The passing of our beloved Mokmok

It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of our beloved cat Tamtam aka Mokmok who passed away this afternoon at 1.35pm, 27 Ramadhan, 25th July. He will be missed.

Hari kesebelas Ramadhan: Koleksi gambar lauk untuk iftar setakat ini.

OK, nak kumpulkan gambar lauk yang dimasak untuk iftar tahun ini. Kat rumah lauk-lauk yang kering, berlada, rebus aje yang laku. Kalau bersantan tu, selowww aje orang kat rumah makan. Haritu buat ayam padprik pun tak laku juga. Hmmm...bila orang kat rumah makan pun kurang, kita pun rasa frust. So, tak payah susah2 nak fikir resepi apa, asalkan berlada, kering, confirm licin.

Ikan bawal berlada dan sawi air

Daging goreng kicap

Roti sardin in the making

Roti sardin

Ayam goreng kunyit dan tomyam

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Throwback hari kesembilan Ramadhan: Lost her first tooth

Just for the record, adik lost her first tooth on Monday, 7 July.

Gigi tu dah lebih sebulan goyang, tapi nak cabut dia tak bagi. Me suruh dia goyang selalu. Mula nak bawak jumpe doc, tapi sebab dah goyang, selalu doc suruh cabut sendiri. Gigi baru pun dah tumbuh belakang gigi susu tu. Both miss y and miss t gigi baru tumbuh belakang, yang gigi susu pulak liat nak cabut. Tu yang gigi miss y berlapis-lapis. Adehhh... nie miss t pun nampak ada ke arah itu juga. Hai, ikut genetik sapelah diorang nie, en. e kot (biasalah ikut resmi bangau hahaha), sebab me bila gigi baru tumbuh, gigi baru tolak gigi susu. Kecuali satu gigi taring nie, tumbuh berlapis, bertingkeh kata orang. So my mom bawak jumpe doc n cabut. Perghhhh sakit giler. Mak cakap, orang pompuan tak cantik gigi bertingkeh, me abang tingkeh juga, tapi sebab dia lelaki, my mom biarkan aje.

Happy miss t bila gigi dia finally cabut. Boleh makan dengan selesa lepas nie.


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Hari kesepuluh Ramadhan: 3 tahun sudah berlalu

Assalamualaikum,

Selepas post terakhir, tak sempat nak update blog setiap hari. Have to meet many deadlines. Hari ini baru berkesempatan untuk menulis. Jadi, nak curi masa sikit untuk menulis momento dalam blog ini.

Hari ini juga baru perasan, eh dah 10 Ramadhan, tak sempat nak tulis apa-apa berkenaan berkenaan pemergian arwah Abah, kerana, pada 9 Ramadhan 1435, genap 3 tahun arwah abah meninggalkan kami.

Hari keempat Ramadhan: Berlima Ramadan

Kejap je dah masuk hari ke lima puasa, kejap juga dah masuk bulan 7, maknenye sudah separuh tahun 2014 berlalu. Kenapa sekarang terasa hari makin cepat berlalu.

Hmmm... cerita puasa semalam. Kejayaan untuk berpuasa yang miss t capai nampaknye tak kekal lama. Tengahari semalam masuk msg melalui WA daripada en. e.

"ada org suda buka pose"

Hari ketiga Ramadhan~a success

Alhamdulillah, miss t berjaya puasa penuh hari ini.

Balik daripada kerja, adik sambut kat pintu.

"Adik, puasa lagi ke?"
"Haah"
"Tak lapa, penat?"
"Tak"
"OK, good job"

Tapi sekali sekala perasan dia gosok2 perut. Memang nampak dia melepek aje kat atas sofa.
Untuk berbuka, hajat nak gi pasar Ramadhan dekat rumah. Jadi,

"OK, Mama nak gi pasar, kakak nak makan apa? Adik?"

Miss y macam biasa, kalau dengar pasar malam aje nak order sosej besar tu. But I reminded her that I don't cook today, and she may get hungry later, so I advised her something heavy. So she opted for nasi ayam (predictable just like en. e). Then adik said,

"Adik nak meatballs boleh mama"
Adeh, mane pulak nak carik meatballs kat pasar malam nie.
"Meatballs yang bakso makan dengan mee boleh tak dik"
"OK"
Kena layan orang baru nak belajar puasa nih.

