MERDEKA...MERDEKA...MERDEKA.....

SELAMAT HARI MERDEKA...TO ALL MALAYSIAN...:D

my dad have been telling me that the telly is all out on this year 50th merdeka celebration....im sure it will be super grand and the traffic is gonna be horrid!...i myself have never been to any merdeka celebration....not very patriotic am i...but i am truely proud of our country malaysia...esp when ure away from home..u tend to feel more patriotic then when ure actually in malaysia..sad but true...these days everytime i see the ad for malaysia `truly asia' on telly...i get abit emotional..no wonder everyone are flocking our country coz it really is beautiful and the ad is amazing is very inviting..makes me wanna get on the 1st flight back to kl!

since its being merdeka and all...i realise theres so much that i have forgotten from our sejarah lessons in school...mind u my sejarah was bad..i think it was C6 for SPM..kekeke but i like history...just never good at exams...teehee...:D.

thanks to wikepedia...i found this page that refreshes my memory on how malaya became malaysia......how it was a struggle that a bunch of great peeps did so that we all can have a better future and place we can called our own...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hari_Merdeka

im sure theres alot of peeps enjoying the fireworks...or stuck in traffic rite this minute or even payed super high cover charge to party in club to celebrate our MERDEKA DAY....which ever way u decide to do it....just take a min to remember our sejarah and think of what our ancestors did for us to get to where we are now.....

i miss malaysia....uwaaaaaa!!!!!

MERDEKA MERDEKA MERDEKA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

my baby has arrived!!

got my super baby today....after waiting at smoke filled room an fight thing with 3 huge lalats for 2.5 hrs..i finally brough it back home....the screen is soo big....yes..i am abit jakun today...never have i had something so high tech as this...mind u dont even own an `ipod ' .... and nak jadik can cerita ....bubbles and i was almost homeless today after my driver drove off with my bag which had everything in it...keys...mobile...my red wallet..a pacifier and some playtex..i was worried mostly for bubbles..and oh yeah he also has my other baby in teh trunk!!.....nasib baik ader sorang mamat gave me his phone so that i could call my phone in the car....after calling 6 times....my driver came back with my stuff...alhamdullilah..kalau tak tido kat taman la me and safeia.

no pain no gain

finally did it, dragged myself to the gym (after 3 month of lounging and parking my A** in fornt of the TV) and its sooo painful...ouch!!! i have never done circuit training coz i always thot that it will be too painful..yes im a chicken of the aftermath of excercising..but today after doing it, its not soo bad after all and i feel pretty good despite the pain, i think i will give it a try again!
Next class im gonna try is the scary spinning class on wednesday...let see how painful that will be...wink*

the waiting is almost over!!

finally after almost 1 year, we are getting the keys to our house...and of course start paying the installament...........sigh!!! nonetheless, we are estatic esp me kekeke, if only we are in KL! since i heard the news, i have been having sleepless nites thinking about it and day dreaming on what i wanna do the the house, abit silly i know, esp since we are not going to be living in it but the thot is just sublime...ahhhh the same feeling i had when we got the keys tot the condo. I rememberr after the flat was done up , we visited it for the last time before flying to Cairo and it was avery emotional feeling, it was 1st home together and we had so much dreams and angan angan and now somebody else is going to be living that dream....sad kan? i guess we will be going thru the same thing again with this house...although we havent decided whether to rent or not yet...either way im happy the waiting is almost over!!!!

Now im really looking forward to home for raya!

one of my bestie is house hunting and already having a crisis sigh....its not easy to fine "the house" ..i just wish im there to help her out...

This week mission!

1. Woot woot...my 24inch baby is coming soon, gotta call the shoo tomorrow and hopefully i will get it in a day or two and i gotta acessorize my baby with a chair and a printer!! im so exited! have u seen it?? its a beauty!

