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Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Safe & Sound Amman

Amman can be considered as my hometown since I love living and spending my daily life here. Although it is not as beautiful as my homeland but the different sceneries and culture make my life even better in terms of understanding human values.

Yesterday when I watched world news I told my hubby that sometimes I just couldn't take it when all the media is telling and exposing to the world that middle-east countries are always at war, centre of violence. It looks like nobody can ever live a happy life in this part of the world. It is totally wrong, we enjoy our life more than before, we feel safe moving around even in the middle of the night. Women don't have to worry carry handbags/slingbags coz no such motorider to snatch your bags....We can safely withdraw our money at any ATM vendor even if the machine is in the middle of the busy street ( memang banyak ATM machine tengah-tengah jalan , betul-betul tengah jalan!! ). Never heard of 'pecah-rumah' here at my housing area.



Last week when I was at KLIA before coming back to Amman I met a couple from Ipoh who were going to Beijing. I invited them to come and visit Jordan. THe first question the husband asked, " Is it safe there ? " " Of course ," I replied. I don't blame them of having that kind of perception when it comes to safety travelling to this part of the world.

Well, for those out there who are 'phobia' of arabs and arab countries, I advise you to come here so that you can feel the great life that most arabs are having in this part of the world...it is surely safe and sound here in Amman....I luv Amman.

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Indahnya hidup ini...

Pagi yang dingin dengan hujan membasahi bumi I mulakan hari yang ini dengan rasa syukur tak terhingga ,Alhamdulillah kerana dapat bersama suami dan anak-anak sebagai pelengkap kehidupan . Pagi ni baru terasa sihat dan segar selepas pulang dari tanahair, semalam sewaktu ke safeway membeli grocery rasa macam nak pitam dek kerana sesak hidung dan panas muka dan badan, rupanya I demam(jarang sekali demam ). So last night I masuk tidur awal selepas ambil ubat dan pagi ni bila segar sikit my darling hubby minta buatkan breakfast. I tengok my kitchen dah clear/bersih , semua pinggan-mangkuk siap berbasuh. My darling yang buat semua tu malam tadi sebab dia tau i memang betul2 tak larat .So I prepared our breakfast , roti+sausages+tauhu goreng+cucur serunding ikan bilis +kuah kacang sebagai pencicah +jagung manis +biskut tart nenas+milo+air suam. Lama tak breakfast bersama darling..ingat dulu di kemaman kalau hari sabtu kami (hanya my hubby n I ) akan breakfast di luar , hampir semua restoran di kemaman ,kerteh, cherating telah kami kunjungi .Kat amman ni jarang ada restoran yang buka awal pagi , itupun kalau ada breakfastnya hanya roti n khumus(kacang hijau blended), so memang I kena masak/sediakan breakfast.

Pagi semalam kami ke pusat servis motorola di Garden street sebab my hp yang my hubby baru beli di abu dhabi tiba-tiba screen nya blank. Dah cuba betulkan tapi masih camtu. Oleh kerana hp ni intn'l warranty kami ke kedai motorola di amman. Nak cari kedai ni satu hal, pekerja dahlah cakap english merangkak-rangkak, lepas tu dia kata cabel rosak dan suruh kami ke motorola outlet yang satu lagi di 8th circle yang agak jauh dari situ. Then my hubby kata kenapa tak diaorang yang contact dan uruskan hal tu, dia kata tak boleh, kami kena uruskan sendiri. Pastu my hubby minta dia tanyakan agen yang satu lagi samada diaorang ada kabel yang dimaksudkan agar kalau kami pergi nanti ada alatnya. Pekerja tu kata dia tak boleh call agen tu sebab they are under 2 different companies(motorola agents !!! ). I pun masuk campur and minta dia call jugak that agent. I kata I tak deal dengan company sesiapa but I deal dengan agent motorola.Akhirnya pekerja lelaki di situ called and di sana pun tak de kabel yang dimaksudkan. Then dia kata kena tunggu dia order kabel and dia akan call me bila ada alatnya nanti tapi tak tau berapa lama. I kata I baru beli hp ni tak sampai 2 minggu dan memang perlu gunakan hp . Selepas berdolak-dalih dia akhirnya kata dia akan cuba baiki my hp dan akan siap dalam masa satu jam.....???? Memang siap dia baiki dalam masa sejam. Memang arab ni pemalas, tak pandai business, kaki putar belit. I bagitau my hubby arab ni banyak persamaan dengan orang melayu, selalu cari alasan malas nak buat kerja. Kalau arab ni kerja dengan tauke cina baru dia tau, lama dah kena buang kerja.

After that kami ke al mawed travel nak refund air ticket sumayyah(kami ambik return ticket) sebab dia tak de cuti panjang nak balik ke amman tahun ni. Mr Tariq agen al mawed yang dah biasa dengan kami selesaikan urusan ni dengan baik.Then I booked ticket untuk safiyyah yang akan balik ke amman jun ni dari ukraine dan akan ke sana semula akhir ogos. Booking jugak untuk 3 sahabat safiyyah yang akan ke amman cuti nanti sebelum pulang ke malaysia dari sini. I booked jugak seats untuk kami sefamily except sumayyah julai nanti nak melancong ke Egypt. Harap semuanya berjalan lancar sebagaimana yang dirancangkan.

