Was ist los??????????

Pagi tadi, sy berjalan menuju ke kedai daging sambil menarik troli brg sy tu.

Sy berjalan di laluan biasa yg sy gunakan - laluan menuju bahnhof. Bukan jalan sunyi, bukan juga jalan yg sibuk.

Dihadapan sy, ada sekumpulan lelaki berjalan. Dari gaya dan percakapan , sy tau mereka ausländer tapi bukan Turki atau Morocco (they have darker look) dan semenjak dua menjak ni sy mmg selalu nampak lelaki2 asing dlm kumpulan besar berkumpul di area rumah sy ini - situasinya mengingatkan sy org2 Bangladesh atau Indonesia bila berkumpul. Bukan nak racist - siapa la sy nak racist bila sy sendiri pon org asing di negara org tapi sorry to say - suasananya sama bila kita nampak Bangla or Indon berkumpul beramai2.

I walked as fast as possible trying to overtake these people sbb diorg jln pon lambat2 sambil gelak2. And the same time I heard someone walking behind me. Tiba2 terasa troli kena tarik! My first thought - aku nak kena rompak ke? I spun around and saw this guy pulling my trolley, grinning at me and said "wie gehts?" (apa khabar?)

Seriously menakutkan!

I was speechless, rasa marah sgt tapi x terkeluar satu perkataan pon. Dia ingat dia bergurau ke apa? Seeing my angry face agaknya, baru la dia ckp "Entschuldigung" (sorry) sambil tersengih2 pastu join the group of men kat depan tu.

After that, though still shocking dgn kejadian tu, I walked as fast as possible passing them and hoping they were not going in the same direction I was going. Dan nasib baik diorg hanya nak ke bahnhof!

Although kejadian tu berlaku dlm tempoh beberapa saat saja, for the first time living in Germany, I feel not safe walking alone!

Inception - Between Dreams and Reality

source from HERE

I just watched Inception - a highly intellectual and complex movie I would say but very entertaining and challenges your thinking. No wonder lots of people recommending this movie. Leonardo di Caprio again is a great actor - just like what he was in "Catch Me if You Can" and "Blood Diamond". Cik HB said he just can´t forget image of Leonardo as Jack in "Titanic". Muka jiwang sgt katanya....hahaha. Well, that was like 12 years ago, he was in his early 20´s i guess...now he´s much better than that.

Ok, i´m not going to talk about Leonardo - hot looking people is no longer a priority for me when I choose a movie. It´s more the story line and the acting skills that matter!

Inception is a story about a group of people stealing information from people´s sub-conscious mind (sleeping/sedated) through dreams. I´m not going to go into details of this movie, you can always read about the movie from Wiki.

I just want to make a review based on my own perspective. The way I understand the movie. It was really difficult to understand the whole situation at the beginning of this movie and you have to really concentrate in order to understand. And some more with the scientific vocabularies and what not, I made cik HB downloaded the English subtitles so I can follow the story much better (well, I´m not a native English speaker, some US/British accents may sound alien to me!) . The word like espionage is a new vocab I learned from this movie.

The main character - Dominic Cobb is the one who led the operation but he had a dark secret that haunted him and affected his job - the memory of his dead wife, Mal . Towards the end of the movie, Dom confronted the memory of his wife and revealed why the wife is dead. It appeared that they once had been trapped in a dream which made them in a state of limbo they lived for so long, and they only escaped the dream by planning their death. Mal, spending so much time in dreams (she and Dom were experts in sub-conscious field), can´t differentiate life between real and dreams that one day she decided to commit suicide because she thought her real life is a dream.

Cik HB said this movie is unreal. That you be in someone´s dream and you actually create the dreams and some more with three-layer dreams and you actually can die in real world when you die in your dream (when you are on sedative). Well, it´s not impossible. There are a lot of studies, researches made to understand human complexities -physical and mental. And knowledge is so wide, only Allah s.w.t knows everything. So yes, anything is possible.

Like I said to cik HB last night, after watching

"do you think people who lived 100 years ago might have thought that it´s possible to communicate with people who lived thousands km away with audio and video visual on real time?"

