Prosperity Rules!

Wajib makan sekali setahun :)

Anne is Back. Selamat Tahun Baru Hijrah.

Selamat Menyambut Tahun Baru Hijrah to all friends & blog readers. Its a long weekend - so, happy holidays to everyone too.

Kalau ada yang bukak blog ni dan bosan gila sebab tak berupdate, sorrrriiiiiiiiiiii. Hidup I dalam 3 ke 4 bulan ni memang tenggelam dalam kerja je. Bila penat sangat, takde mood nak blog. Cuma update twitter saja.

Hari ni rasa SANGAT LEGA. 2 projek telah siap untuk tahun ni. Boleh rest sekejap sebelum mula dengan projek baru tahun depan. Kena sangat la dengan akhir tahun hijrah semalam, dan awal muharram hari ni. Syukur sangat-sangat sebab tahun ini, business lebih baik dari tahun lepas. Kalau awal muharram lepas dalam sebak berdoa untuk diberi kekuatan melalui masa-masa yang sangat perit....tahun ini sangat bersyukur kerana Allah permudahkan sedikit demi sedikit.

Alhamdulillah.

Selamat Menyambut Awal Muharram. Saya doakan Tahun hijrah 1431 membawa rahmat, rezeki dan segala yang baik-baik untuk kita semua. Amin.

Jalan-jalan Minum Kopi

Pada suatu petang, Jill ajak saya jalan-jalan minum kopi bersama adik-beradiknya. Saya pun ikut mereka dan keluarga mereka ke tempat yang saaaaangat jauh dan saaangat sejuk, semata-mata nak minum kopi?? ish ish ish...hahahah.

Selepas minum, mereka dan keluarga mereka nak berjalan2 di taman bunga sambil posing-posing pulak dalam hujan. Sangat bahagia kan keluarga mereka ni...hahaha.




Picture credit: Mereka & keluarga mereka

Lokasi: Old Town White Coffee, Genting Highlands

Tarikh: hmmm, October rasanya.

Korban

Hi semua. OMG, lama sungguh tak blog. Sejak bulan puasa, memang schedule kerja sangat pack. Macam ni la kerja freelance ni. Bila free, sampai termenung takde benda nak buat. Masyuk pun tak. Bila ada project, bertimpa-timpa pulak. Sekarang ni ada 2 project berjalan serentak. Itu pasal tak sempat blog macam biasa - satu pengorbanan ;-).

Dalam sibuk2 ni, curi masa sekejap balik Alor Setar untuk jenguk parents dan raya haji sekali. Of course bawak balik kerja sekali. Nasib baik rumah mak dah ada broadband sekarang. Senang sikit. Dulu kena dial-up memang tak larat nak menunggu.

Oh, esok raya kan. Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Adha & Maaf Zahir Batin. Semoga kita semua dapat betul-betul menghayati erti korban, Insyaallah.

Will try to update more often- janji. Ada banyak posting overdue ni...cerita kenduri kahwin (not mine, ok!), cerita picnic dan banyak lagi...

Konflik

Kenapa aku selalu nampak hidup orang lain lebih indah, lebih bahagia, lebih hebat dari kehidupanku yang ada saja tak kena.

Mungkin sebab aku hanya membandingkan dengan kehidupan orang yang punya lebih segala- galanya.

Kalau aku bandingkan dengan orang susah, orang sakit, orang kurang upaya, memanglah banyak yg perlu disyukuri. Silap-silap, jadi riak pulak.

Susahkan? Mana lebih susah? Bersabar mencari senang, atau bersyukur mengharung susah? Bersyukur nikmat Tuhan, atau bersabar ujian Yang Esa?

Konflik dalam diri. Jawab sendiri.

Too Good

I am not a big fan of mee yg berkuah, tapi this was just too good! Mee Bandung from open house my brother semalam. Terima kasih kakak iparku :-)

Syawal

Sometimes Allah breaks our spirit to save our soul.

HE breaks our heart to make us whole.

HE sends us pain so we can be stronger.

HE sends us failure to make us humble.

HE sends us illness so we take care of ourselves.

Sometimes, ALLAH takes everything away from us so we can learn the value of everything HE’s given us

May the spirit of Ramadhan lives on in us throughout the year

Salam Aidilfitri Maaf Zahir Batin

#Maaf agak lambat update blog & ucap selamat hari raya. Lepas cuti raya terus sibuk kerja. Terima kasih semua yg tinggalkan ucapan pada comment box posting lepas.

Gosh!

Berat dah turun ke tahap kritikal. Tinggal 44. 5kg timbang pagi tadi.
Nanti pakai baju raya macam 'hanger berjalan'.

