laksa dan cream puff bertemu. east to west gitu. hee

recently saya dengan rajinnya mengasah skill masakan saya. hahahahaha. bajet nak jadi seorang home chef yang hebat la kan. hikhik. cooking is sooo tiring. but worthy enough bila tengok orang makan masakan kita dengan semangatnya sampai ada yang tercekik tulang ikan. hukhuk. kesian adik ipar saya. memandangan semalam 3 april, jadi semalam hari lahir adik saya yang sorang lagi tu. bulan april ada 2 orang yang sambut birthday, macam biasa nak jimatkan kos perbelanjaan, weolls just combokan both birthday. mudah. haha. sebab takda duit sangat nak belikan hadiah mahal-mahal untuk adik-adik saya, makanya saya plan nak hadiahkan dorang hasil masakan saya yang marveloussss :D kehkehkeh. masak laksa je pun sebenarnya. plus, anak-anak menakan ni suka laksa. saja nak bagi dorang excited cik kinah masakkan laksa special untuk uollss okayyy. haha.

pastu dah lama teringin nak buat cream puff sebenarnya. so buat la time tu sekali. busy iollss okayyy daripada pagi rebus ikan kembung 2 kilo tu sampailah kopek asingkan isi ikan bagai semua dengan sambil kalut-kalut baking cream puff tu. haha. lenguh kaki i. serious lenguhhh. hahaha. alhamdulillah akhirnya siap jugak sebelum time nak celebrate tu. 

laksa tu boleh la bagi 4 bintang out of 5. okayyy la rasa dia walau tak la sesedap rasa laksa buyung yang kat pasar malam tu. haha. yummy la and slurrppp sangat even tulang ikan suka muncul terselit celah gigi. haha! rasa macam dah cukup tapis dah air rebusan ikan tapi mungkin ada tulang ikan yang berjaya meloloskan dirinya untuk ikut terjun dalam kuah. haha. gedik sungguh. ish ish. yang cream puff tu adoiiii la. nak kata rasa tak jadi, jadi je rasa dia tapi bentuk dia more alike a lempeng. tapi saiz kecik. hahahhaaha. tak ada rupa puff pun! -___-" bahan semua saya dah ikut sejibik macam dalam resipi tu dahhh. awat orang tu buat jadi, saya buat tak jadi ~__~ takda la leper sangat macam lempeng cumanya tak naik jadi bulat-bulat comel macam puff sangat la. mungkin sebenarnya kena taruk serbuk penaik jugak kottt tapi orang tu terlupa nak bubuh dalam senarai bahan resipi tuuu. kot. hukhuk.boleh kasi 3 bintang ja. so sad. nanti nak try buat lagi la. sampai jadi gebu comel fluffy gituuu. hahaha.

"ni apa cik kinah?"
"ni namanya cream puff."
"budak-budak boleh makan?"
"boleh sangat. tak pedas langsung macam mee kari semalam. memang untuk budak-budak. ini namanya kuih untuk budak-budak. khas cik kinah buat untuk kakak ngan adik. kena makan bagi habis tau."
"owhh." dia amek satu pastu lari tunjuk kat mama dia.
"mama, cik kinah buat kuih untuk kakak ngan adik."

sebab menu makanan time party tu banyak yang grand grand sangat. tak laku sangat la cream puff saya tu. tapi esok pagi time nak sarapan tiba-tiba dah habis semuanya. tinggal seketul jer.

"umi tinggalkan sebiji je lagi untuk kinah. kot kot cari takda dah nanti kesian pulak."

-__-"

"sape habiskan?"
"embah. embah kata sedap. embah suka."

saya ingat takda orang nak dah cream puff yang kurang menjadi tu. licin jugak akhirnya. haha. alhamdulillah habis. takda la membazir usaha saya. ceyy. haha. nenek saya suka cream puff rupanya. boleh la buat banyak banyak lagi tanpa rasa ragu ragu nanti habis ke tak. haha. :D

next resipi yang dari dulu teringin nak buat red velvet cake! heee :)
masa belajar dulu, ada seorang kawan saya ni memang kaki masak. hobi dia memang memasak. tu yang best tu jadi housemate dia. hahaha. sebab saya tukang makan jer kerjanya. dia masak benda yang best best pulak kan. macam macam uollss. untung gila sape jadi husband dia. ada isteri yang ala ala masterchef gitu. haha. 

