permohonan ke sekolah

today, Dr Sunshine went to S3 to submit AD's school application. Menurutnya, the school is so much better than the one in bsp. i asked why? dia kata sebab the school feels different, padang dia cantik and well kept, and most importantly, ada tennis court.

sigh.

i knew it.

the tennis court made the school looks great to Dr Sunshine.

i hope AD will be able to fulfil his Papa's wish to have tennis players in the family (we have had this conversation since we were 20 and bila we got all boys, makin excited la dr sunshine). dr sunshine is planning to get a tennis coach for AD once we've settled down in bsp.

anyway, back to the school, the school admin tanye why apply to tht school n not bsp. we ols kata sbb dekat dgn my office. hih hih.

i really hope AD gets in! kalu tak...hmmm....have to merayu la nampaknya.

rumahku syurgaku

inilah hasil kerja Dr Sunshine sepanjang ai duduk sini. Semua barang-barang ni dia beli, survey dan etc. The kitchen tu, dia yang pasang the wall cabinet and the stainless steel fittings. i love you lah babe. you memang terrer bab-bab cari offer. :) cannot wait to go home!!

our 'built in' wardrobe which i absolutely LOVE

view of dining room and kitchen from the living room (with AA)

view of kitchen from the pantry

AD and AA hanging out in their room

living room furniture and dining room furniture belum di hantar.

curtain sudah dipasang satu rumah.

water heater dah pasang at the boys room and ours ada problem dgn copper piping so waiting for the plumber to rectify the matter.

air cond bought for boys' room and our room.

pintu kitchen cabinet,we opted for nyatoh wood which will be put up soon (got it for rm900)

pantry -- design still pending.

lampu and kipas dah pasang at all points except for depan pintu rumah and living area upstairs.

if ada duit lebih, still need to get console table, furniture for living room like coffee table, and i realy nak pasang that sliding door thingy to seperate the shower area in the master bedroom. InshaAllah. Sikit-sikit, lama-lama jadi bukit. :)

first solo trip ke tempat asing

esok will be my first time travelling ke tempat asing with Mr Falafel. I am quite nervous sebab tempat tu, main language is not german or english. Anyhoo, sebab risau, I decided to ask for hotel ppl to pick me up (beza 3 euro je pon dgn ambik taxi kat airport).

i have no exact plans yet tp ingat nk jalan2 jugak n try makanan. which reminds me, i should salin alamat kedai makan ittew.

oklah...nk buat research sikit.

ketentuan Illahi

Hari ni I dapat berita sedih. My SIL who is pregnant 34 weeks lost her baby. I am not sure if it was stillborn or meninggal selepas dilahirkan, but it is still sad.

I always read yang baby or anak kita yang meninggal akan tunggu kita kat pintu syurga. Betul ke ek?

I experienced a misscarriage once, when I was about 5 weeks pregnant. Until today, I cannot help but wonder if he/she will be waiting for me kat pintu syurga.

Al-Fatihah.

whoah

Alhamdullillah.

As you may have read, I suddenly decided to apply for extension. I feel like I need the time to prepare for viva because to me, selagi belum dapat grade for my thesis and belum viva, phd belum dalam genggaman. Honestly, I feel so takut!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, bermula yesterday, I frantically emailed my sv and he said that he will only be back in wien mid April!!! argh..terus saya tensi okeh sebab cemana nak dapat surat sokongan kan? Then, dengan muka tak malu (yes...saya rasa saya sangat menyusahkan sv dan juga dah rsa malu gila dengan dia sebab selalu request dia tulis macam2 surat okeh!) minta dia tulis surat ittew dan email to me to which he immediatly buat. Syukur sangat.

Cuma yang ralat, I tak de progress report. But, in his letter, he has in a way stated my progress so I hope that it will be ok.

SInce this is very last minute, what I am going to do is to email the unitlatihan everything in pdf and pastu baru post. This is just to ensure that they know of my intentions and documents ada in hand lebih cepat. I hope urusan ini akan dipermudahkan. I applied for a 6 months extension dengan harapan, if tak bagi 6 bulan, 3 bulan pon, inshaAllah memadai.

Aside from that, I finished writing my paper for the conference. So, esok, lepas uruskan pasal my extension documents, I nak edit paper tu pula. Lepas tu, nak kena prepare the text for presentation, followed by the slides. Kali ni ingat nak guna prezi sebab haritu, my classmate guna and it looked so canggih and nice!!!!

