Leaving You

I'll be gone a while, but shall return as soon as I can. You be good now, when you least expect it, I will suprise you. Safe journey home, love.

Pn Ainul's

On the 10th of November, an estimated number of 53 final year students from mechanical engineering were to arrive at Batu Gajah Perdana, sometime around 830 pm. Yeah, we did put up with some drama regarding the compulsory of our attendance because some claimed their inability to wash dishes. Poor souls. So all good samaritans got there early, including some of the alpha male that shall remain unnamed. (You know who you are).

Naz, sara, me, pn ainul, yati

Pn Ainul ordered most of the food that evening, but took the time to prepare some traditional kuah kacan for us. How nice. And suprise suprise.. She doesn't like to cook, nor iron her clothes. Very much like my good friend sara. Haha..Oh and that, Pn Ainul also slept a lot during lectures when she was doing her degree. Now she's pursuing her doctorate here in UTP. She's so darned cute. She almost always wears a backpack, drinks from her coffee tumbler and has got this totally forgiveable american accent. C-u-t-e.

"and then we're gonna multiply the force here by a hundred fifty..and get 60 hundred thousand..you might wanna put your forces on one side.." - statics, from like, 3 years ago.

Sara

She's got 3 lovely kids, Ilham the 5 year old, Adam the shy one and then there was Lydia, the so-called tak nak kat org baby. Yea right. She got the lot of us all tied in a bunch looking after her. It was such a great break and something we all needed to get the juices running for the finals.

Heart breakin' Lydia

Ilham

The event dragged on until 11 or so and yup, that was about the time when the boys started slacking and only a few knew how to clean up after themselves. And to think they were ready for the working life. Bahh..




To Rosli, Helmi, Jeloy and Fahmi.. here's to being responsible. Cheers.

Allergy

The death of my camera has led me to appreciate the other things this world has got to offer. Who knew that a beautiful moth could be deadly. Allergically, that is. Allergically? Does it exist. In the daylight I praise at your color and monotone pace that usually sets me on a pacifier sort of calmness. How odd. How did you do that. So calm that I slept without knowing you were beside me, and in the middle of the night you gave me a suprise. It itched. I itched. Then I scratched. From now on, I will be wary of ugly moths that turns up late at night betraying me into a series of allergies. Wonder why the undersides of the moths are more appealing than the outer spore ladden layer. I used to think that allergies were good. Like Al-Khind, Al-Chemist, Al-ergies..and Al-ibi.

Then I grew up and found out the true meaning of alibi. Its sort of telling the truth to someone and having proof you're not lying. Neat huh. So as kids I'd be caught doing something and in the end I didn't have an alibi to help me see it through. But then again, neither did all the good guys in the movies, and they always won.Blahh..

Manufacturing systems.

In a Coma

Goodbye baby ixus. Baby ixus i. Maybe its time, or maybe I treated you more like a 4-wheel drive rather than a 150cc EX5. Sorry. Didn't mean to sound nasty. My ixus is in a coma. An absent coma. It turns on and snaps pictures but doesn't respond well to the light nor my command. So it processes the lighting and gives me pictures in an array of fine lines. Super.

I've had you for almost 4 years now. The time was around the date that my father first settled in geneva. And we (my brother and I) got you as a gift. But now my dad says, "its okay, you can always try to remember the buildings and the flowers in your mind". Not the best of my days dad, honest.

Only those who has their own camera or the part time hobby of photography can relate to how devastated I am right now. Too bad my special someone was at lost of words and clearly he couldn't make heads nor tail of why it is I am so upset. Why??! Hah. That would explain why I am sitting alone in my room with the expression that I have all the time in the world to blog and not look at my petroleum exploration papers. Thank you.

I am sarcastic aren't I? You would be too, if you were me. I have exactly 9 days to wait for my ixus to snap out of the coma. Or its a done farewell, ixus i.

Tomatoes and Pepper

As promised, this time its the tomatoes and black pepper covered macaroni. I think I went a bit overboard with the black peppers. Yikes. Kesian gc and ms Radio yg tak tahan pedas.Sorry. But I could always modify it up a bit by adding some milk and that would neutralize the zing from the peppers. Its 1126 am and in another 10 minutes gc will be tasting this pasta. Mesti die keluarkan satu2 black pepper ni once he realizes its smoking hot. Haha..my bad. Im lazy to go fix it. I dont want to spoil the flavour I worked hard to get.

