Es krem malaysia (part two)

I (Warning this paragraph membebel tanpa gambar haha)

Then we've got a problem with transportation dan tempat simpan. I can send to carol tapi i dont know where to get dry ice. So carol decided to use be malas service. The charge is really crazy!!!! But we have no other choice. To make matters worse, the runner come late!!!!! Event start at 8 and dia sampai 7.10pm... It takes us 40 minutes to keluarkan es krem from freezer because it got stuckkkkkk dekat freezer dinding! Too cold!!! Macam2 buat sampai simbah air and we managed to keluarkan hampir semua.. My maid kata ok maybe tinggal 20 je tak blh ambil, and bekas pon tak cukup (we bought 3 ice boxes), so i use bekas merah from the previous post and my small coleman. And the runner pecut like crazy.. Lucky for her the event started a bit late. 

So we continue kemas all the mess and my maid jeritttt "bukan 20 ada 50 batang yang tak di bawa!!" I panicked! Without thinking we load the es krem dalam my daughters toy box and i terus drive to my brother's house asking him to teman me to cimb jalan tar to send it.  It was around 8.30 and i managed to sampai a little under 9pm (danggg we shouldnt have hired the runner huh?) When we reached the place, we saw that they still have two boxes (still ramai beratur) so we decided to hang around for a bit.. 

       *our street friends queuing for food.

Suddenly Reality hits me.. Inilah kehidupan mereka. Ramai yg tidur di jalanan. I cant take picture because it is very rude kan.. I sat with one of the kakak temankan dia makan and she said dia tinggal dengan anak2 dekat depan tu (bawah jambatan).. Some kumpul duit sedekah pemberian org untuk bermalam di bilik2 hotel seminggu sekali untuk mandi (around 22 ringgit) ramai2 share..

*terasa setiap kepayahan hilang melihat anak2 ini makan es krem, 50 sen sebatang bukan apa2 bagi kita tapi bermakna buat mereka*

Carol's team usually arranged some activities for them, buat dekat tepi bangunan away from tempat bagi makanan sebab kalau tak it will be too crowded. Usually they will eat first and join the activity. And this week we have volunteers from St johns ambulance!

*The st johns ambulance volunteers teaching them cpr that day. I learned new things too*

Around 10.30pm we decided to make a move sebab anak2 dekat rumah kan.. but i will surely come again. Alhamdulillah akhirnya Allah bukakan jalan for me to joint the event. I have been helping to find sponsors for their activities but have never join them. With all that i have been through to get them to have the es krem malaysia, i can say it is all worth it.  Hope to come back and do something nice for them again in the near future.. Ya Allah pelihara lah mereka terutama anak2 jalanan ku itu...

Signing off..

Es krem malaysia (part one)

The idea came to me as I was scrolling through my fb newsfeed. I saw ada one boutique ni jual eskrem Malaysia for 50 cents. My buddy carol just inform me that in 2 weeks it will be the street kids birthday again and i have agreed to get sponsors for vitagen. But suddenly it hits me, I could make the ice cream Malaysia for the kids! My initial thought was like 200.. To my surprise they ask if i can make 600 haha.. So i began to device a plan.. Invited few of my friends and 'force' my siblings to help me make the es krem malaysia during the deepavali holiday. I bought the plastic, cordials, sugar, milo.. And tapau 10 bungkus bihun mamak and ayam kfc bucket for the volunteers..

Ada org yg mahu sedekahkan wang ringgit, ada yang mahu sedekahkan tenaga..

        700 batang es krem siap!

We managed to siapkan the order and put in inside my deep freezer (barang makanan sume i sub con rumah mom hahaha).. However, ada air meleleh from my freezer.. The next day my maid was mopping like crazy.. And we decided to keluarkan semuanya and guess what happened?

Air come out from the end yg kita tie 😅😅.. 100 sempat beku and 400 more have to be tied again (jadi pendek sikit semua sebab we have to ikat ketAt back) but this time around we use rubber band! See the pic:  

I was so lucky my sister, sis in law and maid is there to help me ikt balik.. And my maid thaught me to letak in the freezer secara bersilang.. We cant putnit menegak sebab the ice cream biladihimpap akan patah, we cant letak satu baris and tunggu for it too keras and letak another baris because that will take us 24 hrs and deep freezer tak blh nak kejap bukak kejap tutup. 

