Saturday, May 24, 2008

Selamat Bercuti.....

Selamat bercuti pada anak-anak....dan ibubapa yang turut bercuti. Hari pertama cuti sekolah. Saya mengubah kebiasaan dari pergi pasar dan penuhkan stok dapur dengan kelainan yang simple. Kakak dan KakNgah memilih untuk qada tidur, jadi saya dan Ammer bersiap dan pergi sarapan ke McD, Juru Autocity. Hannya kami berdua Melayu! Mana orang lain...Lepas makan kami ke Botanical Garden! Dah lebih 5 tahun tak menjenguk kera kat sana...Lagi sekali, hanya kami berdua M. Kami berlenggang kangkung sbb masih pagi. Orang pun belum ramai, yang ada cuma kawan-kawan China dan orang kulit putih berjogging. Silap la pulak pakai sandal tumit 2 inci tapi OK jer...memang tak plan ke sini pun. Kami decide impromtu lepas sarapan tadi. Sepasang pasangan muda Arab mendekati saya dan bertanya, mana monyet.... Saya cadangkan mereka masuk ke dalam taman sebab memang pun, kelibat monyet tak nampak. Kalau dulu, kita masuk dan berjalan jer dah nampak monyet jinak.Bukan itu saja, bunga-bunga pun dah kurang...... Japanese Garden tak terjaga. Pendek kata,selepas lebih 5 tahun tak ke sini, Botanical Garden dah kurang seri berbanding dulu.
Apa pun saya suka pokok buah peluru meriam ini , bebunga besar pada ranting, buahnya sebesar bola bowling...
tupai ataeh julai moktae....
Kesian anakku kepenatan....
Bila balik, rasa macam sesuatu tak kena, langit tak secerah tadi. Sampai rumah terus ambil gambar ini...Penang in haze!

Salam ceria untuk semua.. saya cuti blogging hingga awal June.....

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Jangan Mengeluh....

Kadang2 kita ingat, kadang kita lupa,sbb itu diciptanya manusia ini ramai2, yg ingat akan megingatkan yg lupa,Alhamdulillah...


KITA BERTANYA : KENAPA AKU DIUJI?

QURAN MENJAWAB: "Apakah manusia itu mengira bahawa mereka dibiarkan saja mengatakan; "Kami telah beriman," ("I am full of faith to Allah") sedangkan mereka tidak diuji? Dan sesungguhnya Kami telah menguji org2 yg sebelum mereka, maka sesungguhnya Allah mengetahui org2 yg benar dan, sesungguhnya Dia mengetahui org2 yg dusta."-Surah Al-Ankabut ayat 2-3


KITA BERTANYA : KENAPA AKU TAK DAPAT APA YG AKU IDAM-IDAMKAN?

QURAN MENJAWAB"Boleh jadi kamu membenci sesua tu padahal ia amat baik bagimu, dan boleh jadi pula kamu menyukai sesuatu, padahal ia amat buruk bagimu, Allah mengetahui sedang kamu tidak mengetahui."- Surah Al-Baqarah ayat 216

KITA BERTANYA : KENAPA UJIAN SEBERAT INI?

QURAN MENJAWAB"Allah tidak membebani seseorang itu melainkan sesuai dengan kesanggupannya."- Surah Al-Baqarah ayat 286

KITA BERTANYA : KENAPA RASA FRUST?

QURAN MENJAWAB"Jgnlah kamu bersikap lemah, dan jgnlah pula kamu bersedih hati, padahal kamulah org2 yg paling tinggi darjatnya, jika kamu org2 yg beriman."- Surah Al-Imran ayat 139

KITA BERTANYA : BAGAIMANA HARUS AKU MENGHADAPINYA?

