My Life, My World, My Fantasy

WazzUB People!!!!

2012-01-28T22:07:00.002+08:00

Have you heard of WAZZUB?

~ WAZZUB, is a Brilliant Concept; It has NEVER Been Done Before ~

Make no mistake. WAZZUB is a multi-billion dollar project.

It has been in the making since 2007 with over $2,000,000 already invested.

It’s the new Internet Phenomenon; it's here to stay and you are one of the first in the world to know about it. So, it's very important to understand what you have in your hands. This Baby WILL go VIRAL.

~ Timing is Everything ~

You can set yourself up for life financially - for F*R*E*E -

and earn Massive Passive Residual Income every month like nothing else out there.
~ This can happen at LIGHTNING SPEED because it's always FR*E*E for all ~

The more F*R*E*E members you invite, the more money you will make.

You could earn about $1.00 per person in your "UNLIMITED" width x 5 generations-deep WAZZUB family. (depending on the company growth)

If that doesn't seem like much, watch what happens...

You simply invite 5 friends to join for f*r*e*e-forever and they do the same 5 generations:

1st. Generation 5 x $1.00 = $5.00

2nd. Generation 25 x $1.00 = $25.00

3rd. Generation 125 x $1.00 = $125.00

4th. Generation 625 x $1.00 = $625.00

5th. Generation 3125 x $1.00 = $3,125.00

Your Passive Income could be = $3,905.00 every month for doing NOTHING different than what you are currently doing every day.

Most people will invite more than 5 f*r*e*e members.

What if everyone invited just 10 people?

That amount would EXPLODE to: $111,110.00 per month in passive residual income for LIFE!

Here's the KICKER: It doesn't stop there. The more people you invite the more money you'll make. The number of people you can invite is UNLIMITED.

Try 20 or 30 and see what happens... IT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND!

It's a fact that most people will join because it's UNIQUE,

it's POWERFUL and it's F*R*E*E. Everybody loves F*R*E*E.

~The sky truly is the limit here at WAZZUB ~

My recommendation:

Step 1 – go here and sign up:http://signup.wazzub.info/?lrRef=8eebc

Step 2 – read all the important facts at: www.wazzub.info/facts.htm

Step 3 – read “How Is WAZZUB Different? www.wazzub.info/difference.htm

Step 4 – invite your friends and partners to become a part in this success story

Hurry up, act now!

99.99% of the world doesn't know about this yet.

Accept my positive vibrations of Succe$$ and Happiness :-)

Together we activate the power of "We"!

Thank you,

Puteri Isyatur Radhiyah

The WAZZUB Family

Lets Unlearn What we have Learnt

2012-01-01T10:26:00.001+08:00

Look what I have found from www.bedaduz2.blogspot.com. Saya merasakan adalah satu tanggungjawab untuk menyebarkan perkara yang benar.

Agak menarik status dia! Tiada pagar makan padi. Tetapi burung pegar. Kesilapan berlaku disebabkan perubahan ejaan rumi daripada jawi.
OK, saya terus mintak keizinan dia nak share, dan lepas je dia bagi kebenaran, terus saya copy paste letak dalam status saya, tapi saya tambah sikit:

Saya tambah bahagian batuk dalam status saya, atau sebenarnya batok. Daripada kecik lagi, saya selalu pelik kenapa “melepaskan batuk di tangga” tu bermaksud buat kerja separuh jalan?

Cikgu-cikgu Bahasa Melayu saya masa sekolah rendah pun takde explain lebih lanjut pasal apa batuk tu. Jadi saya assume maksudnya kita batuk dekat tangga. Tapi memang tak boleh relate, kenapa batuk dekat tangga tu maksudnya buat kerja tak habis? Kenapa batuk? Bukan bersin di tangga ke, sendawa ke, menguap ke?
Masa sekolah menengah, barulah cikgu saya (tak ingat dah cikgu mana...) cakap yang sebenarnya bukan batuk, tapi batok. Disebabkan perubahan ejaan jawi ke rumi, ramai orang tersalah anggap bahawa batok tu bermaksud batuk.

Apa batok tu? Batok tu sebenarnya sejenis perkakas yang diperbuat daripada tempurung kelapa. Adat orang Melayu, sebelum naik ke atas rumah, kita akan basuh kaki dulu dekat tempayan. Batok digunakan untuk menceduk air dari tempayan. “Melepaskan batok di tangga” bermaksud kita tak letakkan balik batok dekat tempat asal, iaitu kita tinggalkan macam tu je dekat tangga lepas guna. Macam lepas guna getah paip dalam tandas, tak letak hujung dia dekat pemegang lah lebih kurang. Daripada situlah ia bermaksud buat kerja separuh jalan.
Inilah contoh batok tu ye kawan-kawan:

“Kau ada batok dekat rumah? Kau mampu?”

Untuk burung pegar pulak, saya cuba google gambar dia. Kemudian jumpa dekat wikipedia.

Namaku Si Pegar, bukan Pagar!

Ha, nilah contoh burung pegar, atau dalam Englishnya berbunyi ‘pheasant’. Saya pun letak gambar ni dekat facebook.

Dekat Malaysia rupanya kita panggil ayam pegar, dekat Indonesia pulak dipanggil burung pegar. Tapi ayam ke, burung ke; kedua-duanya bertepatanlah dengan peribahasa ‘harapkan pegar, pegar makan padi’. OK, patutlah. Selama ni ingatkan pagar. Sebab tulah rasa pelik, kenapa pagar makan padi? Lagipun zaman dulu mana ada orang pagar sawah padi (ada ke? Rasa macam takde...).

Rupanya orang maksudkan pegar. Pegar ni digunakan macam burung hantu lah agaknya. Kawalan biologi untuk membunuh tikus dan serangga perosak dekat sawah padi. Tetapi ketika mengharap burung pegar ini tolong makan tikus dan serangga di sawah, burung pegar ni makan pulak padi. Dia mengkhianati kepercayaan tuan punya sawah untuk menjaga sawahnya daripada dimakan binatang perosak; dia sendiri jadi binatang perosak. Jadilah pepatah ‘harapkan pegar, pegar makan padi’.

Mula-mula ingat nak share dekat facebook je, tapi Rashid galakkan share dekat blog. Biar kongsi ilmu dengan ramai sikit orang. Sebelum ni saya pernah janji dengan Rashid nak post pasal kenapa chicken pox boleh berjangkit dua kali (tapi takde peluang lagi, tapi insyaAllah akan ditulis jugak nanti, kamu tunggu ya Rashid...hehehe).
Disebabkan janji tu belum ditunaikan, saya pun publishlah dulu pasal pegar dan batok ni dalam blog.

OK Rashid, janji yang ni sudah saya tunaikan!

Kepada yang membaca, marilah kita mula membetulkan persepsi orang tentang kesilapan-kesilapan terjemahan tulisan Jawi ke rumi. Disebabkan satu huruf je, maksudnya lari terus. Ramai orang yang tak tahu sebelum ni, (mungkin) termasuk cikgu-cikgu Bahasa Melayu.

So kita dah tahu ni, jom sama-sama sebarkan! Jangan biarkan kesilapan ni menghantui anak cucu kita! (ini adalah SERIUS!)

I'm hurt

2011-12-20T23:33:00.000+08:00

I'm deeply hurt, talking about it will just going to hurt me more.
However I do want you to know:-

Dear friend,
I love you so, I want the best for you too and I'm sure you will find joy in your new place (I will be extremely jealous!) but yes I do want the best for you. I pray we shall remain as close friends and you can always count on me for support, your shoulder to cry on.

Doa Akhir Tahun dan Awal Tahun

2011-11-26T22:35:00.000+08:00

Doa Akhir Tahun dan Doa Awal Tahun

Doa Akhir Tahun

Akhir Bulan Zulhijjah 1432H [26 November 2011, Sabtu] (Akhir Waktu Asar)

Waktu Membacanya:
Doa akhir tahun dibaca 3 kali pada akhir waktu Asar atau sebelum masuk waktu Maghrib pada akhir bulan Zulhijjah. Sesiapa yang membaca doa ini maka akan berkata syaitan, 'Kesusahan bagiku dan sia-sialah pekerjaanku menggoda anak Adam pada tahun ini dan Allah akan membinasakan aku pada saat itu juga. Dengan membaca doa ini Allah akan mengampunkan dosanya setahun.'

Segala puji hanya bagi Allah, Tuhan yang memlihara dan mentadbir sekalian alam. Selawat dan salam ke atas junjungan kami Nabi Muhammad S.A.W. serta ahli keluarga baginda dan para sahabatnya.

Ya Allah, sesungguhnya pada tahun ini aku telah melakukan laranganMu tetapi aku masih belum bertaubat sedangkan Engkau tidak reda dan melupai perkara itu. Engkau telah menangguh azabMu yang telah ditetapkan kepadaku. Engkau telah memerintahkan supaya aku bertaubat dari kesalahan itu. Sesungguhnya pada hari ini aku memohon keampunan dariMu, ampunilah aku dan apa yang telah aku lakukan pada tahun ini yang Engkau redai dan Engkau janjikan pahala maka aku memohonnya daripada Engkau. Ya Allah, ya Karim, ya Zaljalali wal ikram.

Selawat dan salam ke atas junjungan kami Nabi Muhammad S.A.W. serta ahli keluarga baginda dan para sahabatnya. Segala puji hanya bagi Allah, Tuhan yang memelihara dan mentadbir sekalian Alam.

Amin.

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Doa Awal Tahun

Akhir Bulan Zulhijjah 1432H [26 November 2011, Sabtu] (Di Waktu Maghrib)

Waktu membacanya:

Doa ini dibaca 3 kali setelah masuk waktu Maghrib pada malam 1 Muharram. Sesiapa yang membaca doa ini maka akan berkata syaitan, 'Telah amanlah anak Adam daripada godaanku pada tahun ini kerana Allah telah mewakilkan dua malaikat untuk memeliharanya dari fitnah syaitan.'

Segala puji hanya bagi Allah, Tuhan yang memelihara dan mentadbir sekalian alam. Selawat dan salam ke atas junjungan kami Nabi Muhammad S.A.W. serta ahli keluarga baginda dan para sahabatnya.

Ya Allah, Engkaulah yang kekal abadi untuk selama-lamanya. Demi kelebihanMu yang Maha Agung dan kemurahanMu yang melimpah, sesungguhnya pada tahun ini aku memohon kepadaMu perlindungan daripada syaitan yang direjam, dari sekalian kuncunya, tenteranya dan penolongnya. Aku juga memohon perlindungan daripada nafsu amarah yang sentiasa mendorong ke arah kejahatan dan melalaikan dengan perkara yang tidak berfaedah daripada mendekatkan diriku kepadaMu.

Selawat serta salam ke atas junjungan kami Nabi Muhammad S.A.W. serta ahli keluarga baginda dan para sahabatnya. Segala puji hanya bagi Allah, Tuhan yang memelihara dan mentadbir sekalian alam.

Holiday please stay!!!!

2011-11-25T20:49:00.000+08:00

The first week holiday is almost ending, sigh!
Time please move slowly,

In case you didn't already know

2011-11-24T18:53:00.001+08:00

My silence means I'm deeply hurt and no words can express the wounded feeling bottled inside,
When I'm silence I don't expect an understanding I just expect to be given some space,
Though I might take time to recover but am the type of person who is easy to forgive and forget,
And I am the type of person who do not like to talk about things that will make her upset,

This is just me and please don't expect me to share my problems when I'm not ready too
because I will break down and what I will say will not longer carry weight because I just cannot carry on the conversation and I hate crying over things that make me upset.

When I'm silence it is also because I hate that I might end up say things that I will regret,
It also a sign that I'm angry and I might ended up saying all sort of negative things which I don't really mean,
In case you didn't already know I'm the type of a person who tries to avoid friction at all cause because I'm vulnerable and I crumble easily.

And life is more than that than mulling over negative matters.

P/S - This post has nothing to do with my LONG silence.

Unfinished Groin and Other Gems..

2011-07-27T20:13:00.000+08:00

I got this from kamabakar.blogspot.com. Hilarious!

Go on, raise a ruckus. Please, we beg you. After all, the operators are already standing by...

We forgive you, now that we know you were born yellow-bellied ....

.. specially made for those whose mind is hopelessly lost in the gutter...

One iced latte please, and be generous with the WtFs and MoFos, if you don't mind..

Wonder what the poor vegetarian did to deserve this...

Oh, this is so anal. For the best aroma, try Animal Colon (air freshener); it stinks fast and good! (I hear KittyPoo brand is just as effective....)

For pete's sake don't rush the fall; take your time, plunge gently..

Yo, fire fiend! Try Housekeeping; it's pyro heaven in there, what with all those beddings..

Anyone for hamster & apple curry? Says here the curry's cute; don't know if the hamster's still cheerful, though..

Uh uh, Clotty Pussi. Sounds all clogged up. And painful to boot. This definitely calls for My Fannie toilet paper..

Don't be too surprised if their other store is called Bullshit. Perhaps they specialise in Dungarees?

Don't burn Fire Chief san; he's flame-resistant. Torch the mayor instead; word has it he's not eco-friendly..

Your groin's unfinished and you still have 'activities' down there..? Fuuuhh.. Cayalah!

2011-07-17T22:59:00.000+08:00

Sunday Funnies ..

Look what I found while blogwalking, I got this from kamabakar.blogspot.com.

This is so reassuring; no, we won't forget..

People are indeed a dangerous specie...

For those whose brains have gone missing..

That's ok. We love you just the way you are...

I'll take that less bratty one, please..

Waitress: Soup or sand, sir?

Customer: I'll have two of those egg sand, please..

What will I Christmas of this year present?

Do I get it what it is?

Remember you Santa present for ask?

"I'm a lil bit cuntry, I'm a lil rock & roll.."

Bash it with your bare head,

you get hurt faster that way..

See? THIS is why we sent you to school!

Thanks but no thanks; I'm not into your nuts,

no matter how fragrant...

One hand coming up, a leg to follow,

all in the name of charity...

Ahah, a kosher bunny!

These pesky Peruvians are everywhere!

I'll share my fannie paper with your fannie..

Pecker hole pretzel, nothing could be more apt..

May I outside then?

Please slow down the stairs,

the handrails need catching up..

Hilman yang pandai berkata-kata

2011-07-17T09:08:00.000+08:00

I enjoy talking to Hilman because he is not pelat and sometimes the words that come out from his mouth are something unexpected from a 3 year old child.

One day Hilman and Abah in the car.

Hilman : Kita nak pergi mana ni?

Abah    : Stesyen minyak.

Hilman : Nak buat apa?

Abah   : Isi minyaklah.

Hilman : Kan kereta ni boleh jalan lagi, tak payahlah isi, jom pergi Giant lagi best.

Abah   : Tapi minyak dah nak habis, nanti kereta tak boleh jalan.

Hilman : Hilman boleh tolak.

Abah   : Hilman tak kuat, kereta Abah berat.

Hilman : Hilman ada Ultraman (pointing to his Ultraman toy figure)

Abah : Hahahaha.. takpelah Abah isi minyak jugak

Hilman : Oklah, tapi Hilman nak coklat.

Hilman and YO!

Hilman : Wazzap yo!

Ibu       : Apa tu?

Hilman : Hilman nak makan yo!

Ibu       : Jom turun

Hilman : Let's go yo!

Ibu sambil menyuap Hilman makan.

Hilman : Sedap yo!

Ibu       : Dahlah yo yo tu, menyampah ibu.

Hilman : Ok yo!

Patience

2011-07-06T18:18:00.000+08:00

I got this from another blogger friend of mine. As I am not a patient person, this is also a reminder to me to stay calm and be positive all the time.

A man came to the Prophet, may the mercy and blessings of God be upon himraise his name, and asked what he needed to do to get to Paradise, so the Prophet told him: “Do not get angry.” (Saheeh Al-Bukhari)

The man was an individual who would get angry quickly, so the Prophet told the man that he needed to do change his angry nature. So changing oneself and one’s character is something achievable.

The Prophet also said: “Whoever pretends to be patient (with a desire to be patient) God will give him patience.”

This is recorded in Saheeh Al-Bukhari. This means that although some people are born patient the rest of us can learn to be patient.

Interestingly in Western psychiatry and psychology they used to tell us to get it off our chest, don’t hold it in because if we did we would explode, so better to let it all out.

Later on they discovered that when people let it all out small blood vessels would burst in their brain because they were so angry. They found that it was actually dangerous and potentially damaging to let it all out. So now they say it is better not to let it all out.

The Prophet told us to try to be patient, so externally we should give that façade of being patient even when internally we are boiling. And we do not try to be patient externally in order to deceive people; rather, we do so in order to develop patience. If we are consistent in this then the external image of patience also becomes internal and as a result complete patience is achieved and is achievable as mentioned in the Hadeeth quoted above.

Have patience and may you be blessed today.

Dilemma

2011-07-03T21:55:00.005+08:00

My eldest daughter Nuraina has been piling on so much weight for the past few months.

You know,she started off being such a skinny baby as she was close to be underweight we have been giving her a lot of multivitamins and minerals to make her go strong, chubby and healthy. As she hit six months, we fed her appeton for babies on a daily basis, once she turned one we began to give her Scotts Emulsions and vitamin C and when she was down with fever she had lost so much weight making her look so skinny and fragile that we changed her milk into Weight Gain for 2 months. When she was in Year One she started to grow nice and proportionate and we were satisfied with her development.

There was this one day an acquittance commented that her son is the smallest in class and that she is worried, as he is a boy and he may get bullied when he goes to school later so I told her that I used to worry about my daughter's growth and I have been giving her loads of supplements and multivitamins to promote her growth. She then commented she had a friend who used to be so small that she had been taking lots of supplements and now she has weight issues. She said the after effect of the supplements takes many years later to get the results. I didn't think much about it and just pushed the thought aside.

But NOW.....

I see her point, my daughter Nuraina has begun to show interest in food and she eats all the time. She enjoys eating, sometimes after taking lunch she will munch on biscuits and her stomach looks so round and protruded. From a scrawny baby into a chubby girl, we now have problems finding clothes for her. When she was younger she used to wear one size smaller than her age, now she wears 2 size bigger than her age. She is 11 but she wears 13-14 clothes. Just the other day, we bought a pair of baju kurung the largest in the kids section size 13 - 14, I was confident it could fit her because it looked big, sadly, she can't even bring the sarung to her waist, it got stuck at her thunder thighs and even the baju kurung we had problems to bring her hand out of the sleeves.

I am worried, I want her to not eating much but sometimes when I cook she will be the first I call to eat because it's nice looking at her enjoying the food I cooked as I felt all the efforts I have put in to prepare the meals have not gone to waste compared to her younger siblings who are basically needed to be forced to eat for every meal. She even commented 'You want me to be kurus, but you also make me eat'. Yalah tu Aina but most of the times I stop you from eating and indulging in cookies and other things kan?

This where the dilemma lies as I often stock up food in the house like biscuits, chocolate, ice-creams, fruits, wedges, nuggets and other tidbits to encourage the younger ones to eat as they are not rice-people. The problem is that Kakak Aina will wallop what they are eating too. On top of that when they could not finish the drinks or the food they consumed Kakak Aina will be summoned as not to let the food go to waste. So how?

I hope this is just a phase and she will not continue to balloon up as the years go by.

I am upset!

2011-06-28T00:57:00.002+08:00

Remember Khairina my 3rd child my blur and unfocussed daughter who is struggling in school?

Well, last week she told me she lost her Maths activity book. I was so mad, of all the subjects, Maths, the subject she is weakest in? Therefore she has not been doing her work, we went to quite a number of shops searching for the book and apparently they no longer reprint the book because of the new syllabus KLSSR.

Last Saturday was the Open Day, I dragged seeing her class teacher one because this is the same teacher who penalized my eldest daughter for asking question in class and labeling her as 'busybody', when I got to know the same teacher is to be Khairina's class teacher I had not so good feeling about it. Nothing happened after that it just that Khairina's performance has been deteriorating, she never has flunk Maths before, the lowest she has scored was 67% (I know its not great but coming for Khairina I was complacent) until this mid-term when she scored only 37% I was upset.

I've been going through her books and as usual they are all a lot of incomplete work written all over the page, I am unhappy that the teacher did nothing about it, I can help if the work was taken from the textbook but the problem is that it was work written on the board and knowing Khairina she copies things slowly and a loner she ends up daydreaming in class.

When I sat down with the teacher during Open Day she kept on repeating 'I know you're very busy' or 'you must be very busy' as though I have not done much to help my daughter, She told me about my daughter's missing book, I told her I'm aware of that and that I've been going to bookstores to hunt for the book and I told her if I could have someone's book to bring home, so that she can do the work that she has missed.

I took one home, got it photocopied Saturday itself, there were about 12 pages front and back that needed to be done. Unfortunately Sunday was a busy day, I woke up 5.30 am to fry drummets for Nabil to bring for his football tournament. Hub and Nabil left home at around 6.30 am, as bibik was not around I had to attend to the household chores, at around 8.30 I had to put make up on Aina as she has her choir performance at The Curve, sent her to school, bought breakfast and headed home. Bathed the kids, fed them and took the whole brood to Giant to do some groceries shopping, I was done by 12.30 pm unloaded the thing and drove to The Curve to catch Aina's performance. Spent about half an hour to secure a parking space when finally Aina called to inform that she has just finished performing.

Got lost in The Curve as we went in through the wrong entrance, walked around for about 15 minutes before reaching her which is at the other side of where I parked my car. To cut thing short, after lunch and waiting for the heavy downpour to abate we reached home close to 5 pm. So after shower and dinner Khairina sat down to do her work at around 6.30 pm. As she was slow in her doing her work and a lot of careless mistakes as she's easily confused with what she was suppose to do etc etc at around 11 pm she is still not done with her work.

I felt pity for her as she was sleepy and I was tired and sleepy too, I told her to put away her things and get ready to bed. She was worried she didn't get to finish her work and I told her to explain to the teacher that she will get it done the next day.

So today when she came back to school, she was unhappy because the teacher scolded her for not finishing her work and her papers were all over the place as I have forgotten to staple them. What I am upset is that the teacher made a remark of "Your parents are stupid for not stapling the paper, and they do not want to help you, how're you going to improve like this?"

I was soooooooo mad and so upset, that was so uncalled for making an upsetting remark to an 8-year old girl. I admit I was wrong but there's no need to use such words!!!!!!!!!!!

I am not sure her rationale of blurting those words, it's like she's asking us to come over and challenge her. I am not sure if confrontational will do any good as I'm afraid that she will mark my daughter and penalized her even more.

I am still in rage but after writing all this down it has managed to calm me a tiny bit.

Hilman and Ibu

2011-06-17T22:59:00.000+08:00

Pada suatu malam,

Hilman : Ibu, saya rasa saya suka sangatlah kat Ibu.

Ibu : Rasa je? Ibu loveeeeeeeeeeeeee Hilman

Hilman : Saya pun. (and keeps kissing me all over my face)

Ibu : Awwww......

He likes doing that now, kissing me over and over again. Hilman please stay and be my baby forever ok?

