PICCIES!! - The Meet Up

The Meet Up.

Within a week or so, I was reunited with my old friends from NSS. 

It is amazing on how memories of the past came up the moment i see each and every single photo that appear before me. 

And within that week, i managed to organize a small meet up for some old friends that I treasure and have a good relationship with.

There were 5 responds but only 3 turn up. The other 2 had some commitments to catch up with.

Even though it was such a short outing, i treasure it because it is the beginning of a long road ahead. I am very sure that this friendship would last.

Here are the details:

What : It's Just Lunch Baby!

For: Edz's good friends

Why: To catch up on lost time!

Who responded:

Siti Fadilah

Nur Ashikin 

Nor Shamsiah

Rafeza 

Nurasyiqin

Me!

Who attended:

Siti Fadilah

Nur Ashikiin

Nor Shamsiah

Me!

I actually wanted to go to a nice restaurant but being CNY, there were snaking queues at the restaurant. so end up we have lunch at BK - GV - Yishun

Northpoint changed a lot too. I guess everyone wants it to be bigger but i am not sure if bigger means better.

Sham came late but its ok :) we waited for her before buying lunch together.

Oh how much we laugh, we chat and we joke...its really amazing..and truly, goss goss is also part of it (its natural i guess)

Well enjoy the photos ladies.

Edz

Happy Chinese New Year!!!

The long awaited holidays are here. It seems that this year there are lots of holidays that falls right after a weekend.

The first of all is the CNY which falls onMonday and Tuesday.

I am back at parent's on Sunday and have not had the time to update the blog but however had time to goss goss*

Anyway, today is Tuesday and I willl be going back home to J.E. However, i got a lunch to attend with old schoolmates which i have to get ready for in 30 minutes time! haha

Its been quite a while since i last saw the batch of them.

The feelings however is a mixed of happy/bitter/sweet kind of feeling.

Yesterday while on facebook, received several ads and one of them was Hairi..i knew Hairi since we went to the same Quran recitation classes. It was many years ago. However we became school mates when we went to the same secondary school.

It was interesting to chat with him but of course there were so many thoughts that ran around my mind that I have to focus and focusssssssss totally.

I will post pictures of the meet up and also post on my thoughts of the past in a while when i am back at J.E.

Take care and i have to go get ready now.. hugs...

Love
Edz

Goss = Gossip! :)

Finally~!

The long awaited long weekend is here...I finished work at about 9pm today.

It was really tiring..bought a bit of dinner then reached home close to 9.30pm. Showered and dinner followed by tv..

Everyone at office today seems relax..laughing..talking rubbish and eating oranges...hahaaaa....

However I am excited about the event that will happen on the 2nd day of CNY. The gathering of the some NSS girls and me! Can you believe that it is my 1st Facebook Event??? hahaaaaa..

A few days ago i had less than 10 friends. As of today i have 35 friends! hahaaaa...

Looking forward to sleeping soundly and waking up late (i wish).

Night Night People...

Michelle Obama

I just finish a book about her and I went to You Tube to look for the speech that they actually said sealed the nomination of Barack Obama.

You guys should listen to it. I think it is inspiring. :)

Friendsssssss!

Facebook is a very ideal platform for us to meet old friends. And of course when i mean friends, those whom i have grown to know, love, cry, get angry with, upset and being of course the biatch...during my growing up years.

You see - i was surrounded by girls most of the time - and i dont deny it.

Why I am more sensitive to a ladies' feelings is because i have learnt over the years to understand them. Does that make me part woman? I dont know :) hahaaaaaaaaaaaa

No doubt, it did bring back memories though. Good and Bad, they are part of my life. The experiences was my dugaan - to put it that way...

Over the course of 3 days, I have gathered more friends compared to a year since signing up.

Of course my long lost bestie - Ms Nur Ashikin, we bump into each other a year ago at the train station and has kept in touch since.

Hence being the person that I am 10 years ago, and nothing has really changed much aside that I picked up too much bad habits, I had called for a meet up.

It was supposed to be a meet between Dilah & Rafeza and can you b elieve the list expanded???

I invited Shikin and Shamsiah - another bestie...

Now there are 5 of us..and I extend it to another 3.

HAHAAAAAAAAAAA!

Am i crazy? no....each of them has contribute a bit to my life and I will remember them always.

They were there during my happier moments, during my sad moments and during those times where i think that no one ever loved me..they were my friends whether i like it or not :)

But of course a part of me stilll has that bittered, unforgiven feeling that refused to go away. I have never never never feel that I belong to some people's life and I was just a mere "soul" in that school...