back to birthday topic, adik saya yang birthday 3 april tu lelaki dan sudah pun selamat menjadi suami orang. 22 tahun. insyaAllah bakal menimang cahaya pertama yang pertama pada bulan 5 atau 6 ini due date. scan baby boy katanya. wahhh~ tambah sorang lagi anak menakan! welcome to the family babyyyyy :D first anak sedara yang lelaki. excited nusaibah & safiyya nak dapat cousin. haha. dah ada nama, tapi dok rahsia rahsia takmau gitau. gediksss jugak ni. hahha. moga Allah permudahkan urusan bersalin adik ipar saya! doakan yupp.

adik saya yang seorang lagi ni masih single mingle ye. perempuan. 17 april nanti genaplah umur dia 25 tahun. please la masuk minang dia. dia sangat la sesuai untuk dijadikan isteri. apa je yang dia tak leh, boleh sokmo. 

1. jaga anak-checked. cukup tiptop. ada diploma in early childhood education. pengalaman kerja sebagai cikgu tadika banyak dah. merata-rata dah. dia la penjaga dan pengasuh setia anak-anak sedara saya niiii. 
2. masak memasak-checked. habaq mai nak makan apa. boleh sokmooo.
3. drive kereta-checked. terer kot. paling berpengalaman antara geng perempuan dalam rumah ni. exclude umi la.
4. hebat kemas rumah-checked. mop sapu suma la. 
5. baik-checked. dia sanggup tolak tawaran kerja kat area KL yang gaji beribu riban sebab nak dok dekat dengan rumah boleh jaga mak saya kat sini. at the end, dia apply kerja yang dekat dekat area rumah je. haaa nak cari mana lagi. 
6. cun-checked. hahaha. yup. dia lagi cun sedikit jerrr daripada saya. haha. senget. 
7. kursus kawin-checked. dia baru je pergi aritu dengan kawan dia. haha. see, tinggal kawin jer sekarang ni. haha. dia target end of this year nak kawin. even takda lagi calon. kepositifan seperti inilah yang kita mahuuu!! haha! target and planning is a must! heeee :D  

"nanti time besday eli, kaknah buat satu post kat blog promote eli naa."
"tak payah laaa!"


hahaha. buat jugak. :P


dulu sebelum ke Indonesia saya tak pernah sangka yang akan memiliki satu batch yang almost kesemuanya sama umur dengan adik saya ni. hahah! ada beberapa orang je la yang seumur dengan saya dalam batch tu. so time tu, saya macam nak anggap semua tu macam adik saya ja. haha. saya rindu housemate saya sebenarnya. rindu turn kepoh kepoh kalut masak before margrib. sekali masak, berdua. sorang masak main menu, then sorang lagi masak sayur + nasi. penat penat balik kuliah pun, kena masak jugak.

"macam ni la kot rasa mak kita penat penat balik kerja, pastu sampai rumah ja kena masak semua."

:')

belajar tentang seni kehidupan. selok belok dan turun naik kehidupan. best. rasa berharga those moments. bernilai. sentimental values yang tinggi. takda kat mana mana universiti terhebat dunia tanpa dilalui sendiri oleh seseorang itu.

life teaches me, a lot. and, still learning from it. 
never end. thank you for all the lessons. hee :)
ok la. tu je for now. 

game over

kita selalu rasa kita yang control life kita ni. 
kita yang tentukan itu ini. 
kita yang control hati kita.
kita yang choose itu ini.
kita ingat kita.
kita fikir kita.
tetapi tak pun, sebenarnya.
semua tu, Allah. Dia yang control.

kita ni, takda menda pun.
setitik dan sekelumit.
dalam perbendaharaan alam semesta Tuhan.
macam debu je kita dalam galaksi bimasakti.
ntah kenapa. kadang bongkak. sombong sendiri.
atas muka bumi Dia.
tak sedar diri.

we never live this life for others.
never.
let them say what they want to say.
that's always their game to play.
just turn our ears another way.

dan sujudlah. melenyekkan muka ke bumi.
menyembah hanya sanya pada Dzat Yang Maha Agung.
Sembahan manusia. Raja sekalian manusia.
memang itu posisi selayaknya duhai hamba.
let it be.  
let it be.

mempolitikkan blog. haha! :P

hudud.

saya sokong hudud. 100%. please laksanakan di Malaysia. 

insyaAllah insyaAllah. 

saya sokong usaha untuk memperkanunkan hukum hudud.

