Majlis Kenduri Aqikah

Assalamualaikum !

Mak teh agak sibuk hari ini. Kami sedang membuat persediaan untuk mengadakan majlis kenduri aqikah untuk cucu. Insyaallah majlis akan berlangsung pada 20 hb Disember ini. Berkesempatan dengan itu kami juga menyambut 33 tahun hari ulangtahun perkahwinan mak teh dan Pak haji. Alhamdulillah !

Maka ramailah sanak-saudara yang di jemput. Kami mengharapkan kedatangan mereka , jiran-jiran dan sahabat-handai untuk meraikan majlis ini. Majlis akan di mulakan dengan bacaan yassin dan doa selamat. Kemudian makanan akan di sajikan bermula jam 11.00 pagi hingga 3.00 petang. Kawan-kawan dan saudara-mara yang tidak dapat sms jemputan sila telefon mak teh dan bolehlah datang.

Sekian, terima kasih sehingga kita berjumpa lagi.

Wassalam !

Dalam Dakapan Kesunyian

Assalamualaikum!

Hujan sedang turun membasahi balkoniku. Angin agak kuat meniup masuk ke ruang ini. Pohon-pohon di hadapan dan di sisi rumahku bergoyang. Keadaan sekeliling dan dalam rumah sepi. Aku tinggal kesaorangan. Kenapa ? Kemana semua penghuni ?

Pak haji keluar ada urusan. Huda keluar ke Kelab Ekuin STC. Oleh kerana cuaca sejuk, Jat yang kurang sihat berkurung dalam bilik.( Kemungkinan sudah belayar ke pulau dudur i.e tidur ) Anak bertuah aku entah dimana ( mungkin di bilik laudry, sedang membuat laundry ) Kesunyian juga di sebabkan sekarang adalah waktu mengumpul tenaga ( waktu tidur ) bagi semua anak-anak Tahfiz termasuk anak-anak Tahfiz kecil ( hari ini Cikgu Wani lebihkan masa tidur mereka, kerana mereka dah habis exam ).

Kadang-kadang bila aku tinggal kesaorangan mulalah aku membilang dan mengira-ngira mana lagi anak-anakku. Ok, besar kemungkinan Yanna dan Aly sedang mengikuti kuliah mereka di Cairo, Mesir. Lia pula baru saja sms menyatakan akan masuk untuk peperiksaan praktikal di Irbid, Jordan. Kin sudah tentu sedang mengharungi cuaca sejuk di London. Seorang lagi anak dan menantuku sedang bekerja di pejabat mereka di Kuala Lumpur. Polly burung kakaktua peliharaanku juga senyap, tiada mengeluarkan bunyi. Dia juga seolah-olah mengerti masa begini elok dikekalkan suasana sepi.

Jadi, apa yang aku nak buat selepas ini ? I will make myself a cup of Earl Grey tea and eat some biscuits, sementara menunggu azan asar. Bukan mudah aku nak dapat kesunyian dan keamanan begini . Hehehe !

Balik Kampung! Balik Kampung!

Salam Semua!

Lagi 2 hari sekolah kami cuti. Mulalah terbayang nak pergi jalan-jalan ke utara balik tengok Bonda yang uzur. Apapun mak teh dan Pak haji mesti rehat sehari dua dahulu. Petang ni baru Hilux nak pergi service. Jadi nampaknya hari selasa baru kami boleh bertolak.

Kalau balik Kedah kami selalunya berlabuh di rumah Bonda. Kadang-kadang musim cuti kalau kami balik dan berlabuh di rumah Bonda, orang lainpun balik bercuti juga. So hotel Bonda overbooked, kami pendekkan cuti kami. Dulu kami ada rumah persinggahan di Alor Setar. Rumah itu rumah kepunyaan arwah bapasaudara Pak haji yang tidak di huni berpuluh tahun.

Kami telah tinggal dirumah itu sebagai rumah persinggahan. Kami juga pernah menetap di rumah itu selama 2 tahun. Kami sekeluarga selesa tinggal di rumah itu dan sayang padanya membuatkan kami menyuarakan untuk membelinya. Namun harga yang di minta oleh orang-orang yang mewarisnya menjangkau lebih RM 1 juta. Sudah bertahun pula kami tidak pulang kerumah itu hingga hari ini rumah itu masih kosong. Tidak ada saudara mara lain yang berani tinggal di rumah itu dan rumah itupun masih belum terjual. Setiap kali balik ke Alor Setar aku tidak berani menoleh memandang rumah itu kerana kami selalu merinduinya dan kami percaya rumah yang semakin usang itu juga merindui kami.

Kalau kami ke utara, perlis dan padang besar juga mengimbau kami. Di sebuah kampung di Perlis bersempadan dengan Kedah ada sebuah keluarga yang menjadi rapat hubungan dengan kami walaupun mereka buka pertalian darah dengan kami. Ketua keluarga itu merupakan anak saudara kepada isteri bapa saudara Pak haji. Kami menjadi rapat kerana sama-sama menjaga atau ambil berat emak saudara itu setelah kematian suaminya iaitu bapa saudara Pak haji.

Setiap kali mengunjungi keluarga itu kami akan dihidangkan dengan masakan kegemaranku seperti gulai daging campur rebung dan sambal belacan spesial. Hmmm! Amat menyelerakan! ( sambil taip inipun kecur airliurku. Hehehe! ) Kami juga tidak lepas peluang untuk ke Padang Besar dan melawat Gua Gelam. Aku sangat suka membawa anak-anak melawat Gua Gelam walaupun dah pergi berkali-kali kerana formasi stalactite dan stalagmite nya yang menakjubkan.

