A Day to The Exact Date: Little Things Matter (At Times)

Salam :) 

As promised, I will be sharing my own thoughts and experience being a wife for almost two years.. However, sekali lagi I nak pesan.. Tujuan I meluahkan dekat sini is not definitely to berlagak or what.. Tapi I just feel like sharing in a way boleh gain feedback from others about their opinion and stuffs regarding marriage life to develop ourself better kan.. Feel free to comment if there's anything that you feel like sharing :) 

Anyway, yes. As mentioned in the title above.. Little things matter.. Little things kat sini bukan bermaksud benda yang kecil diperbesar besarkan buat gaduh..

No, No, No! 

What I am trying to highlight is that in our daily life, tak semestinya marriage life only.. Benda yang orang buat untuk kita, walaupun tak mahal mana, walaupun tak besar mana.. Kita wajar hargai sesuatu tu. Terkadang, kita tak pun tau apa yang orang tu lalui untuk buat kita happy kan kan! 

Antara benda benda kecil yang kita leka kadang kadang is:- 

•Lupa nak cakap Thanks bila orang tolong

•Lupa nak say Please bila perlukan bantuan seseorang

•Susah nak balas senyuman orang, padahal free je kut dapat pahala ;p

•Alpa untuk bersyukur dengan apa yang orang bagi and tolong...

When it comes to marriage, I personally feel that ada banyak benda benda kecil, mudah and tak mahal pun boleh dilakukan untuk buat pasangan kita happy maaa... 

•Kalau kita tak mampu nak belanja, kita boleh try masak kat rumah untuk En Somi. Tak perlulah kita nak masak benda fancy, yang penting effort tu ada tau. :) 

•Salam tangan suami tu sebelum dia pergi mana mana. Tapi kalau dia nak p tandas tu ko jangan la buat pasal nak salam bagai.. Hahaha

•Sometimes, walaupun dah selalu sangat cakap.. Tak salah if kita cakap "I Love You" kat dia, tak kisah la through whatssap ke, telegram ke, telephone ke lan kan! 

•Simple question to make things go lively and perhaps lovely.. "Yang, how was your day today?".. Just to get your partner share about their day at work.. Of course you tak nak partner you end up stress and cakap dengan dinding kannnnn :p

•Kengkadang, benda yang dia buat tu.. Kita pun boleh buat.. Macam lipat baju, sidai baju, iron baju.. Tapi, tak salah pun buat dia happy and dihargai.. Always say Thank You, walaupun benda dia buat tu kecik je :) 

•Kalau dia marah ke apa, tak salah kalau kita diam and kalau tak nak keruhkan keadaan, say sorry first lorrrrr ;) 

•Walaupun dah kahwin, jangan hilang the sweetness. Maybe some couples forgot to be sweet. Why not pegang tangan bila jenjalan kat mall? malu? Hakktuiii. :p

I rasa these are some of the things that can make you ponder.. But I am sure there are many things tau..always remember it takes two to tango okay you olls! 

When Bapak Said: "Wondermama!"

Assalamualaikum.

Yeap, insomnia still and not very much able to sleep. 

So, a few days ago.. Mama ada hantar msg that goes like this at our family's Telegram:- 

"WOMAN

● changes her  home

● leaves her family

● moves in with you

● builds a home with you

● gets pregnant for you

● pregnancy changes her body

● she gets fat

● almost gives up in the labour room due to the unbearable pain of child birth

● even the kids she delivers bear your name

Till the day she dies... everything she does... cooking, cleaning your house, taking care of your parents, bringing up your children, earning, advising you, ensuring you can be relaxed, maintaining all family relations, everything that benefit you..... sometimes at the cost of her own health, hobbies and beauty.

So who is really doing whom a favour?

Dear men, appreciate the women in your lives always, because it is not easy to be a woman.

*Being a woman is priceless*

Happy women's week! 

Pass this to every woman in your contact to make her feel proud of herself.

Rock the world ladies!

A salute to ladies!

WOMAN MEANS :-

W ➖ WONDERFUL MOTHER

O ➖ OUTSTANDING FRIEND

M ➖ MARVELLOUS DAUGHTER

A ➖ ADORABLE SISTER

N ➖ NICEST GIFT TO MEN FROM GOD

Pass to every women to feel honoured !...."

So, daripada situ, my dad decided to take us all out for dinner tonight.. Plus Mama feels that it is about time to spend all the Mak Yongs (fyi, my sister in law is also pregnant and she's about to deliver the baby girl anytime really soon bebeh).. 

