Wednesday, September 27, 2006
A YEAR OLDER.... & $1500 poorer !!!
Luv ya all lots!!! Muackkkssssss !!!!!
Received this... isn't it cute :)
Thanks dear hb for the vonderful Chocolate Kek !!..... :)
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My 'best' birthday prezzie.... my vehicle won't start !
The agent quoted abt. $1500 for repair !!.... AAArrggghhhhh !!!!!! :(
Sabar...sabar.... Ramadhan Kareem.... ;)
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Monday, September 25, 2006
Wet..wet Saturday !
Brought Baby Katkoot to Bugis Junction.. I managed to get 2 shoes - dear HB paid for them ...Wohoo !!!
We had McD and as we are heading home, we passed by the fountain... Baby doesn't want to move, he was so excited to see those water jumping about ! Bit by bit he edges towards the water... ppl sitting around are looking & laughing - seeing him screaming & jumping joyously at the gush of water splashed onto him. He edged nearer & nearer and I hv to run after him ! Gosh ! we are entertaining the crowd !!... but nevermindlah they are enjoying my cute lil baby's happy reaction... hehehe !
Cameras are snapping around & everytime baby gets splashed with the gushing water, they laughed & clapped their hands !
Aiyoh, yoh ! he's already drenched & I'm getting wet too !!... Can't get him out !!.. he kicked & screamed whenever I took him away ! It's 6pm already & he's shivering, but yet doesn't want to bulge.. ppl are snapping way too many pics of my baby... hv to get him out !!!
So, I scooped him up - crying, kicking & screaming. Toweled him dry, put on a fresh T-shirt & off to the toilet to change him. His socks & shoes are totally wet, so he hv to go barefooted, nak kasi pakai my new shoes.. it's way too big for him.. haha ! ... and of all the days, we decided to bring him on an MRT ride !!... so cam anak 'sakai', set home with him sitting barefooted in the train !!
... in MRT - hehehe, cian anak aku, orang ingat kiter tak mampu beli kasot.
At night, thought of going to the next block (void deck) for our 1st terawih, but my two sons malas... so we juz terawih at home.... Alhamdullilah, si kecik pon sebok (tegok tu dgn kain pelikat dier... hehehe) !!
Friday, September 22, 2006
RAMADHAN KAREEM
SYAHRUL MUBAARAK
RAMADHAN KAREEM
HAPPY & READY TO WELCOME THE BLESSED MONTH OF RAMADHAN WITH ALL THE PRIVILEDGES IT WILL BRING !!
INSYA'ALLAH WE CAN CONTROL THE NAFSU INSIDE US - COS NASFU HAS A FAR GREATER INFLUENCE ON US THAN SATAN !!
INSYA'ALLAH WE WILL INCREASE OUR IBADAH IN THIS BLESSED MONTH & IT WILL STAY WITH US THROUGHOUT OUR LIFETIME....
YA ALLAH, PLS OPEN UP THE DOORS TO GOOD DEEDS AND MAKE MY PATH TOWARDS THEM EASY...
PLS CLOSE ALL DOORS THAT WILL LEAD TO SINS & MAKE ALL KIND OF OBSTACLES TO BLOCK MY WAY TOWARDS THEM...
PLS BLESS MY FAMILY, MY PARENTS, MY SIBLINGS, MY RELATIVES, MY FRIENDS AND ALL MUSLIMEEN.. INSYAALLAH, AMEEN
SALAM
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
ZOO Again !!
(0900 hrs - 1400 hrs)
I was a fine day - Alhamdullillah.
We set off from home at 8.30am & reached the Zoo around 9am.
5 hours of roaming around & we are exhausted ! Baby Katkoot also went to his dreamland ...
reached home around 2.45pm.
He's so brave & wanted to 'touch' every animal !
Even offer biscuit, and later, his teeny-wenny little finger for the baby goat to lick & gnaw at !!
To sum it up, here's some pics !! We had a GGrrrrreeeatt tym :)
Zoo.. here we come !!
Eh ? this Goats eh ?... not sheep lah...
Making frenz....
.... Nak balek (ni style baru dier jalan - cam datok2 tangan tarok pat blakang....hehehe)
Dah nak tido pon sempat amek gambar ... satu lagi !! (mat bunger2)Monday, September 18, 2006
WEDDING PICTURES
QUICK ! QUICK !!!!!... For Limited Period only !!.....
I'LL TAKE THIS DOWN SOOooooooooonnnnnnnnn!!!!
SORRY - TIMES UP !! TAKEN DOWN ....
WANT TO VIEW MORE ? ....