2. will be bruning some calories ,the gym in csa and it seems pretty ok, not to big not to small it has all the machines and they have good classes too at affordable price. Tomorrow im going to this circuit training class, its an intro class for peeps who havent been exercising for while...aka moi! let see how that goes and then tuesday its the spinning classes, its like the RPM classes in fitness first. I never go to those, it seems scary and mean to the body...just thinking of it make my muscles ache, the instructor here convince me that spinning is not to bad and i can go at my won pace and of course its good way to get fit and get those buns of steel! so im gonna give it a try.

3. Habis can semua puase yang tertinggal, i miss track how many days that i have ganti been fasting alot already so im gonna fast for 4 more days and hopefully i get it covered!

4.Teach bubbles more vocab - so far she is learning pretty fast, but still "daddy" is no where to be heard. She sometimes calls sharizal "mama" wierd aye! on friday i heard " ape nie" and i was stunned!! and i never heard it again, she probabbly heard i say it and just copied. So cute!
Safeia's vocab list - shoes, mumble ( happy feet),knock knock, nite nite, walk walk, hi, mummy, mama, pooh pooh, fish and the rest is still baby talk.

she teething now...poor baby!!!


5. Finish up my stamp collection project, one more album to go.

6.Try out a gingerbread cake!

this will keep me well occupied for the next 7 days, really looking forward to torturing my lazy muscles!!

Caveman gone again..sob..sob

caveman cameback home from work yesterday at almost midnite and my brave caveman took the "bus lalat" ( tiny little van busses very busuk!!! ) home, when he reached home he almost looked like a "lalat" i couldnt stop laughing...poor thing i did pity him though so i fed him with some nasi panas and kari ayam and he was all better again. He left again at 5am this morning and i miss him already.....:(

one of our earliest photos together....when were just work mates

Thursday nite dream.

I had a dream last nite, it was a pleasent one!!! i get to be with my fav peeps in my dream and left me with "a i miss u even more" feeling when i woke up, in fact i didnt want to wake up from my dream if not fror bubbles, screamming " mummy.....mummy.....mummy" from her crib and it was already 10am and i have to prepare my caveman packed lunch today since its friday! i triedd to close my eyes again, but the dream was gone and not to be continue.....

i dreamt that all of us was in sitiawan for a reunion ..... and we ended up on some bizarre advanture macam charlie's angel pun ader gak. I dont rememberr all the details but i remember us running from someone and solving a mystery and we did it and all this happened in zaila's, black mobil!!!! we were about to go to pangkor to celebrate when i heard....mummy mummy mummy....end of my dream!

zaila dreamt that she and elise came to cairo to visit me and i left them at the Pyramids...kekekekekeke...with the unta's?????

Easy Aglio Olio

I was watching Rachael Ray yesterday and she made aglio olio, my fav pasta coz its not complicated but yummss....ive tried making this loads of time but theres always something that missing in the taste and now i know what it is!!! anchovies, well not the ikan bilis kering but the ones that comes in a bottle or small little can in oil, i neverr noticed them in KL but im sure they are everywhere!

So i tried it today and im in heaven of olio, sedap giler macam kat kedai! im making some more tonite for my caveman to go with some seabass and tomatoes, sounds like a good combination aye!

For those who loves aglio olio here's the recipe:-

Aglio Olio

1. Salt
2. Spaghetti ( for 4 peeps )
3. 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
4. 5 anchovy fillets with red pepper flakes (if you can't find these, use regular anchovies and add 1/2 tablespoon of crush cili flakes )
5. 6-8 large cloves garlic ( chopped to tiny bits or grated )
6. 1/2 cup finely chopped flat-leaf parsley
7. Freshly ground black pepper


-Boil some water and add in some salt, once the water started to boil add in your pasta and cook until they are ala-dante
- In a deep pan, heat up the olive oil in medium heat
- Add in the garlic , anchovies and cili flakes and fry them together until the anchovies has melted.. watch your fire so that it doesnt burn the garlic
- When your pasta is almost ready, add 1 cup of the boiling water from the pasta and add it in the pan, then add in the pasta in the fan too.
-Add some salt,pepper & parsley, taste the sauce.
-Tosss the pasta around in the pan so that it can soak up the sauce from the pan for a min or so.

and thats your aglio olio ready to eat!

easy peasy!

