IT'S A PANDAN LIFE ...!

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back. ~Mick Jagger #01 – Describe 10 things about the person who tagged you (Iman) 01 Iman is my cousin’s daughter. Her mom, Kak Yati, is Mak Chom’s daughter. Mak Chom was my dad’s half sister. Mak Chom and my dad shared the same father. 02 I’ve known Iman since she was a baby, back when her parents used to stay at Taman Permata. 03 I really like her name. Iman Hayat. It sounds so glorious and majestic. 04 I was told that Iman was named after her father’s friend (I think his friend is a female, of Arabic or African descent, I’m not sure), back when he used to study in the States. 05 I have never thought that she would do engineering. English or Humanities, was more like it. 06 Iman used to be my best friend back when I stayed with her family in Skudai. She was probably nine or ten years old at that time. It was my first teaching post, and I had no place to stay. We shared the same room for about two months and w...

Love and eggs are best when they are fresh. ~ Russian proverb. Telur pindang is simply delightful. I can’t get enough of them! I don’t remember when I actually acquired the taste but every time these eggs are available at home (normally in small quantities), my sisters and I would be fighting to get the eggs all to ourselves. When my sis got married last July, she insisted that every guest is given a telur pindang . I concurred, thinking of the number of telur pindang that I would be able to savour. When I got home for the wedding, my sis, mom, aunt and uncle were busy at the back of my grandma’s house, taking out the already boiled telur pindang from the large pots. The fragrant aroma of spices wafted through the air and I had half the mind to soak my self in the pots for a spice bath (is there such thing?). Because the smell was so nice, (like the taste , it is a smell that you have to acquire ), I quickly volunteered to fill the bakul telur with the eggs (so I can avail myself ...

If you have made another person on this earth smile, your life has been worthwhile.~ Sr. Mary Christelle Macaluso I wake up with a zest ‘Cause you make me smile I eat with pleasure ‘Cause you make me smile I work and I hum ‘Cause you make me smile I go home and don’t dread it ‘Cause you make me smile Now I’m trying to sleep And you still make me smile. 14.12.08 11.25 pm.