Friday, May 23, 2008

My Best Friend



Meet my current best friend....and the new dress i bought for her in Singapore!
hehehe...am so in lurve with my ASSUS EeePC nih! Like it makes me feel sooo connected alllll the time! Cam best giler okeyy...


Am in MAS Golden Lounge in Changi Airport. Time to go home and be with my babies! Yeay!!


Kak Yah and Ina...Mumsie so sorry we did not get to see each other much but Ina...Mumsie so enjoyed our midnite gossips!!! thanks for keeping me company at the hotel! And guys....remember these...

Thursday, May 22, 2008

not much of singapore

Mumsie is in Singapore. Its 5 minutes to 11 pm and i'm still in the meeting!!! aaarrrrggghhhhhhhhhhhhh....

I've been in Singapore since Monday nite but has not managed to see much. Of course la me not here on holiday but still....

Meeting started on Tuesday but it lasted till 10 pm. Semalam was not so bad. We were free by 6 pm. So, met up with Kak Yah and Ina but we only managed to go to Bugis Street and this place called Clarke Quay. Highlight was that we were together!! Sorrylah Kak Yah, I couldn't really appreciate those places. Penat and ngantuk!


Hmmm...must come again. As tourist. then maybe can appreciate this country!
The infamous Singapore sale has started, menambah sakit di hati Mumsie, not that i can afford to shop laaaa...but still, it would be nice kalau dapat beli a blouse or 2...


the meeting does not look like its going to end any time soon. poor Ina is alllll by herself in the hotel room! And I donno whether I'll get a chance to say bye bye to Kak Yah tomorrow! Bak kata Ina...OH NOOO!!


p.s. the ICJ decision on Malaysia-Singapore dispute on Batu Putih will be out tomorrow...doakan kejayaan Malaysia, folks!

Friday, May 16, 2008

My...My..

What a tangled web we weave...found this in Berita HArian..

Suruhanjaya dapati Lingam bercakap dengan Ahmad Fairuz dalam rakaman klip videoKUALA LUMPUR: Bekas Timbalan Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor dan tokoh korporat, Tan Sri Vincent Tan, secara langsung mempengaruhi pelantikan serta kenaikan pangkat hakim. Ini adalah antara kesimpulan Suruhanjaya Diraja bagi menyiasat klip video yang didakwa mengandungi perbualan seorang peguam dengan hakim kanan bagi mengatur pelantikan hakim, yang mengadakan inkuiri selama 17 hari berakhir 15 Februari lalu.
Suruhanjaya itu, dalam laporannya, juga menyatakan keraguan terhadap keterangan Tengku Adnan dan Tan dalam inkuiri berkenaan kerana mereka sekadar menafikan pelbagai soalan daripada peguam yang mewakili pihak berkepentingan. Hasil siasatan suruhanjaya itu juga jelas bercanggah dengan kenyataan Tengku Adnan dalam inkuiri itu yang menyebut: "Saya tiada kena mengena dengan pelantikan hakim". Tan juga ketika memberi keterangan, mendakwa beliau tiada kaitan dengan pelantikan hakim. Laporan suruhanjaya itu mendapati, peguam, Datuk VK Lingam, menyebut nama Tengku Adnan sebanyak 11 kali dalam rakaman klip video selama 14 minit itu, ketika bercakap dengan bekas Ketua Hakim Negara, Tun Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim.