Pagi semalam Zaid started 'jelajah jordan 07 ' tour yang dia kendalikan . Alhamdulillah kali ni seramai 96 peserta/pelajar mengikuti tour pakej selama 5 hari. Harap semuanya berjalan lancar.

Safiyyah dah habis exam, alhamdulilah semuanya lulus. Dia tengah bersiap nak melancong ke Italy, Hungary, Poland bermula 2 feb ni bersama 10 orang yang lain. Happy holiday dear.

Sumayyah baru selesai mid-term exam dan baru balik dari ski-trip yang dikelola oleh pusat bahasa KNU selama dua hari di Phoenix Ski Resort 4 hours from daegu and 1 hour from seoul. Lenguh-lenguh badan dibuatnya but dia happy sangat puas main salji.

Izzat dan Mimi dah mula bercuti 2 minggu dan kami semua akan join ' jelajah syria 07' tour dari 4- 8feb ni juga dikendalikan oleh zaid. 9 feb my darling hubby akan pulang berkelana di island kesayangannya........

Saturday, January 27, 2007

Suka-duka di Malaysia.....

Arrived in Amman at 2.30pm yesterday afternoon,Alhamdulillah.12 days in Malaysia macam-macam perkara yang sempat dialkukan dan dirasai. Sayu meninggalkan keluarga tercinta terutama bonda/ bonda mertua yang sedang uzur dimakan usia .Doa diiring semoga diberi sedikit kekuatan mengharungi kehidupan di usia senja,InsyaAllah.

16Jan07, 1.30pm Etihad Airways landed at KLIA and guess what..it's the first etihad flight coming to malaysia from abu dhabi( I transit at abu dhabi from Amman). Before the aircraft came to a complete stop, kereta bomba airport meraikan ketibaan kami dengan 'merenjis mawar' . My seat was dekat window and the kereta bomba menghalakan hose dan terus siram etihad sampai habis air. Masa tempah tiket I ingat I hanya naik flite etihad bilangan ke 2, rupanya it's the launching flite. Masa turun dari flite I disambut dengan deretan truly malaysians with truly malaysians costumes and dapat gift pax visit malaysia year 2007. It was such a very warm welcome(bukan sambut I, diaorang sambut a bunch of young emirates (bising bagai nak rak duduk dalam flite macam tak pernah naik flite!!! ) yang datang sebagai vips for this launching flite. Tapi tak pelah , I tumpang happy dapat sambutan macam tu setiba di tanahair, siapa sangka kan.... I terus ambik KLIA - Ipoh express bus and reached Ipoh at 6.30pm. Memang I sengaja nak naik bas sebab I balik sorang and pulak tu hari bekerja so tak nak bother sesiapa datang jemput sebab bas direct sampai Ipoh only cost me RM42. Dalam perjalanan ke Ipoh I rasa happy sangat sebab apa tau ...I dapat lihat pohon-pohon hijau seluas mata memandang..I rindu betul pada pokok/pohon hijau.....

Sampai rumah my mom I was shocked to see my mom had lost a lot of weight. She's been sick for almost a year (penyakit misteri/reality ) , I could see her tears flowed down her cheeks and she said that she's been waiting for me to come home because she missed me a lot.I didn't say anything except hugging and kissing her.Alhamdulillah sampai juga I ke rumah yang telah agak lama tidak dikunjungi berjumpa dengan orang tercinta.

My mom sihat dari segi fizikal sebab jantung dan darah tinggi dah ok lepas buat pembedahan memasukkan belon and dia pun dah boleh berjalan dengan sendiri tanpa mengunakan kerusi roda dan bantuan Ina helper Indon yang jaga my mom. Cuma I rasa my mom is not that spriritually/mentally well sebab sejak tahun lepas puas sudah my siblings berubat nak baikkan my mom selepas dirasuk /saka (I tak tau nak expain but it was awful !! ) So, bila I cakap dengan my mom dia macam tak berapa concentrate and kalau dia nak kan sesuatu dia insisted nak jugak apa yang dia mahu.She's too bossy with Ina the maid.She eats a lotttt. I bersabar sampai hari ke 6 I mula bersuara apa yang I rasa tak betul(terlalu complicated, biarlah I saja yang tau !! ) Samada my mom terima atau tak pendapat dan teguran I terpulanglah.Lepas tu I hanya perhatikan danbiarkan apa yang dia lakukan sebab rasanya tak berbaloi I tegur sebab I akan balik dan dia akan tinggal di situ balik seperti sedia-kala. My brother masih dalam proses untuk memulihkan ingatan my mom, tapi menurutnya mom banyak dah baik nya berbanding setahun yang lalu yang my brother described "mak macam exorcist "...kesian my mom.

