One Step at a Time...

Sugar

2012-02-12T20:13:00.001+08:00

4 years ago, I felt in love with each and every cupcakes and wedding cakes done by my dear childhood friend, Ween Nee. I had been following her blog, love-a-cupcake since than and had been dreaming to order my wedding cake from her :). Unfortunately, I was so busy preparing my wedding details that I had totally forgotten about the wedding cake. Huhu. It's totally my fault. Macam mana la tak masuk list cake tu.

Among my favourite designs of cupcakes and cakes. Cantik kan? You can just ask her to do any design and she'll try her best to fulfill our order. The most important thing is to share our story on what to tell the others or the recipient of the cake.

She also did cute sugar miniature for a gift to either our friends or families. It's a new and modern way of expressing ourselves, telling stories to the others or giving a memorable gift to the ones we love. As of the picture above, from top left; a graduation topper to congratulate any of our family members or friends on their graduation day, elmo/cookies monster, a couple of teddies which the boy teddy is proposing to the girl teddy :) and the last one is dibo the gift dragon and his friends.

A couple of years back, she had ventured into new business called SUGAR (",). Sugar is a store that located at Straits Quay, Tanjong Tokong, Penang. Not only taking orders for cakes, Sugar also conduct classes for making those little cute art pieces. Other than that, it is also a store that sells all sorts of items that related to cakes, cookies and others. Since I had finished my confinement, I went for a visit to Sugar. I immediately fall in love with Sugar just as much as I fell in love with love-a-cupcake 4 years back :).

The entrance

Prepacked recipes. They have cakes, cupcakes, macaroon, shortbread and others. All we have to do is to mix all the packets and bake! Senang sangat untuk orang tak terer macam I ni. hehe.

Edible pen and colors for fondant.

Others backing ingredients.

I had bought chocolate and red velvet cupcakes. The taste was delicious and Hadif managed to help his Tok Mama baking these cupcakes. Will update later in my next entry. So guys, if you are in Penang, do drop by to Sugar. Will definitely crazy with all the stuffs there. They also do have online purchase if we are out of Penang.

Home School : Craft Session

2012-02-09T15:50:00.000+08:00

After 2 weeks playing with pencil and water colors, Hadif had started to feel bored with it. Actually mama Hadif yang boring because need to do all the cleaning and wiping the floors and also the brushes. Haha! So I came up with the idea of doing some craft with him that did not include any water or pencil colors.

Craft 1 : Paper cups Flowers

The items needed :-
1. Paper cups of different size and colors/patterns
2. Glue
3. Straws (a few colors will be perfect)
4. Drawing papers
5. Scissors

Glue the paper cups on the drawing paper. Make sure that the colors and patterns are on top so that it makes a beautiful flowers. You may also mix and match the big paper cups with the smaller ones. This was actually Hadif's idea. Creative betul! Mama pun tak terpikir. Huhu, buat malu je la. Than cut the straws to your preferable size. Glue the straw below the paper cups flowers. The straw will act as the stick of the flowers. It maybe dangerous for smaller children to cut the straws by themselves so we may help them on this. As of Hadif, he had been very familiar with the scissor. However, I had monitored him closely when he cut the straws.

Taraaa, the end result of Hadif's paper cups flowers. We made 2 paper cups flowers that day. One for our house and the other one is for tok mama :). Hope tok mama love it as we enjoy doing this craft together.

Craft 2 : Simple Binocular

Items needed :-
1. Tissue paper rolls (make sure it's the same size. different brand have different size.)
2. Riben
3. Scissor
4. Glue
5. Stapler
6. Magazine or any color papers

Glue and stick both of the tissue paper roll with either color papers or any papers from the magazine. As for Hadif, we used hubby's Ujang magazine. Hehe. Banyak sikit corak and cartoon. Jangan marah ye cayang.

Once done with glueing and sticking, stapler both tissue paper rolls so that they may stick to each other. Stapler also the riben to each end side of the tissue paper rolls. Since Hadif is not so familiar with stapler, I helped him with this step.

With only 3 steps (glue, stick, stapler), Hadif got his first own binocular. Boleh la teropong fish and tortoise from Akong's balcony :). This craft is very simple and yet interesting since Hadif had been using Akong's heavy binocular before. To add more colors, we may stick on different colors inside the tissue paper rolls. This will make the binocular even interesting since our kids may look at different colors through it.

Craft 3 : Bird named Rio!

Items needed :-
1. Glue
2. Scissors
3. Papers (a few of papers with different colors)
4. Small buttons or "manik"
5. A piece of box cover

If your kids are familir with cutting the papers into the designated pattern than he may cut it by himself. As of Hadif, he is familiar with the scissors but he did not know how to cut into the pattern that I drew on the paper. Due to that, I had cut all of the patterns first before doing this craft with him. I cut of 2 birds (light blue and yellow paper), sun (orange paper), some leaves (green paper) and some clouds (blue paper). I also cut the box cover into a hexagon shape. This is for the nest of the birds. Once all the cutting had been done, we may start to glue it onto a different sheet of paper.

Hadif's stick and glue birds named RIO! He kept on calling this art as RIO. Mesti pengaruh cartoon Rio la tu. hehe.

These are a few crafts that I did with Hadif for 2 weeks. Hadif was very happy playing with the scissors and glue. For now, all scissors must be kept safely so that he may not find it. Kalau tak habis nak potong semua benda and it's very dangerous for him as well without any supervision from the adults. I am so happy to see his progress on his creativity side. Alhamdulilah he may create some craft out of a piece of paper. Ntah apa2 bentuk la jadinya bila he started to glue from anything to everything.

TIGA PULUH hari

2012-01-28T13:03:00.002+08:00

January, 29th 2012, genap sebulan Fariq, Diyana & Hadif tanpa Suri. We had been more stronger by day and we thanked Allah for the strength that HE had given us. Alhamdulilah. To all of our families&friends, thank you for your support and Doa. Appreciate it so much.

Suri, sayang abah, mama & abang Hadif,

30 hari dah berlalu. Alhamdulilah segala rasa sakit, sedih and perit sebab kehilangan Suri dah beransur hilang. Apa yang mama rasa is rasa rindu yang kuat sangat. Mama rindu sangat2 dengan Suri. Mama rindu nak rasa Suri gerak2 dalam perut mama. Mama rindu bila abah pegang perut mama than Suri will kick back. Mama rindu bila Suri will move rapidly in my tummy bila dengar abang Hadif panggil "adik". I'm sure that abah & abang Hadif pun rindu Suri.

There's a few days that abang Hadif peluk and kiss perut mama panggil "adik, adik". Tapi abang Hadif tak rasa Suri gerak. Mama tau abang Hadif rasa pelik sebab abang Hadif asked mama "Amma, adik aner (mana)? Tido? Adik, angun (bangun) la. Peluk peluk adik (sambil peluk perut mama)". Apa yang mama boleh jawab is "adik dah takde la hadif". Mama tak sure if abang Hadif faham but I'm sure he'll understand nanti. After a week abang Hadif dah tak tanya lagi. Bukan abang Hadif tak ingat Suri tapi Abang Hadif dah faham Suri takde lagi dalam perut mama.

Abah pun surely miss u so much my dear. Setiap minggu abah ziarah kubur Suri. Before balik Penang, mesti abah singgah tengok kubur Suri dulu. Since tanah kubur belum mampat lagi, abah tak boleh tempah nisan. Abah kutip batu2 sungai and susun keliling kubur Suri for temporary. Insya Allah minggu depan siap la nisan Suri. Abah dah tempah tadi.

Suri, sayang abah, mama & abang Hadif,
Tak sabar mama tunggu habis pantang and balik KL. Mama nak ziarah kubur Suri and bacakan Yasin untuk Suri. Walau apa pun, mama redha dengan ketentuan Allah. DIA yang Maha Mengetahui apa yang terbaik untuk kita. Suri semestinya antara yang terpilih untuk terus berada di sisi DIA. Abah, mama & abang Hadif akan berusaha lebih kuat untuk bersama2 Suri nanti. Insya Allah.

Al Fatihah untuk Arwah Suri, sayang abah, mama & abang Hadif.

Kong Hei Fatt Choy

2012-01-22T15:31:00.001+08:00

Happy New Year to all my Chinese friends and readers. To all of my families&friends, happy holidays. Hope all of us have a wonderful and prosperous dragon year.

As usual, we are celebrating CNY in My Penang. Hadif will be visiting (collecting ang pow) my uncles and aunties tomorrow while hubby&me will stay at home. Pantang tak habis lagi. Huhu.

SOPA dan PIPA

2012-01-20T09:51:00.000+08:00

Semalam jika ada yang perasan Wikipedia versi english dan Google telah melancarkan protes online menentang peraturan baru yang sedang dibahaskan di Amerika. Wikipedia telah menutup versi english dan Google telah memadamkan logo di laman utama website mereka.

Peraturan baru ini yang dikenali sebagai SOPA atau Stop Online Piracy Act akan menyekat sebarang kandungan yang penyalahi akta hak cipta dan akta harta interlek dalam talian. Menerusi akta ini pihak pemilik harta interlek dan pemegang hak cipta berhak untuk membuat tuntutan kepada pihak pembekal kandungan dan pihak pembekal perkhidmatan internet untuk menutup, menghalang dan memberhentikan akses kepada mana-mana kandungan yang melanggari akta tersebut.

Sebagai contoh, Youtube.com boleh diperintahkan ditutup, dihalang dan diberhentikan akses oleh pihak pembekal internet sekiranya ada laporan, dakwaan dan tuntutan dari pemilik dan pemegang hak cipta dan harta interlek untuk menyiarkan kandungan yang menyalahi akta tersebut.

Misalnya jika seorang pengguna Youtube.com memuat naik video nanyian beliau yang menggunakan sebuah lagu yang dilindungi oleh akta hak cipta dan akta harta interlek, dan sekiranya pemegang hak cipta dan harta interlek itu membuat laporan, dakwaan dan tuntutan menggunakan SOPA maka pihak ISP boleh diarahkan untuk menghalang laman web Youtube.com dari diakses oleh pengguna samada dari Amerika atau dari negara-negara lain bagi menjaga kepentingan pemegang hak cipta dan harta interlek ini. Pihak Youtube.com juga boleh diarahkan untuk menutup dan memberhentikan keseluruhan operasi laman web tersebut sehingga semua kandungan yang dilaporkan, didakwa dan dituntut oleh pemegang hak telah dikeluarkan.

Akta ini juga melibatkan sebarang pelanggaran hak secara langsung atau tidak langsung termasuklah laman yang menggunakan pautan, transaksi kewangan dan sebagainya. Contohnya, jika sebuah blog mengandungi kandungan yang melanggari akta tersebut, pembekal laman blog itu sendiri boleh menerima akibat seperti contoh di atas dan sekiranya transaksi kewangan seperti kad kredit dan paypal digunakan maka syarikat pembekal transaksi kewangan juga boleh dikenakan seperti contoh di atas.

Namun, semua ini hanya melibatkan laman web dan syarikat yang beroperasi di Amerika sahaja dan tidak tertakluk kepada laman web dan syarikat yang beroperasi diluar Amerika.

SebelOm itu sebuah lagi akta yang kenali sebagai Protect IP Act atau PIPA telah diluluskan pada tahun 2011. Akta ini memberikan kuasa kepada pihak pembekal kandungan untuk mengeluarkan, menutup dan menghalang kandungan yang melanggari akta hak cipta dan akta harta interlek dalam laman web mereka tanpa perlu menutup operasi keseluruhan laman web pembekal kandungan. Misalnya hanya video filem atau video muzik yang melanggari akta hak cipta dan harta interlek akan dipadamkan dari penyimpanan pembekal laman kandungan tersebut.

Bagaimana akta ini boleh memberikan implikasi kepada pengguna-pengguna di negara lain?

Kebanyakan kandungan atas talian yang dilanggani oleh majoriti pengguna di dunia dibekalkan oleh syarikat yang beroperasi di Amerika. Facebook.com, Youtube.com, Blogger.com, Wikipedia.com, PayPal, Visa, Mastercard dan banyak lagi adalah sebagai contoh. Syarikat dan pembekal kandungan yang menggunakan konsep User Generated Content (UGC) adalah syarikat dan pembekal kandungan yang terdedah kepada resiko paling besar. Syarikat-syarikat ini tertakluk kepada akta dan peraturan negara yang meraka beroperasi dan ini memberikan kesan dan implikasi secara tidak langsung kepada pengguna di seluruh dunia sekiranya perkhidmatan dan operasi mereka terjejas.

Dunia semakin tiada sempadan bilamana peraturan yang hanya berkuatkuasa di sesebuah negara boleh memberikan impak yang besar kepada negara-negara lain secara tidak langsung.

Home School : Art Class

2012-01-18T18:30:00.001+08:00

I always tell hubby that I wish that I may home schooling Hadif and hubby always reply to me "boleh ke awak nak ajar hadif? sabar ke?". Cabaran tu! However, for the past 2 weeks I managed (successfully) to teach Hadif a few things. Alhamdulilah, Hadif had been cooperating very well with me. Mula2 memang mencabar but slowly we may adapt to each other's style (",). Or should I say that most of the time I'm the one that is adapting to Hadif's style.

Most of the art I did with him was the easy one that we once had done during our primary school before. Mind to all of my readers, mama hadif ni tak creative ye. Tak creative langsung la :). So, it's very hard for me to find an easy art for me to teach hadif. Tiap malam surf internet mencari idea. Some of the art were quite simple tapi mama hadif pula tak reti. huhu. Nasib la hadif dapat mama tak creative. Some of our art were :-

1. I LOVE U card for abah

Since hubby will not be coming back for 2 weeks, I planned for a surprise card specially for him. It will be more special since it will be hand made by Hadif himself. Since Hadif love stamping his akong's paper work, I had the idea to do stamping art with him. I used all the items that I may get from my mom's house and fridge. Ye la, dah pantang kan. Mana boleh keluar.

2 potatoes - Cut into halves and I made up shapes such as triangle, square, circle and oval
2 slice of batang sawi
2 slice of daun limau purut

I let Hadif play around with all the items before doing the card for his abah. He was so happy to see many items that he may colored and stamped on the drawing paper. The main reason that I did this art was to teach Hadif on the shapes. He had been playing shapes game in my iphone quite sometime. So, it's time for me to test him with the shape questions. hehe. Alhamdulilah he may recognize all the shapes that I did. Yippiee. So, I taught him on the colors as well. We did blue square, red oval, orange triangle, green square and many more.

The card for abah. Hope u like it my dear :). Hubby received the card the following day by Pos Express. Thanks to my youngest sister that had helped us to post it that day itself.

2. Coloring Woody

I wanted to use pencil color to color Woody but Hadif insisted on using water color. So, the outcome as above. Ntah apa2 Hadif color. Guess, this art didn't went well. Dah tak nampak muka Woody pun. But he kept on showing everybody in the house this art. Gaya macam bangga sangat dapat color Woody sampai tak nampak muka. huhu.

3. Beautiful Butterfly

I did this simple art during my primary school days as well. A very simple art that may resulted into a beautiful and colorful butterfly.

Fold the drawing paper into half. Than open it so that we may put a few water colors on the middle of the paper.

Once we had put on all the colors that we like, than fold back to paper into half. Press on the colors so that it may smear thoroughly on the paper. Try to mix the colors before smearing it outwards. This will surely mix the color and the butterfly will be more cheerful and colorful. Once we had finished smearing all the color, open back the drawing paper.

Taraaaa, the outcome. Since it was Hadif's first time, he didn't managed to mix the colors very well. Ye la, dah tak sabar2 nak buka tengok the outcome. He was very happy with the butterfly and asked for another round. We did another 3 butterflies that day itself.

Among the butterflies Hadif did that day. I'm so satisfied with his output. Terer dari mama la pula. Paling penting, Hadif was very happy once he finished doing this art. Bila Hadif happy, mood dia pun baik la the whole day :).

Alhamdulilah that I managed to teach Hadif some art eventhough it's very hard for me. For Hadif, I had learned on how to be creative and played along with pencil/water color. Kalau tak, memang tak minat langsung dua benda ni. Asyik harapkan Tn Fariq je before this. Huhu. At the same time, I also managed to teach Hadif on the colors as well. Alhamdulilah, he had recognized few main colors for now. All because of the art that we had been doing these 2 weeks. Yeay, lagi la mama semangat nak buat art lagi.

Now, I'm planning on craft and some baking with Hadif. Nak kena surf internet lagi la buat homework ni. Hope Hadif love spending time with me during my confinement period. I bet so he do because nowadays he'll asked me for art whenever we finished our lunch :).

His card for akong and get well soon card for tok mama.

Project: Tranz Tanah Melayu

2012-01-17T11:41:00.000+08:00

Draft Cadangan.

TajOk Project: Tranz Tanah Melayu

Description: Percutian pengembaraan mengelilingi Semenanjung Tanah Melayu menggunakan kereta. Bermula dari Kuala Lumpur/Selangor menuju ke arah utara dan kembali ke Kuala Lumpur/Selangor dari arah selatan.

Tarikh Mula: Isnin, 20 Ogos 2012 (Hari ke dua Raya Puasa)
Berakhir: Jumaat, 31 Ogos 2012 (Hari Kebangsaan)

Penerangan:

1. Percutian pengembaraan ini akan bermula dari Kuala Lumpur/Selangor pada Isnin, 20 Ogos 2012 Masihi bersamaan 2 Syawal 1433 Hijrah dan berakhir di Kuala Lumpur/Selangor pada Jumaat, 31 Ogos 2012 Masihi bersamaan 13 Syawal 1433 Hijrah. Insya'Allah.

2. Pengembaraan ini akan mengambil masa selama 11 hari, melibatkan lima (5) perhentian, meliputi sembilan (9) negeri dan jarak perjalanan sepanjang 1660 km.

3. Lima (5) perhentian yang bakal terlibat adalah seperti berikut:

Johor Baharu
Cherating
Kuala Terengganu
Kota Baharu
Bukit Jambul

4. Sembilan (9) negeri yang bakal terlibat adalah seperti berikut:

Negeri Sembilan - Jaluan sahaja
Melaka - Laluan sahaja
Johor - Perhentian (Johor Baharu)
Pahang - Perhentian (Cherating)
Terengganu - Perhentian (Kuala Terengganu)
Kelantan - Perhentian (Kota Baharu)
Perak - Laluan sahaja
Kedah - Laluan sahaja
Pulau Pinang - Perhentian (Bukit Jambul)

5. Jadual aktiviti:

Tarikh	Aktiviti
Monday, 20 August, 2012	Bertolak dari KL dan sampai ke Penang
Tuesday, 21 August, 2012	Aktiviti bebas di Penang.
Wednesday, 22 August, 2012	Aktiviti bebas di Penang.
Thursday, 23 August, 2012	Aktiviti bebas di Penang.
Friday, 24 August, 2012	Bertolak dari Penang dan sampai ke KB.
Saturday, 25 August, 2012	Aktiviti bebas di KB.
Sunday, 26 August, 2012	Bertolak dari KB dan sampai ke KT.
Monday, 27 August, 2012	Aktiviti bebas di KT
Tuesday, 28 August, 2012	Bertolak dari KT dan sampai ke Cherating
Wednesday, 29 August, 2012	Bertolak dari Cherating dan sampai ke JB
Thursday, 30 August, 2012	Aktiviti bebas di JB
Friday, 31 August, 2012	Bertolak dari JB dan sampai ke KL
Saturday, 1 September, 2012	Berehat di rumah
Sunday, 2 September, 2012	Berehat di rumah

2012: Plan ahead

2012-01-16T17:56:00.000+08:00

2011 - I really can't remember all the things happened last year. Even some of them also I can't but I'm sure it was a mixture of moments. Most of them for sure was an happy ending and some of them was a sad one.

Someone use to say, "Life is made up of years that means nothing and a moment that means it all". Happy moments was means to be remember on the time its happen while the sad one prolong.

2012 - So "azam" tahun baru ni nak memperkayakan lagi happy moment yang boleh dikenang. Hehehehe...

Semasa zaman kolej dulu dan sebelOm "ter"jumpa dengan Lady D, salah-satu angan-angan aku nak buat trans Europe. Bermula dari Hagia Sophia, Istambul singgah ke setiap bandar di antara Istambul dan London melalui jalan keretapi. Kemudian dari London terbang ke Kaherah, singgah di Madinah dan Mekah menggunakan mode transport yang sama sebelOm balik ke Malaysia semula (kalau sempat :-p). Semua info berkaitan aku dah dapatkan dan aku dah tampal peta Europah dan Asia Barat kat dalam bilik. Setiap hari bangun pagi benda pertama yang aku nampak bila bukak lampu will be that maps. Dari segi kewangan pun rasanya aku dah ada modal untuk permulaan. Duit PTPTN yang aku dapat dah siap aku rencanakan untuk disalahgunakan. Heheheh. CukOp la untuk backpacking traveller. Tapi nak buat macam mana dreams masih belOm boleh direalisasikan lagi.

So apa maknanya ni. Adakah aku akan buat pada tahOn ni.

Jangan buat kerja gila. Itu dreams sebelOm jumpa Lady D. Sekarang ni dreams aku nak bawak Lady D pergi sama. Bila tu tatau la tapi tetap akan terjadi. Mungkin lepas kami menopause kot. Time tu mungkin anak(anak) dah besar jadi dah takde apa dah nak pikir.

Sementara nak tunggu trans Europe terjadi, ini plan untuk tahOn ni. Dah lama dah plan. Plan asal nak tunggu Suri besar skit tapi since Allah ada grand plan untuk dia jadi aku pun carry backward plan asal ke tahOn ni most probably after Raya Puasa:

A trans Pantai Timur starting from KL - Desaru - Kota Baharu - Penang - Kuala Lumpur travel by car with a journey of 1660 km. Singgah di setiap perhentian menarik sepanjang perjalanan sebelOm balik semula ke KL ikut jalan utara. Err... itu kira konsider trans pantai timur lagi ke... rasa dah macam trans Tanah Melayu jer... heheheh...

Lady D, get prepare for our first journey of the year. Heheheh. Harap-harap monsun tak start awal tahun ni. Heheheh.

Marriage 101: Never lie to your wife

2012-01-12T16:29:00.001+08:00

Recently I start to read my spam email. Today what I receive was a joke story about a man who try to lie to his wife:

A man called home to his wife and said, "Honey I have been invited for a fishing trip at Canada with my boss & several of his friends. We'll be gone for a week. This is a good opportunity for me to get that promotion I've been wanting so long. So could you please pack enough clothes for a week and my fishing gear. We will be leaving from the office & I will swing by the house to pickup my things", he explained. "Oh, please pack my new blue silk pyjamas also that you buy last week.", he added.

The wife smell fishy but being the good wife she is, she did exactly what her husband request.

The following weekend her husband return from his trip. The wife welcomed him and asked if he caught any fish.

He reply, "Yes, lots of Salmon, some Bluegill, and few of Swordfish."

The wife then left him at the living room and go straight to the kitchen before her husband asked her about the blue pyjamas, "Honey, why didn't you pack my new blue silk pyjamas like I asked you to do?" he question.

The wife replied back while standing at the kitchen door with a knife on her hand, "Oh, I forgot to inform you. I put it in your fishing box..."

What do we can learn here. I remember one of my friend use to told me, "Woman is a very unique creature ever created by God. They can smell if her man lie to them but they won't believe us if we tell them the true either. So just tell them the truth and you will be safe." :p

Kisah lama...

2012-01-11T12:25:00.001+08:00

Yesterday I receive a spam email send to me by somebody that I don't know...

Normally I never bother to open the email... I just check the box next to the email and simply click "Spam" button to delete the email...

But this time (due to my free time at office) I read all the email including the spam and also the phism...

One email grap my attention... an email that contain a piece of my history life... a life that I use to have that engrave a smile upon my face...

This is a writing that I wrote during my college time... still remember those days where I and my friends spend most of our college time at the computer labs or at Restorent Hameed, Central Market (now already become Old Town Kopitiam) skiped the classes and enjoyed every moment of our golden "no life" period chatting (mengorat) with Malaysian student at New Zealand or mabOk teh tarik... hehehe...

This writing was make spontaneously and was posted into internet sometime around 2002... and now after 10 years... I receive this writing again sended to me from someone I don't know and from somewhere I don't care...

During my college time I do active in writing... some of my story that I wrote even published in Majalah Ujang... heheheh... I can't remember which one but maybe if I wait another 10 years... perhaps my writting will be come to me by it self like my writing below...

