Busy Business Kuih Raya

No updates for sooo long...

Alhamdulillah Rayyan is OK. Demam dah takde since the day he was discharged from the hospital. For the past 3 days the phlegm dah takde... puas nak suruh dia cough so I could hear if there is any phlegmy sounds... so far takde.. alhamdulillah...

Sekarang ni busy giler with our Kuih Raya business. Go to http://www.kuihraya.com.my

A new website, same old kuih raya, at least 50-60 new individual customers, a group of new agents, old agents keep on ordering, some agents not doing it for this year, but still order since their friends are pushing them to do it...

Alhamdulillah business semakin berjaya... nak kata untung semakin banyak, itu kena tunggu audit just few days before raya... hehe this year we are a bit generous with the agent comissions... so mungkin our nett profit kurang sikitlaa.. but if the sales pick up during these last week of ordering, insyaAllah the profit bertambah...

So far we have received orders up to 2,500+ bottles altogether, with an estimated 125,000 pieces of kuih raya. Banyak tu! Kalau untung 10 sen per piece dah dapat RM12,500!! Orders keep on coming in, as usual.. biasala org Malaysia ni suka order last2 minute... last date of ordering is 5th September 2009. Ni baru jer few people baru datang rumah nak ambik sample.. hehe

Nak kata ekonomi gawat... gila2 jugak orang Melayu ni belanja for Raya.. hehe

Special note to Wa/Anaz: wei... bila nak datang amik kuih raya korang? hehe dah tunggu tak datang2 pun... hehe

Rayyan, Influenza A +ve

This is the note I posted on FB.

Since quite a few of you are asking about the symptoms I saw when my son, Rayyan was diagnosed with Influenza A early Sunday morning. Here goes...

Thursday afternoon: rasa badan macam suam-suam... was on the way to send him to school.. dalam keta rasa suam2, pastu I made a turn nak balik rumah, but then tanya dia lagi if he's okay.. he said ok.. he said he did not feel sick and he wanted to go to school.. I pun patah balik nak hantar sekolah.. dah sampai depan sekolah, I rasa badan dia dah naik sikit... so balik je la...

Thursday malam: Temperature panas. Using my unreliable Omron thermometer tu his temperature was 37.7 (it could have been 38.7 now that I've known).. so I just gave him PCM (paracetamol pink syrup) 5ml.

Friday 4am: My son muntah. Twice. Then muntah lagi on the way to DSH A&E at 5am. Wanted to take RAPID TEST then, but doctor said it's just 1 demam baru. Maybe it was something he ate. At that time his temperature was 38C. And he was chesty. So we did the nebulizer. Doctor gave him 2 supps.: 1 for muntah, and another for the fever. His chest cleared after nebulizer. And an antibiotic for the wheezing.

Friday afternoon: Still having fever with temperature ranging around 38.5+C. Bought a Braun thermometer. Went to see Rayyan's paedn., Dr Azizi at DSH. Dr said there is no flu like symptoms. So not necessary then to take the RAPID TEST. He asked to wait for another day before taking the test. Kalau amik that day, it may turn out -ve, then the next day kena amik lagi... 2 kali sakit budak tu nanti.. (the nose swab procedure is VERY unpleasant! even for me... had one myself just now)..

Friday night till Saturday afternoon: Temperature ranged 38-39.3 every 5 hours. Sponged him, had him shower a few times every 6 hours, with him shivering like mad over slightly cold water.

Saturday Afternoon till night: Temperature was around 38+ every 5 hours. In between those hours, he dis his usual things.. running and jumping around.. you will never have guessed he had been having high fever for the past few days...

Sunday 3am: Heard unpleasant wheezing sound on his chest and his back. (My left ear is the official stethoscope in the Shake Residence hehe).. went straight to DSH A&E. At that time his temperature was around 37+. By the time we reached DSH 20 mins later (we were spending the night at Palace of Golden Horses... family matters), his temperature dropped to 36.8 which was about normal. This time I insisted on taking the RAPID TEST, BLOOD TEST, and whatever test there is to justify all the vomitting, high fever, weird wheezing sounds...

Luckily DSH at that time around 4am was quiet.. only 3 of us were there. We hardly waited for 10 mins before we saw the doctor. Dr took the nose swab, the blood test, and did the nebulizer again. Then waited for 1.5 hours for the results while my wife Ja and Rayhana was still in the car.

Test came out positive for Influenza A, negative for Influenza B. I saw two other test results that morning which were +ve for Influenza A as well. One of them even tested +ve for Influenza B, God knows what that is (need to check up on that).

Dr immediately admitted my son to the isolation ward. Tamiflu is prescribed, twice a day with the first dose taken at 6am that morning. Nebulizer action every 4 hours, and PCM syrup for the fever, although by that time his temperature hardly reached 37.3 C...

