allah :D

past vs present

chinese new year. it is just like a normal day. doing nothing, only relaxing at home. then off to work for something to be done. besides that i prefer to be on stand-by during this busy hours and days. so i guess today is definitely fine.

not like last week- exactly a week ago.

saturday 21/01/06 - i brought kids and cousin sarah's indonesian maid to watch memoirs of a geisha. its first time for susi. sarah and baby followed her hubby whose working in austria. they cannot bring susi because she's not yet a year here. so they decided to leave susi with us until sarah comes back in end may or early june. she will be working then in one of the hospitals either in putrajaya or ipoh. while the hubby will be there for three years if i'm not mistaken.

hmm... the whole movie is like a fast-forward version of the book & some scene are tweaked and missing. the scene where she has to cut her own leg before seeing dr crab, the cut was supposed to be done by mameha's cook. in the end i was expecting to see new york where sayuri got her own tea-house but it stopped until she and the chairman met. anyways i'm glad they make it into a film. wish they make it into a drama series so every scene from the book can be viewed exactly. a freak accident happen during the film. the climax where sayuri asked pumpkin to bring nobu but instead she brought the chairman while the general feasting on her.

some of you might recall when this movie came out, there was controversy because most of the main actresses were chinese, which degrades the whole “authentic” factor. i had a hard time getting over that fact. for the first part of the film i just couldn’t get over the fact that the star was someone that i know pretty well from other chinese movies. it’s just hard to try and immerse yourself in the japanese culture when you know something is there that isn’t exactly “right”.

the scenery and cinematography wasn't that bad, it's just that i felt like the whole movie was fast-forward and some parts are missing. all actor and actresses rocks. gong li. zhang zi yi, ipoh mali dato' michele yeoh were excellent! chiyo san was so cute. ken watanabe was hot.

this is one of the best movie i've ever watched. the ending, the story line and also the flow of the story were excellent and brilliant. my personal rating for this movie is 9.75/10.

sunday 22/01/06 - everyone went to my god-mom's place in pj except grandma and susi. bad. we were having a farewell lunch with a karaoke session (?) for ayah muda whose family gonna migrate to medan. everyone were in their smart-casual outfit. i was just in my green blouse with a matching skirt from east india, that i bought before last raya. as soon as we reached there, salam-salam with cousins, uncles and aunties. once went into the house, i met one of the most important person in my life, my god-mom. as usual she looked stunning, younger than her age. sorry, so shy to take pics with her hehe... after i salam and kissed her hand, she held my hand. "wow... you look so beautiful and gorgeous today", she said. oh wow... i really didn't believe it. she really said that? i just smiled to her. then she usher me to the buffet table and asked me to eat, while she has to attend to others too. okay that's not a problem at all. everyone really enjoyed themselves. enda puan (my god-mom) has been persuading all the younger generations including me, to sing. none of us were into it lol... thus our uncle ayah chu started to sing an oldies. nice song but can't remember the title though. then followed by my dad and ayah muda. still, no one of the young generations wanna sing. suddenly abang rezza sang, requested by his dad ayah muda. his voice was damn good mann... he sang the malay version of winter sonata. hmm... everyone knew why he's so good in singing. i can't mention it here sorry.

suddenly i saw dad answered a call. he looked worried. he rushed to somewhere outside that he could hear well. i didn't think that there's something bad. so i continued talking with some of my cousins. paused. dad called mom. they were discussing. my heart was beaten fast this time. it was a bad news from grandma. someone went to the house' compound and did some black magic stuff. the lady was so damn shocked when she knew that there were someone at home, when all that while she (the lady) thought there was no one at home. she (the lady) was wrong. well we suspect that someone asked her (the lady) to do that. gosh... why on earth we have this kind of people on earth. they can't see us doing well. dad told about the story to my god-mom and the rest. then we went straight back home.

before that we gave my sister her birthday presents. i bought her new estee lauder pleasures exotic. it was on offer with a small bottle and a nice bracelet watch that i used that very same day ;)

i was so scared. someone has been watching us, our whereabouts. that was why i got the flu. it was really bad. but i still managed to do my usual routine. what when kids need to go to school.