After this weekend, I need to concentrate on my book chapter and 1 more paper for a journal, inshaAllah.

Oh...selain itu, I juga kena beli tiket dan rancang percutian ke Salzburg, and if everything goes well kat Tirana (read: i'm able to handle baby sorang2 on vacation), i might plan a trip to Amsterdam, to visit Kuekenhof. :) I guess Venice will have to wait masa I datang for viva or graduation (altho for my graduation, i dah berangan nak pergi Spain..heheheheh).

Itu saja laporan dari saya.

p.s: i think something is wrong with me. Now, bukan saja rasa lebam. Dapat sakit kepala pulaaakkkkkkkkkk......tapi, Alhamdullilah, bila makan ponstan, hilang.

patutkah?

patutkan extend cuti belajar?
ye...saya akan just apply for extension. If dapat, syukur Alhamdullilah. if tak,kena start kerja.

patutkah saya try tukar sekolah AD?
ye...saya dah pon ammend the permohonan. Now we are applying to a new school. I tell you, ni baru apply sekolah rendah. Nanti sekolah menengah cemana la agaknya. And i don't even want to think about university!!!! harap2 by that time, i will have the strings to pull, if necessary. hikhikhik.

patutkah risau sebab tak start pon lagi tulis paper and prepare presentation?
ye. tapi perasaan malas tu membuak-buak!! teruk sangat kan? I shall start esok, promise. err..tapi esok nak keluar beli diaper. ok..after that. harus!!!

patutkah risau nak pi foreign place dgn baby?
ermm...ye jugak kot. tapi everything happens at Allah's will. So apa-apa pon, berserah ajelah. I booked a pretty fancy and nice hotel. hih hih. Am sooooooooooooooo excited. So, if tak pi pusing2 the city, lepak2 dalam hotel pon ok kot?

neway, i totally forgot about my bookings at the kindermuseum today! ruginya rasa. dah petang baru ingat. sigh.

esok plan to pi beli diaper and go buy groceries.

p.s: i don't know why, but my tummy hurts. rasa lebam macam lepas c-sect dulu. :( at times like this, i wish dr sunshine ada.

patutkah?

daftar sekolah, again!

hmm....

I think I have mentioned numerous times of my intention to send AD to an Islamic School. Tapi impian ittew musnah uols!

It started when Dr SUnshine did his fieldwork at an Islamic School in Gombak and he saw how 'daif' the school was. The tables and chairs, the smelly toilet, the condition of the classes and how the school seem to be lacking in sports facilities. SO, terus dia rasa risau nak hantar anak dia dekat sekolah macam tu. Granted, the one we want to send to is in BAngi, tapi tetaplah kan, dah tengok kat tempat lain macam tu, terus ada this image yang dijadikan stereotype tu all other schools Islamic ni. Lagilah bila Dr Sunshine ni atlit kan. Maka, salah satu requirement yang dia nak ialah sekolah tu ada padang yang best dan juga kalau boleh ada kelab tennis.

So, dia pon menyuarakan pendapat nak hantar AD ke SK sahaja. Oh..ok. that, we daftar already. But nooooo....Dr Sunshine nak masukkan anakanda dia kat SK yang bertaraf cemerlang uols. Yes...konsep only the best for your child kan.

And now, he asks me if I can pull any strings to help get my son placed in a good school. Oh Em Gee. Mana ai nak cari strings ittew??

I am now panicked!!! Firstly, nak find out, how do I change AD's school application dari BSP to S3. Pastu, problem adalah sekolah ittew technically is not near my house but near my office. hmmm...pening pening.

Hmm...so nak buat cemana nih? First, nak email PPD tanya what I should do. Next, start looking for 'strings'. heh heh.

mari kita freak out!

oh nooooooooooooooooooo.....................

suddenly, i realise yang walaupun dah pack 18 kotak of things, i may still have some things which I should have also pack in those boxes. Oh well..menyesal tak de guna, kan?

neway, i have been slacking off since i submitted my thesis. Sekarang tengah mode malas-malas tapi suddenly ter-realise...OMG. I only have about 9 days left before my trip and paper mahupon presentation text and powerpoint satu habuk pon tak buat lagi!!!! *panik* and, i must do my homework on the city like how to get to my hotel, places to visit, things to buy. haih..tu pon tak buat lagi!!!

di samping itu, i juga kena prepare paper for the conference in Japan dan a video for it as well, since I opted for a virtual presentation. *panik lagi sekali* tapi matila..conference fees pon tak bayar lagi. haih. tadi pergi bank tapi LUPA!!! tsk.