"Catu cenja, cipOt cia-cia cama copot cambil cari cengkerik. cipOt cuka cia-cia cama copot cebab copot cahabat cipOt. cemaca cipOt cama copot cari cengkerik, cipOt cakcikan catu cahaya cerah.

cahaya cerah cipOt cakcikan cangat cerah campai cipOt cama copot cilau. cahaya cerah cuba culik copot. cipOt cangat cuak. cipOt cepat-cepat camba copot cebelum cahaya cerah cempat culik copot. copot cangat cuak cama. cipOt cama copot cepat-cepat cari chelter cambil cepat-cepat cembunyi.

cipOt cama copot cembunyi cenyap-cenyap cupaya cahaya cerah cucah cari cipOt cama copot. cipOt cakap cama copot, "chuuu... chuuu... cenyap... cenyap copot...".

copot cambung cakap, "copot cudah cenyap, cipOt cenyap camalah...". celepas cejam, cahaya cerah cudah chow cebab cucah cari cipOt cama copot. cipOt cama copot cangat cuka cebab cahaya cerah cudah chow. copot cenyum cambil cakap, "copot cayang cipOt cebab cipOt celamatkan copot...". cipOt cenyum cambil chow cama copot... cekian..."

Semporna Shark Sanctuary

2012-01-10T16:34:00.003+08:00

I would like to ask for all of my dear friends to sign on the petition. Let's help the shark and it's not only for them but for us and our children in the future. They need at least 10,000 petitions and it's only 2,428 up till now. Come, let's join the petition! And spread this news to the others as well (",).

NOTE : The article below was copied from HERE.

A third of all shark species are nearly extinct and some species of sharks such as the Hammerhead have declined by up to 90% in the last 50 years. Semporna is home over 83 Islands, including the world famous dive destinations of SIPADAN and MABUL. The Semporna Sea is also home to many species of shark from the extremely rare and elusive Borneo and Hammerhead shark to the largest fish in the sea, the graceful whale shark. Sharks are an apex predator and have been around for over 400 million years and have maintained prey diversity and shaped the coral reef systems into what we see today, without them the marine biodiversity as we know it would collapse. Sharks are being systematically wiped out around the world and an extinction of many species is very likely in the coming years if current fishing trends and attitudes towards this beautiful and misunderstood creature change and change fast.

In Sabah and Semporna many species are encountered on a daily basis and we are one of the lucky places that can still say that we can 'prevent' their decline instead of having to 'reintroduce and rehabilitate'.

The Semporna Shark Sanctuary is a proposal that is run by a Sabah based NGO, and is supported by various governmental parties, the local community and the tourism industry. In the next 3 weeks this proposal will be presented to the state government. We have been informed that if we can give a petition with more than 10’000 names in favor of such a shark sanctuary it will go a long way to getting the sanctuary approved. It is VERY important that the Semporna Shark Sanctuary get the support of 10’000s of marine/shark enthusiasts from around the world as it will help show that dive tourism (in the shape of a shark sanctuary) can be a successful and sustainable way for the region to continually make money for the local community.

By signing the petition in support of a Semporna Shark Sanctuary you are not only signing for the future of these incredible creatures for future generations, but securing the health of one of the most bio-diverse marine eco systems in the world and the future economy for the thousands of people who make a daily living from eco tourism in the area.

Semporna is one of the last strongholds for sharks in SE Asia and we need your help to make sure it remains this way. Please take a minute to sign the petition and share it to your friends. Every signature will literary help save a shark!

I will be writing a short blog once a week to keep you updated on the progress of the Semporna Shark Sanctuary.

Thanks for all your support!

CLICK HERE TO SIGN THE PETITION

Umbilical cord abnormalities

2012-01-05T19:30:00.000+08:00

Through my reading on the net, umbilical cord abnormalities were among the usual cause of stillbirth. Sebelum ni tak pernah amik tau pun. There's a few types of umbilical cord abnormalities which are

Prolapsed umbilical cord
Monoamniotic twins
Umbilical cord length
Cord entanglement
Cord torsion

Which one that happened to Arwah Suri? Most of the people's reaction when I told them that Suri had complication with her umbilical cord will say "ohhh, tersimpul ke? ke jerut leher?". The answer is absolutely NO. Bukan itu masalahnya. Suri's having problem with umbilical cord torsion. The meaning of torsion is the twisting of the umbilical cord around itself. It is among the very common cause for stillbirth. Sometime it maybe untwisted back at the time of delivery. But however, Suri's cord torsion was a few inches long and it had blocked oxygen and blood to go into her body. That's the main reason of her heartbeat to stop.

Example of umbilical cord torsion

Suri's umbilical cord was similarly to the above picture. The torsion was a few inches and the cord nearby her "pusat" had been very thin and pale (refer to the arrow) because not enough oxygen and blood supply to her body.

Dr Siti told us that some baby is very active that they tend to twist their umbilical cord. In some cases, the cord will be untwisted by itself or with the help of the baby. Unfortunately for us, Suri's umbilical cord did not twist back to it's normal behavior.

Friday, 30th December 2011 - Dr Siti visited me again around 830am. "Diyana ok tak? Semalam boleh tido?". I just smiled and nod to her. She examined my stomach, stitches and B* in case if bengkak susu. Alhamdulilah takde bengkak sebab awal2 dah makan ubat berhentikan susu. I was discharged on that day itself. Dr Siti gave me painkiller, ubat to stop my breastmilk and also antibiotic to prevent any virus infection to my womb.

We went back to Selayang since my parents in law wanted to do kenduri tahlil after Isyak. Once I reached Selayang, my brother in law came to me and said "Suri cantik Diyana. Cantik sangat. Kulit dia licin, putih, bersih. Semua orang kata cantik. Sayang la tak panjang umur. Takpa la, takde rezeki kan. Try lagi nanti". I just smiled at him and said "Insya Allah Abg Ly". Than I straight away went into our room and slept for 3 hours without greeting anybody in he house. Ntah la, masa tu macam di awang2an je. Otak kosong. I felt empty.

I woke up around 5pm and went out from the room. My mother in law asked me to eat something as she's worried that my stomach was not strong enough after the delivery last night. While eating she came to me and said "Semua org kata Suri cantik Na. Memang comel Na, licin ja kulit dia. Tak nampak cam dah meninggal 2 hari dalam perut. Abah kata nampak cam dia tgh tido ja. Tu la, takde rezeki kan. Takpa la Na, jangan sedih". Again, I just smiled and said "Insya Allah mak".

Than the night came. Close families and neighbours were there. Everybody came in and hugged me. Each and everyone of them kept on saying "Anak kamu cantik. Cantik sangat. Tapi takde rezeki. Takpe la. Dia bidadari syurga. Nanti untung kamu dia tolong kamu. Jangan putus asa tau". I smiled and said "Insya Allah, terima kasih". Bila pikir2 balik. Memang betul. That's the only sentence that were uttered from my mouth that day. Takde perkataan lain. I only talked to Fariq and Hadif but to the others only "Insya Allah and Terima Kasih" that came out from my mouth. Alhamdulilah kenduri tahlil berjalan lancar.

Saturday, 31st December 2011 - I woke up around 830am and saw hadif and fariq by my side. I kissed hadif giving salam and wishing him good morning. Than I rubbed my stomach to greet "adik" as usual. I was shocked to feel my stomach was very small that morning, I even sit up quickly from the bed and looked closely to my stomach. In a flash of memories, all the incidents that happened last 3 days kept on playing in my mind. Sungguh, memang macam tengah tengok wayang je rasa kat depan mata. Than I laid down on the bed and cried. I cried unstopping until Fariq woke up and asked me why. Semestinya, saya tak nangis meraung2 macam dalam TV tu. That will definitely takutkan my parents in law as well.

I told Fariq, "Suri, Suri dah takde". "Takpe la cayang. Kita kena redha. Suri happy kat sana. Dia tgh main2 ngan kawan2 dia kat sana. Cayang jangan nangis". "Tapi saya nak peluk Suri sekali lagi. Lagi sekali je awak". Hubby than hugged me and at the same time Hadif woke up. So I quickly wipe my tears and greeted him. Tanak la Hadif tengok mama nangis. Not good for him. Once my emotion had stabled, we went out from the room to have some breakfast. We'll be going back to our home at Alam Budiman since all of my families were still there waiting for us.

Since that day, I didn't cried. I am so strong because of my hubby, Fariq is a very strong person. I am so lucky to have him in my life. Even my sister told me that during the funeral he didn't cried at all. He just smiled and while walking to the cemetary area he told my sister "Takpe, jangan sedih. Kat kawasan ni semua baby yang meninggal masa kecik. Kira Suri macam pege nursery la ni". Lagi laju la air mata Anati that time. Alhamdulilah, I had a very strong husband. Thank You Allah.

However, last night I cried again. It's the 7th day today and suddenly I felt sad. I missed Arwah Suri so much. "Cayang, saya tak sempat pun kiss Suri haritu. Ntah la napa saya tak terpikir. Kalut sangat masa kat hospital tu. Terus ja saya pass Suri nak bawa ke Selayang". "Cayang, Suri dalam perut awak 8 bulan. Tak kiss pun takpe la. 8 bulan dia dengan awak. Dah, jangan nangis". Ya Allah, harap aku dapat kekuatan sekuat suamiku ini. Today, I feel much better and hope this feeling last forever. I might cried sometime but definitely I will try my best to be as strong as my hubby.

That's the end of my story of our experience with Arwah Suri bt Fariq, sayang abah, mama and abg hadif. Hope I had shared something useful with my readers. However, I don't have the stories on how the funeral had taken place back than. Hubby had went through that experience by himself while me and Hadif were at KPJ Shah Alam.

To all of my readers, I am truthfully sorry that my few entries had been very emotional and some of you even cried during reading it. Sorry sangat2 and a million thanks to all the Doa and support. Memang saya appreciate sangat2. Ada yang saya kenal dan ada yang baru berkenalan. Thanks for dropping by. Hanya Allah dapat balas doa2 korang tuk saya, fariq n hadif. Semestinya saya doakan hanya yang terbaik untuk semua.

Saya bukan minta simpati and kesian. Cuma nak share my experience so that everybody know what stillbirth is and how umbilical cord problem may lead to fatal death of the fetus. There's a lot more on umbilical cord abnormalities but I just share on what happened to Suri. Tak mampu nak baca semua. Hubby pun tak bagi takut nanti wife dia ni stress time pantang.

Malam ni Khamis malam Jumaat, how I wish I may recite Yasin. Tapi tak boleh lagi. Insya Allah tak lama lagi boleh la. Dengar Yasin from Astro Oasis pun cukup la. Al-Fatihah to Arwah Suri, sayang abah, mama and abg hadif.

Stillbirth Experience

2012-01-03T20:42:00.001+08:00

Stillbirth Meaning and Causes

What is stillbirth? I heard once from my friend regarding this term but I never pay any attention to her story as it was a SAD story. I can assure all of my readers that this entry will be very emotional but kept on continuing reading as it is a very good knowledge for u guys. Of course my prayer will always be with all of you.

"Ya Allah, jangan kau uji sahabat2ku dengan pengalamanku ini. Sungguh pedih dan perit rasanya. Aku doakan hanya yang terbaik buat sahabat2ku ini. Aku redha dengan ketentuan dan takdir yang telah Engkau tetapkan untukku ini, Ya Allah.Amin Ya Rabbal 'Alamin"

Stillbirth is a process that a mother need to go through when her fetus that is more than 20 weeks died in her womb. It is the normal delivery process that everybody went through except stillbirth will be much painful and longer process since the contraction and the urge to push the baby is only from the mother. No cooperation from the baby like the normal delivery process.

Most stillbirth occur during full term pregnancies and the causes are largely unknown even extensive testing and autopsy had been done. However, in some cases the possibilities are known such as

bacterial infection
birth defect
maternal diabetes
growth retardation
high blood pressure
umbilical cord accidents - prolapsed umbilical cord, monoamniotic twins, umbilical cord length, cord entanglement and cord torsion.

Fariq's & Diyana's Experience of Stillbirth

Tuesday, 27th December 2011 - I was planning to take MC from the nearby clinic as I feel tired from our Malacca Vacation during the weekend. I realised that there were no movement from Suri. The last one was after Subuh prayer. My taught was I might be very tired and Suri as well. Usually she'll woke up after Zohor and start moving actively. However, during my Zohor prayer, there's no movement from Suri at all. Usually Suri will kick my hand during my Qiam. Started to feel not so good. I sms-ed hubby asking him to come home early as I wanted to scan Suri at our nearby clinic. As usual, hubby had been nice to me. "Adik tido tu cayang. Takde apa2 la, jangan risau. Penat g Melaka tu."

While waiting for hubby to come back from work, I did some activities that usually Suri will interact back with me. I even lied down on the floor so that I may feel Suri's kick. Tapi still tak rasa apa2. No reaction from Suri. "Ya Allah, kenapa ni? Suri penat sangat ke? Suri tunggu abah balik k. Jangan jadi apa2 la kat Suri." I taught to myself.

Hubby arrived around 645pm and we went to the clinic straight away. I don't want to wait any longer. The doctor did the scanning for at least 10 minutes. As she put the scan on my stomach, me and hubby saw Suri's heart and it was not beating as usual! Ya Allah, kau kuatkan hati hambamu ini. But the doctor took at least 10 minutes before breaking the news to us. Hubby did asked her much earlier "Tak jumpa heartbeat kan doctor? Saya tak nampak apa2 yang bergerak pun". The doctor replied "Kejap ye. Saya check betul2". The doctor did a few more round of scanning than she looked at my face and said "Puan, banyak2 bersabar ye. Baby dah takde heartbeat. Saya akan buat surat untuk Puan pergi hospital". Than I heard hubby said "Innalillahiwainnailaihirajiun". I didn't cried but I asked the doctor regarding the usual procedure on how to take out the baby from my stomach. While listening to her suddenly my tear felt unstopping. After that she went back to her table to do the referral letter leaving me and hubby to take our time in the room. Hubby told me "Nama adik Suri ye cayang. Takpe, jangan nangis. Suri tak ready nak keluar kat dunia ni. Bukan salah kita. Kita kena redha. Suri tak bersedia cayang".

We went straight away to KPJ Shah Alam to get confirmation from my Gynea, Dr Siti Esah. I was examined by the MO while waiting for Dr Siti to arrive. Deep in my heart I was hoping to see at least a little beat of my baby's heart so that Dr Siti may ceaser me that night and let my baby get some oxygen from the machine. However, the MO also confirmed that there's no heartbeat. We waited for Dr Siti for about 10 minutes. Once she arrived, her face was very worried. "Diyana, kenapa ni? Apa jadi? Saya dah check semua aritu. Diyana sihat. Baby sihat". Than I told her "Saya tak bleeding, tak jatuh, air ketuban pun tak pecah. Cuma last week saya demam. The whole family demam doctor. Tapi baby active cam biasa. Saya baru balik dari Melaka doctor. Family vacation. Sebab penat sangat ke?". "No, memang patut awak active towards the end ni. Bukan itu sebabnya. Takpe, we proceed with the delivery dulu. Awak admit esok pagi. Malam ni balik dulu. Diyana&Fariq solat sama2 dulu. Baca Yasin and baca apa2 yang patut. Sit, talk and adapt to the situation. I know it's hard. Esok kita jumpa".

We went back home. Hubby was very strong. He didn't cried at all. He kept on smiling to me and said everything will be ok. Luckily my sisters were here in KL. We asked them to take care of Hadif. Hubby called all of our family members. I can't do any phone calls or even sms. It's very hard for me to say or even to type into the SMS "Adik dah takde". It's hard. It's really-really hard to say or type that sentence. My family rushed from My Penang to KL that night itself. The news broke out quite fast. Uncles, aunties and cousins kept on calling me and Fariq. So sorry guys, I can't talk to u guys that night. It's all Fariq that did all the talking and answering sms.

It's almost 11pm when the phone stopped ringing. I hugged Hadif towards me and my stomach and lulaby him to sleep. I told him slowly to his ears "Hadif, adik dah takde. Esok mama nak keluarkan adik. Hadif doakan mama senang n selamat keluarkan adik ye". Hadif slept quite easy that night. After Hadif had slept, me and hubby performed our Isyak prayer and recited Yasin together. Again I cried while reading Yasin. Once we finished reciting, I saw Hubby wiped his eyes. Than I told hubby "Cayang, lepas ni kita dah takleh miss baca Yasin tiap malam Jumaat". Hubby smiled and kiss my cheek. We tried to sleep that night and it was hard to fall asleep.

Wednesday, 28th December 2011 - My family from My Penang arrived at 5 in the morning. We had some talked and my abah hugged me and whispered to my ears "U must be strong my dear. Pls sayang, be strong for Hadif". I almost cried but I kept my tears from my families. I don't want to add more worries to them.

We went to KPJ Shah Alam at 730am. Me and hubby did not talked anything about Suri that morning. We even had our breakfast at the hospital's cafeteria. We were acting as if we were having our checkup with Dr Siti and nothing happened last night. Once finished with our breakfast, we went to register ourselves for admission. The clerk asked hubby "Admit kenapa ni?". "Isteri saya nak bersalin". "Oh, ok nak amik package yang mana? Kami ada 4-bedded, 2-bedded and single-bedded package". "Hmm, anak saya dah meninggal dalam perut. Boleh pakai maternity package ni ke?". The clerk's face changed and looked at both of us. She than kept quiet for a while and told us that no package for case like us. So hubby told her that we want single room so that hubby may be with me all the time.

Dr Siti came to visit me at 845am. She told us all the procedure and process that we will go through. She did told us that it's not as easy as before since this time it's only me that will be pushing out the baby. Dr Siti induced me with Prostaglandin and she hope that I may deliver Suri by midnight. However, no contraction occur until 1pm. Families and friends kept on coming to visit me. Even hubby's colleague from his new office did came to visit us. I'm so touched with their visit. Hubby had just joined them last month and they were so nice to visit us. My parents in law were worried that no contraction occur and they had suggested us to opt for ceaser. Dr Siti had informed us earlier that she did not want to opt for ceaser since there's nothing to rush on. Nothing can be done to save the baby. The most important thing for Dr Siti is to give what is the best for me. Only me. I felt really weird when Dr Siti told us that. Only me? Ya Allah, baby dah takde. Again, I forgot or I was actually on my denial.

Mild contraction started after I performed Zohor prayer. While performing my Zohor, I was still waiting for Suri to kick me back while I was on my Qiam position. Ya Allah, mama terlupa lagi yang heartbeat Suri dah stop. Memang mama terlupa sayang. Dah rakaat kedua baru mama teringat Suri dah takde. Dr Siti visited me again around 515pm. The contraction was still mild and she added another Prostaglandin into my body.

Pressure come and go from our families. Most of the uncles and aunties advice us to opt for ceaser. Luckily we have Dr Anep from HKL, hubby's cousin. He and his wife dropped by around 3pm and again briefed us on the process. Again he told us and the families "Dah takde apa nak diselamatkan. Sekarang ni nak yang terbaik untuk Kak D je. So normal delivery is the best. Kalau boleh memang kami takkan ceaser Kak D. Melainkan ada infection dlm rahim". Alhamdulilah everybody felt better after his explanation. Betul la macam mama selalu cakap. At least, let it be one doctor in the family. Senang apa2 nak tanya. "Apa2 nanti Abg Fariq & Kak D call je anep k. Tak paham apa2 call je. Ada kan no Anep?". Thanks a a lot Anep and Tania. Appreciate your visit that day.

After Maghrib my water bag had broke. Dr Siti came again for another visit at 9pm since the nurse had informed her that my water broke. She checked my water and she was so glad that my water was as normal as it should be. Tak likat and warna hitam or hijau. She was afraid that my womb might be infected. The contraction started to get much stronger starting from 10pm. My abah, mama, sisters, Hadif and hubby were there with me. All of them were hoping I may deliver by midnight. The nurse did give me painkiller to ease my pain. However, the contraction had totally stopped by 3am.

Thursday, 29th December 2011 - Dr Siti visited me at 830pm. Her face was very worried that my contraction had stopped. "Diyana, takde apa2 lagi? Contraction terus stop ke? Takpe, saya bagi Prostaglandin lagi sekali. Ni last, if takde apa2 Diyana balik rumah dulu. The day after datang balik and we start all over again dengan Prostaglandin. Saya tanak opt Diyana for ceaser. Rugi nanti Diyana tak dapat pregnant for another 2 years. Don't worry. Baby takkan rosak or busuk dalam tu. I know how ur families will react nanti. Kita doa hari ni baby keluar ye". Me and hubby agreed to her advice.

The contraction started again at 12pm. This time, the mild contraction happened every 10 minutes. Hubby felt relief because it's a positive sign of me going to labour. By 3pm, the contraction become stronger and stronger. From every 10 minutes it lessen to 5 minutes than 2 minutes. Ya Allah, memang sakit sangat2 pinggang dan bahagian ari2 tu. It's worst than masa Hadif dulu. My mother in law even cried by my side. She can't controlled her emotion and my mom as well as my grandma also cried along with her. They can't bear to see me in such pain. My parents in law went back to Selayang after Asar. They wanted to do Solat Hajat at surau nearby hoping that I may deliver that night itself. Before my father in law went back he told Fariq "Kalau tak keluar juga esok potong ja la. Kesian kat Diyana". My families went back by Maghrib.

I tried my best to wake up from the bed and to have my bath. My mom said it's good to fasten the delivery process. The contraction was every 2 minutes at that time. Than hubby performed Maghrib prayer and after that he whispered to my stomach "Adik, keluar la. Kesian kat mama. Rumah baru adik dah siap. Abah dah suruh org buatkan. Adik keluar ye. Kesian mama". In such pain, I almost cried. Than around 920pm I felt the urge to push but I'm not sure since I can't feel anything from the inside. Fariq called the nurse and the nurse did some checking and memang betulla dah nak keluar. Tak sempat nurse sampai I felt like Suri's leg had come out. I tell the nurse "Saya rasa dah keluar la". "Belum lagi Puan. Mengiring Puan, mengiring. Tarik nafas kuat2. Jangan meneran lagi. Kita pege labor room sekarang juga". They pushed me quickly to the labor room and once I reached the labor room, I had another strong push without waiting any signal from the nurse. At that point of time I felt Suri's body had come out and left only her head. With the 3rd push, Suri was delivered.

I looked at hubby and asked "Girl ke cayang?". "Ye cayang. Girl cayang, girl. Suri". The nurse asked me "Puan nak tengok ke?". I answered "Nak, boleh ke saya nak tengok?". The nurse brought Suri's body to me and I hold her hand and called her name "Suri, anak mama. Cayang, muka Suri sama macam Hadif". That's the first thing that I told hubby. Than the nurse brought her for weighing and other procedure. Her weight was 1.3kg. Hubby followed the nurse and come back to me "Suri cantik awak. Lengkap semua cayang. Takde kurang apa pun. Muka sama macam Hadif". After examined Suri, the nurse called hubby. "Encik, anak Encik ni problem dengan tali pusat. Oxygen dan darah tak dapat masuk dalam badan dia. Itu punca kematian". The nurse showed us the umbilical cord and at the same time Dr Siti arrived. Yup, I delivered Suri tak sempat tunggu Dr Siti. Dr Siti did some stitching to me and further examined myself so that I'm really OK.

Once finished examining me, Dr Siti checked Suri and confirmed that the umbilical cord abnormality was the cause of death. "Diyana, semua ok dengan baby cuma tali pusat je problem". "Tali pusat problem tu kenapa doctor? Salah saya ke? Sebab saya active ke? Salah makan ke? Angkat berat ke?". "No no, it's not your fault. Certain baby memang active berpusing". I kept quiet than Dr Siti asked me "Diyana ok ke? Nanti saya bagi Diyana painkiller ye. Diyana boleh tidur tak malam ni? Nak ubat tido?". "Takpe doctor. Saya ok. Tanak ubat tido. Doctor, boleh kasi saya ubat berhentikan susu?". The doctor agreed and she went out do settle the documentation so that hubby may report to the police station and get permit for kebumi.

Once the doctor finished with the documentation, hubby came "Cayang, saya pege buat police report eh. Cayang ok ke sorang2 kat sini?". "Ok, takpe. Pege la settle dulu hal Suri". I was left inside the labor room with Suri. I felt so lonely and so quiet. I didn't hear any crying from Suri. While waiting I update my FB; I guess I was still on denial at that time. A few minutes later the nurse came in getting ready to bring me back to my room. The nurse asked me "Puan nak pegang baby?". "Boleh". Suri was on my arm from the labor room to the room I was admitted. Memang pelik Suri dah siap berbalut semua tapi I didn't cried or felt anything that time. I just hugged her tightly in my arm. Once we reached the room, my families was already there. The took Suri from my arm getting ready to take her to Selayang. I hold her for the last time before passed her to my grandma. "Bye Suri. Nanti mama pege ziarah Suri ye lepas pantang". My families almost cried but they quickly hide their tears from me.

