The difference between a leader & a critic is that a leader has to make decisions, abide by his decision & face the consequences, whereas a critic only pour criticism without bearing any responsibility (Malaysia 4th Prime Minister, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohammed)

Monday 28 June 2010

Sophie Kinsella reveals the title of her next book

OMG... Becky Bloomwood is back...

OMG..OMG..OMG...
my heart beat nearly stop just now...hehe...

Guess what... Rebecca Bloomwood nee Brandon is back...
hehe...after waiting for quite sometimes...
Sophie Kinsella, my fav author of the world did it again...

it all starts..when i am just googling MPH Online just now..
and I saw "it"...

this is the cover sell online by MPH...
Price : RM69.90 but for online purchase is RM48.93 (30% disc,oh so cheap)
further inquery can browse through MPH Online


then.. i did extend my google search on Mini Shopaholic..
& i found this cover...
picture credit to Chick Lit Review

oh... i am so in love with the second cover...
especially with the phrase "like mother, like daughter"..hehe...

ok..now the sad new is..
this book only will be due on September 2010...
ohh...i am so over the moon just now (hehe, so exaggerated)...
(Sorry ek Dr SMS, i x need soyuz to be on top of the moon, i just need some inspirational berangan je, haha)

n rite now..i am back on earth..(can u beleive it)...
frowning on my face...
oh come on...September is 2 months away..
it felt like i have to wait zillion years..huh...

but think it postively..hey that will be great..
as mini shopaholic will be perfect gift for my bday this year..hehe...
so i guess.. i just need to wait lorr..
now i start counting time..hehe...

anyway..this is the synopsis of Mini Shoppaholic series.. enjoice...haha

Becky Brandon thought motherhood would be a breeze -- but it's trickier than she thought. Two year-old Minnie has created havoc everywhere from Harrods to her own christening. She hires taxis at random, her favorite word is "mine", and she already has a penchant for Balenciaga bags. Becky is at her wits' end. On top of this, she and Luke are still living with her mom and dad, there's a big financial crisis so everyone's having to cut back -- including all her personal shopping clients -- and her husband Luke is feeling low after the death of his beloved stepmother. To cheer him up, Becky decides to throw Luke a surprise birthday party -- on a budget -- and that's when things become really complicated. Becky tries to keep the arrangements secret and soon she's told so many fibs she can't keep track of them... Will Becky pull off the surprise? Will Minnie give everything away? And what will happen when Becky discovers Luke is keeping a big secret, too?

Saturday 26 June 2010

Sean Kingston Feat. Justin Bieber - Eenie Meenie

oh... i love it..JB & Sean Kingston..so cool..hehe...

Kerangkaian Ikan Bakar @ Seri Manjung

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June 10, 2010
Tapau @ Kerangkaian Ikan Bakar @ Seri Manjung...
Lot 5132, Jalan Lumut,
32040, Seri Manjung.


From Left top - Nasi Goreng Durhaka Mertua (haha, so funny, but it's real),
Fried Mee Hoon & Chinese Fried Rice...
From Left Below - Kampung style fried rice, Nasi Paprik & Telur Bistik

Clockwise - Deep fried calamari, Steam Seabass,
Steam Gravy & 360 degrees pic for our dinner..hehe..

Yong Tau Fu & all kind of rojak available here too..
i even tapau the y.taufu..hehe

Western foods are available too...

Pick or choose ur seafood... self service...



Decluttering @ Becky Shoppaholic Way

Hola...it's been a while... i am too bz holiday n travel..so x have time for blogging...
i'm back in jb now...oh home sweet home..hehe

i am a fan of shopaholic aka sophie kinsella books... in one of her shopaholic series..
shoppaholic takes manhattan..

suze becky bff stated that decluttering can make u feel good..
in fact it is like feng shui.." u have to let things out of ur life to allow the new good things in".
ahaks..so that is what I did on 1st june 2010..decluttering my wardrobe..hehe...

Some of my baju kurung...old skool huh...haha...
omg..i cannot believe i have all sort of colours n prints..hehe...

Friday 11 June 2010

Fatty Cafe @ Billion, Manjung

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June 10, 2010
Lunch at Fatty Cafe Manjung, Perak


Menu...

