the one about badrul... hmmm...

i still rasa tak sedap badan... batuk teruk-teruk jugak... throat ichy sesangat... batuk sampai otot-otot badan semua sakit-sakit... well, i have to say 'otot-otot' supaya bunyinya 'simple' sikit sebab siang tadi masa i cakap kat my friends i batuk-batuk sampai sakit 'muscles', one of them siap tanya (sambil belek-belek my perut) muscles i tuh kat mana?... muahahahahaa... siot jer... tapi paling siksa, tak cukup tidur sebab selalu terjaga because of coughing... still, dalam tak sihat nih, kerja nak kena habiskan jugak... since i'm going to kuantan next weekend, i nak cuba habiskan as much jobs as possible... tu lah yang letih teramat bila sampai rumah... kadang-kadang banyak benda nak ditulis kat blog, tapi masa tak mengizinkan... so, i usually blog-hopping jer... pergi baca apa yang orang tulis... seronok... and boleh jugak belajar sesuatu...

yesterday my mom masak something yang i dah lama tak makan... ketupat sotong... hhhmmmmmmmm.... seeeddaaapppnya... especially sotong tuh ada telur kat hujung-hujung dia and bila my mom masak ketupat sotong, dia akan letak jugak some pulut kat dalam kuah dia supaya pekat... memang sedap teramat! my mom nih macam tau-tau jer anak lelaki sorang dia nih tak berapa sihat and banyak sangat kerja, so she cooked something special that lifted up my spirit (well, at least masa i makan tuh... muahahahaa)... insyaAllah, nanti i akan cuba jugak masak sendiri ketupat sotong nih and i will post the recipe here... tapi tak tau lah kan bila ada masa terluang...

yesterday pun i buat something fun... i tulis lirik lagu untuk astro's team for fiesta media idola... mula-mula susah jugak especially bab-bab nak pilih lagu... ya lah kan, lagu mestilah catchy, baru lah orang boleh pick up the lyrics... but i'm not ready to share it just yet... sebabnya, i akan hanya record lagu nih on friday with some of akademi fantasia stars yang represent astro like farah, zahid, linda, zarina and beberapa orang lagi... in fact, takda orang lagi yang tahu about the lyrics... i'm going to surprise everybody! this could be fun! i can't wait for this friday...

oh ya, check out my maksedara berceloteh... aunty n... best baca cerita-ceritanya...

the one about badrul and the weekend...

sejak kebelakangan nih, hujung minggu memang sibuk... mesti ada benda yang nak dibuat dan diselesaikan... dan kesihatan pun tak berapa baik... dah dua tiga hari batuk-batuk dan flu... dua kali dah jumpa doctor... harap-harap cepat sembuh...

on saturday i pergi dinner kat port kelang, makan ketam... untuk celebrate birthday beberapa orang teman... sebenarnya dinner makan ketam nih adalah janji pada dream sejak sekian lama... sepatutnya i bawak dream makan ketam right after dia balik dari london (which was three months ago) tapi baru sekarang dapat masa yang dua-dua free... so, macam pepatah orang putih 'kill two birds with one stone', i pun buatlah untuk celebrate birthday chail, leen dan sm sekali gus... oh ya, sebelum terlupa, i pun nak ucapkan selamat harijadi buat scov yang sambut birthday sama dengan sm on april 1st... happy belated birthday, scov...

malam yang sama jugak ada concert terakhir akademi fantasia tour... walaupun i missed the first half an hour of the show on tv, i masih boleh dengar kat radio era... bukan nak masuk bakul angkat sendiri, but now i realised bagusnya ada live kat radio jugak sebab bila sampai rumah about 9pm tuh, seolah-olah i tengok rancangan tuh dari awal... but again, concert nih tiada bezanya dengan consert af lainnya... lagu sama, cara sama dan gaya sama... entahlah... alangkah baiknya kalau af kita dapat berduet dengan af indonesia and af thailand, instead of nyanyi lagu ramai-ramai... i really can't see the point... akademi fantasia melahirkan artis-artis perseorangan, bukannya artis berkumpulan! kalau takut tak cukup masa, buatlah medley... entahlah... but i'm glad i pergi makan ketam...


ogy ahmad daud n salih yaacob...

