things to do

Tiba-tiba banyak pulak hal nak settle dah ujung-ujung ni.

1. Settle claims for insurance and uni fees. Kena kumpul resit dan juga buat surat siap-siap. Pos dari kampung halaman ajer lah untuk tujuan penjimatan kos. hih hih.

2. Pergi insurance office to buat standing instruction for my payments. Sebabnya, as of July, harga bayaran insurance akan dinaikkan. tsk.

3. Print out notes and related articles from elearning portal to be brought home. Photostat apa yang patut.

4. Shop for baby stuff and also for the boys. (Cannot believe that I haven't started shopping for baby. Ok, dah beli 2 romper but thats it! Konon nak tunggu sale tapi macam tak de je sale. Nak beli stock baju raya sekali for my boys memandangkan harga jeans dekat kolumpo tu macam mahal aje walopon untuk bebudak!)

5. Beli barang for family dan juga makanan seperti chocolates dan choc chip cookies and cheese stick.

6. Pergi tanya mikusch pasal my doc thesis agreement tu. Dah sebulan dah ni, tak de cerita pon??

7. Kemas pantry.

8. Update powerpoint slides and also the text for my presentation at the conference.

9. Save all datas/files from my uni computer to my external drive AND thumbdrive.

10. email all lecturers to remind them about my situation.

11. Call chimneyman to inform i tak de masa dorg nak cek nantih.

12. PACK!!!

I rasa, next week sure mood nak belajar atau apa sahaja berkaitan dengan studies akan ke laut! Woohh....excited dah ni.

Esok, I plan to pergi uni to ask about my doc thesis agreement. Lepastu kena duduk senyap-senyap prektis untuk presentation petang tu.

Rabu, kelas sepanjang hari. Tapi ada 2 hours break in between. So, ingat nak settle hal-hal surat menyurat dan claim-claim tu. If sempat, print out all notes as well. Note to self, should get files so that notes would be in order dan tak kelam kabut bila nak balik dan study (sebab would have to sit for exam bila balik sini balik. tsk)

Khamis, I should spend the WHOLE day, reading my articles. Yes. Dah berapa hari dah terabai aje. Oh..mentang-mentang lecturer kata boleh hantar in June, terus naik lemak ye? Lagipon, bukan ke deadline untuk theoretical framework chapter juga adalah pada bulan ini? *pengsan*

Jumaat, shopping!!!!!! dan juga settlekan pasal nak buat standing instruction for insurance tuh.

Sabtu, pegi rumah orang sbb ada bazar. Pastu nak shopping barang makanan plaks.

Ahad, nak buat makan-makan sikit kat rumah dan start pack barang.

Isnin, baca artikel dan start tulis-tulis sikit. Mungkin pergi ke pasar untuk ambil gambar for chai tea project.

Selasa, buat assignment juga. Kena buat laundry hari ni. Last laundry sebelum balik.

Ok, nak plan sampai Selasa ajer. Harap-harap plan jadik la yer uols. At the rate I am now, memang malas sangat nak buat apa-apa. But. I MUST force myself.

budget untuk ubahsuai rumah

I tell you, hal-hal nak ubahsuai rumah ni, memang memakan duit! At times like this, I wish I had loads of it supaya boleh buat macam-macam. But, apa kan daya, budget adalah amat limited, maka kena make do dengan apa yang ada.

So, dah 2 quotation yang kami dapat. One tu, cheaper than the other. So, we might go with that one. Tetapi, sungguhpon cheaper, tetap melebihi budget yang ditetapkan.

Anyway, we have decided to buat our house reno according to a few phases memandangkan budget ciput.

Phase 1: Kitchen extension and grill
Phase 2: Plaster ceiling and purchase fan and lights and kitchen sink
Phase 3: Book stove and book kitchen cabinet (to lock harga sebab dari pembacaan blog-blog, bayar deposit je dulu to get the promo price, then bila-bila kita nak boleh install.)
Phase 4: Get curtains
Phase 5: Hot water storage, furniture and water filter
Phase 6: Air cond and exterminator

The 6 phases would be stretched out until next year (atau until cukup duit to complete each phase). As for our lawn, Dr Sunshine plans to do it himself. Dia dah beli pon racun to spray dekat the lawn to kill all the rumput liar dan bushed.

Anyway, memandangkan budget burst for Phase 1, we might have to buat kitchen extension je dulu, and the grill later.

Whatever it is, I am super excited.

Oh, pasal kumpul duit tu, we ol memang ada buka account to put our money for house related purposes. So, each month, we contribute a fixed and equal amount to the account. We only started this in October last year. We plan to continue doing it, even if our reno is completed sebab duit tu nanti boleh lah guna untuk tambah-tambah apa yang patut kan. But as of now, duit tu memang for renovation purposes (oh...and also to bayar cukai pintu and insurans rumah).

InsyaAllah, we plan to withdraw our kwsp to help pay our house installments supaya duit yang dah allocate untuk house installments tu boleh guna pulak untuk bayar renovation stuff.

