Viva Palestina!!

My hubby is back from his umrah trip! woohoo!! :) Syukur alhamdulillah... he's fine... walau pun now sangat panas di sana. He got these new fridge magnets to add to our collections... :)

And I totally HEART this clock! :)

Wish I could join him visiting Jerusalem... jealous tenguk member posing beriya kat Dome of the Rock... huhu!

But most of all... I wish I could be with him praying at the 3 most important mosques in Islam: 1. Masjidil Haram in Mecca (I am amazed by the changes in Mecca compared to my last umrah trip back in 2009!!)

2. Masjidil Nabawi in Madinah
and no 3. Masjidil Aqsa in Jerusalem....

Kebetulan... our TKC/MGC luncheon this month, there was a talk on Palestine. Details as follow :

LUNCHEON DETAILS

Date: 29/7/2011

Time: 12:30 - 2:00 PM

Venue: President's Room (within Orchid Room) Lake Club

Speaker: Prof Zahurin Mohamed

Title: Palestine: The Untold Story

Prof Zahurin is the Head of Dept of Pharmacology at University of Malaya. She is also very active in Viva Palestina Malaysia. VIVA PALESTINA MALAYSIA, is a coalition of more than 50 NGOs that cuts across racial, religious and political lines in Malaysia. This coalition was formed after the escalation of Israel-Palestine conflict that culminated in the invasion of Gaza. VIVA PALESTINA MALAYSIA works closely with foreign NGOs with similar objectives, and together as a worldwide united front of NGOs, acts as an effective pressure group to governments, pushing for a just and comprehensive resolution of the conflict.

Prof Zahurin in action - a very interesting topic indeed!

My menu this week : Linguine Mama Chef (again!). This time around, it wasn't so spicy... sedap! :)

I am just happy that darling hubby is back... and Izzaty has just finished her UPSR trial :) Her result is not out yet but mama sorang ni sudah berdebar2.... huhu!! Soon in August would be PSRA trial... followed by the REAL UPSR exam and PSRA in September.... my prayers for you my girl... semoga mendapat keputusan yang cemerlang.... Aamin.

A small kenduri doa selamat for the UPSR kids...

Yours truly and a few other mothers with kids sitting for the UPSR exam had organize a small kenduri doa selamat for our kids who'll be sitting for the trial UPSR next week and the real UPSR in September.... not to forget trial PSRA at end of August and the real PSRA right after the UPSR exam in September. Some mothers even have kids sitting for PMR and SPM... kira sekali lah tu :) Alhamdulillah.... the small majlis was held at my house pada jam 3 petang di hari Jumaat yang mulia lepas....

Ramai yang datang... mostly my mom's friends


6 jejaka hensem yang hadir :)

Lupa nak snap gambar makanan... maklumlah... tuan rumah sibuk melayan tetamu :) Majlisnya pukul 3... so ala2 high tea la gitu :) Kami prepare lontong, nasi impit, bubur kacang dan minuman (air punch dan teh panas). Ibu Boboi, Raja Azizah bawa bihun goreng yang sangat sedap :) Ibu Natasha, Rohana pula bawa pulut kuning & rendang serta tapai (syedap!). Banyak lagi food yang dibawa oleh kaum2 ibu / tetamu yang hadir... ala2 potluck pun ada gak :) Syukur alhamdulillah.... bermacam variety food/desserts/fruits yang tersedia! Ada yang bawa laksa, roti jala, carrot cake, karipap, maruku, biskut almond (promosi kuih raya ni... hehe!), agar2, puding castard, tembikai, langsat, rambutan, ect, ect.... sampai tak ingat! Meja tu penuh dengan food you!! Walaupun majlisnya kecil... alhamdulillah... ramai juga yang hadir! Sangat meriah! I like! :)

Again, I thank Allah for having such wonderful friends and neighbours..... I am so blessed! Syukur alhamdulillah :) Semoga Allah swt memakbulkan dan memberi kejayaan yang cemerlang buat anak2 kami.... Aamin..

Super EARLY birthday celebration!

My birthday is in August... and for the 3rd year in a row... it falls in the holy month of Ramadhan. My good friend of 31 years, Zita and some of my x-primary-school girlfriends requested to meet me last weekend to pre-celebrate my birthday as some of them are going to India the next week and Ramadhan month is coming very soon after that. Since I have a full-day training last Saturday, we decided to meet-up on Sunday. It was supposed to be our primary-school gathering cum birthday celebration for those born in the month of July and August :) Bagus kan kawan2 I ni? Sungguh rajin ber-gather2. Infact, almost every month they have makan2 to celebrate birthdays tau! :)

Anyway, the venue is Restoran Nasi Arab Damsyik in Senawang, Negeri Sembilan. Located just a few meters away from Pusat Dakwah Negeri Sembilan, Paroi. I left Lucky Hill with my kids around 12.30pm and arrived there around 2pm - just on time! :)

5 girls turned up for this gathering - Yous truly, Zita, Mimi, Marazlin and Shina :) Mimi siap bawak a homemade-cake!! Sedap giler!!!! Thank you soooo much Mimi for the super-yummilicious cake!!! LOVE YOU Laling!!!! You're AWESOME!! *muah!* *muah!* Later, special appearance from our x-headboy 1982, Zainurin - the one and only GUY who DARE to join us - the kay-po-chee ladies... hahaha!

