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assalamualaikum ...


apa agaknya yg akan memotivasikan saya untuk rajin menulis?...perhaps....as the title should sound...its a legacy for my children..hehehe...legacy....supposedly reminders..although im not a good mom when it comes to reminders...anway...just want to upload few pictures here in Oman untuk kenangan anakanda kerana for sure kita tidak akan menetap disini kerana kita hanya musafir di bumi Oman ini. Semoga dapat memberi kenagan on  tempat membesar kamu berdua.

our small garden and also where you used to play and of course the car park too

our favorite bougainvilla. summer time it will just flourish and we love the vibrant colour

Park in The Wave area in which we usually visit. A very safe and enjoyable green area to just run and shout you lung out, not forgetting the roll n roll over d grass..

Cheap labour....ibu make you paint the wall that has been scribble by you both. Its a very good 'painting time' together indeed and will definitely do it again..just for the fun of it.

sudah lama tidak berkabaran

Assalamualaikum semua....

sudah lama bangat saya tidak keudara....ada sedikit love hate situation dengan ini blog..hehehe..many things to write but in the end nothing comes out...after soo long no writing, its indeed difficult to start off with.

let me just write a bit progress on the children...

the adik is doing very well at school..he recognized his numbers 1-10 already!..clap clap clap to adik. ofcourse he did very well too in his doa recitation and also he already memorize 6-7 last surah of juzuk ammah..another big clap clap clap to adik...and he also read Ayatul kursi very well and he loves surah At-Taareq. i saw some blog post up the video of their young children reciting the juzuk ammah..but its very difficult to get adik to read infront of camera...inshaAllah next time. On toilet training adik is doing very good..ibu can say you are officially no need of pampers during the day....just at night time...Adik too start to sing 'angkabut song'..i.e itsy bitsy spider in arabic version...its funy but ibu cant join you as ibu cant make up any words you said...just the angkabut and shams..hehehe...you also love the song 'ask me a question...ill tell you the truth...from the iqraa channel ask the sheikh program...ans also the deen show program...'i am not afraid to stand alone...if Allah by my side'.....he is just so cute...

as for abang...he does very well nowadays too...he can read!!!phee wiit...ibu can proudly say he is reading masha Allah. He reads english better then his arabic but maybe because i can only help and monitor him reading with english books as its difficult to get arabic books with arabic letters together with the marks fathah dammah and kasrah. So there is a set back for him in that area as i cant help him much. Maybe its also because im not familiar with the materials that i can use to help him read arabic faster. As for quran he understand the concept of sukun and sajdah and tanween very well in reading the quran...but its difficult to teach him the tajweed involved as i dont know myself the law or the name of the tajweed, i just knew thats how it should be read. hmmm...so many things need to be done to upgrade myself too. Alhamdulillah he can read the quran so perhaps thats how i should see the situation....shuwaiya shuwaiya inshaAllah soon. Talking about reading..hhmm..abang was selected to represent his class  in the school arabic 'musabaqah' i.e competition ..i dont know how it was  done or when is really the date of the competition...although abang said  he is done reading for his musabaqah....hmmmmm i guess it doesnt matter as one thing for sure there will be another islamic knowledge musabaqah this coming 18th april and the school sent out the detail of the musabaqah to the parents...so at least i can help him prepare abit...3 catagories will be assess for all level...1st is the reading of juzuk ammah..2nd the memorization of the hadeeth (7-11 of them based on level) and 3rd memorization of doa and also asmaul husna....its a BIG thing..inshaAllah ibu will help you abang. ibu still thinking of the ways on how to learn and practise together....its not easy to make you concentrate more then 30min...ibupun tak hafal semua juzuk amma and the hadeeth still.....phewww...

As of me..hahaha....we finish our arabic level 1 last 5th march 2012 and for the exam ibu score A+ mumtazz..hehehe..inshaAllah will register for 2nd level this early April...i do learn a lot....and Alhamdulillah for all.

Monster

Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full
One for the MONSTER, one for the dame,
And one for the little boy who lives down the lane.


