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Bag for sale

2010-06-10T21:25:00.002+01:00

Gucci bag for sale.

Email me at m2903@yahoo.com for details.

New Look

2010-01-06T17:24:00.007Z

My new year look... hehe.. or can actually say my post exam look.. :)

I think the last time I had my hair short was back in 1998 or 1999.. tue pun tersalah potong..

Eid Mubarak!!

2009-09-19T17:02:00.011+01:00

TO ALL OUR BELOVED FAMILIES, MUSLIM FRIENDS & READERS...

SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDILFTRI

MAAF ZAHIR BATIN

HAPPY EID MUBARAK!!

Berbuka Puasa and Farewell

2009-09-17T20:59:00.000+01:00

Last friday CIMB organised a berbuka puasa session for the staff and family. Also to bid farewell to one of the staff, Nurul who decides to join in her family running their family business.

We had the gathering at Tuk Din's (this is Nurul and family's new restaurant).. Its a new Malaysian restaurant @ Craven Road (promote sket nie) ;)

Sorry for the poor quality piccas... Snap from mobile jer..

GM with his opening speech

Nurul saying her farewell speech
My parents was invited too.. How nice kan?

Farah & Qis

Farah, Nourds & Qis

Qistinna's First Day At Nursery School

2009-09-13T21:58:00.005+01:00

I was abit worried how she would behave on her first day of nursery. She had attended nursery last term for three weeks. But this term she's going to a different nursery which is nearer to our house as compared to the previous one. Takut jerla dia tak nak pergi to this new nursery.

Awwww... look at her.. She's a big girl already!!

Budak perempuan nie and her twin sister asyik pegang jer tangan Qistinna kehulur kehilir.. Hehe.. Very friendly..

Every Thursday, they have swimming activity.. Cool eh? Ada indoor swimming pool kat school.

So, on her first day of nursery, me and Abah stayed until the school ends. I guess I was wrong. She enjoyed her new nursery and new friends. Only that I don't dare to leave her on the first day. Biar dia familiar with the new surroundings, baru boleh slowly tinggalkan dia.

On second day, I stayed for 1/2 hour and then I tried explaining to her that I'll be going out for a while and will come back later to fetch her At first she doesn't want me to go.. After a few negotiations.. haha... I managed to convinced her... And slowly she said okay (dengan nada sedih).. And she stayed until the end of nursery without me... No crying.. Good girl.. :)

Hubby's Birthday

2009-09-10T15:58:00.007+01:00

It was Joe's birthday last Tuesday. I've decided to take him out for some small celebration just the two of us. We went to Oscars at Bayswater. It's a Mexican Restaurant. We have been eyeing at this restaurant for a while, bcoz this restaurant serves steak and the most important point is that its HALAL!! So since its Joe's birthday, I've decided to celebrate his birthday here.

We went straight after work. Dah kata kemaruk tak makan steak, so both of us ordered the same dish. Haha.. We ordered Beef Taquitos for appertisers and Steak El Paso for main course. Ohh, the steak is soooo delicious!! The portion is huge. The steak comes with cheese enchilada, mexican rice and mexican salad. Penat nak menghabiskan. Memang tak habis pun, Joe tolong habiskan.. Anyway, the price is reasonable and berbaloi makan situ.

Steak El Paso

Mexican Salad.. comes wih the steak

To my hubby, Happy Birthday Sayang!! Sorry didn't surprise you with a gift. Why? Sebab all the gift ideas that I have in my mind, kena consult Joe dulu sebab tak reti nak pilih... Haha.. Hope you'll find your gift soon, so that you can continue taking quality piccas of us and our little princesses.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABA!!!

WE LOVE YOU ALWAYS!!!

Football Fantasy

2009-08-25T22:55:00.002+01:00

Our wish came true.. Well, one of our wishes, at least.. Hehe.. Last Sunday me and hubby went to watch one of the EPL matches.. Fulham vs Chelsea..
We were quite lucky to get the tickets as normally games involving the big 4 is difficult to get.

Please take note that we are not fans of either of the teams!! We are Liverpool supporters!!

Haha.. Yes, yes.. you all must be thinking why we watched the match? Well, of course we prefer to watch Liverpool match, but god knows when we will get to watch their match. Its difficult to get the tickets for Liverpool game. The only way is to purchase the tix under opponents quota. So on a bright sunny Sunday, 2nd day of Ramadhan, we headed out to Craven Cottage for our first taste of EPL.

