Lagi citer anak2 mummy

Sementara dok tunggu "story" masuk, I pun saje2 jer browsing through some of my collegues' blogs and I really tertarik dengan satu entry ni pasal anak2 ... luahan seorang anak yang dianiaya mak kandung sendiri. I ni kan bila sentuh bab anak2, cepat benor terasa sendunya. Nak buat camner, naluri ibulah katakannn .... bukan jer tak sanggup pukul , bayangkan kalau nyamuk gigit anak I, I ligan satu bilik nyamuk gemuk (gemuk ngan darah anak I) tu sampai I dapat pukul dan penyek sampai mati, barulah puas hati I.

Memang tak sanggup I nak naik tangan langsung kat dorang. Geram tu memanglah geram tapi kalau ambik tali pinggang tu, acah2 jer yang lebih, pukulnya tidak. Yerlah, baru nak naik tangan, tengok mata anak I yang "kelipot..kelipot" bergenang air mata tu ... eh, tak sampai hati beb. Cuba fikir balik, apa pekdahnya nak pukul anak yang baru umur tak sampai lima tahun. Bukannya dorang tahu aperpun. Part pukul memang lah takleh terima, apa lagi part yang sembam muka kat lantai, tak dapat I bayangkan keadaan budak tu. Sorrylah, kalau I nampaklah, harus I jerit balik kat nenek tu, humban jer dia kat umah orang tua, lepas tu biar jer dia bergelumang ngan berak kencing dia sendiri. Tapi nak salahkan si nenek nipun takleh gak ... yang mak bapak pun, ambillah maid, apa salahnya. Kuar sikit duit, ni tak suruh mak jaga, mak tu dah tua, kalau yang Melayu tu naklah beramal ibadat.

Satu lagi I memang setuju, orang Melayu kurang sikit dok herdik2 anak, selalunya bangsa cher yang gitu. Orang Melayu ni, lebih2 lagi nenek zaman sekarang ni, memanjakan cucu lebih daripada mak bapak sendiri, takut pulak I sebab terlebih ngada2nya (termasuklah anak2 I, terlalu dimanjakan oleh MIL). Selalunya bangsa cher ni, bukan aje anak ditengking2, maid lagilah pulak. Siankan, bayangkan, datang negara orang nak cari rezeki, dilayan pulak macam hamba abdi ... sebabnya dah bayar gaji, bolehlah buat apa2pun.

Lagi satu pantang betul I kalau gi shopping ke window shopping, nampak budak2 ni ke ikat ngan tali oleh mak bapak dorang, betul2 macam anjing. Konon2, tak bagi lasak sangat, lari sini sana. Aduh ... tak gamak I nak buat macam tu. Dah namapun bebudak, biarlah diorang lari, kita jaga jerlah. Yang ni, bukan jer bangsa cher, dah melarat kat bangsa kita gak, maklumlah zaman moden, tiru dari obersea gitu. Tapi tiru tak kena gaya buat aper kannn ....

Aduhai, tingginya maintenance anak2 I

I pun heran jugak tengok anak2 abang dan adik I kebal2 belaka. Mainlah hujan ker, lumpur ker, pasir ker .... relaks jerr, langsung tak heran dorang. Setakat berkudih tu biasalah, ini tak, demam ker selesemapun tak kena. Anak2 orang lain kalau main pasir jer, wajib kena tungau. Tahu tak apa tungau tu? Tungau tu kalau ketit kat "bird" budak lelaki, harus bengkak, seminggu tak tentu surut lagi.

Kagum sesungguh kagum betul I tengok bebudak ni. Mak ayah dorang lagi lah tak kisah, tak angkat pot langsung "lantaklah kat korang, jangan ada yang terbongkang dah." I ramai anak sedara lelaki, memanglah lasak, pompuan cuma boleh dibilang ngan jari sebelah tangan jer. Anak lelaki kalau tak lasak, bukanlah anak lelaki namanya, kang jadi pon-ponlah pulak. Kenkadang I marah gak kat adik lelaki I yang selalu sebat anak dia, ikut dan apa ada kat tangan, terus belasah. Memanglah kalau ikutkan hati, geram betul tengok bebudak ni tapi I percaya budak kalau dah selalu kena sebat, dorang lagi dah lali, sebatlah dengan rotan besar tapak tanganpun, dorang sikit tak sakit.

