Blood Drive

Today is my 6th or 7th time donating blood.

I am an AB+. It feels so good to be able to help people in need.

1M4U : Greening Urbanscape @ Jejambat Jalan Duta

Again, I am the Project Leader for 1M4U project. This time, it is truly a crazy coordination work but I enjoyed it. I have the best team.

I have to coordinate tasks between 5 different clubs and 2 agencies and coordinate participation from another 8 agencies. I hope I can get 200 people to join. Wanna join?

Two dead fish

My sister and her family went to Terengganu for nearly a week. She sent SOS WA in our family group, asking anyone to buy fish food for two tiger fish in her room. We have no idea she keep fish in her bedroom +__+

We went to buy fish pallet and after feeding the starving fish, we decided to pull prank on her (We = me, my mom and my kids). We started to draw.

I announced in the group that we found two dead fish in their room.

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After a few seconds, I felt bad for my nephew and my niece. So I uploaded the photos of the dead fish.

LOL. My mom was very serious about the whole set up. I placed the dead fish on the bed, but she said....NO, the background have to be BLUE. The fish died in the water. She took a blue pillow and started to arrange the dead fish on it. "Make sure they look dead", she said while I adjusting the camera.

"OK".

gentle reminder

I need to post a few gentle reminders here.

If your working hour starts at  7.30am or 8.00am, it means you have to WORK starting from 7.30am or 8.00am. Not just punched in and join the 8.30am crowd for breakfast until 8.30am. 8.30am crowd starts working at 8.30am. But 7.30am and 8.00am crowds, you guys SHOULD START YOUR WORK AT 7.30am or 8.00am. Please eat before that.

If you have a lot of work, cut short your lunch time. I usually take 10 minutes to finish my lunch and continue my work. Having a one hour lunch break does not mean you have the right to eat for 30 minutes and spend another 30 minutes watching Korean drama. Or worse, on Friday, eat for 30 minutes and spend another 2 hours watching movie. You can accomplish may things in 2 hours. I choose to complete my OUTSTANDING TASKS.

Have system in the office. Remember where you put things.

Always have list of outstanding tasks in front of you.

Say only important things. Other people have work to do.

My Working Wall

Working Wall at my office. 
Series of mindmap (far) and planning for slide presentation (the closer one).

Food : Fever

I was down with a fever during weekend and my husband prepared barbeque and steamoat for dinner. The next day, I prepared white rice and grilled salmon for baby Nazmi. Salmon is his favourite fish :)

Food : Tea Time

My husband was away for a photoshoot. I prepared Mi Bandung Muar for him in the evening. And of course, some fruits.

Best friends at IIUM Sports Complex

Every Saturday and Sunday, I will usually be running around sending Nabil to his tuition class (Malay, English, Math & Science) from 9am to 1pm and Nazreen and Nazran to their reading classes (Nazreen - English & Nazran - Malay) from 11am to 12.30pm, if my husband is not around.

Last two weeks, my husband was away for photoshoot and Nabil's tuition teacher was away performing umrah, so, in between sending Nazreen and Nazran to their reading class and picking them up after one and the half hour later, we went to IIUM. And there was an annual primary school's sport event. We stopped by and let Nazmi sit under the tree and watch the games (ok, ok, I am the one who wanted to watch the games).

Potluck : The Food

For my office's potluck, I made Apple Crumble - Kek Batik - Fruit Cocktail Custard with Mango Pudding. As usual.

Potluck

I just love anything to do with FOOD.
Sharing the promo for tomorrow's event :)

SISIH - SEIRI - SORT Part 2

This is the Part 1.

These are the latest promo.

Latest addition to our family of six

At last. After contemplating for more than a year. Since I was pregnant with Nazmi. We bought it in February 2014.

SISIH - SEIRI - SORT

5S Audit is scheduled to be on 8 May 2014.

As usual, everyone have to tidy up their workplace and the whole office. We have assigned each officers and supporting staff to specific zones. I was assigned to our green corner, waiting area, counter and 5S zone.

Since the officers are extremely busy (we went back around 8-9pm everyday) at this point of time, so we decided take it slowly and encourage everyone to do their part in 30 minutes everyday.

We came out with this fun promo for Day 01. 

Below reminder is sent twice, before lunch hour (so they can do it during lunch time) and before 4.30pm (before people start to go home).

Good idea, huh?

food : cream biscuit + tomato stew

I made tomato stew last weekend (here) and last Sunday, my husband requested the same stew for lunch. Weee :)

We dont want to eat rice. And we ran out of bread. So I made....

Cream biscuits! It is a bit crispy at the outside but have a bread-y consistency in the inside. I grated cheddar cheese on top and sprinkle some chopped parsley. I supposed to knead them together with the dough but I forgot. I cut it into bite-size squares.

For the tomato stew, there are tomatoes (duh), garlic, celery, onion and a bit of herbs de provence. Yummy.

Baby Nazmi loves it!

You'll be missed

I love our nangka tree. 

food : tomato stew, grilled chicken and chocolate cake

Last weekend, I prepared a tomato stew, grilled chicken and fried fish with white rice for my kids. They usually eat a lot after their tuition which stretched from morning until 1pm. This is the photo after the lunch.

In the evening, I felt like eating chocolate cake but no egg available in our pantry. I google-d eggless chocolate cake recipe and after 45 minutes, we had these precious little things on the cooling rack. I cut the cake into small portion so it would be easier for the kids to eat.

Chocolate cake rocks!

Junior Pictionary

Today, we play Pictionary. It is a present from my aunt who used to work in Manchester. 

To summarise, they have to throw the dice, move the marker, draw whatever written on the card within one minute. There is a small hourglass to tell the time. These are some examples of what they have to draw in order to complete the game.

