Teka pinggan

Ketika Girls' Day Out kelmarin hari, kami telah menjamu selera di sebuah restoran Morroco berdekatan dengan marina di Barbican. Sungguh sedap sekali, lebih-lebih lagi dengan adanya insan yang sudi belanja (Thank you , Ina.......). Antara juadah yang telah kami nikmati adalah Chicken Couscous, Prawn Couscous dan juga Couscous with Meatballs. Sedap, sedap sekali. Dengan ini, saya mengumumkan, pertandingan meneka pinggan. Setiap pembaca dialu-alukan untuk menyertai. Namun begitu, tuan punya pinggan adalah dilarang sama sekali untuk mengambil bahagian. Silalah, sila caruk pinggan siapakah itu?

Senarai nama tuan punya pinggan:

• AlinYussuff
• HalwaniHarun
• AineeAdnan
• InaGerik (Nama sebenarnya bukan Gerik ya, ini adalah untuk mengelakkan salah seorang tuan punya pinggan menjadi teruja dengan nama sebenar si tuan punya nama , juga untuk mengelakkan tuan punya nama berasa teruja dengan nama sendiri)

Arah pusingan jam: AlinYussuff, InaGerik, AineeAdnan, HalwaniHarun

Ini pula senarai pinggan-pinggan nya:

Pinggan A

Pinggan B

Pinggan C

Pinggan D

Hadiahnya, sila lihat gambar di bawah. Terliur bukan. Itulah Canelloni. Lengkap dengan tomato ceri, bebola daging, sayur-sayuran dan keju yang cair. Setelah melihat gambar, Encik Omar Khayyam mengatakan, 'Gile appetizing, terus lapar perut jadiknya.' Ya, Encik Omar, memang lazat Canelloni kami semalam.

Apa lagi kawan-kawan, tekalah pinggan-pinggan di atas. Hadiahnya bukan sekadar gambar Canelloni sahaja. Lebih daripada itu. Sila lah.

Stardust Part II

ainee: u igt x quotation i smlm
ainee: apetah
ainee: psl bintang2
alinyussuff: bile kat langit bersinar, masuk kebumi jadik batu
alinyussuff: amende ntah
alinyussuff: gitu la
alinyussuff: the wall tu atmosphere
ainee: erk
ainee: hahah
ainee: saintis habes
alinyussuff: ye le
alinyussuff: u ckp tu semua smlm
ainee: i rase boleh apply
ainee: utk perempuan yg put her position high above
ainee: and those yg telah gagal meletakkan dirinya di darjat yg tinggi
alinyussuff: ape?
alinyussuff: anytime buleh jatuh?
ainee: jadilah batu buruk yg tak berguna
alinyussuff: explainnn
alinyussuff: yeah
alinyussuff: ok paham
ainee: good girl
ainee: sila caruk2
alinyussuff: yg batu pon sbnrnye leh bersinar
alinyussuff: auuuwww
ainee: hikhik
ainee: no star can shine with a broken heart
ainee: so fix your heart
ainee: yeah

Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are?

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UPDATED

Ainee managed to recall her quotation from last night.

'Bintang bile kat atas langit cantik bercahaya, bila dah jatuh ke bumi jadi batu yang tak berguna.'

Pesanan dari penaja (Ainee jugaklah),

'Jadilah bintang di langit. Jangan jadi tahi bintang'

Stardust Part I

A philosopher once asked: are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human? Pointless really. Do the stars gaze back? Now that's the question.

No star can shine with a broken heart.

What do stars do? They shine.

