The Call

When you drive alone for a journey of more than 30 minutes, what do you enjoy the most? For me, it depends on my mood. If it’s a morning drive to office, I’ll tend to listen to my type of music and sing my heart out. It’s good though, because normally I would get stuck in the traffic and singing loudly would make me swing over my mood from traffic stress. I’ll tend to do deep thinking usually while driving home from office. It will relate from whatever song that I listen to. The topic could be anything, anybody and most of the time, I really felt deep and so immersed into that thinking that I could cry badly. Cikpah said I once cried like a pig. Damn! At times, I can’t find the answer for my thinking. For that case, I’ll tend to become spaced out and will also affect my mood when at home.

Last night, I was listening to Backstreet Boys – The Call. I understand the hidden meaning of that song now that I’m not that naïve. I remember last time during Uni days, I was cheated by the video clip and that I’ve never listen to the song carefully. I thought the guy was on some secret mission. Naïve! It is not! The song is actually tells us about infidelity and lies made in a relationship! And that guy is actually started to feel that the deceitful things that he did is actually eating him from inside. If you haven’t listened to that song yet, here is the lyric:

Let me tell you the story about the call that changed my destiny

Me and my boys went out, just to end up in misery

Was about to go home when there she was standing in front of me

I said hi! I got a little place nearby, wanna go?

I should've said no

Someone's waiting for me

But I called my girl up and said

[chorus:]

Listen baby I'm sorry

Just wanna tell you don't worry

I will be late, don't stay up and wait for me

I say again, you're dropping out, my battery is low

Just so you know, we're going to a place nearby

Gotta go!

Now two years gone, nothing's been won

I can't take it back, what's done is done

One of her friends found out that she wasn't my only one

And it eats me from inside that she's not by my side

Just because I made that call and lied

[chorus:]

Listen baby I'm sorry

Just wanna tell you don't worry

I will be late, don't stay up and wait for me

I say again, you're dropping out, my battery is low

Just so you know, we're going to a place nearby

Gotta go!

Listen baby, I'm sorry

Listen baby, I'm sorry

Oh...

Let me tell you the story ‘bout the call that changed my destiny

Me and my boys went out just to end up in misery

Was about to go home when there she was standing in front of me

I said hi, I got a little place nearby, gotta go...

[chorus:]

Listen baby I'm sorry

Just wanna tell you don't worry

I will be late, don't stay up and wait for me

I say again, you're dropping out, my battery is low

Just so you know, we're going to a place nearby

Gotta go!

Macaroni Bakar

1 cawan macaroni - rebus dan tapis airnya
1/2 tube daging cincang
3 sudu besar serbuk kari daging
3/4 tin susu cair
2 cawan air
4 biji telur - pukul kembang
1 cube bilis
sedikit tepung gandum
minyak masak
daun sup
bawang putih
bawang merah
garam
butter

Tumis bawang putih dan bawang merah, masukkan serbuk kari. Tumis sampai sedikit garing. Masukkan cube bilis, garam. Masukkan daging.


Campur dengan macaroni yang dah siap direbus dan ditapis airnya tadi. Masukkan susu cair, telur dah dipukul, air dan daup sup.


Kacau rata.


Campur tepung gandum untuk pekatkan adunan dan juga bertindak sebagai filler.


Panaskan tin pembakar dan cairkan butter (untuk elak melekat pada tin pembakar). Tuang adunan. Pastikan paras macaroni separas dengan cairan (susu+air+telur+etc). Jika macaroni tidak berapa tenggelam, boleh tambahkan air sedikit. Ini untuk pastikan bila sudah dibakar nanti, macaroni yg paling atas tidak keras kejung. :) Bakar selama 40 minit pada api 160 deg C.


Bila dah masak, tunggu sejuk supaya dapat potong dengan cantik. Hiaskan dengan cili potong dan daun sup, bawang goreng. Makan dengan sos cili.


Close up!

Salam Aidilfitri

To all,

Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Fitri
Maaf Zahir Batin

Begedil

Bahan2:
15 biji kentang
1/2 tube daging cincang Ramly
2 genggam udang kering
1 ulas bawang besar
5 ulas bawang putih
1 biji telur
garam, lada hitam, lada putih ikut rasa masing2
daun sup


Mula2 kupas kentang. Potong nipis.


Goreng kentang sampai nampak kekuningan. Jangan sampai garing.


Kisarkan udang kering dengan sikit air (setengah cawan). Tapis udang, air kisaran udang tu simpan.
Panaskan kuali lain. Tumis bawang putih, bawang besar. Naik bau, masukkan udang kering yang dah dikisar. Bila dah agak garing, baru masukkan daging cincang dan air kisar udang tadi. Udang kering perlu garing baru aroma udang tu naik utk tambah rasa apa2 masakan pun. Tambah garam, lada putih, lada hitam.


Sambil tu, potong daun sup halus2.


Kentang yg dah digoreng tadi dilenyek sampai hancur.


Ni la rupa daging goreng yang dah siap. Pastikan air kisaran udang tadi betul2 kering.


Okay lepas tu, campur semua bahan dan uli/gaul rata.


