Meeting old friends

Days passing by quickly, I have about 2 weeks more left to complete what I have already planned to do. I think I have done 40% of the list (I hope), sempat kot 2 weeks to reach 100% (tetiba rasa bulu roma naik kat tengkuk nie...wakakakakka).

Works but no play makes you a very boring person kan..ahahahhaha so lame. On weekdays, we can't do anything much, for yaya is at school. Thus, our weekends, so far, were hectic, mostly attending open houses, visiting relatives and some old friends. Talking about friends, thanks to these social network platforms that help us in reuniting long lost friends, from everywhere around the globe. So this raya, we took the opportunity to see some of our long lost friends.



Liza, old friends from Jasin. We lived in the same neighbourhood, so technically we are neighbours. The last time we met was before leaving school, lama betul. We got the chance to savour her famous mee rebus, fuhhh....sodap. I was practically full, rugi tak dapat makan banyak ahahahha.... Should have fast at least half of the day :D. Thanks Liza, buat susah-susah aje masak, (tapi kena bagitau awal2 nak datang, because pantang Liza kalau muncul aje kat depan rumah kan ...hehehhehe...)




Between visiting relatives houses, able to squeeze a little time to see Achu, my sparring partner. Itu pun janji pukul berapa, akhirnya dapat jumpe pukul berapa. Berapa kali call bagitau change of time. Alhamdullilah, dapat gak jumpa ye Achu.



Then last week, since I have to cancelled my trips to Malacca and JayBee, and coincidentally Gee who is working in Kelantan, attended conference in Putrajaya and Iza from JayBee had exhibition in Subang, and with few other friends who is living as far as Klang, came down to Putrajaya, and we met at Alamanda. There are my university friends. Some good friends are organising a reunion, this 24th, so we talked mostly about the big event. We left our uni, 10 years ago. It is about time to organise reunion. Owwhh...Iza used to frequent my blog, she was a blogger, now blog dia pun dah bersawang nampaknye. I guess bila balik tanah air nie, kekeringan idea (macam den gak). From bottom left, Baya, nie kawan gaduh, nangis, ketawa :D, glad that we still keep in touch, blog Ilham Mira tu dia la empunyanya and that sweet little girl is the only daughter of Baya; next to Baya's only princess Yu, my first year roommate, her recent achievement is gave birth to triplet, she has 6 boys in total, den mmg kagum kawan2 sebaya yang anak lebih 3 nie, hebat-hebat; that guy far back in the picture is YB Marshar, we called YB sebab kuat politik tu, dari zaman uni, sampai sekarang, mane tau masin mulut kitaorang nie kan; going down, lady in black skarf, Gee, my advisor during saat-saat genting buat PhD nie. Kalau tengah down, mesti carik dia, because she is always on line, well kalau tak down pun slalau gak kacau dia..ahahahhahah; the man yang diapit oleh dua orang ladies, Aca, we were not very close, bila ada aktiviti kat uni je baru borak-borak :D and last but not least, Iza, our entrepreneur lady, sebab macam-macam business dia venture, remember one time, I advertised her sugar paste tu. Hope to see them again this 24th.



Yu (refer above) is working at MAMPU. I am lucky I have a friend who is working there, ada research material nak carik kat library MAMPU tu. So a day after Alamanda meeting, we met again, nak pinjam buku kat MAMPU. Sape sangka Yu nie pun layan rock macam den, sebab dulu Yu bertudung labuh... I caught her one day, playing my alternative cassettes on my radio ahahahahhahahah



And last night, we lepak at one of the mapley in Seremban, met up with some old Georgians friends. Ini ladies only picture, ada men aka husband group gak, tapi den tak snap, diorang tgh sibuk borak2, malas kacau. Next to me, Fitah, infront Fitah, Jas, aka jyss @ jipang, she is now back in Malaysia for good, but tabik dia sebab ada idea lagi update blog tu..ahahahhaha; and last but not least, Amai, her mom is also my mom's friend so a common story that we shared (amai n me) is she was born 2 days before me, hospital sama, so mak cakap, hari mak masuk hospital, aunty A kuar hospital...hahhaha...