Outside the Stadium, one of the team just arrived, but we couldn't see a thing, nor were we sure which team it was.

Inside the Stadium while waiting for the match to start

Chelsea players doing their warm ups

Cech

Terry

The atmosphere was different to any of the games that we have attended before. In prior years, we have attended the games played at bukit jalil stadium involving Man U as well as Brazil. However none of the games had the ambience of this game that we attended. Fans from both set of teams were singing and chatting throughout the game. The loudest was probably Chelsea(honestly we could only hear Chelsea fans singing as we sat in their section).

The game was about to kick off

Lampard

Drogba

The game however was ok, Drogba scored the first game and Anelka the second. Since Chelsea controlled the midfield, Fulham didn't really have a look in. Cech had nothing to do apart from defend a couple of corners and that was it. We were however very impressed with Drogba and Anelka as both of were speedy and well built athletes. Drogba was a live wire as he gave the defence a torrid time. From the Fulham team, the most impressive performer on that day was Hangeland. He was at least about 6 foot 6 inches and from far you could see that he was a big lad. We think he has a long future in EPL, and it will be a matter of time before one of the big 4 teams come in and swoop in for him.

After the final whistle blew, we were sort of addicted to the atmosphere. Can't wait for Liverpool to come and play Fulham and hopefully we get to sit on the away section so that we could sing You'll Never Walk Alone with the other Liverpool fans.

Ancelloti

Ballack

Salam Ramadhan

2009-08-22T09:03:00.005+01:00

Ramadhan Mubarak is here again. This is our 3rd Ramadhan in London..

Wishing all our beloved families and Muslim friends and readers

"Selamat Menyambut Ramadhan and Selamat Berpuasa".

Italia ci siamo!! (Part3)

2009-08-15T22:58:00.001+01:00

Saturday 11/07/09

It was our last day in Venice. Seriously, tak puas bercuti kat Venice nie. Should have stayed longer *sigh*. We left early as we had to catch our train at 10.45am. Me and hubby did not get enough sleep last night bcoz Qistinna had rashes at some parts of her body (which we thought was heat rash). She couldn't sleep well. She cried a few times until she vomited. And then later Arianna was vomiting as well but i think she overdosed milk. So, there goes our sleep. ;)

We rode the water bus for the last time. So sedih okay.. We arrived at the train station a bit early, so we hung out near the station and walk around the station area. On another sour note our train was delayed for about 15minutes.

Submarine

On the train, we were hoping that d kids will be asleep as both of us were too sleepy to entertain them. But dua2 tue mata celik besar.. No sign of tiredness. Arianna was playing 'peek a boo' with other passengers, tapi bila orang tue tegur, malu2 kucing laks.. Aiyo, apada.. Qistinna was busy doing her own activity i.e talking, drink coke, playing with the bottle etc.. We took turn to sleep. D kids after 2 hours of journey, then only they slept. When Qistinna woke up from her sleep, we noticed that her face was red than before. We thought it was because her face was pressing hard againts the chair. An hour later, we realised that the rashes had become worse.

Qistinna before naik rash

The moment we arrived at Rome Termini Station we headed straight towards the pharmacy. I went inside with Qistinna and Abah. Others waited outside.

Oh my god, it was so difficult to communicate with the Italians as not many of them speak English. I asked the pharmacist for medicine/lotion for the rash. She didn't understand what I was saying until she saw Qistinna. Then only she showed me the lotion, but she was reluctant to give it to me. She comes out from the counter and go towards Qistinna and said something in Italian to me. Then suddenly she raised her voice and said something in a mix languange that Qistinna's condition is serious on top of which she was holding her hand against her waist and later started waving her hand like how our mother would be pissed off at us. And she was like lecturing me said that I should bring her to a hospital straightaway ..... Then she called another pharmacist and both of them spoke in Italian with each other and macam cakap something pasal me.

So we decided to bring Qistinna to a hospital after we check into our apartment. We took a cab to the hospital, and straight "pronto soccorso" aka emergency services. Even then when we arrived, there were numerous pronto soccorso around the hospital and mind you the compound was enormous. Finally after searching for about 20 minutes we found the paediatric pronto soccorso. As we entered the emergency services room, the first thought on both of our minds was, how do we explain her symptoms to the nurse....mula la kitaorng bergaru tangan badan to demonstrate.. hahaha..

