connecting you....

Betul la kata orang, FB ni agak banyak jasanya. Kawan yg dah lama menghilang, tiba-tiba boleh muncul kembali dalam hidup kita. Bertanya khabar, bertukar berita. Kalau dulu time kecik main getah, galah panjang, teng teng… sekarang ni masing-masing dah besar, dah berkahwin, beranak-pinak, etc. Macam kes saya, 2-3 hari ni ada beberapa kawan lama yang saya kira sudah lost contact hampir 17-20 tahun, tiba-tiba add saya sebagai friends dlm FB. Gembiranya hati bukan kepalang.

Bukan apa, ada seorang sahabat ni, kami memang berkawan baik semasa darjah 4-5, masa tu saya bersekolah di Tumpat, Kelantan (yerrr saya pernah duduk di kampung nenek dari umur 9-11 tahun, maka makcik memang terer kecek kelate la time tu :p) Naik basikal sesama, main sesama, etc…yang paling saya ingat, kami sama-sama main hoki utk sekolah time tu. Dan pada suatu ketika, time tengah praktis di padang, saya accidentally telah tersepitkan my hockey stick di tangannya, menyebabkan jarinya bengkak & darah membeku (tapi tak ingat jari mana, saya mmg teruk bab2 long term memory nih). Dan selepas itu pelbagai lagi insiden berlaku yang menyebabkan hubungan kami menjadi renggang (opps lupa cakap sahabat ni seorang perempuan yer hehe), sehinggalah saya berpindah ke KL semasa darjah 6, hubungan kami terputus begitu sahaja. So bayangkan bila rakan anda tiba2 add anda sebagai 'friend', itu bermakna dia masih ingatkan anda, dan masih menganggap anda sebagai ‘friend’ dia betul tak?
Tiba-tiba saya rasa terharu pulak....ke makcik ni terover sensitive yer? hohoho

Hebatnya penangan FB, walaupun saya bukan ahli tegar FB (especially bab main2 game macam café la ternak binatang la and whatnots), tapi hari demi hari saya semakin menghargai kewujudan laman web ini :) Ni baru kawan-kawan lama, belum bf lama lagi ekk...akakaka kalau tahu dek cik abe mahu dia kasik 'stare yg sangat2 mean' macam kak elin stare pada kids yg ejek anak dia duduk dlm stroller tu :p

mari mengajar si kecil......

Semalam saya ajar Idlan maths....sekarang ni almost every night akan ada short tutorial dgn dia, tak lama..dalam 5-10 minit sahaja. Kadang ajar BM, kadang English, kadang Maths...tengokla mood dia nak belajar apa hari itu. Jadi malam tadi...saya ajar dia simple Addition & Subtraction...actually recap buku tahun lepas (masa dia 5 tahun). Buku 6 tahun ni katanya masih belum dapat lagi...tak pasti kenapa.

Mula-mula ajar addition...jadi saya buatla beberapa soalan utk dia seperti di bawah:

2+4=
3+6=
5+2=
........

dan dia berjaya jawab dgn betul...bagus bagus.
Kemudia belajar subtraction pulak...so ini soalan2 saya:

7-5=
5-2=
8-5=
........

again dia berjaya jwb dengan betul..hmm kira okla ni pada saya.

then saya campur soalan dgn menyelang-selikan addition & subtraction:

7+2=
4-2=
6+3=
7-4=
......

dan jeng jeng.....habis jawapan dia jadi kelam kabut..ada yg betul, ada yg salah.
aduss mak terpaksa la ulang balik dan explain....tambah macam ni, tolak macam ni.
lepas 3 round recap baru betul jawapan dia.

saya buat trick lagi..kali ni soalan camni pulak:

2+_ = 4
1+3 =
3+_ = 7

ni pun dia confuse..kadang betul, kadang salah....hmmm lepas ni kena fikir camner nak kasi dia faham betul2 basic addition & subtraction tu :p

Tapi yg buat saya terharu...idlan kata best blajar dgn mama (aka teacher Yati hehe) even tho kadang2 tu saya agak hilang sabar jugakla time nak memahamkan dia tu. Ye kita mak pak ni cepat betul hilang sabar time mengajar si anak....cuba bayangkan cikgu2 di tadika/sekolah tu lagila nak mengajar berpuluh-puluhan pelajar....tak ke berat tanggungjawab mereka tu?

