Up & About

alhamdulillah my fever has gone and i'm back to work as usual, as if nothing had actually happen to me during the weekend. except i'm suffering from sleep deprivation. uaghhh! so sleepy. ada orang telah membuat bunyi2an yang menggangu tidurku sampai pukul 2pagi tak boleh nak tidur. hadoiii tolonglah kasihani aku.

bengkak pada kelenjar tekakku juga dah gone. alhamdulillah i can take solid food seperti biasa which is good sebab badanku yang masih terasa lemah dek demam dan sakit sendi perlukan zat & nutrien. i think i just had a rheumatic fever, like the one i used to had masa tonsilku selalu kena infection dulu. the symptoms were the same. phewww! i thought once you had your tonsils removed semua masalah akan hilang. tapi sebenarnya my health have been much much better than before. dulu masa ada tonsil i had to cope with 10 series of flu and fever setahun. sejak my tonsils were removed, alhamdulillah my health dah improved... after 2 years cuma tahun ni je aku start dapat demam yang agak teruk sikit.

due to my fever last weekend i missed my weekend running. padahal aku dah berjanji dengan fahmi i'd bring him go running again. kesian pulak semalam dia bangun awal pagi tengok mama masih terbaring atas katil, daddy pulak dah menyusup keluar pergi jogging tak ajak dia. i promise myself i'd take him jogging with me this sunday coz i'm working sabtu ni.

Produk Orang Demam

i wrote about my flu symptom in my previous entry. but no i didn't get the flu, instead it turns as high fever instead. i was feeling hot on the outside but cold inside. i don't feel like getting a shower upon returning from work on friday but i hate myself when i'm all weak, so i forced myself to take a bath. after which i proceeded to bake a chocolate cake.

i've already made my plans for the weekends. this week i get saturday off. as you know me already i can't just sit around doing nothing on my long weekend. i had a bad sore throat on friday night which rendered me turning and tossing on the bad, i couldn't sleep, i was feverish. came saturday morning i was too weak to move, i can;t swallow solid food, rasanya ada kelenjar yang bengkak dalam tekakku, it can't be my tonsil coz i've got both removed, but it does feels like tonsils though. hubby told me to cancel my plans, but i've made up my mind. this time around i wouldn't let anything came between me and my plan.

so, inilah hasil kerja orang demam. macam zombie buat kerja ni... i spent 7 hours menyiapkan deco ni.
lepas siapkan kerja tu, i went to the clinic alone. the doctor gave me a very strong antibiotic, ada orang cakap augmentine is the strongest antibiotic but this one is not augmentine. but still from what he said i gather yang ni pun kuat jugak. he reminds me not to take them on empty stomach, i told him how am i going to eat anything at all dengan tekak aku yang bengkak dan rasa macam kertas pasir. i asked for ubat sakit tekak and he prescribed me with some ubat radang and plenty of panadol.

aku ni kekadang terlebih degil. aku balik rumah alas perut dengan pengat pisang sikit lepas tu terus makan ubat. itupun sebab aku dah tak tahan menggigil dan sakit sendi2 semua. aku ingatkan pengat pisang tu cukup untuk alas perut. sebab antibiotik yang aku selalu dapat tak pernah pulak beri effect yang terlalu kuat macam yang kali ni. serta merta perutku sakit mencucuk2. ku ajak hubby makan kat luar, coz i don't think i can stand in the kitchen cooking, and i need something yang mengkecurkan liur. it took sometime after i finish my meal for the pain to subside.

dan pagi tadi aku ambil breakfast secukupnya - tuna mayo sandwich dengan butter croissant. orang degil patut sesekali learn her lesson ;-)

dan ini hasil kerja orang demam yang masih dedar.

sambil menaip entry ni pun badanku berpeluh2... i was hopping aku cepat sihat. esok nak kerja.

Of Late

I know I haven’t been writing that much of late. And if I did, it will be mostly about my baking project (passion) which seems to have blossom rapidly. I was trying to shun all thoughts and relieve the pressures of office work by getting myself fully and deeply (madly) into baking. While doing that, I become absorbed in my own world. Like Alice in her wonderland. As I said before, cooking and baking works as a therapy for me. Moreover when you are blessed with children like mine who never short for words of praise. And a husband who doesn’t know how to cook, for he would always appreciate my cooking’s.

Talking about children, Fahmi for the first time skipped school on Monday because he was down with high fever. We brought him to the clinic on Sunday, the doctor said he had swollen and reddish tonsils which explains his lack of appetite the day before and also explains his thirst for chilled water. The children was taught not to take chilled water, so at home they normally drink lukewarm water. Except on the occasional eat out treat they are allowed to have chilled juice.

