Showing posts with label weekends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weekends. Show all posts

Saturday, June 20, 2015

Cerita cerita weekend lepas : Mengecat rumah mak, An engagement and a potluck!


Salam semua! Semua ni sbnrnya berlaku last weekend :)
Ni semua gara gara tak teringat nk publish! Dah load pics, dh terfikir apa nak karang. Tp mashallah busy yang amat!

So, dimulakan dgn Jumaat, bersempena jumaat terakhir sempena seblum Ramadhan, kitorg buat lah mini potluck kat rumah Rahmah at Setia Alam. Rmai yg xdpt dtg sebab dh berjanji itu ini dgn geng yg lain, makanya kitorg jelah. Takpelah asalkan meriah uols. And diserikan dgn special appearance oleh ex-officemates yg dtg juga. Thanks Dora, Kin and Fisha for coming! Raya nanti kita buat lg meriah :) Inshallah. 





Thanks juga kepada Tuan Rumah yg superb generous! Kakmah buat nasi beriyani, ayam berempah and also laksa kat kitorg tau! I buat sambal udang jerr. Kaksu buat rendang. Yang lain pun byk betul menunya ; Cream puff, Sayur Campur, Kek Carrot, Brownies, Egg tarts, ayam percik semuanya marvelles! :)




Sabtu tu daddy dah start mengecat rumah mak di Salak Tinggi. And memandangkan daddy ni jenis suka buat kerja solo, maka kami semua g lah mkn kenduri org bertunang di Tasik Biru, Kundang :) My lovely Cousin Azreena yg bertunang. Last two weeks another cousin :Neni yg bertunang di Selayang. Tahniah tau kat korang adik adik sepupu ku yg dh dipinang org. Dptlah makan nasi minyak byk tempat hujung thn ni :) Yeay!




See all the heroes! Semua ke laut ;p Hamza pun adooo :)



Dptlah jumpa nenek (belah bapak) and makcik makcik ku yg mmg dh lama xjumpa, Ni semua makcik makcik belah ayah :) Maksu (in blue tudung in front) ni tukang urut di Hosp Putrajaya specializing utk org stroke. Nama je sama dok area KL tp mmg jarang dpt jumpa. Sesambil berjalan teman mak jalan jalan pun sama ni. Mlm tu mak nk balik ganu dah. Esoknya (Ahad) MRSM Q-ber dh start sekolah :)



Dirumah daddy mmg hampir habis semuanya dia cat. Alhmdullilah. Ada lagi few mini jobs pending, taksempat nk buat. tp alhmdulillah. Siap! Pasni siapa nk minta upah cat boleh call abe memey yerr..hehehe. Kalau rumah dua tingkat mmg upah dia plg murah pun 2k slalunya xtermasuk barang. Tp kita mmg xdelah caj mahal mahal kat mak sendiri sebenarnya xcaj pun FOC je :) 



In progress. Melengkong sampai galahnyerrr :)


Tepi rumah -BEFORE

AFTER! :)

Tepi rumah - BEFORE

AFTER - Color Pecan from Nippon. Kaler ni family yg pilih :)


Have a nice weekend ahead! Selamat berpuasa and ber ramadhan! :) Weekend ni maybe mode hibernate je. Solat n ngaji je kot inshallah :) Teringat pula to my sis in Sheffield UK teman hubby dia yg dh nk convo berpuasa 19hours this time around! Gambatte!! Moga Allah permudahkan..inshallah :)

Monday, February 24, 2014

Mommy's Kitchen :: Simple Butter Cookies




Good morning everyone! :)
Lets share a recipe on a Monday morning to cheer adn shoo all the negative vibes :)


This recipe is surely a keeper for my kitchen.
Nice, crunchy and melts in my mouth just the way i like it :)


Ingredients

250g Butter
2 1/2cups Flour
1 cup sugar
1 large egg
2tbsp fresh milk
1tsp vanilla essence
1tsp baking powder

Choc chips and raisins to your taste :)

Method 

Cream butter with sugar.
Add in egg, milk and vanilla essence.
Mix well.

Add in flour n baking powder n your chips in the batter.
Mix well before chilling it for 10mins :)

Bake in small dollops on greased tray for 20mins.
In 170 degree C.


