Dioxin Contamination & Free-range Organic Eggs

Di Germany skrg sedang kecoh isu telur ayam, daging ayam (poultry) dan khinzir tercemar dek kerana dioxin. Dioxin adalah sejenis toksin yg boleh menyebabkan kanser. Difahamkan syarikat pembekal makanan haiwan ternakan telah membuat kesilapan mencampurkan lemak utk tujuan industri dan lemak utk makanan haiwan ternakan yg menyebabkan makanan haiwan ni mengandungi dioxin dan seterusnya ladang2 penternakan telah memberikan haiwan2 ternakan makan makanan ini.

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Katanya pihak kerajaan Germany telah mengambil langkah2 sepatutnya utk mengawal isu dioxin dgn menutup ladang2 dan kilang2 penternakan yg dikenal pasti terlibat memberi makanan mengandungi dioxin , menarik balik stok2 yg ada dipasaran (boleh trace dgn code yg ada pd pek bungkusan makanan especially telur).

Kami pon buat masa ni ambil langkah berjaga2 dgn berhenti makan ayam & telur. Ayam ok, sbb boleh ganti dgn daging lembu/kambing (yg ni tak affected) atau makanan laut. Ye, kos mmg bertambah sbb ayam la paling murah disini. Tapi demi kesihatan, takpe la keluarkan belanja lebih sikit.

Telur susah sikit nak stop all around. Sebab byk makanan perlukan telur in the making. Roti, kek, kuih2, kebanyakan resepi mmg guna telur. Mmg ada byk eggless recipe tapi kena ada pulak egg substitute - mana nak cari tu?

So for the time being I'm buying the free-range organic eggs. Mmg la mahal...telur biasa for 10 only 1.29 euro but this type of eggs is 2.39 euro! I've decided nak kurangkan penggunaan telur dlm makanan, just guna utk penting2 saja. My priority mesti la eggless recipe tp kalau setakat guna 1-2 biji dlm recipe, takpe la. Lagipon kata la kita x mo makan telur langsung tapi bila kita beli ready-made roti ke, kek ke yg ada telur tu, lagi la kita concious kan...ni kita buat kek, roti sendiri so kita tau apa bahan2 yg kita guna.

Patut la Jamie Oliver dok memekak2 suh guna organic, free-range products....sbb the conventional type of food products adalah berisiko tinggi utk kesihatan. Mahal mmg mahal tapi for long-term ia adalah pilihan yg bijak, no?

Kedai di Alam Maya

It is all started on the first day of the New Year. But the idea came months ago, inspired by my friend Iu, who did it first. Then came few requests from friends - asking me to provide service buying things in Germany then selling it in Malaysia.

I wasn´t serious at first, thinking that it might be complicated and difficult and we would not have the capacity to do it. But then I would regret it if I surrender even before I try. So yes, here I am...

Memperkenalkan......

BEHABELLA SHOPPE

Since the first January until today, my mind and my time is fully occupied doing this BEHABELLA SHOPPE. From buying few merchandises as a kick-off, then creating FB account to sell them out, then do more research on things to sell, all relevant factors, cost involved, finalising the price, then do marketing, promoting...boy, there´s really a lot of things to do!

Then, having this project doesn´t mean I can abandon my daily routine tasks. Kena masak, membasuh, mengemas, melayan org2 dlm rumah ni so I really have to juggle my time. But I do enjoy this, it feels like those days when I was working, scheduling my projects at the office then at the same time planning on the domestic tasks I would have to do once at home.

This is actually the second online bisnes I involved. The first one, I joined an affliate program on the internet, that time I was still working and konon2 to prepare myself with alternative financial back-up when I become a housewife. I even signed up for receiving newsletter from this Internet entrepreneur named Zul. It sounded easy at first but to get just one customer was like &&%%&%$%. I didn´t have the drive to do it all around, so I quit. The thing about affliate adalah barang2 yg dijual takde sgt tapi yg penting adalah marketing. So bab marketing ni den mmg out la!

In between I did some real selling business, so insignificant, tak buat duit sgt pon. Zaman uni, sy and housemates join bazaar convocation uni, kami jual makanan - spaghetti bolognese, spring rolls2, sardin & tuna rolls. Keje sikit punya penat, laku mmg laku tapi since kami x kira betul2 kos involved, dan letak harga rendah sgt, ended up untung kami sikit sgt (tapi share ngan ramai org sbb ada few kawan2 yg tolong jugak). Nak bahagi, mmg sikit sgt la so duit untung tu kami buat makan satay Kajang....hehehe. Jadi la...yg penting ada pengalaman (Ati, linda, azma, mis....korang mesti ingat kenangan ni kan?)

