Closing of May 2010

Tick Tock Tick Tock! How time really flies eh. It's closing of May already.

Let's revise what I have aimed to achieve this year. Read here, which I wrote on Friday 1st January 2010 btw. Dah jadi reality or masih tahap fantasi lagi?? Jom tengok..

1. Saya akan mencuba sekurang-kurangnya satu resipi baru dari himpunan buku-buku resipi yang saya ada pada setiap minggu. Sebagai tracking, saya letakkan satu senarai di blog ini, cuba lihat di right-hand side kalian.

Bad bad one in this department. I hardy tried anything new. It's always the repetition of old recipes. But I have to proudly and mengada-ngada to admit my Nasi Lemak & Nasi Minyak are getting better the more time I cooked them. (statement cover diri yang tak comply to azam heh heh). All I did in May (the last time I ever tried anything new was in January btw) was telling story about my Ikan Terubuk Masin Masak Lemak, nagging over McCormick readymade seasoning for Buffalo Wing and writing about the best premix I found so far for fritters, particularly for my Sutong Celok Tepong.

2. Saya akan membaca sekurang-kurangnya satu buku setiap bulan tanpa mengira genre cerita tersebut. Sebagai tracking, sepertimana mencuba resepi, saya siapkan senarai di blog ini, di right-hand side kalian.
Pat me on the back. For 2010 I have far exceeded my target already. I have read 25 books (well 3 is actually half read). May alone I have read 5 books. Better than April, in which I only managed 3 books). Btw, without realising it, I may have been addicted to books (or is it the bliss of buying books?). By May, I have spent more than RM2k already for books. I am glad my newly acquired habit has gone down to Kakak (she, contributed to that RM2k expenses by quite a percent as well... hmmm...). I have thought to create a new blog for books that I have bought and read but.. but.. it stopped before it reached 10 books.. *sigh*. If you check on the right hand side of this blog, there's a list of books I have read btw. For May, I read two books by Tere Liye (good in writing tapi plot cam so-so aje.. to me la), Travelog Haji, which I have bought for quite sometimes tapi tak baca-baca. Somehow ada part dalam buku left me with 'is it? is it really like that?' and a book I Love You Too. Light reading, relates so much to our daily life.


3. Saya akan membaca sekurang-kurangnya beberapa baris Al-Quran setiap hari selepas salah satu waktu solat. Lebih banyak lebih bagus.
Bad bad mommy in this area as well. Well, I did all my obligatories but rarely the sunat ones. *pinch meself*. Benarlah kita, bila susah macam-macam amalan nak buat but.. well... enough said. I need to change for the better.


4. Saya akan cuba menambah amalan sunat selain yang wajib dalam urusan harian saya.
(Apart from no3 of course) I managed to bundled up some things which I think, nice-to-keep-but-other-people-will-do-better-with items. You know, the first newborn romper Kakak wore, the first toy I bought for Iman or Adam's mittens which he wore soon after keluar ICU. Yes, sentimental values that filling my storeroom to the brim. I hope those items will put a smile on faces I don't even know who. But like they say, 'tangan kanan memberi, biarlah tangan kiri tak tau' and yet I am announcing it here heh heh.


5. Saya akan membuat belanjawan bulanan dan stick to it. Saya tidak akan overspend on benda-benda yang bukan keperluan. Sila note perkataan overspend.. bukan not spend at all *ayat disclaimer yang agak bahaya*.
Well, 2 major damages and 1 minor. I bought like 10 tudungs at one go (kongsi dengan Kakak, aci kan.. kan.. kan...) and a leather handbag (can you believe it's Coach and not forgetting to mention, it's in violet too!). I also bought a big dose of SkinFood. I got meself a bling-bling, which I've been drooling for quite sometime but that used another provision from selling my ESOS.


6. Saya akan menabung secara konsisten setiap bulan, untuk diri sendiri dan anak-anak. Jika sekiranya ada lebihan pada penghujung bulan, saya akan simpan di bank.
Well, urghhh... I have a consistent 'potongan gaji' for Tabung Haji and in koperasi. I have an SI for insurance and I periodically invest in unit trust. Okay lah kot.. other than that takde baki okay.


