A Mom, A Wife and more..

X-Mas Weekend

2010-12-23T00:32:00.000-08:00

Our weekend starts early this week since X-Mas falls on Saturday. Going to spend our X-Mas weekend at one of the A Famosa Resort's bungalow with Basya's Families. Our last trip to A Famosa Resort was about 2-3 years ago when both of our kids were too small to remember anything about the last trip. Bet the kids going to have lots of fun with all the cousins gathered together. Wishing you guys a great weekend as well and Happy Holidays ;)

Irdina's 1st Swimming Lesson

2010-12-21T22:52:00.000-08:00

I read somewhere that the most ideal age for children to learn to swim, is 5 years. At this age usually the kids can start playing outside without constant supervision of their parents. We were actually planning to sent Irdina to a swimming class since early this year, but due to some commitments and constraints that we had, we had to postpone it until this year school holiday.

So the BIG sista started her 1st swimming class last 2 weeks at Precint 16, Putrajaya together with one of my neighbour's daugther and both of them loved it and had been counting days ever seen for their next swimming class! It was a 1 hour class every Saturday, 11am -12 pm and in group lesson with a few instructors. I thought that she's gonna to freak out at first but apparently she had no problem at all to do whatever the coach asked her to do. After attending the first session, I could see that she could hold her breath under water for a little while and she could even float her body as well.Bravo Dear!! :) I'm not expecting her to know how to swim in 12 weeks when the class is over. I just wanted her to have the class to get used to the water and interact with some kids close to her age and have a good time. It would be nice also to know if in case that she fell in a pool at least she could swim to the edge and get herself out from there right? So here's a few photos during her 1st swimming lesson ;)

On her 1st session

The class actually offered for kids aged 7 years onwards but I told the coach let her try first one class and see how she response to their instructions. Apparently she took all the instruction pretty well ;)

She can float ;)

Si kenit nie pun nak join gak..tapi mandi tepi2 kolam jelah. Wait till you're 5 kay ;)

p/s: In case you would like to know more about the swimming class provided at Putrajaya area, you can refer to this link.

Promo

2010-11-22T19:27:00.000-08:00

Rockers peknen :P

My fren, Adie (my ex-mrsm KT school mate) did a very good job with my 'Make Over' for this year TS Annual Dinner themed 'Rock On. So in return, I would like to give her a free promo about her blog and her 'part time make up job' as another token of appreciation from me for her good work. Sapa lagi nak tolong bisnes kawan2 kalau bukan kawan2 sendirikan ;)

With dear hubby who is being so supportive melayan ke'geds'an wifeynye mlm tuh :P

I like what she did with my 'eyes' that night. Smokey2 gituh

With a few of my colleagues

So peeps if you're looking for a good 'Mak Andam' for any functions (Wedding, Engagement, Dinner, Photoshoot etc) with a reasonable price..you can contact my friend, Adie & visit her blog for details. I promise you, you'll not be let down by her 'touch'.

I'm One Proud Mom

2010-11-18T13:45:00.000-08:00

Last Sunday, my hubby, Aniq & I rushed to Menara PJH, Putrajaya for Irdina's Concert after my 45 minutes delayed flight touching down at KLIA, airport. I was supposed to arrive at 1345 but only managed to touch down at 1420 and made my exit from the custom clearance by 1500. Luckily by the time we reached the venue, the first performance from the 4 years old class was just about to start. So we didn’t miss anything at all. Fuh!!

Me..Comot..after the long hours flight..with 2 transits. Seattle - Houston - Dubai - KL. Total almost 40hours including stopover

With her friends

All the pics below & above taken by her Maksu when Ibu still otw to Menara PJH from Airport. Kemain lagi posing Ibu takde ekk :P

My mom, dad & my sister were already there. They brought Irdina over earlier since she needs to be there by 1530 as requested by the principal for all the last preps and light snack before all the kids started their performances. My mom was the one that actually did all the make up and dressed up for Irdina for her concerts. Thanks Mama..Jasamu dikenang ;) So being away from Irdina for 3 weeks, off course I was all excited to watch her made her first appearance on stage and that was during her 'Asareje' performance by her class. Wowemjie!! Once the song started hover abis anak ai dancing on stage..Sume sakit perut tahan gelak. But it was a good laugh not that we laughed because her performance was hilarious but because she really can dance. Very well I could say. We were all surprised by this. Boleh tahan jugak rupanye si Irdina nie. We had no idea she could dance like that, and ntah bila masa dia nie practice.Probbably at school.

Her 1st performance ' Asareje' representing her class, Ant Hill.

Her 2nd performance was 'La Camisa Negra' (a spanish song sang by Aizad in one of his AF concerts) dance for another 5 years old class (she in Ant Hill class btw) She was the only selected by her teachers to perform twice for both 5 years old classes. Yg nie pun..Not bad ke'gediks'an nye....but I'm still proud of her.

Her 2nd performance representing Buzzy Bee class

But..most importantly...I was not just proud because all the performances that she got to make but because of these :

1) First, she received Best Achievement Award Academically for being the No. 1 ranked in her class

Please ignore the comb. My camera can't seem to focus on the sheet so I have to the comb as primary object :P

2) Second, she received Top Young Readers Award for exceeding the highest milestone in reading both English & Bahasa for 5 years old student set by Krista. Actually she exceeded even the 6 years milestone set by Krista standard.

The milestone for 5 years is 5B for English (Peter & Jane) but now she read book 9. So she exceeded even the milestone for 6 years. For Bahasa, she completed the whole set already and the teacher needs to start her with a new book called 'Saya Pandai Membaca'

Us - Reunited after 3 weeks being apart

and we had no idea about this at all. Definitely the best home coming surprise/gift that I had apart from Sambal Udang Petai and Ketam Masak Lemak Cili Padi cooked by both Mamas (my mom and my mother in law which on the hand sedap gilerrrr!!). It really warms my heart as a mother. With that...what more can I say..I'm one proud mom. Alhamdulillah…Thanks to God for this gift. As reward for her achievement we brought her to Toys R Us yesterday and she got to choose any toys of her preferences. But just 1 toy. It took her so long to finalize her decision (with some influence from Ibu & Ayah off course :P) and at last she chose this :

and the little brother on the other hand taknak ketinggalan, nak toys jugak and he chose this :

Oklahkan...dari dia nak yg mahal2 :P. Kekekekekkeee

Since school holiday starts today, we already make plans for the kids what they need to do during this school holiday. I have enrolled Irdina to attend 2 days science Camp & another 2 days Art Camp. I'm looking for options to start her swimming class somewhere near Cyberjaya and probably a ballet class as well somewhere in Puchong. She needs to do a lot more practice in Jawi writing as well.Her Jawi writing..errr, needs a lot of improvement I could say. For Aniq, we need to start his reading practice and more book store visits to get him into speed with reading, books & school. Hopefully with some help from the BIG sista, he'll be able to blend in and have the same interest & passions like he had in cars & toys with books. Yea..Hopefully. Aminnn ;)

Sob Sob :~(

2010-10-27T21:08:00.000-07:00

I'm touched!! Irdina's first email for Ibu

From Houston With Love

2010-10-27T18:31:00.000-07:00

It has been 5 days already for me being apart from my beloved ones. It was hard and up till now I can't stop thinking about them most of the time. I was quite busy also with my workshop for the past few days. I have to be in the office by 8am then usually I'll only drive back to the hotel after having dinner with my team around 8pm and totally restless by then. Memang tak sempat pun nak jalan mana2 lagi. Kira Bgn Tido-Makan-Keje-Makan-Keje-Makan-Tido jee since coming here. So..as requested by a few friends these are among some photos that I managed to snap up till my arrival day. Tak byk bergamba lagi so far..I'll upload more in FB if time permits..Enjoys

At Dubai Airport with Bentley 1439 Series. Anyone dare to win this car for 100 Dhs token Lucky Draw?

Dubai skyview

My crib for 17 hours (Dubai - Houston)

My seat even has a dedicated USB Port for charging my Ipod ;)

Get real!! A massage seat? Now you guys know how I survived for 17 hours :P

My breakfast appetizer. I had no interest to watch any movies or listen to any songs, as I was too damn sleepy on my 1st flight to Dubai. Tapi lain cerita pulak with my 2nd flight. Totally Makan-Movies-Toilet-Makan-Movies-Toilet-Makan-Movies-Toilet. Tak boleh tido langsung walaupun dpt seat best. I managed to watch 'Prince Of Persia', 'Complete Glee - Season 1 series', 'Eclipse', 'Predator' and half through 'Alice In the Wonderland'. Ha amek!! :P

My lunch appetizer. Sume gamba appetizer jee sempat snap. By the time main course sampai terus ngap..lupa langsung nak ambik gamba sbb lapar :P

My luggages - Ini jee? :P

Inside Shuttle Bus that will bring us to the Car Rental Center 5 minutes away from the Airport. Masing2 muka comot & penat due to the long journey.

Off to Houston

2010-10-23T10:08:00.000-07:00

Login at Emirates Lounge, KLIA with a kakak next to me is currently browsing at Macys.com surveying for handbags. I'll be off to Dubai at 0200 hrs for 3 hours stopover then off to Houston. Will update more later if time permits ;)

I just heard the most beautiful sound in the world

2010-10-20T02:31:00.000-07:00

I had my 2nd ob appt yesterday. The main purpose of this appt is to check the baby's heart beat and get some advise and medications from my gynae before my US trip this Saturday. To tell the truth I was quite nervous for this check up. Why? Because for the past few weeks, I never feel anything moving inside of me at all. I felt empty and off course bloated most of the time!!

At first, he still couldn’t find the heartbeat and then at long last, I heard my baby’s heartbeat for the first time. It was unimaginable joy. I was so happy that I couldn’t stop myself from letting a tear or two drop. It is the most beautiful sound that I have ever heard in my life. At least I know that my baby is living healthily inside of me despite of all those nausea, vomiting, not eating well that happened to me for the past few weeks. Now I'm at 12 weeks and I know it's still a long journey for me to go. I still have my morning sickness with me till now and travelling for more than 30++ hours journey to Houston on Saturday while having my morning sickness is the next things that worries me now. Wish me luck guys.

The Battle of Morning Sickness

2010-10-11T01:52:00.000-07:00

Yes peeps...I'm expecting my 3rd child. I’m in 11 weeks, in full blown morning sickness mode or should I say "all daysickness" and so far I haven't found anything yet that could make it go away or at least comfort it. Eating now is another disaster, I have never being so picky in my life , now I feel that most of the food are stinks, I can't even look at any chicken dishes especially KFC (tgk iklan kfc pun dah loya), empty plastic bag is 'a must bring' every I go nowdays. I'm allergic (alah) to perfumes, my skincare products, dynamo, softlan all the household appliances yg wangi2, baby shampoo etc you just named it. I can't even enter the bathroom\toilet..masuk toilet jee mesti nak muntah. I mean any toilets whether at home, work or even at my mom's place.Sigh!!

To make things worst..I need to travel to US in 2 weeks time for 3 weeks (visiting TS Office in Houston & attending PASS conference in Seattle) but my "all day sickness" has no sign of leaving me anytime soon eventhough I'm almost entering my 2nd trimester :( Luckily my 2 bodyguards are tagging me along...Not Dear Hubby but my Mom & Dad. They were the one who got all excited about this whole trip. At least there'll be someone there that can look after me and keep me from being tooooo homesick. So peeps..plis pray for my recovery...Tak larat dah nie nak mengadap vomit bowl :(

Missing In Action!!

2010-09-07T02:19:00.000-07:00

Yeah, I know, I’m totally MIA these days. And for good reason, I just don’t have the time or energy to blog lately eventhough I have so many things to tell. I've been juggling with a lot of things. Raya preps is definitely one of them but most of it is with my &#^%*(!(^@#%. I'm experiencing some stomach & back cramping occasionally, mostly at night so I have trouble getting comfortable at night when I'm trying to sleep lately. I hope this is something quite 'normal' for women in my 'shuz'..I’ll try to get my act together soon, but realistically, it might take a while. I mean…really a whileeeeeeee!!

However, since raya just around the corner I would like wish each and everyone of you an advanced SELAMAT HARI RAYA & MAAF ZAHIR BATIN.Halalkan sumenye yea .I know some of you might go leave early (like myself) so have a safe journey back home and come back in one peace. Have a wonderful Hari Raya with your love ones ;)

3.4 years old Tantrum

2010-08-20T00:19:00.000-07:00

This past couple of weeks, the little ones (who used to be a calm, cool and sweet boy) has been extremely testing my patience. (Dunno if this something have to do with sending him to the day care) Some of the things he did, I know were pretty normal for a 3 years old kid but the fits are what really get me. He's will throw a hissy fits even for the simplest things. Here's a few scenarios and the end results after all the tantrums & fits :

1) I said NO (in a soft tone of voice) to him because he was playing with my keyboard while I was working.

Result = He threw all the newly opened Pringles from the container that he was holding to the floor. What a waste!!

2) I said NO to him because he insisted to have the 'Nasik Ayam' that we just bought from Param right away inside the car when I was DRIVING!!

Result = He opened the one of our umbrellas at the back seat inside the car. Luckily the edge of the umbrella didn’t poke into his eyes.

3) I said WAIT to him because he wanted a toy from the box that he couldn’t reached out with his hands while I was busy doing laundry.

Result = He peed on the floor!!

4) I said NO to him because he wanted to go back home while he was still seeking treatment in the hospital.

Result = He ran to the lift all by himself so I had to chase him without wearing my tudung and once I was able to get hold of him, he knocked me on the head with one of his toy car that he was holding. Sakit Amat! I almost spilled a tears !! :~(

Believe me..There was a lot more. Throwing himself on the floor and had a full out fist pounding, feet kicking screaming, crying tantrum are quite a common scenes that we all get from this little fella especially if we're at the mall. I've tried ignoring, I've trying talking to him, I've tried time-outs, I've tried spankings...it just never ends. Is this normal for 3 years old growing up boy? Please god, give me all the strengths to keep up with this 'phase' especially time bulan2 puasa nie. Amin

To my beloved son,

In case if you read this..Is not that I'm complaining and don’t love you anymore . You know that I love you to death but there are the times (while you're going through this phase) when I just at a loss.Hope that one day you'll be able to understand :)

PS: Alhamdulillah..the little ones was discharged on Tuesday. The doc gave him something called Pro-Biotic(a good bacteria for his digestive systems) and Kiddi Pharmaton for his appetite. Suprisingly..after few days consuming both of them his appetite has improved a lot ;) I mean a lot!! (eg: Order roti bakar pagi, ptg & malam and having nasik at the same time)

Email from HR

2010-08-19T20:06:00.000-07:00

Bukan surat kenaikan pangkat\gaji ye, but :

Dear Colleagues,

This year, Hari Raya may fall on Friday and Saturday (10 & 11 September 2010) depending on the sighting of the moon. In the event Hari Raya falls on Friday and Saturday, we shall observe Thursday (9 September 2010) as the replacement leave for the public holiday that falls on Saturday (11 September 2010).

Yabedabeduuuuu..leh apply cuti raya lama lagi :P

Shattered!!

2010-08-15T22:52:00.000-07:00

Hehe..Not my heart but my car passenger side window :P For the first time in the history of our D***78, our side passenger window shattered! If it wasn’t for the vkool, it would have pecah berderai menyembah bumi..Sob Sob! Pity her!! (I always imagine my car as a Lady :P) Turned out to be caused by a rock from a lawnmower used by the on duty Pro*el staff. It happened very near to the smoking area at our office Basement 1 so there was a lot of witnesses saw the incident and one of them recognized my car and called me immediately. If not..then pecah buta2 mcm tulah gamaknye without anyone to blame. We lodged a damage report to our Security and made a few calls to the Pro*el office. Luckily, pro*el is willing to pay for all the damages including the vkool cost. Kalau tidakk……..Hmm!! Mesti terus hilang mood nak beraya tahun nie.

PS : This is actually backdated entry which I have created last week but only manage to publish it today while taking care of Aniq in the hospital. The incident actually happened a day before puasa.

4th Ramadhan

2010-08-15T18:49:00.000-07:00

this year, is a date for us to remember because our little one, Aniq was admitted to KPJ SSH (yea..again for the 2nd time this year) due to viral fever. He was not well since last Thursday with a high grade of fever followed with diarrhea and vomiting profusely. We couldn't keep the fever down even after giving him a strong dose of oral antibiotics after series of visit to the Paed. So on Saturday morning since he looked so hopelessly lethargic and started to complain having stomach cramps due to the profuse vomitting (up to the stage where he vomitted only clear fluid and wind only), he ended up being admitted to the hospital to get IV fluids and stronger meds that need to taken through dripped. Poor baby :(

It has been 3 days now that all of us 'berkampung, berpuasa & berbuka puasa' at SSH . Alhamdulillah, I praised God his condition has improved a great deal. The fever & vomitting have stopped but the diarrhea continued but he pooped only 3 times yesterday (instead of 5-6 times before) and his stool is still watery. I guess that is because he didnt consumed any solid food in the expected amount just yet. He still refuses to eat almost everything except......MAGGI!! FYI, while I was having my morning sickness when I was carrying both Irdina & Aniq, MAGGI was the only thing that my stomach wouldn't reject (aka vomit out back) despite all other smack licking foods that I was craving for to eat so I guess that explained it :P His blood and stool results return negative for Rota & dengue, so crossing my fingers now hoping that it was just totally viral infection. He was already being himself today although still have diarrhea just taknak makan jee..Dahlah keding, making kedinglah jawabnye :( Guys..pray for his recovery ye. Thanks :)

Sweet Taste Of Victory

2010-08-04T06:35:00.000-07:00

The Final Score

Yes! Finally for the first time, we (TS) are declared as the winner of Shell Inter-C Championship for this year. Hurrayyyyy!! Even though we won with just 1 point ahead from Shell, it was still a sweet...sweet..sweet victory for TS since no other vendors defeated Shell before this. FYI, Shell was the sole champion of Inter-C for the past 2 years since we outsourced and the fact that one of the vendors defeated Shell, is a such improbable victory. I'll bet AT&T and HP will agree on that too ;) Now, I feel like singing Queen's Song :

'We are the champions my friends ♪ and we'll keep on fighting till the end ♪ We are the champions...We are the champions...No time for Losers cause we are the CHAMPIONS!! ♪ Of the World!! ♪ '

I only participated in Netball, even though we only scored 3rd placing in Netball, it was still quite an achievement for us coz we had a very close fight with HP (2nd place) and nobody got injured at all this time. Guess all the practices still pays - pic courtesy from Hana's FB

p/s : Actually I was 'stranded' in the office attending a lengthyyyyyyyyyyyyyy telecon with my US's colleagues at the moment I blogged this entry. So while 'hearing' to the presentation, I decided to blog on this.

