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i thee wed #1

noreply@blogger.com (miss DYnam!te) — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:57:00 +0000

~pic from vera wang

so i've put down the deposit for the wedding outfits and i hereby announce that Man Kajang (MK) is our official tailor.

like i mentioned last time, initially we were going to have my engagement make up artist (who also does wedding dresses/outfits) as our tailor. when i finally called him to get an appointment to discuss ideas, he was busy until after Raya Haji. Then mummy suggested that I check out MK's website and just happened that on that same day he has an empty slot so we decided to survey his collections and see him. MK did all K sister's wedding outfits and they were beautiful! as an established tailor within the wedding industry i have no qualms about the end product if we were to choose him . in addition the fact that he has worked with K's sister and his family, he knows our expectations on his quality of work. plus he is actually really close with K's sister (like they text each other every now and then),so we have a personal connection with him which makes thing easier too! btw i just lovee his boutique...check out the pics in his website!

so at our first meeting, i brought the materials for akad (it was part of our engagement hantarans). so he quickly threw in ideas about our outfits and gave us a quote on everything. I didn't know he also does pelamin. the prices were steep but i think we expected it to be much MUCH higher. plus all his prices are all inclusive of veil, hand bouquets, accessories and shoes. MK will also go with you to pick out the materials and access so you don't need to worry about finding matching items to go with everything else. since we have materials for the akad and bertandang, we only need to pay for his labour and accessories. as for the reception we'll have to start from scratch and he gave us the price for a first rental (gulp). it is quite pricey considering the fact that you don't even get to keep the dress in the end but no doubt you'll look stunning in it! so after our first meeting, we decided to just go ahead with him.

so now we're just waiting for our songket to be ready then we'll immediately see him again to buy other materials. in the meantime he asked me to browse martha stewart for dress ideas. i started my scrap book in July so will start printing more pics (have set up my printer,scanner in my room over the weekend). eeekk i'm so excited! with less than 7 months to go i've got to start putting things together.

another advantage of using MK is his connections. for make up, he has the top 10 make up artists on speed dial. so if you have nurul, sue cantik, amy janz in mind, all you have to do is state so and he'll call them in front of you and secure the booking on the spot! initially i was gonna use the same make up artist as my E-day but decided to have SC for the reception. SC hasn't even open up booking for July yet (only up to March 2010) but as MK called himself, it's already in their diary! so yeay :)

current status;

* dates and locations have been confirmed
- akad 020710 ; home [need to decided whether to do it after asar or maghrib]
- reception 030710 ; DSE
- bertandang 100710 ; bangi

* hall booked and deposit paid [need to go to food tasting at some point]

* make up for reception - SC for reception
[need to reconfirm that we're still ok with FLP (E-day make up artist) to do my make up for akad and tandang, i'm so afraid that he's going to merajuk with me since i'm not using him any longer for the outfits and reception make up. sighh better call him soon and double check in case he does merajuk and i will need to find alternatives!]

* most of our hantarans are sorted apart from the rings. we're hoping that someone goes to the UK/US as they're much cheaper there. menyesal tak beli haritu in London. MK will be doing the deco for us. as his price are top range; we're limiting the trays to 5-7 ONLY.

still LOADS to sort out!!

noreply@blogger.com (miss DYnam!te) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:21:00 +0000

I am not ashamed to admit that I love high school musical and at the risk of sounding like a cradle snatcher, I think Zac Efron is swoon worthy! Sometime last year I actually watched the musical production of HSM1 at Birmingham Hippodrome and was fully entertained. My sister also loves it to bits! I remember watching her trying to follow the dance steps of the finale song and it was soo cute! So semangat dia nari2. I felt really bad watching the theatre and almost cried at the thought of how much she would enjoy it. So when I heard that the is a high school musical summer celebration of which the casts would sing songs from all 3 movies I thought that I MUST take my darling lil sister to watch it.

After booking the tickets online, we headed yesterday afternoon to catch the matinee. Unfortunately it was also the last day of PC Fair and hence the parking at KLCC was choc-a-block and not moving. I thought quick as I didn't want to be late and my best bet was to park at PNB Darby and walk. However poor lil milah coz she had to walk through the KLCC park. I even asked her to walk faster and told her that Troy was waiting for her and at which point she would happily quicken her steps. We made it with a few minutes to spare…but poor mils coz she was literally out of breath!