And you know the answer!

Science is magnificent but we know what is more magnificent.... Do research and study all the science aspects but it´s all to remind us what is more powerful above all - ALLAH. sw.t - the ONE who creates everything - the things we know and don´t!

So if you are looking for some mind-pondering movies, watch this movie. It´s kind of heavy and the ending is tricky because they let you think whether Dom has came back to reality or still dreaming but I find it so entertaining.

Moga Bahagia

We missed another family wedding :(

This time around, wedding adik lelaki sy, Haerie yg dah selamat menikah dgn pasangan pilihan hatinya, Nurul Jumaat lepas. Walaupun happy tgk akhirnya selamat gak adikku nan satu ni kawen (sbb dah bertahun2 kami sekeluarga dok sound dia suh kawen cepat sbb dah lama sgt dok couple ngan awek dia tu), terasa sedih aje tgk gambar2 sekitar perkahwinan dia kat FB...melihat ahli keluarga semuanya ada disitu, kecuali kami sekeluarga (huhuhu...rasa nak nangis nih!)

Thanks to adik sy, Shima yg tolong upload gambar2 perkahwinan Haerie kat FB. Pengantin ropanya dah berangkat ke Sabah berhoneymoon. Patut senyap sunyi FB dia! Kalau x dia dok rajin update status!

To Haerie - selamat bergelar suami...berat tanggungjawab suami ni, jgn dok enjoy sana sini lagi mcm masa bujang. Kena didik isteri sebaik mungkin dan kena ingat tanggungjawab sebagai suami. Jangan juga lupa kat Mak Abah walaupun anda tu dah berkahwin.

To Nurul - selamat dtg ke dlm keluarga Ramli secara rasmi :). Moga kita semua saling sayang- menyayangi dan hormat-menghormati antara satu sama lain. Tak sabar akak nak jumpa kamu as my adik ipar walaupun dah kenal kamu since 6 thn lepas :). Moga kamu menjadi isteri yg solehah dan berjaya membentuk keluarga yg bahagia.

Gambar2 sekitar majlis:

sengih kemain lagi ko Haerie...

Gambar keluarga

My adik beradik perempuan dan anak2 sedara...rindu nak bergossip2 ngan diorg!

Nape Mak jln depan tinggal Abah sorang2 kat belakang tu?

Jalan la sama2 cam pengantin...hehehe

Autumn in My Heart

I love autumn!

It´s so beautiful looking at the surroundings now. Everywhere looks yellow and red with the falling leaves all around.

Something that I´m going to miss when I leave Germany later....

Die Einschuluntersuchung

Amacam? Terbelit tak lidah ngan word Deutsch kat atas tu?

Google Translate defines the word as enrollment examination. Bahasa german ni hebat tang mencantumkan dua tiga perkataan menjadi satu perkataan. Contoh yg lain : Kindervorsorgeuntersuchung = children precautionary screening. So kalau anda nak kena buat karangan 100 patah perkataan dlm Deutsch, byk benda anda boleh tulis sebenarnya sbb boleh cantum2 2,3 malah 4 patah perkataan jadi satu perkataan aje!

Menarik????

Hehehe...ok, bukan pasal bahasa german sy nak citer tapi nak share experience sy pegi buat Einschuluntersuchung utk sikembar semalam.

Einschuluntersuchung ini adalah pemeriksaan utk kelayakan masuk ke sekolah rendah (Grundschule) yg sy ceritakan kat entry lepas. Dijalankan oleh jabatan kesihatan dan masyarakat daerah (sama mcm jabatan kebajikan masyarat Malaysia la kot). Sy ngan cik HB risau jugak mulanya kalau kami x dapat nak berkomunikasi dgn staff kat situ sbb selalunya kami ada Kak Liza yg selalunya ikut bersama bila kami ada urusan rasmi mcm ni dan dia selalu jadi tukang jurucakap. Dan sejak kami buat urusan visa dr awal dulu, kami mmg dah expect pihak2 mcm ni takkan layan kalau kita nak ckp English dgn diorg. Tapi skrg dah 2 thn kami kat sini, boleh la ckp & faham deutsch sikit2 so kalau kita x cuba, how to survive kan?

