Empat Orang Sakit

today is my mom's birthday. we were supposed to throw a join celebration for mom and my sis's daughter who turns 2 in mid-feb (remember the one yang kubuatkan birthday cake blueberry tu?). but the celebration had to be postpone to next week. sangatlah tak bestnya untuk birthday girl kalau birthday celebration terpaksa ditunda kan? kalau a surprise party tu okay juga at least birthday girl tak tau lagi... ni pre-planned pulak tu. memang rasa nak cekik je kakak aku tu. it was her idea anyway. sian my mom. apapun anakmu ini dan cucu2 yang jauh di subang ni hanya dapat kirimkan ucapan je, sebab kami semua tengah demam selsema yang teruk! present nenek next week lah ye.

yup! to quote kata2 fahmi semalam, ada 4 orang sakit dalam rumah yang kami tinggal berlima ini. myself, fahmi, yaya & kakak semuanya selsema, demam dan batuk yang teruk. paling teruk of course yaya, sian dia. hubby has been spared so far. walaupun badan tak sihat tapi tengahari tadi kami pergi juga ke wedding reception one of my colleague kat galeri seni warisan shah alam. it was a garden wedding dan kebetulan hari panas terik. panas2 begini memang sedap minum air sejuk kan? tu dia balik dari wedding kami 3 beranak batuk tak berhenti2. yang beria2 sangat pergi wedding tu sebab aku malas nak masak kat rumah hehehe. balik dari wedding aku tergolek lagi atas katil... tak larat sehhh!

dinner pun kat luar sebab tak kuasa nak memerap kat dapur, bau tumisan pun bleh buat mata dan tekak pedih. kesian juga dekat kakak sebab sakit dia lebih teruk dari aku. dahy kubelikan tablet selsema yang paling strong, patut dimakan sebiji je sehari, tapi nak cepat baik konon kakak belasah 2 biji, tapi tak baik2 juga.

maka malam ni kami anak beranak pun decide nak cuba hidangan kat Geylang Kopitiam di TTDI Jaya, shah alam. serik dengan batuk punya pasal kami berempat order air limau madu panas. since hubby tak kena flu bug, he refused to share his meal and drinks with the children. konon takut berjangkit, tapi dia lupa ada 2 orang sakit kat rumah ni yang sediakan makan minum dia...hihihi!

aku dan kakak order mee rebus jer while hubby had his nasi ayam penyet. the kids dah makan bubur kat rumah so they had fries ajalah. memang sedap mee rebus Geylang cuma aku nasihatkan sesiapa yang nak ke sana perbanyakkanlah bersabar ye. agak2 kalau sejam menunggu tak dapat lagi hidangan bawa2 lah tidur baring kejap ye. couch kat situ agak comfy aku rasa. serius cakap servis memang out. it's a pity sebab food dia boleh tahan. hubby puji white coffee dia sedap sampai siap ajak breakfast kat sana lagi esok. err aku kata nantilah dulu tunggu dia 'up' servis dia dulu. malam ni kami bersabar pun sebab masing2 sakit tak larat nak masak, jadi tahan jelah menunggu food datang. hubby nyaris keluar asap dari hidung dia... aku pulak dah melambai2 tangan minta perhatian. maaf ye... akak kalau dah angin cakap memang ada sikit bisa menusuk tapi composure tetap control ayu gitu. ;-)

Hal Rumah Lagi...

i spent sometime today writing complaint letter to the developer of our house. the defect rectification works has been pending for 3 months now! walaupun we have put on hold our plan to move into the house (which was intially to materialised in March'09) but that's our internal plan and not something they can take advantage of as an excuse for not completing the rectification works in time. and despite having done partial of the works, the rest left unattended are not something we can just simply brush off. pengalaman lepas berurusan dengan developer ni mengajar aku untuk screw them secukupnya biar hal kecil sebesar zarah sekalipun. dan surat ni aku copy kepada ceo dia sekali, aku tak pedulilah walau orang kata hal kecil tapi kalau berurusan dengan orang bawah semua buat sambil lewa je rasa2nya biarlah orang atas tahu macam mana azabnya buyer macam aku ni diperkotak katikkan. dan kalau orang atasan dia pun sebenarnya memang sama lousy dengan orang bawahan dia, then i think whoever he/she is deserve whatever i said in that letter!

