Azlin - experimenting life

Miss J's Farewell Party

2008-12-06T14:30:00.000-08:00

6 December 2008

I couldn't believe it. Today was the last whole day Miss J would be in Cambridge. She's actually leaving tomorrow afternoon! I feel so sad as we are very close here, like sisters...

I cooked some food for this event. The food was not really that fancy as I was busy lately with the genome sequences and spent most of my time 'playing' with bioinformatics software. Still struggling to figure out the best way to process the sequences.

The normal vegetables salad and my rose chicken, suitable to have with briyani rice....

I took a taxi to go to Mdm Zett's new place, Southacre Flat at 12 pm. Too lazy to cycle as her place is quite far from my college and I'd to bring the food.

The hostesses - Mdm Zett and Ms Zee were busy preparing some drink. Miss J was trying to join the fun...

Mr Izud was the first to arrive, and then me. Mdm Zett's place is quite spacious and nice. Check out their living room....

And they have a very nice garden outside which would be perfect for BBQ in summer. And a large tree which I would die to climb! Perhaps in summer....

More people came after 12.30 pm and more food was placed on the table.

The guys were so deeply engrossed in their interesting discussion....

And the girls...somehow they always manage to give a pose even though the were heavily talking just before. So responsive and alert to cameras!!

Main dish :

Briyani rice, beef kurma, Rose chicken, pajeri nenas, jelatah (two version-mine and Mdm Zett!), nasi himpit and peanut sauce.

Dessert :

Bread pudding, tiramisu, muffins, peach pie and ice cream.

Peach pie brought by Mr. Khairul

Muffins brought by Mr. Izud

Bread pudding made by Mr. Hef and Mdm Zett

Miss J was given the honor to start the eating session. Bon appetite!

The girls and food...What a combination! With me in my Christmas mood (so red ya). Hehe!!

Then, the cake session! Mr. Hef's belated birthday.

We sang him the "Allah Selamatkan Kamu" song. He was so surprised of our birthday song selection (Mr. Kimi fault actually!) but made a joke about it.

Chocolate cake from Fitzbillies

Check out Mr. Hef hands when we sang him the "Islamic" version of his birthday song. So very the like when we sing nasyid la....

Many Happy Returns Mr. Hef. May You Be Blessed with Your Life - a Hubby and PhD Student!!

Miss J and her farewell cake...

And it was from Fitzbillies too...

Wish You All The Best in Your Future Undertakings. No Matter What You Decide, We'll Be Behind You All The Way....

We watched Mdm Zett and Mr Hef's wedding DVD, the one that took place at Mdm Zett's house in KL. Everyone cheered Mr Hef for succeeded in saying his wedding vow (akad) only once! Excellent job bro...

Everyone was so focus watching the wedding DVD.....

Miss J received a number of farewell presents from some of us. She was very happy (and sad too as she's leaving us and Cambridge).

A cute Cambridge grad teddy bear from Mr. T!

And a nice love-shaped pocket mirror from Mdm Airina which will definitely lift Miss J spirit as she's obsessed with mirrors - of any size and shape!

Mdm Zett, Mr. Hef and Ms ZZ gave her a nice green pendant and a bracellet but I didn't have the pictures. I stole the picture from Mr. Hef's album in Facebook! Hehe!

Miss J gave us (closest friends of hers) a red bracelet each as her farewell gift. I love it and will always treasure the bracelet with my heart....

And we couldn't resist to pose with our bracelet (tried to pose like pro model but it didn't work!)

Photo session followed before most of the people left the place :

All the credits should go to Mr. Hef for all the nice pictures below.....

Ms ZZ, me, Miss J and Mdm Airina

Circle of friends...

And a few more...

The people that came to this event..

Our last hugs for Miss J before she leaves...

And my favourite among all!

Our 'pandang-pandang, jeling-jeling' (Mr. T gave it this title!) picture

Ms ZZ, me and Mdm Zett waved Miss J our last goodbye...

And my potrait picture which I adore so much. Thanks Mr. Hef!

Then, the rest of us watched Mamma Mia together and sang together at the parts when the lyrics were given. Everyone seemed to be enjoying ourselves with the songs.

Then, we all left for Wolfson (Miss J's college) as we had to collect our thing from her room. She sold/gave away some of her belongings.

Then, we parted as Ms Fatimah and I took a taxi back to St Ed.

I bought an acuostic guitar from Miss J. Hopefully, I'll be able to play something after some practice...

Now, time to sleep. ZZZzzzzz.....

Christmas Happy Hour Genetics 2008

2008-12-05T12:32:00.000-08:00

5 December 2008

We were supposed to have our Christmas party today. Since only a few members of the department bought the tickets, the party was sadly cancelled. To replace that, we organised a Christmas Happy Hour instead. Whatever food or drinks that had been bought for the party were used in this Happy Hour.

The price you had to pay to attend this event. Only a pound, not that very much ya...

Mr. Chris, the organiser of the Happy Hour of our department initiated this event. We all helped him in preparing the place and food.

The boys were resting after finished decorating our tea room for the Happy Hour...

Ms Chih and I prepared some fresh vegetables and cut them to sticks to go with the rest of the food..

Food and drinks :

All kind of titbits and drinks especially the fermentation products (alcohol drink and its derivatives)!

And all the minced pies, muffins and others....

Ms Chih was very happy with all the food especially when it was free and you can eat as much as you want!

And this was what I had for the night...

The event started with the Part 11 students activity. We had a pantomin presented by the Part 11 (Third Year students in Malaysia) entitled : The Wizard of Cosmid. This year, the panto was very entertaining and creative. I really enjoyed the play and the story line...

One of the boys turned into a sexy girl and was on a quest to look for indole! And all of them each play a character of a lecturer in the department. A bit synical but more of a laugh!

They didn't just act, they sang too. Apparently some of them have very good voice!

We continued to enjoy the food and chat with friends. Everyone was really happy and enjoyed the event.

Ms Maria (I couldn't remember her full name) and me. She is from Spain

Me and Ms Claudia and she is from Portugal.

Merry Xmas Everyone, Happy Eid Adha and Happy New Year!

Research in Genetics

2008-12-04T12:26:00.000-08:00

4 December 2008

It was Research in Genetics Day today, from 10.30 am till 5 pm. I submitted a poster (an old one actually!). My labmate Ms Chih submitted her poster too, which she presented in Poland in October this year.

Me and my old poster (done in May this year!)

With Mdm SA, Ms Nish - my departmental mates

Ms Chih and her cute poster

Mr Chris presented a talk on his work, 'Indole Inside : The Alternative Dimer Catastrophe Hypothesis'. Mr. Chris talk was very impressive as he's very smart, confident and good in delivering his speech. David Summers, his supervisor must be very proud of him.

At 3.oo pm, the result for the most impressive poster was announced. I knew that I wouldn't win as my poster is not really that good. Matthew Savoian from Fly lab won, congrats to him. But the most unexpected thing happened. After the winner was announced, the judging committee announced that, there was a very tough decision in deciding the winner and guess what?? My poster was the first runner up! Haha! Who would have thought that they would considered my poster among the shortlisted ones. Ghee..... I was glad and happy.

The secretary of RIG circulate email to everyone and congratulated the winner. Not just that, she even mentioned about my name as one of the runner up!

The clause in the email :

"Thank you to those who submitted a poster and well done to Matthew Savoian , who won the most impressive poster competition and the prize of £15.00 cash and a £10.00 voucher. It was a tough decision and the judges, Alfonso, Cahir and Steve had their work cut out choosing a winner, with runners up Noor Azlin Mokhtar, Remy Ware and the iGEMteam"

This really lifted my spirit!! Abg John, Ms Marissa (a lecturer in yeast), my HOD and a few others congratulated me. And Abg John was really proud of me. And all that for being a runner up. If I won, hemm... they might have done much more. Hehe! Bestnyerr.... hari ni.

A pose with the lab members -Mr. Chris, me, Abg John, Ms Chih, Mdm SA, Mr. C, David Summers and Mr. Anthony

And especially, a hug from Ms Marissa for my achievement (even though I didn't win!)

Eating Fiesta!

2008-12-02T08:59:00.000-08:00

2 December 2008

My labmates and I (especially the ladies!) had been planning our lab activity since a few weeks ago and decided to do it today. This was not our first time for such event. We had done it at least once every term. But this time, our eating fiesta involved more people as the number of the lab members had increased to 14!

We discussed about the food and I decided to make some beef dish. Most of us decided to bring something of our specialty ( a famous dish from our respective country!).

We started heating all the food at 12 pm and prepared the table and other thing.

Mdm Silvia and Mdm SA were preparing the table while I was heating the food.

Main Dish :

I've prepared two dish, my Malaysian food : beef rendang and manggo salad.

Mdm SA prepared some fried salmon in her Bangladeshi way. So lovely in taste...

Mdm Silvia made some vegetarian Mexican dish that went well with nachos. And some stir fried mushrooms whch I forgot to take the picture. Sorry...

And Ms Chih made some mixed vegetables in oyster sauce in her Taiwanese style and used gluten instead of real meat in her dish, some fermented bamboo shoot, tofu, Chinese mushrooms, carrot and others. Tasted very different and nice. I loved it especially the tofu.

And Mr. James, our youngest member made some falafel.

Dessert :

Mr. Chris is not only smart, he is a good cook too. He prepared minced pie and was kind enough to made some 'Halal' minced pie for Mdm SA and me. It tasted good...

And Mr. Nick brought some Chelsea buns from Fitzbillies. My favourite. Yummy!!

And some cute marzipan from Fitzbillies brought by Mr. C.

We really enjoyed the event. Everyone looked happy and full. Uncle Philip joined us for only 15 minutes and left as he had a lecture afterward. They all thanked us (Mdm SA, Ms Chin and me) as the main organiser.

Most of the lab members

Mdm SA, me, Abg John and David

Ice Skating Day

2008-11-28T10:59:00.000-08:00

28 November 2008

It winter time. The ice rink is back in Cambridge this year. Not wanting to be left behind, we planned for our lab outdoor activity - Ice skating!

Before our ice-skating session started :

Ms. Chih, me and Mdm Silvia

Mr. Anthony, me, Mdm Silvia and Mr James

Mr. Chris, Mr. Matt, Mr. James, Mr. Anthony (visiting scholar from California), Mdm Silvia (our postdoc), Ms Chih, Ms Irene and her friend, and me bought the 14.00 hour tickets. We paid GBP7.50 each at students' rate.

I was a bit nervous as this would be my second year (and my third attempt) in trying to skate. I was not good last year and probably would be the same "bad" this time.

As before, Mr Matt helped me to tighten up my skating shoes, not letting me endanger myself by having lose ones. So kind and nice of him...

Having my proper skating shoes on-all set up for skating!

It was a first time for Mr. Anthony, a second for Ms Chih and a third for me. I started with holding the rail in the corner and move slowly until I was confident enough to let go of my grip. Then, I skate slowly and tried to move both my legs. It was not easy as I kept on losing my focus! Once my focus was gone, I lost my balance and had to hold the rail again...

The guys were very good to me, Chih and Anthony. Mr. Chris and Ms Irene help Ms Chih by holding both her hands and led her for a spin around the ice rink. Matt and Silvia helped me for a while. Then Chris and Irene held my hands and dragged me with them for a round. At least that made my money worth for skating!

Matt skate beside me most of the time, giving me advice and injected more confident in me. Before the skating session ended, I managed to skate on my own and surprisingly at a faster rate than last year. I believed my performance was not really that bad this year and I am proud of myself!! Hehe...

Even Ms Chih managed to skate on her own today! Good work Chih..

Matt, me, Silvia and Chris

Ms Chih, Mr Chris, me, Mr James and Mdm Silvia on the ice...

The guys stopped at the Castle for a few round of boost. Silvia and I walked back to our lab to collect our belonging and did some more work before we headed home. I felt tired and hungry. Hemm...probably I lost at least 1/2 kg by skating!

What a nice activity to be involved with. Very tiring but fun....

Mycolic Acid group lunch

2008-11-10T13:01:00.000-08:00

10 November 2008

We had sort of a group lunch plus a guest from Saudi, Mr. Sammi. I had just had my course on how to keep a lab notebook (it may sound funny to attend such course but I got one credit for that!).

We went to Brown, a nice restaurant in Cambridge. I had never been to this place before but the layout of the restaurant is nice and pleasant. But the food came as a dissapointment to most of my labmate.

Mr. C and I ordered baked soy salmon which turned out to be tasty but the pak choy that came with the fish was overcooked!

Mr. Tony, the visiting student from USA had some pasta which tasted not at all nice. Too bad for him...

Matt ordered a beef burger. He didn't complaint much.