So moral of the story..cubalah lebih bersabar dengan anak-anak yer :)

Bosan plak rasa hari ni.

Bos2 takder…sumer ada meeting.

Keje ada…tapi yg penting sumer dah settle…yg agak kurang penting tu kalau buat sekejap je siap. Yang agak penting tapi masih pending pun ada, tapi tak dpt nak buat disebabkan tak dpt full cooperation dari unit2 lain :p

Pagi ni kugagahkan diri pergi ke klinik di bangunan sebelah (itupun setelah puas kena paksa dek cik abang). Setelah 4-5 hari sapu dgn gel gamat, luka di hidungku masih tak elok2. Hidung dah rasa berdenyut-denyut, at times keluar yellow discharge yg cair transparent gitu. Aduss tak selesanya rasa, sakit sangat bila disentuh. Dr yg baik hati tu kata kena infection (mula-mula ku Cuma kena sesema, pastuh dia berkerak-kerak, pastu ntah kenapa kerak ni takmo hilang pulak). Jarang2 gitu org kena, of all the parts at our body kenapala kat hidung yg terkena. You’re one lucky girl…itu kata doctor :p So dia pun kasi cream antibiotic utk disapu, dan antibiotic augmentin utk dimakan. Sempat pulak doctor tu gurau, apply the cream for 2 years ….hopefully you’ll be ok by that time and get your beautiful nose back!. Adui doctor jgnla buat lawak time2 camni…dahla saya mmg segan nak jumpa doctor lelaki…yela sakit kat hujung lubang hidung, kalau anda di tempat saya pasti segan jugak kan?? Disebabkan masih on ‘marathon puasa’, bukak pose nantilah baru boleh kutelan ubat tuh. Mintak2 cepat baik, kalo tidak hilang kecomelan hidungku ini huhu. Dahlah weekend ni kami akan bercuti-cutian di kampung sebelum bergerak ke Feringgi…ishhh tak bestnye kalau hidung ni masih sakit!

for a lovely mum....

Umiku kata dia sgt tersentuh dgn kata2 yg kutulis dlm kad birthdaynya. Hehe dia tak tahu yg aku ambil masa lebih kurang 20 minit nak fikir dan luahkan kata2 tersebut :) Alang2 Umi kata nak datang ke rumah hari Sabtu, maka aku pun beli lah Swiss Black Forest kek ni dekat Kings Giant kelana jaya jumaat lepas, time lunch. Nak bakar sendiri, aduss acik tak sempat lah sbb bz. Sebelum potong kek, kami sekeluarga lunch dgn lauk yg kumasak...simple tapi alhamdulillah licin - tomyam ayam+sayur, sotong masak hitam & udang goreng daun kari.

Sedap kek ni, sponge dia sgtla lembut!

Happy Birthday Umi...yg ke 54 tapi ibuku tetap muda & maintain gitu :)

Akak jiran sebelah rumah pon cakap 'mudanyaaa mak yati'..kalo dgr dek umi ku sure kembang semangkuk dia hehe

Cucu-cucu yg potong kek, bukan Umi!

kelmarin kami tak keluar ke mana-mana. Time mama masak, bebudak ni sibuk main dlm 'khemah' buatan mereka sendiri. Tu time baik, dua2 senyum comel...tak lama pastuh adegan jerit-menjerit berlaku :p

Right after office kami ke An Nur, follow up check up dgn paed Firas, Dr Ar. Firas dah batuk kahak+sesema selama 4 hari, rasanya ubat klinik biasa tak effective utk dia. Dr kata skang mmg musim budak batuk+sesema...yg warded kat spital pon mostly sbb tu. Mujurla paru2 firas still clear, belum ada lung infection. So macam biasa, dr prescribe ventolin, singulair & zyrtec utk firas. Orang tak ramai ptg tuh, pukul 7pm dah settle amik ubat sumer...lepas tu abah banjer bukak pose di Old Timer Kopi @ Bangi.

