It’s nice to have a feeling when you know a cute creature is actually growing inside your tummy

This is how 7 weeks old embryo looks like in my tummy..

7 weeks

When I realize that I’m going to be a proud Mommy!

+ve

Have You McValue Lunch-ed This Week? :)

Have You McValue Lunch-ed This Week?

May you have all the love and happiness in the world Ma!

I know it’s too late to post about my mum’s birthday which is actually a month ago, 5th April. I actually don’t where to take my mum for her birthday dinner. Then I asked my sister where should we bring her? Many restaurants came up in the conversation; The Apartment, FRAME, TGIF(which the one that i picked at first because they will sing birthday song to the person), Johnny’s (which is then cancelled cuz now my mom always make her own steamboat), Chillis and etc,etc.. but none of the above is chosen. Finally i decided to bring my mum to this one special restaurant.  Mum’s Place somewhere in Damansara.

Mum's Place

To be honest, the food is so delightful! Delicious, sampai menjilat jari dan pinggan! Especially Sambal Udang Petai, exactly like my mum’s. Seriously no kidding! Owh, but i don’t really like the tomyam. I mean it’s nice but i don’t like that type of tomyam, the soup is quite thick though.

Dried Butter Prawn

Mix Tom Yam

The Famous Sambal Udang Petai

ABC

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>>Happy Birthday Ma! I hope you enjoyed the food. And May you have all the love and happiness in the world and may you be blessed by Allah. Sorry I still haven’t get you a present. I’m a lil bit uptight now, but i will get you something soon. :*

The Rahman's (amir left out)

while waiting for the foods

A pose by mama

as usual he always concentrate while eating

WTF? Am i pregnant or what? LOL~ (my tummy after the delightful dinner..pffftt~)

I Love You Ma! Mwah!

It’s Been Awhile

chopped hair

Will update soon… stay tuned!

Once A Year A Vegans

After awhile we haven’t socializing and networking, last night we went out for a dinner with a bunch of friends from my office which is now Khairy’s x-collegues. Actually the motive of our ‘hang out’-out-of-office session is to ‘teach’ Shoba the art of socialize and stop giving excuses whenever we asked her out. (seriously, she has tonnes of excuses that you wouldn’t even think. she’s sweet and special but sometimes her thinking is weird and sometimes you can accept the way she thinking, sometimes i just think that she’s too paranoid..hehe, but she’s an angel!) I will tell you a story about her when i have time. Now back to the real story. Since we went for dinner with the presence of 2 vegetarians, guess where we went for dinner last night?

We went to Biao Mei Vegetarian Restaurant at Bandar Puteri 5,Puchong. (sorry i don’t have a picture of the restaurant, forgot to take lah because i’m so starving) This is the second vegetraian restaurant that i’ve tried. The first one is in Cyberjaya, an Indian vegetarian Restaurant named Khush. I love the fake mutton curry and the fried bittergourd (sumpah sedap!). But last night we went to Chinese vegetarian restaurant, and I tell you it’s not bad. Khairy sampai nak tambah lauk!

 

 

the fake stim fish with mushroom

 

 

 

the fake spicy ketchup fried prawn

 

the real brocolli

 What do you think of the menu? Not bad huh?  Vegetarians don’t eat meat. They just eat vege. And for a hard-core vegans, they don’t even eat eggs or any food that contains anything that contains animals stocks or fats, like my friend Shoba. Unlike Janice, she’s a bit easier lah because she eat eggs and she can eat nasi lemak! hehe.. okay,the point is, the fake pork is actually made of flour and bean curd. Don’t worry it’s halal one, it’s just a name. And everything is fake meat for vegetarians, the only gets real and fresh green. hehe..

see how 'semangat' khairy is?

again... see how 'semangat' he is..

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the blur-angelic shoba

kitty & roy

the yoga instructor & sophisticator tang

settle!!

Later, after the dinner we all went back to our house, because Shoba haven’t come to my house yet. ( oh i forgot to mention that we’ve clean our house, and we did fix a TV bench from IKEA last 2 nights. ) And last night, with Ghim and Roy’s help, we can watch TV and play games now in our living hall! Weeee-hoooooo!

awwww...so sweet

its so heavy, i can't even help harry to lift it up.

team building! haha

finally its up!! hehe.

