Haihhh... It's not our first encounter with HFM but it's back, secara tiba2. Kena kat Ulfa, my tiniest child. We noticed how she couldn't eat, "sakit mulut" katanya. Check punya check, ulcers on her lelangit and under her tongue, huge ones too. My poor kid. Checked her palms and feet, small red spots ada dua tiga like dat. We kinda know those are simptoms of HFM, cuma Ulfa tak demam jek. So we went to see Dr Lai, our family paed and she said it's mild HFM but tetap kena kuarantin. But how lar to kuarantin from Umaira and Umar? Kira kakak and adik kena layan je lah, and we pray that their antibodies are stronger. So now, Ulfa is the cuti2 Malaysia at home with big (little) brother. She is bored to her skull!

Masa kat Dr Lai tu, baru teringat yang Umar has been vomitting tengah2 malam for a few nights straight. Teruslah mintak dia check, without his card la kan. So dia dapatlah ubat angin, kot2 dia memang angin, takleh kentut punya kes so sudah push out his milk bagai. Belakang kat botol ubat kaler oren tu ada lah bracket baik punya (abang). Heh?? Confirm assistants kat situ ingat Umar abang sebab he is 19.5kg, and Ulfa is only at 16kg. Sabar je lah.

Received shocking news today, berjam2 jugak nak pulihkan semangat (heh?). Buat kerja pun ala ala jek sebab terkedu memikiokan masa depan. Sampai perut pun naik lapar sebab tak lalu makan, kalah putus chinta deh!
(be ready for some more ramblings)
The thing is, we are a very tight family (rujuk pada kgkawan pejabat). We try to back each other in anyways we can. Memang susah nak cari teammates yang jenis front stabber. Ya, we are a bunch of front stabbers. Tak susah pun sebab tak sempat stab mungkin ko dah kena balik. But at least whatever we want to say is out in the open, takyah cakap2 belakang. Yang senyap2, sok sek tu yang bahaya sebab tau tau tu diaaaa...besaqnya punya lobang ada kat belakang, macam kena tembak ngn meriam. So yes, we love each other very much to actually tak kisah kalau orang cakap kena batang hidung. We can take it, we are a bunch of strong people.
Tapi bila tak cukup sorang nanti, haaaa...Itu yang tak best tu. Satu sebab nak berpisah, dua, orang baru tu reti ke nak handle mulut @#@#$%#$% kitorang ni?
Change is good orang tu kata, setuju kalau yang nak membawa perubahan tu juga akan membawa perubahan yang betul dan membangun. Kalau takat nak tunjuk kuasa, mak tak kuasa.
Sebab perut tetiba rasa lapor, sebab makan main2, meh kita layan gambar makanan. Last nite, we had dinner at Chili's. Met the manager who said long time no see us. Yang syioknya, kitorang pun lama tak jumpa dia, ingatkan dah tukau cawangan. Dia pelik, kitorang pun pelik sebab lama gila tak bertembung. Takpelah...Bukan sedara mara pun. Saja jek.
Tup tup waiter mai serve benda alah di bawah ni. Doklah nak buat suspens kata we ordered this, when I know also mesti manager nak belanja lah tu. Hehehee... Lahap je lah...

It's vanilla ice cream with some cheesy ball. Ingatkan pelik rasanya, buat sodap k! What more the cheesy balls sangat crunchy.

Ni tiga orang budak sedap lahap ice cream, and Mummy terpaksalah habiskan the cheesy balls (alasan). And today dah cakap ngn aunty Nini, we shall go buy jamu Nona Roguy utk kempiskan perut!! Yah yah!!