Blame It On FB

2010-08-03T21:03:00.000-07:00

Nowadays it's so hard for me to start blogging. I blame it on FB! Why??? Coz...now whenever I experience something or have new photo to share, I post it up on FB first rather than anywhere else. Then after sometime, it slipped from me and I have no idea what to write here. Or sometime I just have so many things that I would like to write\share but I just dunno how to write it or where to start.Is it just me or you guys happen to experience the same thing? Hehehe..Tell me about it ;)

Btw..Let me summarize things that ws going on for the past few weeks.

After more than 3 weeks at Day Care :

1) Irdina is catching up with her Iqra' again.Now in book 2. Alhamdulillah ;)

2) Aniq is adapting the new environment. We can mention the word 'School' in front of him without him throwing any tantrum or even screaming.No more 'drama' or emotional scenes when we left him at the Day Care morning time. Nak pujuk bangun & mandi pagi jelah susah sikit.

3) The kids both now are having cough & cold for more than a week already and clinic is our next hang out place after rumah nenek, rumah maklong & shopping complex (Pretty much expected when sending our kids to Day Care)

Other things :

1) I found a quite good & reliable cleaner to do all the cleaning chores (including ironing) at my house for RM70 only per day. The best part, they (yes 'they' sbb 2 persons) could finish the job in just half day so we don't have to wait for them to finish everything the whole day (so our weekend don't just burn like that)

2) I'm adapting with the whole 'NO MAID' thingy as well and to my relieve it wasn't so bad at all. Penat mmg penat but it was okay. Thanks to dear hubby also for his 'helping hand' (menjemur, melipat baju, babysit the kids and macam2 lagilah) Thank you dear, appreciate it a lot ;)

3) We just celebrated my 32nd Birthday

4) We just celebrated our 6th anniversary as well. Like other couples, it was not an easy 6 years and far more to go but I’m glad we have made it this far.

Celebrating our 6th Anniversary

6th Rainbow Years..1 Layer = 1 year ;) Thanks to Wawa for helping me making the order and collecting the cake from Lu* Si**ra Cafe, Bangsar

I guess that pretty much wrapped it up. Apparently everybody is now quite busy with puasa & raya preps right? So same goes here with us. Lagi2 tgh sale sana sinikan. Ours shopping raya was done last week at MV & 1U (Metrojaya was having a very tempting promo last week...You spend RM300, you'll get RM50 voucher that you can use on the spot..Best giler!!) Now tinggal cari baju kurung & baju melayu jee for the kiddos and opsss..opkos kueh raya hunting jangan dilupakan.Hihihihi...Since puasa just around the corner and I dunno when my next entry will be, I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of you Selamat Menjalani Ibadat Puasa & Semoga Ramadhan kali nie membawa lebih berkat untuk kita semua ye..Aminnn ;)

First Day

2010-07-15T00:36:00.000-07:00

Today is my kids first day at Daycare. I have been Working From Home the whole week just to make sure that my kids are okay during this 'Separation' period from their 'Kakak' (my maid).Since this is their first day, I dediced to send them to the daycare only after Irdina finished her kindy class so that Aniq will have someone familiar to be with him for the day. So today, we just sent them half day only.

Believe it or not, Irdina is all venting up with excitement and counting every single days prior to going Daycare. She has some friends that she knew from school that is also going to the same Daycare (Mia & Puteri) .I guess thats why she is all excited with the whole 'Daycare' thingy. She didnt didn't spill any tears at all this time. So BIG girl and Ibu is so proud of you Sayang.

Aniq on the other hand.....well..he has NO idea at all what Daycare is? So sending him there just now was..............a TERRIFYING & very EMOTIONAL experience both of us. I wasn't prepared for this at all . He was crying, screaming, clinging on me like a little koala and even myself also bursted out crying when I see him like that. After a while, I managed to let him go slowly & let the teacher took him and just left. But the thruth is I felt teribble, guilty and my heart sank so deep the minute I left him. I sobbed uncontrollably alone in my house for like 2 hours. Mcm terdengar2 jee dia menangis even sampai skrg. Off course I called the centre like 'every hour' to check on both of them and as expected both of them are fine and very well behaved for first day joiners. Irdina will have her mengaji session at 4.30pm and Aniq will only start his homeschool programme next month. So now is more like playschool only for him while 'suai kenal' with the rest of his daycare buddies.

Tomorrow, Aniq will be at the center full day for the first time. I just hope that tomorrow we will have a better start and less emotional for both Aniq & myself. I know that, sooner or later Aniq will blend in and adapt the Daycare environment .I know that it will get better each day (hope so). I'll bet he will enjoy every minute of it just like Irdina one day. Just hope that he will get used to this very2 sooooooooon. Looking forward to seeing how he actually fare when we pick him and the big sista up this afternoon.

ps : No pics..I was too emotional to snap any pic just now :P

Reward

2010-07-12T01:32:00.000-07:00

My maid has finally returned to Indonesia for good yesterday.How did the kiddos accepting the fact that kakak has returned for good?? Very2 well behaved indeed. They totally suprised us. There was NO drama, NO screaming, NO unwanted scenes or what ever you called it at all from the 2 kiddos. Lega tul!! Just a teary eyed from Irdina when the 'Kakak' hug her and tell her that she loves her (irdina) so much and will be back soon (not giving that much of hope though). Number of times the kids mentioning the 'Kakak' name since the last 24 hours (I'll be working from home this weeks during this 'transition' period) :

Aniq - 2 only

Irdina - also 2 only

I consider this as a good sign for a start :) and to mengubat hati Ibu yg tak berbibik since smalam , I reward this for myself (Hahahahaha..baru sehari jee padahal). Say hi to the new addition to my Sunnies Collection :

Say Hi to my new 'Accessory'

For my eyes only :P

Wonder what I will get for myself after a month tak berbibik. Hahahhaha :P Ohh..I did cleared her room and wardrobe last night and I havent found anything 'nasty' so far after she went back. Hopefully it stays that way :)

Daycare

2010-07-09T02:56:00.001-07:00

With my kiddos - During TS Family Day at Cosmo's World Indoor Theme Park, Berjaya Times Square

Personally I wouldn’t want to ever put my children in daycare, but apparently now, no choice I absolutely have to. I know this day will come sooner or later. It has been 2 years our maid has been working with us and she'll be returning back to Indon on Sunday. All arrangements have been made, I already found a daycare centre for the kiddos, Aniq is now fully trained to have his milk using the sippy cup (instead of spoon fed from cup which I don’t think that the caretaker will have all the patient to feed him that way) and transportation for Irdina to transit to the daycare from her kindy has been arranged as well.

Actually, the 2 kiddos do not have any idea that the 'Kakak' is going back soon and they'll be sent to a daycare. I'll bet they'll just freak out if we tell them since they are quite close with her and that worries me. I'm quite worried also how all these 'kakak going back' thing, the new daycare surroundings and all other new routines will effect the kids’ emotion especially during the transition period. I know it'll be tough for the kiddos and us for the first 2-3 weeks. I just afraid that everything will be too much for them to handle. On the other hand, I kind of worry also on what I might be discovered when 'the maid' is no longer here. Through experience, a lot of now 'the not so good' things usually will be discovered and revealed once they are no longer here. Eg: Barang hilang. terpecah and all other nasty2 behavior. That Scares Me. Sigh!!

Despite all, I was not quite sure if I can handle all the home chores all by myself after years of sooo used of having maid. There are tones of work to be done in our house besides caring for the kids. There is the laundry, the sweeping and mopping, the 4 toilets to be cleaned, the dishes, the ironing (luckily dear hubby no longer need to wear office attire to work), the cooking, the windows and cabinets, the bed sheets and the list can go on. And of course, my time spent on the computer would have to be cut down even further after this. Blogging?? Hmm..lagilah tak sempat kot. Oh, dear, will I be able to handle all these? I’m sooooo used of having a maid :( but to hire a new one, it'll cost us at least RM5K (the cheapest so far) and there's no guarantee that the maid will be as good as you expected (even though most of time I used to lower my expectations). Not to forget to start all the hassle all over again, the teaching, the 'sakit hati', the suspicious feeling when leaving the kids with her for the first few weeks, everything is too traumatic for me. I guess we just have to give it a try first and if all this arrangement does not go smoothly, we can always go back to the 'MAID' option again. Wish me luck guys ;)

Eclipse

2010-07-05T00:04:00.001-07:00

Yey! Eclipse's Premier is just a few days away and me & my gals are all super excited about going to the premier on this coming Wednesday.We already have our tickets and taken the T-Shirt from the organizer..only waiting for the day itself to arrive. (I'm taking half day leave on that day by the way :P )

I have never been as deeply enthralled in books as I was in the Twilight Saga.I just completed my Eclipse revision last nite so that I will not get 'lost' when watching the movie. (Hahahaha..Mcm kelakarkan.Bersemangat sungguh) The funny thing that I just discovered while I was reading Eclipse, occasionally in between the chapters you know what, I'm starting to like Jacob as well. Sorry Edward's Fans..No offence yea!! No doubt I like Edward since day 1 until now but I guess I'm starting to see Jacob's soft side from this 2nd reading and I started to feel pity for him for being rejected by Bella. Not like my first reading when I was so into Edward and other things were totally overshadowed by that feeling. Despite all, I'm so looking forward to watch more of both Edward & Jacob in this movie and not to forget the rest of the yummy werewolve's pack buddies too. Hahahhahaha :P

I already watched the trailer and watching it already gives me a goosebumps. What I can't understand is why they making such a big deal with Riley's character this time despite of all other characters Eg : Victoria. Hmm..there must be some twist behind it. I guess, just have to watch it to find out ;)

Eclipse casts - Vanity Fair Version

Waka Waka Eh Eh

2010-07-02T05:49:00.000-07:00

I am so floored by this youtube video, and I can't stop listening and watching to it lately. I'm playing the video as I blogging this entry. Did you guys watch her live stage performance during the World Cup Kick Off? Bestkan...If not you guys can watch it here. Seriously, I just can't take my eyes off from her. She looks so bootylicious and sexy ;) Hahahaha..Nie org perempuan yg ckp nie. Kalau org lelaki...Lagilahkan :P Btw..I like this song very much..On top of my list for this month as conjuction to World Cup as well. It's quite catchy even to my kids liking after Ladygaga - Bad Romance and Alif Satar - please please kamu jangan nakal :P Also good to keep my good mood going ;)

Cancelled

2010-07-02T00:38:00.000-07:00

We are supposed to be here tomorrow for our Ladies Back Packing trip aka Ladies Tight Budget Trip (LTBT) . Unfortunately, Pidah suddenly need to attend a compulsory adhoc training this week that followed by an exam paper that need to be taken tomorrow for the certification required by her company. Kalau tak malam tadik comfirm dah siap2 packing2 dah tawww. It wouldn't be the same without you Pidah if me & Pisha still proceed to go..Pegi sama2 barulah Kebabooommm. But next time I'll be Bibikless so not sure if dear hubby would give me the same Green Light for our next LTBT trip especially yg overnight punye.Hmmm...Would you dear??? *wink*wink* :P

I'm Injured

2010-07-01T04:10:00.000-07:00

I accidently felt and mildly sprained my ankle when having my netball practice the other day. Apart from that my favourite Elle's track was ruined and I had a big round cut on my knee that bleed. It was awful..Huhuhuhu :~( I had put ice on it, consistently apply my Sloan Analgesic cream (For Muscle Pain) and never fail to wear my ankle guard all the time since then. Today luckily I've been able to walk & drive fairly comfortable at slow pace but when I try to rotate my foot at certain angles, it still hurts. It also hurts everytime when I bend my knee because of the cut. Mandi pun sakit woooo..Sigh!! The game is just like a week a way and after weeks of practices..sayangnye kalau tak boleh main. This might be my last year to participate in Shell Inter C game for Netball as I could see that there's a lot of new potential players (especially among the ICT academy new joiners) during our practices that can be our apprentices for next year Inter C. Bolehlah akak2 yg dah berumur aka TUA ni bersara :P For the time being, I guess I just have to stay off from practices for a while and hope that I'll have enough time to recover. Gotta let the leg has enough rest before the actual game.Main pasing2 bola & practice baling2 gol I'll be playing GS btw bolehlah kot. Just to keep the momentum going ;)

Inter D 2008 - Foxpro Netball Team (pic sekadar hiasan)

Inter C 2009 - Team Magenta aka T-Systems Netball Players

Hi2..Bye2

2010-06-25T05:35:00.000-07:00

Hi! Hallluuuuu world!! Miss Me?? Hahahhahaha..I know you don't. Yes, I admit that I've been neglecting my blog really2 bad lately.. I guess most of you would know why through my FB pics or status. I've been busy and preoccupied with a few things. First was my Bro's Wedding a few weeks back and alhamdulillah everything did went well. Unfortunately right after that both of my kids were admitted about a weak due to HFMD (Hand Foot & Mouth Disease). I had to take more leaves and Work From Hospital to take care both of them. So jungling with work and training after almost 2 weeks++ on leave was really a hassled for me especially when Shell Inter C is just around the corner with netball practices that I have to attend.Weekends pulak, our time was quite occupied with weddings, kenduri, birthday and, visiting org bersalin & a few makan2 invitations. It doesn't stop there....Tomorrow we're going to have Family Day at Cosmo's World Theme Park, Berjaya Times Square (TS is very chepo this year) then I'm inviting my new sister in law's family for makan2 at my house the next day.

Starting from next week pulak, I have to start looking for daycare for both my kids and start making all the arrangement for my maid to go back for good by mid of July. Huhuhu..Yes..I'm officially going to be bibikless by mid July until......(tak tahu bila). I know that it's not going to be a fun time for me for the first few weeks but on the bright side, I think I can make us of it to loose THE few extra kilos that I've been dying to get rid off..Hahahahhaa..Boleh ke?? Hope so :P I'll let you guys know yea if my OPERASI KURUS BERJAYA..kalau diam jee tuh, tak berjayalah gamaknye..hehehehehe. Till Then..Bye ;)

Busy Mode

2010-05-13T00:35:00.000-07:00

The ribbon bow made by yours truly. Consider not bad for beginner like me ;)

3 more weekends before the 'Hari Kejadian' aka 'My Bro's Wedding' and now yours truly is in busy mode helping my mom & my bro with all the wedding preps and my bro's new house. I'm also in charge for the VIP gifts for the wedding (VIP = The bride's family not Datuk, Datin, Tan Sri or seangkatan dgnnye) and after a few rolls of ribbons practicing, at last I manage to make a proper bow ribbon myself. Yey!! Kudos to Julie ;)

This weekend, going to pick up all my baju from my tailor pulak then cari tudung..hopefully all muat :P

The VIP Gifts

Yours Truly,

Sungguh Pantas

2010-05-06T05:27:00.000-07:00

Got this letter from LHDN from my post box today....ingatkan surat suruh siap2kan dokumen untuk semakan...skali...Jeng..Jeng..Jeng, it was my refund cheque for my overpaid tax last year. Yey!! Sungguh pantas dpt refund balik tahun nie..Mcm nielah perkhidmatan gomen yg kita mahukan..barulah kami2 pembayar2 cukai nie rasa berbaloi bayar income tax tiap2 bulan ;)

Yours Truly,

A SMALL Celebration for the BIG One

2010-05-04T21:19:00.000-07:00

I requested to work from home today because :

I'm officially turning 5 today - Irdina

1) It's Irdina Birthday so we did a small celebration for her with her frens at her school. She was all excited to go to school since the night before. So this morning during their break time, me & dear hubby dropped by to her class with the cake & all the goodies bags. We had a little cake blowing ceremony, cam whoring around and then party packs were distributed among the kids. Apparently everybody was happy, smiling ear to ear & pretty much enjoying the cake siap ramai yg tambah2 lagi..They said thank you to aunty, uncle & Irdina and then we left ;)

Cake Blowing Ceremony

Distributing the goodies bags to the kids

Me & the BIG Princess

With her best friend, Umairah

2) I have appointment with my house contractor wiring man to install the ON\OFF switch for my built in oven today. Punyelah dah berzaman menunggu...only today he manages to come. I was planning to get everthing completed first then only I share with you guys the pic of my new kitchen. So as promised...now presenting below the new look of my Dry Kitchen. Taadaaaa.

