zaman dolu2

it's been some time. nothing extraordinary things really happened. macam biasa. pi school, balik, makan, tengok movie atau reality show atau drama jepun. esoknya macam tu lagi dan berulang2.....weekend lak, masak spesel sikit, tengok extra movies, kadang2 keluar buat groceries and begitulah cara hidupku di sini...heheheh, time's running so fast. kejap je dah weekend. sempena raya baru ni, i was really into this drama raya. tak kiralah drama apa pun, teringin sangat nak tengok drama2 raya ni. kadang2 best gak sebab sebab drama2 raya ni selalunya kelakar2. i love cite kelakar, sebab memang nature cik talam kot, suka ketawa2 gitu heheh. sebelum tu dah download satu, cite gitulah raya. i really enjoyed that cite. lawak habis.... memang best gila, mencapai tahap cite fav ku. mungkin pada org lain cite tu nonsense, takpelah, as for me, i give 5 stars for that movie. tak sangka bob ku2 tu lawak gila rupanya, apek and yasin tu toksah cakaplah kan. sham the music director tu pun rupanya pandai berlakon, hamid gurkha and yusni jaafr as always, my fav veteran actors... last sunday, we managed to download another drama raya 'daun ketupat kering'. i read the review, semua org puji habis cite tu, sampai tv1 buat encore...pendapat aku, sah lawak habis aa cite ni....sekali, lepas tengok..Ya Allah, sedih gilaa..mengalir2 air mata...sedih yang amat lah, sampai meninggalkan kesan, rasa menyesal pulak tengok cite tu...it took me almost 3 days to somehow get over the movie...kalau tak, asyik terbayang2 je especially scene last tu...waaa sedihhhhh......

kingdon of heaven was heaven...hehehe...best sehh cite tu, mula2 takut nak tengok, takut bias. biasalah, this american movie, dari kalah boleh jadik menang di vietnam kan. an american movie can always change history. so let the hubby watched it first. his comment: good movie, very fair, ikut history, langsung tak bias....good...my fav drama jepun yang tengah main kat jepun skaang ni pulak, is superb as always, sekarang kat jepun dah episode 6, tapi we just got the english subtitled version until episode 5..the japan-version of meteor garden punya drama ni memang best, laju jalan citenya sebab cite jepun max episode 11-12 and this drama pulak, from the review, they predicted it will have the max of 9 episodes only. kalau cite taiwan ke HK, paling koman 30 episode. so jalan citenya meleret2lah...tapi dalam meleret2 tu yang aku tak pernah miss tu....talking about this cite cina, sejarahnya panjang untuk cik talam. i always be the die hard fan of chinese drama and movie. mula menonton siri drama cina sejak darjah 4 (sebab darjah 4 start sekolah pagi)...sejak tu tak pernah miss tengok cite cina, tiap2 hari 6-7 petang sampailah masuk mrsm masa form 4. lepas satu, satu cite. habis yang ni, next cite lain, tengok jugak. dulu, pi kedai sewa video (dulu takde vcd) dengan kakak, takde lain mesti pinjam cite cina, tak reti tengok cite omputih sangat masa tu, kalau tengok pun cite lawak2. beli video2 kat speedy pun beli cite cina. sampaikan majlis anugerah filem ala academy tapi version hong kong pun aku tak pernah miss (diaorg selalu tayang ni masa chinese new year). sebut je pelakon dan penyanyi mana semua aku kenal. bukan setakat yang femes amos tu, yang jadik pak pacak, pelakon sambilan, semua tahu nama (nama penuh lagik), dalam bilik, melalak nyanyi lagu cina, kaset nya pun ada, nasib baik mak aku sporting, buat tak tahu je, kat sekolah, siap berlakon lagi, masa waktu rehat, berlakon scene cite cina yang ditengok petang sebelumnya, 'ko jadik ini, ko jadik ini, aku jadik ini' bagi watak masing2..esoknya, berlakon episode seterusnya. kiranya ada ulang tayanglah kat sekolah, versi live lagi..kat sekolah pun kawan2 gila tengok cite cina, yelah sebab sekolah convent kan, kawan ramai cina, tapi kawan2 melayu pun sama brand ngan cik talam, semua minat tgk cite cina..masa nak amik upsr, study kat porch tiap2 petang. atas meja siap ada alarm clock. neighbor tanya nak buat apa ngan alarm clock tu. heheh, set masa, pukul 6 kena berenti study sebab nak tgk cite cina. bukan cik talam je, adik beradik semua gitu, my sis and my 2 little brothers. ada satu ketika tu, cite cina femes gila ke keluar kat wayang. zaman dulu wayang buruk jelah, takdelah ala2 tgv macam sekarang...so kami adik beradik pun pegilah. penuh panggung, full house. kami 4 adik beradik je muka melayu...yang lain semua cina...but the good thing is, dari menengok cite cina ni, cik talam bolehlah cakap cina setakat sikit2 tu, boleh paham sikit2 and they are very useful walaupun sikit2. lepas tu satu lagi, cik talam perasan, i can get along woth chinese very easy and very well. dulu masa degree, rapat betul dengan kawan cina. its kinda weird sebab masa tu kat university, cina kawan ngan cina, melayu ngan melayu and etc. bukan takde, ada kita sembang2, borak2 masa kelas dengan yang lain races tapi takdelah rapat sangat. cik talam, oklah rapat ngan diaorg. diaorg siap ajak aku pi singapore (sorang2 melayu, yang lain semua cina), diaorg datang ke bilik di hostel sembang2 (sebab diaorg ni semua duduk luar, tak duduk dalam kampus)...i never have problems be friend with them.

