Wednesday, 12 September 2007

After some years

Within few yrs, some of my plants which I bought in small pots from several nurseries become gigantic.... Love watching them grow, just like watching my son grows... We moved-in here, to Alam Damai in 2001 - the yr I gave birth to Akid. After some yrs settled down here...



This plant (not sure of what it's called) was 1 ft tall when I first bought it.

The 'juniors'
membiak jugak pokok ni...

So excited to see the blooms :)



If I'm not mistaken, this one is called Cow horn.
Bought it in a small pot and took years to bloom,
Only recently produced flowers ...

Wednesday, 5 September 2007

Sunway Lagoon...

Last 2 wks, we went to Sunway Lagoon, at last after being postponed for so many times... Well, we had planned for that since quite a long time ago (since last yr if not mistaken)... Luckily Akid is already 1.2m which he could enjoy most of the rides except the ones require the min ht of 1.4m.



Mcm tak puas hati suh kuar pool & ajak balik...

Walaupun dah berjam-jam main air...

































We didn't dare to try this one... scarry huh...


Wednesday, 22 August 2007

A must place for ladies...

The Eng. group flew back to KL on Sat. morning but the 3 of us, Joe, Lida & I extended our stay and booked flight back to KL on Sun. On Sat. we took shinkansen together with Rizal our resident engineer, to the factoty outlet in Sano... so sempatla jamu2 mata. Now back in KL, my boss dah mintak outstation report... nak report yg mana satu ya, Sano, Ginza, Roponggi, Tokyo tower, Akihabara, Akasuka, Ueno ker which report ni? Klu report psl tu laju la sket, ahaks...
Malas nyer nak buat kerja, too many different tasks to sort out... Dgn project PML Revamp yg kejap2 call mcm talian hayat, dgn this Imperial project, all COP, PRISCOP, IPA, meetings, engagement sessions and what not...malas nak komplen lelebih... Apa2 pun puas hati ke Sano...


Sano Premium Outlet is quite similar to the Bicester Village outlet in UK. Sempat la rembat seketul dua barang2 kat situ, biasala pompuan hehehe...

The most popular store kat situ, penuh jer orang...

Thursday, 16 August 2007

Night in Tokyo

Biasala malam2 mesti merayap punyer... Last nite we all went up to Tokyo Tower. Takder ler tinggi benor, if not mistaken the height is about 333m. The nite view from up there was magnificent... but it wasn't captured well by our 'chikai' camera... almaklum la kita org tak reti nak usung camera paparazzi gitu....



Close up view of the Tokyo Tower


ZBK, Process Principal... Nampak myself besar plak dok sebelah Kak Nab


The nite view from the tower


View of the Tokyo Tower from the main street


Tuesday, 14 August 2007

We had fun in Tokyo Disneyland

Let's the pics do the talking.... :))


At the train station in front of Tokyo Disneyland
Lida & myself

Joe, Lida & me


Castle in daylight



Castle at night


Pic at night - awesome....



Pack of people, after the night parade...

Electrical parade



Captain Jack Sparrow


Taj mahal in a Small World


Goofy , opps correction.
According to Akid this is not Goofy but Pluto...
Manalah mama tau, hehehe....


Enjoyed this one.... Thunder mountain train



Mark twain riverboat


Disney's Dreams on parade


We really had fun & enjoyed ourselves very much. It reminds me of my student time in Paris Disneyland... However, I miss Akid and kept on thinking about him whenever I passed by the fun rides for kids esp. in Toon town, small world & fantasy land... I kept thinking he'll enjoy this & that.... he'll love to see this & that esp. during parade & whenever I bumped into goofy, mickey & gang... Wish Abah & Akid were here...

Life here



So far, this is the only nite that Lida & I stay at our room after office. Normally right after office, we headed to the apartment to drop our laptops & off to some interesting places nearby by train / subway.
This evening Hasni planned to cook curry and invited all of us to his room but I was in bed, flat & couldn't make it. I guess the guys would enjoy the Malaysian food after a week here. As for me, I had a small bun and some orange juice. I'll enjoy Malaysian food after I'm back in KL, sigh...



This is something that we normally have for lunch.

Tempura with japanese rice & some pickles and sushi.


