CERITA PASAL BAPAK MERTUA KU

Isnin kelmarin, aku sempat berbuka puasa di rumah mertua. Di samping bawak dua jenis lauk, aku sempat goreng jemput-jemput ikan bilis.

Abah (FIL) cakap ikan bilis dalam jemput-jemput tu, kurang. Aku sengaja kurangkan, takut termasin pulak. Maklumlah, orang berpuasa yang buat.

Semasa tunggu waktu berbuka, Abah berbual pasal Haji. Abah memang suka bercerita. Tak kira topic apa, boleh berjam-jam dengar cerita dia.

Baru aku tahu, pertama kali Abah menunaikan fardhu Haji ketika umurnya 36 tahun. Kira-kira umur Hubby sekarang. Abah cakap jika mampu, pergi Haji waktu usia muda. Nanti depan Kaabah, doa banyak-banyak agar kita dapat tunaikan Haji berkali-kali. Itulah yang dia lakukan. Aku tak dapa kira entah dah berapa banyak kali Ummi dan Abah dah pergi Haji.

Hubby cakap dia teringin nak tunaikan fardhu Haji dalam masa terdekat. Abah begitu gembira dengar Hubby cakap begitu. Abah kata, Hubby tak perlu risau pasal anak-anak, dia dan Ummi boleh jaga. Begitu juga pasal ongkos, Abah cakap kita tak perlu risau. Dia sanggup bayarkan atau jual kereta sekalipun, jika Hubby benar-benar nak naik Haji. Begitu sayangnya Abah pada anaknya hingga sanggup berkorban.

Tapi aku kenal Hubby, dia takkan menyusahkan orang, apalagi mak bapak sendiri. InsyaAllah, kita akan tunaikan fardhu Haji dengan duit kita sendiri.

Sempat jugak kita posing sebelum balik rumah.


Hari ini mood aku baik. Aku belanja Afiqah dan Affandy makan lunch kat McDonalds. Selalunya budak-budak tu yang sebok nak singgap Causeway Point bila balik sekolah. Kali ini Ummi dorang yang pelawa. Heh heh.....

Aku masak tau, bukannya tak masak. Oleh kerana aku tahu lauk aku pedas gilllerrr.... - lemak ikan cili padi, takkan nak suap budak-budak tu. Nanti baru satu suap, kepala dah basah dan hingus dah meleleh. Petang nanti baru boleh goreng sayur.

Nak kena fikir lauk untuk besok pulak. Dah nak masuk 10 tahun kahwin, otak ni macam dah jammed, tak tau nak masak apa.

Lengit.............!!!!

BAHASA IBUNDA KITA....

Setiap pagi Ahad, aku sekeluarga hadiri kuliah Dhuha di Masjid An-Nur. Sejuk hati ini setiap kali dengar ceramah Ustaz Shafi. Tersentuh sanubari bila kami beramai-ramai membaca zikir munajat. Terasa kerdilnya diri ini.....

Ketika kuliah sedang dijalankan, Ustaz kata sebentar nanti akan ada jenazah yang akan disholatkan di masjid. Ustaz juga menerangkan, betapa besarnya pahala sholat jenazah, sebesar Gunung Uhud. Sholatnya amat mudah, hanya empat takbir, tapi pahalanya......MasyaAllah.....

Jenazah pun sampai. Ustaz cakap betapa beruntungnya jenazah ini kerana Allah memberi peluang disholatkan di masjid ketika kuliah Dhuha sedang dijalankan dan masjid penuh dengan jemaah.

Bila sampai ajal kita, berpeluangkah kita diberi kesempatan begitu? Disholatkan oleh ramai kaum muslimin dan muslimat, di dalam Masjid lagi.

Belum tentu lagi......

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Hari Asyura (10 Muharram) kita disunatkan berpuasa - 9 dan 10 Muharram atau 10 dan 11 Muharram. Aku dan Hubby memilih untuk berpuasa pada hari ini dan InsyaAllah, esok.

Ustaz memberitahu, ada banyak amalan-amalan sunat yang boleh dilakukan pada Hari Asyura. Amalan-amalan ini biasa dilakukan oleh para Ulama. Antaranya :-

1) Berpuasa

2) Menyenangkan hati orang-orang dekat dan kita sayangi

3) Perbanyakkan sedekah - Allah akan kurniakan kesenangan untuk satu tahun

4) Memuliakan fakir miskin - Allah akan menaikkan ekonomi kita sedikit demi sedikit.

5) Mengusap ubun-ubun anak-anak yatim
- Selepas sholat Maghrib, kita digalakkan mengusap kepala anak-anak dan isteri/suami, sambil membaca Bismillahirrahmanirahim sebanyak 21 kali dalam satu nafas
- Untuk melembutkan hati, pegang dada anak baca Surah Insyirah 3 kali

6) Mandi dan berhias diri

7) Potong kuku

8) Menziarah orang alim atau para Ulama

9) Menziarah orang sakit - doakan kesembuhan mereka and suruh mereka mendoakan kita kerana doa orang yang sakit sering dimakbulkan Allah

10) Perbanyakkan baca Surah Al-Ikhlas and Ayat Kursi

12) Perbanyakkan Istighfar dan berdoa

13) Jangan tinggalkan sholat Dhuha

14) Selepas sholat Maghrib, lakukan sholat Hajat dan sholat Taubat.

Itulah antara amalan-amalan yang dikongsi oleh Ustaz Shafi. Aku sekedar ingin berkongsi sama. Wallahu'alam....