Macam iklan Colgate! :D Mar, Zita and myself :)

The ladies who came - Shina, Mar, Zita, myself and Mimi. The only guy who came did not want his photo to be taken... ;)

And the nasi arab and the chicken are delicious!!! My kids love it!!! :D Berbaloi datang dari jauh babe!!! :D Tak dapat ikut hubby gi Arab.. makan nasi arab pun jadi laaaa... LOL!

Inside the restaurant - rasa macam di negara Arab daa.. ;0

Our nasi Arab - lupa nak ambil gambar before nasi diusik... maklum laaa... dah lapor... perjalanan jauh tu dari Bkt Beruntung ke Senawang :P The price is surprisingly cheap! One dulang nasi arab with one-whole chicken cost only RM45 - very reasonable! Wahh.. boleh datang lagi nih! :D


The yummilicious-looking and sinfully-super-delicious-in-taste cake! Specially made by Mimi~ woohoo!! Sodap Miee..... terngiang2 ghaso eh sampai now.. :)
See the colour inside the cake... as beautiful as its taste! :)


End of the day.....
Ayam sudah habis daa :) Cake pun sudah licin!! :) Nasi je ada balance sikit...


The remaining of the chicken :D


Dah habis makanan... kita minum 'chai' pulak..... :) Nice teapot!! Berkenan makcik! ;) Mana boleh beli ni ek?? Err... kena pergi Damsyik sekali lagi kot kalau nak beli? huhu...

Zainurin sponsored door-gifts for us - x-SRKDIan tshirts :) Syantekkk!!!! I so like!!!

4 beautiful ladies memodel kan baju SRKDIan '82


Cute :)

SRKDI Batch 87???? weeiiii... 82 laa!!! 87 tu sekolah menongah!! Osah la kau... :P

Oh yeaa... I also got my birthday giftS (wah... plural tau!) from my beloved x-SRKDIAN girlfriends!! :) LOVE the gifts girlfriendssss!!!! You guys are AWESOME!!! LOVE YOU ALL soooo much!!! *muah!* *muah!* Terharu makcik.... ;)

A bear, Famous Amos biscuits and a Ferrero Rocher choc !! Sukerr sangat :D


And a Yves Rocher perfume :)

I had a blast! Thank you for coming you guys!! It was wonderful meeting you all again :) Too bad tak ramai yang dapat datang... but I am happy, nevertheless! Am so blessed to have such wonderful friends. You guys really made my day!! :)

Serve from the heart ♥

Maybank has made it mandatory for all staff to go to a workshop called 'Serve from the heart'.IT Core Banking team with the other SD1 application teams were called for attend this workshop on Saturday 16th July. I was not really looking forward to attend this workshop as it was held from 7.30am to 7.30pm - 12 hours!! Goodness!! :P

Turned out... I had sooo much fun during this workshop :) I would say this is the MOST interesting workshop I've ever attended :D Yes it was very, very tiring... but awesomely fun! :)

Doing poco-poco while singing a song for Maybank :)

We, the IT Core Bankers sure had fun!! :)
From left : Yusri, Alizam (tersorok!), Azua (behind me), yours truly, Intan, Mei Yun and Avvy.

VIPs - Pn Norsiah, Pn Munirah, Pn Nora (head, HR), Mr Tan Kok Ming (IT CIO), Zamri (yang ini perasan VIP ke? :P) and our consultant - Siew Tuan.

It's time to show our War Cry!!! :)

As we were the largest section - Core Banking got the honor of presenting our war cry first... huhu! Not only we were the biggest group... our war cry was the longest as well.... wakaka!!! :D
Apa yang penting??? Kerjaaaasama! :D
Serve from the Heart! From the Heart! From the Heart! *doing the haka steps!*
YOU GUYS ROCK!!! Proud to be part of Core Banking team! :)

War Cry from the Cards Section

War Cry from Delivery Channel section

War Cry from our Business Analysts :)

War Cry from the International Section - the SMALLEST group... but the LOUDEST ever! :D Bravo you guys! I was so impress! :)

War Cry from the MIS section.