Jadi, kami pun ke Wondermama, Bangsar Village. Well, I don't know why but it seems that my family members tend to enjoy their time and food there.. Seronok sebenarnya bila dapat gather semua adik beradik, kekakak ipars, and also anak anak buahku yang semua cumels cumels belaka...

Well this kind of related to things that most people tend to enjoy to do when they are getting older in a way dah takde sangat la nak petik bintang, gapai bulan atau pun cium langit.. It's more of spending a quality time that is worth with family members.. After all, ada ke masa yang tak worth untuk luang bersama keluarga, kan kan kan? 

Anyway, Alhamdulillah. I am happy, I am blessed to have beautiful people around. :) And i am sure that my baby is also thankful to have both family sides yang sangat loving dan helpful :) 

3 More Days to Hafmynn's Anniversary: A lookback :)

Assalamualaikum!

As previous year, I should be doing all these reflect and look back a week before the real date of our solemnisation.. But this year is kind of a busy year for me *padahal dah tak larat sebab asyik mengah and dah mula rasa penat. Maklum la, reaching 32 weeks bebeh!*

Okay, so the moment I am typing this, it is alreadh 23rd January 2015, which means it's going to be 3 more days for my marriage with le husband reaches 2nd year :) 

Eleh, mesti ada yang baca ni cakap I poyo ke ape ke kan, but lantak lah. This is my blog and I have reasons why I am doing this.. And nawaitu saya bukan la sebab saya nak berlagak or what, but this is ala ala tribute or a walk of memory lane gituhhhh...

Well, being a wife is not easy. In a way, apa apa pun mesti kena dahulukan suami.. Terkadang lupa yang kita ni terlalu rapat dengan family kita sebelum

kahwin, jadi dah macam terbiasa if kita dahulukan parents.. and this is including me I must say..

It takes a hard time for me to betul betyl faham konsep "dahulukan suami dulu no matter   what".. Bukan nak jadi kuno ke apa, tapi that's the fact. Did u know that even if your husband forbids you dari jumpa you parents, you just have to follow? Lucky me, my husband is not that kind of person.. Alhamdulillah,dia sangat  tolerate walaupun I kena faham yang dia play role as Along dalam adik beradik dia and he has to utamakan his parents juga.. Ingat ye, kalau melawan kita dah consider derhaka pada somi. Tak nak le gitchuu.. Hehe

So, how to elak from all this gaduh gaduh,tengking  tengking and tarik muka sesh? Well, I believe that communication is important.. In a way, kita kan perempuan.. We have our advantage of being a female to talk nicely with the husband.. After all, takkan la husband u nak makan u? Hehehe

Apa yang I sendiri experience is that.. Whatever things that you do, memang kena fikir betul betul. Lagi lagi kita ni perempuan, bila marah tu.. Kemainn.. Pikir la yang "laki den tak sayang den",  "tah pape tah, sikit sikit nak marah" atau pun asal gaduh sikit je "Jah nak balik rumah mak Jah. Jah tak kira".. Hai yang sampai nak balik rumah mak tu yang tak tahan tu.. Sampai bila nak ada attitude macam ni? Cer Jah blajar kira.. Hehehe :) 

Memang betul yang kita ni sangat la sensentap.. Haaa. Akak dah keluar vocab baru.. Sensitip plus kuat sentap = Sensentap.. Tu biasa la perempuan.. Tapi, I started to think about kenapa husband tu acted that way? asal dia macam hingaq sangat kalau tak dengar kata?

Alahaii.. Sebab dia sayang kita la wahai kawan kawan.. I admit, masa awal awal kahwin--> adegan tarik muka, ekspresi sinetron indonesia kalau bengang (kan dia pause ala ala 5 minit sebab nak focus muka bengang pelakon tu), cerita cinta korea yang suka tarik tali (bila laki kau pujuk kata sorry, kau beria tak nak, konon nak makan romantik, puiii) and many more tu adalah terjadi dalam hubungan.. Ate, dah namanya drama queen! :p

Namun.. I belajar yang kalau nak selamat.. Diam je dulu.. Sakit hati macamana, diam je dulu. Yang kau gaduh beria macam WWE tu apa dapat? Lelaki ni ego.. Kalaupun diorang salah, ko hengat diorang nak mengaku on the spot? Eh kamon lah.. Tengok cerita sembilu.. Awie yg marah kat erra tu pun ambik mood naik motor siar siar satu KL dulu tau sebelum pujuk Erra.. Kui kui kui :p

Anyway, apa yang penting.. Toleransi. Sakit macamana pun hati perempuan, ingatlah.. Suami kau bukannya sengaja nak marah marah ke ape.. Life is alearning  process.. Kalau kita boleh bertindak dengan baik, kenapa pula nak keruhkan keadaan?

