a brief goodbye

bismillah...

honestly i can't wait to publish this entry. hihi. this one will be auto-published few minutes after i took off. so, as many of you might have heard, because i've been planting the seeds for quite some time now, i will not be joining you guys to the next academic year.. i will be joining the dof3a 2008 and re-live the 3rd year misery, which, hopefully change into a blossoming spring experience this time around.

i've wanted to tell you guys earlier, but was advised to keep it to myself first. well, honestly, i'm totally cool with the repeating the whole year stuff. by that, i mean, i'm totally fine, not depressed, and you know i will not give up, and absolutely, i'm more than excited to make things better next year. some of you might have heard it from me, or others, because i keep telling people "i don't mind people knowing about this, but please remind them not to make any unpleasant, sad remark about the issue". haha. so, my apologies to those who didn't get to hear it from me earlier. 

your prayers are highly appreciated, but no sympathy please. ;-)

my special thanks to beloved sisters, kak qilah, kak hetty and kak farah for helping me out during the final exams. buatkan nota... jawapkan soalan past years.. tak putus-putus bagi semangat and mengirimkan doa. Allah sajalah balas jasa kakak-kakak semua, dengan kebaikan yang lebih baik dari dunia dan seisinya. 

and also my special thanks to family and friends, for not giving up on me. and i promise to work my lazy-ass off this time. and can pulas my ears if i malas-malas after this. so..for people who had to go the same thing.don't give up, because second chance does not come often. and something better awaits us ahead. for those who still have to go through the unfinished battle, re-match what so ever, go for it, my prayers go with you and whatever the outcome is, it is for our own good.

i've been receiving mixed responses from people around me. surprised was the most popular so far. speechless, happy and so much more. please don't tell me you're sorry for what happened, cuz there's nothing for you to be sorry about. and hopefully my presence will be missed. heheh (poyo.)

and... for no specific reason i come up with this. i just wanted to try both photoscape and paint.net. well.. i guess i'll be graduating in 2014 then. inshaAllah. 

regards, one.

p/s : by the time im posting this, my request to be removed from atyaf_2007 moderator list baru je di approved. sedeyh gilerrrrrrr. (baru ko tau kate nak sedih kan.haha) will be missing this wonderful dof3a.

balik kampung...!!!

ini adelah entry ke-300 yang terhasil setelah onebonez dibuka semula. walaubagaimanapun i think it's the 299th posted.

alhamdulillah. setelah sekian lama menunggu, nervous2 sampaikan tak boleh tidur malam.. hari yang dinantikan pun tiba..keberangkatan pulang ke pangkuan tersayang... mmg i tak tido malam ni sebab dari siang tadi, aktiviti pack sangat. dari meng re-arrange furniture dalam bilik, kemas2... beli barang for bbq... lepastu bbq pulak... then malam sambung pi cari barang yg tak beli lagi and so on.. sambung kemas bilik lagi... and start packing..

memang horror betul packing kali ni... i have one large luggage, one hand luggage also going to be checked baggage, and another hand luggage yg nak bawak naik cabin. MOST PROBABLY mmg kena tumpang checked baggage orang sebab yang besar tu dah 26kg.. the other one around 8 kg.. adoi la... tak pernah lagi so far balik malaysia barang banyak + berat camni.. mungkin sebab this is the 1st time i got my family coklat batu..huhu.. 1kg je pun.. and there's also abah's 2kgs of raisins....

tp paling berat of all is this.

bought this mula-mula sebab.. i was looking for hadiah yang both they boys can use. excitedly, we inflate the pool lah.. then today nak masuk balik dalam kotak tak boleh. i even used the vacuum to suck out all the air... still, outsized the box. aiyaaaa...

with these around,

okey... what happened was... my sister-in-law kirimkan unta yg ada orang main gitar tu utk her nephew, sebab muaz ada, and the nephew tak ada... beli masa mak tok muaz pergi umrah haritu.. so i kirim pada adila yg berpeluang pergi ke tanah suci last spring... and i really like the camel.. and few days ago, jalan-jalan di shari' jamiah ternampak pulak ada camel tu.. so i bought another two for muaz and azam.

