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Friday, January 30, 2009

yaya 1st week @ school

On the second day, I followed atang to send yaya to school. Yaya already met a new friend, named aishah, unfortunately after a placement test, yaya and aishah are separated. However, according to yaya, they continue meeting during recess.





After yaya left the assembly area for her class, we went home. And we came to school again during recess time. Just to make sure that she is OK. We encourage yaya to eat and drink food that we have prepared, although babah gave her 2 ringgit for her to spend. I strictly told yaya to not buy any drink from the canteen, except for packet drink. So far she just spend 1 ringgit to buy the cultur drink (solvite) from the canteen.



The first day she came home from school she told me that she didn't like the school. But on the second day, she came home happy, and said that she love the school. I found out later, she had playdoh during one of her lesson, and because of that, she changed her mind.

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Celebrating Athirah @ Adik 1st birthday

5th of January, 2 exciting, memorable, once-in-a-life-time things happened: the day yaya started schooling, attending stardard 1 and the day thirah turned 1-year-old (read about thirah's arrival here).

Just a simple celebration for thirah. A birthday cake and lamb chops for dinner (though the lamb chops are only for adult, ahaks). Here are some pictures taken to mark the day.







Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Yaya 1st day @ school

On the first day of school, 5th of January 2009, yaya woke up at 6.30 am. The excitement of going to school made the job of waking up yaya more easier than what I have anticipated. I prepared scrambled eggs and toast for her breakfast, and pack a bun for her snack. I couldn't accompanied her to school that day, as I need to settle some things at home. So only babah was there at school with her. As atang doesn't like to carry a digital camera around, I kept reminding babah, during that wee hour, to have yaya pictures taken using his hphone. "Mama nak tengok hari pertama yaya kat sekolah", I said to atang.

On the first day, yaya was wearing pinafore. Soon after arriving at yaya's school, I received a text message from atang, saying yaya was the only one wearing pinafore. Everyone else was wearing baju kurung. Alahai kesiannya. So, that first day of school, is the last day yaya wore pinafore.



Yaya in her class. On her left is the first friend she met at school.


Babah accompanied yaya until recess. Then he went home, leaving yaya under the care of her temporary class teacher.


When she came home that day, she was not happy. She said, she doesn't like the school for it was not fun. I told her, this is the starting day. Everything has not settle. Wait until the session starts, then you will know how fun it is.

And soon, yaya forgets what a boring day she had that day.

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Korek gambar-gambar lama

Sape-sape yang ada facebook aka FB, mesti pernah korek gambar-gambar lama untuk post kat situ kan. Yela, untuk carik kengkawan lama, kadang-kadang tu tak ingat dah muka, dulu pun pakai nama glamer aje, sekali kat FB letak nama skima, ahaks. Ada tu dah berubah dari segi fizikal dan personaliti. Ada tu rasa diri stay the same, tapi hakikatnya dah berubah 100%. Jadi gambar-gambar lama la menjadi bahan bukti utama kan.

Jadi salah satu aktiviti pulang ke Malaysia aritu yela mengumpul gambar-gambar lama yang terbaik dan senonoh untuk diletakkan dalam FB. Tujuannye satu je, mengimbas kenangan silam, yang pahit maupun manis, tapi banyak manis la, dah tu bergambar mesti time happy aje kan.

Bila letak gambar tu, seronok pulak rasa bila kengkawan pun turut sama imbas kisah2 disebalik gambar2 tu. Dengan application macam FB, walaupun jauh, ikatan silaturrahim masih dapat dikekalkan.

Den tak post la gambar-gambar tu kat sini. Gambar lama, kisah lama, bukan untuk dirungkai, tapi untuk dikenang aje. :D

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Life in Brisbane : Keyword search

From my nuffnang account, I discovered that some of my visitors arrived from search engines. The keywords that led them to my blog are;

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Hello to newcomers. Hope my blog help you in providing information that you need. Thank you for visiting.

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Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Warkah rindu

Ahaks.... menangkap tak tajuk tu :D...

