macam-macam

1. ada sorang pompuan ni, pakai short dress dengan leggings sahaja. Pastu tertonggeng-tonggeng ambik ape tah kat floor. Haih..tak pasal-pasal ai nampak bontot dia. Soooooo tak perlu!

2. Masa beli gorceries, ai nampak orang minum air susu dalam botol. I thought dia memang bawa susu tu masuk. Pastukan, lepas dah puas minum, dia tutup botol tu, dan letak semula kat atas rack! euugghh....and ai baru je ingat nak beli susu macam tu jugak. Terus kansel sebab tak tahu berapa botol aganya dia dah teguk. tsk!

3. ai tak tahula pasal apa. Tapi i sentap sket dgn orang yg jalan dengan lemah gemalai bila tahu ada appointment to keep.

4. ai bersyukur that daddy pernah bawa makan kat a lot of places. Sebabnya, bila kena makan kat tempat yg memerlukan peng-aplikasian table manners, insyaAllah, saya boleh survive. Ingat ye kawan-kawan, napkin tu, letak kat atas peha. Kengkadang, waiter/waitress tak buatkan, maka kena pandai buat sendiri. Napkin berbentuk angsa ittew bukan semata-mata hiasan. Pastu, rule about the cuttlery is, guna dari luar ke dalam. And, sudu garpu yg dorang letak kat bahagian atas pinggan (not left and right) bukan untuk penggunaan main meal. Having said that, saya tetap makan pakai tangan bila bertandang ke rumah orang. Susah weihh...nak balance pinggan atas peha sambil nak pakai sudu garpu. Lagipon makan nasik kat rumah orang je pon, so I see no harm.

5. sedap jugak makan muesli dgn yoghurt! rasa macam nak makan lagi jer hari ni. Tapi hari ni rasa macam nak makan nasi pon ada. Oh, dan minum iced chai tea latte.

6. Kadang-kadang, susah untuk kita harapkan pertolongan dari orang lain. Betul. Kita mungkin ingat kita dah baik dengan dia, tapi hakikatnya, kita kena sedar, kita je kot rasa baik dengan dia. Tapi dia feeling-feeling 'ada aku kesah', kot. Pelik ok. Sebab bila kita cakap nak jumpa kejap, tak de masa cos nak study bagai dan banyak kali postponed. Tapi, bila ada orang ajak pi majlis makan-makan, laju ajer dia pergi. Maka, kita boleh sedar di mana kedudukan kita sebenarnya.

7. rasa mcm nak makan spare ribs lah pulak.

8. penat nak baca Baudrillard dan kejadian 911. Nak memahamkannya yang memenatkan.

9. penat berjalan kehulu kehilir semata-mata nak submit borang doctoral thesis agreement. Doakan semoga semua diluluskan. :)

tips beli tiket kapal terbang murah

Ini adalah tips membeli tiket kapal terbang untuk student seperti saya yang mahukan tambang termurah there is. And no, bukan melalui matta fair atau apa jenis fair pon uols! mudah sahaja.



1. survey harga tiket di internet. try all airlines you know and are comfortable with.

2. pergi ke sta travels cawangan berdekatan, dan mintak mereka cari tiket untuk ke destinasi tujuan anda.

3. make sure mereka tolong carikan tambang termurah, regardless of the airlines.

4. compare harga dengan research yg anda dah buat kat internet earlier.