tapi tu dulu, sekarang tak tengok cite cina sangat dah...no time maaa...ehhehe, kecuali masa cuti pantang dulu, aku sakan balas dendam, tengok balik. puas hati. lepas tu bila dah naik keje, mulalah nak kena balik before 6 sebab once dah ikut cite cina ni, berantu, nak kena ikut sampai habis....tulah, cite zaman muda2....sekarang rasanya, drama cina tu ok lagik, tapi movie2 dah kureng...adalah yang best macam infernal affairs 1, 2, 3 tu.....tapi kebanyakannya sekarang ni memang tak tengok sangat dah...insaf...hehehe...

hari ni cadangnya nak keluar jalan2. dah bape minggu, asal weekend ke duduk umah..sekali hari ni snow lak turun. takpe tengok dulu, kalau tup2 dia stop, kita cabutlah....time2 ni rindu lak kat keluarga kat tanahair dan sahabat2 ku...sahabat2 c-club....to cik kieli, selamat hari lahir.....may you enjoy your birthday and semoga all your wish come true...muaaahhhhhh

gilamore

roryy!!! what happen to you!!! rory, from gilamore girls :), has alwaysss been my favourite all this while....how to describe her, well, she's so beautiful (to start with), she has good brain, she's nice and she's sorta perfect...tapi latest season of gilamore ni, makes me tak suka roryy dah...this is due to a few reasons; first, she walked out from her house and stay with her grandma, second, she's not talking to her mother (which is so weird because she was very close to lorellai all this while), and third (the most important factor), she's quitting Yaleee!! i cant' believe her..and this season shows her relationship with her new bf, logan. i kind of like logan because he seems nice until the latest episode, i was so meluattt dengan si logan ni. baru nampak belang, jahat rupanya..snobbish and arrogant..cemburu buta pulak tu...nasib baik latest season ni ada special appearance of...jeng jeng jeng...jazzz!!! saviour of the day! jazz is back in town! and jazz is different, he looks better and more mature...dulu2, masa jazz ni mula2 starred in this gilamore, cik talam memang tak suka si jazz ni. sebab masa tu, i am on the dean's side. you go dean!!! but now, since dean is out of this world, tak tahu ke mana, i prefer jazz to be with rory. the latest episode ni was verryy interesting, catchy and touched. lepas tengok, hubby tanya, 'u nak simpan ke delete?' cik talam jawab (half hearted) 'delete lah, kita memang tak simpan gilamore collection pun anyway'....esoknya kat lab, email hubby mintak tolong dia download semula..hehe.. i think this is one of the best episode of gilamore ever (after the episode where rory first met dean), so i decide to keep this one...hehehe...untuk yang tak pernah tengok cite ni, please note that, logan is mat saleh, bukan indian (nama tu macam nama indian kan), and dean is a mat saleh guy too, bukan dekan di fakulti....

