Story from Multiple Eyes

Lighting fixtures in our rented apartment. Beautiful, isn't it?

Our apartment corridor. Don't ask me why there was a dressing table there :P

Road to Camarillo, the shopping heaven. Top right, I was driving on their freeway on the right lane. Terkial-kial nak drive sebelah kiri~

Cantik kan view? But, their freeway was not properly maintained compared to our highway. Maybe because it is free?

The place that broke my credit card. Thanks Ella for the suggestion :)

World Famous Grill (??)

The dessert came early. 

Nachos Grande

Buffolo Wings

The cheeseburger.

Okay, I only manage to eat the beef patties and the cheese *sigh*

We bought the all day Metro pass and here we were, The Union Station.

It function like KL Sentral, but when we step in, we were transported back a hundred years because of the arrangement and architectures. Cantek!

Random failed attempt to artistically edit a picture :P

Random pictures no. 2

The famous Rodeo Drive @ Beverly Hills. You will appreciate this if you love Pretty Women :D

My next post will be about Hollywood, Disneyland & Universal City.

Sempena demam World Cup 2010, meh nak story sket perihal bola selaku peminat bolasepak yang tak seberapa hardcore. CAUTION: Post ini akan dirojakkan dah tidak boleh digunakan sebagai contoh karangan terbaek untuk Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia subjek BM.

Aku start didedahkan dgn bola sepak waktu sekolah rendah lagi. Bukan sebab aku terer, tapi sebab aku ni kaki bangku. Maka jeles teramatlah kt star2 bola waktu tu. FYI Akmal Rizal is my schoolmate, mmg budak ni terer main dari dulu lagi.

Jadi bila dah tak reti sepak, maka terpaksa lah main bola kertas pakai kotak rokok / kotak ubat nyamuk atau kotak2 lain yang bole dilipat. Aku tau liga Italy dlo dari EPL, Lazio, Sampdoria, Fiorentina etc sebab semua team liga bola kertas ni ada pasukan Serie A masing2.


Masuk sekolah menengah. Masih tak reti2 nak pegi tengok Kedah FC main di Stadium Darulaman walopon time tu Kedah FC agak berjaya. Time sekolah menengah form 1, 1994, dah ada World Cup. Senior2 form 5 berjaya membawa keluar TV dari bilik TV dan dipertontonkan kepada semua pelajar di court takraw depan hostel. Mungkin dengan izin warden.

Form 1, mana tau lagi pasal World Cup... sungguh slowpoke.

Form berikut2nya... ada laa tau sikit2 pasal EPL dan Serie A. Itu pon dari game mahsyur Championship Manager (CM). Since aku tadak PC, maka dengar2 dari mulut peminat bola sajalah. Kegilaan aku terhadap CM memuncak time aku di U. Ohh laju sangat...

Form 5, kami antara batch unik yang mampu menonton World Cup 2 kali di sekolah. Waktu tu aku just join the flow. Rasa teringin nak tengok final antara Brazil (feveret ramai) VS France (bole kata underdog jugaklah). Sapa tak heran bila France tapau Brazil time tu. Bilik TV dihampar dengan tilam2 junior (terasa sungguh senpai time ni) dan ramai yang tidur dulu sebelum match dimulakan. Bila gol, aku terbangun, lompat2, tidur balik.

Fast forward sebelum masuk U, aku teringin nak tengok kehebatan game CM maka, beli laa satu lanun punya (waktu tu kedai PC game pirate belambak sangat2). Maka terjebaklah aku dengan satu ketagihan yang maha dahsyat, lagi dahsyat dari nikotin (can be taken together while playing the game lol). Setengah hari boleh hilang begitu saja dengan berlagak terer sebagai Encik Manager menguruskan team bola yang power. Aku ehem*menangEVERYTHING*ehem bila pakai Arsenal hahaha.


Masa masuk U, ada PC baru, sekali lagi terjebak walaupon time tu, CounterStrike pon sama naik. Hasilnya, keputusan CGPA yang xberapa membanggakan.

Masa bermain CM lah pengetahuan aku pasal bola makin meluas. Kenal habis segala star player. Yang super2 sub, yang muda2 high potential kenal habis walaupon rupa betul tak pernah tengok. Dan dengan CM lah, aku minat sedikit dengan EPL (English Premier League).

Minat sikit saja. Tak sefanat sampai beli jersey ori atau gantung poster permain terhandal (sedikit ghey bila terkenang penggantung2 poster bola). Minat tengok gameplay, minat tengok jaringan yang hebat2, minat tengok keeper terbang save bola yang hebat2, minat tengok player bergaduh.

Kalau letak rating 0 (HARAM TAK MINAT LANGSUNG) kepada 10 (SUPERFANAT KO KUTUK TEAM AKU AKU BUNUH KAOOO), aku maybe dekat 5. Team feveret kalah? Tarahal... tahun depan try lagi. Tak pernah pulak aku emo pasal bola.

