eid MubaraK everybody...

He had too muCh fun dUring his balik kampung trip...Mama will update this blog once she's done finishing up her kueh raye...hahahhah...

selamaT hari raye everybody

aku the magician....

i was hooked to this belog...thanks to cik wanana yang telah mengintrocudekan blog tersebot. setelah melayari blog itu, saya kini sangat suke berbahasa m3layu. bahasa ibunda saya..

pada suatu hari (ala2 standard nak start pertandingan bercerita mase kecik-kecik dulu).saya kindda "terbeli" this vest. Niat murni dihati ingin bergaya ke opis.. tapi niat sebenarnye nak cover perut yang makin hari semakin buncit.

so there i was trying this vest on depan cermin.. pusing kanan .. pusing kiri..

Me to mR HuBby : Babe.. okey tak ?
huBbY : (muke berkerut....) okey kot....
Me : betol ke ? (tak betol lah tuh laGi mau tanye..)
hubby : i dunno.. something doesn't feels right, look as if u're going somwehere ..
Me: Memang lah i'm going somewhere... nak kuar kan nih..
Hubby : No.. like u're Going somewhere to perform something.. an act..mcm magician ..

tanpa berpikir panjang..aku teros tukar baju lain ..

chet!!! dulu...when i was wearing nih (my half-top) .....dia kata aku pakai monkey suit..(penulis in her monkey suit)

now aku pakai ini..jadi magician lak..pening-pening..

due to his lack of knowledge in fashion terkini.. i ended up being in a monkey-suit & a magician.

Jika perOtku tidak berbukit-bukit nescaya saya cantik berpakaian begini.. tetapi apakan daya..

tentang dIa..

Hi people..or as they greet here.. MArhaBA.. salam from Abu dhAbi...

Asyik MAma aje dok update blog nih, Let me update you on my side of the story lak.Lately nih, eversince i went to school and MAma dah start her work we only have weekends to spend quality time. I adore outings.. saya tahan panas.. i like the beach .. as i can roll around on my magic carpet & play with the sand. TApi.. Mama saya sungguh bohsan.. dia tak bagi saya touch sand .. kotor and eeeiiii geli katanye.. tah pape tah .. nak gi beach tapi tak mo bagi saya main pasir...

Since i can't swim in the sea nor play with the sand ... all i can do is suck my thumb and act cute.. while Usha-Usha Org yang dok bergumbira around me..

And when i reallY-really gOt bored .. i suck my toes instead. HA.. i guess you guys can't do that.One thing for sure i know MAma & PApa can't cz perot diorang dah buncit... huhuhu...

every petang, MAma & PApa bawak saya jaLAn2 after balik from skooL. Mereka x peduli jika saya penat ke ape ke.. tgk nih.. suke ati aje mereka suruh saya posing dekat dengan pokok kurma..pastuh MAma belasah kurma tuh sikit pun x offer kat saya.. tak patut!!!

Pastuh, kadang-kadang bila MAma terase dia macam chumiL sikit dia mule lah jadikan saya Props dia utk amik gambaR..cover line nak bergaya sorang-sorang nampak sangat perasannye.. terpakse lah saya layankan aje.. dia pakai cantik-cantik... saya pakai Jumper saya aje..adeke patot ? tak patot...!!

papa pun sama gak... mereka ingat mereka chumiL amik gambar bersama saya.. mereka tak tau.. yang chumiL adelah saya dah bukan mereka...

saya memang anak yang baik, hari-hari when Mama is buzy in the kitchen main masak-masak, I'll help her out in the living room. saya suka kemas CD, rearrange the cables belakang tV. Mama panggil saya Mama's helper. I don't mind doing the house work cz saya anak yang baik...when it's time to go to sleep, saya akan pastikan my cot is safe and sound. I'll inspect every inch and corner of it that means saya kena panjat-panjat & jenguk-jenguk keluar. The only problem is that i don't think Mama & PApa likes it when i do that cz they would shout every single time i do it.. alah nak aje cakap ChiLL la ...

