HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU.....mmmuaaahhhh

Assalamualaikum....di hari raya yang keempat ini, saya ingin mengambil kesempatan untuk mengucapkan SELAMAT HARIJADI kepada suami saya yang tercintos (awwww....). Semoga dipanjangkan umur, dimurahkan rezeki serta diberkati Allah selalu. Tak lupa juga semoga sentiasa berbahagia bersama saya yang cun ini. Hahahahahaha....
Sekian terima kasih....saya harus mengundur diri dahulu kerana ingin membuat kek harijadi.
tata...i lap u my laling!

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~elyn~

Aidil Fitri 1427h

Salam Aidil Fitri 1427h. Bagi umat islam di Sydney, hari ni adalah hari raya keempat, manakala di Malaysia hari raya ketiga.

This is the second hari raya elyn and I celebrated in Australia. Last year we celebrated hari raya in Wollongong and this year we are in Sydney. We went to Malaysia Hall for Aidilftri prayer at 7am on Monday. After that, there was a small jamuan under a big tent. Actually the tent was prepared for the following night when a minister from JPM came for an open house. After the jamuan, we went to a friend's house in Eastlakes. Then we went home to have a rest while reheating the dishes. After Asar prayer, we went out again straight to En Naza's house for Laksa, then Ridwan's for Nasik Minyak and the last one En Zainal's for nasi ayam. All the food were very nice!! I kept telling myself once I've finished my plate, I musn't eat at the next house, but I failed... It seems like I can eat and eat and eat more and more on that day... We were back home at around 11 pm.

The second hari raya, we cooked Soto Ayam together with whatever food available at home, such as rendang, kuah kacang and nasik impit. Friends came to our house. K.Sam and the gang from Wollongong also stopped by and enjoyed the food.

Then we went to K.Khaz place in Bankstown before we headed to the Malaysia Hall for the open house. There were toooo many people that elyn and I just lined up for the satay, as other dishes were not in the list of our targeted food. Anyway the Raya environment was there with people wearing national costumes, thank god it is no longer winter.

Above all, I really missed my hometown. It will never be the same celebrating Hari Raya without family members no matter how big and meriah the celebration here in Sydney. I wish I can go home next year. Furthermore, we can go back next year since they've made us promise not to come back untill there are three of us. So insyaAllah if possible we will go back for Raya next year, tapi tak janji tau...

~AzD~

Ramadhan is leaving us....

Salam to everybody....yup the title says it all. Tak sampai lagi seminggu je nak habis Ramadhan. Sedih pulak rasa. Next week raya, Insya Allah. So apa projek di hari raya? Tukar curtain?? New furniture?? buat kuih raya??? hahaha... yoooo la tuh. Berangan je la. Rasa mcm nak buat kuih raya. Last year dok gentel kuih arab je. Tak de buat kuih lain. Hahaha... Tahun ni tak tau nak buat kuih apa pulak. Kalu suruh post kuih all the way from mesia, confirm dapat serdak je. Ye la benda fragile. Orang kapal terbang ni mesti main baling2 je kotak kuih tu kang. Isk..isk..isk... Silap2 haribulan touch up balang kuih cantik2, pastu beli butter cookies je. Hahahaha... Semalam dah jumpa kedai Indon best kat Lakemba. Dah scanned semua jenis kerepek2 yg ada. Boleh la isi dalam balang nanti. Bijak bijak...

La ni Azd dok busy download lagu raya..kesian dia dok srooot srroott kesyahduan. Tapi dia download lagu raya versi happy2 je, takut kang kalu version sedih...maka bersedih lah dia. Masuk tahun ni dah 2 tahun tak balik raya kat Mesia ngan family tercinta... waaaaa.... very the sedih. Bestnyer kalu boleh naik bus je balik mesia......ala mcm KL-Seremban ke KL-tepeng ke..
OK la...nanti sambung lagi. Dah start mengarut dah ni...maklumlah hypo...ahaks!!
So take care everybody and sempena penghujung Ramadhan yang mulia ni, let us make use of every second of it dan marilah kita sama2 mengimarahkan malam Lailatul Qadar......

"To my dearest sister Reena...HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you!!!! Semoga panjang umur dan murah rezeki sokmo!! Love u heaps....mmuahhhhh"

~elyn~

A tribute to a friend......

