Eja betul-betul

Posted by Mrs Imran on Dec 5, 2011
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Sebenarnya tadi dah draft satu “entry” lain, tapi tiba-tiba teringat yang saya pernah terfikir nak buat kempen “eja betul-betul” , dan masa tengah melayari blog Emila Yusof  tadi, terjumpa “entry” Emila yang juga berkenaan tentang penggunaan bahasa melayu yang betul.

Ok, sebenarnya saya tidak ada masalah sangat dengan penggunaan bahasa melayu yang tidak sempurna, asalkan ianya senang dan boleh difahami saya masih boleh terima. Tapi yang sangat…sangat…sangat tidak boleh diterima ni adalah penyalahgunaan ejaan.

Ada yg panggil bahasa sms, bahasa fb dan apa-apa jerlah..sbb itu tk penting. Yang penting adalah ejaan-ejaan seumpama “aq”, “owang”, “owunk”, “skung”, “jeww” dan sebagainya adalah sangat membuat otak mendidih okkkkkkkkkk.

Ingat nak guna lencana blog “Gunakan Bahasa Melayu dengan betul” yang Emila Yusof dah buat, tapi masalahnya kempen yang saya nk perjuangkan (cewahh poyo tak?) bukan lah tentang penggunaan Bahasa Melayu tapi lebih kepada ejaan. Lagipon Emila kata kalau letak lencana tu kene tulis bahasa melayu dgn betul, jadinya agak takut sedikit disitu. Huhuh. Jadi saya buat “screenshot” dan ambil illustrasi yang Emila lukis ni, sangat comel dan menarik Saya suka! Emila maaf nyer kalau tk boleh buat ambil gambar ni, kasi tahu saya nnt kalau tk boleh, saya akan alihkan keluar gambar di atas ok.

Ni nak tanya sikit. Apa jadahnya nk eja macam tu? Tk susah ker nk fikir ejaan2 yang tk masuk akal tu? Kalau akulah, boleh macam nk tercirit nak fikir ejaan mcm tu. Susah nk eja tu satu, ambil masa nk menaip tu lagi satu. Sbb kadang-kadang konon2 penciptaan ejaan sebegini utk menyenangkan supaya boleh taip lebih pendek, tapi cuba tengok perkataan sms “jeww” , ada 4 huruf ok. Kalau shortform yg betul adalah shj, atau mungkin “je” walaupon “je” itu pon salah sebenarnya, tapi aku boleh terima ok sbb dia tk buat otak aku mendidih dan berpusing2. Jadinya apa tujuan ringkasan-ringkasan perkataan ini dicipta? Sbb ternyata sebahagian darinya bukan “singkat” sangat pon!!

Hari tu ada terbaca dekat facebook, komen seseorang yang guna shortform ni di dalam hampir keseluruhan komen. Rasa mual nk muntah baca komen tu ok. Apakah terasa comel eja macam tu? Terasa urban? Terasa cool? Apa sebenarnya yang diaorg ni rasa bila eja mcm tu eh ? Rasa best? Sbb serasanya majoriti rasa meluat dgn ejaan2 seumpama ini.

Jadinya marilah kita buat kempen “eja betul-betul” ok . Saya bukan lah nk mintak semua org guna bahasa melayu yang jitu yang mcm nk jawab kertas bahasa malaysia spm. Baguslah kalau boleh berbahasa sebaik itu, tapi kalau tak boleh, sekadar berbahasa secara sederhana, elok dan boleh difahami pon dah memadai bagi saya. Sbb dekat blog ni umpama kita bercakap dgn kawan2, jadinya saya tk rasa saya akan bercakap dgn kawan2 saya macam nk jawab soalan kertas peperiksaan.

Tapi yang mendangkal jiwa (cewahhhh ini kira bahasa tinggi ni huhu), ialah ejaan2 sampah yang buat kita boleh rasa nak membunuh kalau nak baca sampai habis.

Sekian.

