South-east Asian girls day out :D

السّلام عليكم

PEACE be upon YOU! ;)

YEAY!  i finally met up both of my south-east asian besties last Tuesday! :D

They are Weeraya, from Thailand and Joanita Srikandi a.k.a. Joan, from Indonesia. Both of them are taking Master Degree here in Malaysia. Wee's currently studying in Monash University Sunway Campus, while Joan is now studying in Univ. of Malaya. They're both Muslims, still single and available!! :P [if i'm not mistaken, hihi]. i actually got to know these friendly girls while taking an IELTS preparatory course at British Council last year. Stayed back and study grouping together, had lunch together, and window shopping together throughout the course back then had cause us to be this close until today. With the existence of the Facebook, we're abled to keep in touch even when both of these girls went back to their country before this. Okay,, this time i should thank Mark Zuckerberg for creating this thing called Facebook. HAHA. Ohh, not to forget, there're actually 4 of us, but the other local girl named Ada as seen on>> THIS entry wasn't free to gathered with us last Tuesday. :(

Uhm, The last time the four of us met was long time ago in November 2011. Don't you remember the entry "a quick tour around Putrajaya" as seen >> HERE.

Yes, it's been a year since our last meeting. How fast time flies isn't it? :') It feels like i just got to know them in class and discussing on how to beat the other groups while playing the language games in Miss Donna's fun class. ;) Even though their mother-tongue isn't the same as mine [both of them can't understand Malay language], and they're actually much older than me, but that never counts when it comes to friendship. :D

i never 'assume' them like 'elder sisters' to me. It doesn't mean that i don't respect them, but i can feel that they're actually the same age with me inside. ;)

So, the plan was that we'd be meeting each other in front of Zara Shop, KLCC at 11.30a.m.

BUT, i only get out of my house to go to LRT station at 11.20A.M. due to my current procrastinating habit. HAHAHA. My bad~ At that time, i felt so guilty and was like "OH MY GOD, they must be waiting for me right now!!". So i was waiting in the train so impatiently and quickly rushed out of the LRT as soon as i reached at KLCC Station. Unfortunately, none of them were there in front of Zara Shop. Thus, i sat on the bench there and SMS Wee. As my watch strikes 12 noon, i've got bored and started to cross-legged on the bench. [to be specific, in Malay we called it as 'duduk bersila']. Not long after that, a guard came to me and gave a sign using his fingger showing that i should put down my feet. Duhhh~ What's the problem?? The man sitting on my left told me "Wahhh~ i never know here got such rules". me: "yeahh, me too!-,-" Then the Singaporean woman sitting on my right asked me "What the guard told chu?". I replied, "He asked me to put down my feet". "Why? izit something to do with religious belief or what?". "No, maybe he afraid that my shoes are dirty and it might leave stains on the bench,MAYBE.:/ ". "Wahhh~ so strict ahh??", she said surprisingly. HEH, what a drama suddenly happened. >,<" So i had a short chat with the Singaporean aunty before Wee came. 

Wee arrived there around 12.20 p.m. and we had quite a longgggggggg chat before Joan arrived at 1.30 p.m. ;) Wee told me that she isn't really happy studying in Monash due to a few things. First, the costs of living there are way too expensive compared to other places. Just imagine, she have got to spend at least RM6 to RM13 for a plate of meal, which i can usually bought it at RM2 to 4 Ringgit in my campus. Second, she have got no close friend there. She told me that surprisingly, the majority of the students there are Indonesian, it's like 60% of them! WHAT??? and the rest are Local Chinese, and a few mix of Korean, European, and all. She's the only Thai people there! Most of her classmates would always communicate in their mother-tongue's language outside the English class. Well, since she couldn't understand the Malay language and any other languages like Chinese and Indonesian, so she felt a bit alienated by the other students. :(

Right after Joan arrived, we had our lunch at the food court. Wee and i had our plates of Pepper Lunch, while Joan had rice with sardines in the lunch box she brought as always! ;D

After finished our meals, we continued chatting a lil bit before went to Surau to perform Zohor prayer. ;) After that, we walked down the underground KLCC tunnel and then walked straight away to the KLCC-Bukit Bintang Pedestrian Walkway. Yeahh, that one with the air conditioner! ohh, everyone could walk there without their eyes opened and worrying about all the motorcyclist, snatcher, or what so ever. :D

We went to Pavillion and then walked down to the newly opened H&M in Lot 10 that evening. Uhhh, looking at the condition of the H&M which was like it's just being robbed, makes me wonder why people here in Malaysia are too obsessed buying all these WINTER clothes in this TROPICAL CLIMATE country? I could still remember how deserted the H&M outlets in the USA when i once visited there last year. Wee bought two pairs of pants for both of her little sisters. So kind of her! ;) i only bought a basic top for myself. Gotta save my money starting from now for my future. YEAHH! :D

We went our separate ways after that. and that's the end! :)))

Wee & Joan

semester break = outings + food dilemmas + gadgets malfunctioning.

