i've been very bad at updating this blog yet again. its just that so many things have happened in consecutive order, or at the same time, that everything is just a blur and whenever i sit in front of the laptop its either on facebook or checking out places to do my masters in.
anyway, quick summary. i got my results on friday - a 2.2 which i am quite happy about because i honestly thought i'd fail. dashed off to oxford the next day and went strawberry picking! had the sweetest freshest strawberries and raspberries ever. also bonded with my 3 cousins farah, nadia and aisyah. they were all adorable!
that day ate soto, which was super yummy. next day went to middlesex for a bbq at a fren of my aunt's, then later had nasi lemak and pavlova which i made with the fresh strawberries we picked the day b4. first time i made a pavlova; burnt it slightly but it tasted good nevertheless. no one knew the difference anyway lol. the girls helped me make the pavlova and aisyah managed to get cream on her hair and her mouth more than on the pav.
(aisyah's 4yrs old btw. yatah adorable.)
after dinner came back to london where imah bought me apple pie as a graduation present. monday morning jogged from ravenscourt park to sheperds bush where we tried on maxi dresses. it was a bit eww bcoz we were sweating bagas jogging and dressed like chavs psl pakai seluar sports apa but imah said 'ka we look like one of them anyway' which explained why the shoplady inda marah bcoz she wudnt think kami bagas jogging anyway.
(anyone who didnt get that, leave a comment!)
anyhoos, fadz and su are here now. they came that monday around 8.30, i arrive back to canters at 3pm. oh, and we cancelled our NYC trip that day becoz our parents finally said 'no' to us. i guess the epidemic's getting worse for them to say 'dont go' psl they've always encouraged us to travel and be independent and the like. anyhoo, now i am free next week i think i shall come back to oxford for another visit. it was super fun; it felt liek i had little sisters. plus plus on my way back to london on the train my aunt called me saying aisyah cried loking for me and put me on the fone to talk to her. kiyyuttt jua tu!!
so back to where i left - fadz and su are here. we made pavlova again that night for anisah's birthday, gave presents and did laundry. skali tuesday we went on a river tour around canterbury but i think we were a bit robbed bcoz there was another river tour which goes longer but at the same price. so we may do that other tour on friday.
planning to cut my hair and fadz and su nak jugak gunting hair so maybe can do together. antonieu's tutup sudah so have to call in first thing tomoro morning to make appointment.
awu again this post is tunggang tebalik. but hey, its an update and if u dont like it, jgn baca =p
much love,
be'ah xoxo
p/s also HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO KAKA ITAH! 24 y.o. today. love u lots xxx
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
summer calendar
dumping every little quintessential detail of my summer in this post in case i forget, or i go back to neglecting this blog, so at least the readers will know why. or at least stalkers knw where to find me =p
19th June (this FRICKIN' FRIDAY!!): my results will be out
20th-21st June: Oxford, hanging out with Farah, Nadia and Aisha ie Uncle Dumin's girls.
22nd June: back to Canterbury from London; also the arrival of Fadz and Sue.
23rd June: Manis's birthday. will be baking and talk about feelings, the latter as requested by birthday girl.
26th or 27th June: Fadz and Sue leave us for London.
27th June: going to London, help Imah pack and move house. hopefully jumpa Kaka Alin as well.
28th June: Race for Life. am hoping I'll be fit enough to run the whole 5km
29th June: recover from Race for Life: vegging out in front of TV.
30th June: LEAVE FOR NEW YORK CITY!!!
i also need to squeeze in a haircut b4 New York. the hair is getting annoying; its at that just past shoulders stage when trying to grow out hair where its neither here nor there.
coming back from the City that Never Sleeps (do they say that abt NYC? or is it Vegas?) on the 10th of July. i wanna jog in Central Park. woot woot!
come July with another set of plans accompanied by family and some crazy eurotrip of 4 countries squeezed in 1 week. needless to say my exercising will go bonkers from New York onwards. however, i am tres excited to see everyone!!! i cant wait to get back on brunei soil tho. another 5 weeks for that =D
much love,
be'ah xoxo
19th June (this FRICKIN' FRIDAY!!): my results will be out
20th-21st June: Oxford, hanging out with Farah, Nadia and Aisha ie Uncle Dumin's girls.
22nd June: back to Canterbury from London; also the arrival of Fadz and Sue.
23rd June: Manis's birthday. will be baking and talk about feelings, the latter as requested by birthday girl.
26th or 27th June: Fadz and Sue leave us for London.
27th June: going to London, help Imah pack and move house. hopefully jumpa Kaka Alin as well.
28th June: Race for Life. am hoping I'll be fit enough to run the whole 5km
29th June: recover from Race for Life: vegging out in front of TV.
