I plan to cook pulut durian (serawa) for sunday's dessert so after doing my billing around 8.30pm I went down across the road to buy some durian along with the beras pulut and santan kara.
Mak lang this is whats left of the tomyam soup tonite ok ok rasa nya tak lah sesedap kat thai restaurant or maybe you own cooking :) Its enough for me and my father to have that with rice only with no other dishes...hehe..kita berdua tak cerewet tentang makan.Afterall lots of ingrdients in the soup-prawns,sotong,fish ball,carrots and cauliflower.

Maklang and Rina came online and we chat for few minutes and after that I excuse myself to buy these durians....4 packs and it cost me S$17.00 and its D24 durian so its ok.
Maklang ni durian yang sudah di-kopek (bahasa sg tau bukan Ganu)...hahaaa

Dan juga membeli pulut dan santan untuk serawa durian.
Dan juga a tin of this carbonated cherryade....on hot night ni sedap dapat minum ni bersama ice kan?

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posted by Kak Elle at 9:40 PM 17 comments

Sehari bekerja ok semua nya tapi bila sampai rumah tadi selepas membeli dinner badan ni rasa tak sedap pulak rupa2 nya demam jadi terus makan panadol and baring lah sekejap tapi tertido pulak sampai jam 9.30 mlm .... macam dalam mimpi kenapa lampu kat hall terang pulak ingat dah pagi agak bapak dah bangun awal !! tengok jam eh 9.30 ni dah lambat nak pergi kerja??
Masya'allah masih friday night rupa nya .....

Alhamdulliah demam dah turun dgn panadol 2 biji tu and harapan tak lah membawa hingga ke esok hari.

Ni dapat lah duduk sekejap depan laptop untuk update ... lepas bercuti memang bersemangat nak buat entry hari2 tapi bukan ada yang nak di ceritakan .... entry asal bolih je..... hehe

Kepada Faiza yg sedang bercuti di tanah air....have fun makaning eh?
Kepada Ajzie dan keluarga selamat pulang ke tanah air esok.
Kepada mama sarah hope you are feeeling better.
Kepada maklang selamat bersulam ...... hehehe
Kepada Rina Jordan yg lagi sibuk tu menguruskan nak jadi monster mother in law ucapan segala urusan akan berjalan dgn lancar.
Kepada kak lady happy happy lah cek abg dah balik ni tapi ku rindu pada muuuuuu.
Kepada Sya selamat berjuang di dapur depan oven tu:)
Kepada semua kekawan di alam maya ni ceria selalu ok?

Have a nice weekend everyone:)

eh macam tak betul pulak otak ku mlm ni ...... hahaha

till my next entry...........

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posted by Kak Elle at 10:57 PM 8 comments

As promised in my last entry tonite I had a proper dinner of chicken rice and wantan soup bought at Banquet JP where I work.I am almost done with my backdated e-billings so manage to go off at 6.30pm !!! patient walked in dot at 6pm and then the delay of closing the account for the day .... today nets was used to collect for co-payment so computer generate different total than invoice so I had to work it out!!

I went down to the halal banquet food court and bought my favourite chicken rice and their wantan soup.I normally will ask for extra chicken so its $4.50 x 2 pkts plus a wantan soup for $3.50 and being a card holder get 10% discount.

Alhamdulillah kenyang makan mlm ni sampai tak bolih nak makan chocolates yg menunggu tu:)

UBA and goboklama gua caya sama lu dua org lah .... why diet??? eat while you can rite?....hahaha





My dessert a plate of mango so manissssssssss and crunchy some more.

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posted by Kak Elle at 9:21 PM 15 comments

No dinner again tonite but junk food .... UBA if you are reading this hehe tomolo can diet mah...
Early this morning ter-rajin bangun awal goreng mee and bring to work to share with some colleagues.After that too full even the magnum ice cream that Fiona bought still in the freezer maybe tomorrow can eat it.

