Masak-masak

Today Rayhana "helped" Ja cook kacang panjang masak lemak dengan udang :)

A couple of days ago I just bought Rayhana 2 sets of peralatan main masak-masak kat Mid Valley.... didn't know all those plastic food could cost more than the actual food itself!!

The whole set pinggan/cawan/teko/fork/knife/spoon was RM55.00 and one whole set of plastic food/plastic canned food/paper milk & juice cartons was RM40.00... nak dekat seratus!

But it was fun.. so now, sambil I buat kerja, she and Rayyan would send me plates of "food" complete with the cuttleries.. ada mushroom, fish, tomato ketchup bottle pun ada.. croissants, pretzels, etc...

Felishia's Wedding Photos...

Life As We Know It

Tadi at 12.10pm was the first time in 7 years that me & Ja watched a movie just the two of us. The movie - "Life As We Know It"... cool movie... great movie to watch especially for those yang dah ada anak-anak, and also those yang belum ada anak and selalu tolong jagakan anak-anak orang... hehehe

Anyways, I purchased the GSC 1-utama tickets online 2 days ago. Yesterday pulak bawak Rayyan & Rayhana gi jumpa Dr Azizi... Rayyan got his 6yo jab, while Rayhana got her ubat cacing coz twi days before that me & Ja pulled out one tiny squiggly creature out of her butt... haha! Rayyan, tetiba pagi tadi demam.. temperature 39C. Probably because of the jab. He's ok now. Besok dia nak gi sekolah...

Me & Ja went to the movies around 11.45am, sampai just nice around 12.15pm, by 12.30pm the movie starts, 2.30pm habis, gi Cold Storage kat OU new wing tu, bought some stuff and then terus balik rumah... tak biasa tinggalkan bebudak kat rumah whenever we're not working.

But go watch the movie!

Kids' updates...

Rayyan's Genius Aulad's convocation is coming up, and so is Rayhana's nursery's sports day... 2 interesting events coming our way in a few weeks before and after Raya Haji. We're going back to Kota Bharu this Raya Haji. As usual, tak sanggup nak drive balik Kelantan during Raya breaks...

Muka Rayyan bercalar-calar dicakar Rayhana.. hehe.. and mamat tu bagusla pulak tak kacau adik dia balik... most of the time senyap je.. continue main dgn adik dia.. paling teruk pun nangis.. and that is when he's moody... longing for attention :)

I bought Rayhana German's own "Die Spiegelburg" small backpack at Frankfurt Airport duty free shop for 15 euros (surprisingly, it's made in Germany.. hehe.. I thought everything now dah gi China or some 3rd world country.. haha), and since then she and the backpack have been inseparable... she loves it so much.


Even insisted to bring it along to school every day, so saja je Ja letak 1 diaper, in there.. coz Rayhana already has the big backpack for her nursery filled with all her diapers, baju, susu, etc..

I am thinking of sending Rayyan to Kumon during the school holidays.. just to brush up his Math, instead of playing/watching tv 24/7 at home. There's one Kumon center in my office building so probably it's good that I send him there while I'm at work. I wish I can spend more time tutoring him, but it seems impossible at the moment. Sayang betul... the time I have with him now, better spent on just having fun/ playing with him rather than focusing on academic materials.. hehe

Rayhana is still as cheeky as ever... bila dah dapat mulut, bersuara non-stop, kalau tak cakap dengan orang, dia cakap sorang2.. nyanyilah, kira 1-10 sorang2, alif ba ta sorang2, mumbling ntah apa-apa... it's fun to watch her playing by herself.. hehe tapi bila ada orang (other than those yang ada kat rumah) dia senyap... kalau tak, mak nenek betul...

Apa ada pada Dr...

It's 3am and I still can't sleep.. actually slept petang tadi and only woke up around 10pm or so.. and not only that... the kids are also up.. watching Charlie & the Chocolate Factory... I dug up the old DVD and Rayyan and Rayhana love it and have been watching it over and over again for a few days now... Ja? seperti biasa... tido.. she's working tomorrow..

