Syawal came and going......

It seems as though ramadan was just here and all of the sudden, its almost end of Syawal. How time flies......(when we're having fun!??). Maybe! This Syawal was a little different from before. It was the first time in many years we celebrated 1st day of Raya with my hubby's siblings. This time my hubby wants to have Nasi Tomato and mind you, we had 7 dishes to go with it. Planning was crucial, coz we have to have everything ready and packed early, before the raya prayers.

Right after prayers we loaded everything into the car boot and off we went to our Kak Arah's house at TTDI. Since everybody brought some food, the spread was fantastic. We had ketupat, lemang noodles even bubur pulut hitam for dessert. It just made me realise though, it wasn't a good idea to have everything in one day. We end up not tasting most of the dishes. I still felt that I have not tasted the real 'raya' since I have not had proper ketupat with kuah lodeh,sambal kacang and serunding. Maybe adding sambal goreng will make it just perfect! I will have to go to the market and find some daun kelapa.....tomorrow.

My homestay has also took off quite well. This month will be hectic due to Uitm convocation. We also had some guest who came for weddings. So far we had good feedback from our guests. Hopefully they will spread the word arround.

In a short while, we are going to our neighbour's wedding invitation. Their first daughter's. Emm... nak pakai baju apa????

Ramadan 2009

Diam tak diam dah 14 hari kita berpuasa tahun ini. Saya rasa ramadan kali ini berlalu dgn begitu cepat. Kalau tahun2 yg dulu, adakalanye saya rasa masa bergerak perlahan. Mungkin kerana bosan atau mungkin kekadang dek kurang kesabaran menghadapi cabaran. Maklumlah, kita manusia biasa, walaupun tahu bulan ini kita patut melatih diri dan meneruskan amalan2, kekadang kita tetap lemah.

Saya rasa Ramadan kali ini cabarannye mungkin kurang. Saya tak begitu tertekan dengan masa dan keadaan sekeliling yang begitu nyaman. Cuaca sepanjang Ramadan ni pun selalu hujan. Jadi suhunye lebih sejuk. Anak2 pun hanya akan ke sekolah selama 10 hari sahaja sepanjang ramadan ini.

Aiman dan Adam begitu seronok berpuasa. Tak ada rungutan langsung. Cuma kekadang nak bangun sahur tu liat sedikit. Lagi pulak, babah dia orang tak pergi Jakarta sehingga lepas raya. Jadi puasa ni, dapatlah dia melayan selera mereka membeli juadah di pasar ramadan.

Semalam kami makan nasi ambang. Siap bungkus dgn daun pisang yg diambil kat belakang rumah. Pas tu kami goreng keropok lekor yg Kak Long beli kat Terengganu. Sedap betul keropok tu. Ari ni kalau ikut menu Ramadan saya, saya akan masak Kuey Teow Daging Lada Hitam. Masakan ini saya belum pernah masak tapi pernah makan dulu. Baru jumpa resepinye. Jadi buat berubah selera, saya akan cuba. Susah sikit masak waktu puasa ni. Tak boleh rasa. Jadi masa berbuka tu suspense sikitlah. Minggu lepas, kami jemput housemate suami di Jakarta, sekeluarga berbuka dgn kami. Saya pun kononnye masak beriani Johor. Hah! Suami saya kata "Ini bukani Nasi Berani, ini Nasi Takut. Takut bubuh garam". Betullah tu. Nasi saya tawar. Tak reti angar. Nasib baik tawar, kalau masin lagi teruk. Tawar2 pun habis juga nasi yg 2kg tu. Alhamdulillah.

Ok lah, kejap lagi nak solat zohor. Lepas tu siapkan boys nak ke sekolah agama pulak. Mulai kelmarin dia org ada ujian. Oklah...SELAMAT BERAMAL!

August Update

Look at the title above and I guess it seems as if I can only update my blog once a month. I do hope it is not the case but with everything that is going around me lately, it is quite inevitable.

The 1st 2 weeks of this month seem to pass by me like a flash. I hardly notice the dates until this morning when I have to write a cheque! Its already the 13th. And we missed the 1st day of the Metrojaya warehouse sale yesterday!! This sale,if you have also been, I believe will agree with me, is worth going to. So I digress! Women...sale... shopping.... do the maths!

Actually I was not busy shopping(though it would have been nice). Early this month, Abg Adon and family came and spend 2 nites with us. Tahirah was looking for a suitable wedding attire and we are all quite excited to help. Then I was busy finishing tidying our old house. We got our first homestay customer last weekend. After furnishing the house, I really hope that our venture will be a success.

