happy birthday baby mills!

i can't believe my baby sister is no longer a teenager and has reached the age of 20!
she still looks about 10 and acts about 5! hehe...

we had a mini celebration last night. she wasn't in the best of mood and not everyone was around. so it was just myself, kimi, teerah, mum and the bday gal. we bought her a new headphone but she wasn't too stoked about it cos she wasn't wearing/using it the whole night! oh wells...mummy made her mee hailam and i bought a yummy chocolate cake ala blackforest with macaroons around it! we will be having another birthday party at kampung in conjunction (gila skema!) with raya haji.

also yesterday i met up with my old friend from aussie Alicia. she's chinese with some malaysian decendant but has lived in Oz forever. it was a nice and quick meet up as i had to rush back for the milah's birthday and they have booked a massage. it was really good to catch up and also meet her boyfriend. she's learning nursing at the moment and the bf is a police in the outbacks with the aborigines. so their plan for the future would to work in the outbacks with the aborigines! how noble and amazing is that? i wish that i'd do something to give back to the society or the world. like my dearest ems who has managed to set up her own charity company back in coventry to help refugees. meanwhile i'm back here stuck in this concrete jungle and feeling like a sheep, just following orders! sighh...anyways back to alicia one thing that i remembered vividly abt her was this one incident back in high school. she had just enrolled into Indooroopilly State High School and a few days later we had our annual sports day. we got to talking at one point and she asked me who was my crush. at the time i had a crush on this vietnamese fella (they were the cool almost mafia like bunch at school, don't ask me why! he wasn't even that cute! hehe) so i told her. then by the end of the day i saw them already holding hands and i remembered feeling so betrayed, confused and crushed over that weekend and on monday when we went back to school everyone was asking me whether i was ok or not. erm i guess it was a bit obvious that i had a crush on that guy. i put on a plastic smile for a while and i got over it! we remained friends and i never really held a grudge against her. so we're cool hehe the memories ey?



speaking of friends; there i was meeting up with a friend whom i haven't seen for over 10 years and where is my so-called BFF whom i STILL haven't seen since i came back. i've given up trying already..it's been 3 months. i mean i know i go on abt this quite a lot and i sound like a whiny high school girl but it's saddening when your friend from high school hasn't really made the effort to see you and cancelled on you numerous times. okok enuff la abt that.


clearly i haven't much to do in the office as i'm trying to blog abt anything under the freaking sun.

oh current pet peeves; does anyone else find the morning crew DJ's albeit H*tz, M*x or FL*Y are annoying? i really can't stand their laughs and it kinda makes my skin crawl! i can't waittt for my new car so that i could plug into my ipod!

i'm watching new moon on thursday and going to the cinema at gardens. apparently they're all couples seat and K is going back to his kampung for raya tonight. so i will be sitting alone in the couple's seat but i really don't mind coz i know i'm not alone and i have a lovely2 man who loves me dearly so i am comfortable sitting alone :)

so 2 days to go til the long weekend...bring it on!

i had a busy2 weekend!

saturday lunch was a meet up with shasha and aina. i couldn't even recall when was the last time that we saw each other! we think that it was in newcastle back in 2003 when i went for Craig Concert! hang on...actually maybe it was 2004 when i went to celebrate my birthday in Newcastle. aaah the good ol' days. shasha is preggers and InsyaAllah will be delivering next month! hope all goes well with her. we met up at the curve and i was super proud of myself that i managed to drive there by myself. so the curve - check! need to familiarise myself with all the routes to the shopping centres ehehe...


then after that i drove back to bangi to send my bro to ERL @ putrajaya. he's off to Dubai for a meeting where he just recently resigned and the new co is based there! mummy was worried that he's off the see the arabs so she made my brother make sure that everything was legit and it wasn't a con and he won't "kena jual" kat pak arab! hehe

that night off we went to KLIA to pick up darling kiwi girl. she especially demanded that she was greeted with a welcome home banner, balloons and flowers. we got 2 out of 3 minus the flowers (kedai tutup). coincidently we were wearing the same style. fitted shirts with jeans :) we slept really late that night entertaining miss D and mr syad.


sunday was just as eventful! went to TTDi (again) for a majlis khatam quran. saw my aunt's sister in law who works in BNM and i was moaning to her and she pretty much offered me a job! but it's not all as easy as that..frankly i don't have the heart to leave the current employer eventho here i'm not working to my full potential. i'll stick around for a bit longer and hopefully it'll get better. anyhoo after TTDi we went to KLCC to meet up with my aunt and her family. so makan lagi kat madame kwan and managed to do a bit of shopping. got another skirt for work and top. i find it a bit funny the fact that i hardly EVER wear skirts back in the UK and now i do! but it's all due to the fact that I'm not ALLOWED to wear trousers here. so there u go a blow by blow (hmm?) account of my weekend! raya haji next weekend! yeayyyy...

how was ur weekend?

woahhh mommaa!!

i just started going my budgets for the wedding with very rough rounded up figures and they are so scary and absolutely ridiculous!! i need to gauge what the current rates are for things. i think i have a fair idea but for instance, how much is it to get your dresses and outfits to be tailor made? i know it all depends on WHO it is but at the moment i have no idea really!

oh yeay managed to book an appointment with man kajang tonight :) his boutique looks gorgeous but not sure if he's within my budget! but no harm in checking it out.

also looking at colour palettes today. i have all these ideas in my head so need to start sitting down and deciding on it!

* i have a fair idea on my reception wedding dress but need a the right tailor with a budget
* i want a pelamin that doesn't look like everyone else's

the wedding plan continues...