hari ni buat experiment lagi di dapur...menu: pau kacang hitam which is sebenarnya kacang merah...Alhamdulillah jadik...semalam dapat 2 notices in the mailbox...our stuffs can be collected in the nearest post office...well, we bought baby's stroller (with bigger wheel for the winter preparation) and also multi-purpose mixer called 'magick bullet'. both were bought from germany. Alhamdulillah both items are in a very good condition. masa nak sign surat acceptance kat post office tu, clerk kat situ tanya dengan serious nya 'i'm very interested in this, how much you bought this?' sambil tapped on the magick bullets box...hehe, aku ingat kan nak marah aku tadi pasal muka dengan suara serious gila sehhh...

dengar lagu raya, satu demi satu, mengingatkan cik talam kepada different scenario...kalau lagu raya m.nasierr, teringatkan peristiwa A (A bukan nama sebenar), bila dengar lagu raya feminin dan 4u2cc (perlu ke both lagu raya tu memang my fav?? hehe), teringatkan peristiwa B (lagu raya feminin n 4u2cc keluar more or less waktu yang sama, so they shared the same peristiwa)...pilu jugak kadang2...arggh sudahlah berjiwang karat, raya dah lebih seminggu dah berlalu..orang dah tak dengar lagu raya lah..ya tak?? heheh

selamat hari raya aidilfitri

salam aidilfitri buat semua muslimin dan muslimat walau di mana jua anda berada...to rakyat Msia muslims around the world; perajurit-perajurit negara, profesionalist yang sedang bertugas, pelajar-pelajar di luar negara (sob sob) dan semua Msian yang kini di perantauan with all other different reasons, salam aidilfitri....semoga semua menyambut Syawal tahun ini semeriah dengan sambutan di Msia...

as for me, I had a fun raya here Alhamdulillah. biasalah, bila di luar negara, program ziarah menziarah tu jadik lebih hebat dari kalau di Msia..di Msia, raya seronok bangat kerana makanannya superb, dan dapat gather dengan kaum keluarga dan sanak saudara....but most of the time we spent our raya at home, makan, tgk tv, makan tgk tv....kecuali pulang ke kampung, adalah menziarah satu dua rumah...most of the time we spent our time berborak22 bagai nak rak dengan kaum keluarga dan saudara mara sahaja di rumah sambil makan2...

akhirnya, raya jatuh pada hari Khamis...Alhamdulillah, seronok yang amat. barulah ada rasa nak beraya...kalau rabu, memang totally unprepared...so rabu tu, cik talam pulun siapkan kerja, by noon, toleh kiri, toleh kanan, tengok line clear, cik talam pun roger and out dari department, hehehe, half day babe...terus ke sello, buat groceries..beli barang2 untuk masak2...hari ni, jumpa ramai muslims lain di sello bershopping, org mid east kebanyakannya. wonder what they have for hari raya...tapi tengok ada satu family tu sibuk membeli air botol, air tin semua. macam sambut raya cina pulak hehehe