Before puasa dalam 46...47 mcm tu. Last week turun 45. Below 45 biasanya i akan avoid amik gambar....tak suka nampak mcm orang sakit je.

Haisssshhhhhh. How la? Semakin tak semangat nak makan.

52

Selamat Menyambut Hari Kemerdekaan ke 52 Malaysia

Selambut Menyambut Ulangtahun Perkahwinan ke 52 Ayahanda & Bonda Tercinta

Good one!

Alhamdulillah

Alhamdullilah Mak dah sihat...dah mula puasa pun hari Sabtu.

Syukur sangat.

Semalam i singgah pasar ramadan beli kueh, tengok orang yang take precaution pakai mask minoriti je berbanding dengan yang tak pakai. Termasuklah penjual. Siap ada geng budak2 nakal ni dok gelakkan orang yang pakai mask.

Dah masuk hari ke 3 kan tak ada H1N1 related death. That is good news. Hope things get better. Rimas la keluar pakai mask ni...rasa mcm susah nak bernafas.

Ramadhan Datang Lagi

Selamat Mengerjakan Ibadah Puasa.

Semoga Ibadah Anda Semua Di Bulan Penuh Kemuliaan Ini DiberkatiNya.

89%???

My mom has not been feeling well since Sunday.
Actually last week, my whole family was over at my place. Rabu lepas Mak demam, i took her to my GP dekat rumah ni, Dr Razana cakap its normal flu je. Dr said kalau demam tak baik, come back tomorrow for tamiflu antiviral. Sebab Mak punya age, dia high risk group.

Then makan ubat sekali je, Mak terus turun temperature, cuma batuk je. So Alhamdullilah. Thot semua dah ok.

On Sunday, Mak, Bapak and Kakak balik Kedah.
Petang tu dapat sms Mak demam semula. Bila makan panadol, demam turun. Off and on. Risau gila.

Today Kakak took Mak to Dr Soma - our long time family doctor.
Based on her symptoms, Dr Soma said 89% its NOT H1N1. How on earth did he come up with that figure??? Not 90, 89! Mak pun takde selsema. Only if Mak tak recover by Thursday, baru buat blood test.


Anyways, Mak on double dose of antibiotics now and other medications. Tak dapat cakap dengan Mak since Sunday sebab tak nak ganggu - dia nak tido je. Mesti letih makan antibiotik banyak. Mak kalau sakit, paling payah coz dia tak nak makan langsung. Puas berpujuk. Mesti Kakak stress kat rumah tu nak pujuk Mak makan.

Praying hard for Mak's speedy recovery. Semoga Allah jauhkan dari apa-apa penyakit yang merbahaya.

Sayang Mak sangat-sangat...:-(

Doa Mengelakkan Penularan Penyakit spt Influenza A H1N1

Yasmin Ahmad

Al Fatihah to Arwah Yasmin Ahmad.

I will miss most her TV commercials - raya, CNY, deepavali, merdeka. Remember Tan Hon Ming, remember burung apa...burung murai...?

I found this on Youtube. One of Arwah Yasmin's work. I dont think it has ever been shown on M'sian TV, made for S'pore tv if im not mistaken. Typical of her work, always transcend racial boundaries, always touches the heart and soul...watch this.

Menyesal

Pernah tak you all dgn berniat baik cuba buat sesuatu yang elok untuk orang lain.
Lepas tu menyesal sendiri.

Tadi i tengah tengok TV. Ada la dengar sesuatu (tak perlula cerita detail kat sini). So i sms la info ni pada seseorang sebab i tau dia memang ambil berat pasal ni, saja je tetiba rajin nak share. Takde niat lain pun...dan i tulis situ i dengar kat TV dari siapa la yg bercakap tu.

Lepas tu dia balas sms dua kali dengan soalan2nya, mempertikaikan pulak - orang tu 'authority' ke pasal benda ni?, kenapa bunyi macam tak kena?.

Last last, tak reti dah nak jawab sebab i pun dengar je...lastly, i suruh dia ignore je my earlier sms with apologies.

Menyesal. Moral of the story?....apa eh?

Pilihan objektif:
I. jangan terlebih rajin, orang pun tak tanya kita?
II. jangan berkongsi benda yang kita sendiri tak cukup ilmu?
III. thank you would be nice..walaupun info tu crap?
IV. padan mukaku?
V. all of the above?

:-)

pagi yang gelap...

kenapa pagi yang gelap? there's a notice from building management hari ni ada blackout seluruh kawasan condominium ni dari 10pagi sampai 6petang. so i'm on standby ni....dah pukul 11 still ada electricity. maybe block by block agaknya....

anyway, here's something for you to think about as we start a new week...

