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3 to 30 : 300th entry special! :

18.11.2009 marks the 3rd wedding anniversary for b & i.
and coincidently, this is also my 300th entry for roxychick's.
hurrah!

it is 8.40pm and i'm waiting for b and the rest of the troops (mister mama & zaes laa.. sapa lagi) to come and fetch me at the office. b was telling me that he wants to bring us out for dinner. i guess they're running late due to the massive traffic jam because the rain was quite heavy just now.

dinner is always the best choice for any occasion. and to have dinner (outside) with the whole family is simply a bliss for me as i never expect any expensive gifts. like i said before, never a tradition in our lives. only if we have extra dough to splurge on, thennn it's a different story. heh.

haih! my colleague just shouted at me that i'm gonna be the last person in my office floor. gotta run la nih... cannot wait sorang-sorang...

**edited**

just came back from the dinner.

b made a reservation at las carretas, taipan usj. after half an hour of waiting at the lobby, he finally arrived with zaes & mister mama. according to him, the traffic was bad kat area sunway...

when we were there, mister mama dah tak senang duduk as that was our first trip there. dia tak senang duduk sebab that place showcased too many wines and liquor secara terang-terangan.. nak keluar rasa kesian pulak kat b sebab susah payah made a reservation there sebab a friend recommended that place.. so we just sat and asked the waiter about the food and when he assured us that there'll be no liquor in their food, baru mister mama settled down sket..

so, while waiting for our food, b excused himself sebab nak pegi mencemar udara kat luar. at that point i've smelled something fishy (from the moment we came out of the car) but buat tak tau jela until our food arrived (cepat jugak food sampai) and he came in with the anniversary present. hahahahaa! dari jauh gua dah nampak that very infamous plastic bag and its special holiday collection paper bag inside it.. hahaha.. you guessed it! it's one of the item from the m.a.c holiday collection, the eyeshadow palette! yay! (tapi, after discussing with him, i decided to change it to other item disebabkan faktor eyeshadow yang i owned pon, almost the same as the colours yang ada dalam that new palette)

after habis makan, suddenly the waiter came and presented us the complimentary desert, hot choc brownie with vanilla ice cream since it was our anniversary... and they also took our pic and printed it out as a token of remembrance for us to bring home. awesomeee! *a la lini, bilis' friend* =D

b took some pics. so was lil zaes. and his photography skills has improved, i must say. zaes i mean. ok now.. enough blabbering! =)

Labels: anniversary, las carretas, subhikarimdotcom

posted by roxychick @ 11:37 PM |

entry tak bernama...

quick update..

please. please. please.

i don't need any mosquitoes here at my blog.
it maybe a crappy blog, but i don't welcome any nyamuk.

pecah otak nak pikir tau tak? so, please.. if nak comment or kutuk sekalipun, please have the guts to leave your name as well, boleh?

please. i don't need all this. you see, you are most welcome to leave a message/comment tapi jangan la bg nama anon la apa la. dah pulak tu cite pasal benda yang takde kena-mengena dengan entry.. nak cite benda-benda tu semua, if you're working at the same place as i am, you know my office email and you are most welcome to discuss office-related issues there.

tapi, nak pikir-pikir pulak.. i'm not an important person at the office nor a decision maker. ajal maut rezeki semua di tangan Allah. kalau takde rezeki untuk kita pada hari ini, redha jelah kan. jangan tuding jari kat orang tu orang ni. lagipun, jatuh bangun sesebuah organisasi tu bergantung kepada kerjasama semua orang. kalau hebat kerjasama tu, maka hebatlah juga bonus pada tahun tu.

haa.. kan dah tulis pasal syarikat. no. this must be stopped.

to anonymous readers, please lemme have some peace of mind. taknak pecah kepala la. anyway, i blog for fun. nothing serious. please jangan pecahkan kepala gua yang dah sedia serabut. if you want to leave comments, boleh. tapi bagitau who you are. i'm not going to harass you or anything like that. but i really appreciate your honesty.

thanks in advance.

banyak sangat nyamuk kang, boleh dapat malaria atau denggi laa.. lagi menakutkan chikungunya..

peace and out!

posted by roxychick @ 9:09 AM |

what blog?

haven't you heard?
manade orang update blog sekarang..
tak main la blog... semua orang tweet tweet or facebooking je..

heh.
*sarcastic*

i'm very nervous now actually.

Labels: makeup galore, makeup junkie

posted by roxychick @ 11:54 AM |

10 to 30.