Our beautiful head of HR - Puan Nora Abd Manaf (my sister! nama bapak kan sama! :D)

'Walk the Talk' consultants - a bunch of sporting, creative, talented people! :) Love their introduction rap! You guys are the BEST!!! Thanks for making the workshop soooo interesting and memorable!! Two thumbs up!!! :D


Comments that I got from colleagues during one of the programs. Awww.. sangat terharu, okay! huhuhu!! LOVE you all!! *muah!* *muah!*


Core Banking rules!!! The biggest team during the workshop :)

Towards end of the day, we had to consolidate the war cries of all sections into ONE group war cry! Not only that.... we had to do the group war cry along the Jalan Pudu (depan swiss garden where the workshop was held)!! Adoiii... nasib baik le there were so many of us!! Tak de la segan sangat nak buat.. hik hik! Ada ka... time2 nak Maghrib tu melalak2 tepi Jalan Pudu tu :D Agaknya sure orang lalu depan Jalan Pudu tu pelik tenguk we all :D And nasib baik tak kena sembur ngan air!!! Don't worry Tok Polis... ni bukan demonstrasi Bersih!! :D And end of the day... suara masing2 pun dah serak2! Penat woo menjerit2 buat war cry tu... :P But I guess worth it lah.... I felt the spirit soaring and my blood turned yellow oredi! :D

"Serve From the Heart" workshop has made me realised how lucky I am as a Maybanker. Yeah... must learn to be more bersyukur, kan? :) Also must learn to work with my heart and soul... baru lah hidup ini lebih BERKAT.... insyaAllah... :) Chewah... yo-o, yo-o jer!! :D

Well, hmm.... yeah, okaylaaa... Maybank... I ♥ U!!!! There! I've said it! :D

Jiwang karat :P

Sent hubby to KLIA last night.

Am missing him terribly now :(

Macam lah tak pernah kena tinggalkan! Tiba2 sentimentel la pulok ek?! :P But this time, memang sangat sedih ditinggalkan :( For the first time, hubby pergi menunaikan umrah seorang diri dan isteri sorang ni tak dapat ikut :(

He's probably in Jordan now... or waiting his flight to Tel Aviv. Jealous sangat tau :( Sungguh bertuah menjadi tetamu Allah dapat ke 3 masjid utama dalam Islam - Masjid Al Aqsa, Masjid Nabawi and finally Masjidil Haram... subhanallah. Semoga Allah memberkati perjalan suamiku ke sana....

Doaku agar suamiku mendapat umrah yang mabrur..... jangan lupa doakan kami sekeluarga disini ya! Moga selamat pergi dan pulang... We miss you....

Balik dari KLIA semalam... tangan ni gatal meninggalkan status sebegini di FB...

Ohohooo....:D The truth is I am not the jiwang kinda person :D Well, at least I never leave 'jiwang messages' as my FB status before! Seriously! :P Am just not that kinda person :D I don't feel comfortable to show the 'jiwang' side of me in public :D And Zita was quick to notice that!! LOL! She certainly knows me too well! :P Ekau golak an den yo Ta.... :P

Tapi terhibur juga bila kawan2 drop some sweet comments :) Hilang sket sedey ni... hihi :D Sekali sekala jiwang karat.... takpe la ek... hik hik. :P

My mental therapy...

What do you do when you are feeling down, sad or having problems?

For me, the best way to make me feel better whenever I am feeling down or having problem is by communicating more with Allah. Subhanallah... I found peace by doing that, alhamdulillah. I try to recite the Quran everyday whenever possible, especially after the Maghrib prayer. But of course there were days when I came back from work and felt so exhausted that I just want to rest and go to sleep the soonest I can! *sigh!* I know... I know.... lame excuse! I pray to Allah to give me more strength to be a better muslimah each day.... insyaAllah...

I have been following Ustazah Tsuraya's Quran classes for about a year now. The class is just once a week... and yes, I did skip some classes... huhu! But alhamdulillah... I picked up lots of ilmu during her class.... and now certainly had improved my pronunciation when I recite the Quran, insyaAllah. I found it easier and more enjoyable to recite the Quran now :)

Early this year, I bought these from Ustazah Tsuraya.....It's a set to 10 books - the whole chapter of Quran complete with translation and guidance on the tajwid. Each book has numbering system that would guide you on the tajwid on each ayat. Suitable for someone like me yang baru berjinak2 belajar tajwid :) And yes.... I still have a lotssss to learn as every time Ustazah Tsuraya asked me on tajwid questions in class... terketaq2 nak jawab... haha! :D *padan muka.... sapa suruh ponteng kelas kan! hik hik!* I brought the books home and hubby has started using them as well... syukur alhamdulillah... sharing is caring, right? :)


Secondly, of course, there's retail therapy.... another effective way for me to distress myself :) But again... this is a VERY dangerous solution.... takut nanti terlebih sudah, terlebih fening pulak bila dah terlebih budget :D

Last but not least, I just love sewing beads! I found it very therapeutic! :) I've been doing it for the past few years :) But I guess you all already knew this :D

This is what I have been doing for the past few weekends....

I know, I know.... flowers tu sedikit senget here and there :P But I was inspired by a friend, Adriana Ahmad who showed her beads-work in her Facebook album :) She calls this design - cupcake :) Cute le pulak nama tu.. and I just had to try it!! :D So another kurung cotton of mine yang dah siap ber-beads! :)

Well, those are some of my ways of cheering myself up as mental therapy. So what's yours?? Do share! :)