Tuesday, May 05, 2009

tagged by ateen

p/s: finally.  posted this up on 18 may 2009. 10:15pm.

i need to answer questions posted by maklongnya bedah.. banyak tuuuuu.... 
(ni pun dah berhariminggu tertangguh..)

1) Were you named after anyone? 
Nope. but actually i was named after a car. tapi tak tau la kalau mak aku saje2 je reka cerita. susah2 sgt korang tanya la sendiri. *still in denial*

hmmm.. menurut cerita mak aku, masa aku lahir tu, parents aku ada beli kereta Mazda. mak aku berkenan pulak kat nama kereta tu 'mazda'. mak aku tambah nama 'lin' kat tengah2, dan buang huruf M sbb nak bagi rhyme dgn nama bapak aku, Azlan. kreatif giler kan?


2) When was the last time you cried? 
semalam (last monday few weeks actually), while visting a colleague who lost her premature baby (32 weeks old). we all thought the baby'll survived after one week in ICU, tapi Allah lebih menyayanginya.

3) Do you like your handwriting? 
kadang-kadang aku rasa buruk giler (bila tulis malas2). but sometime i really admire my handwriting, comel pulak. heh heh.

4) What is your favourite lunch meal? 
simple nasi dgn satu lauk, satu sayur, sepotong buah-buahan & air suam.

5) Do you have kids? 
3 ketul.

6) If you were another person, would you like to be friends with you? 
mestilah, aku mmg best.

7) Do you use sarcasm? 
kadang-kadang. 

8) Do you still have your tonsils? 
ada.

9) Would you bungee jump? 
tak mungkin.

10) What is your favourite cereal? 
honey star & choco pops.

11) Do you untie your shoes when you take them off? 
aku prefer zap-on. atau kasut sarung.

12) What is your favourite ice–cream? 
vanilla with cookie bits.

13) What is the first thing you notice about people? 
gigi. 

14) Red or pink? 
maroon.

15) What is the least favourite thing about yourself? 
gigi aku. 

16) Who do you miss the most? 
iqbal. kesian dia kena chicken pox, dan kena tinggal dgn uwan dia to recover.

17) Do you want everyone to complete this list? 
wajib bila aku dah tag korang. heh heh heh.

18) What colour of trousers and shoes are your wearing?
 now? i'm in my pj's.

19) What are you listening to right now? 
takde. tapi kat belakang aku ada bunyik berdengkur (ayu's).

20) If you were a crayon, what colour would you be? 
peach.

21) Favourite smells? 
freshly brewed coffee (w/pun aku jarang minum kopi), freshly cut grass (mengingatkan aku pada sawah bendang atuk aku), bau ikan goreng yg garing & panas2.

22) The last person you talked to on the phone? 
my MIL, this afternoon, asking abt iqbal's condition. 

23) Do you like the person who sent you this? 
sapa? ateen? dulu aku kawan biasa2 je dgn dia. sekarang aku suka dia sbb dia ada blog yg buat aku sengeh.

24) Favourite sports to watch? 
takde.

25) Hair colour? 
Black.

26) Eye colour? 
Dark brown

27) Do you wear contacts? 
Yup. But not to work. pedih la mata kena aircond.

28) Favourite food? 
rojak. 

28) Scary or happy endings? 
Happy endings, of course.

29) Last movie you watched? 
wayang ka? X-Men Origin: Wolverine. 

30) What colour of shirt are you wearing? 
Gray. 

31) Summer or winter? 
aku suka hari mendung, hujan pun renyai2 je kan. nyamann je rasa.

32) Favourite dessert? 
all.

33) Most likely to respond? 
Has. saje bagi dia some works to do in her freetime :)

34) Least likely to respond? 
Edi. dia agak busy dgn cupcakes nya, entah bila aku dpt merasa cupcake dia.

35) What books are you reading? 
am currently study the 17025 standard for a short course on lab mgmt. *big yawn*

36) What is on your mousepad? 
mouse?

37) What did you watch last night? 
the biggest loser.

38) Rolling Stones? Beattles? 
aku tak reti band2 omputih ni. aku layan rock kapak aje. heh heh.

39) Where is the furthest you have been from home? 
John O'Groats. The northern tip of Scotland. hajat hati nak pegi kutub utara, tapi tak sampai pulak.

40) Do you have a special talent? 
kadang aku suka cuba resepi baru, kadang aku suka menjahit.

