Hubby's Gonna Be Back Today... Woo Hoo!!

I'm basically feeling very happy today... Why? Coz the hubby's gonna be back in 2 hours time... Aaaaaand... I've got myself a new lappy!! Woo hoo!! Alhamdulillah... I got what I wanted at last!!

To Lala: Thank you so much for your help!! I really appreciate it... Thanks for sharing your opinion on the lappy thingy... I saved a lot!! Thought it's not the lappy that I wanted but it'll do just fine for me... Alhamdulillah... Thanks for taking the trouble of going all the way to Giant, Tampines just to check on the lappy thingy for me... I owe you one!! Oh!! And watching you in the dress that I bought for you was hilarious!! Thanks again!! Mmmmmuaah!!

OK, gotta rush now... Need to get the babies and myself ready coz we'll be meeting the hubby later at Harbourfront... Chao!!

"Mat & Minah" Dictionary...

This is sooooo freaking funny!! lol...

I read this in the cousin's (Lala) blog just now... I was laughing my heart out as soon as I started reading it... It's soooo freaking hilarious!! The first person that came into my mind was cousin Sutinah... lol... She's a good example of the 'minah' that the dictionary was referrring to... lol... Seriously... Mwahahahahaha!!

To those of you who wants to know more about the Malay 'slang' language: It's a MUST READ thingy for y'all... Read it and start pondering...

To Lala: Eh! I do agree siak on your view about this 'Mat & Minah' Dictionary thingy... We sounded like minahs already... Mwahahahahaha!! Freaking hilarious!! Macam siak ah!! lol...

MAT & MINAH DICTIONARY (:

Gua [goo-wah] noun – What some mats and minahs use to call themselves. Similar in using “lu” when referring to others. A legacy that dates back to the times of Mat Rocks back in the early 80s.

A common trick that can be played on Mats is to ask them to translate the English phrase “Monkey Cave” into Malay. The mat will then say “Gua Monyet” (I'm a monkey).

Mat [mat] noun – To the rest of the world, the word simply means a Malay guy. But within the Malay community itself there is a growing disparity in consensus to its actual meaning. Popularly, it's used to denote a guy who converses primarily in Malay, as opposed to the more “English speaking” types. Favourites of the mats include tapered jeans, trucker caps and weepy Malay songs with sickeningly suicidal lyrics.

Matrep [mat-rape] noun – An extreme version of the mat. In addition to the usual mat accessories, a matrep will also come adorned with tattoos and matching body-piercings in weird corners of his body.

Minah [mee-nah] noun – An expression used to denote a Malay female. Derived from the popular Malay name, Aminah, which used to be all the rage some time ago. It was sort of the “in-thing” to name your daughter Aminah back in the 60s and 70s. In fact, legend has it that if you go to Geylang Serai market and shout “Hai Minah!” at least a quarter of the makcik population there is going to turn around and smile at you.

Picit [pee-chet] adjective – When a mat tells you to “picit” him, it does not mean that he is trying to be cheeky (or gay, if he is talking to a fellow mat). It simply means that the mat wants you to call him on his mobile. What were you thinking?

Relaksuah [ree-lek-soo-wah] adjective – Official slogan and life motto of the mats and minahs.

Sial [see- yal] noun / adjective – A full stop in every mat's sentence. Eg: “Tadi aku nampak accident sial Rabak sial Aku tak bedek sial Kesian sial” Translation: Just now I saw an accident (full stop) It was bad (full stop) I'm not kidding (full stop) Poor guy (full stop)

In its purest form, “sial” means “jinx” but mats have refined the art of using the word to include it at the end of their every sentence. Also comes in the more polite form “siak” and “siul” for those who do not want to sound too crude.

Skank [s-kank] adjective - A favourite weird-looking dance performed by mats and minahs. Usually done at any of the various gigs that mats and minahs love to congregate at. At times, you do detect evidence of artistry in the dance but most of the time they just look like they've been possessed by the ghost of a restless retard.

Sowie [soh-wee] adjective – An expression of apology used by minahs. Commonly used in SMS and instant messaging. Actually they can just use the word “sorry” like every normal human being but minahs think that it will make them sound extra cute to deliberately talk that way. Example : “I will be late. Sowie!”

Step [se-tep] adjective – To beguile, dissimulate or impersonate something or someone that they are not. Also commonly used to describe a fellow mat or minah who acts in an arrogant manner. E.g.“Kau jangan nak step tak tahu eh?” Translation: Don't you dare feign innocence in this matter. Can also be used as a gerund e.g. “stepping”. See next entry.

