Zee Avi - Kantoi!

I love this woman and this song entitled " Kantoi"! Woman, you kick a$$! For those of you who have no idea who she is... she's Zee Avi lar! Haha! A Petite, soulful, Sarawakian, Malaysian and currently has a record deal with Brushfire Records and man, she's been busy like a bee doing tours in the U.S.

And oh, why do I like this Kantoi song? It's a fun song, very Manglish and every Malaysian loves Manglish right? What's not to like there? And and...the song is such a typical your-bf/gf-kantoi excuses which I suppose most of us have experienced this somehow or rather. Harhar. Happy listening and I'm sure you guys will love this song!

* Check out for more of Zee Avi here!

Keywords Tracker by Nuffnang

I've never really analyzed anything from the Analytics that I have from my Nuffnang account. Most of the time I'm more eager to check if my Earnings has accumulated or not. In most cases, the amount is pretty much stagnant. I'm a couple of cents away from MYR1. Haha. Super pathetic. I KNOW. Haha.

Anyways, I've checked on the keywords I've been getting for this blog for the past 1 month. Here are the list:

mba

da yasz

what makes vemma so special

knm

wots the commotion

thumb sucking

it hurts poem

what's the deal with june weddings

why do dogs sniff each others butts

june marriages

yasz blog

yunaindie band bloggers

yuna performance

chic lit
By far, I think I'm getting at least once a month view for my "Why do dogs sniff each others butts" post. From the list, I'm not really sure where does "MBA" comes from because I don't remember writing anything about doing an MBA. I can't remember really.

Besides these keywords, I get to monitor where my readers are coming from too. I pretty much can say that I don't really have that much of Guests readers here which is bad! Anyhow, I don't expect much since I don't have a particular niche topic for this blog and not much 'marketing' is done anyways.

On that note, I've been thinking a very long time to get my own hosting and domain name. I may be going for yaszamzah.com or yasminamzah.com or a totally niche related domain name. I'm just looking for something catchy at the same time it can projects me as the writer. But some says, my name is catchy enough so that should be alright wouldn't it?=p

Zee Avi - Kantoi!

I love this woman and this song entitled " Kantoi"! Woman, you kick a$$! For those of you who have no idea who she is... she's Zee Avi lar! Haha! A Petite, soulful, Sarawakian, Malaysian and currently has a record deal with Brushfire Records and man, she's been busy like a bee doing tours in the U.S.

And oh, why do I like this Kantoi song? It's a fun song, very Manglish and every Malaysian loves Manglish right? What's not to like there? And and...the song is such a typical your-bf/gf-kantoi excuses which I suppose most of us have experienced this somehow or rather. Harhar. Happy listening and I'm sure you guys will love this song!

* Check out for more of Zee Avi here!

Keywords Tracker by Nuffnang

I've never really analyzed anything from the Analytics that I have from my Nuffnang account. Most of the time I'm more eager to check if my Earnings has accumulated or not. In most cases, the amount is pretty much stagnant. I'm a couple of cents away from MYR1. Haha. Super pathetic. I KNOW. Haha.

Anyways, I've checked on the keywords I've been getting for this blog for the past 1 month. Here are the list:

mba

da yasz

what makes vemma so special

knm

wots the commotion

thumb sucking

it hurts poem

what's the deal with june weddings

why do dogs sniff each others butts

june marriages

yasz blog

yunaindie band bloggers

yuna performance

chic lit


By far, I think I'm getting at least once a month view for my "Why do dogs sniff each others butts" post. From the list, I'm not really sure where does "MBA" comes from because I don't remember writing anything about doing an MBA. I can't remember really.

Besides these keywords, I get to monitor where my readers are coming from too. I pretty much can say that I don't really have that much of Guests readers here which is bad! Anyhow, I don't expect much since I don't have a particular niche topic for this blog and not much 'marketing' is done anyways.