Sila abaikan model yg tgh enterprem tgh2 tuh :P

Nothing special pun..I just want something simple & practical. I opt for High Gloss with Solid Surface for my Dry Kitchen sbb takde masak2 pun. My first choice was actually red alternate with white high gloss but red colour was out of stock & might take months to wait (yea red kitchen cabinet is quite popular nowdays). So I opt for black instead. Maybe I should start considering attending any cake baking\decoration class after this. Bolehlah slowly start belaja buat cuppies sendiri ke lepas nie. Who knows that I might have a hidden talent on baking. Hahahahaha...Berangan :P

3) I was quite sleepy....ngantuk siot malam tadik tido lambat. Rasa weng jee hari ni. I was watching & learning on how to make a ribbon bow for my brother's wedding VIP gifts from youtube last nite. Tuh yg tido lambat..I'll share with you guys the result once I'm quite satisfy with my ribbon looks kay. For now, I still need to do a lot of practices (kata tgn kayukan..kekekkeke :P) and most importantly catch up my beauty sleep. So till then ;)

Yours Truly,

Our BIG Princess Turns 5 Today

2010-05-04T10:12:00.000-07:00

Our big princess is turning a whopping 5 years old today.

Five years ago today, I was introduced to that new kind of love when my firstborn entered the world. The love between a mother and her child. A love that would make me do anything for this little fella of mine.

Our newborn Irdina Sofiyyah

I noticed that I had fresh blood stained on my undies when preparing for Subuh prayers on the morning of 5th of May 2005, and about 3 hours later, 9.10am there she was, this tiny little girl, quite hairy I could say but still the most beautiful baby I ever seen in my eyes. I was instantly in love ;) After half of decade growing up next to me, she is a now a beautiful, caring, intelligent, constant joy in our life who keeps suprising us with a lot of her new discovery, sometime a weepy (hehe..jgn marah ekk syg..Ibu still loves you anyway) but still I am so proud to call her my daughter.

and today....her long awaited BIG day is finally arrived ;)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY sweetheart, I hope you enjoy your special day with small celebration that Ayah & Ibu prepared for you at school (will blog about it later if I got time) today. All my love and kisses forever, Happy Birthday Sayang.

Yours Truly,

How To Teach Your Dragon

2010-04-28T02:16:00.000-07:00

Image taken from google

Brought the kids & the bib (since Aniq been introduced to cinema, we have to bring her along for movies) kids to watch this movie last 2 weekends and it was suprisingly amazing. I know it has been quite sometime already but still I want to blog about it. I guess I was more excited than my kids to go & watch this movie since I keep getting good reviews from frens & families on this film. Due to all the excitement, I forgot to made any reservation and instead lenggang kangkung je walk in to the counter for 5 tickets :P Lucky us, we managed to get the tickets from the uncollected reservations and got quite a good spots in the middle of the cinema hall. Takdelah depan sgt. Just nice ;)

I thought it was a stunning animated film. The 'sets' are wonderful and that scene at the end with all the viking ships on the beach is breathtaking. I think I nearly cried myself on the last scene where Toothless save Hiccup from the Horrible Giant Dragon.Ohh..and Toothless is super cute too ;) Aniq was a little bit scared by the Giant Dragon tho & Irdina glued to the sceen from the very beginning until the end ;)

The best part was the sexy voice of Gerard Butler as the father of Hiccup. I like his 'Viking' accent very much and that worth the price of the ticket alone. (Ayah, your voice pun sexy gak kay :P)Hehe ..Definitely one my kids favourite movies apart from CARS,Up, Monsters, BOLT & Mr.Incredibles. ( I still think PIXAR makes the best animation movie). Guys, don't hesitate to bring your kids to this one (kalau belum bawak). It was worth every penny ;)

Yours Truly,

The Preps & Endau Trip

2010-04-22T20:40:00.000-07:00

Only 1 weekend left before the Big Day.. Here's a little sneak peak on what I manage to do so far :

I will be joining DBA Team to Endau Rompin this weekend for Team Building (I have to drag my feet off my bed at 4am, I made it on the assembly area by 5am then off to the wilderness..huhuhu). So gonna leave the kids with dear hubby & the bib (ok..I know what you guys were thinking ok!!). My last real hiking trip into the jungle if I not mistaken was back in 2002 0r 2003 to berkelah, Pahang and that was like ages ago..dah nak makan dekad. Hehe..Actually, I had been to Endau Rompin once during my Uni years that was like 10 years ago and that time I was like 10 times fitter compared to now. When I had a peak on the itinerary, I have to admit it was quite agressive & scary tho with a race through 4 obstacles course - confidence rope firewall, spider web, commando crawl and commando rescue shoulder carry (mau sakit blkg balik nanti nie). Then water base competition and obstacles including river crossing, tubes relay race, water tube fights and water polo etc and not forgetting night walk (wajib kene tinggal sorang2 dalam hutan ni). Dont you guys think I'm too old for that..Kan ..Kan..Kan? Huhuhu :( So guys wish me luck for Endau yea and hope that I'll survive the jungle & the thoughts of leaving my kids with the dad all by themselves for the first time since Shanghai. Gonna miss them a lot . Huhuhuhu :( (pegi 2 hari jee padahal).

Endau Rompin - pic taken from google image

Yours Truly,

Another Sad Ear Story

2010-04-21T02:38:00.000-07:00

Remember this entry? Now the infection is fully recovered and our irdina is no longer feels any pain on her left ear. Tomorrow, we will need to bring Irdina to SSH again the for a minor procedure to take out the tube from her ear. This time I'm going there together with dear hubby cause I was not strong enough to hold her myself last time when they worn her the mask for the anesthesia gas and it was such an emotional situation with all the crying, hugging etc which I dont think I can bear it alone again for the 2nd time. She will be put under mild local anesthesia to sleep with the gas and breath that for a few minutes while the ENT works then the gas is stopped and they will give oxygen to her to clear out the gas until she wakes up. Then we can bring her back home. So basically it is like a deep sedation and not as dangerous as having a breathing tube inserted and just a day care admission needed.

Actually the tube was supposed to fall out by itself after 3 months being inserted into her left ear, but now even after 4 months it shows no signs of falling out any time soon. Our ENT said that it is important to take out the tube since there was a history of infections, itching and hurt and to avoid tissue grown over the tube which will be painful to be removed in the future. We agreed with his suggestion and let him decide what best for her. We did try to remove it in the ENT office but she kept on moving & pulling back and won't sit still. That's why we have to make another appointment with the ENT again which is tommorrow and put her to to sleep for this procedure. No choice :( So peeps wish us luck for tomorrow. With all your doa and all the luck in the world (she might need them), hopefully everything will run smoothly without any unexpected scenes :)

Yours Truly,

A birthday invite that we have to turn down

2010-04-20T20:27:00.000-07:00

Received a birthday party invite from a dear of fren of mine from my primary school years last nite. The best things about the invitation, it's going to be held at her parents' place very2 near to my parents' house and she invited mostly all my primary school frens that are available in facebook. It will be like some sort of small reunion for our batch. So peachy of her ;) Unfortunately, no matter how bad I wish we could attend the party and meet up all my grew up old good frens one to one instead of just keeping in touch with them through FB, we already have our own prior plans made which is Our Kids' Birthday Party. Same date, Same time. Regretfully, we have to turn down her invitation. Sorry yea Niena :(

I do want to meet up with all the once primary school sweet hearts that turn out to be not that 'sweet' or that 'cute' anymore, all the nerds and not so popular frens of mine that now turn out to be a hot & stunning mama, my recess and walk to school buddies and ramai lagilah. (me?? I was nobody that time). I'll bet it's going to be a one $%#$ of a party that people will keep on talking about it for quite sometime ;) (wah belum pegi lagi dah tahu ye Julie nie). Hmm takpelah, takde rezekilah tuh nak jumpa. Kita hanya merancang, Tuhan yg menentukan segalanya.Betul tak?? No matter what we plan to do or plan to go (bercuti ke :P), without God wills, it will never be a success. Planlah atau countdownlah cane2 pun kalau Tuhan tak izinkan..tak menjadi jugak or maybe kene postponed ke. It's totally beyond our power to control this kind of things. Oppss..sorry. Termelalut pulak. Just my 2 cents thoughts ;)

Yours Truly,

The Ugliest Pinata In The World Goes To...

2010-04-13T20:38:00.000-07:00

Berserabai :P

the one that made by yours truly. Sungguh huduhkan...It was not just ugly but out of shape as well (i even duno what shape to call it) . Despite all, it was made with lots and lots of love. Air tangan Ibu to be exact. Cewahhhhh :P Call me a chepo, but I'm not ready to spend RM79.90 at BB for their Pinata, then ended up the pinata to be smashed for the candies . It was actually quite easy to be made but you have to be prepared to get messy..I mean really2 messy especially when you have your personal asisstant trying his\her best to offer you their "helping hands" (in my case I have 2 PAs, Missy Irdina & Mr Aniq :P). Not sure whether my pinata is breakable or not since it was quite thick or perhaps I might have been using too much of glue (I made the glue myself from Tepung Ubi). Lets 1st May do the justice.. So Aniq & Irdina, please accept the fact that your mother is so 'Tangan Kayu', 'Tangan Bangku', 'Tangan Besi' or whatever they called it. Most importantly, the thought & effort that counts rite.Hehe :D

Yours Truly,

Sore Ear vs New Shoe

2010-04-12T22:06:00.000-07:00

The Big Sista not well..Muka pun moody jee sbb tak dpt pegi school yesterday - pic taken with my handphone on our way to SSH

I was on EL yesterday. Not to celebrate my boy's birthday (we celebrated Aniq' s birthday a day earlier konon2 nak save cuti) but to bring the big sista to see her ENT for check up at SSH since she had been complaining having sore ear since last saturday that accompanied by fever signed of infection. Siap tiba2 meraung2 lagi sakit semalam kat Subang Parade, when dear hubby accidently terpegang her left ear while making our way back to our car at the parking lot. Quite a 'scene' I could say :P

Yang kelakarnya...eventhough tgh sakit2 tuh, ada hati jugak tuh nak pegi sekolah smalam. She never skipped school yet this year but yesterday no choice we had to excuse her from school. In case it might worsen her ear condition. Nak tahu sebab apa dia semangat bebenor nak pegi school smalam...Sebabbbbbb..Nak pakai shoes Barbie LipLap2 baru yg nenek baru belikan a day before. Tuh yg lebih sebenarnya...When I asked my maid to put on 'Baju Jalan' on Irdina after her bath, she was crying all the way & non stop screaming & throwing tantrum insisting us to change her back to her school uniform and send her to her school. OMG...kalau sampai kebesar sok mcm nie alangkah bertuahnye Ibu...Sejuk perut Ibu nie..hehe..Sampai kene marah dgn ayah, barulah nak stop nangis tau..dah bengkak2 mata jumpa ENT :P

Introducing..Irdina's new LipLap2 shoes..She bodeks my mom to buy this for her when we were at Subang Parade searching for tudung.

Turn out the ENT Specialist, Doc Soni said there's an infection on her left ear, her ear drum was a little bit swollen and the tube that was inserted before due to her "Glue Ear" was already loose and trying to make it way out but couldnt due to the swollen ear. Sebab tuhlah she was in pain since the tube keep on pressing her swollen ear's canal. We have to treat the infection first then only we can proceed to take out the tube. If not, she will be in more pain. So the big sista now is on 5 days antibiotics and have to keep her ear dry all the time. Hope the big sista will be strong enough to fight the pain. Ibu pun penah kene kecik2 dulu and I know how excruciating the pain could be..Sian anak Ibu :(

Nampak tak ada lampu biru tuh. They more she move the more lights will come out. Ibu kecek2 pun nenek tak penah belikan tau kasut macam nie :P

Yours Truly,

Small Celebration for the Small One

2010-04-12T06:34:00.000-07:00

We spent our weekends at my parent's house last week. So after our tea break on Sunday, on our back to our place, we made a quick stop at Swensens, SP to do a small celebration for our little one. The 'big' (eceh2 mcmlah big sgt ekk) celebration coming soon on labour day ;) Here's some pics during the 'small' celebration :

As usual, Irdina was the one enjoying the meal the most

Among my fav pics...Thanks ayah ;)

Who's birthday in da house....Me..Me..Me

Sharing is caringkan ;)

Big sista turns pulak.....and my Most Fav Pic of the event is...

Sungguh gediks :P

The prezie?? Actually we were planning to buy birthday present just for the little one, ended up the big sista pun demand jugak sampai merajuk2 lagi. Apparently, both of our kids grew up quite fast in terms of heights (wonder where they got that gene from..kekekekee), so we just bought them a new bike each to replace their old one and guess what while blogging this entry, both of them wondering around our living area with their new bike (for today only yea!!) Once the bike is officially used outside the house, jgn harap boleh main dlm rumah kay!!

Beskal lagi besar dari tuannye :P

Out of all color available at the store, we were still wondering why irdina choosed this color. Pink, Hijau sume dia tak layan..Hmm..why ekk??

Yours Truly,

Happy 3rd Birthday My Little Munchkin

2010-04-11T18:24:00.000-07:00

Our Aniq...Through out the 1,2 & 3 years:

ThreeYears Ago..Today :

9.15PM - Begin to notice my contraction stronger than usual. They were lasting about 45 seconds and coming every five minutes.

9.30PM - Packed all my & baby stuff..tukar baju & pakai tudung then only I told my hubby that it was 'Time'

10:00PM – Arrived at SMC (now SSH). They straight away placed me at delivery room. The mid wife did CTG on me to check the contraction and baby's heart beat.

10.50PM - After around 40 minutes monitoring CTG, then only the nurse checked my opening. Already 5 cm dilated.

10.55PM - The next contraction right after that was getting stronger with pushing urge. The same mid wife checked my opening again and I was already at 8 cm dilated. She begin to panic since she havent called my gynea yet. I was struggling with the pain to keep myself from pushing since there was no gynea around and the midwife keep pushing my both of my legs down so that I wouldnt be pushing the baby out and keep on telling me it was not time yet.

11.20PM - After 20 minutes of most excruciating moment in my life, Aniq was born into this world. My gynea didn't make it to the delivery. She only arrived not long after Aniq slided out from my womb and he was still covered with my water bag (yeap..my water bag not even broken yet). He was born 3 weeks earlier than my EDD.

It might be his birthday, but Ibu have been given the one of the best gifts ever...Happy 3rd bitrthday my love. Ibu loves you so much no matter what.

My Baby..Si Mata Sepet

Yours Truly,

Happy 54th Birthday Mama

2010-04-06T02:58:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday to the person sitting next to me. That is my mom okay..not my sista :P

Today is my beautiful mother 54th birthday. She is mumblety years old, and looks about half that, which is sometimes I have to admit quite annoying in a good kind of way because of most of the people used to describe her more like my sister instead of my mom :P

Most people says that I resemble my mother a lot but she’s got all the good looks which the one that I don't inherited from her apart from her cooking skill & her passion with outdoors activities (my mom used to go hiking with her colleagues muda2 dulu). Instead I inherited her high cheekbones, the small nose, the heights, the same shoe size, almost the same body posture and maybe the same interest towards fashion. Oppss and her sensitivity too..that one I definitely have in me :P Despite all, I am still proud of her & love her very2 much. During those days (my teenage years) we might not get along pretty well but now she is my BFF and my 24/7 on standby advisor, my walking dictionary and also my saviour. So in the blogging way, I want to thank the most influential person in my life, the person who is most responsible for turning me to who I am today and the person who have touched, inspired and helped me going through the goods & the bad time and that person is my Mama. Happy birthday ma! We all love you so much.

Yours Truly,

A week more to go

2010-04-04T20:05:00.001-07:00

The one than will turn 3 soon.

Aniq will turn 3 next week. At this age, There's too many things to tell what this little boy of mine can do. So here goes some of the things that Ibu can think of right now :

His is now fully potty trained during the day and manage to keep his diaper dry most of the nights.

His sleeping pattern hasn't change. He usually sleeps around 1.00am-2.00am after watching shaun the sheep at 12.30am and usually wakes up around 10am. No waking up in between for milk, drink etc.

Stop breastfeeding a month before he turns 3 but wWe still feed him formula milk using spoon from a cup..no need to use bottles.

A fussy eater but he's showing sign to be loving things that i love eating such as cakes, taufo fa, teh ais etc. His underweight too. I guess that part he inherited from my fmy side.

A chatter box...he can speak like popping pop corn using his baby, pelat2 language.

Still obsessed with CARS & anything related to cars including car magazines, F1, hot wheels etc.

His favourite color is Orange & his favourite number is 5.

Surprised us with full english sentences like: 'Dina , wait for me.' and 'Dina, where are you?'.

Can count 1 to 12 fluently. ABC, Ibu still working on it ;)

He is one candle prince, tak tahan panas langsung. Masuk2 kereta "Aniq hot nak aircoind", masuk2 rumah "Ibu, bukak kipas" same thing everywhere he goes. Rumah nenek ke rumah org ke..That's our Aniq.

He can pronouce his full name, irdina & my full name clearly but when it come to ayah's name tinggal "Mad Ayul Basya". Ohh..he also knows my mom's full name as well. Nenek Baiti ;)

He describe himself as "Hensem" (perasan abis)

The first person who got all excited when Ibu & Ayah come back from work. Excited mcm berminggu2 tak jumpa.

He like to imitate animals especially cats.

