4d3n @ Columbia Asia Balakong

It's been more than 3 years since any of my kids admitted to hospital. Last time was a long long time ago, in November 2008 in APSH. Adam kena bronchiolitis masa tu. Read about it here.

Iman was having fever for the past 2 weeks. Bukannya straight 2 weeks but on-off. His fever pun was yoyo-ing. Jap panas. Jap tak berapa panas. On certain days, he was off fever but next day demam balik. Cam tu lah kronologinya.

Khamis lepas, after lunch, taska called me up mintak pick up Iman. High fever and purging. Rushed back to Cheras, fetched him then zoomed to Klinik Kita. Referred to hospital sebab dia dehydrated. This time tak pegi Ampang Puteri like we normally did. Columbia Asia kat Balakong. Very-very-very near to our house. Convenience.

Pegi A&E. Masuk triage area. Pasang IV. Drama okay. Nak Ummi. Nak Ummi. Ummi this. Ummi that.

Amboihhh! Sapa yang sakit sebenarnya? Adam was helping himself on Iman's dinner. Hospital food - very bland. Most of the time we got something somewhere else for Iman.

Sakit, sakit jua. Solat tak tinggal. Alhamdulillah. Solat cam TokMi ye Ummi? My MIL, whom the kinds fondly call Tokmi dah lama keuzuran. Solat atas kerusi. Iman solat atas katil because his right hand was attached to that IV machine.

I shared his bed. Nasib baik Ummi kecik je bang. Tapi time dia nak main game, 'Ummi tepi sikit, saya nak main game ni' Amboih.... dia jugaklah yang 'saya nak Ummi' 'saya nak Ummi' masa kena cucuk tangan tu.. Bertuah betul.

Not forgetting to mention, he's one boy of routine. Before sleep mesti pee-pee, gosok gigi and wudu'. Ni pun jenuh to convince him that he need not to basuh tangan yang berbalut tu. Ha.. layan games iPad sebelum bedtime juga adalah rutin wajib.

Hospital burger. Chicken patty is homemade. Healthier version. Very lean meat. Too healthy that my tastebud didn't agree with it hihi.Nevertheless telah dimakan dengan jayanya.

Finally, semalam (Ahad 15th July), Iman boleh balik rumah. Yayyy!! He was off fever for the last 24 hours so boleh pulang. Proudly showing off his hand :D

Majlis pembukaan balutan yang penuh drama.. Gam plaster tu melekat kat bulu roma dia. Terjerit-jerit dia time kena tarik menda tu :D :D

Berdarah ke? Berdarah ke? Adoilah Iman. Sikit je kesan IV tu. Siap berplaster bagai sampai hari ni walhalkan tak berdarah pun..

Hopefully episode demam kali ni berakhir di sini. Ramadhan pun dah dekat. Tak mau lah bermalam kat hospital time bulan puasa. Iman pun excited tu nak puasa. Kena sihat-sihat ye bang, kalau Abang nak puasa....

ViVa is 5!

Happy Birthday to You
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Viva
Happy Birthday to You

After 10 years of working, I finally bought a small car that I can call my own. That was in 2007. Rezeki. (Shortly after that dapat another rezeki, I got pregnant with Adam) Nothing fancy, an auto 1.0 ViVa in silver. I mean the kaler laaa... bukan silver bebetul. Kalau betul dah lama kena curi hihi. Tebby picked it up on 4th July 2007 from Perodua near Kajang.

I didn't drive much until after I gave birth to Adam. Then sometime end of 2008, Tebby got new assignment that required him to travel overseas a lot. And if he's not, he travelled to south, north, east Malaysia. I needed to be mobile on my own. I remember having Tebby co-piloting me. Kalah pegawai JPJ okay. Now? Slow sikit la Yang.. laju ni. But he still gives remarks like 'tengah sikit', 'steering pegang kuat-kuat, kereta gegar la'. :D

That's my ViVa, aged 3 yo that time (2010) Vain huh? Kereta pun ada birthday. Tebby's car is on 11th May 2009. Double vain. New 'rim sukan'. Masuk lubang sampai rim dah tak bulat. But rest assured, Cik ViVa ni routinely serviced and washed. 

When I first bought kereta ni, we put my budget as Priority Numero Uno. Memula nak beli Kelisa/Kancil tapi dah tak keluar dah rupanya. I am among the pioneer lah pakai keta ViVa ni. Sebaik launching terus check it out kat Perodua and order sebiji. Sounds senang je kan? Macam senang tapi tak senang. Lepas kira gaji, lepas fikir tu, lepas fikir ni.. ViVa it is then.

Kecik.
Comel.
Jimat minyak.
Senang nak nyelit.