Lagi satu perkara yang menarik apabila balik Alor Setar ialah kuih-muihnya yang berbagai jenis murah dan amat lazat. Begitu juga dengan makanan lain yang tidak terdapat di lembah kelang. Salah satu kegemaranku ialah air nira segar, manis dan menyegarkan. Aku juga suka makan laksam utara yang berlainan dengan laksam pantai timur. Cendol dan ais kacang sedap dan mudah didapati. Setiap kali pergi Kedah aku akan angkut bawa balik segala mak nenek terutama, belacan tanjung dawai, asam jawa, dodol, pekasam, bahan-bahan acar buah dan beras pulut.

Percaya atau tidak kain ela lebih murah di Alor Setar berbanding di KL. Oleh sebab itu semua kain untuk pakaian seragam sekolah kami di order dari Alor Setar. Lagi satu perkara yang menarik ialah orang-orang Kedah akan tersenyam apabila terpandang kita walaupun kita tidak mengenali mereka. ( Ini yang aku tak jumpa kat tempat lain! Heheh, jangan marah ya orang-orang yang bukan orang Kedah!)

Kalu dah suka sangat Kedah kenapa tak balik dok Kedah? Mungkin anda bertanya demikian. Panjang ceritanya nanti akan ku cerita di lain entry. Insya-Allah!

Sudah Terbang

Assalamualaikum!

Semalam kami bersama 1 bas anak-anak tahfiz kami pergi menghantar Yanna dan Ally ke KLIA. Kami bertolak jam 5.30 petang. Sampai sana jam 6.30 petang, Yanna dan Ally terus check-in. Alhamdulillah semua barang cek-in untuk kargo selamat di terima masuk 65 kg.

Sementara itu. anak-anak tahfiz di lepas bebas berkumpulan dalam kawasan balai berlepas. Seronoklah mereka boleh bebas merayau-rayau disitu. Kemudian kami berkumpul untuk solat maghrib di surau Ally menjadi Imam. Bergema bunyi suara anak-anak kami mengaminkan bacaan dalam solat di dalam surau KLIA itu. Selepas itu kami beramai-ramai menghantar mereka ke pintu sekatan masuk ke kawasan gate berlepas. Alhamdulillah jam 9.30 malam mereka selamat berlepas dengan pesawat Negara jiran.

Selepas melambaikan Ally dan Yanna aku pergi mengambil 23 biji burger yang telah ku pesan lebih awal tadi. Oleh kerana burger ini jenis yang mahal maka aku hanya boleh memberikan mereka seorang separuh burger. Setelah makan burger kami menaikki bas untuk pulang. Di dalam bas bekalan kami nasi goreng di edarkan sekotak seorang. Anak-anak yang kelaparan terus makan. Aku yang keletihan terlena sekejap dalam deruman enjin bas dan bunyi tenteram celoteh anak-anak. Kami tiba di asrama hampir jam 11.00 malam.

Pada masa ini aku sedang menanti SMS dari Yanna memberitahu mereka selamat sampai di bumi Mesir. Jadi aku berhenti di sini sekejap hingga aku dapat berita tersebut.....

..... sambung .... Alhamdulillah pada jam 1.20 tengah hari tadi aku telah dapat SMS dari Yanna memberitahu mereka telah selamat sampai ke Cairo. Mereka sedang dalam perjalanan menuju ke tempat kediaman mereka di Haiyyu 'Asyir, Madinat Nasr ( seksyen 10, Bandar Nasr ) Aku melafazkan kesyukuran kepada Allah SWT. Aku dan Pak haji sentiasa memohon kepada Allah untuk keselamatan anak-anakku yang jauh di bumi ambia' ( termasuk Lia yang di Jordan ), memohon kesihatan mereka, juga tidak lupa memohon dipermudahkan segala urusan mereka dan juga memohon agar mereka sabar dan kuat iman serta mereka dapat belajar dengan baik dan mendapat keputusan cemerlang.

Aku harap mereka sihat dan tidak demam sebab siang semalam sebelum bertolak, aku telah membawa Ally pergi berjumpa Dr Lee. Dr Lee telah memberi Ally 4 jenis injection. Pertama suntikan untuk melindungi dari penyakit Hepatitis A dan B, injection kedua untuk typhoid , suntikan ketiga mencegah penyakit meningitis, keempat suntikan dari penyakit kancing gigi ( anti titinus ). Kemudian Dr Lee suruh aku panggil Yanna datang untuk mendapatkan suntikan-suntikan tersebut. Dr Lee sangat prihatin tentang kesihatan anak-anakku. Katanya Cairo tempat yang sangat bahaya kerana persekitaran yang kotor, jadi risiko mendapat penyakit tersebut sangat tinggi.

Yanna yang sedang buat last minute shopping terpaksa datang juga kerana di panggil oleh Dr Lee walaupun aku tahu dia tidak kerana sangat takut akan suntikan. ( dari awal lagi dia cuba mengelak ). Yanna kemudian di beri 3 jenis suntikan kerana suntikan Hepatitis A and B dia telah buat 2 tahun lalu. ( suntikan itu tahan 5 tahun ) Oleh kerana semua suntikan tersebut dan 1 puff untuk Ally aku telah membayar rm 780.

Di sebabkan kesibukan mendapatkan semua barang-barang yang mereka nak bawa maka aku tak sempat menggoreng 'mee mamak ' salah satu permintaan Yanna. Namun aku puas hati kerana semua permintaanya yang lain telah dapat aku tunaikan!

Selamat belajar untuk Ally and Yanna.

Persediaan ke Luar Negara

Assalamualaikum!