Servis ok & cepat, harga ok ceaper than Bangi Kopitiam/Old Town, ada wifi, environment pon ok. Mama makan nasi lemak ayam rendang + sirap bandung selasih, abah & idlan share pulut rendang ayam+roti kaya bakar+teh tarik...semuanya cuma RM20.90. Firas plak mkn whipped potato kfc yg mama dah siap2 tapau kat drive-thru Sg Besi. Dan sahur pagi ni, mama makan kfc twister separuh + 3 ketul cheezy wedges...sgtlah western ek :p

dilema beb!

Waduh waduh, the bargain is truly madly deeply incredibly cheap that i almost click the send button to complete the reservation. That after comparing 3-4 websites as suggested by our renowned sifu traveller a.k.a kak elin :)

But again after careful thought, ku lupakan saja since the promo states 'non-refundable'. AUD332 is not murah ok...bukan RM300 yg boleh dilepaskan begitu sahaja :p
What happen if during those dates something happen that we might not be able to go, what if the kids are not doing well, what if the bos refuses to approve my leave, and the list goes on for whatever reasons yadaaa yadaaaa....

So courtyard by marriott, you're not destined to be mine...at least not for now :(

ke patut proceed je eh....dangggg buntu sungguh!

Yesterday was very tiring. The morning began with a walk-thru session with my GM on our upcoming ocm paper, overall she was satisfied yet there’re still a lot to fine-tune here and there (for the xxth time I lost count already…nak muntah pon ade tgk tu jerrr). I was glued at my seat from 11ish till 330pm, taking a short break in between for zohor prayer, and by that time the migraine has taken its toll on me that I felt like vomiting and pengsan already (dahla pose huhu). Tak sempat nak tekan button ‘send’ agm dah datang tanye…paper siap lom? Dgn gumbiranya aku ckp... dah bos nak send la ni (dlm hati berdoa harap2 ni final ye bos, takmo tukar2 lagik dah!). Then I went straight to our store room cum ‘surau’, closed both eyes for few minutes with the hope the migraine will subside. But I guess the degree of pain was so strong that exactly at 430pm I terus ‘chiow’ from office, drive back home as fast as I can before our Matrix got splashed with any vomitting stain :p

So today I decided not to continue fasting, since I still felt the pain early this morning. Bosannya rasa, how I wish I am at Vietnam right now, together with my umi and papa yg sedang enjoy holidaying di sana……

Brekkie at SR, to wrap up my 'marathon puasa' for this week :p


adik pekena bun La Boheme

abang pekena cornetto sundae, share Japanese Soba abah, and almost habiskan mama punyer ice chocolate with whipped cream!

Japanese Soba for abah...tp katanya tak sedap, kurang rasa, yadaaa yadaaaa.
Next time jgn order ok!


I had my favorite tom yam kung, memberanikan diri mkn tomyam selepas 'berpantangkan' tomyam hampir 5 bulan :p Alhamdulillah balik rumah perut ok....

And this is our lunch for today...spiral seafood carbonara. Abah kata boring mkn nasi....so masak jela ni...abah happy idlan pun happy. Esok kite makan mee kuah special pulak ok!

Kengkawan secompany ku sure tgh seronok bergumbira di desa waterpark skang ni. Jelesnyer bila tingatkan depa...tapi takpelah, duk rumah pon seronok (sedapkan hati hehehe). Idlan tgh semangat nak gi SR class, tak syok kalo nak ponteng. Firas plak baru je kuar ward...so kite rehat2 jela this weekend. Cuti thaipusam nnt kite pi mandi pantai ok!!

a day b4 being warded, jln2 kat carefourre...

at chicken rice shop


buat kenangan :p
Dr Arbaiyah, paed firas sejak azali hehe


lunch mkn mc d...ganas adik!

iv line...

abg pulun oren hospital

lena sbb air-cond

mixed entry

This is rather a s scheduled entry, unable to put it online due to some reason.

