Say A Little Prayer

Kakak is sick again.

The kids spent half an hour cycling around on Saturday evening. After the ride, kakak's temperature shot right up. We fed her the usual meds and she's her normal self soon after.

On Sunday, we went to see The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian at KLCC and without a sign, her temperature went up again. She braved through the whole 2 hours with adik's jacket clad tightly to her long sleeve shirt.

It was almost 7pm when we left KLCC. We wanted to initially head back home but she craved Starbucks coffee and didn't mind getting a bite for dinner.

We headed to Alpha Angle for a quick bite and coffee. A venti latte seemed to do her good. She was laughing her way though dinner. A bowl of mushroom soup, more like it, while the rest of us downed chicken and pizza.

Today the kids did their revision for midterm exams (the whole of this week). Nobody complained, much to our surprise. They managed to answer almost all of the questions we threw on studies of Arabic language.

Everything was peachy. So far, it's a great day for all of us.

Later in the afternoon, all of us did our bit in making sure that my car shines its natural color. It has been donning paw prints and 2 inch of dust for quite a while. The kids continued on with their bicycles after that while Deli and I tended the plants while watching Kechik taking a stroll around the yard.

So far, so good.

We were off to Carrefour later in the evening for groceries and dinner. That was when her temperature shot up again. We went home straight after and took care of kakak immediately.

We're very worried. She can't miss school this week. She has midterm exams for both her primary and religious classes. Then again, I guess if she's really sick, we'll need to talk to her teacher about the exams.

On the other hand, she's been sick quite often lately. Her temperature roler-coastered for a couple of days. We need to see a paediatrician and maybe run some tests on her.

I need to call Dr. Patrick and schedule for an appointment later this week.

Please pray that kakak will be okay.

A Series of Events

Yesterday was quite a day.

I was on half day leave and was supposed to report back to work in the afternoon. Left the house before noon – just in time for lunch with the guys. Sadly, my usual parking place was completely full. Drove on to the Weld and spent half a freaking hour looking for a spot. There was none. Nada.

Exited the Weld and decided to try I*G visitor parking. There’s only around a dozen parking spots for visitors in total. It was almost 1pm and it was yes, full. The last choice I had was to park at MPL. I found a spot – thank God! Cost me $13 for the 4 hours service. Urgh!

Had lunch with Fah and Dol at MacDonald’s. Thank God for great, entertaining friends!

As if the whole series of unfortunate events were not enough, I had to endure terrible traffic in the evening. Left the office around 6pm and reached home 1.5 hours later. Such a tiring day. I might as well take the whole day off. Bladihel.

I guess God has plans of his own. Even for me.

When I got home, adik complained about his thumb. It was a bit reddish when he showed it to me. I promised to attend to it after my bath. While walking to the bathroom, I heard him said – ‘Mummy, my mother finger sakit!’

Laughed my hearts out. So did adik and kakak. I immediately relay the news to Deli (he was on the road, guiding Along and abang to Matrade for Mihas exhibition). We laughed and laughed and all seemed to be better. The series of unfortunate events or the fact that I wanted nothing more than a hot bath couldn’t top this. I felt lighter. Spirit and body weight. Haha.

Llaughter is the best medicine.

On a lighter note, Kakak told me that she was given 2 prizes during their morning assembly at school. One was for the highest marks in English (she had perfect scores) and the other was for second place for Science (97%, I think) for the whole of primary 2. It was for their tests last March.

We are so proud of her.

Adik was inspired as well and did his revisions without being asked. Good boy!

Nothing beats the news. Not even the series of unfortunate events earlier on.

God is undeniably fair. You just have to stop worrying about petty things and focus more on significant ones. Like your life.


p/s: Happy birthday to my boss!

Restless & Demonata

I feel suffocated.

The more I think about it, the more restless I become.

