Another Interesting Weekend

Thursday morning

As usual I will wake up early and started to clear up the left behind things that are scattered around by my kids. Grumbling by myself towards the surrounding but I have to do it though. As soon as I finished with all my kemas-kemas then I started to think what shall I do next. Since daddy is not around, I was thinking to go to Ramez because I need to look for a covered casserole . Furthermore if I invited him to go along, he will not accept it but yes he will send me, then having his nice slept in the car.. (hehe sori dady) So, I decided to bring Zaleha to accompany me, seperti biasa perempuan tak boleh je sebut Ramez terus je nak gi.. At 10 a.m Aida and myself fetch her and there we go.
As soon as we arrived , wow .. I could not believed that there's no parking space and surprisingly we found out crowded of people were inside the supermarket. Without hesitation we all pun ikut sama je lah.. Able to look for the things that I wanted then followed with the long que I paid happily.

In the Afternoon

After sending Zaleha to Markaz to meet her hubby then Aina called saying that she wanted to eat at McDonald. We fetched her and Zaid and immediately we moved to Al-Qurum McDonald.
Had a nice talked with the children on their school issues then Aina told me that she wanted to eat cup cakes. Bagus jugak why not we try and make it by ourselves. Finished with our lunch we rushed back to Lulu to look for the ingredients then by 4.oo p.m we started with our interesting project. Wah anak dara aku ni ada juak talent nya ya... Unexpectedly with less assistance she managed to complete it by herself. Unfortunately I did not have many utensils so we just made a simple icing.

At Night

Zaleha suddenly called me and invited us to have dinner at Turkish restaurant (yahya's place).
Such an eventful weekend for us. After coming back from yahya we finally finished with our last decoration. Ummphh....boleh lah.

You're 21 years old today

On your special day, I want you to know how wonderful it is having a SON like YOU. Wishing you all the happiness life can bring. Happy birthday to you son..........................

From Zaid: Hello abang. Happy Birthday !! I always love you!
From Aida: Holaaa abang Qayyum! Woooooww! 21st! 21 years old! Ish ish ish tua dah. how's the pressure? feeling olderr? coolerr? ehh? i bet u felt urself as in bein' supa cool. rite? WOOT! (clap,clap,clap-Bow) kick-bolt-in kick-bolt-in .now march it up,up,up.stretch up tall.
From Aina: Happy Birthday abangg! i love you so much. thanx for everything.

From Daddy: Happy Birthday Son, I always knew you would grow up unique and different.

Back to Gym

While the kids have gone to school , so I started to think of going back to the gym. At least by doing this it helps me to shed down the unwanted excess fat. Besides that, my cholesterol has suddenly overshoot from the actual range that I supposed to have. This must be due to consuming too many seafoods during my returning back to Malaysia.

On the first day, after sending the children to school , I immediately drove to Lynn place and went to the health club which is just nearby to her house. First we started with a light workout and at the same time we have a chit-chat, chit-chat by promising to do it consistently. (mudahan-mudahan lah) Today, we did a little bit harsh, walking on the thread-mill for half an hour then we continued with the abs exercise and weight lifting. Could not do much since it is only our second day. Takut kalau buat terlalu drastic esok tak nak datang lagi .... sakit. Actually it is very interesting if you have partners to go with because it built up the mood while doing the exercise. We managed to stay there for about one hour . After completing with our stretching and push up, push down we decided to make a move coz needed to complete with the run here and there with our housework.

By next week, we promised to have last two days workout before the Ramadhan month. Insya Allah.

Back to School

Here we go again, back to our normal routine. No more waking up late, no one is allowed to chat on the internet and everybody needs to sleep early. TAISM (The American International School of Muscat ) started their school day two weeks earlier compared to the other international school in Muscat.

After having a longer period of school break , everyone seems to be very excited to come back to school to meet their friends and at the same time going to the new grade. Zaid and Aida are certainly very fascinated to meet their new teacher and also too eager to meet their old friend. This morning he woke up very early, dressing himself smartly and keep on asking me "Are we going to be late mommy".

As for myself, as usual I must wake up early preparing for their breakfast and their lunch box where each one of them having their own menu. Before 8.00 a.m everyone must get ready kalau tak dengarlah suara emak ni.

