[The Other Side of the Story]

Tajuk sahaja dah memberitahu apa sebenarnya yang aku nak sampaikan. Ada beberapa novel yang sedang aku baca, tak habis-habis lagi (sebab English novel) tapi aku dah start baca novel ini pulak....Cumanya, ini akan mengambil masa yang lama untuk habis since ianya tebal + aku banyak keje yang kena settle dalam masa terdekat + kena pi kursus la plak (sob, sob....macam mana nak berpisah kejap dengan si kecik ni?)..... By the way, aku dah habis baca dua novel berikut yer.... (Pics: Credit to Google, nollybook.com)

Last week, tertengok the first episode of this drama. Makanya, minggu-minggu yang seterusnya akan bertapalah aku depan TV yer ;-D (kalau tak pun, PVR kan ada, hehehe).... By the way, aku dah baca novel ini tahun lepas. Then reread the novel last week, just because nak dapatkan feel untuk tengok drama ni dan jugak nak compare jalan cerita - sama tak drama dengan novel.... Jom sama-sama saksikan drama  Sebenarnya, Saya Isteri Dia!

Kalau tak membaca, aku akan tido sepanjang perjalanan. Ini menyebabkan my other half tak suka sebab co-driver yang sorang nie memang takkan drive ;-D So, apa persediaan untuk tidak tido?

Sekarang memang tengah busy marking answer scripts....got more than 200 scripts to be marked & key-in into the system before 3rd July 2012. Baru habis marked 30, huhuhu. Frankly speaking, scripts masters tak pegi collect lagipun. Memang amat tak sempat, minggu ni tiga hari visits students praktikal. Pastu sambung 2 hari out-station to Putrajaya. Semalam, lari sekejap untuk collect answer scripts MGA1013. Kesian, this time memang tak jenguk langsung students masa exam. Dah ler tu, both papers were scheduled on the same day, same time, different venues. So, demi untuk tidak mengecilkan hati mana-mana pihak, both aku tak pi jenguk pun. Sudahnya, aku visits students praktikal. Tunggu la jugak kot-kot ada panggilan telefon regarding the exam questions. Alhamdulillah, takde masalah yang timbul Cumanya, akan ada sekali lagi exam since ada student yang tak amik exam sebab father dia passed away. Innalillah, al-Fatihah. Nasib jugak dah prepare second set questions. Ada yang kata soalan...

Ingat tak aku kata cerita ni macam slow sikit? Well, kemuncaknya lewat sikit, tapi hujung-hujung novel nie baru best dibaca. Well, dah habis baca pun and now, I'm reading Takdir Itu Milik Aku, by Siti Rosmizah. Next, tak sure lagi nak beli novel apa, huhuhu...Takdir Itu Milik Aku pun dah half dah baca, tak lama lag i habis la nie....Any suggestion?

Reading Malay and English novels are one of my favorite thing to do when I have leisure time, besides paper crafts work - card making, bookmarks, and many more. I have lots of Malay and English novels in collection and one fine day, I might be able to have a mini library to store these collections. This library should accommodate my crafts working station too, so that I have a proper place for my leisure activities ;-) Well, berangan jer lebih. Macam la ada umah banglo nak ada mini library segala bagai....Umah pun tak dapat kunci lagi, huhuhu....Berbalik pasal novel, aku suka beli + baca novel, then bila aku dah habis baca, baru orang lain boleh baca. Biasanya aku berpegang pada prinsip, if aku yang beli, aku kena baca bagi habis baru boleh bagi pinjam pada orang lain yer. So, harap bersabar la to those yang nak pinjam novel-novel aku yer.... Disebabkan minat aku ni, untuk tax reduction tak payah risau, confirm aku habiskan 1k every year for books + novels + mags. Siap aku suk...

