Monday, August 24, 2009

Pre-menopausal

Ni kena cakap melayu ... kekadang boleh setat 10 tahun sebelum actual menapause. Tak sangka lak secepat tu. Anyhow simtom nyer setat sket 2 la cam period tak heavy cam biasa, pastu tak selama masa memuda dulu. kekadang spotting...... tak pasal2. tapi kita masih ovulate ye...... so sentiasa lah berhati2 kalau tak nak anak baya cucu ye..... saya pun takut gak selalu nih

pastu yg paling susah nak deal ialah bila kita suka mengamuk sbb hormone dah mula tak balance kan... kejap suka bebeno lepaih tu mengamuk macam tornado... pegi google video tengok cam mana tornado tu.... so banyak2 lah baca quran bagi jiwa tu tenang dan rilek sket...... kalau tak macam naik roller coster la satu famili... kejap mak happi kejap mak macam psyco...

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cita lain plak...
ni note bagi kat cikgu anak LN1 ku hari nih:

Hello Mr. xxxxx,
The month of Ramadan is here again. It started last Saturday and will end by September the 22nd. xxxx is again practicing to fast longer hours and more days. I am hoping that you could keep an eye on him. He might break his fast during lunch time or when he comes home from school. Thank you for your help.


His reply:
I will be happy to! Thanks for letting me know and good luck to xxxxx this month. :)

ni plak note utk cikgu anak LN2:

Hi Mr. xxxxx,
Good morning. The month of Ramadan is here. It started last Saturday and will end on September the 22nd. xxxxx as always is still practicing. Most of the time he will fast until lunch time but he indicated this year that he would like to try to fast longer. I would like to ask if you can keep an eye on him just in case he is trying harder than he should. I imagine he should be fine since he loves food and would really miss it when he is super hungry, thus will know when to break his fast.

Thank you and have a great week.

His reply:
Thanks so much for the communication, and I most certinly will have an eye on xxxxx today. Have a great week.


Ni lak note utk cikgu-cikgi anak pn2.. dah besa sket ramai lagi cikgu kan
Hi teachers,

Good morning. I hope everything is well for you and your family. The month of Ramadan started this past Saturday and will end on the 22nd of September. As always our family is observing the fasting ritual with the rest of the Muslim all over the world. xxxxx will start observing more seriously this year which means that she will practice fasting longer and on more days that last year. We usually have our early morning breakfast around 5am and break our fast at about 8:30pm and of course the specific time change daily as the dawn break later and the sun set earlier every day. We go though the day without food and drink until the time to break our fast. xxxxxx did great over the weekend and I hope will do fine during the week as well. I am hoping that the school can help by accommodating during lunch/recess, maybe perhaps by letting xxxxxx go to the library or help a teacher in the classroom. If she wants to be in the cafeteria with her friends that is her choice. PE I imagine would be rather difficult. I am hoping that Mr. xxxx can accommodate xxxxxxx in this regard too.

I really appreciate all the help from all of you and thank you for being xxxxxxx’s teacher.


blum dpt reply for this one lagi....

so far so good! selalu nyer they are nice, understanding and open..

semuga Allah permudah kan segala urusan harian kita...... as long as our intention is right .. and our hearts are in the right place.

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Ramadan Kareem

Ramadan is here.... nice that it started on Saturday. Had a nice family sahur at 5am this morning with the usual sahur food, like luncheon turkey, cheese and the special for night, lentil soup. But son #1 and #2 had to break their fast due to a soccer game in the afternoon. I'm cooking for the masjid iftar today... roasted potato... all 20lbs of them. It was a hit during the recent public masjid event. I just threw a bunch of stuff together, like garlic powder, salt, lots of black pepper and paprika for color and the secret ingredient, the zesty italian salad dressing, which gives it a lot of zing!!!

