Thursday, October 23, 2008

Nintendo DS Lite

Nintendo DS Lite (NDS Lite) ni basically lbh kurang sama je dgn the original NDS. Cuma the size is reduced to two-third from the original NDS. Functionality still the same. Gameplay pun still the same.

We bought the NDS Lite for Littleman for his 5th birthday this year. Beli kat Toys r Us Times Square, NYC yg Eriq sabotage kitorang that day. Before coming to the US last year, we bought a PSP Slim, which utk littleman main during the loonggg flight. Few weeks before littleman's birthday, boleh la pulak screen PSP tu crack.



The NDS Lite game console comes in Polar White, Onyx (black), Coral Pink, Crimson (red and black), or Cobalt (blue and black) in color. Ours is Cobalt. A fully charge NDS Lite will be able to last for between 5 to 7 hours of battery lifetime. Tapi siapa la pulak yg mengadap benda ni sampai 5-6 jam tak berenti.

NDS Lite ni, ada 2 screens. The bottom screen is a touchscreen. Depending on the games, sometimes we have to use the touchscreen instead of the controller. Sometimes you have to use both. The touchscreen is cool especially while playing games because you feel the interactiveness more compared to using the normal control pad. Even though it came together with a stylus (and few spares) the touchscreen is sensitive enough for your finger. Littleman most of the time uses his finger, instead of the stylus.

The NDS Lite comes with 2 cartridge slots for NDS games and Gameboy Advance (GBA) games cartridges. No internal memory comes together with the NDS Lite. NDS Lite also allows multiplayer games using WiFi (IEEE 802.11) enabled game cartridges. The dsiplay and sound produced by the NDS Lite is fairly good. 2D/3D graphic accelerator allow some 3D games to run on the console.

Even though the graphics and games tak berapa best compared to PSP, NDS Lite is considerably good enough. Boleh la layan all the games. Balik Malaysia next year, mmg nak kena repair screen PSP tu, kat sini mahal sangat la nak repair...


Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Just another sunday

Open house lagi... yayyy!!!

Before that, last Monday was the Columbus Day. It was the day, on Oct 12th 1492 when Christopher Columbus found the land of USA. And mcm dah tak boleh dipisahkan, celebration day mestilah di-associate-kan dgn sale! Hehehe... Last weekend was Columbus Day Sale, Friday to Monday! Kalau sale pergi maner murid-murid??? Pannndaiii... pergi outlettt...

Ok, we started our Sunday dgn pergi beraya ke outlet. Kali nie pergi with frens, ikut Anis... Actually mr ayah la dah plan awal2 dgn Anis. We dragged along another M'sian lady. She came to US to present her paper at Columbia Uni, NY. Alang2 she visited her alma mater, Hartford uni, and sekali la jumpa her kengkawan lama in New/West Haven. Org USJ12 tu, dkt je dgn opis mrs mama. Borak2, kuar la citer anjung merah... rindu la lauk-pauk kat anjung merahhh!!!

Later in the evening pi open house rumah liza/kush. Menu, laksa penang and nasi minyak! Sedap gilosss laksa diaorg. Org yg masak pun mmg chef, hehehe... Nie 2nd time makan laksa sejak duk kat US nie. 1st time dulu pun kat rumah diaorg gak... ader makan2 few days after raya haji 2007. Time tu feel makan laksa tak terasa sgt coz baru je sampai dr m'sia. Of coz la dok teringat laksa kuah ikan kembong kat m'sia (miss ikan kembong...). Tapi yg baru nie punyer kemaruk mmg lain! Mmg melantak la kitaorg ;)

Btw, since it's October now, means it's the month of Halloween. So, most of the houses here are decorated with Halloween theme. Mcm2 ader... rumah yg byk hantu pun ader. Littleman associates Halloween with hantu. So, dier takut kalau sebut halloween kat dier ;) Our house pun tak ketinggalan juga dlm bab2 menghias nie. Of coz la bukan kami yg buat, atuk landlord la buat semua tu... Nanti la dah dkt2 Oct 31st leh pi ronda2 amik gambar :D


Monday, October 13, 2008

Sambutan Aidilfitri 2008

Kami kat sini raya sehari awal dari Malaysia, on Sept 30. Sehari sebelum raya kami dpt sms dari kawan2 kat sini katanya New Haven Islamic Center declare raya on Sept 30. Dpt sms tu pun dah agak lewat ptg around pukul 4.00. Nasib baik la kami dah beli segala keperluan groceries yg patut utk prepare juadah pagi raya. So, dari ptg tu, mula la mrs mama sibuk di dapur masak rendang ayam buat pertama kalinya.