okaylah enough said pasal rumah. buat masa ni anything that has got to do dengan rumah takde satupun yang buat aku gembira. stressful betul memikirkan nak masuk rumah baru ni ye.

fahmi nampaknya dah semakin happy kat sekolah. today dia bawa bekal mini egg tart yang aku buat semalam. beriya2 dia nak bawa bekal, lagipun memang aku buat banyak so aku siap2 letak dalam tupperware. tu pun pagi tadi berkali2 aku pesan jangan lupa keluarkan bekal masa morning break. maklum jelah dia belum pernah bawa bekal ke sekolah, takut terperam je bekal tu dalam beg dia nanti. petang tadi he told me yang dia share egg tarts tu dengan kawan2 dia seperti faris, arif, putera amiruddin and seorang lagi yang dia gelar as danny phantom (macam watak kartun yang dia selalu tengok kat tv). i believe the boy's name is deni something (i remember saw his name written on a piece of paper)tapi fahmi saja gelarkan dia danny phantom. so he has plenty of friends now which is a good sign. ;-) mama rasa lega sekarang.

oh ya... and teacher sherry tak jadi resign; she told me that she's resigning last week. another relief sebab fahmi suka sangat dengan teacher sherry.

malam ni tengok lauk kurang menyelerakan. dah lama tak makan nasi tapi since hari ni aku berpuasa so nak juga berbuka dengan nasi. sudahnya aku goreng je nasi yang sejemput tu dengan perencah tom yam; letak udang, ikan bilis halus sikit, hirisan serai dan daun limau purut. jadilah nasi goreng thai berkongsi makan dengan kakak.

Bila Hari Hujan...

sejak malam tadi hujan je sepanjang masa. kalau hari minggu yang lepas2 pagi2 mesti kami bawa budak berdua ni ke taman jaya, but since malam tadi hujan dan bangun pagi tadi pun tanah masih lagi lembap, we decided to skip our morning outing this weekend.

dah tak dapat bermain kat taman, the kids tak senang duduk pulak jadinya, so they asked their daddy to bring them out untuk berbasikal. pagi ni pulak jiran flat depan buat gotong royong. siap membakar sampah sekali, sungguh aku tak berkenan. pantang sungguh aku dengan orang yang suka bakar2 sampah or daun kering ni. maaf cakaplah ye, tapi kita yang duduk kat kawasan perumahan ni dengan rumah yang rapat2 tak sesuai lah nak bakar2 sampah. tambahan dengan cuaca yang panas dan kering sekarang ni kan, pedih mata. habis berasap masuk ke rumah, sesak nafas pun ye, pagi2lagi dah mencemarkan udara. aduh penat kerajaan keluarkan iklan dan larangan jangan bakar sampah... it seems to fall on deaf ears. terus aku heret budak berdua dengan basikal2diaorang sekali masuk rumah. agaknya tak tahan tengok budak berdua tu merungut nak main kat luar, akhirnya hubby bawa diaorang pergi ronda2 dengan kereta.

eloklah juga sementara aku kat dapur menyibukkan diri masak nasi tomato dan lamb koorma for lunch. rancangan kami nak bawa budak2 berjalan2 petang pun tergendala sebab hujan lagi. so we stayed indoor the whole day. aku pun terasa boring duk kat rumah je, apalagi ligatlah aku masuk dapur buat egg tart.

idea nak buat egg tart ni pun datang sebab tengok dalam fridge melimpah ruah stok telur bertenggek2 atas bekas telur. malam tadi dah aku selamatkan 6 biji buat seri kaya... cukup untuk stok 2 bulan kot :-). ni buat egg tart siang tadi selamat lagi 4 biji.