Tu yang sempat jumpe. Ada lagi kawan-kawan lama yang nak jumpe nie. Very hopeful I will able to see them. Itu aje la cerita seminggu sekali den nie. Enjoy the rest of the week friends.

yours truly,

Gelagat orang dan citer makan-makan yang sudah semestinya ada...

Tengah buat data collection nie, although it was very tiring, tapi seronoknye dapat jumpe user yang citer macam-macam, baik dari segi sistem yang sedang dinilai tu, sampai la citer raye. Den nie pulak mmg suka berborak, bila user tau den nie datang dari Australia, lagi la panjang citer nye. Yang kelakarnye, masa mula-mula nak start communication tu, diorang macam layan tak layan la den nie, sebab den tau, kalau den cakap student, mesti diorang ambil endah tak endah aje. Tapi bila den citer den nie keje kat so-and-so, sambung belajar PhD, baru la diorang layan den macam kakitangan. Ini lumrah alam la nie, den pun mmg expect benda macam nie berlaku. Jadi den anggap nie semua learning process. Manusia nie macam-macam ragam, macam-macam persepsi, macam-macam fikiran. So den kena la professional kan... wakakkakaka...takpe...den tak kisah. Jadi den layankan aje....

OK ..dalam borak punye borak tu dengan pelbagai user nie, yang lawaknye, bila den kata den sambung buat phd, remark yang diorang bagi, issshhh muda-muda dah buat phd.... den reply, "ehhh tak puan, saya dah tua nie, anak dah dua". "haaa anak dah dua, yang tua baper tahun?". "sekolah dah, darjah 1".... "laaaa umur berapa nie? ".. sambil sengih-sengih, "XXX" (ceh XXX kunun wakakakkakakakk...den bagitau la kat user2 tu, kat sini den tak disclose laaa :D)

OK tu bab umur, bab lain, diorang banyak tanye pasal makan la kat sana. Halal tak? Makan macammana? ada sorang tanye "KFC sume ada kan...". "Ada, tapi tak Halal"."Iye...laaa....macammana sini boleh halal pulak". "Sana ada daging tu la puan." "Ohhhhh....." Diorang pun kesian tengok den buat muka kesian..wakakakkakak....

Issshhh macam-macam citer lagi laaa.... hilang penat den naik turun tangga kejar user nie, bila dilayan macam tu sekali. Tapi kalau diorang offer sirap limau air batu lagi best...wakakakkakaa

OK... balik kali nie den tak merayau sangat, macam-macam keje kena buat. Ini pun banyak lagi nak kena buat. Lepas tu ngan kejadian cirit birit raya haritu, kena conjukvitis pulak kami 3 beranak minggu lepas. Memang tak ke mana sangat la kami. Lagi misi mencarik makan pun kurang kali nie, maybe sebab dah banyak kali pulang Malaysia kot. Apa-apa pun ada gak la yg kami teringin....



Dah ada Manhattan FM kat Jusco Seremban laa....mussels garlic butter die mmg marvelous.



Satay R&K...jangan tanye den R&K tu apa maksudnye. Yang den tau satay dia memang sedap. Dah lama jadi klien nie. Kuah kacang dia yg paling sedap, daging satay rasa manis, tak rasa ubat (setengah2 satay tu terasa ubat pelembut daging tu). Fuhyooo....satay....



aaaa yang nie den beli kat pasar malam yo.... banyak2 yong tau foo yang den pernah rasa, 2 tempat je den rasa yong tau foo dia orang tak bleh celen punye.... satu kat plaza kotaraya JB (tak tau ado lai ke tak nie), lagi satu kat foodcourt The Mines. Yang kat JB tu, sup dia mmg sedap, lepas tu kuah dia mmg macam yong tau foo cina punye...alamak susah pulak nak explain. Kalau sempat kat JB nanti den gi terjah, kalau ada lagi laaa. Yang kat The Mines tu, special dia, sebab dia goreng dulu semua Tau Foo yang kita ambil tu, so dia garing2 sikit la. Sedappp.... adehhhh....
eh kengkawan.....tau tak resepi kuah yong tau foo nie.... kalau tau...sudi la share ngan den yo....hehehehhe

