tough weekend

yes. last weekend was the toughest one ever for me. i had sleepless nights and damn tired right now. i will try and sleep early tonight.

azah and laila picked me up on friday. we reached seberang jaya at about 4.30pm. unfortunately sunway hotel was fully booked. so we checked-in to pearl view hotel instead. we went out in less than half an hour. we headed to gurney plaza. hehe... where else for us women right- shopping lol. another friend siti joined us from there. she was also my room-mate. not enough there, we went to the night market at batu feringgi also. guess what people. we were still there at midnight lol. by the time i was in bed it was already two something *phew*. by 8am, we have to be at the first check-point for the treasure hunt activity. the event was fun indeed although we were a bit tired. we didn't go straight back after lunch. but a friend in penang insisted to buy us penang delicacies. i was already really tired by this time. we left butterworth at 5pm or so. on our way back, laila asked to drop-by bmlr. so we stopped there for a while, walked around and drove back home. the worst part here was that i left my fon at home (forgot to bring it lor). when i came back, i saw quite a number of messages and missed calls lol.

while yesterday, actually i have to be in taman samudera, seri manjung by 8am (reason: refer here). i was a bit late. you know, i awoke late blah blah blah lol. i had some trouble when i almost reach my destination. i saw smokes came out from my engine. luckily i had more than 17 years of driving experience. so i could say that i know how to handle the situation. lucky me too that the engine stopped as soon as i parked my 4wd nicely. i told some male colleagues about it. we went to my 4wd after lunch. we found out that the radiator hose leaked. gosh... thank God there were some shops opened along the road there on a sunday. by the time i reached home, it was already almost 8pm. i really thought that i should have an early sleep. but csi ny then csi miami started at 10pm. another less sleep last night. now i guess i must make sure that i get an early sleep tonight, no matter what.

so how about you people. did you spent your weekend wisely. btw have a great week ahead yea mwahh...

don't wait

puteri was surprised when i came back with some stuff that i bought from guardian the other day. she was wondering of why i bought them since we still have some at home. i have to explain it to her that its my style. i like to buy things especially our needs ie toiletries; when they are on sale. almost everything were sold on value packs. besides, i have to get some women needs in double ever since puteri became my 'anak dara' late last year. ya lor... last time i only bought them for myself. but now, puteri is using them too. i also bought some make-up items that were on discounted prices. now that puteri understand we don't have to wait until our stuff finished, to buy a new one. so she learned something new ;)

i might be staying in penang tonight. azah is coming to pick me up in a few hours. we will be going for a treasure hunt activity there with other colleagues. while on sunday, there's a 3-on-3 basketball game in taman samudera, organised by maba with our company. how about you people. i hope that you will have a great weekend too! ciao...

so this is kuE*

* asked rose' hubby, when i walked her towards the car.

"yes, this is me hehe..."

rose was here for a short trip to hand-over some forms to the land office, in reference to her late-dad's land i think. i was in the office when rose suddenly appeared at the door. i was extremely happy when i saw her eventhough it was just for a short while. after she left, then only i remember that i forgot to snap pics with her AGAIN. maybe we were so busy catching-up on things. maybe next time yea... till we meet again sis mwahh...

kuE's note: pic was taken in 1998 at auntie kay's place in london.

life is way too short

this sms alert that i received about 1/2 an hour ago really surprised me-

25/7 Actor Hani Mohsin Hanafi, 41, collapsed and died at the LCCT terminal in Sepang at 9.30am while waiting to board a flight to Alor Star/STAR

fyi he was a budak koleq. i always saw him every year in town whenever there's an old boys weekend held in mckk. looks like we won't see him no more. may he would rest in peace. amin.

kuE's update on 27/07/06- wow looks like everyone did a special entry on this. dun believe me? check it out here (this one for sure, including lotsa pics some more), here, here and here.

this is cool too!*

i read KC's post on mariah carey's dressing room. i saw the house on mtv cribs quite some time ago. it was way too cool especially her bedroom. thus this reminds me of my cousin winnie's room in ipoh. mati (dead) i if she knows that i took pics of her room without her knowledge lol. the last time i went there was on my birthday, remember. it was tremendously cool. the bedsheet set (from metrojaya, mid valley) matched with the wall-to-wall carpet. even for my own room its not complete yet, almost more than two years already! its all because i have the initiative to do it myself. but in a certain way, i know that my time is very limited. that's the only problem. its alright kuE... do it slowly for your own good ;)

* to echo KC :)

why always me?!!!