Sambal Ikan bilis Mama for Miss Poe

Darlin' as requested here goes:-

Ingredients to blend ( u can use this for all sambal chicken, eggs etc )

Cili Paste:-

6 medium size shallots or 8 small shallots
4 cloves of garlic
5 slice of ginger
2 handful of cili kering ( depending on how hot u want it to be- my standard is 2 handful)
Belacan - shrimp paste ( up to you, i usually put 1 1/2 tablespoon)
water ( depending how thick u want your paste to be )

1 noodle bowl of ikan bilis ( cleaned and semi fried)
Oil ( u need quite alot of oil for the frying )
6 to 8 tablespoon of cili paste
1 big onion ( sliced )
2 tablespoon asam jawa
a few asam keping if u like
2 teaspoon of sugar
2 stalk of lemongrass ( for sambal chicken )
water
salt & pepper to taste

1.Fry ikan bilis to semi-crisp
2. Using the same oil from the ikan bilis, fry cili paste ( u need quite alot of oild for this )
Keep frying until, u see all the oil resurface on top of your sambal ( you can remove some oil at this point )
3.Add the asam jawa and some water and let it fry somemore
4. Add in your ikan bilis and miss all together
5. Add your sugar and if u need more sour taste add in the asam keping
6.Add your slices onion in and mix and fry everything together
7. Taste and add some salt if needed.

Dah siap...:) it took my alot of tries to get it as good as my mama's sambal, im getting closer now!!

The trick is to make sure your sambal is really garing before u add in any water or asam jawa tapi jangan sampai hangit- thats y u need alot of oil.

Let me know what how it turn out!

Prince William is proposing!!!!

News from MTV......Prince William has asked permission to propose to Kate Middleton!!!!! Cant he wait for my safeia!!!!!!!

Elise is getting married!!!!

I was the 1st one to take the plunge and have no regrets....so far and i hope i will never any regrets!!! :) dated for 6 months , then got engaged and 6 month later i was married ...and then 6 month laterr i found out i was preggie with bubbles..thanks to the morning after pill that did not work it was an accident that im not sorry!!! being marriedd is blissful and satisfying! I dont think being married has changed me from who i was before, yes im a mummy and a wife, but im still the same person maybe slight flabbier in the tummy ( still working on it !!) and a inch or two fuller but hey im happy!!

And now my bestie is getting married...yippie....awesome innit!!! winks**.....and my other bestie is also on the same track but still to be TBA!!!....hopefully by mid 2008 all 4 of us are married..wooooooo thats sounded soo freakish all of us being married...kekekekeke.....definately the list is now tonggang terbalik, but hey alist is just a list!

im soo excited!!!! lis..im your cheap labour from cairo bebeh!!!! if theres anything u need or want let me know ok, i know its abit susah that im here but no worries i will still be your free labour... just make sure u tell me 6 months in advance ok so i can plan my vacation!!!! ........and i really should do it in penang, it will just be soo fab and romantic, the beach the seebreeze the wave crashing and all that what moree can u ask for...and it will be just fab fab!!! BRIBE if u have too kekekkekeke....Malaysia Boleh!!!

I have link this site, full of beautiful wedding cake, poe's cake is also there!!!
http://www.nowpublic.com/node/609830/footage/list?page=3

peeps...we should all leave our day jobs and set up a wedding planner thingie??? what do u think??????

