Ke'dilema'an....

hurrmmm agak susah hati jugak la dengan perkembangan terbaru ni...

raya kedua aritu dapat perkhabaran yang bulan 11 ni jiran sebelah rumah yang belah kiri (macam la orang2 yg baca ni tau kan, LOL) nak masuk. kira dia dah nak start reno la dalam masa terdekat ni... ok, fine.

masalah 1 - dia nak tambah buat tembok, yang mana kita tak brape setuju sebab kita ni dah ler dok lot intermediate... kalau naik tembok tu, sahih la air circulation turun, and tahap ke'terang'an jugak akan mendadak menurun. yang tu no hal, dah bincang dan sudahpun mencapai persetujuan bersama... kira compromise la ek :-D

masalah 2 - DIA BELA ROTTWEILER!!!!!!!!! ARRGGHHHHHHHHHHhhh...........!!! yang ni tak bole nak tahan...

dah la dulu pernah jadik kes kat depan rumah mak kat ttdi tu, ada jiran bawak cucu dia jalan2... skali dia singgah la rumah jiran depan rumah kengkonon nak tunjuk cucu, skali nak sembang2 waktu petang. nak dijadikan citer gempar, tetiba anjing rottweiler yang dibela oleh "Uncle Dato'" kat depan rumah tu tetiba terkam budak kecik tu... kena heret jugak la sikit. apa lagi, meraung la si nenek penuh panik!!! nasib baik masa tu tuan rumah a.k.a tuan anjing tu ada, security guard dia pun ada (yeerr... umah dia pakai security guard ok) so dapat la leraikan DUA EKOR anjing tu dari beudak kecik yang dah panik dan trauma tu. sib baik tak sempat nak jadik lebih serious. sib baik jugak la, pasal budak kecik gitu, ada malaikat yang jaga (tak kira la agama mak bapak dia kan...).

following week, 2 ekor tu mengganas lagi. kali ni, anjing kecik comey yang bulu2 banyak pulak jadik sasaran... sampai arini, tak tau la apa jadik dengan anjing kecik tu. tuan dia terjerit2 mintak tolong masa tengok anjing kesayangan dia diheret 2 'monster' tu, tapi takde orang -- masa tu time keje.

my point is, area yang kita duduk sekarang ni *banyaaaaaakkk* young families, meaning ramaaaaaaaiii kanak-kanak kecik. kanak-kanak kecik yang suka bermain lari2 depan rumah, main beskal sepanjang jalan (mmg selamat sbb ujung jalan semua jalan mati :-D), taman permainan pun sangat dekat dengan row rumah tu. macam mana kalau rottweiler dia meroyan satu hari nanti? brape ramai agaknyer ibu-ibu bapak-bapak akan jadik panik dan kelam kabut tiap kali dengar rottweiler tu menyalak2 kat pagar?

macam mana nak handle benda ni ek?
dah la berjiran plak dgn kitorg ni... huhuhuhuuuuu

sahih la bulan 10 ni last aina bole jalan2 dengan confident kat luar pagar. lepas tu, sorry!
tak sanggup nak ambik risiko mcm tu.... :-s

kalau ikut hati, nak ajer diracunkan, tapi dia pun makhluk Allah jugak, punya nyawa yang wajib dihormati. macam mana niiihhh.........????





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p.s. memang kata jiran tu dia ada pikir tak nak bela anjing tu dah, tapi takde org nak ambik rottweiler tu so dia terpaksa jugak bawak walaupun area kitorg dah ada security, gated community, bla bla bla. dia tak sanggup nak tinggal kat pound/spca dan sbgnyer sbb dia tau, kalau takde org ambik, lepas beberapa lama, anjing tu akan kena put to sleep... abis la kita kalau nak tunggu anjing tu mati akibat sakit tua... uhuuhuhuhuuuhuhuhuu....

Aina & Duit Raya

Yesterday, I managed to meet up with Anis.... :-D

After MANY many many years, this was a catch up session which I truly cherished. We've not seen each other in *AGES* and to see that Afiq, her oldest son already grown up (well, the last time I saw him, he was like 2 or something and now he's 10!).... it was definitely sweet :-D

Aina, as usual, was excited to be around 'little people' like her but she tends to play a bit rough. I had to watch her to make sure no one got injured!

Anis and I were "corridor mates" at Uni and after we graduated, we didn't have much time to spare to meet up regularly. For one thing, working life took up most of our time, and soon after we got back, Anis got married to a wonderful guy (and SO perfect for her!) whom she met in the UK thanks to her sister who was in Australia at the time. Confused? Hehehehe... You just had to be there :-)

And so, here is a pic of us to share with all of you......