Step Jambu [se-tep jam-boo] adjective - What minahs do when they are sitting alone in a train and a group of mats walk in. It is a general exercise where the minah “controls” her facial muscles and posture in a way that would make her look her best. This would usually involve looking incessantly at her handphone for no particular reason.

Stoppit [setop-eet] adjective – A general expression of intolerance and dismay. When a minah uses this phrase, be very careful for it signals that she is about to lose her cool or get very violent.

Usually directed by minahs in an annoyed manner, followed by the postfix “seh”, “siak” or “sial”. (See entry for “sial” above) Eg: Apasal ngan perangai kau hari ni? Stopitsiak! Translation : What's up with your attitude today? Enough of it already for goodness' sake!”

What I Did During Hubby's Absence...

It's only been a day since hubby left for his work trip to Malaysia and I'm missing him already... Imagine how would it feels like if he were to be on an outstation trip for a month or be it a week!! sheesh... (To Baba if you're reading this: I'm missing you already...Thank you for being there by my side while I was in the Alexandra Hospital A&E Dept the other night. Your presence really helped and it calmed me a lot. May Allah bless you for your responsibility as a good husband and father to our family. Love you lots!!)

So what did I do during the hubby's absence? I went to Chong Pang Central with little Asil... Bought lady blouses at $18 for 2 pieces. Great price!! I mean, the blouses doesn't look like $9 per piece to me at all... So I was quite surprised when I found out that 2 pieces had only cost me 18 bucks!! Cheap cheap cheap!!

Then after that, went to grab some snacks for little Asil as he was basically feeling hungry... I bought 2 little shirts for the babies at $2 each at another shop... Cheap I tell you... Then, went to MCP Supermarket to buy some groceries for the mom... Met the mom under the void deck of our crib to hand over the groceries to her before making a move to meet up with Aunt Mama Yang at the Woodlands Civic Centre where she needed to get some of her errands done there...

While waiting for her, I saw this little booth shops selling apparels and stuffs... One of the booth had caught my eyes and guess what!! They were selling apparels at $5 per piece!! OMG!! That's so freaking CHEAP!! Me? What kinda action did I do next after seeing the '$5 sign' on the booth? Shop la... What else... 5 bucks you know... Damn cheap... The quality of the apparels were quite good too!! So I bought like 3 pieces of it... One for me, one for the cousin Lala and another one for the aunt Mama Yang... Murah giler dok!! Little Asil? What was he doing? He was basically smiling around, showing his cute little chubby face to almost all of the women there... Cheeky little baby... :)

So OK, the aunt and her youngest daughter, Yaya arrived shortly... Followed the aunt to settle her stuffs at the bank before making our way to the Causeway Point Shopping Centre... So little Yaya had this 'thing' for 'crafts'... So yeah, we went to this craft shop... Yaya wanted to do some crafting... And we let her do her craft thingy before going to the Banquet Food Court to have our lunch...

After that, we went to the aunt's crib and chilled there for a while... Both the aunt and I tried on our clothings... Yaya doing her school homework... Little Asil watching Madagascar... bla bla bla... Got ourselves ready for our next trip tooooooo - Sembawang Shopping Centre... Met up with cousin Lala at the Woodlands Interchange took a bus to the place and met up with my mom, little bro Adam and my daughter, little Asyura there...

We had our dinner at Madina's... The food was OK la... Not that delicious as how it used to be... Coz da lame jugak tak makan kat sane... After that we went back to S.S.C... Had a little grocery shopping again but this time grocery shopping's done at GIANT Supermarket situated in the basement...

Pictures uploaded...

Hubby's Going On A Short Working Trip To Malaysia...

So hubby's work trip to Malaysia was already planned and confirmed since December last year... His company had assigned him to take up a 'Welding Course' there and learn a few things... Basically, he'll be going there by coach, with his Manager and Supervisor on January 7th (today) and will only be back in Singapore on January 9th... Food and stay will be provided at the Sunway Pyramid, Petaling Jaya...

Gosh!! How I wish I could tag along and meet up with my cousins there again... Jealous aku!! I still miss K.L you know!! I miss everything there!! boo hoo hoo...

Anyway, he was told that his company had some plans for him... Better prospects? Better pay? Promoted? Well, I don't know... As a wife, I'm happy for him... Well, we should improve ourselves, learn new stuffs instead of just getting stuck in the comfort zone...