My little adik has been very disturbed by monster stories these past few weeks.He got scared of  them. It perplex me on how he manage to imagine monster in every little thing he does. I have screen his cartoon shows and have never use the word monster to scares him in any way yet there he is telling stories about monster to us and of course he even sing the baa baa black sheep with the monster version.My husband and i decided if this continue, then we will try the ruqyah on him. InshaAllah khair.


This saturday is a big day for me. It will be my first day job as driver for my children to school. inshaAllah after sending them to school, i have to rush to my new school. Yes i have registered myself for arabic class in Polyglot institute here in Oman. One of my wish in Hajj is to be able to communicate in arabic. Alhamdulillah for all. The school is about 40km away from my place so things gonna be tough as i will be joining the morning crowd on the road and in the afternoon too. I  pray nothing ever happen that will disturb my routine for class and dispatching my children at school and other extra task. I want all of my task here to run smoothly. Ya Rabb grant me my doa.

holidays, new job

Assalamualaikum wbt

Been very long time i didn't write. Life been upside down and busy as usual but Alhamdulillah. School mid-year holidays started last Thursday and hubby to is taking his end of year holidays about the same days as the school holidays. The house is pack with 3 men in mylife who constantly asking for food, time and attention all at the same time. This is my first time ever having them 24/7 for about 2 weeks...pheww  May Allah make it easy for me and that hopefully everybody will be happy during this holidays although no holiday plan has been made yet. Perhaps just strolling around the city area.

For the boys it will be park and beach and ???? no idea but hopefully they will be happy enough and hopefully the weather will permits too as its been very cold lately here in Muscat..temp drops to 15deg at night up till early morning but gets very nice warm and windy in the afternoon. But then maghrib is at 5.30pm so the door for outing is really short. We shall see, inshaAllah khair.

Perhaps something worth mentioning here for my own pleasure and which is good for my ego is that i manage to bake a cake which is very light and fluffy!. Although its a ready mix moist chocolate cake recipe, but i made my own changes here and there and Alhamdulillah it turn out perfect cake in term of taste but not the shape and deco. 1/4 has already been eaten by the boys and hubby, and the rest of the 3/4 is there in the fridge waiting to be decorated. InshaAllah i will do the ganache tomorrow if it still worth to be presented with ganache :) or if the ingredients for the ganache are there in the baking cabinet. Today  I was just too tired to do the ganache after the sand time at the beach with the boys.

New job?....he he he.. I will have few extra job after this holiday season. I' ll be the driver for my children to school every  morning and afternoon.A job that i have been looking forward since i was there in Malaysia. Many of my friends are also drivers to their children and sometimes I pity them when they have to rush to send and pick their children at school. Now inshaAllah its my turn, may Allah make it easy and keep all of us safe always during the journey.What i do hope to happen during this time is that i will then be able to make the boys listen to the quran recitation esp the juzu amma thus strengthening their memorization. If before, their journey back and forth in the bus is spend sleeping or playing, i d hope now it will be a more meaningful time for quran memorization and listening for all of us. I'm gonna look into this matter indeed.Pray me success.

eye closing, inshaAllah till next time

The miracle of ginger

Salam to all,

As per tittle, i would like to tell abit on the usage of ginger that i recently discovered from real experience. I have known the advantages of ginger as part of prophetic medcine and of course science too acknowledge the many advantages of ginger for health. 

Few days ago, both adik and abang out of sudden complaint about stomachache and headache followed by vomitting. The adik started to show the symptom first by suddenly vomitting all over his bed while asleep. ironically the next morning he woke up jumpy and didnt show any sign of illness.But then later at night again he vomit again and i realised that before the event  his tummy looks so bloated. I quickly reckon there is something brewing in adik's body/ stomach and part of the problem seems have to do with his milk. ( he drank his routine milk before sleep ) after that vomitting episode, i gave him another bottle of milk as he was hungry after the stomach content is emptied. But this time i add abit of fresh ginger into the milk. Earlier in the day i watch in the iqraa tv about this medcine from the quran if im not mistaken and the Dr mention something about lactose intolerant and how one who has such problem should drink ginger before and after he drank his milk . I of course cant force a 2 yr old boy to drink ginger tea and also there is no way i can stop him to have his routine milk because i suspected lactose intolerence is happening in his stomach. ( he dislikes lactose free milk including soy milk) So i made tawakkul to Allah to add a piece of ginger in his milk and Alhamdulillah he slept well all the night and throughout the day too as i keep giving him honey drink wit a bit of ginger too in the morning.