Phototag

The challenge is:

Go to your photos folder in your computer.
Go to the 6th folder of photos.
Go to the 6th picture in that folder.
Put the picture on your blog and description of it.
Invite six friends to join the challenge.
Link them in your blog and let them know they have been challenged


i think this photo dated back in 2006. fahmi wore the jubah that nenek brought back from Mekah for him. dia masih lagi tembam masa ni. yang lucunya dah elok2 berjubah tapi berposing atas meja... haru.

"...invite six friends to join the challenge..." part ni yang susah coz mesti ramai yang dah dapat tag ni... anyway rules tetap rules. silakan jangan malu2:

shida
faisal
nad
lemongrass
ninarizwina
liza

When He Came Back Crying

baru je last week cerita pasal fahmi settle down kat his new school. pagi tadi i pay another visit to the school (actually memang tiap2 hari pun pergi coz hantar fahmi)this time around i seek for his class teacher to discuss pasal fahmi. sayangnya his class teacher, shamini takde tapi nasib another teacher, sherry sudi dengar keluhan aku.

bukan keluhan apa. malam tadi seperti biasa aku akan spend time tanya fahmi how's his new school and tanya jugak pasal apa yang dia belajar, about his classmates and teacher. terkejut aku malam tadi sebab bila tanya hal sekolah tiba2 fahmi pasang muka monyok sampai tahap mencebik2 nak nangis gitu. aikkk pelik. belum pernah sepanjang sejarah fahmi bersekolah dia tarik muka monyok or menangis. he's been to tumble tots when he was 3, followed by smart reader at 4, then to little caliph early this year. despite kes dia jatuh dan luka takde satu pun yang menyebabkan dia monyok or menangis. except this time around. he asked me if he can go to other school sebab dia rasa tak seronok kat sekolah baru ni.

i spend almost 1/2 hour malam tadi memujuk dia bagitau apa masalah dia kat school. he keep on saying 'tak tahu' je manjang. i tried to feed some answer but he confirm none. bila tanya teacher marah, dia kata tak, bila tanya ada orang usik ke pun dia kata tak. then i asked him apa nama kawan dia, dia jawab tak tahu. i'm a bit puzzled there sebab dia selalunya cepat dapat nama kawan. bila tanya nama teacher pun dia tak tau. i suspected that kemungkinan it is due to the fact that he haven't made any new friends pasal tu dia tak tau nama kawan. dan pasal nama teacher pula, aku suspect because dia tak berminat masa kat sekolah that's why dia tak bother pasal nama teacher.

you see, with my boy the fastest way for me to know or guess if there's something wrong kat sekolah is by asking this 2 question yang i mention above. dan ternyatalah betul telahan aku. coz after 1/2 hour he finally open up and told me that dia sebenarnya takde kawan because it seems like semua orang dah ada kawan dan nobody nak berkawan dengan dia. he told me that he cry at school hampir setiap hari sejak last week. and i thought that it was only that once!

he feels rejected by his peers at school. there's even one time when the indian boy yang duduk sebelah dia suruh dia ke tepi. he told me bila budak tu cakap macam tu dia terus rasa nak menangis and he spent his morning break at school crying at one corner and refused to eat. it is so unlike fahmi. i didn't know that he would ever feel rejected, i didn't expect that shifting to a new school akan buat dia rasa insecure. masa kat smart reader dulu he started much much later tapi masa boleh adapt. that's why i didn't expect there'd be any problem at all. by the time he finished bercerita, muka dia basah berjeruk2 dengan air mata.

i decided that i have to have a word with the teacher. you see bukannya aku nak manjakan anak aku, but i feel that it is my responsibility that whenever i leave him in a place he'd feel safe. kalau tak, then i've failed. bukan nak manjakan dia but i want him to like going to school. kalau sampai tahap dia tak nak pergi sekolah then i have to do something about it kan?