so, i end up with this

ha... the whole bag were filled with the boys' stuff. then my housemate offered jasabaik to fill in her extra hand luggage with the toys, and the large luggage can be filled with other stuff, which are mostly cheese utk project2 memasak balik nanti...

the room is now much spacious, cuz last spring break konsepnye adelah susunan yg convenient for leisure reading... ni nanti bukak sem baru kena back to studying-convenient room.. so ubah2 la mana yang patut kan..

okey. suhur terakhir nampaknya di bumi irbid untuk tahun ini. doakan mudah urusan perjalanan harini. my flight from Amman to Muscat (oman) is at 6.30 pm... transit 11 hours then Muscat to KL at 10.30 (oman time)... ETA 9.20 in KLIA...

jom balik kampung...!!!

tahun ni takdelah i kena tengok iklan raya sambil menangis2... hihihi...

nah my favorite iklan of all. (asik iklan syahdu je kan,kasi iklan bunga2 skettt.)




and...selamat travel everyone...!!

cara-cara membuat lemang : step by step.

Sempena nak raya ni... ramai lah sampai kat blog aku ni cari cara-cara membuat lemang... so, i kemaskini-ed the old entry so it is more accessible to the reader.

Cara-cara membuat lemang : Step by step guide.

The Buluh

Pertama sekali, buluh yang telah dikerat2 itu, hendaklah dibersihkan. refer gambar. pembersih buluh ni dibuat dengan sabut kelapa yang diselit pada pelepah salak. pelepah ape pun boleh as long as keras and cukup panjangnya. buat macam basuh botol susu anak, lepas tu ketuk2 guna pelepah tu pada badan buluh dan saksikan, miang buluh yang kelihatan seperti habuk2 putih akan keluar bertebaran. buat banyak2 kali sampai takde dah keluar abuk putih.

Keduanya, dibasuhlah buluh tersebut dengan air, lalu kita toskan.

setelah itu, daun pisang adventure pun bermula. sebaik2nya,gunakan daun pisang hutan. tapi, it's very fragile so, kalau tak pandai, berlatih dulu pakai daun pisang lain... sayang je rosak daun pisang hutan tu. org kata lagi sedap ke ape tah. i ruined quite a lot daun pisang that abah had to take daun pisang belakang rumah which is even more fragile. solution : layur dulu daun pisang tu. mula-mula ukur panjang daun pisang dan lebarnya. lebar tu, agak2 muat membalut buluh tu kira dah cantik lah. jangan lebih sangat lebarnya, kalau daun berlapis gulung, susah u nak masuk beras.

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teknik memasukkan daun pisang ni adalah the most crucial step yang akan mengorbankan daun2 pisang anda. amik bahagian batang ataupun pelepah kata orang, of the daun pisang, belah tengahnya. lepas tu, sepitkan daun pisang yang dah dipotong tu, make sure u sampai ke hujung, kalau tidak alamatnya, koyak le masa u nak gulung tu. then gulung perlahan-lahan. masukkan pelepah yang dah digulung tu ke dalam buluh, pusing2 untuk bagi daun tu fit in the buluh. then tarik pelepah keluar. tadaaaa~~~ siap lah buluh2 berdaunkan pisang,

then, pergi siapkan tempat bakar lemang.

rendam beras pulut selama 30-60 minit, tos.

bancuh santan dengan garam secukup rasa. (2kg pulut 4 kg santan  apehal plak lebih santan dari pulut. pembetulan : 4 biji santan- wohaaaa gila tak sihat) dan gaulkan dengan pulut. of course you will have santan yang menenggelami pulut. asing jugak sedikit santan, jangan dicampur dengan pulut dulu. by the way, it's ok to mix your santan with air.

lepas tu boleh la kita memasukkan beras ke dalam buluh.. yeay yeay!!! oh ye... kalau nak lemang jagung, tambah je jagung skali.

masuk sikit demi sedikit, dan hentak buluh perlahan-lahan. sambil hentak tu, make sure u pegang daun pisang tu, sebab kalau tak, boleh jadi daun pisang u masuk ke dalam buluh.