Event Deco & Convocation

Posted by Mrs Imran on Oct 23, 2011
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I’m in the mood to blog so..lets blogging! I dekat rumah my parents ni, as usual it’s kinda wajib to balik kampung once or twice a month. Plus, today is my brother’s convocation day, so lagilah wajib balik Congrats to my brother for his Master in hmm…Kejuruteraan Pembuatan? Sorry bro kalau silap. Huhu. Seeing him in his graduation robe made me feel like I wanna do master too, but hmmm…study isn’t my thing lah. Maybe if I were to pursue master, I need to choose project type course rather than exam. I hate exam. Period.

My brother kinda sengal, masa nk amik scroll dia boleh pose lebih2 depan kamera mcm orang kasi derma RM10k, lepas tu lupa nk amik his scroll. Sampai chancellor tanya tanak ker scroll ni? Wahahah sengal sengal sungguh. Insyallah in the next few years amik Phd pula, boleh lah akak tumpang gaji Phd kau yer. Sila jangan lupa jasa akak beli bouquet bunga ada patung smurf tadi.

Oh ha talking of convo bouquet. Waaaaaaa banyaknyaaaaa best2! Kenapalah zaman haku grad dulu bouquet semua boring2. Just ada bunga, paling2 ada bear jer. Sekarang ni macam-macammmmmm and lawa-lawaaaaaa. Walaupon ada sedikit pelik tengok patung2 Angry Birds mendominasi semua bouquet dan belon2, sbb apakah kaitan Angry Birds dengan convocation eh? But yet mmg melambak Angry Birds, semua pon Angry Birds. So, I was having a great time choosing a bouquet for my brother. I don’t want it to be all flower bouquet, sbb come onnnn..apa la nk buat dengan bunga2 tu nanti kan? Mmg cantik but…rosak cam tu jer. So, I prefer yg ada bear ker. Ada banyak yg ada POOH with mortar hat tu, tapi rasa mcm POOH too common lah. Then cari2, jumpa Smurf! Alamak I love Smurf so much! Tapi takder plak yg I rasa cam related to convocation, then terjumpa Smurf yg pakai spec tu, yeah the Brainy Smurf. Looks nice and adalah ciri-ciri genius tu kan. So, I bought that. Here a picture of my brother looking so pandai with the Smurf. Hahah.

UTEM 7th Convocation

After that I terus ke Melaka cari kain for my customer punya baju (Nilam Boutique) , apparently kain satin for lining warna cream very difficult to get. I dah cari at few kedai dekat PJ, semua out of stock, then was thinking to look for it at Jakel, sure ada kan, but then I nk balik kampung pula, so dah alang-alang went to Malacca today, so I just beli dekat Melaka jer lah. I found the kain that I want, but couldn’t find fabrics for table runner. Oh sebelum I cerita berjela-jela ni, I was actually appointed to prepare event decorations as well as baju for my customer’s kenduri (aqiqah) in November, so sekarang tengah buat preparation. Seriously event deco? Me? Yup! I can do event deco also, in fact I love decorating so much Many suggest me to consider to become an event planner, hmmm…not now kot, still immature. Event planner lagi banyak responsibility and kerja nk kene buat, so for the time being I think I just wanna focus on decorations only.

Look at these fabrics, nampak mcm senang nk dapat these fabrics from any textile shops kan? But after facing frustration after frustration, I got to change my mind. It wasn’t that easy especially when I had to look for it at every shops that I know in the rain!!! The weather was kinda pretty bad lately, hmm not bad actually, in fact I prefer rain that hot weather. But yeah, it’s rather hard to move in the rain especially for a mengelupur person like me, with the umbrella, handbag, keys, fabrics and whatnot.

Finally, I manage to get hold of these fabrics. There are so many choices! Ada banyak colour and rasa nk beli semua , but at the end I just buy what I need, not what I want. Nnt nak try cari dekat KL pula kain-kain ni. Mesti ada, I just need to look for it harder. Now, that’s why you need to appoint an event deco person, because they will look for things that you don’t know where to get and don’t have time to scout for it.

Till then!

Merdeka without Sudirman

Posted by Mrs Imran on Sep 20, 2011
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There are so many things happening yet, I am some sort in staring-blindly-at-laptop-screen state. I have no idea how to start writing this entry. It has been on and off this year, I didn’t really blog regularly like I used to. I kinda lost my touch in blog writing, kept running out of ideas and lack of humor. Huhu. Let’s hope I didn’t let insanity consumes my being all the same.

