Western Food Murah at Station 21 Bangsar

It was the fifth day of Ramadhan. That day the three of us decided not to have rice as our iftaar menu, since rice had been our main dish for the whole four days of sahur and iftaar. We didn't know what to have until later that afternoon my cousin whatsapp-ed me confessing on her craving for western dish. A friend was saying "baru hari kelima da nak makan western". Opss. 

My cousin and her friend are here (and still) in KL as practical students, hence I must understand their budget constraint despite of their craving for western food. At first I was thinking of Fish & Co or at least Secret Recipe, when suddenly my mind recalled of a humble western restaurant in Bangsar called Station 21. 

A friend bought me there once, and I must say it was definitely a non-disappointing experience. Delicious yet very affordable. (Although at this point of writing this entry, a friend claimed that Murni SS2 is better. Will save it for future review). 

And so after Maghrib we went. Station 21 is located at an open-door food court, next to Bangsar Village, besides a car shop (i think it's a used car shop), and near to Masjid Saidina Abu Bakar. It is a very humble place. I believe it was once the most popular food court centre. 

As expected, the restaurant was almost full. We managed to secure a table of three Alhamdulillah. Memang rezeki budak-budak tengah study hihi. 

We ordered:

1. Fish & Chips - RM14.00

2. Black Pepper Chicken Grill - RM13.00 (awesome black pepper sauce!)

3. Bolognaise pasta - can't recall the price but worth the big portion. 

There are 3 sizes of fresh fruit juice. Big, medium and small. My fresh orange in medium size. 

Food presentation is humble, but being off-set by its great taste. Try it! 

Making Own Pizza for Iftaar

Alhamdulillah, done deliver sabun cerah ketiak aka Marine Essence Beauty Bar after terawih today. Satu ke TTDI, satu ke Damansara Damai. Sorang nak kawen bulan depan, sorang ada eczema.  Alhamdulillah permintaan untuk sabun Marine Essence tak pernah putus sebab benefitnya untuk kulit sensitif dan eczema selain mencerahkan bahagian yang nak dicerahkan :-)

That's about sabun. Actually nak cerita pasal pizza buatan sendiri sebagai menu berbuka puasa di hari kedua. 

Penuh topping kan? Kat kedai tak dapat toppings banyak macam nie. Tapi kurang warna-warni laa. Heheheh. 

Toppings:-

- isi ayam

- nenas

- bawang

- cendawan

- mozzarella cheese

Sauce:-

- tomato puree

- cheese & herb

Pizza base:-

- beli kat kedai

Heh. Ngelat rupenye kan. Takdelah pizza buatan sendiri sepenuhnya. Next attempt nak try buat base sendiri pulak. 

First time buat sendiri, buat dua loyang habis dimakan 4 orang! Sangat laa not bad kan although more room for improvement. 

Looking forward for next DIY Pizza! 

Tips: How To Manage Your Stress

Credit to instagram milik pelakon comel Lisa Surihani @lisasurihani_23 

Jangan lari dari masalah. Ia tidak menyelesaikan masalah. 

Jangan pula merenung masalah itu lama-lama. Ia hanya merencatkan anda. 

Bila ada masalah dan anda rasa stress, letak sekejap masalah ke tepi, buat aktiviti yang boleh release stress anda (window shopping/shopping, dengar lagu, solat, baca Quran dan sebagainya), kemudian hadapinya dengan strategi bijak untuk menyelesaikannya. 

Berbincang adalah langkah terbaik. Pastikan anda memilih orang yang betul untuk berbincang. 

1. Orang yang kenal diri anda. 

2. Pandai 'mendengar'.

3. Bukan batu api tapi menenangkan hati dan menawarkan solusi. 

Masalah dan stress adalah sebahagian dari rencah hidup. Hadapinya dengan bijak akan mematangkan diri. All the best to us :-)

Muah! -xoxo-

Remember HIM..

The moment that you feel no one hears you, remember that He always listens.

The moment that you feel no one understands you, remember Him who creates you.

The moment that you feel alone, remember that He is very close and will always be there for you.

As long as you remember Him and ask for His forgiveness, He is The Most Forgiving..

But, have we done enough to earn His blessings?

Dibuai perasaan - Sentuhan Listrikmu oleh M Nasir

I tengah study tentang Krim Hormon @ Bio Ever Nano Cream yang semakin hangat dan laris di pasaran, bila TV1 menyiarkan rancangan penyanyi tersohor tanah air M. Nasir menyanyikan lagu-lagu popular beliau dalam Hiburan Minggu Ini (HMI).

I suka suara dan almost all of his songs, but this one song of him, I tak pernah dengar tajuk lagu, tapi bila dia start nyanyi..

Ouh!! Lagu nie!!

Terus stop. Terbuai perasaan. Layan jap.

I starting to hope (more like imagine) someone will dedicate this song for me..

