He Smokes

I told him that I’d leave him if he ever smokes again.

But all I really wanted to say was, I’d leave him anyways. Regardless of whether or not he smoked or kept his hair long or whatever whatever. Someone is volatile. I picked that phrase out from somewhere, I can’t recall.

There are points in life when people start falling back into their happy complacent daily cycle and I for one am feeling a bit b-o-r-e-d. Maybe it is totally insane to say, provided with the cruel fact that I am offshore for almost three weeks now and I do make the effort to call him, but our conversations are just. Bland. Like boiled fish.

And maybe it is also cruel of me to be posting these silly fragments of my late night doo daddling on my blog.

The only reason why I don’t take the topic of marriage seriously is because I am not sure it is you I want to marry.

Too bad you had bad experiences with buying rings for your exes. Wouldn’t want to add another one to the board now would we?

Kau Reti Buat Lemang?

Looksy looksy!! Haha. I am laughing at the pics of my hands la, so bambam. Anyhoots. Last Raya Haji, my family went all out for the celebration. We were also in the midst of the finalization of the settling of the deal about KTM wanting to expand their tracks which will, might, most likely affect my atok's house in rembau. Damn. So hari itu, we made lemang, dodol, rendang. And
I don't have anything interesting to share so here is how to make lemang.

Pick fresh, young banana leaves and cut them in half. It only takes half a leaf to fill in the bamboo tubes. Take a hard banana 'batang' or stem and slit it almost all the way to the bottom. Slide in the banana leaf in between the cut and roll the leaf.


Carefully, push the leaf that has been rolled up into the bamboo. Careful not to tear the banana leaf!

Taking a mix of beras pulu, coconut milk, salt and some asam keping, mix well with water. Take the mixture and fill almost to the top. Top it up with the coconut milk.

Its pretty messy, which is why you'd prefer to do it outside. Da abes project buang2 je bagi ayam makan. Hehe.

Light the oven to a pretty high temperature. And let someone with patience and expertise look after them. Baking lemang calls for an orderly manner of rotating the bamboo 90 degrees every now and then. So keep track!

While waiting for lemang, you could always help out with the dodol activity and burn a few calories. It looks easy, doesn't it? Give it a go and tell me how you feel about it..Haha.

Ini gambar family dengan maklang. Eventhough this is in Melaka, where we did NOT make the lemang, but its the only propper one I have of my family during Raya Haji 2008.

The Things I missed

So much to tell, so little time.. Most importantly I missed my bestfriend's wedding. And the bad part about all this is that she lives in Kota Kinabalu with her husband. Please accept my apologies, and I will get you your perfect wedding gift.

Will share more, later.

Hapi Nu Year

Last year I celebrated 2008 in the middle earth dessert of Oman. I had lobster that night.

This year I celebrated 2009 in the midst of semi-chaos brought upon my mom who had (as expected) overpacked her luggage for her return trip to Yemen. Hey, happy new year.

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Sorry for the delay. Hahaha.