The next day i bought 2 more flavours and begin to ikat the 200 ice cream that cannot be salvaged...Alhamdulillah siap..

You think it ended there? Noooooo hahahahahaha.. Bersambung part two ok? 

Panjang umurnya serta mulia

Since we were very young, my family never misses birthdays. Be it a quite dinner, party or just a cake we must celebrate it. It is the day that not only we appreciate our family member but also to thank our mom yg melahirkan kami. 

This week mom is with my sister who is doing her lokum in Pahang and dad is on a golf trip in Hanoi. So it is just us. Simple celebration with pizza and cake je. Bought a samsonite bag pack for my brother (which later dia ckp tak muat laptop dia adoila 😓). Off course missy 3 chose the cake. Jungle theme kata dia.

Happy birthday dear brother. I know life is hard but u get thru it no matter what. I hope u have a good year coming a ahead of u.

Feeling mcm kakak mithali gittew. 😘

Feeding the needy - drawing competition

OMG i cant believe i forgot to blog about this.. Cerita September lepas.. Carol is organising pertandingan melukis for our street kids. She showed me the flyer and i told her I will get the sponsors for hadiah.

I set up a budget only around 200 for the prize and put it on fb and wa few of my friends. You cant believe what happened. We got like almost RM600 ringgit and sponsors from pelican for some of the stationaries. So this is what we got:

    *for all the kids yang menyertai so that they can use it at school*

You wont believe the generousity that same people have showed me. But unfortunately I fell sick that day and cant attend the pertandingan melukis. Glad that carol send me few pics:

Yes, when i said street kids, we really mean it is for the street kids, some of them adalah anak gelandangan dan ada yg miskin bandar. When we give them food, ianya mmg dkt chow kit depan Cimb. Diorang makan di jalan. Ada yg homeless ada yg sewa rumah setinggan etc etc. Ada yg bersekolah ada yg keciciran. But they are so talented!

Feeding the needy adalah organisation yg beri mereka makan sekali seminggu. Carol, my friend organise event for the kids once a month (usually a birthday party) untuk memberikan sedikt kegembiraan kepada mereka. I was once a sceptic. I alsways ckp kenapa pelu bagi cupcakes, balloons etc. We give necessities (which i usually buat kumpul dut beli pampers, air, susu etc). But a friend told me this "kegembiraan itu juga rezeki, mana tahu anak2 ini gembira dan berjuang untuk kelangsungan hidup untuk keluar dari kemiskinan ini?". Ada betulnya kan.. Inshaa Allah.. Mudah mudahan itu yg berlaku..

I was so frustrated bila ada yg kata "buat dkt atas jalan? Nasib tak hujan". I mean come one! Mereka anak gelandangan, they dont hbe the money nak naik bas pergi jauh jauh, and not to mention their self esteem yg rendah untuk bersama dgn fortunate people like u!  u think kalau kita buat dekat dewan they will come? And we are individuals that come together collecting funds from friends and family and sometimes fork out our own money to buy stuff for them. Jangan ckp sahaja, u want them tondo dkt dewan? Get a dewan for us, sediakan transportation amek budak2 ni. Some even ckp rather than feeding the small fishes kenapa tak tackle big fish? Easier said than done. Pegilah buat. Jgn ckp je (eh ter emosi pulak). 

Anyways i would like to really thanks the donors. Without you semua ini takkan berhasil. The look on the kids faces (although hanya dlm gambar) is priceless. Will definitely do this again..

Siapa tahu mereka akan mencorak masa depan negara suatu masa nanti?

Signing off 

Coffee addict

Hello kawan-kawan (macam kucing TV1 suatu masa dulu A.L.O.N.G).

Penat pulak rasanya tulis pasal benda serious u (refer previous post). Marilah bersantai santai. I love my coffee. Tapi tak pernah taunpon beza dia. Hahahaha nah untuk rujukan. Flat white is the best for me 😘

Esok kene pg beli la ni iskkk

Penat.. Stress.. SAHM or working mom (part two)

SAYA EMO JADI SILA IGNORE GRAMMAR & TYPING ERROR(s)

Sebelum kita mula nah amek ni kata2 sentap dari blogger fofuler diana ishak.