Itu aje la citer hari nie...Minggu nie den ke JB, insyaAllah. Sempat kang den citer lai yo...

yours truly,

Turun naik, pusing pusing, kuar masuk...dan dia menangis di kerusi itu

Salam kengkawan n friends,

Apa daaa tajuk macam tu....heheehe.... ahahhaha sebenarnya itu la keadaan den 3-4 hari nie. Have started my data collection work on Monday. This week, I spent four days meeting with the IS users at Wisma Negeri, N9. Den turun naik tangga, masuk celah situ, celah sini, redah ofis orang...wakakkakaka kuar masuk pintu dan lif. Sampai pak guard kat main entrance tu tanye, nie dah baper kali nie. Today is the last day. Itupun ada gak yg belum serah lagi, tunggu diorang call dulu la baru gi ambil. Dah naik segan pulak den kuar masuk wisma tu. Cam keje kat situ la pulak. Lepas nie turun Melaka dan JB pulak.

Paneh betul skrang nie ya. Dok terbayang sirap air batu jek. Tapi kalau summer kat Brisbane tu, perrrghhhh tak usah citer laaaa....Rasa nak duduk bawah shower aje. Patut la dulu kengkawan selalu joke, tido malam rasa nak tido dlm bath tub aje. Kami dah 2 tahun rasa summer kat sana, mmg Malaysia kalah laa. Cuma Malaysia nie bila panas, kite berpeluhkan, tu yg jadi tak selesa tu. Apa-apa pun, Malaysia tetap best...tetiba... :p owwwwhhhh mana nak carik sirap air batu nie......

Saje je nak meriahkan rumah siber den nie. Eh haritu den bawak yaya gi dentist. Gigi atas pulak yg berlapis. Haritu dah cabut dua gigi yg bawah kan. Haa yg nie belah atas pulak. Dan ada lagi dua kat belah bawah dah berlapis gak....adehhhh.... Jadi kisahnye, suatu hari tu, den pun bawak la si yaya nie gi dentist. Sebelum tu kawan tu dah pesan, dia taknak cabut 2 gigi, "satu aje ma..ok...satu aje...". Pengalaman lepas masih menghantui dia....ahahhahah... Yg dulu tu, kawan tu steady la kan, sebab dia tak tau apa yg akan berlaku. So this time, she knew what is going to happen, jadi bila masuk aje klinik gigi tu, muke kawan tu dah berubah. Tapi yaya masih lagi being brave la.

Akak kat kaunter pendaftaran tu pun suh la masuk bilik no 3. Dan kami pun jalan la terkedek-kedek ke bilik no 3 tu. Masuk aje dalam, cerita itu ini ngan doktor, doktor pun suh la yaya duduk kat kerusi rawatan tu. Masa tu tengok muka yaya dah cuak dah. Doktor suh bukak mulut, dia bukak. Doktor pun citer la apa dia nak buat. Kawan senyap aje. "Ok puan, nak cabut yg bawah ke atas?" "Yang atas la doktor, ada satu tu dah longgar." "OK, tapi kena cabut dua-dua ye. Nanti lagi 3 4 hari puan datang lagi kite cabut yang bawah pulak". Tu dia, mata yaya dah buntang pandang lampu kat atas kepala dia tu.

