There he goes, he goes….

Esok is the last day of the term before a 2-week break for The Little Misses. This weekend pulaknya is a 4-day weekend sebab cuti Good Friday and Easter Monday. Hajat hati nak pergi camping lagi tapi most camping sites yang ada all the amenities dah fully booked so terpaksalah spend the long weekend at home aje :-(. Takpe, we’ve already planned to go cycling on Friday morning, Sunday afternoon and maybe Monday afternoon (lepas buat egg hunting, hehehehe). The Other Half has to use his normal bicycle kalau nak cycle dengan we all sebab tak aci lah kalau dia menonong aje ke depan and tinggal kan we all tercungap2 di belakang, hikhikhik.

And pagi tadi I berjaya tangkap gambar dia on his bike. Nasib baik lah still very early in the morning and tak ramai orang yang outside at that time. Malu weh kalau orang nampak I beria2 ambik gambar The Other Half naik basikal :-). Tak pasal2 kena cop psycho wife, muahahaha.

“Goodbye Dear. Ride safely. See you this evening! Hey, you forgot to give me a kiss!!!!” Hikhikhikhik.

He’s quite safety conscious, tu yang pakai reflective jacket so people can see him more clearly. Kalau sape tak nampak dia with badan besar macam tu, memang tak tau lah I nak cakap apa, wakakakaka.

Malam ni for dinner I masak fried kuey teow with sauteed beef (ni sebab ternampak kat rumah Yat lah ni buat I terus teringin nak makan kuey teow :-)). Tak ku sangka, takde sorang pun komplen about my kuey teow. Semua makan sehingga habis which is a first, hehehehe.

Fried kuey teow with sauteed beef.

Things he likes…

I’ve been married to him for so many years and sepanjang2 that many years, I’ve made so many burgers for our dinner. But setiap kali I buat burgers, I tak pernah letak benda kesukaan dia dalam burger tu. Bukan apa, I memang jarang sangat2 I beli benda ni sebab I don’t like it so everytime I pergi grocery shopping, benda ni memang lah tak pernah ada dalam list (you see, I ni kan queen of list, pergi shopping mesti ada list, hikhikhik). Probably I pernah beli once or twice kot so far. Adalah a few benda yang dia suka but I tak suka which I don’t normally buy or masak sebab I tak suka. Kesian jugak kadang2 kat dia tak dapat makan benda2 yang disukai :-).

Sure you all tertanya2 kan, apakah benda mysterious ini yang disukai dek The Other Half but not by me.

Inilah bendanya, pickled beetroot.

Aussies ni kan memang suka sangat2 makan beetroots ni especially in their sandwiches, burgers and salads. I pun tak tau kenapa :-). For me, the taste is nothing extraordinary, biasa2 aje but it’s got a funny taste/smell, macam rasa ‘earthy/ dirt’. (Macam lah I pernah makan tanah kan, muahahahaha!). You tau kan, kalau sape2 yang biasa gardening tu, bila pegang tanah ada one kind of smell, macam tu lah rasa/smell beetroot ni. I guess sebab it’s a root vegetables kan so tu yang bau pun mcm tanah, hehehehe.

For me, lagi sedap makan lada jeruk! Hahahahaha :-).

One thing I don’t like about beetroot ni is that it will stain everything magenta or crimson! Kalau you all dah kehabisan lipstick kan, tenyeh aje beetroot kat bibir, gerenti berseri2 bibir you! :-D. Tengok lah the nanas in the burger, baru aje duduk bersebelahan dengan beetroot tu, terus tukar kaler. But The Other Half tadi makan beria2 sebab ada beetroot tu (alah, kalau takde beetroot tu pun, dia still makan beria2, hikhikhik).

Psst… tadi I baca kat Wiki pasal beetroot ni. It’s actually got quite a lot of healthy stuff in it. Dia boleh reduce your blood pressure a bit so good for your heart. But, yang paling gelaknya, it’s claimed to be an aphrodisiac sebab it has boron which is needed in the production of human sex hormones! No wonder he likes it!