7. Saya akan menyimpan sejumlah wang setiap bulan sejak dari awal tahun untuk saya belanjakan sempena Y.E.S December nanti. Kalau umur panjang, InsyaAllah.
Macam tak berapa berjaya hu.. hu..


8. Saya akan pastikan anak-anak saya belajar secara konsisten pada setiap hari. Baik Kakak, baik Iman, maupun Adam.

Well, not consistently. And not school-education-ly. Kakak kena paksa hafal sifir sebagai tukaran for her collection of Geronimo Stilton (Mr Stilton is a rodent btw... read here for more info. He has a lot of fabu-mouse adventure, as Kakak tells me) Adam has been talking a lot. Iman banyakkkkk improvement. He writes alphabets, he draws, he colors, he cuts and his speech is way better now.

9. Saya akan cuba memasak dengan lebih giat lagi untuk keluarga saya.
Alhamdulillah. Tho not trying out new recipes as much as I had hoped for, the kids are still well fed with ummi's air tangan meal especially on weekends. Weekdays susah sikit due to timing and they manipulated Bibik Ros to dish out food they like. Like telur goreng dari pagi sampai petang, boleh?

So, whatever happens to your resolution?

Kakak Sits For Mid Term Exam 2010

Hari ni Kakak periksa Mid Term 2010 sekolah kebangsaan. Minggu lepas Mid Term di sekolah agama. Bila anak nak exam, biasalah, mak yang tension lebih-lebih heh heh.

Untuk makluman, pendidikan seni pulak memang dah diberi soalannya. Jadi kita kena mempersiapkan bahan untuk paper tersebut. Kalau nak simulate dulu pun boleh heh heh. Like last time dia pilih nak draw permandangan di zoo, berlatihlah dengan En Tebby sebelum the real exam. Kali ni dia pilih nak buat gelang dari manik, malam tadi 2 kali dah berlatih cucuk manik dengan benang heh heh. She looked worried still especially part nak simpul benang tu. Ummi pulak terpaksa korbankan gelang manik untuk tujuan latihan!

Result untuk Mid Term sekolah agama dah dapat, katanya Kakak dapat semua 70% ke atas. Paling tinggi 88%. Iya, saya suka. Betul dia mungkin tidak secemerlang anak-anak anda yang manjang score 100% but then it's a tremendous improvement than her previous results. Ada kawan-kawan yang bertanya hari tu perlukah hantar anak ke sekolah agama? Untuk kes saya dan Kakak, perlu. Why? Sebab I need her belajar fardhu ain, belajar mengaji, belajar solat. Bab result cemerlang exam saya tak tekankan sangat. I don't know if it's bad or what. Cuma dari segi praktikalnya she knows. Tahu berwuduk dan solat properly. Tahu mengaji. Tahu basic bahasa Arab. In fact ada duplication between what she learns in sekolah agama and program JQAF di sekolah kebangsaan (Jawi, Quran, Arab, Fardhu Ain). Cuma di sekolah agama lebih extensive lagi.

Mohon Ya Allah permudahkan Kakak sit for her exam kali ni (and the coming papers in future). Yang paling elok berdoa ialah kita, para ibu. Kalau tak takkan sampai ada yang kata masin mulut mak, kan. Always cuba keluarkan yang baik-baik saja walaupun tengah marah. Anak bertuah ke. Anak beriman ke. Kata-kata ibu kan doa tu.

On a totally unrelated event, saya telah tergelincir dan membuat split kat depan parking -1 tadi. Kalau anda nampak ada seorang perempuan berbaju hijau, berseluar kaler krim jatuh dan tersplit, itulah saya heh heh. Wei kaki acik koyak sikit kulitnya, pedih. Other than that rasanya okay-okay aje.

Read about her shooling related entries here.

Don't Ask!

I am reciprocal most of the time. When given, I give back. When I give, I expect to be given back. And yes, I am selfish as well in that sense. Whoever I am and how insignificant I may be, I still deserve some respect as a human being.

I need a retail theraphy and spend the remaining-whatever there is in my wallet.

Just please don't ask okay.