I tell you what, dulu setiap benda yg I buat I akan terfikir utk blog about it, but now I biarkan ia berlalu begitu sahaja. Maybe I’m no longer serajin and segila dulu?? Dulu, beli gincu sebatang pon riuh satu blog land. Hahaha silly.

Oh by the way how was your Merdeka day celebration? Eh when did actually we celebrate Merdeka ya? For the past 20 years? (I can’t remember) , ever since Allahyarham Sudirman Hj. Arshad left us, Merdeka day was no longer an awaited event (for me lah) . For me (again) , Merdeka is all about Sudirman. Hahaha. I know that I got the definition of Merdeka all wrong, but I can’t help it as that’s what I truly felt when I was a kid. Sudirman was a very powerful entertainer and he the ones who made Merdeka day such a greatest glory moment and always celebrated with lots of joy and happiness.

So, when he’s no longer around, I stop celebrating Merdeka. I hated it so much when other singers try to sing and mimic Sudirman when singing the “Tanggal 31″ song. They don’t have enough patriotic spirit to sing that song like Sudirman. Period. Sudirman kalau nyanyi lagu tu, you can feel how proud he was to be Anak Malaysia. Bukan sekadar nyanyi pakai baju bendera and buat-buat comel atas pentas which sadly many singers did that.

There are few more things yang I buat I rasa hilang rasa kemerdekaan ialah tak nampak banyak bendera. I pon tk kibarkan bendera except for the flag sticker on my windscreen. Thing is dulu, toll and petrol station kasi bendera free and kiter dengan mudah boleh pacak kt kereta. But now, dekat toll pon tk nampak bendera, adalah satu banner jer huhu. Mesti org komplen asyik nk benda free jer, gi la beli bendera sendiri. You know what, nk gi beli barang keperluan harian pon kadang2 tak tersempat2, inikan pulak nk pergi celah bedah kedai cari bendera? Oh beli dari awal tahun? So by the time nk guna dah ada? Tahukah anda tersangat ramai org yg order baju raya last minute? Itu raya tau, hari yg dianggap penting oleh kebanyakkan orang pon masih ramai yg order saat-saat akhir, ini kan pula nk beli bendera kecik 7 bulan in advance?? Hahaha mmg tkkan la jawabnya…”Banyak lah alasan u ni”…yalah I kan orang melayu maaaaa. Hihihi.

Kalau pihak tol nk jual bendera tu dekat tol pon ok kot rasanya. Senang sikit org nk beli. Huhu. Ahhh sudahlah, dah banyak tahun komplen pasal bendera ni. Jelak dah.

Apa-apa pon Selamat Hari Merdeka kepada semua. Saya ingin bertanya…Merdekakah kita sebenar-benarnya? Oh okaylah sudah hujan diluar, mari-mari merdeka tidur. Heee. Bye!

Seminggu sekali

Posted by Mrs Imran on Aug 15, 2011
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Dah macam rutin plak, update blog seminggu sekali jer. Huhu. I think I macam dah tk berapa nk hog all pcs in the house and internet like I used to. Well, when one gets older…one start to slow down. It’s true coz now sehari tak on laptop pon I don’t mind or perhaps because I have an iphone? That could be true also, since iphone is good enough for me to check my emails, facebook, twitter and blog. That’s all I need. So maybe because of that, that made me kinda slowing down? Hmmm…

Lets try hide my iphone and laptop, lets see whether not I survive (huhu I don’t think so..)

Ok since update blog seminggu sekali, ladiesss..please take a deep breath this gonna be a bit long lah coz am trying to squeeze a week worth of stories in one entry . Hehe. Not to worry am not so generous with words, coz time is luxury to me, so am gonna skip all the merapu merepek be straight to the point lah. Lagi pon puasa-puasa ni tk larat nk baca banyak-banyak kan? So enjoy the pictures and caption ala kadar. Hehe. Esok I’ll start exercise at the gym , wish me luck ok. Hope can shed about 5kg before raya. Boleh tak agak-agaknya? Adakah mission impossible?

