Cerita-cerita Zainur

I suppose this entry should come earlier at least before this and this. Heh! But at that time my mind was occupied with something else. Okay whatever it is, here we goes....

As I told you ladies before, we celebrate our first Anniversary at Jervis Bay. And FYI, we celebrate it a day earlier since the next day we have something else to do. Unlike other couples yang probably celebrate it with candle light dinner or maybe second honeymoon or just on bed but we planned to watch dolphin instead. What a horrible idea kan? Hehehe....

The normal price of the ticket is around AUD70+ per adult but that day we went with many others international student on a trip so we only paid 55 dolar per person. Yep it's cheap but again it's a bad idea to celebrate your first anniversary. Haha... Orang lain pergi berdua dan beromantika but we go in large group which is tak sesuai sangat nak bermesra beromen. Tapi kalau beromen pun siapa kisah kata kat negara mat saleh...standard lah!

So we departed around 9.30am and reached Uni back at 5.30pm. On the way to Jervis bay which took us around 1 hour and 30 minutes, we stop by at a very old fashioned english town. I just love this place and the shops around. Very unique and yes very old fashion!

Okaylah just layankan saja gambar-gambar ni. Malas nak cerita bukan uols baca pun kan!

Okay done! Tak boleh tunjuk banyak-banyak. Nanti orang kata nak menunjuk la tu. Heee.... BTW tomorrow we plan to go for tulips festival at Canberra. Yeehaaa... I love flowers walaupun tak pernah lagi habibi hadiahkan! Hopefully dia baca part ni. Hehehe....

Anyway have a blast weekends everyone! Cheers~

I'm emotionally unstable. Makan nasi pun tak lalu even though lapar sangat. Even spicy and sambal cooking which always been good appetizer to me failed to do so. I don't know if this has something to do with hormane exchange or what so ever but I'm pretty sure this has nothing to do with pregnancy. 99.9% sure!!! Itulah... dalam previous entry punya berlawak nak kenakan orang kan sekali masin mulut Chekgu.....hadoiii.... Bukan tak mahu pregnant tapi setiap hari terpaksa hirup udara kimia yang toksik saya pun jadi pening inikan pula kalau ada baby yang di kandung. That's another different story to tell.... *sigh*

Anyway, today I wanna share my little experience in organizing a so called open house for Raya celebration. Actually if I have a choice I don't want to do 'open house'. There are many reason behind it and one of the most BIGGEST reason ever is "Mak tak pandai masak nak!!!" *dush*

Okaylah fine, setakat masak untuk 2-4 perut tu boleh lah. Tak adalah sampai tak reti sangat. Kata orang takat nak isi perut yang lapar. I PASS! But, to cook for 25-30 adult people not including kids is something that I never did before! Not even imagine it once! *gosh* Do I have choice?

Since most of the seniors here already opened their house including my bestie so they'll keep asking me bila pula nak open house. Haishhh... Memang myself ada niat nak jamu beberapa orang senior especially those yang dah banyak tolong us masa we first arrived dulu tapi bukanlah nak jamu sampai berpuluh-puluh kelapa kepala okay!

Tapi sampai bila mak boleh mengelak nak? Lambat laun rumah mak tetap akan mereka serbu sama ada mak ready atau tak. Maka al kisahnya terpaksa lah mak open house juga...

So, me and habibi discuss waktu terbaik untuk open house ni. We're suppose to do it in weekends tapi banyak weekends yang full dengan activities and last-last we chose Friday night which is on 23 September from 7pm till tetamu rasa nak blah... Haaa... And we planned to cook Nasi tomato with beef tagine prune, ayam masak merah and salad as main dishes while dadih and puding jagung as dessert. And believe it or not I have never cooked ayam masak merah yang sedap before this. Usually kalau masak, most of the times akan sangat pedas sampai husband yang tahan pedas pun tak boleh nak telan! Haha.... walhal I dah ikut resepi yang baik which I google from internet lah. So we blamed the cili kering! Sebab even I used small amount of cili pon the red colour pudar tapi the taste is super hot! So cili yang salah bukan salah saya yang tak expert nih. Yeay!

So what happen next?