Birthday Celebration : Escape Room @ Berjaya Times Square

My unimates tanya I nak buat aktiviti apa for my birthday. I know both of us suka 'karok' tapi I macam nak buat something yang more 'hands on'. Tapi I takde idea, so I tanya balik if she has any ideas.

Then she came out with Escape Room. I was like, "what is that?" and she starts explaining something about Running Man, which I haven't watched or has any idea about it. Seriously masa tu baru perasan I sangat ketinggalan.

So I leave the bookings and other arrangements to her. Well, I'm the birthday girl here right? Hee.

Hari yang dijanjikan tiba. Since the booking at Berjaya Times Square's Escape Room is at 3.45pm, pukul 11 pagi weol start karoks dulu kat Plaza Low Yat for 3 hours. Puas.

Solat Zuhur kat Berjaya Times Square, then we heading to the Escape Room. Few other friends start coming. Total is 5 of us. Dua orang dah pernah main kat e@curve outlet. According to them, lain bilik lain jenis situasi permainan tapi konsep tetap sama i.e. we will be given 45 minutes to escape ourselves from the situation room through the clues given. There are few situation rooms/games and are different among the outlets. On that day, we are going for 'Taken', with the highest level of difficulty. Baru first time dah main yang paling susah. Great. Berdebar okeyh.

Escape Room @ Berjaya Times Square

To find out more games at which outlet, click here for their official website

Untuk 'Taken', 5 of us digari tangan masing-masing. Basically jalan ceritanya kami diculik dan dikawal ketat. Kami cuma ada 45 minit untuk melepaskan diri sebelum pengawal datang balik. Talian hayat akan diberikan sebanyak dua kali dengan menekan butang merah yang ada dalam bilik tu. Pertama sekali kena cari kunci untuk membuka gari yang menghubungkan tangan kami. Susah nak gerak kot kan kalau asyik bergari. So enter we in.

Pergh, serius mencabar beb! Klu-klu memang tak dicapai dek akal oleh I yang baru main nie. Yang lagi dua orang tu pernah main tapi bilik lain. Ada laa jugak I menyumbang untuk few of the clues. Not bad. Heh heh.

Kami menggunakan sepenuhnya kedua-dua talian hayat, and guess what? Kami tetap kalah! Hahahah!! Mana nak sangka ada pendrive kat tingkap tu kan? Haa kan da bagi klu bocor. Lol.

Keluar je dari bilik tu memang masing-masing tak puas hati laa kan. Rasa nak main lagi sekali jer haha. Tapi dah tak adventure laa kan. Baik try situation rooms lain pulak. Which is next time :-)

Nevertheless, I had an amazing and awesome times with my beloved unimates on my birthday celebrations. Thanks girls! I love uols!!

The faces of the losers.






We had Tokyo Kitchen for lunch. Sushi, udon mee. Ittadakimasu.

And this, is my favourite of all <3

Ya Allah, thank You for Your blessings..

 I <3 MY FRIENDS!!

Apple's iOS 7

Ok jap, how do I do this?

I am currently typing this post from my iPad Mini. No, no. Bukan nak bagitau yang I baru beli iPad Mini. I da beli few months ago, mainly for my leisure. YouTube, TonTon, Waze, etc..so that I tak consume much of my cellphone battery and data usage. As a heavy user of social media, of course having separate tab can be a backup when your cellphone is out of battery. Paling-paling pun mintak tolong from Facebook or Instagram or Twitter. 

Gosh, it takes ages to type this long of paragraph..it must be the touchpad keyboard.

Anyhow I just updated iOS 7.0.4. I may be 'ketinggalan zaman' but I LOVE the new fresh layout!

Cantik kannn...bila first tengok layout 'enter password' tu terus jatuh cinta kali kedua kat iPad *poyo mode comes*

So siapa-siapa yang belum update tu, sila update k? (Ntah rupanya aku sorg je baru update)

p/s: I heard that 'poyo' = innocent. Is that true?

Pencinta Novel Melayu

Saya ada seorang kawan ofis berpangkat kakak. Hobi beliau bukan setakat membaca novel-novel Melayu, tetapi juga mengumpulnya. Tak cukup dengan baca dan kumpul, yang mana ada adaptasi ke drama tv semuanya pun tengok. Yang kagum, boleh habiskan bacaan dalam masa yang amat singkat, siap ulang lagi. Yang lagi kagum, novel lama yang baru diadaptasi pun beliau masih boleh ingat jalan ceritanya.

Itulah namanya penangan bila dah minat tu, ada je cara nak buat sampai dapat :-)

Dah lebih 3 kali ikut akak nie ke kedai buku tolong pilih novel. Sebab yang tukang pinjamnya I laa jugak. Kedai yang kami selalu tuju adalah Kedai Buku 1 Malaysia di UTC (juga dikenali sebagai Puduraya) sebab sini ada diskaun 15% dan boleh bayar guna kad kredit. Kedai buku Pustaka Minerva kat Jalan TAR tu diskaun sampai 20% tapi hanya bayaran tunai sahaja diterima.

