jiwa kacau...

kat luar hujan, dlm lab sejuk... kasut basah.. kepala nyuuttt nyuuttt... perut lapar.... mata ngantuk.....hati mandom (pms???).... supervisor tadak.... keje (????).....buat depression questionnaire... scored 36.. moderate to severe category... huh??? la la la la......
sekian.

Weekend out...yumm yummm

Went to Chatswood on Sunday. Joined Kak Zurin, Abg Lan, Noor and Fathy. Main agenda: to eat hainan chicken rice! Yummy... It's owned by a Malaysian, and serve halal food. Plenty of food choices but we usually opt for chicken rice or sometimes assam laksa. I was so hungry because I didnt take anything before I went to the lab that morning (very bad habit!! yeah I know).
"number 24...hainan chicken rice!!" shouted the nyonya.

So everybody ordered the chicken rice except for Azd. He wanted chicken chop instead (reason: "I dont want to eat rice today"). But to his 'surprise??' the chicken chop came with rice anyway...hahaha.. punah harapan babah aiman utk tak makan nasi for the day. And then makan time!! (that is after abg lan recited the doa makan of course :P).

Chicken chop vs Hainan chicken rice

Aiman was as usual, ate a little bit here and there. Was more interested to "aliiii ...aliii..." (lari lari, with the hope that somebody might wanna play lari-lari with him but sorry bebeh, semua org sibuk melantak). Oouhhh dan sebelum makanan yg terhidang di meja masuk ke mulut, everybody (saya ngan kak zurin ler) sibuk menangkap gbr makanan. " kena masuk blog ni," kata kak zurin. hahahaha... i like!!

Everybody with their hungry smile.....bila blh start makan ni???

After that, we walked to Westfield Chatswood (just across the road). Once we were there, Aiman made a scene. He didnt want to sit in his stroller nor did he want to wear his harness sling. Azd and I had to struggle to put him in his stroller. Aduuuh sampai bengkok2 badan bergusti ngan budak kecik ni sorang. In the end berjaya, and as a reward (for not crying out loud hehehe) we gave him a westfield balloon (because he saw that aluuuun aluuunn).

Everybody did some window shopping, and then kak zurin asked, "elyn mana kedai churros tu?". ohhhh bestnya, I could taste the churros and the choc dip in my mouth already... "tuuu kat atas tu, nampak tak? jom kita minum2 dulu...."

Hot and cold hot choc

When kak zurin saw the shop she said, "laaa..akak mati2 ingat kedai jual churros tu gerai kecik2 je mcm kat gold coast tu, rupanya kedai sebijik". oh yes kak zurin, kedai sebijik yg jual all sorts of wicked chocolate thingy.

So what is churros??

Quoted from Wikipedia: Churros, sometimes referred to as a Spanish doughnut, are fried-dough pastry-based snacks, sometimes made from potato dough, that originated in Spain. Churros are usually made of a batter which is piped into extremely hot oil. They are certainly not a low-fat snack because of the frying process. Once the churro is fried it is traditionally rolled in hot cinnamon sugar. The ideal churro has a distinct crunch when one bites into it, but the interior should have a slight softness at the center.

Ok that's a little story on churros... sedap dimakan panas2.. even more sedap when you dip it in chocolate sauce. The one that kak zurin ordered came with milk choc dip, dark choc dip, caramel dip and white choc dip. And the drinks of course, cappucino, latte, mocha macarena and hot and cold hot chocolate. Oooohhh laaa laaa.....heaven!! Dan harus la ada adegan klik klik tangkap gambar juga.

I did try to make churros once but sadly I scored zero!! my churros turned out to be like a question mark shape... and a bit soggy (probably the oil wasnt hot enough)....but the major setback was because I didnt have the right star tip to squeeze the dough. Kesian kak zurin & abg lan terpaksa jd food tester to that soggy churros. hahaha... Oh well, better luck next time.

Aiman naik Barney..vrooommm vrroommm

p/s: terima kasih byk2 kpd fathy + noor & kak zurin + abg lan sebab belanja kami nasi ayam ngan churros! semoga sentiasa dimurahkan rezeki.... thanks again!!!! :)