On Thursday evening we went to shop for the groceries. Then after isya we started to prepare the ingredients. Habibi helped me a lot in the kitchen. In fact habibi lah yang tolong siang daging 2 kilos and ayam 3 kilos. We fried the chicken that night and cooked dadih as well. Around 2 am baru tidur maaa. And the next morning we get up early. I do the cooking while he do the house cleaning. Everything went okay... so far... sampailah time masak nasi tomato.

Jeng jeng jeng!

Masak tu we masak 8 cups each untuk 2 periuk nasi elektrik. Periuk nasi pon terpaksa pinjam bestie because mine punya muat 6 cups aje! Kat sini problem bermula apabila periuk nasi tersebut asyik menendang aje. Nasi belum totally masak tapi the periuk dah off cooking. At first I wasn't panic at all because normally after I kacau-kacau and korek-korek the nasi dia akan okay and the periuk will continue cooking. But this time around, every 5 minutes dia akan off. Aaarrrrghhhhh...

I was panic and blur don't know what to do. Tanya habibi yang confirm tak pandai masak dari I ni lagilah tak membantu. We keep adding water into the pot. We thought air yang kurang. Bertambah tensi bila dua-dua pot jadi gitu. Habibi pon dah panic. Apa taknaya lagi 2 jam lebih tetamu nak datang. Wakaka... Lauk siap nasi mentah? Oh no!!!!!Kalau kat Malaysia mesti I dah kelam kabut keluar beli kat restoren aje! Haha- Poor me~

The funniest part is tetiba I rasa nak balik Malaysia! Not because of my phd thingy tapi... Mak tak dapat tahan malu nak andai kata 2 tahun lagi duduk sini orang kata open house mak makan nasi mentah! Alahaiii.....

Di pendekkan cerita I siap 'bercakar-cakar' dengan habibi sebab dua-dua pun dah panik and tak sangup tanggung malu! Last-last suruh habibi called kawan yang we all pinjam periuk ni. Konon tanya awat periuk hang asyik menendang aje. BTW, my bestie tu husband dia a great cook. Open house lepas pun husband dia yang masak. Wallaa kelas gitew...

So her husband cakap angkat periuk nasi tu letak atas api dapur yang kecil. But before that, balut periuk tu dengan aluminium foil supaya tak keluar wap. Masak dalam 20 minit insyaAllah okay! So we all follow aje lah and alhamdulillah salah satu periuk tu nasi tomatonya masak elok while the other one yang we all asyik tambah air tu agak lembik sedikit but still boleh di makan!

Maka dengan itu selamat lah Mak dari kena balik Malaysia sebab malu... Kah kah kah...

What ever it is alhamdulillah we manage to organize it well. Ayam masak merah Mak yang selalu tak menjadi pun habis licin sampai ada yang tak sempat merasa. Tak tahulah sedap ke tidak janji licin I senang hati uols! And my tagine pula dapat pujian dari mat saleh. Katanya sedap! I'm glad! And there are a few things that I learned and InsyaAllah next year will be even better and I proud of myself sebab at last I dapat juga membuktikan yang wanita tak berapa pandai masak ni still boleh masak sendiri untuk jamu 30 orang makan tak payah pakai catering macam dekat Malaysia uols.... *cehh berlagak taik kucing!*


psst: Penggunaan kata 'Mak' adalah merujuk kepada penulis manakala 'Nak' kepada pembaca budiman...

It was suppose to be a Wordless Wednesday entry. Just a picture without a word. But, then I just being a bit naughty by putting extra words and making some story and never thought that people especially my dear readers would believe it!

To all of you yang terpercaya especially to Asna cute, Hana Sakura, Fatiha and Chekgu Azrini yang congrats me in the previous entry, I'M TRULY SORRY.... Ladies, I'm not yet pregnant okay? And here is the true story... Please, please, please... jangan marah saya. Sila cubit-cubit saya dari jauh!

Remember my previous entry here. I did mention yang last weekend I wanted to watch dolphin and bought some clothes for my friend's baby shower party rite? So, during that baby shower party lah suddenly I got pregnant and my dear friends yang responsible for making me looks like a pregnant mother....

