Anugerah Juara Lagu 25 (25th Song of the Year Award) and A Nice Weekend

I was really looking forward to the weekend as I was supposed to follow hubward to Fraser's Hill on Saturday. He is going to cycle up the hill and I'm going to drive the car up. ehehehe....did u guys think I was gonna cycle too? Well, I don't have a bicycle yet. :P

However, it turns out non of the guys brought their partner or wife and hubward thought it will a boring journey for me. hmm....ok. So, end up on Saturday, I was home alone with nothing much to do. Called up a few frens but they already had plans.I did some cleaning up and send the laundry to the laundry shop. Nahhh...I rarely wash clothes at home coz I don't have any washing machine. Hubward said he will only buy one once we have our own house. I only wash the delicates ones myself. uhuhuhu...Later I went to Bangsar, yes alone again. Supposed to meet my aunt for lunch at Curve but since she had a wedding and was running late, I decided to just go back home instead.

At home, I was replying tweets with my fren Suliana and she said she wanted to make curry noodles and suddenly I had the urge to do the same. It is hubward's favorite. It would be nice for him to enjoy his favorite dish once he reach home. I called my aunt and invited her to come over and since parking at Curve was FULLED, and she was hooked on the idea on my curry noodles, she arrived just as I was finished cooking. I love having people at home and cook for them. Maybe I got that from my mom.

Sunday was a bit better. Made breakfast for two and then, hubward and I went to Mid Valley Mall. Our agenda? Bumiputera Property Exhibition 2011. We are trying to find the right house to buy. It is harder than it seems. I was happy that I got to identify the house that I like at a reasonable price range. We are going to continue our hunt next weekend and view the show house. I really can't wait for that one. Having a house of my own, that just feels so good. :)

After that, we went to an event we are quite looking forward to for a few weeks now. Anugerah Juara Lagu ke-25 (25th Song of the Year Award). Actually, normally every year, we will only watch the show on TV but this year, hubward opened his mouth saying he wants to see it live. Well, both of us wants to know what actually goes on during commercial breaks and the finalist was quite awesome too. We went with my twi-sisters Sunie, Aini and Ayu. The tickets are courtesy of another twi-sister which name I won't mention here. ;). To that twi-sister, if you are reading this, THANK YOU!!!

When we reach there, the queue was not long but the time grew closer to the gate opening time, the crowd was wild as the gate opens, OMG!! all these poeple turns into monkeys. Yes!! Monkeys. Some with no tickets just jumped up the fence and ran inside. WTF? I was nearly crushed. Luckily hubward was there. My tw-sister, Ayu was crushed literally. Lucky non of us were injured. After that, we finally got to our seats. The seats we got was not bad, about 10th row from the stage but big size people in front of me blocked the view. Not to mentioned those who put up their camera to take pictures. sigh.....it's hard being small. :P

Overall, I enjoyed the show. The showmanship of each finalist was the bomb!! Their vocal was awesome! I won't know who to pick as winners if I was the jury. Maybe that's why they leave it to the professionals. LOL   Faizal Tahir, A.P.I, Hafiz, Hujan, Yuna and Meet Uncle Hussein feat Black was amongst my favorite. I didn't take many pictures. Aini and Ayu did take pictures with a few artist since we are seating just next to them. The only celebs pic I took was with Zain. He is cute! eheheheh.....

Zain and Me

Sunie, Zain and Me

Aini, Sunie, Me and Ayu in front of the stage 

Overall, it was a nice weekend for me. Can't wait for the next one. :)

A New Song That I Like ~ Auburn : All About Him

Nothing much going on today other than the fact that today was a boring day at the office. If you are following me on twitter and facebook, you would already know. ahahahah....

As usual, my ear will be plugged into hitz.fm the whole day. Thank God for my Nokia Express Music (nothing fancy like iPhone). The DJ played this song a few times and it just stuck in me. The music and lyrics are cute. I like it! Since the song is new, there is no official video on youtube yet. Just a picture slide with the song playing on the background.