QURAN MENJAWAB"Wahai orang-orang yang beriman! Bersabarlah kamu (menghadapi segala kesukaran dalam mengerjakan perkara-perkara yang berkebajikan), dan kuatkanlah kesabaran kamu lebih daripada kesabaran musuh, di medan perjuangan), dan bersedialah (dengan kekuatan pertahanan di daerah-daerah sempadan) serta bertaqwalah (be fearfull of Allah The Almighty) kamu kepada Allah supaya, kamu berjaya (mencapai kemenangan)."

KITA BERTANYA : BAGAIMANA HARUS AKU MENGHADAPINYA?

QURAN MENJAWAB"Dan mintalah pertolongan (kepada Allah) dengan jalan sabar dan mengerjakan sembahyang; dan sesungguhnya sembahyang itu amatlah berat kecuali kepada orang-orang yang khusyuk"- Surah Al-Baqarah ayat 45

KITA BERTANYA : APA YANG AKU DAPAT DRPD SEMUA INI?

QURAN MENJAWAB"Sesungguhnya Allah telah membeli dari org2 mu'min, diri, harta mereka dengan memberikan syurga utk mereka...- Surah At-Taubah ayat 111

KITA BERTANYA : KEPADA SIAPA AKU BERHARAP?

QURAN MENJAWAB"Cukuplah Allah bagiku, tidak ada Tuhan selain dari Nya. Hanya kepadaNya aku bertawakkal."- Surah At-Taubah ayat 129

KITA BERKATA : AKU TAK DAPAT TAHAN!!!

QURAN MENJAWAB"... ..dan jgnlah kamu berputus asa dr rahmat Allah. Sesungguhnya tiada berputus asa dr rahmat Allah melainkan kaum yg kafir."- Surah Yusuf ayat 12

Nota:Peringatan ini saya terima dari saudara yang prihatin pada saya. Saya sebarkan peringatan ini untuk ingat mengingati kepada KEBENARAN ( HAQ )

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

38.3 degree C

Bestnyer kalau boleh sambung teruskan bacaan atas katil depan tv pada pagi selasa ni...

Biasa lah kan, cuti memang tak pernah cukup. Hari ini ada audit dari satu-satunya pelanggan yang di layan macam raja. Pasal urusan customer ni saya memang tak kena mengena tapi tempias jugak. Memanglah tak sedap melangkah kalau masuk ofis lepas customer dah sampai kan...Selepas hantar Ammer dengan macam-macam pesan, saya shoot dan sampai ofis 35 minit sebelum waktu resmi. Lazimnya bancuh milo dulu dan minum sambil check email, tapi hari ni rasa tak terasa nak minum pulak. Begitu begini , sana dan sini dah pukul 11 pagi baru terasa ada pager kat perut calling for food. Vico 3 in1 lah penyelamat saya, sekaligus selera makan tengahari pun dah tumpul! Ingatkan nak keluar cari koayteow tomyam...terkecur lidah sikit bila dapat sup panas pedas ni. Tapi badan ni rasa seram sejuk saja. Inilah jadinya cuti 3 hari badan pun naik lemau! Saya batalkan hasrat nak makan tengahari. Cuma makan krackers dan buah.

Bila balik rumah baru terasa nak makan nasi sbb ada ikan kembung bakar dan air asam....nyum nyum, tapi rasa tak selera la pulak. Badan rasa lemah dan beratnya kepala....rasa nak tidur tapi kesihankan Kakak dan Ammer sebab masih ada periksa esok, jadi tolong review dan ulangkaji apa yang patut. Nasib baik kelmarin terlebih rajin dah gosok semua baju untuk minggu ini, kalau tak.... memang tak larat sangat..
Sebelum masuk tidur Ammer tanya, "mama ada masa tak nak buat pai ayam". Alahai cair jadinya..Saya ni pelik sikit kalau anak minta makan, tak sampai hati nak bertangguh...
Ok lah, capai apa yang patut, buat cukup-cukup saja OK.
Macam malam semalam jugak lah , malam ini saya tidur lewat lagi. Malam kelmarin nasib baik nampak KakElle online, sempat kacau dia. Masa YM dengan KakElle sambil tersengguk-sengguk tunggu kukusan serimuka; malam ni kena tunggu oven pulak. Sabar... sabar...
Sementara tu, sempat menjenguk ke bilik bujang..
"Laaa, awat tak tidur lagi..."
"tunggu pai"
"Sayang oi, kalau masak pun tak leh makan lagi, satgi terbakar lidah"
"panas sangat ka Ma,"
"ha ah, lukis apa tu?.... dah, baca Bismilllah 21 kali. Esok bangun awal, breakfast makan pai"