Aiyooo... I feel so guilty especially kat Chekgu sebab dah siap ber instinct bagai... I hope you all semua sudi maafkan saya. Sekali sekala dalam blog mesti mau kasi kejutan, debaran, suspen, gurauan dan sewaktu dengannya baru terasa meriah kan? Hopefully, tak adalah yang menyumpah seranah pula okay! Really sorry...

So, sebagai galang gantinya... Here's the full cover story... with pictures.... Layan Zasss~

The Baby shower party is actually for her... Kell untuk anak yang ke 3 tau! Normally orang buat baby shower untuk first expecting child kot but she never had it before and she thought she would never ever had it in her life. Because she's such a dear friend and sister to everyone, so the juniors decided to throw a baby shower surprise for her. So the event happen on Sunday 18 September (on our wedding anniversary) at Sue's house.

For every baby shower party tak sah kalau tiada games kan. So we had 2 games aje. The rest is live performance from friends and a surprise performance from her own husband!



So the first game adalah untuk membuntingkan seseorang supaya menyerupai Kell. Uh uh...memang my group dah aim nak kenakan saya since I'm a newly wed yang masih mood honeymooing lagi...Hehehe... Sebab event semua girls except for the cameraman, so saya pun layankan saja. Being sporting la konon. Hehehe... One of this is the picture yang uols tengok dalam previous entry. Macam real kah? Salute pada my group members yang susah payah bikin I pregnant and yes my group won this game!



The second game was named anything yang related dengan pregnancy using 2 of this letters: K, M, A and I. For example, our group chose letter M and A. So, things like Avent, morning sickness, mengidam and etc were among the listed thing. And again our group won this round. Heh!

So after that we have makan-makan and performance dan tidak lupa juga sesi bergambar sana sini. Adoi... malas nak cerita lebih-lebih so layan gambar saja ok!

Gambar atas ni my gift to her. Boleh cam tak macam rupa apa my gift tuh? The gift consist of a baby blanket, romper, seluar and stuffy toys. I try to wrap it macam botol susu. Jadi tak? Haha-


And before I ended it here, again I wanted to apologize for each and everyone of you yang terpercaya lalu berasa marah dan sebagainya. Maafkanlah gurauan saya okay. I wish to tell you guys earlier tapi busy pula dengan open house preparation which is going to happen today. However, deep inside my heart memang I wish to get pregnant pun tapi lepas berkali-kali fikir mungkin the best is untuk merancang dulu at the moment since right now I'm dealing with nasty chemicals which is dangerous and toxic. So I don't want anything bad happen to myself especially my baby if I got pregnant. Apa pun doakan lah saya ya kawan-kawan and lepas ni if I say I'm pregnant I really mean it so. No more joking and I promise!

Nobody knows about this .... I never ever mention it in my bloggie before that I'm a preggy woman! I like to keep it as a secret (pandai betul I simpan rahsia kan?) or probably I'm just too good to hide my small belly! Heh! And now it's about time to reveal to all my loyal readers who have been supporting me in many ways....

Taraaaaa.....


I'm in 32 weeks pregnant! Omigoshh, boy did time fly!

Aku tidak tahu apa rasanya cinta. Iya cinta kepada Tuhan, Rasul, Ibu bapa itu aku tahu. Tapi pastinya tidak sama cinta antara dua jantina yang berbeza bukan? Kata orang cinta itu macam pertembungan medan magnet. Saling tarik menarik antara satu sama lain. Ada juga bilang cinta itu seperti cas positif dan negatif. Entahlah aku tidak pasti. Tetapi yang aku pasti ianya terbit di mata lalu turun ke hati!

Entah bila insan ini hadir di depan ku aku tidak pasti. Yang aku tahu saban hari aku pasti akan berpapasan dengan dia di jalan raya sekitar kawasan kampus. Dia memandu kancil biru. Aku mengayuh basikal tua. Lusuh tapi banyak berjasa! Basikal ini juga yang menemukan aku dengan habibi yang kini suami yang kucintai!