You know when I said I knew little about love? That wasn’t true. I know a lot about love. I’ve seen it, centuries and centuries of it, and it was the only thing that made watching your world bearable. All those wars. Pain, lies, hate… It made me want to turn away and never look down again. But when I see the way that mankind loves… You could search to the furthest reaches of the universe and never find anything more beautiful. So yes, I know that love is unconditional. But I also know that it can be unpredictable, unexpected, uncontrollable, unbearable and strangely easy to mistake for loathing, and… What I’m trying to say, Tristan is… I think I love you. Is this love, Tristan? I never imagined I’d know it for myself. My heart… It feels like my chest can barely contain it. Like it’s trying to escape because it doesn’t belong to me any more. It belongs to you. And if you wanted it, I’d wish for nothing in exchange - no gifts. No goods. No demonstrations of devotion. Nothing but knowing you loved me too. Just your heart, in exchange for mine.

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Stardust, a movie must watch.

A mixture of romance, adventure, comedy and fantasy. It's worth your two hours. And I'm just in love with the movie.

Balloon and MAC.

Hi, can I have a balloon?No, not yet.(setelah ditipu 18 kali) Here you go.I got a flower! I got a flower!
Half an hour later, Ainee burst one of its petals. (Jahat kan..Haha, I tau you tak sengaja..)

-->More pictures on yesterday's Girls' Day Out in Ainee's flickr

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Ainee: Prison Break tu ABC kan?
Alin: Eh, tak la. CNN.
*both rofl*
Alin: Prison Break tu FOX la. Tak, I nak cakap bukan ABC je. Terkeluar CNN.

December issue.

What will happen in the next few weeks?

• I'm starting my job as a mail sorter in Royal Mail on Monday, a week earlier than expected. I hope that it will be less tiring than last year now that I am on the afternoon shift. Night shift was crazy. It took me three days just to adjust my sleeping pattern.
• I will be on a trip to London next weekend.
  
• I have another assignment to hand in on Friday the 7th of December.
• An exam on the 10th of December.
• I will be off the job on the 21st of December, just in time to get some last minute shopping before flying home.
• I'll ship the rest of my stuff on the 26th of December and I hope that I will only need to ship two boxes. But I doubt it.
  
• Finally, I will be flying home on the 28th December at 10pm (UK time). This time it's back for good. Yay!

Hope that everything will go well as planned. Can't wait to be home, nak ziarah kubur daddy. :)

p/s: I've handed in the dissertation. What a relief. Not forgetting the fact that my HDD broke down a week before dateline which results in re-typing almost 75% of the dissertation.

Bye bye dissey.

pp/s: By the way, this is entry number 120. I missed thelilmindofmine's 1st birthday as well as the 100th entry. 120 pon boleh lah. Hehe.

Saya rindu ayah saya.

Semalam, 17hb November 2007.
Genaplah enam bulan pemergiannya.
Tak terkata kerinduan di hati. Terlalu tebal.
Masih belum puas dengan kasih sayang yang dicurahkan.
Masih menginginkannya.

'Ku harungi hari demi hari, bersama wajah tak mungkin akan kembali.'

I miss.

Al-Fatehah.
Semoga rohnya dicucuri rahmat.
Amin.

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*UPDATED*

Sesudah entri dipos, air mata mula bertakung. Ah, telefon Mama. Bagitahu, sangat rindu sama Ayah.

Tut tut, tut tut, tut tut.
Hello, Alin.
Hello, Mama kat mana?
On the way nak pergi sekolah. Kenapa?
Semalam 6 bulan. (air mata menitis laju).
Sekejap je kan, 6 bulan dah. (turut menangis).

Biarlah kami menangis.
Kami rindukan orang yang sama.


Air mata menitis lagi.
Ya Allah, berikanlah ku kekuatan. Tabahkanlah hati ini.

Orkid-lah!