masukkan beras yang bercampur santan, sehingga jarak dari pulut dengan santan dalam 3-4 jari dan pastikan ada ruang dalam 3 jari lagi dengan mulut buluh.

lemang is ready untuk dibakar.

bakar berjam-jam lamanya, sampai masak, dan berminyak sket. tambah santan dalam buluh bila perlu. requires experience and practice.

then ask your mom to cook rendang / goreng ikan masin (for lemang jagung).

masa membakar tu, hentak2 jugak ya.. pelan2, karang terpancut keluar pulut + santan panas tu.. so my abah said, i cant do the hentak-menghentak sebab takut melecur kena pulut panas.

selamat mencuba. sila hubungi encik dahalan untuk maklumat lanjut.

kenalkan, buluh2 dari pahang... nk wat lemang, ko kena tengok jugak ketebalan buluh dia. yg ni, sedang elok je.. kalau tebal sngt raya pun tak siap masak lg lemang ko.

pembersih buluh

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buluh2 selepas di basuh...buat gaya kudus

encik abah dengan pasukan daun pisang simpanan persekutuan.

daun-daun yang terkorban. abah : "kalau meniaga lemang dengan kamu, habis sepokok pisang"

daun pisang yang dah dipotong, disepit ke pelepah pisang untuk digulung.

encik abah menunjuk skil masuk daun pisang, woopsie terkoyak pula nampaknye

kayu-kayu pokok rambutan yang dah disimpan selama 9 bulan.

buluh-buluh yang dah bersedia

abah memberi taklimat pengisian pulut

sy tiada lebihan daun di kepala bukan sebab tuan blog ni salah ukur daun

buluh-buluh yang dibakar... ini baru panas dunia beb

sekian dahulu karangan saya kali ini. selamat mencuba, selamat hari raya maaf zahir batin.

and yep this year we're making lemang again insyaAllah, and i'm planning to make a video of it. so people can get better explanation how to make lemang by abah himself. selamat mencuba ;-)

final exam : day three

ok. final exam day three marks the end of this academic year of mine 2009/2010. exam farm animal, last elective subject. so far.. carry mark farm le paling tak canggih sekali of all elective courses i've taken.3 out of 4 are in faculty of agriculture, spent 2 summers la amik agriculture dalam bahasa yg lebih poyo nye kan.

so. agenda kita harini jawap exam kul 8.15. pastu balik ke irbid, kalau dah bukak kedai minyak atar beli minyak atar abah. re-arrange bilik dan kemas beg. lepas tu update status facebook pada hari esoknya,
"esok balikkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk".

inilah kali pertama yang hari-hari aku pegi check markah dah keluar ke belum kat khidmat tolib. kalau tak... mati hidup balik pun ak tak mau check result exam. heh heh heh.

hai hai hai. hai hai

tajuk je dah tahu dah tengah happy..

zaman skarang ni, pagi-pagi je boleh update blog dan blogwalking. lain-lain waktu mmg asik takleh akses je.. tapi takpe... berpagi-pagi itu kan ada keberkatannya. harini udara segar, nyaman. seriously asik terbayang rumah merah bilik C. why, of all RHBA, RMBC, RPBD, RBBB, RMBA dan RPBD lagi sekali, RMBC pulak yang ak ingat. mungkin sebab bulan puasa? haha. 

segar bugar pagi ni.. nak mengemas2 untuk balik.. bukan ape nok, serius rase macam zaman sekolah menengah dulu tau. kemas2 barang pagi yang kita nak balik rumah tu kan. eleh. macam lah balik harini 12.30 tgh hari pun. hihi.

dah terkenang hari mendaftar setiap tahun akademik yang baru pulak. adoi. persoalannya, kenapakah budak sekolah i dulu suka baca novel bila dah habis exam akhir tahun???bosan.

final exam : day two

paling mencabar skali.

malam semalam dah tak berapa cukup tidur. balik exam baru lelap. then malam tadi pun even worse, ha.. nampak sangat the exam is really stressing me out, sampai tak bleh lena tidur. sleepy yet cannot fall asleep. neck stiffness dan berat kepala. tolonglah jangan sampai get cranky today. aiyoh.

mungkin sebab there's only 20 questions for 40 marks. 