Kesibukan membuat aku tidak dapat update blog selalu. Kebelakangan ini bukan saja sibuk kerana sekolah kami tetapi juga sibuk mempersiapkan anak-anakku yang akan melanjutkan pelajaran ke Al Azhar. Yang nak berangkat kali ini ialah Ally dan Yanna. Bagi Ally yang akan baru mula menuntut kesana persediaan nya lebih sedikit. Kami telah siapkan passport, visa dan tiket kapalterbangnya. Kemudian kami pergi buka akaun dengan bank H*** untuk mempermudahkan urusan masuk dan keluar duit. Ally merupakan anakku yang ke 7 membuka akaun dengan bank ini untuk tujuan urusan pengeluaran duit di luar negara. Memang bank ni bagus untuk tujuan itu. Kalau ibubapa tanya memang aku rekomen bank itu. Selalunya apabila anak-anakku di luar negara meminta duit dalam masa kurang 1 jam dari aku memasukkannya di ATM disini, mereka boleh mengeluarkannya disana.

Kemudian bapanya telah menempah baju kot baru berwarna hitam bersama sepasang seluar ( sedondon )sebagai hadiah untuk pemrgiannya. Dia hanya perlu beberapa helai baju kemeja and kemeja T dengan 2 pasang seluar slack dan 2 pasang jeans. Dia juga memerlukan sepasang kasut jalan yang tahan lasak dan sepasang sliper. ( Kasut dan sliper tidak ada yang bagus di Mesir ). Ada lagi satu persiapan pakaian yang perlu untuk ally iaitu baju dalam untuk musim sejuk bernama 'long john'. Baju ini amat perlu kerana musim sejuk di Mesir akan bermula bulan September dan suhunya amat sejuk. Angin sejuk di sana menggigit hingga ke tulang. Kalau tak ada baju ini pelajar kita disana selalunya memakai berlapis-lapis baju. Baju ini boleh dibeli di sebuah kedai jual pakaian winter di jalan TAR. Harga nya untuk yang cotton ialah rm 100 lebih sepsang. Yang nylon murah sikit tetapi yang cotton itu lebih bagus.

Selain dari itu Ally perlu berjumpa dengan Dr Lee Subang Jaya Medical Centre( paediatrician semua anak-anakku sejak mereka lahir lagi ) untuk mengambil bekalan ubat puff dia dan untuk suntikan yang perlu untuk menghindari penyakit Hepatitis A, B, C ( aku pun tak tau tapi tahu ianya perlu ). Ally juga telah pergi dentist repair semua giginya ( disana dentist kurang bagus ). Sepasang cermin mata baru juga perlu dibuat disini.

Akhirnya bekalan yang perlu di bawa Ally ialah 1 periok kecil eletrik masak nasi, 1 blender, 1 set plug adaptor, dan 1 set multiple sockets. Sedikit barang-barang dapur yang perlu pula ialah chili kering, rempah ratus, udang kering, ikan bilis, sup kimball tepung, santan kering , milo 3 in 1, mee segera, pes nasi goreng, pes tom yam, rempah kari pelbagai dll. ( antara barang-barang yang susah dapat disana )

Lagi barang yang perlu ialah personal toiletaries, ubat ubatan seperti panadol, minyak angin, minyak panas,( minyak kapak ke harimau ke ), other personal medication. Beberapa alat tulis juga elok dibawa. ( misalnya ballpen kita lebih bagus, di sana tak ada jenis yang bagus )

Bagi Yanna pula tidak perlu banyak persiapan kerana dia sudah hampir 5 tahun berada disana. Peralatan dapur Yanna sudah lengkap termasuk kuali besar, periuk besar, periuk pengukus, lesung batu tumbuk dll. Yanna telah pergi ke Mesir semasa umurnya 14tahun. Dia telah melalui pendidikan arab sepenuhnya di Bouuth iaitu sekolah menengah Al Azhar untuk orang luar( bukan orang Mesir ). Insy-Allah, September ini Yanna akan ke Universiti Al Azhar mengambil bidang Usuluddin dan Ally akan mengambil bidang Al-Quran ( Qiraat ). Yanna telah membeli segala barang dapur, toiletaries dan ubat-ubat yang dia nak bawa. Hanya akau perlu siap serondeng daging, acar buah dan goreng kering ikan bilis petai. Harap aku dapat siapkannya dalam masa dua, tiga hari ini. Hehehe!tak banyak kan?

Anak-anakku Semasa Kecil

Assalamualaikum !

Anak-anakku semasa bayi dan todlers kata orang, comel-comel. Aku tak tahu sebab pada masa itu aku sibuk sangat kalut menguruskan mereka. Rupa atau wajah mereka seakan-akan sama sebab tu kalau tengok gambar mereka sewaktu babies kadang-kadang tersilap orang. Setiap peristiwa kelahiran mereka aku ingat secara detail. Anak-anak aku ni di kira branded, iaitu semua kelahiran mereka di Pantai Medical Centre dan tok bidannye seorang yang aku sangat senangi membidankan aku iaitu hamba Allah yang bernama Doctor Mc Coy. Setiap kali aku mengandung dan melahirkan dia jaga aku persis seorang permaisuri. Hehehe kayalah hospital tu kerana aku terus melangganinya sehingga anak yang ke 9.

Kemudianya apabila aku dan baby sudah di benarkan keluar hospital, kami di sambut pula oleh paediatrician Doctor Lee Eng Lam di Subang jaya Medical Centre. Itu berlaku kepada semua anak-anak kami dari Kin hingga ke Cik Su. Anak-anakku ini di bawah jagaan Doctor Lee sehinggalah mereka besar panjang ( teen agers ) Heheh, kira macam brandedlah kan.

Aku telah berkahwin semasa umurku 23 tahun, terus mengandung dan malahirkan anak sulung. Seterusnya aku melahirkan anak purata 2 tahun seorang hinggalah semasa melahirkan anak yang bongsu aku berumur 43 tahun ( a span of 20 years ). Itu suatu tempoh masa yang lama. Umur tu setengah kawan-kawanku dah jadi nenek!

