What A Day..My Hand is Aching

Oh..last night I couldnt sleep well. My hand is aching. Maybe due to the "khune tekooni" I did yesterday. Today all of my siblings came back, family gathering before Ramezoon. Of coz Im in charge of everything. From cleaning to planning coz only me and mak live in here.

Around 10 Aaron arrived. After one month didnt see him. Big boy already. Then Aryan also came. He isa son of my friend, my neighbour. She's in Mecca now performing umrah and I kidnapped her son to play with aaron. Coincidently they're wearing same outfits! They're 2 months difference. But both naugthy!! :)

Aaron and Aryan

In the evening, all of my siblings arrived. We prepared foods and had good times before maghrib.

After Isya', we had small tahlil to remember family members whom already passed away, reciting Yassin and doas. May them placed in Jannah. Amin.

During the ceremony, I spotted bache Irani in the house. My niece, Izzati wears my hijab that bff bought from Iran and styled it Irani style. Of coz, my influence. :)

Star of the day, of coz lah foods! Nasi ambeng. Javanese specialities. Azizam, you tend to make me jealous with kabab and whatsnot in Tehran, hello..I have nasi ambeng which is thousands times khoshmazetar. haha.

At 1130pm everybody lost their energy. One by one unconciously sleep. hehe.

But me, izzati and putri couldnt sleep. We decided to watch Iranian film.

"Tala va Mass"

To watch:

http://www.shiatv.net/view_video.php?viewkey=c5be4d97571c5a1e57dd

Now at 2am, the film finished which end up only me still awake, another 2 already dreaming.

Hope i can sleep soon coz I know at 6 aaron and the 2 musketeers(twins) will wake up the whole house with their sounds.

Taa daafe baad..akhare hafteh khub dashte bashin..

Khoda hafez.

Mano Bebakhsh

Was writing thesis..Radio Javan is playing..Suddenly, i heard that music. The music that never failed to melt my heart everytime I hear. A song by Kamran Hooman. Mano Bebakhsh.

اگه تو رو دوست دارم خیلی زیاد منو ببخش
اگه تویی اون که فقط دلم میخواد منو ببخش
اگه تو رو دوست دارم خیلی زیاد منو ببخش
اگه تویی اون که فقط دلم میخواد منو ببخش
منو ببخش اگه شبا ستاره ها رو می شمارم
منو ببخش اگه بهت خیلی میگم دوست دارم
منو ببخش اگه برات سبد سبد گل می چینم
منو ببخش اگه شبا فقط تو رو خواب می بینم
اگه تو رو دوست دارم خیلی زیاد منو ببخش
اگه تویی اون که فقط دلم میخواد منو ببخش
منو ببخش اگه واسه چشمای تو خیلی کمم
تو یک فرشته ای و من اگه فقط یه آدمم
منو ببخش اگه برات میمیرم و زنده میشم
اگه با دیوونگیام پیش تو شرمنده میشم
منو ببخش اگه همش میسپارمت دست خدا
اگه پیش غریبه ها به جای تو میگم شما
منو ببخش من نمیخوام تو رو به ماه نشون بدم
نشونیتو نه به شب و نه دست آسمون بدم
منو ببخش اگه میخوام تو رو فقط واسه خودم
ببخش اگه کمم ولی زیادی عاشقت شدم
اگه تو رو دوست دارم خیلی زیاد منو ببخش
اگه تویی اون که فقط دلم میخواد منو ببخش
اگه تو رو دوست دارم خیلی زیاد منو ببخش
اگه تویی اون که فقط دلم میخواد منو ببخش
اگه تو رو دوست دارم خیلی زیاد منو ببخش
اگه تویی اون که فقط دلم میخواد منو ببخش
اگه تو رو دوست دارم خیلی زیاد منو ببخش
اگه تویی اون که فقط دلم میخواد منو ببخش

if I love you so much forgive me

if you're the only thing my heart wants forgive me

if I love you so much forgive me

if you're the only thing my heart wants forgive me

forgive me if at night I count the stars

forgive me if I keep telling you that I love you

forgive me if I bring you baskets and baskets of flowers

forgive me if at nights I only dream of you

if I love you so much forgive me

if you're the only thing my heart wants forgive me

forgive me if I'm too little for your eyes

you're an angell and I'm only a human

forgive me if I die for you and come back to life for you

if I apologize for my craziness around you

forgive me if I keep entrusting you to the hands of God

if, in the company of others, instead of "you" I call you "you" 

forgive me that I don't want to show you to the moon

nor to the night or the hands of the sky

forgive me if I want you only for myself

forgive me if I'm too little, but I'm too in love with you

if I love you so much forgive me

if you're the only thing my heart wants forgive me

Interesting Farsi: You are your mom's mom, dad's dad, aunt's aunt, uncle's uncle

Situation 1: With mom (maman)

You: Salam maman jan. (Salam maman)

Your mom: Salam. Koja boodi maman? (Salam. Where were you maman?)