Songs that I always hear his humming by himself:

Happy Birthday song dedicated to himself :P
Jogang..Jogang..Jogang - Halimah Jongang Song
Lagu 3 jari - Irdina thought him this song from school sounds something like this : 3 Jari..3 Jari..3 Jari Clap3x, Tunjuk atas, tunjuk bawah, 3 jari Clap3x (Heheehee..To me it was very cute)

Enough said....My little boy is a bigger boy than he used to be ;) Birthday party? To tell the truth, actually at first we were not planning for any this year even for our Irdina. However, last 2 weeks my mom made a request to do a 'Majlis Doa Selamat & Tahlil' at our place. So alang2...terus buat skalilah birthday party for them eventhough it's kinda off last minute plan (usually it took me about 3 months with all the preps & planning). Invitation will be sent out soon...so tungguuuuuuu!! ;)

Yours Truly,

April

2010-04-01T10:24:00.001-07:00

April every year for me is the month for :

1) Renewing my car insurance & road tax

2) Filling & Submitting my e-filing for income tax and my hubby e-filling as well (ye..tiap2 tahun saya yg buatkan e-filing hubby saya :P)

3) celebrating my MOM's birthday

4) celebrating my son, Aniq's birthday

5) A busy month with planning & preps for my kids birthday

and most importantly, April is the month where I will get extra !! Ka-Ching!! Ka-Ching!! from my company (Alhamdulillah! walaupun not as expected) and this year I will have to spend them wisely on :

Apalagi kalau bukan to install my Dry Kitchen Cabinet yg dah terbengkalai for months. Design dah confirm, deposit pun dah bayar to KC..Tinggal ada pulus nak byr the balance jee.Kekekkekee!! Tak larat dah mata nie nak tgk semak kat dapur tuh.

Inilah rupa our dry kitchen skrg. Hopefully next month bertukarlah rupa ;)

Yours Truly,

City Of Lights (Versi M'sia)

2010-03-28T19:27:00.000-07:00

Us at i-City, Sect 7 Shah Alam

We heard about this place from a few of our friends and decided to bring the kids there last weekend during our 'Balik Kampung' activity (My parents house at Shah Alam). The place is quite new, not many shops yet but you will be able to see lots of man made trees and animals being lighted up! Quite nice and my kids love it. We had a pretty good time there and it's free.

A very good place to take a walk after your dinner, relax and take nice photos while burning up some calories :P So hurry up guys bring your kids there while admission fees is still free and the lights are still working! Kekekekeke :P

They even have this so called 'Rumah Salji' with lots of man made snow & Mr.Snow Man

Opss..lupa pulak, the place is called i-City located at Section 7, Shah Alam. If you know the short cut route to escape the toll from Shah Alam to Bukit Raja, then you will have no problem finding the place ;)

Yours Truly,

Knock! Knock!

2010-03-25T20:09:00.000-07:00

Actually, I was referring to my newly installed sliding doors. After almost 4 mos we moved in into this house, countless of calls & appointments made with the salesman & installer, only yesterday we managed to get the installer to come to our house and installed our long awaited so called 'Doors' .

Before

After

One of the doors we ordered is a see through glass bi-folded door for our kitchen. We choose a see through door to separate our wet & dry kitchen so that I can close the door when ever I'm cooking and can monitor my kids as well from my wet kitchen when hubby is not around. Wet kitchen is where most of my cooking activities takes place where I will normally do all the 'dirty' jobs (Eg : food preparation, cooking, frying where there's a fair element of fluids flying around such as water, oil, soups, gravies etc) so if we don't have any sliding door installed , when ever I cook something big time our whole house even my bedroom would smell like it for a few good hours eventhough we already have the kitchen hood installed. So hopefully that by having this door will help us to prevent all the smell from flying around the house and also prevent those oil from staining our walls.

Before

After

Another door we ordered is for our bedroom, to separate between our walk in wardrobe and our bedroom area. I was actually eyeing to get a full length mirror sliding door installed but looking at the quotation prepared by the salesman, Ya Rabbi...mak aii mahal nak #$%@*&!! We could get like 5 or 6 same doors like ours now with the price that we have to pay if we opt for the full length mirror sliding door. Hmmm..Baik tak payah.Buatnye skali Aniq or Irdina terketuk or terslam kuat sikit pintu tuh dah abis berkecai. So we just opt for the laminate material and choose to have a lock installed as well. Just in case if we have a new maid with us in the future, we can just lock the walk in wardrobe area so that she can still clean our bedroom when we are not around without any chances going through our belongings. Konon2nye lah. So that's all about my 'Door' story..Since today is Friday, I'm going out for lunch with my friday partners in crime knocking on Alamanda's doors..Kekekekeke

Yours Truly,

Last Nite Project

2010-03-23T21:44:00.000-07:00

How u guys keep all your tudung?Mine..used to be by 'Lipat2','Selit2' and 'Tindan2' jee :P Very space & time consuming (Lupa nak snap before pic. Dah siap gantung baru ingat nak snap gamba :P) Despite I arranged them by color theme, it was still very hard for me to get them from my tudung compartment & mix match them every morning especially when I 'm in hurry. Pakai tudungnye dah senang main sarung jee, but nak mengambilnye pulak yg susah :P But now, thanks to my dear fren syud, for introducing me a more manageable way to store my all my tudung. Now I'm keeping them like this :

I got the hanger last nite from Fida. Sampai2 rumah jee terus start project 'Menggantung Tudung' . I ordered 3 set of hanger (each set contains 12 pcs) but apparently it was still not enough to hang all my tudung. Kene order lagilah gamaknye..Kul 1 pagi jugaklah baru siap re-arrange everything. Excited abis :P Now I love my walk-in wardrobe more than ever. Just need to add one more item, a little dash of glamour to make it complete...Apalagi kalau bukan my dream Hollywood style backstage dressing mirror with light bulbs around the edge like this pic..Bila nak dptnye tuh tak tahulah. To whom it may concern..Can I have this for my birthday please..please..please..(off course minus the sink). Pastu mau lagi berjam nak bersiap nak keje...kekekekeke :P

Yours Truly,

Aniq 1st Cinema Experience

2010-03-19T09:35:00.000-07:00

We watched 'Jumbo Gajah Biru'. It was a Thai Cartoon translated to Malay using the voice of Mila & Akim (pic taken from google)

My benchmark to introduce my kids to the cinema is when they turn 3. Since it was school holiday week, I took a leave on Wednesday just to hang out with both my kids. We made a trip to alamanda for movie and window shopping and it was a victory in some sorts ;)

Enjoying his first movie popcorn

First, I would never thought that Aniq would be so 'laid back' . He was pretty much overwhelmed right from moment we entered the cinema hall until the movie ended not like what I expected from my early moment of hesitation . He was totally excited about everything including the popcorn, the no 5 seat that he sat on (Aniq's favourite no is 5) and completely nonchalent about all the semi darkness, the size of the hall, the big screen and even the loudness of the film. Maybe because his BIG sister was around too so he felt more comfortable. Irdina as well was very excited and looking forward for this movie outing since the night before especially when I told her that Aniq & Kakak (my maid) would be tagging along. Slalukan Aniq kene tinggal jee :P

Second, I was quite suprise to see my almost 3 years old son could be quite emotional and shed some tears when watching a movie. I mean, he totally understand the whole plot of the story. There was an emotional scene where Jumbo's Mom died in a burning house, Aniq suddenly put his head on my shoulder looking away from the screen while wiping his eyes. Babe..He was crying!! So I just cuddle him..Maybe he felt like loosing me from the scene like what Jumbo felt when loosing his Mum..Kekekeke (Emo jugak anak ai nie ye). Not bad for his very first cinema experience ;)

Cam-whoring before the movie started. Ibu was well prepared with sweater, popcorn, drinks, snacks you named it :P

Third, as you all know from my previous entry that I was potty training my Aniq. It was his 4th day and I was quite hesitate to put him back on diaper between training pants just in case he might get confuse between them. Suprisingly, his diaper was all dry from the moment we left the house until half way of the movie when he told me that he wanted to pee and insisted to go to the bathroom. He totally managed to control his bladder that day. Another milestone achieved. Yey!!

Last but not least, off course we had a great time that day and that for me was a great closure ;)

Yours Truly,

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2010-03-19T01:25:00.001-07:00

With Hantaran from my side

Today...6 years ago, I was engaged to my hubby in a small,simple & pink everywhere ceremony :) Not sure whether he remembers this or not. So lets just wait until the end of day and see if he can remember :P

After menyarung..I hated my make up on this day!!

Yours Truly,

Potty Training Progress

2010-03-17T23:41:00.000-07:00

Guess who is turning 3 next month ;)

Just want to update on Aniq Potty Training progress. Guess what, the mission accomplished in just 4 days. Tee Hee!! I'm not going to say the first few days weren't hard. It's not pleasant cleaning up accidents, but with the help from the training pants that I bought it minimize all the cleaning chaos. But after 2 days, he got the hang of it and we (me & my maid) didn't even have to nudge him to go to the bathroom like very 15 minutes and we constantly remind him that he is supposed to pee on the toilet bowl.

At the end of 3rd day, he could tell us that he wanted to pee, but it was like he needed to go for every 5 minutes and even we put him on diaper since it was past bedtime, he still insisted to got to the bathroom to pee until he fall asleep. So my night was spent on removing the diaper and then put it back on him for numerous times until he was asleep.

On the 4th day, it was amazing to see he was finally able to control his bladder eventhough we put him on diaper since we were going out for a movie (which I will blog after this entry) and I dont wanna ended up making a stop every 5 minutes at petrol station etc to look for a toilet for him to pee. Even it took a while from my house to alamanda, buying the movie tickets, had lunch with the kids and then only entered the movie hall, he only told us that he needed to pee half way of the movie and suprisingly his diaper was still dry when I checked on it at the toilet. It stayed dry until we reached our home and put him back on his training pant.

So now I can conclude that whole training seasion took about 4 days and I'm so thankful that Aniq doesn't need a longer time to be trained. I'm not writing this post to toot my own horn or shout about how great my kid is. I'm just sharing my story and for my record as well and just in case Aniq would like to read this entry one day. Please don't ask me for any tips. This one was all from the gut. Literally ;)

Yours Truly,

Sari Ratu

2010-03-15T02:00:00.002-07:00

Atuk with his 2 cheeky & hyper grandkids :P

It had been a while since we last came here for our eat out so we thought that it'll be a nice place to go to celebrate my dad's birthday since my Dad also is a 'Nasik' type of person and was craving for 'Masakan Padang & Minang' for quite sometime already. My Aunty from Jakarta was in town also last week so we decided to ask her & her son, eddreen(my cousin) to join as well to celebrate my dad birthday.

My aunt from Jakarta & My cousin, Eddreen joined us as well

We came late since we have to rush all the way from Puchong to Subang Parade and then rushed to the Dessert's Bar to grab My Dad's Birthday Cake (we choose Dark Chocolate Brownie & Cheese). So my mom made all the order for our dinner since they arrived at the restaurant earlier than us. She ordered :

Among the foods yg sempat snap :P

Kari Kepala Ikan

Otak-Otak

Ikan Nila Goreng

Gulai Tunjang

Sambal Merah

Sambal Hijau

Ayam Pop

Udang Goreng Tepung

Rendang Daging

Begedil

(Based on what I remembered :P)

Almost Done :P

The food throughout was not bad at all. My favourite was the Gulai Tunjang, and Ikan Nila Goreng with Sambal Kicap Dip. Ratah sehingga cebisan isi terakhir. Nyum..Nyum :P We received quite a good service also from their friendly & plesant crews compared to other Sari Ratu's branches that we had been. We even received a complimentary Fruits Platter from the Manager once he knew that we celebrating someone birthday at their restaurant. More than what we could ask for. It was our first visit to the this branch since it was opened in October last year but it definitely will not be our last. Highly Recommended!! But beware of their spicy Sambal Merah & Sambal Hijau. They were super spicy and you might hit with spicy madness and spent more RM on drinks..Kekekeke :D

Birthday Cake Dark Chocolate Brownie & Cheese from Dessert's Bar sponsored by dear hubby. Thanks dear ;)

Last but not least. To ayah..Hope that you enjoy the dinner treat to your liking with our company especially your two cheeky & hyper grandkids and hope that you like the present from all of us as well. We love you so much...Muahsss :*

Yours Truly,

Irdina 1st Camping

2010-03-14T12:00:00.000-07:00

Irdina during her last year birthday party

Irdina is having her 1st school camping today organized by her Kindy. Takde overnight just a 1 day camping inside her school's compound...Just wondering how & what she is doing now at the school at this very moment. Hopefully she is enjoying herself and having lots of fun & new things to explore. My Irdina will turn 5 soon and cant believe she is already having her 1st camping exeperience at this age. Mine if I'm not mistaken when I was in primary school, standard 4 or 5. Kids nowdayskan...advanced almost in every aspect. Sigh!!

Yours Truly,

Potty Training Mission

2010-03-13T02:52:00.000-08:00

Just knew mothercare has this and it's on sale ;)

My mission to potty train Aniq officially starts today. Aniq will be 3 yrs old this year and I think is time to potty train him..I already bought a few training pants from Mothercare and still waiting a few more to arrive the one that I bought through ebayBright Bots Training Pants...so colorful make me feels like wearing one myself :P

So lets just wait & see what the outcome will be and how long it gonna takes for Aniq to be fully potty trained (at least day diaperless). I will blog more about it once this mission is accomplished. Opss..lupa pulak, as for now Aniq has been 'BreastFeeding Free' for 5 days already. I'm not using any special tips or method..just by saying NO so far works for me..Kudos to Aniq ;)

Yours Truly,

Happy 56th Birthday Ayah

2010-03-11T07:33:00.000-08:00

My Dad & My Mom during our Mother's Day outing last year

Today is my dad's 56th Birthday. I've been very blessed all these years to have a dad who loves me and has so many influences in my life. My dad worked as an officer at North Port which involved shift work so as children, me & my siblings would hardly see him during the weeks that he worked nights. Despite tired, catching up his sleep and having so many other things to do he always had time for us. Believe it or not my dad is the 'Soft' one in the house compared to my Mom and we were all felt more 'intimidate' with our mom than our dad. My dad also quite a handy man and can fix a lot of things and he has saved us countless of RM in repair costs over the years by fixing our toilets, washing machine, curtain rails etc and even Irdina & my maid are well aware about this. There was one time my house got blackout because TNB was upgrading their cabels, Irdina came to me and asked me to call 'Atuk' and get atuk to come to our house cause 'Atuk' could help us to fix the electricity..Kekekek...not this one ok sayang ;)

My sibblings and even my mom always said that I was still Ayah's 'Little' Girl eventhough I'm now totally grown up and have family of my own. Not sure how true this is, but sometime I have to admit I do feel like I am his favourite :P That's why everytime when I listen this song Butterly Kisses Song by Bob Carlisle I will reduce to tears as it makes me feel like the song was dedicated to me by my dad (konon2nyelah). It never fails to remind me of him. But now I guess he loves his grandchildren (Irdina & Aniq) more than anything else in the world. He spoilt them too much and he missses them like crazy every single day now since we moved to puchong. Last time it was just a section away for him to come over to my house and see the kids. (I live at section 7, my dad & mom live at section 6)

Last but not least, most importantly my dad taught me a lot about being patient and always been by side when I need him even for the most 'Silly' things in the world. So here I'm wishing my dad a very happy birthday! I love you Ayah, more than I can express in words. Muahssss XOXO. We will come over and see you tonite ;)

Yours Truly,

Susahnye nak kurus!!

2010-03-08T09:19:00.000-08:00

Do take note that this is not my belly but this is how I feel at the moment :( (Image from Google)

Susahnye la hai nak kurus! I just wanna loose 5 kg by June tapi yg 5 kg tuhlah yg susah nak turun. I know mesti ramai yg ckp tang manalah yg julie nie gemuk but believe me, I do have a lot of excessive fat hidden at strategic places all over my body. Eg : Perut, Peha, Lenggan, My back, chin etc. Tak caye tanya Basya :P

I did tried to control my food portion, eat rice just once a day (i tried to avoid rice totally and ended up I got my gastric back), increasec my water intake, drink herbal green tea kengkonon for detox, jogs, do steps but with all those efforts my weight is still the same. Kalau turun pun by grams jee, then by malam naik balik a few hundred grams. The thing is, if I dont loose weight now, buatnye nanti ter....pregnant, berapa pulaklah nanti berat naik lepas tuh. As for now, with 2 pregnancies I had gained 4 kgs each time after I delivered so for thrid pregnancy takmolah tambah pulak another extra 4 kgs from current weight. Aduh!! Cane nak kurus nie!! Help me please :(

Yours Truly,

Maid Woes

2010-03-07T01:02:00.001-08:00

I rather not pollute my blog with all my maid woes but she is driving me crazy today. Lain yg disuruh, lain yg dibuatnye and it happened so many times lately and for that so many time I pretended that I did not see\notice much. I seldom raised my voice to my maid but today I did. I went berserk because I was cooking big portion for my neighbour's kenduri (desserts were done potluck among a few close neighbours) and because of her 'silly' mistake, I have to throw away all the 'kuah' and start cooking the kuah all over again with different ingredients.You know what she did in return, she demonstrated her sour face and threw things into my sink in the kitchen when I was resting with my kids in the living room. Bukannye nak mintak maaf. Gosh! Rasa nak Tem*&$%@# jee!! Spoilt my mood for tonite's kenduri.

