Here in Kedah

Due to my absence in blogging world, (ohmygod~as if somebody is going to die if i did'nt blog!! 😱) i decided to install this apps for my mobile. Probably i'm the last person in the world doing it and still feels like i'm the king of the world. 😎

So here i am in alor setar kedah. I'm supposed to attend a week course in kl, yet i'm stranded here due to some order from high-above.. 😓

While looking at the plane ticket, i have some sort of 'feeling' (or is it a de javu?). 20 years ago, i was supposed to go to kedah for a netball tournament. Yep.. ME training so hard i thought i might die, but in the end i didn't go. My mom thought PMR is cruicial to my life that she has to say no. My replacement player is sooo lucky!

More than 10 years ago, i got an offer to further my study in uum, kedah. Of course, i'm excited and all. Once again, my mom has to say no. It's to far and to dangerous for a girl to travel alone (you know la.. Naik bas and all). So, there goes my chances to kedah.

And finally today, i'm here. Eventhough the airport is quite small, the view is fascinating. The food is waaaayyyy to cheap! (I thought i was living in 80's).. 

The funny thing is i actually booked a tabung haji hotel alor setar. Since it's suggested by urusetia. Once we arrived, we rode a shuttle (provided by the hotel).. A few seconds later, we're already there! In SECONDS!. The hotel can be seen from the airport. Probably 700m? Or may be less.

This is my first attempt in blogging using a mobile. If this attempt is a success, you probably will see more of me next time.. 😝

Aiport in the middle of sawah bendang. What a view. The airport is actually the building yg samar2 di hujung sana. May be since it's morning, selubungi kabus la pula..

Aktiviti Hujung Minggu

Mungkin disebabkan rasa bersalah atau mungkin juga aku semakin sedar yang anak-anak aku kurang enjoy bila hujung minggu.

Kalau tidak angkut diorang sekali pergi ofis sebab si mama kena OT, paling-paling pun bawa diorang makan di luar, lepas tu terus balik.

Tsk tsk tsk.. sungguh kesian...

Memandangkan aku selalu sangat OT bermula awal tahun lepas, aku mula rasa macam bersalah. Mula la bawa anak-anak pegi shopping mall pegi hiburkan hati. Tapi mainan tidak boleh beli. Jadi apalah hiburannya kunun?

Sehinggalah awal Mac lalu, Haikal ada school trip ke Muzium Negeri Sabah. Balik dari trip punyalah excited mamat tu. Kalau boleh setiap hari mau melawat muzium kunun.

Jadi aku bincang dengan si bapa. Sekurang-kurangnya sekali dalam hujung minggu, kena buat aktiviti untuk kanak-kanak. Selama ni semua aktiviti pun macam tiada hiburan untuk diorang.

Dijadikan cerita, langkah pertama.. aku promised mau bawa diorang pegi Perdana Park. Pada pendapat aku la.. Perdana Park ni kira taman paling happening di KK. Ada taman permainan untuk kanak-kanak.. ada taman rekreasi untuk orang dewasa. Lepas tu ada sedikit persembahan tarian air di waktu malam.

Aku dengan penuh confident cakap dengan laki, sementara aku jaga budak-budak di playground, laki aku boleh la jogging beberapa round. BAD IDEA. Melihat betapa ramainya kanak-kanak pada malam tu, aku tidak dapat memantau ketiga-tiganya. Hilang seorang (Dyana). Tarpaksa main teriak-teriak ja panggil nama anak. Lepas tu baru perasan di satu sudut, minah ni menangis teresak-esak.

Kebetulan laki baru balik dari jogging, terus dia tanya kenapa tidak pergi taman permainan lagi satu. Di situ kurang sibuk kunun.. Aishhhh... selepas aku bertungkus lumus jadi supervisor tanpa gaji baru dia kasitau aku?

 Lokasi taman permainan yang impossible untuk memantau 3 budak hitam

Lokasi ke-2 taman permainan yang aman dan damai

Look how excited my kids are :)

The next week, aku kena OT lagi. So, tiada sebarang aktiviti sangat. Tapi last week aku bawa pegi PetroSains, KK.

Ramai la pula rombongan cik kiah.. hehehe

 Dyana paling excited buat aktiviti ni. Semua pun dia mau color. 

Hampir tiada peluang kanak-kanak lain.

 Entah kenapa, bila masuk Petrosains ni.. aku pun terlebih excited. Bukan aku saja, cikgu-cikgi pun excited. Ada banyak aktiviti menguji minda di sini. Which of course student bawah 12 tahun tidak berminat sangat. Jadi kami yang senior ni la paling minta puji.. 

