Hari Raya Pre-u2000

This is a bit of a stale story... But eventful nonetheless!!

Mah, Y, Nul and I met at Spotlight Tampines the morning of 4th Dec04. We hired a van which happened to be Noor Mohd Travel's and we set off for Zihah's house at about 10:30am. the others will be joining later... read on babes...

As usual the highlight at Zihah's place would be MACROON!!!!!!!! And Zihah's mum cooked us a baked beans w meat to eat with french loaves for breakfast. But most importantly we now have learnt the art of Blurting!!! It's a card game where one read out loud the deFUNition of a word as shown in card and the listeners were supposed to guess/shout/blurt the correct answer quickly. the fastest will get that card and collect as many till the whole deck finishes. 'Azma for one - who claimed that she's a supposedly calm poised twice thinking cautious kinda person - got the hang of the game and got many cards!!! I love word games!! also check out Super Text Twist at Yahoo!Games. Oh Yeah Sarah joined us at Zihah's place. oh and Zihah's mum and Kak Taty had to go out after that. her mum said "nak pergi johor lah nak CARI barang." Hmmm i was already suspicious then.. CARi barang eh... smells like a wedding is brewing!! Tapi siapa sey? Kak Zakiah dah kahwin... takkan kak Taty pulak kot? Found out later rupanya Abang dia dah yg nak kahwin... abih macma secretive eh gitu... krekhrekhekhre

So out we go to Ustazah Samiah's house now. But before that we went to fetch Fidza and Hidayah from White Sands! So now there were 8 of us there. Believe it or not guys... it was my first time there! And im sooo impressed! the house is like HUGE!!! and they live there only the 3 of them? what are they doing w the rest of the space left? I'm so glad i went to Ustazah Sam's house this year... It just reminds me how much i had loved her lessons back in Pre-U cos she would like to story2 to us and i particular like to hear her opinions on theological theories and look up to her to find Fiqh's asnwers. Don't we all? *Wink*

One particular thing i remembered her saying was about keeping pets at home. Fidza and i were talking about the fish tank that she has and she went up to Ustaza and asked boleh ke kita pelihara ikan? Her words "Ikan mmg hidup dlm laut. yg tak boleh tu macam binatang liar dikurung... burung disangkar. tapi tgk lah ada maslahat ke tdk. Macam kat zoo tu kita nak jaga... tapi awak jangan BELI kucing." and the discussion went on and on and on... Kitorang just macam tak nak balik gitu.. Sampaikan terlambat nak gi rumah Ainul nak jumpa mak dia..

On the way to Ainul's place, i had to confess something to the rest of my fellow goodest friends... I had called off the wedding w Hazmi! I've been meaning to tell them even back at Y's place.. but just didnt know how to put it in words. and now is the best time to tell bcos more pple are present. Anyways i told them how i am very uncomfortable communicating w him and i often feel intimidated and repressed when im him. repressed in the sense that i restrain from saying my thoughts cos i simply couldn't perhaps i didnt like the way he'd react and stuff... To my surprise my friends were all very supportive!! Fidza in particular asked me if i feel happy now that i'm not with him anymore. I said YES. and she said "ah bagus lah maknenya" I didnt deny to them that i told he was actually an excellent candidate to be a husband w his stability of a job, parents would love him... my parents did... but he didnt fulfill me mentally nor emotionally.. THough i can tell ya he's hell of a romantic mushy2 guy. Unfortunately for him, i'm not the sort who go for that (weird huh?) and i had to break his heart... ANyways.. Zihah did comment like i should have given it a shot because it was too soon to tell, there might be a chance of a compromise and all... Yeah it's true lah Zihah, of course.. but well im sorry but im just degil. hee Frankly, i tot i would have gotten remarks like "what a waste JUs!" or "tak baiknye!" or "gila ke?" But they are so understanding. Oh lord, I love my friends! Bless them all!

So ...At Ainul's place, tasted the bestest kuih tart!!!!! and Ate the bestest mee hoon goreng kicap/black pepper!!!! and we prayed zohor there also. She's got a newly renovated toilet!!! and it's nice w bath tub and some greeneries in there.. if it's a dry toilet even better! Anyway... unfortunately, we didnt get to talk much w Ainul's mum, she's leaving for a jemputan already..

So next is 'Azma's house. Sarhani joined us here. Azma's mum is so cute!! and boy did we have a feast?!?! There were nasi goreng with fried dory fish (alahhh... yg macam fish & chip tu)... ice cream lah longan lah!! I didnt have ice cream though but i hentam the longan cukup2!! khererhkerhkerhkerhk Shiok babe! but what would be shioker would be my mummy to be there to kopek2kan the longan! hehehe *manja*

we kept on teasing Hidayah about her going to have to build toilets for the poor vietnamese... and Azma's mum's joined in teasing her... and then we TEased Cik Zaleha back asking if she remembers/knows Fidza and Sarah...

