What-a-Wonderful-World

I thought of skipping lunch today. But I need a nice place to lepak. When I went down to the food court I went straight to Belanga. Belanga is a Malay word for wok. There was a set lunch that cost only rm13.99. The set consist of the main dish, drink and a kueh. I was not yet seduced by the scrumptious menu yet. When I saw the fried chicken automatically my stomach started to grumble. Should I surpress my desire or just to ignore it? Yes, I lost the battle of temptation of the fried chicken against my diet. Finally I ordered merchant rice or locally called nasi dagang. What I can comment the food is ok but the way they cooked the rice is out. The rice is too soft and the taste of ginger, fenugreek and sliced onion was not there...hhhhmmm. The flavour and aroma is not there. The presentation was good. I should have cooked better...hihihi. There again my unwarranted comments. Anyway the original nasi dagang from the east coast is still the best. The gravy with tuna or ikan tonggol is...

Yesterday I wondered where should I go for lepaking? Ampang Park! Yeah...thats better. Eventhough AP is considered a small shopping mall but it has everything to offer. There are restaurants, boutiques, supermarket,McD and many more. When come to festival seasons AM just marvelous to offer traditional costumes. There is a kiosk selling traditional baju kurung. The fabric quite unique. It looks like a saree fabric but it is not. Neither it looks like songket. I could say it matches in between those two. I took few minutes looking at the clothes and ask permission to take photos. The sales girl quite reluctant to allow me initially. After explaning my intention then she agreed. I took few snaps and I told her that I am going to write in my blog. It is a free advertisement to promote her clothes. When I asked her why she initially refused me to take the photos, she said people will copy the pattern and design. I partially agree with her but design of traditional baju kurung remaine...

I used to buy magazines especially something related to home deco and garderning. I only enjoy the pictures and vetting through from page to page repeatedly. That was the first round of browsing. Then only I read the articles that attracted my eyes. Sometimes I would tell my wife that the deco should be like this instead of like that. Similarly I would comment about the garden and how it should be arranged and landscaped. You know how to deal with a person for being so cerewet about everything. That is me and myself...hehehe After massive renovation combining two houses into one, I think no need for me to buy home deco and gardening magazines anymore. I have finalised everything and happy with what I had right now. The only problem is how to store my numerous colors of plumeria. And how to prevent my passion for plumeria from growing. I always told my children that I have picked up a wrong course. I should not be an engineer but instead an artist.....hehehe. The fact is we were n...

If you come to Malaysia dont miss the taste of cendol. You can only discover in here and not other places in the world. Everybody is selling cendol whether he is a Malay, Indian, Chinese or others and almost everybody like cendol. Cendol is a drink or dessert that preferably served with ice cube or shreaded ice. If you want to know the recepi you can google in the internet and try to make one. Since last week I desired to have cendol. Especially during the hot sunny season. I dont know why suddenly I want to have cendol. Yesterday I drove to Bandar Rawang with Ubai just to find cendol. Finally we stopped at Paparich to have cendol. It was awesome. But the base was using soya milk instead of cocoanut milk. I think the cocoanut milk is much better. Today I ordered cendol just for my lunch at the food court. This was not that bad. But having cendol at mamak stall under the tree must be the best! Just wonder who was actually originate the cendol? Was it coming from India? But now ...

We just had our lunch. It was an awesome lunch. My children were enjoying every bite of the food and thanks to my beloved wife for taking such efford and time to prepare for the food. Those are scrumptious gourmet. No wonder my wife was busy at the kitchen until late night preparing for the food. I knew she was preparing red velvet cake and cotton cheese cake. When she came to me last night she told me she also prepared mango mousse. I was suprised how she had collected all the energy to prepare for the food. She was early in the kitchen this morning preparing briani, grilled chicken and beef curry. By the way we just love her food and thank you so much. We all love you! Published with Blogger-droid v1.7.4

It is quite sometimes I have not worked on my garden. I need to work on my mood and it is not easy if my work is not getting along with my mood. It can be desasterous or melepas batuk di tangga (doing something haphazardly). I walked in my garden for a while and discover that my new collection of plumeria is blooming and the other one is blooming for a second time. I was glad to acknowledge that and worth my patience. I think this evening I have to work on my garden. I am building my mood right now developing the spirit of gardening again. Hehehehe......... Published with Blogger-droid v1.7.4

Tomorrow is the month of June! What does that tell you? Ok....this is the. 5th month of my employment. Hardly to see any saving into my bank account...huhuhu. Does it indicate that my salary is not enough or I need to reorganise my expenditure? Or there just no barakah? Oh no! I need the barakah in the first place. Life without barakah is meaningless. So what should I do? You need to work out how to make it barakah. Barakah is eventhough it is small but it is enough for you and for you to share. Reduce the extravaganza spend only if it is appropriately necessary. There are many birthday to celebrate as well and many present to buy. I still have not bought any present for Adah, for her birthday. On the 6th would be Kizz birthday. On the 15th would be my birthday. Sarah would celebrate her birthday on the 17th and Ubai on the 20th. Wow......we might celebrate our birthday party together with the prayers that we would live in the good of health and happily ever after. I have dec...