TAFADDAL TO MY HUMBLE HOME ;)
Friday, September 15, 2006
GIFTS ... Shukran
1st Gift - My friend send me this book all the way from Jakarta - she said this is the BestSelling book over there now & they are going to make this into a 'Soap Opera' drama next year... alaaa, cam criter Dia & Hikmah tu....
I am reluctant to pick a 'hard to put down' book now coz I wanna spend my free times with my Katkoot baby, and I know that I will be too 'loss' reading a book which I enjoyed. But since she kept bugging & asking me thru smses if I hv finished reading - I picked up the book to read lah...
THANKS HALEEM, lap ya many many - Muackkks !!! (Halimatos lah...)
Mmmpphh... ok liao ! finished reading. Verdict - so, so lah. Not so interesting to my standard, so many times the book left unread on the table... hehehe.
The whole setting of the book is in Egypt (mmpphh, that's why u asked me to read eh ?) - abt the life of an Indonesian man studying in Al-Azhar university. The good part about the book is it's full of Ayat2 (verses) from Qur'an & Hadith. Most conversations & incidents are reference back to the verses from the Qur'an & Hadith. The boring part is - the Hero of this book is too goody, goody, and all the 4 beautiful female characters in the book fell in love with him, and he ended up marrying 2 of them !(cam bagos jerr... hehehe).
Ok lah, don't reveal too much - saper nak pinjam, can get from me ; if not - can get at National Library (I saw it there).
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Here's some backdated entries :-
2nd Gift - Thanks Love, for this lovely gift !!! - U know I looovveee it
{though u ended up eating half of it yrself ;) }
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3rd Gift - And, Let's just enjoy these pics "The day my Katkoot goes fishing"... hahaha - tak takot langsong ! He wanted to squeeze those 'jumping' fishes ... And what a catch !!
Thanks to my hb's friend from Egypt, everytime he's in Singapore, he spent his time at East Coast - fishing !!!!! (cam takder kerjer lain). His gift to us... behari-hari makan ikan tamban !!!
The Best Gift (Alhamdullillah...)
My hb & 2 sons hv been bugging me to cut his hair... kekadang dier tekerok2 biler panas & bepeloh... I just snipped here and there. Nak potong sayang kan, kan, kan..... rite not ? all those curls nanti ilang.......
Monday, September 11, 2006
In Memoriam....
11th Sept always brought back special memories to me. It has been a been a Special Date for me fm then & still am till now - though the feeling of melancholy set in my heart everytime this date come & goes by... Especially so for the year 2001 !
NO... it was not bcos of the 911 incident - although when those "heroic" pilots slammed into the two towers killing "how many now eh?" (coz it kept on declining fm the > 7,000 ppl" estimation 1st published to shock & shook the world).. I think now it's abt 2,750 (read link).
Today, 11th Sept 2006 and you would hv turned 44 yrs old ...
My beloved friend - Shaikha Salma Bte Shaikh Omar Alkhatib... AllahYarhama.
11th Sept 2001 marked the last Birthday you celebrated. I can still remember that day when I visited u at yr sis home... u are not well. But yr strength, MashaAllah, - that had always been the admiration of many, kept u vibrant & chatty all the time.. On that day, u complained that the 'thousands' repeated times the images of the plane striking the towers being aired had make u 'groggy', what a way to celebrate a birthday, u exclaimed ! ... Yep, that morning, the world was shaken by the news that the Twin Tower in USA had been struck ! and the media had gone into frenzy - all TV or radio stations u tuned into will show u images & news abt that !
"Not only u" I said, "I am getting sick of seeing those images too!"
Salma - my cousin, had always been my best friend. my confidante. We grew up together in the same house - when we left our kampong in 1989, I still ferried between staying at my parents home & hers (with her dad Allahyarham Habib Omar (read link) & a couple of my aunts).
I hv scribbled this note down years back - only now after I know the blogging world can I write them down in print (with tears flowing now... :( )
"I wish a am a writer, then I could write all the beautiful words to describe u. We had grown-up together & over the years had been best of friend. Both of us being single, we talked about growing old together. You, cheerful as u are, yr spirit were not broken when u were diagnosed with Cancer in 1991. Over the years, never complaining, instead u grew even stronger - believing that grief & worries will only make things worst. "'Redha' to what Allah have given u, make the best out of it - InsyaAllah, this is the way to bring yrself closer to Him..."
You even became part-time councellor to those striken with cancer :- One by one of whom passed away... Allahyarham.