Hope you enjoy it as much as I like it. :)

Two Days of Boredom And A Day of Twitter!!

It hasn't really stop raining since Monday. Well, I don't mean non-stop until today, but you know what I mean. If I am in Twilight fantasy Forks, Washington, I really won't mind because Edward will be there. LOL

That nite, I didn't feel so good. I can't stop sneezing and felt hot and cold at the same time. The next day (Tuesday), I drag myself to the office feeling 'blue' and my flu is getting worse. Not to mentioned, the air-cond at my office made me feel like I was in Eskimo. :P

By 10.00am, I just can't stand it anymore and decided to go to the clinic and what do you know, the doctor told me I had fever. hmmm....I only tot I had flu. She gave me MC for the day. Went back to office, pack my things and got home. I took the 5 types of medication given to me and then I was in stone-cold sleep. I was too tired that day, but managed to go out for dinner with mommy and my other bff Mar (yes! you are allowed to have more than one bff :P). Actually, she treated us to a nice dinner at Dome and the chicken soup really helps me. :) Thanks Mar!!

Went home, get cleaned up, ate my meds (again) and then of to sleep. Didn't even bother to open the laptop to check my facebook, twitter (sometimes I did open thru mobile) or what is happening in the world of twilight.

On Wednesday morning, I still don't feel so good, so I decide to just sleep it and took another day of MC. Wednesday was boring! No internet at home (hubward brought lappie to work) and there's nothing interesting in Astro either. sigh....what else? Sleep....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....

The good thing is, today (Thursday) I am all good and even manage to get up fresh. I was afraid of going to work and see my table all pilled up with documents but somehow it was not that bad. My twitter account was busy today, or should I say Twilighters Malaysia twitter, since People's Choice Award was on and yet there is no delayed or live telecast here in Malaysia.

Being the core person for Twilighters Malaysia and The Twilight Saga is up for few nominations, it was my duty to keep updated with everything twilight. shhhh....easy to say, the first half day of my work was spend on twitter. :P

Cleaning Up Spider Webs with A New Year Resolution

Well, I think the spiders hovering around my blog are pissed at me for coming back to clean their webs. :P. I was so busy for the past months since it was end of year and there was like 3 audit session. My life is still the same and I do the same thing everyday. As usual, nothing much to update.

Well, last month on 23rd Dec 2010 was my 30th birthday. Yes, the big scary three zero. How do I get to that age so fast? Seriously! What have I achieved for the last 30 years of my life? Not much, but I did learn few things. Those which I should not repeat and those that need improvement. hmmmm.....

What did I do on my birthday? You want the truth? This is going to be lame. So, you should stop reading now!! This is a fair warning. I went to service my car, send my wedding ring for repair, went to see my gynea and had a late lunch with hubward. Yes, the lunch was the only highlight of the day. I guess after 29 birthdays, even I myself are out of ideas of how to celebrate and surprises don't seems that much exciting anymore. OMG! Is that the first sign of getting old? I am doomed!!

As I don't have any children yet and I myself is so manja with hubward and not to forget that I love cartoons, I sometimes forget that I am at that age. Sometimes, I just feel like I'm like 23-25 years old (yeah...keep on dreaming iena). :P. And to be caught up in the teenage Twilight world, it made me forget even more. ahahahahaha.....

So, today is already 3rd January 2011 and most people would put on a new year's resolution. Actually, I am not the type to put any resolution in my life. Maybe I am still finding the ultimate thing that I want in life. You know, to just put success as your life goal is too subjective. Isn't it? However, I am thankful for a few things.

1. My hubward who has his flaws but always stuck by me! Hey, I'm not perfect either. ;)
2. Finally I moved to a landed house. No it's not mine, but I am buying one this year. Ouh, maybe that should be my 2011 resolution. 
3. I am healthy and my family is healthy.
4. Twilighters Malaysia events in 2010 went well and our family grew bigger.

