Bye-Bye 2009, Welcome 2010

Tak sangka cepat betul masa berlalu, dah masuk tahun baru.
Blog aku pun dah berhabuk..lama tak update. Recently, banyak kerja sgt... takder lah aku nie VIP yg masa tu mmg mcm emas. Cuma kebanyakkan masa aku occupied dgn. kerja, rumah dan family.
Semasa husband pergi outstation, my mum and sis temankan aku. Sepatutnya aku ader bnyk masa untuk diri aku, tapi tak juga..aku banyak habiskan masa mingle dgn diaorg, yerlah..bukan selalu diaorg nak duduk dgn aku. Tapi memanglah "luxury" life when they are around. Pagi2 sebelum pergi kerja, mak siapkan breakfast, blk lunch ader makan, anak ader org jaga, malam tidur pun tak terganggu, baju, rumah ader org kemaskan...kdg2 aku rasa bersalah gak mcm taking advantadge over my mum..tapi mak cakap dia boring, tak tau apa nak buat..Thanks MUM..I love you so much...

Ehm cakap pasal tahun baru nie..bnyk benda yang aku plan. Hopefully aku dapat capai yang major2 nie

1) Nak buat renovation rumah, cantikkan rumah..
2) Start my part-time master course. Yang nie aku dah apply course di USM sebab tu jer yg paling suitable dgn course, kerja dan locationnya. Hopefully aku dpt. Dan aku berharap, aku dapat membahagikan masa antara kerja, belajar dan family.
3) Finish up a few project utk kerja aku dgn excellent memandangkan sekarang nie aku dah masuk RND group. Key-point measure adalah project completion atau project released. Dgn itu aku harap career aku akan lebih stabil dan bnyk $$$ boleh justify utk aku.
4) Be a good person, mother and in good health...



Ameen :)

Brand new COACH

I got this new purse from my beloved hubby from US. The brown, old purse was from him too bought 4 yrs ago during his trip to Korea. Love u hubby.

Analog Circuit Book by Robert Pease

I've been looking for this book. I got to know this book when I was working on my task on "how to get the correct bypass capacitor value" for my circuit design. Last weekend, I follow hubby to KL. Hubby will be working in US for temporary so he will need to get working permit from US embassy.
During the trip I went to Kinokuniya, a big book store located in KLCC. Over there there are six shelves contains all electronic books. Wow, that's rare!! I managed to get this book which I've been longing for :) I browse the book pricing there, I think the price range is slightly expensive than other available book stores. Since it's not easy to find the book, finally I decided to grab that book. Hopefully this is good investment for me :).

Luffy goes picnic :)

This is backdated 2 weeks ago during Deepavali holiday. Me, hubby, Luffy, Etet (sis), K.Isyah, Abg Nazar, Shidah and Ira (the complete crew) went to Teluk Senangin beach for picnic. Teluk Senangin is situated in Segari which is about 30 minutes drive from my mum's place.

Luffy really had a good time. Same like when we took him to swimming pool, he refused to get up from the beach. When take him out, his finger is already wrinkled and blue-mouthed. Urgh... I bathed him with fresh water, he was shivering.. poor my little boy. Coming back from beach, my mum nagged at me. She thinks Luffy is still small and take him to the beach will do no good to him.

Last week luffy was having ulcer in his mouth and measles on his skin. My mum said her theory was right. Luffy got them from expose to the beach germ.. hehehe..so incorrect.

Luffy eats on his own.

See how messy my little angle gets when he eats. Recently he refuse to be feed by people but not himself. I'm ok with it, just that I have to bear with the mess he created. Normally he'll be covered with food head to toe.

Luffy and his imagination.

Its true kids like to imitate their parent and caregivers. I think it should be fun if we put ourselves in their shoes and share their imagination. Look at my baby Luffy, he tried to imitate me and hubby going shopping. He took my laundry bag and push it like a shopping cart. He select few stuff and put it in the laundry bag. He try to copy how me and hubby doing shopping at Tesco..it's so cute :).. Now I understand why all the remote in the house disappears. Grrr...



Check this out as well, he tried to imitate me or babysitter tumbuk sambal.. Funny...



Btw, now Luffy is staying with a new babysitter. This new babysitter is taking care Luffy alone, her house is not that far from the my office and the pay is cheaper that previous nursery and last babysitter. It's been one week already and everything seems good. Yesterday my hubby said, he saw Luffy laying down on the babysitter lap...Owww...manja ...

