Approaching 2012..

At midnight tonight, we would bid farewell to 2011. Aku ada cakap hari tu azam aku tahun ni is tak nak berazam. Hahahaha.. Tapi for the past few days, things came to my mind. It's not so much about berazam due to tahun baru. But azam came after bonus dapat, hutang tak habis, and yet I have added a few things into my collection of things yang "tak perlu"! Duh! And so, here are the things that I thought I should learn to stick on.. and writing them here, so that I can recall the feeling I have now while writing this..

*sambil terketar menaip...*

1 - Aku berazam untuk tidak masuk Jakel lagi for 2012. Hopefully for the whole year tapi kalau leh tahan until lepas raya pun dah syukur dah. The reason being is that I have had a shopping spree in Jakel semalam. Muehehehehe.. And now mode insof. Well, when I did the purchase, I had this in mind.. so I better stick with it. I told Wan about it. Pastu Wan kata yang kitorang tak gi Ganu lagi. So got to plan to go there and beli batik. Owh? Approval to buy batik already?? Hahahaha.. Okehhhh.. so no Jakel but there's still room for batiks. I loike!

2 - Aku berazam tak nak beli handbag lagi dah. Omigod! I did a shopping spree for handbags already. No need to go to JPO. Kat KL pun cukup dah. My reason for that is to reward myself after hardwork for the year. Acceptable lah kot reason tu? Takkan tak leh? But the amount spent tu agak besar, so I should just consider that my handbag shopping is done for the year! *Unless suddenly ada good sale kat Coach or anywhere else yang buat aku tak tahan?? Oh Goddddd!! Camana ni tulis azam tapi sendiri rasa macam lum apa-apa dah nak ter-break the azam??* *And teringat lak satu beg Coach yang aku dah tengok tapi tak beli and now rasa macam nak beli??? Gawdddddd!!!!!* *Merembes airmata sambil tulis...*

3 - Aku berazam tak nak beli kasut keje lagi dah. *Merembes airmata sambil jari ketaq menaip* Nak kata certain kaler kasut takde, macam dah tak logik dah. So I should just stick to this azam! Tekad! *And terbayang kasut kat Timberland hari tu yang ada sale... Uwaaaaaaaaa..!!!*

4 - Aku berazam untuk tahankan diri dari masuk kedai Habib. Boleh??? Adoiiii!! I know it's an investment tapi ini investment yang boleh buat aku bankrap gak kalau asik layan, kan? Ada satu gelang yang aku dah nampak and teringin nak beli. So kalau ada pun, itu jelah satu gelang tu. Tu je!

5 - Aku berazam untuk tidak membeli apa-apa dengan zero instalment plan. Aiseh. It's a good plan for something that you really need. Tapi tulah kan.. definition of "really need" tu amat vague untuk diri aku yang lemah ni.. Hahahahaha.. So kalau aku pukul rata untuk berazam gini, mungkin it helps???

Okeh.. itu azam yang melibatkan uwang. I am a damn boros person lah. Kalaulah aku ni ikut gaya hidup Abah dengan Emak aku dulu, mungkin aku dah leh ada a good big house kat KL nih. Tapi tulah kan.. dah nak masuk 40 baru nak pikir kan? Errrr... not that tak pernah pikir before. Yelah.. back to aku insan yang lemah *insof tunduk ke lantai*

Besides those azam, a few other things came to my mind..

Dulu aku selalu plan nak kurus. Now tetiba I feel that I should change the mindset. Instead of thinking about nak kurus, I should think about nak cantik untuk suami. Maybe that helps? Lagi dah tua ni, I should plan to be vogue. Errr nak jadik vogue kena melibatkan wang kan?? Aiyoo!! How??? Hahahahaah.. This thought came to my mind when I saw a friend who lost her husband this year (husband died okay, bukan kena cerai), did some workout after the death. She looks much slender than she was when she had the husband. Maybe she is doing it to cure her sadness besides need to take care of her health so she could take care of the kids. She looks much better now. And when I saw her picture in her FB today, suddenly it crossed my mind that.. too bad the husband is no longer around to see how much she has changed and how much more beautiful she has become. So, aku berazam that I have to do something, to change the way I look (of course it's mostly related to my weight! Damn it!). Kalau laki dah takde baru nak do something about it, it's a bit too late, isn't it? So sementara ada laki ni, I should do something about it. Ini azam dari zaman Nabi Adam dulu kot.. But now since macam ada "paradigm shift" gitu of seeing the need from different perspective, maybe something will turn out good.

Okay dah kot? Yang lain-lain tu tak perlulah nak tulis. It should be in my blood by now. Sepatutnya lahhhhhhhh.. Urgh!

Now that I have them written, I think I am off on a good start. We'll see.

Happy New Year peeps!

Angah

Approaching 40..

A conversation over lunch yesterday with my colleagues sort of made me realised.. He said that when we are in our 40s, we start to look things from different perspective. And I find it quite true. And maybe because I am somewhere stuck in the transition zone.

I have started to think of bila nak pegi haji.. bila nak cukup duit nak gi haji.. sayu tengok kawan sekolah dah buat haji.. but at the same time dok lagha gak lah kan. Dok ingat nak shopping, nak travel, nak macam-macam. Some people said it’s mid life crisis. For 40 years to be mid life crisis, you have to live more than 80 years. Kalau ditakdirkan umur pendek, maybe most of us dah past mid life kot? Kalau umur 70, 35 je dah mid life dah. Kalau 65, 33 dah mid life dah.. So idak le when you are 40 that you are going to have mid life crisis. For those yang mati muda dalam 20an.. their “mid life” crisis took place when they are 10ish?? Erk.