Yang I ni punyalah jaga bagai nak rak anak2 dara I tu, lotion baby tu jangan cakap, rasanya sebulan tak sampai sebotol, tapi kulit masih lagi sensitif. Bukan biasa2 punya lotion, lotion jer dah sampai Rm70 sebotol, mengalahkan product skincare I lah pulak. Tapi nak buat camner sebab dua2 anak I ada eczema, takleh kena kotor langsung, habuk apa lagi. Bukan setakat lotion, baby bathpun mesti yang khususnya. Semua kena doktor yang rekomen. Kalau tak dijaga, kulit jadi kasar. Tapi according to doktor, eczema ni akan hilang bila sampai certain age. Alhamdullilah.

Itu belum kena gigit nyamuk lagi. Contohnya si Alea, kalau kena gigit ... nah ambik engko sedebuk bengkak tangan or kaki dia .... dan dan tu jugak naik bengkaknya. Memang sensitif sungguh. Padahal, sebelum kuar main tu, dah sapu abih losyen nyamuk. Kat umah I tu, sebut jer lotion ape yang takde, semua ada ... ada satu lotion nyamuk "Johnson n Johnson" tu kat Singapore jer yang ada jual. Itu sebab I kata maintenance untuk anak2 dara I ni tinggi. Kalau gi doktor, mestilah ratusan ringgit, yelah, apa tidaknya, consultation fee jer RM100, cakap tak sampaipun 10 minit. Masa baby, anak2 abang dan adek I, gi hospital kerajaan, dapat jab biasa jer tapi anak2 I bukan setakat jab 3 in 1 tapi 5 ke 6 in I lagi. Tapi I akuilah, tang penyakit lain, insyallah, anak2 I terlindung disebabkan extra jab nilah.

Lagi satu kalau I balik Selayang, mak I cukup risau sebab anak2 dara I ni consider "fragile" kalau nak dibandingkan dengan cucu2 jantan dia yang lain. Yelah, cucu2 jantan mak I, bergurau memang kasar dan cakappun ikut suka hati dorang jer. Separuh perkataan tu patut kena sensor lagi. Ada sekali tu, perkataan b*** tu bermain kat mulut. Asal gaduh jer, perkataan tu jugak yang kuar. I memang pantang sikit part2 ni sebab anak2 I memang tak didedahkan dengan perkataan2 yang tak berapa elok didengar.

Dan disebabkan kulit anak2 dara I begitulah sensitifnya, mak I pun cukup risau kalau Alea kena gigit nyamuk tapi I kata "nak buat camner, bukannyer kita boleh control nyamuk tu, biarlah dia lali sikit". Sebenarnya, anak I especially Alea memang suka gi rumah nenek dia, bukan apa, dia takder kawan kat umah, bila dapat kawan dengan sepupu jantan dia yang sama taraf lasak ngan dia, lagilah dia excited. "Alahh,.... Alea ni pun jenis lasak, macam jantan gak perangai dia, lagipun bukan selalu dia nak melasak ngan cousin2 dia tu".

Anak sedara I ada 11 orang. Anak abang I yang sulung - Adib, Habibi Mastura (I panggil Amy Mastura), Amir, adik Amir (I lupa nama dia), Najihah dan Aqilah. Anak adik bawah I pula namanya Adam alias Gemuk alias Bob Beder (Bob the Builder - pantang bawak jalan abih bulldozer dikiranya); anak adik bawah I lagi (tiga orang) - Asraff, Akmal dan Adawiyah (jangan main2 ko nama begitu klasik lagi) and anak adik pompuan I pulak sorang jer, namanya Hakimi (dia ni selalu over excited tak tentu pasal).

Anak adalah rezeki kita, lagi ramai lagi banyaklah rezeki yang dorang bagi. Camnerpun I, cukuplah dua orang, itupun tak cukup tangan nak layan. I tak kisah berapa banyak kena kuar belanja untuk dorang sebab apa2pun kita mesti nak yang terbaik untuk anak2 kita. Maklumlah masa I kecik2 dulu tak dapat merasa semuanya.

Sekali lagi Alhamdullilah, bersyukur I kepada ALLAH SWT kerana rezeki yang dilimpahi setiap hari kepada I sekeluarga.

Amin ....

