Halal Chinese Porridge

10 November 2022

Assalamualaikum & Hi,

The 2nd best halal Chinese porridge I've ever eaten @ Dolly Dim Sum.
The first best one is @ Minmax Restaurant.

A hidden restaurant nearby my office

Assalamualaikum & Hi,

There's a restaurant located somewhere in Bangi in between the factories, called Rimau maybe. I always came here with my colleagues as the price was cheap & it was tasty as well. We'll discuss a lot of things while eating also. We'll carpool to come here & squeezed everyone inside as the distance was quite short. Good food, good company & good memories.

Most of the time I'll eat food in the pictures, but there were also times when I at

Sambal lala, keli masak lemak, sambal jawa & pucuk ubi masak lemak.

Till then,

Adlina

Burger Bakar Changlun

27 October 2022

Assalamualaikum & Hi,

10/10! They used coconut shell instead of charcoal to grill so the meat is fragrant, not oily and still fluffy.
It always sells out quickly but luckily that night it was still open at 10pm hehe :)

Till then,

Adlina

Sit & Eat Cafe, Bangi

19 October 2022

Assalamualaikum & Hi,

Randomly discovered this cafe when we went to 7E last week. The reviews & menu looked nice so we decided to come here for Isaac's farewell.
I ate Pan Seared Chicken Chop & drank syrup with basil seed & Lychee. For desserts we ate brownies & ice cream. They were soooo gooooooooooood nak nangis makan makanan sedap! I asked everyone's if their food was good too & all of them said it's delicious!
Great place to eat Western Food & price for me is very reasonable with the portion. Service so fast also. Definitely will sit & eat here again!

Till then,

Adlina

Creme brulee @ Harold's

Assalamualaikum & Hi,

The best creme brulee cheese tart I've eaten! RM3.20 for 1 & RM12.50 for 4! But eat while it's still hot & fresh for best taste :)

Till then,

Adlina

Snowflake, the best desserts!

6 July 2019

Assalamualaikum & Hi,

All the boba and bingsu in this world can't fight my fav SNOWFLAKE:Taiwanese Dessert Secrets (MALAYSIA) 

Till then,

Adlina

28 famous life quotes for 28 years old me

Assalamualaikum & Hi!

It's been a while since I wrote here, I did but it's all kept in my draft, incomplete. But this one must go first. I'm turning 28! 2 more years till 30 & that's scary. There's nothing I should be scared of, yet in my heart there's still a lot of uncertainties about unknown future. Recently I just learned about the AI & explored ChatGPT & Bard by Google, so I asked them to share with me famous life quotes I should know as 28 years old. Here you go!

1. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt
2. "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." - C.S. Lewis
3. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
4. "Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt
5. "The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs
6. "The best way to predict the future is to create it." - Peter Drucker
7. "The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams." - Oprah Winfrey
8. "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
9. "Be a first-rate version of yourself, not a second-rate version of someone else." - Judy Garland
10. "Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it." - Charles R. Swindoll
11. "Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." - Sam Levenson
12. "Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions." - Dalai Lama
13. "The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." - E.E. Cummings
14. "The future depends on what you do today." - Mahatma Gandhi
15. "You are the artist of your own life. Don't hand the paintbrush to anyone else." - Carrie Bloxson
16. "Challenges are what make life interesting, and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." - Joshua J. Marine
17. "If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down." - Toni Morrison
18. "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." - Albert Schweitzer
19. "The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday." - Anonymous
20. "In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein
21. "It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot
22. "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." - Helen Keller
23. "Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life." - Steve Jobs
24. "The only impossible journey is the one you never begin." - Tony Robbins
25. "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
26. "The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
27. "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." - John D. Rockefeller
28. "You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you." - Brian Tracy

By 28, I've experienced the highest highs & the lowest lows but still wondering a lot on life. The most important thing is taking care of yourself as no you means no life. & life is actually a journey not destination, age is just a number, and I have a world of opportunities ahead of me. I should embrace each day and live it to the fullest! 

Please pray that I will be at ease & peace, have enough & sufficient rezeki & most of all, will be blessed by Allah in everything for the rest of my life in shaa Allah.

28 & still young,

Adlina

Open your heart

Assalamualaikum & Hi!

As a person who have a lot in mind, went through overthinking phase & always multitasking, it's actually hard for me to actually to finish what I should be doing.