Hypocrite

2011-06-17T22:44:00.002+08:00

Some people can be soooooooooooo hypocrite,
Always having this nice, sweet, am-holier-than- thou look,
But capable of being malicious behind your back.

Some people said they meant well but hide it under a pseudonym,
How could you mean well when you are afraid of giving out your identity?
It does show that you have a hidden agenda in whatever you are trying to say,
Is either you are jealous or just unhappy and you hope by saying something not so good about other people
you will make them unhappy too?
Sorry it doesn't work with me that way, lady!
My advice to you lady....

GET A LIFE! Go fly a kite or something!

This is my space so I can jolly well write whatever I want,
If you're not happy, please get lost!

Alahai cik adik oi!

2011-06-11T19:40:00.001+08:00

I went to my usual pharmacy yesterday afternoon. I was in a haste as bibik was not around and hub and Nabil were to leave for their Friday prayer soon. I wanted to be quick to get my supply.
The usual salesgirl suddenly so surprised to see me dashing into the pharmacy and went 'Dari mana kak?' That greeting caught me by surprise as she never greeted me that way before.

As I was making my way to the pharmacist, I couldn't help but feel that I am suddenly budging into a serious discussion the pharmacist was having with a young couple. While I was waiting for the pharmacist to attend to me I could actually listen to the conversation they were having. The pharmacist didn't actually look happy and so was this sweet, pretty, young thing (not older than 20) the only person who remained calm and didn't utter a single word was the boy beside her.

I could sense something was wrong and my instinct proved me right when I discovered that the girl is 5 weeks pregnant and she's looking for medication to abort the baby. When she was told to take the pills 7 tablets in the morning, 7 tablets in the afternoon and 7 tablets at night until the fetus dropped, I could see the blood draining from her face because she went '7 biji tiap2 kali? Sampai berapa lama?'... 'Sampai benda tu jatuh lor' said the pharmacist.

The pharmacist realized that I was there, quickly asked me what I wanted, gave me the thing and told me to pay up at the front counter. At the counter I blurted 'Sedihnya org kita buat perangai camni' and the cashier went 'dah jadi perkara biasa dah kak, ramai dah minta ubat nak gugur kandugan.'

I was soooooo sad, I sat in my car and waited for the couple to come out from the pharmacy, the girl looked forlorn and unhappy, the boy looked calm and didn't say a word until they were out from the pharmacy then only I could see his mouth moving with a slight twitch of a smile.

I am sad so sad and I can't help but to put myself in her mother's shoes on how heartbroken she could be.

A pretty girl like her wasting her youth and time with a boy who's not even good-looking and not responsible enough to father the baby. Sigh! I am just so sad and I am soooooo afraid.

Ya Allah please protect my children from indulging in such behaviour, jangan fikir seronok je, kesianlah kat mak-bapak ni, yang sayang dan sanggup bergadai untuk anak2. Fikir panjanglah anak2 oi, kasihanilah kedua ibubapa mu yang telah bersungguh2 membesarkanmu.

The Joy of being a Teacher

2011-05-15T20:28:00.000+08:00

It's not the wish that you get on Teachers' Day nor the number of presents you received on that day,

BUT...

It's more of being appreciated and being remembered

for the knowledge that you have disseminated,
For the time you spent to listen to their rant and offering help any way possible
for the effort that you have put in so that they will achieve success in whatever they do,
For the learning experience that you have given them,
For the joy we shared during lesson,
For the love and care that you have showered them directly or *indirectly,

Not asking for much...

Just teacher 'thank you for making me what I am today and I truly appreciate all the things that you have done'

Those simple words will carved in my heart for eternity.

*(all the shouts, nags and stares)

P/S - And thank you girls for keeping me sane, making me young at heart and all the joys and laughter you have brought into my life. There's never a dull day in a teacher's life.

Love vs Marriage

2011-03-26T23:18:00.000+08:00

I got this from one of the Makcik Bloggers, Kak Ezza of Bicara si muffinbiru

PANTUN- Marriage Life Before and After !!

Before marriage.
Darling here.. darling there...
After marriage.
Baling here... baling there..

Before marriage.
I die for you. . .
After marriage.
'You die, up to you. '
Lagi lama married.
You die I help you!

Before marriage.
You go anywhere. . I follow you.
After marriage. .
You go anywhere. . up to you .
Lagi lama married.
You go anywhere, better u got lost!!

Before wedding
you are my heart, you are my love'
After wedding
'you get on my nerves.

Before wedding
'you are sweet and kind just like Cinderella'
After wedding
'you are worse than godzila'

Before wedding
Roses are red, violets are blue. Like it or not, I'm with you
After wedding
Roses are dead, I am blue. You get on my head, I sue you!

Before wedding
Every makan he brings you to Shangri-La
After wedding
You want to go, he says you wait-la!

Before wedding
She looks like Anita Sarawak
After wedding
Don't know whether katak or pontianak

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Difference Between Love n Marriage

Love is holding hands in the street.
Marriage is holding arguments in the street.

Love is dinner for 2 in your favorite restaurant.
Marriage is a take home packet.

Love is cuddling on a sofa.
Marriage is one of them sleeping on a sofa.

Love is talking about having children.
Marriage is talking about getting away from children.

Love is going to bed early.
Marriage is going to sleep early.

Love is a romantic drive.
Marriage is arrive on tops curvy tarmac .

Love is losing your appetite.
Marriage is losing your figure.

Love is sweet nothing in the ear.
Marriage is sweet nothing in the bank.

Tv has no place in love.
Marriage is a fight for remote control.

Love is 1 drink and 2 straws.
Marriage is "Don't you think you've had enough!".

Conclusion: "Love is blind, Marriage is an eye opener!"

Oh Khairina my dear!

2011-02-16T22:43:00.002+08:00

Khairina my second daughter and my 3rd child is as gentle as a lamb. She's so gentle that she's easily bullied by people around her. Out of the 3 attending primary school, she's the one struggling with school work and the environment. She does not project any demeanor of being confident, she is very timid, introvert and afraid to ask question.

She had been lagging in her school work and more often than not her exercise books have comments of 'incomplete work', 'work not sent on time', 'kerja tak siap' and 'tak lengkap' and thus she often gets the shelling from me and I often blame her for being unfocused and dreamy in class and she denied all the accusations made. This happened last year and this year she has promised that things will change and that she will change for the better.

However on the first day of school she sat at the back row of the classroom because she had wondered around the school and forgotten to book a seat. I was so pissed that her being unfocused and dreamy resurface. Three weeks after, when the kids were given homework, I got even madder when I saw that her books were still not up to date, her work was messy and there's incomplete work remark in her books. I told her to borrow a book from a friend, she said nobody wanted to lend her their book and I went 'don't you have any friend?' Nabil heard this and went 'she's always alone Ibu, she eats alone in the canteen and she walks around the school after that all by herself.'

I then began to realize that she's never invited to any birthday parties, It wasn't an issue then because she's always following Kakak Aina (the miss popular) to parties so I didn't think much of it, but invitation from her friends, she has none. She's a real loner, she does not make any effort to make friends and whenever I ask her 'don't you have friends?' her answer is always yes but no one is her good friend as she finds waiting for them to go to the canteen and finishing eating then only walking together, as cumbersome. She's happy when she's with her siblings you can see her being bubbly and active, running around and coming out with new ideas. That's why I was caught of guard when Nabil told me she's a loner.

Ok back to the issue, I told her since nobody wants to lend you their book, next time can you please please please pay more attention in class, stop being dreamy because this is class work I cannot help you because I don't know what the teacher has written on the board, and she went 'Ibu I always pay attention in class, I copy slowly because I cannot see what is written on the board.' You mean to say, you can't see? Gosh! I could feel my blood draining. All this while you were not able to finish your work on time because you cant see? Husband did the test and true enough she failed the 4m range test. Nooo..... Oh Nina you have to wear spectacles? I'm not ready for this darling, you are to young to wear glasses.

We took her to the opticians the next day and turned out her eyesights were pretty bad her left eye the reading was 100 and her right eye 225. After that incident, I could not help but to feel bad for accusing her of being dreamy and unfocused. While waiting for the spectacles to be ready we talked to her teacher to let her sit in front. It has been two weeks now and so far she's doing fine with her school work.

However tonight something sad happened. At around 9 pm I went all around looking for Khairina, she was not with Dhaniyah, not in the maid's room, neither was she in my mom's. I was calling out her name when I suddenly I heard a soft cry of 'I am here Ibu'. I was so shocked she was in her room, the door was ajar but I didn't bother to check it then because the light and fan were switched off. I went in, switch on the fan and the light and there she was lying on the bed with tears streaming down her cheeks.

I sat on the bed and asked her what went wrong, and she went 'I'm just sad' and I asked her 'why?'. And she went 'nothing' I tried to probe but she kept on saying 'nothing' when I finally said 'when you are sad, I am sad too, I love you too much that I don't want you to be sad.' That got her more teary eyed and she went 'not many people love me Ibu, I don't have friends, the teachers don't really pay much attention to me and even my brothers and sisters don't love me that much,'. Oh Khairina, I was shocked to hear her say that and I became sad too 'Khairina no matter what, Ibu and Abah love you unconditionally, your siblings love you too, it is just that they have a weird way of showing it, so it does not matter if you don't have that many friends, what's important is that you love yourself and always work hard to improve yourself, never let other people put you down and please please remember that Ibu loves you soooooo much and only want the best for you.'
She got better and went to sleep. Looking at her sleeping, breathing evenly, looking calm and angelic made me even sadder.

Sigh! I am not sure whether I have handled it well but I feel bad. Bad for her to feel this way, for her not having friends and for her to have such low self-esteem. I don't really know how to tackle this because I am a person who depends on her friends, I will be lost without them, I need friends and I have been blessed with wonderful friends around me. So having to handle this situation is actually out of my league! Help!

P/S - After the incident, she hugged me crying again and she said 'I did try Ibu, I tried to make friends but I don't think my friends like me that much, I'm just not important'. 'Oh baby you are really special and important to me, if they don't like you they are not worthy as your friends, they are other people out there who will be worthy of your friendship, it's just that the time has not come yet.'

Gosh! She's only 7+ and already facing this kind of problem, I really pity you Khairina and I hope things will be better for you, stop trying so hard, because you end up hurting yourself, I have faith that things will get better, I always believe that good things happen to those who wait, be patient my dear!
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Hilman buat magic

2011-02-16T21:26:00.001+08:00

This is just gonna be a short post but I just want to get it jotted down before I forget. Yesterday when we were in KFC attending to a birthday party, I saw 4 very cute water bottles and I decided to buy 3. Hilman was so happy with his. We got home, gave the bottle a rinse and then filled it with water for him to sip. So, he has been using it since every time he needs to quench his thirst.

So after dinner today, I was drinking my water from the cup when he said he want some,

Ibu       : Why are you drinking in my cup?

Hilman   : Because I am thirsty.

Ibu        : What happen to your water bottle?

Hilman   : Oh I dunno.

Ibu        : Dunno? Go and look for it.

Hilman : I dunno. Dah hilang dah.

Ibu       : Cannot be. Go and look for it.

Hilman : Yesssssss dah hilang dah, tadi ada pastu Hilman buat magic (claps his hands) so now dah hilang dah. Terror kan Hilman buat magic?

Ibu     : Hmmmm..... (pandailah ko Hilman, sebab malas nak cari kan?)

I got this from Nadia-Is-Cute

2011-01-23T13:11:00.000+08:00

I got this from a friend who got this from her sister. I find it funny yet so true that I feel that I should share it as well.

Having Children is A Blessing

2010-12-07T12:30:00.004+08:00

You know like when you go to a function of your hubby's friend and you don't know anyone there and you are not bothered to make friends, you can always entertain your kids, cater to their needs and you will not look out of place or a total loser in fact you are seen as a loving and such caring mother.

Or when you take your younger kids for check-ups and again you are just too lazy to strike a conversation with other patients you can always play with your children, sing to them and you are not labeled as someone who has just lost her mind or a 'weirdo' in fact you are fun to look at and people will see you as being very creative and fun-loving mother to your children.

Or you can watch your kids playing for hours and you are not seen as someone who are lost in outer space and in fact people will see you of having such a loving gaze towards your kids when in actual fact you are thinking of something else, work, housework, etc.

Or the time when you are too lazy to go anywhere you can always come out with an excuse of having to take care of your kids well-being and it is always a valid enough reason of you to just chill at home with your children.

Or at the time when you are already bored in a gathering or a function, and your husband is not ready to leave yet, you can always come up with a reason that the kids are restless, tired, etc and that is reason enough for your husband to get going.

Or when you don't really feel like talking to your husband, mom, mother-in-law, the kids can always be the messenger to get your message across.

And it's always a good time to have an ice-cream outing when you have kids.

Yeah these are some of the perks of having children when you are just content with yourself and not putting any effort to make friends. Yay to us mothers!

A Plea to All Men Out There

2010-12-04T23:39:00.000+08:00

I was just reading a blog of a good friend of mine and the topic is on marital issue and how men tend to easily forget his responsibility when he is involved with another woman. It's not something new we have heard it overtimes on how men cheated on his wife and vice versa, but this issue never fails to make people get angry easily, and as woman we do feel for the wife. The fact that some men who go astray are not financially sound, tends to make your blood boils as these men who are still dependant on the wife to settle some of utility bills, have the heart to find another. Like a friend said 'ko syok2 sorang and ko expect your wife to understand that this is takdir' is a total bullshit. I am sorry,there's no nice word to describe what you have done.

Funny enough when I talked this issue with some men, they could highlight it 'maybe it was a small mistake' or 'dah nak jadi bukan dicari' and they would further broach the topic by saying like 'Inilah masalah perempuan kesalahan kecil suami dia, dia dah tak ingat dah semua benda baik yang suami dia dah buat'. Kesalahan kecil? Have a fling for another woman is a MAJOR mistakes in a marriage, tak kiralah suka-suka ke or takde benda ke, but it is definitely not kesalahan kecil. It is a MAJOR no-no ok? This thing which you think happens to be nothing can get real messy, many hearts will be broken definitely not yours but the family the wife and the kids. Many people will get hurt, her side of the family and even your side of the family, the one that is takde apa2 and syok is you yourself, you selfish brat! So please don't label it as a small mistake although you have repent, the hurt is just too much, the wound is too deep even time may not fully healed the injury that you have done.

So my plea to all men out there

1. instead of using your free time -imagining other things that involve sex can you please use your time wisely on how to earn extra money for the family so you can lead a better life for example.

2. so if you are filthy rich - can you please think on how to raise your kids to be manusia yang berguna kepada agama, bangsa dan negara. Nurturing it's not suppose to be one sided- it's not the mother's job per se but both the parents.

3. and if you are not - instead of watching tv and reading newspaper and thinking of the unthinkable can you please make a point to help your wife around the house.

4. and can you please think on how to be a good or a better husband/father to your wife and kids. Only then you would want to achieve a better quality life for your family and I believe if you are this type of husband/father you will have no time to think about other women and go astray.

Can you do that please?

Satu Dua Tiga Lekuk

2010-12-02T21:39:00.001+08:00

I am in the process of resurrecting my blog, wish me luck! (LOL!). Anyway, let's start with a short and sweet entry of Dhaniyah and her Bedtime Stories.

One night while putting Dhaniyah to bed, she requested that I tell her bedtime stories. I was already bored with the selection that we have wait more like I was bored with the stories that she has chosen because I ended up reading the same 2 stories over and over again, it's always either the Ugly Duckling or When Johnny Comes Marching Home. So this one night, I decided to tell a story that I grew up hearing it over times 'Sang Kancil dan Buaya' as this time the story is told orally as I had no book to refer to,therefore, basically the story is being watered down, knowing that I will finish the story within minute, I decided to inject some questions as I go along narrating this piece. And so I went.....

Pada zaman dahulu, di dalam hutan tinggal seekor kancil yang bijaksana ....

Ibu    : Dhaniyah tau tak kancil tu apa?
Dhaniyah : Tahu. Teacher Niyah ada satu.
Ibu : Hah? Biar betul? Kancil?
Dhaniyah   : Ya. Tapi kancil dia tak duduk kat hutan, boleh ke kancil duduk kat hutan?
Ibu   : Kancil duduk kat hutanlah Niyah, kancil tu animal?
Dhaniyah : Bukan. Kancil tu keretalah Ibu. Teacher Niyah park kancil dia kat school Niyah.
Ibu : hahahahaha.....

Ok after explaining to her what type of animal kancil is and after she went ooooooooo.....aaaaaaaa, I continued the story so in between I asked her some more questions and she kind of followed it well so nothing funny happened there, towards the end of the story when the sang kancil went...

Ibu   : Wahai buaya2 aku bawa perutusan dari Sultan Sulaiman untuk mengira kamu semua supaya aku dapat memberi penghormatan kepada kamu haiwan yang hebat ni. (note: not the real storyline, I kind of forget how the story goes but who cares?) Jadi silalah buat one straight line supaya boleh aku kira kamu semua. So after the crocodiles have line up in one straight line the kancil jumped on each of them reciting 'satu dua tiga lekuk, jantan betina aku ketuk' knocking each of their head. (Ibu did some action of 'luku'(knocking) kepala Niyah and she started to giggle she finds the action to be ticklish, hmmm... I wonder why). So the kancil managed to reach the other side of the river, faced the crocodiles and laughing out loud (LOL?) to the crocodiles 'You guys are being fooled, all I wanted to do is to cross this river without being eaten, Sultan Sulaiman tidak memperutuskan apa2 kepadaku kamu semua sudah kena tipu HA HA HA. Maka kancil tu dengan happynya makan semua buah yang ranum2 di dalam hutan tersebut. The end.

Ibu   : Niyah faham tak cerita ni? Niyah suka tak?

Niyah : Niyah faham, nak jadi bijak kena pandai tipu ye Ibu.

Ibu :   ???????????????

Alright Dhaniyah from tomorrow night onwards we stick to the usual bedtime stories okay, sayang.

I've lost my blogging mojo

2010-11-14T23:07:00.001+08:00

I hope I shall get it back!!!

Demam Raya

2010-09-14T23:49:00.003+08:00

Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri and Maaf Zahir Batin!!!

We went back to Terengganu last Monday 6 September at around 11 pm since the kids said it will be tiring traveling while fasting, so it was not too bad but when we stop for sahur the night wind was so cold and crisp it made our mouths chatter. The journey to Terengganu was stopped couple of times as Dhaniyah vomitted in the car and to make it worse she accidentally barfed on Kakak Nina's hair while she was asleep, so we had to stop at an R&R and both kids had late night shower to get rid of the stench and the vomit. Memang satu dugaan! Fortunately Khairina was cool enough despite her hair was filled with Dhaniyah's vomit (sampai melekat-lekat) she didn't kick a fuss.

We reached my PIL's house at around half past 6, after the greeting and prayer we decided to hit the sack sans for Nabil as he was excited to be back to the hometown. The next day we didn't do anything much, just getting ourselves oriented with the surroundings and later hubby, PIL and kids went to Param (Pasar Ramadhan) to get some juadah for berbuka. My youngest sis-in-law was next to reach my PIL's house and it was nice to just chit-chat with the two of them and the hubby was darling enough to entertain the kids. They were a bunch of noisy lots. (my kids I mean).

Hilman first time playing sparklers.

Late night my second sis-in-law's family came and the kids had more fun as she has four children with her, the eldest boy worships Nabil so much that he became Nabil's shadow and Nabil didn't seem to mind as they both enjoy the same thing and both are hyper, full of energy (tak macam orang berpuasa langsung). My day back to the hometown will not be complete without a visit to the bus station and the famous pasar Payang to get my supply of tudungs and the kids songkok and samping, so we went on Wednesday. On Thursday we were busy with preparation for Eid and kids having fun with their cousins by playing sparklers.

On Raya eve, Hilman did not actually manage to get a good sleep, he was restless and scratching all around, nothing I did make him feel better, he vomited before bed and I could see the breathing has slightly became unstable, I could see he has some difficulty in breathing and the chest rising every time he took his breath. The next morning after bath and when everyone has already dressed up to welcome the Syawal, Hilman's condition got even worse, he refused to drink and eat, he was so weak that I told hubby that we should take him to the clinic. To make things worse, we had to drive quite a far bit as all clinics were closed (yelah raya kan majority operated by Malays). Not only that, the ER was filled to the brim, we had to wait more than an hour to see the doc, the only doc on call that day. The doc wanted to take him in but knowing that we are not locals, he decided that we should do nebuliser at least twice today, so we were told to come again at night.

After the first dose on nebuliser, Hilman was slightly better but he was still not fully recovered, at least he wanted to eat but he was still short of breath. We were discharged at almost 2.00 pm, hubby had to miss his Friday's prayer. When we reached PIL's house the house was already filled with guests, we didn't have the chance to do the proper salam-salam with the family members and this year no family photo was taken. The elder kids were pretty upset that they did not really get to celebrate a proper raya as they were the only kids beraya without parents that day.


Look at my tired face after spending half of the day in the hospital


Nabil finally getting a hang in riding a bike

The next agenda we went to my BIL PIL's house. The kids were happier to meet up with their cousins and the chance to kutip more duit raya. Then we went to my SIL's house in Marang, the children just love to go here because the have the opportunity to ride on a bike, play swing and tag. That night Hilman was taken to the hospital again for his second dose. He showed improvement after that. Alhamdulillah.

My girls and their cousin Humaira


Hilman and his cousin Haziq

Kids having fun at the wakaf

My children with their cousins.

The next day was spent visiting more relatives' houses and attending open houses and my kids and nephews had started to show sign of fever. True enough the next day, 3 of my kids were down with fever and cough. My second BIL and family came on the second day. I truly missed them but we didn't get to catch up much because I was busy packing to go home the next day. As the kids were unwell, we were quite reluctant to go home that day but I have promised to celebrate the rest of the raya with my mother, so after the zohor calling of prayer we headed home.

We Are Family

2010-08-22T21:12:00.001+08:00

The Little Taiwan

Yesterday all of us were invited to break fast in my sis-in-law's restaurant The Little Taiwan located in Solaris Dutamas. It is quite a rare occasion for my family to do our iftar outside because we prefer to break fast at the comfort of our own home, less hassle, there is no need to rush to eat and pray and furthermore we love to walk to the surau to do our terawikh with our kiddos. However, last night was exceptional because we have never been to my sis-in-law's restaurant as we missed the launching as the kids and I had school replacement on that Saturday and Nuraina had to go for a choir competition in Subang Parade. So this is our chance to check out the restaurant and eat for free, not forgetting everyone will be there.

During iftar things went a bit kelam kabut with the kids ordering this and that as the selection of foods are not something similar to us something new to the taste bud but we enjoyed them nonetheless, but what made last night special was that everyone was there sans my father, all my parents 12 grandchildren, sons, daughter, daughters-in-law, son-in-law and it was such a joyful moment. We talked and talked almost everything under the sun from work to family to kids to politics, we were so comfortable with each other that nothing else mattered. While the elders were busy dealing with adult matter the kids entertained themselves by playing tag and 'nenek nenek si bongkok tiga' (the girls and the younger children), the boys had fun playing soccer using an empty can, the men chilled by smoking sisha and the ladies did what we do best, gossip.