Memang rasa tak sedap badan ni...ambik suhu sat.. oh...38.3 degre C.
Demam rupanya....
Uploaded by 9.30pm 21/5 : pai baru keluar oven... 4 biji jer...tak baik kan...
Happy si bujang dapat breakfast ni...

Friday, May 16, 2008

3 Hari Cuti

Drop everything and GO!!!
Best nyer kalau boleh buat macam tu....

Finally it's Friday with 3 days off, tapi kena stay kat rumah...
Agenda paling fun yang ada dalam kepala ialah menukarkan shopping voucher RMxxx kepada handbag! Dah pegi browse kat Sunway Carnival, Gurney Plaza dan Quensbay Mall, tapi yang satu itu jugak yang berkenan dihati. It's free, anyway...

Agenda lagi satu ialah cari resepi kuih tako dan buat mee kuning sendiri.. dah lama tak makan mee kuning sendirian berhad.
Oh ya, boleh juga mula baca novel Noor Suraya dan Pak Latip.
Boring kan kalau tak sibuk? Kalau dah sibuk tu, merungut pulak....
Mungkin dah ditentukanNya minggu ini untuk saya beristirehat di rumah.
Selamat Berhujung Minggu ya...

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Balik Kampung...Catatan Selamat Hari Ibu

Balik kampung zairah pusara mak, seperti biasa ia bersih terpelihara. Teduh dek pohon cempaka yang kami tanam telah rimbun berbunga. Semuga tenang roh mak di sana. Doa chek tidak pernah pernah putus-putus. Untuk mak mertua, Hajjah Che Puteh Othman, chek sayang mak. Semuga sentiasa dalam kesihatan yang baik.
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Selamat Hati Ibu Haya,
Saya ziarahi sahabat saya ini yang baru melahirkan putera puteri kembar pada hari Jumaat 9 Mei. Teruja hati tengok putera puteri comel sedang lena. Kulit Haya putih terserlah dan suaminya bertubuh gelap. Kembar ini seorang mengikut kulit bunda dan seorang lagi menyalin kulit ayahanda. MasyaALLAH. Ibu ini tidak alami sebarang alahan dan kesukaran fizikal waktu mengandung, aktif sampai hari bersalin. Namun emosinya hebat tercabar. Dalangnya juga seorang perempuan berstatus isteri dan ibu. Kami tak banyak bercakap berbeza kalau dalam telefon. Saya tinggalkan Haya yang masih di hospital dengan semangat untuk dia tabah dan terus mencipta bahagia. Dia ibu yang hebat - dia menangis waktu gembira dan ketawa waktu dia takut dan marah. Setia kasihnya tidak bersyarat, demi anak-anak yang bertambah dari tiga sekarang berlima. Semuga Haya memperoleh kemenangan menyisih pengacau rumahtangganya.
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Dalam perjalanan pulang dari kampung dan ziarah Haya, kawan saya Afni telefon minta dibuatkan sebiji lagi kek coklat untuk di beri pada emaknya. Baru semalam dia tempah satu, kenapa nak lagi. Saya ingatkan untuk di beri pada ibu mertua. Rupanya tidak...kek untuk mak dah habis separuh dimakan ayah! Separuh lagi dihabiskan cucu! Mak kata OK tak mengapa, tapi Afni kesiankan mak tak sempat nak merasa. Alahaiiiii, kesiannya saya dengar. Saya pun cakap Ok, tapi tak jamin deco yang cantik sbb tak sempat buat. Menjelang maghrib, dapatlah juga Afni datang ambik kek coklat yang saya curahkan ganache dan taburan coklat flakes ... Semuga ia cukup untuk Afni memggembirakan hati mak.
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Saya tidur awal sebab amat letih dan terjaga lebih awal pagi ini dengan ring tone sms ucapan selamt hari ibu dari kakak saya!!! Thank-you dear sis... Tengok-tengok, anak-anak lena bergulingan tidur di bilik saya! Waktu bila mereka menyelinap pun saya tak sedar. Entah-entah buat plan denagn abah nak suprise mama ni... Ammer memegang envelop warna pink! Ha ha ha...terkantoi! Nak buat suprise hari ibu tapi tak jadi! Mama bangun lebih awal....
Terima kasih anak-anak mama.
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Ini pula anak yang baru 5 hari lahir...

