How to change a diaper ...

According to my experience ...

this is how you change a baby's diaper ...

First, take a sajada ... illustration below ...

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Then place baby on sajada ...

remove pamper from baby's bottom ...

put aside used pamper on sajada ...

pinch baby's bottom ... nak gurau-gurau sikit ngan baby

take baby to wash his/her  bottom ...

place baby back on sajada ...

put on new pamper ... illustration below

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Done ...

finally ... pinch baby's cheeks ... gurau-gurau lagi

Eh .... salah ye cara tu...?

that's wrong ...?

BUT that's what I frequently observe in public surau ... contoh kat hypermarket ke macam tu ...

tak faham lah ...

kita tak buat kat rumah macam tu ... kenapa kita buat kat surau macam tu ... kadang-kadang cuci najis baby juga di tempat wudhuk ... then soiled pampers tinggal je macam tu ...

 

alahai ... kadang-kadang saya tegur ... macam semalam ... tapi seolah nyibuk je ... macam tak faham keperluan baby pula saya ni ...

sedih ...

... wassalam ...

AlhamduLILLAH ...

Syukur, AlhamduLiLLAH, for the opportunity to still serve in this temporal life ...

1 Muharram ... Hampir saja berselimut putih suami dan isteri ... dan sebuah van yang sarat dengan pelajar muda dan cikgunya yang memandu.

We were on the main road going east... a van was also on the main road going west heading into an exit on the right... 

 

Without warning the van veered fast right in front of us and husband put on instant brake ... and wife slid forward towards the dashboard almost down on the floor ... apa lagi tak pakai seat belt lah tu...

it was a close call for a regular newspaper item ...

AlhamduLILLAH syukur Allah SWT masih memberi peluang untuk insafkan diri ... that life ... hanya pinjaman.

nak jadi cerita lagi ... i was extremely angry at the speed of the driver crossing us ... i am a girl but selalulah  juga kena tegur that i ni macam anak jantan ... anak perempuan nsembilan memang macam tu agaknya .. :) sangat sabar, sangat pemaaf, tetapi jangan sekali dianiya ... macam tu lah ye kawan-kawan ... :)

so dengan hotnya ... (syukur selamat) ... tetapi teramatlah juga marahnya dengan oghang yang bawak van tu ... i said to suami follow him ... i want to say something ... kenapa dia tak berhenti and say sorry for the stupid thing he has done ...

van was away fast but that exit led to a dead end so as we followed, the van made a u-turn and as they were passing us, i asked husband to wave them to stop ...

takkk mau stop ... lagi laju ... but i could see the van was a government vehicle with the name of a state school somewhere in Perlis written across it ... lagiii lah tak suka cara ni ...

I said to husband, follow on ... if they don't stop i will call the ministry and report their behaviour ...

they are lost probably ... but that should not excuse them ... with pack of students in that van ... who so ever is driving is irresponsible ...

Pendekkan cerite kami ikut ... trafic light merah ... dua-dua berhenti ... the students were peering at us ... they understood that we want them to stop ... but again on green they sped ahead ... ish geramm

i said ... ikut lagi (tak ada please, please dah ni) ...

Finally, they must have realised that we were not going to disappear, they moved to the side and stopped ... and we stopped ahead of them ... we came down (macam gangster pula  bunyi nya kann ... but truth be told, i had on jubah with hijab ... kecik je about 5 feet ... husband alhamduLILLAH berjanggut bagai tapi alien lah wajahnya tu ...besar tinggi but gentle je air mukanya ... tu sebab tak siapa takut pun ...:)

Kami approached the driver ... kesian pula nampaknya ... gentle jugalah airmukanya ... tetapi dek marah saya cakap jugalah marah saya (suami orang dari luar negara jadi isteri lah tukang lebih cakapnya) ...

He said ... He was sorry, he was sorry ... but he was lost ... trying to find the way to a homestay which was supposed to be around the area ...

but that does not excuse you from the kind of things that you were doing ... driving dangerously with so many on board ... if you are a teacher ... this is very very bad ... very bad ... it is lucky that you stopped now ... otherwise we were definitely going to report you to the ministry about your behaviour ... and such a shame for not stopping when we resquested you ...

... dah reda marah ... kami offered to show them the way ... but they said they are calling the homestay people ... meanwhile i noticed his eyes were on the GPS trying to locate the place ... we guided them the way and departed ... AlhamduLILLAH amicably ...