10 wishes
(this was a tag from cik marvic, but i'm not tagging anyone tho. i've promised her i'd list out the wishes when my you-know-what is around the corner. so, here you go...)

delete.
delete.
delete.
delete.
delete.
delete.
delete.
delete.
delete.
delete.

i've listed out my wishes tadi. but tiba-tiba i find it rather cliche la wishes tu semua.. i might have listed them straying somewhere in between my older posts... so i pressed delete. 10 times.

what do you really wish in your life? hmm well.. i'm not saying that i have it all, tipu sangat la kan. entah. of course, i always hope that my life would be all pretty and full of sunshine but dah kata pon manusia biasa... mestilah tak lari dari dugaan dan cabaran hidup.

i'm not going to wish for anything funny or impossible. it's enough if i am bless with good health and sentiasa dilindungi olehNya. i'm just grateful to have great people surround me, my dear husband, my dear family & friends. i'm just grateful to breathe every single day and i'm so grateful for everything that ever happened in my entire life. thank you Allah.

you can't be wishing for sunshine all the time tho' because occasional rain won't hurt as it brings out beautiful rainbow...

Labels: about roxychick

posted by roxychick @ 3:35 PM |

15 to 30.

when i was 15, my dear opah passed away just few weeks before i sat for my pmr examination. i was saddened by it because we were very close. in fact she was very close with all her other grandchildren too. but maybe she had 1 or 2 favourite ones among us all.. owh.. opah is grandmother in english btw.

we stayed with her for quite some time in the same house. every morning, she'd asked me to go to the nearest kedai runcit to buy some veggies or poultry to be cooked for lunch. she'd prepared the list of what to buy and passed it with some money. and i, as an obedient cucu, would go to the kedai with my bmx. nak jalan kaki pon boleh, tapi pegi kedai naik basikal lagi senang kan.. takdelah susah nak bawak barang.

but, there were times, when i'd find excuses not to go to the kedai or simply ignored it. and if that happened, she'd gave me the silent treatment for the whole day. pastu ended up, she won't cook at all. (masa tu mister mama masih bekerja, so, she'd only cook when she got back from work and during the weekend) and at the same time, she also babysat my other cousins. tapi disebabkan i sorang je yang boleh diharap serta sangat berdikari, berani, mesra, cepat dan betul, maka i je lah orang yang paling tepat untuk pergi ke pasar despite my age (i think i started pergi kedai sorang-sorang at the age of 10 la kot) masa zaman i (ceh terasa tua) penjenayah-peragut-perogol gila seks ni sume tak berapa nak wujud sangat la. bila keluar dari rumah, takde nak rasa takut sangat. serious! setakat nak jalan-jalan kat lorong sunyi tu, memang takde hal punyalah. bukan nak riak, but seriously dulu we were free to go out and play with other kids without having to worry much..

opah trusted me so much when it comes to membeli bahan basah untuk memasak. dia tau i tau membeli ikan yang dia nak, ulaman yang dia nak, brand sanitary pad.. eh.. tak. itu untuk mister mama. not opah. ngee..

mestilah orang tua tu percaya kat i sebab tiap hujung minggu je, pagi ahad, bila dia siap sedia awal pagi, tu mesti nak pergi pasar atau paling best pon chow kit la, mesti i dah terpacak kat luar rumah, tepi kereta nak ikut sekali. owh, fyi, masa tu, hypermarkets didn't exist ok! if you want to shop for groceries, you'd either go to chow kit or pasar borong selayang or supermarket di hankyu jaya (o wow!) or chujitsu (double wow!) or kimisawa (wow! wow! wow!) or just the neighbourhood supermarket near your precinct. kalau kais pagi, makan pagi, sila tunggu apek naik pick up muncul bawak bahan basah/kering di lorong depan rumah.

so, setiap kali ke pasar, i'd know the names of the fishes, daging batang pinang untuk apa, veggies and what not la. *sampai tahap yang lu takleh temberang dengan gua tapi till now masih tidak pandai memasak.. haha. hot & sensitive topic. move it! move it!*

arwah opah juga suka memasak. mister mama pon banyak belajar masak resepi rahsia dari dia. walaupon mister mama wasn't her favourite daughter in law, tapi mister mama gigih belajar masakan-masakan dari dia and i can bet you my last penny that mister mama can cook better... err.. nevermind.