:D

Sepopok Who?

Ummi Ummi tengok ni.. macam sepopok (buat aksi main serunai guna hidung).

Sapa buat macam tu Dik? 

Sepopok.

Sepopok?

A ah. Sepopok yang kuning tu.

Oh, Spongebob.

Boleh makan tau Ummi. Dia cheese. Badan dia ada ada lubang-lubang. Macam cheese.

:P

Life Goes On (version II)

It's been a little more than a year already! How time really flies! But it flew faster when I was on longggg leave :D I guess it always happen when you're having fun. Thinking back, I remember friends were commenting on sacrifices us mothers do when it comes to our children. In my case (in that very particular case I must say), it was not really a sacrifice pun. I had fun! Alhamdulillah Allah bestowed me a chance of taking care and manage my family and household on my own. Perhaps it was Tebby who made the big sacrifice. For a good whole year, he was a solo bread-winner for us all.

 If you asked, syukur, all went well. Of course any path we take will present us with different challenges and whatnots. If you asked again, yes, I prefer being a TSAHM. But... I want to get my pay as well. But... I can't afford to have them all. Know what they say,.. too many of good things, can actually be bad. True? No? I do not know for sure. But whatever it is on my plate, I shall savour, chew and eat. Because that's the rezeki Allah has bestowed upon me. Because either way, insyaAllah we're doing good.

Bag of A Mother..

When you are a mother, this is how your bag looks like. Toys, handtowel, botol air and whatnots. Ada je yang menumpang :P

Celebratory Lunch @ Chili's 23062012

23rd June 2012

I have always believed in rewards as a gesture of appreciation. My school-going children may not be the best-est students in their class judging from their exam results. They made huge leap nonetheless. Kakak made it to 5th place in her class.Iman is in Band 3. Not taking this band-thingy into perspective pun, Iman has made a whole lot of improvement, education-wise. So far so good. 

Tebby, otw back to taska after meeting the kids' teachers, announced that he was treating us all for lunch that coming Saturday (which was last week's Saturday actually. Pardon the delay). At Chili's and suggested that we should have Molten Chocolate Cake for dessert. Say what? Chocolate? Cake? Nak! Nak! Nak!

Grape Juice and Orange Juice. My tastebud says that Grape juice tasted like anggur benyek but Tebby likes it very much. Since I don't do chilled or icy drink so much, we just shared a mug between us. Not exactly a mug la because Tebby had a refill. The kids had Orange Juice that came with Kid's Menu (one free Kid Meal for one main). Since we ordered just one main, we only got one free Kid Meal and paid for the other two.

Plain water for Iman. He has limited choices of preferred food. Including drinks. He takes hot teh-o, hot milo, yoghurt drinks and plain water. No soda. No caffeine.

Pepper Pal Country Fried Chicken Crispers for Adam. He was pretty occupied with a newly purchased Bumblee Bee, he barely ate these. Orang sebelah dia yang makan. Siapa duduk sebelah dia? Me laa.. :D The batter coating those chicken strips adalah sangat sedap!

Pepper Pal Cheese Pizza. Iman punya. Ni lah menu wajib dia kalau pegi Chili's. He loves pizza. Especially plain ones like this and most importantly, sans vege. Yeah, I know it's not good. But rather than not eating anything at all kan.

We the adults decided to order a stater and a main only. Share. For starter it was Triple Play. It's a combo of three types of starters. Chicken Crispers (as in Adam's Kid Meal), Wings Over Buffalo and Southwestern Eggrolls. It came with three types of sauces too. Three short sticks of celery to lessen the guilt! LOL!

A tower of Big Mouth Burger. Seen above tower dah roboh :D :D As the name goes, you really have open up wide to eat this! Kena potong dulu baru boleh makan. Too bad it came with a strand of hair...After complaining and had 3 staff came and talked to us, we had the replacement. Cut nicely in quarters. Okaylah senang nak makan. And most importantly, no hair!

Tadaaa!!! Molten Chocolate Cake. Topped with vanilla ice-cream. Atas tu ada chocolate shell somemore. *gemok* *gemok* The cake was warm and it had warm chocolate fudge inside. Imagine fudge meleleh-leleh the moment you dip your sudu in it. Being a sweet-tooth, I immediately fell in love with this. Love at first taste. If only they gave us two scoops of ice-cream. That would be better.

Look at Kakak attacking the shell :P

See. All licin already. Kalau kat rumah boleh jilat tanpa segan silu.... Kat kedai kena berbudi bahasa menjaga air muka suami...