Bebek lahirkan 4 ekor anak, semuanya betina...
tak reti duduk diam baby Bebek nihhhh....

Bapa anak-anak Bebek, kambing baka sanen yang tekenal khasiat susunya..
Di keliling tempat belaan kambing, rambutan sedang berputik.. dokong sedang berbunga...
nangka sedang membesar...
cili padi berbuah lebat...

Selamat Hari Ibu, untuk semua ibu-ibu yang hebat! Salam ceria dan bahagia selalu...

Friday, May 9, 2008

When life is hard !!!!!!!


When life is hard, and seem no light at the end of tunnel. When days are gloomy and no starry night....
when every touch doesn't goes the way you want it...

there is only one thing you can do.....
and bring a smile to someone today.....

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

10 Ways We Misunderstand Children




Ten Ways We Misunderstand Children
By Jan Hunt, M.Sc.







1. We expect children to be able to do things before they are ready.
We ask an infant to keep quiet. We ask a 2-year-old to sit still. We ask a 4-year-old to clean his room. In all of these situations, we are being unrealistic. We are setting ourselves up for disappointment and setting up the child for repeated failures to please us. Yet many parents ask their young children to do things that even an older child would find difficult. In short, we ask children to stop acting their age.
2. We become angry when a child fails to meet our needs.
A child can only do what he can do. If a child cannot do something we ask, it is unfair and unrealistic to expect or demand more, and anger only makes things worse. A 2-year-old can only act like a 2-year-old, a 5-year-old cannot act like a 10-year-old, and a 10-year-old cannot act like an adult. To expect more is unrealistic and unhelpful. There are limits to what a child can manage, and if we don’t accept those limits, it can only result in frustration on both sides.
3. We mistrust the child’s motives.
If a child cannot meet our needs, we assume that he is being defiant, instead of looking closely at the situation from the child’s point of view, so we can determine the truth of the matter. In reality, a "defiant" child may be ill, tired, hungry, in pain, responding to an emotional or physical hurt, or struggling with a hidden cause such as food allergy. Yet we seem to overlook these possibilities in favor of thinking the worst about the child’s "personality".
4. We don’t allow children to be children.
We somehow forget what it was like to be a child ourselves, and expect the child to act like an adult instead of acting his age. A healthy child will be rambunctious, noisy, emotionally expressive, and will have a short attention span. All of these "problems" are not problems at all, but are in fact normal qualities of a normal child. Rather, it is our society and our society’s expectations of perfect behavior that are abnormal.
5. We get it backwards.
We expect, and demand, that the child meet our needs - for quiet, for uninterrupted sleep, for obedience to our wishes, and so on. Instead of accepting our parental role to meet the child’s needs, we expect the child to care for ours. We can become so focussed on our own unmet needs and frustrations that we forget this is a child, who has needs of his own.
6. We blame and criticize when a child makes a mistake.
Yet children have had very little experience in life, and they will inevitably make mistakes. Mistakes are a natural part of learning at any age. Instead of understanding and helping the child, we blame him, as though he should be able to learn everything perfectly the first time. To err is human; to err in childhood is human and unavoidable. Yet we react to each mistake, infraction of a rule, or misbehavior with surprise and disappointment. It makes no sense to understand that a child will make mistakes, and then to react as though we think the child should behave perfectly at all times.
7. We forget how deeply blame and criticism can hurt a child.
Many parents are coming to understand that physically hurting a child is wrong and harmful, yet many of us forget how painful angry words, insults, and blame can be to a child who can only believe that he is at fault.
8. We forget how healing loving actions can be.
We fall into vicious cycles of blame and misbehavior, instead of stopping to give the child love, reassurance, self-esteem, and security with hugs and kind words.
9. We forget that our behavior provides the most potent lessons to the child.
It is truly "not what we say but what we do" that the child takes to heart. A parent who hits a child for hitting, telling him that hitting is wrong, is in fact teaching that hitting is right, at least for those in power. It is the parent who responds to problems with peaceful solutions who is teaching his child how to be a peaceful adult. So-called problems present our best opportunity for teaching values, because children learn best when they are learning about real things in real life.
10. We see only the outward behavior, not the love and good intentions inside the child.
When a child’s behavior disappoints us, we should, more than anything else we do, "assume the best". We should assume that the child means well and is only behaving as well as possible considering all the circumstances (both obvious and hidden from us), together with his level of experience in life. If we always assume the best about our child, the child will be free to do his best. If we give only love, love is all we will receive.