so, i ask the teacher to help out; not to give extra attention coz i don't want him dimanjakan but i asked the teacher to help break the ice, tolong get him to mix around, make some friends so that he wouldn't feel rejected. coz dia kata dia bila kawan2 keluar dari kelas semua orang ada kawan dan tinggal dia seorang dalam kelas. oh man... ada juga rasa nak jerit kat fahmi coz rasa malu when he acted sissy about it. it is soo not like him!

i'm grateful that the teacher and principal ambil berat. teacher sherry kata semalam dia memang dah mula bagi extra attention kat fahmi. i told her jangan, i don't want him jadi burden pulak, all you have to do is help him to make friends. other than that dia takde masalah dalam pembelajaran.

pheww! ni baru anak lelaki... all this while i have so much confidence in him and i was so worried about yaya. it turns out the other way round this time.

Our Simple Weekend

we started the day with a family outing to taman jaya. it was still early but surprisingly the parking area was full. yaya commented that it was perhaps due to the fact that we were late so everyone else had taken the parking area. in actual fact we were not late, we reached there much much earlier than we used to sebab pagi ni kami bangun awal. selalunya dah pukul 11am baru kami sampai ke taman jaya, but this time around we were like an hour early. so we figured out that it was due to the fact that memang kebiasaannya taman jaya packed di awal pagi sebab orang datang bersenam awal unlike us yang masih dibuai mimpi dalam selimut.

the best thing about today's outing to taman jaya is the fact that fahmi & yaya dapat tengok muka 'chua' & 'tanusha' (the two character in the famous Geng Bas Sekolah series). they happened to have a shooting for a tv program kat taman jaya pagi tadi. both fahmi & yaya just couldn't believe it bila aku bagitau diaorang memang itu chua & tanusha in real life they're looking at. both of them are an avid fan of GBS sampaikan kekadang malam pun kami terpaksa wrestle the remote away from them coz the repeatedly watch GBS. mana boleh tahan macam ni ;-P

i think the outing was doing its best to both fahmi & yaya. let them sweat & feel the sun and let loose. takdelah memerap je dalam rumah macam mama & daddy dia yang lebih suka berhibernasi je dihujung minggu sebab dah penat bekerja kan. kalau nak ikutkan tabiat kami berdua yang duk memerap je dalam rumah kesian pulak budak berdua ni dunia diaorang tak berkembang. since we went out early dapatlah kami balik semula ke rumah awal. jadinya sempatlah aku buat nasi dagang for lunch today. tau jelah kan proses mengukus nasi dagang ambil masa agak panjang, sampai hubby dah menjerit2 lapar.

baki pulut buat nasi dagang tu aku kukus. memula tak tau nak buat apa, akhirnya datang idea nak cuba buat pulut seri muka. bereksperimen dengan resipi orang, menjadi juga. hubby sukalah sebab bahagian kepala (hijau) tu tak manis sangat. kalau ikut aku itu belum cukup manis... takpe next time tambah gula lebih sikit hehehe.



sebab tengahari dah lunch heavy (with nasi/pulut & gulai ikan tongkol bersantan) makanya for dinner aku sediakan salmon sandwich with croissant bun aja. aduhh sedapnya croissant bun yang wangi ni... beli siap kat bakery je, senang :-)

Fahmi's New School

fahmi has settled in his new school. today he collected his second uniform, so now he has 2 uniform which can be worn alternately. insyaAllah bila mama ada duit lebih nanti i'd buy him another pair so that takdelah selang dua hari pakai yang sama. we haven't bought him his sports attire though, maybe we could just get him sehelai t-shirt putih with red track bottom. but where to find a pair of red track bottom? it is not a common colour for track bottom. for those who wonder why red let me just tell you that his new school's theme colour is red & white sebab sekolah tu nama dia tadika strawberry so mestilah red kan mana ada strawberry yang biru or kuning.