Makes around 70 pieces :)


Happy baking everybody! 




Love
Zahra

Monday, February 10, 2014

Our Weekend at Home :)


Assalamualaykum wbt lovelies..
Monday again :)

Sekejap je dah isnin..nak menunggu jumaat rs kemain lama..


So for the last weekend, we just stayed home. And did not much activities. Mommy planned to do some cut and paste and DIY picture frames activity with the boys but the time was not right. So next time lah yerr :)

We spring cleaned and played outdoors instead.

Saturday was waterplay day as Iman request subsequent to his school waterplay day last Friday.
And Sunday was fun just getting dirty play with rocks, wires, hoses and of course black soil ;p


I found therapy to me self and made black pepper puffs, samosa and some cream puffs the next day.The boys are now less clingy and could play together independently, so mommy gets more mommy time in the kitchen :) Its a good feeling to cook your family favorites and these two are surely winners in my house :)






Puff pastry is really easy when we have the frozen puffs. The fillings : ground beef, blackpepper, cumin, onions, garlic, potatoes and carrots :)





Cream puffs, as many don't really know is not a great fuss either :) And this is really really my hubby's favorite. I think i have written the recipe somewhere in this blog adapted from another blogger. But let me simplify it here.

Melt 125g butter in boiling 1 cup of water. Once dissolve stir in 1 cup of flour gradually.
Turn off heat.
Add 4eggs one by one while continue on stirring.
Shape into desired sizes on greased pan.
Bake for 30mins with 200degC.

Easy kan? Try it :)









 There's a lot of things and creative role-play ideas these two came out when being left with shovels, pails and hoses. Funny when they try to imitate you :p

Outdoors is really a big world to explore.
And a good playground.

I wish we could have tree houses and a sand box outside :P






So how's your weekends?
Its just nice to have a great laid out weekend.
Just to be home and play housewife once in a awhile, kan? :)




Love,

Mommy Zahra

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Weekend Project : Simple Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies




This was our weekend project last week.

We had made cookies! Yeay!
The boys were excited watching and helping me with some steps, and watch the cookies baked in the oven. Iman helped mommy to stir in the almonds and chips in the batter whilst amsyar enjoyed taking in the uncooked batter into the fridge and out. Two lil mini masterchefs.

Both were anxiously waiting the cookies to cook in the HOT HOT oven. I told them, the cookies need to be cooked and they need to wait. You can look from a little bit far and you smell the cookies. Can you smell the cookies being cooked iman? He said it smells nice! It was really funny to see how Amsyar pronounced HOT!HOT! Really should get that on video :)

The best part of all : Of course eating the cookies!!

Alhamdulillah we got a whole jar of it, so we don't need our supply of chipsmore or chips ahoy these few weeks ahead, hopefully :) Maybe next project would be cookies involving cookie cutters pula..yeay!!





Resipi for simple Chocolate chip cookies!

What you need?

2cups of flour
1/2 cups of white sugar
 1/2 cups of brown sugar
1cup butter
1 egg
1tsp baking powder
1tsp vanilla essence

1cup choc chips
1cup almonds


How to turn all these into cookies?

Cream both type of sugars with butter (you can use white sugar only if you don't like chewy cookies).
Add egg and vanilla and mix.
Add flour and baking powder gradually until finished.
Fold in the chips and almonds (iman helped me with this step, and stole few chips in the process too). You can add raisins if you like :)
Refridgerate for 20mins.

Spoon into desired small lumps. onto a greased tray and bake for 15-20mins in 170 deg C

Makes a lot for a family of 4! (ok-does that help?)
I loss count since each batch were stolen by small hands once the cookie temperature becomes tolerably hold-able ;p

Selamat mencuba :)



Lepak2 mkn cookies whilst watching cartoons!

Alhamdulillah, full! Sorry for the mess. And the donuts interframing :)


Cookies maybe not that healthy, but still better homemade ones than store bought ones kan? ;)



Love,

Mommy zahra

Friday, November 15, 2013

Friday mornings-bicara hati jurutera picisan :)

Assalamualaikum.

Sekejap je dah hari Jumaat semula.

