Oh baby, I am so into you.......

I just found out that the basket thingy that we use to carry baby is called "Moses basket", how appropriately named?!

Anyway, went shopping for basic baby stuff yesterday, my mum said not to buy too many things as we will get lots of hampers once the baby is delivered (hint hint) Insya Allah.

Dr Fatimah is already advising wife to cut down on carbs, and do more exercise, so I guess I can just sit down and watch TV, and let wife to do the housework, she need the exercise. I know it is hard, being such a hardworking guy a loving husband that I am to let my wife to do all the work, but it is the doctor's order! I am forced to sit down and be a couch potato! LOL

Post-Raya Post.

Took this pict to compare with my last year raya deco, so I might as well post it even it is way too late.


Decided not to decorate the bamboo tree with light this year, from last year experience, it not not good for the health of the tree, the tree above is bamboo_tree V2.0, version 1 passed on to the next life (thanks to me for putting too much fertilizer on it)

Comparing with last year picture, my garden has improved a lot, look much more greener. Much more plants, and of course according to my wife's definition, it is 'hutan', but the garden is my territory as she claim the kitchen as her's (Then why the hell am I still need to cook and do the dishes?!!!)

Anyway, selamat hari raya to all!!!!

Maaf Zahir dan Batin.

More raya pictures coming soon.

Puasa

• Kalau baca balik entry poser tahun lepas, tahun ini aku memang ada improvement, memang tak rasa ketagih nak minum kopi sangat, rasa-rasanye, ada la dalam 5-6 kali aku minum kopi bulan puasa ni.
• Memandangkan aku kerja sampai kul 8 malam every monday, aku decide la nak gi gym every monday, at least once a week bulan puasa ni. Kalau aku balik rumah pun bukannyer sempat gi terawih pun (ceh, macam kalau tak kerja rajin gi terawih he he). Pada andaian aku, aku ingat I will be the only muslim in GYM masa tu, alangkah terperanjatnye aku, the usual guys are still there! Tak tau le kalau dia orang pun kerja sampai malam ke apa kan, but aku terkejut la. Tu je, aku tak nak assume apa-apa la kan. Semua orang ada goal masing2 (dunia and akhirat). Yang gi gym lepas berbuka boleh paham lagi, but aku dengar, ada jugak yang workout masa day time! Hard core giler! Kalau aku, aku rasa dah pengsan kot.
• Pernah tak korang queue setengah jam (to 45 min) untuk beli roti John? Aku dan kawan aku gi bazar Ramadan kat Putraya, ada satu stall ni (Roti John Unan ke apa ntah). Orang queue panjang giler. So kawan aku pun cakap dia memang dah lama curious pasal roti John ni, sebab hari-hari queue dia panjang gile, so dia pun beratur la, lebih kurang 30 min (aku suruh dia beli satu untuk aku). Masa berbuka, kitorang makan, rasa dia macam roti john lain jer, apa yang sedap sangatnye? ada le minced meat sikit2 dalam tu, tujer, berbaloi ke beratur buang masa macam tu? Ntah le, aku sampai hari ni tak paham.
• Aku teirngat satu cerita masa belajar kat UIA dulu, ada la aku and kawan2 aku berborak ngan sorang Paki and sorang Arab. Paki tu cakap, kat negara dia orang panggil bulan Ramadan as 'Ramzan' and Arab pulak cakap , kat Saudi depa panggil Ramadhan (mcm slang Sharifah Aini). Then aku cakap, kat Malaysia, kita panggil bulan Ramadhan as "Bajang". ( sebab one of my friend dalam group tu nama dia Ramzan, but kitorang nick dia Bajang). No one got the joke! Damn, but I found it very funny, aku gelak sorang2 jer masa tu, syok sendiri.
• Tahun aku tobat tak mo nak shopping kat KL, sebab bad experience last year. Tahun ni mostly beli kat Mydin Subang Jaya jer, tu pun mostly untuk anak-anak buah. Whoaa, Mydin ni kayo betul, dia beli tanah belakang building dia tu buat parking, now can accommodate 1000++ kereta!
  