Situation 2: With dad (baba)

You: Baba jan, biya inja. (Baba, come here)

Your dad: Jan baba, alan miyam. (Jan baba, i'm coming)

Situation 3: With aunt (khaleh/ammeh)

Your aunt: Khaleh, khoobi? 

You: Khubam khaleh jan. 

Situation 4: With uncle (daie/amoo)

You: Daie..delam barat tang shodeh. (Daie..I miss you)

Your uncle: Man ham hamintor daie jan. (Me too daie)

Ammeh Azreen and her Ammeh :)

Maarizamm + Football

oh...marizam (i'm sick)..

went to health center utm, as usual the doc gave me panadol..pfft..she said the fever just started no need antibiotic. but demmit, after 1 day i still have light fever. sore throat, dizzy.

maybe its the side effect of haze. maybe also of the extraordinary heat lately.  aaron also now has fever..bff too!! see we have similarities :P

shiaaann ayen maksu..rindu sangat..:(

Even marizam today i woke up at 7 and do all house chores. I think laying on bed make my fever worst. But I really have no energy to cook. I'm feeling to eat something soupy. Now I'm craving for Persian Soup. 

For recipe: click here 

Oh, I need to keep standing coz tonigh is Final FA Football match between Johor and Kelantan (tradition enemy). It is really exciting!! After decades Johor finally going to final. And the phenomenon is just fantastic. JOHOR LUASKAN KUASAMU!!

Talking about football, I found this new song created for Jame Jahani (World Cup) by Iranian singer. Enjoy and keep healthy everyone!

Befarmaeed Sham: Nasi Goreng Ayam Kunyit

Nasi goreng ayam kunyit is one of bff's favorite Malay foods. From our first visit to malay restaurant 6 years back until now, this is the ultimate menu that he will order without fail. Even we order side dish like tomyam or bbq chicken or anything that best to eat with plain rice, he still wants nasi goreng ayam kunyit. Sometimes he eat two plates. I dont know is it very delicious? Coz I dont really like it coz I see there is no special with that. Simple nasi goreng with fried chicken pieces. B.O.R.I.N.G.

Nevertheless, I have to try to cook nasi goreng ayam kunyit. When I go to Iran later, where the heck  to find it in restaurant if bff's craving it? So the last time he was here, I got the chance to show my skills and he certified it. :)) 

Nasi goreng cina. For recipe. 

Stir fried kangkong. For recipe. 

Ingredients:

~ Chicken breasts. cut into cubes. marinate with some turmeric powder and salt.

~ 4 garlic cloves, minced

~ 1 onion, cut into rings

~ Carrot slices

~ Green beans cut 1 inch long

~ Chicken powder 1 tspn

~ Salt

~ Cooking oil

Methods:

1. Deep fry the chicken until tender. About 10-15 minutes coz I dont like it to be too crispy. Set aside.

2. In another pan, heat some oil. Saute garlic until golden.

3. Add the veges, chicken, chicken powder and salt.

4. When everything well blended and the vege a little bit cooked, turn off heat and serve.

5. Mind that you need to use high heat and cook it fast.

I served with nasi goreng cina and kangkung goreng.

:) thats all. recipe from kad banoo azreen ;P 

oh azizam cheghard miss kardam ghaza bepazam baratoon

A Visit To S.E.A (South East Asia) Aquarium Maritime Museum Resort World Singapore

**This post is supposedly published last 2 weeks**

Last weekend me and bff went to the above mentioned place (too long to write). Actually we first planned to go to USS (Universal Studio). But then after weighing pros and cos, i choose to go to the aquarium instead. One of the reason is that bff doesnt like thrill games ie; riding roller coaster. :) but i deadly really want to go there. Maybe later..let me persuade him more..or maybe if we go in a group its better. Anyone wana join us?

Back to the story, the aquarium situated in Resort World Singapore (RSW). It is newly opened around end of last year if im not mistaken. We went there by car. We decided to park car inside the island (Sentosa island) because parking in RSW is expensive. Upon entering, we paid $6 for car entrance. We parked at Beach Station. Around $1.5/hr. not sure. Took tram(free) to RSW about 2 minutes. You can also walk if can bear the heat :p. as we went on weekend, there are hugeeeee crowd all over sentosa island as well as rsw. Mostly tourist from India and China. Make sure you come on weekdays to have a more comfortable trip especially for those with kids. We were shocked to know that the price  is more expensive than written in the brochure. It's $33. Then we realized that it was peak season price.normal price for adult is $29. The sales personnel reminded us that it will take about 15 minutes to enter the aquarium. We were ok with that at first but then when entering the aquarium, we were shocked with the queue lines. Massive snake queue. It took us 1 hour to enter the place. 