don't they all know by now that i have commitments too? why they always think that they could just ask me to go here and there. as though like i do not have any other plans with my kids. i was so fed-up mann... no way am gonna listen to all your craps anymore. i did my own thing today. i'll try my best to do IT tomorrow. what would i get in return? grr...

one of the best thing i did today was doing the manicure (see pics). kids went to mph while i was at the salon. can you all spot the butterfly people? cute kan.

i love to lead my ownself than being instructed by other people :)

kuE's quilts ~ show & tell #1

i have been wanted to post this for quite some time. now here it is the part 1 of my show and tell.

some of you may not know yet that quilting is used to be part of my passion since about 7+ years ago. but too bad i do not have the time for it ever since i ventured into this business. anyhow i do missed it now and then especially when i have some times for myself. i didn't go for any quilting classes. i am a self-taught. i learned every single things about quilting from the internet. that's where i knew how to cut triangle or square or hexagon blocks without any template. that's also where i started to understand some of glossary of the quilting terms like applique, basting, fusible web, chain piecing, ufo etc. then i joined some of the on-line quilting groups. i have known new quilting friends from other countries especially u.s., canada, germany, australia and many more. they were so helpfull. i also had the chance to swap fabrics, blocks etc with them. there were truly a wonderful experience. we are still friends and keep in touch with each other until now anyway. that's the best thing about quilting.

here's some pics of my one of the very first quilts that i have sewn. i named it world sun-bonnet-sue quilt, if i'm not mistaken. i made it for puteri's birthday, five years ago i think.

this quilt was machine-pieced and hand-quilted. while we sew the blocks using paper-pieced method. it was one of my special one because the blocks came from seven other countries from a block swap that i did with my on-line quilting friends. the sue's dress must indicate our own country ie canada - maple leaf, japan - oriental, malaysia - batik etc. i sew the squared borders from a fabric swaps that i did from other swap.



can you guess which one was my block.



here's puteri showing the back view of the quilt. each of us have to include a signature block. i sew it at the back to show whose block was who.



close-up view of my quilting ;)

abang rezza

i have just received this via star/maxis news alert despatched at +/- 13:05 ;)

"17/7 siti nurhaliza to marry datuk k on aug 21 at ft mosque, wedding receptions at klcc (aug 28) & kuala lipis (sep 3), wedding planner is dot dot dot/star"

bravo to my one and only ever talented cousin!!!

kuE will still be here

oh no... na na na... oh no...
(what a co-incidence- i had just click 'new post', when came along VE's new song on tv3. juz wanna tell to those of you who dunno yet- my lil bro's future bro-in-law is one of the VE. tumpang sekaki happy lor lol).

to some of you people out there, thank you so much for your concerned towards my life. you know who you are.

the real-life action drama

guess what people. our house backyard is being guard by the police at the moment, since afternoon. the forest police joined them later around 5 or 6pm. before that also, they were some police from ipoh came with two german shephards. kuale don't have that, that's why. strange huh?!! lol.

we were at work as usual. suddenly we heard some very loud police siren from north. then there were some police cars passed our place. within seconds, the main road has been blocked by them. we were wondering of what had happened. we worked as normal, didn't even think of anything bad.

not long after that mom called, asking me to send maybe five bottles of 100 plus. she wanna give the drinks to some of the policemen who were in our house compound. according to her, they were chasing a chinese robber who ran away to the forest from our backyard. if you all know how a kampung-style house looks like is, you should also know that our house do not have any single gates at all. the only thing is that our house is made by concrete. previously yes. but dad renovated it more than 20 years ago.

back to the drama, dad was the one who talked to the police, to get the true pictures. it seems that the robbery at a goldsmith in penang happened quite a number of days ago. the robbers thought that they could sell the golds elsewhere a far. so they ran-off with a grey colour wira. wa lau ley... such a fool robbers kan. they should use imported cars instead- more power lol. with information's from police in penang, they managed to chase the robbers from the plus highway. unfortunately when the robbers realized that they have been chased, they turned into kuale inter-change. thus the local police blocked the main road to town. thus the robbers stopped at the shop-houses near us. they still wanna run. at last, local police caught them under the drain lol. too bad, one of them ran away.

a lot of thinking

"mom asked how you are and the kids. i said fine. is hot there 34. the garden is good and the fruit trees almost ready to harvest".

"i accept him (megat), your daughter and you, no matter what".

"yes i accept, i will convert soon".

"like i said i did alot of thinking".

"yes hun big muslim population here in vancouver. is ok. dont worry".

"all is settled in my heart *tut* ".

