moshie's angels

i haven't been updating much, if you care enough to notice. not too many ideas to pen down. nothing of interest to you people anyway.

this entry is just an update of some photos that i managed to upload last night. thought i had uploaded more photos but it seems that i'd dead wrong.

alyssa


that was a photo from our little celebration that we had on alyssa's birthday night. we have made it clear to her this year that there will be no birthday celebration due to her being naughty and all. but (isk) also due to financial constraints :)

amelya

photo not properly exposed unfortunately due to inadequate equipment (and most probably skills as well). photos taken during her birthday do 12 december last year.


this is amelya's first day at school. unfortunately very dark also in the absence of natural light in the early morning. (possibly sonyerr phone would fare better in this department).

athyra

some of her more recent photos, instead of the recycled one that i put up in my previous entry. lollies was right that i had some problem reading the memory card in my pc the last time hence no latest photos. thankfully the problem resolved itself so here are some more recent photos of hers. some of my relatives call her ata-shinchi. can't comment on that one coz i don't watch that show.




in another news, after a long (about one and a half hours) pep-talk that we had in the car, our maid had decided to stay. seeing that her attitude had slightly improved and her work quality is getting better, i have decided to sweeten the offer and she is reasonably happy to accept the offer and stay. saves some money (and bureaucratic headache) for me.

my precious antique

tagged by miss myra here. since i love soo much to talk about my precioussss, here it is.

1. What color is your phone?
[indent]- blue and white, like in the photo[/indent]

2. Who's the first person who comes up under the letter M?
[indent]- mamat (former office mate)[/indent]

3. Who's the last person you called?
[indent]- immediate boss[/indent]

4. Who was your last missed call from?
[indent]- wifey[/indent]

5. Who's the 2nd person who comes up under D?
[indent]- danial (former office mate too)[/indent]

6. Who's speed dial 2?
[indent]- wifey[/indent]

7. Who's the 3rd person who comes up under Z?
[indent]- zainuddin (also former officemate, hmmm...)[/indent]

8. Who was your last received call?
[indent]- bro-in-law, informing me more money to slip out of the wallet[/indent]

9. Who's speed dial number 4?
[indent]- sis (point to the bullet above, bro-in-law's wife)[/indent]

10. What is your background?
[indent]- err monochrome phone no background but screen saver is one of the default with digital clock and some seaside mountain with a yacht and 2 birds flying over the mountains.[/indent]

11. How many text messages do u have?
[indent]- 5 only. one reason is because the sim card memory doesn't hold that many. second reason, prudent practise for husbands with wives that read their messages occasionally :D[/indent]

12. Who's in ur speed dial ?
[indent]- mum's home, wifey, my home, sis, my children's godfather and godmother, a good friend, immediate boss, last one of course girlfriend! (hehehe, no... unassigned)[/indent]

13. What's the 5th message say in your inbox?
[indent]- luckily i have 5 messages left. kind of too long to be reproduced here but it was an invite for the birthday party last weekend from an ex-koleq guy.[/indent]

14. Who's the 1st person who comes up under B?
[indent]- bad razli (former koleq mate also)[/indent]

15. Who was your last text message from?
[indent]- younger bro informing me that they're waiting outside already. i was supposed to pick them up from the airport at 6:30. only got there at 7:15 due to a little mishap in the car en route.[/indent]

16. Name every person you have text messages from:
[indent]- bro, backdoor neighbour, another former officemate, ex-koleq mate[/indent]

17. Have you seen the 101 Chuck Norris facts?
[indent]- how is this related again? but the answer is no.[/indent]

18. Who's the 9th person on your missed calls?
[indent]- elder bro's house, related to the picking-them-up-from-the-airport-thingy i guess.[/indent]

19. What does the 3rd message in your Outbox say?
[indent]- phone is too advanced that it doesn't save outgoing messages, sorry.[/indent]

20. Who is the first name in your Phonebook?
[indent]- ablah, former vp and former backdoor neighbour also.[/indent]

now now, who to tag? olab, rotinotti, tony and the bapak-baru abi...