Hey, tak de benda lain nak main ker?

This is one of the funny thing done by Luffy during last weekend. I was busy preparing the breakfast and he was with me in the kitchen banging the pot. Suddenly he disappears, and to my surprised he was sitting inside the pot. The pot size just nicely about his size. He picked that pot and brought to the living room and sit inside it (hey, are you laying egg in that pot???) Not long enough, he tried to turn the pot and he fell off. He cried....

First Trip to Swimming Pool

It’s a first trip Luffy and hubby going to the swimming pool. Well for hubby, it’s the first time he dipped into our apartment’s swimming pool. We’ve been staying here for 1 year and 4 months but he never got chance to play in that pool. For me, it’s my 3rd time. Every time my family visiting, the munchkins sure will go play in the pool and I join the crew. The munchkins (nieces and nephew)

We did buy the float jacket for Luffy, but he was too small. When we put him with the float jacket, he looks stuck inside and very uncomfortable. Once he touched the pool floor with his feet, he struggles to remove himself from the float jacket. Oh, he really has a good time in the pool. After spending about 30 minutes in the pool, we took him out but he refused. I really need to use up some energy to get the little Luffy out from the pool. This is only to introduce him to the pool and I don’t want him to get sick by spending too long in the pool. Unfortunately he did catch flu that night, but not a serious one.

Hubby and his new assistant

My hubby got a new assistant to help him with the grocery work. Little Luffy is very keen with the trolley. He will push the trolley, any trolley that he stumbled on. This happened a few times at the store where I have to apologize because he simply push other people trolley. He would cry if we stop him or if the trolley wouldn't to move.
See this video, Luffy helping hubby pushing trolley to car. On the way back he did push this fully loaded trolley. However he still need assistance on the direction :)

Fresh Supplies

I came from one small town called Pantai Remis, which is a coastal town in Perak. Pantai Remis means Sea Shell Beach. Honestly I do not know what Remis called in English. Remis looks similar like clam but it is small like 10 cent coin. Since Remis is abundant in this place, then its famous for Pantai Remis :). But it's quite true, since every time I went picnic to nearby beaches, I always encounter Remis and they are a lot. Just that they are small, if they are bigger I'm sure I can get some earning from that.

Being so closed to the sea, fishing is the main activity for the residents. What I loved so much about this town is that I can get fresh seafood supplies with a very cheap price. During the recent Eid holiday, my family was having small bbq at night. So to prepare the stuff for the event, me and my brother went to the dock to get the seafood. The boat just arrived when we were there, and we went inside the boat to pick our stuff. Check this photo, my brother with other fisherman segregating the seafoods. They have few types of fishes, prawn and crab.


The price is tremendously cheap, for the big prawn which normally price RM35-42, I can get RM25, squid of normally RM16 is RM8 ( I did compare this last night at Tesco). Fish is even cheap, I can get "ikan Kembong" with RM4/kg. Plus, its very fresh, direct from the sea. Nothing fresher than this unless I go fishing myself :).Here is the photo of 2kg of RM25 prawn.



So everytime I went back to my hometown, I'll make sure that I get enough fresh seafood supplies to bring back to Penang.

Eh, dah nak raya dah :)

Sekejapnya masa berlalu... lagi 3 hari dah nak raya. Kuih London almond ku pun tak siap2 lagi buat. Sekarang nie pun dah takder mood nak kerja, walhalnyer kerja makin menimbun. Tngklah mood raya, siap boleh buat entry blog masa kerja :)

Pada aku saat yang paling aku suka masa raya ialah pada pagi hari raya. Rasa Best sangat mcm sukar nak di katakan. Mungkin sebab dah lama berpuasa, dan tiba-tiba hari tu bangun saja tidur dah boleh makan. Lepas tu makan pulak benda yang sedap-sedap pulak tu. Memang hari biasa jarang macam tu. Awal pagi ader ketupat, lemang, rendang, kuih-muih dan macam-macam lagi lah. Lepas tu biasanyer pagi raya semua orang dah mandi, so takder lah pemandangan dan bau-bau yang tidak menyenangkan. Kan kalau hari biasa tu, ader ahli-ahli keluarga yang tak mandi lah, tak gosok gigilah datang breakfast dulu. Kadang2 aku pun buat jugak benda tu :). Tapi pada hari raya nie, semua orang mandi, lepas tu pakai baju baru, cantik-cantik, wangi-wangi, lawa-lawa. Tambah lagi tu, rumah pulak mesti di hias cantik, bersih, kemas. Langsir baru ker, carpet baru ker, cat baru ker...selalunyer mak aku mesti at least ader 1 benda baru time raya. Dan di sebabkan itu semua orang tersangatlah ceria nya pada hari tu, dan menambahkan lagi suasana meriah raya. Ehm tak sabarnya!!! Memang betul tuhan dah janji kepada umatnya, salah satu kegembiraan berpuasa adalah ketika hari raya.