30th June: LEAVE FOR NEW YORK CITY!!!
i also need to squeeze in a haircut b4 New York. the hair is getting annoying; its at that just past shoulders stage when trying to grow out hair where its neither here nor there.
coming back from the City that Never Sleeps (do they say that abt NYC? or is it Vegas?) on the 10th of July. i wanna jog in Central Park. woot woot!
come July with another set of plans accompanied by family and some crazy eurotrip of 4 countries squeezed in 1 week. needless to say my exercising will go bonkers from New York onwards. however, i am tres excited to see everyone!!! i cant wait to get back on brunei soil tho. another 5 weeks for that =D
much love,
be'ah xoxo
Monday, June 15, 2009
bee bee que part 1
the longer i put this off the bangas-er this will be.
so..
rewind back to the 30th of MAY, when illah, vuina, vivi, zatee and bee were still around.
it was a saturday, and the house was in charge of cupcakes. i got up super early to jog and pump some iron because i knew i was gonna be eating a helluva lot and i didnt wanna deny myself any chicken or cupcakes so the least i could do was work up a sweat to keep the metabolic rate up.
came down for breakfast and illah was alredi up. she didnt wanna jog with me tho, she was excited abt baking; after all we did have 3 dozen cupcakes to bake, plus sausage rolls and apple turnover. with one oven, it was good that she started early. i picked up a rolling pin from zatee's on my way back and i met a couple of ppl who gave me funny looks. i dont blame them tho, why would someone be jogging with a rolling pin at 10am on a saturday?
came back from my jog and this delicious smell came wafting thru. needless to say the kitchen was filled with heady scents of baked goodies the whole afternoon! quickly did my weights, a shower and came down to 'help' illah. lemon meringue cupcakes were done, so i helped her and vuina make the batter for maple pecan ones. the maple pecan ones are simply the softest cupcakes u will ever taste; it literally melts in your mouth! i kept bugging illah, askingif i can have some - she kept saying no.i dont know hwy but when it comes to sweet treats i am HELPLESS! i can say no to pizza, pasta but not to CANDY!
skali when she was putting the last few spoonfuls of batter for the cupcakes, she realised there was more than enough to make a dozen so she let me have some and i have 3 maple pecan cupcakes ALL TO MYSELF!!!!
warm from the oven, without icing, just how i like it.
by this time, everyone was in the kitchen, baking and cutting and watnot. i helped nis roll out the puff pastry, where i mananged to not only cover my arms, but also my legs with flour. it was a lot of puff pastry, is all i can say. after the cupcakes were done and the sausage rolls and apple turnover just waiting for their turn in the oven, we all got dressed and ready. we were already 1 hour late but we had cupcakes, so we thought they wouldnt start the party without us =p
all dressed and ready, i entered the kitchen and saw the apple turnovers. i ate five in one go without nisah knowing haha. while waiting for everything else to cook, i think i had about 2 more, then about 3 more sausage rolls. i dont knw wat got into me, but at least i did exercise that morning!
so about 90mins later than planned, we left the house for rushmead and it looked like the whole neighbourhood ada soem sort of bbq party. it was technically the time where most ppl siap exams, bar the first years.
arrived at reza's and the bbq balum jln. u knw how guys are with fire, setau pandai tapi inda =p. nadawah. anyway, will talk about the party in part 2 when i get round to it. or to be lame i shall say
'to be continued...'
hahaha. last saturday was artsfest so will have to jot that down too. imah came over and i baked yet more cupcakes, but this time it was different coz illah wasnt around. she left her stuff tho, like food colouring so we had fun with that. anyway, that deserves an individual post. i'm going to oxford for the weekend for some girlie girlie time with auntie huraini and her girls, then hopefully by next week fadz and sue will have sorted their tickets to canterbury coz they're coming to visit!
so loads to do this weekend onwards. till then, i'm just hanging out with nis in the living room eating ice cream and watching movies.
thank you to those who make the effort to check here for updates and read this sad excuse of a post. will try to do better next time.
much love,
be'ah xoxo
so..
rewind back to the 30th of MAY, when illah, vuina, vivi, zatee and bee were still around.
it was a saturday, and the house was in charge of cupcakes. i got up super early to jog and pump some iron because i knew i was gonna be eating a helluva lot and i didnt wanna deny myself any chicken or cupcakes so the least i could do was work up a sweat to keep the metabolic rate up.
came down for breakfast and illah was alredi up. she didnt wanna jog with me tho, she was excited abt baking; after all we did have 3 dozen cupcakes to bake, plus sausage rolls and apple turnover. with one oven, it was good that she started early. i picked up a rolling pin from zatee's on my way back and i met a couple of ppl who gave me funny looks. i dont blame them tho, why would someone be jogging with a rolling pin at 10am on a saturday?
came back from my jog and this delicious smell came wafting thru. needless to say the kitchen was filled with heady scents of baked goodies the whole afternoon! quickly did my weights, a shower and came down to 'help' illah. lemon meringue cupcakes were done, so i helped her and vuina make the batter for maple pecan ones. the maple pecan ones are simply the softest cupcakes u will ever taste; it literally melts in your mouth! i kept bugging illah, askingif i can have some - she kept saying no.i dont know hwy but when it comes to sweet treats i am HELPLESS! i can say no to pizza, pasta but not to CANDY!
