Random Rambles of Lotfi

Hi again people...2 hari lepas, I was going through my old stuff from at least 20 years ago. Old letters, diaries, cards and other junks and between those stuff found three small pieces of papers with my own handwriting. Cantekkkk rupanya tulisan akak masa tuh..eh..eh off topic... Anyway, it brought back a lot of memories and I remember copying those words from somewhere and made a pact to myself to somehow lead my life according to those 11 points..of course not forgetting Allah s.w.t and his qada' and qadar lah... Just want to share with you and Aisyah, Imran (and later Khairin and Zaim) if you are reading , it doesn't hurt to learn from this: 1) I can control many of the circumstances in my life, I am an initiator. 2) I create or find choices and options for myself 3) I am in charge of myself and will determine what is best for myself 4) I am entitled to my opinions even if others disagree with them. And I do not have to defend these opinions. 5) I create my own moo...

This is a soon as possible as it can get...What's up peeps???Assalamualaikum!! When was the last entry again?? 3rd of May?? Ok lah tu...baru 15, 16 days ago. Y'know updating this blog is a luxury for me. Dengan kerja yang berlambak-lambak + home affairs+studies. M lucky I get to update once in a while. The exam is finaly over and it's semester break now!!! Yeay!! I got another 5 subjects to go before graduation. Help me, God!! Continuing from my last entry about my Cannes trip, well, the last day of the trip we managed to drive across the border to Italy. To this fantastic day market in Ventigmilia. Jalan sepanjang-panjang jual barang. Rasanya 3 kali Petaling Street kot?? Mak ngan abah jer tak der kat sini, engkau.. Handbags cecantik. Yang italian leather dan berbau seperti kulit lembu yang baru...jgn orang kata bukan leather lah kan..is as cheap as 30 euro if you are lucky like moi!! Dalam RM130 lah. Kat sini tak dapat, labu..The drive from Cannes to Ventigmilia was...

Wowee...I have to stop making entries like this...lama betul tak tulis..Whether you miss me or not..tatau lah akak...tapi I sure miss this blog of mine..perasaan dah... I've been away peeps. Two days after my last entry, I was flying off to Cannes in the south of France for work. The night flight at 10.45pm from KLIA was delayed till about 12.20am before it took off. The 12 hours flight took us all the way to Fiumicino Airport in Rome. All the while in the flights tak bley nak tidor. Ni lah dia travel economy...kaki panjang tak muat..I was talking to this woman, from Rome, who was travelling from Sydney. She has been flying for almost 24 hours, lagi haru ...Bila dah sampai kat Rome, si fomfuan itiew dengan seronoknyer memeluk and cium akak macam dah 10 tahun kenal before she said goodbye..Hish omputih nih kalau dah berbual satu malam dah macam mak dia lah dibuatnye aku nih... At Rome airport, my colleagues yang kaki shopping sempat berGucci dan berFurla..Sakan!! Cheaper than back ...

Ha...after not writing for so long, I have two posts today...Birthdays do funny things to people. Like how we celebrated Imran's birthday in TGIF before I left for my JB trip last week. It was 5th April and he turned 12. My boy is almost a young man already. A day before that he told me he wants to get his IC tomorrow..So proud of turning 12 and getting IC, I must say... So like I said we went to TGIF do his birthday dinner and when I told him I was going to get the TGIF boys to do the normal birthday routine they always do, he was all red and told me, " Kalau mama buat, Imran nak lari masuk toilet", " Malulah", "Jangan, jangan buat...Imran lari". So in the end tak de lah. But it was a good birthday do for him anyway. The same night, I left for JB for my long over due visit to my Mak. It was me, Khairin and Zaim in the night bus to JB. Beli 3 seats, tapi the whole night, Zaim was trying to sleep on my lap. Sigh, the clingy fella... penat seh... R...

Hari ni birthday kita...The guys at work surprised me with a huge, sinful chocolate cake. And lots of sing song...Fabulous!!! Thanks guys. What's even more fab was semalam at 12 midnight masa I was dozing off on my way to dreamland, my sweet babies, woke me up with birthday song and present. A brand, spanking new, fantastic, Nokia 6300 courtesy of hubbybaby!! Thanks babe!! What's more fantabulous than that? You should see Zaim's signature on the card that kakak has made him do. And Imran smiling to himself with the notion that he's getting my old handphone...And they woke Khairin up from her slumber to sing me Happy Birthday...I love you guys!! Earlier, we had dinner at the wrap-up get together of the production of ASAM GARAM. Had loads to eat..barbeque and all. Adibah and Dee was there. Met the havoc Yazlan, the owner of the bungalow where the shoot took place. We are also planning the PC for the program to be done there. Grey's Anatomy The Third Season de...