Once the show started she was really enjoying herself. It felt good to make her happy J she was dancing in her seat and even clapping to the songs. I was trying to video her but it was too dark! In terms of the performance itself, Troy Bolton looked a lot like Zac Efron (from the back seats where we were). But it was nothing compared to the theatre production although I think it was perfect for milah coz I think she might get a bit bored with all the lines. We both thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.

After the show we had to walk all the way back but at a slower pace. Again Mils was out of breath, comel sgt dia berlakon over2 tercungap2..so when we got to Darby I asked her whether she wanted to have a drink first and she did. So when we got to the café she took off her shoes and I discovered a fresh blister on the toe!! Kesian gila ok…I felt soo bad!!! Luckily I managed to get some band aids to cover it so she could walk to the car. Later when I got home I realized that both her toes had blister!! Poor girl! Check out her toes below…

But I think it was all worth it kan Milah? Dpt tgk Troy and Gabriella..

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An(a) - Mi(a)

noreply@blogger.com (miss DYnam!te) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:52:00 +0000

sounds pretty cool doesn't it but they are apparently code words for an*rexia and bull*mia

over the weekend i was back at my grandmother's celebrating eidiladha. was enjoying some of the food until a comment from a family member got me really upset. i was angry and pissed off and i even cried a lil bit. she said to me "eee k yong, awak kena jaga makan. dah berisi sikit badan tuh"

little did she know that i HAVE been watching what i eat. i started exercising 2 to 4 times a week (aerobics for an hour each session during lunch) since mid october. when i do have aerobics it usually means that i have no time to eat lunch so i have my hi-fibre crackers and green tea. i HAVE been cutting down on the amount of rice i eat each day. so for her to simply say a thing like that without knowing my efforts really got to me. i am trying to lose weight the RIGHT way by exercising and cutting down what i eat. i am trying to AVOID going down the alternative routes by taking diet drinks, pills or spending so much money at slimming centres or starving myself. but to have people badgering, commenting on my "weight" really f*ckes me off! ok i have a bit of a tummy and my ass is a bit big (it's the genes!) but i guess some people would rather see me risk my life so that i'm skinny again. but the scary thing is i am tempted! i am tempted to stick my fingers down my throat at times after having a large meal. i have so many temptations in my head. alhamdulillah i haven't succumbed to those temptations yet but honestly, i do get scared that one day, one more comment from someone pushes me to the edge and i start doing things that i have thought about. i know a friend who actually resorted to drugs when ppl kept commenting her on how she's put on weight. it really worked for her and she's now back to being skinny but it got pretty serious at one point. luckily she realised how it was dangerous for her that she managed to pull out of it.

yes i used to be skinny but that was what? 15 years ago where my weight wouldn't budge from 42kgs and i haven't seen you for what 7 years? of course you're shocked at how much bigger i am.

do you really want me to look like this?

would this SHUT everyone up?

so PLEASE if you ever feel the urge to "tegur" me (or anyone else for that matter!) about how berisi i am? please swallow those words coz i don't want to hear it! thank you very much!

luckily K loves me the way i am. the only thing that keeps me sane at times is how he reminds me how beautiful i am almost everyday.

so as of TODAY as part of my slimming down regime i am giving up rice for at least a month.

no more rice AT ALL! however i will try to substitute it with bread.

i miss being in the UK where i am considered small. sighh...

noreply@blogger.com (miss DYnam!te) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:29:00 +0000

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!

noreply@blogger.com (miss DYnam!te) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:53:00 +0000

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?

noreply@blogger.com (miss DYnam!te) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:39:00 +0000

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...

noreply@blogger.com (miss DYnam!te) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:09:00 +0000

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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noreply@blogger.com (miss DYnam!te) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:38:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (miss DYnam!te) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:45:00 +0000

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!

noreply@blogger.com (miss DYnam!te) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:23:00 +0000

...But I am ever so lucky to have a fiancee and husband to be in over 8 months to give me the assurance and unquantifiable love much needed and so therefore I am blessed and happy

Ok schmoody mode *off*

Tingggg :)
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noreply@blogger.com (miss DYnam!te) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:51:00 +0000

I really miss having the girlfriend that u can just pick up the fone to and tell her ur recent neurosis whenever watever..

