Happy Birthday Mama!!!

Monday, 28 April 2008
Assalamualaikum...

Hari ni hari jadi Mama. Balik tadi aku sempat belikan hadiah untuk Mama. Ternyata Mama begitu suka sekali. Sempat juga Mama kata, "Mama selalu dapat hadiah masa birthday. Anak-anak, Mama tak bagi apa pun".

Ketahuilah wahai Mama sayang, doa Mama untuk kami anak-anak Mama sudah mencukupi. Masakan aku boleh lupa, Mama lah yang selalu bangun tengah malam solat sunat sambil mendoakan anak-anak jika kami ada exam. Saban tahun begitu. Namun Mama tak pernah putus doakan kami hingga kami semua Alhamdulillah berjaya hingga kini.

Aku rasa puas dapat kucup kedua-dua belah pipi & dahi Mama. Kalau Hari Raya, Mama & Makcik Jiah yang selalu buat begitu selepas Solat Sunat Raya, kini hari yang istimewa buat Mama giliran aku pula membalas.

Selamat Hari Jadi Mama..
Happy Birthday Mama..

I will love you always & forever...

p/s: Banyak lagi nak tulis, tapi nanti feeling habis..:P

A Sick Day

Thursday, 24 April 2008
Assalamualaikum

Yesterday and until this morning has been a sick day for me.
First I was done with fever from yesterday morning until 10 o'clock at night. But still I wen to work anyway. Slept through lunch. Reach home at 6.15 and went to sleep again. Woke up for Maghrib prayer and sleep some more.
Then at 10pm I woke up because I was feeling hot. Seems my temperature has cool down. But then I had this terrible migraine. So I slept until 3am where I woke up for my Isya' prayer. This is where I had a terrible stomachache and migraine! I'm having diarrhea and wind at the same time until this morning..

What a terrible & sick day..Oh okay the onus was on me to get better but I didn't took any medicine whatsoever. Today I'm feeling much better, with slight feeling of diarrhea.

KL International Book Fair

Tuesday, 8 April 2008

Books & magazines that I bought at 27th KLIBF. The dictionary isn't here.

Assalamualaikum..

Last week on 5th April 2008 (Saturday) I went to the annual KL International Book Fair held at PWTC. That was the 2nd day the fair is held. It will be on until 13th April 2008.

I went in the afternoon. I drove there with my brother. My other siblings went earlier in the morning. By the time we reach there, there was a lot of people. I guess it coincide with schools break on the 1st week of the month. It was hard to move actually. I had to push & shove just to walk so I didn't have the chance to browse for interesting books at every booth. But I did went to my favourite booth, Penguin, where I bought 2 novels. The rest I just bought magazines, diet book & cook book (as a motivation for me to cook) and I also bought for my brother Arabic-Malay-English dictionary (Akak sumbang untuk Haidar belajar kat Mesir tu..hehehe)

Total spend on that day alone amount to RM 300. Oh yeah..Clive Cussler is one of my favorite adventure author. Been collecting his books for a few years now and trying to complete the collection. Mostly I buy second hand from Payless Book. This year I didn't buy any of Mary Higgins Clark or Patricia Cornwell because I have all their novels now. Maybe I should try collecting James Patterson, been borrowing from my friend. The Alex Cross series is good.

I'm planning to go again, as I've missed buying a few books. I just applied for 1/2 day leave on Thursday to go there again with my sister & her sons. Hope it's not too crowded. And to not miss again on books that I want to buy, I have made the list...
  1. Surat Untuk Nuha
  2. Aku Terima Nikahnya
  3. Zahrah De Tigris
  4. Salju Sakinah
  5. Wang, Anda & Islam
  6. Formula Solat Sempurna
Wah!!! Another RM 150 will go out from my bank account..

Apa Kebolehan Domestik Aku Eh?

Friday, 4 April 2008
Assalamualaikum...

Apa kebolehan domestik aku eh? Entah la, aku pun tak pasti sangat. Yang pasti semua orang meletakkan kebolehan memasak sebagai kebolehan domestik yang pertama.

Minta maaf, aku tak reti masak. Ni nak bagitau la ni. Kut-kut ada yang minta aku masak macam-macam. Tapi kalau masak kek ke, cupcake ke, muffin ke boleh la. Masak spaghetti ke pun boleh. Tapi goreng pisang ke, buat kuih seri muka ke, karipap ke..aku tak reti. Aku ni pun satu hal, kalau bab masak ni, suka sangat lari dari resepi. Mana la nak menjadi kalau macam tu. Tapi kalau kek takpe, kiranya macam proses ujikaji la sampai jadi. Tapi bab lauk-lauk aku tak berani buat. Nanti tak jadi dah membazir. Penah dulu aku nak masak ayam masak merah, sudahnya jadi ayam masak kicap. Hai..macam mana tuh?

Haa..tapi yang ni memang aku cekap sikit kalau aku super rajin. Bab kemas rumah. Cukup suka. Terutamanya basuh pinggan mangkuk dan periuk segala. Vakum lantai, mop lantai, susun buku, kemas katil, cuci tandas, etc semua aku suka.

Lagi satu aku suka buat benda-benda kraf atau yang ada kena mengena dengan benang dan jarum. Jahit baju sendiri tu boleh dah. Aku boleh jahit baju kurung, baju kebaya, jubah & skirt. Langsir je tak cuba lagi. Tapi itu pun tengok mood. Kalau takde mood tu, mau taknya kain yang dah potong tak berjahit bertahun-tahun. Ni pun ada satu baju kurung yang tak berjahit lagi. Ni nak belajar jahit manik pula. Mana tau kalau dah tak keja nanti ada la keje nak buat. Aku rasa la, minat ni semua sifat tipikal orang yang berperibadi INFJ. Bila suka sesuatu benda akan buat dengan teliti sekali walaupun pada orang lain leceh. Tapi bila hilang minat tu, sebelah mata pun tak pandang dah.

Lagi satu aku suka keje pasang-pasang perabot, kiranya DIY la ni. Kalau la kat rumah aku ni ada gerudi, dah lama aku gerudi dinding untuk pasang rail langsir kayu tu. Boleh pasang langsir lawa sikit. Almari-almari buku kat rumah aku ni, aku yang pasang. Katil-katil kat rumah aku ni ada yang aku pasang. Entah kenapa ye...rasa puas bila hasil kerja kita dapat digunakan.

Kesimpulannya, kebolehan domestik yang aku ada hanyalah:
  1. Kemas rumah (bila super rajin. Tapi basuh pinggan memang keje 'favourite')
  2. Menjahit (bila minat tu timbul)