cook the bones in the shadow

Photo-entry

Update on our jurassic park project . Ain and I dragged this diggin project for 2 weeks... and it was me causing all the delays :P

I speculated that this dino bone must have been berkulat ke ape entah, since it has a greeny shade... Then, dig punya dig... aisehmen... there's dino in it... in fleshh... not in bones ok...

Can we still consider it as a fossil? maybe lah... coz one of its legs is missing... and, fosils are not perfect/complete kan... But took me some time to reason with Ain as to why this Dino is short of one leg. After she had a satisfying answer, she kept explaining to us over and over again about the missing leg :P~

It's a Triceratops!!!! The following week... the head, the legs, the tail were all over the place... then missing more than just one leg... as the bigger dino boy named Meem has a hobby of dismantling things :D


Next in line...

Oh yeah, I had this free eye shadow that lasted for a week. (lesson learned: accidents can happen at home) Hohoho... but only one side of the eyes... so to balance it, I had to put gothic/ dark make-up which I normally won't... hehe, tiba-tiba rasa sesuai la plak mekap begituh...


Moving on, this week's craze:
This Periuk Ajaib... as made known by my sis. It's a multicooker from a product called arGee.

Kegigihan yang tiada tolok bandingan: They brought this periuk ajaib along, all the way from KeyEll. So we had variety of foodies for berbuka for the weekend exclusively prepared by my sistah.

Pembuatan ayam ala-ala tandoori.



Pembuatan Pizza

Kari Kerutuk? ye kot namanya begitu....

then few more dishes tak terambil fotonya.

and last but not least...cheq buat kek... hoho...

Kek Kurma (yaa... kerana limpahan rezeki mendapat byk kurma) :-)

My sis left its lid in KeyEll, so we used a smaller lid from a rice cooker as replacement.. i think the cake tak ader space nak kembang gebu-gebu... akibatnya, a bit overbaked at the bottom and too soft on top... but tengah-tengah sedap :P~ (*cuba memujuk diri) hoho

After being idle for some time, now I can smell the enthusiasm to learn to master cooking skills (chewahh konon...) Will i pick up the momentum? :P Willll seee.... ahaks...

Namun tatkala bulan puasa ni...

I have this yearly routine of making biscuits (for Raya). I will try to hang on to this tradition, tak boleh idle-idle naaa. So dapuq berasap tak berasap... oven tetap akan berasap yaaa....

Akhir kata,

Bermasak-masak dahulu, Bermakan-makan kemudian

Jangan dok buat Raplah Jingga

Awat jadi lagu tu?

Video Link: Hang bertuah

Cheq bubuh link ja kat sini. Video asai dia daghi ceghita Hang Tuah. Taktiau plak Hang Tuah asai utagha. Betoi la kot.. pasai pa... nama ada Hang-hang tu kira macam utara la noh. Lepaih cheq tengok video ni, cheq teroja la nak bagi tera balik cakap utagha ni. Haru noh. Nak habaq pi kat hangpa... cheq sebenaqnya bukan tera mana pun cakap 'piau' utara ni... haghap ja dok bagan ngan tanjung punya lama. Mai, mai jom layan sat video ni.

Fellow Penangites or stayed in Penang for more than 5 years... if you can't speak/understand Utara slang... Wajib kena amik tuisyen tapi jgn jadik mcm watak dalam video tu, guna duit tuisyen mak bagi pi clubbing plak noh... kuikuikui...

My first introduction to bahasa kebangsaan was more to bahasa kenegeriaan... communicating with friends in our neighbourhood in Utara slang.

But then, in school... the surrounding was different - multinational school where no languages other than Malay and English can be used. Malay language used by fellow skoolmates were either 'slang-less', Utara slang or like the Manglish version of Malay Language (Konpius nih.. Manglish tu kan dah Malaysian-English... apa pulak manglish version Malay language plak?)

contoh:

English: Let's eat
standard Malay: Mari kita pergi makan
Utara/Tanjung Malay: Jom pi makan
Manglish versi Malay: Mai kita pi makan


English: Don't do that, it hurts... (cuba dengan intonasi Charlie bit my fingers)
standard Malay: Jangan buat begitu, ia sungguh menyakitkan.
Utara/Tanjung Malay: Hang jangan dok buat lagu tu, sakit hang tau dak
Manglish versi Malay: Awak jangan buat saya macam ni lah... sakit maaa...