Then it was also last Friday that Adam was down with fever. He was coughing, very chesty, complaint of headache and and of course flu. I was really worried with all these epidemic going round....We went to see the doctor and the doctor said not to worry. It was just tonsillitis and he needs the antibiotics.
Three days gone, finished his medicine and he still complaint of headache. Went to the doctor again and now the doctor found that he is whizzing. The doctor prescribed another round of antibiotics and did 3 round of nabs. Still whizzing.

So yesterday, I brought him to DEMC for 2nd opinion. The doctor agreed that the whizzing is very worrying and did a blood test. It was confirm Adam suffered from what they called Bronchopneumonia. So they think that Adam should be admitted and start with intravenous antibiotics. ( He did this treatment once about a year ago). But with the fever and headache, the doctor is also worried that it could be related to H1n1. So my hubby insisted that I bring him to a government hospital for further check.

Shah Alam, being the only city in the world without a public hospital, I have to choose between Klang or PPUM. Since I'm more familiar with UH, I decided to go there ready with some extra clothes in case Adam has to be admitted. The hospital was hectic with so many patient and we really got worried of the VIRUS. Of course we put on the mask, then again the place was bustling with coughing, sneezing people! May Allah save us from the V.

After an X ray, the doctor confirmed that Adam's lungs was indeed infected but the earlier blood test show that it was bacterial and NOT Viral. The doctor retain us for a few hours for observation and whether Adam response to their treatment. Fortunately Adam responded well and the doctor thinks that the treatment can continue at home. He do not have to stay in the hospital. Although it is more comfortable at home, and definitely less exposure to viral infection, I was a little worried of his condition last night.

He gave me quite a scare very early this morning when he started coughing continuously. Luckily after a few more rounds of Ventolin, he seemed fine. I'm still worried about him and pray to Allah so that he can be cured.

I guess that's all for now. My mind is still quite occupied and do not feel like talking about anything else......

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HOMESTAY AT SHAH ALAM

Sorry, I didn't have the time to update my blog. Have been busy turning our old house into a Homestay. Actually I haven't quite done cleaning the house, so I spent the last week or so doing just that.
We were quite undecided at first, on what to do with the old house. It was just recently that we finally decided to turn it into a homestay.

We had the house a new coat of paint and had the parquet flooring upstairs repaired and polished. We've furnished the house with 4 new queen size beds and we shall provide linens we bought 2nd hand from a 5 star hotel. My house is close to a shopping mall (the one that house the MACC office recently in the news) and of course the Shah Alam mosque.

So, kalau ada sesiapa yg ada urusan di Shah Alam,terutamanya bersama keluarga, bolehlah menginap di homestay saya. Nak melawat anak di UiTM ke, ada kursus ke, majlis perkahwinan saudaramara ke atau bercuti saja, tentu lebih murah tinggal di Homestay saya je.

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Syurga Di bawah Tapak Kaki Ibu

Semalam kami baru beli weighing machine baru. Yang electronic body fat scale tu.. Nak timbang yg terlebih2 nilah. Konon2 baru cuba nutrition program baru yg kawan saya Kit beri. The weighing machine we had is more than 10 years old,so its no longer reliable.
Adek yang baca user manual, jadi dialah yg set the scale. Kena isi tinggi dan umur. Jadi bila timbang tu keluarlah berapa percentage Fat and Hydration dlm badan. Orang lain timbang, elok je keluar analysisnya. Bila saya timbang, keluar ERROR. Apasal ye? "Kenapa kaki Mama ni?Ada kuasa letrik ke?(sebab kena diri atas electronic strip tu)"tanya Adek.
"Ha'ah, ada apa kat kaki mama ni ye?" jawab saya.
"Ada syurgalah kat kaki mama" sahut Aiman."Syurgakan di bawah tapak kaki ibu"sambungnya lagi.
"Ha'ah, sebab itulah mama berat. Ada syurga kat kaki mama!!!"sambung Adam.

Jadi kat semua ibu2, jgn risaulah kalau berat lebih dari yg patut. Ada alasan rupanya....
Saaaayang anak2 mama!!!!!

Kereta Rosak

Semalam pegi Giant Sek 13 Shah Alam. Nak pegi bayar bill and do some grocery shopping. Keluar rumah dah agak lambat, jadi kena rush through the aisle and hopefully be on time to fetch the boys from school.

So, alhamdulillah, the queue kat cashier tak ramai. I had ample time to drive back to sek 9 school. Siap2 loading groceries ke dalam boot, nak start engine tak boleh. Aduh!!! macam mana ni takut boys tunggu lama kat pagar sekolah.