Okey people..enuf for now.. rasa macam celebrity lak org dok amik gambaR saya dari tadi... Bubyee...

a.B.a.Y.A

thinking oF getting myself a tailor-made abaya..it does come in handy when i have nothing to wear to the office and was thinking of wearing it during semayang raye this year. this empire cut abaya surely seems nice on long-legged chicks definitely not meant for me...

do u know that this piece of self-floor-mopping-dress could cost you a bomb? the cheapest that i've asked around for a custom made abaya is AED370 ~ RM360..demmit. sungguh mahaL...

taPI tak abU dhab1 lah jika tiada abaYA...
Going for the abaya HunT soon... :)

LiL miss PeaNuT & her baG of Nuts...

The one with the sinful nUts

During my boarding school days; (yes.. there was this short peroid of time where i stayed in the asrama for a while.. just to get my hands dirty doing laundry, mandi bErkemban at one of the two extra big kolaH and having a go at the tasteless food that they serve at Dewan makan- what an experience..)..

there was this girl, a junoir in my dorm..i shall call her "Miss-peanuT".. hence the name.. she have this huge stock of Pistachio nuts.. freshly delivered froM makkah by her DAd i guess (at that time her dad was serving in mekkaH). EverY single day she would pull out her big bag of pistachio nuts..took out 7 of them.. baca doa..eat the nuTs slowly and start reading her notes or doing her homework.

one day i braved myself ...

Me : "Miss peanut.. awak buat ape tuh ?"...
Miss PEanut : "Oooo... My dad delivered this pistachio nuts all the way from Mekkah .. yada..yada..yada.. and i have to eat 7 of it daily as they say if you eat 7 of it every day it will make you brainier and bijak pandai... kan Org panggil kacang nih kacang bijak ..."
ME: OoOo... *smile*

little that "Miss Peanut" knew that i was actually trying my best to gulp in all my saliva. little that she knew that i'm Nuts ofer nutS.. esp pistachio. So there i was .. every single day, trying my best not to drool every time she pulled out that bag oF nuts out from her study taBle. DArN!! why does she have to torture me like this ? the sound of the shell cracking and the sight of those small, green yummilicious, nicely arrangged pistachio nuts oN her table (Yes!! she arrange the nuts before eating it.. saje aje kan ?..teasEr!! SHOW OFF!!!!) ...

One daY ..
Miss Peanut : kak iNa, ...nak tak ? *shoving her bag of Pistachio in my direction*
ME: ha... (am i dreaming ? i felT i was a bout to Jump and grab those nuts and mUnch it down heavenly. But being a kononnya-macho-and-cool-kakak-senior.. i anwsered No instead).. i regret that i refused to that offer coz apparently that was the 1st and last offer that came from miss peanuT!!! demmit... kedekut!!! hahahah

Days passed and not even a single time that i didn't drool over her bag of pistachio nuts!!i will make an effort to leave the room everytime she pulls out her bag of goodie nuts.It was tOo muCh for me to handle..

i was Green with enVy over her baG oF green Pistachio nuTs...

last weeK...
My collegue at work introduced me to "L3banese Roast3ry". This place is heaven for nut Lovers. You will find all sorts of Nuts freshly roasted in any flavour that you like, plain roasted, cheese coated, chilli coated, herbs, smoked (NIce!!).. just name it...

as i was browsing thru the arrays of nuts trying my best to stay in focus on what shall my pick be while munching on the free testers, all i can think of was "Lil Miss Peanut"...

i no longer enVy Lil Miss Peanut and her bag oF Pistachio as i have my l3banese roastry.

*craCk.. MuncH..muNcH ... Smile...*

the one where he goes to skool...

hello people...
few words from the land where brain could be frozen due to lack of intellectual activities...

I'm at my usual cozy slump at the chocolate Galler, papa's at work and rayyan is at school.. yes..we sent him to the nursery.

It was a bit tough for both of us (MAma as well as rayyan)..
rayyan at that point of time still refuses to be bottle-fed and as for MAMA that was my first time away from him ever since birth.. BUt Alhamdulillah both of us survived. It had been nearly a month now and i think He likes it so much.

