LITTLE MAN's UPDATE

Day by day, how we are so thankful with the best gift God has sent to us, "Roman Anaqhi".
Syukur Alhamdulillah. Our life is more cheerful, meaningful and at the same time, we are trying our best to raise him to become a good and respectful man. Amin!

How fast the times fly as i could still remember his first cry just right after i delivered him 1 year, 7 months and 25 days ago.

To date, Little Roman Anaqhi has grown up very well, cheeky, manja and active x hengat. Oman x berapa nak friendly to unfamiliar faces especially adults. Kalau kids tu okay lagi. He loves to talk too. During his last Pediatrician's visit a week ago, Oman's weight was 11.5kg and height was 87cm. "He's very tall", kata Doc Mardziah. :)

Owh my, he is so a possessive boy that he will not let others play with his toys. Yang x tahan tu, toy orang lain pun he considered as his. Haip!! Biase dia taww. I told him many times, "Sharing is Caring, Oman".. dia buat Dek je.. hehehe. Issokay, i'm gonna keep reminding him that until he understand it one day.

Oman Sangat protective to momma and dadda ownership too! Malah Over-protective :P

Whenever he sees that i'm using his Dadda's laptop or vice versa, he'd immediately shout "Daddanyer!.. Daddanyer! or Mommanyer Mommanyer!" until you return it back to the correct owner. If not, dia akan bersedih dan menjerit-jerit di situ. haish..comel sungguh!

Momma would never get the chance to wear Dadda's slipper anymore. The moment he saw i'm wearing that red crocs.. again, he'd make the tunjuk perasaan mengalahkan Reformasi. Hihi. Owh why would i wear Armi's slipper? Sometimes, when i want to water the plants or take something from the car, i'm more comfortable to just 'loan' my hubby's slipper (i dun really have a proper 'house' slipper :P).. but that little police would give tazkirah to me like i just did kesalahan juvana tau.. hahahahahaah.

Recently, we went out for a birthday celebrate of a good friend of Armi, Tiffi at HRC KL. While everyone was assembled at the lobby of Concord Hotel before surprising the Birthday Boy, Oman suddenly shouted, "Dadda bag.. Dadda bag". Haha.. He was actually pointed to Uncle Shahir's camera bag that just look like his Dadda's bag. Ya Allah, terpaksalah Dadda tolong hangkut beg Uncle Shahir ke sini dan sana selepas itu sebab budak kecik tu nak Dadda dia jugak bawak beg yang dia 'yakin' Dadda nyer :)

Same goes to mine. Nobody can help to carry my handbag no matter what. Including his Dadda. It's Momma and only Momma forever. Yolah!

Itu belum his own shoes and clothes... momma jer yang boleh lipat kain baju dia tawwwww. Bagus betul anak bujang i ni. Dadda leh duk goyang kaki je tengok. Saspek sungguh! Eleh momma taula, you all berdua mesti dah pakat semua ni dari dulu kan. Patutla suka guy's talk u too!. Macam ni ar kan. Xpe xpe. Hinsss :P

Kalau nak jalan-jalan, he only wants to ride 'Dadda Car' jer. Momma car x pandang tau! Kawan baik sungguh dia dengan Encik Swift tuh. Everyday, Dadda must took him around with that car at least pergi Petronas yg sejengkal tu pun jadilah. I think most of children nowadays like that la kan. Almaklumla both parents are working. Early morning, sending him to Babysitter's house, then late evening fetching him. He grows up in the car. Kikiki.

Uish... Oman punya tahap jeles, tertinggi gitew!. Momma and Dadda xleh bersentuhan langsung depan dia. Kalah pegawai JAIS tau Oman ni. Hihihih... if with others lagila kan. Oman mana leh tengok if his momma or dadda hold or play with any other babies or kids di luar sana. No No No. Haih Oman.. kalau ade adik later, cemanalah kan?? :P

Kadang-kadang we just let him cry and express his anger, until he slows it down and realizes himself that tunjuk perasaannya itu tidak molek malah tidak encem. Haha. And then he'd come to us and manja-manja. Biasela budak kecik, 10 minit lepas tu, dia lupa dah.. :)

Hihihihihihih... that's lil bit how wonderful our lives are.
We fight together, we laugh together...
Moga ianya berterusan selamanya.