Melahirkan anak sebegitu ramai telah mengubah bentuk fisikal badanku. So berlakulah keadaan agak lucu. Seorang ibusaudara suamiku telah tidak bertemu dengan kami sekian lama. Masa muda-muda ( baru khawin )selalu kami singgah rumah dia apabila kami balek ke Kedah atau semasa perjalan balik KL dari Kedah. Rumah dia pada masa itu di Tapah, jadi tempat persinggahan yang ideal.Setelah suaminya pencen mereka pindah bersara di Pulau Pinang. So beberapa tahun yang lalu umurku meningkat jadi matang ( tua ) kami sekeluarga pergilah ziarah ibu saudara yang sedang uzur itu.

Maka bertanyalah orang tua itu bersungguh-sungguh ( berseloroh? ) " Mana dia isteri B...ari (Pak haji) yang kecil molek comel lote, putih gebu tu ? " Maka akupun jawablah dengan penuh kesedihan, " Dah tak ade dah! Dah lama dah tak ade!" Huhuhuhu

Oleh kerana aku sentiasa saja mengandung dan bersalin, banyaklah perkara-perkara, kekadang lucu berlaku terhadapku dan kami sekeluarga. Malas pulaklah nak bercerita panjang disini. Nantilah aku tulis dalam buku kelak. Banyak lagi kisah, berkajang-kajang, takut jemu anda nak baca!

Kisah Bonda Yang Di Kasihi

Assalamualaikum!Hari sabtu lepas saya, Pak haji dan 3 orang anak kami telah pulang ke Kedah sebab bonda sakit dan telah dimasukkan ke hospital KMC. Beliau sekarang berumur 82 tahun dan telah banyak berbakti kepada kami dan masyarakat. Semua anak-anak menantunya dan cucu-cucu bersama pasangan mereka serta anak-anak mereka pulang untuk menziarahi bonda. Bonda telah dikurniakan 9 orang anak, 8 orang menantu, 46 orang cucu dan 10 orang cicit.

Keaadaan kesihatan bonda agak meleset membuat kami anak-anaknya sedih melihat keaadaan nya yang tidak boleh makan dan setiap menelan apa-apa jua akan mengadu kesakitan. Setelah doktor membuat 'endoscopy' didapati beliau mengalami ulcer yang serius di bahagian aesophagus dan upper stomach. Sekarang doktor sedang merawat penyakit itu. Mulanya beliau dimasukkan ke hospital itu adalah kerana patah tangan sebab terjatuh.( Kisah beliau jatuh patah tangan tu cerita lain dan panjang pulak ceritanya)

Kini lain pula penyakit yang menyakitkannya. Bonda memang sentiasa dirawat oleh doktor pakar jantung di KMC kerana penyakit jantungnya yang telah lama di alami sejak beberapa tahun yang lalu. Pada masa ini 3 orang pakar merawat beliau, pakar jantung, pakar tulang dan pakar sistem gastro? (saya tak pasti gelarannya)

Oleh kerana hari kedua saya disana keadaan bonda kelihatan teruk saya telah SMS semua ahli keluarga dan sahabat beliau mengenai keadaannya. Maka berikutan tersebar berita itu, ramailah sanak saudara terutama sepupu beliau (ada yang dia tak pernah jumpa bertahun-tahun oleh kerana mereka telah manjadi orang-orang yang tersohor dan sibuk dengan tugas masing-masing ) pulang menziarahnya. Keadaan tersebut menceriakan bonda dan membuat tahap kesihatannya bertambah baik. Alhamdulillah, pada hari berikutnya, nampak beliau segar sedikit. Melihat perubahan itu saya minta diri dari bonda untuk balik ke Shah Alam.

Kami sampai di Shah Alam jam 12 malam. Keesokannya (semalam) saya dan Pak haji terus menjalankan tugas kami yang di pikul oleh anak kami Ally semasa ketiadaan kami. Oleh kerana terlalu keletihan semalam saya tidak dapat menulis blog atau menjawab komen.

Ter1ma kasih kepada anda semua yang berdoa untuk kesejahteraan bonda. Semoga bonda akan terus sihat dan Allah SWT panjangkan umur beliau dalam kesejahteraan. Ameen!

Kepada sepupu beliau yang belum pulang menziarahinya eloklah berbuat demikian kerana pada pendapat saya lebih elok ziarah seseorang itu semasa beliau masih ada di bumi ini dari menziarahinya semasa beliau sudah tiada. Oleh kerana bonda anak tunggal sejak dahulu lagi beliau telah menganggap sepupu-sepupunya yang ramai itu sebagai adik-adik kandungnya. Selalu beliau menyebut nama-nama anda semua. Wassallam !

Macam Nak Raya

Assalamualaikum! Ramai orang sibuk bercakap mengenai hari yang ditunggu-tunggu iaitu hari esok. Semua orang nak menyuarakan pilihan mereka dan cara untuk mengendalikan Negara tercinta ini. Pagi tadi di pasar aku bertemu ramai jiran dan sahabat handai, masing-masing tersenyum penuh makna. Masing-masing sibuk membeli bahan makanan untuk persiapan istemewa hari esok. Rasa macam nak raya pulak.

Persiapanku untuk hari esok ialah membeli bahan-bahan untuk masakan menu istemewa bukan kerana menyambut itu tetapi lebih kepada meraikan kesemua anak-anak (yang ada dalam negaralah) akan berada dirumah. Suara keluarga kami lebih ramai tahun ini. Ada 5 orang dalam keluarga kami yang bolih membuang undi. Lepas menjalankan tugas itu kami akan menjamu seleralah. Aku bercadang nak masak laksa utara (kuah lemak). Ude akan buat trifle untuk dessert. Untuk Pak haji yang tak gemar laksa kenalah buat gulai ikan kering campur nenas dan ikan jenahak goreng sumbat. Hehehe mesti teliurkan?

Bila anak-anak balik kerja petang nanti, mereka akan pergi ke Supermarket untuk membeli bahan minuman, ice-cream, cake and jelly. Mereka berjanji nak sediakan makanan istemewa sebab ada aku terdengar mereka ini ada yang dnaikkan gaji. Hehehe, mereka tidak beritahu aku tapi sebagai ibu aku ada sixth sense lah sebab ada yang hulurkan wang kertas baru kepadaku semalam.