What happened yesterday???

helllu....my ladees, i see that u guys have been bust yesterday huh, i opened my emailed and BAM!!! lima puluh tiga email....u ladees have been spamming mymailboxl..with good email!!!!!! Yesterday was spent melayaning bubbles, cooking....tomyam and green curry seddaaapppp !!! and yes caveman is back hehehhehe woot woot!!!! and what else did i do......hmmm...basically just melepak with bubbles, rounds of happy feet and i love u , u love me..yes BARNEY!!! she is crazy about barney! and oh yeah....went to a dinnerr party at the country club.....hehehe..man i sound like one of the desperate housewives!

talking about desperate housewives, i have been watching that lately, i dont know how way behind am i now...but the drama neverends lepas satu satu, macam macam but its entertaining tough i cant stop thinking that susan's daughter be beginning to be like her. Poe, you watch desperate housewife rite??? where are they now??? im at when bree fell down the ladder....

yesterday caveman asked me how much vacation do i have left....sigh and i had flashback of stress and work sigh!!!!! well i have 3 more month to go before i have to technically go back to work and i think my coming back to work date is the 23 dec 2007....arghhh i hate this!!!! im in dilemma..to be honest i have been thinking about it but i've just been putting it off ...its bad but i really dont know what to do. I love the fact that im at home with bubbles and i have the freedom to do anything i want at anytime...something i havent had for along time and its a great feeling but i also miss working and being out there u know....Sometimes i feel like im missing out on stuff..workwise!!!! ......i wish someone can just tell me what to do.....sigh!!!! ....i wish ill wake up one day and i have the answer......arghhhhhhh tolong tolong........to be decided..

Song of the hour

Safeia is finally taking her nap and i decide to listen to one of the many old songs that i have on my lappie. This song played and i was suddenly had a flashback !!!! and good and sad feelings came over me.....sigh...those were the days!

Dont Stop Dancing - Creed

At times life is wicked and I just can't see the light
A silver lining sometimes isn't enough
To make some wrongs seem right
Whatever life bringsI've been through everything
And know I'm on my knees again
But I know I must go on
Although I hurt I must be strong
Because inside I know that many feel this way

Children don't stop dancing
Believe you can flyAway...away

At times life's unfair and you know it's plain to see
Hey God I know I'm just a dot in this world
Have you forgot about me?
Whatever life brings
I've been through everythingAnd know I'm on my knees again
But I know I must go on
Although I hurt I must be strong
Because inside I know that many feel this way

Children don't stop dancing
Believe you can flyAway...away

Am I hiding in the shadows?
Forget the pain and forget the sorrows
But I know I must go on
Although I hurt I must be strong
Because inside I know that many feel this way

Children don't stop dancing
Believe you can flyAway...away

Am I hiding in the shadows?
Are we hiding in the shadows

A morning at Al-Azhar Park

we (marie & i) took the babies to al-azhar park again today to that they can run/ crawl around and behave like kid, we left at 9am and spend the whole morning there, us mummies and the babies got alittle bit of tan!it was really humid today, we had just started walking and we all drench in sweat.....so we decided to sit on the green.

Al-Azhar park is probably the nicest park and not to mention the most well kept place u can find in Cairo.Smack in the middle of Salah Saleem Street, the park has an amazing view of the Citadel and most of cairo, in a good day with clear skies u can even see the Pyramids. Its open from 9 to late nites everyday and its usually full of poeple esp on Fridays and Saturdays (the weekends here in Egypt), i imagine that the park will be really nice at sunset and at nite. There's a little trams that goes around the park if ure tired of walking, the park is huge, there are some nice restaurants and little cafe where u can eat and sit down for drinks and u can even have a birthday parties here. Maybe for safeia's 2nd birthday party??? we shall see.....

i saw alot of malaysian students from al-azhar uni today, more then usual. How do i know they are from malaysia??? easy, they will walk pass us and whisper something in melayu...like comel nyer baby too or aku rase tu org melayu...thinking i wont understand! Bizaare but true, maybe next time ill just tegur them...they wassup karipaps!!!!....or maybe assalamualaikum dek will more appropriate.

we cameback home at noon and both babies were super tired and slept on the way back to Digla, even the mummies were abit sleepy!

I had fun today, i think the park is a well spent 5 L.E. Next time we try to bring the daddies pulak, im sure they will love it! and also try out the restaurants.

I didnt take my camera with me this time, but if u wanna click on my flickr site, they are some pictures of the park there!
http://www.alazharpark.com/index.htm


Enjoy the rest of the weekend!!
Muahsssss

New shoes!!!

i heard this song today by Paolo Nutini "New Shoes" and now im addicted to it...been humming hummming to it like i did with that particular GYm Class Heroes song!