Lamanya tak tulis. My last rambles were on the 18th March. That's like more than two weeks ago. I've been so busy, super duper busy....Classes are finally over. Thank God!! Tapi assignments ada 2 lagi tak siap. Matilah mek!!! Meeting the rest of my course mates tomorrow to finish the darn things. The last two weekends have been well spent. One week, we went to Cineleisure to try and catch a movie. Takder tickets so we end up at one of the outlets there, shooting hoops, playing silly fun games, playing foosbal and also karaoke. Turned out to be massive fun! Lamanyer rasa tak kuar dengan the kids and do all these fun stuff! we also hung out at Amir and Fiza's place that nite and managed to catch excerpts of the first AF concerts. Hampeh seme bebudak tu menyanyi. Kak Ogy is one of the permanent jurors and she's doing a great job. Managed to text her to tell her so. Last weekend I managed to catch the sale at Ikea. Belikan birthday present for my sister. Dia nak this r...

Eh...eh...lamanyer tak tulis...kata orang yang baca bendaalah nih...Ye le macamana nak tulis...I can hardly sit down to do something before something else demanded my attention. Ni lah malam-malam Ahad yang besok aku kena bangun pagi pegi kerja baru dapat nak update... The last time, I wrote I was in KLIA waiting for our flight to Jakarta. Konon, nak tulis kat sna, tapi hampeh...tak sempat, nyah!!! The trip turns out to be a fantastic one. Bandung was DA BOMB..a shopping haven for all things branded albeit dalam factory outlet lah kan??? Cik mur sesangat...Hubby kita shopping sakan. Beli jeans dia, tiga helai..shirts berhelai-helai, a pair of shoes...kira lengkaplah wardrobe..And I thot I was the shopaholic! Akak tak beli banyak..shopping lite-lite jer..But one thing's for sure, we made a pact to come back to Bandung. Senoroks giler!!!! We took the KLM Jakarta Bandung Twin Jewel tour so sepatutnya tour nyer haruslah keliling tourist spots in Jakarta and Bandung kan, kan??? But...

Plaza Premium Lounge-that's where I'm writing from. This is KLM Lounge for business class passengers. Will be boarding the flight at approximately 4.40pm to Jakarta. Leaving work and everytjhing behind and most importamntly WORK!!!! Yay! This is a 4 days 3 nights holiday that me, hubby and frens from his office are taking. We will be going aroung Jakarta and Bandung. This is not my first time in Jakarta but will be a completely different experience from my last trip to Jakarta last year. That one was a working trip with production of a TV program but all the same that trip was particularly enjoyable with Lin and Shikin coming along. The irony of this trip is that, Lin will also be flying to Jakarta tomorrow and Shikin will flying in on Monday. So basically we will all be in Jakarta at about the same time albeit separately. Now, is that a coincident or what? Just got an SMS this morning that a client has decided not to sponsor one of our new programs due to some internal pr...

Phew! Just got comfortable after reaching home from the office an hour ago. One PC done, another to go. Tonite was a session with the media on 2 returning programs, Wakenabeb! and Thursday Nite Live. After much planning, harrassing, running around, tonite's session went quite well! Well done, Fayz!! Well, that's not taking into account stepping on people's territory, some miscomm here and there, working around other people's timing and stuff. Well, part and parcel of planning stuff. But my policy has always been..if things cocked up, just move along as planned. No use sweating over small stuff. And better luck next time! Faizal OIAM was guest in TNL and that boy really rocked! He performed his staple medley of WWRU, L.O.V.E and Gavin DeGraw's I don't wanna be..and the audience wanted more. We had a short Q&A with the media, as most of the Q&A was done earlier before the show, and Faizal launched into another song; Queen's I WANT TO BREAK FREE an...

Yesterday, my day started with meetings the first half of the day. Meetings in KL no matter how short will take up half the day anyway. Drove to Menara Olympia after a short stop at Bank Rakyat. Had to call Andie twice to ask for directions as I'm hopeless with the roads in KL. Arrived on time and had a good session with The Storyteller and Ivan. The Storyteller , as the first time I met her last month was her usual candid self and I don't think I can ever get tired of her enlightening chatter. At times, her stories gave me goosebumps. She has this uncanny ability to make simple stories sound so interesting. Time flew so fast. After that I made a stop at CIMB where I met the most wonderful human being who helped me by providing lots and lots of info for my Uni assignment. Joyce, thank you. You're an angel. Kalau aku tak dapat A paper ni memang sia-sia lah.Had lunch with her and all throughout it she gave me all the stuff that I needed and more that I can't help feelin...