Just for info:

PetroSains ni dibuka setiap hari. 

Hujung minggu (Sabtu & Ahad) dari jam 9 pagi - 2 ptg. 

Masuk adalah percuma.

Movie : Non-Stop [2014]

Just like the title, it's a non-stop post. Hahahaha..

Last night, kononnya mau bawa Haikal tengok movie since my youngest is in Labuan with his grandma. So, it's a movie time for me, hubby, Haikal and Dyana.

Asalnya mau tengok movie pasal LEGO, but in the end the mom is getting selfish and wanted to watch the new movie of her favorite uncle Liam. Somehow Kevin Costner is not interesting as uncle Liam anymore. Not even close! So, the mom choose Non-Stop over 3 days to Kill.

Sinopsis

The movie is about an Air Marshall trying to catch the person who threaten to kill each of the passenger every 20 minutes until 150 millions is bank-in into an off-shore account. It's a international flight that took 6 hours (more or less) and about 150 passenger on board. Kalau 1 jam, 5 orang mati. Kalau 6 jam, 6x5 = 30 passenger. Secara logiknya, in the worse case scenario 120 passengers can be saved. But being an Air Marshall, that's not the case. Rather than tossing one passenger to death every 20 minutes (macam korban), each passenger nampaknya begitu berharga. So, he had to stop the killing. Tau apa yang paling menarik? I'd only get to know 'si penjahat' 15 minutes before the movie is over. Of course la since we had 150 suspects on the plane. I was more busy looking at other passengers than watching the movie (macam la aku boleh tolong sangat). But somehow semua yg aku suspect, semua salah. So did my husband.   

Movie : The Monuments Men [2014]

It's been a while...

Bila ada anak kecil, aktiviti menonton wayang is more like playing hide & seek di tempat gelap. Sekali sekala, suara-suara kecil akan kedengaran jelas panggil "Mama!!" Which of course, the more you hear it, the more you're sinking on your own seat. 

Anyhow, hubby suruh aku cuti untuk daftar sekolah Dyana (kemasukan Tahun 1 tahun depan). Memandangkan kami merancang untuk pergi ke sekolah berkenaan sebelah petang, aku pun ajak la suami nonton wayang.

Dari senarai wayang yang ada, aku cuma tertarik mau tengok wayang ni. Kenapa?

Judging from the cast line-up, it's hard to resist kan?

Sinopsis

Memandangkan ini cerita perang, aku harapkan wayang ini akan penuh dengan letupan dan darah berpercikan sana dan sini. Well, you can see that of course since it's a war (duh..). Cuma tidak la sedasyat yang aku harapkan.  More than anything this story is not about the war. It's more about saving karya agung Perancis dan England dari dicuri oleh Nazi dan orang Rusia dan memulangkannya ke negara asal. The more I see it, the more I see the similarity between this movie and Saving Private Ryan. Except this time, it's the paintings. Though it's not much of a bomb or blood, I have to say it's a nice movie. Of course since it's based on a true story. The humor between these Monuments Men is definitely refreshing. 

Allowances

Not very long time ago, Haikal tanya aku soalan berkaitan homework. Since it's english, I guess I'm the person in-charge. We had this MoU between my hubby and I regarding the kids homework. I'll be taking care most of the subjects except Science, Bahasa Arab and Pendidikan Islam. Maths is more like a join venture :).

Apa yang menarik, salah satu topik homework yang Haikal kena buat berkenaan dengan perbelanjaan berhemat. How we should not buy anything which is unnecessary. Kalau mau beli barang yang mahal, simpan duit (menabung). Jangan berhutang and etc.

Memandangkan ia sudah termaktub dalam buku teks, aku mengambil keputusan mempraktikkan apa yang tertulis dalam buku teks so he'll understand it better.

It's a good thing for me too. It's more than a month aku tidak beli mainan untuk budak-budak. Usually, kalau jalan-jalan mesti ada terbeli. Walaupun yang murah. Aku bagitau Haikal, start dari tahun ni aku akan menguatkuasakan sistem elaun. 

It's more like mat salleh punya type of allowance, tapi telah diubahsuai sedikit. I'll be giving Haikal RM15 for a week as some sort of allowance. With that RM15, Haikal gunakan untuk belanja ke sekolah. Kalau lepas seminggu duit tu masih berbaki, Haikal boleh simpan baki dalam tabung. For example, setiap hari Haikal cuma ambil RM2 sebelum ke sekolah. For monday - friday, it's only RM10. He can keep the remaining RM5. 