"a lot of prayer and thinking and decisions made".

i guess i am feeling much better now.

kuE's note: Leilanie, dear. thank you so much for your concerned. it was not about the kids, don't worry. they are like the diamonds of my life. i am okay now. insya allah, i am gonna fly there soon. whatever it is, i will surely keep you informed ;)

ain't not in straight line

i am so glad that i have such a good and lovely friend like V around. especially when i'm facing with some personal problems recently. he was in ipoh for a short trip this morning. he sms me, but then he called me too to ask about my conditions. its hard to talk on the fon anyway. so we might be seeing each other for coffee or something when he comes back on thursday. he has a meeting in kl tomorrow. if not, he could just wait until his next appointment-cum-work.

he apologized

"i am not perfect but i know i love you and it will never happen again", he said.

not in the mood

i have just came back from seeing megat in school. he never requested me to do it. but me as a woman whose also a mom, feels like only my kids could make me feel good when i'm feeling down. megat was really surprised indeed when he saw me walked-in his classroom during recess time. he was standing near chai tong who was eating. while chai tong's mom was there too, accompanying her daughter. megat forgot to bring his pocket money. thats why i quickly went there. i brought along a fillet 'o' fish burger, that i bought in taiping yesterday. megat was really happy. i knew that he was hungry by then. i love you so much darling.

before that i had some misunderstanding with my dad about work. it really makes me like being out of this world. thus suddenly i thought of megat who left his money on the chair. i straight away heated the burger, took my handbag and drove-off. i felt so relieve as soon as i stepped-on the school's compound. some of megat's senior saw me walking towards megat's classroom. i smiled at them. some of them even waived at me and said, " hai, auntie". oh, children... aren't they wonderful.

alright, that was this morning. i had another thing that really makes me feel down. i do not think whether i should tell you people about it. only certain people knew about this bad news actually including V- you know who you are. i was so lucky that i had the chance to tell V personally when we met on last tuesday. we talked- basically catching-up on stuff we missed. we just relaxing doing nothing than having some snacks, while watching our favourite channel axn or star world or star movies. well, from what had happened, i could say that i was such a fool for wasting my bloody times of more than two years or so :(

it's been a while

wow... its been quite some time since my last post here in my blog. that shows that i was really busy than usual. normally, i could at least post something short or long depends on my availability.

i was in kl on last sunday for my lil bro's engagement at dewan perdana felda. since i'm going to taiping shortly for an appointment at zoo taiping, i leave you all with some pics of the function. enjoy people!

as usual, girl cousins never wanna be left out in taking nice and great pics. here's us (except cousin sarah) with the 7 hantaran (gifts) from our side. as you could see, all the gifts were wrapped- fyi thats the original perak wedding tradition i.e. all gifts are to be wrapped nicely especially the personal things like clothes, handbag, toiletries etc. shafinaz's family members were surely surprised ;)



puteri and megat with the lovely couple



shafinaz's side brought 9 gifts, while we brought 7



here's one of the unique one from shafinaz- a tray of heart-shaped chocolate with my lil' bro's initial on it. cute kan.

get well soon, my dear safiya

as usual, i did my once-in-a-while routine to check on puteri's fon this morning, after i re-arranged her wardrobe. i guess its not wrong for me as a mother to do it on my kids. its definitely my rights right people.

it was on puteri's bed. i saw that there's an unread message received at +/- 0015. i click it. i was surprised when the message was from my cousin sarah in austria. her daughter safiya has been admitted to the children's ward of dehydrating because of vomitting so many times. they are supposed to reach klia on thursday +/- 3am with grandma, just on time for them to join us for my lil bro's engagement this sunday. now i dunno how is it gonna be like. with help from Allah the allmighty, i pray that safiya will be in good condition. i love you so much mwahhh...

kuE's note: the above pic has been taken on 21 may '06 in prague, maybe by safiya's dad. they were on their way down praha tower.

testing

kuE's note: this is just a test, blogging from my fon nokia 6680. i guess this is all thanks to my mobile-phone service provider maxis for being the best in providing this service. maxis would always be my #1 choice. i registered for maxis3G for quite some time. the best thing was when i tried to browse blogger site from my fon before, it said that the site could not be accessed ie i could view but i can't blog. i dunno why. finally i was so happy when i tried to browse the site just now. i could click all those buttons easily as normal, like how i use my pc yippeee!!!... now i could blog from anywhere and whenever i wanna except that i can't post pics here ;)

hait!

arigato gozaimasu ;)











we stood by the road-side around noon. the emperor of japan was in the same limousine with the regent of perak (the first limo- far left) while the empress was with the sultan's daughter raja eleena (right). the emperor was so nice. he opened the car window and looked at the people of kuale while waving at them.






