Rezeki Orang

@mimi just texted me saying she had to wait for awhile to go into the office of her new place so I called her coz I'm a curious cat (of course).. and she shares with me this tale of how the mechanic helped to show her where to park her car and even told her that if the big padlock is not on the door it means there are people in the office. A few minutes later, she texted me again saying she has her own room.. "don't play play".

I'm happy for her because after all these years, she deserves a break and I think at some point all of us do.

The reason for more celebrations.. food!

First of all, Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Adha everyone on this very special day my mum whipped up her menu of Nasi Minyak, rendang tuk, beef rendang, acar, ayam masak merah, ketupat & mee goreng. There's nothing like home cooked food to start the celebration although actually we don't go out to celebrate it as big as Hari Raya Aidilfitri. Technically this is brunch because eating rice in the morning normally sets me up to a lazy afternoon and that's good. What did you have for breakfast today?

How to Fold Clothes in 2 seconds flat

My sister is hilarious. She just got back from Aussie and she's on her semester break. I was supposed to see her last week but because of the event, I only met her just now... and she does this folding thing in 2 seconds flat which I had to record. Yes being funny does run in the family.. I'm going to try this tomorrow!

It's Yana ... not Yuna

Today was the last day of our 2 day event and so far everything went smoothly & all the homes were sold! But the best part during these few fays was the pleasure of listening to Yana singing "I'm just a little girl caught in the middle..." The first time I heard them was during Hari Raya Open Office where they sang Raya songs beautifully, just like the old-time singers. She's really good and when she sang Yuna's song, she really did sound like Yuna... except she's Yana. Haha.

Now that everything is over, whenever there's a set-up, there's always a closing so everything has to be pulled down and restored back to how we found it. So far this event is my favourite because of the art elements that was included, plus missing out on the International Art Expo for 3 years in a row seems to diminish after watching adults & children sitting down calmly coming out with creative pieces right in front of me (that beats looking at a finished painting!)...

What turned out to be a worrying & stressful beginning turned out to be a wonderful & satisfying ending in the end... thanks to everyone.. :)

GANDINGAN was a SUCCESS

For the past 2 weeks, I've been buried in deadlines and all things leading towards today's event and it turned out to be a success.. GANDINGAN is a launch event & collaboration with UiTM students. We were running around like hamsters in a cage (except we're not in the cage).. finalizing every minor details that needed our attention. It was crazy, it was beserk but it turned out to be smooth sailing once the Emcee started the introduction. Everything was on time, on cue, and everything on-lah! I think I can be a personal problem solver cum runner soon.

Band Tanpa Lektrik performance...

Stone painting work by the public who came for the event.

Time stalled for me at this moment. And I felt happy.

After all the rush & madnees, and everyone asking me to take a deep breath (coz it was over), I just sat down and spaced out for 5 minutes thinking to myself "OMG how did we manage to manage this with just the 2 of us" but it turns out that it couldn't have become a success without cooperation from everyone, the Clients, the PR peeps, the Event peeps, the Canopy peeps, the makcik cleaners, the pakcik & abang security guard, the part-time student waiters (who are so patient & polite my goodness), the akak caterer who accomodated to the last minute requests, abang DJ who kept everyone entertained, Tuan Haji who blew away the rain for us & my teammate Chelz who was super calm throughout (either that or she stoned from the set-up the night before).

I forgot what it was like to stop and mute everything out... sharing a chair with debbie to do draw & paint on a mirror which we both initialed and it will be hung in their office. I should make another one tomorrow and keep it but I'll have to choose 1 out of the many art actitivities!

Late Dinner

Was running around the whole day without food & when I got back, there was home cooked food kept for me. It was awesome to be served (once awhile only... hehe)

A Pretty Good DimSum

I thought I wouldn't be able to wake up this morning after hitting the sack at 3:30am, but I did.. because the tummy growls after sleep and it needs to be fed. You're probably saying "yes yes we know you get hungry often.." but but you need to understand the love of food overtakes the love for sleep. Hehe.

Even though the brain says "sleep sleep sleep..." we managed to make our way to Unique Seafood to have dimsum (which is halal by the way). My friend Chris works here and she told me that everyday the restaurant offers 50% for dimsum from 11am-2pm. Although this would be my second time here, I still get excited seeing the many rows of fishes & sea creatures in their tanks waiting to be served. But there's no need for any chopping today because we're just having dimsum. And since I'm not certain of what it says on the menu, my friends ordered and this is what we had...

Siew Mai
Prawns in blueberry sauce
Prawn wanton
Shanghai dumpling
Radish cake
Fried rice
(a dimsum which I can't recall the name)
Total bill: RM 74.05 (after 50%)!

At one point I thought I was going to pop the zipper off my jeans but thank goodness that didn't happen. We left at 2:30pm right after the dim sum ends. So I reckon you'll want to try it out especially on a weekend when there's not many people (because they don't know yet about this place which has been running for many years now..). Try it!

Happpyyy Halloween

It's a Halloween night and even though culture wise we don't celebrate it, putting on costumes & acting freakishly cool with friends seems like a good way to spend the weekend. This time, there were 9 of us entering Bossa Nova and another 2 more came later... which I must is the biggest group gathering that we've had since such a long time... We arrive at 11-ish which in disco world meant we're still early but we had a chance to scout for a good table until Chris wanted to move to one that was nearby the toilet (because she didn't want to stand so long..)! Arghh..! But it's ok, we still got to watch the Thriller dance by the new studio called RainbowFace and they were quite good actually although I wished that the did a few more songs or with more dancers! That would have been fun. After that it got a bit dry most probably because of the music... either that or I'm getting a tad old and don't really want to go for a party where there's a lot of talking going on... I must say there should be a highlight of the evening but after that it should be music all through til morning.. boy I miss those Liquid days.

A thriller dance to end the Halloween night.

After taking a more random photos of ourselves, we decided to end the night and headed to Jln Alor for some midnight snack which turned out to be a full blown supper. What started off with barbeque chicken wings ended with yee mee yin yong, singapore meehoon & fried sotong. The damage was RM100 but since there was 6 of us, it was a good amount to spend before we ended the night. If our friend didn't have a gastric attack, we would have stayed there longer & ordered more dishes! It was definitely a good way to end Halloween.. until next year folks.... maybe with costume then..

Your mouth is watering now isn't it?