Tahun nie family abang dan kakak sepupu aku akan beraya kat kampung. Aku memang tiap2 tahun beraya kampung, itu lah untungnyer kawin dengan orang yang berlainan bengsa :). Mesti gamat rumah mak aku. Aku suka tahun nie sebab ader cuti 1 hari sebelum raya, jadi husband pun akan ader buat persiapan untuk raya. 1 hari sebelum raya memang sibuk, tapi mesti meriah!! Ehm tak sabarnya nak raya :)

Tapi gembira pun tak boleh nak over2, kena beringat jugak. Minta tuhan jauhkan dari perkara-perkara yang buruk. Amin!!!, pastu makan pun kena jaga2... kena banyak minum air masak... sebab takut perut tak tahan. Nak pergi beraya tu pandu kereta hati2.

Oklah SELAMAT HARI RAYA pada semua yang baca blog aku nie!! Maaf Zahir & Batin kalau ada salah dan silap.

Me with my guilt :(

I still feel uneasy and anxious about leaving Luffy with babysitter who taking care 5 other kids. I'm still looking for a better babysitter... I just pray that God will take care my child too .... Should I quit working? The pay is not that compatible with what I'm doing.... but I love my job...



Can you see the two spot I highlighted here? Yes, Luffy got them at the nursery and the spot is still there after 5 days... Do you think minor fall down can cause this??

Change Over day-care centre to babysitter

Due to some bad incidents happened at the nursery, I decided to place Luffy under babysitter care. It was sudden and unplanned move, but I think this is the Best for my darling Luffy. This new babysitter is my ex-boss wife which is the Best candidate that I have at this point of time. Judging from the location and due to the fact that she's also babysit a few other infant and babies, certainly making me doubtful, but I think it's better rather than you now that the nursery which he has been staying is no longer a safe place for him. And I think also not an excellent move to put Luffy under stranger's care as well. I did checked a few other daycare center, but it look like they are more interested in making money than to take care kids.

Actually I feel hesitate to quit the Tadika Anakku Sayang service. Luffy has been with them for 13 months, and it seems no major issue happened until recently. This nursery is in strategic location which is about 5 minutes drive from my office and the fees is quite compatible. The owner is good and there used to be a few good and elderly staff. But recently the performance is dropped. There are many times when I pick-up Luffy, they informed me Luffy feel down, Luffy being bitten, Luffy naughty and he fell down. I feel quite unhappy, I guess kids are supposed to be active at this time because they want to explore the world. I pay them to look after him, not to let him play alone and fall off. The most terrible incident was when I pick-up Luffy with bruise on his head like a size of an egg. The owner appologize to me and ask me to take Luffy to clinic. She looks quite guilty and she mentioned that Luffy walk imbalance and he fell off when he stepped on the toys. I don't quite believe it, but looking at Luffy condition and he looks OK i just nodding and doesn't say much. That night the nursery's owner call me again to ask Luffy's condition. I did mentioned my dissatisfaction, and asked her to monitor Luffy better. I did mentioned, I'm afraid Luffy being hit by other kids, which I think the real rootcause of the bruise. The next day, during the lunch hour I call the nursery about Luffy and the owner said happily that Luffy having porridge and he is fine. When I pick-up Luffy again, I saw big spot of medicine on his head, I asked did he fell off again, and the owner said, no, this is from yesterday incident. When I reached home, I cleaned the spot and to my surprised there are two bruises. WTF!!! I felt very pissed-off, I wanted to call the nursery and asked for explanation, but I think its useless, since she did mentioned that the bruise is from the previous incident. Not forgotten, before I drove away, I did asked the owner that I didn't see her 3 of her staff. She said they have quit their service. I think this is the explanation why Luffy got those spot, the staff is outnumbered and the nursery is out of hand.