I didn't cried at all that night. My heart felt empty. Hadif and my sisters accompanied me at the hospital while hubby and other members of my family were busy with Suri's funeral the next day. It had been a very long entry. I'll continue again with some picture of how Suri's umbilical cord abnormalities and also how I reacted 2 days after my denial on my lost of my baby.

Goodbye 2011, Welcome 2012

2012-01-01T15:00:00.001+08:00

2011 was among the not-so-good year for me and hubby. There had been a few challenges and bad things happened to us. Among them were

1. Hubby and me was having problems with our office. Macam2 hal la. Both of us had new boss and we were adjusting ourselves with our new boss. Memang susah!

2. Hubby, me and hadif had been sick all the year. It's either flu, food poisoning and the worst will be viral fever. Hadif had been admitted to SJMC due to viral fever on March. Fariq had to do full blood test due to on and off fever continuously throughout a month in May. When July ended, I had been admitted to KPJ Shah Alam due to food poisoning+bad nausea.

3. Our new home sweet home nearly been robbed during our 3 nights back to My Penang. Alhamdulilah nothing happened as we were already back home on the night they tried to get into our home.

I was hoping for 2011 to end nicely
as we really pray to Allah that 2012 to be a better year for us.

1. Hubby had new permanent and secured job at new place. Alhamdulilah. Mesti rezeki "adik"; we taught to ourselves.

2. I had adjusted very well with my new boss. We had a few main projects together and I hope it's a good beginning of 2012.

3. The most awaited gift from Allah; "adik Suri" in our lives on February.

4. Insya Allah we planned for housewarming, kenduri kesyukuran and kenduri aqiqah once my confinement finished.

5. We had planned for our own family vacation. The only 4 of us to round the east coast starting from Pahang, Terengganu and ended with Kelantan.

However, Allah The Al-Mighty had greater plan and test for us when 2011 was really towards it's end. We had added another entry into our 2011 list. We lost "adik Suri" in my womb. Her heartbeat suddenly stopped. I had to stillbirth her and Alhamdulilah Arwah Suri was delivered on the best night of all; Khamis malam Jumaat; 935pm.

It's really a HUGE test for me and hubby. Insya Allah i'll blog about my experience in my next entry. It will be the hardest entry in my life but I wanted to do it so badly. It's a memory of me, hubby and Arwah

Today, 1st January 2012, embarked a new year for us. I pray to Allah that Fariq bin Abdullah, Diyana bt Halim Khoo n Hadif bin Fariq will have a better and fresh year ahead. Suri bt Fariq; sayang abah, mama & abg hadif will always be in our heart forever and ever. Al-Fatihah.

WW : budak demam

2011-12-21T14:59:00.002+08:00

My GentleBoy (",)

2011-12-15T17:13:00.000+08:00

Incident 1

We were having our dinner at Murni Discovery USJ. We ordered ribena special and ais kosong. Since ribena special is a blended drink so the straw is quite big for hadif to sip. I give him my ais kosong's straw (the normal size straw). Than I drank my ais kosong directly from the glass.

Hadif : Ammma, nah amik ni (giving me back the normal size straw).

Me : Takpe la. Hadif pakai la.

Hadif : Ammmaaaa! Amik ni. Minum! (mata sampai terbeliak konon2 marah) haha.

Me : (Take the straw n continue drinking my ais kosong. At the same time was looking at hadif. haha, kesian dia. bersungguh2 sedut straw besar tu tp tak dapat2 ribena special. than i gave back my straw to him) Takpe hadif. Kita tukar straw. Hadif amik yang kecik. Mama amik yang besar ni.

Hadif : (looking at me changing our straws and he make sure that I may sip my ais kosong with the big straw than only he continues enjoying his ribena special)

Me : (ahhh, my boy :) - melting. huhu)

Incident 2

Hubby & Hadif were watching their favourite Dragon Ball cartoon. Me going out to hang the washed clothes. Suddenly I heard Hadif ran out to me.

Hadif : Ammaaa :) (greeting me as usual. than he walk to the gate to check if it was lock. than he patiently wait beside me)

Me : Nape hadif tak tengok Dragon Ball? P la tengok ngan abah kat dalam.

Hadif : (kept quiet without saying anything)

Me : Takpe, kan dah buka lampu ni. Lagipun gate dah lock. Hadif p la tengok. Nanti once mama finish hanging all these clothes mama masuk. Tak bahaya la. Ni kan kawasan rumah kita.

Hadif : Ok (ran as fast as he can so that he didn't miss his Dragon Ball).

Me : (ahhhh - melting again. huhu)

Incident 3

Me, hubby and Hadif were watching MasterChef Malaysia. One of the contestant cooked some sort of very delicious dessert (lupa apa nama dessert tu). hehe.

Me : Ishh, sedapnya awak. Bila nak buat kat saya? Hehe. (was teasing hubby)

Hubby : Awak la buat. Dessert kan department awak.

Hadif : (suddenly ran to the TV. pinch the LCD screen and ran back to me) Ammaa, nah makan. Sedap tak?

Me : Waaaa, hadif bawa keluar makanan dari TV tuk mama ke? hahahaha. (dalam hati melting lagi!)

Incident 4

When I was on my 1st trimester with "adik", I vomitted sometime at 3-4am. Once a while, Hadif did realised that I was not beside him and was vomitting in the toilet.

Hadif : (ran to the toilet and stood by my side until I finished vomitting. kadang2 sampai tersengguk2 hadif tunggu me finish vomitting. kesian hadif. huhu) Ammaa, maaa tah(muntah)? maaa tah(muntah)?

Me : A'aa la hadif. tak larat la mama.

Hadif : (than he'll hold my hand and take me back to our bed)

Me : (kadang2 I just sit beside the bed. malas nak baring lagi, kot2 another round of nausea came than boleh terus ke toilet).

Hadif : Ammaaa? ammaa atuh(jatuh)? Abahhhh, abahhhh, abaahhhh! Angun(bangun) la. Amma atuh(jatuh).

Me : (diam je. saja biarkan hadif kejutkan abah dia. huahuahuahua. saja dengki).

My only prayer is "Ya Allah, jadikan Hadif khalifahmu dan anak yang soleh supaya dapat menjadi pembimbing keluarga kami dan juga "adik". Semoga Hadif sentiasa dalam lindunganmu and rahmatkanlah hidupnya, Ya Allah. AMIN."

Yalla Beena Islamic Kids art&craft

2011-12-09T10:39:00.001+08:00

Still remember on my entry regarding hadif's 1st art craft at his nursery? ----> 1st art. Apparently, his Ummi Jah had been actively doing this art projects with them every week. Seronok betul hadif. Me and fariq too were excited to wait for him to come back with his art craft to show us (",). Dah boleh buat wall of art la untuk hadif kat rumah nanti.

Week 2 : Jam Tangan Ajaib

Week 3 : Lion Mask.

I guess so it is a lion. What do u guys think? Ummi Jah didn't label anything on this craft on her FB. So mama hadif pandai2 la bagi nama ye kak jah. hehe. However, unfortunately hadif had missed out this craft due to his Say Han E was in KL that time. Say Han E had brought hadif out the whole day for "A Day of Fun with Say Han E". Sampai kol 11 malam baru balik. huhu.

Hadif was so frustrated that he didn't managed to do this craft. It's shown on his face clearly on the day that the Yalla Beena Islamic Kids brought back this craft.

Hadif : (asking his teacher while she is giving each and everyone their lion craft). Adif nye aner? Aner? Cikgu, mane adif nye?
Cikgu : Hadif takde. Hadif kan tak datang aritu.
Hadif : Alaaaa. Ammaaa(mama), adif nye adak(takdak). Adif tak datang. Alaaaa.
Me : (deeply i felt sorry for him. kesian hadif. suka betul buat craft kat nursery).

Since that day, I told hubby that I'll try my best for hadif not to miss his art class at the nursery. Even mama tak sihat nak MC pun mama try hantar hadif. Tak sampai hati tengok muka hadif frust camtu. huhu.

Week 4 : Bag Antik

Hadif's akong was quite worried when I MMS-ed him this "bag antik" picture. Dia kata macam girl pula buat bag flower2 ni. Than I told him that everybody at the nursery do it. Even the older boys yang gagah perkasa tu. hehe. Nothing to be worry. The important thing is that for hadif to be creative and learn to do new things every week. Lagipun Abi Yan yang ajar hadif buat kan. Takkan la Abi Yan nak hadif jadi cam girl pula. hehe. I'm so happy with this bag. Jadi mama punya la ye. hahahaha.

Week 5 : Flower of Love

Oh, I was so touched with his art this week. Pandai and creative betul la Ummi Jah & Abi Yan ni. Boleh la buat hiasan kat meja study abah hadif (",). Eh, abah hadif ada meja study ke? huahuahuahua. Belum beli pun lagi. Baru plan to buy it end of this month. hehe.

Overall, I was so happy with all the crafts that Hadif did at Taska Yalla Beena Islamic Kids. Thanks a lot to Ummi Jah, Abi Yan and all the teachers for helping Hadif finishing his craft. Hope to see more in the future :).

WW - 1st ever!

2011-11-30T17:11:00.002+08:00

Apam Cute & Sedap

2011-11-29T10:33:00.005+08:00

Fariq's big brother was having kenduri doa selamat n bacaan yassin for his new home sweet home at Rawang last Sunday. I was thinking what should I bring for them. Nak buat cake ke? huahuahuahua. Absolutely a BIG NO to me. Than I thought of doing apam polkadot - the one that is so famous nowadays. Sampai hadif pun kalau pergi petronas nak beli apam polkadot ni dulu. hehe.

At first, I was so enthusiasm to do it myself. Tengok recipe nampak senang je. I told hubby and he agreed. Than hubby asked me.

hubby : awak nak buat berapa puluh?
me : 200 ke 300 ke. cukup tak?
hubby : ha? larat ke? tempat kukus kita tu bukan besar mana sangat.
me : oh, order la ye. (dalam hati - huahuahuahua. lagi daku suka.)

I started surfing the net on apam polkadot shah alam U*. Found out a few blogs regarding this cute apam but one of it had stolen my heart. Sungguh cute apam polka dot yang dibuat and the price range is very reasonable to me.

Cute kan?

I scrolled more into her blog and found out that she did not only do apam polka dot but others as well. She has cookie monster, ladybug, strawberry and the most cute one are the angry birds!

Cookie monster in variety of colors.

The one that attracted me the most! Angry Birds. Aren't they super duper cute?

I quickly make an order through email to her by ordering 200 apam polkadot and 50 ladybug for the kenduri. Adding to it, another 50 angry birds for me, hubby and hadif. Hehe. The price list are as follows

Harga apam polkadot:
50 bj- rm12 w/o filling & rm15 with filling
100 bj -rm20 w/o filling & rm25 with filling

Harga untuk apam corak2 lain-lain :
50 bj- rm17 w/o filling & rm20 with filling
100 bj -rm25 w/o filling & rm30 with filling

lebih dari 500bj harga boleh dirunding...
filling- coklat, kaya, peanut, jem strawbery, blackberry & nenas

Penghantaran
area sungai buluh (the store), Shah alam(giant seksyen 13) n kota damansara(giant) ..
cas penghantaran mengikut kuantiti tempahan..
yg hampir dgn nur kat seksyen U5 shah alam(Mah sing industrial park) Free..
Pos laju nur cas rm13 (sampai dlm ms sehari or 2 hari ikut kawasan) (penghantaran ditanggung oleh pembeli)

Since her house is nearby to ours so we just picked up all of the cute apams by ourselves. Once we got it, Hadif dah tak sabar2 nak angry bird. He kept on shouting "amaaa, nak bird. nak bird. nak bird." Hehe. Bukan saja hadif but me and hubby as well tak sabar nak rasa. The taste was superb n delicious. The fillings were also delicious. Not too sweet for kids. Boleh order lagi la after this.

So, for my friends that wanted something different for your kenduri, you may try out these cute and delicious apam from Nur. Memang takkan menyesal la :).

You may go to her blog for more info of these apam -> apam cute & sedap.

Note : Picture courtesy from Nur's blog. Tak sempat nak snap gambar apam sendiri sebab sampai je kenduri semua org dah attack apam cute ni dulu. hehe. Hope nur tak kisah ye gambar kena amik. hehe.

Beef Wellington

2011-11-23T11:43:00.000+08:00

Hubby is a BIG fan of Gordon Ramsey in Hell's Kitchen and I am a HUGE fan of the same person in MasterChef US. haha! Minat orang yang sama but in definitely different show and totally different attitude and personality of Ramsey. However, lately we had blend with each other very well. Sampai hadif pun tension whenever either of the show is on air. Me had been interested with Hell's Kitchen and hubby had shown his interest to MasterChef US. Hadif je la selalu buat drama whenever either one of the show started. Macam2 la dia nak. Nak air la, nak susu la, nak mandi la, tiba2 poo-poo la. haha!

Since than I was craving for Beef Wellington, Chocolate Souffle and Risotto. Ini sebelum pregnant lagi tau. Dah craving macam2. Surfed the net for all these recipes and it seems simple and easy to do. Tapi tak try pun sebab malas. Tiba2 last week rasa dah tak dapat tahan nak makan Beef Wellington tu. My sister told me that Equatorial Hotel had the best beef wellington but it will cost at least RM50 per slice. Fuhh mahalnya. Mana cukup satu slice. huahuahuahua. Than I decided to do it myself. Jadi bermula incident memasak beef wellington last Saturday. However, end up hubby yang masak. I had prepared all the ingredient, tiba2 dia lari masuk kitchen and take charge on everything. Huh, tak aci!

Recipe for Beef Wellington (Fariq&Diyana's style). There's a lot of recipes in the net. You may search which one u like most. For us, we had add and discard some of the menu according to our taste.

Ingredient : Meat, puff pastry, black pepper, BBQ sauce, olive, mushroom and salad.

Add some salt and black pepper to the meat and sear it on a pan. You may add other seasoning if you like but me and hubby just love the meat with only salt and black pepper. Once u had sear the meat on all side, let it rest in the fridge for 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, we can start doing the doh for the pastry. Since I was very lazy to do the doh, I just bought puff pastry from Mydin. Unfortunately they only sell the puff pastry in square shape. Jadinya kena la susun cantik2. Patut buat kemas lagi so that tak pecah masa bake in the oven. But I was too lazy that time. Otak pikir nak makan je. Tak cantik pun takpe la. hahaha.

Blend some of the button mushroom and cook it for 5 minutes with salt. Some of the recipes do add mustard and mayo to the mushroom but we did not add any of it since we're afraid Hadif might not like the taste of either mayo or mustard. He love mushroom the most for now.

Once the mushroom is ready, put it on the puff pastry together with the beef that we had kept it cool for 10 minutes in the fridge. You may also add egg yolk on the pastry. Just to add flavor to it. Other than mushroom, you may also add on chicken ham before putting on the mushroom on the pastry.

Than wrap the beef with the puff pastry. Buat cantik2 ye kawan2. Me&hubby sungguh malas that day. Actually we were in a hurry for our next activity - nak bawa hadif naik LRT Putra to Central Market. Hehe.

Cook it in the oven with temperature of 180 degrees for 20 minutes. Since we love the pastry to be "hangus-hangus" a bit, I let it cook for 30 minutes. But not everybody love it like we do. So you may adjust the timing according to your preference.

The beef wellington. Akibat malas and overcook, the pastry dah pecah2. I had expected this before putting it into the oven. Huahuahua. It might look ugly but the taste was superb! I'll try again next time. Kali ni nak buat pastry sendiri la. Tapi kena pergi IKEA dulu la Tn Fariq ye. Nak beli kitchen utensils. Boleh tak? wink wink wink.

Tn Fariq's beef wellington with egg cheese and salad. Memang kenyang. Sampai ke malam tak makan. Even after few hours of jalan2 at Putra LRT and CM, I still feel full. Itu lah penangan mengidam beef wellington. Puas hati sepanjang hari. hehe.

For the sauce, we just bought BBQ sauce from Maggi. Cook it for a while in the pan together with the button mushroom.

Beef Wellington from Chef Gordon Ramsey (picture courtesy from En Google).He took few years to master the skill of preparing the perfect beef wellington. I wonder how many decades do I need? hehe.

Fish, Bird & Chicken

2011-11-14T11:20:00.000+08:00

I love reading all the entries from Momma Oman, Mommy Faaz and Ummi Zahin&Iris whenever they did their work of art with their children. Cantik2 betul work of art oman, faaz, zahin and iris. Jealous aunty tengok tau. As for Hadif, I did some coloring and drawing with him too sometime but he seems not to like it so much as playing with his ultraman! Kalau main dengan ultraman, sampai esok pagi pun boleh. huhu. So, me as a mama redha je la hadif tak minat art sama cam mama dia. huhu.

However, my perception of him had totally changed last week when I took him from the nursery. He was holding a fish stick. He kept on shouting loudly towards me "ma, tengok tengok. hadif buat fish. ni fish, ni hadif buat." I just smiled at him with thinking hard in my mind "btoi ka hadif buat? mesti ummi jah buatkan ni. pastu tulis je nama hadif." hehe. Sungguh underestimate anak sendiri kan mama hadif ni. tak baik tau! Eventhough I had that feeling but I still proudly praise his work of art "cantiknya hadif buat. pandai la anak mama ni." He smiled widely and kept on asking me to repeat that sentence. hahaha. Hadif, hadif!

Than that night, I got tagged a few pictures from Ummi Jah regarding their art project at the nursery that morning. Oh, Im so touched to see hadif's picture. He did it by himself rupanya.

Hadif waiting in Q for his turn.

Yeay, it's his turn. Baik je muka kan. Macam tak percaya je Hadif behave that well. hahaha.

Gluing the eyes of the fish. Kusyuk betul dia.

Ok, what's the next step Ummi Jah? I guess, it should be the fin kan?

Taraaa, dah siap! It looks more like a bird or chicken to me. Tapi hadif beria2 kata fish. So ok la, fish pun boleh la juga kan.

Among their art works. Cantik2 kan? Pandai betul Ummi Jah ajar diaorg.

Hadif kept on holding his fish in the car sampai tertidur. hehe.

Me and hubby was so happy with his 1st work of art. Punya la bangga sampai nak frame fish ni. hahaha. Apa la mama&abah hadif ni. We know that of course most of it mesti Ummi Jah yang tolong kan. Tapi still ada hasil tangan hadif. So we were very satisfied with it. Harap2 lepas ni banayak lagi work of art yg hadif bawa balik from his nursery :)

Note : I know that I terlebih2 excited in this entry. huhu. Sorry la kalau ada yang terasa mama hadif ni over pula. padahal takde la besar mana sangat pun work of art hadif tu ;).

our "Abang" Hadif to-be

2011-11-03T16:10:00.001+08:00

I treat this entry as my very special diary for me to remember Hadif before he officially becomes "abang"; Insya Allah in 3 months. This entry also specially dedicated to my hubby and also "adik" in the future.

Me and hubby had planned to get pregnant once Hadif reached 2 years old. This is also because I wanted to fully breastfeed him without any hesitation and also to avoid any circumstances that may happened if we were to pregnant earlier than that. Alhamdulilah, Allah had granted our Doa'. I was 4 weeks pregnant when he reached 2 years old. But we didn't realized at that point of time. I even had a few working trip to Singapore and Thailand that week.

Hadif with his favourite magnum ice cream

We knew we were pregnant when "adik" was 6 weeks in my tummy. Once we knew it, we break the news to hadif by calling him "abang" hadif; just to see how he reacted. Sekali dia jawab "no no no no no no". hahaha. Abah n mama dah pening kepala masa tu. However, "adik" jangan risau tau. There's a lot of thing that "abang" hadif had done to show how much he love u later on. I'll put in here so that "adik" also may read it in the future.

The first 4 months of our pregnancy of "adik", I had very bad nausea and sickness. Bukan saja morning sickness but whole day & night sickness. I had been admitted to KPJ Shah Alam due to bad vomit and diarrhea. Our gynea, Dr Siti Esah told us that I had a mix of morning sickness and also food poisoning. Adoih la, camana boleh silap makan ni. That was the first time hadif slept without me by his side and without my B to sooth him to sleep. I was very worried that he might throw his tantrum to hubby but Alhamdulilah he had been very good boy and considerable. Hubby just need to lullaby him for awhile before he went to his lala land. Once he woke up the next morning, he'll wake hubby up "abah, angun (bangun). Jom g mama." Oh, I was so touched when I heard this.

He did also asked for my B at the ward but I told him that I'm not well and he can't BF anymore. "Adik" is inside my tummy. It's "adik" turn pula. He did some drama air mata but end up kissing my tummy. Kesian hadif. He had to stop breastfeeding immediately without any compromise at that time. Luckily for me that he did not make much fuss on it. Maybe because I kept on telling him "Hadif dah puas 2 tahun kan? Mama dah make sure hadif dapat 2 tahun. Bagi la chance "adik" pula k?". When we're back from the hospital, he did also asked for my B by whispering to my ears slowly. I kept on telling him "tak boleh hadif" and he'll answer "alaaaa". Adoih la, memang sedih sangat time tu but I need to be strong for the sake of "adik" in my tummy.

However, my sickness did not end once I was discharged from the hospital. It continued until "adik" was 4 months in my tummy. There's time that I can't even woke up from the bed. Hadif was with me all the time. His nursery was in USJ and hubby had went out to work by 630am. I really pity hadif that time. There's one incident when hadif was very hungry and he woke me up

Hadif : ma, ma. hadif nak acik (nasi)
Me : (i tried to woke up but my head start spinning once i sit on the bed than i laid back looking at hadif). Mama tak larat bangun lagi la hadif. Hadif makan biscuit ni dulu.
Hadif : (he nodded and ate 2 packs of biscuits.)

Oh, hadif dear. Sorry sangat2. Rasa bersalah sangat2 masa tu. A few hours later I managed to wake up and prepare his rice. He ate 2 plate of rice with ikan goreng and sup sayur. There's also 1 incident that I wanted to cook porridge for us. But I couldn't bear the smell of either raw fish, chicken or meat. I just cooked the porridge with salt. Again, without any hesitation and complain hadif ate 2 bowl of plain porridge. Beras+garam je ye kawan2. Without any meat or sayur pun. He kept on saying "sedapnya ma, sedapnya." and kissed me a few times. I nearly cried that time and quickly called hubby and asked him to buy KFC for hadif's dinner.

Hadif with his favourite satay daging

During the first 4 months also my families from My Penang had been going back and forth from My Penang-KL just to take care of me and hadif. Than 1 day mama suggested to me and hubby that he wanted to bring back hadif to My Penang for a week. At least if I were to take last minute MC than I don't have to cook for hadif. Hadif pun will be better there with superbly delicious food by his tok mama and tok nek. I had no other choice that time and agreed with mama. Luckily hubby also agreed with me. That was also the first time hadif was miles away from us for a week! It had been a very tough week for us. Alhamdulilah hadif was happy there but kept on asking about us each time he wanted to sleep. After a week, he came back to KL with my grandparents :). Hip hip horey. We could see clearly that he was so happy to see us. He wanted me to cuddle him throughout our journey from the bus station to our house. Once in a while, he'll looked at me and hubby for quite sometime. Maktok cakap hadif rindu mama and abah. Oh hadif, we too miss u a lot! Back at home, he never let us off his sight at all. Even pergi toilet pun hadif ikut. Huhu. It took him few days for him to let us go freely in the house.

Hadif playing with the swing at My Penang

My sickness did not get any better by Raya. We do not have new baju melayu and baju kurung but I made sure that hadif had a few pairs of jeans and shirts for his Raya. I had requested mama and my sister to buy him some. I was too weak to visit any of our realatives and our friends houses during Raya. Luckily we were at My Penang and my families brought hadif anywhere they went for Raya. I would really thank my sisters specially for this. Open house rumah kawan diaorg pun they bring hadif along. Hadif was very lucky to have Ghee E and Sayhan E.

Alhamdulilah all of my sickness went away on September, 10th, 2011 - my 30th Birthday! Allah The Al-Mighty had given me the best gift of all for my birthday this year :). Now, I'm much more healthier cuma kadang2 tu cepat rasa penat. Tu je la. I can play ball, do some drawing and coloring, play hide and seek and do other thing with my hubby and our cutie pie, hadif. Hadif was the happiest person of all for sure. We can see it clearly through his behavior. He had become more happy and cheeky by days. Insya Allah, I hope that he'll be a good "abang" and may accept "adik" once he saw his "adik".