And I was not sure what Abg John had for lunch as I sat a bit far from him to ask. Just a photo that I've got. Courtesy of Mr. Tony as he fortunately brought his camera along! But the pictures will follow soon as I've to get them from Tony!

Trip to Sheffield and Loughborough

2008-11-10T12:54:00.000-08:00

8-9 November 2008

Finally, I managed to go somewhere outside Cambridge for short pleasure trip. Ain-ain came to visit me in Cambridge last two saturday. She invited me to visit her in Sheffiled to return favors.

I totally forgot to get myself a railcard until Mr. T pointed in out and nagged me for not having everything in order. Thanks Mr. T, I really needed that!

At Cambridge train station-very excited and high in spirit to start the trip!

We left St Ed's around 6.15 am and got ourselves on 6.55 am train to Sheffiled via Leicester. The scenery along the way was not really that interesting as everything look similar. The train moved quite slow to Leicester. It took us two hours to reach Leicester.

Then, we caught the train to Sheffield after asking the train staff as both Mr. T and I (especially me) were not sure which train to take. We reached Sheffield about 11 am. Ain-ain was already there at the station, waiting for us. Wahhh! Finally, we were in Sheffield!

Me and Ain-ain - in front of Sheffield train station

Sheffield Hallam University

At the market area....

We were quite hungry. We walked (after looking for the direction in the city map) to Oxford Road to get some halal food. The road was not reallt that far from the train station. Mr. T and I used to a lot of walking but Sheffield is a bit of a hill. We found out that we were a bit exhausted!

Oxford Road- the best place to find Halal food here...

One of the most famous Halal restaurant in Sheffield-Kebabish

Another famous restaurant to dine in- Noodle Inn which serves big plates of food! And the prices were not that expensive. And we could order in Malay as the waitresses are mostly Chinese Malaysian students....

Our starter-mixed plater. The portion for three people was so huge! Less than GBP6..

Me and Ain-ain were enjoying our mixed plater!

Seafood fried rice-less than GBP 6

Chicken in black pepper and black soy bean with fried rice. So huge but cost less than GBP6!

Free desserts accompanied the food. The choice between hot sago in cream or vanilla ice-cream...

Mr. T was enjoying the food, especially the free ice-cream!

Sadly said, nothing much is going on in Sheffield at this time of the year. Ain-ain is still alien to Sheffield and we just made our tour based on some of her and Mr. T's experience. Luckily, the weather was not that bad. We were expecting rain all day but it was only a bit of shower from now and then. God must be on our side!

The 'mosque-shape' Sainsbury!

Mr. T and Ain-ain were looking at the map and trying to figure the way around!

Couldn't help myself from capturing the colors of the autumn!

Students accomodation. So modern compared to Cambridge

Welcome to my humble place said Ain-ain...

Ain-ain took us to her one room flat. The flat even though with only one room, still look comfy and nice with a nice kitchen and bathroom.

Ain-ain and me inside her one room flat

We visited several buildings in Sheffield Uni.

The landmark of Sheffiled Uni

The tallest building in Sheffield Uni - Firth Court (the fact that this building is on the hill makes it the tallest!!)

Student community center. They have almost everything here, from cinema, eating outlets and others...

Ain-ain didn't forget to show us her department, Animal and Plant Sciences.

I was amazed to find Perak Lab here! The lab was sponsored by Perak Sultan. God bless our Sultan!

Sheffield City Center

City Council building - Lovely building which houses wedding and other interesting activities, other than the normal admin thingy..

We took the tram to go to the train station. Other than buses, tram provides efficient transportation service here in Sheffiled.

My first time in taking tram but apparently not for Mr. T who had been here before....

We left Sheffield around five and managed to catch the 5. 25 train to Loughborough, our next destination. We promised Ms Ct Ann a visit since december last year. Ann and two others from Leicester came to Cambridge in December last year to visit Mt. T. That was how I came to know them and we became friends. It was about time that we reciprocated their visit!

It took us an hour from Sheffield to Loughborough. Mr Haris was waiting for us at the Loughborough station with his friend, Mr. Faiz (I think!). He drove us to Ct Ann's house. Ct Ann was busy preparing our dinner, her special nasi briyani. Yummy!! She's a terrific cook and I really enjoyed the food!

We ate quite fast as we planned to go and see the fireworks schedule at 8 pm. Ct Ann drove us there and we saw so many people walking towards the fireworks place. But the weather was not on our side here. It rained heavily. Luckily, I'd my umbrella with me. So did Ct Ann. I shared my umbrella with Mr. T.

The fireworks started quite late, at almost nine due to the heavy rain. But at least, the fireworks was much better than the one played in Cambridge, much bigger in size!

There were quite a number of Malaysian that I met here. Hemm...the Malays community here is bigger than Cambridge. I learnt that they tend to live quite close to each other.....

We went back to Ct Ann place and rest for a while. Then, Ct Ann brought us to one of Malaysian family house who hosted another small makan-makan. Abg Adam and his wife, Kak Maria (I believe that is her name. Mr. T please correct me if I'm wrong) prepared some TomYam noodles and spring rolls. Another makan time, I was so full and couldn't take anymore food......

We went back almost midnight. So tired and sleepy. Could hardly kept my eyes open for long. ZZzzzzz.....

The next morning, Ct Ann prepared some roti canai and dal. She invited Lina and her husband Hisham to join us for breakfast. We left the house around 9.30 as Ct Ann took us to the Burleigh carboot sale first, not very far from her place.

Outdoor carboot... Ct Ann, me, Lina and hubby, Hisham

Indoor carboot-my first time ever been to an indoor one...

Then, she brought us to East Midlands, the factory outlet, which is situated about less than an hour from her house. Shopping time!! My favourite hobby other than makan and site seeing.

I bought myself my first white gold ring (as all my gold rings are yellow gold). Also bought myself a new pair of black long boots and two new pair of shoes from Clark. Hemm...this was really a treat for me.

Then, eating time after shopping! Ct Ann brought us to their regular restaurant. Kebab kind of food. The food was not only nice but also very cheap. Just imagine, a dish of meat curry plus briyani rice only cost us less that GBP4. So amazingly cheap!!

Ct Ann brought us around Loughborough Uni. Hemm...quite a nice place they have here.

Landmark of Loughborough University....

Business center building (if I was not mistaken...)

We took the 5.45 train back to Cambridge and reached Cambridge past 7 pm. What a nice but tiring trip....

ZZzzzzzz.....

Uncle Philip's Birthday

2008-11-09T12:16:00.000-08:00

9 November 2008

My advisor, Dr. Philip Oliver turned 60 today. As his birthday fell on Sunday, we decided to celebrate his day earlier on Friday.

Uncle Philip, as old as he is, still look healthy and energetic at 60! We bought him a birthday card with everyone in the lab signature and a big chocolate birthday cake from Fitzbillies.

He received balloons from some members of the Genetics department and a huge badge with dancing light which he wore on his left chest. So cute!

Me, Mdm SA, Uncle Philip and Ms Chih

Happy Many Returns of The Day Uncle Philip. May you be merrier and happier in life!!

Bon Fire and Ladies Nite

2008-11-05T15:41:00.000-08:00

5 November 2008

Bonfire Nite

Remembering Guy Fawkes and what he did years ago, we are having bonfire nite every year. Excited about it, just like last year, Mdm Zett, Ms ZZ, Miss J, Mdm Airina, Ms Zee and I met near Subway at Emma Street and walked together to Midsummer Common.

The four ladies (excluding me) were really into this bonfire spirit and enjoyed themselves very2 much. Check them out in their additional cute gears!

Four pink, furry bunnies and me! All happy......Bunny style!

Fireworks started at exactly 7.30 pm. It was nice but not as nice as the year before. We found out that the City Council has less budget this year and had to downscale the amount of fireworks used. And we stood at the very wrong place. We saw more smoke than fireworks and the wind blowing in our direction made it worst!! Hemm......

Thick smoke blocked our sight and caused tears in our eyes...

And the piled wood was only torched after the fireworks ended. Huge flame was started and legal!

After spending almost an hour in Midsummer Common, we walked back to City Center and walked further up to Asia Restaurant at Regents Street. I'd booked a table for 5 at 8.30 pm.

At least the food was good. We ordered different dish.

Starter :

Tom Kha chicken

Tom Yam prawn soup

Seafood soup

Main dish :

Tandoori lamb chops

Masala roast lamb shank

Garlic chilli murgh

Briyani Lamb

Bhoona lamb

Kai Krob

I didn't have to ask for the discount (which I eligibly get) as the staff know me already and gave me the discount straight away! Bestnyerr!

Ms ZZ and Ms Zee

Miss J and Mdm Airina

Me and Mdm Zett

We really enjoyed ourselves tonight, the fireworks (and of course the ladies with their bunny ears!), the food and the companions. Hope we can all do it all over again next year!

Wolfson's Formal Dinner

2008-11-04T16:08:00.000-08:00

4 November 2008

Uncle Wolfson!

I attended a Formal Hall in Wolfson a few hours ago. Miss J is leaving Cambridge soon. So, she invited six of us to her Formal. Sort of celebrating her almost completion of MPhil and for being here in Cambridge for exactly one year.

The Formal Dinner started as usual time, 7.30 pm. I love the layout of this college. The hall is nice too.

The beautiful chandellier!

The food, even though we were informed that the chicken is halal but we sort of 'Hawas' (short form for halal but was-was!). We ended up having vegetarian option instead.

Starter : Melon and ginger cocktail

Main course : Roast leg of lamb with garlic and rosemary+seasonal vege

The bubbly drink that accompanied the meat!

Vegetarian option : Vegetarian pastry+seasonal vege

Cheers!

We couldn't have any wine but still wanted to pose with the bubbly. With borrowed glasses from Mr. T, Mr. Mike and Ms CL...

Dessert : Chocolate tart

Tea/coffee : Which we had again in the common room (CR).

Mdm Zett and me after the meal...

Fruits and drink :

It was a bit strange here. We had our tea/coffee first in common room. Then the hall staffs let us in the hall again for dessert. We had some fruits and had some share in passing the drink (wine of course!) from one end of the long table to the other end a few time!

White and red bubbly drinks....

Mr. T was all happy especially after gulping glasses of those bubbly thingy!!

We continued our photo session after the meal. Check out us in action!

The girls - Oppsss! Our Mdm Zett of course!, Ms ZZ, Ms CL, Miss J and me

The gentlemen-Mr. Mike and Mr. T

The 'never-forget-us' pose :

Walking away from the hall in our formal gown (like in Harry Porter movie we were!!)

Taraaa!! Dark flashers of Cambridge (as what Miss J called us!). Weren't we looked a bit scary? By the way, we were not drunk! Heheh!

In Miss J room for another round of fruit (grapes-sweet and juicy!)

We left Wolfson about 11 pm. What a lovely night! Thanks Miss J for the treat! And have to cycle back to St Ed's. Cold and a bit wet from the light shower....

ZZZzzzzzz....

Corpus Christi Clock

2008-11-01T14:42:00.000-07:00

1 November 2008

I've been meaning to add an entry about this amazing clock. But I just couldn't find the time to go and take picture of the clock until today. The clock was engineered by a team of researchers from Engineering department. It took a team of eight engineers and craftsman five years to mould the 24-carat gold-plated face and completed it and cost them GBP 1 million!!!

The strange clock has no hands or numbers and was revealed at Corpus Christi College. Dubbed the strangest clock in the world, it features a giant grasshopper and has 60 slits cut into its face which light up to show the time. The clock face is gold-plated and almost 4ft wide.

The news about this clock was broadly covered in BBC and Guardians. Check the link below to know more about it :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7626375.stm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/video/2008/sep/18/christi.clock

Professor Stephen Hawking, the famous mathematician, cosmologist and theoretical physicist of Cambridge unveiled the Corpus Clock on Friday 19 September 2008.

Ain-Ain and most people including my labmate, Mdm SA thought this unique clock looks ugly and scary. To me, I found this clock to be interesting and impressive even though it doesn't looks that nice....

Visitors from Sheffield U

2008-11-01T11:06:00.000-07:00

1 November 2008

The weather was not really good today. It was not sunny at all, quite cold and a little shower from now and then. A bit grim for outing day....

It was Poppy Day as well. Everywhere we saw people wearing poppy flower on their left chest. It was a day to remember WW1 and WW2 victims. People gave their donation and wore the flower....

As planned, two visitors from Sheffield U came to visit Cambridge today. 10 minutes past 11 am, Ain-Ain called me to inform her arrival. She and her friend Mr. Ghani were to meet me somewhere near Trinity College.

Ain-Ain and Mr. Ghani struck by Cambridge beauty!

I walked quickly from my college, through St John College and met them inside King's College. She looked very happy to finally be here in Cambridge. I took them around King...

