new year, new hobby..!

=) actually, it wasn't really new. I had this so called hobby long time ago, since I start holding pencil for the first time. The only I mean by 'new' is the new spirit for me to continue doing it: drawing and painting. I still remember when I'm studying in UTM and also before I get married, I love to sketch portrait of actor or actress I like and some landscape I collect form internet. It gave me a peaceful mind and it’s a fun thing to watch the result again and again. I’m not saying it was a masterpiece, and I’m not the right person to evaluate it, enough to say it just a satisfaction from my humble point of view and I am happy with it.
When I first met a person I love so much (which is my husband now), I tried to sketch his portrait. I tried once; the result didn’t satisfy me much. I tried for second time, it still look something wrong with the drawing. And when it comes to the third one, I’m still not happy with the result. I felt gloomy. More or less it gave a bad impact on my passion on drawing. After marrying my husband, I totally stop sketching for a long period coz I feel all my sketching was absolutely disaster. I never blaming him on this; it was me who lost concentration when somebody’s around while I’m doing the drawing.Last year my dearest hubby gave me an easel for my birthday present. He knew drawing is my passion although I never do any drawing job since we’ve been married. A million thanks to him, it really flares my passion up (at the beginning). But after first and second unsatisfying attempt, I start to give up. It’s frustrating when you love to do something but you’re not good in it. This time it really kills my interest on drawing. I quit drawing drastically, and hate to do so as I feel I am not gift with that ability.
End of 2009, when it’s time to do “book shopping” (to deduct income tax), I’ve thought of bringing back my passion on drawing by buying a book about painting. And I found a nice book (with a good price actually, hihi), which guide a beginner like me to do painting. It quite an interesting book, showing us how to use the painting medium, step by step guidance, and give us some inspiring example. Once again I feel excited to do drawing back. Reading this book, make me feel the drawing job shouldn’t be so stressful. It’s not about creating a masterpiece. But it’s about releasing the inner you, it can be a lesson if the result wouldn’t be as we expect it to be and there’s no good or bad if it comes to art. What I love more, there’s a lot of motivation also in this book. So, I reopen my drawing block, and start with some sketching. It was not very good at the beginning. My painting didn’t work well, and I almost surrender once again. Until I got an idea; if reading can’t help, what about a live person teach me? Maybe then I can see what’s wrong with my technique or else. So I start searching about painting in YouTube. I found many of painting lesson, some is good and some is not, so I download the good one while I got free time in office. While downloading it, I can’t wait to go back home and try it.
As soon as I reach home, I take out all of my painting tools and begin my work. The video does help me a lot, even though the person in that video seems doing it easier and prettier while I’m struggling to do the same but the result not as good as them. Maybe I have to practice more often. Practice makes perfect, right? I just glad that I found the way to do the thing I love. You also can find your way to do whatever you like. There's always a way, and it's up to you to find it. Have a nice day, and don't forget to do everything you love NOW before it's too late. Cheers ^__^

left : 1st day lesson, right : 2nd day lesson

left : 3rd day lesson, right : the tools


left : one step ahead, right : to finish the balance water color

there's lot more to learn, and lot more to come...

"learning is an endless job"

^_____^ it's 2010..!

it was 17th June 2009 when i wrote the last entry, and believe it or not, it was 7 month ago...! i can't believe how time flies really fast as it was more than a half year i left my writing (or typing).. in fact, if anyone could catch me, the 17th June entry was actually post just moment ago... (peram punye pasal)... and it still not finish when i post it, huhu... maybe i have to edit it back later... ;-)

left 2009 behind, there's a lot of memories and joy to tell... after had my school reunion at our beloved school MRSM Muar, there's a lot more good thing to come... i wish i could write all the enjoyable moment i had one by one, but it may takes a while and pages to really express my feeling... so i just share the moment on some of photo we took through the vacation & celebration...

my birthday celebration at City of Entertainment : Genting Highlands

21st & 22nd of June 2009

short vacation to Lion City : Singapore

July 2009

1st met anniversary at Janda Baik, Pahang

15th to 16th of August 2009

we had a really romantic getaway here.. had a night on the houseboat gave us absolutely different experience... tq for talented photographer, cik nanie for taking such a lovely photo of us on our special day.. (pinjam gambar ni ye cik nanie, hihi)... more photos on her fotopages : http://norhayanie.fotopages.com/


majlis buka puasa with ex-MRSM Muar 9798 at Putrajaya

september 2009
photo by mr apash...