Patutnyer hari Isnin tu just nak prepare semua ingredients je la... blend siap2 aper yg patut. Alih2 kena masak terus... Menu takde variety maner... setakat rendang ayam dan nasi impit kuah kacang. Ader gak plan nak masak pulut, tapi tak sempat. So pulut tu malam esoknyer baru buat.

Solat raya tahun ni buat kat Coxe Cage, Yale Uni. It's an indoor stadium yg cukup besar utk tampung jemaah yg ramai pd pagi tu. Even though earlier solat raya patut mula around 7.45 pagi, tapi imam tunggu gak la sampai the stadium tu agak penuh baru mula. Dlm pukul 8.15 pagi baru sembahyang.

Our 1st day raya here not bad juga. The guys yg pegi sekali sembahyang raya dgn mr ayah, singgah rumah kami later for breakfast. Laku juga rendang ayam dgn sambal kacang mrs mama. From our house, kami pegi open house rumah kak liza/abg amir. Dah ramai dah kat rumah diorang masa kami sampai.

After lbh kurang 2 weeks lepas raya pun, bahang kemeriahan still ada lagi. Ada aje jemputan open house dari orang2 kat sini. So far kami sempat pegi 3 rumah je la. Yg lain tu tak sempat nak pegi sebab buat on weekdays. Mr ayah dah la kelas belah malam, so tak de chance la nak pegi open house yg buat masa weekdays tu.

Community sini pun ada plan Hari Raya Gathering utk Connecticut chapter. Buat kat German Hall, UNH on this coming Oct 26th. Will update on that in another entry...

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Updates on kad raya

Since kami beraya di perantauan, jakun la sket biler dpt kad raya.... hehehe...

In relation to our entry, Yayyy!!! Dapat kad raya!!! kami nak ucapkan byk2 terima kasih to family and frens yg sanggup bersusah payah mengepos kad2 raya pd kami di sini. InsyaAllah next raya, u guys will be in our top list to receive our kad raya. Maklumlah tahun nie tak dpt balas kan... walaupun dpt gak pantun 'pecah kaca, pecah gelas, sudah baca, harap balas...'. InsyaAllah kami balas next year, ok! hehehe...

Tak lupa juga, thanks pd yg sudi mb2u duit raya utk littleman ;)


Saturday, October 11, 2008

Bazar Ramadhan di West Haven

Sepanjang bulan Ramadhan tahun ni, terbaca dlm blog kawan2 pasal kemeriahan PARAM & berbuka puasa di luar. Mcm yg pernah kami cakap la sebelum ni, PARAM ni kami tak la beria sangat pegi, especially yg kat Putrajaya nun.



Pengalaman berpuasa di Amerika ni takde la pulak kami berbuka kat luar. Senang lagi berbuka di rumah. Cuma sekali sekala ada la jemputan dari warga West Haven ni utk berbuka puasa ala pot luck kat rumah diorang. Eh! ader la sekali berbuka kat Bubba, Times Square... yg dgn Eriq tu ;)

Dalam pada semua orang sibuk tu, ada jugak 2 kali sempat diorang organize "Bazar Ramadhan" kat backyard rumah abg nuar & kak shima. Konsep dia simple je, sape nak meniaga, bawak la juadah yg nak dijual, pastu buka puasa ramai2. 1st time buat, tak ramai sgt yg menjual. Maybe sebab buat hari Rabu, orang semua sibuk keja. Tapi kuih2 yg dijual boleh tahan gak la. Popiah goreng, kuih ketayap, kerepek ubi pedas, kek gula hangus dan mcm2 lagi la.

