Chocolate with a crooked C...

I was having my fondue with a friend last week at the curve when suddenly a squeaky voice of a really young boy caught our attention.

He was saying this out loud to his mommy.

With 1 finger pointing to the signage - Mommy, it's chocolate right but the C is the other way round...terbalik la mommy...why...why....

Hahahaa.... cute... cute... and that boy is not even 5 i tell ya...

kids says the darnedest thing..don't they...

Salam Eid Adha

Salam Eid Adha to all Muslim sisters and brothers wherever you are.

Coincidentally, it's Thanksgiving weekend too. Happy Thanksgiving to all and have a great weekend.

As for me, it's going to be a quiet Eid. Parents will be joining my brother and his family to Melaka for a weekend at A-Famosa. I have to work on Saturday. I would like to say it's unfortunate that I could not make it but I would be lying with a not so straight face.... I'm actually going to take this opportunity to chill at home on Friday. I need this break... Life at work has been a whirlwind and my other life ain't doing great either.

Ouh...btw, my eldest sister whom supposedly should be the wiser one among all of us, did her Eid Adha routine, this is the 2nd time and it falls everytime during Eid Adha - ran away from home. Funny ehh..... as you get older, you are suppose to get wiser. In this case, I'm afraid not.

My brother and I just could not be bothered. Only one thing that my brother mentioned - all these years of shit we gave our mommy, not one time she ditched us. And just because our parents are getting old and frail and sometimes yes I must say demanding, we just ditched them??

Allah knows best. I just hope my sister knows that world does just revolve around her hardships. There are others out there who's having it in a larger scale. What we have is peanut...

Spa Retreat - Tempat Senang, Batam

4 of us went for a spa retreat. I make it clear that for this trip to Singapore, I want to do this Batam thingy.... And boy I have no regrets....apart from the hiccups on the cash/credit card issue.

The whole thing cost each one of us SGD241 or RM600...which is for me reaaaalllyyy cheap as this covers...are you ready??

1. A 1 night stay
2. Pick up/Transfer @ Sekupang.
3. Seafood Dinner
4. Breakfast
5. 3 hours Spa treatment

Not bad ehhh...However I would recommend a 2 nights stay, so the trip won't be a wannabe "amazing race" trip. You'll have ample time to roam around Nagoya Hill and Batam Centre. I did my cream bath and pedicure at wannabe Salon Christopher, a wannabe Johnny Andrean which cost me only RM30!!! But I must say JA beat their service and cream bath by miles. I did these on my arrival day @ Nagoya Hill and on departure day, I was at Batam Centre and I saw JA... drats... maybe next time.

We did not arrive as schedule due to the misunderstanding on whether or not we can use credit cards since the 2 Malaysian girls were short of cash and RHB Singapore apparently is not link at all with RHB Malaysia. We almost gave up...almost...but dear Yani, the youngest and the sober ones among us decided that we should give Tempat Senang a call again to reconfirm usage of CC. And voilaaaa....what do you know??? They accept it... If only we knew this from the very beginning.... it would save us running around central SG for stupid RHB and Maybank. And to add on, my card was retained.

We missed the 8.30 boat and only manage to get the 12.10 boat. Batam time is an hour behind Singapore. Bustamin from TS picked us up at Sekupang terminal and brought us to TS.L It was a bumpy ride, red earth road kinda thing...

We arrived, checked-in, rested for a while before making our way to Nagoya Hill - apparently the biggest shopping mall in Batam. The journey was about 40minutes and for 3 hours the personal cab cost us Rph150,000. We had our lunch and went separate ways to do our cream bath, menis and pedis. Both Emy and Yani preferred Marthaa Tilaar while I who had bad experience with Indonesian traditional products decided to stick with the JA wannabe salon.

Emy's meni and pedi took longer than expected...we promised the driver to pick us up at 5pm which became 7pm. Additional hour is charged @ SGD7.

To cut the story short, we had fun... it was worth the money....big dinner, lovely breakfast, we went for a short swim etc...etc...

Verdict - A must go again...

Karaoke jam session...

It was one helluva nite... All of us had fun. Some of us have not seen each other since we left college..that was like 14 years ago!!

Thanks to Boy and Ija who made it all the way from Kuala...Long live Kuala...hahahaha

Also to super senior yg tetap hot - Kak Long Hawa...steady la sis... and not forgetting Izudin, the super junior.

Mek yang semakin hot...hahahaha....Julie yg tetap maintain.. Razal yg mengikut kata Kak Long semakin hensem dan tak poyo rambut panjang macam dulu.... Qul yang tetap maintain mat smart.. Bai yang tetap maintain player...hahahaha

Dodie and I truly enjoyed this session, we have been doing things together for donkey years that seeing new faces gives a new breath of fresh air...kan di???

It was good to see old buddies, rekindle old memories...old jokes.. new jokes...see how things are in our current life...