I try not to think about it too much. I keep telling myself to just go with the flow. Do not plan and hope too much. But the stubborn me just refused to take it easy no matter how. And seriously, going with the flow is easier said than done.

I need a plan. A game plan.

Oh before I forget, thanks to Lara for mentioning Darren Shan’s books.

I wanted to get the first book (Cirque du Freak) in the The Saga series but couldn’t find it. Found the set of books 1 to 6 in MPH but I dare not buy them. Not just yet. At least until I’ve read Cirque du Freak.

Then I saw the Demonata series but still no first book. Darn.

I couldn’t leave MPH without getting a book now, can I?

So I bought book 2 in Demonata series – Demon Thief. Managed to read chapter 1 last night and it was not bad. Can’t wait to read the next chapters!

I’m still looking for A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.

Good books, like good friends are just hard to find.

A Cold Monday

What did I do?

Was it my imagination or people were being cold to me?

I called the Dutchman because he took (accidently or not, I don’t really know) my project report from the COO last week. He did not reply my email about it so I called him this morning to ask him personally. So yes, he took the report and I went to his floor to pick it up from him.

So off I went and was totally surprised when he insisted on keeping the report. Something about handing over the set of project documents to PMO and stuff. Fine. Keep it. I just wish he told me earlier that he’s doing so. I wasted my energy travelling to his floor and listening to his talks.

He also mentioned that I should start looking for BA role in other divisions’ PMO because apparently, my unit is as good as finished. Dead. Gone. Kapish.

What the heck is happening here?? What’s with my unit being worthless and all?? Why am I hearing all these from him instead of my boss??

When I got back to my spot, with all those questions playing in my mind like a broken record, I received a mail from Arifah – that I left my notebook at his cube. So off I went to his floor and thought I could maybe talk to him about this.

Like I said, people are being cold today. Him included. Maybe he has something on his mind, I don’t know but it didn’t help in any way.

Even Syamdol didn’t reply to my sms.

Worse, I promised a friend for lunch today and I am in a faulty mood.

Is Monday ever gonna be pleasant?

What did I do??

About Adik

I was reading Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallow while adik next to me, watched cartoon.

‘Mummy, adik suka pegi sekolah agama sebab adik belajar banyak benda. Adik rasa nak pegi sampai adik besar’, he said without taking his eyes off the tv.

Tell me, which mother in this world would not be happy to hear such statement from a child??

Alhamdulillah. I could not be happier. The fruit of labor has started to show. The fact that he wanted to attend school because he loves learning stuff was simply amazing. He’s only 7 years old and yet, he has that capability to be open about how he feels.

I wrote in here once (when we were looking for a kindergarten for kakak) that we want the kids to attend school because they wanted to and not because they had to.

Adik made my day by stating the obvious. Thank you, adik :)

Secrets and Hopes

Kakak surprised me with her request to buy a notebook. Not just a plain notebook but a diary. Secret diary, were her exact words.

My oh my. I just couldn’t believe my ears. She has surprised both Deli and I quite often lately.

First, she showed off her talent in sports. She was in the 75 meters race and the 4x25m relay. She even brought home a medal for the relay event. This was the same girl who sat around, cheering for her fellow friends in the same carnival last year!

When we asked if she’s participating in any event, she just mentioned that she’s in the ‘baton-passing’ thingy. That was it. Imagine our surprise when the announcer called her name for the 75m race!! Deli rushed off to the finishing line to capture the historical moment!

Anyways, back to the secret diary. Kakak mentioned that nobody is allowed to read her diary – it being secret and all, except for adik and me. Deli voiced his frustration to the unfairness and kakak caved for a minute before announcing that NOBODY is allowed to read the diary at all.

‘I can help to check you spelling, you know’ I said, trying my luck. Guess what? She said OKAY. Hahahahah. The boys didn’t look happy at all.

She started writing almost immediately after we got home. As agreed, I get to check her spelling, followed by an open book discussion with Deli and adik.