I always pray and hope for the best in our lives... I'm thankful to have a hubby who could get along very well with me... We share the same views and visions... Doing and managing things on our own instead of depending on others is a huge challenge to us both...

Have a safe journey Baba... We'll gonna miss you...!! :) Love you lots!! Mmmmmuah!!

Let The Posters Do The Talking...

Posters courtesy from http://pkskrukut.multiply.com/photos/album/4/BOIKOT_PRODU

What A Great Weekend!! :)

Salam people!!

So my weekend was great... We went to Marina Barrage with my youngest bro, Adam & nephew, Khai last Saturday... The place, I tell you... It was fan-tas-tic!! It was so windy and breezy... The architectural design of that place was pretty impressive... I should give a credit to whoever it was that designed the Marina Barrage... A great place to chill!!

We went to have a late dinner at the Beach Road Food Centre and went home after that only to realise that we had forgotten to pay for the food that we ate... hee hee... Seriously, we totally forgot to pay the 'Mamak' for our food...

The next day, we went to have a little family picnic at the Seletar Dam... Took some pictures bla bla bla... And got home just in time for the world news...

I was basically feeling very angry about the war between the freaking children of Israel and the poor Palestinians... Bloody hell!! Wonder when will this war end... When will this abomination end... Casualties and corpses everywhere... Children... Many helpless children injured and killed... Bloody wretched ISRAEL!! YOU AND YOUR FREAKING JACKASS SOLDIERS!! Ehud Olmert - YOU HAVE A HEART OF STONE... It's a WAR between YOU and the HAMAS!! But why do the Palestinian people get involved? Why bombed their hospitals? Why killed their children? Why bombed their houses and schools? It's just between you and the Hamas... So why go on killing thousands and thousands of innocent lives? Why? Why? Why? You bloody freak!! WHY?

I pray to Allah swt that you will get what you truly deserve one day. Insya'allah!! Amin...

I wonder... Where's help when we needed one? What's the point of forming the United Nation when they can't do a single thing to help stop this war of hatred? Why is America staying in silence? Why isn't there any action taken over Israel? Why? Why? Why? Where's the justice? Where's the peace for humanity?

So what did I do to help our fellow Palestinians? I wrote this - ISRAELI FORCES MOVE INTO GAZA. DEAR FELLOW MUSLIMS, LET US PRAY FOR THE SAFETY OF OUR FELLOW MUSLIMS IN PALESTINE. THE ELDERLY, DISABLED AND CHILDREN. THEY ARE THE ONES WHO SUFFERED TREMENDOUS PAIN. LET US ALL PRAY TOGETHER AND SEEK ALLAH'S HELP TO STOP THIS ABOMINATION. PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO ALL MUSLIMS. THANK YOU AND MAY ALLAH REPAY YOUR KIND DEEDS.

So I forwarded the message that I wrote thru sms to everyone that I know... This is the best that I could do to help them... I just hope those whom I forwarded the sms to would in turn forward it to others... To those of you who's reading this, please please please a thousand please... HELP TO SPREAD THIS MESSAGE AROUND. Let us all pray for the safety of our fellow Palestinians and seek Allah's help to STOP THIS WAR!! Please spread this message around...

STOP THIS WAR!! SAVE THE PALESTINIANS!!

The Event Of December 31st, 2008...

OK, I'm actually still in a state of shock after what had happened to hubby and me in the afternoon of New Year's Eve... I'll elaborate more on the incident...

December 31st...

Woke up pretty early in the morning (about 9 plus) coz I need to be ready for my jab appointment at the KK Women's and Children's Hospital before I start work at 2pm later on... Hubby's gonna be the one to send me there and while waiting for him, I brought little Asil for a little stroll down at the void deck...

Once hubby arrived, we headed back home to send little Asil up before driving to the hospital... Instead of riding his bike, hubby decided to drive us to there... So yeap... We hopped into our car and drove off to our appointed destination...

