30 June 2010

sarat

positive, happy, happy, positive...

(but it's not pregnancy matter incurred here)

nevermind. i can always be pregnant with hopes. and pregnant with happiness.

i love my new routine now. i love my brand new life.

and of cos i love reading this...

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"The successful woman is supplicated for, praised by her husband, loved by her neighbours and respected by her friends" ~ Unknown~

28 June 2010

brand new

new week is here...

new chapter is here...

new "refreshed" journey is here...

afterall, it's same old me here. only with brand new day

All Praise to Allah...i am very grateful indeed.

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"Verily with every difficulty there is relief" [Qur'an 94:6]

18 June 2010

soon

...Mrs K will handover her small shop business to the lucky buyer, also a fren of hers.

...school opens, and the "pilot-ing" routine resume

...Si Bibik will be sent home, Mrs K will be fully incharge

...Mr K will try to find a "nurse" for Mrs K's mom, to take care of her specifically. At least she wont be alone while Mrs K out to send and pick Junior to school. (she has to wait until his class finish)

...everything will fall into right places, inshaallah

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16 June 2010

he says

MSY is going to eye laser treatment today, at Hosp Selayang. Mrs K decided not to join. Masih berbekas dihatinya. MSY now under Mrs R duty-week. Tis weekend Mrs K will take charge, for a week or maybe more.

Last nite while break fasting, Mr & Mrs had a light talk. Mostly about her feelings. Towards others, of recent happenings. Then Mr K concluded "if u want to take care for ur mother, just do it. Dont expect anything from other people. If they cannot take care for mother, it's not ur problem. If u want to expect them understand ur problem, u will have more problems"

Very true.

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mengadu domba

warning : this post contains some provocative emotions that might result uncomfortable reaction. read at your own risk.

Kisahnya...

Mr & Mrs K memang dah lama bercita-cita nak terminate si bibik diorang tapi atas beberapa faktor yang ala2 tak dapat dielakkan, makanya sampai ke laaa ni Si Bibik masih lagi sebumbung dgn diorang. Mr & Mrs bukan lah kaki dera, selama ni pun cara diorg layan Si Bibik tak pernah melampau, cool tapi tegas. Cool yg bertempat dan tegas yg mengikut keadaan. Selama Si Bibik kerja dengan diorang, boleh dikatakan banyak kali jugak Si Bibik dapat verbal reminder kalau dia buat apa2 yg silap. Mrs K pesen tak suka membebel, tapi once dia complain mmg pedas ayat2 dia tp dia tahu limit. Once dah abis sessi brainwash maka sampai situ je lah, then buat keje masing2. Mr K pulak agak cerewet. Sense dia terlebih sensitive kalau pasal kebersihan terutamanya. Memang culture nya mcm gitu. Apa2 yg kecik kat lantai kalau tak disapu atau dilap, maka dia akan kutip. Bila dia dah kutip tu ada lah yang tak best bakal meletop. Mrs K memang dah maklum perangai suaminya begitu jadi kdg2 dia suka jgk exercise tangan, dia lap lantai rumahnya ala gaya Oshin tu, mmg puas hati. Spotless. Pun begitu Mr & Mrs bukan lah kaki dera. Makan minum pakai Si Bibik terbela. Memang ler Si Bibik tu walaupun badannya melidi tapi seleranya mengalahkan ulor besor...kdg2 Mr & Mrs K joking le jgk psl selera besor Si Bibik tu tapi alaaa apa lah sangat, tak luak beras kat dapur setakat bagi dia makan. Tak kesah lah, diorang masih mampu.

Kisahnya...

Si Bibik ni pulak, dari hari pertama dia melapor diri bertugas di rumah Mr & Mrs K, ayat introduction yg Mrs K bagitau dia "keja kamu kat rumah saya, saya nak kamu jaga anak saya. tu yg paling penting. kalau kamu ada masa, kamu kemas lah, tapi yg paling penting kamu kena tengokkan Ummar, jangan bagi dia main2 benda yg bahaya". Masa tu lebih kurang 3 tahun yg lepas, si anak Mr & Mrs K baru setahun lebih. Sebab musabab utama Mr & Mrs K ambik pembantu rumah pun semata-mata untuk jaga anak kesayangan diorang tu. Kalau tak disebabkan masalah kesihatan anaknya, diorang memang tak bercadang nak ambik pembantu rumah. Mrs K lebih suka handle sendiri, paling2 dia tak mampu atau tak larat, dia ambik cleaning service datang cuci rumah. Lagi satu Mrs K tu paling tak suka iron baju, maka dulu masa sblm ada anak, semua baju2 kritikal iaitu baju2 ofis diorang Mrs K hantar laundry. Sengih je Cina Dobi kat Taipan tu everytime nampak Mrs K, regular customer dia.

