Demi waktu....

Apart from the Kenangan Terindah by Samsons, I am also into this song, Demi Waktu by Ungu. This song is currently being played frequently on air by the local radio stations. Opps, I am currently glued to Indonesian songs..muahaha :)

Demi Waktu - UNGU <--(Click here to check out the video)

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Aku yang tak pernah bisa lupakan dirinya

Yang kini hadir diantara kita

Namun ku juga takkan bisa menepis bayangmu

Yang slama ini temani hidupku

Maafkan aku menduakan cintamu

Berat rasa hatiku tinggalkan dirinya

Dan demi waktu yang bergulir di sampingmu

Maafkanlah diriku sepenuh hatimu

Seandainya bila ku bisa memilih

Kalau saja waktu itu ku tak jumpa dirinya

Mungkin semua tak kan seperti ini

Dirimu dan dirinya kini ada di hatiku

Membawa aku dalam kehancuran

Maafkan aku menduakan cintamu

Berat rasa hatiku tinggalkan dirinya

Dan demi waktu yang bergulir di sampingmu

Maafkanlah diriku sepenuh hatimu

Seandainya bila ku bisa memilih...(*)

Maafkan aku menduakan cintamu

Berat rasa hatiku tinggalkan dirinya

Dan demi waktu yang bergulir di sampingmu

Maafkanlah diriku sepenuh hatimu

Repeat (*)Maafkan aku...
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Feeling it....lovely memories of Jakarta

Our flight from Jakarta was delayed for an hour and a half today. Ohh and now I am back at home, trying my best to pen something I feel strongly about the trip, which is the new bond I seem to see between us and our Jakarta family.

When I was in Jakarta, I was given the opportunity to spend some wonderful and quality time with my dad's relatives i.e granduncles, uncles, aunties, cousins and so forth. What I discovered is, I love being around them!!!. I can feel all the sincerity, honesty, openness, serenity, calmness, warmness and caring traits in all of them. I am so glad I gave myself the chance to get to know them. Such wonderful people, I do hope I can visit all of them again soon...InsyaAllah.

My only regret is for not spending time with them before this. Silly me!. Well, to the neneks and pak's (well I am sure you wont be reading my blog!!..hehehe) thank you for letting us share your warmness and welcoming us into your beautiful homes :) I really felt at home...Terima Kasih semua :)

The nasi padang we had on the first day itself ....sedapppnyee...

Lovely view of the museum..the nenek (we refer to the granduncles) was speechless when he found out that all of us were more interested in shopping rather than the museum..hehehe!

Me and my sisters, lil nephew (well liked by the ceweks in Jakarta...they like to pinch his cheeks..) and lil Sophie:P

Again we had nasi padang on the second day...:P

The biggest mosque in Indonesia

The view from my hotel room

The bad traffic jam heading towards Bogor...

Me and my favourite lil Romeo in Jakarta

Came back to the hotel room and was surprised to see a cake on the coffee table on Christmas eve :)

My new buddy....

My flip nokia phone has decided to go crazy on me for the past couple of weeks. The radio function went auto on for weeks and as a result whenever I made calls or receive calls, I can never hear the other party. Pretty frustrating don't you think after only a year and when the guarantee has expired. Even the phone knows when to go craaaazy and torture me!!

I visited Doctor Mobile for some assistance when it went sick but then it was just a waste of time, they could not do anything about it. The guy told me that my phone "sudah kena air" and there is no replacement for the damaged parts. Damn! So for the past few weeks, I had to SOS my SIL and lucky enough, she had a spare phone. Thank you Kak Ani...I owe you one!

Anyway, for days, I have been contemplating on what model I should go for and whether it is gonna be a flip phone again?! Decided to just check the phones out today and taadaaaa, I came back with a new phone, Nokia 5300 .....

I really hope this one will last at least more than a year ...coz I dont think I can afford to change too often. My pockets will end up having many holes in it :P Ohh and one thing I realised is the chemistry I have for Nokia phones...:)

Busy weekend

I had a busy weekend with a few guests (aunties & uncles) from Singapore staying over for the weekend and driving them around to attend invitations for lunch and a birthday party on Saturday and a wedding back in Ulu Langat on Sunday. After the hectic schedule, I am currently at the office experiencing Monday blues with 80 percent of the work force on long holiday. :P

The lunch invitation we had on Saturday was from my aunt who lives in Bangsar. She wanted all of us to have a get together session with my aunts and uncles from Singapore. The last time they met was like a year ago. The food they prepared were the original traditional dishes from Singapore, they had dishes like nasi rawan with begedel, acar nenas, kerabu timun, ikan terebuk bakar, tiger prawns cooked in chilli paste, “rempah” fried chicken and so forth. Although food was splendid but somehow I felt uncomfortable at my aunt’s place. Honestly, I never feel at ease being there as both my uncle and aunt are so into table manners/etiquettes. As for me, I believe in simplicity, dread the high and mighty air and having to behave all the time. It sucks the happy feeling out of me. Hehehe :P