I am glad it was the past and i am glad i found those whom i called friends and I am glad I am meeting them soon.

27th January 2009
Tempat Jatuh Lagi DiKenang,Inikan Lagi Tempat Bermanja...


Edz

New President - New Era?

In less than 3 hours time, American will have a new President - Barrack Obama.

Aside the fact that he is the 44th American President, he is the first African American President.

It is no longer a race issue. Will Singapore ever see a first non-chinese PM? Will Malaysia ever have a first non-malay PM?

Back to Barrack, people are asking if :

Will there be changes?

Will he be a better President?

Will there be better opportunity for everyone?

All we can do now is hope.

Wait and hope and see.

Who is feeding who?

Everywhere i go to i have always heard the same thing over and over again...

"times are hard"

"jobs are hard to come by"

"company squeezing us dry"

I admit that I do have my fair share of complaints. It is normal.

I spend more than half of my money on my family, my bills, my food and transportation and other necessary expenses and i saved so little a month.

Recently, I went to the IRAS website and they have this calculator for us to calculate our taxes. Even with some reliefs that I am entitled to, i still have to pay a few hundred dollars based on my income last year. I do hope that there would be something good coming out from the budget 09/10.

My dad did not get any bonus last year and I learnt that his pay will be cut too from April 09.

It is really really demoralising but we are thankful that he still has a job.

I am thankful that I am still employed.

Over to today's news, there was this news on a civil servant who went for cooking classes in Paris - paid about $40K for it. (that is not even my pay for a year!)

Can you guys believed that this? He was sharing it with the newspaper!

Insensitive.

True it may come from his own hard earned money

True it may be his private time

True it is his own personal choice

BUT

Question: Where did the civil service gets their money from?

I don't know and I am not answering so i guess i better shut up. just work my ass off everyday to earn enough, to feed everyone at home and make sure all is well at the end of the day.

I recall an ex colleague who loves to say this every morning:

"Another day, Another Dollar"

Dugaan

Dugaan adalah sesuatu yang setiap insan di dunia ini akan lalui. Aku dapat rasakan bahawa tahun ini akan mempunyai cabaran yang lebih meluas bagi diriku. Apa cabarannya ku tidak akan mengetahui hinggalah ia tiba kepadaku.

Namun, aku hanya manusia biasa. Senantiasa dicengkam perasaan takut, seram, kecewa, gembira, sedih, duka dan lain lain lagi.

Namun, aku tetap akan sabar dan menerima dugaan dengan hati yang tabah dan minda yang terbuka.

Tiada masalah akan selesai kecuali dengan KehendakNYA.

Tiada masalah yang terlalu rumit bagiku kecuali dengan izinNya.

Ada jawapan bagi setiap masalah yang ku lalui pabila kuserahkan segalanya kepadaNya.

Kerana setiap hari yang kulalui,
Setiap nafasku yang di beri,
Setiap kali ku bangun tidur dan mengucapkan Alhamdulillah,
adalah dengan izinNya.

Kerana segalanya adalah pinjaman bagiku dan tidak ternilai dari segi wang ringgit. Hanya ibadahku,amalku yang dapat menjamin segalanya.

Moga moga, kami sekeluarga di berkati selalu, di beri ketabahan yang amat sangat, di beri rezeki melimpah limpah memandang ekonomi sedang merosot, di beri kesabaran untuk melalui duka lara kehidupan pada tahun ini. Semoga Allah memberi yang terbaik buat keluargaku, buat adik adik ku, buat nenek dan makcik, buat kawan kawan ku yang sama sama dan senantiasa bersamaku di masa senang dan susahku. Semoga di ampun segala dosaku, dosa ibubapaku, dosa adik beradikku, dosa nenek dan makcik, dosa kawan kawan ku yang senantiasa bersamaku.

Amin.

Edz

LCD TV!

I was out with J on Saturday morning to Funan. At Challenger, we saw Samsung LCDs on offer.

A 42" inch going for $1399 and has the option of getting another LCD Tv or a Hi-Fi set.

I thought that was too big and I saw a 32" going for $1099.00 and it has the same option as the other one.

I quickly call home and asked mom if we should get it. It was a last minute offer before CNY which i think was a good deal.

Dad called again later and said to discuss when I am home.

:( Mom was not really keen as the TV at home was still in good condition whereas, I was thinking more for my dad - who wanted the TV badly.

My idea, get the TV, sell the other free one away and use that money to pay off part of the credit card that is used to pay for the purchase. At least we need not pay off the whole of $1099 or $1399 right?

