Doamu

In January 2012, I have posted an entry about a friend who lost her first baby at 20-week of pregnancy. She was devastated but she accepted it and stays positive. Friends sent a lot of prayers massages and motivations.

Some of my friends here also prayed for her through that entry even though you don't know her. 

Guess what?

She has just delivered a healthy, cute baby boy last Friday!!!

She just posted about the news on FB few minutes ago and I'm so happy for her that I immediately share her news here.

I guess, it's important for us to pray for other people. When people share things in FB and blogs, asking you to pray for them, do pray....with sincerity.

Cause Allah listens to you, to us...Insyallah.

Thanks for your prayers!

Happy 8th Birthday Behabella!

Semalam birthday kembar tahun ke-lapan. They have requested long before this nak buat sambutan kat daycare. I said ok sbb birthfay diorg jatuh hari Isnin dan sebelum tu ada long weekend. Kami pon x plan nak kemana2. Jadi boleh la nak pegi beli goodies dan buat muffin ke, buat pasta ke. Tup2 hari Khamis minggu lepas Insyirah kena warded (akan diceritakan selepas ini). So mokcik berkampung la kat spital dr hari Khamis sampai la smlm.

I already told them, sorry saya tak boleh nak arrange for a celebration kat daycare because of the hospital stay. But they were still hoping, Insyirah boleh balik hari Ahad, at least Ummi still boleh sediakan apa2 yg patut. And I thought, ok kalau Insyirah boleh discharge, I'll think of something.

Tapi hari Ahad, doc kata kena stay another night. The next day baru boleh keluar. Teringat kat kembar punya request, and I guess I cuma sempat beli kek je kot.

Come Monday, doc cuma dtg bilik waktu tengahari, dan ckp boleh discharge. Tapi disebabkan proses insuran lama sgt, dah dekat kul 5pm baru boleh balik. By then mmg x sempat nak beli kek nak hantar kat daycare. 

So I asked them "kita makan2 je la malam ni boleh? Nanti ada masa ummi celebrate ur besday kat daycare"

Mujur la mereka ok dan memahami.

So kami dinner kat Windmill Station aje la. Nabilah ordered her favourite Lamb Chop dan Nabihah with Fish n Chips.

Nabilah

Nabihah

Sikecik baru lepas discharge ward. Agak meragam..huhuhu

Semoga mereka membesar dengan sihat dan cemerlang dunia akhirat. 

We love you so much my princesses. 

Malang Tak Berbau

Tengahari tadi, I was on my way to fetch the twins from school...

There is this 3-junction I have to cross...mmg tak suka junction ni sbb it's at a corner then kat situ ada kedai nasi ayam dan selalu byk lori2 park near the junction, thus susah nak tgk kenderaan yg dtg dari kiri. Peak hours, jalan ni byk kereta. Selalunya I try to avoid this juction dan sanggup drive jauh2 another route supaya tak payah cross kat situ.

But then tadi dah lambat so guna jugak la junction tu. Mmg ada lori besar parked by the road side near the junction but I was sure I dah tgk betul2 before crossing.

Sekali BAMMMM!!!

Saya sudah langgar kereta org :(. Obviously my fault.

Dua2 kereta ketepi, I quickly bagi signal ketepi dan keluar dari kereta.

It was a lady, in Honda car. She also came out dan ckp "x nak nampak ke?" tapi dalam nada yg terkejut, bukan marah2.

I apologized profusely. Menggigil2 jugak rasanya and I guess that lady too. 

Disebabkan tempat kami berhenti tak sesuai utk berhenti lama2, saya pon tanya dia rushing ke sbb saya nak pegi jemput anak dari sekolah dan kalau dia x rush boleh tak ikut sy ke sekolah so that boleh discuss lebih lanjut.

Dia pon kata ok, sekolah pon x jauh dari kawasan kejadian. Then sy parked somewhere safe dan dia pon parked belakang kereta. Saya minta maaf lagi sekali sbb tau whatever it is tetap salah saya. Saya tak boleh salahkan lori itu walaupun saya geram kat lori yg parked tepi jalan dekat junction tu. 

Her car damaged at the driver seat's door. Kemik dan tercalar. Saya kata sy akan tanggung whatever the cost would be to repair it. Saya bagi no phone, alamat rumah, even nama company sbb dia agaknya doubt saya nak bayar for the damage. Anyway she seemed to be a nice lady sbb dia x marah2 pon kat saya. Cuma  nampak la dia dalam keadaan terkejut. I was shaking while key-in her number so I told her "sorry, I am slow, I am shaking". Dia kata dia pon sama.