Memang tau dah the time of month is around this time la pun. I have been trying to kawal perasaan sesangatnya, tak suka outburst tak tentu pasal. Tapi about 15 minutes ago, memang rasa nak meletup macam ke hapa. BUt to make this is as vague as possible, let me list down things that I don't seriously get:

1. bagi komen bagai nak rak tapi tak tau pun apa ko nak sebenarnya. "can we make it look more vibrant?" boleh baca tak apa dia nak? apakah definisi vibrant bagi ko? adakah ia bermakna i have to put lampu spotlight agar ia bersinar2 sampai silau dan buat orang buta? atau ko mahu warna warni makaroni ditempekkan? so, apakah?

2. komen yang ada reminder agar kita buat benda yang dah selalu buat. kalau ko tu my majikan atau mak pak ku, i get it. sebab dah tugas depa nak remind ni suma. i have been doing this work since agak lama la jugak, kira kalau dah lebih 4 tahun tu kira benda tu kacang goreng. i know la my work wehhh... tapi kalau memang i do the wrong thing, is it too hard for you to articulate this the right way?

3. komen bahasa i have been doing is terlalu hebat. waaaah...terima kasih. but seriously, ni adalah komen yang sangat vague. ko puji kah or ko nak suh aku betulkan? and kalau nak betulkan sekalipun, please ensure that your language pun tip top ya, so tidaklah nak question sangat kan.

4. hari ni cakap lain, esok cakap lain. this one i feel like putting my head under the car and let the tyres gelek2 u know. u think i got many2 time to layan your kerenah and wanting? boleh blah

5. backstabbers. where la you find time to think of a scheme to make holes behind people's back ni? seriously you got other better things to do right? surely you got as much work for you to do right? face so suci murni, hati very bad. i dont like.

(sambil dengar album Bruno Mars, to calm angry nerves)

6. kenapa nak naik tingkat dua ko naik lif ek? kalau pregnant or capek, paham la jugak. ni sihat walafiat. this seems to happen especially time orang suma kelam kabut nak sampai cepat kat opis masing2. and oh oh, turun dari tkt dua pun nak naik lif tau! and oh oh, dia duduk tkt tiga tapi nak naik tkt empat guna lif tau. rasa nak hempuk tak?

7. aktiviti toilet yang nak bagi satu dunia dengar. ya, ada orang2 begini. tau la you sakit perut you. tapi agak2lah pun nak keluarkan bunyi2an. kalau takde orang dalam toilet tu, silalah memerut sesuka ati. ni dah ler ada orang lain you very the noisy, the smell also...aiyorrr! like atomic bom lah you...

8. you are happily married, but gatai cari orang lain. and kira hebatla kan bila spouse dah tau pun ko tetap keluar dengan orang ketiga tu kan. hebatnyaaaaa.... meh tepuk amai2 kat dia!

9. ada orang komen, dah bayar gaji helper murah so kena tahanlah kalau dia tak buat kerja mengikut standard. kononnya if we pay them ribu riban then quality will be better? u can jamin that or not babe? sure or not? i tell you if you get helper jenis kuat merosak barang, kerugian tu bukan helper tanggung sepenuhnya pun, ko tetap kena belikan yang baru kan? sapa yang susah, majikan jugak. kalau dah tiap2 bulan ada jek barang rosak, tak papa kedana dibuatnya?
siapa kata we slave our helper away. they get to watch their indon cinetrons while we're out at work. most of them ada handphones to call family and friends and boyfriends, dapat juga duit raya masa hari raya, dapat juga baju raya masa hari raya, sesetengahnya so lucky dapat ikut family majikan pi holiday lagik, kot mana yang slavery pun tak tau. kalau slave, confirm tak dapat own room with katil, bantal, cadar aussino and kipas panasonic lah babe...

and number 10. why la Bruno Mars songs sangat sedap? WHYYYYY?????

asalnya mmg ajak suamiku gi dating mlm tdi. Mmg dating sungguh sbb trus kena harung malam smpai ke utara negara. Sronok gak dpt layan pot pet dlm keta berjam2 lamanya. Despite the stressful unexpected situation (now resolved, alhamdulillah), me n hubby had super bonding time. N i can't believe i was very calm. Tpi termenitis gak ayaq mata bila sebut bab pgorbanan sorang mak ni.
Yer, apakah motif saya mmbebel ini? Tarak motif. Sesaja jek buang space. :) jap gi mau pulang!! Miss my kids oh so much....