Me: Maa, Alin beli buku Nigella Lawson dengan Jamie at Home. Tengok-tengok resipi kat situ.
Mama: Buku ape?!?
Me: Ala, Nigella, pompuan yang masak-masak tu.
Mama: Oh.
Me: Dengan Jamie at Home.
Mama: Oh, Jamie Oliver tu.
Me: Ha'ah. Kan selalu kita tengok dalam TV kan dia petik-petik, cabut-cabut je dari garden dia kan, pastu terus masak kan.
Mama: Ha'ah.
Me: Yang Alin beli ni buku rancangan yang tu la. Dalam tu ada ajar macam mana nak tanam sayur-sayur, kentang, bawang semua. Mama pon boleh belajar.
Mama: Haa, oklah tu. Nanti dia pon boleh belajar tanam orkid dengan Mama.
Me: ........ Hahahahaha. *gelak guling-guling*

The good girl.

We were sitting together at the kitchen when Ainee told us about one of her childhood act, that she stuck a chewing gum to a friend's hijab. Wani then told us about the day she went cycling that her father had to go out and find her. I told them that I have nothing similar during my childhood years. Whatever happened to me were mostly accidental and the scars that I have were not caused by being naughty.

Many may realised that I have two scars from stitches above my right eyes. I got the first scar when I was about four or five. At that time, I have started helping my mother in the kitchen. I remembered putting a chair next to the stove and wanting to stir her cooking. My brother's nanny wanted to get something out of the drawer and as she was pulling out the drawer, I fell and my head hit the cabinet. Hence, I was taken to a clinic to get a few stitches just below the right eyebrow. I wouldn't consider that to be my fault or I was naughty, I was just helping out. I was in Standard One when I got the second scar. I was standing at the door waiting for the teacher to come in. The wind was blowing hard. It blew the door and the door hit me right on my head. The hit left me with stitches just above my right eyebrow. I wasn't being naughty, I got the scar because the wind was blowing. Ainee kata parut sebab kena tiup angin.

Once during kindergarten, I fell out of the van that took me to school, and I'm sure that I didn't jump out of the van or did any stunt that caused me to fall. I'm sure that a friend has pushed me even though I have told her to stop pushing a few times. That fall caused a few of my teeth to fall out of its place. And I guess that's the reason why my teeth are well structured, compared to my other siblings.

When I was about five, my family including my mother's youngest brother went to Komtar in Penang to shop. My mother was busy looking at the clothes while I was busy walking in and out of the hanging clothes when suddenly, I couldn't find my mother. I stood quietly next to a mannequin until one of the promoter was passing by and realised that I wasn't with my parents. I was then took to the missing child counter. I remembered not crying at all until the announcement was made. Not long after that, I saw my parents coming, laughing that I went missing. They didn't blame me either. For what I know both my mother and her youngest brother blamed each other. My mother thought that I have followed him to the toilet and he thought that I was with her all the time.

I remembered being the quiet little girl. I remembered that people used to say that I have gold in my mouth just because I didn't talk very much. I remembered waiting quietly at the stairs for my mother, after I woke up from my nap everyday. I don't remember my parents or other siblings recalled my bad behavior when I was little, nothing that I could think of. Both Ainee and Wani agreed that maybe I was easy to take care of because I was a good girl. Maybe that's true. And if it's true, I have to agree. Tee hee hee.

The good girl with her late father.

Saya pula bila?

Kementerian Sains, Teknologi dan Inovasi ingin menjadikan 10hb Oktober sebagai 'Hari Angkasawan', bertujuan untuk memperingati tarikh Dr Sheikh Muzaphar dihantar ke angkasa lepas. Kemudian, terdapat juga cadangan untuk membeli kapsul Sayouz yang akan dijadikan tugu peringatan. Saya hanya terfikir, bila pula tudung Sheikh (ala tudung Mawi) akan dijual di Jalan TAR untuk semua peminat wanita Dr Sheikh Muzaphar? Atau, jika Dr Sheikh Muzaphar menjadi tokoh inspirasi dan aspirasi negara untuk golongan muda, bila pula kita akan melihat topi keledar motosikal ala aksesori kepala sut angkasa lepas berada di pasaran untuk dipakai oleh semua mat rempit di Malaysia? Bila ye?