Last time she used to threaten my kids when they are not behaving or throwing tantrums or even when she was pissed off with us that she will go back to indonesia and we hated it everytime we overheard she was saying that to the kids (sampai mengangis2 budak2 tuh kdg2). However since my husband gave her a long lecture (last month if I'm not mistaken) about how we were unsatisfied with her recent attitude & performance together to confront her with series of unexpected and shocking behaviour from her, she is now no longer using that excuse to threaten my kids (at least not in front me & hubby). A lot of her privilleges were taken back by us too (handphone, home call to indonesia,money transferred to her fmy etc). She also made a promise to change and 'behave' until the time we need to send her back. FYI, she is going back in June right after my bro's wedding. So despite a few months more to go,I guess that her heart & brain are no longer here. Itu yg jadik bila suruh lain, benda lain yg dibuatnye and knowing that she is going back soon, she just assume that making 'peace' with me is no longer necessary. Tahan jelah for another few months.

Despite all the complaints I have on her, I still have to admit that she is still the best maid that we had so far for the past 4years++ with 8 maids. Nobody is perfect so I guess I just have to digest it.Hmmm..Got maid also problem, no maid also another problem! Sabar jelah Labu..Sigh!! :(

Yours Truly,

Our 1st Movie Marathon for 2010

2010-03-05T08:18:00.000-08:00

Going to have our (just me & hubby) first Movie Marathon for 2010 tommorrow. First we going to watch :

Alice In Wonderland at 12pm.

Image from Google

I fell in love with Johnny Depp since his 21 jump street days so even this is his another 'Iconic Loners' character in a movie apart from Capt Jack Sparrow, Edward Scissorhands, Willy Wonka (which his is very good at it), off course I still dont wanna miss it. Ingat lagi sekolah rendah dulu mostly everybody has their own biodata book and one of the column a must filled by everybody is your Fav Actor(s) and Johnny Depp is a name that I will never forget to write for this column ;) Apparently, some said that this movie is quite heavy for kids so we decided not to bring Irdina along this for round.Let Ibu & Ayah watch & filter first, if ok then we just buy DVD for her.

Then we gonna watch My Name is Khan at 3pm.

Image from google

I dont care if people will call me 'Jiwang Karatzz', 'Sentimental', 'Minah Hindustan' etc...I still wanna watch this movie so much since I heard a lot of good feedback from frens & families about this movie. It's not a typical SRK kind of movie and I just love when SRK & Kajol are paired together in a movie just like their old days (Kuch2 & Ka bi Kushi Ka bi Gham etc). Both of them are so good together like 'actor & actress' match in heaven :P

Ok enuff said. I will try to give some review once I watched both of these movies. As for now..Allow me to return to my La La Land ;)...zzzzzzzz

Yours Truly,

Diatas Permintaan..

2010-03-01T22:27:00.000-08:00

As you know I'm not really a cooking type of person. Tak penah pun post apa2 resipi kat blog nie. However, untuk memenuh permintaan beberapa org kawan2 yg telah melihat gamba ayam ini diFB saya, here goes my Rosemary Roasted Lemon Chicken with Mix Vege & Gravy. Takdelah sedap mcm Kenny Rogers tuh, tapi bolehlah :P

Bahan-Bahan :
1 ekor ayam
1 biji lemon
5 ulas bawang putih }
2 sudu besar, daun rosemary } tumbuk lumat
1 sudu besar lada hitam }
2 sudu besar extra virgin olive oil
2 sudu besar sos tiram2 sudu besar kicap manis
1 sudu besar pes cili kering – ditumbuk lumat
2 biji kentang }
1 karot } potong kecil
1 jambak broccoli (betul ke jambak ekk :P) }
2 sudu besar butter
2 sudu bedar daun thyme yg dah ditumbuk
Garam gula cukup rasa

Untuk Ayam :

1. Basuh Ayam bersih & toskan
2. Rebus lemon, kentang, bawang putih untuk 8 minit. Toskan
3. Tumbuk bawang putih, daun rosemary, lada hitam4. Gaulkan bahan no 3 dgn olive oil, sos tiram oyster, kicap, pes cili, garam & gula
5. Gaul bahan no 4 rata2 pada ayam (luar & dalam). Perap at least 4 jam atau nak lagi sedap semalaman.
6. Cucuk lemon dgn garpu\pisau utk jusnye & masukkan lemon dlm ayam.
7. Perap ayam at least 4 jam dlm peti sejuk atau nak lagi sedap perap semalaman.
8. Untuk bakar ayam, guna microwave at 220, bakar utk 50 minit tapi lepas 30 minit , terbalikkan ayam & bakar lagi 20 minit.
9. Served ayam dgn Mix Vege. Lemon dalam ayam boleh dikeluarkan & perah baki jus atas ayam & mix vege.

Untuk Mix Vege :
1. Cairkan butter atas kuali
2. Tumis daun thyme sampai naik bau
3. Masukkan karot, broccoli, kentang
4. Garam cukup rasa
5. Gaul sume bahan2 atas api kecik sampai rata & ketepikan.

Bahan-Bahan Gravy (agak utk 1 ekor ayam) :
1 senduk (senduk nasik) tepung Brown Sauce (I used Knor Brand)
1 tin button mushroom, hiris kecil2
2 sudu besar butter
1 biji bawang besar, potong dadu
2 sudu stok ayam
3 cawan air
1 cawan fresh milk
1 sudu kecik tepung jagung
Garam Gula cukup rasa

1. Cairkan Butter
2. Tumis bawang besar sampai naik bau
3. Masukkan stok ayam & button mushroom, tumis lagi untuk 2-3 minit
4. Masukkan Brown Sauce yg dah siap2 bancuh dgn air (bukan air panas)
5. kacau sampai sebati, masukkan fresh milk & tepung jagung
6. Garam Gula cukup rasa & terus kacau sampai kuah pekat
7. Hidang sama2 ayam atau boleh jugak jadik kuah utk Yorkshire Pudding makan bersama2 dgn ayam. Sedappp! ;)( Kalau nak tukar jadik kuah black pepper, ganti button mushroom dgn 4 sudu blackpeppercorn yg dah ditumbuk)

Happy Trying ! ;)

Yours Truly,

FB Comments

2010-02-25T02:55:00.000-08:00

I wrote my FB status about having hard time to guide Irdina with her daily homework. I think most of the mothers out there are facing the same situation like me if they have kids with the same age like my Irdina. Then suddenly, a old friend of mine (who is now a cikgu) gave me a long syarahan about private VS gov kindy and some sort like telling me that I pushing my kids too much sampai takde time for them to play. Malas nak argue more, I just ignore her comment.

However kindly noted that I 'm not against any gov kindy, KEMAS or what so ever and I never want to push my kids more than their limits. All I want is that my kids to be well prepared when they join standard 1 in few more years and have a good self esteem among their friends. Takdelah advanced sgt & takdelah terkebelakang sgt. Budak2 skrgkan makin lama makin pandai not like our days dulu (especially girls). Our time we don't have classes like Tumbletots, Schicada, E-Nopi, Math Monkey, Kumon etc. Now parent kalau boleh dari baby lagi dah hantar their kids attend those programmes if they can afford one (How I wish that I can afford to sent my kids there too). So where that put our kids who never attended any of those programmes and only been exposed to all this education thingy when they started to join pre-school? I'll bet they will have problem to catch up and will have low self esteem when they are bit behind from their friends. That is what I'm trying to avoid my kids. Furthermore, I prefer my kids to have something (homework, reading revision etc) for them to do rather than balik skolah terus tgk TV jee sampai ke mlm. They do have their outside play time too okay from 5.00pm to 6.30pm almost everyday. I think that is more than neccesary and all those things are still not too much for them to handle at this age. During my primary school years, we got class hierarchy starting from class Biru (kelas paling pandai), then Coklat, Kuning, Jingga and Merah (kelas paling lemah & slow). As a parents, do you want your kids to be placed in 'kelas Merah' if you have a choice? Now cikgu, you tell me ;)

Yours Truly,

Free PS

2010-02-24T08:01:00.000-08:00

I craving for a PS so badly because apart from trying a new 'aura', meeting 'The Moon' personally, it has been quite a while since our last PS (more than 2 years already I think) and since then all our family photos were kinda 'incomplete' because most of the pics were taken by dear hubby himself so he was not in the pic. Poor Ayah :( We just move in to a new place as well which is quite spacious from our previous home so there's a lot of empty walls that will need to be warmed up with a lot of new photos that can represent the new version of four of us which I could say matured aka aging, wiser aka older, chubbier aka fatter and off course happier than before. We are the type of people who do appreciate digital masterpiece and we would be screaming happier if cyberphotog could do the honor creating that masterpiece for us.

Fmy Pic without Ayah

Another Fmy Pic with no Ayah as well

Another Pic..Again with No Ayah In :(

Kalau ada ayah pun, inilah ghopa gambanye - tak center, blur etc :(

What more can I say.

P/S : You guys can also try your luck also if you're interested for the free PS from Moon . All you have to do is go to Moon's Blog for the T&C.

Yours Truly,

Broken Appliances

2010-02-23T02:35:00.000-08:00

Pic from Google Image

What do you guys do with a broken appliance that you intend on getting rid off? Especially the one that cost you a fortune..For me, I will feel sorry if I trash them cause each of them had their own sentimental value so instead I keep them in my store hoping that one day I will meet someone who is so handy that would be help us to repair all of them with just a small cost.

Pic from google image (perhiasan semata-mata :P)

Guess what..My wish came true ;) Last week, I just found out that my colleague's husband was able to fix broken appliances.The next day (last Friday) without thinking further I brought all my broken appliances including our protable DVD player (that we usually bring along whenever we went for holiday so the kids could watch their fav DVD), our first DVD player (that we bought when we just got married) and my blender (a gift from dear hubby as a motivation for me to home cook :P) to the office and passed them to my colleague so that her hubby could have a look at them and estimate the repair cost at home. I thought it would take weeks for him to repair all those things but to my suprise....today I got them back and all of them have been fixed and working like never been broken before. Yippie!! Sungguh Pantas!! and how much charged me?? only RM50 for all three items OK. Sungguh Murah! Siap dia boleh tanya lagi "Kalau RM50 3 brg mahal tak"?? Off course not dear...Hantar kedai upah bukak brg pun silap2 dah RM50. Betul tak?? Now I'm smiling from ear to ear non stop and tonite I can watch DVD with my kids at their room while ayah can enjoy controlling the remote kat bawah..No more 'Remote Wrestling' with the kids.Hihihi ;)

Yours Truly,

It's Complicated

2010-02-11T06:33:00.000-08:00

Image from google

I was referring to a movie actually. I watched this movie at home with my dear hubby the other nite and we enjoyed it very much & laughed out loud most of the parts in the movie. For me, this is a perfect movie for a married couple like us, a stress reliever after a full day at work and a good eyes opener as well to any of the husbands out there who are planning to leave their wife for a younger women. Why? Hmm...Kenelah tgk sendiri movie nie ye ;)

Pstt Ladies..Go & watch this movie with your hubby and make sure the kids are not around ye. This is movie I'll rated as 18SX movie and has many suprisingly dirty parts so be prepared to gasp and laugh. Totally not suitable for kids viewing..Once you watched it, you'll know why I was even making an effort to blog about this movie..Till Then..Cheers ;)

Yours Truly,

Belangkas

2010-02-10T08:53:00.000-08:00

Irdina told me the other nite that one of the kids in her class took her pencil case. Might be by accident, you knowlah sometime kids with their stuff & belongings. Slalu tertukar ke, terambik, tercicir, missed place etc..(kita yg dah tua nie pun sama gakkan kdg2). I straightly called her teacher so that she could help Irdina the next day to get her stuff back from that girl and apart from that we ended up having a lot of interesting conversations on how Irdina was doing and behaving in school.

First, teacher Shima told me she was doing well with her reading among others in her class which I kinda expected already, she was actively participating in class, independent, have no problem sharing stuff and very helpful. Oklah that was the good part..However, (ok nie part tak best pulak..nobody's perfectkan) she was quite behind in writing especially with small alphabets and numbers. Some example like 5 tulis terbaliklah, small b tertukar dgn small d lah, e & c terbaliklah etc. Know what I mean..Aduhai! Irdina2. Even as for now, I need to have lots & lots of patience everytime when I guide her with her writing homework compared to other homeworks that she brought home. Boleh sakit jantung dgn darah tinggi tau dibuatnye :P Totally need more & more practice with me at home.

Oklah..now the most interesting part, teacher Shima also told me that Irdina is very talkative in class especially around her best buddy, Mairah. Mairah is my neighbour's 5 years old daugther that took the same transport together with Irdina to school. They sit next to each other every day in class and mmg asyik ber'kaknam' jee budak berdua nie walaupun dah pagi, ptg, & kdg2 mlm berjumpa. Bergaduh pun iye but not long..kejap je dah baik balik dah. Pegi toilet pun sama2 tau..Teacher Shima described them as belangkas :P But all the works off course siaplah. Teacher Shima even tried to separate them by re-arranging the class room sitting positions, tapi hmmmm sehari jelah bertahan...The next day dah duduk sebelah2 balik dah. Now teacher pun dah give up & just let it be since sbb budak2kan..Bukannye paham apa2 lagipun.This actually reminds me of someone tau...Sapa lagi....IBU dia nie sendirilah.Hehehehe :P

Ibu dia kecek2 pun sama...Brape kali kene tukar tempat duduk masa skolah rendah sbb bising sgt dlm kelas duduk dgn geng2. Once masa darjah 5 kot, duduk with my friend Rina then kene tukar duduk sbelah budak lelaki...but turn out makin bising lagi ada kitaorg. Then one more time masa darjah 6, pun sama awal2 dah kene duduk next to budak lelaki, tapi bising pastu kene tukar tempat duduk sebelah Ketua Pengawas skolah pulak konon2 biar rasa segan sikitlah takdelah bising sgt sbb duduk sebelah Ketua Pengawas. Hmm takdenye..lagi bising ada siap dgn Ketua2 Pengawas kene denda :P and also turn out that the Ketua Pengawas was also my secret admirer masa skolah rendah (Terkejut abis..Budak hitam, kurus kerempeng, tinggi mengalah mcm aku pun ada SA ke?) How I know? He confessed himself to my face on the LAST DAY of school..Fuh! Sib baik last day, kalau tak sure control gila ai duduk sbelah dia dlm kelas nanti. Terus jadik pendiam..Kekekekekkee. He also told me that everyday he purposely took the long way to school with his bike so that he could pass through my house and we could accidently bump into each other since I walk everyday to school from my house (Tuh yg hitam legam). Sweetkan..kecek2 dah pandai (was not referring to me ok :P) Padahalnye kat kelas pun boleh jumpa. Bukan tak jumpa dah. Oppss..alamak dah lari dari title pulak..but those were the dayskan..Best jugak skali skala teringat balik;)

Yours Truly,

PS : Now I'm totally a different person. Still friendly but pemalu..kekekeke. Yg confirm not as talkative as before ye!

Grateful!

2010-02-04T06:46:00.000-08:00

Thank God I'm going back to my Cyberjaya office tomorrow. I was away from the office to attend a 2 days 'Effective Problem Solving & Decision Making' course (mcm gempak jee bunyinyekan) at MIM, Jalan Ampang since yesterday. 2 days of berulang alik from my place to Jalan Ampang, is enough to make me feel so deeply grateful that I work outside KL area. No offence to them who work in KL. Maybe you guys dah biasa & immune already but frankly speaking, KL is just not meant for me (eceh2, mcm ayat org putus cinta pulak ekk :P)

Image from Google

So meaning starting from tomorrow, no more long hours on the road, crawling traffics, reckless motorist that keep on knocking my side mirrors, impatient & reckless malaysian's drivers that keep on potong queue mcm dia sorg jee yg nak cepat or in another word no more TRAFFIC JAM!! Just imagine, it took me almost 2 hours (for a 30 minutes drive during off peak hours) from my house to reach Jalan Ampang eventhough I took MEX already. FYI, I'm the kind of person yg sanggup lagi drive jauh daripada mengharung jem. That's why driving from Shah Alam to Cyberjaya for 3 years++ is nothing to me compared to driving from Sham Alam to Menara TM for 9 months during my previous job!! Mmg tak tahan & hari2 stressed.Luckily..the training was only for 2 days. If scheduled for a week, then not sure if I can survive that or I might just 'tuang' some of the classes :P So Training Team, pleaselah organize the training at Cyber next time..no needlah sampai ke KL sana.Save sikit duit company from milleage claim ;)

Yours Truly,

TV

2010-02-02T00:55:00.000-08:00

The apples of my eyes ;)

Wardina wrote something interesting about how's TV can be bad for our kids in her blog and through my own experience with Irdina & Aniq, I found it quite true also especially when she wrote :

Children who watch too much TV have what they call 'the 2 minute mind'Because 'pictures' on the screen changes every 2 second...they have problem then to concentrate

This is totally true since I do have problem to get my kids to concentrate when we do reading or other educational activities especially with Aniq. At one point he seems so interested and focused, but then not long after that he was bored and wanted to do something else. I know that for some mother, their having tuff time managing their kids especially the toddlers when they trying to do some work (office, cooking or even house chores) and TV is like their saviour where it can help to disctract the kids and keep them occupied for a while so that we can get our job done.But it seem that our kids nowdays are actually spending more time in front of the TV than what they should. Conceivably for some of our kids, being parked in front of the television could be the only activity they do all day including mine at some days. Scarykan but I have to admit this is completely true and I wish I could have changed it. One advise also from Wardina that I would like to share with all the mothers out there :

If you want to let them watch TV,watch it WITH them, so they can TALK about the show WITH you..

and I couldn't agree more with her. Lets now change our habits mothers :)

Yours Truly,

Tersentap

2010-02-01T01:53:00.000-08:00

This morning right before I went to the office, I was at my kitchen taking my honey supplements then suddenly I realized there's a piece of paper down underneath my maid's handphone. Being a curious employer and since last nite mmg incident airmata pun after my maid kene marah with my dear hubby because of her careless mistake, I took a peek at the content of the paper. Guess what, there's a ladies's name Nur A*#^%$, an address at Jalan Ara, Bandar Sri Damansara and contact numbers of the lady. I believe you guys know already what's with Jalan Ara, Damansara. This is the place where all the runaway maids goes and where you can get an illegal maid with just a small cost. I dunno where the H@%$ she got this person contact number but I was TERSENTAP to the MAX ok. I suspected she got it from other maids around here or maybe from my fren's maid that she keeps in touch. Terus rasa tak sedap hati and terus terbayang2 all those news about maid runaway leaving the kids alone in the house or even worst lari taking the kids together with them. Ya Allah! Negrinye…and I don’t want my family to be apart of these kind of news.