Dah nama pun blog for the kids, so inilah updatenya untuk besday Umaira yang lalu. Actually, we went to cousin Daddy's wedding in Perak during her birthday. Kebetulan hari yang sama. And nasib baik anak sulung bukan jenis diva nak celebrate birthday hari tu jugak, walaupun sebenarnya Mummy yang rasa kesian kat anak sebab takde proper birthday singing session and cake when she turned seven. Mama papa rajin celebrate my birthday masa kecik2 dulu, so memang dah jadi tabiat dalam keluarga. Asal birthday jek mesti nak ada kek.

And actually, nyaris tak terbuat birthday party ni yang direncanakan sebab satu, none of Umaira's classmates to whom she sent the invite to RSVP-ed, and dua masa kitorang balik dari Perak tu tengok dapur banjir. Air from tangki overflowed bagai nak rak. Masa tu plak bibik pi Cheras, so memang takde orang kat rumah nak tengokkan. Dah satu keje nak ngemas, and Daddy kena panjat bumbung malam2 betulkan the pelampung. Haihh... Tapi sebab ada sorang kawan dia bagitau nak datang, kami pun sediakan secara ala kadar, and I texted my friends. Sesiapa yang ada kesempatan silalah datang. So Zura and family came too.

It was not a big birthday party but it was good enough for us, though tak leh blah lah rasa kechiwa di hati ini. Sob! I promise a better party for you ya Umaira. Mwahs!


So here are the attendees. Tiga memang penduduk tetap rumah kecik tu and Alyssa, kawan baik Umaira since kindy. Though she wasnt well, but she braved thru the party sambil layan kegedikan aunty Nida hehehehehe... Good girl lah you! And I absolutely LOVE this picture sebab everyone look so yomey yomey.

Here's the cake. Asalnya nak buat kek Angelina Ballerina, tapi nak buat tempahan yang sebenar memakan harga yang agak terlampau. So terpaksalah buat kek gini kat Berry's. Takpelah, takde Umaira nak complain "Napa beli kek murahan?" If she did, memang Mummy bagi makan meja jek kang.

Atas permintaan ramai, buatlah games serba skit. Yang ni dipanggil Pass The Rubber Band With The Straw (macam lagu omputih plak). I learnt this thru own experience masa dok rajin pi besday party kecik2 dulu. Rajin woooh pi besday parties. Jenis mak pak tak join punya, just us kids. It was super fun. Dulu pernah main game ni dipaksa duduk dengan this guy yang katanya minat bebenor ngn Mummy masa tu (dalam tingkatan gitu lah). So masa nak passing getah tu memang dok tersipu-sipu macam siput lah masing2 kan. Lagi plak kena sorak ngn kengkawan, siut jek. Haiiih...Kelako!

Ni group foto jenis Daddy amik gambar Mummy, then Mummy amik gambar Daddy. Takkan nak suh Bibik plak amik, jahanam plak kamera tu. Percayalah!


Aktiviti seterusnya, sebaik saja ketibaan Fiona Zara semua nak main painting painting plak dah. Layankan jek, sebab bahan pun ada. Atleast depa tak main kejar2 dalam rumah sempit tu. Ada jugak yang lari masuk bilik air jugak. Hehehehe...

Sebab ada sorang leh gantikan Mummy's place, so mainlah semula passing getah ni. Sungguh cute melihatkan aksi Fiona passing getah kat Umar yabam. Dan actually, we played another game which was the Statue Dance game menggunakan lagu Baby by Bieber sahaja (pasang lagu lain kena marah dowh). Tapi gambar2nya terlalu terlampau untuk ditayang di sini. Bukan budak2 yang terlampau, tapi Mummy yang kena jadi player yang terlampau wahahahahaha...