As promised Kak ton cerita pasal working mom whom I think is multi tasker at their best. [Dengan izin babe, aku dah bagitahu kau pasal tribute ni so tlg jgn kecam aku hahaha ]. A friend of mine worked at one big organisation dekat KL nun, pagi2 siapkan breakfast (walaupun panaskan brownies untuk anak dia makan dalam kereta otw tu kindie), balik kerja masak (healthy food ye I might add) basuh baju etc etc and on top of that MENJAHIT! Dia buat pillow, bib untuk kawan-kawan, ada yg dia jual (I doubt dia untung la tapi sebab dia pemurah mungkin dia jual harga kain je). She does this with PASSION! She even buatkan costume untuk sports day kindie anak dia! Saturday and sundays masa suri rumah lain sibuk catching up on ironing, she does arts and crafts with her kids! 

Gambar curi dari fb dia kahkahkahkah

Now this is what a working women should be. You have your career in one hand, and to balance that you really take good care of your kids and membahagiakan diri dgn hobby!. I always told her how I admired her, into which she replied, I didnt see keadaan rumah dia yg tonggang terbalik. Which i am sure she dont mind sebab kepuasan diri dan dia dpt buat benda yg dia suka.

Now this brings us back to reality. Apa yang kita nak? Mcam kak ton episod lepas tu, memekak menjerit anak anak sepahkan rumah. Kak ton nak apa sebenarnya? Kak ton harapkan balik rumah semua kemas teratur, jadi kurungla budak2 tu dalam balang kaca atau carila solution lain. Cleaner seminggu sekali untuk kemas rumah? kang kalau cakap pasal bibik ramai yg sensitive pulak, ckp nak buat sume sendiri la, biar dia jaga suami dan anak2 sendiri la..fineeee.. but jgn stress dan marah budak2 la.. kan puas sebelum kawen dulu rumah spick and span? nanti bila budak2 tu semua dah pg university bersih la rumah acik tuuu. 

Ada juga kawan saya yang memang tidak mempunya banyak masa atas kekangan kerja (amboi skemanya kau). Like me, she shower her daughter with presents. Sampai ada org komen lah "manjakan sangat anak". I almost terpengaruh dgn kata-kata kawan until I went to her daughter's birthday party. She threw and extravagant birthday party with bouncer, clowns and what not BUT she did EVERYTHING herself. No party planner. Daripada laksa, ke goody bag, ke DJ, ke desert, semua DIA buat. It is one day that she really tumpukan all her energy to the daughter. Which I really think is another way for you to make up for lost time. 

Success story above on working moms lead me to SAHM. As I told u before, I am not the kind of person that can do the above. I brought the kids for shopping during weekends as a distraction. Thats how I spent time with them. I don't do arts and crafts, I use party planner for their birthdays. I vow to change it. Boy was I in for a treat. Have you ever feel so exhausted playing with your kids on the weekend that you cant wait to get to work on Monday to have a good lunch with your bestie at work?? Imagine having that kind of feeling everyday, but the problem is, u wont have that kind of break. The feeling is real. Unlike the pressure that u faced at work, dealing with kids are totally different thing. The exhaustion of chasing them to have breakfast, take their shower, getting them to pee pee every half an hour (Yerp missy 3 is currently undergoing her potty training), sending them to school, come back home to cook for her lunch sambil breastfeeding baby N and play with baby N, go back to school to fetch her, mengadap homework, bagi makan, pujuk for nap time, mandi, etc etc.. I am at a constant run. I must say that I am so lucky that el-kapitan understand that my priority is for the kids. I want to be able to give my 100% to them. So, the housework like washing, vacuuming, ironing, kemas after masak is still being done by my maid, I only sapu the second floor, cuci my own toilet and kemas katil. The rest is 100% kids and mummy time. Itupun I feel lethargic. I found myself yelling at my kids more because of the stressed [which I am trying to control now that I mcm dah stable sket haha].