So now I just keep my insecurities and doubts and hide these ugly thoughts away.
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noreply@blogger.com (miss DYnam!te) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:54:00 +0000

I've never been an F1 enthusiast until K was watching it and he took the time to explain it to me. Now i follow it quite religiously and i was quite surprised at how much into it i got! i remembered aaages ago even before there was a D&K that i randomly watched it and was rooting for Raikonen coz they had the same first name (that was when we just started to become close friends).

i was too tired last nite to watch it in full so went to sleep first and then told K to call me in the last 10 laps. i should have watched the first few laps as they were pretty interesting. the race in brazil last night was action packed with drivers starting from the back managed to overtake and get podium positions! and best of all Button won the championship! so rugi tak tgk from awal! damn...

anyhoo i've also started playing for my house at work. played volley few weeks back and got second place. was gutted when we lost at netball (came second). it was such a close match and i can't help thinking that i've got the curse of the silverware (ie silver medals/second place). since warwick days we always come second against notts and once again the curse still stuck when i lost last weekend. was spose to play badminton on sunday but after i got knee-ed in the head, i wasn't feeling well so needed the rest. the team got 1st place and as i was the reserve player, i also got the prize..yeayy... oh did i tell u that we got prizes in the form of A*SBs (unit trusts). it's quite good that it's given as such or else i would have spent it on shoes!

got another netball match next weekend at the old college. so looking forward to that. i think us girls are going to make it into a road-trip/bday celebration.

work wise on the other hand, still not much work coming this way. i'm feeling quite bored but i think i feel more guilty at the fact that i'm getting paid without doing much! maybe i should just sit back and enjoy the ride before it gets busy. i've been warned that it will get busy at the year end. so i'm gonna go and browse the ik*a catelogue! :P

noreply@blogger.com (miss DYnam!te) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:06:00 +0000

ATP Malaysian Open

i was very fortunate to be given all season tickets for the tournament courtesy of adik angkat! thanks loads for the tix bro. he even got me VIP parking and tickets for the player's launch event. that was when i took pictures with davydenko and soderling. there were a few other players that i just simpy took pictures with without really knowing who they are.

soderling was very friendly and accomodating when i wanted to take pictures with him. i even wished him good luck and shook his hand (and it was a VERY strong handshake!) davydenko was not so friendly. he didn't even smile! so i was rooting for soderling for this tournament. unfortunately he lost to davydenko at the semis. oh and i also met astronout/space traveller! he was too very nice and friendly!

the finals was very entertaining. our seats were very good, second row from the court so we were very close! however we got dodgy seats and they were literally hanging by a wire so we had to support the seats with our feet! but can't complain much as they were free. i didn't really know who to support as i'm not a huge fan (truth be told, before this pernah dgr nama a few times je!) of davydenko or verdasco. verdasco had loads of supporters. well he was damn cute so veryy nice to look at. his balls are all very strong and had a lot of force but he had so many errors. davy was pretty consistant so i knew he would win. plus i felt a bit sorry he didn't have many supporters so i started supporting him. ceh nak support org yg menang je :P

let's hope there are many more tournaments coming soon!

ps: i bought my sport shoes yesterday! so i can start exercising now. got aerobic classes lined up and a few netball games coming up soon! veryy excited! :D

pps: i'll post pics some other time! or i'll just post to FB la hehe

noreply@blogger.com (miss DYnam!te) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:25:00 +0000

2 berita tergempar!

1) I felt my first ever earthquake tremor today (along w a gazillion of other ppl who works in tall high rise buildings). Apparently it was from an earthquake in sumatera which didn't cause any tsunami. Panic arose thinking abt my sis in NZ who had tsunamis warning issued out. It felt weird like the building was moving. I wasn't sure at first but when I asked , they all felt it too. We all packed up and I thought twice before taking the lift. But I wasn't going to take 29 flight of stairs down!

2) As expected the maid run away. Luckily nothing was stolen and my sister and pah are fine. But to think abt how much daddy spent to get her..I just felt really sorry for dad. I really don't want another one. Buat lagi stress ada la. Geramnyeeee...oh and apparently when she stayed with my aunt over raya (6 days) she told her sob story and my aunt gave her another month's worth of salary. All in all she got 3 months salary when she was only here for 1!!! Tu tak kira duit agency lagi. B!tch...