Besides that, aku dah mula congak-congak nak dok mana bila dah tak keje, nak dok dengan sapa etc. Untuk orang yang takde anak macam aku ni, kena menumpang kasih pada yang sudi je. Memang ada suami, tapi back up plan kena ada.. and they come in the form of adik beradik and anak-anak buah aku. Tu pasal kena collect points dari sekarang! Kekekeke.. So that, bila aku dah tua, diorang ingat kat aku and nak jaga aku.. Ok tak konsep tu? Pastu, since I am very much attached to my family especially my sisters, harus aku nak dok dengan diorang nanti. Kitorang ada gak sembang-sembang.. and aku rasa kalau aku ended up sendirian nanti, harus aku dok kat rumah parents aku sekarang ni dengan my sisters. Kalau ikut Wan, jawapan dia dok Pilah je. Erk. Bukan tak boleh, tapi itu tanah adat yang tak tau nak jatuh kat tangan sapa. Kot jatuh ke anak adik-adik dia, takkan nak menumpang kat tanah orang kot? Memanglah rumah sendiri ada, tapi kalau dok dengan adik-adik, bolehlah aku sewakan rumah tu pastu duit sewa guna untuk tampung hidup. Adik-adik aku bukan hidup senang pun. Tu pasal aku kena gak dok dengan diorang.. we need each other.

Also, it’s not so much about the place to be, it’s about the kasih sayang yang diperlukan. I think it comes to a point where money doesn’t matter much. Kalau ada duit tapi tak leh nak taburkan pada orang yang aku sayang, tak leh gak. So duit and kasih sayang mesti seiring.

Pastu bekalan mati bukan takat gi haji je kan.. adehhhh.. bila lak nak gi kelas ngaji, ceramah suma tu? Memanjang je takde masa sekarang ni kan? Or rather doesn’t want to make time for it. The fact that aku dah rajin gak tonton rancangan agama kat tv ni pun sesuatuh gak. Tu suma penghijrahan tu kan?

Tabungan pun satu hal gak.. Mula dok berkira cukup tak simpanan hari tua.. berapa nak belanja sehari nanti.. Berapa kena ada.. Tu yang senang kalau keje gomen dari dulu lagi. Leh ada pencen. Sikit-sikit pun, at least tiap bulan ada. Ni nak harap EPF.. Nak buat bisnes tak buat-buat lagi. Kasi bisnes orang yang dah kaya makin kaya yelah! Aiseh.

Pastu this morning on the way to work, I told Wan that next year will be our 5th year together. I asked him what’s the plan.. as in nak celebrate.. Jawapan dia.. hmmm.. dah masuk 5 tahun ni patutnya dah lebihkan banyak amal ibadah.. Hmmmm.. So that’s it lah kan. Memang pun. Not just after dah 5 tahun ni. Nak kena carik kelas agama or something like that. Maybe belajar ngaji together with a teacher..

I really need to think on what to do with the balance of my life lah...

Tapi apa-apa pun, cuti dulu minggu depan ye! ;)

Angah

My New iPad2

Ehem.. iOls dah beli iPad2 putih 16GB WiFi ;)

Macam tak nyempat-nyempat kan? Macam kena beli dan-dan tu gak kan? Well.. nak buat camana.. bila nafsu menguasai diri.. Tak dapat engrave pun takpelah. No hal. Tapi dalam pada no hal tu, sempat gak surf carik reason to justify why it's better not to engrave, boleh?? Hahaha.. Kalau tak kang hati macam panas je kan? Since I've got the reasons, hati tenang semula. Kalau tak, nak kena tunggu sampai 27hb baru leh sampai. Bukan tak leh tunggu, tapi aku tak tau mana nak soh orang tu deliver nanti sebab by then aku dah cuti so tak leh bagi address office. Nak bagi address rumah lak dah tentu takde kat rumah nanti. So with the reasons, aku decided to ambik satu from KLCC. Settle.

*Do I have to justify every action of mine kah???*

So now, nak carik kulit dia lak. Semalam dah belek-belek tapi takde yang berkenan. Dulu time takde iPad, bila nampak kulit iPad dijual merata-rata aku rasa macam best je designs diorang ni. Tapi semalam dah tak jumpa lak yang best. Bila takde umph masa mencarik tu, terus tak beli. Dah balik, dok risau kalau tercalar iPad tu. Aiseh. Kalau tercalar iPad tu, tercalar jugalah hatiku.. Hahahaha..

Besides the kulit, macam-macam lagi yang aku nak beli. Kibod dia pun aku nak. Aku tak gemar naip guna touchpad. Tak cukup feel gitu. Tapi tulah.. pelan-pelan kayuh lah..

Oklah.. Till then..

Angah

My iPad2

Yippieeee!!! I finally got my iPad2 ;) Muehehehehe...

The spec is 16GB WiFi in white. Aiseh. Tak cukup sifat lak. I want 3G... Simply because my house takde wireless.. Huhuhuuuu.. Biasaklah kan manusia yang sorang ni. Time takde, macam takde hal je. Bila dah ada, nak lebih lagi.

Soooooooo.. I am going to sell it to get another one with 3G... RRP is RM1,499. Of course I am selling lesser than retail...

Angah

Penang again

This is the second time this year aku ke Penang. First one hari tu in March. Saje jalan-jalan sebab bosan tak tau nak buat apa dengan weekend. This time lak dengan ofismates untuk family day and annual dinner. The location was Golden Sands Resort kat Batu Ferengghi.

Ada bas disediakan for those yang malas nak guna own transportation. Tapi as usual, aku dengan Wan mana leh kalau tak nyinggah mana-mana, kan?

We left home at about 9ish. Singgah breakfast nasi lemak dulu dekat-dekat rumah. Slightly before 10, we hit the road. Takde singgah memana pun. Stop untuk gi toilet je. But sampai just before Kuala Kangsar exit, jem macam tak berapa nak gerak langsung. Don’t know sebab apa. Aku tengok twit plustrafik tak kata apa-apa pun. Aku twit diorang, pun tak berbalas. And so we decided to exit kat Kuala tu. Wan tak suka ikut jalan tu. Katanya karang sampai Bukit Berapit jalan sempit mendaki. Selisih dengan lori, fenat. But since there’s not much choice kan. Aku soh dia lek-lek je le. Luckily takde menunda pun. And by the time sampai Changkat Jering, we entered highway semula. All the way to Penang Bridge.