Hubby and Hadif at nearby our house

To hubby;
thank you very much for ur help for house chores and everything during the first 4 months of our pregnancies :). Promise to be a better wife to you, Insya Allah. love u forever and ever.

To "adik";
mama, abah and "abang" hadif love u very much. kadang2 mama mungkin dulukan "abang" hadif in future nanti. "adik" jangan terasa. just remember that "abang" hadif dah dulukan "adik" even "adik" belum keluar lagi. a lot of sacrifices that "abang" hadif had gone through during your first precious 4 months in my tummy.

To cutie pie hadif;
we love you so much dear. no words may describe our love for u. thank you for being such an understanding son during my bad sickness before. i promise to be a better mama for u and "adik". hope that you may grow well and be a good caliph for us. AMIN.

Hadif gossiping with me. Dah mula nak bergossip dia sekarang ni tau.

note : perasaan macam2 sekarang ni. lagi 3 bulan je dah nak deliver. selalu pikir, will hadif be ok? will "adik" be ok? will me and hubby be ok? normal ke kawan2?

Studio Photo

2011-10-20T11:48:00.000+08:00

Note : This a B..A..C..K..D..A..T..E..D entry.

We had 2 slots of studio photo back on May 2011. The first one was for celebrating my youngest sister, Anati's convocation. The second one was for Fariq&Diyana's 3rd Anniversary. Both were taken at different studio but with the same concept ---> WHITE ROOM.

FOTOFANARTIC by ARMI ARKIB

I knew Armi and his wife Nuuril back than during our university years. I love to see all the photos that was captured by him. Rasa cam sama style ngan Tn Fariq saya. Haha. Anyhow, it was not Armi that captured us that day. I was a bit frustrated. But eventhough it's not Armi, it's his brother! Cantik juga gambar. Anati suka sangat2. Sampai melompat2 tengok gambar convo dia cantik. Haha.

Congrats Anati. Habis juga at last. hahahaha.

Meet the parents.

Meet the boyfriend, Nawi. Recently he just upgraded himself to fiance of Anati Khoo :).

Meet the 3 sisters.

Meet the "crazy" cousin, Adil Ridzuan.

Following the photographer's instruction. Ada gaya samarinda, gaya santai tepi pantai, baring suka ria and macam2 lagi la. hehe. Love them all!

The whole family. Parents and grandparents were very shy to pose suka ria like us before. hehe.

I love this photo the most! Maybe sebab Tn Fariq nampak handsome di situ. hahaha. Aci tak macam tu?

Overall, we were super duper happy with the service that given by Fotofanartic Team. Just like boboy boy love to say "T.E.R.B.A.I.K". Jadi, sapa2 yang nak amik studio photo tu boleh la try Fotofanartic at Taipan, USJ and student can get 30% off from the actual price. Lagi-lagi la TERBAIK!

SERINDIT PHOTO STUDIO

I purchased this deal from Milkadeal on April. Planned to have a family photo for our 3rd wedding anniversary. Price tak ingat la berapa. Rasa2 RM45 for 45 minutes kot. Eh betul ke sue? Totally forgotten about the price. Teruk betul la! Just a few months back dah lupa.

The photographer focused on Hadif mostly that day. Until the last few shots we told her that actually it's for our anniversary. Terus muka rasa bersalah. She thought it's for hadif. hahaha. Tak kisah la. Memang suka pun tengok gambar hadif banyak2 in the studio. Alhamdulilah Hadif cooperated well that day. We make sure he had enough sleep and milk that day. We took 11am slot as it is Hadif will be at his best behavior at that time. hahaha.

Most of the props were from the studio itself including our new son, Ultraman! Semua gambar pun hadif nak adik Ultraman dia ada skali. Ish ish ish.

Our first family portrait in the studio :). Love all of them very much.

Hadif's Room

2011-10-12T10:30:00.001+08:00

It had been months that me and hubby tried to finish off decorating hadif's room. Akhirnya tak siap juga! hahaha. There's still a few touch that we plan to do but have to wait for "adik" to come out. Kalau "adik" boy than have to think again how to put in 2 beds in the room. Kalau "adik" girl, ok la. Sorang satu bilik.

We tried to decorate his room as simple as possible. Making sure there's enough space for his lots and lots of toys and also for him to run around the room as fast as he wants.

Among the decoration in hadif's room. Most of it we already bought it since we live in USJ. Just imagine, camana apartment kat USJ muat semua barang hadif ni. hahaha. Memang penuh rumah that time.

From above left, upin ipin from Sayhan E, his books and McD's collectibles (most of it was mine. memang minat kumpul McD's collectibles since zaman anak dara lagi) and alphabet&asas jawi cardboard that hubby bought recently for him.

Hadif posing in his room. Kemas kan bilik hadif. Such a clever boy. Tak suka semak rumah. Tapiiiiiii. Itu semua lakonan semata2. What happen after half an hour later?

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Hahahaha. Ini yang buat mama and abah pening ni. However, we are very happy that he loves his room very much. During the weekend or during our leave, he'll ask either one of us to stay with him in the room. For him to play with all the toys and books. At least half a day! Sampai tertido la mama dalam tu. hehe.

We are DONE!

2011-09-19T16:42:00.000+08:00

English Translation :

The mothers shall give such to their offspring for two whole years, if the father desires to complete the term. But he shall bear the cost of their food and clothing on equitable terms. No soul shall have a burden laid on it greater than it can bear. No mother shall be Treated unfairly on account of her child. Nor father on account of his child, an heir shall be chargeable in the same way. If they both decide on weaning, by mutual consent, and after due consultation, there is no blame on them. If ye decide on a foster-mother for your offspring, there is no blame on you, provided ye pay (the mother) what ye offered, on equitable terms. But fear Allah and know that Allah sees well what ye do.

Malay Translation :

Dan ibu-ibu hendaklah menyusukan anak-anak mereka selama dua tahun genap, iaitu bagi orang hendak menyempurnakan penyusuan itu: dan kewajipan bapa pula ialah memberi makan dan pakaian kepada ibu itu menurut cara yang sepatutnya. Tidaklah diberatkan seseorang melainkan menurut kemampuannya. Janganlah menjadikan seseorang ibu itu menderita kerana anaknya, dan (jangan juga menjadikan) seseorang bapa itu menderita kerana anaknya dan waris juga menanggung kewajipan yang tersebut (jika si bapa tiada). Kemudian jika keduanya (suami isteri) mahu menghentikan penyusuan itu dengan persetujuan (yang telah dicapai oleh) mereka sesudah berunding, maka mereka berdua tidaklah salah (melakukannya). Dan jika kamu hendak beri anak-anak kamu menyusu kepada orang lain, maka tidak ada salahnya bagi kamu apabila kamu serahkan (upah) yang kamu mahu beri itu dengan cara yang patut. Dan bertaqwalah kamu kepada Allah, serta ketahuilah, sesungguhnya Allah sentiasa melihat akan apa jua yang kamu lakukan.

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When I started to BF cutie pie, my beloved grandma did asked me

Maktok : Diyana nak menyusu hadif sampai bila?
Me : Sampai hadif 2 tahun, tok.
Maktok : Bagus la. Sebab dalam quran pun kata sampai 2 tahun ja. Tayah la lebih dari tu.
Me : Ok, tok. Tapi diyana tamau stop drastic sangat. Diyana nak stop slow2.

Alhamdulilah, praise to Allah the Al-Mighty that I had completed breastfeeding cutie pie for 2 years, 1 month and 3 days. This wonderful journey had never been easy for us. Eventhough I only managed to fully BF him for only 15 months, I'm grateful enough to finish off the journey until he's 2 years.

When he was 15 months, his pediatrician had advised us to mix him with Pediasure since his weight and height were far away from the graph. He's not even on the lowest line of the graph of his age! Most of my friends and family members did told us not to worry as Hadif might be one of the late bloomers. But for us, that problem was something serious and we did not want to regret later in the future. Hadif pun bukan suka makan sangat at that time. So we assume that Pediasure was his porridge and food for him. hehe. He still BF with me whenever I'm at home specially night time.

At last, 21st June 2011 came and he's 2 years old! He didn't showed any sign of wanting to stop BF. I tried to talk to him slowly telling him that he's already 2 years old and need to stop BF. He did nod a few times but when his bedtime came, he refused to listen to me. Mesti kena BF juga to lullaby him to sleep. 2 weeks later, we found out that we're pregnant with our 2nd child. Had consulted my gynea and she told me that it's OK to continue BF hadif since I don't have any bleeding or dehydration problem. However, Allah have greater plan for us. I had very bad nausea and sickness. I vomited everytime after eating eventhough I only drink a little amount of water.

Due to to much vomiting, I was dehydrated and admitted to KPJ Shah Alam. Had 8 bottles of drip and 3D2N stay there. This was the first time that Hadif sleep without me by his side and without my B to lullaby him to sleep. Alhamdulilah everything went well. Hubby told me that he managed to sleep by himself. Cuma bangun pagi tu terus ajak pege jumpa mama. hehe. He did asked for my BM when I was at the hospital than one of the nurse told him that I'm sick and can't BF him anymore. He kept quite than he didn't asked again. Alhamdulilah, tak sangka senang macam tu pula.

Somehow these few days he did asked for my BM. He kept on whispering to my ears "ma, nak you(susu). cikit je". Alahai, kesian anak mama. I feel guilty at the same. But I have to be strong! I told him "tak boleh hadif. hadif dah stop kan". Than he'll kiss my belly and start to call "adik, adik". Alalalala, cair mama. Rasa cam nak kasi je dia BF balik. huhu.

I'm not sure if I'm going to tandem nursing him with his adik in the future. As of now, me and hubby had agreed to not tandem nursing both of them. I feel it's unfair to his adik. Insya Allah, hadif will understand satu hari nanti. Bukan mama tak nak kasi but hadif dah dapat 2 tahun kan. Bagi la chance kat adik pula ;).

Insya allah, I pray to Allah that HE'll give me and adik Hadif the same rezeki as he had given me and Hadif. A lot of improvement that I need to do this time. We learn from mistake kan? I really hope this time, I may fully BF until my baby is 2 years old. AMIN. Kalau tak dapat pun, cukup la sama cam Hadif.

To all the mothers who are breastfeeding their babies and to future mothers as well, good luck in your wonderful BF journey. I pray that Allah gave us the strength and rezeki for us to do the best for our babies. AMIN.

Hadif is TWO : Birthday Celebration in Penang

2011-09-14T11:25:00.001+08:00

We went back to My Penang on the 2nd week of July for a small celebration for Hadif with my family. Since they are busy and can't come to KL during the BBQ birthday celebration, we decided to celebrate cutie pie's birthday again in My Penang (",). hip hip horey.

The theme for that day was Upin&Ipin. Hadif's Ghee E helped me to order the cake from Secret Recipe. We ordered chocolate indulgence as the flavor of the cake since most of us love chocolate very much. hehe.

The sleepy belated birthday boy. He was sleeping when the cake arrived. I had to wake him up since all of us had gathered and I'm worried that the cake will melt. Habis la gambar upin ipin tu.

While we were busy cutting the cake, cutie pie cam biasa la. Busy trying to touch the cake and he succeeded! haha.

The whole family with cutie pie and the cake. Hip Hip Horey, Hadif dah 2 years old.

My mom had made steamboat that day. It's our favorite! And the award of "Siapa Makan Stemboat Paling Banyak" had been given to

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Tn Fariq dan En Hadif. hahahaha.

Hello World!

2011-09-13T02:51:00.001+08:00

It's been more than a month I didnt blog anything here. Had been not well since July and alhamdulilah Im getting better by day now :).

Most of you who are my FB friends might already know why. Just to clarify everybody...jeng jeng jeng...

Yup, we're pregnant with our 2nd child! Hadif dah nak jadi abang. Hehe. I had bad nausea & morning sickness this time. Sampai tahap rasa tak nak pregnant lagi after this pun ada. But who are we to deny Allah's rezeki in the future kan?

There's a lot of pending stories to share. Even celebration birthday hadif kat penang pn tak update2 lagi. Will do it soon before I start forgetting. Asyik lupa je skang ni.

p/s : to all of my lovely friends, sorry lama dah x drop by at ur blog. Penangan 1st trimester kali ni mmg dahsyat. I had nearly a month of MC and leave. Anyway, im back! Banyak kena baca update korang ni. Rinduuu tau.

L.O.V.E

2011-08-01T23:22:00.014+08:00

I received this video from him few weeks before the "merisik" ceremony.

Quoted from him (",). He's not a romantic person at all but sometime, he is! Love you cayang.

"Jika kamu mencintai seorang pemuzik maka dia akan mengarangkan sebuah naskah lagu yang indah untuk kamu. Jika kamu mencintai seorang pelukis maka dia akan mengabadikan portrait kamu seagong Mona Lisa. Dan jika kamu mencinta seorang hartawan ternama maka dia akan pasti menzahirkan cintanya pada kamu dengan membina sebuah istana seindah Taj Mahal.

Tapi aku bukan seorang pemuzik hebat seperti M. Nasir maka aku tak tahu untuk meciptakan senaskah lagu untuknya. Aku bukan seorang pelukis yang mampu mengabadikan potraitnya sebagai maha karya Leonardo Da Vinci. Dan aku juga bukan seorang Shah Jahan yang bisa menyusun bata menjadi istana semegah Taj Mahal. Aku cuma seorang manusia yang ada sedikit kelebihan dan keistimewaan dan aku cuma tahu menggunakan apa yang aku ada untuk dipersembahan kepadanya."

Hadif is TWO : our BBQ party celebration

2011-07-04T14:15:00.000+08:00

It supposed to be a house warming + hadif's 2nd celebration party but due to my workload last month, I totally forgot to plan about it. Until the 2nd week of June, my friend asked me on hadif's birthday celebration. Baru teringat! Than kalut la tempah cake, beli barang n budget for a small BBQ party celebration.

I wanted to fill up our living room with balloons but hubby didn't agreed with it. So I just bought 2 most hadif's favourite cartoon character at Shah Alam Market. Wanted to buy Upin Ipin as well. Tapi cam dah lari tema lak. We don't have any theme actually but since he really loves Ultraman so we make it as a Superhero BBQ-Birthday Party (",).

Hadif eating his Cake-Pop birthday cake present from Pinkovencakes. Again, thanks Kak Maji. Hadif suka betul cake-pop tu. hehe.

We started our BBQ after Maghrib prayer. Eventhough the guests had arrived much earlier, tapi tuan rumah tak siap2 lagi. hahaha. sorry ye Cik Sue and families. It was a small celebration for hadif together with our close families. Me and hubby had marinated chicken, beef and lamb a day before the BBQ. Konon2 lagi lama marinate lagi sedap la. Hehe. Other than that, mak also had cooked laksa to add up the our BBQ menu.

Among the guests that day. Thanks a lot for coming and helping guys. And thank you so much for the presents as well. Hadif suka sangat2. Senyum2 je dia bila buka present tu.

After the eating the BBQ than it was the cutting cake ceremony. I ordered the cake from Kak Maji, pinkovencakes. Absolutely delicious. Mesti cuba kalau dok dekat2 USJ ni. FYI, we celebrated hadif's birthday 2 days earlier than his date of birth. But since he was born on Father's Day, so I made the decision to celebrate his birthday on the same day as Father's Day as well. So this small party was also a celebration for hubby as well. Happy Father's Day, cayang. Love you. Muah muah muah.

Hadif cutie pie, Happy 2nd Birthday sayang! Hope you enjoyed your day that night. Moga jadi anak yang soleh, dengar kata and yang penting jangan degil tau!

Hubby darling, Happy Father's Day! You are 1 of the coolest abah in the world! Muah muah muah.

Hadif is TWO : Innocent Murmur

2011-06-27T17:00:00.001+08:00

Continuation from my previous entry.

Dr Angelina : His flame banyak la my dear. I'll give him nebulizer after this. Are you ok with it?
Me : Anything that is best for him, doctor.
Dr Angelina : Hmm, 1 more thing. Do Dr Sanjay ever mention to you that he heard a murmur sound at hadif's heart?
Me : Never.
Dr Angelina : OK, Is it ok if I'll schedule for an appointment with the pediatric cardiologist tomorrow? The cardiologist will only be here ONLY on Tuesday and Friday evening only. Which day that you prefer?
Me : Tomorrow. But what is a murmur?
Dr Angelina : It is a sound that the blood made whenever it circulate into the vein but nothing to worry because I'm pretty sure that hadif is only having an innocent murmur.
Me : Should I be worry?
Dr Angelina : We'll wait for the cardiologist to check OK.
Me : How to spell murmur doctor?
Dr Angelina : M.U.R.M.U.R. Oh, no no! Don't you goggle about it. You'll read all sort of thing that will make you worry. Just search for innocent murmur. Don't stress yourself diyana, remember that tomorrow is his birthday.

What is MURMURS?
It is actually the sound of the blood flow in the vein that is loud enough to produce audible noise that can be heard by using a stethoscope.

What is INNOCENT MURMURS?
This is the most common murmurs that can come and go during childhood. It is normal and 50% of the children may have it specially when they are having fever or not feeling well. However, some of the children may have it until they grow older and stay with them forever.

Innocent murmurs is not harmful at all. It is only the sound of normal blood moving through a normal heart in a normal way. For example, it is similar to the sound of the water moving through a pipe. It also means that children with innocent murmurs do not have any problem with their heart. Their heart may function as usual and they do not need any special treatment or medication. They are just like other children only that their blood movement may be heard.

Why am I so worried?
Even though Dr Angelinia told me that the possibility of hadif having innocent murmur is high but I'm still worried! Through my reading, (itu la, Dr Angelina dah kata jangan google kan. tapi degil mama hadif ni.) murmurs sound may lead to heart defects. Some of the symptoms of children that have heart defects are

1. Rapid breathing - yes, hadif do have it whenever he's coughing or whenever he's thinking hard to do a puzzle of game in my iphone.
2. Difficulty feeding - alhamdulilah, hadif don't have this problem. He never refused my milk and never vomited after each feeding.
3. Blueness in the lips - hadif has it sometime whenever he bath for more than 15 minutes in his tub. since he is a thalassemia carrier, so this is normal since the oxygen didn't flow very well in his body.
4. Failure to thrive - absolutely yes! his weight and height development is quite slow since he's 10 months old. I guess, this is among the reason that Dr Angelina wanted him to see the pediatric cardiologist.

Hadif had 3 out of 4 symptoms above! Macam mana mama & abah tak risau. However, we only can DOA for the best and hope for ONLY good news from Dr Rosalie, pediatric cardiologist on his 2nd birthday.

Happy 2nd Birthday, Hadif!
It's 21st June 2011 and hadif's 2nd birthday! Both me and hubby went to work that morning and took half day after lunch. Our appointment with Dr Rosalie was at 3pm. We were called for examination at 330pm. At first, Dr Rosalie examine hadif's with her stethoscope and she told us that his murmurs sound was quite visible and can be heard clearly. So she had to check hadif using the ECG machine.

She had given hadif most of the toys for him to stay calm throughout the process. I was hoping that hadif may cooperate well so that Dr Rosalie may check properly.

I was teaching Hadif on how to use the toy. Hoping that it may interact him while Dr Rosalie scan his heart.

The process took for half an hour and alhamdulilah hadif cooperate well with Dr Rosalie throughout the process. He kept on playing with the toys that Dr Rosalie gave him and he even sometime look on the screen to see his heart beating :). Dr Rosalie even sing to him nursery rhymes and when I told her that hadif's love Itsy Bitsy Spider, she kept on singing that song repetitiously. She end up called hadif "the itsy bitsy spider boy". hehe.

Eventough Dr Rosalie kept on entertaining hadif throughout the examination, but she was very serious with ECG monitor. She didn't move his head at all from the screen. He kept on checking hadif's heart from different angle including his throat as well. After half an hour, Dr Rosalie told us that there's nothing wrong with his heart. The blood flow and circulation are normal and his heart is normal and active as other normal children. Both of us were so happy to hear that. The best birthday present given to us by Dr Rosalie (",). Alhamdulilah sangat2.

We had an appointment with Dr Angelina in another 2 weeks and we'll see if the innocent murmur is still there. Harap2 dah hilang la. If it's still there than hadif is one special kid as his Mama Sue told me just now. Betul juga tu. Never thought of that way before :). Thanks sue.

Apa2 pun we would like to thank Allah for his blessing to hadif. May hadif grow well and always in pink of health. AMIN.

My next entry will be Hadif is TWO : our BBQ party celebration.

p/s : dah macam blog famous amos pula nak bagi hint2 next entry. hahaha. perasan ja mama hadif ni.

Hadif is TWO : his birthday eve

2011-06-24T18:00:00.000+08:00

Hadif started his cough on the morning that I need to fly to Bangkok. I had a very strong feeling that cutie pie will be sick during my day trip there. It's either the motherly instinct or I prefer to blame to my BAD feeling. Dah macam mendoakan anak sakit pula. Alhamdulilah Hadif did not have any fever that day but hubby told me that his cough had became worst.

We arrived home at midnight and I straightaway had my bath and plan to have a good night sleep. I was dreaming on what recipe should I use for my BBQ party on Sunday when suddenly Hadif cried for milk. While bringing him towards me, I felt his head was very warm. I quickly woke hubby up and asked for our digital temperature. Hadif had fever with temperature of 38.5! Phew, luckily he cried for milk. If not, I will be still dreaming on the recipe and not knowing hadif had quite a high fever.

Alhamdulilah hadif did not have any fever after that but his cough and running nose was very BAD. Hubby told me that he ate 1 prawn for dinner. As expected! Hadif is allergic to seafood just like me and hubby (tapi hubby tanak mengaku. huhu.) I just gave him the usual medicine that Dr Sanjay had given us before. Yes, mama hadif memang suka buat stock. hehe. However, his cough and running nose did not go away that easily this round. It's my fault as well that I did not controlled him from taking ice. Dah buat bbq kan, memang asyik ulang minum air ais je la budak kecil itu!

Again, he had fever on Monday morning and he had difficulty in breathing that night. I tool EL last monday and took him to see Dr Sanjay. Unfortunately Dr Sanjay was on leave so we were transfered to Dr Angelina.

As usual, hadif is very happy to go to SJMC. Haippp, nak kena tau dia. Tiap kali g SJMC baru nak baik. The above picture, he was looking at a newborn baby breastfeeding with his mom. He kept on whispering to me "ma, baby you (susu)." When I asked him "hadif nak baby tak?" than he quickly replied "Nooooo." hahahaha.

We waited quite long since Hadif's record was stuck at level 1 for no reason. Since this is the first time hadif visiting Dr Angelina, she need to know more on hadif's medical history. Once we met her, she quickly asked for me, hubby and hadif's medical record before she examined hadif. Alhamdulilah, there's no wheezing sound in her lung but the flame was so much in it. Hadif had to use the nebulizer again and continue with the medicine that Dr Sanjay had prescribed before.

Again, hadif had impressed me and the nurses! He was very happy and jovial while using the nebulizer. Siap pegang sendiri tu! I'm so proud of u cutie pie. Even though it was his birthday eve and I was quite disappointed that he need to use the nebulizer but his smile and laughter throughout the 10 minutes had brighten up my day (",). Love u much, cutie pie darling. Muah Muah Muah.

After the nebulizer, we straigt away went back home and cutie pie requested for Cheese Burger from McD. Since he had been very good and very well behaved during the nebulizer, I assume that his request was something that I must fulfilled. After eating half of the cheese burger and fries, he slept all the way home. Kesian hadif. Must be very tiring since the nurse told me that nebulizer will supply hadif oxygen. Do you know that when our brain receive to much oxygen, we will be very sleepy and tired while if our brain did not get enough oxygen, we will start to yawn? I knew the 2nd part of the phrase but not the 1st one.

Alhamdulilah, hadif is getting better now. But Dr Angeline did heard something at his heart on that day which really made me & hubby worried about it. We need to see the paedatric cardiologist, Dr Rosalie the next day which was his 2nd Birthday! I'll tell u guys more on this in my next entry.

Fariq&Diyana

2011-06-03T12:09:00.000+08:00

24th May 2011 was our 3rd wedding anniversary. Again, Happy 3rd Anniversary to my dear cayang (",). It's quite a backdated entry since we had encountered so much obstacles and not-so-good health condition since last Wednesday. Alhamdulilah we had settled most of the thing and we're back to work! Insya Allah, I'll blog about it later.