hari raya Aidilfitri

September 2009

hari raya open house gathering ex-MRSM Muar 9798 at Desa Impiana

October 2009

hari raya open house for family and frenz at Desa Impiana

October 2009

shopping vacation at Legend Island : Pulau Langkawi
we bought the air asia ticket i think early 2009, when air asia doing their promotion... the accomodation was organized by my elder sister, linda... since she was an MRSM teacher, she managed to book for us MARA apartment which located at Pekan Kuah... the apartment was really thumbs up, with a very good price, RM30/night... since we've planned the vacation quite a while, phisically we've prepared with the strenght and RM to go shopping... weeheeewww.... such a shopping heaven, we really had a great time shopping chocolates and kitchenwares... lucky for us, all the shopping thing just nicely fit to our luggage and just a gram away from the maximum weight, so we didn't have to pay more.. ;)

school holiday vacation to Genting Highlands

December 2009

with mama, kak cik, jiji and cik nah's family

last but not least our family day at Tiara Beach Resort, Port Dickson...

25th - 26th of December 2009


end of my first entry of 2010... yeay...!

Reunion Ex-MRSM Muar Batch 1997-1998

Dah dekat tingga minggu berlalu "Reunion Ex-MRSM Muar Batch 1997-1998".. Baru hari ni dapat masa untuk "start entry" dalam blog... huhu... i say "start entry" tu coz takut jadi cam entry yang sebelum ni... peram dekat sebulan baru dapat complete n post...

6 & 7 jun 2009, after more than 11 years apart, we finally met again in our beloved school, Maktab Rendah Sains Mara Muar… at first, I'm doubt whether want to join the reu or not, because it didn't get much sambutan from my friends... afraid i will jadi kera sumbang pulak... tapi dekat2 nak reunion tu, one of my friend, syu said she want to join... so nekadkan diri la, join jugak reunion tu n support them... with only about 50 ex-MRSM Muar, the comittee manage to make the reunion really fun, alhamdulillah..
Kitorang (me, hubby & syu) gerak dari puchong about 8am… mula2 janji dengan syu, nak gerak pukul 7 pagi.. Tapi cam biase la, pagi tu baru nak mengemas baju, ironing, mandi, etc… kul 8lebey baru siap.. Huhu, sorry syu, kene tunggu lama… Highway jem sket pagi tu, ade accident... Arrive at muar about 11++ am... waktu nak masuk maktab tu, rase berbunga2 hati kitorang, selepas 11 tahun, kitorang jejak semula bumi keramat tu... ekceli maktab n rumah aku kat muar just about 3miles away only... tapi selalu lalu depan je, tak de feel pape... so bile masuk perkarangan maktab tu, macam tibe2 je ade flashback bermain2 kat mata kitorang.... sayu sangat2 terkenang zaman2 muda kitorang kat maktab.... walaupun ade bangunan bertambah, kaler cat pun da lain, but the sentimental value is still there...
Mula-mula kitorang pegi ke Dewan Dato' Onn (DDO)… tapi macam takde orang je… keluar balik, baru ternampak signboard Reunion ke Dewan Selera (DS) Puteri… Sampai sane, masih tak ramai lagi yang datang… about 10-15 orang je… me, syu n hubby pergi meninjau-ninjau dorm yang pernah aku duduk slama 2tahun, 11tahun yang lalu, Asrama Tun Teja (ATT)... wah... jejak je kaki dat dorm, hati aku betul2 tersentuh... tringat kenangan2 masa duduk dorm tu... tempat pertama kat dorm tu yang aku tuju, of coz my lovely room, A11... bukak2 pintu bilik, terperanjat, bercampur terharu bila ternampak tagline yang aku tampal 12 tahun yang lepas (masa form 4) masih ada lagi, "STYLE, QUALITY, EXCELLENT"... ada 2-3 huruf tertanggal, tapi masih buat aku rase terharu sangat... locker & katil, masih lagi yang sama, cuma locker dah dicat dengan warna biru... pintu bilik pun dah dicat baru.. tengah2 ruang udara, tempat kitorang slalu kene "meeting dorm" (which is actually "senior lecture") dah ada pondok.. public phone dah bertambah...

