Puss

Oh yeah! a big one on my right shoulder. Since I did my weight training yesterday, I shud go for a badminton tonight, I already missed it last tuesday.

But, this puss sakit sial!. and M is going out for a dinner with his buddy, OW. It's a good thing cause tonite is my turn to cook dinner. Since he's not in for dinner, I'll make nasi goreng express.

My exquisite time with my trainer was dreadly exhausted. but she's really nice, she didnt push me as much to do all the weight thingy. My back was screaming for pain now. well, today is a bit ok but last nite was a nightmare. But the menthol effect (or,err the eucalyptus oil) cooled dowm the inflamation. nonetheless, I have less than 24 hrs to relax my muscle until my next appointment.

Speaking of appointment, the clinic called me and said that my blood test and x-ray sudah sampai. the ol' times, the doctor didnt even bother to call me and when I called them back, they told me, "no news is a good news".

Does it mean tomorrow will be a bad news?!!

Need to start biting the nail now....

My Mr MacDream-ie

on the usual morningsupir to Mr 'Luv' M and the usual stops at Starbucks, I parked the van coincidentally beside a shine sleek Mini Cooper.


Not in my attention, but when M came with his coffee, he smiled at me and said, "If I became rich, I'll buy you one like this."

Hahahaha.. I was eyeing a Honda CRV actually not that toy car. I dont give fudge how much the price is. but I want something that a bit practical. Hmm, honda CRV is not really a gas guzzler, isnt it? need to ask Pomonagelfren. But she looks ala2 Soccermom-lah.. hmm..not really , soccermom usually drives bigger size than CRV.

Hopefully by the time I can afford to buy a car, Honda will come out with CRV-hybrid or fuel-cell generate. Big hole in my pocket but good investment in a long run

Thanks hon for the thought. thanks for our lunchdate today.

and btw Mini is also listed in Forbes.com as one of fuel-friendly cars.

I went to GP for an annual check up. I got this chest pain and semput for a while (I got it when I was in Malaysia)and apparently, it just dont go away but reduced somehow.

Bukan nak katalah, the GPs here, they all suck big time. they treated you like a dirt bag. Too bad, M's family doctor is in Toronto and he didnt know if he's still alive. but I was in dire to get a reliable and good health advice.

At least in Malaysia, I can always used certain adikberadik or kawan cronism to access me to the specialist but here i am so exasperated.

And I did allergy test too. and the stupid doctor accused me for not telling the truth that I didnt wheeze during exercising. Hello mangkukayun, I didnt wheeze at all. Never in my entire life, I wheeze. I was at the tip of the iceberg when he told me to get rid of my cats. Even M seconded to that.

Mister-s, you have put down a wrong foot, okay. I would do anything, I mean literally anything to keep Anyan, Bart, DumDum, Junior and Hitam.

Dont worry darlings, mommy will do everything until the last drop of blood for us.

to you my sister

I hope you will hold on to yourself

the pressure is high

my blood that is.

After spending M's moolah for over xxx and after a week registered to a nearby women only fitness gym, and got my own personal trainer, I hopped into my treksuit and start working out.

but of course all that after my 1st visit to my personal trainer. She checked whateva she needed to check and apparently my blood pressure, heart rate body fat and of course the mighty weight, are almost in the danger zone.

hmmm..that's explained the dizziness, night light-headed, semput-ness??!!, and the tight jeans.

fyi, I am not so happy with the results

nor the fact that i became so dewi pelahap

anyway, this is not the first time I went to the gym. My previous visits during college-years was so for the wrong reason. the disadvantage od co-ed gym. but I was suprised to find myself motivated by the fat lady or an old lady who cycling or walking beside me. I mean, I atleast walked for another 1/2 mile or cycled 20 minutes more to keep up with them.

the fact that I have elliptical machine at home kinda annoys me of not being motivated to be on it.

hopefully in 2 weeks , i will see the result that I really really looking for.

the pressure will slide thru to a normal zone.

