Madamoiselle: The Game Plan

My sister, 'Oleev' was admitted to the hospital 2 days ago, charged for probably an appendix but was not yet confirmed. She had been ultrasound-ed and endoscoped down under and I'm still blurry with her condition. There hadn't been any results yet but She was already permitted to pack back home until further notice from her appointments. Get Well soon Sis!!

Anyway, I was planning to visit her at the hospital when they texted that she's back home already so I decided to drop by later and brought my Poq sister and my nieces for a movie.

We decided to watch "The Game Plan", thinking it might be good to have something hilarious to see. Hah! The movie shed more tears than laughter...I can't believe I get sentimental. I realised family bondings makes me and my siblings, a sensitive at heart. I am not a fan of the 'Rock' but i love his character, aside from the self centred ego he had, I find him the sweetest fatherly figure for Peyton, the utterly cute and brilliant lil daughter. A very talented lil lady she is. I love it when the King sang with his guitar for Peyton to get her cheered up after a big fight.

And I love his apartment...I want it all...waaaa!!! hehehe... First half of the movie, I had an impression that I will not like it and assumed that it seems like a typical movie but as soon as the sentiments come...it was a non stop tear shedding as it was absolutely touchy. And the ballet thingy, hahaha...he's such a sport! I rated this movie a 7.5 out of 10.

That kiddo looked like Salma Hayek?!!

Synopsis of the movie:

"The Game Plan" is the story of superstar quarterback Joe Kingman (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson), whose Boston-based team is chasing a championship. A 'serial bachelor', Kingman is living the ultimate fantasy: he's rich, famous and is the life of the party. But this dream suddenly ends when he meets the seven-year-old daughter (newcomer Madison Pettis) he never knew he had - the product of a last fling before parting years ago with his young wife. Now, during the most important time in his career, he must figure out how to juggle his parties, practices and dates with ballet classes, bedtime stories and dolls that come with his daughter. Equally perplexed is his agent, Stella (Kyra Sedgwick) who is without a parental bone in her body. Joe discovers that there's more to life than money and fame...

Time : 1hr 30mins,
Genre: SRD, Family / Comedy
Casts: Kyra Sedgwick, Madison Pettis, Roselyn Sanchez, Morris Chestnut, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

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Madamoiselle : The Organizer

About fifteen years ago, "Organizers" were the 'IN' thing for everyone. That time, I was still in my High School and everyone had one. The organizer, was supposed to be a planner, a scheduler, a note to remember of important things and a place to keep those important numbers and addresses of contacts. For the teenagers those times, however, had their organizers for cool pictures with friends, boyfriends, love poems, letters, notes and comments, all in coloured papers which are beautifully decorated, binded in the rings of the organizer. It's like having an old fashion 'friendster', 'facebook', or 'blogger' all done manually in a piece of a binded book.

The reason I brought up this topic, is because I've found one of my old 'Organizers' which I've used when I was in college. It was not the same as I've mentioned above anymore, as in the years later, people were not interested of it and the usage of organizers were more back to the basic purpose of it. Still, the trends of putting up the picture were still there and I found it 'memorable'. In which reminds me back of my former organizer as I had described above and I didn't have it anymore. :)

Speaking of my 'college-organizer', I just had a simple one, with a 'TAZ' sticker, a character I used to love so much. Most of the things I had inside were schedules for my classes and assignments, few formulas of Electronics stuffs i learnt back then, afew college years pics, a favourite poem I still keep, and my own few collections of lyrics songs that I used to listen.

"Por-key-tu-memann-kor"

I love this french song from Celine Dion back then. Yeah! That was my handwriting a decade ago, the usage of computers had just started to bloom in college and no laptops were affordable yet for the students during those times. It was also the time when mobile phones started to be an 'IN' thing but only a few can afford it. Others, still used 'Pagers". I was one of the few people to afford a mobile phone, from my own money I earned after being paid from the Sea Games volunteer allowances. I still keep it now in the box, unusable, but for memories.

This picture above was a cutting of a poem I really liked. Even till now, It blown me a way reading it. Never thought I'm into such thing, doncha?

