October's Love!

Seems like I haven’t update this blog for ages! Well, not that it was anything new :P

October has always been my favorite month of the year. It has been incredibly hectic month for me and many fabulous things happen in between. I have lots to share today with y’all today. So, this gonna be yet another choppy entry of the things that I’ve done in these last few weeks. 

Let's kick this post off with another fun field trip I had at the beginning of the month!

It was the last field trip for this year and we spend exactly a week in Sipitang, Sabah. And because this will be the last time here (since there were almost no malaria case found during our ACD previously) we went to the farthest camps we could. Most of the journey took us around one and half or two hours but Camp Basio took us more than 3 hours to reach there! Thanks God the camps are well build and very clean, so no problem with the toilet at all haha!  

Oh, just let me share a few photos from the trip!

Cooking curry Maggi. We couldn't resist having a slurp even just after having Nasi Goreng Kampung :DDD

Surrounding by the thick fog up the hill.
Hot curry Maggi + full stomach + cool breeze = happiness.

And of course, it was my birthday month! Yes, totally the main reason why I love October XD.

It might not be the best one, nevertheless still a great one for me. This year, I didn’t expect to get a surprise birthday cake from my officemates. Either I’m a total idiot or my officemates learn how to moves like ninja because I was completely clueless they were planning something on! It was just a small celebration with just a few peoples in our department (half of department were going to Port Dickson for a seminar on that day) but it still makes me VERY happy. I'm not the expressive type so they probably wouldn't know how happy I was at that time. Honestly, I almost cry because I was so touched. But it would be so embarrassing if I really cry, so I had to force myself to keep calm, hehe. In my mind, I was already jumping up and down when I see the cake and do the Gangnam style dance when they sing me Happy Birthday, haha. Oh, how I love thee!

And it has become a tradition to have family dinner to celebrate birthday - no matter how late, heh. So this year, me having my birthday dinner at MeatWorks, Solaris. Incredibly happy!

And last but not least, we were celebrating Aidiladha in Kelantan this year. One of my uncle live in Kota Bharu, so we’ve decided to spend a few days there.

And that's all for now. I hope you all had a great October too! Till then, bye~

He Will Be Loved

Last Sunday, my friend Dina invites us to attend her baby boy’s Aqiqah ceremony. I never attend one, so I was really curious of how it should be done. There was doa selamat and marhaban ritual. I only manage to go inside Dina's house after the marhaban finished. And I was greeted with a big picture of Aydan at the door!

The cradle was beautifully decorated! They choose baby blue and white as the theme, it was so sweet. I was totally stunned by it. Dina said Aydan was awake during Marhaban but did not cry at all! I guess Aydan just know how to behave when people are around. Now, to the photos~

Gorgeous cradle

Beautiful desert section!

My first time trying the macarons :DD

Can't stop eating the marshmallow!

Cutie Zabi Aydan!

Azza, Dina, Ju-Are & me~

Alhamdulillah, everything went well. Dina and hubby did great to fulfill responsibility as Aydan's parent. Hope that Aydan will be blessed forever and is surrounded by people who love him always, Amin.

Rub-a-dub Dub

After been planning for a few weeks, we finally succeeded in throwing Dina a surprise Baby Shower Party!

Taking place at Dina’s own house with the help from Ajai - the hubby. The plan was pretty much like mission impossible: we bring our potluck and wait for Ajai to take Dina out, we get into their house and make quick preparation, then Ajai and Dina get back home and tadaa…. SURPRISE!!! There wasn’t a time that I wasn’t nervous!  Since her house is a condo and the fact that there was only one entrance to get in and out, the possibility of getting caught was higher. 

Kerja-kerja meng-unload barang

Me and Azza were the first to arrive and we have to park our car outside. We went in to meet Ajai by the swimming pool to get their house key. When the rest of the team in crime arrived, we all cramped in Ju-are’s car and waited for Ajai’s miscall as the sign that they already leave the house. It was pretty obvious that we’re gonna throw a party somewhere because we were all dress up in purple (let’s just pretend that my maxi is really purple, okay?) and everyone was holding foods and balloons, so the guard just happily let us in. 

