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Thursday, 31 December 2009

2009 Year Review

The 2009 is nearly end...my God...cepatnya masa berlalu. Banyak perkara-perkara yang berlaku dan Alhamdulillah, semuanya dapat diatasi.

Me and myself
I love myself, just the way it is. I've met a lot of people through Facebook and some bloggers. I jumpa balik my schoolmates since sekolah rendah dengan tagging gambar-gambar lama yang menimbulkan memori suka dan duka zaman persekolahan. My blogging life pun dah bertambah-tambah dengan kawan-kawan secara maya yang sama-sama berkongsi cerita suka duka kehidupan seharian mereka dan I follow every single things.

Me and the boys
Well, ahli keluarga dah bertambah...Ryan the Lion genap setahun umurnya in October dan sekarang semakin tak terkawal dengan karenahnya. Danish the Menace telah memulakan persekolahan awal tahun ini....yes, I never wrote in any entry about it because I never sent him to school since his first day cos Ibu takut die taknak pergi sekolah dengan kehadiran I so Ibu just sent him to school everyday. By giving him an early education, makes him a better kid now. Danish dah mula kenal huruf dan number. He also start making new friendship and bila balik sekolah akan sentiasa menceritakan aktiviti seharian die di sekolah. Bila pertama kali menghadiri konsert anak, rasa sebak bila memikirkan yang anak-anak semakin membesar.

Me and family
Alhamdullilah, family ku makin bertambah dengan kehadiran menantu baru. Ayah masih meneruskan perjuangannya di Parlimen membahaskan suara-suara rakyat and Im very proud of you, Ayah. Walaupun Ayah terlampau busy melayan karenah-karenah manusia yang sentiasa meminta bantuan dari segi kewangan yang ada kalanya mcm tak masuk akal, even anak nak kahwin pun nak mintak sumbangan, tapi Ayah masih tersenyum melayan karenah mereka. Good Job, Ayah. As Najib Tun Razak berkata, Rakyat didahulukan, pencapaian diutamakan begitu bermakna bagi Ayah. But don't worry, apa juga yang Ayah buat, all of us akan sentiasa menyokong dan membantu Ayah. As for Ibu, tamatlah sudah kerjayanya dengan Kerajaan Malaysia dimana mulai 25 Disember 2009, Ibu dengan rasminya menjadi warga pencen dan suri rumahtangga sepenuh masa. Well, tapi I know Ibu very much. She will never duduk diam dalam rumah, and she will penuhkan her activities with her collegues and friends and maybe she will have her own Datin Diaries. As for my sisters and brother....Kak Nyah is expecting her first born somewhere in May/June 2010, Didi got her job as a lecturer in Rembau and still working as a part timer in Lewre while Abby is still busy with MAXIS. Kak Cik also dah keje, in Hartamas while Hannan is struggling his studies. Hopefully he will graduate with full colours. On December 7th, all of us in family dikejutkan dengan satu kejadian yang begitu menyayat hati dimana rumah kami yang kami diami selama 20 tahun telah terbakar, tetapi kami sekeluarga menghadapinya dengan tenang dan menggangap itu hanyalah cabaran dariNya. And now, rumah itu sedang dalam peringkat pembaikpulihan dan dijangka siap dalam bulan Feb 2010.

Me and soulmate
I really love him so very much. Although ada jugaklah bercakaran especially during shopping cos he's a brand conscious type of guy. Daddy Jack pernah marah I bila I nak beli baju anak yang entah apa jenama. He said that " Mummy pakai Coach, anak pakai jenama cap ayam " tapi tak apa cos he will pay for all the expenses. Alhamdulillah, rezeki juga makin bertambah. We managed to have our dream car, CRV and our own crib. As for gadgets, new Apple MacBook Pro for Daddy Jack and for me, always handbags walaupun dah penuh almari tapi tak apa....masih boleh disumbat lagi. Daddy Jack juga akan memulakan sessi pengajian PHDnya in 2010. Sometimes I wonder, he's taking a Instructional Technologies for both his Master and PHD, but he didn't have his own Facebook account...nie nak kena paksa die buat satu. Our dating game juga bertambah-tambah seronok. Paling jauh we all pegi so far is Penang and hopefully maybe planning to do it again next year, maybe oversea. We even have a quick dating time, like Starbucks or movie date. Dinner also is a must at least at Chilli's. As for Daddy Jack, 2009 is his best years where his football team, Manchester United were on their Asia Tour in Malaysia and sanggup berhabis duit untuk itu. As for me, I have to follow apa yang die minat walapun sometimes ada benda-benda yang I tak berapa nak minat.


