Mari Kita Berpantang

Come children, gather around. Let me tell you a story.

I was on sick leave Friday afternoon. Then again whole day Monday. Monday morning started well enough. While I was entertaining Emma while watching Jim Jam & Sunny (saluran ceria ya. Rumah aku tiada Disney Playhouse) I suddenly sneezed. Kesejukan. Bersin itu telah mengakibatkan belakang aku yang memang sudah sakit menjadi lebih sakit, bagaikan sakit bersalin. But then again I was on epidural so what do I know about pain, ey? Hehe.

So I waited for the pain to subside. 730 menginjak ke 800, menginjak ke 830 sehinggalah 930 barulah aku menelefon office kesayanganku. Ah! Ruginya! Miss Tang meeting! Biarlah, bukan rezeki aku untuk duduk bersenang lenang di office. Hehe. Zufri bawa aku ke Klinik Siva selepas kami menghantar Emma ke rumah Opah. Sorry Darling, kasihan Emma menangis nangis ditinggalkan Zufri. Huh, bila aku yang hantar takde pun nak nangis nangis. Double standard betullah Emma ni.

Bukan aku tak pernah jumpa doctor regarding sakit belakang aku ni. Tapi biasa aku jumpa doctor panel office aje lah. Biasalah, ada angkat barang berat? Nope. Ada exercise? Hehe nope. Tidur cukup? Oh, cukup. MC mau? Hehe nak! Tu yang aku suka doctor ni. Doktor Siva jauh berbeza. Emma dari dalam perut dah pergi jumpa Dr.Siva ni. Ramai ok dalam klinik dia hari tu. No wonder he drives a 6 series. Dia pun mengurut, merasa dan menanyakan soalan-soalan yang aku kira bernas dan relevan. Kesimpulan yang diberi adalah angin. Cis. OK berikut adalah poin-poin yang diutarakan olehnya :-

1) Jangan minum air ais. Sila minum air panas ya, bukan suam. Panas. A tough one since my breakfast consists of iced Milo & nasi goring every day. Jangan minum ais masa pantang ya! Wakaka nanti jadi macam saya.
2) Jangan mandi lewat malam. Now not so much a problem. When the weather turns warm, we review this point.
3) Jangan hala kipas / air cond direct pada diri anda. Which is also hard because I can’t sleep when my legs are warm. The rest of my body I can take. My legs I can’t. But as a compromise I’ve taken to sleeping with long pants in lieu of the shorts I normally wear.
4) Malam sebelum tidur minum air panas direndam dengan kayu manis dan bunga lawang.
5) Jangan makan makanan yang naturally cooling, like tempe, watermelon, kangkung.

Basically, live my life as if I’m still in my confinement. Oh, man! Tapi ini hanya hipotesis Dr.Siva saja OK. Tak semestinya tepat. Anyway like he said, we eliminate the simplest possibility first, which is angin lah. Remember that painkillers are only to manage your pain, if you don’t change your lifestyle nothing will change.

Dah 4 hari aku berubah. Makcik Selera Kampung pun pelik tengok aku order barli panas. Cheh. Takpe, takpe. Memang salah aku. Zufri pulak beria ikut cakap Dr.Siva tu. Lepas Maghrib aku dilarang mandi dah. Malam kalau aku selak selimut dia mesti sibuk nak selimutkan balik. Alhamdulillh lah.

Cloth Diapers

On Monday I received a parcel at work. I already know what it was, but still I was super excited. I love surprises and parcels and gifts and letters. Sigh. I even opened Papa's anniversary gift (towels, hah!) from Pak Cik Haron. Tak tahan lah tengok hadiah berbalut. So anyway, it was Emma's 2nd and 3rd cloth diapers, hehe. Lunatots that I bought from mom's little ones. The first was Wahmies I bought from ezmotherhood. Sekali pandang lihat macam Lunatots tu agak tebal dan fluffy berbanding Wahmies, but upon closer inspection, I find Wahmies a bit softer. Ni Emma baru nak cuba Lunatots kuning (macam Dayang punya, hehe), besok baru boleh komen keberkesanannya OK. But so far Wahmies never disappoints.

Early this morning, Emma had a slight temperature, but come morning time her temp was somewhat normal so I sent her to Opah's. Then after work she got really cranky and clingy. Rupa-rupanya gigi kedua dia baru tumbuh. Chet. Didn't check her tooth because the time she cut her first tooth she was all fine. Second tooth ni je over sikit. Haiyah. Mujurlah I don't have to take leave tomorrow. Tinggal 4 hari saja lagi OK.

So anyway, here are some backdated pictures meant for my previous post.Emma nak duduk dalam boot kereta lah Mummy sampai JB!
Haha car seat pun kat bonet. Hampeh sungguh.Emma enjoying herself on a trip to Istana GardenEmma diapit jejaka jejaka machoHah itulah ibu tiriku, Auntie Rani. Berbeza, kan dengan Mummy aku? Itu Kak Peachy at 32 weeks. Dengan rambut salun. Itu aku.
Itu Emma yang mengantuk at Papa's anniversary dinner. Atau adakah Bapak Emma yang mengantuk?Dan finally, Emma yang demam memakai Kool Fever dan cloth diaper barunya sambil berlengging menghisap jari menonton Anak Wayang. Zufri layan cerita itu OK. Sejurus selepas Erra Gu Gu Ga Ga. Itu aku yang layan.

