It's funny when at times his/her facebook was constantly updated with soul awakening messages, reminders, nasihat2 on dosa mengumpat, dosa menyebarkan aib sesama umat.... It's a good thing. Rasullullah s.a.w pun ade berpesan, sampaikan pesan ku walau satu ayat. However, the funny part is, it doesn't take long after that for you to hosted a haters group, party mengumpat dan menyebarkan aib orang lain secara berjemaah on that very same wall. It got me into thinking, did you actually read and take manfaat from all your shared messages and shouts or do you just posted it because everyone apparently doing so? Nak beramal pun ikut trend meh?



It's funny to me when someone have the needs to publicly thanking, passing personal messages to a person living under same roof, sleeping on the same bed, sharing same pillow with you via FB. I noticed this is the trend lately especially in a case where materials involved.

To xxxxxxxx, tima kaseh banyak banyak eh belikan i petai 80 papan malam tadi...

It got funnier when the message was meant for that one particular person that living with you ONLY and no one else involved. I meant I do understand if the message was meant for multiple receiver hence easier to convey it via FB rather than sms. I totally get the intention to show your appreciations, but do you had to do it openly, then only your partner felt appreciated? Let say, memang tak sempat betul lah nak berterima kasih kat rumah, still if it is for me, I would opted for SMS via phone or last resort, FB private message. It got me into thinking, do they genuinely thanking that person, since I'm pretty sure they had more than enough opportunities to show their gratitude at home. Or maybe, just maybe.. Kat rumah takde orang tahu laki belikan petai 2 guni, shout kat internet, barulah berjuta org tau, not?

Some people are so frickin' funny lah.

Did you by any chance remember my rambling about my frustration of our never ending civil id process ?

If you don't, then maybe this link can freshen up your memories...

http://w4w4d33.blogspot.com/2011/03/frustrated-and-exhausted.html



Anyway, few days back, my husband's team received a visit from their big boss, flew all the way from KL and there's a welcome dinner hosted by the company followed by team meeting afterwards. In the meeting, they were asked about any issue they wanted to highlights to the management and so they did. Anyway, among many highlighted issue that night, one of it of course about civil id process which took averagely minimum a year to complete and how this long overdue process caused so much inconvinients specially to those with family. Promises was given by the management that they will look into the bottom of this, and the next day, my husband received a mail, practically explaining, errr I re-phrased.. practically answering on why it took them 1 year and more to process my husband's civil id..
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"Dear All,



Salam.



Related to our discussion last nite, please find corresponding feedback from xxxxxxxx:



1. Long Visa process for Asxxxx – Unfortunately his name was the same as the name in the criminal list. The authority would have to do proper screening before the process can proceed "


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I didn't mean to being direscpect to their laws or rules and regulations and whatnot, please dun get me wrong, we're willingly to comply to their local laws or whatever it takes since we just come here to find rezeki yang halal, but 1 year to check on backgrounds? Plus, they dun even get his name right, the spelling is definitely wrong and it doesn't even come close to his real registered birth name for cry out loud. If they at least double check the name correctly, i doubt it will appear in that so-called-so-very-scary-to-mentioned list.

Rest assured my husband doesn't even have speeding tickets back home :)

I just don't know whether to laugh hard or to cry, U tell me !


Therefore I hereby declared...


My Name Is Wa, And I'm Not a Crimin@l !

Ahakkkkk..



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Just thought of sharing one simple recipe I tried from Food Everyday April 11 edition. This meal is definitely ideal for salmon lover I reckon, easy peasy and needs only basic ingredients one should have in their fridge and groceries rack.

Below photo and recipe taken from Food Everyday , so credit to them.


SERVES 8 • ACTIVE TIME: 15 MIN • TOTAL TIME: 20 MIN
• 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil

• 1 large shallot, minced

• 1/4 cup red-wine vinegar( I substituted it with apple cider vinegar)

• 1/4 cup whole-grain mustard

• 1/4 cup packed dark-brown sugar

• coarse salt and ground pepper

• 1 side salmon (about 3 pounds), skin removed, cut into 8 fillets( i just use 3 fillets)

• 1 bunch watercress (about 3/4 pound), thick stems trimmed( didn't have so didn't put)

• 1 lemon, cut into wedges, for serving

1 Heat broiler, with rack in top position. In a small saucepan, heat oil over medium-high. Add shallot and cook, stirring often until softened, 3 minutes. Add vinegar and cook until slightly evaporated, 1 minute. Add mustard and brown sugar; stir until warm and combined, 1 minute. Season with salt and pepper and remove from heat. (To store, refrigerate cooled glaze in an airtight container, up to 1 day.)

2 Place salmon fillets on a foil-lined rimmed baking sheet and season with salt and pepper. Transfer ÿ cup glaze to a small dish and brush on top of salmon. Broil salmon until glaze is bubbling and fish is opaque throughout, 5 to 10 minutes, depending on thickness; brush remain ing glaze over fillets. Serve salmon along with watercress and lemon wedges.

per serv: 298 cal; 13 g fat (2 g sat fat); 35 g protein; 12 g carb; 1 g fiber

SWAP IT

In place of the side of salmon, use eight 6-ounce striped bass or halibut fillets.