I sempat ziarah my mom-in-law yang sekarang ni tinggal di bota bersama kakak ipar I selepas my biras meninggal dunia 3 months ago. My mom ni kena stroke 12 tahun yang lalu(waktu izzat masih kecil ) dan pernah tinggal di rumah I hampir 3 tahun di kemaman . Serupa macam my mom, dia tinggal dijaga oleh an indon maid. I tak sangka bila I salam n peluk dia, my mom menangis /meraung dan merangkul tubuh I dengan sebelah tangan (hanya sebelah yang boleh bergerak ) I memang tak sangka. Dia tanya I " Berapo lamo dah ekau duduk sano?" ...sambil meraung (dia orang rembau )...dia kata lagi " Tengoklah omak ni, tangan tak boleh bergorak do, kaki tak dapek nak bangun sendiri "..sambil menepuk-nepuk kaki dengan sebelah tangan yang boleh bergerak.I tak dapat menahan sebak dan sedu, airmata menitis jatuh di pipi , sedih dan pilu(masa menaip ni pun sebak menitis air mata teringat dialog ni !! ) I hanya menjawab menenangkan dia bahawa tak pe dia tak perlu susah-susah nak buat apa-apa sebab akak dan helper ada untuk menjaga mak. I doakan agar mak serta akak tabah dengan apa yang berlaku.Amin.

I hanya sempat ziarah bapa/mak saudara yang berada di Ipoh , itupun atas jasa baik my brother yang ambik cuti untuk bawa I berjumpa keluarga . I tak sempat menjengok my house and friends di kemaman ( takpelah rumah memang ada orang yang menjaganya ) sebab masa hanya sebentar (12 hari termasuk travelling days ) dan my darling hubby tak benarkan I ambik my car di kemaman and drive my self macam dulu-dulu sebab dia bimbang kat malaysia musim hujan.Jadi pergerakan I sedikit terbatas dan terbantut.Apapun back to my ultimate plan balik malaysia nak ziarah mak yang uzur.

Semasa 2-hour-outing dengan my sister-in-law nak cari barang-barang keperluan untuk dibawa balik ke amman, akak bawa i makan laksa di warung di bawah pokok di kawasan silibin, ipoh. Waktu I duduk menanti makanan yang dipesan tiba, I terasa amat kekok dan terasing, tak tau kenapa. Suasana persekitaran yang amat asing bagi I ...dah berzaman I tak makan di warung ( even waktu di malaysia I tak biasa )dengan wanita/perempuan/lelaki/tua/muda bergurau dan bercakap bahasa perak (walaupun I orang perak I tak tau cakap perak sebab tak membesar di perak ) I terasa macam terkena cultural shock....Kiralah mana ada orang arab di amman yang duduk-duduk makan sesama lelaki perempuan di tempat terbuka ..begitu asing...rasa macam oh my god, this isn't right, this isn't my way...rasa macam tak boleh nak kunyah makanan....memang I tak habis pun makan...Lepas tu masa sumayyah called me from korea, i told her what happened that day ...dia pun kata ...patyutlah orang malaysia yang kahwin dengan orang arab yang tinggal di negara arab memang ikut cara hidup arab...tak de macam melayu..agaknya kalau lama lagi ai tinggal di negara arab.. i pun akan jadi orang asing di negara sendiri. Suasana begini i tak rasa bila masa i balik dari Us dulu sebab tiada perbezaaan ketara antara US and malaysia in terms of social/behaviour/culture....

I jugak sempat ke KL berjumpa my eldest sister and my youngest brother yang. Akhirnya kami bertemu 5 beradik setelah sekian lama tidak berkesempatan berkumpul bersama . Kami bergambar dan bersembang(my mom pun ikut sama). I jugak sempat bertemu brother Zairemy yang(anak angkat my sister / senior yang bantu gsumayyah di korea yang telah tamat belajar dan telah mula bekerja di Malaysia )...Gembiranya dapat bersama family.

Itulah lebih kurang apa yang sempat I lakukan dan alami di Malaysia dalam masa 10 hari.Walupun banyak 'benda' yang i tak dapat rasa/beli (biarlah rahsia) sebab I tak nak menyusahkan orang melayan I , lain masa I balik dan layan diri sendiri dan beli dan rasa apa yang I ingin makan/rasakan .I tak terkilan sebab yang penting I dapat berjumpa mak dan famili. Bagi sahabat-sahabat yang I tak sempat jengok dan ziarah harap kalian mengerti dan faham situasi I..insyaallah bila i berpeluang kembali ke tanahair i akan pergi berjumpa kalian semua .