Everything went smoothly, from my jab to our lunch and to the part where we had a discussion on my blogshop thingy (Yes!! I'm gonna be opening my blogshop soon. Insya'allah... Still need some brushing up to do... So you guys watch out for it ya!!) then while driving along Upper Thomson Road towards Yishun, there's this bloody freak woman driver in front of our vehicle, who, all of a sudden, did an emergency brake in the middle of the road!! Hubby managed to pull his emergency brake in time in order not to hit the back of the woman's car... I mean, we managed to pull a brake but we're just inches away from her car... And, just as we thought it's OK, there's this freaking other car with this freak man driver, who, in like a split second, hit our car from the back... I tell you, the impact... it's shocking!! I was screaming my lungs out man!! We're just glad we had our saftey seat belts on... Alhamdulillah nothing happened to us... But the CARRRRRRRR... OMFG!! Our CARRRRRR... It got so freaking distorted... Boo hoo hoo... I was so not happy about the hit and all... Thank god I had my digicam with me everywhere I go and I managed to take a few pics of the dent marks on all 3 cars... Our car being in the middle, got the most hit... Sheesh... Curse that women and her e-break!! Bloody hell!! And that guy whose car hit the ass of my car!! You freaking people... Urghhh!! I thank god that I didn't have my babies tagging along with me... Imagine what would happened to them if they were to tag along... Subhanallah!! Syukur Ya Allah!! My babies weren't with us when it happened...

So here comes the best part...

The freaking woman decided to make a big 'hoo-haa' and expected us to pay for the damaged done to her CAR!! Freaking hell!! By then I was so feeling pissed already but hubby was keeping himself cool and simply listened to whatever crap that woman said... My temper was already on the verge of blowing up... You know, the hit impact, the damages to my car, the pain I got from my jab, the stress coming from doing my month-end closing later in the office and now this big hoo-haa crap?! Halo!! Your freaking car isn't the only car who got distorted!! Mine too!! And ours was worst!! Ours was hit both front and back!!

Me (trying to control my anger), "What? You expect us to pay your damages in cash?"

She (looking so 'ya-ya'), "Ya, because you hit my car that's why you have to pay lor..."

Me (already about to blow off), "You freakingly did an emergency brake in the middle of the freaking road!! My husband saw what you did and immediately, he did an emergency brake too!! We didn't even hit your car although we were just inches away from it!! Our car hit yours only when the back car hit ours!! And why on earth are you doing an emergency brake in the middle of the freaking lane?!!"

She (trying to act blur), "I had no choice lor, the car infront of me did an e-brake so I also did an e-brake lor..."

Me (freakingly pissed already), "What!! You had no choice!! What about us!! What choice do we have when the impact from the back car had also made an impact on yours!! And where's your so-called front car?!! Hey!! We didn't hit your car not until the freaking man driver hit us from behind!!"

Hubby (playing himself cool and talking to the woman), "OK nevermind, you give me your contact number and later I will contact you."

Me (frowning at him for interrupting my arguement with the woman), "Ape!! Nak call diyebalek?!!"

Hubby (ushing me towards our car), "Tak pe, kite relax dulu... Masok dalam kreta nanti bole bual..."

As for the the man driver who hit our car from behind, we managed to negotiate with him and decided to let our car insurance company handle the matter for us...

So we sent to our car to the nearest workshop that had been appointed to deal with our car accident and insurance claim... Guess what? It happened to be Cheng Hoe Motor Services!! The workshop that my workplace had appointed to deal with all our company's vehicle accident and insurance claim too!! Alhamdulillah!! Woo hoo!! We're pretty lucky coz I know the staffs there and they are happy to assist me anytime and anywhere... hee hee... (Thanks June for your kind assistance!! You really helped us a lot!! And the car you rented to us? The car's great too!! Kreta baru u!!)

As for the woman and me, we both had come to a conclusion of getting everything done thru our respective insurance agent... NO CASH INVOLVED!!

I ended up starting work late... Arrived in the office at about 4 plus in the late afternoon... (Thanks Baba for sending Ummi to work!!) And ended up doing my month-end closing of account till 8 plus in the evening... pfft...

After that hubby came to fetch me with the babies, my mom and bro Adam tagging along coz aunt Mama Yang and family had organized a barbeque at the Down Town East Pasir Ris NTUC Chalet. So yeap, hubby dropped us off there before making his move towards Hougang for his class...

Almost everyone's at the chalet... No pictures taken coz I left my digicam in the office in a rush of leaving the place... pfft... So I decided to use cousin Lala's photo shots instead... hee hee... (La!! Aku amek gamba kau siket ye... Maceh!! Mmmmuah!!)

OK, photos via SLIDE...

[Oh!! And to my bro Alep girlfriend, Khat MEOW - Thanks for your opinion on the lappy thingy... Perhaps I'll consider... I've got one lappy in mind though. It's ACER ASPIRE 4395. ;)]