lottery halal moshie's edition

credits goes to screwboy for the title.

my first attempt at the halal lottery unfortunately is not yielding the jackpot. while the consolation prize of her (the live-in domestic helper, for the uninitiated) being somewhat trustworthy and reasonably passionate for my children, she is not exactly in a nirvana state-of-mind.

she claimed that she had been conned by her agents in her home country. she was promised the world by the agent, convincing her to leave her existing job of flower shop assistant for much higher remuneration being a domestic helper overseas. unfortunately, her much-promised pay were definitely beyond a reasonable pay packet that should be awarded to a highly experienced helper, much less to a total novice like her.

and she misses her 14 year old son so much. according to her, she could earn as much in her own country without being separated from her son. and she can ask others to clean up cat's poo in the lawn where she was working before. i am soooo going to throw water to those cats, stray or not.

we will send her back, i guess. no point keeping a half-hearted employee under my roof. i'm dreading the downtrodden path of immigration bureaucracies that i had to go to through twice in procuring her. and don't tell me about the cost. i already know.

maybe 1 down, 25 to go?

2007 summary

an entry, finally.

well not exactly some big revelations brought to you by me. just a recollection of significant happenings over the year (and can be shared ;) in here) mostly for my own recollection and cross-referencing. i don't know know about you people but i don't find myself that interesting to read each and every single one entry of mine, cover to cover, all the time.

• alyssa's/ amelya's birthday: with the exception of this year (err still in (financial) planning stage), the year would always start with the joint birthday celebration of these two. entry here.


• almost-one-year-old car broke down: the only time that i went outstation and it had to happen. entry here.


• few nights in bangk0k: our only rubber stamp in our international passport this year. entries here and here. looking back, i'm glad that i went with my parents also.


• bring it on!: the screaming girl on the right was confirmed to be around. entry here.


• paintball game: the first (and hopefully not the last) time i tried shooting other people, legally albeit not lethally. entry here.


• blogger meet: first time meeting blogging friends apart from the ones i already knew personally. a precursor to the much bigger meet later. and the honour goes to olab and rotinotti. entry here.


• another blogger meet: the initial planning stage (too bad comments are missing after the efx2blogs migration), final plan and the post analysis. we had a good time for sure.


• first (almost) chinese wedding attended: a friend of mine married a chinese girl. i was the saksi. entry here.


• mmorpg!: august must've been around the time that i started playing this mmorpg game that has currently taken over my life, thanks to pb whom i don't see around it anymore. earliest entry about it maybe here. by the way, pb if you're reading this, i currently have a lvl 41 healer, lvl 40 rogue, a 34 summoner and a 31 knight which i used to perform auto-levelling of the horse :D. thanks to the knight, both my healer and rogue have level 37 horses.


• efx2 domain big bang: as we all know by now, it should be around this time around. here's the first (non)-entry i submitted on 20^th. sept. (non) entry because the form to type in the entry did not even go through the office proxy (possibly due to javascript blocking by our office proxy) hence the empty entry with only the title and comments.


• puasa/ raya month: our last raya with my dad :(. also had an interesting event of malaysian blog open house with all the frantic preparations mostly done by elisa and an eerie air of quietness over the first 15 minutes of the allocated time that we were wondering whether only the hosts are going to be the only ones turning up :). it was a huge success in the end with a back-breaking alerts and screen refreshes with the added bonus of elisa gaining an orang putih pet.


• athyra wuz 'ere: and still is, alhamdulillah. entry (along with the raya wish) was here.