For more updates on what happened after that... refer here:
http://www.facebook.com/shake74?v=feed&story_fbid=121509191980

Dr Azizi said if there is no fever, it shows the body has won over the virus and Rayyan is Influenza A-free. As a precaution - 1 week home quarantine which we are doing right now. Rayyan is already fever-less for the past 36 hours... boy.. that was a LOOOONG 36 hours...

Thanks for all the prayers and wishes...
:)

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My Standard 3 Class Photo

A former classmate of mine Ms. Fairuzia Natasya Salleh recently uploaded this amazing photo of our Std 3N class of SRK Kampung Tunku, PJ on Facebook. This brings back memories BIG TIME... that was some fun class... 26 years later, thanks to FB, many of us are connected again...

That's me... sitting, front row, extreme right. I wasn't sure that was actually me until people tagged me. That's how close we were back then... orang lain lagi ingat muka kita masa dulu-dulu.. hehe.. I myself can recognize about a third of them by name so far... I have no idea how some of these people look like now.. haha

This year alone I've caught up with Hasnul, Ike, Megat, Ilyas, Ilham, and Jason. Hope to meet the rest of the guys some day...

Sitting next to me is Megat Yusmar, now a pilot with MAS. There's Jason in the back row, also a pilot, with Etihad Airways, now living with his family in Abu Dhabi. A few girls in there, like Wai Cheng and Corinne are living in Australia. Hazleen, one of the guys standing in the back row, I heard is now one of the big guys of the Citi Group in Singapore.

Aaaahhh.. 1983... those were the days... where we didn't care whether we were Malays, Chinese or Indians.. we just had fun at school. LOADS of FUN! So much fun that PONTENG was never in our dictionary. Well.. we were Std 3 then.. but when we were in Std 5, Std 6... the fun was at school, playing with friends! And we scored too!

I'm still proud of the fact that the whole 52 of us in my Std 5 class got 5A's in our Penilaian Darjah 5 exam... that was something!

Lagi-lagi Rayhana...

My camera suddenly went kaput.. tak boleh on.. tak tau pasal apa.. battery dah charge... jatuh pun tak... tetiba je sukahati dia taknak cooperate pulak... dunno what to do with it. Maybe go send to Sony place and have it fixed.

Ni gambar2 yg sempat diupload to my PC...

Rayhana Rayhana Rayhana

Rayhana is 10 mths old today!

My little Kitty Kat turns 10 months old today... so far she does the following:


1. Tepuk tangan whenever we say "pandai" or we sing "pok amai2..." and waves her arms in the air when we say "rak-rak horay!!!"

2. Point to the lights and say "pbuu!"

3. Wave her hands bye-bye...

4. Angkat tangan macam nak doa when we ask her to doa...

5. Point with one finger to her head when she hears the Super Sleuth song "Think, Think, Think!"

6. Merangkak and picks herself up to stand when she reaches any object high enough...

7. Pantang tengok muka I... asyik nak dukung... but malam-malam boleh merangkak over my body to get to her susu cap gantung every night.

8. She will say "aaaaaaawaaaa" or something to that effect whenever she hears the azan on the TV.. mata tak berkelip tengok azan..

9. Tak takut makan ubat... in fact sometimes she wants more.. :) (pelik anak2 aku ni hehe)

10. She pats he knees following Little Einsteins and waves her arms in the air like the cartoon character does...

11. She hates her walker... kalau nak letak jer, dia dah siap kangkang luas2 trying not to get into it.

12. She hates kissing my cheek. Dia geli... hehe

13. She knows what a nose is as she points to ours when we ask her to..

14. She likes handbags (hahahaha) dia suka pegang and belek2 whatever bags dia boleh capai..

15. She loves being in the bathroom. She loves taking a shower. She loves playing with water.

16. She loves playing kejar-kejar with Rayyan, running in her walker.

17. She loves watching the cheapo nursery rhyme VCD.. in fact it is one of the ways to console her
whenever she cries for whatever reason...

18. She loves books.. and papers... haha with her books she loves to flip through and point to whatever there is on the page... with papers, she just loves to tear them up to pieces..

19. She still breastfeeds 40% of the time! Much to my delight! (Rayyan was only breastfed up to 4 mths after which the breast could not supply the milk he needed..)

20. She has 2 gigi atas, and 1 gigi bawah baru nak keluar. And because gigi bawah tu dah tumbuh, you can see her ketap2 gigi dia making unpleasant sounds to my ear...

21. She is a very fast learner!

22. Dia taknak kat orang unless you are around her for quite some time...

haha.. panjang gila list... stop sini je la... nanti Rayyan jeles pulak... haha

oh yeah forgot pulak...

23. She is VERY jealous kalau Rayyan nak bermanja dgn anyone of us... daripada jauh she would crawl towards us, making noise macam nak suruh Rayyan move away...

Happy 10 mths, Rayhana!

:)