So sekarang, 2010, tahun World Cup. Aku dah kahwin, dah ada bini. Dah ada TV, dah ada rumah sendiri. Tahun ni aku terasa nak try tengok apa rasa peminat2 bola sepak bila tengok live matches. 32 team terhebat seluruh dunia dengan kesebelasan (tak termasuk simpanan) yang terhebat berentap untuk satu piala. Apa aku rasa? Rasa agak best bila tengok perlawanan yang hebat, tambah2 lagi bila dapat lampu hijau dari isteri tersayang bole tengok kt mamak. Lagi hebat sorakkan, lagi meriah. Asal ada kerusi, duduk saja mana2, sembang saja dengan strangers, bersosial masa World Cup amat mudah.

Walaupun WC kali ni dicemari dengan keputusan kontroversi dan kekalahan awal team overrated (LOL ENGERLAND), dalam pentas WC, tiada pasukan yang invincible, tiada uber power player (LOL CRonaldo), ada macam2 kemungkinan. Di sini, tactics, disiplin, semangat juang, human errors, teamwork dan mungkin juga tuah yang menjadi faktor kemenangan.

World Cup adalah acara sukan dimana politik negara diabaikan, antara waktu2 tertentu dalam dunia dimana keamanan sempat dirasai walaupun hanya beberapa hari. Peminat duduk dimeja, bersorak bersama peminat2 yang lain tanpa rasa malu, tanpa ada double standard, tanpa ada -ism2 yang negatif.

The greatest game on earth? You bet!

P/S: Aku sokong Netherlands. GO ORANJE!

Yes, the great YUI is back with her new single. Single titled "to Mother". Contains 4 songs; to Mother, Tonight, Gloria~YUI Acoustic Version~, to Mother ~Instrumental~.

to Mother is a mellow song, furnished with piano sound and sprinkled with some drum sound. The dish is soothing however doesn't appear as much as likable to my palate. I dig Tonight better because it rocks harder. Tonight is a perfect anime opening song; I could imagine it as an action anime opening song....like Again.

Gloria~YUI Acoustic Version~ wasn't great as original song, unlike It's All Too Much~YUI Acoustic Version. It's still retain the original feeling, not quite as I expect from normal YUI Acoustic Version which breathe total new life into the song. Whether I was so indulge in the original or I just become older that my sound appetite wasn't as hungry as before, I hope it just me getting older.

I wasn't a big fan of YUI slow, sappy song....and as how much I despise Namidairo, I couldn't like to Mother as much. YUI best single to date still "It's All Too Much/Never Say Die" followed by "Summer Song".

Enough with talk, the cover of to Mother single. Enjoice!


p/s: YUI is cute with short hair!

That site of internet banality can always lift my mood up. And of course I laughed out loud since my cat, Fasha, totally does this in the morning to wake me up. If biting and scratching does not work, (to wake me up and feed her), she will come go to my face start licking around my face and hair. Urgh. Cat breath early in the morning.

Oh yeah, other people my age is telling tales about their kids. And I am telling stories about my cat. And it hurts when people complained that is the only thing I told. Because you know what, those cats are the only thing aside from my family and work, that are important in my life.I am not the life of a party y'all and I don't even GO (or got invited) to party. Even Tupperwares one. My routine consisting of going to work, back to work, dinner with husband/family and layan the insane antics of my cats.

Kids? Oh yes. I think as each year past, when a couple are still face with a childless year, the smile that accompanied to that answer for the question "Bile lagi?" gets more and more taut. I am not complaining nor stressing out since it is much too early. But I do get frustrated when people expect a kid is a must in a marriage and something is really wrong when you are not conceiving right away. Both husband and I, have not celebrated our 2nd year anniversary yet. We still got a lot to go through to learn and accept each other. But it does get frustrating when you know a girl say, 2 bulan into the marriage is happily exclaiming "There's a bun in the oven". Happy for her yes, but feeling kinda anal about feeling frustrated because you are slightly disappointed when the period come without fail every month.

And also another thing I am complaining about for new mothers is how they asked me what could go wrong in the pregnancy just because I had a miscarriage. There is a person at work who know she gotten pregnant, then immediately after telling me she is pregnant, she then asked me.. "So... what happened to your pregnancy eh? I don't want to follow the same mistake."

I am not angry. I understand their concern. But the question does sting. Even though I KNOW they are not implying such, but I felt like I'd fail to take care of myself sufficiently. Also it feel like I am like an infomercial to tell you what you CAN'T DO DURING PREGNANCY. Macam the poster child of Don't Drink and Drive or you end up like this. So I don't appreciate being likened to that. Every person is different. Every pregnancy is different. I can't guarantee you that what happened to me if you do the same can happen to you.

Wow, this post is becoming very personal. Anyway. That's that. Kinda like letting go of toxicities in my head.

p/s: I don't mean that I am angry when people asked me what went wrong to cause the miscarriage. But it does get kinda grating when a person asked, what went wrong?  And I said nothing went wrong, it just happened. Then they kinda bites their lip, eyes unbelieving, and after a few seconds of silence asked me again : really, what happened to cause this? 

Tak ke rase macam nak lempang kalo dah macam tu kan?