5. if jauh lebih murah, sila BELI tanpa nanti sekejap.

pengalaman sebenar

I surveyed for tickets to go back since early this month. The cheapest i could find online was kl.m and that was about 956euros, if i am not mistaken. Next in line was qatar with 964euros macam tu. emirates plak, memang ai tak bleh nak even mimpi naik because the tix was about 1100euros!!! *pengsan*

Then, i had to consider my pregnancy plak. Not all airlines would allow you to fly when u are so far along (in my case, 34weeks). so, dalam airline di atas, only kl.m and emirates ajor yg allow me to fly up till my 36th week. Qatar bagi jugak tapi proses dia leceh because kena isi banyak form, submit ke doha and wait for them to approve (all this within 1 week from the date I was to fly). What if tak approvekan? matila ai nak beranak sorang2 kat sini. *nanges*

So, atas cadangan seorang auntie, I went to STA travels. It is actually a travel agency catered for students. I went to just try my luck. Dalam hati, mcm dah rasa kena beli tiket klm. Tapi KLM yg tak best, tak boleh LANGSUNG tukar tarikh once dah beli tiket. Ye la, i risau jugak if berlaku apa-apa ke yg membuatkan i kena balik awal or something. So, i memang tak berapa berkenan dengan airline tu, tapi terpaksa pasrah sebab ia paling murah, so far.
Neway, pergi ke STA and mintak dorang cari tiket untuk saya. And OMG, the tickets there were super duper CHEAP thanks to the student discount!

qatar internet = 900++euros. qatar sta=790

euros emirates internet=1100++euros. emirates sta=660euros!!!!!

So, no prize guessing which ticket i bought la kan. I feel so thankful that I managed to get cheap tickets on an airline which would allow me to have check in luggage seberat 30kg! And also, this would be my first time in Dubai. Lantaklah transit je pon kan. heheheh

rutin harian

apakah rutin harian anda?

semenjak bermulanya semester baru, i sort of have established a routine.

everyday, selepas bangun pagi dan mandi-mandi, saya akan bersiap-siap untuk ke universiti computer lab. Di computer lab, saya akan membuat apa-apa yang patut (writing, cari journal articles, buat assignment).

Bila tiba masa untuk kelas, saya akan ke kelas. Lepas tu saya akan balik rumah. This is my routine everyday, except on Sunday. Tu pon sebab computer lab tak bukak on Sunday.

I spend more time at the lab on Thursdays and Saturdays because I have no class on both days.

Sundays are my stabux days. Days where I sit there sambil-sambil minum hot choc/chai tea/ decaf kopi while reading my articles or editing my work. Tapi sejak kena diet tak leh consume benda-benda manis ni, I tak menjejakkan kaki lagi ke stabux.

Setiap petang/malam, saya akan skype dengan keluarga (if Dr Sunshine tak oc) followed by blog hopping dan juga catch up on my tv shows dan surf the net pasal pengalaman bersalin dan sebagainya. hehe. Itulah rutin harian saya. Macam tak de life, kan?

And my current deadlines adalah:

Globalisation assignment 1 - May 1st

Globalisation assignment 2 - June 1st

Chapter 1- May 1st

Dan, saya juga harus mengingati diri sendiri untuk buat final editing for my paper for the conference dan jugek assignment for qualitativforschung. Ok...tu, kena buat Sabtu ni. Sebelum tu, ai kena concentrate untuk presentation this Friday dan juga baca readings supaya dapat mengutarakan pendapat bernas.

Oh empunya diri, silalah bersemangat untuk buat kerja kerana awak hanya ada 7 minggu sahaja lagi sebelum pulang. :)

Ada jugak deadline untuk group assignment, tapi tu, ai malas nak pikirkan buat masa ini. hehe.

kembang sekejap

Tadi, i had my critical theory class. It is by far one of my favourite class because for the first time ever, I had the opportunity to have in depth discussions on theorist and theories that have been taught by my previous lecturers when I was back in Malaysia. Tapi biasalah, masa kat malaysia, manalah kita nak baca original text. Plus, back then, I only memorized what I was taught, without really understanding what it was.

Anyway, today, we discussed Hockheimer's and Ardono's Dielectic of Enlightenment and also Hebidge's Subculture theory. So, this particular lecturer memang requires us to send in questions a day before class, I guess as a way to make sure that we all actually read the readings she gave. So, setelah bertungkus lumus cuba memahami intipati isi apa yang si Adorno and Hockheimer dan juga si Hebidge cuba sampaikan, ai pon buatlah soalan kan. But, the way I did the soalan was, I sort of summarize what I understood, and then baru proceed with the soalan.

