on CARS...
not only on toys but on the book..so if anyone found anything on CARs kot rasa nak sedekah ker buat amal jariah kan, saya amat mengalu-ngalukan...Yer, ni semua collection Khilfi...dier mmg kalau dah suka satu benda over the top abis..ala-ala fabulous abis..:P
over the weekend we managed to check this eatery place. we have heard about the review of the place from few of our friends and I think nothing wrong with an afternoon of a juicy and tender steak.
Oh boy i guess it was super great. We ordered the main course straight away, 1 each for the adults and 2 kids meal. Price wise is slightly more than the usual Chillis, TGIF or Tony Romas but I would say for a change it was great. And the rest let the picture do the talking.
This is a very long post with no picture on it...later i will tepek if i wish to do so..:)
Few days ago I was on YM! with one of my friends and we were talking about wedding preparation. I kind of taken aback as she was saying that I should not worry anything as there's so little things left behind to think and plan as my sisters already kind of have all the details of what and where should she get her wedding attire. And she said as I already settle the bunga pahar and most of the hantaran thingy I should just not too worry about it. After all the wedding is to be held at my home and many of the family members should be there.
That makes me ponder how easy people can put the conclusion as I am like a chicken shit worrying about it. Hmmm...it may sounds simple to some but let me give u an insight how wedding is going to be in my dictionary, suiting it needs that it will be held in my parents house in KT. No fancy whatseemacy grand hall or merak kayangan in the picture.Oh i love that hall, how i wish i have money during my wedding days and had my wedding there.kakakakkakaa..dream on..
but ok, it is totally different the way things happened especially in KL the big city and a wedding in Kampung Padang Midin in kuala terengganu will be. So far the tradition is to has a 1 day back-to-back events. My father loves to keep it in that way and i like it.The akad nikah will be held around 10ish and after akad the groom side will have early lunch and go bck to the hotel (in my case) or their own house(my sister's case). And around 3pm, they will come again for bersanding. By 8pm we are all in normal jeans and tshirt having a splurge getting things in order or melayan tetamu who come late but all cakes has been cut and if u are still kuat its time to hit all the presents and open it and have so much with all relatives around.
It is not like how u see in KL where u go to a wedding now right?
That is point #1. Moving on, to the next things, I normally will be in KT about at least 4 days before at least. It will be a set up of 3 big camp. 1 for the cooking boot camp, and another 1 is the bancuh air+ais boot camp and another 1 is the washing the dishes thingy. We kind of outsource in all the cooking, bancuh air and basuh the dishes but its all outsource to the head of family members or close relatives. My mum's relatives are very good cook.The run catering business like 4-5 of the families.But we do not cater like how u see in KL where on the wedding days, caterer will come and set the table put the buffet sets and just pour all the lauk pauk and etc.
here its different. within 1-2 weeks of the wedding my parents will discuss with the appointed cook. Budget will be given to buy the perishables all those onions, chillies, potatoes, chicken, oil, beras and what not. so with that amount the cook will go and buy the stuffs and bring to the camp. same goes to the air department. 1-2 days before the event the cook and their staffs who is actuallly anak-beranak kami juga will come and do all the peeling and etc. frying the chicken and so many gazillionth thing. The night before the wedding a fresh cow meat freshly slaughtered and cut into pieces will be brought in and will be wash and started to be mix and perap for the right gulai taste and start to tumis and 'mati air ' nok bagi daging jd lembut la nih. and normally this team will also cook gazillionth lauk pauk tganu like ikan singgang, sayur labu with lots of daun kesom, buat sambal belacan and many more in the 1-2 days before wedding to cater for people coming in-out of the house.
Come on wedding day as early as 7am, the first batch of nasi minyak will be cook to cater for the 1030am makan.2nd batch will be in to cater for 1pm troupe and normally we do have the 3rd batch for the late comers. So just imagine if we do count per head/pax catering. giler botak ok. During my wedding there were about close to 3000 people coming in.Gilos tak kalah VIP kawin.Ta muat dewan merak kayangan ok. 3 kali masak and all licins.I live in kampung. Orang kampung saja baper ramai.Thats how massive it is. That is on masak masak thingy.
Let me tell you what happened in the house. This is truly something priceless. My families are not that big i mean the really close knitof us but we are like very very close. So when a big event like this everyone will come back from KL esp. my cousins and all will sleep in our house. Syiok wohhh...Every room is mess but in a smart way. everyone knows what to do and how to clean the mess. Thank God bilik pengantin is downstairs or else pengsan everyone kalau naik atas seeing what mess we are doing. There will be a group who will rebus telur thousands of it and put it in the case. we are truly orthodox in this. We still give telur for those who come.Sorry no fancy expensive rm3 bekas. Giller u nak cari Rm3 bekas for guest 2-3K..And the kids yang pompuan will do the put the sweets in its casing, this one must have for the kiddos kan.