Kids - Keep it up. The better you all score in exams, the more of this cake your mother will eat hi hi
Tebby - Thanks Yang for the wonderful treat

Oh ya, we got a RM20 discount. I guess that's for that 'hairy incident'. That's basically one free Molten Chocolate Cake..

Hari Akademik 2012 SK BTHO 2

First time dapat snap gambar anak-anak in school uniforms. Iman dengan Adam tak pakai kasut sebab kasut tinggal kat taska. Thank you Hari Akademik 2012! Hari makpak pegi ambik report card anak-anak and discuss perkembangan pembelajaran anak-anak dengan guru kelas. Tahun lepas kena datang 2 kali, Kakak sekolah sesi pagi makanya kena datang ambik report card belah pagi. Iman pulak sekolah sesi petang, kena datang lagi sekali belah petang. Siap sampai bercuti kami dibuatnya. Tahun lepas, after ambik report card, makpak balik, anak-anak kena stay put sampai habis sesi persekolahan seperti biasa.

This year, Kakak masih sesi pagi, Iman sesi petang. Alhamdulillah sekolah buat Hari Akademik belah pagi for both sessions. Me and Tebby just mintak time-off from boss masing-masing. Jimat cuti :D Oleh itu, dapatlah snap gambar semua anak in school uniform sebelum pegi sekolah to 'face the truth' hihi.

Sampai sekolah around 8.00 a.m and THIS is what greeted us at the canteen. Car boot sales you ols! Bukan calang-calang barang yer, durian some more! Semerbak harum! Kot ya pun, agak-agak lah. Ni sekolah la. Apa nak kata, Malaysia Boleh! Had simple breakfast. Agak hambar tapi syukur ada jugak rezeki untuk alas perut.

Memula pegi kelas Kakak dulu. Class divided kepada 2 bahagian. Sebelah cater for sesi pagi. Sebelah lagi for sesi petang. Seen above Kakak dengan classmate dia. Sementara tunggu giliran.

She landed at 5th place this time around. Got highest mark in her class for English. If she can maintain the momentum, insyaAllah she'll be in better class next year. But to me that's not about it la sangat pun. In better class, in less better class pun, cikgu-cikgu tetap kena bagi same amount of input kan. On a personal note, Tahniah Kakak for the tremendous improvement. Last year she was at nombor berbelas-belas.

I noticed, the more I let her do her own things, the harder she'll work her school thingy. She loves art. We let her choose what she wants and does as she wants (musti tak exceed bajet and musti under close supervision supaya tak lupa kerja-kerja sekolah jugerr..)

Lepas tu pegi kelas Iman pulak. Yang ni lebih debaran sikit hihi. For KSSR, sekolah ni tak buat exam per se. They are rated based on homework, course work, simple routine tests etc. He lands at Band 3. KSSR ni ratingnya dari Band 1 sampai Band 6. Buat masa ni they are tested sampai Band 3 saja. A glimpse to result orang lain, nampak macam semua kat Band 3 jugak. Takpe, at least Iman at par :D Some other schools do have exams for KSSR students. Iman and his batch is pioneer la KSSR ni. Sampaikan dah sekolah 2 bulan pun text books lom sampai. Come to think of it, kalau bebetul dah kaji silibus and plan dengan teliti, why the delay? Anyway, Cikgu Awie kata Iman ni budaknya lurus (?? ye ke?? macam tak percaya je :D), always asks kalau tak faham. Diberi kerja dalam kelas, dia mesti buat and he has good handwriting. I once commented tulisan Iman cam cakar ayam. Cikgu komen kata cantik. I can't imagine what the cikgu has to go through reading tulisan students!! 

 

Kesian kan sekolah my kids. Lantai berlubang-lubang. Masa Iman Tahun 1, lagi teruk kelas dia. Sampaikan 1/4 of the class memang tak boleh letak meja. Berlubang-lubang!

After dah pick up and signed all necessary documents, sent back the kids to taska then off to work. Macam-macam rupa makpak. Muka stress. Muka happy. Tak kurang jugak yang tegang tangan menjijit buntil durian ha ha.

Anyway,

Anak-anak sekelian. Sekolah ni just part and parcel of kehidupan every each of you will have to go through. The bigger one awaits regardless time, day or at any age you are. School of life. Never-ending lessons. It will test more that what the school does. As a mother I can only prepare you for that so you can depend on yourselves to get through it all. Supaya anak-anak boleh berdiri atas kaki sendiri. Supaya anak-anak mampu menyuarakan pendapat dan rasa hati selama tak bertentang dengan ajaran agama. Supaya anak-anak menjadi orang yang baik-baik dunia dan akhirat terutamanya. Semoga kalian menjadi orang yang dihormati dan lebih penting lagi, menghormati orang lain...