After I took photo of her car, given all my contact details, and she said she would take her car to workshop and would tell me how much is the cost, we shook hand and again I apologized for my mistake and for putting her in trouble. Then I gi cari kembar kat depan sekolah and drove away.

Ni la kereta tu...agak2 berapa ratus la kena nak repair ni?

My car no obvious damaged, x kemik 

whatsover tapi nampak la cat tertanggal

Fikiran agak terganggu selepas kejadian ni, but thankfully I managed to stay calm. I only called cik HB selepas drop budak2 kat rumah (diorg duduk kat rumah hari ni sbb Mak Tam ada kat rumah). Sebab saya tak nak diorg dgr kalau sy call cik HB while they were around. Nanti diorg pulak terlebih drama.

Syukur juga it was just a minor accident with little damage and nobody hurts. Syukur juga that lady is the kind of person yg bertimbang rasa, meaning dia xde la marah2 saya, atau maki hamun saya. Kalau kena ngan org yg panas baran, mengamuk kat saya ke, sure lagi terganggu perasaan kan? Walaupun saya kena fork out few hundreds (harap2 tak jadi ribu2 la) to pay for the repair works, as along as I could settle this dengan cara yg baik, xpe la soal duit tu.

Probably I've done something wrong, so maybe this is a gentle reminder from Allah s.w.t to look back what I did.

Somehow trauma la jugak nak cross junction tu....

Oh, peringatan to all road users, tolong la jgn parking kenderaan anda dekat ngan simpang, seriously ia menyusahkan org lain.

Laman

Hari tu sibuk war2kan nak berkebun ye?

So a friend asked, apa yg dah ditanam?

Hehehe...I've started but it's really a slow beginning.

Dah quite sometime, on the backyard we have made the vege patch at the backyard, hasil usaha cik HB dan kembar.

Suka betul dapat main tanah

Jenuh jugak la mengisi tanah dalam vege patch ni

As of today, masih belum tanam apa2...dalam proses nak 

suburkan tanah kononnya...but really, I've composed the soil dgn sisa 

buangan kulit2 buah/sayur. Benih sayur dah beli tapi belum semai

Another vege patch dalam proses tapi tergendala sbb 

batu-bata x cukup and tanah hitam belum beli.

Benda alah ni contractor yg buat grill tinggalkan. Mula2 sakit mata tgk benda ni menyemak kat laman kami. Tapi cik HB kata nanti dia akan adjust benda ni utk dijadikan tempat letak pasu2 pokok. Menarik jugak!

Then masa balik mengundi kat kampung hari tu, Mak siap bekalkan saya anak2 pokok untuk ditanam. Dia bagi pandan, lengkuas, bunga kantan, ulam raja, serai, lempoyang, cekur, pokok kari dan pokok kunyit. Pandan tu dah ditanam dalam vege patch yg kecil tapi dah seminggu lebih tanam mcm nak mati aje. Kering kontang. Mak kata xpe, teruskan menyiram air. Serai dan ulam raja x sempat nak tanam sbb bila nak tanam kering dah. Kantan dan lengkuas macam ada harapan. Pokok kari ngan kunyit selamat dah disemai Mak dalam poly bag. Mak kata biarkan lama sikit dalam poly bag baru alih. Lempoyang ngan cekur dah selamat tanam dalam bekas polisterin.

Anak pokok kari dan pokok kunyit

Lempoyang dan cekur ditanam dalam bekas ni. 

Belum menampakkan apa2 progress.

Tanam 4 benih lengkuas and kantan. Tiga ada harapan utk membesar.

Satu tu nampak mcm nak mati.

Pokok pandan mcm nak mati jugak. Tapi Mak kata teruskan menyiram. 

Nampak mcm ada kaler2 hijau sikit kat batang tu. Hopefully hidup la dikau si pokok pandan.

On the front yard, not much have been planted. Selain 4 pokok landscape yg kami beli kat nursery bulan lepas, kami ada la beli pokok lidah naga. Balik dari Tg Malim aritu konon nk singgah Sungai Buloh, tempat nursery tersohor kat Mesia ni, nak try beli rumput dan pokok2 lain. Kata situ murah dan byk choice. Tapi somehow kami tersesat langsung x jumpa jalan Sg. Buloh-Subang. Lenkali harus pegi!

Asalnya laman ni penuh dgn batu2an and construction waste. Gigih cik HB clearkan batu2 tu semua dan tabur pasir. Next project: nak tanam rumput sendiri.

Pokok2 yg kami beli dr nursery bulan lepas. So far hidup ngan subur. 

Kami konon nak tanam pokok lidah naga ni along the brickwall. 