Hilman as spectator

Boys posing after rounds of soccer

Kids playing human tug of war

I just love this kind of gathering because no one is working hard to make sure everyone is entertained because we know we are related, we are family, we belong, even the children. And the sight of them playing together, shouting, laughing, enough to make the adults hearts swelling with pride.

The men having sisha


My eldest bro Abang Munir

Thanks Abang Munir and Kak Linda for having us!!!!`

Khairina and Puasa

2010-08-18T00:10:00.003+08:00

Khairina first started fasting last year when she was 6 years old, we didn't force her to but she was persistent to do it because she wanted to join the 'jingang' during iftar because if not she will not have the opportunity to sit at the dining table during iftar. Anyway, last year she managed to get 18 days of puasa penuh, not bad, I would say for a first timer, however Nabil still holds the record of completing the 30 days of puasa at the age of 6 (I tell you that boy is made of steel), even during the fasting month he can still find the energy to play football in his agama school field. Not only that, he has not missed his terawih yet (not sure where this scrawny boy gets his energy from).

Back to Khairina, her first day of puasa something funny happened, we woke her up for sahur because again she insisted she wanted to fast, she was half asleep as she could not open her eyes, I carried her downstairs, washed her face and told her to rinse her mouth (nasib baik anak Ibu ni kurus, bolehlah nak dukung2 lagi). Put her down on the chair and told her to eat, she went 'I can't open my eyes', and I went 'Ok Ibu suap, Nina bukak mulut aje, tak yah bukak mata' and she went 'Ok Ibu, thank you Ibu'. So I fed her and when she said she was full I carried her back to bed. The next morning (actually it's the same morning), while getting ready for school, she asked me 'Eh Ibu, Nina ni puasa ke?' and I replied 'puasa' and she went 'Tapi Nina tak bangun sahur pun', and came my reply 'Nina makan sahur, Ibu suap sebab Nina ngantuk sangat' and she went 'Oooooh....jadi Nina kena puasalah kan?' and I just nodded my head.

Off she went to school, I came home at around 2.30 pm and she greeted me at the door by saying 'Ibu, Nina tak puasa, sebab Nina rasa Nina mimpi jelah Nina sahur tapi Nina tak sahur kan Ibu? Ibu answered ' 'Masya Allah Khairina, Nina sahurlah Ibu yang suap Nina makan' and came her answer 'Ya ke Ibu?' and Ibu answered 'Takpelah Nina, Nina dah makan pun, jadi Nina memang tak puasa ok' and she answered 'Tapi Nina nak'. Haiyoo... 'Nina terlupa takpe, tapi Nina makan banyak ke tadi?' I just wanted to make sure maybe she ate some food by accident because she has forgotten that she was supposed to fast and she went 'Nina beli satu pinggan nasi lemak dengan air sarsi, Nina makan sampai habis'. Oh my dear girl itu memang bukan terlupa, itu memang dah tak puasalah and came the whine 'Nina nak!' and she continued to fast refusing to eat and drink after that and she was adamant to join us during iftar because according to her she 'termakan'. Suka hatilah ko nak oi....tak kuasa nak layan. ahak ahak. The subsequent days after the incident, she has been fasting for the rest of the days and so far, she is doing ok and am glad.

Unfortunately, the thing that I can't stand is when she asks the question of 'how many hours more to berbuka?' and after 5 mins she will be asking the same question again and again and again. To solve the problem, we bought her a watch that she always wanted and my my whaddaya know she seldom bothers us with the question again. Pretty good trick, I would say.

The thing about fasting month is, cooking has been a fulfilling affair because the are all eager to eat and nothing goes to waste and everything I cook is delicious to the kids (which is an achievement because I'm a lousy cook) and that shows when people are hungry, anything goes.

Say No to Exam

2010-08-07T23:29:00.003+08:00

I vote for NO to exam!!!

Is this public exam necessary? What is a big hu ha of getting straight A's for exam? Will this exam prepare them for the future? If it does, I bet it's minimal.

Exam kills creativity, exam conforms to uniformity, exam kills passion, exam is soooo last year!!!!!!!

Exam produces robot, do we want robot for our future generation? What we should focus is developing a person's true potential. Someone who does not do well in exam, does not mean she's hopeless, maybe her interest is not there, maybe she is capable to do other great things but we will never know as our education is very examination based. So this type of person will lose out in our education system and hence jeopardizing her future.

Gone were the days when teachers were our first-hand information, we went 'oooh aaah' discovering new things from them, learning was fun then because we indeed learn something new in school, we will lose out so much if we don't go to school but today you can get information anywhere and everywhere at the tips of your fingers, so why do we need to test them on what they learn in school when they have learned so much more outside which is possibly more relevant to what they want to pursue in future.

What we need to focus on is creativity, get the kids to produce, design or create some things new, some thing special, some thing extraordinary, do practical things rather than theory. We need to produce more rounded teachers, teachers that can teach more than what it is now, teachers who are dancers, writers, cheerleaders, poets, actors, chef, web designers, conductors, technician rather than the 'chalk and talk' teacher. I bet there will be more people interested to become teachers if we offer these things to them. We get teachers who are passionate of their jobs because they are doing things they love. Not people who choose teaching as their last resort. There's a saying 'there is no such thing as lousy students, only lousy teachers'. Only with well rounded teachers, we are able to produce well-rounded students.

I believe if we embrace this paradigm shift, we have less problematic students, we will have happier teachers and happy teachers will create a happy environment to mould happy students who just love to go to school. As today's schools do not function as the only knowledge centre and as I mentioned earlier, kids today can get any information they want as easy as 'A, B C' and the teachers role is to guide them not to test them.

Some things need to be changed with our education system and I go for NO to exam!!! How irony a teacher myself does not believe in exam? The truth is I've seen many of my students who are super talented but sadly they are not in their teachers good book just because they are different and they do not do well in exam. In our education system, if you excel in other things rather than academic, you will not go far. There is not much support in our education system for other things besides academic. What is sadder is these co-curricular activities (the things that they love to do) often take the back seat once they are in Form 3 and Form 5 just because they want to stay focus on their major exam. Not because they want too but their parents told them to do so.

I am blessed with potential students, it is sad that we gauge their achievement only by how well they do in their exam.

Mind you I am not all against exam, students still need to be assessed so that they advance to the next level and assessment or evaluation creates a sense of responsibility and awareness but it should be done school based not the major exam that we have now!!! Public exam for Year 6, Form 3 and 5 is just too much!!!

P/S - To my third former students, if you are reading this, you still have to sit for your PMR exam and it means so much to me if you score all A's in this exam, so stop wasting your time going online and reading this post. Go and study because you people have less than 2 months before the exam (58 days to be exact)!!!

Don't Call Me a Wonder Mom

2010-08-06T22:50:00.001+08:00

Truth be told, having many kids don't actually make a person a wonderful mom, and I am uncomfortable when we people judge me to be a super wonderful mom, just because I have 5 kids.

I ain't no wonder mom, I'll tell you why;

First I have a lot of help as I am staying with my parents. My mom adores kids and she loves my children to bits, so she helps me a lot in the upbringing of my children.

I have a wonderful maid who has been with us for 5 years, she too loves children and a very good cook and those skills that she has have make my life a breeze as you all know I am lousy in the kitchen (totally hopeless!).

I often shout at my kids, I use cane to get my message across, child psychology? I truly suck at that.

Sometimes I feed them junks, I treat them to pizza, ice-cream, burgers, hotdogs anything that makes my life easier provided I don't have to be in the kitchen to prepare them.

I don't make them to do revision daily, my motto is 'if you are done with your homework, I am fine'. Revision is only done 2 weeks before the exam.

They are allowed to watch tv everyday, at least an hour a day.

I have stock of chocolates and ice-cream in the fridge.

I love shopping and they often manage to fool me to get the things they want. I just love the feeling buying things for my kids and watching the satisfied look on their face.

Despite all these flaws and shortcomings, I am still the BEST mom for my kids!!!! ahak ahak.

P/S- I have a lot of regret sometimes and I am definitely not proud of myself and I am working to be a better
mom for my children.

So please don't call me a wonderful mom because I am far from that and I truly don't deserve it.

The Subway's Challenge

2010-07-24T21:49:00.001+08:00

I'm happy to announce i've completed the Subway Today's Special Challenge yay!:-

What I can conclude is that, my favourite days will be :-

a) Tuesday - Cheesy Tuna
b) Thursday - Meatball Marinara though i find this a bit too mouthful to eat.
c) Saturday - Seafood Crab
d) Sunday - Chicken Teriyaki
e) I love all the veggies except olives and onions. Yucks!!!
f) My favourite sauces are - teriyaki, bbq, thousand island and chilli.
g) My favourite cookie is the Chocolate chip - a bit too sweet though.
h) my favourite breads are parmesan oregano, honey oat hearty italian- all toasted.
So if you plan to give me a treat in Subway, make sure you choose any of those days listed above, any day is also possible but you have to pay RM3 more than the promotional price.

P/S- I enjoyed completing this challenge. So what should I do next before the fasting month?

The Kakis

2010-07-20T00:09:00.002+08:00

I am blessed to have such wonderful friends, who not only make me laugh but who stick with me through thick and thin, who believe in me and who will always stand by me. My usual kakis are a reflection of the One Malaysia concept.

Not only with laugh the loudest, we have the same wavelength too, most of us are passionate in what we are doing and always wanting to do/be the best. The Teachers' Concert is a prove of how well we have worked together and how we were receptive to different ideas given and how all of us wanting to deliver and do the best considering the kids had to pay to watch us perform.

The whole process prior to the event had been exciting and fun. A person came up with the idea to do Bollywood dance, everybody got excited, one person said lets do to the song of Jaiho and that further added to our excitement. We met during the first week of the school holiday to brainstorm and learning the steps, we even brought our kids during practices, while they jumped into the pool, we danced but still keeping an eye on them. Despite that we had the PTK exam to sit, we still met up after that to learn our dancing steps.

We did not get to meet up after that as everyone was going off for a holiday and busy with whatnot hence I had written all the steps into a piece of paper and kept it inside my handbag. The first 2 weeks of school, had been a busy week as we had to finish up marking the exam papers and keying the marks and preparing for Open Day. We met again 2 weeks before the event and when I took the paper out, I could not decipher what I have written since it was all crumpled up. Thus we made some adjustments to the steps however this time around we did not manage to get everyone to come for practices as one was busy with her cheerleaders and one had a course to attend to.

We met up after school hours with only the 3 or the 4 of us doing our routine and it was a really good work out as we seldom do our exercises too anyway. We laughed when we couldn't remember our steps and we improvised on some of the steps so that our booties will move more. We agreed to rent our costumes and during the fitting session, we were being silly and laughed hysterically at each other. It was a fun day though one of us was so stressed up for the Hari K the next day.

The week of the event, some of us were busy with the Musical Night preparation but we still made time to practice and we only got everyone to come to practice a day before the Teachers Concert itself, but most of us came well prepared.

On the day itself,we were all nerves as we were worried that we might forget our steps or it will be a blunder, but my team members assured each other that we will be fine and we are good at covering up our mistakes by smiling and continue doing our moves. We had the cheerleaders to help with our make-up and putting on fake eyelashes and that moment was hilarious too, we got more excited when we put on our costumes and we had one last practice in the Wawasan Room.

We were called to the backstage at 11.30 am and everyone there looked really good in their attire, all made up until we couldn't even recognize some of our colleagues. Hearing the shouts and applause from the students made us more nervous but at the same time looking forward to get it over and done with. We requested to perform second so we can watch other teachers doing their performance and enjoying the rest of the show. I knew my team members depended on me and I was restless, walking up and down the hall way, playing the steps in my mind and suddenly when we were called to the stage I was in my element and we were all out doing our dance. We called ourselves the 'Pussycat Mommas'.

The response that we got was overwhelming, some students actually gave us a standing ovation, we were jubilated!!! We truly enjoyed our moment of glory after that when we discovered that others enjoyed it too.We have been getting positive feedback so far. Pure satisfaction!!! We loved every moment of it, but to have an encore? No way. Other performances were equally great too especially the Nobody dance, The Pontianak Dance, the solo singers, the fashion show. Everyone was a real sport.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for making us feel special and we hope the RM5 was well spent.

The 6 of us!!! The Pussycat Mommas.

How to Make a Woman Happy

2010-07-09T15:44:00.000+08:00

Look what I found on the net.

It's not difficult to make a woman happy. A man only needs to be:

1. A friend

2. A companion

3. A lover

4. A brother

5. A father

6. A master

7. A chef

8. An electrician

9. A carpenter

10. A plumber

11. A mechanic

12. A decorator

13. A stylist

14. A sexologist

15. A gynecologist

16. A psychologist

17. A pest exterminator

18. A psychiatrist

19. A healer

20. A good listener

21. An organizer

22. A good father

23. Very clean

24. Sympathetic

25. Athletic

26. Warm

27. Attentive

28. Gallant

29. Intelligent

30. Funny

31. Creative

32. Tender

33. Strong

34. Understanding

35. Tolerant

36. Prudent

37. Ambitious

38. Capable

39. Courageous

40. Determined

41. True

42. Dependable

43. Passionate

44. Compassionate

WITHOUT FORGETTING TO:

45. Give her compliments regularly

46. Love shopping

47. Be honest

48. Be very rich

49. Not stress her out

50. Not look at other girls

AND AT THE SAME TIME, YOU MUST ALSO:

51. Give her lots of attention, but expect little yourself

52. Give her lots of time, especially time for herself

53. Give her lots of space, never worrying about where she goes

IT IS VERY IMPORTANT:

54. Never to forget:

* birthdays

* anniversaries

* arrangements she makes

HOW TO MAKE A MAN HAPPY

1. Show up naked

2. Bring Drinks

IT IS VERY IMPORTANT

3. Leave Him Alone

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Contradictory Ibu

2010-06-29T21:30:00.003+08:00

Kisah Aina lagi....

This episode happened some time back, can't actually remember when. I'm not sure about yours but my kids love to be told to do things over and over again. I'm just not sure why they enjoy hearing the Ibu goes slightly above her normal pitch. There was this one day, I told everyone as usual to take their bath, while I was busy downstairs, when I came up, I saw everyone has taken their bath except for Kakak Aina who was happily watching television only with her panties and camisole on. I then blew my top and started nagging and telling her off and about being a big girl should set an example to the younger siblings yadda..yadda...yadda..

She with her sour face then dragged her two feet into the bathroom, once done, she took her pyjamas and unashamedly dressed herself in front of me and I went 'dah besar...bla..bla..malulah sikit..bla...bla.. you're 10 already..big girl...tut*tut* pun dah nak tumbuh dah...coverlah sikit..bla..bla...

The day after, she wanted to buy ice-cream, I was pissed off because she decided to tell me that once we have reached home after I have driven them around after their co-curricular activities, so I got upset again and she got another shelling for taking me for granted..yada..yada...yada. And then she went why are you scolding me? I can go buy it all by myself, I can cross the street and I don't need you to take me there. And Ibu responded with 'you're still young...bla..bla..bla..it's not safe..bla..bla..remember Nurin...bla..bla..kena culik..budak kecik..yada..yada..yada..

And then she went 'Which one am I Ibu? Big or small? Young or budak besar? Can you please decide? You are definitely confusing me.'(while scratching her head)

Cheh!
Parenting?
When can I ever get it right?

P/S- Aina, you are kecik or besar whenever I want you to be!!!! Your duty as my child is to do what I told you to do. Don't argue.

P/P/S - Kids - you spend the 2 years of their life teaching them to walk and talk and the rest of the years telling them to sit down and shut up.

Aina is back!!!!

2010-06-27T20:11:00.000+08:00

So Aina came back yesterday evening and everybody was excited and so happy to see her. They all came running down the stairs shouting 'Kakak Aina dah balik! Kakak Aina dah balik! Yay!' I tell you the house was pretty quiet without her around and everyone went 'When is Kakak Aina coming back? We miss Kakak Aina.'

Kids are funny you know. When the Kakak is around they get into so much fight and Kakak Aina being her nosy and bossy self will start too bicker and sometimes the way she scolds the siblings lagi teruk pada Ibu dia marah and we often tell them to sit down and shut up and suddenly when she's gone, it feels awkward that there's no one to boss around the younger ones and the silence was just deafening.

Anyway back to Aina, she had so much fun camping and she hopes that she will get selected again for the camp. My girl is definitely an outdoor girl, give her anything to do with outdoor activities, she's up to it. Jangan suruh duduk rumah and study and you can see her long face. Why ah liddat? When I asked her how is it like sleeping in the tent, she went cool ibu, can we buy a tent and camp outside the house? Pulak! And according to her the nights that it rained, they camped inside the hall and it was all fun.

Glad that she had fun.

P/S- "Ibu ustazah said if we mandi bogel, malaikat tak akan dekat. So can I wear panty and camisole when I mandi from now on." "But you still young darling, takpe kot mandi bogel." (Ish! ish! I'm ashamed of myself, teruk betul Ibu dia ni) *ada tanduk kat kepala*

Missing My Girl

2010-06-25T19:50:00.001+08:00

Aina has gone off for a 'Kem Perdana Kebangsaan' and I am missing her terribly. The fact that handphones are off limit made this separation more unbearable.

The night before the camp, as we were packing her stuffs she told me she is looking forward to this camp as this will be a real camp since they are all going to squeeze into big tents not the usual camp she has attended where participants actually stayed in a hostel and slept on a proper bed.

Before she went off to lala land that night, she cried a bit when she realized she has not many friends with her there. Too many strangers and the only person from the same school who is going with her is a Year 5 girl who she doesn't really know that well. Ironically, she doesn't have much choice as they are only selecting 2 students as representatives a Year 4 and a Year 5 who are AJKs of that uniformed body.

As she is the only Year 4 AJK for that particular uniformed body, the teacher didn't actually give her much choice, on the other hand, knowing Aina dia memang suka benda-benda cam ni. The teacher called both of us begging Aina to go and as Aina pun tergedik2 nak pergi. My hubby said 'bagi jelah' it will be a good experience for her, little that we know that connection to her is almost non-existence except to call the teacher and ask how she is as she is not allowed to use phone there. Sigh!

She went off last Thursday morning and coming back tomorrow evening. And the fact that it has been raining for the past 2 nights has made me worried sick on how her condition like sleeping in the tent. Kesiannya anak Ibu!

How to Win Your Wife's Heart 101

2010-06-17T21:12:00.006+08:00

It's very easy actually to win a wife's heart because we women are soft hearted especially to the person we love. It actually doesn't take much of an effort but the correct approach to it will make this world a better place to live in and our home a haven on earth.

1. What husbands need to know is that most wives hope that men will show some compassion without even telling, for example try helping the wife around the house with the household chores and you can see the wife will be sooooooo grateful and a happy person that she no longer feels tired easily doing the same stuff over and over again.
What usually makes us grumpy and then we started to nag because men refuse to be sympathetic and labeled housework as a wife's job. Excuse me, there's no such thing, most couples now are both working, you can't expect a wife to go to work and take care of the housework all by herself. You need to eat too and wear clean clothes right? So do your part in helping out and everyone's happy. It doesn't take much actually just a simple-simple thing like throwing the rubbish without the need to be told or help washing the dishes will make the wife all wide smiled.

2. Allow the wife to have some 'me' time. Maybe a husband can try to care for the kids all by himself once in a while and you can see the positive changes in her. She appreciates you and the kids more.

3. Talk nicely to her if you need things to be done or there is something you are unhappy about, try approaching the subject in a subtle manner and you will see she will respond to it better than blaming her or accusing her for things not done right. If you do it gently she will be more open to change her way or style.

4. Surprise her. It doesn't have to be expensive gifts and not all women like flowers but you will be surprised how they will react to flowers if they are given as a surprise because most women love surprises as there are signs of love, affection and appreciation.

5. Most people say that men are like babies they love to be pampered. Well, well waddaya know women love to be pampered too. A good foot massage or a shoulder massage after a long, tiring day at work, gives us this signal that our husband cares for us.

6. Impromptu hugs and kisses with no hidden agenda and saying 'I love you' daily may seem cheap but they are definitely a way to a wife's heart.

7. Go on a date - just the two of you and it definitely brings back the passion and the fire you used to feel for each other during your courting period.

8. Help the kids with the homework or attend to their needs and you can see the wife is thankful she has chosen you as her husband and the father to her children.

9. Pay for her facial or haircut and she will be truly grateful.

10. Don't be stingy with compliments- do it often and sincerely for her look, dress, the food that she cooks or the way she does her things.

11. Make a point to remember important dates like birthdays (wife, kids), anniversary and make a point to celebrate.

12. Be a good listener - it matters to a woman for a husband to listen to her point her view and take her words seriously.

13. Call her or message her from time to time when you are away from each other.

14. The easiest way and it definitely would work everytime is to take her shopping and pay for her stuff(with no complaint) and you will have the happiest wife in the universe on that day.

Dare to try?
Do it and you will win a lottery!

*Not only that a happy wife contributes to a happy home and a happy home brings out happy children, happy children make happy people. Happy people contribute to a happy society.

Here's to a better world to live in.

Lesson In Life

2010-06-06T18:23:00.002+08:00

Read this from Cerita Ibu's blog and I thought to share it here.

The following is the philosophy of Charles Schulz, the creator of the 'Peanuts' comic strip.

You don't have to actually answer the questions. Just ponder on them.

1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world.
2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.
3. Name the last five winners of the Miss America pageant.
4. Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer Prize.
5. Name the last half dozen Academy Award winners for best actor and actress.
6. Name the last decade's worth of World Series Winners.

How did you do?

The point is, none of us remember the headliners of yesterday.

These are no second-rate achievers. They are the best in their fields.

But the applause dies.
Awards tarnish.
Achievements are forgotten.
Accolades and certificates are buried with their owners.

Here's another quiz. See how you do on this one:

1. List a few teachers who aided your journey through school.
2. Name three friends who have helped you through a difficult time.
3. Name five people who have taught you something worthwhile.
4. Think of a few people who have made you feel appreciated and special!!
5. Think of five people you enjoy spending time with.

Easier?

The lesson:
The people who make a difference in your life are NOT the ones with the most credentials, the most money...or the most awards.They simply are the ones who care the most.

Pass this on to those people who have either made a difference in your life, or whom you keep close in your heart.

You are the Sweetest

2010-05-31T17:08:00.000+08:00

You are the sweetest because:-

1. When I told you my watch doesn't work and I had to wear the expensive special watch you bought on a daily basis, you brought me to the watch shop and got me another pair, I thought of getting a simpler one but you were very concerned that I am truly satisfied with the choice I make.

2. When I told you, I don't have many jeans to wear because I'm getting healthier and healthier day by day, instead of telling me to exercise or lose weight, you bought me another pair with no question asked.

3. When I told you that I charged the card during my trip to Langkawi on top of the pocket money you gave me which you thought was adequate for my shopping spree, you just asked 'how much?' and nothing else after that.