Tapikan, katalah uols memang dah ada budget untuk bayar renovation, atau pun dah siap buat renovation pon, I rasa elok juga keluarkan duit tu utk bayar house installement supaya dapat kurangkan jumlah interest, which indirectly akan kurangkan the total amount you have to pay. This is how you do it. Even though dah keluarkan epf utk bayar installment, you still continue to bayar every month, macam biasa. That way, you can save a lot on you housing loan interest. My sister and her husband has been doing that (dah 3 kali withdraw from epf) and sekarang dorg tinggal less than 30K je to pay off. And, ni semua dalam masa 10 tahun je uols!


p.s: Dr Sunshine tanya AD, nak lampu macam mana for bilik. Anak mak low maintanence uols! Dia kata nak lampu yang panjang tu, and cahaya yang putih-putih which is, in other words, lampu kalimantang. ihiks.

panik with a capital P

oh em gee.

I baru dapat email dari one ofmy professors. Dia ni boleh dikatakan salah seorang professor favourite sebab kelas dia memang BEST!!! I learnt a lot from him AND got loads of ideas which I can use for my thesis through his discussions.

Anyhoo, I ambik 2 kelas dia dan 1 kelas tu, ada exam dan 1 lagi kelas ada 2 assignment (1 presentation, 1 essay). So, untuk kelas yang ada exam tu, I obviously tak sempat nak sit for the exam but good thing about my uni punya system is, they usually have 3 different dates for the exam and students can choose whichever date they want. And the different dates tu selalu in the next semester. Maka, ai rasa lega lah, cos balik nanti bolehlah sit for the exam. Assignments yang dia nak pulak, deadline 27june. Fine with me.

Sekali harini dapat email dari dia. You see, one of the other reason why I like him is because dia mcm concern dgn I yang pregnant ni. Anyway, dalam email tu, dia cakap, memandangkan I nanti nak beranak, so, dia kata instead of buat exam, apa kata dia bagi tajuk essay in May, and I buat essay tu je. That is SO SUPER fine for me.Sebab buat essay beats doing an exam any time, for me. hehe.

Tapi, as for my assignments, dia kata, aci tak hantar sebelum I balik. Erk. That is only 14 days away. Maka, I terus PANIK!!!!!!!!!!

Ok. Semalam ingat nak bermalas-malasan je kat rumah. But looks like, I kena keluar untuk mentelaah. Wish me Luck!

14

Hari ni i tak buat apa because I decided to stay at home instead of pergi uni. Hmm..I knew that I should have gone sebab if duduk rumah, memangla pegang buku/artikel. Tapi setakat pegang jelah. Bacanya idak sebab mata tu dok tengok amazing race lah, bones lah, greys anatomy lah. Haih. Maka, esok, nak tak nak kena gak pergi uni atau at least keluar dari rumah! If not, tergendala lah semua kerja bagai.

Anyway, tadi, ai terasa kecik hati lite lite dengan Dr Sunshine. Sebab, dia kata dia locum the day after I arrive AND kena pergi seminar plak on monday tu. Terus terasa diri ini tidak penting uols!!! Padahal, locum tu, bukan seharian suntuk pon! Selalu if dia locum pon, sure kami akan dating makan breakfast dulu and dia break between 2-6pm so usually we'll lepak2 togede anyways. And, seminar tu, dia plan nak pi register aje, pastu dia kata nak melencong pi jenjalan dgn I, and tgk wayang bagai becos seminar kat KLCC. Tapi, tetaplaaaaa ai nak kecik hati jugak kan? Tetapla terasa macam my kepulangan tidak dinanti-nantikan gittew. *matila emo tak tentu pasal* Ok. I blame the hormones. hih hih.

Whatever it is, I am glad he decided not to masuk OT on the day I will be arriving walaupun tak de sapa yang boleh ganti dia. Haa...if masuk OT jugek, memang I akan merajuk tidur rumah mak jer!!!!!

By the way, best sangat because my Along called to tanya what would I want to eat bila sampai. Ihiks. I cakap, masak biasa-biasa je sebab selalu after perjalanan jauh, mana ada selera sangat. Terus dia kata...ok, makan soto la yek. Erk, ai ok jer!!!

Tak sabarnyeeee nak makan kari ketam!!!

And, tak sabar nak masak-masak for Dr Sunshine. :-)

15 hari

Hmm...makin lama into this pregnancy, makin susah ai nak tido! I tell you, I only fall asleep around 1-ish. Tupon dah golek-golek atas katil lama dah sampai main game on handphonelah, text orang lah, pastu barulaaaa boleh tido. I wake up for Subuh at 5.15am and lepas tu, memang susah nak tidur balik!!!! haih. Selalu akan golek-golek je atas katil tu sambil tutup mata, tapi tak jugaklah tidur. Kalau masa 1st pregnancy, sure I dah kejut Dr Sunshine. And if dia tak bangun, I akan merajuk dan menangis keseorangan. wkakakakaka

Anyway, sebab susah nak tidur ni, I am easily tired during the day. And tadi, masa menjayakan misi membaca artikel, I rasa sangat ngantuk! Haih....rasa nak terlelap sangat okeh. Tapi tak kan la kot nak tidur kat stabux tu kan? So, I paksa juga diri ai baca artikel yang dibawa. Ala, baca 2 jer pon out of a whole stack. I took such a long time to read it, thanks to the perasaan mengantuk! hmph.