Sorry you guys can’t play the guitar hero world tour last night. It’s getting late. And we all thought that nite is friday and tomorrow no need to go to work. Haha~ How la wei…  Thanks again to Roy and Ghim for helping Harry fixing the TV and the home teather, i know it’s harder than it looks..  :)

Home Sweet Home 2

It’s been 3 weeks we have stayed in our new home. ( but we only stayed the most in the master bedroom because other part of the house is still dusty and messy due to the minor renovation).These are some pics of our house taken when it still in a mess..

the dry kitchen

 

dry kitchen

 

wet kitchen

 

backdoor

 

downstairs

 

living hall

 

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dining hall

 

the porch light

 

Dust and messy kan? Thats why I have soar throat for over a week and coughing! But this morning, my house just got better. At first we planned to ‘cuci &basuh’ the house ourselves right? But, we changed the plan. Actually I changed the plan..I decided to hired some indons to do the tiring+exhausting+leceh job.  Let’s see how it looks when i get back from work today(I CANT’T WAIT). We can start to unpack our TV, Home teathre, TV bench…etc..yeah!! FINALLY…seronoknya!

All The Way From Indiana

Can you guess what is it? Something from Indiana,US? It’s nothing to brag actually about US products. But there is one thing that makes me interested with this product. Okay, okay, it’s actually a Pizza product. Im sure most of you guys have heard of or eaten at  Papa John’s Pizza.

Papa John's Nothing special about this pizza. The taste is much same with others but this one is a bit spicy. And the chicken wings also nice, similar like the spicy chicken wings from Pizza Hut( and fyi, they also have Deli chicken wings). The thin crust pizza can never beat Domino's thin crust, that's for sure!Thin crust pizza

the spicy chicken wings

But that is not why I’m so eager to blog about this pizza. Actually what makes me so happy (tears in the eyes) is because PAPA JOHN’S PIZZA do delivery at Puchong area and to make it even more better, in BANDAR NUSAPUTRA!! Ya-beda-bedoooooooooo!!!! hehe..

it's time to call papa!

 

That’s a good news to Nusaputra residents isn’t it? Even McD don’t do delivery to Nusaputra. So, you know what number to dial if you feel starving and lazy to cook rite? 03-8070-7272 =)  I think Nando’s also can deliver to Bandar Nusaputra. Cuz it does deliver to my office in Cyberjaya, but must be above RM30 in one receipt. I wanna give it a try later… see how it goes and i’ll let you know.

When I realize I’m Getting Old and Lame

Sigh~ Yes, I’m sigh-ing. I know its not a good habit especially for Muslim, but I can’t help it. (Ampun Ya-Allah). Again, i just sighed! I’m getting old and lame. I’ve been in self-denial for about 4 months now. [yes, i admit it ] And for the past 4 months i’ve always denying whenever my sister said

” Fara, ko dah boring arh sekarang, dah tak happening macam dulu”

and my same answer would be..

” Mane ade, I’m always happening! Cume can’t find the right time to hang out and I mean, I got commitment now. And been busy dengan rumah baru. Macam-macam nak kene buat”

… See what i mean? Everytime when she asked me out, i will give her that answer. It’s always about the house now. Although it’s true, but i feel like…urgghh! ( i am still in self-denial right now) I’m only 23. Yes I know for some of you 23 is still so young to get married and wtf. But for me, I did plan to get married by my age 23 the soonest and the latest by 25. ( so i thought my plan went well, Alhamdulillah)

Some people say that I married to early.. (so what??..no offense, but so what?) It’s my life and it’s my decision and its my destiny. Tapi tulah, I’m not saying that I regret kawin muda. ( tak pernah sekali pon rase menyesal, in fact I’m really excited to be a mommy..tapi not now la,banyal lagi bende yang nak kene settle sebelum dpat Khairy Jr.) Sebenarnye I’m not feeling that I’m lame or what..( sorry, mind me, I’m still in self-denial,blurghh~) tapi itu lah. My routine sekarang macam tersangatlah flat. No more unexpected or spontaneous excitement. I know I’ve only being someones wife for only a month and 26 days and I can say it’s been a great journey for being his wife. ( haha..baru sebulan 26 hari, boleh la cakap kan..? haha…I always pray and mintak pada Dia yang hubungan kami as husband and wife+best friend akan sentiase ‘terjaga’, dirahmati dan berkekalan) Maklumlah, darah muda lagi, macam-macam boleh berlaku.

Sebenarnye kalau nak ikutkan, saya ni belom lagi memikul tanggungjawab sebagai isteri sepenuhnya kerana, selama saya menjadi isteri selama 1 bulan 26 hari ni, saya tak pernah lagi memasak untuk Khairy. Yelah, sebab rumah belum siap sepenuhnya. Dapur pon tengah renovate. Memangla tak boleh masak (sorry, ini bukan alasan saya tak mahu masak tau? tapi seriously, our house is really in a mess!) tak sabar nak tunggu rumah siap. Penat tau nak tunggu rumah siap renovate, sampai batuk2 kahak dah pastu sakit tekak. (serious macam orang tua) Nasib baik sistem imunisasi saya kuat, tak mudah demam.