Hit me baby one more time

• We decided not to know the gender of the baby until the delivery, wanna make it as surprise, at least we have something to look for. Knowing the sex of the baby earlier takes all the fun out of delivery, I think. Lets hope the Doctor doesn't accidentally blurt out the baby's gender during check up.
• According wife, the baby started to kick already, quite actively it seems, but whenever I wanted to feel it, the baby just stay still, maybe the baby don't like me? or maybe the baby is behaving when I try to feel, knowing what a strict dad I am gonna be? ha ha.
• We have decided to deliver in Kelana Jaya Medical Center. Been seeing Dr Fatimah since the beginning and she is kinda family friend to wife. Some more, wife's company willing to give GL even it is not a Panel, so we kinda made up the mind. KJMC is nearer to in law's house, so anything easier to rush there.

Number 1 station my a@$!!!!

After watching those really annoying advertisement on Astro promoting hitz.fm Morning Crew, I made a vow to myself, that I will never EVER listen to hitz.fm.
How desperate are they? The rating must have really drop terribly that they need to advertise that they are number one, and whenever the advertisement is on, I will frantically look for remote to change the channel, I just can't take it!

I had enough. I HATE RUDY AND JJ!!!

FLY FM is much much more better and not insulting as Hitz Morning Crew!

Mental note: To delete hitz.fm from memory in the car radio.

Hmmm, maybe I really am a ......... ;)

Hear me out first.


My company organized a team buiding activity at Eagle Ranch Resort and had a Professor hired to give us lectures and carry out the team building stuff. Pretty standard stuff. In one of the class, something about how our mind sees things, he showed the picture below and ask everyone what they see.


Off course most of us have seen this before.... millions of times, been forwarded to our inbox almost from everyone we know. Anyway , it seems that most of people sees the young girl first then only they realize an old old lady hidden within. Then I told the prof that when first I saw the pictures many years ago, I saw an old lady, the prof silent the whole class, saying that this is a rare case and that only 10% of the population sees the old lady first. Wow, I felt so special.

He said "I have a special test for you", he draw 4 shapes on the white board, a circle, a triangle, a box and a trapezoid. And asked me to choose which shape I prefer. I was clueless, then simply choose the trapezoid. Then the Prof said with serious tone, "This confirm my theory, you are a confirmed sex maniac!.
The whole room exploded into laughter, the joke was on me, normally I wouldn't fall for this kinda prank, but I didn't realize a Dr. would pull one on me!

So for the next 2 days, during the team building I was nick named sex maniac, but thank God no body continued after we return to office.

Updates.....

1. Test drove the new Persona, very nice. The boot is enormous! The handling is good, very quite inside, no vibration. The design is cool. Good car.

2. Sent my wedding watch for repair. it has been broken for a long time, the crown is missing, and no battery. Since it is Swiss watch, only the specialist shop could repair it, i have asked so many shop, none could repair. After 3 days, the shop called me, the repair cost will be RM380!!! He said, if this watch has sentimental value, it worth repairing or else buy a new one. Hmmm of course it is sentimental, it is the freaking wedding watch. But I asked not to proceeded, Maybe one day, when I am filthy rich, I will repair it.

3. Power outage in Wisma Consplant, so all home Fitness First members we upgraded to Passport (meaning we can go to any FF for that day). Went to FF Summit. it was huge! really nice, the free wight area was so big. Love it. Hmm should I change the membership to this branch? Had a great workout, and after that we and wife went shopping in S. Parade and I ate 1/2 chicken Nandos with rice. If I worked out like crazy, my appetite will be very 'healthy'

4. Fasted yesterday, and went for buka puasa at Big Plate. I oreder mixed grill and wife ordered just soup. And both of us couldn't finish the meal. it was a BIG plate indeed.

