Tell me what makes a man want to give you all his heart

As at 10.00 a.m:

Just one Tuesday night without McDreamy has made me fell in love with another guy. He is Lynette’s tapinya. Ya betul, it’s Tom Scavo! The reason is self-explanatory, no?

Hotness

Sleeping with light on for 2 nights (konon nak membaca) menjadikan tidur aku kurang berkualiti lantas sekarang merasa mengantuk. Sekarang ni, masa I have an important task ni.

Kereta yang buat sudden break makes my heart beats faster. Hey you, yellow car! Watch your accelerator!

Hitz.FM morning crew never fails to make me happy. I so love Deerdrick (how to spell eh?) and I especially love their Yes No Umm Aah Game. Coolness!

Membaca recipes made me hungry *kruik kruik*


As at 3 p.m:

Secret Recipes walnut brownies made me happier (but sleepier).

Yes, as you can guess, the time of the month makes a sweet tooth out of me.

Kano leaving HSK makes me sad. You will be truly missed, kakak.

Legal research makes me drowsy *ting tong la la la*


** The above title is taken from a song Far and I really, really love: What Makes A Man by Westlife. How could you not love this song. It’s sappy and cute and the lyrics are very, very sweet! Memang cairlah. Here’s sharing an excerpt of it with you: “What makes her so right? Is it the sound of her laugh? That look in her eyes? When do you decide? She is the dream that you seek. That force in your life. When you apologize, no matter who was wrong. When you get on your knees if that would bring her home.” Sweet eh?

Ice cream is happiness condensed

I finally have the locus to appear in Court again and oh my God, it feels so good to be back! I feel like a real lawyer again. Yeay me!

So much for diet against makanan segera/makanan manis. Yesterday, my lunch consists of Ayam Goreng (Spicy) McD with Choc Sundae. Today for breakfast, had roti bakar and telur separuh masak with Kano at the Colonial. For lunch, Kano and I with the kakak-kakak had Nandos, complete with ice cream and chips, sort of a farewell lunch lah, as Kano is leaving the firm end of this week. Have you done calculating the cholesterol I managed to build up in 2 days? Yeay me?

Lots and lots of works due to the Boss and yet I am updating my blog. Cool kan aku? Yeay me?!

I found this somewhere on the Internet: You Might Be a Lawyer if...
~ you are charging someone for reading these jokes.
~ you believe that a forty words' sentence is a short one (ha ha guilty as charged)
~ you can look at a contract and instantly tell whether it's verbal or written.
~ your other car is a BMW (huhu as if!)
~ when you look in a mirror, you see a lawyer.
~ when your spouse says "I love you," you cross-examine him/her (ha ha don’t we all, sometimes?)

Hep! Back to work!


** Added at 8.15 p.m:
Still at the office. There goes my date with McDreamy! Huwaa!

Maha Suci Tuhan yang telah menciptakan pasangan-pasangan semuanya, baik dari apa yang ditumbuhkan oleh bumi dan dari diri mereka mahupun dari apa yang tidak mereka ketahui.


Event: Kak Yong's beautiful wedding

Malam berinai


(L) Ibu memakaikan gelang2 emas, in true anak mami style.
(R) Ibu memakaikan kasut pengantin yang sukar dicari kerana bersaiz 4.






Aqad nikah


Berjalan ke masjid untuk menyaksikan 'pembinaan masjid'.


(L) KakYong menanti dengan gentar.
(R) PakNgah yang lebih gentar kerana akan menikahkan anak dara sulungnya dengan menantu kesayangannya (Turut kelihatan, bapaku di belakang abangnya, memberikan moral support)


(L) Ibu & I, with Bapak & Little Bro sebagai background.
(R) KakYong bersama Bapaku/Pakcik Di nya/penaja honeymoon nya.


Alhamdulillah selesai.
(L) KakYong menyarungkan cincin kepada suami tercinta.
(R) Kami menyerbu pengantin baru untuk mengambil gambar selepas mereka bersolat sunat jemaah buat kali pertama.

Reception

(R) Ma familia with the happy pair.