Dan itu kaki aku yang gigantic. Argh besok Ms Tg (bos kecil ku) masuk office lah! Dah 3 hari dia cuti (since Friday). Ternyata hidupku lebih aman. Darn!

p/s: Tadi kami pergi tengok gudang. Tepi Federal Highway ok. Langkah kedua sedang dicaturkan. Yeah! (Ala-ala Junior dalam My Wife And Kids. Layan tak semalam?)

JB Post, Sans Pictures.

Papa had a 1st anniversary bash in JB this previous weekend. All us girls and boys came back for the celebration. Rasa macam hari raya pun ada. Sangat meriah dan bising. Kira tak lah ralat sangat tak sambut hari raya pertama kat JB & Singapore tahun ni.

Sangat lama aku tak balik JB. Zufri tak sabar nak balik JB pasal dia kata dia teruja nak tidur sepanjang hari dalam air-cond, which he did. Siot je kan balik ye ye tapi tido. Pagi tu kitorang pegi breakfast dulu di restoran nasi padang kegemaran seisi keluarga, yang seberang Kotaraya tu. Tak tau le nama dia apa. Tapi memang kitorang makan kat sana sejak zaman kulit hitam berambut gonjeng lagi, hehehe. Then besoknya pegi lagi, this time for lunch. Zufri kan siap pejam-pejam mata menikmati lauk urat dia. Makan sambil senyum. Gila mamat ni.

Setiap kali aku balik JB, mesti tak kesampaian niat aku nak bawak Zufri dan Emma pegi Istana Garden, tempat aku jogging (cuba) menguruskan badan suatu ketika dahulu. Which brings me to the fact that this is yet another year of me failing to run in the KL Marathon. Darn! Sejak mengandung mana ada lari-lari dah. Baru start balik beberapa bulan lepas. 4 kilometer pancit dah OK. Harus pace myself. Oh so anywaysssss, akhirnya aku pegi jugak membawa Zufri, Emma, Kak Yen, Adam, Rizzqin dan Pipi. Kak Peachy pergi Holiday Plaza set rambut (like she somehow always does when she's in JB. Strange.)

Bestlah duduk melepak atas rumput, atas bukit menghadap laut. Sambil berlari menghirup udara segar.

Hahaha. Cerita aku tak best lah minggu ni. More interesting to me then to you. Aku poyo je lebih.

So anyway the dinner was a blast. Everyone seemed to be having fun. Do you know that I have an uncle called Om Din Din? Everyone else calls him Pak Long. Kuikuikui. I wonder who made us call him that.

Argh sangat lama tunggu gambar upload. Bila nak share gambar mak tiri aku ni? Wakakaka.
Laterlah OK.

Amareican Idol sudah tamat

OK, first things first, here's the photograph of an excited Emma on her first ferry ride. Lihat, sangat teruja, bukan? Hehe.

Second of all, I think it sucks that Adam Lambert lost to Kris Allen. Simply because I personally think that Adam is a more versatile artist, and that America definitely needs a different kind of Idol. Not different as in gay, which I think Adam is. But different as in genre and voice quality. Hahaha. With that being said, aku rasa sebenarnya both singers didn't deliver during the finals. Both could have done better. And the song co-written by Kara? Awful, awful, awful.

Yang hebatnya, aku selalu diskas pasal AI dengan Ujie, Shikin, Zufri dan Papa. Everyone else rooted for Kris. Ujie dan Shikin siap bagi aku kata-kata semangat lagi masa Adam kalah. Hahaha. Thank you, people.

Third of all, Pipi had been busying herself the last week sewing Emma her very first baju kurung. Hehehe. Fits Emma to a T. Thanks Auntie Pips. Not quite bad for a first try. And finally, Zufri and I are busying ourselves with a little project that would certainly change our lives forever. So here's a picture of Emma project hunting today. Baru je lepas bangun. Masih sempat tersenyum comel. Rambut agak serabut.


P/S: Somedays I hate my job, somedays I love it to bits. Hehe. Last Friday was definitely one of my love days. Harap-harap by September our pet project takes off so aku boleh berhenti kerja sia-sia menjadi QS ni forever. Hehe. Insya Allah.

Bicara Tanpa Gambaran

Look at what came in the mail today!

Yay! Emma's (hopefully) very first cloth diaper! Aku sangat teruja kerana ia sangat mengujakan. Nak cerita panjang pun tak boleh, pasal aku, or more precisely Emma tak cuba lagi. Baru cuci, mungkin esok boleh dirasmikan sewaktu tidur. Dayang (the one who gotme hooked, btw) kata "lagi kering dari Mami Poko!". Hahaha. Hmm, mungkin kejap lagi boleh surf the net dan cari even more great cloth diaper bargains. Oh speaking about bargains, look what I bought last weekend.

Hehehe. Apa banyak sangat pengumpul tahi dan kencing daa. Tapi at RM90 for three (normal price would be RM132), who could resist? Two whole months' supply of pampers.

Oh, almost forgot to share this picture of Emma on her first ferry ride. Dia taklah excited sangat macam aku nak naik ferry ni. Hmm. Maybe she just doesn't share mummy's over excitement for just about anything.

On another note, the weather's been really hot lately, kan? Almost wish that we have an aircond. Two showers are insufficient nowadays.

p/s : gambr sume tak nak keluar ah. laterlah aku upload.