Ayu on a marathon! :p *updated*

Seperti diketahu umum, ini dengon konpemnye bukan marathon yg menghasilkan peluh serta badan yang sihat :) AYU nak masuk marathon camtu? When pigs can fly..

Tp ini adelah marathon yg sy sgt suke buat.. movie marathon! :D

Hari Rabu yang murah, sy pergi ke Jusco, semate² utk tengok movie. Iyer la, semenjak bz ngan kelas² yang ade je tiap hari, mmg takde mase nak gi tgk. Dan w/pun sy tahu, skrg tak byk citer yg bes, tp nak tengok jugak hehe..

Mate melilau-lilau di skrin untuk cari movie yang nak ditengok.. akhirnye sy pilih untuk tengok Watchman dan Dragon Ball.. iyer, sekali lagi, sy tau, sy lembap! Org len dah tengok berzaman, sy baru nak tengok, tp sile rujuk perenggan di atas ye..

Kenape sy pilih tgk Watchman? Ntah.. it was a choice between.. maksud sy, tiade pilihan lain sgt. Citer Seven Pounds pun tadek aritu so terpakse la pilih movie ini. Lgpun, byk jugak review dari rakan² yang menyatekan citer ini bes.. so sy pun, ok je la.. RM5 je pun kaaaaann hehe..

Verdict sy: Ughhh, lame giler! I'm not a fan of.. oppsss, sy bukanlah peminat cerite² yang lebih dari 2 jam. Paling lame sy leh tahan pun mungkin 2 jam lebey skit.. sbbnye? Huhu, sy ade 'weak bladder'. Serius tak tahan sejuk.. Dan semase babak Laurie dan Dan baru membantu mengeluarkan Rorschach (serius tak ingt camne nak eje name mamat ni!) dari penjara, sy (hampir) berlari ke tandas! Tak cool langsung, Ayu ni..

But cerita dia ok kot. Sy yang tak ikut comic(?) dia pun leh paham and ikut citer ni.. :)

Part paling bes: Mase tunjuk trailers sblm movie dia. Yeay.. nanti ade citer Wolverine (sy ade buku dia) dan Transformers II.. tak sabar nak tunggu! Ngange je kejap tgk trailer tu.. teringt mase duduk ngan kak Shima n kak Kathy, sy dan kak Shima akan selalu jadik planner tgk movie hehe.. skrg sy asyik ketinggalan je, dah lame tak buat keje tgk movie cam dulu.. and tak silap sy, Angels adn Demon pun kuar tahun ni kan? Buku Dan Brown feveret sy tu, da Vinci Code ranking num 2 tau! :p

Citer kedua: Dragonball! Pas tgk Watchman, sy gi solat jap kat surau Jusco tu, then gi beli bun utk seludup masuk sblm bekejar masuk cinema. Ingat ye, ari ni ari Rabu, ari keje.. sy ingt kosong. tp bile masuk.. mak aiii, ramai nye.. uwaaa, terlupe plak sy, SKRG KAN CUTI SEKOLAH! Adehhh...

Haissshh.. takpe la, nak wat camne kan? Next week nye Rabu 25hb (hint² haha..) ade konvo plak so mmg tak leh nak gi.. lgpun tiket dah beli.

Perlu diingatkan, sy masuk cinema utk tengok citer Dragonball TANPE ape² expectation. Sy, seperti 80s babies yang lain mengharungi sekolah menengah dengan menunggu setiap 3 minggu sekali untuk komik Dragonball berade di pasaran. Dari harge RM3.50 sampai la naik ke RM4.80, 'generasi' kami berebutkan menjadi orang perama membace keluaran terbaru komik tersebut. W/pun sy hanye mule membace selepas edisi ke 18, tp selepas itu di rumah sy pun sy leh berebut ngan Iwan n Adi pasal Dragonball dan kadang² sampai 3-4 copy untuk edisi yang same akan ade di rumah sy, terutamenye lepas Ikram pun mule beli komik tersebut.

Di sekolah pun, rase cam bes. Sy, Amoi dan Misa akan berulang² ke kedai uncle jual komik di bawah KOMTAR selepas balik sekolah sampai uncle tu pun kenal muke kami dan dia sendiri akan cakap, "Adik, Dragonball dah sampei dik.." Hehe.. Nafisah yang lemah lembut itupun juge gile Dragonball. Dia lah pembekal Dragonball kepade sy mase sy mule berjinak² ngan komik ini..