Kami juga sedang menunggu ada keluarga sahabat dari Tanah Suci akan datang menziarahi kami. Walaupun aku dan Pak haji masih letih kami kenalah sambut sahabat kami ini kerana semasa kami di Makkah merekalah yang menjaga makan minum kamisekeluarga. ( Mereka ini dah menjadi rakyat saudi. Dari segi asal usul mereka adalah orang Patani berkahwin orang Indonesia 50 tahun yang lalu. Namun mereka lebih suka dan selesa pulang ke Malaysia . Itulah menunjukkan Malaysia ni bumi bertuah.)

Alhamdulillah! Kami mempunyai beberapa keluarga sahabat yang sangat rapat dengan kami, kadang-kadang lebih rapat dan mesra dari adik-beradik sendiri. Inilah kata orang, dalam Islam sahabat adalah saudara kita juga.

SELAMAT MENGUNDI ! JADILAH ORANG YANG BIJAKBISTARI !

Mak Teh Yang Letih

Assalamualaikum! Hari ini mak teh tersangatlah letih. He, he, kalau anak-anak buah mak teh dengar ni tentu mereka akan kata, " Namapun mak teh tentulah letih!". Nak tahu kenapa mak teh letih sangat hari ini? Awal pagi lagi rutin mak teh macam biasalah yang pernah mak teh ceritakan dulu tu. Selepas mengajar iaitu pukul 11 am mak teh pergi beli buku-buku dan alat tulis tambahan untuk 3 orang pelajar baru. Kemudian balik makan lunch. Lepas tu pukul 3 pm pergi K.L. bawa pelajar-pelajar baru lelaki, (satu dari Temerloh, satu dari Raub dan satu lagi dari luar Negara orang putih) tempah jubah uniform sekolah kami. Dah sampai K.L. tu sambil pergi beli keperluan lain untuk mereka dan yang di order oleh pelajar-pelajar perempuan.(Oh ya, pelajar perempuan yang latest addition adalah dari Kemamang, Ganu) Kemudian lepas maghrib pergi Giant beli roti dll untuk breakfast.

Selepas Isya mak tehpun berehatlah, sedang berehat itu, mak teh hairan tengok anak-anak yang berkerja (dari K.L.) pulang awal. Selalunya mereka pulang lewat malam. Rupa-rupanya mereka telah mengaturkan mesyuarat keluarga untuk membincangkan mengenai majlis yang bakal dilangsungkan. Itulah, dahlah mak teh penat sehari, mereka suruh mak teh join mesyuarat mereka pulak. Penat lagilah kepala mak teh ni, banyak nak difikirkan. Nasib baik mesyuarat berlangsung atas katil mak teh. Bolehlah mak teh rehat-rehat sambil beri idea. Mereka telah melantik Kin sebagai wedding planner dan Ude sebagai designer and Zed pula sebagai co-ordinator majlis. So mak teh dengan Pak Haji keluarkan belanja kenduri dan jadi host sahaja. Yang lain mereka akan uruskan. Alhamdulillah! nampaknya tak sia-sialah mak teh dan Pah haji melatih mereka dari kecil lagi handle functions yang selalu kami buat zaman dahulu.

Mak teh baru dapat tahu rupa-rupanya mak teh ni ada ramai juga silent follower yang baca blog mak teh ni. Selepas entry yang baru lepas tu, adalah beberapa orang yang telefon mak teh excited mengucapkan tahniah sebab mak teh nak menerima menantu. Kemudian mak teh dapat warning dari anak-anak iaitu friends mereka dan saudaramara BB pun baca blog ni. So mak teh kena lah hati-hati apa yang nak ditulis. Alahai, mak teh ingatkan orang tak baca blog mak teh ataupun orang tak kenal mak teh pun.

InsyaAllah, inilah senarai yang akan bersama rombongan mak teh on 1st may nanti: pertama mengepalai rombongan sebagai spokesman ialah Datuk A and Tok Puan J ( my husband's cousin and wife ), kemudian Second Brother and SIL, then younger sister and BIL follwed by husbands youngest sister and BIL, then my good friend Mazz and my good neighbour Kak Z, then Tok Su and son and daughter, then our family members (11 less Yana n Lia n the BP, jadi 8 ). I received the feedback (after I wrote in last entry saying that we will be bringing 7 dulangs ), that we are supposed to bring 5 dulangs only for the bertunang. However according to my family tradition we always bring 7 dulangs,(my grandma had always insisted that we bring 7 dulangs for such occassion. So in this case the other 2 we will bungkus je, no problem, tradition can always be adapted to the local condition. He, he,jangan marah )

I hope whatever I have written in my blog would not have caused anybody to be upset or any misunderstanding. Please take it with humour and in good nature! Thank you for following my blog!

Tepak Sireh Mak Teh

Assalamualaikum! Sudah lama mak teh berangan nak terima tepak sireh. Namun sampai sekarang belum lagi ada rombongan berkunjung dengan tepak sireh kerumah mak teh. Jadi mak teh pun ambil tepak sireh yang dirumah ini sediakan untuk berkunjung kerumah sahabat yang tinggal di Bukit Jelutung. Baru dok siap-siap tak berkunjung lagi. Malam tadi mak teh SMS BB mak teh dan mereka bersetuju nak menerima kunjungan dari rombongan mak teh pada 1hb Mei ini. He, he, pendek cerita mak teh akan terima menantu lah tak lama lagi! Mak teh berdoa semunya akan berjalan lancar sebab anak bujang mak teh tu pun dan mencapai umur 30 tahun. Rombongan mak teh akan membawa 20 orang entourage dan membawa 7 dulang sahaja. Kata mereka yang dah tengok BM mak teh tu , kalau mak teh berjalan dengan dia orang akan kata dia anak mak teh. He, he harapnya tanda sejuk (bagus) pehubungan dia dengan mak teh nanti. Tarikh nak buat majlis ni belum tahu lagi. ( Sila hubungi kalau nak anda di jemput sebab rasanya kami tak akan buat besar-besaran kut) Yeh! yeh! kita nak pukul kompang.

