30.9.10

Drama Hari Raya

Hoo boy! Drama, drama, drama! That’s what this year’s raya is all about! Pembuka cerita yang over dan berbaur gossip, dan sememangnya benar!

Mula-mula sekali adalah baju raya. Pickups were made in Selayang (jauh tu!) and Hillpark (not as far, tapi kena park jauh tu!) and a drop off was made at Ujie’s place. Di Selayang harus menunggu hampir 2 jam untuk baju Zufri siap, dan pickup di buat di Hillpark kerana kedai di Pudu lambat bukak. Tapi at least baju aku kelihatan cantik (me thinks).

Kasihan si Anies yang berumah di Hillpark. Sudahlah hari Ahad masa ambil baju aku, baju dia belum siap! Bahawasanya baju Anies disangkanya akan diambil di bulan Oktober. What the hell? Raya Deepavalikah sangkanya? Katanya siap hari Isnin. Call call kata belum siap. Kemudian tangguh Selasa. Call call kata belum siap. Akhirnya Anies frust meminta Encik tunang ambilkan Rabu pagi (rabu nak balik kampung dah ni).

Pakai pakai katanya tak cantik. Aku rasa begitu bersalahm but not as guilty as Kak Peachy because it was her recommendation. Kuikuikui. Agak musykil kerana my baju was nice, Kak Peachy’s was nice as well. So maybe Anies punya wasn’t so nice because it was a rushed job. Dia sangat frust dan hendak mengambil semula baju nikah (!) dari Wendy dan meminta Eusopth membuatkan (tapi sangat mahal!).

OK itu satu drama.

Drama kedua berlaku pada malam raya, tapi hal keluarga so tak boleh cerita damn it.

Drama ketiga berlaku pada pagi raya pertama. Jeng jeng jeng. We never know why, even after the most detailed preparation and meticulous planning, pagi raya will always be a blur of chaos. Dari mak mak nak mandikan babies, nak siapkan meja untuk makan besar, ke mak mak nak siapkan daddies, mak mak nak siapkan mommies, nak bergambaran gembirun, children screaming, makeup cair pasal berpeluh dan harus touch up. Waduh. Walaupun malam sebelum tu kami dah cuci pinggan, lap. Si Pipi siap nak lay the table the night before, supaya esoknya Cuma senduk kuah aje. Pergh. Pipi was efficient this year by the way. Kikiki.

Oh itu bukan dramanya. Itu cuma cerita biasa di pagi raya. Kami ke Singapura menaiki 2 kereta. Papa, auntie Rani & Pipi in one car, the rest of us in the other car. Kak Yen sefamili for course (bukan typo, deliberate.) tak ikut pasal dia pantang dan baby had no passport.

Adalah super jam, it took us about what an hour kot to get to CIQ (Johor side). Papa dah kelam kabut bising-bising pasal kan hari Jumaat, nak semayang Jumaat. Sampai sampai turn Zufri punya passport di cek, the officer kata Encik Zufri, you ada kes ke? Waduh waduh. Semua orang agak kaget. Kes? Kes apakah? Zufri sangkakan kes saman trafik tak berbayar. Officer bertanya ada buat loan kah? Then it dawned on us. Loan PTPTN kah rupanya. Chehhhhhh.

Officer tu berkeras tak bagi Zufri lepas. Undang-undang lah, dah dalam system lah, bla bla bla. Zufri pergi office immigration, dia Tanya berapa orang nak balik? Satu kereta kah satu orang? Sebagai isteri mithali, aku baliklah dengan suami. Dok pikiaq la time tu, Emma dengan tidurnya, aku dengan high heels lagi, Zufri bersampin songkok segala, and walk the walk of shame. Chewah. So dia pi balik office nak mintak passport, rupa-rupanya aku dan Emma harus ikut sama. Zufri kata alamak anak saya tidur la encik. Encik itu yang sedang makan lemang dan rending terus berasa kasihan dan selepas berbincang-bincang dia kata tak apalah encik, pergilah ke singapura. If anyone asks, say that the system’s jammed up here. Hahaha. Thank you kind sir. Semoga panjang umur dan dimurahkan rezeki. (Turns out there’s a shuttle bus to send us walk of shamers maybe to the bus station).