Clockwise : Sambal Nyonya Squid Rice , Asam Pedas Chicken Rice, Steak & Kuetiaw Soup
Price : RM5.50, RM5.50, RM18 & cannot remember..haha..
Taste = As I just ate the steak, so the steak score = 0.05/5 
(The beef taste gross & too chewy, omg, my jaw hurt..ouch...)
Service = 2/5 
(So slow even for the beverages.Plus the self service make it worse as it makes everything in chaos..phew)


Fried Wantan. We love the wantan..it is nice..thank god :-)
Price = forgot lor, but i guess around RM4 (9 pieces).

Thursday 10 June 2010

Happy Birthday...

My dearest chang-chang...

this is for u dear...

(Picture credit to zimbio.com)

Icelandic = Til hamingju med afmaelisdaginn
Italian = Buon Compleanno
Latin = Fortuna dies natalis
Spanish = Feliz Cumplea-os
French = Joyeux Anniversaire

Happy Bday in 161 different language
credit to http://www.shabbir.com/romance/bday.html

Wednesday 9 June 2010

Otanjou-bi Omedetou Gozaimasu!

My dearest chang-chang...
Sheng Ri Kuai Le...
Wish u happiness & may Allah bless u n family always...
Banzai...Banzai...Banzai....


Otanjou-bi Omedetou Gozaimasu!

My dearest chang-chang...
Sheng Ri Kuai Le...

Single = Freedom

 Single = freedom?
Really... well, i did realized that Sharing is Caring..but duh..
Being Single..u can do whatever u want..hehe..

Call me Commitment freak..
but i still do not beleive in marriage & everlasting love...
anyway.. who cares about being hook up..
as long as I am happy.. wo de jia ren happy...chang-chang also happy... 
screw it up to those who keep boasting they are happily married..like i care..haha..

Here are article i took from the star online today.. 

Published: Wednesday June 9, 2010 MYT 9:28:00 AM 

(Credit to http://thestar.com.my/)

Always single, happy that way: 

'Shut up about it!'


NEW YORK: Not all older single ladies want a ring on it, and they have a message for relatives, co-workers, neighbors, friends, acquaintances and life's random buttinskys who think they need one: Shut up already!
They have other messages: We are not all sad. We are not all divorced, unlucky in love or unlovable. We are not all gay (and even if we were, have we not evolved as a culture, even just a little, to stop making that assumption? Don't answer that.)

Singledom and a massive case of "singlism" are red hot right now as short hair, softball and being single at 50 swirl around Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, and Samantha Jones cracks menopause jokes at 54 as she romps in the desert with her three fab friends in "Sex and the City 2."

For women, say 45 and up, who are living single and always have, it is a chronically sizzling subject as they face down the seemingly unstoppable tangle of stereotypes that has plagued them forEVER: Old Maid. Desperate. Quirky. Cougar. Incapable of committing. Workaholic. Bitter. Damaged goods.

"There always has to be something wrong," said Rose Clayton, 48, who works in the tasting room of a winery in Alexandria, Virginia, and always has been single. "It's always, ohhh, what's wrong? I always go, 'With me you mean? Or other people?"'

Imagine being happy and nobody believes you, she said. "I have plenty of friends, family. I go out and do things. I travel, go to dinner and parties, socialize."

Social psychologist Bella DePaulo is 56 and happily an always-single near Santa Barbara, California. She has been trying to turn off the stereotypes and end the stigma, first through a book, "Singled Out," and now a blog called Living Single for Psychologytoday.com.

Older, single women often are painted as what DePaulo called "quirkyalones" when really they're "singles at heart" and wouldn't have it any other way.

Even more important, perhaps, she asks why we're still desperately trying to suck them into the "Matrimania" vortex?

"The single at heart are not looking for long-term coupling, whereas quirkyalones still romanticise the quest for The One, and that makes the quirkyalone less threatening, easier to understand," DePaulo said.
Over-the-top hyping of marriage and coupling, including "wedding porn" that includes TV ads selling everything from muffins to motor oil, was not necessary back when everybody got married, when they divorced less and when women had little opportunity for financial security or having children outside of marriage.

In 1970, 28% of the U.S. population was divorced, widowed or never married.

By 2008, it was 45.2%, with single women 45 and older 27 million strong across those categories.
According to a 2009 census report, 11.5% of women between the ages of 45 and 49 had never been married, up from 10.7% in 2005. For women 50 to 54, it was 10%, compared with 8.7% four years earlier.
Negative assumptions about living single and older do not pack the wallop of other "isms," like racism, DePaulo said. "There's no consciousness raising. The stereotypes are so rarely challenged."
Betsy Robinson, 59, is madly in love with the single life she's always had.
"I remember really lighting into my grandmother when I was in my 20s for referring to a time when I was going to get married," said the writer in New York City.