After lunch in Bangsar, we headed towards my brother's place in Taman Melawati for a birthday bash. We were celebrating the birthday of the December babies. As usual I was in charge of the party packs and games. I had a wonderful time playing with the kids. Last year we had 2 games and the kids did not want to leave, thus this year we increased them to 4 games but still the kids did not want to leave as well. So the moral of the story I was telling my brother is no matter how many games you have, kids will never want to leave. How’s that? Muahaha :P

A kid trying to pin the tail to the horse...opps I hope it is not too far away!

My nephews, Ashraf & Ayol and my lil nieces Hannah, Hannis & Sophie

The theme for the cake this year is the character from the movie "Happy Feet".

The grand occasion was the wedding on Sunday. The theme colour was hunter green and the nikah ceremony portrayed an emotional scene for the groom’s family as both parents cried when the nikah was officially solemnized. It was probably tears of joy for the whole family. My cousin, the bride was smiling the whole day, she was the happiest girl on earth I would say. I was on my feet (uurgh!) for the whole three hours as the “berkat” person. Giving out little gifts for the stream of people who came to celebrate the special occassion. Oh another thing that got me all disappointed while handing those gifts is the lack of manners of the people who came by. Noticed as I handed them the gifts, 1 out 10 people would smile and say thank you, the rest would just accept without acknowledging. Gosh, I thought the KL-ians are capable of that. Sad eh ! A simple smile and a terima kasih doesn’t take much out of a person right?? What is wrong with having a little bit of warmness for one another, after all we are supposed to be the friendly Malaysians!

The lovely couple!

I have a few days left before I head for Jakarta for the Christmas holiday. YEEHAA!!!

Christmas and its decorations..

Last night, I joined my colleagues for a Christmas get together at my boss’s place in PJ. Yikkeees, this time round I decided to join in the fun after declining his many invitations for the past few years. Yup, am guilty as charged. So this year I decided to accept and just go. I had no qualms about the food prepared as it was catered from a Malay Restaurant. Ohh apart from the good food is the light entertainment they provided, kids performing the Christmas carols.

Hmm, even though I don’t celebrate Christmas it does not mean that I don’t appreciate the decorations they put up in their homes. I also love the decorations they have in the shopping malls and the lovely street decorations. My sis told me the decorations they have along Orchard Road really caught her eyes.

I will always have fond memories of the Christmas decorations in Los Angeles. During my younger days when we were holidaying in LA sometime in December, my family and I even took the trouble to drive around the neighbourhood to check out the houses with the most beautiful decorations. The homes were decorated in such a way that you can only remember yourself being in a fantasy or wonder land with those cute houses and beautiful man made things such as a big ginger bread boy with lights and the Hensel and Gretel kind of sugar cottage homes.

The more interesting homes are the ones with colourful lights decorated to outline the shape of the homes at night and the huge man made Santa Claus on a sleigh accompanied by reindeers.

Lastly, I hope it is not too early to wish all my friends...... Merry Christmas!

Is it just me?

Ever since I upgraded my blog to the beta version, I have been getting negative feedbacks from my friends/bloggers on how difficult it is for them to leave comments. A fellow blogger, blackfeline said when she signs in to leave comments on my blog, a message will tell her that her password is incorrect. This I guess happens when the person is still registered under the old blogger version and planning to leave a comment on a beta version. I did some testing and realized that there are two other options if you do plan to leave comments in beta version blogs. What I have discovered are as follows:-

Sign in as others

Choose your nick as name and paste your URL on the web address

OR

Sign in as anonymous

Signoff your nickname/url manually at the bottom of your comment.

I hope Blogger is well aware about this issue ( I hope so!!) and that they are in the midst of rectifying this ASAP. I wonder whether I am the only one facing this problem. Anyone else??.

I cried buckets…..

I finally found the right time to catch CINTA the movie. I did a last minute phone booking for the movie at TGV, OneU. However, when I wanted to collect the tickets, the girl at the counter told me the booking was already cancelled as I was late. Yayaya..it was not my fault, blame it on the traffic jam along LDP. But before I could react to that, she smiled and said “but we still have a few seats left, do you still want them?”. Yup, of course eh!

I fell in love with the CINTA movie instantly!!! The movie is just sweet and lovely. The storyline is simple yet very meaningful. It not only made me laugh my lungs out, it also made me smile, frown and most importantly, it made me cry buckets. I remember watching an interview on “Wanita Hari Ini, TV3 on the second day of Raya with the main cast. Rahim Razali said something that I totally agree especially after watching the movie. He said about how each and every one of us would be able to relate to at least one of the five interrelated stories. Ohh in my case, I can sooo relate to most of the stories. I could relate from the perspective of being a grand daughter, elder sis, a woman, a friend etc.