Ehem..buat chicken stock sendiri konon lol

Tgk tv u ask? My tv time is after the kids gone to bed at 11 - 12 paling lambat, which I already dah penat hahaha. I have to prepare missy 3's book, baju for tomorrow. Think about apa nak masak esok, puree apa for baby N etc etc. But I love it. I know that the kids are in a good hand. Their mummy. I no longer bring the kids to shop every weekend, we have coloring activities, hide and seek satu rumah, buat cake dan mcm mcm lagi. But sometime I still need my 'ME"time. I want to hang out with my friends but I cant be sellfish. Weekends is their time to spent with their kids. Week days lunch time, I need to pick up missy 3 for from school and her lunch and nap time, so I cant go out with my working friends. Ok sebelum ada yang sibuk ckp "suami dia tak tlg"hahahhaha, el-kapitan is a sea fearer. He is at home like every 6 months. So my me time would be leaving the kids with the maid or if their grandparents take them to play for a good 2-3 hrs. Tired u may ask. YES. Stress? Sometime yes, but I always go back to my intention. I chose this way of life. LOVE IT. Masa mula2 berhenti mmg culture shocked as missy 3 pun tgh school break, so i dont have a routine yet. Stress, so hari2 i pg shopping aone hahaha. Now that I have my routine, I am settling down slowly but surely (tapi mcm kene kerja balik. Family busines. That is for another entry)

Jadi kesimpulannya di sini tuan-tuan dan puan-puan adalah, samada anda bekerja atau suri rumah, kedua-duanya mempunyai pros and cons tersendiri. Kedua-duanya memenatkan, tetapi ultimately yang menetukan adalah samada anda buat dengan PASSION yang akan automatically dtg dgn KEIKHLASAN atau anda buat dengan TERPAKSA untuk mengejar KEMEWAHAN yg akhirnya membawa seribu satu RUNGUTAN. Tidaklah pula saya meninggikan hidung dan berkata bahawa saya mempunyai PILIHAN jadi saya boleh BERSENANG LENANG menghias taman. Saya faham, ada antara kita yang terpaksa bekerja untuk KESTABILAN kehidupan. Percayalah langit yang mendung pasti akan datang KECERAHAN. IKHLASKAN dalam setiap perbuatan, Insya Allah akan ada JALAN. 

Sebelum saya mengundur diri I just have to put this comment from one of the facebook user for us to ponder:

Atas dasar apa saudari kata ianya terbaik apabila masa untuk keluarga tiada lagi? Antara kewajiban sebagai ibu dan isteri, dengan kewajiban program jabatan, yang mana lebih dituntut agama? Jangan terlalu mendongak ke langit kerana jawatan dan memandang enteng pekerjaan suri rumah seperti tiada kelas dgn keberuntungan yg di rendah rendahkan.

Fikirkan. 

Signing off now. 

Penat.. Stress.. SAHM or working mom (part one)

*Kak ton nak bebel panjang ye. so sila bersedia*

Amboi amboi amboi.. Tajuk provokatif sgt gittew.. Have you read this fb status? Katanya it is a response to a housewife yg asyik meroyan ckp penat. Kalau di baca post dia i would give her and award for being a bionic women! Pagi bangun masak untuk budak2, kejut, hantar pg skool/taska/tadika then pegi office naik beribu anak tangga kene basuh dgn boss then lunch amek anak bagi makan pg balik kerja then kol 5 amek anak balik sambung masak jemur baju iron baju. Kol 9 padammmm.. Perghhh banyak nyer energy kak tonnn... 

For those of you yang baca this blog for quite sometimes, u would have known that i pernah berada dkt both sides of the coin. I was a high powered career women once (eceh eceh), and now living my life as SAHM by choice. Let me tell u this, both pon penat and equally stressed depending on the situation that you are in! What drives you are your motives and passion. Kenapa? Kenapa nak kerja? Nak bantu economy keluarga? dari segi apa? kemewahan? makan pakai? u don't want your son pakai kasut bata, nak pakai reebok? kenapa jadi SAHM? nak tgk anak membesar depan mata? nak jaga keluarga? laki kau boleh tanggung so kau nak goyang kaki? 