The famous King's Cathedral from front view...

River Cam passes through the back of King's College

The famous activity-punting

Model-photographer caught in action! Smile....Haha!

.....and we even went inside the famous King's cathedral!

Impressive architecture.... and beautifully crafted tainted glasses!

We moved from King's to Senate House...

Cambridge congregations are held here...

Then to Gonville and Caius College...

I have my group meeting here almost every Thurday....

Later to Trinity College...the most well-known and richest college in Cambridge!

Then to St John's..

St John cathedral

St John's garden always look great in autumn.....

We walked through bridge Sigh and back entrance of St John. I took them to my college, St Edmund's. My not so famous little college.....

The main Norfolk building

And showed them my 'famous' apple trees as Ain-Ain was so excited to see the trees!

Mr. Ghani couldn't stopped himself for a pose and insisted Ain-Ain to take his picture...

But 'floating Ghani' pose???? Heheh!

See for yourself.....Magic 'floating' pose by Mr. Ghani.....

We didn't just ate the fruits but Ain-Ain and I climbed the tree together. Frankly (not really that proud though!), Ain-Ain will never beat me in climbing as I had years of experience and she barely made it. Haha!

Me and Ain-Ain on my favourite apple tree....

Ain-Ain and I ate some apples freshly plucked from these trees. The apples were so fresh, juicy and sweet. Ain-Ain enjoyed the fruits very much and was so happy as her wish to pluck fresh apples came true. She behaved like me!! Haha! Now she knows where my unlimited supply of apples comes from. She felt sad about the fallen apples on the ground though..... Free apples anyone??

Then, I took them to New Hall college. Mr. Ghani was very excited as it is a all girls college, just like Mr. T. Hehe! We took some photos near the grape trees. We even ate some of the grapes as anyone is allowed to have them...

After New Hall, I brought them inside my college and they posed in my Combination Room. And some pictures outside the main entrance of St Edmund's too...

St Edmund's front garden

We walked back to City Center through Magdalene Street and stopped near Quayside, the punting place. As it was too cold to punt, we just stood there for a while and watched people punted. We bumped into Mdm Zett and Mr. Hefni. Was glad that Ain-Ain and Mr. Ghani met both Mdm Zett and Mr. Hefni, their old time friends.

Mr. Ghani and Ain-Ain in the City Center (Sidney Street), one of the busiest place in Cambridge

As we had not had our lunch yet, I took them to Wagamama at Regents Street. Both Mr. Ghani and I had seafood ramen and raw juice.

Raw juice

Seafood ramen

Ain-Ain ordered Prawn green curry with rice and raw juice as she was hungry.

Prawn Green Curry with boiled rice

Mr. T joined us later and ordered himself some chicken starter and sky juice.

We chatted about places in UK as Mr. T is quite knowledgable about places as he did his MPhil here in Brighton and did quite some tavelling before. Through the chat, we (Mr. T and I) decided to reciprocate both Ain-Ain and Mr. Ghani visit some time this month.

Me and Ain-Ain

Mr. T and Mr. Ghani

Mr. T left and went somewhere else after lunch. I took both my guests to Emmanual College.

We walked further inside until we reached the pond. We fed some wild ducks and took some pictures. It was fun feeding the ducks but Ain-Ain and I were a bit scared of the duckies!

Emma pond with wild ducks...

Ain-Ain and I fed duckies with cookies crumb...

I brought them inside DowningCollege and walked through Downing to New Museum Site, and showed them Miss J department (Biochemistry), my department (Genetics) and Mdm Zett's department (Plant Sciences).

Mr. Ghani and Ain-Ain infront of Plant Sciences-just to show Mdm Zett their present!

Then, I took them back to King's Parade as they would like to find some souvenirs to bring back. The weather was getting worst as it started to rain quite heavily.....Sooo cold!!

Mr. T reminded me to take them to try Chelsea bun, the most famous buns from Fitzbillies; the only one outlet in UK. I bought them a Chelsea bun each to take back. Hope they like it as much as we do...

The famous Chelsea buns from Fitzbillies

Then, we parted as they left for Queen College where they were supposed to wait for their bus. I wish them a safe journey and may they come again to visit my lovely university....

Walked back to St Edmund's through Magdalene Street in heavy rain.... I was quite wet all over even with my coat and an umbrella. What a wrong time to come visit but I still hope they enjoy their time here in Cambridge......

And the Chelsea bun became my dinner....

Got to take my shower.... and an early night. ZZzzzz......

Flowers for Spy!

2008-10-31T14:40:00.000-07:00

30 October 2008

I received a bunch of flowers from Mr. C, my labmate. Don't assume or speculate anything ya...especially Josh. There's nothing going on with me and Mr. C. He's like my younger brother as we are quite close. I was refering to the three of us- Abg John, Mr. C and me. He gave me a new mission to do for him. More like spy work and to dig some 'important' information for him. Hehe! Like Ms Bond I have to be!!

He gave me a bunch of flowers before (19.09.08) for doing something for him. This rich German gentleman always so romantic and love to give flowers to women and other stuffs too....

And as flower lover, I couldn't stop myself from taking a few close shots of the the flowers from different angles! They are not really nice as I'm still learning....

This time, I got orange flowers. I may not be given the flowers for some romantic reason but I don't mind. At least, they made my room loke nicer and lively!

And this flowers filled my room with colors. And also filled my blog with pictures. Better than have both filled with spiderwebs! Right Mr. Josh?? Hehe......

Sunday Lunch at St Edmund's

2008-10-27T15:14:00.001-07:00

19 October 2008

I totally forgot to add this entry. It was a nice sunday lunch. I invited a few of my friends to share using my hall points which I've accumulated more than GBP500 in my account! I seldom eat in the hall as I've to go for vegetarian all the time. Not really an interesting option but what choice do I have??

I started today activity with my favourite hobby-climbing! Haha! Ms Fatimah and I climbed an apple tree and picked some for later.

Brian Heap building rear view

St Edmund's apple garden

Ms Fatimah and me on an apple tree. Hehe!

As usual, Mdm Zett is always first in my list and Miss J. As Mr. Hefni was coming from Bath, I invited him too. Ms Fatimah and Ms Aisha from New Hall joined the lunch as well as Mdm Mazlin and Husband, Mr Halian as we (Ms Fatimah, Mdm Mazlin and Halian and me) planned to go to Bar Hill Tesco afterward. Miss J brought Ms Kavi from Imperial College with her. I totally forgot to invite Ms ZZ! I'm truly sorry...will make you the first to be invited the next time!!!

My guests :

Lovely husband and wife-Mr. Hefni and Mdm Zett

Ms Aisha

Another couple-Mdm Mazlin and hubby, Mr Halian; and Ms Fatimah

Mr T had two friends from Oxford visiting. So, the whole bunch of us conquered half of the long table in my hall. Such a huge crowd we were!!

Malaysian faces!!

The food turned out to be tasty eventhough it was vegetarian option. We had quorn with mix vegetables, vegetable soup and dessert. I was really glad as my guests enjoyed the food very much.

Vegetarian option- deep fried quorn with seasonal vegetables; vegetable soup and cake for dessert

We had our own photo session after lunch in the garden in front of my college. It was a very nice day and we played with fallen leaves. See us in our natural and amateur poses!!

All girls picture

Me, Ms Fatimah and Miss J enjoying the leaves!

Today was such a pleasant moment. Well guys and girls....we should do this again!! Abg Den and his friends from "Kota Bharu" had been here before and tasted the food. If you guys feel like having a second round, feel free to come anytime!!

Later, Ms Fatimah, Ms Aisha, Mdm Mazlin, Mr. Halian and I went to New Hall college to kill some time while waiting for the next citi bus to Bar Hill to come. New Hall has a very nice garden with spices plants......

Spice garden

and also grapes trees.

Green grapes.....

and red....

and black ones!

Who could resist a picture with these grapes-Ms Fatimah, me and Ms Aisha.

We were so excited and enjoyed ourselves so much that we forgot about time totally. Resulted in us missing the bus!! Oh...well. Have to plan it for another day....

Final Eid Fitri Gathering

2008-10-26T09:58:00.000-07:00

26 October 2008

Uk gained one hour last night. That made it 8 hours different between here and Malaysia.I felt so fresh as I had an hour extra to sleep. Hehe!

But today was not a day to sleep but to cook as I'd to prepare some pecal for today's gathering. I started early around 8 am to cook all the ingredient for pecal. As I'd brought some dried pecal paste from Malaysia, I didn't have to prepare my own peanut sauce.

My not too bad pecal. Even tempeh could be found here with no trouble at all!

Mdm Airina and Mr. Ikhwan house is at Searle Street, Cambridge. They rent a fully furnished one bedroom flat. I went to their house by cycling, together with Mr. T, Mr. Michael and Mr. Chong. We arrived there around 12.30 pm.

Our host prepared some delicious chicken rice (which I felt like having for the past few weeks!), yellow glutinous rice and beef rendang, roti jala and beef curry. So yummy!

Chicken rice set...

Yellow glutinous rice with beef rendang. So tasty!

More food came when more people arrived as it is our culture for everyone to bring something to this kind of gathering. So happening and best!!

Ms ZZ brought baked macaroni

Miss J had improved a lot in cooking. Her bread pudding taste better this time. Good job girl!!

We watched two Malay movie - Zombie Kg Pisang and Evolusi KL Drift. We laughed so much with the first one as the movie was funny. The second one was a bit violence and serious. I noticed that most of us that watch the movies had hidden talent as movie commenters!!

We left Searle Street around 4.45 pm after having our tummy loaded with tasty food. Thank you Mdm Airina and Mr Ikhwan for inviting us. And we were not only talked about today's event but we even discussed about our future Eid Adha gathering in December. So advance laaaa!! Haha!

Me, Mdm Sufee second daughter, Mr. T and Miss J

The majority of us couldn't resist a group photo

Whereas...the rest were soooo deep in friendly conversation!

Makan....and makan..... Nasib baik tak cepat gemuk!

Have to cook more food for tonight gathering in my hall at St Edmunds. Penatnyer....

Slightly after 7 pm, Mr. T and I joined the member of our floor in Norfolk building of St Edmund's for our first gathering. Mr T is quite a cook. He prepared some corn pudding and fish crackers. And me? Just my lazy prawn and mushrooms fried rice. Both the fried rice and fish crackers were gone very fast. Apparently, the people love asian food very much.

This gathering was a nice event as we met and chat to most of the students living on the same floor. And we decided by majority votes to make this as our monthly event!

Most of the students on my floor

Infectious Diseases Meeting London

2008-10-22T13:46:00.000-07:00

22 October 2008

I attended an Infectious Diseases Meeting (more like seminar) at British Medical Association (BMA) in London today. The meeting started at 9.00 am and finished at 4.30 pm. I took the train from Cambridge to King's Cross station. It was my first time taking the train here in UK and as I didn't have my rail card yet, I'd to pay GBP30. So expensive la..!

Cambridge train station

I went with my labmate, Claudio and had to really struggle to keep my pace with his speed! He's more that 6 foot tall and has long legs. Just imagine me trying to walk beside him. Frankly, I did more running than walking. Haha! Poor me....

As usual, there was only one of me. No Muslim women around except me and one Muslim guy from Sudan. Abg John and Cludio presented a poster on TB genomics technology. I'm not doing anything with TB but my interest in this is very personal. My sister is very sick and is still recovering from this deadly disease in HKL (based on medical diagnosis).

Seminar room

Main Hall where they served food and also held posters session....

Wonderful court area..

Since we were in London, Abg John and I decided to try the Malaysian food in Malaysia Hall canteen (actual, I mentioned about it to Abg John the day before!). So, we went to this canteen in Queenborough Terrace. It is true that the canteen is a bit tricky to find for non Malaysian as not everyone knows a Malaysian flag. Anyway, this was my first time coming here but I didn't have any trouble at all to find the place as we took a taxi to there. Hehe! Kind of cheating la...

Abg John and I in front of Malaysia Hall

I've read in the website that people keep commenting the Malaysian Hall as serving good and cheap Malaysia food but the canteen look like a school cafe. When I came and saw the canteen for myself, it really looked like a school cafe and what people were saying in the web was all true. Nevertheless..it didn't really matter as we were looking for good food. And I really miss the opportunity to order food in Malay language!!

The layout of Malaysia Hall canteen

Abg John had nasi lemak with beef rendang in Malaysian Hall canteen.

Claudio and I had nasi lemak with fried chicken. The nasi lemak was nice except the anchovies sambal was a bit too hot for Claudio and me. Abg John, as usual had no complaint as he love hot stuff!