Tonite thought can just have fruits but somehow mouth itchy ni so went to the kitchen and defrost a pkt of epok2 kentang(karipap to mesian)fried them.There 15 pcs in the pack and I myself ngap abt 6 pcs oredi and whats more some lindts and toblerone chocs as dessert along with an orange ....waduuuuhhhhhhhhh......tongang langang my dinner these 2 nites:)

Promise esok proper dinner insya'allah .....





Btw last nite's balance chocolates brought to work this morning dah lesap pun ..... tapi yg tonites will carry fwd to tomorrow nite.

So much for a short entry as I feel very energetic after a good holiday ..... wondering ni when is the next holiday gonna be eh?....any sponsors?

Dengar2 ada perkawinan kat Kemaman next year :) bila agak nya ye?bolih book cuti siang2....hahaha .... tak malu betul kak elle ni kan menjemput diri sendiri .... kah...kah...kah....


till my next entry.......

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posted by Kak Elle at 8:59 PM 17 comments

First of all I like to thank you my friends for the respond on friendship in blogland in my previous entry.Some sms me to ask if anything happen the answer is NO for now but maybe tomorrow who knows rite? Insya'allah nothing happen as yet but should I hear about it .... it will be here in the open for everyone to read ...... so let this be be a warning :)

I work late again tonite to finish off my overdue e-billing due my 2 weeks holiday and by the time I decide to call it a day - I was not in the mood to buy food or cook for dinner.I went down to the food court in the basement where the halal banquet is but gave it a miss ...so off to the supermart and bought fruits instead.

When I got home I decide to fry some eggs with onions and have it with bread :) haha....more like breakfast rite? but alhamdulillah it was nice for a change.....burp!

Followed by a banana and 2 persimmons my favourite!

And as I am typing this entry these chocolates become my buddies and one after another I pop it in my mouth ..... so sedap ..... yum...yum... ah I know count your calorie?what the hack!! just eat lor tomorrow can diet mah:)

ok this is a short entry just to kill time.

till my next entry........................

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posted by Kak Elle at 9:45 PM 15 comments

The holiday is over and now its back to the grind again and its work...work...work....

Yes I thoroughly enjoyed the 15 days with my 2 sisters and families and also having my sister Maria and brother in law Johan for 2 days in Lucerne.

I like to thank Ajzie for her time to chat with me when I was in Germany and mama sarah for the chat when I was in London.Unfortunately the instant sambal kacang and pineapple tarts for both of you tak tersampai.

A special thank to kak teh who came personally with her friend Aishah to see me inspite of her hay fever and heavy schedules.Kak teh thank you for this lovely bracelet ....ehem...berat tau:)

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posted by Kak Elle at 9:37 PM 21 comments

I didn't do much shopping when I was on holiday but I what I bought and where the $$$ gone to I just can't remember *sengaja tak nak tau*....hehe
We shop when we get the chance and opportunity as we are on the road most time.

Things are not that cheap to buy as when you try to times 2 ...amboi mahal nya? but when you are on holiday we can't think in that way or we end up buying nothing at all.Mineral water in general is expensive 2 euros per bottle and thats S$4 and malaysia will be RM$8 .... mahal kan?but we need to drink so thats where the $$ gone too in a way too.Food are just as expensive I had rice and a piece of grilled fish with potatoes for 12 euros and thats S$24....wow! tapi nak makan kan?

I bought lots of tees for nephews and nieces and personally I only got disney tees for myself.
The last minute in London I went down to Peacocks down the road from the hotel for a half an hour shopping as we have to leave the hotel at 10 am for the airport and I managed to grabbed a few items there and my gosh they carry my size unfortunately not enough time otherwise I could have bought the whole shop!!.....haha

Here are some of the stuff I bought and gifts from my sister and bro in law......thank you.
Most of the purchases were given out so no pictures.

After 3 weeks I finally did the marketing today and I bought siput sedut to cook besides cooking lontong.The other day we celebrated father's day at Hajjah Maimunah Restaurant .. this place is famous for their traditional cooking and Kam ordered 2 bowls of the lemak cili siput sedut and I rasa tak puas mlm tu and moreover you can't really sucked it so much considering being in a restaurant.So today I had the whole lot of them for myself as the sisters don't eat them:)I also learn to eat them lately..dulu geli juga:)

My freezer is now back to its full bream again with fish,chicken,meat,prawns,sotong and frozen karipap.Its back to cooking again after a good holiday too.