Before anything went worse, I better switch place. I think I'll put Luffy temporarily with this babysitter until I can get other better place but certainly not Tadika Anakku sayang.

My son at 1 year 3 months old.

Time passed so fast, and Luffy is already 1 year ++. Alhamdullilah, syukur kepada Allah :D. I hope I can be a good mother for Luffy and I hope I gave, give and will give the BEST for him. He is 78 cm tall and 9 kg weight. This is based on the recent check-up data. According to the nurse, Luffy is lightly underweight. His ideal weight should 10.5kg to 12 kg. The nurse advise to give Luffy adult food instead of porridge. But the problem, Luffy reject the adult food, he prefer porridge because its soft and he dont have to do lots of work :)

And he know how to dance with the music too. Check this out!! Sorry, need to twist head again...

Luffy bath time

Yesterday was a public holiday for most of the company and school. The public holiday of Nuzul Al-Quran. However Agilent and Avago which is hubby and my employer does not gazetted it as holiday for the employees. I didn't know the nursery where we sent Luffy is closed too. Maybe it was my mistake that I did not see that they've written on the notice board that they'll be Off On Monday when I took Luffy last Friday.

Too bad that my roster is to take Luffy from nursery while hubby take Luffy to nursery hehe... Hubby called about 9.30,
Hubby " do you know the nursery closed today? do they tell you that on Friday?"
Me "No, what happened"
Hubby " I went there and everything is closed. I knocked door, nobody answer. It does mentioned on the notice board"
Me " Really, I must've missed that on Friday. You want me to take leave today? I can "
Hubby "It's OK, I've called my boss"

Thats what happened. So Luffy got to spend 2 extra days with Papa this week :)



I went back during lunch break to check the duos. I can hear the sound of Luffy's favorite song being played from outside the house. How wonderful, I just wish that I can be at home with them. And it was almost time Luffy had his shower :). I manage to capture this.

Mission Accomplished!!

I managed to eat what I want!! I show hubby of my previous blog entry on salmon sashimi and he took me to sushi king yesterday at Queensbay. I got to eat my favorite sashimi and the flounder fish. I do not know what they call flounder fish in Malay language, i think I never found this fish in other meal. First time I tried it when I were in Kobe, Japan, then after that I fall in love with the taste.


Me with my fav sashimi


Yummy Flounder Fish

New Template

How do my new template look?? I spent about 1 hour to select this, I need to do some work to make my blog fancy!!

What do I think of facebook??

I used to be a fan of facebook. I did get addicted to facebook that sometimes I checked it on every hour especially during working hour. <>. But now facebook is not longer a hit for me... It's kind of bored for me..I think due to few reason

I involve with facebook to be place to share story, photos and exchange info among friends. But now I think now some people starts to show off that they are better than everybody else on the list. How a great husband, big car, big house they have. Braggarts!! Maybe I dont have anything to show, that's why I feel this way..:( haha. not really!! I dont think I want to do that. I dont want other people to feel what I feel right now. I know there is ups and down in life...God plan our life to be perfect. You cant be good in every angle...Dont just only show your beautiful sunshine story, why don't sometime show what's the skeleton you've hiding in your closet.

I think few of my good friends also feel the same that they no longer active in facebook. That's another reason why I dont feel fun with facebook anymore.
My network of friend is increasing... Some I dont even know. Kalau tak approve kata sombong lak.. So, I try to keep my involvement as simple as possible. I dont want to be public-figure and sell your stories among people, just good to be low-profile. Another fact is that when more people more gossip will involve.. I dont like gossip :(

Thats my opinion on facebook now. Should i quit my account? I dont think so, eventhough facebook now being ruptured by such attitude, but that's the only method for me to get in touch my my schoolmate..

Satay Celup??

Pernah dengar tak nama satay celup? Aku pun tak pernah rasa tapi husband selalu cerita pasal makanan nie sehingga aku tertanya dan teringin nak rasa betapa sedapnyer satay celup nie. Menurut hubby, makanan nie sangat famous di Melaka di kalangan orang-orang Cina. Tapi kebiasaannya orang China akan letak non-halal produk dalam makanan nie. Itu sebab orang Islam tak makan.

Awal plan, nak masak nie semasa balik ke Melaka. Hubby dah berangan nak makan besar dgn family dia, tapi nasib tak mengizinkan, Luffy demam pulak pada hari nak balik tu. Jadi plan nak masak satay celup di Melaka terpaksa di batalkan.

