sil has new feet

started the car's engine one fine morning to find the freaking gas indicator blinking at me.
what??? i just fed you yesterday, you fat cow!
clearly rm20 a day for food wasn't enough.
T____________T
why do you people fancy these cars???? they're more expensive than maintaining a teenager! @_@
i'm loving my Insight more and more every day.
my car reeks of cempedak though. or something that resembles the smell of cempedak. anyone knows where i can get charcoal to absorb the smell?

ok enough ranting about cars. that was just the opening act. what i really wanted to blab about is... sil got herself a new car!!!
(finally... after pot pet pot pet about wanting to buy one since OCTOBER last year!).
on her defense, she was patiently waiting for the new model to come out. being a csi-fail, i have no idea how it differs from the previous model, save for the backlights =P.
i came to the house and it was dark already, so no chance to camwhore with the new car. nothing to see anyway. it's a City, it's black. HAHAHAHAHAH. bo-ring.
plastic pun haven't taken off yet. it reeks of N-E-W.

number rojak

she asked me if i regretted getting my Insight.
er, i told her i was all set to get the City... until i test drove the Insight. o-yeah.
now if only my cc was a 1.5...
(btw, i test drove City and Vios, i actually preferred the Vios. i just wish they came up with a facelift or something. i think if i test drove the Prius, i'd get that instead AHAHAHHAHAHAHAH but stopped short upon learning the price).

oooh. i WANT that keychain!!!

Significant Other told me to get the new Civic Hybrid. apparently the service interval is 10,000km? i told him i'd get it only if he sold his Civic *mode jutawan*. why would you want to own two cars that look the same? 'bo-rink!' (i imagine my friend Nurul saying it with that tone of hers. cracks me up each time).

anyway, my main intention of stopping by that evening was to drop off sil's birthday present.
i whatsapped her beforehand.

"hey sil, guess what? i'm just about done with buying your birthday present".
"... it's green".
"YUCKS".


the night i dropped by, fil was just about to leave for Dubai (i didn't know he was in town). everyone was going to send him to the airport. he was grumbling about preferring to take a taxi as he usually does, so i merely told him that the main objective wasn't to sincerely send him off, but to test drive sil's new car on the highway. HAHAHAHHA.

thanks Papa, for the children's outfits. am truly grateful.

sil mentioned later that fil didn't allow her to floor the gas, with it being a new car barely clocking in a decent amount of mileage AHHAHAHAHAH *gelak lagi*.

the next day i dropped by again to stalk baju raya with sil, we drove out in her OLD car, that was destined to be bil's once he obtained his license.
defeats the purpose of buying a new car, aite? told her just that.
she flipped her hair at me (she wears tudung, so no hair to flip) and said, 'i got two cars, you know'.
@___@

just to mention, i sold something else *sniff*.
anyone who missed it, go dibs. i sold it locally.

Vat Orkney Labyrinth

this one otoh, will be heading to Australia.

the handsome Stendhal

on another note, my monsters are turning 2 and 4 respectively, and am tentatively planning a small combined mini bash for them. my question is, do any of you know any reasonably priced event planners to organize such kind of things? on a small-scale, that is.
thankz!

speechless Weds

i just don't know what to comment about this.
main purpose of bag: to bring back dirty clothes to kampung to wash =D
p/s. this is not my bag. HAHAHAHAHA

kedah dictionary

well anyway, found something really kewl on Facebook again. even i don't even know some of the words in there. anyway, is 'relai' a Kedah word? some people actually seem amazed that i know this word. er, what's so special about this word again?


my friend Mahani used to be our walking Kedah dictionary among my friends (mind you, majority of my close friends are Kedahans). i lived up North for a number of years (was initially not my choice) yet i never managed to master the language. or dialect? hee~. my brother was like duck to water. he blended right in. one chat with me and people wouldn't even thunk that i spent my teenage mutant years up North, pffft (i was born in PJ btw. technically i spent about 5 high school years in Kedah before entering Uni in Perak, only spending my days up north during term breaks and holidays... until i graduated =P).

funny how they all sound the same, the way they talk, these Kedah people. i'm reminded of all my cousins from AS. ahahahahahah.

