Tajuk di atas bukan percubaan tuan blog utk jadik "kemproh" ( java word meaning selekeh) hahahhaha.. It is indeed true story of my experience here so just dun hate me if u loosing appetite while read this okay heh heh heh..

Anyway as a start :

Fajr (Subuh) - 3.16 am
Sunrise (matahari terbit) - 4.51 am
Dhuhr (Zuhur) - 11.46 am
Asr (Asar) - 3.20 pm
Maghrib (Maghrib) - 6.40 pm
Isha (Isya') - 8.10 pm

Longer Asar time as siang di Kuwait panjang dari malam.

1st changes we had to face of course different time zone. Kuwait lambat 5 jam dr Malaysia. Basically, 1st week here was a about adapting, adjusting and tuning. Pukul 5 pagi kat sini dh macam pukul 8-9 kat Malaysia. Bayangkan, on the very 1st day kat Kuwait, Alis Erin tido pukul 6 petang ( equivalent to 11 mlm Malaysia time) and start meloncat depan tivi pukul 4 pagi (equivalent to 9 pagi Malaysia time).

| APPETITE |

Time berubah and so did appetite. Good thing here is I have longer morning so as to say. Yelah, Subuh pukul 3 lebey so normally, bangun around 4-4.15 for prayer and tido balik. Mostly pukul 5 aku dah terjaga coz dh terang. Pls be mind that terang kat Kuwait ni bukan cam terang kat Mesia. Contohnye, pukul 8 pagi kat Mesia was still mendung-like. Betu2 terang menyinar2 adelah around 10 pagi ke atas. Here in Kuwait, pukul 5 pagi tu dh terang benderang hehhee.. On the 1st day here, aku start buat sarapan pukul 5 pagi and start masak lauk for lunch straightaway.. pukul 8 pagi siap everything.. Like WTF !!! Tak pernah ku buat hohhh kat Mesia hahahhaha.. Still, in between masak, aku gi dpan jap tgk my husband main God Of War on PS3, then sambung balik masak... Cayalahh.. Morning i cook nasik goreng cina for breakfast , and am planning to cook Kari Kepala Ikan with Bendi, Ayam goreng rempah and Kobis goreng with Udang since En Muddy invite one of his friends coming over for lunch. By 8 sume dh siap.. huhuhuhu....


- kari kepala ikan made in Q8-


-nasik lemak timun-less and kacang goreng-less -

Ok, kembali ke nawaitu asal, nk cite pasal changes of appetite. After breakfast dalam pukul 9, girls will start main and then dlm pukul 10 lebey ke 11 dah lapar balik, so by 11 normally. I already start servng for lunch. Then samada derang tido, tgk TV or do colouring.. begitu begini pukul 2 lebey dh start lapar balik huuhuuuhh.. so I had to always have some snacks ke biscuit ke available around.. something fast and easy to get ready. On the 1st day, lucky I had ready-made Marguerite Pizza I bought from Lulu Hypermarket the other day so just put in oven and within 6 minutes, hot steaming pizza is ready..within 20 minutes, pizza gone. Begitulah cepat nye mereka mereka ini lapar. Still after pizza, around 4 , they already ask for something so I either fried keropok, or potong buah2, then they'll munch on Oreo la, pringles laaaa ..huhuhuhu sekarang saya paham perasaan mak saya yang sentiasa ade di dapur kah kah kah.. As I type this post, I am just finish cooking inti utk murtabak. Am making murtabak frozen, persediaan di hari anak anak lapar... Next project, popia and spring roll frozen !

| WEATHER |

As I said before, it is entering summer in Qwait and most gulf countries. Temperature dalam 40-43 degree. It's very bright in day time. Plus the fact that we are surrounded by desert, it was rather yellowish or brownish scenery everywhere. The air was sandy or berhabuk hence no ampaian here. Almost all homes here were equipped with dryer, else they'll need to have ampaian inside the house. I just can't imagine idai baju kat luar during this time. I bet white cloth will change to brown in no time hahaha.. I never open my windows here becos it is indeed musim panas and whole house was equipped with air-conditioner, sampai ke dapur dapur ade ekon but every 2 days once i had to wipe all furniture. Masa 1st time sampai this house, it was left for about 2 weeks or so sebab En Muddy balik Malaysia. The conditions hmmmmmmmmm macam kene tinggal 4 thn. Sand dust dh tebal dua inci everywhere. Infact, kalau tak lap sehari pun, I can start using my coffee table as black board utk ajar alis ABC hehehhe..

There's a rules in En Muddy's place during summer. No water, No Works. Air sangat memainkan peranan kat sini coz u'll hv tendency to get dehiydrated fast without water. Perubahan pertama yang aku rasa and noticed on my kids was our skin dried up very fast. Baru sehari kat sini kering abes kulit2 and we're also having very bad cracked heel. Sentiasa kene sapu vaseline lotion. Then it started to get itchy. Aiyohhhh very very inconvenient. Alis Erin pun asik suruh garu jek badan la, kaki la hahahhaa.. Later, your throat will started feel like some kind of dryness and in some people with sensitive nose like Erin, u'll have running nose. If not, u'll start to have this massive production of tahi idung. Ala, kat Mesia pun ade tahi idung kan? U had to feel it to understand. Sangat tak selesa I tell you. U just cant ignore it coz it will get flaky and sometimes bleeding inside. Kena sentiasa "overhaul" and in our case, we can be found "overhaul" our nose almost all the time sbb idung rasa tak selesa sesangat hahahahhahah.. Kekerapan production, let say kite baru abes bersihkan idung, within 5 min de dh penuh balik... Serious sangat productive hahahahha ..selekeh ekk? Well am telling the truth..

| WATER |

On second day we're here, there's no water. Tak pernah berlaku pun sebelum ni as per En Muddy. Maybe sebab summer started, so people used up a lot of water to cool the temparature down. Nevertheless, the water here are a bit yellowish and if u cook rice using it, u'll get brown rice hahhaha.. Nasib baik ade water filter so for cooking purposes, i'll use filtered water.