Try call kak Adek dia tak angkat phone. Dah pukul 1.00, tak kan tak habis sessi kat court lagi...So I tried my saviour friend, Atie. Nasib baik dia boleh tolong arrange jemput my boys from school. Anak Atie, Abg dah siap jemput Hilman, kena patah balik cari Aiman & Adam. TQ Atie. Tuhan saje balas jasa awak.

After trying several times to call adek, akhirnye dia angkat. Rupanya lepas court tu, dia lupa nak set balik telpon. Jadi adek tolong cari mechanic. Alarm bunyi tak henti2. Mechanic try start pun tak boleh. Jadi jump startlah. Ini case battery konglah. Tak ingat ari tu masa baru ambik kete ni, pegi tukar absorber, tukar tayar, tukar mounting dll, kenapa saya tak tukar battery? Bill tak jumpa pulak.

Dah telanjur kena masuk workshop, saya suruh juga mechanic tu check auto transmissionnye. Kadang2 masa drive tu, lampu neutral pun terkelip2. Pas tu tak de power. Macam tak tukar gear je.

So semalam dia kata saya kena tukar tah apa some computer function that controls the transmission. Ada ke such thing? Pasal2 kereta ni, saya tak paham. Jadi dengan battery baru, dan that computer thingy, labour and what not, kena juga RM 800/-

Emmm..... tulah saya cakap kat Adek, patutnya KPDN,(tempat dia keje) kena regulate harga service dan sparepart. Ikut sedap dia org aje nak charge berapa. Kita nak argue pun tak pandai. nasib badan.......

PINDAH

Petang nanti, jam 4.15, kami 3 beranak nak pegi Jakarta. Babah dia orang nak pindah rumah, jadi nak tolong kemas.
Dulu tinggal kat Menteng Jakarta. Tak taulah lepas ni dapat rumah kat mana. Rumah kat Menteng ni company yg sewa. So mahal sewanye. I think about USD2500 per month.
Nanti bila pulang dari Jakata, bisa cerita lagi dong. Sampai ketemu lagi.......Daaa

Berkhatan

Cuti sekolah ni Aiman nak berkhatan.Jadi sabtu lalu bawak dia pergi klinik dekat rumah saya. Katanya klinik ni banyak buat servis berkhatan ni. So, dah expertlah patutnya.

Saing2 dgn Aiman, anak kawan suami saya berbangsa Cina pun nak berkhatan. Moleklah tu. Kami tak berjaya pujuk Adam berkhatan saing abang dia, jadi bila Bryan pun nak sunat sekali, Aiman ada geng.

Pagi tu Aiman dah terasa agak takut. Maklumlah, anak2 teruna saya ni tak tahan sakit. Anak2 manja jugalah. Sampai saja kat klinik, muka dia dah pucat lesi, kalau toreh pun tak keluar darah kot. Kaki tangan dia sejuk. Dah dekat turn dia, dah mula' hyperventilate'. Takut sangatlah dia.

Masuk saja, doktor tu pun suntik bius. Dan saya rasa, bius tu belum sempat berkesan, doktor dah mulakan. Apa lagi, Aiman pun terjerit-jerit. Kesian betul saya tengok dia. Doktor tu confident aje kata Aiman mungkin overact. Sampai turn Bryan, dia pun berubah wajah, dari ceria jadi sangat marah. Katanye, sakit betul. Betullah tu, Aiman bukan over. Doktor yg tak nak tunggu kejap. Atau pun biusnya sikit sangat. Aiman kata dah sampai rumah baru dia rasa biusnya. Kesian betul kat Aiman!!!

Dek kerana peristiwa ni, Adam jadi bertambah takut. Dia suruh kumpul duit, nak sunat guna GA. Tapi ,Alhamdulillah, Aiman dah beransur pulih. Hari Rabu nanti gi klinik lagi, nak bukak klamp.

Movie

Last night we went out to the movies. Well, actually it was the night before that we went out to Bukit Raja. Aiman and Adam wanted to watch Night at the Museum 2. Unfortunately we couldn't get a ticket. We were quite puzzle cos it was Wednesday night.

So for last night, Kakak bought the ticket in advance thru' the internet. This time we changed venue to The Sunway Pyramid.

It was a good show! Hilarious!!! As good as the 1st Night at the Museum. Maybe, lepas ni nak gi tengok Monster vs Alien pulak. Nak ikut????

I found this beautiful poem and like to share it. Here it goes.......

Forget the kindness that you do,
As soon as you have done it;
Forget the praise that falls on you,
The moment you have won it.