Oh man!!!! I shouldn’t have bought him the beetroot! Muahahahahaha.

How do you like your sandwich?

Tekak orang kat rumah ni tersangat lah berbezanya kadang2 when it comes to sandwich fillings. The Other half’s favourite sandwich filling is chicken, avocado n cheese (so not adventurous if you ask me :-)). Miss 6 pulaknya is quite happy to have poloni and tomato sauce sahaja (lagilah tak adventurous!) and Miss 10 tak suka sangat sandwich but she’s quite happy to have mashed hardboiled egg and mayo filling. Kalau toasted sandwich pulak, all of us are happy with grated cheese and pineapple aje in the sandwich :-).

But I like fillings yang lain from them. The Other Half normally won’t eat my sandwiches sebab dia memang tak berkenan kat some of the fillings yang I like (more for me then!) especially when I put a lot of green stuff in my sandwiches. Lagi lah dia tak kan sentuh, hehehehe. I love putting loads of crunchy alfalfa sprouts in my sandwiches but The Other Half bila nampak alfalfa sprouts will say, “Euuww, what’s all those green stuff! Looks like goat’s food.” Philistine! I think the sprouts make the sandwiches taste much better, hehehe. I’ve tried twisties and potato crisps/chips in sandwiches, they are not too bad :-).

But my most favourite sandiwch filling is the one shown below…

Peanut butter and banana sandwich!!!!! :-D. It tastes much better on white bread but kat rumah ni jarang ada white bread so tu yang I guna multigrain bread, but the taste is still marvellous! The best banana to use would be really ripe banana yang a bit squishy tu sebab it’s much sweeter. I can eat a lot of this sandwiches, let me tell you, hehehehehehe.

The Other Half bila nampak I makan this sandwich will geleng kepala sebab he just can’t understand how a combination of banana+peanut butter on bread can be nice, hehehehe. But dia kata dia tak lalu nak mencuba, mata dia don’t find this sandwich appealing so tastebuds dia pun terus reject lah dari nak merasa :-). He said peanut butter+jam sedaplah, but banana……

But we can only eat this when Miss 6 is not around sebab she’s allergic to peanuts so I makan masa lunch when she’s at school :-).

Sape yang tak pernah try this filling, do try it. You might fall in love with it, hehehehe….

Ninja’s distant cousin

You know how The Other Half didn’t do well on his riding test kan and he’s ‘fed-up’ with it at the moment and has buried his dreams of owning a Ninja for the time being. But he was still looking for another alternative to go to work. Dulu dia pernah kayuh basikal to and from home pergi kerja. But he found it to be a bit too hard sebab ada 3 bukit dia kena cycled up untuk sampai ke tempat kerja tu. After daki the first bukit, he was still smiling but bila nak naik the second bukit tu, dia dah tercungap2 and kaki dia dah rasa macam nak explode, hehehe. So, tu yang dia terus tak larat nak cycle to work even though he enjoyed it so much.

Hari tu, lepas dia sat for his motorbike test and was very upset, bini dia yang baik hati ni pun tanyalah ke dia, “why don’t you look at getting a motorised bicycle? It will definitely help you with going up the hills! It’s legal here in WA.” Terus tang2 tu gak dia teruja and said to me, “Hey! what a brilliant idea!”

And tadi, guess what we did after Sunday school? We went to Freo and he bought a motorised bike. Actually he’s already got a bike and dia boleh convert his bike into a motorised one tapi bila dia nak pergi ronda2 dengan we all, tak best lah kalau nak kena bawak the motor and the battery along just nak cycle around the block. So, tu yang dia beli a specialised bike tadi yang datang dgn motor and battery pack sekali.

This is his new motorised bike! Kalau nak bandingkan dengan Ninja, memang lah jauh beza kan,macam lemon dengan limau purutlah. Takde can lah I nak bergaya pakai leather jacket and leather pants and boots macamni :-(. Tak kuasa I nak membonceng naik basikal dengan dia (walaupun ada tempat untuk I duduk membonceng kat belakang tu :-))! Muahahahaha.