41) Where were you born? 
JB

42) Whose answers are you looking forward to getting back? 
Has & Edi. :) sila buat.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

futsal

iqbal main futsal utk tadika dia. dekat sebulan jugaklah dia berlatih, termasuk pagi sabtu & ahad. tu pun beberapa kali ponteng latihan sbb malas bangun pagi. dah le tu, ada friendly match pun taknak pegi. sesuka ati dia jek. 

berlatih futsal dgn cikgu tadika merangkap jurulatih yg sgt penyabar. boleh dia kontrol bebudak umur 5-6thn ramai-ramai nih. ada ke tengah berlatih, boleh pulak 2-3org merayap main gelongsor kat playground sebelah. aku tengok pun pening.

inilah hari yg ditunggu2. perlawanan futsal peringkat puchong. aku gelak sampai sakit perut sbb kelakar tengok bebudak ni beramai2 kejar bola satu padang. diorang ikut je mana bola tu pegi. gigih sungguh!

the result? team iqbal hanya dapat hadiah saguhati. tapi, friendly match yg dia malas nak pegi tu kan, tadika dia jadik johan pulak. adakah.....???


[nametag]

aku peningla, sepatutnya nama kat bawah, lencana kat atas, ke? atau lencana kat bawah, nama kat atas? atau mmg boleh sesuka ati nak letak mana2?


[kacang buncis]

wah! pokok kacang buncis ni mmg betul2 cepat membesar! baru sekarang aku percaya cerita 'jack and the beanstalks' tu. tak sampai sebulan dah keluar hasil (satu je, bukan banyak pun. hehehhehe). owh, kacang buncis yg satu itu telah kupetik, dan kuhiris nipis, campur dalam nasi goreng. sedap je anak2 aku makan.


[lipat kain baju]

anak dara ku sorang ni tetiba nak tolong lipat baju. aku puji2lah dia pandai lipat baju, dgn eksennyer dia menjawab, 'memanglah!'

hamboiiiii!


[doa panjang doa pendek]

Iqbal salin doa ni daripada buku dia. pls ignore huruf2 yg terbalik2 tu. dia kidal. and he's trying hard.

yg ni? doa pendek sebab dah penat salin doa panjang tadi. iqbal tergelak bila dia baca balik apa yg dia tulis ni. heh heh. tau pun salah.


[kepompong]

refer kat post aku pasal 'edible garden'. ulat beluncas tu dah jadik kepompong. tapi aku tak sempat tengok menatang apa yg keluar daripada kepompong ni. aku balik keje je, kepompong tu dah lompong. too bad :(


[building a city]

iqbal ni, kalau leka bermain, sampai berjam-jam pun sanggup. tu belum lagi dia susun kereta dan lori segala sepanjang tepi dinding. tapi yg aku perasan, dia mmg suka improvise, he can turn simple things into great wonders. campak aje lah ape kat dia, benang kecik, butang, kotak, serpihan kertas, straw, roda yg tercabut.. semua boleh buat dia leka. 

mmg beza dgn abang iman. iman loves games with rules & skills. main bola, bowling, carrom, boardgames, badminton.. 

dua beradik yg perangai bagai langit dan bumi.

and don't make me start with ayu.

*heh heh.*

Thursday, April 23, 2009

mengapa??

Jangankan gunung Fujiyama, 
puncak Himalaya ku ikut kamu,
Jangankan ke Kamboja
ke Etiopia ku ikut kamu
Kalau benar kamu cinta aku
Ke kutub utara aku ikut kamu..
hate you sinarFM! apesal setiap petang je ko mainkan lagu ni? tak pasal2 lagu ni pulak terngiang2 kat telinga aku sekarang. arrrgggghhhhhhhh.....

Thursday, April 16, 2009

tagged by suhana

the link is here suhanazainal
aku mmg susah nak ingat tarikh, kira ni agak2 je la...

1. When was your engagement?
hmmm... bila yek? akhir tahun 2000 kalau tak silap.

2. When is your marriage anniversary?
18 May 2001 (ni confirm sbb aku baru je check kad nikah aku. heh heh)

3. How long have you known your spouse?
Lama jugak la, sejak zaman iTTM lagi, back in 1995.

4. How long did you date before you got engaged?
3 thn kot?? mcm ni ceritanya, walaupun dah kenal lama, tapi kenal sbg classmate je. last semester in 1997 barulah gatal nak berendut. hihihi.. tapi lepas tu terpisah... dating kat chat room aje la... 

== additional question and answer:
how long did you date before you got married?
4 thn la lebih kurang...

