Happy Birthday Mak

Today, 20th of August is not just an ordinary monday. Today is my mom-in-law's birthday. The day she was born in the year of 1957. This year, we are going to celebrate our 50th anniversary of our Independence Day... and this year too which is today, my mom-in-law is celebrating her 50th birthday.

After worked as a policewoman for 32 years, it's time for Zobedah Zabidi to take rest, spend more time with her family; with her husband, with her children, with us and with her the one and only granddaughter, Adrianna. Today, she will retire. It's the day!

To mak: "Semoga mak dipanjangkan umur, dimurahkan rezeki, bahagia dengan abah, anak-anak, ahli keluarga yg lain, dan dengan kawan2 mak... Mohon dilimpahi keberkatan dan rahmat Allah selalu..."

This weekend, she'll be here in KL, to be with us! We love u mak.

Adrianna Sofea

Adrianna Sofea with her ayah.

She is going to 9-month old this 18th of August and is learning to crawl. Love to see when she lifting her body up, and loading her energy to move forward. Very genuine effort.

My friend's son who is same age as Adrianna is already learning to walk! Hmm... paediatrician said "Don't compare, different child develops differently. Few factors could affect it, such as weight, genetic, etc..."

It's ok. Many children walk at the age of one year plus. It's normal. As long as she is healty, happy & active, I would not worry much! Time will come. Saborrr, nanti jalan le dia... At the moment, her ayah can carry her here and there... because my arm is not as tough as his.

Fake pau story

Friends, do u still remember the cardboard-stuffed pau story at China? Once ago, I received an email revealing about the pau made from papers or cardboard which was soaked in chemicals, and then mixed with flavours, curry and meat eventually to make it tasty. Eeeee....

...and here it is. The latest news, the story is F.A.K.E.

A television journalist at Beijing TV, Zi Beijia has been jailed for one year and fined 1,000 yuan (130 dollars) after a court found him guilty for fabricating that fake of food scandal report. He embarrassed his own country. China had been denying this and found that Zi actually had instructed a group of migrant workers to make the phony pau while he filmed them.

However, a public speculation conversed that Zi is innocent and the report was actullay genuine.

Well, what could we do as a consumer. If we confident that it is true, don't eat it. Otherwise, just enjoy its taste... but 'kalau tak ada angin, masakan pokok bergoyang' (no wind, no waving tree).

Grad @ 94 years old

This is a story about a ninty four-year-old Phyllis Turner who received her Masters degree from Chancellor John von Doussa at her graduation ceremony at the University of Adelaide on August 2, 2007. Turner, a great-great-grandmother with a "lively mind" who quit school at 12 is said to be the world's oldest person to earn a university masters degree.

I personally impressed with the determination of this old lady. I feel ashamed of myself for not being as ambitious as she is. Even though I do have that intention, but it seems like the dream is still flying around, searching for it's ultimate destination... Wish to hold masters too someday!

Chocoholic squirrel

Surprise! Everyday, a squirrel will 'take' chocolates from a shop.

HELSINKI (Reuters) - A Finnish squirrel with a sweet tooth heads to a Finnish grocery shop at least twice a day to steal "Kinder Surprise" chocolate-shelled eggs.

"I named it the Kinder-squirrel, after the treats. It always goes after them, other sweets do not seem to interest it as much," the manager of the store in Jyvaskyla, central Finland, told Reuters.

The confectionary, which is intended for children, has a toy inside. "It removes the foil carefully, eats the chocolate and leaves the store with the toy," Irene Lindroos said.

To scare off bloggers

Recently, we were shocked by a police report (by a Muhammad Muhd Taib) pertaining to a fake story revealed by a blogger, RPT. Who is RPT? Raja Petra Kamaruddin, an owner of Malaysia-today. Starting with the issue of " A comedy of errors ", he claimed that our Majlis Raja2 had made a decision to kick our PM due to his inconsistency in developing Malaysia. Well, I have no comment about that, but more than seeking legal redress, what Muhd Taib did was like hoping to scare off bloggers.

By doing this indirectly had declared blogs in the internet as a major influence medium to public. It's quite obvious that web blog is one of public source of reference. In fact, they have put their believe to these blogs higher than to our local newspapers. It's strange but that the truth. My favourite writer, A Kadir Jasin believe that what Muhd Taib is trying to do is actually encouraging RPT to reveal more of his secrecy... Well, just wait and see. I sometimes found that this kind of political issue is quite interesting.

For me, as long as what u wrote is legally right, what should we scared off? I realised that most of my contents are just blending with my own life (syok sendiri kot... hehe...). No matter what happen, I would still standing here. Go bloggers go! Go Ainul Azlinda A.B!

My everything

What do we treasure in life? Happiness... with our love one... and His Mercy. That's it. That's what I'm dreaming of. Being a mother is the greatest thing that ever happen to me. It's infinite, never ever chargeable. It is unchangeable! (Hmm... Special dedication to all of my single friends, come on... get married and have children... sure u will feel the same way too... hehe... )

Allah said:

"...your Lord, who created you from a single person (Adam), and from him (Adam) He created his wife (Hawa), and from them both He scattered many men and women and fear Allah through whom you demand your mutual rights reverence and the wombs (kinship)..."