And another corner will be the pelamin guy and his troupe. pelamin to do, fresh flowers to keep in nice shape to ensure it blooms nicely on wedding day, bilik pengantin to siapkan. Another troupe will be the hantaran group. All DIY. Cool kan.Totally refreshing, tiring yet interesting. The kanak2 riang normally will be let loose in front of the field of my house and the just come in asking for drinks and foods. No computer games or internet or anything. truly kampung style.
And kat luar jugak during these time the canopy guys will be busy, setting up canopies, meja makan pengantin, VIP or groom sides area. Ensuring all tpt basuh tgn in place all pasu bunga mama will be in line with the whole setting. And suddenly ada ad hoc work like painting the bricks lah, macam-macam la..syiok la.
And every now and then, my dad will d small discussion.running of iternarary who will do this who will sambut this, who will ammend the traffic and so many more. Lauk pengantin, we learn from my wedding where we are just too ambitious to do our own sampai pukul 4 pg still berjaga, during my sister I outsource to a trusted friends. A day before I will go and send the ikan and the big udang with trays of royal doulton thingymajing and plan by 2 pm on wedding day someone will come and pick it up. genius.
At the last 2 nights, I guess no one sleep. The teenage boys will stayed downstairs lining the pillows in 1 straigth lines and totos too. One will take one each and only the sms-es started and everything. The ladies normally gossiping over the bedsheet, the hantaran, and reminiscing the moments if my mum still around she will do this and that.. I kind of live with that whenever we have any events. Some will do ironing of all the baju kurung,no fancy lacy thingy.We let the bride wear it and we will be in our bestest baju kurung, maxis, kebaya sarat with labuci ker manik ke sulam ker but not those fancy lace like most KL-ites adornes during wedding.No offence it is beautiful but it will be too much in kampung padang midin dictionary. :)
Come the morning, the que to bathroom can be chaos. mad mad chaos. Everyone perut still need to be stuffs.cakes thingy normally kalut on the morning baru nak pick up.Oh we never learn but isnt this all wedding kalut happened. Tak kalut tak rock kan. the kids macam efi aiyo suddenly can be taxing and annoying. But the whole things kena get use kan. And i will meet my sister and put on all the jewellery from my mum and make sure she will look the princess of the day.
and the rest orang cakap history. and I ommit about finding pinggan mangkuk, make sure all relatives dapat tpt tidur, dpt towel, dpt sume bantal, everyone get their breakfast, everyone will get a dose of VIP bunga telur, everyone will get nasi berkat and etc.
And who say I got nothing to worry. And imagine all this in my head. yes I have my dad, I have my other sister, but I am the eldest and I must take this as a lead kan. Curtain tak tukar lagi. kad kawin belum scout kan Ita? And this weekend we will be meeting Kimi kan?
Phuihhh..long entry I know. Sila jangan muntah. And I am not looking for sympathy. I truly enjoy this. I work better under pressure to tell the truth. But I kind of taken aback as people things this is easy. And now we are different. But i guess it may be the same for some of my readers but i dunno, I didnt experience this when my wedding on my husband side in KL was held. I dun get this things to think of. And I normally goes to a normal wedding in KL either at home or hall all nicely done and I guess the manic might not be like what I experience.
we dun have fancy video montage or what but its all in our home sweet home. In the hall where my parents always said it is meant to witness their kids getting married and its meant for one day people will pay their last respects to us. And i guess it serve what they have on mind. Whatever it takes, all wedding will be in our home ground. But what we still has no guts to do is a splash of garden wedding where the past 2 pelamin/canopy guy was so eager to utilize the green field in front of our house.
We'll see about it.
when u are annoyed the normal daily routine can become your enemy.
In my case, updating this blog. I hate it today as when i logged into www.blogger.com and click on New entry I was directed to this page to update my blog. Yeah semua orang maklum i bet. And today I am annoyed seeing me typing the entry in TIMES NEW ROMAN font. I hate TNR font. seriously.
On normal days I will put an effort to click on font and change to Arial but today I could not be bother and now i am annoyed.
Serious cilaka ker apa PMS ker apa kedaung but I am truly annoyed. What is happening to me? and I am still putting a target that I must have dimsum and ikan bakar cicah cili kicap+bawang this week. No matter where and how much will it cost. Gile ke apa citer font and makan. But i am weird and this is my blog and I blog as i wish. :P
Saya hampir jadi gila bila masuk borders tapi cuba refrain from emptying the whole pocket so I settled with this.
Enough to make me happy and the kids too are smiling ears to ears..
I think I do not have specific update for Jakarta and this Bandung trip.
The trip is purely a guilt shopping trip where too much splurging on cottons, telekungs, kids bajus-a lot of them and my stock of lazy pants. :P
But just some key note as many people has asked about this. Jakarta/Bandung is 1 hour behind KL.