Monday, May 5, 2008

Irritating

I came out from aerobics session sweat and flat. Ammer is still playing basketball with his friend at kiddy’s court. I purposely don’t allow him to submerge in the pool lately and told him of possibility geting his ear infected again. He swallow my excuse naively. I am trying to get him off from water as much as possible now and not knowing until when... So does my friend and neighbors . We used to bring kids together so they can play freely in the playground and swimming pool while we’re drowning with yoga or doing our gediks aerobics .... Now we have to find excuses and be very tactful to persuade kids from not going to the pool, reason being the swimming pool nowadays is contaminated , not hygenically but obsencely.
They’re wearing a “too proper” swimsuit make us get annoyed! Few are dare with 2 pc b*k*n*
They’re conquering both adult’s pool as they came in large group.
They’re too cheerful and crowded that we get geli geleman with their body language and …( as we don’t understand a word )
They invade to kiddies pool too as they can show off their bodies while sitting in the shallow water, and chit chatting, laughing like no bodies business.
They’re there everyday includes lady's day -the day we’re using the club house facilities.
Our evening life is hijacked in our own compound!!!
This area is a lovely little spot. It’s not the prime residential but I enjoy living here. Mostly all necessities are actually situated quite a near distance and easy reach out from the town itself. Neighbors are superb. Of course we close one eye to hanky panky and tolerate lots to students. Obviously students come and go but they do have respect to others. Students too filling up our surau and cheering up and helping with our kenduri and function.

This group of ....yarghhhhh.....were irritating. Who are they? They're obviously not Malaysian.
I do not mean to look down at them but what credits do I awarded to them who go to work conquering the lift at time daddies is coming up from surau every night. The dressing, tak payah cakap lah....
Our night sleep now oftenly disturbed by ghostly giggles at the wee hours. It's very shameful to see homo-sapien in that kind of attitude in your neighborhood. We're raising growing up kids and we used to share life here harmoniously. Deep inside I pray for similar scenes to be repeated....as what had happened last year, the nearby pubs and clubs was ambushed bu authorithies, then we saw their faces on tv prime news , chained out for illegal migration and ... There and then "they" dissappeared, and the new group is now breeding.....irritating!