Kepada kak idah/abang amir, kak nor/abang khalil, abang chaa/kak yam, jai/lynn, akak noriah, ina helper, dan semua saudara mara dan jiran-jiran di tanahair yang telah bersusah payah menjaga dan merawat mak berdua, I ucapkan jutaan terimakasih di atas segala jasa kalian , hanya ALLAH yang dapat membalasnya. I memohon jutaan maaf kerana tidak dapat bersama kalian menjaga mak tapi ketahuilah DOA sentiasa dipohon agar mak sembuh dan kalian beroleh berkat dari ALLAH MAHA PENYAYANG.

Sunday, January 14, 2007

Gonna miss u....loveujordan

Tomorrow I'll be going home for 10 days.

Can't wait to touch down at my beloved homeland and see all the green forest again. Miss all the green natural beauty.
I'll go back to Ipoh to meet my sweetheart darling mommy and mommy-in-law and the rest of the family, InsyaAllah.

I'm not gonna 'waste' my time blogging from homeland since time is so much precious back there especially when I only have 10 great days to spend .

So, I'll see you again by end of the month, gonna miss u my dear blog, loveujordan.

Saturday, January 13, 2007

Vogue Bloggers Companions...Luv U All

Pagi ni rasa malas nak buat kerja rumah , zaid pun dah pergi ke mutah semalam dan akan balik hari ni, izat dah ke sekolah , hari ni ada exam english,mimi pulak dari malam tadi demam dan batuk dan dua kali muntah . So, I pun tak lena tidur malam tadi. Tengah hari nanti my darling hubby tiba dari Abu Dhabi ,welcome home .Semalam dah perap ayam and daging ,dah masak nasi impit dan kuah satay...nak buat satay nanti tunggu izzat balik sekolah sebab dia memang suka bakar satay.

Dari malam tadi I dah set nak write this blog early in the morning and after this baru nak kemas rumah sikit dan sediakan apa-apa yang patut nak sambut my darling hubby balik setelah hampir 2 1/2 bulan tak bertemu tapi call/chat hari-hari.

Topik yang I nak ceritakan ni biasa je tapi saja I nak tulis for my own sweet memory.

Nak cerita pasal bloggers and comments.

I mula tulis blog tak berapa lama sebelum my daughter sumayyah bertolak ke korea . INi kerana I dapat rasakan yang I akan kesunyian selepas ketiadaan maya dan salah satu cara nak hilangkan bosan dan sunyi serta rindu, I start tulis blog (sept 11 , nice date hah !! ) Dalam pada tu I adalah juga baca blog dari serata negara terutama sekali malaysian yang tinggal abroad. Ada beberapa blog yang buat I acap kali kembali mengikuti perkembangan /perjalanan hidup mereka..antaranya dendam perantau sebab I prihatin dengan masalah this blogger and blog dia ni agak kelakar jugak cara pengolahan bahasa yang digunakan. Aku sebutir pasir satu lagi blog yang I selalu ikuti sebab I love travelling and this future doc in dublin has been travelling to so many places and the travel journal gives a lot of travelling info to me.

Kalau fotopages I suka masuk wazari fotopages sebab gambar-gambar dalam tu cantik/unik/berkualiti.Nak tengok resipi I masuk kak yong's digital kitchen fotopages, wow gambar dan resipi dalam tu rasa nak makan masa tu jugak.

Itu antara blogs yang I suka baca dan lihat tapi I belum pernah komen dalam mana-mana blog sehinggalah I terjumpa gang bloggers yang vogue ni. I ingat hari tu I sengaja nak cari kalau-kalau ada kawan-kawan yang belajar di washington dc tempat i belajar dulu tulis blog, so I taip baju melayu raya washington dc...then i nampak this blog, i klik under from the governer's desk, I read thru the blog and oh boy, I love this blog. I went on reading the achieves and masa tu tengah chatting dengan sumayyah , I bagitau sumayyah, you know what, I think I've found a blog yang best, yang matang and cerita bagus.sumayyah jawab, "wah cik ina (students kat sini panggil I cik ina ) dah jagi ketagih baca blog ni."

Sebelum ni I tak pernah hairan nak beri komen or baca komen orang tapi bila sampai kat blog gab ni I terasa nak baca komen yang bloggers lain tulis sebab bila cerita bagus mestilah komennya juga bagus. When I masuk je kat ruang komen, tu dia.... penuh 'makcik/pakcik ' bloggers bagi komen . I bagitau sumayyah yang penuh makcik/pakcik bloggers bagi komen dan I hairan macamana diaorang ada masa nak bagi komen. Sumayyah hanya kata," ha mama pun nak jadi pengomen jugak ke ,sibuklah nanti cik ina cyber ni." I ketawa je. Sedar tak sedar jari-jemari ni tekan keyboard and I dah 'terkomen' dan menjangkit kat blogs yang lain yang berada di dalam linkungan from the governer's desk.

THen 2 days ago I ingat dah tak nak komen takut ada yang terasa hati jika I tersilap komen, tapi bila baca the bakpo blog jari ni nak jugak komen. Mungkin I need to slow down komen-mengomen tapi rasanya tak salah sebab I 'm telling them my true feeling when I read their blogs. Selagi I rasa perlu komen I 'll continue komen.