Sama macam dryer, hampir setiap rumah in Qwait will have space heater. Mainly to be used during winter nanti. Infact, we had 2 in our apartment. The landlord also prepared water heater to be used during musim sejuk. However, I think they forgot about musim panas hahhaa.. The pipe water nowadays are just like boiled water. 1st time mandi, aku meloncat terkejut.. Panas ya rabbi. Somemore, the pressure also very slow. Air kencing Erin lg laju dari shower kat sini if putting something for comparison hahhahaha.. How la to amik wudhu', mandi and so on. Air slow, panas lak tu... U'll end up out from bathroom as 1/2 boiled human kihkihkih...I'll nvr do sauna again in Malaysia.. Had just about enough sauna here.

As a solution, I will tadah air dalam bath tub everyday for daily use. Bath tub dh bertukar jadik kolah. There's another problem though. Since the water was yellowish, it will leave stain to the tub or infact, in the toilet bowl. I'm hygiene freak and it run deep in blood as Alis and Erin also turned out to be like me, hygiene freak. In Puchong normally, I'll wash bathroom once a week or twice a week, here more or less , it looks like i cleaned bathroom almost everyday hahahhaha..I need exercise afterall. Rumah ekon-ed, it's hard to get a drop of sweat out.. Owhh talking about sweat, En Muddy was a life size walking sweat-factory bac in Malaysia. Even in air-conditioned restaurant, he'll sweat like nobody business. Table turned here apparently coz even the climate was extreme, it's very hard to see him sweating. Me in another hand, berpeluh tak agak2 kalau keluar. Huuuuuuhuhuhhu me not likey...


| THE MAGAZINES & EnTERTAINMENT |

As my title goes about, U won't get much cleavage here. Not in shopping mall, coffee shop, market or parks( if there's one ).. Pretty much everyone here wore hijab and abaya. Still can be seen some of Kuwaitis (the modern and younger generations) wore modern clothes but still not too revealing. Even in magazines here, they'll filter it hahahhaha.. hancur la harapan kamu kamu yang berharap dapat cuci mata ehhh... For examples, below are image taken from few English magazines I bought recently. So far only 2 ca be found in English. The rest eiher in Arabic or tamil hehehe..Of course this magazines are meant for Gulf market hence the strict filtering..


- see !! -


- hahahaha hampa cik cik abang kite -


-apparently, only him survive the filter board hahaha-

Some people do get away with it. If you may wonder why she got the privilige ? Well maybe because she's the COVER GIRL !!..


-see no filter !!-


- he's plainly non human so he was spared -


- no betis or kangkang allowed please ! -

There's saying , Curiosity killed the Cat. Well, just for confirmation, there's no cat were killed or harm to serve my curiosity. The only damages done was black stain all over my fingers. Serve me just rite.

U see, this filter was not printed, it was man made seal or should i say black tape. It makes me wonder how many man they had work in the factory coz i dun think they published 20 copies per edition hohh... Mesti beribu-ribu copies. They surely need a lot of manpower to selotape all those picture yang dh melalui process filter and decided too revealing for Gulf market, so to speak. Actually, to tell u the truth, i dun see a point coz the selotape they used are easily peel-able. Not much effort needed and it won't even damage the page. As i said, the only damages had was smudges hand, just like when kite pegang paper lama.

I'll show u..


- I dunno why makck sebelah tu getting away, maybe the filter board hv some scale or bar set on how many or how much u can reveal hehe.. Anyway, pls focus on the black selotep on the lady standing on ur far right hand side -


- Taraaaaaa.... magic ehh... haha saya tinggalkan sikit selotep tu sebagai bukti heh heh heh -


During some bad stocking day, when store people doesn't do their work and production people just ran out of selotape. What did they do?? what what ??














- Dun worry, there's always marker pen to save you. All hail marker pen !!!-


- Kecik hati, orang muka surat sebelah x kene marker pun betis de. X cantik kah betis ai ? Luahan hati tuan betis yang menjadik mangsa marker -

As a closing...

Sepanjang 30 thn idop aku, durian to me was a King of fruit with spikey-torny shell and most disgusted smelly fruit to western people but definitely not to Asian. You're not enjoying your life to the fullest if u dun eat durian. Turned out, i had very limited knowledge. I haven't see the world enough.

Here, durian was not a fruit butttttttttttttt........





















- whaddaya say ? durian is a fruit ? what fruit? u gotta be kiddin' me people!!-


- siap ade website lg, durian malaysia adooo ???-



P/S : Post ini adelah bukti bahawa aku dah takde kerja hahahhahaa....