Holy Holidays!!

Assalamualaikum. Good morning...

its coming!!

Yup i know we haven’t even finished school yet but before you know it, it will be the holiday soon (2 days more to go) my flight will be on 10th Nov..... yippyyyyyy!!! im coming home! coming home tell the world that im coming home!! finally...cant wait to be home again...

you know how excited i am? it such a feeling that cannot be described...i counting days every morning.every night.every minute.every second... just like a prisoner waiting to be free from prison... and im so thankful to Allah. Alhamdulillah, so far Allah has ease my way..

counting my days...

Theres so much of things i wanna do/consider during the holiday...hopefully it will be full of fun and opportunity.

Eat my fav food ::  foods cooked by my mum of course. my fav fast foods which not available here in Sandakan. my sister home-made pavlova. 

Meet up with old friends :: keep in touch with friends as usual i miss all my old friends. this is the time where we can meet, chit chat and hang out together...

Catch a flick at the movies :: watch movies in the cinema...

Have a family night :: my sister has planned a family gathering where she wanted to serve a steam boat dishes

travelling :: i love travelling and the best time to travel is during the school holidays.for this year Singapore perhaps...

shopping :: buy some new work attires, watch and another pair of onitsuka tiger sneakers, home decos

sleep :: zzzzzZZzzzz as much as i want to...

Attempt to get in shape :: above all, eat healthy food, do exercise, enough sleep

there always a sad thing in a good thing.. my friend Noor Hisam is transferring schools next year and im really upset. he's more than a friend to me. he is my mentor my sifoo in photography. thank you for the knowledge u taught me. i wish you all the best in your new school...
to my student Erzuan Syah (actually he's more to my brother) who will finishing school soon, i wish you Good Luck on your STPM exam. i always pray for you. do come and visit me sometimes here. thank you for everything...until we meet again..

sadly both of them will be no longer in SMKBG next year 

mentor Hisam with his apprentices

Raya 2012 - Part 1

one of my fav during Hari Raya

Assalamualaikum and happy fasting to everybody...

how time flies, its already 20th of Ramadhan now and thats mean we are nearing to the month of Syawal and to the end of Ramadan al mubarak soon... and yes this is the 5th year im going to celebrate the Eid away from my family ;-( ... its sad and of course it is difficult to be away from our love ones especially when my mum is not really well (mum was diagnosed of early cataract and had cataract surgery last Jun... even thought the surgery went well, its take some times for elder people like her to fully recovered). Hope you will get well soon Ma..Amin

many asked me why im not coming home for Raya...i just dont know... sometimes i feel like im belong here.this is the place that i should be. i feel happy here. i have everything that i wanted here and thats why im happy to be here... but of course i miss my family, my friends... i miss home cooking especially my mum's signature rendang campur minang (mixture of a spicy meat, liver, lung etc  dish) kuah lodeh (coconut vegetable stew) and having good times with my relatives and friends.i still remember we used to send each other kad raya back then during my childhood...this practice had become our routine during/before Hari Raya. it was so much fun when you received a musical card instead of the ordinary raya card (bangga gitu).but now i dont even got one.people tend to send electronic cards via facebook or sms (much more cheeper and fast). and one thing i cannot forget how fun it was to play the firecrackers and fireworks during the nights before hari raya..

Rendang Minang- mum's resipi

Lodeh- its a must have!
(with sambal sotong kering and kuah kacang)

Pineapple Tart- evergreen Raya cookies

by the way, since im not going home this year i'll be celebrating the Eid at my student's place in Paris (dont be surprised we also have a place named Paris here in Kinabatangan). Wawan to be exact (he's more to my brother actually we have been so close since last year that we have treat each other just like brothers).his family also being nice to me. they treat me just like their family even thought im a stranger. i feel comfortable there just like being at home. im going to stay there for a couple of days.and for this year we have decided to chose to wear the same colour for our baju melayu.. guess what colour it is? hehe will upload and post it later.. 

Last Year Photo- He won for the best Baju Melayu

I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of you Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri especially to my beloved family members back there in Gombak (Mama, Abah, Along, Angah, Yanti, Nora, Ayin and all my nieces and nephews, brothers and sisters-in-law .sorry i cannot celebrate Raya there with you guys again this year), my beloved relatives, all my friends (especially my good friends who are always there for me!), neighbours, colleagues, students and all muslims around the world. I also would like to apologize for anything that I have said and done that might have offended any of you. Maaf Zahir dan Batin. Please forgive me deep from the bottom of my heart. 

finally revealed!

as usual, i wont go home without anything in my hand.. been searching what to put inside the box since last thursday evening.. then i suddenly remembered that everywhere in Sandakan we can find cheap fresh seafood.. Sandakan has rich diversity of marine life with a large variety of seafood, most of which i rarely had before (because its very costly back here in KL).. The seafood is very fresh. The price are affordable and reasonable.. heaven for seafood lovers like me..

so, the time has come so lets me reveal what inside my polystyrene box even the Customs people at the airport cannot traced it..hehe
(consider myself as a smuggler) 

what inside this white polystyrene box???

I love fish, any kind of fish and of course king mackerel (Tenggiri) is always my all time favorite. unfortunately found none of it at the market.. so, i decided just to buy the red snapper since it looked very fresh and it has a great, firm texture and a sweet, nutty flavor..

2 red snappers appx 2kg each (Rm10/kg)

the flounder makes my mouth water just thinking about it! At any rate, flounder are one of my favorite fish.

2 flounders appx 1 kg each (Rm7/kg)

i always wanted ketam masak lemak cili padi dengan nenas all this year around.. i just cant get enough of it.. i suppose you can call it crabs cooked in spicy coconut gravy with pineapples. i like the surprise of cracking it's tough shell and see if i've hit the flesh jackpot.. for this time i managed to find some flower crabs instead of stone crabs which are more solid flesh and for a lack of a better word, are crunchier and more filling..

2kg of big fresh crabs (Rm10/kg)

a very best friend of mine text-ed me if there any calamari there in sandakan.. i said dont worry i'll find some for you..

1.5kg of big fresh calamaris (Rm15/kg)

there's nothing in this world can beat my mum's cooking especially when she cooks fish head curry! a signature of her own.. The texture of the flesh from the fish head is so smooth and surprisingly there was quite a lot of flesh to eat. As my sister did not like the idea of eating the head, my mum added fish fillet so that she can enjoy the dish as well. i love every single thing from the fish head except the eye balls..

i still remember when I was a child, my brother chased me around with a  fish head and he convinced me that the fish was going to eat me up! hahaha very funny...

a very delicious fish head curry cooked by my mum

fish head curry goes well with fried salted fish.. a very good combination. simply delicious.. these salted gelama fish were given by miss Zila all the way from Tawau.. so sedap!

fried salted gelama fish with big onions and cili padi

so there you go.. a hand carry box of almost 10kg! no wonder my arms feel so ache!!

my home is where my heart is..

i have a lot to be thankful for in my busy week just past.. i've been so busy this whole week and im thinking of rewarding myself for good.. so for breakfast just now, i was up early this morning and i attempted double cheese burger, well i never try this at home but it tasted almost like those in McD! and im lovin' it!!



of cos rupanya tak menggambarkan rasanya.. huhu


I miss home already.. im coming back home this 20th Nov... another 33 days to go..  miss KL life so much.. i miss my family so terribly ..  i miss my mum home cooked foods.. i miss my cute Panda.. i miss my friends.. i miss my neighbours.. and of course i miss McD so badly!! whatever it is im so excited to go home..


i really miss my bed!

taken a day before went back to Sabah



the every-morning-sun ray