Sampai Penang, first destination was Queensbay Mall. Muehehehe.. Itu bukan cadangan aku ye. Itu cadangan Wan. We went there last March and dia suka jek nak gi situ. So we went there, pusing-pusing and had lunch in Nando’s. We didn’t know what to eat and I suggested Nando’s. Wan lak tak pernah makan Nando’s. So it was just nice.

Apparently Wan doesn’t like the taste. Masam katanya. Pedas pun ye gak walaupun yang dia ambik tu mild je. Tapi tulah kan. Perut dah pesen gitu. Redho jek. And he is not adventurous when it comes to food taste either. Kalau rasa tu bukan something yang dia biasa, memang tak berapa berkenanlah dia.

We then roamed around looking for baju untuk dinner. Puas mencarik. There were 2 dinners; Friday night and Saturday night. Friday night temanya Pirates and Saturday night temanya Colours of Rainbow. Puas pusing, haram ada yang berkenan or sesuai dengan Wan. Baju untuk aku dah lama settle dah. In the end, aku yang jumpa 2 pasang kasut.. Huhuhuhuuh.. Clarks memang my favourite lah kan. Memang aku kalah bila nampak Clarks. Itu salah satu kelemahan tu. Kena lak jumpa rupa yang berkenan and ada saiz aku. Adehhh.. The thing with Clarks kat kedai-kedai sini, they don’t keep many sizes or many quantity of the same size. A few pairs per size je. And size aku is the “normal average” size yang selalu abih kat Clarks ni. Aku pakai size 5. Kalau normal size is size 7 tapi kalau Clarks memang saiz 5. Sekali ada lak saiz aku with the design yang aku berkenan. Kalau tak grab and nak tunggu balik KL, lum tentu dapat sebab aku penah pusing KL carik kedai Clarks semata-mata nak carik saiz for the design that I want. Hampeh tak dapat. Aiyokkkk!!! Cerita macam riakkk je bunyik dak?? Ampunnnn kalau sesapa rasa. As usual, aku expressive gitu.. Hahahah.. so ni cuba menceritakan or rather nak justify kan nape aku beli kasut, leh?? OMG!! Memang tak zuhud langsung lah kannnnnn... Kalau zuhud, harus tak masuk kedai Clarks *insof sambil tunduk ke lantai tengok kasut Clarks yang dah usang*

Okeh, sambung balik..

Now, mula-mula nak beli sepasang je. Sekali si salesgirl tu bisik kat aku, kalau aku beli sepasang, aku leh beli the second pair for 20% off. Boleh??? Umang aiiii!!! Clarks ni memang tak penah buat sale pun. Kalau ada buat sale, untuk yang odd sizes ada lah. Even kat diorang punya warehouse sale pun harga macam haremmm.. So bila leh dapat 20% off, Wan yang ku cintai tu terusssss soh get another pair. Huk!! Katanya, it’s about time aku beli sebab dah 6 bulan tak beli kasut.. boleh?? Terussss aku teringat Fara or someone hari tu dok tanya should dia beli kasut baru or not sebab macam dah lama tak beli kasut or when is the right time to beli kasut. Errr... kata Wan 6 bulan tu cukup lama!! Ekekekee.. Matilahhhh... Pastu, dapat lak a pair yang aku dah pernah nampak dan cuba kat KL dulu tapi lum sanggup nak beli, and ada lak saiz kat kedai tu! Memang rezeki kedai tu lah kannnn.. Terusss rembat. And so I walked out of the shop with 2 pairs of new shoes. Feeling: Priceless! Muehehehehe..

From Queensbay Mall, we took a long drive to Baru Ferengghi. Pusing ikut Balik Pulau and Teluk Bahang. We simply just wanted to do tour of Penang. We did that sekali masa baru lepas kawen. Now ni second time pusing to that area. Tengok-tengok pokok durian orang yang dah tinggi mencicah langit tu. Pokok-pokok tu dah takde durian, tapi ada orang menjual kat tepi jalan. Tak banyak, tapi ada. Aku wonder durian mana yang diorang jual. Mungkin dari pokok yang aku tak nampak from the road kot.

By the time we reached hotel, it was around 6 kot. The hotel’s room was superb. I loike! Tapi mungkin sebab hotel tu macam baru refurbished kot. The we siap-siap for dinner. Idak le mengikut tema kekdahnya. Kata Wan, pirates tak semestinya from Caribbean. Sekarang ni banyak pirates from Mindanao and Somalia. Oklah.. I agree.. So malam tu, bila orang tanya kitorang fesyen pirates apa camtu, jawab aku from Mindanao. Kekekeek.. Alah, budak ofis aku bukan heran sangat dengan tema-tema ni. And bukan orang halau tak bagi makan kalau tak ikut tema pun.

After dinner, we went walking along the roadside stalls. Takde apa pun yang menarik perhatian. Barang-barang tu either macam kat Petaling Street or now melambak kat downtown KL or macam kat Siam je. So takde le apa pun yang dibeli.

Balik bilik, Wan dan mula kena gastrik. Aku ajak dia gi klinik, takmo. So makan jelah ubat yang ada bawak tu and aku sapu minyak sikit kat belakang dia. Soon dua-dua lelap.

The next morning, we didn’t join to company’s breakfast. Nak kuar awal katanya. Yelah tu. Kitorang kuar dalam kul 9 rasanya and had breakfast kat roadside stall. My choice benonya. I wanted to have something local. And cheap. Macam best je. Nothing special pun.

After breakfast, we headed to Chow Rasta. Nak beli jeruk kiriman adik aku. Macam kat KL takde jeruk, kan? Kenaaaa gak beli kat Penang. Aku tak jumpa gerai yang berkenan dalam Chow Rasta tu. But when we walked just outside the building, aku nampak ada kedai jeruk milik orang Melayu. Terus macam tertarik nak beli kat situ.

While I was inside choosing the jeruk, Wan called me out. Dia nak tunjuk aku pakcik Cina kedai sebelah tu buat kulit popiah. Interesting gila. I don’t know how to show it. Nanti kalau rajin aku post the video. Menurut kata orang kedai jeruk tu, pakcik tu turun temurun buat kulit popiah cara tradisional gitu.