Since we were busy with our new house, I have no time to search or plan for any surprise gift for him. In spite of that, Hubby had already given me the present since last month because he's afraid that we will be busy and he'll totally forgot about our anniversary. So sweet of you cayang and thanks for the gift :). Love it so much. Oh, love u too dear. hehe.

Hubby was totally right about the busy and forgetting our anniversary! Punya la busy sampai terlupa. Luckily I had alarmed it through my phone earlier (a week earlier ye kawan2.) So that, kalau terlupa pun still sempat buat last minute plan. hehe. We had a simple celebration at home with only the 3 of us. I bought a cake from Baskin Robin and also Dominos Pizza for our dinner that day.

The cake and us. I had forgotten about the flavor of the cake. I could only recall on something like "world chocolate". Is it true? Is there any flavor like the name that I recalled at BR? The cake is very small and sufficient enough for the 3 of us. It's full with ice cream on top and sponge cake for the other half below the ice cream. It cost me for Rm58 including the tax. For your info, this cake is ready made at BR, USJ Taipan. There's a lot of choices but I picked the best shape that may resembles our love and also the best flavor for hadif as well.

Since it was ourmy first time with BR ice cream cake, there's so much thing that I do not know. Luckily, I had an advisor from my friend, Nadia. Thanks a lot dear :). Some of the tips for buying BR ice cream cake are

1. Make sure u tell them on how long your journey will be. They'll be putting nitrogen ice in the box sufficiently according to our journey. In my case, I told them my journey will be 1.5hour. Padahal 45minutes dah boleh sampai. huhu. I just need to be sure that they put in more nitrogen ice so that the cake will hold on as the way I buy it. hehe. But if the journey is more than 1.5 hours, they'll definitely tell us the consequences of the cake to be melt.
2. There's a lot of shape for BR ice cream cake that are ready made. We just have to choose on the shape and flavor as what I did. But if we were to order specifically on the flavor and shape that we want, we need to order it at least a week before.
3. Quickly put the cake into the freezer once we reached home. But make sure we thaw it for 10-15 minutes before eating or cutting it. So that the ice cream is not that hard to be cut.
4. Jangan letak bawah fan! This was our mistake. It had melted within 5 minutes. We were capturing our picture with the cake when suddenly hadif shouted to us "cake, cake, cake". Hahaha. Cake dah melt la rupanya.

We had our dinner with Dominos Pizza before having our BR Ice Cream cake. Hubby had been craving for dominos since last week. Ye la, skang dah dok jauh. Dominos pizza pun tak masuk situ. Hubby had been saying to hadif "kita ni dok remote area la hadif. dominos pun tak masuk." huhu. Hadif as well is a fan of dominos pizza specially the olive. Nowadays, we'll ordered any pizza that have olive with it. Hadif will take each and every olive before eating his pizza.

Hadif and hubby enjoying our cake. Bukan main lagi nak makan sendiri.

Pusat Sains Negara

2011-06-02T05:42:00.000+08:00

Between me&hadif
Hadif : Ma, ma, mama, maaa
Me : Nape hadif? Hadif ajak abah la tengok TV. Mama nak kemas rumah la.

Between hubby&hadif
Hadif : Abah, iyahhhh (gaya2 bersilat & ultraman)
Hubby : Kejap hadif eh. Abah kemas bilik ni pastu kita main.

That was our dialogue for past few weeks with cutie pie. Pity him that we were so busy cleaning our house. In spite of that, both of us were busy with office loads as well. Selalu balik lambat than sometime hadif had fallen asleep in the car. So sorry cutie pie dear. Kesian hadif. He started to play by himself and sometime we felt that he started to create his own imaginary friends. Alahai. Ye la, rumah dah 2 tingkat than tinggal bertiga je. Hmmm, kena cepat2 plan for adik hadif ni. hehe.

We decided to bring hadif to see his most favourite creature of all - DINOSAURS! He had a book full with dinosaurs pictures and names since he's 8 months old. Hubby is a huge fan of dinosaur as well. Jadi tak heran la anak pun ikut. Hadif and hubby will look at that book everyday without miss it a day pun. Tak boring pula tu. Padahal ada 4 page je pun. hahahaha.

For your information, there's an exhibition at Pusat Sains Negara regarding these prehistoric animals. It started since last January up till end of May this year. The ticket is also quite cheap. Only RM10 for adult and RM5 for children. There also have a package of RM25 for families with 2 adult and 2 children. Discount of RM5. hehe.

There's a big aquarium at the entrance of Pusat Sains Negara. Hadif was so happy and couldn't leave that place for about half an hour. We tried to pull him bit by bit but he could notice what we were doing and started to scream "NOOO". Ishhh, dah gaya cam nak kena culik pula dia buat tau. There's a lot of fishes and most of it a HUGE and BIG. I didn't captured any picture of the fishes as hubby captured it using his camera. Jadi saya berposing je la. hehe.

After the fishes and aquarium, there's a hall that full with science exhibition and activities. Hubby and hadif had tried out all of the activities there. Berebut2 diaorg berdua tu. Hubby pun dah macam budak2 je gayanya. Ngan anak sendiri pun nak berebut main dulu. hahaha.

Than we went into the hall with huge T-REX and it's moving! Hadif was scared at first. He kept on clinging with hubby rather than me. Maybe he felt a bit safer with hubby. Mama boleh la relax that day. Than there's 2 mini halls with herbivor and carnivor dinosaurs. Hadif is quite at ease in the herbivor hall rather than the carnivor hall. Hadif pun dapat rasa yang makan daging. huhu.

Among the dinosaurs at the exhibition

Us with the dinosours.

Pusat Sains Negara had several mini halls. 2 had been occupied by the Dino Exhibition while the others were from Pusat Sains Negara it self. We than proceed to the Energy World hall. There's a lot of activites there. We had played all and enjoy ourselves since there's not many people there. Most of them were in the Dino Halls. We even tried to light up the whole city with turbine and air power. Penat tangan pusing2 turbine tu. hehe. There's a lot more halls and activities there but I was so busy doing those activities that I had forgotten to capture

And I have good news for my dear friends that want to bring your toddlers there. This exhibition had been extended until 12th June 2011. Have fun guys!

Our little "cikgu"

2011-05-20T14:30:00.000+08:00

We went to IKEA last Tuesday for some shopping and meatballs. hehe. Since my families were still here at that time, they asked me to leave cutie pie with them. Nak main puas2 dulu before going back to My Penang.

We had kept his Ang Pow for quite sometime and was searching for the best toy to buy for him. (actually mama&abah dah terpakai duit tu dulu. hehe.). At first we thought of buying him a study table and chair at IKEA but hubby had a thought of hadif climbing on that chair and table when we were not around. ishh, risau juga kan. We had to drop that plan and find other thing for him. After a few rounds and a plate of 10 meatballs , we had agreed on something special for him. Hope you like it dear :).

It's a blackboard! We were arguing on either blackboard or whiteboard for him. Hubby suggested on blackboard since it uses only chalks. Definitely hadif will not drew anything on the wall with the chalks. Kalau conteng pun takpe la. Chalks je kan. Boleh lap ngan kain je.

I preferred to buy him a whiteboard since it did not any chalks that may resulted on dust and hadif might had cough due to that. But the percentage of hadif to draw the wall with the marker is very high. So at last, I agreed with hubby to take the blackboard. While paying than I realized something. It's not EITHER blackboard OR whiteboard. It's a blackboard AND a whiteboard! hahaha. penat je argue td.

Hadif was so happy that he got both of it. Sekejap blackboard. Sekejap whiteboard. Apa2 pun, either abah or mama must be his pupil. That what he cares most. For us, we are happy that he love both the blackboard and whiteboard. Abah & Mama also happy because we got what we wanted. Fair enough! huhu.

Laurea Home Furnishing

2011-05-18T17:25:00.000+08:00

To be frank, we never budgeted for curtain before. The only thing that we were so busy budgeting were renovation and furniture. It only came to my mind when my beloved mama asked me "curtain nak buat kat mana? buat sendiri ka kedai?". I was like toing-toing-toing. I than quickly calculated our budget and put aside for curtain. Sadly, we have to slash out our budget for sofa for a while.

Our weekend had been more busier with this additional entry into our move out plan. Curtains had never been our best knowledge of all. Again, I'm lucky to have Sue and Sha. Without fail, they had thought me everything about curtains. Baru la saya faham apa itu rod, railing, and others. I even learn the terms of french plate, roman blind, goblet, etc etc etc. Memang memeningkan kepala. We had changed a lot of plan from just hands off everything to the designer or we do it ourselves everything. While searching for the best designer, we found this advert at our neighbour's house whom to be my ex-colleague before in Sime Engineering.

Tak sempat nak amik nombor. Laju sangat En Fariq bawa kereta. Terus snap je la. hahahaha.

Since it was my first experience with the curtain ID expert, I have no clue on what to ask and what to expect. She did ask me about my budget and how many windows are there in our house. My answers to all of her question were "tak sure la kak". hahaha. But she was helpful enough that she did some calculation for me to put into our budget. It come out quite a big number and I told her I need to think again and will call her again. As I mentioned before, she is very helpful and a very nice person. She even adviced me to survey on other shops that may suit better with my budget and curtain material/pattern.

We did survey on a few shops like Baagus, Elyza and some others that I had forgotten their name. huhu. However, the one that attracted me the most was from Laurea. Habis congak2, kira2 and tekan calculator berkali so we decided to go with Laurea with minimum amount of budget. We went back to Laurea than I told K.Shidah "kak, budget kitaorg RM* je tau. tak boleh lebih. sepuluh sen pun tak boleh lebih. kurang lagi takpe. lagi bagus. saya buat mahal sekali ni je. nanti lagi skali hadif tunang baru buat baru." hahahaha.

She did some calculation and asked me to choose the fabric. Very nice lady and I'm so lucky to get her as my designer. Maybe pitying us yang first time masuk rumah ni sampai dia kata "diyana pilih je mana kain yang berkenan. nanti akak tau nak adjust tuk diyana". hehe. Thanks a lot for your help K.Shidah. At that point of time, hubby suddenly suggested us to add on for roller blind at our kitchen. So, we have to add up a little bit more from our budget. Dah alang2 buatkan, kasi lengkap terus la. I was very conscious on how our curtains and blind will look like. Rasa menyesal pun ada juga. Ye la, sampai amik designer tu buat curtain. Orang lain buat sendiri je. But once they came to our house and pasangkan all the curtain. I was very satisfied. super-duper-double-triple puas hati. Sampai hubby pun kata "lenkali awak nak buat kat Laurea lagi pun boleh. puas hati la." Jeng jeng jeng. Bila boleh buat lagi hubby? hahaha.

And now, presenting our curtains and roller blind from Laurea Home Furnishing, Putra Heights. They do have new branch at Shah Alam as well :).

I choose combination of dark green and brown.

Brown with embossed flower design. I picked on blackout curtain since the sun shines very bright during noon at our bedroom. FYI, blackout curtain will prevent 100% light from coming into our room. Memang gelap sungguh. We tend to wake up quite late these days. Tak sedar kat luar dah terang benderang rupanya. hahahaha. Dalam bilik tu macam baru 12 midnight je.

Hadif's favourite curtain of all. He picked this design himself. Lucky him that the stock of this design arrived timely with our needs. Alhamdulilah, rezeki budak kan.

Guest room at downstairs. I love the sheers very much.

Currently, this is our 2nd guest room at upstairs. If hadif dapat "adik" girl, than this room will be hers. If "adik" boy, maintain la guest room. Hadif will share his room with "adik" boy. So, tengok la rezeki nanti camana ye.

Roller blinds at kitchen area. I prefer to put this kind of blind rather than the others. Easier to manage and the most important thing is it's easy and very fast to clean. Lap je ngan kain basah.

Those are the curtains and blinds at our house. This entry will be our sweet memories of our first curtains and blinds. Lepas ni memang beli kat kedai kain and suruh my mom jahit je la. huhu. My mom did offered to sew for us but since we don't have that much time and she's in Penang, memang tak boleh la. So, sapa2 yang nak pindah rumah tu, I highly recommend you guys to have a peek at Laurea Home Furnishing. Berbaloi2 rasanya (",).

Presenting....

2011-05-10T02:13:00.003+08:00

As I promised before, a little update on our new home sweet home. We didn't do much as the others. We only did the important thing such as kitchen, grill and some wiring for additional lights and fans. So, tidak la secantik mana rumah kitaorg ni. Luar je nampak gah sebab berbata merah. hehe.

At first, we were not so keen to do any plaster ceiling since hubby said there's not enough budget on that. However, after a few meetings with the contractor hubby had agreed to do so. Since the whole renovation was still under budget so we proceed with the plaster ceiling. We didn't do it for the whole house. ONLY at the living hall. Itu pun dah beribu. huhu. The contractor gave us an idea to put wood at 2 parts of the ceiling as decoration. Me and hubby felt in love with it from the first time the contractor showed us.

Kitchen was my favourite part of the house. hehe. Bukan terer masak pun ye kawan2. That's the only part of the house that I really take part in the renovation. Others, I'm not so interested. haha. We picked black n red as the theme for our dry kitchen. Felt in love with Izu's kitchen before. Terus angan2 nak kitchen macam Izu juga :). The material that we used for the kitchen cabine is acrylic. Thanks a lot to my dear friend, sha and his hubby on giving us advices regarding the kitchen and others as well. They had been our private consultant for the whole renovation. Kalau kat Penang mesti dah engaged Din as our contractor :).

There's a few steps towards our Dining Area. Since Hadif is still smal and he love to jump around the house a lot, we need to do a divider between the Living and Dining. We had surveyed a few design and hubby suggested to do just a simple half brick wall. When we told our contractor, he advised us to do 3 rectangle holes as above.

Alam Budiman's design do not have any backyard. The developer had designed the house to be fully extended with the build up of 2360 sq ft. So sapa yang suka bercucuk tanam tu tak sesuai la ye. We had build up another brick wall at our back. It's original was half brick as picture above. I planned to only grilled that area but hubby preferred to be fully brick. Luckily I agreed with him. If not, it's going to be a problem to me to cook and do some laundry at night time. Ye la, takut gelap kat luar tu. huhu.

Mainly, that's the only renovation that we did to our home sweet home. Itu pun dah berapa habis. huhu. But the main thing is we did not burst our budget. Itu paling penting. Among the tips that we tried to not burst our budget were

1. A few months before getting the key, hubby had been revising the amount of internal cabling and wiring for additional lighting, fan and power socket. This had helped us a lot! Most of our friends had burst their budget due to this additional cabling. Eventhough each cabling and wiring is only RM65-80, tapi kalau dah add up 10 new cabling and wiring, dah berapa tu.
2. We bought the fans and lights months earlier before starting the renovation. So, tayah la pakai duit saving for reno. We squeeze in our monthly budget for the fans and lights.
3. We add up another 2-3k for our total renovation cost so that in any case of emergency or if we need to add up anything, we have that extra cash.
4. We did personal loan for this renovation. Yes, we have to. A lot of money had to be used. Even buat simple2 cam kitaorg pun dah costly. Apatah lagi kalau hebat cam kawan2 yang lain tu. huhu.
5. Guys, don't ever forget about the curtains! Itu pun dah berapa tau. But if you guys are good at choosing the curtain fabric, rod, railing and others, for sure you can do it yourself. Since this is our first own home and we know ZERO about curtain, we took a designer from Laurea Home Furnishing. Memang mahal sket tp berbaloi2 rasanya. Furthermore, we don't have enough time for this. Nak masuk cepat kan. Tak larat nak bayar rumah sewa together with alam budiman. I'll elaborate more on Laurea Home Furnishing in my next entry. Memang sangat best!
6. Don't forget about tiny-little-things when we need to move - lorry (RM300), astro decoder (RM150), streamyx (RM200) and others. Ini pun dah nearly 1K kan.
7. Washing and cleaning things - as we just finished renovated our house, the house was full with dust. Luckily our floor are all tiles. Takde parquet langsung. I'm so happy for that. So terus jirus air+sabun and brushed the whole house. Takde la penat mop 2-3 kali. To buy these washing and cleaning utilities also cost nearly RM200. Sabun la, mop la, penyapu la, berus dinding la and bla bla bla.
8. Hood+Hob+Oven - since we're only using the normal stove at our rented house. We planned to have an organized hood, hob and oven at our new house. Luckily we've found Houz Depot as my precious entry and they do have a lot of choices and discounts at certain time. Do check them from time to time if you are planning to buy any. Dah dapat murah tu terus je grab tau.
9. Aircond! Eventhough I never thought of having aircond at our house but the developer had did the wiring for us. Nampak tak cantik pula kalau tak letak aircond kan. Terjuntai2 la wiring tu nanti. So we have to buy one for living and one for master bedroom. We bought the aircond at Houz Depot as well. Memang berbaloi2 and make sure you buy an inverter aircond k. For environment and cost saving as well ;).

That's the tip that I can only think of for now. Insya Allah, i'll add up if anything poop up in my mind later. I was skeptical to share these pictures in my blog before. Takut nanti orang kata menunjuk2 pula. But my dear friend, Sha insisted me on writing this entry so that I may read it back in the future. Kot2 la kaya raya and nak beli rumah lagi ke. hahahaha. And also I hope that my tips may helped the others as well. We were having so much difficulties while budgeting for our new house and reno. Alhamdulilah I have the help from some of my very dear friends. Thanks a lot Sha, Din, Sue and Pyan (",).

Lastly, these are my heroes that had helped me a lot during our move from USJ to Alam Budiman. Love both of you very much forever and ever. Muah muah muah.

BUSY as a BEE

2011-05-06T17:20:00.005+08:00

I was so busy lately. The office work had been continuously loaded onto my desk. At the same time, we had moved from USJ to Puncak Perdana. I'd been doing 2 jobs without stopping. Working with simedarby from 830am to 530pm than continue my job with our home sweet home from 7pm to 1am. Penatttttt! Had been dying to update this blog since last week but I had no time at all! So enjoy dulu pics our cutie pie ye. Update on our new house, tunggguuuuuu!

Hadif with his new twin brothers, Upin & Ipin. Kalau pakai baju ni jangan panggil hadif. He'll just ignore you but once u call Upin, dan2 la kalih tengok. hahaha. Perasan je tau anak bujang kami ni.

Love to play "cak-cak" at new house. Tau la rumah besar n kosong je. huhu. Bergema je suara hadif. hahahahah.

He was so happy that he got the curtain that he wanted. He picked this curtain himself. There's no stock left at that time and we had to pick the other one. When we told him, he was so sad sampai berguling2 kat kedai tu. ahahaha. Alhamdulilah, rezeki hadif. A few days later, the designer called us telling that the curtain that hadif picked just arrived. Ahh, just right on time!

We've MOVED at last!

our 22 months young boy

2011-04-25T04:15:00.000+08:00

This is a 4 days delayed post. I was extremely busy last week. Couldn't even write anything here and even hard for me to blog hopping to my friends' as well. Dah la streamyx kat rumah sudah dipotong oleh hubby. huhu. He wanted to upgrade into new line at alam budiman later.

Cutie pie turned 22 months last Thursday. We celebrate his 22 months young 2 days earlier with him having 2 Big Apple doughnuts. This month, the number 2 might be the lucky number for cutie pie. He also will be going to 2 years another 2 months. Dah berapa banyak 2 dah ni. hehe.

His progress had been very rapid this month. Among them are

1. He will follow the azan everytime he heard it and quickly asked us to get ready for prayer. Kalau lambat sangat mama & abah, dia sendiri solat dulu. Kiblat suka hati di mana2. Dalam kereta pun boleh solat kat atas mama k. hehe. I hope he'll be one of the good Khalifah in this world.

2. He started to be my parrot fully specially when we are laying down on our bed. Whenever I turn to my right than he'll follow. When i purposely yawn than he too will yawn. Than i tried to trick him by hitting my cheek. Sekali dia hit my cheek juga. Bukan cheek dia. hahaha. Hadif, hadif!

3. May follow Negaraku whenever he heard it. We were shocked when we heard him following the Negaraku song. He didn't get the full lyrics but he did have some of it and the melody. Such as tanah tumpah, hidup bersatu, majuuuuu.

4. Love to eat fried chicken and it must be a drumstick.

5. Eventhough we had bought him an expensive bath tub, he still refused to bath in it. He wanted to bath inside my "baldi" which i usually use for my clothes.

6. He has been using the chamber and ventolin puff since he's 6 months old. At that time, he had bronchitis. Since than whenever he had any cough and running nose, his paed prefer to give him ventolin puff and singulair rather than giving him cough medicine. Alhamdulilah this method really work for him. His cough and running nose will last at most 3 days only. Nowadays he's already familiar with the chamber and puff. Sometime, whenever he feel his nose or throat had some flame, he'll asked for the puff himself. But, hadif do not have any asthma. I hope he'll never get it. All these puff and singulair wwere given to him to prevent him to get any asthma since my family have the history of it.

7. He had watched his 1st movie. hip hip horey (",).

8. Had his first durian at USJ 14. Akong and tok mama mesti suka ni. Toksu "boy" maybe frustrated sket sebab takde pengikut anti durian. hehe.

9. And recently, he had done "silat" in front of us. He even did takbir first before starting his bunga. ahahaha.. ntah mana belajar pun tatau la.

Happy 22 months young dear. Our doa' and pray is always with you.

BFF Forever

2011-04-19T10:30:00.000+08:00

Recap of the precious entry;
Hadif was admitted on Monday, 7am, he was dripped and he slept from 11am till 5pm. When he woke up, we bathed him and he seems not in his good mood. I guess the long hours sleep had took away his mood.

Hadif watching Disney Channel while having his lunch cum dinner.

However, out of a sudden, his mood had came back tremendously! Can you guys guess why?

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His BFF had been admitted too on the same day!

Iman was admitted 12 hours later. She too had fever and her symptoms were exactly the same as Hadif. Pity them. Not sure if it is from the nursery or Hadif got it first and passed it to Iman. Eventhough hadif was a bit weak that day, he tried his best to play with Iman. They can't be parted at all. Iman balik bilik je Hadif nangis panggil Iman and vice versa. Buka je mata terus cari Iman and vice versa. Iman was not dripped on her first day so she had been visiting Hadif that day.

On the second day, hadif's dripped was taken off so that his paed may monitor his fever, dyrhea and vomit. This time, it's hadif's turn to visit Iman at her room. Eventhough they are bestfriend but they do fight a lot. Sampai the mama(s) pening dibuatnya.

Hadif was teasing Iman. He took Iman's doll and refused to give it back. Ishhh, buat malu ja tau. Dah la duduk atas katil Iman. Iman pula kena duduk kat bawah. Bikin malu mama je. huhu.

I have to pujuk Iman somehow. Since she love to pose in front of the camera, I took a few shots of her. She's one true model. Pandai sungguh berposing. Siap nak quality check dulu the pictures after each shots. While I was taking Iman's picture, guess again what was my anak bujang doing?

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He was playing with Iman's doll! Ishhh, siap pujuk2 kasi susu lagi. Geram betul la mama tengok.

Durian Fever

2011-04-15T12:20:00.000+08:00

If the youngsters are busy with Bieber Fever, the Fariq's were busy with Durian Fever. hehe. it had been more than 2 years we didn't had any durians. The first year, I was pregnant with Hadif. It was during my first trimester and my mama didn't allowed me to eat it. I just have 2 ulas of durian. Than the second year, I was on my confinement with Hadif. I just tasted a little bit of it when my abah bought it. Tak sampai 1 ulas pun! Memang penuh kesabaran tahan bau yang sedap tu. Dah la durian penang! The third year, I was still exclusively breastfeeding hadif. I tried not to eat durian because of the heat that might be passed down to Hadif. Pity him, he's just a baby.

Than the Durian season came again this year. Since I only BF hadif when soothing him to sleep, I wanted durian this year. Tak kira, nak jugak! When suggested to hubby, he quickly agreed and started to what type of durian that he wanted. But our plan had been postponed for a week due to our office loads and the raining at night. At last, we got our durians yesterday. We went to David Lim's Durian at USJ14, near the Petronas Station. Some of my friends told me that it's quite expensive at David Lim but his durians are the best in town. Since we didn't have durians for quite some years, hubby suggested to go for the best. Ini kes balas dendam la. huhu.

David Lim's stall. Hadif was so happy to see the durians for the first time. He even tried to touch the torn. huhu.