lepas puas round2 keliling dorm, kitorang menuju ke DS Puteri semula, waiting for lunch... lewat gak lunch sampai.. makan nasi goreng aram berlada... lepas makan, kitorang pergi ke bandar muar, Wetex tuk cari hadiah masa majlis tukar2 hadiah malam tu... da jumpe hadiah, balik semula ke maktab, check in bilik... sronok jugak dapat duduk kat ATT.. diorang set budak perempuan & couple dok kat ATT, while guys dok ATF... tapi tak dapat nak dok ex-bilik aku, coz aras bawah untuk couple, aras atas untuk single... lepas salin baju, turun untuk minum petang, tempe goreng, pisang goreng, keledek goreng... yum yum... pastu ade telematch pulak kat basketball court (sebelum ni tapak tu dorm putera)... acaranye, lari kaki empat, mumia berlari & tarik tali... sakit tulang temulang aku, menarik tali, tapi kalah gak, huhu... but we have fun...

after telematch, aku balik rumah... seronok, kakak2 sumer balik.. unfortunately tak dapat spend banyak masa ngan diorang, coz malam tu kul 8.30 dah dinner pulak.. dinner malam tu memang best... makan nasi beringin, sate, ayam panggang, etc... wah... terencat kempen diet aku since dua minggu yang lepas...

huhu... what a wonderfull feeling, being there after 11years...

bday hubby, kuching & wedding an...

alhamdulillah, arini aku free... boley la jenguk2 blog yang sekian lame ditinggalkan... actually, sekali sekala ada jugak aku cuba nak menaip kat blog ni.... tapi setiap kali pun aku tak abis cerita... masuk ke tong sampah je la cerita-cerita tu... hari ni aku nak kuatkan semangat untuk abiskan tulis entry ni, huhu...

long story, short... aku nak mula cerita awal april aritu... April 3rd, birthday my beloved hubby... waktu tu dia masih kat australia... but on schedule tuk balik malasyia... so, sempat la aku prepare birthday cake untuk dia.... huhu... punyer la bertungkus lumus... cari resepi kat myresipi.com... dapat la resipi "death by chocolate cake"... jangan salah faham plak... tajuk resipi tu sbnanyer nak menggambarkan betapa kayanye coklat kat cake tu.... aritu kakak da buat untuk bday mama, sedap sangat... tu yang cube nak buat untuk mr hubby... alhamdulillah... walaupun tak berape jadik sangat, boley la untuk celebrate kitorang suami isteri... dah prepare cake, aku order pizza hut delivery jer... huhu... nak celebrate kat umah, tapi tak larat masak... the fastest way, call ajer la encek pizza hut... aku call right after abis keje... lima minit after sampai rumah, orang yang hantar pizza pun sampai... tunggu hubby, sampai rumah dalam kul 11... alhamdulillah... sempat jugak la celebrate on 3rd April tu....

Chocolate Cake for Beloved Hubby...

11 April... kitorang ke Kuching, Sarawak... percutian sempena.... takde sempena ape-ape, huhu... bulan mac aritu hubby ke Kuching atas urusan kerja... mula2 plan, aku nak ikut same... unfortunately, schedule hubby diawalkan... tak sempat nak arrange, kitorang pilih la date 11 April coz aku da berkobar2 nak pegi, teruskan je la niat tu... air asia pulak tengah promo tiket murah + tune hotel baru bukak kat kuching... not bad la... tiket pegi balik untuk dua orang RM220 + tune hotel untuk 3malam RM160++... total dalam RM400 for 2 person... tapi tu cumer flight n accomodation... kemudian baru kitorang kire untuk sewa kereta n parking kat lcct... parking RM100++, sewa RM300++... so, total sumer skali about rm1000.... huhu... tak murah jugak rupe2nye... tapi okey la kot, banyak gak da save compare with harga flight + hotel2 biasa...
Kuching... bagi aku tak banyak beza ngan bandar2 percutian lain kat malaysia... tak ketara sangat perbezaan bahasa diorang... mungkin sebab da ramai orang semenanjung kat saner, masih boleh dengar loghat kelate, utara, indon, etc.... makanan pun still rase yang sama cam kat semenanjung.... kitorang gi waterfront, pantai, shopping spot, planetarium, menara tinjau, muzium... tapi yang paling tak leh lupe, seafood kampung boyan... wah... journey ke kampung boyan ngan sampan tu je dah mengujakan aku... huhu, cam jakun je naik sampan... the seafood... marvellous... with a quite fair price... insyaAllah, kalau ade rezeki n jodoh ngan Kuching lagi, aku sure akan pegi lagi tempat tu....