5. Where did you meet your spouse?
masa zaman iTTM, satu kelas.

6. What is your spouse’s full name?
Hazril Ibrahim

7. Do you have any children?
yup.

8. How many?
3 (Iman, Iqbal, Ayu).

9. Do you have any pets?
takde. kecuali ulat beluncas yg singgah makan daun pokok limau hari tu. 

10. Do you own or rent?
own.

11. Do you live in the country, city/town?
town.

12. What is your favorite activity you do together?
tengok wayang, belek buku kat kedai buku, makan-makan.

13. Do you have a favorite vacation spot?
takde. suka pergi tempat lain-lain.

14. How many siblings do you have including in-laws?
aku dua beradik je, husband enam beradik.

15. What mosque do you attend?
takde.

16. Is this the mosque you got marrried in?
tak. 

17. What town is your current address?
puchong

18. Do you work or stay home?
Work. 

19. Where did you go for your honeymoon?
KK. takde la honeymoon sgt, husband kena o/station kat situ, aku menempel la sekali. save budget gitu... heh heh.

20. Leave a piece of marriage advice and tagged ur friends.
tutup sebelah mata je la, lagipun aku pun tak se'perfect' mana.... :)

tag kawan2 lain... (aku agak busybody. hehehhe)
- has
- yan
- ira
- muadz
- wan

Tuesday, April 07, 2009

i go

So long, fare thee well

The dancer and the dancing days have taken leave and fell
So turn down this bed of stone
Quench me with the deadly nightshade from the rose that you belong

The long December rain is falling now
Running down on streets to nowhere
Music is my life – you’re my sweetest nightingale
But I can’t hear it here no more
And I go
I go

Hush now, don’t shake or break
Words have fallen silent like soldiers to the grave
No matter what they do or say
Lay me on the sleepy meadow by the tracks upon your face

- Words & Music By Pete Teo. All rights reserved 2008


lirik lagu ni simple sangat, tapi bila dinyanyikan oleh Aizat dgn suara lembut dan seperti berbisik, diiringi pula oleh petikan gitar dan erhu, mmg meruntun hati. a simple song that sounds big. go hear this song. go watch Tale'n'Time.

**uploader :: deennasour. credit to http://deennasour.terbaek.com


[terima kasih]
ayu cakap, 'sedaplah omi masak ni. terima kasih, omi..'. aku terkesima beberapa saat, hanya mampu berbunyik, 'hmmmm..??' sambil memandang tepat ke mukanya. ayu hanya tersenyum dan terus makan.

i love you too, ayu. *mmmuah!*


[gemuk]
ayu tengah semangat makan. kadang2 lebih daripada abang2nya. aku saja la usik, 'kalau ayu makan nasi banyak sangat, nanti ayu gemuk mcm paksu.' Tiba2, ayu terus nangis, jenuh aku pujuk. last2 dia cakap sambil meneran2 suara konon sedih beno, 'ayu taknak gemuk macam paksu! ayu nak gemuk macam omi!'

owh! aku sungguh terharu. *huhuhu*


[botak]
bila abah gunting rambut style botak, kecoh la Iman, Iqbal, dan terutamanya Ayu, panggil 'abah botak'. Kadang-kadang ayu panggil, 'abah botak... ooo... abah botak' - dia buat mcm abah tu kawan2 dia aje. Tapi yg buat aku terkejut bila satu petang tu, aku tgh bercakap kat telefon, dgn selambernya ayu tanya aku, 'Omi telefon 'botak' ke???'.

lawan tokey betul. kena sekeh baru tau.

Friday, March 27, 2009

apesal aku baru tau?

Why Toddlers Don't Do What They're Told

Are you listening to me? Didn't I just tell you to get your coat? Helloooo! It's cold out there...

So goes many a conversation between parent and toddler. It seems everything you tell them either falls on deaf ears or goes in one ear and out the other. But that's not how it works.

Toddlers listen, they just store the information for later use, a new study finds.

"I went into this study expecting a completely different set of findings," said psychology professor Yuko Munakata at the University of Colorado at Boulder. "There is a lot of work in the field of cognitive development that focuses on how kids are basically little versions of adults trying to do the same things adults do, but they're just not as good at it yet. What we show here is they are doing something completely different."

Munakata and colleagues used a computer game and a setup that measures the diameter of the pupil of the eye to determine the mental effort of the child to study the cognitive abilities of 3-and-a-half-year-olds and 8-year-olds.

The game involved teaching children simple rules about two cartoon characters - Blue from Blue's Clues and SpongeBob SquarePants - and their preferences for different objects. The children were told that Blue likes watermelon, so they were to press the happy face on the computer screen only when they saw Blue followed by a watermelon. When SpongeBob appeared, they were to press the sad face on the screen.

"The older kids found this sequence easy, because they can anticipate the answer before the object appears," said doctoral student Christopher Chatham, who participated in the study. "But preschoolers fail to anticipate in this way. Instead, they slow down and exert mental effort after being presented with the watermelon, as if they're thinking back to the character they had seen only after the fact."

The pupil measurements showed that 3-year-olds neither plan for the future nor live completely in the present. Instead, they call up the past as they need it.