There's a lot of durians there and I don't even know any names of it. ahahaha. Being the first daugther of Mr Halim Khoo, I never know what type of durian that abah bought before. Abah will only asked us "nak makan durian dak? nanti abah beli bawa balik". And the only answer that we have to give is "YESSSS, nak yang sedap tau abah". ahahahaha.

Hubby choosing durian. The durian there range from rm15 - rm30 per kilo.

Hadif eating "biji" durian. He tried to hold the durian but it smashed at his hands and he started to feel weird. Than he only took the "biji" after we had ate it. Lega hati mama juga. Im worried if hadif panas dalam n demam lagi!

Our last durian!

We ate 3 durians that night. 2 were Mentega Durians and the other 1 was Musang King Durian. All of the durians were very delicious. Sangat sedap! Mentega Durian price is RM15 per kilo and Musang King price is RM25 per kilo. Total of all durian we ate was RM70. Toing toing toing. But we were really satisfied. Sangat sedap and sangat puas after few years of not getting to eat durian (",).

p/s : akong & tok mama, jangan risau. hadif makan durian tau. boleh la akong beli durian bila balik penang nanti. hehe.

RIO at GSC Summit

2011-04-14T03:01:00.001+08:00

We watched RIO at GSC Summit USJ yesterday. It's actually the 2nd experience for Hadif in the theater. The 1st one was Merong Mahawangsa whom I was the one that insisted to watch eventhough me and hubby knew that it was not hadif's movie at all! However, hadif did watched Merong for 45 minutes than he started to play with the stairs. At 1 hour and 15 minutes, he started to make some noises and even go to the others seats. Than I have to take him out from the theater. Jadinya, mama tak tahu la apa ending Merong tu. huhu.

Hubby had planned to bring Hadif for a movie since February when we saw RIO's advert hanging at the one of the highway in KL (I can't remember which highway). huhu. Since than we had trained him to watch a few cartoons and analysed which one that attracted him fully. Among the cartoons that he gave his full attention from the beginning till the end were Toy Story 1-3, Shrek 1-3, Happily Ever After, Meet the Robinson, Upin Ipin, Up, Tarzan and Hercules. The one that he really in love with were Meet the Robinson and Upin Ipin. Sampai boleh hafal certain dialogue and even gesture of the cartoon. Ishhh, geram betul!

Than when RIO entered the theater last week, the advert kept on coming out in Disney Channel and every time the advert was on the TV, hadif will dance happily and clapped his hand. Once the advert finished, he'll cry saying "ma, bird, bird bird" and tried to search for RIO cd in his cd box. Looking at his son, hubby told me that hadif is ready for his 2nd trip to the theater. hehe.

So yesterday, we went to GSC Summit USJ. There was a big banner on Rio and hadif ran towards that banner when he first laid his eye on it. He kept on clapping his hand and shouted to me "ma, bird, bird, bird, yeay". As if he knew that he'll be watching Rio soon.

Hadif pointing out to Blu and other characters in RIO. He kept on standing in front of this banner till we went into the theater.

We took couple seat and sat at the corner. Just to be prepare if we have to go out in the middle of the movie. However, hadif had successfully impressed us by concentrating on RIO for 1 hour and 45 minutes. There's one time that he sat on the stairs due to the couple in front of us had lean their head to each other. Hadif can't see the screen clearly than he went to sit at the stairs. huhu. He did sometime clapped his hand and smile widely throughout the movie was shown specially when the songs part.

Some of the tips that I may share with my friends if you are planning to bring your child to watch movie in the theater (based on my experience)

1. To choose the seats which are situated at the back corner of the theater. If there's no back seat, corner seat maybe suitable enough BUT the child might get bored in the middle and start to play at the stairs. It may disturb the others at the back. We had this problem when we watched Merong Mahawangsa.
2. To buy nuggets or other suitable meal for them so they will be eating while watching the movie. This had helped us a lot. Takde la hadif banyak cakap sangat.
3. To pick on the movie that is suitable of our child. Hadif watched Merong for his 1st theater experience. Memang fail! Itu cerita mama sebenarnya. hahaha.
4. To make sure that he really want to watch that movie. As hadif, he cried for RIO and everytime he saw Blu, any advert on RIO or even McD collectibles on RIO movie, he'll be very happy to play with it. Sampai bawa tido. hehe.
5. To test out their concentration with the movie. As mentioned earlier, we tested out with several cartoon movies and only some that captured hadif full attention. Than we start to categorize and analyze on his favorite. Cewah, cam buat experiment physics je gaya mama n abah hadif ni. ahahaha.
6. Lastly, make sure your child is not a baby! I'd heard some stories that even some parents bring their baby to the theater. Sungguh tidak patut. Kuat sangat bunyi dalam theater tu.

Hadif hugged hubby when I wanted to snap their picture yesterday. Suka sangat la tu abah bawa dia tengok RIO. Can't wait for more movies with you cutie pie :).

SDMC SJ

2011-04-08T17:05:00.001+08:00

It's been 2 weeks I didn't update anything. Had been very busy lately with few emergency cases and also my work loads. Dah bertambah2 kerja.

Some might had known and some might not know that cutie pie had been admitted to Sime Darby Medical Centre Subang Jaya (SDMC SJ) on 28th March 2010. He started his fever a week before the day he was admitted and it worsen on the night before I'm leaving to Pasir Gudang for meeting. Luckily it was a day trip meeting. Actually I requested for day trip. Had been arguing with my boss on the reasons on why I can't do it as 2-3 days trip. Fuhh, nasib baik boss dah malas nak layan.

His temperature was 39.7 on Tuesday night and we hurriedly went to Emergency SDMC SJ. He started to shiver and vomitted in the car. Once we arrived there, the nurses quickly checked his temperature and took off all of his shirts so that they may sponge him on the spot. Hadif had been crying while they were sponging him. Pity hadif. It might be a shock to him. The MO then prescribed him with fever, cough and running nose medicine. She also advice us that to only give him fever medicine when his fever reached 38 degrees. No antibiotic was given since they wanted him to fight the viruses himself. It's better that way so that he may build his antibody strongly.

We thought his fever would be better by the next day but it continued until Friday. I took leave on Friday and brought him to see his paed at SDMC SJ. This time round, hadif need to do some blood test to ensure that it is not dengue. Looking at his activeness, Dr Sanjay 99% was sure that it was not dengue. Alhamdulilah it's not dengue and everything was OK with his blood. Dr Sanjay estimated that his fever should be over by the next day.

Unfortunately, his fever didn't went off that easily. His temperature started to rise up every 6 hourly. Cutie pie started not to have appetite to eat solid food. Only on milk for Saturday. It worsen by Sunday when he refused to his milk as well. Only mama's milk. When he only wanted mama's milk that means he's really-really sick. But he's still active as before. He started to vomit on Sunday night and a little bit of dyrhea. The vomit continue till Monday morning and we decided to bring him to SDMC SJ again. It's our 3rd visit to SDMC SJ within 7 days! This time, I brought along our clothes. Somehow, I got the feeling that cutie pie is going to be admitted.

After telling the whole week fever to the MO, she decided to admit hadif under Dr Sanjay. Again, hadif had to do blood test and urine test. Luckily cutie pie is a boy! It's easy to get his urine test. A few minutes later, Dr Sanjay arrived at the ER and started to examine hadif. With his polite and gentle voice he said "hadif, kenapa tak baik ni. saya ingat hadif mesti sudah baik sabtu lepas." Oh, I'm so touched! Adakah sebab Dr Sanjay handsome? ahahahaha. Cayang, jgn mara arrr.

We were send to room 289, Paedatric ward B. Hadif had been dripped and changed his clothes. Alhamdulilah he didn't cried when the long needle went into his vein and hand. Sampai hubby asked me "nape tak dengar hadif nangis? dah cucuk belum?" hubby couldn't be with us at that time. Tak sampai hati tengok anak dia kena cucuk. hehe.

Hadif at the ER. The nurse was changing his clothes.

Surprisingly, hadif's appetite was back when we were at SDMC SJ. Once we arrived at our room, hadif had his chicken porridge for breakfast. Than he slept around 11am till 5pm. I was quite worried because he didn't have any lunch or milk. He didn't even woke up and asked for my milk. Usually he did asked for my milk once a while when he was sleeping. Knowing hadif, he's a toddler that refuse to sleep in day time. When he slept that long it really worries me. The nurses calm me down and told me that hadif had been very tired since he had been having fever for 7 days. And I should not be worried since he had been dripped and it's OK for him not to drink or eat.

Hadif at SDMC SJ.

Than Dr Sanjay visited him on the evening with the result. There's bacteria in his body and he'll need to check hadif's urine and stool as well. Jadinya pampers hadif memang tak boleh buang. I did threw once (sebab terlupa), kena tegur ngan nurse. huhu. Antibiotic will only be given once we get his urine test result. Once it's confirm viral fever, Dr Sanjay prescribed him with the antibiotic. Hadif had to stay there for 3D2N with soft food diet. I can only choose his meal on his 3rd day. Itu pun dapat breakfast je. We had been discharged before lunch time.

I'm not sure what virus or bacteria that attacked hadif but I'm sure it's one super-duper BAD-BAD bacteria and the fever symptoms this time was very weird due to

1. Hadif is super-duper active whenever his temperature reach 38 degrees and above
2. When we touched him, only his head that was very hot. His body were at normal temperature (by touching). But once we checked on his temperature, it rose up until 39.6 sometime.
3. He even sweat when his temperature was at 38.4 degrees. Pelik kan. Mama ingatkan hadif dah nak kebah. Tapi silap sama sekali.
4. His feet and hand were very cold when the temperature was rising up. Once the temperature had rose up and stabilize, only than both feet and hand are warm.
5. He was shivering! I was so scared when he started to shiver. Memang takut dengue je la. Nauzubillah and minta dijauhkan dari hadif and kita semua. AMIN.

This entry had been too long I guess. Will continue again next time. Macam balas dendam lama tak update blog je gayanya. Nanti boring pula my friends. hehe.

Abang Hadif

2011-03-22T16:55:00.000+08:00

As usual, every weekend we will go back to my in laws house in Selayang. Hadif is very happy to go back there to have his "vroomm vrooom" ride with his tokwan. However, last week his Kaklong, Abang Ngah and Adni slept at my in laws. He was very happy when he saw his 3 cousins were there. Paling best bila nampak adni la. Since Adni was born last August 2010, he never wanted to play, kiss or even have a look to Adni. Lagi2 kalau mama, abah and tokwan dukung Adni. Lagi la dia jelous.
But last Sunday, Hadif was so excited to see Adni. His mouth kept on saying "ma, bebey(baby). bebey. bebey." He even tried to kiss, hug and carry Adni. When I took out my camera to take a few shots of them, hadif pun apa lagi. Mula la pelbagai aksi posing bersama Adni. Than I told hubby "maybe he's ready to be abang la cayang." huhu.

Hadif also loves to follow his Abang Ngah anywhere he goes except toilet! haha. Luckily Abang Ngah also loves to pamper hadif. He even tried to communicate with hadif even though he didn't understand anything that being said by his baby talking cousin. His Abang Ngah once told me "boy tak paham pun apa hadif cakap maksu. hehe. boy layan je la." haha! Thank you so much Najmi :). Maksu really appreciate it. muah muah muah.

Spiky hair made by his Kak Long and Abang Ngah

The 3 cousins. Adni was sleeping when this shot was taken.

Our cutie pie had turned 21 months young yesterday. Happy 21 months young cayang. He had a slight fever yesterday but he's still super duper active as usual. He now may do his "Incy Wincy Spider" rhymes with the act as well. We are so proud of u darling :). Tapi part rhymes tu just melody with his baby talk la ye. huhu.

Ole-ole Bali

2011-03-16T17:00:00.000+08:00

Mr Hubby smsed me on Friday evening asking either we wanted to have a candle light dinner this weekend. I was so happy and excitedly replied with SUPER HUGE YES to him. huhu. Ye la, dah lama tak candle light since we were very busy nowadays.

We planned to go on Friday itself but as usual cutie pie was so tired once he's back from the nursery. He slept after Maghrib prayer and both of us just ate sandwiches that night. The candle light dinner was posponed to the day after. This time we went to Ole-ole Bali, Empire Gallery, Subang Jaya. Most of the seats were occupied when we arrived but luckily there's one space that is very nice and cosy for cutie pie to play around or even sleep :).

Cutie pie was mad because he wanted to look at the little pond outside Ole-Ole Bali.

There were varieties of food served there including Eastern and Western delicacies. Since we wanted to try something from Bali itself, we ordered the Eastern delicacies except for cutie pie. huhu. We had a thought that the price were quite expensive while flipping through the menu. However, once our order arrived, tu diaaaa! Banyaknya. hehe. Since we didn't had our lunch that day, we managed to finish it all.

Clockwise from the picture; my meal - Nasi+Bumbu (RM27), cutie pie's meal - Fish Fingers+Fries+Soya Milk (RM9) and hubby's meal - Nasi Campur (RM33).

Both nasi have keropok, sayur kangkung, sambal and sayur kacang+tempe+sengkuang. The difference was mine have half roasted chicken. Yes guys, what u read is true. It's half chicken! I was shocked at first but managed to finish it with the help from hubby and cutie pie. hehe. Hubby's meal consist of fish satay (taste more like otak2), a choice of beef or chicken, prawns and cumi2 (squid).

Some of the picture that we managed to capture during our candle light dinner there. Cutie pie was really enjoying the cushion that we sat on. Mula la aksi2 baring la, guling2 la, nak minum susu la. hehe. Overall, the food was great and we love to go there again. Maybe during my parents visit to USJ next month ;). Thanks cayang for the dinner.

he's getting better!

2011-03-09T12:13:00.002+08:00

Hadif had slight fever on January, if u still remember my post before. After visiting Dr Ali at SJMC, his fever had gone for good but his cough was still on and off. Batuk seminggu - baik 4-5 days - batuk balik a week - baik 5-6 days - batuk lagi - fever. When he started back his fever with coughing and running nose, I felt not so good about it. Mungkin phobia juga sebab dulu hadif kena bronchitis. I'm quite scared if the doctors were to tell me that hadif had asthma.

Again, we went to SJMC to meet Dr Sanjay Woodhull who is good in curing children with cough and running nose. One of my friend told me that he's expert in lung. As to date, I'm happy with his advice and medicine for hadif. Even when hadif had bronchitis before, he didn't nebulizer hadif. He only precsribe medicine and ventolin spray for me to do it at home.

Alhamdulilah hadif didn't had any wheezing and flame on both his nose and throat. Dr Sanjay told me that it's the "musim sakit" and since he was sent to the nursery made his cough keep on coming back. I was so relieved to hear that from him! Phobia of hadif having bronchitis was still clear in my mind. After a long chat with Dr Sanjay, he presribed hadif with 2 types of medicine.

Sterimar Nasal Solution

Sterimar is good for the whole family in cleansing the nasal for either daily hygiene, prevention for cold, allergic rhintis and blocked nose or making breathing comfortable in a polluted environment. According to Dr Sanjay, sterimar is not dangerous at all even for small infant. It is preservative free, containing natural solution of sea water rich with trace elements. Dr Sanjay also added "u can use sterimar anytime u want, anywhere and no matter how many time in day u need. it's not dangerous at all. it's better than i give u running nose medicine that will definitely not good for hadif."

Singulair 4mg

Hadif had been prescribed with Singulair Oral Granule for 30 days, 1 packet per day. It maybe consume either through his milk or food but it will only take effect for 15 minutes only. Jadi kena cepat ye. Takleh lambat2 after dah bancuh singulair ni. hehe. This is for his cough to go away forever I hope. When he had bronchitis, Dr Sanjay also prescribed him with this medicine but only for 14 days. It's longer this time since Dr Sanjay wanted hadif to be cure from his On and OFF cough. Singular is a medicine that is use to treat asthma and nasal allergy symptoms such as itchy stuffy, irritated and running nose.

After 2 weeks taking singulair, alhamdulilah hadif had stop from coughing. He have another 2 weeks to go for singulair. Nasib baik sedap rasa singulair ni. Hadif pun suka :).

Iliadin for infant

Other than sterimar for running nose, we also have Iliadin 0.01% before. This one can only be used twice a day for 4 days only. Tak kira la dah baik or not have to finish of the 4 days. Than stop for a week and only continue for another 4 days if the running nose is still there. Even me and hubby use this iliadin whenever we had running nose. Say no more to running nose medicine that make us very sleepy before :).

However, some of the mama(s) out there do have some not-so-easy-feeling regarding dropping these drops into your baby's nose. Takut tak leh nafas la, nanti tercekik la, tak sampai hati la but somehow these medicine do work well with them. Lagi bagus dari bagi makan ubat selesema yang mengantuk tu kan? Just like my mak used to say "doctor tu dah buat experiment semua. takkan la doctor tu tatau apa yang baik n tak untuk budak tu. hg bukan p clinic biasa2." Just try out to yourself those medicine before tried it to your child. Me and hubby memang akan rasa each and every medicine before giving to hadif. Just to make sure how it taste like.

No matter what we do, it's only the best for our child right? I hope that me and hubby had done our best for Hadif our little cutie pie. muah muah muah aiiidishhh.

Houz Depot

2011-03-07T10:55:00.003+08:00

I'm sure most of you already knew about Houz Depot long time ago. For me and hubby, we just knew about it on January 2011. huhu. We were so ignorant on new shops! Luckily, abg ly (hubby's only brother) brought us there last month. We were so amazed with the shop. It was a one stop home improvement wholesale hyperstore which has everything that u need in it! Jakuzi pun ada tau.

It was located in the heart of KL, opposite Pertama Complex. Their first shop was located at PJ, near to The curve and Ikea. You may see the banner of Houz Depot once you are nearby that area. They will be opening other branches by this year at Subang Jaya and Klang as well. Senang la nanti dah ada kat Subang.

Since we officially got our keys last Saturday, we met our contractor - Classic Construction for discussion on the renovation to kick off. Hip hip horey. After discussing and choosing on all the tiles, wood and design it's time for shopping. Yippieee. Tapi shopping berpada2 ye. Setakat yang perlu sahaja. Jangan beli terlebih pula. I kept on reminding myself those sentences few time ;).

So, we visited Houz Depot again yesterday to shop for few important thing. Alhamdulilah, Houz Depot was having great bargain and sale this month. We bought hood, hob, built-in oven with 2 airconds with a great deal and price. Furthermore, this month Houz Depot is giving more rebate on what we had spend there. For every Rm100, they will be giving RM3 voucher. We got RM153 voucher yesterday and I am so happy with it! Will be visiting Houz Depot again this week for me to fully utilized that voucher that we got. hehe ;).

Furthermore, the hood and hob package that we bought yesterday had entitled us to get a free gift ---> SUNHOM BBQ set! me and hubby love to BBQ a lot and it's was like a perfect house warming gift from Houz Depot to us :).

our free gift

Other than that, their delivery service is quite cheap as well. For amount spend below RM3k, the delivery service will be RM65 within Klang Valley (with radius around 10-30km). From KL - Alam Budiman, Houz Depot will chargesd RM85 for delivery service. Since we had spend more than RM3k so we were entitled for the RM65 free delivery service. End up, we just need to pay RM20 for the delivery service.

The staff there are very helpful and polite as well. They had helped us a lot on advising us on which item is best and not for us. But end up, it's up to us to choose which one that we wanted to buy. They can even keep our items purchased for at most 6 months. Thoroughly, me and hubby were among the happy customers yesterday at Houz Depot (",).

You may have a peek on their E-Catalogue or LIKE their FB page :). I better stop now. My entry this time had been like an advertising entry for Houz Depot pula. huhu.

iCity, here we go

2011-03-03T14:36:00.004+08:00

At last! Hubby agreed on bringing us to iCity. Sampai dah putus harap la. hehe. Thanks cayang for bringing us there. We went out after Asar and dropped by at Empire Gallery, Subang Jaya to have light dinner before heading to iCity.

Our dinner at The Loaf

We reached iCity around 830pm and the entrance fees is RM10 per car. Luckily that we were there a few minutes earlier before the super duper long queue.

Hadif was so happy when we reached there. His mouth kept on saying "wahhh", "fuhyooo", "yumyum", "tik, tik ma, tik" (cantik, cantik mama, cantik). Truly, me too were amazed with all the lights there. Memang sangat cantik.

Us with the horses. Hadif was not keen on taking picture that day. He love to run here and there looking on all those lights and miniature.

Oh, I just love this part of the iCity. It feels like I'm in the magical world of Disney Princess pula. ahahaha.

Hadif loves these snowmen. He was staring to them for quite sometime before heading to the others.

They even have a room that full with ice that they called the Snow Room. It's a separate fee for that. RM20 for adult and RM15 for child above 3 years old. We did not go into this room as we feel it's not necessary. Kalau nak rasa snow betul, kena pege oversea la hadif ;).

The only picture of US. It's quite hard to snap with hadif running around and hubby without his tripod. Uwaaa, beli la tripod baru cayang. hehe.

p/s : it's a quick update since I was very busy this week but still feel like updating this blog. nak hilangkan tension!

4 more months to go

2011-02-22T12:15:00.001+08:00

Cutie pie is 20 months young yesterday! Happy belated 20 months young sayang! He had rapid progress this month. Memang tak terkejar me and hubby with his progress. He usually sleeps early during weekdays (either 7pm or 8pm dah tido tau. sampai ke pagi pula tu). Memang rindu la kitaorang nak tunggu weekend nak main puas2 with him.

1. Our little helper

If we are going to the nursery, he'll carry his own bag and sometime my lunch box as well. hehe.

If we are back from Mydin for grocery shopping, he'll help us to carry with all the plastics. Kalau bagi yang ringan marah. Nak angkat pampers dia juga. ahahhaa. But usually hubby will give him a lighter plastic bag.

If we are going out for jalan2, he'll insist on carrying his own bagpack.

2. Love to play&watch football with his abah

He'll watch any game with hubby on the TV. bila hubby jerit golll, dia pun jerit "tolllll". ahahaha.

Whenever we go back to Selayang, he'll ask hubby to play ball at the nearby field.

3. His bestfriend

Cutie pie has a bestfriend at the nursery, Iman Adeni Widat. Ummi Jah told us that they always play together. They can punch each other but others can't punch them. Mesti salah sorang akan tolong balas balik. ahahaha.

After CNY, Hadif was crying when I sent him to the nursery. Luckily Iman was there. Iman la tolong pujuk Hadif. The same goes to Iman. If Iman was crying, Hadif akan pujuk dia.

It's hard for either me or mama Iman to take them back separately nowadays. If I were to arrive first at the nursery, I'll wait for Iman's mama to arrive and we went back together. Tak sampai hati tengok muka Iman sedih bila Hadif balik dulu. Hadif pun macam tu juga. Last Friday, I had meeting ended at 630pm. Iman's mama told me that it's so hard for her to take Iman back looking at Hadif's sad face. Kesian anak mama sorang tu. Than we came to the conclusion that mama Iman will follow me to the nursery everyday after work. Lagipun kerja satu office kan. hehe.

3. Bottle feeding

He had been introduced to bottle since 1 month young. Before this he only use bottle at the nursery. Starting this month, I introduce him with bottle feeding for day time. I'm planning to wean him off from BF when he reach 2 years old. Baru boleh planning untuk "adik" hadif pula. huhu.

Before this, I plan to wean him off from bottle feeding as well when he reach 2 years old. However, with his current weigh and my not-enough-breast-milk, I put that plan on hold for another 6 months. Maybe 2.5 years old nanti boleh try to wean off bottle pula :).

4. Drinking from his own cup

Sometime, he doesn't want to drink from his bottle or my BM. Nak pakai cawan pula. So, I'll make his milk in the cup just like us.

5. Sleeps early on weekdays!

He'll sleep around 7-8pm on weekdays till the next morning. Penat sangat main kat nursery la tu! Sometime I'll play with him up till 8pm while waiting for hubby to arrive home so that hubby may play with him before he goes to sleep. Kadang2 tak sempat tunggu hubby balik pun. Dah ngantok sangat.

6. He's cheeky like his abah.

Ini memang sebiji cam abah! Love to tease me a lot. He's very cheeky as well. And one more thing for sure, hadif pandai berlakon. ahahaha. There's one time that he wanted to poo-poo. I asked him "hadif pangsai ka". Than he quickly put his hand on his nose and pretend to vomit. Macam busuk sangat la kononnya. ahahaha.

Just look at the picture with their cheeky face. Kan sama je hadif with hubby. Picture below, hadif was pretending to eat the cake. ahahaha. hadif,hadif!