(Surah An-Nisaa':1)

Allah created everything out of love, therefore He loves what He has created. I believe, a woman’s greatest wish is to become a mother, because that is how He made us. A woman will pray for her children. A woman has such a yearning in her heart for motherhood that this becomes the first thing that she prays for. She will only have one wish despite anything else, and that is the wish to become a good mother. Hope I'll be a good mother (and a good wife too lah...).

*(^_^)* I'm referring here.

8 months old

Today my super duper chubby little princess, Adrianna Sofea is 8-month old. Look at the picture... and we can see her two bottom front teeth...

New walker

drianna, posing with her new walker... Hopefully she can walk soon!

How excited she was when we showed her this. She can't stop playing with the steering (will play music if it is pushed) and keeps pulling other toys at her right and left sides deliriously.
One thing that I realised is, she likes to move her body to the left & right; just like dancing... funny!

Heartbroken guy

A beautiful story, nice to share with everyone (a bit long but worth reading)
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There was once this guy who is very much in love with his girl. This romantic guy folded 1,000 pieces of paper cranes as a gift to his girl. Although, at that time he was just a small fry in his company, his future didn't seem too bright, they were very happy together. Until one day, his girl told him she was going to Paris and will never come back. She also told him that she cannot visualize any future for the both of them, so they went their own ways there and then...

Heartbroken, the guy agreed. But when he regained his confidence, he worked hard day and night, slogging his body and mind just to make something out of himself. Finally with all the hard work and the help of friends, this guy had set up his own company.

You never fail until you stop trying. One rainy day, while this guy was driving, he saw an elderly couple sharing an umbrella in the rain walking to some destination. Even with the umbrella, they were still drenched. It didn't take him long to realize they were his girl's parents.

With a heart in getting back at them, he drove slowly beside the couple, wanting them to spot him in his luxury sedan. He wanted them to know that he wasn't the same any more; he had his own company, car, condo, etc. He made it!

What he saw next confused him, the couple was walking towards a cemetery, and so he got out of his car and followed... and he saw his girl, a photograph of her smiling sweetly as ever at him from her tombstone and he saw his paper cranes right beside her...

Her parents saw him. He asked them why this had happened. They explained, she did not leave for France at all. She was ill with cancer. She had believed that he will make it someday, but she did not want to be his obstacle... therefore she had chosen to leave him.

Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have. She had wanted her parents to put his paper cranes beside her because if the day comes when fate brings him to her again, he can take some of those back with him.

Once you have loved, you will always love. For what's in your mind may escape but what's in your heart will remain forever. The guy just wept...The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside her knowing you can't have her, see her or be with her ever again... hope you understand. Find time to realize that there is one person who means so much to you, for you might wake up one morning losing that person who you thought meant nothing to you.
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* Thanx to Abdul Razak Abdul Malek/DagangNet for this sweet story

Durian oh durian

Petang semalam dengan jayanya, sahabatku miss wardah telah meninggalkan 2 biji buah durian di gate depan rumahku (imported from Kuala Dipang). Wow, Alhamdulillah rezeki besarlah untuk 'HANTU DURIAN' macam aku. Tima kasih daun keladi wardah. Lain kali boleh la bagi lagi.

Sejak kecil lagi, tiap kali musim durian, akulah orang yang paling tak duduk diam sebab aku mesti bising2 kat mak ayah aku minta tolong belikan durian banyak2 (pokok kat rumah berbuah sikit sangat). BELI BANYAK-BANYAK!

Bangun pagi, aku makan durian. Tengahari durian, malam durian. Sebelum makan nasi, makan durian dulu, lepas makan nasi pun makan durian jugak. Begitulah gambaran betapa sedapnya durian pada lidah aku. Tiap kali musim durian, mak ayah aku mesti beli berguni2 durian. Beratus-ratus RM dilaburkan. Especially bila time adik beradik aku yang lain balik kampung.

Masa aku pregnant dulu, wan & kak ija siap warning2 lagi, "Jangan makan durian banyak sangat. Takut harm kat baby!"

Di sini ada sedikit info pasal durian yang aku cedok dari sebuah website.

Durian adalah buah tropikal yang berasal dari Asia Tenggara. Warna buah berbeza dari hijau ke perang, dan mempunyai bentuk bujur sehingga bundar. Ciri-ciri durian adalah ......

Ramai orang menganggap durian sebagai buah yang sedap, ia dipanggil "raja buah" oleh penduduk tempatan. Sebahagian orang barat yang tidak tahan dengan baunya telah menggambarkan buah durian dengan gambaran seperti "makan kastard dalam tandas awam". Terdapat juga gambaran bau durian sebagai bau lori sampah yang baru sahaja melanggar skunk......

Bukalah website ni. http://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokok_Durian. Explainationnya pasal durian boleh buat korang guling2. Kelakar!

Adrianna

Sedar tak sedar, kejap je Adrianna dah 7 bulan setengah. Makin banyak akal!

It has been 2 weeks she didn't meet her mak (babysitter). This morning, her mak greeted her when we arrived...and she was sooo elated. Missing her mak maybe! and excitedly waving her right hand to us...wah...wah...wah...

These pics have been taken last night (03 July 2007). Just before her opah & atuk were going back to Manjung (have been here since last Saturday).