“What would you do if you can rewind your life path 10 years back?”

“What would you do if you can rewind your life path 10 years back?” This is the frequent question that we always hear or ask ourselves. Normally, we would think on the mistake that we have done in the past, things that we should have done, question of what I would become now if I were to do this last time and so many presumption and prediction.

As for me, the biggest mistake of the Past was I got carried away after being cheated with my ex-boyfriend, the things I should have done is to concentrate more on my study and at the same time enjoy my life as it no boundaries. I think being shied, afraid to take the risk and inferior of others are my traits which pulled me down from achieving my dream. I should've become ****** if I were to get rid of all those traits.

Actually we shouldn’t think that way. What ever in the past is History, what is more important is current and Future. If Current is good, InsyaAllah, future will be good. Let the PAST be a STORY to us and let us create a good STORY from now on.

Well, I happened to ask my hubby during lunch break about this question. According to him, there is nothing wrong about his past. The Past made him as what he is right now, and he believes everything happened for a reason. And when I brought up the issue on my ex-bf, suddenly he said, “Yeah… I think I regret of wasting my time with her!” . But…but..but.. “Dah takde jodoh!”. Hehehe, I do agree with him.. Everything happened for a reason, and Allah knows what the BEST for us.

Family visit in Penang

We had a long weekend last week for Deepavali holiday. Hubby was away from his hometown for almost 7 months and I think he is kind of homesick. So he decided to go back Melaka during this long weekend. Since Luffy is still small, we think it is not good for him to go for a long journey trip, so we postponed the family trip to Melaka. Initially I planned to drive back to my hometown with little Luffy, but my mum doesn’t like that idea. She thinks sitting too long with car seat will get Luffy fatigue. Instead she offered to travel to Penang. For this trip, my sister and her friend, Ikin accompanied my mum. My brother family joined the crew later.

This is Ikin’s first time in Penang, so I planned to take her to a few places in Penang. Actually me myself is also excited nak jalan2. Hehe.. So I took them to Bukit Bendera. This time the crowd was less and we don’t have to wait long waiting for the tram. Why? Oh why? Actually the trip is only until the mid-way, not to the top. Apparently there is some reconstruction happened at the top, so for now they are closing. Luffy behaves so well during the trip, he falled asleep in the tram and all the way up. When we reached down, he poo-poo. Below are some of the pictures taken.

Etet and Luffy; waiting for the tram

Inside the tram, pack like sardine

View of Penang island, from mid way to Bukit Bendera


We went to Batu Feringghi as well, too bad no photos were taken. I managed to get few CD from the bazaar market. The next day we went to Botanical Garden, to show my niece and nephew monkeys. Rush2, pictures tell the stories..

Hannis followed her father and brother, nice scenery right??

Waterfall, can come for picnic, just watch out for the nasty beast, Hehehe


This is the nasty Beast, there are too many of them.

Is Luffy ready for solid?

I was in the confuse state for this. Lately, Luffy seems so eager and clumsy. From my observation he kind of hungry. I bought him baby food eg. rice cereal, organic wheat cereal and puree. But I was hesitate to feed him on solid, after getting some information on few website. Therefore I should wait until Luffy reach 6 months then I'll introduce solid to him.By the way, Luffy is 4 months and 3 weeks old. On the meantime, me and hubby have to bear waking up 2-3 times at night to feed him with formula milk. Too bad, he is still rejecting my breastmilk... :(.

Here is the 6 reasons why I should wait to start solid on Luffy. I got this info from paedtrician website.

1. Baby's intestines need to mature. --> I thnik this is the most thing that I fear of. I'm afraid his digestion organ is still not robust to take solid. What about if he get constipated???