2 minggu lepas tu harijadi aku, mak aku pulak nak buat kenduri sebab nak sambut puasa katanya, walhalnyer puasa lagi sebulan :). Jadi husband kata dia nak masak satay celup masa kenduri aku tu sebab masa tu ramai orang, so baru meriah. Aku OK jer :) Memang sedap, sorrylah tak dapat share resepi sebab hubby yang masak... aku tolong makan jer. Nie ader beberapa gambar utk di kongsi berkenaan dgn satay celup nie. Tapi memang nice , yummilicous...

What I'm craving right now??

Oh yes, I am fasting right now :). But I thnik it'll be tremendously awesome if I can have this for my berbuka puasa..

Yummy :), look at those sashimi... That's the definite meal that I order if i got to Japanese restaurant. Maybe this weekend I'll bodek hubby to take me to Sushi King.

Luffy starts walking

My little angel has started walking on his own at the age of 1 yr and 1 month.



My apology that you have to twist your head to view this because I do not know how to edit this video file.

I'm quite excited also that my little angle is no longer a baby, he is a toddler now. I should be patient with him these days, now that he'll make much more mess than ever. Well, I keep on reminding myself that this is part of growing up and my Luffy is a normal boy. Alhamdulillah :)

Luffy being warded :(

Three weeks after hubby went through his tonsil removal surgery, my little Luffy was admitted to hospital. He was having a fever on Friday, and check-up with our favorite paediatrician Dr Lim, shows no serious symptoms. However, doctor request us to monitor his condition. If it get worsen or the fever still continue for few days to come, quickly take him to see him again.During those time, there were so many diseases widespread announced on the news. Me and hubby were pretty worried about that since Luffy was put in the nursery care. We were afraid our dear boy was contracted with some diseases at nursery.

11 May was a replacement holiday for Wesak Day. So hubby and I got Monday off. We went back to my hometown after see that Luffy condition getting better. Unfortunately, I fall sick due to fever when we were at my hometown. On Sunday, Luffy's temperature getting high..urgh... he still got fever. We went to the Most famous clinic prescribed by my mum "Klinik Kana". The way my mum tell us about this doctor as he is the BEST doctor on earth..Hahaha... We went there, and it is very true, he's a good doctor and I'm very comfortable with him. I think he is one of the good doctor I've ever met. He even gave me one day sick Off.

So I got day off on Tuesday. Luffy body was quite hot, so I took him to see paed Dr. Lim. He suggested Luffy to get admitted to monitor his condition since the fever is on and off. This is the BEST for Luffy and I agreed to it. So there I were, spending a few days in hospital with my angel. He admitted on Tuesday and discharge on Saturday. Results from the blood test shows that Luffy hemoglobin level is quite low. This is why his body will take some time to recover from illnesses. Poor my little boy :(

"I took very long time to finish up this entry :( thats why I cut short the story on how Luffy was in hospital. Here are some photos"

Jerebu

Nak tau betapa teruk nyer jerebu yang melanda Penang baru-baru nie. Nah, lihat lah gambar sebelum dan selepas jerebu yang aku ambil dari apartment aku..




Cantikkan??? Langit yang cerah dan laut yang biru. Memang sedap dan damai mata memandang. Tengok gambar kat bawah nie pulak bila time jerebu.. Jambatan pulau pinang pun hilang dari pandangan. Time di ambil masa tengahari ni..

Satay Bota

If Satay Kajang is famous in Selangor area, at my hometown definitely Satay Bota is very well known to the local. My hometown is in Pantai Remis. Bota is around 45 minutes drive from my place. It's a mid-way between Lumut to Ipoh, so if my family travelling this route, we'll certainly will buy this satay. It taste good, cheap and worthy to buy. It cost 30cent per stick and the meat is quite thick. These days, if you go to other satay stall, most of them sell at 40/50 cents per stick and the meat is thin. I'm really satisfied with this satay.

It opens on Thursday to Sunday from 5 pm until 9 pm. Everytime I went there to buy, I have to queue to get my turn. The worst was during festival where people make order few hundreds and even thousands. But they manage it quite well. So if you ever got chance to travel from Ipoh to Lumut, dont forget to drop by and taste the Satay Bota :)..

Busy with Work.