Anyway, enough pasal citer dulu.. mcm sy ckp tadi, sy tak mengharapkan citer ini akan bes sbb sy mmg sgt suke komik Akira Toriyama ini. Dulu Adi pun selalu buat sticker Goku untuk sy dan stiker Trunks (mase sy jatuh cinte ngan Trunks). Amoi plak akan lukis Goku dan Trunks utk sy sbb dia sgt pandai melukis. Oppsss.. ubah topik plakkk..

Tengok sahaje trailer kat tv, tak menarik langsung tp sy tgk jugak movie dia, mungkin sbb rindu dah lame tak bace Dragonball. Dah ianye tidak mengecewekan, mmg tak baper menarik pun haha..

Still..

Bende pertame yg buat sy senyum ialah bile cikgu Goku (ade Goku tu omputih.. tak seswaiiii!!) tanye dia, ape maksud gerhana matahari untuk org dolu².. dan dia jawab, "My grandfather always says, beware of the Namecks!" Finally, satu bende yg familiar heheh.. Planet Nameck!

Then bende kedua ialah bile sy baru pasan, budak yg Goku suke tu name dia Chichi! Tp Chichi ni tak bes, tak garang langsung.. cam lembik pun ade. Ade satu babak tu je, mase dia tgh berlatih pastu partner dia tumbuk muke dia, mase tu baru dia buat muke cam Chichi yg original :)

Tak besnye Gohan (the grandad, NOT the son!) mati sbb Pikor (Perlu ingt ye, name watak sy berdasarkan komik BM ComicHouse itu.. sy tak biase gune Picolo) dan tak silap sy, bukan Goku ke yg TERbunuh tok dia mase dia ubah jadik cam gorilla tu? Ke sy yg lupe ye?

Sebut pasal gorilla, mase Goku dpt tau Pikor akan serang bumi ngan raksasa dia name Oozaru tu, sy konpius la jugak nape Oozaru tu muke cam Goku bile tuko jadik gorilla cam dlm comic.. Hehe, last tu baru sy tau, mmg Goku ke :D Tp tak bes kan, Goku ni dah besau, tp takde ekor pun.. dia cam tatau je dia ade ekor mase kecik.. (Actually mase kredit, name Akira Toriyama kuar so sy rase dia dah setuju dgn perubahan ni..)

Pastu ade 'Master Roshi' yang sy rase sebenarnye mewakili Datuk Kame yang gatal itu. Nape sy ckp camtu, sbb Bulma jumpe Bikini Quaterly kat umah dia hehe.. mmg perangai Datuk Kame la kan.. tp dia ni tak pakai pun kulit penyu :(

Bulma mmg tak mengecewekan. Tgk dia 1st time pun leh agak tu Bulma, tp rambut dia itam and dia ade satu streak kaler purple.. bukan la sumer purple cam dlm komik. Dia bwk kapsul dari company ayah dia dan care diorg tunjuk kapsul tu tuko jadik moto beso mmg mcm dibayangkan bile bace komik hehe.. bes²! Moto tu pun mmg style Bulma akan bwk dlm komik so bleh la nak relate.. cume satu je, Bulma dlm komik tu is a genius bimbo.. Bulma dlm movie ade PhD wa cakap luuu.. hehe..

Pasal Kame Hame Haa plak, mase Roshi ajo Goku pasal Kame Hame Haa tu, rase cam pelik je care dia buat (cam menari pun ade). Couldn't place a finger on WHY I felt it was pelik.. sampai la mase Goku nak berlatih and Chichi dtg tgk and ckp kat Goku, "You must make it your own.." (Cehh, tah pape..) then baru Goku buat Kame Hame Haa cam dlm comic.. ngan bottom parts of the palm duk dekat² and buat gaye tarik ke belakang sblm buat gaye tolak ke depan.. problem is, tak silap, kan ke mmg Kame Hame Haa camtu ke? Org len pun buat camtu kan? Huh, kunun Chichi la inspired it..

Ade Yamu (I think la, name dia Yamcha.. org same kan?) tp Yamu ni tak ensem cam dlm comic.. nmpk cam hape tah huhu.. dah la mcm tak pandai lawan padehal Yamu kan kinda like a warrior jugak..Huh, ape ni Ayu, tau komen jek.. Oppsss..

