kicking off 2013

Guess what's been coooooking for me since the start of this fabulous year??? Oh ho ho ho ho, here's what!

I tried cooking and eating steamed fish like I mentioned in an earlier entry but TAK BOLEH TELAN AH GENG. Lu cocok itu ikan masuk tekak gua pakai peniti pun confirm terhembus terkeluar balik punya! My body system seriously benci ikan with a vengeance ok. Boleh nangis airmata berdarah sak makan itu binatang.

I've stopped eating fish (except for tuna, sardine and ikan bilis) since I was in primary school and I don't think I can ever go back to eating fish ever again, at least not without vomitting everything out ala girls gone wild punya night out. Sooooo I've decided to stick to something more bearable, which is good old chicken, y'all! (I'm a hardcore beef lover so chicken's pretty meh to me but it's still not as terrible as fish ah *shudders*)

Think I've mentioned this before but I want to say it again because nothing wrong with reiterating the truth - seriously sayang ke hujung dunia kat whoever yang came up with Happy Call pan because that thing is a bloody godsend for people yang tak reti dan tak febret masak ni semua!!! Yours truly is nowhere close to Nigella Lawson but at least belum sampai termasak ayam rasa macam tayar skateboard yet ah.

Ever so thankful to my middle sister Farahin for being so supportive in my struggle to lose weight for my wedding too - she Googled healthy grilled chicken recipes for me, which pretty much explains the sudden interest in grilling chicken mua ha ha. I'm currently trying out recipes from this link she gave me: 15 Healthy Grilled Chicken Recipes (No brainer title there) - no instructions and no video tutorials whatsoever so I'm really just testing and experimenting as I go along. (Although it's not really much of an experiment if all you have to do is dump ingredients into a Happy Call pan is it?! Hwa hwa hwaaaaa)

I've also been going for Zumba classes once in awhile but I'll need to ramp up my exercise regime before I can see and feel any actual weight loss... which is why I'm going to start exercising at a women-only gym located just 10 minutes away from my home next week! In shaa Allah menjadi. Kalau tetap tak menjadi and I still don't look ~fabulous~ by this November, aku seriously going to duduk BELAKANG PELAMIN OK. Actually niat hati nak threaten sembunyi bawah pelamin ah, tapi takut tak muat sebab perut boncet sangat lah kan hahahahaha

Ooh! Talking about exercise, someone recently mentioned Tabata training to me as well - thinking of incorporating and giving it a shot once I get into the groove of exercising:

All you need is 4 minutes, you guys! 4 minutes aje! Step all you need is 4 minutes aje konon, nanti tak sampai seminit dah tercungap cungap mintak sedut oxygen tank ini bertuah punya anak.

Another awesome thing that happened when the year started was our choice masjid finally releasing their dates for kursus rumahtangga, y'all! So tanpa berlengah lagi we've booked a slot and due to attend the course on my 26th birthday! No parties, no outings, no hoorah hooray for my birthday this time round, only valuable knowledge for our marriage, my future husband and I ^^

Really can't wait to see what's in store for us at kursus!

Oh, and here's a little something else that I recently received via mail at the start of the new year:

Thank you so so much for the lovely postcards, Zakaria Zainal! And my heartiest congratulations on all your achievements and milestones that you rightfully deserve so far! In case you guys have no idea who he is - he is this freaking awesome photographer I wrote about before in this entry - I truly and sincerely find his works freaking ah-mazing and I love them to bits and pieces. Still can't get over the fact that I didn't know about him until a few months back, really. If you've never heard about him or seen his stuff before, THEN WHAT THE EFF ARE YOU WAITING FOR, FELLAS - clickety click.

Oh, and thank you for sending mail addressed to me as Ms Kahwin Khronicles too! Don't think I'll receive another one like this ever again so off it goes into my chestbox of memories! Teehee!