Mejar Dr Faiz Khaleed pula kena tunggu sehingga tahun 2011 untuk berkahwin atas alasan beliau mungkin tidak dapat menumpukan perhatian kepada latihan sekiranya terlalu teringatkan isteri dan anak-anak. Saya kena tunggu sampai bila pula ya?


Just a piece of my thought.

Press Conference: I'm not a trophy wife.

I, Fazlin Farieza Yussuff, or better known as Alin, will now make a statement that I am not a trophy wife. I have never been and will never be. I was proud to be called trophy wife because I have misunderstood the term. All this while, I thought the term 'trophy wife' means a wife whom a husband is very proud of, who is capable of doing anything and everything under the sun or a wife who is like Bree in Desperate Housewives. However, I have read the definition of the term 'trophy wife' on Wikipedia, and I was shocked to discover the truth. I have never been taken as a second wife nor a third. Therefore, I will retrieve the statement I made earlier. I am NOT a trophy wife. If you have further questions, kindly post yours in the comment section and I will have them answered as soon as possible. Thank you.


p/s: Thank you to Ainee for linking me to the real definition of trophy wife.

terlalu cinta

Z was describing her love life to me.

Z: I was up on a plane and was being attended by a handsome steward, so I was happy. I jumped out of the plane to sky dive and enjoyed the view very much, so I was happy again. Then, "Oh sh*t!" My parachute didn't work. I fell hard near a cliff and I stood up soon after. I noticed that the view was marvellous and so I happy again. Not long after that, I stumbled down the cliff. Tergolek-golek. As soon as I reach the ground, pretty flowers are all there waiting for me. And so, I was happy again.
Me: And I think there's venus fly trap somewhere among the pretty flowers.
Z: (ignoring my statement) So the conclusion is, nak happy kena parah sikit, mana boleh happy sentiasa.
Me: Haha.....

I can't seem to agree to what Z is doing to her life because I cant stand watching her being hurt again. But, she is happy doing whatever she's been doing. She knows that I don't agree with her doings and yet she wants me to support whatever she does. So, she has all my love, support and prayers. Semoga terbuka pintu hati Z untuk menerima lelaki lain. Amin.

Jangan dekat atau jangan datang kepadaku lagi
Aku semakin tersiksa karena tak memilikimu
Kucoba jalani hari dengan pengganti dirimu
Tapi hatiku selalu berpihak lagi padamu

Mengapa semua ini terjadi kepadaku

Tuhan maafkan diri ini
Yang tak pernah bisa menjauh dari angan tentangnya
Namun apalah daya ini
Bila ternyata sesungguhnya aku terlalu cinta dia…

Tapi hatiku selalu berpihak lagi padamu

Mengapa semua ini terjadi kepadaku

Tuhan maafkan diri ini
Yang tak pernah bisa menjauh dari angan tentangnya
Namun apalah daya ini
Bila ternyata sesungguhnya aku terlalu cinta dia

Mengapa semua ini terjadi kepadaku

Tuhan maafkan diri ini
Yang tak pernah bisa menjauh dari angan tentangnya
Namun apalah daya ini
Bila ternyata sesungguhnya aku terlalu cinta dia…

Aku terlalu cinta dia…

chocolates

More chocolate are in stock! Yay!

Aini reminded me in her last comment that dark chocolate is better than the normal chocolate since more cocoa means less sugar and milk, hence less effects on our teeth and weight. Yesterday, I was badly craving for Ferrero Rocher that I asked a friend to get me two boxes of Ferrero Rocher (since they are on rollback) and a bar of Cadbury's Bournville Classic Dark Chocolate (to make me feel less guilty for buying another two boxes of Ferrero Rocher). I realised that Classic Dark Chocolate is so delicious that I went to ASDA after class today and got myself a bar of Cadbury's Bournville Deeply Dark and another of Divine's Dark Chocolate. Hehe.