Here's the poem I'd like to share;

The First Day


I wish I could remember that first day,
First hour, first moment of your meeting me,
If bright or dim the season, it might be
Summer or Winter for aught I can say;
So unrecorded did it slip away,
So blind was I to see and to foresee,
So dull to mark the budding of my tree
That would blossom yet for many a May.
If only I could recollect it, such
A day of days! I let it come and go
As traceless as a thaw of bygone snow;
It seemed to mean so little, meant so much;
If only now I could recall that touch,
First touch of hand in hand..... Did one but know!

~Christina Georgina Rusetti (1830-1894)~

Fliped through the pages of the lyrics, I found a written note, supposed to be a poem, made by my own. Not a good one and may be a little cheesy but its a poem straight from the heart. I used to write these long time ago but stopped when I started to work.

There are times when she felt so lonely
Nothing will hide, a solitude at night.
She tried to change to be the one,
her heart had just strike
and she fell in love,
Then he had gone, left her heart ached,
Unknowing the truth, Had he ever cared?

She filled her days with laughter
that brights any a soul that lingers her life
Little but none she really knows
Her nights were filled with stars that would not glow.

She tried so hard to appreciate what she has got
To take her hopes and lose her fears
But emptiness still echos through her heart
Someday...Somewhere....Somehow....
She knows, he'll be there to fill her tomorrows.

xx Madamoiselle Junior xx 6th May 1999


So much of memories...signing off for now!

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Madamoiselle & The Love Blog's award

This blog has been awarded The Spreader of Love Award created by The Love Blog, for an outstanding demonstration of blogging love.

Yey! Thanks to Trinity for her Warmth and Love for "The Spreader of Love Award" given to all her bloggies in her blogroll. And that includes me..Wheee!! Hahaha.... And I would like to pass my love to the following bloggies. Go ahead spread the love ladies!

Mrs Meow, Ladyfred, Adrina, Zhoe, SYII & Maurina

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Madamoiselle : No.Mo.Hols.

No.Mo.Hols. = No More Holidays! Waaaa....

Back to work! After almost a month of stress free, job ignorance, work-call-rejections and whole-lieu-day for myself, I finally, got back to work,....LATE! I almost forgotten to wake up early,and found myself, still on denial that my holidays were over..O.V.E.R!! Waaaaa......

Lots of changes happening in the office and I am still trying to adjust myself with the changes and many more to come. Sheesh! No wonder I had the urge to take a very long holiday, coming back to work was piled up with loads of things to do for these whole month. Okay, as I had resolute... Think optimistically! There could be a huge advantage with all that's going to happen.Think postively... C'mon gurl you can do it! LOL! I'm sick!

Anyhow, See these pics below.... I love!!

Yesterday, I spent my first new year watching Sex And The City, complete Season 6 part 2. Woohooo! Like it! Love It! Adore It! I just bought it last week but have just managed to watched the whole of it yesterday. It was their last season of SATC and it made me cry. I love the girl bondings and they get more matured compared to the first season, it was more party like. I guess most of you have seen it in HBO way long ago and I had missed that. I may be outdated but I now have the whole collection of SATC. Yeehaa!! Wait a minute! I think I missed one part.Oops! I missed the Season 6 part 1 DANG! Gonna get them soon. No wonder i felt like i missed something. First things first, i need to get them back from my sistah Oleev who hadn't returned some of them for sooooo looong. It's my precious collection. It may not be original, but it sure are clear DVDs.

Hey, I found this when I was surfing, so i tried the Test. Yipeee!! I'm Carrie...I love Carrie...not the long face but her characteristics. I like her. Yey!!

Which Sex and the City Character Are You?
	You are Carrie. You know what you want out of a relationship and you're not afraid to keep moving until you get it. Wit and charm are your biggest turn-ons, and you like guys who appreciate you for your mind as much as your body. You have fun playing the dating game, but secretly you just can't wait to find the guy who sweeps you off your feet and carries you into the sunset.
Find Your Character @ BrainFall.com

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Madamoiselle & farewell 2007

It's the last day of 2007. Within a few hours more, we are all going to enter the new year of 2008, a new year for new resolutions or probably refulfill the old ones that yet to be done someday :p.