Well I'm in a b!tchy mode so -

To X - u texted me to apologise for not being a good friend but then u decided to delete me?FINE!

Btw he clearly cheated on you and u know it!

To Y - so - its taken u over a month (and still counting) for us to meet up? I've lost count how many times u've cancelled. If u've got a problem say, used to scream and shout at each other. But now u're just running away?? FINE!

Btw when are u going to pay me back??
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Selamat Hari Raya

noreply@blogger.com (miss DYnam!te) — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:43:00 +0000

after 7 years of not celebrating raya with my family, the excitement of it was quite overwhelming! i almost "enjoyed" the 5 hours drive back to kampung with my brother and his tweeting (the car tweets!) britney.

we made it back to Kuala Kangsar just in time to berbuka puasa with the rest of the aunties, uncles and cousins. dapatla makan KK buka puasa specialties such as popiah and murtabak pak din pendek. then i waited excitedly to hear the "pengumuman dari mohor2 terbesar" and seronoknye terlompat2 dpt tau sunday raya! :)

i woke up early in the morning and after subuh the line to the bathroom started forming. mild panic swept thru me as we didn't have water in the mornings at the kampung. luckily i had just enough for a quick shower! we performed our Eid Prayers at the magnificent Masjid Ubudiah. after the prayers, i was menyibuking near the makan diraja to catch a glimpse of the sultan and raja muda. he was a mere 2 metres away from me at one point. i found him quite daunting esp when he refused to shake a citizen's hand. we then visited my late uncle's grave (he was a decendant of Sultan Idris, the previous Sultan of Perak).

after the prayers we had our traditional salam and duit raya session. i was teary eyed thinking and missing my late grandfather. but i was so grateful that i managed to spend this Eid with my whole family. i gave out duit raya to my cousins for the first time. abisss duit! but as my brother correctly pointed out, it's a form of sedekah so nvmla.

we didn't visit many relative house's this time around. i was pretty much stuck in the kitchen where i changed from my baju raya to a t-shirt as i was washing dishes the whole day. we only visited my other grandmother that night in the nearby kampung and that was all the beraya i did.

all in all i was glad that i'm back for good and now can celebrate eid again with the family :)
nothing beats cooking, eating, taking pictures with the family and of course asking for forigveness from parents personally rather than over the phone is entirely different.

noreply@blogger.com (miss DYnam!te) — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:45:00 +0000

the no of ppl in the office is dwindling bit by bit, hour by hour.
i was told as i am still under probation, i can't leave until 5pm!

i'm so lazy to do anything now, raya mode *on*
plus it's not like i've got loads to do so i'll take my own sweet time.

i also got my first pay today! whoppeeee...
however now i don't have any excuse not to give out duit raya.

i got 4 baju raya hehe..ye la after 7 years tak beraya...beraya sakan la this year.
one of them was apparently to seksy to be worn at kampung so i'm frantically looking for an alternative top. i got 1 baju from aunty (ie future MIL). she's so sweet and the baju she bought for me is lovely! i got another baju and couldn't believe how much it costs! but the kain can be worn with my other 2 kebaya tops so i just went for it.

i'm travelling back with my brother tomorrow so i hope the jams won't be too bad.
so excited to celebrate raya!!! :)

Selamat Hari Raya and Maaf Zahir Batin everyone...
Travel safe!! xxxx

noreply@blogger.com (miss DYnam!te) — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:05:00 +0000

*gigggglllleeesssssssss*

I'm currently getting a pedicure in bangsar. My heels are so dry and badly cracked. So I'm getting rid of it all. The girl is scrubbing the base of my feet and its sooo geliiiiii!! I love being pampered like this..and now she's massaging my legss.

Out with ann and diana. We went to find our baju raya first and went to d's friends boutique in damansara. I was a bit dissappointed at first cos there wasn't anything at first and it made me look even fatter, but towards the end I found an outfit that I love. So I am a happy bunny ;) bought a couple of tops as well from there. A black sleeveless satin top and a chiffon beige top as well.

