the day before the big day...

just like any other festive holidays, now we muslims around the globe will be celebrating the eid mubarak (also known as hari raya aidil fitri here) which precisely is a 'celebration day of fasting'. and the best thing is we celebrate it all through out the month of syawal! wohooo...

and part of the most important thingy for me is that my hair has been fixed!!! i am so glad i did it, cuz now many people praised me for looking much younger ehem...

the day was spent by doing some thorough cleaning everywhere. looks like we didn't opt for any panjut this year hah! we just go for some colourfull windmills instead wakakaaa, blimey...

while puteri and i prepared cupcakes as usual. we always do this at the very last minute because obviously we want the cupcakes to be served good... as you could see in the pic above, it was my view of puteri helping to put up the curtain since she has completed with me— mixing the cupcakes ingredients. besides that, both my sisters already make sure that all the fresh flowers are in order. its a must thingy for us to make sure that the house look more vibrant *winks*

mama cooked rendang pedas ayam (chicken), as part of other main perak delicacies specially served during hari raya at our place. like cupcakes, the chicken can't be cooked very much in advance. not like other meals— we can cook them in earlier, and keep in the fridge. we will then heat the food up when we wanna served them on hari raya. closed relatives and friends were normally looking forward for these... hmm yummy!!!... but one thing, the meals were all cooked by mama this time around since grandmother is already 82! but of course bah is monitoring mama like the chef je... anyhow ok what, bah really knows her way around in cooking!

alrighto!... i guess that's it for now. i am off to bed! gotta wake up radically early tomorrow to decorate the cupcakes.

i would like to take this chance to wish everyone selamat hari raya aidil fitri, maaf zahir & batin no matter wherever you are. to those of you whose driving back home, make sure you drive carefully. take care! *peace*

the day to do some last minute thingy...

it was just like yesterday we started fasting and now already 28th day of ramadhan... see how fast time flies without us realizing it...

and here's some of my to-do-list for today. we'll come back and see of whether i would succeed to complete them all, ngeh³...

√ last minute marketing at the local market with mama :)

√ mother-daughter trip to a local hair saloon

√ mail my friendship bag swap that i joined. if not have to wait for wednesday(?) *glurp*

√ thorough spring cleaning of our home and of course my lovely room! ;)

√ get all the ingredients for hari raya cupcakes baking session with puteri ready.

√ lights: 'lampu lip-lap' ok, check! but not panjut yet... haiya! :(

updates... coming up!

i have just arrived from kuala lumpur around 7.45 pm or so. this time i went there by transnasional bus; easy as it is since i was alone... as you could see, besides that there are so many access to public transports i.e. lrt, commuter, monorail and such in the city in order for me to move about easily.

pic of my cousin yaya and i, is courtesy of sawanila.com

and when i went there, i didn't go for one particular reason only. in fact normally there were so many errands to do in a trip, no matter whether it was such a quick one or not. so puh-leaseee... it doesn't mean that i have to blog everything. for an example, don't tell me that i must blog about my appointments too, right. its rather confidential for me, so it will stay as it is. now i hope that i have clarified everything regards to one of my blogging styles *phew*

so as some of you may knew already by now that i attended the "berbuka puasa bersama nuffnang di the apartment klcc". more updates on this and(/or) whatever i think that is bloggable will be coming up very very soon!!!... you see, sometimes its not that i can't do live blogging with my dell whenever or wherever i were, but the thing is times are so jealous of me! whatever it is i will still try my very best to continue blogging no matter what. at least, its better late than never! at the meantime, do click on the above pic for so many wonderful and great pics by sawanila.com [remarks: diese and i launched kheirul's camera for that day's pics occay? hehee...]. and here i would like to thank kheirul for all the wonderful pics. i tell you what... i am very sure that one of these days you would aspect one of them to be a profile pic, like what i did for smashpop's pic here! takpe kan, kheirul kan?... ;)

the man who can't be moved

this song definitely caught my ears when i first heard it. its just like love at the first sight you know... i can listen to this a 1000 times in a row...

♫ the script - the man who can't be moved

alrighto... bed is calling! on the other hand sahur is just in a few hours time hiks!... i gotta still wake-up even though i am on red flag, cuz both of my kids are fasting. and as a mother, its my responsibility for me to prepare their sahur meals.

till then... ta!

of our first day of ramadhan...

we just had a very simple meals for our break fast last night—

a jug of chill "siren" (red syrup and original sunquick orange mix). i would like to advise you to use red rose horse label for the red rose syrup, the best!

some plates of home-cooked dishes by mama [clockwise from top left]: meat curry gravy, grilled fish, rendang dinding (she used grandma's recipe of course, hmm... yummy!), fried sausage with tomato sauce as per megat's request and...

lastly mama fried some green veges almost to break fast time, cuz she wanted it fresh and hot from the 'wok'! i tell you what... if you know me, then you would know it that i like this pic. its the movements of my mama's hand that showed the true story. aren't people always said: a picture speaks a thousand words...

although that's just what we had, what's the most import things were i have been surrounded by my loved ones. besides that we had a healthy and nutritious home-cooked meals!

moreover believe it or not, we didn't even bother to go to the pasar ramadhan at the tepi sungei! while for desserts, we have quite a number of mini magnum, sorello and more ice-creams in the freezer. plus bars of chocolates too! isn't that sounds awesome?... i guess we learned to be more wised on our break fast meals from the past years experiences. we hate to see left-over food to be put to waste.

so what about you people... care to share some stories with me?

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! =)

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 ;)