Dah lama rasanya tak meluahkan perasaan. Maaflah kalau tak suka.
Minggu ni mmg busy yang teramat, nk duduk buat dwg pun dh tak menyempat. Balik meeting, duduk sekejap kna pula hadiri meeting seterusnya. Asyik meeting sahaja bila nak buat kerja2 design nya.Tp klu tak meet and think, asyik lah bertubi2 email2 menanahkan peti inbox. Tp berapa ramai jer yang meet and think. Ramai je yang attend to meet. Tp taknak pun think and contribute :p

So in between, kita update blog dulu. And find out informations yg menjadikan hidup kita lebih bermakna dan bukan utk bekerja semata mata :)



Working here, mmg byk bertemu jumpa dgn org yang pelbagai. Berhadapan dgn manusia yang pelbagai kerenah, yang bercakap macam professionals tapi sebenarnya professional liars, mmg stress. Apa kita cakap, akan digunakan ke atas kita, demi kepentingan, demi menyelamatkan tengkuk sendiri. Yang mungkin dipenalti seposen dua. Bukan seposen dua lah klu dlm dunia perkilangan automotif. Nilai seminit sudah berjuta. Satu kesalahan boleh menyebabkan acuan pembuatan (mould) ratus ratus ribu harganya dibuang begitu sahaja. Kalau acuan itu bukan buatan malaysia tp di Jerman, maka ratus ratus juta itu sudah jadi Euro kiraanya. Itu baru acuan nya. agaknya lah acuan membentuk besi menjadi sebahagian autokar contohnya pintu, berapalah besarnya kan? Agak lah cuba agak. Kita bukan menerap biskut, kita bercakap tentang menerap besi dan bijih. Klu terbaring org dlm nya skali terap, dah tak boleh beza mana kaki mana kepala. Nauzubillah. Itu contoh.contoh


Tapi kalau tak stress dan tak bertemu dgn org2 mcm ni, mmg tak berapa berkembanglah kemahiran sosio-interaktif kita. Yang plg susah ialah utk bercakap dgn bahasa plg baik dlm keadaan marah. Dan juga tegas dgn org2 yang memperkecil kecilkan kita. Mmg susah. Bekerja di dunia bisness, mmg kena tegas, kena bertilamkan asas fakta, memang kadang2 nak nangis, bila design kita dipersoalkan. Design and development stage tentulah plg mencabar, tapi kita belajar utk menyempurnakan kesilapan kita yg terdahulu. Cuba utk jadi setanding atau lbh baik dr yang setara. Kadang kadang idea nak menyelesaikan masalah, dah habis pikir, balik rumah sambil goreng ayam pun dok terfikir lagi. Bukan senang nak duduk disini. Ramai dh berputus harap, berputus asa dan putus macam macam lagi..hehehe.Biarkan lah. Rezeki kan ada dimana mana.Yelah barang kita jual bukan sebarang rm10-20 ringgit. Kita jual bende org pakai hari hari, 7,8,9 tahun pun belum tentu habis bayar lagi.


Bercakap memang senang, nak komen lagilah senang. Tapi saya sudah kebal. Komenlah. Saya mendengar. Apa yg dlm kuasa saya, saya perbaiki. Tuhan pun mengajar kita utk menjadi lebih baik dan merubah diri utk lebih sempurna dr smlm nya. Cuba duduk sini dan buat apa yang kita buat, tak mahu. Bercakap sahaja mahu. Kerja buat air tapi mcm dah bina kapalterbang dah lagaknya. Cermin dicipta bukan lah hanya utk merapi diri. Manusia yang baik sentiasa akan renung dan berfikir. Hidup kan utk memberi.


Kalau di ikutkan gaji yang dibayar, mmg tak berbaloi dgn apa yg dikerah.Tp nilai value added yg dpt di tempat ni mmg sukar nak dpt ditempat lain. Namun nilai dimata org lain-lain pemahaman nya. Manusia kan tidak semua ber ideologi sama? Ada yang menghargai wang, ada yang menghargai ilmu, pengalaman, pengetahuan, ada yang menghargai pangkat dan jawatan. Ada juga yang mmg bukan jenis menghargai. Datang kerja goyang kaki, bwk kereta pusing skali skali masih lagi mahu mempersoalkan tentang pangkat dan kenaikan gaji. Mmg susah. 