Nak cerita pulak psal our daily routine yang membuatkan saya rase betul2 macam orang tua dan individu yang sangat membosankan. (sebab tu I’m in self-denial, tak nak mengaku yang diri sendiri dah menjadi wifey dan bertukar menjadi individu yang so pathetic-ly lame! sigh~) Okay, I’m going to start my routines now.

Monday – Friday

8.00AM = Wake up (and kadang2 pukul 8.30am baru bangun, hehe mentang2lah rumah dah dekat dengan office.)

9.00AM = Masuk office (kadang2 terlambat by 10 mins or more, hehe, depends la pagi tu shampoo ke tak. 

11.30AM-2.30PM = Lunch time (tapi bukannya selama 3 jam tu keluar pegi lunch. Antara lingkungan waktu itu la. Fleksibel sikit time lunch at my office)

5.00PM = BALIK!! (saat yang ditunggu-tunggu. tapi sebenanye dah balik bukan buat ape pon. Same je bosan jugak. Cuma yang bestnye dapat jumpe Khairy! hehe)

6.00-6.30PM = BALIK!! pukul 5pm tu memang waktu balik saya. Tapi saya tak boleh balik lagi, sebab kene tunggu Khairy pick up saya atau saya kene pick up Khairy. Sebab working hours dia 9-6; dan kadang2 die OT smpi pukul berapa2 ntah. Dan semua orang yang mengenali saya pon tahu, MENUNGGU bukan la kegemaran saya. Memang pantang kalau orang buat saya menunggu atau tertunggu2. So anda sendiri ukurlah betapa besarnya pengorbanan saya menunggu dalam kebosanan dan penuh kesabaran.

6.30-11.00PM = Selalunya time ini, lepas balik kerja terus pegi dinner. Tapi depends jugak, kalau mase tu dua2 tengah kenyang, we both akan jalan2 cari barang sekitar lembah klang ataupun terus balik ke rumah. Tapi selalunya kami lebih suka habiskan masa dengan berjalan2  sehingga kaki dah lenguh dan peut dah lapar, boleh pegi makan terus. Sebabnye, kalau ikut teori Khairy, balik rumah awal pon bukannye ada apa, TV takder, Internet takde, semua pon takdak! ( ada tu ada, tapi semua masih dalam kotak, tak unpack lagi berikutan keadaan rumah yang masih belum stabil; berhabuk.)

11.00-12.00 PM = SLEEEEEEEEP!! (haha! memang ini waktu tidur saya. Maklumlah perempuan tak boleh tidur lambat2 sangat. Kene tidur awal bagi mendapatkan ‘beauty sleep’ yang berkualiti. hehe.) Tapi khairy selalu tidur lambat. Dia memang jenis individu yang susah nak tidur. Saye pon pada mulanya susah nak tidur dekat rumah baru tu, tapi bila dah lama2 dah sebati dah..Alhamdulillah, sesungguhnya tidur itu adalah satu nikmat yang tak ternilai yang dikurniakan dari Allah untuk kita.

 

Saturday – Sunday

9.00AM = Bangun tidur (Biaselah weekend, bangun lambat sikit. hehe)

10.00AM- 12PM= Pegi breakfast or kadang2 tak breakfast pon terus keluar and lunch terus je.. ( tak sabar rasenya nak masak breakfast sendiri). Keluar cari barang2 untuk rumah. Cari tiles lah, sinki dapur lah, hood and hob lah, washing machine lah, dryer lah, fridge lah, cat lah, macam2 lah you name it. (memang sangat berbeza masa sebelum kahwin and sebelum ada rumah dulu; dulu shopping baju, baju,baju and stuff tapi sekarang…huhu~ sedihnya. baju pon dah takdak. Kalau pegi shopping complex tu memang dah tak jejak lah boutique2 baju. Sekarang ni pegi boutique rumah saje. Orang perempuan fahamlah bagaimana perasaan saya ketika ini. SANGAT SEDIH AND DEPRESSED! Tapi takpelah, ini adalah satu lagi pengorbanan KECIL saya. Hopefully lagi dua bulan saya boleh la shopping baju baru sikit2. (And I tell you my wardrobe have been sooooooo last season okay?i can say sooooo 2008. yang orang dah tak pakai lagi dah fashion itu. huhu~) tapi sekali lagi saya pujuk dan tenangkan hati saya; ini adalah satu pengorbanan KECIL saya. Rutin sabtu ahad ini tak selalunya macam ni. Kadang2 Khairy terpaksa kerja Sabtu&Ahad. (kadang2 OT, kadang memang terpaksa kerja…sbb dah ikut schedule) Memang dalan sebulan mesti ader 2 weekend yang die kene kerja. So, tinggallah saya sorang2 di rumah yang kosong(selalunya sampi pukul 1 pagi) dan tak ada entertainment langsung! Saya pon pelik macam mana lah saya boleh bertahan dengan kehidupan macam ni. Tapi sekali lagi saya ingatkan diri saya… Ini adalah salah satu lagi pergorbanan KECIL saya. I have chose my path to be this way, jadi jangan nak merungut. (tapi kadang2 merungut jugak. Kesian Khairy kena dengar saya merungut, nasib baik die penyabar dan sangat cool!)