his new uniform is a three piece suit - white shirt with a mini-tie, red jacket & red shorts (i'll upload the pic later). smart but the only thing yang aku tak berkenan ialah shorts dia tu, it is a short shorts! i think what i'm going to do is i'm going to buy kain ela kaler merah and ask my mum to jahit sepasang seluar panjang. sopan skit kan coz zaman sekarang even budak darjah satu pun dah tak pakai shorts unlike zaman aku sekolah dulu.

i met his english teacher today, dr suhaimi who is also the principal. he told me that fahmi berani bersuara kat sekolah jadi senang nak teach him. alhamdulillah his statement consistent dengan statement teacher smart reader fahmi dulu.

the fact that his new school is within close proximity with my house membolehkan aku drop him to school every morning. nasib baik juga coz his school begins at 8.30, dan aku selalu keluar pergi keje jam 8pagi. jadi on the way tu singgah kejap hantar dia. i really enjoy sending him off to school, this is what i'd like and imagined to do sejak dulu. rasa seronok sangat dapat hantar dia, rasa kepuasan yang susah nak digambarkan. puas sebab dapat buat what i consider as much as my responsibility and also as a privileges of being a mother. i couldn't fetch him from school afterwards though sebab his school ends at 11.30am. luckily the teacher is willing to drop him at home... with a small fee.tapi masa first day kat sekolah fahmi kata dia menangis sebab teacher lambat hantar dia balik. huhu... first time.

Moving Backwards ... and forward

5 months ago i did wrote an entry about me moving out to my new office (room) but i never posted it. and no despite all my rantings pasal keje i did not (at least not yet) move out as in tukar kerja.i am still with the same employer, work with the same company i've worked for the past 7 years. it is just that on the day i celebrated my 30th birthday last year i had moved out from my old office at top floor which i shared with my no.1 boss and his secretary. kiranya aku ni menumpang kat situ. pertama sebab pada masa tu takde bilik kosong dan kedua aku masih lagi dalam transition period; men'transfer' my knowledge kepada my boss's new secretary when i was promoted to my current position. the transition period somehow took longer (more than 1 year) bukan sebab secretary baru tak bagus, she's good at times i even feel that she's doing better than i was. but deep down aku realised it was my boss yang keberatan nak lepaskan aku pergi... the fact that i was his longest serving (read surviving secretary).

ok let's get back on track. so about 5 months ago i moved out from my boss's office in to this shoebox sized room (okay i exaggerate) which was painted blue all over by the previous occupant. i still remember how sad and mellow i felt that day, Allah swt sahaja yang tahu. while others in the company probably has shifted place more than 2 times, aku tak pernah been shifted ke mana2. akulah 'penunggu' setia bilik itu. banyak memori pahit kat situ tapi semua aku telan dan aku simpan, pun begitu bila melangkah keluar terasa berat dan sesak jap dada aku. aku sedih, sedih yang tak dapat nak digambarkan. terasa macam orang terbuang... but it wasn't like that sebenarnya. aku ter'over' sensitif i guess.

walaupun sedih, tapi ada sedikit rasa lega sebab after more than a year co-habiting the same office when i'm no longer his secretary somehow aku rasa kurang selesa, seolah2 macam orang ketiga pulak kat situ. kadang2 aku jadi rasa segan pulak terutama bila aku tau banyak benda2 yang confidential tak sepatut aku tau, tapi sebab dah co-habiting the same office nak tak nak sayup2 tertangkap kat telinga aku.