But u and me.. we were always happy :) Most of our free times we spend together... after work, weekends, holidays.. telephone calls - those were the days. You were my Holiday buddy.. after every couple of mths, we will definitely plan to go somewhere to de-stress.. a few short holidays to Malaysia or Indonesia & One Far Holiday per year.. that's our routine. We had great times in Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Dubai, Europe, Perth, Brisbane.. etc.. Always the two of us with inclusion of some other friends if they wanted to join us. But sadly (on reasons can't be elaborated here), I can't come with u when u did yr Haj & a couple of Umrahs.
Almost every weekends we met - shopping, window shopping, having a walk or juz us coming over at each other's home for chats...
All those wonderful moments together... u never missed a prayer.. even if it meant we pray at some corners or staircases in a shopping centre, she will insist that we do it.. Alhamdullilah....
In July 2001, we went to Jakarta, even when u are not so well, u were patient.. following us around, sitting at a corner while we shop around. Then came August, you still wanted to go to Perth with me. U were not so well then.. but still we went cos I hv promised to accompany my SIL with her 2 children coming back to Singapore after an 8 mths stay, and u wanted to come along. You gather yr strength to walk along side me.. never giving up. We still went around having a blast... over at sand-dunes, u even slide down the sand !! We went touring & shopping.. some days u just don't hv the strength & are in pain..u choose to stay back.
We came back to Singapore safely, Alhamdullillah, but yr health deteriorated.. In & out of hospital, but never once complaining or talk about dying. Instead, managed to even console & give hope to another lukeimia patient. Your are the favourite amongst the nurses in NUH.
"Why u don't want to get married?" came a shocking question towards me one day while I was driving u back fm a check-up at NUH.. we had discussed this with girly giggles many times, but this time u asked me seriously.. I brushed them off jokingly then...
Then, on 30th December 2001, I got a call from yr sister.. u are in the hospital yet again... quite bad, they told me. I rushed down to the hospital to be by yr side. Holding yr hands & reciting the Shahadah to you.. ."Ya Allah, Ya Allah"..though semi-consious from the mophines, I know u know my presence as you held my hand & mumbled back the recitation... I fed u Zam-zam water & you swallowed them.
7pm - I saw u grasping for air.. "Don't fight so hard my beloved, breath slowly... slowly... all will be fine... you will be ok... Slowly.. slowly.. I love you, we all love u and Allah love u..." and with that... slowly...you were gone!
INNALLILLAHI-WAINNA ILAIHI RAJIUUN...
You left me here all alone, though I am not alone in this world - I felt that I am the loneliest person that moment... but I truly 'Redha' on yr leaving me to meet the Almighty creator, Allah...
I am confident that a nice & religious single girl like u will be granted Jannah... united with yr beloved mum & dad.. Allah Bless them All, InsyaAllah."
Now, my beloved friend.. I am married & blessed with a beautiful adorable boy. You don't hv the chance to see them. Many have asked me (including my hb whom had never met u).. will I be married if u are still around ?"... the answer is "Wallahu-Alam", I myself don't know - really.. its Allah's Qadak & Qadar... but truly, I wonder them myself. All that happen is for the best, InsyaAllah.....
I do miss her dearly... very very much. But u know what?.. she's always there with me, in fact, till now - after 5 years, she visited my dream almost everyday ! SubhanAllah, almost all the dreams I hv, she's there with me, and she's fine ! On a few occassions in the dream it will seem like she was sick but was well again (hard to explain)... they said yr pass memories will dominate yr dreams, Wallahu-Alam... for me I am just glad and I Thank God after I had those dreams - for it really 'terubat' (cure) my 'rindu' (missing) for her...
"Ya Rabb, cucuri lah Rahmah mu sebanyak2nyer buat roh Shaikha Salma. Jangan lah dier disiksa walau sedikit pon, luaskan & terangi lah kubornya.. berbahgia lah rohnya sementara menunggu hari-hari bilamana ia akan ditempatkan di Jannah mu, InsyaAllah... InsyaAllah juga, jika diizinkan - dapatlah kiranya kami bertemu lagi di Jannah mu.... Ameen. Al-Fateha..."
Thursday, September 07, 2006
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY.. BATOOT"
Went to work as usual, it was a bz day ! Anyway, I already promised to take half day & maybe we can head to East Coast for a Lunch BBQ. However, Mr sun was quite moody although he did not shed any tears.... Take half day anyway.
