hari ni,i ada date dengan sv. Harap2 date kami fruitful lah ye.

Anyway, I have already decided on my new deadlines. I only have about 9 days left to complete chapter 5. Yikes!! I have actually analyzed the programs kan, and wrote rough drafts of what I plan to write. Cuma nak menulis bebetul tu aje belum. I plan to start today sebab honestly, I just finished typing my rough drafts.

With the new deadline, I plan to complete everything by the end of Nov. I hope that it is feasable. Please Allah. Permudahkanlah urusanku.

mari kita freak out!

wahlauwei. Saya terkejut tadi apabila mendapat email dari my professor's assistant.

You see, sem ini, saya hanya ambil satu subjek sahaja. Tapi mak aii...preparation untuk subjek ittew agak banyak. On top of that, saya risau. Risau sebab ada dua kelas pada bulan 11, tapi bulan 11 tu lah babysitter I cuti balik Malaysia. How???????

Anyhoo, for the first meeting, we are supposed to select a book in which we would have to review (30%) yang katanya bertujuan untuk pursue for publication. We ols juga kena bawa 3 contoh book review dalam journal. Semua mak buat malam ni. Buku dah pilih. Journal tu tinggal nak print. Hari Isnin kena study sikit sebelum kelas.

Secondly, tajuk essay yang diberikan adalah agak mencabar. She gave 5 options but I choose to do this:

What are the possibilities for global interconnection among global audiences when

there are arguments that diasporas watch their own channels in the host countries?

What can we say about new forms of identity and resistance when discussing global

and transnational audiences?

Saya dah selesai exam. Next one will be in December. Paper that I have to submit tu pon, dah siap, Alhamdullillah. Erm, I thought of writing one more, to get extra credit kononnya, tapi I think I would just talk over it with my sv, who I will be meeting this Monday. *yikes!*

What else? Bermula esok, mak kena start writing uols! Yes, kena semangat! I must finish chapter 5 by hook or by crook. Semoga Allah permudahkan urusan, inshaAllah.

On an unrelated matter, I hairan sebab walaupun I memang fully bf anak i, cik P dah datang. Hrmm...baru je mengharap macam zaman Andi dulu in which dua tahun lebih (if campur dengan masa preggers) tak dapat. Oh well. Maybe its Allah's way to show that I am still fertile despite having only 1 ovary, kan? Syukur.

Pastu, I am invited for lunch tomorrow at the residence of our ambassadddddor. Mak nervous uols!!! Wife dia nak jumpa my baby. Tapi the wife is nice. I got a whole load of nice bajus yang hardly used for my Aaron. Kalau nak harap mak beli sendiri, tak la kot. hih hih.

Okie dokie.

bahasa ibunda

Last saturday, ada makan-makan at rumah one lady ni. Kat sana,I met this lady who has lived here for almost 30years. She has a 24 year old daughter yang hardly ever balik Malaysia. They ols balik Malaysia maybe once in five years or something like that.

Anyhoo, one would think that the kids (that lady has 2, one boy and one girl) sure tak reti cakap Melayu. Or, if cakap Melayu pon pelat-pelat or ada slang Austria, kan?? Ya Rabbi, I was so suprised that the kids, (yang muka memang mcm mat salleh) fasih berbahasa ibunda uols!!!!! Siap cakap "depa" lagi (becos the mama orang perak!). And she can campur cakap BM and BI in one sentence as well, like a typical Malaysian.

I was so proud of her. Yelah, walaupun jarang-jarang sekali balik kampung mak dia, and living in a place where people mostly speak Deutsch, she can cakap Melayu really well.

