UPdates...

me know me have to do a lot of UPdating...especially about the Sabah~the land of the headhunters/ the land beneath the wind -trip...
i will, i will... just when i'm finished with this stock counting thingy that is urgently required.

Happy Father's Day !

to all the fathers in my life...my Baba, my Bah ( BIL) & me Hubby.... Happy Father's Day to U!!!!
wish i could have given a better gift this year...the one that all of u been waiting for but....
oh well may be next year yeah!??

this is the video that Laith & i made last nite ....


U all have been GREAT! Love Always....((((Mwahs)))

the chronicles of 10 years ago today...the meeting part

yeah, today-Thursday the 10th of June 1999 was the day when four eyes met two hahaha...that's because i wear lenses!!!

so after i was told about me hubby to be(h2b) 10 days ago( 30th may 1999), today as of 10 years ago was the day when we were scheduled to meet.

where: coffee bean Bangsar
when: sometime after lunch

went there with my 3 brothers; along, ateh & pa uda plus my eldest SIL; kak long. so no, we were not alone, i was chaperoned!!!;P

when we got there, he & a few of our mutual friends were there waiting...
to tell the truth, i was very embarrassed even though i know all of them there (except for him of course). i was then positioned to sit next to him! err...this is actually very embarrassing to write...how would u feel when all eyes were focused on you at that particular moment? turned all red of course..... oh & not forgetting that my 3 brothers & SIL were there too to witness, duh!!!

anyhoo.. we said hi to each other & smiled & the rest.... all i can say is history...don't asked what we wore or what we ordered or what we talked about...i just don't remember...
... it was like u're hit by lightning sorta feeling...hmmm... not that i've been hit by lightning b4 so to speak but u know...the feeling... when u're falling in love... hmmm.....tummy churning, constant 'cocklish' smile on the face, the feeling like u're walking in the air, daydreaming 24/7....ahhh bliss!!!!
we hit it off right from the start...love @first sight? i guess it was!

to be continued... the visit part

roses for ma...& the centerpiece that i left behind!!!

ma’s birthday falls on the 16th of May. it is in conjunction with teacher’s day as well as mother’s day or mother's weekend as i call it. So this year on her 71st, my 4th brother ‘pa uda’ took the lead to hold a birthday get together among the siblings & close friends.

I decided to make some lil cupcakes with our ( all her children & grandchildren) initials on. On top of that, I thought a chocolate cake will be nice too. However, I started quite late that Friday nite since we(my hubby, my PIL & i) went to Seremban 2 in the afternoon to check out the golf fest they were having.
I only started preparing for the quest sometime after 11pm after a quick visit to Tesco for some missing items for the cake recipe.


The first batter (for cupcakes) attempt did not turn up well, frustrated I decided to just simply make the whole cake instead. Trying out another recipe… damn something just ain’t right…it just did not rise! Warghhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!:O
That was almost 1.30 on Saturday morning. I thought I can’t just go to sleep without a success story to tell in the morning…it’s a waste of my beauty sleep hours. So again I decided to try out another recipe..this time another cupcake batter was prepared. It looked great while in the oven but they went flat when I took it out. a waste of time, money & energy slaving myself in the kitchen with nothing to show in the morning. Feeling tired & frustrated, I lay down next to hubby for a bit of a rest.

I got up early that day for we had to prepare for some tender documents which was due on Monday. Went to the office, got everything done & went back home for another attempt. Decided that I will just make do with the cupcakes that I prepared earlier that morning & covered them with some icing & at the same time I tried out another choc cake recipe ( steamed choc cake this time) while I iced the cuppies. Blessed! it turned out well this time, Yeay!!!


Once everything ready,err...except for the topping, i planned of making them topping at my brother's house when i got there... I packed all up in a wicker basket for the choc cake & in the box went the cuppies… but b4 leaving for shah alam, we had to make a quick stop over at my PIL’s cos me hubby had wanted to change car.
Transferred everything into my PIL’s car or so I thought & off we went! When we reached the destination…took the box of cuppies out but my basket of precious chocolate cake was nowhere to be found in the car!!! WARhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!! We left it in the other car!
so there i was an hour away from home where my wicker basket with the main birthday cake inside had been left behind!:<
we finally settled with just the cuppies....oh well it's the thought that counts hey! duh...forget about the energy & my beauty sleep for that matter...;p
anyway, to those wondering what happened to the cake in the end ...i brought it over to my PIL & let those choc cake lovers- especially sue & eyna & kak mis too polished 'em all!!;P

some one bought this flowers for ma.

though without the cake, we still had a good time at the gathering...it's just so good to get to see all my nieces & nephews& cousins (not everyone though) there...
& to ma, Happy Birthday & i love u always!!!!