Almost Jatuh Kerusi!

Remember this? I have submitted my application and the relevant supporting documents approximately two weeks ago. And between then and now, Mr General Manager has twice jokingly asked me to reconsider. Ala bos, for a semua merah like me, I don't make significant anythings for the office, rest assured, my absence won't be felt. Just let me go and be full time mom for while okay. Who knows if I, En Tebby and the kids enjoy this, I may leave for good.

Anyway.

Person-In-Charge in HR called me today, delivering a bad news. I almost jatuh kerusi okay. I was like, please don't tell me it's rejected *tears welling*. We already made first month payment, paid registration fee and bought books for Iman, in view of the coming July. Thank God, syukran Ya Allah, my jatuh-kerusi was in fact unnecessary. Person-In-Charge could not find my application anywhere, not on P-I-C's table and not amongst papers on P-I-C's assistant. I had my copy scanned right away and sent afterwards. Phew..

To HR, please.. please don't make me jatuh kerusi for real after processing my application will ya?

Khamis Yang Indah

Semalam ambik cuti. Takde apa-apa significant nak buat pon, except Tebby bayar duit keta and me sent watches for servicing. Heh, bunyi cam le mahal sangat jam-jam tu kan. Thing is, ada yang dah berzaman jarum tak bergerak-gerak. Tak tau le kot-kot dah rosak. Out of 5, 2 leaked battery already. One gone case, tak boleh diselamatkan. One sent for tukar cermin pasal ada chip kat tepi nun. And I got meself a sports watch. Ala, dengan nama lain, jam pelestik.. seswai nak bawak berlasak-lasak pi jogging ke hapa kan. I asked, boleh masuk air ke? Uhh kalau masuk air, rosak lah tapi boleh masuk dalam air. Loyar buruk lah pulak. I got a BUM watch for RM90. Sebenarnya, asalnya rasa gatei nak beli Baby-G shocking pink.... apakah? Tapi En Tebby dengan berhemah suh beli hak RM90 itu saja. Thanks Yang for bringing me back into reality heh heh.

Car loan paid, watches serviced, perut pulak kasi isi sikit. Makan kat Tony Roma. This time I rate them at 2/5 only. Why? My steak medallion, as the name implies, should look like medals but I got something flat and, well, they did not resemble any kind of medals or medallion at all. Medallion kena pijak maybe. But I had to complement their greens. Salad that comes on un-necessarily big bowl (for a not-so-green person like me) but the taste was nice anyway. Tebby had some kind of chicken which didn't go well with his tastebud. I ordered old fashion lemonade, thinking it would be like the one I made at home but I got lemon soaked in soda. Perit tekak makcik okay. Next time I'd better ask for their modern version of lemonade, who knows I may get like the one I made at home heh heh. If you don't get it, I'm being sarcastic okay.

old fashion lemonade yang agak siksa saya nak telan.
org sebelah minum pineapple juice.

suamiku yang kena pakai beg pelestik untuk menikmati ayamnya..


Tebby's lunch


hah, nampak cam medal tak? tak, kan?

salad. rasa cam makan kat rumah Micheal Smith la pulak

After Tony Roma, MPH we go. Well, I did. Tebby went to Comic Mart to get his dose of comics.. err... he puts them as graphic novels. That way, I can browse without having him breathing over my shoulder and he, me. I got meself 3 books and some bookmarks (FYI, I don't dog-ear my books and I respect books, so bookmarks will come handy)

ps - those bookmarks dah jadi the kids' toys in no time.. sigh..

three new books

also bought from MPH, on different occasion

nampak jari godomok belah kiri tu?
Adam's.. tgh nak capai bookmarks yang kiut-kiut itu

Kisah Meminjam Tudung

Anak dara saya, alhamdulillah dah mula bertudung secara konsisten. Kata orang ni, sejuk perut ibu mengandung. Syukur.

Sebagai galakan, saya belikan dia tudung-tudung yang saya fikir dia akan suka dan pada situasi situasi tertentu, saya benarkan dia buat pilihan sendiri. Contohnya baru-baru ini, saya pesan tudung online dari http://www.asteriskboutique.blogspot.com/, si Kakak tumpang order dia sama. 5 helai untuk dia saja! Saya pun order jugak lah untuk diri sendiri (what's new kan). I assumed we can share so I made sure takde color yang duplicate between my and her order.

