2 Ramadhan 1437

Ramadhan kareem peeps!

Alhamdulillah, berpeluang lagi menempuhi bulan yang mulia ini.

Alhamdulillah, I had a very good 1st day of Ramadhan.

I have enrolled Iman to Hani's school. So no need to stop by 2 places to pick them up. Yesterday, JD picked them up.

Yesterday, JD was on leave. It was exciting to see the house is clean when I arrived. I had planned to take leave just to clean up the house. Seeing the house is spotless now, no point to take leave to do so.

My pray is also granted this year. Government finally implements special working hours for Ramadhan which we are able to go home 30 minutes earlier with 30 minutes shorter for lunchbreak. Actually I wish we could go home 1 hour earlier but that's better than nothing rite.

After discussing with JD, he said he doesn't mind preparing the kids in the morning & sending them to school. So I decided to start working at 7:30. So I can punch out at 4.

Alhamdulillah... I feel more relax this Ramadhan. Yesterday was the 1st day & just like I expected, I didn't need to rush. I got ample time to prepare meals for iftar. I cooked all the lauk yesterday which were sambal daging, park choy with oyster source & telur dadar. JD went to pasar Ramadhan just to buy kuih which was seri muka. Just simple dishes for iftar but more than enough for all of us. I plan to cook more this Ramadhan & buy less. For this week, I already stock up raw foods like chicken, shrimp, fish & squid in the freezer & vegetables like park choy, eggplant & long bean in the fridge.

I even managed to take a nap for 20 minutes before preparing the meals. Even before Maghrib, I had done with repacking the kids' bags for school tomorrow. So after Isyak, there was not much left to do.

We had iftar at the dining table in the kitchen. It was so much easier to set up the table & clean afterwards because everything is just around. Yay, less works. At 7 the kids already asked for rice but we managed to talk to them to wait for a bit more so that we could  dine together.

I didn't go to surau/masjid to perform tarawikh. For the past 2 nighs, I did it alone at home. It is better that way I guess since it has been my routine that at 9:30 to 10 I'll bring the kids to the bedroom upstair & force them to sleep. Actually it's a failled attempt. They'll still play in the bedroom. I don't know how to make them sleep earlier. But I guess, if I prepare them to sleep later, they'll sleep later too. So, I'll perform tarawikh in the dim lit bedroom while in between ordering the kids to sleep.

So yes, so far I have a very good Ramadhan. Better than ordinary days I guess cos I feel calmer & somewhat less tired.

I don't have high goals this Ramadhan, just hopefully I could increase my ibadah & taqwa. However, I do hope I can be consistent even perform more ibadah until the end of Ramadhan especially the last 10 nites. I think that's the real challenge & I hope I can overcome it. InshaaAllah.

#hariharihariibu

Pasal sambutan hari ibu pun jadi isu.

Hmmm... Ada satu masa tu, aku pun tak pasti hukum Hari Ibu ni, so aku rasa tak payah lah sambut. I wrote about it here. Sebelum tu pun bukan sambut beriyer. Cuma telefon Mak kata I love you & mungkin belanja makan atau bagi hadiah. Bagi orang lain, mungkin la setiap hari dia buat macam tu so betul lah tu hari2 Hari Ibu. Tapi bukan aku. Rasa pelik pula telefon Mak saje2 nak bagitau sayang Mak. Ntah lah segan kot. Masa Hari Ibu atau hari jadi Mak, baru hilang segan tu.

So back to the year that I was kinda againts of Mother's Day, it made me think that I loose the opportunity to show appreciation to Mak, make her happy & gain pahala along the way. Fine, I could find any other day but I guess I didn't have the drive to do so since any other day is just other day.

So when people talk about everyday is a mother's day, I kinda feel annoyed. Yes, we should make our mother happy everyday by shower her with love, attention & presents ;). Just like I stated above, if we could do that everyday, so yes everyday is mother's day. But I'm pretty sure not all of us capable of doing so. Even worse, some of us at most of the times treat our friends better than our mothers. Not that we don't love our mother, just that we always take our mother for granted.

So if there's a day, any single day or couple of days that we can take sometime to actually show our love to our mothers, why not? Lillahita'ala.

Kepada mereka yang cakap tak perlu sambut Hari Ibu kerana hari2 adalah Hari Ibu, tanya diri sendiri kelmarin, semalam & hari ini apa yang kamu dah lakukan untuk buat ibu rasa istimewa & dihargai . Kalau ada jawapannya, alhamdulillah

Anyhow, it's a good goal to make everyday as a mother's day. Everyday is a day to do good deed to our parents & make them happy.

Simple... Let's being good to our parents first, then others.

Wish list...

It's just 10:30am, but I already feel sleepy. What a very unproductive weekend if I take a nap now.

So let's update the blog.

Guess what, contrary to my previous post, I've decided to buy an iPhone! It's all because I've fallen in love with Apple watch or iWatch. So in order to maximise the usage of the watch, I have to have an iPhone. Even for the 1st time setup, the  watch needs an iPhone. So ok fine, iPhone that's it. But I don't want to rush. I'll wait as long as I can wait & hope the 2nd generation of Apple watch will be launched by then. It'll be good too if I can wait until iPhone 7 is launched. But I bet the price will be very high. It'll be even better if I finally change my mind. The temptation to go to Machines right away & just bougth both phone & watch is always there. Right now I'm just being patient you know.

I'm still mad about Pandora. Hate it at the same time because if I couldn't control myself, I'd spend lots on it. Don't wanna to for a so called branded silver jewellery. So I have to contain my madness over Pandora.

Haihhh macam² nak beli. Kalau kaya tak apa lah. But even I'm not rich, it's ok. I have enough :). Alhamdulillah...

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