7. Added a few vocabs
---> bawah, atas (when we are brushing his teeth)
---> geli, geli, geli (when we tickle him)
---> tap tap tap tap tap tap tap, presto! (just like Little Einstein. he'll do this whenever I started the engine. konon2 nak kereta tu jalan macam rocket Little Einstein tu la. huhu).
---> his first sentense was "ma, nak tutu (susu)" sambil muka malu2. ahahaha.
---> up, down
---> no, no-no, no-no-no-no, no, no, no-no-no-no (intonasi tersendiri sambil buat jari telunjuk kat mama. ini confirm belajar kat iman! ahahahah).

Cutie pie abah & mama, happy belated 20 months young dear. Kami doakan yang terbaik untuk Hadif. Be a good caliph/boy/son/grandson/nephew/cousin for everyone in your life. We love you forever and ever. AMIN.

He's on Pediasure

2011-02-21T14:12:00.003+08:00

Hadif had been on Pediasure for 12 days including today. Reason being?

1. Hadif was 7.2kg when he's 7 months young. We brought him to Dr Deng when he's 9 months young because of fever and he's only weighed 7.22kg. Dr Deng was quite worried and advice me to give him a lot of protein such as fish, beef and chicken into his porridge.
2. We visited Dr Deng again when he's 11 months young and he weighed at 7.6kg which Dr Deng said it was OK. Dr Deng did adviced us on mixing him with FM but I refused too. Ya la, susu mama tengah banyak lagi masa tu. Why must I add? I am very sure that my milk was enough for hadif at that point of time.
3. Hadif had his MMR when he's 12 months with Dr Ali at SJMC, Subang Jaya. At that time, he's weighing at 7.9kg only. Again, the same advice I got from Dr Ali. He also advice me to add FM for hadif. I agreed with him since I knew that my milk had been decreasing slowly since hadif goes to his BIG ONE.
4. I did some research and some advice from my friends regarding FM. Some advice for enfagrow, mamil gold, dumex dugro and enfalac. At last we selected mamil gold and dugro. Hadif only drank FM at the nursery. His babysitter told us that he prefer dugro rather than mamil gold. Than we concluded to give him dugro honey since that's the only FM that he like.
5. We visited Dr Deng again when he's 18 months young for rashes problem. Hadif weighed at 8.6kg only. Dr Deng was satisfied enough with his weight increase but somehow did tell us regarding Pediasure. If his weight is still at lower part of the graph, he'll advice us to go for Pediasure.
6. Hadif had diarrhea during CNY. From 8.6kg, his weight had went down to 8.3kg. Mama sangat sedih. Than Dr Chye adviced us for Pediasure. We agreed with him.
7. After 12 days of pediasure, Hadif weight is now 9kg! Alhamdulilah.

Other than that, I also told hubby that I wanted to wean him off by 2 years old. Maybe it's a good start that we start practising him to drink from his bottle on day time and only to drink mama's milk whenever he's going to sleep. Alhamdulilah since we started on Pediasure, hadif had been cooperating well. He'll have his milk while watching Angelina Ballerina and Dive Olive Dive every morning. Boleh la mama mandi dengan tenang and bersiap2 dengan cepat. Since that day, I was never late to the office. Yeay! Harap2 berkekalan la hendaknya. AMIN!.

Pediasure is specially for nutritional support for children age 1-10 years whom need to catch up on their growth specially for picky eaters and children that are physically active in physical activities. Hadif had both of it. Kadang2 makan banyak, kadang2 makan sikit. Ikut mood dia. Pasal active tu tayah cakap la. Hadif dok diam bila tido sahaja. hehe. To know more about pediasure, you may read to the link that I'd given. However, please make sure that you get the advice from your child's paeditrician first before giving pediasure. Nanti anak over weight pun susah juga kan. hehe.

CNY Gateway - BBQ & Angpow Time!!!

2011-02-14T02:45:00.002+08:00

Pak Mat & Mak Jah's Family Day @ Pulau Betong, Penang ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

It was planned and organized by my beloved sister, Nadiah Khoo and my one and only maksu, Latipah Basha. They planned for either Pantai Kerachut or Monkey Island at first but it had been canceled due to time issue. Ya la, dah buat pun on CNY day itself. We can't took full day of it. Tak pasal2 kena marah dengan En Halim Khoo pula. huhu.

We started the day early in the morning. We went out after Suboh prayer, around 7am with 3 cars convoyed from Bukit Jambul to Pulau Betong, Balik Pulau, Penang.

Upon arrival, all of us were busy with tasks that had been given by the organizer of the day :). Hadif paling relax. He just enjoyed himself moving here and there watching each of us with our tasks.

We had our breakfast before going into the sea. Mama and maksu had bought some kuih(s) on the way there. The karipap was so delicious and cheap! I'd told hubby earlier that I did not want to go into the sea. Malas nak salin baju nanti. However, hubby had dragged me to the sea with his "kuasa veto" - awak mesti mandi laut. ahahaha.

While we were busy swimming in the ocean, the elders were busy "bbq"ing and setting up the plates and drinks for us to have for our lunch. The chefs were my mama and paksu. We had BBQ chicken and meat, sausage, baked potatoes and nasi tomato. Yummy! Sungguh sedap! Unfortunately cutie pie did not ate that much because he had a little "bad-bad" virus in his stomach. He kept on having diarrhea that day.

After having lunch, abah decided to go back to have some rest before continuing our day with visits to his siblings house. Since big boss dah bagi arahan, semua kena la buat kerja cepat2. Nanti kena marah pula. huhu.

As usual, one family picture before going back home (",). I LOVE MY family very much!

Chinese New Year Visits
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After the BBQ and picnic, we went back home to have a rest and good sleep. We woke up around 5pm and get ready for CNY visits to abah's siblings. Hadif still having diarrhea but he was not that moody. As for me, I started feeling not that good either. Started to have stomach ache and dizzyness.

We went to abah's eldest sister whom we call Noni AKO (aunty). She is the most cleanest and tidiest person that I have ever met. She's just like a mother in-law to my mama. hehe. She'll come once in a while to our house and started to check the kitchen, rooms and everything in the house. Than she'll go back home and called my abah saying "ur wife is very good. the house is very clean and tidy." huhu. Memang la tidy! We had been cleaning and tidying the house like crazy once we knew she's coming. hehe.

Than we proceed to abah's younger sister whom we call Aim AKO. Abah's aunties and uncles always said that I looked just like her when she's my age. Jadinya dah boleh bayangkan my face when I grew older. hehe. Unfortunately I didn't take any photo with her since I'm not feeling well that evening.

Lastly, we went to Akuan AKO, abah's youngest sister. She also have the same clean and tidy attitude as Noni AKO. But being the youngest in the family, she dare not check our house just like what Noni AKO did. hehe. Her floor is so clean and shining and my abah once told us that we can even see our own face on her floor. hahahaha. We ended our day nearly to midnight.

Hadif with his cousins. These were the only pictures that I managed to snap with the help from hubby. I was to tired that day.

CNY Gateway - Sunday Morning Breakfast

2011-02-09T10:55:00.001+08:00

As usual, whenever we're back to My Penang, it is a must to have roti with telur setengah masak at Transfer Road, Penang. But abah brought us to other place this time. It's at Hutton Lane, Penang. Abah kata sedap lagi kat sini but for me, I prefer Transfer Road better. huhu.

The mamak stall at Hutton Lane, Penang

While waiting for our order to arrived, hadif's tokchak had given him a present. hip hip horey! It's a Ducati Motobike. He was so happy and kept on asking for tokchak's approval to unwrap the bike from it's box. Tokchak pun layankan je la cucu sedara dia sorang ni. Baru sorang kan ;).

Some of us ordered Nasi Dalca, roti canai and half boil egg. As for me, mesti la roti with half boil egg. 2 keping roti letak butter with 2 eggs. Hadif seems to love the bread very much. He ate half of my bread by himself. Pandai pula tu dipped into the eggs by himself. I prefer to have my bread to be spread with only butter rather than mixing it together with kaya. Do you guys know that the bread spread with butter and kaya is call as roti kahwin? I never heard roti kahwin for quite sometime. Sampai la that day. Nampak sangat dah lama tak balik Penang jumpa mamak Penang. huhu. I did snap a picture with the owner of the stall that day. He said that he had run his stall for 55 years!

Since our stomach were full with Nasi Dalca, roti canai and half boiled egg, all of us were very lazy to drive back home. So we drove to Gurney Drive to spend more quality time together with the whole Pak Mat and Mak Jah's families. Hadif had the opportunity to ride on together with his toksu boy and toksu girl on their bike. He was quite scared at first but enjoyed the ride very much towards the end.

Than we met with Toro, Taca and Orni at Gurney Plaza Shopping Mall. They were the mascots from The Butterfly Farm, Penang. It happened to be that Orni, Taro and Taca were giving angpows, freebies and giveways throughout Penang that day with the conjunction of CNY celebration. Their official photographer had been asking for Hadif's picture with Toro, Taca and Orni. Since hadif was very sleepy at that time, I dare not said yes to them. But after a few times of asking than I agreed. Tak pasal2 gambar mama pun masuk skali tau. huhu. I'm still waiting for them to upload the pictures into their blog. Ntah ada ke tidak. Mesti lagi ramai yang posing lagi best dari hadif kan?

We ended our day around 12pm and went back to our home for some rest before went out again for our dinner (",).

our first argument!

2011-02-07T11:23:00.004+08:00

we had a little argument when we're in My Penang last week. mentang2 la abah takde. asyik buli mama je hadif tau!

Me : hadif, bagi balik iphone ghee e tu kat mama
Hadif : tanak
Me : bagi balik!
Hadif : tanak!
Me : Give me back that iphone
Hadif : tanak!
Me : what do u mean by tanak?
Hadif : NO!
Me : hah? (toing toing toing sambil gelak guling2 dalam hati tapi muka control serious. hadif! hadif!)

cutie pie, if u were to read this post in the future, mesti kena belanja mama makan OK! denda sebab pandai sangat loyar buruk :P.

CNY Gateway - Surprise!

2011-02-02T16:45:00.001+08:00

We supposed to go back to My Penang on Monday night, 31st January 2011. The plan suddenly changed when hubby had an Interview with T-System on Tuesday evening. Hubby permitted me and cutie pie to go back to Penang earlier 4 days than him. That was on last Saturday, 29th January 2011 with AirAsia. hip hip horey. Thanks a lot cayang (",). Since it was a last minute plan; we even booked the flight ticket 2 days before our departure so I kept it as a secret from my families in Penang. However, I need someone to fetch me at the airport. I asked the help from my maksu. Luckily she may fetched us. Thanks maksu. muah muah muah.

We took the earliest flight at 6:55am. LCCT was packed with a lot of people. There were long queue at both kiosk and counter. As hubby was registering us, one of the AirAsia guy told us that we can't register an infant at the kiosk. I quicky ran to the counter since we don't have much time. While waiting at the long queue suddenly I heard people calling "Penang, Penang, 655." dah macam bus station kat pudu pula. hehe. I quickly went to him and asked him. The first thing that he answered was "akak ni yang dengan infant ni kan. g amik tiket kat kawan saya kat counter 15 tu. kitaorg dah siap print untuk akak." When I reached counter 15, the guy said "akak dengan infant kan. nape lambat?". I was like what? lambat? It's only 6am. Bukan counter closed 45 minutes before ke? Ke saya yang silap eh. hehe.

It was a very long queue waiting to pass by the police checked. I was feeling like I was in PUDU that time. Teringat kenangan zaman study dulu lari2 kat pudu naik bus. hehe. Lagipun with AirAsia, everybody can fly kan. memang proven la that day. We had been given the front seat and luckily the seat beside me was empty. The stewardess had buckled Hadif on that empty seat. Lucky hadif (",).

We reached Parkview Towers at 830 am and my families were still sleeping that time. I quicly rang the bell few times without stopping. hehe. baru cepat sedar kan. Mama and abah opened the door without their spectacles. terkebil2 mata dua2 org dok tengok sapa yg datang. Than I gave salam and said surpriseeeeee. Baru la mama tau anak & cucu dia yang balik. They were so happy to see hadif. As usual, hadif got a lot of presents whenever he went back to My Penang. TQ so much to Akong, Tok Mama, Ghee E and Sayhan E for all the presents. Mama and Abah is very happy. ahahaha.

The other reason that I went back to My Penang was because of my ex-neighbour wedding reception. She had been migrated to US for approximately 15 years and got married few years back. It's her first time coming back to My Penang with her husband :). Her family decided to celebrate them with a belated wedding reception.

US with the bride and groom as well as the bride's parents. The bride's parents were our neighbour before we sold our old house at Sungai Ara, Penang. They were a very good neighbour. They are also Kei Mak (Mak Angkat in Hokkein) and Kei Pak (Pak Angkat in Hokkein) for my sister, Anati. They love her so much that they always have separate
bowl, fork&spoon and other utensils even kuali, periuk and everything in case she wanted to eat anything at their house. Did you guys notice on their whole family picture with wedding gown and suit? Oh I really love this picture! We even plan to do this on either Nadiah or Anati wedding in the future. hehe.

We ended our day with a picture with all of us. It was such a pleasure to attend her reception and hope she live happily ever after. She's going back to US in 2 weeks time. Mesti Anati sedih nanti. huhu.

While we were busy with the bride and groom, cutie pie was busy watching cartoon with other kids at the living hall. Hadif, Hadif. He even asked for permission from his Akong. Being the only "soon" (grandson in Hokkein), he gets everything that he wanted from his Akong and Tok Mama. Jangan minta lebih2 sudah tau!

19 months young

2011-01-25T01:50:00.000+08:00

Hadif had a little cough last Friday. It might be caused by the McD sundae ice cream that he had on Thursday before. Tapi pelik juga. Sebelum ni OK je. On Saturday, he's down with slight fever. His body temperature was not that high. The maximum that it reached was 37.8 degree celcius. His nenek said "hadif nak ringan mulut ni. nak bercakap." and I do really hope so. Jangan la virus ke apa pula kan.

Observing on his temperature pattern, I'm not that worried. It's just around 37.3 - 37.6 for every 6 - 9 hours. I still remembered Dr Deng told me that if a child didn't get any fever between 4 hours after taking the medicine, it means that child is not having any viral fever. I was praying really hard that it is true for hadif. However, eventhough his temperature is not that high but the heat from his body n head was very warm as if his temperature would be 39 degrees. Rosak ke temperature mama? I tried both the ear n armpit temperature and it still gave me the same reading. I kept on sponging his body and head specially without stopping for 2 hours.

Any advice for me from mommies out there? Should I bring hadif to his paed if he still have slight fever today? I called his nursery just now and hadif is not having any fever. Cuma kepala still panas sikit2. They still gave hadif fever medicine this morning. Serba salah jadinya. Temperature tak tinggi sangat but kepala panas. Hubby said hadif nak add on more akal lagi to buli us. hehe. And he added a few vocab yesterday. Betul la kata nenek, hadif nak ringan mulut agaknya.

Hadif had reached his 19 months last Friday. Happy Belated 19 months cutie pie. Sorry mama lambat wish. Being busy with lots of things in the office and our home as well :). What is he up to when he reached 19 months?

1. He's a cat lover just like his abah.
His favourite cat at our apartment. Cat ni pun rela je apa yang hadif buat kat dia. Hadif love tu lullaby the cat, trying his hard to carry the cat, pinch its ear, pull its tail and also kick the cat whenever the cat wouldn't run around together with him.

2. He like to pose just like his mama.
It's easier to snap picture together with him nowadays. He have a lot of idea of posing but most of it he will just stand still in front of the camera.

3. Added a few vocab
---> tido
---> duduk
---> angsai (pangsai) - poo poo in Hokkein
---> one, two, tee, fo, fi, ten! (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10); dari 5 terus lompat 10 ye. ahahaha.
---> enkiu (thank you)
---> et's go (let's go)
---> mmuuahhh while giving away his flying kisses
---> Allah, allah, allah. All the way throughout the azan
---> ever boy (clever boy)

4. He love to read and write. Crayon, pencil colors and pens are all his. It's not mama&abah's OK. He tried to draw our wall before but alhamdulilah after a series of lecture, he understood that wall is not for drawing. Harap2 selama2nya la begitu ye.

5. Alhamdulilah, his appetite had grown. He loves to eat ayam & ikan celup tepung, McD's cheese buger, McD's fries, bubur daging, nuggets, fishball, sausage, bread with nutella spread and pizza.

6. He may perform some of the steps in Solat. He'll usually follows his abah during Maghrib prayer. Alhamdulilah, his concentration stayed until 2nd rakaat. Lepas tu dah start main2 kat tepi hubby.

7. He's a bit picky on who may receives his precious flying kisses. Among the lucky ones were his Ghee E, his Ghee E's friends and Alany Sufiyyah. Abah & mama pun tak pernah dapat lagi tau.

8. Love to be massaged by his abah. He had asked hubby to massage him yesterday. He kept on showing to his feet and said "akit, akit". When I asked him "hadif nak abah massage ke?". Terus baring atas katil getting ready. Macam dekat spa pula. ahahaha.

There's many more that he had achieved but I can't think of any for now. Will update later if I have the time.

Cutie pie, Happy 19th months young. We love you very much forever and ever. Be a good boy OK. mmuuahhh.

A date with Alany Sufiyyah

2011-01-21T09:21:00.004+08:00

Hadif had a date with Alany Sufiyyah yesterday at McDonald, Subang Jaya. Dating bertemankan both parents ye. Jadi no worries. Semua under control. hehe.

Alany was sleeping when we arrived. She's so cute with the headband and rompers. Geram aunty tengok tau. A few minutes later, she woke up. Abang Hadif pun apa lagi excited la. Siap suruh hubby snap picture of Alany lagi. Ish, ish, ish, budak ini kan.

Alany pun bukan main lagi posing depan Abg Hadif ye.

We had our lunch there with Prosperity Burger for me. hip hip horey. Hadif had fries and cheese burger. I still can't believe it with my own eyes that Hadif may ate half of the cheese burger. Dah besar sungguh rupanya anak mama ni. It's so fast! After having our lunch, it's time to play for hadif. He wanted alany to join him as well. Alany still small la sayang. Tunggu 3-4 bulan lagi nanti Alany lari bersama.

Hadif trying to put on Alany's socks so that Alany may run around together with him.

Ok, siap! Let's go and play. Pity Hadif, he kept on pulling alany's hand so that alany may follow him.

A picture together before we parted. Kami bersama menantu masing2 :P.

Playdoh bersama Sayhan E

2011-01-19T09:42:00.000+08:00

Title dah macam rancangan kanak2 pula. ahahaha. Anati with rancangan kanak2? I don't think so. muahahahaha.

Anati came down to KL from Penang to have a short vacation with her friends at Genting. Once she's back from Genting, she straight away came to see Hadif with a very special gift. A car set play doh. Oh, I'm so happy with that present. Tak payah mama beli dah. ahahaha. As for hadif, he was also very happy with the present. They played with the playdoh for 3 hours! Hadif did not want to stop playing eventhough he's already very-very sleepy. However, we managed to get him to bath and sleep after a few attempts of trying. The last attempt was by carrying him to the bathroom together with the playdoh and they (hadif & the playdoh) bath together!

Hadif woke up early this morning. He quickly got up and ran to the living room. I was so surprised to see him acting that way. Usually he'll cry for me to breastfeed him and went off to lala land again. Guess what? He wanted to play with the playdoh again! He grabbed on one of the playdoh and ran back to our bedroom to play on the bed. Actually he's still sleepy but hati ingat nak main je!

A few minutes later, he had fallen back to sleep while holding tightly to the playdoh. We were very happy that he really loves the playdoh and knew how to play with it. Eventhough he can't really make a car model yet, but he manage to squeeze the playdoh into smaller balls. Hope he'll follows his abah's creativity rather than mine. *wink*

5.661178, 100.332743

2011-01-16T12:39:00.004+08:00

Kampung Teluk Balik, Kuala Muda, Kedah.

Kampung nelayan yang agak terpencil. Kata orang ada kedai mee ubang yang sangat sedap. Nadiah (SIL) kata udang dan ketam dia sangat-sangat besar. IkOt katanya lagi selak lauk baru nampak mee.

Hemm... perjalanan nak ke sana dari Pulau Pinang ambik masa agak lama juga. TidOr bangun 2 tiga kali pun tak sampai-sampai lagi. Mungkin sebab sesat kot... time balik tak sempat pulak nak tidOr dah sampai jambatan...

Anyware mee udangnya takde la sedap sangat pun. Rate atas par jer tapi perjalanan nak ke sana tu memang superb... dikelilingi oleh sawah padi... kalau time padi menguning tu memang sesuai sangat jadi lokasi photoshot...

Sesapa yang nak try rasa mee udang kat sini boleh la google long-lat kat atas tu...

A date with Ghee E

2011-01-04T14:15:00.004+08:00

Last week, Hadif's ghee e came down to KL for a week break with him. My sister, Nadiah had spent most of her time with Hadif. Hadif pun manja lebih with ghee e. Mesti ghee e dukung, mesti ghee e mandikan, mesti ghee e suap makan and everything. Resulted of being too attached with ghee e, he didn't want to eat his favourite mama's sup daging. huhu. He went out with ghee e for pizza and pasta at Itallianes at The Empire Gallery Subang! Budak ini kan.

Nadiah reached KL on Tuesday night. We went out for dinner at a Taiwanese Restaurant at Summit USJ. Each of us tried different type of food and all of it are very delicious. If you were searching for new restaurant to try, please try this taiwanese restaurant. Memang sangat best :). The price is also affordable with the dishes. The most important thing is it is HALAL. Eventhough there's HALAL sign without HALAL certificate on the wall, jangan harap la En Fariq nak masuk ye. That's what I'm more cautious about when trying new restaurant with Mr Hubby. The first question from him will be "mana awak tau halal? dah check ngan JAKIM ke?".

The next day Hadif and her Ghee E went to Mid Valley. As usual, Ghee E loves to shop in KL rather than Penang. Unfortunately, Mid Valley was full with people sampai Ghee E pening. They had their lunch at Delicious. Ghee E had ordered spaggeti with tomato sauce specially for Hadif. Me & hubby pun tak pernah makan Delicious lagi tau. After having their lunch, they stopped by at the Center Court of Mid Valley for Hadif to play at the Playdoh and Lego Land. Nadiah told me that Hadif was so happy to play with all of the toys there. He even scolded one cute little "kakak" for sharing the toys table with him. Pity that "kakak". Im so sorry dear.

Than the next day, we went to KL Bird Park. The entrance fees is RM20 per person if you are a Malaysian. They also have d join promotion with either Jusco, Metrojaya and Real Reward card. You may get more discounted price with these cards. RM15 with Jusco card and RM10 with either Metrojaya or Real Reward cards. But the least best part was these cards can be swipe only once per day.

Again, Hadif was super duper happy with all the birds flying around him. He kept on calling "bird, bird, bird". We had a photography session with the bird at the park. The fees will be RM30 if we wanted the picture to be taken and printed by them OR RM10 per person for our own camera with many shots to be taken. Alhamdulilah, we were very lucky that they offered us for RM30 with 1 picture printed by them and 4-5 shots with our own camera. Best! Thanks guys for the offer.

Do you know that if a peacock open up it's beautiful wings and we were there, it means good luck? ahahaha. It's just kepercayaan orang tua-tua. As for us, we were very delightful that we may see the peacock spread out it's beautiful wings in front of us trice! Sungguh belagak itu peacock tau. And the peacock is afraid of hubby's camera. We were not too sure of that. Do you guys know why? Hubby said the peacock wanted to be paid if using his camera (ala2 macam model la kot) while Nadiah said maybe the peacock is scared of gun which is similar to hubby's camera lens.

I guess Hadif was having a great time with Ghee E for 5 days last week. Thank You so much Ghee E for entertaining Hadif and the belanja makan as well :). Jangan Hadif minta nak makan Itallianese and Delicious tiap2 hari sudah. ahahaha.

Pop Quiz for my reader : Do you guys know which one is male and female peacock? (sila tengok gambar di atas ye ;)).

the solution

2010-12-24T10:34:00.004+08:00

If you guys still remember my previous entry regarding soap for cutie pie, alhamdulilah that I already found the solution for Hadif. We went back to Penang early of this month and went to the Pharmacy with mama to buy cutie pie's soap. I was planning to buy either sebamed or eubos for baby.

We went to the Guardian but unfortunate they do not have eubos for baby. They never even heard about eubos for baby. They kept on telling me that eubos is only for adult and I kept on telling them that I saw eubos for baby at Guardian Taipan USJ and nearly bought it before. Than mama took me to her favourite pharmacy nearby to asked for eubos for baby. The same reaction goes to the pharmacist. He told us that there's no eubos for baby. I just kept quite because maybe Penang didn't have that product.