السّلام عليكم

PEACE be upon YOU! ;) 

Wheee~ Last Thursday, i accompany my friend Ayu Dafitri to our former secondary school to meet our beloved former class teacher, cikgu Latifah Hamid. Ayu told me that she was quite jealous reading my previous blog entry about the gathering that my classmates and i have held on the teacher's day last week. Last week, she couldn't join us because she's still at Perak facing her final exams at UniKL. So, now only she could come to school and freshen up all the sweet memories there, and meet the teachers as well. ;) We bumped into quite a number of teachers; cikgu Zarina, ustazah Nazifah, cikgu Normawati, cikgu Azerin, cikgu Aminah, my library teacher; Teacher Norita and of course cikgu Latifah! umm, that was after we took our SPM certificate at the office.

 We spent our time for a while at the library, [the place where i spent most of my time back then as a librarian] :') Teacher Norita also had a short chat with us, she motivated us, asking about our current life, my family, and stuffs and also sharing with us about her cute lil kids. :D after that we met cikgu Latifah, she was about to 'belanja' us for the lunch, AGAIN! but we denied since she's still got class to enter until 1 o'clock. We have got to buy a few things at OTK, Thus, we immediately made our way to OTK. but unfortunately, we were totally forget to took some pictures with the teachers at school. how sad. :(

*at the bus stop near school also can :P

At OTK, Ayu bought some fish, chickens, and some ingredients to made triffle. While i only bought an orange coloured board, colourful sticky note strips, and body scrubber sponge.haha.perlu ke cerita? i bought the board to made it as my so called memo board at college on this coming semester. since i've got the living room or a.k.a. 'RT', instead of the bedrooms. so that i won't get any supply of white board, study lamp and stuffs. that's why i have to made my own initiative to bring along mine. (T_T)

After that we had our lunch at KFC. We wanted to try out the limited time menu, 'Pokkits'. but the meal was so frustrating me!! the advertisement shows the price of ala carte Pokkits is RM2.60. while the combo set is RM5.50. i ordered for the combo, but since i changed the soft drinks to lipton iced lemon tea, so i've got to add RM1.50 to the price of the combo set menu, making the total price of the TINY pokkits and A MEDIUM CUP of drink cost RM7 not yet include the government tax. duhhh~ i felt like i've been cheated by KFC for the hundreds of times. well, all of the KFC's meals are always small and the pricing are always unreasonable! it would be better if i bought Mcd Chicken foldover, it cost RM9.95 which include the drinks and french fries! Plus, it has a bigger portion of meal. Unlike this 'pokkits' thinggy! even my wallet is bigger than it. heh~

Ayu complained about the Pokkits as well. According to her, the wrap doesn't taste good coz it's neither soft nor crispy at all. and the combination of the saltiness of the grated cheese and the sweet-and-sour-ness of the manggo sauce is a very terrible combination!

it seems like my iced lemon tea which cost me about RM4.50 is way too 'valuable' compared to my pokkits which costs RM2.60! and even a bottle of Twister. LOL!

Oh! not to forget,, the day before on Wednesday, i went for an outing with other friends, which were Nurizzani and Abdul Muzil. When we were having our lunch at Subway in Times Square, something funny happened. This friend of mine, Muzil somehow was having so called 'dilemma' with his food when he excidentally dropped the meatball from his sandwich.

 See the meatball up here. HAHA. Izzani couldn't say a word when seeing that. xD So we just pretended like nothing has happened and went to surau after finishing our meals. After done the Zohor prayer, we walked to Low Yatt since Izzani was looking for an external hard disk. Actually we wanted to watch the movie 'What to expect when you're expecting' but then, the showtime was quite late. Thus, we cancelled the plan.