Maka itulah dia drama hari raya tahun ini.

Tahun ini the cooking was done early. Biasanya mencecah midnite, ketupat tak kering lagi. This year aku dan Pipi handled all the cooking. Rendang, lodeh (ini Pipi masak sorang), ayam masak merah (ini mak masak sorang ya), sambal udang, butter prawn for the kids dan ketupat pulut kegemaran kami sekeluarga. Adalah bahawasanya rendang itu dimasak di atas dapur arang yang sudah ancient dan mujurlah rendang dah siap pabila dindingnya runtuh. Mujur juga tiada anak-anak kecil di sekeliling ketika insiden itu.

Duit raya Emma tahun ni sedikit kurengs dari last year. Orang Singapura sekarang memberi kami wang Ringgit instead of Singapore Dollars darn it. Tak dapat Emma belanja kami ke Universal Studios.

Macam siot je tak cerita pengalaman raya kat SP plak. Takde benda nak cerita la, dia macam hari-hari biasa je pasal semua orang macam konsentrasi pada wedding sepupu Zufri instead of berhari raya. Emma pulak recovering from demam. Tengah-tengah malam bangun nak air la, nak susu botol la. Ada satu hari tu tengah malam ni susu habis dah ni, malas nak pegi 7E in the middle of the night. Aku kata kat Emma susu botol dah habislah, meh susu mummy. Cis. Di rejectnya aku! Nak susu botol nak susu botol. Oh sadisnya. Zufri pun turun bancuh whatever susu he could find. Turns out adalah susu Everyday. Emma pun minum dengan lahapnya dan tertidur dengan lena. Shukran.

Dan hari ni masuk kerja last monday dengan perasaan relaxed and well rested. I was actually looking forward to coming to work. Woot!

Sorry post tiada gambar. Update di office.

8.9.10

Ucapan Hari Raya

Kak Yen has just given birth to (yet another) baby boy! Yippie! She's a week overdue, and was supposed to be induced today. Mujurlah tak perlu di-induce. Can't wait to go back to JB to see the baby! Yeah, dia balik JB bersalin. How cool is that, huh?

Dan hari ni nak balik JB as soon as Zufri's done with the car. Hopefully sempat sampai before buka. Must make a stop at the clinic to get an MC. Kikiki.

Jadi, sebagai akhir kata, saya sekeluarga ingin mengucapkan sebanyak-banyak terima kasih dan selamat hari raya aidil fitri, maaf zahir dan batin, semoga diterima semua amalan kepada semua pembaca blog ini secara khususnya, dan kepada semua umat Islam di seluruh dunia in general. Have a blessed and blissful raya!

See you!

21.8.10

Puasa - Day 11

Hahaha just came back from buka puasa with friends at Alif's. What a long night! Delicious food, delightful company, well behaved child(ren). Ahh.. I wish all buka puasa sessions are like this. Alhamdulillah. Anies and Mar couldn't make it. Anies ada sesi berbuka puasa bersama bakal mertua. Mar's kid Iskandar has hand foot mouth disease. Hope he gets well soon!

Tomorrow is another day out for us, this time with my sisters hosted by Kak Peachy. Next week it shall be at our place pulak. Yay!

I need to get massaged tomorrow.

10.8.10

I don't blame myself, so whoever blames me can just go to hell

Who's got time to read? Because I've got time to write. Lots of time, so expect a long (and long winded) post.

So. When we went for a scan at my 8th week, the doctor couldn't detect any heartbeat, and the baby measured up to be only 6 weeks old. Then I started spotting, Little at first, then a bit more on Saturday (at Dayang's house warming). I was a bit concerned by then, and when we went see the doctor again that night, I was referred to a specialist. I suppose from the moment the second line appeared on the UPT, I was a bit apprehensive. Firstly because I had been training for the run since months before, and I ran the morning the test came out positive. Secondly was because we had actually put on hold our plans to get pregnant.