Kami berurusan dgn satu minah ni, muka x berapa friendly and tak byk ckp. Ok jugak tu, kang kalau dia tanya byk2 soalan pon, kitorg jugak melopong! Kami bagi all related documents dan tunggu dia buat apa2 arrangements yg patut.

Then, kami dibawa masuk satu bilik ini dan dia start buat test ngan Nabihah dulu. Test2 itu:

PART 1

1. Dia tunjuk 4 pensel warna - hijau, biru, kuning dan merah. The kid being asked to tell the colours.

-Nabihah agak slow sikit sbb dia mcm x confident. Bila tiba tang Nabilah, amboi makcik tu..kemain lagi lagu sebut....maklum la dah tgk kakak dia buat dulu!

2. Ujian buta warna - kid being asked to show which one round shape dlm satu kad yg ada byk polar warna dan ada shape2 yg lain (ada byk kad!).

- Both lulus dgn cemerlang! Ok, now I know diorg x buta warna :)

3. Another card with 4 pictures in dotted line. Kid to tell what is the pictures.

- Ok, lulus juga sbb senang

4. Another card with polar warna dan ada gambar objects didalamnya. Kid to tell what are the objects.

- Ok, lulus

5. One shining silver card is shown. Tak tau apa jenis card ni but if look carefully, you can see the objects shapes on it. So the kid is to show the objects and name them.

- Nabihah can see all - bintang, bulan, gajah dan kereta.

- Nabilah nampak kereta as anjing....hahaha

* actually i tried peep into it too, but can´t see anything...lagi teruk!!!!

6. Ujian penglihatan - sama mcm kita buat kat kedai cermin mata. The kid to look into the eye test equipment tu and tell whether the object E is up, down, left or right. Lama juga test ni dibuatnya. Tiga kali rest in between!

- kesimpulan: Dua2 masih ada good eyesight...mudah2an tak perlu cermin mata sampai ke besar....jgn jadi mcm mak dia, rabun jauh kronik.....huhuhu. Kena control jgn tgk TV dekat sgt and ngadap laptop lama2 dan kena byk mkn karot ye anak2!

7. Ujian pendengaran - earphone on kid´s ears then bila ada bunyi ´beep´ON, the kid to press the connected button immediately.

- Agak bermasalah mulanya buat test ni ngan Nabihah sbb dia confuse bila dia patut tekan button tu. Dia pi tekan all the time! Kena buat byk kali baru dia faham.

- Nabilah being the 2nd doing the test, siap ckp "ich weiß" even before staff tu abis explain. Ok, dia mmg tahu sbb dia buat seperti yg disuruh.

- kesimpulan: there is no hearing problem

Then kami keluar dr bilik tu and kemudian ke bilik lain tapi still dgn staff yg sama

PART 2:

1. Ukur berat & tinggi

2. Disuruh melompat ke kiri kanan dgn kedua2 belah kaki

- oh, favourite si kembar. Mesti la lulus dgn cemerlang.

3. Lukis semula objek2 yg ditunjuk dlm sekeping kertas

- melukis semula pon mmg favourite.

4. Ulang perkataan yg disebut oleh staff tersebut. Ok, yg ini sy pon x tau apa kah bahasa yg digunakan. Antara yg sy ingat:

SANGA SUKA

MAMI MACA

lebih kurang camtu la...ada lebih kurang 10 ayat camtu kot dia sebut. Sikembar ada yg sebut sama, ada yg diorg sebut tah hapa2...i guess itu suku kata utk test sebutan kanak2.

5. Then dia baca ayat - agak panjang, dan budak disuruh ulang. Sy dgr pon sy rasa tak boleh nak ulang ayat penuh. Tang ini sy rasa mmg memerlukan penguasaan bahasa Deutsch yg baik utk dpt buat test ini dgn cemerlang. And sy sendiri x tau level penguasaan Deutsch sikembar sbb kat rumah diorg x cakap deutsch. Tapi sy pasti tahap Deutsch diorg rendah aje, sbb diorg x attend Deutsch course (sy ada ditanya samada anak2 attend Deutsch course ke tak)....x byk vocab yg diorg tau, ckp pon grammar tunggang terbalik kot. Ada beberapa ayat dibaca, sy rasa ada few words aje yg sikembar mampu ulang dgn betul. Takpe la anak2ku....sbb kamu pon nak balik Malaysia dah x lama lagi.