So, What's your new resolutions? Mine? I'm not sure myself...hehehe...but I do know, 2008, will be a new challenge for my whole aspects of life, may it be work, love, life... whereas, 2007 had been both a wonderful year and sad on the same time. Sad because the plan for a marriage had confirmed been cancelled and I finally broke my relationship with my loved one. On the otherside, I get closer with more new friends and had few fun "adventures" with them, gets closer with my siblings and spent more time with them too, met someone who made me realize that I can fall in love with somebody else and get my life through even though that someone now became just a close friend *wink* and I appreciate that. Had challenges in work but managed to gone through it without any chaotic problems and many more. The best part of 2007 was, I get to be stronger facing all that I've been through compared to the years before. And I hope, I ll get even more stronger to face 2008 as a whole new "thing" will come up soon. I hope for the better and hopefully it turns out well.

Well, after writng these out, I think I know what my resolutions for 2008;

1) Always be optimistic
2) Ignore bad vibes @ people who tends to ruin ur lifes and those who underestimates you.
3) Clearing my Debts--> a never ending story..esp. my cards..waaa!!!
4) Self control --> in spending especially..hehehe
5) Needs more determination and stop procrastinating :p
6) Anger management, out of stress... 2007 had been a good one...need more in 2008 :)
7) Loose weight--> I really need to make it work someday hahaha...

I think that's it for the moment...can't think well now that I somehow feel tired. My siblings are in Empire now. I'm not joining them. And it's my dad's birthday, and we're not celebrating hehehe... Dad don't want any celebration this year. He hates surprises. But my Aunt's celebrating New Year at their homies and my parents are going and I'm not. This year, I just want a quite time at home and relax. This is the best moments where I can just relax, watch the tube, surf and again just relax. I had too much going on in my life for 2007, I'd just like to end 2007 with just nothing. :) Boring you might say but it's heaven for me..hahaha.

Anyway,

A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD.
SEMOGA DIPANJANGKAN UMUR,
DIMURAHKAN REZEKI,
SIHAT WALAFIAT
&
KEBAHAGIAAN HIDUP DUNIA DAN AKHIRAT.
AMIINNN!

Happy New Year Everyone! Buhbai!!

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Madamoiselle & Wedding Greetings

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR HAPPY DAY
~ MR. & MRS. MEOW ~

Went to Mummy Meow's Wedding ceremony today. The weather was fine, Sunny yet windy so it wasn't really a hot day. Mr & Mrs Meow wore purple just now. Mrs Meow definitely doesn't looked 'Meow'.hahaha...a big change after the makeups. Oh, I love the tents. Decorated in pink for ladies and Blue for the gents. It's a full package of catering with Tents from 'Nur Wanita Restaurant & Catering.'

Look at those pretty pink and blue decorated tents. I like!!

Well, anyway, nothing much happening today so I guess I'm off for now.

Buhbai!

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Madamoiselle & Holi-Day 19

I was awaken by a call on my mobile this morning and it was my boss....from work. It was only 9.15am and my boss woke me up on my holiday, just to ask a small lil' thing about work. I tried not to sound as if I'm still asleep so I pretend to sound all cheered up and answered "Hello boss, yes?" He laughed out loud and said "Alum lagi bangun kah? [Not awake yet?]. So much of pretending! hehehe... Anyway, I dozed off right after he we hung up, untill half an hour later, I had to wake up. I forgot that i need to go somewhere. hahaha! I slept late last nite at around 3am surfing the net and blog hopping. It's just too much, yeah?

Anyway, as promised, I'd like to post up the pics I'd snapped from my phone last nite. I thought the crowd were going to be lesser at NBT for the Christmas holiday snapshots as it was already over but I was wrong ,there were still lots of people there.

Every year, NBT has the best festive decors that sets everyone the mood for celebrating even when they're not celebrating. Kudos to NBT for making the place a memorable place to take some festive snapshots. I wish Jerudong Park would make it like this too for every festive season so as to bring back the crowd to JP. And of course, free please ...just like NBT does.

Santa left his boots for New Year!

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Madamoiselle & holi-Day 17 & 18

Good Morning Everyone!

I am in the 'Keen-est' mode to blog early in the morning today. Early for me coz I never blog around this time ever. I am at home now, alone. The parents left to K.K this morning and I did not join them coz I wanted to attend 'Mummy Meow's' wedding this Sunday.Don't wanna miss that. They'll be in K.K for three days and be back by Sunday evening. Hoorey!! Yesterday, I had lunch with Mummy Meow. We ate at "Matadoe Cafe & Restaurant" in Beribi. I think I haven't been there for more than a year now.The place had been renovated and they extended the place already. It felt like being in K.L in one of those cafes. Love it.