malam tu lepas bukak puasa dan semayang isyak, cik talam dan suami bersilat di dapur. nasib baiklah, anak bujangku tido awal...tapi dia pun tahu kot esok nak raya, tiba2 dia bangun dan tak nak tido lagi..terpaksalah gilir2 masak sambil tengok2kan dia...malam tu kami buat nasi impit (main bantai je sebab selama ni masak ketupat segera), buat kuah kacang, buat kek pisang dan buat kuih tiram (some people called it kuih lidah kucing???)....kemas rumah, menyapu...penat2...dekat pukul 1 kami tido...pagi esok lepas subuh, sambung masak. buat rendang ayam dan masak pulut....frustated, pelamin nasi impit anganku musnah..lembik...waaa!!! itulah, pi ikut sukatan air macam kat msia, tapi kat sini makan beras wangi...sah2 beras wangi tu naturenya memang lembik....arghh mula2 nekad, tak kira, nak pakai jugak nasik impit tu, potong je, lantaklah, lembik pun, biasaklah tu, kadang2 pi umah org pun nasi impitnya lembik...tapi, waaaa!!! ini memang lembik betul, bukan main2, bukan cobaan!!! tak boleh dipotong langsung, kena scoop macam nasi anak aku.....

akhirnya buat yang lain. kali ni buat guna air yang jaaauuuhhh lebih sikit dari the first time. Alhamdulillah jadikkk, itupun tak sekental biasa. macam mana eh measurement air ni yang ideal?? takkan sama macam masak nasik biasa kot???

then hubby pi semayang raya. mula2 nak ikut, tapi pikir2 takpelah duk umah siapkan apa yang patut....hubby balik around 10 am, dia kata ramainyaa umat manusia tadi kat masjid sampai kena buat 2 round semayang raya...lepas tu kami cepat2 siap sebab nak beraya ke rumah Ifar..dah berplan, lepas ke rumah Ifar, ke rumah cik talam dan kemudian ke rumah abang Z, special offcr of the emba$$y office. sampai di rumah Iraf, sorang tu nama apa eh, cant recall, dah balik, terserempak dengan dia di bus stop. dia kena rushed to another open house organized by this single mingle group of engineers syarikat minyak tersohor negara yang bertugas di sini....so kat umah Iraf tinggal abang Z. special nya wife Iraf masak...ada nasi minyak, ayam masak merah, acar, dalca, rendang daging, kek coklat, kuih conrflakes, biskut macam2..biskut raya ada dalam 4-5 jenis..canggih222.....Iraf kata 'sejak kawin dan dah beranak dua ni, nilah first time saya makan kuih raya dia buat' ehhehe, cis, is that a compliment??? ehhe biasalah kami2 ni, kalau kat malaysia, baik beli....nak kuih apa, semua ada....senang dan cepat. kat sini, no choice...rasa nak makan apa, kena buat...

lepas tu solat zuhur dan asar di umah Iraf then, Iraf and family, me and family dan abang Z bertolak ke umah abang Z di helsinki. ubah plan...naik bus, then naik keteapi then naik tram akhirnya sampai. umah abang Z, ouchh...what can I say and how can I describe it...its heaven....mengadap laut, fully furnished house, (but he used all his own furniture shipped all the way to finland), siap ada sauna dalam rumah...lawaaa sungguh. and the decoration, oh my...lawanya, mengalahkan rumah orang yang ada isteri...macam hotel aku tengok....'masuklah, rumah saya kecik je, bersepah pulak tu' dia cakap....err, welll.....ehehhehe...is this what u called 'kecik dan bersepah'???.my oh my...

we had fun there, pasang lagu raya, macam2 vcd ada...looked around, there are a lot of souveniors from all aorund the world..yelah, he's been working with the embassy office for so long, and this is his 6th (as far as i'm concerned) country....and he can cook very well. we had lemang (jadik seehh dia buat), serunding, nasi impit, kari daging, kuah kacang...kuih rayanya pun sedappp..semua buat sendiri...hebat betul abang Z. ada kuih loyang (bunga ros??), kuih tat (jem nenas parut tu) and my fav of all time....SEMPERIT!!! haaa bestnyaaaa dapat makan semperit kat finlandddd!!! sedap gila lak tu, menjadikkkk yang amat...softnya texture semperit tu, melt in your mouth....