Ajai come back to the house (he told Dina that he forgot to bring his money) while Dina wait in the car. By that time, we’ve just finished preparing and Ajai called Dina and asked her to come to their house (he said their kitchen was flooded) so that explained Dina’s upset expression at the door. That awkward moment when the light has been switch on and Dina was at the door but she didn’t noticed us, and we all just stayed silent because no one knew when to yell SURPRISE!!! And someone actually did and Dina was so shock and happy and touched! So yay, mission accomplished!

Dina's expression when she saw us~ So cute~

Left to right: Azza, Yatie, Dina, Azmilia, Ju-are, Aiffa and me!

The food was absolutely delicious!!! I really like Azza’s baked macaroni with cheese – if I wasn’t so shy, I would definitely have another plate of those tempting macaroni. As for myself, I brought bihun putih. Kind of freak out when my mum said she’s not gonna be around on the weekend. I barely cook and now to cook for people? I don’t know how I come to the decision to cook but lucky, with help from my sister, the bihun turn out okay.  Just okay, nothing special. So I’m really thankful to the girls for eating it without complaining, hehe.

Beautiful cupcakes~

We played some games afterward. Ju-are, the forever-games-ajk prepared two games: the ‘arrange alphabet until it make sense’ and ‘fill in the blank nursery rhyme’. Since my mum didn't sing me all these english rhyme when I was little (dulu kita nyanyi lagu air pasang dalam or bangau oh bangau je...), I thought it was difficult. It was really hard that…. that I had to cheat discuss with Yatie and Azmilia. But seriously, it was really fun! I just wanna apologized to Ju-are for not helping her with the games cause I don’t want to be the forever-games-ajk :DD Busy sket arr.... :P

Aksi tiru-meniru caught on camera :P

The game time~

My favorite corner of Dina's house~

The theme was purple and my maxi was exactly purple!

Camho moment~

Baby's presents from the aunties

The soon-to-be mum and dad <3

Actually when we were planning this, Dina was also arranging another gathering with Azmilia. So things were kind of fall into place. A surprise party will be more memorable with all this emotional element involves, right? So everyone just play along and ignored Dina on her request to have gathering. I was actually unsure of this but Azmilia said she's willing to get the blame for all those times that we have make Dina feel sad/unloved. So Dina, if you want to beat someone, you know who to find, okay? :DDDDDDDDDD 

p/s: read the other side of the story here

A Special Kind Of Something

So we’ve been planning Azza’s bridal shower party for weeks! And I was so glad that everything went well despite the bad weather, thank god!  Hosted at the Fullhouse @ Jalan Yap Kwan Seng on the Saturday, only 9 peoples could make it. But still! It was fun as expected because reunion with Smaklian had never been boring.

It was raining so heavily that morning and we were kind of worried because we have booked the outdoor area. Since we have games and naughty things to do - sure bising giler with all the hilai tawa riang gembira - we really don’t want to disturb other customer. So outdoor is definitely a good choice. Luckily, the rain stopped just before the party begins, so we actually have a natural cool environment while catching up with all the girls.

The bride-to-be had a hard time to find the venue. The poor Azza looked tired when she arrived, but still sporting to finish all the dare missions we have prepared for her. She have completed all the hot poses (too hot to shared it here!) we asked her to and even managed to get a phone number from one of the waiter. I should really learn how to do that from her but according to her, “Skill menggatal ni memang tak boleh dikongsi.” LOL!

We couldn’t play taboo game cause tak sempat and everyone have other thing/place to hit after the party. So we end up the party at 3 pm with group photos and finally, giving Azza her gift. I was the one who choose the gift, so I really really REALLY hope that she’ll like it!

Now photo time!

Arrived @ 11.40 am. Fullhouse open @ 12.00 pm :D

Ju-are kate: Takpe, AJK mesti sampai awal :P

The theme is Red & WHITE. Colorblind that much eh?

With 3 beauties: Adah, Dina and Yatie

With Yatie again!

Azza's excited face XD

p/s: Gosh, I got flashback of our dorm life a few times while we were chatting and it kind of got me space out a lot, lol. I missed these people! If only I could turn back time...