Lepas tu, I just couldnt take it anymore and decided to walk along the shopping strip at Kartner. Sekarang ni, I tengah dalam dilema!!

What should I buy for my MIL???? Itu dilemma I yang paling utama uols! Ce uols share dgn ai, what souviner do you usually bring back for your inlaws?? ce cite. Kalu idak, tolonglah bagi cadangan kat ai. I tengah bingung memikirkan hal ini.

16 hari

1. Done with handout for my presentation. Harap-harap group members berpuashati dengan apa yang ai hasilkan. Malam ni ada discussion over skype. Sigh...discuss dalam keadaan gelap gelita.

2. Now, kena tumpukan perhatian kepada assignment! Esok dan lusa rasa nak duduk dendiam kat stabux sambil membaca selambak artikel. Harap-harap misi berjaya! Bila dah terasa boring, ingat nak jenjalan sambil ambil gambar untuk assignment chai tea.

3. Sabtu, I plan nak betapa kat comp lab pulak, nak type out the draft, insyaAllah.

4. Ahad, I nak pi merewang ke Schonnbrun. Semoga ai larat bawa perut dan tak membuatkan orang lain rasa menyesal keluar dengan I, since I now tend to walk slowly thanks to the frequent pain dekat tummy.

Kalau uols perasan, I am actually trying to keep myself busy with work and more work. Sebab dalam hati dah excited sangat amat at the prospect of meeting the boys!!! And I am sure I would not be doing anything the first few weeks that I am back (oh, except for the conference. Alahai..kena siapkan powerpoint and text juga!!!! Must not forget. Maybe can work on this on the plane?)

OK. Nak pergi kelas. Alahai....tak larat ok nak jalan pi kelas.

17 hari

Saya sangat sangat bersyukur!

1. Dapat email dari program director yang menyatakan subjek yang i ambik tu OK. Well, I actually wrote him a lengthy email, first stating the subjects I took for the respective requirements, and second, to state my kerisauan upon finding out that i might have taken the wrong papers to fulfil the requirements. He replied, right below the part I listed all the subjects I took with OK. Tu je. OK. Part I cakap risau semua tu, idak lah diendahkan. Jadi, I take it as, the subjects I took fulfilled the credit requirements. Syukur, Alhamdullillah. So, insyaAllah, I don't have to take any papers next sem and can just concentrate on pembetulan thesis, preparing for viva and tulis journal articles (well, itu harapan ai).

2. I got another result today. And, Alhamdullilah, I passed!! This was a killer subject for me, sebab kena buat eksperimen bagai. On top of that, the theories which were taught and that I had to apply was persuassive in nature and it was honestly my very first time being exposed to these theories. ECTS (atau bagi uols yg sistem lain, this would mean credit) nya adalah 12. So, this is quite a huge deal for me! Syukur, Alhamdullillah.

3. Done with chapter 2, thanks to Anne. Thank you Anne, for getting me that particular day's tv guide. If not, I wouldn't have gotten in done. Walaupun melebihi deadline, but it could not be helped!

4. Currently reading the translation of a chapter of a german language book (thanks to googletranslate) sebab nak kena prepare for a presentation. Have a group discussion malam esok, so kena habis baca, summarize and prepare the points I want to say by esok!

5. Will still be in the dark these few nights because of the bulb in my room yang un-changeable. Am waiting for my Auntie's husband to help come and fix it. Am thinking of going to stabux tonight to do some work. Have been lazing aje for the past 2 nights and ini tak boleh jadi!

6. Hope to start on my assignment this Thursday. I have lots of articles to read!! *pengsan* I really really hope I would have a draft of what I plan to write before I go back (which is only 17 days away) because I know, balik nanti sure busy buat macam-macam benda yang tak berilmiah seperti makan dan shopping

7. Have started taking pictures for my chai tea assignment. :) Tapi can I just say I feel so malas to elaborate on globalisation theories and etc which is related to the said assignment? Anyway, must think of the idea for my video. Cemana agaknya nak buat video berilimiah (yang ada mention theory bagai) yang juga FUN dan tak boring?

8. Oh..I give myself a week to work on the draft for my assignments. After that, I must start reading on modern social theory and start writing my theoretical framework chapter plaks. Haiyoo...dengan identity lah, modern social theory lah, encoding decoding lah, harap2 i sempat meet my own pre-determined deadline of june 1st.

9. Nak pergi shopping, tapi belum berkesempatan. Mungkin minggu depan. Alahai, beg pon belom bawak turun dari atas almari.

OK. Nak continue membaca sebelum the boys sampai rumah. :)