It's Monday again! Started the day with my routine 30 minutes morning walk and I was in the office by 8.45am. Made a silent prayer that this week will be a better one than last week. Oh..last week was disastrous! Whatever that could go wrong went wrong! Work, at least. On Friday,an arse of a man called himself a professional when he made crucial decisions without consulting us who are paying for the whole bloody show! And announced HIS DECISION to the media!! FRAK!!! Let's wait and see what comes out of this. Man, the biggies ain't gonna be too thrill with this.. The weekend came and go..Saturday was Khairin's first day at sekolah ugama. I sent her. Sampai sana ada seorang budak lelaki about her age yang agak chubby and cakap kuat bila tengok Khairin.."Eh, eh comelnyer!" Kelakar lah kids nowadays. She was so nervous but when she came back to hours later, it was chatty, chatty all the way.."Mama, tau tak mengucap 2 kalimah syahadah? Mama, do you know ruku...

This has been a crazy week. Yesterday my big boss freaked me out twice! No details here..but really a double downer to my already down Tuesday. The thing about me is that I don't get Monday blues that most people get on the first day of work week. Monday is the day that I will be full of energy and zest to conquer the world..chewah. My energy levels go down with each passing day especially mid week. And yesterday, I missed my morning walk which I think was part of the reason of the energy sap. Amende aku merepek nih... Well, always a good side to things though, as always. Tuesday night is 'vegetate in front of TV night'. From 8.30pm with Grey's Anatomy on ntv7 followed by 9.30pm with Ugly Betty and then Desperate Housewives till 11.30pm. I love, love, love Grey's. Always give me something to think about every week, besides the other thinking I do lah... Like yesterday's episode Meredith was saying (in her v.o) among other things.. ...and then there are the...

Thanks for reading my blog and thanks for being the first 'tagger' (ada ke perkataan nih?).Walaupun pun kau tak kata kau tag kat aku...aku tetap dengan perasaan PERASANnya rasa macam telah ditag ..(You know who you are..). So, here goes : 6 WEIRD THINGS ABOUT ME...(at least I think they're weird..) 1.I always eat all the green colour M&Ms first before going for the other colours. 2.I still keep love letters and my diary from 16 years ago. 3.I'm very restless, can't sit around doing nothing for more than 5 minutes. 4.I pinch my family's butt as a form of endearment. 5.I sing aloud in the car when driving alone. 6.Crying is a way for me to handle and cope with happiness, sadness and most other feelings you can think of...so I actually cry a lot which I think is very, very weird..but it comes easy to me...and I think my daughter dah menjangkit lah...how??? I'm tagging zaida , feelgoodboy, iwan and aisyah

Am at home now....updating this while behind me my 4 year old boy is pretending to be Power Rangers with toys covering the room's floor. Sepatutnyer ada work function nih..I have to represent the boss, tapi....have delegated to junior colleague...Hope I won't get into trouble.(hmmm...perhaps I shouldn't write this...) My life will slow down a little these next 2 days. Hubby's out for a meeting..it's friday nite anyway... This is my time to reflect on what has happened the last 5 days. Y'know, my hubby used to say "y'know you don't think much, d'you? About why things happened around you..you just let things go by without thinking why certain things go this way and not that way thus you don't learn from them". Now I find myself thinking a little too much than what I would've liked, but I suppose it does some good..iyo ko???kwang, kwang, kwang...Kengkadang pikir bebanyak pun fenin jugak...apa nak pikir-pikir? Lagi fonkius ada lah....

I had second, third, fourth thots about writing this blog. After all, my life is not very interesting with basically no social life outside work and the family. Amende aku nak tulis dalam blog ek? Tetapi disebabkan oleh perasaan perasan yang meluap-luap mengatakan..."tulislah, tulislah...", akak hentam jer lah.. My life as I wrote in the profile basically centers around work and also the family. Friends??? Work colleagues lah! Contacts with close friends from my school days are quite minimal as most of them are in JB, my hometown. I only see them when I go back to JB which is like average 3 times a year?? Friends outside work are friends that are also friends of my hubby....(eh..betul ke ayat nih??)...and these people have been with me through thick and thin.These are the people I see on a regular basis. Their kids are almost like mine and vice versa. No social life? Hmmm...betul ke statement ni? When I do go out WITHOUT the family, it's usually..no....it's ALWAY...

My daughter said I should give it a shot I'm bored stiff I wanna see how far I could go with this I read far too many other people's blog.. enuff to motivate me to write one myself I'm a bit delusional...thinking other people will read this I have streamyx at home which my 'better half' is paying for I have so many things going on inside my head and I find myself going cuckoo talking to myself