anyway, kudos to berita harian yang menganjurkan anugerah bintang popular 2004 kat genting on sunday... to me, tak kisahlah kalau ada orang nak komplen itu, komplen ini, tapi for someone yang every year terlibat menganjurkan anugerah sebesar nih, i know how difficult it was nak memastikan semuanya berjalan dengan lancar... sedangkan kita buat company family day, atau yang terlibat dengan gathering af ker, pun tau macam mana susahnya nak pastikan semua ok... tuh baru benda-benda yang kecik... so kalau ada small glitch sikit-sikit (macam mikrofon reshmonu n yusuf haslam tak berbunyik) tuh takdalah sampai mencacatkan seluruh aturcara... tahniah buat ogy ahmad daud dan salih yaacob yang memastikan semuanya majlis berjalan dengan lancar dan telatah yang mencuit hati... tahun nih lebih baik kerana ogy tak terjerit-jerit dan ada chemistry antara ogy dan salih...

for me, tiada keputusan yang mengejut... in fact, i'm quite happy with the result kerana ianya pilihan ramai and most of pemenang dalam abp 2004 sama seperti borang undian yang i hantar jugak... tahniah untuk berita harian team for a job well done! tahniah untuk halim othman dan linda onn yang menang anugerah penyampai radio lelaki / wanita popular... tahniah jugak untuk nana, nila, farah fauzana, kiran dan khairil yang turut tercalon dalam kategori yang sama... tahniah para untuk semua pemenang... tahniah siti nurhaliza, bintang paling popular abp 2004!

the one about badrul and the repeat entry...

picture (i)...

sorry lah yek... kena repeat entry kat sinih... Alhamdulillah, hari nih boleh pulak update... i've been trying to update for the last three days, tapi the first time tuh my picasa (photo update) ada problem, so takleh nak update and few days back, my blogspot pulak ada masalah... so takleh nak put up my entry... last night, as an option, i update sikit-sikit kat haloscan... muahahahhaa... nak buat macam mana kan... so, since, it's alreaday at the end of the week, i just re-type balik lah update kat haloscan tuh with amendment dan tambahan here and there... actually, kat gambar unta tuh lah cikanos letak komen... muahahhahaa... pastu bila gambar tuh tiba-tiba hilang, dengan komen dia pun hilang jugak... gambar tuh sebenarnya bukan seperti yang sesetengah orang fikirkan yek... muahahahahaa... seriously i know... i yang ambik gambar unta tuh...


picture (ii)...

first of all, i nak wish lagih sekali happy birthday to chail and leen anaksedara... they share the same birth-date ~ march 30th ~ happy birthday my sisters!!!! may you have a wonderful year ahead... semoga kehidupan dirahmati Allah s.w.t. sentiasa... jugak buat sm yang celebrate birthday on April 1st... cepat-cepat kahwin sebab semua orang nak makan nasik minyak nih... to all my friends yang lain, share-share lah tarikh lahir... i would love to 'celebrate' it together walaupun sekadar ucapan di ruangan siber nih... it has been a wonderful week and i hope semua yang celebrate birthday this week pun seronok dan happy jugak...


picture (iii)...

this one i kopipes terus dari haloscan because i think i really want to say this out loud... i bukannya nak pilih kasih ker apa... atau nak puji tak bertempat... but i have so much respect for farah... i don't know how, but having her in the bowling team really raises everyone punya spirit... walaupun sibuk dengan latihan untuk final concert af hujung minggu nih, dia tetap datang training bowling last monday... tuh pun dia baru balik daripada jemputan ulangtahun karangkraf kat shah alam sana... and rush to mines training bowling and lepas tuh rush pergi kg. pandan untuk kelas tarian...

in fact, petang tadik dia sms kat i cakap dia dah beli bola bowling and at time tengah training bowling...

her exact sms to me; "abang, farah dah beli bola.. now tengah practice kat flamingo! kasi tajam lagi..hahahaha"

isn't that kid something?

farah, abang badrul tabik spring kat farah!!!!


picture (iv)...

i've met up with my best friend for the first time in...hhmmm... entahlah... rasanya lama sungguh... dia dah kurus sikit... i bagitahu dia about my decision and where i stand, and seperti yang diramalkan oleh my other best friend, dia tak setuju dengan decision yang i telah buat and try to change my mind... takpalah... i dah buat keputusan tuh and dalam masa yang terdekat nih, akan dikemukakan ke pihak yang berkenaan... actually, decision nih pun i ambil kira pendapat semua orang including you guys yang tinggalkan komen kat haloscan tak beberapa lama dulu... to all of you, thank you very much... memang terasa ringan sikit beban di dada...


goodbye jessica sierra...

giler betul, cikgu nuar kat bottom three... cisss!!! semua tiga-tiga tuh not bad pulak tuh jessica, cikgu nuar and nadia... i don't think jessica patut terkeluar tonight... but what to do... orang kat amerika sana nun dah vote macam tuh... kalau ikut kan persembahan the night before, anthony langsung tak menunjukkan that he deserves to be in the top nine... takpalah.. i still think jessica adalah among the best female vocalist and can compete with some of the guys macam anthony or scott... goodbye jessica, and best of luck!

to all, selamat berhujung minggu...

