viva espana!!!

it was fun.... extremely fun... enjoyed it very much....

che le.. nak gambar lagi... :-)

All the best Aizal & Yeen & of course Myra...

Last Thursday Ruby plak buat farewell makan2 kat umah dia... :-) it was the last makan2 for them as they left Doha utk memulakan hidup baru kat London :-) good for them... :-
Setahun lebih je korang kat Doha ni.. dah meneruskan cita-cita kat london pulak... anyhow, of course perkenalan setahun lebih ni penuh dengan kenangan indah... (anyway, bila korang blah blh lah aku claim am the only malay malaysian kat AJE :-) )

- as i remember kat umah depa lah first time buat makan2 besar-besaran... i.e. more than 20 people... somewhere early feb 07... which u can read it here.. or here...
- and dengan lucky yeen lah aku dapat lesen :-) thanks yeen
- of course various makan-makan... especially the pink n blue party, the first ramadhan sahur & Aqiqah for Myra
- of course lah, the best part bila depa voluntarily bg umah depa jadi port karaoke & main ping pong :-)
- and kehadiran Myra yg cute... :-)

InsyaAllah... ada rezeki kita jumpa lagi (make sure ada tempat utk org2 doha lepak kat london nanti!!!)... Bye Bye for now...

Bloated @ Regency

selasa sudah aku treat Aizal n Yeen for scrumptious seafood buffer kat Gourmet Restaurant - Sea Harvest @ Grand Regency hotel... memang giler banyak seafood, tp mmg lah rasanya tak sesedap cara org kita Malaysia masak, but good enough. memandangkan kat Doha ni mmg kurang serve ikan kat kedai2... kira mmg berbaloi buffet ni.

from top left: tower of udang, deep fried hamour, lauk pauk seafood based sedap
second row : cold starter n salad, beriani seafood, desserts
3rd row : - my meal - deep fried crab + big prawns, oysters + various cold starters, beriani + grilled prawn + oyster bercili + other lauks

Buffet ni hanya ada hari selasa. masa buat reservation, they've told me the price per pax was QR140nett. and i've agreed with it (mmg hari tu aku pernah g sekali n harga mcm tu) tp bila nak bayar, jadi QR199 plak... apa lagi aku pun argue lah... at last they charged us for 5 pax, when sebenarnya 7 pax.... so dapat lah jugak lebih kurang QR142nett per pax. and it was really worth it.

pas ni nak cari hotel mana lagi best for makan2...

Tal!ban & Afghn...

dah menjadi habit aku, setiap kali aku plan utk travel or jalan2 aku akan beli buku cerita utk baca throughout the journey... aku rasa masa travelling ni lah byk time membaca... masa dlm flight, sementara tunggu train, dalam train, kalau2 jet lag blh baca since tak leh tido...

for my previous trip aku baca these two books from Khaled Hosseini. interesting books with afghanistan as the background of the stories. both citer keadaan afghanistan masa kegemilangan sebelum perang ngan Russia, then menang perang, pastu melalui perang saudara then Taliban.

The Kite Runner mainly citer pasal lelaki, i mean the main character is a guy so he talks abt the country based on man perspective while the other book more on women perspective. both books menceritakan mcm mana seronok nya negara tu sebelum perang dengan Russia, then unity among afghan berpecah setelah habis perang sbb perang saudara dan betapa sengsara nya rakyat setelah kedatangan Taliban (takde cite pasal penjajahan Amerika lagi).

aku tak de lah nak buat sinopsis dan komen panjang lebar pasal buku ni... blh banyak cari review tu kat internet oleh yg lebih pakar. cuma apa yg aku fikir2 kan setelah baca buku ni adalah berkenaan kesengsaraan afghan masa pemerintahan taliban. penceritaan dalam buku ni mcm bg valid reason utk US serang Afghanistan dan menjatuhkan taliban...

masa perang afghan tu, setiap kali aku tgk klip video pasal perempuan afghan yg ditindas. kena paksa pakai burqa dan dihalang kebebasan. aku anggap its just a rare case. utk situasi tertentu je. dan aku membayangkan bahawa pengamalan undang2 berdasarkan syariah menjadikan negara tu lebih sejahtera.

tp buku ni cite seolah2 disebabkan taliban (on top of perang saudara dan perang rusia) ramai org afghan fled to other countries. masa taliban lah macam senang2 je org kena bunuh samada sebab tak menurut perintah mengarut taliban atau sbb kan org tu kasta lebih rendah. masa pemerintahan taliban byk berlaku genocides. dan sesapa tak kenal org taliban, ada harapan lah kena bunuh without reason.

then i thought how far should we trust the writer of the book. its a fiction je... tp mesti ada jugak benarnya. adakah buku ni satu lagi propaganda Amerika? who can really tell me whether taliban tu bagus or mmg betul2 teruk. mungkin kah taliban akan kembali menjajah afghanistan since masih wujud perang kat afghan this days...

by reading this book makin berminat aku nak g ke afghanistan... to see the real life and experience it... the same feeling i have towards iraq dan lebanon... and also iran (wonder will america/israel akan betul serang iran before the year end?)

It's Makan time again...

Last weekend we had glorious makan-makan time again...

1. by Azerdills...

Dilla dengan rela hati nya organise makan-makan for 2 valid reasons...

- first farewell utk Aizal n Yeen (hehehee... there'll be few more farewell makan2 for them coming!!!)

- surprise birthday party for akak diba yang telah mencecah usia XX tahun...

Dilla served nasi ayam n import laksam dr Eja... both were wonderfully sedap... yes they are mmg sedap... plus... dilla dah mula buat kuih yg pakai steamer... keep making kuih dilla... lama-lama nanti sure perfect! and we of course don't mind jadi ur tikus makmal utk test all the kuih muih tu...

actually we had few other makan-makan kat umah dilla ni dulu... but entah mcm mana it was not in this blog... sorry dilla... i think at 1 time tu, my camera was out of battery, so tak de ambil gambar... that was makan-makan for aidil birthday cum surprise birthday utk kak ruby, abg kimie and frans :-). but when it comes to dilla's place... one won't miss this item... hehehe....

back to the makan-makan last weekend... diba was so surprised yg ada birthday celebration utk dia. disebabkan dia memang tak sangka and this makan2 ni like normal makan2. it took her and abe more than 10 minutes (ntah2 lama dari tu) utk naik tangga ke tingkat 3, kitaorg ni plak dah lah duduk dalam gelap n sha terpaksa lah pegang kek yg dah berlilin... sampai cair lah lilin yg ada kat kek tu n kena replenish taruh lilin baru. apa lah yg digaduhkan akak n abe kat dalam kereta tu. to kak diba, hope u enjoy the surprise birthday bash.

2. by Adam's family

on saturday plak adam buat makan-makan... ada nasi goreng cina, ayam goreng with yummy lemon sauce and superb mee bandung! oh, the choc cake pun sedap... plus org lain bawak cendol, kuih ketayap n sagu gula melaka... penuh meja!

actually no one knows why there's a makan2 kat umah adam... but anyways, its makan-makan... so who cares apa reason dia... enjoy je lah.. but i guess most of us were not around masa anak dia punya birthday ari tu, ni kind of bg kitaorang tengok hadiah yg kitaorang bg kat anak dia (hahaha.. we gave the money to dilla n dia je yg beli, tak tgk pun.... :-))

and both makan-makan ends a bit late... because the guys sebuk tgk bola... hehehe... and the underdogs won!!! i like!!!

*update... We had another makan2 again tadi.. and buat projek besar-besaran... heheheh... anyway, best spain menang!!!