We all had teh tarik for drink. Frankly, teh tarik here was not as good as what we had before in Malaysia, especially from Khulafa' or Kedai Kopi in S.Alam. But it would have to do as we had no other choice...

But the sweet cakes that on offer there were very nice. We chose kuih kemboja, bingka ubi, seri muka. Both Abg John and Claudio really love these cakes as they were very tasty and not that sweet.

We left around 15 minutes past 6 pm. Claudio took a tube at Queenway as he was going somewhere in London for a Ballet. Abg John and I took a taxi to Liverpool Street and caught a train to Cambridge.

The day maybe tiring but I had a very nice day. The meeting may be a bit boring as I'm not a medical person but the food was nice especially in Malaysia Hall. And I had two very charming gentlemens with me. Hehe!

Claudio made me promise not to put any of his pictures in my blog. He is a bit shy I think. So, no more pictures of him.....

Not being well....

2008-10-20T12:15:00.000-07:00

20 October 2008

I was not really well since last week. To be exact, it started when I came back from a Formal Dinner at New Hall College on Tuesday, 14th 2008. I had and still having this horrible back pain. My right hip felt and still feel so painful. I've been wondering what went wrong with me. And worrried sick that I might have a dreadful disease such as cancer or something....

I had an appointment with my GP today at 3.30 pm and was nervous to see the doctor and find out the truth. Well...everything went well when the GP told me that I've shingles. Thank Allah. I thought I would not live long... Hehe!

This viral disease is painful and all the blisters make you feel itchy and feel like scratching them. Huk!Huk! What a dreadful time. According to Abg John and my fellow labmates, this is common here in UK. Well...I may becoming more like them I guess!

Anyway, for those who don't really know about this disease and want to know more, try this link :

http://www.patient.co.uk/showdoc/23068820/

Picture of shingles rash. Definitely not me as I'm a lot slimmer!

And this was my first time getting drug/medical service from NHS as I've never seen any of the GP here before after being in UK for 18 months!

For those Malaysians who have never had chicken pox before especially pregnant ladies, keep your distance from me as you might be infected. Those who have already had chicken pox, you're immune.

Well....have to suffer this pain for another three weeks I guess....

Second Eid Gathering

2008-10-18T12:44:00.000-07:00

18 October 2008

After exchanging emails throughout the week, we decided to have another Eid gathering among close friends (which involved mostly singletons) plus few new faces to be intoduced.

The event started at 12 noon at Mdm Zett's place in Cory House, Northampton Street, Cambridge. I decided to prepare dim sums (wantan dumplings which happen to be one of my favourite food!). I believed this is my second time and effort to make such dish.

My three different types of dim sums : fish, chicken and prawn

Mdm Zett's place is not relly that big. And the crowd that came for this gathering was quite huge that most of the spacious in her living room was occupied. As usual, buffet potluck style. Everyone brought food to add to some prepared by our host...

Mdm Zett, me and Ms ZZ in Mdm Zett's cute little kitchen...

Our tasty main dishes :

Nasi tomato with masak merah chicken, nasi himpit with kuah kacang and rendang, lemang and ofcourse my dim sums.... All these delicious food to feed our hungry tummies.....

Mr. Hefni and Ms Kalsum were very happy helping themselves to the food!

Our yummilicious desserts :

Including the famous layer cake...

And also dodol!

And not to forget, Mr T's signature food to bring to any gathering. What else if not prawn crackers and poppadums!!

Everyone looked and felt happy. We chatted with each other and all kind of interesting topics and information started to pour out through our conversation...

We met the newest members in the Cambridge Malaysian postgraduate society, Mdm Mazlin and Mr Halian, wife and husband. They both were very friendly. Welcome to Cambridge guys!

Mdm Mazlin and Mr. Halian

Happy faces throughout the gathering...

As usual, the usual group picture : Ms ZZ, me, Miss J, Mdm Zett and Ms Kalsum

Me and Miss J enjoyed looking at Mdm Zett's wedding albums, and dreamt about our own. Hehe!

Another group picture but without me! Mdm Airina, Ms Fatimah, Miss J, Ms Kalsum, Ms ZZ, Mdm Zett and Mr Hefni. Where was I???

Formal Dinner New Hall

2008-10-14T14:12:00.000-07:00

14 October 2008

Mr. T and I had been invited by Ms Fatin to join a formal dinner in New Hall (or known as Murray Edward College now!). Mr. T and I had never been inside New Hall before. Mr. T was very excited of the idea especially because he would be inside an all girls college. Hehe! Menggaru le jugak dia ni...

Ms Fatin and Mr T looking at the menu...

We met Ms Fatimah, a Part III student in Math. Wow! We salute her as Math is the toughest course in Cambridge, and doing Part III? Is like doing a MPhil..... All the best Ms Fatimah in your less than a year course!

Me, Ms Fatin, Ms Aisha and Ms Fatimah waiting for Formal Dinner to start...

My formal and not so nice dress...

I met Aisha as well... a PhD student of Dr. Ajioka in Pathology. Abg John was the external examiner for her first year viva. What a small world. We became very friendly to each other instantly!!!!

Ms Aisha and me

The dining hall is very impressive with a dome above and quite spacious.

Impressive dome above our heads!

And what I loved most was the food. The kitchen caters all kind of needs; from Halal, vegetarian, vegan up to person with allergy to nuts and so. I wish my college can be like New Hall but I don't think that will happen as there are only few me (Muslim) living in.....

The menu and our formal hall tickets...

We all had goat cheese as the starter. I didn't really like goat cheese as it was very salty and push the cheese away as much as possible from the rest...

Baked goats cheese and red pesto brioche with pine nut salad

Main dish....

Mr. T had Guinea fowl in sauce for his main dish.

Guinea fowl supreme with red onion and Madeira sauce; spiced fondant potatoes and seasonal vegetables

Ms Fatimah and I had Halal chicken instead which tasted quite good.

Halal chicken supreme with non alcohol sauce; spiced fondant potatoes and seasonal vegetables

Ms Fatin selected vegetarian meal :

Layered polenta baked with spinach and oyster mushrooms

Our dessert :

Caramelised fig tart with thyme creme fraiche

Me and Mr. T all happy as we added one more college to our list of attended formal hall...

We rested at New Hall MCR just to have some hot drink (coffee/tea) as these drinks were not served in the dining hall. Instead of having those drinks, we chatted all along and forgot about time....Ms Fatin introducing her MCR.....so spacious and modern!

Ms Fatimah, Ms Fatin, me and Mr. T sitting in MCR..

St John's and Lunch at Wagamama

2008-10-14T14:10:00.000-07:00

11 October 2008

I walked through St John's College to my department. I couldn't resist taking some pictures of the college during autumn. The view was and still is so breathtaking! Check these pictures out...

It has been a while since the last time I went out with Mdm Zett. We didn't plan at all to meet up. I was doing my shopping in Grafton after finished my work in the lab. I was supposed to send her wedding present which Abg John and I bought weeks ago. I gave her a call and found her in Grafton as well. So, we met up and when for lunch in Wagamama, a Japanese restaurant at Regents Street Cambridge.

We both ordered seafood ramen and raw juices. The raw juice contained a mix of apple, carrot, cucumber and peaches. And it tasted very good and refreshing. Actually, Mdm Zett recommended the juice...

Mdm Zett really enjoyed the raw juice

We really enjoyed the ramen which tasted very nice, especially when we added a bit chilly oil to the soup. It added a bit 'kick' to the noodles.

I enjoyed the seafood ramen very much...

And I just love the big wooden spoon that they give us to eat ramen. So huge!

We walked together back to Mdm Zett's place. I brought her wedding present with me. She was curious to find out what both Abg John and I got her.

Mdm Zett unwrapping the present...

All happy to find a Tefal steamer inside!

I was glad to know that she like our gift. Well Mdm Zett....looks like you have to do more cooking from now on! And don't forget to invite Abg John and me when you do. Haha!

Zoology Department Cambridge

2008-10-10T10:47:00.000-07:00

10 October 2008

I went to have lunch with few of my Cambridge friends in Zoology. Ms Kalsum had just came back from Malaysia after her long field trip in Sabah.

Mdm Zett cooked spaghetti meatballs, following Jamie Olliver's recipe which turned out to be nice. Ms ZZ brought some rice with honey chicken. I didn't bring any cooked food, only some yoghurt for four of us.

Spaghetti meatballs

Honey chicken and rice

Ms Kalsum and Ms ZZ

Mdm Zett and me

After we finished our lunch, Ms Kalsum brought us to visit her lab. It is a zoology museum. An assistant curator of the museum was in and showed us some very beautiful and interesting collection of preserved animals from all over the world.

The ladies were very interested in the collection showed by the assistant curator

Me, Ms Kalsum and Mdm Zett checking out butterflies collection

Some pictures of the collection to share with :

Beautiful butterflies

Interesting bugs..

Horn beetles..

And we didn't just learn about bugs today. We even learnt about the people in Zoology. For instance, the guy in the picture below who was having lunch with a colleague. He is none other than Maya Karin's ex-boyfriend!! Haha!

What a small world. But I think her husband is much more handsome than her ex.....

Minister's Tour Guide!

2008-10-08T08:33:00.000-07:00

7 October 2008

Hard to believe that I still have to do this here in Cambridge. When I was working with Unisel, I'd gained a lot of interesting experiences such as meeting and participating with events that involved VVIPs. From a person with Dato' title, former Chief Minister of Selangor which I met more than twice a year, the new Selangor Chief Minister, up to our current PM and also Sultan of Selangor. Hemm....they seemed not to be that foreign to me, I guess. But I can never beat Miss J who met our Royal Highness Yang Dipertuan Agung in a very special event. Hehe!

But here in Cambridge? On Tuesday morning, I was called by my advisor who happens to be a senior fellow of St Cath College. A minister and his family came by to discuss with him about the education opportunities for Malaysian as this college holds the TAR scholarship programme for Malaysian. My advisor felt that it'd be good if someone from Malaysia could show him and his family around. And that someone happened to be me!

I should thank Unisel for all the skill and experience that I'd gained there that give me the confidence to communicate and handle people with high position such as this minister. I'd an opportunity to show these VVIPs around Cambridge City Center. He is on a trip here in UK until October, 10th. The Director for Malaysian Student Department and another officer from MSD were there as well. I'd never met these two gentlemen but was glad to know them. The minister and his family were quite alright and friendly. So were the MSD officers. Surprisingly, I didn't feel scared or nervous. So, Unisel, thank you for making me have this capability. Or...is it Cambridge that makes me like this??

International Night St Ed's

2008-10-05T15:17:00.000-07:00

5 October 2008

More freshers joined St Edmund's College. I heard about 180 of them. Wow! That's a large number. I'll see more unfamiliar faces than the faces that I recognise.....

One of the activities, other than parenting exercise, was this International night that I went to. It was held in our Combination Room (CR). Most of the college members turned up and the CR was very crowded. As usual, only few Muslims in the room and only one "ME" with my head scarf in this event...

Ms Chih, me, Guangyuen, Joe

Glad to meet my old friends again. At least these are the faces that I recognise and know quite well. We chatted about all kind of thing and kept each other updated on our current progress. Such a pleasant moment....

Me and Katarzyna from Berlin

Katarzyna and Mr. T

Guang Yuen-our CR vice president!

Four different types of food were served in turn- Mexican, Italian, Chinese and Indian.

Mexican nachos

Italian pizza

Chinese food

Everyone was really looking forward for the free food and attacked the food once it was served!They must be very hungry!!

I barely touched the food as I only had vegetarian option-which was a bit yuck! Luckily I was smart enough to eat first before I came down to CR...

Ms Chih all happy with her chicken pizza

And I only had prawn cracker!

I met students from Thailand (Riam Sara/Saz), Afghanistan (Mohammad), Singapore (Lu Shan, my mentee for the parenting exercise) and a few others.

Mentor-mentee, me and Lu Shan

Mr. T and I stayed for a while and chatted until about 10-30 pm. Then we felt tired and went to our rooms....

Have to get ready for tomorrow.... ZZZzzzz....

Apple Trees in St Ed's!

2008-10-04T08:42:00.000-07:00

4 October 2008

Me and apple trees that bear lots of fruits. No one seems to be collecting them. Such a waste...

I've been having this craving feeling to climb an apple tree...any where as long as the tree is full of apples. I even asked Abg John and a few of my friends if they have any knowledge of an apple tree that I can climb. Guess what? My wish came true today.

All the fresh, juicy apples......

Some of the cooking apples

On my way back from Chuchill College with Mr. T, we walked through some apple trees near the back entrance of St Ed's College. These apples are cooking apples but I just didn't care...as long as it's apple tree! I asked Mr. T to stop and took pictures of me with the trees. And of course of me climbing the tree! Yeaaahahh! Finally....