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
Leo Buscaglia

Guilty Pleasure

Yummmms. Jom makan waffle, anyone...

"TODAY IS THE FIRST DAY OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE"

Mesti youall rasa cliche kan....but i just needed to tell that to myself today.Sedar diri, sedar ruang....

Be Careful People!!

My brother forwarded me this message. I thot its worth sharing, if you dont already know.

----- Original Message -----

From:

Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 9:06 AM

Subject: FW: ATM receipt

Since all of us have ATM card(s), I would like to share this importantnews. My friend saw a man at Novena MRT ATM trying to get all thereceipts out of the ATM bin.Please read the following message from a friend of mine, it's true.Please be careful, it's not a joke.....

Be careful when u draw cash from ATM with receipt complete with youraccount number.Please never throw the ATM receipt in the public bin even if u used totear it into small pieces before throwing it away.

Today, just got a call from my sister that she had lost all her cashfromher account. She threw the receipt into the bin provided at ATMrecently. Luckily, she only has $633/= in her account.Not much of suspicious when she was left with $11/= because she thoughtit was her petrol GIRO payment, however, that's not true.. She only gotto know it when the petrol company, Mobil cut-off the petrol card'stransaction when she realized something is wrong.

After checking with the bank, she was told that now there is thissyndicate who will pick up the ATM receipt & with their IT expert,theyare able to draw out your money.The bank will not be able to trace where these people had drawn themoney& how they do it, don't ask me, even the bank can't answer it. They can only advise you to report the case to the police for investigation. My sister is the third victim in this month.

DON'T THROW YOUR ATM RECEIPT AWAY! SEND THIS TO All YOU KNOW....

End of origunal message**********************************************************

So be careful everyone. Hang on to your ATM slips and throw it somewhere else. Make sure you koyak-koyakkan dulu sebelum buang

Zzzzzz

I am so sleep deprived.

Someone please sing me a lullaby.

Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen

What can i say.....FREAKING AWESOME!

Go see it...unless you hate action movies!..but even if you hate action movies ladies, go see it anyway if you think Josh Duhamel is cute..hehe.

Cerita Bodoh & Memalukan

You all nak dengar cerita yang bodoh ni tak....

Hari Khamis lepas, I ada job kat Cherating, untuk jadi co-trainer untuk this company punya teambuilding retreat at a resort kat sana. Semua arrangement dibuat oleh trainer yang lagi sorang ni - Siti. Awal-awal lagi Siti dah bagitau dia dah book flight Firefly (pegi-balik) dari Subang Airport.

Oklah...i pun plan nak park my car kat airport saja sebab day trip saja. Pegi pagi, balik petang. A day before the trip, Siti bagitau the morning flight to Kuantan Firefly dah cancel pulak. So dia terpaksa book MAS. Balik masih kat Subang Airport.

Pagi Khamis tu, pukul 5 pagi i dah start bersiap-siap.....then Siti sms, dia remind flight depart from KLIA. Of course la i ingat, apa la Siti ni....(i was thinking to myself). Pukul 6.30 macam tu i pun dengan hati gumbira drove myself to the airport. (biasanya i will call a cab - tapi since day trip je...bayar parking lagi murah. so i memang plan dari awal lagi i akan park kat airport...hmmm, bijak bijak...;-))

So kita board the plane semua no problem. Dah la Siti got us Business Class seats - first time i naik business class - happy la coz dapat breakfast semua...tengah lapar. Then Siti tanya, Anne, kenapa you park kereta kat sini? Kita balik nanti turun SUBANG...

OMG! OMG! OMG! What was i thinking! (Obviously i wasnt la kan.....). Nasib tak menjerit dalam plane. Rasa bodoh gila...malu pun ye.

Nasib my brother came to my rescue...pick me up kat Subang...drove me to KLIA malam-malam buta...(of course i only told him the half truth...pasal flight cancel...he didnt know i knew about the cancellation a day before...heheheheh)

Ok, go on...laugh your heads off. :-P

Cerita Panasssssssss!

You all PANAS tak? Pagi-pagi dah berpeluh2 ni walaupun fan depan muka.

Balik Alor Star baru ni pun lagi la panas. Mandi, keluar bilik air dah peluh dah.

Oh yes, sorry la lama tak update. My mother injured her leg, so i went home to help her take care of my dad.

Back to cerita panas, i read somewhere its gonna carry on to September. So bulan puasa ni maybe lebih panas dari biasa. Dugaan....