Teringat I kat all the motorised bikes kat Pulau Ketam when I was there dulu2. Berani betul diaorang bawak basikal ni jalan atas all their plank lanes, I yang tengok rasa seriau, hahahaha.

Tapi ada banyak jugak pro dia beli basikal instead of Ninja ni. First, jimat duit weh beli basikal dari beli Ninja (harga basikal ni cuma 1/5th aje dari harga Ninja). Second, dia tak payah bayar road tax and motorbike insurance (jimat lagi duit kan :-)). Third, dia dapat lah exercise hari2 and hopefully dapatlah balik his six-pack, muahahaha (I told him to still kayuh the basikal even though dah ada motor on the bike).

Sungguh lah tak sabarnya The Other Half nak pergi kerja esok pagi sebab nak try test cuba his new toy ni :-).

I tak masak dinner malam ni, sebab tengah hari tadi dah membeli belah kat Masjid beli and makan macam2 food. For dinner tadi. I reheat aje pizza semalam, hikhikhik. But semalam I buat chocolate scones for The Little Misses. It wasn’t too bad lah. Bole buat choc scones for Easter Hols nanti instead of Hot cross buns.

Masak kari dalam oven

Haritu ada ramai yang tanya macam mana I masak kari dalam oven. Actually sama aje macam masak atas dapur tapi lagi hassle-free sebab tak payah kacau2 selalu takut kari tu ‘geseng’ or burnt and berkerak. So, tak lah susah payah sental bontot periuk, hehehe. And yang paling bestnya, boleh masak lama berjam2 dalam oven while we go net surfing, lipat kain, vacuum rumah, keluar pergi shopping :-). Bila dah siap, the meat will just melt off the bone and the kuah akan pekat abis!

Bila I masak kari, I takde recipe khas, semua jenis main campak2 aje dalam periuk. But adalah a few spices yang memang I akan sentiasa guna, kalau tak guna, I rasa macam takde oomph pulaknya (untuk tekak I lah).

Ingredients:

-Bawang merah (I guna bawang besar sebab bawang merah yang kecik kat sini tu teramatlah mahalnya)

-garlic

-ginger

-rempah sekawan (kayu manis, bunga lawang, buah pelaga and cengkih)

-daun kari (sian I kena guna yang kering nya, hehehe)

-asam keping

-brown mustard seeds/biji sawi

-fennel seeds (jintan putih?)

-minyak secukupnya

-biji halba ( I tak letak banyak, about 5 seeds kot)

-rempah kari (I guna rempah kari daging Baba’s but I tambah lagi serbuk ketumbar, serbuk cumin and serbuk chili)

-tomato paste (kalau takde tomato paste, I guess you boleh guna tomato puree or chopped up freh tomatoes)

-salt and sugar

-coconut milk, less than 1/2 cup (nak add boleh, tak nak add pun takpe. Ganti dgn air kalau tak nak santan)

-daging bertulang 1 kg (I guna gravy beef on the bone)

Cara2:

-Tumis bawang, garlic, ginger, rempah sekawan, mustard seeds, fennel seeds,daun kari sampai naik bau.

-then masukkan rempah kari(dan campuran serbuk rempah yg lain tu) and biji halba yang dah ditambah air sikit jadi paste. Masak lagi sehingga lah kari tu pecah minyak or masak.

-Masukkan daging dalam periuk and then kacau hingga sebati using medium heat.

-Bila dah agak2 daging tu semua bersalut and dah ada bahagian daging yang brown coloured a bit, transfer the whole lot into a casserole dish.

-Add santan (I guna tak sampai pun setengah cawan for 1 kg daging), tomato paste, garam, gula and asam keping. Kacau bagi semua bercampur sekata. Then cover the casserole dish dengan aluminium foil and masak dalam oven at 160C. Kena cover sebab tak nak bagi daging tu kering.

-I tak tambah air masa ni sebab I normally tunggu sampai sejam terakhir untuk tengok cukup kuah ke tak. And I tak letak kentang awal2 sebab I tunggu daging tu dah lembut baru I letak kentang.

