Monday, August 30, 2010

Tasty and Beautiful !!

Yesterday...through Fb.. my aunt tagged me in one of her cakes/cupcakes albums...

Marlboro Cigarette Box.



Stunning work and wonderfully done!!Cool...

Banyak lagi collection yang 'WOWWWWW' from http://ayannmama.blogspot.com
They look beautiful and they taste great too...

Gorgeous! I really love the sweetness of this design.


I can't resist myself to keep an eye on this beautiful cake..
Elegant....Love the cake stand...:)





Adorable cupcakes



Cookies...

Saya suka yang ini...Love letters cookies


Suka??
To order, please let me know or simply email ayannmama@gmail.com or call 019-2837990 or 019-2862680 .Banyak lagi design yang cantik-cantik @ http://ayannmama.blogspot.com/




Ni la budak Azyan yang rajin dan pandai buat kek yang cantik-cantik...
Dah besar , cantik (yan, jangan kombang bonar)...tapi di mata saya...dia masih lagi sepupu kecil saya yang 'kecoh...mulut cit cit cit..macam burung' :).Selalu bising budak ni kata 'Kita dah besar la...' .

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Istana Bambu

Minggu lepas dapat jemputan berbuka puasa dekat Istana Bambu, tepi MRR2.
Famous tempat ni, orang selalu sebut-sebut...kata cantik la, sedap la, orang selalu buat shooting kat sini la,artis selalu datang sini la, Dato' Siti suka makan sini la,kat Fb pun orang sibuk tag2 gambar Istana Bambu ni suruh pergi.
Konsep restoran daripada buluh, ada sawah padi,ada air terjun mini..serving Live Seafood & Nusantara Cuisine .Paling best, dia ala2 konsep privasi sembunyi cak cak ...ada pondok kecik-kecik macam wakaf ..

Pix Courtesy of Istana Bambu Facebook.



Rupa-rupanya .....di antara orang-orang penting di sebalik Istana Bambu ni, merupakan orang yang sangat dikenali :). Alhamdulillah, tumpang bangga...dan doakan yang baik-baik aje.Amin. Lain kali belanja lagi ok. :). Tapi review tetap review ye...takde punya berat sebelah ...hehe.

Masa mula-mula dapat jemputan, malasnyaaa nak pergi, sebabnya daripada Cyberjaya nak ke area MRR2 tu...punya lah sesak, tambahan lagi bulan puasa kan.Tapi, rupanya ok je...kejap je dah sampai. Budak2 laki kat office ni bising la kata senang, ada jalan tak sesak.... Tapi betul la, senang aje.

Daripada cyberjaya, masuk MEX(putrajaya-kl highway)...terus je sampai keluar kat Jalan Tun Razak. Terus lagi lalu la depan Tabung Haji (lambai2 dulu kat Intan Dayana)...sampai jumpa Highway Ampang tuh(ada orang panggil DUKE, ada orang panggil lebuhraya bertingkat). Ha, masuk situ. Pastu keluar kat Gombak...punya exit kot...sebelum Ampang Jaya punya Exit. Keluar kat situ, kena U turn rasanya kat depan tu...dah nampak tepi jalan. Istana Bambu tu dekat je dengan Exit AU keramat, dekat dengan kilang TEXAS tu,betul2 tepi MRR2...menghala ke Ampang Point.

Nak review food susah sikit la. Sebab makan Buffet Ramadhan harga RM49.00. So, food terhad. Boleh bagi pendapat untuk makanan yang rasa hari tu jela.Honestly, pilihan makanan tak se gah nama nya...tapi sangat berbaloi dengan harga.Pilihan memang sikit...mula-mula sampai tu macam frust je...ala, ni je ke. But..surprisingly.. the food turned out to be better than expected, semuanya ada rasa, sedap, pedas(nyum nyum).Cuma, kalau lambat2 sangat makanan cepat habis. Kena pantas dan cekap.

Laksa -pedas dan sedap, cukup rasa
Ikan Bakar- Superb(sos dia pedas dan sedap)
Butter Prawn - Consider ok untuk buffet yang harga macam ni..
Kuih Muih - Ok. Tapi agar-agar tak sedap
Bubur-Sedap
Teh Tarik-Sedap.
Service -OK
Surau- Perlu diperbaiki...bak kata Aufa...'horror la tempat ambik air sembahayang dia kak'.
Lokasi  dan suasana: Rasa macam kat kampung. Tak percaya je kat luar tuAmpang, ye la...kita dok sibuk duduk dalam buluh, ada sawah padi, ada kolam ikan.