The funny part of it all was when the nurse asked, "You speak english?''....but before that Joe had already asked "para ingles?"and she said no...hampeh tul.....We waited for about 1/2 hour before our turn came.... Inside the doctors room was another round of demonstrating as there were 2 doctors , a senior and junior doctor... The senior doctor memang no para ingles, while the yound doctor tue ada la speak broken english, luckily the doctor had a computer and used a Google translator...hahahha...memang klakar la part tue....True to our suspicion memang Qistinna ada allergic reaction to food but tak tau apa yg dia allergic tue...

The doctor gave her some medicine to consume and was told to wait for another 2 hours for observation to see if the rashes had gone away....While waiting for the doctor to see her again, she complained that she was hungry and wanted some food.... Joe set out and walked around 4-5 blocks but only to find that the shops were closed as it was already 7pm...Even the hospital cafe was closed..sigh...... After walking around for about an hour Joe returned empty handed and qistinna was furious.... Joe went out again but only as far as the garden at the hospital as he didn't know where else to look for food and waited out the time until the doctor called again so that they can release her and bring her back to the apartment where food was waiting for us.....

Joe msg me and said that he was going to check the Metro line nearby to see which route we need to take back to the apartment....as it turns out there was a food vending machine inside the station!!...Joe pun beli la air juice and potato chips and brought it back to us....When qistinna was eating the chips, the young doctor came out and shook his head and hands and said "no chips!!"...basically he said no junk food for the next couple of days... He released us and gave us some prescription for Qistinna to help with the allergies.......Took the metro and headed towards the main termini station as our apartment was nearby......

Fuhhh....what a day, looking back it was quite an experience for us...There were some moments where we didn't know whether to cry or to laugh....Nonetheless the experience will remain etched in our memories forever...should have taken a picture at the hospital, but we were to eager to head back to our apartment after a long and tiring day......Tomorrow our Rome odyssey begins!!

Poor My Baby

2009-08-12T16:26:00.004+01:00

I had been sleeping alone for 12 nights to avoid others from getting infected. Hubby and Qistinna sleeps in the living room and little Arianna sleeps with my mum.

But of course I can't avoid Qistinna totally. She always comes to me. Tolak dia pun, nnti dia datang balik (haha, jahatnya mama tolak dia). She did come to my bed a few nights, crawled next to me and sleep with me till morning. Those are the things that can't be avoided, as she is big enough to make her own decision to sleep with me but not big enough to listen to what her Baba says.. haha.. Cakap 'tak boleh tido ngan mama, mama sakit' pun dia buat dunno jer.. ;)

As for Arianna, I didn't even touch her for 12days. But... she still get the pox.. *sigh*.. Yesss.. my little baby got the pox.. 2 days ago.. Pity her. Penat jer tido sorang2 dalam bilik, haha..

I hope Qistinna won't get the pox as she already had her jab in Malaysia before we came here.

Hope little Arianna won't be cranky.. So far she's behaving fine and active as usual..

Italia ci siamo!! (Part2)

2009-08-09T21:05:00.000+01:00

Friday 10/07/09

Our first pit stop for the day was San Marco Square. Its just 7mins away from our apartment. Since Qistinna yesterday showed sign that she malas nak jalan. Kejap kejap 'I'm tired', 'I'm tired' jer and berebut ngan adik nak duduk dlm stroller. So, we used d baby carrier to carry Arianna (nasib baik terfikir nak bawa). Bukan main suka si kenit tue dlm carrier. Hehe.. Owh, the weather? Very hot!! Of course its not as hot as Malaysia, but compare from where we came from, mmg panasla.

So we walked around San Marco. Looked through all the interesting shops. Most of it selling souvenirs. The square was huge and there were plethora of shops and restaurants. There were small stalls selling souvenirs in the middle too but i think they were overpriced. Dalam tengah round2 tue, boleh terserempak dgn Melayu.. :)

Then we went to HardRock Cafe (a must go place for all of the cities that we visit!). As usual bought t-shirts for both of us.

Aaahhh.. The Gondolas..

Then we rode on the water bus towards Rialto Market. I love going through the Grand Canal as the view was breathtaking.

Rialto Market, another tourist attraction, is the place where the locals get their fresh stocks of fish, seafood, veggies, fruits, etc.. It also has a dry market where there were plentiful of souvenir shops. As for souvenirs, if you ask me, here is slightly cheaper than San Marco as well as abundance of choice too.