Me, all happy as my wish came true!

Here are some pictures of me and Mr. T in our monkey stunts!!

Me on the tree in my baju kurung. Hehe! Luckily this tree is not really that tall....

And Mr. T joined me afterwards!

Well...Abg John. I'm not looking for apple tree anymore! Hemm.... some wild berries maybe?

Eid Gathering

2008-10-04T08:26:00.000-07:00

4 October 2008

We had our Eid gathering among Malaysian students in Churchill College. Thank you Chief Kimie for your effort to make it happened and thanks to both Hisham and Zue for offering their place for this joyful gathering.

Group photo

I was sick for the last two days and is still not really that well today. But...my ill condition didn't stop me from participating in this event. It was pot luck style of gathering. Everyone came with their contribution. Zue and Hisham have a new member in their family, Fahmi. By having this concept, we managed not to burden them so much.

Mdm Zue and the newborn Fahmi.

The Eid gathering started at 10 am but Mr. T and I went before 11 am by cycling. As St. Ed's and Churchill is not that far, we took only a few minutes to get there through New Hall.

We celebrated Amin's (Zue and Hisham 1st son) and Miss J birthday. Both Amin and Miss J took turn in cutting their birthday cake. Many happy return to both of you. May Allah bless you and your lives....

Amin cutting his birthday cake with Ms ZZ help

And Miss J's turn to cut her cake with all her close friends around. Happy Birthday girl. May you succeed in your MPhil..

Me and Miss J the birthday girl

Our chief, Mr. Kimie gave his opening speech, welcoming us and our new members for this Eid gathering and wishing us well for this Eid and our lives. Followed by a short prayer by Mr. Khairul before we attacked the food!

Mr. Khairul, Mr. Kimie and Mr. Ikhwan

Our main dishes :

Soto (courtesy of Ms ZZ, Mdm Zett and Miss J), Satay without skewers (Mr. Kimie and Mdm Azlin), Roti Jala (Mdm Airina and Mr. Ikhwan), Roti sardin (Ms Intan), lamb rendang (Ms. Belle), Popiah basah (Ms. Fatin) and some others. Everything looked very tasty!

Desserts/Titbits :

Kuih raya brought by Mr. Khairul who'd just came back from Malaysia, some cakes and others. And of course both birthday cakes as well.... Sugar2! We'll be high in sugar afterwards for sure. Haha!

All the gents attacking the food!

And the ladies turn afterwards...

Everyone enjoyed the food and companies. We chatted with each others and it was a very warm and pleasant environment. I hadn't met some of them for a while. Plus we had three new members - Aliff, Azlee and one more name which I couldn't remember. Sorry! To our new members-welcome to Cambridge and hope you'll succeed here. And success for all of us as well. Hisham went through his viva and is currently doing the minor correction. Wow! That's awesome. Congrats! Wish you well when you go back to Malaysia and start teaching...

Here are some pictures of us. Enjoy!

All ladies except Amin and Fahmi of course (Zue's sons)!

Us with Sui Seng. We hadn't seen him for a while....

Me, Mdm Zett, Ms ZZ and Ms Intan. Miss J, where were you??

Second day of Eid

2008-10-01T07:46:00.000-07:00

1 October 2008

I went to Asia restaurant again. This time I brought my friends along. There were seven of us. The restaurant workers recognised me from yesterday. Hehe! Apparently, I gave them quite an impression. Hehe!

We walked together happily from our department to Regent Street

Us, in front of Asia

I didn't take any photo on the restaurant decor yesterday. For this entry I managed to do that. Here are some pictures of the restaurant layout.

Waiter always in standby mood for new comers...

Romantic tables for couples

And a dragon near our huge table!

Food is sent down from the kitchen using this small elevator system. Cool!

We ordered different meal each. Mdm Zett, Ms. ZZ, Mr. T, Miss J and Mdm SA had tom yam prawn soup as starter. They love the tom yam, which had just the right taste and hotness.

Tomyam Prawn soup

A thumb's up from Mdm SA. She really like the food!

I saw some guests ordering Pad Mee last night and thought that might taste yummy. So, I tried this noodle today. Pad Mee with grilled duck and bean sprout.

Pad Mee

Most of my friends ordered a dish and a bowl of rice each. Mdm Zett - Chicken in tamarind sauce. The portion was quite large and suitable for two persons. Ms ZZ had chicken tikka , Mr. T ordered Tandoori lamb chops and Miss J chose chicken Lababdar. They offer rice of different types-Pilau rice, boiled rice, Jasmine rice and steamed coconut rice...

Chicken in tamarind source. Huge portion!

Chicken tikka

Tandoori lamb chops

Chicken Lababdar

Mdm SA and Ms Chih chose different dish each and had theirs with plain naan. They had Bhoona lamb and Jalfrezi chicken which turned out to be very tasty!

Jalfrezi chicken

Bhoona lamb

Plain naan

I believe most of the main dish are suitable for a pair. You will only manage to finish all the food IF you have big appetite and stomach!

We finished our meal around 2 pm but had to deal with the payment as we decided to pay separately. When it was my turned to pay, I asked (like normal Asian, without being shy at all!) whether the price written on the bill was after the 25% discount that I should get. Apparently, the waiter forgot about that. We were supposed to pay a total of GBP 95. After the discount, I got GBP23 back! Wow! That was a lot of discount. Then, I could give everyone at least GBP 3 back. Hehe!

We really enjoyed the food. The waiters were very friendly, patient and helpful. They even made a joke to make the environment more friendly. Well...I would definitely recommend this place to anyone!

Mr. T, Miss J, Mdm Zett, me, Ms ZZ, Mdm SA and Ms Chih

Miss J, Mdm Zett and me

Ms ZZ and Mr. T

And Mdm SA and Ms Chih

Eid Day!

2008-09-30T03:41:00.000-07:00

30 September 2008

It's Eid day today. I was hoping that the weather would be as bright as my Eid mood. But unfortunately, the morning started to be as grim as last year's. Autumn in Cambridge...so full of cold weather, rains and wind. Not a very good way to celebrate Eid.

Nevertheless, I walked in my blue baju kurung and my new boots to my department. Still in a very good Eid spirit. Walking along the road, through St John's College and Trinity Street up to Downing Site. Everyone I met in my department greeted me with smiles and some with Eid wishes. Hemm...they're aware of the Eid day.....

Called Mdm Zett and Ms ZZ before 10 am and planned to have tea together at my department. At least, we are together to celebrate this special day. But sadly, we didn't have rendang and lemang and all other food that we normally have for Eid. Just some biscuits and a cup of tea/coffee for everyone...

Having instant biscuit and tea/coffee for Eid in Genetics tea room

Mdm Zett and Ms ZZ

Mdm Zett and me

And we were still happy

We took a few pictures near Genetics new entrance. Then, we salam2 Raya and bermaaf-maafan and exchanged Eid wishes. It is sad to be away from home and families but at least we have each other. Girls...thank you for making my life so joyful here in Cambridge and during Eid...

My labmates commented that I looked good in my baju kurung. We even took a photo together!

Nick, me and Chris

I booked a table for two at 6 pm at a new restaurant near Regent Street, Cambridge - Asia. My boss and I were supposed to go together with my other labmate, Claudio but he went back to Germany. This restaurant was opened six weeks ago and offers halal Asian food. Yummy! Couldn't wait to try.. And my boss was paying for that! Haha! As my parents were far in Malaysia (huk!huk! so sad!), my boss played the role as my parent for this Eid. Thank you boss...

Interesting menu booklet

The restaurant is not very far from my department, about five minutes walk. The waiter/waitress were friendly and greeted us with smiles. The decor is nice and interesting and made you feel comfortable to dine in.

We started our dinner with these :

Tom Yam prawn soup

John really enjoyed the tomyam but I didn't as it was a bit hot...

But I enjoyed my chicken satay but the peanut sauce was not as tasty as what I used to have in Malaysia. Maybe they should learn from Hj Samuri or my mum!

We didn't order much as both John and I were not really big eaters. We had Penang beef, grilled lamb and brocolli with mushroom for vege as our main dish.

Grilled lamb-very tender and tasty

Salad-came together with the lamb

Penang beef-more like beef curry in very thick sauce

And brocolli with a bit mushroom cooked in oyster sauce- the vege so lightly cooked that it was still crunchy!

Overall, I would rate the food as good and the place was nice. I'll definitely come here again... and again if they maintain their standard!

Anyway, to all my friends and everyone, once again, Selamat Hari Raya and Maaf Zahir Batin!

Pre Eid 2

2008-09-29T15:08:00.000-07:00

29 September 2008

Monday was the day to know when we are celebrating Eid - Tuesday or Wednesday. Very excited with the coming Eid and as I plan to wear baju kurung on Eid day, Mdm SA, my labmate from Bangladesh and I went to M&S to buy a new pair of shoes. I didn't have any decent shoes to go with my dress according to Mdm SA. Well...I believe now I do. I bought a pair of boots for my Eid. I'll wear them tomorrow!

I couldn't wait and tried my new boots with my blue baju kurung. As it would be cold to walk from my college to genetics, I will have to wear long stockings with my boots. I couldn't resist taking a few photos of me in my baju kurung. Kira macam syok sendiri le jugak. Hehe!

Read from Cambridge Muslim Online that we are celebrating Eid tomorrow, Tuesday 30th September 2008. All this while we and mostly everyone predicted that Eid would fall on Wednesday. Well guys...we are celebrating Raya one day earlier than people in Malaysia. Hooray!!

Apa-apa pun, nak ucap Selamat Hari Raya pada semua kawan-kawan and everyone yang baca blog ni. Maaf Zahir Batin if ada terkasar bahasa and tersakitkan hati secara sengaja atau tidak.

Esok, tetap pegi lab macam biasa. Kalau sempat, jumpa kawan-kawan Cambridge and salam-salam raya. Dinner- Abg John janji nak belanja. Ok le jugak than takde apa-apa langsung aktiviti...

Pre Eid 1

2008-09-29T14:54:00.000-07:00

25 September 2008

We are so happy that Eid is approaching soon. And to make us happier, we planned a photo session together among a few close friends in front of King's College. Yeahh...baju kurung time!

Mdm Zett, Miss J, Ms ZZ, Ms Intan, Mr. Izz and me met near King's College. Mdm Zett and Ms ZZ's labmate, Catherine came to help us taking the photos.

People kept stopping me in my department as they are interested to know about my baju kurung. But I didn't mind at all explaining and very pleased that they were interested in our traditional dress which seemed to them to be colorful. Yeah...our dresses are very colorful, compared to the color that people here used to. Which is sadly, grim....

I walked with Ms ZZ to King' s College. People kept staring at us as we walked from our departments (Genetics and Plant Sciences). Hemm...possibly because our baju kurung were very colorful and not something the normally see here in Cambridge. Well...we were and are very proud of our traditional dress and will always wear it whenever and wherever fits....

Here are some of our photos to be shared :

Me, in front of King's College

Ms Intan, me, Miss J and Ms ZZ in front of King's College

Mdm Zett, Miss J, Ms ZZ, Mr. Izz, Ms Intan and me in our baju kurung-except Mr. Izz of course!

It was a bit cold and windy a few days ago. Fortunately today, the day was very sunny and a bit warm. What a fine day for taking photos. May be it was a blessing....

Mdm Zett and me. She wore high heels which made me looked like a bit short! Huk! Huk!

We had a very great time doing all the photos in our colorful traditional dress. We are promoting Malaysia to the Cambridge community and guests. Well...sort of like being Malaysian duta la...

Well girls and guy. Shall we do it again next year? I'm really up to it!

Leaving for Cambridge....

2008-09-23T14:38:00.000-07:00

29 August 2008

After being in Malaysia for than two months, it was time to go back to my PhD world. Huk!Huk! Sedih pulak rasa to leave everyone...my family, friends, Malaysian food etc. But I'd to go orr...my PhD will be doomed!

My flight was sheculed at 8.15 pm. I met Abg John at KLIA. He'd been there since 2 pm this afternoon.

As usual, my big family accompanied me to the airport. After checking in our luggage, my family and Abg John lepak at the usual teh tarik place and had tea and whatever food my family brought from home. Like having a picnic la...

Chatting while waiting for the time to check in...

At our usual teh tarik place

Abg John met my family once last year. To him, we are family now and there was no barrier to communicate with each other...not even language (hard to believe as my parent don't speak English!). Hehe! Yeah...right!

We went in at 7 pm after all the hands shaking and hugs and gave our last wave. Saat yg sentiasa menyedihkan...even for someone like me who'd been living on my own since I was 18.....

A picture of us with my family

Waving our final goodbye for now...

And in we went....

Not our day....