1. Our friend, Siti Kartini @ Tini (ex-1090 and now in BSM) has safely delivered a healthy 3.5kg bb girl at An Nur last friday. I still havent gotten the chance to visit her, ampun sesgt yer kak. Pepe pon congrats to you! Happy confinement :p

2. Now we turn to a sad news. My ex-officemate back in 1090, Suriaya Hassan @ Kak Aya is now being warded at KPJ kajang last saturday, suspected of having stroke on her body's right hand side. we got the text from her husband Yusman, who happens to be a staff of tm too. My colleagues said it's truly saddening to see her back-ridden, unable to talk like usual. to those who know her in person, or ever encounter thru work-related matters, pls pray for her speedy recovery. Yang tak kenal pon but atas dasar kita sesama islam, do pls extend ur prayer as well yer. Semoga Allah memberi kekuatan kpd kak aya, suami & keluararganya utk menghadapi ujian yg maha besar ini. Sepertimana Zainal yg tabah dan setia mengharungi dugaan yg Dia berikan kepada isteri tercinta Hany, aku harap Yusman juga akan terus bersabar dan tabah, dan yakin bahawa kak aya akan sembuh and back to her usual bubbly self.

3. My dearest Firas is now in an nur, admitted since yesterday (monday) due to fever, vomiting and impetigo (go figure at google ok) infection at his hand & face. The four of us are now berkampung at the hospital, or 'hotel' like what idlan is referring to :p. The paed prescribed antibiotic via his IV line, and guess what he is one strong boy, never shed a single tears when his paed worked out the IV line :)



.......................

Anyway today is already friday. Firas has been discharged on wednesday and been taken care by his abah at home (thnx Yang!). I've back to the office yesterday, what a bad day to start with the heavy traffic flow in the morning, my gm commented a lot of things on my ocm paper hence i had to revise again, and a discussion that extends till 630pm causing me to reach home nearly at 730pm, just in time to break my fast.

hope today will be a lot more easier for me......

and alhamdulillah am in my 8th day of 'marathon' puasa today :) wish me luck!

Inspired by Farra, i continue to 'puasa ganti' today (tgh sahur ni hehe), though today is Saturday where we usually hang out and dine outside. But that's ok, at least that sorts of encourage us to just stay at home and lepak2 sajer. My 'hutang' was like doubled than farra's, and i do not wish to add more to it. If you can recall it's my #1 resolution for this year, how i wish i can maintain and be persistent towards achieving the goal. So far i'm doing good, health-wise pun alhamdulillah ok, no gastrics pain and whatnots.

Oh by the way it's going to be idlan's first english class today at the smart reader. Yesterday hubby got him a new ben 10 schoolbag, and a set of stationaries...that should acts as a booster i guess :p I just can't wait to see how he'll progress throughout the session, hope he'll be doing fine with the friends and teachers. To us it's not so much about the learning, we just want him to feel the 'change' as what he requested, to explore and experience new things in life.

Hmm this 2kg chocolate moist was made for Izzul yesterday, to be celebrated with his friends at the tadika. Happy Belated 5th Birthday Izzul!

Forget about my previous 'emo' entry.
I am emotionally stabled now, and look forward for a meaningful weekend tomorrow :)

By the way let's enjoy some of the kids' pics, i just godak2 the pc and found these..some are in fact a very old ones. Tersenyum saya sorang2 bila tgk balik gambar2 lama nih :)


ni gambar baru..time balik kg ari tuh. Ramai org mistakenly thought firas is girl...sbb muka dia lembut, rambut plak panjang. Nak pegi trim kat kedai mamak tak sempat2 lagi isk isk. Lembut ke muka adik ni eh??


firas time botak...maybe around 3-4mths kots. Muka nampak lembut, tapi time jerit masya Allah bingit satu taman rasanyer!


Lolipop besar from Genting...abah baru balik colloqium time tuh..menang award lagi :)


nampak macam tak serupa kan depa nih?

of tackling your grown-up kids...

I was at my higher level of stress yesterday.