6. Staff tu sebut word dlm pronunciation yg salah dan budak diminta betulkan sebutannya. Cth: SCHO-OLADE (betul: SCHOKOLADE) , KRO-ODILE (betul: KROKODILE), SPAG-ETI (betul: SPAGHETTI) dan ada few lagi yg sy sendiri pon tak tau bunyi betulnya macamana...kikiki. Again vocab in Deutsch kena tau banyak la part ni. So kembar byk yg tak boleh jawab part ini.

Then keluar bilik tu, masuk bilik lain pulak. And jumpa staff lain. Suka staff ini sbb dia sgt warm dan suka senyum. Yg first tu muka masam dan mcm tensen (rasa mcm dia x suka ausländer (org asing) aje...). Then dia interview kami about few things, kami dtg dr mana, berapa lama di Deutschland dan pasal Deutsch course. Kemudian dia buat few tests ngan si kembar.

PART 3

1. Budak disuruh kira 1-10 in Deutsch.

-ok, lulus

2. Dia buka booklet dan suruh compare gambar2. Show similar object/patterns. Byk pages, about 1o kot.

Then dgn kami dia ckp few things lagi - bila sy tak boleh nak faham sgt sy bgtau sy cuma boleh ckp Deutsch sikit2 aje dan boleh kah dia ckp English. Oh, dia kata dia x boleh ckp English. Dari cara dia ckp dia mcm nak nasihatkan kami supaya hantar anak2 ke Deutsch course and so forth dan kami pon kena belajar Deutsch dgn baik, sy terpaksa la explain yg kami kat sini utk tempoh yg pendek aje dan bulan Mac tahun depan akan balik ke Malaysia for good. So kembar mmg takkan masuk sekolah kat sini (sy explained dlm English)

Dan dia kata " you should have told the school before they make you come here" - eh, boleh pulak ckp english!!!

Now you tell me that! Sy kata sy dah bgtau tapi sy disuruh dtg jugak. So maybe sekretari tu x paham or malas nak kisah, janji dlm rekod dia semua settle. Ntah...sy pon malas nak question coz it will make things complicated.

Dia pon kata, dia faham because of the strict regulation, somehow we just have to follow.

And one thing that I understand the reasons behind all these - waktu sy attend Deutsch course dulu, cikgu sy penah ckp since terlalu ramai äuslander di daerah sy duduk skrg ni (org turki & morocco paling ramai sekali, dan diorg mampu hidup tanpa integrasi dgn bangsa lain sbb komuniti diorg besar) ianya menimbulkan masalah kepada pihak kerajaan. Anak2 äuslander dikatakan bermasalah disekolah sbb tak mampu menguasai Deutsch dgn baik, maka diorg jadi x minat belajar (maafkan sy kalau fakta ini x betul, sy hanya kutip here and there dari cerita org2 yg dah lama duduk sini). Ada parents äuslander pulak, since x pandai ckp Deutsch, x ambil tahu hal anak2 disekolah.

Tapi tak semua la mcm tu...jiran Turki atas rumah sy ni, anak2 dia cemerlang belaka. Yg sulung, lelaki belajar engineering kat TU Darmstadt, sama uni ngan cik HB, the second one, perempuan - belajar medic di university Frankfurt dan the third one, juga perempuan, belajar pharmacy juga di Frankfurt.

Maybe ada la kot statistik dan kajian yg menunjukkan adanya masalah integrasi dan bahasa dikalangan äuslander yg menyebabkan wujudnya regulations yg makin lama makin ketat.

Anyway, the examination ended sampai disitu. Kami x tau pon apakah penilaian yg diberikan kepada si kembar sbb ianya adalah confidential dan akan diberikan kepada pihak sekolah utk further action. Sy rasa kalau kami terpaksa stay disini lebih lama dan anak2 attend sekolah sini, sure Deutsch course is mandatory for us.