Novel kedua Sury Ryana yang telah aku miliki & telah habis dibaca dalam masa hanya sehari (less than 12 hours). Nampak tak apa masalah aku skang? Aku memang gila membaca novel & amat cepat membaca novel Melayu. Cuma, untuk menjadi penulis novel tu tak le kot, takde bakat la ;-) Novel Isteri Separuh Masa baru dibeli di Popular Paradigm Mall pada 26 Mei 2012, aku start baca pukul 11.30 pagi 27 Mei 2012 (on the way fetch ayah kat airport & pi kenduri kat BBST), then continue baca masa on the way ke Hospital Selayang, masih khusyuk membaca kat Hospital Selayang & finished off bila sampai umah kat Nilai, before tido jam 10.30 malam.  Apa yang mempercepatkan pembacaan? Jalan cerita yang menarik, persembahannya yang santai tapi still ada unsur yang agak mencemaskan towards the end, gaya penulisan yang bersahaja & dekat di hati ;-) Best, sama jer rasa masa baca M.A.I.D. Kesimpulannya: sebuah novel yang harus dimiliki & dibaca pada masa lapang ;-D To...

Bulan nie, memang students cuti tapi kami tak. So bersusun jadual penuh dengan meeting, bengkel, seminar dan sebagainya, pulun nak penuhkan 7 hari berkursus = 42 jam untuk CPD. If semester tengah berlangsung, susah sikit sebab kena attend lectures & tutorials. Target semester break nie adalah menghadiri seminar yang free, anywhere yang berdekatan & berkaitan, hehehe.... Apa plan weekend nie? Well, I will have a long weekend since amik cuti extra (of course tolak cuti tahunan). Baru setengah tahun, cuti pun dah banyak habis. Nak kena simpan untuk raya + konvo gak. Tapi masa semester berlangsung, bukan senang nak amik cuti. Buat plak kelas sepanjang minggu, confirm takleh apply cuti. If hari takde kelas jer baru boleh cuti. So masa semester break nie pulun la amik cuti. Long weekend nak pi mana? Hehehe, apa lagi, balik Kulim la. Masih belum berkesempatan tengok anak buah yang baru, Muhammad Naufal. Then ada wedding cousin, so alang-alang balik sana dapat gak makan nasik minyak. P...

I've finished off reading this novel last nite. Well, it's pretty amazing that Sophie Kinsella wrote a novel on ghost a.k.a. guardian angel. Sadie (the guardian angel in this novel) was very annoying sometimes but it works in forcing Lara to search for her missing precious dragonfly necklace. The plot is as follow (taken from Wikipedia ): Lara is a twenty seven year old girl who has always had an overactive imagination. At the funeral of her great-aunt Sadie, she gets visited by her ghost, in form of a bold, demanding, Charleston-dancing girl. Sadie has one particular request: she can't rest without her precious dragonfly necklace, and asks Lara to find it for her. But Lara has a lot of problems of her own, such as her job and the fact that she had just been dumped by Josh, the love of her life. The more Lara spends time with Sadie, life becomes more glamorous and their treasure hunt turns into something intriguing and romantic. Really enjoy reading this novel ;oD Highly re...

Tadi sebenarnya semangat nak buat kerja tapi biler sampai meja study yang berselerak + diary yang tak diupdate - terus mood nak buat kerja hilang. So dok melayan baca blog member-member + update diary + update my survey count + check email....Then my other half plak bagitau yang dia ada job today - share dgn Sham (Sham punya job tapi kereta Sham plak rosak so ajak my hubby la). Last minute punya job & my other half pun tergesa-gesa la bersiap. Well, hubby takde lagi today. Memang dah biasa weekend aku tak spend dengan dia lebih-lebih lagi cuti sekolah dah start nie. Normally kami akan keluar on weekdays - nak tengok wayang ker, nak berdating ker....Weekend aku dihabiskan melayan anak-anak buah.... Baru-baru nie aku ada baca satu novel Melayu. AKU CINTA DIA by Sharifah Abu Salem. Well, aku jarang beli novel Melayu nie tapi entah kenapa biler baca sinopsis novel nie, aku tertarik plak nak membacanya. So apa lagi, grab la. Dan tak rugi la aku membelinya. Aku suka novel tue - sebab jal...

