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2014

Tuka gambar to dusk in Tokyo sebab epilepsy aku tengok gamba sebelom ni.  It had been an eventful year.  For the world. The Gaza terror ( war is too bias because only the Gazans suffered the most), the Sewol South Korea ferry where a lot of school teens are the major  casualty, the Peshawar school massacre where a lot of children died needlessly on some misguided ideas of revenge, also the year most of the world are introduced to Boko Haram and their despicable acts of kidnapping school girls, the Sydney cafe siege where Muslims every where despaired when one lone man tarnished the name of Islam and the death of two innocents.  And I am not getting to Malaysia yet. Of course MH370 and MH17. Even remembering it is painful, I can't imagine the pain of family and loved ones of the passengers.  The loss of Air Asia plane recently while it is an Indonesian plane, but it still hit too close to home. Cameron Highlands ravaged lands. The floods in East Coast tha

Kitchen makeover gitu

Makeover sangat. We were renovating the kitchen this year and bilik air bawah masa bulan 2 dulu. Punye la lamaaa baru aku nak update..  It took around a month and half to siap. Dari masuk rumah tu we didnt do anything to the dry kitchen. We only added a wet kitchen at the back. Just some space to chop onions and cook, tapi tu lama dah. The dry kitchen we only ripped out some moldy cabinets and left some other moldy cabinets to be used. The old cabinets The back of the kitchen and our old meja makan. The meja makan set tu pon is actually from the old owners. You can see the pintu there that led out to the wet area of the kitchen. During the middle of renovation. You can see the sink there. We put it there initially masa first masuk rumah, then we decided to yank it away for this renovation sebab we hardly use it.  The floor tu it is not wood. Tiles actually. My husband nak tiles yang rupa wood tu. I ok je Rindu la Kurap. No moar kucing yang jalan san

Of War criminals, Magicians and Lawyers

The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert My rating: 3 of 5 stars The Dark Room tells the stories of three ordinary Germans: Helmut, a young photographer in Berlin in the 1930s who uses his craft to express his patriotic fervour; Lore, a twelve-year-old girl who in 1945 guides her young siblings across a devastated Germany after her Nazi parents are seized by the Allies; and, fifty years later, Micha, a young teacher obsessed with what his loving grandfather did in the war, struggling to deal with the past of his family and his country. 3 stories in one novel. If there are some similar theme with all of these stories is that there are all related to a Nazi sympathizer/officer or are ones. The first stories was simple and sad. The second of the starving children story on a journey to their grandmother are the one I most can't stand. It is too heartbreaking. I kinda like skim read it. Not that I skip here and there. But I kinda scanned the words without delving much

Budak dah Botak

On the Saturday morning after Saif was born, the 7th day, I said to my mum that kalau kat JB I would asked my mother to call Ustazah Masyitah who used to do cukur rambut for the cucu babies in my mom circle of kelas agama friends to come and do Saif. Not a big thing, just a few people and just some simple makan-makan after.  But my abang ipar friend who is an Ustaz is here on KL so he called the young Ustaz up ( ustaz ranggi.. ) and mentioned my intention. My mom decided to cook nasi lemak and we just invited very few people for the makan.  So on the 8th day, Saif punye rambut cacak2 tu dah tadek.  I pump milk the night before so budak kecik will lessen his fussing time tu  My baby memang suke buat duckface Abang Aziz kat belakang tu berlari sana sini, tak kesahkan adik die kena cukur. I think the young ustaz kurang sikit pengalaman cukur so lama sikit nak habis cukur. Rambut Saif pon banyak. Afterwards Saif was a bit freakout die kena manhandle camtu so it to

Post recovery bits and coping with new life - somewhat

People always said every child birth is different and this is true! Let see what gonna happened if I am to have a 3rd child pulak.  This time the post recovery is very painful one. I didn't remembered when I had given birth to Aziz it was this painful. That first 2 nights I was racked with sweats and contraction pain. I felt so hot that 2 days and was sweating a lot that my hair was disgusting while everyone in the room was feeling cold. It was made even worse because cesarean post op meant no bath for at least 2 or 3 days! But I didn't dare to let the temp drop even further in the room because I don't want my newborn baby sick because of the cold. And the contraction pain this time is really intense. I could cry, it is almost as bad as during labour contractions. I asked the nurse and she said memang normal, usually those who had undergone cesarean the second time will feel the pain even more. She said the third usually not that bad. Mesti cakap camtu supaya mak2 tak

