Menghirup Udara Pesantren Bandung

Mudah-mudahan dapat menghirup udara dan aura Pesantren di Bandung nanti. Ya Allah, jika iaNya baik untuk kami, dunia dan akhirat, maka permudahkanlah urusan kami ke sana. Ketemukanlah dan kumpulkanlah kami dengan orang-orang soleh dan solehah, di mana sahaja kami berada di atas muka bumi-Mu ini.

Amin.

Bandung is calling

Bandung call is finally here.

Help is needed.

Tips, Hotels, Dos, Donts, Shopping, Attraction etc are most welcome.

Real people. Real story.

PakPoi and Nadirah

Nadirah calls this guy - Poi. Pak di pangkal nama sudah hilang. Many people said that Nadirah has a close resemblance of Epoi. And on the other hand they said Epoi look like my dear Arwah Abah. Conclusion: Nadirah looks like Arwah Tok Shaarani, the person that will love Nadirah dearly if he's still around.

As a record, they are still times that I call Nadirah as Epoi. Weird eh? I don't know when it's going to over/stop.

This picture was taken at Tok Pandak's house in Padang Rengas, Perak on Day 2 of Syawal. I really love this picture. It has the essence of love and life. Thank you PakCik Meme for the gorgeous composition and sharing it with us :-)

Kepada PakPoi, selamat menimba ilmu kedoktoran dan keakhiratan di Warsaw. Nantikan kami tiba di sana! Amin.

Memory @ Eiffel Tower

Family shot of Eiffel Tower Paris.

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Dang!

That's the shorter version of the tower.

Taken at Windows of The World, Shenzhen, China. (July 2010)

I don't dare to wear a straw hat in Paris, anyway. ;-)

Raya 2010 Updates

Raya was great Alhamdulillah! Celebrated 1st 3 days of Syawal at Perak and off to Tanjung, KT on day 3. Day 5 we drove back to Kuantan. Managed to enjoy the sandy beach at Pantai Batu Hitam, cooking meal together w the sisters and visited zoo Teruntum with “No No No!” and family. All in all, priceless! But the best of all is the moment I entered Arwah Tok Pandak’s nostalgic house. The last time I was there was probably 10 years ago! Masya-Allah. Thanks to Tok Mat& Opah Cho for renovating the house and taking care of it. I’m looking forward to go back to kampong again insya-Allah. Mandi air telaga is 2nd to none. Alhamdulillah. Thank you Allah for the wonderful experience. *bliss*

Eik-Mubarak! (@ Perak)

Abis and daughters @ Batu Hitam

@Zoo Teruntum

Jom pergi UK!

I must admit that I'm so "terkecur" (pinjam perkataan Bert) seeing this. Air-Asia is having the so called
Xtraordinary SALE! to few destinations, travelling from 1 April 2011 - 11 August 2011. Booking period is now till 19 August. Argh. If I have a time machine and can tell whether I'm still alive, sehat, not pregnant, boss approved leave, annual leave still available, enough money to tour Europe etc, I'll definitely grab this one. Huhu.

Ini menunjukkan betapa kerdil dan hinanya kita di sisi Allah. Sedangkan hari esok pun belum tentu ada untuk kita, inikan tahun hadapan. Moga Allah terima amal ibadah di bulan mulia ini, diberi keampunan, dimakhbulkan segala doa dan tercapai segala hajat yang baik. Dimasukkan ke dalam syurga, terlepas daripada seksaan kubur dan api neraka.

Ya Allah Ya Rabb, kepadaMu ku pohon keampunan. Janganlah Engkau masukkan diriku ke dalam golongan yang melampaui batas Ya Allah.

Amin.

Weekend at the Zoo

At last, we finally stepped into the Zoo Negara after planning and postponing for many weeks!

Rasanya Mummy Abi yang terlebih excited to go to the Zoo. The Zoo is like 'monkey's feet' away from our home but it took ages for us to make the visit. I can't remember a thing about the zoo tho I must have visited the elephants and girrafes there for many many times during school holidays eons years ago.

We arrived around 10 am and among the earliest to arrive. Before that we stopped at ManjaKu and bought Nadirah a pair of shoes since her old one (given by Aunty Bugs) is too small for her chubby feet. Alhamdulillah, the weather was sunny. After buying the ticket, Abi and Nadirah greeted these two tiny snakes outside the zoo. Aksi berani betol. Jangan cuba di rumah anda tanpa pengawasan pegawai Zoo Negara.