In 2011, although I don't have any resolutions (well, maybe just that buying a house one), I am looking forward to few things.

1. The first ever Twilight Convention in Malaysia in June 2011
2. Eclipse DVD release party ~ this one is to be confirmed
3. MTV Awards (with Robsten wins Best Kiss again!!)
4. Breaking Dawn Part 1
5. Perhaps a child of my own 

Hmmm....what else do I want to write? Ouh yeah...last Sunday, I hang out with my bff Farah after God knows for how long we haven't done that. It was fun. She treated me to a nice lunch at Chilli's One Utama and a blouse from Zara. ahahahah....all that for forgetting to wish me a happy birthday. Which was nice. ;)

I am not sure when will I write again. I will try hard to at least write something everyday. Not that anyone cares, I think. LOL

Why????

I have a few questions in mind that I really need to say out loud here in my blog.

1. Why is it after the same working hours men always seems to claim that they are more tired than the women?
2. Why is after a long day at work, the women still can prepare dinner etc and yet the men can't even give a simple answer to a question that actually makes the women's life easier.
3. Why is it even the women is mad at the man, the man always seems to make it as if it was the women fault in the first place?
4. Why is it that most women would go through such trouble just to make their men happy?

WHY???????

First Time Lasagna Maker

My beloved friend, Carol bought me an oven for my wedding. Why? Well, because she knows that I love to cook. Unfortunately, I didn't use it much earlier because I was living in an apartment with such a small kitchen. So, I was not really in the mood for any culinary experiment. Although, I did use it to make a homemade 'Chicken Fold-Over' since McDonald decided to stop selling it and few other recipes. I even baked a cake once.

Few months back, I bought lasagna layers when hubward asked me to make a homemade lasagna. The truth is, I have never make a lasagna before but I love a culinary challenge. :). So far, the result has never been disappointing. However, I didn't actually make one until last Monday. Yeah....that long, right? I've been looking at the instant lasagna layers box each time I open the kitchen cabinet where I put all food stock. Since we went shopping for household needs last Sunday, I bought all the ingredients I need to make a lasagna.

By following the recipe guide behind the lasagna layers box, I start making my first ever homemade lasagna. I did call my other beloved friend, Maryati who is an expert in making lasagna for some guidance. Especially on how to actually place the lasagna layers. Should I soak it in water first or can I just lay it in? Here is a good tips. If the lasagna layers are instants layers (you can see "instant" label on the box), you can just put them in provided that your meat sauce is juicy enough to soften it up. But if they are not the instant one, you might want to wipe or dip it in water. Just a fast as one second dip to wet it up.

It took me about 45 minutes to prepare the meat and cheese sauce and then to put the layers into place before shoving it into the oven. The result? Although, the outer appearance is not appealing, the taste was quite good but I might have put in too much cheese. ahahaha....we survived and no one got food poisoning or what not.  Hey people always say, the appearance doesn't matter, it's what inside that counts. LOL. As a first timer, I would give myself 7/10 marks. :P

My first not so pretty homemade lasagna. LMAO!
This is the second bowl, hubby ate the first one. Didn't manage to take picture. :P

Since I got the recipe from a box, I don't think I'm gonna share it here. uhuhuhu....now that I have done one, the second time should better because I would know how to estimate all the ingredients and maybe add other things in to make it mine. ;)

A Great Weekend and A Great Recipe

Last weekend was definitely a great weekend compared to the last few weekends I've had which consist me only lazing around at home doing household things and watch movies alone while hubward is at work. What was different?

SATURDAY

On Saturday, I had set a lunch date with my beloved fellow twi-sisters Sunie, Kak Huda, Kak Shairli and Ari.It has been sometime since we had spend time together and share stories.  However, last minute Kak Shairli and Ari did not join us. Not sure what happened to Kak Shairli but Ari was down with fever and flu. I hope she is alright now. I did have lunch with Kak Huda a couple weeks back but it was a very short one since I had to go back to work.