On that note, I've been thinking a very long time to get my own hosting and domain name. I may be going for yaszamzah.com or yasminamzah.com or a totally niche related domain name. I'm just looking for something catchy at the same time it can projects me as the writer. But some says, my name is catchy enough so that should be alright wouldn't it?=p

Cooking updates : Jamie Oliver

Funny that the last time I chatted with this friend of mine, he ended up asking me what's the latest recipe on the menu? Truth be told, I don't cook as much anymore. No particular reason really. I am just finding excuses not to spend too much time in the kitchen. That's all. But suffice to say, I DO miss getting down and dirty with those pots and pans. Hehe.

So what's up with the latest news in regards to cooking?

I've done my share of Google-ing on my dearest number one chef, Jamie Oliver. Here are some of his updates:

1. Jamie and wife Jools are now a proud parent of 3 kids. Their latest edition, little Petal Blossom Rainbow were born on 3rd April 2009.

2. Jamie and Jools apparently have the tendency to give utterly cute, almost cartoon-ish names to their lovely daughters. Check these names out:
1st child - Poppy Honey
2nd child - Daisy Boo

Don't those names reminded you of some cartoons during your younger days? Anyways, I just think they are very adorable names but I can't imagine myself naming my kids that way. Haha.

3. Recently, Jamie has been jetting back and forth US and UK spending loads of pounds to be close to Jools and his girls. He's such a big time family person. Aww, how adorable is that?

So far that's the latest ...I suppose. To catch more of him Follow Jamie Oliver at his twitter and drop by his website too! Cheerios peeps!

Cooking updates : Jamie Oliver

Funny that the last time I chatted with this friend of mine, he ended up asking me what's the latest recipe on the menu? Truth be told, I don't cook as much anymore. No particular reason really. I am just finding excuses not to spend too much time in the kitchen. That's all. But suffice to say, I DO miss getting down and dirty with those pots and pans. Hehe.

So what's up with the latest news in regards to cooking?

I've done my share of Google-ing on my dearest number one chef, Jamie Oliver. Here are some of his updates:

1. Jamie and wife Jools are now a proud parent of 3 kids. Their latest edition, little Petal Blossom Rainbow were born on 3rd April 2009.

2. Jamie and Jools apparently have the tendency to give utterly cute, almost cartoon-ish names to their lovely daughters. Check these names out:
1st child - Poppy Honey
2nd child - Daisy Boo

Don't those names reminded you of some cartoons during your younger days? Anyways, I just think they are very adorable names but I can't imagine myself naming my kids that way. Haha.

3. Recently, Jamie has been jetting back and forth US and UK spending loads of pounds to be close to Jools and his girls. He's such a big time family person. Aww, how adorable is that?

So far that's the latest ...I suppose. To catch more of him Follow Jamie Oliver at his twitter and drop by his website too! Cheerios peeps!

How to put up the retweet icon at your blog?

I knew someone will ask about this one and I was itching to know about putting up the ReTweet icon myself. I came across this blog, bloggerstop.net and tweaked a line or two at my Blogger template to make the icon works.

The exact code which I've added for my blog here is this:

1. Find this tag at your template:

  <div class='post-header-line-1'/>

2. Add the following code right below the above tag:

  <script type="text/javascript">    tweetmeme_url = '<data:post.url/>';    tweetmeme_source = 'Twitter ID';    </script>    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"></script> 

There are 2 other ways(applying a slight change of codes) to have the icon at your blog with its own pros and cons. However this particular RT will have your own Twitter ID on the line and the tweetmeme link at the end of the retweet which is something like this:

RT @Yasz_A life's a commotion!: Lamb Shoulder and Gourmet Burger Yasz's Style http://cli.gs/12XNZX (via @tweetmeme)

* note the via @tweetmeme at the end of the RT

If you ended up making a slightly different code ( you can check it out here), your Twitter id will not be shown in the RT. Eg:

RT @tweetmeme The Art and Science of Retweeting for Twitteraholics http://tr.im/gzNV

*note that the RT will come from tweetmeme and I don't think you want that. You need to have at least a recognition of your own id in the RT am I right? Hehe.

And yeah, all these codes thanks to the helpful blogger at bloggerstop.net. Probably if you Google more, you'll come up with better codes to put up the RT icon. As for me, this is good enough for now.