Tapi baru satu pokok berjaya ditanam...malas...hahaha

So itu saja la buat masa ni. Kalau byk update lagi pasal gardening, kita masuk dalam blog hokeh.

Mommies Club @ Playground

I am working in a male-dominant environment.

In real world, susah nak cari kawan pompuan utk sembang2 hal wanita. So I rely on FB, Skype utk sembang2 ngan kawan2 pompuan. Kita pompuan mmg suka sembang2 kan? Tapi bukan citer kereta, gadgets dan seumpamannya. Kita nak share citer hari ni nak masak apa, cerita anak2, cerita deco rumah and so on. 

But of late since dah duduk kawasan perumahan baru, saya rajin bawa anak2 gi playground sbb ada playground dekat rumah dan padang besar sesuai utk anak2 berlari. Tak la setiap hari tapi Khamis dan Jumaat bila sikembar off dari sekolah agama (sekolah agama sini cuma dr Isnin - Rabu).

Kebetulan pula, ada la few mommies yang dtg bawak anak2 diorg ke situ. 2-3 mommies, anak2 diorg duduk di daycare ngan sama kembar. Sebelum ni tak penah kenal sgt tapi bila selalu jumpa kat playground, selalu la jugak kami sembang2.

We shared things how we deal with our hectic daily routine. Like Lin & Su, pon ada 3 anak dan 2 dah bersekolah. So kami share horror x horrornya kami pagi2 kalut nak siapkan anak2 ke sekolah, nak hantar anak ke nursery/babysitter. Share juga tips nak basuh baju sekolah yg kotor terkena water colour la, sambal la. Share where to buy groceries and whatnots.

Which I find it's very nice meeting these mommies during the playground session on weekly basis. 

Because no matter how much you can rely on Internet for socializing and sharing info, meeting people in real life makes you feel different.

Twins ckp "kita suka la tgk ummi kawan2 ngan mak Faris dan mak Idlan".

Hehehe 

Big Bad Wolf Sales

Last week Big Bad Wolf buat sales kat MITC Melaka. I didn't know at first, tapi nasib la seorg kawan share kat FB pasal BBW sales. Selama ni dok tgk ja org post gambar2 sale BBW kat FB/blog sbb BBW yg saya tau asik buat sales kat KL/Penang. Ni la first time sy dgr diorg dtg Melaka. And I was wondering cemana org boleh borong buku byk2. Murah sangat ke?

So lunch time x boleh tunggu dah, berdesup sy ke MITC. Waaaaaaaa...utk book lovers, BBW mmg heaven. Buku2 dr segala genre punya la banyak. Dan bila tgk harga...lagi nak pengsan! Rambang mata sungguh.

Koleksi Chicken Soup for the Soul

Nasib la saya pegi during lunch time, so grabbed apa yg patut je la. Tengok org lain siap borong penuh troli, ada sorang remaja ni siap bawak suitcase besar nak angkut buku2. Saya pon x cukup tangan nak pegang buku2 yg disukai.

I bought all these @ RM129 all together. Murah kan?

Cooking books....ikut hati nak amik byk lagi...huhuhu

Later that night, saya pegi lagi angkut cik HB dan anak2. Tapi malam tu org dah start ramai la. Jenuh melayan kembar memilih buku apa yg diorg nak. At first diorg ingat boleh beli satu buku sorang aje because that is what I do everytime pegi bookstore. Tak mampu nak beli byk2 at one time. Tapi bila ckp "u can choose more than 1 then I decide what we can buy", diorg pon jadi excited. We bought few hard-cover encyclopaedias, some story books for them and Insyirah.

I always want the kids to love books the way I do. Dulu masa kecik2, parents sy tak mampu nak beli buku selalu, I always spent my time in the public library. Bila dah lepas sekolah and still belajar kat PPP and Uniten, saya selalu pegi kedai India kat CM yg buat sewa buku. You pay for the full price of the book, then if you return the books within 1 month time, they'll return your money with some deduction for the rental. Buku baru mahal la sikit, buku yg dah seasoned murah sikit. Selalunya kalau nak jadi hak milik terus, sy akan amik buku yg dah lama2. Agak2 citer tak best, pulangkan balik, just bayar sewa aje.  Ikutkan byk buku yg sy dah simpan tp dah berpindah ke sana sini, mana tah buku2 tu semua. I don't know kedai kat CM tu wujud lagi ke tak. Dah bertahun x jejak kaki kat CM.

My dream nak buat satu library kecil kat rumah with reading section so that the whole family love to read. 

Selamat Hari Guru

Malam tadi, lepas solat Maghrib, saya baru berkira2 nak bersila depan TV sambil melipat baju yg dah bernimbun2 hasil basuhan entah berapa batch. 