Oman is a HUGE Amanah from God to us. Insya Allah, kami akan jaga amanah ini sebaik mungkin. Amin!

"Parenthood is two ways learning progress... we teach our kids, we learn from them too".

Yeah.. that dimple dapat from Dadda. I dun have any. ciss! :)


While singing "If you happy and you know it you say Hooray"


"Okay, Mac and Cheese for you" :)


Smile!!!


Momma, Oman and Dadda

Note: Those are the photos taken on Tiffi's Bithday Celebration in HRC Kuala Lumpur, 1st Oct 2010. Credit to Shahir Omar, he's the photographer. Thank you to Liyana too for inviting us for that such great celebration. :)

xoxo,
-mommaholicSuri-

K A M I

Ewah.. tajuk entry ni dah macam Filem pulak kan.
:)

Last week on 22nd September 2010, My department, GND, organized an Open Office AidilFitri which located in our own office.

What i would like to share here is how in this office i am occupied with super loyal lawak senget sporting buddies that make me laugh and cry (sbb terlebih gelak) every working day. We do many activities together especially activity makan-makan, meluah perasaan, debate, mengula (ups!), tukar-tukar webpage yang menarik (haip webpage yang baik je taw..ahaks!) , gossip... macam-macam ada! :)

Calon-calonnya adalah... Jeng Jeng Jeng!!!

Check it HERE

(http://melindarudy.blogspot.com/2010/09/my-fantabulous-world.html)

I never been an MC for any events before so when my name was chosen to be the MC for that event, mak datok.. nervousnyer mengalahkan orang amik SPM. hehehe. But i took the challenge posititvely, berkat tips dari Encik Armi yang dah baaaanyak kali jadi emcee, and yang paling tersentuh was that i have the greatest support from my good buddies yang siap karangkan the script lagi i. Dengan Pantun-pantun lagi tau!! :) TQ to Maz, Sue, Mel, K.Marina, Atie and Encik H hensem di atas budi baik u all. You guys rock!!

Reherseal. Kalah AIM. :)

Implementer

To Cik Melinda sayang, you memang baik hati bagi i link blog you taww. Kalau ade anugerah untuk Diva Gorgeous berjiwa Rakyat, i memang support u ah!!! :)

Muahx!!

xoxo,
-mommaholicSURI-

A TRIP TO JAPAN (CYCLE 1)

This is a backdated looong story.
Cycle 1 ( Bak kata Cik Diva, tak nak kalah dengan ANTM tuh! hahaha!)

Amaran: Story ini juga mengandungi banyak gambar. Harap x jemu membacanya. :)

The arrival
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13th September 2010. MH 088 landed safely on Narita Airport. It's 7.40am local time ( Kat Malaysia 6.40am) and the temperature outside was 24th degree Celsius. (Eh dah macam ayat standard pilot bila landing pulak ha).

After 7 hours ketakutan dek heavy turbulence up there, i could finally taking a deep breath. Alhamdulillah!! Lega sungguh. Masa ni dah start syahdu-syahduan. Raya ke-4 kot!!! Oman and Dadda texted me that they had safely arrived in Alor Star berhari raya di sana. (seb baik lepas tu nampak abang2 jepun yang hensem hilang sikit rasa sedih tu ha. Ahaks!!)

The hotel that we (Me and Kimi) were to stay for the whole week in Tokyo,was Celestine Hotel and it's located ~75km from Narita Airport. There were few options of transportation to get to that hotel, and we chose to take the Airport Shuttle Bus at Y3000 per way. (Actually, nak naik train pun boleh. Sangat efficient. Tapi, kalau carry big luggage macam us, then nak tukar station, then nak jalan lagi ke hotel.. hmmmm.. naik bas lagi ok kot! terus sampai ke pintu hotel. haha.. lagipun, the condition of the bus was tip top)