-Berapa lama you nak masak kari tu terpulang on jenis daging yang you guna, saiz daging yang you potong2, and pekat mana kuah yang you nak.

 

-Ini kari yang I masak for 4 hours tak silap sampai kuah dia betul2 pekat and daging dia just melting off the bone. Lagi lama you masak, lagi pekat kuah dia and kaler dia lagi gelap sebab I guess santan tu dah betul2 ‘hilang’ sebati dengan kari kot.

Tags and Awards nite

Kenapa tiba2 I buat entry di petang hari? Sebab I nak merajinkan diri menjawab segala tags yang orang bagi ke I :-). Tiba2 musim tagging and bagi2 award dah datang balik, lama dia menghilang and now timbul balik pulaknya. And I was fortunate enough (or was it unfortunate?) to be tagged, hehehe…

So I pun meronda2 lah kat rumah orang2 yang meng’tag’ and yang sangat baik hati bagi I awards ni and I’ll just longgok kan all the tags and awards here ok. So, entry kali ni will be a bit all over the place and a bit panjang.

First the awards. Thank you so much for all of you sebab masih ingat ke I :-):

Ni award dari Love, dah lama dia bagi tapi asik lupa aje nak ambik kat rumah dia. Sorry ye Love :-)

Ni award dari TTM, Aida and Nur. I’m not sure blog yang beautiful or the blogger yang beautiful :-). But since I’m in a perasan mode, I rasa I lah yang beautiful ni kan, muahahaha.. Aida ada tagged I sekali dengan award tu tapi the tag lebih kurang aje dengan another tag yang I dapat so I’m going to combine both (boleh lah ye Aida, hehehe).

Ni award dari Cik Mat (jejaka idaman Malaysia) and TTM. Yeayyyyy, best nya dapat gelaran top blogger ni. Kalau lah dapat wang tunai sekali bersama2 award ni kan lagi lah grand nya, hahahahaha….

               

3 awards sekali gus ni pulak dari 3E, tapi ada pulak tag yang disangkutkan sekali dengan awards ni.

But I dah pernah buat tag yang lebih kurang sama macam ni dolu2, so since I jenis yang malas teramat nak buat the same thing twice, I C&P ajelah my answers yang dolu tu ye (but with some minor editing done).

Aida mintak 7 facts and Asilah mintak 10 facts. I bahagi 2 jadi 8 1/2 facts, ok lah kan? ;-).

This tag was previously ‘answered and done’ by The Other Half on behalf of me so that’s why it’s in 3rd person.

8 1/2 facts/truths about me missus (make sure kena ada Aussie accent ok!):

1. She's the queen of lists - whatever she's going to do or wherever we are going to, she will have a list ready for the event so she can be extra organised for everything. When she's got the job done, she'll tick it off the list. (Hey, it gets the job done! kalau takde list ni, terkapai2 tak tau apa yg dah buat n apa yg belum buat n apa yg dah pack n apa lagi yg kena pack.)

2. Very very impatient almost exclusively only with the little misses and me and doesn't suffer fools gladly (translation - idiots piss her off). (Hahaha, so true, kesian my little misses and the other half sebab sometimes I expect them to be perfect.)

3. She's fairly antisocial preferring her own company to others, which surprises me that she wants to socialise with me and the little misses. (I'm not antisocial but it takes me some time to mesra dengan orang. Once dah mesra, barulah boleh berborak sakan! That's why i prefer my own company a lot of the times.)

4. Very strict and 'garang' with the little misses but also loves them fiercely at the same time. (Lerr, kenalah garang kan, kalau tak, tak jadi orang nanti the little misses. Skrg ni, pergi mana2 people are impressed with the little misses behaviours so kiranya garang and strict tu berbaloi lah kan. Macamlah dia pun tak 2X5 garang n strict gak, hehehe......)

5. Very good at finding really good bargains when it comes to clothes, household stuff, presents which makes me very happy money wise :-). (I loovvvee good bargains, it makes my day, hehehe...)