Oh well, since it was a NO on Sunday afternoon, i guessed we just have to wait for the next offer :)

and I hope, i wont missed out on this again.

A repeat? I hope not!

Mom shared with me that brother had some similar encounters to what I went through during my national service.

Apparently, my brother is being disturbed by those camp guys - name calling/cat calls etc.

I had a similar experience 7 years ago (I was in NS from Dec 01 -Dec 03)

It can be quite sad especially when you are very close with your family. I remember calling and crying over the phone with mommy. At that point of time, being away from the family, you will realised and treasure the time when you can actually get out from the camp.

However, I definitely feel my brother is luckier. Apparently, his sergeants do keep a look out for him. Unlike me, i actually had to bear with it for a few months.

It was only when i started to achieve something like:

1. Gold IPPT (2.4km at 9.4 or 9.5 among the top 10)
2. SOC (AT 9 minutes flat among the top 10 of the entire company)

that I earned the respect among my fellow buddies. Truly, the experience can either break you or improved you.

It depends on how you wanna look at it. There were so many stories going round and It was simply heartbreaking.

I chose not to say anything much nor reply to anyone.

Sissy/dragos/pondans/bapoks - I heard them all.

To me the ones who are calling me are those who actually the real bapoks. You wanna know why?

Can you believe a guy who is at 1.78m tall wake me up in the middle of the night to accompany him to go to the toilet? (after that he threaten me to shut up and never blurt out the fact that he wake me up!)

Whereas for myself - even though very much afraid, will NEVER and NEVER DID wake up any one of them because for fearing of getting labelled? (Well i was labelled anyway - whether i like it or not)

However, I have proved myself and went thru it and get it over and done with. It is something that ALL MALES in SG must go thru, so therefore, accept the fact.

Just believe that NO ONE, has got the right, to do anything to you. Only you can prove it to them :)

Believe me, it is worth it !

Chicken Stew

I have always wanted to cook chicken stew but for some reasons always put it off.

However this morning, I managed to cook it for the first time in my life.

What makes me want to cook?

Reasons are simple:

1. I am certain in future, i have to start cooking my own meals.
2. My sister do not know how to cook
3. My mom is getting old
4. I have to start somewhere

Last week, i made ondeh ondeh keledek. For non-malays, keledek is Sweet Potato and it comes in either white or orange in colour. I chose the orange colour so that I need not make it green.

Ondeh Ondeh is a those little green balls with gula melaka in it and grated coconut around it.

I learn to made this about 2-3 years ago and I find that my skill had dropped. Why I said so, is instead of using Glutinous rice flour, i used rice flour instead! The Taste was sooooooooooooo different and I was soooo disappointed!

Nevertheless i tell myself to try harder next time and that makes me want to try to cook chicken stew.

So i surf online to look for the SIMPLEST chicken stew. There are many variations of course and I guess I have to start somewhere :)

I went to Cold Storage on Saturday evening to get the ingredients. I wanted to do a chicken broth and when i mentioned this to a friend, he said that it would take me hours and suggested for me to look for those "pre-made" chicken broth. We found at Isetan Supermarket earlier in the day but it has no Halal logo.

Found one at Cold Storage by Heinz. I am so glad!

Turns out the stew was too soupy. But those who tasted it says it is not too bad.

:)

In my opinion? it is edible ! hahaaaaaa...

I am sorry i got no pictures of it and I didnt really wanna share it here :) haha...

Pray that I can cook a better looking chicken stew, next time.

Apologies!

To My Faithful Readers,

First and foremost, I apologise for the very late update.

The reason being, I did not have any internet connection as a friend moved house from Clementi to Jurong East.

When it was finally activated yesterday, I did not even update anything as I have to go back to mom's place at Woodlands.

Here I am on a Sunday morning, updating my blog - right after I got back from the market with mom,dad and bro.

Well here are my recents encounters for the week.

31st December - Help a friend to move house from Clementi to Jurong East. Been staying there since.

1st January 09 - Nothing much except working thru out. As a matter of fact, I have been working non-stop since 1st January and yesterday (09/01/09) was my first break after 9 nine days suffering in the office.

There is so much i want to talk about and I will think carefully before i write it out as that is my intention.

To Those who been peeping thru but not seeing anything new - I am sorry and I thank you for your support.

Oh by the way, those who have face book, please add me - edzwan yunos

I guess it is not too late to wish all of you a Happy New Year and hopefully, we will all be well in the year 2009 - amidst the crisis.

Hugs

Edz