The first thing i learned about Japanese that they are very PUNCTUAL! If it's stated there that the bus will reach you by 8.30am. Sah sah 8.30 dia sampai. So, janganla nak cakap macam ni, "alah, cakap je 8.30 tu, mesti 8.40 baru sampai". Selamat Tinggalah jawabnyer tau!! (Bukan semua tempat di dunia begitu yer... ehem ehem :))

Credit to mr H for lending me that book. Lawok seh!! :)

Say Hi To The City
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It's the greatest get to know that I've got to see this beautiful hi-tech Tokyo with my own two eyes. Tokyo is so damn clean hokeh!! Macam xde sampah sarap langsung. :) Even when the bus passed through sort of rural area before reaching the city, i didn't see any form of rubbish out of the correct place. Kagum!

Eh! ade 1 je sampah i jumpa. Ni mesti bukan Japanese yang buang (bak kata si wawa. haha!)

Here, the buildings and residential areas are developed systematically and smartly in place. Owh, in Tokyo, huge percentage of the residential area is either apartment or condominium. The city is so congested so that it couldn't accommodate for landed houses. Those who loves to have their own compound, usually they will stay little bit far from the city. They have no worries at all to have their house a bit apart since their train system is so superbly efficient. Jam pun x jam, cepat pun cepat!! (Eh, macam pantun dua kerat pulak) :)

-Tokyo-

The Celestine Hotel (An English friendly hotel. Highly recommended for tourist)
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We reached the hotel after almost 1 and half hours on the road. Check-in time was supposed to be at 2pm but since that day was a special day due to franklyidon'tknow, we are allowed to check-in early without additional charges applied. Owh! I was so thankful!!

Kimi and I had some planned to visit Akihabara and Harajuku City after Dhuhr Prayer. In the mean time, bolehla achik refreshed, update fb and took a little nap before Salaat. (Just fyi, if i were abroad, i always refer to Islamic Finder for local prayer time. Untuk Kiblah, i lupa bawak kompas. Dah cuak-cuak dah. Nak tengok matahari x berapa nak reti. Mujurlah ade jam ajaib Kimi menyelamatkan keadaan :)).

My room sweet room.

Hotels' rooms in Japan are mostly not as spacious as in other countries in Asia. But don't be surprise if you found that the prices are higher than those spacious rooms you found at that other places k. However, the facilities such fridge, TV, internet, coffee corner, iron, hairdryer, toiletries are perfecto. Tapi, mineral water x tentu free lagi tawwwww. Some hotels, you need to pay for it. Oh, Japan memang mahal! :)

When i entered the washroom, i was so jakun to see how computerized toilet seat in there. There are functioning buttons like the one in the bottom left picture above. Main picit-picit je hokey. First time to use it i felt so freaked out kot kot la tertekan salah ke kan. Silap-silap boleh cakap ke toilet tu, mau terloncat achik! Hahahahaha.

Anyway, that's the room i was going to stay for 5 days. Overall, i loved it. :)



The Walk and Ride
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It was 1.00pm that we decided to start our city tour. Since it was sunny day, i chose to wear simple t-shirt with jeans and palm shoes. Easy Britzy sket kan. :)

The nearest train station to Celestine Hotel is JR Tamachi Station. JR is stands for Japan Railways which operates a large proportion of intercity rail service (including the Shinkansen (bullet train) high-speed rail lines) and commuter rail service in Japan. Cepat dan jitu. Ewah! (nasib baik station dia punya peta and directory ada English tau dah sekarang. Xdela meghaban bukak kamus kat situ. hihi)

From the hotel, it took around 10 minutes walk to reach there. I bet Japanese people would made it less than 10 minutes. They walk very very fast!! :)

Just next to the hotel i stayed, is NEC HQ Building. Santek! :)
Besides public transport, Many Japanese ride bicycle to work too. Chomel jek.

Cik Abe pakai spek itam tu la Encik Kimi. Hihi. Cik Adik tu pulak, sapa lagi kan, i lerrr. Haha.

