Dia Mai Dah........

Hey hey hey.....you all miss me?

Intro macam lah artis sendu yang buat kemunculan semula ekkk  :)


Satu: Malas nak update. Yang ni tak sapa boleh tolong! Masa dok jalan2, idea mencurah......mai dok depan computer......idea Hang! Habis nak tulis apa????


Then dok communicate dengan kawan maya makcik....blog dia pun masuk freezer macam makcik jugak.

Kami dok motivate sesama sendiri lah.......Amelia dah publish, makcik masih sejuk.

Yes, hari ni semangat berkobar....kobar...kobar...(repeat till fade.. :))


5 mar 2016:

Impromptu(sort of)  reunion gang skolah menengah.

3 sahabat dari KL dah beli tiket  ETS.
Sorang kawan kat sini offered hotel stay....
Makcik offered lunch - sebelum kami bergerak  ke hotel

Update status dalam our group whatsapp...........

Sorang demi sorang menyatakan hasrat yang join...

Sudahnya jadi 25 orang!

Wah, ni macam sudah 'large-scale' plan

So dalam kurang satu minggu, we all sebelah Penang ni got our heads together.

All converged to my house......
Zu arranged lodging, Norijah handle nasi ulam, roti jala, lopis
Me buat desserts, roast lamb & order laska
Rozy, Zizah, Shida jemput 8 orang yang tiba naik train

 Pit: first to arrive

Ada yang dah 39 tahun tak jumpa! Bayangkan.
Apa pun, bila dah jumpa kawan2, jangan tipu lah....tok tok pun boleh jadi budak semula :))

And that's what exactly happened to us..........

Pakcik pun kebetulah dari sekolah yang sama, batch yang sama, jadi semua dia kenal, so no hal lah.


Gelak sembang makan minum bergambar doa selamat.........hari pun beransur gelap.....

 

Separuh pulang ke rumah masing2, sepuluh "budak2 cantik" tinggal belakang nak bermalam & sambung gebang.

Bilik apartment yang di book ada 2 bilik...........nak himpit 10 orang??

Yes, himpit tak pa, bawak bantal je tambah............

Pakcik offered to stay at the apartment while we ladies can continue meronggeng.

TERIMA KASIH PAKCIK yang sporting......

Pakcik dok promote Mangga Asamboi :))

Lepas pakcik beredar ke penginapannya untuk malam itu, kami pun tukar uniform lah....mandi segar and pakailah baju 'malam' pulak.

Zu buat kejutan....bagi hadiah kat 3 orang yang pakai baju kelawaq (hehehe ..read Kaftan/baju tidur ya) yang paling lusuh. Haaaa...tudia, lusuh lusuh pun hadiah dia tupperware jugak tau, bukan tipuware

Memang fun.

Contoh baju kelawaq (google search)

Semua nak tidoq sekali, tak mau masuk bilik, so hampaqlah tilam/toto kat hall bawah, pakat book tempat masing2....gebang lagi............lampu dah malap, ada yang dah senyap.......

Makcik nak sangat tunjuk tempat tidoq kami tu.....best ala camping.......tapi tak boleh lah noo....

12.30tengahmalam.....FBO kata siku ketaq, dah sudah, apa hal ni fbo? (fbo = panggilan kami padanya masa skolah dulu)

Dia kata dia jab insulin tanpa makan tadi........laaaaa...awat tak habaq.

Jan, Zurol, Jah pun bangun teman fbo makan........jah and jan go sleep; fbo and zurol continue sembang lagi.....

Dah warning awai2, alarm semua OFF, sebab azan subuh boleh dengar jelas...........

4.30 pagi, satu alarm bunyi........semua orang terbangun kecuali tuan punya alarm! Cemana tu??

Lepas subuh pakat sembang lagi......minum kopi makan roti-benggali-teloq-ketaq.....kat rumah

9.30 pagi ahad; 3 lagi join us for breakfast at Kayu Nasi Kandar...jalan kaki je dari rumah makcik...

                             Roti tisu                                   Abg mamak kasi tempat khas; boleh gebang kuat2

10.30 pagi; time to send Zurol yang fly all the way from Bintulu just for this get-together.