Alhamdulilah, I am still alive to update my blog :). It's not that I've been lazy or what lately, but my work load tremendously increased at this point of time. Juggling with responsibility of being a good engineer and a lovely mum+wife made me having not much luxury time of my own.

I need a vacation?? Yes I do..I'm planning for a moderate travelling very soon and I hope nothing come in a way...Earlier two trips were cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances...Ok, if anything goes well, wait for my update on the trip :)

Murtabak Recipe

This weekend I want to try something new. I have Pizza on my mind and after a few thought, i changed my plan to try cook murtabak. I love murtabak and these days it's quite to get a tasty murtabak at night market stall. After browse few webpages, I found this recipe which I think quite reliable and I want to give a try. Check this website

http://www.indobase.com/recipes/details/murtabak.php

An below is the copy of the recipe

I translate the recipe into Bahasa Melayu, for original version, please visit the website.

Bahan2:

• 10 ounce Tepung gandum
• 1/2 cawan minyak sapi/ Ghee Blend
• 2-3 cili api hijau segar
• 1 biji bawang besar, di hiris.
• 1 biji telur untuk 1 keping doh
• 1/2 cawan air
• Secubit Garam

Inti Murtabak:
• 1 lb Ground lamb or beef
• 2 tbsp Ghee
• 1 Onion, finely chopped
• 1 tbsp Fresh ginger, finely minced
• 2-1/2 tbsp Meat curry powder
• 2 tbsp Cilantro, finely chopped
• 2 tbsp Fresh mint, finely chopped

How to make Murtabak:
• To Prepare Meat Filling:
• Take a wok or saucepan and heat ghee.
• Add chopped onion, ginger, and meat curry powder,
• Stir-fry for about 1 to2 minutes, add ground meat.
• Stir with spatula and break up meat so that there will be no clumps, cook until well browned.
• Add cilantro and mint, stir to mix well with meat, promptly remove from the flame.
• Let it cool fully.

To Prepare Murtabak:
• Sieve flour and salt into a bowl.
• Mix ghee, add water gradually and knead till the dough is smooth.
• Let the dough rest for about 2 to 3 hrs to soften.
• Make small balls from the dough, oil the work top with ghee and work each ball into a very thin sheet.
• First flatten with oiled palms, now thin it again by pulling the edges.
• Sprinkle the dough sheet with 1 tsp ghee and fold in edges, shape it into a square.
• Now sprinkle a little flour and roll out into a paper-thin rectangular sheet.
• Preheat the griddle or pan, grease it well with ghee.
• Break one egg in the middle of the rectangular sheet and carefully spread the egg over the middle portion of it.
• Sprinkle some chopped onions and finely sliced green Serrano.
• Spoon about 2 tbsp curried meat filling evenly and fold in the four into a fine square.
• Quickly lift the murtabak, using both hands, onto a preheated griddle.
• Cook for about 2 to 3 minutess until golden brown.
• Lift Murtabak up, grease the griddle with ghee, and cook the other side until brown.
• Cut it into 2 or 4 pieces.
• Serve hot or cold.

And some photos to share :)

Membeli Rumah???

Semua orang mempunyai keinginan untuk memiliki rumah sendiri. Kepada yang masih tak mampu mungkin masih menyewa, tapi aku pasti mesti ader keinginan untuk ada rumah sendiri. Sampai bila nak menyewa?? Bayar sewa bulan-bulan, last2 rumah takder dapat... duit saja hilang. Aku rasa salah kalau gunakan alasan ini?? Untuk membeli rumah, kena plan betul2 dan kena kaji balik bajet bulanan kita.

Memang sekarang banyak plan pinjaman perumahan yang ditawarkan di luar sana. Tapi percayalah semua plan-plan itu untuk menkayakan Bank. Memang tawaran nya menarik, bayaran bulanan yang rendah tapi kalau di kaji balik untuk jangka masa yang lama, lebih banyak yang kita bayar. Siapa yang untung sebenarnya?? Bank jugakkan... Entry aku nie, takder lah untuk pujuk orang jangan beli rumah... aku galakkan orang buat harta, tapi kena kaji betul2 supaya bayaran ansuran rumah tidak membebankan dan tak payah membayar lebih2 pada bank.