From Chow Rasta, we went to 1st Avenue. It’s a shopping centre connected with Komtar and Prangin Mall. Nak carik baju untuk Wan lah tu benonya. Puaslah gak carik tapi tak berjumpa yang berkenan. Ended up beli polo t-shirt yang berbelang je sudah. Puashati. We had McD for lunch and headed back to the hotel at about 2ish. I actually had to be back before 3 sebab ada rehearsal for the night’s show. Nasib sampai at about 3 and ramai lagi yang belum datang ke ballroom tu. I just don’t like to be late. Tak respek orang lain punya time gitu. When people can make a point to be on time, I should to. So tu yang macam risau je bila terlambat.

Abih rehearsal, balik bilik, lepak jap then kuar carik makanan. Saje je aku nak jalan-jalan. We went to a gerai tepi jalan near the hotel. Ada jual laksa. Simple je laksa dia. Takde pun bahan-bahan tabur dalam laksa tu. But I like it. I like it mainly because the kuah is thick. Tak macam kat KL ni. Rata-rata yang claimed kata laksa Penang lah, laksa utara lah, laksa apalah.. suma cair-bair je kuahnya. Bila aku dapat kuah laksa yang pekat penuh ikan ni, lain macam je aku rasa. Saiko sangat. Wan kata biasa je rasa dia. But to me dah best dah tu. Ala, what do you expect from a RM2 punya laksa kan? Sedapppp!!

Pastu balik bilik, siap-siap untuk dinner. Well, the major portion of the dinner covered in my other entry kan?? Hahahahha.. or rather the highlight of the night, kan?? Itu pun je yang pentingnya. So yang lain tak penting dah! Muahahahahaah..

The next morning, we had breakfast kat coffee house hotel to with the group. Not bad for the spread. A lot of choice. And because we didn’t have our breakfast there the day before, everything looked good to us. After breakfast, we jalan-jalan ke tepi pantai. Aku tak gi exactly kat pantai, instead dok lepak kat beach chair provided by the hotel, within the hotel compound. Weather was nice I tell you. I was a blessing lah. Tak berapa panas, berangin, redup. Memang perfect beach weather for me. Tengok orang main paragliding and jetski tapi macam malas nak kotor-kotor, boleh? Aku siap analyse the risk of taking paragliding pastu rasa macam tak saspen. Tapi tulah kan.. maybe next time around. Jetski pun tak main sebab aku malas nak berbasah-basahan. Wan lak takut naik naik jetski, boleh? Ekekekek.. I didn’t even touch the water either kat pool or kat laut. Wan pun sama.

From there, balik bilik, kemas, check out. On the way back, we stopped over kat Kedai Jeruk Madu Pak Ali. It’s located in Tanjung Bungah. I saw it on our way back to the hotel on Saturday. Tapi tak sempat nak singgah sebab nak rush for the rehearsal kan. It’s on the beach side of the road. I knew about Jeruk Madu Pak Ali from tv. Aku tak ingat documentary apa but it was about local IKS. Jeruk Pak Ali ni special compare to the rest. Aku try rasa and memang lain rasanya. Jeruk dia ni tak menyebabkan batuk, macam ramai orang rasa bila makan jeruk. Dia guna cuka apple, madu asli and gula pasir instead of ibu gula or gula sakarin. Honestly, I don’t know the differences, but from jeruk salak yang aku rasa semalam, memang better taste lah. Pak Ali ni aku tak rasa ada kedai kat dalam Chow Rasta tu. And I don’t know kalau dia ada branch lain. So kalau sapa interested, kena carik kat Tanjung Bungah. Tuuu diaaaaa promosi Jeruk Madu Pak Ali!! Ekekekee..

On the way back, kitorang exit Changkat Jering sebab nak singgah Bukit Gantang untuk pekena laksa buyung. Don’t know how the name came about. Semangkuk RM2.50. Ada “laksa pulas” ada laksa biasa. Laksa pulas tu, the laksa itself is homemade. Ofkos aku cuba yang tu. Memang sedap. Kedai tu located kat tepi jalan je. But don’t ask for the landmark. Takde apa pun. Yang ada cuma kete banyak berenti kat kedai atap zink.. Siap bungkus bawak balik tu. Nearby tempat tu ada lak jual durian. Belilah sikit. Selonggok ada dalam 6 bijik kot was RM14. Beli selonggok.

Continue on, singgah lagi satu kedai kecik nak beli manggis. Sambil beli manggis, beli lagi durian. Aku tak ingat berapa bijik. Ada dalam 5 bijik kot. Tak leh beli banyak sebab ada kawan aku dah tolong reserve durian kat Kuala Kangsar.

Sampai Kuala, carik orang yang kawan aku dah mintak reserved kan durian. Sepuluh bijik Wan soh reserve. FIL aku hantu durian. He is probably even worse than me. Ekekekeke.. So most of them untuk dia lah tu. Sebijik durian yang agak besar tu RM4. Penuh I tell you boot kete dengan durian. Baju suma dah letak kat seat je dah.

Pastu dah tak singgah mana-mana dah. Takat singgah buang air je. Pastu ada lak accident somewhere kat Behrang. Thanks to twit plustrafik, kitorang dah tau dah about the accident. But as if ada option kan. Yang aku tak tahan, orang potong kat emergency lane. The accident was on the emergency lane. Tak blok apa jalan pun. But because of orang yang masuk emergency lane pastu nak cut in semula, together with orang yang slow down nak tengok accident yang dah takde, jalan jem like 5km. Grrrrrrr! Marah hokeh! Sungguh tak bertanggungjawab gitu. Huh.

By the time sampai rumah, it was almost maghrib. Unload buah ke FIL punya rumah, then we headed home. Great to be home!

Errrr panjang eh entry ni? Sesekali kan...

Angah

The night iGot iPad2

It all happened on Saturday night..