Rindu Terhenti

This song is top on my playlist for the past few days. Who would have thought....me, liking a Tomok song. Dulu time New Boyz, i have to admit....memang anti betul lagu-lagu leleh diaorang.

But, since OIAM....my (and every other Malaysian's???) opinion of Tomok has changed. He can definitely sing. And i'm loving this new single.




Padam Nyala Patah Tumbuh
Hilang Kan Berganti
Cinta Tiba Cinta Pergi
Yang Azali Ku Nanti

(jiwang kan....sekali sekala apa salahnye hehehe;-))

Lurus Bendul

The last time i had a hair cut, the stylist dok pujuk-pujuk i buat 'relaxing' treatment. Its one type of hair straightening jugak, katanya less severe than rebonding.

Anyway, i tak buat la masa tu...tapi si Agus, stylist tu beriya blow straight my hair to get the same effect like what it would be kalau buat relaxing. The above pics taken just after keluar salon...itupasal very the straight...weird tak?

Sekarang ni rambut dah panjang semula...i need a hair cut again.

Should i do it? Rasa macam terlalu lurus bendul pulak rambut tu...sekarang kalau nak straight, boleh la blow n letak product. Tahan la beberapa jam. Nak wavy sikit pun boleh. Kalau dah buat relaxing ni...lurus bendul la rambut all the time...easy to maintain i suppose...tapi nampak macam rambut sikit pun ye....Risiko rambut rosak pun ada kot...

Dilemma ni.....

NO.

I have to admit i have trouble saying no to people sometimes.

Especially when it comes to work, you know you face all sorts of people - the not so clever, the unreasonable, the 'bodoh-sombong'...etc etc etc

For the last few months i have been in this never ending project. My patience has been spread super-thin. I had to tolerate many people i could hardly resist strangling. But for the sake of work, responsibility, teamwork - i have been (too) accommodating every request, even those stupid unreasonable ones. Even those that things that are not supposed to be my job in the first place. Even those i dont get paid for. I complain of course, i still end up doing them. At times i feel so "used".

Yesterday, i reached my limit. I said No. Plain and simple No. Cannot.

Do i feel bad? Maybe for a split second. Do i feel guilty? Not really.

Does that make me a bad person?

Entry Buang Sawang

Haaaaaa....dah bersawang blog ni.
12 hari cuti....balik rumah parents spend time with them...itu pasal la tak update.

Apa nak cerita eh....nanti lah ok. Ini entry buang sawang je hehehe.

Memories From Sandakan

Dalam siri kerja I di East Malaysia, tahun lepas 2 program, ini kali ketiga dan terakhir. This one is my least favourite. Ada la beberapa perkara yang berlaku yang buat I kurang senang - bukan dengan participants ya (kot2 ada yg terbaca blog ni), dia orang ok je.

muka stress hehe





The Class


Bandar Sandakan ni sunyi je. Feel town ni macam 70an, 80an lagi. Tengok keadaan jalan on a working day. Takde traffic pun. Sandakan memang tepi laut. Industri perikanan yang nampak kat sini, selain eco-tourism. Bandar ni transit untuk tourist ke pulau-pulau untuk lihat penyu bertelur, sanctuary orang utan dan macam-macam lagi.





Ini pulak kat Pasar Sandakan. Ikan bilis, ikan kering dan udang kering fresh & murah di sini.





Sempat makan dinner seafood sekali di Pasar Sim Sim. Orang sini kata tempat ni la paling famous. Kebanyakan ikan bakar tu nama pelik pelik. Kecuali ikan merah, yang lain semua tak pernah dengar. Takde kut kat semenanjung ni. Ikan memang fresh, murah pulak tu. Dalam 15 orang yang join makan hari tu, dengan ikan besar-besar 2 orang share satu ekor - the guys siap order lebih lebih lagi tambah, sotong, nasi dan side dishes, air - total cuma RM100 lebih mcm tu, tak sampai RM150. Macam tak percaya.






Gambar apa ni? Ekor dan sirip ikan gergasi..Masa ni i singgah dekat satu kedai fresh seafood. Beli fresh prawns nak bawak balik. Kat sini dia dah siapkan ice, lepas tu packing elok2 boleh bawak naik flight. Menakutkan decor kat kedai ni...hehehe.




Itu jelah cerita dari Sandakan.


p/s: A BIG thank you for yuzz9071, axim, Catz, muadzlife, mad redo1, su3y, arianna adrizal, Norae & Lily.lulu yang mendoakan yang baik-baik dan tinggalkan best wishes kat post bawah ni. Korang memang best!!!!