Pinjaman nak beli rumah berbeza dengan pinjaman beli kereta. Ada pulak berpendapat, makin lama tempoh pinjaman perumahan, lagi bagus sebab kita bayar kurang..Betul ker tu?? Dulu aku tak ambil pusing sangat benda2 nie, tapi setelah membeli sebuah rumah, aku tengok balik selok-belok benda nie, ternyata benda tu salah. Memang bagus untuk memanjangkan tempoh pinjaman supaya kita akan ader duit lebih bulan2, tapi sebenarnyer kalau kita jumlahkan wang2 yang dibayar tu adalah lebih dari kalau kita pendekkan tempoh pinjaman. Jadi nasihat aku, kalau ader duit lebih, silalah bayar kepada bank. Sesetengah bank plak, ada syarat2nya. Macam bank yang aku buat loan tu, kalau aku nak bayar lebih, kena dalam gandaan RM1k, kalau tidak, tak boleh. Memang lecehkan, takkan lah tiap2 bulan kita ader lebih RM1k, lainler kalau kita gaji extra ribu2..Semuanya untuk pastikan kita susah nak bayar. So baki pinjaman pokok kita masih banyak dan kita kena bayar interest yang banyak. Macam tu lah diaorg buat duit. Sama jer macam Along, cuma berlesen. Hehehe

Tngk nie beza jumlah yang kita kena bayar kalau beli kereta dan rumah. Harga sama, tapi kalau rumah, kena bayar double ler..Pastu kalau kita pendekkan jangka masa tempoh pinjaman jugak dapat jimat banyak, tapi macam aku cakap, kena bayar lebih bulan2. So aku rasa yang paling baik, ambil tempoh pinjaman yang lama tapi kalau ada duit lebih, bayarlah. AKu pun tengah buat benda yang sama. Terima kasih kepada KWSP jugak sebab kita boleh keluarkan duit simpanan untuk cepatkan habis bayaran rumah nie.




Nie aku nak share website yang banyak ajar aku pasal pinjaman perumahan. Bila aku buat calculation, memang terkejut :).
http://michaelbluejay.com/house/interest.html

Luffy First Birthday Cake.

Today is Luffy's birthday. We are having small celebration at home with family member. This is the cake i bake specially for my heart throb Luffy.

My chocolate cake :)

Thanks to K. Azie, the Engineering Operator at my department for willing to share her chocolate cake recipe. I've tried few chocolate cake recipe from internet, but none taste as good as this one. I brought back the cake to my hometown during my cousin's wedding. Alhamdullilah..Habis, and lots of complement from my relatives..yummilicious!!! So I want to share the recipe here.

Chocolate Cake Recipe

Ingredient
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250g butter
2 cups castor sugar
5 eggs
2 cup self rising flour
1 cup cocoa powder
1 cup of cold water ** Mix cocoa powder with cold water, kacau utk elakkan ketul2.
a pinch of salt.

Method
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1. Mixed butter and sugar. Stir the mixture.
2. Add egg to mixture one by one. Then add the salt.
3. Add cocoa powder + cold water mixture
4. Stir all until they are well-mixed.
5. Preheat the oven 160'C and bake the cake for 45 min. (The original recipe is bake for 130'C, but when I use this, my cake is soggy on top, so I changed to this setting. I think it depends on what is the optimize temperature for you oven for baking a cake :))

Topping
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1 cup of castor sugar
3/4 cup cocoa powder
50 gm butter
1 can Evaporated milk

Method
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1) Mix all the ingredient above in the pot. Under moderate fire, stir until the mixture become richer and creamier.

So inilah gambar2 kek coklat ku, memang huduh, tapi sedap. Next time akan ku cuba lagi dan akan ku hiaskan cantik2. Check this out.

Comfy changing room

Check this out! I went to Queensbay Mall last week and did diaper change at the new changing room. It look comfortable and luxurious.

Hubby lost his tonsil..

Argh..... aku cuma dapat mengeluh...Bulan April dan May this year memang disaster. Aku, husband dan Luffy asyik jatuh sakit sahaja. Up to this point husband and me still have flu and cough problem.

Last April, husband and I were having high fever. I got few days MC, same with husband. However hubby condition worse than mine. He was laying on the bed most of the time. Luckily Luffy was OK, but we are quite afraid he will get the germ from us. Besides, taking care an active baby need a lot of work and I dont think I can do it. Thanks to my mum, willing to travel all the way from Pantai Remis to look after Luffy.