At the Low Yatt Plaza, i took the chance to asked this one 'apek' at the Apple store about my ipod touch. Earlier that morning, after i woke up and was about to check the time, suddenly i found out that the screen was blank. The apek told me that to check and fix it would cost me more than RM150. Then i was like, "aiyaa~ sokay la apek. i better buy new one or fix the iphone instead of this 2nd generation ipod". But deep down inside i was quite dissappointed coz this ipod was a gift from my brother back in 2008 for getting straight A's in PMR. :'( Even my brother's ASUS that i've been using at campus back in these 5 months suddenly couldn't functioning and turned blank as well. I don't know why all these happened within this week! haiyaiii~~

At the LowYatt Plaza, i also heard something that i find it funny. When we walked around the mall i heard a guy talked to one seller like this "Aiyoo~ why so mahal??!! got free gift ahh??". That line indeed reminded me so much to the video on Youtube entitled 'Only in Malaysia' which tell us that most people in our country would always ask for FREE GIFT when buying something expensive. HAHA. From the Low yatt, we walked through the Sungei Wang Plaza and dropped by at F.O.S. first to buy basic tshirts, before we walked into the Fahrenheit 88 Mall. Afterwards, we walked along the new 562 meters fully air-conditioned pedestrian bridge; the KLCC-Bukit Bintang Walkway. From the KLCC, we took the LRT back to our home sweet home. Wheee~ we saved some RM kachingg~kachingg~ since we only took the LRT, instead of taking the Monorail as well. :D

here is one of the views inside of the walkway. Sorry, i don't have any 'model' here. Both of my friends were too shy to enter frame. ;)

celebrating teacher's day at school!

السّلام عليكم

PEACE be upon YOU! ;) 
Last Wednesday, on the 16th May 2012, Muzaireen, Amirah Diana, Niezwan, Sufian, Fikri, Hafiz, Aidil, Qutbi, leman, and I went to our beloved secondary school, SMK Gombak Setia. :D
At first, we [all 5 Sejahtera 2010 students] planned to organize a so called reunion at the Kemensah Heights. So that we could picnicking, barbecuing, etc. Everyone agreed with the plan. but then, after all UiTM, Matriculations, IIUM, and UTP students have had our Semester Break, there were still a few of our classmates at other private universities and colleges doesn't had their sem break yet. Thus, only a few of us attended the event. However, we eventually decided to meet up at school on the Teacher's Day instead of picnicking at the waterfall.
We had set the time to meet up at 11 a.m. , but as expected, Malay Promises a.k.a. 'Janji Melayu' is always fulfilled in a 'timely manner'.HAHAHA. Around 12 noon, we showed up at the school and watched the teachers playing all those typical 'teacher's day games' which was conducted by our classmate, Syarifhidayat, who's still studying there in Upper Form 6. :)
 

P/S: i'm jealous because when i was still a student of this school, the menu was not this long. and the canteen tender was always under a very bad management. huh~

We waited at the canteen untill the teachers finished participating in all of those activities scheduled. At 2.30 p.m. then only the teachers finished watching the podcast video of speech from the Education Minister if i'm not mistaken. Yet, our patience worth the time consumed. Our former class teacher, Mrs Latifah Hamid kindly gave us quite a big sum of money to buy KFC! muahahaa~ *evil laugh*

Thus, we had KFC as our lunch with this beloved Maths teacher of our class.

Aside from that, i also brought my own homemade Red Velvet Cake. Just like the previous years, i am always given the task to bring a cake during our potluck gathering.

oh ya! i almost forgot to tell that 16th May is Syarifhidayat's and Hafiz Nordin's birthday. Therefore, Mrs Latifah requested for them to cut the cake for her. :D Seeing those two boys cuting the cake indeed reminds me so much to their so called 'surprise' birthday party back in 2008 at Sufian's house which was also organized by me. :')

nothing much changes at Syarif's style, he is still the old 'cute' him. :P but Seeing Hafiz's 'Hard Hair Look' back in those teenage years, almost made me laugh out loud. :DDD

while the cutie little Niezwan in the picture up here is no longer exist. He's now have grown up into a mature guy. ecehh~ :P

okay, back to the teacher's day celebration thinggy, oh ya, Mrs Latifah's daughter, Yasmin Hanani were there too during the celebration. She's waiting for her mum to go back home together. but the funny part was, my friend, Niezwan kept teasing her by pretending to 'seduce' her. :P and then my teacher asked, "so what about Syazana? Where would you put her?" LOL! somehow she still remember the gossips that used to spread in our class back then. ;)

After we finished eating those KFC's chickens, there were still half of my Red Velvet Cake left. So my teacher asked each and everyone of us like. . . "Amirah, do have some more cakes." but everyone refused not to eat some more and pretend to be so full. She eventually said, "Fatin, i'll bring this remaining cake home okay?" :P hambek kau~ kunun ada lah baki untuk mereka bawa pulang ke rumah. xD

Not long after that, she decided to go back home. and thus, we made our way to KL Festival City a.k.a. KLFC to spend some more time together. Since it was quite late, so we decided to just window shopping and not to watch any movie.
but it wasn't just a 'window shopping' for Aidil. He wanted to buy a new pants since Niezwan's Iced Tea had spilled on his white pants that he was wearing. That's why he kept covering up the pants with his hand like this >>>

However, he couldn't find a pair of pants that suits his style and his 'wallet' as well. :P so he end up not buying any new pants. but somehow he bought a sweater instead??? whattafish???!!!