The characters of Amin, Ruby (Fatimah Abu Bakar) and Cikgu Elyas (Rahim Razali) really touched my heart. I am sure me and the rest of the viewers could relate to the story of Cikgu Elyas especially when it involves a sick grandfather. Cikgu Elyas has Alzheimers and his grandson (Amin) was advised by the doctor to send his grand dad to a special home as his illness needs special supervision. I cried because he reminds me of my late grand father.

The story of Harris (Rashidi Ishak) and Airin (Rita Rudani) also made me cringe. Imagine someone, you have always love ever since you were 18 and have a beautiful daughter with, returns back from work one day and tells you that she met another guy. She doesn’t love you the way she loves the other guy. She loves you like a friend or brother. Believe me this happens, in fact it happened to my close friend years ago. I saw how it crushed her. I could feel Harris’s disappointment and hurt.

Another story I can’t forget is the relationship between a devoted sister, Dyan (Nanu) and her rebellious brother, Dhani(Que Haidar). The sacrifices one makes for the other and how one can be a strong career woman but when it comes to love and emotions, one just settles for less.

The two other stories were good as well. Go watch the movie!

I believe all of us have CINTA in us. CINTA towards our other half, friends, parents, siblings, grandparents, and the list goes on and on. What matters is we should always believe in CINTA as CINTA is God’s gift to all of us.

My favourite was when Cikgu Elyas said these words- Isteri itu bukan hak milik suami tetapi ISTERI itu ANUGERAH Tuhan.

My weekend was definitely filled with CINTA… :)
Take care folks!

Oxygen please....

Today was definitely a nightmare for me. I was stuck in a crowded LRT train early in the morning with a guy who had a strong body odour. I hate it when one doesn’t bother about personal hygiene. Oh boy, it was a terrible experience for me especially when I had no room to move and the air ventilation was pretty bad. The sardine can crowd was unbearable. The smell and less fresh air made me go all dizzy through out the journey. Ooooh and I am sure I was not the only one who couldn’t take the foul smell because the lady on his other side kept looking at him and at the same time kept playing with her nose. Sigh!!

So folks, I guess the moral of the story is never leave home without your Rexona, Speed Stick, Perfumes, Deodorants.....etc. Believe me, BODY ODOUR can really kill someone! Muuahaha :P

Have a wonderful weekend people.

A quiet one..

I am so glad I had a quiet and relaxing weekend this time round. After what I went through on Friday! Yikes, the crowd was crazy in KLCC and traffic was bad all a long Jln Ampang. After being stuck for half an hour, my friend and I then realized that the jam was due to the sudden closure to the KLCC car parks and cars were force to find other alternatives. (I only found out today that the massive stream of people were mainly due to some PC Fair!!!!).

Our mission on that crazy Friday night was to watch Casino Royale at KLCC. We had to drive in circles until we decided to just park the car in Ampang Park and take the LRT to KLCC. But then again luck was not on our side when tickets for the BOND movie were sold out. Yayaya…some people just keep running out of luck eh. We opted for the movie Déjàvu instead. Hehe…and honestly, it was a good choice because I discovered later that Denzel Washington was the main guy…yippie!

I had no expectations of the Déjà vu movie as I was clueless on the story line as well as the actors. Only found out about Denzel Washington when my friend told me a few minutes before the movie started…..Muuahaha :D. Apart from the impressive and beautiful acting skills from Washington, I found the movie to be a little bit unrealistic. I just couldn’t see the importance of the time travel theory in a murder/bombing situation and the meddling with the past. Although the movie agrees to the theory of Science and Physics that we can actually send a message or note to the past. It also believes that we can actually travel to the past and change things. Nonetheless, I still think it was too much to comprehend in a 2 hour movie. So for you guys and gals who are into action pack thriller, science, physics and time travel, go watch the movie!

My next movie hopefully will be CINTA, it is a Malay movie with 5 interrelated stories. My friends can’t seem to stop promoting the movie. Hmm, I do hope it is worth the money or I will end up strangling someone.…hehe!

So I guess for the next few days, me, myself and I will be busy catching up on movies and reading. Oh talk about reading, Kinokuniya is having their bargain deals again (where you buy a second book on top of their selected range of books for a 20percent discount). I grabbed the opportunity and bought a book by Sean Thomas. The book entitled, "Millions of Women are waiting to Meet You" tells the poignant, hilarious and intriguing story of Sean Thomas himself when he was asked to venture into internet dating. Reading the first few chapters was definitely enjoyable and I can’t wait to complete the whole book.

Here is to a great week ahead. For those of you who are still on holiday, Happy Hols!