4. When bibik is not around, you take us all to dine outside just because you know how helpless I am in the kitchen.

5. When you have extra money you always think about what to get me and the kids and not much of yourself.

6. When I say I'm tired or not in a mood to go out, you don't mind handling the kids all by yourself.

7. When I say I would like to go for facial,cut my hair, you don't mind paying for it.

8. When I say I need to attend to my farm, you don't mind putting the baby to bed so I can do my farm with ease. ahak ahak.

9. When something goes wrong, like when I knocked the car couple of times you seldom put the blame on me.

10. You handle all the bills and file everything and I know nuts about all these things.

I'm truly blessed. Darling my thanks can be overrated but I believe I can never thanked you enough for making everything easy for me.

The Langkawi Trip

2010-05-23T17:58:00.014+08:00

Ok so the Langkawi trip was last weekend. To me, it was a blast because I was travelling with my good friends and the cherry on the cake was that, we were all roommates, how cool is that?

Anyway from the Langkawi trip I can actually summed up few things. Among them are:-

1. never have I laughed so much in the past 10 years. Oh yeah we had loads of fun.
Travelling with friends makes me feel young again. I'm not wearing any hat,
I was just me, not a mother, not a daughter, not a teacher, not a wife. It was
awesome to lead such carefree life once in awhile.

2. never have I shopped for chocolates that much. The damage? I'm not
telling. ahak ahak. That bad ok, I lacked the self-control.

3. never have I sang in public before, I'm not sure what made me, but I was hyped
up that night and sang a dangdut number. I was terrible but my horrendous
'gelek' made up for my ugly voice.

4. I had a lot of energy, though I didn't sleep that well for the 2 nights I was
there, I wasn't tired. Amazing? I was amazed at myself too.

Now I know what I need to make me feel good, go traveling with the girls. We should do this again.Who's with me?

Me and my girlfriends

Will upload more photos once I get the memory card from a friend, hopefully.

Man with no legs and arms - Inspiring story

2010-05-21T21:45:00.000+08:00

This is truly inspirational. Every time, when I'm feeling down or when I think life has been unfair to me, I'll view this video and all my problems suddenly become insignificant and are just minor. It definitely changed me to be more thankful and grateful with what I have and I hope it will do the same to you too.

Good Mothers Don't Do Such Thing?

2010-05-09T16:36:00.004+08:00

I was watching Oprah today, tribute on mother's day, how this mother named Brenda left her 2 year-old daughter at the back seat of her MPV for 8 hours and eventually killed her as she suffered from heat stroke, her skin was peeling and her mouth had produced white foam. How could a mother forget her own child? Does that make her a bad mother? Are we the best judge to say that she is incapable of taking good care of her kids? Apparently not, turned out she is such a loving and a caring mom who was just unlucky that this mishap could happen to her.

Brenda a career woman who leads such a hectic life, on top of her demanding job, she goes home to attend to her 2 small kids, cooks and cleans the house. That day, there was a slight change to her routine. Usually it was the husband's job to send the kids to the sitter, however, on that tragic day he had a dental appointment that morning so the duty was shifted to Brenda. The child was still asleep when she picked her up and put her into the backseat of her car. As it was way too early to send the child to the sitter, she decided to get some stuff as she normally did, she reached her workplace, began unloading her stuff and as she held a very demanding job she had totally forgotten the baby who was still asleep, left in the car. She felt something was amiss but couldn't put what into it until it was almost 4 pm when everybody was about to go home when a friend suddenly came running to her saying that she has left her baby in a car. She knew then it was too late. She was traumatized by the whole incident, all the time blaming herself and it didn't help either when society started pointing to her and call her a bad mother. She then lead a solitary life for a year before she finally agreed to be interviewed by Oprah on what had actually happened on that day. In her interview with Oprah, what caught my attention was when she said 'good mothers don't do such thing'.

This incident could happen to anybody, am guilty of that too. Mondays are usually my busiest day, I usually get home at 5.30 pm after my orchestra practices. There was this one Monday early this year, I had to attend to so many things, can't remember what they were. I remember that day being unfocus as my mind wondered to too many things that required my attention. At that period, Hilman has to undergo a few sessions of therapy on a daily basis. As the centre closed at 6.30 pm, I rushed to get home to pick up Hilman and my mother. Parking in that area was horrendous, after making a few rounds I told my mom to get down first. I think after almost 15 minutes, I found a spot which was about 100 metres away from the centre. I quickly went down, ran to the centre to secure my son a place when my mother asked me where Hilman is. I could feel my blood draining as I have totally forgotten about Hilman left on the backseat of my car. I ran back to the car and I could see him sweating and crying at the top of his lungs. I quickly grabbed him into my arms, showering him with kisses and whispering sweet nothings to his ear. I was so thankful that he was alright. But I felt really bad. I was a bad mother who have failed to protect and to care for my kid. And when I got back to the centre, I could see people shaking their heads, 'tsk'ing me and went 'how could she forget her own baby?'. The feeling was awful as I could not defend myself as I was truly guilty.

So when I was watching Oprah this afternoon, I could relate to Brenda, and I believe I am not alone, I bet there are other mothers out there too who have experience quite similar situation too, like forgetting to pick up their kids from school, tuition or the child suddenly went out of our sight. I am not justifying myself, what I did was definitely wrong and intolerable but actually there are many factors contribute a mother to such act.

Being a mother is one tough job, as she has to oversee to almost everything, people expect a mother not to lack in her job, there is no room for mistake, though many of us try to achieve to be the perfect mother, at the end of the day there is no such thing as a perfect mother.

So to all mothers out there, I advise you, maybe to slow down a little, take time to breathe and we can only achieve certain things at a certain time, we make mistakes, the most important thing is to pick up the pieces and learn from the mistakes we made. After all we are all human, we are bound to make mistakes.

Happy Mother's Day!!!!

People Change

2010-05-04T23:50:00.001+08:00

I was looking at my ex-high school friends photos and I was thinking to myself how I will never fit into the party. I felt sad (no, not sad, I'm not sure what I'm feeling) but there's this tight knot feeling in my stomach that I cannot actually express what the feeling is. Am I making any sense here?

You know it is the kind of feeling you get when you remember how close you were with these people, how you laughed, fought, cried, shared your secrets and how so much in common you had with these people, how you used to have so much to talk about and suddenly now you feel that there is a distance in your relationship with them, how these people once you called your good friends are now in a different league than you are.

Now that I am more matured than I used to be, I feel that when some people say they have never changed doesn't really mean good news to me, because I cringe now when I see my thirty year old friends talk or dress like they are still eighteen, how they still talk about fashion and still get excited about men, how the still go partying at night whereas I mull over mundane things like what to cook for dinner, how to be a good mother/wife or how to raise obedient children. Maybe I have changed so much and I am now no longer a fun person to hang out with.

Just a couple months back, I had the opportunity to bump into another of one my closest high school friends through facebook and how ecstatic I was when we decided to meet over a cuppa. Here I was jumping to the idea of finally meeting my good old friend but the meeting felt so strange as it turned out that we didn't have nothing much to talk about. We had some awkward moments as we did not have an expanded conversation, the silence was uncomfortable that I just couldn't wait to finish off my coffee and bid my farewell. I am not sure what has happened to us, but she sounded bitter, she has all the not-so-nice thing to say about other people, the country, the law, the kids school, the husband basically about everything and the injustice that is happening around the world and that just killed my mood. In other words, I cannot utter a single thing without her having some negative remarks to make, in less than half an hour she somehow has managed to change the happy-go-lucky me into a pessimistic, unhappy and ungrateful being. From that moment onwards, we no longer chat in facebook and I try my best not to cross her path. It is funny come to think of it how I used to enjoy her company, a person I used to run to when I have anything to share.

Whatever it is those mentioned above are just a few of them as I am still blessed with wonderful friends around me. I am ME when I am with them and I like the ME in me when I am in their company. Darn! Pardon me, if I still don't make any sense here as this is the ME that I am referring about. Get me?

Ahak ahak. Have a good day.

The Prize Giving Ceremony

2010-04-24T22:47:00.000+08:00

It is nice to be acknowledged by the school leavers, though only a handful them came to meet and greet me, it was a wonderful feeling....to be remembered!!!

So today was the prize-giving ceremony known as MPPH in my school (Majlis Penghargaan dan Penyampaian Hadiah). Seeing the ex-Form 5s who came with such dazzling outfits, stilletos clad to their feet, immaculate make up, designer handbag, up-to-date electronic gadgets, put my image in my humble baju kurung and the usual eyeliner and lipstick me with shabby looking shoes and handbag to shame. Oh my! How they have grown to beautiful, matured looking ladies and pursuing courses that I have never known existed, made me swell with pride. Last year's Form 5s have made us proud and I do miss them mostly my orchestra members.

The ceremony went well I would say, my orchestra girls played really well and many commented they were good and I am relieved and looking at my principal's face who was wide smiling and gave us a thumb's up made me proud, all the hard work really paid off. I am happy to announce that I have such pleasant girls in my club, though they often get shelling from us the teacher advisors, they never keep grudges and they are helpful to one another. There is lots of work to be in orchestra but they are not whiners and I am content.

Thank you girls for a wonderful performance. We have one more major event to think of the Inter-School String Orchestra Competition on the 17th of July...please make us proud of you again!!!

Long Overdue Post -Months of Birthdays

2010-04-14T21:59:00.007+08:00

Aaaahhhh.....choooo!!! Fuh my blog is dusty indeed, cobwebs galore...

The month March and April are months of birthdays in this family. It kicked off with Dhaniyah's 4th birthday on the 5th of March, my second brother's birthday on 14th of March, Hilman's 18th of March, my nephew and niece on 21st of March, my mom on the 22nd, mine 4th of April, my sis-in-law, Juliana on the 10th of April, my son Nabil 13th of April, my dad on 14th of April and my eldest sis-in-law's birthday on the 28th of April. So basically memang kenyang makan kek jelah.

This year Hilman's birthday fell on school holiday, we took the opportunity to celebrate his birthday in Melaka. Hubby managed to get good rate for a villa there and we had a blast. We had a lot of fun. As the villa came with a swimming pool, the kids had a good time, jumping in and out of the pool as in which and when they wish. The party was supposed to be by the pool side but since the weather was hot, we changed the venue to be indoor. On the way to Melaka, we bought KFC and we brought some kuih and a birthday cake which I ordered from Kak Yani the Kitchen Guardian. Since my good friend is also living in Melaka, we invited her to come and join in the celebration. The whole family came, they brought along their swimming suits, the children didn't waste much time, changed into their swimming attire and within minutes all the children are in the pool accompanied by the fathers, while mothers watching by the sidelines. Shouts and laughter could be heard and it was a wonderful sight. Thank you Ila for making up the crowd.

The children having a whale time

Happy Birthday Hilman.

The next day we went to the Animal Safari, we love going here as the place is clean and we love watching the shows.

During the bird show

The elephant ride

The boat ride to the monkey island

Aina and Nabil volunteered for the elephant show

That same night we went to Cowboy town, the kids loved the parade but no photos were taken because we had our hands full carrying Hilman and Dhaniyah who were afraid of the fireworks.

The next day, we went to the Extreme Park, the kids tried the go-kart while we tried doing the archery.

They almost gave us heart attack when they went 'vroom vroom'. They were fast.

My first time doing archery, I did pretty well, I scored 22 points over 100 not badlah at least my arrows ada jugak yang kena the board apa...

We truly enjoyed our stay in the A'Famosa villa and I highly recommend it to other big families like us, we took the 3 bedded room and each room came with a one queen size bed and a single bed, so it was spacious and comfortable.

On the 13th of April was Nabil's 8th birthday, we didn't do anything much but he brought cupcakes to school to be shared with his classmates.

My son the die-hard Liverpool fan. Photo courtesy of Kitchen Guardian, the person who made my son the happiest boy on his birthday.

He was happy with the cuppies and he declared himself the most popular boy in his school that day as many of his friends admiring the cakes and commented how tasty it tasted too.

Well, above are some interesting events that have been happening and worth sharing for the past one month. Other interesting stuffs were the kids sports day, my birthday, mom's, dad's birthday but no photos accompanying so malaslah nak report.

Cheerio! More later, perhaps?!!! ahak ahak.

Alamak! How should I React to This?

2010-03-15T01:21:00.003+08:00

You know when people commented "Waaa..you have 3 girls ah? Pening ah nanti." I didn't actually comprehend what they are trying to say. To me nurturing children is one tough and challenging task and I do not think having different genders children would make much of a difference.

And I always hate it those people who read about social ills in the newspaper or listen to the immoral acts of todays teenagers and went 'Nasib baik aku takde anak perempuan'. What is that supposed to mean? What are you trying to say here? That all the things happening are all women's fault because it is visible to us and it is ok for men to have such bad behaviour because the parents tak payah tanggung malu sebab orang tak nampak if the child ter'pregnant'.

What I want to stress here is please do not make such gender bias kind of comment, it is the man who is supposed to protect us the woman who apparently by nature dijadikan sebagai kaum yang lemah and not to take advantage of us. We are born with 9 nafsu and 1 akal whereas the men have 1 nafsu and 9 akal and kalau ikut maths pun 9 is such a big number and logically is able to kawal the 1 nafsu tu betul tak? I think it is just simple maths. Budak darjah 1 pun boleh identify that 9 is a lot lot more than 1.

So basically what I want to say here is that because we are so used to hear such comment, I believe it makes the men to become less and less responsible because society is condemning only the girls and not the boys. How is that fair? What we should say is, we all should take care of our kids and make sure this thing does not happen to us and not put all the blame only to one gender- the girls.

Alright actually what I want to write is not about the issue above but how my 10 year old daughter has been getting attention from the other species and I am not sure how I should I deal with it. You know when our kids were young we beamed when people praised them but now that she has slightly grown up and starts to develop some curves, I no longer appreciate the praise that she gets from the male species, grown men. The other day, when we were in pasar malam I told her to get the 'keropok lekor' while I buy the veggies at the next stall. The guy manning the stall started to strike a conversation with her, making jokes and whatnot and I got worried and that was not the first time it happened, there was one time that a guy selling burgers was busy asking her name and phone number, luckily she was smart enough not to 'layan' these people. These people could be harmless but it sure got me worried. Am I overreact? It is difficult now to get her to help buying things because she will bring this kind of distraction and I definitely do not welcome it.

Not only that, the other day, I happened to read her messages in her inbox. I wasn't snooping it's just that she told me to help with her FV. This boy confessed his love to my girl 'Aina please love me'. I got the shocked of my life, I asked her and she went 'I hate it Ibu, please delete the message.' The next day he wrote 'why are you not responding to me, is it because you love someone else?' and she went 'Issh Ibu gila ke apa budak ni?' She told me to delete the message but not until I replied to the message 'I am still young to think about love, can we be friends instead?' just because I was told he is such nice and a polite boy by her friends. He's not bad-looking too as he comes from a mix parentage, the mom is a 'minah salleh' ok, actually he's a hunk.

So yesterday when she was in the car with me, I asked about the boys in her school and she went 'semua kawan jelah Ibu and I'm not sure kenapa that boy tulis macam tu because I have never talked to him, he was my classmates last year tapi tak pernah cakap pun but the girls adalah usik cakap S is in love with me.' And I asked 'Dia pandai tak?' and she went "pandailah jugak, he is in the second class, I'm in third class' and I went 'he is good looking and clever, oklah tu Aina' and she went 'Apalah Ibu ni, Aina taknaklah, mengarutlah Ibu'. Ahh...what a relief! to hear her answered like that as I am not sure how am I supposed to react to that if she too develops the same feeling for that boy?

Oh Aina you still my baby, my little girl tau, don't think about boys yet until you are 25 ok?

Being Sick Is Awful

2010-03-08T13:46:00.000+08:00

Is it age or is it the virus? The kids are sick, my 3 younger ones are down with fever last Wednesday, the worst is Dhaniyah, her once chubby cheeks have now shrunken, she has lost her appetite, she doesn't take her milk as often and she cried during her birthday celebration as she was actually unfit to attend school, Dhaniyah is still unwell and she's not attending school today, Khairina is recuperating, fever gone but she has a slight cough, Hilman is still coughing but he has shown slight improvement.

I had fever too on Saturday and it was awful, is it age factor, the weather or the virus? The fever made my whole body ached, my head spinning and my feet felt like pins and needles everytime I had to put my feet on the ground. I have slight temperature today, I still feel dizzy and it sucks, the normal fever which usually takes 2 days to recover now it drags to 3 days, I want to blame the latter but I guess age is playing a factor too and the lack of exercise I believe is the main factor making my whole body so weak and fragile. It's a sign to start exercising and should consider to use the Wii Fit that is still sitting in the box, oh don't get me wrong, it is being put to good use, unfortunately not from me but by Nuraina who does her cheerleading routine using the Wii Fit and she has been losing quite a number of calories based on the record shown on the Wii Fit.

Ok, I feel quite dizzy now and would like to take a nap while Hilman is asleep, so take good care of yourself, try to stay indoor as much as you can because the weather is super-hot nowadays and talking about which Hilman is developing this heat rash all over his body and it is difficult as he is asthmatic he can't be in air-conditioned room for too long, he is allergic to sweat so what should I do? 'Fening, fening'.

My Dhaniyah

2010-03-03T21:42:00.001+08:00

This 5th of March, marks my Dhaniyah her 4th birthday. Dhaniyah a very entertaining girl, she has many stories to share, has a wide laugh and kuat merajuk at times. Dhaniyah is well-liked in school by her teachers and friends and she is the tallest in her class.

To my Dhaniyah, happy birthday dear
Ibu, Abah, Kakak Aina, Abang Nabil, Kakak Nina and Hilman love you so so very much.

Now I Know Why

2010-02-24T23:07:00.004+08:00

Though I tend and try to get along with everybody, there are some people that you can't really get along with and there are some people that you just seem to 'click' straight away like you really enjoy their presence and you have so much to talk to with that person, because you just 'click', you know what I mean?

There are some people that you can talk everything under the sun, you joke around with them, the jokes may sound harsh to others but we do not seem to mind, we are of the same wavelength, we understand each other's feeling and at times we tend to finish each other's lines. I'm glad and quite lucky in the sense that I quite have a number of friends who I just happened to 'click' right away. ,Amazingly, it does not take years to establish this bond, there are a few incidences that I just happen to click right away with these people, we may not see each other often but everytime we meet, we have a lot to share and we just enjoy each other's company.

Quite recently, I commented to a colleague of mine that I just love my Form 3 girls, maybe because I have taught a handful of them since they were in Form One. I have watched them grow from boisterous, immature kids to a more serious and lady-like girls. I can see some of them starting to take learning more seriously this year as the have a major exam to focus on compared to the previous years I have taught them.

In fact some of them are having me for almost 3 years of their school lives, and I do enjoy being with them. We 'click' and we are just interested to know more about each other and we just love sharing stories.

And today I was pointed out why we have this kind of 'tight' relationship, according to the chinese horoscope pointed out by my students 3K's students (Kae*shini, Karish*ma and Kary*na) teachers who are born on the year of a tiger will have a good time teaching students who are born in the year of pig RFLMAO! It sounded ridiculous but I just have to agree.

These kids sometimes make me feel important the celebrity -like kind of importance (LOL!) as they are just interested to know more about me, our routine lesson is sometimes filled with 'red herring' and that makes teaching them effortless and fun. And just like life not everything is a bed of roses and just like roses there are thorns, but I take all them as a challenge and constantly reminding them to not take things easy. Although they can drive me up the wall at times, they are actually fine girls who are capable of doing great things but more often that not they have not able to set their priorities right.

I really hope these girl will strive harder in their studies and will always remember their teachers. I know I have a lot of shortcoming and may not be the best teacher anyone can wish for but I believe each of my student has potential to achieve great success and I always pray for the success of my girls. Last but no least 'nagging teachers are caring teachers', remember that!

NB- This batch of students are the ones responsible in introducing me to the Twillight saga and got me hooked to it 2 years ago (thanks to Han*nna Suhaila), not only that they introduced me to the Night World series too, they are the ones who made me continue blogging after the in-house training that I attended (Angela Chong and the gang in 1B 2008), they are the people who made me read the novel P.S. I Love You and My Sister's Keeper and they are the ones who would tell me what movies or dvds worth watching.

So That's It!

2010-02-20T23:07:00.005+08:00

Well! well! well! Whaddaya know

The holiday is drawing to an end. Time really flies fast and the weather is super super hot. Oh wow that was random.

Anyway, we didn't do much, but lazing around at home is just as fun, what more with my 5 kids, but we did do something educational, we went to the Petrosains.

Timing was really bad, the place was swarmed with people and even to get into the elevators took us a few rounds. Some people just don't make way to big family with small kids, they were strong men, young couples and teenagers, you guys takelah the escalator, why go and menyesakkan the lift, pushing and whatnot and you people didn't carry much barang anyway, compared to us with stroller and carrying another child who suddenly refused to walk as the crowd intimidate her and 3 other children notwithstanding tagging along. Sigh! Malaysians have become so selfish, so self-centred, they have lost their sense of empathy and sympathy, how to teach our kids good moral values when the adults don't behave like one. So dont go around and say 'kid nowadays are ruthless' or 'the younger generation is insolent' when you yourself not showing the good examples, you cut queues, you lack the p's and q's, you dont follow the signs when it says No Entry you still pass through, you take other people's parking without feeling remorse oh the list can go on and on. Oooppss...I digress.

So we reached there, all excited to get in at 12.30, when we were told the next available slot is at 3.00 pm. I wasn't happy as Hilman needed his nap but my hubby insisted that we proceed with the plan. As he's the one wearing pants, I will definitely lose. So to kill the time, we went to Kinokuniya, we had lunch, we prayed and we back there at 2.45. The queue was long and it took us almost more than half an hour to get inside. The kids were restless.

Once it was our time, the kids got excited again when they saw the gondola to take us inside. The ride was fun and very informative. Hubby and I were so impressed with the technology used. As we reached the exhibition area, the kids started to run around holding this and trying that unfortunately, they were just too many people, we can't really explore much as we had to wait for our turns to try out all the things there. Although, it was educational trip, we were not able to do much due to the number of people visiting Petrosains on that day.

Enjoy the pics:-
Hilman was blown away with this singing dinosaur

The children had loads of fun at the Space Station

My kids as F1 drivers

We sure hope to come here again and the next time around we are going to do online booking so that we can get an earlier slot and get to explore and enjoy the things there more.

Muhibbah

2010-02-15T21:52:00.005+08:00

So the holiday is here and yesterday we brought the kids to the Zoo. I think age is really catching up with me as zoo is no longer a fun, amazing place to visit, and walking around the zoo is really tiring what more under the baking sun, the kids were ok, they weren't really impressed with the animals there, my guess is they had enough of animal watching when we were in Ecopark at Bukit Merah last holiday. Hilman was cute though when he went 'Eeee, akut, akut' when we were looking at the snakes and crocodile.

Group photo with the giraffes at the background

Feeding the deers

My girls trying to have a better view of the bulls

Check out Hilman's hat

The fun part was the tram ride and when we dine in MacDonalds as we were so hungry and the things sold in the zoo were damn expensive. I bought 3 bottles of mineral water, 4 packets of peel fresh (the small size) and it costed RM30.50. Even though we brought our own water but the sight of the cold mineral water was difficult to resist especially when you had been walking for hours under the scorching sun, so that explains the damage.