Untuk menjadikan ia lebih menarik, aku letakkan RM15 (semua dalam not RM1) dalam satu buku khas dan diletakkan di kereta (sebab tiap pagi aku yg hantar pergi sekolah). Setiap pagi aku akan nampak berapa banyak dia ambil. Aku boleh nampak macamana dia berkira-kira sama ada mau ambil RM1 atau RM2. Siap buat bajet lagi.. "Hari ni Haikal beli mee 50 sen, lepas tu air 50 sen. 1 ringgit pun cukuplah."

It's interesting bila tengok anak sudah pandai merancang perbelanjaan. Tapi keadaan ini bergantung pada jenis anak. Since Haikal beriya-iya mau beli produk LEGO whenever kami berkunjung ke LEGOLAND (perancangan hujung tahun ni), maka dia lebih bersungguh-sungguh mengumpul duit. :)

Technology Update

Tidak lama dulu bila server aku bengong2, aku terpaksa berangkut anak 3 serangkai aku ke ofis. Tidak kira malam mahu pun hujung minggu. 

Not that I'm not being considerate to the kids, rather than resting at home or enjoying their selves at playground or shopping mall, they ended up 'melepak' di ofis aku yang suam-suam kuku di luar office hour. Kalau bawa masuk bilik server (sungguhpun sejuk yg teramat), aku ada sedikit keraguan yang anak2 aku ni tidak gatal tangan tekan2 server orang. 

My husband is lacking in 'taking care of the children' department. Most of the time, walaupun bapa diorang ampai2 di sana, some how I ended up as their go-to person. So, it's hard. Really hard.

So, at that time.. a colleague tanya anak2 aku. "Bila sudah besar mo jadi apa?"

Belum sempat anak aku jawab, dia sambung. "Jangan jadi orang IT. Susah."

Terus aku terfikir. Kalau artis tidak berkenan anak diorang jadi artis, aku pun macam kurang berkenan anak aku jadi orang IT. Nanti kalau anak2 aku tanya, ini jawapan jujur aku.

Bagi aku jadi orang IT ni perlu ada kesabaran dan kesungguhan. Teknologi IT sentiasa berubah. Setiap masa. Kalau tidak update, kita pula tertinggal. Tapi mau mengupdate perlu masa dan tenaga. Which means I have to be ready 24 hours. It's ok if you're single or a married man (since the wife will take care of everything). But in my case.. I really don't know where to start. *sigh* 

Dalam umur aku sekarang ni, aku tidak dapat membayangkan di kala aku berumur 68 tahun masih sibuk tengok coding atau merayau-rayau di bilik server. Ke mana-mana pun bawa laptop. Apalah yg cucu aku fikir kan? Coolnya nenek aku.. atau Nerdnya nenek aku.. 

Mungkin bukan semua orang IT macam tu. Bergantung pada bidang masing2. Kalau kena yang kritikal, well.. Good luck? Kalau kena yg tidak kritikal.. good for you! *clap clap*

Whatever it is.. to the IT people around the world. I salute you!

Life Update

OH MY GOD!!!

I'm pretty sure I already forgotten the password to this blog. Nasib baiklah tidak!

I won't bother you with the lame (yet popular) excuse saying that I'm busy. Which is I really do. Serious. No joke!

The Kids Update

The kids are being the kids. Adorable yet impossible. 

Haikal seems to know a little about diet. Bila ramai yang tegur dia makin gemuk, pandai pula dia gabra mau berdiet. At the beginning, macam berhasil. Lately, macam 'makin bersemangat' la pula.

Deyana is being a drama queen lately. Setiap kali hantar ke sekolah dia akan buat scene seperti di bawah:

Which is interesting yet embarrassing. 

Hakim is starting to throw a few words. Since he's almost 2 y/o and all. Nampak kucing, dia sebut 'ucing'. Nampak anjing, masih juga 'ucing'. Nampak burung, tiba-tiba 'ucing'! Bila cakap salah, siap hentak-hentak kaki. Bah! Baiklah. Semua pun ucing.

My Update

Nothing much happened to this 36 y/o ahjumma. Beside of being busy at work, at home and wherever I go (most mothers do), I actually doesn't have anything to update. 

Oh wait! I participated dalam sukan staff a few weeks ago. I originally joined 2 sports (bola jaring and bola tampar) yet my name was submitted for 4 different kind of sports. I kinda escape 1 though. :) 

Tidak ada sebarang pingat dimenangi. Tidak ada sebarang sakit-sakit badan dialami. Sama ada aku makin fit, atau aku tidak banyak bergerak. Hahahaha

But more than anything else, I had a very good time!