Cake cutting ceremony/buka hadiah

I could not ask for more than the love you give me



Drool Factors, as at today

Drool Factor #1: Jared Cotter

(1) Perlukah dia nyanyi lagu Back At One itu dengan bersungguh2 dengan gaya yang oh sungguh sexy dan mencairkan? Aku maafkan dia nyanyi kurang menyengat semalam.
(2) Perlukah dia senyum dengan sangat comel begitu?
(3) Perlukah dressing dia sangat sesuai and on point?


Drool Factor #2: Phil Stacey

(1) Perlukah dia seorang suami kepada isteri yang cun dan seorang bapa kepada 2 little angels yang Subhanallah, sangat adorable?
(2) Perlukah dia sangat ruggedly cute begitu? Aku maafkan dia pakai topi senget ketika audition, okay?
(3) Perlukah dia nyanyi my favourite song of all time, I Could Not Ask For More? I give him A+ for his choice of song but B for his rendition. Kureng.


Guess who had to listen to all my Drool Factors crap last night? Ya tentulah Mr.Sweetheart! Hahaha! Takpe, malam ini kita boleh menonton drool factors for guys pula dan (juga) my Drool Factor: Antonella Barba. Sila tonton for me kerana aku akan berangkat ke Ipoh pada malam ini bagi tujuan Kak Yong's wedding. Babai people! See you next week!

Me, I am optimist to the point of being annoying. Especially to those who thinks it is cool to be cold and cynical.
~ From NST’s ad, by Yasmin.

Orang jahat freaking scares me! I am fcuking scared of orang jahat! Orang jahat scares me to death! (Any other American slang I left? A product of too much American TV, this girl is) The point is, aku takut orang jahat. My Kindred lagi takut hantu but I am more scared of orang jahat than I am of ghosts. Sure, ghosts are scary, but orang jahat are waaaay scarier!

By orang jahat, I mean, kategori perogol, perompak, peragut, pembunuh, pencuri, penjerut anak, pencabul, penyumbang mahram serta yang seangkatan dengannya ("orang jahat").

Benar, terdapat kategori lain orang jahat iaitu kawan tikam belakang, batu api, acidic friends, perampas kekasih/suami orang etc etc. This category of ppl can only hurt me emotionally. But the former category, they can attack me physically, emotionally and everything-ly lah. Menakutkan, kan?!

My Ibu’s (richest) friend’s house was robbed last week. Mind you, her mansion is CCTV-ed di setiap penjuru, and yet, perompak itu berjaya merompak segala yang berharga. They even berjaya merompak ketul2 diamond yang telah disorokkan! Seperti ada orang dalam kan? Sangat pandai pula, costume jewelries sedikitpun tidak terusik. Even I can’t differentiate sometimes. Hebat. But alhamdulillah, although my mom’s friend was tied up and her husband diacukan pedang samurai (iaitu hiasan di rumah mereka), they were safe and anak-anak was not home on that fateful night.

I am so very scared of orang jahat. Seriously sangat takut!!! Kenapa orang jahat wujud? Untuk kasi kerja kat lawyers, you say?! Ha ha ha. Funny. Mungkin supaya kita berfikir:

(1) Macam mana nak didik anak supaya tidak jadi orang jahat?
(2) Macam mana nak kawal diri dari jadi orang jahat?
(3) Macam mana nak elak diri dari jadi mangsa orang jahat?

Wahai orang jahat, insaflah. Dunia hanya pinjaman.

Samantha: Where is home?
Dad: Wherever you feel the happiest.
~ From Bewitched, the movie.

Aktiviti2 (lagha) sempena CNY holiday
(tanpa mengikut turutan favourite):

(1) Menonton TV (secara terlalu berleluasa).
(2) Menyiapkan hantaran for Kak Yong (my cousin)'s wedding this coming weekend. The 1st dalam geng cousin. Excited!
(3) Menyiapkan souvenirs for the groom's side. Juga untuk acara #2.
(4) Karaoke session.
(5) Makan, makan dan makan.
(6) Memandu to-fro Banting-Rawang.
(7) Membaca (secara terlalu minimal).

Hari ini berasa sedih kerana esok perlu mula bekerja, menggunakan otak secara bijaksana, bangun awal pagi, tidak dapat menonton Oprah dan Ratapan Anak Tiri. Seronoknya buat kerja-kerja menggunakan otak kreatif sambil tonton TV. Huhu. Thank God: (1) It's Tuesday (read: TV addict haven); (2) Akan bercuti semula hujung minggu ini untuk tujuan #2 di atas (Belum ambil cuti, bagaimana?). Anyways, selamat mula bekerja semula!