Bulat2kan sebesar biskut Oreo. Suka hati la kalau nak besar lagi pn.
Pukul telur. Celupkan dalam telur dan goreng dalam myk. Tada.... dah siap. Tapi gamba dah siap tak ambik pulak..

Hello there...

For more than 3 months, i didn't bother to post anything to this blog. Nothing to write, nobody to impress, no event to be told, no mood to tell stories. I have a lot to tell. But i have no time. The blog doesn't give me anymore vibes.

I think it's still not too late for me to wish you Salam Ramadhan. See you around again whenever i feels the vibes coming back. Dhaa~~

You will be missed but not forgotten

I’ve been so occupied lately that whenever I tried to write something, my ideas went down the drain. When writing email or reports or anything else which is work related, I had these ideas streaming to my head that always I have to jot it down for future writings. I haven’t started reading 3 of my books that I bought last year. I have Glee season 1 to watch. I have Gossip Girl season 3 waiting. I stopped playing FB games except Farmville. I have a new house to be prepared for rent out. I haven’t finished looking up for nice lamp. Haven’t fix the grille. The curtain. My never ending list of work in the office. The over-pressure situation at work as I am now reporting direct to my ex-boss’s boss. Okay… why am I telling you all these…?

I am actually in a stressful mode lately. My ex-boss is now transferred to other site in Manila since April. The ex-boss’s boss (lets denote him as Mr K) doesn’t seem to understand operation. Can I say at all..? To make it worst, he is not an engineer. He has engineering background, that’s what I heard but he never practice engineering. Too bad, most of my issue he doesn’t seems to understand. Not only he doesn’t know operation engineering, he doesn’t know project engineering too. He has this attitude of pushing you when u made a mistake. He rather asking you why thing is not done correctly than asking you how to move forward. He disturbs all level of executive rather than talk to the department head only.

Mr K has a pet. This pet is working in same office as mine. And this pet is famously known as “cakap pandai kerja tak tau”. But being a boss, they love this kind of pet. Can we say dog? A few situation happen that this dog bite me. Office politics is over rated. We call this as office drama. I have not been treated that good by Mr K since my boss left. Not because all these while I’ve been protected, but because he has his own dog and he must take care my ex-boss dog too. Yea.. my ex-boss had a dog too. Which is of course not me. I’m nobody’s dog. I’m stubborn and rebel.

I know I used to write something about my ex-boss. That I don’t really like him. His game. Between me and his dog. But I know, reporting to him is way better than reporting to Mr K who knows nothing. At times, I missed my ex-boss especially when I’m stuck. He listens but yet in the same time he challenge. That's the good thing about him.

Taken on his last day as my boss

I heard they are recruiting new Engineering Manager. Hope to get a boss that listen and coach.

Today's Outfit

Today's Outfit

None

I should have posted this entry earlier before actually. I just realized that this was still in my draft box. So the story become quite outdated. Tapi.. utk tidak mensia-siakan tulisanku, harus ku postkan juga. Hehe..

My parents have arrived safely from Makkah. I managed to snap their face right at the Arrival gate of KLIA. Sacred. White. Pristine. Immaculate. Dunno how to describe. They just pure. Most importantly, they were happy, healthy.


That red/black stripey shirt was my nephew who cried so badly together2 with me when we waved good bye to my parents previously. See his cheek now, so happy. He is like my mom's youngest son. So close to each other.

My father did survived there as cancer survivor. He got minor flu but mom was quarantined in Makkah. Maybe my father survived because he got his cancer meds to kill other sick simptom. They said it was hot that drinking cold water or ice could cut your throat. Although my father survived, he got something else on his feet.



Dear readers,
Please pray for my father. He got cataract resulting from taking cancer meds, and he cant see clearly now. I have to send/fetch him everywhere now as mom cannot drive. He suppose to go for operation tomorrow but it has been postponed to new date since the cancer meds regime has not finished yet. Please let my father survive for operation and long live with good health, for ibadah, for my mom, for me, for family. Thanks.

Curvy or long lashes? How about both?

I was browsing thru my pictures in my camera and remembered that I went to Isetan KLCC to meet my friend last December. We were approached by few promoter. They promote the product named TSUYA TSUYA. I didnt know they have make up. All this while I thot they only have nail buffer. Hahhaha.. Because my friend was so afraid to allow other person but herself to touch her eyes, so I agreed to give a try. The whole night, i felt like a camel...! It was like wearing fake eyelashes.

Letting somebody to put on the mascara for you was sooooo syiok. The result was so good. It doesn't stick together. No smudge, no crumple. Thick and long. But because they have like 3 bottles altogether for 1 set of mascara (fibre-as thickener, black mascara and white thingy as strengthener) I think it is not time-frienly. So product rating: 8/10.

New Year New Goal

I told my friend. This year, I want to have balanced life. Out of 5 working day, 1 day I must exercise after work, 1 day I must go home early, 1 day I must work till late, 1 day I must go spend time with friends and 1 day I must go to any shopping mall for shopping or movie or just plain window shopping. Up to yesterday, I managed to comply with 4. Im left with my shopping mall treat for today. Do these sounds balanced? Or too much of relax n cozy?