Kisahnya...

Mr & Mrs K memang sudah maklum akan perangai Si Bibik. Ye lah, duduk sebumbung for almost 4 years, bau kentut pun dah boleh cam. Diorang cuba tolerate, lumrah lah perangai manusia pelbagai. As long as Si Bibik jaga anak diorang tu elok, Mr & Mrs K boleh tolerate. Tapi tidak bagi sesetengah pihak lain. Lumrahnya orang sekeliling lebih judgemental. Biasanya orang terdekat. Memang lah Si Bibik tu tak sempurna perbuatannya. Kalau semuanya okay takkan lah Mr & Mrs K buat sessi brainwash lebih kurang setiap 3 bulan, sebagai reminder untuk Si Bibik, lebih kurang evaluation mcm tu. Apa yang salah kena diperbetulkan, apa yang kurang kena perelokkan. Bagi Mr & Mrs K itu adalah masalah rumahtangga diorang. Tanggungjawab diorang untuk betulkan hal ehwal dalam rumah diorang. Tapi bila ada orang lain (selain diorang) yang terlibat, maka...sikit sebanyak ada kesan tercalar. Calar menjadi luka. Luka menjadi kudis. Kudis mula merebak, lama kelamaan menjadi barah. Bila dah jadi barah maka ia sudah parah.

Kisahnya...

Sejak dua tiga bulan lalu, Mr & Mrs kerap berbincang mengenai permasalahan yang melibatkan Si Bibik, terutamanya yang berkaitan dengan pihak ketiga iaitu MSY. Sudah banyak kali insiden2 berlaku didalam rumah diorang yg melibatkan Si Bibik dan MSY. Mr & Mrs K maklum, diorang boleh nampak dan boleh menilai apa yg betul dan apa yg tidak. Jadi Mr & Mrs K bersepakat untuk terminate Si Bibik lebih awal dari perancangan asal. Semata-mata untuk keselesaan MSY. Lebih kurang 2-3 bulan lepas, keadaan kesihatan MSY lebih teruk dari biasa. MSY perlukan rawatan dan perhatian yg lebih. Mrs K cuba menjalankan tanggungjawabnya sebaik yang termampu...tetapi lumrah dunia, apa yang elok sukar dilihat, tapi apa yg silap terus diungkit. Mrs K sangat, amat, sangat terkilan.

Kisahnya...

Demi untuk memuaskan hati orang sekeliling, dan demi untuk menjaga maruahnya yg sudah tercabar, Mr & Mrs K nekad untuk menghantar pulang Si Bibik dalam masa yg amat terdekat. Hati lembut Mrs K tersentuh bila mendengar jawapan Si Bibik, dia meminta untuk terus bekerja sehingga hujung tahun seperti perancangan asal kerana dia mahu mengumpul lagi wang sebelum pulang, kerana ibunya di kampung sudah lama tidak bekerja dan kesihatannya juga tidak mengizinkan. Tapi Mrs K sudah nekad, dia tak mahu berubah hati. Pernah terdetik di hatinya rasa bersalah, tapi dia sudah nekad. Cuma dia terkilan. Dia tidak pernah sangka masalah di dalam rumahnya akan menjadi isu di luar, diperkatakan orang terdekat. Dia sangat, amat terkilan.

Kisahnya...

Mr & Mrs K tahu rutin akan berubah. Banyak perkara yg harus dikorbankan.Bisnes kecil Mrs K terpaksa dijual. Mrs K tak mungkin dapat handle pelbagai tugas sendirian. Urusan rumahtangga harus beres. Pakaian, makan minum, cuci mencuci, kemas mengemas, antar ambik anaknya ke sekolah, pakai makan minum MSY, kesihatan rohani MSY, tempat mengadu MSY, kawan berborak MSY, dan juga urusan admin bisnes bersama Mr & Mrs K yang baru mula ingin bernafas. Kadang2 sesuatu atau seseorang perlu dikorbankan dan berkorban. Life is like that. Cuma Mrs K masih terkilan.