• my arwah father: i submitted only 6 entries in november and the last four was on my late father ;(. al-fatehah


• my blogging life first ever anniversary: and here's the entry.

well those are the ones recorded in the blog mostly. apart from those, i'm not even sure if i have anything else that i need to remember. ok maybe things like unsuccessfully applied for another job (shhh!), little trips around the country here and there, major arguments that we had (did we? i can't even remember) or yadda yadda yadda. oo yes i almost forgot. it was also the first year (right at the end of it also on the 26^th. dec) that we ever tried to tolerate a live-in maid whom is now very sad for leaving her 14 year-old son and sangat kecewa due to some misunderstandings that she had with her agent regarding the remunerations.

but whatever it was, it would be a year that would be mostly remembered as the year my father passed away about one month after athyra was born. apparently according to past records and highlighted by my cousins (and it still holds), my fathers 8 siblings had always passed away in pairs within one or two months . and now there are 2 of them left and would the record holds till the end? only God knows.

inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi ro ji'un. al-fatehah.

i am obese!

our kompeni had a free health fair in the hq for 2 days where panel doctors and hospitals come over for free physical check-ups for the employees, courtesy of the panels i guess. all sorts of health barometer checks were provided, ranging from the normal blood pressure, urine sample, blood cholesterol up to a miniature camera probe into your ear canals to display the beauty inside and a rare opportunity to look at your own ear drums and displayed on a huge 29" inch tv for everybody to see.

i have never gone through these physical check-ups after the ones i had before the employment, or was it the check up required for the scholarship many many years ago. the results? nothing spectacular considering the sedentary life that i'm living right now. blood pressure normal at 120/80, urine sample clear of any abnormalities, cholesterol counts slightly above healthy levels, bmi slightly above normal at 26+. i even got to check the strength of my lower back even though i had to go through that little red-faced moment having the cute girl attaching the pad-like electrodes just slightly above the crack of the butt. on top of that, i had to unbuckle and unhook my pants to tuck back my shirt while her face were virtually a few inches behind my bottom in the minuscule makeshift cubicle provided. it must've been that obvious that she assured me there was nothing peculiar while she helped me tuck in the shirt, into the underwear, duh!

however, apparently my body fat ratio is like 26+% also! for the uninitiated, healthy males are supposed to have less than 20% body fat ratio and 20-25% body fat ratio are considered overweight and above that, obese! err, ok i might have the beautiful six-pack hidden nicely under a nice comfortable padding but obese?! let me google the meaning of obese...

from dictionary.com
[quote]o·bese (-bs)
adj.

Extremely fat; very overweight.[/quote]
hmmm! however, the more important fat, visceral fat stands at 11%. not bad considering the maximum level for a healthy man is 10%. just a little bit of exercise and some healthy diet bout will get me within the ideal range.

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so, we are not the all superior human being after all. bumped into this news while perusing the in-tech section of thebintang today.

what the?!

received this text message at 12:41am this morning on my mobile. incidentally, read by wifey while i was busy on the pc in the other room.

for my english readers, i apologise for not translating because the joke would be lost

[quote]nite abg, tlg la bli ubt ilangkn misai dgN kning..min xpnh tgk pun prduk tu. nnti abg dtg shll, min byaq tau.. bring lar ada blu rma bnyk..[/quote]

in case you were wondering, i didn't get into any trouble of any sort :)

his legacy

some of the things he left behind.


anybody for geese eggs? people came from as far as muar to look for those eggs for it's supposedly medicinal properties. or course he had chickens and ducks but they were camera-shy.


he was truly a cat lover. the others were simply not very interested.


he folds and irons his own clothes because mak doesn't do it as neat as he'd like it to be. i might take one of those black imam jubah for souvenirs. somehow, with the exceptions of tight-fitting sleeves, i could fit into it :)


at almost 11 years old, the payung indones1a (hura crepitans) stands at around 12 feet high. he had always wanted to chop down the tree for fear of the crawling roots to be uprooting the perimeter wall in front of it. my usual replies had always been [i]he doesn't need to worry about that. he'd be long gone before the tree grows big enough to uproot the wall.[/i] didn't know it's going to come sooner than later.

and of course,


the binmatsahs. mostly were (at that particular moment, there has been an additional 2 since) here except for my eldest brother's family. they were berayaing on the other side in phg. unfortunately, this photo was taken last year (and of poor quality as well). we didn't take group photo during this year's eid though everybody was around due to some technical complications :(