Zurol (left) all the way from Bintulu... 

with Zu; yang initiate this gathering to happen

Lepas tu shoot terus ke Penang Road; ronda ronda pekena cendol and rojak...


Time to say goodbye.............

Konvoi pulak ke train station B'worth untuk hantar last batch......

Seronok sangat dapat berkumpul macam ni.Selalu pun ada kumpulan kecik yang jumpa tapi so far yang ni lah yang terbesar, alhamdulillah, moga persahabatan berkekalan.



Note: Mungkin setengah tak berapa nak faham sebab makcik guna bahasa kampung, tak pa lah, just see the pictures and imagine people having FUN!

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Quote: Muhammad Ali

McK

Sugar and Spice....

What a way to usher the new year

Received a virtual bouquet in my email.............

From a friend who's enjoying winter in Canada. Thank You seribu....bila mau datang sini kasi saya bunga betul ?.......hahahaha you know who you are.



Lewat pagi, makcik&pakcik headed north.......ke Alor Setar bersama 2 lagi kawan.

Tujuan ialah melawat cikgu sekolah menengah kami yang ditimpa musibah.

Rumahnya dan dua rumah bersebelahan telah musnah dalam kebakaran.

Moga cikgu Sofiah & keluarga tabah......
cakap senang la kan, diri yang menanggung, hanya Allah yang tahu

 3  rumah, 4 kereta, 1 motor musnah

Pakcik menghulur sikit bantuan pada cikgu sofiah.........

 hasil sumbangan kawan2 yg dibank-in kpd makcik

Cikgu emon (duduk kiri) turut datang 

bila dapat tahu kami2 ni sampai.........

a reunion sort-of bagi kami 6 orang..

 sorang lagi tu pastilah belakang camera kan

Kata cikgu sofiah:
cikgu redha walaupun sedih dengan apa yang terjadi. Bila dpt tau hangpa nak mai, cikgu tak boleh tidoq, macam dapat semangat and same time dok terbayang muka hangpa masa kecik kecik dulu.....
(hahaha...dok terbayang kami masa kecik..dari tingkatan 1......duduk asrama.....tergedik gedik...)

Disini lah kami membesar, meniti keremajaan

Tiba tiba rasa macam nak pusing jam, nak balik kesitu!


Balik dari melawat cikgu, singgah pulak pekan Sg Petani.....

Pekena rojak and ais kacang mesin taboq milo.......

perghhhh i tell youuu

Kat mana?? Riverside @Stesen bas lama pekan Sungai Petani

Sekian

McK

Ladies Day Out

The day will be remembered for a very long time definitely. YES it was a long-planned outing & only materialised on 6th august 2009, due to our commitments, being a wife, mother, guardian.....

At 9 am - Dolly, Noraini and myself took off from Penang after a heavy breakfast of nasi lemak/teh tarik @ Kayu Nasi Kandar. There must be only one driver & dolly was.....

dolly at the driver's seat

Arrived Tambun @ ~ 11 am  to fetch another 'che kiah' - Yati.  Eh 'che kiah' doesn't sound so good in this trip story, so i say we are the 'lopez' lah, feel sexy sikit hmmm.

We chit chat a bit with Yati's hubby, Suhaimi (nak tinggal kan..kena buat baik sikit) and after 'pesan-ing' suruh jaga ayam&itik, we headed to our destination, exchanging stories along the way, only Noraini seemed mellow-she slept. 

Oh ya, me forget. I also have to bribe my abang troy with goodies, so he didn't feel so 'kena tinggal'. I left him with many kinds of chocolates/wafers & drinks in the comfort of our room! And I am pretty sure Dolly & Noraini did the same - anybody would.

We reached Cameron Highlands  about an hour and a half later and checked into a 4-to-a-room Rainbow Hotel. Not a problem to check into any hotel during weekdays I suppose, infact we got at least 60% off the room rate.

at the lobby

two 'lopez' posing in room

After settling down, went out for lunch at the food court - a 3 minute walk from the hotel. Yati had rice (perempuan melayu terakhir nih, kena cari nasi juga) & the other 3 'lopez' (he he-sexy) settled on bihun sup & fresh orange.