Anyway, on Monday we went to Putrajaya Hospital and true enough, the baby was gone. I had come to terms with my loss by then. I didn't think running was to blame. But having said that, if I were to know I was pregnant before I ran, I probably wouldn't have. The doctor didn't know what caused the miscarriage, but said that sometimes the baby just wasn't strong enough to develop. We accepted that explanation. I was sent home and an appointment was set 2 weeks later for a D&C.

Then early Friday morning (the same week), I awoke at 3.30 a.m to a bed wet with my blood. I had worn a pad that night and so I was surprised to see so much blood coming out. Like I said, I consider myself lucky. If I didn't already know I had miscarried, I probably would have screamed my head off or became really traumatized. The blood was lumpy (? I meant beeketul-ketul), it even looked like pardon me hati lembu. It was that huge, that piece of lumpy blood. About 10cm x 5cm x say 3cm thick. That's the biggest piece. There were several smaller pieces. I got so light headed I couldn't stand up. But Alhamdulillah, I didn't suffer from any cramps. In short, it was painless. The blood just flowed out. I just took a glance at the mess on the toilet floor and went to lie down in front.

I couldn't look at what I had passed, because I was scared at what I might find. It was just so heart breaking.

We waited until morning to go to the hospital, after we dropped Emma off at Opah's.

Had the D&C done at 4.30 pm, and I was warded for one night. The D stands for dilation, which means enlarging. Curettage (the C) means scraping. Together, this procedure involves expanding or enlarging the entrance of a woman's uterus so that a thin, sharp instrument can scrape or suction away the lining of the uterus and take tissue samples. I apparently had an incomplete miscarriage whereby 'expulsion of some, but not all, of the products of conception before the twentieth week of pregnancy. With incomplete miscarriage, the bleeding is heavier, and abdominal pain is almost always present. The mouth of the womb is open, and the pregnancy is being expelled. Ultrasound would show some material still remaining in the womb.'

I don't blame myself, so whoever blames me can just go to hell.

It was generally painless because of the general anesthesia given. Post op was also relatively OK for me, didn't experience any stomach cramps or back pain. I did however end up with a swollen lower right lip and ulcers and a swollen (I think) lelangit.

Jadi, saya sedang berpantang di rumah dan berehat kerana mendapat 8 hari cuti sakit sehingga Jumaat ini.

Another story to tell is about Zufri's experience taking care of Emma for one whole day. I was worried he couldn't cope or that Emma wouldn't sleep. But Alhamdulillah, she did ask for me for the first few hours she came home. But after that she seemed fine, according to Zufri. They were lying down watching the telly when Emma said she was hungry and wanted rice. So at 9.30pm, they went to Aladdin. Diaper change wasn't a struggle or a contest with Zufri. With me I always had to entertain her and trick her and all that. With her father, she went willingly. Sleep time was also pleasant. See. Boleh aje dia tido tanpa menyusu. I should really clean her room up soon so she can learn to sleep on her own.

And tonight is already Ramadhan. Sayangnya tak dapat ke masjid 1st night of Ramadhan. InsyaAllah there'll be many more days this holy month.

Selamat berpuasa kepada semua.

10.7.10

Naruto

I'm waiting for my cookies to bake. At 2:34 am!

Dulu amek gambar ok je posing macam ni, walaupun sedikit over.
Sepatutnya posing ala Naruto complete dengan kekuda.

Sikit-sikit, dia jadi lagi over.
Tak nampak macam Naruto sangat.
(Abaikan background tu tau. Haha)

Kemudian semakin over.
Lengkap dengan mata kenyit dan kepala senget.
Pose masih seperti pembuka silat.

Last sekali jadi gila over OK.
Nampak macam rabbit jek?

Going to watch a Sesame Street Musical in September. Time bulan puasa, OK. Dah beli tiket, together with Syahirah. Emma baby, consider this your second birthday present eh? Hehe. This year no party for you lah. This year we celebrate just with family, kay?