A wet Sunday

In the lab right now. And what the heck am I doing in the lab on Sunday?? Beats me!! Got a few stuffs to do, but was not really sure am I supposed to be doing it (after having a 5hrs meeting with my sv last Friday)... adoooiii laaa sampai berasap kepala otak!! Conclusion after the meeting: felt like banging my head against the wall, down sedown-downnya..waaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!
Full stop.
Sent Aiman to his new babysitter yesterday for the so called trial thingy. Arrived at around 9.45am, had a chat with Nunu (the babysitter). Learned a new word as well ie "dot" (the pacifier, or known as "tin tin" to aiman). I bought one of aiman's toy just in case but when we came in maaak aihh Rafa's toy (Nunu's 2 yr old daughter) pun dah banyak dah. So I dont have to worry about bringing any more toys for them to play. She even had this huge toy (like a trampoline but it looked like a small pool and was made from plastic). Aiman confirm suka toy ni sebab dia blh lompat2!
And there were lots of big soft toys too including Iggle Piggle!! Yeayyy... Aiman's fav character from the series "In The Night Garden". After making sure everything was OK, then off we went. And as expected si kecik melalak when he saw us leaving him from the balcony. Kesian anak mama.... but hooyeahhh i didnt shed a tear.. well done to me!! hahaha.
Spent the next few hours in lab (ye saya sgt rajin! or was it terpaksa??), headed back to Lakemba for lunch. Had nasi beriyani and tandoori chicken. nyamm nyamm....But tgh2 melantak berdua dgn AzD of course la teringat kat aiman kan...apa dia tgh buat agaknya?
Then it was time to pick up aiman, yippieeee......
When we came in, aiman just had his bath. tersengih2 and he hugged me. rindu bangat sih sama anak mama! hehehehe....
Nunu said, "nampak mamanya pergi terus nangis, tapi nangisnya sekejap aja. Makan pun OK, uk uk pun udah cuma susunya nggak mau minum. Air putih juga dikit bangat diminum. Dan dia mau main sama Rafa"
At that time Aiman was happily jumping up and down in the big plastic toy. And Nunu continued, "Iyya, dia pinterrr skali nonton Iggle Piggle sama Rafa. Bila lagunya keluar, terus menari2. Dan bagusss, nggak kacau sama org".
She then took her handphone (wah wah nokia baru...cantik bangat...hahah sempat perasan lagi tuh!) and showed me the videoclip of Aiman and Rafa dancing. Kelakar je bebudak ni menari depan tv.
Ouhh pinterrrrr pinterrrr anak-anak ini. Alhamdulillah everything went well!! And it was a good thing that I didnt have that "unhappy" feeling like when I sent Aiman to his previous babysitter. That's a good sign, right??
After that we went back home. On our way back Nunu called, "mba, maaf ya. tadi ribut2 sampai lupa 'dot' aiman tertinggal!".
"nggak apa2 nunu, saya ada lagi satu dot aiman di rumah. nunu simpan aja ya, nanti minggu depan kan aiman dtg lagi. ok daaaa"
Hehehe...end of conversation. dot... dot.... tanpa mu aiman nggak bisa bobok!!!
Ok back to today's story. It's still raining. It's actually has been raining for the past week and the weather forecast says the wet weather will continue throughout the whole next week as well.. oh dear... basah la kasut ku nanti :(
It's summer but it feels like autumn. Autumn in summer. Sometimes you can have all the 4 seasons in one day kat sini. Right now there's flooding in the north Queensland and bushfire in Victoria. They called it the "black saturday" because it was the worse bushfire ever that happened last weekend and about 180 people (i think) were killed and thousands more lost their homes. Donations came pouring from people all across the country within a very short period of time. To date I think they manage to collect millions and millions of dollars to help the bushfire victims. Hopefully the bushfires will be contained soon.
OK la...dah lapar.... daaaaaa!!!

p/s: just received a call from kak zurin ajak gi makan nasik ayam kat chatswood... adakah boifen ku mau???

International school

Came home...no one was here. AzD and Aiman are still in Wollongong. So took some time to update my blog. Aiman is currently at Mama Azreen's house. He must be having fun coz there are kids the same age as him.
Was planning to send Aiman to a new babysitter today but had to cancel it. It'll be his first time with the new babysitter. I cant just leave him there like that. Kang demam terkejut lak budak tu kena tinggal with someone he has never seen before. Probably on Friday or maybe Saturday, will be the trial day for Aiman. Will drop him off, stay with him for a little while then off I go. And it wont be a whole day thingy, just a few hrs the most.
So Aiman had been to various international schools (that's what my abah called...hehehe). When he was just abt 4 mths ++, we sent him to his very first bbsitter; Jasmin (from Bangladesh). I dropped him in the morning then off to school. Then picked him up in the evening. The first day we sent him, Aiman cried and cried. Sedih kena tinggal kot (ala mama dia pun srooot srroott gak). When we picked him up that day, he didnt want to look at our face when we called his name (kecik2 dah merajuk..ciiit).
After a while we stopped sending Aiman to Jasmin. Then starting from last year till now, whenever Azd goes to wollongong, he'll bring aiman along and drop him off at kak azreen's house. Biasa la first day uhuk uhuk. After a while he got use to it and now I think he has fun staying over there. Good for him!! At least he mingles with other kids as well.
At the same time, we tried to find another babysitter closer to home so that we could send him there if Azd decided to stay at home to do his work. We managed to find one (from an ad in Lakemba). This time it was a Palestinian couple. We sent Aiman there like 2x/week. Since there weren't any kids (except for every thursdays), Aiman was all alone. Kesian anak mama.
I wasn't full heartedly happy everytime Aiman was there, I dunno why. So alas, we stopped sending Aiman to sekolah tok arab (as my abah called it).
Then last week, we met a new babywitter, Nunu (from Indonesia, which part of Indo I forgot). She was introduced to us by Tante Eli. She just came to Australia about a year ago with her hubby and their 2 yr old daughter. Had a little chat with Nunu.... which in the end I got a minor headache trying to communicate with her. Hahahaha... Masing2 tak berapa nak paham. For example she asked me, "Aiman masih diberi asi nggak?".. I was like huh...ape ke bendanya asi nih??? nasi ke??
"asi? apa itu asi? saya nggak ngerti nunu," I asked her, trying my best to immitate her indo dialect. hahahaha.... kelakar giler!!
i think she was trying to explain it to me sampai ketat2 muka dia... nasib baik tante was there and she said "oh asi..... itu Air Susu Ibu"
Hahahaha....ceh ingatkan makanan special apa..rupanya susu ibu dong!! pusing bangat!
There were some other stuffs that Nunu and I had trouble understanding each others word, which I find was quite funny but I cant think of any right now. hehehe.
So there you are.... international schools for Aiman.. starting with IBS (International Bangla School), to Malay, Arabic and latest Indonesian school. ngeh3x.
Hopefully everything will be OK with this new bbsitter, insya allah!!!!

