Mozart is Leaving ! (Children programme)

InsyaAllah, this could be a good exposure for your children... Wallahu-alam. It's an interactive exhibition (recommended for 6 - 12 yrs old). You might want to give it a try ...

For other developmental programmes for Children organised by the National Museum (S'pore), pls visit : http://www.nationalmuseum.sg/

Wassalam........

Tell me what to do..........

She's still single - 25 yrs old.

She's good with my baby.... entertaining him & playing with him. She's not great with housework and cleaning, she's not great with ironing, she's not so good with cooking... I can tolerate all this.. the compensation being my primary concern ; that is my my baby... and he likes her. She's soft spoken, and speak to us with respect. She's pleasant, bubbly with the children and speaks English well.

GREAT ??..........................Not so

Yesterday, hb came home early. While waiting for the lift.. suddenly a lil boy's voice shouted to him "Baba............ baba............". There he was.. under the void-deck, on those stone benches.... my maid, standing.... with 2 men by her side... busy punching the keypads on her hp while one of the man whispered something to her ear.... exchanging phone numbers !!!! My baby ran to my hb, without any footwear !!!......BAREfooted !!!!

When my hb asked what she's doing, and why she was downstairs with a barefoot child ! Her answer is 'The towel had dropped so I came down to pick it up" (true, she hv a kitchen towel in her hand)'. My Katkoot was asleep and the 2 elder boys were at home... but as she was leaving, Katkoot woke up, so she just grabbed him and brought him along downstairs to picked up the towel !! (takleh pakaikan slipar ker?? !!). Anyway that's not important ! Who's the two men ?? OOohhhh... she just met them. But my katkoot told hb that "Uncle gave me sweet !"... Maaaakkkkkkkkk !! Strangers give something to my baby and she let them !!......... what if that thing is harmful !!!!! *Faintedddddddd* (don't want to even think about it !!!).

I know she's a bit 'cheeky' and used her hp lots.... sms-ing and such. If you want to hv boyfriendz outside and meet them on yr off-dayzzz... I close my eyes arr..... if you want to exchange numbers outside....... pasal kau lah naaakkk. But under MY BLOCK !!! So these ppl know where she worked and where I stay !!! What's next ??... they will come knocking at my door looking for her while we are working and the boyz at school ??!!!! What's next ????.........and next? and next ???.... AAArrrgggghhhh...........

Dilema......... dilema................

Do I let her stay with a stern warning ?... or do I just return her back to the agent ?? She's been with us for only 1.5 months !!!!!! I am very patient with maids' nonsense... but this makes me shiver a little !!...... what if she dragged my baby along during her hanky-panky ??? I felt like sending her OFF ......... but again, like previous case........... when I look at them.........my heart melted..........tak sampai ati lah................ :( Toooooooooooollloooooooooooonggggggggggggggg !!!!! I'm a good employer.... why can't I get a good maid like before................

ya Rabb, tolonglah hamba mu ini......... Hwwwaaaaaaaaaa :*(

It's a BOY !!

Assalamu'alaikum,

I'm now a proud granny (nenek-sedara la.... hehe), to a healthy baby boy, born on 14th June 2008 !! ... MasyaAllah.... so cute & adorable.

MABROOK !! Congrats to my niece & her hb...

DRY DROWNING.....

Assalamu'alaikum ya Ukht,

Someone posted this at the site I'm on... and Astaghrafirullah, this is so so so scary. I'm not trying to make us parents more paranoid as we already are over our children. But let this be a source of information, let's just be aware that such thing can happen. May Allah protect all our children from any harm and hardship... Ameen.

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Boy’s death highlights a hidden danger: Dry drowning
10-year-old died more than an hour after getting out of swimming pool

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/24982210/

By Mike Celizic
TODAYShow.com contributor
updated 9:58 a.m. ET June 5, 2008

The tragic death of a South Carolina 10-year-old more than an hour after he had gone swimming has focused a spotlight on the little-known phenomenon called “dry drowning” — and warning signs that every parent should be aware of.

“I’ve never known a child could walk around, talk, speak and their lungs be filled with water,” Cassandra Jackson told NBC News in a story broadcast Thursday on TODAY.

On Sunday, Jackson had taken her son, Johnny, to a pool near their home in Goose Creek, S.C. It was the first time he’d ever gone swimming — and, tragically, it would be his last.

At some point during his swim, Johnny got some water in his lungs. He didn’t show any immediate signs of respiratory distress, but the boy had an accident in the pool and soiled himself. Still, Johnny, his sister and their mother walked home together.

“We physically walked home. He walked with me,” Jackson said, still trying to understand how her son could have died. “I bathed him, and he told me that he was sleepy.”

Spongy material

Later, she went into his room to check on him. “I walked over to the bed, and his face was literally covered with this spongy white material,” she said. “And I screamed.”

A family friend, Christine Meekins, was visiting and went to see what was wrong. “I pulled his arm and said, ‘Johnny! Johnny!’ ” Meekins told NBC. “There was no response. I opened one of his eyes and I just knew inside my heart that it was something really bad.”

Johnny was rushed to a local hospital, but it was too late. Johnny had drowned, long after he got out of the swimming pool.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, some 3,600 people drowned in 2005, the most recent year for which there are statistics. Some 10 to 15 percent of those deaths was classified as “dry drowning,” which can occur up to 24 hours after a small amount of water gets into the lungs. In children, that can happen during a bath.