Lesson learned

1. don't forget to wear seat belt even for a short ride ... husband was driving slowly ... even then I slid  down on emergency braking ...

2. I sensed the teacher was observing the GPS for directions rather than observing the road ... and he was speeding at the same time ...

3. The exit road and the main road appeared to be one straight road when approached from the east going west ... and it is a terrible junction that is waiting for tragedy ... na'uzubiLLAHi minzalik. ...

.... again syukur AlhamduLILLAH awal Muharram tidak berakhir dengan tragedy ...

Ma'al Hijrah Mubarak ...

Reading me, reading you ...

Image Source: http://ekfamilybooks.blogspot.com/2011/11/top-5-childrens-reading-tips.html

Selalulah kita mengeluh ... cikgu-cikgu pun susah hati kenapalah  "budak- budak" ni tak ndak belajar ....

gayanya ... it is a challenge for everyone ...

according to this ... http://www.demos.co.uk/files/Demos_stitch_in_time_report_C.pdf

"England has some of the poorest attitudes towards learning and enjoyment of learning internationally, with one of the highest proportions of children with poor attitudes towards reading in the developed world, and four in ten children partly or mostly agreeing with the statement 'I hate school/college'" ... p.7

teringat ... buku cerita pertama saya ... Lombong Raja Sulaiman (King Solomon's Mine)  ... in Jawi hmmm ...

It set the scene for my love of reading ... anything ... everything ... lagi susah nak faham ... lagi kuat challengenya ... yes!

Image Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Solomon%27s_Mines

The Possible ...

 Image Source: http://confessionsofavanillacupcake.blogspot.com

Seorang anak had her last day in school yesterday ... she completed her final days to obtain the Ijazah Pendidikan (Mathematics & Science) from an IPTA (Institut Pengajian Tinggi Awam) ...

InsyaAllah she is going to be a teacher ...

Don't mind ye ... sume saya panggil school ... macam school of engineering, school of architecture ... macam tu lah ...

Apa special nya anak ni pula ...

Dia datang dari jauh ... from the inner villages in the middle of nowhere ...

in the heart of the rainforest ....where most of us fikir ... tak terfikir macam mana ... :)

Her life story is of perseverance and persistence ...

reflects that many things are possible ...

when appropriately scaffolded ...

i took her for an early dinner  yesterday ... and found her something that hopefully will be useful ...

because she said ... if Puan nak belikan saya ... then i need a watch ...

earlier i asked do you need a purse or something like that ...

Demi masa ...

Mudahan that watch reminds her the temporal nature of this life and why we are here... insyaAllah

This anak ... soon to be teacher ... is of the Indigenous Jakun Community ...

more about the community below ...

http://pekidakualarompin.blogspot.com/2008/12/masyarakat-orang-asli-ke-dua-teramai-di.html

Tetiba ... pi ziarah Dr DLL ... woi ... pun dapat jam berkelip-kelip ... hadiah graduation ...

esei tak mampulah pulak nak bagi camtu kat anak tu ... he he ...

The Four Seasons ...

Teringat ...

 Spring

Source: http://www.makeup4all.com/tag/spring-beauty/

A friend's husband who used to serve in an MNC in Japan berteori ...
...  about why the Japanese work the way they do ... and why we work the way we do ...

Summer

http://www.wildnatureimages.com/Alaska/Chugach-National-Forest/Spencer-Glacier-Pictures.htm

... katanya the four seasons make them pace things within each season ... ada target based on specific season ... so the requirements are fast pace within each season ... baju pun kena sesuai dengan season ...

Autumn

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jensenl/visuals/album/michigan/

Winter

Source: http://www.wildnatureimages.com/BNP%20Sunset%20Point%2011.htm

... kita pula kalau bersawah padi i think lebih disiplin sebab ikut season juga ...

Sawah Padi

Source: http://www.sekinchan.org/paddy-field-in-sekinchan.html

... otherwise kalau dalam pejabat ber aicond pula day in day out sama je ...
... maka kita tak faham kenapa perlu terkejar-kejar untuk menyelesaikan sesuatu urusan pelanggan ...

... bukankah esok masih ada ... begitulah ... agaknya ...

... Allahu'alam

Train of life ...

Love the train ... and the train ride ...