Living life to the fullest

When you have made it, then what?
You have reached every goal, then what?
Then, you look for what makes life worth living for.
The little things that make big impacts - the camaraderie of friend, the excitement of traveling, the enjoyment of good music, fine culture, great art, the sheer joy of happening partners and not to forget "amal ibadat and jariah".
To be able to live out your passions is truly the greatest happiness of life itself.
Style is nothing more than what we make out of it.
Living life to the fullest, enjoying the finest that money can buy and knowing to appreciate everything that makes life beautiful.

Life is like a lollipop, enjoy while it lasts.

Ten-ten, my new buddy

Nowadays, whenever I want to go out, be it for window shopping ker, getting some groceries at the mall ker or paying my credit cards, I have someone tagging along with me. This little one is my new buddy aka bodyguard. Complete with her "Ben-10" bag, shirt and shorts, she will hold tight my hand, as if do not want to let it go. Aduhhh comelnya and I'm very happy that she's with me. This is one of the ways for me to spend quality time with her amidst my busy working schedule. With her "melekat" with me all the time, I do really hope this will turned into a remarkable "mother-daughter" bonding exercise. Probably, everyone realised that mother-daughter bonding can start at an early age. What I really want is that I can be the best friend to my daughters and can talk to about all the emotional things that women consider important that men don't like to talk about.

Back to my new bodyguard, this year will be her "honeymoon year" cause next year, tak bagi chance dah as I'm going to send her to Smart Reader school. Not so much of nak suruh dia belajar bagai nak rak (sapa taknak anak dia pandai oiii) but more for her to mixing around with other kids. Kecik lagi, biarlah dia enjoy dulu. Pitykan to those kids yang mummy2 dorang so the very very over and obsessed one.

"Hello boy" but I always quick to correct these people, "No, she's a girl". Biasalah tu, people always think that she's a boy looking from her short rookie hair. Tarraaaaa .... saper lagi kalau bukan my Alea or better known as "Ten-ten" who is now enjoying her new status as my little bodyguard. I tak kisah bawak dia gi mana2 (except kalau I gi facial or saloon) sebab tak banyak karenah dan tak lasak sangat. Bukan I aje yang cakap sebab MILpun said the same thing, "Alea senang nak jaga, tak lari sana sini".

Lasak bertempat takper. Contohnya, kalau I bawak dia gi kat KidSports ke, "lantaklah ko nak melasak bagai nak rakpun, sebab memang tu tempat melasak, jadi melasaklah selagi boleh melasak, tak de halnya. Explorelah apa yang patut dari ko berlari tak tentu arah, kita jugak yang susah dok berkejor kat dia."

Selain dari playground, normally I ngan bodyguard baru I ni selalu gak lepak2 kat MPH, One Utama or Borders kat the Curve. I biarkan dia pick up buku yang dia suka and both of us will sit at one corner, selalunya less than an hour, lepas tu gi mamam kejap dan lepas tu kena chow sebab I have to rush to work.

Parenting is always challenging and rewarding at the same time. As our children grow into their teen years, it getting even more challenging because bonding with them gets harder in terms of connecting and having quality time. "Itulah sebabnya kalau boleh I taknak buang masa ngan anak2. Time is our friend, not our enemy".

Life has to go on

No matter how tough it is, life has to go on. Life is full of suprises and colours. Life has its ups and downs. It happens to all of us. There is no way to avoid it. We just don't control all the things around us, no matter how hard we try, we just can't do it. I believe that everything can't be planned and execute the way one wishes, as the life is not that smooth. The challenge is how we deal with those times and how each of us can take these difficult situations and turn them into something miraculous.

But again, in life, mesti ada ujian dari ALLAH, tak sikit banyak, already written in our fate. All these, need kesabaran yang tinggi because without going through the rough phases of life, people aspire big and expect only bigger things from their life. Whenever I went through some trials in my personal life, I would always think of my children. They would be my motivation for working harder to not let anything effect my goals. Long way to go maaa.....

No matter what obstacles we may face in life, I truly believe that where there is a will, there is a way. We must remember that life is really precious, don't ever waste it even a bit. Why do we have to sit and cry all the way while letting someone else enjoying themselves and pijaking our head. Come on, be strong and it's not the end of the world.

"Treat times like this as an opportunity to do something unprecedented".