The tram ride, summed up the fun of the day

Today was fun too, we went visiting our friend for 'Gong Xi Fa Cai', this special friend of mine, made us feel so at home. The kids too were so comfortable playing with her kids and the couple was such a great host that 3 hours spent there wasn't enough for my kids. You know the kind of feelings you get with your best friend, you help yourself to the food, you laze around in her living room, the comfortable silence, is just wonderful. So for some people to accuse of being racist shows how narrow-minded those people can be to make accusation like that when this wonderful friend of mine has been getting 'most popular', 'most friendly teacher' award. And this award bestowed upon her was done through votes from the students whereby 70% of the school enrolment are Malays.

So to this friend of mine, I know you're not, you know you're not, the students know too that you're not and they are the best judge as they are our clients, so I hope you are not saddened by the accussation made by some irresponsible, shallow thinking people because majority of us think you ROCK and the best of friend anyone can wish for!!!

The holiday is here

2010-02-13T00:49:00.003+08:00

Gong Xi Fa Cai and happy holiday everybody. Yippie!

Just a quickie,

About 4 days ago, Nabil asked whether I could buy a small aquarium for his class. So below is the conversation that took place between the mother and the son.

NabilIbu

Ibu can you buy a small aquarium for my class, cikgu nak.

Cikgu nak? Dia nak buat haper?

Cikgu nak bela ikanlah...

Bela ikan apa?

Cikgu kata dia nak bela ikan Filipina, pas tu saper2 yang naughty kena tukar air ikan tu.

Ikan Filipina? ahak ahak....ikan piranha lah darling.

And that conversation reminds me of a conversation that took place 3 years ago when he was 5.

Ibu I got a new teacher today.

Oh really, what's her name?

Her name is Ms February

Oh wow! That is such a unique name.

Tapi kan Ibu susahlah nak sebut nama dia.

Lama2 nanti senanglah
.
Later, I flipped open his memo book.

Dear Mdm,

This is to inform you that the En Mozart open day will be held this Saturday 12/4/2007.

Signed,
Ms Valerie
En Mozart class teacher.

You gain some, you lose some

2010-01-27T22:13:00.004+08:00

For the days that I have spent here, I think I have gained 3 kg. There's not much thing to do here. I can't really go out as Hilman will be so unhappy. I can't even go to the toilet without him crying. He hates everybody here, even the cleaner as he thinks that she is also a part of this conspiracy that will inject pain in him. So everytime when someone opens the door, he starts sobbing, and when they approach or say hello he wails.

So basically I have to take his temperature, give him his medicine, do the nebaliser, do the repercussion, is not that I mind but they disturb my sleep too.

I'm so bored here, I have no one to talk to, thank you 'blog' for keeping me company and allowing me to pour my feelings here. I'm so bored that I managed to interview almost all the trainees here. Hey do you know to learn nursing in Sime Darby for 3 years cost RM45,ooo? Gila mahal.

The reason I'm blogging now besides to kill the boredom, it helps me NOT to indulge in food, because I am so bored I ended nibbling as it gives me something to do. Yeah I know, pathetic!

Not only that as Hilman has lost his appetite due to his throat infection, I gobbled his food too, though not that yummy but why waste is my motto....again pathetic I know! This is what happened when you are cooped up in the four walls of the room with no adult to talk too. So lets see what have I ate for the past 2 days:-
a) 2 bars of chocolates (erkkkkkk...)
b) biscuits
c) cheese twisties
and all the 3 meals

I also realised the contractor workers here work until 9.00 pm everyday and there are just not many cleaners here. Last night, Hilman vomitted, so I requested for the room to be cleaned and moped and it was only done 4 hours later and... and.. Hilman physiotherapist this sweet young thing is a Penangite and getting married in June to a doctor here. This girl is so so gentle with kids. So good for her. And infact I would consider attending if it was done here. Ahak ahak I actually invited myself to her wedding. What a Loser!!!!

Sorry if I've wasted your time with my ramblings.

P/S- Can't believe I would actually say this, but 'I miss school, I miss the girls though I'm very sure the feeling is not mutual as they will go 'Yay no teacher today' but I do, just can't wait to get back to civilisation.

Recent update- Doctor just came in (imagine at 10.30 pm-takdak lifelah jadi doctor ni kan? yesterday was at 9.40 pm) and said 'Engku (aparaa doc tu bukan nama akulah...you're confirmed to go back tomorrow) yay! but you have to bring the child back again in 2 weeks time.

Waaaa................

2010-01-27T12:48:00.002+08:00

Doctor just came to check on Hilman. Though the fever is at bay but the cough is still bad. So it's going to be another night here. Waaa.....!!!

P/S- Bang if you're reading this, can you go and buy more Barney DVDs and a few for me too? e.g The Traveller's Wife, Labour Pain. I love you much.

Greetings From Room 571

2010-01-26T23:53:00.003+08:00

Oh yes, my baby is warded in SDMC, Room no 571, and tonight is my second night here and it is definitely not a nice feeling to be here.

This is his third time warded in less than 6 months. I feel bad!!! It shows that I have not been doing a good job.

This time around is just awful.

Hubby took him to the hospital last Monday as he has shown no sign of improvement, I didn't expect him to be warded as he didn't look that sick. He was coughing with slight flu. So I didn't follow them for his check-up as I thought he'll be undergoing physiotheraphy and that he'll be fine. Turned out it was more serious than that as his lungs were cloudy with phlegm and bacteria infected and he suffered from throat infection too.

When hubby told me he needed to be warded, I was still in school, sitting in a meeting hence I can't rush and see him there and then. Hubby told me he refused to eat and drink his milk as his throat hurt. After the meeting, sent my mom for her treatment, picked up the kids from school, sent Aina for Kumon, picked up my mom, packed my stuff and straight away made my way to the hospital.

He cried when he saw me and I was heart-broken as at this stage he has already lost his voice. He wanted to be carried and pointed to the door and said 'Alik, Ibu dom alik' (Balik, Ibu jom balik) and that was just painful hearing him say that.

He just cannot stand the sight of nurse as he will be bawling his eyes out crying non-stop until they left the room and that made him tired and he will fall asleep after that but his sleeps are often disturbed with nurses checking his temperature, for nebaliser session, physio, medication and he'll be crying during all these sessions. To make him stop I will to take over as he wouldnt let the nurses even to touch his hand.

He struggles less now during nebaliser but for pyshio he will be crying at the top of his lungs and shouting 'akit akit' (sakit sakit). It was excruciating to see him to go through all these but I know it is for his own good.

He's asleep right now and he's still wheezing. He has 2 more pysiotherapy sessions tomorrow and 2 more nebaliser and 1 more antibiotic shot and am praying hard that tonight will be our last night here.

For the days that we have spent here, he has watched 4 Barney's DVDs and I've watched 3 DVDs, The Proposal, My Sister's Keeper and Julie Julia which I bought them before Raya last year and didnt have the chance to watch and I loved each one of them. Such wonderful stories!!! They helped me to feel less miserable.

For the Curious Cat Out There

2010-01-23T15:45:00.003+08:00

Well, what can i say? Life has been busy. Work is starting to pile in, children are getting busy with their school work that needs Ibu's help almost all the time especially my Year One. Not only that I have to help her pack her bag everyday too. Besides all that, I am needed to chauffeur them around for their 'agama' school, house practice, tuition, piano, extra co-curricular activities, buying things for school and etc.

Some updates on the kids:-

1) Nuraina managed to get through the audition for her Choir Club and she is put in the Performing group hence she has practices on Wednesdays and Saturdays. I was not very keen for her to join choir the fact that she will be missing classes and the fee was (RM600) exclusive of costume that will be around RM80 and printed material (RM10) and (to think that my orchestra members are unhappy that they have to pay RM100 for a whole year). I was surprised that none of the parents actually complained on the amount which I find to be ridiculous but as my girl is very interested and she seems to be serious in it we might as well close one eye and pay for it, as anyway it will do her good (it better be as we have paid RM600 for that!) as she gets to perform and that I hope will give her good marks for her co-curricular as this team is a pretty strong team, they have won the district and the national level.

2) Nabil - third week of school and he has successfully managed to lose 3 erasers, 3 pencils and one pencil colour. On top of that he managed to misplace his bag where he keeps his PJK clothes in, his t'shirt and track bottom that we had to buy him a new set. (Geram!) He even lost his water tumbler and food container. (Double geram!!!)
His books has dog ears on almost all the pages, he has messy handwriting, last week he brought all his books to school as he was lazy to follow the timetable until I realized that his bag was heavy that I ran amok and he begins to follow his timetable after that. He is happier in school and we have no problem getting him ready compared to last year where he had been counting the days until the next weekend/holiday or the fact that he pretended that he couldn't wake up early in the morning and we might gave up on him and go 'Susah sangat nak bangun, tak payahlah pergi sekolah' but never happened, mak cikgu kan, takkan boleh tolerate anak nak ponteng sekolah. According to the teacher he is well behaved, helpful and obedient boy (the teacher exact words). "Errr...teacher, are you sure you are talking about my son ah?" was my thinking.

3) Khairina - school is starting to take its toll on her. She has been complaining of being tired and torpid but never once she said 'can i not go to school?' as she seems to like school. She was ecstatic the other day that Alysha (Haziq's sister) of Tom2 Bak knows her name though they are of a different class. Everyday she talks about this girl 'Alysha is sooooo pretty....., Alysha has nice bag....., I want to keep my hair long like Alysha (eh girl it was you who wanted your hair shortlah, saying that long hair not nice, may you look like 'Ju-On'), Alysha this...Alysha that... She has been wasting her money in the bookshop buying erasers, stickers and other useless stuff until I ran amok again and that had put a stop to her spendthrift in school. Her homework consists of writing the alphabets and numbers 1-10 and a lot of colouring that sometimes I have to help as all subjects need colouring Maths, Science, BM, English.

4) Dhaniyah now takes the van to school. She had problem the first 2 weeks that my hubby had to sacrifice his lunch hour and send her to school. She was ok the week after and prefers to ride on the van than having me sending her to school. The other day as I was getting ready to go out and I sprayed some perfume on me, Dhaniyah went 'Ibu you are sooooooooooooo smelly, I like'. ahak ahak.

5) Hilman has not been feeling well this week, he has been coughing with a slight flu, he has been showing symptoms of getting his asthma attack, just praying for the best and that he is not getting any worse.

P/S Hey turned out I have a lot to tell actually kan?

It was a good start!

2010-01-09T08:03:00.003+08:00

Though it was a lot of drama with my kids at home this week, life at work, has not been too bad. It was great too finally meet all my friends at work. I've been missing them. There's in fact a new addition to the panitia, turned out she was my boss for a work I did 4 years ago, I liked working with her and she is still the same nice lady I've known, so it is actually wonderful that she's now joining us here.

I like the classes I got, I hope to do more with the Form 3 classes this year. As some of these girls are getting me for the third year of their secondary school life. Not sure whether it's a pain or a bonus. I hope it's the latter. ahak ahak. I have not met the Form One yet, just hope that they would leave their immature, childish act in their former school and would not go 'teacher, teacher' everytime.
I am looking forward to meet them and scare them of their wits. Muahahaha. evil!

So here's hoping to a good year at work and at home.

Khairina and Dhaniyah First Day of School

2010-01-04T17:01:00.007+08:00

Khairina

So it was Khairina first day of school today. I still remember her first day in kindi, when she was 4, how she was unhappy and cried when I had to leave the premise. Hence I'd imagined that it may be a drama today too as well although few weeks before that she told me how excited she is to be in Year One and she just can't wait for school to start soon. Not only that she had been parading her school outfit in front of everybody with socks and shoes on and backpack strapped on her shoulders. So I commented on hubby that should be a good sign ain't it?

And that reminded me of Nabil on the eve of his first school day where he went 'Abah, is it true that I'll be Year One tomorrow? I'm not ready,' and how that statement caught us off guard as we thought he is brave enough to go through Year One and everything will be plain sailing. How wrong we were!!!

Alright back to Khairina, so I was actually prepared for her to suddenly get nervous breakdown and that she may shed a few tears or even throw a tantrum so I told hubby to just stay on until recess.

That morning when I woke her up, I was pleased that she woke up with a smile, getting her ready was also easy, so when all 3 were ready I sent them off to their father's car.
While I was at work, I called hubby to see how thing went and he said everything's fine. Khairina is ok and she has managed to make few friends.

Khairina eagerly waiting for the lesson to start

As my timetable was quite free on Monday, I decided to check on her during her recess. I watched her from afar and she was doing so fine, she looked calm and confident, she chit-chatted with her new found bestfriend, they sat together and ate the food they brought from home. When I aprroached, she was pleasantly surprised to see me and a few minutes later, the big brother joined her for break and played his brotherly role pretty well, sitting next to the sister and making her comfortable in this new environment. I was overwhelmed, they are both big kids now that I had to put both my hands on my chest. (Read : emo+overeact).

When I told her, I need to go off, she just said "Pergilah" and when I asked "Will you be alright?' She went 'Yes, yes, Ibu pergi ajelah' and that made me sad. My girl is so big, she doesn't need me that much anymore. Waaaaaaaaa....! Letting go is never easy. Soon, before I know it she's going to get married and she'll forget about me. Waaaa....!! (ok ok that was overboard and way out of topic). sorry.

Look at that smile. This photo is taken right after recess

Engrossed in a discussion

That night when I asked her how she liked her school, she said she liked it because she can go shopping and I went Shopping?! Where?! And she went shopping in the school canteen, I like it Ibu, I like spending money in the canteen. Hah! Alamak who taught you this huh? Wonder where you get that idea from? And that night before going to bed she told hubby that he doesn't need him to wait in school anymore.

We got worried for nothing. She is doing fine. She likes school just hope she continues to like school for the next 10 years of her life.

Dhaniyah

Today was Dhaniyah's first day in a kindergarten. We opted for the afternoon session class as she has trouble waking up early in the morning. For the past 2 weeks we have been getting her prepared for school by reminding her she needs to go to school soon and making her repeat her class name and teacher's name.

She was not eager with the idea of going to school. When we asked her whether she looks forward for school, she will say 'school ada slide' so we weren't sure whether 'ada slide' is good enough to make her go to school. Nonetheless, it was difficult getting her ready today, but when was told that I'll be coming home to take her to school, she was ok.

Was happy at the very beginning

Busy colouring

She made no fuss entering the classroom, so I was happy and I thought this should be easy. I told her to sit down, she obliged, the teacher gave her a piece of paper, a picture of 2 pears for her to colour, she quickly took out her colour pencils and began to colour, she was doing a good job and I told her that I shall wait for her outside, she went 'Ok, tapi Ibu jangan pergi mana-mana ok?' and in my heart I went 'Oh Oh' so I stood there and from time to time she would lift up her head to make sure I was there. About half and hour later the principal told us to leave the premise and that the children are under their good care so while I was making myself to the exit I heard 'Nak Ibu, Nak Ibu' and I saw her running after me. I did not have the heart to leave her that way, that I carried her back to her classroom, she protested but after I promised that I shall wait for her she agreed.

She was sobbing here

Instead of sitting on the chair, she decided to sit on me and continued colouring, they were other kids crying too and I felt bad that I was the only parent there when the rest had left the building. I then coaxed her to sit on the chair and to make sure that I will not leave her, she had one hand holding the colour pencil and colouring the picture given and the other hand all the time holding my hand. Smart girl!

About 20 minutes later, the teacher told them to line-up so they can go to the sink to wash their hands and ready for snack so I took the opportunity to fled when I heard a loud wail of 'Nak Ibu, Nak Ibu, Ibu tipu Niyah' Alamak! My own daughter called me a penipu. What example have I set? What have I done. It was a tear-jerker, heart-wrenching but I had no choice so I left the place.

I waited for her to get back, when she did, she looked happy and when I asked 'Did you like school?' She said 'Best' and when I asked are you going tomorrow she answered 'yes' I was overjoyed until she said 'Besok Ibu kena hantar shaya pash tu tunggu shampai shaya balik tau, shebab nanti shaya nangish shebab shaya shedih shangat shangat pash tu shaya nangish banyak banyak'

Ayoyo! How now brown cow?

I Know What You Did Last Christmas

2010-01-02T17:04:00.011+08:00

Happy 2010 Everybody!!!

Ok before school re-opens soon, I better write, what we did last Christmas holiday.

Last Wednesday 23/12 we headed to Penang for a holiday. We bunked in my sis-in-law's house for 2 nights in Bukit Mertajam. The place was actually pretty small to fit us a family of seven but as hubby doesn't like the idea of checking in into the hotel when he has his siblings around, he prefers that we sleep in the sister's house. His idea of strengthening the bond among family members. So who's to argue? I pity Hilman though as he is allergic to heat and sweat and for the 2 nights we were there, he didn't actually sleep well and he had been tossing and turning to find a good, comfortable, airy spot and on top of that he was scratching all over as he was perspiring. Nonetheless the hostess were such hospitable people and the kids had fun goofing with the aunt and uncle (the newly wed).

The next day we made our way to Penang. As the children never had the experience of riding on the ferry, we opted for ferry of course over the famous Penang Bridge. Once inside, the kids became quite 'jakun' going up and down the stairs on the ferry and watching the ram going up and down with amazement.

Enjoying the sea breeze

Happy faces first time on a ferry (the kids I mean)

The kids were amazed with the ram

Once we reached the Penang Island, we straight away headed to the Toy Museum. The journey to the Toy Museum took quite sometime as we were unfamiliar with the roads and the places that the kids began to complain and the million dollar question of 'are we there yet?' blurted from their mouth. I always thought driving in KL is bad enough but Penang's traffic is even madness. The roads are narrow and the drivers were more aggressive.

We reached the Toy Museum at around noon, and they were already many people inside mainly tourists, once stepped in the children were awed with the toys put on display and they went 'hey hey look! look! or 'check this out' or 'wow' or 'come come look what I've found' running around and shouting when they found toys or statue that were interesting or that they were familiar with.

The largest Toy Museum in the world

The entrance

With the character Po from Kung Fu Panda

A character from Monsters Inc

Hilman was just fascinated with the numbers of Sesame Street miniatures in the showcase

Dhaniyah with the one of the statues at the exit

Once in Penang we would not want to miss to savour the delicious nasi kandar there, so we opted for Kassim Mustafa as we were told they serve really good nasi dalca and kandar. And we have to agree, the dishes were indeed succulent.

Once our tummies were filled up, hubby thought of driving around in Penang, however as driving in Penang was just crazy with the heavy traffic that Christmas eve, and the children grew tired and started whining we decided to head back to Bukit Mertajam. The kids wanted to ride the ferry again though we suggested that we should try going on the famous Penang Bridge, but they insisted ferry ride would be more fun. So we agreed, but funny thing happened, hubby suddenly took the wrong exit and suddenly we were on Penang bridge much to the dismay of the kids. We thought of doing a u turn and ride again on the ferry to Penang but our sanity told otherwise.

The very next day after lunch, we made our to Bukit Merah Laketown Resort. Hubby booked a 2 room apartment in Suria apartment and the number of people checking in that day was just too many that it took quite a while for us to get into the room. The kids were satisfied with the size of the swimming pool and once inside the room, they quickly changed into their swimming suits.

As everyone was tired on that day, we turned in early to get ready to go to the Ecopark on the next day.

The next day after breakfast at the apartment, we went to the Ecopark, again the queue was long that I decided to bring the munchkins into the cafe as it was air-conditioned. So rather sitting around not buying anything, I decided to order one kiddie set meal for Hilman, as he was asleep when we went down for breakfast that morning. The meal was good that Hilman managed to finish the whole set. So nothing was wasted.

Once inside the Ecopark, I'll let the photos do the talking;

At the entrance

Feeding the tiny monkeys

Another monkey (I mean the one in the cage) ahak ahak

Since everyone else was just scaredy cat, I took the challenge with the albino pyhton

Feeding the deers

Hilman feeding the fish

The sky cycle ride

The fun of the day. The kids had 3 rounds of this ride

The very next day, the Orang Utan Island

At the jetty

The boat ride

The king, he has 4 wives

The playful babies

So like any other holiday, I was stressful and became more tired and I need a longer holiday to recover from this holiday. Typical me!

It's first day of school tomorrow, Khairina will be Year One, and I am more nervous than she is. Hope everything goes well. I wish to witness the day, however I have other children to think about and to take care off. Hubby will look through everything for the first 3 days, it will be Dhaniyah first day at kindi too. So here's hoping to a great year ahead.

Take care everybody.

It's A Party Here!

2009-12-17T21:21:00.004+08:00

My school holiday has been pretty productive. I have been attending to my farms and restaurant on a daily basis. I have managed to harvest thousands of crops, plants, milked the cows and been helping my neighbours with their farms and restaurant too. It has been wonderful.

This week has been quite a party in the house with my nephews and nieces bunking in the house for 5 days. The kids are having lots of fun. No doubt the house is in a lot of mess, tak larat nak kemas dah sometimes, turun bawah semak kat bawah, naik atas semak ke atas. I've turned into an evil stepmom named 'Cruella' shouting at these 8 kids aged 3 to 9, minus Hilman to bathe, to eat, to pray, yadda yadda yadda. It may sound stressful but not too bad actually as my kids have been whining less and I got to cabut kejap from time to time without the kids asking 'Ibu nak pergi mana? Nak ikut!' pantang I pakai baju cantik sikit as they have their playmates around so they tend to forget about me sometimes.

At times I have to stop my kids and demand them for a kiss or a hug and they will go 'Ala Ibu ni' because they are either busy playing or just too embarass to kiss me in front of their cousins tapi tak kisah janji diaorang stop and acknowledge my existence. Right now the girls are playing doctor2 and the girls take turns to be the pregnant lady and the labour part is just hilarious with the preggie one panting and screaming 'Arghhh ! Errghhh! Warghhh! sakit2, mana suami saya, bagi dia masuk, tolong nurse, tolong doktor' the doctor then checks the preggie lady's stomach by covering herself and the preggie lady's stomach with a blanket or a towel. I have no idea where they learnt this from and the funny part is the doctor will give the name to the baby example 'ya puan, ni anak puan, namanya Lisa' ahak ahak and the nurse will start calling the other family members who are eagerly waiting outside the so called labour room 'ya boleh masuk sekarang, selamat bersalin, nama anaknya Lisa' kadang2 nama Nurinlah, Adamlah, Dafilah macam-macam.

My eldest Nuraina however does not join this kind of ludicrous act, she has found the joy of facebooking and has been chatting with her friends and other cousins and even attending to her farm too. The boys conquer the Nintendo Wii and playing football in the house or trading and playing their Match Attack cards.

Bibik has been extra busy in the kitchen. I love it when they are many kids in the house as they will eat like there's no tomorrow, semalam satu periuk nasi lemak habis for breakfast, this morning 2 packets of spaghetti gone, petang two large pizzas gone in a jiffy, makan berebut2 nampak seronok sangat, 5 packet of Chipsmore lenyap, baru beli on Tuesday, 4 packets of mini cadbury chocolate pun abis, sekali tu I opened the fridge tinggal kotak aje dlm fridge, punyalah geram tak reti nak buang ke kalau dah habis.

