It has been 2 weeks and my brains are still on holiday..

All girls trip this time was really amazing. This is like the ultimate holiday. All 9 of us was on a Caribbean Cruise vacation that we’ve booked since early this year . It was filled with royalty treatment, non stop activities, fabulous dining, rocking night life, relaxing on deck or at a world class spa. Everyone came prepared with parios and large hats with huge sunglasses. Macam film star okeh..! From the moment we felt the wind on our face…caressing us like …****PANG****

Ok, I just slapped myself so I can come back t the real world.

Tak la…the girls trip tahun ni kitaorang gi Bandung lagi. It was still so much fun.
The famous Marini (selalu dengar cerita tapi tak pernah jumpa) joined us this time. Kesian dia..mesti lost as we laugh like hyenas at jokes yang tah hapa hapa, sometimes we laugh for no apparent reason. She must be thinking what a bunch of loonies. Tak pe ..it’s ok…memang we are a bunch of loonies pun. And laughter, it’s infectious. And don’t mess with us when we are hungry….boleh gelak sampai lebam.

The plane was late…siot betull..Rumah Mode dah bukak tau!….So we were there at the lounge, trying to kill the time…debating on whether the 2 famous Fernandez are siblings. Are they? The company supplied us with nasi lemak..saja la nak bagi hilang angin satu badan tu.

So, flight yang scheduled at 9.50 jadi 12pm. Banyak masa shopping yang kerugian okeh. But takpe…janji it’s a holiday..janji I am with friends who are as retarded as I am. Janji boleh makan flight food walaupun sekadar maggi mee RM7 satu bowl.

I am not sure what time we reached there. The ever loyal Hendry was there waiting for us. Siap ada lagu background “Right Here Waiting for You”..Over tau!

Our first stop was obviously Rumah Mode..Didn’t change much except for the café yang makin meriah. Bagi mendapatkan tenaga, we decided to eat first..Ya la..this is Amazing Race after all ok…tenaga amat perlu agar tumpuan sharp dan tepat. The food was good…I liked my Mee Ayam. I liked the one in Kedutaan Indonesia in Malaysia better…tapi it could be sebab aku pening kepala so makan pun macam kena biasa biasa je.


Habis je makan, Amazing Race yang pertama pun bermula. Masing masing hilang membawa arah masing masing. Takpe when it comes to shopping semua orang agak pandai membawa diri.

First day shopping je dah cam gini:





Second day punye cam gini:
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Marini dok hangkut barang barang ke bilik sendiri. Bilik aku kira macam pit stop la..or distribution centre.


Diaz...this is like 1/10 dari kedai...Muntah tengok bag:



Eh? Perlu ke nak buat chronicle of Narnia on the trip..Boleh tak aku pendekkan ajer…Let me tell you the one’s I like most la…

I love the hotel room. Ada loft. If Pak Room service tak datang betulkan aircond, mesti aku ingat aku kat New York.


I love my fake Balenciaga…RM40 je. Sungguh chenta. Sorry no photos...kesian ada orang jeles. Kita tak boleh riak dan takbur, nanti kang ada bala pula yang menimpa.

I love Beyonce’s concert in the van. Body dia amat gorgeous…amat bergetah..and the jokes about it, let’s make it a private joke. Malu lak den. Thank you.

I love the dinner we had kat ..apetah nama tu..but the food was good.

The Scrapbook King shop..kedai scrapbooking where I got my birthday presents from the gang. Pilih sendiri okeh..

And I especially love all my friends on this trip. Adik even surprised us with a birthday cake. How sweet is that? Tapi memang kesweetan itu tidak dapat diexpresskan sebab too tired and stress on how to mengemas all the things that we've bought. Thank you Dik...You are the best!


Gambar Misc:
Fid yang tak sabar sabar nak sampai. Rindu kat Haziq la tu.

Bag yang takut dicalari akhirnya duduk di bawah kerusi jugak. Kalau beli kat KLCC, nak jeling pun tak boleh tau..

Mala, the famous sifu packer..." semua lipat kecik kecik, jangan bagi ada angin..".

Shopping 101

Disini, disertakan tips basic yang perlu diketahui oleh semua shopholic & season shopholic.
Step 1 – Panggil kengkawan yg sehati sejiwa dan memahami masalah anda untuk pertolongan.

Step 2 – For medium size bag, wajarlah dengan menekan bag menggunakan pressure dari lutut untuk menutup bag tersebut.
For bigger bags, sit on it.(No illustrations can be provided sebab photographer busy makan cake)
There’s only 2 possibilities, berjaya atau tidak. Worst case scenario, bag pecah. Think on the bright side, that’s another reason to shop more sebab kena beli beli bag baru…

Step 3 – Perseverance is the key here. Henyak sampai tutup bag bercantum. Never let go of the pressure. It’ll boink back on your face.
p.s. Head banging experience will be useful

Step 4 – Tutup bag dan kunci.