Our main means of conveyance ... pergi dan balik sekolah yang jauh di mata emak dan abah ...

Lega dan you can pusing-pusing ... kalau keretapi malam zaman sekolah dulu ada cafe (tak ingat nama sebenar) sekali dalam train ... lepas tu kat station-station yang di mana berhenti ada pula orang dewasa dan kanak-kanak naik atas train ... jual teh, kopi panas ... kacang-kacang goreng dan kuih muih melayu ...

Penat duduk, bangkit ... you can gulp in fresh air from the platform in between the coaches ...

Masa budak-budak tu dengan school uniforms tak malulah berjalan kehulu kehilir jumpa kawan di coach sini sana ...

aduh ... indah-indah ... ni musim deepavali ni teringat pula ... train malam ni bila hampir stesen dia slow down ... track terang benderang ... kita nampaklah pekerja keretapi buat itu buat ini kat track-track lain ... yang ingat ramai pekerja india ... masa tu suka sangat berdiri kat platform ... terjerit-jerit wishing Pak Cik- Pak Cik tu happy deepavali ... i can still remember their happy faces when they heard us and looked up ...

... simple life, simple happiness ...

Sekarang pula naik komuter ... tak de apa-apa ...

Source: http://infinitityzone.blogspot.com/2011/07/ktmb-traffic-congestion-solution-in.html

Pergi kampus semalam ...  hampir-hampir je terlepas connecting train ... sebab sedetik je (perasaannya lah) perhentiannya ... lepas tu nak pergi ke track lain ... naik tangga turun tangga ... lif ada ... but yesterday ada juga yang tak berfungsi ... lesson learned mesti always travel light ...

Tetapi kan ... kenapa macam tu ye constructionnya ... kalau boleh luggage tu tak payah nak jinjing-jinjing ... tarik je all the way ...

kenapa tak drive je ... itulah dalam train macam-macam boleh buat ... lagi kalau pagi-pagi - caught the 5.30am yesterday - train tu macam kita je punya - i love it ... sempat lagi nak staple-staple papers for discussion, semak-semak lagi ... solat subuh atas train ... siap-siap wuduk dari rumah ...

... baliknya ngantuk boleh tidur relax-relax ... takut terlajak put on tel alarm macam orang depan saya ... dia tidur alarmnya kejutkan ...

... and one more thing ... excellent for ethnographic studies ...

Bullet train of Japan ... source: http://www.ubergizmo.com

... Di jepun many moons ago ... sempat lagi merayau dengan Ms M naik bullet train dari Narita ke Ueno and back sementara tunggu connecting flight ... bila kami terlambat sangatlah sejuk muka in-charge mr. japan yang nak bawa kami ke airport ...

... it was spring at the time ... source: http://www.storyboardtoys.com/gallery/Shellie.htm

... mmm ... memories ... to drive the future :)

Immersion ...

AlhamduLILLAH,

Syukur dan bestnya bila belajar off campus ni ...
... duduk dalam bilik ...
... clear katil of all the sleeping paraphernalia ...
... put books needed today ... papers-from journals - not newspapers (tak jadi kojo kaghang) ...
... big tupperware (why do i need to promote the brand ...) plastic container of stationery ...
... mug of coffee Datuk Fazilah Kamsah (yang ni promote tak apa ...) letak atas pinggan ... not saucer ... terbalik kaghang habis cadar  ...
... biskut kering - plain crackers with kajoor(walsall)-kurma (brunei/birmingham)-dates(dimondale) ...

Breakfast --- sebelah kiri - tiga/empat rumah away ... kadang-kadang je yang ni ... breakfast dlm rumah
Lunch ... down kat baghuh ... across the road, on the left ... *lauk lady
Afternoon tea ... in front ... right across the road ... *soya lady ...
Dinner ... down kat baghuh, across the road, on the right ... *kelantan lady ...

... AlhamduLILLAH syukur ... syukur ... macam duduk asramalah juga makan pergi kafeteria ...

*sume husband bagi label ni ... senang nak refer ...

 Tu sebab ... tak pandai pandai masak ... :)

... Salam all, salam DLL i'm imagining that you are immersed in the big book ... all the best ... all the best ... :)May ALLAH SWT ease ... ameen ...

... remembering fall in michigan ... and SK in dimondale ...

... ok back to work ...