Whats the secret? Well, Mak dia memang usually converse in Deutsch with the kids but she also makes a point to speak to them in Malay. I think it is important to make sure our kids know how to speak Malay. Sungguh pon we brought them up overseas (tak kisah lah France ke, German ke, UK ke) that does not mean that they have to adapt to the locals punya language sahaja. We should encourage them to speak in their mother tounge. Yang I notice, Malaysians and especially Malays are particularly proud if their kids can converse in English or other European languages. Well, there's nothing wrong in that, because I try to teach my kids Deutsch as well. Cuma yang ralatnya, bila they just concentrate on English sahaja dan lupakan Bahasa Melayu. Sayang betul.

After all, Bahasa Jiwa Bangsa, kan?

hilang passport!

oh em gee.

saya adalah amat careless!!!!!

hari ni, saya ke universiti untuk meng-fotokopi a few documents untuk application meldenzettel,krankenkasse and permit untuk aaron. Sambil2 tu, saya juga mengfotokopi passport saya sebab nak renew reseidence permit.

anyhoo, setelah fotostat semua, saya pergi atas pulak ke computer lab untuk print out borang2 berkenaan.

then, pi beli lunch (lamb tikka sandwich), beli barang sikit kat billa, and then baru balik.

Balik tu, ai switch on lappie, ate my sandwich, relax-relax. Lepas tu, barulah terasa nak sort out documents yang i fotokopi tadi. Then, barulah realize yang passport i tak ada. Terus mak panik uolsss!!!!

Secepat kilat mak dress up and dress aaron up dan berdesup keluar ke tempat fotokopi tadi sambil mulut terkumat-kamit doa mintak-mintaklah kedai fotostat tu bukak lagi and passport i ada.

Dalam hujan renyai-renyai tu, I berjalan dengan laju pergi kedai ittew. Tanya kat mak cik jaga kaunter, u ols boleh cakap english tak? dia kata ye. pastu ai tanya, ada tak uols jumpa passport i? i fotostat pagi tadi dan i rasa tertinggal. Dia tanya, apa surname awak?

Lantas, dia ke rak buku belakang, dan ambik sesuatu.

Oh, passport saya selamat di tangan dia.

Terima kasihlah kepada pengguna mesin fotokopi yg menjumpai passport saya dan memberikannya kepada tuan kedai.

Syukur, Alhamdullillah.

ku kembali

teringat lagu cheerleader kat skolah dulu:

aku kembali dengan tabah hati

kembali lagi untuk memenangi

nombor satu

kami tuju

untuk sampai kemuncak

itulah ku tuju

anyhoo, its exactly a week since i got back!

I have sat for an exam. I have one more exam to sit for this wednesday and another one somewhere in December.

I also have to write a paper in order to get a grade for one of the subjects I took. Needless to say, haprak pon tak tulih lagi. But, I am planning to take bits and pieces of my thesis untuk dijadikan paper ittew. ok tak strategi? hehe.

I have three and a half more chapters to write for my thesis. Taaakkk jugak start2 tulis. Enjin belum panas lagi. Plus, I am still trying to settle hal-hal document si Aaron ni hah.

So, things to do:

1. Print appendix and attachment form to be signed by SV

2. Photocopy Aaron's passport and birth cert and its translation for meldenzettel, insurance and residence permit purposes.

3. Study for exam (only 2 days away. yikes!)

4. Write two papers

5. Write chapter 5.

Ok, hari ni memang dah plan nak print form dan juga pi fotostat bendalah semua. Selain ittew, nak tak nak, mak kena study lah kan. Tapi interesting thing about this paper is that, dia tak nak kita muntahkan semula facts (or rather theories) that we learned in class. Instead, the lecturer wants me to think of a theme, and how would I apply the teory according to the theme I choose dalam mereka research questions, methodology and etc. So, strategi i adalah to study my chapter one (introduction) and try to fit the theories somewhere. hmm..wajarkah thinking session ini dibuat di Starbucks bersama sidekick i??

