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Masa xde internet itu ari, perasaan nak blogging berkobar2. Macam2 benda rasa nak cerita kat blog. Siap taip kat Word, konon2 bila dah online nanti boleh cut n paste kat blog. Tp skrg perasaan tu xde la pulak. Bila baca balik mcm x kena aje nak paste kat blog ni. So rasanya baik citer balik semua2 tu berdasarkan perasaan skrg.

Family n kwn2 asik tanya camne life aku kat tempat org. Well, ada yg best, ada yg x best. Dulu pon masa aku belum dok oversea ni, aku rasa cam best aje dok oversea. Kalau dgr org nak pi oversea, mmg aku rasa jeolous. Tp bila dah dok ni, rasanya x la best mana. Betul la pepatah Melayu "Hujan emas dinegeri org, hujan batu di negeri sendiri, lebih baik di negeri sendiri". Apa pon aku tetap bersyukur, sbb aku diberi peluang merasa hidup kat negara org.

Masalah paling besar kat sini, of course la masalah bahasa. Sebab tu la gak kot Internet amik masa berbulan2 nak dpt. Kalau aku pandai ckp jerman, rasanya aku dah sound dah company telekom ni. Tp sbb x reti ckp kan, terima la seadanya. Byk jugak la masalah2 lain. Ari tu visa kitorg renewed just nice a day before expired. Kalau tak aku dah bungkus kain baju balik Mesia...hehehe.

Dan kat sini merasa la jalan kaki sebyk2nya (tp aku tetap x kurus2!!!) Ari tu aku call mak aku, aku ckp 'susah mak, xde kereta kat sini'. Mak aku gelak aje, sbb mak ayah aku pon x penah ada kereta selama ni, biasa aje pada diorg. Padan muka aku, kat Mesia, nak gi sejengkal pon naik kereta. Tp nasib la public transport kat Jerman sgt la reliable dan punctual. Mmg diorg kena punctual, kalau x sejuk beku le nak tunggu bas or train time winter ni.

Masa salji turun for the first time (dr tingkap dapur rumah aku)

Kembar dan Frau Katarina (babysitter diorg)

Classmate Deutsch course aku. Yg pegang bunga tu cikgu aku, Lukas. Masa ni birthday dia.

Ni waktu pagi tunggu train nak gi kelas bahasa. Masa ni belum sejuk sgt

Gambar neighbourhood aku. Diambil dr balkon rumah. Masa ni penghujung autumn.

Sorry la gambar2 aku x susun ikut perjalanan cerita. Sbbnya dah bape kali aku try drag gambar2 tu, x berjaya jugak. So aku malas nak layan. Ke ada cara senang nak susun2 gambar dlm blogger ni, cuma aku je x tau? Kalau ada sapa yg tau, tolong ajar aku ye!

Si kembar dah bgn! Aku kena stop dulu. Macam2 nak kena layan dua princesses tu. Hari ni cuti krismas dah bermula. Boleh lah aku bermalas2an. Walaupun ada byk keje rumah yg menanti....hehehe.

Finally!!!

Ladies and gentleman.....

I now have Internet at home. Today. Finally!!!!

We've been waiting more than 2 months to get the Internet installed in our house. I guess we had more than 5 appoinments with the telecom company and none of the appointments actually succesful. It was either they cancelled it beforehand or the technician failed to show up. Something that I didn't expect in a so-called developed country, do you?

I'm so excited to update this blog, but in between house chores, childcare and my language course, I doubt there would be much time left to spend on the Internet. Tomorrow there will be A1 test, and I should be studying now. I've done this test before, it was a trial one, and I barely passed. Hopefully I would do better this time.

There are so much things to share in this blog, but at the moment I need to give priority to other things. Besides the language exam, I need to reply all the messages from friends and family members asking how I'm doing in the e-mails and Facebook. So blogging has to wait for a while. Starting next week I'm going have long breaks for Chrismast holidays and that probably the best time to blog. Unless we are planning on travelling....but we don't have any plan at the moment.

Ok, gotta go......

Hello!

Hi folks!
It's been quite sometime since my last post. I'm now blogging in my friend's house. Internet has yet to land in our home. It was supposed to be last week. But when the telecom man came to do the setting, he figured out that there was no telephone connection from the MDF box to our apartment. We need to make new appointment with them again after we sort out the connection problem. The landlord has promised to look into the matter. But it is really a hassle to us.