Assalamualaikum to everybody.... sedar tak sedar dah 2 minggu kita puasa. Rasa kejaaaap je. Alhamdulillah, so far so good. Still able to continue on fasting. Hehehe...altho the nausea is still there on and off tapi takde la teruk sgt.

Anyway, for my entry this time I would like to say something about a friend who had just passed away yesterday. I wasn't that close to him. But we did our housemanship together in Hospital Taiping. He was a good person. Never had any problems working with him. Above all, I was impressed by his spirit and strength. You see, he had this blood disorder which required him to have frequent blood transfusions. Thalassemia major to be exact. I remembered when I was doing my oncall one day, he admitted himself for a blood transfusion. Kesian dia, nampak penat ngan pucat je. Tapi sempat buat lawak lagi malam tu. Hmm...Having the illness didn't stop him from being a good doctor. I think he lived his life to the fullest and i'm sure his family are very proud of him.

So when I received the msg from Faisal and Ucu last week saying that he was admitted to the ICU and already on vent support, I was really shocked and sad. Kalau we all ada kat Mesia, mesti dah pergi melawat dia. Tapi apakan daya, hanya mampu berdoa dari jauh je. I sort of knew how his story would ended and I was right when I finally got a msg yesterday morning saying that he had passed away. Innalillahi wa inna ilaihi raaji'un.....

Semoga ALLAH mencucuri rahmat ke atas arwah Dr. Marhizal Azmin Marsuki dan semoga arwah ditempatkan di kalangan orang2 yang beriman. Apa2 pun bak kata ucu, Marhizal beruntung sebab pergi pada hari jumaat, penghulu segala hari dan dalam bulan ramadhan, penghulu segala bulan....
Al-Fatihah.......

~elyn~

Betul la kata orang, kalau tak tau takpe, bila dah tau.....

Since Elyn knew that she is having a baby in her tummy, she starts to feel dizzy, nausea, wind in the stomach (angin la tu) and some other changes. And as a goooood husband, I have to be patient and really take a good care of her. Really hope that she will not ask anything weird or something that is not available here or crazy expensize stuff... hehehe...

OK, last Saturday we went to Malaysian Hall for bukak puasa. It was sponsored by TDC (Tourism Malaysia). FYI, every weekend i.e. every Saturday and Sunday, MyHall will be organizing bukak puasa program, sponsored by various parties. Kak S came down all the way from Wollongong to join us, as this is her last Ramadhan in Australia. We arrived in MyHall around 5.40pm, still not many people there so we managed to park our car in the compound. Elyn was holding her breath all the way from Penshurst to Randwick as she said that the Minyak Attar that I am wearing made her feel loya. kuang3X. Not only minyak attar, I can't even wear perfume anymore nowadays... :p...

We break our fast with porridge, then after Maghrib prayer we had nasi beriyani, if i'm right. Sedap, but sadly no nasi tambah. Anyway, some people managed to get extra plate [elyn, you know who ;)]. After isya prayer we continued with Tarawih, leaded by MA. Yeah, the environment was there, meeting friends and having meals together, silap tak makan dalam talam jer. I don't think everybody can eat from the same tray with 6-7 other people, rice with flooded curry gravy, coz they feel 'geli', but I enjoyed it. We used to do that when I was in UKMKL.

Then the next day, elyn and I invited some friends to break the fast at our place. We made pulut kuning with beef rendang, and nasi tomato with chicken curry and jelatah. The curry was a lil bit diluted, i don't know why. Maybe because Kak S was there watching kot.. hehheh... Elyn made the cream caramel, which was nice, and bubur pulut itam that turned very thick when it was time to break the fast. Kak K cooked a delicious pasta with mixed seafood, came with her hubby and beautiful kids. Friends from wollongong also came bringing with them chocolate cake and bread pudding. M & H arrived a bit late bringing with them Michel's apple pie, yummy! but all these food are my food (except the choc cake) as elyn a lil bit 'kureng' with all these sweet stuff. High energy food + low activity level = obesity... but I cant just look at it lying in the fridge! i need to eat it and finish it, right elyn?? Maka kerugian lah bagi mereka-mereka yang tidak dapat hadir itu...