Hubby was admitted to Hospital Pantai on Early Wednesday morning around 5.30am. Since his temperature was high, his throat was swollen and in pretty bad shape, doctor advised to get him warded. He was consulted to be under care of Ear, Nose and Throat specialist. Under went through some check-up the specialist found that my husband having some problem with his throat. He recommend hubby to remove his tonsil and hubby agreed since he has lots of issue with his throat. It is true, every time I or himself not feeling well, he said it started from throat and we must cure it first. Even I myself started to have that ideology...

So the surgery and illnesses caused hubby to be warded for 5 days in Hospital Pantai Mutiara, Bayan Lepas. He was granted for 2 weeks sick leave. But his condition was not as what I presumed. He cant eat solid food like normal people. His food need to be mashed and should be in the liquid form. Gheez!! Even my baby food as not as runny as his food. Besides that he will took some time to finish it, which is not him at all. Normally he's the one waited for me to finish my food. Now I know how he feel..hehehe..

Wait up for my next entry of Luffy being admitted which is after a month hubby discharge from hospital..

Lamb Chop

Its Saturday!! Of the seven days in a week, I love Saturday the most. It's because, I'm not working and I can do lots of thing until midnight with not worrying about getting tired, since I still have Sunday to rest. Normally, I would try some new cooking during my off day. For this time, I'm cooking lamb chop.

I got this recipe from a website which mentioned that "This recipe is a courtesy of Rick's How to Cook Lamb site. I was in hurry to avoid the Friday bad traffic that I didn't copy the web address. The recipe is quite simple and I want to give it a shot.

Here is the recipe; I modified some though :)

Chinese-style Black Pepper Lamb Chop

Ingredient
500 gm Lamb chop (I bought nicely chopped lamb from Tesco)
1 clove of Onion (I used Bawang Benggala)
Potato (This is optional)

- To be grind and blend
1 teaspoon of black pepper
3 tablespoon of oyster sauce (You can estimate this, some may prefer more )
5 pcs garlic
daun sup (i'm not sure what they called in english, actually you can use rosemary, but I couldn't find it here)
Salt & Sugar

Procedure
1. Mix the ingredient to be grind and blend.
2. Marinate the lamb chop. Spread the ingredient evenly and leave to marinate about an hour. The longer the better :).
3. Chop the onion into large slices. Chop the potato as well.
4. Heat the oven to 230'c. You can either grill or roast. For me, I used my conventional microwave which come with the short key to roast lamb pieces.
5. Arrange the potato, onion slices and the lamb on the plate/ foil.
6. Roast in the oven for about 8 minutes and flip to otherside and roast again for another 8 minutes.
7. Ready to serve.


This is how my lamb chop being roasted in the oven together with onion sliced and potato.



Ready to serve.. I have salad as my side dishes. :)

Luffy Transformation

Cepat betul masa berlalu, Luffy dah berumur hampir sethn. This entry is to recalled how Luffy transform from a 2.7kg baby to almost 8.5 kg baby. He's still developing. He's a gift from God to me and I pray that god spent little more time on him...Amin!!



June'08 - Just a fews days old. Still fragile and small


July'08 - Masih kecil lagi, tapi dah ader reaction, masih tak pandai senyum, org buat lawak, dia buat tak tau saja.




Aug'08 - Luffy starts to make chooeing sounds, and dah boleh mengagah sikit2.




Sept'08 - Luffy dah pandai meniarap by this time. Dah pandai try suara.



Oct'08 - Sudah pandai gelak bila acah.




Nov'08 - Best nyer main2 time nie. Rambut dia masih pacak lah at this time.



Dec'08 - He started eating solid food. He got his measles, due to mosquito bites I think. Very Active kicking here and there. He likes stammering..... Dia dah start tumbuh gigi lah this time.



Jan'09 - Dia suka banging anything, be it with his hand or anything that he can grab. Dia sudah pandai senyum depan camera. Dia suka menjulur macam askar..



Feb'09 - Tngk masa demam pun boleh senyum ambil gambar..



Mac'09 - Sudah makin buas, rambut dah panjang, so mama dia kerat ler..


April'09 - Sudah ader gigi 6 btg. Sudah dpt merangkak dgn cepatnyer.


May'09 - Sudah pandai berdiri, memanjat, memunggah!! Sudah bikin mama dia pening kepala dan naik angin...

Next month, genaplah setahun usia Luffy!!!! Wah cepat nya masa berlalu...