2008-09-23T12:55:00.000-07:00

29-30th August 2008

It was really not our day. We started very well the night we left KLIA and boarded MAS. Once we were on board, there was a slight delay in taking off. We were not worried at all at that time because we thought that we had about two hours gap between this flight and the next one, 10.50 pm BA flight in Changi.

When we arrived in Changi airport, we were not allowed to get off the plane as there was some sort of missunderstanding between the airport schedule and our flight. Huh! We had to wait for quite some time till the airport crews came with all the necessary tools to get us off....

Waiting patiently for permission to get off the plane

Airport crews were waiting for instruction to prepare our boarding off...

Then, both Abg John and I, and some of the passengers rushed to Terminal 1 for our transfer flight. We were informed by BA that we missed the time scheduled to check in. I started to have this terrible headache and felt very hungry and thirsty from all this rushing. Gosh! We knew that we were going to miss the flight. We asked the counter and were informed to go to the nearest MAS counter and asked them to be responsible. We went from one terminal transfer counter to another until an airport officer came to our aid and help to make the process easier.....

Changi terminal

Taking skytrain to move from one terminal to another....

I was lucky that Abg John was so efficient that he managed everything, from dealing with the MAS representative, getting me some food, water and paracetamol to taking me and all our belongings to BA lounge to eat and rest while waiting for our standby flight to be confirmed.

BA lounge in all its glory....

Comfy sofa for someone like me with a terrible headache to lie down...

Thank God they had food that I could eat-tuna pizza, sweets, apple, hot chocolate....

Luckily, MAS managed to get us two confirmed standby, 12.40 am 30th Augt 2008, Qantas flight to Heathrow. It was a bit strange to fly in BA and it was stranger to be flying Qantas. There was only me... a single Muslim girl in both flights! Luckily there was a chinese Malaysia steward on board who asked kindly for my breakfast preferences as he knew the omelette served came with bacon underneath. I was given some cereal instead.....

In QANTAS. Felt like flying in BA only worse. You could hear all the noises coming from the old plane. They were really pushing this poor plane into limits. And all the stewards and stewardes were a bit uninteresting (old!)...unlike our MAS!

But above all that happened to me this two days, I was very grateful that I arrived in Cambridge safely and Abg John was kind and thoughtful enough to get a limo and took me to my college and help me carried all my luggage up to my room. Thank you very much for your kind help. I'm very lucky indeed.....

And I was really worn out from this trip!! Eeeekkk...

Iftar in Cambridge 3

2008-09-21T15:35:00.000-07:00

20 September 2008

Mdm Zett invited us to have our Iftar at Thanh Binh, a vietnammese restaurant near Magdalene Street. We came to her house first to break our fast and maghrib prayer.

At Mdm Zett's new place

Five minutes before 8 pm, we left her house and walked to the restaurant which is very close to her place.

Thanh Binh menu booklet

We ordered a fish dish, prawn, soft crab and mix veg. And had mango juice for drinks.

Soft shell crab as our starter

Prawn in tamarind sauce

White fish in thick coconut milk gravy. Taste like fish rendang ...

Stir fry mix veg in oyster sauce

And tasty mango juice

The restaurant is quite cozy and packed with people from everywhere in the world. The food was good and tasty but they don't have any interesting dessert.

Mdm Zett and me

Miss J and Ms ZZ

We had a lovely Iftar here in this restaurant. Thank you Mdm Zett for the treat. Make it more often and we'll be round like baloons!

Iftar in genetics department

2008-09-21T14:54:00.000-07:00

I had few misfortunate occasion having to have my Iftar in my boss's office. I was very busy learning and doing my informatics work and had to learn a lot from my supervisor, Abg John. It was not really sad moments but it would be very much different in Malaysia. Frankly, I missed all the food especially from our bazar Ramadhan.

8 September 2008

Had chicken kebab and a can of coke. Didn't really enjoy the kebab as it was a bit hot and spicy...

Abg John had Lamb kebab and coke. He love hot and spicey food and found the kebab to be tasty!

In Abg John's messy office...

9 September 2008

Today was the saddest Iftar I ever had in my live. I almost had to have my Iftar in our dept again. I rushed and left my department around seven. I didn't have enough time to prepare proper food for my Iftar. I had to make do of whatever food I had left. I had a doughnut, a date, an apple and a banana with peppermint tea to cool me down. I was angry and stressed today and really needed that tea to control my sanity!

Later, I cooked some fried rice after my prayer. My mum would be very sad if she ever find out what I had for Iftar....

11 September

Another day to work until late hour with Abg John. I didn't have time to go out to get food for Iftar. I only managed to get some hot chocolate and a Twix to break my fast today. Another sad way to have Iftar....

Luckily, I still have some leftover from yesterday. Later, I cooked some rice and had it with some chicken curry. I shouldn't be complaining, I know. At least I still have food to satisfy my hunger...only it took me a little bit longer.

Iftar in Cambridge 2

2008-09-21T14:11:00.000-07:00

13 September 2008

Suddenly, I felt like having mee bandung for Iftar. And some chicken curry with phrata bread as Mdm Zett had some left. We went to Mill Road on friday to get some halal meat and chicken. Then to Sainsbury to get some vegs and noodles.

In the morning, we went to Mdm Zett's new place to live. She's moving out tomorrow. When we got there, I saw a pear tree with fruits ripe enough to eat. I couldn't help myself and climbed up the wall to pluck some of the fruits. What a satisfying feeling I had inside the moment I touched all those fruits with my hands!! See some of my monkey stunts!!

Climbing up the wall to get to the fruits

All smiling when I touched the pears!

Yummy fresh pears!

We invited Ms ZZ, Ms Intan and Miss J to join us. It was such a lovely Iftar. We chatted and laughed a lot while having the food. They brought a lot of different desserts and drinks. We didn't mange to finish all the food. We ended up dividing the food among us to take home. Hehe! Everyone bawak bekal balik. That was enough for our sahur!

Our main course

Chicken curry

Bamboo shoot curry

Mee bandung

Desserts and drinks

And not to forget, group photo. Miss J was taking the photo and was not included in....

Mdm Zett, Ms Intan, me and Ms ZZ

Iftar in Cambridge 1

2008-09-21T14:06:00.000-07:00

6 September 2008

Mdm Zett and Ms ZZ were just came back to Cambridge from Malaysia. I was sure that both of them would be very tired to prepare food for Iftar. Mr. T, my collegemate from Malaysia and I invited them to buka puasa with us and Mdm Zett 's place would be used for this occasion. Miss J joined us as well.

I'd prepared some asam pedas and udang goreng kunyit, and some pasta. Not really that fancy but enough to feed all of us. Heheh!

Stir fry tumeric prawn

Mackerel assam fish

My 'not so tasty' pasta using vegetarian minced meat

Mdm Zett brought some sambal bilis which happen to be my favourite

Mr. T brought some bhaji, clementine, papadom and prawn cracker.

Mdm Zett cooked some rice and prepared hot drink for us. It was simple Iftar with simple food but still we couldn't finish all the food. Some of them took pasta home for sahur....

It was fun as it has been long since the last time we hang out together and eat...

Miss J, Mdm Zett, me, Mr. T and Ms ZZ

Sarongs fiesta!

2008-09-21T13:31:00.000-07:00

1 October 2008

Abg John and I bought some sarongs for some people in our Genetics dept and lab.

We gave Tracy her sarong and I had to show her how to wear one. Glad that she like it and thanked us for that.

Then, we gave Uncle Philip his sarong. He is big and round, a bit bigger that my dad. Again, I had to help him wore the sarong. He really like it and wore it everywhere in the dept. Everyone started to notice and asked what was going on. Hehe! This Malaysian girl managed to stir the peacefulness of our dept a bit.

Like putting a sarong on my father!

Uncle Philip, me and Tracy

Later, we gave the guys in our group their sarongs. And I had to 'do' all of them!! Haha! See the picture yourself!

Matt was really excited about the sarong! We thought he would be mad of the whole idea but he managed to absorb the idea calmly... And looked very dashing!

Helping Matt to put the sarong...

Matt all happy in his sarong, me and Chris

Claudio-the German+Italian guy looked comfortable in the blue sarong. The blue color suited him well. And very tall....

His height always make me feel like a dwaft!

Nick was a bit shy but didn't reject of the idea of a sarong on him. And he looked handsome as well....

Both Abg John and I were glad that everyone like their sarongs. And we have to buy more sarongs as more people in the dept interested in having one themselves and also the rest of the guys in the lab. Hemm....may be I should make a business out of this sarongs.....

The last two days in Malaysia

2008-09-21T13:19:00.000-07:00

28 August 2008

We are flying back to UK tomorrow. So, today we spent our day by going to HKL to visit my sister again. My sister was transfered to IPR, HKL where most of the patients with respiratory problem are treated. Mr. Kim drove us there in my dad's CRV.

In one of this building is where they treat my sister....

And I was not allowed to take anymore pictures...not sure for what reason.

On our way back to S.Alam, we stopped at IKEA as suddenly I felt like having meatballs for lunch.

Looked quite similar to Ikea in UK

After savoring all the nice and tasty food in our country, the sweedish food here was tasteless and blunt. It was not just me. Even Abg John and Mr. Kim commented the same thing!

Meatballs tasted not really good...

Even the chicken tasted so blunt...

After sending back Mr. Kim to Unisel, Abg John and I went to Tesco S. Alam to get my food supply. As usual, all the spices and instant food will be very handy especially during the fasting month next month. I will be very busy with my lab work during weekdays and will not have much time to cook....

Abg John was helping me with my 'stocking up' of Malaysian food....

Tesco was already in Raya mood. Seeing all the cookies and baju raya everywhere made me sad that I'd miss all the Raya excitement here in Malaysia. Huk!Huk! Sedihnyerrr....

Colorful baju kurung and baju melayu....

Even Abg John was in Raya mood and put on a nice songkok..or kopiah?

We tried homemade noodles for dinner in Tesco. Both of the noodles that we ordered tasted quite good.

Even Concorde was decorated nicely for the fasting month...

And I drove back to KJ with heavy heart and did my packing....at least half way. ZZzzzzz......

Abg John eating durian!

2008-09-21T13:14:00.001-07:00

27 August 2008

I thought I would go straight back to KJ and ended the night with a good sleep but Mr. Kim was planning something extra for the night. Remembering my wish to see Abg John tortured by forcing him to eat durian, he did just that. After we came back from our dinner in Tanjung Harapan, Mr. Kim, Ja Cha Cha and I brought Abg John to a fruit stall near Sek7 S. Alam to eat durian.

I bought a medium size durian for this occasion. Mr. Kim cracked the durian and made it all ready for Abg John to start consuming....

Frankly, I was hoping to see him pinching his nose and looking in disgust at the strong odor and the look of our king of fruits like most other English would do. But I was so frustrated that my hope crushed as Abg John proudly smelled the fruits and finished all the durian with passion and interest.

Abg John was so happy eating the fruit and continue eating until the last one.....

Huh! Tak menjadi rupanye nak torture my boss ni......Huk!Huk!

Another full day....

2008-09-21T13:00:00.000-07:00

27 August 2008

The day started with a productive research group meeting in MGI. We managed to clerify most of the uncertainty in our work and came out with a group decision.

I took a photo of Abg John and Pn. A together before the meeting

Then Pn. A and I took Abg John to Puri Pujangga UKM for lunch as our host in MGI had other matter to attend to.

Selection of starter that I chose- Veg tempura, pecal and rojak. Yummy but a bit hot!

Fried rice , roti jala, and a few other dish. Tasted quite nice but not really that interesting...

Everything went quite well except that one of our collaborator from UPM didn't turn up. After lunch, Abg John, Pn. A and I went to see him in UPM. After a deep discussion with him and his group, we managed to persuade him to be active again with our group and help Pn. A to maintain her supervisor but her work approach will change. We were grateful as this will help to make our progress flow smothly especially in regards of our friend's PhD work...

It was raining heavily and we needed to rush back as we had other appointment with Josh and his wife and a few others. Abg John wanted to treat every friends of his in Unisel for dinner. We managed to reach Unisel around 7 pm. We went together in three different car to Tanjung Harapan seafood restaurant.

Selecting seafood for our feast. My favourite-ketam bunga!

Josh and I were happy with our selection of seafood...

All the yummy food we had - tomyam campur, ketam tiga rasa, udang masak pedas, ikan bakar, sotong tepung, kangkung belacan.....

Wawa, Josh laling, Ja Cha Cha, Pn. A and hubby, me, Abg John, Mr. Kim and Josh

We headed back to S.Alam around 10.30 pm, I believed.....

And had to send Abg John to Concorde and headed back to KJ. ZZZzzzzzz......

Day for Celebration!