in the early days i moved out ke this blue room on the ground level aku betul2 rasa disoriented kejap. it took me a while juga nak biasakan diri dengan suasana baru. first, i find the lighting dalam bilik ni agak glaring, the glass window was not shielded with blinds - aku boleh nampak semua orang kat luar and they can see me, takde privacy langsung! tau jelah orang perempuan kekadang nak betulkan tudung nak touch up lipstick... seganlah pulak. then came the noises from outside this room - masyaAllah macam pasar! i used to get a feedback the staff kat floor ni kata sejak aku turun pindah ke bawah diaorang asyik kena marah pasal bising. seriously they are so loud! i couldn't concentrate on my work. and the worst of all adalah kerusi dan meja kerja aku ni height dia tak compatible. kiranya bila aku nak guna keyboard my hands tak rested well atas meja menyebabkan pergelangan tangan, bahu kanan dah belakang badan aku sakit. dah dekat 2 bulan lebih aku menderita sakit bahu & belakang.

tapi lama kelamaan aku dah terbiasa. cahaya lampu tu tak lagi terlalu terang, i don't mind peple peek into my room from outside because there's no blinds/curtain, at the same time i learn to enjoy the wider view and easy for me to monitor movements, and the noise... it doesn't bother me anymore in fact kalau senyap sunyi aku pulak yang jadi risau. and my back, wrist and shoulder dah kurang sakitnya sebab aku alihkan kedudukan pc & keyboard betul2 ke tengah meja... nampak pelik though tapi for my own good.

until today, bila tiba2 aku dapat arahan berpindah semula ke bilik lama which is my boss's office. kalau dulu aku berat hati nak tinggalkan all the priviligese that comes with cohabiting office no.1... hari ni aku keberatan nak masuk semula. because i feel that the relocation was for all the wrong reasons. malas nak cakap pasal ni tapi kali ni rasa hurt tu lain daripada perasaan mula2 kena pindah keluar. this time it is hurt like really hurting me, my pride and my feelings. rasa macam bola pun ada. kesimpulan yang aku buat ialah he's not ready to let me go, not ready to give me independence, not ready to respect me the way anybody in my position should be respected. then why? why in the first place did you give me this opportunity??? rasa macam bola.

on the other hand, fahmi will start at his new school tomorrow. i've visited the school today, spent about an hour to look around but not thoroughly, observe their teachings. this one looks like a real school, like the one i went to masa zaman tabika kemas ku dulu. looks more convincing and they've been around like more than 10years since taman perumahan ni mula dibuka dulu. i sincerely hope that the school is good.

Air Oh Air...

kesian budak berdua tu hari ni tak dapat nasi for lunch. semuanya gara2 kawasan perumahan kami ni putus bekalan air. inilah kejadian yang paling teruk pernah aku alami sepanjang 7 tahun tinggal kat sini. belum pernah lagi kami terputus bekalan air sampai kering tangki setitik pun takde. jammed kepala hotak aku.

bayangkan pagi tadi masa aku tengah syok menyabun badan, bila nak bilas aku buka paip tengok air yang keluar halus sesangat! tak sempat nak bilas badan... gatal kepala aku kejap fikir mana nak cari air. sib dalam bilik air ada berbaki 1 botol lagi air spare. aku tuangkan secukupnya je sekadar untuk bilas badan. aduhh potong stim betul!

memang kami tau malam tadi lagi air dah start berhenti. cuma selalunya dalam tangki tu cukup untuk 1 whole day. tak sangka kali ni habis terus seawal pagi tadi. ni pun gara2 fahmi juga kot coz dia terkucil 2 kali tengah malam tadi, sesuatu yang tak pernah berlaku sejak dia berhenti pakai diapers malam lebih setahun lepas. agaknya habis simpanan air dalam tangki gara2 2 kali bangun bersihkan baju & selimut dia yang terkena urine. harap2 fahmi tak mad at mama coz mention pasal ni dalam blog. he told kakak jangan bagitau orang coz dia malu. nak kata sejuk sangat malam tadi tak juga, panas adalah. sejak seminggu ni kan cuaca kering jer pasang aircon pun masih terasa humid. it will get worse come april nanti.