Oy, this is not fair!

Hahaha. We’re just glad that she’s expressing her thoughts in a way she’s comfortable with. Even if half of the entries were about adik and how much a pain he was to her most of the times. There were entries about how much she cherish him as well.

Looks like she’s living up to her name – pearl of justice. I just wish it’s more frequent though! Sometime she did play her big sister card and drove adik crazy. In fact, adik and us both!

Adik being adik. He was my only hope (before knowing that kakak participated in events) to have inherited my ahem, talent in sports. He did live up to our hopes when he brought back a medal for tele-match for primary one. Yey to adik!

So. I’m excited to read kakak’s entry for today. Heck, I’m just excited that she fancy having a secret diary.

Do you have a secret diary?

Now, now baby..

A lot of people has been sick lately, kakak included. Her temperature sky-rocketed around 6am yesterday.

Deli has applied for leave on Friday to send his dad for a check-up – so I had to take the day off and play Florence Nightingale.

Took kakak to see the doctor at 11am to avoid the morning crowd and wallah - the clinic was totally patient-fee! The visit took us less than 15 minutes.

Went and bought lunch for me and adik, who reluctantly went to school without kakak. Sending him food for lunch was the least we can do to cheer him up.

Kakak slept the whole day while I played Sally Salon on my laptop. I dare not leave her alone nor catch a wink. Adik had fits once. Since then, any one of the monsters with shooting temperature will be scrutinized. Unless you have experienced waking next to a child - rigid, staring into space, I would not expect you to understand the fear.

Kakak requested porridge so I made her some, but as soon as she finished a helping, she vomited. Poor baby.

On a different note, Arifah (formerly known as Arif – I know he hates the name but that’s exactly the point. Hahah!) was not quite himself on Wednesday. Syamdol (formerly known as Syam NB – he’s not in NB anymore) and I offered our ears literally but he was too pissed at practically everything to be spitting the details then. So we let him be – when he is ready to talk, I am sure he will look for us.

I was off on Thursday and Arifah starts his leave today. Have fun in Perhentian, bro. Forget us not and bring us souvenirs. Lots of them, okay!

Anyways, whatever it was that’s been bugging him, I hope he’s okay now. I hope the vacation will do him good.

Arifah, if you hear abang Marley’s Still Searching or the ‘Juicy2 & Weedy2’ song, don’t forget to sing along.

Alrighty then.

I am looking forward to the weekend getaway next week. It’s Tok Ayah’s birthday (Apr 19th) and we’re doing the family gathering thingy in Melaka, like we always do. Hope it’s gonna be fun. I can’t wait to see baby Kaisa whom I heard is bubbly and adorable than ever. That reminds me, I need to get her more pretty clothes and toys.

Darn. I think I need to ‘decorate the ceramic bowl’ a.k.a ‘throwing big water’. Heheh.

Here's a pict of my laptop guardian. Macho eh? Heheh.

Have a good weekend people!

A Bite on the Arse

I had a bad start today.

I burnt a hole on my pants. My favorite, not to mention expensive Marks & Spencer pants.

So because of that, I donned a very weird ensemble of attire to work today. Whatever.

When I got to the office, I had to amend a final report for my final project based on the Dutchman’s feedback. One of the feedback was purely rubbish and annoying.

Never mind that. It’s the last report – ever.

Then Syam cancelled lunch which I was really looking forward to.

My mouse refused to work. I need a mouse pad and nobody seemed to have a spare that I can borrow.

I’m being bitter.

The Busy Bee's Weekend

O.H.M.Y.G.O.D.

I need more rest days!! I could barely rest/recharge in the past weekend.

Kechik has been refusing food since Thursday and he slept almost throughout the day. We decided to take him to the vet on Friday night.

Kechik napping on kakak's bed

The vet told us that he's suffering from high temperature and that he'd like to keep him for the night to do some blood work. He suspected some infection to the blood but will know better after the tests. We reluctantly left him at the hospital while adik shed some tears when we had to bid goodbye.