2. Young babies have a tongue-thrust reflex. --> Not sure on this, but sometime I can see his tongue push the teat out.

3. Baby's swallowing mechanism is immature. Afraid Luffy will get choke if he cannot swallow properly.

4. Baby needs to be able to sit up. Luffy still unable to sit on his own, how to sit on the highchair.

5. Young infants are not equipped to chew.

6. Older babies like to imitate caregivers.

New shoes

I went to Jusco yesterday to buy luffy's organic food. Otw back to parking, i passed the ladies dept. I found a shoes comes to my liking. Without much thinking, i grabbed and pay. I was rushing... Duh! Today i come to work with the new heel, so good to be back on heel after almost a year with flat sandals. I'm glad i like it, quite comfortable and funky. Hehe..

Dragon Fruit.

I bought it during lunch break. First time tried it, taste funny!

Luffy doesn’t like his car seat.

Pity my little boy; he seems so annoyed to be seated on his car seat. Every time I put him on his car seat, he seems irritated and looked away. He will avoid looking at me even though I called his name loudly. Initially I thought, he was distracted with something else, that is why he looked away, but after every time he did the same thing, I knew, he was sulking, and maybe protest.. Hehehe… my little angle know how to protest. Once I got him out from his car seat, he’ll starts to smile again.



Nie pun dah teruk paksa dia pandang saya, MASAM betul!!

This week, my hubby is on training at Batu Feringghi. So, Luffy has to go nursery with me this week, slightly earlier than his norm day.

Luffy at Week 21.

Shahir, my cousin was admitted to Hospital due to eyes infection. According to doctor is due to improper cleaning or usage of contact lens. Eyes are very sensitive organ and we need to take good care of it since we need to use it for lifetime. So last weekend, I was quite busy with hospital activity.

The milestone for Luffy at 41/2 month now was that he can bring up his feet and but to get out from the stroller. We were at Giant eating KFC, me and hubby was busy enjoying our 3.30pm lunch. I put Luffy in the stoller and he played with his napkin. Suddenly I noticed Luffy brought up his feet and butt to get out from the stroller. OMG!! my baby is already big and strong. I quickly tight the stroller belt to secure him getting out from the stroller. I manage to take this photo.

Ulu Licin, Beruas.

Wah, sekarang nie dah rajin aku menulis blog kan…
On the last Sunday during the Raya break, my family went for a picnic at Ulu Licin Beruas. My mum declined to go and choose to stay at home to look for little Luffy. She obviously was being idle of such trip before so, I don’t recommend her to go either. We went with two cars; hubby’s and my brother’s. My cousins and family also joined the crew.

It feels so nice to dip myself in the cool fresh stream. Ulu Licin is about 30 minutes drive from my mum’s house, less crowded and it is really convenient to get there. I’m glad that my hubby likes this place as well. He loves the idea of traveling, and there are many places to visit at my mum’s place circumference. And the Best is that the cost is very less.

We went there after having lunch, for our convenient also, to get rid of lots of packing. We brought some kuih raya and tidbits for our munchies during picnic. I was so having fun, dipped myself in the cold water, ate a lot of nuts and forgot to drink any drop of water. The result of it, after came back from raya break, I was having serious sore throat and intense cough. I really got lesson from this, in the future for any outdoors trip, I should drink plenty of water to avoid dehydration.

Here are some photos taken.

Everybody looking for a perfect spot

Really nice right??

My brother and his son, Haziq.

Piglet???

Wah, sekarang nie dah rajin aku menulis blog kan…
This is about the picture book that I bought last night for my little angel, Luffy. I went to Borders, Queensbay Mall. I have a few colourful flashcards, so this time I want to get Luffy some picture book. Gosh, children book are so damn expensive, why? Why? Why? Most of the picture book costs more than RM20 even though contains only few pages. I’ve come into several selections of interesting picture books, but I just can see the cover. Borders have all the books wrapped, I guess to prevent kids from mucking up the book. Hubby and I decided to pick one book with animal and their skin. Hubby thought it can teach Luffy on his touch and sense skill. Maybe Luffy was not comfortable, so he starts being fussy drive me out from Borders in rush. I just passed the book to Hubby for payment at cashier.

