Along weds Raina; 17 August 2008

Its another wedding...
This one in truly kampung style... eat your heart out, Ning!


Arrival of the bride and groom


Gifts from the bride


Didn't mean to leave them sitting alone so long but hey, what choice did I have...


With the proud parents of the groom


The newlyweds


The beginning of a new kinship - parents of both bride and groom together


The newlyweds with one of the proud uncles


At meja pengantin ... prepared with love and sweats by the cousins...


The proud uncle taking a shut eye... wedding is indeed a trying event


Another shot of the newly weds


The young cousin who's oblivious of what was happening...


Another proud uncle...

With all the ceremony and kenduri now done, it dawned to me that once the couple starts a family, I will be a "Tok"!!!

I think denial will creep in when that happens...

Bandung & Jakarta, Indonesia; 18-22 July

Its the annual shopping trip again!

Bandung is indeed the ultimate destination for shopping for me, family and some friends. We made it an annual ritual to go back for serious shopping trip - where shop till you drop takes literal meaning.

This year K Sherry was supposed to take the maids for their annual trip to Bandung & Jakarta but due to an foreseen circumstances, she was not able to make it and I took over.


At a Sundanese Restaurant in Bandung


Yaya, in front of her all time favourite donut shop on Ciampelas Walk


The ever busy Ciampelas Road


Ju & Laila taking a break at one of the outlets


On the way to Jakarta from Bandung


At MONAS - the icon of Jakarta

Dufan here we come...!

After we were done with all the shoppping, its fun time at the theme park. In fact, it was still shopping right before we went to Dufan.






With the mascots of Dufan


Its a small small world ride



Aahh... the grand finale... nasi padang at Natrabu... Totaly a different experience from the one in KL



Till next time, Bandung & Jakarta...!

Johannesburg, South Africa; 29 June - 8 July

Time to catch up with the travelling...

Was in Joburg for Sunday Times Food Show,a food exhibition organised by the highest recorded readership daily in South Africa. Four of the BBC Food channel celebrity chefs were there too for cooking demonstrations.


Its work...

I am back!!!

It's been ages since I last posted anything on this blog. There are reasons:
1. I was away
2. Occupied with work
3. Was away again
4. I was busy making this....



Those are bunga telor for WR's nephew, Along. I made all 150 pieces of them. Yes, there is another wedding coming up. This one is at the kampung. I'm sure nobody thought I had it in me to make bunga telor. But I have contibuted to all the bunga telor (bunga pahar) for my brothers' weddings and one niece's cukur kepala ceremony. I have my good friend, Fatimah to thank for as she was the one who introduced me to Kedai Bunga Reben.

Making bunga telor is really time consuming and tests your patience at times. But the end result is worth it. This is my contribution to the wedding as I won't be able to go back early or stay on after the kenduri to help out.