Sesiapa yang baca ini dan rasa terlepas peluang nak jadi BB mak teh, janganlah keciwa sebab mak teh ada 8 orang lagi yang bolih anda datang masuk meminang ( tak kisah lah nak pinang yang anak bujang mak teh pun boleh ada 3 lagi, puteri ada 5 lagi, semua bagus-bagus macam mak mereka, he, he, he!)

My Two Daughters in Middle-East

I have two daughters in the Middle-east, Lia in Irbid Jordan and Yanna in Cairo, Egypt. They have been sending me SMS about their coming August holidays. I told them of my plans that Bapa will be sending Ally to Cairo by June. (Insy-Allah Ally will be doing Al Quran in Syubro a faculty of the Al Azhar University) So may be I could follow as well and spent sometime with Yanna, then visit Lia in Jordan. I told them that if that plan work out then they should cancell their plan about coming home to Malaysia. They both quite agree with the idea and Yanna is looking out for a place to house us in while we are there. Lia is looking forward to our arrival in Amman.

When the other members of the family heard about this plan, they all want to follow. I said "Ok, but expenses are on your own!" He, he, mummy has no extra Rms to spend on them. Three of them, ie, Kin, Amal and Ude are already working, earning reasonable income.

In 2005, we had gone on holiday, the whole family, 10 of us, Yanna in Cairo, Lia flew in from Amman (except for Amal who was in UK). We did Egypt, then did the Umrah. We really enjoyed the Umrah that the children said that in the future for holidays get-together with their siblings, it should be in Makkah and Medina doing the Umrah again. Then we all went back to Cairo, after another week in cairo the children went back to their respective destinations while Pak haji and I continue our journey to UK for Amal's convocation. Then we came back to Egypt for another week and went home after nearly 1and half months away for the whole trip. Naturally the whole trip costs us a bomb! So for this one I am not planning to spend a bomb for the second time!

For this trip I hope to do Jordan, Syria and Turkey. For the 2005 trip we could not do that sector because we found out plane tickets were not available. It seems that during summer a lot of American, British and European tourists fly into Jordan to spend their summer!

So Lia and Yanna do pray for Bapa and Mummy to be able to make this trip, so that we all may go to Syria and Turkey as well. Mummy will try to keep fit for all the intended travelling.

Who is going to look after the school? No idea yet!

Few More Days To The New Year

Assalamualaikum! I am looking forward to today. There lots of things to be done. I anticipate there will be little time to blog later, thats the reason I am doing it now. Day before I came back from Alor Setar having very acute stomach ache. I must have got the bugs from food eaten in Alor Setar day before. Now I am still having it that I dare not take my breakfast this morning!

Anyway coming back to the items that makes me look forward for today; top on the list is 'My good friend Mazz is coming home today for she had ended her stint in Labuan', second ' Meeting with the staff (including new staff) to give thier duties for new 08 session'. Next, to go out shopping for items for the 'asrama' and new kitchen utensils to cater for the bigger number of students.

There's only two more days before the new students will come to register with our school. There's also the school uniforms to be collected and the marketing to be done. So you can imagine the numerous things we have to do. At the same time there are still enquiries about our school and a number of new applicants to be interviewed. We wanted to close the appliccation but feel it bad not to listen and try to help those who wants to come to our school. At least we have to see what we can do to help them. We may direct them to other schools.

We feel that we need a lot of help but we do not know where to turn to and what help to ask. However I think we can manage with the help of our children. Some of them may take leave to help us out during this few days. Yes, all the children are very involved in the school.

My Youngest Going To ' Full Boarding School'

My youngest daughter Cik Su is preparing to go to the 'asrama'. I have not been involved in her preparation. It is done by her eldest sister Kin and second sister Ude. After taking care of the other 8 children all these years I am happy to relinquish the job to Kin. Anyway my husband and I are busy doing more important things. We are making sure that when the school opens in January, everything is ready for the start of the 08 session.

Kin and Ude are making sure Cik Su has everything will need for her asrama stay. It does not matter that the asrama is just walking distance round the corner from our house. It also does not matter that the full boarding school that she's going to is her father's school. Yes! Cik Su is going to study at MTAQSA. This has been the plan since we opened the school. She is lucky that we have opened the school or else by now she would have been shipped off to Cairo to join her fourth sister Yanna who is studying at the Al Azhar College for foreign students. Yanna has been there for 4 years now, doing her secondary education.

Cik Su will be subject to the same rules as the other students. She is not allowed to come home unless the the school calendar shows that is 'leave - go home day'. Parents are only allowed to visit their children once a fortnight. I hope this will work out for Cik Su because if we do not follow the school rules it will be difficult to decipline her. This is also the way to keep the children focus on their studies especilly the 'hafazan' ie the memorising of the Quran. The students in our school have to memorize one page of the Quran daily in the beginning later some may advance to 2 pages daily. They will complete the whole Quran when they are in form 3 or form 4. At form 4 and form 5, they will focus for the SPM exam ( targetting exellent results).

When I see our students able to carry all their subjects and show great interest and are well deciplined, I have to take my hat off for them, (tabik spring!). At my age I am not able to memorize even the 99 names of Allah (Asma ul Husna) without difficulty, what more to memorize the pages of the Quran! In this matter it is very true as the Malay saying goes "Nak melentur buluh hendaklah dari rebungnya! It means that if you want to bend the bamboo, it must be done when its young or bamboo shoot stage!"