p/s: hah!! these pictures below are totally not related to the story above :p
it was taken during our visit to sydney wildlife park.

Aiman's first encounter with the snake...

aksi ganas.... the wombat strangler!! run wombat run!!

hey...how come this wombat doesnt move??? giddy up!!

a frog prince??? or is it a prince on top of a frog???muahahahahaha....

peekaboo...i see u!!

Disclaimer

Ok so these are the common questions that azd and i got whenever me meet our friends in fb or in person or kat mana2 je la... "bila nak abis?" or "bila nak balik m'sia ni??"
Hmmm it's actually a tough question. To be honest, it's a bugger to us. Yet we can only reply, "tak tahu la bila". Why? because although there is a black and white statement or contract or whatever you called it, saying that we're suppose to complete everything within the 3 years given, but much to our dismay there are things, events that we were unable to avoid or control. Kalau ikutkan hati nak balik m'sia dan dan tu jugak but it's not that easy la bebeh.
We can only plan but the rest is up to the Almighty!
And then sometimes people might say, "amboi ada masa u all update blog?" or "waaa nampak seronoknya u all jln2 dlm gbr ni" or "berjalan aje korang ni ek??" hehehe...
Well dearies, this is just a clarification from us. Bukan apa, we do not want people to think that we have all the time in the world to go berjalan2 aje...
No laaahh. All those pics of us berjalan2 tu biasanya during the weekends, kalau ada masa. Of course we looked happy and enjoying ourselves. Mana ada pegi jln2 tp tak seronok, kan?
So semua pun harus la happy2, senyum2. Kalau bercerita pun kena la cerita yg ceria2....kalau cerita yg sedih2 ... atau asyik whining selalu ke.. nanti blog pun gloomy. Plus I dont want our families in Malaysia to be worried or sad kalau baca entry yg tak best, dok gitu??
Cerita yg tak berapa sedap tu biar la rahsia...cewah! unless if i have to kalau tak tahan sgt, then maybe ada la kot nanti satu dua entry luahan perasaan. hahahaha....
Till then, do pray so that Azd and I and of course including our postgrad friends yg lain will manage to complete this journey and go back to m'sia to be with our loved ones! yeahhhh.....rindu KL! Muaahhhh.....

Creative thinking??? or confused????

Scene One

Was watching Scooby Doo with Aiman the other day. There was this scene where Scooby was in a pirate ship. So I asked Aiman, "Aiman, what's that?".
"Bo", he replied, which meant 'boat'.
"No, it's not a boat sayang, it's a ship", I corrected him.
Aiman looked at me, a bit puzzled. " Shihh (ship)", he repeated.
So I asked him again, "what is that Aiman?" while pointing my finger to the pirate ship showing on the TV.
"Bekkk....bekkk...." Aiman replied.
Alamak..... now he's confused between a ship and a sheep!!


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Scene Two

We brought Aiman to visit Sydney Aquarium. It was somewhat like the Aquaria in KLCC but there was no travelator throughout the tunnel. Nevertheless it was fun and the view was splendid.

So there we were in the oceanarium, looking at the stingrays, sharks and other fish as well. Then there was this one big shark hovering on top of us. So I pointed it to Aiman, "Aiman look, a shark!". He was too busy jumping and running here and there and didn't pay much attention.

I called and pointed to him again," Aiman tengok la ni... shark!"

So I managed to get his attention. He watched the shark and shouted, "Lane!! lane!!"

Alamak again..... And now he's confused between a shark and a plane. But you cant blame him for that..hahaha..sebabnya bila shark tu berenang2 kat atas terowong tu, memang nampak mcm one big airplane!!

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