Kakak Pot Pet

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I will try to jot down as much as I can in short and mix language.

Alhamdulillah after a year Sarah has finally err...emotionally stable. We (Mr M and I) agreed that now we can have a very pleasant conversation with her. Sarah is mature for her age. Her only issue is in making decisions (that is what Hannah is good at).

So the other day while we (the girls) were in the master bedroom folding the clothes, Sarah was kind of like 'membebel' to herself.

Sarah: "Kakak keluar kejap je mama dah lipat banyak. Macamanalah kakak nak duduk asrama"

Hannah: " Sebab tu lah kita kena pegi Twelve (SMK USJ12 *they are obsessed with Abang's school ..rolleyes). Tak payah masuk asrama."

Sarah: " Tapi kalau tak masuk asrama, bila kakak nak belajar berdikari. Bila kakak nak belajar urus diri sendiri. Ikut jadual, Jadi bertanggungjawab. (* basically...all nilai-nilai murni dia sebut ;-P). Sekarang ni, kakak kunci jam tapi bila bunyi, kakak terus off. Bangun bila ayah kejut. (Yes, every morning ayah tukang kejut anak-anak)."

Mama senyum meleret. Nak tergelak pun ada. Alhamdulillah, semua tu kesedaran sendiri.

On this boarding school issues:

For Sarah, since last year I had planted the idea of going to SSP. Not because I am an Alumni but because we want her to attend an all girls school and more over SSP is so near. We won't force her. Alhamdulillah with Allah's will she is currently excited about it.

1st rule, the child must made his/her own decision. No paksa rela.

We decided not to send Afiq to boarding school in Form 1 because we are not comfortable with it. Banyak lah cerita tak sedap didengar pasal boys and asrama. But he will go to boarding school next year (F4) InsyaAllah. So many distractions lah at home especially when all his friends are on the computer games 24/7. So kena tukar lah crowd kawan-kawan ni. He loves extra koku but when no one else are interested, tinggal lah dia sorang and end up dia pun tak active. *sigh

With children we just need to give all the infos. Let them think and choose.

**As I am typing, Afiq is at school presenting his school to the juries for PROGRAM 3K (KESELAMATAN, KESIHATAN DAN KECERIAAN). Kena present more than 100 slides. Oleh kerana F4 & F5 sedang exam, Cikgu pilih F3 and he was chosen. 2 days duduk dengan cikgu. Semalam from 8am to 4pm. Balik rumah terus tidur. Dah lah next week exam. Takpe lah Bang, dapat pahala InsyaAllah.


Thats all for today

Daaaaaa..............

HIJRAH

After 18 years and 2 months in the same Firm

After countless Solat Istikharah

After our Umrah to the Holy Land

This is what Allah has planned for him all along.

Alhamdulillah

Our doa on his new ventures

Ameen

Puding Roti Marble

Assalamualaikum,

Helloooooo long time no see :-P

This post has been in my draft for so long and now that Ramadhan is coming soon I guess its good to start compiling my Ramadhan Menu *wink wink

Personally I love something smooth like this pudding for iftaar. Sejuk je telan and its easy to make too. Once I made a few containers of this to bring to the surau.


Bahan-bahan ( satu loyang )

4 keping roti

2 biji telur

1/2 cawan susu pekat

170ml susu cair

8gram serbuk agar2

1/2 cawan gula - bleh kurangkn

2 sudu besar butter/marjerin (cairkan)

31/2 cawan air = hana guna cwn biasa 230ml.

2 sudu besar serbuk koko (bleh juga guna choc emulco)

Cara-cara

Didihkan 3 cwn air,serbuk agar2 n gula ke dalam periuk.

Blend roti,telur,susu pekat, susu cair dan balance air tadi (1/2 cwn). Kemudian masukkan dalam periuk agar2 yg sudah didih td.

Masukkan butter/marjerin dan kacau rata sampai mendidih. matikan api.

Bahagi kepada 2. satu adunan biarkan warna asal. dan satu adunan masukkan serbuk koko@choc emulco. kacau cepat2 dan sebati hingga serbuk koko tidak berketul2!

Tuang ke dalam loyang secara berselang seli. sesenduk adunan asal kemudian sesenduk lagi adunan coklat. ulang hingga habis! ketika melapis@me'marble'kan hendaklah dengan CEPAT sbb puding@agar2 nih mudah sejuk@membeku.

Ma, do you have any regrets?

One day on the way home from school Afiq asked me this question.

"Ma, do you have any regrets?"

Come to think about it erm....I did wish I had a better SPM results and went studied abroad but again I might not meet Mr M eh...so I guess no regrets...

The next day he broke down in the car. Yes he cried. 

He was stressed out with the amount of work for PBS Band 6. A lot of assignments, presentations etc and he had to prepare for his 1st written exam (PMR style) the week after. 

We hugged and we cried together in the car while waiting at the traffic light. But for a while only la. When he had settled down I advice him to write down his to do list and from there he should then made a plan based on priority according to dateline and the amount of work needed to be done. 

His actual To Do List. Tak termasuk revision esp Sejarah yg banyak kena hafal :-P

See #6 they always have quizzes for English. Siapa jawab betul dapat present. This time dapat a cute pink snow globe. Its officially my 1st Snow Globe. It will always reminds me of this particular incident.

Jawab soalan on Sherlock Holmes Mystery. The book they learn for English.

Okay lets continue with the regrets part which is very very surprising and interesting indeed. He told me that he regretted that he had spent too much time playing games on his new computer. After much pujuk memujuk and justification the computer was bought as a gift for his UPSR results. He realised because of the computer games he had at times neglected the family, not respecting us the parents etc. He regretted that very very much and he feels really sorry about it.

Wah....coming straight from him without me nagging etc was a huge SYUKUR.

Its like a wake up call. Alhamdulillah

I told him to try his best in everything he do then leave the rest to ALLAH with doa so.....jangan tinggal solat 5 waktu. Doa minta pada Allah, nobody can help except Allah. Its the right time to re enforced lots of good things. Solat proper skit, lama skit, waktu2 afdhal untuk doa etc. Alhamdulillah thereon tak payah nak kena ingatkan solat esp Isya'. Alhamdulillah dia yang ajak ayah pegi surau for maghrib. Syukur tak terhingga...tak terkata....Last Ramadhan that was my main doa. Bab jaga solat. Alhamdulillah

He played no computer games until habis exam. Still on tweeter and fb sbb msg dgn classmates on school work. Thats all. Both of us including adik-adik yang dah habis exam pun support abang. Teman abang buat revision. In fact there was this 1 night all of us sat at the main dining table. No tv after dinner. Semua duduk situ teman abang sambil munching on caramel crunchies. Ayah baca paper. Pagi2 we sat at the terrace and he did his work. Either doing work on his computer or do his revision. 

Every morning he started ikut hantar adik-adik to school. He become very 'clingy'. He needed us to comfort him. He said it himself. Ermm....bling..bling...bling....something need to be said on this. So I told him since he wanted to study abroad he needed to start from now. He must be able to pull through a situation like this by himself. Can't expect mama to be by his side all the time. There's a lot of things which contributed to his breaking down. He said that he had always confident before going for an exam. Even for UPSR. But this time it was a diff case. He had 2 new subjects ie Sejarah and Geografi. He had problem with Sejarah. Not a fan of subject that relies on memorizing facts I guess. 

As of today Alhamdulillah he had passed his Band 6 for BM, Maths & KH. A's for Pemahaman, Maths, Science & Sejarah. Others belum dapat result lagi.

And the best of all.....

He is now a much better servant to Allah & son to both of us.