Doktor pun mula la buat persediaan. Saat nak inject jek, yaya cakap, "mama, yaya tak nak cabut 2." "OK, satu aje." Terpaksa den menipu kawan tu aritu. "OK adik, tarik nafas kat hidung ye, bismillah...." Doktor pun tekan la picagari tu, sekali kawan menjerit, "aaaahhhhhh...sakitttt....." dan terus menangis. Makin lama makin kuat, dan terus melalak kat atas kerusi rawat tu. Puas doktor, dan pembantunya pujuk. Den lagi laaa...tak gheti memujuk. So akhirnya, terpaksa la batalkan aje rancangan nak merongakkan 2 gigi yaya tu. Kawan tu tak nak dah, macam dah takde peluang aje nampaknye. Adehhh...susah hati gak nie. Kat bawah tu 2 batang menanti, atas 2. Kalau cabut kat Brisbane, ratus ratus kena nie. Alamatnye kena la standby playar, cabut gigi yaya nanti. wahahhahahaha.....

On the way back to teratak ayahbonda, kena bebel la si yaya tu. Muka dia pun dah bersalah. Tak banyak pun den kasi, sikit jek. Dia pun dah besar, pandai pikir sendiri. But deep down I know she feels guilty. Tapi den dah kasi umpan Slurpee siap-siap dah, sian tengok bibir dia swollen sebab ubat tu kan. Tapi yela, kite dulu pun takut gak bila kena jumpe doktor gigi. Ntah apa stigma orang bagi kat doktor gigi nie, dengar aje doktor gigi, mesti naik bulu roma. Sampai skrang, kalau dah sakit sangat baru den carik doktor gigi. OK sambung citer yaya, dengan rasa bersalahnya, kawan tu pun dok la goyangkan gigi dia yang sebutir memang dah goyang tu. Dari petang, sampai ke malam. Tiba-tiba.....

"Mama....dah kuar dah mama" yaya datang berlari ke arah den yang sedang follow citer kengkawan kat fesbuk, sambil memegang sebatang gigi kat tangan kiri. Kawan pun nganga la tunjuk kat den tempat kejadian tu..ahahhahahah... mulut kawan tu pun penuh ngan yong tau foo den beli kat pasar malam ampangan nie haa.... "haaaa....bagus2.....nanti kakak goyang-goyang yang lain jugak ye"....wakakkakakakaka.....




Si adik pun sibuk nak nganga mulut. Tapi kena bawak jumpe doktor gigi gak nie, sebab yang berlapis kat bawah tu mmg takde tanda-tanda akan longgar nih.....adehhh....camne nak pujuk ye kengkawan.....

yours truly,

Mood raya abis daaaa.....

Salam kengkawan, friends...

So how's everybody, after the long holiday? How's the Eid @ Aidil Fitri celebration? Confirm meriah dan ceria ye. Tahun nie kali kedua kami beraya di Malaysia (eceh, bunyik macam tinggal overseas aje...wakakkaka). Tahun pertama kami merantau, den tengah sarat ngandung, lepas tu dengan kelas semua, tak dapek la balik beraya. Ingat lagi yaya cakap kat wan dia pagi raya tu, "Wan, kat sini (Brisbane) tak de duit raye...". ahahhahahah... Tahun lepas, oleh sebab dah rindu sangat ngan family, dan mmg dah rancang awal pun nak beraya kat Mesia, rezeki kami, dapat juga la beraya kat Mesia. Tahun nie, ambil peluang lagi sekali. Alhamdullillah, research den pun mmg berkaitan Mesia, so kebetulan kan, sekali lagi rezeki kami beraya di Mesia tahun nie. Memang raye kat overseas pun meriah, tapi takkan samanya kemeriahan di Mesia nie. Bukan apa, bila raya mestilah nak dekat dengan family kan. Tahun depan tak tau lagi laa...kalau cepat abis, tahun depan raya kat Mesia lagi. Kalau tak, raye di Brisbane, tapi yg pastinya yang terakhir :D.

OK...lama dah den tak update...nie kasi kemas-kemas sikit la...buang abuk-abuk nie haa..wakakakkakak... Balik Mesia nie, memang busy, macam-macam benda nak kena settle. Balik pun bukan bercuti, kerja maaaa.... raya aritu je den relaks sikit (sikit ke?? yo la tu). Minggu nie start full swing la nie, sekarang nie memang rasa masa cepat berlalu, kejap aje 24 jam tu. Tapi yang indah selalu gitu kan, cepat aje berakhir. Lumrah alam.

