setuju atau tidak?

anak aku makan laksa tanpa kuah "edash laa ibu"

Setuju atau tidak kalau aku katakan :

1. Ibu lebih prihatin dengan kesihatan anak, ada natural instinct yang bisikkan, sesuatu perlu dilakukan untuk kesihatan anak. Ayah biasanya akan kata "ala demam biasa saja tu, kan dah pergi klinik" Akhir cerita..... ayah terpaksa angguk-angguk setuju dengan ibu.

2. Ayah kata kalau ibu nak minta tolong cakap saja. Tapi bila ibu minta tolong ayah kata itu semua kerja ibu, kerja isteri. (Ibu pun kerja office.. tau penat juga, kan rumahtangga tu perkongsian susah senang)

3. Ayah perdana menteri tetapi ibu menteri kewangan, menteri di jabatan perdana menteri, menteri kerjaraya, menteri sumber manusia, menteri luar, menteri dalam negeri......menteri itu menteri ini (aduhhh banyaknya jawatan)

4. Ibu buatkan ayah secawan kopi sebab tanggungjawab, sebab nak kejar title isteri solehah. Pernah tak ayah ambilkan ibu segelas air kosong untuk penghilang dahaga lepas penat balik kerja, memasak, melayan anak, melipat baju bla bla bla

5. Bila ayah sakit, ibu jagakan dia dan anak. Bila ibu sakit, ayah tetap pergi kerja. Anak pun ibu hantar dan ambil dari taska, sebab ibu cuti.

6. "Ayang, tolong kejutkan abang pukul 2.30 pagi nanti, abang nak tengok bola, final match"

7. ........

8. ........

(sila tambah mengikut selera, akan diupdate dari semasa ke semasa)

Disclaimer : Cuma sebahagian contoh yang selalu kita (isteri dan ibu) dengar, lihat dan alami. Bukan semuanya begitu, cuma sebahagian sahaja. Yang baik jadi teladan yang buruk jadi sempadan.

We had fun

We had so much fun! My first time meeting with these wonderful people from gengjurnal. I'm a member, the senyap one though. Arrived at Bagan Lalang after 2 hours drive from Klang pheww.. it was that far! Among the first to arrive. It was a potluck. I brought laksa penang. And my laksa was voted the best potluck ehehehehe...

My teruna.. ahah! memula malu laaaa lepastu tak boleh handle dah! The best thing about gatherings is this : you'll get a free babysitter for a day.. hahahahaha...everybody is willing to look after your child(ren).

After makan-makan session was terjun laut session. How ironic... 4 years living in Kuantan, not even once did I mandi laut at any beach there, Teluk Chempedak, Batu Hitam, Cherating, name it... and last Saturday.. I managed to soak myself wet, not mandi though.. melayan teruna aku tu main air di Bagan Lalang. hmmmm

Amat malang! I left my camera behind. hampeh laaaa

Arrived home at 8.30 pm. My teruna? masuk kereta, hisap susu, zzzzzzzzzzz..all the way home.

Aku Gumbira

My desktop : My teruna

I was sooooo happy yesterday. Drew some money ( it wasa pay day) to buy my teruna's 6 tins of Pediasure and 3 packs 0f XL60 huggies dry. Went to Carrefour Alamanda to shop. Took a trolley, push it here and there looking for things on the list. Was at formula section and the 10% discount on all formula made me smile (more than that actually). The usual RM51.75 a tin was RM46.57. I saved more than RM30...

Moved on to diapers section. Huggies was sold at RM33 only (2 packs per customer) ahaaaa luckily I was witha friend, asked her to pay for another 2. Bought some other things too.

I went back with 6 tins of Pediasure and 4 packs of huggies. I was a happy mum.

Abang will be here tomorrow (pleasant suprise eheh) coz his niece enters a treasure hunt in Midvalley. Since her sister will surely lose her way here, abang voluntereed to be her driver. Bonus for both my teruna and me lah kan.. Planned to buy more Pediasure while it's on sale...

Tomorrow's plan. Will be joining gengjurnal for a makan-makan session (potluck) at Bagan Lalang in conjunction with The International Webloggers Day. My first gathering since 2004. I think of bringing Laksa Penang and Creme Caramel.