We decided to have lunch at Delicious is One Utama since Sunie was craving for it. :D. We had a nice talk about what's going on in our life and also twilight things. While waiting for Kak Huda to arrive, I manage to download some movies and TV series from Sunie. uhuhuhu....thank you Sunie!!! 

Kak Huda, Sunie and me at Delicious

We had a great time and a great lunch and later went to Borders at The Curve to see if we can find any new merchandise. But there was non. :(

Later, went out with hubward to his event. That night, after I got home, I did my usual routine. Switch on my laptop and start browsing facebook, blogs and also emails. As I open Twilighters Malaysia inbox, I saw an email I have been waiting for and anxiously click it open to read it. As I was reading it, my heart beats faster and I can't stop smiling. I screamed right after I've finished reading it and start running around my house and then jump on my old sofa. My hubward was shocked and asked what was happening. At this point, I know those who are reading this post are wondering the same thing. Well, after numerous emails, phone calls and begging, I have finally manage to arrange for the first ever Twilight Convention in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. For those who know how huge a fan am I of The Twilight Saga would understand my excitement.

Hubward was worried because I looked like as though I was out of breath and was about to get an asthma attack. ahahahaha...almost! But not really, I was so excited that I had to send message to all the members on this huge awesome news and also response to the happy email I got although my hands are still shacking. nggeee~~~~

That night, I slept smiling. Nothing can bring me down that night. ;)

SUNDAY

Hubward has no bike riding session today and spend time with me. At last, a weekend where he is actually there. uhuhuhu. I started my day with my usual Sunday Modern Dance Class which ended at 10.00am and later, after I'm home, we went for late breakfast. After that, we went to Mutiara Damansara to buy some household needs and window shopping.

During last fasting month (Ramadhan), I had a potluck dinner (break-fast) with my beloved friends, Ninie and Carol. Carol was 7 months pregnant and came back from Bahrain as she wants to deliver her baby back home in Miri, Sarawak. Ninie brought the most delicious and to drool for sambal daging (fried spicy beef). I don't eat spicy food but this one is really hard to resist and I ate them with tears in my eyes. I had to ask for the recipe. After asking her a few times (coz she forgot to give me) for her secret recipe, she finally gave it to me last Friday. So, when we bought household needs, I decide to also buy the ingrediants for to make the sambal daging for dinner. Hubward really can't wait. He loves it too!!

Baby Milan, Carol, me, Ninie and Baby Anna at my house last Ramadhan

That night, I cooked rice, sambal daging and an omelet. Again, I ate them while crying. ahahaha...seriously, the sambal daging is spicy but very irresistable. Here is the recipe for sambal daging if you want to try it with the approval of the recipe owner, Ninie. Thank you Ninie!!

As usual the recipe will be in Malay language. For those of you who are familiar with english ingredients, please feel free to translate or correct it for me by leaving a comment. :)

Sambal Daging/Spicy Fried Meet

Ingredients:

• Meet - sliced (according to your liking) marinate it with a bit of salt and turmeric powder 
• 1 red onion/bawang merah
• 3 cloves garlic/bawang putih
• 20 pieces of dried chili/Cili Kering
• A pinch of ginger/Halia
• 2 slice of dried plum/Asam Keping

Preparation:

1. Blend red onion, garlic and dried chilis together.
2. Fry the marinated meet according to your liking. (I like it well done/crispy)
3. Heat oil in a kwok and simmer the blended ingredients.
4. Add the dried plum and a bit of salt once the chili a bit dried
5. Wait until you the fried blended ingredients are oily (means it's cooked)
6. Then, add sugar and the fried meet
7. Stir well
8. Now, you are done and it is ready to be served.

Delicious Spicy Fried Meat

Happy trying!!! :)