Our eldest has been telling us since the past few days that he didnt want to go to his current tadika (Ad Din) merely because he was boring. He wanted to go to Smart Reader (SR) since a good friend of him (i.e. Ariff Aiman) is going there too this year. Well he and aiman have been friends at Ad Din since they were 3 y-o. After a series of discussion & slow talks with him (and pruzz of course), we later decided that we're going to send him to SR, for the sake of giving him a change. Probably that's what he wants, a CHANGE of environment and whatnots, since he doesn't mind mingling with new group of friends, teachers, etc. We thought he might be boring with the same routine that he has been facing all this while at Ad din. In fact, a phone call made to his principal last 2 days made us sort of worries on his condition since his teacher said he lose focus inside classes, doesn't bother to do what the teachers asked them to do (especially bab writing), etc. That sorts of convincing us that he is INDEED boring with ad din. I know that he didn't have problems with the teachers and friends, and he tells us that he loves them.

So yesterday, we went to SR Sg. Chua and registered him for the weekdays classes. We left him for a while to withdraw money at TH to pay for the 'handsome' fees, and got back to SR to check on him. He was doing ok, and i notice he was happy. However looking at their syllabus and books, i was actually worried about it, i'm afraid he couldnt cope with the syllabus they're offering..it was quite tough i'm telling you, far tougher than what we learnt during our good OLD days. The class ended around 11am, and we later went to Ad din to meet the principal, to break out the news that we're no longer sending idlan to ad din (this was the challenging part of the day). We told her in a nice way, and not hiding the facts that idlan is boring with the environment in ad din (sbb dia dah lama dekat situ), and that we wanted to transit idlan at ad din during evening time. This is important since we do not want him to be left out in terms of learning mengaji and solat (ad din is very good at this part, and this is one major reason why we sent him to ad din). In fact we're happy with idlan’s current progress as he’s going to upgrade to Al Quran soon insya Allah. Tambah2 mak pruzz cakap, let us concentrate on building up the foundation in agama and kerohanian first for the boys, as ilmu duniawi tu can be learned later as he grows up.

....cont later ok, i'm going off to shower to get ready for work.

_______________________________
sambung balik....

We concur with her, hence we think ad din would be the best choice for idlan. But guess what, the principal told us she can’t accept idlan for transit since the quota is already full, and that the teachers had sound their concern that they can’t cope with too much transit students (on top of the existing full day students). Puas dipujuk rayu, but the principal was firm with her decision (but again she threw it in a nice way and she apologized to us many times for that). Pruzz kata dada dia berdebar2 sgt bila cikgu ad din cakap macam tuh. As for myself I kept on thinking about the SR’s fees that we had paid just now, and what is our alternative for the transit. At last we decided to pujuk idlan to stay at ad din, and told him that he can still go to SR, but only on Saturday (2 hrs English tutorial class). Proses pujuk-memujuk tu lama woooo…depan cikgu ad din tu sendiri. We ourselves pon in fact prefer ad din as compared to SR, not to say SR is not good, but the emphasis places by each school is different. Idlan cakap ok he will stay, but he wanted to keep the SR kits (consists of 2 sets of uniforms, 3 pair of socks, a schoolbag & a cd). He said he wanted to put on the SR uniform to Ad din, and many other conditions, last sekali dia kata jgn lupa pegi tgk wayang cerita avatar and chipmunks kejap lagi. Sabor je kan???

So after confirming with the principal at Ad din, we headed back to SR with one sole intention, to get back our registration fees, and to register idlan for the weekend’s tutorial class instead. Inside car our minds are spinning on what sorts of reason or explanation to be given to the SR’s principal, how to tell her that we wish to cancel idlan’s enrollment to her center, etc etc. Pening dan malu woooo. Tapi last skali, we just told her the truth, that we couldn’t transit idlan at ad din after the SR class, and stressed our concern that we still want idlan to be at Ad din to learn all the solat, mengaji, doa and all. The principal seems ok with our sudden change of decision, she refunded our fees, but she apologized and informed us that we couldn’t retain the SR kits due to their principle and business rules established earlier with the supplier (SR kits are ordered based on the number of students enrolled for the class). But she allowed us to keep one set of the uniform, that’s it. So again another drama created here bila idlan insists to bring back the SR kits. Sesi pujuk rayu berlaku lagi, we promised to get him a new schoolbag, pilihla gambar ape saje, beli pencil box baru, etc. Towards the very end when we were to walk out of the room, aku terpaksa sorok bag, socks dan uniform tu and handover senyap2 to the SR principal.