The phrase "working mother" is redundant

I outdid myself today. Yeay me. What did I do? Takdela apa sangat. Tapi suatu perkara yang aku selalu kagumi pada orang lain, iaitu memasak sebelum ke kerja. I challenged myself lantas terhasillah nasi goreng bersama 4 ketul udang goreng kunyit. Not much, I know, how hard can menggoreng nasik be? Compared to mereka yang masak singgang, rendang, masak lomak, etc, etc, sebagai bekalan buat suami dan anak2. But not too bad for a start, kan kan? Lebih2 lagi, buat aku yang domestically challenged ni (read: MALAS), kira okaylah tu tau. Heh. Ingat nak buat breakfast separuh and save the remaining for lunch. Tapi pagi ni ada orang sedekah pulut kuning with rendang pula kat office ni, alhamdulillah, kenyang pulut pagi ni. Haa tengokla, tengokla anak dara ni, pagi telan pulut, tengah hari kejap lagi nak makan makanan2 bergoreng, lepas tu nak complain gendut. Salah siapa?!

Let us be grateful to the mirror
for revealing to us our appearance only

Scene 1: Keesokan hari selepas majlis pertunangan, mahu mengemas rumah.

My makcik: Eh eh anak dara ni. Pakai skirt pulak dia, macam mana nak kemas rumah dengan skirt macam ni?!

Me: Err, kenapa pulak tak boleh? Tengoklah Ibu pakai macam mana.

(My Ibu was wearing a pretty linen blouse matching with linen pants dan boleh je kami mengemas rumah dengan attire yang elok)


Scene 2: Hari raya pertama, tengah hari, membantu di dapur.

My makcik: Anak dara ooi, pergilah tukar baju raya tu, pakai t-shirt, senang sikit nak buat kerja.

(Kami sekeluarga memang jenisnya, pakai baju raya hingga petang kerana jika ada orang datang beraya, kami berada dalam keadaan presentable, dan sesungguhnya, boleh je kami buat kerja dengan attire yang elok)

Me: Senang je?!


Sememangnya terdapat jenisnya wanita yang gemar berpakaian too sempoi and by too sempoi I mean, t-shirt/ shirt lusuh with kain batik/ slack lusuh/ track bottom. Tidak mengapa, tiada salahnya jika anda begitu.

Yang salah ialah apabila you try to impose it on other people, people yang telah dilatih oleh Ibunya untuk berpakaian kemas dan presentable selalu, yang tidak merasa restricted untuk membuat kerja dalam pakaian yang elok.

That makcik of mine memang too sempoi dan telah menurun kepada anak daranya yang berumur 13 tahun. Ibu on the other hand is the type of wanita yang bangunnya dia dari tidur, dia lantas bersiap cantik, berblouse, berskirt/slack, berbedak, bergincu. Lantas, biarlah makcik ooi, biarlah aku ingin mengikut jejak langkah Ibuku.

Entry ini wujud kerana aku teringat bahawa aku merasa geram selepas berlakunya Scene 1 sebab makcik itu berkata2 di hadapan ramai orang, seolah2 aku ni tak nak buat kerja, lantas orang ketawa. Ha ha ha kelakarnya. Ha ha ha.

Selepas aku (dan tentunya Ibu) berjaya membuktikan kerja boleh je dibuat dengan attire yang sebegitu, see who’s laughing now. Huh *nada geram*


Dan Rasulullah telah bersabda:

“Wahai Siti Fatimah, kalau engkau mati dalam keadaan Ali tidak ridha padamu, niscaya aku ayahandamu tidak akan menyolatkanmu. Jadilah engkau perhiasan yang tinggi nilainya di dalam rumah tangga, sumber penyejuk dan kebahagiaan hati suami, berhiaslah engkau untuk menyenangkan suami, jagalah hatinya agar engkau tak menyakiti dia. Walaupun dengan hal-hal yang kecil."

Andai bumi terbelah dua
Biar kita tetap saling memeluk

A pair of human skeletons lie entwined at a Neolithic archaeological dig site near Mantova, Italy, in a photo released February 6, 2007. In a Valentines Day gift to the country, scientists said they are determined to jointly remove and preserve the remains of the couple buried 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, their arms still wrapped around each other in an enduring embrace. (Source: Yahoo News)

How sweet is that?