Books....& more books @ Book Xcess.com

been whining to me hubby for the last couple of weeks that i had ran out of books to read inside & outside the bathroom hahaha.. well actually not really for bathroom material, cos for that i could read any backdated issues of whatever magazines available on route... yesterday he said we'll stop by at my fav. bookshop after our weekly visit to my parents in shah alam. Yeay, i love u babee!!!!

so today after shah alam as promised, we went there~Book Xcess @ amcorp mall~ http://www.bookxcess.com ~it's a place where u can find new books at half the price u pay for at MPH, Borders or popular book stores. their new books just arrived yesterday so it was heaven!!! my fav. authors Jeffrey Archer & Robert Ludlum's are both in store double yeay!!!

the store's concept is basically, whatever books (titles or authors)that are on shelves are what u get. it's more or less like a reject shop for the books which is probably a little dented or damage on the cover that do not fit the shelves of those major bookstores. but it's usually minor tear here & there on the cover so it's not that much of a problem to me. it's still pleasurable to read however the cover looks, hence the saying~ don't judge a book by it's cover` applies. Even though sometimes i couldn't find the books that i'm looking for but i don't mind it a bit cos there are plenty more books on the shelves & on the floor to choose from... there are times i simply buy any books that the manager recommends (sometimes by authors that i've never heard of b4)& i ended up loving them anyway...

so on this visit, i ended up buying 2 Robert Ludlum's (the Bourne Betrayal & Bourne Legacy) even though these 2 Bourne sequels were actually written by Eric Van Lustbader,i think these two will be as exciting as the first 3 original sequels anyway. one Jeffrey Archer's~ A prisoner of Birth, (each only priced @RM17.90 as oppose to the RM32.90-RM36.90 at those major bookstores), one purchase with purchse book @ only RM9.90~ The Godmother- by an author~Carrie Adams~ whom i'm not very familiar with though i've heard of her b4)




& one book for Laith~ Inkheart by Cornelia Funke also @RM17.90 though i very much suspected that i will be the one who ended up reading the book knowing my son very well.. he only likes the idea of buying- be it books (or toys)...!!!;P
however hard i try to instill the habit of reading in him... it only lasted for a few pages of almost every books accept for those picture storybooks (spiderman, star wars & the like)... & the books will be seen collecting dust somewhere..everywhere...around the house..
& now with Inkheart..how ironic- it's a book about people who love to read & just simply love books...i hope he will find it pleasurable to finish it eventually!

so if u love books u'd love book xcess.com... go check out the place!

as for me..i have books for my bedroom, one for the car, one in my bag & another in the office...so i'm of reading me books now yo!:D

happy reading...

a sMASHing weekend to some...

it's almost a week now since last weekend but i still feel like it's only been yesterday...

the weekend started of with one of our paintball team mate ~Mash Bangers'-(he is one of those weird characters in the team) Birthday Bash held at Laundry Bar, the Curve. since he loves my chocolate cake so much & even asked if he could order it from me(i made the cake sometime last year for two of the team mates for their birthday as a gift). i told him i don't sell them cakes but bake them just for fun..me an amateur cake baker~ it's just not right if i start taking orders~ what if the cake does not turn up right, up to the standard kan... it won't look good on me, right...;p

so i told me hubby that i'll bake the cake as a gift from the both of us. at first me hubby & i thought of making them lil cupcakes as well but due to not having enough time..i abandon the idea.

i planned to make 3 tier cakes for him so i had to make the first 2 ( the smallest & the middle size the evening b4) & made the biggest size ( see i don't even know the sizes of the cakes muahahahaha...)on the day itself to safe time ( cos on that friday evening we had a meeting @ Rasta's ( it's a food court somewhere @ BU i think).
anyway...on the morning of the bash, it was kinda hectic for me, cos i had to make that 3rd tier of the 3 cakes..then together with sue after she had finished her lunch duty (me & sue has one specific day each to cook at our PIL's~ me on thursday & sue on saturday or sunday) went out to get the cake topping, the cake base & boxes..we also bought some plastic palm trees as decorations.

but b4 we headed home to complete the cake topping, we stopped by at the salon for a quick blow dry...to save time & money we had earlier on washed our hair at home...hahaha...though we were not all that satisfied with the result, we just had to make do with it due to time constrain...

once hair all done up we got home & i started preparing for the topping...& the result..ta da!!!!(for both pictures~ make-up courtesy of me darling sis- Su..love u babe!)

the plastic soldiers were 'sponsored' by me son Laith...thanks darling, i'll buy u another set ok...Mwah!

sue & i with birthday boy's then gf nini.. it was an all white (except for the cake of course) party... so the ambiance was exceptional.

these are the cakes when lit up by the candles ( note: the cake with the car was a special order from a bakery shop)

it turned out that the birthday bash was only a decoy to a marriage proposal...oh how sweet...

CONGRATULATIONS to the both of U!!!

we went home at about 11pm leaving all those youngsters & the still young at heart to bogey the night away... cos the next morning we had a paintball tournament at Tanamera (in actual fact those staying behind too were involved in the tournament!).

& this is how we looked the morning after the nite b4!! hahahha...

& the one in pink is our darling pet sis...CT.
almost everyone involved in the tournament who went to the party the nite b4 came in late & some even had hangover...especially the king of the night the team captain Mash Bangers! muahahaha...

we had a pretty wicked day that day even though some can barely open their eyes!

& this video i made especially for Mash...& it's called sMASHed!

& that pretty wrapped up my weekend & pretty much every one else' s, i guess....

bucket list of blogs

well this are my list of blogs that i have been blogging in my head but did not get to write or have written partially but have yet to finish...

1) trip for pau & hot spring in tanjung malim (long overdue),
2) spa adventure with sue n cida,
3) the making of ginb, (this will only be published when am ready to reveal)
4) ma's birthday cake that i left behind...warghhhhhhhhh!!!
5) stupid watch shop that broke my 5th wedding anniversary gift from my PIL,
6) tenji yumms
7) the con movie ticket counterboy
8) mash's birthday cake

9) some paintballs story & characters
10)the chonicles of 10 years ago... the meeting, the ring(ing) & the wedding..

yeah at least these are the few that i can remember for now.. promise i will write & publish