Do you know what is pan leaf or daun sirih? Pan leaf is a significant plant and closely related to Indian culture. It is believed to be brought by the Indian immigrants by the British Goverment to the Peninsular of the Malay Land or was recognised as Tanah Melayu. The name 'Pan' is an Indian word. Whether from hindi, tamil, telegu, karalla etc , they share a common name. That is my assumption. But I dont know what is the name in English. Perhaps my visitors can assist me to find the right name. That was little bit of history. If you are in India, selling pan leaves must cost you a fortune. Majority of the people like to chew pan leaves. Similarly if you are in Bangladesh. If you walk in the village or on the small lane, you could see patches of red saliva spitted by people who like to eat pan. The taste is bitter and could cause a burning sensation in the mouth and end up with red colour. Those who are addicted to eating pan, you can detect the trace of red marking surro...

Yesterday we drove two cars to KL. Ubai drove little Honda to service centre. There was few services to fine tuning to be done. I drove another car and picked up Ubai at the service centre and continue to the Zoo. Only Yusuff and Adah accompany us. The last visit was tree years ago when Yusuff was two years old. We arrived at the Zoo quite early and there were not many cars. The parking spaces still provide many vacant lots and we finally parked at the shady area. Considering the sun rising gradually and might shift the shady area, we need to make the right choice of parking. For four of us the entrance fee was rm52. And no fee for a camera. But if you bring a video camera, you have to add another rm15. Not much difference I supposed. If new ideas were to exercise it would be better to attract more people. Now is school holidays and many parents bring along their children. I bought the layout of the zoo for convenient and donation. First we went to the animal teatre. There wer...

Here I come again. Today, after sending my daughters for their piano class, I took a short break, having a splendid iced coffee at Papparich. The drinks are just awesome. The ambient surrounding and the smoothness of sentimental songs blended well and produce a gorgeous feeling. Now I am enjoying the iced coffee....wow it is so good! This is my relax station while waiting for my daughters to complete their lessons. I like the interior very much. It is a simple romantic yellow lighting combines with the set of kopitiam furniture that look vintage and rustic. Now the rendering of Chicago's song Hard to Say I am Sorry. Can you imagine that? Those are songs from the 80's and 90's. You can never find those kind of songs and melodies nowadays. It is so retro...... Published with Blogger-droid v1.7.4

I can see many people would like to put their old photos in the Facebook. Amazingly they still have their photos when they were young. Some people still have their photos when they were babies. It was their retro-period that they had cherished with their loved one. I enjoy the photography session. Those are memories that you can instantly keep and share with others. But where are my old photos? As far as I could remember, I have no photos of my childhood. What a pity! I feel envy when I saw my friend's old photos with their siblings and friends. What to do, but if I could rewind the history I would snap plenty of precious moments and build up my collection of memory trove. I would like to thank my friend Mohamad that willing to make every efford to upload old photos in the facebook. He volunteerily allow his friends to share the pictures and reminisce the best old moment together. What a feeling....... Published with Blogger-droid v1.7.4

When we were born our parents were the one who took care of us. Rain or shine dad will spare his time to carry out some works and bring back some money for mom to save and spent for food and clothing. I remembered when a pay day arrived, dad will surrender all his salary for mom to manage. During that period life was simple and the demand was less. I used to go down the stream to catch fish with my brother. Sometimes we went to the bushes to find little birds. Mom has no worries at all where we were going. Because she knew that we will return home when we were hungry. Life was so beautiful and pleasant during that time. Even we have no internet, playstations and other electronic devices, we were happy to play and minggle around with our local friends. We use our creativity to creat toys and games. Everybody will take care of each other. We have the concept of my mom is your mom and your mom is my mom. The only house that have a TV was my house. During the night time, my house will be...

Yesterday, a school teacher called my house. She asked my wife to pay for my daughter school fees. Special fee cost for RM200. PIBG fee is for RM550 and payment for food is RM750. Altogether the amount is RM 1500. When I visited my daughter last week, she told me about the fees but never for special fee. When my wife asked the teacher what is special fee, she said everything was explain in the letter. My daughter will bring the letter when Iam going to pick her up this weekend. Hhhmmmmm........these are the fees for one child. How about for many children like mine. I feel the pinch now. Wow....Now I need to create my book keeping account for each penny to be spent. Should I????? Oh no..no...I might be calculative if I were to start having the book keeping. Forget about it for a moment and just relax. By the way I already told myself that what I have spent is mine and whatever in the back is below to Allah. I just a custodian of the money or properties. Once I die, everything will be t...