6. Fell into the 'longkang' while riding her bike when she was small hence the intelligence :-). (Hahaha.......)

7. 5 years older than me but I don't think it shows (certainly doesn't act it!), not that I think I look old. (See dear, orang asian ni memang awet muda!)

8. Very anal when it comes to hanging clothes on the clothes lines. Everything has to hang in the right order. She’ll re hang the clothes that I have painstakingly  hung if it doesn’t comply with her hanging clothes standards. (Women!!! Cant’ understand them!) Muahahahahahaha….

8 1/2. When she has PMT, …………..( you can fill in the blank here :-)). Woit! Adaka! Hikhikhikhik

Hope you are satisfied Asilah and Aida :-D.

And in pulak tag dari Mami. Since a lot of the events happened more than 15 years ago so there’ll be gaps in my memories. Ye lah, dah tua2 ni, banyak benda yang dah lupa kan ;-).

How I met my Hubby

(Masa ni baru2 aje kahwin and dia still extremely slim while I pulak masa ni bagai di pam2, wakakaka)

1.First time jumpa with your hubby bila dan kat mana?

-When we were involved with international students at Uni.

2.Love at first sight?

-Muahahahahaha. Sudah semestinya tidak :-).

3.Who is he when the first time u met him?

-Just another concerned student about the plight of international students at our Uni. (hikhikhikhik)

4.How long it takes for him to ask you out for a date?

-Friendly ‘date’, tak lama, probably about 1 week kot :-).

5.1st place dating di..

-At this nice cafe/restaurant that had a guy playing guitar singing the most wonderful songs.

6.How he proposed?

- We were talking about can’t remember what when suddenly he said, “do you think we should get married?” and I dengan poyonya said, “ok!”. Wahahahahahahah, punyalah tak larat kan bila budak2 bercinta ni ;-)

7.Special date with your hubby?

-22 December 1995, our wedding day

8.Changes that he asked you to do?

- He wants me to be more tolerant of his flaws and imperfections.

9.What about him that you love so much

-He adores me completely which makes me love him.

10.What is about him that you wish he would change?

-Loads but then I have to change too, quid pro quo lah kan, so tu yang I’d rather accept him as he is lah :-)

11.You will lose your mind n crack your head when he?

-Doesn’t listen to me when I know I’m right!

12.You will smile thru your eyes for the whole day when he?
- Does/says something specially romantic for me/to me out of the blue.

13.Complete below sentences "my love towards my hubby is as big as.."

-His love for me (or should I say as big as his paycheck? mana yang betul ye? wekekekeke ;-))

Mami, ok kan my answers ni? :-)

Phew!!! Penat giler jawab tags ni kan, pastu terus sampai 2 tags pulak tu, hehehehe. Lepas ni, adalah 3 bulan lagi baru I boleh jawab tag ye Tuan2 and Puan2 :-D

He’s had a bad day

The Other Half’s so so sad today sebab he didn’t pass his motorbike test due to 1 silly thing. He said the Assessor told him that he was given automatic failure sebab he left his right indicator on after avoiding a car. The Assessor kata, leaving the indicator on is considered an automatic failure. So, you can imagine how p****d off The Other Half was for being failed for a very stupid mistake. Pastu terus dia merajuk tak nak ambik test lagi dah :-). He said he’s going to take a breather dulu and think about whether he really really needs a bike or not. He said maybe it’s a sign from God telling him that he’s not meant to ride a bike. I kata ke dia, “God is testing you, to see whether you are patient/grateful or not by failing you the first time. If you are patient, hopefully you’ll pass it the next time around!”

One funny thing about The Other Half, bila dia tengah depressed or p****d off macam tu, he goes shopping as a therapy, wehehehe. Kalah I yang pompuan ni :-). So, tadi I pun temankan lah dia bershopping (actually temankan dia sebab tak nak dia beli benda2 yang mengarut2 ;-)). We ended up buying stuff for camping and hiking boots for him and dvds berlambak2, hehehehe. Tak lah rabak sangat wallet dia tadi and happy lah sekejap dia tadi bila dah dapat shopping, hikhikhik. He nearly bought a PC but luckily I managed to stop him in time! Phew….