Sambil2 tu sembang2 ngan sikembar dan layan kerenah si kecik.

Tetiba Kakak ckp "Ummi, hadiah Hari Guru!"

Erkkkkkkkkk...alamak!!!!

I have totally forgotten! 

Sebenarnya kembar dah minta belikan hadiah utk Hari Guru since minggu lepas. Mokcik pon kata ok, nanti weekend kita pegi.

Tapi weekend I was occupied with something else. Ahad pulak I was not well, satu ari terdampar atas katil. So mmg tak ingat langsung pasal nak beli hadiah Hari Guru. Kembar pon x bagi reminder.

Tengok jam pukul 8.50 pm. I pandang cik HB and asked "kedai apa paling dekat?"

Our options - MYDIN or TESCO sbb it just 10 minutes away by driving.

So berdesup makcik capai jubah, sarung je over the house t-shirt dan seluar, sempat la juga touch-up muka ngan compact powder dan sarung tudung....less then 5 minit semua dah masuk kereta.

On the way, saya teringat KK Home Deco yg dekat ngan MYDIN kat MITC. Sure kat situ ada byk choices of souvenirs and less crowds. Nak shopping kat MYDIN memerlukan ketabahan minda sbb situ selalunya crowded tak kira awal bulan, tgh bulan hujung bulan, nak2 pulak waktu malam. So KK Home Deco je la.

Tup2 KK Home Deco dah tutup!

Nasib la ada lagi satu kedai ala2 KK Home Deco dekat area Kota Fesyen yg still buka. Turned out, bukan kami aje parents and kids yg mencari hadiah Hari Guru, ramai juga parents and kids ada kat situ dgn tujuan yg sama. I keep hearing mak/ayah ckp "oh, tu x boleh, mahal sgt". 

Sama macam skrip kami...hehehehe

Cikgu2 jangan terasa ye...bukan kami berkira tapi bayangkan la nak membeli 14 items utk guru sekolah rendah/agama/daycare. Rabak jugak la poket...hihihi.

Dah la kembar tu boleh tahan cerewet. Mulanya nak pilih specific hadiah utk setiap cikgu. Tak nak bagi item sama. Aduhhh...mokcik dah la risau berjalan dicelah2 barang2 seramik/kaca/porselin. Kot kang terpecah, naya je nak kena membayar extra. Masa pon x cukup sbb dah pukul 9 lebih. Nak approve item pon satu hal, within budget ke, sesuai ke tak. Last2 kami bagi ultimatum to them - just pick 1 type of souvenir, then bg semua cikgu sekolah rendah hadiah yang sama. Cikgu daycare pilih hadiah jenis lain. In the end they picked up a seramic canister for cikgu2 sekolah rendah dan flower deco for cikgu2 kat daycare.

Berjaya la kami membeli hadiah2 tu just nice time kedai nak ditutup. Tu hadiah belum balut lagi. Balik rumah dah dekat kul 11mlm, terus mokcik gigih membalut 10 kotak hadiah. Lagi 4 hadiah cikgu daycare, sambutan hari Jumaat so boleh ditangguhkan.

Rasa cam stress sungguh membalut sambil Insyirah menangis2 kat kaki nak ajak tido. Tempted to leave it first and bangun pagi esok baru balut. Tapi kalau terbgn lambat, x sempat balut cemana? So balut la dgn selaju mungkin, workmanship balutan mmg out. 

Kakak la setia menemani ummi tunggu sampai hadiah habis dibalut. By then dah pukul 12.30 am. Sian Insyirah menunggu. Bagi susu kejap aje dia dah tido. And mokcik dah well pass my bedtime, terus x ngantuk jadi sambung lipat kain, siap kemas living hall dan kemas dapur...hahaha. Dan akhirnya pukul 1.30 am baru ku masuk tido.

I hope the teachers like their presents. I know kalau dibandingkan dgn jasa guru2 mendidik anak2 kita, hadiah yg diberi tu apa je la sangat. Tapi sekurang2nya kita meraikan mereka. 

Teringat kat Kak Lemongrass dr blog Salam Dua Benua tu when it comes to celebrate Teacher's Day. She would bake cookies, made home-made chocolate and other goodies and packed them nicely in a basket for each teacher. It's a well-thought present, kan? I wish I could do just the same next time. Tapi entah bilanya....well, kena plan ahead! Kalau last-minute takde maknanya....

To all teachers out there, my ex- teachers dari tadika, sekolah rendah, menengah dan sampai universiti, I thank you a lot. Semoga Allah memberkati anda semua :)