Rialto Bridge

Rialto Market

Looking for nice souvenirs..

After spending couple of hours & couple of €€ as well, hehe, we decided to walk to San Marco. Of course we can take the water bus, but why not explore d place by walking, right?? It took us almost an hour ++ to walked back. Well of course there were lots of stopping due to tiredness + melayan kerenah dua budak kecik nie, and some window shopping.. ;)

Originally we wanted to go to Murano Island since we had time (although it was not in the itinerary). But we had to cancelled the plan since Abah got a headache and the last boat to Murano was 4.45pm (it was already 4.15pm at that time). Takut nnti pergi ke sana, takde boat nak balik je. So, Abah went back to apartment to get some rest and us went to explore nearby area.

OOooh, behind the San Marco there were lots of shopping alleys. Most of the branded boutique was here and resembled Sloane Street. I did go into Gucci & Prada, but sadly i didn't buy anything bcoz its expensive. I rather wait and buy during sale in the UK. Lagi murah & puas hati.

Look at this huge cruise ship..

We headed back to our apartment and rested our aching knees for a while. Then me, Joe n Qis went out again to enjoy d night view. Well not really night since its summer, so 8pm still cerah. Tak dapatla nak tunggu sampai gelap, penat eh..

Italia ci siamo!! (Part1)

2009-08-06T20:15:00.003+01:00

Wohoo.. We've been waiting for this holiday for ages!! Finally the day has arrived!!

Please take note that this holiday event happened last month.

Thursday 09/07/09

We left our house as early as 3.00am. Our usual cab driver, Osman had already waited for us to take us to Stantead. Our flight was at 6.30am so we checked in and and waited to board the flight.

Arrived at Treviso Airport around 9.30am. We took shuttle bus from Treviso to Piazzale Roma Bus Station. During the journey we pass through Treviso Town and the Mainland. Dapatla tengok scenery. Around 11.30am we arrived our destination..

Buongiorno Venezia!!

Huhu.. Excitednya. Okay, now starts our interesting journey. Which way to go?? We followed the crowd and saw the sign that says Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari. Okay that is in our itinerary. So we followed the sign until we reached the canal and a bridge. Uh oh, bags, kids, stroller, bridge?? Owh we have to drag all our hand luggage as we do not know where to keep them. We can only check in our apartment at 3pm and it's still 3hrs away. So, kenala angkut everywhere.

We made our way towards dei Frari. Mind you there's so many small alleys/paths that are not in the map. Google map pun tak boleh harap sangat. And the road sign has worn off which made it more difficult to read. We stopped a few times to look at the map, last we all hentam saje jalan. Tak jumpa pun dei Frari. We decided to go to Santa Margharita instead, so that we can rest there after penat turun naik bridge.

Jual fruits and veggies pun dalam boat.. cool kan?

Venice is really a beautiful city. U cannot find similar place like Venice elsewhere as it is totally different. Lots of interesting shops along the small paths. The sight of the canals, bridges, gondolas.. Aaahhh, so beautiful and romantic!!

We managed to find a place to rest at Campo S.Margharita. Penatnye ya amat + with the hot weather lagi la cepat penat. This place is like a small village, with lots of local shops and restaurants. It is a University area. We saw some students doing some bullying to their juniors (i.e forced to sing, drink, throw water, etc). Its so cool to see these locals activities. We stayed there for about an hour, then we continued with our walk.

Since the place is near our check-in area, we tried our luck to check-in a bit early. Yesss, nasib baik diorg kasi.. Lega.. But still its a long way to go since our apartment is on the other side of Venice. We have an option whether to take water bus or to walk.. Of course we took the water bus. No way nak jalan kaki for 45mins with the bags..

We walked back to the bus station, find the water bus, buy tickets, off we go. Wooo... so beautiful. We were on the Grand Canal. Riding on the water bus along the Grand Canal. Oooo, feels so good. Water bus, gondolas were everywhere. People crossing the canals to get to the other side. Journey about 45mins, tapi rasa macam kejap jer..