Jangan lupa thank your friends for their help and be thankful you have great friends like them.

CAK!

My Baby turned 3

Arif turned 3 last 9th June 2008. We had a small do so he can have his own cake blowing. That...and I needed the photos for my blog and scrapbooking.


That precious smile...Priceless.

And Akif perlu la buat that famous pout of his.

I love the cake...so cute! Go see the baker's blog. Kat SINI.

Renewing your maid’s Indonesian passport for Dummies

Perkara wajib:
1. Tuan punya badan (no wakil wakil )
2. Paspot lama Tuan punya badan
3. Majikan tuan punya badan...spouse pun takpe.
4. Photocopy of ID of the majikan or spouse yang hadir bersama
5. Photocopy of the passport lama
6. 4 keping gambar bersize paspot latar belakang warna merah
7. RM22
8. Newspaper, a paperback, a portable game, Mini laptop to kill the time.
9. Datang awal. Our number was 154 and we came around 8.15 am.

Nota: If tak sempat nak buat salinan for your ID, passport or gambar latar belakang merah, can do it on premise. Ada booth kat luar, 1 (kat the parking next door) dan 1 lagi right before the kaunter ambik nombor.


Steps to be taken:

1. State your business kat kaunter pintu masuk. You will be given a proper borang to isi (untuk renew paspot, borang warna biru)
2. Isi borang
3. Then proceed to ambik nombor.
4. Then gerak ke dewan menunggu yang ber”air cond” dan amat selesa.
5. Don’t be so gumbira….the dewan menunggu yang amat selesa is only for the tuan punya paspot, majikan kena tunggu kat luar. Even kids oso cannot go in so YOU will have to wait outside ,dengan tempat duduk yg tak cukup dan one miserable kipas yg ala ala sepoi bahasa.
6. Tu yang tak best, yang bestnya…got canteen, and the food is SO sedap & cheap.
7. I tried the Mie Ayam sebab teringat Adik dok cerita that she tried it in BDO. Sedap tahap tertutup mata menikmati kelazatannya.


This time around, the wait was quite a while. ..if you call 5 jam quite a while.I had a paperback with me…managed to read up to page ke 200 lebih in between SMS, phone calls & stretching.

So if you can’t leave your worker there confidently or she does not have a HP to call you when everything is done, then bring something to do. If not, sila proceed ke tempat tempat bershopping tingkap berdekatan agar tak kering dan naik angin di situ tak tentu pasal.

Errr…lepas ni, sapa sapa yang nak pi Kedutaan Indonesia to renew paspot, can I come along? Aku nak makan the Mie Ayam again…Malu la pulak nak gi semata-mata nak makan jer…apa Acik nak cakap kat kaunter depan tu?

This is written based on my own experience. Should you need further, precise information, please visit their website HERE.

Anak lelaki sapa la ni...'sian dia..

PD..

SuperMom di PD

Arif..enjoying the fun in the sun..

Uncle Chek, tolong Akif tangkap umang umang..

Uncle Chek's sweetheart, Auntie Ayu..

The brothers

I am the sun blocker...

Mamaaaaaaaaa...I want to go homeeeeeeeee......

The end..

Crashed & Burned

Motif perkelahan ini adalah to memenatkan the kids so they will nap the whole afternoon. Ni Acik punya idea. Gleefully, we all dok imagine all the three Gremlins terbongkang tertidur kerana kepenatan.I am so looking forward to the peace and quite...tranquility didalam rumah sendiri.
So pagi pagi lagi we all dah sampai kat sini. We can no longer park at the pergigian air, now have to park outside and walk in.
Wahh...pemandangan yang sungguh hening..pagi beb..sojuk lagi..

Bukak kasut...Bismillahirrahmanirrahimm...

Cubaan untuk bersantai di atas batu hampar..

Akif yang mengantuk tapi nak jugak berendam...he is very facinated dengan daun dibawa arus..

My baby sitter for life....

One down...three to go..

Turned out, depa tidoq baikk punyaa on the way home, sampai rumah start berkung tau tiga beradik.
...No plan B as we all teramat la confidentnya plan akan berjaya...siap boleh tulis buku segala...PELAMIN ANGANKU MUSNAH...

Maid nak balik bercuti for Dummies

Do you know that you’ll need a kebenaran from Kedutaan Indonesia? Do you know how to go about?

Now you will.