Then we bought the Zoo map (RM2) and started planning our route. Since there'll be an animal show around 11 am at the Open Arena, we decided to walk around the area first so that we didn't miss the show. Among the animals that Nadirah saw were Hornbills, monkeys & co, rabbits, goats, pony, horse, deer, snakes, rhinocerous and bees museum.

15 minutes to 11, we were already seated in the Arena, happily waiting while eating ice-creams and buns. In no time, crowds started to grow and the seats were full before the show began.

The show kicked off with 2 emcees randomly picked kids and asked Qs, whoever got the answers right will be given lolipops. Nadirah many times put her arms up but they didn't layan her. Hey you thought this baby doesn't know how to talk yet ka? If you asked her how to roar, I think the Zoo will probably propose to this little cub to stay with the tigers in the cage ok. Afterall you just have 3 tigers at the moment, that is not enough for the coming Tiger year :p

Then the show started with a big red parrot naikkan national flag. Then followed by seals playing basketball, jumping up and down, clapping hands (flippers) and hmm that's it. Nadirah wasn't really paying attention to the show. She was busy looking at other babies and toddlers around and probably thinking of making new friends I guess.

Bile nak habis ni Abi?

After the show finished, it was getting hotter and hotter and we opted to take the tram instead of walking. Nadirah started grumpy and eating my tudung - a sign for milky time. Soon the tram started moving, nadirah has already snuggled in my arms and ready for lunch. Hoho. That's not a good sign! She's getting sleepy already! Abi took her from me and showed the girrafes and elephants but she was in no mood for animals and started cying. She wanted her meal and her after-lunch-nap too. We had to give in. Nadirah fell asleep seconds after nursing and left Mummy and Abi enjoying the rest of the sight-seeing. We stopped at Nadirah's best friends house - the tigers and lepak at gazebo nearby and ate my home cooked beehoon. Nadirah was then in LalaLand.

LalaLand

We then took the tram again and finished the tour. Basically Nadirah just saw quarter of the zoo so we'll be back again Tiger! Anyhow, we really enjoy the trip. It's like mesmerizing the bits and pieces of our childhood memory. The only thing I can remember about the Zoo was the sight of Abah and Epoi with elephants. When Epoi was tiny, he loves Ally-phants so much. I don't know why. Why eh Epoi?

Backbenches rock!

We'll come again Tiger!

Our Sunday didn't end just yet. Ikea van arrived later that afternoon with our 2nd Billy and Lerbergh that we bought the day before. Thanks to Lana the walking GPS for giving us the quickest direction to Ikea via DUKE-Penchala Link. Hehe. The rest of the day was spent arranging books on both Billy. Puas hati den!

Lerbergh for our kitchen

Billy

Before: Nadirah building blocks with Opah while Abi&Mummy were busy with Billy

Aftermath: Almost done.

All in all, weekend well spent, alhamdulillah :-)

Aidiladha

Salam Aidiladha to Opah yang beraya di Sitiawan dari Nadirah yang comel.
Kita jumpa di Kelate raya ke-2 ye Opah, insya-Allah.
Opah jangan sedih2 ye Opah.
Doakan kami selamat bali ke KGanu malam ni ye.
Harmony pun ikot sekali Opah.
Diye cakap dy suke naik flight.
:-)

Kuching Photolog

Sampai Sarikin, hujan renyai2.. *gambar blur*

Can this photo win a mystery gift from Snuggbaby? :-)
Snuggbaby 1st Anniversary Blog Giveaway is here! Daku mahu SSC satu puhleazzeeee..

Imah and mak sibuk bershopping.

Ala2 Rantau Panjang gitu..

My sporting baby :*

Kek Lapis Dayang Salhah

In the shop..

After shopping kek, Nadirah dah ngantukss

At Waterfront..

Tata Kuching..we'll be coming back insya-Allah


All pics courtesy of Uncle Yasser.

Kuching 10 bulan!

Nadirah is 10 month young already?!

Uwa. How fast time flies eh. Mummy seriously cannot catch up with the speed anymore . Fly fly fly. Then come happy gugugaga Friday and next tup tap the depressing Monday morning starts again. The cycle begins and after 4 times, nadirah grows older by another month!

Anyway, where were we last weekend? KUCHING! yeah, you heard me. Meowwww! We went to Kuching last weekend, went on Saturday morning and came back on Sunday. 2 days 1 night trip. Haha. How kewl is that? Yes and No. Not so kewl coz Penat mak enonnnn! BUT BUT BUT we enjoy the short gateway tremendously!