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30May 2009… Majlis Perkahwinan Azhan my cousin in law, n Wani @ Rompin Pahang... Pagi-pagi, about 7.30am me n hubby bertolak ke rumah Langat.. Sampai sane, sumer dah sibuk bersarapan pagi…. Ramai… Pakcik, makcik, mak andak, pak andak, cousins in law, nieces & nephew in law… Meriah betul…
About 1hour after bekfes2, kitorang pun bertolak ke Rompin Pahang… On the way tu, agak kelam kabut sket, coz tak ramai yang tau jalan ke Rompin.. Ade la 2-3 kali tersalah jalan… but after about 4hours drive, alhamdulillah kitorang sampai ke destinasi yang dituju...
Makan lunch dah pukul 3-4 petang… Nasib baik perut ni tak meragam… After lunch, check in chalet… The chalet really nice… damai je suasana dia…. Tak mahal sangat pun… betul-betul in front of the sea… rehat2 badan sket kat bilik, petang tu kitorang kuar ke pantai... memula aku join main bola tampar... but sport never been my expertice... nak serve bola pun takleh lepas jaring, nak sambut bola lagi la... bola datang je, aku lari... huhu... untuk tak mengecewakan team aku, aku pun tarik diri dari perlawanan tu... join bebudak main pasir pulak... sampai ke maghrib, balik bilik untuk prepare for majlis nikah malam tu...
Rumah pengantin perempuan about 1/2 hour drive dari chalet kitorang… sampai2, tunggu tok kadi datang, majlis nikah pun bermula… ade la kelam kabut sikit sebab sebutan nama ayah Wani tak sama kat IC Wani n IC ayah dia… tapi alhamdulillah, after 3kali lafaz, azhan n wani sah sebagai suami isteri... bertambah satu lagi ahli keluarga kitorang...
Esoknye, 31 Mei majlis persandingan… Rupe-rupenye diorang pakat nak pakai baju biru… unfortunately aku tak diinform lebih awal, so terkeluar dari spec… majlis persandingan start awal.. Kul 11.30 kitorang gerak dari chalet, kul 12.00 da sampai rumah Wani, terus berarak masuk rumah... Sesi merenjis bunga mawar n amik2 gambar cam biase la... huhu... After makan, kitorang pun bersalam-salaman, berangkat balik chalet n gerak balik ke KL... Syukur, semua berjalan dengan lancar dan meriah...

Ok, aku stop citer sampai sini dulu... 11 June, baru dapat abiskan entry kali ni... see ya!!

** 13 june complete editing all... mula-mula nak masukkan some caption to the photo... tapi habis berselerak gambar2... huhu...

perutku yang sakit..

memulas-mulas perut ni waktu bangun tido pagi tadi.. dari semalam da rase tak best perut ni.. tapi aku ingat takde pape.. dinner maggi je malam tadi.. pagi tadi sebelum pukul 6 da terbangun.. sakit perut sangat2.. sampai kul 7.30pagi, sakit perut tak jugak berkurang, terus aku anta msg pada bos n colleague, btau aku amik mc.. aku cuba nak tido balik, tapi tak boleh.. badan rase kebas.. kul 11.30thari aku pegi klinik.. doktor kate aku demam.. hm.. tak perasan plak, aku demam..? doktor pesan, kalau tak ok jugak, datang klinik smula coz takut ada sakit lain... hmm.. risau gak, semalam baru jer technician aku demam teruk, suspected dengue... moga2 dijauhkanla dari penyakit tu..

after lunch tadi (bubur nasi, adviced by doctor), makan ubat.. sakit perut masih ade lagi.. badan rase lemah je.. semua yang aku makan, dah terkeluar, tak sempat pun makanan tu nak bertukar jadi tenaga.. ingat nak kemas2 rumah sikit, alang2 tak keje arini.. tapi tak larat.. online je la, sambil tengok wonderpets.. huhu.. "wonderpets, wonderpets kami datang, membantu haiwan dalam kesusahan.. kami tak besar, dan kami tak kuat.. bila bekerjasama kerja jadi mudah".. boring boring ni, cube google wonderpets.. wah, wikipedia siap bagi detail penuh wonderpets.. ngan lirk2 lagu lagi... http://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_Pets

wake up!!