It is heartening no note that of late many young parents are very concerned about their children education and upbringing. They came to consult us about their childrens' education even as early as when the child is 7 years old. So some of them have made their booking to place their children in our school in the future. Our school offers 3 curriculums, ie The Quranic studies and Hafazan, the religious subjects (13 subjects in form 1 ), and the academic subjects ie maths, science, english, bahasa Melayu and history (form 1 to form 3) In form 4 and 5 their subjects will be according to their stream eg they will do add maths, modern maths, biology, physics, chemistry and others if they intend to take up medicine, engineering or to be a pilot. As it is, most of our students intend to do the sciences.

It would not be difficult to acheive whatever they want to be, since by that time they would have completed their memorizing of the Quran and the religious knowlege and practice is already ingrained within them. With all that and the decipline that we have imposed upon them, Insya Allah they will be great leaders and useful citizens of the future!

Menyambut Aidil Adha

Assalamualaikum! Selamat menyambut Hari Raya Aidil Adha! How was your (all of you out there) Aidil Adha? As for me and family, we did the normal things that we do almost every Hari Raya Aidil Adha. The night before I cooked some food meant for the morning breakfast. I got up early to prepare for more food meant for lunch. Then we had small breakfast and quickly dressed up for the Mosque. Then we did the Aidil Adha prayers. I was surprised that todays sermon by the Imam was more 'daring' than ever before(if you understand what I mean). So I nudged the Imam's wife who happened to sit beside me.(He, He, he)

We came back from mosque, we had some Raya food. As her usual practise, my kind neighbour gave a tray and bowls of her special Raya menu. (How lucky we are to have her as our neighbour!) So we ate her delicious nasi beriyani and the accompanying lauk-pauk.

After that my husband and my son went to help people at the surau to cut the korban meat. Later one of the surau committee came to deliver about 1 kilo of the korban meat.

Then my brother and her family came over and we ate more food. My sister in law brought me a beautiful cake (lucky me!)

Later a special guest visited us and we accompanied her to eat the laksa I specilly cooked for her. Then my sister in law (husband's sister) came over and brought more food (people say, murah rezeki, Alhamdulillah!).

To cut long story short, as I am typing this I am so full and bloated. Alhamdulillah, all went well for today's Hari Raya Aidil Adha. Hope yours (all of you out there) went well too. At the same time I remember my 2 daughters far away overseas, Yanna in Cairo and Lia in Jordan. I hope they enjoyed their Aidil Adha too with their friends over there! Eid Mubarak!

Of Dengue Fever And Convocation!

These days in Shah Alam, the authorities has declared WAR with the mosquitoes. Every evening the MBSA does the fumingation.The fog is so thick that you may think that we are at war! Danger! Danger!Dengue fever is on the rise. On our road, almost every other house had a case of dengue. In my house the first victim was Kin. Luckily,she had it not too bad and after a week she recovered. Then Aly became the second victim that was a week ago. After 3 days of suffering I took him to the local Pusat Kesihatan! Aly had it real bad!His blood pletlet count was 200, the next day 150 and the 5th day we went again for the blood test it went down to 76!It was then considered alarming by the doctors at the government's Pusat Kesihatan that they decided that he should be hospitalised. It was at 2 pm when we were referred to Klang hospital. We rushed to the hospital through the Emergency Entrance, however upon arrival we were asked to register and to wait for another examination. It seemed that the hospital was full and they were not sure to admit Aly until they would examine him again. The waiting made me upset and I decided to take my son home, to take him to a private clinic later. Since he had not been able to consume any food or water because he vomitted several times and he also had 'cirit birit'. I was concerned that he was dehydrated and I asked whether Doc at the private clinic could give him a drip. Doc said she could do so but on reading the low pletlet count adviced that Aly be hospitalised. She kindly made several phone calls to see if any of the hospital would be able to admit my son and that was at 8.30 pm. She found out that Hospital Sungai Buluh, Selayang and anorther were full. Then she phoned somebody at Hospital Putra Jaya said that they would be able to admit my son. Feeling a little relief we drove as fast as possible to Putra Jaya. We arrived at the hospital about 9.30 pm. Alas when we went to the emergency admission, the attendant said that no way my son could be admitted straight away. Aly had to endure another painful proceedure of drawing blood for the blood test! And all this while from morning Aly was weak, in pain and could hardly sit! The attendant informed us that they will only admit him if the blood test, show the pletlet count below 50! You can imagine our frustration! I then begged the attendant to give my son a drip. He obliged and put Aly in the emergency section temporary bed. They then gave him a 500 ml drip. By then we were tired,hungry and sleepy. Aly was sleeping when we decided to go out to find food but at nearly midnight we could not find any food to buy in Putra Jaya. As we were contemplating what to do next, my daughter who was at Aly's bedside called us to say that Ally has been discharged by the doctor! His pletlet count had risen to 80! So we happily took him home, bought some Mc Dees before arriving home 12.30 am. AND the next morning was Ude's Convocation! I was too tired that I was reluctant to go. However thinking that it was Ude's BIG DAY, I decided to go after all! Of course I was happy to be witness Ude receiving her scroll for a Degree in Interior Architecture! We are proud of her achievement and patintly waited to be photographed with YB Tan Sri who had earlier handed Ude her scroll. Wow! What a busy Week! Alhamdulillah Aly is getting better though not fully recovered yet.

