an engagement of two hearts made in heaven

It is just like yesterday she was a little girl.. jalan-jalan jatuh.. nenex got to tatehkan dia atas rumput pagi yang masih berembun.. mulut yang sentiasa tersumbat dengan punting pacifier.. dan muka yang comot makan cheeseburger di a n w drive inn. Today she is a full-grown young lady.. beautiful.. intelligent.. berani, cekap.. and sentiasa sibuk kerja (part ni sounds like her usu).

On this christmas day, she is being wooed by her beloved prince.. how lucky for both.. and i am happy for them..

Dance like no one is watching

Sing like no one is listening

Love like you've never been hurt

Live like it's Heaven on Earth

A dream that is dreamed by two
Will always come true

aina's godsister got engaged

When aina was still tiny and until she became a toddler, she was babysitted by her godmother, Puan Norizam whom aina affectionately called 'mak' (aina calls me mama). Ayu, (Pn Norizam's only daughter)) became aina's godsister or rather her 'sister' whom both had never had. Ayu loves her, disciplined her and pampered her. So does her father, En Sulaiman (godfather) whom aina referred to as bapak (aina calls dh babah). Apart from them, aina has abang Jim and abang Nik as godbrothers. The distance between our homes is four houses apart which had made easy for aina to escape my disciplinarian routine.

Ayu is a daughter whom all mothers had hoped for. She is a good mannered, intelligent and responsible girl. On this engagement occasion, I pray that Allah will bless ayu with kindness and love.

mak's lonesome eid adha

 

Mak has 6 grandchildren. Only 1 (her eldest grandson) visited her during edul adha (apart from her youngest granddaughter who  stays with mak). Her eldest granddaughter is studying in Bristol, with her grandson-in-law and her only greatgranddaughter. Mak's 2nd granddaughter attended her bf's sister's wedding in Kulim accompanied by her 3rd granddaughter. Mak's youngest grandson is studying in Hamilton. Mak's only son is performing haj in Mecca. So does her daughter-in-law. Mak's only daughter is with her. So does her son-in-law.

Maybe next year mak will have everyone celebrating the raya with her..

rindu meamor dan lambaian kaabah di edul adha

Tahun ini tahun kedua, musim raya keempat tanpa putera tercinta di sisi. Hanya kasih sayang, doa dan skype di pagi raya yang mampu mententeramkan rindu, sebak dan pilu... Mana ada insan yang ada iman di hatinya yang tidak berasa rindu pada Kaabah...Edul Adha tahun ini sangat meruntun kerinduan pada putera dan Baitullah. Semoga Allah mengizinkan lagi percutian bersama putera tercinta dan kunjungan insan kerdil ini ke Mekah pada tahun hadapan... insya Allah..

 

attended a wedding by lake titiwangsa

I have always enjoyed attending dh's family and relatives' gatherings. Although I am an 'in-law', all the time they made me feel welcome as part of the family. I enjoyed the teasings, jokes and laughters - they are all still the same (i've been married to dh and known his big families for more than 20 years!). Doctors, engineers, businessmen, accountants, lecturers, teachers, drivers, odd-jobbers, pensioners etc etc are all behaving alike - full of humbleness and ukhwah. I very much hope meamor and his generation will follow suit.. no matter what their backgounds are and how far their distance apart..

And when its time for us to leave for home..while waiting for Aina who strolled around the lake.. I became the subject of dh's photography!

doaku mengiring...

my cuteprincess is eleven on 6 nov ..

 

 aina.. the taekwondo kid..

 

she is a rare and priceless treasure..