Here are photos taken during iftar with my uni/dorm mate. We kinda meet up once a year only during iftar. Huhu. Beautiful Ramadhan isn’t it? Kami semua yg sangat susah nk jumpa utk lepak-lepak , but sehari dalam bulan Ramadhan we make it happen Actually tk berapa cukup korum, Ida yg selalu join kiterorg baru bersalin, so I insisted to drag another good fren to join, if not mcm tk ramai tk best. So, tahun ni ada Kartini! Yayyy. Kartini yg pakai tudung bawal purple Kiterorg break fast at Fullhouse Sunway Pyramid tahun ni, last year Thai-Thai dekat Sunway jugak. Pictures credit to Mimi and Tj.

I was wearing Nilam satin wide pants in Fuchsia and Roman Toga blouse. Am kinda a sucker of color block, hence the fuchsia pants and black blouse. Kalau matching color sangat mcm bosan dah. Huhu.

Cute cab and cute ladies. Especially yg berkoordinat row sebelah kanan tengah. Hihi. (statement nk kene makan kasut huhu)

Nice royal purple couch, how I wish I can bring it home. Ichiro just don’t care. Dia sibuk dengan botol dia.

Ok habis cerita iftar, ni cerita I made a suppose-to-be-a-hamper/gift for my mother in law, she wants to give it to her boss. Notice I mentioned “suppose to be”? Welllll…mmg sepatutnya I buat ramadhan hamper, but since my mom insisted on using pewter tray yg macam org selalu guna utk dulang hantaran so automatic the whole thing doesn’t look like a hamper/gift basket anymore. Huhu. But, am cool, I don’t mind as long as I can do something to satisfy my hunger for crafting, am fine. If my mother in law want a hamper that look like a hantaran…so be it. Heheh. Ok here comes…picturessssss.

Initially I thought to put in some flowers in this cute little bottle for decoration, but then my MIL who seemed to love this bottle so much suggested to fill it with zam-zam water since we have a lot of zam-zam water at home. Dan lagipon ini hadiah sempena Ramadhan, so zam-zam water just nice. My mother wants to buy more bottle utk isi sos cili. Haha. Excuse my jawi handwriting on the bottle. Heeee. Tk lawa kan?

I love daisy! I think my favourite flower is daisy. But too bad dekat rumah kampung takder daisy. My mom tried to plant so many daisy but none of it survived. Poor daisy. But now ada banyak artificial flower yang look like a real flower like the one that I used for this Ramadhan hamper/hantaran. Of course it quite expensive but I’d fallen in love with it, I just can’t tolerate with fake flowers that looks like a real fake flower anymore (but sometimes I have to for low budget hantaran) Even if they are lot cheaper. I bought daisy in purple shade plus 1 stalk of other type of flower.

The hamper/hantaran (i hate to type the slash so many time) consists of kekacang and dried stuff like peach, berries, dates and few more which I don’t really register the name. But ada sunflower seed yg sangat sedap. Huhu. Makan cepat jer habis sbb dah siap kopek punya. Then ada telekung juga. Initially my mom just nk kasi kacang2 tu jer, but then I suggested letak tasbih or buku agama ker I didn’t suggest the telekung since telekung kan mahal, but my mom beli telekung sbb the person is so dear to her, so money is not an issue. More pictures here http://www.nilamboutique.com/wedding/30-ramadhan-hantaran.html

Hmmm ok at first I thought nk squeeze a week of stories in 1 entry, but at this point I think better don’t. Haha. Banyak sangat gambar nnt lambat u guys nk load this entry. And secondly tadi I tulis “caption ala kadar” , sorry I think I get too carried away masa tulis caption, jadinya dah terjadi macam entry. Hehe. Oklah, it’s raining heavily outside, kalau tidur sedap, but I am not sleepy and in about an hour time I need to prepare food for sahur. So I guess I’ll just do my work dulu. To those yang nk kahwin and looking for hantaran maker, contact me ok, insyallah I can do the hantaran for you