Currently reading this book: Untukmu Wanita by Ustaz Zaharuddin Abd Rahman. Almost half of the book dah dibaca, another half to go. Basically, the book has 3 main chapters: Bahagian 1: Wanita, maruah & aurat Bahagian 2: Wanita & munakahat Bahagian 3: Wanita & rumahtangga Buku ini dipersembahkan dalam bentuk soal jawab. For me, it is a good book for everyone. Perbahasan mengenai sesuatu isu lengkap dengan hujah yang bersandarkan al-Qur'an & hadis. Very clear & straight to the point. Amat relevan dengan keadaan sekarang. Amat bermanfaat sekiranya dijadikan hadiah buat adik-adik perempuan etc. When I bought this book, I let my mum read it first. She said it is a good book. A must read ;oD

is the title of novel that I'm reading at this moment....I've finished the shopaholic novels....Cuma belum beli jer Sophie Kinsella's novel yang latest - nak tunggu keluar yang paperback. Yang dah ada dalam pasaran - hardcover - mahal sikit. Tak lama lagi mesti paperback akan keluar. Dulu, ingatkan punya la lama nak tunggu so I bought the hardcover version of "The Associate" by John Grisham. John Grisham punya novel kan, memang tak boleh sabar nak baca....Pastu tak lama keluar yang paperback - kecil sikit & senang nak pegang....Ada lebihan hardcover & paperback nie sebenarnya. Tapi terpulang la pada preferences masing-masing kan? If nak cepat baca, sambar jer la yang hardcover kan? Orang lain belum beli, kita dah khatam ;oD "Wedding Babylon" is available too - in hardcover version. So, I'll wait till the paperback version is in the market. Popular @ MPH @ Borders kan our fav shops? Kalau FINAS ada wajib tayang, kami ada wajib masuk, hehehehe....

Nak tulis banyak entry, but the short one boleh? Well, I really enjoy Sophie Kinsella's novels esp. the shopaholic series. I'm on my way to finish up Shopaholic & Sister (after Confessions of a Shopaholic, Shopaholic Takes Manhattan & Shopaholic Ties the Knot). Although the lead character in the shopaholic series (Becky Bloomwood) may not be a real person, Sophie Kinsella did a very good job to imagine Becky in the real life and I guess, there might be lots of Becky in this world (who knows?).... I've read Can You Keep a Secret, Remember Me? and The Undomestic Goddess - I really love them all especially The Undomestic Goddess, extremely funny. I couldn't imagine how a top & workaholic lawyer (Samantha Sweeting) can ended up being a domestic helper to a rich couple when she knows nothing about doing the house chores. A must read ;oD

As I pormised, the list....latest novels that I bought a few days ago.... The Associate (John Grisham) The Undomestic Goddess (Sophie Kinsella) My Best Friend's Girl Syahadat Cinta Musafir Cinta Makrifat Cinta Another book is The Little Prince - by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Someone suggested this book to me and luckily found one @ Borders. Belum start baca lagipun ;oD Will slowly read the novels, during my leisure time (ada novels yang dibeli sebelum nie pun belum habis dibaca). However, The Associate will be my first choice - die hard fan of John Grisham kan? All his novels are in my collections (ada yang beli first hand, ada yang second hand - beli kat Brisbane).... Happy reading ;oD

Quite busy with my study, so I've stopped reading novels for almost a month. The most viewed books now are the academic books & articles published in too-tier journals - especially on business research methods, performance of the firms etc (the lists goes forever).... However, I managed to read Sophie Kinsella's novel (again and again) - REMEMBER ME? on the way to UUM....Biasa la naik bas boring, nak baca academic articles kan nampak obvious sangat, hehehe....Tapi tak banyak la sempat baca, sebab fokus otak nie dah ke lain so takdak la dok pulun sangat (pekat loghat utara dah nie, my precious pun terkejut bila dengar aku cakap dalam phone - kena tune sikit)....Tapi kalau aku break jap 30 mins (nak rehatkan laptop aku nie), aku sambung la baca sikit-sikit so tak le rasa bersalah sangat kan? ;oD Well, I think that I'm not too old for Sophie Kinsella's novels - I'm still sweet-17 maa and will be forever 17, hehehe...Jiwa mesti muda, baru nampak muda kan? At least, ...