(#_#)

final exam day one

after one sleepless night. cewah. maunye. adelah sejam je yg betul2 lena due to severe heat + blackout. and alhamdulillah we can access blogger.com balik. traffic pun all the sudden je jadi semua visitors from Malaysia saje. chronic tak? i think last few months ada jugak jadi mcm ni... but this time for two days, habis hilang mood nak blog benda-benda bermanfaat. (tipuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu).

okey. harini exam food preservation ye. oops before that, my exam schedule, as usual

21st - Food Preservation

22nd - Clinical Psychology

25th - Farm Animal

then 

27th - balik!!!

28th - arrival in KL.. ETA 9.30pm

29th - balik pahang amik buah abah kata

so...jom saling mendoakan kejayaan satu sama lain. eceh. 

semalam masa black out, ya, i still don't get myself kipas smarties tu sebab by the time duit JPA masuk, all smarties yg ada kipas kat c-town telah sold out, and they don't even bother to re-stock. so, i was  so panas, and have to kipas myself to sleep pakai kertas, which is, obviously doesn't work sebab nnt mestilah lenguh macam mana nak lena kan. then ak teringat kalau kecik-kecik dulu bila blackout mesti mama kipaskan sampai anaknya tertidur... kadang mama terlelap i'd wake her "ma...panas" or when she kipas herself i'd go "ma...tak kena angin..." haiz. bila dikenang2..apa punya anak la atiqah ni... anak bongsu!!! kahkahkah... 

terus i amik phone, 

"Time kasih mama sbb mase ikah kecik dulu tolong kipaskan smpai tido lena bila blackout.saje tringat sambil2 kipas diri sendiri".

mama tak reply pun. jangan-jangan airmata beliau bergenang dah baca msg tu, sbb airmata i pun bergenang sambil taip msg tu mlm td.

nnt bila dah grad, insyaAllah ikah kipaskan mama pakai transcript graduation. wohaaaaaa

it just never stop

so one day you buy a pretty marine blue blouse.

then you need a white skirt and a white scarf to suit it.

so you get the white scarf, and haunt for the white skirt.

after 6 months or so you get the white skirt, but u outsized the blouse.

then you need new blouse to wear with the skirt.

then few months later you found new blouse that suits the white skirt (the colour).

but then you feels like the white skirt too flowy and messy for the blouse.

then you have to get a new skirt for the blouse.

so you go skirt haunting again, and found a decent one.

and the skirt's so pretty you can't help but to look for more blouse to wear it with.

(thank god you didn't buy any)

then you come home and put the pieces together.

and you realize you already have a skirt that suits the blouse even better.

which you haven't wear because you don't have a blouse that matches it.

now you need a scarf that suits the blouse and skirt.
and a another blouse to wear with the new skirt. (hah???)

and they just go on and on and on and on.

then you write this in your blog and be reminded you have another shirt you can wear with both skirts.

yippeeee.
now you see why i hate shopping/wearing two pieces. 

chocolate chip cookies recipe

assalamualaikum.

ramadan kareem. =) it's been a habit, for me to have one type of kuih raya to eat during ramadan. usually, it's the tat gulung nenas. but, i can't find my tools and lost the recipe... (the one that taste like mama's tat gulung). so, this year, i tried chocolate chip cookies. and searched for the famous amos recipe, (i don't think it's the real recipe, but the effort and the outcome is kinda satisfying). made this one week before ramadan, and by 1st ramadan there's like 1/4th of the jar left. hee hee.. and when i made this, all supermarket are out of chocolate chip cookies, so this chocolate chip cookies doesn't have chocolate chip in it, and still taste awesome.