"I told her never, and I think she went into shock. She was the sweetest person in the world, and I got really mad at her."

Not so much has changed in nearly four decades, said Robinson, who has been following media coverage and commentary on Kagan's single status and coded speculation about her sexual orientation.
Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer (the one who resigned over hiring a high-priced hooker) is Kagan's friend from Princeton University. He went so far as to tell Politico, a Washington insider political newspaper: "I did not go out with her, but other guys did."

Living happily single without hunting for a mate, or living happily single while dating, especially outside one's age range, the stereotypes never end.

Take the cougar craze. Kim Cattrall, Samantha in the Sex and the City movies, recently questioned the term, for herself and her character in the movies.

"I think cougar has a negative connotation," she told Extra, a show biz television show.
"I was asked recently by a significant magazine for women over 40 to pose with a cougar, and I refused to do it because I felt it was insulting. They took away the cover because I refused to do so."
DePaulo said friends, family, colleagues and the world at large sometimes can more easily get their minds around an older single woman interested in younger men, or any man, than a woman who makes it clear she is not and really likes her life without that goal in mind.

"I think there's really a belief that if you get married you are actually a better person than a single person," she said.

Like Cattrall's Samantha, 45-year-old Lori Goodwine in Las Vegas, Nevada, has her own public relations firm.

She loves how her life is "really focused on me," but falls somewhere in the middle on the issue of a long-term relationship.

Ideally, she said, she would love to have "a great guy around," so long as he does not live with her.
"If I hear one more time, 'You're not married? You don't have a kid? Are you gay?' I'm going to scream," she said.

"My life is pretty fabulous, a 'Sex and the City' story with the occasional pair of $500 shoes that I get on sale. I feel great about my life."

Food - North Malaysia

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June 4, 2010
Hey..who said only JB got hao chi food..hehe..
in Perak also can ma..

Nice & indeed interesting packaging as it kinda like paperbag... 
convenient to bring anywhere...

Taste = 3/5...
Of course cannot compare with Dunkin Donut or J Co ma..hehe...

Ceaser Salad...nice...
Taste = 5/5

Small & short cucumber..hehe... 1st time for me to see it...haha...
Taste - same like any ordinary cucumber :0)

North....

June 4, 2010
Holiday... Holiday...Holiday...Yahoo....


i luv astro..haha..since in jb no astro ma..
so we kind of excited with astro channel..
but now not anymore... bored already...haha

Friday 4 June 2010

Visiting cum holiday...

ni hao...
it's been a long long time ago..since we come & stay with our beloved dad
really miss his place..hehe...
we starts our journey on wednesday (June 2, 2010)

Since i forgot to take picture of JB signboard during our journey..
so i have to borrow again the photo of Johor flag...
pic credit to myfareast.org

Only 1/4 of our journey... helo chang-chang : )

Half way through of e journey...
we continue our journey to visit dad the next day (June 3, 2010)...

long long ride..luckily we slept one nite at s.alam...
from south to north.. it tooks around 8 hour.. so long la..
i can't imagine how my dad did it by driving alone..huh.. salute u la ayah.. : )

We finally exit the PLUS highway.. &
now..go through jalan lamer (2 ways road)...
 
xià yǔ when we exit PLUS hway..exit 130..


still not there... & rite now..all of us wanted to pee2 k..huhu...
where on earth can we find the toilet.. it is not PLUS higgway ma..huhu..

 
 I tend to forget bout my "business" a while.. as i am savouring the beautiful scenery & image..
just look at the crowd of buffalo.. u x find it in city ma..so amazing..subhanallah...

 Still x toilet...hwarghh...haru


we have found the toilet at R&R..but mom told me e toilet is so dirty..
eugh...i decided to hold it further.. 
as my mom told me..it's only 45 minutes away from my dad home..
wargh...it's ok.. it's still can be KIV...huhu...
anyway.. this pic.. we called it Jambatan panjang...
 & i still wondering..
how come my pic x so creative 
like chang-chang..hehe, any tips dear?
Paddy field.. Subhanallah..
wish u were here chang-chang :-)


boats & coconut trees...
however...still..no toilet.. hwargh3...

Finally.....tq Mobil toilet..erk..i mean Mobil owner...
so relieved....haha..

almost there... : )


Finally...alhamdulillah...