Trip to Rebung

Last week, a couple of colleagues including myself decided to treat Izzatul kat Restoran Rebung for her farewell and wedding lunch. It waer last day and her wedding is coming on the 2nd of February kat Bukit Mertajam -- sorryla Izzatul, I tak dapat datang sebab kena balik masa Chinese New Year..

Anyway, I chose Rebung sebab paling dekat dengan office and also the tempat, sesuai la jugak untuk mem'belanja' orang kan.. Kak Hanizah was reluctant mulanya sebab kerap sangat dia ke sana.. (K. Hanizah is the wife to DJ Noramin 'Moshi-Moshi' zaman 80-an - Abg A, you should know), so malas la dia.. Tapi sebab Izzatul and Hamidah tak pernah pegi and tak tau that Rebung is owned (or partly owned) by our Angkasawan Negara, bila sampai je, excited la they all. True enough sampai -sampai aje, Chef Ismail dah terjerit-jerit dah memanggil K. Hanizah -- pas tu start la they all punye speaking, padanla K. Hanizah malas nak datang, pening kepala melayan rupanya..

Ni Izzatul and Hamidah, sibuk berposing sebelum start makan..ke dah start makan, tak ingat dah..

'Primadona' tengah sibuk melayan makanan, wakaka..sedap oo..

Ni sebenarnya Kak Hanizah tangkap dari frame gambar yang dah ada kat situ.. memandangkan 'hero' takde, gambar 'hero' aje pun jadikla..

K. Hanizah: Mail, hero mano? Tak ado ko dio ? Chef Ismail: Tak ado, dio pagi tadi bertolak ke Rompin.. Jadi we all, tangkap ajela gambor dengan business partner 'hero'.. Jadikla...

'Sang Pengantin Baru' amik gambar dengan Chef Ismail, isk Izzatul, cik abang awak tak marah ke.. hehehe..jangan mare ye..Selamat Pengantin Baru!!

Filem Cuci -- Goooooddd!!

After watching the Making of Cuci last Saturday, aku terpanggil untuk menonton filem ini lalu ku ajak suamiku menontonnya semalam..

It was quite different from other Malay movies I have watched before (kat cinema la)..To my opinion it was good, funny, dialog kelakar but tak dibuat-buat, dengar selamba aje..and the most important thing ada message yang sebenarnya I think ditujukan khas kepada orang-orang Melayu dan secara amnya kepada rakyat Malaysia...

The story revolves around this 4 adopted brothers (Fairil-Afdlin, Khai-Hans, Jojo-Awie, C'Tan - AC) yang membesar bersama dan bekerja dalam company mereka sendiri iaitu Cuci Cuci Services selama 10 tahun. Tapi dalam masa 10 tahun mereka berkerja tu, tak ada apa2 perubahan yang ketara (improvement or progress in doing business) padahal si ketua - Fairil (Afdlin) yang memang mempunyai impian untuk maju tetapi kurang mendapat sokongan dari adik-beradiknya yang lain. Jadinya dia sentiasa merasa geram dan kecewa dengan sikap yang lain-lain.

Tetapi dengan pujukan, dan syarahan beliau tentang 'Impianku' maka mindset yang lain-lain mula bertukar (kecuali C'Tan yang lebih paranoid dan negatif thinking -- which I think sinonim dengan pemikiran kebanyakan orang Melayu sekarang ni)

Overall, walaupun cerita ni kelakar, ia membuatkan you berfikir, apa la nak jadi dengan negara yang tercinta ni.. Antara mesej yang clear dalam filem ni -- "Kita ada bukan satu tapi 2 buah bangunan yang menjadi kebanggaan negara kita, apasal la kita benarkan orang luar(Bangla and Pakistan) yang mencucinya. kita ni yang patut lebih berbangga dapat mencucinya".

Which I think is true. Tak payah pegi jauh la, dekat area my house tu kalau kita tengok orang2 Indon(Acheh) yang meniaga kedai runcit je - bercambah-cambah.. cepat je diaorang start business pas tu menjadi plak tu.. Of course sokongan kena ada - sebab tu sekarang ni we all berdua memang berusaha bersungguh-sungguh menyokong orang melayu dalam perniagaan mereka..Tak kirala berniaga barang makan ke, menjahit ke, apa-apa saja yang we want to do or need services, we will try our best to give priority to yang sebangsa, kalau tak ade, then baru move on atau pun cancel order, tak payah beli.

I think Hans did a pretty good job in his first attempt at directing. Of course the backing funding helps as well.

So pada mereka yang contemplating nak pegi tengok citer ni ke tak, I would recommend you to try - it's entertaining...

So -- enjoy!!

Anniversaries and Birthday plus.. Maal Hijrah..

Last 1st Muharram..was Cha's birthday yang ke 25 (Wan Chik's yang ke 64)..kebetulan our wedding anniversary is on the 13th January yang ke tujuh tahun.. and 12th January is Achik's & Ayah Chik's wedding anniversary yang ke 33 tahun..With all these anniversaries and birthday -- Achik & Ayah Chik ajak we all celebrate pegi makan seafood kat Umbai, Melaka..

Here are some pictures from the fun day that we had..

The 'boyfriend' nampak happy aje..tapi 'girlfriend' nampak macam malu-malu aje.. wakakaka.. (ni kat rumah sewa Cha)

Ni rakyat dua orang yang tak reti nak duduk diam.. berlari ke sana kemari tak renti-renti..

Permandangan dari jeti Umbai di kala senja.. chewah..

Birthday girl yang terpaksa jadi babysitter during the whole outing..sian Cha..

Chit-chatting before the food arrives..

Start dulu dengan buah-buahan...

Pas tu kerang bakar pun sampai..

Followed by the other dishes.. this is ikan jenahak

bakar..

Isk.. sedapnya sotong goreng tepung ni..

All in all, we had a fun and tiring day.. akhirnya sampai jugak yong and abang nasir kat rumah Cha na.. Happy Birthday Cha.. Happy Wedding Anniversary Achik and Ayah Chik.. and lastly to my beloved husband.. Happy 7th Anniversary bang.. Thank you for making my life wonderful and meaningful..

To all the rest, Salam Maal Hijrah dari kami berdua.. semoga diberi keberkatan dan kesejahteraan yang berpanjangan dari Allah S.W.T..Amin..

Conference on "New public? What videojournalism, blogging and Co. mean for society and international radio"

The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung(FES) is pleased to announce that FES and Deutsche Welle are organising a conference entitled "New Public Space? What Video Journalism, Blogging et al Mean for Our Society and International Broadcasting” on January 15, 2008 in Berlin. At the expert conference politicians such as Gernot Erler, Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office, bloggers and executives of international broadcasting stations are going to discuss the challenge posed by the digital era.

It will be possible to participate to the whole conference as of 10 am (Kuala Lumpur time: 5 pm) via internet through live stream by using FES website www.fes.de/medienpolitik. Bloggers and other interested internet users will be able to comment on the topics throughout the conference and their questions will be gathered through the dialogue box. A moderator will forward the questions to the participants of the panels. Conference information in English, the programme and other details may be found on the same website.

Kindly forward this information to bloggers and other users that are deemed to be interested in participating via internet to this event. In case you or they may have further questions regarding the event, please contact Beate Martin (beate.martin@fes.de)to assist you/them.

Welcome Suamiku...

After being the main person in motivating me to keep blogging..finally hubby decides to start blogging himself -- actually by accident. So, welcome bang and good luck..

Do visit his site Imagine It.