Baru-baru ni, saya pinjam tudung hitam dengan edging corak zebra dia. One of the 5 she ordered. Sebenarnya saya ambik, pakai, baru saya inform dia. Bukan mintak permission pun. Kena sound dengan abahnya. We have to be what we want her to be. You kata dia kena itu ini tapi you tak buat, macamana? Heh heh.. sorry Kakak.

Then I decided to pinjam one more, kaler pink. This time I wanted to do it right so I asked for her permission. Kerut-kerut muka dia tak berapa nak bagi pinjam. Katanya hari tu Ummi ambik je tudung Kakak, Kakak belum pun pakai lagi Ummi dah pakai. Yes, bad mommy. So, dia taknak kasi pinjam. She's and individual with her own rights on her things plus she's 9 already, so I backed out from further negotiating. Pi lah bawak diri ngemas almari hu hu. I saw she turned off lampu dalam bilik dia shortly afterwards. Lepas tu dalam 10 minit, dia keluar semula and extended her hands.

Minta maaf katanya pasal tudung tu.
Takut Ummi kecik hati.
Kalau Ummi nak pinjam yang pink tu pinjamlah.
Tapi lepas pakai Ummi mesti basuh terus dan lepas kering terus simpan dalam almari Kakak.
Dan.. jaga elok-elok, jangan kena kicap.

Ayat last tu yang tak tahan tu. Kicap is not my feveret, unlike you my dear. So, berjaya jugaklah saya pun menggayakan tudung pink yang dipinjam dari Kakak.... dan tak kena kicap! dan dah basuh dan dah simpan dalam almari dia heh heh.

inilah tudung kontroversi itu..

Mon Rod Kitchen

Lepas bawak anak-anak ke tasik petang tadi, kami suami isteri had quiet dinner outside. Kat Mod Rod Kitchen di Suarasa, Bandar Tun Hussein Onn. Barulah adil dan saksama kan heh heh. Spend time dengan anak-anak and had private time berdua-duaan.

For drink, I had Watermelon Juice and Tebby had Blueberry Soda (something like that la namanya). For dinner I had Lamb Chop (agak masin) and Tebby had Mushroom Chicken Chop (sosnya agak masak, according to Tebby).

Lake Valley, BTHO

Petang tadi pi Lake Valley, tempat saya biasa pergi jogging... err... briskwalking. Sejak first time ber-exercise kat sana, it's always sebelah pagi. Almost always, my day starts early. By 7 dah keluar pi Lake Valley. Thing is, anak-anak masih terpisat-pisat lagi kalau nak ajak ke tasik. So, bawak lah sebelah petang.

It's been a while since the last time depa pi tasik. Now, dah ramai sangat orang. Nak main kat playground tu pun budak-budak kena take turns. And the lake is now full of fishes, big fat ones. Ada pulak budak-budak jual fish food (padan lah ikan gemuk-gemuk sangat!) And since sekarang ni agak berangin, ada jugak yang jual layang-layang dan ramai yang main. Memang meriah lah. Jom layan gambar..

Iman trying out the swing. Kalau dulu memang big NO NO dia nak naik. La ni steady jek. Go Iman Go!

Adam dengan Bibik Ros. Muka 'stunt' pasal baru bangun tido heh heh

Big fast fisher. Tengah berkerumun kejar makanan.

Hak yang berlonggok belah kiri ni berbaris bagi ikan makan.

Semi-D tepi tasik. Pernah berangan nak dok sini tapi berangan je laaa..

Sebahagian kecik dari budak main layang-layang..