Tak tahulah kisah dongeng atau realiti. Tetapi setiap kali terpandang lukisan lama, teringat kembali sejarah cinta. Laki-laki yang menjadi dambaan hati hanya cuma watak sebuah cerpen. Seorang laki-laki yang soleh, yang terlalu mengasihi isterinya. Tetap bersabar dan mencintai sang isteri biar pun masih belum punya zuriat setelah bertahun bernikah. Meskipun diberi lampu hijau untuk bernikah namun, tetap setia di sisi isteri. Hati isteri yang gundah gulana diubati dengan kunjungan ke Baitullah. Wajah si lelaki dilukis begitu segak sekali. Kurus, tinggi, tegap, berkaca mata, berkumis dan berjanggut. Oh sungguh kacak sekali di mata ku. Lalu aku menekap wajah yang sama seperti yang dilukis dan tanpa segan silu memberitahu teman serumah, "Kalau akak dapat lelaki sebaik ini dan sehensem seperti kartun ni pun sudah cukup membahagiakan" lalu menampal wajah lelaki idaman ini di meja studi. Akhirnya doa yang satu itu dimakbul Tuhan!

Cerita lukisan ini 2-3 tahun sebelum aku ditemukan dengan habibi. Iya benar wajah habibi saling tak tumpah seperti lukisan ni dan kebaikan habibi sepertinya tidak ada yang boleh diganti. Sungguh aku bertuah dan bersyukur. Yang pasti ini bukan mimpi tapi realiti!

Acehh... malam-malam begini tetiba rasa nak mengimbau nostalgia lama. Al maklumlah anniversary lagi 2 hari jadi teringat-ingat saat kami bertemu dan berkenal-kenalan. Mungkin agak berbeza dari kebanyakan orang lain yang sering keluar bersama dan berpimpin tangan. Oh jarak bukanlah penghalang cuma syariat menjadi batasan.

Cerita cinta kat atas tak habis. Hehehe... takut ramai yang mula berkoya termasuklah saya. Tapi kalau anda nak tahu sila angkat keyboard tinggi-tinggi. Haha- macam lah saya nampak!

Kisah cinta ini pernah saya tuliskan khusus untuk DinaHalim Bridal Boutique contest (klik sini). Tak sangka boleh menang. Masa baca nama pemenang tempat ketiga dan kedua saya jadi sebak. Separuh kecewa.. Tapi siapa sangka nama saya tertulis sebagai pemenang tempat pertama. Maka, dapatlah saya sponsor mini pelamin semasa hari pernikahan.

Happy mana boleh tak happy! Kak Dina pula sangat baik hati! Bukan setakat mini pelamin idaman hati tetapi boleh pula offer bunga tangan lagi! Alhamdulillah rezeki. Kini semuanya menjadi satu kenangan yang tidak dapat dilupakan.

Untuk semua bride to be sila klik DinaHalim. Ada banyak pilihan baju dan pelamin yang cantik dan indah-indah. Dan yang paling best kak Dina sangat murah hati untuk buat kuiz dan contest yang hadiahnya menarik. Ingat senang ke orang biasa macam kita nak dapat tajaan? But that's not impossible with DinaHalim Bridal Boutique ya kawan-kawan!




Malas ya nak letak gambar banyak-banyak. Macam over pula nanti! Kalau rajin sila selak-selak entry yang sebelum ni. Hehehe...

Oh by the way, can't wait for tomorrow.... jeng jeng jeng.... to be continued....

What a hectic week!

Seriously it has been a damn tiring week! I don't even have a single chance to sneak peek at friend's blog and not even my own!

Now it's already spring time. A lot of flowers are blooming beautifully but I don't even have a time to enjoy the moments. There's a lot of task need to be done. Furthermore, my SV will be away for 3 weeks starting this weekend. So, I need to catch up a few things with him before he left. Kalau tak alamatnya hilang arah tujuan lah saya selama 3 minggu tersebut. A bit happy and release actually but, still feel a bit worried... Heh!

Anyway, since it's spring so there are a lot events happen lately. One of the biggest event that happen last week is 'Spring into Corrimal'. This festival only happen once a year and luckily habibi and me have managed to join he crowd. Heh! Sempat lagi tuh curi-curi masa untuk berjimba. Anyway it's on weekend so we are suppose to relax and enjoy our weekend rite?