Our Hari Raya

For our family, this year Hari Raya is very calm and peaceful, one of the most beautiful hari raya we ever had. We did not have to go through the hassle of packing and doing the mad rush back to kampung. Actually this is the 7th year we have spent our Hari Raya here. Finally, 7 years ago our family had matured and we have accepted the fact that our kampung now is here in shah alam. When my family was young, I had dreaded the coming of Hari Raya as well looked forward to going back to my kampung. As a young couple my husband and I both had insisted that the first day of Hari Raya be spent in each parents house. After the usual, much painful and tearful discussion (arguements??) we ended up each of us with our own mother on the first day of hari raya. On the second day of Hari Raya we would get together to visit the in laws. Now after all these years my husband and I thought that was not a very good idea. We should have taken turn to be with one of the parents and then the other. Actually we were immature and there was nobody to guide us. We were torn between the love of our own family and the new family extension we have created (we both have a large close knit family). Now its all done, my mother in law had passed away many years since and my mother is old. She understand our situation does not insist that we go back to her on the hari raya days. We can take our time to do so on other days of the year. So with our experience we will advice our children when they get married, to take turn coming back to our house one hari raya and going back to thier in laws for the next one. That is one wisdom we have acquired! May you all the young couples out there be wiser than us in handling the Hari Raya balik kampung situation!Good Luck!

Hello again and Selamat Hari Raya!

Hello everybody! Selamat Hari Raya! Mak Teh is trying hard to make this entry because I have lost touch in using this computer and the blogging ways. Actually I do miss doing the blog but many things have kept me away. To update my situation, I had spent my ramadhan and raya days in shah alam. Lia has gone back to Jordan after a week of ramadan with the family. That one week of ramadhan was the most wonderful ramadhan for our family because everybody is back home. It had been years since we were together for ramadan. This Raya is also wonderful, except for Lia we are all here celebrating the raya. Alhamdulillah, Lia has reported that she is recovering well post operation. Yana will be going back to Cairo soon. Alhamdulillah my health has improved lately. I am trying to resume my writing again which I had neglected for quite sometime. At the moment my husband and I are busy with our school (see Majallah Anis September pg 30) We are getting good respond for 2008 intake. The interview for the new intake is on. If you are interested to know more about our school log on to www.mtaqsa.com. InsyAllah, more entries will follow this. Cherio!

After a long absence !

Assalamualaikum! Hello everyone! Selamat berpuasa! After a long absence from the blogging scene, I decide to make this entry today. Its hard to start talking again after the long selince. Some of you fellow bloggers may want to know what actually had happened. To continue from the last entry ....., yes we went to Kedah to visit my mother and also to tell her we would be heading to Kota Bharu. The purpose of the Kota Bharu trip was to meet a specialist orthopedic surgeon to confirm the surgery to be done to my daughter Lia. Lia had to undergo a surgery to correct her backbone, she had something the medical people call 'scoliosis'. Anyway to cut the long story short, Lia has undergone the surgery on the 28th august at the Kota Bharu General Hospital. Alhamdulillah the surgery has been successful. Lia is recovering well and hope to fly back to Jordon soon to continue her studies in medicine. However Lia has to wear a body brace for 6 months and she has to move about with great care with minimum pyisical exertion. I would like to thank friends and relatives who have prayed and doa for Lia's well being and have helped us in many ways during the difficult times. I also would like to thank fellow blogger Onde for dropping in to visit Lia at the KB Hospital. Our special thanks and gratitude to the surgeons, Mister Ahmad Sabri and his team for performing the delicate operation and the staff at ward Dahlia KB Hospital for their care. Million thanks to all of you mentioned, not forgetting the family of encik Rahimi and Dr Hafizah for all their kind assistance and concern for Lia and also the big family of Ustazah Naemah, Ani, Cik Dah, Cik Nah and also those not mentioned here. After Lia's operation my health sufferred as well, So you can understand why I had been silent all these while. Alhamdulillah today I feel a little better.

Travelling Together

Hello guys! I was not able to blog last week because my computer was down with some virus ! Many things happened last week including my two children are back for the holidays. In few hours time, we will be heading north to visit their grandmother. We plan to be in Kedah for 3 days then we will be travelling east to Kota Bahru. There are a few things to be done and some friends to visit. I hope the weather will be good for our journey.
When the children were young, we used to travel as one family, all the eleven of us together in our Pajero and we loved that. However these days, to do that kind of travelling is quite impossible! First, it is such a rare occassion that we could all be together. Secondly we have to drive a bus if we were to travel in a group. With the children all grown and the luggage they would take along, you can imagine the size of the group! Few years back we managed to travel to Egypt and Saudi Arabia, where we did the Umrah together. The children loved the experience that they planned to meet the same way in the future when they could all get together. We did not have much problem travelling and holidaying together because from small our children had been trained doing that. As such they would always take care of each other on journeys or vacations, big sister or brother would take care of the younger ones. However it's me who would keep counting the heads so as not to lose anyone!

Forgive Everyone?

Last week my husband announced to me that he had forgiven everyone. He said he had forgiven me, my relatives, his relatives, our children, and all those people who had hurt him one way or the other. I was not surprised with that kind of announcment coming from my husband but it makes me feel bad because I could not do the same. Forgive everyone??? People who had really hurt your feelings?? ( It's like something impossible!) It is very difficult for me at the moment. Some of the incidents I may have tried to forget but could not forgive. Some other incidents I may want to forgive but you could not forget. My husband then teach me to say some prayers so that my heart will be more forgiving. Insya-Allah I hope it will work!
Then a few days later, he was so happy telling me that he had just heard this tazkirah as below,
Enam perkara yang Allah berikan kepada orang yang memaafkan kesemua kesalahan orang lain terhadapnya :
1) hati bertambah bersih
2) ketenangan fikiran
3) disembuhkan segala penyakit
4) makhbul doa
5) mendapat hidayah bercurah-curah
6) wajah yang cerah bersih ( point ini dikatakan oleh Imam Shafie)

After I heard the above explanation from my husband, I tried to persuade my heart to do the act of forgiving. First I must learn to forget the painful incidents, then maybe later I will be able to forgive. (When the incident was fresh, it chocked my breathing, bled my heart and ripped my inside) The most painful ones are those incidents which involved the close members of the family, whom once were the persons you had cared for! May Allah show me the way, and make heart be more forgiving! Ammeen!