Next is of course, none other than Ustazah Sukarti's house.. sakinah, her daughter, opened the door for us. Suddenly i felt a bond with her and smiled so wide at her as i came in. We were in the same group at the last Night Cycling event... Funny that only now that we are older that we are closer.. anyways.. we (ustazah and the gang) talked about PSLE results, her popular kuih tart at MUIS and others... Then at one part we were talking how NUS is a Maarif's port lah gitu... and then suddenly ustazah looked and me and said, "ah yelah tapi si dia ni, results bagus boleh dpat masok pon tak nak sambung belajar!" I was like stunned... it took me about 3 seconds to actualyl understand and digest what she was talking about and quickly replied when i recovered "oh! the next yr tu saya apply jugak NUS - Business tapi tak dpt" and she just Ohhed...

i was in two minds whether to feel flattered or offended 1. flattered bcos she remembered and acknowledged that i had a so called good results (though i didnt get any As at all) 2. offended that she thought i didnt and wasnt capable of studying some more. But as Eugene Low, producer of Slice of Life by NewsRadio, said to be happy one should not SPECULATE what others think or feel about what we said or did. Why waste our energy? instead we can either 1.clarify or 2.learn to not care about it. 3.think positive. So i just stick to feel flattered lah. hehehe

Anyways after that its the long journey to Zakiah's house to pick her up. There, poor Azma got a bad overflow on her baju kurung. She went to wash it and dry/iron it while we all ate mee goreng and peach tea!! we watched albums and saw this strange drama One Tree Hill or whatever (Y's so crazy over it) and we kept on saying how Evolution is such a lousy movie... Actually the ending yg merepeQ takleh handle. I remember i was sooo disappointed after watching that movie kerana ceritanya adalah tersungguhlah yang termerepek yang teramat lah tersangat nye! Sarhani said it's a guy's movie. *shrug*

Then we sent Hidayah home. Prayed Asar there. Looked at Mahathir's pictures on her notebook!!! We saw Huda also... She's so big now! and her hair's like HIdayah said is a 'SHROOM' nice!!! and there's beef steak for dinner! khrekherhkrekher not only that and also nuggets exactly like McDonald's! HIdayah's mother remembered all of our names even the Al-Sagoff ones! And we said Good bye to Hidayah and safe journey the next day. She had to leave early cos she still need to pack!! Ish ish ish

Ok Next is Sarhani's house at Admiralty. It's a jumbo house... I know she has a lot of siblings but ke-a lot-annye menyerlah yakni ketika berada di dlm rumahnye. Again it was my first time going to her house there... initially i thought Hmmm still quite small considering the no of pple in the house but actually i didn't see two room doors furthest away from the main door. ibarat diselindungi dengan perabot. and we prayed Maghrib there and we went into her room. Ok now That's HUGE! It's actually a kitchen combined w one room and toilet in there all.. and 3 of the sisters sleep there. Best! best sekali!! Then her mum cooked for us Mee rebus! Ya ALlah by that time we were all full already! I shared mine w Fidza. Lord was she glad or what! kerhkerkherkher Her youngest baby brother is the cutest in the world! heheheh i made this face where i suck in my cheek to make lips like the fish and move them and he was totally amazed by it! heheheh he got distracted while taking photo bcos of that. one thing i'd like to note here, i was happy but yet felt a bit strange that they are such a loving siblings.. They kissed him so many times and they like to carry him around.. i mean they just love their baby bro even after so many babies in the family... (klw kita agaknye dah naik menyampah dan malas dgn baby) tapi BAgus bagus... :D

Next still in Nazariah's wedding!!!! Oh my gosh i've just lost contact w her sey after graduation except for this one time i bumped into her at Ang Mo Kio MRT and she said she was engaged already. heheheh Actually we were soooo soo full that we didn't eat anymore.. I just tasted the kuih tart and drank some. Azma did try the mee putih though (she just loves that!) We signed a guest book and we saw zakhirah there.. Actually we got real pissed off by the MC that night. He sounded so gayish and his jokes were not funny and he commented on unneccessary stuffs. To put in simply LAME!!!!! But i thought Naz looked nice that night although her outfit is kinda revealing... see through sleeves (but she wore tight t-shirt inside) and the material on the chest was also see through but she covered with scarf or what and tudung dia bangsa ikat belakang... But i understand lah ibarat wedding is the time where u get to dress up and i totally understand if she wanted to wear that.. yelah takut kempunan ke apentah gitu. and please note that the wedding dress and the groom's wear were both PINK! It's real nice! i thought Jalil looked real smart that night! My first time seeing him actually. I wish them the best.

The Final Pit stop of the race is My House!!!!! back to woodlands from Sengkang just now and we all laid back and watched my recorded Singapore Idol!!! Oh Taufik ku! hehehe Truthfully, it was my first time watching it again that day. so it was dead fun! until i nearly forgot to serve my dear friends with drinks!!! So immersed and absorbed from watching taufik... Dahlah cerita tu lama kan.. At last jorang balik kul 11:15!!! heheh kesian abih van pon dah takde.. i wonder how they went home... Easy for Sarhani so near... the tampines pple mesti naik taxi punya! khrekerkhrekherkh

Kita masih blom tau lah nak upload gambar kat sini.. Sorry yek...

Eh korang nih tak penat ke baca blog kita yg panjang lebar nih? Bet you just skimmed through after awhile right? *wink* krekherkherkherkherkher BYe ... (feel so relieved dah habis ceritakan ni)