We managed to get our wheels.. Alhamdulillah and shall i say finally ..? but i was worth the wait...

Inysa-Allah if everything is according to plan, i'll be starting work on 1st august. It had been 7 months since i last worked.. Nervous lak

Hopefully everything will be fine..

*no mo0d to write*

Surprise.. surprise!!...

 

i think i got this writer’s block lately had not been in the mood to write.
Updates..

made a surprise trip back to malaYa... wish i could capture all the surprised & stunned face on both neneks and atok the moment we stepped into the house.
5 days was short, definitely, but we love every moment of it. It was filled with quality time with both families. We would definitely stay longer the next trip around...Maybe raya *Insya-Allah*

hot seat....

 

redbull air race 2009-c0rniche

had fun in the sun sambil makan2 while watching the airrace. rayyan was a darL eventhough dia demam sikit cz just got his jabs.baguih big boy mama nih... this week ade WOMAD (World Of Music Abu Dhabi) lak ...same venue c0rniche...

botak boy mama...

hair or NO hair... he will still be mama's angel...<

how to screw up your nasi lemak 101...

we got this complicated-multifunction looking rice cooker as our wedding gift and had been using it ever since. Being not much of a cook myself, i only use it utk masak nasik even though it can cook other stuff namely, sushi, steamed veggie, grains, porridge and the list goes on and on.

last Saturday we decided to invite some close friends for brunch. Menu of the day were nasik lemak, sambal ikan bilis, butter prawns, ayam goreng berempah and those standard telor, ikan bilis goreng, timon & kacang goreng...

being very ambitious...i decided to cook the rice in one go..10 pots for 8 people...surprisingly muat lak periok tuh.. Impressed with the rice cooker ability to fit in that large amount of rice i let it set and moved on to the rest of the food preparation ..litte that i know that i made a very big mistake.. big,,big,,,huge..huge mistake..

30 minutes passed, .nasi tak masak2..give it another 10 minutes *thinking to myself*..
yet still nasik tak masak-masak...

we decided to move on to plan B...masak nasik putih..hahhahaha..

even though at the end we did managed to cook the nasi lemak but i was rather disappointed that it didn't went as gracefully as i expected..

lesson learned ...never ever ignore the "MAX NOS. of cups" indication on your rice cooker..

P/s…rayyaN turned 4 months yesterdaY…

going back in time~heritage v1llage~

*click picture for bigger view*

i'm trying as much as possible to explore what abu dhabi have to offer while i'm here. so last weekend we went to the Heritage village. apparently it's listed as one of the "10 things to do in abu dhabi". kekononye you can go back in time to the old days of abu dhabi before oil was discovered and those skyscrapers were build. The place is nice, it's just that there's no explanation boards or what so ever. so you have to figure out things on your own or better still make your own story for it... *which we did*..rayyan was a darL as he slept beautifully in his pram most of the time.

his new affection...

sessi makan tangan...isk..isk..isk...anak mama....

time to unwind......2

 

*click pic for bigger view*
i love weekends..back in malaysia, weekend means extra hours under the quilt,big breakfast with the whole family, catching up on things with the rest of the sibling, lazing around at home, coffee with friends, trips to the mall, salon & spa sessions...

here..it's not much of a big difference...we do sleep in till late noon, big breakfast -definately!! who wouldn't be hunry after those long hours of sleep,coffee trips are essential, mall trips. I'm yet to experience the spa & saloon here.the only difference is the "catching up on things with the rest of the siblings"...but then, that's what faceb00k is for...*wink*
p/s... it rained here in abu dhabi ...
i just love weekends...

aIr matakU berlinangan di tanaH araB...

saya SangaT sedIh...
mamaSu wrote this for rayyan...