Unfortunately the next nite it was abang's turn to start vomiting and he also complaints of stomachache and headache.I gave him the honey mix with ginger drink and zam zam water. The vomitting did not stop but continue until morning after. He then have to stay at home. As he loves his cereal in the morning and was asking for it, i again add a piece of ginger into their milk and cereal and continue  the ginger tea throughout the day and Alhamdulillah no more vomitting episode occur. But abang still complaint about the stomachache and also the headache. I realised he have the stomacache because he cannot pass his gas.( ive heard before that not passing the gas can be the indicator of stomach problem) I rub aginst his stomach the 'minyak kayu putih' oil and Alhamdulillah it helps abit with the bloating of the stomach and the ache.Alhamdulillah the vomitting episode last only 1 nite and he is all good to return to school the next day.

I thought the little adik has also recovered fully but today, i gave him his milk without the ginger and he start to vomit again. After that i gave him a new bottle of milk with ginger and i do hope he will sleep throughout the night peacefully.The stomach doesn't seems to be bloating. I do hope todays episode of vomit is a stress issue as he has been cranky all day when his sleep in the bus was disturb. May Allah heals you my son and protect you always from any harm.

As  conclusion i will recommend ginger in situation of lactose intolerance (vomiting and maybe diarrhea)  if your child is really a full fat milk drinker and cant live without it :) Its a quick solution then having to buy lactose free milk which might end up not being drank by him. If the child is older abit, then ginger drink is good in this situation as it also help if he cant pass his gas and still as a precaution put the ginger in his milk always too. You'll never know and its much easier then having to deal with cleanup of the vomit. I would also recommend 'minyak kayu putih' oil handy to those who are from south east asia as its very  popular as remedy for baby tummy/gas problems.

p/s in my case m myself and i assumed my children develop the lactose intolerence phaps due to somekind of virus attacking them. I might be wrong but im positively sure they cant take any normal milk without vomitting them again. Based on my past experience with almost same incident with abang and still remembering from what the Dr explain and recommend, i concluded that they are experiencing lactose intolerant with their milk for time being. For those who actually been diagnosed with the real lactose intolerance problem, i can only say give the ginger a try and i do hope i did not contradict any physician recommendation.  

much salam

disturb

Salam to all

Its just disturbing when people say something about your children which you never thought he is. Two days ago i went to Teacher's parents conference to discuss the performance of adik and abang. I was astonish and almost cant believe my ear when most of the teacher praises Abang and telling me things that i never thought he is capable of doing. Does it mean i dont know my child?.....it's a very disturbing thought but my perspective have been changed a bit ever since....i found myself trying to know  them and looking at them in a slightly different manner.There is a proverb that i remember reading when i was in high school...what you see depends on what you looking for. I guess there is also a hadeeth about this matter something like if you care to see good you will find good and vice versa. So nowadays im trying to see my little abang only from his positive sides. When he was young he took a lot of my energy and patient away and that idea is still imprint in my mind. But i do agree he is a change boy...no longer a baby..he is 5 next year. He is more calm and indeed very thoughtful boy,  Loves to colour and does his homework diligently and did many things that is pleasing to me and husband.  It does bring some new light from the perspective im looking now and its more pleasant  i can say.   So Masha Allah and Alhamdulillah for this positive change both in me and my boy. May Allah make it last and make us among the righteous bondsmen always.