Before we entered the ballroom, every staff got to pick a luck draw number. As usual, the company will always allocate a gift for everyone.. just to be sure that none of us leave the party empty handed. On top of the biasa-biasa gift, this year 7 lucky person were going to get extra special gifts. The grand prizes. I have never been lucky before I got married to Wan.. boleh?? Hahahaha.. Takat hadiah biasa, memang dapat. Grand prize memang tak pernah. Once lepas kawen, Wan kata, he felt that I was going to be lucky that night.. and sure enough I won one of the grand prizes which was a small fridge. Okaylah, not the best, but still a good price... and later I sold it ;)

So last Saturday night, I got Wan to pick the number for me. And the number was 0078. Masa dinner, Wan kata somehow dia takde feeling lak yang aku akan dapat grand price. Dia kata selalu tu dia ada rasa. I told him that ada gak masa yang dia rasa aku akan dapat tapi tak dapat apa pun. Hik. So it’s like don’t knowlah kan nak trust or not his instinct. Nonetheless, most of the time he is my lucky charm.

For the hadiah biasa-biasa, I got a mixer. I don’t know what kind of mixer but kalau cake mixer, memang aku nak jual or donate je or exchange. Dah ada kat rumah tu, and kat rumah Emak pun ada gak. Simpan banyak-banyak buat apa. Oh hadiah memang tak diberi kat sana.. hadiah are to be collected bila masuk office nanti. Sian lak committee nak hangkut hadiah ke sana ke mari bagai, kan. Pastu orang lain pun nak meronggeng jek.. lecehlah kalau dapat hadiah kat sana pastu nak kena hangkut lak ke rumah.

Anyway, when they wanted to draw the number for the grand prices, aku macam biasa-biasa jek. Tak berapa nak saspen sebab mungkin dah a few times aku naik stage that night untuk macam-macam benda. Not ambik hadiah, tapi as a presenter.

What they did was, the GMD would pick 7 numbers and those whose numbers are picked, are to “choose” their prizes, boleh?? Oh sungguh excited when one of the numbers picked were mine, boleh??!! Sungguh tak sangka you!! Lucky gak I ols nih!

The grand prizes were 2 each of 50” LG LCD tv, 2 each iPad2, 1 each Samsung Galaxy SII, 1 each 1hp aircond and 1 each Blackberry. Aku dengan another person yang ada BB dok kata, it didn’t matter what we get as long as it’s not BB. Kalau dapat gak BB, memang saje je tau! Budak tu siap nak campak je BB tu! Ekekeeke..

GMD then had cards from A to 7 shuffled. The moment I saw the card, I sort of ter-fokus on card 5. I just like the number as 5 happened to be my birth date kot? Entah. But I was eyeing on that number. Then each one of us got to pick one card. I picked mine, but didn’t bother looking at the number. Saspen siot!! Saspen sebab tak nak BB, hokeh!

Then the MC went round and looked at each one of the numbers picked. Bila dah ada sorang tu confirmed dapat BB, aku dengan kawan aku sorang tu melompat!! Hahahaha.. Happy sebab orang lain dapat BB! The good thing is, budak yang dapat BB tu memang takde BB pun. So good on him lah kan..

And, when I shown my card to the MC, that’s when I realised I actually got a 5. And the prize for that was iPad2!!! Whoaaaaaa...!!!! Happy gila deknon!! Yang kawan aku sorang tu dapat Samsung. Ok gak, better than BB tapi dia memang eyeing for iPad2 benonya. Well, nasib lah kan..

Honestly, I can do with whatever hadiah yang aku dapat except for BB. Bosan ah BB ni. Kalau dapat aircond pun ok, dapat tv pun ok, dapat Samsung Galaxy SII pun ok. Dapat iPad2 lagi ok kan? Memang aku tak penah plan nak beli iPad pun. Banyak lagi benda lain in my shopping list, but not iPad. Tapi ni dah dapat free, harusssss tak leh nak tolak, kan. Pasni, nak kena shopping gadget untuk iPad2 lak.. Hahahahaha.. Shopping? Ekekekeke...

Angah

Kempen Minum Air

Ye, aku tau.. a big chunk of our body is made of water..
Ye, aku tau.. we need water to live. We can survive without food but not without water..
Ye, aku tau.. we need at least 8 glasses of water each day.
Ye, aku tau suma tu.. TAPI, aku sungguh malas minum air. It just doesn’t become a habit.

Masa kecik dulu time sekolah rendah, kalau bawak bekal air ke sekolah, tiap hari kena buang air tu before balik rumah. Sebab, kalau Abah nampak air tak abih minum, memang nak kena bebel kawkaw lah kekdahnya.

Aku selalu tengok ramai orang Cina bawak bekal air. Botol besar lak tu. Either it’s just my assumption sebab aku selalu nampak, or memang that’s the truth, aku tak tau. Yang pasti, aku impress dengan orang-orang camni yang bawak bekal air penuh botol besar and by the time nak balik, botol tu dah kosong. Air tu masuk badan ye, bukan dibuang!

I also know that we should always listen to our body. Our body tells us when we need water. But I always ignore the sign. Sampai tekak dah kering abih pun, leh buat bodoh tak kuasa nak ambik air untuk minum. It is that bad! Sometimes sampai pening-pening tak cukup air pun still buat bodoh! Memang bodoh sangat tau!

My normal daily intake of water.. pagi-pagi minum kopi which is NOT water and even then I would only finish it by late afternoon, the lunch with a glass of water. Normally that’s it. And another glass for dinner. Tu pun sometimes not even a full glass. Boleh?? Memanglah tekak aku malas nak layan air. Makan banyak tapi air tak nak minum. The only time when I consumed air macam nak rak was when I got sick. Bila demam especially bila kena denggi dulu, bila sakit kepala, then only I bother about drinking water. Teruk, kan?

Besides time sakit, the time when I started bothering about water again was I started taking litchin. Of course untuk kurus, kan?? Syarat utama mimum benda alah tu is to drink plenty of water. And plenty here doesn’t mean 2 litres tau.. Plenty here means.. due to my body size, I need to drink 5 litres of water DAILY. Boleh??? From celik mata until pejam mata, I have to finish up 5 litres of water! Korang leh imagine tak banyak mana 5 litres tu?? It’s as much as minum air dalam botol mineral yang besar tu! That’s 5 litres. Gilos!!! Simple reason is that we need water to carry all the unwanted toxins or whatever out of the body. Water is needed so we can sweat. Water helps in the process of breaking down the fats. Whatever it is, we need water to lose weight. Duh!