Sehubungan itu, suruhanjaya berkenaan mencadangkan beberapa individu yang memberi keterangan dalam inkuiri berkenaan disiasat mengikut Akta Hasutan, Akta Rahsia Rasmi dan Kanun Keseksaan. Laporan itu turut mendapati, wujud asas untuk agensi penyiasat membuat siasatan berhubung dakwaan Lingam mempunyai hubungan baik dengan Tun Mohd Eusoff Chin yang menjadi Ketua Hakim Negara daripada 1994 hingga 2000. Pada 1998, adik Lingam, Thirunama Karasu membuat laporan kepada Badan Pencegah Rasuah (BPR) yang mendakwa abangnya mempunyai kaitan dengan Mohd Eusoff tetapi perkara berkenaan tidak diambil tindakan susulan. Dalam inkuiri yang diadakan itu, Majlis Peguam mengemukakan gambar, tiket penerbangan dan jadual perjalanan sebagai bukti menunjukkan Mohd Eusoff, Lingam dan keluarga mereka pernah bercuti bersama ke New Zealand pada akhir 1994.
Sehubungan itu, suruhanjaya berkenaan turut mengesyorkan supaya Lingam disiasat kerana salah laku mengikut Akta Profesion Guaman. Suruhanjaya juga membuat penelitian dalam maklum balas kepada keterangan yang diberikan bekas Perdana Menteri, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad dan bekas Ketua Hakim Negara, Tun Mohamed Dzaiddin Abdullah. Dalam laporannya itu, Suruhanjaya berkenaan memetik Dr Mahathir sebagai mempunyai 'tafsiran sempit' terhadap perkataan 'perundingan' berhubung proses pelantikan serta kenaikan pangkat hakim. Ia dibuat sebagai maklum balas kepada tindakan Dr Mahathir yang tidak menerima nasihat Dzaiddin supaya melantik Allahyarham Tan Sri Malek Ahmad menjadi Hakim Besar Malaya pada Ogos 2001. Sebaliknya, jawatan itu diberikan kepada Ahmad Fairuz yang ketika itu lebih junior berbanding Malek. Malek meninggal dunia pada 31 Mei tahun lalu. Laporan media baru-baru ini memetik Dr Mahathir sebagai berkata, beliau sudah membaca petikan daripada laporan suruhanjaya terbabit dan mendakwa wujud usaha mengaitkannya dengan perkara itu walaupun bekas Perdana Menteri itu menafikan mempunyai hubungan langsung dengannya. Dr Mahathir turut mendakwa laporan itu sebagai cuba menggambarkan seolah-olah beliau seorang yang bersikap berat sebelah. Suruhanjaya itu juga mencadangkan supaya kerajaan mengkaji semula keanggotaan Suruhanjaya Perkhidmatan Guaman dan Kehakiman bagi mengelak salah guna kuasa oleh Ketua Hakim Negara yang berhak untuk mencadangkan hakim yang menganggotainya. Ketika ini, suruhanjaya itu diketuai Pengerusi Suruhanjaya Perkhidmatan Awam. Peguam Negara yang juga Ketua Jabatan Guaman, adalah juga anggotanya manakala ahli lain semuanya terdiri daripada kalangan hakim. Suruhanjaya Diraja juga mencadangkan supaya Hakim Besar Malaya dan Hakim Besar Sabah dan Sarawak turut menganggotai badan itu kerana mereka juga bertanggungjawab dalam pelantikan, pertukaran dan kenaikan pangkat hakim serta pendaftar mahkamah yang lebih rendah. Cadangan itu dibuat kerana sebelum ini, berlaku keadaan di mana Ketua Hakim Negara mengamalkan pilih kasih. Tiga lagi cadangan Suruhanjaya Diraja ialah supaya ditubuhkan Suruhanjaya Pelantikan Kehakiman bagi hakim mahkamah yang lebih tinggi; penubuhan Tribunal Aduan Kehakiman serta pindaan Perkara 121 Perlembagaan Persekutuan bagi menghapuskan persepsi bahawa badan eksekutif mempunyai pengaruh terhadap institusi kehakiman. Laporan Suruhanjaya Diraja itu sudah diserahkan kepada Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin pada Jumaat lalu dan salinannya diberi kepada Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi serta Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Zaid Ibrahim. Kandungan laporan itu akan dibincangkan dalam mesyuarat Jemaah Menteri hari ini yang akan memutuskan sama ada ia perlu didedahkan kepada umum.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Wasted day...