Jom Masak Masak

Bila Kak Mon ke dapur, dia taram semua tiga tungku! Multitasking katanya.. satu rebus daging. Satu periuk lagi rebus ayam. Nih semua nak buat kuah sup kot-kot weekdays tekak terasa nak makan mi sup ke apa kan. (I keep these frozen) Kualai tu pulak nak menggoreng ikan. Periuk Ikan Terubuk Masin Masak Lemak baru je diangkat. Cerita lanjut tentang Ikan Terubuk Masin ni, bolehlah baca kat blog masak-masak saya ni yer. Kejadian ni selepas makan Nasi Lemak dalam entry saya sebelum ni sebenarnya.. Lepas bersantap Nasi Lemak untuk sarapan, bersantap pulak yang berlemak-lemak untuk lunch isk.

Asalnya masa saya baru-baru kawin way back in year 2000, memang la cooking skill sangat-sangat limited. Mujuk En Tebby sanggup tahan makan ikan goreng memanjang heh heh. Masalahnya sampai bila skill tak digilap kan. Bak kata pepatah orang putih ni.. the way to your husband heart, is through his stomach (well... among other things la kan..) Kena pulak my MIL memang jenis yang pastikan anak-anak dia well-fed so.. kenalah saya pastikan anak dia yang dah jadi suami saya tu well-fed jugak kan.

Bila dah ada anak satu, mulalah cari resepi-resepi untuk anak. Dari sorang anak, dah tiga anak. Masing-masing ada preference sendiri. Lagilah nak kena variasikan makanan depa. Yang pastinya their common preference is Nasi Lemak dengan Nasi Minyak. Kalau yang dua jenis tu depa boleh tahan makan dari breakfast sampai ke dinner (tu pun kalau tahan sampai malam). Kalau Nasi Minyak, Iman alone boleh makan sampai 3 serving at one go! Ni dia dah demand nak makan Nasi Dagang la pulak (which I am still clueless on how to do it walaupun saban tahun tengok my inlaws buat hu hu) Penat tu memang la penat, especially kalau buat Gulai Nasi Minyak, it took hours sampai daging empuk and rempahnya well blended. Tapi bila anak-anak dengan suami makan bersungguh-sungguh.. sungguh rewarding dan puas hati. Bak lirik lagu si Jali Jali by arwah Sudirman..

Capek sedikit tidak peduli sayang

Asalkan tuan, asalkan tuan senang di hati

Gone Jogging errrr... Briskwalking

His & Hers.

Orang selalu ambik gambar wedding rings kan.

Since ours (Tebby sebenarnya) dah tak muat lagi dah, kasut pon.. kasutlahhh..

Layannn...

Fuh... lama giler tak pi jogging. Errr... brisk walking sebenarnya. Tapi when I briskwalk, it's always around 45 minutes, okaylah kan? <-------- ayat yang sebenarnya cuba menjustify ketidakberjayaanku nak berjogging heh heh.

Lepas jogging, errr... briskwalking tu, bersantap pulak nasi lemak taruh sambal kerang sama telur goreng. Apakahhh???

SkinFood Theraphy

Iya, SkinFood obsession saya belum berakhir. Malah bertambah parah lagi. Dari pendandanan muka dah jadi pendandanan badan. Tang rambut je belum pasal nak habiskan dulu Cik Bawang saya nih. Teringat pulak mesej Hari Ibu yang kawan ofis hantar. Katanya umur 20-an rasa mengancam, umur 30-an mencuba macam-macam. Betul kot ha ha. Ntah le, for me situasi saya umur 30-an ni yang menjadikan saya macam-macam, kombinasi cukup masa, cukup fund dan ada cukup motivation. When I was in my 20-s, combination tu tak terjadi. Ada fund, takde masa. Ada masa, takde fund. Ada masa, ada fund, takde plak motivation. Ada motivation, ada masa, takde plak fund. Gitulah. Ala... sapa-sapa yang belum masuk fasa macam saya nih mungkin tak faham tapi bila dah mencecah version melebihi 35, you'll know.

Anyway, these are what I got for meself earlier today.

1. Black Sesame Hot Mask - As the name suggests, memang panas muka kalau apply mask nih tapi the after-feeling syok. Ditambah dengan sedikit perasan (he he), kulitku rasa lembut aje. This it to replace my Rice Wash Off Mask. Bosan guna yang sama je.

2. Potato Pack - This is to be used after no 1. This one gel-like, sejuk aje kat muka. Sebelum ni tempel Fresh Aloe Pack.