Several heated discussions are going on among my MRSM friends on FB and I feel it's worth mentioning here so bolehla lain kali kita suruh tailor kita ukur kain cukup-cukup untuk badan kita, jangan terlebih, jangan terkurang... and make sure we know our own measurements :)

It started of with a friend's honest posting of Hitler's quote something about he didn't kill all the Jews. He left some alive so other people will know who they actually are so we can find the answer to see why he killed them.

A few of us posted some light remarks on the quote when suddenly this friend of ours, who is now a specialist doctor based in Ireland, whom we knew as one of those typical rich PJ partygoer brat (basically tak alim la.. hehe), commented, lashing out at all of us with all this preaching about the true teachings of Islam, saying it's wrong to kill Jews as not all of them are Zionists, etc... just like orang yang tak pernah buat dosa...

Okay he made a point. But somehow the point was overshadowed by the way he made his point. He belittled everyone there, especially a couple of our own friends, saying words and phrases like "low mentality", "verbal diarrhea coming from a 10 year old child mentality", labelling our friend as a "scumbag with epic low mentality" and how he can't imagine us being friends with this "low life scumbag", "you don't challenge me because you never win, and even if you do, I can make you feel so low that you wish you never even born", etc...

We've had similar problem with this Dr before on FB. Preaching in similar manner on different topics... it seems nothing is positive coming out of him, suggesting what a sad life he pretty much had since we last seen each other 20 years ago. Some even joked that becoming a doctor was too much for his brain to handle that he just snapped! Putus segala wayar2 dalam otak.. lol!

The person whom that particular Dr attacked in his comments was his classmate, together with me masa kat MRSM, and at that time, that Dr. takdela terror mana pun. Nak banding dengan me and that friend he was hurting tu.. kitorang berdua ni jauh "terror" daripada dia... it's just that he goes to become a doctor, and we both chose engineering.

Which comes to an interesting argument on the level of intelligence that the doctors we have in our country. Are they living up to the trust that we have on them to save our lives?

I had an interesting discussion with another MRSM friend who is an Associate Proffessor in Chemistry at UPM few months ago. She was one of those high flyers masa kat MRSM, together with my friend yang kena kutuk kat FB tu and ehem ehem.. to a lesser extent me.. haha. When we looked back at the doctors that we have now, it's funny that many of them are not that terror masa studies. We have about 20 or 30 medical doctors probably more that came out from our MRSM alone and most of them were not that excellent in their studies.. not straight A's, not even straight B's, in fact. But since diorang ni from MRSM, mungkinla standard tinggi sikit.. but then again, we questioned at how easy it was for these people to become doctors now, specialists even.

I kata kat my professor friend tu, biarla diorang tu, probably they've changed, and kalau nak banding dgn kita ni, at least they learned more on this doctor/medical stuff than us, so it makes them more trustworthy when it comes to medical stuff.. but my friend and me concluded that pasal tu la banyak doctor yang bagi prescription salah.. haha we can do better if we ourselves do some internet research and check our findings with experienced specialists... which I always do with the doctors I've been in contact with since I have my own family to take care of.

(jap... nak kena buat susu for Rayhana.. apa nak jadi anak2 aku ni dah nak pukul 4 pagi tak tido2 ni... hehe)

Ok now, coming back to that "arrogant" specialist friend of ours, it's sad that he has regarded himself as a superior human being, taking pride on being able to heal and save people's lives and kutuk sekutuk-kutuknya, merendah-rendah orang-orang lain yang bukan doctor (termasukla member aku yang jadi Senior Systems Engineer, now about to work with IBM in Melbourne)... that made all of us look like pariahs in his caste system. Not the slightest sense of humility came out of him at all... no jokes, no fun, just "verbal diarrhea" of condemnation... :)

sedih... kalau macamnila cara seorang doktor pakar "terpelajar" beragama Islam menyebarkan dakwah, macamanala orang lain pandang kat kita ni "orang-orang Islam bawahan".... na'uzubillah...