sayonara... we hope to see you again HERE ;)










kuE's note: i met a new friend zetty from ipoh that afternoon. she and her family were on their way to a wedding. thus they have to stop for a while as the polices have blocked all the road access to give way to the royal entourage. guess what people. zetty asked me about my age. she was shocked when i told her that i was 34. she's only 21. she kept asking me to tell her the truth lol. she thought that i was in my early 20s hehe... ;)

a quick get-away

after having such a wonderful day at sunway tambun last week, kids were asking for another great holiday together. this time we went for a 2D/1N stay at bukit merah laketown resort.

at first we thought of going on friday since puteri does not have any ballet class this week. her extra classes in school were only from monday till thursday anyway. but suddenly the other morning i remembered that i was invited for an indian wedding reception here on friday too! so off we went there within an hour after puteri's extra class on thursday. we knew that the place must have been busy especially during the school holidays. that was what we were looking forward to. if not the place would be so damn quiet. we reached there almost 2pm. we were starving. so we headed straight to the coffe house for a buffet lunch, that was okay. a friend managed to get us a 3-bedrooms apartment at their lakefront villa. he also gave us a complimentary wetpark combo package, that include wetpark, orang utan island, ecopark and a choice of chairlift or skycycle.

we checked-in to our apartment after lunch. kids can't wait to get into the water that time. i hate to make them dissappointed. alas i asked them to get ready. believe it or not we were already in the waterpark by 4pm. the best thing was their mama also changed into her swimming gear. that makes a life-guard questioned megat.

"sape dengan adik ni (who is with you)", the life-guard asked megat.

"mama".

"ye ke".

"ya", megat assured him.

"bukan kakak?". alamak... not again hehe... i just kept quiet. didn't want to bother the guy. megat just looked at me and smiled.

we were there for more than two-hours i think. puteri said that she was hungry again. this time we went to the food stalls at the marina village. we didn't go back to our apartment since then. we spent our times there by wandering around. we missed the sunset cruise because it was drizzling, afraid that it was cancelled. we waited for night cruise then at 9.30pm. we cruised through the orang utan island and back. we stopped at the ecopark. we had a great time visiting the ecopark at night.

i woke-up at 8am the next day. wow... i really had a good nice one. so long i never had a complete 8-hours sleep you know. we had our breakfast at food stalls in marina village too. it was raining heavily. eventually all of us got wet eventhough we were sitting in the middle area! grr... should i complaint this to V :

while it was still raining, we enjoyed ourselves at the games area. we managed to ride the day cruise at 11.30am to orang utan island. the orang utan island is an eco-tourism attraction where these primates roam about freely. visitors will be able to observe the orang utans in their natural habitat as they are bred as part of the rehabilitation and preservation process to prevent them from becoming extinct. we stopped by at the ecopark again using the same complimentary package that my friend gave me. if you love animals then you should not miss this. we did watch the animal show at 12.30pm. its fun though. at pet park, visitors are allowed to feed the animals like deer, hamster, rabbit and such. kids were delighted to see the tortoise. this reminds me of my pet tortoise on-on when i was small. i cried when it ran-away after i took care of him for few years. his size was way bigger than an adult's palm. that memories makes me willing to buy a pair for both puteri and megat, without them needed to begging me so much. we went back to marina village by chairlift. we had our lunch at none other than mcD in taiping as requested by my beloved kids.

all in, it was an enjoyable and memorable vacation. even more precious was the family bonding we shared during the holiday.

i hope that you enjoyed the above slide with pictures taken during the holiday. i guess its a good way to up-load a number of pictures without any hassle.

i will also be loading another slide that shows pictures of the indian wedding reception that we attended last night. that was the first time for the kids. while several times for me. the best thing last night was that i met my former english teacher in primary school mrs silva. she still looks the same as before ;)

kuE's note: sorry people. my entry this time is rather long yea. i guess its all up to my mood. sometimes it could just be so quick and simple like this one ;)

japanese flags in the royal town

a writer from bernama wrote mainly about ipoh. from what we understand, emperor akihito and empress michiko of japan will visit kuale on 10 june 2006. they will only be arriving from sultan azlan shah airport in ipoh around 9am. roads to kuale will be closed as soon as they reached ipoh. looks like we can't go out anywhere too. from there they will be coming here right away. among their visit spots are include mckk (they supposed to do this during mckk's 100th year celebration last year), galeri sultan azlan shah and sungai (river) perak where the royal couples wanted to experience the boat ride from one jetty to another.

t-junction from north to taman bunga raya

along the road of ipd kk and mpkk

one of the landmarks of kuale- the 'jam besor'