Dewasa ini (nampak tak ayat) , i tried not to judge org punya personality based on their rant from FB status, or ig hashtag or blog. This status has been shared few times and i read all the comments. Benda yg org persoalkan adalah "laki dia pi mana?". So i pg the original post and baca, she explained already yang her husband always comes home at 9pm. If he is home earlier, beban sedikit ringan. But org yg tanya dlm shared status wouldn't know her response. Dan org mula but conclusion yang her husband tak guna, not helping, and mula org lain plak relate dengan their "husband not helping" story. See???? nampak tak berdosanya akak malukan suami akak disitu? I begin to question her motives writing this status? Is she trying to rant? complaint? she can't tell her husband off so she has to write this status?

 I went ahead and tgk profile the husband. Pegawai badan beruniform. Ok kerjanga. So now, lead me to another question, economy keluarga mana yg kak ton cuba tambah? Betul ada setengah keluarga mmg memerlukan both husband and wife working to make end meets. Tapi dlm kes kak ton ni, i believe suami mampu untuk memberikan perkara asas tanggungan seperti pakaian, makan, pakai dan tempat tinggal. Tetapi, sekiranya kita mahukan lebih, dgn kata lain, kasut taknak pakai kasut beli di pasar malam, sekurang-kurangnya kasut bata, handbag carlo rino dan make up MAC tak lupa tudung fareeda, jadi ia bukan berlandaskan make ends meet tadi, but it is more of "satisfaction"untuk ada "lebih". Jadi my question is, adakah layak untuk kita rant? untuk kita beritahu satu dunia betapa penatnya kita bekerja untuk make ends meet?

 Thru my pnyelidikan, I also got to know that kak ton on top of kerja penat setiap hari siap buat extra part time work. Jadi salah siapa kak ton penat? Kenapa Kak ton buat semua tu? Kak ton buat sebab suka berniaga?

Nampak ayat kat atas? Dalam bahasa melayunya kita panggil keikhlasan. Bila kita suka kerja kita, kita buat bersungguh, dan kita ikhlas. Walau kita kene bambu kita masih tersenyum. 

Let me tell you about my journey pulak. That was me 10 years back with the organisation that I worked for. I love the working environment, I like my boss, love my collegus etc etc. I travelled to geneva, bangkok, vietnam every 2-3 months and dalam negara penang, kuching, kota kinabalu, johor bahru every other week. I enjoyed myself, penat mmg penat, BUT i enjoyed my work. I leave the kids with my maid, I dont feel guilty, why? Masa mula2 beranak, I promised myself to give only breast milk until they are 2 yrs old. And I managed to do so. I pumped at work like crazy, bawak balik susu yg di pump almost 400onz from geneva. but at the same time I know, I have to make up for the lost time. What I did was buying presents for my kids like crazy! Missy 3 has her first designer dress (burbery) and chanel shoes at 1 year old. Mainan jangan ckpla, all the latest toys dkt toys r us rack tu mmg dia ada.

 But lama-lama I realised that I dont know my kids. I have to be honest, I bukan mcm bionic woman kak ton tu yg masak for the kids etc etc... Balik kerja I only have couple of hours with them and sleep. I see anak2 membesar through my maid's eyes. For example, when Missy 3 starts to walk, I was all excited to let people know only to be turned down by my mom and maid "öh last week lagi dia dah jalan". Few problems at work adding to my disapointment and I finally succumbed to the situation. I begin to re-evalate my priority. Further discussion with El-kapitan and I decided that leaving the organisation is the best possible option there is. It was with a heavy heart. Tahu kenapa? Because of the stereo typing that the community has put on SAHM. "Mengharapkan duit suami", "no buying power", "what if he leaves u"are some of the questions popped up on my mind. Don't deny it, all of you "career women" (including me) ada this perception towards SAHM. 

Now I am not telling you that career women don't put their kids as priority. Don't get me wrong. It is just me. I am not a multi tasker or bionic as some women. I know at least two friends yg gila terror bahagi masa between "work", "part time job"and family... Ok boring kan korang baca... bersambung di next entry....

End of part one - [part 2 is a tribute to few of my working friends....]

SAYA EMO JADI SILA IGNORE GRAMMAR & TYPING ERROR(s)