Tag: Hari Raya

Notes : Awas gambar adalah tidak begitu berkaitan dengan cerita. Harap mak long. Hehe.

Gambar masa iftar hari tu. Ichiro seronok kene dukung dgn tante TJ. Kami makan dekat Thai Thai, Sunway Pyramid.

Ini food yg kami makan di Thai Thai. Setappppppp. Ada tomyam seafood, ikan stim and kangkong belacan. We paid roughly RM30 per head sekali dgn drinks. Kami chip in.

I ada mention hari tu kan yg I was thinking to work again…but I wasn’t that sure lah masa tu, mcm 50-50. I don’t know what I want actually. Sometimes I feel am too greedy lah. Semua pon nk buat. I want to work but I enjoy working from him, run my own business and jaga anak sendiri.

But lately, I think I can make my final decision on this matter already. Hope it’s final lah kan. Hehe. I can sometimes being so indecisive tell ya.

Ichiro tengah aim lori batu yg abg aymen tengah pegang. Yg pegang Ichiro tu is Auntie Dida (Wahida), mak Aymen = my good friend sejak uni dulu. Kalau tk kerana Wahida ni, I tk jumpa my husband sekarang kot. Wahida lah match maker kami dulu

So, fikir-fikir…for now I rasa I selesa kerja sendiri and jaga anak sendiri. My little hero tu is everything to me. Sekarang ni pon, nk tinggalkan anak dgn bibik sekejap I resah memanjang, inikan pulak nk tinggalkan 8-9 jam! Ohhh can’t imagine that lah. Kalau tinggal dengan my mom or family, I still ok lagi. Tapi kalau stranger totally cannotttt lahhhhh. Boleh bercerai jiwa dibuatnya.

Tadi aim jer…ni rampas sudahhh. Aymen tengah panik diserang si kecik chiro. Hehe.

I berdoa semoga tuhan sentiasa murahkan rezeki bisnes Usana, Chocolate and soon Hijab insyallah. So, I tk perlu lagi ada beri kata dua to myself or berkira-kira nk kerja semula. I pon tk tahu kenapa I nk kerja semula. Kenapa eh? I rasa sbb I belum pernah merasa dapat kerja di company yg benefit nyer bagus, so tu yg before I declare I retire dari dunia bekerja pejabat, I nk la merasa kerja dgn company yg benefit bagus.

Itu sahaja rasanya sebab musabab nk kerja semula. Huhu. Tapi sekarang time-time raya, adalah heaven ok tk kerja. Hahahaha. I cakap dengan Imran, wow tahun ni my cuti raya is 365 hari!!! Tkder saper yg kerja dapat cuti raya that long. Haha. Imran jeling sebab menyampah jer dengar statement pura-pura terkejut I tu. Huhu. Mmg sajer nk bikin panas hati dia.

Group photo. Tgk budak berdua kt depan tu. Hehe asyik dengan toys. Aymen dah big boy, dia cool jer kasik Ichiro conquer lori batu dia. Thank you Aymen kasik adik chiro pinjam lori

By the way, I aman damai di kampung sekarang. Syok malam-malam tulis blog and menjahit sambil dengar mercun dan letupan meriam buluh. Mercun dekat kampung ni tk sama dgn mercun kt PJ sana. Mercun kt sini mercun picisan jer, bunyi letup mcm bunyi motor rempit pancit, tapi I like. Nostalgic bunyi mercun roket tu. I belum jalan-jalan kt luar lagi time malam-malam, tapi tadi siang lalu sepanjang kampung tengok dah ada pelita!!!!! Ahhhhhhh I love pelita so much. I rasa setiap tahun nk raya sure I repeat benda yg sama kt blog ni. Hahah. Mak I plak too busy nk layan berpelita bagai, so rumah I pelita belum menjelma lagi. Tapi dah ada standby kt belakang dah, tinggal nk letak minyak tanah jer.

Mommy it hurts! Ichiro terjatuh sampai benjol. Kesian dia dh penat sangat sampai jalan pon trip.

Mak kasi rasa biskut suji yang dah siap. Biskut suji mak tahun ni colorful! Kurang rasa suji, tapi tetap sedap.

“Mak…suji ni tk berapa suji lah mak…dia tk melekat kt gusi”

Hehe..mak I temper jer I komen-komen. Tapi komen-komen pon, dah dekat setengah balang habis, tk sure sampai raya ada lagi ker tak biskut tu. Hihih. Hmm..now ada terasa nk gi makan biskut suji lagi. Alahai biskut kesukaan ku! Kenapalah setappppp sangatttttt.