When I reached home, I was so excited to show the book to Luffy. I opened up the wrapper and checked on the content. A chick and its fur, next page is cute kitten and its fur, followed by cow, horse and OMG! Piglet…. Why oh why I didn’t think about it?? Should HALAL mark put on book as well? When I checked the book meticulously actually it does written on what are the animals they have, at the back of the book and with the small wordings. So I guess, this is really my own mistake…. “Buat sesuatu dengan cepat dan tak concentrate memang tak bagus!!”

Appreciation..

As I was enjoying my M’cD chicken porridge on my lunch break, I saw the rows of cars parking in front of the break area. There are two of my favorite cars; 1 BMW 5 series and 1 BMW 3 series parking among those cars. Suddenly I have the thought, will I have the chance to own this car one day? Lots of positive thinking that came across my mind; eg.. I should work harder, I should do business, maybe its luck..etc. just to make me feels good. As I sighed I looked at other cars, and suddenly thinks how unappreciated I was. I am sure majority of the other car owners have the intention of driving the luxurious BMW, but do we need it?? Do I really need it? It’s only a mean of transportation. I can have it if I really can afford it but to in case I don’t get chance to drive own that car, I don’t lost anything.

I looked around and I see motorcycles passing by and people walking on the road. Now I feel how lucky I am to have my own car and independent of going to any places. Realized on how ungrateful I was and I started to beristighfar (state of asking forgiveness from God). Every human life and fate is unique and diverse. I think world would be too dull and unbalance if all people are rich, good and happy. That is why God create his servant’s fate unique and diverse. My opinion, it’s good that I have a dream, but I don’t have to be SAD and fell failure if I don’t catch my dream. I should fell THANKFUL for what I have, not GRUDGE on one that I don’t have…

Raya Story.

This time my conteng2 is about Eidulfitr holiday which has passed about a week ago. Since I started working, Eid or commonly call Hari Raya is the time I’ll take the longest holiday on yearly basis. Same goes this time where my holiday would be 11 days in a row..yahoo

I went back to my hometown on Saturday, and it is 4 days before the festival. Looks like this year, my family are going to have moderate celebration. My mum just got a new couch set for the new living room downstairs. The following 3 days passed so fast. I did some chores to help my mum like shopping, cleaning the house and cooking for berbuka. Most of my family member loves the idea of “me cooking” because normally I like to try new recipe and it taste BOMBASTIC… Hehehe… (masuk bakul angkat sendiri lah nie)…So during this holiday, I did cooked spaghetti, Mee Hailam, Bergedil Ayam, Sotong Goreng Tepung and Ayam Goreng taste like KFC. There is one specialty of my mum’s cooking. She very good in cooking curry, and I do not know how she’s done that. I did peek when she cook, and try to follow the same step but in the end my curry is still no so UMPH like hers. Oh, another specialty is her coffee…( pergi coffee bean atau starbuck pun tak boleh cari :) )

The last day before Eidulfitr was very hectic. Everyone was busy with their own task. I missed my baby so much because I got very limited time to play with him. My sister took care of him, maybe it’s an excuse to skip work, I guess, urm…. But i'm allright with that since I love doing this chores, because its boost up the spirit of festival in me. In the morning I was busy with my chocolate cake. It’s been almost two years I don’t bake anything. How time flies so fast? I remember before I got married, I love baking cake, cupcakes, pies and biscuits. It’s one of my hobbies. The chocolate cake was OK, but it is a bit hard because I forgot the setting of the oven. I followed the temperature indicates on the recipe, and I forgot not all oven are the same. Mine one is the small type, so the temperature circulation is very limited causing the oven very hot even with temperature like 70’C.