Will be with abang and SIL at Midvalley Megamall for the treasure hunt event. Maybe a movie afterwards. My teruna has been pestering me to watch cars. Macamlah paham.... but for him, anything. But watching a movie with this one chirpy toddler could be a problem, a DVD version will do then...oh heck! I'll be listenging to lagu beyor for the upteenth time tomorrow and the day after..... come monday and my ears will still ring the dikir song huuaaaaa

So what's your plan for this weekend?

Integration

Hilarious is it not? when we are in a middle of a conversation with someone from a diferent custom for the first time, hoping that both of us would understand and comprehend the subject matter, given the fact that both of us using the same language with different connotation..

I remember vividly my first accounter with a Kelantanese during my years in matriculation centre. It was a week after registration and I decided to go to central market. I invited Kak Jue to come along

Me : Kak Jue, jom pegi central market

K. Jue : buleh gok... tok rajin gi lagi

Me : tak rajin? malas ke?

K. Jue : eh buke... errr.. tok penoh

Me : ooo tak pernah..

K.Jue : gi selalu ko?

Me : Tak lah.. kadang-kadang je... (I answered innocently hahahahahaha)

K. Jue : (looked puzzled)

After a month or so I finally grasped most of the dialect. And guess what? Both my FIL and MIL are Kelantanese.

A friend of mine from Penang, Najwa. There was one day, I felt hungry and wanted to grab some food so I asked her if she want to come along

Me : najwa, jom pi kantin, lapar la

Najwa : segan la nak pi, hang pi la..

Me : apa nak segan kan, kan ke semua makcik2 je bukan ada lelaki pun

Najwa : laaaaa...segan tu malaih laaaa

Me : cakapler malas... kalau kat sini segan tu malu

Najwa : tu laa itik cakap ngan ayam hahahahaha

Me : ha'ah ko itik aku ayam...ayam comel sikit banyak kaler

I'm half javanese. So some of my friends like to ask about the language. You know what are these and those in Java..to some extend, I felt a bit annoyed, ye lah kalo lepas tanya tu ada kutuk kutuk sikit kan..We were having kuih cek mek molek one evening when K. Jue started yet again what-are-these-in-your-languange game...

K. Jue : oghe Kelate pangge ubi stelor

Me : ooo.. kat sini keledek

Najwa : sama la

K. Jue : Angah, oghe jawo pangge apo?

Me : orang jawa panggil sweet potatoes

Over the years I forgot the kelantanese version of keledek, until after I got married when my MIL asked me to buy a kilo of ubi stelor. I had to ask abang what is it? They made fun of me for weeks... hampeh! Same goes to timun cina and timun batang. Tembikai kan senang...

These differences which make us special, uniquely belong to a set of community. Giving us a sense of pride and security, especially when meeting our 'clan' tapi janganlah lupa kawan sebelah bila jumpa geng tuh.....after all we are Malaysians...

Our future generation...

baby talk

I have nothing to write actually. Today is my lazy day! I have lots of things to do but somehow my brain refuses to compute. I miss my other half and my son miserably! So bear with me, I'm gonna write entirely about my honey bun sugar plum... his chirpy mouth and all.

Situation 1 : in a car on our way to Kapar

Arief : Ibu buat ketam (silang2 jari tangan dia)
Ibu : abang sayang ibu dulu
Arief : takpe abang buat diyi (sendiri)

Situation 2 : in a car on our way to Pasir Mas

Arief : Ibu, nak cucu (susu)
Ibu : Abang kan baru minum, nanti muntah
Arief : cikit aje, tak anyak
Ibu : nanti sampai rumah tok ibu buat ye
Arief : taknak tawan ibu
Ibu : tak nak tawan ibu? abang buat susu sendiri.
Arief : abang tak pandai..
Ibu & ayah : (gelak sampai nak keluar air mata)

Situation 3 : At nenek's house

Ibu : Aqilah ni nangis je (baby my mother looks after)
Arief : Anyan alah qilah, cian iye (jangan marah qilah kesian dia)
Ibu :ibu bukan marah, ibu cakap aje
Arief : ibu tak alah ye.. ibu ayang ye..
Ibu : ha'ah, ibu sayang..
Arief : abang ayang ibu, ayah ayang ibu, qilah ayang ibu, nenek ayang ibu