Akihabara (Train Fares: Y160 from Tamachi Station)
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Owh! This place is called Electronic Town. Right, left, back, in front... mana-mana semua kedai electronic. Just name it whatever you would like to look at, wah lah.... segala mak nenek design ada from the smallest to the biggest. :)

Here, games & anime shops are everywhere too. You could see cute Japanese Ladies wear the anime costumes along the walking path and try to get you to buy their products. How soft their voices tau!. X penat pulak tu ulang ayat yang sama beratus-ratus kali.

Rasa-rasa berjaya x dia jual product@goda mamat-mamat tuh? hihi :)

5 days in Tokyo, 3/5 days we went here again and again tau after work. Why? Because Encik Kimi was considering to buy a camera and we took those days to check few shops for the best deal. Nasib baik on the 3rd day tu, he finally decided to get a Canon DLSR Kiss4 or 550D after he satisfied with this one shop. Kalau x, mau i bagi jelingan tajam kat dia sebab hari-hari pegi tapi x beli pon. Hahaha. (Canon murah wo kat sana. Tapi body camera warranty Jepun, lenses jer yg international. Ok lah tu kan!)

Then, what did i get for my self? Hmm..Since i did not plan to shop much for electronic thingy, i just grabbed a hard disk casing and a mouse for my notebook. (paling murah tapi i sukeeeee design dia. hihi) Owh and out of nowhere in Akihabara, i found a shop that sell t-shirt with Japanese word printed on it, so i grabbed few for my love ones and me. :)

Harajuku (Train Fares: Y190 from Tamachi Station)
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Oh My! Welcome to the shopping heaven in Harajuku. Girls love Harajuku so much! (credit to Lovely Fashionista Adriani for sharing her experience shopping in Tokyo). Turun-turun je from train Station, i could feel my fast and furious adrenaline (ngadenyerrr). Encik Kimi siap boleh perasan lagi keexcitedan i. Hampir semua kedai i nak masuk. 2,3 kali i told myself to beristighfar, geleng-geleng kepala Si Kimi tengok perangai i taw! Ahaks.

It's not because like i have a lot of money to shop everything there (xde allocate some untuk shopping pun , duit bawak cukup makan je. huhu), but u know, it's kind of therapy, like some booster when you see ladies clothing, shoes, boutiques .. here and there.. and you just want to get in, join the club, feel the fabrics, tried on the shoes... crazy you! erm, tapi sebab Encik Kimi ada sekali, i control sikitla. Hahahahaaha.

Kemain semangat lagi nak gi Harajuku taww!

Tadaaaaaaa.. The first boutique you gonna see in front of Harajuku Station is GAP.
Then just keep walking cause a lot lot more to see everywhere along the street, ladies!!! :)

Untuk mengelak Encik Kimi bosan ikut i, Encik Kimi kene jadi my photographer that day :p

Takeshita Street.

Owh! Owh! If i got chance to visit Tokyo again next time, i'm definitely will come here again cause this street has really so much to offer!!! Clothing, pants, cardigans, accessories, lingeries, handbags and shoes and more!! hihi. I found a shoe boutique that sell cheap and pretty boots (flat, heals, knee high, all it has!!!). I spent the longest minutes in there but ended up i bought nothing. menyesal sungguh!!

Alright. I think i better stop here. I'm afraid it's gonna be too long to share the whole journey stories in one entry. So, there'll be Cycle 2 next. I'll tell bout my work there and my visit to Otsuki and Fujiyama. I promise i will update it soon kay.

Thank you for reading.

xoxo,
-mommaholicSuri-

SYAWAL WHITE AND PINK

Salam Syawal, semua!!!

Aaaaa... it's been more than 2 weeks i haven't write anything here. Past days, i was so occupied with works and of course having a son who's now super duper active, tengah lasak gilerrr.. hehehe.. i dun have much time for this blog. But currently, i'm in Tokyo, alone at night.. better write something kan? :)

This year, our Syawal preparation could be considered last minute jugak. Until the last weekend of Ramadhan, we still bought nothing for ourselves. Me and hubby were totally not aggressive looking for Baju Raya. Encik Oman tu lagi la kan, kecik lagi, kalau bagi dia pakai pampers je pun dia suka. Haha.