Apa lagi ya. I may make some North Africa soup that is a hit every Ramadan. Can't keep my mind of the possibility of moving to another state. It most likely will take me more than a year to get use to a new place. Uuugggg I hate adjustment period. Anyhow some good stuff about the new place. The state public school system was rated #1 in the nation this year. The state has many many good colleges for the kids; Georgetown U, John Hopkins, U of Maryland to name a few. Tons of masjids and a very nice cemetary just bought by the community.......7000+ lots. Some masjids have outstanding imams..... great people to learn from. Many historical places, many things to do... a three hours drive will take you to the mountains and the beaches. People in general are more open minded..... than in the midwest (I hope) Down side of this place..... super expensive..... bad traffic...... climbing crime rate.... not as friendly as the midwest. I don't know.... fening2 kepala dibuat nyer.

Anothe accomplishment of the community... donating food to 200 some Myanmay refugees families, which consist of 50lbs of rice, 20lbs sugar and big container of oil for each family and $3000 for the community leader to distribute or to use for their commmunity activity. I hope we can always help them.

Anyhow ramadan mubarak to all. May this year blessings be more than the precious years for all of us.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Kitty where are you?

Our kitty Shadow has been quiet adventurous these days. She leaves home at 7am and only shows up around midnight. Meowing a pityful meows asking to be let in. Once inside she doesn't even look at you. I am starving.... I am starving.... no time to say hi ok.... she walks straight to where her food is. Spoil kitty! She is neutered but I am still thinking to impose a 24-hr curfew. I know she'll miss her daily excursion, birds to sneak up to, boyfriends and girlfriends to play with. But I can't afford the constant thought of, "where could Shadow be?", gnawing in my brain. I have other stuffs to worry about.

Kids start school tomorrow. Another year, hopefully things go as smoothly as possible. They are getting older, schooling becomes more important. Too much pressure to perform at such young age. I wish the world stops competing and start cooperating more. The competition will never end and so does pressure and stress. Cooperation will take us further, helping and sharing, is more empowering and inspiring to the spirit and soul. I am tired of competition. Let's just live modestly and quit wanting more stuff. They are all the same anyways!

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Productive Day!

I started the day of with the daily chores; the first of many rounds of laundry, emptying the diswasher and filling up it up again, and thinking what to make for breakfast. Son number 2 has been asking for 'spicy noodles', I have been wreaking my brain trying to figure out which noodles he is talking about. At last after over several days of QA sessions I found out he wanted the infamous made-in-malaysia maggi mee. They all thank me profusely for making such a tasty treat for breakfast, brunch to be exact!



Took kids to the neighborhood elementary school garden which I volunteer to care for over the summer, watering and weeding. But it had rained so much this year that I hardly ever have to do that. I love pulling weeds though, it left me feeling satisfied like washing dishes, cleaned. Our part of the garden is the ABC garden for the kindergarten class. Plants names started with each letter of the alphabet scattered around one corner of the garden.


We went to the public library afterwards, we try to go at least twice a month over the summer. Found this interesting book; Six Months in Sudan. An account of a young Canadian medical doctor who volunteer to work in Sudan with the organization Doctors without Borders. Finished reading it in one day. I can't put it down. At night I dreamt about being in Abyei. Amazing people do this kind of work. Prior to that I found this fascinating read Angels in my Hair. I wonder what Muslim scholars have to say about this, the traditional ones I kind of know what they will say, I am more interested in the opinions of Tariq Ramadan, or Sheikh Qaradawi or Imam Magid of ADAM center. Anyhow I felt happy and peaceful after finishing the book in two days. Can't put it down either.


I figured out a fool proof way to fix beautiful roasted chicken, parts or whole. I cut up a mix of herbs; combination of parsley, chives, mint, oregano, and rosemary, all from my little backyard garden. Portioned in that order, from the most to the least. And added to that generous helpings of salt, black pepper, paprika and lemon juice. Today I prepared cornish hen with parsley, mint and rosemary, lemon, blackpepper, salt, paprika and some boil corn on the side. It was heavenly! Forgot to take the picture, remember only after the bones bare naked devoid of flesh. Oh well, maybe next time.