Esok, nk pergi amik tudung tempah dekat tailor. Harapan menggunung tinggi semoga jadilah tudung rekaan I tu. Aminnnn. I still belum appoint sapa-sapa lagi utk jadi main tailor, sbb nk timbang tara harga dan mutu keunggulan jahitan serta kepantasan menjahit seperti lipas kudung. Hihih. Will keep u guys posted! And oppsss…I baru terfikir another design tudung smlm. Harap masa launching boleh la introduce semua design in one shot.

Hmmm..busy mode, seronok mode, excited mode..la la la la haiiii senangnyer dalam hati…:D

I got a plan for tomorrow morning, hence need to sleep early tonight and I guess I will just leave you guys with 2 photos of Lonia chocolates. Just realized that haven’t publish some of the pictures here as I only uploaded it in facebook and totally forgot to blog about it. Ahh me and my forgetfulness. …..

If you can’t get ketupat asli for hari raya, why not try our “Ketupat” chocolate? It is very tiny and not too sweet sbb kami combine 2 layers of chocolate. Top layer is white chocolate and bottom is milk, so that the sweet taste of white chocolate can be reduce a bit. You can also opt to single flavor if you don’t fancy double layer chocolate and green color ketupat chocolate also available. Yeah like a real ketupat!

It is also easy to be eaten with just one bite (u don’t even need to bite actually, letak jer atas lidah and kemam-kemam, but for me, kalau makan chocolate I always kene gigit la dulu hehe, sbb dah habit)

We are still open for orders for the chocolates for late buyer. But we are in alarm mode already though not alarm zone yet We are still capable to take orders with one condition, all orders must be place and send before 1/9. So, we are really sorry that we cannot entertain sapa-sapa yg nak pick up the orders last minute (except yang dah book earlier and dah buat payment). Mcm dah dekat nk raya nk pickup, because so far kami buat chocolate ni fresh..yes it is really a fresh homemade choc, tailor made to your order. So, kalau dah nk dekat2 nk raya baru nk pick up kami worried takut tk sempat  and afraid that unforeseen circumstances might happen. To be on the safe side, we gonna set the last delivery date on 1st of September (Wednesday) and we only take the orders seriously after full payment being made.

After that, if still ada orders coming in and we think we are capable to take the order, we will still accept it. So, don’t be shy to ask ok. Kalau kami relaks takder kerja nk buat, we will make the chocolate for you, but kalau big orders most probably tk sempat lah. Small-small one can

So, have fun all, shopping raya this weekend ok Selamat bershopping!

p.s: oh btw, orders for “the brand” (msg me if you wanna know what is “The Brand”, if you  have a very sharp eyes kindly observe, hint is everywhere on my blog) supplement and health care products sentiasa open bila-bila masa ok sebab memang takder time limit utk order . have you ready with new stock of your daily supplement and diet shake? nnt masa raya you will desperately need all that. trust me

p.p.s: Need a hint of what “The Brand” is? Ok here goes…am an independent distributor of what company?

I’m not feeling so well. Ramadhan kali ini mmg sungguh mencabar, dengan nk menjaga anak, berniaga Usana dan Chocolate, dengan nk ambil gambar product, edit gambar, design works and not to forget my “scarf/hijab” for Nilam is also making progress. Last Saturday, we went to see tailor and I waited there with my husband until the tailor finished sewing the scarf. My husband slept on the floor, while me sat side by side with Kak Naimah to instruct on how to sew the scarf, she masa tu pon tk boleh nk imagine lagi my idea tu. I found that this is the best method to do R&D for fashion design.

So, for 4 hours we focusing on jahit, then kalau tk jadi, kene bukak balik and jahit lagi..sampai lah lastly dapat jadi mcm yg I imagine. Tinggal sket-sket nk touch up utk jadi elok betul. But roughly “scarf/hijab” tu memang dah jadi.

Thanks to Solleh (my ex-schoolmate) who introduced her sister to me. I have yet to try another tailor yg recommended by my readers, ada lagi 2 so far, kene try satu-satu , tengok workmanship as well as upah jahit. Hope I can finalize everything soon. Utk raya ni, ada harapan nk beraya dengan my scarf I showed my scarf to my mom and she said my scarf mcm scarf org arab . Hihi. I loike that.