So, what's up with me? Long story but to sum up; we now live in our own apartment in Raunheim. It's not very far from Frankfurt, about 20 minutes ride by train to Frankfurt Main Haupbahnof. Things are good so far.

I've also joined Deutsch class since 2 weeks ago and the good thing is, the centre provides child care services so I have no problem going to the class. The class starts from 8 am to 12.30 pm every weekday. Learning Deutsch is really a challenge to me. Deutsch is one complicated language for me. But the class is fun.

I have so much things to share on my every day's life routine but I can't do it now. Let's see whether I can write more when I have internet at home.

Till we meet again............

Raya in Germany

So it's Syawal now and today is the fourth day raya in Germany since we celebrated first Syawal on 30th Oct.Though celebrating abroad, actually raya is not that bad. I guess we are quite lucky because we meet a lot of new friends eversince coming to Germany so we are not that lonely.

The first Syawal we didn't have much things great since we have decided that special makan-makan to be held on 1 October (because in Malaysia the first Syawal fell on 1st Oct.) The first day of raya was the day we cooked raya dishes and I say, we really cooked! From soto, ketupat, rendang, roti jala, kuzi (this is the most complicated dish I've ever known), it was very tiring but fun. There were about 20 people coming to Razif & Liza's (the host) open house.

On the same day, in the evening we went to open house in Konsulat Malaysia and we saw more people and foods.....I was so addicted to teh tarik cause all this while the tea that I drink here is tea from Turkey and it tastes weird.

Nabilah with the newly wed couple, Fatah & Ain

Among friends in Konsulat

By the way, I'm moving into our own rented house today. There a lot of things to do and I'm not going to be online for quite sometime. We need to change our visa to resident permit before we can install Internet and telephone. That, I guess will take sometime.

Till next time....

Salam Aidilfitri

Saya dan keluarga mengucapkan selamat hari raya aidilfitri dan maaf zahir batin kepada semua. Terutama kepada kaum keluarga di Tanjung Malim dan Kota Bharu. Hati-hati di jalan raya.

Raya Spirit

So everybody is in raya mood already, eh?

Well, I'm not quite. This year raya I'm no longer busy with shopping for raya clothes nor preparing duit raya angpau. This year also I don't have to plan for balik kampung trip, calculating number of days I could take as raya leave.

This year is the first raya I'm going to celebrate away from my extended families and the first time celebrating it abroad. I'm sure it must be very festive back in Malaysia for raya is just less than a week away to be celebrated. There must be raya songs being aired everywhere!

Here in Germany, there's not much excitement about raya coming soon. And to uplift the spirit, Liza the host has suggested we make some raya cookies. And we did! So far we have made 5 different cookies. Not bad eh?

Trainees in action...hehehe

Sarang semut cookies. Notice there are 2 different colours?

The first batch was a bit burnt...hahaha

This kuih karipap of course is not part of raya cookies but still will be served during raya. We made a lot, about 80 pieces. We even baked them for a while to preserve the shape.

Tat nenas bunga yg sgt menarik pembuatannya

Iftar

Hari Sabtu kami dijemput berbuka puasa di rumah konsulat Malaysia di Frankfurt. Dan kami diberitahu, celebrity chef, Chef Ismail akan memasak juadah berbuka puasa. And ada wakil TV3 nak buat liputan. Wah! Apalagi...takkan x pergi kan?

Dari Russelsheim ke Frankfurt, kami naik train dan berjumpa ramai lagi Malaysian (students & expatriates) di Frankfurt Main Haupbanhof. Then naik bas utk kerumah konsulat. Pendek kata separuh bas tu mmg penuh ngan Malaysian. Macam rombongan cik kiah....hehehe.

Di rumah konsulat, kami berjumpa lagi ramai Malaysian. Cerita Chef Ismail yg memasak mmg betul tp cerita wakil TV3 tu x betul rupanya. Juadah berbuka puasa jgn cerita la....dr masak lemak daging salai (yg sgt famous di Restoran Rebung Chef Ismail tu), ikan kering dan segala ulam2. Ada bendi, pegaga, jantung pisang pon ada! Kuih saja pon bermcm jenis sampai aku x tau mana satu nak makan dulu.

Razif & Liza, tuan rumah kami menumpang buat masa ini. Such a sweet couple...

Nak jugak amik gambar ngan chef

Sebelum balik kami dijemput utk dtg majlis rumah terbuka hari raya pada 1 October nanti. Not bad rupanya beraya diperantauan.