Utara slang varies from Penang, Kedah and Perlis, are slightly different from each other. I once read that the bahasa Melayu Utara has 7-9 different slangs in Penang itself. Someone did a research on this topic... if I get the source, I'll put it here, ok :D

Hehe.. bahasa utara pun sebenarnya cheq belum abes cover :P And aku sangatlah boleh terkonpius slang... antara contohnya

Selipar
I tend to say Selipaq!
which is wrong! no such word in Utara slang.. huhu

Merdeka
I tend to say Merdeke!
tu laa.. orang KL pun kagum dengar aku cakap macam ni


BTW,
Can u guess what is the language of my inner voice?

Akhir Kata,
Marilah sayangi Bahasa Kebangsaan Kita...

(pasaipa tulis entri ni ada campur bahasa mat salleh? haaa.. na na.. nak kena)
itu namanya Versatile maaa

dan

SELAMAT MENYAMBUT KEMERDEKAAN ke-52 ;-)

Merdeke! Merdeke! Merdekee!

terkuhik-kuhik ku ketawa pabila demam sebab....

sebab....

Laughter is the best medicine
~ it heals souls
~ it brings joy
~ chases away sorrows

how to laugh... or how to make people laugh?

=

u joke... u do funny things... u talk funny talks...

When there's a clown among us (among us friends)... someone lighthearted to cheer us up, color the atmosphere with hilarity.... we laugh our hearts out... don't care how these humors are effortlessly made... they are funny... we laugh... and laugh...

We watch sitcoms... waahhaa.. so funny pecah perut... we laugh...

We watch comedians perform... kahkahkah funnyyy gilos... wahaaha... again we laugh....
We watch them again... then suddenly euwww.. wat's that? that's not funny... hey.. he's not funny at all.. quit ur job, clown! we say

Behind all the hoo hoo haa haas... all the so called joy it brings... jokes can turn rotten bad in just a slip of a tongue. Sarcasm is another form of humor. Some people can take it, some people can't.

Hmmm... talk about jokes and humor... Am I funny? or maybe sarcastic? am i :O

Hehe… I don’t think I’m the type yang bagi orang gelak sampai berguling-guling atas ayaq mata tahan ketawa punya funny and also, I’m not good with playing around with words and turn em to razor-sharp sarcasm. Well.. I think la :P

Some people are funny… and very natural at that. Good comedians, good jokers can make people laugh really hard, whether it's 'intelligent jokes' or the 'silly jokes'... they just crack em out.

Some make up stories that are funny, some make fun of themselves... some make fun of entities like an organisation, and some make fun of people... and some opt for sarcasm. Those who are good in manupulating it, even though every word that is used to deliver the humor is wrapped with pure sarcasm, they still sound funny. They make you laugh, of course, unless you are the subject of the joke or sarcasm or somehow connected with the subject matter.

Being a comedian or the 'class clown' is not easy. If you are Not good at it… Never try hard to be one, coz you may end up causing more hatred than humor. Some people are so good at it, even those who are victimized as the joke material don’t realize it… or they don’t take it too hard and accept it as just for laughs. It’s a matter of how they are delivered, kan... and also depends on how well someone handles a joke.

How funny can we get/be?

I don’t think I would dare to do it in public, pulling out joke thingy. Among friends, ok lah kan… comfort zone what. Usually it just flows in, depending on the circle of friends we are with. When we sooo clique n kamcheng gitu, humor just invites itself, especially with close buddies who wouldn’t mind being laughed at and with whom you wouldn’t mind to be the center of a joke. Sakat menyakat la kiranya. Hehe.. but kan… kadang-kadang tu, you cannot reuse the same joke to different circle of friends. They may sound funny to some group but not to others. See, Joke and Humor’s kinda unpredictable.


Is it possible to be funny without making fun of someone? Of course there’s issues, there’s rules, there’s theories or concepts etc that you can joke about. But you wouldn’t know, some people may be worshipper of a certain concepts that you are ridiculing and they might get offended. In a smaller circle, we are usually more aware of people around us therefore we have control over what may be right to be laughed about and what not to. But bigger crowd? Can We pull it? As for me, I don’t think I can. Takut end up tergelak sorang-sorang plak, huhu, SS-ness plak.

Comedians are brave people, seriously… they have guts. Shows like ‘last comedy act’ or the local version ‘raja lawak’, some really have that joker talent in them. But when it’s not funny… I’d wonder ‘how do they feel about it eh, when people do not response according to their expectations’. Must be nerve-wracking kan. Daunting job it is.