The pharmacist advice me to buy either sebamed for baby or cetaphil and as I was about to make my decision that the pharmacist showed me another soap which is much more cheaper! But the pharmacist told me that this soap is quite hard to be found. He did advice to a couple from Johore few months back and they once scolded him saying that the soap is very hard to find! Kesian uncle tu tau. So, without any hesitation I bought 2 bottles. 1 for home and the other 1 for his nursery. My mom told me that she will courier the soap if my stock finishes by the time I didn't manage to go back to Penang.

Esemtan wash lotion. It cost RM15.90 for 180ml.

I googled for this wash lotion and most of the feedback are very good indeed. Alhamdulilah. It's from Singapore and this soap is specially for anyone that having problem with eczema, fungus and skin sensitivity. It may be use daily to the whole body including head and face. The only problem is I'm not sure if I can find it here in KL. Tak sempat nak pusing2 cari lagi. Maybe by next week I have the time to find for it.

Nowadays, I'll put on Aiken talc onto cutie pie's body everytime I'd bathed him. This is also an advice from the pharmacist. This talc is also very cheap indeed. We bought the small one for trial and it cost us only RM2.90. We put onto Hadif's sensitive part of the body.

Alhamdulilah, with these 2 products, Hadif had no more rashes and skin allergies due to heat. I'm so relieved that I'm not using either triderm-C, elomet, decocort and candacort cream that been given by the doctors. Eventhough the contain of steroid is very mild and some not even have steroid, but I tried to avoid using it.

As we were so happy that these 2 products worked well with Hadif, once again Hadif had skin problem. This time, it was skin bacteria infection that we suspected been transmitted to him at the nursery. Dr Deng had given antibiotic, antiseptic wash and oil cream. Dr Deng also adviced us to use Antabax Shower Cream for a week until all the bacteria gone.

Dr Deng also told us that Antabax is the only soap in the market that has Triclosan. I was like, what is triclosan? But I just keep the question to myself. After a few reading, I found out that triclosan is an antibacterial or antifungal agent. It may kills all the bacteria and fungus that usually we had at our skin, hand and nails! Dr Deng also advices to keep our nails short since that is the best place for bacteria to grow rapidly and fast! So now, me and hubby had decided that we will only be using antabax soap at home.

I am so relieved and lucky that the solution that I found for cutie pie is not that expensive as I imagine. The other thing that I'm thankful to Allah is I didn't use any of the cream that had been prescribed by his paed. Yes, I agree that the cream is useful and in need when he had bad rashes and fungus. But to use it on daily basis, I don't think so.

18 months young

2010-12-22T11:17:00.000+08:00

He's 18 months young on 21st December 2010. hip hip horey. Sudah besar anak mama n abah ni. I bought 2 pieces of cake from Berry's; chocolate cheese cake and banana chocolate cake. I tried to go to Secret Recipe but it's very hard to get parking at Taipan, USJ! Jadinya, berry's pun sedap juga :).

We had a little celebration last night. Hadif was so excited to see the cake and candle. Actually, mama yang excited nak letak candle. I wanted to be prepared for his 2 years birthday candles blowing. ahahahaha. Over tak mama Hadif ni?

Hadif trying to blow the candle

Hadif ate the chocolate cheese while hubby ate the chocolate banana. Mama diet malam tu. ahahaha. I shared the cake with both hubby and hadif. Half way through eating the cake, hadif suddenly wanted to ate the cake by himself. Since it's his special day yesterday, we alllowed him to do anything he wanted. Guess what happened to him?

Taraaaa, ini mandi cake namanya kawan2. Boleh dapat banyak awek. ahahaha.

When he reached 18 months,
1. He had added a few vocabulary and sometimes he tried to combine 2 words to make a sentence such as "abah buka", "mama kit, kit (sakit)", "cat babai" and "abah tadak".
2. He understood my instruction well. Dah boleh minta tolong.
3. May combine a few actions to complete a task -> critical thinking medal as given by aunty nadia :). thank you aunty.
4. He may ride on the bike with tokwan. Can't wait for him to ride toksu boy superbike in penang.
5. May run as fast as lightning. Sampai mama yang kena stopkan dia.
6. His appetite had come back. hip hip horey. Im so happy and relieved!
7. Love to sing while I'm driving.
8. He may drink using a cup by himself. It maybe from the nursery.
9. His favourite dish for lunch&dinner will be bihun sup, spaggeti and nasi+kicap+ikan/telur.
10. His favourite breakfast will be cereal+milk. At the moment he loves koko krunch and yogurt strawberry cereal.
11. He may finishes Dutch Lady Chocolate milk in one sip. Takde stop2 langsung. Sekali jalan!

He had been cheekier day by day. Manja pun sama juga. A lot of other things that he had explored and developed. Im so happy to see his development and can't wait for more excitement with him.

Our little OSO

2010-12-14T11:33:00.003+08:00

I received a weekly email from babycenter for toddler aged 17 months and 4 weeks. There's one point which babycenter highlighted that a toddler at this age may combine a few actions to solve a problem. I was thinking either Hadif is capable of doing it. Alhamdulilah, this morning he proved it to me. Oh cutie pie, how proud I am to be your mama.

He'd done it with 3 little steps such as her favourite Special Agent Oso.
Step 1 : Bring forward the bag towards the step
Step 2 : Keep the car key into the bag
Step 3 : Hold on the post and slowly step down

Since last week, cutie pie had been assisting me on bringing along my hand bag. Jadinya, My hand bag will only have my handphone and purse so that it's not that heavy for him. I tried to take out my purse tapi kena marah pula. hehe.

My little Special Agent Oso, Abah&Mama love u super duper much.

Sea&Sand

2010-12-08T17:22:00.000+08:00

We went back to My Penang for Awal Muharam. After 2 months of not going back and seldom phone/skype calls with my families in Penang, I'm quite sure that cutie pie will be a bit awkward with them. But I'm totally wrong! We arrived Penang at 3am om Saturday and cutie pie straight away hugged his akong. Oh, I'm so relieved.

As usual, going back to Penang will be MAKAN-MAKAN and JALAN-JALAN mood. We went to Pulau Sayak, Kedah on Sunday to have the taste of their Mee Ketam/Udang. The journey there is quite far. Sempat la all of us took evening nap in the car while mama, abah and nadiah drove us there. While driving to Pulau Sayak, we went through a long, small road which paddy fields were at both of our sides. Sungguh cantik permandangan. Sejuk je mata. Once we reached there, we quickly ordered for our mee udang/ketam. Unfortunately, the crab had finished that day. My families were very frustrated but we were satisfied with the mee udang and scenery there.

The udang had covered our mee kuah and mee goreng

After eating, we went to the beach for cutie pie to play with the sea and sand. We were excited to see his reaction towards the sea. Alhamdulilah he loves it once my sister, Anati took him there. Sampai tak nak balik. huhu. He kept on asking Anati to bring him deeper and deeper towards the sea.

Playing at the beach

We started to go back around 7pm. Our journey did not ends there. We dropped by at Pakchak's house for supper ---> Coke/Kickapoo float with some twisties, nuts and of course a lot of stories and laughs to be shared.

@Pakchak's home sweet home

The next day, we went to Queensbay mall for some Laksa. We had the most delicious laksa in Penang named Pokok Kecil. His owner is a dear friend of my mama. Again, Hadif played with the sand here. He tried to make some sandcastle, seahorse and boat with the help from his Sayhan E.

playing with the sand at Queensbay Mall

We dropped by Queensbay Mall to do some shopping and to have mama's favourite J.CO yogurt. Sungguh sedap. Sayang sekali cutie pie already slept that time. Tak dapat la merasa J.CO yogurt tok mama tu.

Playing @Queensbay Mall

Oh, if you guys wonder how the mee udang/ketam looks like. Picture below taken by Nadiah during her visit to Usop mee udang/ketam before. Now u guys know why my families were very frustrated. hehe.

haaa, sapa tak terliur. sampai tak nampak mee kat bawah tu.

indigestion

2010-11-26T10:20:00.001+08:00

Cutie pie was down with vomiting on Tuesday midnight. He was crying and rolling his body whole over the bed. We taught he wanted to watch more cartoons as usual. However, after a few roll than he vomited. The first thing in my mind was "ala, kena virus lagi ka ni?".

We changed his pyjamas than tried to lullaby him to sleep. Unfortunately, we were unable to do so. He kept on crying and tapping his stomach with his hand. Than hubby massaged his stomach with some baby's oil. Pity cutie pie, because of the vomiting his stomach was full of wind. Than he slept for one hour than suddenly he vomited again.

Around 230am, me and hubby decided to take him to SJMC. Luckily there's no people that morning and the doctor was very polite with us. Not like the one that we had months before. The doctor said it was indigestion and asked what did he had for his dinner. I told him that cutie pie ate my garlic bread and the doctor didn't comment anything about it.

I felt so guilty. I had slight uneasy feeling when cutie pie took my garlic bread that night. But I didn't do anything about it. I just let him ate half of it. Oh my, if I were to say NO to him. I called my mom to ask her further what's wrong with garlic bread actually. I had been adding garlic and onion into his porridge before and he had no problem with it ever. Than my mom told me that the one that I cook together with the porridge was not given to cutie pie directly. It's just the taste of the garlic. But with garlic bread that I made myself, cutie pie had ate it directly. I just chopped the garlic into small pieces. Mama also advice that if I were to give cutie pie garlic bread again next time, I must blend the garlic first. Cutie pie's stomach is still small and he can't digest garlic. Even us as adult also sometime can't take too much of garlic right?

Alhamdulilah cutie pie is very strong, he's fully recovered the next day. He had 2 bowls of porridge for lunch. Than he asked for his Dutch Lady chocholate milk whom we usually bought for him nowadays. Once he finished with the milk, he asked for his coco crunch. Oh pity hadif, he's hungry due to the vomiting.

Hadif cutie pie, mama is so sorry for what had happened. Mama will try my best to be extra careful with what you eat next time. You are such a strong boy that you manage to fight with your indigestion within half a day only. I love you so much forever and ever sayang.

he was excited when I sent him to the nursery. macam lama tak pergi je lagaknya. baru satu hari OK.

the 3 friends. from left, iman, cutie pie and rayyan. yang baju orange tu tak kenal la. huhu. bukan main lagi hadif ushar iman eh. ahahaha.

Emperor Chinese Restaurant

2010-11-22T13:45:00.006+08:00

We had dimsum last Saturday at Emporer Chinese Restaurant, Grand Dorsett Hotel, Subang Jaya. Since hubby is a fan of dimsum and other Chinese Cuisine, it's hard for him to say NO when I suggested the restaurant :). This MAKAN-MAKAN is actually a celebration for a few things that had been postponed for months.

1. It's a celebration of me succeeded to fully breastfeed cutie for a year.
2. Hubby's birthday.
3. My birthday.

We had been surfing for a few varieties of restaurant that we had never been to. At last, we felt in love with this restaurant. It's me actually since we had farewell party for our ex-boss last month here.

Cutie pie was bored waiting for food to arrived

Some of the dimsum that we ordered

If you love dimsum and would like to try one, I would highly suggest this restaurant. The price is very reasonable and the food is very delicious. Instead of that, it is a HALAL Chinese Restaurant. My colleague had checked it's HALAL status with JAKIM.

Cutie pie drinking Chinese tea

Cutie pie tried to drink Jasmine Chinese Tea for the first time that day. He kept on yelling "maa, tea, tea, tea." Since jasmine tea is absolutely free from sugar I gave him to taste some and more. Akong mesti suka ni. Dah ada geng. Yeay. At home, we do have 2 packet of Chinese tea that had been bought years ago. Hubby too is an ardent fan of Chinese tea. Just for info, we may kept Chinese tea for years. The longer it's been kept the tastier the taste will be. There's some that had been kept for 50 - 100 years. The one that we bought is only 5-7 years old. So, it's rather cheap.

Cutie pie is on the mood of eating by himself nowadays

We ordered BBQ chicken pau, egg tart and glutinous rice for cutie pie . Egg tart pun nak pakai sudu tau. Bukan main lagi. He tried to use chopsticks like us but he's bored with it after a few minutes. Don't worry cutie pie, mama will buy you the training chopstick later.

Cutie pie reached 17 months yesterday, 21st November 2010. Happy 17 months young Hadif! Some of the thing that he love to do nowadays

1. Had added a few more cartoons - Handy Mandy, Little Einstein, Pocoyo and Imagination Movers. All is from Playhouse Disney Asia. If we were to changed to our channel, he'll roll over his body to the floor sambil pura2 menangis OK.
2. Love to eat by himself.
3. Had added a few vocabulary - tea, jatuh, dibo, lekas, adoih and ALLAH. There's one incident that he felt down and suddenly he said "adoih jatuhhhh". Than his lego set fell over his arms, he said "ALLAH, ishhhh".
4. He already showed an interest towards solat and doa. Whenever he heard the azan, he'll AMIN quickly for a few times. ALHAMDULILAH.
5. May follow simple instructions such as "Hadif, amik remote astro" and "Hadif, tolong pass baju dalam bakul. Mama nak jemur". He'll kept on passing all the clothes quickly sampai tak sempat tangan saya nak jemur. Ambik ko! Tadi minta tolong sangat kan. ahahaha.

There's a lot more I guess but I couldn't remembered it now. So much thing to be done and date line to follow but felt like updating something here.

12.11.10

2010-11-12T10:50:00.005+08:00

Today's date is such a special date. It's not only because of the numbers but it is the birthday of my loved ones. They were born on this date but on the different year :).

Mr Halim Khoo aka Abah aka Akong
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Born in the year of the Water Dragon, 1952. He's our beloved abah and Hadif's akong. He never remember his birthday as man usually do. When we were kids, we usually surprised him with our own design card whom mama will bought us water color, crayon and drawing blocks weeks before his birthday. He still kept all of our cards in his personal folder.

Abah,
Happy 58th Birthday.
May Allah blessed you always and forever
Thank you very much for always being there with us
We love you very much forever and ever

Akong,
Happy Birthday
Hadif love you very much forever and ever

Shaffiah Mohd
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She's born in the year of Rooster, 1981. She's my best friend during my days in UIA. She's still my best friend now and hope to be forever. We even said to people that we were soul mate. It started as a joke within us. However, it's being so true each and everyday as days goes by. Our hubbies are not happy with this soul mate thingy between us. Jealous rupanya mereka ini kan Sha :). The same question that her hubby and my hubby asked when they found out that we used to said we were soulmate are "Kalau sha/diyana soulmate awak, saya ni apa?". As time goes by, we figure out that our hubbies do have the same interest and character as well. Adakah mereka juga soulmate? ahahaha.

Among the thing that made me feel that we were so closed more than best friends are

1. I introduced her to Clinique before. After 5 years, I changed to SKIN FOOD. When we were chatting through YM suddenly I told her that I'd changed to SKIN FOOD. Suddenly she was so shocked and said she too changed to SKIN FOOD!
2. While I was browsing the net for fridge, she was window shopping at the shop for fridge as well. Than on Monday we continue our chatting as usual. Updating our weekend activities and other. When the fridge part came out, we have the same exact fridge model in mind of buying. SOUL MATE!!!! ahahaha. Perasan je kami ni.
3. There's a lot more thing but better not to list down here. Nanti Fariq and Din jealous pula. To Fariq and Din, don't worry. Eventhough we always said we are soul mate but both of you are the real soul mate that had been given by Allah to us. We are so thankful for that.

Sha,
Happy 29th Birthday
May you have a blessed year ahead
I hope your life will be always full with love and happiness
Thank you so much for being there for me whenever I need you
You are on one in a million of friends that are hard to find
Lucky that I have you as my BFF

soap for cutie pie

2010-11-11T11:01:00.004+08:00

Hadif never has any problem with shower soap before. I'd tried pureen head to toe, johnson and johnson new born and milk bath, baby kiko moisturizing bath and latest is pureen yogurt bath. Unfortunately, since he started to walk and being so active from day to day, he kept on sweating and this had made his skin full with rashes. Specially at his neck and back of his body (the part where his shirt usually kept on pressing to his body).

Dr Ali had prescribed hadif with Elomet cream before. It worked well with hadif whenever he had any rashes due to heat. However, last week the rashes seem worsen by day and it had becoming so thick on his skin. I had the feeling it had become fungus and taraaa. Memang betul la. His rahses had thicken and become fungus as confirmed by Dr Ali. Pity hadif. I'm not panicked this time as I'm so used to this problem. Dr Ali prescribed hadif with HiBi Scrub soap and Triderm C cream. Alhamdulilah within 2 days using HiBi Scrub, his skin is as gentle as baby. Bestnya. I'm so happy. And now I'm thinking of buying special soap for hadif. The ones that usually sold at the pharmacy.

Seba Med Baby Product

My doctor before adviced my mama with Seba Med soap since I was 1 year old. I had been using it til 6 years old. Ok ke sabun ni? If I'm not mistaken, Oman is using Seba Med. Betul kan Nuril? Any good or bad comment on Seba Med? Eventhough it's quite expensive, I guess it is affordable to me rather than the other 2 brands below.

Cetaphil Product

I went to the pharmacy last week and asked the pharmacist regarding Seba Med. After looking at hadif's rashes, she adviced me to use Cetaphil soap. It did stated that it is best for baby's delicate skin. But looking at the price made me think twice. Sangat mahal ok. Untuk saya la. Maybe for you guys it's not that expensive.

Buds Organic Product

Than I found out about Buds Organic at Parkson while we were shopping last week. Very expensive juga. But is it as good as it's price for hadif? That's I'm not too sure. But I love the design of Buds organic label. Sungguh comel :). Anybody had tried Buds Organic?

Friends, if you have any idea or advice regarding this please help me so. Me myself is not sure if changing into these products will help hadif with his rashes that is due to heat and sweat. Dr Ali even said that nothing much can be done since heat and sweat are something that hadif can't avoid. Unless, we installed in air cond for the whole house and the nursery as well. Toing toing toing. Kayanya mama & abah hadif! hehe.

p/s : Izu and Nurul, your daughters Zahin and Dina have eczema kan? Ada pakai sabun special cam gini tak?

picture courtesy from Mr Google.

FOOD for the SKIN

2010-11-09T10:11:00.005+08:00

I always have problem with my skin since I'm 2 months young. Out of a sudden my whole body is full of rashes. I don't know how mama had acted back than. Maybe panic juga kot. hehe. Doctor told mama that I had eczema and need to really be careful on what food that I take in the future. For the first few years of my toddler hood, I can't eat any chicken, prawns and squid. Even eggs pun tak boleh tau. Than slowly mama introduced me with chicken and eggs. Alhamdulilah I may adapt well to it but not too much. Even now, if I took chicken nearly everyday, my face will feel itchy and I'll start to scratch here and there. I never love prawns ever since. Tak sedap! Prawns tu pahit!

During my teenage years, I had problems with my pimples on my forehead and skin. Banyak sangat2 OK. Sampai geli nak tengok muka sendiri. Mama had tried a lot of product for me. The best one at that time was Hazeline Snow. Ada lagi ke sekarang ni eh. When I got my job with Sime Darby, abah and mama had given me a very luxurious present. They gave a Clinique facial set. I was so happy to receive it at that time. The Clinique consultant told me that my face is dehydrated and a bit oily. She suggested me with Clinique set 2. I'd been using Clinique since than. Alhamdulilah my skin had improved a lot after 2 years of using it.

Clinique Set 2

After 5 years with Clinique, I started to get bored and wanted to tried a new brand. Maklum la, muka dah licin sikit. Mula la perasan boleh pakai mana2 brand pun. The one that attracted me the most is SKIN FOOD. It's the bottle that really make me feel like buying it all. hehe. I went to Sunway Pyramid and the consultant suggested me to use the Black Sugar for facial wash and Parsley&Mandarine Lime for moisturizer. I did not use any toner as my Clinique consultant once told me that my face did not need any toner. Facial wash and moisturizer is good enough for me. A few weeks of using Black Sugar, pimples kept on coming out from my face. Uwaaaa, I'm so sad! Adakah peristiwa lama akan berulang kembali? I kept on blaming myself for not buying Clinique. Hubbyku yang setia itu setiap hari mendengar bebelan isterinya ini. Thanks cayang.

Black Sugar

When I went back home to Penang last raya. I told my mother that I wanted to buy Clinique. Than mama persuaded my to go and see the SKIN FOOD's consultant in Queensbay Mall, Penang. The consultant told me that I shouldn't use the Black Sugar facial wash and Parsley&Mandarine Lime moisturizer. Toing toing toing. I was so damn mad with the Sunway Pyramid consultant! Than she introduced me with Oats and Raisin facial wash together with Lettuce&Cucumber moisturizer. Since I have a lot more Parsley&Mandarine Lime mositurizer, she asked me to continue to use it but I need to change the Black Sugar facial wash. So I bought Oats and Raisins facial wash. I had to pass Black Sugar to hubby. My hubby pun pakai SKIN FOOD skang tau. ahahaha.

Parsley & Mandarin Lime moisturizer

Cactus and Cucumber mosturizer

Alhamdulilah my skin is back to normal. Yeay. Thanks to Penang's SKIN FOOD consultant. I still nedd to go back to Penang to buy anything that suits me well. Bukan salah saya ye cayang. Now, I wanted to buy their Rice Musk and Lettuce&Cucumber moisturizer. Kena tunggu gaji bulan ni la dulu. huhu. There's some other product that really attracted me. Tapi kena tunggu balik Penang dulu la. Jumpa consultant kat Penang tu.

Rice Musk - nak beli nak beli

Agave Cactus - macam nak beli juga. huhu.

They do have for anti aging as well. It's call Gold Caviar Anti Aging. Rasa macam best but I'll not buy it till I had the best advice from my private consultant - my mama :).

Gold Caviar Anti Aging. Glamour kan namanya.

I tried SKIN FOOD lip gloss as well. Best juga but I don't think that I'm going to use it for now. I never put any make up on my face. I tried to put on some compact powder but unfortunately my face started to have rashes and it's very itchy! Varieties of compact powder I'd tried such as Clinique, Bobby Brown, Mac and Dermalogica. Semua pun tak OK. I had one BIG pimple and rashes on my forehead 2 days after my reception in Penang. Sangat2 gatal OK. That's why I never put anything on my face other than moisturizer. I tried lip gloss few days ago and Hadif kept on wiping my lips with his hand sambil mulut potpetpotpet. ahahaha. Me and hubby kept on wondering what is exactly he kept on saying everytime I put lip gloss on my lips.

picture courtesy from Mr Google and SKIN FOOD FB.

lakon semula

2010-11-01T15:15:00.003+08:00

Saya sangat nervous dan gelabah pagi tadi. Hari ini merupakan hari pertama saya bekerja setelah 2 minggu MC kerana sakit mata. Hari ini juga merupakan hari pertama setelah 2 minggu saya tidak membawa kereta bersama2 kueh pau comel di sebelah sebagai co-pilot. Setelah sesi bersalaman n berciuman antara saya, kueh pau comel dan suami, saya pun meneruskan perjalanan. Oh, suami saya mendapat MC seminggu kerana dia juga sudah dijangkiti sakit mata seperti saya. Lebih memeritkan lagi, suami terkena pada kedua belah matanya.

Nasib saya sangat baik kerana kueh pau comel sangat baik di atas kerusinya. Sampai saja di tiang pengawal, saya terus "touch card" untuk membuka tiang, rumah saya adalah pangsapuri sahaja. Tiba2 saya perasan salah seorang pengawal mengangkat tangan ke arah kereta saya sambil tersenyum dan mengelengkan kepalanya. Bila ditenung lagi pada pengawal itu, sudah pasti dia sedang tersenyum sambil mengangkat tangan pada kueh pau comel.

Tanpa membuang masa, saya terus mengalih pandangan pada kueh pau comel. Perasaan gelabah kembali datang kerana menyangkakan kueh pau comel berjaya keluar dari kerusinya dan sedang memanjat pintu kereta. Tetapi apa yang saya lihat sangat menggelikan hati mama kueh pau comel ini. Rupa-rupanya kueh pau comel sedang mengangkat tangan kepada pengawal itu seperti selalu dilakukan oleh suami dan saya tiap kali keluar dari pondok pengawal itu. Ish, ish, ish, hadif...hadif. Pandai betul meniru apa yang kami buat sekarang ini.

To both of u; I LOVE U super duper very much forever and ever. Mmuuahhhh.