Such commitment doesn’t come easy, hokeh! From someone yang minum probably max 4 glasses of water or whatever on average per day, to 5 litres. Rasa macam kembang kepala aku dengan air dah time tu. And, the product actually works on me. Cuma tulah kannnnn... acik punya commitment tak berterusan. Kurang istiqomah nye! Yang aku tak tahan is nak terkencing tak kena tempat especially on my way to work, in heavy traffic. Kejung bladder aku tahan kencing. Tuuuu yang aku tak tahan. Pastu, kalau dah minum banyak, kenalah kencing banyak, kan? The indicator untuk cukup air dalam badan kata tukang jual benda alah tu is, kencing dalam 15 kali sehari.. or more than 10 times. Fuh. Kencing tu takpe, tapi janganlah time jem, time tengah meeting, time nak visit customer.. Tu sumalah pantang aku tu.. And so that’s why aku agak slow makan benda tu. It works on me and it helps to make me take water for my body. Tapi sebab aku manusia yang lemah yang punya banyak alasan, aku idak le ambik on daily basis untuk kuruskan badan. I should start guna benda tu again benonya because I know it works on me.

And because nak kena minum air banyak tu, as a motivation, aku belilah botol air Bros. Muahahaa.. Seeeeee.. got to relate activities in my life with shopping! Sajeeeee je! Gi Jusco, nampak botol tu cantik, I “created” a reason to buy it. And it’s not cheap. Belas ringgit hokeh for a water bottle and aku rasa mahal. Tapi since aku suka botol tu, aku beli. Botol tu tahan temperature panas dan sejuk. So kalau letak air mendidih pun okeh. Letak air sejuk pun ok gak. Aku beli 1 litre punya saiz. So on daily basis I should finish 5 times the bottle. The first day aku minum 4 litres je kot. Then I managed to drink 5 litres. But I tell you, memang rasa kembang badan, otak suma!! Hahahaha!! Over, but that’s what I felt. Besides berapa kali kencing, the colour of the pee is also an indicator banyak mana kita minum air. Kalau kuning pekat tu, maknanya tak cukup air lah tu. And bila aku minum banyak-banyak tu, cair le warna kencing tu kannnn.. Dah asik keluar je, memang le cair.

One thing I noticed since I started minum banyak air hari tu.. aku dah takde sakit kepala dah. Alhamdulillah! Dah lama aku tak telan ubat sakit kepala. Lama sangat dah rasanya. Kalau kepala mula macam nak rasa sakit, aku minum air banyak- banyak. I guess badan aku memberontak kot dulu sebab air tak cukup.

Wan pun beli gak botol tu. Tapi dia lagi teruk dari aku lah. At least aku punya botol, ada gak aku guna walaupun sesekali. Dia punya botol, dah dok cantik-cantik dalam cabinet dapur. Macam tak tau bilakah akan digunakan semula, boleh?? Hahahah.. Horror, okeh!!

Errrr ni bila makan vitamin Cik Puteri ni, aku kena kembali minum air banyak-banyak.. Huhuhuuuu.. Aku akan menurut perintah ye Cik Put!! Ekekekekeke..

Angah

Bonus

I don't know about others.. but with me, duit bonus lum dapat, berapa nak dapat pun tak tau lagi, dah bercongak-congak apa yang nak dibayar dengan bonus tu. Hish! Masalah hutang yang tak penah selesai. Well, I am not blaming anyone but myself lah kan. Sendiri carik pasal, sendiri kasik settle..

I think I probably need someone to hold my money lah. Bagi duit belanja mingguan for certain amount and make me live with it. Maybe that's the best when self-discipline failed kot? Grrrr.. (mode mengomel ke diri sendirih nih benonya!)

Ada laki pun, lebih kurang sama macam aku gak. Dulu tak kaki shopping, bila dah kenal aku, hancus, punah, ranah. Aku yang ajar dia macam-macam pasal style, brand, shopping malls, sekarang dia dah sama lak level dengan aku.. or almost at par! Urgh! Aku rasa it has got something to do with my "wish for a husband" kot? Doa yang tak disebut, tapi unconsciously I was hoping to have a husband yang memahami bab-bab pompuan suka shopping nih, and masa tulah pulak "doa" tu ikhlas, and langit pulak terbukak luas untuk "doa" aku memanjat tinggi.. Adehh..

Actually, there are a lot of things that I subconsciously wish for, ada dengan Wan ni. Nasib-nasib le kan mana yang aku nak dapat, mana yang aku nak tak dapat. So for those bujangsss out there, be careful, be VERY careful with what you wish for - BE SPECIFIC! Ekekekeke.. Kalau nak yang kaki shopping, mintak sekali yang banyak wang extra yang tak tau nak labur ke mana and dah cover suma pelaburan demi masa depan including Tabung Haji, ASB, insurance, mutual funds and whatever yang perlu. Specific enough?? Ekekekeke.. Besides that, make sure "hati" or mulut tu, tak suka nak berkata-kata tak tentu pasal.. Memang sungguh kata-kata itu doa. Baiklah ajar anak kecik macam Cik Put ajar anak dia doa untuk orang beli vitamin dia.. Ekekeke..

Oit? Lari topik? Ekekeke.. meluah rasa ye.. Tulus dari hati sanubari di bulan Disember ini!

So how shall I distribute my haven't-seen-yet duit bonus ni eh? Bagi Emak Abah dah pasti dalam list. Pastu, kena pikir hutang mana I can live with, hutang mana yang serabut dah otak aku. Mana nak beli barang rumah lagi.. Ish! Nasib rumah tak besar mana. And come to think of it, memang takde benda penting pun nak diganti. So maybe I can put things for home aside dulu kot. Dok rumah pun berapa jam je sehari. Weekend pun lum tentu dok rumah. Paling banyak dok kat living hall je. Tido pun kat situ most of the time. So usah le dok ingat benda lain kot? Emas? Errrr... tu lain hal.. Takde duit pun, wa kasi ada gak kalau nak beli emas! Hahahahaha.. Abih tu camana dengan JPO punya bajet nih? Jakel lagi??? Aiyoooo!!!!