Hopefully he’ll try again in a few months time when the pull of the Ninja gets stronger again :-). In the meantime, he just have to catch the public transport to work everyday I guess.

And when he’s depressed he wants to eat good food and dia nak makan kari and nasi tadi. But I malas betul2 nak makan kari and nasi hari ni so I pun buatkan his other favourite food, fish n chips, hehehehe.

fish n chips with nectarine salad.

And ini pulak dinner malam tadi, beef nachos.

And ini pulak gambar Miss 6 perasan jadi Abraham Lincoln, muahahahhaahaha…..

I tau lah rambut dia dah panjang sekarang ni tapi gaya Abraham Lincoln ni so old fashion lah kan ;-)

camping story

Bila life’s gone back as normal, baru lah boleh sambung balik cerita pasal camping :-).

We went to a camping ground dekat dengan Mundaring Weir somewhere in the Perth Hills. Bukannya jauh pun dari rumah ni, only about an hour drive away. But for Perth standard, tu dah kira jauh lah, hikhikhik. The Little Misses yang dah biasa sangat naik kereta paling ‘lama’ pun half an hour so bila kena duk dalam kereta for an hour, terasa lah betapa lamanya :-D. Miss 6 siap tanya, “is it going to be long? where is this camping site anyway?” Lerr, kalau dekat aje, baik gi camping kat belakang rumah aje kan! Ceh, 1 jam dah komplen, nanti bila kena pergi camping lagi jauh dari rumah, tak tau lah macam mana, hehehe.

Sampai aje, we all pun set up the tent and then after lunch, pergi hiking/trekking along the walking trails around the campsite. Lama gak lah we all gi jalan ni about an hour and a half, sampai Miss 6 dah betul2 tak larat nak jalan lagi (but takde sape larat nak mendokong dia yang beratnya mengalahkan tong gas penuh, hikhikhik) so masa balik ke campsite tu we all kena hiked ikut jalan rentas to avoid Miss 6 menangis kepenatan :-).

Layan lah ye some photos I took along the trek.

Masa ni masih lagi ceria sebab baru aje mula hiking :-).

hiking along the Pipeline trail. Pipeline ni hantar air sampai ke Kalgoorlie which is 560kms long, punyalah jauh! It’s supposed to be the longest freshwater running pipeline in the world. Tak kuasa lah we all nak ikut the trail sepanjang2 tu. Bukan setakat Miss 6 aje nanti yang nangis kepenatan, Mummy Miss 6 pun surenya akan nangis kepenatan! :-D.

The dam at Mundaring Weir. Dekat view and view from the top of the hill.

Masa ni Miss 6 dah tak larat jalan tu yang kena pegang tangan Mummy aje. And masa ni dah jatuh as well, tu yang kotor giler her top n pants!

 

The flora and fauna yang we found around our tent, including the kangaroo :-). Yang herannya sekor aje we all jumpa but the kangaroo poo berlambak2 we all jumpa, hahahaha.

Post storm happenings

24 hours without power was not a thrilling experience but Alhamdulillah it was only for 24 hours and not more! I’m so thankful they’ve fixed the fault. I think quite a few main power plants got struck by lightning (or something along that line) tu yang up to 150,000 houses were without power semalam. Even one of the main shopping centres had to completely closed today sebab takde power. The news said that some houses will still be without power until tomorrow and we thought we would be one of these unfortunate people but at 4 in the afternoon tadi, tetiba aje the power came back on.

And bila the power came back on, we all pun quickly lah checked our stocks in the freezer and syukur sangat2 all the stuff in the back freezer are still frozen solid. We had to throw out the milk, cream and ice cream aje sebab dah melted so it wasn’t too bad at all. Milk and cream tu pulak takut dah sour aje, tu yang buang lah jugak. I tadi dah bersedia aje nak buang all the meat and chicken and fish and seafood bila bukak the freezer and punyalah happy bila tengok semua masih frozen solid :-). And we found out that Synergy Energy has promised to pay its customers $80 if we don’t have power for more than 12 hours so dapatlah gak $80 out of this kan :-). Boleh beli $80 worth of ice cream, wehehehe ;-).