This morning I have my own activities too, after sending Zaid to his class, up I went to fetch Zaleha and Lynn who are ever-ready waiting for me and immediately having our breakfast at the normal place. Normally we borak-borak with our never ending stories from last thursday night. The most interesting part is ,we even planned for our Hari raya programme whereas Ramadhan is not yet coming.

Satisfaction

Within the last 3 days I spent most of my time in this tiny kitchen. Alhamdullillah I was endowed with miraculous power and unbelievable within an ample of time , I am able to complete my mission thoroughly (wah terror nye hehehe) . I just could not imagine that I managed to make three fabulous food in one day (angkatbakul sendiri).For breakfast, I cooked chicken curry which we need to eat with kelupis, then for lunch I prepared Mee Hongkong meanwhile for dinner I prepared chicken satay with kuah kacang. (caya lah....)

Yesterday, after preparing for our lunch, i.e honey grill chicken, mixed vegetables and rojak malaysia ( sori....no picture terlupa....) I proceeded with my last project that is baking kuih lapis (Lapis Prune) Actually, I only make this type of cake during the festival time but thinking of my son will not celebrating his Hari Raya with us, so I suggested to bekal for him.

Then late in the evening we went to Muttrah Souq because Qayyum wanted to look for souvenirs to bring along. Suprisingly the weather is getting pretty well where we can feel the sea-breeze blowing towards us. We did not go further inside the souq since it is almost maghrib ,furthermore the kids wanted to have papperoni pizza at Papa John's.

Early tomorrow morning Qayyum will be leaving us again for another one year. Bye...bye Abang we will miss you..... Hopefully we will be able to see you on your graduation day and don't forget to produce us with your coloured papers. (hehehe apa nok kata daddy ya bang tapai-tapai)

Dine out

As a last treat for Qayyum, last night Sayed Rafie invited us for dinner at Kageen Cafe. Rated as one of the exclusive and pleasant spot in Muscat whereas the food offered are mainly on intercontinental style. The lacking part which I really didn't appreciate is that we have to wait for an hour inorder to get for the food served.

Yesterday was considered as my hectic day where so many things need to clear up. I managed to prepare one kuih Lapis and completed with my Kelupis (Sarawak version of ketupat). Actually I intended to prepare our dinner with Mee Hongkong as per requested by Qayyum but couldn't make it due to the invitation. Insyaallah I will get it ready by today ..... ok son. Today I intend to make one more kuih Lapis for him (kalau sempatlah). Actually, it really reminded me of my muda-muda time, whenever we went back to kampung my late mother in law usually prepared us with all sorts of stuff to bring back. During that time I used to reject whenever she
offered me to bring this and that but things come back to myself. Anywhere...kalau dah emak tu

emak jugak....

After this I need to go to Lulu to look for one last stuff for him and some few things for myself to proceed with my other project.

Weekend In Dubai

Finally we managed to persuade Haji to bring us jalan-jalan to Dubai. Lastweek, he was fully occupied with his friends where they have to go to Salalah. Able to stay for one night but this time we were invited by his uncle to stay at their house.
Departed Dubai at 6.00 a.m, as usual it is a compulsary to stop by at Sohar for our breakfast - Nasi lemak at 8.00 a.m. Reaching Dubai around 11.30 a.m and straight away forwarded to the kids favourite mall - Mall of the Emirates.

Without Realized

I was so busy with myself, appointment here and there with the doctor until I did not realize that my eldest son is about to leave us soon. First, I was so busy with my miserable tooth where I have to see the dentist to mend it. It took me four session to make it completely done hence until now I have another two more appointment to go.

Then suddenly I have the persistent pain on the right side of my breast. It really made me worried thus the negative feeling keep haunting me. I keep on asking myself should I go and see the doctor or just let the pain diminished by itself. After reading the article on Breast Cancer my feared increased so without further delay this morning I braved myself to see the doctor and explaining my situation. God knows.... while the doctor was examining me my heart buk bak buk bak just like what. Please doc don't give me the bad news. Then she asked me if I ever do my mammogram or not because women at the age of 40 above must go for mammogram test. Unfortunately they did not have the equipment, where I have to go to other hospital to make it. At the same time she will take my blood for the diagnosis and I have to come again tomorrow to hear the result.