Me and career
Sudah 2 tahun, I menabur bakti di tempat kerja sekarang ini tanpa rasa jemu di hati. Setiap hari, mahu melakukan apa yang terbaik untuk diri dan juga keluarga. Perhubungan di antara officemate juga bertambah mesra dan selamba. Thanks to Yan, Adlene, Lin, Cik Dat, Shahril yang sentiasa menceriakan hari-hari I dengan gelak ketawa. Well, you all tahu susah senang kiter selama ini, kan. Adatlah, bila pegi mana-mana office/jabatan, ada aje yang tak suka dan mencari salah dan silap kiter. Dengki mendengki, busuk hati, tidak suka menayaksikan kesenangan dan suka menjatuhkan orang tu mcm satu pakej bila masuk alam pekerjaan. I dah lali dan dah tak ambik peduli as long as I pikir that I cari rezeki untuk diri sendiri, family pun sudah memadai.

Me and students
Sentiasa gembira bila berjumpa students. To me, my students always teach me something new in life. Susah senang mak ayah mencari duit untuk anak-anak belajar tapi disalahgunakan oleh anak sampaikan ada mak ayah yang percaya anak-anak mereka belajar tapi bila diperiksa, rupanya anak mereka tak pernah mendaftar sebagai pelajar selama satu tahun. Bagaimana ini terjadi ? Bila anak-anak mintak duit beribu-ribu kat mak ayah atas alasan nak bayar yuran, kalau tak bayar tak boleh ambik exam. Itu hanya segelintir mak ayah yang rasa sangsi pada anak-anak, tapi yang lain-lain tu ? Kesian mak ayah, anak-anak tipu hidup-hidup. Tak terpikir ke betapa susahnya mak ayah nak cari duit untuk membayar yuran ? Tanggungan bukan satu tapi maybe 3 lagi. I always treat my students as my friends. Sometimes, they even come to me, just wanna share something or paling suka bila gossip time. I banyak belajar from my students about life. I ikut cara Ibu, when you want to really know your students, you should be part of them. Yes, I praktikkan cara itu and I think its work. Be part of them, tapi janganlah over sangat, nnt dicop sebagai tak sedar diri pulak. This year jugak, its going to be a a sad year for me and some students. They will leave me soon as they will finish their diploma. I will miss ALL of them. They are my babies. I hope they will apply all the things that they learned for about 2 and a half years. Im going to miss the kecohness yang they all buat bila masuk fakulti, budak-budak yang nakal tapi sentiasa girang dan gembira, mulut-mulut laser yang tak ada insurans, kasut-kasut flip flop and sandal yang cantik-cantik, bunyi dan jenis-jenis handphone yang canggih manggih, gaya fesyen-fesyen terkini, gadis-gadis yang berambut perang dan karat, budak-budak yang selalu datang ambik gula-gula serta suka mengusik barang-barang atas meja serta sms-sms yang berbunyi " Puan, ada kelas tak esok or Puan, maaf saya tak dapat hadir, ada masalah keluarga or Puan, saya ada MC, period pain ". Thank you to ALL my students..whether you graduate or not, and to the one yang masih di dalam pengajian, for making my life so meaningful and brighter each days. Tiada hadiah yang boleh kalian berikan untuk membalas jasa-jasa saya...to be the BIGGEST compliment I received so far is " Thanks you, Puan Gina, Kak Gina, Kak G, G" cukup memadai buat saya seadanya.