One of her favourite birthday gifts was from Daddy. Beli beg sekolah Barbie (sebut betul2) kat dia. Bukan main suka lagi and tak pasal2 tersudi cium muka Daddy yang cantik tu hehehehe...Selalunya sorry ya. I gave her books, as requested (lupa plak nak load kat sini). And we also thank Alyssa and Fiona and Thalia (Zura and Farief) for the lovely2 presents too. Also to tok mama and baba, aunty malyn too for the gifts. :)

I have been awaaaaayyyy... But first, let me wish my eldest daughter, Irmy Umaira a happy seven years old. She turned 7 last Saturday. We had a mini party yesterday (pictures bakal menyusul, once I get the time to upload it).
And yes it was the school holiday last week, I was busy - Singapore trip for a night. Then took leave on Friday, went to Perak for a wedding. 13 biji kereta rombongan antar Daddy's cousin to Ijok. Hamik ko! Pun pictures bakal menyusul.
Otherwise, we are fine. :)

Tak lain tak bukan, keluar gi mall. Not just to jalan2 buang duit, but also for the free air-conditioning. Call us cheapies, I donch care. I'm not the only one doing it pun, right, right, right?

Plus the fact that ada benda tak kena kat rumah right now. The maid have been testing my patience, like sesangat mengujinya. Tell me this, if your barang hilang, tentu2 u will ask your maid kan? Lagi plak barang yang ditanya tu diletak di kawasan yang memang anak2 kecil tak sampai punya. Betul tak? Which was what I did. Bila dia bagi jawapan tak lojik, as if benda tu hilang sendiri, memanglah nak terbakar kan. Tu pun I didn't scream at her. Cuma yes, my intonation was a bit keras.

It wasn't anything expensive coz it's just a souvenir, but to me, it is penting. In the sense that, I bought it dari jauh and memang benda tu kalau sekalipun ada kat Malaysia, takkan sama. Coz I bought it in Dubai. But bottomline is, don't I have the right to ask, at all?

Jadi, kenapakah dia plak nak merajuk2 bagai? Shouldn't I be the one yang merajuk, meraung, menyedih, and meroyan? Sapa numpang rumah sapa ni??

So yes, I had a stressful Sunday. So kenalah membawa diri dan hati keluar menabur duit dengan benda2 tak penting..hehehe... Yang penting, dapat release. Dan ya ya, yang penting dapat togeder-geder with my kids and hubby. So there...

The girls eating lollies at Starbucks. Lepak, jangan tak lepak!

Tengok mata dia tu. Tengok perangai dia tu. I swear I have the same picture of me when I was little. Hehe...

Aaaa...Urmmm... Adeh, alahai...

All I can think of everytime I see this - "Stop! In the name of looooveee..."

A proper picture of Iqbal Umar.

From the moment Umaira was born, semua orang cakap dia anak Daddy. Terbukti! Here we go, "Na na na na na... Genu kitteeee..."

Somehow, Ulfa knows Mummy is a bit stressed out this evening. She wants me to have dinner at home, when I was hoping to have Japanese food.

Ulfa: "Mummy makan kat rumah ke?"
Mummy: "Donno yet. Napa?"
Ulfa: "Mummy nak makan apa?" (she actually means, where are you having dinner sebenarnya)
Mummy: "Mummy nak makan orang." (pening layan kerenah cl**nt)
Ulfa: "Tak bolehlah..."
Mummy: "Kenapa?"

Ulfa: "Sebab orang banyak tulang."

Adeh!

Because we miss school, katanya. She misses going out, she misses not being too lembik at home. Haiiihhh...Dah masuk empat hari Ulfa demam. This morning, we went back to the doctor, and this time she added on antibiotics on top of the prebiotics. Hamik ko! Kerja telan ubat jek lah. But I am confident that the meds are good for her, tapi sebab dia tu takde selera makan. Whenever she eats, macam anak burung makan. Tersiput, siput.