Life must go on ........

till my next entry........

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posted by Kak Elle at 10:26 PM 18 comments

At last I am back to normal no ... no .... back to my routine .... hehe.I had a very bad jetlag since my return from europe.I was unable to adjust my sleep the first 5 days ... I was wide awake all night and at 6am start to doze off and the saturday I was to start work but only managed to sleep at 4am and by time I woke up it was past 8.30 am...like ligtning I took my shower and called them to say I'll be late.

But alhamdulillah I am ok since yesterday managed to get proper sleep and able to open my eyes when the alarm goes :)

Maklang commented when I am going to update sorry eh mak lang my body is still sleeping....haha ..... and anyway here I am with new posting.I am busy catching up with my e-billings....my 2 wks holiday left a big pile for me to do so everyday I stayed back to try to finish them and also doing from home.
Tonite I was doing them when my niece Huda sms to say she is coming and somehow I had the crave for durian with rice .....hehe....she says ok will get it for me downstairs across where I live.

At almost 11pm I finally had my dinner of nasi durian....yummy!! last meal was at 12 noon KFC chicken.




My nasi durian ngan sugar and santan .... so yummy once in a while ..... lembu bukan sembarang lembu .... lembu ini berisi santan bukan susu tau ..... hehe


Mak lang I will pos your magnets soon and to kak lady and sya hope you like them .... managed to send through my sister Lina who went to KL and PD last week ... mmg rezeki you all berdua dapat juga merasa chcocolates dari Austria and Switzerland.

till my next entry.............

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posted by Kak Elle at 11:42 PM 13 comments

Paris the city of Lights after travelling for more than 3 hrs from Brussels we finally arrived and driving through Charles De Gaulle ain't easy the traffic was bad we were all very tensed as everyone want to shop and Lafayette the only deparmental store that closes at 7pm that saturday.We had hardly an hour to shop and everyone went their separate ways...I ended up getting an Easypak bag and mind you mahal 99 euros ...yes another luggage to put the new purchases that I accumulate in the last 5 countries....hehe....rambang mata kot:)Well my 2 sisters bought their branded bags and shoes I met my 2 nieces as we were browsing and gave them each 25euro to spend ...hehe...they rushed last minute and ended getting new shoes at the last minute!!That night first tasty meal of the trip .... thai dinner and the tomyam soup was superb!

The next morning we start our local halfday tour visiting Napoleon Arc De Triumphe,passing thru' Champs Elyse Blvd,Eiffel Tower,Norte Dome,etc.....and finally the Pragonard Perfumery ....hmmmm....heavenly smell and I bought for myself some perfumes and toilette water.

After this we were on our own and we already made plan to go to Disneyland whilst the rest of them chinese head to shopping again.We got a hired car for 10 of us to drive and fetch us back for 220 euros.The entrance to both world cost 58 euros each.The children had their fun ... best place on earth.

Most of the city tour pictures I took from the moving coach so pictures maybe blurred.





London was our last stop before flying back to S'pore thru' Istanbul.We left Paris by the Eurostar to London at 9.10am.Here at the hotel we bid farewell to Peter the coach driver who has been with us the last 13 days driving from Italy,Austria,Germany,Switzerland,Holland,Belgium and finally France.Peter made us sign our names on the Tour Sign Board for his memory.

We reached London at 11.40am after 2 and half hours of travelling.....yes we are in London at last.We were taken on city tour and finally check into the hotel at Ibis Earls Court at 5pm.I sms kak teh to inform her I have arrived and also mama sarah.That evening Aini,Kam,Adriana and myself stayed back at the hotel whilst Ram and Saat took the 4 teenagers out to Piccadily Circus. shopping and dinner.Kam bought rice and curry for me for dinner.

Thank you mama sarah for the lovely chat and also my ex-collegue Angie and a big thank you kak teh for making time to see me at the hotel and thank you also for the lovely bracelet. I could have brought more things for you but bag dah penuh....hehe...hope you enjoy the instant peanut sauce tak lagi terliuh bila masuk my daily happenings:)

The London stay was too short ..... London I'll come back again one day:)






This is all ..... I am unable to put all the 500 plus photos that I took as it will be too slow to run them online.