"

Lima hari sebelOm........
Ketika itu, waktu dah nak maghrib.Mama su makan dinner ngan nenek dan atok . Habes jer mama su makan, mama su masok bilik nenek jaga rayyan sebab Mama Rayyan nak makan. Luar hujan lebat sangat, guruh bunyi kuat, maybe tuh buat Rayyan dari tido terus nangis. Guruh nih kacau je Rayyan nak tido kan? takper mama su tepok-tepok Rayyan bagi tido. Tapi Rayyan tak tido gak, bagi puteng baby pon asyik tercabut jer. Banyak kali percubaan mama su try masukkan puteng baby kat Rayyan sambil tepok-tepok Rayyan bagi tido. Tetibe atok masok bilik nak gi toilet, before atok masok toilet, atok cakap "kalau jiran kite orang cine..nanti die cakap "lion nangeh..lion nangeh ".." atok tuh wat lawak la tuh..sian Rayyan ..nanti Rayyan besar nanti ckp kat atok mcm nih key "Atok, my name is Rayyan ..not Lion"..newey, dah lame kene tepok tepok manje, Rayyan tido. Tido dalam senyum plak tuh..so Mama su pon naik Opis mama su kat atas............ dalam hati berkata, " tinggal lagi 4 hari ...."


Empat Hari sebelom.......................
Pepagi seperti selalu kita ade breakfast outing. Kita pegi kedai nasik lemak aNty Maria kat Bangi. Yummy~! Tapi macam biase gak, time mama Rayyan nak makan, Rayyan behave jer tido dengan tenang dlm stroller. Tengah hari Mama Rayyan ajak gi Alamanda nak usha kasOt. Mama Rayyan bawak Rayyan dlm KangarOo Puch. Comel gile plak mama su tengOk. Tapi time mama Rayyan nak tengok kasot, mama su la jage Rayyan kan? *wink* *wiNk*. Lepas Mama Rayyan habes shoPping kite lepak Big Apple...hurmP budak kecik nih dah berapa kali pg Big Apple nih dlm masa tak sampai 2 bln nih??Takper la..Rayyan kan modern baby..Dalam kereta on the way back home Mama Rayyan dah start nyanyi lagu rekaan sendiri "My hip are fuLl of sHIt......my hip are full of shit .....and nobody can deny..." haha sudah sejak bile Mama Rayyan nih jadi penyanyi nih pon mama su pon tatau ..Afta balik from alamanda, mama su terpakse gi Mid vaLley plak..so mcm tak dapat nak tgk ape rayyan buat. At the end of the day....... ape mama su bleh ckp is..........another 3 days to Go... =(


The last 3 days.........................
Mama su tak dapat spend masa banyak ngan Rayyan..Mama su kelas pagi. Bile mama su nak gi kuliah, Rayyan tido. mcm biase tido daLam senYum. Mama su dapat Kish Rayyan jer, pehtu Rayyan senyum. Adoi~! giggle kejap mama su kat situ. Bile balik jer Rayyan dah tido. Time Family Dinner malam Selasa tuh pon mama su tak banyak pegang Rayyan. Memule mama su datang Rayyan tido. Pehtu mcm biase la..Ummi Ijah semua interprem nak amik gambar. kepala mama su dok fikir kuliah yang mama su Ponteng tUh. Nak jugak tgk group lain present, nak tgk ape yang boleh ditambah, sebab nanti mama su plak kene present. Tapi x per la.Rayyan and mama Rayyan punye pasal. Malam tuh kenyang gile Rayyan pon behave jer..Mama Rayyan dok posing-posing happy with her green hard rock cafe shirt, mama ya plak posing with her new green dress...everyone is happy ....taking pictures, makan ...but masa berlalu terlalu cepat and its time to say gOod Bye..


The day itself...........
Pagi-pagi mama su dah dikejutkan. Actually mama su tak cukup tido. mama su wat assignment yang memeningkan kepala. tido tak ingat pukul berapa. Tapi bia la.hari ini hari adalah hari tok Rayyan and Mama Na. Afta kecoh-kecoh packing, all of us off to KLIA. At KLIA, seperti biase, edisi ketik gamba semua berjalan. And Ummi Ijah interprem in almost of the picture.hahahaha... Mama ya doKong Rayyan gune Knagaroo Pouch. Dah mcm rupe mak orang dah. Mama su Tak cakap banyak cause of the blur-ness tido lambat . After barang - barang dah di settle-kan oleh atOK and papa li, kite semua serbu mc Donalds, chit -chat and makan. Then nenek Mummy datang..Nenek Mummy dokong Rayyan. Rayyan plak behave jer. Syok la tuh ramai nak dokong die. Hurmp tup-tap, its time to say the last bye-bye. After salam mak, abah, mama na and Kish Rayyan, rase sedey je. Dah tak dapat jumpe Rayyan.