This story is about yaya. We didn't tell yaya that we are coming home. We don't want yaya to be anxious waiting for us, furthermore, bothering her wan and atok by continously asking them about our arrival. So when we arrived at Mak's house 2 weeks ago, it was nearly maghrib at that time, and she was just getting dressed after her evening bath. Mak came out, carrying thirah and greated us. Then she called yaya, "yaya, tengok sape datang nie..". When she came out, she was so suprise to see us, until she didn't know what to do, and she was just standing at the door, standing still for a minute or two. Then she ran to me, and embraced me. Couldn't find an exact word to describe that situation, it was everything that relates to happiness and sad at the same time. But mostly happy. The look on yaya's face is indescribable. It's good that we kept it secret, so that we could experienced that lovely moment. The feeling of 'long-lost' and 'missing' combined with 'love', 'gratefulness', 'cheerfulness'........ I told you it is not easy to describe.

After we have settled down, Mak told me about yaya's letters, "Tiap-tiap hari, dia duduk kat meja abah kau, tulis surat." I was told that, about a month ago, yaya has been writing us, under the encouragement of her Wan and Atok. She just wrote some simple sentences like I Love You, Hello, and wrote our names on some printer papers (yang ada lubang kat tepi tu). She also drew pictures of us.

So, when I asked her about the letters, she smiled shyly and went to her wardrobe (yes she kept the letters in the wardrobe, of all other places ahahahahha), took out all the letters, and showed them to me. She must be following her Atok, for Abah used to write us letters when he was working away from home.



Am touched reading what yaya wrote and drew in those letters.


(Yaya happy face)

Monday, January 19, 2009

Katanya orientasi tapi.....

Ada banyak sebab kenapa kami pulang ke Malaysia. Yang paling utama ialah menguruskan persekolahan yaya. As a parents, we should be the one that handle yaya's school arrangement, though we owe a lot to my sistah, for helping preparing yaya's school uniforms, begs, stationeries etc. Thanks sistah. I owe u a lot.

Yaya school orientation was held on the 2nd of January, Friday. We need to be there before 8.30am, for there will be a taklimat given by the headmistress. Tapi, nie la nak kobar, apsal la tak menepati janji. It was written in the school letter, the briefing will start at 8.30am. Tapi kul 9.10 baru la cikgu-cikgu kanan datang. At least ada la courtesy untuk inform kami, parents yang datang awal nie, atas kelewatan tu. Haram. Lepas tu, sedikit pun takde kata-kata maaf dari cikgu-cikgu ini bila taklimat bermula. Takde la terasa hati, cume, as a professional, benda nie sepatutnya tak tinggal. Yg pelik nya, tiap-tiap tahun melalui proses yang sama, takkan kelang kabut lagi kan. That was what I felt, I am not expecting some attention, but at least, kalau dah lambat tu, ambil tau la keadaan, bagi maklumat ke.

Lepas tu tempat duduk tak cukup pulak. Part nie susah nak citer la, sebab rasanya kalau parents aje yg datang, cukup tempat duduk tu. Tapi kalau dah adik beradik sume ngikut, ada yang atok wan jugak ngikut, tu yg tak cukup tu...adehhh..... Bagus camtu, bagi motivasi dan galakkan untuk anak-anak...tapi bila dah berdiri lebih setengah jam...panas pulak tu...sape tak hangin kan... perkara kecik pun akan jadi besar...... adehhhh....Ok abis ngomel bab taklimat

Bila dah abis taklimat, semua pelajar pergi ke kelas. Ingatkan sesi orientasi ke, atau ice breaking. Tapi sesi kutip yuran sekolah. Kalau camtu baik yaya tak payah ikut. Pulak tu bila tiba giliran kami, kami bagi salam, boleh pulak cikgu tu tenung aje, tak jawab salam. Kami rasa ackward sangat, terkedu terus. Lepas tu cikgu tu mintak surat tawaran, tanye lencana nak berapa, dan bagitau bayaran. Itu pun bleh tanye baki duit berapa kat kami. Adeh..... kami rasa macam, eh betul ke kami kat sekolah nie. Lepas tu takde pulak cikgu tu cuba nak borak ngan yaya. Jadi kami memang rasa no point aje untuk yaya ada kat situ. Dah selesai urusan, perkataan terima kasih pun tak keluar dari mulut cikgu tu.