So, tadi, dia pon distributelah kat kelas soalan-soalan yang kami semua dah buat kan. And guess what? Summary saya telah dicopy paste oleh lecturer untuk dijadikan summary bagi reading text ittew. heh heh. Mula-mula, ai tak sedar. Pastukan, bila baca balik kan, eh..rasa macam my words aja summary tu?? Rupanya memang ye pon uols! Dia asingkan soalan ai daripada summary ittew. So, summary saya jadi pembuka tema, then baru dia proceed dengan tajuk questions on clarifications and questions for discussions.

Oh, maka dengan itu, terus saya terkembang bontot japs. ihiks.

And....as usual, saya adalah pemalu dalam kelas. Yes uols. Ai memang malu nak bagi pendapat bagai dalam kelas. That is a fact semenjak dari dahulu lagi. So, saya memang penyenyap dalam kelas okeh. Walaupun dalam hati ni, byk aje opinions ai dan juga benda2 untuk diutarakan, tapi mulut ai berat (oh..mungkinkah AD ikut perangai ai sebab tu dia reserved sket?). So, lepas text Adorno and Hockheimer tu, as usual ada discussion, tapi i tak cakap apa pon.

Then, ada break and we continued with Hebidge. Lepas that group presented on Hebidge, terus lecturer menyatakan, ok..kali ni, kita buat discussion dalam group kecil sebab mungkin bila kita buat discussion as a whole class, ada orang yang malu untuk mengutarakan pendapat. Oh..terus I terasa seperti makan cili uols! Tapikan, memang ye pon. Bila group kecil, i tak de la malu sangat nak bagi pendapat ai. And even lecturer pon dtg ke group ai, and dapatlah mendengar ai mengeluarkan suara. So, pastu, she asked every group to summarize apa yg telah dibincangkan. Adala seorang minah british dari group ai tu ala-ala summarize tapi ai rasa dia sebenarnye tak paham pon apa yang kami telah bincangkan sebab dia tak baca pon text tu!. Pastu, lecturer panggil nama ai plak untuk membuat summary, mungkin kerana group mate i ittew tidak memberikan penjelasan yang memuaskan. Oppss..terus panas aje rasa muka ai. Tapi dalam masa yang sama, I rasa best la juga sebab that shows that she knew I knew my stuff, cuma maybe needed to be pushed kot. hehe.

Ok. Itu je cerita pasal kembang sekejap.

p/s: kenapa yek i feel so dehydrated? Nak minum banyak2, masalah because my bladder ni cepat penuh. Pastu pulak, kalau boleh tak nak pi wee wee when i am in uni because nak make sure ada wuduk. Haih....problem betul la bila kelas berderet macam hari ni!

siaran ulangan

alahai...guess what?

I would have to repeat the glucose tolerance test. uwaaaaaaaaaa.......semuanya because the first reading (before i had to drink the glucose drink) was quite high. Padahal, lepas test semua, ok je my readings. Tapi tetaplaaaaa nak kena repeat the test. And I thought that its ALL over. haih.

So now, I would have to go on a no carb diet and no sweet stuff. So no more rice (ni i tak kesah sebab mmg dah lama pon tak makan rice sangat), bread (uwaaa...my staple food) and noodle. Have to load on proteins pulak dah. So, i guess it will just be salad and fish or chicken or meat la kan. Terpaksala pergi butcher to get some halal meat.

I guess, no more starbux for me as well!!!