My sister and hubby are residing there so we stayed at their place for the night. Arrived in Kuching Airport around 10am and Aunty Nen, Uncle Yasir and Aisyah were already there waiting for us. We came in a HUGE group of 6 - Mummy, Abi, Opah, Maryam Nadirah, Maryam Harmoni and Mama Pikok. Alhamdulillah Mummy and Abi didn't have to pay for Maryam Harmony and Mama Pikok. Mummy sorok both of them in large handbag and they were quite troughout the journey. Oh yah, it was Nadirah first journey on a plane! Hiphip Hurrey! She's soo like Mummy, attention-seeker-bebeh. Bising btol dalam flight buat bunyi AAaaaaAAaa..AaaaAAAaaaa..AaaaAAAaaaaa. Alhamdulillah tak nangis and the journey just took about 1hour and 40minutes.

Ok, then we straight away serbu rumah Imah and ate our breakfast. Then we went to Pasar Sarikin/Serikin. Wowweh. It's situated at the Border between Sarawak and Kalimantan. We spent almost 3 hours there + journey to and fro around 2 hours plus plus so total time spent for the trip = close to 7 hours! Mmg sampai kuchingg all of us were flat. We had our dinner at Aunty Nen's house sedap giler maid tu masak seafooodd, menjilat jari kaki. Nadirah ratah ikan terubuk goreng macam orang tuwe and I have to stop her from eating after her long eat-ton marathon! Fresh terubuk, not masin. Mmg sedappppp. Ikan terubuk goreng 4 ekor besar mcm Giant. Cicah air kicap cili padi. Siakap asam pedas. Udang sweet sour. Sambal tempoyak. Ulam. Air ribena. Nenas. ^_^

We lepak there till magrib. Mandi2, refresh ourself and then balik rumah Imah. by 8pm we called it a day already.

Sunday morning, we were still tired and lepak at home till Zohor. Mind you Zohor in Kuching is one hour earlier than us so around 12 plus, zohor dah. After Zohor we went to Dayang Salhah kek lapis shop and borong RM200 worth of kek lapis. Opah la borong banyak. Dapat satu kek free. Hehe. Then had our lunch at ChilliPeppers @ Rubber Road, sponsored by Uncle Yasir and Aunty Nen. TQ so much! Moga murah rezeki selalu! Oh yah, it's Imah's birthday anyway! Happy birthday MakYang dari Nadirah tersayang. :-) Then borong ikan terubuk and finally our final pit-stop is Waterfront and borong some sourveniers.

A brief tour to Kuching but definitely we'll be coming back! So many places to see and so many exciting eating places that we missed, so Kuching: Version Revisited is now park in our diary next year, insya-Allah. A lay back, clean, relaxing city. Great place indeed!

Last but not least, Happy 10th month birthday si sayang comel Mummy! Mummy Abi love you so much!

Raya @ Perak: Revisited

From top to bottom:
Pic 1-5 were taken when we stopped by at UTP from Asr' Prayer, on our way back to Stwn from KK. The new masjid is awesome. It was our 2nd time there. I really like the concept.
Last collage: Morning before going back to KL. Nadirah was fresh from bed.

Raya Day 4

Arrived b4ngsar from Ku4ntan around 8.10am. Clocked in at 8.15am. Selamberrr. VerRrRRy few people at work and in fact only 3 *superhardworking* [read:terpakse or xde cuti] muslims attended the weekly coordination meeting. And this poor MamiMonster was the minute taker. *sigh*

Cheeseee... 2 new PEP engineers at System Op. Left - GM SO. VP of T was not in the picture because she's the camerawoman.

Engineers were monitoring the load demand distribution at Peninsular Malaysia. Hmm.. Low load demand during raya but erk, got tripping up north! Ape mcm ni engineers?

A stress looking engineer was trying to defend herself in front of GM and VP. I'm innocent ok! I've done my Raya Study ok! Why did you open the line without closing the *tut* [name tempat perlu dirahsiakan] breaker first! Aiyyooo. Didn't you read the reportttttt????

Bizy bizy bizy engineer at work.

Lunch, MummyAbi brought us eating briyani at new restaurant @ Ramp4i Business Park

After lunch, the 2 Engineers did load flow study for En-El-Di-See. GM monitored closely.

I've done my work Mummy! Can we go home now?

Abi cooked char kuey teow for dinner. Nyum22222 :*

End of Raya Day 4. Hoho.