Kesimpulannya : Nak datang lagi time bukan bulan puasa, nak bawak family. :)

PIX : Terima Kasih buat 'Tini Basri' yang jadi photographer tak rasmi kami hari tu... :). TQ

The main entrance ...

Abah tengok mesti nak tiru ni...



... purely from bamboos ...


Ni tempat kitorang makan last week, dining area concept , boleh cater a large group of diners ... sesuai untuk company event . Tapi, bila kenyang...nak bersila tu...ada susah sikit la. Hehe. Tersandar kekenyangan.


Lovely

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Jatuh Cinta

Mula-mula dengar lagu ni kat You Tube, terus jatuh cinta...
Pergi kerja tadi, dengar CD dalam kereta masa drive...hmm...rasa sangat sayu..

Pix Courtesy of Google


Insha Allah
By: Maher Zain

Everytime you feel like you cannot go on
You feel so lost
That your so alone
All you is see is night
And darkness all around
You feel so helpless
You can’t see which way to go
Don’t despair and never loose hope
Cause Allah is always by your side


Insha Allah x3
Insya Allah you’ll find your way
Everytime you commit one more mistake
You feel you can’t repent
And that its way too late
Your’re so confused, wrong decisions you have made
Haunt your mind and your heart is full of shame
Don’t despair and never loose hope
Cause Allah is always by your side


Insha Allah x3
Insya Allah you’ll find your way
Insha Allah x3
Insya Allah you’ll find your way


Turn to Allah
He’s never far away
Put your trust in Him
Raise your hands and pray
OOO Ya Allah
Guide my steps don’t let me go astray
You’re the only one that showed me the way,
Showed me the way x2


Insha Allah x3
Insya Allah we’ll find the way


...syahdunya bila dengar...especially when we feel so lost..so inspirational
Honestly, I cried when i heard that song ,sangat beautiful & inspiring...

Summary of his biography (TQ to http://maher-zain.blogspot.com):
he was born in lebanon then his family moved to Sweden when Maher was only 8 With things changing around him, one thing remained the same – his strong passion for music
he said:
I loved the music but I hated everything that surrounded it, it always felt like something wasn’t right”.
he worked with artists like Akon, Lady Gaga, Enrique Iglesias, Brandy, New Kids on the Block, and Michael Jackson .
he met a group of brothers who were active in the Islamic community in Stockholm and he started regularly attending his local mosque that he felt like he’d reached ‘home’.
Maher feels blessed to able to finally find the right way, and feels like it’s his turn now to help others through his music to do the same:
“If I had one thing I’d like to tell people out there it would be that it’s so easy to see the right way if we just open our eyes and look properly; that’s what happened to me.”

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

... part of my beautiful uplifting morning routine...

....is to do SUDOKU.

Tak perasan pun sebelum ni.Perasan bila ada officemate tegur pagi tadi 'Pagi-pagi mesti berkerut-kerut kau ni....'... :)
I used to read the newspaper with breakfast....Everytime I pick up my morning paper,only glance through the headlines...kalau menarik , sambung baca kat dalam kereta waktu jam or kat office kalau sampai awal. Yang penting start to search for the cartoon + sudoku page plus Sale2 yang menarik yang perlu ditelek dan dikaji...mau pergi ke tak mau..

Tapi, bulan puasa kan takde morning breakfast....so, buat dekat office je la b4 start buat keje.
SUDOKU is becoming part of my routine...


These are my favorite comic strips from the newspaper...

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson


Garfield by Jim Davis



satu lagi my fav...Dilbert by Scott Adams

Start your day with something happy and fun .
Create your beautiful uplifting morning routine ...:)

Monday, August 23, 2010

Sawadika, Kapunka...


Hari Jumaat, berbuka kat Marriot Putrajaya. Hmmm, banyak pilihan...tapi tak sesedap berbuka kat rumah. Lain la feel berbuka kat luar, tapi orang dah jemput...kita pergi la dengan hati terbuka :)

Hari Sabtu, hari shopping, seharian kat luar...ambik baju raya yang tempah b4 puasa, cari apa yang patut kat Garden Mid Valley, lepas tu singgah bandar tun razak..buka puasa dengan mak abah.Wah, beriya tahun niabah dengan mak beraya. Macam-macam projek kat rumah tu. Sampai berabuk,bertebuk, ber bling2...takpe...ni kita update later ok.

