Jalan jalan lagi Yayyyyy!!!

24.11.09

Yayyy finally can update the blog with something after  a few attempts to update but totally out of idea. Went out with my not-so-little brothers Sally, Hadi & Nik on Friday but there is not even a single pict taken. Went to queensbay and had Kenny Rogers, had satay ikan (like the one kita makan time2 balik skola dulu tu), went to Feringhi Night Market and layan budak2 tu nak naik trishaw sebab x penah naik, then had Sup Hameed  and McDonald’s for desert. All in all what we did was eat and eat and eat. :D

And on Sunday i went out to Penang for some jalan-jalan activities. Went out early in the morning so I could start my day with the marvellous McDonald’s hotcake with sausage for breakfast. Yummy!! 

Then went straight away to Penang and headed to the Lorong Kulit flea market. Oh btw, the bridge was opened at 10 a.m after the Penang Bridge marathon which started at 3.30am earlier that day.

I like going to the Lorong Kulit flea market as to see a lot of antique stuffs there. You can find almost everything there – old records, used books, shoes, clothes, bags, electrical stuffs, fruits etc.

Next spot – Penang Aquarium formerly known as the Fisheries Department Research Institute, Batu Maung. So unfortunately for me, the aquarium was closed for renovation :( but we can still see some fishes and turtles and starfish at the open pond area & the auditorium.

beautiful isn’t it?

And there are turtlesss!!!! The baby turtles are separated in the different pond from the bigger size ones. OMG they are so cute i feel like taking them out and kidnap and replace the blue tortoise in the car with them !!!!! hahaha

 

Cute little baby turtle 

The bigger size

yes i’m feeding the turtle with kangkung! it has sharp teeth ok. and FYI turtles bite! just like edward. lalala~

 

This turtle’s leg was amputed, but dont know why. That’s why it doesn’t swim around like the others and doesn’t even want to eat  :(

 

Inside the open auditorium. u may think these fishes are small. but they are actually huuugggeeeee!

The koi pond  

And then i went to the Wat Chayamangkalaram, Lorong Burma. It is a Siamese temple which was officially given its site by Queen Victoria in 1845. It was presented by Mr. W.L. Butterworth of the East India Company of Penang on July 22, 1845.

And why would I want to come here?

To see the 180-foot gold-plated statue of the reclining Buddha, the Pra Buddhachaiya Mongkul. The reclining Buddha represents Pra Buddhachaiya Mongkul, the historical Buddha, at his death. This symbolizes complete peace and detachment from the world. The Pra Buddhachauya Mongkul is one of the largest reclining Buddha in the world.

I soooo do need a wide angle lens to capture this,ok! Anyone want to buy for me? ;p

I like the ceiling so much it’s pretty and the colour is nice

 

the wall

A friend asked me why did i go inside a temple. Is it ok? Is it against the Islamic law? Well I am not good in Islamic law nor I can tell you what is right and wrong. All I can say is it depends on each individual. It’s not that I was going to pray or what.

Plus, didn’t Saidina Umar paid a visit to the Holy Sepulcher Church, the most important Christian monument of Jerusalem?

And  didn’t Salahuddin Al-Ayyubi pray in a church after they won the Crusade war?

Then again, it’s totally up to you, yourself.

Ok, itu selingan je ok. ;)

Lets proceed.

I would name my Sunday as a McDonalds day. Because I had McDonalds again for late lunch!! weeeeeee!!!!!! The Prosperity Burger ya’ll!!! Urgghh tempting tempting! Damn I’m starving now. Haha

And then, to Pesta Penang!

Pesta Penang 2009 started on the 21st November until 31st December. But I think it was not as crowded as years before. Maybe because of the raining season?

So that is how my Sunday went. I’m so gonna find other places in Penang that I should go.

Oh I know. here go the list:

• Tropical Fruit Farm, Teluk Bahang
• Peranakan Museum
• Penang Aquarium (revisitn - sape suruh dia nak renovate2)
• Kerachut Beach (turtle! turtle! turtle!)

(might as well be a long list after Googling ;p)

Hahaha suka suka je nak jalan tapi nak masuk lab sangat malas nak tulis paper sgt malas juga :p

New Moon is coming out in 2 days time!! I can’t wait it makes me crazy! Come to me, Edward. hahaha

In the lab

I wanted to update the blog last night but I don't hve any idea what to write.
I'm currently in the lab doing the rheometer test for my 5th series of compounds and i'm getting bored. I read 'The Physics of Rubber Elasticity' by Trealor while waiting for my samples.Done with page 1 to 15. a great start,Juls! Hehe
I wish to read it page by page,and by heart. ;) if I can finish many novels,why can't I do the same with this rubber book,right? Hehe

Btw I'm live blogging,again! Haha Not enough with facebook & twitter mobile now i'm mobile blogging. Well,we must appreciate technology, don't we?

K.gtg continue reading. And look after d samples,too.

Hope by tonight, I get something to write about. Daa..

Malam Persada Kencana, IPS USM

15.11.09

Last Friday the 13th (huhu), i went to a Malam Persada Kencana (The Golden Pavillion Night) organized by the Institute of Postgraduate Studies (IPS), USM as the closing of the Postgraduate Month.

Malam Persada Kencana is the appreciation night, to celebrate and recognise the achivements of USM Postgraduate students; who had done well in their research area, journal published and thesis writing. Two of my Supervisor students were awarded that night, so as to celebrate, he treat some of his students to the dinner. Hehe. Thanks, Prof!