One thing paling special with my scarf tu I rasa firstly sbb dia sesuai utk semua jenis muka, especially muka bulat and also scarf tu boleh jadi dress juga (aha!). The scarf was inspired by me, I mean the design was actually to suit my style. I need something that’s fast and less hassle to wear but still look stunning and stylish (because Imran doesn’t like to wait and sometimes my scarf doesn’t want to co-operate with me so I decided to invent something that’s easy to wear and no more bad scarf day) Other than that I also need a scarf that does not accentuate my round shape chubby face. So, siapa yg berminat scarf ala ladyimran ni, just stay tune ok. Skettttt jer lagi. Gimme some more time to finalize everything.

To me, I like lah scarf tu, tatau la org lain kan. Sbb I design pon utk myself pakai actually, idea nk jual the scarf tu datang kemudian. So, kalau u guys tak suka nnt, jgn marah ok. Haha. Sbb yg penting I suka!

On different note, my chocolate business is booming. Alhamdullilah. My sister and I worked so hard to prepare sample and completing orders. We never thought that the respond can be this good and fast too. Our Facebook group page has already exceeding 3000 members and we definitely need to open a new fan page soon since group page has limitation up to 5000 members only.

I need to sleep now, I don’t want to sleep too late anymore and fall sick often. Enjoy pictures of our Chocolate Hamper for Hari Raya. Details and pictures of the components for the hamper will be update later because now, I need to rest.

This is roughly how the hamper looks like.  We are pretty amateur in making hamper, so tk sure ribbon yg macam mana sesuai. Kain alas tu won’t be that big kalau utk real hamper. We will cut it to fit the box nicely. Yg ni kami sajer tk cut sbb nk kasik nampak mcm harta karun. Haha.

The boxes and bottles. We use hard type material. No cardboard or soft plastic box for hamper.

I fall in love with the wooden tray. It’s so beautiful and suit Hari Raya theme. Thanks to Ain who introduced me to the wooden tray.  However, it is pretty limited, so subject to availability. Saper nk wooden tray ni kene order sepantas kilat ok. You can buy 1 or bulk. Both also possible it just that price would bit cheaper lah kalau beli bulk. Price ranging from RM100 to RM120 kalau tk silap. We are pretty generous, there are lots of chocolates inside the box. Various type some more! Macam-macam ado!

The wrapper for the cbocolate bar was a bit oversize. Haha. Dah lama tk guna printer, kekok nk setting sizing masa print.

New Update: I touch up the wrapper a bit. Add flavor , net weight and also chocolate supply by Lonia | the sweet tooth fairy. What I need now is a border pastu siap dah Yayy!

Busy mode. Alhamdullilah, despite that we are still new in chocolate business and had just launched our business couple of weeks ago, glad to inform that we are currently in “busy-buat-chocolate-raya-mode” Seronok ok!

There are many orders coming in, well….still small-small orders lah , but as Milie said on twitter “small orders la yang membawa kepada big orders”. So true ok! If I can “like” her tweet, surely I dah “like”.

As I mentioned before, am just helping my sister and my mom also happy sbb anak-anak dia finally semua ada mewarisi kepakaran dia. Dolu-dolu we never thought that we will follow suit our mom, but now, I rasa mmg dah 100% ikut mak kiterorg…ehe.

Cuma satu jer I tk ikut my mom, I tk suka Hindustan, tapi mak I perghhhh hari-hari pon Hindustan. Tapi now dia dh tak tengok Hindustan sangat sbb dah tukar jadi hari-hari Korean. Apa-apa la mak.

Back to chocolate biz, since it’s pretty hard to get a graphic designer and we kinda need to move fast, therefore I cekalkan hati to do the design on my own. Furthermore, it’s lot cheaper and I don’t need to check with the designer when can they finish the design and bla bla and then baru boleh confirm dgn customer on the delivery date. Which is sangat leceh processnya and slow.

I hate that. My style doing business is always prompt and quick (including my Usana business). So, the easiest way is to do my own, aight? while I still got time to spend on design better I buat sendiri, if not bila lagi kan?

My sis ada jual chocolate bar, but we don’t have wrapper for it. Thus, for the past few days I spent lot of time collecting materials and learn on how to design the wrapper.

I still need to touch up the design bit. Need to add flavor and net weight of the chocolate and maybe border too.

Finally, tonight I’m able to come out with my first design for the wrapper. It’s for our Chocolate Hari Raya Hamper. The name can be change to your organization name or company’s name or anything as long as can muat the space lah. Pretty amatuer kan? But okay lah, since I don’t need to pay for a penny and queuing to get the job done.

I’m having so much fun designing the wrapper and I think I wanna try to design lot more personalize wrapper design in future. Those who want to purchase my design must buy the chocolate bar as well. Hehe because the wrapper is not a stand alone product, it comes with a chocolate bar.