After finished with my chocolate cake, my cousin took charge of the oven. She baked fives types of biscuit non-stop. My gosh! She’s really good and so enthusiastic with the cooking. I think she really should quite job and open up a bakery shop. My mum is busy with her lemang. This year, she co-work with neighbor to do lemang and the kitchen was very messy to prepare for lemang’s ingredients. I wished I did take a photo shot for that but I missed it. Wait for next raya, insyaAllah. My next task is to do Rendang Tok…yeehaa, quite excited actually because rendang is an essential food to eat together with lemang and ketupat. Imagine all the guest will be tasting my rendang and say, “Sedap rendang Mak Jang thn nie..” FYI, my mum is widely called as Mak Jang. Plus provided if my rendang is really taste good and I really hope, wish and pray (u named it!!) for and exquisite rendang.

I started my work with mincing 3kg beef. It’s really a tedious job; if you don’t believe try it. However I managed to finish it about 1 to 2 hrs enough to make my back and hand sore. After that I prepared the other ingredient eg. Kerisik, santan, onions, garlic, ginger, lemon grass and rempah ratus. Kudos to my mum for helping me prepares the kerisik and santan. These are another time consuming task items to make. I really looked like chef on that time, not the chef you’d seen in hotel, but the chef you’d see at kenduri kendara like makcik2 type. But the one not good thing is that its fasting and I can’t taste my rendang before the berbuka. Luckily there is someone who is tak puasa. She is not purposely not fasting, but due to her condition which forbid her to fast. Thanks to Etet, my sister  I asked my mum whether she already put the salt into the rendang, she says not yet. So, it’s time for me to pour some salt before Etet tasting session. Etet suggest of one spatula of salt, since the rendang is quite lot, just imagine 3kg mince beef inside my rendang. Thank God, I didn’t follow her advice instead I put only one teaspoon of salt. She tasted it, “MASIN!!”….I was like huh??? Puzzled and suddenly I remember my mum did mention the coconut milk she used was already mixed with salt. Both of us were forgotten about that, and there it goes all my effort. I felt quite frustrated that time but Etet knows how to fix it. According to her the rendang is not that salty, it tasted fine if you eat together with lemang, ketupat or nasi. Just that if eat on its own, you can taste it’s quite salty. During “berbuka puasa”, she was right. My mum and I felt relieved.

Later that night, my Pak Lang family from KL arrived. He is my mum’s third brother. His daughter family came together so my mum’s house was quite a crowd that night. They looked so excited to see Luffy and I’m glad Luffy sleeps and behaved well that night which made people likes him. They also bring a few dishes for the Eid, at least people can try other dishes, not my rendang alone.


The Eidfitr falled the next day, which is on Wednesday. Early morning I ask forgiven from my husband for all the wrong doing I’ve done (sungguh sayu dan hiba). After getting some mild breakfast, we went to mosque for Eidulfitr prayer. Going to mosque with full stomach is a bad idea, I think. After finished with the prayer and listen to khutbah raya we went to visit my grandmother and grandfather cemetery.

Come back from that, comes my favorite part, which is visiting relatives and neighbors. This is also part where I need to provide ang pow or duit raya. For this year, I was late to do the money change ( break the money into other notes of smaller value) and a few days before I took leave I went to few banks and they don’t have the change anymore. Luckily there is one acquaintance at my kampong worked in the bank at Pantai Remis, managed to help me. This year I spent about RM600 for duit raya. Luffy also got duit raya, but cannot cover back mama’s money lah… :). I went to Uda’s, Andak’s, Tok Uda’s, Ulong Kama’s, Mak Long’s Setiawan , Ngah’s Batu Gajah and Pak Teh’s house. We were so exhausted and terribly full with the feast offered. Not forgotten, I feel happy to see my relatives and exchange stories. This is the time for family gathering and to update the particulars. Sometimes I just love to join aunties’ conversation, so many stories :). Not forgotten to refrain and to reminds myself not being such makcik ok!


Di rumah Mak Long Sitiawan



Geng Raya OTW rumah Tok Uda.


Soto di buat oleh fabulous Syuhada