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Bon Voyage lela

Today, 1st april Lela and family are heading down south to Otago New zealand for a year. Best of Luck and I m sure you ll enjoy your stay there.

Research update

Homocysteine kit sent to HUKM yesterday , 31st. march 2008. KIV to send sample this week

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Had a miscarriage on the 26th. March 2008

Yeah..you ve made my day..

Assalamualaikum and a very good morning to Prof. I...................as usual, the opening of my presentation. Yeah today is my umptenth presentation at the department. It was not a big presentation but the tense was there as the head was around. Prof. INS is our new HOD. A 'stylish' lady, not very 'friendly' in the sense that you want but she is good, very good actually. I 'respect' her more than any other lecturer here. A soft spoken lady but every words that come out from her mouth should be counted as they are not nonsense. So today I presented a journal entitled 'Increased monocyte adhesion to aortic endothelium in rats with hyperhomocysteinemia..' a paper published in a good high impact journal by group of researchers from Hong Kong University. It was a quite complicated paper as it involved lots of immunological studies which I was not very familiar with. Being a person who depended a lot on visual explaination, I interpreted the method in diagram...

maid gone...Going mad?

'buk etik mintak maaf, sebab etik tak boleh kerja lagi ama anak etik dikarnakan dia belum sembuh, dia tak mau ditinggalkan lagi', sms from an ex-maid. Suddenly lightning strike, the sky turned dark, a gush of winds storms into house, everything was flying, turned up side down....ahhhh......tsk tsk tsk...Luckily it was just a night mare. everything in the house was in place. The kids were still joking around, ayah was sitting on the lazy chair, and what was i doing??? day dreaming may be. Suddenly i stood up. went to the room, packed all the maid clothes into 3 garbage bags, banyaknye koleksi dia. Put in store. Rearrange the room. swept it clean. walla...now I have extra room down stairs. POSITIVE THINKING...to stay 'alive and well' must think positive. Ita has no maid, never. She is a manager at Telekom, 3 kids, one coming soon, cant drive, yet manage to do master and succes in career. She sis positive. Tina also has no maid, succesful executive at post malaysia, 5 kids...

Maidless, madless

My maid went back to Indonesia about 3 weeks ago. Her son was ill and had an operation. The first few days were mad days almost every day. I prayed to Allah hoping I wont get made the next day but it was difficult. I ofetn get the sisters to do things, sometime scolding them. before they went to sleep i apologised to them saying i didnt mean to scold them. Alhamdullilah as time goes the maidless day become madless too. i do things that i can and leave what i cant. i dont cook if i dont feel and i dont iron hubbys clothes. I send to the laundry. i sleep when feeling tired even the house is slightly tidy then a broken ship....As long as things are clean , bersepah skit tak pa. When ever i feel upset and tired i remeber others who are in worst scenario. Even if i felt tired picking up the kids i noticed some oversea students had to walk long distance sending and picking up their kids at the UIA nursery. I often stop and give them a lift. When I feel tired and doest feel like cooking I rem...

Balik Kuantan

We finally had the chance to go back to Kuantan, to see our 'new' home. I was excited every time i get the chance to go back to Kuantan. Mind you , aprt from Australia, Kuantan is the place where I spent most of my life. We went there after asar on wednesday. We took a break at petronas bentung on the way. Had nice meals then continue after performing our jamak prays. We reached Kuantan about 11.00 at night. It was nice to sleep at the house even though we have no furniture there. The house was spacious compared to our rented KL place. It was quite. the next day we dashed to TC as I had promised the kids. we went there after having our breakfast at Tg. Lumpur. They enjoyed their time there. Unfortunately I didnt bring any camera. Bila la aku nak beli handphone canggih yang ada good camera... Apart from makan and jalan we went to see our neighbour's newly renovated and painted house. wah seronoknya. nafsu pun membuak-buak nak renovate itu dan ini, then I realised that i do h...

When kids talk

I enjoy listening to kids talk. I dont mean when they converse with you but when they are having chat among them. I often listen without interrupting. Once they notice that you are listening they either discontinue or shy away. The same goes during pilihan raya about a week ago. Frankly I never directly influence my kids about which group are 'the good' or 'the bad' one. some how they have sort of made up their mind that the 'moon' and the 'eye' were the 'good' while the 'balance' was not the balance one. I think they listen when adults or those around them talk. And one thing for sure we rately switch on the TV during the campaign weeks as I cant stand the on going ' self -praising' by the one in power. we also did not buy papers, except alternative papers. When the eldest, Muaz, came home he directly told the younger ones that the moon was the good one. He has in put at school I think. The funny part was Muneer decided that ...

Sindrom Berapa A

Every year after the announcement of results for major exams in Malaysia, this sort of article will come out. Today in Utusan online I read ' Sindrom berapa A' with interest. It is written by some one who I think had scores strings of A's along his academic life. He commented about our question to student who has received their major exam result..Berapa A awak dapat..Maybe from now on we should instead ask how s your result?, instead of asking how many A's one get. I am probably one of many other people whothink we should not 'worry' much about this trend. Instead of worrying about this kids who scored strings of A's why not worry about others who dont. Not that I ask those in authority be them the parents or government to 'scold' these kids after the exams, instead worry about them earlier in thier academic life, be it at kindi, primary, secondary or university levels. I dont think smart kids like amalina, nadhirah or the latest SPM 2007 top scorer,...