I did bugger all at work today!! Spent the whole day doing a bit of this..a bit of that...a lot of reading on-line papers...a lot of blog hopping and a lot of cari.comming!! All because of 2 phone calls this morning!

Phone call #1 goes sikit lebih kurang cam ni..."you cannot go to Singapore. Sapa suruh you pegi? We have better things to do at the office!"

Phone call #2 - "You're going to Singapore and thats it!"

SYMP jer...saya yang menurut perintah...tapi 2 bosses tak bersependapat...i yang free-free kena marah...so, consider i tengah mogok la ni...hehehe!


So, am off to Singapore next week. To attend some meetings I know nothing about. Tak per...saya yang menurut perintah. And am sure sooner or later i akan pandai jugak on the substance of the meeting. Oklah tu...and i get to go to Singapore. Last time I was there was many MANY years ago..when we used to live in JB. Back in early 1980s.


And Kak Yah and I get to meet!! Wooohhoooo!!

OK...dah habis waktu bekerja...am off to fetch the girls. Tonite Mumsie has plans to cook! Macaroni soup!! wish me luck! hwahwahhuaaaaaa

Sunday, May 11, 2008

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY

Hope its not too late for me to wish all mothers out there a very happy mothers day...


I had a "low-key" (translated: as good as non eventful) celebration. Abah basically didn't think much of today..perhaps coz he's already said the birthday gift covers a few celebration, so I suppose this is one of them. Which also means I need not look forward to our anniversary, which is around the corner!


We were in PD over the weekend (yes, PD..again!). Abah's Division at work had their family day. Not very exciting, so not going to say anything else about it.


But, once home, Kak Long presented me with roses (no..not the real ones...) and Soraya gave me a "card" (translated: a piece of paper with alphabets written all over it!). Sarah came later and reluctantly (translated: Mummy took her arms and put them around me!) gave me hugs and whispers of "i love you". Nothing from K.Ngah...hmmmm....


But dinner was at Penang Village! yumyummmmmmm....

Missing girls...

No, not my girls...

Since coming back, we've been reading Harian Metro quite a bit, simply bcoz its one of the cheapest newspaper on the newsstand! Abah has refused to spend RM2.50 on papers that provides lopsided news, if -ya- no- what- I- mean, nudge-nudge, wink-wink!!

But HM is depressing, to say the least! Its filled with news of death, accidents, crimes of all kinds, and of late they've even printed pictures of people covered in their own blood after being attacked for one reason or another!!

Of course, there's all those stories about missing girls...Supposedly it is to highlight the happy ending..that they were eventually found by their families (although Sharlinie is still missing...). But the question(s) in my mind is....kat Indonesia tu dah tak der perempuan ker yang boleh di buat bini?? Don't give me all that love is blind crap, OK! In these cases, love was blind, dumb, deaf and stupid!

Tapi I pelik...macam mana diorang boleh bawak lari all those girls all the way to their kampung...what were the girls thinking when they were brought allllll the way to those remote kampungs in Indonesia? That they were taking part in the Amazing Race?? That they're going for their happy ever after?? Buat penat jer mak bapak besarkan. Akal langsung tak pakai! Worst for this girl who was recently rescued but apparently brought back with her all kinds of "gangguan" sampaikan her kakak also kena "tempias". The poor sister is now bedridden and the girl is refusing to speak to her family members! How laaaaa...

OK..ok...i shouldn't say much..i have 4 of my own. I should concentrate on them, right! Ye laaa...its just that all these stories are freaking me out! BIG time!! Tu belum lagi I start on those I-don't-know-what-to-call-them girls who gets caught for tranporting drugs into foreign countries!!

You think I should stop reading Harian Metro? Maybe I should just let my bosses take me into depression....hehehe...
Oklah, have a good week, y'all!

Saturday, May 3, 2008

Am in the mood...

to write...but am not quite sure what to write about...