After accompanying Aidil to find a brand new pants for himself, and helping out Hafiz to find a handbag for him to present it to his girlfriend, we went to an arcade. Eryn, Mira,Apiz, and Aidil were so eager playing with the games there. While the rest went to the bookshop. :) one weird fact about most of my boys ex-classmates is, they really love to read love novels. believe it or not? :DDD Eryn sent me home that evening and that's how the day ends. i slept early that night, since i only slept for 2 hours the morning before, after i've finished baking the cake.

The next day, i accompany Firdaus Salim a.k.a Pedot to another so called 'SCHOOL' of mine, the British Council  Institute. He planned to take up a general English course there in order to improve his English before continue studying. He really wanted to persue his studies in Cairo, after i recommended him to watch the Indonesian movie "Ketika Cinta Bertasbih 1&2"!! LOL! Urmm~ Since i used to take up a few classes at BC previously, that's why he asked me to guide him there. Awwwh~ there's no much changes at the British Council. However, those 'cute' looking chinese receptionist are no longer working there. :(

After done at British Council, we went to KLCC to had our lunch. :D I finally ate my favourite mcd Chicken Foldover after almost 4 years[if i'm not mistaken] it was discontinued. Oh, two of our friends, Syuhada and Anis Nadia currently are working at a bakery shop in KLCC. Thus, i called Anis to come over, but she's on off day. and then i called Syuhada Hussin a.k.a Syue too, to come over to the food court since i  brought along 2 slices of the Red Velvet Cake that she craving for recently. So, she came and spent about half an hour with us. She ate one slice of it, and left another one for Pedot. She even tweeted the picture of the cake that i brought for her on Twitter. :P how excited she was!

Hey look! He even bought the novel with the same title with the movie at Kinokuniya that day. How obsessed he is towards that story. :O

we quickly went back home right after that, because i have to babysit my niece Aleena that evening. and that's how the story ends. :D

nama saya fatin suriRUMAH. :D

**[hahaa,, ignore the picture! sempat lagi cik tin aleena ni online FB kat iPod ehh??!! haishh! potong gaji dia!]

salam!

haihh,, kalau baca caption kat atas tuhh plus tengok header gambar aleena ni jee mesti dah boleh agak si cik fatin suriani ni nak membebel pasal ape kali nih kan?

"no doubt,,confirm punye lah! for sure dia nak citer pasal dia babysits aleena la tu!"

kann? kan?

ohh,, bukan, bukan sama skali. :)

actually i would like to voice my opinion on why i'm not interested at all to seek for a job vacancies. teeett~

hahaa. poyo gilaa bunyi nye.ignore jehh,, :P

here you go...

okay, let's say gaji korang RM800 sebulan kan,,

tambang pegi balik naik LRT nak gi keje tuh sehari je dah 4-6 hengget,so sebulan dah RM120-RM180.

pastu time break mesti nak makan kan?

pastu keje pulak kat klcc,pavillion,midvalley,ww,whatsoever shopping complex yg bnyk godaan makanan mahal2 tuh. ahaha,, so average blanje utk makan jee dah RM10 sehari,, sebulan dah RM300 bhaiii,,

pastuu pastu,, kalau dah hari2 usha hot stuffs [bukan aweks ehh,,but gadgets,baju,sneakers,blahh2,etc.] kat shopping mall tuh mesti suatu hari tergugat gak iman korang nak beli kan kan?? then,,opsss! TERbeli.

HAHA, so in the end brapa sen lah sngt korang dpt simpan lps keje penat2 tuh.

 perghh perghhh perghh!

tak ke panas kalau korang fikir2 balik? :P

so,,rakan2, renung2kan dan slamat beramal! ;))

<<< sangat macam makcik kan cara aku membebel?? HAHA.

sabo je la kpd yg sedang membaca nih. ;))

"so,kalau tak keje,nak buat ape cik fatin?"
hihii,,alah mcm2 lagi korang buleh buat.
blaja laa driving ke,, amik short course ke,,keje through d internet ke,,mcm2 boleh.
paling rock jadilah SURI RUMAH! kalau korang lelaki, jadilah MR. MAMA. kompem ramai girls cair. LOL! :P
~ kalau nak keje kat luar gak, utk save cost,, korang bawak la bekal.
(bawak lah oatKrunch banyak2 dlm bag mcm aku slalu buat. ;))
~ pastu gi keje jln kaki jee lah ye? ;D
(haha,masa zaman skolah dlu mama slalu marah sbb aku balik jln kaki eventho jarak dari skolah ke rumah 3km. hihi. save budget,,kalau naik taxi RM4,kalau naik bas sehengget!)
~ pastuu tahan laa nafsu utk shopping!