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Malam ini, Hubby mengajak aku berbuka puasa di rumah keluarganya. Kita akan kesana selepas Afrina pulang dari sekolah. Kalau aku rajin, aku nak buat jemput-jemput ikan bilis. Kalau tak rajin, bawak aje lauk-lauk yang ada. Jadi kita tak datang dengan tangan kosong.

:)

ROMOS TIME

I don't care!!!



I just want to ROMOS babies!! Any baby will do.

And NO!! I am NOT going to make another one. I want to ROMOS someone else's babies.

Last Friday, I got the chance to ROMOS this chubby little girl. Even her mother could not stop me. Heh heh...!

Her name is DIAN AZURA. She is just like my Afiqah when she (Afiqah) was a baby - errrr..5 years ago. So chubby, so semangat, so super duper cute, her thigh looks like chicken drumstick, and so syiok to ROMOS!!! And i lurrveeeee baby's smell. Sigh....

Anybody got any baby for me to ROMOS??

CICAKO??

We had a date with CICAK MAN last weekend.



Now I know that cicak is afraid of rubber.

Ye ke?

It's the Abah that insisted we watched the movie, and it seems he enjoyed the movie more.....

Affandy slept half way thru....

I think this is the first Malay movie I watched since donkey years ago. Normally I will buy the VCD. But since this movie gets a lot of publicity, and Hubby wanted to bring the kids to watch, why not?

Well, even though Affandy slept before the movie ended, he declared himself as...

"AKU NI CICAK MAN!!!!"

Haizzzzz....

SOOOOO LENGIT

I have my lengit days being a homemaker.

Today for instance, I simply do not have ANY idea what to cook. There's almost everything store in the freezer, but I just stared at them as though the freezing freezer is empty!

There's also a few types of vegetables in the fridge, yet I looked at them blankly.

Flipping through my dozens of recipe books doesn't help either. I'm not up to cook any of the recipes there.

Time is running up before I need to move my big butt to fetch my two younger kids from school. I have to think of something.....real fast.

I end up prepared FRIED RICE. Boleh gitu?

Hubby & I are fasting today, and I am sooooo lengit to cook any fancy dishes.

Hope the people in the house don't complaint.

Berani dorang complaint, nanti Ummi mogok baru tau!!

If my lengitness ends after I switch off my PC, I may be making some puff.

May be......

Maybe not.....

Maybe I will.....

See how lah!!

I CRY HARD.....

For once, I found a novel that touched my heart, made me cry, real hard.

I describe this novel as touching, heartbreaking, poignant, affecting, emotive, haunting, heartrending, tear jerking.....

After reading, the characters in the novel really haunts me, till now. They left a huge impact on me. I kept thinking about Hassan, Amir and Sohrab.

Deep in my heart, I was hoping that Amir got the chance to meet Hassan. But....*sob sob*

As highly recommended by her, I also extremely vouch for this novel. I just have to own this book. It worth reading over and over again.

If this novel can touch my heart, I'm pretty sure it will do the same to you....

"Do you want me to run that kite for you? For you, a thousand times over...."

THIS IS WHAT I CALLED, PEACE.....

This only happened once in blue moon.....they napped at the same time!!




Affandy actually was waiting for me to play his favourite DVD, but he fell asleep before I could turn it on.

:)

PEACE

So far so good. I'm striving to get use to my new routine. I got the hunch that I'm gonna like this year's routine more than last year.

The first week was a little bit relax for me, as I had Mr Beki to drive the kids to school in the morning as Afiqah and Affandy are in the morning session.

But on the second week, it's like, "You're on your own, dude"!

I left the house about 7.45 a.m to take two buses to their school. The bus from my place to Woodlands Interchange was super crowded as it was the peak hours for people going to work. Upon seeing this, I so not miss my working life (except for the pay check lah!).

Taking the bus from Woodlands Interchange to their school is not a problem, as there are a few buses I can choose from. We board whichever bus that comes first.

Once both of them are stuck in school (ha ha), I'm FREE!!!

Well.....not really.

I can do my marketing, in peace.....

I can have my breakfast, in peace......

I can cook, clean the kitchen, clean the house, clear the laundry, fold the clothes, iron some clothes etc., in peace.....

I can switch on the PC for a while to check my emails, in peace......

At 11.45 am, I'll walk Afrina to her school, and just in time for me to fetch the other two from school at 12.30 pm.

The peace ends here.

*faints*

I MISS YOU, YES, Y-O-U!!

I notice that after I switched to the other web address for a while, I've made quite a number of new friends. I even get to put Afiqah's ex-teacher as a contact. That's good, I lioke!!

But the sad thing is, I've lost touch with some of the bloggers here. Some who were close, but now no more. And it disturbs me. I'm a shy person by nature (ehem...), and it's not that easy for me to make new friends out of the blogging world.

Tu lah....apsal gatal pergi stop blogging. Padan muka aku!!

I may not have the luxury of time to bloghop everyday. But I can squeeze some time to visit here and there.

I WANT MY BLOGGER FRIENDS BACK!!!

PRETTY UGLY

I simply HATE silent war, especially in my own abode.

Not a single word being uttered to each other.

Why am I being punished when it's nobody's fault? Why create this silence when we can voice out what's bothering us?

I don't wish to be ignored.

HERE AGAIN

OK, I'm back here :)

Call me itchy, I don't mind, I just wanna write.

Expressing my ramblings on the other web address, just don't give me the kick. Lately I have lots of things of my mind. I just need to vent them out and pen my thoughts down.

The contents of my blog this time round may be merepek, may be meaningful. It may be nothing to you, but like I said, I have to let it out.

I chose a simple web design, no more fancy dandy template. Dulu bolehlah, tengah kemarok!! Now dah maintainkan, so a simple one will do for me.

Please be nice, welcome me back :)

Heh heh........