UNIQUE GIFTS!!! (march 12)

assalamualaykum, ^_^
as usual...every year of march since 2010 i've dedicated it for my mom as her birthday gift
but this year...am not going to talk about my mom,
instead, i've made a project...

i've collected ideas from friends (majority my age - age-wise n maturity-wise...haha)
about what kind of gifts they find most unique for their mothers and why they are unique...

'pardon me, am so lousy at finding a way how to screen capture stuffs...

and not currently having the ample time to learn it...ops...hehe :p'

an infinity gratitude i convey to all who helped out by lending me their ideas and even the moral support ^_^
and by tomorrow, will start MY MAMA'S MONTH 2012!

do pray i have the perseverance to be consistent!
hope these unique gifts touches your heart mama :)

* wanna add this unique thing that crosses my mind today...


as i were peeling of the skin of kiwi fruits for my first ever pavlova,

second helping...making pavlova made me realize am not an artist...haha

it got me thinkin, who was the first ever guy to realize that kiwi is actually a fruit?
i mean, hav u ever seen a kiwi before it was peeled?
it's brownish, with a skin that feels like coarse velvet...

if i were to come across this fruit,
i'd hav no idea that inside it is green n have something so delicious...(nyum3)
i might regard it as one of the pebbles in the woods...hehe

this made me question where did this fruit came from..
i was convinced before it came somewhere from australia continent
dunno why kiwi reminds me of koala bears n kangaroo...hehe
bt...nope!
it came from............

CHINA!
click for a link to a blog talking about kiwi...:)

saje nk share this thought ^_^...hehe

keel

do you know what is keel?

yesterday in Dr. Hussein Khairy's class, there was dis picture on the white board n Dr. Hussein Khairy asked
"what is this?"

being so human-anatomy oriented...most of us answered
"urinary bladder!!" (i guess, at least i did tot it was a urinary bladder...haha)
"look carefully, it's a ship!" he answered

a ship? confused how's a ship is related to our discussion

"see! this is the paddle n here's water...what about this?" (refer to the arrow)
"aaaaa???" i never tot that thing has a name...hehe
"it's a keel!...and dis?" (the one beside the ship)

"erm???"
"a hernia! and this is the hernia invaginated inside if you dun wanna excised the sac...it's called keel operation. it looks the same like the keel of a ship ryte?
keel is not a person's name it's  a description."

juz felt wanna share this new info...all my life i've never known about "keel" ^_^
n surely it's an extraordinary way of explaining it to us

it got me thinkin of how very wide these surgeon's general knowledge were before...
relating a keel of the boat to a hernia operation

now am feeling like being a surgeon...hehe

let's be on even keel...duniawi n ukhrawi

ikan pari bakar kuah percik

in winter holiday, i enjoyed myself too much...
missing those days already like they were a thousand years away...T_T
(exaggerate nyerrr)

anyway,
there was an incident in malaysia that reminds me of my life in egypt
ever since my dad had an emergency stent in his coronary, our house has only been having healthy food...thanks to my mother's unconditional love...hehe
(dun get me wrong ma, the foods are still marvellous)
so we usually have grilled fish...n one of my dad's favourite - grilled stingray

one night, after dinner...i procrastinated cleaning up the dining table as some of us havn't had dinner yet... until it was about midnight, when i suddenly remembered to keep the leftovers into the fridge...
there then, i found out that the grilled stingray which was draped with *'kuah percik' already gives out a tinge of 'smell'

i picked up the portion of fish n smelt it closely...*ting!!!*
n i was brought back to a memory of six years ago...in one of my early days in cairo
i was waiting for a bus at night with a bunch of girls (sorry i couldn't recall where i was heading) and suddenly, a silhouette of a body strolled towards the nearest trash container about 4 feet away from us.
the silhouette started scrambling the trash in it...

every few strokes, he will pick up something and smell it closely...
after almost several times trying, he finally found it...
the silhouette moved towards us and seems like he's peeling off something from which he's holding
and when suddenly the neon road light fall onto his face... i realized the silhouette was actually a women!
n...she was eating what seemed to be bread...

i almost cried witnessing this site...
now, back in malaysia 6 years later...
i couldn't bear myself to throw away that grilled stingray, n since the tinge of smell seemed to come only from the draper, so i washed away that 'percik' sauce and grilled the fish again...

i think it smells ok after i grilled it
but i hav no idea who finished it...opss!

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

...فَبِأَىِّ ءَالآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ

(ar Rahman verse 13)

reminding myself first and foremost and anyone who's reading
n also, i apologize if i touched anybody's sentiments...

*kuah percik is a sauce containing coconut milk if am not mistaken, so it can get bad easily especially in malaysia's humid weather
keh3...nk back up diri to not b blamed for not keeping the leftovers earlier...sorry mama :'(