About the girls? They're OK. Life has fallen into a comfortable routine...except when Mummy has to travel. But we still have not managed to get a maid! Bummer, really! So far, we're managing by getting some part time help from 2 Indonesian ladies (not at the same time) who comes and clean the house whenever I S.O.S them. Abah says they are sufficient as he is no longer used to have a "stranger" living with us. But Mumsie is still hoping for a permanent live-in maid. It makes a difference...coming home to a clean house and a messy house! It makes a wholllle lot of difference!

And I kesian the girls...Mumsie has not been cooking..at all! I so malas to clean the kitchen! Excuse, I know..but i really get put off when I have to work in a kitchen I'm not in charge of..when I don't know where things are, etc. You see...Wan spends a lot of time in the kitchen and her standards (whatever that is) is much lower than mine...so I'd rather not cook for my family and let her rule in that space than going in there only to get irritated..know what i mean? No? Nevermind...people who knows the kind of relationship that I have with my own Mom would know...for those yang tak tahu..well, you're better off not knowing, believe me!


So, for a long time now, I've been rushing to buy lauk for the girls for their lunch (Wan masak nasi!) and dinner would also be at some shops/restaurants somewhere. Efficient, although not always cheap!


To be fair, I do cook on weekends...roughly about once a month! Coz, we are hardly at home during weekends. Ada-ada jer program nye!

But the other day, Kak Long said she wanted to eat cake and asked Mummy to bake one! I said I cannot be bothered and we have Secret Recipe in Alamanda which is practically 5 minutes away from home! She did continue complaining about me not cooking and baking anymore but finally agreed to Secret Recipe coz she can have 3 slices of different cakes at the same time! Again, efficient but not cheap!


By the way...the girls had just finished their monthly test. Sarah is proving that despite still facing difficulties to fit in, her studies are not affected. Alhamdulillah...Yang interesting nye..Kak Long claims she got first place in sekolah agama's tests...but she failed 1 or 2 papers. How laaaa? She's not in the last class, mind you! So, I wonder laa..bebudak yang dapat nombor over 10 or 20 tu camana laaaa markah diorang ek!


Ok...its wayyyy past midnite. I have a loooong day planned for tomorrow. Need to take the girls for a movie..been promising them since Labour Day (but Mummy was away at a course that day..but thats another story..one that is not worth telling!). Then, need to iron 5300 pairs (sure feels like it!) of school uniforms and locate 300 pairs of matching socks! and kalau rajin (highly unlikely) will cook dinner!

Nite-nite...zzzzzzzzz

Karyn White -- Superwoman

i'm no superwoman either....

Whitney Houston - Saving All My Love For You

Reading Superwoman's latest entries make me think of my UK days...and funny how songs can take you back in time..here's dedicated to all my friends I've known since then...long live memories of MITRE HOUSE!!!

Messages For....

All yang sent me Birthday wishes...thank you..thank you! Yati, I da survey matching gelang..RM23,000 after discount!! So lambat lagi laaaaa....
Glad to hear that ramai orang Geneva akan balik cuti this August..tapi i tak harap dapat jumpa, judging by all the missed dates between Mumsie, KakYah and Ina!! ye laaaa sapa lah i.....

Kak Tam and Ika...please don't be upset..there wasn't any birthday party. Just lunch and cake cutting ceremony, which took place well after 11 that night! Just so happens that Madihah was around...


My girlies..Mummy is serious...no TV on school nites from now on except on weekends and school holidays! But we'll go for a movie tomorrow! hehehe...

InaBES...bila nak jumpa nie??????

MPs in Parliament...prove your worth guys!

Tun M...sudah-sudah la tu...

Pak Lah...i SERIOUSLY hope you know what you're doing!

BALKIS ...give it up and return the money laaa...PLEASE!

Malaysians...give the Opposition a chance, will ya!

there! I've said my peace....enjoy the rest of your weekend folks!