Trip to Batu Pahat (part I)

• Saturday (31.08.2013)
• Packed my bag for the trip to Batu Pahat
• Miza helped me wrap the wedding gift for Shabana. Thank you! :)
• Left for Seremban RnR with Aisyah to meet with Zawanah + Fatimah Liyaqat (with sister and cousin) for a together trip
• Off to Tangkak to visit Shar, friend of Aisyah + Zawanah who just gave birth to a cute baby boy, 9 days old :)
• Off to Muar and got myself 2 pieces of pau daging telur puyuh at Tg. Agas. A taste of surprise! :D
• Had breakfast at Mee Bandung Muar but I ate nasi lemak instead ( which my father bought for me earlier on)
• Continued the journey straight to Batu Pahat in the afternoon and checked in at De Perdana Hill Hotel.
• Went to Shabana's place to witness a beautiful matrimony after Maghrib :)) 

Tangkak Town

With jaulah buddies! Zawanah & Aisyah :)

At Shar's place :)

Beautiful scenery to Shar's house

Muar Town

The famous Muar delicacy. Love the little surprise in there ;)

Now some pictures taken during Sha's akad:

Alhamdulillah. Another blissful wedding! :)

...and Happy Merdeka everyone!

Three stooges

• Friday (30.8.2013)
• Made pancakes for breakfast. Yum!
• Drove to my mother in law's place at Damansara to pick up the rest of my stuff
• Went to Midvalley and had lunch with Kamilah + Fatima K.
• Handed them brownies and they loved them :D
• Fatima treated us to ice creams! Yay!
• Bought Abah's favourite pretzel flavour-almond!
• Drove home in the middle of traffic jam + heavy rain! >,<
• Miza arrived home in the evening
• Went out for dinner with family at nearby restaurant. The som tam was delicious! :D
• Slept early for tomorrow's trip

Fatima K, Me & Kamilah <3

Faces I will miss, terribly ;(

Family dinner with Ma, Abah & Miza :D

  What a great day! :)

Home sweet home

It's been 2 days since I got home. And the feeling was amazing! :D Feels like there's no limit to what I could or could not do. Hehe. Okay, probably there are still some house rules to live by but you get what I mean. I have not done much these 2 days, except for cleaning up the house and cooking (which I so very much love but I rarely got to do it since school). So now is the time to do just that. And browsing through my recipe book, there are so many blank pages waiting to be filled by wonderful recipes! I do have some collection of my favourites saved in the computer but I have yet had them tested. So I think this may be the perfect time to do so. InsyaaAllah, hopefully by the end of my break, I'm a better cook who can cook different dishes of both Malay and Western and of course, pastries! :D

• Wednesday (28.8.2013)
• Laundry 
• Cooked lunch: Masak lemak kacang panjang + Ikan bawal goreng berlada 
• Unloaded things from Ma's car
• Watched Masterchef US Season 4 ep 20 ( I have no idea why Krissi is still in though! It's been long overdue)

• Thursday (29.9.2013)
• More laundry
• Cooked lunch: Kurma ayam + Kangkung bercili
• Browsing through my recipe book
• Called Mummy and told her about my plan of coming by tomorrow to pick up my stuff
• Planned an outing with Fatima K + Kamilah
• Planned the trip to Batu Pahat with Zawanah + Aisyah for Shabana's wedding
• To find a wedding gift for Shabana
• Discuss to-do list with hubby about trip to KK, Sabah next week
• KIV Fatima's request for brownies tomorrow! :P

Teluk Cempedak + Oath Taking

• Tuesday (27.8.2013)
• Went to Teluk Cempedak with hubby for some breakfast and birdwatching!
• Spotted a flock of thick billed green pigeons, a common sandpiper, white bellied sea eagles,and a possible little bronze cuckoo (again, hubby could not see it!) :P

Thick billed green pigeon (from birdforum.net)

Little bronze cuckoo

Later in the afternoon, we checked out from the hotel and went to my hostel to pick my things up before hubby went back to KL. Too bad he could not stay longer for the oath taking ceremony as his flight to KK was at 8pm that night :(

Most of my stuff are ready to go! :)

Although hubby went back, I was very glad to see my parents who came for the small ceremony. It was such a wonderful moment to see them witness my achievement. Their presence meant the world to me ;')

Alhamdulillah, thank you Allah for this success :)) My personal thank you to my husband who has always been there for me, either in presence or in spirit, you're such a wonderful person to be with. To my parents, thank you for raising me and for making me who I am today. I am a better person with your love and unconditional faith in me. To my families and friends, my deepest gratitude for your prayers and friendship. Please continue to pray for me so I become better with each success and failure. Truly, I could not have done it without all of you!

Mille grazie.

Of Day Trip + AGD

• Sunday (25.8.2013)
• Had breakfast at the hotel with hubby in the morning
• Went to IIUM One Student Centre to pay the graduation fees and check my clearance status
• Picked up my birding gear- binocs + sport shoes!
• Left for Tasik Chini, which was 1 hour away from Kuantan for a little tour around the place

We didn't go for the boat ride which cost RM60 for 4pax (30 mins) since it almost reached afternoon, which means the weather was going to be super hot and I could not afford to have a tanned face by tonight's dinner :P Hubby joked that I would fit with the "theme" but I think not! Lol. Anyways, we did spot a few birds like bluewinged leafbird, a possible changeable hawk eagle, hornbills and some other birds which I could not recall. Hubby thought that the trip was not complete without the boat ride, which was true. Perhaps we would have seen a lot more birds during the ride and yes, in the early morning too. 

Later that night, we went for my Annual Grand Dinner for Gen 12 at Hyatt Hotel, Kuantan. The dinner started around 8.30pm and we had such a great time throughout the night! I was not able to go to every table to take everybody's pictures but we knew that we enjoyed ourselves very much and laughed as if it'd be the last time we would see each other. *sobs*

Here are some of the pictures:

With my beloved support, hubby <3

With the gorgeous Fatimah Liyaqat! :D

Sisters of Gen 12

Brothers of Gen 12

Three stooges!

The suamis serenading the isteris

Lovely ladies

Me & Kamilah! 

STF forever! <3 

Me & Fana! 

Check out this cool video from Gen 12:

This was definitely a night to remember! ;)