Bukan nak down grade la cikgu-cikgu kat sekolah tu. Tapi dah abad ke 21 nie, takkan budi bahasa semakin kurang. Dan kami juga bukan nak compare sekolah kat Brisbane dengan sekolah sana. Tapi layanan, dan etika cikgu sana dan sini memang ketara beza, walhal kita orang timur, tapi OZ kat sini lebih budi bahasa dari cikgu kat sana. Memang la bukan semua cikgu macam tu. Mungkin hanye segelintir aje yang macam ini. Tapi kalau cakap pasal professionalisme, nampak macam tak ikhlas aje menjalankan tugas. Di Brisbane, senyum memang tak lekang dari muka caucasian apabila berurusan. Walau keje cashier kat supermarket aje. Tak cukup senyuman, ucapan 'How are you', 'How'r u going' tak pernah kami TAK dengar. Abis urusan, siap doakan kesejahteraan kami lagi. Walhal kita, orang Islam, bagi salam awal pertemuan dan salam akhir pertemuan pun dah berdoa untuk orang yang kite jumpe kan. Cuba renung sejenak, kalau kengkawan berurusan di kaunter, ada kengkawan dengar ucapan terima kasih yang diberikan oleh pegawai kat kaunter?

Saya sudahi ngomelan ini dengan gambar yaya yg kebosanan semasa hari orientasi tu.



p.s. Kalau ada yang tersinggung, minta maaf ye. Tidak bermaksud untuk menyakitkan hati, tapi hanya memberi komen untuk meningkatkan lagi prestasi. Harap terima dengan fikiran yang terbuka.

Friday, January 16, 2009

Tiada apa yang lebih menguntungkan

....Selain daripada membazirkan wang, tenaga dan masa bersama-sama anak-anak.




Although they are happy and healthy, and are well taken care, invest some time to sit down and get to know them well. When you know them well, you will sense something amiss, in the future. When you know them well, they will respect you, and have trust in you. Trust will lead to harmony.

Don't take things for granted. Their future is in your hand..... at least for now.

(am talking from experience)

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

masa hampir tamat

Assalamualaikum, terima kasih kengkawan kerna sudi menziarahi b-log ini. Sorry kerna tak nulis kisah terkini. 2 minggu di Malaysia yang penuh dengan urusan, hanya mampu log-in dan membalas nota yang ditinggalkan. Tempoh bercuti di Malaysia pun tinggal beberapa jam saje lagi. Wish I was given additional day to stay. Tapi apo nak dikato.

Will write again when I am back in Brissie. Mostly pasal citer-citer kat Malaysia nie la. Pada kengkawan, sorry tak dapat jumpe...and sorry sebab tak inform pun balik Malaysia. Bukan tak nak jumpe, cume tak sempat nak jumpe. Lagipun u all pun sibuk jugak kan :D

Saturday, January 10, 2009

A special gift from

Halida gave me this as a remembrance.





Thank you my dear. I will treasure it, but the most valuable thing is our friendship. Wish you great success in your future.



“True love is rare, but true friend is even rarer”

p.s. hope you like my gift ya….yang tak seberapa tu :D

Thursday, January 8, 2009

a present from a good friend

A good friend of mine, a closest friend in my research, because both of us work together for we have almost the same research problem, recently gave me this. What a coincidence, I just move in to a new apartment, so it was like a moving-in gift. Imported from China (she came from Beijing, China).



What is it?? jeng jeng jeng......










(bawah lagi...)

















(lagiiii.....)
(ada kengkawan suke buat camne kan...mau kasi suprise!!!!)














(sikit lagi..........)





tadaaaaaaaaaaaa


cover utk kotak tisu...... Dia bagi kaler merah.... She said for good luck (you know that Chinese believe RED will bring good luck to them right).....another good vibe..... But it really gorgeous, kain satin tu... when I got home, I quickly put in a box of tissue, and took many pictures of it. I couldn't stop looking at it the rest of the day. I promise to show her these pictures, but she is away on holiday now.