There were many stalls, car boot sales, live music, food and other entertainment, live parade and also a cultural hub which provided diverse activities for young people in this community. All in all I really enjoy the day. I bought myself a "lady Diana's hat"(for Dolphin watch day this Saturday), some cute batches and baby clothes as a gift to a dear friend for her baby shower party. Owh, that Baby Shower party gonna happen this Sunday! So stay tuned for latest updates and stories okay! All this while you girls have been reading about baby shower day kat Malaysia aje kan? So this time around it will happen in Australia. Adakah ada something yang menarik? That would be my next update after an entry about my wedding anniversary celebration!

Yep! Our anniversary is coming this weekend. I'm just pretty excited. Teringat-ingat memori cinta dulu! Auwww.... Ke mana agaknya habibi akan bawa saya pergi for our first anniversary? Honeymoon ke New Zealand? Paris? hehehe.... So stay tuned for next update okay!

AsSalam peeps!

Hello bloggers! Seems like I'm the only person yang lambat update pasal Raya celebration. Seriously, mak malas betul! Haih....

Lucky you guys, beraya kat Malaysia dapat cuti even school and uni pon all close. Unlike us yang kat overseas ni curi-curi cuti la...

Anyways, beraya di perantauan is not so bad. Because we are in a small communities so we are very close with each other and we try to make this raya celebration as happening as possible since we want to avoid all those linangan air mata. Heeee....

The first rule is, we banned all type of songs which is overreacted such as "Salam perantau", "Ku Pohon Doa Restu", "Dari Jauh ku Pohon Ampun", "Balik Kampung" and "Air Mata Syawal". Those songs kalau dengar masa kat Malaysia dulu tak ada makna pun okay. But now setiap bait kata semuanya membangkitkan sebak di dada... Aduii lah....

To those yang tak tau we celebrate Eidulfitri a day after the Malaysian celebrated it which is on Wednesday. So ours was double celebration. Of course la raya-merdeka wehh. So, on the day before raya I senyap-senyap aje ambil cuti sendiri. Nak tanya SV sangat lah tak berani since my progress that week sangat slow. Actually takda mood pon nak masak sebab tak da feel pon nak raya walaupun on that day uols semua dah raya. My parents pula was away for umrah and later on that day baru arrive.

I try to pasang lagu raya konon-konon nak ambil feel. Tapi tetap tak ada feel! So i fikir memang besok (Rabu) raya tapi habibi kerja. Kalau I tak masak kesian dia sudah lah kerja tak dapat pula makan enak di pagi raya. So dari situ I dapat mood untuk memasak rendang. And guys, this is my second attempt to cook rendang without any supervision. The first was on one of the Ramadhan days for the Iftar event. Sebenarnya senang aje uols!

Bermulalah edisi membuat kerisik. Mujur kat sini ada Asian stall yang jual kelapa parut beku. Menjadi jugalah kerisiknya walaupun ter'hangit'. Time masak dan meemas rumah tu agak syahdu sedikit. Sebab biasa meriah memasak kat rumah ini seorang diri bertungkus lumus di dapur menyediakan juadah. Baju baru di pagi raya pun tak ada. Mujur ada bawa sepasang kurung raya tahun lepas. Tak macam couples lain yang baju sedondon ours was different. Heh! But who cares kan? Warna baju aje pun.

To cut it short, the next day we the muslims in Wollongong bersolat di stadium hockey. There was a small celebration before everyone heading back to work/home and Uni. As for us, husband pergi kerja, I pergi Uni tapi sekadar untuk check in je. Hehe...because on that day we the Malaysian community ada jamuan raya.

Owh... I malas dah nak cerita berjela-jela so layan kan ajelah all the pictures and video (last sekali) below. So siapa kata raya di perantauan tak meriah? Sila hentuk kepala di keyboard! By the way semua gambar di bawah adalah dari album kawan-kawanku. Thanks to Mad, Mat S, Su, Fadz, Ho, and others for the lovely piccas. Actually banyak lagi tapi mak penat nak!

Takbir malam raya

Bunga api di malam raya

Solat Aidilfitri.

Rumah terbuka sana sini

Hot mommies and ladies

The Malaysian and Singaporean

Sweet lovely couple

Sesi karaoke kaum ibu

Artis jemputan

Guys and girls