Who is this Paolo Nutini ??? and how come i havent of him before, i think he's pretty hot...someone i would date 10 yrs ago when i was crazy with rockstars!



i want new shoes toooo...uwaaaaaaa!!!!!!

Goreng keropok using the Microwave

wanna munch on crispy keropok ikan without the grease, try using the microwave, jadik!! Then then we have been using the microwave to goreng keropok, of course its not the same a frying less fluffly but it does the job and healthy!

my dinner for the next 2 days is done, sambal goreng ayam...i wish i can makan now, tapi puase 5 more days to ganti before ramadhan start.....my sticky pudding is blooming away in the oven ...i think the bekas might be abik kecik so now its balloning like a mushroom! nonetheless, as long as it taste good who cares!

its gonna be another weekn just me and safeia sigh!!! i hate it sha stays in town too long and then leave, its just harder to get back to the regime of him not being here u know...zaila u will soon know what im talking about.

safeia gotta pressie yesterday from sarah, its a "meiyo "( arabic word for swimsuit ) and its bright orange, she wore it yesterday and pretended the tub was Marina ..... :) hehehehhehe and my maid just told me that she uses hot pants to swim..lawak laaa


i can smell my cake!!!! lapar lapar lapar....

August Reading List

1.I am muslim - Dina Zaman

- Very interesting read, there is no better way to describe the melayu in malaysia like Dina Zaman did.

2.Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows- JK Rowlings

- hahahaha harry didnt die!!!! this last book is acomplex read, a lot of flashback and u really need to remember what happenned in the previous books.

3.The Yacoubian Building - Alaa Al Aswany
- I was mesmerised by this book, in a way it kinda makes me wanna live in this building and see all this for myself. Apparently this building does exsist in downtown cairo and the peeps in the book are all from real charactors which makes it more interesting..

4. Twins - Marcy Dermansky

-Readably, unless u have nothing else to read...otherwise not recommended.

i found this excellent bookshop down at Rd9, Maadi. They sell 2nd books and brand new books too and if u want to resell the 2nd book u buy, u get some money back!!! its a good concept rite.

http://www.bookspotonline.com/

Yummy Sticky Dates Pudding - Aust Women's Weekly

I made this for din din on day and it was heaven, it didnt look that good but its tasted really yum.....i think ill make this again today!

Its really easy and quick to prepare

cake:-
1 1/2 cup seeded dried dates
1 1/4 cup of boiling water
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
cooking oil or butter for greasing your tin
3/4 cup brown sugar
60 grm butter
2 eggs
1 cup self raising flour

caramel sauce:-
1 cup brown sugar ( this can be very sweet, if u want u can reduce this to 3/4 cup )
100g butter
300 cream

Cake:-

1.Put the dates, water and soda in your processor and just leave it for 5 mins to soften the dates
2.Add brown sugar and chopped butter to the dates mixture and process until dates are all chopped.
3. Add eggs, then flour and process untill all ingredient combined.
4.Pour pudding in your tin and cook for 50 check if cake is cooked and if its still soft add another 10 min or so until cook.
5. Cool in on the cake rack and ready to eat.

caramel sauce:-

1.Put in the sugar and butter in a saucepan over high heat and stir in the cream and keep stirring until u get your caramel sauce.

Top 10 Eye Candy - bags bags bags

me miss shopping....theres not much shopping scene here in cairo and if there are u will pay double of what u will usually in KL or even other part of the world, i saw a pari of ALdo shoes for L.E 700 buck just last week and the same shoes was selling at RM399 in KL now i regret not getting it arghhhhhh!!!!


peeps u knows me well, knows my fetish for hangbags ...i just love em and i sort of have a list of must have bags in my head hehehehe besides my for my asb savings , i was working for my bags :D. So since im not working anymore its gonna be tuffer or will take longer to complete my list! so to sooth my temptations to bags i have been surfing for these gorgeous eye candy bags.....