Another thing I learnt is that.. And also

Practice ye.. Deep inside your heart memang la nangis nangis tahap menikam bantal bantal kekabu tu.. Tapi percaya la.. Istighfar dan zikir banyak banyak..Sangat membantu..

And jangan pernah rasa diri tu kesorangan.. Allah kan ada :) berdoa selalu ye..jadi marilah kita sama sama jadi isteri yang sabar dan munasabah diri inshaaAllah :) 

Cerita saya ni sebagai perkongsian ye.. Jangan pulak ikut mana yg tak baik ye kawan kawan :) 

How Weekend Was

Salam :) 

It's going to be almost 12.30 AM (when i'm typing this) and I hardly can sleep.

Haffby is currently dibuai mimpi and maybe dia dah sampai area Australia.. Hehe. So, what has been up lately?

My weekend was fruitful and good. Managed to spend it with family and loved ones definitely by basically just simple activities like watching the funny show together with the fam bam at prime time, babysitting both nephew and niece, while encouraging them to talk to my cookie and also to have a good home cooked food with le parents while talking about all the joyous things in the world - be it past, present and future :) 

On Saturday, my uncle held a gathering with all the fam bam, mainly my dad's siblings, having to had tahlil and bacaan yassin for my late grandfather Abdul Rashid who had passed away on last October...

It was good to have all cousins, aunties and uncles around for these kind of family gathering, that I am very sure that my arwah atuk will be smiling and happy to see us all gathered under the same roof, citing the holy verses.. 

Other than that, a pregnant lady is always a prgnant lady.. I've always been craving for my tante's best mee rebus ever! Yum yum, i bet my cookie will love it definitely.. 

Well, till then. Hope to update more! 

My Pregnancy Story: How I find Out

Salam :)
Mata ni tak boleh lelap pula...
So, let me share about my pregnancy with all of you ya... :)

The Moment of Truth

Okay, frankly speaking.. I didn't expect this pregnancy as I got so fed up having to wait and hope for false alarm sebab dulu terlalu mengharap.. Orang tua tua kan pernah cakap yang jangan terlalu fikir and terterkan pasal sesuatu perkara, lagi lagi melibatkan zuriat... and true enough, masa dapat tau i'm pregnant, I was like......... SERIOUSLY???? ALHAMDULILLAH!!!! Okay, so the chronicles are as following:-

• I got a serious fever and runny nose. Masa tu first week of puasa 2014, and third week i'm working at my new workplace... So, masa pagi nak pergi kerja tu.. Haffby pesan suruh pergi doktor untuk get some meds untuk cool down the fever and runny nose.. sebab dia cakap badan I sort of panas and dia kata I macam tak larat... 
• So, sebagai isteri yang baik *biasa la, mesti ada selingan carry the own basket one*, I went to to clinic dengan harapan, "Doktor, tolong la bagi mak cik MC. Mak cik dah tak larat asyik nak lap selemo ni, dengan kepala denyut denyut nak drive bagai".. So, I pretty well remembered what was the first question, actually second question Doctor asked me after dia tanya khabar. The question was "When was your last period?".. So i dengan selamba je jawab... and by then I memang dah lambat a week... but me, being as lampi as I can when it comes to all these matters, I cakap it's normal sebab my period is always irregular. She insisted for me to pee on the stick jugak, but I still refused sebab takut false alarm.. nak dekat masuk sepuluh minit dia pujuk...aku tak nak jugak..pastu dia cakap "Yasmin, I cannot simply prescribe you the meds because I don't know what's your situation. So, I suggest... you go home and rest, I will give you MC. if you change your mind and decided to take the test, kat rumah or here, let me know the results. Then only I can bagi you ubat"... Okay, dengan senyum sinis, I angguk and just went off. 
• Kebetulan, masa yang sama.. memang I nak ke Guardian *my favourite place sebab entah la... i suka sangat masuk Guardian ke, Watsons ke, Sasa ke, just because I love all those wangi wangi things..hahaha*.. I memang nak beli toiletries and so on... pastu lalu la kat row pregnancy kit tu... dalam hati gatal nak beli jugak, jadi tangan pun tolong hati and letak pregnancy kit tu dalam bakul :D
• Balik rumah, solt zuhur... tidor. Ya allah, mengulor betul hari tu.... hidung asyik berair je masa tu. hahaha.. so, came Asar prayer, and sebelum ambik wudhuk tu, asyik terfikir apa doktor cakap... tapi dalam hati sibuk berkata "Haiii! Tewas lagi... kena ke kencing jugak kat benda alah ni?"... So, I did... and masa tu I tengok takde pun double line...So, i ambik wudhuk and just biarkan that UPT kat tepi sinki.. dengan harapan akan dibersihkan selepas solat asar nnt... 
• Then, lepas solat asar.. I masuk bilik air nak buang benda tu... and I got the biggest shock of my life.. nangis... uwek uwek uwek... eh silap.. uwaa uwaa uwaaaaaaa... double line... tak tersangka.... terus keluar bilik air... and sujud syukur... alhamdulillah.... 
• Bila dah tau macam tu, baru la semua benda teringat.. sebelum I demam teruk tu, I ada cakap kat my husband I teringin sangat nak makan Hummus... sampai berair mata whatssap dia cakap nak jugak makan tu no matter what.. and dia pun belikan i.. tapi, bila sampai waktu berbuka, i just makan dua suap je... Pastu, dah tak nak... masa tu Haffby macam pelik la.. mana taknya, beria ia kata nak makan, tapi last last dua suap je :D 
• So, we broke the news to our family, mainly his family and my family... alhamdulillah, semua pun happy... and we are also very happy, and yes..bersyukur!