Latest book reviews

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontรซ My rating: 3 of 5 stars The passion of Catherine and Heathcliff. A love so strong that it defy conventionality. That is what I usually heard when people refer to Wuthering Heights. And it was . Passion. Wild unbridled raw love.  For this book, I was tempted to put only 1 star but!!, there was something powerful in this book towards the end that makes me feel morbid and despondent and fearful. All of the characters are unlikable but they remain true to their self even towards the end. It is as if she wrote it because she was compelled to get these horrible character out, like exorcising demons out of the system and are completely helpless in how they turned out to be because they will not be thwarted even in their author's hand. David Golder, The Ball, Snow in Autumn, The Courilof Affair by Irรจne Nรฉmirovsky My rating: 5 of 5 stars I already read and reviewed David Golder so not gonna comment here. The Ball - the POV of this

2nd Labour Experience

I had already mentioned to my gynae before that I am gonna try VBAC. So I was on my 39th week Jumaat, 21st Nov tu and it also happened to be my birthday. Memula I macam cita2 nak guilt trip laki ke Majestic Hotel punye buffet, tapi I during my last weeks of pregnancy tu I don't have a lot of appetite pon actually. So after a week or more of not cooking sebab tak larat or pening I cooked dinner. After washing up, dan rase moody for no reason ( I am always moody during my birthday), rase macam perut jatuh je.  At that time husband pon baru bagi my present. Then after putting Aziz to bed , went to the toilet and felt like something came out from down there, if you know what I mean. Nothing so dramatic. Not even air ketuban pon pecah. Only the mucus plug, some bloody bit. Told husband that I maybe will be in labour tomorrow so I start to put the last things I need in my hospital bag and husband packed up Aziz bag since we akan letak him at my sister house when I am in labour. Seb

Big Bad Wolf Sale 2014 - Preview Pass

Got meself a preview pass way back in February. Dan being in pantang I still manage to buy some. Malas cakap banyak. Below are the pics of the book I bought. A lot of em are childrens book for my kids and my nephews and nieces. Also general fiction for meself. Things I am thrilled about is that my Sookie Stackhouse series is now complete. As per usual the book pics are my reference usually on what books I have yet to read. My preview pass Aziz pouncing on the dino coloring book after I told him there are new books for him That medical dictionary is for my sister. I am not that curious to learn. My stash for this year Also bought the Stiegg Larsson famous trilogy. I was reluctant to buy it because of the violence, but meh, I can always skip the violence. The movie was great. Both of the Dilbert books are my husband For my nephews and niece. Tetiba aku pon jeles and wish I have that Hello Kitty sweet treats. A lot of people was asking where I

New phone - my Find 7 review.

Beria kan aku cakap aku taknak new phone, or considering new one but then I got one for my birthday ( which was on the 21st Nov tu ). While my heart was set on Xiaomi 4 or OnePlus One but nak dapatkan phone tu macam sama susah nak kahwin dengan anak raja tahapnye, my husband bought me the Oppo Find7. Memula aku macam merajuk sebab ingatkan die tak belikan ape2 for my birthday. Dah la kek pon lupa beli. Hiba ibu mengandung.  Naseb baik lepas I tanye maghrib tu mana my kek die terus beli. Kalau tak ade aku pegi batu belah batu bertangkup... sebab malam tu je terus contractions in labour. Hahaha.  I was very specific on the specifications I want in a phone. I wanted a 3GB RAM, and at least 32 GB worth of internal phone storage. 16GB no longer cuts it. Also the screen is as big as Note 2 as I am used to that. So that does not left a whole lot of choice.  So my phone looks kinda like this  I think the back looks kinda like that because the phone come with a faux leather

Ways to Wear Sandal ..