*picture of jessica sierra courtesy of idolonfox

the one where badrul has so many things to tell...

picture 1...

bunyinya macam senang jer... 'so many things to tell'... tapi to jot down what was in my mind is not as easy... oh, by the way, i don't really have any pictures that could relate to what i want to say, so i letak gambar-gambar yang shonny ambik during one of his diving trip... he's into underwater photos pulak sekarang nih... hhhmmm... alamatnya, my project to create cooking book kena put on hold sekejap lah nih... though i dah discuss dengan one printing company about design, layout and cost... takpalah... it will be my long term project...


picture 2...

ok, on friday i had lunch with one of my best friend, tapi i taknak letak nama dia kat sinih... anyway, while makan tuh kita orang borak-borak lah... suddenly it just hit me in the head that i am such a selfish person... i've known this friend for quite some time now but honestly, this is the first time ever i dengar dia ceriter about problem dia... surprisingly, i don't know much about my friend nih... i guess i'm too busy talking about myself and my problem that i forgot, orang lain pun ada masalah jugak... i always claimed that i'm a good listener, but am i really?!? i felt ashamed of myself... and though i don't know how to say i'm sorry to this friend face to face, i would like to take this opportunity here to say that 'i am so very sorry for not being a good friend to you... all these while you were always there when i needed you, when i need a shoulder to cry on, when i need some advices, or when i just need someone to listen to my whining... thank you and i will do my best to do the same for you'...


picture 3...

friday night, me, wink, izreen, leen and meesua pergi karaoke kat plaza ampang (before it was called yaw chuan plaza)... i had a fabulous and wonderful time... petang tuh sebenarnya i had terrible headache... mungkin sebab panas sangat kot... but bila nyanyi (read: melalak) hilang terus sakit kepala... muahahahaa... i can't really remember when was the last time i let myself loose like that... i felt so comfortable with these friends langsung tak gugup melalak tak ikut key pun... muahahaha... selalunya mesti darah gemuruh or malu kalau nyanyi off-key, but with them i am totally myself... thank you guys... macam-macam lagu keluar... dari lagu zaman silam macam my way and widuri hinggalah ke lagu rock kapak macam sejati dan taman rashidah utama, lagu hindustan kuch kuch ho ta hey, lagu dangdut dan macam-macam lagih... hahahahahaha... siap suara-suara fonens semua keluar... hahahahha... that was hilarious!!! so, siapa-siapa yang pegang cd rakaman tuh, jangan lupa yach, kasi saya satu copy...


picture 4...

saturday, i spent most of my time with the kids... lunch time i cakap kat my mom tak payah masak... just masak nasi jer... so i bawak the kids pergi beli lauk pauk... i let them pilih sendiri lauk apa yang dia orang nak makan... aiman pilih lala masak lemak (one of his favourite seafood... lala...), eisya nak ayam goreng and paru goreng, farah pun nak ayam goreng and anies nak ikan bakar... see, takda sorang pun pilih sayur... muahahahaha... so i tapau extra lauk like kacang panjang goreng dengan hati and telur dadar... after lunch, i watched cartoons with them until semua terlelap seketika... mula-mula tuh rancang dengan diaorang nak tengok robots lagi sekali but since sunday i masuk kerja about noon memang tak sempatlah, so i've made a plan with my sister and brother-in-law to take the kids to sunway lagoon... since i don't want to cut the fun short, i will go with them in the morning and leave them with my sister in the afternoon and go to the office from there...


picture 5...

it was a tiring weekend... but not a 'bad' kind of tired... but a 'good and wonderful' kind of tired... looking at their beautiful happy faces just to be able to go to sunway lagoon was priceless... how i wish i could take the kids for a long holiday macam kak shamina, kak watie or co2... but i hope they will forgive me this time around... next school holiday, i promise i will take them somewhere nice and fun...

note:

(i) ~ tengah blog-hopping, terjumpa blog auntie n... auntie n, badrul nak link kan blog auntie n boleh ker?