Dr. Daniel Rauch, a pediatrician from New York University Langone Medical Center, told TODAY’s Meredith Vieira that there are warning signs that every parent should be aware of. Johnny Jackson exhibited some of them, but unless a parent knows what to look for, they are easily overlooked or misinterpreted.

The three important signs, he said, are difficulty breathing, extreme tiredness and changes in behavior. All are the result of reduced oxygen flow to the brain.

Johnny had two of those signs — he was very tired when he got home, and he had had the accident in the pool. But like most parents, Cassandra Jackson had no idea this could be related to water in his lungs.

Delayed reaction

Rauch said that the phenomenon of dry drowning is not completely understood. But medical researchers say that in some people, a small amount of inhaled water can have a delayed-reaction effect.

“It can take a while for the process to occur and to set in and cause difficulties,” Rauch said. “Because it is a lung process, difficulty breathing is the first sign that you would be worried about.”

The second sign is extreme fatigue, which isn’t always easy to spot. “It’s very difficult to tell when your child is abnormally tired versus normal tired after a hot day and running around in the pool,” Rauch said. “The job of the lungs is to get oxygen into the blood and your brain needs oxygen to keep working, so when your brain isn’t getting oxygen, it can start doing funny things. One of them is becoming excessively tired, losing consciousness and the inability to be aroused appropriately.”

Finally, there are changes in behavior, Rauch said — another tough call when dealing with very small children, whose moods and behavior can change from one minute to the next.

“Another response of the brain to not getting oxygen is to do different things,” Rauch explained, saying parents should be concerned “if your child’s abnormally cranky, abnormally combative — any dramatic change from their normal pattern.”

He admitted, “It is very difficult to pick this up sometimes.” But spotting the warning signs and getting a suspected victim to an emergency room can save a life, he added.

Victims of dry drowning are treated by having a breathing tube inserted so that oxygen can be supplied under pressure to the lungs. “Then we just wait for the lung to heal itself,” he said.

But for Cassandra Jackson, it’s knowledge gained too late. She and Meekins sat in her home, looking at pictures of the bright and happy son who was no more.

“He was very loving, full of life,” the grieving mother said. “That was my little man.”

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Wassalam.......

Biadap atau Jahil ??

Assalamu'alaikum,

Satu lagi kes yang menyedihkah... more like geram !!!!

Aperpon... tak tahu lah kalau2 mereka ni sudah makin berani dan biadab !!... or simply mereka Jahil dan tak tahu. Walaubagaimanapon, biarlah mereka dengan motive mereka, janganlah pulak kita yang jahil dan main beli & ngap ajer. Berhati2lah..... walaupon ader chop HALAL... bacerlah isi rumusan (ingredients) yang tertera. Ini kerjer manufacturer yang bodoh - pasal walau dah chop HALAL, dier tulis "PORK" .... ;

Tapi yg tak tulis (tapi still tarok) and chop HALAL tu... Wallau'alam lah berapa banyak dah masok perot kiter..., pasal kalau semua nak buat sendiri.. kekadang tak telarat, so beli jugak yg Instant. Nak carik membekal Islam pon kekadang susah.... Yang penting, kalau niat mereka untuk menipu orang2 Islam, itu bukan salah kita, Allah maha mengetahui dan maha Pengampon. Ya Rabb, jauhilah kami dari melakukan & memakan benda2 yang Haram, apa jua yang didalam pengetahuan kami, juga yang tanpa pengetahuan kami... Ameen.

Ingredients : PORK CRAKLINGS !!

Pork Cracklings & HALAL Logo ??

"And eat of the things which Allah has provided for you, lawful and good; but fear Allah in whom alone you believe." (Al-Maidah:88)

Wassalam....

Wasted waste......

Assalamu'alaikum,

I'm simply in a "Huge Lazy" mode to write anything now :( ..... but I am keeping myself updated by reading your entries ;).

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In this reccession period, just something to share with you sisters :

Avoid waste

It is said in the Qur’an that Allah invites us to enjoy the fruits of the earth, but to avoid excess leading to waste, ‘for Allah does not love wasters.’

Allah, in His Wisdom, appointed humans, the creatures that He has conferred with the faculty of reason and with free will, to be His vice regents on earth. And while Allah has invited people to partake of the fruits of the earth for their rightful nourishment and enjoyment, He has also directed them not to waste that which Allah has provided for him.

Use but do not abuse

Several times in the Qur’an, man is invited to make use of the nourishing goods that Allah has placed on earth for him, but abuse—particularly through extravagance and excess—is strictly forbidden. Sometimes these principles are stated in one breath, so to speak. Sometimes they are stated separately. But the message is the same, as the following verse indicates:

O children of Adam! ... eat and drink: but waste not by excess for Allah loveth not the wasters. 007.031.

There are as many invitations to partake of nature as provided for man and for other creatures of the earth as there are for the avoidance of wasteful extravagance. Time and again, Allah reminds us that He loveth not wasters.

It is He who produceth gardens with trellises and without and dates and tilth with produce of all kinds and olives and pomegranates similar [in kind] and different [in variety]: eat of their fruit in their season but render the dues that are proper on the day that the harvest is gathered. But waste not by excess: for Allah loveth not the wasters. 006.141.

JazakAllah khair and may Allah's blessings always be upon you and your family... Ameen