However, both me and Haffby learnt that Allah tidak pernah tidur, and Allah sentiasa tahu bila nak memberikan sesuatu kepada Hambanya... Yang penting, kita kena berdoa, selalu. :) 

till then, nanti I sambung lagi inshaaAllah :) 

Happy(Belated) Birthday Post for Hubs *LOL*

Salam.
Just a quick update.. :)
I have mentioned earlier about me doing the pavlovas for husband's small birthday celebration di Surau.

Here I am, taking the opportunity to wish my husband, Hafiz Ismail a very Happy 27th Birthday to you sayang.. May you have all the nicest things in the world, you just name it all. Semoga Allah panjangkan umur, murahkan rezeki dan merahmati you selalu... *walaupun kengkadang rasa macam nak sumbat bantal kat mulut i bila i membebel banyak kan?but cannot do anything la dear, it's very me and it's nature.. eh?*

Anyway, realising this year is going to be extra different because you soon are going to get a new title, no longer only a son, a brother, an uncle, a friend, a husband --> you are so going to be a DAD very soon. Inshaallah, I doakan supaya semua dipermudahkan dan you tabah untuk mengga;as tanggungjawab sebagai khalifah kepada I dan anak kita... :)

Ok, tak mau emo lebih... wishing you a very happy birthday and maafkan I kalau celebration tahun ni tak se va va voom macam tahun lepas.. heheh

I also want to share with the readers about the card that I gave to my husband... :) Love you, my forever haffby :)

Pavlova for Telor Lovers!

Assalamualaikum! 

Since I am not working already, I decided to memperkayakan skill memasak..eh? ayat tak nak kalah ye! 

Okay, so yesterday was my husband's birthday and my MIL called me earlier in the morning... katanya nak buat kenduri doa selamat di surau, with a special request---> for me to bake something... Ok, mak panic! 

Mak cemas!

Mak juling!

Pikir punya pikir... I got an idea.. mari kita bikin Pavlova, sebab teringat yang besday boy pernah lahap pavlova yang I pernah bake sampai licin tupperware kau.... kelasss! So, i decided to do mini Pavlovas for jemaah surau. 

Okay, some introduction on Pavlovas... basically it's a dessert that is based on egg white... it's like meringue la... i learnt that after a few attempts making it, you have to make sure that your hands, utensils and everything around you has to be DRY. Kering! Especially bila you asingkan putih telur dari kuning telur tu ye datin datin sekalian... 

And talking about recipes, I am not a professional chef and to be frank, there are many recipes that you can get via Google. But one thing for sure, kena berani take the risk and cuba ok? Sebab bila pakai google ni, macam macam teknik orang buat, so motif nya dekat sini kalau you buat first time tu tak berapa nak menjadi, please jangan give up.. keep trying ok? 

So, talking about Pavlova's recipe, I refer to this puan punya blog here. Thank you kak, it made my day.. sebab nervous, selalu buat yang besar punya je, bila buat mini pavlovas ni entah la..rasanya macam nervous satu macam... maybe sebab nak buat dalam kuantiti yang banyak kot? 