And she needs to be-ol as well. Tak membuang since demam, perut dah kembung kata doktor. My poor girl. No apetite to eat, now expected to pass motion plak. How lar?

But she still has her pot pet mouth. Like yesterday, I asked her if she has brushed her teeth. Demam pun demamlah, tapi takkan tak gosok gigi.

Jawapannya: "Gigi Ulfa cakap, tak payah gosok dia. Dia taknak."
Mummy cakap: "Pergi cakap kat gigi Ulfa, kalau tak gosok gigi nanti dia rosak. Then we go see dentist plak cabut dia, nak?"

Terus cik kak pi gosok gigi.

Main belasah jek kiraan di atas ni. It's the countdown to Irmy Umaira's seventh birthday. And baru last night Daddy cakap we can do her birthday on 20th. Nggh!! Bunyinya macam tak jadi buat coz we have to attend his cousin's wedding in Perak on Umaira's birthday. So I thought, just a cake with us at home, dah memadai. Dia nak buat birthday party plak dah!! Breath in, breath out.

And... He wants to do it at home. Aduh!! My one and always will be dilemma is the fact that our house is tiny, and parking pun agak mencabar. Kalau dah sebuah rumah ada minimum dua kereta kat neighbourhood tu, memang confirm one car tempek kat luar rumah. Itu our house, we have neighbours who has more than two cars! So memang agak crowded lorong rumah tu, then where lah the guests nak park kan. Kalau kereta leh lipat masuk kocek sedap la kan.

So, the only logical solution will be, tak invite ramai orang. Maybe just Umaira's classmates (she has named 8 of them) and a few of our selected and closest friends. Need to find cake, good spread of food and goodies. And take leave ofcourse. Tak gemar buat party on Sundays ni sebab Isnin kerja. Agak sangap gitu, sebab saya jenis rumah mesti super kemas macam selalu (kemas lah sangat!), macam takde apa2 berlaku right after the party. Daddy takpelah buat makan2 Sunday, sah sah dia tak keje Isnin. Blah la lu!

Oh-key. Now to google Angelina Ballerina. Whatever that is!! Agak ketinggalan gitu...!!!

Took leave today. Kira emergency leave coz got a call from Ulfa's school cakap Ulfa muntah2 and badan dah panas. I was actually on the highway heading to Shah Alam for my appointment. So kenalah patah balik, anak punya pasal, apa saja. Memang pucat muka Ulfa when I fetched her from school. Straight to the clinic we went, and we were lucky Dr Lai didn't have any patients at that time and she wasn't close for the day.

She advised us to stop solids for Ulfa, milk pun takleh. Kena makan bubur and anything soft saja and 100 plus will do. Pegh, bestnya leh minum ayaq sedap time sakit! Kenalah ubat bontot satu, first time for us coz usually dapat oral meds. Reason being, she has to telan loads of oral meds, so biarlah satu masuk kot punggung.

Balik rumah, her fever got high. Suap fever meds and ubat for wind. She also got probiotics but that one kena makan after food so tunggu dulu. She was quite restless and couldn't sleep right away. Satu, may be because of the fever and dua, she was afraid Mummy keluar pergi kerja coz "Mummy tak tanggal makeup lagi!" Haiiihh...

After lunch, Daddy balik jenguk dia kejap. Memang sesuatu di luar jangkaan. But I truly appreciate it! Tenchu darlingku... And if Ulfa's still under the weather esok, it's Daddy's turn to take leave and tengokkan, he offered himself to the duty. Yey! Macam tu lah suami mithali. Dah buat anak sesama, kenalah jaga sesama ye tak yang? Hehehehehe...

Besides wishing for Ulfa's good health, I wish today wasn't that hot. Gila panas right now! Hope it rains tonight. Amin!!