Forget the slander that you heard,
Before you can repeat it:
Forget each slight, each spite, each sneer,
Wherever you may meet it.

Remember every kindness done,
To you, whatever its measure;
Remember every promise made,
And keep it to the letter;
Remember those who lend you aid,
And be a grateful debtor.

Remember good, remember truth,
Remember heaven's above you,
And you will find through age and youth,
True joy and hearts to love.


We each have a selective memory. The trick is to use our memory to remember those things that are good and forget those things which are bad.
So... What do you think???

Rain, rain come again!


It has been more than 2 weeks since we had rain. The dry spell has somewhat gets to us quite a bit. Especially because my bedroom is facing the evening sun and its getting quite warm at night. We have to switch the a/c on earlier these days.

Sometimes the days got all dark and cloudy. A thunder or two broke. We looked up the sky with a lot of hope that it would rain. But.......nothing.

Until recently, nothing can be done and we were just talking and making sure that everybody drink more water. We also water our plants twice a day. The grasses are turning yellow, so we even have to water the lawn.(we do not have a sprinkler system)

So yesterday, my daughter had an idea. You see, I have this jinx ever since I first owned a car. I cannot have a clean spotless car cos it will surely rain the day I wash my car. Be it I wash the car myself or send it to the carwash. It doesn't matter if its a cloudy day or a bright sunny day. I'm known for it that some of my former colleague ask me to warn them if I wash my car that day. They will not wash theirs the same day.

So yesterday, I washed 2 cars at once!!! So.... what do you think happen????

ITS FRIDAY!

When it comes to weekends or school holidays, it means I don't have to rush, nag and drill. Well... maybe a little.

School days means things must be done on time. When school is off, means things can wait a little, though nagging is still necessary. To Adam and Aiman, taking a simple bath is a chore. Its like a 10 step something...Prayer time is another chore to them, not to mention homework, revisions and tuition classes. How can all these compete with Sponge Bob, Drake and Josh, Wizard of Weaverly place, etc,etc. But somehow when their Babah is at home, he only need to say once and everything is done promptly. Why boys, why? (Sounds familiar boys?)

Anyway....I'm still Okay. Maybe I did the same thing to your nenek, tak? Ini balasan gaknye. Tapi kalau awak setuju, hati2, nanti anak awak pun buat sama! Baik berubah cepat!!!

Emmm.... today I finish sewing Kak Longs long skirt. Dah keje gomen ni, tak leh pakai jeans pegi keje. Ayulah sikit. Macam perempuan Melayu terakhir la ye....

Ouote of the day.... "The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions"

So I'm still happy and satisfied... Only thing is, boys, please don't make me NAG. I hate it too.

Its MONDAY again.

After a long weekend its quite a drag to start the day. Monday blues. The boys were dragging their feet to school today(well, a few steps only though, cos they are chauffeur driven everyday) The chauffeur , who else if not, yours truly.

Anyway, Kak Long is still on leave and she normally keeps me company anywhere I need to go. Tadi kami pegi Mydin. Kat situ, personal care items are a lot cheaper.

Petang pulak, I had a dentist appoinment. Had my long due scalling done!

My 1st May weekend.

This weekend was quite a hectic one. Very interesting too. Abg Hafiz arrived at my house a little after 3 on Friday. My maid and I was busy preparing for an early dinner. Started in the kitchen quite late cos we went out to Bukit Cerakah in the morning.

Aiman wanted to ride bicycle there. I thought we went early enough,just before 9 am. I was wrong. It was a public holiday and poor Aiman, we could not rent a single bike. So we decided to take the free bus ride and just hang around a little while. Aiman was already very upset and in no mood to enjoy anything there. I couldn't stand his long face and so we might as well leave. We went to Tesco for some grocery, had our lunch and head home right after.

@ stadium Malawati , Shah Alam

Malam tu pegi Stadium Melawati nak tengok One in a Million. Kak Tina nak support Esther. Kita dapat duduk depan sekali, sama row dgn mak esther. Tapi tak tahan speaker giant tu betul2 depan muka kita. So tukar tempat duduk belakang sikit. Good show. Meriah betul supporters finalists semua. Unfotunately, Esther tak menang. Malam tu memang budak Tomok tu hebat. Tak sengau macam dulu masa nyanyi dengan New boyz.