The day is getting better and better

- my account no longer at the lowest two digits
- I received 1 set of lagostina frying pan (20cm, 26cm and 32cm)
- the job interview was swell
- I got my cheque


If everyday like this ~ Alangkah bestnya

Ya Allah ya tuhanku, Alhamdullilah, aku bersyukur atas rahmatMu

Amboiiiii

inilah perasaan den semalam dgn sidia. hangat giler, sidia buat lawak bodoh pepagi pun den tak gelak. tpkan sebelum sidia blah, sidia habaq masukkan ongkos kedalam simpanan den, terus den tersengih2.

hampeh tol den ni. pantang sua ongkos, semua beres. tak adalah banyak pun tp boleh setakat nak bayaq den punya pelatih persendirian.

sidia pandai betoi mengelat den. siap basuh baju den lagi. sayang cuma tak lipat. oklah kawteem dgn den kemas katil. sepanas2 den pun, den kemas katil, walaupun rasa nak cucuh bara api aja dekat pungkok kucing2 den.

pescado, poisson, fish and ikan

it was a real challenge to dine everynite with the above-title as a maincourse.

when dine means cooking and preparing and thinking and eating it.

so, here goes my nites with fisssshhh:
1st nite: honey dijon mustard baked Salmon with salad
2nd nite: ricotta-spinach cannelloni
3rd nite: nori-sesame-paprika seared salmon, tizzo soup with olive fougasse (M is so loving with this bread)
4th nite: fried mackerel (salt and pepper) and leftover fougasse and soup
5th nite: penne pasta with groundbeef and 3 cheese and classic salads (ok - not so fish)
6th nite: nasi lemak ihsan hamba Allah yg sungguh murah hati
7th nite: Kung Pao Red snapper and fish ball green beans
8th nite: murtabak ayam and daging

5 nites with fish, or 6 nites. hey anchovies is fish too kannnn

am having a sushi nite tonite. It's been a while we havent been to sushi resto but I want to dine out a bit less for an extra dough of my allowance this month.

p/s hon, if you read this. Kesian kat wifekan. Je besoin plus d'argent.

The savoury pain

Of all syawals weekends which full with open houses and melahap activities, my stomach have been consuming tons and tons of meats; red, dark or white and lotsa of santan milk, grease. bottomline, unhealthy food

Unhealthy food - healthy food = wreck unfit me

Meaning tossing around in the sleepness nights with cramped stomach,constipations with stool hard like a rock and bleeding rectum discharge. the latter creeps me out. I dont feel any pain, but i hate to see the sang. it's freaking gross.

M said that is due to my unhealthy diet of consuming excessive red meat and orderred me to stop eating them cold turkey.

But again, I aint vegetarian peace to the world hippies.

but then again, the agony pain of contracting the tahi is so painful and it left me no choice except to au revoir to juicy and tasty meat.

At this moment, I am officially meat free for certain period but did break the rules sometimes. Fish and veges is not really taste that bad.

Of a few things I did in the holy month of Ramadhan

This year, my Ramadhan was not as much as I hoped it would turned out to be.

Terawih - I missed 2 nites due to exhausted from cooking at E's house.
Recite Quran - I was thrilled that I will khatam coz I managed to complete 10 juzuk on first 1/3 of the holy month but up till now, I only managed to finish juz 17.
Ngumpat - haram tak kurang pun but less 1 ppl who I ~haihh-
betternottomention~

overall, things I wanna do was a bit better than the previous year.

At least, dear M performed terawih prayers each nite without fail. Sayang laki aku and we performed jemaah quite a lot.

I made biscuits too. M was so collaborative in money wise by investing some mullah on buying cooking ingredients. I endup making pineapple tarts. the almonds still in cabinets and I guess london will only be in UK or ontario. not in a cookie jar.

from haj to home-schooled

It's time for haj and a friend of mine is going in 2 weeks. as a friend I paid her a visit, well actually, I was asking for her favor to bring some stuff to my othr friend in her MIL's hometown.

I was totally envied. I really wanna go for haj. money is there but the mean is nowhere to present. At least i have to be realistic in paying my MARA loan first.

Anyway, Interesting topic was brought up in the 3 hrs conversation. they were actually talking or actually practising home-schooling.

the topic was wayyyy ouuutttttttt of my league. Seriously, I felt like I was so incompetent or very lack of knowledge. I mean, these women they are very serious about the sekolah dirumah thingy, and I dont know if the word ashamed described me best when they asked me, "do you know this author and that author".

Of course I am very familiar with Tony Wong. I bet my to be children will be masterred with the chinese kungfu ilmiah if I have to pass down the knowledge of hikmats in Tony wong's skillful artistic literature.

Probably not, coz M opposed to this particulary reading interest of mine and he shall see the extinct of the kungfu kitabs in about time. dengki gila mamat ni.

SO, what do i really think of home-schooling? my honest answer I can give, I dont really care. I mean, I can't overprotected my kids. they need that versatility of friends, a diversity background of beliefs, culture and language of peers not necessarily friends. My friends who made who I am today. Not really my parents or sibling. I think I learnt a lot from my friends' experiences rather than from my parents'.

but 2 against 1, who's gonna win. go figure!

note: whatever opinions expressed in this blog is only entitled by yours truly and does not represent anyone else.