Now I smell like garlic all over. Which is delicious if you were fasting. Gotta stop, need to take shower.Now. Credits photo by MsRadio, my ixus has decided to stay in the dark and hasel nye tatau which setting I had put on so its a mess.

Mandiiii.

Sweet Cravings

Im such a sucker for anything that looks cute, fancily decorated and all boxed up and ribboned to the detail. That would be the case of me and a much a-drooled after leather handbag or it could be the cupcakes at kak yong's digital kitchen. Pandai betul orang sekarang carik makan kan..How I wish I could be as business minded and determined as her. But anything you do out of passion, will never fail you. Sort of like photography, music and once upon a time ago, cross stitching haha.. I'm actually making up excuses for me to go and place an order with kak yong right now, at this instant.

"Hello, I would like a dozen of your flirty velvet and another dozen of the chocolate lovers, the theme would be, definitely party-with heart shaped sprinkles and green sugar flakes.."

But the celebrations got to wait until well..somewhere around (counts fingers)...may perhaps? By then I'd most likely have my dentist appointment all settled. Perfect.

Brief Bliss

Yeay.I'm on a top-scale high lately. Not from the overdose of memorizing or overclocking my own mini-harddisc between the ears. Im just day dreaming a lot now. Its going to be another 12 days before I leave for home. Owh and just so you know, I am a bit more hardworking this semester break, because I'm actually taking orders for perfumes, watches and whatever is on sale there after christmas. (And you thought I was going to say something about continued research for my final year project did you? Well you're an awful guesser, mister) So for my housemates that want the watch for the loved one, or the yearly dose of new perfumes for the moms..fill me in and it will help me daydream more in detail, and color and smell..(now is the cue for you to wonk me in the head)

Bliss.

Recipe for Love

Not really the most appropriate title, but I did make it out of love.. the love of food..the love of cheesee and the love of erm, yeah you. So here it is, due to some queries and requests, the recipe for the previous pasta entry:

*note: please excuse the "all-can-and-processed" ingredients I use in my recipe, partially due to the fact that I am living in campus and I cook on a hot plate cum multicooker.

Pasta in cheese sauce

Ingredients:

250g of pasta
a tablespoon of butter
crushed black peppercorns
2 cloves of garlic finely chopped
chicken, ham or sausage pieces
veggies as preferred (carrots, brocolli, tomatoes)
mushrooms
a can of prego's cheese & herbs
half a small box of milk
strong flavoured cheese (obtainable from carefour) like gouda, emmental, parmesan or cheddar

Procedure (mcm lab report lak)

1.Boil pasta (not too soft nor too hard, al dente as they say it, meaning 'to the teeth')
2.Heat saucepan and put in butter, brown together with garlic and add in crushed pepper
3.Put in chicken or sausage pieces, cook until light brown
4.Add in mushrooms, veggies and stir
5.Add in Prego's cheese & herbs, stir well
6.Add in milk to thin the sauce, half of a small box of milk should do
7.Add in pasta, fold into the sauce carefully
8.Sprinkle cheese and let it melt in mixture
9.Add salt and pepper to taste

Bon appetit!

This sauce in this recipe is just meant to coat the pasta, not to drown it, thus limit the dose of milk in your estimate =) This menu serves around 4 grown person for a propper meal, depending on gender and age. Can be served hot or cold. But I prefer it smoking hot, tade la cepat rase mual. Happy trying!!

Pasta Perfect Day

So as a way to grieve over my poor performance during the stupid fyp presentation, I went out for some fresh air in Ipoh. Revenged my way through a quarter chicken at kenny's and discussed why the prices of western cuisine meals are way more expensive than let say..krom luang buffet? Maybe its branding, maybe its marketing, I didn't really give a hoot. From my observation, kenny's is way more expensive than secret recipe. And who else..? Still haven't had the chance to try delifrances' meals yet. But yea, dome would probably top them all off. And TCB serving proportion are too small for a grown person of 22. Yikes!