* This code formatter will help a lot to post codes in your blog posts.

How to put up the retweet icon at your blog?

I knew someone will ask about this one and I was itching to know about putting up the ReTweet icon myself. I came across this blog, bloggerstop.net and tweaked a line or two at my Blogger template to make the icon works.

The exact code which I've added for my blog here is this:

1. Find this tag at your template:

  <div class='post-header-line-1'/>

2. Add the following code right below the above tag:

  <script type="text/javascript"> 
   tweetmeme_url = '<data:post.url/>'; 
   tweetmeme_source = 'Twitter ID'; 
   </script> 
   <script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"></script> 

There are 2 other ways(applying a slight change of codes) to have the icon at your blog with its own pros and cons. However this particular RT will have your own Twitter ID on the line and the tweetmeme link at the end of the retweet which is something like this:

RT @Yasz_A life's a commotion!: Lamb Shoulder and Gourmet Burger Yasz's Style http://cli.gs/12XNZX (via @tweetmeme)

* note the via @tweetmeme at the end of the RT

If you ended up making a slightly different code ( you can check it out here), your Twitter id will not be shown in the RT. Eg:

RT @tweetmeme The Art and Science of Retweeting for Twitteraholics http://tr.im/gzNV

*note that the RT will come from tweetmeme and I don't think you want that. You need to have at least a recognition of your own id in the RT am I right? Hehe.

And yeah, all these codes thanks to the helpful blogger at bloggerstop.net. Probably if you Google more, you'll come up with better codes to put up the RT icon. As for me, this is good enough for now.

* This code formatter will help a lot to post codes in your blog posts.

A change of air

I like it here. Loving it. Very homely. The 'office space' is super comfortable. I can pretty much work anywhere anyways. Still there's a lot to learn and a change of air is always good. I'm also loving this babe Yunalis so much. Rocket is killing me. Got her show close to me though so that won't be an issue.

Happy working and bring on the money!!!!

p.s: what if I can make USD1000/week? It's so so mission possible. Soon enough.

A change of air

I like it here. Loving it. Very homely. The 'office space' is super comfortable. I can pretty much work anywhere anyways. Still there's a lot to learn and a change of air is always good. I'm also loving this babe Yunalis so much. Rocket is killing me. Got her show close to me though so that won't be an issue.

Happy working and bring on the money!!!!

p.s: what if I can make USD1000/week? It's so so mission possible. Soon enough.

If you talk Negative, you'll get Negative - The Secret

Oh yes, I regretted saying all the 'Taik' in all those 3 different languages. It was like a calling for a bad return of the day. Hence, the bloody super worse wedding dinner reception of the year last night. I was brutally victimized and had to hang in there for a bloody horrible 3 hours.

Let's talk briefly about this wedding I happened to obligingly attended.

1. It's one of those datuk, datin, tan sri , nonsense what nots wedding with super duper god knows unrelated to the family organizing the wedding kinda wedding. In short, a typical rich ass Malay wedding. Booo...

2. Okay fine. The setup is like a typical dinner reception la, got sitting and all, very organized until an extend of too bloody hell organized and protocol full of shit. Wedding suppose to be fun and happening okay!

3. The organizer ie the inviting family of the bride made the whole 100 over ish guests waited for the newly weds to arrive at the hall in a tremendously, awesomely fashionably excellent Malaysian Timing, which was like 1 hour away from the expected time of arrival for all other guests. The 1 hour waiting period was an excruciating bloody arse wait because you'll find yourself bloated with air because they served nothing on the beautifully decorated table for 10 except for a pathetic petite bowl of crackers. Within that 1 hour, we ended up munching on that crackers and gulping down that small little Hersey's Kisses chocolates they placed for each patrons as that typical token you get on the all typical Malay wedding. And and, let's not forget that super red 'Air Sirap' with an ultra high sugar content which is proven a close to potent drink for a diabetic. EXCELLENT!

4. Then comes the typical 'tepung-tawar' ceremony. The best part is, people who are a complete strangers (ultra VIPS of the day) to the newly weds where ushered first to do the ceremony as a sign of bloody stupid disrespect to their own frail grandparents and equally 'happy' parents. Hooray, the elders of the family get to 'tepung-tawar' the ceremony at the last of the queue. Excellent when it comes to the cue of 'family comes first'.