Time for me to 'kolek" betting money

Well, I think it has been ages that I don't have the chance to "kolek" my friends' aka "pompuan mata duitan" betting money. We normally bet on anything especially when it comes to bowling and golf. As for myself, more to bowlinglah. Kak Anie always refer the betting as "bukan judi but more for motivation". But, atcually, it works, we really berusaha keras for the "ciput" money. Since, my bowling game had been getting from "bad to worst", I'm the one who always menjadi "penderma setia" to those "pompuan mata duitan". Pah, Jam, Kak Anie and Liza had been enjoying my money so far. Taklah banyak, tapi geram gak. We played three games, for the first game, normally we bet RM3 and RM5 (200 above), second game RM5 and Rm10 (200 above) and the third game flat rate RM10 (tak kira berapa pin fall as long as above 160).

Yesterday, we had to post-bowl for our Wednesday's league. Since, I'm free, Kak Anie as the captain asked me to bowl along Pah and herself. So, oklah, no problem because kalau nak harapkan I turun every Wednesday "memang takleh nyer". Jam, Jijoi, Liza and Shahri pulak not available.

Biasalah, before we start the game, Kak Anie asked, "So, takkan main kosong jer, tak semangatlah macam ni. Betting macam biasa ok". Knowing that my game was so the very yo-yo, I reluctant at first tapi since these two "pompuan mata duitan" dok insist, I can't say no, right, pride ke jaga gak. "Oklah, apa-apa jerlah".

Tak tahu hantu apalah yang merasuk hari tu, I bowled very the well one, really burnt the lane. Letak jer strike, letak jer strike, letak jer strike and spare tak buang pulak tu. So, for the first game 192 pin fall, I sapu RM6. "Bak mai sini, I punya duit. Bukan senang I nak kolek".

Masuk second game, Pah pulak bukak suara, "Lin, upkan sikit (maksud dia suruh doublekan betting). "Takyahlah, third game baru kita upkan RM10 flat", I cakap sebab I tahu Pah and Kak Anie will never give up. Wow, menyesallak I tolak, this gamepun I bowl dengan cemerlang, gemilang dan terbilang gitu. Letak jer strike, letak jer strike and paling best spare susahpun boleh tak miss tu. Kali ni my total pin falls 212, so meaning I dapat RM10 soranglah. Yahoooo......"Aha, bak mai sini, jangan lupa, wa kaya, wa kaya," saja je I cakap nak menyakitkan hati dua-dua pompuan mata duitan ni.

"Oi pompuan, ko marah sapa ni yang ko main bagus sangat ni, tak kira, lepas ni aku nyer turn lak," kata Pah sambil huluq RM10 kat I tapi sempat gak dia cakap, "duit ni aku beli nasi lemak esok lagi sedap."

Masuk third gamepun, I belasah dorang lagi cuma Kak Anie jer yang dok tailing dari belakang, so I kena lagi careful. Kak Anie memang konsisten, sparing taknah miss, itulah masalahnya. Tapi I tak kisah sebab I dah ada modal, kalau kuar duitpun, duit dorang jugak, I tak rugi aper2pun. So, I pun main relaxs jer. Tapi, itulah pasal. memang dah rezeki Ipun agaknya, letak strike, letak strike, spare taknah miss cuma split jer takleh buat aper2.

"Kalau nak jadik tu, buat apepun strike, dah Allah nak bagi strike, ambik ajerlah akak oi,"
Happy sangat, sebab I menang lagi dengan pin drop 201. So, dapatlah lagi RM10 sorang.

Akak kayo ... akak kayo ... bukan senang beb nak menang hattrick macam ni. Menang besar lak tu. Alhamdullilah, setelah lama begitu gersang ... akhirnya ...

Hari malas sedunia

Aduhhhh, malas sungguh I hari ini. Takde mood langsung nak buat keje. Setiap saat, setiap minit, asyik tengok jam nak balik. Letihlah, I cuma nak balik tido jerr. Perut pulak asyik nak melantak jer. Dahlah hari tu dapat maintain 59.9 kg, ni, asyik dok melantak je, naik baliklah nampak gayanya. Tak tahulah, apsal malasssssss sungguh hari ni. Cuaca kot ....

Dah terbayang kat mata I, tepat jer kul 9 mlm, terus jer punch card. Sampai rumah, cuci muka, sembahyang, lepas tu TIDOR.

So untuk itu, I isytiharkan hari ini sebagai "HARI MALAS SEDUNIA "