A new chapter

Feeling a bit melancholy having to erase the content of the white board in my office room..



Each and everyone of them, I worked really hard to achieve and with Allah's will, I managed to cross them off all in the year 2010!

I have a lot of things to be thankful for other than the list in that board, among the major achievements of the year..

I won gold in MTE and ITEX 2010.. Though, ITEX was 2 weeks before wedding, my time management skills had been put into test, but Alhamdulillah..





I won the best paper award before the end of such amazing year.



Been pointed as a session chair..

My KPI was outstanding, students evaluated me fairly..

2010 sees me bringing home achievements upon achievements whereby I can come home and share it with my better half and loved ones. The most beautiful feeling in the world. :)

2010 is such a great year.

And 2011 will be even better, insya Allah. I have faith. To a new chapter..

Thai Thai @ Sunway Pyramid

Met BFF Qdin over the weekend.

Took him days to really decide on where to eat (you know, men, sigh..) and finally he said he wanted something Asian, more of Thai food. So there we were.

Also, took him forever to decide on what to eat before settling down having a pineapple fried rice yang taklah sedap mana pun. ;p



Just to boast, my impulsive habit of ordering food really paid off as Qdin and I agreed that mine was the best dish of the day..



I can't really remember the Thai name of this dish, it's like a salted fish fried rice with Kailan and chicken. Yumm!

Love had meehoon Pattaya and was arguing that his dish was the best, haha.

Ok verdict: I love the deco, the ambience, the food and the price was reasonable. Might throw another visit there.



Such short period to have Qdin here. He just got back on new year and would be going home this Wednesday. Sad! But I met him twice already, last week he threw a visit to my office and we had tea together..



Truth is, our hang out session this time was so different from what it used to be.

We used to always hang out just the two of us. Talking about ultimate nonsense. ULTIMATE NONSENSE. You wouldn't want to know. Or we shared our view on relationship. I had his guy's view on things, he had mine on girl's.

Now, it would be the three of us since I'm married. I don't want Love to feel awkward, catching up on our conversations and I don't want Qdin to feel like he's the third wheel cuz he's definitely not.

But, the three of us had the best time of our lives.

Qdin had been so nice that everytime we talked about something, he enlightened Love on the situation so that he would be part of the conversation.

And Love had been so nice trying to catch up with our nonsense conversation that he joined in almost everytime pun. He gave his guy's point of view on relationship thingy too!

I thank God to have these two men in my life.

As long as you make the partner feel comfortable and secure and respectful, you might end up with a best friend of a different gender that you will forever treasure.

And I will forever treasure you, Qdin!!! ♥

Pamper

Just got back from pampering myself at Seputeh Kapas, one of my resolution this year is to have a frequent visit to spa. So, in order to discipline myself, I bought a facial package, 5 times for RM 100. :)

I'm not the only one who's been pampering myself lately. Love surprised me with a new phone when he got back from work last night. Wheee!!! :)

Not that i don't fancy BB or iphone, but at times like this, I really should watch my budgeting. We just bought a house for God's sake, I'm more than thankful for that. :)

So, this is the most practical and reasonable for me.

Garmin, check. Video call, check. Wifi, check. Design, check. That will do for now.

Thank you, Sayang. You're the best!

What.a.freaking.weird.way.to.meet.someone.

Today, i decided to send my car "Cooper" for routine service.

And since Love has a friend who owns a workshop, he decided to send it for me. Meaning that, we had to swap car today.

Once he arrived to his workplace at Rawang, which took about 2 hours of driving, I realized I left my office key in my car.

At first, I was like, "Nvm, I can stay in my research lab today." That was when I realized I am going to make a test for my students this evening and I left the questions in my room.

Luckily, I made a duplicate of the key and left it in my research lab. So I went to my research lab to look for the key, but it was nowhere to be found.

I thought, never mind, a few months ago I passed another copy of the key to the college's clerk for cases like this. So I went to see the clerk and he was on leave! What are the odds!

I had another plan though. I normally saved all my work in my thumb drive. That way I could reprint the test paper. So, I on my laptop, and I did not save it pulak this time. Boleh tak????