apart from that, our tea time pon kadang-kadang arwah opah akan buat kuih seri muka la, bubur pulut hitam la. when hari raya, her signature wajik and kuih bangkit would definitely be in the wajib-ada list!

her favourite cucu would definitely be my sis#1. sebab dia pon cucu pertama in the family kan.. you could hardly see arwah opah marah kat dia. and i'd be the less favourite. maybe because i was not in the attractive-looking cucu category la kot (i sorang je tersesat hitam legam sebab cucu-cucu lain semua fair-skinned and hot belaka)

akan tetapi, walaupon begitu, arwah opah takde la kejam sampai buat i macam cucu tiri ke hape. dia selalu cakap that i ni la cucu dia yang paling kemas. buatla rambut macamana pon, rambut pendek ke, panjang ke, nak ikat ke tak ikat ke, to her eyes, i'm the most not selekeh-looking cucu of hers. *i think if she's still alive, mesti dia sedih tengok i yang paling selekeh sekali antara cucu-cucu dia yang lain.. uhuhuhuuu*

and when she was fated to meet the Almighty on the 7th of september 1994 (ye cik foxx. tanggal birthday kamu), i was the saddest person on earth! what happened was, weeks before that, she was already admitted to sjmc. frankly, i didn't remember dia sakit apa tapi almost every other day i'd go and visit her at the hospital. and the last time i visited her, i lost my beloved wallet! and i knew something bad would happened but i just kept it to myself.

the next day, after school, i didn't get the chance to visit her. so was the day after. and the next next day tu, when i suddenly remembered that i didn't go to the hospital for couple of days, i made the effort to go. itupon sebab my uncle had asked a favour from me to pass some records to his friend yang keja kat one of the music shop kat subang parade. masa naik bas from usj, bas tu lalu sjmc first then only subang parade kan.. but then i told myself that i'd go subang parade first then can spend more time kat hospital.

after i met my uncle's friend, i went straight to the hospital. jalan kaki 10-15 minit je from subang parade. sampai je hospital, my other uncle was there and he broke the bad news as i came out from the elevator. i quickly rushed to her room only to find her cold and stiff. she's gone. i was few minutes too late.

i regretted and blamed my uncle's records myself for not stopping at the hospital at the very first place. i cried, went out of the hospital and hailed down a cab to fetch bills and two other cousins from school. when i told them about her death, they said i was lying. gila apa nak tipu pasal death?

and so, the rest was history. masa tu sis#1 kelam kabut balik eventho dia baru sampai singapore few days before. i cried and cried pastu tiba-tiba teringat pulak bila dia suruh pegi kedai i buat-buat tak dengar dan buat-buat tido pulak tu.. isk. bad cucu i am.

i don't think i have a picture of my beloved arwah opah with me rite now. i shall check my photos collection and scan and upload later ok. meanwhile, sila la tengok gambar ini...

Labels: about roxychick

posted by roxychick @ 4:53 PM |

bersiar-siar ke klcc naik lrt bersama zaes si jin notty.

before anybody says,

isk. rasa nak tampar je pompuan ni. balik-balik muka dia. balik-balik muka dia. saja je la nak biar entry fotogedik lama-lama kat sini ingat dia glam sangat ke pon wtfjefgjlkfdmlk...

... let's move on to another update.

i've got lots of things to babble about, tapi since i'm short of time, yada, yada, yada.. same ol' same ol' excuses... ok. ok. let's just move on will ya?

last saturday (kenapa lately update sentiasa start dengan perkara yang dibuat minggu lepas, bukan paling latest? dan patutkah ianya dipanggil update?) *hoi diam kau hati kecil!*

anyway, last you-know-what day, dengan nekadnya, i had successfully membawa lil zaes naik pengangkutan awam iaitu lrt untuk bersiar-siar ke klcc. went there with mister mama as it was another indie-weekend sans b. so, pagi-pagi dah bangun, b sent us to the kj lrt station before shooting off to gombak for a solemnization. err.. orang lain punya, not his. pfft!

eventho the sky was cloudy & drizzling, we went on with the plan since there was no sign that the rain would get any heavier. armed with mister mama by my side and the orange stroller, zaes was all excited to experience his 1st riding-the-lrt moment.

and disebabkan i ni memang sangap (dan lrt tu pon on time pulak), kat DALAM lrt baru teringat nak amik gambar dia..

Labels: all about zaes

posted by roxychick @ 9:00 AM |

glam fashion hits schmitz.

as promised, here's another event i attended last wednesday. this time, i went there with bills the bilis.

