Be My Valentine's ...

Despite the current hoo-haa in the country telling people not to celebrate St. Valentine's Day for religious reasons as well as statement from the Council of Churches saying that it's not a Christian celebration, to me I still embrace the spirit of St. Valentine's day.

Put aside the moral and sex education, let's face it ... the longer we are in a relationship ... the love tend to fade, couples found themselves drifted apart and eventually lead to divorce and break-ups. What's wrong of having one day in a year just to remind ourselves (mandatorily) about LOVE, PASSION and maybe some DESIRE hahahaha. Pheww ... it is a sexy day!

Ok ... I am not going to lecture about the issue but as the theme has something to do with LOVE, so I guess what other best day and time for me to introduce the new LOVE of my life, one that I pour my heart and soul with PASSION and burning DESIRE these past few weeks ...

My faithful readers ... please welcome Princess Di .... (my other blogger name) .... for my food blog known as Princess Di's Yummy Notes.


So far the blog have 7 entries .... about my food misadventures from Penang-Sarawak-Malacca. Well more entries are coming. So please feel free to visit my new Food Blog ... a journal of my food adventure in Malaysia and everywhere!

Last but not least, I would like to dedicate this video to all lovers and couples (old and new) out there. I have always love this song (original from Lady Antebelum) and soooo lucky that it was featured on Glee! Yeaaaaaa



Though this is a bit gayish but I don't mind being wooed by Darren Chriss like this. Anytime, anywhere hehehe

Abang Tingkat 14 - Cinta Tidak Semestinya Bersatu

Actually cukup sedih melihat suasana "blogosphere" yang agak suram 2-3 menjak ini - especially Olpic, Meli, White dan Semin. I review my entries sepanjang tahun 2009 and mendapati semakin dekat year end 2009 penulisan I jadi makin serius! Oh ... it must be the hormone!

What to do ... women are emotional being.

Anyway, thank you Olpic sebab brought up kisah Abang kat elevator in one of your blog comments. Sesungguhnya untuk pengetahuan u, jika boleh segala bentuk kenangan detik-detik pertemuan bersamanya ingin kupadamkan dalam catatan memori ini. Sungguh pahit untuk dikenang sehingga mengganggu lenaku di malam hari.

Tapi bagi memenuhi permintaan peminat-peminat kisah Abang Tingkat 14 nie akan kugagahi juga menceritakan detik hitam itu biar segalanya terungkai di sini. Oh ya bagi yang tak tahu hujung pangkal kisah detik pertemuan I dengan Abang Tingkat 14 sila klik di sini yer ..

(Flashback ... kabus dengan muzik latar)

Ketika itu, jam telah menunjukkan pukul 7 petang waktu tempatan. Kuala Lumpur disimbah hujan renyai mensucikan kota metropolitan itu dari segala bentuk gas-gas penghakis lapisan ozon. Kelihatan seorang gadis "mungil" dan "hot" dalam keterpaksaan mendedikasikan jiwa dan raganya "Berkhidmat Untuk Negara" untuk membuktikan ... "The Taxpayers money are well spent".

Selepas 30 minit memerah otak dan keringat nak menyiapkan laporan kepada Big Boss, gadis itu teringat ... "Alamak ... kena singgah Giant lah". Dia betul-betul terlupa dia perlu beli sesuatu yang amat penting ketika itu.

Dengan segera, dikemaskan segala fail yang berterabur di atas meja dan bergegas mengetik perakam waktu.

Dalam perjalanan pulang ke Pangsapuri dengan Perkhidmatan Bertaraf Kondominium Eksklusif 21 tingkat di pesisir kota Kuala Lumpur, gadis mungil itu telah singgah untuk membeli barang yang amat "penting" itu. Sepanjang perjalanan balik, gadis itu tertanya-tanya jika beliau akan terserempak dengan jejaka Eropah Timur yang hensem gila itu. Harap-harap tidak lah ... Lagipun dah few weeks tak nampak dia. Sibuk agaknya. And pastinya not in her current appearance yang not so PTD Gred M48!

