birthday boy

Last week was a celebration for little Adam....
checkout how excited he was!

wish

Happy Birthday
May you wishes come true...

the day i turned

26 years old...

gawd, i do feel o.l.d - tapi like what people say, age is just a number right?

Tapi still, feeling old-ish, I've bought myself new mosturizer/anti-ageing cream also eye cream few months ago...With my low-tolerance to stress and incapability of being patient, i need all the anti-ageing cream i could get! hahahahahha...

well... it's all good so far. i'm on leave today, so gonna be at home and embracing my new age . hehehehehhe...

raya photos

am taking the advantage of FULL carbo-loading during raya period... Rendang, ketupat, nasi himpit, soto, raya cookies..... all goes into my stomach without second thoughts...

Here are some raya shots

i think tisha looks angelic here.... ahahhaha.. but u should see her during raya, kept digging in the glass cookies jar...

hari raya

Hari Raya is tomorrow!

Yet, I am so freakin' nervous with my first and probably last half marathon everrrr NEXT WEEK... Blame it on borneotrekker who psyched my mind to join. Hahahaha.... Anyway, this week will be mostly tapering off my (nonexistant) training and hopefully my mind would be prepared for the unexpected. I mean 1 month of puasa (with few trainings in between) must count for something right.

Despite my (lack of) training, of course I must prepare the other stuff. eg, buy power gel and organize song list, decide what to bring on that day. And yea, I forgot the most important thing... deciding what to WEAR! hehehe.. trust me i think it is important, at least if I (hopefully not) fall, I'll be in my best attire ever. Heheheheh...

2 weeks of training left:
This week: wed: off**, thurs:off**, friday(7km), saturday(4km), sun(10km)
Next week:mon(off-because of makan2 at office),tues(6km), wed(5km),thurs(3km), fri(off),sat(off),sunday(Half Marathon)
**I'm from a family where girls are expected to serve coffee/tea, and probably I will be in charge of filling the cookies jar.

Anyway,

Selamat Hari Raya Everyone!
Maaf Zahir Batin

happy birthday

My niece ayu turns FOUR today... owh, how fast time flies...

Happy Birthday!

dear sunday

Weekend was great. I just realized I need to utilize my camera more often. Here is the niece, tisha @ the Spa pretending getting a fake reflexology. We're training her to be a future madam tai-tai? Heheheh...

Had a great lunch or early dinner. Look at these prawns!
Haih, tomorrow is working day. Uji, pls wake up early! Don't snooze too much....

Are you up for it?

Ms Ulai ym-ed me about a website. I thought it must've been about food or some outdoor activities or hmmm food. Heheheh..

The website is for Borneo International Marathon which will be held on 12 October 2008(Sunday). I'm surely going to join, not full marathonlah, since that is freaking 42 kilometers. I could barely walk without hyperventilating from the car park to my office. So my target is maybe just to run 10k within the time limit. I doubt that I could join half marathon (that's 21 km, 3 times of 7km sunset charity run for sutera harbor), especially september is fasting month, so can't train during fasting month. Don't blame me, I want to enjoy all the pasar ramadhan food :)

If your 2008 resolutions is to lose weight (like mine), this is the perfect motivation to do so... Plus, some of the registration fees will be donated to charities, so know it that you're doing it for a good cause.

They also have running clinic for beginners near likas sports complex, so might be good opportunity to learn from the running seniors ;)

Early bird registration is before 31 May. So if you want cheaper registration fees, do send/fax your registration form asap okay?

I can't quite believe...

She turns 25 today...

birthday wish

Happy Birthday sis!
May you blessed with wonderful things in life!

**cake is blueberry cake from uncle biscuit in damai

Cultural Extravaganza

I went to watch the Cultural Extravaganza at UMS last night. It was a cultural celebration with dance/cultural performances from various countries including one from Sabah of course.

The event supposedly starts at 7.30pm and ends at 10.30pm. Well, that's what they put in the program book. But....... it started an HOUR late. Imagine for us who came at 6ish (the seats were based on free-seating) and we had to wait freakin' 2 hours to watch the performance! Considering they're having the event on school/work nights, in my case Sunday Night, I wish they would start on time.

The event started with local dances: Pankulian Nabuluh, Ramatuo Rahaling, Igal-igal and also Medley of Kadazan-Dusun Murut dances. One local dance that I particularly like is the Pangkulian Nabuluh dance which was performed by children which I assumed around the age of 7-9 years old. They wore colorful and sparkly outfits, and they danced so gracefully (youngsters are easier to bend their bodies huh?). The other local dances I thought were just ok. Few of performances I thought were too many dancers on the stage at one time, that it looked a bit crowded. Con said it might be that they wanted to show the "EXTRA-VAGANZA-ness" of our local culture.

After the local dances, it was time for other countries performances from Scotland, Ireland, Poland, Spanish Castanuelas, Maori, and Kenya. I like... the Spanish dance!!! The moves are soooo sexy.. Heheheh... It made me wanted to learn to speak Spanish and dance like J-Lo in Dance with Me!

At 10pm, they had intermission giving way to local artists performing few songs. I wish they didn't have the singing-part, it just put me to zzz-land. I realized almost half of the audience especially those with kids left the auditorium during the intermission. By the time they finished singing, it was already 11pm!

