..and away

...wish me luck ^>^












the end for today`s post XD

Having a hard day???

Just when I thought that I have the worst day because of busy morning...everyone going out

then....

came a lady...

a mother... asking for verification of her child's academic certificates

she looks old and fragile... and alone

it breaks my heart

alhamdulillah...

my hard feeling fades away

i should always keep this in mind

THINK YOU ARE HAVING A HARD DAY TODAY??
THERE IS SOMEONE OUT THERE MIGHT BE FACING A GREATER BURDEN THAN YOU ARE..
BE THANKFUL AND ALWAYS REMEMBER
SOMEONE IS LESS THAN YOU
SO BE THANKFUL

Headache!

OK from morning till afternoon looking at the laptop's screen.. @_@ that is what i last night which lasts till this morning~

looks like this year i'm going to write more than last year. or perhaps for the time being.. not much work to do in my new work place. i am not sure will this office work will be the same like the office work i did last time. busy on certain times of the year and so free that you waste time in the office doing nothing. .. but this new job perhaps maybe just for this month ~ a bit free.

i should practice my kanji while being free.. or spend time reading this new cool web.. hummmm... ok back to work........

Kid Story

When I was a Kid and Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Chibi Maruko Chan

which one first? i read diary of a wimpy kid and was surprised by the drawing in the book. ok so easy to read and funny too ~ cheese touch! went out with friends and went into a bookstore... i found full set of diary of a wimpy kid.. used my debit card and bought it. bring it home and it stays in the plastic bag for months..
took out the blue book recently and my 8 year old niece begging to read it but i gave her the red the first book i bought not worried for it to be handled in any way.. and told her to wait for the blue book because i'm not done reading it.. ok a month pass same excuse.. (got problem picking up undone things to continue doing the thing again)

then last year (like 30/12/12) .. waiting at the LCCT airport for our flight in the evening..again with friends.. i went for a walk and walk passed the shop with books out front and chocolates inside the shop.. my eyes was distracted with the simple but catchy title 'when i was a kid'... walk back and forth ..buying not buying... check my wallet..still have ringgits and a lot of rupiahs! dont want to change the rupiah yet.. went inside the shop  and found something even more interesting.. ok undecided again.. making rounds in the small space shop.. checking here and there.. check my wallet.. counting... enough and grab the chocolate with a special tin case and went to the cashier.. busy at the cashier.. few customer paying.. slip myself among them and grab the book from behind.. put back and choose another which look fine to me and went to the counter.. and paid. ok not that it is very expensive but i dont want to be questioned by my friend.. i could imagine how she will react if she see the price because i plan to read it on the plane.she might say "mahalnya!" for such a book. and so i took off the price sticker from the plastic that covers the book.
in the plane..we were like taking time to put our things into the overhead compartments.. ok we are not like those taller lovely ladies in red in the aircraft.. so sorry boy (a foreigner boy was already sitting) because our seats was on the middle and the one next to the window. the russian boy was in a very bad mood so like his mother on the other side...(i asked him when i got the chance.. do you speak english? yes. where are you from? Russia. (end of conversation) i think he got a new iphone5 and a new ipad.. my friend and i was like peeking what movie was he watching, because he put it on his lap but put the earphone on..so ..you know :p)
ok back to the book.. after talking about more than 30 minutes with my friend and i have nothing to talk about i took out the book and was about to unwrap the book, my friend ask. "berapa harganya?" "30 lebih" i straightly answered and at the same time unwrapping the plastic and in my head "knapala buka harga td.. jawab terus sja pun. apa jd dgn rancangan nda mau bagitau harga" but her reaction was ok so i think its ok laa.
i open the book and again.. i was surprise to see the contents.. in my head smiling" cam ni jak?"
my friend's reaction "macam ni pun bole buat buku?"
"a'ah kan??" and found that the writer is a Malaysian working in America.
but we read together a few pages and laughed a bit but truly i was in awestruck.. but i didnt finish 'reading' the book until today.. but i read the artist's online web page and more hilarious and funny sketches i read since my first day on my new job on monday 7/1/13.. i'm ok with that so that i can laugh and relax myself before work.. the office didnt filter that one out so i still can get the entertainment hahah..

chibi maruko chan head was connected to the thumb drive since somewhere ..i dont remember but i can say its more than 5years now.. it make it easy to find the thumb drive... since chibi is bigger than the thumb

ok clicking on the keyboard makes me happy la now :D i just got to 30 for a month but i am 31 now Islamic Calender.. alhamdulillah.. i think buying the books is to reminiscence how great it is to be a kid!

Bandung 60°

Ok thats the cover... best describe for our 5 days trip to Bandung.

Ok not  that it is hot hot. But hot in a sense it is the other kind of hot must go place :D ..

And as for the angle…we didn’t get to go to many places during our five days stay in Bandung. an adventure which most people may not experience. 