The place is actually mean for aquarium as well as maritime museum. Before entering aquarium,  visitors are being feed with information and history about maritime mostly from Asia and middle east ocean (I really dont know what are the name of the oceans). Thankfully the place is comfortable. That I didnt complain about other things except my hurt feet.

The aquarium is divided to some parts based on the ocean; hence the type of fish. Very beautiful. It took almost 30 minutes for us to finish the trip. We are not really adventurous to read every singleinformation. Just looking around and snap photos. Here are some photos. More photos can be found in my facebook. I made it public (as if many i have many readers pfffttt).

Me with Persian carpet. Bff (me too) was so proud to find information about Persian here.

To picture what are the things pirates took inside ship

All in all, me and bff satisfied with the visit to SEA Aquarium. This was the last time we hang out at Singapore as he has flew back to Iran for 3 months before I follow him, with Allah's will. Insyallah..

Giggles

Conversation 1: In highway heading south. 

Me: where is the next "sebelah" (RnR)?

Him: <with confidence> Chong Peng. 

Me: Bhahaha..its Yong Peng not Chong Peng

Conversation 2: In bedroom. With niece (izzati). She's playing ipad. Radio Javan is playing on the background. 

Izzati: ....on Radio Javan (this phrase always repeated before a song started)

Me: eh..how come you recognized this phrase?

Izzati: why not? You always turned this radio on until i memorize it.

-___-

*giggles**

Wall decoration at Sefarat (embassy) of Iran

My Opinion: A Message to Azadi

Hello..what a hazy day...our state is being attack by bad haze due to the fire in Sumatera. Started from early this week but since yesterday it became worst. The highest air pollutant index is above 300 (in singapore even reached 400!!) which is in hazardous level. I am feeling dizzy and sore throat since yesterday afternoon. Hope soon it will be over. 

Ok. Back to my purpose of today's rambling..as i told in previous posts about how iranian are happy with the 2 news last week (election and world cup). I saw in facebook many party was held in iran to celebrate it. They put videos of boys and girls dancing on street. They even set up a dj deck to play song. I can see their happiness and it seems that they really hoping for more azadi (peace). And the police seems didnt act to stop them which supposedly it is the normal action they would take previously for such gathering. 

But.......

In my opinion iranian should try to minimize this kind of thing (party) or do it moderately. Dont over act until the world start to talk about that. I am just afraid the authority will take action on them and again they will have sense that where are the azadi promised by the new ruler? Its better to give time to the government to correct where the mistakes have done. In iran everything is about religion (islam), so i dont think by having street party will give everybody sense of azadi. Moreover to include both gender in such a gathering. Maybe there are others who will wake up to against that. And that will become a problem. Another story...

I want go share the videos. But now im blogging with ipad, the application doesnt allow video uploading. Maybe tomorrow i'll share it. For now lets see how bad haze has affecting our air. Ta dafe baad ..keep safe..

World Cup 2014 - Jam-e-Jahani

Hoooraaa.....Iran qualified to World Cup 2014. 

Iran defeated South Korea 1-0.

Be prepare world..coz next year's World Cup won't be the same

Parcham balassss.......Brazil, Iran is coming..

Where is my country?? Hmmmm...

Election Result

Dorood be shoma..(hello guys)..today i still want to write about iran election. The result has been announced. The new raess jumur (president) is Dr Hassan Rouhani. Just after the result was confirmed, i saw lotss of status being up babayi iranian. And i can say 99% of them are happy with the result.

What is jaleb (interesting) for me is the process of counting votes took more than 24 hours to be finished. I dont know the number but i know iranian that allowed to vote is about 50 million people.  if i am not mistaken and also being told by bff that last term the result was announced less than 24 hours, during midnight i think. Then it let me thinking that how come the difference time taken is so huge? I dont know...maybe that comes the rational of people objection.

So, i hope the new president will lead iran for a better nation. Bring iran to the place where it belongs. Make the people happy. I really have high hope for the best of all iranian around the world. 

Dr. Hassan Rouhani, Mr. President

Purple is the color symbol for the president.

I like the quotes which i translated:

Dear Mr. Rouhani,

We voted you. But these votes are not only for you and your plans. We voted you so that we voted Dr. Aref, so that we voted Hatami and Hashemi. 

So that we voted for peace..

From bad, from expensive, from cruelty of Jalili we ran, and we voted you. 

Do what you've promised

And....last but not least..for the first time I made a video of me singing a song by Mohammad Nouri - Iran Iran. With a hope - a better IRAN in the future. Dedicated to all of Iranian. Let see what will happen in next 4 years or 8 years..fingercrossedxxx

I am not a singer nor have good voice, but I sing and share with all of you..Enjoyss

Taa daafe baad...Khodahafez.....