Uniquely Singapore

A lot of people tanya I what is so great about Singapore yang I selalu pergi every year. Hebat sangat kah sana berbanding dengan Malaysia ? Well, I pun bukannya tak bangga dengan negara sini tapi when u find something yang tak ada kat Malaysia, especially some branded stuffs, itu yang membuatkan you rasa benda-benda tu menarik.

McD Singapore siap ada McCafe lagi sort of like mini Starbucks which is so cool. Ada pastries and some cakes. Macam kat KL, we only have breakfast sahaja. Hope that later, we will also have this McCafe.

Another UK product, Fred Perry. Jarang nampak butiknya di Malaysia tapi rasanya pernah nampak sekali kat Tangs Pavillion tapi its too limited. Fred Perry nie lebih kurang sama la sikit ngan Ben Sherman tapi lebih stylo especially the jacket and shoes.

Kalau you all tengok this shopping mall, Forum mcm cikai giler from the outside, like mcm Campbell or maybe Alam Sentral, but bila you enter, you could not believe what's inside...siap ada all the branded boutique like Armani, DKNY, BCBG dll lagi. Dahlah shopping mall nie hujung sekali and tak ramai yang masuk tapi mmg kelas. Belakang Forum nie la letaknya Hard Rock Cafe.

I love Ben & Jerry's..tapi dah tak jumpa dah kat KL. Dulu ada kat Giant, tapi sekarang nie mcm dah tak ada, even kat Cold Storage. I really love the Chocolate Fudge.

You will never find this boutique in KL, Armani for Kids. DKNY, Zara and Timbaland ada for kids kat KL, but Armani ? Sure anak-anak rasa mcm Suri Cruise takpun mcm Romeo Beckham. But what I like most while in Singapore is the latest collection of some designer. Just imagine, the latest collection of COACH handbags just arrived 2 days before Christmas. Wuhuuuuuu !!!!

Wednesday, 30 December 2009

Christmas Deco in Singapore

I always like the decoration for Christmas in Orchard Road. Terfikir juga, kenapalah KL tak boleh buat macam nie yer along the Jalan Sultan Ismail or maybe Jalan Bukit Bintang.

Bergambar di hadapan Singapore Visitor Centre. Last year, when we spent about SD500, kita boleh redeem some prize and the prize adalah 1kg chocolate but this year around, boleh claim jam tapi dah habis. Baik tak payahlah.

Along the road, di atas tiang letrik, ada Santa Clause yang so comel.

The deco in front of Robinson

Santa was everywhere along the road







Oh ! I wish that KL pun boleh buat macam nie. Jadi lah tourist or maybe local attraction. Nie tak, balik-balik lampu tergantung especially bila raya aje, lampu ketupat sana-sini. Hope that Tourism Malaysia or maybe DBKL boleh be more creative sikit dalam hal-hal deco nie.

HRC, Singapore

We all kalau ke Singapore nie, selain shopping malls, tempat lain yang akan dikunjungi adalah Hard Rock Cafe. Daddy Jack collect the HRC T-shirt.

The HRC offer banyak giler T-shirt yang cantik-cantik even ada yang limited edition lagi. Some more ada offer lagi.


Sayangnya our family tak cukup sorang. Lain kali, Ryan the Lion pulak akan bergambar di sini, yer.

Jalan-jalan Malaysia-Singapura Hari ke-2

On the second day, we decided to masuk Singapore quite early, takur jalan sesak sampailah Woodlands, Lebih kurang pukul 9 we all dah gerak, sekali hambik, sampai Orchard Road pukul 10 dan all the shopping malls belum bukak lagi.

So, we ambik breakfast dulu sebab masing-masing dah kebulur giler. McD menjadi pilihan and we thought that the menu will be different, tapi sama aje.