As for my blog, is still a no comment blog as it is for own memoir. So, to all bloggers yang I give my comments, you guys are truly vogue bloggers, I wish oneday I could meet you all as you are also my dearest online companions.

Friday, January 12, 2007

May Jannah Their Destiny

Al Fatihah to all these three wonderful figures who passed away yesterday.

1. Hj Zaid , my neighbour in kemaman. He involved in a car accident in mersing and died on the spot yesterday at 4pm malaysian time. I've known him for more than 7 years and he is a very helpful person and a devoted surau committee. When my husband was not around, he's the one who always cared about me and my family.I remember when I had an accident in dec 2004 and my husband was away in vietnam, I was so panicked and didn't know what to do, so this arwah zaid was the one who calmed me down and went along with me to the police station to lodge a report and wrote the report for me. When my housing area was flooded ,he was incharged with the victims evacuation since he is working with a marine company in kemaman ( the company provided the boats ). My neighbourhood and the surau will surely miss him and I personally owe him a million thanks for what you've done to us. INsyaAllah, we'll meet again in the hereafter.

2. Ustaz Tahir, my neighbour in Ipoh passed away after 4 days in a coma after he collapsed in the bathroom.He is a very good friend of my parents and he has a travel agency especially for umrah package. My mom said he was not feeling well for quite a long time and this year he didn't go for hajj due to his poor health.

3. Makcik Sarah, also my neighbour in Ipoh passed away after been in bed for almost a year because of her high blood pressure. I've known this makcik since I was small. She is famous in the neighbourhood since she has 18 children, yes 18 , her own children with only one dearest husband, arwah cikgu zul. 14 boys and 4 girls including 2 pairs of twins. Makcik sarah has a very big bungalow and I forget how many rooms there are in that bungalow. When I was small I used to play with the children and one I thing I noticed makcik sarah is a very kind mother and all her children are closed to her, she never yelled at them and almost all the children are good-looking, makcik sarah is a pretty lady .I'm sad when my brother told me the sad news because I'll never see her again when I'm back in Ipoh this coming Monday.

I'll always pray that all of you will be granted with the most beautiful jannah ever.......... INSYAALLAH. AMIN

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Is your landlord OKAY ??

I've just finished cooking roti jala and zaid is still in the kitchen cooking his beef curry to be eaten with my roti jala. I purposely asked him to cook the curry since it's been a long time I last tasted his cooking. Well, he is living with me now and I always do the cooking. He's been living with his friends for four years and he is such a good cook, you name it, zaid can cook it for you.

Last night Luqman or Loko , zaid's friend spent a night at my house. He is a Singaporean who studies at Mutah U and yesterday a delegation from Singapore came to Jordan and Loko is requested to be their tour guide/translator/coordinator while they are here in Jordan. Tonight Loko will spend another night at my house and I want him to taste my roti jala because I didn't have a chance to serve him anything this morning because he left my house early in the morning to meet the delegation at downtown Amman.

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Yesterday afternoon, I went to the housing bank to deposit my house rent since my landlord is staying in Ramtha (80km from amman ). Mr Jamal Ramdan is my landlord and he is working as a custom officer at the Jordan/Iraq border. I'm so lucky to have him as my home owner coz he is so kind and has never been fussy on anything. Three weeks ago he called zaid to tell that he had a business in amman that day and that he's coming by just to send us some olive oil his wife made for us. Zaid had class at that moment and Mr Jamal came and rang the bell, gave salam and handed me the olive oil and greeted salam again and left. He knew that I was alone and of course he would not step inside my house knowing that zaid was not in. On eidil adha he was the first to call zaid and greeted eid mubarak to us.




Izzat and mimi at my housing area.



Alhamdulillah , I said I'm lucky because it's hard to get a very kind landlord here in Jordan because most of them are very fussy indeed. They check their houses anytime they want, screen for any dust on the tv set and some of them do not let visitors to stay overnight .My next door neighbour had once asked me whether I own the house that I'm staying because she never see my landlord comes to ask for the house rent and check the house.

During eidil adha gathering at my house, one of the guys was telling us that it's a must for any malaysian to move for a few times here in jordan because of fussy landlords. He said it's a must, I told him so far I'm more than happy with my homeowner and there's no reason to move into another house. He was a bit shocked when I said that. Well, maybe it's just my luck!!

I really hope my landlord stays the way he is and we can live here happily ever after.......

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Usia Muda ?? Usia Tua??

Just got back from the police station to have my visa stamped for another 2 months . The police station is just 3 minutes by taxi , but I'm not willing to walk because my housing area is very hilly.

