Hello March 2015!

Bila dah lama tinggal, susah nak mula balik.

What is it that I don't have? Push factor? Inspiration? Ideas to write?

Malam tadi tak boleh nak tido. Scroll channel menu kat Astro pun takde cite best. Nak main Soda Crush Saga takde mood. Nak baca novel tapi tak nak dibuai perasaan palsu. Sudah. Lost.

Solat. Baca Quran. Tengah uzur. Boleh zikir. But I wanna do something. Something that can make me lost in me. Something that I think I do best.

Hence another blog layout. The last time I change the layout was in mid 2014, wrote few posts, then abandoned it again until today. Will the cycle start again?

Masalah diri pasal blogging, bila tengah ada idea masa tu jugak nak tulis. Tapi masa tu laa tengah driving, tengah keje siapkan credit papers. From Client Coverage to Corporate Banking, my time often been occupied with numbers, ratios, analysis, cash flows, calculations and the list goes on..

So can I be consistent in blogging again? I hope yes. Coz I have found out that these days I spent most of the times at home, playing Soda Crush Saga. If not, watching action movies. Thanks to Kingsman and the Secret Service, I prefer actions to love stories now. Enough with all the lovey-dovet things. Penat.

Wait. Is this about me being old?

Chill. I'm just 28. And single. Chill. As cliche as it sounds, age is just a number.

- Panic mode button on and off -

Today is the 1st of March 2015. Just nice timing to start blogging again in 2015. Thanks to the can't-sleep-condition last night Ya Allah. I view this as another hikmah for me to make a comeback. In writing. In blogging. 

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?

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

Nak install Facebook Like Button Plugins kat Blogger?

Hi Beautiful Readers~

Ok tak my new blog theme? Sempena post ke 501 kononnya..hihi..personally I found it refreshing dan luas sikit mata memandang :-p

Bila da tukar theme nie, biasa laa ada some plugins and widget mesti hilang. But since I stick to blogger template, so almost all maintain except for one:

-The Facebook Like Button-

 

I kena cari balik the steps and luckily, masa my TLC mentor CDM Al-Faath Al-Ayubbi yang first sekali tolong masukkan button Facebook tu, I tengok step by step. Macam samar-samar but alhamdulillah manage to recall. The moral of the story here is please focus when your teaching is teaching :-D

Sebab I tak nak pisang berbuah berkali-kali (coz I nie rajin tukar theme, rasa bosan je tukar), I buat keputusan nak abadikan satu entri tentang cara-cara untuk install balik this Facebook Like Button plugins untuk kebaikan kita bloggers bersama.

So here it goes.

How to Add the Facebook Like Button Below every Post

1. First Generate the Facebook code using the options below. (Code will be updated with these details)

Button Type	Standard Button CountBox Count
Text on Button	LikeRecommend
Show Send Button	YesNo
Color Scheme	LightDark
Font	arial lucida grandesegoe ui tahoma trebuchet ms verdana
Float	None LeftRight
Location of the Button	Below the Post Content Above the Post Content
Display	On Post pages only EverywhereEverywhere other than Static Pages

<div>
<b:if cond='data:post.isFirstPost'> 
<script>(function(d){
  var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk'; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}
  js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;
  js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1";
  d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(js);
}(document));</script>
</b:if> 
<fb:like expr:href="data:post.canonicalUrl" layout='standard' send='true' show_faces='false' font="arial" action="like" colorscheme="light"></fb:like>
</div>

2. Copy the Above code. Login to your Blogger Account and go to Template > Edit HTML

Click somewhere within the Template Editor and press Ctrl + F to search within the template.

3. Search for <data:post.body/> and immediately above that code, place the copied code.

If you find multiple occurrences of <data:post.body/> , do the same for each of them.

Senang je kan? Just follow step by step and you'll be fine baby! All the best!

(Kalau tak jadi pls give me feedback tau)

Love,

Iynas Omar