Pagi pagi, lepas breakfast….Monday to Friday, sila ke Kedutaan Indonesia di Jalan Tun Razak. If you are from Sg Besi, the building will be on your left hand side. Lepas aje the overhead bridge for pedestrian depan RHB bank tu, keep to your left. Terus je sampai nampak Building warna putih.. Wait …all three building kat situ warna putih…aaaaa….the one yang next to Passage to India restaurant.

Masuk je pintu pagar, akan ada sort of a kaunter borang. State what you need or kalau macam nak control macho and nak jadi ”Mr/ Mrs Know It All”, ambil a borang bertajuk “ Formulir Perubahan Alamat”

I won’t elaborate why you need to isi borang Perubahan Alamat when you actually nak balik bercuti je. I oso donno why.

Dalam formulir tersebut, semua isi tempat kosong perlu diisi. Tapi aku yakin dan pasti semua orang akan terstumble for item 5 and 6.

Ada la seorang pakcik guard kat situ yang tengok aku terkeruk keruk lost, dia pun tolong isikan…
• Item 5 is Alamat pekerja di Indonesia
• Item 6 pulak adalah Alamat Majikan di Malaysia

Document yang perlu ada bersama permohonan:
• Salinan pasport pekerja
• Salinan IC pemohon ( aku punye la since aku yang pergi)
(This is not needed if pekerja comes along)

Then, follow the crowd, ambik nombor giliran dan masuk ke dalam satu dewan menunggu. Wowwww....Acik sungguh imprress. Besar gilaaaa...

Tepat pukul 8.30 am, numbers started to be called. Laju …tak ler macam kat Imigresen yang amat selow melowww..Mellow Barry Manilow aku dibuatnya..I was dumbstruck with admiration.

My number was called lepas 15 minutes of waiting.. the officer tu akan attempt berborak borak kosong, check check the papers & passport, lepas tu you’ll have to wait to be called again. Leave the passport at the counter.

Lepas tu, tunggu la lagi…they’ll call the same number given earlier for you to collect the passport. Sign a slip saying you have collected the passport and they’ll pass the passport to you.

Something will be printed in the passport along with the signature of the Kepala Kantor.

Tu je lah…sungguh takde hassle.

Next month, I’ll need to renew Ani’s passport. It will only take one day…less than 3 hours it seems. Ain’t that cool?

Pool getahku..

I bought this last year, tak bukak buka sampai la last week. My kids are water babies, pantang tengok air, terus hyper....aku pun hyper jugak, tapi hyperventilating.

Mula-mula kita group massage agar takde yang cramp kaki...ya ke?

Sekarang kita berlagak seolah-olah kita berada di Sunway Lagoon...

Pouting ala ala Marilyn Monroe perlu apabila ada camera in sight..diiringi dengan "Strike A Pose"..sebagai background music.

Amir attempt to snorkel in the pool, sampai terkeluar-keluar kaki...Kesian dia. (Walaupun no official complain was voiced out, Acik terasa tau..)


Brotherly group huggg....

Disebabkan mereka amat lasak dan terjal, maka the wicked witch of Oz telah wave her magic wand and turn them into Anak Itik To Wi.. Ahhhhh....peace and quiet finally. Inilah yang dipanggil Tranquility.


Tak la...masing masing give up sebab bila swimming tak bergerak-gerak...tang tu jugak.

Moral of the story : I am going to take them to a real pool this Cuti Sekolah. Hopefully in PD next weekend. Conveniently la kan, the week Ida plan for a BBQ. Ahaks!

SELAMAT BERCUTI SEKOLAH...

I am a ring master now?

Me : Amir? Amir nak buat apa untuk exam kertas lukisan?
Amir : Amir nak buat soalan nombor 1. Lukis binatang kesayangan anda..
Me : OK...Apa binatang kesayangan Amir?
Amir : Gajah...
Me : GAJAH!!!! Kamu ingat Mama kamu ni ring master circus ke apo?
Amir : Ring Master tu apa maaa..?
Me : *** ***

Rebecca Brandon..

When it comes to spending on Scrapbooking stuff, I can totally relate to Mrs Rebecca Brandon.

**Errkks!!! Tolong!! I think I need help.

Nak cari gitar..nak cari gitar..