Now, these are piccas of my cheeky-tot having fun with her duit raya packets :-D :-D :-D
Her babah first arranged her in a pose with all the packets on and around her, but when we prompted her to react a bit, she was all game for it and so she began rolling and posing on our bed... LOL LOL LOL



Anyway, Aina still has a few more colletions to make, but I've already kept all the receipts from the 2 days of Raya. She's now officially richer than Mama & Babah put together LOL LOL LOL





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Aina Beraya.....

Since the office is VERY quiet today, I managed to do these simple editing on PowerPoint, and am uploading them here now...

Aina's various faces and actions during Raya.... :-D

with uncle maman, monkeying around! :-D

playing with TokMi's fone

at TokNek's house, happily pulling Uncle Maman to go play................at the stairs!!!

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Salam Aidilfitri!

This is Aina's second year celebrating Eid with us, but since she's still refusing to walk, no cute tiny teeny baju kurungs for her... LOL

Our journey back to Penang began on Saturday morning, after Subuh prayers. Not wanting to risk the heavy crowds at the R&R for prayers, we decided to leave only after that. True enough, traffis was at snail's pace throughout the expressway, and the crowd (not to mention queue!) at the R&R's along the way was UNBELIEVABLE!

Since we saw such horrible queues all along the way, when we decided to stop for our toilet break dad suggested we turn into Bidor and use the facilites offered at the PLUS office. That proved to be a MUCH smarter (not to mention quicker!) choice!!

Aina was probably exhausted during the trip, since she'd been up since 5.30am.... so this was what happened... LOL
It took us 6 hours to get to Penang, which considering the situation and circumstances, was not so bad at all.

To keep Aina from getting bored at the apartment, her TokMi had bought her this *huge* kitchen for her to play with... and she enjoyed herself indeed! The 'kitchen' came with 2 stove tops that made 'cooking sounds' when you turn the knob and Aina danced along to the sound, making all of us roll over with laughter!! LOL LOL LOL

First day of Raya was rather off for us as Mom fell in the bathroom just as we were about ready to leave the apartment for Tok's place. In the end, it was not a good Raya for us as Mom was practically bed-ridden and Aina was miserable as she could notplay with her TokMi as much as she wanted -- TokMi was in too much pain... :-(Then, later in the afternoon, I decided to give Aina her meds as her nose was starting to get runny again. In the end, it became a full blown argument with her, resulting in her being mad at me and running to her Uncle Maman for solace... In the end, she 'dropped' on him like a fly LOL

I'll try and upload more pics of Aina later when I've edited and resized them.

These are just done on powerpoint, just for the purpose of this entry :-) :-) :-)

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Salam Lebaran

Sebelum miss the boat, elok rasanya saya tepek dulu kad ni untuk semua pengunjung2 blog saya yang tak seberapa ni... (agaknyer ada ke 10 org?? LOL LOL LOL)


Nak ambik gambar khas edisi raya memang tak berkesempatan, so tepek ajer la gambar ni asalkan gambar ni kami bertiga :-D

Maaf la yer gambar tak brape nak semenggah....

Sekali lagi, kami sekeluarga menghulurkan sepuluh jari memohon ampun dan maaf sekiranya ada terkasar bahasa, terkecikkan hati sesiapa sama ada secara sengaja atau tidak, sedar atau tidak.. almaklum, kekadang kita bergurau tapi orang lak serious...




SALAM AIDILFITRI, MAAF ZAHIR & BATIN.......

~ Aliza, Nasir & Aina Nadira ~

Productive Indeed!

Okie. As mentioned in my previous entry, I am on leave today. So, I managed to finish quite a bit of kitchen projects which I'd planned.

Before that though, here's our menu for yesterday since hubby did not break fast with us at home. Frozen springrolls which I'd bought at the office, bubur kacang hijau which Ana made and fried noodles with seafood.

nota kaki : cili padi jeruk tu home made yer....mmg acara wajib bila makan mee goreng mcm ni :-)

And this sweetheart is in her special pose :-)
Yup! She's learnt to pose for the camera!!!
And of course, we'll just laugh hysterically each time she does this..... LOL


Rite...now back to my kitchen projects for today. I managed to bake a batch of chocolate chip cookies, snickerdoodles and also prepared samosa, springrolls and mini murtabak to be frozen since Aina now loves this kind of food i.e. with a crunch, and has spice as well as taste. Give her rather bland, mushy food and she'll just spit it out!