Actually bagus examination ni. Ianya x la menjurus kepada akademik sgt tapi lebih kepada pembangunan fizikal dan mental kanak2. Like bila buat eye test, ear test - kita tau lebih awal kalau2 anak kita mmg ada masalah eyesight or hearing.

Kat Malaysia pon dgr cerita skrg ada exam before masuk Darjah Satu kan? Tapi exam yg macamana ye?

Halloween Dress-up Party

The twins had Halloween dress-up party kat kindy. We were not into this actually but when I checked with their teacher, she said it was simply for the kids to dress-up according what they want to be - hexes, dracula...you name la whatever hantu mat saleh yg ada. So I just made it simple - beli saja topi hexe yg ada dijual merata2 itu and thanks to baju hitam diorg yg dah sedia ada.

The twins with their best friends - Luna & Leyla

And mujur xde yg organize trick or treat!

Day 7: Journey Home & Wertheim Village

Time flies so quickly when you have fun eh?

That was how we felt on the last day of our trip. Tau2 dah hari ke-7 dan perlu memulakan perjalanan pulang ke kehidupan realiti.

Prague masih lagi hujan di kala kami ingin bergerak pulang meninggalkan bandar bersejarah ini. Namun at 8 am, waktu semua dah bersiap dok dlm Transit nak memulakan perjalanan, enjin Transit x boleh start pulak. Car battery was out! Ayoyo.....

Tapi mujur la Fattah ada insuran yg cover sebarang kerosakan kereta walaupun di Prague. Dan setelah dihubungi, pihak insuran berjanji akan hantar seorg mekanik utk settlekan masalah kami. Lebih kurang 45 minit lepas tu, mekanik tu pon sampai dan dgn equipmentnya yg canggih tu, dlm 10 minit masalah kami selesai! Alhamdulilah, setiap masalah yg kami hadapi sepanjang trip ni, ada penyelesaiannya!

Pukul 9 pg, kami bergerak meninggalkan Prague yg indah. Tapi as hujan turun dgn lebatnya, perjalanan adalah sedikit bosan sbb x dpt menikmati pemandangan yg indah. 2-3 kali buat toilet break and had lunch kat R&R somewhere along the highway. Since we had time, we had decided to make a pit-stop kat Wertheim Village - a branded factory outlet....YEAY!!!!

Kami pernah ke sini bulan Mac lepas dan walaupun takde budget utk shopping, adalah gembira juga sbb dpt cuci mata pon cukup. Besides Ain mmg ada motif nak singgah sini, dia nak beli sepasang sneakers. And I remembered I promised Hantu Makan a.k.a Kak Dalia that I would skodeng Furla for her whenever I visit Wertheim.

We arrived at Wertheim Village at 3pm. As expected, takde sale, therefore takde la menarik sgt. Tapi I bought little something kat Body Shop - lip gloss dia cuma 4€ saja! And little something jugak from Palmers...hehehe. Ain dpt sneakers NIKE idaman hatinya and harganya juga menepati idaman hati...kan Ain, kan? So it fulfilled the main objective of coming to Wertheim.

Wertheim Village yg sunyi sepi..maklum la bukan musim SALE!

I did go into Furla boutique, tapi x berani nak snap gambar handbag byk2....takut kena sound. So kak dalia, if you happen to read this, here are two Furla handbags photos I managed to snap for you....I´ll probably akan pegi lagi Wertheim before balik Malaysia for good (tgk keadaan), so kalau nak kirim, sila la ye :)

Furla in black

Furla in red

Rosenthal idaman hati

Longchamp! (angkat2 kening...hehehe)

rehat selepas penat keluar masuk kedai

By 5:30pm, kami bergerak menuju Frankfurt, sampai kat Frankfurt around 7pm, menyinggah makan KFC dulu kat Hanau then baru pulang ke rumah. Sampai rumah around 8:30pm....penat dan ngantuk!

So berakhir sudah journal perjalanan 7 hari ini. It was a great memories....and thanks to Ain & Fattah for joining us and made our journey happy....