lepas solat maghrib, beredar ke umah cik talam. we had all the food me and hubby prepared sambil menonton anugerah era..abang Z, being in oversea for quite some time, was clueless about the locals entertainment world...'anugerah era?? era faziraaa ke?' Ya Allah...ehhehe, perlu ke aku mengexplain??? hehehe, then pasang vcd AFtiga..masa mawi nyanyi, he was like...'sapo ni???' hehehe, sah2 ketinggalan keteapi, si mawi tu dah famous amos bagai nak rak and all he can asked 'sapo ni???' hehehe

second day of raya, attending a majlis raya organized by the emba$$y....di hilton hotel helsinki...grand2...around 150 malaysians were there..ramai jugak eh rupanya....me and hubby pun datang niatnya nak makan je...ada nasi minyak ke apa entah, papadum (how to spell this??), kari ayam, mee goreng, roti canai ke apa entah, nasi impit, kuah kacang (the only food yang menggambarkan raya puasa), yang lain2 tu lebih seperti merayakan deepavali, yelah, chefnya pun amik dari maharaja cui. restuarant tu rasanya, so masakannya pun ala2 indian lah...kuih ada; kuih jeniffer lopes, kuih bakar, kek marble, biskut raya 2 jenis dan apa entah..kuih2 melayu rasanya emba$$y bawak, sebab tu bila habis, tak di top up...hehehe..kuih muih hotel je yang ditambah2 kalau habis...

we had fun (not really lah tapi oklah)...in term of food, i think emmm, 3 bintang lah out of 5..ingatkan ada lah wajik ke dodol ke, lemang ke, lontong ke...u know, raya food...and i think most of the people datang pun niatnya nak makan except for some people yang aku tengok memang datang nak beramah mesra...berbual tak habis2, dari one table ke one table..tak kuasalah aku nak buat gitu..me, borak2 dengan K.A** yang baik bangat tu, dengan a few others....kebanyakannya isi perbualan..'how to visit here, visit there cheaply? website mana? tempah tiket kat mana?' hehhe itulah conversation kitaorg...yelah nak cakap apa lagi kan....

there's this one table (we had this meja bulat settings in the hotel), full of young gentleman (i think they are this syarikat minyak people lah).very funny...sama je dengan me and my hubby, i guess, niat datang nak makan dan makan. tengok diaorg makan aduihh bagus sungguh...seronok tengok....tambah lagi, makan lagi hehehe...yelah bila lagik kan nak dapat makan2 gini kat negara2 macam ni...:)

sampai umah dalam pukul 9 lebih. ok seronoklah Alhamdulillah, mula2 ingatkan raya kat sini is a disaster..tapi ok, everythings turn out well. dalam perjalanan balik semalam, dalam train terserempak dengan this one chinese family. rupanya mereka tinggal 2 stations away from me. baik sungguh....berbual sakan dengan wife, hubby nya dan anak2nya sepanjang journey. suara kami jelah dalam train tu...they gave me info on..as usual the fav topics, cheap tickets to malaysia..memang murah gila, pandai diaorg carik..murah yang amat2.....cuma aku tak pernah dengar lagi nama airlines tu. takpelah asalkan sampai sudah, jangan ter stranded kat island mana2 sudah..kang jadik pelakon lost lak aku dan keluarga..

ok nak pi panaskan kuah nasik impit....kalau ada satay ni sedap ni...macam mano eh nak buat satay..satay goreng....nanti ah carik resepi...