Tapi, sapala taknak tengok anak tersayang ada baju and kasut raya baru ye dak? Dahla budak-budak nyer apparels cute x hengat!

The first thing we bought for him was a pair of shoe. We were haunting it at almost all kid's boutiques in One Utama like GAP Kids, Mothercare, Pumpkin Patch, Oshkosh, GUESS Kids.. and found few in ZARA Kids that OMG, x tahan ok nak beli!! Malangnya, satu pun Oman x berkenan. Until we went to this boutique that i never know they do have shoes for Kids too, it's CONVERSE - ALL STAR!. When i saw that shoe i terus tarik my hubby and he loves it too. Yang bestnya, when we showed it to Oman, dia terus nak pakai that shoe. Well, that Little Man is now memilih hokey! he loves to choose either clothes or shoes to be worn on his own tau! Checked and Paid! Phew :)

As for Baju Raya, i told my hubby to just tried our luck in SACC Mall Shah Alam. So we went there and Alhamdulillah, within a day, baju tiga-tiga anak beranak settle! Oman got his 2 pairs of Baju Melayu and sampin at Omar Ali (recommended sangat nak beli baju Melayu budak kat sini cause kain dia bagus and kemas jahitannya at RM60 each), while me and hubby fell again for Qamilla design. Dah 3 tahun Syawal berturut-turut ok we sangkut ngan Qamilla nih.. saspek sungguh! :P

It's HIS turn so we celebrated our 1st Syawal at Bentong, Pahang, Kampung my hubby's abah. Unlike previous years, Syawal this year, we're missing Irma in the picture. She went back to his hubby's hometown in Kelantan. Until all of the family members are completed, then barulah we'll take official Raya family photo. Insya Allah.

On the second Syawal, we went back to my hometown in Sitiawan, Perak. Walaupun balik hari, it's totally worth it cause my parents in law and Amri pun ikut balik sana sekali. How sweet when both families celebrating lebaran together tambahan dengan adanya Encik Little Man tu. My mom of course was the happiest one and she prepared superbly delicious menus for that day. Daging masak lemakla, sambal udangla, laksa pun ada. Kak Lang dengan adikku pun semangat di dapur. Rajin hangpa no. X lupa mak uda yang buat laksa mee untuk anak sedara kesayangan dia ni. yummy!! Nak tau, chomel tau bila tengok my dua-dua abah and mama pot pet pot pet citer macam-macam sambil makan. :)

Third Syawal, me and hubby went back to our home in Shah Alam. Hubby helped me to pack for Tokyo. Mode masa ni, sentimental. Sedih wo nak tinggal hubby and son tau.. Raya lak tu!! Oman was with his nanny stayed in Sungai Long. If this Little Man followed us, alamat x mengemaslah i. He would packed out whatever things i had packed in.

Sebut pasa Oman, owh i miss him so much!! I remember, i did pep talking to him everynight for few days before my departure that i'd be leaving him, i told him i'm working in Tokyo for a while, and he must stay good and behave well with dadda, nanny, gpapa and everyone during my absence. Know what he replied to me??? "TANOK!!!!"... .. xsure i nak nangis ke nak gelak taw :)

Upssss... why white and pink?? Enjoy some photos from my low profile camera k. Sebab gambar from canggih punya camera xde pun lagi. :)

Encik Oman di pagi raya

Encik Oman with Dadda bersiap-siap

Encik Oman with momma. On the way to Bentong, Pahang.

Pit-stop before reach Bentong. Masa untuk momma pakaikan sampin dadda. :)

Oman

Dadda

momma

Us

Oman, Nanny, Gpapa and Uncle Adik too.

Oman. 2nd Syawal .. before departed to Sitiawan..

Kat Sitiawan x snap photo langsung pun tawww... All of us busy chatting and eating. Hik Hik..

So, that's little bit story of my First Few Days of Syawal this year. What about yours? Can't wait to read them! :)



To all,
Salam Syawal penuh makna, Maaf Zahir from me;

mommaholicSuri.Tokyo.September2010.

and
Specially dedicated to both of them;

Bi/momma miss both of you too much!!!! Muaxxx!!