Last year, ada one local comedian (muka baru) performed in campus, I was kinda annoyed, irritated and geram. He was not funny and most of his jokes were criticizing people in a very senseless way, and people actually laughed. Huhu… So I can be kedekut ketawa sometimes…

But, in general, I gotta say I respect their confidence and guts. But what I can’t tolerate: mocking sensitive issues, awfully mimicking some illness (esp mental illnes) or bad/misled representation of people from certain group or level.

In certain cases, in a big crowd... or among your friends… you make fun of yourself so that people around you get to have some taste of laughter. If you are excellent at it… then Yes… you are a clown. And when you are a clown… at times, people only see the happy side of you.. which is a good thing. But then… Sometimes, people never take you seriously just because you are… yes.. only a clown in their eyes… a mirage of a clown muka berbedak sejuk with the red roundie nose, wide-angled lips and a pencil-drawn mascara of three piece of eyelash. (erkk… aiseh… who created this stereotype look for clowns eh? Sungguh la menakutkan sebenarnya)

Friends said I was funny, am funny? Maybe I am getting less humorous? Even my blog is kinda serious *yawn… haha. Is it because I am getting more serious or am I becoming more reserved of what I say around people? Yes, I tend to be more careful not to say wrong things at the wrong time. Trying to bring some humor to the atmosphere is a noble thing but it can also be disastrous at times. Yes, I don’t like the idea of people having that clownly mirage of me… but above all… I am more concerned if I’d hurt anyone by trying to pull off this tricky and complicated thing we all call The Joke.

“Haha... Just Kidding… LOL”

Can everything be back to square one just by flashing this sassy phrase?

can aar?


iyoooo… okay someone! knock me now!! Why so serious aaahh ini blog entries saya punya lately? Must check back the antibiotics the doctors gave me masa demam aritu lah. Maybe had some aku-serious-weh-dose in it. Ayayay… must take chill-pills dah ni.


Kesian kan pikir balik, imej-imej joker and clown yang diberi kat people who actually work hard to TRY to make people laugh kan.

So supaya saya tidak meneruskan pembebelan saya yang seriously boring itu... ini recap... kan senang baca points ni jer daripada bebelan2 di atas.

1. Respect people regardless of how ‘funny’ they are. When they are not in their usual happy-happy ceria mood… do understand that they are just human. Maybe it’s time for us to try entertaining them instead :)
2. If we are not good at making jokes.. don’t simply make one… the consequences can be devastating… disastrous… catastrophic… (yaa.. all those tragic terminologies lah)
3. If we are trying to help make the world a happier place, it’s good… by all means :-) but don’t mock people who are less fortunate... its disheartening
4. It may be seem trivial or easy-peasy for some… but some people do take up this ‘funny’ business as a serious career… and from my point of view, it’s not an easy job to be an entertainer.

Akhir kata...
Why Sooo Serrrioussss....
oh ya lupo plak...
SELAMAT BERPUASAA yaaaa... Katakan Taknak kepada melantak ketika berbuka ye ;-)

Getting Older is not Taboo :D

Some signs that “You think age is catching up and it's an issue for you”:

• You feel overly flattered and excited when people mistake you to be younger than your age
• You refuse or feel reluctant to answer when people ask your age
• You are always in denial about your age

Some Young Women in their late twenties consider themselves getting older and everything around them just gets old correspondingly. Some think they are at the top of the world and in the prime time of their lives. And some don’t even bother about this issue until they bump into someone in late thirties and feel so young… or someone who just got out from high school and start to feel ancient.

Why late twenties young women?
Because most of my friends and I are fall in that category :P :P


What is age, and what does the increase of it mean to you? Do you associate it with biological aging like wrinkles, lose of brain cells, reduce in metabolism bla bla… or do you look at it in a more positive angle like maturing, sophistication, superiority and wisdom? :D

It’s funny how my friends and I talk about this over coffee. It is indeed an ISSUE eh… LOL :))

yes, I get flattered when people mistake me for an undergraduate student in early twenties… Haha… and ouh, I get that all the time :P Then again, sometimes people do give me that round shocked face when I tell them I am still studying… you know… that “aren’t you like suppose to be having a solid career?” look.

Oh yeah… I am pretty sure I'm doing what I want to / have to at this point of my life. So, what I've learnt so far...


I've learnt that...life is indeed full of surprises
but,
I've also learnt that...'life full of surprises' also means not everything happened the way we planned or wanted.

on top of dat,
I've learnt that...happiness is not only about getting one wants, but also cherishing what one has...


Akhir Kata,

Love to Learn from past…Learn to Love today…
Keep Learning and Loving in the future *_*


P/S: Hehe, I guess this is another post-birthday entry from me :D