Overall life has been great. I hope you all have a great holiday too.
Cruella signing out.

Kids

2009-12-04T08:31:00.005+08:00

Khairina Selfless Act

You know my daughter Khairina is such a selfless homosapien. Too selfless that sometimes it worries me that she'll get easily bullied by the people around her. Though she looks forward to be in Year One soon but because of her too selfless act, I can't help but worrying and as it is now I'm trying to teach her to be tougher and learn to say 'No' but so far it has not been successful.

For example just the other day, my two elder girls were watching tv in my dad's room and my eldest Nuraina was sitting on the chair and Khairina on the bed and Nuraina complained that she needs more room to stretch her legs because her legs feel crammed and you know what, Khairina offered her shoulders for Nuraina to rest her feet on. I was appaled when she said that and began lifting her Kakak Aina's leg to put on her shoulders and I was even mad at Aina for letting her to do such.

Sometimes she's just too sweet, gentle and nice (I know I should be glad) that people easily take advantage of her even baby Hilman would order her around, everytime when he throws the ball he'd go 'Kakak amik' and Khairina would obligingly follow his instrcution without protest and mind you this goes on more than 10 throws ok?

That is why Hilman first word was 'Kakak' because he was all the time refering to this particular 'kakak', Khairina who would come to his aid every time.

Hilman Monosylabic words

As for Hilman, ever since he knew how to talk I've been teaching him to say please and thank you and everytime he asks for milk I will make him say 'Please Ibu, I love you Ibu soooo much.' But what happens now is whenever he asks for milk and when I say 'what must you say?', instead of saying 'please' he'd say 'ooo mud'(so much). Yeah so basically I've been teaching him to say the wrong thing.

Not only that when he counts, he doesn't start with the number 'one' instead he will go 'tuu, twi' eventhough when we mention 'one' with expectation for him to repeat he'll proceed with 'tuu, twi' with his toothy smile.

And one more interesting thing about Hilman, everytime when we enter the house he'll go 'Ahhkom' meaning (assalammualaikum), I find that to be so cute and that never fails to make me laugh everytime.

What Have We Done!

2009-12-03T10:14:00.004+08:00

Gosh! 4 more weeks before the school holiday ends. Time sure flies fast when you are in the midst of having fun. So what have I been doing? Well the first weekend was more to family bonding time by lazying around, watching tv, napping and playing cards, tumbling towers and the sorts.

The week that follow, we planned to go back to Terengganu for the Raya Haji celebration, however, it wasn't finalized then as there was report of floods in the area, so I did not bother planning my packing. On Tuesday, I brought my mum and Aina to JCard Day. It was crazy as usual with too many people in the mall. As it was a school holiday, I was lucky to get a car park quite easily as we were there early. My mom planned to go there again the next day and I was happy to oblige....when suddenly...

My hubby came home at 7.00 pm at inform that we are going back to Terengganu the next day, our hopes to go shopping crushed and can you imagine how haywire things became to pack everything in such a short notice? My room looked like a capsized ship with clothes and other stuff thrown everywhere. Everything became chaotic as packing for a family of 7 is definitely a challenging task and doing it at a last minute is definitely not my cup of tea as it tends to jam up my brain with so many lists to think about milk, thermos, how many sets of pyjamas, daywear, undies, diapers, toiletries and etc etc. I could go bonkus!

The journey to Terengganu was quite pleasant although there was some rackets going on at the backseat but overall not too bad as the kids managed to nap throughout the journey. Although I loathe packing and long journey but I do not mind going back to Terengganu for a change of scenery. Not only that, the kids too get enough sunshine as they will be running around further than their usual house compound gate, chasing chicken, watching the grazing cows and feeding the horse, breathing the fresh air. On top of that I love going back to Terengganu because I have the opportunity to stock up cheap local made frozen food of sausage bread, roti canai, curry puffs, pau, popiah and not forgetting the keropok lekor, keropok kering and buying new designs and cheaper tudung there.

In Terengganu, the 'korban' is often done at the host house compound so my kids had the chance to witness the ritual done and even touch the cow before it being slaughtered. Besides celebrating Raya Haji, our days were filled with swimming session, shopping and enjoying the Ikan Celup Tepung (ICT) with my parents in law. Oh another reason why we like to go back is the fact that my mom-in-law is such a good cook and all of us truly love indulging in the food she has prepared. And the fact that my mother-in-law is such a true gem you can't help but just to love her. On Saturday we had a small birthday do for her and she was pleased and we were glad as we do not really get the chance to celebrate her birthdays that often.

On Sunday we embarked on our journey back to KL and it was hell! We spent 12 hours on the road and it was so tiring. We reached home at 12.00 am and we were all knackered. The next day everybody woke up late!!! The days that follow were the usual routine of the kids besides reading, revising and practising piano making lots of noise in the house and watching tv and yours truly going to school to do some unfinished school work.

Yesterday we decided to invest in Nintendo Wii so the children could play some active and interactive games and would bother us with their whinning less and it has been an answered prayer as they actually have not been bothering us as much. ahak ahak. But we had made some rules and regulations. Playing is only allowed after the reading, revising and piano practise are done and so far they have been abiding the rules.

Not only that hubby suggested Wii Fit too for me to exercise. So it's actually a sign for me to start moving that heavy butt of mine and do some exercises and I have no reason now for not doing it. Yikes! I am so in trouble now.

So life has been pretty quiet right now and I'm allowed more time to myself. Selfish, no?

N.B.- Thanks to Myra for giving us the idea on buying the Wii.

Great Food, Good Company!

2009-11-23T14:51:00.003+08:00

Last weekend Myra invited me for dinner in her house. I was excited because she's a real good cook so this is a chance to savour all the wonderful food she has prepared. The invitation was done through the facebook and as I replied to the thread messages, I felt like an outsider because Myra was the only person I knew, so I then became quite sceptical to go. But to miss out on the good food, no can do! So I braved myself there.

I took Dhaniyah with me as the elder two girls went for a sleepover at their cousin's house. As I was to drive at night, I asked Myra the direction to her house and with lots of prayers, I made my way to Shah Alam. As usual, I got lost but and thank God for handphones Myra guided me through all the way to her house.

Upon seeing her, I never fail to shed a few tears because she reminds me of arwah (my best friend) and how much I miss her. As she ushered me to the house, I was later introduced to her good friends Nadia, Jaja, Amelia, Ami and Kamalia. They were all such nice friendly people and they did not make me feel awkward at all.

And there on the dining table, was a whole spread of wonderful succulent food that some looked really alien to me. There was minestrone soup, chicken pie, scoth eggs aka dinosaur eggs, meringue, blueberry cheesy tarts, chocolate peanut cheese tarts, spaghetti carbonara, chicken sandwiches, chocolate muffins. Not only they looked good, it was so tasty too. I had made the right move to come.

Not long after came the diva the Desert Rose, I was eager to meet her as I have been following her blog and she's really one entertaining person. I pictured her to be loud and aggressive, turned out she's such a soft-spoken person but she was still funny. Then came Anna Maria, a good friend of arwah and talking to her made me sad again as she reminded me of how much I missed arwah.

I made a move around midnight and I felt happy. Not only I got to eat the succulent food, I enjoyed the company too. Myra thank you for inviting me and introducing me to all these wonderful people.

Dhaniyah - My Drama Queen

2009-11-19T18:45:00.003+08:00

Just the other night when I was going up the staircase after dinner, I saw my Dhaniyah sitting on the stairs with tears streaming down her eyes. I was somewhat puzzled as earlier she, Nabil and Khairina were playing happily in the room. I asked her what went wrong and she said 'tak nak' and turned her face to the opposite direction.

I felt bad looking at her sorrow face, decided to sit on the staircase beside her and gently ask on why she's here while I could listen to the elder siblings chattering and laughing in the room and she went 'Shaya ni tengah shedih shangat' Why darling?! 'Shebab takde shaper dah shayang kat shaya, shemua orang tak nak kawan dengan shaya' and I went maybe because you're being naughty, that's why nobody wants to be your friend. 'Shaya naughty shikit aje, shaya cuma gigit sikit aje' with tears still flowing down her cheeks.

I then took her hand and brought her into the room where the other children were playing demanding them to justify what had just happened, Khairina then came to me and showed me the teeth mark on her cheek. The wound was deep that there was blood mark on it. 'Dhaniyah, ni bukan gigit sikit, ni gigit banyak. Kenapa Niyah buat camni kat kakak, because you were being naughty tulah semua orang tak nak kawan. Ibu pun tak sukalah Niyah buat perangai camni. I am now very very unhappy with you too, you know?' Waaaaa.....came a loud wail. 'Shemua orang tak shayang shaya...waaaaaaaaaa...Shemua orang nak marah je kat shaya...waaa...shaya shedih shangat ni, shaya ni shedih shangat tau Ibu......Ibu, Ibu tak shayang shaya ke?

There you are people, my Dhaniyah, the drama queen. Sigh! How to marah lama2 like that?

On another note, Dhaniyah has the tendency to cakap terbalik for example if she wants to eat orange the first time she will said 'nak eron' and there was this one incident when we were all in the car on the way to Terengganu she asked me 'Ibu, Ibu ada bawa tak baju rukung Niyah, malam ni Niyah nak pakai baju rukung.' And my hubby went baju rukung? and we all laughed so hard because what she meant was baju kurung.

Hai Dhaniyah, Dhaniyah.

Drama Minggu Ini

2009-11-16T10:04:00.007+08:00

You know my elder son Nabil is so so passionate about football and he is also a die hard Liverpool fan. He can name all the players, the managers, the position they play not only for this club but other clubs too. On weekends and holidays he will stay up to watch any football matches with my husband. Sometimes he'll give my hubby the updates when my hubby accidentally dozed off to slumberland. If he had his way he will stay up on weeknights too but of course we had to draw the line when it comes to school days. (hmmm...just wish he's this passionate about his studies too). Oh well!

Anyway, Nabil has a collection of this Match Attack cards. He has an album almost full of these EPL club players. He treasures this album so much. Every day he will flip through the pages and once in a fortnight he buys a set of this cards from his allowance that he had saved for the weeks.

Lately he has been pestering me to allow him to bring all his Match Attack cards to his Agama school. I of course banned him from doing so as he has collection of hundred over cards and they're all nicely arranged based on the teams the players are in. But he did not give up but kept on asking me the permission to do so, his reason was, so he could exchange some of the cards with his friends. Well, thinking that his exam is over, I thought why not but with one condition he can only bring the extra cards (the cards he no longer needed as he already have them in his album). That was the deal.

So last Thursday, as I was in the car waiting to fetch the children home for the Agama school, I saw my son counting his cards. In his hands I saw about 10 cards, thinking that those were the extra cards he brought, I asked whether he managed to exchange the cards with his friends. He said he didn't exchange but some of the boys actually bought the cards from. The paid him RM1 and some gave him their toys in exchange of the cards. At this point, I was unhappy as he was supposed to exchange them not sell them. He said he didn't ask for the money but they willingly gave. Ok fine.

After picking them up, we usually will go round to find kuih to be eaten for tea. So we stopped to buy these sweetmeats and drinks and tah apa2 lagi, as Nabil was hungry he ate his doughnut in the car, so when we reached home he was still eating hence he has forgotten to bring down his bag from my car.

So at around 6.00pm, they kids were shooed to take their bath. When suddenly Bibik came down and told me Nabil is in the room crying. When I came into the room, I could see he was still sobbing, I asked him what's wrong but he just kept quiet only the sobs were heard and shoulders shaking. Not long after hubby came into the room and asked what happened and he blurted that all his Match Attack cards were stolen. Stolen? How? Apparently he brought all the cards to school and now they are no longer with him. He claimed the Std 4 and 5 boys took them from his bag.

At this point both Abah and Ibu dah mula nak naik darah dah. Despite what we told him not to bring the whole lot, dia tak dengar so memang saja nak kena marahlah kan. So he memang kena left and right from both of us. He dared not say much as he knows it was his mistake to begin with. He was so so upset that he cried himself to sleep tu belum mandi lagi tu. So at around 8.00 kejutkan dia untuk mandi tapi muka dia mmg nampak so so heart broken and frustrated all the cards that he has collected gone mcm tu aje. Before going to bed, he cried again sebab terlampau sedih. Kesian gaklah tengok.

That night before going to bed my hubby said if they refused to give them back, he's going to confront these boys and demand for them to return those cards to him. Myself pun sakit ati jugak lah these bigger kids bullying younger kids like him, kan. Thus terkeluarlah all the nasty words like pergi sek agama tapi panjang tangan, apalah diaorg belajar kat situ, tak sedar dosa pahala, etc, etc. (Ibu ni memang emo sikit). So the next day my hubby said he will pick the kids up from school.

So when they arrived, this eager Ibu pun tanyalah how? dapat balik tak? and my hubby gave me this smug look and Nabil sheepishly said the cards were not stolen or missing as they were in his bag all this while. Huh?! Turned out he checked the wrong bag sebab his agama school bag was still inside my car so the cards mmg ada kat dalam tu. Aiiikkkk?!!!!

Tulah drama sensasi minggu ini. Dengan airmata yang bercucur-cucuran dan berbucket-bucket and Ibu's nasty words yang berkilo2, all for nothing. Buat dosa je.

Haiiyoo.... sabor jelah anak jantan aku ni. mcm-mcm.

My Dear - Happy Birthday

2009-11-12T21:04:00.002+08:00

Hubby dear,
Happy happy birthday to you *confetti*. Though we did not really get to celebrate this aupicious occasion, I hope today turned out to be a special day for you with the cake the children chose, the card they selected and the practical gift I got for you. It's the thought that counts, kan? So I do hope you are happy to be a year older today. Lots lots lots and lots of love. Muah!

P/S- Am such a romantic wife, no?

My New Toy

2009-11-08T20:29:00.005+08:00

Before I go on on my new toy, let me tell you about the Charity Dinner. The dinner was a success. The hall looked posh, everybody was well groomed and elegant. The queen was impressed too. My orchestra members made me proud, they sounded really good and to my ears they were flawless, they were so so so good, I was so proud of them and that actually made me closed to tears. Six long years with them, all the hardwork, the long practices and the headache paid off when I heard them play. Everybody was happy too even the queen expressed her satisfaction with the performances. She even extended her stay from 45 minutes to one whole hour.

The funny thing was during the one whole hour she was around, the hall was so quiet you can hear a pin dropped, everybody dared not move or talk much but the moment she left the hall, there were roar of laughters and chatters. It was like everybody suddenly sighed a huge sigh of relief. It was hilarious.

Now, Ladies and gentlemen, I'm proud to say that right now I'm blogging from my new toy. My new laptop the Acer 4540. Wahahaha... I'm now a proud owner of the laptop picture below.

It's great, finally a new laptop after pestering for months for a new laptop so last 2 weeks I finally got one. The feeling is exuberant (close to orgasm) ahak ahak. Is that good. However I had to actually refrain myself from caressing the shining metal thing, the LCD screen, the soft keyboard just because I still had exam papers to mark and other unfinished school work to attend to. I dare not touch it for fear of addicting to it and refusing of letting it go. Nonetheless the image of my virgin laptop still sitting in its box never actually left my mind, even when I was busy with my work.

And when the day came, it was just what I expected it to be, the keyboard was soft to the fingers, the screen was nice to look at. Everything looked beautiful even my inbox had nice splash of colours, suddenly. Oh by the way, this laptop is an anniversary gift from hubby. Isn't he sweet? I know. ahak ahak.

Alright I'll sign off here. I've a lot of other (cyber) work to attend to. Restaurant City, Farmville, Farm Town, Barn Buddy, here I come.....!

Thanks you guys!

2009-10-29T10:30:00.002+08:00

I'm lucky and happy to have such wonderful friends who always have my back covered.
I can always count on them for anything...

Thank you guys! (you know who you are) and I love you all so much.

Stop Complaining, Start Contributing!

2009-10-27T19:34:00.002+08:00

This post may offend some of my readers but I'm just merely stating the truth, if you're not happy please do not bother to read on and go visit other blogs that make you happy.

The week after the final-year exam, has been really stressful and hectic for us, the marking of papers and the preparation of the Charity Dinner this coming Friday night.

I'm proud to say, I'm a teacher of this school and usually the impression that I get when I say am a teacher of this school, that I'm lucky as it is an elite school where you can find all the rich people's and VIPs children here. They are not wrong but we don't get things that easy here as sadly it is difficult to get contributions from all these people.

I'm aware being a teacher you are bound to shoulder all kinds of responsibilities, and I don't intend to complain here, I do not mind at all but my heart is a bit heart-broken when all the effort done, do not really get the support from the students and their parents themselves.

Sometimes, I think to myself is it worth all the sacrifices made, though most of teachers only have the best interest of the students in their mind but my heart keeps questioning, is it all worth it when some of the students themselves do not care a hoot of what the school is doing for them?

Since we became the cluster school, especially this year,I believe the school has done so much to serve and to cater for the students needs, but what do we get in return? I can tell you this, not much.

I had to stay back whole of this week for the orchestra practices for the charity dinner. I came on Sunday too. We prepared new blouses for the girls, we prepared permission letters, we prepare working papers, we need to prepare food for them, we hired a bus, we are hiring the conductors, we have to pay arrangement for the songs, we are paying the vocal teacher on top of our core work which is teaching and all these done so that the girls will get the chance to play and showcase their talent for the Queen in Nikko Hotel. It's a big event and it is done to upgrade all the facilities that we have in school, we are trying to be 'the school of the future' and what we want in return is to get the support from the parents to make this a reality by contributing RM200 per seat for the dinner in the name of charity.

The sad thing is that some of the parents are not even aware of this BIG event as they were not told by their children though we have distributed the letter for all the parents and we even published it in our website. We got such poor response and some students can even say the are facing 'financial crisis'? FINANCIAL CRISIS? Mind you, these words blurted out came from the students who have drivers to take them home, whose parents car are dwarfing all the teachers' car, they carry handphones that are more expensive and sophisticated than mine, who wear watches which cost hundreds of ringgit, who are willing to pay hundreds of ringgit worth of ticket concert, who go for holiday overseas annually, whose parents are willing to buy Guitar Hero, PS2, PSP and they are not willing to fork out RM200 for the school. This event is all done for the benefits of the students, definitely not us the teachers, as to prepare such big event we are bogged down with just more work.

It is just sad to see this whole scenario happening in an environment where majority of the students come from such affluent and privilege families where we have to beg them to contribute for the school. It is just sad what more with what the school has done for the students 'the Musical Night, Mantap Minda, Majlis Restu, Graduation Night' just to name a few, and the only thing that we often received is the rising number of complaints from the students and the parents. So if you're not willing to contribute, please stop complaining.

So who can we blame when the students have such selfish act?

Ask not what the school can do for you but what you can do for the school.

P/S- I remember for the years I was in that school, I had been contributing to build-up of the surau, I did not get to enjoy the privilege then but it did not stop me contributing for the school.

To write and serve with love.

One Malaysia- One Whole Day Affair

2009-10-24T22:51:00.006+08:00

Yesterday afternoon, my two elder children were offered to do a promo for Astro TV on One Malaysia. Aina was ecstatic, Nabil wasn't because he was more looking forward to attend his football practice tomorrow. Thinking that he will still make it for the practice we persuaded him to take the job. It was pretty a last minute thing as the shooting is to be done today and we have to be there at 9.00 am.

As last night, I attended the Form 5 Graduation Dinner in KGNS which ended around 11.00 pm and as I was knackered after that thus I did not get the chance to check my e-mail for the script that the children need to memorize. So I only managed to get them to read the script this morning at around 8.00 am and Aina being excited for the job succeeded in memorizing the whole lines in mere 10 minutes whereas Nabil could not be bothered to learn it by heart. Which pissed me off but I did not want to spoil his mood so I actually let him be. So the script goes like this:-

It doesn't matter,
How we look,
How we speak,
What colour we are.

We all laugh
We all cry,
We all take pride,

In our home,
In our future,
In our country,
We are...one,
One Malaysia.

We were told to bring 3 different colours of clothes; white, red and one casual wear.
We reached ASTRO at around 9.20 am, we actually got lost (ni semua punca because some husbands who just refused to listen to the wives) I taulah I buta jalan but I've called to ask the way tapi some husbands believe diaorang lagi pandai than the wives kan! Opppss...out of the topic, that part nanti kita cerita lain ok? ahak ahak.

So upon reaching there, after all the mumbo jumbo at the security post we were escorted inside. We were taken to the cafeteria for breakfast, the sandwiches and the curry puffs were good. So no complain there. Then we were taken to the dressing room, the kids waited to be made up. Oh by the way, the were 20 other talents involved in this promo, 14 adults and 6 kids.

Nabil after the made up. He requested for rambut Ultraman.

We waited and waited, the children while their time away watching TV, as I was in a hurry burry this morning, I did not bring anything with me so I wasted my whole day today doing nothing besides waiting and waiting and waiting. I should have brought my test papers to mark or a book to read. Regret! regret! Alright so after they have been made up, they were brought to the studio for a rehearsal. So that too took quite some time as they were about 6 people ahead of us. And each person had to do quite a number of takes. As it was already lunch time, we were told to take our lunch first. So the food was good, we had fish curry, sweet sour chicken, fried wantan, mixed veggie and fish fillet, the children truly enjoyed their meal. Both Aina and Nabil went for a second helping. I guess as it was so bl**dy cold in there, it made us get hungry easily.

After lunch, the kids were sent to do some touch-up and then we went back to Studio 3 and there were still 2 people doing their shoot. Once they were done, Nabil was called to the floor, he said his lines and he sounded like a robot, he was later coached by one of the crew members, he was slightly better but he spoke like he was reading one boring book. Nabil was told to take a break and it was Aina's turn, she delivered her lines pretty well and we were all happy. As hubby and I had some errands to do, we left the kids under the care of my cousin who was a part of the production team. Thinking that they will do well as they sounded ok when we told them we had to leave, we then joyfully made our way to the exit.

Thirty minutes later, I received a call from my cousin saying that Aina cried and she did not finish her shoot because she requested for her mother to be around. As we were almost reaching our destination, I told her to give us an hour for us to settle our things and will be right there soon after.

More than an hour later, we saw the kids and we heard them giggling away as they have made friend with Vijay of the Geng Bas Sekolah. By this time, a lot of waiting involved as the second batch of talents arrived for their shoot. So we waited and waited again for their turns. Nabil was the clown of the day as he had to do so many takes, apparently he did not take instruction very well. Luckily enough the crew members were all patient and nice group of people, even the talents were all friendly and managed to put the kids at ease. Nuraina did pretty well this time and she only had to do two takes for both sections.

Aina all set to say her lines

This promo was divided into 3 parts, the first one, individual lines, second one, group photos and the third one each talent takes turn to hold the flag. So we waited and waited for each talent to finish their individual line, we went for tea then we waited to get everybody to do the group thing, we waited until all the groups done, then we went for dinner and we waited and waited again to do the last segment the holding of the flag. We were then finally allowed to go home at around 9.15 pm. And before we left, they were still a few other talents who haven't finish with their individual lines.