Hari Ahad, relax2 kat rumah...OPS Laundry, OPS, Sawang,OPS Kuih Raya (ops...ni tak sempat buat la), OPS masak memasak....
Tahun ni so far, boleh kira berapa kali je beli. Selalunya balik kerja masak yang simple-simple je. Berdua je pun. Kalau ikut tekak sendiri memang layang simple-simple je...sardin goreng, ikan perkasam,telur masak kicap, ikan kembung goreng, kuah singgang, asam pedas, ikan masin, celur bayam...ha tu semua peberet bukak puasa.Tapi kena consider tekak orang lain...hehehe. Seronok bila dia excited kita masak beriya2. Kalau masak beriya...macam hari balik kerja hari tu masak nasik lemak kukus, sambal ikan bilis tradisional, ayam goreng berempah...teruskena puji 'I have the best wife in the world',cakap dengan penuh perasaan...hahahahhaa...over kan kalau dapat makan ayam.Cuba den masak singgang je... :)

So hari Ahad tu...kat rumah siap bukak kedai Thai lagi ye ..menu2 nya semua la makanan thai
Sawadika..

Kita mula dengan........Kalahari Kurma dapat kat office. Besar betul Tengok tu, lagi besar daripada sudu besar.

Ikan siakap 3 rasa..



Sedap, semua cukup rasa. Ada rasa pedas, ada rasa nampla, ada rasa masam limau kasturi, ada rasa manis sos yang ada gambar perempuan thai, ada rasa daun limau purut tanam kat depan rumah...bukan 3 rasa dah ni.

Kailan ikan masin tenggiri jeruk...yang fresh...goreng kejap je...api besar minyak panas.



Lepas tu goreng telur dadar, buat sup ayam.
Kuih, popia seafood bersira sos.


Popia seafood ni boleh buat sendiri...letak sayur, seafood...balut pakai kulit poia yang beli kat kedai...pastu goreng.Nak beli yang segera tu pun boleh.

Sira kan dengan sos thai...tapi jangan lama sangan dalam kuali ...nanti crispy dia hilang. Sedap...makan berdua pun berebut...teruk betul.

Benda wajib yang tak boleh miss lepas kekenyangan..hb mesti mintak my double dark choc chip cookies. Tengok...dah luak banyak mana? Baru puasa yang keberapa je ni..haishh


Penat masak pun hilang bila orang yang makan tu hatinya berbunga-bunga suka...


Kapunka...

Cerita pasal bunga...hmm lepas balik raya bunga-bunga kat garden tu wajib la kena ganti kot...

Bunga 3 bulan yang beli kat cameron ni hidup lagi ke kalau dah 2 minggu takde kat rumah...

Bunga rose pun apa la cerita balik dari kampung nanti...tinggal batang je la kot kan...

Friday, August 20, 2010

Dawn till Dusk

A peaceful Ramadhan untuk semua...:).
Tak dapat nak update blog selalu. Masa rasa sangat suntuk.Sangat bz ... starting from dawn till dusk.
Ketika hb masih nyenyak tidur, slowly I brush my teeth and then make my way downstairs to the kitchen and prepare our sahur meal....hmm...bermulalah segala rutin yang sangat pack selama sebulan. Hujung minggu lepas adalah antara yang terbaik, semoga hari-hari yang mendatang adalah  lebih baik.

Wonderful IFTAR with my family... @ Kota Damansara
**Maksu, tq untuk gambar. Beautiful pix courtesy of http://mamatiamia.blogspot.com/

Unique blend of aroma : food and love


'Blame' maksu sebab menyediakan space yang sangat cozy...sampai tumbang kekenyangan selepas maghrib :).Uwan relax je lagi...hehe

Priceless moment

Esoknya, Dik La call kata nak datang berbuka di Setia Alam with Kak Nor & Family ..
Let's all take this opportunity to welcome Ramadhan with kasih sayang. Ignore all the hatred...



Comfy cocoon :)

Dik la tolong goreng karipap...Naqeeb terliur je tengok...




We are grateful and thankful for the food we get..


Bila dah kecoh2 berebut tu, sapa nak tambah nasik...kena la layan diri. :)



Truly Happy.
It didn't turn out so perfect, but the hours of effort meant a lot to my husband....



Dapat jemputan berbuka puasa daripada Kak Nor & Abang Sham di puncak alam besoknya...

Nice time, nice food, nice people...


You really can't buy happiness..


Layan video-video lama, memang best. :).
Operasi kuih raya sudah bermula...




Kena buat lagi. Balang sudah tinggal separuh... :)

I enjoy every part of Ramadan....
And the most rewarding moment to me, is during the time of Iftar...with my family ..
Thank you Allah for the food , companion and the beautiful blessings....