Snickerdoodle a.k.a cinnamon sugar cookies

SNICKERDOODLES

you need:
1/2 (approx. 110g) cup butter
1 cup fine granulated sugar
1/4 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. cream of tartar
1 large egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
4 Tbs. granulated sugar
1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon powder

how to:
beat butter. add in sugar, baking soda and cream of tartar. beat in egg and vanilla.
beat in flour as much as you can, and stir in remaining flour. cover and refrigerate for an hour. the dough will be very soft, so don't worry. mix the 4 Tbs. sugar with the cinnamon powder in a large plate.

use hands and shape dough into rounds, then roll in the cinnamon sugar mixture. place on ungreased cookie sheet/baking tray and bake in a pre-heated 180'C oven for about 12 mins, depending on oven.

NOTE 1: the baking time here makes for chewy cookies and not crispy ones. if you do want crispy cookies, then increase baking time but watch cookies carefully as they will burn easily.

NOTE 2: the cookies go in the oven in little balls, but come out flat, as seen in the picture above so ensure that you allow plenty of space for expansion! :-D

Now, while waiting for the cookies to cool totally, this was what Aina was up to. She started off playing with Babah's songkok, and ended up with the box for the said songkok!! She preferred having the box over her head compared to the songkok itself LOL LOL LOL



And this was our menu for iftar -- mini murtabak with pickled onions, bubur lambuk and home-brewed lemon tea :-)


Tomorrow we'll be going to TTDI so that's a break for me from the kitchen LOL
I'm still not done with my Raya projects, but we'll see if I have time on Sunday to catch up....




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Nak Meroyan Sikit....

Aci tak kalau nak meroyan sikit waktu lunch break ni?

Ni semua gara-gara idea yang 'sangat bernas' untuk mengikut arahan dan kemahuan orang lain tanpa mengira tahap kesukaran dan kesusahan rakyat sendiri...

Senang cerita gini la..

Kita ni ambik pembantu (ntah kenapa istilah sekarang ni "amah"??) untuk menyenangkan kita dari segi kerja-kerja rumah, dan jugak tolong tengok2 anak kita waktu kita kerja. Nak hantar nursery memang boleh, tapi faham ajer la tahap kualiti some nurseries. Hygiene jugak satu issue yang memang saya sangat2 concerned bila masuk bab2 nursery yang ada ni.

First, demand cuti seminggu sekali.

Fine!
Daripada rumah kat Puchong ni, aku anta la maid aku gi Kg Baru (rumah sedara dia) tu pagi, then petang ambik dia. Agak2 hilang tak penat dia? Aku rasa dia lagi penat sebab dia jenis orang yang mabuk kalau travel lama2 dlm kereta.

Arrangement aku dgn dia skrg senang -- tiap bulan dia dpt 3 days 2 nites off. Dia bole gi shopping2, jalan2 kat KLCC, jumpa kawan yg dia kenal melalui "KAWAN DIGI" dan sebagainya, and bole jugak kalau dia just nak lepak aje kat rumah sedara dia tu.

Aku pun tak penat nak hantar dia pagi ambik petang, all the way dari Puchong tu.

Then, nak pulak demand gaji minimum RM600.

Gaji ni bukan issue la sangat, but soal prinsip.

Aku tak pernah segregate maid aku tu... in fact, pegi holiday, aku belikan jugak tiket kapal terbang sebab dia tak pernah naik, so nak kasi dia experience. Dok hotel, tak kira la Cherating ke, Langkawi ke... aku bayar extra room utk dia duduk SINGLE ok. Aku tak suruh pun dia jaga anak aku sepanjang cuti tu, anak aku tido dgn aku. Dia cuma tolong aku jaga Aina time kita keluar makan sama-sama. Kalau dia nak merayau kat bazaar depan hotel, aku biarkan aje.

Kitorg pegi Morib semata2 utk menikmati seafood, kita bawak dia. Kita pegi makan kat restoran2 di shopping mall, kita ajak sekali. Shampoo dia aku beli -- dia mintak jenama Pantene ok sebab jenama lain rambut dia tak sesuai, gugur banyak. Sabun mandi dia Lux yer, bukan cap tesco atau giant dan sebagainyer. Keperluan 'wanita' lain, aku belikan dia brand yang sama aku pakai, takde pun aku cari yang murah semata2 pasal dia tu PEMBANTU aku.

Aku masak steak kat rumah, steak jugak la makanan dia. Aku grill salmon, tu jugaklah makanan dia.

Orang tu senang2 aje nak demand mcm2. Abis semua majikan kena cop yang begitu begini.

Waktu lunch pun nak abis dah, esok aku cuti, plan nak bawak maid pegi beli baju raya dia.. PUN AKU YANG BELI.




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