labbaikalla humma labbaik (pt 2)

lesson learnt

First and foremost i would like to extend my thanks and gratefulness to my dear husband for being patient and thoughtful to me from the very beginning of the journey till the end. I complaint a lot about the walk on how its very tiring and how i prefer to be in the bus in which at least i think i can rest and  do my zikir and reading quran there rather then having to walk and tire and hurt myself all the way. What i fail to see is that my husband who is in ihram  have to walk all the way arafat - mecca carrying the biggest beg pack which is very heavy and wearing only slippers. He hurt all his toes and some blood pouring from his nail and he never complaints. Im sorry mydear for not making things any less easier for you. My heart feel for you when i saw your toes bleeding, and i felt really sorry and i repent to Allah for my mistakes. May He forgive me and may you able to forgive me too. May Allah reward you for the extra expenses you have to pay for our wheelchair renting which is not cheap at all.  Ya Allah grant my husband the 4 X 4 car he jokingly said that he would want in exchange for the price he paid for our wheelchair :) You knows best what is in our heart Ya Rabb and You know best what is good for us. Grant us our wish and let us be among who is thankful always.

while we are in the tent in Arafat, two women seems to quarrel and one of them cried. I tried to find out what was happening but someone tell me not to bother as she said when we are here in the blessed area of Arafat, shaytan are here too to divert us from our ibadah.  Thank you to this dear sister for her nice naseehah and also im grateful that i did not speak nor understand arabic ( this is a arabic speaking travel group and im the only asian speaking only english) because of this i found that im able to do more ibadah rather then chatting as most of the ladies didn't speak english. But Ya Allah grant me the way to be able to learn to  speak Arabic, the Language of the Prophet and the Quran. I love to master the language and May Allah guide me to the way and make me master the language easily. Ameen. At the same time when the sister give me naseehah that we are here to do ibadah, i consciously agreed that im there following the Labbaik Kalla Humma Labbaik. Its not easy Ya Allah,  as test be it big or small is always there...the talbiah really reminds me of why im there...Im there supposedly only for the sincere niyah coming to you Ya Allah, the rest of the world with its trial and tribulation should come second after You Ya Allah. I should do what is only pleasing to You Ya Allah. This is the niyah that need to stay in my heart till the day i die and I ask Allah to make it easy for me.Allah humma Yassir Wala Tuassir and to not put me on trial which i can bear not.: Al Baqarah:286  I love this doa very much.

On our way to Arafat while in a bus, i was chatting with the sister seating next to me on how magnificent was the whole thing in this pilgrimage. We saw people on top of buses, it is something  i never see in my surrounding nor i ever thought of seeing as this is 21st century. But Masha Allah to all. And proclaim to mankind the Hajj (pilgrimage). They will come to you on foot and on every lean camel; they will come from every deep and distant (wide) mountain highway (to perform Hajj). (Quran: 22/27)

 And i made  a statement that im waiting eagerly for the dawn/ maghrib of that day to arrive in which InshaAllah all our sin will be wiped away. I do hope to see the dawn of the day but due to the walking and the crowd surrounding me i did not manage to see the sun setting of that day. Its sad but i do hope that Allah grant me all the doa and needs that i have supplicate and that i am like a new born baby free of all sins after the day of Arafah. How great the feeling was and i do hope i will remember this till the end of my time and to always try my best to put my level of sin to the minimum.I should always remember how Allah have always been merciful and i really experienced His mercy towards all his creations there in Arafah and also who are everywhere in this world, be it human or plant and animal. The Prophet (p.b.u.h.) said, “There is no day on which Allah frees more of His slaves from Fire than the Day of Arafat, and He verily draws near, then boasts of them before the angles, saying: ‘What do they seek?’” (Sahih Muslim) 

This is from the halaqah i heard from one of the security there in Masjid Nabawi while we are waiting for our turn to go ziarah the Prophet SAW

 

La illaha ilAllahu, waHdahu la shareeka lahu, lahul Mulku, wa lahul Hamd, wa Huwa ala kulli shaiy'in Qadeer

(There is No God But Allah Alone, who has no partner. His is the dominion and His is the raise, and He is Able to do all things)

Whoever says the above one Hundred times has the reward of freeing ten slaves, a hundred good deeds are recorded for him and a hundred bad deeds are wiped away and he has gained refuge from the devil that day until evening and none shall come with anything better except someone who has done more.

[Al-Bukhari, Muslim]

 i love this zikir as its indeed manage to bring some kind of peace in me as i believe without the devil our life is so much calmer. InshaAllah i will always practice it till the end of my life.