Throwback : Turkey

with Rj.

Assalamualaikum wbt, the title says it all. I was listening to a cover of little talks by of monsters and men on youtube and suddenly I sort off ran down the memory lane. Yea, whenever I go to certain places on Earth, I have a few specific songs that would eventually remind me of the place. So whenever I listen to the particular song, I would reminisce the memories happened at that place, missing all those happy and fun moments, the people, and everything. And eventually, I would cry. 

And that reminds me of the travelogue that I'm supposed to submit almost a year ago. Hehe, is it still necessary? 

The initial plan of going to Turkey was the BMCs highlight of our highschool life. The BMCs consist of three cutie pies which is Rj, Bina and I. And it stands for Bahan Motivational Committee cause we used to bahan people a lot in secret hahaha. But then Bina decided not to go, leaving Rj and I to have fun without her. She went to Korea without us in return *sobs*.

One of the most significant thing happened was I met Farra Adeera! My PRS groupmate back when we had peers camp in Pantai Remis. Pretty awesome right? We did not even plan to go to Turkey together. It's amazing. She's a crazy shopaholic one could never imagine. And I remember the incident so clearly when she bought this luxurious Turkish sajdah which costs about 180 lira for only 50 lira! I bargained for her a little bit too much. Menyesal tau, kesian orang jual tu. 

Oh the word shopaholic reminds me of Nadia, she's just ten times the shopaholic level of Farra. One of our travel mates. She's a real funny girl. 

A photo of me, Nadia and Nana at the Blue Mosque's compound.

And yes, Nana is a little girl, who's now eleven years of age. The baby of the group. A baby with an iPhone4. Yeap, that's Nana. She's so cute, she skyped with her mummy almost every night, it's so cute. 

I miss Nana T^T

We're freezing!

The photo above was taken on the first day we arrived in Turkey. I was wearing a turtleneck black top and covered with a layer of denim jacket. IT WAS FREAKING FREEZING. MY HANDS LITERALLY WENT BLUE. Well I have no idea that it would go 3 degrees celcius, I didnt even think that it would go below 10 degrees celcius! I've learnt my lesson there. 

The room mates ;D 

The photo above was taken at a mall, somewhere I forgot. We went out during the night when it was free and easy, the boys decided to play at the arcade so yeah, we tag along. 

Farra, me and Rj on the cruise at Istanbul.

At Pamukkale, place known as cotton castle. 

From back to front : Rj, Amierrul, Kris, Naqib and me.

Having fun to our max at an ancient city in Pamukkale.

From back to front : Rj, Farra, Naqib and me.

Fa'thi and Farra. 

The girls! Taken in front of Mozaik Lokum , a delight store.

From back to front : Nadia, Rj, Farra, Nana, Syifa and me.

Group photo with a few locals near the Great Mosque.

Fa'thi on his dare to hug that guy but not permitted to do so.

With the Zayn Malik look-a-like! 

I simply miss everything about Turkey. It was beyond perfect. 

Much thanks to Cikgu Asma, Tuan Hj. Nazri and his wife and of course, Mr. Bedrettin for this amazing trip. 

Alhamdulillah.

xoxo,

Iman Syafiqah

p/s: If you havent heard of the song....

Always be righteous to your mother !

Assalamualaikum wbt, 

just another amazing video I would like to share with everyone. Well, tbh, I do have some silly quarrels with my mum, but then again... I love her to bits! Do watch this video. :)

xoxo,

Iman Syafiqah 

Vanilla Cupcake Recipe, superbly easy!

Vanilla Cupcakes with Buttercream Icing. 

It was my first attempt so I kinda messed it up a bit. 

So here's the recipe ~

Cake :

110g wheat flour

110g castor sugar

2 eggs

110g butter 

1 teaspoon of baking powder. 

Icing : 

100g icing sugar

150g butter

a drop of food colouring , i used blue.

1/2 teaspoon of vanilla essence 

To make the cake, just mix the ingredients up. Pukul sampai kembang. Agak agak dah mix semua tu, masuk dlm bekas cupcake, 1/2 full. Bake for 17 minutes at 170 or 180 degrees celcius. 

Dah habis tu let it cool. 

Nak buat icing senang je, mix up ingredients. Sapu. But make sure the cake betul betul dah sejuk and icing tu tak cair.

Decorate lah with sugarcrystals or the silver thingy i used. 

Have fun baking !

xoxo,

Iman Syafiqah

Life when he's so far far far away.

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.

Okay, you might think this post is really stupid cause i'm writing about my partner but really, this isn't like the 'i mis you so much i cant breathe whenever you're not around' thing. Cause basically when he's in KL pun, we rarely met. For about 2 years of our 'friendship' (it's the most appropriate thing to describe us since both of us dont even think we're a couple), I've met him only thrice out of school. The first one was during BBW 2012, second was he came to my crib during raya and the third was quite recent at sunway.

And we never dated. Well some may assume that we did but nope, or maybe we did. But that was at school , with books oh my. I dont want to do that anymore. And the sunway thing wasnt a date pun sebab i was practically babysitting. And he had to play around, riding on bumpercars with my youngest bro. And thank GOD that HE HAD TO LAYAN MY BRO. I cant go driving the bumpercar in public. IN SUNWAY PYRAMID. HAHAHA NO.

So since he's in UTP now, it doesnt really make much difference, well, IT DID cause no more calls via the house phone. My mum knows that we've been using the house phone for any OTP moments lol. My brother eavesdropped and told my mum that I am such a gold digger. Whattee......

But I am so prooooouuud of him for getting the SPC cause that's what he really wanted and his future is getting clearer. I just have to wait for mine hehe. InshaaAllah.