BUT.. before that happened, something else happened.

few days prior to that, the pr babe emailed and asked me if i can join the makeover session (alongside 2 other associates) they're planning (and have it published in the newspaper as an advertorial thingey la ni..) in order to promote the company's new range of makeup. the makeover is going to be done by this one famous makeup artist, encik z. upon hearing this, i was excited and accepted the offer. ceh. offer.

so, when the day came, after the intro session with encik z and the newspaper's photographer & journalist, the makeover session began. i was wearing a knee-length jacket over a sleeveless just-below-the-knee songket-like-but-it-was-actually-a-thai-silk dress when the lady photographer asked me to posed in front of the mobile photo wall (bunting was more like it) without the jacket - for the before makeover photo. i'm a lil awkward to do so, sebab tidak pernah berbaju sebegitu di hadapan para associates yang lain kan, tapi sebab dah kena suruh, maka terpaksa la jugak. (tapi kalau kat luar, i'm ok pulak.. tah apesal tah. heh)

so, during the makeover (which was done in a small room btw), encik z was commenting on my skin condition (pipi sebelah kanan je yang penuh dengan pimples scars..) and was explaining to the journalist at the same time on how he'd covered them up without having to use the concealer. and yada yada yada.

after the makeup, he curled my hair using a hair straightener. weird but it worked wonders as the curls stayed sampai esok pagi. and he didn't even use a hairspray. double weird! and voila! dah siap pon.. and again, amik gambar sampai nak muntah kat depan the photo wall. after that i went out to make way for the 2nd girl.

as i stepped out of the room, my other colleagues dah tersenyum sumbing semua and complemented me. (dorang tu mesti nak gelakkan i sebenarnya tu, but they don't have the heart..) haha. maybe the curly hair. maybe the makeup. or maybe both. i don't know. in the picture, the makeup looked good, but i'd definitely stick to straight hair. DEFINITELY! haha. i'd looked almost like a doll if i were to have golden blonde hair. tee hee hee..

so, billa came to my office to get her makeup done by me and off we went to the event @ the gardens midvalley. owh, it's the fashion hits presents glam odyssey, a cocktail party hosted by the glam magazine, btw.

as we reached the gardens' concourse, it was already filled with socialites and conglomerates and what not. all of a sudden i felt akward. but because we're already there, and jaja (the junior from my previous eh! entry) saw me already, i signed the guest book and told myself that i'm gonna die of boredom again. haha.

as we entered the guest-only area, it's like we're in another world. huish. quite pathetic i must say. everyone was so comfortable with themselves and the surrounding except us. or maybe it was just me cuz when i looked at bills, she seemed like she fits in that world.

after a sip at my orange juice, a man came up to us and introduced himself. bills and i were giggling away at the sight of this sebab that man was obviously looked a lil drunk. cuak pon ada. but luckily after some exchanging of views on the market tradings (bills knew better cuz she's in that line) he just went to another girl without excusing himself from us. haha. he was rather rude there but it was a relief when he did that.

again, since they're waiting for the celebs to filled up the vip area, the fashion show started one and a half hour later. just before that, bills' friends joined us and masa tu baru la tak rasa awkward sangat sebab her friends were friendly bunch.

dah la. tengok jela gambar-gambar muka tak sudah i ni. takpe. masih boleh gelak sakan jika mahu. i redha. T_T

Labels: glam fashion hits presents glam odyssey

posted by roxychick @ 6:25 PM |

you are lucky in a special way...

special shoutout to my dear friend, baizurah abdullah.
(in response to her latest entry)

i received this email from cik jiran sebelah yesterday morning and i guess i should share some of them with you, you and you. especially you.


Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio

1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.

2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.

3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.

5. Pay off your credit cards every month.

6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.

9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.

10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.

12. It' OK to let your children see you cry.

13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.

16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.

17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.

18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.

19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.

20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.

21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.

22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.

23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

24. The most important sex organ is the brain.

25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.

26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?'

27. Always choose life.

28. Forgive everyone everything.

29. What other people think of you is none of your business.

30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
33. Believe in miracles.

34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.

35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.

36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.

37. Your children get only one childhood.

38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.

39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.

40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.

41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

42. The best is yet to come.

43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

44. Yield.

45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.

everything happens for a reason. and it could be a blessing in disguise.
so, babe.. cheer up ok! you take care now!

=)

Labels: life's like that

posted by roxychick @ 12:02 AM |