5. How can they end the season 3 of LOST like that? Frustrating isn't it. This is why I hate watching these series, they don't seems to end! (but I watch it nevertheless)

Ya Allah, kuatkan lah iman aku

I am obsessed with Proton Persona now (at least my wife thinks so).
Yes yes, I have told everyone (and promised myself) that I am not going to change my car after I finish paying for it. But this Persona really menguji my keimanan. With that price range (RM45k-50k for 1.6), it is just irresistible!
And even Paul Tan gave a good review, go read here.

I've been bugging wife to go the showroom, but she said she dah muak see that car already, since she been seeing the car since the prototype model up to the P1. I guess I will go myself then, but takut 'terbook' the car pulak. (got such thing ar?)

Hope my will power is strong enough to resist this temptation. Amin.

What are the odds?

After 1 year and 6 months moving into the new house, the gas finally ran out. Funny thing is the second cylinder we had outside in the wet kitchen ran out one week after that (while wife was cooking something).

Look like we been cooking quite a lot for two, for the past 1 and half years. I thought the gas would last for another year at least.

p/s: Gosh!! What an interesting post is this, total waste of time for those whoever reading this!

TV Addict

Prison Break.
At first, I found it quite boring, somewhere at the middle of season 1, it really started to get interesting. So I got the whole downloaded season 1 and 2 from my supplier. I watched whole of Season 1 and bit of season 2. Whoaaa really cool! How they ever going to win going against the crime committed by the President of the US of A? And they also killed Veronica, so who going to help them? Their dad?
p/s: I am such a big fan of Prison Break now that, I even follow the LINCOLN BURROWS hair style.

Lost.
And suddenly there is an invisible man ruling the island? Where are they driving the plot? What's next? They find Gilligan camp out somewhere in the island as well? no matter how ridiculous the story gets, it is still addictive.

Psych.
This is really cool and funny show. The investigation is really funny, not too heavy on the mind, really can relax watching this. How long he going to fool everyone that he is Psychic?

Why?

Sometimes I wonder why am I torturing myself like this.

Waking up early in the morning, even when I had the luxury to sleep late since I only start work at 10.
I don't know what driving me, but I am up early morning and by 0800 or 0815 I will be in the gym, on treadmill. Why?

There has been some good progress made past few weeks, that is keeping me motivated. I have been taking my body fat percentage weekly now, and it is reducing ( but my weight is increasing! Cool, meaning that my muscle mass is increasing)

I have a goal to achieve before the arrival of the baby, I want to be macho and cool dad! haha, actually, since soooo many people been scaring me that I can kiss my gym time good bye once the baby comes, I am making most of it with the time have now.

Hello baby!

It just dawned on me that there is really a baby inside my wife's womb!

I am speechless!

All the scan before this we could only see the heart beat, but now after 12 weeks,we could actually see the baby, head, hands, Umbilical cord and legs, and and the baby is moving comfortably inside the amniotic sac. I can see the baby moving the hands (it was on his (his?!!!!) face that time, and the doctor said, if we are lucky we can even see the baby opening the mouth. And we heard the baby's heart beat as well!

"Amazing isn't it, it is like an alien inside you", the doctor said, what an analogy!

I have seen this like thousand of time on tv, I didn't felt a thing, but seeing it live and knowing it is my own baby, well, just mind blowing! I can't describe it, it is miracle. It's hard to explain, but for those who been through this, it will make sense.

Gasp....gasp ....gasp....It is miracle!

Will post the picture once I scan it.

Penat Oooi..........

Me: Dear I hope you don't get used to this....
Wife: Used to what?
Me: Me doing EVERYTHING in the house.
Wife: Habis tu?
Me: Only up to delivery and pantang/
Wife: Dah agak dah, :(

Toughest Career Decision

I have decided to retract my resignation. I have no idea I am valued so much here. They counter offered me, gave me promotion, pay rise, no weird shifts and so on. So they is no reason for me to leave.... sounds simple.

But, in fact, I have been cracking my head if really to take this counter offer or not, maybe I was over thinking it, sometime I am certain, most of the time I am clueless. After consulting with family and friends, I have decided to stay.