 

who brings special happiness..

housemaid arrived

What a relief when the housemaid finally arrived. Though it means a tight purse, but I am in dire need of :

• Nursery maid
  
• Kitchen maid
  
• Between maid
• Scullery maid 
• Lady's maid
• all the above-in-one maid 

meamor ngigau skype

Its 8.30pm malaysia and still early in Canada - 8.30am. Meamor skyped lying from his bed... "mama boleh nanti postkan perencah dan rempah. Hari itu masak ikan talapia fresh giler...." He asked me again "mama apa dia ikan jenahak in english?". I do not know and humbly replied "ntah mama tak tahu, apa dia?". Meamor said "its golden snapper. mama tak tau sebab you are not canadian!". Poyo betul budak ni... And he went to sleep again... Or he ngigau ke ape?...

I promised to dhl him his favourite famous amos, chilli sauce and some herbs and various pastes and gravies. If he ngigau i wonder if he will remember these when he awakes.

meamor skyped on his trip to webster

 

Meamor skyped at 4am malaysian time on his visit to webster falls today. He said it was marvelous and he enjoyed every bit of it. I think he deserved to be off hook with books for a while. He had just undergone a 2-week hectic schedule with assignments, projects and tests.  He has gone thinner in 2 weeks due to living on "sarapan roti, lunch roti and dinner roti tak sempat masak" kind of menu.

He asked me "mama nape waktu macam ni tak tidor lagi?". Suddenly I realized that my haywire sleeping time started with his departure to canada and it has gotten worse since I joined HEP.

a new family member arrived

(3-week old sugar sleeping on a tree)

Last thursday a new family member arrived. She is a little kitten bought from a pet shop which aina named 'chomel' (though I wanted to name her cleopatra or poppin). Aiman squealed with joy and laughter when we showed her over skype. I hope dh will recover from his 'lost' over sugar. Most of all I am happy that mak adores chomel (since she will spend most of the time with her at home when all of us go to either work or school). Hubby will teach her some games and tricks. I hope to teach her 'martial arts'!

Welcome chomel - we will make u a home which you will be happy to spend the rest of your life in it.

cute princess having a high fever

Aina is having a high fever again @ 39.9-40.0 C. This means mama will have to stay all night in the study room by her side to monitor every hour and sponge bathe her. Since her first month until 2 years old she used to cause alarm to her parents - by having fits alongside even a slight fever. The neighbours were being noted and more often than not, they took the trouble to send her to smc (then only noting us, her parents). Every time she went into fits, I went into phobia - it caused tears and pains to me - every of those times, I felt like almost losing her. Even she is almost 12  11 years of age now and responded well to prescribed dosage of fever medication, I wouldn't take any chance and continue to nurse her to ensure she is totally free from fits and its symptoms.

Here are the lyrics of a beautiful poem by Mary A. Loberg.

A Mother's Prayer

Help me dear Lord, as a mother, I pray
And bless these hands folded in prayer today;
May they be ever strong as they guide, as they teach,
Beings never too far for a child to reach.
May they never, with selfishness, try to dissuade,
Nor too quickly punish, nor too slowly aid.
May they point out the pleasures in laughter and song,
And may they show, wisely, the right from the wrong,
So that one day I'll know that I've helped all I can
To make her a woman, to make him a man.

sunday morning with me amor

a mute wife and a deaf husband

 

 

 

It had passed midnight and i am still with the laptop working on the international conference to be held at the end of this month. On dh's invitation, I gladly answered yes, grabbed my scarf and followed him heading for  dataran shah alam for a char kuey tiau, otak2 and hot plain tea. The last time we came here was like more than 1 year ago before me amor leaving for canada. While eating and watching manchester u vs sunderland (dh is a fan of chelsea while I am of man u's) on the screen, we discussed about young men in general, their behavioral and needs, likes and dislikes. My cellphone buzzed at 1.35am, my, with a message from an src - he was still awake at this wee hours? We then had a good laugh mimicking a mute wife and a deaf husband. He still can insult me 'crazy' with his sign language - but I was just not in the mood to 'pay' him for that! Initially I was just mooting up the idea of a happy marriage - that is between a mute wife and a deaf husband. But then we thought it would be very deadly boring - its the whispers, sweet talks and quarrels that add salt and pepper to a husband/wife relationship! Really?