Di jabatan ini khususnya, pendalaman ilmu mmg teras tugasan. Ilmu pun byk jenis ilmu, ilmu mendesign, ilmu menyalahkan org lain, ilmu mencari punca masalah yang semestinya dr org lain, ilmu mempertahankan idea, mencantas idea org lain, ilmu membahaskan pegangan, tak kurang juga ilmu memanipulasikan pembuat keputusan yang sudah berumur rata rata nya dlm presentasi kejuruteraan..hehehe. Dangkal bukan?



Maaflah dgn kemahiran berbahasa yang mungkin canggung. Saya bukan org sastera. Org bijak menulis pun bukan. Saya hanyalah jurutera picisan.Moga apa yang saya lakukan mendapat keberkatan dan gaji saya terima bulan bulan adalah hasil keringat yang dihalalkan utk darah daging warisan. Bertabahlah hati, bertabahlah tubuh dan upaya. Kuatlah minda supaya dapat berfikir untuk bangsa. Untuk teknologi yang dapat diwariskan utk yang akan datang.



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Pagi ini hujan selebat lebat nya. Bukan hari ini sahaja yang hujan minggu ini, malahan dalam lima hari bekerja ini, serasa tiap tiap pagi basah jalanraya sepanjang perjalanan saya.


Moga hari ini berlalu pantas, agar dptlah saya menatap wajah pahlawan-pahlawan syurga saya, dan mendalami isi hati kecil mereka, memasakkan apa yang mereka hendak, dan membacakan apa yang mereka ingin tahu. Ahh..Tak sabar mahu pulang!!














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Monday, November 11, 2013

Homeschooling Projects :: Cuti paaanjang!

Happy Monday mommies!
Harini sakit pinggang from 30mins badminton game with daddy lepas dah 5yrs kot xmain ;p
Kena gasak juga daddy, tak sangka dia, wife dia yg debab ni pandai juga main.hihihihihi......peace daddy.jgn marah..hahahaha


Throwback entry for last week :)
4 days at home with the munchkins.we did a lot of homeschool activities with stickers, pencil colors, and playdoh. and played around mostly with swimming, cake baking, bicycle and ball games (and also masak2). but most were not captured into images.ahh..sayang betul.tak teringat! sorry iman, amsyar. I know how much u guys love it to be home.
Xsempat nk publish. Busy sket coz 5working days jd 3working days so everything needs to be cramped into 3days. (T_T) 



Amsyar at Masjid Besi :) Good boy.just wait for mommy nicely.next yr boleh bwk g terawikh dah :)

Park visit.

Mosque view

Daddy had a game as well. Well, they lose unfortunately. 

Donuts! For Iman and Amsyar.

Motor riding at Putrajaya square. Putrajaya lg? Nak buat cmne we're 5km away je from Putrajaya.

Swimming at home!!!!!!!!!!

Ride for the weekend

This supposed to be congo bars.but mommy altered few things and it became a nice cake instead :p haha

Playdoh. see the watch and the caterpillar he made himself :)

Happy and messy iman
Iman's a simple guy. He eats simple breakfast. Macaroni, eggs and tomatoes. And a cup of milo too :)





Salam Maal Hijrah in belated everyone, may we all great mothers and generate great Islamic leaders for the coming future and work every penny we earned out to get the barakah in our rezeki :)

Amin!

Have a great week ahead!

Love,
Zahra























Monday, July 15, 2013

Reminiscing Sg Sendat July 2013






The Beauty


Us in khemah kecik.khemah ni utk honeymooners oklah..hehehe :)

The Mommies (yg smp awal :))


Potluck - kami bwk rojak buah ajerrr...sonang kerja den..Adeeb sexy ;p

Part of the Foodies..karipap, laksa,spageti,nasi lomak omak..hehehehe

Pembakar ayam tegar..super man in action :P


Tunggu daddy bakar ayam..smp ngantokkkss :)

Our fort. Tempat best dh diambil org..xper sini pn hokeyy :)






Sodap pulak poser poser ni tgk bbq chicken ni.. ;p













Enjoy..!!!! Next next year boleh g lagi :)











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