Situation 4 : everytime Arief's in the car

Arief : ayah nak agu beyok
Ayah : kejap (ayah pasang)
Arief : (listening attentively)
Ibu : (chit chat with ayah)
Arief : ibu niiihhh... iyamlaaa.. abang nyo agu beyok..
Ibu & ayah : speechless

note : lagu beyok is actually a dikir barat song titled Lembu where the lyrics includes :

lembu sapo dio (lembu siapa dia)
lepah sie male (lepas siang malam)
pi rato rato (pergi merata-rata)
supo takdo tue (serupa takde tuan)
berok depe tanggo (berak depan tangga)
genak tengoh jale (segenap tengah jalan)
masuk paga ambo (masuk pagar saya)
dok make anok pise (makan anak pisang)

Guess where he picks up "beyok"? This song will be played repeatedly! until Arief is convinced that the CD dah rosak...hmmm

Entry bergambar

I'm taking revenge muahahahaha. Since blogger is back to normal, I want to post as many pictures as I can muhahahahaha....

Abang and me during our pakcik's wedding in Pasir Mas, Kelantan. I was all dressed up (really?) and he was only clad in jeans and t-shirt. Penat aku gosok baju... cait! Yer... muntah hijaulah kengkawan dengan pose manja itew..

My teruna and me during makan-makan session in Kota Bharu. My FIL's treat. There were 5 cars altogether (me, 3 of my SIL, my FIL). We managed to make a hole in ayah's pocket hahahaha

Budak debab besar gajah dalam buaian. My honey bun sugar plum.... look at his hands.. tidur pun dengan kereta! Toddler in deep sleep, how calm...

Investment cont.

Here are some pictures of the house we are buying, We think it's worth the money we spent. A corner lot (end lot?), CF ready, built in kitchen cabinet and grills, dome light, plaster ceiling, fully tiles, big area of land, and playground is just infront the house....

Grills


Corner (end?) lot


Backyard View


Front view


Another front view


Main area


Kitchen


Main are (with models eheh)


from porch


Side view

Investment

I sold my house and in a process of buying another. My hubby and I think that it's a good bargain since the house is completely built. CF ready some more! I'll upload the pictures later. Blogger is goblok again. For some reason not known to me (obviously) it refuses to upload images.

I'm quite my self. Cold and cough have stopped, not completely though. Abang was here the whole week to take care of me. Alhamdulillah. This morning, we had our breakfast, drove separate cars, stopped at Setia Alam toll plaza to kiss goodbye (I mean it literally, he's my husband kan... and it's on the cheeks for the record). Just before Putrajaya/Cyberjaya exit we drove in paralell, bid goodbye...went separate ways... Putrajaya and Kuantan. Other drivers might think that we were some lunatics bah! Do I care? No! I kept thinking for how long can I live this kind of life...... Ya Allah give me strength to live my life the way you have planned for me...Amin.

Oh yeah... misery aside. The new route from NKVE to Meru (Setia Alam) is opened. Joy! Joy! I can save 1 ringgit a journey (Klang-Putrajaya-Klang) since I skipped Shahpadu Highway (40 cent) and I only pay RM 5.40 instead of the usual RM 5.50 from Bukit Raja. And it will take 45 minutes of my time instead of an hour journey before. Yey! I have a reason to smile today onwards.

Down with fever

Was on MC for 2 days... crap! Viral fever attacked. Masih weng sampai sekarang but tonnes of work to settle. So here I am in the office battling with my runny nose, cough, joints ache and freezing temperature.

Have a great weekend people... I know I wont, still have a battle to fight.... my runny nose, cough, joints ache... not the freezing temperature though.

Hibernation

Well.... nearly 2 weeks since the last time i posted something here. I was on "unscheduled" holiday so to say. Was supposed to start my leave on 5th - 9th June, I took it early, started on 1st June till yesterday. Why so long? Here's the story, bear with me...

Abang called on 30th May, saying that Ayah wanted us to join him in Kelantan. Given the circumstances at that time. We have to say yes... Thus my son and me departed to Kuantan on 31st May. Nasib baik boss aku sporting.

1st June - Kuantan - Pasir Mas

Next day... we started the journey to Pasir Mas. Reached Pasir Mas at 2.00 a.m! Was supposed to depart at noon but my biras couldn't make it as he had to be on call. Remember the aircrash involving TUDM Hawk aircraft? My biras is one of the Hawk's pilots.. he had to be there for the rescue mission. Well... that left us with only 2 cars on convoi. My teruna was esthatic the whole journey. Slept a good 2 hours, woke up when we reached Kuala Berang, as chirpy as ever until we arrived.