I've had this tooth ache for over a week now! Went to the dentist last week and he said its my wisdom tooth which hasn't erupted but there's a pocket for it to come out which is a bit infected and causing the pain. He did some scaling (rm80 down the drain!) And that was that. There was some talk abt maybe surgically removing it if the pain persists. So this morning I went to the public clinic because I haven't confirmed yet with pnb and therefore my dental is not yet covered. The doctor said the same thing, I just need to clean the area properly and try gargling with some salt water later. I requested for an MC but she wouldnt give me any and gave me a time slip instead. Damn it! So I called the office but then my collegue told me that even if I come in because its after 10 it would still be considered as taking an annual leave. it's a bit silly if you ask me coz i was half willing to go to the office (not that there's much work to do) but because of their policies, i might as well take the day off coz i won't make it to the office before 10am!

So here I am at another clinic trying to get an MC because I really need to save all my holidays for next year. I think I'm a hypercondriac cos I am starting to feel like my body is all weak! The pain from from my teeth is killing me so I wanna try and score some pain killers while I'm here. Well I hope I get this MC so my leave won't be used up! Wishhh me luckkkk!
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hello all hope your weekend was great and eventfull like mine!
i went to terengganu over the weekend to attend K's cousin's wedding and his parents decided to invite me along so that we could buy some jewellery and songket for his side.

i guess this will be the start of my so-called wedding blog :)

as part of the hantaran, his parents are gifting me a set of jewellery. so off we went to a jewellery store (like duH!). we went to the same person who sold us the "merisik" ring. after browsing around i settled on a bracelet with a line of diamonds (simple just the way i prefer) and a diamond flower pendant with necklace. i absolutely love them esp the bracelet! i felt a bit weird tho choosing the jewellery and then getting someone else to pay them. luckily his mom and sisters got something tho so i didn't feel so bad.

then they took us to nur at*ikah songket. i didn't realise how expensive songkets are! we saw one that's RM16k and apparently can reach up to tens of thousands. since our wedding is still just under 8 months away we could even choose our own colour and design and get them custom made! since this is for K's side i let him choose the colour that the likes then i chose my design. he settled on a dark brown background with gold songket. so mine will be dark brown too with "bunga tabur" (small designs for the top) and diamond shaped bottom using gold and silver threads for the songket. i really hope they turn out nice tho. i'm just bunking of the fact that i'm fair so anything colour i wear would look nice. but i still can't help feeling slightly nervous about the final product. so insyaAllah it will all be a-ok.

K also chose another songket with white background with gold threads for my side to match the white theme. absolutely loved the design as it looks grand and elegant so now i just need to find the material for my side to match. i stupidly did NOT take a picture of this songket so now i don't know whether i should wait for the songket to be ready and take it along whilst shopping for me or to just go ahead without it? hmm decisions...

oh at K Tganu we stayed at ri-yaz heritage which has a promotion at the moment.
the rooms are soo nice! we were mucking abt in the infinity pool in the evening so after dinner when we got back into the rooms, me and K's sister fell straight asleep with the air cond on engulfed in the thick duvett and feather down pillows! oh at the pool me and k were trying to recreate that dirty dancing scene where baby gets lifted by patrick swayze (what was his character's name?!) in the lake. kesian gak kimi sakit belakang to lift the heavy me but we had so much fun playing around in the pool with his cousins and brother and sister. there was a candid pic of us which his sis took and i was doing one of my gelak besar and he was laughing too which i absolutely love! we looked so happy and we both really are at the moment. alhamdulillah..i am so grateful. i absolutely adore his family and had such a great time with them. it was a great mini holiday but hopefully next time we can have another holiday along with my family together! that would be perfect! next time when everyone is back in Msia perhaps.

anyways check out the pictures of the hotel room and the pool










till next time...toodles

i have 8 months till THE day and i haven't done much since the kursus kahwin.
fortunately we are going to terengganu this friday to check out and buy some songket for the groom's reception. i'm really looking forward to the 4 day work week then spending a weekend away. mind you i am going with the future in laws so must be on my best behaviour! (not that i act differently in front of them but just need to tone down my selamba-ness).

anyhoo a few weeks back K and I went out on a date. it was our first date since we came back. yes we do see each other almost everyday (kinda hard to escape when you live only a street apart!) but we hadn't gone out properly since August. so to put back a little excitement in the relationship i told him to surprise me. so on one fine sunday morning guess where he took me? THE MUSEUM! :)

we both like going to museums but after visiting some of the oldest museums in london and edinburgh we didn't put much hope on the KL one. much to our surprise, they have improved and revamped the museum. we were very impressed with the exhibitions and different areas. my only vivid memory of the museum when i was little was an indian man sitting in a glass cage surrounded by snakes! whilst kimi's memory was the picture of rashid sidek hung on the wall. luckily malaysian tourist department had some sense and realised that the first place that tourists would find is the museum to learn abt the history of the country. when we visited there was an exhibition on all traditional malay games and you could even play the games ie congkak, teng teng etc. then there were the usual history of malaysia leading up to independence, a section on malay kingdom ie sultan2. did u know that the sultan of the states are all originally related to each other? so the sultan of melaka is like cousins to sultan kedah and so on and so forth. then there was also a section on malaysia today which had pictures of iconic malaysians. so we thought the museum was worth every single sen paid for the entrance fee (RM2) and i would recommend it to anyone! you should go and check it out :)


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so on to my next bit of ranting i would like to share my driving tips with everyone,

"always assume that the person in front of you will cut into your lane WITHOUT signalling!"

if you do this, i'm pretty sure that you can avoid any accidents.
also, when will ppl ever realise that when you use the emergency lane that usually CREATES the traffic jams when you try to weasel your way back into the appropriate lane.

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okie folks till next time!

ps; damn i could kill for some ben and jerry's half baked ice cream righttt now!