    Kak Yamuna & Kak ida Faizal, Hamid, me & Kak Ani

During the dinner, there were some performance from the students of the School of Arts. I can say that they are pretty impressive ;)

The Kuda Kepang

  Finale dance of the Dikir Puteri Remix With our supervisor, Prof Hanafi Ismail & wife 

I’m just being me ;p 

 

Will i be able to be one of the recipient of those awards next year,maybe? blerghh~ berangan la.dah la masuk lab pon malas. huhu.

Anyway, congrats to those who received the awards that night!

First attempt using the Windows Live Writer

12.11.09

I’ve updated my Windows Live and together with the Windows Live package, there is this Windows Live Writer (WLW) ; developed by the Microsoft which supposed to be useful for bloggers to update their blog. I don’t really know how it’ll help, so I’m giving it a try. Lets see if it’s useful or not. Or maybe i might be late that everyone else have been using it? Cause i know I’m always late in the online stuffs. Haha but, nvm there’s always the first for anything :P

the screenshot

WLW supports most of blogging site including Windows Live Spaces, SharePoint blogs, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, Wordpress etc.

So, this is my first post using the WLW. =)

Ok. I like the photo uploader  and editor. It has a lot of function (tilt, rotate, border, crop & more effects) and it’s seriously easy to use. You can easily add the watermark on the photos too.

View Full Album

Ok. This photo album thing is even coooolllleerr! Haha~

The preview thing is not bad either. better than the preview provided by Blogger one.

Oh and if u have more than one blog, like me hehe you can add all in the WLW editor and can simply choose which of it that u want to publish a post. Nice isn't it?

Most of us use different theme/template for our blog(s). The WLW can easily be used even for different blogs because you can update each of it with your local blog theme/template through WLW respectively.

Labelling is also easy to be done. Just choose in each categories your post is categorized, auto-updated with the labels in your blog as well.

Retrieving older post for editing also is super easy.

Hurm..What else can i do with this?

I’ll check and play with it more later. :D

I’m starting to like it. haha Didn’t i just said i like the new Blogger updated editor? I like this WLW more!





p/s: I can breath again... =)

Selamat Ulang Tahun, Bonda

11.11.09

Mum,

I wish you much pleasure and joy, wealth and health.
Hope all your wishes and prayers are granted.
May each hour and minute be filled with delight.

And hope you know how much you're loved and appreciated.

Happy birthday to you.

Lots of love,

Daughter

GEMS big bang carnival

10.11.09

last week i was at home, again! it was totally unplanned. days before my cousin Along a.k.a Nida called and asked if i wanna join her to open a booth for the GEMS Big Bang Carnival. Both of us own a blogshop. i knew about the carnival through the lovely Hanis Zalikha's and her sister Liana Ezzana's blogs. 
So due to no-plan-for-the-weekend plus the i-might-be-boring-lepaking-at-room-on-the-weekend, i told Along that i would be back and join her. I might as well do the clearance stock sale for my blogshop items.


So the GEMS Big Bang Carnival was held at Taman Tasik Titiwangsa from 9am to 6pm. It was held by the GEMS participant, Liana Ezzana was one of the organizer. She was so gracious to work with.

me, at our booth

What else were there at the Big Bang Carnival???

 

Vespa show

Aiskrim Malaysia by Monster Jambu

Special appearance by Maya Karin

besides booths there were also

 bands

muslimah fashion show

paintball

telematch

blood donation

etc etc etc

I soooo wanna thanks mum for dropping by Taman Tasik Titiwangsa later that evening after went for a wedding in Keramat. She came with cousin Diba, Effa and my aunty to show us support :)

and my girlfriend Baiti came after went for a wedding also. haishh why la so many wedding~

 

and while lepaking at our booth, chit chatting, suddenly Liana came with a lovely lady and said.. "Hi, ni adik saya. kenal kan?" Bloggers must've known this lovely lady sekali pandang je.

Fewiiitttt Hanis Zalikha was there wehhh. depan mata. she's sooooo beautiful in person. she's look exactly like she is in the pictures. Kalau letak ShahRukh Khan depan mata pon i x pandang kot. :p

She was there to support her sister, her mother Nani Rostam who open a booth selling cookies & cakes for hantaran and her little siblings, the Monster Jambu owners.

sila jeles ye kawan kawan ;p

at around 545pm we were ready to pack as the carnival would end at 6pm. then i saw Hanis came to our booth, again! She looked at the second hand novels i was letting go (due to x cukup tempat nak place my new books. oh, no i didn't let go any of Sheldon's) and she bought two of them!!! My novels are now Hanis'. :D :D

Some of the second hand novels

And dengan hati yang riang ria sebab jumpa si manis Hanis Zalikha (baru jumpa Hanis, kalau la yang dtg tu Adam ke Zahiril Adzim ker..mesti sampai pengsan kot :p) kami pun pulang ke rumah.

It was indeed a great day. I gained experience selling my items at an open booth, at an open carnival like this. Thanks Along for asking me to join.

Souvenir from the organizer

Bile tengah bosannnnnnn

Being vain is my total expert ;p

Oh, btw....there was a scene..
"hi..budak USM kan? kampus kejuruteraan?"
"er..yup. do i know u? USM jugak?"
"a'aa.. school Bahan kan?"
"errr..yup. kita sama batch ker?"
"sama. school EE. sama dengan Nine semua"
"ohhh..ok. Sory x cam..."
"haha xper" 
bla bla bla~~~

teruk ker saya kalau orang cam saya tp saya x cam orang itu?? dah la dia cam siap tau skool pulak. saya rasa teruk  -_-"

and I met a junior from highschool, Syed Mubashir. Nasib baik dia cam lagi senior dia nih kalau x nak marah dah. hehe

Just now Baiti darling told me she was thinking of interviewing Hanis Zalikha for the personality column in StarMetro. She's still waiting for the reply. Hope Hanis will agree to do it :)

p/s: I need to stop missing you it hurts