The ones most excited....

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...And since these two little girls are always there...they'r also the ones who can't wait for the arriving of the little baby their mama is carrying around....only few weeks left...errr...the agony of waiting ....what more.....the baby, cd be familiar with the yelling voices of the girls...as it wd do many kinds of somersault inside there whenever the girls calling after....the suspense is killing...As for me..I've long forgotten the labour pain...( Ni lah hikmahNya....kalu semua orang ingat sakit...tak bertambah jumlah umat..he..he...of coz..I miss my Late mum!..)

Maisarah : "Mama, bila baby boleh keluar ma?"

Mama : " Insya'Allah, When Allah makes it happen , when everything is ready and of course when the baby is matured enough.."...

Maryam : " Matured enough tu ..bila jantung dia dah kuat ya mama..."..

Mama : Maisarah dan Maryam mestilah rajin solat dan doa untuk dia , ok!...



And time after time...they wd play doctor and patient with one assisting the other to deliver...
( amazingly..how good they are in immitating!!)..hahaha..when I asked Maisarah...nak jadi doktor kah?.....tak mau lah..Sarah saje je ni...Sarah nak jadi tukang masak.....dan lukis fesyen baju...Iyam pun...

I guess I just let them be...

Little did they know..that life with a little baby is going to be lot different..and of course mama wouldn't be this extra nice to entertain them....and as to quote Kak Long.....hehe!!..Mama wd be grumpy at times.....oopss.....post natal blues!!!

We r yet to make a visit to the baby shop for last minute shopping..those essentials...and of course the ayah is still comtemplating on the spring cleaning of the house..oh yes...and ayah is aiming to transfer the task to kak Long and Kak Ngah...hahah!when they's back for the school holidays...about a month from now..and by that time...I am hoping and praying the balloon will pop !...ie..just like my all other angles... out by 37 weeks...insya'Allah...

Cheers to everybody....

Kan syawal sebulan???

And Maisarah recently askd me...

Maisarah : Mama, kan raya sebulan ..kenapa sekolah tak cuti dan ayah kerja tak cuti lama..?

See..even the little girl has been enjoying the holidays..the jemputan rumah terbuka...makan-makan..etc..

Apparently...little kids...

Dan kalu semua orang bercuti sebulan raya.....bayangkan apa akan terjadi to the whole system....

Even parents bercuti kirana nak bagi moral support untuk anak2 yang nak ambik periksa...pun ade yang bagi remark yang tak puas hati.......and there's this one person who had commented in the news...if within an organisation many parents take leave for their children..what wd happen to the productivity...bottom line....etc

Entah le...so subjective..I bet this same type pf person wd give same kind of comments when people take leave during begnining of the year to accompany small kids entering std 1 or form 1..or boarding school or university..well...

Ape nak buat...

Rambut sama hitam..
Hati lain-lain

Lain ulu lain parang
Lain dulu lain sekarang...

Tata!!.

Raya..sebelum dan selepas...

Selamat Hari Raya dari Kami semua........( oopss.dgn ehsan gambar dari hp ayah...!!)


Me..with all the girls...including..maksu chun

And who wdn't want to be 'touched up'..girls are girls.....Maisarah, Munirah, Masturah and Maryam
p/s:...tapi kenapa semua senyum 'kambing' je ek!!...

****************************Sunday 28 Sept:-************************

About 9am...to my lateparents' house in gombak...with everybody in the car still sleepy or groggy after sahur...just to accompany Maksu..with her housekeeping project....thought I wd be helping her..but bila dah sampai..lemah longlai...jadi mandur sesungguhnya..yang membanting tulang hanyalah Maksu dan bibik express..sesekali Munirah mencelah....mas, sarah and iyam..tolongkejap..pas tu tidor..entah ape yang letih...and our parents' house look so clean...shining armour..except for a few spot..yang aku rase..kalu panggil bibik mana-manapun pasti dah tak de tenaga menyental dari 1030pagi samapi 530ptg....and later off Munirah tagged with Maksu to berbuka puasa..( munirah ni pun pantang org nak belanja...hehe)...and ayah and us..flocked back to Rawang....tapau Mcd...(macam tak tertelan rasenya sebab kids aje yang enjoy fast food.....tapi syukur)..and Munirah overnight umah tokwan..kunun nak study....

*******************************Monday 29 Sept:-********************

Early in the morning ..had pastured ayah to drive me around..cari daging segala..since he didn't like NSK..so ..kemana-mana ajelah ayah oi...Kundang? Batu Arang?..and sampai terbabas ke Paya Jaras Sg Buloh....Just to get ingredients for sambal goreng and ayam masak merah.....reached home about 11am..with Iyam..every 10mins before that has pleaded to buka posa..tak tahan le...sakit tekak lah..well not so bad for first timer...20 days and Maisarah only missed 4 days...Suka hatilah Iyam...go help yourself with the fresh milk..bukan nak makan sangat pun...Then I had to drag myself clean up all the daging and udang..etc..get everything rebus...and pampered myself with a good one hour nap!!..
Woke up..and start packing for the raya as we are going to stay over my late parents' house...uisssh...berbeg-beg..macam nak pi overseas..lak...between that had asked mas to isi balang kuih raya...( both for maksu..and for our house...)...and remind Mas not to forget to prepare daun pandan untuk kubur tok wan dan nenek..kemas rumah ala kadar..mood raya weh!!..place on the coffee table..and ayah had fixed the timer for lampu lip lap...aduhai...penat...nasib baik berbuka oleh ehsan ayah..tapau pasar ramadhan...tarawikh cuti...and dozed off awal...only to bangun around 5am...apelagi..nasi goreng was the simplest ever menu for sahur..Received a call from Ch'mok...far away from Libya....Selamat Hari Raya Ch' mok!!