The best part is meeting Bu Ela again.. it felt like going home to a relative's home :D

Through the dark cool after rain night in Bandung on our arrival... we got to ride on the angkot or the mini van up to Lembang.. sleepy not really tired... all the way on the journey.. Bu Ela jokingly said that our luggage will fill half the angkot on our way back home to Malaysia. (obviously right! ahhaha) i found out that Bu Ela's language is a bit different,, she is speaking Sundanese.. (oo now i know )

We had a late night supper... Kak Sam Hajah with her maggi specially brought from home.. then the famous amos cookies then the snacks Bu Ela gave us.. we feel asleep with the cool weather of Lembang.. which feels like Kundasang ^__^

The morning was a bit refreshing.. the Pondok Kehuripan, the hotel Bu Ela's husband is working; is a cool place with a very very nice view! we even took picture as if its for a tv coffee comercial 

see the amateur model hahhaa

the view from the balcony.. i like how they make the stairs going down to our room on the other side

 

the tourist(kkekek) from left to right: kak aiza, our host Bu Ela, Mem a.k.a cigu Sairah (always my teacher ^_^) and Kak Sam Hajjah (alhamdulillah baru turun haji) and me the first picture on top ^0^

we had breakfast at warung nasi... local eating place.. masakan sunda..the owner is Bu Ela's student's mother.. we love it! we love the taste suits us best!

next we went to SD Pancasila, Bu Ela's school. but to go UP there (up like really going up the hill) was tricky hehehh.. easy for Bu Ela since its her place not for us the shreks junior and fiona its a bit fuhh.. we ride the angkot first.. too bad i didnt get to take picture of me sitting right close to the open door.. like you can fall anytime if youre not holding on anything. thankfully its only for less than 5 minutes.

 

a successful visit to the school. we got to meet the students practicing local dance and drama for a competition, teachers and the unexpected meeting with the school's headmaster!

   that is the Peneropongan Bintang at the BOSSCHA Observatory Institut Teknologi Bandung 107° 37' BT 6° 49' LS. we went up to the place with ojek the motorcycle service hihihih

by 12 we had to leave ..need to check in to the hotel we booked. that is how we experience the macet or jammed.. it was raining heavily too. we got to our hotel somewhere among closely built buildings. its funny how they make the stairs so small and how magical it is that they can make up to 3 floors! our humble room enough for our luggage and sleep.. very bajet! we save pretty much for hotel rent. our aim is to hunt for the kain sulam!! the afternoon still raining.. we went through the streets and found our self at the back of Pasar Baru Trade Centre! on our way pass the fruit market someone says "Malaysia!" and when we went into the Pasar Baru the salesgirl... "Kakak! Kakak! Makcik! Makcik!" we had been detected! how are we going to buy things here?!? worried and felt that we had been busted .. the day ends with a bad feeling because we had to pay two times the normal fees for beca aka rickshaw.. hummm...

the next day with a new strategy we went to try out on our luck to conquer the Pasar Baru (ahahhaha)

that is only 10%  piece of cloth we bought (we spent half a million?!? in rupiah laa in the previous shop.. the next two days the boss who sold the fabrics to us was replaced by the brother .. we guess that he had have enough money from the deal we got) :p women and fashion .. lucky we were all ladies so shopping was FUN!!!

our favourite salesboy

what we came for :p

the busy street

 our daily walk to Pasar Baru ^____^

the front gate of Unique Guesthouse, Jalan Ence Ajis. i laughed hard trying my best to bring up or pulling up things we bought to the second floor ..
the next day we went to move to another building because the first building was full and we were in shocked because the new room empty space was already filled with our luggage! we need a bigger room(actually we booked a bigger room but maybe miss communication).. well things settled and we got bigger room and we paid a little less than expected because we didnt use extra bed. i am very very satisfied for what we paid.

after we moved in to the new hotel room we went up to Lembang by angkot to experience kretek or the horse cart to Bu Ela's house.

street singer singing their heart out live!

The poor 'donkey' that had to carry 3 shreks and 2 fionas.. and a cool 'pussycat'

savouring hot sweet molen(with banana or black bean paste inside) while on kretek

the cool smoking cigarette uncle refused to eat the molen we offered which end up in my hand ^___^

finally arrived at Bu Ela's sweet home ^__________^ we had late lunch prepared by Bu Ela's daughter, Fitri

after Bu Ela's place we went to Toko 3, the only other place we went for shopping.

always smiling sweet Bu Ela ^_^

Kak Aiza and Bu Ela having a good time (kekekek)

each of us manage to grab  t-shirt on sale and it feels good wearing it. i really like the decorations in the shop. this is my favourite one..

isnt it cool? we thought it was someone but not!! ^__^

the second last day we went around the shop close to Pasar Baru.. it is even cheaper!!! (for some items)
and i met Bu Teti's daughter, cute like her mother ^__^

the last day at the airport we went by angkot with half of it filled with our luggage three times the amount we came with..
while queuing for drop baggage at the counter a group of Malaysian tourist was behind us and someone like perhaps their guide was like counting their bags and how many people altogether.. there were NINE people and EIGHT bags. Kak Aiza and I look at each other and laughed ..we were like FOUR people TIMES THREE for the bags... so do your own calculation.. (almost put us into trouble to pass the custom at LCCT, alhamduillah everything went well..)
spending a bit more on snacks and cakes at the airport .. (Bandung also famous for the bakery stuff.which we didnt get to explore..)

the weather was nice and we said good bye to Bu Ela and Bandung eventually....

MANGGA!

(mangga is a Sunda language we learn from Bu Ela which is used when leaving another person/friend to tend to other things)

first 2013

ok last post oct. 27th 2012 ^>^

ok not a good ending to my so called 29.30 project. a big failure!


see what my new aim for 2013.. wouldnt dare to acheive so many things this year. only one..goal i wish to get. the big D for not size but for DRIVING!!!

New job and new task... new journey
this new stop is so new and dont know what to say yet