Like any other women I am obsessed with fashion and people criticism on what you can or cannot wear. I never get the view that you must wear heels to look good and va va voom and all that jazz la kan. Especially those who keep on saying that if you are short, heels are the way to go. Balderdash! As a person who is short, I'll say ... own that shortness! What's the deal with being tall anyway ( except if weight gain is more noticeable on short people.. ok la that is a huge plus ). But pfftt. During my first working years I could rock a heels like nobody business. I mean I had once boasted that I think I can jungle trek in heels! Gile ko riak. Naseb baik Tuhan tak tunjuk dengan patah riukkan tengkuk aku lepas aku buat statement tu. But biasa la, usia makin meningkat and we are more wiser.  Because face it, heels are not the type of shoes you would want to trek through a city or going to a leisurely beach walk. And ridiculous kut nak grocery shop kat Jusco pakai heels. Thus

An unfortunate products placement

First of all this product placement is totally unintentional. Haha. My husband was looking through my pic phone gallery and he just showed this to me. And I instantly got what he saw. Haha I wwondered why I didnt see it when I took the picture.  I was wanting to blog about the anti stretchmark cream I used throughout my pregnancy.  For my first or rather second pregnancy I used Bio Oil for about 2 weeks before only using Burt's Bee Belly Butter. I think I had mentioned this before but I love this product. It is fragrance free so it only exude the brief lotion smell. It is wonderful on the skin. Does not left you feeling oily or greasy . And we know it stay on the skin because when I took a bath I can feel the lotion washed away by the water. And totally easy peasy applying since it can be easily smooth around the skin.   For this pregnancy kekonon nak save up I try using Bio Oil. Burt Bees dulu less than rm100. Now dah naik harga. Rm108 I think. So I used Bio Oil balik .Boleh l

Newest member of the family!

Memula nak cakap the fourth member but then I tak kira kekucing lagi. Hehe. Anyway. After I post my entry of that 39th weeks tu , terus malam tu contractions. I planned on vbac but not to be. Czer gak. Will give more details on later post.  The gist is my baby boy whom I called Saif was born on 22nd Nov 2014 on 3.12pm. Healthy and well Alhamdulillah. We are now at home. Well my sis home for pantang. My mom here and there are more people to take care of Aziz. In the mean time it is sore nipples, painful recovery, zombified state due to no sleep and lacking in taste food time for me. And trying to cough just after czer is torture. Later.

39th weeks!

Woooww. 39th weeks. Time ni I dah bersalinkan Aziz dah. Dah selamat keluar hospital dah rasenye pon. Hehe.  Ni duduk rumah ni sibuk prepare barang2 for baby. I already sterilized the bottles and the breastpump and all those storage bottles. Bought Avent bottles tapi tu tak sterilized lagi because I plan to BF kan. But them anything can happened, so I bought also Medela teats bottle yang sesuai for newborn so if I need to bottle feed baby breast milk or formula dah ade la.  Assorted mismatch socks and mittens yg kehilangan the other pair Baju baby pon dah basuh semua, pampers dah beli. Got a load of clothes from my sisters. We usually akan pass around the baby clothes to those sesape yang akan deliver. Tapi I cakap to my husband beli la jugak 3 4 pasang new clothes for the baby so he would have things that are his own and not anyone else.  Beg hospital pon I dah packup though maybe needs to put in a few more items like baby oil or minyak telon dan my books.  Went

Update on things

Baru lepas beli tiket Mockingjay! Yes. Sambil2 tu I am trying to play my jigsaw puzzles yang I bought satu pada masa dahulu di Jepun tapi baru buat border je. Sebab nak main jigsaw puzzles kekecik ni tak boleh ade gangguan kanak2 kecik. Kalau hilang ade mak menaga nanti tengok puzzles tak habis ade lobang. Rupanye bile main puzzles time ade kucing pon sama naik tension. Semua time tu la nak manja2 duduk dekat atas puzzle lah, nak kunyah puzzle laaahhh -_-" .  Anyway. Ini cerita 2 weekend lepas. My husband have a team building event at Sunway hotel. Memula aku ingat ni masuk sekali Sunway resort. Rupanye tido. Mak buyung ade sedikit lega sebab mak buyung tak larat nak bawak anak bujang die terkinja2 kat Sunway lagoon at 37 weeks.  Sepatutnye my husband pergi lah ice breaking session and makan-makan hari Jumaat tu, but we only manage to check in at 12.30 am sebab I still have to work kan dan banyak pulak keje time dah nak berenti tu. Sebab dah penat ngan ngantuk, I only ma

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