Pining for Food

I blame the winter for this! (although myself is at fault as well)

I woke up this morning finding myself craving for 'Seri Muka' and 'Akok'!. There are two of my favorite 'Kuih Melayu Traditional' T__T. The worst part is I don't even know how to make them *cry some more*.

So I googled the recipes in the internet, and I found few websites that have the recipes. And they have images! *drools*. So I promise myself I will try to make this, although the chance for it to success is very low *sighs*

Seri Muka --> tengok gmbr pun dah tau sedap! :)

Oh another thing! I LOVE 'tupat sutung', a sweet
Kelantanese dish made out of glutinous rice stuffed in squid, and eaten with sweet gravy. I want this as well!, too bad i don't know how to make this either. Umi, nok tupat sutung please!

Ketupat sotong --> nak jerik teringak tupat sutung Umi!

What she's been up to?

I never really write something about what I do everyday, but I don't think there is any harm in doing so. Let's go for a change today, I mean a lil change is good ( I guess).

Lately, other than doing clinics and classes during weekdays, I've started playing netball and volleyball again in the weekend. I've played and loved these two games ever since I was eleven, and honestly going back to playing after three years break is absolute fun.

I have always been torn between these two games, when people ask me which one I find the best to play. I'll normally come up with all the reasons that I can think of - netball being such a fun game with all the running and hopping, while volleyball requires a lot more skills than just stamina. In the end, I can't still pick one and I'm not going to choose one today.

Quite honestly, I can vaguely remember how did I get involve in these two sports. I was never influenced by anyone to play any sorts of games, unlike my younger siblings who were sort of forced into tennis (blame my dad for that). My mother, who was once a goal shooter in her high school team (a revealing one I must say, back in her days people were still jahil about hukum agama and she had to wear a skirt, a short one) never encouraged me to play the game. My father who was in the volleyball team at that time (he pretty much plays all type of games my father), never once asked me to join any team ( which is so much contrast to what he did to my younger siblings now). My point is, I was not forced to play the game, I naturally play the games out of my own will and I guess that is why I find so much joy playing the games :D.

Looking back, I've done pretty well in both games although I've played more netball than volleyball in high school just because the training time was overlapped and I had to choose one. The ONLY reason I chose netball over volleyball was most of my close friends were in netball team, so there I was.

Three years break, little did I notice that my body is not as strong as I was younger. Although I believe that my skills have improved ( I might be wrong), looking at the countless bruises on my body parts, not too mention sprained thumb and ankle and bodyaches that I get everytime after practices, my body is progressively becoming less fit. *ouch*

Anyway, now that I get three weeks break before the match for my exam, I hope that I can get enough rest for recovery. I'm trying to be as much optimistic as I can but realistically, I do not put so much hope in winning the games. However it's the fun and excitement that I'm looking forward for. Bring it on NCG 2009!

I'll still write, even when it hurts T__T

The love letter

A letter for my beloved-superb-awesome umi, Happy Birthday!

Umi,
Terima kasih untuk 22 tahun ini,
Atas jasa dan kasih sayang umi,
Keikhlasan umi mengasuh La,
Kesabaran umi dengan karenah La
Hanya tuhan yang mampu membalasnya

Umi,
Maafkan La,
kerana banyak sangat susahkan umi,
selalu degil tak dengar cakap umi,
tak buat yang umi suruh,
ya Allah banyaknya dosa La pada umi,
tak cium bau syurga anak yang derhaka,
Astaghfirullah,
ampunkan La ye umi

Umi tau tak,
nama Azizah sesuai sangat dengan umi,
sebab umi memang wanita yang mulia,
dan terima kasih umi,
sebab lahirkan kak long, abe, kak chik, ami dan sya,
Alhamdulillah,
La rasa macam orang paling bertuah di dunia,
sebab ada umi dan mereka semua

Umi,
duduk jauh dari umi La rasa sakit sangat,
sebab tak ada yang faham La macam umi faham,
tapi kan mi,
sesusah mana pun La kat sini,
La kuatkan juga hati ini,
sebab La tau umi sangat bangga dengan La,
dan that's all that matter to me
dan terima kasih sekali lagi umi,
atas doa dan nasihat umi

Umi,
terima kasih yang tak terhingga
atas segala-galanya,
dan selamat hari lahir umi
semoga Allah sentiasa memberkati umi,
dan anak-anak umi

A new look

Yay!! Finally, the blog is pimped!. I've been wanting to do this ever since but did not really have the chance (obviously laziness is the main factor :P). I put quite an effort for this and spent hours (the stupidly slow running computer did not help at all!) of my supposedly prep time to pimp the blog (now I wish I get back all the wasted hours, I have an endo patient tomorrow and really have to do some revision for that!). At least something to make me feel better - I actually think that I did a good job (smug.haha!). Well, I love the new look and hope everyone here feels the same too :D.

(*boleh tak nk prasan sendirii.. :P)

So true

Love the quote on the wall. And yes, it's so true. Whatever :P