V Day tidak pernah relevan atau bermotif dalam hidupku. Mr. Sweetheart told me that 'L.O.V.E' is so in the air in Kuching; flowers and heart-shaped gifts sold everywhere. Everywhere he looks, it is Valentine. Now that is just adorable. And what else is adorable? Hitz.FM morning crew celebrating Single Awareness Day this morning. That is too cute lah of them.

My moral is low today. I don’t feel like working although I am forcing myself to. Bosanlah. Jika tidak kerana I’ve committed myself to business lunch with clients this afternoon, memang aku sedang membaca buku cerita di sofa rumahku sambil berbual-bual dengan Ibu dan minum hot chocolate dan menonton rerun of yesterday shows on Star World. Oh indahnya.

Yahoo Buzz told me that my favourite flower, Gerbera Daisies symbolizes Strength, Purity, Happiness and Playfulness; that is, if you are a Gerbera Daisies’ fan, you should be strong, pure, happy and playful. Now, di manakah menghilangnya all these positive spirit today? Ke mana? Pulanglah!!!

Love is a light that surely glows
In the heart of those who knows
It is a steady flame that grows

This entry is so long overdue. Not Abg Haa's fault, apparently dia telah datang ke our rumah untuk menyerahkan tugasannya sebanyak 3 kali but to no avail, tiada orang di rumah. Anyways, inilah antara gambar2nya, selected here and there to portray the whole majlis. Alhamdulillah, thanks to the most generous parents in the world, dan rombongan Mr. Sweetheart yang datang 15 kereta, juga rakan2 dan saudara-mara yang memeriahkan, Subhanallah, adalah suatu kenangan yang amat indah.

Ketibaan rombongan Mr. Sweetheart




Upacara Merisik dan Meminang





Upacara Menyarungkan cincin pertunangan
(disempurnakan bakal Ibu mertuaku)




Bersama Hantaran Hati



(L) From my side. Banyak kerana terlalu ramai manusia yang murah hati di sekelilingku. Orang ni beri, orang tu bagi. Dari 9 menjadi berapa belas entah.
(R) From his side. Aniz's mom made the cake. Cantik kan? Orderla di sini.


Happy faces


(L) The Kindreds are engaged!
(R) Rakan2 tersayang yang hadir.


Beloved parents.


Keluarga dan bakal keluarga (juga terselit tunanganku).


(L) Rakan2 dari zaman sekolah menengah ke universiti ke alam kerja.
(R) Pulang marilah pulang - rakan2 STF.


(L) Kakakku Kano.
(R) Ibu yang dikasihi.

Booking status: Confirmed :-)

Carrie: Honey, if it hurts so much, why are we going shopping?
Samantha: I have a broken toe, not a broken spirit.
~ From S*x And The City

Seperti kelazimannya apabila berhujung minggu di Banting, kunjungan ke Pasar Borong Kanchong Darat (atau lebih mesra dengan gelaran Pasar Kemboja or Kampuchean Flea Market) adalah suatu aktiviti wajib.

From pasar malam goods to wholesale items, kain ela, telekung, blouses, kain batik/pelikat, shirts and pants, jeans, jackets, t-shirts, branded items (Konon2la. Dockers pants for only RM28, ok?), tudung dan selendang dan shawl, bahan-bahan mentah/basah, you name it, this market got it. Murah! Dan menggembirakan! (Ibu surely will buy something setiap kali pergi, paling tidak, one blouse) Cubalah berkunjung. Flea market, truly Malaysian style.

Cubalah berkunjung!


Pwetty, colourful choices of blouses. Boleh beli wholesale style yang best tu!


Bergerai-gerai menjual skirts and pants.


Levi's and Dockers. Jangan beli cetak rompak!



Ikan, sayur dan err, sandals.


Telekung dan kain batik, my Ibu's favourite buy, untuk disedekahkan, sebab bila dibeli secara wholesale, my God, they are too cheap to be true.


Kain ela, lagi banyak choices dari Jalan TAR, I tell you, and cheaper too.


Have a good Monday, everyone. Me, having a sleepy, mundane one *zzzzz*