I took the paper away then told my husband. Since mmg dah rasa tak sedap hari, We agreed that I just Work From Home today and try to monitor her behaviour at least for today. Should I confront face to face with her? I was still thinking actually..but after taking into consideration a few other incidents such as she asked me to send RM2K of her money back to indon recently dgn alasan, nak suruh suami buat rumah and then she keep on telling Irdina that she's going back to indon soon sampai menangis2lah budak tuh dibuatnye & mcm2 lagilah, I dont think that it's impossible at all that she will runaway from us one day. I did try to call the numbers. The handphone number when I called, an indon lady answered and told me she was at Indon and asked me to call the other number. When I called the other number, nobody answered my call up until now but my conclusion the lady is a maid's agent since she can understand my malay perfectly and she did said that she was at indon, maybe taking new maids to be brought over here. I might be working another day from home, so maybe I'll just confront her tomorrow. If she wants to go back, I'll just send her back rather than taking risk keeping her lama2 with us. Better for both parties. Betul tak??

Cuti2 KL

2010-01-27T08:00:00.000-08:00

Tomorrow is Thaipusam in lieu Public Holiday for T-Systems so it's going to be a 'long' weekend for us. We're going to spend our weekends cuti2 KL here with the kids as I need to go to Jalan TAR this weekends as well to 'kain & tudung' hunting for my brother's wedding that will take place in early June this year. 4th of June will be the the Nikah Ceremony (White Pastel Theme), 5th Sanding Belah perempuan (Dark Purple Theme) and 6th sambut menantu at my brother's new homie in Shah Alam (Shocking Pink theme).Kitaorg jee tak hantar tailor baju lagi..my mom, dad & sis sume dah hantar sampai tailor pun dah tanya mana kain2 kitaorg..sbb kain kitaorg biasa dia paling pening nak jahit skali (among my family members jelah). Kekeke..Sabarlah Ban Hin, ini baru mau masuk bulan 2. Kitaorg mau kurus dululah baru hantar kain. Boleh kee?? Veranganzz sudeyyy :P Have a nice weekends ols ;)

Yours Truly,

Aniq New Hair Cut

2010-01-26T20:17:00.000-08:00

Panjangnyelah rambut sampai dah nak masuk mata

Budak sorang nie mmg amatlah susah nak bawak gunting rambut. Sampailah satu tahap Ibu kene gunting sikit rambut depan dia masa dia tido..Itupun sikit jee dpt potong bagi cukup syarat jgn rambut tuh masuk mata. But suprisingly last couple of weeks, bawaklah dia pegi kedai gunting rambut biasa yg kitaorg pegi kat Shah Alam. But this time, satu 'Baps' yg agak meletups & cun melecun yg potong rambut Aniq. Mak Aii!! Dia ok jee potong rambut tak menangis langsung. Sampai Ibu boleh suruh gunting ikut style lagi rambut Aniq. Hasilnye...Tara :

Seriousnye muka Aniq :P

Siap suruh baps tuh simpan sikit ekor..kekeke :P

Hopefully next time pun behave mcm nie bila bawak pegi gunting rambut ;)

Yours Truly,

Current Obsession - Bangles

2010-01-25T08:38:00.000-08:00

I admit that I do have a few obsessions. I am obsessed with handbags (now dah cool dah sikit sbb terpaksa menyahut cabaran berjimat cermat), bed sheets & quilt covers (pantang nampak bed sheets on sale), perfumes, clothes and many more. I also have gone through a phase where I suddenly become too obsessed with Lip Gloss, Tudung Dubai (now dah terperap je dalam almari), Diaper Bags, Belts and many more.

But now, currently I am going through a phase where I am too obsessed with: Bangles in any color! I bought tons of them lately and now thinking of having a bangles stand to arrange them neatly to be displayed in my walk in wardrobe. Easier to choose and mix match...Hahahaha Gediks Gila. Maybe something that look this :

or this : or maybe this :Anyone know where I can buy this things? Preferred not through internet purchasing. As for now, how I keep my bangles? Like this :

Using a Mug Tree....Kekekekkeeke :P

Yours Truly,

Aniq Nak School

2010-01-19T08:15:00.000-08:00

Aniq will turn 3 by April this year and guess what, after almost a month watching his big sista going to school in the morning, came back with teacher's car by noon and doing some homework and revision at nite time, all of the sudden...out of no where..one morning when I was working from home he took his Bob The Builder Bag, Bob's Tumbler and told me "Aniq nak school" Waaaaa...Sungguh tergezut Ibu with this new positive energy from him. Slalu kalau tanya nak school ke tak..memanjang je ckp "Aniq..TAK..NAKKKKKKK!!" (Sambil buat muka) But now..everytime when I asked him the same question "Aniq nak school ke?", dia akan ckp "Nakkk" (sambil buat muka sedey).Alamak tak sampai pulak Ibu.Should I enroll him to kindy now?? But he is not toilet trained yet. Yes..agak lambat compared to Irdina. Irdina by her third birthday dah toilet trained. Tuh beza anak hantar nursery dgn anak tak hantar nursery :P Probably I should start to toilet train him first then baru pikir pasal hantar skolah..Sementara tgh ada bibik niekan..Hmm...Good idea Julie!! ;)

Yours Truly,

Prepare Mentally

2010-01-19T07:38:00.000-08:00

Sorry peeps, been busy since last week and I have nothing much to update tho.I just had a 1 to 1 session through telco with my US manager and one of the interesting agenda that we discussed is about my training & travelling plan 2010. She was asking whether I was interested to travel to US this year and guess what, first thing that came across my mind..."Coach Beg , Factory Outlets, Macy, Hard Rock etc" Kekekkeke..tak sinonoh betul Julie nie..bukannye nak pikir pasal keje ye. Off course I told her I would and looking forward for it but then one statement from her that shutting me out from all the excitement "but you might need to be here about 2-4 weeks and probabably in November during our PASS conference". Terus Speechless!! Leaving my family for 4 weeks?? in November (is about to winter in Houston)?? 2 weeks in Shanghai last time I already missed them like hell and I almost not survive the wheather during their end winter and now 4 weeks in US?? alone some more (last time got my 3 other colleagues)..You got to be kidding me..How I am going to survive that?? Prepare mentally from now I guess..hopefully it wouldnt take longer than 2 weeks.If not...Huhuhuhu :(

Yours Truly,

Depressed!

2010-01-11T01:09:00.000-08:00

I feel so depressed today..I feel angry, betrayed, cheated, sad all at the same time. I should have more trust on my heart instinct next time.No matter how hard people tried to influence me I should have never denying my own instincts and trust them more than anything in the world. Please Julie..No more same mistake after this. Learn something!!

Lecehlah!!

2010-01-05T19:17:00.000-08:00

Hmm..Leceh jugak pindah rumah nie ekk. Now leceh sebab nak kene tukar sume alamat surat menyurat credit card, memberhip card, loans, banks, insurances, Unit trust, Bills, Streamyx, broadband and some even required us to drop by to their branch just for the sake nak tukar alamat. Tak boleh tukar through phone..Lecehlah..Giving me a headache!!

Bercakap pasal pindah rumah nie jugak, now almost every weekend I have to think of a 'menu' then cook in big portion caused there's guests coming over to our house. Kalau masak just for us mmglah confident jee but to cook in big portion like for 20-30 org makan all by myself, quite a challengelah jugak. Ahkak nie bukannye rajin masak sgt pun…Kekekeke :P My biggest achievement so far was last week when I managed to cook Nasik Ayam Penyet for about 40++ org makan. Fuh..Sib baik menjadi. Especially the sambal..Sbb for Nasik Ayam Penyet..sambal tuh yg paling fenting!! Sambal failed the rest pun failed!! 8 Ekor ayam babe masak then about 16 pot beras for the nasik ayam. That’s why I consider it as my greatest achievement :P The week before I made Mee Soto Lemak, Pajeri Nenas & Terung & Ayam Tandoori for family side basya then Beef Stew for 20 people for my ex-osmet..tuh pun pun sib baiklah jadik. Menjadi for me means getting a thumbs up from my dear hubby and both of my kids pun makan bertambah2. Tuh pun dah cukup dah. Hilang sume penat ;) This week punye menu tak pikir lagi..but this week punye guests tak ramai so tak risau sgt tapi bagus gak sebenarnya. At least berasaplah sikit dapur kat rumah tuh & at the same time I can brush up my cooking skill yg dah agak 'tumpul' sikit kebelakangan nie…Alamak gamba makanan takdelah..tak sempat nak snap. Slalu sume siap masak just nice dengan tetamu dtg then terus ngap jee..Kekekkeke :P

Yours Truly,

Glad!

2010-01-05T07:49:00.000-08:00

Well the day has come...yesterday was my Irdina first day at her new kindy. Like all mothers I believe, I was the one more excited and nervous than the girl herself. The waking up was tuff with all the crying, objections..ini tak kene, itu tak kene, mengantuklah..nak ibu ikutlah, ayah ikutlah etc but once we were at the school and sent her to her classroom unexpectedly, everything went smoothly.Fuh..Lega Ibu!!

Dah jumpa geng terus OK. Good Girl ;)

At 10.30am, I went to pick her up (this week school are only until 10.30am and I volunteer to pick her up only on the first day of school). When asked how was school, she said "Best!Irdina suka school nie". Then siap taknak balik lagi nak sambung main with her newly met frens. Irdina2 ;)

Ant Hill Class's Teacher..Teacher Shima

However, I'm still so proud of her. Glad that she actually REALY liked it and cannot wait to go back for more. This morning she went to school by the ‘van’ pulak. She was all excited about it since one of our neighbour's daugther and also her classmate took the same van jugak to school. The waking up was quite easy (I guess my bribe the other nite with the new Disney Princess Pencil Case & Color Pencils that she could bring to school that morning did manage to motivate her a lot this morning).Eventhough the van will only pick her up between 8.10-8.20am but she was all set to go by 7.45am. Suprisingly, a really Super Smooth 2nd Day ;) Once she was in the van and left my compound, she just waived at me non stop until I was out of her sight. Not crying..but smiling. Ibu pulak yg rasa sedey..I just cannot believe all these are happening already. It certainly didn’t seem like 5 years since I first held her in my arms. How fast time flies and next year will be Aniq's turn pulak. That definitely is going to be a big challenge to us because Aniq on the other hand is very different from Irdina. Irdina was quite independent and Aniq is super shy and easily feels insecure without someone he knows around him cause he never went to any nursery at all since birth not like Irdina. Dont want to think about that yet.Lets just wait until next year to arrive kay ;)

Yours Truly,

Last Entry

2009-12-30T19:49:00.000-08:00

For the 2nd time this week, I'm blogging from the hospital but this time from Salam Medical Centre accompaning my kid sis who got admitted since Tuesday. She was food poisoning, got dehydrated and her platelet count dropped tremendously. Now she's closely being monitored by the doc and need to undergo a few other tests. We are hoping that she can be discharged by today. Taknaklah celebrate new year's eve kat sini. Huhuhuhu :( Oh ye..I'm taking care of her because my mom & dad takde..tgh pegi honeymoon. Bestkan anak2 dah besar2 pegi honeymoon. Takyah risau apa2 dah.

About Irdina condition, she's hyper active as usual and no longer complaining about the pain. The only thing that worry me is that her ear still bleed and got some pungent smell. Takut bernanah jee..Doc did warned us dont be panic if there's some bleeding from her ears cause it's normal but he didnt mentioned anything about the ears having some bad odour. Risaulah pulak. Ingat if by tomorrow, the ears still bleed mmg nak bawak jugak jumpa ENT on Saturday. Let see how.

Talking about azam tahu baru, my new year 2010 resolutions will be something quite similar like my 2009 resolutions (sbb byk tak achieve pun lagi sbenarnya) like :

1) Shop less & save more $$ so that I can do more mini projects for my new house Eg : New Built Shuz Cabinet, install Kitchen Cabinet for our Wet Kitchen, Install Autogate, Refurnish the Guest Room, Refurnish the Kids Room, buy our dream sofa and the list go on. Byk ler pulak and all need $$ :(

2) Lose some weight. Target 5 kg at least (my weight after deliver Irdina) before my brother's wedding. Kakak pengantin ada 3 pasang baju nak melaram nanti..kekekeke :P

3) Planning for a fmy trip to @%#&*^$! kalau ada rezeki before my next pregnancy :P

4) A 2nd honeymoon with dear hubby just the 2 of us if the 'conditions' allowed

5) Enroll Irdina for a personal Iqra & Swimming Class

6) Enroll Aniq for tumbletots

7) Being more productive & proactive with my current job until I find a new one sbb mmg totally rasa tak productive langsung tahun ni. Kekekekekeke

8) New job perhaps (but am I ready? Hmmmm)

9) New baby perhaps (also..am I ready? Hmmm)

Wow! Byklah pulak..terachieve ke tak ekk. Anyway..since this will be my last entry for 2009, wanna wish each one of you a very happy long weekend and a happy, healthy 2010 full of love, warmth and great memories. Bye2 2009 & Welcome 2010 :)

Yours Truly,

Irdina's Ear Wax Blockage

2009-12-28T19:14:00.000-08:00

I know the title sounds a bit gross but that is what happened to our Irdina. Ear Wax Blockage in her right ear and Glue Ear (fluid trapped in the ear) in her left ear. Mmg kalau dibiarkan boleh jadik infection, bernanah and caused permananet hearing loss. We only started to notice her hearing problem dalam sebulan dua nie. How ?

1) We came across the TV volume at MAX a couple of times
2) We came across a couple of times she is watching the TV in her room with her left ear placed very close to the TV speakers (sbb tak dgr)
3) We have to shout a few times everytime we called her
4) We have to repeat our words\instruction a few times because she cannot hear our words then used a lot of Ah word (mula2 ingat sbb habits, rupanye mmg dia ckp Ah! tuh sbb dia tak dgr, as a sign for us to repeat our words)
5) She is shouting when she speaks

Since makin lama makin teruk and skolah pun dah nak dekat bukak, at last we decided to bring her to her paedtrician at KPJ SSH then referred by him to a ENT specialist at the same hospital. Audio test were done and her left ear identified with type B problem and they found that her right ear canal was totally blocked by the ear wax. This might be one of the reason why she cannot hear from that side.The ENT did try to remove the ear wax manually but since she's just 4 and nama pun budak lagikan mmglah tak boleh duduk diam2. Bahaya takut the ear syringe terkene ear drum dia jee so ear wax removal procedure with local anesthetic were advised for her and were done yesterday.

Taken from my phone camera : Masa ni happy lagi sebab tak masuk OT lagi

Masa ini dah start cuak dah

Ingatkan mula2 the doc will only give her the anesthetic gas sampai dia tertido and then do the procedure dalam bilik jee rupanye siap kene masuk Operation Theather (OT) lagi. Gelabahlah makcik nie once the brought her inside the OT then pasangkan pulak segala mak bapak wayar kat badan dia. Siap melalak2 panggil Ayah, Atuk, Nenek once they tried to give her anesthetic gas. Dgn Ibu2 skali menangis kat situh..adoo hai. Cair kejap Ibu..padahal buat procedure buang ear wax jee.

Muka dah start gelabah..lepas nie Ibu dah tak sampai hati dah nak snap gamba

After the procedure. While still mabuk2 lagi crying like a baby looking for me in the OT sampai tertido. Poor Irdina :(

She was asleep for few hours effects from the anesthetic gas

The Doc said it will be about 5 minutes procedure only..tgk2 dah dekat setengah jam. Rupanye doc check skali her right ear and found that there's fluid trapped inside her ear drum area causing why her audio test result returned as type B hearing problem. Irdina is now recovering and was already discharged today. Now we need to monitor her hearing progress for the next 2 weeks before her next appointment with the ENT. Hopefully there's improvement and these are the only caused why she's having some hearing lost. We pray to God that hopefully her next audio test will return the result as normal for both ears. Aminnn.

She's recovering already. At our room the nite after the procedure

Yours Truly,

Movies Of The Week & Weekends Plan

2009-12-23T06:01:00.000-08:00

Planning to watch this movie with dear hubby this weekend since we received a lot of good feedback from frens and movie review in the newspaper about this movie :

Image from google

and then watched this one with the kids..but not sure if Aniq is ready to be introduced to the whole cinema experience. For Irdina, we brought her to cinema when she was 3 years old and her first movie was Kungfu Panda and she was in her best behaviour through out the movie. Not sure if it would be the same for Aniq.