Another plan is to redo the question. But I gave hints to my students previously, and I could not really remember what questions I put in that test paper. Adoi! To redo is another headache since all my text books were in my room :(

Disappointed, I parked my car in the parking lot opposite of my office window and I realized that the balcony of my window is actually connected to my neighbour's window. And my neighbour just arrived to the office the moment I parked my car.

Ape lagi... Knocked her door, panjat balcony, and suddenly I remember that I locked my window, so it could not be opened from outside. Tension betul.

Then I remember one of the window was broken, so I pushed it here and there, and finally here I was..



In my office blogging about this. What a blessed morning.

Blessed? Yes, because when I was struggling panjat balcony, one lady shouted in panic, "OMG! What are you doing? You might fall.. bla.. bla.."

She was actually a new staff. I've been wanting to talk to her for quite some times but was too caught up with work and of course I was not the best people around when it comes to start a conversation.

She had been wanting to talk to me since like forever too, but too shy to start a conversation. Then, she came over to my room and we had a nice talk and we clicked like instantaneously.

Before we end the conversation, she said "You, next time, don't ever do that again, k!"

My reply to her was, "If it makes you come over and talk to me, it's a pleasure then. Few cuts won't hurt."

What.a.freaking.weird.way.to.meet.someone.

Delicious @ OU

Salam to the year 2011!!

Alhamdulillah, wishlist for 2010 has all been granted, syukur.



And what better way to celebrate the beginning of such fantastic year?

None other than spending a day with these precious..



We were there to celebrate the birthday of these two December babies; Mel and Anis..







However, Mel had a serious food poisoning that morning, so.. :( sangat sedih. We managed to see her that night anyway, will blog about it later.

It was my first time at Delicious. It was suggested by Mel. Actually, she suggested Chillis and Delicious, I decided to go to Delicious since I had never been there before.

Good thing was, Delicious had this!



Buffalo wings, similar to Chillis. But, Chillis memang jauh lagi sedap! Luckily I had this for beverage..



Honey lemon, superb!

For me, the food was so-so. The only thing that caught my interest was Mimi's dish, mushroom burger. Burger with a huge porta bella mushroom as the patty. I don't really like the ambience either. Not a good place to hang out with a bunch of friends, the lighting and the seating was too romantic.

Still, with a good company, we had a great lunch.



Happy new year, everyone. Bismillah.. Let's start with a better year ahead of us :)

Kedai lampu murah

Trust me, I've been wanting to blog about my new house since like forever.
But due to time constraint, I hold that thought for a while.

The whole month last month, Love and I were actually busy hunting for the lights for our house.

We'll get the key anytime now since we’ve finally closed the deal with our lawyers and pay the entire differential amount yesterday. So, big yay!! :D

After what seems like forever looking for the best kedai lampu, we found one in Puchong! Of course, the best time of the year to buy them is during end of year like this because... it’s CLEARANCE SALE!!

But before buying any lampu, we threw a visit to our home (which btw is walking distance with my mum’s) and counted the lampu’s point, also counted which point requires lampu atas and lampu tepi.

Since Love and I were totally opposite from each other, before any purchase, we made a deal, I was going to choose the lights for these particular areas, and he was going to choose for the rest. Else, we would end up with a big argument, hehe.

So this fav kedai of mine was suggested by Dad (my dad loves decorating the house), the name is “Top Ten”. If you come from Uniten to IOI mall, it is right before IOI mall on your left hand side you, can see it from the highway.

The purchase..



For dining area, I chose this, Love was not so happy about this ;p I freaking love this, plus it has 60% off.



For lampu tangga (side), he chose this, I chose the colour, black.



3 of these for all the toilets, each tak sampai 10 bucks :)



Bought 8 of these for the rest of the house; i.e kitchen, porch, rooms.



This is chosen by Love for our living room. In a different shop near Top Ten, no discount, but I don't mind at all. Name of the shop: "Ten-Gro Lighting". Cantik!

So, lampu dah settle for the whole house. Costs us around RM400 only. :)

Next purchase is curtain. Shopping masa CNY sale.

Awesome Friday!

An awesome Friday indeed!!

1) It's holiday.. because we won the AFF Suzuki Cup, whee!! We are proud of you, Harimau Malaysia!!



Holiday=date with Sayang!

2) BFF Qdin is coming home for summer. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!