@ Brincang food court

bihun sup pucat (cilinya kat mangkuk kecik tu)

Went up to the room at the top of the stairs again (macam title lagu Kenny Rogers pulak!) before traveling towards Tanah Rata.

Look see look see, we stopped at a strawberry farm to tengok2 and sempatlah menjamah strawberries topped with cream & chocolate drizzle (@RM10). 

sweet, sour, creamy strawberries

Lagi jalan.....stop pulak tengok2. Mana boleh tengok saja...tangan mesti gatai punya. Bought some goodies:- jam, dried fruits, tea etc.

Note: There are lots of shops/stalls along the road selling these items.

some of the goodies

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Lagi jalan......we stopped to check on fresh strawberries. Thought of buying on friday on our way down & was told by the lady.."oooo esok lu tak dapat ini price lagi tau, orang ramai..." obviously the price would go up on friday. Lots of other stuff on sale; fruits, vege, flowers etc but we only borong strawberries, kalu sorang dah 5-6 packets, 4 of us?....

colourful flowers on sale  

Getting dizzy from shopping spree...we drove to Strawberry Moments, a cafe ala ala secret recipe, nak buat apa lagi...to enjoy the foodlah. This cafe is near our hotel actually, jalan pun boleh.

Unfortunately, there's nothing much there except for strawberry strudel, was told that fresh cakes come in every saturday...so we were 2 days short.

   Strawberry Moments (red signage). I 'import' this pic from tamciakpo.blogspot.com-tq

 the normal spread that was absent during our visit (pic from tamciakpo.blogspot.com)

By this time, Noraini has already 'charged-up' (by the cake/chocs probably). It was near maghrib, we went back to our hotel. We were greeted with a very heavy downpour and you imagine the 'lopez' taking ~ 75 meter sprint from the parking lot to hotel. Oh no, we travel light with only one tudung, one jeans....grrrr. 

Dinner was steamboat at "Fauzi Tomyam", an eatery also a 3 minute walk from the hotel. Yati & I felt a bit cold whereas Noraini & Dolly were ok. The steamboat and teh tarik warmed us up. Gelak pi gelak mai, time to go back.

Continued our chit chat in the room, this time with pepsi, nuts, chocolate & sweet corn as dessertsNsnacks.

It was during these 'sembang-sembang lopez' that terms like inspector gadget, serial killer, secret agent came up.....we do feel like charlie's angel though...

We sembang sampai one by one zzzzzzzzzzzz, supposed i was the last one to doze off.  It was again drizzling outside, we left our window open (not that cold anyway)

Dolly/Yati on one double bed & Noraini/me on the other.

Lepas subuh? Tidur lagi...no washing to do, no breakfast to prepare, no schedule to meet...

Breakfast was bread & half boiled eggs, downed with (again!) teh tarik. After two hrs of 'sembang lopez', we cucimata/flush duit buying t-shirts at the shop nearby. No photos here as my camera mogok kot & forgot to bring my phone along. And its time to checkout!

On way down, Mck pulak pening sikit....stop at a roadside shop to rest....& shop! (nama pun shop kan). Last minute purchases....as usual, the dried stuffs/jam/juices etc etc.

noraini, yati, dolly & mck posing...thank you abang apek yg tolong snap photo ni

Belum last stop lagi tau.....we stopped again to buy rebung/petai at the roadside. He he mck ni, pening/sakit perut pun sakan lagi....

Rebung&petai were our last purchase in CH. Weather was good, cloudy but not raining as we drove down, still talking & talking.....

Dropped Yati at her place & we drove to Taiping where dolly visited her son @ MRSM & we had our late lunch @ KFC.

Arrived Penang safely at about 7pm, thanks to our F1 driver (phewww-boleh lap peluh kat dahi tau-u know what i mean...)

Pst pst: already discussing our next don't-know-when & where trip.

Conclusion: It was a very memorable trip together, being in the company of people you're comfortable with (apart from your family)