Bila dah selalu ke Kedai Buku 1 Malaysia sebab boleh bayar dengan kad kredit, agak-agak uols berapa banyak novel akak nie beli sekali pegi?

Mana taknya akak nie jadi supplier novel Melayu untuk I?

Nie kira sikit. Sekejap je habis nie. Usually beliau akan buat sedikit research dan review tentang mana novel yang best. Siap ada list ok. Ada laa jugak tersasar dari list bila I tolong suggest novel yang nampak menarik lepas baca sinopsis dan jugak suggestions novel bestseller di kaunter bayaran. Masa tu mulalah rambang mata nak pilih mana satu untuk cukupkan bajet.

Dalam 9 buah novel di dalam gambar, salah satunya I yang punye. Kalau rajin, tekalah yang mana satu.

The nRelate for blogger and Mama's birthday celebration with durians

I was reading my previous blog posts picked by nRelate (substitute plug-in to LinkWithin) at the end of every post. I chose to read the old posts back in 2008 and 2009, when I was super active in blogging, when blogging and blog-hopping were the in-thing, and you keep receiving comments from your blog followers @ friends. Ah, those days...

And I was like,

"Oh man, I can't believe I wrote those entries?"

"My English was so smooth back then"

"What an emotional entry.."

At one point, I decided to stop 'exposing' my life through blogging. I thought some things better kept untold, coz I know myself who loves to share about every single thing happening in her life like not impacting other's. But hey, that was silly me who can't control herself. I am in better control now.

But yesterday (here you go again), it is my mom's birthday! I just cannot not sharing this. (Oh my English).

Yeah, nowadays my English is getting poorer. Please bear with me while I'm improving. Hey, that's the benefits of blogging in English! Although of course I will blog in Malay some.

Back to my mom's birthday story, 5th January of every year is her day. That morning, she was on her way back to KL from Kedah when me and my sister were googling restaurants for dinner celebration. While we were finalizing places, my eldest brother whatsapp-ed me on my plan for our beloved mother. He said that he and family were at One Utama. Called my mother on her locations and she was near Simpang Pulai, planning to buy durians! Ok, that was quite near to KL already. I told mom that brother and family is coming over for lunch, so I cancelled the dinner plan, informed my brother on lunch celebration instead.  

Choosing lunch menu is super easy. Call Domino's Pizza.

Birthday cake? Nah, that was so common. We had better substitute. 

Durians, rambutans, mangosteens. Bought by the birthday girl.

So much for a mother's birthday celebration. We <3 you Mama!

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How I spend my new year in 2014

1. Trying to be creative, setting up my own blogger header

The domain www.iynasomar.com has expired. I decided to stick with my original domain www.e-nasz.blogspot.com. Somehow it sounds more friendly to me.

To challenge myself for a fresh-2014-new-blog-look, I wanna try designing my own blogger header. Thanks to PicMonkey photo editor and tutorial from this blog, this so-not-creative-person manage to create one. An amateur looking one is already a success for a first timer. The current header is the second design which the idea came when I was taking a bath. Good ideas always come in the shower huh?

This is my first design:

 I always regard myself as a non-creative person. This new year has changed my perspective. Never thought I have hidden talent in designing. I believe with right guidance, my talent can go far. I just need to prove myself more than this.

2. Finishing up a Malay novel

Borrowed this novel from a colleague like two months ago. At that time I was searching for an activity that can brighten up my life while waiting for my Candy Crush gaining its full live. Since I did addicted to reading Malay novels before and claimed that my hobby is reading, I think it is time to have my hobby back. Looks like I took longer time than usual to finish up ONE Malay novel. Don't get me wrong, the novel is a very good story though. I did cry few times at reading it. It's just that bigger things than limited lives of Candy Crush happened that requires more of my attention. However I told myself to complete reading and return it back by 2nd January 2014. Focus and reading it with passion and full of heart, it reaches the owner's hand a day later because the owner was on leave. Nevertheless, I did it! Yeay Alhamdulillah. Another achievement for me.


3. Blog spring cleaning

Orang Melayu kata "bersihkan sawang". And that's what I did. Customizing, changing layout here and there, deciding on two-column or three-column blog etc etc. I just want my blog to be as simple and legible as it can be. Three column blog might just seemed to be "full", but as at today I found it the best way to differentiate my personal on the right, and things that I suitably use and want to share with all beautiful readers out there on the left. Repeat, ONLY the things that I use BEST. Not surprisingly, it's from the same label..BUT..more product sharing from different label coming on way, insyaAllah. Sharing for the sake of people who are unknowingly having the same problems challenges as I am before and still. Unstable hormones.


So that's about it on how my new year day was filled. I am hoping a blessed and prosperous year for myself and family.

Let's kick off 2014!

New Year fireworks from The Curve at the front of my house. Source: instagram @iynasomar