When talk about pets it just not Ubai. He dislike cats, hamsters and other pets. He has no interest to talk about it nor to own it. But I realise that he likes to talk about sugar glider very much. He would tell me how tame suggies could be. How to take care of it and how many of his friends keep it as a pet. And many more virtues he told me by having the suggies. I know his intention very well but he just too shy to confess that he needs a pair. I would listen to him and pretend not to comprehend. I seen the advertisement at Mudah and some other sources. It is not cheap to keep suggies. The price range from RM250 to RM350 depends on the size, colour and origin. The breed from Australia is the most expensive. But how do we know they are from Australia origin? Only jauhari mengenal manikam. I dont want to get involve in keeping pets. I just too busy and have no time to take care of them. My 9 children have taken up enough time from my leisures. Having pets just like having ...

went to Ikano Power. Our intention was to redeem my points as I mentioned earlier. My weakness is, I easily got attracted to things, and I mean so many things and end up I love to buy it. People say love at the first sight. I am not only buy for myself but for others as well. Yesterday we When we were about to leave the Travel Inn shop and carry our claimed bag packs, I refused myself to enter IKEA. I knew once I was in, there would be more money to be spent. Unfortunately we didnt move to the car park, instead walking straight to the Branded Shop. The first intention was to buy few T-shirts. There were signs for SALE in the Padini shop. I asked my son to walk around to find trousers. Then I saw those shirts with 70% discount. Wow....it would be nice! Price cut from RM100 to RM30. Just select and pay at the cashier. Two for me and one for Hadi and Wan. And later we went to the next shop for Tshirt. Two for me and one for Ubai. Taraaa......how to make saving.... Published...

While waiting for Adah to finish her piano lesson, I asked Ubai to have a drink at Papa Rich. Actually we just had our breakfast at home. To wait Adah for one hour is considered too long. Let relax and have a nice drink and I can complete my reading from The Star and what are the news that really inspired me. Yeah .....news about Chelsea winning the Champion League and Kelantan championed the FA Cup. Others merely extreme politics accusing this guy and that guy. I could dsy dirty politics. Once Adah had finished her drink, we went to the Travel Inn to redeem my points and claim for bag packs. I knew that Ikhlas needed a new bag to school. Ubai said he also needed one for himself. After calculating with nearly 120k point that I entitled, I took 4 bag packs. When I reached home, Hadi asked for one. The other one left, let my wife to decide who should own the last bag pack. I thought to have the Pierre Cardin but it would be better for them to own it. Published with Blogger-droid v1...

Everytime when my mom comes to my house she would express her beautiful quote to me,'Hang ni Raja Palembang boleh beli tapi jam tak mampu nak beli'. Do you know what she actually meant? She said that, I can affort to buy expensive items but the cheap clock I refuse to buy. Everytime whenever she try to find time, she has to ask around. Especially to find out time for prayers. I can understand her predicament. Even I myseft too have to ask my wife and children for time. Luckily, I would have my smart phone around lately. I have bought few wall clocks from IKEA but never last long because they are cheap. After a month the clock tend to spoil again due to its minute engine got problem or the cardboard inside got twisted. I take note of my mom's complaint. I have the intention to buy new wall clocks.There are many places that I need to hang. But being so choosy to select things, it end up I have to wait until I find the right on. Please bear patience with me please. I ...

Yesterday I messaged Wanaina to his FB inbox about the rental cost for a single room in outskirt London. Today I received a reply from him informing me that a single room cost around £70 to £100 pounds. Oh my god! I cannt believe the price has increased that much. When I was there the weekly rental for a single room was only £28 the most. Hhhmmm....it was 25 years ago. If a student is to study there, he may need pocket money minimum of RM 3000 per month. When I was there I was supported with £240 per month which include everything. Ubai is going to finish his diploma March next year. And I intend to send him to UK to pursue his degree for a year. There are few universities that accepted a diploma direct to final year degree. If he is going to continue in the local university, he needs 3 to 4 year to complete his degree. When I calculated and sum up everything it is more economical for me to send him abroad. Not only the economic point of view that I considered, but many other re...

For the past two weekends I was fully occupied with my family matters. I hardly having time to look after my little garden. It is due for fertilising and pruning. My creepers on the pergola reclining towards the grass area and need to pull back and tie. I am afraid the whole creepers would succumb to collapse if I dont take an immediate action, especially my beloved sandpaper vine. My plumerias need to be transfered into polybags and few of them I need to graft to other plants. This weekend I am bit free but my routine to visit my little girl Kizz and sending Mim and Adah to piano class is going on as usual. When is the time to sit down with Ikhlas and teach him about maths and science? Eerrrggggg......my time is running out and I need to reschedule everything. I am running out of steam! The other weekend will start school holidays. We are planning to balik kampung to attend the wedding feast. Initially I thought of to let go but....hhhmmmmm... After that I might drive to K...

I would like to express my special thanks to my fans and visitors who like to drop by and enjoy to read my blog. As I mentioned earlier, I only write about my family, hobbies, events, my travels and something that attracted me especially about lives and this revolving world. I try to forbid myself from writing about my work or extreme politics that could distract my peace of mind. The ultimate aim is to let people enjoy reading my blog and sharing few information. When I about to write something, I would view the numbers of my increased visitors and would expect some constructive comments. I would also review my chat box and would try to answer them appropriately. There is one visitors that really attracted me. He or She is from Mountain View(MV) California. I have noticed that MV has followed my blog regularly. I am not sure whether MV is Malaysian staying in USA or American. I am also not sure whether MV had dropped any comments and messages in my chat box. But I really appreci...