Selamat Pengantin Baru Ida!

12.49pm, Helen Deroy Apartments

Hari ni hari terakhir spring break, maka esok bermulalah kelas & exam yang bakal menyusul. Well, bring it on! lagi cepat habis exam, lagi cepat habis semester, lagi cepat balik cuti! yeay!!

Pengantin Moden

Tahniah & selamat pengantin baru kepada Ida & Torek, semoga bahagia dunia & akhirat. Nak tau salah satu ciri pengantin moden? hah, sila rujuk gambar dibawah ye..hehe.. Teknologi dah canggih, walaupun kawan jauh beribu batu tapi boleh je contact2, jauh tu cuma jarak dan ianya subjektif. Kadang-kadang tu kita nampak macam dekat tapi sebenarnya 'jauh', jadi baiklah nampak macam jauh tapi sebenarnya 'dekat' kan? :)

Penambahan Rakyat Malaysia di Detroit

Tahniah kepada K.Nadiah & suami (satu-satunya family Malaysian yang diketahui kewujudan di Detroit/Wayne State University) atas kelahiran cahaya mata kedua, baby girl, hari khamis lepas. Alhamdulillah semuanya selamat tapi belum tengok lagi baby Nabeeha ni sebab mama nya masih kat hospital. Hari K.Nadiah bersalin, saya telah dengan jayanya baby sit Arfan (their son). Arfan pun ok je, dia tau mama nya pergi hospital.

Cuaca Baik Penyebab Homesick

Cuaca memang baik bila masuk musim bunga ni, dah terasa macam Malaysia bila cuaca panas macam ni. Half of me has gone back home... Makin homesick pulak sekarang. Jumaat lepas kami melawat The Detroit Institute of Arts. Setiap hari ahad ada free admission, sakit kaki berjalan & saya ni bukanlah jenis orang yang appreciate sangat lukisan-lukisan sume ni kan..hehehehe...

Ustaz Don

Rabu lepas sy live on air dengan Ustaz Don, ye2.. tv show 30 Minit Ustaz Don kat TV Al Hijrah tu lah! Live from Detroit! InsyaAllah nanti sy cerita panjang lebar lagi sebab tak jumpa lagi kat you tube sesape yang record episod tu.

Homesick kali ke-2..

8.52pm, Helen Deroy Apartments

Spring break has just started, mood kurang baik sikit hari ni... homesick la hari ni, homesick kali ke-2 sepanjang kat sini. 1st time masa birthday tahun lepas, masa tu memang sangat2 lah syahdu, lagi syahdu dari raya..huhuhu..tak tau la kenapa.

*ok sudahlah*

Sabtu lepas, kami pergi Ann Arbor, 45minit dari Detroit. Pelajar-pelajar Malaysia kat University of Michigan buat Malaysian Cultural Night. We had so much fun, jumpa ramai orang Malaysia, kenal kawan-kawan baru. Kawan-kawan yang sebelum ni jumpa kat fb je, akhirnya dapatlah jumpa in person. Borak punya borak sampai pukul 1am++, sampai Detroit dah pukul 2 lebih.

Bulan 3 dah nak sampai setengah, tak sabar nak tunggu akhir bulan 5. 1 minggu sebelum flight date ada Mid West game, annual event yang mana pelajar-pelajar Malaysia kat Mid West area of US ni akan buat macam festival sukan lah. Tahun ni kat Illinois, Illinois tu kat mana? Illinois berjiran je dengan Michigan ni & Chicago tu kat Illinois state lah.

Pen off, nak tengok tv~~~~

Hai obat..

7.17pm, Helen Deroy Apartments

Activated!