ow back to the kids' lunch. tengahari tadi dek kerana takde air setitik pun, tak dapatlah kakak nak masak nasi & lauk. fahmi insist nak mandi pagi tadi walhal aku pesan lap2 badan je, simpan air dalam botol tu untuk emergency. satu pagi aku dilanda risau memikirkan anak2 kat rumah. masa lunch break tadi aku minta pantry boy isikan air dalam 3 biji tong kecil & angkut bawa balik rumah. sib baik rumah dengan ofis dekat. on the way tu sempat singgah beli nasi 3 bungkus & lauk pauk sikit. dapat juga anak2 aku makan for dinner petang nanti. untuk lunch memang dah tak sempat, kakak gorengkan burger aja untuk budak berdua tu which according to her, fahmi hentam 1 biji setengah!

harap2 lain kali puspel kalau nak betulkan paip pecah ke bagilah notis awal2. kalau malas nak bagi notis pandai2lah sediakan lori bawa bekalan air ye. main mengejut cenggini selalu letih!

Kek Lagi

masa buat sponge cake untuk birthday my niece tempohari ada lebihan bancuhan kek. aku tuangkan dalam smaller cake tin dan bakar. ingatkan nak simpan je untuk yaya & fahmi makan petang. tapi mengenangkan dalam fridge ada filing perisa lemon dan krimwell masih berbaki, maka hari ni lepas balik dari ziarah hubby's friend dapat baby baru aku pun mulakan operasi membuat krim. vanila sponge cake tu aku belah dua dan lapiskan dengan krim, lemon filing dan cebisan buah oren. asalnya aku ingatkan dalam fridge ada filing orange tu yang aku beli buah oren, rupa2nya filing lemon... takpelah bantai aja untuk makan sendiri apa salahnya kan? harap2 bila buat macam ni cepat sikit habis kek sponge tu... tapi kalau tak habis pun aku dah plan nak hancurkan buat chocolate ball macam yang LG ajar.





pagi tadi we took the kids ke taman jaya lagi. aku surprised tengok yaya yang sekejap je berubah jadi berani compared to our first visit last 2 weeks - she was meek and clingy. kali ni i just let her loose and she was like climbing almost every single permainan yang ada kat situ. even fahmi was not as adventurous as her. agaknya kepenatan bermain pagi tadi sampai tengahari, sekarang ni dia masih terlena lagi. ;-)

Blueberry Birthday Cake

we went to my sister's house at klia government's servant quarters in nilai to celebrate my niece's advance birthday. remember my entry early this week when i said i'm going to bake a cake for my niece? yup... this is the one. i made sponge cake in vanila & chocolate flavour layered with blueberry filing, frosted with buttercream and topped with more bluberry filing. yang kelakarnya aku lupa nak cucuk wordings 'happy birthday'... bare je kek tu jadinya.



buah ceri semua dah kena kebas dengan my boys (yup, like father like son!) and my daughter. ni kes lebih sudu dari kuah

When The Unexpected Happens...

today's class is going to be fahmi's last day at little caliph, subang u5. keseronokan fahmi bersekolah tadika were shortlived due to the school's weak management. from tonitght's meeting with the principal/owner yang baru je habis jam 11pm tadi, we were informed that the teacher had left abruptly the previous week. thus rendering the school management short handed. with only one caretaker and 1 assistant teacher running the school and juggling between 2 schools (haven't i mentioned in my preious entry that they have another branch at alam budiman), menjadikan sekolah fahmi tak ubah macam nursery aja. so the principal decided to shut down the school. they are offering us to be transfer to alam budiman branch tapi memandangkan kami masih lagi belum decide untuk pindah ke rumah baru di alam budiman, we decided to quit.

kalau nak ikutkan perasaan memang meluap2 rasa marah & geram kat management sekolah tu. macam main2-main pulak buka sekolah, suka2 buka suka2 tutup. tapi daripada aku memenatkan diri mengamuk (dahlah balik kerja straight attend meeting dia) baik aku cepat2 fikir pasal alternative school untuk anak aku.