'Batoot' was in school for his Band practice & came back ard 3 pm !!!... While waiting, we were wondering if we should carry on with the BBQ plan... and should I juz go grab a cake from the shop or shall I bake one for him. Since we are waiting.. I asked my maid to rush to buy Butter, Brown Sugar, Baking Choco, Strawberry, Dairy Whip Cream ;- the rest of the ingredients I already have... so Viola !! I started baking at 3pm & by 4.30pm the beautiful cake was READY !!! Top it up the Choco Ganache.. lots & lots of Strawberries & M&M Chocolates...(so sad me no hv the camera to take the pictures.. but I tell you arr - it looks so temptingly delicious). Thanks to my blogging friends, my mood to bake is back after quiet sometime being shoved in the graveyard... hehehe.
Ok, 'Batoot' wanted to go to the beach for BBQ, so my hb rushed to NTUC to buy Chicken Wings, Prawn, Minced Meat, Beef Steak, Corn, Chicken Spare parts, breads & drinks .... Rush rush to marinate the Chicken Wings, Beef Steak, Prawn ... make Kofta balls from the minced meat (my maid prepared all these lah ..) & by 5.30pm we headed off to East Coast.
My baby 'Katkoot' (chick), was so excited to see the sea. Quickly change him & he went for a dip with his 'Baba'. Then we played with the sand. BBQued the food... eat, eat.. run, run..talk, talk ... it was already nearing to 9pm !..
Oh.. Oh !.. quickly - cut my Super Scrumptious looking Birthday Cake ... hehehe (puji sendiri lah.. tapi belum raser lagi)
Ok - cutted & ngapped, very niiiiceeeee... even the birthday boy said it's nice ... hehehe.
9.30pm - packed & home.. here we come !
Verdict - We had a good time :)
(Sad - no pictures ! :( )
Oh.. oh ! This is cute - At one time, my hb hugged me & give me a kiss - then when I picked up baby - he hugged me & kept on planting kisses on me.. when I gif him my cheeck, he pushed my face & kept on kissing me on the lips... hahaha (although I don't encourage this)...
May Allah showers you with abudance of blessings, may yr faith towards Islam grows stronger & may yr knowledge grows deeper with every tick of the clock & every beat of yr heart. May u always be surrounded with the ppl u love & who loves u back. May yr life path towards success & happiness in this world be an easy one, that leads u straight into Jannah.. InsyaAllah. May u be a 'Soleh' son who never forgets his duty towards the Almighty Allah and your parents...
May u be a good Muslimin that we can all be proud of... InsyaAllah... Ameen.
p.s - I felt so tupid arr.. no wonder my previous posting no kaler option !.. I was in HTML window lah... !!! *knock head*
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
An Atheist Professor & A Student
And:-
Prof: So you believe in God?
Student: Absolutely, sir.
Prof: Is God good?
Student: Sure.
Prof: Is God all-powerful ?
Student: Yes.
Prof: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn't. How is this God good then? Hmm?
Student is silent.
Prof: You can't answer, can you?
Let's start again, young fellow. Is God good?
Student: Yes.
Prof: Is Satan good?
Student: No.
Prof: Where does Satan come from?
Student: From...God...
Prof: That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student: Yes.
Prof: Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything. Correct?
Student: Yes.
Prof: So who created evil?
Student does not answer.
Prof: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don't they?
Student: Yes, sir.
Prof: So, who created them?
Student: has no answer.
Prof: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son...Have you ever seen God?
Student: No, sir.
Prof: Tell us if you have ever heard your God?
Student: No, sir.
Prof: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God for that matter?
Student: No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.
Prof: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student: Yes.
Prof: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your GOD doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student: Nothing. I only have my faith.
Prof: Yes. Faith. And that is the problem science has.
Student: Professor, is there such a thing as heat?
Prof: Yes.
Student: And is there such a thing as cold?
Prof: Yes.
Student: No sir. There isn't.
(The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of events.)
Student: Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don't have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.
(There is pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre.)
Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Prof: Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness?
Student:You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light....But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and it's called darkness, isn't it? In reality, darkness isn't. If it were you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you?
Prof: So what is the point you are making, young man?
Student: Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.
Prof: Flawed? Can you explain how?
Student: Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
Prof: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.
Student: Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?
(The Professor shakes his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument is going.)
Student: Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?
(The class is in uproar.)
Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor's brain?
(The class breaks out into laughter.)
Student: Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol,science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?
(The room is silent. The professor stares at the student, his face unfathomable.)
Prof: I guess you'll have to take them on faith, son.
Student: That is it sir... The link between man & god is FAITH. That is all that keeps things moving & alive. . . . . . .
... this is a true story
WANT TO KNOW WHO THAT STUDENT WAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
it was none other than......... Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, the present President of India
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Wallahu-alam
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Why kenot change colour one eh ? Where did the colour option go ??