Eh okaylah. Takat nak let out what's in my head for the past few days.

Angah

Tips lembutkan hati anak.. dan isteri

Hari itu di Sinar FM..

Dato' Mohd Fadzilah Kamsah ada bersama dalam slot Sinar Pagi. Topik pagi itu seperti hari-hari Rabu yang lain ialah berkongsi masalah pendengar. DMFK pulak berkongsi tips untuk masalah-masalah yang diutarakan.

Ada kisah bapa, yang selalu rasa nak pukul anak sebab anak degil. DMFK kata.. sebagai ibubapa, salah satu cara untuk memudahkan mengajar anak.. baca tiga ayat ni dan tiupkan kat anak. Boleh tiup dari jauh tapi lebih baik dari dekat. Tiga ayat itu adalah surah Al-Fatihah - sebab itu ibu segala surah; ayat Kursi - untuk halau syaitan; surah Al-Insyirah - supaya mudah menerima (or something like that.. aku lupa!).

DJ Sinar FM pulak menyampuk.. kalau tiup kat isteri ayat-ayat gitu boleh tak.. Kata DMFK, boleh.. Kata En. Wan suamiku.. laki tiup dari jauhhhhh dulu.. dah dekat tiup tapi sebelah tangan sorok kat belakang pegang ada surat untuk sign..

Sungguh tinggi cita-cita suamiku..

p/s - untuk isteri, aku rasa cara yang sama boleh digunakan untuk si suami terutama di hujung tahun lepas suami dapat bonus..

Angah

Hari Asyura

Delinn kata dia puasa hari ni. Puteri tanya nape sebab nampak tweet and FB orang lain suma dok kata puasa. Delinn kata 10 Muharram. Hari Asyura. Aku tau pasal 10 Muharram. Aku tau pasal wujudnya hari Asyura. Tapi aku tak ingat apa significantnya 10 Muharram ni. Delinn kata hari share makanan. What??? Serius??? Reason tak boleh blah sangattt! Dasar suka makan. Nak pecah perut aku baca tweet Delinn pasal tu. Sungguh significant sangat share makan dengan kawan-kawan sampai disunatkan puasa?? Jadik sempena share makan malam tadi (sebab portion kecik and semua kebulur), hari ni jadik hari Asyura. Sewel.

Aku call Wan.

Aku: Babe.. you dah makan lum pagi ni?

Wan: Dah.. nasi lemak. Apasal?

Aku: Takde apa.. Hari ni 10 Muharram. Hari Asyura. Kalau tak makan lagi, leh soh you puasa.

Wan: A'ah lah. Dah 10 Muharram dah. Apa ada hari ni eh? (as in apa significantnya Asyura..)

Aku: Tak surelah. Delinn kata hari share makanan. Tapi I tau hari ni orang syiah pukul-pukul badan diorang.

Wan: A'ah. Tu kena carik orang syiah tu.

Aku: Apsal?

Wan: So that kita leh pukul badan dia.

Adehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.. Gelak tak boleh blah, hokehhhhhhhhh!!!

Moral: Sila-silalah educate anak-anak dan diri sendiri mengenai sejarah Islam. Asik ingat sejarah Hitler, Napoleon, Valentine, Ombak Rindu, Badai Semalam errrr.. Rajin-rajinlah layan TV Alhijrah, ye! Hahahahaha..

Angah

Buang ke tak?

Kita sambung sikit kisah buang membuang barang ni ye.. Hik!

Kalau laki aku ada banyak barang yang dia sayang buang, aku lak sayang nak buang when it comes to reading materials. Reading materials ni tak termasuk suratkhabar. Suratkhabar ni, just after baca dah leh buang dah. Tak yah nak simpan. Kot nak simpan pun, for other usage. Not as a reading material. Dulu, Wan simpan gak newspaper ni. Melungguk sebab nak jual. Tapi sejak dua menjak harga recycle paper ni dah tak seberapa hasilnya, nak beli sekeping paper baru pun tak leh, Wan pun dah abaikan pengumpulan paper ni. Letak je dekat tempat peti surat tu, bagi cleaner je lah kutip untuk dia recycle.

Tu bab paper.. Ni bab reading materials yang lain ni.. Macam majalah lama. Aku ada banyak majalah lama, nicely stacked in the rack. Ada yang dah dok dalam kotak so that tak berhabuk. Errr not so much about protecting the magazines from habuk.. cuma malas nak lap habuk kat magazines. Senang letak dalam kotak, lap kotak je bila berhabuk. Sayang tu sayang gak. Ada magazines yang aku bawak balik from Australia dulu tu! Hahahaha.. Gila tak? Magazines Weight Watchers and the likes. All ada sentimental value sebab I learned about healthy eating and living from those magazines as well... at least once upon a time lah kann.. Ilmu tu. And they have a lot of good recipes. Not that I plan to cook any of those soon. Tapi the thought that I know where to refer to, is good. Sewel tak? Ekekeke.. Nak buang, sayang. Tak buang, aku dah lama beno tak bukak magazines tu pun. What should I do eh? Probably I should start reading them again as a motivation? Grrrrr... Tu yang dilemma nak buang tu... sayangggggg....!

Besides Weight Watchers, aku ada collection of Midi – ni majalah Malaysia for middle aged women. I used to buy them from their first issue until last year kot. I can’t remember when I stopped buying them. Why I bought them instead of other magazines.. sebab dia murah, and dia kurang sikit advert yang karut-karut like pages of fashions yang I will never wear. And they have some good articles. Tapi after a while, macam ada repetition of the content. Pastu macam mula bosan. So mulalah aku tak baca, and terus stop from buying. Ni, aku tak sayang nak buang, but the thought of buang tu, make me rasa tak best. Rasa macam, rather than buang, I should probably donate it somewhere. Of course bukan rumah anak yatim sebab macam tak sesuai untuk diorang kan? Nak donate rumah orang-orang tua, aku tak tau mana rumah nak hantar. Haiyo! If only there’s one stop centre where we can just drop whatever that we don’t want but are still useful to others, and this centre will distribute them to the needy ones. Kan? Or is there anyone nak magazines ni tak? All in good condition except for 1 or 2 sebab anak buah aku dah koyakkan sikit. But the content tak terjejas lah.. Tuuu diaaaa promosi, boleh??