Image from google

Last but not least..then have a makan2 Potluck with my ex-UTM housemates. There's a lots catching up need to be done. Have another nice & long weekends peeps ;)

My ex-osmet during my study days. Believe it or not, masa nie my weight was about 48-49kg only..Kerempeng gila..kekekeke :P

Yours Truly,

Post Vacation Blues

2009-12-21T00:00:00.000-08:00

Like everyone, I love vacation. But coming back to work & re-entry to normal life everyday, it can be painful. Sigh!! But nak wat cam mana..Life goes on and there's bills to pay. Just want to share with you guys one of the funny conversation I had with my Irdina the morning we were going to check out from the hotel :

Irdina : Ibu..Irdina sukalah duduk hotel
Me: Ok..next time kita dtglah lagi
Irdina : Irdina nak duduk hotel lama2 (Dalam hati Ibu : Amboi3x anak aku)
Me : Tak bolehlah..Ibu kene work,Ayah pun kene work. Nanti boss Ibu & Ayah marah
Irdina : Ooo (sambil pikir sekejap). Oklah Ibu Ayah pegi work, tinggallah Kakak, Irdina & Aniq kat sini (hotel). Biar kakak jaga Irdina & Aniq.
Me : ???? (Sabar jelah byk2 Ibu ye:P Nak tergelak pun ada)

Kids..See how their brain works. Ada saje akalnye ;)But..eventhough I'm kinda of having some sort like Post Vacation Blues but it was still refreshing to get a break just a while from the constant demands of work and house chores (eceh2 konon2nyelah)

Another achivement during our short vacay..Finally..I manage to finish this book that had terbengkalai for weeks. The movie pun dah stop playing dah kat wayang. Cari DVD sajor lor nanti jawabnye. Actually, I became interested in this book after seeing the teaser for the movie on channel E! a couple months back. I thought the concept for the story sounded fascinating and I wanted to know the story from the book before seeing the movie. (I'm the type of person who likes to read the book first before actually see the movie) When I began to read the book, it took me several pages before I understood the jumping from one date to another to understand the whole time travelling thingy, and frequently had to go back to the previous date to get it straight in my mind, but was able to do so eventually...but frankly speaking I dont like the ending at all. It was a sad ending and I hate it..What's the ending?? I guess you have to find it yourself through the book or the movie ;) So anti climax julie nie :P

Pic taken from google image

Yours Truly,

Rainy Morning at PD

2009-12-18T20:07:00.000-08:00

It has been raining here since morning at PD with no sign to stop..so ended up

Swimming dalam bath tub saje lor for the kids

While me & hubby jalan2 cari makan, trying the hotel sauna, enjoying my 'Time Traveller's Wife' book that has been terbengkalai for weeks and FBing & Blogging. Uploaded together in this entry a few pics of our chalet unit. Totally a good and sexy place for honeymooners & for couple to rekindle their loves on annivesary ;)

The Deluxe Chalet Unit comes with King + A Day Bed

The balcony.. A nice spot to enjoy the breeze and for me to finish my book

An adjustable sky view roof at the shower. Sexy ;)

See Through Glass Flooring but off course PD Sea water is too claudy for us to see anything :P

They also have kids play room, organized a movie nite for the kids everyday, games rooms, sauna, jacuzzi, sport facilities that can be rented such as bicycles, beach volleyball, pool etc.

Us..Pics taken the day before on the evening we arrived at the hotel. I was wearing the Muslimah Swimming Suit that my mom bought for me but minus the head cover because I feel like an astronout when I wore it :P

The rest of the pics, I'll upload in my FB ;)

Yours Truly,

Hyper Sungguh Anak2 Juliaty nie!!

2009-12-18T07:54:00.000-08:00

I'm blogging from my chalet unit at this moment with my kids are still at hyper stage with no signs at all for them to settledown to La La Land eventhough they had spent hours in the pool, playing at the play room, had kid's movie nite organized by the hotel and no day nap at all for today. Ayah dah selamat pengsan after we came back from our 'late' dinner. Now Ibu pulak dah rasa mcm nak doze off. zZZzzzzzzzz

We Need A Break

2009-12-16T00:00:00.000-08:00

A lot of things have been going on lately and now we are dying for a break. Since it's going to be another long weekend for all of us, decided to have a short vacay here with the kids. Dekat Sajor. Jadiklah ;)

Pic from the google.

Yours Truly,

The Storm Warriors

2009-12-14T05:16:00.000-08:00

So looking forward to watch this movie this Thursday nite with a few frens from work. Been waiting for the sequel since...errr ages since the last Storm Riders movie. Ada 10 tahun dah kot. I have quite a high expectation for this movie. Hopefully it will not turn me down. Cloud..see you on Thursday nite ;)

Pic taken from Google Image

Yours Truly,

Kindy For Irdina

2009-12-13T05:52:00.000-08:00

After doing weeks of kindy hunting, at last we decided to send Irdina to Tadika Krista at Precint 1, Bandar Nusaputra. Reason being, this is the best franchise kindy we could find close to our home. Smart Readers already moved to Bandar Bukit Puchong, Q-Dees is not in the same route to our office and there's morning traffic as well, the nearest CIC is still consider quite far from our house so no van willing to send Irdina back to Nusaputra, no Little Caliph, no Al-Ikhlas, no Al-Aulad that we could find close to this area. Other reasons why we choose Krista; because they offer longer class duration(8.30am to 12.30 not including any opt class and Q-dees used to be 8.30am - 11.30am only), they offer KAFA & Jawi subjects for muslim students, computer class, they using Peter & Jane books for english reading like I used with Irdina at home and parents can opt for Art and Mandarin Class with just a small fees. The best part they also provide pick up & drop transport with their own van for Nusaputra Residents with a very2 cheap rate. No Iqra' class provided but we already found a contact number for an ustazah that can teach Iqra' from house to house in our area. So our Aniq could join as well if he wants too. Now I'm considering a swimming class as welll for Irdina. I think 5 years should be 'old' enough for a swimming lesson for her. Let see how she takes it.

Pics taken from here.

Yours Truly,

Kene Tinggal

2009-12-09T05:35:00.000-08:00

We are supposed to have our office team building this weekends. Dear Hubby will go to Somerset, Kuala Rompin with his team & I will go to Endau Rompin with my team...but unfortunately last minute, we received this unexpected email from the organizer :

Hi XXX and XXX,

I just got the news. The National Park is closed till 12 Dec 2009 for Rain Forest Challenge.

The event should be held in Terengganu. Due to monsoon rain, Tengku Mahkota Johore have instructed to have it in Endau Rompin. For security purpose, the Forest is closed for public and other activities till 12 December 2009.

Regret to inform, we got to cancel the teambuilding on 12th Dec till 13th Dec. You can either reschedule the teambuilding or refund your transferred amount.

Sorry for the inconvenient caused.

Best Regards,
XXX

So there goes all my weekends plan. Hubby's is still on since Kuala Rompin is a separate area from Endau Rompin so they're not affected..Hmm kene tinggallah kitaorg jawabnye..Sabar jelah :( Dahlah all the arrangement to fly mama basya all the way from KB to help us look after the kids and the bib dah buat. Then I already RVSP as not attending for 2 functions that will take place this weekend. If I knew earlier at least bolehlah reply as attending. Now I have to think of a backup plan what to do this weekends with the kids without dear Hubby around apart from sambung mengemas rumah. Dahlah atuk & nenek (my parents) pun takde pegi Jakarta to shop till drop all the stuff for my brother's wedding. Nak layan YES (year end sales) agak mengiciwakan kedudukan kewangan bulan nie with all the pindah rumah chaos :P Hmm..Mana nak pegi ekk?

Yours Truly,

Sudah Pandai

2009-12-09T04:08:00.000-08:00

I was trying to get phone line installed at my place last week but regarding to TM there was no phone cabel installed yet by them at our area (Precint 2). I kinda worried now since I already back in the office & I have no way to call home to check on them and vice versa. Suprisingly, my maid seems like to understand my concern and exploit this situation untuk

'Mintak dibelikan handphone supaya senang nanti Ibuk mau call rumah'. Deng!! Bijak2 maid aku nie. Should I? Through exp with 8 maids before this, byk con dari pro sebenarnya providing handphone to them..but seems like we dont have other choices at the moment especially if got any emergency.Hmm..How ekk?

Yours Truly,

Sneak Peak

2009-12-03T01:19:00.000-08:00

...A House is built with boards and beams....A Home is built with love and dreams...

As requested..here goes a few pics of our new homie for those area yg dah agak 'clear' sikit. We still in the midst of clearing all the boxes and organizing all our stuff. So kalau ada gamba2 kotak tuh..abaikan jelah ye :P

Wet Kitchen made from Solid Nyatoh with Granite Top

Ketchup counter

This is our wet kitchen. Simple je nothing special pun. I choose solid nyatoh with granite top sbb nak slalu pakaikan. Dah lama verangan nak ada kitchen with island table and ketchup counter. Now I have one ;) Mintak2 rajin sikitlah masak lepas nie ye :P Satu jee lagi belum dapat...My dream tap water for wet kitchen. The cheapest we saw so far was from IKEA...but hold dululah since the current tap is still new and working fine. Furthermore it is not something that we must have right now :)

Been eyeing this tap system for long time already..but my husband said it cost too much for a water tap. Takpe..satu hari akan ku beli jua :P

As for Dry Kitchen, inilah ghopa our dry kitchen for now. Design sume dah ada buat takde budget. Tunggu budget belanjawan 2010 release aka B***S. Kekekeke :P Penuh kotak lagi . Now baru buat Back Splash jee and we use this area as our 2nd dining area.

Apart from the mozaic for back splash..I like the fan too. 2 in 1 fan with lights

All my curtains were done by Ideal Deco. Satu rumah (living + 3 rooms) for RM1888 (french plate design only) but can request for add on or change the design based on your on choice with additional cost and I even got Roller Blind for my Wet Kitchen for free ( see pic above). The roman blind allowed 50% sun light to goes in and the best part it can be wash too or just wipe with a damn cloth :) One of the good things about they service. They will help you to do everything from A to Z (measuring, installation, provide consultation etc) and they do have a wide range of material to select. Confirm rambang mata dibuatnye ;)

Master & Guest Room design. I'm not the scallop type of person for curtains. Just like something simple and practical.

Kids room. I choose another material for the day curtain but the item discontinue pulak

Last but not least. Our living & Dining area. The sofa we bought is actually for family hall but while we saving the 'fund' to buy our dream sofa, pakai jelah this one temporary for our living :P

The flower arangement is a gift for the furniture depo where we bought our dining, bed & tv cabinet. They give me lilies mcm tahu2 je I'm a big fan of Lilies.

The rest of the rooms & family hall still in big mess so no pics for now. Might take weeks to clear them..Next week nak masuk keje dah. Huhuhuhu..Malasnye nak keje :(

Yours Truly,

1st Blog Entry From New Homie

2009-12-02T19:31:00.000-08:00

Yes..I'm typing this blog post from my new home. We have officially moved in since last Saturday and we've been frantically busy unpacking and getting settled in. Penat OK. I had sleepless of nites for the past one week. This week the furniture for living, dining and bedroom went in including the curtain and accesories installation and this morning, my Sliderdrobe guys just finished installing my walk in wardrobe in my bedroom. Is not something that look like what Carrie had in Sex in the City The Movie but at least this is my version of walk in wardrobe that suit my budget yg mmg ciput jee.Kekekeke :P

View from inside - this time we choose blue for our room kononnye bluekan romantic gituh. So would like to have the romantic feeling all the time..cewahh :P

View From Entrance

Divider door between master bed & walk in wardrobe tak buat lagi. Planning to opt for sliding door with mirrors

Actually I got a lot of requests from frens and families to upload a few pics of the new house for viewing but since the house still in big mess with boxes and stuff that lying around so I guess I just upload a few of our walk in wardrobe pics first. the rest postpone in the next entry kay once the boxes & the 'view' clear sikit. Till then ;)

Yours Truly,

I am SPEED

2009-11-20T04:27:00.000-08:00

Ye...Speeding creating hole in Ayah's & Ibu's Pockets. This my anak bujang obsession..CARSSSS!!

Some were gifts from aunties2 & uncles2 who's pretty much understand the obsession Aniq's into and some Ibu & Ayah take turn beli bila nampak kat shopping mall

Not in pics - Ramone yg tertinggal kat rumah aunty mauze & Fred yg dlm sorokkan ayah as backup plan in case Aniq gets grumpy.

This among some collection of hot wheels + lain2 cars yg sempat Ibu jumpa dalam toys compartment Aniq. Some dah ilang sbb Aniq suka bawak at least 1 of his cars kalau pegi mana2. Dah mana2 ntah tertinggal\tercicir.

Yours Truly,

The Countdown Begins : New Moon

2009-11-16T23:29:00.000-08:00

Seriously...a few days away and now seems that I can't wait any longer. I've read all the books, and I'm a big fan of Twilight Saga.By the way..I'm in Edward Team ye :P The trailer that I saw in youtube look awesome but probably not the exact same as the scene will be in the actual movie. (For the sake of the book, let's hope not) I've noticed that a lot with movies and trailers.. So yeah, it should be good. Come on 27th November. I was still trying to get a grip of the New Moon Release Party's tickets at Malaysia on this coming 25th so let just hope that I'll get lucky or else I might just organize our own New Moon Release Party with my girls. Best gak tuhkan..The scene I am most looking forward to is when the Volturi snacking on a group of tourists while Bella, at La Push cliff diving ;) Arghhhhh....Tak Sabarnye!!

Arghh...My Edward!!

p/s : In the progress of reading my New Moon again before the movie release.

Yours Truly,

Dah Dapat Tenant

2009-11-15T17:27:00.000-08:00

I had bad Cold, Tonsil & Flu since last Friday and now I lost my voice. Mmg takde suara & seksa nak bercakap but I since already make an appointment to meet up with a potential tenant at 8.30am today, so better to just keep my promise. I was still not yet fully recovered from the flu & cold and with my raspy\husky\hoarse voice explaining all the T&C to them & touring them showing the house, guess what? They straightly agreed & paid the booking. Mcm tak percaya jeee.Yelah.. most of the potential tenants yg dtg usually they will request for another 2-3 days at least untuk pikir2 dulu or discuss with the rest or their friends before they can confirm. Ini terus jee confirm...mana tak terkejut akak nie. The tenant is a female student that came with her father to have a look at our house. She's going to stay here with the rest of her other 4 coursemates. So 5 person in total. Rasa mcm ok dah since not more than 6 and the agreement will be signed by her dad himself. Lagi secure kot..pape hal senang nak deal & cari since her parents stay kat Bandar Sunway nie je. Dekat ;) Lega rasa satu masalah dah settle walaupun start cari tenant quite last minute.Now masalah nak packing memacking pulak. Ntah sempat ke tak pack & pidah by next week nie.

Yours Truly,

Q-dees Parents Teachers Day

2009-11-13T13:00:00.000-08:00

This morning, I was with my husband & Irdina at her Kindy, for the parents-teachers meeting day. She really made us so proud! Her class teacher, teacher Zainab described her, as a very intelligent, active in class, has a great interest in learning with a very strong character student. She's the most advance in reading among her classmate (now book 13) and she loves art subject and can color very neat. She's just 4 rites so both of us are totally overwhelmed with her teacher’s feedback cause we didnt expect much from her at this age. After spending 'some' money by sending her to a good kind, to hear all these nice stories about our child, was really, a refreshment! Sapa lagikan nak kasik angkat anak sendiri kalau tak Ibu & Ayah dia ;) Hope that this would be a good example for Aniq as well. Next year, no choice we have to change her to another school. Some people said that it is not healthy to switch kids from school to school and but if there's no other option to change schools, then it is probably better to do it at a younger age. So hopefully this will not be an 'Armageddon' impact to Irdina since all her favorites teachers are no longer around especially Teacher Zainab & Teacher Rina.

While Waiting for her class teacher, teacher Zainab

Us with Teacher Zainab

She's so close with her teacher and teacher always ask us to let Irdina overnight at her house on weekends

We haven't decided yet which school to send her next year but kindies like Q-dees, Smart Reader, CIC and CEC are available not very far from our future house. I will take a week off after we move to our new house so probably that would be the best time for me to kindy hunting apart from settling other things about the house (eg: register phone connection, streamyx, astro etc). Byknyeee...benda nak buat ye. No wonder people say that moving into new house can be really stressful. I'm feeling like one already now. Sigh!!

Yours Truly,

Panas..Sejuk...

2009-11-13T00:39:00.000-08:00

PANAS...Sebab sume airconds di rumah saya dah dismantled oleh contractor saya utk dipasang dirumah baru.

SEJUK..Sebab sume Water Heaters juga telah dismantled oleh contractor saya dipasang dirumah baru jadik saya terpaksa mandi air SEJUK!!

So far Aniq je dah complaint "Ibu Aniq Anas!! " Malam krg tido confirm Irdina pulak complaint panas sbb tak pasangAircond kat bilik. Hai Budak2..Opsss..Mak2 budak skrg..kekekekeke :D

Yours Truly,

MC Arini

2009-11-12T19:20:00.000-08:00

Lamanye tak update blog..I was so busy lately with birthdays, Co's dinner, looking for potential tenants, packing and all the huntings for my new house. Weekends pun dah tak macam weekends dah.Lagi busy dari hari keje.Ini pun MC today due to tonsil & flu and since I'm done with bed rest so I decided to blog hopping. Lama tak baca blog kawan2 & update blog diri sendiri.Actually..I have so many things to update here but I dont have the time yet. I dunno where to start as well. So I just write whatever inside my head at the moment.