Nazran do not know how to draw many things before but this game somehow pushed him to draw everything! And he can actually draw!

G&B Cluttered Desk Art Print

I am quite busy with preparing orders for G&B frames. A lot of trips to the printing shop and a few rolls of bubble wrap involved since the frames are fragile. 

This is the IN thing now for G&B Lifestyle Shop, although I havent advertise it here yet. Everyone need the [purple] frame to justify their cluttered desk at the workplace. LOL.

Anyone who wants to order this, just leave a message or email me - nurulramly@yahoo.com.

A4 size. High quality frame. RM25.

Last time I used different frame and it is quite fragile. Now it is high quality frame.

Library Open Day

Today is our Library Open Day. MPH is selling a lot of interesting books at a discounted price. There are a lot of activities going on throughout the day.  

I have been eyeing for this book for quite sometimes. I even queued at the MPH counter at KLIA to pay for this book before I departed to Medan last year, but I return it back to the shelves right after the man before me finished paying his books. I dont know why. 

I dreamed about it since.

Today, I just cant say no. She is too beautiful. I have to take her home.

Health Day 2014

My previous post on Health Day 2013 (here).

Today is the Health Day at my office. Who would decline the free of charge full medical check up offer? At level 6, I went to get my blood pressure readings, BMI and I gave away a few specimens to be tested :)

At the ground floor, I went for pap smear and clinical breast examination. 

They also offer reflexology and corporate massages (on that unique chair at the top). I registered for both but I have to went back to the office to settle some work. So I missed the reflexology. The corporate massage is available anytime at my office. We just have to set an appointment with the in-house masseur.

Shortly after that, I went for a talk on organic food, composting and how to plant your own vegetables and fruits. They taught us to make our own organic insect repellent and liquid fertiliser. COOL! 

I am totally going to blog about that.

...if I manage to make my own fertiliser and insect repellent.

I love my office.

They read books

Notice I left the below portion of the bookshelves empty or with just a few things? The area is within Nazmi's reach so no point putting anything there. It will end up on the floor, if not in his mouth.

Nazmi reads a book

Shrimp fishing

We went shrimp fishing yesterday! It was my first time.

This is the kind of activity that I enjoy doing with my family on weekend. It was unplanned. As usual. If Sham (my husband) is around, chances of doing spontaneous activities or go for unplanned trip are really high.

We went there with my nephew, Haziq. Minus baby Nazmi. It is a new shrimp pool in Sungai Kertas, Gombak. The owner is my husband's friend. We use perumpun (a kind of saltwater worm) as a bait. Euw. 

We take turns holding the lines. We purposely rented two lines because we knew kids will be running around, exploring the area, watching the shrimp and enjoying their meal at the pool side. Nazreen almost fell asleep twice while waiting for the shrimp to eat the bait.

Nabil was the first one to catch a shrimp. A huge one.

Harvest of the day. Yummy.

My Birthday is on 30 April 2014

My Amazon wishlist
Used books are ok.
#edyna #zuria

Arabic Class & Dictionaries

I registered for Arabic Language Class at my office this year to help Nabil and Nazreen to do their Arabic homework. I have learned Arabic in IIUM so it was quiet easy for me to understand the basic.

This is the dictionary that we use in the class. One of the authors is my Arabic ustaz, Dr. Mohd. Phozi Usop. He taught us the step-by-step on how to use the dictionary since Arabic dictionary is different from others.

And today, I bought this for my kids. I hope it could help them in doing their homework.

Highly recommended.

Hi blog

Hi Blog,

I hope you still remember me.

I was and am extremely occupied with work. I came home at 8pm or 9pm everyday. And the fact that my laptop gone kaput is one of the reasons that I dont see you regularly. I am involved in preparing 11th Malaysia Plan for our nation, so it takes up most of my days.

And nights. Yes, I dream about 11th Malaysia Plan every night - I must be a very good citizen.

Baby Nazmi had an acute bronchiolitis. Nabil had ear infection. Our house has serious pest issue. Water shortage. Squirrel ate our apples. My chilli plants were dead. Purple kids' room is now white. A lot of things going on in between.

See you soon since I will be having a new laptop.

Love,

garlicandbutter.

On-going projects

Solar System

Yesterday, I taught the kids about our solar system. It was difficult at first because there are too many components in the solar system (apart from the planets). I decided to focus only on the eight planets. (No, Pluto is not a planet anymore since 2006 - it is a dwarf planet now).

First, I showed them the arrangement of planets in the encyclopedia. Then, we watched the whole solar system moving (planets orbiting the sun, the moons orbiting the planets, asteroids come and crushed planets, etc) in the internet.

And the fun part begin. They searched for nine round-based/cylindrical items and trace the circle around it, to drew the planets and sun of different sizes. They coloured it according to the photos on the internet. Then they stick the planets on the inner side of a box. #recycle

Nabil wrote the name of each planets, cut it and stick everything onto the wall.

Tada!

Our little solar system in the kids' room. To make them memorise it easier, we listened to The Planets Song all night. It kinda stuck in my head until now.

Another Artwork from Art Class

Nabil's

Pineapples

I am a huge fan of pineapple. I eat pineapple everyday. I ate double the amount during my pregnancies.

I am glad to travel to Kluang every two or three weeks to visit my MIL and FIL because there are a lot of fruit stalls selling all sort of pineapples, five minutes away from their house. 

My favourite is Josaphine. Last week, I taught my 5 years old son, Nazran, to cut the pineapple (I peeled it, of course).

And we enjoyed it with my signature soy sauce + sugar + shrimp paste dipping sauce. Yummy.