5. Next comes the recital of prayers (doa). I was getting excited thinking that I get to eat once the doa for the 'food' is done. Much to everyone's disappointment, the doa recital when on and on and on and on, sounding nothing like the short doa for makan, instead sounded more like 'doa kesyukuran or doa selamat' kinda thingy. Ok fine. We said our Amin but it didn't stop there. Still no food to be served yet.

6. Next, the recital of a surah Luqman which was very lengthy(approx. 15 minutes tops) and I could sense the discomfort of the Indian couple at our table. As for me, I was doing the eye rolling thing to the lady sitting next to me while she gasps in totally bewilderment like ,"Alamak, bace quran pulak ker" or the "omg this is so not happening" kinda look.

7. After nearly 2 hours of waiting and shifting around my seat and sms-ing my friends into glory and 1 purposely missed call later, we finally got served. It was late, people were no more hungry except probably a tad gassy inside and wanted to just gobbled up a bit and leave. Food was alright because we were hungry okay and it's that typical oily, dry, no veg food to make the food tastes supposedly healthy and thumb sucking delicious. Bah!

8. Then comes dessert with a weird 'concoction' of vanilla ice cream, some sprinkles of choc rice and get this, a sweet sour TAPAI! OMG! Like who the hell, created this type of dessert??? and I thought only kampung people eats tapai...hahaha...no offense okay, just a thought.

I skipped the hot drinks and kept indicating to my mum to chow and get the hell out of there. She did finally thought ,"oh well, I think we should leave" after a few minutes of waiting the super VIP to leave the 'hell' in a slow-mo ass manner. Great.

I grabbed my car keys, skipped the hand shaking thank yous with the organizing family whom I know no one and happily zoomed out for home.

Thus, the moral here is : If you think bad, you'll get bad. If you think good, you'll get good. So always, think good people. Avoid thinking bad and of course being bad.

Moral again : Never agree to attend a wedding that you know neither the bride and groom or the family members

Moral again again: Weddings are suppose to be fun, this was the worse wedding I've ever attended and if the wedding got VIPS or super VIPS like Sultan and Menteri, don't think twice about attending. Just DO NOT ATTEND! It's hell and full of protocol shits and left you hungry and regretting. Haha.

Oh well, this post is not a brief preview of the wedding I'd attended. It's a surprise if any of you even bother reading this long post.

If you talk Negative, you'll get Negative - The Secret

Oh yes, I regretted saying all the 'Taik' in all those 3 different languages. It was like a calling for a bad return of the day. Hence, the bloody super worse wedding dinner reception of the year last night. I was brutally victimized and had to hang in there for a bloody horrible 3 hours.

Let's talk briefly about this wedding I happened to obligingly attended.

1. It's one of those datuk, datin, tan sri , nonsense what nots wedding with super duper god knows unrelated to the family organizing the wedding kinda wedding. In short, a typical rich ass Malay wedding. Booo...

2. Okay fine. The setup is like a typical dinner reception la, got sitting and all, very organized until an extend of too bloody hell organized and protocol full of shit. Wedding suppose to be fun and happening okay!

3. The organizer ie the inviting family of the bride made the whole 100 over ish guests waited for the newly weds to arrive at the hall in a tremendously, awesomely fashionably excellent Malaysian Timing, which was like 1 hour away from the expected time of arrival for all other guests. The 1 hour waiting period was an excruciating bloody arse wait because you'll find yourself bloated with air because they served nothing on the beautifully decorated table for 10 except for a pathetic petite bowl of crackers. Within that 1 hour, we ended up munching on that crackers and gulping down that small little Hersey's Kisses chocolates they placed for each patrons as that typical token you get on the all typical Malay wedding. And and, let's not forget that super red 'Air Sirap' with an ultra high sugar content which is proven a close to potent drink for a diabetic. EXCELLENT!