oh yaa,,yesterdy i went to british council and sat for a placement test!! [okay,ni lah contoh aktiviti org tak keje.haha]

the placement test is to determine whether i'm at d elementery level,pre-intermediate level,intermediate,upper intermediate, or d advance level.

and of course i'm not an advance learner! huhu.

korang baca blog nih pon boleh tau english aku teruks gilaa kan? HAHA.

fuhh,, luckily i've got mrs...ehh,, ms. kot,, (i'm not sure ms. or mrs.) vandana padya as the interviewer!!

she's so nice,friendly & very soft spoken,,

alhamdulillah,,the interview went way too well than wht i was expected. ngee~

so,i'm in d upper intermediate class,,gahhh~ teruk kot? segan!

perghh! but BEST gilaa lah questions test tuh.

in the first instance,,the questions was kinda like skolah rendah je. :P

aku pun jawab dngn rilek nyaa.

then page2 blakang tuh hambek kau!

mula lah aku stuck lama2,,HAHA.

pastu kena pulak jwb dlm brapa minit jee.

GAHAHA.padan muka fatin!

 luckily jugak lahh,,i was exposed to these kind of questions previously masa kat skolah dulu.

(ecehh! ayat mcm dah lama sngt jee 'dulu' tuhh. xD)

last year lah,, i took the Cambridge ESOL test,,

[click here]

but at tht time, the allocation of time given was 1hour for each section,,kot?(tah laa,tak hingat dah.haha.)

so again,,padan muka fatin! jawab macam siput lagii! ;D

then, lps settled kat brtsh council tuh, pegi singgah secret recipe klcc japp,,

pekena choc. milk shake + cake jap.

act,, saje jeh nak terjah yan. die keje kat situ.

baru 3hari but dah nak resign. :P

dia kata boss tak best. HAHA. pape je lah yann.

around 12 o'clock terus balik rumah coz mama dah call suruh balik cepat.

mama nak pegi skolah dah,,so aku kena take over jaga aleena. ;)

tambang pegi : frm LRT melati to LRT klcc ; RM2

tambang balik : frm LRT klcc to LRT melati ; RM2 + taxi frm LRT melati to home sweet home; RM5.50 

so total pegi + balik dah RM9.50!! <<< see,,betul kan aku ckp tadi. HAHA
tambang je dah 10hengget,, mkn kat secrt recipe dah 17 hengget! gila lah! =,="
okay, saya memang tak boleh keje kat tempat2 camni. >,<

happy 54th birthday mama.

29th december- yeahh, it was my mum's birthday!

mum,you're such a beautiful woman i ever known.

woot~ woot~ alamak! jiwang pulak! xD

hmm, as usual, my brother in US would always send cakes,bouquet of flowers,and cards during my mum's or my dad's birthday which he ordered online from either berry's or secret recipes.

haaha,, my sis dan saya pon apa lagii, snap pics la with the roses. :P

 the daughters with the birthday girl! :P

 it's me, the poyomon. :D

hee~ macam gambar masa mama graduate with ayah. ;)

hey look! that's the nacklace that i bought for her from iSetan last week! 20% discount yaww!

comel tak? :D

at 9 p.m, we had our diner at the Bora Asmara, kg sungai penchala. a balinese theme restaurant.
but they do serves western food,thai food,indonesian food,and malaysian food too!
the bali style landscape refreshed my bali trip memories back in 2007 ohh ohh! ;)
and the starter : gado-gado reminds me to my bandung trip.
the food was OK lah for us,,
not like some reviewers blogger did complained that the food at bora asmara was really bad like hell.LOL!
maybe they came on the wrong time, semua chef cuti sakit time tu kot.heh~ xD
oh, faheem met new friend there too! they 'talked' to each other and pretended like they could understand their 'language' very well.
haha, so comel!

atok faheem nenek. ;)

 my sis& her fiance. ^_^

the live band sang 'happy birthday',isabela,and a ceroncong song for mama. :D

 faheem, r u scared? or maybe u want them to sing the WONDERPET song? HAHA.

the photographer is totally epic fail! xD

okay, i'm so sure that i'm not an expert photographer. so, do check out these pictures at bora asmara which i adored so much! 
-taken from other websites- ;)
 oh my,, i hope that i'm good at capturing pictures like them. :P

nice view huh? ;)