(ii) ~ my bowling team i tukar player sorang... instead of edlin, now farah is playing for my team...

(iii) ~ yep, i've made up my mind... i've made the decision... and surprisingly, i felt so relieved...

the one about badrul and the american idol, billboard chart week...

american idol...

nothing much that i can say about this week's american idol... i thought everybody did pretty well except for mikalah gordon... lagih pun, sebab diaorang nyanyi number one songs in billboard chart (kira semua orang boleh ingat and relate to the song lah) sebab tu lah kita dengar macam sedap jer... anyway, i sekarang nak jadik macam kak aidid... in the sense that, stick to one... thick or thin... muahahahaha... so, i don't really care that much about other contestants other than cikgu nuar... muahahahaa... macam kak aidid suka kat constantine tuh lah...


jessica sierra... billboard week...

other than cikgu nuar, i thought there were few others yang performed very well... one of them was jessica sierra with total eclipse of the heart... yang paling i ingat was the last part of the song masa camera pusing-pusing dia tuh, then she ends it with one nod to the camera... classy... tapi classy nya sampai kat situ jer lah... kalau nak cakap pasal dressing dia... hhmmmm... dia mesti jenis dedah-dedah sikit, which to me memang tak perlu langsung... lagu rancak ker, lagu slow ker, sumer jenis terdedah jugak... payah... mmuuahahahahaha...


carrie underwood... billboard week...

carrie underwood memang mempersonakan dengan alone... masih ada sikit-sikit kesan country nya, but overall bagus sesangat... though i thought back-up singer tuh lagih power (muahahahahaa...), still i think carrie dah mula tunjuk taring that she can sing other genres too... to me, tak kisahlah kalau ada bunyi country pun sebab lagu-lagu country pun bukan terikat dengan satu jenis jer... ada country rock, country pop, jugak country road... muuahahahaa... yep, this week carrie memang best!


anwar robinson... billboard week...

despite what the over-paid judges tuh cakap, i think cikgu nuar's performance was amazing with ain't nobody... bukan senang nak nyanyi lagu chaka khan tuh... i like his style, his simplicity, and most of all his amazing beautiful vocal...

again, if you ask me who is going to win american idol, i will say cikgu nuar... and if you ask me who's going out this week, my bet is on mikalah gordon... tuh pun kalau orang kat amerika tuh bijak pandai macam orang kat malaysia nih lah... muahahahaha...

pictures from idolonfox...

additional info: march 25th, 2005.


mikalah gordon... goodbye...

we just bid good bye to mikalah gordon... i wish her the best of luck... i think one of the comedy series should get her on board, because i tell you, she is funny and fun, and she can really act... good bye mikalah...

the one about badrul making the decision...

looking into the future...

it has been awhile since i put up an entry... banyak nya yang berlaku dalam tempoh singkat nih... i don't even know where to begin... all i know is, i'm so damn tired... kalau ikut hati, memang rasa macam nak berhenti kerja... kalau ikut hati lah... but it's not that easy... tanggungjawab besar... to my family... tapi kalau sampai dah takda masa untuk keluarga, is it worth it? hhmmmm...

kalau boleh, i just want to come back early from work... well, not that early, but the normal hour lah... masuk pukul 9.00 pagi, lepas tuh balik pukul 5.30 petang... have an early dinner and watch cartoon movies on disney channel with the kids... but... instead, pukul 8.30pagi dah terpacak di office... pukul 9.00 malam baru nak dinner... sampai rumah, semua dah gelap...

yes, of course... i'm doing this for my family... trying my best to provide them selagi yang termampu... like all of us, we want nothing short of the best for our family, tapi kadangkala kita terlupa, that they just want a bit of our time... again... hhhmmmm...

next week is another thing... i have to make the toughest decision yet... in my life... and i'm not happy... what is wrong with these people?!? masa orang kerja setengah mati, bukan main susah lagih nak dapat increament lah, nak naik pangkat lah... tapi bila kita dah dapat satu offer, mulalah orang yang sama nih nak offer this and offer that!!! well, i'm tired and this time around, i will make my own decision...

friday, i'm taking a day off... i'm taking the kids to watch robots and later in the evening (minum air suam) nak pergi melalak (minum air suam) dengan kengkawan (minum air suam)...

*type entry sambil tengok idol... well, more like dengar jer... based on their performances just now, i guess my bottom three will be mikalah, constantine and scott... and i hope mikalah keluar... nope, she is not a top 10 material...