Friday 17 April 2009

never too far

yes technology!thanks for the many great cool gadgets and the sophisticated systems that support the programs available today, our loved ones will never be too far too apart anymore.

mama is one call away. baba is one skype away. milla is one text away. izzat is one ym away. mun is one facebook away and the list goes on and on to hundreds and thousands of them out there.

looking at my cell. silence.

praying in my heart. 'please please please.please ring'

one long silence again. fingers crossed. ahah this tense? dramatic sungguh!

'please?'

tut tut.

no its not ringing. its my message alert.

hmm text?

okay i guess text is good enough.

'i dah touch down girona'

and i smiled. yeayy terbaik lah Lebara! *big grin*

so it is true. u can be in oxford, or london or kl or even barcelona, but ure never too far away.

i like the idea. never too far :)

Tuesday 14 April 2009

stolen

im a sleepy head.and i dread waking up in the morning. especially when i only had few hours sleep in the night. especially when its cold in the morning and im all curled up under the duvet when suddenly the alarm did its magic - buzz my head baby! arghhhh i came to the point that i get sooo immuned with the tone, i'll just keep on sleeping as if im tone deaf and the annoying alarm isnt next to my ears.

though this is not always the case. sometimes, i have another alarm buzzing my ears early in the morning with a song that got stuck in my head and makes me want to sing along with it. sometimes it will go on snooze mode for about 4 or 5 times before i actually wake up - not merely opening my eyes but sitting up in my bed gazing out the window. heehoo thats an achievement okay.

anyhoo, i love the song. and for the deep meaning of it, i'de like to wake up every morning to the sound of that song as it always brings a smile on my face :)

We watch the season
Pull up its own stakes
And catch the last weekend

Of the last week

Before the gold and the glimmer have been replaced

Another sun soaked season fades away

You have stolen my heart
You have stolen my heart




help me. somebody stole my heart!

Tuesday 7 April 2009

the stove and me

so i am a good cook. and i have my own fan club. oh well i know im exaggerating but to be honest, i do have my own fans for my different dishes. just to list them down here, i think it will take me ages. hahahh exaggerating again.

hmm okayy. here goes the list that i could remember.

my first biggest fan: Hafidz! he just loves all of my dishes, anything that i cook to be exact be it telur mata kerbau or telur dadar. and just because the cook is me, it somehow tastes like telur bistik. exagaration yang melampau kan?
'you know why it is so delicious?because it is cooked with love,' so he said.
but i appreciate that. it makes me want to cook more. good psychology play huh. anyhoo, his favourite dish was ayam masak kicap. i dont know whats so special about my ayam masak kicap. logically its just fried chicken dipped in pre-cooked kicap sauce and thats all it, ready for the tummy. but he seems to love it very much and i just dont know why. ohhkaayy Hafidz, you love my dish and i love you much. *hugs*

okay fan number two; Izzat. this boy, uhmm, guy, he practically eats whatever there is on the table. but he's sleek! he's got his own unique ways to get my butt off the couch into the kitchen digging in the freezer looking for what to cook.he has his own ayat pancing and it worked on me every single time he asked me to. and when im done with the dishes only i normally realize that ive been tricked. but i love him anyways. he melts my heart by saying
'izzat teringin la nak makan ape ayam yang adah masak aritu tu.sedap laa..' or....
'bole tak adah ajar camne nak masak lauk yang adah buat aritu..'.
u one sweet thing! but dont get him wrong when he said that. he really went into the kitchen with me to help me around, oh well if not, kept me accompanied. but he has his one particular dish that he likes very much that is... i dont know what its called but it is actually ayam that i cook with chilli and some daun limau purut towards the end. he likes it very much and always, he found his way to get me start banging the pots on the stove. sweet talking your own sister huh! lovesss!!!

fan number 3: baba. he especially likes it when i cook mee bandung. he likes it to the point that he'll help me preparing the dish in the kitchen. though there isnt much to do anyways because the mee bandung that i normally cook was actually ehmmm...cooked out of perencah mee bandung adami. hehe i know mengelat. but baba likes it very much and though there isnt much to do he's really keen to help around ie potong sayur sawi. but again its the same case, he will eat what ever it is thats been served on the table without complaining.
( actually there are as such; 'ni sayur ni potong besar2 macam kat kedai tercekik baba makan...' )
but nevertheless, i have always enjoyed cooking for him very much as the idea of having dinner together with mama and baba ( and sometimes other members of the family ) is what binds my heart home. oh well u might not understand this but i would really love us to have dinner together every day though sadly, this is not the case. i love baba very much. hugs n kisses and im sure im going to hurt my face kissing his cheek because of his spiky beard. hehe. superlove!!!

fan number four : milla!this woman, i love to the bits! she rocks my world but never my stomach. ahah. her specialties is mee maggi and never anything else. love love though *wink*. anyhoo, she loves my lasagne very much so, she came to my house just to learn how to bake one so she could make a special surprise birthday dish for her boyfriend then, her husband now :) . ive never seen her so anticipated with cook works but i could tell that she really did liked it very much. or at least pretended to like it so i would teach her how to make one. hehe. i like reminiscing what i had with her but all in all, living the moment to the fullest is the best thing to do just as so i could create more beautiful things to reminisce in the future. okay a bit way out of the topic but i get a bit emotional here to the thought that she's married and not mine anymore to fool around with. this woman, everlastinglove!!!

and allright, not to mention i have lots of you out there that fancied my muffin. i was known as raudhah muffin back in college. and those squeeky voice i used to have. ahah thats another chapter. i sometimes bake muffins for different purposes and i could tell the differences in their taste. if it is for fun, it normally tasted good like how it should. if i ddnt intend to bake one but i had to anyways, there will always be something wrong with it either its too dry or it get burnt in the oven. aaand if i bake them for those that i cared about, they tasted their best and as if they knew they were going to be presented to some special ones, they get themselves some nice brown tanned colour in the oven and set as perfectly as it should be with sometimes, exposing their blueberry fills pouring out from the top with those excellent smell. these are what i called superlicious muffins as they knew how to present themselves. hails and loves to the muffins. mwah mwah!

and yeah another dish that im really good at. assam pedas! to be honest, i love assam pedas so much so that i learnt how to cook it since i was in standard 5! tokmak's assam pedas was the best that i had ever tasted and i remembered requesting the dish prior making our way back to muar so that i could dig in as soon as we reached her home and kissed her hand. yeah. just ignore whoever that gets in the way. this specially emptied stomach was already craving for the delicious red coloured assam pedas served hot from the pot. *air liur tengah meleleh*
so yeah, ive been trying my hands on assam pedas dish since i was 11 that i get soo gooood at it. no kidding! its the most kacang dish i could cook now. i remembered whenever mama wants to hold any makan2 at home, my task was always to cook assam pedas. and i get loaaaadddssss of compliments even from orang melaka and johor! kembang hidung tak hengatt. so yeah, i couldnt really keep trail of how many assam pedas fan i have there but one thing im sure, i have the biggest fan here with me in London. :D :D

so yeah, who says anak dara zaman millenium tak pandai masak? (errr okayy mayyyybe hana is a special case.hehe peace! :P )
urghh.... my stomach is growling. yes, i kept a beast in my stomach and it gets hungry every so often! i should probably get going and dig in the fridge for anything to feed this monster in me.

till then~