"OK kuih"
"kopok lekor" kata miss y
"kuih apa ada ma?" tanya miss t
"mama beli kuih seri muka untuk adik OK"
"OK"

Alhamdulillah, walaupun panjang langkah kat pasar ramadhan sebab nak memenuhi kehendak anak-anak nie, tapi semua dapat apa yang dihajat.

3 down, 27 days to go.

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Hari ketiga Ramadhan: Iftar hari kedua ~ Daging goreng kicap versi kering

So, semalam mencari resepi untuk masak lauk daging di internet, dan ternampak imej yang sangat mengiurkan... ok..sangat teruja untuk mencuba resepi daging kicap ittew.

Dan hasilnya....

Hari kedua Ramadhan 1435

Hari kedua Ramadhan = Hari Isnin 30 June. Semuanya blues, monday blues, first week of Ramadhan blues, first day of class for 3rd semester blues.

Fail berterabur atas meja nak siapkan laporan kemajuan students bawah penyeliaan. Ada gemuk, ada kempis. Gemuk kempis tidak memberi apa-apa makna berkenaan kemajuan pelajar. Kerana, ada pelajar yang rajin print handouts untuk kita simpan, ada yang email aje, ada tu datang sehelai sepinggang, bawak suara aje untuk cerita progress projek. To date, I have 4 PhD students and 6 master students, both local and international students. Macam-macam ragam semuanya.

Growth progress: Height

Just for the record, the current height (estimated) of miss t and miss y is:

miss t = 110cm
miss y = 145cm

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Rindu tu pasti ada, tipulah kalau cakap tak rindu kan.

Uolls!

Kadang-kadang perasaan rindu kat Brisbane tu datang. Kalau Brisbane tu duduk kat seberang aje, besok jugak aku terbang ke sana. Tapi dalam keadaan sekarang nih, pasang angan-angan ajelah dulu. Kalau nak ke sana, tak best kalau nak jalan-jalan melancong aje, itu macam celah gigi aje rasanya. Nak best, duduk situ lama sikit. Make a living, not touring. Haaa barulah terasa macam orang-orang brissie. En. e dah janji bila ekonomi dia dah stabil, dia nak bawak weolls pindah sana. So, uolls tolong doakan ekonomi en. e stabil ye. Amiin....

Kadang-kadang aku beranganlah tengok-tengok rumah for sale kat sana.... hahahaha.... angan mat jenin betul.

Kadang-kadang aku saje-saje guna google maps tengok tempat-tempat yang meninggalkan sejarah weolls kat sana. Tengok 3D lagi uolls! Gila dah makcik nie.

Paling koman pun aku tengok gambar-gambar lama, dan post-post lame kat dalam blog aku.

Harga barang naik!

Uolls!!!

Minggu nie terasa harga barang naik, makan kat luar, ambil lauk yg biasa, tapi kena bayar lebih sikit.

Semalam order makanan anak-anak bulu, akak supplier bagitau harga baru.

Nak tambah perisa untuk cerita kali ini, bulan lepas dapat balik bayaran cukai terlebih bayar. Sekali masuk kerja hari Isnin, dapat email daripada LHDN, kena bayar tunggakan pulak! Lebih daripada apa yang aku dapat balik pulak tu! Adoiyaaaa!!!! Takpelah, dah bukan hak aku la, redha ajelah. Semua Allah yang bagi jugak (ayat penyejuk diri).

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[Anak bulus] Kena tinggal sorang-sorang

Kisah anak bulus.

Malam semalam didi kena tinggal sorang2 kt dalam rumah, sebab keluar sekejap aje, jemput yaya kat sekolah. Tamtam dan cocoa dah tidur kt balcony, lulu warded kat hospital. Bila sampai rumah, bukak pintu, punyelah kuat dia mengiau, takut punye pasal. Lepas tu mana kita pergi dia ikut je. Nie takut dia masih ada lagi, nak berkepit dgn kita je sekarang nie.



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my FIL kawin lagi....korang ada?! hihihi

Hari Ini dalam sejarah! 7 June 2014. Ayah mertuaku kawin lagi, selepas lebih setahun ibu mertuaku meninggal dunia.