My special thanks to sis Aini and bro in law Kam for the lovely holiday and all the beautiful and expensive gifts you both bought for me whilst on holiday.To sis Ram and bro in law Saat for the extra cash you gave me to spend....thank you all:)

The end of the holiday pictures and hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoy putting them up.

till my next entry...........

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posted by Kak Elle at 11:13 PM 29 comments

Amsterdam another a must visit and I don't mind coming here again if given the opportuniy.No problem with food and place just as clean.We had a great 2 days stay at the Holiday Inn Schiphol which is two and half weeks old only everything in the rooms are brand new with plasma tv...

We enjoyed the Amsterdam visit and bought lots of hand painted souvenirs and overall things here are much cheaper esp at the fishing village of Voladam(excuse of spelling maybe wrong).The village is facing the north sea and quiet.We saw the queen summer palace and more churches of course:)

We spent time at the dam square browsing thru' the shops and also went on the glass-domed motor launch cruising down canals flanked by gabled houses and mind that day was so hot!!We also visited adutch village at Zaanse Schan visiting a cheese farm and clog making factory.

Lastly the Gassan Diamond house where both sisters had diamond rings made and poor me nothing but Kam and Aini gave me a Swatch watch as a bonus....haha....thank you once again.Oh boy I do look fat and rounded with 3 layers of tops gosh how ugly....must go on diet lah but today when I went to work my weight still same .... ah must be the layers of bajusssssssss.....hehe......




After breakfast in Amsterdam we start our journey down to Belgium stopping in Brussels for lunch....not bad eh b'fast in Amsterdam and lunch in Brussels:)

Bruseels is just a stop before we reach Paris for dinner....ho...ho...ho....3 meals in 3 different countries.We drove by the Royal Palace before arriving the city and saw the mascot of the naked pee boy but fortunately he had his clothes on that morning....haha
The market square is just beautiful with flowers and plants for sale....mak lang if you were there sure to buy lah:)

Soon after lunch we proceed to the city of lights - PARIS.



Last 2 cities coming up soon.

till my next entry................

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posted by Kak Elle at 12:17 AM 14 comments

Austria a beautiful place indeed passing thru' the lake district onwards to Salsburg.
Visited the Mirabelle Palace and garden where the'Sound of Music' was shot.Mozart Square where he was born and the house still remain and now his museum.At last we found a seafood joint and really enjoyed our meals and my lunch cost me 16 euros just for fish and small portion of rice!!!



Germany .... we travel thru' Schafthausan to view the Rhine Falls-largest waterfall in in western europe:)then we onwards to Black Forest arrive at resort of Titisee largest Cuckoo Clock Centre and view how they make the cuckkoo clock.After that we moved on to Prince City of Heidelberg to view the caste from far from the Old Bridge.Staying one noght at NH Viernheim unfortunately Ajzie is 4 hours by train so no meeting instead we spoke on the phone and the sambal kacang(instant)became our lunch the next day....haha

Next morning on our way to Holland we stop in Cologne unfortunately it was a PH so all shops closed much to my dismay....saw a shoes shop that was cheap too...wuah...wuah...a gothic religious ceremony was on going too.



Not many more photos to go .... coming soon.


till my next entry.......

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posted by Kak Elle at 7:08 AM 16 comments

Travel to Pisa for the famous leaning tower ..... kah kah kah .... amazing but just small place but plenty of pick-pockets my sis Ram saw a man been picked unknown to him then it was too late ..... plenty of indians selling stuff.

I dropped my beautiful brown crystal bracelet at this place too good luck to the lucky person who find it....sob...sob...






Florence a beautiful place too as usual what we see are more churches and castles....europe full of them.Cathedralof Santa Maria Del Flora with its pink,white and green marble facade is just too beautiful.