Dalam water bus

One of the water bus stop

We reached at S.Marco-S.Zaccaria stop. We went straight to our apartment, dah nak patah belakang dah carry bebudak nie + stroller + bags. Lepak for awhile in the apartment, then we went out again. This time only me, hubby, qistinna & arianna. My parents nak rilex kat apartment, tak larat nak keluar. We hung out near S.Zaccaria, tak larat nak jalan jauh2. It was already 6.30pm and most of the stalls they were already packing to close. We tried the most famous food in Italy, which is gelato a.k.a ice-cream. Oohhh, its so yummy and sooo, dairy.. Delicious!! One of the tips that we got was, once you are in Italy, act like an Italian.. that is eat lots and lots of gelato. ;)

We snaped a few photos, then went back to apartment. Had some dinner and off to bed.

Wembley Cup

2009-08-05T15:40:00.004+01:00

Last week me and hubby went to watch FC Barcelona's game at Wembley Stadium. It was our first time watching football game after 2years+ of stay in London.

The game was between FC Barcelona and Al-Ahly (Winner of African Champions League).

Stadium tak penuh pun, and no cheering from Barcelona's fans. Only Al Ahly's fans jer yg very cheerful siap bawak gendang tue. Although Barca did not sent their first team, but the first half we saw some of their main players in action like Abidal and Bojan. And during second half Messi was playing, wohooo!! Henry did not play at all, but he did do some training before the game starts, so dapatla tengok his face clearly and snaps a few photos. Sayang that they didn't allow DSLR in the stadium. Bawa compact camera jer. Quality gambar tak beshh... :(

Henry doing some training with his coach and teammates.

Messi in action.

It was a superb game. Barcelona won 5-1.

We decided to stay on for the 2nd game since the ticket allow us to watch both games. 2nd game was between Tottenham Hotspur and Celtic. The crowd were more lively than previous game. Celtic fans were so energetic, cheering their teams. We stayed until 1st half and then off we go, since our intention was to watch Barcelona game which have been fulfiled.

So, next in our list... EPL games!!

Allergy??

2009-08-02T09:55:00.001+01:00

It started with a headache a few days and slight fever in between.. I made my way to the GP to check what is wrong with me.. Doc. said everything seems ok.. I was asked to do blood test, dgn muka cuaknya I said ok (maklumlah takut dgn jarumkan). After trying for the 1st time, doc xjumpa my vein, 2nd time, tak jumpa juga, 3rd time , still tak jumpa. Hampeh punya doctor!! Kita dah la takut jarum, and sakit pula tue bila cucuk 3 kali xdpt darah. Last2 he asked me to go to the hospital to do blood test.. As for my headache, he prescribed me with a medicine which is stronger than panadol.

So, I went home, rilex jap.. Around 2pm I went to Hammersmith Hospital with Abah and Qistinna. Se-round lagi lemah lutut nak kena amek darah. Hehehe.. At the hospital, the doctor has no problem finding my vein and within 1minute dah settle. Mmg doctor kat GP tue tak reti buat kerja. After everything is settle, we went home, I took the medicine and terus tido. Later that night, masa my mum tengah masak, my mum tanya 'Kenapa tiba2 naik jerawat nie?', i replied 'Biasala tue kdg2 jerawat naik'. And the next morning tgh siap2 nak pergi kerja, i perasan that my muka ada few new jerawat but still tak syak apa2, so i went to work as usual.

Bila sampai office, my colleague tegur 'What happenned to your face?' and i said just some new jerawat coming out. She said this is no jerawat, it looks more like an allergy. What??? Allergy?? She gave me her mirror and much to my horror, the so called pimples are all over my face now!! And its really bad!! Aarrghhh.. I almost screamed when I saw my face. Quickly I called GP and described to him what happenned. I suspect that it was from the medicine that he prescribed to me earlier. Doctor said no need for me to see him, just go to pharmacy and buy Piriton allergy tablets. I informed my boss that I had to take sick leave again and went home.

After taking Piriton a few times, still no sign of healing. So the next morning, I went to see GP again. When the doctor saw me, he said 'You are not having an allergy, you are having chicken pox'. What????? Chicken pox, are you serious?? You gotta be kidding me!! Haiya, dah tua baru nak kena.

So, here I am now, being quarantine at home for at least 1 week (could be longer). Nothing much I can do almost everything takleh sentuh takut berjangkit to my kids. So i take this opportunity to do some blogging la kan... :-)

New User

2009-08-01T15:16:00.006+01:00

Hi peeps, this is my first time using blogspot.
So, please bear with me as i'm trying to understand how to use this blog completely.
Will blog soon, bye..