Dapur yg tak pernah berasap.... hehehe




Friday, 10 August 2007

I'm in Tokyo

Hmm how I'm gonna update my blog? The feature buttons are all in squares. Takkan ler nak panggil budak shahriman lagi ek... Baru jer td dia tolong setupkan internet ni. He's our junior instrument eng. but so knowledgeable in IT. I guess there's something to do w setup so that I can view in English... Ayyooo, IT is not my cup of tea. Will find out tomorrow, tanya bebudak junior tu, they are all IT savvy. For now taram jer ler...
We've been here in Tokyo city for 3 nites, travel on Tue midnite (7th) and reached Osaka on 8th in the morning. As planned we had to go straight to Lion plant site upon our arrival from KL. Dgn muka tak mandi, mata sembab and lacked of sleep in flight. I still can't believe that myself and 11 others went through that awful experience.... what a crazy trip! I didn't expect that bad in the first place. Just imagine, 12 of us travelled with at least 2 luggage each and not to forget another backpack/bag for the laptop. From Kansai airport, we took JR line then switched to shinkansen then swithed again to JR train b4 we reached Takamatsu. Yoko san from mitsubishi & 'whatever' san from Lion (I'm very poor in remembering Japanese names except few like nonaka, suzuki, matsushita, nakamura.... others are all mix-up) were like running here & there, arranging buying the tickets for all of us and guided us to get on the right trains. Most of the times, Yoko san couldn't hide that panic-look on her sweet, cute face when we had to rush into the trains. She had to remind us to move faster, 3 minutes, 3 minutes... After we entered the train, she started to count as for not missing any one of us. What a crazy trip, I would say a torturing trip. Next day, some guys were complaining to the PM about that because the itinerary was planned by him. His remarks that he didn't foresee that worse because he had the same trip before... But with 2 or 3 person and melenggang kangkung... of course the journey wasn't bad at all. Another irritating remark from him was "so u guys can't adapt to Japanese style, most of them commute by trains, it's normal". Hellooo, It was not that but the issue was HEAVY LUGGAGE in a big group....
After getting off the 3rd train, we took the taxi to the restaurant arranged by Lion gp. We forgot about that crazy trip for a while when we arrived Del Coma for lunch. The scenic from that restaurant was fantastic where we were facing the panoramic bay view and the great Seto bridge. Right after lunch, we went to the Lion plant by van. We spent half a day there visiting the plant & hv Q&A with the operation engineers.
We continued our journey to the airport and flew to Haneda. We had soba & tempura for dinner at the Haneda airport. Then we continued our final sweating journey for the day to the hotel by an airport coach. Forgot to tell that it is hot here... the temp. is almost similar to Msia, ab. 33 deg C. We were flat... and worse, the next morning we had to checkout from the hotel & 'forced' to stay here at the goodstay weekly mansion. Once again we had to transport over our luggage to this small service apartment..... The good thing about this apartment is I can access to the Internet. Also good for few others maybe because of they can cook. For me, I don't bother. I'm here to work and play and cooking is not in my agenda. From Msia, I just brought the energy bars for bfast and some bread in case of I can't get halal dinner. And I can live with that. Afterall, we'll only be here for 2 weeks, not 2 months. Furthermore it's the time to adventure for the local halal food.
Opps talking about local food, I have enough tempura & sushi for these 3 days. Yesterday meeting with Nippon, they served us tempura and sushi with sticky rice for lunch. I can't finished the rice even it was served in a small bowl. For today's team building, we had tempura for lunch & buffet for dinner which also had tempura & sushi. I enjoyed tempura for lunch and ignore that sticky rice. For dinner, I ignore all the Japanese food, sushi, tempura or soba and just took fruits & tuna croissant. Luckily they served western desert. After dinner we went to queen-isetan and managed to get some items before it closed at 9pm. Plan to go again tomorrow with Mardiah. Lida has to attend for a progress meeting tomorrow. I jokingly asked the PM to release her since we had our own plan, but he wants his project engineer to attend, period. Others can have their own free & easy agenda.
As for yesterday, luckily we finished the meeting with Nippon quite early, about 4pm. So we had time to go to Roppongi looking for the hard rock cafe stuffs, on the way back we stopped at Ginza station & strolled along the ginza st. but most of the outlets were closed at 8pm. Lida & I will definitely go there again sometimes next week... at least for window shopping...
I'll attach the pics later... I'd better hv a gud sleep before I go for Tokyo's sightseeing tomorrow ..... and we planned to the Disneyland on Sunday.....
I loooveeeeeeeeeee weekends..... :))