Then masa keje, sbb abg sy mintak tolong, sy jadi runner jual tudung2 kat opis. Keje senang aje, letak tudung kat surau opis dgn list harga, lepas tu sapa nak tulis bgtau la. Tapi senang2 pon ada gak cabarannya - org lambat bayar la, org amik tudung x bgtau la, ada bawa balik rumah b4 decide nak beli sbb nak tgk tudung matching ke x ngan baju kat rumah tapi pulangkan berminggu lepas tu...huhuhu, ada yg mitak bayar ansuran la (tudung tu rega RM35 - nak ansurkan cemana tu).

Selalunya abg sy anta tudung2 tu dlm seminggu pastu dia dtg collect hasil jualan dan stok lebih. Nanti dia bagi la sikit komisen atau kita boleh pilih mana tudung kita nak ngan percuma. Abis, yg tudung kita x leh trace pi mana tu, kita nak jawab apa ngan dia kan? Kita dulukan la duit kita ngan harapan org yg amik tudung tu bayar kat kita. Kes yg pulang balik lepas berminggu tu end up jadi la tudung sy sendiri sbb kita dah bayar kat tuan punya kan...

Lama jugak la sy buat bisnes tudung ni as long as abg sy hantar stok. Then abg sy pon sibuk ngan pembukaan kedai sendiri so and so, dia pon dah tak hantar tudung dah.

Last sekali sy buat bisnes - jual tudung fareeda masa dah sampai Jerman. Pon tak untung byk la, susah sbb kos tinggi dan kita jual dlm euro. Nak letak harga tinggi2 pon, nanti org tak beli pulak.

Tu la kisahnya sy dan bisnes. Best sebenarnya buat bisnes ni tapi kena buat byk research dan kena belajar cara2 yg betul.

So kawan2, jgn lupa melawat BEHABELLA SHOPPE ok! Tak beli pon xpe, singgah2 tgk pon cukup la - sebagai tanda sokongan. Buat masa ni tak byk lagi brg yg ada tapi from time to time, barang2 akan ditambah.

Grey

grey by Neny featuring current elliott jeans

Lama dah x layan Polyvore.com tapi pagi ni dok layan2 online shops dan akhirnya landed di Polyvore.com (baru je tanam azam tak mo berfoya2....hehehe). Actually i´m trying to venture into online business myself - just for a temporary period. As kitorg dah nak balik for good dan ada kawan2 nak kirim brg, so why not try make a business as well. Tu yg tgh mengumpul info apa nak dibuat so and so.

Sy sendiri pon suka shopping tapi tak la kerap sgt pon shoppingnya dan x la berhabis duit byk2 utk tujuan shopping. Ikut kemampuan dan keperluan walau ikut hati semua rasa nak beli. If you have the money, it´s ok tapi jgn sampai berhutang credit cards dan berhabis duit simpanan (something I learn from cik HB yg sgt hemah bila berbelanja - iye bang, u mmg pandai simpan duit :D).

Like items kat gambar atas tu mmg la brg2 yg mahal. Jeans saja is 155€, the wedges is 330€! I won´t buy something so expensive like that. What i like about playing at Polyvore, is just to get some ideas what kind of dress, pants, shoes I want.

What the hecks! It´s just VERANGAN MODE!

New Year 2011

Tahun baru sudah!

Azam?

Tak yah la sbb dah buat azam masa Awal Muharram...azam yg berbentuk duniawi lak setiap tahun adalah sama - nak turunkan berat badan, nak exercise secara konsisten, nak lebih mengutamakan makanan sihat (chetttttt).

Tapi yg penting nak mendidik anak sebaik mungkin dan kurangkan masa utk diri sendiri berfoya2 i.e dok layan internet, dok ngadap soap drama, etc....

Tahun 2010 yg bagusnya sy dah kurang la jugak ngadap laptop dan lebih mengutamakan keje2 rumah dan urusan keluarga. Kalau dulu like everyday, half a day tu mesti dok berchatting la and dok merayap sana sini kat internet la. Which was mmg membuang masa. Pastu bila keje rumah bertimbun2 mula nak hangin ngan semua org.