1.this Dylan Kooba bag, is my top eye candy unfortunately not sold here!! : http://www.kooba.com/pl/c/1.html



2.lulu guinness funky lips and lipstick clutch

http://www.luluguinness.com/lips_lipstick_small_pollyanna_clutch.php


3. I cant run away from purple and this is such a cute little thing to have dangling on your wrist.



http://www.luluguinness.com/couture_penelope_aubergine_small.php





4. i use to walk pass Chloe in KLCC just to look at this particular handbang, even tried it on a few times and every time i pass the shop the shopgirl will give me this wicked " bile nak beli" look . It was too ex and its kinda look similar to my Marc Jacob.



5. The birkins...the bag of all bag and probabbly a bag i will never ave....its soo freaking ex but its such a eye candy..u have them in so many color and i particularly like this apple green birkins




http://www.hermes-birkin.com/bags.asp?category=Birkin&id=876&page=1

6. Boogie bag is my favourite, it goes with everything and it was difficult to chose which color to get coz they all look soo niceeee...i love this paprika boogie


Wish i could have them all......:D

Yummy Foodies

Mama had always asked me help in the kitchen, and me with my laziness will do it with no interest in what is exactly going on, in fact til now i still dont know how to 'siang ikan' esp big fish..hopeless.... i had always been more useful in the washing bay washing the pinggan mangkuk (plate n bowls), really why should i cook when my mama cook delicious food...the sambal ayam, gulai ikan....divine... i miss them more now! So since we moved to the land of the pharoahs i cant run anymore...kekeke..Cairo have some really nice food all the shawarma, khosary, grill meat and chics....but its not something i cant eat everyday and theres too much take away here the KFC and M'Dees here close at 4 am i tell you...so like it or not kene la masak esp if ure married to a typical melayu caveman who needs his rice and sambal...everyday if he can!

ladees.....ive started cooking and it not bad at all kekekekeke.....like what zaila said if ure thrown in the deep end there not turning back!!!

to my dolls ( u know who u are!!! ) ...im gonna use this blog spot as my recipe book at least im sure bubbles will not tear it up!!!! If u have any recipe that i can use just fill it in.

Im not a instant born chef, most of the recipes are from books, the internet and long distant calls to mama in KL!

who are the yummy mummies???

Every mummies are yummy...true???? Of course to the eyes of our loves ones we are the best and we are the yummies but being this yummy mummy thing is full time job! once i found it impossible but it can be done and its all in the head! Like old saying, if u feel good inside, it will shine on the outside so the key is to be happy happy happy!!!


"Glamorous girls who shop and lunch their way through pregnancy, proudly displaying their little bumps like the latest designer handbag. They generally see pregnancy as an opportunity to buy a whole new wardrobe with a team of personal shoppers on hand.Yummy mummies disguise bleary eyes with Gucci sunglasses and recommend pregnancy to female friends as a fabulous way to detox.Of course, they are sensible, and understand motherhood means making sacrifices, like and reducing the 90mm heel on their Prada shoes to sensible 65mm"..there are soo many definition of a yummy mummy.....this is probably close to my heart!!! hahaha...having to swicth from a 4in Lulu Guinness heels ( luv luv luv) to a Melissa Campana pumps ( i recommend this to every mummies, they are super comfy) and to swap a my 12hrs day work to a full time stay at home mum in a foreign country.....im determine to make it work!

http://www.melange4women.com/mecazigzagii.html
http://www.luluguinness.com/

My introduction

My 1st introduction to a yummymummy was from a book by Polly William ' The Rise and Fall of a Yummy Mummy' while was i expecting my little bubbles when i was still abit confuse how motherhood will takeover me, many might think that its a cliche' but this book change my perpestive on motherhood and the fear of motherhood was gone!

Good Read!

Since then ive meet heaps of mummies who are just working it and i must say its not an easy job!

This is not about being a yummy mummy but my journey to the new world of motherhood, homemaker , a wifey , a fren , a sista , a daughter and my true self.......Please God give me strength! Amin