hye blog.. pagi-pagi tadi da ader reminder, ingatkan aku untuk update blog ni.. (credit to mr yasin.. heheh) actually aku memang nak tulis something tuk blog nie, tapi asyik bertangguh-tangguh jer... sampai ke la ni... banyak sebenarnyer nak aku story, tak sure larat tak nak menaip...

first skali... uwaaa...!! da 15 ari aku terpisah ngan separuh dari diri aku... dua minggu lepas encek hubby pegi ke halls creek, australia atas urusan kerja... sebelum dia pergi, aku ingatkan takpe kot 3minggu aku dok sorang2... tapi bile sampai rumah after hantar dia kat klia, aku dah rase lonely sangat2... takut pun ade jugak... tapi ape nak buat, dah kerja...

encek hubby @ halls creek

minggu first, aku dok sorang2... wikennye, balik muar tuk celebrate birthday mama... after mama discuss ngan bapak, mama agree nak temankan aku untuk minggu kedua... aku for sure la seronok sangat-sangat... tapi serba salah jugak sebab bapak takmo ikut... kebelakangan ni pulak kesihatan bapak tak berapa baik... tapi bapak berkeras nak mama temankan aku, mama pun ikut balik puchong.. satu minggu mama kat sini... seronok sangat2... celebrate lagi skali birthday mama, ngan abang n family..

birthday mama @ ayutthya restaurant

sabtu kemarin, anta mama balik muar semula, ngan emin skali.. alhamdulillah, bapak sihat sepanjang seminggu mama takde kat muar.. tak pasti pulak kalau bapak sorokkan sakit dia.. semalam balik semula ke puchong.. sedih nak tinggalkan mama n bapak.. sampai ke hari ni aku masih homesick lagi..

4 hari lagi life aku akan complete semula, insyaAllah... hopefully perjalanan pulang encek hubby lancar, and on schedule... amin...

An entertaining bored night....

last night i had a quite bored and tense night... with the sore throat, fever, headache... nothing much i can do to entertain myself... my body just can't move anywhere from the sofa.. not even sleep, i can't breath when i lay down my head... very uncomfortable situation... hubby doing his routine : surfing the net... make me even more 'blank'...

so, just watching television... actually last night, my schedule is to watch Monday Night Laughs from 9 pm to 11pm... huhu... but there's 51st Grammy Awards taken the slot… it was not a good idea to watch such Grammy awards… my headache could even turn bad watching it...
so i turn to channel 701 : AXN... starting with "Dr House" at 10pm... I'm not really following the series, so I'm not sure whether it was the season that I've watched before or the new season… but I haven't watch the last night episode before… so, it's ok to 'layan'...
after that, "Damages" at 11pm... it was the repeat from last season…. Last time I watched it was last year, I guess… but I didn't finish watching it to the end… so I think maybe this time I could finish following the story to the end… hopefully….

At 12pm, hubby already go to sleep... It was "The Duke" on AXN…. A new talk show, host by Marc & Rovilson (The Amazing Race Asia (TARA)) and Eunice (i don't have any idea who she is)... Actually i don't like Marc and Rovilson, bcoz of their annoying behaviour in TARA... so i don't even think wanna watch their talkshow.... but, it was my curiosity that push me to watch it... starting their topic "man can't live without woman", already make me think it will be like a normal boring talkshow i've watched before... but, i just let myself listening their discussion while playing Pinball in my notebook... hm... after about 15minutes listening their discussion, I start thinking that it make sense... huhu... (even a little bit hard to admit)... most of their discussion really hit my nose... i can't believe that i've let myself watching that show for about one hour, without trying to find another interesting tv program on other channel... hahah...
i think that show wasn't that bad... one of the thing that really take my attention is when they talk about it's hard to understand a woman... then the guest host, which was a woman (sorry i can't remember her name) quote "when a woman keep complaining something, it wasn't she want her boyfriend or husband to solve or fix the thing, she just want him to comfort her, and feel empathy for her"... huhuhu... really glad when somebody else voice out what you feel right... ;-) and another interesting thing they've discussed... they talk about fact of a successful relationship... as everyone know, it was compromise... but what most of them don't know or realize is : "successful relationship is based on compromise, as long as the woman satisfy with it".... really?? la la la la la la la la....