Semalam dah dpt simcard cutter jd iphone telah selamat diaktifkan. Macam orang lain, sy pun turut sama berborak dgn Siri, feature iphone 4s yg best tu.. Tanya soalan pelik2 sampai lewat tido semalam. Tak lupa juga install game angry bird..hehe.. Hari ni hari berjalan ke Dearborn dgn housemate & her mom merangkap mak angkat sy.. :)

Syifa

9.44am, Helen Deroy Apartments

Dah 2,3 hari tak berapa sihat.. mula dengan gatal tekak, selsema & feverish on and off. Hari ni pun tak pergi lab. Kat luar sejuk, malas nak keluar. Nak rehat je kat rumah. Setakat ni telan paracetamol & ubat sakit tekak bawak masa datang sini. Semoga Allah memberi kesembuhan~~~

What Swims in the Sea?

10.57am, 3027 Science Hall

Assalamualaikum.. Posting this from my lab, it's a bright & sunny winter day. I just love sunshine! Weekend was ok, nothing super interesting.. groceries shopping with K.Nadiah's family at Walmart & Super Greenland Supermarket in Dearborn. Sy telah menjumpai & membeli sesuatu yang sungguh menarik kat Super Greenland, iaitu ikan talapia berkepala & berekor! Something that we take for granted (well at least me), sekali datang sini ikan kat supermarket jenis fillet belaka. Walaupun frozen, tetap terasa lebih nikmat dapat makan talapia penuh bertulang ni. Lagipun ikan ni dah siap siang & buang sisik (cleaned & scaled) jadi boleh terus masak je.

cleaned & scaled

garam & kunyit

teknik menjimatkan minyak :P

talapia siap digoreng

talapia masak taucu

Let me back up a bit, hari Jumaat lepas we (my housemate, her mom & me) attended birthday party of cute little Aisha, my housemate's cousin's daughter at Bloomfield Hills. Had a great time there, makan briyani, kebab etc. I was surrounded by urdu-speaking people but still I had lots of fun, rasa macam dlm movie hindustan gitu! I was a bollywood movies fan & I still do so bolehlah tangkap lah jugak setakat perkataan2 common yang biasa kita dengar dlm TV kan. And, and, and as I posted on my fb last week, they call me Noura! / Noura bhaji (bhaji means kakak, interchangeable with dhidi). Nice name huh! :)

Cute Aisha or they called her Aishu :)

Aishu cutting her birthday cake assisted by her 2 sisters; Khadija & Fatima

Princess Aishu tasting her birthday cake

Now, back to the tittle, "What swims in the sea?". This question was being asked by Abdullah, my housemate's little cousin (he's a talkative-6years-smart boy). Tau lah kan kalau budak-budak bertanya, penuh excited & dorang rasa macam soalan yang dorang tanya tu cukup mencabar minda. I answered "Fish". Then Abdullah replied "Yes" but seconds after that he changed his mind, he said "No, not fish, FISH". Confusing???? hahaha.. Let me spell it for you, he said, "not fish (they way we normally pronounce it, i sounded i), fish (i sounded a lil' bit like e). He got me!! hahaha.. I did not pronounce it in a proper american accent!! LOL but I guess I learned!!

My other friend Amy, once I invited her to chill up at my apartment while waiting for her class, she explained to me about american accent, how they really stress on vowels (a,e,i,o,u). And last week when we had our lunch, she said I sounded Italiano when I say Pepsi! hahaha.. (I wish I could insert an audio to compare Pepsi the way we normally pronounce & how americans pronounce it).

p/s: "hahaha.." here & there, just proved that I had a good time last week. Alhamdulillah, all praises to Allah! :)

Siri

10.31pm, Helen Deroy Apartments

Seminggu malas nak menaip, tiap-tiap hari dtg tengok, banyak nak cerita tapi malas nak menaip. Alhamdulillah, my Miss Siri just came in yesterday tapi micro sim card sedang diusahakan jadi belum boleh activate lagi.

I learnt slide staining & how to read them this week. New things, love the experience. Next week need to ask one of my labmates that I supposedly tagging with right now if possible to give me simple cell lines to grow. Will mother them well~~~ :P