4. Then comes the typical 'tepung-tawar' ceremony. The best part is, people who are a complete strangers (ultra VIPS of the day) to the newly weds where ushered first to do the ceremony as a sign of bloody stupid disrespect to their own frail grandparents and equally 'happy' parents. Hooray, the elders of the family get to 'tepung-tawar' the ceremony at the last of the queue. Excellent when it comes to the cue of 'family comes first'.

5. Next comes the recital of prayers (doa). I was getting excited thinking that I get to eat once the doa for the 'food' is done. Much to everyone's disappointment, the doa recital when on and on and on and on, sounding nothing like the short doa for makan, instead sounded more like 'doa kesyukuran or doa selamat' kinda thingy. Ok fine. We said our Amin but it didn't stop there. Still no food to be served yet.

6. Next, the recital of a surah Luqman which was very lengthy(approx. 15 minutes tops) and I could sense the discomfort of the Indian couple at our table. As for me, I was doing the eye rolling thing to the lady sitting next to me while she gasps in totally bewilderment like ,"Alamak, bace quran pulak ker" or the "omg this is so not happening" kinda look.

7. After nearly 2 hours of waiting and shifting around my seat and sms-ing my friends into glory and 1 purposely missed call later, we finally got served. It was late, people were no more hungry except probably a tad gassy inside and wanted to just gobbled up a bit and leave. Food was alright because we were hungry okay and it's that typical oily, dry, no veg food to make the food tastes supposedly healthy and thumb sucking delicious. Bah!

8. Then comes dessert with a weird 'concoction' of vanilla ice cream, some sprinkles of choc rice and get this, a sweet sour TAPAI! OMG! Like who the hell, created this type of dessert??? and I thought only kampung people eats tapai...hahaha...no offense okay, just a thought.

I skipped the hot drinks and kept indicating to my mum to chow and get the hell out of there. She did finally thought ,"oh well, I think we should leave" after a few minutes of waiting the super VIP to leave the 'hell' in a slow-mo ass manner. Great.

I grabbed my car keys, skipped the hand shaking thank yous with the organizing family whom I know no one and happily zoomed out for home.

Thus, the moral here is : If you think bad, you'll get bad. If you think good, you'll get good. So always, think good people. Avoid thinking bad and of course being bad.

Moral again : Never agree to attend a wedding that you know neither the bride and groom or the family members

Moral again again: Weddings are suppose to be fun, this was the worse wedding I've ever attended and if the wedding got VIPS or super VIPS like Sultan and Menteri, don't think twice about attending. Just DO NOT ATTEND! It's hell and full of protocol shits and left you hungry and regretting. Haha.

Oh well, this post is not a brief preview of the wedding I'd attended. It's a surprise if any of you even bother reading this long post.

Merde! Scheisse! Shit!

OMG...I'm so rushing into finishing up that Merde book. The fonts are big though, so I reckon, if I give my complete concentration, I can finish it up in a whizz. Nothing much to report here actually. Pigging session is up tonight and hoping I only meet strangers.

Just to shout out here, I really envy those people who opened up that online clothing line. Actually, I love those online boutiques and am itching to buy most of them and dreaming to have one of my own with my type of clothings you know. Merde! Online shopping is so bloody in. I will soon, order and order and burn only tiny bits of credit from the bank account.

I shall end this ridiculous post with less Merde, no more Scheisse and of course no Shit!

*Merde is French while Scheisse is Deutsch for that word calls Shit!

Merde! Scheisse! Shit!

OMG...I'm so rushing into finishing up that Merde book. The fonts are big though, so I reckon, if I give my complete concentration, I can finish it up in a whizz. Nothing much to report here actually. Pigging session is up tonight and hoping I only meet strangers.

Just to shout out here, I really envy those people who opened up that online clothing line. Actually, I love those online boutiques and am itching to buy most of them and dreaming to have one of my own with my type of clothings you know. Merde! Online shopping is so bloody in. I will soon, order and order and burn only tiny bits of credit from the bank account.

I shall end this ridiculous post with less Merde, no more Scheisse and of course no Shit!

*Merde is French while Scheisse is Deutsch for that word calls Shit!

After weddings, they started having babies...