2008-09-21T12:48:00.000-07:00

26 August 2008

Abg John and I had a meeting with MPOB this afternoon. They are really keen in having a collaborative research work with both of us. We will supervise most of the work here and train some of the team in Cambridge. And we are planning for two postgraduate position for both Mr. Kim and Ja Cha Cha under this collaboration.

Bukit Raja cinema

Abg John, me and Ja Cha Cha with Ice age 3 poster

Mr. Kim and Abg John with Mr. Kim Tamil hero!

We are very positive about this and told both of them the possibilities. So, this is the reason why we were celebrating the day. We invited both Mr. Kim and Ja Cha Cha for a movie in Bukit Raja and also treated them dinner. Nothing fancy-just McDonald as we were short of time!

Look at all the fattening food we had.....

Cheers!

Both Abg John and I will pray and do our best to make this happens. We hope both Ja Cha Cha and Mr. Kim will do the same....

We walked around the Bukit Raja shopping complex for a bit after the movie. Most of the shops were closed but the complex was nicely decorated for the moon cake festival.

The stage was beautifully decorated with lotus plants and lanterns

Stalls selling all kind of mooncakes

Langkawi Trip Day 3

2008-09-21T12:32:00.000-07:00

24 August 2008

Today was our last day in Langkawi. After our breakfast at Warung Tok Mat, we went to the nearest place to our hotel. It was raining heavily but that didn't stop us from exploring whatever left of the island.

Abg John was playing with rain....

1st : Snake Sanctuary

Since we live in Tok Senik's hotel, we were given a discount and only have to pay RM 6 each. The price is half the usual amount that people pay to see the snakes.

Abg John and a cobra!

Us, in a snake mouth! It was the entrance to the snake cages....

We started by visiting all the snakes in cages before rushing to the performing stage where snake show was performed by experienced snake charmers.

Charming the snakes....

Kissing the snakes acts. Really awesome!

Abg John and I with our 'trying to be brave with snake' acts. I was known to be terrified of snakes and Abg John was not really keen with any snakes especially phyton. But..we ended up having snake as our neck accessory (only for a few minutes with the present of a snake charmer!). Hehe!!

2nd : Tok Senik gamat shop

The shop caretaker urged us to dip our hands in the boiling gamat soup. A bit afraid of the consequence but curious to find out, we just did what she suggested. We were shocked to find that it was hot but didn't burn our hand at all. Unbelievable....

I felt like a witch doing some witchcraft thingy. A big wok and bubbling stuff...

Inside the gamat shop. All kind of gamat products were available here.....

I tricked Abg John into tasting the long jack drink. He didn't know how awful that stuff was. Just look at his face. He was trying very hard not to throw up! Hehe!!

We checked out from Kampung Tok Senik by 12 noon. A bit sad to leave this place as I really fell in love with it....

In front of the reception. The traditional design of the building amazed me and the rest...

One of the best place to stay for holiday. I'll definitely choose this hotel again if I ever come back here again...

3rd : Kota Mahsuri

Buying tickets near the entrance....

Mahsuri's grave. May she rest in peace.....

Ja Cha Cha and I in front of Teratak Sri Tama, where Panglima Hitam used to live....

Abg John was observing the equipments used to process paddy into rice.

And he couldn't resist the cold water from Mahsuri's well....

4th : Laman Padi

Abg John was very excited of the visit to Laman Padi. He had never seen a real rice plant! Hehe! Well...they only know rice come in a sack....

Abg John was very happy to really touch paddy in a paddy field...

I was born in a family that planted our own rice. This refreshed my memory of a fun childhood...having to help my parents planting paddy using 'kuku kambing' and play 'aci ligan' with leeches! What an experience. But that was a long time ago. Now, the paddy field was replaced by palm oil plantation. Hemm.....I do miss the old time....

5th : Underwater world Langkawi

In front of the under water world. We didn't have time to go in but Pn. A and I had been inside this place before. And I'd been inside Aquaria KLCC and Sentosa Island Underwater world . Langkawi's underwater world will never be in par with the other two....

6th : Lunch nasi campur

Upon Abg John request, we stopped at a nasi campur restaurant for lunch. This place was just the opposite of underwater world. Very strategic place to build a restaurant....

Abg John's and my choice of food for lunch. Simple but tasty...

Abg John was pretty good with his hand's skill now. After I forced him a few times, ofcourse!

We went to Kuah for a last minute shopping. I'd to buy another bag to carry my excess stuff. Hehe! Well...who can resist all this shopping temptation in Langkawi. Everything seems to be interesting and cheaper!

Leaving Langkawi...

It's always sad to leave a place especially when we enjoyed that place very much like I did with Langkawi. The island is indeed full of legend and intersting sites for people who enjoyed history and beautiful scenery...

Leaving the island behind...

I'll be back some day........

Langkawi Trip Day 2

2008-09-21T11:59:00.000-07:00

23 August 2008

Our second day in Langkawi filled with more places to visit and food to savor!

1st destination: Padang Maksirat

As this place was the first to come to our sight, we made a stop and gave it a visit. The place was not as how it used to be.

Shops selling all kind of tourist souvenirs-from batik, t-shirt, etc to gamat derived products. We had to go through these shops before we reached the burnt rice place.

Very hard to see any burnt rice nowadays. And the ground to dig for the rice was surrounded by high fences.

Burnt rice displayed for tourists

2nd destination : Gunung Mat Chincang

The entrance to the cable car

Apparently, we chose the wrong time to come here. On saturday, there was a long queue waiting to get the tickets....

Local people receive 40% discount on the ticket....

.....and longerrrrr queue to get on the cable cars.

Our way to the top of the mountain.....

Inside cable car. I always love to be above the ground.....

Finally, the top of the Mt Chincang mountain became visible....

It took us about an hour to get to the top of Mat Chincang Mountain, from queuing for tickets, getting on the cable car and 'cabling' up. But the wait was really worth our time when we saw the breathtaking views from the top!

Hanging bridge. Swayed a bit from time to time....

Some views from the top.....

3rd destination : Telaga Tujuh

Don't be surprised if you find yourself being greeted by a bunch of monkeys! There are quite a number of these creatures here. Abg John was really excited to see those monkeys!!

Near the entrance.

Apparently, we have to walk for half an hour up the hill to come to the first well. We were too tired and hungry and just spent our time at the food stall for lunch. I would love to see the seven wells for the seven princesses. Hemmm.....maybe next time.

Pn. A hubby, Pn. A, Wawa, Me and Abg John.

We had simple dishes for lunch. We ordered laksa and coconut drinks for ourselves but Ja Cha Cha was hungrier and had nasi goreng kampung instead. Have to say, the laksa here tasted good, just like the last time I was here. Even Abg John love the taste and called it fishy soup noodle!

Kampung fried rice. Simple and full of crunchy anchovies..

Our favourite-laksa telaga tujuh!

And of course the coconut. We had whole coconut each to quinch our thirst!

Pn. A and Ja Cha Cha were working hard on the coconut flesh. It would be good if Josh was around. He will teach them the proper way of getting most of the flesh out!

And Abg John was all happy with him share of laksa and coconut drink. We'll never find these in Cambridge for sure!

4th destination : Tanjung Rhu Beach

Abg John had been hinting us about going to a beach somewhere as he loves sea. We were planning to stop at Pantai Chenang but somehow we missed the way and ended up at Tg Rhu beach. But the beach is as lovely as Pantai Chenang...

Such a beautiful panorama...

Both Abg John and I couldn't resist going near the beach and tooked some pictures of us. The rest of the guys were waiting in the car as it was so hot and sunny.....

5th destination : Air Hangat Village

The water was warm, warm enough to relax your muscle if you dip your feet in....

Both Abg John and I found a congkak on our way out from this place. I taught him how to play it and we played with this game for quite a while. Made me remember my childhood time.....

6th destination : Durian Perangin Waterfall

The water was ice-cold. Abg John was thinking of taking a dip and I had to stop him from doing that as we were not properly geared!

Even Wawa couldn't resist dipping her feet in the water!

7th destination : Galeria Perdana

We stopped at the galleria for our prayer. Then, we just took pictures near the entrance as we didn't have enough time to go in. The galleria is big and will take at least an hour to go through all the places.

All of us near the information counter

And Abg John fancied a photo with our former PM, Tun Dr. Mahathir

8th destination : Kuah again!

We went to Kuah town again to properly do our shopping. My mum requested a few items and so did my sick sister in HKL but I only managed to buy one for my mum and all my sister's list. Not that I did it intentionally. What my mum wanted was (or were?) big and I didn't think I could carry all in the flight. Sorry mum...

Pn. A and hubby bought quite a number of thing especially household items. And Ja Cha Cha spent her money on lots of chocolate for herself and her friends. Well.....they'll become 'sweeter' later. Haha!

9th destination : Yacht Club

There was a yacht club not very far from Kuah town, near a huge fire house. We stopped near this place for a while. Abg John and I were very excited to see all the beautiful yacht in different shapes and sizes docked here....

10th destination : Dinner time

Not knowing whereas to go for food, I called Ms ZZ as she knows this island well. She recommended Restaurant Hj Ramli near Pantai Chenang.

Ja Cha Cha and Wawa in front of the restaurant

It was not that hard to find this restaurant as it is located near the main road. They have quite a selection of food offered. The food, eventhough was simple but tasted superb. And all the colorful drink...not from coloring! Abg John was really into 'teh ais'. Ordered that most of the time, thanks to Ja Cha Cha for introducing the drink to him! Hehe!

Fancy menu booklet...

And the list of food inside... quite cheap!

We started with seafood tomyam, all time favourite.....

And the main course...

Grilled stingray with air asam dip

Grilled mackerel for Ja Cha Cha as she is a very selective in the type of fish to have...

Lala fried in cilly. Yummy!

Kangkung belacan

A selection of fruit juices...colorful but not from coloring!

We all went back to Tok Senik with full stomach. What a day...

Langkawi Trip Day 1

2008-09-04T05:20:00.000-07:00

22 Augt 2008

Finallly, the day to spoil ourselves and forget about work for a few days came. Went with Abg John to KLIA from the hotel where he lived. Met Ja Cha Cha, Pn. A, Pn. A hubby and the cute Wawa there. Abg John was really smitten by Wawa. She was sooo adorable!

Abg John and Wawa

Had teh tarik with the rest of the group while waiting for our time to depart. Such a lovely time, just chatted about nothing and laugh!

The same teh tarik place every time I am in KLIA!

Arrived at Langkawi at noon. Too bad about the weather, all rain and not very sunny...

Got off the plane. Too bad it was raining but we were still happy...

Got our luggage and all set to start our adventure!

Our happy faces

We all decided (Pn.A and I actually made the choice!) to rent a Renault Kangoo. Not at all pretty but good enough to fit all of us and our belongings.

Our rental car-Renault Kangoo. Ugly but practical...

First destination. Ofcourse to fill more gas into the hungry car. Why do all the rental car provider leave us ith only a bit of gas? What if we got lost and the closest gas station would be forever to get there?? Luckily, Langkawi is not a very big island. We managed to get to the gas station after going around for half an hour. Pn. A and I have been to this island once but that would be in 2006. We forgot the way totally. Hehe! Try to get a full map of Langkawi but unfortunately none was on sale!

Pn. A and hubby (our official driver for the trip!) trying to figure the way to our hotel

After asking direction from a local, and based on the very brief map given to us by the rental car company, we managed to get to Kg. Tok Senik hotel. Wow! Such a lovely place to live even for a few days. So very much like kampung la... I felt in love with the place instantly. So did Abg John and the rest of us.

Checking in at the hotel

My room layout and decors, which happened to be the biggest among the rooms that we rented! How lucky I was! Only if Pn. A knew about this, she might wanted the room for herself. Hehe!

Double bed and sofa? Awesome...

Dressing table and all the electrical devices provided..very pleasant service!

Abg John pleased with his room. His room was a bit smaller than mine but he had a nice balcony to enjoy the view. I was very glad that he liked everything about the hotel that I chose based on Ms ZZ recommendation. Thanks Ms ZZ!

Abg John was very happy with his room

And he had a very nice balcony to enjoy the view

It had been raining almost all day. But that did not change our vacation mood. Went straight to Kuah for our late lunch. Stopped at Wan Thai restaurant ( the only restaurant that I could remembered well) for food. Such a lovely restaurant that serves good Thai delicacies.

Wan Thai Restaurant-serving tasty Thai delicacies

Beautiful layout inside the restaurant

Interesting menu booklet

Both Ja Cha Cha and I had chicken fried rice which turned out to be fantastic especially the chicken!

Abg John chose chicken patpet. Spicy but nice

Pn. A opted for chicken paprik

And Pn. A hubby selected beef paprik.

