I had a great time on the last day of puasa and the first 3 days of Hari Raya.

My last visit to atok’s house was loooong time ago and this raya  I was VERY thrilled to balik kampung, especially when we had all of us celebrated raya together (except..of course w/out you tofek. sob!)

From KL to Jalan Haruan, Parit Buntar to Jalan Todak, Parit Buntar and back and forth to Jalan Todak and Jalan Haruan and to Parit Buntar city, to Bagan Serai to Tanjung Piandang to Titi Serong, back to Kuala Kangsar to Ipoh to Kinta City (I still got time to do some shopping here. heee ) to Teluk Intan and back to the KL city, to the One Utama and lastly, to our home sweet home. It was a tiring journey but I enjoyed it very very much.

It’s normal during raya that a married and working person won’t get any duit raya and that’s the saddest part of hari raya for me. sob sob!

BUT this raya, I was the happiest person ever! I got a few sampul raya and 2 of them adalah sampul raya yang tebal and FAT ! I got $$$$$$!!! yeayea!! Alhamdulillah, murah rezeki. Thank you thank you! Extremely happy macam nak hug, kiss, xoxoxo sume orang dalam rumah atok. Lepas dapat duit raya terus gatal seluruh badan nak shopping. Nasib baik dekat kampung tade suria PBCC (pb=parit buntar) macam suria KLCC dekat kl. wahahha. watever.

The chubby baby Hasif is sleeping in the morning of 1st Raya day

Sis is getting ready in the messy room full of our bags

My fav photo. I pity you baby, your sister smooch smooch you like there is no tomorrow. The baby redha je.

kids are helping to set up the tripod

Tok nek with the chubby cicit.When I look at this pic, it reminds me of Abah’s saying: kalau picit tetek baby, baby mesti muntah. Abah ni lucu la. hahahaha!

The night after 1st day of raya: The peace, the peace and the ghost yang tak jadi, the camera girl and the model with patrick plastered on the forehead. LOL! So cute!

I don’t get to see this in the city where I live, so I had to take this  pic.

Sebab dah lama sangat hidup dekat kota yang moden, so bila balik kampung jumpa sawah bendang dan basikal tua dan rumah kampung rasa teramat sangat JAKUN.

This pic is special to me. This budget house used to house my father,Tok, Bah (nenek) and other 11 siblings. 14 people in this small house.. I couldn’t really imagine. The house used to be very neat, tidy and clean under  Bah’s care but now, not anymore . I am so grateful and glad that with lots of hardworks and efforts,  abah now is a one successful man. Your incredible journey inspires me a lot, abah!

I am sure the kitty enjoys his dream: I am a superman… I am a superman…

This picture was taken near the sawah padi. The burned logs and the mushrooms show the orange and dark grey contrast color perfectly! The mushrooms look so bling-bling in the picture as it was too sunny and too hot that day and I didn’t know how to tune the setting on my camera to get the perfect macro picture of the mushroom. I need to learn from the expert.

The Jakun-ers.

The fun days of Raya are over and now I am back to work. :’(

ehem ehem! *drum rolling* *heart jumping* Presenting…

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^{Psstt: If this project succeeds, I would like to build a business empire :8).  Lepas ni maybe I jadi tauke kedai  gula-gula and chocolate macam Willy Wonka.  Ambitious itu perlu!! Okay, nak tengok Nurkasih online. bye.}

Kek nenas tunggang terbalik a.k.a pineapple upside down cake.

I first had this cake @ yogitree ,I ate it while it was hot and topped with vanilla ice cream. And of course, it was very very delicious.

I found the recipe in one of my recipe book collection (originally belonged to my mom) and I wanted to give it a try.

So, I baked the cake to impress my family who came last Saturday as well as to improve my cooking skill so that my dream to become like nigella or jamie will one fine, beautiful, not rainy but sunny day (gegege~~) come true. :8)

I was quite disappointed with this first attempt because:

The cake was too moist and the texture was like brownie instead of spongy cake. SO I suspect it was the milk, not that I blame the milk..but I might have measured it wrongly.

The cake was supposed to have 2 layers of different thickness – base layer should be thin (of creamed butter and sugar + can pineapples) and the cake layer should be thick (of cake ingredients)

Mine had both layers almost the same size (thin base and thin cake) so the look was definitely not very impressive.

The base layer

The cake batter

Still, it was edible and the taste was quite good (cewah!), not too sweet ’cause I usually reduce the amount of sugar in a recipe.

The whole process of baking the cake from the start to the end to the cleaning was very tiring.

Takde mood nak share resipi kek ni sebab mission tak se-excellent yang disangka. sob!

I like something express like this dessert I made below (also last saturday):

This one is 200% excellent :8)) . So here is the recipe.

Chinese pear/lai
asam kulit limau
asam betik panjang

Peel off the lai skin, cut them nicely. Put everything in an air-tight food container and leave it overnight.
The quantity of asam depends on ur respective taste buds.
Pour the whole bags of asam if you want XTRA sour- not recommended if your lai is not that many.   (sakit perut tak jamin)

This recipe was given by my fren ( x-uniroommate), Maisarah. Hidup sangat senang bila proses membuat makanan se-express dan campak-campak macam ni .

I read this article.

Next time If I go to any bookstores, I am gonna find any of these books, read right there (no need to buy cause kids books usually as expensive as adults’, yeah i know- I am cheapskate :8)) and have a good laugh.

^{ROTFLOL = rolling on the floor laughing out loud!}

I’ve been so busy this month of Ramadhan..

Waking up as early as 445 am for sahur…

Driving to the office earlier than usual (with sleepy eyes that sometimes I have to hit my self hard not to fall asleep while driving and some other times I wish I could just sleep in the middle of the road then wake up,still alive and unscathed. Singing to the loudest or sing-along to the radio doesn’t help.sob!)

Rushing back home as early as possible to avoid jam and prepare break fast,tarawikh and sahur.. (not that I cook EVERYTHING but dish/pots/periuk/kuali/mangkuk ayun cleaning is the tiring part. sob again!)

Nite sleep is still as usual, late and sometimes very late. (muka dah tak glowing as usual because not having enough sleep. cewah! sob again and again!)

I’ve been doing some learning at nite….

Not that I want to change profession or whatsoever…

I want to fascinate myself with God’s creation – human body.

Not to study into much details but to learn the way body parts interact and integrate as each relies on the others to function and survive.

I am so amazed. Subhanallah!