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I've been starting exposing Alis and Erin to phonetic reading since last few weeks. I am hoping to enroll Alis to school this September so I felt that it is good to introduce her to basic reading. I must say we've been quite consistent with the phonic exercise, say about 45 minutes - 1 hour daily, mostly at night and Alis love it. I've bought few phonic activities book for her during our recent trip to Malaysia and she's done completing few simple exercises as we speak.

However, keeping the balance in life between duniawi and afterlife is my ultimate mission for me and also for my family. I wanted my kids to succeed in both part. Therefore, not only I got her her phonic activity book, I also brought back Iqra' book from volume 1-6. I was intended to buy the set for her but while I was in Spore, upon hearing my intention of getting Alis a set of Iqra', my auntie handed me an Iqra set, belong to my cousin, Ahmad, and now hands down to Alis.

Tonight, my husband was at home after his 4 nights shift in a row, hence he took the opportunity to begin Alis and Erin's Iqra' lesson. Alis as usual, a very fast learner by nature and facing not much problem finishing Alif and Ba's page.


Erin on another hand, was the handful one. She definitely doesn't have the ability to stay still for more than 5 seconds and she, like always, have problem focusing on something. There's always something more important to tend to and there's always be something distracting her.

Witnessing my husband teaching Erin and her antic definitely reminded me of a scene from Pendekar Bujang Lapok, exactly the part where they went to adult school to learn how read. It's so freaking hilarious my husband and I having hardest time keeping our face straight.

Ever since I stepped my foot in Q8 after my brief holiday, my life has been utterly consumed by planning and preparing for this long awaited event. It is safe to say that we've been planning and scheduling for this BBQ session as early as winter started. Obviously it got postponed few times due to various un-avoided reason and finally happening last few days. Coincidentally, we had few March and April babies, hence the celebration was organized to be on the same day with our BBQ event.

The event was held at Egaila Beach, Fintas. It is a park completed with facilities like chairs, tables, BBQ pit, air-conditioned surau and also mosque nearby, last but most importantly-clean and well maintained toilet. They even have few helpers patrolling around to help picnic-ers and campers setting up table or cleaning up the chairs and whatnot. With all the above mentioned facilities , of course there's some entrance charge involved but the amount was too small compared to the cleanliness and the facilities provided.

Errrmmmm why not I let the picture do the talking aite..

Disclaimer : Some of the photos came from my own collection but some were taken from my other friends's facebook. So credit for the photos goes to Ayu , Syerah and Lina.

I've been soooo very envy everytime I blog-hopped and saw such a pretty nice picture put up by other fellow bloggers. In my mind, I secretly wish to be able to post up such nice photo like them where foods looks rather tempting ( and am sure tasted nice too ), so much colorful and how their food styling skills amaze me. In my mind I was thinking, damn what a nice ( and of course, costs a bomb) camera they must have. Of course I've heard of photoshop, photoscape and many other editing tools exist out there, it just that I am that ignorance to ever care digging more about it, until today. Let just say I had few extra free time today for I found THIS amazing tool via En Mat Gebu's blog and totally hooked. Orang lain lama dah pandai, aku baru nak pandai :)

Well, what can I say ? Say no more to blur, raw and lame photo.

As my baby project, I would like to show you my hours and hours editing result..Almaklumlah amatur katanyer.. Photo are all taken from my lunch yesterday.



Tidak la lawa mana pun, tapi sangat puas hati.. nampak la ade effort sikit kan kan kan.. kalau tak, dari kamera trus upload blog .. Besar punye pemalas heheh...

Dari tak lawa, terus lawa kan... Dari tak nampak rupa udang, terus nampak sebesar alam. Dari nampak tak sedap, terus rasa macam sedap. Eh tapi memang sedap pun, tak caya meh datang rumah makan.. :)

Me and my husband, we're like two sides of a coin. We are that different in so many level. We don't watch same type of movies, we likes different type of food and drinks, we had different hobbies. Despite our differences, we ended up being a partner for life. Allah knows best when He decided to "partner" us up. I got gaps; and En Muddy got gaps; we fill each other's gaps.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.

En Muddy and I are happily incompatible.

In my marriage, you can say that I am spoilt brat. Despite my line of works previously which needs technical backgrounds, I refused to involved in any technical matters when it comes to my personal life. I just don't do manuals.

For examples, when buying new phone, my biggest contribution was only deciding which model and brand I wanted and the color I desired. The rest will be taken care by him, from setting, transferring my contacts, creating shortcuts to choosing background and wall paper. Ha ha ha.. I am that diva, no wonder Erin so bossy. I guess she takes that trait after me .

When he bought me Ipad, as natural as it can be, he'd took care of everything including subscribing my online magazines.

Lately as we know it, I've been attempting to cut rice intake in our daily menu slowly. I tell you it was such a head ache so he subscribed few food magazines from Itunes, to help giving me idea of what to cook and one of it called Eating Light. There's so many good easy peasy recipe in there plus tips and info for healthier life style.









This morning, as I "flipped" through the magazine, I saw something I like, looks easy enough and it's so happened that I have all the ingredients.

"Those who think they have no time for healthy eating will sooner or later have to find time for illness."
- modified from : Edward Stanley (1826-1893) from The Conduct of Life"