Anyways..headed out to the supermarket for our usual stroll and decided to finally prepare some pasta loving concoction for gc. The basics, because he is pretty basic, just want the pasta, sauce, and thats it. No need for mushrooms or olives, or salted pieces of smoked ham. So the meditation part begun when I was in the kitchen during the twilight hours chopping up my carrots and tomatoes. Lucky for me, there was plenty to go around as I was interruptedly joined by late-nite birds.

The main point of this draggingly long story, was that I felt much much muchoo more happier to see gc chomp his way down to the very last piece of cheese coated pasta, in which he did in practically three stages (makan tutup balik, makan balik rehat..you get it) owh I cannot resist to add that he even got me to jot down the recipe and the how-to for the simple meal..

"Nape nak recipe?"
"Nanti leh buat sendiri"
"Nape nak buat sendiri?"
"Sebab time tu awk da dkat swiss"

And it felt so good, that I am still elated. Everything that is good comes from Him and only Him.

I am thankful, and I love you for it.

Joyeux Annyversaire Pour Papa

Happy Belated Birthday dad.

May Allah shower you with His kind Blessings and guide you to the right path today and in the world hereafter. Amin.
Thank you for your love and support throughout my 22 years of existence.
Pray for more to celebrate, no? I love you.

Burnt

Hello..is me you're looking for?? I like oldies. They remind me of my parents. Whom I have not met for the last 18 months for my mum and 3 months for my dad. I do feel a bit burnt out. That is why I am blogging today. This evening. My daily chronological order of events aren't as eventful. Its an early morning everyday because the library opens at 830am and I plan to get there around 9am. A short break in the middle of the day for prayers and cat-napping and then its off to hit the books again. I don't know really if Im a morning person or I am more to the night type. I wake up pretty easy provided that I slept early but the odd thing is that I am more productive after 7pm. Unlike gc who really doesn't have an attention span to be made an example of. hehe..

So I daydream about going home, the things Im going to eat, the places I will have to go to and take pictures of, the kids and babies that Im going to chew the cheeks off. That pretty much covers everything else other than the solution to the question I was supposed to attempt. Sigh.

Such is the beauty of the daydreamer.

Another Batch of Pictures

Yippiee!! Thanks to s1nach for the Official Photos of the Batch May/July2002 Dinner held at the Casuarina Ipoh, way better pics and definite keeps!! Im gonna miss each and every one of you!! But save the mushy wishes cause we'll still see each other next semester. Hahaha.. Im so hyper today.

My round table Left-Right Mod,Me,Radio,Tqa,Sara,Yatt,Shada,Ireen

The boys from MMC..Lan and Din

Another luvly picture..

gc and me

The rest of the mechanical friends

Close examination would tell those who are not really mechanical. Such are the specimens that ran astray during Pn. Ainul's Open House recently. Speaking of which, I think I should tell her that the boy who claimed to "have not yet taken Mansys" is actually a fraud. Eyp..save that for another entry but I doubt that I shall tell on those with bad manners. I shall do the opposite then. Toodles.

A Tangible Mix(up)

I am supposed to be free. But I am not. I was supposed to have presented my FYP (final year project) to a panel of material smart adjudicators cum examiners. I am pretty stressed out about it. Where should I start? The day is Friday, 820am and I rush off to block 18 to setup my presentation arena. The darned pc won't let me in. Username? Password? To make things worse, there was no saviour of "Login to Workstation Only" box for me to tick. I am late, sweating and the next thing I know I am off to block 17, room 11. Its one of the PC padded room, long and dark. The USB port works smoothly, I exhale. Calm myself as I go through my slides for the trillionth time. This is it. In 30 minutes it's all history and just a bad bad dream. I had a mile long list of things I am going to do in celebration after the presentation.. return library books, post overdue raya cards, burn telly series..feast with him and get some propper sleep..etc etc

The next thing I know, my SV runs into the room and in a determined tone says, "it seems like your examiner has no intention of coming for the presentation, I have nothing to say other than your presentation is cancelled" What?? You can't possibly cancel a FYP presentation??!! My head screams. Yeah, it was at that moment did I cry and wail so horrendously in my heart that I could not make out the look of my face, when real salty tears did come arolling down these cheecks and I was forced to tell a lab technician what went down. What went down? Nothing. Nada.