Oh selamat berhujung minggu and yes dah nk puasa! Yayyyy. Mesti ramai balik kampung this week kan =) Seronotnyer!

p/s: oh no, I don’t design blog header or blog layout yer. terlalu canggih for me. fening fening. hehe.

Picture credit to I Luv Islam. Com

Saya memang org yang paling semangat bila nk masuk Ramadhan dan Hari Raya. Saya paling suka Ramadhan lah, Hari Raya suka juga tapi yg best cuma malam raya and first raya jer lah. Raya kedua dah tukar pakai uniform biasa kt rumah, seluar katuk dan ber-rambut simba.

Disebabkan semangat nk puasa, jadinya saya nk buat entry Selamat Menyambut Ramadhan paling cepat dari bloggers lain. Ehe. Tahun ni berpuasa agak mencabar sebab terpaksa tengok Ichiro yang tk puasa. Hehe. Macam mana lah nak berkejaran dgn dia nnt dibulan puasa. Haihhh. Tapi tkper harap makin afdal puasa and makin ramping tummy trim ku.

Persiapan puasa? Hmm ada persiapan utk berpuasa ker eh? Persiapannya adalah bersahur 5 pinggan kot? Haha merepek! Tkderlah saya nnt sahur 300ml Usana Nutrimeal + Fibergy sahaja (Ewahh..sila jangan percaya bulat-bulat ok, sebab kalau mak masak lauk daging salai campur belimbing, ada kemungkinan tk puasa terus…hahahahaha~gila makan sungguh kan? Haihh) Tapi diet tetap diet, dengan harapan marvelous la hendaknya raya nnt yer. Oh siapa yg nak tahu bagaimana nk bersahur dgn Usana shake, let me know ok. Kiter boleh bincang2 pastu habis bincang boleh order chocolate raya. Heeee (sempatttttt)

Imran dah asyik tanya saya ada baju raya ker tak? Boleh tak saya rasa pening dengar soalan tu. Rasa nak buat-buat pengsan. Sbb malas dah nk jawab. Dah byk kali tanya. Motif tanya? Entahlah saya pon tak tahu.

Errrr tau sebenarnya…tapi pura2 tak tahu. Heee. Sebenarnya Imran ada beli kain kt kilang dia hari tu. Oh dia bukan kerja kilang kain tau. Dulu dia kerja kilang semiconductor. Tapi dia suka la gi beli kain dengan kak nam-kak nam kt kilang dia tu. Dulu beli baju tidur utk saya (pengsan) pastu beli kain pasang la plak. Hahah. Adoi suami ku!

Tapi dia tu bagus lah, kak-nam-kak nam berniaga kt office or kilang tu suka jual kt dia, sbb dia suka beli. So, hari tu dia beli kain. Excited pilih kain corak2 kerawang kaler coklat. Pastu balik tak sempat bukak baju kerja dah cepat-cepat tunjuk kain pasang yg dia beli dan bangga cerita dia pilih kain utk sama kaler dgn baju melayu dia n ichiro. Heee comel. Nnt dah tua-tua bila ingat balik mesti seronok =)

Ok masalahnya sekarang, sampai sekarang baju tu tk hantar tailor lagi ok. Tu yg Imran dok asyik tanya dan kasi tekanan. Hadoiii pening kan? Saya nk buat kebaya lah, tapi tailor mana lah yg nk terima tempahan lagi disaat-saat genting ini. Saper boleh buat meh la promote diri, pastu harga kasi cincai ok. Kalau free lebih afdal sempena bulan kebaikan ni. Hahaha.

Hmmm ni entry nk sambut puasa ker nk sambut raya eh? Confuse kejap.

By the way, hmm I tk sure ni appropriate ker tidak utk announce dekat sini (takut nnt dicap amik donation tanpa lesen), tapi my family tengah mengumpul dana sebanyak RM5000 utk membina sebuah surau kecik yg boleh dijadikan bilik belajar dan pelbagai aktiviti lain utk anak-anak yatim. Proposal dan details tentang donation tu ada dgn my dad, kalau ada saper-saper berminat nk menderma mahupon sedikit mmg dialu-alukan. Kalau berminat nk buat amal jariah yg boleh dibawa mati ni boleh tinggalkan komen berserta email. Insyallah saya boleh forwardkan proposal utk surau itu nnt.

Sekarang, adalah masa utk makan durian! (Muka bersemangat jawa) Gua chow dulu ok! (heheh..amacam rempit tak?)