Then mase panggil the naga from the Dragonballs, naga dia cam je yg dlm comic hehe.. suke! Goku, Bulma ngan Yamu mntk so Roshi hidup balik (a usual request kan dlm Dragonball ni..) tp tetibe sy rase nak gelak bile ingt yg dlm buku tu, klau tak silap sy, diorg nye 1st request tu si khinzir-tak-ingt-name tu mntk a pair of panties kan? Hehe..

Klau tanye kat sy, ape kesimpulan sy, sy akan suruh korg tengok. Tp untuk peminat² Dragonball yg dulu², jgn expect ape² la.. sbbnye, sy tak expect ape² tp sy enjoy sgt.. w/pun termalu sbb ramai org dlm cinema time tu kan, dah la sy gi tgk sensorg :p Tp seriusly, gi lah tgk.. just jgn harap ape sgt, and you'd be suprised how much you'll smile bile ade little things that remind you of the original series.

Ehehe.. nmpk sgt la antare 2 citer tu, sy enjoy citer yg mane kan? :p

P/S

Still, I miss Kurin, Ten Shin-Han, yg kwn Ten Shin-Han yg cam patung muke putih tu tak-ingt-name, Popo, apetah name tuhan Kucing tu.. all whom I think should be here since ni kan kunun early adventures of Goku.. Majin Buu yg chumel jugak hehe.. and Pikor Jr yg baik tp suke ego tak mo ngaku dia baik hehe..

This One's for The Girls

One thing I like about the American Idol is that sometimes the contestants sing long lost favourite songs you've almost forgotten.. and some times too, you hear songs you've never heard before but which you'd like.

A few weeks ago I heard this song by Martina McBride.. and I loved it! I never heard it before this so I counted myself lucky when I was able to download the song :) I'll paste the lyrics later at the end of this entry..

Anyway, THATS not the reason for the late entry on this. After hearing it, I remembered all my girlfriends I've know, for some reason, from my teens onwards (maybe because the song started with 'This is for all you girls about thirteen' perhaps?). So I spent some time digging up some photos from my past and scanning them using the slow postgrad room scanner :)

So here, I share with you a few of my friends throughout my teenage years up to now :) Bear with me.. this could take a while.

These are my classmates from form 1 to form 3, though not all are in the picture. We took this when we were waiting for our turn in a Minggu Bahasa activity. Some of my students might know Ani and Fik in this picture hehe..

This one pulak my class in form 5. If you look closely, you can see the class monitor sticking her tongue out.. sungguh tidak sopan kan? Sape la budak ni kan heheh.. I wrote about them once in a Kame Hame Haa entry you can click --> here

Here from left to right are Yah, Ila, Sue and me during an iftar ceremony in KMK. They were my classmates then and I'm still in contact with Yah and Sue till now :)

This is also a picture from KMK, during our graduation ceremony for maticulation. Still me with my classmates. Clockwise from top left: Ima, Yan, arwah Farie, Midah, me, Fidzah and Ila

Now this is picture I enjoyed. It was during my first year but all of these girls are actually my dormates in KMK. They came to my house for a BBQ during convo that year and we slept in the living area, more than 10 of us. Giggling and laughing like the teenage girls we were then. I love it then, I really enjoyed that night :) In the front there with the 'victory' finger is my dorm captain whom until now, I still call DC

Yg ni pulak a picture of me and my friends during my Uni years. This was back in Tronoh and we used to go canoeing each afternoon. From left: Me, Fidah, Yun, Gunn, Hawa and Dayah

And what would talking about 'canoeing every afternoon' be without some 'proof' heheh.. We loved doing this together.. but I'm not sure if I remember how to kayak now.. Hmm..

Ni plak after our final exams. We went to Pizza Hut for a last outing together. Yun took this picture.. We were quite close, housemates during 2nd year and rooms so close to each other during our 1st year.. we were also dormates in KMK!

Now, this bunch of girls are some of my coursemates through out my 3 years here. This was during the Aidilfitri celebration in our final year..