And it all started @ Intai-Intai Buka Puasa session, thanks to Hapiz who made Intai-Intai session came true and to Bad for hosting the dinner.... Guess the Ramadhan brings the best of every good things..and not forgetting of course FACEBOOK that has linked all of us...

May this friendship last forever - BERSAMA SELAMANYA -

xoxo
mzz
ITTAR Batch 93-95

Papadom

After a month break from one of my favourite past-time = watching movies...I went to watch the much talked about Papadom.

Verdict - Awesome... some scenes are bit slow.....most importantly I did not fall asleep, which is a good thing. Coz the last AS movie, I slept halfway through it..it was a disappointment..Buli Balik i think...

This time round I was not alone...I was flanked by 2 guys... Jude and Jack. Best gak tengok wayang ngan friends nie.. I have been watching movies alone for donkey times that having friends around to laugh with, felt good. Jack however felt asleep half way through..or to be precise, almost right after his sister's song was on air. Too happy during happy hour I guess... or malay film just don't do it for him..hehehhe. Jude on the other hand watched all the way through.

After Papadom, it was the usual mamak, drop both of em' at sentral...ntah aper nak buat kat sentral pukul 4 pagi tuh pun, I don't know... 2nd round of happy hour @ centro??? hahahaha...
as for me...I could not wait to hit the sack. I'm due up in 3 hours.....sighhh...

But I enjoyed the night...

The usual weekend garden chat

After almost half a day of running from one side of KL to another fulfilling the invitations for open houses and Diwali, I ended up at MPC upper deck for Saturday night EPL matches. One of the reason was that my friend house does not have the sports channel and I reckon I won't make it home on time for the match.

Past midnight, I decided I should just head straight to mommy's place. If I don't do this sleep over, this will be the 3rd weekend and I don't want to get mommy upset. Susah tau jadi single pun, when you already live outside, they still expect you to come over the weekend...

What did I do on Sunday?? I slept most of the morning till afternoon....one of the best sleep ever..woken up by the sound of Qistina crying her lungs out downstairs...serious gila punya kuat!! after what seems like ages..I decided this cannot do. I went downstairs and saw Qish mommy sitting on the bed and little girl was crying in the bathroom. And that girl, she can cry....

Ayu said, leave her there...she wants to play with water and I would not let her... After some intervention from me and the maid, things was sorted out. Pity my sister..I seriously do...taking care of 2 small kids without the husband, it's not easy. Qish is daddy's girl, nasib MJ is a good boy..hardly give his mommy any problem. Good that Megat is coming back soon. It's a sacrifice that both Megat and my sister did, so she can forego autumm in Paris to take care of mommy while she was bedridden couple of weeks back.

There goes my sleep. Decided to roam around the house and just do nothing... Terpaksa layan Disney Channel almost the whole day...munch some kerepek and do nothing...lay down in the room... skejab lay down pulak kat hall... then read the newspaper...then do facebooking on ipod, the chill in mommy's room and watched bawang putih bawang merah which eventually watched me instead....

Come petang, mom said she wants to sit in the garden and ask me to accompany her...boleh laaa... I can chill with my mom anytime...she's my rock...she's my pillar of strength... and that's why anything she says will have great implication to my life. And sometimes she says something that hurts, she's human after all... But I love her to bits... I say I love you all the time.....sometimes people ask me...ehh..boleh yer kau cakap ngan mak kau I love you??? why ever not??? I pity those fools...when I have kids, I have this thing in mind about being expressive with your emotions and I sure hell do will be very expressive with my otherhalf...hahahaha.....kesian whoever that will be...he have to endure this...

Soon, my sis in law and Ayu joined us. Mom...said...(which I sort dah agak where it will go)...tengah kira duit nie.....someone ask for what, for Intan nak kawin?? See?? didn't I say so...my family is sooooo predictable...hehehehe

And my mom dengan confidentnya jawab...ehhh...that one already put aside...cakap jer, anytime...give me two days...and I said...wow...really??? and she said...of course...each of my kids have their share, which obviously my share is not being use yet.

Then I said...ok..nanti Intan punyer buat one timer jer bleh tak? combine..leceh laaa..nak buat 2 kali.....blehh..bleh...no problem... pastuh buat kat Saloma bleh tak mie?? bleh...blehh.... then my sister interuppted, buat aper buat kat situ...rumah besar2 buat kat luar plak...

Then the big question came... so you got anyone in mind. I said no one has ask for my hands yet...hehehehe... then my mom said...always..always put my hope this high and then nothing...hehehehe.... how old are you? 34 kan?? ok..mommy bagi lagi 1 tahun..35 u must get married ok... anggukkan saja laaa....heheheh

alaaa...mommy...I'm just going with the flow.... hehehehe...

I love you mom!!! muaahhhhh

Friends...

You know how good old friends can make your day breezy...above are some of the good old friends...

Had a great time....Got me stuck in a moment.... ;)