Yeah...I dont have to blab about him more cause I need space to blab about myself and my life at home. Its so freaking productive, I cant be much more grateful than this. I cook and bake. And I've been eating a bit too much that I really had to workout.

I need some abs lol.

Speaking of workouts, HAHA I had quite some fun teasing my Bina whose developing triple chin since she's being ibu di rumah. Rj pun sama je tu I think.

I just cant wait to see my kiddos , since Rj is in college, she claimed to have a busy life. I bet she is, coursework and all, HAHA padan muka Rj. And Bina is just too far to reach aaaaaaaahhhh.

I'll get some cool things to post later cause now I NEED to watch a horror movie on TV. Yeaaaaaay.

p/s : Mum keeps on singing the kangkung song. Hmmm

xoxo,
Iman Syafiqah

Cook and bake!

Assalamualaikum and I'm still not going to write up about the tiny part of myself cause I wanna talk about my cooking and baking day(s) ! Cause you know I dont cook much before cause there's literally no raw materials to cook so last saturday my dad agreed to bring me out for grocery shopping.

I took a bunch yummy things and my dad was like you have to cook everyday since you took so many things. Yeap, I took so much till the receipt was so freaking long and the total costs more than 300 bucks I was like *gulp*.... We never spent that much on groceries I guess. It's not only my stuff in it to be honest but....still...I was so guilty so I really had to make something good out of it.

On sunday... yeah, I've planned to bake red velvet cake with extra extra cream cheese cause I love the cream cheese icing it's too delicious! And it was my first time baking without using the ready made ones you can get. It was from scratch but no..I didnt go dry the cocoas and grind them up to make cocoa powder. You know what I mean....right?

I thought I would bake a very hard and inedible cake with too much colouring but alhamdulillah, it went well and it tastes good hahah i guess.

Until I was so smart enough to put the whole cake into the freezer. OVERNIGHT. Whoops. And today when I took it out...It was freaking hard and I had to wait for quite a long time for it to defrost. It's yummyyyyy.

And the fun moments are when I cooked / baked my first macaroni and cheese plus bolognese sauce. HAHAHA.

So I thought I was ready for everything, but I forgot to take the beef from the freezer and I realized that I couldnt open the jar of tomato basil sauce...im such a wimp.

Iqbal says so too!

So I had to ask my sister to do me a favour and she couldnt open the jar too. And I thought we're doomed. And... it was my brilliant idea to ask her to run to the guards so they could open the jar because there were no one else at home. And we are both wimps.

I didn't go and ask the guards' favour cause I had to take care of the defrosting beef in the oven. A few minutes later she got home with the opened jar and a smile on her face... with a little bit of embarrassment I guess but it's okay as long that I could bake / cook my mac and cheese.

And yeap, it's so yummy.

The next day, which is today, ... I made bolognese pasta and I decided to text my partner about it.
It goes " Hey I made spaghetti today be jelly " (It was actually macaroni bolognese...Idk why i texted him spaghetti anyways...

And he replied ...

"You have to cook lunch for us when we're married"

AHAHAHAHA LOL!

xoxo,
Iman Syafiqah

Sticky glue.

Assalamualaikum everyone, so today I've decided to say a lot of things about the other tiny part of myself.

So when I got back from Umraa, I find out that it is super weird to go outside without wearing an abaya. Like cant you imagine....for two whole weeks being in Mecca and Madinah wearing a simple black abaya and when you're back in Malaysia...you think you might be wearing jeans and tshirt just like that, it's so freaking weird. I just cant. So I went out wearing my abaya. Not going anywhere though just sending my brother to his weekly cambridge class and maybe head up to the nearest supermarket to buy a super glue.

Until my mum decided to go to a hardware store... and I have been given the privilege to get the super glue for her. And why on earth do we need super glue that bad? Cause a few weeks back my mum accidentally ran over something and the tyre of the car seemed to chip off a bit.

It was her brilliant idea though to recolour the chipped off part with sharpie and glue the torn rubber pieces back onto the tyre. For laughing out loud mum...haha. But honestly , it's a smart idea to get out of trouble and dad wouldn't ever smell any mischief going out...he'll be totally blow off if he knew what happened cause he just bought the tyre recent enough before the unfortunate accident. Hm.

So I went to the hardware shop , wearing my abaya, ( I feel so great wearing it tbh ) ... but its weird to see a teenage girl in full black from head to toe in Malaysia...and in a hardware shop.

The salesman was like " Hai kak, mahu cari apa?" and I was like " Nak gam gajah " , and he was like " Okay mari ikut saya " and there was like a whole shelf full of super glues... I do not even know which to choose....

So the salesman continued " Mahu gam apa? "
I was like ... " Mahu gam tayar kereta "

He gave me the confused WTH look. Pfft... I was fully prepared for such embarrassment anyways.

" Cik sure ke mahu gam gajah...untuk gam tayar kereta "

" Yes, sure lah "

Then he said to the other salesman... "Dia mahu gam tayar kereta"

The other salesman laughed...or maybe snorted even omg....

And the glue costs about RM4.00 and I handed him RM50.00 ... double embarrassment.

I just smiled to them both and walk away quickly cause I can't even stay there any longer.

And yes, that's the story of me , the abaya and the hardware store.

So I thought about sharing you this tiny part of me again but I think I just wrote up such a long hardware super glue story and I've decided to write it up in my next post. InshaaAllah, tak janji. HAHAHA.

xoxo,
Iman Syafiqah.

p/s : Do go into a hardware store to buy a super glue kononnya to glue a tyre and walk out the store in style.

Turning Hatred to Love

This video inspires me. I think that everyone should watch this :)

xoxo,
Iman Syafiqah