For the past few months, I have so so much on my plate, & to actually divide my focus was so so hard. I went through very hard time to actually sort things out.

Nevertheless, there were few things I've tried & worked so well.

1) Focus on one things at a time & remove distractions

I tend to multitask because I wanted to finish everything all at once, but I ended up only partially completed everything. So I made a timeline, "I should do this for 1 hour, & then do another task for an hour". I even went to the extend where I didn't watch any Netflix show while eating, or listening to songs while commuting. As a person who's always on all social media platform, I uninstalled everything & only went back on weekends for short time only. Of course I have social media's withdrawal symptoms, but that got better as time went by too.

I don't know how it works, but I can focus to finish my to do list in the amount of time I needed.

2) Open your heart

This one was a mind game. After I successfully settled number 1, I wanted to enhanced my focus, because as a person with always want to multitask, my mind always think about other things while doing something.

There's one time while studying, I said to myself, "Open your heart, you need to do this". Then it worked! I remembered by heart of what I was reading. So I experimented on other situations as well, like in doing sales. "Just open your heart, talk about this to the doctors" & it went smoothly. I am still trying in other situations but so far all of it works. But everytime I was focusing on something I said, "Clear your mind, open your heart".

The mind game is real. & of course need to add number 3) Endless prayers - from yourself & everybody. I've read somewhere we need to have faith that our prayers will be answered, & despite knowing a lot of things are impossible, I'm training myself to completely trust my prayers will be 100% answered, in shaa Allah. With Ramadan coming soon, let's pray a lot more. 

It's not getting easier, but I'm being more efficient, slowlyy but surely. In January I was definitely super miserable but by March a lot of things seems to be much better.

Till then,

Adlina.

Another grateful post

Assalamualaikum & Hi,

[Saw this on my note, I think I wanna keep it here]

23:25, Mon 27 Feb 2023

For the past few days, I had experienced a lot of things that made me realized I have more than I wanted, better than what I expected.

Like last week, I went to the annual dinner of the company I worked at. I had few deep conversations, which showed me that if I went through the paths I planned for, it definitely will end up much worst. Allah made it easy for me to go there & went home safely. Despite being brave, I did feel scared to go everywhere on my own.

Today, I was clueless about a lot of things at work, but Allah send me people to help me understand better. After working hours, my sister, brother in law & their little cute baby came. We had dinner at a nice restaurant with good food & affordable price. & we were led to the mosque. The baby behaved, I could read the Quran & we stayed from Maghrib till Isyak. It was nice having quality time within 3 hours. Then they sent me home. I had this thought while I was in shower.

I was blessed beyond measure. Life didn't turned out the way I expected it to be, but better in ways I never imagined. Of course I had dreams I wished to come true, but Allah always knows best.

I still remember days when I was rebellious, questioning Allah on a lot of things, kept wanting Him to give what I wanted. Instead of asking, I was more like forcing Him. & without knowing, I was being someone I never wanted to be. Then, one by one of my blessings were pulled away, especially the peace in my heart.

I was fortunate I had the chance to fix things & return back to Him. & life has been a lot better since then.

Last week when I called my mom, we had a lengthy conversation about life & she said, "Someday you'll know why things happened the way they did. One day when you're older you'll say, 'Ah, that's why Allah has planned my life the way it is, right now'". With everything I had went through, I already have a lot of 'Ah, that's why!'.

There were still days, when there'll problems arised, & my heart just felt I couldn't take anymore. But what He puts me through, was everything I could deal with.

Therefore, I am grateful. & thus, this is enough.

I'll always pray Allah will give me, whatever He thinks best for me. I can set the bar & my own decisions, but ultimately it's up to him. May Allah ease.

Step by step

Assalamualaikum & Hi,

Today I came through the statement from one of my favourite authors, Mr James Clear;

I've been on some highs & lows, but mostly being stagnant. Also was trying to figure out a lot of things. & trying to minimize planning to focus more on just doing it, taking step by step, one at a time.

The perfect day came when you least expect it to happen, & from the continuous efforts you've put through high & low. & it was today for me. Some things I've been pushing through just happened work out now,  & I've got answers to many uncertainties.

So people, baby steps, take that slowly & increase the pace over time.

Ps: add in a lot of prayers tooooo, it magically gave me so so much peace to my heart.

Till then,

Adlina.