“Semua ni untuk kebaikan masa depan kita jugak”, pujuk Khairy.

That’s our routines lah. Any judgement? That’s why I told you i felt so old and lame now even at my 23 where I’m supposed to be active and socialized. It’s not that I’m not allowed to hang out with friends or what-so-ever without Khairy. But, I feel different when i left the house without him by my side. I’m allowed but I can’t and I won’t. . How can I leave the house and hang out with friends or jalan2 with my sibling without him? He’s my better half, and it’s just not complete without him by my side. ( yelah, call me manja, gedik, tak independent or whatever, tapi memang tak boleh lah, i mean bukannya tak pernah try, i’ve tried tapi result dia F-! Rase macam walaupun tengah bergembira bersama rakan2 and having a blast, but it still not complete without him. Metaforiknya he’s my heartbeat and my better half. So, imagine lah kalau heartbeat you takde apa akan jadi? DIE lorh… (love ya baby!)

p/s : Sorry to all of my siblings and buddies for not fulfilling your invitation request for the past few months. YES i know i’ve been a jerk. But I promise, lepas siap rumah ni, I will socializing and spend more time with you. No worries. If not meeting elsewhere pon, I will do gathering at my house and we play the Guitar Hero, Monopoly and I will cook. Ok kan? hehe..HUGS+KISSES+LOVE.

 Yeah, that’s all for now about me getting old and lame. Thank you for spending your time reading this junk. hehe..

 

 

How To: Make a Bread Pudding

Pernah makan puding roti tak? Sedap kan? Bagi yang tak pernah makan atau dengar pasal puding roti seumur hidup, anda patut cuba. Puding Roti adalah salah satu makanan yang paling ’simple’ tapi sangat sedap! Tak tahulah kenpa hari ni nak cakap pasal puding roti. Mungkin sebab teringin sangat nak puding roti yg dibuat oleh sepupu saya ( beliau ni memang suka memsak, dan macam-macam die boleh buat, sedap pulak tuh! Selain masakan bunda saya, masakn beliau juga menjadi kegemaran saya. Rasenya memang air tangan turun-temurun kot! haha. BTW, kalau beliau buat puding roti, mesti akan lebihkan seloyang untuk saya bawa balik, hehe…tapi memang sedap tak terkata!!) Bagi sesiapa yang tak pernah rasa puding roti ini boleh mencuba resipi ini.

 

Bahan- bahan :-

bread pudding

 

bread pudding

 

-3 cawan susu
-1 cawan krim
-4 cawan roti panjang (dipotong dadu)
-6 biji telur
-3 cawan gula pasir
-2 s/besar vanila
-1 cawan kismis
-2 s/besar mentega
Cara-cara:
1. Cairkan mentega di dalam kuali. Masukkan nenas, gula dan kismis. Kacau bahan – bahan sehingga gula kekuningan.

2. Untuk membuat kastad, campurkan bersama telur, gula dan vanila,pukul dan gaul rata, masukkan susu, dan krim.

3. Pada bekas acuan, susunkan ke dalamnya roti.

4. Tuangkan kastad tadi ke dalam bekas acuan, biarkan ia berendam selama 10 minit.

6. Bakar di dalam oven pada suhu 175 darjah selsius selama 40 minit, setelah dibakar, keluarkan dan taburkan serbuk gula di atasnya.

 

P/s : Boleh juga kalau nak tambah kismis/nenas/aprikot/peach/serbuk kayu manis, terpulang la pada anda. (saya suke yang original flavour). oh ya, la gi satu, kalau anda tak ada oven, anda boleh gunakan kaedah mengukus. Bagi saya, saya lagi suka puding roti kukus daripada dibakar. =)

** kalau nak tambah bahan-bahan tu masukkan mase selapas langkah -no.3-     dan kalau nak tambah sedap lagi, boleh la tuangkan ‘maple syrup’ on top of  the pudding. SERIOUS SEDAP!! (haih, dah terliur dah ni…teringat puding roti yg sepupu saya selalu masak kan untuk saya..)

 

Happy Trying!!