Well, another novel by Sophie Kinsella. I've finished reading it last Friday...Frankly speaking, I love this novel... Meet Emma Corrigan, a young woman with a huge heart, an irrepressible spirit, and a few little secrets: Secrets from her boyfriend: I’ve always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken. Secrets from her mother: I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom with Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching Ben-Hur. Secrets she wouldn’t share with anyone in the world: I have no idea what NATO stands for. Or even what it is. Until she spills them all to a handsome stranger on a plane. At least, she thought he was a stranger.…Until Emma comes face-to-face with Jack Harper, the company’s elusive CEO, a man who knows every single humiliating detail about her... For sure, I'll buy more shopaholic novels...To those who has time, you can read Chapter 1 below (taken from Random House Website ). Chapter One Of course I have secrets. Of course I...

I'm here @ UUM. Aini, insya-Allah kita akan jumpa soon. Plan nak jumpa awak next week since kalau next week, my hubby is around too so boleh dia kenal2 dengan Husai. This week, datang UUM naik bas. My hubby send me off kat Butterworth pagi tadi...Sedih maaa... Yesterday, pergi Sunway Carnival Mall. We watched Geng: Pengembaraan Bermula...Best, memang wajib ditonton. Sokong la industri perfileman kita, sokong la filem animasi kita yang semakin improved. Bantu la the production crews etc to achieve their target. Memang mahal kos nak buat filem animasi nie....Betul, betul, betul...So, ramai2 la pergi tonton filem animasi ini... Ok guys, got to go...Just a quick note, I started reading "Can You Keep a Secret?" by Sophie Kinsella this morning, dalam bas on the way to UUM...Hope that it will take more than a day to finish it (hehehe)...Study, aja aja fighting....

Dear my readers, Please advise me on how to read slowly, so that I'm not finishing one novel in one day....I started reading this novel yesterday & I managed to finish it off in the same day....I don't know why I can't stop reading it. The novel was fantastic, it's real life story although the character might be fictionalized by the author (Sophie Kinsella). I bet that there is someone like Rebecca Bloomwood (Becky) out there. I'm glad that I read this novel, it reminds me not to over spend when shopping. It also reminds me to take a better care on how to handle the credit card. I got one credit card & normally I'll pay the whole amount that I've spend when the bank statement comes in so that I don't have to pay the extra (interest etc). Can't wait to watch the movie....I have to do my work first before I can continue reading another novel by Sophie Kinsella. For sure, I'll buy another series of shopaholic next time when I go to the books...

Yesterday masa outing, singgah Popular @ Megamall. Mulanya my hubby yang nak beli buku, pastu bila check content buku yang dia nak tue (pasal editing gambar), dia kata semua yang ada dalam buku tue dia dah boleh buat. Dia ingat buku tue ada pasal editing yang "hardcore" la (aku pun angguk buat-buat paham apa yang dia maksudkan). At last, aku pulak yang beli English novels, menambahkan koleksi aku padahal banyak lagi yang belum habis dibaca ;oD Since my better half nak belikan (tambahan hadiah birthday aku, mesti dia rasa bersalah sebab birthday gift dia mintak kat aku mahal, hehehe) aku pilih 3 novels: Change of Heart (Jodi Picoult) Remember Me? (Sophie Kinsella) Can You Keep a Secret? (Sophie Kinsella) Two novels are on sale, so ada discount la. Yang lagi satu, member discount 10% so not bad la kan....Pastu, alang-alang tengok buku nie, aku sambar buku Sophie Kinsella.... Confessions of a Shophaholic ....So buat masa nie, aim nak collect novels Sophie Kinsella plak. John Gri...

I wanted this book but I couldn't find it in bookstores - I've searched for this book at Popular, MPH, Borders. To make it short, let me share some review & description about this book (taken again from amazon.co.uk). Product Description 'When I was a teenager, I thought you could get pregnant from sitting in a jacuzzi. Not that I'm sure I even knew what a jacuzzi was, but I knew they were racy places where racy things happened. Men, as far as I remember, didn't even have to be there. So long as they'd been in the water in some sort of excitable state, pregnancy was inevitable - even if you kept your pants on. You see pregnancy was that easy, that dangerous and it could ruin your life. Almost 20 years later and pregnancy could still ruin my life. Although now it is not the threat of what having a baby would do, but of not having a baby at all. I have been trying to get pregnant for two years and have not even come close to hearing the pitter-patter of tiny ...