Venice was on day 3 and a change for once, we had to take a ferry to get to Venice and all along I always thought Venice is on the mainland and not an island.Beautiful place all old houses with only a small boat or gondola to get by.I saw few hotels there too - a convert from all those old houses.I definately won't stay there.... hehe... the younger generations have moved out leaving only oldfolks.Plenty to shop too and we went to a glass showroom and Kam paid for our earrings and I had 2 sets .... haha and he and Aini also bought for me glass gondola only until last nite I saw it as it was packed so as not too break whilst travelling.We stayed in an old villa which was converted to a hotel.Its furniture are real antigue look as you can se from the bedroom furnishing.

An experience not to forget being in the gondola if you see how dirty the lanes are - just close one eye .... haha

Surprisingly Venice has lots of shooping for tourist esp with branded names and knowing we may not have time in Paris since we only will arrive on saturday after lunch Aini decide to buy some from Venice and lucky me got a set of Furla handbag and matching wallet...thank you Kam and Aini and its not cheap too more than 300 euros.Ram too got a new Furla handbag from them and Aini bought for herself one too.






Switzerland to the joy of the children and adults esp at Mt.Titlis and we were lucky it rains the day before so we can get more snow the next day....hehe

From Austria we travel up to Switzerland and stayed for 2 whole days.Here more $$ were spent by the Jellanies esp you know who lah....haha.We also meet up with my sister Maria and bro in law Johan who happen to be in Europe at the right time.So from 10 Jellanies we have 12 now and stayed at same hotel too as planned.Beautiful town of Lucerne did some shopping at Swarovski and I bought a set of chain with pendant and earrings.I think Aini and Ram bought the most:) Including Rolex and Omega watches .... haha .... the children got for themselves swatch watches too.Not forgetting swiss chocolates too:)

We had to change to differents cable cars to get to this peak and seeing the scene from high above was just too beautiful.The kids had a whale of time even sleeping on the cold snow.




More photos soon.

till my next entry........

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posted by Kak Elle at 5:06 PM 9 comments

At last after 14 days from home I am back to home sweet home .... we had a nice holiday indeed inspite of the rush everyday....we leave early from the hotel to go places soon after breakfast.Infact I didn't get good sleep at all the first 3 days as we normally will get back to hotel late after dinner and leave very early the next day.In most of my pictures you can see how tired I look ....like a zombie!!

We left Changi Airport at 11.30pm for Istanbul by Turkish Airline and the flight took 10 long hours direct .... arriving half an hour ahead of time....sms Simah and then she calls my mobile but unfortunately the line was bad that she could hardly hear me .... hehe.

We left 2 hours later for Rome ....oh my goodness how dirty looking I find Rome!!they preserved all old buildings and ruins.The roads are narrow and we've been warned about pickpockets so everyone keep their bags close to their bodies.

We get no bath or wash and upon arrival in Rome we begin our tour .... oh my poor body and legs.We visited 3 place in one day and towards our last stop at the Spanish Steps I nearly collapsed....we had to climb I think about almost 150 steps to get to the top and as you know my poor knees just couldn't do it anymore....I had to stop in between and with my sister Ram and bro in law's encouragement and who stayed with me I finally reached the top and thats with a bottle of mineral water...I was sweating and my heart was beating so fast that I just want to give up .... but no way I had to reach the top as the bus is waiting to take us to dinner and finally check into our hotel at the HOTEL ANAGNINA

Here are pictures taken from my camera day one in Rome when we visited the Coloseum where gladiators fought before then to the famous Vatican states but the Pope only comes on wednesday for blessings.A beautiful place inside the decor and workmanship of human hands that took 150 yrs to complete.The Spanish steps and St.Peter's Basllica to make our wish at the fountain...haha....

My photos showed how tired I was without proper sleep last 28 hours ..... eye bags showing so badly and most of all no shower upon arrival:)





I also get to meet Kak Teh and her friend Aishah who is in London,they came to visit me at the hotel where I was staying and we had coffee at the pub.Kak Teh thank you for finding time to meet me knowing how busy you are and besides you are not well too.Thank you very much for the lovely bracelet you gave me.

More pictures coming your way soon.

till my next entry..........

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posted by Kak Elle at 8:40 PM 16 comments