3. Tomato Sun Cream SPF 38 PA++ - To be applied before going out. Last item sebelum letak bedak.

4. Grapeseed Oil Body Shower Gel - Soft and sweet smelling. I loikee!

And I got that super red, sexy vanity bag. Sanggup cukupkan sampai RMxxx.xx semata-mata untuk dapatkan beg merah ketot ini? Iskk... Sungguh terburu nafsu okay. Plus I got 2 sets of samples from their Black Raspberry line. Ini pon untuk orang-orang yang sudah menunjukkan tanda-tanda penuaan okay.

Err... sebelum sesi membeli sampai dapat vanity bag yang merah seksi itu, I have indulged in another session of SkinFood last month. Asalnya nak ganti Tomato Serum yang dah habis licin licau, and sudahnya I came back with these.. well, what's new kan.

1. Agave Cactus Serum
2. Agave Cactus Moisturiser
3. Fresh Lime Toner
4. Fermented Soy Milk Wrinkle Care Sleeping Mask

And got one small tub of Fresh Lime Body Lotion FOC. Suker! Suker!


SkinFood's Agave Cactus line is for ageing, dry skin. Thing is, when the products are for ageing, they are always a bit more expensive. So girls, start take care of yourself seriously even before you hit 30 okay.

I, for one thing, learn something from Tebby. He googles and wikis for more info when he finds anything new. So I wiki-ed and google-ed for Agave Cactus and finally got to know how this Agave Cactus looks like. Here's the photo which I googled..


And here's the one depan rumah jiran ku... owh!! Haruskah ku bertanam pokok ini pulak demi menjimatkan kos??

Read my 1st entry on my SkinFood theraphy here. It was Nov 20, 2009.

My second here. It was Dec 4, 2009.

I bought my 3rd batch here, on Dec 28, 2009
On Feb 22, 2010 I bought my 4th batch, read it here.

Adam Is T.W.O

Adam, then. Si tembun dengan berat 3.74kg.

Adam is 2! Atas kesibukan (alasan?) dan kalut-kalut Ummi, tahun ni Ummi tak hantar apa-apa ke mana-mana pun untuk menyambut birthday Adam. Tahun lepas Ummi jamu kawan-kawan Adam di nursery. Tahun ni Adam dah duduk rumah aje, so jamu kita-kita ajer lah kot he he?

Untuk Adam, Ummi dah belikan (more like Ummi dah pesan kawan mintak tolong belikan) present. Something you can keep for a very long time and it appreciates in value as well (agak-agak Adam faham tak nih?). Tapi Adam tak boleh pakai taw, haram hukumnya. Kalau Adam nak present lain yang Adam boleh kitai-kitai, boleh lipat-lipat, boleh baling-baling, mintak kat Abah yer nak..

Adam sekarang ni banyak immitate Abangnya Iman. Dia lebih cepat belajar. Ye lah, dia ada 2 org 'guru' kat rumah. Tapi feveret dia ialah mengikut apa jua yang Iman buat. Makanya, kerja dia ialah mem'fire' orang, meninju Ummi (bergurau ganas dia nih) dan bergolek golek melakonkan adegan dari feveret cerita dia 'omemeng' (ultraman.. boys will be boys huh?) Tapi hati dia soft. Kalau kita angkat suara sikit, bulatkan mata marah dia, cepat aje dia meraung dan buat muka kesian.

Apapun, seperti mana-mana ibu pun, Ummi doakan Adam diberikan umur yang bermanafaat, sihat-sihat selalu, terang hati dan sentiasa menceriakan.

Bacakan perihal kelahiran Adam di sini dan sewaktu umurnya genap setahun di sini.

On Leave?

Application signed and approved by Mr General Manager on 7th May 2010. Will be submitted to HR once I get that post-dated cheque for my loan. Maybe today or Tuesday. I hope person-in-charge will issue an approval without much hassle.