Tonight after having our praying my son told me that he'll better started with the packing because he has few more days left. Oh..... after hearing that I feel so sad and did not realised that time runs so fast. Pity Zaid he will miss his brother to play and sleep with. He looked so sad while helping with the packing then I realized that his tears dropped when his abang disturbed him. As for myself I will be very busy during this few days to get ready for his stuffs. He requested for Kuih lapis for his Hari Raya which I need to make it before he goes. Ahh... forget with the pain now... so many things to be done. By this weekend we need to bring him to Dubai for jalan-jalan and a last holiday for the kids because by next week they will start their school day.

"Ya Allah lindungilah aku dari kelemahan dan ketuaan dan jauhilah dari segala macam bencana , sesungguhnya aku dari insan yang lemah dan berilah kekuatan kepada ku ..... amin.....".

Stench In Muscat, Oman

Throughout the last two weeks, we were wondering and asking where is this offensive smell coming from. The stinky smell really manipulated the Muscat surrounding until coming to the certain stage that Zaid could not accept it any longer and vomiting right on the spot.

After reading the 'Times of Oman' today, the caused of the stench is mainly due to a natural phenomenon called "upwelling". (I don't really know what does it means)
According to the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Science Center the motion of the cold water from the seabed of Gulf of Oman known as "upwelling" has resulted in the motion of cold water from the depth with nutrients have less O2. This provides favourable environment for the plant and animal reticules in water to nourish. These reticules start dissolving very quickly , resulting in such offensive smell.

Due to that, the Ministry of Environment had warned the citizens against the use of dead fish on the coasts which are currently affected by upwelling. Residents are also advised from swimming especially at places where seaweeds are dense. ummph.... rupa-rupa nya..

IN THE ROOM

Poem to share that touches and transforms people lives.

ANYWAY

People are often unreasonable, illogical,
And self-centered
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you
Of Selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some
False friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank,
People may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone
Could destroy overnights;
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness,
They may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today,
People will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have,
And it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis,
It is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.

- By anonymous

Just to relief my bored

Stuck being at home, doing the unpromising work repeatedly sometime makes oneself bored. At the moment, there's nothing much that I can do except counting the days. I'm not the kind of person who likes to go out patrolling the streets without any purpose. Furthermore, the kids are not eager to go anywhere, may be because of the hot weather or there are not many interesting places to hop around. Meantime, all of my friends are not back yet, so semua activities terbantut. Waiting for Lynn to come back so that we can start our usual agendas, to the gym again and having our morning coffee. Besides that we can start with our cooking lessons. I'm looking forward to learn how to make an icing cake, pastry and western food.

At the meantime while waiting for everything to get back us usual, I always channelled Youtube searching for the latest Drama Melayu. Apalagi untuk menghilangkan rasa boring ni tengok wayanglah cerita Anakku bukan Anakku. One of the top heat Indonesian drama series at the moment.

My Dearest Sisters

A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit and a golden thread to the meaning of life. To you my dearest sisters, although we are from the same family but it seems like I came from a different one. I did not have any childhood memories with all of you because I was adopted by my present parents. When I was a child, I've always questioned why was I given to someone else. That always made me sulked thus infusing the feeling of hatred.

I knew that we know each other as always were but we never know each other's heart. We never shared the private family jokes and I never know when you've been bad or good. I never had the chance to quarrel with you nor I had the chance to share any belongings like sisters always do during their childhood. How I wish I could experience growing up with someone like you, someone to lean on, someone to count on, someone to tell anything.

As time goes by and each one of us got older and wiser I realized and understood why I was adopted. It is all God's will. Just believe in faith and our life will be happy forever and after. To both of you my sis although we only see each other only during certain time and occasions but the feeling of being sisters are still there deep in my heart. Malay proverb said " Air di cincang tak kan putus" is the perfect word that I should say to all of us. I will always love and adore you both Kak Jum and Kak Mah.

Happy Birthday My Darling Husband

On this very special day , may I say a very very wonderful Happy Birthday to you my darling husband. I always wish and hope that may Allah blessed you with good health and amongst those who has been purified with good undertakings. Thank you for being a wonderful husband and father of my kids because for always making us feel special.

I am glad to have such a patient, loving, kind and generous and honest man who never speaks any unkind words about others. Thankful to Allah for meeting me with such a spiritual man who believes that a parents job is to love their children and instill in them a wonderful values which will lead them to the path back to Heaven.

We want you to know that you are an inspiration to us all and that we always LOVE AND TREASURED you.