There was also a small card came with the present.... am so touched with what she wrote inside the card..... "I love you too" ...hehehehehheh

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

the moving Cost

Ohhh I hope this is the one and only moving we need to do here in Brisbane. Besides the exhausting period, there are some money that we need to set aside for this purpose. Here are the rough figure:

Hire movers = $40 on wkdays, $50 on wknd (we hired them on wkend, for 3 hours)
Utility moving/reconnection fees:
Telephone/fixed line = $59
Electricity = $28.70
Broadband = $99

Apa lagi ek...... hmmmmmmm

Oh yes!! Tu tak masuk cost peluh dan keringat....ahaks......

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

the NEW Crib..

WELCOME to our new crib. A bit smaller, but cosy. Windy, shady, cheaper (a lot cheaper). With some defect, but tolerable. And we LOVE the new place.






Rumah nie sejuk sikit, nyaman je rasa...terutama masa summer nie. Remember the movers that I wrote about in previous entries, the man said, "you have a good apartment here, because the old tenant was a good person, and now you move in here, so it has a good vibe". By coincidence, the movers also helped the old tenant to move out to a new place. Atang knew the tenant, a muslim indian or bangladesh family. Muslims, maybe that was what the mover refer to as a good vibe.

And, remember in some of my old entries, I did mentioned about a malaysian couple who live one level below us. At the new apartment, there is also a malaysian family living nearby, on the same level with us. Another good vibe ya...

more pictures in our fotopages

Monday, January 5, 2009

We than continue @

… Alannah Hill…. Ahaks…. For a cuppa, and continue chatting. Mostly about Halida’s wedding. At one time we did talk about our childhood, our playground. We talked a little on culture. Halida, though came from Brunei, her childhood experience was so alike with us. Yela, serumpun kan. It was fun, exchanging stories.


(my cuppa)

About the coffee, all of us had different choice of coffee, oppsss….except for Sabrina, coz she doesn’t drink coffee. So, there were latte, cappuccino, mocha and hot choc on the table. In addition to that, four very cute chocolates, that was hunted down by Sabrina.



We finally went our way. After some hugs and smooches with Halida and Sabrina, and waved goodbye to Asrul, I walked back to my office, with a smile on the face, for spending time with friends, which can only happens irregular, maybe once or twice a year, on such a short notice, is the most wonderful, memorable time in your life. I had great times, and hope you guys did too.


1 year old I am now...

We are celebrating thirah turning 1 today. Will write about it as soon as I can.

Saturday, January 3, 2009

the last lunch with bosom buddies, before new year

Last Monday, I had lunch with three best friends. We met at Krispy Kreame, Albert St, and then we, Halida, Sabrina, Asrul and me, headed to Hanaichi for lunch. Actually, the reason for this meeting is because Halida is going home to Brunei for good. So it was kind of our last lunch together (yup, the last lunch was not enough), reminiscing sweet memories, from the first time we met Halida.



Hanaichi is a restaurant that served sushi. I never like sushi before, but Hanaichi has changed my opinion about sushi. I found the sushi are very tasty. I had 3 plates, and wish I can eat more, but I was soooo full after the 3rd serving.



We sat in front of the conveyor belt for, I think, more than 1 hour. We have got all the time to choose the fresh sushi. People that sat beside us have come and go, but we were having such a wonderful time, eating and chatting, from talking about celebrities, to the VVIP and to Halida’s marriage, obscure to our surrounding. Halida is going to be married in June. Though she kept saying that she wants a simple wedding, am sure it would be something big and blast.

The restaurant waitresses kept coming to our table asking whether we want to add more drink. Or maybe they were wondering when we are going to leave the table…ahhahahaha… I glanced at the door, and saw people were lining up, waiting for available seats. Me and Halida had enough of sushi and were waiting for Sabrina and Asrul to finish. Sushi is Sabrina fav food. And I can say that sushi is Sabrina second name, ahahhaha, sorry mate, hope you are not offended by this. We left Hanaichi, but we didn’t end there. Instead, we were heading for somewhere else to continue our chit chat.

p.s. sorry kengkawan, am not able to response to ur notes for the time being. enjoy reading though...take care

Friday, January 2, 2009

ehemm...

pssssstttttttt....ku ilang dari bumi Brisbane kejap.....

nak tau kat mana....... eh korang tau tak citer "di mana joe jambul"??....ahahahhaha....

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Welcoming the new year: 2009

Happy new year dear friends.
May we succeed more this year.