lepastukan, i rasa macam nak pergi to one more eu city before i leave. should i go to amsterdam (dan tgk garden kat kuekenhof yang buka sebulan dalam setahun ittew) or pi venice? i am torn between those two lah. I am also planning to go to Salzburg, maybe during the Easter break.

oklah...nak tidur.

esok nak peri return library books, pi photostat some stuff, breakfast at a new place and read an article and prepare my paper!!

lagi satu, i finally went through my vienna guide book and dah start crossing off places i have been to and mark those i want to go.

first up, is to make sure i finish my cafe crawl, at least at the Innere Stadt. I have a list of cafes which I want to try.

Itulah sebab esok nak try pi breakfast at this place. hehe. I also want to try the reputedly best falafel in wien. Tapi, breakfast dulu. Lusa nak pi a sandwich place. hehe.

Aside from that, I decided to take Aaron to the Kindermuseum. Might as well make full use of the facilities here kan? So I have made bookings (yes..kena book a spot uols..dah la only open to crawlers on fridays, at an hour slot) and our first time will be this friday. Cannot wait!!! If it goes well, I shall make bookings for every friday! :)

okie dokie.

dah upload

last night, i finally wrote my acknowledgement page. I felt that it was only right that I wrote it last. After that, I compiled my thesis.

Today, I went to uni, looked through my thesis, betulkan alingment and etc and then uploaded it on the uni database. Pastu, I sent it to the printers to get it printed and bind. Tapi tahu tak, konsep print and bind kat sini, kita isi online form, upload our data in pdf, pastu isi la kita nak cover kaler apa, tulis apa and etc, and then send in the form electronically. Pastu, kita tunggu depa call to confirm our order.

Maka, lepas I dah hantar the form tu, I rasa sangat lega dan pergi jalan2 cari makan, beli iced choc kat mcds dan naik tram nak pi ambik Aaron. Sekali, masa dah halfway nak ambik aaron tu, baru org tu call cakap there were some problems with my pdf document! dia kata, tak de page numbers, and ada satu part ni alignment dia off.

Oh...terus ai panik okeh! Terus turun tram dan naik semula tram at the other side of the road to get back to uni. Setelah mengodek2, akhirnya berjaya. Tapi kan, yang dah upload kat uni database ittew, tak leh dibetulkan lagi. takpelah..cuma tak de page numbers and 1 alignment problem. hope it would be ok.

so, it will be ready this Wednesday. it costs a BOMB! So, Wednesday ini, inshaAllah, saya akan submit uols!!!!!!! Cannot believe it. pastu, have to wait for defence. Am going to request that my defence be in April. Doakanlah boleh. I really really hope it would be possible to defend my thesis before I go back.

So now, I kena concentrate tulis paper, prepare presentation for conference AND finish up my book chapter. I can do this, right?

almost!!

i just finished compiling my thesis into one document. :)

esok nk pi uni, go through it again, check out pagination and then convert to pdf and upload it.

then, ambik print out from the upload and print thesis and send it for binding.

then, tunggu for defense!

sambil2 tu kena siapkan 2 papers & presentation, 1 book chapter n pack.

come on. yakin boleh!!!!

my baby is 3!!

Andi is 3. OMG. Time flies. Dah 3 tahun dah Andi.

He now speaks more fluently. Knows what he wants (cake 'ma-a-aus' and mr bean).

I miss him sooooooooooooooooo much. He always tanya bila mama nak datang. :(

p.s: i got the greenlight to attend conference kat tirana. :) cannot wait. tapi kan. i must tell you that the conference tu entah jadi ke tak. Sebab website dia macam tak update. Pastu, i tak tahu which slot am i in. Kan selalu dah dapat email cakap schedule, suggest where to stay and etc. ni non ado!!! Harap2 jadilah kan memandangkan dah dapat sponsor.

p.ps: i am almost done with my thesis. Semua dah buat. Am just waiting for my firend to give me the translated copy of my abstract. Sebenarnya ada orang dah translate siap. but i gave another friend pulak utk dia cantikkan sikit. ehhe. Should get it by Sunday. Pastu monday nak upload, print and bind. Binding takes 48 hours so should be able to submit by Thursday, inshaAllah.

p.p.ps: kenapa sekarang i selalu rasa macam light headed? Selalu rasa nak jatuh? mual. hmm....mungkinkah sebab tadi tak makan lunch?