Auld Lang Syne..

To hear the actual Auld Lang Syne sung in its original rendition and dialect is trully awe-inspiring ...to me at least. Sung nowadays during the last few tick-tocks of the year..ushering in the new year.

Happy New Year to all.

May the new year bring more wisdom, prosperity, health to you..(this being the boring greetings..) May the new year make you more conscious of your mortality and strive to live closer to the edge of sanity and death and still manage to hang to life by a mere thread and live vicariously!!!!!!!!!!!

Introducing...

Yesterday was another important event in my Sis' calendar. She is now officially taken... :) engaged to Mr. Chua Ling Biau or more known as Ahleong... There's a story as to why the name came about..
Congratulations are due Sis dearie. May the happiness that surrounds both of you like a crazy halo never dissipate but continue to flourish.

my grandma..proudly wearing the baju i sewed for her

Age is Just a Number...

Well... It's that time of the year again...
To think of mortality? ...
To think of wisdom?
Not exactly...
Pensive.. extremely pensive..
Oh well... Happy Birthday to me
Hope you've learnt something this year.

Kayak Star 1 for APMM (Maritim Sabah)

There is no way I am going to be fairer any time soon. Just freshly baked from the recent Kayak Star 1 & 2 course which I attended just last week, I went over to help Boss Fadhil conduct the Kayak 1 for the Maritim Sabah. There were 20 of them. Hehe... I was the model for the capsize. Nasib tia kana suru buat roll... bikin malu blum pass.

Fadhil : Apa beza 'Kenu' dengan 'kayak'?

Peserta2 dari APMM

Morning at Tg.Aru, First Beach

Gaya menjawab Ujian Bertulis

The only young lady taking the course

Kayak Anatomy

Warming up before the Practical Test


Fascinating..first time stung by jellyfish

APMM participants of Kayak Star 1 (That's me in red)

SOSEK Malindo

Cakap siang pandang-pandang, cakap malam dengar-dengar... so say the pepatah... Sigh. Blogs used to a place where you can say whatever and get away with it. So, even though I have an itch to scratch.. this kind of itch can't be scratch so easily. Kawan-kawan tau la tu kan...

Anyway... this time I was assigned to help with Water Activity instead of the usual Rope Element. Boohoo... ni kawan-kawan tali ni aa... jan dulu sign tu borang kasi lepas saya...

Surple..

Last month, I sent my car to a friend to have the bonnet of the car repainted. My black Wira sedan used to look very sleek with dark metallic sheen when I first got the ownership. Now aa... kasian my wira..

Anyhoo... the bonnet has lost it's sheen. I think kasi polish berabis also won't be enough.

what's the color of the bonnet? It's silverish..at some angle, depending on the light, it looks purple.. Mike Lima has a catchy name for it... surple.

before

after

Balik sekolah...

My cousin Faith will go back to school next year as a first former at SMK Limbanak. Aunti Phyllis called me last month asking me to sew a couple of pinafores for Faith. I said, "Ok". Maka-maka... lum pernah jait pinafore pun. hahahah

But i figured it woudn't be so hard to sew. The basic is just the skirt maa..
I took Faith's measurement. She, being the tomboy that she is, said," jangan kasi kembang tu skirt aa?" She didn't want to look too girlish maybe. Her mum said, " Jangan talampau ikut apa dia mau tu, Alie.. Kasi buat A-shape ja." "Ok..".

I bought 4 meters of the 60inch wide blue cotton cloth from Starlight in Segama. On sale waktu tu. I thought that would be enough but I suddenly felt like sewing Ninak another baju so after feeling and checking some fabric ( I remember Ninak saying she liked the last baju I made for her, sajuk, licak (hahaha) and had a nice motif).. I bought 1 1/2 meters for her.

So... just yesterday I started cutting the cloth for the pinafores and this morning, Ninak's baju. I sent the kain for edging this morning. Sesampai ja rumah, after lunch, I started sewing the pinafore.

Huih... finished the pinafore after 2 hours plus of sewing. Tu pun... banyak rehat. Sigup habis.. so minum green tea banyak-banyak. (I already bought a pack of Green Tea, Mona).

Faith with new uniform

I might not finish all tonight.. logot-logot lah.

Birthday Wish

I could kick my self on the head for not posting this earlier! But...better a bit late than waaay late...

To my dearest, dearest Sis, Sandra... Happy Birthday.

I don't always tell you this my dear

but having a sis like you

Has been wonderfully full of cheer

With lots of fun too

May the years ahead

Be filled with fulfilled wishes

And enrich you in all imaginable ways

And this I wish for you always.

So, once again, Happy Birthday!!

Introducing...

Introducing the new couple... Mr. and Mrs Sulaiman...

Congrats to the new couple... They already had the akad nikah in Tawau last month (the bride's residence) but for the kawan-kawan here, another reception was held at Kg. Brunei, Kimanis, which a few of us had the pleasure of attending.

All the best to both of you!

Kayak Star 2

The Kayak Star 2 course was held from the 3rd to the 6th especially for the trainers

of the Sabah Co-curricullumCentre . The venue for the course was the Lagoon Park, Karambunai . The Kayak trainers were Mr. Mohd Fadhil

and Mr. Agku Azanul aka Aweng.

By the end of the 4 days training, all of us 16 Star 2 and 8 Star 1 participants had

sore muscles and faces like burnt shrimps or udangs.

The Lagoon Park was a good venue for the course, in my opinion. The sea/water current wasn't that strong, which made it quite an ideal place to learn and practice the various sweeps and strokes, half rolls and full rolls... and there was plenty space on land for putting up tents/camps.

Some of the tents..

View of the Mount Kinabalu during sunrise.

Romyeo : Signal for 'stop'.

Warming up

Mr. Fadhil

Aweng( kiyuutt!) ...

Mona

Me...Panat oo

Alfred...(pssst...dulu dia anak dugong ni..)

Dugong wannabe..

Doing the 'X' rescue...

Revision before test...bergelimpangan atas lantai kepenatan...

macam-macam gaya(during test)

Alfred : betul ka ni aa?

Tn Aji : Maaaana suda bot ni aa?

mona : kanda...jangan la merajuk...

tn. aji : huh...tu la dinda..sepa suru lambat bawak eskrim..

julietpapagolf : projek makan kerang fresh...

sedap ooo...

sempat naik banana boat...

peserta Kayak Star 1 and Star 2


Congratulations to all the participants of Star 1 who passed with wonderful guidance from Mr. Fadhil. To the Star 2 participants who didn't make it, don't worry... There will be other chances...

Funny Bones

Good for laughs!!


If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

(Hardly seems worth it.)

If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

(Now that's more like it!)

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet (O.M.G.!)

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes. (In my next life, I want to be a pig.)

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

(Creepy) (I'm still not over the pig.)

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories a hour

(Don't try this at home, maybe at work)

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

('Honey, I'm home. What the...?!')

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field. (30 minutes..lucky pig! Can you imagine?)

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

(I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality over quantity)

Butterflies taste with their feet.

(Something I always wanted to know.)

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

(Hmmmmmm...)

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.

(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

(okay, so that would be a good thing)

A cat's urine glows under a black light.

(I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

( I know some people like that.)

Starfish have no brains

(I know some people like that too.)

Polar bears are left-handed.

(If they switch, they'll live a lot longer)

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

(What about that pig??)