Sementara nak tunggu shopping mall bukak, apa lagi ambik la gambar di sekitar Orchard Road. On the second day, Ryan the Lion and the maid, Ika tak ikut. Letih masa hari pertama pun tak habis lagi.

We all have to jalan perlahan-lahan sementara nak menantikan pukul 1030 am cos the shopping malls dah banyak yang dibuka masa tu.

At Tangs...masa nie we all dan nak using the Underpass untuk pergi ke seberang jalan. Oh ya, di sini, kiter tak boleh lintas sesuka hati mcm kat KL sana...kang tak pasal-pasal kena saman pulak.



Singgah jap kat Armani cos Daddy Jack nak beli shirt and a fews T-shirt jugak.


I really like this 7E kiosk. Ianya terletak di tengah pedestrian in front of Forum Shopping Mall. Sungguh menyenangkan untuk orang ramai.

To me..Starbucks tetap di hati

Got a few collections kat sini, they offered so many cheap things which I can't resist myself.

Masuk kat Prada, just nak tengok-tengok some stuffs, tapi mcm tak berkenan then move to the next store

LV...tapi since dari dulu Im not LV fan. Tak tahu kenapa although Daddy Jack ada yang berkenan and suruh I ambik satu. Sorry my dear...I can't cos COACH is still my favourite.

Belakang tu, another new shopping mall in Orchard Road yanag akan dibuka maybe in January...phewww...just to add in my To Do list for 2010 nanti.

Dah sudah and puas berjalan...it's time to head back to JB

Tuesday, 29 December 2009

Masakan Padang - Garuda

Lepas puas berjalan sana sini, barulah rasa lapar..thought of having a fast food aje tapi entah macamana rasa nak makan nasi so taknak pikir panjang, just cari Indonesian foods aje. At Orchard Central, we all makan at this place called Garuda.

Masakan Padang mmg tah sah kalau lauk pauknya banyak jenis sampai rambang mata nak pilih. I asked Daddy Jack pilih the food memandang he's the one yang akan bayar.

Garuda Restaurant nie mmg tinggi, on the 7th floor and well Im a bit of gayat so mcm agak pening la bila the two kids sibuk nak main-main tepi tingkap. I just leave them with my maid ajelah.



The food was great...mmg sedap and the price also hmmmm...well what do you expect ?

Doc Marten

Semasa jalan-jalan dalam Orchard Central nie, we bumped into this shop...Dr Marten or Doc Mart..OMG, Rasa macam nak pengsan. I've been dying to cari this butik KL tapi mmg dah tak ada and this shop baru aje bukak kat Singapore...oooohhhhhh.

I still remember my dad belikan my first boot lebih kurang 15 years ago kat JB...my first Mary Jane. I pakai tak sampai setahun cos after that hilang dikebas pencuri. Then after that, Daddy Jack pulak belikan untuk I, well masa tu we all belum kahwin lagi and now after 2 kids, I jumpa the boutique right in front of my eyes !!!!!.

This brand also from UK. Well, a few people mengaitkan this boot with punk and skinheads. Well, Im NOT one of them and I dont support any of the group or clan. The reason why I felt in love with this boots, well it reminds me masa zaman kanak-kanak dulu bila my mum and dad akan pakaikan this type of Mary Jane shoes with a high socks and it looks cute. I still have some memories of it and that's the reason why I really like Mary Jane shoes.

Yeah, when you wear this boot, you feel like a queen...hahahahah


The latest and limited edition of the boots

Nice one....so colourful but Im not in to these la. Daddy Jack said it looks cute if Im wear one of those...if Daddy Jack willing to pay for it, maybe I pakailah.

Sandal and slippers...thought of having these one also, but maybe next time or another visit to this boutique.

Tak tahan dengan godaan dan suara-suara halus dari all these boots, I've decided to have one as my Mary Jane collection. But I tak bayar, Daddy Jack la. Dia yang pegang all the money.

Me and my new boot...

Danish the Menace with the scooter

Here it is...my new boot, ANTHENA EMILY...welcome to the family