I missed my fav.dish there - 'Chicken with Tom yam Sauce.' Absolutely nyummy. So of course I ordered that when I was there accompanied with an 'Ice Blended Mochachino' .. Sluurrrppss!! Mrs Meow had their 'Chicken Curry' and 'Ice blended Cappuccino'. And we also ordered their 'Jacket Potato' and shared. hehehe...The Chicken Curry was however a bit too spicy for Mrs Meow's taste but all the rest of the food were lovely.

Afternoon, head to the mall with my lil bro- Juan, Mummy, Poq sistah and my niece Syana to watch the 'National Treasures 2'. It was O.k. Not much of an excitement for me. I felt its dragging...the movie felt too long to end. All i can say, It's just okay. A boring review from moi..hehehe... Never been good in reviewing anyway. :p

Synopsis if the movie:
Treasure hunter Benjamin Franklin Gates (Nicolas Cage) once again sets out on an exhilarating, action-packed new global quest to unearth hidden history and treasures.When a missing page from the diary of John Wilkes Booth surfaces, Ben's great-great-grandfather is suddenly implicated as a key conspirator in Abraham Lincoln's death. Determined to prove his ancestor's innocence, Ben follows an international chain of clues that takes him on a chase from Paris to London and ultimately back to America.

Duration: 2hrs 05mins
Casts: Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Ed Harris Helen Mirren, Justin Bartha

I gotta go. I'll blog again later. Lapar che!! heheheh...bye!

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**Edited at 11.45pm **

I'm back! I've just got back from having dinner with my siblings. We had dinner at Bob Umie in 'Tamu Selera', Bandar, our favourite spot for reasonable-priced-yet-yummy Seafoods. We also went to the Snowy light showcase at NBT. Ill post some shots of it tomorrow.

In the meantime, I wanna say CONGRATS to Mr and Mrs Meow for their "Nikah Ceremony" today.

Wishing you a lifetime full of happy years, long on laughter, short on tears...enduring love...sweet dreams come true...lots of babies and a love filled wedded life.

Mr & Mrs Meow

It's late now. Post more tomorrow so till then, its 4 more days to work...Aaaaaaarrgh!! I'm so fond of having a holiday now...hehe...a sign of becoming a procrastinator! chiao!! :)

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Madamoiselle & BONUS

Today is a day for Smiles.
Today is a day for Happiness.
Today, for sure is a day for Big Plans.
Today, is one of those days for Getting New Things.
Today, is the day for Big Feasts.
Today is also a day for Big Money$$$$
Today is however, the day for Long Queues.
And Today for better or worse, is the day for Jams/Packs/Crowded..you name it.. its everywhere!

WHY?

Every Bruniean knows the little answer...
Every Gov sector definitely has the answer.
and so does some Private sectors.

So Whats the Fuss??

BECAUSE TODAY IS "THE BONUS DAY".

It's Raining Money...Hallelujah! It's Raining Money....

So don't be surprise, there'll be less grumpy people for the next few days as "Shopping" will be on their top list. I wanted to say including me but then, my bonus has to go to somewhere else...WAaAAaaaaAaa! My poor baby is sick and needs major operation to the heart. Yeah, my poor baby CAR!! *Sobs*

The spare part for "IT" cost quite a fortune. Some says, it costs like you owned a BMW. And its true...I guess...for me that's for sure. A four digit is not a small money, doncha think? Four years of owning it and it finally gets a major "sickness" after massive abuse of maximum usage..hehehe...[the owner has a tendancy to move about too much in the past few years.] So far, it never got cheaper with my little repairs on my 'baby'. Its a $500 above and I'm crying ...ahahah...But I do love this baby. It may not be a Luxury expensive car but it sure does give a comfortable drive and totally smooth and spacious. And mine is Diesel so my average usage is just B$16 per week. That sure saves cost on my fuel! Imagine going from BSB to KB in full tank and return still in full tank..Love it yeah?!! Except for the bodykits that kept 'cracking off' in the streets of Brunei...thats just the only turn offs I get to get used to and now the expensive spareparts...speechless!