Also threaded my eyebrows so dah comel la utk raya hehehe

I totally missed going out with the gfs and having a girly2 day! Now that I'm back I can go do this anytime I want. So another plus for coming back home.
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noreply@blogger.com (miss DYnam!te) — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:53:00 +0000

last friday i attended a budget meeting with a department. i can think of one word to describe it and it's "unprofessional"

* the meeting was scheduled for 2.30 pm but the people from the other department only turned up after 25 minutes hence we didnt start until 3

* one person in particular kept talking with her collegue throughout the meeting whilst our head of dept discussed with the other head of dept. he also kept making stupid jokes with his buddy which was quite disrespectful

* towards the end, the discussions had nothing to do with his unit and he decided to take a lil snooze in the meeting!

the thing is tho, i couldn't believe no one told him off or anything!

the work environment in the new co is so different and much more relaxed. however i don't think i want to follow suit and start with the habit of sleeping at lunch time on my desk. i don't want to start becoming too relaxed, complacent and lazy. i hope i get more work this week. i reckon i can handle a budget meeting myself! hehe

noreply@blogger.com (miss DYnam!te) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:49:00 +0000

can u believe that they've got me to do bank recs??! i feel like a first year :) i feel like budak darjah satu!

well i wanted something that's not too stressfull or demanding so there u go. maybe coz i've just started so they're giving me easy stuff for now. at least it's something to do la so it's ok.

come to think abt it, if i were to stay in the UK i was going to move to a similar kinda job. so alhamdulillah i got what i wanted, just with a lil less pay. but okla i'm still gratefull...

smlm drive balik kerja, lenguh gila kaki wei stuck in traffic. lepas jln tun razak masuk Mex Highway tu dah ok but bila sampai tol kajang jam balik. need to get auto car PRONTO!

noreply@blogger.com (miss DYnam!te) — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:31:00 +0000

so i started work yesterday at my new co (for the next 8 years!)

i was placed in the finance department, more specifically the financial reporting & consolidation unit. my role would be doing the monthly management accounts, preparing the accounts at year end and dealing with the auditors. on top of that there will also be the consolidation process and also budgeting.

the people in my unit are lovely. most of them are ex EY auditors hence they know where i'm coming from. they seem supportive so hopefully they'll help me through when the work comes in.

kims dropped me off and picked me up yesterday so that he could show me the way. we took the KL-putrajaya highway and what a god send it is! we skip most of the major traffic and join Jln Tun Razak after coming off the highway. i was really proud too as Kims built most part of the elevated highway :) yesterday after work tho, we were stuck in the jam for abt 2 hours non moving! but that was because we went the wrong way! i drove this morning and there were hardly any traffic but i think end of day rush hour traffic will be bad. i wonder how long it'll take me to get home today.

anyways getting some work now better go!

noreply@blogger.com (miss DYnam!te) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:23:00 +0000

one of the joys of being back home is the fact that i will be able to go to terawih prayers. actually it is the fact that any prayers are so hard to forget with the "seruan azan" booming. And if you live in bangi you can hear 3 or 4 different azans from different surau's. i hate to admit it but as of late i haven't been exactly strict with my prayers. i admit that i have become slack in performing the 5 fardhus. after coming back from Oz in 1998, again the fact that it's easy to pray with all the facilities and reminders around you it's hard to miss it and i always made sure i did them. then when i started working overseas, with less and less malay muslim friends around it was easier to miss. so now i am very glad to be back home so that i will perform my duties to Allah :) insyaAllah i will try not to miss them ever again...so again it's good to be home.

i miss going to terawih with my sister though. i really do! this week as i had to stay at home to look after Pah and with Milah talking when she's in a good mood, i got really happy when my brothers came back. someone else to talk, laugh and joke around with. now i know how mummy felt all these while being at home with no one to lepak2 and chill with. no wonder la she was so happy that i'm back home! i can't wait for it to be a full house again with all my siblings!