2nd June - Pasir Mas - Ayer Lanas - Kubang Kerian.

Morning saw me helping my MIL decorating the hantaran. At noon we departed to Ayer Lanas for the wedding. It's just a majlis kesyukuran for that matter. My goodness the weather in Kelantan was sooooo hot!!! I had to changed my teruna's clothes more that 3 times the whole event. The fact that we had to eat in the house without a single fan on did not help. I opted out. We sat under a mango tree. After seeing pakcik and our new makcik, we bid farewell. We grabbed our lunch at a nearby restaurant... just to escape the heat! Settling in the car with a full blown air cond was like HEAVEN!! My teruna dozed off almost instantly. Reached Kubang Kerian after Asar. Went straight to Ma Muna's house. Another wedding.

Night was spent at Wakaf Che Yeh. Night also hot! Ayooh. I bought NOTHING! very sad lah. How to buy things when my teruna was clinging like a koala bear, gave a shriek every time I tried to shop! So we went back with only PENAT. Abang dah sakit kepala..

3rd June - Kubang Kerian - Pasir Mas - Kubang Kerian

Went back to Pasir Mas after Zuhur Prayer to help with the preparation for menyambut menantu. My responsibilities was decorating bilik pengantin. As usual there were makcik2 giving their comments..... I played deaf for all I care! Nak tolong pun mujur. Abang was quited angry when MIL asked us (my SIL and me) to do the chore. "macam dah takde orang nak buat kat sini" was abang's reaction. The tirai and cadar are mine mind you... being a DIL, i just kept my mouth shut and did the task.

The actual plan did not materialised... we planned to go to Rantau Panjang today and to pakcik's house at night for majlis menyambut menantu tomorrow. But not to stir things up... so plan was cancelled. To show his protest, abang decided to spend the night at Ayah's house again. MIL was angry, I just knew by looking at her reaction. BUT it was my hubby's decision. Not me. BUT I was glad because I can sleep in a room! Kenduri.. what you expect? given a room to yourself? dream on! aku dah lah tak reti tidur bersepah ni? sleep in tudung some more? So off we went back to Kubang Kerian.

4th June - Kubang Kerian - Pasir Mas - Kubang Kerian

Majlis menyambut menantu. My teruna has started to show his reactions due to the heat. He was having difficulty to breath, runny nose, a slight coughing, cranky almost all the time. I was alarmed when his eczema started to show on his temple, his back. By midday I asked abang if we can go to the nearest pead/clinic for a nebulizer. Off we went. We had our teruna nebulized, some medication to go with it. One matter solved. Went back to Kubang Kerian after Asar. My SIL terus balik Kuantan.

5th June - Kubang Kerian - Kuantan

We headed home after zuhur. I felt a bit different. My throat sore, tonsil dah bengkak, dah start menggeliat, my joints ache. the words Viral Fever kept ringing in my head. Told abang. Reached Kuantan after maghrib, we headed straight away to Penawar. After check-up... sah ler.. kena lagi viral fever aku nih. Oh.. my teruna had his second session of nebulizer. The third and fourth will followsuit. Got MC until Friday

6th- 9th June - Kuantan

The days were spent between looking after my teruna (another sessions of sedut gas) and scenes of makan ubat and scenes of half shouting "arief dont jump/arief dont run/arief jom sleep/arief take medicine" my almost non-existent voice! Ayooo... nursing a sick child when I myself was ill really tried my patience lah... mujur ada abang... he did all house chores, cooking not included. By Friday, I felt better.. my teruna seemed better.

10th June - Kuantan - Klang

Journey home. My teruna slept almost all the way. Reached Klang and I slept a baby sleep, knowing my mum will take care of my teruna.

11th-12th June

Sambung cuti lagi. My joints still ache.

13th June

Here I am, in the office.

So... the holiday I planned... was indeed a holiday! Ada juga hikmahnya bila tak sihat semasa bercuti, duit tak habis dan aku ada banyak masa berkualiti dengan suami dan anak. Kalau sihat, ntahlah... rabak poket aku dan abang mungkin habiskan masanya jadi pemandu jer lah... sebab banyak sangat plan aku nak ke sana sini minggu lepas. Banyak nanti habiskan masa dengan orang lain kan....