usaha kerajaan negeri Kelantan ini amat saya sokong! :)

semoga Allah subhanaAllah ta'ala mempermudahkan. amin amin.

ambil tahu, moga tiada gambaran yang salah dan tafsiran yang mengelirukan kamu okay? :)

lebih-lebih lagi kepada non-muslim yang kebanyakkannya digemburkan dengan gambaran hudud ini kejam dan sebagainya. ini semua spekulasi dan sangkaan yang salah sama sekali. hukum Islam terlaksana ke atas umat Islam. if you are muslim, you should say YES for this. :)

- - -

saya tidak tahu banyak perkara tentang isu politik. iya, itu saya mengaku. 

dan saya kurang gemar nak korek sedetail-detailnya untuk ambil tahu segalanya mengenai dunia politik. tetapi untuk membaca dan mendengar secara ilmiah (tiada unsur maki hamun. fakta dan hujah) insyaAllah saya sedia dan sentiasa boleh jer. bukan apa.. part yang tak bestnya sebab bilamana masuk isu so hangat lagi hot ini, serata-rata pasti akan ada keyboard worriors dan penyokong-penyokong hangit parti masing-masing mengeluarkan kata-kata kesat lagi kotor dan busuk ke arah parti yang berlawanan. so tak cun. tak macho langsung. hilang nilai. cuba kamu bayangkan, beribu berjuta perkataan kamu comment di facebook (paling common).. ada bagi effect berapa percent kepada mereka? mungkin ada jugak. namun sejauh mana? terjejaskah? tereffect kah? memberi apa-apa kesankah? selagi ada kuasa.. mereka yang berkuasa tetap saja menggunakan kuasa veto tanpa mempedulikan komentar picisan kalian di mukabuku itu. buang tenaga. buang masa. buang karen letrik. iya dapat meluahkan.. sekadar itu. 
makanya, undi molek-molek! :D 

itu baru beri efek! hee. apa yang memang hak kita, kita ambil. 

but bila masuk bab nak mengundi, stay cool and choose wisely. ^^, (macam musim pilihanraya la pulak)

dan anak muda nowadays, so brave. bravo! clap clap. banzaiii :D

Allah tahu usaha kalian. no matter what happens after this.

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setiap manusia hanya akan menanggung dosa masing-masing. 

iya, memang salah menipu, menindas, menyeleweng, makan rasuah sana sini, korupsi berbakul-bakul semua tu. berdosa. dosa besar kottt. huu. balasan akhirat lagi dahsyat kan. tanggungjawab besar. bukan mudah bila dah berada di atas. ingat best ke jadi pemimpin? dok berebut-rebut nak jawatan bagai.

amanah. 

amanah. 

amanah. 

Allah akan tanya di akhirat nanti. jenuh dok bersoal jawab di Padang Mahsyar nanti, sambil kita terkial-kial hitung amal jahat baik kat neraca Timbangan Mizan. time tu takda siapa boleh tolong dahhh. nafsi nafsi. sendiri sendiri. fikir diri sendiri jer time tu kita semua. tak sempat dah nak fikir benda lain. dok ketaq lutut depan Allah. huuu~~ takut kan bila fikir. tiada lagi kehidupan dunia. tiada nak kepoh pergi kerja sana sini. tiap pagi pergi sekolah belajar semua tu, dah takda nanti. nak kena bangun, breakfast, handle itu ini, urus itu ini.. dah takda. ibu bapa, keluarga, kawan-kawan, pengikut, penyokong, pengampu, pembodek semua.. takda. mereka juga sedang nervous dengan diri masing-masing. tiada tempat bergantung harap. none. hanya berharap sepenuhnya pada bekal amalan ketika dunia sahaja. 

tinggal k i t a  dan  a m a l a n. 

iya, tinggal itu.

sebagai penentu.

s y u r g a

atau

n e r a k a

.

are we in love with Love?

The more I read and talk to people, the more I think we are in love with love. Now don’t get me wrong – love is nice. Love is beautiful. Love is sweet.

And I love a cute love story just as much as other people. Girl wants to marry guy but he’s not interested. She’s heartbroken but then she realizes he wasn’t the right one for her and she marries someone better. Happily ever after, right?

I told a friend that it seems that people put so much energy, time, and effort into the wedding but not the marriage, and they focus on having the babies but not raising them. There’s this desire to have the wonderful wedding, the wonderful guy, and the wonderful family, but then what? And where does God fit in?