Raya tahun nie seperti biasa laaa. Mudahnye, kampung kami berdua tak jauh, beza mukim aje. ahahhaha...jadi takde masalah balik kampung nie. Rutin tiap-tiap tahun pun sama aje. Yang rasa beza, anak-anak kite aje la kan. Kemeriahan pun sekarang nie milik budak-budak nie. Zaman kite dah berlalu, tapi kadang-kadang tu teringat jugak la zaman kecik-kecik beraya kat kampung, dengan riuh rendahnya, budak-budak main kat laman, mak-mak sibuk masak kat dapur, bapak-bapak bakar lemang masak rendang kat luar rumah . Masa tu tak rasa penat pun berpuasa, lompat sana lompat sini, panjat sana, panjat sini. Yela, sekali kumpul semua sepupu kan...tu dari bandar, tak masuk sepupu yang mmg tinggal kat kampuang. Dulu keluarga besarkan. Sepupu, dua pupu, semuanya macam satu keluarga.

Datang petang, sibuk pasang pelita. Pelita pun buat dari buluh. Malam sibuk main bunga api, mercun, sampai la ke tengah malam. Korang ingat tak mercun thunder clap, parachute, mercun katak, mercun padi, ngan bunga api brand kucing itam tu. Sekarang susah nak jumpe kan. Aritu pun dok perhati anak-anak buah main mercun ngan bunga api je. Ahhhhh jauh betul keadaan dulu ngan sekarang nie.



Malangnye raye tahun nie, semua kena cirit birit ngan muntah-muntah. Keluarga den kena dulu, 2 hari sebelum raye. Masing-masing melepek, paling teruk adik @ thirah. Raya pertama pulak, keluarga kakak, semua kena, lepas sorang, sorang. Mak dan abah pun kena gak. Petang raye tu, keluarga abang balik. Besoknye anak dia pulak kena. Lepas tu abis semua kena, sampaikan, pakcik yang datang umah pun kena. Rupenya ramai gak yang kena cirit birit muntah-muntah kat area rumah mak nie. Mula-mula ingat sebab makan tak ingat kan, almaklum raye. Kami yang kena dulu tu ingat sebab food poisoning, gi supper kat McD, kunun2nye ngidam la. Lagipun kami berempat aje kena, orang lain yang tak gi McD steady aje. Air pulak memang sehari sebelum raye kotor. Issshhh kualiti air kat Mesia nie, bila la nak improve. Bukan nak kata la kan, Mesia yang tak de masalah bekalan air nie, yang air berbayar pun, tapi kualiti air sangat-sangat la menyedihkan. Nie bagi peluang bisnes kat supplier filter air ngan pembekal RO la pulak. Kat negara luar, air dah la free, bleh minum terus dari paip tu. hmmmm.... Kisahnya, kami mmg suspect nie air la punye angkara, abis dah semuanya gitu. Si adik, den terpaksa sumbat pil chi kit tek aun (ikut dosage la, budak 1 tahun ke atas mmg boleh makan), sebab 4 hari dia cirit birit. Alhamdullillah, terus ilang cirit dia.

OK la.... den akhiri bebelan sekali sekala den nie, dengan potrait raye kami ye (seperti biasa, atang low profile). Gambar nie ambil kat tangga serambi rumah kampung den kek jolobu, yang skrang nie tinggal takde penghuni. Sekali sekala je mak balik kemas rumah tu. Kami pulak masa raye aje la jenguk rumah tu. Sempat nanti den update lagi yo.




yours truly,

kakak and adik, they are different in many ways

The last week I was in Malaysia, I spent most of my time with my two little angels. They have changed a lot since the last I saw them 6 months ago. Yaya has became a little bit quiet and reserved, but she has shown interest in how and why things happened around her, asking more challenging questions.