Monday, 23 July 2007

I'm going North

It has been a while since I last visited this blog of mine & quite a lot of things going on since then. Last 2 weeks, we took emergency leaves & flew back to KB right after my mum informed that my auntie passed away in her sleep. It's really touching to think that my uncle has lost his best friend, all this while they've been living & spending time together. The late auntie left 5 children and 5 grandchildren and may she rest peacefully. Alfatihah.
Well, actually I've just finished packing up my things, checked my workforce portal emails & stop here at my blog for a while. Hmmm baca email office, belum sempat ke Utara, there's a planned trip for me in early August for another project which I'm simultaneously handled. Well few things need to be prepared for presentation and meetings. The trips are not just trips as attending trainings or what not but it comes with responsibilities & tasks to deliver. Life is hectic for us, really. Recently I travelled to Melaka and that was considered ok with 2 hrs driving. My junior has been travelling from last week to Kerteh. Today, she's in Taiping & on Wed, she'll be joining me in Gurun... Well her baby is growing up with most of his time spent on road... pity her, pity the baby too...
Malasnyer fikir nak drive up to Sg. Petani... I gave an excuse for not attending courses in Bukit Merah and ended up asked to pfk for a week and have to drive further up, all just by a phone call & smses.... I was thinking of taking flight to Alor Setar but I guess it'll be easier to move around by car. Is it GTS for Group Technical Solutions or Go Travel Sokmo?? It's not a glamor job in deed but tiring.... However that's one way for a living, nothing comes easy, I guess.
Well, I think better I make a move now... To go there, of which the last time I went was 10 years ago... not that sure of the route but taram jer lah... Hope I can safely reach the hotel & hope there'll be sign boards around... Hopefully tak terlepas exit-Sg. Petani & tak tersesat teruk in town... sesat sket2, biasa jer lah... Btw, sibuk ker Sg. Petani skrg?
Cau cin cau...

Thursday, 28 June 2007

His first visit to dentist

This evening, Akid lost his 2-teeth to the hand of a lady dentist. We noticed his new teeth started to grow and decided to let go the baby teeth to make way for the new ones. After the procedure, he had the cotton between his teeth which indirectly prevented him from pot-pet and to munch something... That was good in a way.... hmm but just for a while until the blood dried and the cotton removed. I thought he couldn't chew his food but right after that, Akid had a normal meal for dinner... Well, he surely had something to talk about and to show to his friends tomorrow....

Monday, 18 June 2007

Happy Birthday to Abah

12th June: AbaH, hAPpy bIRthDaY.... May Allah's blessing, His Love and Guidance will always be with you...

I attended COP course at Shangrila, Putrajaya from 10th-12th and luckily it was a half day program on the 12th. So I managed to get a bday cake from a nearby secret recipe on the way home. Akid had a fever on that day and didn't go to kindy. Despite of that, he was looking forward to celebrate abah's bday. We made a simple bday card, hang some balloons and threw a surprise birthday dinner for abah :))







Wednesday, 6 June 2007

We were at PD

29-31 May: Dept. away day at Avillion Port Dickson. I was stuck in the department business planning meeting. Can't comment much about it but like one of the colleagues sms to me, Journey map, blueprint, scorecard, iPOCs, etc. are all mantra to doss... hahaha. However, Akid certainly had a great time there...

At room balcony

Do u think u can swim?


Playing with his kite




Pet feeding session






Sunset


Alahai sempat lagi posing sebelum balik....


Monday, 28 May 2007

Weekend with Kenit

Weekend 26-27th: My youngest sis, Cik Na & family from Kuantan, came to spend a weekend in KL. I guess, nothing much to go/do in Kuantan though. Akid was excited when we mentioned about Aftah coming here. My other younger sister, Cik E and I started to call him Nik Mad since birth. Akid was confused why I call him Nik Mad instead of Aftah. Aftah's full name is Nik Muhammad Aftah & I prefer to call him Nik Mad. It sounds softer...
On Saturday, they visited Aquaria but we didn't join them as we had another commitment on that day. The next day, all of us went to Tasik Titiwangsa just to hop on the Eye on Malaysia. If my sis didn't insist to go up that big wheel, we wouldn't be there yet. Is it because it's near to our place & convenience to us, we tend to put it on hold by hoping we can go there some other time or anytime? Ends up that we totally forget about it. We do that almost all the time, don't we?
Eye on Malaysia
Not thrill enough and it's not high enough either,
but we enjoyed being up there...



The view from the top of the wheel




Si kenit, Aftah aka Nik Mad, baru nak bertatih...




Nik Mad & his mentor, Abg Atid...
I can't help but to notice a gap in their sizes.
Irah did comment like a small kitten with a jumbo...
Ayyoo Cik E, watch your mouth kay...