Sooner or later in marriage, most likely during those times when you feel like you’ve had more downs than ups, you start to feel like love isn’t enough.

Love doesn’t equal dreamy happiness and love doesn’t solve all the problems.

Love can be directed to different things and different people. We can do a lot in the name of love. But when we do things purely for the sake of love itself, and not out of love for Allah and trying to earn His pleasure, there will be many problems.

We should be getting married for the sake of Allah, and if things get to the point of divorce, we should separate for the sake of Allah. Not marry and divorce solely for the sake of love, or lack of it. And since we are on the topic of love and marriage, where in Islam does it say that being in love is a requirement?

Allah says,

"And of His signs is that He created for you from yourselves mates that you may find tranquility in them; and He placed between you affection and mercy. Indeed in that are signs for a people who give thought."(Qur’an, 30:21)

This isn’t the same as the obsessive, consuming desire we see or read about. This isn’t the “crazy in love” stuff or the “I’ll do anything for you” love. This is a calm, moderate, purposeful love.

Have you ever had your spouse do something so nice, so extra loving? And then it seems like all the sadness, anger, or resentment and disappointment fades away? And everything seems okay after all?  Or even with your kids…all of a sudden they will clean up without being asked, listen without having to be told twice, or show unexpected affection, and it seems like the world is great.

On the other hand, when your spouse makes you furious, when the kids are on their worst behavior, and when the house is a mess...how quickly everything seems to go wrong. When everything is based on love, and then something happens when it’s taken out of the equation, you are left with nothing.

This happens when we become too attached to “love” and “good times”, when our world seems to turn upside down when we don’t have either one. It hurts.

And I think this is because we love “love and happiness” and fairy tale ideals. But then again who doesn’t love these things? We all enjoy good times and ease. No one wants hardship or a cold marriage. But I think this focus on romance is a distraction from Shaitan. We get so caught up with being in love that when things go wrong (and they will because this is the dunya), couples want to separate or divorce. Couples want to give up. They think the relationship is hopeless because “the love isn’t there anymore”.

Some people think that love makes the marriage. They think if they aren’t holding hands while taking long walks in the park or staring at each other over candlelight and roses, something is wrong. I knew a young woman who felt that something was missing because her husband hadn’t fallen head over heels for her.

I read a question online recently. “What if God designed Marriage to make us Holy instead of Happy?”

This is something to consider. Perhaps Allah gave us marriage as a means to draw closer to Him, not to the dunya.

Your spouse is supposed to help you get closer to Allah, and marriage teaches you things about yourself you otherwise would not have learned. And that’s what marriage is about.

Marriage isn’t supposed to be this super relationship where you love your spouse more than you love yourself. Sometimes we think our spouse is supposed to do anything and everything for us, because they “love” us. And vice versa… we feel so “in love” that we would do almost anything to keep our spouse pleased. And we feel upset when we don’t get that level of devotion in return. But the only One we need to love unconditionally is Allah, and then His messenger (peace be upon him). Not yourself or your desires. Not your spouse, and not even your children.

Allah says,

“Say [O Muhammad, peace be upon him], if your fathers, your sons, your brothers, your wives, your relatives, wealth which you have obtained, commerce wherein you fear decline, and dwellings with which you are pleased are more beloved to you than Allah and His Messenger and Jihaad [i.e., fighting] in His cause, then wait until Allah executes His command.” (Qur'an, 9:24)

Allah also says,

“Yet, there are those who chose to worship others beside Allah as rivals to Him, loving them as they should love Allah, but the believers have greater love for Allah." (Qur'an 2:165)  

And ‘Abdullah Ibn Hishaam, may Allah be pleased with him, said: "We were with the Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) as he was holding ‘Umar ibn Al-Khattaab, may Allah be pleased with him, by his hand. ‘Umar, may Allah be pleased with him, said to the Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam): "You are more beloved to me than everything except myself." The Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) replied: "No O 'Umar! I swear by Him in whose hand is my soul, [you will not truly believe] until I become more beloved to you than your own self." Thereupon, 'Umar, may Allah be pleased with him, said: "I swear by Allah that you are now more beloved to me than myself." The Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) replied: "Now! O ‘Umar (i.e., now your faith is complete)." (Al-Bukhari).

Allah says, 

“The Prophet is more worthy of the believers than themselves.” (Qur’an, 33: 6).