Waiting to be divided into groups
Nabil's group shoot

This promo may take less than a minute to be on air, my children may appear on tv for few seconds but it took more than 12 hours of preparation. So that's it children, I will never allow you to choose a career in this entertainment business, the working hours are just too ridiculous. So jangan mimpi nak jadi superstar ok? So the rest of you out there, watch out for this promo which will feature my kids (omigosh! am so proud) sometime next month.

Till then, take care.

P/S- Oh man! I have orchestra practice to attend to tomorrow from 9-12. Sigh! I need rest. Can I not go? (hmm...wishful thinking!)

My darling Khairina

2009-10-18T00:12:00.006+08:00

My third child, aka my second daughter Engku Nureen Khairina turned 6 last 15 October. As this month is a busy month for all of us, we didn't get to make a birthday do for her. Nonetheless to celebrate the day she requested for a special dinner at Swensen's restaurant as they wanted to indulge on ice-cream after the dinner.

Khairina succesfully managed to persuade Abah to take us to Swensen's

The long-awaited ice-cream cake

The children goofing around

My Khairina is a very gentle girl, she's very lady-like so different than my other 2 girls as the other 2 are pretty loud and quite aggressive. So much so, she is often being bullied by the siblings. She doesn't really know how to fight back hence we will see her crying most of the times. She gives in most of the times, selfish is not in her vocabulary making her at a lose end most of the times.

Of all my children, I felt that she was not very ready to become a big sister when I was pregnant to my fourth as she was still a baby herself though she has the widest age gap between my fourth. She is the slowest to read, she still hasn't finished her books compared to the elder two who completed the whole course when they turned 6 early of the year. She's still reading Iqra' 4 when the other 2 have read quran when they were her age.

As she'll be going to Standard 1 next year, she's adding up to my worries as they way I see it she is still unprepared to face the primary school out there. She lacks the sense of responsibility, she has such hideous handwriting, she often loses her things and she takes things very easy. However, this girl of mine is very helpful, not that stubborn and such an amiable person. She is Hilman's favourite sister and a favourite among her uncles and aunties too.

Khairina, my hope for you is that you will find success in life and always remain happy throughout your life. In the meantime, can you please please please take good care of your things and yourself? Kalau orang buli tu, cuba lawan sikit and learn to say 'no' when you don't really want to do the thing people ask you to, but Ibu is an exceptionlah you cannot say 'no' to Ibu tau. ok?

Lotsa love my dear,
Ibu.

P/S- oh ya your birthday do, insyaAllah will be held somewhere in the mid of November so please be patient and your birthday gift will come on that day too so stop asking the question over and over again. ok?

One for All and All for One

2009-10-14T23:18:00.010+08:00

Dear readers, if you've visited this blog and kept seeing the same old post, am really really sorry. Life has been quite busy with final year exam and marking essay papers and the fact that i have to share this lappie with hubby and I only get to use it at night.

I feel bad though and this feeling is plaguing me until I've settled my debt to my readers.

Ok, I've actually drafted three entries weeks ago, so instead of having 3 posts am just gonna wrap it up everything in one go. There will not be much of a rambling more of a reporting and let the photos do most of the talking. Ok? Ready? Here it goes.

My Raya

Our first day of raya was celebrated here in my mom's house and as usual it was such a busy and tiring day as many relatives near and far would come over as my mom is the eldest daughter so we actually had guests from morning till night. My friends and neighbours too came, my friends actually had no choice because I made them come whenever we have to celebrate our first day raya here in PJ. Thank you guys. I know I can always count on you.

My girls attacking the raya biscuits

Ibu and her girls. My face pucat sebab terlupa nak put on lipstick. Was busy making pasta soup.

Hubby and the boys. This year didn't manage to capture a proper family photo.

On the second day, we made our way to hubby's hometown in Kuala Terengganu. The journey was fun as the kids were excited to meet their cousins in Terengganu as they seldom get to see them. Traffic was not too bad but when we got to the trunk road, traffic got heavy as I guess people were busy visiting friends and relatives for raya.

On the third day, we all went off to Besut as we had a family gathering there on my father-in-law's side. It was wonderful to see that they managed to gather all my FIL's siblings all 10 of them (one had passed away in Mecca), there were about 200 odd people there, uncles, aunties, cousins and grandchildren. We had a photo session, meet and greet session and a lot of food and it was just great. The highlight of the whole event was everybody get to meet and mingle with our glamorous relative, none other than the famous Ms Erra Fazira and family and I only have to say nice things about her as she was humble, soft-spoken, friendly and even her baby was super nice, she was friendly, did not mind to be carried by strangers and not cranky at all.

My hubby's uncle Engku Ibrahim Engku Ngah, the penyimpan mohor besar, delivering his speech. At the background is my FIL, the man responsible in preparing his speech.

At last a proper family photo

Tumpang glamour

Oh yes! This family gathering appeared in Utusan Malaysia and Kosmo newspaper.

On the fourth day, we had lunch at the famous ICT (Ikan Celup Tepung) at Seberang Takir, can you imagine after 10 years of marriage that was the first time I got to enjoy the scrumptious delicacies and we definitely going there again every time we have to go back to Terengganu.

On the fifth day, we went to the beach and it was fun. The tide was low, the water was calm and inviting and the weather was just nice to be outside.

Fun at the beach

On Friday, we made our way back to KL.

Aina's Birthday

Last 30th September was my daughter Engku Iman Nuraina's 9th birthday. To mark this special day, we chose to celebrate it at Friday's as this is the place where the make big fuss on the birthday girl/boy.

Aina singing the Best of Both Worlds by Hannah Montana

Aina having a good time

The children joined in the fun

She was a real sport, she sang and even the waiters and the waitresses commented on what a sport she was. We were glad that she had a good time and she was happy to get Hannah Montana's stuff from her Tok Mama and Ibu.

The Orangutan Prize Giving Ceremony

Well remember the orangutan blog that I've pestered all of you to vote? Alright so on the 4th of October we were invited to the prize giving ceremony held in The Curve. I had 2 students travelling with me in my car as I was not confident with my way to The Curve. Me + direction = lost. So we were there quite early, we had our breakfast at Mcdonalds and later settled down at the ceremony area. Before starting, we were briefed on what needed to be done if we made it to the top 3. At this point, I began to have butterflies flying in my stomach.

As usual, it started with speeches, some video showing of the students effort and a performance by one of the schools which took part. I did not really get to enjoy the whole thingy because I was just too nervous that I started to get cold sweat. The prize-giving started with consolation prize, they had 7 to give away and they mentioned the school one by one. It was nerve-wrecking. After they have given 5 consolation prizes, our hope starts to build up, I mean at this point I was almost sure we could make it to the top 3 as our blog was really catchy, informative and creative (so I said lah!). Fine. I syok sendiri. So when they announced the next consolation prize goes to the orangutanchatters.blogspot.com, I almost died of heart attack. We didn't win! But we did our best. There always next year, right girls? And we were the youngest group, so that something we should be proud of.

We didn't win but we were the prettiest lot. Chewah! Oh and we were the only ones in baju kurung and they all were commenting how lovely we look. Betul!

Khairina Graduation Concert

div>On Sunday 5th November was Khairina graduation concert held in Summit Subang Jaya. We were there early to secure a good spot for us to sit. The concert starts at 8.00pm and we were there from 6.45 pm and our place was right smack in the middle. So we had good view of the whole event.

Khairina singing her hearts out

Khairina all made up for the concert
The children posing with Ms Jothi. This teacher is the reason why we sent the kids to that kindi.

The week after, I was busy attending open houses, setting final year papers and now in the process of marking the exam papers. Not only that, we have the Form 5 graduation dinner and the Gala Charity Dinner whereby our queen has agreed to attend to. So my days after this, will be filled with orchestra practices preparing for that grand event.

So I hope now you understand why I have not been updating my blog.

I feel better now that I've settled my debt. Take care!

Some people....Sigh!

2009-10-08T13:30:00.004+08:00

Ok, before I go on, I actually have drafted three new entries about my raya celebration, Nuraina's birthday celebration and Khairina's graduation concert but I'm having problem uploading the photos into my blog, such a turn-off to my regaling and I promise you these entries will be for your viewing once I'm done rectifying the problem and with setting of the final year question paper, one down, I have one more to go.

However this post cannot be postponed anymore sebab sakit hati.

You know,

I just don't get it some people who like to give sarcastic remarks to other people but they can't accept sarcastic remarks given to them,

some people who like to 'pau' people's food on other people's table and never once offered theirs, reason given,(quote I cannot have food on my table as I will end up eating all the time unquote) so it's ok to finish up other people's food? Memanglah letak kat table to untuk dimakan tapi kalau2 asyik engko je yang dok makan tau malulah sikitkan. Tak fahamlah some people ni kan. And siap boleh tanya tu when are you going to refill your supply. Ada ka? Tak faham betul. isk! isk! isk!

Some people who do not have sympathy and empathy towards other people, please remember we work as a team so if you do not do your part, other people from the team have to do it! So is it fair?!

Some people who just have to give negative comments on other people's work and effort when never once did you offer the help nor ideas on how to do it, so just shut uplah ok?

Some people who believe they are so clever, efficient, organised and only them can produce a good job but they can't help much because they are too busy with their lives and hectic schedule and orang lain tak faham sebab kita semua yang orang biasa-biasa ni, goyang kaki aje.

Some people who like to highlight their workload to everybody especially to the administrator so the people up there do not give more than what's already on his/her plate tapi bagi orang lain yang kononnya tak banyak kerja.

Some people who appear to be goody-goody, a yes man and always have nice things to say to the people up there but actually very very calculative with her work and kat belakang mulut tu boleh tahan juga.

Some people who do not like to smile or greet one another, hey come onlah, we are colleagues and of a same gender too, is it so hard to smile?,bukannya i nak tackle you pun. tak hingin!

I know life is unfair and I sound grumpy and we are all bound to face this kind of people and life has to go on but it sure feels good to let it out of my chest.

Selamat Hari Raya Everyone

2009-09-19T18:44:00.002+08:00

It's Raya tomorrow people. The children are getting excited. The girls especially have been re-trying their raya apparels and shoes, parading in the living hall , showing off to their grandparents. The cousins are here, all looking forward to play the sparklers tonight.

Ibu has been quite busy with some last minute raya shopping and helping tidying up and decorating the house. The last 3 days were spent on packing to balik kampung to Terengganu on the second day of raya and as I loathe packing so the last 3 days have been stressful, packing for my 5 kids and yours truly.

To me, raya is definitely for the kids, am excited because the kids got nice baju raya and shoes as for myself i tailored only 3 pasang yang simple2 aje, just for the sake of wearing a baju baru on raya day, all in all here's hoping to a wonderful raya and to those of you celebrating, may you have a great raya and I'll be on hiatus for I'll be in Terengganu on the second day of raya and becoming back on Friday. Till then,

Maaf Zahir Batin

Vote For Us!!!!

2009-09-15T23:50:00.010+08:00

Hey remember the blog that my students created for the love of the orangutan? Well, well, well I'm happy to announce that our blog has been selected to be among the top 10 best orangutan blogs nationwide.
Thank you for your support for making this possible.

However, I need more favour from you, please please be kind enough to vote for us. How can you do that? Just click to this url http://www.orangutan.com.my/ . On the top part you can see the icon blog contest, click on that icon, from there you can see a few icons on the left side, scroll down to VOTE and vote for the blog created by my students the http://www.orangutanchatters.blogspot.com/. Vote wisely as the voting site can be quite tricky, so please make sure that you vote for the right blog.

Official voting starts today 16 September - 25 September.

So if you have arrived here before the closing date, do it now! NOW please! I know I sound desperate, and I am because my students have worked so hard and I am proud to say they did a fantastic job so i do not want to see their effort gone to waste. What we need now is to get as many support as possible.

Every vote counts, help us to make a difference in these orangutans lives. Your vote means so much to us and is highly appreciated. Thank you.

Last but not least, just a gentle reminder,

'DO IT NOW! please! (ahak ahak)

Now!

Yes now!

P/S- So have you voted?

Thank you.

For Better or Worse, Till Death Do Us Part

2009-09-05T16:36:00.014+08:00

Yesterday 4th of September was my 1oth wedding anniversary. Sad to say, although plan was made for us to celebrate this auspicious occasion, Hilman was admitted to the hospital on the 2nd of September due to a acute pneumonia attack. We were discharged at noon today, he's a lot better but need to be monitored from time to time.

Was I sad not able to celebrate it? The answer is No! as at that time what matters most is for Hilman to be strong and healthy. Like I said to hubby, Hilman is a sign for us not to add any more member to the family, and he agreed. ahak ahak.

Why I marry thee?

I remember the year it was somewhere in September 1998 when you came into my life. Mutual friends of ours kept saying we'll make a good couple. They believed that they have found for us our soulmates. I gave my number but I did not expect anything to come out from it because I was tired and fed-up with my previous love life. After 3 years of courting with my ex, I finally see that there was just no future with him, there were just too many obstacles and challenges and I can't afford to go through all that mumbo jumbo again.

I think it took months when I finally said that I was ready to get to know you. You called and upon hearing your voice, it felt like magic, it was so soothing that suddenly all my problems just burst into thin air. You were soft-spoken and a real gentleman that I pictured you a man who doesn't know how to be angry. Hmm... How wrong I was! ahak ahak.

After a year of courting, it was on that date 4 September 1999 when you shook my father's hand in front of the kadi and other guests, with one lafaz that I officially became your wife. I was ecstatic for having meeting my soulmate at last and finally you are mine and I believed that this was a match made from heaven, come to think of it so are thunder and lightning. So yeah I was right!!!! ahak ahak.

I can still remember the moment that I was very sure you were the one for me. It was this one night that I felt too overwhelmed with the whole situation, you were asking for a serious relationship and my ex kept on bugging me, it was just too much for me to handle that I felt trapped. That I night I decided to end everything, to give myself a breather, I switched off my mobile. I just did not want to be disturbed so I could relax and think things over.

You couldn't contact me the whole day, I just refused to talk to you when at last you decided to call the house at night instead. I wanted to hang up but you plead for me not to do so, you told me to get out of the house so you could deliver some things to me. I was pissed but I did. I went to your car and there you were with a bouquet of flowers in your hand. Red roses. It was such a romantic gesture, you didn't know what you did wrong but you took the effort to make me feel better, you were afraid that it was you who caused me all the pain and you had the feeling I'm driving myself away from you, you can't bear to lose me and that my dear had made all the difference. You had made it so easy and clear for me, that I should choose you and not think of anyone else.

To me it was a sign. A sign of true love, enough for me to agree to take your hands in marriage. After that everything seemed to fall into place, even the preparation for the engagement, akad nikah and reception was plain sailing. I felt it was a blessing from God, that you were the one for me and I have made the right choice. I'm grateful and thankful to Allah for giving me you.

Though 10 years have passed, where flowers no longer speak the language of our love nor make their usual presence in my life, am happy. If I were to turn back the time, I would still be with you... I would still choose you. I just can't imagine my life without you.

They say 'love is blind, and marriage is an eye opener,' I guess I need to get myself a pair of spectacles because I'm still blinded with your love, you still bring magic into this relationship although sometimes the magic doesn't really work out right but you succeeded most of the times.

Abang,
I love you so very much. Here's to 10 years of marriage and hopefully to more wonderful years to come.

P/S- This entry was supposed to be posted earlier, but I was ehem...ehem... ada sikit unhappy with you, so that explains the delay. But I still love you, that my dear hasn't changed. ahak ahak.

Muah!!!

Kids Say The Darnest Thing

2009-08-27T23:51:00.008+08:00

Well today marked the 6th day of fasting. The elder two kids so far had not much problem completing the task. Nabil had his puasa penuh last year when he was only 6. Khairina just started this year, and so far she managed to get 3 days of puasa, not too bad, I think for a start.

I did not actually force them to fast, they fast when they think they are ready as it's no use forcing when the child is not ready. But these children of mine can be funny when fasting.

Scene 1

Khairina lying flat on the sofa while watching tv at around 5.10 pm today.

Khairina : Ibu, Nina tak tahan dahlah, Nina nak minum boleh?

Ibu : Nina nak buka puasalah ni.

Khairina : Nina dah tak tahanlah Ibu, Nina nak air

Ibu : Ok, kalau Nina nak buka puasa, Nina minum air pastu Nina kena makan sekali.

Khairina : Nina tak nak makan, Nina nak minum air sejuk aje.

Ibu : Macam tu baik Nina puasa je lagi 2 jam dah nak berbuka, tapi kalau Nina nak berbuka pun takpe, tapi kena makan nasi ok?

Khairina : Kena makan nasi ke? Takpelah camtu, Nina puasa jelah.

Ibu : (dalam hati) Wakakaka....kesian budak ni.

Scene 2

Nabil also lying flat on the sofa in the living room, after tiring himself with rounds of ball kicking.

Nabil : Help me! Help me! I need water! water !Water please!

Ibu : Ha! ha! Main lagi. I told you to stop, tak nak dengar cakap, sekarang dah dahaga.

Nabil : Mana ada Abil cakap Abil dahaga, Abil cakap nak water je. Bukannya nak minum.

Ibu : (dalam hati) weh! tak sama ke?

Scene 3

Khairina : Ibu, nanti Nina berbuka, Nina nak makan kuih bulu-bulu.

Ibu : Kuih bulu-bulu?

Khairina : Ala kuih yang macam semalam tu, yang warna hijau tu, pastu atas dia ada bulu-bulu warna putih, pastu makan dengan kuah yang black-black colour tu.

Ibu : Yang macam semalam tu kuih lopes lah darling.

Khairina : Hah! Kuih bulu-bulu tu lah, ok?

Scene 4

Before break fast today.
In the kitchen, I was busy preparing for the iftar.

Nabil : Ibu, hari ni Ibu masak nasi ayam kan?

Ibu : Yelah sebab semalam Abil and Kakak Aina kan cakap nak makan nasi ayam, so today nasi ayamlah.

Nabil : Jelly yang Abil suka tu Ibu buat tak?

Ibu : Dah. Dah buat dah. Ada raspberry dengan orange.

Nabil : Coklat Cadbury Dairy Milk tu ada.

Ibu : Dah beli dah. Ada dalam fridge.

Nabil : Ok. Very good Ibu. Nanti berbuka, Abil nak makan chicken rice, soup, jelly and chocolate, pastu Abil nak minum air grape tau.

Ibu : Yes Sir.

Nabil : Isyy...Ibu ni ada pulak panggil Abil Sir, Abil kan belum kahwin lagi.

Ibu : Huh ! Wakakakaka.....

During berbuka.

Nabil : Sedapnya nasi ayam Ibu. Lebih sedap daripada chicken rice shop.

Ibu : (sangat kembang) Ya ke? So makan puas-puas ok.

Nuraina : Sebab tu Ibu selalu cakap kalau nak makan chicken rice tak yah beli. Ibu boleh buat.

Ibu : (dalam hati) Ceh! macam terror!

After berbuka

Ibu : Abil, ni Ibu dah keluarkan jelly dengan chocolate. Nak makan tak?

Nabil : Abil sakit perutlah Ibu, sebab Abil makan chicken rice banyak sangat. Tulah sebab Ibu masak sedap sangat, sekarang Abil dah tak dapat makan dah semua tu.

Ibu : Aikkkk! Macamana boleh jadi salah Ibu pulak ni?

Nabil : Yelah, saper suruh Ibu masak sedap sangat, pastu Abil makan banyak sampai dah sakit perut dah ni.

Ibu : Hah! (tak terkata teman)

Funny kan? Sometimes they got me gobsmacked and dumbfounded.

But cooking for the family during Ramadhan has been fulfiling as they enjoy their meals during berbuka. The first week tu enjoylah, not sure on the days to come due to my limited cooking skill and recipe. ahak ahak.

Hope you all have a nice Ramadhan too.

What Ramadhan does to me:-

2009-08-25T01:03:00.003+08:00

During break fast today, Nabil commented 'seronoknya berbuka, nikmat Abil rasa' the look on his face and how he finished his food sends some joy in me, knowing that he loves fasting due to the nikmat he gets during berbuka.

The doa my children recite before the break fast, makes me proud of them for being thankful with the food spread on the table.

The family walk to the surau in our praying attire for the terawikh prayer, brings me calmness beyond compare as we walk hand-in-hand clad in our wudhu' is a journey that I enjoy every night during Ramadhan.

Waking the kids up for sahur, though it's a challenge but the fact that they managed to be on the dining table in time for sahur, and finishing up their food gives me an accomplishment that even words can't express.

Sitting together in the living hall, laughing and teasing each other in the wee hours of the morning while waiting for the azan, is another simple pleasure in life that I treasure.

The obstacles the children had to endure to get a puasa penuh is another proud moment that only a mom can understand.

And I get all these during Ramadhan.
The month of Ramadhan definitely strengthen the bonds among my family members and I treasure the every moment it brings.

My weekend

2009-08-23T18:15:00.012+08:00

Before I ramble on on my weekend, I hope it's not too late to wish all Muslims out there a 'Happy Ramadhan, moga-moga ibadah kita kali ini lebih diberkati dari sebelumnya'.

So the Saturday that was supposed to be a first day Ramadhan for the Muslims had been a pretty hectic for our family mainly myself, hubby and the two elder kids as they had their Wushu tournament on that day. After the sahur and Subuh prayer Nuraina and Nabil took a short nap as we had to be in the community hall in KBU before 8 for the tournament. Nuraina participated in the Wushudao 1 Individual Pattern competition and Nabil in Primary Students Male Sparring below 22 kg, Nabil is 20.8 kg (kurus kan?)

There was a lot of waiting involved throughout the whole event which irritates me to no end. First we had to wait to get the kids to be registered, then we had to wait for the event to start, we had to wait for the VIP to arrive, basically there was a lot of waiting involved as we were not given a timetable on what event should start first, second so on and so forth. We wasted so much time that day waiting for things to happen.

The hall was filled with so many people. After the registration which I felt like took forever they had a rehearsal for the opening ceremony, the kids did some warming up and some pattern practices, that too took a lot of time, Nuraina event began after the rehearsal and she was in the 7th group to perform. Her pattern performance took less than a minute to execute and we spent hours after that waiting, and we found out she made it to the second round and we waited and waited and waited even after the lunch break only to be told that the second round is to be held the next day, on Sunday. Arrrgghhhh......!!!

So at around 12 ish, it was the opening ceremony where all the participants gathered in the middle of the hall and did their performances. After the speeches, which were all spoken in Mandarin, we had break for lunch.

During the rehearsal

Still doing their routine during the rehearsal

Although the kids were fasting but all the participants were given a pack of chicken rice each. I was pissed when I found out that the rice was 'non-halal'. God!!! Can't they be more sensitive regarding this issue? I know they were not many Muslims taking part in the competition but they were more than 20 Muslim students on the first day, they should be more sensitive and the fact we are all living in Malaysia, so to say a Muslim country. What I cannot understand is, when I asked one of the officers if the food is 'halal,' he did not even know what 'halal' means, omigod! how could there be such ignorant human exist here in Malaysia. And I went to see another officer and she said it is 'halal' and I asked her again 'are you sure?' and she answered 'yes, yes, very sure, it's chicken rice what? It's not pork'. n my heart I went 'God lady 'halal' doesn't mean only pork it means that the animals are slaughtered by the Muslims using the Islamic way'. Haiiyooo.... luckily one officer of a higher rank confirmed that the food is 'non-halal'. Can you imagine if it's not fasting month and my children would already have eaten the food? I'm so so sad that these people are not sensitive enough on this issue.