I'm doing this for Iman and insyaAllah, while I'm at it, my other kids will benefit as well. Tipulah kalau saya kata saya hip-hip-hurray doing this. Having worked for almost 13 years, this is not easy. But a mother will do what a mother must do. If you're in my shoes, I'm sure you'll do just this. Some say, wahh... tak kerja? Sanggup ke? Bagi ibu-ibu yang seangkatan dengan saya, this is insignificant comparing to other moms yang lebih banyak berkorban. Like I said, kalau anda jadi saya, anda mungkin akan mengambil langkah yang sama.

I am sure the adjusting period will be quite hard for me. So Tebby, please bear with me, my emotions, my sighs, my nagging, because this is a new thing in my life. A new phase.

Self centered that I am. Talking about myself as a mother on Mother's Day. So, Happy Mother's Day to all mommies out there. We are special people, all in our own way. So, do feel good about it.

ps - For those who hasn't know yet, I am applying for a year off from the office to attend to Iman. InsyaAllah. Please pray that this will get approved at HR level pulak.

Thank You Note

Came to office to this. Thanks dear, you know who you are!. Ritter Sport mmg my long time favourite ponn.. And the ladybird is super-cute too!

Chosen Ones

Ingat entry saya yang ini? Well, the same boy now, is such a chatterbox. Dah tak sepi lagi dah! Syukur alhamdulillah.

I remember his ST once told me, if you can find the key to unlock, I'm sure he'll talk. Kunci itu tak siapa yang tahu di mana. As a mother you know best. He left me perplexed, clueless. He's (Iman, not his ST, you silly!) talking now, night and day but if you ask me where's and what's the key, I just don't know! The closest I have (maybe), persistence, patience and passion.

For example malam tadi we brought him makan kat kedai. He ate and went to pee as well. Malam tu before bed, Tebby tanya if he has pee-d (this is his routine, sebelum tido bawak dia pegi toilet). He said 'Alaa abah ni.. kan tadi Iman dah ken**** dah. Kat kedai tadi tu' If I refused to do things he wanted, he'd said 'Ummi ni *naderr lah' *-->ngada

Like any other kids, I think semua budak akan melalui fasa suka ajuk orang cakap so he went like this, ajuk Umminya..

Tadi Iman makan apa? me asked

Tadi Iman makan apa? he said

Ummi tanya ni

Ummi tanya ni

Iman belajar tak?

Iman belajar tak?

Ummi baik!

Ummi baik!

Iman nakal!

Ummi nakal!

Other than that, he loves computer games. After being taught just a few times, he knows when to left-click and when to right-click the mouse. And knows that in absence of a mouse, he can always use the touch pad. Other thing he is interested in is KUMON activity books. I bought him coloring books (helped him a lot untuk kenal color, he knows the basic green, red, yellow and blue as well as black, brown, white, orange), folding books (simple origami I'd say). Problem is, he'd want to finish the whole book at one go. Fenat makcik melayan dia. In a way it helped boost his concentration.

I remember the other day I had him to trace 1 2 3. He flipped the book back and forth, again and again. He said, kat mana A? Mana A? A? Owh.. although he doesn't recognise (yet) all 26 alphabets, at least he knows some. Way to go Iman!

And alhamdulillah, when in public, dia dah boleh kontrol diri dia. He'd stay near with one of us. Tak macam dulu, berlari-lari ke sana sini without any care in the world.

Long and winding road it was for us. Still is. But alhamdulillah, we're chosen. My next mission is (1) to get him on the van en-route balik tadika and (2) to separate him with Kikkor, at least leaving that lembek, noseless, twice-sewn-back tail helpless little tiger at home when he goes anywhere.

Denni Kenji

For Yati and Farra.. feast for your eyes!

52kg Itu Bukan Gemok!

Tadi meeting. Ganti bos sebenarnya. Jumpa kawan lama, sama-sama induction lebih kurang 13 tahun lepas. Lepas meeting saya tegur dia..

Kak, tak kenal saya ke? Kita sama-sama *MTP dulu.

Kenal tapi susah nak cam. Dulu awak **cun dan kurus.
Awak pregnant lagi ke?

Hehh... lemak jerrr

Huwaaaa.... Yang, wiken ni konfom I pegi jogging balik...

Nota: -

* Nama induction course. Ai dengan batch no 5.

** Kasik can laahhh okayy