Setiba di hadapan balai polis, kami (I, mimi n zaid )disambut oleh police guard yang amat muda dan setelah mendaftar nama dan manyatakan tujuan, kami di benarkan masuk menuju tingkat kedua tempat sambung visa. Di atas ada 3 orang polis yang bertugas, seorang man and 2 women. Cantiknya kedua-dua policewomen tu dan mereka bekerja dengan senyuman , beberapa soalan ditanya dengan bahasa yang lembut dan sehingga selesai urusan masih tersenyum(polis backhome susah senyum!! ). Salah seorang dari mereka tanya adakah I kakak Zaid( wow!! entah kali ke berapa soalan macam ni ditanya pada I atau pada Zaid )I kata I mama Zaid, kedua-dua bisik-bisik kata mudanya mama zaid.Kemudian kami turun ke tingkat bawah untuk mendapatkan tandatangan pegawai atasan yang bertugas, terus je pegawai polis tu tanya zaid, adakah I isteri Zaid dan mimi anak Zaid...wow!!wow!! kali ke 2 dalam masa beberapa minit soalan perasan ditanya...kali ni lagi hebat perasan, tadi kakak ..yang ni isteri...( tapi kalau mimi anak zaid=my cucu, ish,ish complicated )yang kelakarnya baru pagi tadi zaid bagitau sumayyah yang kawan-kawan dia di mu'tah ramai yang kata dia baby-face, cute. Ha I kata pada zaid sapa yang baby-face ni , zaid ke mama. Those 2 questions yang polis tu tanya membawa dua maksud...samada I nampak muda atau zaid nampak tua...INi dah kali ke berapa orang jordan sangka I isteri/kakak Zaid sebab kami selalu jalan bersama sebab my hubby jarang ada di sini. Bila I bagitau my hubby tentang hal ni seperti biasa response dia...laaaa . Mungkin sebab I kahwin muda semasa tahun 2 U and dapat zaid tahun 3, so sekarang ni umur I double umur zaid. Apapun dalam masa beberapa tahun mungkin orang akan nampak yang I memang mama zaid, yang takut jangan orang sangka I nenek mimi...eeee tak naklah sampai macam tu...Let's forget about this tua/muda/perasan/perasaan things for a moment.

Malam tadi my students , nain, fadli and his wife saadiah spent a night at my house. Since saadiah had finished her studies, she has to renew her visa here in amman. Last night we had a good time together, eating and chatting and before they left for the immigration dept this morning , we also had a joyful moment during breakfast. Even though thay used to be my students back home but they are now adults and dah jadi macam kawan-kawan. We shared banyak cerita masa dulu dan cerita terkini. Tak sangka begitu cepat masa berlalu, anak murid yang dulunya suka buat lawak dalam kelas dan begitu creative semasa my drama project, kini telah beristeri dan bakal menimang cahaya mata dalam masa terdekat, fadli you are still funny but now you can talk on any topic seriously.

Memang anak-anak murid I ramai yang telah berumahtangga dan beranak-pinak.LAst I jumpa my first batch pelajar di kemasik , terengganu, semasa jamuan alumni mereka (mereka jemput I sekali ) seorang pelajar I dah ada 6 orang anak dah waktu tu (3 tahun lepas ) sedang mengandung anak ke 7. I amat rapat dengan anak-anak murid sebab I mengajar kelas menengah atas yang tidak berapa jauh beza umur mereka dengan umur I. Bila my hubby out-station I selalu ajak a group of girls tidur di rumah. I tahu di mana rumah mereka dan kenal keluarga mereka, ada yang susah, ada yang ditinggalkan bapa , ada yang sakit, ada yang anak yatim, ada yang mak ada skandal dengan lelaki lain dan macam-macam perkara yang membuatkan I amat prihatin dengan segala masalah yang mereka hadapi. I jadi macam kakak dan ibu tempat mereka mengadu dan bermanja.

Apapun I'm happy sebab hampir semuanya menjalani kehidupan yang agak baik, Alhamdulillah. Memang kita tidak boleh mengharapkan mereka semuanya berjaya ke menara gading kerana masing-masing mempunyai latar-belakang keluarga yang amat berlainan. I learnt a lot about kesusahan hidup melalui mereka kerana ramai dari mereka berbapakan nelayan /kerja kampung yang tidak menentu imbuhan hariannya. Semua kenangan manis dan pahit bersama mereka akan I semat di sanubari, betul kata pepatah ' WHILE YOU TEACH YOU LEARN' .

Semakin meningkat usia , kita yang dulunya pelajar, kini masih lagi belajar dan belajar , biarpun bukan secara formal di dewan kuliah dan sekolah , kita belajar erti kehidupan secara live , praktikal seharian, knowing people and their behaviour, dan macam-macam lagi yang tidak akan berhenti sehingga ke akhir hayat. Biar berbeza usia dengan anak-anak, anak murid, sahabat handai namun we are all the same, semuanya makhluk ciptaan Allah yang setiap satunya unik.

Sunday, January 07, 2007

Berita Terkini....

* In less than a week my darling hubby will be coming back and this time he has 28days to spend with us(only 17 days with me since I'm going back to my hometown for 10 days). It seems a bit odd, hubby coming back and I'm off to Ipoh but this is our best solution. He'll take care of my kids (mimi and izzat still have classes until late january) I can't let Zaid look after them since he's also taking classes at british council.