Anyhoo, I have a trip to Muchen planned for early November. So, I must finish my chapter 5 before then. I give myself until the end of November to finish writing everything, inshaAllah. But of course, this all depends on the workload of the course I am taking this sem, which I think is pretty interesting and bonus point is, its in English. :)

Oklah, sidekick tengah tidur. I should shower. Then, can keluar pi print2 dan fotostat, and maybe pi shopping sikit. hih hih.

pasal rumah

haa...ni nak cerita pasal rumah.

homaigawd. i tell you, macam2 perubahan berlaku dalam proses nak renovate rumah. harap2 contractor tak akan charge over2 la kan. hihi.

so far, the belakang rumah has been extended. tiles dah pasang. bumbung dah naik. tinggal nak cat saje tapi Dr Sunshine masih memikirkan warna yang sesuai.

As for my kitchen, u see, my wet kitchen is pretty small, around 7x9ft saje. muat2 untuk countertop L shape. tapi tak dapat banyak work space on the counter sebab counter top size kecik sikit dan bila tambah sink (i got my dream sink!!!) and stove (belum beli tapi bila kira untuk space tu, i guna kiraan stove idaman..hikhik). Mula-mula, tak de pon hajat nak buat table top tu, tapi last last Dr Sunshine kata, buat ajelah. Since last minute, kitaorang dok survey2 tiles, and if you must know, only made the decision and bought it on the day I was about to leave KL.

The maids room which was attached to the wet kitchen tu, telah ditukan function as a pantry. Maka, the walls to the room has been knocked down and my small wet kitchen suddenly looks quite promising. hehe.

dry kitchen is now known as the dining room.

we also decided not to do any plaster ceiling because our ceiling mmg nice and smooth je. Maka, kami pasang cornice sajo. Savelah sedikit duit kat situ.

Grill pon dah tempah, tunggu nak pasang je. Patut pasang last Monday, tapi tak de pasang pon.

We ordered curtains for the living room downstairs. Mak aii...mahalnya curtains!!!! Tula, rumah banyak tingkap kan. hmmm....Maknanya curtains memang wajib buat secara berperingkat.

We also bought some lights and kipas. There's this really really cheap kedai lampu at Puchong. Nama dia Houses Lighting. Memang murah dan berbaloi-baloi. Ada satu lampu ni, I bought it with bulbs for rm97, dekat Nilai jual sebijik lampu tu, 258!!!! So, siapa nak beli lampu, sila pergi Houses Lighting. Even kipas pon murah berbanding dengan kedai lain. Kalau pergi kedai tu masa weekend, bersedialah untuk menghadapi suasana ala-ala pasar malam sebab memang ramaiiiii betul orang. Lagi senang pergi masa weekday, tenang dan damai sikit. Cuma, dorang tutup hari Isnin. Lampu tak beli lagi untuk semua bilik, just for some rooms and the kitchen. But at least now, when Dr Sunshine pergi visit rumah tak de lah bermandi peluh sebab dah pasang kipas in living room. hih hih.

Haih...best betul tengok rumah dah ada progress. Cannot wait to see pictures of it. La ni, nak tunggu depa siapkan dapur, and pasang cornice, and grill. Pastu, kena rehat kejap sebab duit tabung dah kering. hikhik.

Apakah next project?

I think its the kitchen cabinet, electrical appliances, water heating system.

Banyak betul guna duit bila nak masuk rumah ni. Mujurlah, nak masuk tahun depan. Adala sikit masa untuk kumpul duit for the next phase of this house projects.

Nanti bila mak dapat gambar, mak paste sini yek.

:)

kembali bersiaran

i was on a loonnnggggg hiatus kan. But I am back.

I hate goodbyes!

Last night, Dr Sunshine left the boys with my mom. When he said goodbye, Andi tanya, "Kita tunggu mama kat sini ye papa?"

And today, when they got home with Papa, Andi was looking for me. He thought I was waiting at home for them, like I sometimes do. Then dia tanya Papa, mama mana. Papa cakap kat Vienna. Then he said, tak balik-balik lagi? Lama betul mama kerja. tsk.

I miss my boys!!!!!