She made a lot of friends at school. She has a friend that would call her at home regularly. Yaya can now read in both English and Bahasa Malaysia too, though sometimes she doesn't understand what she reads. However, yaya is getting more clumsy and careless. Mak told me that she lost her purse many time. Mostly after the recess. Although she brings some snack to school, since she learnt how to buy things, she will, everyday, buy 1 bungkus/pack of nuggets or sausages or keropok plus a vitagen. When she reaches home from school, she will immediately changed her clothes and has her lunch. Yes, yaya may look a bit skinny, but she does eat a lot. Alhamdullillah. Well, that doesn't change since she was a baby :D.

Adik on the other hand, it is soooo difficult to get her to eat. She shows interest with food, but when it comes to eating them, then a fight will begin....hahahahhaha.... She wants to eat it all by herself. But after a few feeds, she will starts playing with the food. She seems to like salty things like crackers, chips, all sort of kerepek. And fruits. Most of the time she will ask for her susu.

Except for eating, Adik acts the same way like yaya did when yaya was the same age, except adik is more focus and alert, always responded unexpectedly. We think adik is more mature than her age. But one thing that adik hates most is taking her picture. It is so difficult to capture a nice picture of her, i mean, of her smilling at the camera. We consider we are lucky whenever we managed to get a nice picture of her. Most of the time, she will runway, shy away, hide away from the camera ahahahhahah...like these pictures below.



This is something different with yaya, for she is always camera friendly :D.



Luckily we are using digital still camera, or else...



One of the lucky picture of our two little angels.

yours truly,

loosing her first teeth

Tengok gigi yaya, jarang2 kan.... ikut sapa la tu...ahahahhahha

Yaya is already 6 years and 10 months old, and she has just lost her 2 milk/baby teeth (I lost my first baby tooth at 5 years plus). Itupun kena jumpe dentist, sebab dah berlapis giginya, tak jugak yang depan tu goyang2, punya la degil ya. So we have to take her to the dentist to pull out her teeth, to give way to the permanent teeth. Kang tak cantik pulak senyum Yaya tu.



She was brave through out the process. Masa kena cucuk tu, mak dia yang gerun, seriau tengok. Panjang oiii jarum dia.... Yaya had her eyes closed all the time :D, am so worried that she will give trouble. Alhamdullillah, everything settle under 20 minutes.

The doc said that, in 2 months time, we have to pull out her upper teeth, because it seems like the same thing will happen to her upper teeth. Yaya terus cakap, "Mama, yaya tak nak cabut dah, yang nie aje OK....".... turned out that she was not that brave after all. Ala kejap je tu, esok2 dia lupa laaa ......


yours truly,

Awan

Salam kengkawan and hi friends....

Nie tgh panaskan enjin, tengah patah2kan jari, pusing kanan pusing kiri, carik idea nak nulis...wakakkakaka... I do feel lazy to write a story. May be for now, I just read your story, and spamming your comment boxes......OK aje kan....hehehehe....

Best betul balik Malaysia.... I did have a good time....enjoying the unofficial break so much, with a bonus of musim buah.... I ate a lot of durian, enjoying the king of fruit from dusun kampung. Makan nasi berulam tempoyak, ghatah camtu yo pun sodap, ahahahaha. This time no pictures were taken of any of the makan2 event, coz I had a lazy, lazy vacation. Syioooookkkkk.... I guess that is what you feel when you have been wanting a break for a long time, and when you get it, your mind and body felt lazy, just follow the flow. Nonetheless, enjoying every bit and second of it.

Though I like to travel, seeing new places especially, but I hate the journey. Why... because I can't have a decent sleep during the flight. I am amazed to those who can easily doze off right after take off. Nasib baik I am the type who like to read and love staring outside the window for a long time...ahahahahah.... I love awan ....And of course I will took many pictures of them...



Cantikkan..... SubhanAllah...... rasa syahdu aje bila tengok awan-awan nie.



rasa cam nak lompat2 aje kan....ahahhahahhahah.....

On the way back to Brisbane, it was our first time travelling in daytime. And I guess laluan dia a bit different, because I never saw the view before. Menyesal pulak tak kuar kamera masa tu. We went over Surabaya, and I saw mountains with peaks surrounded by clouds....cantikkkk....SubhanAllah....