We met a chow chow named Handsome. He's darn cute!

Oh no - needle!! Now how do I escape this?

All ready to be admitted.

Deli had to man Sony's booth at the Jobstreet Career Fair in Mid Valley on Saturday so the kids and I decided to tag along. We spent the whole day there - Deli at the booth and us, combing the mall.

The kids behaved themselves, surprisingly. We were there since 10am till 7pm - it was truly a record! Well that plus the countless trips to the loo. I think we made almost 10 trips to the washroom that day.

Had tea at a dessert shop but I couldn't remember the name. We had durian pancakes and it was yummylicious!!

Everyone was too tired to do anyting else when we got home. We watched AF concert and called it a night soon after.

Kechik was discharged on Sunday and has fully recovered. He's eating fine and he was his goodself again. We're happy that he's doing okay.

Went to Carrefour for the usual weekly provisions. Spent a couple of hours there and headed straigh home.

Kakak did some crystal hunting but of course, I did most of the work.

Archeologist at work

Precious findings - crystals.

Did laundry and ironed the usual stack of school uniforms before posting this entry. There, all set.

Now it's time for bed. Oh, and a massage would be just nice.. heheh..

Our Saturday

I am watching Akademi Fantasia concert. Almost all of them suck at singing. They pratically murdered the song. Brutally.

I can't believe I'm watching the concert.

Anyways.

Today's a hactic day for the whole clan. The kids had school so Deli and I took the opportunity to have a quiet breakfast.

Deli had nasi lemak

I had roti planta, for the lack of choice..

Headed straight to Low Yatt for some thingy majingy for my laptop and Deli's craving for Command & Conquer. It was still early, mind you but Deli assured me that most of the shops would be open by the time we get there (NOT!!).

We had to wait for almost an hour and a half. A period well spent in Sg Wang. Heheh. No purchases though, I was being a good girl. Plus, it was kinds wierd when almost all of the staff in Parkson greeted you with 'Good Morning'. It kinda killed my desire to shop - in peace.

Around noon, we rushed to pick up the kids from school only to find that they were nowhere to be seen. Deli made a call to the nursery but they were not there. He called the bus driver and alhamdulillah, they were safely in the vehicle.

Ah but that was a total relief. Apparently, they were already in front of the house - the empty house! Deli told the nice lady to drop them off at the nursery. Made our way to the nursery to pick them up and planned to have lunch of their choice.

Well they couldn't come to an agreement on where to go and adik decided to be difficult. After driving around for a while, we decided to head home. Adik cried and cried to pretest the decision. It's good exercise for his lungs so we let him cry a little bit more.

Later in the afternoon, we went to GE Mall for early dinner (yup, no lunch). I had to get some baby stuff for my boss's new twin girls. The kids didn't order anything at first - they finally agreed that they wanted to have MacDonald's. Too bad. MacDonald's would have to wait until we're done with the current meal. I hope they now know that they need to accept the consequences of their actions and decisions.

Ten minutes later, both of them decided to forget about MacDonald's and ordered from the menu. Good kids!

After the meal, kakak decided that she'd go for a haircut.

Tada....
The close up

She looked adorable!! Then again, she's my kid. For all I know, she's the prettiest 8 year old alive. Heheh.

On the way back home, we found adik sound asleep at the back seat with the lolly still in his mouth. Cute. Hehehe.

Oh Ika was voted out of AF this week. Good choice. She couldn't sing a tune.

Best of all, I have dressed up my laptop.

Ain't she pretty?

Alrighty.

Both kids are asleep. I had a mere 5 hours sleep last night, thanks to Arif whom I chatted with and later on left me talking to myself! Mangkuk ah.

Need sleep. Over and out.

p/s: somehow the spacing and paragraph are not working. Apologies if this entry seems unorganized.