2 cups butter
4 cups flour
2 tsp. baking soda
2 cups granulated sugar (u should use less, because it'll be very sweet)
2 cups brown sugar
5 cups blended oatmeal (measure n blend in blender to a fine powder)
24 oz. chocolate chips (680gm)
1 tsp. salt
18 oz. cadbury bar (grated. YES you HAVE to grate them) (510gm)
4 eggs
2 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. vanilla
3 cups chopped nuts (of your choice)

cream the butter with both sugars. add eggs and vanilla. mix together with flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder and soda. add chocolate chips, cadbury bar and nuts. roll into balls and place two inches apart on a cookie sheet. bake for 10-15 minutes at 190 celcius. makes 122 cookies.

p/s: i halved the ingredients, without chocolate chip, ends up with 70++ cookies.

do you take ramadhan for granted?

i think this video says it best, don't take this ramadhan for granted. how many people are laying in their grave who thought they could make it to this year's ramadhan, to clear everything up. they never made it.

ok. itu point satu. point yang kedua adalah berkenaan (eceh). jom jadikan ramadhan sebagai retreat camp ataupun bootcamp (atau apa juga nama yang anda inginkan) untuk menghadapi the coming 11 months. inilah masanya to sharpen our saw (rujuk 7 habit). jom kita ambil peluang tingkatkan dan mantapkan lagi relationship status dengan Allah. and always remember, ramadhan bukan tempat membodek, it's for training purpose. ;-)

okey. seterusnya adelah gambar seorang kanak-kanak yang mencintai alam sekitar.

terduduk sebab syahdu sangat tgk rumput

lagi aksi cintakan rumput

okey. yang comel dalam gamba ni adelah abah. bukan senang tu abah i nak senyum2 tangkap gambar. mama kata polis mmg camtu. haha.

ayam

Me
ok lah, nak pergi buat2 study.
esok exam food. td exam farm animal.
tahukah anda ayam betina boleh bertelur tanpa ayam jantan..?
jangan2 abah pun tak tahu ni

Mohamed Akmal
mestilah tahu. abah kecik-kecik kan main, makan, tidur semua dengan ayam.

Mohamed Akmal is now offline.

tadi masa tengah baca chapter poultry, aku terbau-bau je bau telur ayam panas. maksudnya mummy chicken pergi bersiar-siar lepas mengeram. tau tak bau dia macam mana?

"abah, abah... abah tahu tak ayam betina boleh bertelur walaupun takde ayam jantan?"
"tahu."
"ikah baru tau abah. ternganga-nganga dalam kelas tu."
"kamu tau, ayam jantan pun boleh bertelur, tapi kecik je telur die"
"tipu. tipu. ayam jantan maneeeee boleh bertelur."
"cuba kamu tanya dokter kamu esok".
"tamo.tamo. ayam betina je boleh bertelur".

kesian kan. dari kecik sampai tua asik kena doktrin fakta auta semua ni.

penambahan/pembetulan: cik sopiah kate ayam jantan memang bertelur, kalau kite basuh ayam telur tu ade dalam perut ayam. cik sopiah kate nenek die yang cakap.

satu hari di kelas food

"name a bacteria that is resistant to antibiotics"
*suara2 perlahan - tuberculosis...dan berbagai2 penyakit manusia*
"H1N1".wow.
"sho gulte?shooo???"
"H1N1"
"ente sho btedrus??"
"tibb basyari"
"allah a3eenak. ma bte3raf isim am virus aw bacteria????"

terjemahan


"namekan bacteria yang resistant kepada antibiotics" (namakan bacteria yang kena guna 2-3 antibiotics baru boleh jalan).
"H1N1"
"ape ko cakap? ape??"
"H1N1"
"ko ni blajar ape?"
"perubatan"
"god help you la wey. name virus dengan bacteria pun ko tak tau?"

moral : teruskan menjawap. salah pun takpe. koman-koman masuk blog aku je pun. haha.

the weather finally did it to me

bismillah...

it is today, i think i realize the weather has taken its toll on me. i think i'm a lot more a harsh person then i used to be. weather ke ha? benci kan.

tapi kadang-kadang it's just me being reactive to circumstances. takdelah salah cuaca pun. :-P

tapi summer kali ni memang panas mengaum ye. tapi. tapi. tapi.

saljilah tahun depan, aminnnnnnnnnn.