Among the events we attended for the past few weeks : Aneesa's 8th Birthday Bash

Damia's Garden Fairy Birthday Bash

T-Systems Annual Dinner 2009 : Salsa Heat Nite. Pening pale pikir baju at last I just choose a ruffles coat and to match with it I just wear a gypsy style tudung with white roses and earrings ;)

Tentatively we decided to move in to our new house on this coming 28th. All the plaster ceilings and wiring works are almost done, downlights, lights, fans, alarm & aircond will be installed by this week, painting will start by next week followed by wet kitchen & curtain installation. We havent start our furniture hunting yet so mmg pindah2 rumah kosong je nanti. Kalau org datang pun duduk kat lantai dululah ye..Kekekeke :P For our current house..Now we looking for potential tenant. Tak sempat nak iklan pun..I just leave my number to the security guard since last weekends, tak sampai sejam dah start dpt calls asking about our house. I received so many calls from female & male students, working people, contractor that want to rent the house for their staffs, families, kakak carikan rumah utk adik, abang carikan rumah utk adik, mak carikan rumah utk anak etc. Macam2 ragam and macam perangai ada. Some ada yg dah confirm but by the time bayar booking cancel pulak with mcm2 excuses given. Some even begging me to let them rent the house up to 10 people which is too much for me. Max I can allow is up to 6 people only. Tuh rasa macam dah pack dah rumah. Some even question my decision why I would not accept a male tenant. Eh..Suka hatilahkan. It's my house and up to me to set the ruleslahkan. Sayanglah rumah nak bagi kat penyewa lelaki.Thru my mom own experience..the house that she rented to male students abis rosak or I could say in the most appropriate word abis JAHANAM!! Bayar sewa pun lambat, dinding kuning2 due to smocking, pengotor dan macam2 lagilah. So we are trying to minimize all the risks and problems with our future tenant. So let see how and who's the lucky tenant that got selected by us to rent our house ;)

Yours Truly,

Salsa Theme

2009-10-20T00:00:00.000-07:00

I have my company's Annual Dinner to attend in few weeks time and I haven't have anything to wear yet. The theme is 'Salsa'. Apalah comittee nie gi pilih theme susah2 buat org susah nak cari baju jee especially for us yg pakai tudung nie..Guys..Any idea what I should wear yg ala2 mengikut theme and where I can find them? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Image from Google - All I googled, sumenye baju cekci2

Image from google - This one looks okay sikit for org pakai tudungkan

Yours Truly,

Paintings

2009-10-17T05:32:00.000-07:00

All my paintings bought in Bali dah siap di frame. Just took them yesterday then terus transport them to rumah baru. Kalau tak manaler nak simpan kat rumah skrg nie. Tak sabar nie nak gantung kat rumah but rumah tak siap renovate pun lagi. Hopefully before Raya Haji boleh siap. We plan to move a week before raya haji so boleh beraya rumah baru...Sempat ke tak sempat tak tahulah tuh.

Satu2nye gamba pasang frame putih for our master bedroom - opss background..bersepahnye :P

Thanks to wawa tolong belikan painting yg nie - This one maybe letak kat upper family hall

My 2nd favorite of all - Hall

This one my favorite of all ;) - Plan hang kat Dining Area

Basya berkenan tul yg sunflower painting nie . Actually this is one painting divided to 3. Maybe nak hang kat tangga

Yours Truly,

So Hooked with Wondermilk

2009-10-14T00:00:00.000-07:00

Last week, after a few days indulging with hospital foods tetiba teringin pulak nak makan heavy sandwiches. First I was thinking of having subway then teringat pulak my bro statement yg the best sandwiches dia penah makan is at Wondermilk. So I thought to give it a try then. We knew that Wondermilk is quite famous already with their cuppies...but sandwiches?? Hmmmm... I know some of you might been here or know this place already but well for me this is my first time okay ;)

So we went there last Friday, the day after I got discharged. Both of us took the lunch set that only available on weekdays. It was only RM12.90 for a set of sandwich or hotdog served together with chips, a coffee drink served hot or cold and a maxi wondermilk cuppy. Murahkan..If not, the sandwich itself already cost RM11.90, hot black coffee RM5 and the maxi cuppy cost RM4.50 each. I ordered for Chicken Pesto sandwich and Basya had Turkey something (tak ingat full name dia) and the taste..wallahhh...mmg heaven ;) I like mine and I like Basya's too sampai boleh 'tolong' abiskan..Kekekeke. For the cuppies, we choose Blueberry cheese and Cheesy Something (tak ingat jugak full name) and both of them are extremely delicious. The cuppies were absolutely moist, rich and flavourful! And the creams too! I love that they are bite-sized, not large like some most cupcakes are like.I must say they used fresh and quality ingredients that's why each of the maxi cupcakes sold for RM4.50 each. Skali skala oklahkan ;) I am so hooked with this place. I am so coming back & I am so going to go through all the menu. Thinking of trying the Beef Steak Sandwich pulak and other cupcake flavours. Heard that their cookies & cream cuppy is quite a hit too. Maybe next visit, I'll bring along my camera so that I could upload some real photos here for viweing but for now..I just uploaded some of the photos that I got from google. I even thinking of having my kids next birthday party here but mcm sempitlah pulak..Let see how ;)

Image taken from google and edited

Yours Truly,

Chicken Hand

2009-10-12T21:13:00.000-07:00

Last weekend suddenly I feel like cooking for dinner then invite my parents dinner skali at our house. Takdelah masak apa sgt pun just some pajeri nenas & terung, ikan kering & ayam tandoori. Usually for ayam, I will save the chicken feet for my bibik since dia mmg suka makan kaki ayam and kitaorg yg lain tak makan. But then to my suprise, irdina pulak nak makan kaki ayam tuh & beriye2 dia makan. Yg kelakarnya, bila tanya irdina makan ke chicken feet tuh?? Dia boleh jawab apa tau..Ini bukan chicken feetlah Ibu, ini chicken hand.Wakakakkakakaka..satu rumah tergelak. Irdina..Irdina :P

Image from google - Mmg nampak mcm tgn pun. No wonder budak2 confuse :P

Yours Truly,

Dah Discharge

2009-10-08T18:48:00.000-07:00

Finally..I'm Home Sweet Home. Leganya dapat balik rumah. I'll be back to work next monday..Waduh2...liatnye nak keje balik selepas bercuti dekat 3 minggu. Sure berlambak2 email minta dibalas :( Got 3 days more to prepare mental & physical before start keje balik. Jgn sakit blkg dtg balik sudah.Doc advised me not to sit more than 30 minutes. Cane tuh?? Dah sah2 keje IT duduk depan computer buat keje & duduk lama or maybe I should request for an better ergonomic chair from HR with a support letter from my orthopedic.Hmm..Idea yg bagus gak tuh ;)

Yours Truly,

Another Back Pain Treatment

2009-10-05T17:57:00.000-07:00

I was admitted to SSH since yesterday to receive my Epidural Steroid Injections for my back & leg pain. Tak plan pun..I had my follow up appointment with my orthopedic yesterday then due to my long symptoms of back & leg pain (I was on real pain for few days masa cuti raya until I had to go to local clinic at KB to get a voltran injection) and all the medication & physio sessions didn't seems to help me much, he advised me to opt for epidural injections. It is called an epidural injection because pain medication & streoid are injected into my epidural space of the spine (between my L4 & L5 discs). Regarding to Doc. Jamal (my orthopedic) it is often used to treat such conditions as sciatica (leg pain) or pain caused by a pinched nerve in the lumbar spine. The injection is composed of a anesthetic medicine that caused a numbing sensation as well as long lasting corticosteroid. The purpose of these medications is to reduce inflammation around the irritated nerve and flush out those chemicals causing the pain epecially my leg pain. My husband did watch the whole procedure himself and he said it was quite scary especially looking at the size of needle poked into my back. I was on local anesthetic so I all I could feel was a slight discomfort and some metal needle touching my back spine. After the procedure, mmg totally takleh bergerak at least 4 hours due to the numbness in my low back, buttocks and legs for several hours after the procedure, and pain at the injection site. Soo I just bed rest. Today I will need to start my physiotherapy again at least twice a day.Smalam ingatkan bolehlah nak discharge arini, skali takleh pulak.Nie dah masuk2 hari dah tak jumpa budak2 and I missed them so much. Sob..sob :( So peeps, please pray for my recovery and hopefully this will cure my back & leg pain problem. If not, then I might need to go for laser injection pulak. Mintak2 jgnlah ekk..Amin.

Yours Truly,

My vacation is almost over

2009-10-03T10:09:00.000-07:00

Monday 5th Oct is fast approaching…Macam tak percaya jee..I have been on leave since the past 2 weeks and just came back from KB last Thursday.It was definitely a good break. I wanted to disconnect as much as possible from work & and focus on my family and I guess most of my missions quite accompolished except my Diet Mission. I totally screwed it and I gained almost 2 kg since after raya. Deng!!Canelah nak diet nie!! Belum campur attend open house & jamuan raya every week lagi tuh. Mau naik 2kg lagi by the end of raya.

Back to the story..Going back to the office is not something I'm looking forward to but in some ways that is a good thing since basya just accepted a job offer from my company and soon (tentatively 26th Oct) we will be working together again under the same employer. Yey!! :D Just like our good old days masa kat MRCB dulu ;) Bolehlah save sikit duit minyak, tol etc since we're moving close to cyberjaya soon. Just imagined ye, like myself now everyday I've to spend around RM25 for petrol & toll from Shah Alam - Cyberjaya - Shah Alam. That doesnt count our car milleage for service and tyres lagi (now tak sampai 2 years tayar pun dah botak). So once we moved and work together off course the lesser we need to spend for travel to work expenses and the more we could save ;)

With this entry as well, I've decided to upload a few pictures of my brother's engagement ceremony which took place on Raya ke-5 harituh.The engagement ceremony went well & everyone enjoyed the evening. Insya'allah by June next year the wedding ceremony will take place pulak. So I'll be getting another instant sister soon.Yey!! ;)

Pic - Taken from Aimi's Facebook

Some Pics taken during the ceremony

Pic - Taken from Aimi's Facebook

Yours Truly,

New Castle..Here we come

2009-09-22T20:05:00.000-07:00

Pejam celik..pejam celik..Hari nie dah masuk raya ke-4 dah ye. Today is packing day since we're going back to New Castle (Kota Bahru okey) tommorow right after my bro engagement ceremony. Seminggu babe kat sana..kasik can to my dear hubby balik lama sket since mmg dah lama sgt tak balik (last balik, raya last year..kekekeke :P). I'm quite excited myself sbb this year boleh pegi & balik KB tanpa perlu mengharung jem. Jalan2 kat KB pun sure dah lengang so senang we all nak beraya rumah2 sendara mara and maybe bolehlah wat site visit ke Rantau Panjang or Pangkalan Kubur skali alang2..kekekekeke :D With this entry, I uploaded together a few pics of us on 1st Hari Raya. Nie jee gamba sempat snap & baru terperasan takde gamba 1 fmy pun. Takpe..raya panjang lagi..Sempat kot nak snap lagi ;)

Yours Truly,

Nak raya dah rupanye

2009-09-19T10:15:00.000-07:00

The clock's ticking faster than i realized...sedar tak sedar esok dah nak raya ye. WooHoo!! Mana tak excitednye sbb this year it's my turn to celebrate first few days of Hari Raya with my parent then off to KB for a week on raya ke-5 (after Hatta's engagement ceremony). In total I'll be taking 8 days raya leave meaning 2 weeks in row I dont have to think anything related to office work ;)

Well cakap pasal raya preparation pulakkan, this year sume serba serbi sederhana for us. Baju sume beli siap jee takde tempah2, kuih pun order with those yg we all dah biasa order and no preparation at all for our house. Sume pakai mana ada jee since this year will be the last year we'll celebrate raya month kat rumah skrg so malas nak buat apa2. Next year, Insya'allah raya rumah baru :). Then cite pasal baju raya pulak, nak cari baju raya utk our irdina supaya mengikut our theme this year with her size punyelah susah. Segala tempat rasa dah ronda & redah. At last jumpa jugak during our countless trip to PKNS shah alam. We went there on weekdays. Sbelum nie gi wiken tak jumpa sbb ramai sgt org. So tak nampak baju tuh. But the only problem,it was too simple and too plain. So being me, sempatlah cari custom made lace siap manik & labuci then jahit kat hujung baju and hujung tgn the baju kurung.Resultnye..taraaaa seperti di bawah. Not Badkan..I am one Happy Mom..lagi bertambahh ke-exitedkan nak beraya..Kekekeke :P

Our theme this year furfle gelap ;)

Since this will be my last entry before raya I would like to take this opportunity to wish all my friends Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri, Happy Holidays & kalau ada salah silap tuh (terasa ke, terspike ke, termajop ke) harap dimaafkan ye. Zahir & Batin. Sesungguhnye saya ini hamba Allah yg daif yg tak terlepas dari melakukan kesilapan :)

Yours Truly,

Travel\Not To Travel? Not To!!

2009-09-13T11:19:00.000-07:00

We are suppose to have a holiday trip to Jakarta-Bandung next month during Deepavali Holiday with a few my other friends from work (Fisha, Bai, Fidah & Anisah) but now with all the 'Sweeping Malaysia' issue going on in Jakarta and not forgetting the H1N1 as well, we're NOT so sure about going there anymore especially when our kids will be tagging along. Although our goverment has not yet issued any ban on travel to Indonesia following the campaign there but I heard that a lot of people already taking precautions by cancelling their holidays to the country. Yelah..off course we pay for holidays to unwind and enjoy ourselves, not to worry about our safetykan..apatah lagi kalau bawak anak2. Confirm lagilah risau. Nak jalan2 pun tak senang hati. So after a few sleepless nites of thinking and considering a few opinions from my parents and my aunt who is staying and work there, we decided to cancel the trip. We wouldn't want to take any risk to jeopardize our kids safetiness that is much2 more important than the money that we will lose since we already paid certain amount in advanced to the indon local tourist agent for the holiday package booking. Mmg free2 jelah buat donations to them. Takpelah..Duit tu bila2 boleh carik, but if anything happened to our family, we will regret it for the rest of our lives. So bye2 Kain Lace, bye2 Rumah Mode, bye2 Mangga 2, bye2 Tanah Abang, bye2 Tankuban Perahu..Sume semakin hilang dari pandangan..Sob..Sob :(

What's with these indons ye yg beriya2 marah sgt just because some technical error done by a non Malaysian producer about their culture dance. How could they judged & punished Malaysian people just because of this? How would they feel if we did the same campaign sweeping all the indons that work here in Malaysia?? They would be jobless!! Or in my mom words 'Inilah manusia2 tak sedar dek untung'. Eeeee Geram Tul!!

Yours Truly,

My Sorority Life

2009-09-03T12:53:00.000-07:00

My current Avatar..Cute :P

I recently joined this facebook game called Sorority Life (introduced by Fish) and it is dead addictive. I just can't seems to stop especially when my house grew bigger, when I earned more money (I’m talking about millions $$ here), I got better jobs with better pay to keep up with my upkeep, playing with accessories, get to buy all luxury rides (I owned a private jet, a bimmer, a yatch and a Hybrid Prius) and expensive clothes, I can fight, slap and attack someone and be bitchy without making me feeling bad about it. Something like that..Bestkan ;) Barely 4 days in the game and now I'm already at level 18. That’s how obsessed I am with this game at the moment sampai lupa terus my farming activities in Barn Buddy. Sorry for those who can't relate at all to what I wrote here but feel free to try out the game in facebook then you will know what I mean..In case you guys terjebak..don’t forget to add me as well as your house member okay. Agegege :P

Yours Truly,

CIMB Perfect Living Exhibition 2009

2009-08-30T14:31:00.000-07:00

We went here yesterday to look for any interesting package for our new house that finally has started the renovation works. The event was organized to give special attention and focus to CIMB credit card holders and it was a perfect event at which to buy items at special discounts, redeem bonus points, pay on a 0% interest instalment plan, lucky draws and more. The exhibition featured everything from kitchenware and audio-visual gadgets to furniture, health products, bedding, home deco & appliances, bath and sanitary almost everything that related to lifestyle & modern living. A perfect event for people like us yg nak pindah rumah with a small budget. Sume nak kene tunggu time exhibition :P The exhibition was damn big with 700 booths that occupied 3 floors of PWTC and despite H1N1, there was still a huge crowd.Some sort like HOMEDEC pun ada. Kesimpulannya siap jelah $$..Kalau dtg dgn poket penuh mmg best :P Unfortunately due to time constraint (sampai pun dah kul 1++pm) & puasa we just managed to sign up for a wardrobe package from Sliderdrobe and bought some bathroom appliances for our house. Still thinking whether we should go there again or not today (the event ends today) since it is Merdeka and obviously KL would totally be jam packed. I was planning to look for any interior promotion such paints, kitchen cabinet or maybe a new cammy to replace my stolen camera. Dah alang2 mmg nak kene beli gak nanti better gi masa time boleh dpt exhibition price.Hmm..cane ekk..nak pegi ke tak ?? :P

p/s : No pics were taken because I no longer have my compact camera with me.Sigh!! :(

Yours Truly,