Itu la aje pengubat di kala busan dalam pesawat....ahahhahahah....

Ok tukar channel.... We went to the cinema last Friday to watch Harry Potter 6..... it is a disappointment for me. I became more confused. I guess those who have read the book feel that way too....or maybe it has been 3 years, sudah lupa sikit2 laaa...but still.... I am not satisfied with the movie. Rasa starting Goblet of fire tu dah mula macam tak best.... bukan senang nak buat movie dari buku yang tebal2 tu ekkkk.....



yours truly,

Safe n Sound... tapi sendattttt..... perrghhhh

Dear friends/kengkawan,

We had a safe journey. Alhamdullillah no problem at the arrival hall. And we are in good health, except for minor jetlag experienced. One thing for sure both of us are bloated,ahahhaha.. for two reason. One due to the hot weather here, my hands and feet kembang, like a sponge soak in the water. I can't wear my wedding rings and my shoes are now in size 6 (need to buy a pair of new shoes for the conference).

Second, is because of the makan-makan agenda that my mom and siblings prepared. Saturday's dinner, pucuk ubi lemak, ayam kurma, sambal tempoyak, and ikan masin. The next day breakfast, roti canai tobing, lunch bento at ichiban ramen, then KFC for dinner. Second day breakfast nasi lomak sambal potai, lunch at Alamanda secret recipe, dinner at my sistah's place of arab chicken and mutton nasi beryani. And this morning breakfast, pulut with sambal potai. And now I am smelling a wonderful smell of ikan masak lomak cili api. wakakakakkak.... My family loves us so much, we gave them junk food to make them fat, and in exchange they prepared us with scrumptious meals that will make us not just fat but lazy and sleepy too :D

OK enough of rambling...my angels are waiting for me upstairs for a game on PS. Owwhhh I made I big mistake of accidently leaving my camera cable behind. Will ask abah if his cable fits my camera. Need to pack for tonight journey. Am leaving fro Hyderabad at 10pm.

See you soon.

yours truly,

Thirah in action : pushing the walker

Enjoy watching thirah in action, pushing the walker, on her birthday.

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.

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.

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.

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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)

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.

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)

1 year old I am now...

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

"Don't worry, I will look after her"

An extraordinary thing happened on the afternoon, the day that I was supposed to leave Malaysia. It was an unforgetable incident and was so touch and stunned by it. Look at the photo below.



Never during our stay in Malaysia, Lara slept near adik, or any of us. But only that day she did it.



As if she was telling me, "No worries Master, I will look after adik, while you are away".

Finally.... see you again Malaysia

Alhamdullillah....finally we are leaving Malaysia soon. Aiyah, I am out of words laaa.... how fortunate I have some pictures to describe the day.





Tu semua mereka-mereka yang stranded bersama kami..... Tak sabar untuk masuk waiting room.

Ada hikmah di sebalik kejadian ini.

We left Malaysia at half past 7 pm, Tuesday, 28th October.

Still no news

The next day, at 9am, we went down for breakfast. Mat Salih were everywhere, at the lounge, outside the hotel, at the dining area. There were some having sun bathing outside the hotel. The hotel was actually a shop lots converted to hotel.


We met a Malay couple there. They were going to Sydney for a holiday. And we also met a Chinese family. Both of them were worried about their connecting flight. Aiyah... sure burn la...they just hope AirAsia would arrange something.

I was also worried. I was schedule to present about my research on Friday, 31st of October. I haven't done the slides yet. I was planning to do the slides when arrived in Brisbane.

Luckily the Nasi Lemak was yummy. Asking around, nobody knows what is the situation.

We were told later, at around noon, buses will pick us up at 2pm. The AirAsia has charted MAS airplane that scheduled to leave at 4pm that afternoon. Apparently they could not fixed the problem with the AirAsia plane. This is one good news to me and atang, because that means we will arrived at Brisbane airport, instead of Cooloongatta.

TBC again laaa...