We all shared a medium size bowl of chicken tomyam. Very tasty indeed!

Abg John even tried to steal a durian! I thought he would be fainted by the strong smell of the fruit. Apparently, he loves the smell and could not wait to taste the fruit!

We did some shopping at Idaman Suri and a few other shops. Then went to Eagle Square to appreciate the huge eagle statue with Abg John. This happened to be the first trip for Pn. A hubby and Ja Cha Cha and of course Abg John. They really enjoyed the trip!

The huge eagle statue

My 'nothing like titanic' pose. Abg John forced me to do it!

Abg John dreaming about taking all of us in one of the sailing boat. Apparently, he loves sailing and knows how to!

Such a scenic view

Had take away food for dinner. Everyone was still full after our late lunch. We ordered three different fried rice to go. We had drink while waiting and a bowl of ABC. Laksa Penarak restaurant is a bit small and the food was just so-so for me.

The list of food available..

Went to bed quite early after a brief chat with Abg John about tomorrow's plan. ZZZzzzzz....

Mdm Zett's Wedding Reception- Imperial Hotel KL 16 August 2008

2008-09-03T09:56:00.000-07:00

Once again, Abg John and I were invited to Mdm Zett's and Mr. Hef's reception at Imperial Hotel KL. August 16, 2008 would never be forgotten as it marked one unforgetful history in both Abg John and my lives. But for the sake of the couple- Mdm Zett and Mr. Hef, we ignored our self control and embarassed ourselves in front of a lot of people!

The decoration of the reception hall was very impressive. The throne, chandelliers, flower pots, high table and everything else looked stunning!

Creamy and white throne-so wonderfully decorated. Simple, yet so lovely!

Lovelier when the King and Queen of the night were sitting on it!

Parade of the couple from their throne to the high table

Makan beradap at high table

Wedding cake-beautifully decorated

Lovely door gifts for guests

The food was lovely and tasty. Briyani rice and all other deliciously cooked stuff. Only that both Abg John and I could not really enjoyed it!

The reception menu. Everything sound tasty!

Prawn tomyam as our starter. Yummy but a bit hot for me.

Briyani rice with beef kelio, lamb kurma, red snapper sweet and sour, fried tiger prawn and mix vege. Very tasty!

Sago with manggo, top with thick coconut milk. Very2 yummy...

Abg John, Mr. Kim, Ja Cha Cha and I went to the hotel quite early but we got stuck in the KL traffic as Mr. Kim accidentally took the wrong turn. We arrived at the hotel around 8.15 pm. Luckily, we were not as late as we thought. Half of the guests turned up later than us.

Ja Cha Cha, Me, Abg John and Ms ZZ

Mr. Kim and Ja Cha Cha in their lovely dress

Ms Nisak turned up at the wedding too...

This night was not like any ordinary night. I had to confess. Both Abg John and I were really looking forward for this event but at the same time, we were a bit scared as we had an assignment that we had to carry out during the event. Suspense!! Yuuu......! All the butterflies in my stomach kept flying everywhere!!

All smiling but God knew what we felt inside!

They hired a professional band to do the singing to entertain guests through out the ceremony. This was where all my butterflies went hay'wire! You guys must be wondering by now what was the task given to Abg John and me. Here it was -We were asked to sing. Not one but two songs. Imagine that! It was not as we were not warned but the fact that we thought it would be some sort of karaoke style of singing, just for a few people, when most of the guests had left and meant just for fun. No..No...No. We were not even close! We were given instruction to be ready to go to the stage in the middle of our food. We had to sing in front of all the guests, 1000 of them including the honorary guests! Us, the scientists from Cambridge who had never done anything like this before in our lives. Good God! Bet you guys have no idea how weak my legs were. Felt like me dragging my feet all the way to the stage. I may looked all smiling but only God knew how nervous I was and my trembling legs! Abg John was supposed to play the acoustic guitar but unfortunately, the guitar didn't worked well. We ended up singing with the keyboard bro accompanied us with some music in D keys.

The professional band hired to entertain the guests

Abg John and I-not even the amateur singers

We sang two numbers - Killing me softly (the Carpenter) and Love me tender (Elvis Prestley). The crowd seemed to like our singing. We received a big hands when finished. Mr. Kim and Ja Cha Cha commented that we sang well like a pro. Wow! Unbelievable. Even Ms ZZ dad gave us a very constructive comment-presentable. And both Ms ZZ and her dad might request the same thing from both Abg John and I for her wedding. Well Abg John, looks like we have to practise more songs in between our experiments. We are not off the hook yet. Huk! Huk!

Abg John and I singing in front of the whole crowd! The first time ever in our lives!!

Us smiling while singing. God knew how hard it was to control my voice from trembling!

Aizat AF6 did a few songs too but unfortunately, there appeared to be some sound problem and he couldn't do more. Too bad Aizat, I was really looking forward to be entertained by a true singer...not like us the amateur!

Aizat AF6-the new up and rising singer

All went well that night. The couple was very lovely, as ever. The decoration and everything else was something to dream of. So beautifully organised. Congrats both Mdm Zett and Mr. Hef. A work well done. Don't be shy to be my wedding planner. Haha! God knows when that will be....

Me, Mr. Hef, Mdm Zett and Abg John after the ceremony ended

More kisses and hugs between best friends. I am soooo happy for her!

Mdm Zett's Wedding 1

2008-09-03T04:50:00.000-07:00

The King and Queen of the night!

Both Mdm Zett and Mr. Hef looked very beautiful and dashing in their wedding wear.

August 15, 2008 marked a big history in Miss Zett's life. She's now a wife to Mr. Hef. She's Mdm Zett now! You're not single anymore Sis. Have to get use to the idea. Haha! Congratulation guys! Wish you both a very happy life and may you both sail through your new world smoothly...

They looked very happy. I'm very happy for them too...always!

Her wedding reception at her parents' house in KL was lovely. Abg John and I went there with Mr. Kim and Ja cha cha. Such a lovely night with so many guests around. The 'pelamin' was so lovely with red roses. The creamy and red combination worked wonderfully!

Here are some photos of the event to be shared :

Abg John and I with the newly wed couple

Cambridge's Girls with the bride. Not sure whose turn will be next!

Ja Cha Cha and Mr. Kim went to the wedding too..

Not forgetting my hugs full of love to my dearest friend..the bride

Have to say, through my observation, the wedding was well organised and full of glory. Check out the preparation...

The wedding 'pelamin'. Full of red roses, so romantic and lovely...

The bed...full of red roses too. Simple but lovely!

Bunga telur for guests. Red. Simple but very nice...

Wedding cake with the same color theme. Yummy!

Not forgetting the delicious food we ate. Wish I could ate more...

Finally, the marhaban group with their kompang, made the event more joyful!

Special entry for my sister

2008-09-03T03:46:00.000-07:00

Allah the Al-Mighty has a very special way in dealing with my youngest sister's life. She has been ill for six years and went through the worst time ever in her life when the doctors said that she couldn't make it for long. Gosh! What a terrifying nightmare for all the members of my family! She was put in an induced comma and had a very slim chance of waking up. Yes, I am a true believer of faith and Allah has made me believe Him even more by giving my sister a second chance of living..... Alhamdulillah, syukur!

I flew back to Malaysia the same night that my younger sister texted me her latest condition. I am very grateful to have such a wonderful supervisor, Abang John for helping me to get an emergency flight to go back. God only knew what I felt at that particular moment. Every second was tormenting me...with all the horrible thought that I might not be able to see my sister for the last time...

My mom (right) with a few others waiting outside ICU KL. No room for relatives, have to use the corridor space..

Flew back in BA via Singapore and caught a MAS to KLIA. My brother was waiting for me at KLIA and took me to KJ and then to ICU HKL to see my sister. Most of my family members were there, waiting and praying for her. My mom was and still is the most incredible person in the earth. Still holding on tight to see my sister getting better. Being at her side every waking moment and her continuous prayers and support.. just to see her recovers and gets better.

My bro and me...our night turn at ICU HKL. Felt a bit like 'mangsa banjir'. Sleeping outside ICU!

John and I went to see her on Sunday, August 17th. She was transfered to a normal ward after her condition improved. She was very frail and still could not move. Only bones and skin left....But she was happy to see John and me.

John was giving my sister some kind words and support. Very nice of him....

My mom and sister in law sitting beside her for hours....

My CI sister, Mdm R briefing John about my sister's condition...

Later at night, I heard from my mom that her condition was getting worse again. A group of medical experts from IPR HKL came and studied her case. She was transfered to IPR on Saturday. The new place is very comfortable and spacious but the nurses do more zzzzzzzz than work! Poor mom has to do most of the tasks and takes care of my sis herself! That's not good....

Anyway, I would like to thank everyone..especially Abg John, Josh, Pn. A and all my friends in Unisel; my labmates in Genetics, Cambridge, my Cambridge's friends-Mdm Zett, Ms ZZ, Miss J; Mr. A ( an x-Cambridge) for all your kind words and support to get me through this sad moment. Only Allah can repay all your kind deeds...

What a full day!

2008-08-02T08:23:00.000-07:00

Today started with me going to Pasar Tani with my sister in law to get all the ingredients to make curry noodles (this was all because of the 'too spicy' noodles at MB!). Followed by preparing the curry noodles, which took me more than an hour.

Yummy-licious curry noodles! Not too spicy, just nice for me (sendiri puji ni...)

Later, in the afternoon, went to Ms ZZ's house in Klang to attend her sister's wedding with Ms Zett, Mr. Kim and Ja cha cha. Such a nice wedding with red and white theme. Both the bride and groom looked lovely. Such a cute couple! Congrats to the newly wed. Wish you both all the best in your new life...

The evening started with ceiling lamp hunting, shopping groceries at Tesco, S.Alam, drinking special Khulafa' tea and ended by Ms. Zett enjoying kampung fruits at Kelana Jaya (my sister's house!). This entry is meant to make Ms. J in Cambridge cries with envy.

Lamp hunting. So many choices. Ms. Zett was having a difficult time deciding...

Sipping iced Khulafa' tea. Such a heavenly drink...

Enjoying durian from my family's orchard. Tasty and sweet.

Sorry Ms. J. I'm sure you miss eating our local fruits. And to Josh, too bad you were not around. I might share with you the fruits!

Farewell lunch with Mr. Mie

2008-07-31T09:16:00.000-07:00

Officially, today is the last day for Mr. Mie with our group. He has better job offer somewhere else. Too bad that Big Boss is too busy and the Madam in-charge, Pn. A is far away in UK. Hemm...just his luck that many of the important people in the group are not around. Took him and few others to Marry Brown, Sect. 7, Shah Alam for lunch.

What we had for lunch? We ordered different kind of food but Mr. Kim was not satisfied with his selection of noodles.

Ja-cha-cha ordered MB chicken rice. She complained about her food not tasting nice but she took a lot of chilly sauce. I wondered why???

I ordered curry noodles which turned out to be too spicy for me. Mr. Mie ended up finishing both his and my noodles!

Well...Mr. Mie. Wish you all the best in your new career. Hope you'll succeed in finding what you're looking for in life...

Soto Day

2008-07-30T03:15:00.001-07:00

Suddenly, I felt like preparing soto for my family. So, last sunday, July 27th, I've prepared for the second time in my life the whole set of soto with a little help from my sister in-law. The first time was in Cambridge when one of my closest friends felt like eating soupy food.

Main ingredients

Final product

The best part was when my mum commented that my soto was tasty and I can buka kedai soto. Haha! Such a nice compliment!!

A thumb's up from my niece!

Three Pencarian

2008-07-29T22:51:00.000-07:00

29th July 2008 was a day full of different activities. Firstly, pencarian ilmu as Ja-cha-cha, Adik Kimie, Pn. Senget and I went to JW Marriot to attend a Science Fair organise by one of a scientific company. Me, attended the GC-MS workshop but a bit blur about it as I've never use one before but have to use it in the future for my work. Ja cha-cha and Pn. Senget went for HPLC. We left after 4.30pm.

Second pencarian, this is the most interesting part as I love shoes especially BATA brand!! Don't know why but possibly because I was introduced to this brand since I was small. Hi! Hi! Went with Ja cha-cha and Adik Kimie to Kapar. Jualan gudang is on! So many old stock to be sold away. Bestnyer... Kawan-kawan yg pegi UK tu jgn risau, sale sampai end of August. Sempat lagi. Hehe!

Third pencarian-apa lagi kalau bukan makan-makan. This time, we went to Sri Has restaurant and had nasi lemak klang. A bit spicy but I still love it. So finger licking good lah! Should try tau!

Makan-makan Day

2008-07-19T02:38:00.000-07:00

I went to Kajang today. Makan satay dengan Josh dan Ja-cha-cha.