"For example, let's say it's cold outside and you tell your 3-year-old to go get his jacket out of his bedroom and get ready to go outside," Chatham explained. "You might expect the child to plan for the future, think 'OK it's cold outside so the jacket will keep me warm.' But what we suggest is that this isn't what goes on in a 3-year-old's brain. Rather, they run outside, discover that it is cold, and then retrieve the memory of where their jacket is, and then they go get it."

The findings are detailed this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Munakata figures the results might help with real situations.

"If you just repeat something again and again that requires your young child to prepare for something in advance, that is not likely to be effective," Munakata said. "What would be more effective would be to somehow try to trigger this reactive function. So don't do something that requires them to plan ahead in their mind, but rather try to highlight the conflict that they are going to face. Perhaps you could say something like 'I know you don't want to take your coat now, but when you're standing in the yard shivering later, remember that you can get your coat from your bedroom."

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oooo.... baru le aku tau apesal bila aku cakap kat anak2 aku diorang buat muka blur jek. penat je aku explain dan bagi reasons sampai keluar semua fakta tentang biology, calculus, fizik, keseimbangan termal, astronomy segala. aduiyaiii.... *aku mmg seorang mak yg over*

Saturday, March 21, 2009

edible garden

aku ada tanam beberapa pokok dalam pasu. aku susun kat koridor. konon2 nak buat edible garden. beberapa hari lepas, aku jumpa dua ekor ulat beluncas yg gemuk tgh makan daun pokok limau aku. dah hampir togel pokok tu kena lahap. hari ni satu dah jadik kepompong, sekor lagi tak dijumpai.

hmmm.. tak sempat aku nak beri nama kat ulat beluncas tu. baru ingat nak jadikan pets.

but somehow, it proves that my edible garden is really EDIBLE. :)

ulat beluncas yg gemok tgh makan daun pokok limau kasturi. sedap betul agaknya.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

lagu tadika

aku gelak je dengar ayu nyanyi lagu2 yg dia belajar kat tadika. mcm2 versi. kena dengar ulang banyak kali baru dapat tangkap apa lirik lagu tu.

lagu 1:
merah seventeen.. merah seventeen.. merah seventeen in a wayyy..
sunday, monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday and sunday...


*yg ni mmg aku confuse... lama baru faham. sebenarnya lirik dia ialah, 'there are seven days.. in a week..' tapi, mana saturday?


lagu 2:
one two.. pakai my shoe..
three four.. shut her down..


*kehkehkeh.... ganas... *


[happy birthday!]


happy 4th birthday my dear Ayu (12 March 2009).
omi doakan yg terbaik untuk Ayu, semoga jadik anak yg solehah.

...lots of loves & kissess...

Monday, March 02, 2009

homework

iqbal mmg liat nak buat kerja sekolah yg jenis tulis ulang2 banyak kali. dia kan suka melukis jek. jadi, punyalah susah nak suruh dia duduk siapkan homework dia. tak pasal2 aku membebel2 dan marah2 bila dia sajer tulis lambat2. sekejap2 nak minum air la, nak sharp pensel la, dah ngantuk la, nak itu la, nak ini la. sabo je la. untuk cepat siap, aku pun suruh dia tulis besar2 dan tulis selang2 dua baris. tu pun mau sejam baru siap.

tapi, minggu lepas mmg aku tensen. korang bayangkan la lagi 15min nak pkl 8pagi, di saat2 aku nak keluar rumah utk hantar dia ke tadika, baru dia kata nak buat homework! arrgghhhhhhh... arrgghhhh.... argghhh... kalau lambat ke tadika, maknanya lambat le aku pegi keje... argghhhhh....

aku pun menjerit2 la suruh dia cepat tulis. tak sampai 15 mins dah siap. dua muka surat. aik? aku terkejut gak, siapalah yg ajar dia buat homework last-minute ni? boleh pulak siap yek...?

tapi, letih la aku kalau setiap pagi nak jerit2 mcm komando bagi dia 'semangat' (pressure) nak siapkan homework kan?

we'll see.

Monday, February 23, 2009

GENG

aku tak reti review filem. tapi, aku bagi 5 bintang kat cerita GENG sebab berjaya membuat si iqbal duduk diam dalam panggung wayang sampai cerita tu habih. syabas GENG! semoga terus maju dan berjaya buat filem animasi yg lebih hebat selepas ini.

iqbal is a restless boy. kecuali kalau dia tekun melukis. jadi, aku berasa sungguh kagum bila dia langsung tak bangun sepanjang cerita GENG itu. cuma bila part GENG kena kejar dgn monster, ular dan lintah gergasi , dia bisik kat aku kata nak balik, dah malam. heh heh. lepas tu aku rasa degup jantung dia punyalah laju - dug dab dug dab. pada dia mmg dah saspen giler agaknya. heh heh.