oh yeah, we finally got the maid today. oh how happy was Pah to have a person totally devoted to her. she loves to talk you see but she's now a bit senile. so she will repeat some stories, sentences over and over again. so at first can la layan but after a while...u know la. anyhoo i went downstairs to cook the rice at 2am just then and lo and behold they were still up! the bibik sleeps with her in the room and Pah insisted that she sleeps with her on the same single bed. the bibik obliged at first but then as Pah dozed off she moved to her spot on the floor (tilam la not that mean suruh org gaji tido atas lantai!). i think Pah woke up in a panic with no one next to her and she's been up since then talking and telling stories. you see we bought her a baby monitor before the bibik came so that when we're upstairs and she needs to go to the toilet we'll be able to hear her when she call. so i kinda eavesdropped on her conversation. she sounded so happy to have the bibik and now making the bibik her "best friend". u know i think we all did our best to take care of her and all, we all did lose our patience at some point or rather but everyone else esp mummy and daddy are tired from work and other commitments, so tak dpt la nak layan 24 jam. that bibik is getting paid and her sole responsibility is to take care of her. i know Pah doesn't realise this but i just hope that since bibik is giving her full attention, she will not start to think that we don't treat her as well.

mummy was very reluctant to take on another maid after the last one ran away. we've always been nice with our maids before. calling them "kakak" rather than ''bibik". provided hp for them, treated them nicely, siap boleh pergi outing ke kajang tuh during weekend sampai naik kepala. kadang2, two faced diorang ni. depan kitorang baik, when we're out of the house god knows what they're doing. i just hope this one doesn't give any trouble. she seemed ok but you never know! so i was told off when i called the maid "kakak". mummy sternly told me "call her bibik!". i guess with this we just have to show em whose boss!

ahhh the dramas! nih baru seminggu kat sini. tak start kerja lagi! sighhh...

oh well but again, just hearing kamilah playfully saying "ina gedikk" and to see her trying to socialise again (i made her ask at the counter for a plastic bag at McD, she went up and mumbled something shyly but the initiative is there!) confirms that it was the right decision to finally come home for good :)

physically being there for mummy when she wants to talk or rant is also another confirmation.

today daddy came home before friday prayers and he came to my room and borak2 with me :)

so many other reasons to say that it was a good decision.

okla almost 3 am, need to wake up in 2 hrs for sahur!

noreply@blogger.com (miss DYnam!te) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:06:00 +0000

it's starting to sink it now that i'm back here for good!

quoted from a friend's FB status today : "bye bye luxuries, welcome responsibilities"

how true that is as i haven't started work yet, i am now responsible for taking care of my grandmother who cannot see. it's a pretty tiring job as she goes to the loo every hour and i have to take her. sabar je la as i know it's part of dugaan puasa.

anyhoo on a lighter note the first day berbuka with the family was brilliant! lil milah also puasa but she still drinks her apple juice throughout the day. mummy cooked her kari ikan and sambal tumis udang. super yummy! then yesterday my girlfriends organised a buka puasa at a hotel for a buffet! OMG jakunnnn k. the fact that i can eat everything on display not having to worry abt halal or not is the best. had so much food last night i almost burst! but i was careful to jsut have a lil bit of everything. i have to keep reminding myself that i'm back forever now so no need to gelabah and mkn sepuas hati! hehe...

will try to make it to terawih today, insyaAllah!

it's good to be back home! :)

noreply@blogger.com (miss DYnam!te) — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:22:00 +0000

I just had a shower in dubai airport. Sorry la jakun sket but best gila business class lounge ni! Had food which included nasi briyani,beef stroganoff and much2 more. Then I headed for the shower and I am now feeling fresh and my splitting headache has disappeared! Aaah the good life! ;) alhamdulillah syukur! So now halfway homebound. Was sad the leave the UK behind but I'm looking forward to the future. Building my life and career back at home.

Yesterday was a manic day! Went to the office in the morning to backup all my work to the server and archive all emails. That took a good 2 hrs to do! Andy, the director that I'm closest to came to me to personally say goodbye. He wished me good luck and then said "show them how good you are and would love to see how you progress upwards back home" I was flattered that he could see the potential in me. Working at 3Y I could feel that I tenggelam amongst everyone else but he could still see my potential. Well I hope I can live to ppl's expectations at my new job. I cried when saying goodbye to Kim and Elisa. If jo was there as well it would have been much worse! I will miss the UK and the ppl ay EY.

Anyhoo better catch the next flight home! I still cant believe that I'm going back for good!! Laters!
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