Messages for my loved ones

Hm... dah 20 minutes in the office yet I haven't started with anything yet... Well, I have checked all my emails, browse through my facebook and now writing on my blog. What I haven't started is doing my work. Since my papers are still yet to come, I'm yet to be busy with marking. And this is suppose to be the best opportunity for me to write papers or do research. And I choose to do research. The problem is... I'm researching the ebay and looking for warehouse sales around... Anyway, that's not my main story for today. Has anyone ever used ur name for any purpose without you knowing it? Well someone have used mine. A student actually used my name to ask for permission to do a thesis somewhere. The problem is... there's no thesis that my students must prepare... and furthermore the subject that he quoted in the letter doesn't even exist. I'm so furious to hear about it. I dunno what's his motive and why did he do that... I feel like slapping him on t...

We moved in to our houseabout a year ago. It was around two weeks before Raya. At first we thought of making it our holiday home since my husband still had his contract as hostel fellow in UNIMAS. But once we stepped in to the house we know immediately that this is our place. And we decided to move in straight away. There's a story behind the house actually... As other couple plan properly how they will b uy their house and how they are going to finance their house etc., it is a totally different case for me and my husband. It was one morning not long after we got married. It was Saturday and we were driving to a mamak stall for breakfast. Suddenly we saw some signs saying about new housing area called Muara Tuang Park. My hubby suddenly asked me to get the phone number of the company. At breakfast we discussed the possibility of having a house of our own. After breakfast we went straight to the developer's office to check out the price and all... there and then we decided tha...

We went back to Semenanjung this year... as mentioned before we spent most time on the road... Initally we didn't want to go back. But suddenly my hubby had a soft heart and he said both our mothers cried last year because we didn't go back so he didn't want them to cry again this year... I suppose it is a valid reason to go back. Or on the other hand, maybe it was my hubby who's going to cry?... Anyway, we did flew back to Semenanjung. We did go to both our parents' houses even though we only spent less than 2 days per house to celebrate Raya. Yet we enjoyed this year round more than ever. Why? Because we met the new members of both families... on my hubby's side there's Sohail Naveeed AKA Deepy... his brother's 5 month old son. With his cheeky smile this boy has always have things going on in his mind. When there's only a few of us at home he is so cute and nice. He would stay in his bed and play on his own.... But when there's so many people a...

Yesterday was bad.... really2 bad. I can't imagine forcing my feet to walk to class. Lucky there's no one there in the class. Yes I should be angry at my students because they didn't come to class. Yet I feel thankful because I'm so tired. The Raya week has just passed. But the Raya fever seems to influence everyone including myself. Imagine having a one week holiday and you spend most of it on the road. Literally on the road. We took a flite from Kuching to JB, then drove from JB to Rompin. On the first day of Eid we drove from Rompin to Endau and then to Kuantan... and we finished the day by driving from Kuantan to KL. We spent the 2nd day of Eid in Kajang and Kl... then the next day we drove back to Rompin... Took a rest for one day and drove back to JB before board on a flite back to Kuching... See... when you think you have the whole week for yourself to enjoy, you actually have only 2 days to have quality time with your family. The rest of the days are for you to ...

I did something really2 stupid. I dunno why I did it but I guess you wouldn't know what you did was stupid until you did it. Can you get what I mean? I guess you can. Anyway, what i did was not a major life threatening thing and I haven't sold my soul to the devil. I just messed with my lotus notes. Actually I've just got my new pc. So, as a kid trapped in an adult's body... I would definitely try to check on what's new with the new pc. After checking all the basic things and realizing that there's nothing special about this new Windows Vista except most of the applications that I need are not compatible with it, I changed my attention to my lotus notes. At first i just want to insert back the mail archive that I managed to save from my old pc into this new pc. Yup, I manage to do it. Now... there would be other things that I can do with this thing. Let see... there's a replace your database button... what will happen if I replace my database. Will I get som...

Bismillahhirrahmannirrahim..... Samarinda, part 2. Let us talk about my favourite topic. Food. I dunno why but everytime I write food would be my chosen topic. Anyway... Samarinda like any other place in Indonesia have a lot of dishes that you need to try. Well I didn't try everything but I did sample some of the best dishes there. We started our culinary adventure in a place (some sort of RnR) along the way from Balikpapan to Samarinda. The place is famous with "Tahu Sumedang". What is tahu sumedang? It is actually fried beancurd that you eat with a special sauce and very tiny and very hot chillies. There my hubby ordered his first "sup buntut" or actually oxtail soup with rice. The soup was so nice I feel like asking the chef for the recipe. As for me, I prefer "ikan mas goreng". I dunno what type of fish actually but the fish is being deep fried and added with some shredded coconut, some cucumber, cabbagge and long beans to be eaten with rice and sa...

Samarinda, namanya indah. Seindah kain sarung Samarinda yang sering dijajakan di negeri kami. Perjalanan dan pengalaman di Samarinda juga tidak kurang indahnya bagi kami yang pertama kali menjejak kaki ke bumi Bung Karno dan Pak Harto ini. Perjalanan kami begitu panjang dan memenatkan. Kami memulakan perjalanan meninggalkan Kepulauan Borneo menuju ke Pulau Jawa ketika jam menghampiri tengah malam. Perkenalan kami dengan Kota Jakarta hanya sempat dibuat di Bandaranya sahaja. Esoknya, seawal 6.30 pagi kami akan bergerak kembali ke Kepulauan Borneo iaitu ke Kalimantan Timur. I t was funny to think that you are actually hopping from one island to another island and then back to the first island. Kami disambut dengan kesibukan bandara atau "airport" Balikpapan. Manusia begitu ramai berjalan ke sana sini. Tidak cukup dengan mereka yang ingin menyambut teman dan saudara yang tiba atau menghantar keluarga yang berpergian, lapangan terbang kecil itu juga banjir dengan kehadiran porter...