life's a commotion!

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Second hand books for sale @KLJunkyard!

Hello fellow readers! I've got another blog it's called KL Junkyard! Haha. Currently I am 'disposing' of my old books from the book shelves and books are selling from RM10 to RM20 tops. Have a look at KL Junkyard to check out the books. If you guys are interested to swap books or want to post your own books for sale at KL Junkyard, I'll be more than happy to do so. PM me to talk business. =p

Check out KL Junkyard NOW!

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Second hand books for sale @KLJunkyard!

Monday, July 27, 2009

Nijntje Intro Song

My cute lil curly-haired niece is so into Nijntje(*pronounce as Naije)or in English, it's Miffy. Some of the first things she uttered at the airport was Nijntje while pointing the Nijntje logo at her top. Super adorable. And to top it up, this Nijntje song is not bad at all. It's damn catchy. Check it out here for the Dutch version. It's great that I get to pick up a lil bit of Dutch too! Hehe.

Owh, I must share the lyrics here :

Nijntje nijntje kom erbij,
met je vriendjes reuzeblij,
Snuffie,Knorretje en Boris beer
kijk ook Betje is er weer

Lekker buiten iedereen,
niemand blijft alleen,
Nijntje
Een lief klein konijntje
Nijntje
Een pienter konijntje
Nijntje
Een knuffelkonijntje

Nijntje
kijk mee...

Nijntje Intro Song

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Create FREE HTML Form Builder at Wufoo

I was browsing around yesterday for a form builder to create at an online sale website. The closest I've always seen is something from Aweber. However, Aweber provides one of those auto respond email, subscription, customer follow-up with some fees which is not what I'm looking for. Aweber can get pretty handy if you are looking for an internet marketing tool for your bisness.

Anyhow, I've found this really awesome FREE HTML form builder by Wufoo. Here are things on why every online business seller should get their hands on Wufoo:

1: Opening an account at Wufoo is obviously FREE and you get to create 3 Free HTML Form and also customize each forms, edit it along the way for FREE.

2. For normal online business seller especially those common in Malaysia, we see most of them posting their personal bank account number, name and phone number on public display on their website. With the form builder by Wufoo, you get to create an order form with really professional looking GUI alongside with an auto generated email sent to both you and your customers who completed the order form. Hence, you get to follow up on your customers directly and share account details and etc through the information from the order form.

So, if you are an online business seller and want to make an impression to your customers, go to Wufoo and get 'em free forms now!! The form making is super simple, easy, comes with choices of templates which you get to customize and simpley paste the generated code to your website and Voila, you'll get your own personalized HTML form!

Create FREE HTML Form Builder at Wufoo

Tuesday, July 07, 2009

When friends started asking you these...

....you wonder why the hell they asked?

Yeah, I admit I got a couple of friends who asked me questions that I just downright think they should have asked a totally different person and not me. Here are some of the questions that had me can't quite catch my tongue moment:

Friend (F) :Don't you want to get married yet? You know we are already 26 this year.
Me (M): Huh? ...*thinking for the best answer to reply...Of course la I wanna get married! Which idiot doesn't right? You are asking a pretty stupid question. Duh!

* F was asking me that because apparently she was counting days for her big day and I felt like strangling her from over the phone for talking so 'rubbishly' silly. Haha.

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F : You all single people, what more are you waiting for? Faster la get married. Takkanla wanna wait for us to get babies baru nak kawin kot?
M : * like WTF is she talking? What the hell is this woman thinking talking like that to people? Do I even know this woman???

* Yours truely promptly sent a private message reply to this F saying that of course 'we' single ladies wanted to get married but of course we have to get married with someone else right? Since we are like 'single', how the hell are we suppose to get married? Chill la..what's the rush.
* Deep down in my heart, I feel like killing this woman. Talking without thinking. Haih. But later I gave her some slack after finding out that she's pregnant. I suppose, some preggie ladies are a bit too hormonal. Had to give her some slack though since I just want to be nice to my friends okay! Haha.

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F: I'm feeling all stressed out la since people in my office and most of our friends are already married. I'm so stressed!
M: Wei, chill la! Why you want to rush yourself? I thought you are not ready to commit to marriagehood what? So just chill lah! No need to be so stressed out OKAY!

* In my heart ... I don't get this woman! Haha...Since she's a friend, just pretend to be listening. LOL!

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F : Let's say someone you just met propose to you and wanted to marry you, what will you do?
M: Erm...I still have to get to know the person first. Of course I want to get married, but I know it's not now lah. *thinking again on what I just said. Haha

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Those are some of my friends. They asked me questions that I can't bloody answer. It's worse than having an exam okay. Stop asking me questions like this again! LOL~

It's July and I've forgotten to blog...

Uhh...how time flies really fast although you just ended up being a 'beautiful furniture' most of the time. Anyways, just to highlight a thing or two here.

Since KL is all hyped up with the 'Bonnie Flu'...yes, I call it as 'Bonnie' instead of 'Swine' because I just thought 'Bonnie' is a wickedly cute name to call a pig. Alrite, since the whole hype about people getting infected with the flu and also those news alert saying that a couple of people actually were having the flu during the much anticipated Urbanscape event few weekends back...and surprise, surprise... the following week (last week), we got news from my own condo's management warning us about this 'Bonnie Flu' because apparently some people already got infected within the block. And also...dad came home proudly storytelling about having to wear mask into some departments because a couple of people happened to catch the flu bug. Okay...how did I react on this?

Simply down on some extra vitamin C in vain hope to have extra strong immunity against the flu. =). Some people are also arguing that this health scare is being overrated and scaring the shits of almost everyone. There's still no cure to this and the normal remedy for the infected people is for the doctor to prescribe an extra shit loads of antibiotics, paracetomal, some pills for flu and then asking patients to drink a lot of water and not skipping their meals. It's safe to say that people shouldn't worry so much about this 'Bonnie Flu'. The more you are scared shits about it, I supppose, the more likely that you'll get infected. Haha. It's like a whole psychology thing. Your utmost fear will come to haunt you like that.

And just for laugh, I'd asked a friend living from Down Under about the current situation there. She mentioned that ,"Oh..people were getting worried sick about it last month and 2 people died. By now, people just don't give a damn about it anymore. " Haha. So worry not fellow KL-ians. It's just a bug, it'll shoo away in no time. Stay healthy and stay clean people!

Thursday, June 25, 2009

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!

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!

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Cooking updates : Jamie Oliver

Friday, June 19, 2009

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.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

How to put up the retweet icon at your blog?

  <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>

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

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.

Monday, June 15, 2009

A change of air

Saturday, June 13, 2009

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.

life's a commotion!

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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Second hand books for sale @KLJunkyard!

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Second hand books for sale @KLJunkyard!

Monday, July 27, 2009

Nijntje Intro Song

Nijntje Intro Song

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Create FREE HTML Form Builder at Wufoo

Create FREE HTML Form Builder at Wufoo

Tuesday, July 07, 2009

When friends started asking you these...

It's July and I've forgotten to blog...

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Zee Avi - Kantoi!

Keywords Tracker by Nuffnang

Zee Avi - Kantoi!

Keywords Tracker by Nuffnang

Cooking updates : Jamie Oliver

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Cooking updates : Jamie Oliver

Friday, June 19, 2009

How to put up the retweet icon at your blog?

Thursday, June 18, 2009

How to put up the retweet icon at your blog?

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

A change of air

Monday, June 15, 2009

A change of air

Saturday, June 13, 2009

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

Friday, June 12, 2009

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

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