as a gift to a Prof in one of the local Uni here in Alor Star, from a lady in KL, not just any lady, my good friend, not just any friend, my secondary school friend,
ring! ring!
I was interrupted by a ringing tone from my Nokia phone
"Abah lalu "Hj. Ramli", nak tak?"
bagaikan orang mengantuk disorongkan bantal..........it's a big YES or just a simple answer from me, " cantik sekali!"......
message understood and he hung up the phone.
okay, that's lunch settled for today, all I have to do next is finishing this entry, and later pick up the kids from schools, not just one kid but three kids and not just one school, but from three different schools.
How I wish I could just change things to the way they were when I was schooling. No abah or Umi sending or picking me up from school because school was only a five minutes walk away from home, thus, no shouting in the morning, " hurry up! it's already 7 am!". In fact we, my Abah( who's one of the teachers in my school ), Umi and I , my eldest brother and sister were already up and about by then, and already were in our neighbour's house called Mek Hawa who sold the nasi berlauk in the morning.That's breakfast taken care of and Umi sometimes made nasi goreng for me to bring to school.Even if she did not have time to make them in the morning, worry not, for she can always send them to me or rather hand it over to me via the fence behind our house because the school is ......just right there........
maybe I would like to change the 'transportation ' area but maybe not the 'bathing' area. there was one major difference, kids today or rather mums today , okay, me in particular, do not need to boil water in the morning for the kids' bath for they only need to turn on the hot water switch and the hot or warm water just whoosh out of the tap
that was my primary school experience but things were totally different when I was in my secondary school, because I was away, far, far away from home, for five , long but beautiful years, and yet, the sending of food did not stop there, it still continued but not over the fence, this time via registered parcel which contained not nasi goreng but rather packages of serunding daging or ikan bilis
This lady, who requested for this 'hamper' share the same long but wonderful five years with me in the same school, shared the same nasi kawah, air sirap biji selasih during the fasting month, shared the same sky when we watched the movies on the netball court, and shared the same bus going back to our home town during the school holidays, we were only to be separated after our SPM exam where we went separate ways but after many many years, our paths crossed again
goodies for 'makan-makan'- red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese, blueberry cheesetarts, brownies with walnut, semolina cookies, choc chip cokies and melting moments
in Zue's Oven hand drawn paper bag
thank you Jay for your trust in me in making the hamper to be given to the Prof, and thank you Azizul for collecting them on her behalf.
After seeing the eight white baskets ,he called me and asked for three hampers forhisown. one for his mother, the other forhis MIL andanother ine wasfor his ex-boss. 
pinkbasket with black and white polka dots ribbon
another white basket with slightly different deco. I don't know which basket goes to who but ijust want to say thank you to En.Zaki.thank you
hamper oh hamper!
macam nak buat bekashantaranlah pulak, my table filled with baskets,ribbons,flowers,etc
fille with cookies
and ready,three of these for Dr Annie who will then give them to her Malay friendswho celebrates EidilFitri, thank youAnnie
A basket of raya goodies
cookies
carrot walnut cakewith creamcheese frosting and EI of Boboiboy,thank you Su
brownies with walnut 
one of the basket for Elah
the other one
mediumsized hamper
big mengkuang
small mengkuang
almond london and roselle jem tart, all the hampers, two big hamper, five mediumones,and10 smallmengkuang with the cookies are for my Srikandi friend,Elah who ordered them for her hubby and she drove themall back to Perak.
one complimentary BWW for Elah,thank you for your support,dear
suka nyer.....
lagi suka, lapan kali suka.... sebab lapan bakul.......
lagi suka....
the goodies inside, all home made fresh from my oven, I like also.....
eight basket with eight different designs
yang ni pulak ke kiri...
All eight baskets filled with goodies, ready for pick up at 9.30 am, which I managed to complete by 8 am ( less than 24 hours notice)...
thank you Sue and SSI.Selamat Menyambut Ramadhan AlMubarak and soon, Selamat Menyambut Hari Raya Aidil fitri.
12th day of Ramadhan, time flies and we are already in the second week of our fasting month. Mothers busy looking for new garments ,clothes and shoes for their children,fathers, probably visiting the nearest cars showroom ,to replace the old car with brand new one maybe ,no no, that should be done months earlier because cars are not like shoes or handbags where you can buy them off the shelves,right? They need time to be delivered to you.but I got mine ( last year) on the first day of Ramadhan,just one month before Eid, others celebrate raya with new 'baju' but,me,new,beaming machine on wheels....and that also became my birthday present,and my anniversary gift, last year and this year too!!! but who's complaining.Alhamdulillah, we should always be grateful with what was bestowed upon us.
but hey, there are other options where you can please your loved ones, not only through diamond,gold and bling bling, but in this case, not so much of a loved one but someone equally important, in different ways. Even the most difficult to please mother in law would be smiling or grinning ear to ear, receiving this wonderful basket of home made goodies this coming eid festival. 
A basketfull of home made brownies and cookies, three types of each. There are MCB,marble cheese brownies, BWW, brownies with walnut and LB,luxury brownies ( kalau LV kan best..hehe..) and cookies, thefamous ( famous to me! ) CCC, chocolate chip cookies,sweet smelling SC, semolina /suji cookies and the cookies with all kinds of powders in it, with green tea powder ( the price is like a bomb!! very explosively expensive), ice cream powder, rice flour, corn flour, name whatever flour you like, and they are in the there, none other than the GT, ice cream green tea cookies. 
something simple yet still as delectable and scrumptious, this BWW in small transparent boxes as gifts
Even with just a single ribbon tied around it changed the appeareance and make it presentable and suitable as 'buah tangan'.
Add a simple note with the Hari Raya wishes, complete the final touch of this hamper. 
as a gift to a Prof in one of the local Uni here in Alor Star, from a lady in KL, not just any lady, my good friend, not just any friend, my secondary school friend,
that was my primary school experience but things were totally different when I was in my secondary school, because I was away, far, far away from home, for five , long but beautiful years, and yet, the sending of food did not stop there, it still continued but not over the fence, this time via registered parcel which contained not nasi goreng but rather packages of serunding daging or ikan bilis
This lady, who requested for this 'hamper' share the same long but wonderful five years with me in the same school, shared the same nasi kawah, air sirap biji selasih during the fasting month, shared the same sky when we watched the movies on the netball court, and shared the same bus going back to our home town during the school holidays, we were only to be separated after our SPM exam where we went separate ways but after many many years, our paths crossed again
goodies for 'makan-makan'- red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese, blueberry cheesetarts, brownies with walnut, semolina cookies, choc chip cokies and melting moments
thank you Jay for your trust in me in making the hamper to be given to the Prof, and thank you Azizul for collecting them on her behalf.