Yg paling best is the one held on Sunday. The last Sunday before raya, the day after kami punya day out with Eriq. Ader jual mee kari, nasi lemak, apam puteri ayu, burger, roti john, kuih raya, and mcm2 lagi... best best!!! dpt makan mcm2... keropok lekor pun ader! :D

Kami takde la menjual apa2 masa bazar Ramadhan tu. Mrs mama goreng mi, utk makan ramai2 je. Tak sempat pun nak masak utk menjual, maklum la weekend tu kan sibuk shopping & teman orang tu shopping.

Siapa kata kat US takde Bazar Ramadhan? Hehehe...


Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Weekend Before Raya

We managed to meet up with a fellow who flew almost 11 hours from Beunos Aires for a shopping spree and iftar session.

Yes!! Eriq aka Hazriq aka Qirzah. Finally... jumpa gak mamat bueno aires nie :D



mrs mama: dulu dah pernah jumpa sekali, b4 he flew to buenos aires... tapi time tu tak kenal, malu2 kucing lagik! hikss!!!

We agreed to meet up at Woodbury outlets since Eriq was already in his kampung, NYC and we drove there from our house in West Haven. It was nearly 11am when we arrived there and Eriq without wasting his precious time, went shopping nonstop, while mr ayah and mrs mama took turns watch over littleman at the playground.

Surprisingly, we didn't spend much at Woodbury... pdhal few days b4 dah tak sabar2 nak pi sana. We only bought littleman toys and his Wall-E tshirt and short (dah berhari dok mintak, nie sure tgk ada kawan2 pakai kat sekolah).

Sorry Eriq, kalau boleh mmg nak biar u shop until the outlets close ;) but since kiter nak buka puasa kan... kena la gerak gak balik ke NYC. We gerak balik ke NYC at about 5pm. Sampai NYC at 6pm, amik subway from Grand Central to Times Square.



We had our iftar at Bubba Gump. Takde pics at Bubba coz all gone the minute they came. Eriq, our tepung pelita that day mmg tak sesedap the 1st one. Kalau u nak try buat, jgn guna tepung beras, guna tepung pulut (the 1st time tu terbeli tepung pulut, but i think guna tepung pulut lagi sedap lah!!).

Lepas dah kenyang terpaksa gak la singgah ke Toys r us coz Eriq purposely pi tunjuk kat littleman toys r us depan bubba tu. Punyer la mr ayah and mrs mama dok cover2 taknak bg littleman nampak kedai mainan tu! Sambil dok makan2 tu baper kali dier mintak! Tu yg kena pi gak...

Later we met vogue's labu lurve and his gang at his suite's lobby. Vogue, don't worry... dah talk2 with ur labu lurve and we will have our woodbury and DC sessions when u are in NYC. Sempat dak nak sambut new year in NYC?? ;) We left Eriq with his heavy shopping bags (he shopped a lot!!!)

Btw, ader satu incident kelakar happened while we were on our way back to NYC. We stopped over utk isi minyak kat one of the rest area. Masa nak isi tu, mr ayah mcm biasa la nak carik button/lever utk bukak tempat isi minyak. Jenuh la mencari, tapi tak jumpa! Mrs mama carik, Eriq pun carik. Tak jumpa2 gak. Siap tanya dgn org kalau2 diaorg tau. Maklum la keter sewa... tak reti! wakakaka!!! At last Eriq gak yg jumpa, rupanyer just pull the cover je!! Takde button/lever for that. Amik! gelak sakan la kitaorg dgn kedummy-an kitaorg and ingatkan canggih sgt la keter Dodge tu!!! Will sure remember this sampai biler2... hehehe...

On Sunday... We continued our shopping spree at the nearest outlet in Westbrook. Aterr! dah tak shopping on saturday kan... kater dpt bonus! Kena la shopping gaks ;) So Eriq, let the picture below describes all :P


harith in his baju and seluar Wall-E, ready to go to school


Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Salam Lebaran dari Connecticut

Kami ingin mengucapkan Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri, maaf zahir dan batin... buat keluarga mr ayah di Keramat, keluarga mrs mama di Taiping, paklong mali di bota, paklang farul di Canada (outstation la pulak... kesian aiman raya tanpa ayah), uncle lod di Johor Bahru (tahun nie tak dpt cuti raya), uncle Kanip di India (semoga kapal berlayar dgn selamat), cik ura di Seberang Jaya (bekerja di hari raya), saudara-mara, dan juga sahabat handai yg berada di perantauan serta di Malaysia.

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