Ini pula Cik wa and Awa.. Was quite close to Cik Wa from 2nd year onwards and got to be close to Awa after we finished our degree :)

P/S to Jida: Ingat tak gambo ni? Heheh.. skrg belakang tu dah HIJAU! :p To others, this is Jida, someone who's saved me from a lot of trouble, someone whom I can 'kacau' when she wakes up late, then make her get up even later by talking non-stop with hehe..

And here is my dearest 'sister' kak Wahid, on her wedding day when I was her bidan terjun pengapit. I got to know her in my 1st sem in USM as we were in the same geomatics group. I didn't know then that I'd have sooooo many 'adventures' with her.. the best!

Once we finished our degree, most of my coursemates got job so not much wanted to stay and pursue higher education. But I got to know these girls from TI who came to our campus since their school was 'relocated' in our campus. From left: Me, Aina and Zaiza

..and these are the HiTEG girls plus a non-girl sesat. From left: (Female only) Kak Bibah, Kak Ana, Kak Sue, Kak Shedar and Kak Fizah

Now, these are my buddies.. my girlfriends who make me smile and laugh every single day :) Up there are Ad, Irnis, Farah and kak Win

..and here's Puga! Another sunshine in my life :)

But I also have friends I'm still close with, since 13 right up till now.. its as if we never parted at all! Here's Baizurah a.k.a Sentot

..and Ami :)

..and Bart, my Jusco and sunway Carnival buddy hehehe.. marah Bart!

So there.. those are not ALL my friends. some are my close friends, but in the group photos mostly are casual friends. Still, they changed my life. They were there during the ups and downs of teenage years through the uni years.. and no matter what, I'm glad I have them in my life.. so thanx guys!

"This One's For The Girls"

This is for all you girls about thirteen

High school can be so rough, can be so mean

Hold onto, on to your innocence

Stand your ground when everybodies giving in

This one's for the girls

This is for all you girls about twenty-five

In a little apartment, just trying to get by

Living on, on dreams and spaghetti-o's

Wondering where your life is gonna go

c/o

This one's for the girls

Who've ever had a broken heart

Who've wished upon a shooting star

You're beautiful the way you are

This one's for the girls

Who love without holding back

Who dream with everything they have

All around the world

This one's for the girls

This is for all you girls about forty-two

Tossing pennies into the Fountain of Youth

Every laugh, laugh line on your face

Made you who you are today

c/o

This one's for the girls

Who've ever had a broken heart

Who've wished upon a shooting star

You're beautiful the way you are

This one's for the girls

Who love without holding back

Who dream with everything they have

All around the world

This one's for the girls

Yeah, we're all the same inside (same inside)

From 1 to 99

This one's for the girls

Who've ever had a broken heart

Who've wished upon a shooting star

You're beautiful the way you are

This one's for the girls

Who love without holding back

Who dream with everything they have

All around the world

This one's for the girls

Yeah, this one's for the girls

Feeling domestic?

Ive been feeling a bit domestic lately haha.. granted this isn't a feeling I feel everyday.. or even every week for that matter. Sekali sekale sahaje haha..

Anyway, I finally decided to try my hand at the cheesecake recipe Mas gave us a few months ago. Ye, I know, I know, that simple recipe patutnye dari dulu dah bleh buat tp sy kan P.E.M.A.L.A.S, using the excuse that I don't have a springform pan (lame excuse, I know..). I even got to know that even school children are making this in their Kemahiran Hidup class but (as lame excuse number 2), their KH class is better equipped than my kitchen :p

So a few weeks ago, I went to Billion to finally buy this..

So tadek alasan dah kan, right? Hehe..

Still, I wanted something, an occasion, to do this and voila.. I got it in the form of last week being a birthday week for me. Not mine la obviously, but a few friends and a student of mine. Not that I made this and send to them la kan hehe.. but it was an excuse I could use hehe..

Turned out, mmg betul semua org cakap, it doesn't actually take much time to make it (nmpk sgt la sy ni byk sgt alasan kaaaaann :p) I even experimented with the topping, doing the marble-like topping Mas had suggested..

..but finally opting for the normal fruit preserve topping (since I think my 'marble-ing' skills are so not right yet!)

And tadaaaa..

Hehe.. bought it to class since I can't possibly finish it myself kan. Sorta like a birthday cake thingey for my student la kot haha..

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I've also found a way to help me curb my 'obsession' for tinned Nescafe (since the boikot thingey, I've been a bit self-conscious drinking it.. though I haven't actually completely stopped buying them yet..)