15 June 2010

entry menggembirakan hati

when we feels low, wht wud we do?

1. go for hair cut. in this case, yesterday i opted for boy-cut. quite short.

2. retail therapy. for my case, yesterday i went to 3 shops with similar concept. english deco.

3. makan makan makan. but i just started ganti puasa marathon yesterday so my options limited until no.2

have a look at my hasil tangkapan yesterday. for low budget therapy, cuma inilah yang termampu, tapi cukup menggembirakan hati, nevertheless. kalau ikutkan nafsu ada lagi yg nak dicekup tapi nasib baik bila shopping time puasa, nafsu agak terkawal.

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a planned chaos

northbound trip sequel is abandoned for some reasons.

i'm not in the right mood to write about them, yet.

some changes will be taking places in our routine. a planned chaos gonna enter our household. a good one, yet challenging.

i am not quite happy but life is not always perfect. we gain some and we lose some.

may Allah ease my mind and make me stronger.

# on a different note.

Japan beat Cameroon 1-0 last nite...not bad huh.

11 June 2010

northbound-D1

Alhamdulillah...

we safely reached there and safely reached home. it was fun. Albeit The Mister expected this is food trip but the foods not really satisfying, anyway that wont spoil our jalan-jalan spirit. We explored new places that's more memorable.

Taiping

Check-in at The Meridien (waah sungguh gah namanya) but actually it's just budget hotel. Siap ada bau hapak carpet lagi haha. But since this is unplanned trip, no hotel booking etc we just hit our luck thru the way. That The Meridien was the first hotel we spotted once we turn into Taiping town. Once cleaned up and pray, we went out for food hunting. Taiping is such a small town, i then googled for best food place, Larut Matang Food Court was one of them. Then we settled in. Simple normal food court with choices of local foods. Rojak, Pasembor, Mee Goreng Mamak, Laksa, Murtabak..etc. I had Laksa, The Mister chose Nasi Goreng Daging Merah (alaa boringnyaa), Junior's fix menu Nasi Goreng Cina for sure. We shared Rojak.

I didnt take any pic of those...segan la kan. Nanti nampak sgt mcm tourist, ambik2 gambar makanan pulak. Hehe...it's quite crowded place.

Later we looked for any other makan place while enjoying sightseeing. Taman Tasik is nice park, greeny..soothing view.

Then on the way back to hotel we stop at a kopitiam, very few customer. We stopped for coffee (and i ordered Prawn Mee).

Kat sini tak ramai customer so boleh lah shooting. ;)







Next morning, we checked-out quite early, around 8am.


Taiping - morning view

We had breakfast at Restoran Bismillah...as suggested by Pn Melly.


his power breakfast - sedap katanya


mine

Junior's - Milo Ais. Very hard to settle for picky eater.

Then we off to Penang...

(to be continued)

06 June 2010

up up and away…

besok nak ke utara. last minute decision. we were contemplating between langkawi or terengganu, at first thought. then we strike off terengganu bcos we have been there (together) once and we both never been to langkawi, at all. but, it's peak season hence it's crowded on the island, and it's confirmed by my sister who's now safely reached the island for first time. hehe..talks about jakun people here.


sambung balik. macamana boleh decide nak ke Utara? sebab kitorang belum pernah explore part2 utara ni, paling utara kita penah sampai rasanya...Penang! ya, kita tak penah sampai ke Kedah pun, apa lagi Perlis. ho ho.


Perancangannya : first pit stop ialah Taiping. Agenda makan-makan. Dah google tadi, hasilnya byk betul guides jenis-jenis makanan yg morah-morah katanya.


Second Pit Stop : Kedah. Ari Isnin inshaallah, mungkin bermalam di sekitar Alor Setar, then naik sikit lagi ke Perlis. Alang-alang sampai ke hatyai le kot, haha. tapi tak boleh, sebab passport kita dah expire. (good reminder)


okay, sampai ketemu lagi...


;)


btw, nak jugak letak few pics yg sempat ambik tadi masa dinner. tetiba rasa nak makan pizza tadi.