**********************************Tuesday 30 Sept:-*******************

With all the necessary kitchen utensils..(assuming maksu might not have this and that including rempah ratus segala..almaklum..orang duduk bujang...), waduh penuhnya gerabak kereta...around 7.00am...as eager as ever..we started our journey back to gombak...Had smsed Maksu to wake up Munirah to get ready to ziarah kubur our late parents as soon as we reached Gombak...
Event which had been a monthly affair now became a once a year routine....

To pusara arwah mak first at keramat and then to ayah's at Tmn Selaseh Gombak..because Keramat area wd be jammed around its pasar due to people flogging to buy raya stuff..
Reminiscing back almost 11 years ago..same time same date...My late mum was buried at Keramat Muslim cemetry...about 2 days before syawal...the emotions then was hard to express...even to cook raya dishes required extra lot extra energy from our part..while late ayah was cool as ever...reciting Alquran...
and almost 6 years ago..we celebrated hari raya with late ayah at HKL...a week after that..ayah left us behind..with no one by his side..alone he had suffered....I guess if any of us were present..a trauma thru the rest of our life as the doctor related how they tried hard to assist to my late dad during his last breath...

While everybody was eager to balik kmapung to gather with their family...me and my siblings have accepted the fact...we only have us for raya gathering...

Alfatihah...and alhamdulillah we finished both visits around 11 am...and as it getting hot...I kept pleading to my hubby to have the car aircond fixed ( since the last repair..I think the mechanic didn't do the job properly...now we know there's a leackage...well another unexpected expenses..)..dropped by the nearest pasar pagi because stuffs like sayur mayur for masak lodeh lom beli lagi...
Around 12..reached Gombak..and everybody was already tired...and my hubby left us for the nearest car centre...so maksu and me...leisurely ourself with a short nap...wah..jap lagi nak masuk dapur nih!!..bercinta tol!!
Amazingly after zhr..maksu was like superwoman...with Munirah as a great assistance....Me?...u cd guess la....physically hindered..voice to be heard only when Maksu asked..what else to put inside the rendang, sambal goreng and masak merah...and ayam rendang...( wah! bayknya nak masak Maksu..ramai nak dtg kah??)..
....prior to that lauk berbuka sudah pun siap....ooooo...how nice to have somabody else to pamper urself with their cooking..blessed!!!
Had wanted to anyam ketupat..tapi tak pandai..so beli aje daun ketupat yang dah siap di anyam...isi beras biasa campur beras wangi..haha!!.sebab beras biasa dah habis stok.( i'm sure this ketupat takan tahan lama sebab mana ade orang campur beras wangi...lantakle labu..asalkan ade ketupat atas meja di pagi raya!!

Like the adv fr the tv...Maisarah asked :" Mama, kenapa kita kena raya kat sini..kan tok wan dan nenek dah tak de?"..

And Maryam was also puzzled...

But I told...sesekali kita temankan Maksu beraya kat sini..we cd have always prepare eth at Rawang...but I guess just for that sentimental feeling...and Munirah and Masturah never stopped relating how they have missed raya with Tok Wan..and This year since my mother in law will be staying with my hubby's brother nearby...so..here we are....syok sendiri..masak-masak dan kemas-kemas...

Later that night, Pak Long Kudin datang...before his journey to Sitiawan....hehehe...me dapat duit raya fr my big brother..terharu tak???and Mak su had missed it..sorry Maksu...tu lah ...ade je nak keluar mlm raya...nak kasi lauk kat 'kawan' segala..


****************************Wednesday 1st Oct..************************

Allahu akbar...Allahu akbar...Allahu Akba..Walillah Ilham......Ist syawal...

Preparing the table for the syawal morning has always be my routine..and it continues until now..so I told my kids...to wake up early for the ceremony..and sheepishly told Maksu...once u are married its going to be part of your routine too!!!..because I remebered my mum used to tell me...make sure eth is ready on the table and let ur hubby eat and drink first before his solat hari raya...wahhIsteri Mithali gitu!!..( walupun...braxton hicks kerap menyerang these few days...!!!)

With ayah return from his solat hari raya...we are all in our baju kurung raya and my girls siap di 'touch up' by their Maksu...we gathered for salam bersalaman..maaf bermaafan.....wah! syahdu....ade dosa yang harus diampunkan?..ade tangisan?....ade duit raya???



Then..we eat and eat....went to visit my mother in law at Uncle Harun ( My hubby's brother)..and to Keramat to visit my aunts...( late ayah's sisters...)..reached Gombak back at 3pm..and everybody dozed off...full of raya dishes...

So that's this year ............................Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri.................

Munirah had went back to JB...no more at Puduraya but at Bukit Jalil.....Take care my Bambino!!

All pictures are in the process......shall be posted here once ready...yang ade hanyalah ehsan dari hp ayah..yang tak berapa terang..tetapi sekadar mewarnai...posting ini...yang selalu kering kontang...no pics...etc..

Salam to everybody...now still in mood raya..back to normal routine..and to my kids...bulk up your belt.pull up your stockings....final year exam is around the corner......

Alhamdulillah..and to my hubby..thx so much for being so sport...for your understanding....budget lari sket kah????Jgn serik ye Yang....kesianlah kat I ni...yatim piatu....

This weekend..shall be sending Mas to her school lak....and another pre natal check up....

Have a nice weekend everybody...