But yang nak tergelak nya semalam, I was preparing dinner to go into the oven petang semalam when the power went off. I’ve only just finished roasting the potatoes and was going to put the chicken parcel in there. But since I dah prepare, I letak aje lah chicken parcels tu dalam oven yang masih lagi panas tu. Sampai oven tu sejuk, the parcels were only half cooked so kenalah I put them in the fridge to be salvaged another night and masak benda lain for dinner. And I pun masak scrambled eggs and goreng chicken fingers and makan under candle light :-).

Punyalah excited nya The Little Misses makan dalam cahaya suram, hahaha.

And pagi tadi, we had to use our camping kettle nak masak air on the stove top. And then I kena toast bread in a pan for breakfast. Memang terasa macam bercamping balik lah, hahahaha. Bila dah biasa guna kettle electric for boiling water, bila kena masak air atas api, rasa lain aje kan :-).

Oh and ini gambar the chicken parcel that I had to bake again tadi. Rupa dia memang buruk lah sebab kulit filo pastry tu dah berkedut2 and jadi tak cantik bila I rebake them. But taste-wise still sedap so tak kisah lah kan, hehehe…

 

Chicken filo parcel with green salad and toasted garlic bread.

I’ll post the camping story another time lah ye :-).

Worst storm in years!

Sorry guys! Perth semalam had the worst storm in 20 years and since pukul 5 petang semalam, we all takde power/electricity. And since our phone and internet uses naked DSL which relies on power to work thus memang tak boleh lah nak update blog or nak surf the net or nak phone anyone even! Ini pun I just buat a quick entry at work to let you guys know that I won't be able to update my blog until lah the power's back at home which they say might not be until later today or tomorrow. Baru aje balik from camping, dah terasa macam pergi camping balik, wehehehe.

Nasib baik lah our stove top and our hot water system is gas-based so boleh lah still nak masak and nak mandi semalam and pagi ni. And nasib baik lah we could still find our emergency candles so tak lah bergelap gelita rumah we all malam tadi. But it was fun having candle-lit dinner, hehehe.

But it was utter chaos semalam especially on the road. Most traffic lights were down and still not functioning this morning. Trees and branches lying scattered on the roads. On the way to school to send The Little Misses pagi tadi pun all the traffic lights weren't working but luckily ada traffic police so tak lah jammed giler2. I heard on the news malam tadi (we all kena keluarkan our battery operated small transistor radio just nak dengar berita :-D) yang the roads were horrendous and with golf ball-sized hails pelting down and people got stuck for 2-3 hours on the road balik from work malam tadi. But Alhamdulillah, The Other half could come home a bit earlier and masa I picked him up at the train station, dah start hujan and dah start the thunders and lightnings but wasn't that bad.

Sampai aje we all kat rumah, the storm started! Winds were blowing from every direction, hujan selebat2 giler, thunders and lightnings bersilih ganti and our lawns and backyards were flooded. We are quite lucky that we haven't got any big trees around our house so tak lah risau kena hempap dengan trees. Banyak rumah2 yang rosak sebab kena hempap trees, the roofs got blown off by the strong winds and house windows pecah from the hail. Kesian kat all the people especially police and the SES volunteers yang kena bekerja keras last nite fixing every thing yang broken down.

I better finish updating now. Sedih aje nak balik rumah nanti sebab nak tengok what food yang we all kena throw out from the fridge and freezer because takde power since semalam. We haven't opened the back fridge and freezer yet so hopefully it'll stay cold and the meat and cheese and what nots will still be edible. But we might have to throw the milk out :-(. Oh well, c'est la vie...

We did go camping!

We’ve made it safely back home, Alhamdulillah. And we are all exhausted, both from lack of sleep (for The Other half and me) and also from the trail walk. We had fun camping and can’t wait to do it again when the weather has cooled down :-). It was quite hot semalam and hari ni so I guess that made it a bit more exhausting kot.