I found it a few days ago and since I've always been a tea-drinker, I like this choice better :)

See? Hehe.. There's another flavour, tea with passion fruit which is my favourite but I couldn't find one yesterday and only got to buy these two. Btw, ini adelah iklan tak berbayar ye :p I like it, though its a bit sweet kot..

Hmm.. tinned tea as opposed to tinned Nescafe? Not much differance you say? Hehe, maybe to you, but I've been trying for so long to find something else I could 'obsess' upon instead of Nescafe and since this is the next best thing, I'll take it :)

Next step: Plain water, Ayu.. plain water! Hehe..

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Still on the same page as feeling domestic, today I made my own lunch! :D

Far from tooting my own horn, I'm actually trying to salvage the last remnants of my ego as a 28 16-year-old woman girl who's independant enough to at least cook her own meals.. so bear with me please! Besides, as you will see, these are the food for singletons, LAZY singletons like me and not appropriate kot for big family meals :p

I found some coral leaf salad leaves in my fridge, and knowing that they don't actually last long enough as I'd like them to, I decided to make full use of at least one head of it (I had 2 of those leafy heads) Remembering a Rachel Ray episode in which she made some salad, tossed with bits of sliced steak (I just used plain beef burger patties.. The Ramly kind, NOT the homemade patties ye, I takde la terre ye :p) and baked cheese (she used goats cheese, I used the leftover cream cheese in my fridge).

Had fun doing it as it became a kinda adventure.. coz I forgot what was actually supposed to be done haha.. but in my own twisted sense of accomplishment, I think it was okay (since I'm not fussy in the food department, EVERYTHING would be okay kaaannn!)

Then, since I had always thought that greens don't fill you up (I could never understand those people who eat salad as a full meal..), I thought of doing something else too, with my salad as the side. Found some spiral pasta and thought of frying them so voila! My lunch hehe..

..and what lunch eaten alone would be complete without a good book, right! ;)

Still, sy agak la jugak nyesal goreng the pasta since the salad DID turn out to be VERY filling. Maybe sebab ade the chopped burger patties as well as the baked cheese. But I still stand my ground that greens ALONE don't fill you up :p

Okay NOW its Teacher's Day

Just published the previous post when an unfamiliar phone number was displayed on my cell phone.

Nowaday, I almost NEVER pick up the phone for unfamiliar numbers. I know, sgt teruk kan me? But most of the time its either those annoying people you don't really wanna talk to or telemarketers who insist on talking to you no matter how 'busy' you try to sound like.

Somehow, this phone call didn't feel like one of those calls, but I still cautiously picked up the phone..

..and mak oiiii! Heheh, how I smiled :)

An ex-student, Vickneswaran a.k.a Vicky, called me just to tell me he got A1 for his maths. I dunno where he got my phone number though coz even if I was very close to that class (this was the class, out of pure boredom on Teacher's Day, bought me a cake and 'forced' me to do a small party for them haha.. btw, see the stick of gum near my left hand? That was Vicky's Teacher's Day gift for me! :p), I didn't actually dish out my phone number to them. But I'm glad he found my number.. nothing beats the feeling of hearing him happy!

The SPM results were out earlier today so most of them have gotten their results already, I presume. He told me that Syawal also got an A1 for his maths and Khairi, dear sweet and shy Khairi, got 7A1s with maths being among them. I'm so proud of them :) :) :) wish I could know how the other's fared too..

From left to right: Khairi, Sukmit Singh, Fakhrul, (Oh s***! Tak ingt name budak ni) and Vicky on the hari-malas-nak-belajar-dgn-alasan-it-was-Teachers-Day hehe..

Happy Teacher's Day?!!?

Why 'Teacher's Day'? Its still 2 months away, right? Btw, bowling tournament for postgrads and staff has been confirmed to be on Teacher's Day itself hehe.. so cepat² bg name and team. Nak buat family team pun bley asal one of you is either postgrad or staff PPKA :)

Oppss.. lari topik!

Hehe.. looky what I got from a very old student. It was described as "An early Teacher's Day gift for 2009 OR a VERY belated gift for Teacher's Day 2008, cikgu pilih la cikgu nak yang mane.."

Cheeky!!

But I likey..! :)

Thanx!! :)