Terngiang-ngiang lagu lama, Ayahku kahwin lagi nyanyian L.Ramlie (orang dulu2 suke na nama Ramli nie ye, P.Ramlee, R. Ramli, L. Ramlie, jangan ada dari A sampai Z sudah).

"Ayahku kahwin lagi Dengan sidara jelita Riang rasa hatinya Mendapat isteri yang muda...."


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Age is just a number!

OK, according to the gregorian calendar, I have reached the age-specific milestone, meaning one year would be added to my current age. But age is just a number, yeap. I just want to share some priceless gifts that I received on my birth-date celebration.

encrypted decrypted birthday song from miss t

a comic strip from yaya, specially created for my birthday

....and...a personalized birthday banner by google...cool eh..

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...of MH370...

I want to record this in my blog.

On 8th of March, MH370 is reported missing. That boeing 777 was on its way to Beijing, China, from KLIA, when it was 'lost' from the radar somewhere at South China Sea.

It was a tragedy.

On the 24th of March, Malaysia Prime Minister held a press conference to announce that the jet has crashed into the Indian Ocean.

It was a heart breaking and devastating news, not only for the families and relatives of the passengers on board the jet, but for the whole nation. Practically everyone is saddened with the news. Not a closure that many have or want to expect.

Between the day the jet was reported missing, and the day the PM announced on the discovery of the ill-fated jet, there were many speculations.

17 days.

Read the chronology of events leading to the disappearance of MH370 by theSundaily.

Inna lillahi wainna ilaihirojiun. Al Fatihah.

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nak pasang angan-angan pun tak sempat

New semester has started. Sibuk betul semester nie. Pendek kata, nak pasang angan-angan pun tak dapat, tu belum layan angan-angan lagi. Huhuhu


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Adik's jargon "Kukunaka"

Since in Brisbane, when adik aka miss t can speak, I keep track on her baby words. Words that she unable to say correctly. When she was two-year old, she had spoken a lot of words. Often we laughed at her incorrectly spoken word, not to downgrade her in sort of way, but because it sounded funny.

Here are some old posts about adik's so called jargon.

Kai-Yo grill served with macaroni-and-cheese and steam vege

For dinner tonight, I grilled chicken marinated with mayo, served with macaroni-n-cheese and steam vege.

Kai is Canto for chicken. Since I marinated the chicken with mayo, garlic, some sauces and other seasoning, so I named it Kai-Yo. For recipe, click here.

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of TamTam Didi and LuLu

Dah lama tak update pasal kucing kat sini. Kalau di FB memang selalu post gambar terbaru diorang 3 beradik nie. Kawan-kawan pun suka tengok gelagat 3 beradik nie. The last time me share photos of them was in the post: Picture Album.

Chicken Pie

This recipe has been in my recipe book for many years until I finally have the guts to make it. I was not sure what had stopping me from trying the recipe, probably the fear of failing is the main reason. This recipe was given by my best pal, Hasni, back in when both of us were in Queensland, furthering our study. She gave me a series of photos with instructions on baking this chicken pie. But after so many years, I finally successfully baked it, only this time I am back in Malaysia. My family love it, and friends asked me for the recipe when I posted the photo (for our dinner) on my fb wall. This one is also easy recipe for WBTM like me.

[Old story] She's Six

2014 - miss 't' turned 6. 

Sweet and Sour Fish

Hari ini cuti umum, Gong Xi Fa Cai. Tahun nie tahun kuda. Hari cuti haruslah ke dapur untuk masak tengahari. Kelmarin beli ikan, jadi masak lauk ikan la kita.

Facebook cover photo

Changed my facebook cover today.

I did some touch up to the photo. Nice!

Until next time, think positive and stay positive, inshaAllah everything will be OK

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A pledge I must make today

Hi, it's been a very very very long time, yes I know. Tahun lepas mood mengarang ke laut babe. OK a pledge to make I must. At least one post a week I must write and publish, inshaAllah. After all, this is all for my children, my two lovely princesses. At least when I'm gone, they will have something to remind them of me, especially the recipes. OK lets starts with something easy and fun. For a start, I will create a page, I named it iCook, to list down all the recipes that I have posted on my old blog. OK lets do that today.

Until next time, think positive and stay positive, inshaAllah everything will be OK

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