Last weekend weddings were alright. I got to eat 'nasi minyak' for two days back-to-back which was aweful for my cholesterol level and overall diet. You see, I don't tend to eat that much anyways and having a super oily, fatty wedding lunches are enough to disturb my ever so healthy eating habit. Hehe.

So, as mentioned on the previous post, a handful of my friends are officially married last week. Hip hip hooray for them and sorry for not being able to make it to most of your weddings. One friend is already back to work yesterday which is rather suprising at least for me. The reason behind her back to work and no honeymoon yet after the wedding is due to lack of leave that she is allowed to take. That sucks isn't it. You have to postpone your honeymoon until like what...end of the year? Sucky but that's the reality for most people.

Okay back to the post's title,yep, after wedding, come the babies making episode of their life. If you ask me how do I feel about this and is it affecting me in any other ways? The answer to that is, hell no, no effect whats so ever unto me. I'm a much happier person actually because I get to become automatic Tante( Auntie in Dutch) when each baby boy or girl is born and delivered by my lovely friends.

I got to meet my old friend from my college days last week and she is blessed with this cute little guy of 6 months old. And for the first time ever, I got to hold a baby and tossed him around despite his neck is still a bit weak. But at least, baby Izz seemed to like me and didn't cry at all. Aww, babies are so much fun to play with minus the taking care part. That part is solely and exclusively left for the biological mum to take care of. Hehe. Ain't instant 'mother' fun?

I'm still doing my count on who is going to deliver their baby next this year. And the worse part, I never thought I would hear myself saying these words to my other friend during the wedding I'd attended. I chocked on hearing myself saying,"Hey, if there's good news, do let me know!".Like why the hell am I talking that way now? Sheesh...I hope I'm not giving pressure to my girlfriends because I know I'm not having the slightest pressure at all. LOL.

Can't wait to actually hold my very own niece too pretty soon. She's going to be spoilt rotten by her Tantes and only Uncle (at least from our side of the family that is). =)

What's the deal with June marriages?

It's June today and a lot to be anticipated this month. Kicking off the day feeling lost, more confused than yesterday but nevertheless, things gradually got better. The whole of last month, I kept getting posts from friends with their colourful wedding invitations which falls closely after one another starting from this 4th, a handful on the 6th and one on the 7th.

Oh how can I forget to mention that I already missed two wedding invitations on last weekend itself? I just couldn't make it. That's all.

I'm by now feeling absolutely tired and eyes close to shut trying to decide on how I'm going to attend four weddings in a week with this upcoming event on the 7th? Also, the fact that I thought my friend will get married on the 6th not until I saw her FB wall asking another friend to come for her wedding on the 7th. Not until then that I actually tore open her invititation card to check and confirm that yes, her wedding is on the 7th and I think I got to skip that event on that day. Haha...

You see, since most of them are going to make their big day falls on the 6th, I was thinking earlier that I will not attend to any of them...because of distance and plain inconvenient plus completely impossible for me to be at all four weddings at the same time. However, since I'm thinking to escape a little something, I'm going to forgo the event and attend the wedding on the 7th instead which is still a few hours drive to reach.

Coming back to the topic, like what's the deal with trying to squeeze all those weddings especially on the 6th of this month? I can never tolerate answers like , "Oh, it's the school holiday" when none of them are actually school teachers. I just don't get the idea at all man...

Anyways, come to think of it, I'm kinda sad that I won't be making it for two of my closest friends wedding. Smart them to have it all at the same day. Can't blame them either anyhow. I guess they are both getting all jumpy and excited with marriagehood and I'm sure, these two are ever so capable of hitting the 'making baby' button like asap. Hehe.. I can't imagine seeing mini M and mini Y ...hehehe..

On that note, I'm proud to announce that me and my girlfriends are officially now Aunties to Shalen's baby boy. The baby is 1 month premature and supposedly he's ETD(expected time of delivery) was on the 4th of July. I've yet to talk to Shalen and I hope the baby is getting strong as days past by. Probably I should pay them a visit since the baby is kept under watch in the incubator.

I'm tired. I should just go to bed.

The end.