By the time they got a hold of the examiner and I dried my face from all the sweat - yes sweat, we shifted to another alien room and this time the USB wasn't up and running. So the time was 940 am, and the lecturers had a seminar at 10am, a pot luck compulsary event at 11 am, and another board meeting at 230 pm. I am postponed, and so I would like to say the same for my spirit and enthusiasm which I believe I have had endless supply to when it came to presentations. But this time, I wouldn't really care how the presentation turns out to the next time I'm scheduled for mine.

Mechanical Friends

Cheesy yet meaningful entry of mine..

Thana, Sara and Naz

I have myself a loving set of mechanical friends. They get rusty just like you do. A little bit of oil and they're in tip top condition. Wouldn't have made it through the years without all of them.

Mechanical Component Design Lab

Lived the past 4 years in boy-kingdom, the smell of sweat in class, the attention we got was overwhelming. There's 4 of us to begin with and then there's Dayah, Yati, Zati and Pae.. What a small population, no? The real working world won't be like this. Im gonna miss each and every one of you. There was a time when we realized how much we will eventually end up missing one another, and since then, we'd make the effort to go to an excellent outing nearing the semester's end. Last year we tried Lata Iskandar in Tapah, just an hour's ride from UTP. This year will hopefully be just as fun and memorable. Sigh. Some snippets and whatnots.

Taman Polo, Ipoh. We took a stroll in the middle of the night (in pitch blackness) whilst waiting for our late-nite movie (Harry Potter 3 I think) and went on about good looking Gujaratis and hidden people in the dark, yikes! Purely memorable..wouldn't take the walk alone on any given day by myself!

This was after the waterfall event, all rejuvenated and famished, pizza's the way to go!

At Lata Iskandar

Thanavathy a.k.a. She's the Girl!! For mechanical engineering =) Robust as she is, she is more optimistic then the rest of us and always thinks the good things in people on top of everything. Fortunate for me, we share the same likes and dislikes in people. My petroleum buddy, helps me keep sane for making the darned decision cause she regrets it too, maybe on a different level.

"Don't worry, you'll work with Petronas punye" - my favourite quote on her.

This is Naz, she and I have always been close throughout the years. She'd support me emotionally and usualy got me on the same wavelength. Been to her house once, love the brother cause he is sorta like mine (takpe kan naz?) Materials Lab on Friday mornings brought out our true colors, and zishan always got on our nerves. haha. masuk gak nama die kat blog aku nih. Naz is taking up automotive right now, kudos girl!! I just didn't have the guts to face the challenge. And some other stuff.Nextt~~

Padan muke kau sara. Hahaha.. But this is actually a good picture of her. She looks good and candid, which is actually how she poses every time, cume kali ni mulut ko comel sket sara..hahaha..The thing is I and probably everyone else, enjoy making fun of her pictures. She always poses in an outrageously silly manner and then the time comes for the batch CD and everyone is supposed to submit a self potrait and she finds that none of hers are senonoh. haha. My catalyst that made me more determined to change courses from civil engineering to mechanical. I'd ask her all the time and she'd be like, "Aku nak tuka kos jugak la, nak amek medic" She's happily married now. Figuratively speaking, that is.

This is my world, I fit in so snug that any adjustment will make the cold seep in much much faster. We have almost come to our end here now, what will we do next? Naz has her sights on Beijing, Petronas will have a joint-venture with China and hopefully she will work her bums off to get into a training program there, Thana will probably adopt kids, or raise kids on her own. Kidding! Sara..I'm guessing she'll be the first to get married, eventhough she keeps giving me this talk about being the eldest and having other plans after graduation. Yea rite sara.. And me? I'll go wherever the wind blows and I am the person you see me to be, because it is you that has guided me and shaped me through the whole journey. Thank you so much. Huargh!!

The Dinner

The Stage

The Event

Les bijouterie

Favourite Couple Capture

Fond Friends

Favourite Potrait of the night

Favourite Person

Three is a crowd, isn't it?

Favourite Dresses

One of the accountable pics with her

Favourite Blur

Batch dinner at the Casuarina Ipoh. The food was hay wire for selection, a mix of beef in black pepper sauce meets kerabu mangga that had more onions than sambal nasi lemak dkat asrama dlu, the door gift was too big, something that wouldn't last me the years. The event was such a drag. My camera's battery died a tragic death. And I don't have a proper photo with gc nor my roomate. Oh, and the theme was black.

Excuse the enthusiasm.