Sampai kat tempat letak kereta, gadis itu "survey" persekitaran in case manalah tau masa tu lah Abang Tingkat 14 tu muncul dari mana-mana. So setelah memastikan "line clear", gadis mungil itu cepat-cepat mengendong "barang" penting itu dan berjalan pantas menuju kawasan lif.

Setelah 5 minit, pintu lif terbuka dan gadis mungil itu menghembus nafas lega. Fuhhh ... tiada objek yang "terlalu ingin dilihat tapi tak boleh" dalam lif ... so sekali lagi gadis mungil itu mengucap syukur yang tidak terkata kepada Tuhan yang Maha Esa kerana memudahkan "laluan"nya petang itew.

Sehingga .... loceng lif berbunyi tanda berhenti di Tingkat 5. Dua pasang mata "galak" saling berpandangan dan mulai saat itu gadis mungil itu tahu segalanya telah berakhir kerana ...

Gambar separuh badan saja untuk melindungi identiti penulis.

Aku pun heran nape aku selamba jer kendong toilet paper macam tu hari tu. So terpaksa lah lupa market Eastern Europe buat masa nie.

Of Being Smart, Single and Happy ...

Dear Dato' ... was touched when you said that you were thinking about me, AT14 and your daughter when you wrote this posting. Oh btw, nanti lah I ajar nak masukkan playlist into your blog as my gratitude. Datin has been telling me about it.

First and foremost Dato' it is a good sign that your daughter had opened up her heart to relationship (s) which means that she accepted love into her life and perhaps is ready to share the rest of her life with "the other half". Some single women whom I knew are not willing to share burden or responsibilty or problems with "a significant other".

Hmm, I am not sure about your daughter, but I believe there are 2 possibilities. Either she hasn't meet the love of her life or she has met but fate has it that it doesn't end as happily ever after. For that Dato' I hope you could ask her to read this entry in my blog. It was beautifully written by an unknown author and it really touch my heart.

Remember ...

"Ia cuma mengambil masa seminit untuk jatuh hati pada seseorang, satu jam untuk menyukai seseorang, satu hari untuk menyintai seseorang tetapi ia mengambil masa sepanjang hidup untuk melupakan seseorang."

In my humble opinion, this "smart women dillema" stems from our modern mums thinking (perhaps upbringing) that women must be brought up to be independent and men must be brought up to be a gentleman (and often end up as mummy's boy). Problem with smart women Dato' is, they usually have a romantic heart, sebab banyak membaca masa kecil all this fairy tale, Mills and Boons or all Alaf 21 Novel. So they tend to think that "rich, handsome,powerful" men are drawn to beautiful women with brain. Reality bites! Ouuch ... We haven't take into account those unreported cases or those who prefer to suffer in silence especially the stigma of being associated with the title "Andartu".

However Dato', I would like a share something I read from a bestselling Christian book "The Purpose Driven Life" by Rick Warren but the message is universal. I believe that being smart is a greatest gift from God and I believe, whoever we are, we are created to serve God's purpose. So selagi I belum jumpa "that fated one" I guess in the days that follows ... I must put bitterness aside but to serve God's purpose.

Contohnya ... how to use my brain and my "smartness" in creating "sustainable development", how to make sure Hafiz menang AF7, how to snap the nicest pics, how to make my friends laugh every single day, how to make my friend jealous I asyik makan sedap ... and Dato' ... yang paling penting ... how to tackle AT14 or getting Guy Next Door attention .... haleluyah!!!

So far I had 2 failed serious relationships ... but guess wat Dato', I never regretted to end both relationships. U see, unconsciously, women tend to choose partners who have similarities to their dads. For me, my dad can be considered as 'almost non-existence" for more than 20 years. Then my mum and late grandma unconsciously raised me to be the "Man of The Family". I made my own decisions, I fix things at home, I taught my brother to play football, help my grandma to fix our reban ayam/itik and raised them ... You know that when my brother Jason was born, my dad was in Penang. At 7 years old, I know how to buy sayur at the market. Anyway, we stayed in Bau, a small town ... so the town folks knew my mum ... so my mum gave me a list and I went to see the aunties and uncles at Pasar Bau.