:(

p.s: tapi lepas pikir balik, mungkin ini akan mengurangkan proses weight gain saya yang sekarang in membesar bagai johan! tsk tsk. ai naik 3kg uols dari bulan lepas. Doktor tak cakap apa pon tapi saya adalah amat risau. why? heran betul tau kali ni naik bagai dipump. tsk.

mimpi ngeri

i had a nightmare last night! I tell you, when I am pregnant, startlah datang mimpi pelik2 ni tau! Benci betul.

I dreamt that Dr Sunshine pergi conference sesambil holiday dengan seorang betina gatal. Apakah? Bangun-bangun je, terus ai tak de mood. Dan juga telah meng-text Dr Sunshine pasal mimpi ngeri ittew. Dia pon kata: "the only betina that will be in there is the orangutan."

Fuh. lega ai!

Speaking of which, dah 26 minggu dah ai pregnant. Dan ini juga bermakna, dah 6 bulanlah ai tak jumpa my boys. :(

I have 9 more weeks to go. Haih...tahu tak apa maknanya? Maknanya, if I jumpa depa in 9 more weeks, I haven't met them for about 8 months!!! 8 months. Who would have thought! This has been the longest time I have ever had to be away. :(

I miss my boys.

potong kuku

Dalam keluarga uols...siapakah yang bertanggungjawab dalam hal-hal potong kuku anak-anak? For me, it has always been Dr Sunshine sebab ai takut la nak potong kuku budak kecik, especially baby. Dr Sunshine relax aje, yela..ada steady hands katanya. Tapi tetapla dasar surgeon, potong kuku, mesti rapat ke isi. Kadang-kadang berdarah jemari mulus anak-anak I. Masa tu, mulut I sure pot pet la...hehe...

But, ai juga ada kenal some people yang menyerahkan tanggungjawab memotong kuku ni to their pembantu rumah and their own parents (meaning the kids grandparents). Ok, mungkin uols katakan suruh pembantu rumah or atok depa potongkan is ok. Tapi bagi ai, hal-hal anak ni should be our responsibility. Not only potong kuku, malah nak tengok homework anak-anak, apa depa makan and etc. Sebab apa tau. Cuba uols pikir. If it was your husband, would you let your pembantu rumah cut his nails or prepare his air kopi? Kalau jawapan you tak, then why should let her do it to your children?

Hmm...i tell you. Honestly, I am not the best mom there is. What more since I am so faaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr from my babies. But when I am with them, I try to handle them on my own. Mandikan depa, suap depa, buat susu, potong kuku, check homework and the list goes on. When I am not around, the Papa does it. And, he is GREAT at what he does. We ol memang actually pay someone to help with the kids, tapi we still prefer to do those stuff ourselves, when we are around. maybe also because we are super fussy with matters concerning the boys..eheh

Yang buat I geram is because I dengar cerita pasal anak Cik Y ni yang suka mencakar dan menggigit si X. Sampai X tu lebam-lebam uols. Dan, seperti biasa, Mak X complain kat Cik Y, Cik Y cakap, biasalah budak-budak. Yang I kesian kat Mak X tu sebab, dia cerita, manalaa anak dia tak kena cakar, kuku budak kecik tu punyalaaaaa panjang!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pastu, Mak X sajalah cek kuku anak-anak Cik Y yang lain...ya Rabbi, even the 8 year old's kuku was soooo super long, siap ada taik kuku lagi!!! Subhanallah!!! When Mak X tanya budak 8 tahun tu, y are your nails so long? dia jawab: oh...sbb org gaji tak potong lagi. Atok pon tak sempat potong.

So folks, it is important to not really depend on outside help, especially when it concerns our kids. Yela...kita kan parents dia? Cuba imagine kalau kuku dah hitam macam tu, kalau dia makan, sure ada lekat2 kuman bagai kan? And what about masa dia basuh tangan after keluar toilet, adakah fingernails ittew betul2 bersih? haiyaaaaaaa.....

Oh, and lagi satu, if tak sempat sangat pon, you can always cut their nails masa depa tido. Well, at least that is what Dr Sunshine and I normally do. hehe.