The only depressing bit was our phone takde reception even though tempat yang we all pergi ni cuma an hour drive away from Perth! Apalah Vodafone, memang tak best betul, hehehe… So, kiranya memang we were cut off betul2 lah from the phone and the net. I said to The Other Half that no one could contact us while we were at camp. Then he said, “As though we are so popular and people want to contact us!” Hahahahaha…..

We got to the camp site early sebab nak pasang the tent awal while it was still a bit cool. Kalau pasang masa tengah2 hari buta, Mau lah pengsan with the heat and all. And kali ni, pasang a small tent was such a breeze banding dengan tent yang besar gedabak tu, wehehehe. The instruction pun tak lah complicated and easily understood by us yang memang not camping-savvy ni :-D. It didn’t take us the whole morning to set up the tent which was a miracle, hahahaha.

Some photos that Miss 10 took of us putting up the tent.

“Dear, I’ll read the instruction and you listen carefully and do as instructed. Hehehehe”

This one’s connected to this thing and this thing’s connected to that thing…….

Raise it gently…

 

Told you we could do it!

Now, it’s The Little Misses’ turn to help Daddy with pegging down the tent.

And it’s lunch time before going trekking.

I’ll put up some more photos esok lah ye…. Tak larat dah nak bukak mata ni :-D.

And since we came home earlier than expected tadi, I pun masak lah dinner instead of buying dinner.

Nectarine and greens salad with vinegar chilli dressing, makan dengan roast potatoes and baked chicken wings.

Di mana kan ku cari ganti…..

I was sitting nicely quietly minding my own business at the swimming pool petang tadi (while waiting for The Little Misses to finish their classes) when suddenly I rasa lain macam aje on my bottom. Tetiba rasa sejuk pulak right through the skin. I thought I was sitting on some wet area (ye lah, kat swimming pool kan so mestilah banyak tempat yang basah ni). But then I realised that I’ve put a towel under my bottom so tak kan lah basah kan. So I pun raba2 lah my jeans just nak tau basah or not when suddenly I found a hole! A big one at that!

Agggghhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!! Waghhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! Nampak tak the hole? Sikit nya besar ka itu!!!!! Macam mana lah I boleh tak perasan langsung!!!!!!

I wonder berapa orang dah I mooned the whole day today? Wakakakakakkakakaka. Dah lah I pakai blouse singkat tadi so memang akan ketara betul lah kalau I jalan. Kira macam main ‘peek-a-boo’ lah, hikhikhik. I really really hope yang koyak tu started masa I tengah duduk tadi so takde sape nampak any unsightly views! Kesian diaorang sure trauma abis and probably dapat nightmare tonite sebab nampak bottom I :-D.

So, sepanjang I kat swimming pool tadi, I begitulah baiknya, duduk aje tak gerak2 langsung sampai lah nak balik tadi. I pun terus ambik bag and hayun kat belakang aje nak cover lubang besar itu. The Little Misses sikit punya bolat ka mata diaorang tengok jeans Mummy yang terkoyak itu. Pastu sampai hati diaorang gelakkan Mummy, wehehehehe.

And sekarang ni I tengah sedih sebab I really really love those jeans. Dah lama I beli jeans tu and I just love the cutting sebab it makes my peha yang besar balak jadi besar tiang bendera aje. I tau yang I ada jeans lain tapi mana nak sama dengan jeans yang ini kan, sob sob….. Boleh aje kalau I nak darn it tapi kan I rasa dia dah nipis kot around that area so I takut koyak tempat lain aje nanti, hehehe. Jahit 1 tempat, tempat lain pulak yg ternganga, haru I :-). I tahu fesyen sekarang jeans yang koyak2 tu tapi koyak kat bahagian bottomm ni susah lah sikit. Kalau bottom macam Kylie Minogue takpelah kan nak expose, hikhikhik.So, terpaksalah I masukkan dia dalam tong sampah….

Selamat tinggal my beloved jeans…….. My thighs will definitely miss you :-D.