Italian Cone Pizza, The Strand. KD

04 June 2010

masam masam manis

Series of Masam, yesterday...

~ morning. venue : at home. car alarm went crazee. i didnt use the normal remote lock (haywire for long time already) so i use manual lock. then the alarm beeping like nobody business, neighbors were furious. (dun worry, it's my legal car we are talking about). after about 10 mins, i managed to calm her down. pheww.

~ afternoon : normal trip sending Junior to school. he was fine, sat at rear seat then as usual came up to the front passenger seat. He was enjoying his chicken nuggets just as usual. A short while later he tried to climb on my lap (psstt...this scene also much normal for us,pls dun leak to any police traffic) but i refused and sshoosh-ed him away. Tis time he obliged (which is very rare to happen) then i smelled something unpleasant, his bottom looked wet. oh my gosh! not here not now...the smell was aaawwwful and we just half-way thru. i ordered him to sit still while i was "suffocating" for fresh air. "ewww....sshhtink"..he said. doiii..

~ late noon : i had appointment with house agent at 4.15pm. we reached home around 3.30pm. my handphone ran out of battery but i was too weary so i just retired myself onto sofa, i tried to focus on TV (read: Noah Ortega) but my eyes so heavy. I dozed off...suddenly i woke up it was already 4! Rushing to appointment, i couldnt call them, my handphone flat, and my car petrol running low (very low). anyway i managed to catch them, sign off docs and paid up some booking fee and charge up my energy. Pappa Cham Iced is such booster. Then we left. BUT BUT BUT...that car of mine decided to try me out again. Tis time, it failed to start. ha ha ha! Called up The Mister, he asked to find out nearby workshop. Got one, tested...he said could because no petrol, or maybe the fuel pump. first thing, need to fuel up. Called up The Mister again, now he must make his way to rescue. So while waiting, i took a seat at Pappa's again. And charge up my handphone. (btw, i carried two handphones...one for personal, another for kedai matters. luckily i have good memory of The Mister's no, at least)...AND here something MANIS happened. But i wont put it here now, i'll write later.

So, finally we managed to track down the culprit. That fuel pump has retired, for record i just changed that fuel pump last month! (note : second hand stuff doesnt live long ya), and latest damage was MYR 700. erk, burnt wallet doesnt smells good either.

actually i pissed off. did i mention that we just spent exactly 1K for service last weekend? and yesterday Wednesday, it made me 700 poorer. i want to sell it off, but i have problem to apply loan. okay tht's another issue altogether. i shud write abt it some other time.

okay okay finally here comes the "sweet thing", at last.

i met him, he sat next to my table while me waiting for The Mister the rescuer.



okay la he's not sweet, but I like his songs. and tht hairstyle!

01 June 2010

bravehearts

I caught the news yesterday, some shared at FB but i was pretty handful and hurry so I couldn't really look thru the details.

This morning i check out newspaper, online. Heart-wrenching, pity, sad, but we know they knew tis much possible risks waiting for them.

My pray for them, may Allah protect them, may Allah grant strength and power to defeat the "Iblis" laknatullah. May Allah lead us Muslim to victory.

I remember once i heard over radio IKIM about their programme, about a month ago. I cant remember name of that rep but i remember he mentioned,

"We are very aware of risk and any possibility that could happen to us over there, this is our small contribution to help them, we are nothing here if compared to their suffer over there. This is highly dangerous mission, we know. Please pray for us, this is Jihad."

i almost broke into tears.

I found the list of Malaysians on board, there are many others from other countries joined this collaborative mission of BRAVEHEARTS.

Noorazman Mohd Samsuddin, chief of Malaysian delegation (UIA lecturer)

Dr Mohd Arba Ai Shawal (medical doctor)

Dr Syed Muhamad Haleem Syed Hassan (medical doctor)

Dr Selamat Aliman, businessman

Jamaluddin Elias (Klang councillor)

Al Hilmi Husain Suhaimi (religious teacher)

Mohd Nizam Mohamad Awang (engineer)

Abd Halim Mohd Redzuan (executive with Syabas)

Ustaz Hasanuddin Aqsi Assarip (full time NGO personnel)

Ashwad Ismail (journalist)

Shamsul Kamal Latip (Astro Awani cameraman)

They are sons, husbands, brothers, friends of some people out there. Lets pray for them.