Banyak betul. I think these chocolates are going to last till the next PMS. :P

I felt less guilty now that I eat dark chocolate instead of milk chocolate. :D

Plus, I love what's written at the back of Cadbury's packaging.

'It's chocolate. It's good. It's just really good chocolate.'

Good, eih?



*Ferrero Rocher itu masih dijeling tajam cause I think they are baaaaddddd..Dark chocolate baiiikkkkkk..hahahaha*

please go away.

I am now taking a break from writing descriptions of language activities for my dissertation. It seems that the break is taking forever and I find it very hard to start writing again. *sigh*

And at the same time, PMS is eating me up rapidly. I sleep a lot. I become emotional and hangin instantly on small things. I constantly feel hungry and wanting to eat. I crave for sweet things, which resulted in buying 4 caramel puddings and baking a cheesecake the other day. I eat chocolates non-stop. I had just eaten three Ferrero Rocher, one after another, and I have already planned of buying another two boxes since ASDA is putting Ferrero Rocher on rollback. 2 boxes of 16 for GBP 5. I have also been thinking about chocolate cake a lot. The one with a creamy chocolate icing layer in the middle and topped with delicious melting chocolate. And right now, I am thinking about a large mug of my favourite vanilla tea with milk and I am trying not to make myself one. I already had it this morning and I limit myself to only one mug per day.

HHAARRRGGGHHH!!! *pulls hair*

I need help. I need someone to tell me to stop eating.

I know this will go away. Please go away quickly.

Scott Simons's Umbrella

Scott Simons

I fell in love with this version since the first time I listened to it. Smart.



You have my heart
And we'll never be worlds apart
May be in magazines
But you'll still be my star
Baby cause in the dark
You can't see shiny cars
And that's when you need me there
With you I'll always share

[Chorus]
When the sun shines, we’ll shine together
Told you I'll be here forever
Said I'll always be a friend
Took an oath I'ma stick it out till the end
Now that it's raining more than ever
Know that we'll still have each other
You can stand under my umbrella
You can stand under my umbrella

Under my umbrella

These fancy things, will never come in between
You're part of my entity, here for Infinity
When the war has took it's part
When the world has dealt it's cards
If the hand is hard, together we'll mend your heart

[Chorus]
When the sun shines, we’ll shine together
Told you I'll be here forever
Said I'll always be a friend
Took an oath I'ma stick it out till the end
Now that it's raining more than ever
Know that we'll still have each other
You can stand under my umbrella
You can stand under my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh)
Under my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh)
Under my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh)
Under my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh eh eh eh)

You can run into my arms
It's okay don't be alarmed
Come into me
There's no distance in between our love
So go on and let the rain pour
Because

[Chorus]
When the sun shines, we’ll shine together
Told you I'll be here forever
Said I'll always be a friend
Took an oath I'ma stick it out till the end
Now that it's raining more than ever
Know that we'll still have each other
You can stand under my umbrella
You can stand under my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh)
Under my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh)
Under my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh)
Under my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh eh eh eh)

Strawberry Cheese Cake

I am currently waiting for the cake to cook in the oven. And I have a deep feeling that the cake wont turn out the way I was hoping it will. Well, to tell you the truth, when I was mixing the ingredient, I really thought that it wont turn out well, jadi ke tak kek ni, betul ke macam ni, since I simply mixed everything up into a bowl. But I acted confident, yakin, macam Dr. Sheikh Muzaphar tu cakap, 'I have to believe that I am the one.' Hak hak.

I think the cake looks prettiest before it went into the oven. *sigh* And I wont give out the recipe. Kek macam tak jadik, buat apa mau bagi resipi. :D

Comel kan..Siap ade swirl2 strawberry. Too bad bukan begini comel rupanya setelah siap.

p/s: The cake is done and have just ate some. Rasa ok sudah. Appearance cake saja yang tak meyakinkan. Hahaha. Should have used the recipe I have. Gatai tak mau ikut. *long sigh*