my english teacher said:

"...marry someone who loves you, not someone you love."

some of my friends thought differently though; "marry someone who loves you more!"

gems

i have always admire a person with wit and charm. haji here have both. and a great sense of humour at that too. he is such a pleasure to talk to. i can't wait to develop this picture and send it to him. it is kinda exciting, snail-mailing is.

what touches my sisters and i so much was the fact that he could remember the exact book he had when we came for visit the year before. it was a lonely planet library book. memory; it is definitely weird and unique. don't think we will ever understand them fully! i was reading a lot more about diseases concerning memories after i watched the notebook sometime back (i am saddened that ryan and rachel split up, again!). it really is fascinating... and really scary.



ted has really great library of videos that are interesting and inspirational. this particular one is of jill bolte taylor talking about the time she had a stroke. there's just something about the way she delivers...

my eid

of course if what my dear 'alima wrote in her blog about her first eid in syam is any likely to be true (pffft :p) then in a million years can my eid in singapore ever beat hers! nay not jealous... just SUPER jealous. i'm going to spend my ramadhan and eid with y'all there next year, so stay put okay!

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routine visit to both grandparents home, but this year i didn't even used up a single memory card! anybody who knows me well would know i never ever delete and almost always take picture multiburstly. so this is major! i'm quite surprised myself. fat chance with the film camera. i think i was just not in the mood :|

however, i do have some photos to share:

bapak was so worried (for lack of better word) that my uncle would dirty his white baju kurung, so he suggested the apron! hilarious.

a lot of laughter basically.

and my super awesome cousins who cannot make the day any less joyous.

gotta help each other look pretty y'know.

that's bapak and that was my cheeky cousin's hand with the money packets. i NEVER have good portrait shots of myself. it is either blurry or my sis trying to be funny, like this one, she cropped half of my face.

big boy muhammad getting ready to visit his other grandparents'.

and of course, the must have family shots.

and this one is of my relatives from malaysia. i never put my hand up for journey prayers..! my uncle was leading the prayers i think. i so admire this!

bapak on sphagetti

my grandfather, who i call bapak, cracked me up so much. i can be very sad, and be all smiley next second if i think about him. he probably didn't realize how much he means to me! anyway i have to share this, even if it doesn't make any sense to you! but it sure was funny when my sis recalled it back to me.

this was during first day eid. my dad was in the living room watching tv when bapak asked him:

bapak: midon [refering to my father] tak makan eketip?
tim [my sis, who happened to be there too]: huh?
bapak: eketip
tim: huh? ape tu?
bapak: alaaa eketip. mee tu yang ada kat dapur.
tim: oh, sphagetti lah pak.
bapak: ah pagetip. makan lah.

observing ramadhan

you guys should really check this link out about observing ramadhan in pictures. its brilliant. how we all (at least i do) wish we have the eye to see and take such splendid pictures. i suppose its about opportunity... and maybe one could argue about the how good the camera is?

comfort zone

thank you wano for the last two pics (: (eh my hands look huge kan!)

shamelessly i admit i'm really lovin' the black and white and muted editings. perhaps i'll take out my film camera for the upcoming eid. i must make a mental reminder to get some expired films. and i wanna try holga and lomo and medium format! sigh. and i really wanna try using leica. guy berryman makes it look so hot. and nikon's d90, woah super tempting. check this out too. back on planet earth, i'm just saving for 50mm portrait lens :(

but most of all, i'm really excited about the tutu shoot. so first, i should probably pick up the tutu! i trust the make up will be in good hands, rockstar? so that's checked. now... i need assistant, any takers?

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sorry i sidetracked a little. i actually wanted to say how much i enjoyed meeting up with you all (probably the only three-four girls who frequent my site; alims you were with us albeit only through our hearing sense! ;p). i can't believe i don't know how to operate my handphone for loud speaker!! one cannot get any sillier right? but maybe it was a good thing, else the whole place would talk to you too. i can tell you were smiling ear to ear anyways. hope the entrance test went well and hope that less than 7min phonecall cheer your day (:

i really wanted to remember all of shaz's jokes! half of what's left of my secondary school memories are those concerning the nightmarish system and being insanely scared for physics. i can get rather pessimistic these days. i can't believe i forgot about being a part of a (successful) plan to wake a certain sleepyhead in class, and man am i proud of how ungossipy i was back then or what! ;) having said that though, i can't believe i didn't know about the faisol joke before! seriously! i feel so sorry to have the funniest joke at the expense of others but its nice to know our sense of humor is still the same. sort of. haha.

it is always so much fun to see how much we have grown, i mean eventhough we haven't really change much in the maturity area. but what's the rush right? lol. really... artsy fartsy eel, rockstar shaz (complete with the attitude), The Content Dya and wano with the new bf (did i just typed that??) (:

i don't think i can really express how much you girls mean to me, and how very well i wish you all. shaz, don't skip school please. i'm trying to do the same too. a bad attempt, but an attempt nevertheless. it is improving, if you must know! hehe.

it's funny...

(and dangerous) how sometimes you can feel this way one minute...

and these the next... (i am at this stage right now, by the way)
a weekly dose of the smart cartoon that we all (well, at least if you're a woman) can (easily) relate to, by Cathy Thorne.

hugs and kisses to all

"...please do your best to better the world, yourself and spread some love to all the people around you. life is too short, lets be the change we want to see. every soul has a purpose for being here."

factory

i printed nearly 700plus pictures the other day. it was such a nightmare to sort! i dunno how it happened, but i'm the official family photographer, i think. yeah that must be it.

and another engagement.