I started feeling sleepy and dizzy during the singing part. When they continued the international performances, the big hype was gone since half of the audience have left. They continued with the other performances: Viva Brasil, Safari Cats-Kenya, Maori NZ, Ireland and Spanish. By the time all the international performances finished, the clock already stroke midnight! I had been yawning many times and my head was heavy trying to fight off sleepiness.

I didn't stay until the end of the show. I went home at midnight, and reached home before 12.30am. I can't imagine if I had stayed until the end, I'd reach home at 1am and had to force myself to wake up at 7am this morning for work!

Overall, I enjoyed some of the performances. I said some because I felt some dances were repetitive and too long :) But for those who want to watch this show, they have scheduled performances for tonight and tomorrow night. My last advice is don't go on the final day, they have speeches and everything, you wouldn't want to go home at 2 am right?

Go check it out if you want to be cultured...

Another reason to celebrate

Today is another day to celebrate my niece's birthday party. It was just a small "makan-makan" attended by close relatives and neighborhood kids. Because today was not totally planned, so the family had to make it small. I didn't even get to plan the kids games!!! So it was just a brunch, followed by Twisters, and pop the balloons! But there's no party without goody bags filled with some knick-knacks.

Later in the evening, I went to Anjung Senja to take a peek at the City Parade of Cultural Extravaganza in front of Promenade. It was basically a preview of the International Cultural Extravaganza which is held on 3rd, 4th, and 5th this month in conjunction of the KK City Celebration. The place looked cool with the colorful color-lights and all. I didn't stay there for too long, but according to friends and family, they said the event started late (8.30pm when they said it's 7.30pm). I think we don't need any explanation because when vips and vvips are involved, the waiting would take forever. Of courselah..... the datin-datins need to wear their 3 inch makeups, wear their dazzling jewelery, and pick baju from their over-fulled closets. Sooooo, if they say it would start at 7.30, just come at 8.30 to save a heck lot of time!

From Anjung Senja, I met Lana, Hellotz & veeeeery huggable Haiqal who flew to KK for holiday at Tg Lipat. They came there for the "sayap ayam" (chicken wings). Hehehehhe... Con who I haven't seen in months also came (hey.. who said kk is small???). It was fun catching up since it's been awhile since last I saw them. I can't quite believe that it was 2005 when we graduated, and nooooooow..... Lana is married and has a cute little baby!!! We had to cut the "hang" short since little Haiqal asleep and Lanotz were tired from their trip. Alaaaah Lana, I didn't even get to take picture with cute little Seth!

CNY

Pretty and colorful Chinese New Year decoration at Warisan Square

Check out the lions!

Also, Birthday Wish to Mommy Lana!

happy birthday little princess

My cute little niece is turning ONE today!



Happy Birthday little girl. Auntie uji loves you to bits!

8th Kota Kinabalu Anniversary Celebration

29th Jan-4th Feb Chinese New Year Carnival Lintasan Deasoka
3rd,4th-5th Feb (7.30-10.30pm) City Cultural Extravaganza Chancellor Hall, UMS
30th Jan-3rd Int. City Fair Anjung Senja Waterfront
17th Feb (7am-11am) City Run Padang Merdeka
20th Feb Batik Show Magellan Sutera Harbor
23rd-24th (9am-4pm) City Regatta Tg Aru Beach
24th Feb (6am-5pm) Treasure Hunt Nexus Karambunai
3rd March (10am-11pm) Dart International KK Community Hall
1st-2nd March (6am-2pm) VIP Golf Nexus Karambunai
1st-2nd March (9am-4pm) Intercity Bowling CPS Bowl

It's time to warm up my D70 and start clicking. I'm more interested to join the Treasure Hunt, anyone wants to join my team?

Happy New Year

Christmas day

I will be curling up in bed with the oh-so-addicted-gossip-girl on new year ;)

you know you love me ;)

Christmas Wonderland

"I don't want a lot for Christmas
There's just one thing I need
I don't care about the presents
Underneath the Christmas tree
I just want you for my own
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true
All I want for Christmas is...
You ..."

post-raya

Burrrrpp... ate too much food during raya. Almost every day I went to open house or my mum would cook some raya food at home. I bet if I lost 2 kgs in fasting month, I've gained it all back with some extra kgsss...

I've started working yesterday, and oh boy how I love school holidays and the post-holiday. I'm assuming a lot of people still on leave, since it only takes me 40 minutes to reach work today (usually it could reach 1 hr++)... Even tho I'm at the office, my heart is still at home, sleeping and resting, and holidaying...

On another note... I'm on a very-slow-narrowband which drives me crazy. Here are the things I hate, slow internet (darn!), slow driver on the right lane, stupid mini bus drivers who stop without signals and... Because the internet is kinda slow, I'm subscribing to google readers for my blogs! Now I only go to one site to check out updates from fellow bloggers.

Eghk. work is depressing. I'm gonna go shopping in 10 minutes (yeyy)..

Later peeps... Enjoy all the rendangs and ketupat while it lasts.. But don't worry raya qurban is two months away !!!

Selamat Hari Raya

Tonight is my official start of Raya Holiday, I will be taking days off until Wednesday next week. So in total I'll be taking 4 days of leave for Raya.

Selamat Hari Raya everybody n maaf zahir batin!

Turning ...

[21st Birthday with Lana & Con]
I'm turning 24 but I dont feel a day over 21 years old :D :D :D