Look what happens when we love Allah and His messenger (peace be upon him) – Anas bin Malik, may Allah be pleased with him, said that a man asked the Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam): "When will the (last) hour come?" He (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) replied: “What have you done to prepare for it?” The man replied: "Nothing, except the love I have for Allah and His Messenger." The Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) replied: “You will be (on the Day of Judgment) with those whom you love.” (Al-Bukhari).

Anas Ibn Malik, may Allah be pleased with him, narrated that the Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) said: “One who attains the following three things will taste the sweetness of faith: to make Allah and His Messenger more beloved to himself than anything else, to love a person for no other reason except for the sake of Allah, and to hate to return to disbelief just as much as he would hate to be thrown into fire.” (Al-Bukhari, Muslim and others).

So when we do things out of love, let’s do it because we love Allah and His messenger (peace be upon him)—and because our love for each other stems from this greater love. Let our love for Allah be the base and the reason for our actions and In-sha-Allah we will earn Allah’s reward and mercy.

In this way, we will attain a greater happiness—in this world and the Hereafter—than could be gained through “loving love.”

by Andrea Umm Abdullah

x-file exposure : part (II)

assalamualaikum semua :)

saya nak sambung pendedahan x-file yang seterusnya. walaupun agak lama jaraknya dengan yang part (I) hari tu, tapi itulah.. keadaan semasa agak tidak stabil. kena bagi keadaan tenang dulu. dan here you go. alhamdulillah dapat sambung balik. hee :)

tapi ini just a quick sharing je tau. 
last time hari tu stop kat sharing Sh Omar Suleiman kan.
orait kita sambung.

a talk about 'Monsta in Laws' by Sh Daood Butt as match maker (haha!).

mengikut cacatan saya kat buku kecik ni.. 
saya tulis dalam point form. 
tak ingat sangat dah elaboration dia..huhu -__-"

"marriage is hardwork.."

• for being chosen, just be natural as you are.
• bring the family ties together.
• discouraging your couple to be disrespectful his/her parents.

for the parents-in-law, 

• get over the issues. discuss.
• stop being overprotective.
• don't be jealous.

lepas tu, saya bergegas ke Workshops Program's room. namun sudah terlambat.. talk 'Marriage From Ground Zero' by Raya Shokatford sempat sikit je saya join untuk minit-minit terakhir. huaaa sayang sangattttt. rasa macam nak pergi kat cameraman yang dok record tu, nak mintak kat dia recording talk tu.. ~____~

satu ni je yang dapat saya quoted daripada Puan Raya Shokatford;

"don't surrender.. just because of your past.."

next is my favourite speaker~~! heee. yup she was there! hoyeayyy! :D
a sharing about 'Finding Happiness in Marriage' by Yasmin Mogehad. she shared about a simple concept but quite difficult to istiqamah in our daily life..huu

detached our hearts from this dunya.
have zuhud.

"when Allah loves me, people will loves me."

- approval
- acceptance

from Allah first needed to be seek, then others second. 


next,

I'm Married, Get Me Out of Here! 
wohOo~ that's the tittle of Sh Tariq Appleby's talk.

"if you loves Allah, do it the best way.."

he highlighted on communication skills. 
the communication skills SO IMPORTANT.
indeed. could't agreed more. 

for your information, this Seminar ended around 10 pm. myself dah tersengguk-sengguk jugak sebenarnya~~ haha. the final talk was by Sh Yahya Ibrahim.

A Honeymoon 4 Life. kerekkkk abis tajuk talk. hahahhahaha :DD
watch out everybody, semua participants yang balik dari Marriage Seminar ni considered married already dah tauuu. siap dah berhoneymoon lagi. oh my God. how i'm going to explain this to my husband?? haha! :P so senget. preparation before marry okay semua adik-adik (bajet yang baca blog ni kebanyakkan umur bawah daripada saya. haha) tapi yang dah cukup umur la untuk mendirikan rumahtangga. 

he shared about the life of our beloved Prophet Muhammad (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam).

things to do with our family members :

1. eat together.

"family that eats together, stay together."

2. a thought of our spouse. gives gift.

3. give space for a sit beside you to your wife.

4. give to them to what you ask for you in equally.

"what you ask, you give."

5. express your love.

6. be generous.

7. give more than you take.

Rumaysa in her first hijab ever. with her real Mama. hee :) cuteness overdose.

and with that, i thank you
for reading this. hee. and do share it with others 
andddd your loved one. till then.
let's practise it~! haha. :D

spread the lovessss-out-aloud.
or even.. in silence.

:)