I do feel bad for the new company, the TL sounds so disappointed when I told him I will not be joining them, he said he had lay out work for me already. But I have to do what need to be done. Tough choice, and I am sticking with it.

Don't look back...

I am sitting down here on my night shift drafting my resignation email... again.
It has only been 9 months I have been here. I like it here, normal office politics as anywhere else, work is alright, I would say its OK.

But I got a better opportunity. I need to think about future, the family, with baby on the way, I should be able to provide for them.

And with this new job, I don't have to do shift, except rotated weekend on-calls among team members, I am ok with that.

I am cracking my head now, how the hell I am gonna break this news to my boss, I feel so divided, even though I have pretty much made up my mind.

I feel guilty as hell to resign from this company, my team mates has been wonderful, they have trained me great deal. But I have to look forward........

I believe all this happening for a reason, we have to make certain sacrifice in life to move forward.

Kereta oh kereta...

Petang tadi dengan confidentnye aku start kereta, konon nak gi jumpa dentist, sebab sakit gigi.

Enjin tak start, semput.... bateri flat. Aku terlupa nak off lampu dalam kereta tu. So obviously bateri flat ler.

Berikut belanja kereta aku untuk bulan in sahaja.

• Air Cond rosak, terpaksa ganti compressor (recon unit jer tu)
• Empat-empat tayar botak, memang boleh terasa kereta drift semacam waktu hujan, so terpaksa tukar empat empat.
• Buat alignment lagi tu.
• Service kereta.
• And sekarang, tukar bateri baru.
• Mekanik cakap (lepas tukar bateri) keret aku kene tukar mounting, sebab vibration kuat.
  

Memang istilah 'kering' untuk bulan ni is an understatement.

Sejak aku habis bayar kereta ni, aku perasa kereta aku ni bertambah manja, macam longing for more attention from me... why.....................

Wahai kereta, jangan le buat hal, aku takkan jual ko lagi, please serve me for at least another 5 year ok? Deal?

There is a bun in the oven !!!

Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Ya Rabbil Alamin...

WE ARE PREGNANT!!!

There are no words can describe my feeling, I feel truly blessed. I feel it is almost like a miracle.
Thanks for all who have prayed hard for me and my wife.

Never in my life I was so happy to see two tiny red lines appearing on a piece of paper. That almost drove me to tears, that was the big news I was talking about in this post. Wanted to wait for while before posting this entry.

Quite frankly, I have been dreaming about this and how would I write this entry. Now that I am writing it, the words does not seem to flow naturally. I am trembling... of Joy.

I have been hoping for so long for this, now that it really happened, I really need to reassure myself that this isn't just a dream (believe me, I had plenty of such dream that I wouldn't want to wake up). But now slowly I have had accepted it, gladly that is, I have beginning to digest this news and start making necessary preparation.

And I never loved my wife this much in my whole life...!!! I love you dear!!! (Muahhhh Muahhhh big kiss for you) Ok ok.... I know, you guys are getting sick of this Public (or rather, virtual) Display of Affection, but I don't care! :)

Obviously there going to be lot I need to write about.... more coming soon...

Life is weird. (in a good way)

Life is weird.

Sometimes opportunities just come knocking at your door when you least expected!
And sometimes try as you might, you just could not find that big break you looking for your entire life!


I feel truly happy and blessed with this opportunity. Is this the big break I have been waiting for my entire life?

Anything happened and that will happen is in God's hand.

Allah indeed is a great planner.

My first Lotus

Err..... well not mine, my wife's, so in a way it is mine also la kan.

We need a second car, my shift is so weird and ever-changing, making it impossible for me to send and fetch my wife everyday. We got the Apple-Green, because it look cute, just like my wife. He he.

Since wife is working in Proton, we got a staff price. This car is cool, I like the AMT function, we can choose either manual or auto function while driving.

Sawi vs Savvy

Quiz: Spot 5 differences between the pictures above (hint:look carefully)

Tidings............

I woke up this morning,
I woke up this morning with a news
A news that has the power,
The power to change,
Then I knew,
I knew that my life would never be the same again.