Alhamdulillah, Fahmi religiously took all the medication prescribed by the doctor. He recovers speedily. The next day he’s all ready for school. The fever has gone but now replaced with flu, but it is not so bad. He shared them with his sister… who transmitted the bug to her mama. So now, I started to get sore throat and joint ache... and sometimes headache. So far, hubby has been spared.

These photos of Yaya taken on last Saturday evening before we left to Nilai, attending the birthday party that auntie Fiza throw for her son. Fahmi's body temperature has started to rise before we left.


The dress was a birthday gift from auntie Fiza. Yaya seems to have developed a fondness towards dresses and gowns which her mama fully supports ;-). Last month I bought two gowns for her, one as a birthday gift that I bought during jusco sales – it was so cheap, another was an expensive flower-girl-like gown in pink – it was so pretty I can’t help myself. Its like making my childhood dream comes true beacuse i was never dressed in gown when i was her age. My father hates me in gowns and he hated it when mom put up my hair into a pony tail. Does that explains my tomboyishness during my teenage years? well, maybe...

A Card & A Cake

yesterday fahmi brought home a handmade mother's day card from school. last week on the last day of his school i was already wondering if he's going to bring back 'something' for me, but when he came back with nothing special in his bag, i thought the school was so ignorant of such occasion. rupa2nya the card came in 3 days after the actual occasion, which is OK for me daripada takde langsung. so this is the simple card that fahmi made at school.

cheeky yaya make fahmi blushed when she dubbed the card 'Surat Cinta' because of the big heart on the front. so sweet... i'm going to frame this. my first mother's day card from fahmi.
teacher's day is in 2 days time. last year fahmi presented a box of chocolate to his teacher intan at smart reader. but since i'm so into baking mood, i'm baking carrot cake for his teachers at tadika strawberry. frosting the cake with cream cheese icing all over was really a tough job. the combination of cream cheese, butter and icing sugar are not firm enough and does not hold together at the sides of the cake. it tends to drip, i had to leave it in the fridge before i proceed to the next decoration.

since 16mei falls on saturday which is a no school day, fahmi will bring this cake tomorrow instead.

yaya won't be missed out on this years' teacher's day. coz she'll bring some cuppies for her teacher Nurin at smart reader. so this year no ready made presents for their teachers. insyaAllah kalau mama masih terdaya *wink*

What I Did Last Weekend

the peanut butter cuppies that i made on saturday, complete the decoration with choc ganache, buttercream swirl and walnut on crown, drizzled with my homemade caramel saucethe ben10 cake that i bake and decorate using wilton stiff buttercream and ben10 printed on edible icing. mind you i'm not well trained in piping images ( i have no formal training!), thus i cheat by using edible icingthis cake was made to fulfil my fahmi's dream cake. thought of making this on his 6th birthday next year but it is still ages away. since i'm in the mood for baking, i made them anyway. fahmi dedicated this cake to me as a mother's day gift. hah! ben10 mother's day cake? only fahmi can make it sounds so sweet. but really that was so sweet of him.

While I Was Busy

as i was busy with my baking project over the weekend, i didn't get to pay much attention to my kids. pity them coz eventhough mama not working on saturday, they still didn't get to spend time bermanja dengan mama. these photos shows how they deal with lack of my motherly attention...

saturday photos
with mama lack of attention, they divert their attention to nature, hence these pictures of pokok2 in our small yard




these were taken by kakak, whom i suspected were also suffering from boredom, photgraphing the kids who pretended that they were cameleon, seeking disguise dicelah2 pokok daun birah. or were they shooting for national geography trying to show us how large daun birah can grow sampai boleh buat selimut?

sunday photos... indoor photoshoot ;-P
the one in the photo were pretending she was in the America's Next Top Model run, while the one taking the shoot pretending he was nigel barker

all of these were taken by fahmi while i was busy giving final touch to the ben10 cake



the photographer being a photographer doesn't like when the model decides to play photographer instead...muka boring jer

in the end i had to confiscated the camera away because in the end they both were fighting like cat & dog over the camera

Plans For Today

see if i can live it up to another day packed with to-do list. i have to finish decorating my ben10 cake which gonna eat up most of my time today, i have to find time to go to my cousin's house at taman bunga negara to collect 'beleda' i.e agar2 kering kiriman my uncle last month - i feel like one terrible niece sebab tak cepat2 ambil beleda tu and in the mean time i also have to find time to go to the watch shop kat subang parade to get my watch repaired - rosak my watch hadiah mother's day 2 tahun lepas from hubby dikerjakan dek dua orang anakku yang mischievious ni.

both my kids were up early today. which means kerja2 decorating cake ku akan menjadi bertambah lembab sebab in between i'll be yelling and screaming to both of them yang tak serik-serik mengacau.

okay got to go now.

btw, Happy Mother's Day to all fabulous mothers out there.