Hotel
We stayed in Ascott Jakarta. Very very recommended. Forget about you may face a big longkang but if u got a nice view, you will be facing Grand Indonesia and Kempinski Hotel. And we just booked for Studio room, it comes with king bed size, sofa, complete kitchen with its utilities, big fridge and microwave, washer and dryer, a living room, flat size TV, DVD and many more. It was superb for a good price. Room rate all the same from Agoda.com , asiarooms.com and booking.com but I've booked ours ar asiarooms.com as the other 2 has sold out their takes when I am doing my booking.
Supir
We took supir for our 4 days 3 night stay. Rate was very good. email me for details ok. It covers everything parkir, mobil, gas, toll. :P
Trip arrangement
** plan ur trip carefully. You cant avoid the macet but u can plan to ensure you will not be stuck into it for nothing.**
1st day
We reach JKT early morning like 10am. Checked in and straight to Mayestik for cotton shopping. No need to go to Tanah abang anymore. Mayestik offers gazillionth kain cotton and it was cool. Then we spent the evening in Blok M and settle for dinner at Irm abode and loving it big time. Her house is in Kemang which is close to Blok M already. So it was kind of easy for us.
2nd Day
Bandung day trip. Starts early. Reach BDO just in time to hit Rumah Mode. Spent the whole morning till noon inside it. Had lunch at Garuda and straight to Jalan Dago area for another dose of FO. Those Heritage, Summit, Cascade and Secret. Cukuplah utk saya. Reach JKT at night order room svc very affordable still.
3rd day
Shop for telekung at Thamrin City sebelah Ascott sahaja. Murah banget. Then we went to ITC Kuningan and Ambassador Mall. After that terus kejar pi Senayan Mall. Lunch di situ and settle for the evening in Plaza Indo/Grand Indo till late night. So dptlah another dose of shopping mall secara ala-ala high end sikit. :P no major damage pun. Its expensive but if sale item mmg murah banget. Jeans and slack keje in M&S only rm60. Beat that. Happy makcik.
4th day.
Mmg packing tahap dewa. Dr 1 bag beranak pinak sampai berkotak-kotak. Apa kes. Kids finally terjun pool and we left for airport close to 1pm. 4pm bergerak ke KL. Sampai KLIA 7pm already.
So cukupla kot erk. No major pictures. I dun snap any picture malas sebenarnya. No sight seeing purely melawat kedai. SO agak hina di situ. :P Enjoice this photo collage sajork la k...
All geared up semua....marilah terjah website AA later k...
one was d long overdue picture, the one that was my 31st birthday gift, I owe Datin Sri KS..
And the other one is the anniversary gifts lahhhhh
and so far we have reach this far and here to more years to come sayang..
By the time you guys are reading this, we are already on our impromptu trip to get a different air just in time to celebrate our 7th years wedding anniversary.
Off to the the macet city,JKT but full of surprises and I am officially a millionaire now.. :P. Cant wait to stroll along all those outlets in BDO too.
33 years ago, a beautiful solemnization took place in a little house in KT, in between my handsome father and my gorgeous mom. It was a truly eventful day as I witness from all the pictures nicely in tact at home these days. Its heartbreaking knowing she is now no longer around to cherish this lovely days.
Been very busy at work these days. What is new there..selagi project ICP nih tak beranak kembar, selagi tuh I will be bogged down. Yet looking on the positive side, I prefer to be busy rather than hilang-akal-tak-tau-nak- buat-apa mode in the office. I know at the end of the day I have given my best shot and when things work it is all the hard work all of us had given.
Anyway, on the other note, my brother has confirmed both back-fro tix Osaka-KL-Osaka for hari raya. And that is awesome. Means all of us will be around during Ita's wedding on both our house and the groom side later. I guess I have to put on the wedding planner gear and starts the planning. Alhamdulillah, the experience planning for another impromptu event last 3 years still fresh on my mind. Ian and Nik got married a year after my mom passed away. The engagement was held 10 days before mom left us forever.
And after that the huge burden obviously escalated to the eldest and with the strong foundation that papa still hold and the understanding from everyone around, I guess we made it. It was a gorgeous affair if i can remember perfectly well. I vow to at least that Ita will experience nothing less that what Ian got for her wedding. And I believe my mum will do the same too for both my sisters.
Recap on those beautiful days where I believe my mom was smiling from up above seeing these happy moments...
I kind of know what i want next... :P
I can be weird in my taste of bag, I crave what people dun crave and and sometimes I dun find what people want is appealing to my eyes. But a bag always makes my heart beat faster..and now this baby...seriously single strap, shoulder tote, if it comes in damier, I will be nagging day and night to get it. Its a cross between Galliera and Artsy. Presenting,
Louis Vuitton Monogram Canvas Delightful GM
Lega.
my secret hideout is EBAY and its now becoming more addictive...dang!
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