Sambutan new year kat sini agak meriah. Nak tgk fireworks show x payah pegi ke Frankfurt pon...kat Raunheim ni pon dah cukup meriah. Kitorg layan fireworks kat balkon rumah aje...sana sini org pasang firecrackers yg style colourful tu. Cuma tak sebesar dan sehebat acara fireworks rasmi kat big city la. Fireworks mmg dijual secara legal kat pasaraya2 bermula sehari sebelum Sylvester (a day before New Year). Kembar nak tapi kami x nampak firecrackers yg sesuai utk budak kecik kecuali yg besar2 gabak. Dah la mahal...paling murah 14 Euro. Balik malaysia je la main bunga api time raya!

Tapi walaupun tak main sendiri, tgk fireworks by people of Raunheim ni syok la jugak. Mmg meriah seluruh neighbourhood ni dgn fireworks. Dr depan rumah, belakang rumah, fireworks aje.

Sempat juga kami rakamkan video fireworks:

Selamat tahun baru semua....semua tahun ini menjanjikan kehidupan yg lebih baik utk anda :)

Hati Wangi!

Sikembar suka sgt ngan buku2, just like I do. Though belum pandai membaca lagi, diorg suka everytime sy bacakan buku cerita. Kami ada byk jugak la koleksi buku2 cerita, dr kisah2 nabi, mengenal sifat2 Allah, kisah2 dongeng Melayu dan juga fairytales stories.

One of the favourite book adalah cerita Bawang Merah & Bawang Putih. Buku ni dlm English so kerapkali la diorg tanya bila tak paham. After a while bila dah faham, diorg akan tanya soalan out of the box. Like Nabilah tanya kenapa mak bawang putih tolak mak bawang merah dlm kolam and I remember telling her once sbb mak bawang putih tu hatinya busuk.

Then recently masa sy baca buku tu lagi, Nabihah pulak tanya soalan yg sama (asking the same questions over and over again mmg kebiasaan budak berdua ni, I dont know whether diorg mm tak ingat or just to test my patience!). Before sy sempat reply, Nabilah responded to soalan kakaknya:

Mak bawang putih hati dia busuk, kan Ummi?

Sy angguk.

Then dia sambung....

Mak bawang merah hati wangi!

Hati wangi? Hahahaha...mana la dpt term hati wangi ni?

Well, all I can conclude she practices her knowledge on perkataan2 bandingan. Like BUSUK lawannya WANGI la...though kita jarang guna term hati wangi kan?

Hati baik selalu la!

A Quiet Day

It´s Christmast day but outside is so quiet, it feels like this area is deserted. Mcm takde perayaan. Tak mcm raya kat Malaysia, hari raya sgt festive, dgn org keluar menziarah sanak-saudara dan sahabat handai. Maybe sbb snow tebal diluar meyebabkan org malas nak keluar. Tgk snow on the road pon mcm x disodok and I hardly see vehicles nor people on the road. The Germans probably celebrating inside their homes with closest family and friends. Lagipon I guess diorg dah puas berpesta about a month ago with weinachmarkts dan christmast dinners held before hand.

Kitorg pon x kemana2. Nak kemana pon...satu kedai pon x dibukak bila ada cuti umum mcm ni. Before ada jugak terfikir nak travel ke mana2 within Germany masa cuti krismas tapi memandangkan byk sgt travel chaos news - flights, trains and road traffic jams, it´s the best kami stay kat rumah aje. Sy and sikembar pon x berapa sihat since yesterday. Hari ni cik HB yg masak, it´s bubur nasi on the menu since it´s the simplest thing to cook and suits the situation - org2 demam dan cold winter.

Mat, Liza & Liya selamat juga berlepas ke UK hari ini dan selamat sampai kat Leeds utk bercuti selama seminggu despite the travel chaos around Europe with the heavy snow and cold harsh temperature. Alhamdulilah. Kami agak sunyi jugak bila diorg xde because at least selang 2-3 hari mesti kami jumpa2. Moga diorg dpt balik on the arranged schedule next week, no delay or cancellation of the flight.

Hmmm....a bit bosan jugak bila x berapa sihat and then have to stay indoor for few days to come. I´m hoping to get better, at least sy boleh main masak2 kat dapur to occupy the time.

Hoh!

Been reading the South Beach Diet website over and over again....

Been reading the Success Stories all over the Internet, hoping to get motivated.....

Thought the will power is there, thought "I can do it this time"

But it lasted just for a few days....

I cook more, I eat more!

And I gain MORE of course.....

In fact, I´m at my heaviest weight ever recorded (the non-pregnant weight).

But as cik HB said - I have no one to blame but myself...

Yeah.....if only controlling what I eat and doing exercise as easy as reading.....

And all I keep doing is sighing

* mode frust mau kurus tapi x kurus2*