'saturday nite' fever

it started snowing last wednesday, here in espoo. and the first day of snow in this place really freaked me out. mana taknya, the day before, everything was still perfectly green and warm. suddenly this morning, when i opened the door, everything's turn out white...snow tebal, sampai buku lali. turun mencurah2 (how to describe snow turun banyak and lebatnya??)...habis basuh kasuttt...and it was very windy and cold and dark and coldd.....

first day of snow, the road was impressively empty, no of cars on the were greatly reduced. where are these people going? is it announced as public holiday for the first day of snowing in here? rupa2nya semuanya pakat naik bas. sampai sesak padat bas. mostly unfamiliar faces. boleh dikatakan, after alsmot 2 months here, i know most of the 'familiar faces' that are in the bus with me every morning. there are this, mariah carey-look alike girl, this mak datin-every day dressed so well and smells so good-lady, this good looking-specky-with spiky hair guy, this bunch of high school ladies who seem to have fun and enjoy their ride to school every single morning and ramai lagi...

pagi tu lepas sampai department, turned on the computer, read a few emails and then left to the health service center. it was so cold and the wind...can make not only your umbrella but also your head flying off. the doctor was very nice and we had some chit chat instead of medication conversation. at 4, i went to sello to grab some things. and that 'some' means a lot. milk, bread, biscuits, apples, fish fingers bla blaa..i was waiting for the bus to go back when i realized waktu berbuka dah masuk...waa sedih2...dahlah takde bekal apa2. balik rumah, meredah snow, angkut barang berat...and dengan sneeze yang tak berenti, that were really challenging...

malam tu, dah rasa lain macam...i can always sense when i was about to have flu and fever...badan panas lain macam, hidung berair tak berenti and kepala pening...malam tu tido awal, and the next morning i was very weak and i decided not to go to the department today. wait a minute, baik pi kejap, amik barang2 then balik. esok pun maybe kena take a break. so cik talam di rumah on thursday and friday. by friday, i was getting better but my left eye turned out red and a bit swollen (bukan macam maya karin pontianak tu eh)...janganlah infection...takut jugak, but i guess, that caused by my high temperature body the day before sampai mata kiri tu asyik keluarkan teardrop...Alhamdulillah by saturday cik talam was fully recovered...Alhamdulillah sangat. di saat2 tu barulah sedar how precious being healthy is. masa sihat, langsung tak appreciate, bak kata miss prudence, after being operated on the knee she realised how 'berjasa' her leg was to her all this while..yelah kita ni manusia, selagi tak ditarik sesuatu nikmat tu, lambat nak realize dan bersyukur...selama ni i take my health issue for granted, now i realize how important being in a good shape is.

sabtu tu cuaca panas, ada matahari...Alhamdulillah seronoknyaaaa...so we went to helsinki. went to kedai ling (malaysian big grocery store). got ourselves beras pulut, rambutan stuffed with pineapple in can (teringat masa budak2), beras pulut hitam (utk dibuat bubur), tepung pulut, serai, lengkuas dan halia...ling's daughter who took care of the cash machine that day menyapa 'minggu depan dah nak raya eh?' heheh pandai pulak amoi ni...

balik tu, as usual, me and hubby ran regular weekend cooking experiment. today's menu: apam. bukan apam balik tapi apam..kuih apam tu yang gebu2 tu...Alhamdulillah hehe jadik, sungguh tak disangka. taklah naik senaik2nya macam kat kedai tu sebab kami takde proper steamer, tapi..jadiklah, especially rasanya...oklah lepas ni cuba kuih lain pulak, biasalah, lepas jadik buat satu bende, 10 tahun akan datang baru buat balik kuih tu, as for now, cuba resepi2 lain dulu.

today, its already tuesday. tonite will be announced (in the internet, there's no penyimpan mohor2 besar here) whether hari raya puasa will be tomorrow or the day after. most people predicted it will be tomorrow. as for me, dua2 pun ok. deep down i prefer it to be on the thursday, kalau wednesday, nak cuti lagi esok...mana2 pun bestlah, asalkan rayaa!!! yay yay!!!

ok nak siapkan keje apa yang patut...