The Main Items for Pavlova

Bila dah ikut recipe yang i dah pun mintak u refer via hyperlink kat atas, make sure that you beat the white egg sampai dia betul betul fluffy and bila you terbalikkan your mixing bowl, the meringue takkan jatuh and memang stick to the mixing bowl. That's when you know that pavlova you AKAN menjadi :D 

Once you dah siapkan meringue you, kindly heat your oven at 150C for 15 minutes, While waiting tu, you can start fill in the meringue dalam cups that you desired. I cuba pakai nozzle, walaupun tangan menggigil babe! Tapi. kuatkan semangat jugak!  Jadi la macam niiiii . Pastu bakar for 40 - 45 minutes yee 

Bila dah siap. you might need whipped cream that you can pukul sampai dia kental. pastu top it on the meringue yang dah sejuk sikit, pastu tabur la buah kesukaan you olls... gambar ni kat bawah adalah gambar nak snap cepat cepat dah masuk packaging sebab takut besday boy tau surprise nye! hehehe... 

So, all in all. I hope you all pun cuba cuba la buat pavlova ni ye :) saya pun sekadar berkongsi pengalaman. Anyway, thank you kepada tuan punya blog tu :D  thank you kak, orang surau suka. and licin habis :D 

Jangan Tidak Pernah Bersyukur..

"Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah.

Jangan pernah leka dengan nikmat yang Allah limpahkan.

Jangan mudah senang dengan apa yang dikecapi, namun ini bukan bermaksud kita tamak.

Allah itu kaya, Allah itu maha mengetahui tentang kita yang sangat kerdil ini.."

I'm always worried about how things should be after I resigned from my previous workplace.. I am too worried and conscious about my car payment, my insurance, my bills and you just name all the never ending bills here.. Biasa la, lumrah manusia.. Enough is not enough.. I'm pretty sure you heard of that before?

I talked to my mom a lot about this.. And she always told me that.. "Min, if you fix your relationship with Allah SWT, definitely your heart will be more at ease, you won't feel so panic and inshaaAllah, HE the merciful will help you"... 

Alhamdulillah, I admit that last time I was too busy looking for the so called "rezeki"..  But I often neglected my responsibility as a Muslimah.. What had happened to my relationship with my creator? I must have been ashamed with what I've been doing for all this while.. 

Here I am, in this very new year, I am trying my best to fix things up.. My relationship with Allah -- be it Solat, Apparel, and also the Prophet Muhammad SAW's sunnahs.. InshaaAllah, I will obey things that I should have done.. For truly, I can tell that by patience and solat, magic and miracle do happen. Therefore, believe that Allah never sleeps and always listening to us, and our prayers inshaaAllah.

I guess it's time to always be thankful no matter what, as you never know there are more people who suffer worst things than you are facing now, mashaAllah. 

Resolution: Reorganising Things and Looking for the Solutions

Hello!
Still, it's not too late for me to wish myself and everybody a happy new year and welcome 2015. As stated in my previous post on the ups and downs of my 2014... I am pretty sure everybody has their own experience kan?

So, what is your resolution?  to me.. resolution is more towards organising things from what to be prioritised from the most important and least important.... and yes, once when it's organised, we gotta look for solutions and alternatives to make it work kan? :D

2015

• Earlier part of the year, I have to work hard to find part time jobs to cover my expenses. Currently, i'm now at my third trimester of pregnancy and it's quite impossible for people to hire pregnant lady, especially when they have reached their third trimester. Kind of susah. Right? Lagi lagi bila pikir balik how the previous company had treated me.. MashaaAllah, ngeri!
• March, the little one will be in my arms - InshaaAllah, If he really follow the cycles of 40 weeks of pregnancy, the baby is expected to arrive and meet everyone on the 21st March 2015. Seriously, not that far from now you see :)
• I want to stay focus on my responsibilities as a wife, daughter, sister and a friend. I know i have not much time but the considerations on things to be prioritised take place here.. and yes, added to another responsibility --> being a mom!
• To commit seriously in my masters education... this is no kidding... i've worked hard and committed in my second semester, thinking about how much I messed things up during my first semester... Frankly, I started to feel the good vibes, with the help and cooperation with fellow friends. 
• Well, basically I want  to just work hard to get my dream career, to work in one of the local institutions as a lecturer and keep my mouth shut.. boleh? :)
• Of course, to be a better muslimah :) sama sama la kita belajar ok? 

Well, that's about mine... what about yours? Remember, organise, and look for solutions and aternatives --> that's make resolutions be motivation :D