So after the break, we waited and waited again because Nabil's event will be starting after the secondary school male and female sparring. We waited and waited until it was nearly 5 pm only to be told that he will compete tomorrow morning because his opponent had gone home so he had a walk-over wining. So that was how we wasted our Saturday.

Sunday was almost the same, we were there early in the morning. We waited and waited for the event to start. It was supposed to start with Nabil's sparring but after the draw lot, Nabil got a 'by' and he will straight away go to the final which will start after lunch. Then we waited....and waited...and waited until it was Aina's turn which start nearly around 11 pm. Aina didn't make it through the 3rd round but overall she did fine as she was the only white belt holder made it to that round.

We wanted to go home but was afraid Nabil would miss his chance in competing because nobody could tell us when it will start. So we waited and waited and waited until it was 1.00 pm and I decided to bring Nuraina home as she has her piano class at 4 pm.

Nabil getting ready for sparring. In his mouth is the mouth guard.

So hubby waited with Nabil whilst Aina and myself made our way home. After sending Aina for her piano class, I went to fetch hubby and Nabil bringing the other 3 younger kids along. So it was prize-giving ceremony, Nabil didn't win but he deserved the silver medal as he competed in the final.

Nabil and his medal

Although the children were complaining of hunger and thirst for the 2 days we were there and although I told them they could break fast if they wanted to, they did want and am proud.

P/S- Can you feel my predicament on the many waitings involved on my weekend?
P/S/S- And don't forget to go to the www.orangutanchatters.blogspot.com as this your chance to show your support before the due date at the end of this month. Thank you.

Save the Orang Utans!!!

2009-08-19T13:35:00.005+08:00

Dear readers,

Our orang utans are at extinct!!!!

Please show your care and support to our orang utans.

My students have worked hard to create a blog in the awareness in saving and caring for the orang utans.

If you have reached this page, please click to this url www.orangutanchatters.blogspot.com

We are trying to make a difference in their lives and we hope you are with us.

Leave us your comments and share your ideas to save these little ones.

They will truly appreciate your love and support!

Doesn't this sound familiar?

2009-08-18T12:33:00.004+08:00

25 THINGS I OWE MY MOTHER FOR

1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE .'If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I've just finished cleaning.'

2. My mother taught me RELIGION.'You'd better pray that will come out of the carpet.'

3. My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL .'If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!'

4. My mother taught me LOGIC.' Because I said so, that's why.'

5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC . 'If you fall off of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the shop withme.'

6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT. 'Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident.'

7. My mother taught me IRONY 'Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about.'

8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS. 'Shut your mouth and eat your supper.'
9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM . 'Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!'

10. My mother taught me about STAMINA. 'You'll sit there until all that spinach is gone.'

11. My mother taught me about WEATHER. 'This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it.'

12. My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY. 'If I've told you once, I've told you a million times. Don't exaggerate!'

13. My mother taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE . 'I brought you into this world, and I can take you out.'

14. My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION. 'Stop acting like your father!'

15.. My mother taught me about ENVY. 'There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don't have wonderful parents like you do.'

16. My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION. 'Just wait until we get home.'

17. My mother taught me about RECEIVING . 'You are going to get it when you get home!'

18. My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE. 'If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they are going to freeze that way.'

19. My mother taught me ESP. 'Put your sweater on; don't you think I know when you are cold?'

20. My mother taught me HUMOUR. 'When that lawn mower cuts off your foot, don't come running to me.'

21. My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT . 'If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up.'

22. My mother taught me GENETICS. 'You're just like your father.'

23. My mother taught me about my ROOTS. 'Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn ?'

24. My mother taught me WISDOM. ' When you get to be my age, you'll understand.'And my favorite:

25. My mother taught me about JUSTICE 'One day you'll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you

Hmmmm......? Wow! Turned I actually did teach them a lot of things Maths, Science, History, Religion etc....etc...

Things that I cannot stand and understand

2009-08-16T12:53:00.006+08:00

I just cannot stand when a husband cannot speak nicely to the wife.
I just cannot stand when this other half refused to recognise the wife's sacrifices.
I cannot stand when the wife has to oversee to all the things especially the upbringing of the children when it is supposed to be both the parents job.
I cannot stand husband who does all the decision without consulting the wife before hand,
What I cannot stand the most is, when things go wrong, the wife gets the blame.

I just don't understand when some husbands often look down at their wives.
I just don't understand some husbands who want the wives to cover but ogling other women with short skirts and low cut dresses.
I just don't get it husbands who can go out with his female counterparts but do not allow the wives to even befriended a guy.
I just don't get it husbands who refuse to listen to his wives when most of the times the wives are actually right and the things told are actually for their own good.
I just don't get it husbands who hug his wives with only one thing in his mind.

I'm furious at husbands who act pious but watch pornography during his free time.
I'm furious at husbands who dare lay their hands on their wives.
I'm furious at husbands who dare ask money earned by the wives without feeling guilty.
I'm furious at husbands who believe they do not have to appologize to the wives even though it is blatantly obvious that they are wrong.
I'm extremely furious at husbands who do not play their part as the head of the family.

Whatever it is, I'll still keep mine. So this post has nothing to do with him ( if you wonder). Fine. I lied. Well there's actually 2% of him in this post. But he's a keeper and I intend to keep him forever.

P/S- Abang if you're reading this, you know which part you are, kan? Can you change just a
little bit for me? Thank you and I love you, ahak ahak.

Ok . Wow! That was random.

Sorry if I have wasted your time reading the post, but this post is an observation of mine of things happening around me.

Hilman-Gibberish

2009-08-16T10:36:00.004+08:00

Check out Hilman in this video,

As you can see, Hilman's favourite word is 'kakak' ask him anything and he will say 'kakak'. It feels great that he is now at his usual self, healthy and bubbly. Syukur alhamdulillah.

Uber Amazing Blog Award

2009-08-09T02:25:00.014+08:00

Well, I was given this award by Myra. Thank you so much dear. I don't think I deserve it nonetheless am thankful. So with this award comes with the rules...

so these are the rules..
# Write five (5) interesting facts about the person who gave you this award.

# Jot down ten (10) interesting facts about yourself or your hobbies.

# Pick your ten (10) most deserving recipients and describe them.# Leave a comment on the recipients' blog to tell them they've been tagged

# Paste the award badge in your sidebar

Actually Myra doing this award is a great challenge for me being such a boring and laid back person ,well somehow I'm just gonna attempt it with a gusto. If I bore you with my nonsense I'm sorry as there's nothing much interesting about me.

Ok 5 interesting facts about Myra

1. she's a sis-in-law of my late good friend Shera (just mentioning her name almost sent tears to

my eyes), who is always with her kind words.

2. she's very selfless, caring person. She cares for the animals and the people she loves

3. she's eccentric to the point of being OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) ahak ahak (jangan

mare ye!) she sets high standard for herself, she wipes spoon and fork before she uses them,

everytime. If she sujud, she must make sure she hits the correct spot, not too far out or

lower. So before praying, she will do her sujud practise first. For further explanation you can

check her blog from my site she goes under the name of Hai Mum. (Myra, I'm promoting

your blog, hope you don't mind.

4. I envy her for her ability to juggle her work, being a good mom to her children and her ability to cook, bake and entertaining her guests with her scrumptious meals and desserts.

5. she has a heart of gold, always putting others first than herself.

Now here comes the challenging part

1. Call me weird but I like to read manuals, even though some of the times (or is it most?) I just couldn't make up what it is all about especially if it just too technical for my standard

2. Another weird thing, my favourite past time is plucking my armpit hair (ewww!) Maybe Boza of Jabishah can confirm you this as she was my partner in crime when we were in college. ahak ahak. So my armpits are almost hairless. I don't shave because that will just take the joy away. This hobby is very therapeutic and rewarding especially if you could pluck it sampai ke

akar dia(fuuhh!!!puas). Masyuk....wa cakap lu.

3. I don't like leaving my kids for long hours except for work basis. Although, I enjoy hanging out with my friends, deep inside I feel a slight tinge of guilt towards my children for leaving them behind. Hence I prefer to take them along almost everywhere I go.

4. I seldom cook for my family, that explains why I envy those people who love to cook and serve the family with their air tangan.<

5. I love being with my family, although I am one garang mother but I just love to be surrounded by my husband and children

6. I tend to forgive and forget. I try not to remember things that make me upset

7. I'm quite dependant. I need to be assured that I'm doing the right thing from my family and good friends. That's why it often worries me if I accidentally make people upset because I just cannot stand being alone

8. I have poor sense of direction. My journey is only to school, home, Giant, children's schools. Yeah, so if ever I need to go to a new place, I'll start hyperventilating, if husband is around, we will go reccee the place before hand. Tapi kadang-kadang reccee waktu malam and bila dah siang benda nampak lain sikit, I akan mula panik. At all time possible, I prefer to car pool with my friends or convoy which I will follow them closely behind not leaving a gap for any car to cilok in between

9. I'm a homely person. I do not like to go out that much. I just love the comfort of my own home

10. I enjoy dancing and acting. I never failed to take part in dancing during the prize-giving ceremony in school since I was in Standard 1 up until I was in Form 5. Every year, without >fail. This actually created a stir between me and my mom because she'll be saying parents who attend that ceremony are proud parents witnessing their children excel in academic and my parents are there just to see her daughter tergedik atas pentas. So they stopped coming when I was in Standard 5.

Ok now I will tag Christina Chan, Sibyl Su, Dikny, Shahid and Nik Rahila.

Sorry I can't do 10 as I don't think I have that many people who actually read my blog.

Myra I'm not sure how to do the last part. So setakat ni jelah yang mampu den buek.

Home Sweet Home

2009-08-08T10:58:00.006+08:00

Many of you may wonder why I've been keeping low and quiet for so long. Well, last 2 weeks wasn't a good week for me. It started off with my maid having a bad cough and high fever. Things get a little kelam-kabut as my right hand and leg was not very fit to do the chores around the house. Although she was taken twice for check-ups there wasn't much change to her condition. Then on that Thursday night, it was my turn to be down with high fever and a severe headache. It was so bad that I couldn't make myself to get up for school the next day. The situation got even worse when my baby Hilman and Dhaniyah were down with fever, flu and cough too. As the outbreak of the serious cases of H1N1, we decided to go to the clinic immediately for check up. Turned out all 3 of us had temperature of 39 degrees and were told to do the throat swab in 2 days if the symptoms persist.

As bibik was unwell too, she needed the time off so she could seek traditional help. We granted her the permission because her cough was so bad that everytime she coughs, she vomits. So imagine how chaotic the situation was with my bibik not around and the two younger children being sick. The next day the fever attacked Khairina and Nabil, their temperature was so high that we had to put wrapped ice on their forehead to bring down the temperature. My macho son Nabil shed a few tears because he just couldn't stand the pain. All of them were so weak and terjelepek, I felt so sorrry for them.

My maid was supposed to come back on Sunday night but as she was still so sick, she asked for extension, so Monday morning only Nuraina got up for school with bibik not around and myself was still unwell, she went to school without a belt around her pinafore but I was too sick to go look for it. She was unhappy though and she went***grumble grumble*** I am a prefect***grumble grumble*** not setting a good example***grumble grumble*** I don't look smart***grumble grumble*** with tears flowing down her cheeks. The next day, there was still no sign bibik, we tried calling her but our calls couldn't get through so we started to panic. With Hilman's condition getting weaker, with fever, cough and cold and he will regurgitate everytime when we had to give him the medicine made it even worse, he's once chubby face had somewhat seem to shrivel as he didn't eat and drink as much as he used to.

So the next day began with still no sign of bibik and now all 5 of my kids were down with fever but the other 3 showed sign of recuperating now it was Nuraina's turn to get sick and Hilman to be sicker. Hilman's cough and cold was so bad, he couldn't sleep well at night. He was given suppository for 2 days but still no improvement. Alas! Bibik came back on Tuesday afternoon and turned out she was so sick she couldn't get up.

With bibik being back, Hilman was brought to see his paeditricain Dato Dr Musa in DSH. Parking in that area was so bad, I had to make a few rounds and it took me almost an hour to get a parking space which was 1.5 km away from the hospital itself. Luckily my mom was with me, while I was looking for parking, Mama went to queue for our turn to see the doctor. When I arrived, Hilman looked so sick and weak, he was quiet and clingy. As the doctor was attending to Raja Nazrin's son, it took us longer than usual to get to see him.

Once checked, Hilman was told to be turned in as his throat and both his ears were infected and his temperature was 39.4 degree celcius and he was dehydrated. He was taken for x-ray and to do a blood test. Seeing him in that condition was heart-wrenching as he cried and cried during x-ray and for the blood test. Waiting for our room to be ready took us more than an hour as the hospital was packed with patients. Hilman later was given the nebalizer where he protested everytime, and antibiotics shot on his thigh.

Every 6 hours he was been monitored for fever and suppository was given everytime. We were there for 2 nights until he has completed his 10 sessions of nebalizer and 6 shots of antibiotics. Hilman being an unfriendly baby by nature became so clingy as he refused to be put down, he didn't want to walk, he wanted to be carried all the time and he can't lose his sight of me or he will start wailing. Hence it made my life quite difficult as I had to hold my nature call or bring him along with me. As the place was alien to him, he refused to sleep until I lie down with him on the bed with my tudung detached if I still have my tudung on he just won't make himself go to sleep. He'll go 'nak kut, bu. Nak kut bu'. Until i took off my tudung and lie on the hospital bed beside him. He will start crying everytime he sees the nurses as it means it's time for his shots or nebalizer so the sight of nurses means bad news to him.

Alhamdulillah he got better, no more fever but he's still coughing and he was given ventolin and aerochamber so we can do it home. The timing can't be better as school was closed due to suspected cases of H1N1 in my school so I need not apply for CRK. We arrived home yesterday, it feels so good to be home, sleeping on my comfortable bed and eating rice and lauk at home as we were fed only porridge during our stay there.

Although I am tired and suffer from slight headache, body ache and a backache due to my awkward sleeping position on the uncomfortable hospital bed. It is so goooooooooood to be home. Finally the children are better and am happy to be out of this mess. Home sweet home.

P/S - Myra if you're reading this, I'll try to do that Uber Award entry in my next post. Sorry dear.

What's with the Name?

2009-07-29T22:26:00.008+08:00

My students often ask me, why my url has 'yo' at the back. Am into rap? Am into nigger music? Hip hop? Well, girls there's a story behind this.

Once, in a not so faraway land where only beautiful princesses live, there were many godmothers, guardian angels and some stepmothers taking care of these princesses, these godmothers were burdened with lots of work to make sure these princesses achieve excellence in their academic and 'sahsiah' as well to prepare them for the real world outside the compound of that 'peaceful' land as the outside world can be a cruel and harsher place to live in by these princesses.

Hence these godmothers were sent for courses after courses to make sure that these godmothers are well-trained in taking care of these princesses who can be quite a challenge to care off sometimes. So about a year ago, these godmothers were sent for an in-house training in a peaceful building in that peaceful land itself. One tall whacko godmother was told to attend, the one conducting the in-house was a friend of that tall whacko godmother.

It was told upon them that 'My dear godmothers these princesses in this peaceful land are majority IT literate and computer savvy so godmothers it is vital for all of yout to keep pace and to have a blog of your own.' These godmothers then followed the step-by step instruction given by the trainer. Along the way, they were few struggling and some were drowning as the computers in that peaceful land did not want to co-operate with some of the godmothers.

As they were all tired and the time showed it was almost 5.00, everyone seemed to get it over and done with and some were already fidgetting to get home, some close friends of that tall whacko godmother managed to create a blog in a short time and posted their first entry. While the tall whacko godmother was still blinking and staring into space on what she should name her url. She had some nice names but they were all taken by other bloggers went suddenly the trainer called out 'Yo Puteri, ko dah siap ke blum? Cepat sikit! We all want to go back to the house already.' That caught her off guard. Thinking that this will be the first and the last time she ever going to visit the blog she created, the name 'puteriinthehouseyo' came into her mind, the name inspired by her trainer. As she was already picturing herself at home nursing the 3 month old baby she had left.

As time went by, her close friends decided to continue blogging and soon the princesses of that peaceful land knew the existence of these godmothers' blog. They were pestering for that tall whacko godmother to continue posting her entry. But she remained nonchalant thinking she had not much interesting stories worth writing and sharing as her life revolves around her work and family only.

However, it was brought to the godmother's attention of her princesses blogs and she decided to give them a visit. Turned out she enjoyed reading her princesses blog especially her then 13-year-old sarcastic princess whom the godmother believes has flair in writing like duck takes to water, then she was introduced to her good friends' blogs and one of the princesses mom's blog and she has been an avid and silent reader of that blog since and other interesting blogs for that matter. She became hooked reading other people's blog.

One fine day during the long break, the godmother decided to start writing her entry as at that time she believed she had something worth sharing and was missing some of her princesses, turned out she liked it as at times it de-stresses her when she put her thoughts into writing. She was hoping that nobody would notice, but they did. The first feeling of being discovered was overwhelming. She got cold hands and feet. It was a mixture of feeling; embarassed and some part quite happy that somebody took notice of what she wrote. As she was so not very adventurous and familiar with blogspot, she was afraid to make any changes, first she wanted to change her url as she now knew it sounded really ridiculuos and junkie but was fearful to do anything as she believed if a wrong button is pushed the computer might explode.

Therefore, the name remained. The godmothers and the princesses then hopefully to live an ever after happy lives.

The End.

So yes boys and girls that is the end of your bedtime story for tonight. Now close you eyes.

Hey Newbie!

2009-07-26T14:01:00.008+08:00

Training period means you are in a learning process to prepare you for the career that you have chosen to be in. Training also means you are to adopt the culture of the workplace you are in and make the best of it without losing the real you in the process. Training- is also a place for you to observe and learn as much as you can from the seniors and get help if you need too.

In your training process you also need to have respect for your mentor and others in the workforce you are in. During your training session, you have to make a lot of sacrifices and adjustment too, you cannot really choose as nobody in this environment are really given the choice. Although you are young and may have great ideas but you must willing to admit that you are a newbie and still need help from the people who have been in this area way before you were even born as they are the expert and they know the clients more than you do. The seniors are here to help you, we really really want to help that is why you are here, but we can't do so if you are avoiding us and do not want our help when in actual fact you are actually drowning. We can see it and your client see it too.

So please make good use of your training period and count your blessing to be in the environment that you are in now as this is a far cry from reality. If you think you are not cut out for this job, it's too late now, so just make the best of it rather than wasting other people's effort and time.

So stop from being a bodoh sombong.

Phantom oh Phantom

2009-07-23T21:06:00.003+08:00

So today was the day I brought my Form 2 girls to watch the teathre Phantom of the Opera staged by the one of the private schools here.

When we arrived they were already many students around the area, once seated I was shocked to see that it was actually a full house. When the curtain went up, I was blown away by the props, the costumes and the backdrops .... but that is all the good things I can say as the play was below my expectation.

The night before I can't believe I was actually excited to go and watch the show, as I was told it's going to be a musical with live performance, I pictured live singing throughout the performance, live music like we had for our musical with the orchestra and the choir group but I was wrong.

No doubt they sang but like what.....4 songs, yes of course they had music but it came in shapes that look like a keyboard and an organ, and as I was told they are using Andrew Lloyd Webber's I was surprised to hear music from Kitaro, the Nutcracker and one Italian song where the fat man usually sings.

I guess due to the success of our musical, I expected too much from this production mainly because the students came from a private school, they had more money, they had native speakers as their English teachers, the tickets for the day were sold out, only to be let down by their horrendous performance.

I was often told a play is to be dramatised and to showcase acting and this play was often distracted by the narrator that appeared throughout the whole play. It was such an anti-climax everytime he appears. The casts had poor pronunciation Christina Daae (pronounced as Da yay) became Christine Day, Madame Giry (pronounced as Jee Ree) sounded like ikan tenggiri, Raoul de Changny (pronounce as change yee) became Raoul de Chadni (sounded like the gravy used in thosai), all the correct pronunciation that I've been teaching the girls for all these years went down the drain in a mere 2 hours.

Not only that they did not pay much attention to detail. First, the Box 5 is known as the ghost box but the two Comte and Vicomte actually sat there when in actual fact they should be seated in Box 14, I guessed the crew had forgotten to change the number which is not acceptable because it is a consider a crucial part in the story. The doctor wore a tail coat instead of the usual lab coat worn by doctors, we had to wait for quite a while for each segment although the props were all ready and the sound of the bell to signal the spotlight I find it to be an annoying sound.

I felt like it was a waste of time, some students felt they were deceived and robbed of their RM10, I feel bad because I encouraged them to go, I was restless throughout the whole show which I find it to be rare because I'm such a sucker for romance, but I was lucky to have my good friends with me, as we had a good time chatting and laughing.

I was impressed by a few of the casts though as they sang well.

Is it me or was our musical way better than this one?

Sigh!

*cough*I miss our school musical drama*cough*.

To whom it may concern

2009-07-19T19:20:00.003+08:00

Sometimes life is unfair and not worth living,
Sometimes things just don't go our way,
Sometimes people fail to understand how we feel,
Sometimes things just don't work the way we want it to be.

But please don't go around with that sour face of yours and please don't go bark at people who know nut what you're suffering from. Trust me, everyone has problems and some more serious and major than yours and you are not alone ok, we are willing to help you, sometimes dear, talking about it will help to release the burden and pain so talk to us, don't let your emotion controls your behaviour.

You don't have to be rude to justify your feeling, we ask because we care and your attitude towards our question can be hurtful. We wanna help because we are worried of you, so please control you anger and stop making that 'you don't wanna mess with me' kind of look. Some of us had had it with that kind of attitude from you, but I will not stop asking until I know you're ok.

Just because I care.

Nabil

2009-07-17T11:10:00.008+08:00

Last night while I was attending to Khairina with her homework, my son Nabil approached,

Nabil : Ibu, let's play a game
Me : Not now, later perhaps.

Nabil : It's a very easy game Ibu, you don't really have to think. All you have to do is to follow what I say.
Me : Follow je.

Nabil : Ah ah follow je, that easy.
Me : Ok. I follow. Shoot!

Nabil : Ok Abil akan cakap 'lock', Ibu kena cakap 'key'. Ok?
Me : Ok.

Nabil : I'm Pad lock.
Me : I'm Pad key? Mana ada padkey?

Nabil : Ala Ibu ni, ikut ajelah.
Me : Ok, ok.

Nabil : I'm Gold lock.
Me : I'm Gold key?

Nabil : I'm Door lock.
Me : I'm Door key?

Nabil : I'm Man lock.
Me : I'm Man key?

Nabil : Wakaka kaka ka ka. Ibu monkey.
Ibu : ?????? (Grrr...kurang asem betul) ahak ahak.