The reason I'm going back is because both my mom and my mom-in-law are not doing very well. My hubby had gone back home last Ramadan and he suggested that it would be nice if I could visit both my moms. So after a long discussion, my hubby and I came up with this idea, he comes back and I go back.....He gives me 10 days to spend my time in malaysia...So I have a chance to meet my family backhome and can still be with my hubby after coming back and join the JELAJAH SYRIA 2007 early February organized by my son Zaid.This time we'll have a chance to explore many parts of Syria(I've only been to Damascus,Aleppo ,Dir'aa and Bosra). Hopefully our plan goes smoothly , InsyaAllah.

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* Zaid, my eldest son , had passed his intermediate 1 at british council and tomorrow he'll continue taking the intermediate 2. He had such a high spirit to be able to speak and write good english. He's very fluent in arabic and bahasa melayu. When he expressed he is keen in learning english at british council , my hubby and I gave our 100% support . We sent him to Al Imam international Institute when he was 11 and he became a hafiz at age 13. Then ke took SMU exam at 14 and SPM exam at 15.He entered University of Mu'tah at age 16.He graduated from Syariah Islamiyyah at age 20. So , he is still very young to start any kind of job, it's better for him to be an expert in english before 'diving' into business world(he is keen to be a business man since he's a boy). Maybe one day he'll go back to his hometown ( he was born in Alexandria, Virginia, USA ) and does his business there....Good Luck to you my sweetheart son, zaid.

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* Safiyyah my second child cannot wait to spend her winter vacation in 3 european countries, Italy, Hungary and Poland starting early february. We let her go since she's always very busy studying and have lots of tests,quizzes and exams. Crimea State Medical University or CSMU ( heboh pasal di tarik balik pengiktirafan oleh MMC kemudian diiktiraf semula kepada sesiapa yang masuk 1st year before 31 dec 2004) Sofie is an ex-MRSM student and did her pre-medical course in Ukraine and she started her first year in Sept 2004 , so , she's still ok. However the MMC agenda( ???) had demotivated most of the students st CSMU because even those JPA scholars (my daughter is under FAMA )who did their practical back in Malaysia were treated badly by the hospital staff(macam pelajar csmu tak layak jadi doktor padahal almost all malay students who study there scored excellent results in their SPM!! ) CSMU was established 50 years ago and is the only ex-soviet U yang di recognised by the British medical board..CSMU is ranking the 17th top medical U by WHO in the world...So, whatever happens (nak iktiraf atau tak ) my daughter still studies there because I believe she has lot to gain there. I told my daughter kerja mana-mana pun ada...She could go back to her hometown(she was born in Georgetown, Washington DC, USA) and practise her MD there, InsyaAllah. Good luck in your exam and selamat bercuti my darling Sofie...

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* My 3rd child, sumayyah had started her 2nd level for korean language program(time flies so fast . it's been 4 months now since we kissed goodbye). She was very interested to enter korean university since sekolah menengah lagi so after her SPM we decided to send her to korea. All foreign students have to undergo at least 4 levels of korean language before register for undergraduate courses.So far so good.....she has yet to decide her major for undergraduate next September.. She is very interested in Mechanical Engineering (design) like my darling hubby, so InsyaAllah she'll take ME as her major.Good luck to you, my dear darling Maya.

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* Izzat my 4th child is having his final exam now..all subjects are in arabic except english language. I am so happy because he's doing extremely well in class( he's a brilliant boy ). I remember I once had a special project for izzat ( home-schooling ). I started to teach him at home and even had tuition teachers for him since he was 2 years old. He could read at age 3(malay, english, quran )He had his first katam quran at age 5+. When he was 5, he was with me all the time and one day I passed by a kindergarten , I asked him if he wanted to go to school, he nodded. Then I realised that he missed something, SOCIAL life, he needed friends. So the best place to have friends was going to school.End of my home-schooling project.I still believe home-schooling could produce genius kids.Izzat is eyeing to go to Manchester U (he is MU no 1 fan )in future, InsyaAllah.Good luck to you my soul-mate Izzat dear.

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* Syamimi my darling youngest child....8 years gap.....what more could I ask from Allah...Alhamdulillah..Allahuakbar...she's truly my dear sweetheart and my life...I had the most difficult time pregnant(maybe dah 30+ masa tu !! ) ..My project for mimi, Beijing, China( I love beijing after visiting beijing twice !!).I set mimi's life to start at chinese school... I don't know now because jordan doesn't have any chinese school...well, she's studying at a private arabic school and she can speak arabic now... still long way to go since she's only 4 years old.. My baby mimi, stay cute okay....

Sekian berita terkini , Ummu Zaid melaporkan dari Syariq Al Qurtubi, Amman, Urdun.

Saturday, January 06, 2007

KIDS LIGHT UP OUR LIFE.....