Hari raya Chronology

2008:
Hari Raya Posa - Ottawa
Hari Raya Korban - tbd

2007:
Hari Raya Posa - Hull
Hari Raya Korban - Ottawa

2006:
Hari Raya Posa - Hull
Hari Raya Korban - Hull

2005:
Hari Raya Posa - Hull
Hari Raya Korban - Hull

2004:
Hari Raya Posa - Hull
Hari Raya Korban - Hull

2003:
Hari Raya Posa - Los Angeles
Hari Raya Korban - Los Angeles

2002:
Hari Raya Posa - Los Angeles
Hari Raya Korban - Los Angeles

2001:
Hari Raya Posa - Virginia
Hari Raya Korban - Hull

2000:
Hari Raya Posa - New Mexico
Hari Raya Korban - Los Angeles


in total I celebrated 17 Eids in perantauan. manalah aku tak sangap

when money is everything

Last nite when I was on my routine to pick up M from work, a french couple stopped me at the st and asked for my help to send them to nearby college coz their son was hurt during practise. I know M is going to kill me for picking up strangers but I trusted my instinct when I saw a help is needed.

Most of the time, they rambled in french which I just understood 65% of it (see, that's why I hate to converse with adult coz they speak too fast). I offered to send them to the hospital coz apparently the son has been sent earlier and I told them that I can drop them at the bus stn coz it is in my way. Instead, the husband asked me to drop them back to their home (which is not far than my house)coz yada yada yada.

Turned out that they are one of the welfare families lives behind the fence. From the conversation, I roughly figured that they dont have cash at all and unfortunately none of the nearest kins are much willing to help. I helped what I can and I made a HUGE mistake by giving my cell. buduh and buduh. they kept calling me about not enough cash to pay the taxi and this and that.

Seriously, If I have enough CASH, I wouldn't mind helping them, first and last and never mention my name again. but, I just spent more than couple of hundreds on the voiture and couples of hundreds on the credit card and my acct is going down to the lowest of 2 digits. and that's not so pretty sight from my spenditure glasses okay.

and my biweekly allowance not until next week. I was even politely rejected M's offer when he stopped at starbuck coz i didnt have any cash to pay my mocha ( I tend to pay my own if I wanted a pricy coffee dose).

too bad the mocha was not my rizq. M dropped it right at the passenger door. Irony kan.


Nevertheless, I feel blessed. although we are not rich, Insyaa Allah, I dont think so that we will have no problem of sending one of us to the hospital if something's happened. nauzubillah.

Skit

From: Ahkak Cun
To: M
Subject: FW: Details for Display Diploma Form
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:55:33 +0000

honey, can u please print out the form (pdf) from the link and this e-mail as well. thank you XOXO.

p/s i'm trying all the new clothes. thank you thank you thank you



~ahkak cun~

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RE: Details for Display Diploma Form‏
From: M
Sent: Monday, 29 Sep, 2008 4: 35 PM
To: Ahkak Cun

have fun datin wife :-)

Potty Patty Pans

After dropping M, I accidentally dropped myself at Canadian tire and Zeller's and found myself walking with handful bags of goodies. household goodies that is.

It must be a pleasure to be unofficial Lady of Leisure.

I mean let me enjoy before M decided to take away my Credit card privilege or biweekly allowance.

then, I would be in dire to get a job. ANY job.

Unlike typical REAL Lady of Leisure, I usually have my spree in cooking aisle. Alangkah bestnya if M would let me spend or taking advantage on his hard earned cash on cooking stuffs dari barang kemas yg ntahhapahapa dan mahal nak mampus. satu cincin bodoh pun dah dapat satu lagostina non stick 10" frying pan. While browsing around, I was day dreaming how lovely can it be if I can get to pick and choose those plates, cooking trays. eeeiiii bestnya.

Recently, we've decided to makeover our daily plates by donating all of it to the students and get a new ones. Seriously, when I passed the correlle shelf, I was berdoa that my cabinet will be stuffed with these particularly brand. However, after some serious thoughts and walking back to memory lane of the poor unbreakable commercial-cliche plates which failed to survive in my tender hand, I raise a white flag and opt for something cheaper.

I know those plates will end up either broken in tong sampah or someone's table.

and M has this annoying habit of giving away things, not just any things but always happen to be my kitchen things when we move to a new home.

so, final verdict.. buy a very very CHEAP stuffs.

But I really want that 10" Artisan Heritage non stick frying pan. and it would be very great with a lid.

I think I am going to make my cooking pans as heirloom.