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Wednesday, 21 December 2011

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

Tuesday, 20 December 2011

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

Monday, 19 December 2011

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

Thursday, 15 December 2011

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