kesian my boy. dah seronok dia bersekolah dan berkawan tiba2 kena berhenti. luckily i got to know about the school's management decision quite early (mid of the week), so cepat2 aku scout for other school. dan nasib baik juga principal tu setuju nak refund balik duit pendaftaran dan segala advance payment yang kami buat, kalau tak memang aku mengamuk kat meeting tu tadi. we have shortlisted 2 schools so far. daripada 2 pilihan ni rasanya kami dah hampir 99% setuju nak hantar fahmi ke tadika strawberry yang tak jauh dari rumah kami. the owner kata transport boleh di atur... bila dia dah cakap macam tu aku rasa lega lah juga sebab walaupun dekat dengan rumah aku takut kalau tiba2 aku atau hubby kena pergi outstation takdelah kami mati kutu memikirkan siapa nak hantar fahmi ke school. aku tak harapkan kakak untuk menghantar... tak berani nak ambil risiko.

syukur kami suami isteri tak mati kutu bila dapat berita ni. maybe sebab sejak dari awal kami memang dah tak puas hati dengan sekolah ni dan aku sendiri pun ada berura2 nak tukarkan dia ke sekolah lain. so dalam kepala memang dah simpan a few option lain. dan nasib baik juga the few school yang aku scout masih mahu terima student walaupun dah 1 bulan lebih sesi persekolahan bermula. emm anak baru masuk tadika dah kelam kabut.

All About Happiness

kak malissa datang pulangkan flask nasi masa aku baru je nak selesai dinner. tinggal sejemput lagi nasi dalam pinggan cepat2 kutinggalkan. hujan lebat baru reda, sayup2 dengar suara orang bagi salam, ingatkan hubby balik dari masjid tapi takkanlah suara hubby halus sangat kan? sedap sangat makan berlaukkan tempe sampai suara suami sendiri pun tak kenal...hihihi. kak malissa singgah kejap je, nak cepat balik takut hujan sambung menyambung. awal2 lagi aku dah cakap aku tak nak sebarang upah untuk nasi beriani yang aku buatkan untuk dia. cukup sekadar dia cover cost barang2 je. aku puas dapat tolong dia. itupun bila dia insist nak bagi jugak aku suruh kasi token kat budak2 jelah. sebelum dia balik sempat kami bertukar2 buah tangan, aku dapat sebekas muffin coklat dari dia, dan untuk dia kuberikan a few packets of rempah nasi beriani.

emmm hujung minggu ni ada projek harijadi lagi. aku plan nak buat kek blueberry untuk harijadi my niece yang duduk kat kuarters klia tu. a surprise for her. teringat betapa teruja nya dia tengok kek spiderman fahmi tempohari & juga doll cake yang aku buat masa raya haji tahun lepas. suka tengok riak gembira kat wajah dia. so my weekend project is all about making a little girl happy.

Cooking Marathon

alhamdulillah dah siap masak 10kg nasi beriani. syukur sangat2 nasi elok masak semua takde yang mentah. 3 kali masak dalam periuk nasi besar 3.6l dan 3 kali dalam periuk nasi aku yang separuh daripada saiz itu. heheh buat malu je aku ni kan orang lain masak untuk kenduri besar rilek je, aku baru masak 10kg dah rasa nervous bagai nak rak. cuma aku kurang puas hati dengan hasil dari periuk besar tu, kelembapan tak sekata akibatnya nasi bahagian bawah di tengah2 periuk agak terlebih lembut sikit. takleh nak buat apa sebab kalau kurangkan air nanti ada yang mentah. yang aku masak dalam jar rice cooker kecil aku sendiri takde masalah pulak.



hubby baru kejap pergi hantar nasi beriani satu flask besar ke rumah kak malissa. majlis dia mula pukul 3 petang. aku nak berehat kejap sebelum bersiap2. ada lagi satu flask kecil & satu periuk nasi lagi dengan aku. nanti kami bawa sekali ke majlis dia. penatnya rasa... kalau dapat tidur best ni ;-)