Jangan mencuri masa mengaji
Ramadhan, bulan di mana umat Islam berlumba-lumba membuat kebaikan dan amal ibadah. Bulan yang diimarahkan dengan solat terawih dan tadarus.

Bercakap pasal tadarus, teringat masa belajar mengaji suatu ketika dulu. Ada ustazah datang ke office dan tunjuk ajar pembacaan yang betul. Ada dua pengajaran yang sangat terkesan di hati dan masih ingat sampai sekarang. Bukan pasal mad atau dengung atau nun mati atau huruf iqlab atau lain-lain hukum tajwid. Tapi something pasal jaga pernafasan untuk pembacaan yang betul.

Almaklumla, nafas kadang tak berapa panjang. Tak cukup nafas nak abiskan ayat yang panjang. Terpaksa berhenti di tengah-tengah ayat yang bukan designated sebagai tempat wakaf. So bila berhenti tu, kadang-kadang tak sure nak start baca semula kat bahagian mana. So, once, pernah tanya ustazah tu, macam mana nak tau nak mula baca balik kat mana. Ustazah tu kata, haa... kena la tau Bahasa Arab. Aduss... Terkesan sebab masa Form 1-3 belajar Bahasa Arab tapi sangat tidak ambil serius. So hasilnya, sekarang dah banyak lupa. Satu kerugian yang amat besar.

On a different occasion, one of us tanya ustazah, macam mana kalau curi nafas. Ustazah tu jawab dengan soalan. Mencuri dosa ke dak? Berdosa kan? Adusss... Terkesan sebab rasanya memang selalu sangat berlaku bab curi mencuri nafas sebelum tu... 

Jadi, peringatan untuk kita semua, especially diri sendiri. Dalam keghairahan nak khatam Quran semasa Ramadhan, mudah-mudahan pembacaan dilakukan dengan betul dan tiada aksi curi mencuri. :)
The (food) diary of Cik Kiahs
Hemy, Mas and I have been on several food missions previously. Just tak sempat nak update in this blog. So let's take a tour on some of these missions.

We went to SACC mall and had lunch at the Teapot Deli. A small restaurant with nice English deco.

Hemy and Mas boasted of the deliciousness of the chicken pie and I just had to try it. It was very nice.

Hemy and Mas had nasi tomato set (picture is not available) which also came with dessert, a choice between bread pudding and trifle. They chose the bread pudding.Not so appetising by the looks. The taste pun kureng jugak. :)
We shared a slice of red velvet cake. Very delicious.


On another day, Hemy suggested that we should go to a restaurant in Sg Penchala area, Sambal Hijau. And we went one day. The place was very packed during lunch hour. Luckily Hemy arrived early (as usual) and secured a table. The place offers nasi campur and varieties of lauk. Semua nampak sedap. Kalau ikut nafsu, memang haru. So, I settled with this. Ha ha... pergi travel jauh-jauh makan kat Sambal Hijau, ambik lauk cenggini je? Layann... diet la konon...

Before I made the trip to Sambal Hijau, I did my homework on this place..(kiasu or what? nak gi makan pun, buat homework bagai). Anyhow, I visited a few blogs which feature Sambal Hijau and saw that some of them ordered teh o ais laici. Looks appetising, so I ordered one. Nice... Well, teh o ais is one of my favorites, and adding laici is like a bonus.


The restaurant also sells lots of other things like snacks such as rempeyek, desserts such as durian crepe and this bubur sum sum. It was the first time I tried this dessert. Quite nice...


Sambal Hijau is not the place for you to hang out and berlama-lamaan untuk minum-minum and borak-borak. Ramai orang kot tunggu meja. So, after having our lunch, we headed to The Curve and met Mas there.


Later we settled down at Marche. Marche, pronounced as Mar-shay, is a French word for market.


It does applies the market concept.They have various stalls and you choose what you want to eat.

Once you have chosen the dish, they prepared it fresh for you.


We had one of this. Rosti and sausage. The rosti is actually a dish made from potatoes. Quite nice.

MidValley is also one of our destinations. Once, we dined here, Spaghetti Grill.

Hemy ordered this stuffed mushroom dish, as starter. Sedap...


All of us had pasta. Well, dah nama tempat ni Spaghetti Grill, pasta is a must la kan. Could not remember the name of this dish.

Or this dish.


And we topped of with this dessert. Ntah apa ke nama. Something chocolatey.


After Spaghetti Grill, we strolled around the Mid Valley before we settled down for our afternoon tea. We stopped by this Japanese bakery shop, Komugi.


We bought some of the Creamy Custard Krone and took it to Pappa Rich and eat the krones there. Memang sedap.


On another occasion, Hemy secured Groupon discount voucher for Spice of India. Again, we met at Mid Valley and had our lunch at Spice of India.


The place was deserted, as if we reserved the whole restaurant to ourselves.;P


The pappadom. The dipping sauce looks weird in green but taste-wise, not bad.

We had nasi briyani.

With mushroom dish.


And chicken and prawn dish. Can't remember the name of the dishes. But it was marvellous. Padan la pun harga mahal. Satu dish RM30 kot. We had to ask for another bowl of rice. Tak cukup. And to really get the feeling of the Indian taste, we ate with our hands. The spices are really awesome. Sedap hingga menjilat jari. Not only that, the smell and the colour of the spices linger on the fingers for a long time. (Err....SPR should consider using these spices to replace the indelible ink..;))


Next in our mission was Sunway Pyramid. Initially, Hemy suggested Hartz Chicken Buffet. So when we arrived in Sunway, we browsed through the Directory list, found the restaurant's name but the restaurant was nowhere to be seen. So we asked one of the security guards there. Dah tutup rupanya, baru seminggu. Isyh...melepas we all. So, we settled down at TGI Friday's.

We had these potato skin dish as starter. Potato skin pun boleh jadi dish kan? ha ha... Tapi sedap.


I had pepper and mushroom chicken that comes with herb rice. So-so la... Penat kunyah ayam.


Hemy had pasta. The pasta does not usually looks as plain as this. But Hemy asked for no sayur, thus the plain and colorless look of the dish.

Mas ordered the burger. Looks appetising.


That ends our food mission for now. It won't stop here, I'm sure. Will be more later.:) 

Sempena Ramadhan yang akan tiba, would like to wish all selamat menyempurnakan indah puasa. Mudah-mudahan Ramadhan tahun ini lebih baik dari tahun-tahun sebelumnya. Dan mudah-mudahan our Ramadhan diary is not just full of food for the tummy, but also food for the soul.:)