Fast forward, I realised and learned from it. I now knew wat attributes in a man that I am looking for, seriously. In my case Dato' ... I cepat terpikat dgn physical attributes hehehe .... (and some thing never change hehehe) but since turning 21 last year I mula appreciate potential candidate(s) that show that he cares rather than saying that he cares, that listen and give opinion, that think of you as a friend more than he think of you as a lover .... Even I mula lah bagi peluang "a certain guy" peluang to fix things in my house ... sekali sekala apa salah jadi damsel in distress hehehe.

I am entering an age where the fruit is almost too ripe to be plucked. However selagi jantung ini masih berdegup (oppsss kena check the cholesterol), selagi mata ini masih celik ... isikanlah kehidupan ini dengan memori yang indah, dengan amal dan ibadah, dan cucilah mata dengan yang "indah-indah sahaja" hehehe

Abang Tingkat 14

Sebenarnya dah lama I nak citer pasal Abang Tingkat 14 (AT14) nie, dunno WHERE and HOW to start but I know WHEN it started coz i did mentioned it in one of my entries. So Jett, it all happened on that fateful Friday, 13 March 2009 ... ehhhh, Friday the 13 lah.

We met for the first time inside lift paling kanan (hehehe) di tingkat 4 Blok B Fortune Park Apartment. That time I just came back from work, still "boroi" from all the cheesy and fatty lunch I had at Bubba Gump. Apart from that I was carrying my laptop pack, handbag, file, my hair in a bun and wearing my mum's sandal (I used it at the office). In short I looked like a MAKCIK!

When the door lift opened I was stunned when I saw a tall, very goooooood-looking foreign guy, in leather sling bag, brown shoes, red striped long sleeve shirt, and matching dark brown denim standing ala GQ model inside lift. He smiled at me and for a while I was mesmerized by his light brown eyes and sexy lip. I could feel that I was blushing.

That time you know berapa kali I menyumpah diri I for not starting a diet plan, at the same time tried to hold my breath to cover the "keboroian". I glanced at the lift buttons and I saw that button 14 was lighted. Ahaa ... level 14. My heart was pounding hard throughout the journey to level 11 and I could feel his eyes on my back. Hehehehe ... I turned back and OMG, he was smiling at me again and I most "exhale".

If I was Suna, I am sure I could conjure the yummiest and wildest imagination on wat will happened next but since I mostly read Lilian Too's Feng Shui nowadays all I could think of was ... was I standing towards my "love" direction in the lift? Huhuhuhu ... Anyway, I sempatlah said "bye" to him when I reached level 11.

OK ... I thought that our encounter will end on that fateful Friday coz after that I never saw him again. You know, after that I tak berani balik rumah look like a Makcik. And setiap kali lif dibuka, I was hoping that I would "like wat I saw" in the lift. Ok lah I curang a bit ... I pun terminat dengan sorang abang kat tingkat 7.

Then few weeks later, on a Saturday. I decided to overhaul my house. So I donned my shorts and old t-shirt. I was on my way throwing my garbage when I accidently bumped onto him coming out from the lift. OMG, he looks yummy too in shorts and dark T-shirt. I didn't dare to look at him coz that time I looked every bit like an AUNTIE. I really, reallly cursed FATE that day. Apa kejadahnya pertemukan kami dalam keadaan penampilan I yang kurang menghairahkan.

That's why Jett, time we bumped onto him with his friends that night with him looking ready to paint the city RED ... I "keciwa" gila coz ... again he saw me in plain clothing. Huhuhuhu.. So harap je lah lain kali if we met each other again ... he will noticed my inner radiance. Hahahaha