Panjang dah kan tulisanku kali ni, this is more like luahan hati seorang ibu huhu.

Now we come to the turning point of the story.

Night time, I teach idlan and asked him to do some revision, using his last yr’s book. Honestly before this, we never force him to finish up his homework, what more to do revision on a daily basis. We thought we did not want to put on burden to him since he is still small and young, biarla dia main puas2 and enjoy his kiddies time. But after having some chit chat with the neighbours, and now upon finding the facts that the syllabus in primary school today are quite challenging, I was thinking maybe I need to start guiding and teaching him a bit at home. I don’t want him to be shock and stress out when entering his primary. Last two nights we were doing maths, and he looks ok to me, at least he got the basic knowledge of simple ‘addition & subtraction’. Tu pon he sulks and pull his face when he did mistakes and I tried to correct him (mind you I did not raise my voice ok, takdela garang pon) Last night we were doing English spelling, baru tulis 2 words, dia dah nak stop…sakit kaki katanya (ade relevant ke dgn tangan?). Ku pujuk dia utk tulis sikit lagi….but I notice he easily lose his focus, and cepat boring. My oh my, this part really makes me tense and test my patience. Now I know it’s not easy to be a teacher, 10 kids with 10 different attitudes and behavior…and myself yg baru handle sorang pon dah pening! Lagi tense bila firas pon sibuk mengacau sama, nak pencil abang, nak buku abang….geram mak :(

Now mothers out there, do you face the same problem like mine? What sort of approach that is best to tackle this kind of situation? Allow them to play and play like what they usually did, or to start teaching and do revision with them on a consistent basis, or to be more lenient and only teach them when they show the interest to do so. As far as I can remember, i tak blajar masa kecik2 dulu..main jer. Mak pak pon tak pernah suruh2 belajar ni. But again the environment has changed a lot, so does our education system. Kata orang lagi susah dan mencabar.

And you know what last night, when he failed to spell, he finally said…taknak lah pegi smart reader. Geram tak?

Ni baru sorang….tunggu la amir firas besar esok macam mana pulak ragamnyer :p

Junjung 31 dec-3 jan 10

Pulang ke kampung kali ni, duit banyak habis.
Hari kedua di sana, pergi ke carrefoure seberang jaya. Sambar 2 kasut, 2 selendang, sepasang kurung moden, sepasang blouse.
Hari ketiga di sana, pergi ke Jusco seberang prai city. Janji pada diri, taknak beli apa2 dah. Tapi terbeli jugak sepasang blouse.
Mujurlah hari keempat dah pulang ke kl..kalau tidak hancus rasanya.
Lepas ni kena refrain diri dari menjejak kaki ke shopping mall utk seketika waktu, al maklum di awal tahun baru ni, kena bayar yuran sekolah idlan di Ad Din, ditambah pula dgn yuran smart reader di mana kami plan utk hantar idlan ke english class setiap hari sabtu, ditambah pula dgn vakum yg tetiba blow pagi tadi, dan fan di master bedroom kami yg blow 2-3 minggu lepas tapi masih belum direpair.

Si abah pun happy, apa tidaknya sehari sebelum pulang ke kl kami sempat singgah di kedai motor Mega Fortune. Jaket idaman berada dalam genggaman.
Idlan & Firas pon happy...dpt round kampung naik motor Wan, dapat jumpa cousin2 mereka, dapat baju baru, dapat mainan baru.
Mak Ude pulak dah start keje....dah bz dgn on call, so lepas ni takleh la nak jln2 dtg kl macam dedulu.

Hari ni, mama terpaksa mc. Bawah mata kiri bengkak teruk, ingatkan kena gigit benda, tapi rupanya naik ketumbit isk isk. Penangan ketumbit kali ni lain macam sket, sampai bengkak dan berdenyut-denyut pulak rasanya. Harap2 by esok mata ni dah sihat...tak syiok rasanya bila mc di awal tahun baru ni.


firas cuak 1st time naik motor tok wan....


di jusco....
front: idlan, haikal, firas
back: mak, aiman, mak ude, mama


3 beradiks....idlan-haikal-aiman


org bz shopping, dia lena diulit mimpi


the best bargain ever, buy 1 free 1 :p