skali when she was putting the last few spoonfuls of batter for the cupcakes, she realised there was more than enough to make a dozen so she let me have some and i have 3 maple pecan cupcakes ALL TO MYSELF!!!!
warm from the oven, without icing, just how i like it.
by this time, everyone was in the kitchen, baking and cutting and watnot. i helped nis roll out the puff pastry, where i mananged to not only cover my arms, but also my legs with flour. it was a lot of puff pastry, is all i can say. after the cupcakes were done and the sausage rolls and apple turnover just waiting for their turn in the oven, we all got dressed and ready. we were already 1 hour late but we had cupcakes, so we thought they wouldnt start the party without us =p
all dressed and ready, i entered the kitchen and saw the apple turnovers. i ate five in one go without nisah knowing haha. while waiting for everything else to cook, i think i had about 2 more, then about 3 more sausage rolls. i dont knw wat got into me, but at least i did exercise that morning!
so about 90mins later than planned, we left the house for rushmead and it looked like the whole neighbourhood ada soem sort of bbq party. it was technically the time where most ppl siap exams, bar the first years.
arrived at reza's and the bbq balum jln. u knw how guys are with fire, setau pandai tapi inda =p. nadawah. anyway, will talk about the party in part 2 when i get round to it. or to be lame i shall say
'to be continued...'
hahaha. last saturday was artsfest so will have to jot that down too. imah came over and i baked yet more cupcakes, but this time it was different coz illah wasnt around. she left her stuff tho, like food colouring so we had fun with that. anyway, that deserves an individual post. i'm going to oxford for the weekend for some girlie girlie time with auntie huraini and her girls, then hopefully by next week fadz and sue will have sorted their tickets to canterbury coz they're coming to visit!
so loads to do this weekend onwards. till then, i'm just hanging out with nis in the living room eating ice cream and watching movies.
thank you to those who make the effort to check here for updates and read this sad excuse of a post. will try to do better next time.
much love,
be'ah xoxo
Sunday, June 7, 2009
reminder to self
i've been neglecting this blog. all i've done is update on plurk in the hopes that that will suffice; but its not the same, no? (and now i can see apip nodding her head vigorously in agreement haha).
anyway, i've been neglecting my body as well. eksen sja kan detox etc during this holiday. mind you, its only me and nis left in the house (bee only comes during the day and sleeps over at her bf's), so with only nis around, the girl who can eat the whole world and still stay under 7stone, i munch munch munch on everything. i wake up early in the morning but theres no illah that its so lonely i tink, may as well sleep some more. skali i miss jogging mornings (cause the weathers sucks as of late) and do less exercise and eat more. and i sleep late as well psl nis sleeps late and its the only time we can hang kind of thing.
we've been watching lord of the rings jua. can u believe i've never watched it? legolas is such a sexy elf. lol.
i know apip wants updates, but maybe she doesnt want them as much now that illah is back home =p anyway, this post isnt going to be all jazzy with details. just a reminder to myself to write soon! specifically about:
last week's bbq.
monday's beach trip.
the last night before illah and vuina left.
to be honest i just wanna lump all 3 into one post and write 1 or 2 sentences about each but for apip's sake (and also for myself - something to read back on when im done with uni), i'll do my best. lambat bahh.. bangas tia kali lol.
one more thing, i am still going to new york =) pray for me and my cousins that we have a safe journey and all goes well.
much love,
be'ah xoxo
anyway, i've been neglecting my body as well. eksen sja kan detox etc during this holiday. mind you, its only me and nis left in the house (bee only comes during the day and sleeps over at her bf's), so with only nis around, the girl who can eat the whole world and still stay under 7stone, i munch munch munch on everything. i wake up early in the morning but theres no illah that its so lonely i tink, may as well sleep some more. skali i miss jogging mornings (cause the weathers sucks as of late) and do less exercise and eat more. and i sleep late as well psl nis sleeps late and its the only time we can hang kind of thing.
we've been watching lord of the rings jua. can u believe i've never watched it? legolas is such a sexy elf. lol.
i know apip wants updates, but maybe she doesnt want them as much now that illah is back home =p anyway, this post isnt going to be all jazzy with details. just a reminder to myself to write soon! specifically about:
last week's bbq.
monday's beach trip.
the last night before illah and vuina left.
to be honest i just wanna lump all 3 into one post and write 1 or 2 sentences about each but for apip's sake (and also for myself - something to read back on when im done with uni), i'll do my best. lambat bahh.. bangas tia kali lol.
one more thing, i am still going to new york =) pray for me and my cousins that we have a safe journey and all goes well.
much love,
be'ah xoxo
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