Other than the reading materials, ada some stuff yang aku tak nak. They are gifts from either lucky draw or hadiah kawen. Ada pinggan, ada electrical stuff. All in original packaging yang dah berhabuk. How to get rid of them ha? Aku malas nak jual-jual kat internet. Nak donate je. Ada mana-mana aku leh letak tak? Nak ambik gambo satu persatu pun aku tak kuasa. So don’t bother asking me for the pictures ye! Hahahahah..

And what do you do with old CDs? Bukan CD or DVD cetak rompak.. I am talking about songs CDs. Harga tak murah deknon. Dululah. Now aku tak tau sebab dah lama gila tak layan beli-beli CD ni. Nak buang sayang. Nak dengar memang tak tau bila lah kan. So apa yang perlu aku buat dengan benda tu? At least aku cuma ada CD je.. Wan masih ada keset-keset lama, boleh?? Tapi nasibbbb kat rumah mak dia. Tak berani dia nak bawak masuk rumah tu. Ekekeke..

Because of benda-benda macam ni lah rumah aku tu sesak. Tu tak masuk kasut yang dah lama tak guna tapi sayang nak buang and tak tau nak bagi kat sapa. Aiyo! Bags pun sama. At least bags aku boleh je bagi kat adik-adik aku or paling tidak pun, bagi je anak-anak buah aku buat main. Abih cite.

Urgh. Forever tak siap kemas rumah kalau gini!

Angah

Hoarders

Ni tengah penah gila ni. Otak aku nak kering dah. Lagi hujung tahun, lagi sesak otak aku dibuatnya. Aku baruuuu nak ingat rilek-rilek sikit sebab selalunya Disember customers dah calm down. Suma dah manman pakat nak coti hujung tahun dengan anak-anak. Aleh-aleh tahun ni, suma pakat kerja kerassss lak hujung tahun. Yang nak abihkan bajet pulun bagi order banyak-banyak. Yang tak meet HSE target, pakat nak buat audit. Yang ISO pun satu hal gak. Yelah, benonya plan aku untuk ISO hujung tahun lah sebab patutnya laut dah tenang.. err not laut yang bebeno tu.. Laut bebeno tu memang bergelora time ni kan. Sekali, time ni lak ala-ala mini tsunami melanda meja aku. Arghhh!! Sumanya ada paperwork and presentation, and sumanya akuuuu kena buat. Nak harap staf, suma pun memang tahap dagu dah keje diorang gak. Either that, or they don’t have enough skill. So how? Ahkakkkk gak kena buat. Tapi takpelah. Dari melaghu takde keje, baiklah ada keje. Tapi tulah kan.. Perlukah ambik vitamin ni? *jeling si pengedar vitamins itewww..* Whatever it is, jangan sampai cuti aku nanti terganggu, udah.

Eh, aku bukan nak cite pasal keje. Tapi tulah kan.. this is just a break from kejelah ni.

Korang penah tengok tak rancangan “Hoarders” kat Astro Ch 731? Rancangan ni is about hoarders lah kan as the name suggests. Hahahaha.. These people memang tahap sewel punya hoarders. Errr to those yang tak tau apa horders tu.. they are people yang suka simpan barang. Suma benda sentimental. Suma benda nampak, dia nak beli. Pastu tak reti nak buang. Suma sayang. Suma nak guna or ‘akan’ ada kegunaan. Things like that. And gosh gila babi punya serabut rumah depa ni. Rubbish, good stuff, old stuff, new stuff suma main lambak je. Like they have no place to live. I don’t know how to explain. Korang kena tengok to understand. Yang peliknya, diorang ni suma rumah besar-besar. I don’t know how they can afford that. Real besar. Besar macam banglo-banglo besar kat Mesia ni lah. Aku lak sayang tengok rumah diorang ni. Diorang memang dah tahap critical OCD. And, the funny thing is, kat US tu, ada lak specialist dalam OCD untuk hoarders ni! It seems like an acknowledged disorder gitu.

And, like it or not, it always remind me of Wan. Hahahaha.. Dia pun sama je tengok cite tu dengan aku. Tapi dia taklah tahap diorang ni. Kalau dia macam tu, harus le aku tak kawen dengan dia. But that’s how these people started. From having difficulty to let go of small things, little things, little quantity until it becomes huge. Hoarders tu, siap ada a cleaning team datang rumah nak tolong buat barang pakai lori. And while they were removing stuff from the house, hoarders ni will look at the stuff and kutip semula mana yang dia nak. Boleh?? Like forever takkan selesai punya keje. Lotih!

Semalam, balik rumah, aku nampak a few things yang aku dah buang hari tu, tapi dah masuk semula. Boleh?? Hahahaha.. Macam memantul jek masuk balik ke dalam. Macam magik gitu. Aku tanya Wan kalau dia ada kutip barang-barang yang aku dah buang and the first reply.. takde.. sambil sengih-sengih. Boleh?? Padahal, aku nampak cantekkk je pasu yang aku dah buang bersama bunganya, masuk balik ke rumah. Tapi, bunga dah kena buang, and pasu dah berbasuh baekkk punya. Boleh?? Bila aku tanya lagi, baru dia ngaku. Dia kutip pasu tu, pastu ada a few pens yang aku buang pun dia kutip gak. Boleh?? Aiyoooo pen dah banyak dalam rumah tuuu!! Buat apa le nak simpan lagi?? Jawapan dia.. boleh guna lagi pen tu.. Boleh?? Lemau aku.

Then I told him to clean the house instead of me doing it. Penatlah kan, aku buang dia kutip. Baik dia je pikir mana nak buang and mana nak simpan. Dia kata, dia rela mengutip semula barang yang aku buang dari membersih rumah. Aiyooooooooooooooooo!!! Acik nak nangesss!!!

Angah