I have planned to write about a few arab kids who live in my neighbourhood. So, on their visit to my house last eidil adha I snapped some pics of them .




So, out of ten beautiful kids, only one sometimes a trouble-maker...
BY ALL MEANS , KIDS GIVE US JOY AND LIGHT UP OUR LIFE.

Friday, January 05, 2007

Being a Motivator Again???

Jemputan menjadi motivator kepada ahli PERMATA (Persatuan Mahasiswa Malaysia Mu'tah ) pada awalnya ditolak kerana telah lebih setahun I memencilkan diri di bumi Jordan dan rasa tidak mahu berkecimpung di dalam arena HRM ini lagi . Hidup rasa amat selesa kerana dapat 'berehat' dan hanya melayan diri dan famili sendiri.

Setelah meminta sedikit masa untuk berfikir samada mahu menerima jemputan itu atau tidak I akhirnya I bersetuju menjadi free lance motivator semula . Dengan masa yang diberi amat singkat iaitu hanya 4 hari preparation I kembali mengadap PC mencari bahan yang sesuai untuk dibicarakan beserta aktiviti indoor yang memang I amat suka berkongsi dengan setiap para peserta program . Sewaktu berpindah ke jordan I tinggalkan semua sekali bahan 'motivasi' kerana dalam fikiran tidak akan terlibat di bidang ceramah motivasi ini lagi.

Alhamdulillah dengan bantuan Zaid I dapat menyiapkan bahan untuk slide show dan bahan bercetak .

Malam tadi I menjangkakan hanya sedikit pelajar yang hadir sebab cuaca sejuk. Setibanya di Dewan Wisma Negeri Sembilan, nervous jugak bila mendapati lebih dari 70 orang pelajar hadir. Program solat hajat dan motivasi peperiksaan bermula pada waktu maghrib dan my slot ceramah motivasi bermula pada jam 6.15pm .

Alhamdulillah selesai ceramah, feedback dari peserta amat positive, selama 2jam I berceramah ditemani slide shows dan mind stimulative games I kembali bertenaga dan terasa semacam baru semalam meninggalkan bidang ceramah ini. Ini semua kuniaaan Allah yang telah memberi jalan dan kekuatan melaksanakan tugas kepada yang memerlukan.

Maybe this is a fresh start but I don't know whether I nak teruskan memberi khidmat kepada pelajar malaysia di bumi Jordan ini atau tidak . I just wanna wait and see and kalau ada yang memerlukan bantuan, I might consider to assist. Thank s a lot to PERMATA for inviting me.

Actually I memang amat berminat di dalam bidang HRM ( my major masa kat U pun ) .

Am I keen to be a motivator again???? Keep the answer to myself.........

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

CIKGU RAHIM IN MEMORY......

This morning I received a message from my darling hubby telling me that Cikgu Rahim ,our dearest neighbour backhome had passed away on the first day of 2007 . He passed away at 1.30am 1/1/07 of chest pain in the middle of the night. Al Fatihah.

He is such a very kind and humble person I've ever known. He and his wife are teachers and they have seven wonderful children. They live such a modest life but they are always happy. Backhome I used to tell my darling hubby that I admire cikgu rahim's life, it looks like they are spending their joyful life at the fullest. Their children used to be my tuition students and they are so nice, they always speak nicely, no bad/rude words ever came out from their mouths. Cikgu Rahim never missed going to our surau for jemaah prayers. My darling hubby also told me this morning that he'll miss cikgu Rahim since he is like our big brother (he is 52 )in our housing area. We'll surely miss him a lot...........(no sight of him walking to the surau in his kain pelikat when we are backhome again !! )

May Allah grant him with paradise, Amin.

Life is too short........no one ever knows ...........
ONLY ALLAH THE ALMIGHTY KNOWS.....

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Warmest eid's gathering..........

Today is the 4th day of Eidul Adha celebration, Jordanians are still visiting and greeting each other. I'm quite impress with the Jordanians because most of them don't even care of new year celebration, no party and no wishing. The idea of celebrating new year is by the way coming from the Christians and for me it's not proper to celebrate this occasion especially when we are still in the eidul adha spirit .

Yesterday I held a small gathering at my house. Three families and three bachelors joined the eid's open house. We ate and chatted from noon until dusk and it's such a bless to have them coming since we haven't seen each other for almost 2 1/2 months ( last gathering was during syawal). To ustaz Mujahid, INa, Sagol, Marwa, Aswandi, Azra,Adib, Faizol, Syahirah, Fahim and Sofea.....thank you for coming.

This afternoon Sagol and Marwa invited us for lunch at Sweileh. Ustaz Zaharudin, Khadijah, Uztaz Zul and Diana were also present together with ustaz Mujahid's family.The food was yummy.THanks for inviting.

It's so nice to meet each other because if not for the eid, we seldom see one another. Hope to see them again during winter semester break end of January, InsyaAllah.During that time my darling hubby will already be here in Amman .