Mama su still remember the first time mama su jejak kaki kat manja ku tok pilih susu tok Rayyan. Kene marah ngan Ummi Ijah, nenek semua sebab mama su banyak call dowag n tanye soalan. Terlalu banyak jenis susu, kat situ. Enfalac plak ade umur-umur la, ramuan khas la.... wat mama su pening. Tapi takper la, semua tuh mama su ingat sampai Rayyan balik sini balik key ... Rayyan jaga Mama n papa kat sane lekLok ok! be a good bOy ok Rayyan!!

"


MAmaSu wrote this in her faCebook note...

....raYYaN misses his mamAsU too...

a familY agaiN..

Alhamdulillah ... we've reached abu dhabi last thursday. Nenek & atok juga ikot kemari. Been running around tgk kereta, shopping sana sini, beli groceries and to date i still haven't unpack my luggage.Here are some pics khas utk org2 kampung.will update more once i have some time to spare..

~papa is all smiley after 40 days tak jumpe rayyan ...~

~thanks ummi ija...rayyan likes it sooooooo mucH~

~Rayyan : it feels like i'm in aquaRia.. swim rayyan swim..

~his new toY ~ *wink*

Alhamdulillah ... we reached abu dhabi last thursday. Nenek & atok juga ikot kemari. Been running around tgk kereta, shopping sana sini, beli groceries and to date i still haven't unpack my luggage.Here are some pics khas utk org2 kampung.will update more once have some time to spare..


p/s...i think rayyan likes it here.

the pacT....

i've been in a "definate-silent-mode" for quite a while..
It’s all because of the pact…

You know how at times people tend to get a bit too carried away when they blog about stuff *or more like brag*or better still I have a word for it.. BROG = blog + brag*

~I’m now in my self-restrained mood of BROG-ing~

Way back during my pregnancy days, I’ve made a pact to myself and a dear close friend of mine…
“I will never BROG about my lil-one” At that point of time, I thought it was the most sensible thing to do. I just don’t want to be seen as an obsessed mama who have nothing better to do other than telling the whole wide world stories about her kid..

Dear people… today my lil-baby pooped a lot..
Dear Reader …today my lil one pee in his pants..
yada..yada..yada…

OMG who would want to read those?
but that was back then…
Now I regret I made that pact…
Who can resist writing about this adorable boy? I know I can’t…






Psttt….Rayyan is 2 months oLd..

where's rayyan ?

how to breastfeed in pUblic without being arrested for being a flasher? pashmina comes in handy at times like this *wink*

...mcm cari barang tersembunyi lak....huhuhuh...

i want one tOo..plasticbag swimwear...

di kala-kala i have my hands fuLL with entertaining "Master Rayyan" dapat lak email gambo2 cam nih... tergelak besar sorang2...ssssshhhh... jaga lak anak aku nih kang ...
~kah..kah..kaH~

confinement rule no 101: no outings....

rayyan situ sana sini..
aik kata berpantang ?
~pssssttt : jangan bagi tau nenek ye ?*wink*

updates from confinement land...

greetings from the land of confinement where pilis, param, bengkong, ikan haruan ,manjakarni, air serum, kayu sepang.. rule the land. 14 days to go to end my confinement period. been counting days. bila lah nak habis pantang nih..time stood still when u're in misery..frankly ..it's not that bad..bearable lah

Alhamdulillah ..lil-rayyan's akikah was held last saturday and it went weLL..

tOdaY lil-rayyan genaP sebulaN...

papa's Going back this saTurdaY...*soB*soB*soB*...

*still in my "No-Blogging-mOod" will update once i get my mood back*