Inside the Stadium

The next day, sibuk lah pulak prepare untuk family gathering malam nanti. Kereta Abg rosak pulak. Tak boleh start. Jadi kena call mechanic datang rumah. Yang anak2 ni pulak sekali2 jumpa, kasi can lah buat aktiviti. Bincang2 akhirnya dia org pegi main boling aje. Ok la tu. I think they enjoyed themselves. Aiman and Adam pun join. Masuk parit juga bola boling tu? Kalau main dengan saya, saya cari Bowling alley yang kasi tutup parit. Strikelah saya. Bola boling zig zag pun boleh spare. Main cheating!!

Ok, so malam tu jadilah kita buat BBQ. Abg Lan, Ajid and family datang. Yg tak ada Abg Adon and mak. Ok lah, everything went smoothly, Alhamdulillah. Makanan pun just nice. Tak terlalu membazir. Grill Master pun ok. Cuma bila assistant yg kenet2 tu tolong, adalah yang rentong!

Adam ~ life of the party ( main teka-teki)

helping ourselves.....

Last night, after the BBQ we all settled in quite late. Had to tidy up a little and put away the leftovers. Pagi semua lambat sikitlah. Lepas solat subuh sambung baliklah. Breakfast tadi makan cekodok aje. Dah tak ada idealah.

After breakfast, Bibah came back after meeting her 'friend' . So I suggested that she ask him to come so that we can all meet him. Org Perak. Ok nampaknya. Tertib dan baik bahasanye. Kalau ada jodoh sedaralah kita nanti.

Abg Hafiz bertolak ke BP dalam pukul 4 ptg tadi. Bila akan jumpa lagi agaknya? Hope soon enough......

East meets West(EMW)

Well, east meets west, cos I just had some goreng pisang/pisang goreng with a cup of brewing earl grey tea. Perfect combination. If the Queen of England had a bite of goreng pisang, she will probably include it in her afternoon tea menu. Or not.

Anyway, Kak Long and I just came back from Jusco to scout for a cheap but fairly good barbecue set. We have not found one that fits our budget. We're planning to organize a bbq when Abg Hafiz and family comes. We'll probably bbq some satay too. EMW?

Tomorrow, Friday is the final of One in a Million, so Esther ,K.Tina's relative will be singing. We are therefore relative by marriage too. This is another case of east meets west? Boleh la ,east M'sia meets West M'sia.

Actually I'm feeling quite lethargic today.Yesterday I spend the whole morning (9.00-12.30) at our old house. Did some scrubbing and dusting. Then the twins and I went to Rosmina spa. I did an hr of reflexology. Feel soooo good. Then had my hair washed too.

After breakfast this morning we went to MPH warehouse sale in PJ. Soooo many books to choose from. Bought 10 books for the boys to share and only one book for me. The twins bought maybe another 10 books. I was so tired after organising the books after we moved 3 mths ago and thought that "no more Books" for at least a couple of mths. Guess we can't fight the temptation.

Ok. Have to go. I'm only on page 27 of the book.

Today, already the 28th of April. How time flies. For a housewife like me, today was quite a busy day. My weekly agama class,my ngo meeting which was to be every wednesday, rescheduled to this morning and another agama class in the afternoon which I attended for the 1st time today. All are good and I can't miss any of them. At the same time my duty as my boys' school bus driver cannot be skipped.
Actually, this is the kind of life I thought I should have when I decided to leave my full time job. So this is a really good,fulfilling day.

Sometimes there are a lot of things I wanted to do. I thought if I'm no longer working, I can maybe attend classes, fardu ain,tafsir,tajwid,arabic,some cooking classes or even sewing.But now I realized its not as easy to commit to something and have all the time to fulfil them.I will not give up though. I shall definitely reorganise my time so as to fit in as many meaningful activities as possible.

But one thing I'm so thankful to Allah is that I'm now free to dote on my young children. Its so fulfilling. My poor husband,however, has to be away to earn a living. I hope someday he can be here with us, for good and feel the joy of watching our little boys grow into a good muslim man. Insya'Allah.

This morning I actually have some other chores to do. My daughter, Adek called and ask to look for her pen drive which she left and check on certain files in it. so since I've already on the notebook I might as well write something.
Ok... what shall I be writing about? O yes, yesterday I went to Aiman's event to check on the the results for his nasyeed competition. Unfortunately, his school did not win and could not go foward to represent the state. Poor boys, they were very disappointed after all their hard work. It's ok though, they have tried and has come this far. Anyway, well done to their schoolmate Ainora for winning the Hafazan. She is really amazing. Only 10 yrs old and able to recite the Qur'an like that...
To Aiman & friends, mama just hope that you will not be too upset. Move foward, you can try again next year. Now u guys can start concentrating on your school work.
Ok, I think that's all for now.....

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