Speaking of which, I accidentally found out that it has a new 2008 model on the internet. Its has the same style but a bit slicker.

Nice, No? I like!! Waaaa.......

Owh! I'm off track already. Back to the bonus thingy, Yeah., there were long queues everywhere especially in Banks and ATMs. Heard that the long queue even starts at 6.30am this morning.Could you believe that? And the roads to Gadong were fully packed especially to The Mall. Boy! The eating outlets were one of the crowded places too. Went to the Mall Foodcourt for lunch and it was packed full of people, hungry merry people. The table's just weren't enough to cater everyone.And so does the service. All the foods came in slow coz there's just too many people ordering the food. I had my rice an hour later than everyone else on the table coz they ran out of RICE!! Can you imagine how many people were eating at the mall....

I couldn't help wanting to post the last cartoon. It's irresistible. That's not fussy. Just someone with an extraordinare tastebud...hehehe!!

Okay, Madamoiselle's signing off... A Happy Bonus Day Everybody. Spend wisely, Smile widely, and call me klau kan blanja hahahaha......

Buhbai!! Bonne Nuit! à bientôt!

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Madamoiselle & my Pizza

Hoorey!!

Yeah, from the title itself, I'm blogging about my pizza I've just made. Here's how it looks like before putting it to the oven.

I can say, I liked it. Not because I made it but my tastebuds loves it. hahaha.. A lil' modifications and it'll be perfect. I tried to make a Honey Garlic Chicken Pizza like 'Pizzahut's pizza and it comes quite close...i think, in a different way. It's more like a Honey Garlic Oyster Chicken Pizza actually. It's a bit saltier coz I am out of Mozarella cheese so I replaced it with a shredded Cheddar cheese instead. The pizza base was very crispy on the ends, and the juice of the chicken oozes out of the crust. Love it.

Too bad the cheddar cheese doesn't melt perfectly like mozarella does.

2 plates served for my parents

To compliment with the pizza, I made mashed potato and also serves with the leftover BBQ Chix and made a Hot Chocolate, that I've started to crave lately.

My dinner plate, a bitten off pizza, my fav mashed potato and a piece of bbq chix with my hot Cocoa..had dinner on bed while surfing the net hahahaha...

Have a Good Nite Sleep peeps!! I'm off to snoreeee..Zzzzzz!!!

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Madamoiselle & holi-Day 15

It's X'mas and It's also my resting day. Have been on bed, feeling all tired the whole day. I just feel so unproductive! I could not blog yesterday. I've been busy in the kitchen for the whole 12 hours, preparing food, preparing the house, the table, the dinner and finally the clean up. Why? We were expecting a group of relatives from K.K, [yes, Kota Kinabalu] to have dinner at home last night. Normally, they'd come in small groups of one or two family. This time however, I lost track coz I don't exactly know everyone. They were a lot! Around 30 of them I guess. Some I have met during few visit occasions , others came for the first time and It's like a get to know gathering for our family. Moreover, it's Christmas Eve, I guess the neighbors thought we're celebrating Christmas too ...hahaha..

The Living room.....

Anyway, We wanted to prepare a simple dish. We're still maid-free so we don't want to make too many complicating foods like before. Mom has the tendency to make too much varieties of food when we have big eating occasions but thats when there' s so many helpers. Since it's the only three of us in the house, making lots of food is impossible. So we decided to make these;


The Food ......

Red Honey Ovenbaked Chicken

Black Pepper Beef

Tray of "Ulams" and "Sambal Belacan"

mom's Local Veggie ~ "Tarap"

The Cute bubbly "Longan Puding" for dessert.

Watermelons for a mouthwash.

I love the longan puddings. A colleague made that before and brought it to the office. I love it instantly coz I just love longans. So I made it for dinner and it was also a big hit. It disappeared in just a few minutes.Oh well, It became a starter rather than a dessert. hahaha...

Right now, I'm hungry for a light snack. I think I want to make a pizza since I have a left over plain BBQ chicken and a pizza base that's been sitting in the fridge ready for cooking. Never tried making one, and this is an experiment hehhe.... I 'll let you know if its successful.

Till then , I've got a week more before going back to work...waaa!!! i want more holidays...
Au revoir!

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