Arif has been asking me to buy him a guitar. Bukak mata, mintak gitar, the last he'll ask before closing his eyes is " Mama, esok beli gitar , yaa..?" 1st thing he'll be asking bila aku balik kerja, " Mama? Mana gitar Arif?" Aiyoo..sedey ok..
Anak aku ni nak jadi Rock Star ke? Takpe, janji rambut tak leh panjang merebang-rebang..Kalau nak rambut panjang kena buat teknik rebonding..and with the hair history in his family, Acik confident Arif tak jadi Rock Star macam Lefthanded. Simpang malaikat 44. He himself was born botak...umur 7 bulan baru rambut tumbuh ciputtt...Mama to the Rock Star tak leh simpan rambut lepas bahu, sure gugur macam daun during Fall...and bapak diaaa...since korang kenal you should know why...I arrest my case.
So last Friday I dragged Dinot along to Sunway Pyramid, cari kat Toy City. Alhamdulillah...jumpa..You should see Arif's smile..**sighhh** Simply heartwarming..
Gitar yang aku beli tu ala-ala gitar kapok so dia nampak macam Kenny Rogers (not the chickenlah!)la pulak...
"Acih Mama..Arif aaayang Mama.." He said Thank you without me coaxing him to...**ahhhh**..I must have done something right..I love you too baby..

Happy 8th Anniversary..

All I want is for you to give me that soft look across a crowded room.... that smile to make my heart skip a bit,our pillow talk right before we fall asleep, for you to reach for my hand..for you to hold me when I cry..
All I wish is for you to tell me what went wrong..
All I need is a kiss for no apparent reason..A call just to say hi even if we see each other every day...

Instead you gave me a Kenneth Cole wrist watch....*Gulpp** Eh** Best jugak...Hehehehehe...I'll take it..I am wearing it at the moment.

He bought the couple's set watch. The same design and color, except for the size.
I like the thought of him wanting to wear something similar to me..Like wearing sedondon color to a wedding.

Kind of remind me of arwah Tan Sri Nasimuddin & his wife, Puan Sri Zaleha.After reading about his demise baru I realize what NAZA stands for...So sweet,kan? So poignant....so sad..

Well, Happy 8th Anniversary to us...Thank you Baby, despite all the silent misunderstanding we have, I know I am there in your heart...somewhere..I hope to stay there, forever and always.

Cerita handbag..

Ada sesapa spend time baca the other section of Mingguan Malaysia instead of the Pancaindera tak minggu ni? Baca tak about a lady D**** yang suka kumpul kasut dan bag tangan.
Ada satu phrase dalam article tu yang amat intriguing."Beg tangan paling mahal yang dimilikinya setakat ini bernilai RM10,000 berjenama Guess yang akan menyejukkan mata setiap kali beliau memandang bag berkenaan."
Guess 10 hibu? Ado ko? 3 assumption yang aku buat, either the wartawan hopeless case,ada orang telah salah edit the article atau memang betul ..GUESS? Bio bebeno?
D**** you can afford wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy...better than that. Apa kata you choose me as your personal handbag shopper. "Pick me...choose me...love me.." Ahaks! Dr Grey punye peminat sure terdejavu kejap membaca phrase ini. Meh sini ke KLCC, ada satu Hermes yang amat menawan hati...bukan mato jo sojuk...seluruh alam semesta ni boleh beku..Boleh pulih ozone layer dengan bag nih..The bag is a limited edition, ado serial number(kat Petaling Street pun ado..tapi tak samolah..), siap ada certificate lagi.Kat Bally pun ada satu beg kaler merah yang amat sesuaiiii dengan kasut D**** dalam gambar tuh... While we are at it, meh kita insert GPS dalam bag tu..kalau hilang, akan ada trackernya.If you are happy with my service, you can buy me the Burberry handbag that I've been eyeing but never have the gut to spend on. Woishh..I'll forever be at your service....tanpa gaji.

Just Us Girls

Last weekend, untuk merasa naik kereta MC idaman kalbu, I made Ida & gang pick me from Bangsar Village after the scrapbooking class...Told them the FJ Benjamin sale was that week. Frankly, I did not lie...I jut got the date wrong... Oppssss...Minggu ni rupanya.. Aikk? Zurie pun tidak berkereta hari ini? Sejak bila? Saja la nak merasa MC jugak nihh...alasan.

Cumulonimbus seems puffier and the sky seems bluer dari dalam MC.


Seperti yang dijanjikan, we head to Tony Romas, Curve. Tak sabau akibat lapau..






Waaa...macam kayo jo makan sodap sodap...Haaaa...inilah hasilnya bila ada duit persatuan...takde kena mengena dengan Persatuan Isteri Isteri mana mana negeri...Ini cuma persatuan suka makan besar..tanpa husband husband. Just Us Girls.. Best kan? Especially bila one of us datang lambat...makan pulak diet...so yang kuat makan macam, Saya (siap angkat tangan nihh..) boleh makan lebih..
Burpp...excuse me..Alhamdulillah....