Significant Other spent Form 4 and Form 5 in Jenan, so he also wants to mengaku that he reti cakap loghat Kedah. hehe.

what-ever. to me he sounds really weird. 'cheq nak pi mana? awat hang tak habaq?' (imagine him laying on the accent pretty thick). HAHA.

i asked him, orang Kedah sebut sepuluh sen apa? he thought for awhile, then answered, 'sepuluh kupang'. clever. lima sen? he didn't know. 'lima det'!

p/s. i just rediscovered isetan! HOMAIGOD

another trip to lgk

i went to Langkawi for the weekend. the last time i went was in April, and since the airfares were really pricey for such short notice, i didn't really mind braving the bus (AND the ferry) both ways.

although, the bus did encounter a masalah teknikal on the way up north, we hadn't even reached Ipoh yet @_@. it even started raining just as the bus started to move again after getting help from goodness knows which bengkel that was still open in the middle of the night. i think i spent almost 9 hours on the bus that night? gilos. luckily my dad was accompanying me for the journey.

note to myself: when traveling by bus, always bring a blanket. or a size 4 wrap. and empty your bladder before boarding the bus.

i can't really call this so-called trip a holiday, even after leaving the kids at home with the maid. nope. sitting on your buns all day staring squinting your eyes at navigational charts with latitude and longitude coordinates being your best friend is not what i label as fun. it's like geographical nightmare revisited. seriously. ok fine so i'm exaggerating. but it beats having to cry each time purchasing coupons fail, or if non I non P tak jalan. HAHA something refreshing!

the flying bible? @_@

it rained alot too, so there wasn't much to do anyway. we just stayed at a hotel - of which i will review later - and only went out for that new Spiderman movie. i wanted to dye my hair but time wasn't on my side. pffft.

scouted for the plain Cadbury bars in Kuah but somehow they were non-existant!!! they only had those weird flavors that i do not fancy because they're all manis nak mati. literally. my friend almost got a migraine stomaching it. haha.

what atrocious flavors are these???

so i leave you here with photos of food. Significant Other took me to Wan Thai (i actually just wanted to go to that simple place where he'd always go to - nasi putih, ayam goreng kunyit, telur dadar, sup kosong, cili padi, betui ka yang? lol). the last time i was there was with mil and family, she did the ordering and everything was super (and me being the idiot blogger that i usually am, i forgot to take photos and i seriously can't recall what he had that night, sigh).


each dish listed down in the menu sounded so exotic and foreign, just by staring at it i really couldn't recall whether i've tried it before or not. anyway, this time i took a photo of the menu. the chicken and beef section that is. so that i know what is what and whether i should order it again next time. HAHA.

beef options

option #3: Nue Ob Yodphak

chicken options

option #5: Gai Ho Bai Teoi

a must to order when dining with Significant Other lol

Significant Other loves the way it is more than me

i just wanted to tempek here the standard ferry schedules back to from LGK to Kuala Kedah. the only one i remember is the last ferry at 7pm, because that's the one that i usually take =P. but do note that the last ferry during fasting month will be at 6.30pm.

what you think i do

as usual, i found this on Facebook.


seriously! LOL.

my Grandfather

tok wan passed away at 6.30am this morning. he was over 90 years old.

my other grandfather passed away in 2004. both my grandmothers are still around, but they too are aged. seems like only yesterday when they were all up and healthy, nagging me for not eating properly.

i got to see him one last time before he passed. he looked so fragile, it was only a matter of time.

that's my grandfather, the one in the right of the antique photo. and that's mom and me =)

may tok wan's soul be blessed by God. al-fatihah...

malam nisfu syaaban

Nisfu Syaaban falls on the 15th day of the month of Syaaban in the Hijrah calendar.
it's the day that our book of deeds is raised to the heavens, and we get a fresh page to start on.
on the eve of Nisfu Syaaban, it is sunat (encouraged?) to recite the surah Yasin three times after the Maghrib prayers, followed by fasting the next day.

i found this useful info here.

Bacaan kali pertama, memohon supaya dipanjangkan umur dan taat kepada Allah serta sentiasa beramal soleh.
Bacaan kali ke-2, memohon supaya ditolak segala bala bencana.
Bacaan kali ke-3, memohon supaya tidak berhajat kecuali kepada Allah

after each recitation of the Surah Yasin, this doa was to follow:


i found a great website on how to perform Solat Taubat here and here.

you never know when your life might get taken away from you.