saya ade jiran

saya ade jiran, name die Zahirah but we call her Zack. She loves to cook and then call us up to fill our tummy in! Thank you Zack! The mee bandung was yummy!
:)

Raya 2008

I'll skip how dull my fist day of raya was and straight away go to the happy first weekend of Syawal, let the pictures speak themselves! :)

MASA-PSU is not holding any official gathering this year since were like 124 orang kan and decided it would be much better if the members were grouped geographically and held our own open house to be attend by others. Sooooo...

Friday Night: West Side Open House, College Parks and The Graduates.

Freshmen & Baju Raya

Collage Park's Hallway

and they refuse to go home and cook, haha..hey thanks for coming k

JJ :)

thanks to those that come despite informing it quite late kan :)

Saturday Afternoon: Central Open House, Allen Park- homes of 39 ACTP students. The foods were abundant! siap bolah tapau lagi and warm companies the host were, thank u :)

owh this pic is from Haleem's new camera yg baru smpai pg that day! and thanks to that camera byk amat amek gmbr, terima kasih Haleem!

p.i.n.k.s

di mana camera di situlah kami

Penn State 20- Purdue 6, yeay!

this weekend: East Side Open House!

pics are credited to: Gokun, Bart, Haleem and many others. Thank you :)

a pet turtle

have i told you that this semester i have no class on tuesday and my last class end at 2.15 on other days. so since my housemates classes slalu habis lmbt and Peyya like to study at the library a lot, slau je rase keseorangan di rumah which is not good since i will be wasting my time in front of the tv. yes, i'm a normal person. so i've thought of getting a pet! i love rabbits A LOT but yeah mesti la x boleh jage kt apartment kan. next choice was a hamster tp since a hamster's cage need to be clean everyday i skip that idea. then i was thinking of a turtle, hoping that it would be easy to take care of. then tgk project runway and then one of the contestant's son have a pet turtle! so i was like ok sure i want a pet turtle. a good looking one.
;)

so I did my research online looking for the perfect turtle. and one interesting fact that i found was that my pet may live longer than i do and that i must find someone to past it own later. i told him on the way to the pet shop and he was like "mcm bela hantu je"..hahaha..true.

is not that easy actually to take care of a turtle. it does require a lot of attention. it need a home with certain temperature, it need a place to dig holes if it is a land turtle, a water turtle of course need lot of spaces to swim. they need a place to bask. so that requires a UV-B fluorescent light. food lagi, filter aquarium lagi (if jage water turtle) i wasn't really sure at first but i decided that mybe a tour at a pet shop can help me decide.

so firstly we went to Petco.

i was searching for small turtles yg x de la bsr sgt and i would prefer a land one so that die bleh main2 kt ats carpet nnt.

box-turtle: a land turtle

red-eye slider: a water turtle

I feel sorry for water turtles that likes to swim since i'm not going to get a very big aquarium kot tp he loves them, he loves to see them swim. tp tu laaa adorable je turtle yg berenang2 dlm aquarium tu~

tp kt Petco x byk sgt choices of pets. turtle pun ade two jenis je. common ones. red-eye slider ngn russian turtle. but they were lots of fishes, and hamsters, and mice! comelllll~

then he decided mybe it'll be worth our time to check out another pet shop which i never knew exist la kan. he was being very supportive about me getting a pet, thanks! and yeah i guess things are getting better slowly day by day~

there, byk skit la jenis turtle die tp still x de yg kecik, the size that i want tp this shop unlike petco ade kucing! those cats were for adoption, and they were sort of gloomy, we can see it in their eyes. sdih je, dh lah sgt comel. so main2 kjp ngn kucing. but i'm not a big fan of cats, it's not that i dont like them, suke je tp i prefer to kianat cats. bila cats nk bermanja, malas nk lyn tp bila diorg like sombong mesti force kucing to play.haha..i know. it sounds psychotic kan. but i dont hate cats. it's just that i prefer rabbits than cats. And if Zack dtg sini pun mesti die akn menangis kegembiraan melihat kucing2 yg byk and comel2! Zack nnt kita pg this place k wlaupun kita x kan adopt tp boleh main2 ngn kucing, i know u love cats yg sgt1000x tu kan
:)

although i did not find the right turtle as a pet but today was still fun. i miss my past.

and i'm not sure i want to adopt a water turtle ke x, since tu je currently available kt State Collge, will decide mybe by the end of next week since next week will be a very busy week with exams and lab reports.

KUIH-MUIH!

okay updates! gosh, true it is di kala busy barulah found some time to update..wellllll spnjg minggu ni was hari membuat kuih! jom check out some pics:

Sunday:
berbuka puasa di umah Alot. So we brought apam balik to their place, since dh slalu sgt wt apam balik, there's no pic, heee. next time wat, i think in the nearest time akn wt kot, i'll put up some pics k

Monday:
lopez!

beras pulut+air+pewarna hijau, later santan was added and no we didn't kukus the pulut, we just mirowave-d it! it's call lopez perantau *wink*

out from the microwave, kena bentukkan the lopez using plastic wrappers, owh peyya was good at this! yg besar and kurang indah tu org lain yg wt besides peyya *grin*

then guling2kan the lopez dlm kelapa, this was the fun part! knowing that the lopez was done :)

tada! dh siap dh wt it's air gula, this were to be sent to 202+203. u guys are lucky to have us neighbors k! lol.

Tuesday:
kuih lapis!

x jadi sgt i know!haha..mmg lembik pun, i guess i pour in every lapis cepat sgt kot or the pengukus just refuse to co-operate with me but the taste was not that bad, so i gave us a B+ for this first attempt!

Wednesday and Thursday, no kuih since I was not in the mood of doing so.

Friday:
again Lopez and this time berbuka puasa di Graduates- Haleem, Zam, Zul, Fawwaz and Sim's place. Thanks korg, never thought there'll be an invitation dr korg, hehe.

Saturday:
Seri muka for College Park's potluck! Nysa was the main chef.like finally ade pun potluck, still remember last Ramadhan usually Dele would ajk2 potluck ni, hurm miss him.

this is just the pulut part. it took nearly two hours kot for the seri muka to be fully cooked after the pandan layer was added on top of it. so by then dh x smpt amek gmbr ah kan, trus je mkn, heee.

owh wait, if u look carefully in this pic, ade kuih seri muka tersebut (on the blue plate)

Sunday:
tepung pelita!

ini pun like kuih lapis, turn out lembik tp sedap (okay, i didnt say so but others did ;))

i keep forgetting i have a blog, so that explain the lack of pics in everything i do. Safwan, i know u only reads blog with pics kan, nnt amek byk2 gmbr k

to housemates: thank u for being amat supportive dlm membuat kuih and memuji kuih juge
;)

Ramadhan

dh 3 hari puasa and alhamdullilah everything is ok.

i have the loveliest housemates, first day of Ramadhan, Peyya and Nysa cook me tom yam since I was craving for it ( i know i crave a lot of food lately, heee). thanks korang.
:)

so here's the first day of Ramadhan menu:

tom yam

sayur goreng by Nysa. owh yes Nysa suka ptg2 and grg2 sayur :)

and since Peyya went to the farmer's market this week, she bought a watermelon, so yeah we had watermelon juice that day :)

owh selamat berpuasa smua.